Turbulent Scenes as Congress Opens in 69th Session
Washington dispatch reports a dramatic House opening with insurgents clashing with Democrats while Republicans push through key rules. Nicholas Longworth wins the speakership 229 to 173, Garrett 173, Cooper 13 with five present. Senate proceedings proceed calmly with party leaders guiding swift agendas.
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House
Senate
Congress
Coolidge
Nicholas Longworth
Ohio
Finis J. Garrett
Tennessee
Henry Allen Cooper
Wisconsin
Longworth
Garret
Cooper
Representative Garrett
President Coolidge urges farm relief at Chicago meeting
President Coolidge told the American Farm Bureau Federation convention in Chicago that agriculture will lead future prosperity. He pledged to back agricultural relief plans based on sound economics and urged farmers to advance cooperative marketing. He emphasized aiding storage, credit, and independent farming business.
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Chicago
Coolidge
Middlewest
American Farm Bureau, Federation
Washington
Congress
Sherman Hotel
Mystery sinking leaves tug crew adrift in Gulf
Tampa Fla Dec 7 The crew of the tug Gwellare drift helplessly in the Gulf on the barge Altama after the mysterious sinking of the tug Friday night and the three masted schooner Rosa lies in distress in lower Tampa Bay. Coast guard cutter Tallapoosa and tug James Dougherty have gone to assist.
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Tampa
Fla
Gwellare
Gulf
Altama
Firiday
Rosa
Tampa Bay
Coast Guard
Tallapoosa
James Dougherty
Elected Speaker Nicholas Longworth Leads 69th Congress
Ohio's Nicholas Longworth, former Republican floor leader, was chosen as speaker as the 69th Congress convened in Washington marking a new leadership era for the House.
Train boiler explosion kills two on B and O near Elkton
The engineer R. J. Ryan 65 of Wilmington Delaware and fireman A. W. Churchman 23 of Havre de Grace Md died when the locomotive boiler blew up as local number 49 passed Childs Station four miles north of Elkton Maryland. Ten passengers traveling from Philadelphia to Maryland towns were shaken but unharmed.
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Elkton
En-Gineer
Bantimore and Ohio Railroad
Childs Station
Here
R. J. Ryan
Wilmington
Delaware
A. W. Churchman
Havre de Greece
Philadelphia
Maryland
Fort Worth Denver railway extension signed in Floyd County
Fort Worth and Denver railway extension through Floyd County was signed today by F E Clarity vice president and general manager of the Denver lines. The first train is planned to run over the new trackage within 18 months after signing. A B Brown of the First National Bank of Lockney led the effort mobilizing 45 Floyd County citizens to provide right of way.
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Fort Worth
Fort Worth and
Denver
Floyd County
F .E. Clarity
A. B. Brown
First National Bank of Lockney
Army court martial resumes as navy rebuttal ends
Washington December 7 Prosecution rested the navy rebuttal in the Army court martial of Colonel William Mitchell. The court will hear the Army phase tomorrow with about twenty senior officers including thirteen generals ready to testify on defense of the War Department and Mitchell’s charges of incompetence and neglect.
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Washington
Army
William Mitchell
Navy
War Department
Mitchell
Hanson E. Ely
Army War College
Mason M. Patrick
Air Services
Dennis I. Nolan
M. W. Ireland
Charles J. Summerall
New York
Robert Allen
Robert C. Davis
George C. Richards
Militia Bureau
Maulin Craig
Cavalry
Frank W. Coe
Coast Artillery
Clarence C. Williams
Ordnance
James E. Fechet
Air Service
Hugh Drum
Department
National Defense
Funeral Rites for Dr Conwell Held Wednesday
The Rev Russell H Conwell founder and president of Temple University dies at 82 after a long illness. A lie in state will be followed by a Wednesday morning funeral at the Baptist temple Philadelphia where he served since 1881. He authored Acres of Diamonds and many other works reflecting a long public career in law ministry and education.
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Pmadelphia
Russell H. Conwell
Temple University
Conwell
Baptist
Russell Conwell
Worthington
Mass
Wilbraham Academy
Yale
Albany Law School
Mineapolis
The
Continuance of Highway Probe Promised by Court
Austin December 7. Judge J T Hamilton ordered the Travis County Grand Jury to finish last session's business and do it right centering on the highway department probe. Attorney General Dan Moody declined to appear unless summoned. The state seeks recovery from American Road Co for 600000 in excess highway profits and to cancel contracts worth 2000000. Remarks touch Ferguson Irwin and Satterwhite amid talk of a possible special session.
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Austin
Highway Department
J. T. Hamilton
Travis County
Grand Jury
Dan Moody
Moody
American Road Company
Ferguson
Irwin
Lee Satterwhite
Satterwhite
Sherman and Youmans Construction
Hoffman Construction Company
Frank Lanham
Joe Burkett
American Book Company
Weather forecast for Amarillo and vicinity
Amarillo and vicinity expect Wednesday partly cloudy with Tuesday eastward arrival of a front from New Mexico. Low pressure over Lake region, high pressure in southeast and northwest. Light rain observed in central Rocky Mountains. Moderate morning temperatures. Northwestern high pressure supports fair weather tonight with colder temperatures early.
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Amarillo
New Mexpo
Lake
Rocky Mountain
Bae
Miseseve
Mseres
Oseaee
Day in Washington Sees Speaker Longworth Elected
The Sixty ninth Congress convened as Nicholas Longworth of Ohio was elected speaker. The new tax bill moved to the House amid Republican rule changes over Democratic and insurgent opposition. Navy witnesses testified in the Mitchell trial while Wall-Doheny bribery indictments were upheld on appeal after earlier quashing.
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Washington
House
Congress
Ways and Means Committee
Green
Tilson
Connecticut
Garrett
Tennessee
Ciudirman Green
Res
Mitchell Court
Nicholas Longworth
Ohio
Rev Gregg Found Guilty in Federal Obscenity Case
In Cleveland a federal court found Rev Albert Sidney Gregg, noted author and lecturer, guilty today of distributing obscene matter through the mail. The case centered on material he sent to a recipient, with prosecutors urging a strict interpretation of the mail obscenity laws.
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Gregg
Cleveland
Albert Sidney Gregg
The
American Civic Reform Union
Tom Connally announces support for inheritance tax
Texas Congressman Tom Connally says he will vote for an inheritance tax and rejects claims that states rights are at stake. He warns that a repeal pressure tactic sought to sway his vote and urges the public to hear both sides before deciding.
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Tom Connally
Bascom N. Timmons
Daily News
Washington
Tom Conally
Texas
Texas Tax Club
Connally
Eleventh Congressional District
Waco
Woman teacher accused in Iowa suitor's death
In Cherokee Iowa Edward Flickinger 18 accuses Gertrude Weaver a country school teacher of firing the shots that killed Morey Hardy a rival for her affections. Flickinger and Weaver are jailed on $10 000 bond while investigators doubt the signed confession noting a three way love triangle.
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Edward Fuckinger
Gertrude Weaver
Morey Hardy
Hardy
Flickinger
Miss Weaver
State Reformatory
Bread and Meat Prices Questioned in Rail Rate Hearing
In Dallas on December 7, a five percent rail rate increase faced opposition as speakers warned higher costs would hit bread and beef in Kansas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. Prosecutors argued millions would be added to meat bills while farmers and livestock interests urged rate reductions to pre war levels. The Interstate Commerce Commission hearing will run for ten days with state and agricultural reps present.
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Dallas
Western Railroad
J. B. Keeler
Interstate Commerce Commission
Kansas
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Paul A. Walker
Corporation Commission of Oklahoma
North Dakota
Iowa
Wisconsin
Examiner Keeler
Clarence E. Gilmore
Texas Railroad Commission
F. Mulholland
L. E B. Gettel
L. T. Hussey
Chaiman
W. C. Millar
Kasas
Kasas Comsmission, and (. W. Terrell
Lonna Smith
Texas Commission
Oklahoma City
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