Judge Wilbur Named Secretary of the Navy
Judge Curtis D Wilbur of California has been named secretary of the Navy to succeed Edwin Denby and has accepted. President Coolidge notified Wilbur by telegram and he will come to Washington after senate confirmation. Wilbur, chief justice of the California supreme court, is a 1888 Annapolis graduate with deep naval interest and a long legal career in Los Angeles. He was born May 10 1867 in Boonville Pennsylvania and is brother to Ray Lyman Wilbur Stanford president.
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Olive Doolittle
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Ray Lyman Wilbur
Stanford University
American Medical Association
Curb Noise Campaign Led by Chicago Health Chief
Chicago health commissioner Dr Herman N Bundesen renews city wide drive against unnecessary noise. A Wednesday bulletin cites experts who claim city noise causes nervous disorders and that reducing noise could add about seven years to a dweller’s life. Citizens are urged to report disturbances to the health department for action.
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Commissioner of Health
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Cotton consumption greatly in February
Washington reports cotton consumed in February excluding linters totaled 507,876 bales, down from 566,805 bales in the same month last year, according to Census Bureau figures released today.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Beggars on Houston Streets Tied to Licenses Cancelation
Houston social service chief I B McFarland tells Mayor Holcombe in a letter that beggars infest the streets. He cites many as addicts and urges placement in charitable institutions and cancellation of licenses to sell pencils.
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Globe Introduces New Linotype and Comic Section
The Amarillo Globe expands to meet growth in the Panhandle-Plains region by installing a latest model linotype and adding a Sunday comic and magazine supplement. Readers can expect more news and truthful advertising as new features roll out.
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Oil Company Plans 20 Mile Pipeline From Pampa Area
A large oil company surveys a twenty mile pipeline from Carson county wells west of Pampa to intersect the Santa Fe Railway at Kingsmill switch seven miles west. Landowners receive right of way checks, Kingsmill erects loading tracks with Santa Fe unloading material, and 150000 barrels of steel storage have been built. The line aims to open a new outlet for high grade oil and spur development this spring.
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Santa Fe Railway
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Supreme Court Upholds Stillman Divorce Verdict
New York March 14 The appellate division of the supreme court in Brooklyn today upheld referee Greason's findings in the Stillman divorce case. Annie A. Stillman was found not guilty of adultery and entitled to the suit's defense, with the court affirming the referee's view that the plaintiff was guilty and not entitled to a divorce. The court also affirmed the legitimacy finding concerning Baby Guy Stillman, ruling that evidence failed to prove illegitimacy.
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Oren Hensley Freed Not Guilty in Hold-up Trial
A district court jury acquitted Oren Hensley of robbery with firearms after a five minute deliberation. He and his parents thanked jurors as alibi evidence placed him at the Domino parlor on Taylor Street during the February 7 incident. Sheriff Whitaker and witnesses Morgan and Baker corroborated the alibi.
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Wesley Morgan
J. G. Baker
Ship Contracts Under Investigation
New Orleans March 14. An investigation of wartime ship construction and cost plus contracts of ship repair concerns is being secretly carried on here by agents of the department of justice, according to reports in shipping circles today. The probe aligns with the shipping board affair investigation authorized by Congress a week ago.
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Weather outlook and past temperatures in state
The forecast calls for tonight and Saturday to be somewhat cloudy but warmer. It notes low temperatures statewide after yesterday’s heavy snow, with 1 PM reading at 40 degrees and the coldest last night at 22 degrees.
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Cold Wave Follows Heavy Snow Stirs Texas Plains
A cold wave gripped north and west Texas after one of the heaviest snowfalls in years. Freezing temps spread across North Texas with Dallas near freezing. The chill spared crops, while farmers hailed the snowfall as beneficial, though moisture delayed spring planting in some areas.
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Man Sues for 20000 in Personal Injury Case
J. A. Hayes files a district court suit against American Surety Co for twenty thousand dollars alleging permanent injury from a cutting bolt fragment at a construction site in Amarillo. X ray evidence shows a steel fragment embedded in his body.
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Oil Company Official Held on Embezzlement Charge
New Orleans March 14 Harry L Eldredge vice president of the Texas Oil company was in liberty on $10000 bond after indictment on embezzlement charges. The indictment rested on a report from the Texas company auditing department Officials would not disclose the exact nature of the charge. Habeas corpus writ granted Austin March 14 Supreme Court issued writ for M R Beamer and H B Seay Mercedes Hidalgo County alleging illegal restraint of liberty under contempt orders. Bond set at $250 each with April 2 hearing.
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Harry L. Eldredge
Texas Oil Company
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Texas Company Auditing Department
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Tex
Supreme Court
M. R. Beamer
H. B. Seay
Mercedes
Hidalgo County
L. J. Polk
Ninety-Third District Court
Wilson near joining third party in 1912 shakeup
Woodrow Wilson foresaw a Democratic rebirth as he weighed gubernatorial ambitions in New Jersey. He predicted Roosevelt and Taft would split the Republicans, opening a path to the presidency while battling party bosses and organizational control within the Democrats.
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Indictments in Herrin Disorders Being Served
Ninety nine indictments against more than a score of men who dominated Williamson county in a reign of terror last month were being served. Glen Young, leader of the raids, named in fifty five indictments for kidnapping, robbery, larceny, false imprisonment and assault. Forty four other indictments from a nine day grand jury session named several aides in the liquor law enforcement conflict. Carl and Earl Shelton, coal miners, were indicted for murder of the constable. The brothers have not been arrested.
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Judges recuse over highway law case in Texas
The Waco court of civil appeals withdraws its certificate to the state highway law question and disqualifies itself because members own automobiles. Anticipation grows that the Texas supreme court will also recuse due to automobile ownership, delaying a final decision on the highway act's constitutionality.
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Supreme Court
Coolidge Nominates Porto Rico District Attorney
President Coolidge nominated John L. Gray of Porto Rico to be United States district attorney for the district of Porto Rico and sent the nomination to the Senate for confirmation.
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Means reveals Daugherty’s suspension over oil probes in Mexico
Washington reports on Gaston B. Means testimony before the Daugherty committee. Means says a cabinet member ordered his suspension in 1922 for being too active in oil investigations in Mexico. He claims his diary and a network of past loyalties detail his work for multiple governments and the United States.
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Mexico
United States
Powers Expanded for Daugherty Committee
The Senate unanimously extended the Daugherty committee’s authority to hold hearings anywhere in the United States and to allow any member to issue subpoenas as requested by Chairman Brokhart.
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Walsh III So Senate Committee Adjourns
The Senate oil committee adjourned until Tuesday due to the indisposition of Senator Walsh Montana chief investigator. Walsh notified Chairman Ladd he has a cold and will miss the weekend, with witnesses subpoenaed to testify at the next session.
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Senate Oil Committee
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Montana
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Ladd
Coolidge politics focus cited by Harrison in senate
Sen. Pat Harrison of Mississippi says President Coolidge won’t seek Attorney General Daugherty’s resignation until after the Ohio primaries. He accuses Coolidge of courting Middle West votes by offering the navy post to Judge Kenyon and notes Kenyon’s refusal.
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Mesopotamian Interior Minister Assassinated
London reports Tewfik Pasha minister of the interior of Mesopotamia has been assassinated per an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Constantinople quoting Angora. Stamford, Texas notes during the week the ginning season ended with a record 10,494 bales ginned. Some cotton hauled from Mineral Wells and other points.
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Stamford
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Smith Behind Numerous Secret Deals Testimony Unveiled
Washington March 14. Means testified before the Daugherty committee detailing alleged secret investigations of cabinet members and congressmen. He claimed Jesse Smith directed covert deeds from a department office and that $100,000 was paid by Mitsui for the Standard Aircraft case, later given to Smith. He cited Harding orders, LaFollette and Caraway inquiries, and a past suspension over oil investigations in Mexico.
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Harding
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Houston Youths Face Trial in Girl's Stoning Death
Houston March 14 Leo Day and Bob Crisp two Houston youths stood trial in justice court charged with stoning to death a negro girl after an altercation on a street car. The youths allegedly pelted the girl and her mother with stones fatally injuring the girl.
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