Campaign funds clash as ware unseating demands flare
Washington reports a Senate House clash over campaign spending in the Pennsylvania primary. Senators Neely Reed Borah and Caraway clash on reform and the convention system while Rep Schafer urges House inquiry into Vare’s Senate nomination campaign. Pepper testifies about a $75,000 offer for Ware’s support in Pennsylvania.
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Washington
Senate
House
Pennsylvania
Neely
W. Va
Reed
Rep
Borah
Ida
Vare
Norris
William B. Wilson
Ware
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
United States
Neelyn
Caraway
Dem
Ark
King
Utah
Blease
U S. C
Pepper
Frank X. O’connor
Senate Campaign Funds Investigation Committee
George Wharton Pepper
O'Connor
Advertise Early for Sunday and Fourth of July Ads
The Commercial Tribune urges advertisers to place Classified Advertising early in Sunday and July Fourth issues. Orders may be placed Saturday or at the office until 8 P.M. Sunday for Monday publication. The paper’s address is 416 Commercial Square, Just East of Broadway, with phone Canal 6300.
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Commercial Tribune
Commercial Square
Broadway
Phone
Broadway Traffic Halts For French Heel In Rush Hour
New York July 1 A French heel became wedged in a trolley slot during peak rush hour on Broadway as a dainty blonde tried to dodge across the street. Traffic halted while streetcar gongs rang and motorists honked. A motorman freed the shoe with a crowbar and returned it to its owner.
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New York
Broadway
Mother of Marty Durkin Testifies in Liquor Case
CHICAGO July 1 The mother of Martin Durkin first witness for the defense in the murder trial of Edwin C Shanahan Federal Secret Service man testified about his liquor selling from age about 20 and his WWI service. She said Durkin bought his first car for 450 and often sent money to her. The defense aims to establish his loyalty and character while prosecutors seek to show he transported liquor and engaged in unlawful activity on the coast.
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Chicago
Martin Durkin
Edwin C. Shanahan
Federal
Secret Service
Larkin
Marty
Nye and Sorlie win in North Dakota primary race
In Fargo July 1 1924 farmer backed Republican primary results show Senator Gerald Nye leading in the short term and Nye strengthening in the long term with Hanna. Sorlie leads Hanley for governor as Hanley concedes. Nye touts Americanism and agricultural gains against government burdens while wet candidate Dc. P. Stone posts a surprising showing behind Nye and Hanna. Nye carries Richland Ransom Sargent Trail Steele counties signaling a political turnover.
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Fargo
N.D
Gerald P. Nye
North Dakota
Nye
L. B. Hanna
Hanna
A. G. Sorlie
J. M. Hanley
Mandan
J. A. McGovern
Hanley
Sorlie
Associated Press
League
P. Stone
Nye Calli
Nea Fe
Richland
Ransom
Sargent
Trail
Steele
Ponzi Wins Habeas Corpus And Will Stay In Houston
Charles Ponzi won a habeas corpus battle in Houston as Judge Walter Monteith set the hearing for July 9. Until then Ponzi remains detained in Harris County while extraction proceedings continue, with his lawyers accusing illegal confinement in Houston.
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Ponzi
Houston
Tex
Charles Ponzi
Walter Monteith
Harris County
Stanley G. Flagg Co and Shaw fined in antitrust case
In Cleveland on July 1 the Stanley G. Flagg Company of Philadelphia and A. E. Shaw an official were fined $3,000 each in federal court for violations of the antitrust law tied to malleable iron cases produced here.
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Cleveland, O
Stanley G. Flagg Company
Philadelphia
A. E. Shaw
Labor federation attacks Passaic strike and leaders
The Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor denounces the Passaic textile strike as Communistic in make up and dangerous to the bona fide labor movement. William Green says the council backs the criticism and condemns the United Front Committee guiding the strike while urging contributions only through authorized AFL channels for relief.
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Passaic
N. J
American Federation of Labor
Havlin
William Green
A. F. of L
United Front Committee
America
Vari
A. F Gf L
Paspaic
The
Organized Labor
Arrest 400 Officers and Soldiers In Spanish Plots
Paris reports four hundred officers and soldiers arrested in a conspiracy against Primo de Rivera's dictatorship. Civil prisons are filled with implicated officials. Gen Weyler, Gen Batet, and the daughter of Gen Luques are mentioned in a plot manifest and hostage rumors circulate as Spain faces potential upheaval.
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Alfred M. Murray
New York World News Service
Paris
Primo de Rivera
Count de Romanones
Liberal Party
France
Gen. Weyler
Barcelona
Majorca
Weyler
Batet
Melquiades Alvardez
The
Cortes
Luques
Spain
World News Service
World Press Pub. Co
Tut Was Son of Father-In-Law and Defeated Reign of Heresy
London dispatch reports new Tutankhamen discoveries by Howard Carter with photographs to be published in Illustrated London News. The mummy’s head and cap reveal refined features, and evidence suggests Tutankhamen was Akhenaten’s son and briefly overturned his reforms while marrying a crown princess.
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John L. Balderston
New York World News Service
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Howard Carter
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Egypt
Illustrated London News
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Cairo
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Akhenatonp
Breasted
Akhenaton
Cairo Museum
Akhenaten
Nefertiti
Ammon
Senate Holds Night to Clear Slate for Adjournment
Washington July 1 Though adjournment of Congress Saturday hung on the deficiency bill the Senate and House moved to tidy the calendar. The Senate approved a second deficiency supply measure raising its total to 51 million dollars and sent it to conference while also approving a sales bill covering military sites. The House, lacking urgent legislation, did not convene a night session. A separate bill would validate military pay overpayments from 1917 to 1921.
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Congress
House
Senate
Ft. Wayne
Mich
Ft. Hayes
Camp Upton
N. Y
Lafayette
Odd Fellows
Mechanics
Philadelphia
Ft. Washington
Sermon Sounds on Franc Slump and Debt Pact
Paris July 1 Today's franc drop to a new low of 36.90 per dollar becomes the text of a sermon by the Briand Ministry urging ratification of the Washington debt agreement. Premier Briand, in the Chamber of Deputies lobby, attributes the fall to US hostility to the Berenger Mellon accord and faces interpellations next Tuesday on France's financial situation.
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Paris
Briand
Washington
Chamber of Deputies
United States
France
Three Boys Arrested for Train Wreck Attempts West of Wheeling
ST. CLAIRSVILLE July 1 Pennsylvania Railroad officials arrested Leonard Barrett Gilbert Clarence Stoffer and Harry Reynolds for three attempts to wreck a train. The youths placed a four foot steel rail on the tracks endangering passenger and freight trains west of Wheeling.
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ST. Clairsville, CO
Pennsylvania Railroad
Leonard Barrett Gilbert
Clarence Stoffer
Harry Reynolds
Wheeling
SU anne drops plan to meet British rulers
SUANNE, a British royal figure, has halted plans to meet the British rulers amid ongoing tensions. The decision ends weeks of speculation about a high profile audience and impacts diplomatic expectations. No alternative engagement was announced and timelines remain uncertain.
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SU/ANNE
Lenglen Absents Court as Alvar es Impresses Wimbledon
Suzanne Lenglen misses a court appearance at Wimbledon amid gossip of a rift with royal invitation. The scene shifts to Senorita de Alvar dez reaching the Wimbledon semi finals by defeating Mrs Molla Mallory as the King and Queen of Spain applaud. Lenglen’s cancellation raises questions about her relationship with court officials, though no formal ban is reported.
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John L. Balderston
New York World News Service
London
Suzanne Lenglen
Wimbledon
Spain
Mme. Fleurau
Suzanne
Mary
Milo
Lenglen
N. Y
Remus Begins Year in Jail
George Remus of Cincinnati, who just finished a two year bootlegging sentence in Atlanta, starts a 360 day county jail term in Troy Ohio. He was transported from Cincinnati by Deputy U S Marshal Carson Pratt, arriving by train then auto. Remus remarked the wheels of justice never stop.
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Troy
George Remus
Cincinnati
Federal
Atlanta
Remus
United States
Carson Pratt
Dayton
Government posts year sur plus of 377 762 000 dollars
Washington July 1 The Federal Government closed its fiscal year with a surplus of 377 762 000 dollars, below the 390 000 000 forecast but almost four times the earlier estimate. The surplus will be applied to reduce the public debt as Treasury discloses total costs of 3 584 987 000 and receipts of 3 962 755 000.
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Washington
Coolidge
Treasury
Woman Slain and Wounded by Boarder at Xenia Farm
Mrs. Anna Smith, 49, is in serious condition with gunshot wounds and a throat slashing at her farm home east of Xenia when boarder C. B. Blackmore, 50, forced entry demanded money and attacked her. Blackmore, who seized Mrs. Smith then fled, was later jailed in county custody.
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Anna Smith
Here
C. B. Blackmore
Blackmore
Smith
Exhumed body of estate owner tied to McPherson case
In Los Angeles officials rehearse presenting evidence to a grand jury on the Aimee Semple McPherson kidnaping mystery. Deputy District Attorney Ryan accuses Mrs McPherson of withholding information and notes a letter claiming she is alive was received at Angelus Temple with altered postage. Mrs McPherson and her mother fly to Los Angeles after moving to Mexico to pursue leads.
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Los Angeles
Aimee
Semple McPherson
Ryan
Keyes
San Francisco
McPherson
Douglas
Cline
Mrs. McPherson
Mexico
Kassea County Mass
McPherson heads for Mexico to find shack of alleged prison
Aimee Semple McPherson returned to Douglas with her mother and local officials to search the Mexico border area for the shack she says held her prisoner. Deputy U S Marshal Simms Lieutenant Gatliff and deputies joined the expedition along with Rev J E Howard and a reporter as the group rode to the border by automobile.
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New York World News Service
Douglas
Ariz
Aimee Semple McPherson
Los Angeles
United States
Simms
Gatliff
Hayhurst
Morris
J. E. Howard
Cavalry Baptist Church
Mexico
Triple Suits In Auto Accident May Keep Money In Family
Kenosha Wisconsin July 1 Mrs Edward Wick sues her husband for 7500 damages for injuries to herself and child from a February 1925 crash with her husband at the wheel Carl Kubrick another occupant sues for 2500 and Wick also sues truck driver Philip Tice for 2500 If all prevail Wick would owe nothing to outsiders and the money would stay in the family
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Kenosha
Wis
Edward Wick
Wick
Carl Kubrick
Philip Tice
City Upholds Ban on Selling Race Tips in Publications
Appellate Court sustains Common Pleas Judge Morley's denial of injunction against Solomon News Co. ruling Cleveland charter city may ban gambling related content. Split decision. some judges see censorship risk while others applaud effort to curb evils like gambling. State Supreme Court possible.
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Cleveland
Appellate Court
Common Pleas
Morley
Solomon News Company
State Supreme Court
Vickery and Sullivan
Levine
Deliberate poisoning of OSU students revealed by board
The State Board of Pharmacy reported to Gov. Donahey that unknown persons mixed strychnine capsules with quinine at the University dispensary, killing two Ohio State University students in January 1925. Four others fell ill. The board found deliberate intent and ruled the poison did not originate from the university, though the source of the strychnine remains unsolved.
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Ohio State
Board OF Inquiry
Columbus
Ohio State University
State Board of Pharmacy
Donahey
Pharmacy Board
Charles H. Hull
Logan
David ¥. Paskin
Canton
Millionaire Backed Pirate Ring In Detroit Art Theft
Detroit police recovered a rare Persian rug valued at 75000 dollars from the Detroit Institute of Arts after Paxton Howard, a 29 year old Canadian from Sarnia, confessed a ring of antique pirates backed by a millionaire schemed the theft. He said about a dozen men were involved in looting a store room and a guard interrupted the plan saving a Hals portrait and a Mina da Fiesole bust. The rug reportedly was a gift to the institute from Mrs Edsel Ford.
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Detroit
Mich
Paxton Howard
Sarnia
Ont
Detroit Institute of Arts
Michigan Central Railroad
Howard
Art Institute of Valued
Franz Hals
Mina da Fiesole
Herman Bernstein
New Yor City
Edsel Ford
Strychnine Found at Inquest Into Montgomery Man Death
The coroner reported strychnine in George Steinman body after exhumation ordered by Coroner Handley on relatives request. Pathologist noted brain concussion and possible blow to the head. Steinman, a retired saloon keeper, died April 11 and was buried at Hopewell Cemetery. Witnesses described heart disease risk, no head mark, and a wife’s alleged will hints. Estate valued around 40 000 dollars.
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George Steinman
Montgomery
Oroner Handley
Handley
Steinman
Hopewell
Josephine Walcott
Montgomery Road
Leo R. Newton
Linton Avenue
Sisters of the Dead
William Simonson
West Ninth Street
R. S. Austin
General Hospital
Leona Steinman
Carl Seeger
Gladys Seeger
Hamilton, Q
Faces charges leaps to death at Mercy Hospital
In Baltimore on July 1 Mrs. Alice M. Miller 49 leaped to death from a fourth story window at Mercy Hospital after resisting Sisters who tried to hold her. She faced forgery charges for 35 notes totaling 7400 tied to Drovers Merchants Bank. State's Attorney Herbert O'Conor noted possible additional bank victims and the notes were to be presented to the Grand Jury. Miller had been admitted after a ladder fall during work as an interior decorator and resided at St James Apartments.
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Baltimore
Alice M. Miller
Mercy Hospital
Drovers’ and Merchants’ Bank
Herbert O’conor
Princess Ileana Suffers Serious Internal Injuries Abroad
Reports from Constanza indicate Princess Ileana daughter of Queen Marie has serious internal injuries after a fall from a hammock. The news comes as authorities confirm medical advice received from Romania.
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Bucharest
Romania
Ileana
Marie
Contansa
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