Inaugural Program Ahead as Coolidge Prepares Oath
Washington plans for March 4 unfold with President elect Coolidge set to take the oath at noon. Cabinet shifts begin as Hughes to Kellogg transition, Stone to become associate justice, and Gore to assume West Virginia governorship while other cabinet changes await.
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Associated Press
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State Department
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Great Britain
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West Virginia
France Considers German Pact Proposals For Security
Paris reports say Premier Herriot received from Dr Stresemann a German plan for a broad reciprocal military guarantees pact with Germany. The outline fixes no duration and favors arbitration for disputes, idling eastern frontier guarantees. Allies reportedly discussed the proposals in recent days.
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Associated Press
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Brazil Blast Kills Eight and Injures Six Hundred in Rio
A Rio dispatch reports eight dead and 600 injured after Friday’s explosion on Cajue Island near Nictheroy. About 300 islanders unaccounted for. hospitals crowded as fires burn on Conception Island and debris search by 200 men continues. One rescuer died lifting a gasoline tin amid the blaze.
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Prophecy of Disaster Sparks New York Earthquake Debate
New York residents confront tremors that renewed fear of a city destroying cave-in while officials cite bedrock as protection. Reports describe two minutes of shaking from Sudbury to Chicago with chandeliers chiming and objects moved as homes rocked and telephones shed no sound.
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Associated Press
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Florence, & Ox
Chicago
Col Coolidge to TD ote Ceremony
Col John C. Coolidge plans to drive his own rig on the first leg of his journey to Washington to see his son Calvin inaugurated as president. He will hitch his horse to a buggy and travel 12 miles to Ludlow before returning to await his son’s inauguration.
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John C. Coolidge
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Prohibition Force Tightens Washington Inauguration Vigilance
The prohibition authorities and Washington police pledge strict vigilance March 4 to curb drunkenness during the inauguration period. They warn it will be as hard to obtain a drink as finding water on the Sahara.
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AssociatedPress
Sahara
Highway Bills In Senate Today Amid House Appropriations
Five days of the Nineteenth Montana legislative session remain and today is set as a busy day. The highway bills are central in the Senate while appropriation bills occupy the House. The local option pari mutuel measure advances on general file by one vote as a secondary item.
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Federal customs official killed by car bomb in Niagara Falls
Leon Pewster, a federal customs officer active against liquor smuggling, was killed when a bomb exploded as he pressed his car starter. Elmer Whitacre, a friend, was badly hurt. Police found a small metal box with a spring and copper wire in the wrecked car.
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Nora Bayes Weds Fifth Husband Aboard Leviathan
Vaudeville star Nora Bayes married Benjamin Lester Friedland in a sea ceremony aboard the steamship Leviathan. Captain Hartley officiated with Mrs. Alfred E. Smith and Miss Emily Smith among the attendants as the couple set sail for England.
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Benjamin Lester Friedland
Leviathan
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Alfred E. Smith
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Emily Smith
Friedland
Bayes
England
Brit Clergyman Shoots Self and Sister Ends Life
Leicester report details Reverend William Bettison who shot himself after breakfast in Sangerton Vicarage. His sister Miss Bettison then shot him to end his suffering as he lay dying, later claiming insanity and being placed in an asylum.
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Leicester
Eng
Associated Press
Sangerton
Leicestershire
William Bettison
Misa Bettison
Tragedy in Anderson Domestic Quarrel Ends in Death
Kenneth Huntsinger shot his mother-in-law Eliza Butler and wife Lena Huntsinger in their Anderson home. He then killed himself with a self-inflicted gunshot as domestic troubles escalated. Eliza Butler died. Lena Huntsinger and the shooter were hospitalized in critical condition.
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Associated Press
Anderson
Ind
Eliza Lena Butler
Lena Huntsinger
Kenneth Huntsinger
Butler
Slustsinger
Death ray sold in this country claim from inventor
Southampton March 1. H Grindell Matthews claimed on arrival from the United States that he had sold the death ray to America but would not reveal the price. He said England had lost the chance to obtain the device and that America snapped it up within a week of completion of negotiations.
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Southampton
Eng
H. Grindell Matthe
United States
America
Matthews
England
Traffic in U S Offices Charged Inquiry Begins
Washington March 1 charges of trafficking in federal offices in Georgia and South Carolina are under department of justice inquiry. The issue stems from complaints made to President Coolidge by Senator Harris and Georgia Democrat George, alleging sale of federal offices including postmasterships by Republican leaders in southern states over the past two to three years.
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Washington
South Carolina
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Harris
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Georgia
Summer Weather Attracts Thousands To California Beaches
San Francisco reports clear skies and a temperature near 70 degrees drawing crowds to beaches and highways in the Bay region. A 56 degree minimum marked the day described as perfect by locals and visitors enjoying sunshine and light winds.
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San Francisco
San Francisco Bay Region
Five Highwaymen Rob Greb in Highland Park Ambush
Harry Greb world middleweight champion and two women companions were held up by five men on a lonely Highland Park road. One robber fled with $95 from a woman. Greb reported the robbery after an impromptu fight left the road bloodstained. Police arrested George A. Seibert identified as a robber.
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Horrific Explosion Kills 160 in Armenian Town
An explosion at a munitions depot in Kharput Turkish Armenia during a rebel raid kills 160 people and wounds many as the town is looted. Angora votes partial mobilization credit to quell Kurdish revolt.
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Angora
French Catholics in a Demonstration at Nantes
Sixty thousand Catholics from the Loire and Vendee districts gathered in Nantes for a protest meeting led by General DeCastelnau against the suppression of the embassy to the Vatican and the government move to enforce the 1905 law separating church and state. A message to Pope Pius IX affirmed devotion of 60 000 citizens while the assembly proceeded with military like order.
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Ku Klan in Kentucky Accused of Autocratic Control
Lexington Ky March 1 The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in Kentucky is charged with establishing an autocratic government within the state misrepresenting facts to members paying its grand dragon sixty dollars a year misappropriating funds from initiates and hoarding arms in meeting rooms to intimidate dissenting members in a suit filed here seeking a receiver for the Kentucky Elocro and the Fayette county klan
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Mrs Kling Marries Marquis of Brabant
Mrs Mary Clark Kling daughter of copper magnate and former U S Senator William A Clark wed Marquis de Brabant in New York yesterday. The couple will reside in Los Angeles according to the Los Angeles Times report from advices received.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Mary Clark Kling
United States
William A. Clark
Montana
Marquis de Brabant
New York
Los Angeles Times
Fellowship Feature in The Independent Lent Series
The Independent announces a daily Lent feature titled Fellowship of Proper with pages continuing on page 4. The paper commits to a sacred season observance through brief readings and reflections each day.
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UT Austin Freshmen Attack Brackenridge Hall Students Hurt
Several hundred freshmen assaulted Brackenridge Hall dormitory on the University of Texas campus injuring one student severely and sending six others to hospitals. The vandalism followed the traditional setup for the March 2 bush ball contest between upperclassmen and first year students.
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Associated Press
Austin
Tex
Brackenridge Hall
University of Texas
Mexico City Trains Tied Up by Strike
Mexico City tramway traffic was suspended midnight last night by order of the alliance of employees of the Mexican omnibus and tramway company due to non recognition of the union. No disturbances reported.
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Dy Associated Press
Alliance of Employes
Mexican Omnibus and Tramway Company
Skeleton found by hikers near Woodville cliff
Three Butte hikers discovered an unidentified male skeleton on a ledge midway down a 40 foot cliff about a mile west of the Continental Divide near Woodville. Bones were almost entirely stripped and identification appeared impossible at discovery.
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March
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Fosdick Declares He Will Not Back Down as Heretic
Rev. Dr. Emerson Fosdick told about 2,000 congregants at First Presbyterian Church that he plans to leave the pulpit this day and will not retract his doctrine. He called himself a heretic noting that conventional orthodoxy labels such views as dangerous. Women wept and men offered farewells after the service.
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Congress Doom Looms Over Farm Relief and Shoals Bill
Washington dispatch reports the 68th Congress likely will adjourn without enacting major administration measures including farm relief proposals and the Muscle Shoals leasing bill. Senate action on rivers and harbors and farm relief remains uncertain as legislative leaders clash on details.
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