Weeks Reappears Before House Aircraft Committee
Secretary Weeks testifies on the Mitchell controversy challenging charges from Brigadier General Mitchell. Weeks claims he disobeyed no orders and did not muzzle anyone while publishing articles without proper approval. He postpones comment on Mitchell’s reappointment, citing to discuss with the president.
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Associated Press
Washington
Weeks
House Aircraft Committee
Mitchell
Army Air Chief
War
Navy Departments
War Secretary
Coolidge
War Department
Borglum Arrested in Greensboro Then Released on Habeas Corpus
Gutzon Borglum, sculptor, was arrested in Greensboro North Carolina on arrival from Durham late evening. He was released about two hours later under habeas corpus before Judge Michael Schenck of the superior court and immediately boarded a train to New York.
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Greensboro
N. C
Gutzon Borglum
Durham
Michael Schenck
Superior Court
New York
Elk Beauty Shop Adds Madame Negy Expert Facialist
The Elk Beauty Shop announces Madame Negy as facial specialist, graduate of Marinello and Burham Schools of Chicago, plus Dr. Emil Shore of New York. She brings five years of experience in facials, scalp treatments, and hair dyeing. Balcony Elk Barber Shop. Phone 691.
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ELK Beauty Shop
Madame Negy
Marinello
Burham Schools
Chicago
Emil Shore
New York
Elk Barber Shop
Colonel Niles Dies Suddenly on Union Club Roof
Colonel Lotus Niles a 70 year old retired army officer, resident of San Antonio, died suddenly on the roof of New York City’s Union Club after visiting with Colonel Robert Leonard. Heart disease was listed as the cause. Niles served in the Spanish American War, the Philippines, and the Boxer Rebellion, where he led a relief train mission earning a congressional commendation.
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Associated Press
New York
Lotus Niles
San Antonio
Texas
Union Club
Fifth Avenue
Niles
Robert Leonard
Mt. Kisko
Leonard
Col
Col. Niles
Philippines
Congress of the United States Friends
5000 Oil Field Workers Strike in Mexico
Five thousand workers in the Huasteca Oil company fields at Tampico and Vera Cruz walk out in a general strike. The company had arranged with the union to use replacements at Cerro Azul, triggering walkouts in other camps. In Mexico City the government orders police to stay in barracks to quell potential tramway disturbances beginning at midnight.
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Associated Press
Mexico City
Huasteca Oil Company
Tampico
Vera Cruz
Sindicato Unico de Petroleo
Cerro Azul
President Ebert Dies at Berlin Ruler of Weimar Republic
The obituary recalls Friedrich Ebert born 1877 in Heidelberg rising from a tailor’s son to first president of the German republic. He helped dismantle monarchy after 1918 upheaval, oversaw Weimar founding, faced treaty crisis, Bolshevist unrest, and economic woes before Dawes plan brought stability. He refused Kaiser palaces, pledged freedom with law, and served until 1925.
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William
Ebert
Maxmilian
Baden
Peoples’ Commissaries
Weimar
National Assembly
Reichstag
Phillipp Scheidmann
Paris
Berlin
Tts
Ibert
Germany
Dawes
Heidelhere
Heidelberg University
Tle
Collier Habeas Hearing Continued to March 16 Trial Set
In Wichita Falls, Frank Collier, former mayor, had habeas corpus proceedings continued to allow defense time for character witnesses. He was arraigned and the trial date moved to March 16 in Wichita County court, with the case transferred from the thirtieth to the eighth district court. Also noted are mentions of small islands described as "porn" in 1923 near Cochin-China, Japan, and the Bay of Bengal.
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Wichita Falls
Frank Collier
Collier
8Th District Court
Wichita County
Cochin-China
Bay of Bengal
Ten killed and 300 injured in Caju island blast near Nichbheroy
The explosion of forty tons of powder and combustibles on Caju island near Nichbheroy killed ten people and injured about three hundred. Perrin C. Cochran, local manager for three American fire insurance firms, cited property losses around one million dollars as he returned from the blast scene. Five children died in a separate Easton Md fire that wiped out a dwelling occupied by George Wilson and family.
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Associated Press
Rio Janeiro
Caju Island
Nichbheroy
Perrin C. Cochran
Associatedress
Easton
George Wilson
Here
Delaware Indian matriarch buried in Vinita at 109
Mrs. Elizabeth Ketchum, a Delaware Indian reputed to be 109 years old, was buried in Vinita Oklahoma. Her family, one of the oldest in Northeastern Oklahoma, built the first brick dwelling in the area fifty years before 184. She was born near Leavenworth Kansas and arrived in Oklahoma after the Civil War.
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Associated Press
Vinita
Okla
Elizabeth Ketchum
Ketchum
Oklahoma
Leavenworth
Kansas
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Joseph Gaughan
Archibald
Caughan
Hudson Coal Company
Saline
J. Toms
Bienville Parish
Borglum
N.C
Studebaker
Brougham
ERE
Millais
McCarty Motor Company
Fillmore Street
Mexico
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