Another Deal Explained by Miss Stinson
Roxie Stinson testified before the Daugherty committee about a rumored $33,000,000 oil deal from 1922 tied to Sinclair interests that leased Teapot Dome. She said Smith and the attorney general were angered these men profited, though she could not name them.
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Associated Press
Washington
Daugherty Investigating Committee
Roxie Stinson
Jess W. Smith
Smith
Sinclair
Teapot Dome
Whee
Daugherty
Roxtie Stinson
Harry M. Daugherty
Jesse W. Smith
Attorney General
Department of Justice
Miss Stinson
Wheeler
Montana
Ashurst
Arizona
Oil Committee
W. W. Spaid
Hibbs & Co
Stinson
Jess Smith
Brookhart
Harry Daugherty
Postmasters Nominated by President Coolidge
Washington on March 26 reports Miller S. McFarland of Marshalltown among the postmasters nominated today by President Coolidge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
President Coolidge
Miller S. McFarlang
Marshalltown
Miners and Operators Renew Three Year Contract
Representatives of Iowa coal miners and operators agreed to renew the existing wage agreement for three years. The scale provides 7.50 for men 7.25 for helpers and 6.35 for top men, affecting about 12 000 men in 200 Iowa mines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Des Moines
Iowa
Bergdoll Set for Sail Back to United States
Berlin reports Grover C Bergdoll believed making first move to return to the United States to face charges for wartime desertion He left Baden and headed toward Frankfort with chauffeur Eugene Stecher and ample luggage indicating planned sea passage from Hamburg to New York.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Grover C. Bergdoll
United States
Bicherbach
Baden
Frankfort
Hamburg
New York
Eugene Stecher
Bergdoll Leaves Germany Quietly for Unknown Ventures
Baden officials sighed relief as Grover Bergdoll departed from Eberbach. He bid farewell only to his uncle Carl Behrmann, proprietor of the Krone Test hotel, where the draft evader had lived for over three years.
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Associated Proast
Heidelberg
Germany
Baden
Grover Bergdoll
Bergdoll
Eberbach
Carl Behrmann
Krone Test Hotel
Bergdoll No Reservations for Amer ika Passage
Officials for North German Lloyd say Grover Bergdoll has no reservations on the steamship Amerika which sails today. Reported he boarded under an assumed name but unverified.
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Associated Preae
Bremen
Germany
Lloyd Steamship Company
Grover Bergdoll
Anderson Now Maps In Sing Sing Prison
Sing Sing prison wardens assign William H. Anderson the former superintendent of the New York Anti-Saloon League to the mop and pail gang after arrival. He is expected to take clerical work later, and is noted as Sing Sing’s tallest inmate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Prear
Lang
Anderson
Sing Sing
Coolidge Leads in South Dakota Primary Returns
President Coolidge holds a lead over Senator Hiram Johnson in the South Dakota Republican presidential primary. With 634 of about 1,825 precincts reporting, Coolidge leads by 2,079 votes, tallying 24,867 to 22,788.
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Associated Press
Sioux Falls
S. D
Coollidge
Hiram Johnson
South Dakota
Coolidge
Johnson
Deafness No Excuse For Church Absence
Grace Lutheran church in Norfolk Nebraska solved deafness by installing a pulpit microphone and wired pews with head phones. The system filled the church as members who had avoided services due to hearing problems began attending, plus attracting others who previously did not attend any church.
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Associated Press
Norfolk
Neb
Grace Lutheran Church
F. C. Brandshort
Doctors Fail to Limit Use of 'Physician' Title by Osteopaths
Des Moines March 26 The Iowa senate failed to bar osteopaths and chiropractors from using the title physician approving 23 to 21 an amendment by Senator Price. The health bill passed 35 to 0. Other actions included an amendment on school building remodel recommendations and budget adjustments for the state engineer and child welfare commission.
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Associated Press
State Capitol
Des Moines
Doctors of Medicine of
Iowa
Senate
Price
Monroe County
Wichman
Hancock County
Doctors of Medicine
Newberry
Clayton County
Board of Health
Smith
Madison County
House of Representatives
Iowa Child Welfare Commission
Kendall
Three Youths Sentenced to Life for Kidnapping
Davenport report says Raymond De Vetter Henry De Vetter and Lester McCrossen all under 21 were found guilty of kidnapping and assaulting a 15 year old high school girl. They received life imprisonment at Fort Madison as mothers pleaded for mercy.
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Davenport
Raymond
Henry de Vetter
Lester McCrossen
Alll
Fort Madison
Robed Klansmen Attend Mason City Funeral
Eighteen Ku Klux Klan members in robes and hoods attended the funeral of William B. Cook in Mason City. They processed in a cross formation from the funeral parlors to Elmwood cemetery despite cold rain, with a flag and Bible carried by the lead marcher. This marked the Klan's first public appearance in the city. Washington reports an unfavorable on Samuel Knight of San Francisco as special government counsel in California naval reserve suits.
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Associated Press
Mason City
Ku Klux Klan
William B. Cook
Elmwood Cemetery
Washington
Samuel Knight
San Francisco
California Naval Reserve No. 2
Lasker Leads In Eight Round Chess Masters Tourney
International chess masters’ tournament moved into the eighth round with Dr. Emanuel Lasker of Germany winning yesterday in 30 moves against Geza Maroce of Hungary. Other items report a child labor amendment vote, a fatal train accident near Iowa City, Rotary election in the Eleventh District, a large Tokyo fire leaving 3000 homeless, Sarah Bernhardt tomb pilgrims by Herrick and a commemorative tablet attached to the tomb.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
New York
Emanuel Lasker
Germany
Geza Maroce
Hungary
Paris
Herrick
Sarah Bernhardt
Orpheum
Chicago
Senate Reports Freight Rate Revision Favorable
Washington reports a resolution to revise freight rates to facilitate shipment of agricultural products at the lowest possible rate was favorably reported today by the senate or state commerce commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
State Commerce Commission
Honduras Rival Leaders Unite Under Davila Proclamation
Washington reports that rival Honduran revolutionary leaders have joined to restore order by approving a proclamation issued by Faust a Davila, the provisional president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Honduras
Faust A Davila
Plot to rob Pennsylvanian passenger train foiled near Homestead
Pittsburgh police and county detectives thwarted a Becks Run bridge ambush on a Pennsylvania passenger train. Superintendent Edward J. Brophy and five city detectives were injured, three seriously, when they used their car to intervene as bandits occupied the train.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Becks Run
Homestead
Edward J. Brophy
Pittsburgh Police
New Soldier Bonus Bill Estimate Presented in Senate
March 26 in Washington the act may cost 3.3 billion dollars as an updated estimate shown to the senate finance committee by Herbert Hess the actuary for the American Legion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Senate Finance Committee
Actuary of the American Legion
Herbert Hess
Independent Offices Appropriation Bill Seeks Spending Cut
Washington reports a sharp reduction in expenditures proposed by the Veterans Bureau the Shipping Board and several other government agencies in the independent offices appropriation bill presented to the House.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Veterans’ Bureau
The
Shipping Board
House
Reformed Thief Sees Boys Rob Lunch Room
Detroit report says three neatly dressed youths robbed a lunch room last night taking 50 dollars and the proprietor's watch. The lone customer, Sophie Lyons Burke a 76 year old former confidence woman associated with a $3,000,000 Manhattan bank theft, expressed pity for the bandits and claimed crime does not pay. She is now active in evangelistic work in Detroit's underworld.
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Detroit
Sophie Lyons Burke
Burke
Iowa U Officials Still Seeking Coach
Iowa City officials continue to seek the best available football coach. A report that Knute Rockne signed a ten year contract with Notre Dame drew no comment from university authorities. Rockne had visited Iowa City for talks, and any new negotiations will be kept secret according to those in control of athletics.
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Towa City
University of Iowa
South Bend
Ind
Knute K Rockne
Notre Dame
Iowa
Rockne
Poincare Resigns After Defeat in French Chamber
Premier Raymond Poincare and his cabinet resign after a chamber vote of 254 to 271 defeats the government. President Millerand accepts the resignation while Poincare pledges to reconsider forming another ministry on a later date. Socialists cheer as radicals and socialists call for resignation.
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Hy Associated Press
Paris
Poincare
Miller
M Poincare
Raymond Poincare
Millerand
Chamber of Deputies
M. Poincare
Bouyssou
Senate
de Lasteyrie
Chamber
Adair County Farmer Held In Girl Case
Merle Adrian of near Greenfield Adair county farmer is under arrest in Omaha on a charge of enticing a female under the age of 16 for prostitution per a telephone report from D A Crowley Adair county attorney. Adrian married with a family awaits preliminary hearing. alleged to have enticed a school girl to leave Greenfield.
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Adair
Merle Adrian
Greenfield
Omaha
D. A. Crowley
Adrian
Omana
British Plane Continues World Trip Amid Fog Delay
Havre March 26 The trio of British aviators led by A Stuart Macklaren started from Calshot Hogland on a hydroplane world tour. They left Havre for Lyons with a non-stop flight planned despite fog yesterday. Weather today favorable for a speedy trip to Lyons. Davenport March 26 A lull in the Cofficott murder case as police rest on their cars awaiting grilling of Jack Moriarty who has been rearrested and Gladys Robb, 23, sentenced to 10 days in Scott county jail on a technical charge.
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Associated Press
Havre
A. Stuart Macklaren
Cailshot
Hogland
Lyong Theafirmen
Lyons
Davenport
Coflicott
Jack Moriarty
Gladys Robb
Morilarity
Scott County
Jon
Daugherty and Lodge Confer With Coolidge
Attorney General Daugherty and Senator Lodge held separate talks with President Coolidge in Washington. The Republican leader said their conference did not concern Daugherty’s situation.
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Associated Treas
Washington
Daugherty
Senator Lodge
President Coolidge
White House
Singate Case Heads to Jury Room in Washington
Washington March 26. Senate oil committee prosecutor Walsh says he cannot understand why President Coolidge did not dismiss Clarence Chase as customs collector at El Paso. The Sinclair contempt case goes to the DC grand jury next day with special counsel Toerene and Roberts proposed. Chase resigns as impeachment actions loom over his ties to Fall and the $100,000 loan.
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Associated Press
Washington
Walsh
Montana
Senate
Coolidge
Clarence ©. Chase
Albert B. Falr
el Paso
Harry F. Sinclair
District of Columbia
District Atorney
Chicago
Presdent
Harding
Senate Committee On Public Lands and Surveys
The
Oil Committee
House Judicary Committee
C. C. Chase
Albert B. Falls
Texas
Gordon
Chase
House
Moss
Treasury Department
Fall
Unsicker and Farmer Enter Gubernatorial Race
Daniel K. Unsicker of Mahaska county announces candidacy for the Democratic nomination for governor. He previously ran for state representative, narrowly losing to J. McClune, Republican.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Des Moines
Daniel K. Unsicker
Mahaska County
Unwicker
J . McClune
War Veterans Will Hear Radio Concerts
Washington dispatch reports World War patriots in government hospitals will be provided with bedside radio reception. Director Hines of the veterans bureau ordered construction agencies to equip hospitals for direct bed connections to receive radio entertainment for patients.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington
Hines
Veterans’ ‘Bureau
Afton Station Holdup Reported By Burlington Railroad
Two armed bandits robbed the Afton Burlington station around 1 a m stealing about 78 in currency, mostly silver. Agent Charles Pinkerton and Creston officers described the suspects, and two men, Glenn Fuller and Harry Bennzema, were detained after a freight train arrival, with less than five dollars found on them and no weapon.
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Afton
Burlington Railroad
Charles Pinkerton
Ottumwa
Railway Company
Creston
Union County
Burlington
P. R. Folks
Danner
Gravitt
Glenn Fuller
Harry Bennzema
Pinkerton
Fuller
Benntema
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Uncle
Shadow
Sing Sing Prison
House Judiciary Committee
Iowa City
Edward Randall
West Branch
Here
Waterloo
C. H. B Boardman
Rotary International
Tokio
Zoshigaya
Iowa U
Lodge
Tex
Creaton
Folks
Buriington
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