Freight Rates Cut 10 Percent By Interstate Commission
Washington May 24 The Interstate Commerce Commission announced July 1 freight rates will fall by 10 percent from current levels affecting most traffic and commodities including grain livestock and farm products but excluding certain perishables and class rates. The commission also set 6.75 percent as a reasonable annual return for carriers in the future and indicated new schedules will be issued or orders for operation adjustments may follow.
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Washington
Interstate Com‘ee Commission
Deyn
England
Wiseion
Thisa Com
Transportation Act
Jironds
Wweezer
Guent Fuller Insurance
Klan Revokes California Kleagle Commissions
The Ku Klux Klan revokes the commissions of every California kleagle from king to local, citing lawlessness. William Coburn is named king kleagle in charge of California, with Imperial klaliff RE Clarke announcing the move and noting no reinstate of outlawed members.
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Associated Press
Atlanta
Ku Klux Klan
Kleagle
California
King Kleagle
William 8
Coburn
King Kiengle
RE. Y. Clarke
Imperial Klaliff
Supreme Vicw
Clarke
Imperial Kieneikam
W. J. Simmons
Los Angeles
Clarke Eald
Best Quickie at Wuell Second
A brief note records the second place finish in a best quickie style event at Wuell. Names and exact results are unreadable in the fragment, but the item highlights a secondary position in a local competition.
Cabinet crisis rumors swirl in Germany over tax plan
Berlin May 24 persistent rumors say Chancellor Joseph Wirth faces a cabinet crisis after he refused to back the reparations commission proposals in Paris. Finance Minister Andreas Hermes urged new taxes to cover Germanys rising floating debt.
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Berlin
Tpreas
Joseph Wirth
Paris
Andreas Hermes
Germany
Marrying Parson Found Guilty of Offense Against Church
The Rev McElnoyle was found guilty of offense against the church for marrying about 1,000 couples in Elkton and surrounding towns. The Presbyterian church commission whitewashed him but upheld dissolving his pastoral relation with his church. He is deemed fit for another Presbyterian pulpit elsewhere. A Colorado pastor, Rev J Eddie Stewart, was cleared of false statements charges regarding mining stock and his name was restored to the presbytery roll.
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Molines
Judicial Commission of the
Presbyterian Church
United States of America
Meellmoyle
Presbytery of
New Castle
McElmoesle
Camp Mead
Supreme Court of the Presbyterian Church
Meeklmoole
Colorado
Eddie Stewart
Gunnison
Stewart
Presbytery
Weather summary for Yer Colo May 24 Fair north east showers
Partly cloudy south local report shows temperatures at 6 pm 82 in city. Minimum 34 with a light wind from the southwest. Fragments indicate generally fair conditions with possible showers in the northeast portion and cloudy to Purdy in the southwest.
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Colo
Steve
Hollywood Not a Bad Place as Painted Says Unitarian Leader
Boston May 24 Carl Wetherell Pacific coast field secretary of the American Unitarian Association told a Women’s Alliance meeting that Hollywood California the motion picture colony is quiet peaceful and misrepresented. He noted a new Unitarian church forming in Hollywood and urged eastern churches to aid the Pacific coast congregations fostering closer ties and support.
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Associated Press
Boston
Hollywood
Calif
Carl Wetherell
Women's Alliances
Trial begins in Phoenix for Ku Klux Klan assault case
In Phoenix on May 24 a jury was chosen for the first Arizona Ku Klux Klan criminal trial. J. N. Waller and BF Waller of Mesa face aggravated assault charges on Rollin P. Jones the Lehi School principal. Jones testified seeing three K painted on his face and identified the Wallers as participants.
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J.N. Walter
B. F. Waller
Jess
Phoenix
Ariz
Stanford
Superior Court
J. N. Waller
Desault
Rollin P. Jones
Lehi
T. Ti. J. Shepherd
Ventireman
BF. Waller
Mesa
Jones
Ku Klux Klan
Bh. F. Waller
Hadley to Take the Stand in Murder Trial
In Tucson Arizona May 24 the defense says Paul Hadley alias William Estaver will testify tomorrow in a first degree murder case over the death of Anna C Johnson wife of a Denver contractor. The state rested its chief case after Sheriff Pol hamus identified cartridges said to be from Hadley. Prosecutors aim to introduce his Oklahoma criminal record.
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Tucson
Aviz
Paul Hadley
William &. Estaver
K. Berry Peterson
Ladley
Anna CC. Johnson
Denver
Ben B. Mathewa
James Polhamus
Yarnia County
Hadley
Oklahoma
McAlester
Okla
Brigadier General Higginson Shot Near Tipperary
Belfast dispatch reports Brigadier General Higginson once commanding the British infantry brigade at Cork was shot and wounded while hiding near Tipperary today in a combat incident during unrest.
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Belfast
Higginson
Cork
Tipperary
Doughboys Begin Homeward Journey From Coblenz
The Third battalion of the Fifth U S infantry starts its march back from Coblenz over the Rhine to a port of embarkation. Soldiers wept at goodbyes to German frauleins while many would rather stay for the pay and luxury available on the Rhine.
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Coblenz
U. S
Rhine
Rhine Bridge
Rockefeller Official Calls Health Departments Free From Politics
George E. Vincent of the Rockefeller Foundation urged in his annual medical review that public health departments be kept out of politics. He warned that political influence on appointments, promotions, and policies demoralizes health work and impedes disease prevention efforts. He stressed the shift from treating medicine as cure to emphasizing prevention.
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Associated Press
New York
George FE. Vincent
Rockefeller Foundation
Bose
Department of Health
Vincent
Governor General of the Philippines Safe After Typhoon
Leonard Weed governor general of the Philippines is safe after being missing thirty six hours aboard the yacht Apo following a typhoon. The yacht found refuge on an island near Mindoro where he and his wife and daughter had gone on an inspection trip. Rescue efforts had been hindered by the storm and the vessel was driven helplessly toward the Mindoro coast. General Wood was expected to reach Manila the next day.
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Associated Press
Manila
P. I
Leonard Weed
the Philippines
Apo
Mindoro
General Wood
Davis Nomination Confirmed by Senate for War Finance Board
Dwight Davis of St Louis has been confirmed by the Senate to serve as a member of the War Finance corporation. The vote allows the body to resume advancing agricultural and livestock credits, suspended while Managing Director Meyer was away and until a new director was appointed to fill the vacancy caused by Angus McLean's resignation.
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Associated Press
Washington
Dwight Davis
St. Louis
War Finance Corporation
Senate
Meyer
Davis
Angus McLean
North Carolina
Mrs De Valera’s Wife Gives Birth to Twin Boys
Putlin May 24 The Associated Press reports Mrs Ramon de Valera wife of the republican leader today gave birth to twin boys Mrs Charles Burgess wife of the minister of defense in Miro de Valera’s cabinet and a prominent opponent of sheagle Wish treaty also had a charity daughter named in the same note
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Associated Press
Putlin
Ramon de Valera
Charles Burgess
Miro de Valera
Charity
Democrats Divide Over McCumber Plan for Bonus Bill
In Washington on May 24 the Senate Finance Committee split 5 to 2 over the McCumber plan to issue paid up life policies in place of all previous bonus options. Chairman McCumber indicated a full committee meeting this week, pending Indiana Republican Watson’s return from Indianapolis. The panel also formed a subcommittee to hear Rep Mendell on including reclamation provisions in the bonus measure, with Western lawmakers seeking preference rights for soldiers to own and farm lands backed by a revolving fund of 3850 million. Senator Ashurst pressed the Smith McNary reclamation bill as a condition for adjournment, warning a veto or delay would trigger Western fury.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate Finance Committee
McCumber
Indianapolis
Watson
Indiana
Harding
Curtis, McLean and Sutherland
Mondell
Wyoming
Republican House
Smith-McNary
Senate
Ashurst
Arizona
Congress
West
Washington State
Man Claims Damages From Alienation Suit Reversal
Oroville Calif May 24 Louis Rabe of Gridley is defendant in a civil suit filed by his former wife She seeks $2000 damages he received in an alienation of affections case arguing the award was community property and thus hers by the divorce decree The case reflects a dispute over liquidation of assets and marital property division.
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Oroville
Calif
Louis Rabe
Gridley
Nomination Confirmed for Oklahoma City Minister to Chautermoala
Washington May 24 The senate tonight confirmed the nomination of Arthur W. Geissler of Oklahoma City to be minister to Chautermoala.
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Washington
Senate Tonight
Arthur WH. Geissler
Oklahoma City
Chuatermoala
Graphite Tariff Battle Ends With Committee Victory
Washington May 24 Practically the daylight hours were spent in the senate over tariff duties on graphite. The fight split Republicans and Democrats but the finance committee won, approving ten percent ad valorem on amorphous graphite twenty percent on crystalline lump and two cents a pound on crystalline flakes after a six hour dispute. The session marked the tenth night on the tariff bill with calls for a Republican conference to keep members at work.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate
Finance Committee
Borah
Idaho
Stanley
Kentucky
Gooding
Republican Agricultural Tariff Bloc
Nicholson
Colorado
Committee On
Graphite
Federal Trade Commissions
Heflin
Alabama
Mexico
Ceylon
Madagascar
Townsend
Michigan
New Jersey
Hetlin
Frelinghuysen
Firemen battle Drake University blaze in Des Moines
A three story brick science building at Drake University in Des Moines caught fire just before 10 PM. A fireman was overcome by gas as flames threatened total destruction and fears mounted that stored chemicals might explode.
Miner Dies in Powder Explosion Near Tombstone
A 16 year old named William McCaren was blown to pieces by a 50 pound powder blast in a mining shaft where he and his father Alexander Methuran worked. Miner William Mack burn and the father were stunned and crawled to the scene to search but only fragments of the boy were recovered.
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Tombstone
Nriz
William McCaren
Alexander Methuran
William Mackburn
Young Metargo
Revenue Bureau Controversy Reaches White House
Washington May 24 The intra departmental row over a proposed internal revenue bureau reorganization reached President Harding as Assistant Secretary Dover and Commissioner Blair remained at odds. Sumner of Iowa and Childs of Ohio met the president after being removed by Secretary Mellon, with Iowa lawmakers pressing the issue and senators discussing Metlon links. No final action was announced.
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Associated Press
Washington
Treasury
Dover
Blair
Internal Revenue
Harding
White House
A. D. Sumner
Iowa
C. Childs
Ohio
Mellon
Commissioners of Internal Revenue
Jwers
Author of Poison Pen Letters Arrested in Chicago
Chicago police announced the arrest of Eugene Bryant 23 who admitted writing more than two hundred poison pen letters that threatened Mrs. A. H. Shotwell. Bryant claimed to be an art student and said his father Wilbur F. Bryant was a judge in Cedar County Nebraska.
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Chicago
A. H. Shotwell
Eugene Bryant
Cedar County
Nebraska
Bryant
Railroad buys $5.39 million equipment for Katy line
The Missouri Kansas and Texas railroad announces a major purchase valued at 5,390,000 dollars. It includes thirty steel passenger coaches and 2,500 freight cars for the Katy line.
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KATY
Dallas
Texas
Pdallas
The
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad
Indiana Republicans Hear Beveridge Main Issue Economic Prosperity
Delegates at the Indiana Republican state convention applauded a keynote by Senator James K. Watson praising the Harding administration. Alfred J. Beveridge, the party's U.S. Senate candidate, singled out economic recovery as the central issue and urged restoring American business to full strength. Beveridge and Watson aligned on foreign policy, favoring national independence in line with Washington and Lincoln.
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Associated Press
Indianapolis
Indiana
Alfred J. Beveridge
United States
Beveridge
James K. Watson
Harding
Watson
America
Mr. Beveridge
Washington
Lincoln
Methodists Plan Sanatorium in Southwest
Las Cruces New Mexico May 24 Rev M J Williams reports from Hot Springs Arkansas that a large tubercular sanatorium in the southwest is to be proposed, with Las Cruces to donate a site free of charge. A hospital board will organize with a secretary and at least twelve thousand dollars yearly for operations.
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Las Cruces
N. M
Rev. M. ©. Williams
St. Paul's Church
General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Chamber of Commerce
Hot Springs
Ark
World flight attempt begins from Croydon by Blake trio
Maj W T Blake Captain Norman MacMilan and Lieut Col L E Broome start a 30000 mile circumnavigation from Croydon at 4 06 pm with one airplane and no escort plane. They hope to reach Athens and return to American soil within ninety days. King George sends good wishes.
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ASSOC
Croydon
England
Associated Press
W. T. Blake
Major Blake
Norman MacMilan
Ll. E. Broome
Athens
Blake
King George
Haskin Denies Oil Business Ties to Journal Work
Frederic J. Haskin director of the Washington Information Bureau states he is not engaged in any oil or other investments. He warns readers of a nearly identical name using Haskins Information Bureau to solicit money for stocks.
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Frederic J. Haskin
Washington Information Bureau
Haskin
Haskins Information Bureau
Oll
The
Albuquerque Journal
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