Coolidge Criticised Sharply By Senator Harrison For Remark
Senator Harrison assailed President Coolidge in the senate over remarks he said warned newspaper men that congressional speeches are political. Harrison called the president unworthy and a matchless politician praising recent GOP votes on world peace and tax reform.
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Coolidge
Harrison
Washington
Senate
Congress
Mississippi
United States
White House
New York Chamber of Commerce
Chicago
Robinson
Arkansas
Senate debates tax surtax plan as session opens
The Senate began a six hour session to speed consideration of income surtax rates in the tax reduction bill. Leaders warned against steamroller tactics while debates focused on reducing the top rate from 40 to 20 percent and tightening surtax marks for incomes between 24 000 and 60 000 dollars to save revenue. Norris attacked Mellon and questioned tax-returns by Pittsburgh banks, citing potential legal issues and savings of 9101 000 in taxes.
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Washington
Senate
Norris
Nebraska
Finance Committee
Democrats
Mellon
Couzens
Republican
Michigan
Internal Revenue Bureau
Pittsburgh
Treasury
State probes legality of Alma Rubens marriage in Riverside
Riverside California February 2 AP District Attorney Albert Ford prepared to investigate the validity of Alma Rubens marriage to Ricardo Cortez after a Los Angeles divorce record showed an interlocutory decree in Daniel Goodman case not finalized until February 6 1925. Cortez said both believed she was legally free to marry as she waited the required period.
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Riverside
Cal
Albert Ford
Alma Rubens
Ricardo Cortez
Los Angeles
Daniel ©. Goodman
Cortez
Hollywood
Idaho
Child Dies After Auto Collision at Grimes and West Green
Four and a half year old Abner Cress Jr. was struck by a Ford touring car driven by J R Yarborough at West Green Street near Grimes. Police ruled the death unavoidable. Yarborough reported braking but could not avoid the child who darted into the street. The accident injured the boy and was followed by funeral arrangements for the Kentucky-born family.
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Abner Cress, Jr
Abner Cress
Grimes
West Green Street
J .R. Yarborough
Yarborough
Hillerst
West Green
Dewey Britt
H. M. Commer
H. C. Yarborough
J. W. Davis
F. L. Burns
Mr. Yarborough
Cress
High Point
Clay County
Yow
East Bursteadt
Atlanta Ordinance Bans Negro Barbers From White Clients
Atlanta city council passes a law barring Negro barbers from serving white customers after June 1, pending mayoral approval. The ordinance also prohibits white barbers from serving Negro clients, affecting downtown shops that have long served whites only.
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Atlanta
Sanitary Committee
Smith to push Operation Muscle Shoals plan in Senate
Smith will urge Operation Muscle Shoals for spell service. He plans to call up his bill in an executive session of the Senate tomorrow.
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Washington
Senate Agriculture Committee
Smith
South Carolina
Muscle Shoals
House
Heflin
Alabama
Elon H. Hooker
Hooker-White-Atterbury
Joint
Congressional Committee
Mr. Hooker
Edgar Wallace
American Federation of Labor
L. P. Davis
Union Carbide Company
J. A. Switzer
University of Tennessee
Chattanooga
Ransdell
Louisiana
Coolidge Considers Muscle Shoals Issue
President Coolidge discussed the Muscle Shoals matter with Russell Bower of the Muscle Shoals commission and Chester Cray, legislative agent of the American Farm Bureau Federation. They declined to reveal details, with Bower supporting leasing and government operation as an option to ensure fertilizer production.
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Washington
Muscle Shoals
Coolidge
Russell Bower
Muscle Shoals Commission
Chester Cray
American Farm Bureau Federation
Bower
Farm Bureau Federation
Mrs Edna James Scott Sues To Divorce Congressman
Mrs Edna James Scott filed in Detroit circuit court for divorce from Congressman Frank D Scott. She cites desertion as the grounds while his cross bill, heard in Alpena last summer, sought a decree for neither party. The Alpena suit also charged friendship with a Washington hotel clerk and an army officer.
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Detroit
Edna James Scott
Frank D. Scott
Scott
Alpena Circuit
Frank D. Emerick
Alpena
Washington
Revolutionary Mexicans At Work In San Antonio
Gus Jones of the Justice Department San Antonio office said evidence shows a revolutionary Junta of Mexicans is active in San Antonio and on the border planning to dynamite a southbound passenger train to spark a overturn of the Calles government. Federal Attorney Hartman will present the matter to the grand jury on February 15 with possible neutrality law indictments against leaders. Jones denied charges by R Esparza Martinez that DOJ seized documents and let Calles agents inspect them as unfounded.
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San Antonio
Tex
Fox
Calles
Republic
Associated Press
Gus Jones
Department of Justice
Jones
John D. Hartman
Dalles
Hartman
Federal Grand Jury
R. Esparza Martinez
de la Huerta
Byrns Attacks Coolidge on 1926 Government Costs
In Washington on February 2, Representative Byrns, Democrat of Tennessee, assailed President Coolidge's economy claims. He cited that 1926 outlays would rise compared with 1925, noting fixed costs like the army and navy, railroads, pensions, and debt interest total $2,197,000,000, surpassing the claimed reductions. He asked if the cost of government is steadily increasing.
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Washington
Coolidge
House
Representative Byrns
Tennessee
House Appropriations Committee
Burns
Army
Navy
Army and Navy
Grain Corporation
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Wills and Aeschlimann Reach Nice Mixed Doubles Quarters
Helen Wills and C F Aeschlimann won two matches in the Nice tournament with only one game dropped. Their progress puts them on course to potentially meet Suzanne Lenglen and Baron Henry De Morpurgo in the finals.
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Nice
France
Helen Wills
C. F. Aeschlimann
Suzanne Lenglen
Baron Henry de Morpurgo
Altercation at Statesville furniture plant leaves man critical
William Morrison is in a critical condition at a local hospital after a fight at a Statesville furniture factory. A. L. Cline is jailed on allegations of striking Morrison with a piece of wood during the incident.
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Statesville
William Morrison
A. L. Cline
Cline
Morrison
Civil Court Sought in High Point Case Amid Racial Tension
In High Point a civil action dispute between Theredore Smith and Commonwealth Attorney Lewis E. Teague dominated municipal court for over an hour. York argued the case involved civil liability, not criminal conduct, amid allegations race influenced proceedings.
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C. A. York
Theredore Smith
Lewis E. Teague
Mr. York
Crim- Smith
Roy Byrd
Byrd
Commonwealth
York
Teague
Main Street
High Point
Speedy Guilty Plea Leads to Hanged Sentence in Fayette County
Ed Harris, a negro, pled guilty to attacking a white woman and was sentenced to be hanged in the Fayette county jail yard on Friday March 5. The trial lasted exactly 16 minutes, one of the county’s speediest hearings amid guarded crowds and a National Guard display including a tank.
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Lexington
Ed Harris
National
Harris
Frankfort Reformatory
J. A. Kehoe
Coborn Gayle
Frankfort
Gayle
Reformatory
National Guardsmen
Blue Grass City
Fayette County
Maury Kemper
Clarence Bryant
State Reformatory
Kehoe
National Guard
Richard C. Stoll
Mexican charges Americans rifled private papers
R Esparza Martinez former secretary of the Mexican congress says US Justice operatives seized his private correspondence while he was a political refugee in San Antonio. He claims letters were opened and used to justify actions against refugee leaders allied with De La Huerta. Six refugees protest to President Coolidge over Torres deportation.
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San Antonio
Tex
R. Esparza Martinez
Mexican Congress
United States Department of Justice
Calles
Mexico
Martinez
Adolfo
Alfonso de la Huerta
Associated Press
Gus Jones
Department of Justice
Fernando Garza
Calles Administration
Manuel Sorola
de la Huertas
United States
de la Huerta
Demetrio Torres
Torres
Coahuila
Guadalajara
Jalisco
Mexico City
Gabriel Occamtipa
D Jalisco
King George Sees Locarno Aims Advance Amid Parliament
London Feb 2 King George opened parliament declaring Locarno had paved the way for disarmament progress. He cited a debt funding accord with Italy and urged cross party cooperation to reduce unemployment and restore trade. He outlined moves on Mosul Turkey negotiations and international labor talks.
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London
George
Locarno
Turkey
Mosul
Italy
Constantinople
Angora
Great Britain
Irak
Council of
League of Nations
Geneva
Belgium
Germany
France
East Africa
Scotland
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J. R. Yarborough
Lillian Schaede
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Schaede
Willam
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Berlin
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