City's Gas Rate Dispute Highlights Pending Vote
Union Gas and Electric President W. W. Freeman rejects higher rates even if City Council reenacts the vetoed ordinance. A. B. Roberts of Cleveland backs the Roberts report on valuation as the committee weighs five year terms vs three. The meeting adjourned with bids for printing the report and further hearings to follow.
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W. W. Freeman
Union Gas and Electric Company
A. B. Roberts
Cleveland
City Hall
Freeman
Varrel
Roverts
Robertes
Wnich
Frank Wuttenhofer
Chamber of Commerce
W. DL. Ennis
New York
Roberts
Frank Bowrman
Ennis
Jed Schneller
Ang
C. Fischer
Ludlow Avenue
Mr. Roberts
Cordes
Columbia Gas and Electric Company
Cincinnati
Pendleton Named Father in Estate Dispute Case
Mrs Dorothea V Connor of Providence Rhode Island claims five years as Pendleton's common law wife and seeks 50000 from the Pendleton estate for their daughter Alice Barbara Connor. She accuses the shipbuilder of arranging a marriage for the child’s name and seeks to compel testimony from private detectives in Providence. Trial set for April.
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New York
Fields S&s
Clarrison W. Connor
Wingate
Coolidge forms new Cabinet and Senate leaders named
President Coolidge met his reconstructed Cabinet for the first time. Senator Robinson of Arkansas is the Democratic Senate leader with Moses of New Hampshire as President Pro Tempore. The Senate moves to strip La Follette allies of committee ranks. Warren nomination advances as Attorney General. Warren will be confirmed before filling any federal judgeships.
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Coolidge
Senator Robinson
Arkansas
Senate
Moses
New Hampshire
Charles B. Warren
Senate Judiciary Committee
Boggs trial heard Abele witness confession details
Springfield detective chief George Abele testified in Hillsboro that Dan Boggs and his brother agreed to confess while held in Springfield. He said the Hillsboro killing was self defense and that Boggs cried when referred to the slain man. Other witnesses identified articles found in the car.
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Associated Press
Hillsboro
George Abele
Springfield
Dan Boggs
Harry T. Magill
Abele
Boggs Brothers
Polic
Boggs
New York
Adele
Planes Attack Fort Monroe Shows Weakness of Land Defenses
At Fort Monroe Virginia March 6 three Martin bombers simulated hostile formations evading searchlights and listening devices to drop flare bombs while anti aircraft batteries failed to detect them. The exercise demonstrated air weakness despite a prior plan by Secretary Weeks and marked Brigadier General Mitchell’s public stance on air power.
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C. B. Allen
New York World News Service
Fortress Monroe
Martin
Fortress ‘Monroe
Army Air Service
Secretary of War
Avia
Train Collision Kills Six Near Williamsport Indiana
Two women and four children die when an automobile is hit by a Wabash freight train at Williamsport crossing. Mrs Bodine drives and stops for a passenger train then moves onto tracks as freight backs out. Victims include Gertrude 5, Fred Jr 19 months, Elwood 6 weeks, Mabel 3, Clara Hurd visiting from Marysville Ohio.
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Danville
Ill
Williamsport
Ind
Here
Fred Bodine
Gertrude
Fred, JR
Elwood
Mabel
Clara Hurd
Marysville
Bodine
Sioux Chiefs Feast With Great Palefaces at Washington Club
Chiefs Standing Bull Antelope and Hollow Horn Yankton Sioux held a women feast at the Metropolitan Club in Washington on March 6. About a hundred attendees including high officials heard Big talks by Acting Attorney General Beck and the three chiefs followed by a ceremonial handshake. Guests included Secretary Mellon Secretary Weeks and Navy Assistant Secretary Robinson along with international representatives and dignitaries amid emphasis on Pipestone quarry and Black Hills rights.
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Associated Press
Washington
Standing Bull
Antelope
Hollow Horn
Metropolitan Club
Beck
Jennings C. ‘Wise
Pipestone
Black Hills
Mellon
Weeks
Robinson
Navy
Spania
Sze
China
Eve Miles
Mitchell Chooses Fechet as Successor for Air Service
Brigadier General William Mitchell will be succeeded as Assistant Chief of the Army Air Service by Lieutenant Colonel James E Fechet on April 27. Fechet, a former cavalryman who rose from the ranks, now commands the Kelly Field Advanced Flying School in Texas. Mitchell says he will continue his push for a unified air force despite the change.
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William Mitchell
Army Aviation
Martin
Hamilton
Mason M. Patrick
Army Air Service
Langley
Washington
James E. Fechet
Mitchell
Norfolk
Fortress Monroe
War Department
War Secretary
Fechet
Senate
Cavalry
Signal Corps
Air Service Advance Flying School
Kelly Field
Texas
Army
Navy
Special House
Nin
President Coolidge
Air Service
John L. Hines
Becaus
Weeks
Planning Commission
Technical Advisory Corporation
Mayor Carrel
Kr. A. Ault
Frederick W. Hinkle
R. K. LeBlond
Charles F. Hornberger
Irwin M. Krohn
Louis Schwab
C. H. Meeds
EB. L. Kennedy
John E. Bruce
United City Planning Committee
Technical Advisory Corporation of
New York
George Ford
EK. P. Goodrich
Donald Bronson
Ladislaus Segve
Dayton
Louisville
City Planning Commission
Cincinnati
Authors to hunt Africa with bows and arrows
Beasts of British East Africa will be hunted with bows and arrows by Stewart Edward White and Dr T Saxon Pope aboard the Olympic. They plan to film the expedition with Arthur H Young as cameraman, praising the sport as humane and effective for big game.
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New York
Stewart Edward White
T. Saxon Pope
University of California
Crecy
Arthur H. Young
White
Thug Blinds Messenger In Attempted Robbery
In Columbus Joan J. Sliney a 52 year old department store messenger may lose sight in both eyes after a robber threw acid during a noon robbery attempt. Witnesses say A G Yahn another messenger with $7000 in a folder grappled with the thief who fled in a car.
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Columbus
Joan J. Sliney
Morehouse-Martins
Sliney
A. G. Yahn
Police Officers Suspended Over Jail Cell Bar Incident
Chicago March 7 Chief of Police Collins suspended a lieutenant and ten officers from the Shefield Avenue Station after federal charges that they converted a jail cell into a saloon and sold beer seized from two bootleggers. Friends of the officers were admitted and drank, with about 60 pints alleged sold.
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New York World News Service
Chicago
Collins
Sheffield Avenue
Deputy Slain in Sofia by Macedonian Assassin
In Sofia on March 6 Haralamy Stoyanoff the Communist Deputy was killed by a young Macedonian in a busy street. The shooter fled but was captured after a short chase. Stoyanoff was the third Deputy murdered in a month with reprisals tied to the death of Mileff Bulgarian minister-designate to the United States.
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Sofia
Haralamy Stoyanoff
Stoyanoff
M. Mileff
United States
Teapot Dome inquiry begins in Cheyenne
The Teapot Dome inquiry moves forward after delays. Albert B. Fall was subpoenaed in El Paso to testify on leasing Salt Creek Naval Oil Reserve to Mammoth Oil. Blackmer and ONeil refused to testify in Paris, while Harry F. Sinclair arrives in Cheyenne with a large entourage.
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Associated Press
Cheyenne
Wryo
Teapot Dome
Owen J. Roberts
Atlee Pomerone
el Paso
Tex
Albert B. Fall
Secretary of the Interior
Great Naval Oil Reserve
Salt Creek
Wyo
Mammoth Oil Company
Harry F. Sinclair
Fall
Sid
Paris
H. M. Blackmer
James E. O'Neil
Blackmer
O'Neil
Mammoth Company
63 Major improvements in city plan urged by commission
A public summary from Chicago details 63 major proposed city improvements. The report outlines goals, projected costs, and the commission's plan to guide urban development, infrastructure upgrades, and civic projects across neighborhoods.
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Cincinnati
Planning Commission
Vine Street
Clifton Avenue
Corry Street
Florence Avenue
Reading Road
Gilbert Avenue
Columbia Avenue
Kemper Lane
Stanley Avenue
Eighth Street
West Street
Warsaw Avenue
Albany Avenue
Ludlow Avenue
Eggleston Avenue
La Follette Wheeler feud halts in Senate offices
Washington reports a power clash as the La Follette Wheeler ticket loses access to their Senate suites. Wheeler, in New York, and La Follette, in Florida, face locked rooms now occupied by Senator Blease and his staff.
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New York World News Service
Washington
la Follette- Wheeler
Senator Wheeler
Dem
Mont
Wheeler
New York
Senator Blease
South Carolina
la Follette
Senate Chamber
Manufacturers’ Committee
Senator la Follette
M Us
Senate
Florida
Farmers Held In Trading Wives At Bloomfield
Bloomfield Missouri March 6 A pair of farm couples were jailed after admitting they traded wives in a love entanglement. Curt Wallace 27 and Nellie Cravens 22 with their spouses Cora 24 and Otis Cravens 30 were taken into custody and held for trial. The families cowed by the affair sent their children to relatives while the adults discussed split and remarriage plans.
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Bloomfield
Curt Wallace
Otis Cravens
Wallace
Cora
Bertha
Owen
Loren
Cravens
Nellie
Marie
Lee
Curt
Buddes
Mystery Box in Chalet Haunt for Dennistoun Case
Two boys were injured by cars in separate incidents on Rockdale and Elsinore avenues. Meanwhile in London, Mrs. Dennistoun faced cross examination over alleged affairs, with Lady Carnarvon tearful as details of a Geneva chalet stay and a mysterious letter emerged.
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Chicago
W. E D. Stokes
New York
W. N. Gemmill
Milton D. Smith
Stokes
Gemmill
Smith
Richard Dodd
Knott Streets
Engine House No
Rockdale Avenue
Arthur Sherman
Sherman Avenue
Rudy Herman
Elsinore Avenue
William Farrell
Fulton Avenue
John L. Balderston
New York World News Service
London
Dorothy Muriel Dennistoun
Onslow Dennistoun
Bolin
League of Nations
Major Voyvodsky
M. Cornaro
John Cowans
Geneva
Savoy Hotel
Voyvodsky
Spain
Lady Carnarvon
Dennistoun
Cunliffe-Owen
Lady Cunliffe-Owen
Carnarvon
N.Y. World) Press Pub. Co
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Woman
Williiam Purgess
Tariff Commission
Pennsylvania
Alfred B. Dennis
Maryland
David J. Lewis
Fort Monroe
Indiana
The
Washington Club
Fecret
Unified Air Service
Africa
U.S
O’neil
Ansonia
Mr. Stokes
Everleigh Club
Camille
Marshall Fileld, Jr
Altz
Marshall Field
EA Follette
Wisconsin
Third Street
Fifth Street
House of Refuge
Colerain Avenue
Mt. Airy Forest
Silverton
Pleasant Waa
Oyler School
Madisonville
Dela and
Hastern Avenues
Fairmount
Westwood
Oakley
Carthage
Union Railroad
Seventh
Central Avenue
Lincoln Park
Fourth and Vine Streets
Fourth and John Streets
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