British and French to Seek European Security Pact in London Talks
British and French foreign ministers discuss a August conference to replace the Geneva protocol with a broad European security pact. Britain favors arbitration and Germany's unconditional UN inclusion, aiming for a plan ready for the League of Nations by September.
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London
Paris
France
Singland
United States
Great Britain
League of Nations Assembly
Rhine
Germany
League of Nations
Austen Chamberlain
Baldwin
Marquis Curzon
Chamberlain
Europe
Pastor Tarleton Poisoning Shocks Community
State University chemists announced poison was found in the body of Rev. Robert E. Tarleton, whose death on January 29 sparked initial reports of heart disease. Authorities pursue a motive for murder despite Tarleton's actions prior to death.
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Associated Press
Hot Springs
Robert E. Tarleton
The
State University
Tarleton
State Laboratory
Vermilion
Tennessee Bans Darwinism in Public Schools
Nashville March 23 Gov Austin Peay signed a bill barring the teaching of evolution in Tennessee public schools. The action formalizes new limits on science instruction across the state.
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Tennessee
Nashville
Tenn
Austin Peay
Bible Found Open in Ruins After Tornado Devastation
Cairo Illinois March 23 No ble Zook telegraph operator touring the wrecked town of De Soto found an open Bible face down on the ground. It lay at the thirteenth chapter of Mark starting with the verse about the temple stones and Jesus foretelling the destruction.
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Cairo
Ill
Noble Zook
de Soto
Temple
Jesus
Noted Scholar Dr. Fullerton Ends His Life in Poughkeepsie
Dr. George Stewart Fullerton former head of Columbia University philosophy and renowned Spinoza scholar killed himself at 66 in his Poughkeepsie home. Despondency from ill health, worsened by wartime privations, was cited. He left a wife and visitor as events unfolded. He authored major works on Spinoza and metaphysics and held multiple honorary and academic memberships.
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New York World News Service
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
George Stewart Fullerton
Department of Philosophy
Columbia University
Fullerton
Vassar
Fatehgar
Cain
Robert Stewart Fullerton
University of Pennsylvania
Yale
Muhlenberg College
Columbia
Francis Joseph of
Austria
University of Vienna
Vienna University
Germany
The
American Philosophical Society
American Psychological Association
Phi Betta Kappa
Century Club of New York
Wadsworth Resigns as Assistant to Mellon
Eliot Wadsworth of Boston resigns from the Treasury as Assistant Secretary in charge of foreign loans and railroad advances. He left Washington for New Orleans with Senator James W. Wadsworth Jr. and informed few officials before the departure. Appointed in March 1921 by President Harding, he oversaw foreign and railroad loans and related duties including public health service and the World War Foreign Debt Commission.
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Washington
Eliot Wadsworth
Boston
the Treasury
Mellon
Wadsworth
New Orleans
James W. Wadsworth, Jr
New York
Harding
Public Health Service
World War Foreign Debt Commission
Notorious Criminal Albert House Escapes Florida Jail
Albert House, a notorious criminal, escaped early today from the County Jail in Tampa after sawing his way out. He allegedly received aid from outside help and is wanted by Indiana authorities for murder and bank robberies. He faced a $24,000 robbery charge and several other robberies.
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Associated Press
Tampa
Fla
Albert House
House
Indiana
Bank robber Albert House escapes jail and flees to Indiana
Indianapolis dispatch reports Albert House who escaped from a Tampa jail today is sought in connection with the Farmersburg State Bank robbery months ago. He was wounded during the escape with about $3,000. Officials say no murder charge is known at this time.
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Indianapolis
Albert House
Tampa
Fla
Farmersburg
Ind
House
Two Weddings, One Divorce Spark High Court Battle
New York Supreme Court rules Archibald Gwathmey’s Texas divorce a fraud as his real residence was New York. The case centers on妻 Isabelle Coomes Gwathmey and Betsy Judd, with appeal planned and alimony of 9000 dollars yearly.
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New York World News Service
New York
Supreme Court Today
Archibald B Gwathmey
New York State
Connecticut
Texas
Gwathmey
Levy
Cohalan
Isabelle Coomes Gwathmey
Yale
Justice Davis
Betsy C. Judd
Cotton Exchange
Judd
Stamford
Conn
Edmund L. Mooney
Justice Levy
Dallas
Tex
Mr. Mooney
Mooney
Florida
Cohafan
Judd- Gwathmey
Moving Mountain Shifts 75 Yards Blocking Meeker Road
The Moving Mountain near Meeker Colorado shifted seventy five yards cutting traffic between Rifle and Meeker. The dome like mass rose about eleven feet and disturbed a quarter mile of road. Movement began Sunday night and continues with no cause assigned.
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Associated Press
Meeker
Col
Rifle
Private borrows major plane in reckless solo flight
Washington March 23 The District of Washington commander examines a back private who flew an airplane with no experience. B B Elifritz of Bolling Field borrowed a Major s plane and took off successfully before overheating near the city limits. He landed unharmed as Bolling Field staff helped him out of the wreckage.
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Washington
District of Washington
B. B. Elifritz
Bolling Field
Pennsyl
Vania Avenue
Elifritz
Chapman Flays Tate Refusal to Talk at Murder Trial
Gerald Chapman, accused of murdering Policeman James Skelly in New Britain, fights to address the public before his life trial in Hartford. Authorities block the request, drawing support from federal officials and Connecticut figures, while crowds gather and Mrs. Skelly argues for humane punishment. Chapman, silent in prison, will be defended by five attorneys as jury selection looms.
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New York World News Service
Hartford
Chapman
Wethersfield
United States
Connecticut
Hiram Bingham
Trumbull
Norwood D. Osborn
New Mraven
Wethersfield Prison
Osborn
H. K. W. Scott
Hugh M. Alcorn
Hartford County
Alcorn
Newell Jennings
Wethersfield State Prison
Mrs. Skelly
Frederick J. Groehl
John J. Weiss
New York
Harold Evans
Nathan O. Freedman
Charles W. Murphy
Danbury
Kellogg Maintains Karolyi Gag in US Restrictions
Count Michael Karolyi, former Hungarian president, remains barred from political activity in the United States under a Kellogg regime condition. The State Department letter to the ACLU says no change to the restrictions, despite petitions from Hotel Astor luncheon supporters. Karolyi plans to sail for London within two weeks as his wife’s condition is described as critical and a passport visa was denied.
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Michael Karolyi
American Civil Liberties Union
State Department
Department
Kellogg
Hughes
Karolyi
Hungary
Karolyn
London
Hotel Astor
America
W. R. Castle, Jr
Count Michael Karolyi
New York City
Count Karolyn
United States
Borah
Foreign Relations Committee
Count Karolyi
World News Service
New York
Pass Sterilization Bill Moves From House to Senate
Columbus March 23 The Ohio House passed by 104 to 1 a sterilization bill proposed by Representative Knapp of Medina County. The measure targets incurably insane or feeble minded males before release from state institutions.
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Columbus
House of Representatives
Senate
Knapp
Medina County
Tex Rickard sentence delayed in Dempsey Carpentier film case
Federal Judge Bodine delayed for one week the imposition of sentence on Tex Rickard and co defendants found guilty of conspiracy in interstate transportation of the fight films. Defense counsel sought time to study records. Daugherty was acquitted. Quimby Inc defendants found guilty. DA opposed delay.
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Associated Press
Trenton
N. J
Bodine
Tex Rickard
Walter D. van Riper
Rickard
Frank B. Flournoy
Theodore Hayes
United States
Daugherty
Philadelphia
Winne
Coolidge pushes probes on NP grants and National Guard funds
The piece notes a Senate inquiry into Northern Pacific land grants and a White House directive ordering a study on federal funding for National Guard drills. It also mentions Kellogg and Torriente signing the Isle of Pines treaty with Cuba and Coolidge inviting all states and foreign governments to the 1926 Philadelphia international exposition.
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Coolidge
Kellogg
Torriente
Isle of Pines
United States
Cuba
Philadelphia
Mrs. John G Battelle dies in Washington at 64
Mrs. John Gordon Battelle of Columbus Ohio Republican National Committee woman and prominent in women s clubs died at the New Willard Hotel in Washington after a heart attack. She was 64 and had been in Washington since last Tuesday for her brother in law Bishop John W Hamilton s birthday. She had served in national and Ohio party posts and was a director of several major companies. The body will be taken to Columbus tomorrow.
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Washington
John Gordon Battelle
Columbus
New Willard Hotel
Bishop Hamilton
Wilbur Quincy
Elizabeth
N.J
Sarah Frances Battelle
Columbus Tomor
Cetiana
Annie Maude Norton Battelle
Battelle
McKinley
Warren G. Harding
White House
Ohio
Republican State
Republican National Committee
Three Soviet Leaders Die in Plane Crash Near Tiflis
Moscow reports three prominent Soviet officials M Miassnikoff M Mogilievski and M Atarbekoff died in a crash near Tiflis when a military plane caught fire and plunged from about 6000 feet. The five occupants died instantly as the delegation traveled to attend a Soviet Congress.
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Associated Press
Moscow
Tiflis
Suchum
M. Miassnikoff
Trans-Caucasian Communist Party
M. Mogilievski
Cheka
Ad M. Atarbekoff
Caucasus
Near East Relief Organization
Alexandropol
Miassnikoff
Mogilievski
Atarbekoff
Russia
Man Admits Killing Wife Then Sets Fire to Coop
Cleveland detective says Frank Liska wrote a statement admitting he strangled his wife Catherine after a quarrel over divorce and later set fire to a chicken coop where her body was found. He allegedly refused to help her commit suicide but later consented as she begged. No charges filed.
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Cleveland
Frank¢ Liska
Catherine Liska
Weiss
Liska
Tragedy As Five Children and Father Die in Nitroglycerin Blast
In Frazer, Kentucky, Peter Franklin age 55 and his five children Ira Carlie Cecil Beatrice and illar were killed when a can of nitroglycerin exploded in the Franklin yard. The blast followed the children playing with the can near the house. The mother and two other children were away. some fragments were buried in two graves. Mussolini’s health is reported as serious by multiple dispatches.
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Associated Press
Monticello
Peter Franklin
Ira
Carlie
Cecil
Beatrice Ind.llar
Frazer
Wayne County
Franklin
Brother of prisoner shoots deputy sheriff
Williamson West Virginia March 23 Deputy Sheriff Deau Cline 37 of Mingo County is in a hospital in serious condition from a bullet wound allegedly fired by Dave Collins as he fled after Tolbern Collins was arrested on a pistol charge Tolbern was re arrested and a search for Dave continues in Kentucky and locally Tolbern after arrest asked to talk to his wife and charged gunman shot Cline the bullet passed through his abdomen doctors say he has a chance to recover
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New York World News Service
Mussolini
Italy
Foreign Office
Luigi
Federzoni
Deau Cline
Cline
Mussolini makes first outing since illness in Rome
Premier Mussolini leaves for a long automobile drive through the Pincian Gardens with the chauffeur, then visits the Zoological Gardens and enters a cage to fondle his pet lion. The lion initially seems shy but warms to its former master as the visit progresses.
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Rome
Mussolini
Pincian Gardens
Zoological Gardens
Boy, 14 Confesses Slaying Woman and Wounding Son
John Haynes fourteen year old wanderer confessed to police that he shot and killed Mrs. Ben Summers and wounded her son Paul at their Cairo West Virginia home during a Saturday night burglary. He reportedly arrived by freight at Cairo last August and was taken in by Mrs. Summers. He is said to have come from Gelumbus Ohio.
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Parkersburg
W. Va
John Haynes
Ben Summers
Paul
Homer
Cairo
Haynes
Summers
Gelumbus
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