15 Dec 1926
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Newspaper
Albuquerque Morning Journal
Location
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1926
Page
1
Wisconsin officials Cooper and Nelson faced no opposition as they returned to their seats, signaling a smooth election outcome. The report notes their uncontested status and confirms their reelection in the recent proceedings.
Exclusive dispatch reports Walsh’s brief absence as Congress resumes duties in Washington. The piece notes Cooper and Nelson reelected from strong La Follette districts, with Cooper to his eleventh term and Nelson as Democratic elder. The article mentions civil service chief William C. Deming and a bolometric assistant exam at the Smithsonian Observatory.
Washington correspondent Frederic William Wile returns to the air via WRC WEAF and affiliates. The new series The Political Situation in Washington Tonight will air on Wednesday evenings this year at 6 p m EST for the rest of the year.
Weather forecast general fair conditions for Denver and New Mexico on Wednesday and Thursday with little temperature change. Arizona also expected fair skies and similar mild temperatures on the same days.
Fragmented local weather notes show incomplete temperature values and humidity data. Direction of wind noted as northwest with unclear gusts. No coherent forecast or solid measurements can be derived from the OCR.
The U S Senate approved a Wadsworth amendment by 39 to 37 to admit wives and children of aliens already admitted before July 1 1924 outside quota limits who pursue naturalization The measure accompanies a House bill extending entry to American women who lost citizenship by marriage The House passed its bill 44 to 31 awaiting Senate action
Washington dispatch reports six hours of heated argument as prosecutor Owen J. Roberts and defense attorney Frank J Hogan clash over the Fall-Doheny case. They address the Pearl Harbor lease, Elk Hills negotiations, and questions of witness credibility as the jury prepares to retire for verdict on Albert B. Fall and Edward L. Doheny.
Reports from Santa Fe indicate newly elected Secretary of State Juanita Portune will appoint Julio Banches of Socorro as an assistant in the secretary’s office in Santa Fe. Don Cassados, chief clerk in the state bank examiner’s office, may become chief clerk to Portune, with Laura Stigle remaining as stenographer.
Rep Boylan urges withdrawal of US recognition of the Calles government in New Mexico arguing Mexico and its allies threaten American property and citizens. He scolds Secretary Kellogg for silence and accuses the State Department and Ambassador Sheffield of weak policy toward Mexico amid arms embargo tensions and Nicaragua concerns.
North Dakota Senator Frazier, welcomed back by Republicans, learned he was not restored to his former ranking on most committees. He hoped to chair the Indian Affairs panel after March 4 but was left with only Indian affairs and says he has not asked for favors. Senator Shipstead of Minnesota was reportedly contacted about attending future Republican conferences.
The House approved an interior department appropriation amendment boosting Carlsbad Caverns funding to 20000 dollars, up from 15800, after it was introduced by John Morrow, a New Mexico congressman. The measure passed Tuesday in Washington as part of the broader appropriation bill.
Budget for the inauguration of Governor-elect C. Dillon totals 4000 dollars, compared with 2600 for Hannett’s 1907 inaugural. Tickets are 10 dollars per couple and 2.50 per additional lady. Next meeting set for Wednesday night to finalize full committee memberships and subcommittees across finance refreshments decorations parade printing and transportation with many civic names listed.
A Barcelona dispatch says a new conspiracy to assassinate King Alfonso XIII and Prime Minister Primo de Rivera was uncovered in Madrid. Thirteen anarchists were arrested, one shot escaping, with plans to target De Rivera’s car and later kill the king with grenades at the funeral.
Mrs Mary Kipchak 22 leaped from the Riverside Drive viaduct at 125th Street after hesitating on the rail three times. Two men tried to stop her but failed. She fell 115 feet and died near her husband, a taxi stand operator, who fainted upon recognizing her. He cited melancholia as a factor.
New York reports that Mayor Henry Wissell and Edgewater New Jersey Police Chief James A. Dinan along with customs inspector Edward A. Ritz and Marine Division sergeant John J. Lowery plus 29 others were indicted for conspiracy to violate federal prohibition law. The indictments followed an eight month probe into a $2 million liquor cargo aboard the rum runner Eker landed in April.
Washington report notes five hours of debate with limited changes to the interior department appropriation bill. Arguments centered on a clause allowing steamship lines to connect with the Alaska railroad, procedural rulings blocked a Baker reclamation project mandate, and a $2 auto tax for national parks was struck down on a point of order.
Berkeley man John W. Caldwell shot himself in the Capitol building Monday. He died Tuesday from his wounds after Coroner Nevitt certified suicide.
Arthur G. Wells of the Santa Fe Railway says the middle Rio Grande valley reclamation under the conservancy district will spur development and benefit the railroad through flood control and increased land value. Wells, in Albuquerque for a budget meeting, notes the project targets fertile waterlogged lands owned by farmers. He cites Amarillo oil field growth and Albuquerque’s long history with the Atlan tic and Pacific and Santa Fe systems.
Agatha Christie, noted mystery writer, was located at a Harrogate sanatorium after a two week disappearance from her Amherst home. She arrived with a dressing case, claimed to travel from South Africa, and said she intended rest at a York hospital spa following a health letter from her brother Colonel Christie.
A vast cold front swept from Alaska and the Pacific into the Midwest and West sending temperatures to zero or below. The storm caused 18 deaths including a Chicago man frozen in a city, a Denver hay loft fatality, and a Park City Utah case, with Milwaukee and Neenah also reporting fatalities.
A McNary-Haugen style farm relief bill moves through the Senate with support from the West Middle West and South. Rep Purnell and Rep Fulmer are asked to introduce jointly, while Haugen reviews the measure before approval. The bill omits price standards and tariff yardstick, relying on a per unit equalisation fee with flexible collection.
In Washington on December 14 Representative Hayden Democrat Arizona said minor differences blocking an agreement among lower Colorado river basin state commissions on the Colorado river development. He cited tax California would pay for power and water for irrigation as key issues. The House irrigation committee favors compromise but objects to the secretary of the interior deciding power division to please all, a point Hayden and Representative Leatherwood Republican Utah view as conflicting with the federal water power act.
The Arizona-Colorado river committee left Phoenix for Los Angeles to join the conference on the Colorado river. They outlined central points for a new appeal to adjust prior development plans and aim to resolve all disputes among California Arizona and Nevada to form a tri state compact.
Charles M. Schwab, steel magnate, escaped injury when his private car on an eastbound Big Four passenger train derailed at a Nickel Plate crossing in Muncie Indiana. The Schwab car chef was slightly injured.
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