Adherence to World Court Urged by Coolidge
President Coolidge reaffirms support for American adherence to the permanent court of international justice as urged in his Congress message and Harding Hughes plan. He will not alter his position despite Republican senators’ differing views, citing faithfulness to his prior pledge and his countrywide appeal.
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Priny Washiton
Coolidge
Permanent Court of International Justice
Senate
Harding
Congress
Associated Press
House
Smoot
Senate Finance Committee
Mellon
Treasury
Charles Deb Claiborne
American Bankers League
Senate Passes Sheppard Bill for Potash Subsidy
The Senate approved a Sheppard measure to spend 2,750,000 to develop the American potash industry, mainly in West Texas. The bill aims to reduce German dependence and follows similar House action pending with Rep Hudspeth. Also approved were honors discharges for youths who misrepresented ages to join WWI. The article also covers tax measure debates, Coolidge’s stance, and plans to establish an Amarillo oil information bureau to publicize the local field’s potential, including a push for 10,000 barrels daily.
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Bascom M. Timmons
Daily News
Washington
Senate Today
Texas
Senate
House
Hudspeth
Sheppard
Germany
State Labor Bureau to Open in Amarillo for Wheat Harvest
The Texas labor department will open a free employment bureau at Amarillo to distribute hundreds of Texas students and other labor for the wheat harvest. The bureau will arrange movement of workers as the harvest moves to Kansas wheat fields.
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State Department
Labor Bureau
Amarillo
Associated Press
Austin
Texas
Couple Marooned on Island in Lake Kemp
Harold White game warden of Baylor county and his wife were rescued after spending a night on a small island in Lake Kemp during a severe storm. They were reportedly swept onto the island and their boat wrecked. Neighbors had feared they had drowned while witnesses saw them in distress.
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Associated Press
Wichita Falls
Harold White
Baylor County
Kemp
Man Hangs Self in Alabama Prison
Associated Press reports Fred Smith charged with murder in a case involving his sister. Smith hanged himself in the Jackson county jail today, linked to the alleged murder of his brother in law Hubert Bennett whom Smith accused of mistreating his sister.
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Associated Press
Scottsboro
Ala
Fred Smith
Jackson County
Hubert Bennett
Smith
Coolidge Improves After Rest and Treatments
Washington May 23 President Coolidge shows signs of recovery from a bronchial cold that plagued him for a week. After medical treatment and fasting he completed all engagements today for the first time since Saturday. Chlorine gas therapies at the army medical center are credited with aiding his recovery.
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Coolidge
Washington
Army Medical Center
Mystery in Chicago Kidnapping Slaying of Robert Franks
Chicago police chased scant clues in the Robert Franks case as a grey car and a pair of horn rimmed spectacles offered leads. Coroners suspected poisoning while ransom theories clashed with doctors who doubt a long abduction motive. The 13 year old son of a local millionaire disappeared Wednesday afternoon and the body was found in a swamp, with investigations ongoing.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Robert Franks
Franks
Senate probes heated hearing over Means prosecution in Daugherty case
Washington May 23. Senators lawyers and witnesses clashed as the Daugherty committee probed the federal case against Gas ton B Means and alleged spy activity within its proceedings. Hiram C Todd said Means is a crook while allegations of immunity for bootleggers and a push for a special judge were raised. The clash with Senator Wheeler and Brookhart continued after adjournment as police restored order in the capitol.
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Associated Press
Washington
Daugherty Investigating Committee
Gaston B. Means
Capitol
Hiram C. Todd
Means
New York
Odd
Whs
John M. Killits
Toledo
Ohio
Todd
Wheeler
Montana
Brookhart
Department of Justice
Paul Howland
Harry M. Daugherty
Howland
Brookhart Hhi
Ashion
Five Methodist bishops elected at quadrennial conference
Springfield Mass May 93 The quadrennial conference elected five Methodist Episcopal bishops. Wallace E Brown of Syracuse was chosen on the fourteenth ballot with 661 of 754 votes, ahead of Ralph E Ward of Foo Chow China. The five bishops will be consecrated next Sunday. A war peace campaign program was approved for debate, urging a world peace conference and arms reduction. The committee also urged Congress to amend the divorce law and to oppose anti Protestant propaganda.
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Associated Press
Springfield
Mass
Methodist Episcopal Church
Wallace FE. Brown
Syracuse
N. Y
Ralph E. Ward
Foo Chow
China
Coolidge
Conference of Nations
America
Committee On the State of the Church
Congress
Ku Klux Klan
George H. McClung
Illinois
G. B. Oxnam
California
Senator Greene Injury Fund Advocates 7500 Aid
The Senate authorized an appropriation of 7500 to cover expenses from the injury to Senator Greene Republican Vermont who was shot during an exchange between bootleggers and revenue officers months earlier.
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Sakina
Greene Washington
Senate
Pee A& Bill
Greene
Vermont
Social and political notes from Tokio to Waco
A string of late wire items reports in Tokio that ambassador Woods resigns stirring social and official events for the fortnight as Japan-United States relations feel the impact. Mississippi counties back Senator Harrison with two delegates while other counties head to the state convention with uninstructed delegations. Brownwood ex-service band plans a Waco rally for Alvin Oswley as a Democratic nominee. Texas education officials urge extending contracts for four supplemental textbooks per child as 4,000,000 books exist in state schools.
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Associated Press
Jackson
Miss
Mississippi
Pat Harrison
Oscar Underwood
Waco
Texas
Brownwood
San Francisco
Alvin Oswley
Associated Proge Austin
M. N. Marrs
Text Book Commission
American killed by Chinese bandits in Fukin province
Peking May 23 The murder of Jay Dinsmore an American lumberman from Seattle near Nangka Fukin Province has been reported to the foreign office. Dinsmore was shot and died two days later. his body taken to Foochow. A British man named McKay, captured, remains in outlaw hands.
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Peking
Nangka
Fukin
Jay Dinsmore
Seattle
Foreign Office
Americanation
Dinsmore
Foochow
Kiahgsi
Britain
McKay
Japanese killed three hens as land dispute turns deadly
Near Zelza, Los Angeles area, three Japanese people were shot and killed after a land dispute. The assailant, Naniichi Nakamura, shot Mohet Yonhi and Yonhi's wife, then killed his own wife before dying by suicide. Deputy sheriffs report the sequence of events and identify Nakamura as the shooter.
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Los Angeles
Zelza
Here
Naniichi Nakamura
Lesea
Mohet Yonhi
Free Press Is World Remedy Tells Editors In OKC
Walter Williams, president of the World Press Congress and dean at Missouri, warned that a shackled press will cause stagnation and war. Governor Trapp urged moderation while welcoming editors and Texas said Olina is one of its children, praising progress in journalism.
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Jefferson Davis
Fairview
Washington Monument
Mt. Vernon
Associated Press
Oklahoma City
Walter Williams
World Press Congress
School of Journalism
University of Missouri
National Editorial Association
House of Representatives
Dean Williams
State House
Trapp
W. H. Mays
University of Texas
Texas
Olina
Klan Raider and Wife Shot En Route to City
Granville Illinois May 23 S Glenn Young of East St Louis says Ku Klux Klan raider and his wife were fired on by four men in a sedan on the Atlantic highway near the Okaw river bottoms. Mrs Young wounded under the left eye and taken to Belleville hospital. Young hit in the right leg below the knee. about twenty shots fired in a volley. two suspects may be identified.
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Associated Press
Granville
S. Glenn Young
East St
St. Louis
Belleville
Til
Young
Senator Wheeler Granted Overwhelming Senate Support
Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana received a sweeping vote of confidence from the Senate as 56 members backed the majority report exonerating the prosecutor charged with accepting a fee to practice before the interior department after Wheeler’s election. Eighteen Republicans and two former senators joined six Democrats in supporting the resolution, while five Republicans opposed it.
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Associated Press
Washington
Burton K. Wheeler
Montana
Senate
Daugherty Committee
Interior Department
Borah
Idaho
Deel
Curtis
Pipps
Spencer
Sterling
Willls
Square Deal Brooke Indicted For Fraud
J. Brooke known as square deal Brooke was arrested by federal authorities in Shreveport and bonded at $1,000 as an alleged fugitive on a mail fraud charge connected to the Smackover King Gusher Syndicate. Texarkana issued the warrant. several other men are named in the case. Brooke serves as an inspector for the city board of health.
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City Devet
Amarillo
H. Jk. Bozeman
Dorsett Carter
W. H. Fuqua
First National Bank
Carter
Melay
H. Fuqua
Associated Pros
Shreveport
J. Brooke
Square Deal
Brooke
Texarkana
City ‘Board of Health
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