Oklahoma Impeachment Hearings Focus on Governor Johnston
Oklahoma City report details seventh impeachment motion against Governor Henry S Johnston amid testimony accusing him of being under Mrs Hammonds influence. Witnesses claim secret meetings and Johnson addressing her as darling while militia guards disrupt senate chamber access. House plans to continue hearings as Supreme Court involvement looms.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Mata
Oklahoma
House of Representatives
Henry S. Johnston
O. O. Hampronds
House
Senate
Supreme Court
Hammonds
Johnson
Register
Ring Fitzpatrick
Johnston
Fred Branson
Harry Cordell
State Board of Agriculture
Lindbergh Holiday Declared in Mexico and Panama Welcomes Visit
Mexico proclaims another Lindbergh holiday as officials tout commercial aviation later linking Mexico and the United States. Lindbergh to attend a luncheon hosted by former President Obregon. American Ambassador Morrow and governors invited. In Panama and canal zone, plans for a warm welcome and a partial holiday for canal workers are discussed as Lindbergh and Dempsey are celebrated heroes.
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Dwight W. Morrow
Chamber of Depities
Lindbergh
Washington
Mexico
Panama
Canal Zone
INSI
Enty
Veteran railroad flagman dies after illness at 74
Austin T. Lewis aged 74 a longtime flagman for the Rock Island and Great Western railroads died at 10 45 p m yesterday at his home 209 Bluff street following an illness He was born December 9 in Williamsport Pa and married twice first to Mary A Good then to May Jennie Hammond who died February 3 1915 Surviving are a daughter and several grandchildren a sister Mrs Jeanie Tuthill of Philadelphia and other relatives Funeral services will be at 210 p m in the Carney chapel with Rev WO Chisholm of First United Presbyterian Church burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery.
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Austin T. Lewis
Watering
Rock Island
Bluff Street
Tom
Lewis
Fourth Street
Bluff
Wiliamsport
Mary A. Good
Jennie Hammond
Elizaveth Loews
Tetevers
Jacob
Bismarck
Ted Brady
Superior
Jeanie Tuthill
Philadelphia
Sagen
Temperatures Forecast Over Weekend With Gaps
Fragmented weather data shows a Friday high near 45 and Friday night low around zero to seven amps unclear. Saturday morning may start cool with afternoon readings toward 3 pm and 4 pm unspecified.
Fire ravages Quebec orphanages amid deadly blaze
Quebec city faced a wave of tragedy as a fire destroyed the Hospice St Charles orphanage and damaged the Academy of St Louis and St Jean Berhman's. At least 36 bodies were recovered, 14 children are unaccounted for, and two nuns were burned. Damages reach quarter of a million dollars as investigators weigh arson and other causes.
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Quebec
Upi
Sisters of the Good Shepherd
Academy of
Academy
My Staun
Sui Banks
Hospice
St. Charles
Althe
Charles Tye
Denyelis Dec
Bride Ends Life Fight After Wedding Fallout
A 17 year old lover attempted suicide after a confrontation with his bride on their wedding day. He was found near a deer stand and rushed to hospital in critical condition. Local authorities investigate the events leading to the attempt and possible mental health factors.
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Maines
Brateid
U S Marines Kill 12 Nicaraguan Rebels
Reported clash near Chen Sundine in Ala Nicaragua with U S Marines involved. Eleven rebels killed and several wounded, with observers noting attacks around Synta DL del EL Portal and Corral Pats. A local resident later reported vehicle movements and a damaged car scene at 520 Third Afterk west.
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Nicaragua
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Almy
Chen Sundine
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West Batter
Synta DL del EL Portal
Corral Pats
Palches
Look & Bil
Waust
Dinitation Pearts
Maxine Lainson
Tepelier
Byetmore Street
Fourth Bend PE
Coolidge Fixes Up War Hero With P.O. Job
Abraham Wolensky once labeled a jobless war hero has been offered a position in the post office department. President Coolidge approved the appointment after rep Dw Guardia of New York arranged the connection with the war effort. Kotensky had linked the “lost battalion” with the main army in France.
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Washington, D. C
LPI
Abraham Wolensky
Uncle Sam
Coolidge
Post Office Department
Dw Guardia
New York
Kotensky
France
Executions Reported of 19 Canton Russians in Canton
Shanghai reports state modern Russians were executed in Canton as a warning to communists. The Nanking government orders Soviet registration by December 23, with expulsion for those who refuse. Riots, arrests, and mass roundups followed, with many prisoners killed or executed in military quarters and public spaces. The article lists several names and places connected to the事件 and notes widespread detentions and punitive measures by the Nationalist authorities.
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Shanghai
Canton
Tram Hongkorng
Nanking
Inknion
Liesti
Uwe
Betiag
Eine
Fareose
Parents promise ransom to bring back kidnapped girl
In Los Angeles, Perry M. Parker and his wife pled for any payment to secure the return of 12 year old Marion Parker, abducted from a high school. A ransom demand was phoned to Parker asking if he would pay money to reunite with his daughter as police and authorities hunt the kidnapper.
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Los Angeles
Marion Parker
Hersehselecom
Perry M. Parker
Parker
California
Southern
Sheeft
Continefd Cold Forecast For Iowa Weather
Fragmented weather item reports continued cold forecast for Iowa with partial data and stray numbers. Mentions Charles AON Cav and Pubuque ported temperatures and Keokuk near dawn with low readings and unsettled monitoring across a handful of locations.
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Charles Aon
Hod Department Store Shooting Incident Reported
Fragmentary OCR text describes a department store shooting at Sidng0 with mention of Wopuy-Teves, a payout of $10, and references to employees and retirement. Details are garbled, but the event appears to involve a shooting at a department store with monetary notes and personnel.
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Baridine Taray
Cale Dane Cde
Pyeey
Aquilsiaie Tyeut
Lowden and Smith Held on Intoxication Charges
Red Lowden and George Smith of Anita were held in Pottawattamie County on intoxication charges after officials found the pair near a highway post aiding each other. Sheriff Percy Lainson identified the men as Foam Cav Bowden and Fant Al Smith, with aliases recorded as Red Lowden and George Smith.
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AL Smith
Upnadh
Percy Lainson
Pottawattamla
Bowden
Red Lowden
George Smith
Anita
Capone Returns Home to Chicago for Christmas Visit
Scarface Al Capone, recently released from Joliet jail, spends holidays at his mother's Chicago home with six bodyguards. Police vow to arrest him if seen on city streets, while Capone jokes that Chicago is his home and vows to visit charities on his trial.
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Chicago
Scarface
al” Capone
Hughes
al’ Capone
Juliet
Los Angeles
Joliet
California
Bub
Altho
Olreal
Jai Capone
Florida
Fort Dodge Flying Club Organized by 20 Young Men
Fort Dodge Port Dodge Air Club formed by 20 young men in northwestern Iowa aims to own airplanes, establish a flying field, run a flying school and passenger service. Ground courses and 16 hours of flight instruction planned including a solo flight led by G. T. Sherwood, a former army pilot.
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Fork Dodge
Port Dodge
Iowa
G. T. Sherwood
Heer
Drake University psychology tests reveal wide student scores
In Des Moines on December 17, Drake University reports men achieved higher averages in fresh psychology tests. Otis McReery notes overall intelligence stayed midrange with wide variance. top score reached 302 and lowest 16, both by boys. Low psychology grades correlate with poor in-class marks.
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Des Moines
Drake University
Wiuh Otis McReery
Ingen
AUIS
Hoya
Woman remanded on murder charge with 525000 bond
Des Moines report states Mrs. Erma Williams faced a murder charge in the slaying of Private Oscar Brown of Moline Illinois. Bond fixed at 525,000, with a preliminary hearing set for January 16, and she is held at the county jail. A fire destroyed Luther’s Methodist church last year, replacing a prior church burned by lightning years earlier.
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Des Moines
Erma Williams
Oscar Brown
Moline
Fork Ex Moines
Luther
Bee
Mexican Bribery Inquiry Hobbled by Burned Records
Senate probes into 1926 telegrams between Mexico and its agent Elias were hindered as Western Union official Bresnahan testified that all 1926 records were destroyed. Hearst papers alleged large sums moved to Elias for distribution to four U.S. senators. Destruction extends through November 1926 and affected key telegrams and messages.
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Washington, D
INS
Senate
Arturo M. Elias
New York
James E. Bresnahan
Western Union Telegraph
Reid Committee
Hearst
Elias
Mexico City
United States Senate
Bresnahan
Telegraph
Elkas
United States
Bobby Jones Not to Defend British Title Next Year
Atlanta report says Bobby Jones announced he will not defend his British Open title next year nor play in the British Amateur at St Andrews. He plans to compete in the U S Open at Chicago in June and the U S Amateur at Brae Burn, Wrest Newton, Massachusetts in September, then retire from competitive golf for the year.
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Bobby Jones
Atlanta
Bobby Jonas
St. Andrews
Cchicago
Braeharn
Wrest Newton
Mass
Fourteen Bobbed-Haired Girls Shot in China Clash
Canton reports a punitive strike by anti red troops leaving at least fourteen women with bobbed hair dead in the streets. The campaign against communists continues with no compunction shown by troops.
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Canton
China
Sheriff Slayer Loses Appeal Before Iowa Supreme Court
George Gidson former sheriff slayer now in Port Madison penitentiary for the slaying of Sheriff N Collings of Greston had his appeal to the Iowa Supreme Court rejected on a rehearing of a prior decision. The ruling followed a retrial in Union County District Court. A separate dispatch from Keokuk reports Charles Dunn, 60, found dead in a ravine near Here, with coroner W H Clements to conduct the investigation today.
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George Gidson
Linton County
Port Madison
Collings
Greston
Supreme Court of Iowa
Union County District Court
Supreme Court
PRORE
Keokuk
Charles Dunn
W. H. Clements
Dunn
Drake co eds debate schedule set for February
Des Moines reports Drake University has formed a co ed debating team. The squad has two arguments lined up with Penn College on February 13 or 15 and with Dubuque University on February 16.
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Des Moines
Drake University
Penn College
Dubuque Universalty
Iowa single unit in dry bureau at Brookhart plea
Washington D C Dec 17 the creation of a virtually independent prohibition district in Iowa has been made at Senator Brookharts request to obtain effective state prohibition. Glen A Brunson will head the new district with headquarters in Sioux City Ia and Des Moines for personnel and funds. Yellowley in Chicago to supervise. Bray Doran says Iowa will operate independently within the Mississippi river enforcement effort.
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Washington
D. C
Iowa
Brookhart
Prohibition Bureau
Towa
Glen A. Brunson
Nebraska
South Dakota
Sioux City
Aithe Brunson
Yellowley
Trinois
Chicago
Brunson
Des Moines
Deran
Rivers Towns Bnd
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Doran
Mississippi River
South Dakotas
Still Hold Hope That Mr. Coolidge May Be Drafted
Albany dispatch reports Republican leaders in New York consider drafting President Coolidge to seek a second term. At a Syracuse dinner G O F B leaders claim Coolidge will not accept if nominated or serve if elected yet supporters hope for renomination. In Albany, two nationally prominent Republicans privately indicate hope remains.
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N. Y
New York State
Coolidge
G. O. FB
Syracuse
Charles D. Hilles
Slayer of Two Men at Emmetsburg Must Serve Life in Pen
Des Moines reports McMacken, convicted of first degree murder in Palo Alto county district court, must serve life as affirmed by the State Supreme Court. He shot and killed Emmetsburg businessmen William Laughlin and William Boblitt who answered a call at the McMacken farm during a quarrel involving the defendant's sister-in-law Mrs William McMacken.
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Des Moines
McMacken
Palo Alto
E County
Supreme Court
High Tribunal
William Laughlin
William Boblitt
Emmetsburg
William McMacken
Blake
Airplane Crash in Scranton Leaves Two Unhurt
Brillefont e Pa December 17 An airplane carrying Captain Homer Barry and a passenger crashed near Scranton Pa today. Word received indicates both occupants were unhurt and the craft suffered only minor damage. The aircraft had departed Cleveland for New York earlier today.
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Insi
Homer Barry
Scranton
H. J. Burhop
Burhop
Barry
Cleveland
New York
PAKERS GRANTED TIME TO ADOPT NEW WRAPPERS
Des Moines reports an extension until July 1, 1928 for bakers using old bread wrappers printed before the current standard. The extension applies to those unable to switch while complying with the law. Any nonconforming wrapper must include a net loaf weight and the baker’s name and address.
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Des Moines
M. G. Thornburg
Fire at powder magazine in Guatemala City kills workers
Fire and explosions swept the Remington magazine containing powder dynamite and gasoline. several workers feared dead and fifteen wounded. In Washington, Coolidge nominated three federal radio commissioners Orestes Caldwell Harold LaFourne and Sam Pickard and named Garland S Ferguson Jr to the Federal Trade Commission.
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Guatemala
Senate
Washington, D. C
Coolidge
Federal Radio Commission
Sinate
Orestes H. Caldwell
New York
Harold A. LaFournt
Utah
Sam Pickard
Kansas
Garland S. Ferguson, Jr
North Carolina
Arrest Youthful Thieves in Oskaloosa District
Police arrest 11 local boys aged 18 to 21 who allegedly cleared up 14 robberies in the past year. Prosecution will proceed in the local juvenile court.
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Oskaloosa
Passenger Dashed to Death as Plane Strikes Air Pocket
In Lexington Virginia a cyclonic air pocket blamed for the death of Phineas Stephens of New Market Virginia. The famed engineer and capitalist grandson of The vice President of the Confederate States was hurled 2000 feet down a mountainside when seat straps failed. Richard R. Fellers Martinsburg airport manager was also thrown from his seat but survived after injuring his head on a wing and regaining the cockpit. Captain Charles E. Masson piloted a descent of about one thousand feet.
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Lexington
Phineas Stephens
New Market
Thevice
Confederate States
Stephens
Here
Richard R. Fellers
Martinsburg
W. Va
Charles E. Masson
Gray and Mrs Snyder May Get Reprieve from Death
New York December 17 Gov Smith may grant a reprieve to Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray pending action by the state legislature on capital punishment. An Albany dated Albany copy of the New York American reports a strong possibility the governor will reprieve long enough to let the legislature decide whether capital punishment shall be abolished in New York. The report says a bill outlawing the electric chair and substituting life imprisonment for murder could prompt the governor to save the pair even if the bill is not retroactive.
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New York
INS
Smith
Ruth Snyder
Judd Gray
Albany
New York American
Moscow Protest to China Repudiates Regime Backed
In a cautiously worded note from December 1741 Moscow protests China severing diplomatic relations. It denies aiding radicals who seized Canton and claims Russian consuls were in nationalist territory under agreement with Peking’s northern antisocialist government. Russia rejects recognition of the nationalist authorities.
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Russia
Canton
Peking
Prking
Vatican Choir in Des Moines Struggles With Wine Shortage
Des Moines reports of a Vatican choir aged 70 to 7 years lamenting a lack of native wine amid Prohibition. They cope with spaghetti and craving American dishes while hotel managers try to please. Most singers hail from St. John Lateran in Rome. a US tour schedule is in question.
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Vatican
St. John Lateran
Rome
United States
Poor street lighting blamed for Cedar Rapids auto accident
In Cedar Rapids a possible fatal crash occurred when Mrs. Imogene Snyder stepped into the path of a moving truck after dark. Doctors said she suffered a broken neck and likely poor recovery. The driver L. W. Schrader reported he did not see her until she stepped into the road.
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Cedar Rapids
Imogene Snyder
L. W. Schrader
Probe Smuggling of Liquor by Customs
Washington December 17 An inquiry was ordered by the Treasury Department into charges by Rep Laguardia of New York that liquor was smuggled openly through customs at New York by using cancelled stamps and inspectors.
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Washington, D. C
Treasury Department
Customs Intelligence Service
Rep. Laguardia
Republican
New York
W W T U Plans Counter Attack on Wet Forces
Des Moines authorities announce pamphlets denouncing the prohibition campaign as based on fallacious statements will be distributed next week to 3500 ministers and all local W C T U chapters. Mrs Ida B Wise Smith state president said the anti-prohibition organization is actively at work in the state.
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Des Moines
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Ida B. Wise Smith
Two Women Barred From Entering Store In Sioux City
Sioux City readers learn of a judge declaring Anna Anderson and Katherine Coleman among others must serve 80 days in jail if caught shoplifting in a Sioux City department store. Also reported: 169 union miners' families in Belmont and Jefferson counties to move from company houses by April 1 per Federal Judge Benson eviction order.
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Sioux City
Anna, Anderson
Sioux Glhy
Katherine Coleman
Ames
Charlie Lickes
Columbus
Belmont
Jefferson Counties
Benson
Fire alarms report shingles cause at Locust Street house
Saturday at 1 56 p m a house on Locust street at 318 Locust street suffered a fire caused by shingles. Fire department Jose attended fire with a ten dollar value involved.
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Thillen
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Aparka
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