Senate Ends Muscle Shoals Tangle With Underwood Bill
In a 43 to 98 Senate vote the Underwood bill passed, enabling the president to lease the Muscle Shoals project for fifty years to private bidders. Norris had pressed his own government operation plan but was outmaneuvered as ten Republicans flipped to back the Underwood measure, sending the issue toward House reference and conference.
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New York World News Service
Washington
Senate
Muscle Shoals
Underwood
Coolidge
Norris
Jones
Wash
Jones Commission
Congress
Pro Tempore Cummins
Curtis
House
Poles threaten war over Dantzig mailbox desecration
Warsaw reports a mailbox painted in Polish colors in the free city of Dantzig triggered a crisis. Vice Premier Thugutt warns of force if needed, while Poland pushes for League of Nations intervention and refuses to accept the supposed breach of Versailles terms.
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New York World News Service
Warsaw
Poland
Dantzig
Thugutt
League of Nations
Dantzigers
N. Y. World News Service
N. Y
Cal’s Pal Terrier Sent to White House Home
A twelve pound pedigreed Boston terrier named Cal’s Pal, gift of the Haverhill Kennel Club to President Coolidge, departed Boston for Washington to become the White House dog. A letter with the gift expresses hope the president will accept him as a token of respect and regard.
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Boston
Cal
Haverhill Kennel Club
Coolidge
Washington
White House
Berlin Faces Reactionary Nationalist Shift in New Government
Hans Luther’s proposed cabinet, dominated by monarchists and nationalist affiliates, signals a move away from republican unity. Stresemann and four other ministers align with former Kaiser era factions, while centrists Brauns Stingl and Schollen remain as the republicans.
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Samuel Spewack
New York World News Service
Berlin
German Republic
Hans Luther
Marx
Luther
Ebert
Reichstag
Gustav Stresemann
Martin Schiele
Justice
Herr Schollen
Commerce
Karl Neuhaus
Gessler
Finance
Herr Saemisch
Herr Sting
Count von Kanitz
Heinrich Brauns
Herr Krohne
Schiele
Neuhaus
Saemisch
Bavaria
Stingl
Brauns
Schollen
Stresemann
Wilhelmstrasse
Catholic Center Party
Anton Hoefle
Labor
Dr. Luther
N. Y
McCormick Seeks to Bar Ex Wife From Rockefeller Fund
Harold F. McCormick petitions in a Federal Court to block Edith Rockefeller McCormick from distributing 123 824 shares of Standard Oil stock held in trust for his granddaughter Anita Oser nine months old. The petition argues the shares belong to Matilda Oser as her child’s property and cites a 1918 release agreement with John D Rockefeller Sr. and an overall trust exceeding 240 000 shares.
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Indianapomwis
Harold F. McCormick
Matilda Oser
Max Oser
Anita Oser
Matilda and
Oser
Equitable Trust Company of
New York
John D. Rockefeller
Edith Rockefeller McCormick
Matilda
Harold McCormick
Standard Oil Company
Indiana
Edith
John D. Rockefeller, Sr
Powers sign Dawes plan protocol at Paris conference
Eleven allied powers signed the protocol distributing Dawes plan annuities with the United States as a partner in collecting German payments. The meeting marked a milestone with Kellogg and Churchill honored, while Seymour Parker Gilbert acted quickly as reparations head.
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Paris
United States
Quai d'Orsay
Germany
America
J A. Logan, Jr
Logan
Kellogg
M. Clementel
Winston Churchill
Europe
Brazil
Romania
London
Gilbert
Seymour Parker Gilbert
Wall Wilmington Wright Field Crash Tests Probe Plane Explosions
Three obsolete airplanes are used in tests at Wilbur Wright Field to study crashes and fires. A wall impact at 9:30 a.m. involved cameras recording full speed and slow motion as planes wrecked, with a tail-spin scenario simulating real crashes for Army Air Service safety theory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dayton
Wilbur Wright Field
McCook Field Engineering Division
Army Air Service
Germans Fight Invasion Of Berlin By American Bank
Berlin reports that a German banking group hostile to American credits spread a story that J P Morgan would open a Berlin bank. The World News Service says this was an attempt to sow distrust, while former judge William Wadham confirmed a big American bank would start in Berlin but not Morgan.
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Berlin
New York
J. P. Morgan
World News Service
William Wadhams
Morgan
Ight
N. Y
Garfield Hotel Planned on Garfield Place Cincinnati
The Garfield Hotel will rise at 108 to 112 Garfield place Cincinnati six stories high on an 80 by 90 foot site with 100 guest rooms and four stores on the ground floor. Robert A. Casey Realty Company to supervise a $500000 project for Cincinnatians and out of town investors.
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Cincinnati
Garfield Place
Race
Elm Streets
Robert A. Casey Realty Company
M Seaseneeve
Charles Lecard
Garfield Hotel
Doctors
New Business Men’s Club
Tietig & Lee
Communist MPs Return to Rome Chamber in Protest
The twelve Communist members of Parliament reappeared in the Chamber of Deputies after six months, led by Deputy Grieccho who denounced liberal ministers and praised the Russian Soviet. They announced they will not work with Giolitti Salandra or Orlando but will vote against the electoral reform bill, while the audience shouted mockingly.
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Beatrice Baskerville
New York World News Service
Rome
Chamber of Deputies
Grieccho
Proletariat
Giolitti
Salandra
Orlando
N.Y
World Press Pub
Wrigley Buys Speejacks Yacht for Great Lakes Cruises
Chicago on January 14 reports the ninety foot power yacht Speejacks, once owned by Albert Y. Gowan and his ex wife, has been sold to Philip Wrigley, son of William Wrigley Jr. The yacht is now in New York and will be used for Great Lakes cruises.
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Wrigley
Speejacks
Chicago
Albert Y. Gowan
Philip Wrigley
William Wrigley, Jr
New York
Great Lakes Cruises
Slemp to Quit. Sanders Slated to Succeed Him
Washington, Jan 14. C Bas com Slemp plans to leave the White House March 4 and Everett Sanders of Indiana is slated to become secretary to the president. Sanders, an experienced longtime congressman, rose from poverty to prominence and would add political advising duties to the post.
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Slemp
Sanders
New York World News Service
Washington
Cc. B. Stemp
Cleveland
Mr. Coolidge
William M. Butler
Harry
Néw
Everett Sanders
Wang
Curtis
Nicholas Longworth
Gillett
Coolidge
White House
Congress
State Normal School
University of Indiana
Longworth
Lowden
Borah
Mellon
Reed
Pennsylvania
Wadsworth
New York
New
Indiana
Watson
Dawes
Ben Burchfield Executed for Bristol Mass Murder
Ben Burchfield was executed at dawn by state prison authorities in Nashville for the murder of five people in Bristol, Tennessee, on November 26, 1922. He walked to the death house unassisted, calmly waved goodbye, and professed his innocence to the end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nashville
Tenn
Ben Burchfield
Bristol
War Veteran Dies Kneeling Under Crucifix at Dayton Cemetery
William Bruegger a 30 year old Dayton Ky resident, shell shocked from World War I, was found dead kneeling before a crucifix at St Francis Cemetery in Dayton after a daylong spell of despondency and threats of self harm. Coroner Maybury ruled heart disease as the cause.
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St. Francis
William Bruegger
Fifth Avenue
Dayton
St. Francis Cemetery
William Cowens
Front Street
Maybury
Campbell County
George Stetter
Will
Fenwick Club
Cincinnati
Pittsburgh
Margaret Owens
Florence Bruegger
Bruegger
Ohio River
Mellon backs bill for 25 million yearly public buildings plan
Secretary Mellon endorsed a bill to spend 25 000 000 annually for six years on public buildings and grounds. He urged reducing rail loan interest before the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee. The Commerce Department shows a 1924 trade surplus of 977 285 000 for the United States. Hoover told business leaders that price spreads from producer to consumer could be lowered through industry and commerce cooperation.
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Mellon
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
United States
Commerce Department
Hoover
Paulist Fathers Plan New Catholic Radio Station WPL
Acting on Cardinal Hayes suggestion the Paulist Fathers complete plans for WPL a 500 watt radio station in their New York building to broadcast Catholic viewpoints. The project aims to reach isolated communities and extend the churchs message nationwide with programs by Paulist staff and prominent Catholics.
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New York World News Service
New York
Cardinal Hayes
WPL
Zionists
Zion City
Ill
Seventh Day Adventists
Berrien Springs
Mich
International Bible Students
Staten Island
Western Electric Company
Chicago
San Francisco
Joseph MacSorley
William Finn
James M. Gillis
Father MacSorley
Bank in Mexico City Closes Doors Under Liquidation
The Banco Mexicano De Comercio, the leading bank in Mexico City with purely Mexican capital, announced it has voluntarily petitioned liquidation by the courts. No details were provided on assets or liabilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico City
Banco Mexicano de Comercio
Ohio Senate considers lobbyist inquiry over weak enforcement
Senator Bender urged enforcement of the lobby law, accusing 116 registered lobbyists of failing to file expense accounts after the latest session. W F Garver pledged to introduce a resolution for an investigation, tying it to enforcement and potential action by the Attorney General and county prosecutors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Columbus
Senate
General Assembly
George H. Bender
Cleveland
W. F. Garver
Holmes County
Bender
Garver
Gardner
Cincinnati
Cuyahoganto
Eighty-third Assembly
Secreta of State
Collister-Freeman Act Seen Likely to Pass Despite Cincinnati Opposition
Cleveland dispatch reports Senator L G Collister saying the Collister-Freeman amendment should reach the Senate despite Cincinnati forces opposing it. He warned of a legislative jam if delayed. Maurice Maschke, Ohio Republican National Committeeman, said he was not alarmed by new home rule developments.
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Cincinnati
Collister
Cleveland
Senate
L. G. Collister
Columbus
Maurice Maschke
Ohio
Two Missouri Banks Closed By State Board of Directors
Two state banks were closed today by the Board of Directors. The Farmers and Mechanics Bank at Stanberry reported resources of 303,600 dollars and the Farmers and Merchants Bank at Frankford showed 175,690 dollars. The Frankford bank cashier J OD Smith died by his own hand yesterday.
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Jefferson City
State Finance Department
Farmers and Mechanics Bank
Stanberry
Farmers and Merchants Bank
Frankford
J. OD. Smith
Cashi
Frankford Bank
Affidavit details cash for pardon in Kansas scandal
Wichita dealer C H Bartholomew claims he paid 1250 in cash for his son Ernest Bartholomew to receive a parole from the state penitentiary for auto theft. The document implicates Carl J Peterson and Governor Davis in a bribery scheme tied to pardons.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Hutchinson
Walter Grundy
Peterson
Jonathan M. Davis
Fred W. Pullman
Bartholomew
Johnson
Davis
Young Bartholomew
Mr. Bartholomew
Wichita
Ponca City
Okla
State House
Carl J. Peterson
State Bank
Lansing
Edward Rooney
Shawnee County
C. B. Griffith
Rooney
Paul Heinz
Earthquake Kills 140 in Trans-Caucasia Ardashan Destruction
A dispatch from Constantinople reports 140 killed and four villages ruined in Ardahan Trans-Caucasia. Two thousand people are homeless as aftershocks continue and temperatures sit at 22 degrees below zero.
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Trans-Caucasia
London
Ardahan
Daily Mail
Constantinople
Disaster at Sea Claims All Cardiff Hall Crew
London January 14 report states the British freighter Cardiff Hall foundered after striking the southern point of Seven Heads near Clonakilty during a heavy gale. All hands on board were lost, per Lloyds Queenstown correspondent who inspected the wreck site today.
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London
Cardiff Hall
Seven Heads
Clonakilty
Lloyd’s
Queenstown
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