League Council weighs German entry to the League
Geneva reports that the League of Nations council met in secrecy to chart Germany’s admission. The aim is to bring Germany into the league to aid European rehabilitation while avoiding favoritism that could push it toward Bolshevik Russia. A draft reply stresses universal membership as essential to the league’s purpose.
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Associated Press
Lloyd George
Germany
Russia
Council of the
League of Nations
Austen Chamberlain
League
Eric Drummond
Europe
England
Armathotts
Brit court hears fetid details of Dennistoun scandals
London March 10 AP reports the England divorce validity question linked to Mrs Jan Onslow Dennistoun and Col Dennistoun. The dispute over alleged loans and domicile was argued without resolution as Sir Edward Marshal Hall and Sir George Lewis clashed over misconduct and settlement. A long, chilly queue formed outside the law courts as testimony touched on military ambition and alleged intimate relations with Sir John Cowans.
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Associated Press
London
England
Paris
Jan Onslow Dennistoun
Liew
Col
Dennistoun
Edward Marshal Hall
George Lewis
Sir George
Sir Edward
Col. Dennistoun
France
Sir John Cowans
Warren Nomination for Attorney General Fails in Tie Vote
In a Senate vote that ended 40 to 40, Charles Beecher Warren of Michigan failed to be confirmed as attorney general. Vice President Dawes, delayed en route, did not arrive to cast a deciding vote. Reed of Pennsylvania briefly shifted from yes to no, producing a technical tie that delayed final action as opponents urged decisive rejection.
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Associated Press
Washington
Charles Beecher Warren
Michigan
United States
Senate
Dawes
Capitol
Rejbalt
Reed
Pennsvania
Senate Reed
Beet Conference Marks Repeated Impasse in Price Controversy
In Greeley Colorado on March 10, officials from Great Western Sugar and Mountain States Beet Growers Marketing Association met behind closed doors over the 1923 sugar beet price contract. No public result announced as reporters were barred. Separately, federal agents seized narcotics valued at about $24,000 from the liner President Cleveland arriving from the Orient.
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Associated Press
Greeley
Great Western Sugar Company
Mountain States Beet Growers Marketing Association
San Francisco
President Cleveland
Tex Rickards on Trial for Distributing Fight Film
In Trenton New Jersey Tex Rickard boxing promoter and six associates faced U S district court charges of conspiracy and transportation of the Dempsey Carpentier fight film taken at Boyles Thirty Acres Jersey City in 1921 Former Attorney General Harry M Daugherty watched as 70 government witnesses were listed signaling a lengthy trial Pending testimony plans noted Jack Kearns manager of Dempsey may travel from California to testify and there was no word on his arrival William B Randolph pleaded guilty
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Associated Press
Trenton
N. J
Harry M. Daugherty
George L
Tex) Rickard
Boyles
Thirty Acres
Jersey City
United States District Court
Joseph L. Bodine
Daugherty
Rickard
Frank B Flourney
Thatchmaar
Manhattan Square Garden
New York City
Teddy Hayes
Los Angeles
Jack Kearns
Jack Dempsey
James Dougherty
Jasper C
Jap) Numa
Fred C. Quimby
Quimby Motion Picture
William B. Randolph
California
Flower Pot Saves Espyhiated Folk
In Casper, March 10, Mrs Mendryx woke to a gas odor in a city bedroom. She tried to rouse her husband, but he was overcome. She broke a window pane with a flowerpot to vent air and then fainted. A neighbor notified police.
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Associated Press
Casper
Wye
Joh Mendryx
Ten Greatest Moments in a Woman's Life Told Here
The Independent presents a Woman's Page feature by Cynthia Grey and Ethel Hays. It traces ten life milestones from a girl’s first party dress to a grandmother’s curtain call, exploring happiness, love, family, and aging through drawings and prose in period tone.
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The
Independent
Cynthia Grey
Ethel Hays
America
Flapper
Fanny
Million Dollar Kerr Will Draws Probate Interest
In Los Angeles on March 10 the pasteboard will of Alexander dL Kerr disposing of a 2,000,000 estate was presented for probate. The card sized document directs distribution to nine heirs at law including Mrs. Jeane E Kerr Holbrook of Newtonville Massachusetts and hopes one son becomes an evangelist like Gypsy Smith and Moody. Kerr died February 4 last.
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Los Angeles
Alexander dL. Kerr
Jeane E. Kerr Holbrook
Newtonville
Mass
Gipsy Smith
Moody
Kerr
Kurdish Rebels Beaten In Attack On Diakbekram
In Constantinople dated March 10 the Kurdish rebels under Sheik Said tried a 12 hour assault to seize Diakbekram Kurdistan. Rebel forcing northern Diakbekram faced strong defense while attackers allegedly gained entry in the south with alleged local connivance. Confusion arose as besiegers struck the defenders from the rear.
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Constantinople
Maren
Associated Press
Sheik Said
Diakbekram
Kurdistan
Part of Diarbekr Destroyed by Fire
A dispatch from Constantinople reports that part of Diarbekr has been destroyed by rebel artillery fire. The Turkish government is sending reinforcements to the Diarbekr region and rebels have suffered more than 390 men killed in recent engagements.
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London
Constantinople
Diarbekr
Temple of Nin Gal Found at Ur in Babylonia
The joint expedition of the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania Museum reports a new temple unearthed in Ur of the Chaldees near the Ziggurat. Inscriptions on bricks identify the structure as Nin Gal the great lady wife of the Moon God of Ur. The temple occupies the south corner of E-Temen-No-Il terrace. Continued on Page Two.
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Associated Press
Philadelphia
British Museum
University of Pennsylvania Museum
Abraham
Babylonia
Leonard Wooley
Nin Gal
E-Temen- No-Il
Nightmare crash cripples former UW student at Kappa Sigma
Paul Phelps, 25, a former University of Wyoming student, leaped from a second-story window at the Kappa Sigma house after a nightmare. He fractured his left shoulder, severed ligaments in an arm and foot, and faces lifelong disability. injuries resulted from the two-story fall and first-floor window pane impact.
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Laramie
Wyo
Kappa Sigma
Paul Phelps
University of Wyoming
Phelps
Texas Likely to Reinstate Ferguson in Senate Vote
Austin March 10 The Texas House engrossed 79 to 53 the Woodward bill granting legislative amnesty to James E. Ferguson, the ousted former governor. Final passage is conceded and likely to occur tomorrow in the senate, with the measure moving toward enactment.
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Austin
Tex
House of the Texas
Woodward Senate
James E. Ferguson
Rabbi in Trouble for Bombarding President With Foolish Letters
New York March 10 Rabbi E B M Browne a 72 year old former Bronx rabbi faced a Yorkville court summons for sending annoying letters to President Coolidge Mrs Coolidge and Frank Stearns Browne claimed he sought 12500 as repayment for campaign expenses linked to The American Jewish Seventy Elders a group he said he led but which readers say they never heard of Secret service agent James M Weitsman obtained the summons Magistrate Thomas F McAndrews parole Browne for a hearing next Monday White House officials noted many letters from Browne had been sent over years but were referred to under secretaries and not the president himself
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Associated Press
New York
B. M. Browne
Bronx
Yorkville Court
President Coolidge
James M. Weitsman
Secret Service
Thomas F. McAndrews
Mr. Browne
Browne
Washington
E. B. MM. Browne
Coolidge
White House
Mex Oil Properties of Doheny to go Into Standard Oil Control
New York March 16 The New York Times will say tomorrow that Edward L Doheny is negotiating the sale of all the Mexican oil properties controlled by his companies to Standard Oil of Indiana Blair and company and other interests The deal could involve about 125000000 though buyers may assume bonded indebtedness and preferred stock only If consummated a readjustment of Pan American Petroleum would occur by separating Mexican from American properties and focusing US development on the Pacific Coast
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Associated Press
New York
The
New York Times
Edward L. Doheny
Standard Oil Company of Indiana
Blair and Company, Inc
Times
Mexican Petroleum Company
Robert W. Stewart
Standard Oil Company of
Indiana
the Times
Pan-American Petroleum Company
United States
Pacific Coast
Plunges to Death From Monument in Baltimore
A richly dressed 20 year old girl leaped from the Washington monument balcony at Mount Vernon Place and fell 180 feet to her death. Identified as Mis' Margaret Koontz, daughter of H. A. Koontz of St. Joseph Missouri, she had been under hospital treatment for a nervous ailment.
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Associated Press
Baltimore
Washington Monument
Mount Vernon Place
Margaret Koontz
H. A. Koontz
St. Joseph, Mo
Rinoceros Kills Explorer and British Captain in Kenya
London report from Nairobi says Mrs. Green an Irish explorer and Capt Atkins a British officer were killed by a rhinoceros near Nanyuki. Mrs Green had crossed Africa from the Belgian Congo and was about to climb Mt Kenya when wounded by the animal. The rhinoceros charged Atkins and he was trampled to death while Mrs Atkins escaped and gunmen killed the beast.
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Associated Press
London
Daily Mail
Nairobi
Kenya
British East Africa
Green
Dublin
Atkins
Manitoba Snowbound Cities Cut Off by Severe Prairie Storm
Winnipeg and other Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta cities were snowbound amid one of the prairie provinces heaviest storms in years. Streetcar service stalled with many cars stuck on tracks across towns. transportation severely affected by the blizzard.
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Associated Press
Winnipeg
Man
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Prairie Provinces
Cay
Hashway
Reichsbank Withdraws Gold From New York Vaults
The German Reichsbank began withdrawing 41,000,600 dollars in earmarked gold stored in the vaults of the New York Federal Reserve Bank. The shipments will not affect Federal Reserve reserves or the money market, as the coin is held for the Reichsbank.
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Associated Press
New York
Reichsbank
New York Federal Reserve Bank
Report to Congress on Booze Evil Would Make Penalties More Drastic
A House sub committee proposes heavier penalties for prohibition violations and a separate prohibition enforcement agency. It calls for a minimum fine and mandatory prison term for first offenses in manufacture and sale, higher fines for transport and possession, civil service agents, and government purchase of bonded liquors. It notes enforcement isn't as problematic as opponents claim and cites mixed Prohibition results.
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Associated Press
Washington
House
Alcoholic Liquor Traffic Committee
Hudson
Republican
Michigan
Prohibition Enforcement Agency
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