Insurgent Republicans Lose Key Standing Committees
The Republican Committee on Committees swept most insurgent lawmakers from major standing posts in Washington on December 10. Cooper of Wisconsin kept a bottom roll spot but was not removed from the foreign affairs panel. Lampert and Nelson, the only insurgent chairmen, were ousted, while Vestal and Vincent were assigned to lead the patents and elections panels respectively. Additional shifts affected Browne Voight Sinclair Peavy Schneider Nelson Frear and Tilson as the party implements a purge aligned with La Follette era mandates.
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Associated Press
Washington
House
Republican Committee On Committees
Cooper
Wisconsin
Foreign Affairs
Lampert
Nelson
Vestal
Indiana
Vincent
Michigan
Browne
Foreign Affairs Committee
Voight
Sinclair
North Dakota
Agriculture Committee
Peavy
Rivers and Harbors
Schneider
Post Office Committee
Nelson and
Frear
Rules and Ways and Means
Tilson
Connecticut
Republican Floor Ca
Committee On Committees
Republican Caucus
Robert M. la Follette
Congress
Boundary Pact Approved by Irish Parliament
The Irish Dail approved the London boundary pact 71 to 70 after four days of debate. President Cosgrave said the house would not sit tonight unless a decision was reached, with an all-night session once feared but avoided, and he claimed the government had gained good-will from Northern Ireland.
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Associated Press
Dublin
Dail Etreann
London
Cosgrave
Northern Ireland
Drug Traffic 1g Deal Targeted by District Court
A federal narcotics sweep and district court action delivered a hard blow to illicit drug traffic in Butte as state anti narcotics laws tighten. The trial marked the first of its kind in Silver Bow county, with a peddler facing charges under the new statutes.
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Butte
Peddier
Silver Bow County
Boiler blast kills laundry owner and injures six
At the Lin downs wetwash laundry in Col. Anthony Drees, 61, died in a boiler explosion that wrecked the plant. Five others were injured including his son Edward Drees and employee Raymond Shaffner, with one likely fatally hurt. The blast hurled the boiler across the Cache la Poudre river and damaged the adjacent Trupp residence.
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Associated Press
T. Collans
Anthony Drees
Lindown
Edward F. Drees
Raymond Shaffner
Elsie France
W. T. Shay
Harry A. Drees
Cache la Poudre
Henry Trupp
Trupp
Harrison Rips Dawes Over Senate Rules Reform
Washington December 10. Senator Pat Harrison Mississippi mocks Vice President Dawes and the senate rules reform campaign in a half hour speech. Dawes listens with crossed arms and smiles as Harrison lampoons procedure and assigns blame to Butler and others. The speech ends with a fable of a mule and a crowd cheering the spectacle.
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Associated Press
Washington
Dawes
Senate
Harrison
Mississippi
Don Quixote
Sion
Mr. Dawes
Butler
Massachusetts
Republican National Committee
Reorganization plan for national defense and aviation
A special House aircraft committee report calls for a drastic reorganization creating a bureau of civil aeronautics and a department of national defense to oversee aviation. It urges a $20,000,000 annual outlay for five years, a separate aviation budget, a single procurement agency, stronger air service representation, and government aid to build airways and airports. The report aligns with the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and President Coolidge backs the push that America keeps pace with other nations in military air development.
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Associated Press
Washington
National Defense Administration
Special House Aircraft Committee
Bureau of Civil Aeronautics
Congress
National Advisory Committee For Aeronautics
Coolidge
America
House
Department of National Defense
War and Navy
Aviaton
Representative Reid
Titinois
William Mitchell
Unified Air Service
House Committee
National Advisory Commission
Parker
House Commerce Committee
Special Air Board
Army General Staff
Navy General Board
Reid Turns Tables At Mitchell Court Martial
Washington December 10 More army air service troubles were revealed before the Mitchell court martial with blame aimed at the War Department and economy measures. Representative Frank R Reid of Illinois swung the case by making Maj Gen Charles T Menoher a defense witness after the prosecution failed to proceed with cumulative evidence and halted cross examination. The testimony recalled by Rath of Los Angeles cited weather hampering bombing raids in the St Mihiel drive in World War I. Continued on page 2 column 6.
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Reid
Associated Press
Washington
Army Air Service
Mitchell
War Department
Charles T. Menoher
Army Air Chief
San Francisco
Sherman Moreland
Menoher
Frank R. Reid
Illinois
Howard C. Rath
Los Angeles
St. Mihiel
Salt Lake Slayer Hears Fifth Death Sentence Imposed
Salt Lake City December 10 Judge M L Ritchie fixed January 15 1926 as the execution date for Ralph W Seybolt convicted of killing Patrolman David H Crowther This marks the fifth death sentence Seybolt has faced since April 5 1924 He offered no new delay and chose shooting over hanging when asked for the preferred method of execution.
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Associated Presse
Salt Lake
M. L. Ritchie
Ralph W. Seybolt
David H. Crowther
Seybolt
Wyoming's Nellie Tayloe Ross Touted as Presidential Possibility
LARAMIE WY Dec 10 Gov Nellie Tayloe Ross named as a potential Democratic presidential candidate by Bishop N S Thomas of the Protestant Episcopal Church during the inaugural KFRB program in Wyoming. Thomas praised her as highly known and capable. Ross noted the $18 000 broadcasting plant gift from Mrs BE Harriman marked a new era for the state. The governor thanked Thomas and Harriman as the station opened, saying Wyoming Day and suffrage history underscore the occasion.
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Preas
United States
Ross
BE. H. Harriman
Wyoming
Thomas
Harriman
Rocky Mountain
Silver Bow Court Trials Fill Deer Lodge Prison II
Five weeks in Butte district court under Judge Jeremiah J. Lynch saw 31 defendants, 20 remanded to prison and two gunned for other offenses. Fines totaled about 5500 dollars with sentences from six months to 10 years for narcotics and burglary cases.
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Criminal Department of the District Court
Butte
Deer Lodge
Silver Bow
Jeremiah J. Lynch
Durance Vile
T. E. Downey
Lynch
Louis Won
Amnes
Thegun
Ray Coyne
A. J. Williams
Rufino Rosales
Emmett Walsh
Raymond Scott
Theodore Rassmunsen
Congress urged to repeal law forcing railroad consolidations
The Interstate Commerce Commission asked Congress to repeal the act requiring every railroad to work out a plan to consolidate into about twenty systems. It also urged strengthening sections of the Transportation Act that contemplate gradual consolidation into fewer systems. The item notes the report continues on page 2.
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Associated Press
Washington
Congress
Interstate Commerce Commission
I T
Alaskan renews adoption bid for Des Champs girl
SEATTLE Dec 10 Following a western division chamber of commerce delegate role from Seward Alaska John Warren McCord was en route to Missoula Montana today to meet Victoria Des Champs parents. He had announced Nov 28 his plan to adopt the 14 year old San Francisco girl and said his motives were pure and his love for Victoria uplifting.
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Associated Press
Seattle
Seward
Alaska
United States Chamber of Commerce
John Warren McCord
Missoula
Mont
Victoria Deschamps
Victoria
San Francisco
McCord
Soviet Ambassador Rakovsky Presents Credentials Without Anthem
Paris reports that Christian Rakovsky, new Soviet ambassador to France, presented credentials to President Doumergue without the national anthem being played. Rakovsky demanded The Internationale, but Doumergue refused the reception if the anthem was insisted upon. a similar incident occurred with his predecessor Leonid Krassin.
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Associated Press
Paris
France
Doumergue
Christian Rakovsky
Parle M
Rakovsky
Prohibition Seen Largely by Workers in US Speech
Detroit speech by Rev. Dr. Charles Stelzle at the Federal Council of Churches meeting argues prohibition has not been truly tried and would bring benefits if fully enforced. He cites widespread drunkenness and bootlegging while facing opposition from Bishop James Cannon and Howard Russell who challenge his conclusions.
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Associated Press
Detroit
Charles Stelzle
New York City
Executive Council
Federal Council of Churches
Stelzle
James Cannon
Washington, D. C
Howard Russell
Anti-Saloon League
Stelzie
Anti-Baloon League
Chicago
Woul
Tax Bill Battle Persists In House Debate
In Washington on December 10 the tax reduction bill faced another five hours of debate. Opposition pressed attacks while supporters from both parties praised the nonpartisan framing as the Ways and Means Committee urged approval of a plan to cut federal taxes by 325 million dollars next year.
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Associated Press
Washington
House
Rescue at Alabama mine disaster ends only after all lives lost
Sixty-one coal miners died in a gas explosion at Overton No 2 mine in Cahaba fields near Birmingham. Fifteen escaped unhurt, five injured, while 61 bodies were recovered from multiple levels as rescue crews, exhausted, fought to retrieve remains and ventilate gas-filled shafts before any resumption of operations.
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Birmingham
Overton Mine No
Alabama Fuel and Iron Company
Cahaba Fields
Birminghame
Wilford Powell
Charles Edith
Overton
United States
No Zero Weather in Butte for 348 Days Ends
Report notes no subzero temperatures in Butte since December 27, 1924, with yesterday marking the 348th day of above freezing weather. The last sub-zero reading occurred at one below zero on Dec 27, 1924, and the zero line has only been approached but not crossed since. The chart shows 1924’s last four days above zero and 1925 tallying about 49 weeks of mild weather through last midnight.
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Butte
Mercury
Missouri River Navigation Plan Revlived at Capital
Washington dec 10 congressional support for a Missouri river navigation plan was urged at a luncheon by a Missouri River Navigation association group. Ten states Missouri Wyoming Montana North and South Dakota Nebraska Iowa Kansas Oklahoma and Colorado were represented with spokesmen from each state. Senators Reed Frazier Norris and Williams plus Representative Winter highlighted the plan as an investment to cut transportation costs by at least half and argued only a few million dollars are needed.
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Associated Press
Washington
Missouri River
Montana
Missouri River Navigation Association
Missouri
Wyoming
North
South Dakota
Nebraska
Iowa
Kansas
Oklahoma
Colorado
Reed
United States
Frazier
North Dakota
Norris
Williams
M.win
Senate
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Henry Allen Cooper
Pat Harrison
Dawes and Rules Campaign
Department OF Defense
Salt Lake Slayer
Bishop
Nellie Taylon Ross
District Court
Deschamps
Alabama
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