Washington Passes Wide Range of 1923 Era Bills and Awards
Senate approves Interior appropriation as part of large supply measures. Leather exports reach 42.8 million dollars in 1928, slight drop from prior year. Hoover approves Jacksonville coal wage pact for three years. Marshall Field & Co. wins 104000 dollar award from mixed claims commission against Germany. House foreign affairs backs 10 million for German reparations. Bills seek 6 million for a new Chicago post office. Civil War pensions bill moves forward. 1923 education spending by 79 cities with 60k-100k population totals 91.3 million. Coolidge retains a negro as New Orleans customs comptroller despite senate rejection. Coal mine accidents injure about 200k miners, nearly 39 million in property damage in 1923. Excess profits tax reform rejected 74 to 157. Utah wealth rises 65.2 percent since 1912 to 1.535 billion. Inheritance tax raised to 40 percent with gift tax to curb estate evasion. All officials attend memorial for Harding. Philips nominated ambassador to Belgium, succeeding Pletcher to Rome.
Surrender in Manila dampens Moro band leader tale
In Manila Dato Santiago, leader of the Moros who killed twelve missionaries and officers last October, surrendered to constabulary officials. In Indianapolis Miss Gladys Ellis confessed to killing Miss Louise Richards, a 70 year old teacher and matron at the Indiana woman's union. Three young men drowned in the Mississippi when their auto plunged through thin ice. A new explosive twice as powerful as Germany's wartime charge was announced by Harvard's Arthur Lamb. Drake's flour mill in South Dakota stays closed until market conditions improve. The American Automobile Association and National Motorists' Association merged in Washington. Sir Exme Howard arrived in New York as Britain's new ambassador, aiming to continue Geddes's policies.
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Dato Santiago
Manila
Gladys Ellis
Rodgers
Louise Richards
Indiana Woman's Yrnion
Indianapolis
Ind
Germany
Arthur Lamb
Harvard University
Boston
Drake
American Automobile Association
National Motorists’ Association
Washington
Mass of children arrive in New York on Conte Verdi
A mix of babies and older youths, about 800, arrived in New York aboard the Conte Verdi from Italian ports to join their parents. Honolulu reports 16,000 Filipinos on Oahu Maui and Kanai sugar plantations will strike April 1 for higher wages, prompting many to seek work in California. A Manila dispatch notes three more religious fanatics killed by the constabulary in Agusan mountains as fanatics grow bolder near Manila. Orville Howell, nine, shot Jonas O Neill, twelve, after a marble gate quarrel in Tarboro. Arthur P. Kemp of Auburn Indiana elected president of Agricultural Credit Corp in Minneapolis. Salvation Army in New York may sever from English parent due to ban on officers joining secret societies.
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New York
Honolulu
Oahu
Maui
Kanai
California
Boxing Bout Ends Early As Firpa Knocks Out Lodge
Luis Angel Firpa KOed Farmer Lodge in the fifth round of a bout slated for 16 rounds in Buenos Aires. Harlan Fengler, youngest American speed king, shattered five world records at Los Angeles on the 250 mile speedway race en route to the national championship. He won at Beverly oval with an average speed of 16 miles an hour.
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Luis Angel Firpa
Farmer” Lodge
Buenos Aires
Harlan Fengler
Los Angeles
Del
Lassie
Beverly Oval
Fengler
Notable American Writers and Officials Die Sudenly
George Randolph Chester fifty five author of Get Rich Quick Wallingford died of a heart attack at his New York home. Walter Lincoln grandnephew of Abraham Lincoln died in Honolulu after brief illness at ninety two, long Hawaii resident and contractor. John B. Fairbanks American Railway Association official died at his Jersey City home at fifty three. General O E Adams former Grand Army of the Republic commander dropped dead while mowing in Los Angeles.
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George Randolph Chester
Quick Wallingford
New York
Walter Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Honoluiu
Hawaii
John B. Fairbanks
American Railway, Association
Big Home
Jersey City
N. J
Fairbanks
O. E. Adams
Grand Army of the Republic
Los Angeles
Global unrest and political shifts dominate early dispatches
A San Salvador report notes rebel forces seize Comayagan as Gen Ferrera gains strategic town. Brussels sees Premier Theunis and cabinet resign amid chamber turmoil over Franco Belgian economic pact. Munich hosts trials of Ludendorff and Hitler. Saxony imposes tax on single residents. Austria thanks League of Nations while London docks end strikes. Komatomo Honda arrives in Berlin to foster ties. Canada’s western farmers push for lower U.S. imports. British port activity resumes as dock workers return to work.
Cabinet resignations and political fallout in 1920s United States
Edward W. Pickard reviews the week’s political drama as Secretary of the Navy Daniels resigns, Attorney General Daugherty faces calls to quit, and Senate probes into the Harding administration unfold. The piece notes McAdoo’s renewed candidacy, tax bill fights, immigration debates, and foreign policy tensions with Japan, Germany, and Mexico, set against a backdrop of party maneuvering and economic concerns.
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Edward W. Pickard
Dennby
Republican Party
Daugherty
Mr. Denby
Washington
Senators Lodge
Pepper
White House
Repubiican
Senate
Denby
Theodore Roosevelt
Harrison
Mississippi
Moses
Burton K. Wheeler
Montena
Department of Justice
Thomas B. Felder
Morse
Jesse Smith
Wheeler
United States
Pomerene
Roberto
Mr. Roberts
Gecretart Hughes
State Department
Johnson
Japan
Immigration Committee
Itely
Rumania
Controversy Over $16 Million Alien Property Case Hits New York
Hubert Hein, claimant in the District of Columbia Supreme Court, seeks $408,082 cash from the alien property custodian claiming the $16 million Bosch Magneto assets were his wartime property. Hein says he was not declared an alien enemy or interned and that seizure was unlawful. Government says Hein turned over the money in 1918 in New York without surrendering property, while Bosch Magnate Works and related assets were valued at $16 million. Garvan alleged to have urged seizure and internment as leverage.
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Weahington
Otte
Heéthe
New York Couries
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Henng
Pergouil
Robert ‘Boach
Bosch Magneto
Company of Springfield
Maes
Heins
Heing
Heing Walked Into the Office of Financis P. Gurvall
Bureau of Investigation
Office of the Alien Property
New ‘York
Hubert ‘Beach
Bluttgart
Germany
Helna Fold
Fort Oglethorpe
Bosch
Garvan
Hains
Harriman National Bank
Argust
Priso
Lewis Cloves Loan to Mexico for 28 Million
Janes Hamilton Lewis of Chicago former United States senator who participated in negotiations attended the decree argument at the national palace.
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Lewis
Mexico
Janes Hamilton Lewis
Chicago
United States
National Palace
Theft of Bonded Whisky Revealed at Chicago Depot
Eight thousand cases of prewar bonded whisky valued at nearly 1,000,000 dollars have vanished from the government concentration depot in Chicago. The exposure suggests a major hijacking plot as authorities tighten the probe into the largest theft since national prohibition began.
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Chicago
Treasury ruling on dividend reporting deadline
The Treasury department orders all domestic corporations not exempt from tax to file returns detailing dividends and distributions paid to stockholders who are individuals estates or partnerships. Returns must be filed by March 16.
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Washington
Treasury Department
Two Students Found Dead at Pottstown University
Two students at the Wharton School of Finance, University of Pennsylvania, Shenton and Warnkessel, were found shot dead in Shenton's room at the M. G. A. here. A note indicated a water depot, but the body positions prompted police to investigate.
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Pottstown University
Soviet Government Closes Ports to Bulgaria
Moscow issues a circular note to naval powers including the United States warning that no ships clearing from or calling at Bulgarian seaports will be permitted to enter Russian ports on the Black Sea.
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Moscow
United States
Binck Sea
New York Bonus Bill Signed by Albany Governor Smith
Albany announces the signing of a soldier bonus bill to distribute proceeds of a $45 million bond. The measure directs funds to New York state citizens who served in the armed forces.
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N. Y
Albany
N.X
Smith
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Department of the Interior
Washington Dispatch
Jacksonville
Hoover
Marshall Field & Co
Chicago Company
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Kunz and
Sabath
House Pensions Committee
Census Bureau
Coolidgen
New Orleans
House
Utah
Harding
Joe
Wiliam Philips
President Coolidge
Belgium
Phillipe
H. P. Pletcher
Rome
Threa Dubuque
Harry Raforth
Wiliam Leachinger
Fred Schubert
Mississippi River
Exme Howard
Sir Auckland Geddes
A. Manila
Agusan
Orville’ Howell
Jonas O'Neill
Tarboro
N. G
Marbles
Arthur P. Kemp
Auburn Automobile Company
Auburn
Agricultural Credit Corporation
Minneapolis
Minx
San Salvador
Rebela
Gregorio Ferrera
Comayagan
Theunis
Bia
Dorwet
Chamber of Deputies
Brussels
Munich
General Ludendorff
Adolph Hittler
Stollberg
Saxony
Saxen
British Dyestuffs Corporation
Interessen Germeinechaft
London
Minieter Eichhoff
France
Lyons
Austria
League of Nations
Komatoro Honda
Ebert
Berlin
S&lkha
Punjab
Canada
Prag Hob
Edyward B. Mclean
Sacramento
San Francisco Bay
Im “Kenmore
Fredickaborg
Howe
Sistor
Betty Lewis
Harry Sinoclair
Europe
Harry Payne Whitney
B. Me.Lean
Wer
William G. McAdoo
Edward Doheny
Walsh
Montana
McAdoo
Thomas Arthur
Continental Oil Company
Ohio
Hsh
Congress
Tte
Longworth
Eeperta
Tressury Mellon
Coolidge
George B. Christian
Aew
Federal Trade Commission
Christian
Charles ‘B. Warren
Detroit
Warren
John Barton Payne
Obregon
Henry P. Fletcher
Richard Washburn Child
Italy
Eneral Dawes
Toragen
Failwaye
Ruhr
Poincara
Badhers
Dock Workers
Great Britain
MacDonald
Czend Roasla
Russia
Mongolia
Mexico City
Pia
Assurange
Otto Leper Telly
Bulgare
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