Country Praise for Byrd and Bennett Medal Honors
New York and Washington recount celebrations for Lieut Com Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett after their North Pole flight. President Coolidge awards medals at the White House as harbors echo with salutes and Navy planes circle overhead. Byrd thanks his crew while officials and dignitaries praise scientific progress and naval achievement.
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Washa
New York
Richard E. Byrd
North Pole
Floyd Bennett
Ashington
Navy
President Coolidge
Coolidge
Commodore Peary
Gilbert Grosvenor
National Geographic Society
Byrd
Supreme Court
Wilbur
Virginia
Washington
KR. Fbibyrd
Spitzbergen
Admiral Perry
Arctic
Perry
King’s Bay
Spitsbergen
Naval Academy
Richard Evelyn Byrd
Hubbard
Richard Eyrd
Chantier
Walker
Charles P. Fab
Seertace
Pleads That Youth Be Taught to Play
Ernest Thompson Seton addressing the Clarksburg Rotary Club urged teaching youth to Play as character forms before age ten. He warned that pastimes of the right sort can make or unmake America’s future, stressing early guidance by parents and teachers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarksburg
W. Va
Jane
Ernest Thompson Seton
Feture
America
Impeachment Talk Denounced by West Virginia Lawyers
In Morgantown on June 23 a Monongalia County Bar Association session passed a resolution calling impeachment talk against Judge Larzzelle ridiculous and a scurrilous attack. About fifty lawyers attended as W. S. John presided. most supported the resolution while Eugene H. Long abstained.
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Morgantown
W. Va
I. Grant Lazzelle
Monongalia County Bar Association
Larzzelle
W. 8. John
The
Bar Association
Frank Cox
State Supreme Court of Appeals
Edward G. Donley
United Mine Workers
Supreme Court
West Virginia Bankers Association Opens Thirty third Annual Convention
Huntington hosts the opening day of the West Virginia Bankers Association convention at the Hotel Frederick. W C Given of Bluefield presides. Principal speakers include Senator Simon D. Fess of Ohio and Huntington's Walter H Cunningham. The event showcases push for constitutional classification amendment and branch banking action.
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Huntington
W. Va
West Virginia
West Virginia Banker's Association
Frederick
Prichard
W. C. Given
Bluefield
Association
Given
United States
Simon D. Fess
Ohio
Walter H. Cunningham
West Virginia Coal Association
W. L. Barnhart
National Surety Company of
New York
J. 8. Hill
Charleston
Louis J. Yearger
Wheeling
Frau Ludendorff Divorce Plea Heard in Munich Court
In Munich on June 23, the divorce petition filed by Frau Ludendorff against General Ludendorff was heard. The general attended, his wife was represented by counsel who sought a postponement, and the case proceeded in secret with no decision announced.
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Munich
Bavaria
General Crowder to Undergo Surgery Tomorrow
Havena June 23 General Enid H Crowder United States ambassador to Cuba will be operated on tomorrow for a double hernia.
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Havena
Enid H. Crowder
United States
Cuba
Reed Examines Anti-Saloon League Finances At Senate Hearing
Senator Reed of Missouri pressed the Anti-Saloon League finances at the senate campaign fund committee table. Wheeler testified annual pre 18th amendment expenditures averaged 2.5 million with national income near 1 million yearly, noting state leagues separate funds and a separate campaign committee. Subpoenas issued for six Pennsylvanians and W Scott McBride as hearings focus on Pennsylvania primary spending. Neely proposes cap of 10000 on senatorial campaign expenditures with limited exceptions.
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Washington
Wayne B. Wheeler
Senate Campaign
Reed
Missouri
League
Wheeler
Wheeter
Andrew Wilson
House of Representatives
Pennsylvania State League
Pennsylvania
W. Scott McBride
Anti-Saloon League
Westerville
Ohio
Senate
Neely
West Virginia
Elections Committee
Republican Party
Democratic tax cut drive plans revealed in Congress
Democrats in both houses introduced bills for immediate tax reductions. Crisp and Jacobstein proposed a 2.5 percentage point cut in corporate taxes and a 25 percent personal income tax refund, backed by a projected $390 million surplus. President Coolidge urged restraint until new rates are tested.
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Washington
Congress
Crisp
Georgia
Jacobstein
New York
House
Copeland New York
Senate
Copeland
Coolidge
Green
Ways and Means
Senator Reed seeks forty thousand for campaign probe
Washington June A Forty thousand dollars more for expenses of the campaign fund Investigation was asked of the senate today by Senator Reed Democrat Missouri chairman of the special committee Ten thousand already has been authorized and Reed would increase that this resolution went to the committee on audit and control
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Washington
Senate
Reed
Missouri
Committee On Audit and Control
Mining Industry Bill Clears Second Reading In Commons
London June 23 The industry bill passed the house of commons by 334 to 147 after rejecting an amendment. It allows voluntary amalgamation of mining concerns under the railway and canal commission, lets the labor minister regulate miner recruitment, and makes profit sharing lawful. Vernon Hartshorn urged a conference between owners and miners. Lloyd George supported trying a conference. Sir Laming Worthington-Evans said war secretaries would join if miners’ authorized negotiators attended. The premier warned previous talks failed due to unempowered miners’ reps.
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London
House of Commons
Railway and Canal Commission
Vernon Hartshorn
Lloyd George
Hartshorn
Laming Worthington- Evans
Intelligent effort advertising stressed at trade conference
Dr Julius Klein of the U S Dept of Commerce urged intelligent advertising at the international trade conference in Philadelphia with the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World. He warned against fly by night boosters and casual pretenders in business. The Association of Newspaper Classified Advertising Managers elected officers Charles W Na x president and others including Wm R Huffman director.
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Philadelphia
Julius Klein
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Trade
United States Department of Commerce
Associated Advertising Clubs
Association of
Charles W. Nax
St. Louis Globe- Democrat
W. W. Murdock
Detroit Free Press
Harold Dryden
Peoria Journal- Transcript
Charles A. Sargent
Miami Herald
Wm. R. Huffman
Tulsa World
Married Teachers May Have More Children
New York officials discuss maternity leave policies for public school teachers. A board recommendation to cap leaves at two was withdrawn by Superintendent O'Shea after debate. Board President Ryan opposed restricting motherhood as public policy.
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New York
Board of
Board of Education
O'Shea
Ryan
Harry Scott Grayson Dies at 62 in Washington Pa
Oil man Harry Scott Grayson aged sixty two with interests in southwestern Pennsylvania Illinois and Louisiana died at his Washington home today. Funeral plans were not announced.
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Harry Scott Grayson
Washington
Pennsylvania
Illinois
Louisiana
West Virginia Soft Coal Seeks Lower Rail Rates
West Virginia soft coal operators joined New Jersey gas manufacturers and the New England governor’s fuel commission in Atlantic City to urge lower rail rates for soft coal. The hearing before Interstate Commerce Commissioner J B Campbell opened Monday at the Marlborough Blenheim Hotel with R B Quirk presenting for the operators who want access to northern markets for domestic use and mid Atlantic gas plants. Central Pennsylvania producing miners of high volatile bituminous coal could not testify due to lost exhibit material and requested a Monday adjournment, but Campbell set tomorrow morning for reopening in Atlantic City.
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Atlantic City
N. J
West Virginia
New Jersey
New England
Middle Atlantic
Pennsylvania
Washington
Campbell
Pilgrims Pack Mundelein For Eucharistic Congress Finale
Pilgrims move toward St Mary of the Lake Mundelein for the International Eucharistic Congress. A three mile procession on a four mile course leads to 6 pm ceremonies, with Cardinal Hayes delivering the sermon to a crowd near 750000.
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Chicago
St. Mary of the Lake
Mundelein
Cardinal Hayes
New York
EK. F. Hoban
Cardinal Daugherty
Cardinal Bonzano
Middle West
Congress
Brock Pardoned by Governor Pinchot
Henry G. Brock, wealthy Philadelphia clubman, who in 1923 pleaded guilty to second degree murder for killing three people with his car, was pardoned by Governor Pinchot and released from the Eastern Penitentiary on the board of pardons recommendation.
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Philadelphia
Henry G. Brock
Pinchot
Eastern Penitentiary
State Board of Pardons
Board of Education Attends Oglebay Funeral in Body
Charleston June 23 The state board of education adjourned and will attend funeral services for Colonel E B W Oglebay in Wheeling tomorrow in a collective tribute. Today they approved formal resolutions on his death and reviewed personnel at several institutions. No changes were made to Shepherd College Glenville State Normal School West Liberty State Normal and Potomac State. A medical association committee urged higher salaries for WVU medical school instructors to maintain national standing.
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Charleston
W. Va
State Board of Education
EB. W. Oglebay
Wheeling
Oglebay
Shepherd College
Shepherdstown
Glenville State Normal School
Glenville
West Liberty State Normal
Potomac State School
Keyser
The
State Medical Association
West Virginia University
Missing evangelist IMEE McPHERSON found in hospital
IMEE SEMPLE McPHERSON, a Los Angeles evangelist long reported missing since May 18, is now hospitalized in Douglas Arizona after claiming she was abducted by kidnappers and escaped from a Mexican shack where she was held.
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Imee Semple McPherson
Los Angeles
Douglas
Ariz
Briand Forms Tenth French Ministry To Ease Finances
Paris reports Aristide Briand has installed his tenth ministry as France seeks fiscal stabilization. Joseph Cailloux returns as finance minister, replacing Painleve, with a cabinet largely drawn from Briand’s former allies. The move aims to push stringent reform while delaying the Washington debt pact debate.
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Paris
Ristide Briand
France
Joseph Cailloux
M. Painleve
Callloux
Washington
Briand
Caillaux
Poincare
Indictment Against Grant Walters Nolle Pros
Huntington W Va June 23 The indictment against Grant Walters one of three defendants in the Kermit election battle trial in Wayne county circuit court was nolle pressed by Judge Robert Bland after about thirty witnesses testified Walters took no part in the May 19 1925 violence in which two men were killed and two wounded Rebuttal evidence concluded and the cases of Ken Kirk and L V S Curry for shooting special Kermit officer Ken Chapman were to go to the jury next morning Kirk said he began firing after being wounded and falling to the ground.
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Huntington
W. Va
Grant Walters
Wayne County
Wayne
Robert Bland
Walters
Ken Kirk
L. V
Curry
Ken Chapman
Kermit
Kirk
Chapman
Five Prohibition Agents Mobbed in Steubenville
In Steubenville Ohio June 23 a mob of about 200 men chased five prohibition agents from Adena away from town. The raiders had removed a heavy iron door from a foreign quarter establishment owned by Frank Biggio but found no liquor. The mob tore the door away and slashed tires before driving off. Peirce could not identify the raiders or make arrests.
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Steubenville
Ohio
Adena
Frank Biggio
Peirce
Fate of Angelo Colosi IO in Hands of Jury
In Wheeling West Virginia the fate of Angelo Colosi sixteen on trial for the May 3 murder of Mrs Tillie Gesualdo rested with the Ohio County intermediate court jury. After a night session the jurors were excused until tomorrow following forty minutes of deliberation without a verdict. Mia maltese mother of Colosi was arrested in court and jailed on contempt charges after threatening state witness Mrs Angela Petrucci who testified against Colosi and said she urged the witness to change her story.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Angelo Colosi
Ohio County
Tillie Gesualdo
Mia
Tony Maltese
Washington
Angelo Colossi
Mra
Angela Petrucci
Mra. Maltese
Colosi
Mra. Petrucci
Elkins Federal Court Adjourns To July 6
Federal court in Elkins West Virginia adjourned today to July 6. Federal Attorney A J Arnold said a juror name was not struck by Judge W E Baker but by counsel Earl Maxwell for John Grayson the defendant in a liquor case.
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Elkins
W. Va
A. J. Arnold
Anti-Saloon League
W. E Baker
Earl Maxwell
John Grayson
Arnold
Five Years Prison For Possessing Liquor Issued In Wetzel County
New Martinsville West Virginia June 23 Link Stout received five years in the state prison on a second offense possession of liquor charge from Judge P D Moris in Wetzel County court.
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New Martinsville
W. Va
Stout
Wetzel
P. D. Moris
Nominations to Tariff Commission Face Senate Fire
President Coolidge sent the nominations of E. B. Brossard of Utah and Sherman J. Lowell of New York to the Senate. A special committee probes the commission and Democrats and Progressive Republicans doubt Brossard will be confirmed this session. Lowell’s background and sugar lobby ties raise further scrutiny.
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Brossard
Lowell
Tariff Commission
Senate
Washington
E. B. Brossard
Utah
Sherman J. Lowell
New York
Farmer
Coolidge
Culbertson
Smoot
King
McPherson Kidnapping Tale Surfaces In Arizona Hospital
Aimee Semple McPherson reports being abducted from Ocean Park California on May 15 and held in Mexico for a $500000 ransom. She says captors burned her fingers and cut her hair to pressure disclosure, escaped a Mexican shack, and was found near Agua Prieta by James Anderson.
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Mother
Douglas
Ariz
Aimee Semple McPherson
Angeles
Ocean Park
Calif
Mexico
James Anderson
McPherson
Auga Pridta
Angelus Temple
Los Angeles
Rose
Steve
Agua Prieta
Anderson
Mary Pickford
District Attorney's Office
Proane
Sonora
Mexicali
Rea
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Mr. Coolidge
Monongalia Bar Association
Lazelle
Eugene H. Long
Bluefielder
Sessions of State Bankers
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General Crowder
Wheeler Fages
Jim Reed
Mining Industry
British Commons
Jersey Gas Men
ST. Mary
Isabella
Cardins Mundelein
Reig Ycanovisca
Alfonso
Hoban
Spain
Brock
Col. E. W. Oglebay
Aristide Briand
Frange
Joseph Caillaux
Angelo Colosi IO
Elkins Federal Court
Miooing Woman
Douglas Hospital
Annie Semple McPherson
Kidwaners
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