Reed Attacks Coolidge Probe in Senate Resolution
Senator Reed introduces a resolution to expunge Coolidge's cessation message and Melion's letter from the record. The move, labeled an insult to the Senate, aims to block continued investigations into executive departments. The clash between Reed and the administration threatens urgent legislation and adjournment timelines.
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United Press
Washington
Reed
Missouri
Senate
President Coolidge
Secretary of the Treasury
Melion
Coolidge
Mellon Denounces Senate Probe of Revenue Bureau
Pittsburgh April 12 Andrew W Mellon defends his treasury leadership at a banquet. He calls the Senate probe of the internal revenue bureau a personal attack and says continued interference will hamper government function. Public service is a target for abuse, he asserts.
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Pitsburgh
Treasury Department
Andrew W. Mellon
Senate
Internal Revenue Bureau
Wheeler says someone is going to jail over Daugherty case
Senator Burton K. Wheeler, head of the senate Daugherty investigating committee, declared in Chicago that someone is going to jail and he is not worried it will be him. He repeated that the Montana indictment against him is a frame up aimed at halting the probe of Harry M. Daugherty and said he will press on until the investigation is completed.
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Chicago
Burton K. Wheeler
Senate
Daugherty Investigating Committee
Wheeler
Montana
Harry M. Paugherty
Shackleford Bond Set At 1500 In Post Office Fire Case
R L Shackleford held on a federal warrant for burning the Tascosa post office was released after Sheriff Les Whitaker approved a 1500 bond signed by two railroad workers named Morrison and Fowler.
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R. L. Shackleford
Tascosa
Les Whitaker
Morrison
Fowler
Planes Delayed Again In Sitka Weather
Sitka Alaska April 12. Assorted winter weather again held up the scheduled departure of the four round the world planes here today.
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Sitka
Alaska
Nesbit Thaw fights release bid as court cases loom
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw said she will resist efforts to release Harry Thaw from a Pennsylvania hospital. Through attorneys she filed in Philadelphia to show Thaw remains insane and that his release would jeopardize her son Russell William Thaw. The petition comes ahead of a jury hearing on Thaw’s mental condition for possible asylum release.
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United Press
Atlantic City
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
Miss Nesbit
Harry Thaw
Philadelphia
Thaw
Pennsylvania Hospital
Russell William Thaw
Motorcycle Strikes Cow Wounding Two on Highway
Paul Ingram of 806 Pierce street was possibly fatally injured when his motorcycle hit a cow on the Claude Amarillo highway about 9 pm. Marshall Jackson riding in the side car was cut on the head with a fractured shoulder. Ingram was taken by Griggs ambulance to Northwest Texas hospital unconscious with severe head injuries and bruising.
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Paul Ingram
Pierce Street
Claude- Amarillo
Marshall Jackson
Washburn
Ingram
Jackson
Amarillo
Griggs
Northwest Texas Hospital
Boy 14 Held on Bond in Slaying of His Father
Corsicana Texas April 12 John Easterling aged 14 was freed on a 2000 dollar bond after he said he shot his father W D Easterling in self defense claiming the man came home drunk threatened to kill the family and began beating his mother. Sheriff Walter Hays filed murder charges.
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Corsicana
Tex
John Easterling
W. D. Easterling
Walter Hays
Fund Campaign Opens for Boy Scouts Monday
The Boy Scout fund campaign begins Monday with a lunch at the Hotel Amarillo to outline drive plans. A total of 6770 dollars is expected to be raised for next year. Scout executive T H Nelson notes the high cost of reform school confinement and frames Scouting as citizenship training for about 1300 boys annually. Charles A Fisk reports growth from 200 to 322 registered Scouts since 1928 and outlines goals including more scout masters, troops, and a larger summer camp. 415 merit badges were awarded in 1923.
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Boy Scout Fund
Amarillo
T. H. Nelson
Charles A. Fisk
Panhandle
Court of Honor
Pipe Line Action Expected On Carter Return To Amarillo
Reports say Dorset Carter returns to Amarillo from Chicago with news of a common carrier pipe line from the Panhandle field to Amarillo. Expected line costs exceed 300000 dollars and several oil men have visited the field. three new locations are to start work immediately as contracts for materials may be near.
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Amarillo
Dorset Carter
Chicago
Panhandle
Carter
Jack Grosbie
S. E
Burk Burnett
Greenwood & Latinel
Danciger Bros
Kansas City
Weather report notes cloudy today with little temperature change
Forecast from the government weather bureau indicates a largely cloudy day with minimal temperature change. Yesterday's high hovered 60 to 65 degrees, up from 57 a year ago, while the coldest reading was 40 degrees.
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Government Weather Bureau
Three Aviators Die When Plane Drops 200 Feet
Three army aviators from Postfield Oklahoma died when their De Haviland craft side slipped and fell 200 feet near Leon Oklahoma. First Lieut Solomon Ebert 30 of Dubois Idaho Corporal Emmett J Reese 24 of Norman Oklahoma Private Emmett Marse 23 of Leon Oklahoma were burned beyond recognition. They belonged to the 44th observation squadron at Post field on an official flying tour.
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Lawton
Okla
Postfield
de Haviland
Leon
Solomon Ebert
Dubois
Idaho
Emmett J. Reese
Norman
Emmett Marse
44Th
Post Field
Germany Ready to Give View on Reparations Report
Foreign Minister Stresemann said Germany will submit its opinion on the experts' report to the Reparations Commission at once. He added Germany will give a formal answer when the reparations demands it. He stressed that the experts' recommendations only serve as a basis for discussion if German sovereignty is guaranteed without conditions.
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Schneidmuhl
Germany
Stresemann
Neff silent on McAdoo Texas speeches
Governor Pat Neff offered no comment on William G McAdoo's Texas speeches while busy preparing his talk for Cleburne next Monday night. He plans a series of addresses urging Texas Democrats to send an uninstructed delegation to the national convention in New York.
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Austin
Tex
Pat Neff
Texas
William G.mcadoo
Cleburne
Democrats of
New York
Woman slashes four children in Elgin farm tragedy
April 12. Temporary insanity driven by debt worry leads Mrs. Sven Carlson to cut the throats of her four children and attempt self harm. One child is dead, another likely to die, two to recover, Mrs Carlson expected to survive. Husband finds scene at Carlson farm near here as screams alert him.
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United Press
Elgin
All
Sven Carlson
Carlson
Here
Man 'Blows' $14 000 Making People Happy on Broadway
George Lister admits stealing $14,000 from American Express to fund acts of happiness on Broadway. He tipped orchestra leaders, paid a fair entertainer, and even bought hats with the cash, but detectives recovered the loot from a satchel filled with old socks and linen as he surrendered. Held on $25,000 bail for April 19 hearing.
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Man
New York
Broadway
George Lister
George
American Express Company
Sausalito
Calif
Lister
Lime House Blues
Inter Allied Meeting Seen as Next Big Need
Paris observers say a general settlement of European debts will require an inter allied conference. Debates over the Dawes plan after the reparations commission action fuel the view that inter allied debts and debts to the United States must be resolved before final reparations. Premier Poincare insists these questions must be settled first.
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United Press
Paris
Europe
United States
Dawes
Poincare
Execution of Russian Spies Delayed in Kiev Case
Moscow reports the execution of the Russian spies convicted at Kiev for passing information to France has been stayed. The pause follows a sharp exchange of notes between Foreign Minister Tchitcherin and the French government.
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United Press
Moscow
Kiev
Tchitcherin
Heavy Rain Reported At Lubbock In Nightlet
Reports from Jubbock relay heavy rainfall reaching the city around midnight. The wire described “bucketfuls” of rain with steady downpour for about ninety minutes.
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Lubbock
Jubbock
Boy Claims Brand After Ranch Attack Near Clarendon
William Wisch, 18, says three cowboys branded his forearm at a large ranch 40 miles from Clarendon, while two other youths were also branded and dumped in Clarendon. Ranch manager J. W. Kemp calls the tale fabrication. police investigate and seek work for Wisch in Amarillo.
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William Wisch
Amarillo
Clarendon
Tex
J. W. Kemp
Wisch
Banfield Street
Chicago
Texas
SLAIN YOUTH'S FATHER MAY EXECUTE MURDERER
In Miami Arizona on April 12 William Ward, a Black man convicted of killing Theodore Wilbur Grosh, may face execution at the hands of Grosh's father W U W Grosh. Sheriff Alt F Edwards forwarded the request to state penitentiary authorities with a recommendation for clemency or punishment. Grosh, a University of Arizona student, was slain after a dance and Ward also assaulted Miss Maxine Meling, a student at the state normal school.
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Miami
Ariz
William Ward
Theodore Wilbur Grosh
University of Arizona
Ward
Grosh
Maxine Meling
Revolver bullet ends Brazilian hero’s year of glory
Rio de Janeiro April 13 United Press reports HB Pinto Martins, the young engineer who joined Walter Hinton on the New York to Rio flight, killed himself with a revolver ending his brief fame. Rumor ties motive to unhappy love affair with cabaret singer Mme Aida. the aviator died in her arms.
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United Press
Rio de Janeiro
Pinto Martins
Walter Hinton
New York
Mme Aida
Woman burns herself to death in Texarkana
Mrs Frank Young wife of a railroad worker in Texarkana Ark burned herself to death by pouring kerosene on her clothing and striking a match late today. Relatives say she was mentally depressed after a nervous breakdown.
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Texarkana
Ark
Frank Young
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