Dawes Calls for Senate Cloture at AP Luncheon
Vice President Dawes urged rapid Senate cloture reform at the 25th AP luncheon in New York's Waldorf Astoria. He argued for nonpartisan procedural changes to expedite business, citing Democrat Senator Underwood and Republican Kellogg in support.
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Charles G. Dawes
Associated Press
Waldorf Astoria
United States Senate
Frank B. Noyes
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Mr. Dawes
General Pershing
Owen D. Young
Melville E. Stone
Dawes
Senate
United States
Senate of the United States
Underwood
Alabama
Kellogg
U S Highways to Be Created and Bankers Warn of Robberies
The joint board of state and federal highway officials agreed to form United States Highways with uniform markers and will finalize highway sign rules by August 3 after regional meetings. Signs include yellow and black markers with route numbers and state names. In the Midwest Alf Augustine warned drastic action may be needed to curb bank robberies as hold up insurance rates rise and vigilante groups form.
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Washington
Joint
Board of State and
Federal Highway Officials
United States
American Association of State Highway Officials
Trails Association
U. S
Special Gun Court Opens in Chicago to Target Carriers
Chicago April 21 Chief Justice Jacob Hopkins of the Criminal Court announced a new special gun court to begin May 1. The court will hear cases involving carrying and using firearms with two assistant state's attorneys assigned. Hopkins said drastic measures are needed against gunmen as seven policemen were shot in the past week.
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Gift tax abolition urged by bankers at Augusta meeting
The American Bankers Association Executive Council heard a report urging abolition of the gift tax and the donor tax on irrevocable trusts, plus retirement of death taxes. The council favored arbitration for bank customer disputes and studied federal reserve act amendments. Membership stands at 21,143 banks. 56,000 bank workers in the Institute of Banking. Robbery waves in the Midwest prompt insurer concerns. vigilance committees expand in Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Illinois.
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Trust Company Division
American Bankers’ Association
Trust Company
Thomas B. Paton
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Economic Policy Commission
Federal Reserve System
Evans Woollen
Indianapolis
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Dallas
Tex
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Cleveland
Craig B. Hazlewgod
Chicago
R. P. Hecht
New Orleans
Walter Lichtenstein
Paul M. Warburg
New York
F. N. Shepherd
United States
American Institute of Banking
E. V. Krick
W. F. Augustine
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Middle West
Iowa
Kansas
Oklahoma
Illinois
Caillaux Wins Confidence Vote in French Chamber
In Paris Caillaux secured an 84 vote majority for the Painleve government after a nine hour debate. Caillaux faced insults as opponents labeled him traitor and defeatist while Painleve defended him as France's ablest financial expert amid calls for fiscal reform and debt measures.
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France
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Chamber of Deputies
Cartel Des Gauches
Loucheur
Radical Left
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Briand
Cailaux
Kellogg Crushes Hope of Soviet Recognition
Washington reports that no shift in U S policy toward recognizing Russia is planned despite hopeful comments from M Tchitcherin. A White House spokesman disclosed a general note was sent to powers affirming Hughes policy remains unchanged.
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United States
Kellogg
State Department
Hughes
White House
M. Tchitcherin
Russia
Bank robbery insurance rates tripled in five states
Rates for insurance against bank robbery rose sharply in Missouri Kansas Oklahoma Illinois and Michigan. Interior robberies saw increases of 100 percent in Missouri and 50 percent in Kansas. New rates stand at four dollars a thousand in Kansas and six dollars a thousand in Missouri.
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Kansas City
Missouri
Kansas
Oklahoma
Illinois
Michigan
New Grand Jury Sought for Reindicting Fall and Dohenys
Special government counsel Owen J. Roberts and Atlee Pomerene moved to convene a new grand jury on May 4 to seek indictments against former Interior Secretary Harry F. Sinclair the Dohenys and others tied to the Teapot Dome affair. They aim to include Milton J. Everhart and to compel testimony from H S Osler the Continental Trading Company organizer.
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Atlee Pomerene
Secretary of the Interior
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Fall
Milton J. Everhart
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Sinclair
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Liberty
New York
el Paso
Continental Trading Company of Canada
Standard of Indiana
Continental
H. S. Osler
Toronto
Africa
Osler
Canada
Privy Council
England
Lampoon Lampoon Seized In Mail By Postal Men
Boston authorities seize all copies in the mails of Harvard Lampoon for indecent literature and flag law violations. District Attorney Williams to consider prosecution. police in Boston and Cambridge also confiscate copies over parody of Washington crossing the Delaware and a Manet nude.
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Boston Post
Tomorrow’s
Harvard Lampoon
Harvard College
Harold P. Williams
United States
The
Lampoon
Cambridge
Washington
Delaware
Manet
Louvre
Paris
Literary Digest
Digest
Post
Post Office Department
Cananea Fire Devastates Mexican Town Killing One
A major blaze in Cananea Sonora destroyed about 200000 in property and left the town largely ruined. One Chinese merchant died and about 2000 homeless with relief by Red Cross and local churches. Unconfirmed reports say three more may have perished.
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Ariz
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Sonora
Red Cross
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BUC
Fourteen Kurdish Rebels Hanged in Diarbekir
London dispatch reports fourteen Kurdish rebel leaders condemned by the Council of War at Diarbekir were hanged. The executions followed conviction for rebellion during the period of unrest in the region.
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London
Constantinople
Council of War
Diarbekir
Two Revolts Reported in Honduras Frontiers
Washington reports detail two anti government movements in Honduras. Heights of Ceiba north coast see 165 sailors landed to protect American lives as authorities struggle with armed bands near Ceiba and along the Guatemalan border. Rebels operate across Nicoya and Nicaragua fronts with local clashes and raids including Ocotopeque and La Esperanza.
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Honduras
Ceiba
Denver
Standard Fruit and Navigation Company
Monte Cristo
Townsend to Wed Nevada Woman in East
Frederic de Puyster Townsend 53, architect of Grand Mere Quebec, and Elsie Gray Jens veld 43 of Reno Nev, obtained a Hartford marriage license. Connecticut law requires five day wait for non residents and a Hartford ceremony. Townsend divorced from Katherine Jermaine Savage Townsend in Paris on February 20 last. they were married in Albany in 1895.
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Hartford
N. Y
Bulgaria in Terror as Police Nab Bomb Plot Suspects
A white woman, Mrs. Marie Loomis, 22, was kidnapped by two black men as revenge for informing authorities on bootleggers. Four white men rescued her, pursuing the car to Ninth Street and Broadway before the captors fled. Loomis identified threats and a dive on West Fourth street. police hold her for the night for disorderly conduct. The incident mirrors broader Bulgarian repression amid Vienna reports of mass executions and arrests, with curfews and censorship in Sofia.
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Archie Loomis
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Kentucky
George Huser
Broadway
Fred Murphy
Harry C. Weathers
Oak Street
Ludlow
Walter Hammond
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Lockland
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Second District
General Hospital
Lexington
Edward Jameson
Teamster
Kenton
Belgrade
Sofia
Tzankoff
Bulgaria
Jankoff
N. Y. World News Service
N. Y. World) Press Pub. Co
Notables Form Wheeler Defense Fund Committee
Friends of Senator Burton K Wheeler organize a Wheeler Defense Committee to raise funds for his defense amid trials in Montana and Washington. Norman Hapgood chairs with Basil M Manly as vice chair and a roster of prominent supporters including William Allen White, Jane Addams, Henry Mencken, Oswald Villard, Norman Thomas, and John Haynes Holmes.
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Burton K. Wheeler
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Baltimore
William Allen White
Josephus M. Daniels
Samuel Untermyer
William E. Sweet
Colorado
J. Borden Harriman
Henry L. Mencken
Oswald Garrison Villard
D. B. Rob
Berts
Carl Vrooman
Jane Addams
Edwin Markham
Martin F. Ryan
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Vida D. Scudder
Wellesley College
Sidney Hillman
Amalgamated Clothing Workers
William H. Johnston
International Association of Machinists
Norman Thomas
World Tomorrow
J. A. H. Hopkins
John Haynes Holmes
Wheeler Defense To Produce Wit nesses To Refute Hayes Testimony
GREAT FALLS, Mont April 21 Legal counter maneuvers began to unfold at the Wheeler trial as his lawyers began defense after he was charged with wrongfully appearing before the Department of the Interior to prosecute oil permits after his Senate election Senator Thomas J Walsh announced he summoned witnesses from the East to counter government star witness George P Hayes New York attorney The government also had its innings when one witness testified that continued on second page.
U S seeks curb on Greek picture brides via Canada
State Department and Immigration officials probe the Greek picture bride scheme linked to Canada. A New York law firm allegedly collected 200 000 for arranging marriages, and Canadian authorities have halted several prospective brides amid non quota and passport visa questions.
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State Department
United States
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Canada
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Greece
Ltter
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Youngstown
Caseavalos
Halifax
Maria Vaffa
Montreal
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America
Terror in Bulgaria spreads as executions rise
Sofia reels on the brink of revolution with widespread executions and state terror. Dissatisfaction with the Tzankoff regime and King Boris fuels peasant uprisings aided by Communist propaganda. Jugoslavia mobilizes troops at the border while a Vienna leader allegedly proclaims a Varna government.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Tzankoff
Boris
Romania
Jugo-Slavia
Vienna
Huostov
Varna
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Powers Agree to Allow Bigger Bulgarian Army
London April 21. The great powers have agreed in principle with Bulgaria’s neighbors to permit a 10 000 increase in Bulgaria’s army to meet present peril. Romania and Greece raise objections but Britain France and Italy favor help after a Yugoslav cabinet plea underlining the international menace.
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New York World News Service
London
Bulgaria
Roumania
Greece
Jugo-Slav
Rextech
N. Y. World News Service
N. Y. World) Press Pub. Co
Refugees claim 6090 Peasant party members shot in Bulgaria
Beatrice Baskerville reports refugees from Sofia arriving at Tearbrod claim Tzankoff tribunals executed 60 or 90 Peasant party members in two days. They deny official Sofia statements that repression is being suppressed, noting interior unrest and unverified figures.
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New York World News Service
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Sofia
Tearbrod
Tzankoff
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