World News Digest Highlights Major 1924 Events
Secretary of State Hughes resigns, to be replaced by Frank Kellogg. Electors vote for Coolidge Dawes, with certification set for February 18. Coast Guard awards contracts for fast motor launches. Prohibition officials dispute Canadian liquor export claims. Navy budget and agri exports figures released. Houghton named ambassador to Britain. Underwood Muscle Shoals bill passes Senate. Wealth estimates and seaplane orders cited. Crime, deaths, and legal notices dominate other items.
Kellogg to Succeed Hughes as Secretary of State
Washington announces Secretary Hughes will retire March 4. President Coolidge names Frank B Kellogg to replace him, with Alanson B Houghton named to succeed Kellogg in Britain. Reiterates policy opposing Soviet recognition until debts and interference issues are settled.
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White House
Washington
Alanson B. Houghton
New York
Germany
Great Britain
Wyrank B. Kellogg
Minnesota
Charley EB. Hughes
Kellogg
Hughes
Edward W. Pickard
Ray
Coolidge
Frank B. Kellogg
League of Nations
League
America
Russia
France
Michigan
Charles Beecher Warren
Stone
Senate
Davis
Order of Moose
New
Weeks
Interior
Coolidge Admin Shakeup: Slemp to Retire Soon
Washington reports an official White House announce ment that C Bascom Slemp will retire as secretary to the president within weeks, likely February 1, with Everett Sanders named to fill the vacancy on March 4. Sanders, a former Indiana congressman, led the western speakers bureau in the recent campaign.
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C. Basecom Slemp Hne
White House
Everett Sanders
Innina
Sanders
Chicago
Congress
Washington
C. Bascom Slemp
Indiana
Saunders
Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
Homemerce
Harry 8
New
Theodore Roosevelt
New York
United States Veterans' Bureau
Maj. Gee
Frank T. Hines
Eald
Hli
Bishop William M Brown Found Guilty of Heresy
In Cleveland Ohio the Rt. Rev William Montgomery Brown retired bishop of Arkansas was expelled from ministry after a church board of review upheld three day trial findings that he uttered doctrines contrary to church teachings. The house of bishops will determine the sentence at the general convention in New Orleans next September.
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William M. Brown
Cleveland
Ohio
Wiliam Montgomery Brown
Protestant Episcopal Diocese of
Arkansas
Board of Review
Jlaid
Brown
Wlan Lr YI
Land
Review Court
House of Bishops
General Convention of the
Church
New Orleans
Denby Cleared and Fall Censured in Oil Inquiry
The report defends Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby and condemns Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall for accepting loans and favors from Edward Doheny. The document, argued by Senators Smoot Stanfeld Bur sum Cameron and Spencer, was prepared to precede a Senate debate on the majority and minority oil reports.
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Edwin Denby
Fall
Washington
Navy
Republlcan
Senate Oil Committee
Albert B. Fall
Edward L. Doheny
California
Smoot
Utah
Stanfeld
Gre
Benny Leonard Retires From Ring Life as Champion
Benny Leonard world lightweight champion announces retirement in a letter to friends saying he quits the prize ring to heed his mother’s request and the toll on her hearth. He won the title from Freddie Welsh in 1917 after years of fights and last fought Pat Moran in Cleveland on August 11, 1924, winning.
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Benny Leonard
Ring
New York
Leonard
Freddie Welsh
Pat Moran
Cleveland
Foley, Tammany Hall Chief, Dies Suddenly
Thomas F. Foley, veteran Tammany Hall leader and political sponsor of Gov. A. H. Smith, died at the Rockefeller Institute of Pneumonia after a brief illness.
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Thomas F. Foley
Tammany Hall
New York
A. H. Smith
Rockefeller Institute
Three Men Electrocuted at Sing Sing Prison
Three inmates, Harry Malcolm, Ambrose Geary, and Holward Emith, were electrocuted at Sing Sing Prison in Osaling New York for the killing of Mrs. Mag Bigham during a holdup.
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Sing Sing Osaling
N. Y
Sing Sing
Mra. Mag Bigham
Harry Malcolm
Ambrose Geary
Holward Emith
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Charles G. Dawes
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Mugcle Shoals
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Denver Chamber of Commerce
F. W. Yaule
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Colorado
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William E. Sweet
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Gotoh
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Springfield
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Assembly
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Jones Oil
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Russell G. Davis
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