Judge English defends impeachment charges in seven hour testimony
Federal Judge George Washington English spent seven hours on the witness stand denying official misconduct. He argued with a congressional committee about disbarments and alleged improper acts, claiming ignorance on some points and admitting to mild profanity but denying serious wrongdoing.
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St Louis
Associated Press
George Washington English
Congressional Committee
New Farm Relief Measure Framed by Dickinson
Washington announces a $1.4 billion farm relief plan to unite diverse farming groups for enactment next session. Representative Dickinson, a farm bloc leader, drafted a bill to be shown to agricultural organizations and based on modified versions of the McNary Hawgen export bill and last session's cooperative measures.
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Associated Press
Washington
Congress
Dickinson
Towa
House
Jimmie cries echo as Dorothy Ellingson faces sanity trial
A San Francisco court began a sanity hearing for 16 year old Dorothy Ellingson who killed her mother after her arrest and fainted in court. A nine man three woman jury was selected to determine her mental competence while Judge Louderback postponed the murder trial to April 6. The defense seeks to prove insanity amid testimonies from police and witnesses who questioned her condition.
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Associated Press
San Francisco
Dorothy Ellingson
Lotherback
Jimmy
Dorothy Elfingson
Dorothy
Louderback
Campaign Passes 302000 Mark for Local College Drive
Helena campaign for Intermountain Union College reports 62030.50 total with 5220.95 added from initial gifts and teams. Os Anderson’s Edgar M Hall division leads with 1511, Towlie’s team close behind at 1161. third luncheon today as Rotary meets. No commissions or bonuses promised. continued effort urged to hit 150000 target.
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Intermountain Union College
Placer Hotel
Os. Anderson
Edgar M. Hall
SLI PL EL Towie
Rotary Club
Ralph O. Kaufman
J. F P. Livesay
United Effort
Sugar Association Court Ruling Prompts High Court Appeal
Henry Wagner, Mountain States Bret Growers Marketing member, obtained a district court injunction to stop the association from blocking him from contracting with Great Western Sugar. The ruling voids a contract provision requiring association consent to sell, stating the aim is to promote industry, not stifle it. The case likely goes to the Supreme Court. meanwhile a 1925 sugar contract settlement arrives in Denver with a minimum price of 6 per ton for beets.
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Associated Press
Sterling, Colo
Henry Wagner
Mountain States
Bret Growers Marketing Association
Great Western Sugar Company
Munson
Supreme Court
Denver
Mountain States Beet Growers’ Marketing Association
Arm Limitation to Vital to Race
Senate foreign relations Chairman Boral stated the push for a new arms limitation conference should proceed despite discouraging reports from France. He cited hoped economic benefits from further reducing armaments and believed France would support a disarmament conference that could improve global economic conditions. An AP dispatch from Paris noted no special instructions to the French ambassador in Washington.
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Associated Press
Washington
Boral
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
France
Paris
President Coolidge Plans Summer Vacation in Swampscott
Swampscott Mass March 31 President Coolidge will begin his summer vacation here June 13 He will maintain his summer capital at White Court recently leased by his friend Frank W Stearns An advance party of White House attaches will arrive early in June to prepare for the president and Mrs Coolidge
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Associated Press
Swampscott
Mass
Coolidge
Washington
White Court
Frank W. Stearns
White House
Brs
Moscow Train Wreck Kills Nearly Fifty In Collision
Near Moscow a head on crash between the Teshkent express and a Moscow suburban train killed nearly 50 people and injured about 100. The disaster occurred about a mile from the capital and ranks among the city's worst ever.
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Moscow
Associated Press
Prohibition Enforcement Criticized by Willebrandt
Mrs Mabel Walker Willebrandt assistant attorney general told a Senate committee that prohibition was not properly enforced on the Atlantic seaboard due to political influence untrained agents and improper procedures. She cited New York New Jersey Maryland Rhode Island and Pennsylvania as problem areas and noted lack of co operation between agencies. She said court dockets were crowded with minor cases hindering major bootlegging probes and that injunctions have been adopted nationwide as the preferred remedy.
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Associated Tress
Washington
Mabel Walker Willebrandt
Senate Committee
Internal Revenue Bureau
Atlantic Seaboard
Willebrandt
Department of Justice
New York
New Jersey
Maryland
Rhode Island
Pennsylvania
Justice
Treasury Department
United States
Prohibitionitt
Wood son of Gen. Wood returns to Tampa aboard West Chetac
Marshale Spibatee Wood, son of Major General Leonard Wood, arrived in Tampa on the federal ship West Chetac. He spoke of gambling losses in Europe and joked about carrying two one dollar bills after his fortune was reportedly one million dollars. He said he started over as a junior officer aboard the vessel.
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Associated Press
Tampa
Fla
Marshale Spibatee Wood
Federal Shipping Board
Wood
Spain
Europe
Wall Street
Leonard Wood
Philippines
Suspected Slayer Ad Bootlegger Arrests In Buffalo
The February 27 theft of $120000 from the U S mails was cleared with two men arrested and $115000 recovered. August Lehmann, a Pennsylvania Railroad car cleaner, is charged with robbing the mails and Herman Reis alias Rice, alias Church Conners, is charged with receiving stolen bills. Further arrests possible as peddlers are sought. Harry Reis, linked to a frontier bootleg ring, is suspected in the March 1 Niagara Falls bomb murder of Customs Agent Orville Drester. Joseph Serianni of Niagara Falls was held for questioning.
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Associated Press
Buffalo
N.Y
United States Mails
August Lehmann
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Herman Reis
Alas Rice
Church Conners
Reis
Post Office
Lehmann
Harry Reis
Frontier
Special Customs
Orville Drester
Niagara Falls
Joseph Serianni
Dodge Brothers to Change Hands in Major Automaker Deal
New York reports in financial circles say the Dodge Brothers Automobile Co. of Detroit, a 50 million corporation, will change hands tomorrow. J. P. Morgan and Dillon Read are bidding, with Morgan said to represent General Motors. Detroit sessions continued as conferences prevailed all day.
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New York
Dodge Brothers Automobile Company
Detroit
J. P. Morgan Aid Company
Dillon, Read and Company
Morgan
General Motors Corporation
No Change Seen in Forbes Condition
Boston March 31 physicians reported no especial change in the condition of Colonel Charles R Forbes former head of the United States Veterans bureau He had little sleep and nourishment during the day the report said
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Boston
Charles R. Forbes
United States Veterans’ Bureau
Give Up Hope of Saving Men Held in Brit Mine
Newcastle England March 31 AP describes 38 workers trapped at Montague Colliery Scobwood after a Monday flood. Rescuers push giant pumps but officials say no hope for rescue, three weeks to drain water plus no divers due to gas. Bishop and clergy offer comfort at the pit head.
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Brit
Newcastle
Eng
Associated Press
Montague
Scobwood
Paris Premier Herriot defends Alsace policy at interpellation
In Paris the French premier Herriot faced a fiery interpellation over arrests of students and police brutality in Alsace. He argued for applying laws equally, appointed Scelle as secretary, and refused to retract an epithettic remark while opposition pressed for apology. Three thousand students rallied for Dr Barthelemy, warning of a general university strike if Scelle lectures proceeds.
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Associatedy
Herriot
Chamber of Deputies
Alsace
France
Georges
Aleace
Scelle
Godart
Senate
M. Herriot
M. John Lembert
Lembert
M. Painleve
Pat
M. Maginot
Law
University of Paris
Louis Berthelemy
Law Faculty
Barthelemy
Professor Scelle
Law School
Dr. Berthelemy
Helena Loses Opening Gricago Tourney Battle to Durham
Helena was defeated by Durham in the opening round of the Gricago interscholastic tournament. Personal fouls plagued Helena as Durham used fast passing and close shots to pull ahead, while Helena struggled to score and enter the consolation bracket. The Carolinians advanced, while Helena and St George moved into the consolation round amid a string of fouls and missed opportunities.
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Scheene
Fifty Drown When Teu Bre Falls In Weser River
Detmold Germany March fifty members of the German Reichswehr were drowned when a bridge under construction by projectors collapsed during maneuvers. The victims formed a marching column in full field equipment and tried to cross the temporary structure.
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Detmold
Germany
Associated Press
Germain Reichswehr
Weser
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Reichswehr
North Dakota Reds Honor President
The Indians of the Kenel district in North Dakota bestowed the name Bear Ribs on President Coolidge in recognition of citizenship rights. The name references a Hunkapapa chief killed while resisting assimilation and marks a cultural acknowledgment amid earlier peace efforts between Indians and whites.
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Associated Press
Washington
President Coolidge
Kenel
North Dakota
Hunkapapas
Ater
Thirty New Treaties on Pan American Law Initiative
Thirty draft treaties for codifying American international law were released by the Pan-American Union. The measures aim to unify republics in a legal community with a nations bill of rights and a framework for pacific dispute settlement, arbitration, and restraint from conquest. Some proposals expand the Monroe Doctrine to bar non-American powers from acquiring or occupying territory. The package envisions a comprehensive system to prevent arms conflicts among the American republics.
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Associated Press
Washington
International Commission of Jurists
Rio de Janeiro
Pan-American Union
Prin
Ships Sold by Washington Board to Dollar Steamship
In Washington on March 31 the shipping board voted to sell five ships from the San Francisco Orient service to Dollar Steamship for 5,625,000 amid a 4-3 vote. Chairman O Connor and several commissioners supported the sale, while others protested the price as far below cost and below rebuilt value. Rumors said Pacific Mail Steamship may challenge the deal or seek congressional action this winter.
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Associated Press
Washington
Boam Today
San Francisco-Orient Service
Dollar Steamship Interests
O'Connor
E'ssner
Haney and Till
Vice- Charman Plummer
Thompson and Benson
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
California-Orient
Congress
Cartoonist Darling Improves Slightly in Ill Health
Des Moines dispatches report a slight improvement in the condition of J N Darling the cartoonist who has been seriously ill for two weeks.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
Dli
J. N. Darling
Toonist
Shepherd Loses Battle to Secure Bail in Typhoid Case
Associated Press reports Chicago March 31 that William D. J. Shepherd, foster father of William Nelson McClintock, under murder indictment in McClintock’s death, failed to secure further witnesses for bond. Judge Jacob Hopkins refused to hear additional defense witnesses who alleged to break the state's case, as prosecutors cite Farman’s statements that Shepherd offered 100000 for typhoid germs and information to administer them.
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Associated Press
Chicago
William D.j . Shepherd
William Nelson McClintock
Olan
McClintock
Jacob Hopkins
Criminal Court
Shep’nerd
Shepherd
Charles D. Farman
Yoith Shepherd
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