Fall's Teapot Dome tale exposes hard choices and politics
Ex-secretary details Teapot Dome lease drama and Senate probe efforts. He defends honesty of President Harding while admitting lending of 510,000 to cover Harris ranch, and notes pressure from Smoot Lemoot and others to testify. He says Sinclair loan was handled by his son in law and rejects direct involvement.
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Ay Joen A. Kennedy
Universal Service
Washington
Albert
Fall
Paso
Tex
Harry F. Sinclairs
Mammoth Oil Company
Pali
Harding
Senate Public Tende
Sidward L
Edward B. Mclean
Pals
Mclean
Smoot
Utah
Lemoot
Senate Pub Nc Lands Committee
Harris Ranch
Meatley
RE. B. Melon Pyub- Hehee
The
Washington Post
Harry F. Sinclar
Tres Ring Land and Cattle Company
Fair
Sinclair
M. T. Byarnart
Cabbat
Kawan
Hays
Malice Suspected In Dance Hall Blast Tragedy
West Plains Missouri April 15 after rescue crews halted hope of more victims the fortieth body was recovered believed to be a stranger among the missing. The dance hall explosion and fire left forty dead injured many more as coroner’s inquest begins. Authorities weigh gas versus dynamite while a garage blast link is explored. Weiser garage owner 47 buried in the catastrophe.
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West Plains
Osark
Jana
Charles R. Bohrer
Itry Toremen
Bohrer
W. Weiser
WMS
J. W. Weiser
H. D. Green
Tom Burns
Green
Eanty
Greet
Aatyetiig
Yilka
Welser
Fight for Right To Nab Sleuth Fight for Right To Nab 'Sleuth'
Prohibition agent Myron Caffey, blocked by police and federal authorities, sits under tension as a custody dispute erupts over his arrest for alleged murder attempt during a raid. A writ of habeas corpus briefly protected him before quashed and debates over surrender method continue. In Pittsburgh four young Gatewood children died in a Carnegie neighborhood fire, their mother away at the time. three siblings escaped.
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Chicago
Myron Caffey
Edetsl
Caffey
Peredal
Paco
William Shoemaker
Wilam Beatty
Coffey
Calley
Cnffey
George
EB. Q. Johmson
Federal
Prohibition Squad
Ha Sai
Alan
Samuel A. Eitelson
Crowe
James H. Wilkerson
Dahow Caffey
Pittsburgh
Carnegie
Ads Gatewood
Gatewood
Steamer G. F. Colbert Damaged by Fire at Brownsville
The steamer G. F. Colbert owned by National Transportation of Brownsville was partially destroyed by fire while tied at Gray's Landing for repairs on April 15. Damage estimated between 15,000 and 20,000. Fire began in the kitchen likely from an overheated stove. It was the vessel’s fourth fire in a month. Masontown fire department saved the boat. Watchman George Houston was aboard when the blaze started.
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Brownsville
G. F. Colbert
National Transportation Company of
Gray's Landing
Masontown
George Houston
Andrew Jackson Statue Unveiled In Hall Of Fame
President Coolidge unveiled a seven foot bronze Andrew Jackson statue in the Capitol hall of fame. He praised Jackson for private and public virtues, loyalty to the union, and strengthening the federal government, noting his self-government, courage, and devotion to wife Rachel. Governor Horton presented the statue, calling Jackson a kindly neighbor and devoted friend.
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Andrew Jackson
Washington
Anubew Jackson
Coolidge
Capitol
Treasury
Andrew Aacesan
Duckson
President Coolidge
Amoes
Yp Brosseatt
Tvaughters
Rachel
Henry H. Howton
Tennessee
Horton
Boyhooa
Jackson
Congress
Failure to Enforce Parental Discipline Sparks Youth Lawlessness
Rev. James F. Frame, pastor of Emmanuel Ban tle t church in Richmond Va, laments lack of home religious training and failure of parents to enforce parental discipline as a cause of modern youth lawlessness. He cites a city streetcar tragedy and warns Americans to uphold law and moral duty despite partisan divides.
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James F. Frame
James F
America
Lawies
1926 Kanawhe county juvenile court year report
The Kanawhe county juvenile court annual report for 1926 records 648 cases with 843 boys and 198 girls among youths, plus 57 adult cases. It lists offenses from larceny to immorality, truancy, and arson, and notes home conditions including 42 widows and 63 neglected homes, urging family religious training to curb youth delinquency.
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McIntyre
New York
Kanawhe County Juvenile Court
Charleston
Hell
Nye Declines Smith Apology Over Oil Debacle
New York April 15 Senator Nye of North Dakota and chair of the Senate Teapot Dome committee refused to apologize to Governor Alfred Smith. He said the record shows he did nothing warranting an apology and disputed claims about Sinclair contributions and Smith’s use of Sinclair in his official family during the oil scandals.
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New York
Alfrad E. Smith
Nye
North Dakota
Senate
Raverhorso
Smith
Harry
Sinclair
Sly
Tus
de Itilal
Binelal
Alfred Smith
Binclair
Simctokr
Olcott Correspondent News Yarns From Abe Fiteweter
From Our Olcott correspondent Abe Fiteweter recounts a rambling day riding a train and misty dust clumps, a near mishap at the track, and a girl’s bobbed hair sprint escape, with local mischief and farmyard misadventures sprinkled through.
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Abe
KE. C
Ind
Gallern
Jople Asbury
Joulenez
Nobile Starts Polar Flight From Milan Italy
General Umberto Nobile launches the Italia and the Citta di Milano on the first leg toward the North Pole from Milan. A 300-strong expedition crew including officers, mechanics and Alpine Guards heads to Kings Bay as Titina the dog stays by Nobile. The voyage aims to land on or near Crocker’s Land and Lenin’s Land with plans to spend much of the Arctic summer at Kings Bay and extend flights toward the pole.
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Rome
Dirigibte
Itslin
Archer
Kings Bay
Umberto Nobile
Nobile
Radle Amundsen
Lincoln Ellsworth
Norge
Alpine Guards
Titina
Miascot
Noble
Pole
Lana Nobite
King's Bay
King's Way
King's Hay
North Pole
Lin Nigits
Mors
Peary
Persed
Homewara
Crocket
Wiltos
Lenin
Alster
Basilica of
St. Paul's
Italia
Milan
Uitter
Ahgard
Umberto No- Dite
Reggio Atrusia
Germany
Musgotini
Amadia
Murphve
Feldey
Btolo
Erbla
Pobierante
Bremen crew stranded as plane reaches Greenly Island
A Canadian plane reached Greenly Island to repair the Bremen trans Atlantic Junkers monoplane. The crew Von Huenefeld Koehl and Diaurice, after their Friday landing, faced delays due to weather. A mechanic was dispatched to Quebec with a new propeller to repair the damaged landing gear.
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Quebec
Qué
Tanscontinental Airways
Beven Islands
Greenty Island
Greenly Island
Straits of Belle Isle
New Fountland
Lebrador
Bremen
Baron Ehrenfried von Huenefeld
Her Mann Koehl
James Fite
Tha ‘Tiera
Cotter
Dram
Junkers
Lloyd Line
New York
Ottawa
Greenly
Firec
Atlantic
Fitzmaurice
Washington
Smithy
Atlantia
Keehl
Euenefelé Soln
Tmg
Yost
Etln
Baron Vor Huenfeld
Bertha Junkers
Menu
Lfanturer
Junkera
North German
Feers
Helzrich Selgal
Nazth
Lloyd Ling
Quthes
Canada
Beigel
Belious
Lsat
Seigel
von Huensfeld
Pirots
Bergel
Germany
Fiers
Western Union
Luke Schitler
Greenlylaind
Bliszard
Bay of St. Lawrence
Tein
House Swamped With Proposals in Early Session
Washington April 15 The senate has swamped the house with major measures flood control farm relief merchant marine and Muscle Shoals awaiting final action. Flood control is top priority with hopes for a ten to fourteen day compromise and conference to write a new bill. Other items include the Haugen McNary bill equalization taxes Cotton price manipulation and ongoing investigations. Viscount Trematon dies in Paris after a motor accident on April 3 with report in today’s obituaries.
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Washington
Senate
House
Congress
Haying Yesseliay
Sab- Ste
Coolidheee
Boulder Canyon
West Virginia
Teapot Dome Committee
Canadien Corporation
Agrculture
Finance Committee
Post Office Committee
Sunday Straw Vote Lull Highlights White House Preference
The Gazette reports a quiet Sunday in its mall straw vote with 1,949 total ballots. Al Smith leads at 1,129 votes, Lowden up to 432, Whish 28, Reed 119, and Baker 1. The piece notes Republican indifference and sparse support for Hoover Dawes and others, urging readers to vote and submit ballots.
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the Gazette
Mall
al Smith
Lowden
Whish
Reed
New D. Baker
Smith
Hoover
Dawes
Wan & Cay
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Willie Willis
Publishers Syndicate
Robert Quillen
Hall
Emmanuel Baptist Church
Gerald P, Xye
Olcott
Bun Hudson
Brady
Explorer
Polar
Divigible
Citta di
Milano
Arctic
Citta di Milano
Lens
Island
Will
Ireland
Sintthig
Ara Fon
Andy Cohen
Afme¢ McPherdn
Viscount Trematon
Paris
Stueen Mary
England
White House
Lawden
Republica
Hughes
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