President forms five member panel on Muscle Shoals plan
President Coolidge appoints a five member commission to study the Muscle Shoals project and propose a basis for exchange for Congress. The panel includes McKenzie Dial Curtis McClellan and Bower and will meet soon to map a procedure. The effort seeks a solution favored by both private operation and government control camps.
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Associated Press
Washington
Coolidge
Muscle Shoals
Congress
Oscombee
Imper
McKenzie
Iinois
Dial
South Carolin
Harry A. Curtis
Yale University
William McClellan
New York
Russell
Bower
American Farm Bureau Federation
Commission
Henry Ford
Underwood
Alabama
House
Instructed verdict in Klan suit handed down
Houston March 27 George B Kimbro lost his damage suit against the Ku Klux Klan. Judge Ewing Boyd granted an instructed verdict finding no conspiracy to banish or defame him. The decision ends the main dispute but leaves other Klan related claims and counterclaims unsettled.
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Ay Associated Pross
Houston
George B. Kimbro
Ku Klux Klan
Ewing Boyd
Kian
Kimbro
Appa
E. J. Clark
Klan
Wheeler and others charged in oil land conspiracy
Associated Press reports Senator Wheeler of Montana Edwin Booth and Gordon Campbell charged by a grand jury in Washington with conspiracy to obtain illegal use and possession of government oil land. The indictment covers alleged acts from 1920 to 1924 including lease manipulation and related communications. Wheeler's Montana trial remains set for April 16. other defendants not present.
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Associated Press
Washington
Wheeler
Montana
Edwin S. Booth
Interior Department
Gordon Campbell
Campbell
Donovan
Senator Walsh
Booth
Senator Wheeler
Borah
Senate
James A. McGowan
McGowan
Department of the Interior
Couzens
Republican
Michigan
Ford Motor Company
Mellon
Blair
Jury completed for Dorothy Ellingson murder case
In San Francisco on March 27 two female alternates joined a nine men and three women jury for 16 year old Dorothy Ellingson accused of murdering her mother over a dispute on the girl’s life. Judge Harold Loudrebac adjourned to Monday morning for opening statements as the defendant recovered from a fainted recess.
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Associated Press
San Francisco
Dorothy Ellingson
Harold Loudrebac
Terresa Roth
Rumors of Six UT Students Ejected Denied by Splawn
Dr Walter Splawn president Fiiday denied rumors that six University of Texas students were ejected. He called the reports pure speculation and said the faculty discipline committee has not finished its inquiry into a water fight at a restaurant after a country club party last Saturday. He noted action is not yet formulated and that no students were advised to quit. He expected advice from Attorney General Dan Moody on newspapers for exaggerated reports about the incident.
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Associated Prose
University of Texas
Walter Splawn
Fiiday
Spgawn
Splawn
Dan Moody
Janitor Dead After Blast Wrecks Swissvale School
Jacob Jacobs, 66, janitor, killed in an early morning explosion that wrecked a two story school and a one story annex in Swissvale, Pittsburgh suburb. Debris cleared after ten hours. damage pegged at 150000 dollars. The blast origin disputed with theories of bombing versus gas leak from a hot water heater in the basement. Jacobs seen entering the building before six.
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Associated Press
Pittsburgh
Jacob Jacobs
Swissvale
Thomas Pfarr
United States Bureau of Mines
C. C. Kelso
Jacobs
Cazzell Named Manager of Bivins Fisk Harris Campaign
Amarillo business leaders select W J Cazzell of San Jacinto as campaign manager for the Bivins Fisk Harris ticket. Downtown campaign headquarters to be established as the April 7 election nears. Cazzell pledges to focus on issues and candidate merit over personalities. Strong committees formed to begin work immediately.
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Cazzell
Bivins-Fisk-Harris
Amarillo
W. J. Cazzell
San Jacinto
Cam. Gn
Bivins-Fisk-Hariig
Frank Collier Released on Bond and Appeal Filed
CHITA FALLS March 27 Frank Collier former Wichita Falls mayor was freed on $5 000 bond after a conviction for murder. An appeal to the court of criminal appeals was filed this afternoon following a denied motion for a new trial. Collier shot Elzie Robertson his son in law after domestic disputes over Robertson secretly marrying Collier’s daughter Mary Frances.
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Associated Press
Chita Falls
Frank Collier
Wichita Falla
State Penitentiary
Elzie Robertson
Liberty Tonight
Court of Criminal Appeals
P. A. Martin
89Th District Court
Collier
Young Robertson
Robertson
Mary Frances Collier
Child Rights Comment At Birth Control Conference
Owen R. Lovejoy declares every child has the right to be well born or not born at all. He warns that birth control aims and ignorance create child labor, disease, overcrowding and hunger, urging humane policy. Dr Morris H. Kahn notes large families strain a single provider and physicians face concerns over dissemination of birth control information. Dr Rachaelle Sayaress of Hull House foresees future women deciding bearing sacrifices.
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Associated Press
New York
Eevery
Owen R. Lovejoy
National Child Labor Commission
Vesoy
Morris H. Kahn
Rachaelle Sayaress
Hull House
Chicago
Coast Guard probes wreck after Cape Cod blaze
Nineteen crewmen of the Boston fishing schooner Emerald were landed at four Cape Cod coast guard stations reporting the vessel exploded and sank off Georges Banks. Eight crewmen remain missing in small boats as a search continues tonight.
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Associated Preas
Highlands
Mass
Boston
Emerald
Coast Guard
Cape Cod
Georgea Banks
Coast
Use of radio urged to warn of coming storms
Washington March 27 W J Humphrey weather bureau meteorologist urged the radio and telephone networks in the Mississippi Valley and other tornado prone regions to spread warnings of tornado movement He noted that tornadoes cannot be forecast before they form at cloud level and suggested radio warnings to guide people to cyclone shelters or out of paths to reduce danger.
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Associated Prose
Washington
Mississippi Vally
W. J. Humphrey
Weather Bureau
Humphrey
Prairie fires in South Dakota brought under control
Sioux Falls March 27 Prairie fires which swept South Dakota yesterday and last night were brought under control today after leaving miles of blackened prairies and smoldering ruins. Fires in the north subsided with diminishing rains. Total damage was not expected to be large as the fire line crossed sparsely settled areas. One blaze along the Bennett Washabaugh county line burned haystacks but spared farm buildings.
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Associated Press
Sioux Falls
South Dakota
Bennett-Washabaugh County
Texan Robbery Suspect Stevens Transferred to Cleveland
Jefferson City Missouri March 87 John Walker Stevens who was wanted on a Texas robbery charge left for Cleveland Texas in the custody of Sheriff R B Holliday and Deputy L D P Kimball Stevens admitted to police that he took part in bank robberies in Texas.
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Associated Press
Jefferson City
John Walker Stevens
Cleveland
Texas
R. B. Holliday
Polk County
L. DP. Kimball
Stevens
George M Sutton Dies In Dallas After Illness
George M Sutton aged sixty, formerly in charge of the Texas Louisiana postal division with headquarters in Houston, died Friday morning in Dallas after a lingering illness. Julius Lindland, chief postal inspector and successor in office, reported the death.
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George M. Sutton
Houston
Dallas
Julius ©. Lindland
Dictionary Rush at The Daily News and Evening Post
Readers mail in three coupons from different newspaper issues to receive a dictionary. The Home Owned, Home Edited News-Post advertises a new dictionary meant for office or home use and urges readers to begin saving coupons today.
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Daily News
Evenne Post Office
News
Forest Fire Bites OK Ozark Reserve Near Broken Bow
A major forest fire in McCurtain County Oklahoma threatens Broken Bow and covers about 108 square miles across three townships. Discovered after ignition on a government Ozark forest reserve highway, flames creep toward cultivated lands, endangering pastures streams and wildlife in Kiamichi and Octavius Mountain ranges. Local reports warn of advancing hillside fire from Bethel Smithville and Hotchatown, with 2,800 residents fearing spread to farms and parks.
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Associated Press
Broken Bow
Okla
McCurtain County
Ozark Forest
Kiamichi
Octavius
Bethel
Smithville
Hotchatown
Oklahoma
Exhumations Aim to Probe 15 Year Old Deaths
Mrs Emma Nelson McClintock and Dr Oscar Olson were exhumed after long interments for belated autopsies by coroner chemists. State's Attorney Crowe ordered the disinterments amid past suspicions of foul play connected to the McClintock estate. Full chemical analyses will take about a month, officials said.
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Associated Press
Chica
Emma Nelson McClintock
William Nelson McClintock
Oscar
Harry Olson
Olson
William PD. Shepherd
Young McClintock
R. Olson
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