Coolidge Vetoes Farm Relief Bill and Critiques Plan
President Coolidge vetoed the McNary Haugen farm relief bill for the second time in two years. He cites six objections including price fixing, bureaucracy, and aid to foreign agriculture, warning the measure would burden farmers and stoke political control and inefficiency. He says the bill renews vicious devices and fails to solve surpluses.
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Coolidge
United Press
Washington
Secon
Senate
Federal Farm Board
Commodity Council
Congress
Coolidge Signs Shipping Bill to Boost Merchant Fleet
President Coolidge signed the Jones White bill to strengthen the American merchant marine. It expands the private shipbuilder loan fund from 125 million to 250 million dollars and allows loans up to 75 percent of ship value. The measure adds reinsurance for government vessels and mortgages and raises rates for contract mail carrying. It also lets the shipping board sell vessels to private interests by a five of seven vote and authorize reconditioning of government ships.
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United Press
Washington
White House
Coolidge
United States Shipping Board
Obelisk Contract Awarded For World War Shrine
Frank E Henley secretary of the Indiana World War Memorial commission says Hankin Conkey Construction Company wins the contract to build a 100 foot obelisk electric fountain and shrine enclosure on the square bounded by Pennsylvan ia Meridian Michigan and North streets with doors windows and bronze grills. Contract price is 635730 and completion is set for May 1929. The same firm also awarded shrine work to begin soon.
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Frank E. Henley
Indiana
Socialites jailed for five day shoplifting spree
Five Phillipsburg social women Nellie Kelly Maude Weist Evelyn Kehoe Catherine Cameron and Sue Cummings were sentenced to five days in the workhouse after shoplifting $65 in Macy's goods in New York. They admitted the thrill motive and wept in court as magistrates delivered the sentence amid public scrutiny.
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United Press
York
Phillipsburg
N. J
West Side Court
Macy's Department Store
Nellie Kelly
Lindbergh Named Chief of New Coast to Coast Air Rail
Col Charles A Lindbergh signs with Transcontinental Air Transport as chairman of the technical committee for a coast to coast air rail system. He will select aircraft and routes for a 48 hour New York to San Francisco service, with six to seven months until possible launch. Four fellow aviators join his committee. salary undisclosed, but he is understood to hold an interest in the $5 million venture.
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Lindbergh
NEW Air Rail Line
United Press
New York
Charles A. Lindbergh
Air Mail
Paris
Transcontinental Air , Transport Corporation
Ocean Flier
San Francisco
Cc. M. Keys
The
Transport Corporation
Transport Company
Pennsylvania
Santa Fe
Columbus
Ohio
Wichita
Kas
New Mexico
California
Chicago
First Lady Visits Clarke School for the Deaf in Northampton
Mrs Calvin Coolidge visiting her mother in Northampton calls at the Clarke School for the Deaf where she once taught. A girl pupil presented the first lady with a bouquet of roses as she toured the campus and observed classes.
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Bouquet
Mrs. Coolidge
United Press
Northampton
Mass
Calvin Coolidge
Lemira Goodhue
Cooley Dickinson Hospital
Clarke School For the Deaf
Nobile Off Again For North Pole
United Press dispatch from Kings Bay Spitzbergen reports General Umberto Nobile departing in the Italia dirigible at 4 35 am for a third expedition into the uncharted Arctic air. Weather is favorable and the crew expects a direct flight toward the North Pole with a landing possible near Greenland. Titiana the terrier is presumed aboard.
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United
Greenland
Pole
Nobile
Titiana
Porter Turtle's Twenty Second Two Mile Crawl Begins
In Pittsfield Massachusetts on May 23 the Howard Porter mud turtle started its twenty second annual two mile crawl from a swamp near the city to a Berkshires mountain. The voyage began when Porter's son Malcolm carved his initials on its back in 1906 and the creature has never deviated from its path.
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United Press
Pittsfield
Mass
Howard Porter
Here
Berkshires
Porter
Malcolm
Girl teller Wounds Bank Robber in Hammond Bank Heist
Margaret Reppa, a Twin City Saving and Loan Bank teller in Hammond Indiana, faced a gun held by a Black bank bandit and fired, wounding him as he fled with $45. He stole a bakery truck bound for Chicago, eluding police, after firing at her.
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United Press
Hammond
Ind
Margaret Reppa
Chicago
Miss Beppa
Coal magnate killed in fatal horse accident in Wales
Lord Buckland, leading coal mine owner and financier, was killed at Bucklands estate near Breconshire when his horse galloped and struck a telegraph pole during a morning ride. He died instantly from a crushed skull.
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Bu United Press
Newport
Wales
Lord Buckland
Bucklands
Bwich
Breconshire
Boys steal lunchbox. three youths jailed in Louisville
Carl Dick Leo Briggs and Ahart Bushman all 18 left in search of the world. They visited Cincinnati and planned Indianapolis before hunger drove them to steal Beecher Emily’s lunchbox from in front of her home. Dick took the box and was caught, sending all three to city jail on vagrancy charges.
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Carl Dick
Leo Briggs
Ahart Bushman
Louisville
Cincinnati
Indianapolis
Beecher Emily
Leland Ave
Emily
City plea overruled in Chilcote case over building inspector return
Circuit Judge Harry O Chamberlin overruled the citys motion for a new trial in the mandate suit of Thomas A Chilcote former city building inspector. The city will appeal to the Supreme Court. Chamberlin last week ordered the board of safety to restore Chilcote to his previous post, ruling the board had no authority to remove him without charges and a trial.
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Harry O. Chamberlin
Thomas A. Chilcote
Supreme Court
Chamberlin
Board of Safety
Chilcote
City to file new suits in tax fight
County Attorney Clinton H Givan said additional suits to collect back taxes will be filed after discovery that assessor book alterations reduced real estate values by about 400000. A pending suit seeks 33487.60 for 1922 to 1924 against Elnora Haag and Sentinel Realty Company, with $27487.64 in back taxes and 6000 in penalties.
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Clinton H Givan
Superior
Elnora Haag
Haag
Sentinel Realty Company
Frank B. Brattain
Givan
Indianapolis
Britain
Frank A. Symmes
Miss Haag
Sentinel Company
Fletcher Cafeteria Ad Promises Free Second Cup
A Fletcher Cafeteria advertisement offers a free second cup. Located in the basement of Fletcher Trust Blog, hours are from 10 30 a m to 7 30 p m.
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Fletcher Cafeteria
Fletcher Trust
Thief chloroforms man and wife in Washington theft
A thief overpowered Arthur C. Taylor and his 23 year old wife, a beauty contest winner, early today in Washington. The robber escaped with $370 in cash and jewels as police dog Bocus, condemned for viciousness and later reprieved for good behavior, slept in the yard.
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Lnited Press
Washington
Arthur C. Taylor
Bocus
Hall Case to Open in recount suit against Updike
Archibald M Hall seeks a recount of votes in the Republican congressional nomination race he lost to Representative Ralph E Updike. Hearing before Circuit Judge Harry O Chamberlin focuses on the validity of service. Updike's attorney contends service faulty. Hall's team argues it legal. A similar suit by County Surveyor Henry Campbell against Paul Roscoe Brown may be joined.
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Archibald M. Hall
Hall
Ralph E. Updike
Harry O. Chamberlin
Updike
M. L. Clawson
Wilbur A. Rouse
Henry Campbell
Paul Roscoe Brown
Not Companionate Rochester Wedding Ties Two Staff Members
Warren E. Fitzgerald who managed Judge Ben Lindsey's speaking tour on Companionate Marriage planned an old fashioned wedding with Thelma Smith. The pair met during Lindsey's tour and Wunder's staff member announced their engagement this week. The marriage will be on an old fashioned basis.
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United Press
Rochester
N. Y
Warren E. Fitzgerald
Ben Lindsey
Denver Jurist
Lindsey
Clinton Wunder
The
Baptist Temple
Thelma Smith
Convention Halted as Governor Jackson Is Dismissed From Program
At Cable Tabernacle Governor Ed Jackson was crowded off the Republican State convention program as Permanent Chairman Fred Purnell adjourned the session to 9:30 tomorrow. Jackson, along with Senators Arthur R. Robinson and James E. Watson, had been expected to speak, but the lineup was shuffled and the Governor left without delivering his prepared remarks. The move aimed to avoid conflicts over delegate selection and to prevent political clashes on the floor.
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Ed Jackson
Cable Tabernacle
Warren T. McCray
Fred §. Purnell
Jackson
Arthur R. Robinson
James E. Watson
Elza Rogers
Parnell
Purnell
Watson
Robinson
Pliny Wolford
Rogers
George M. Barnard
Kansas City
E. S. Shumaker
Indiana
Anti- Saloon League
E. Howard Cadle
Cadle
H. H. Fout
Jack Maroney
D. C. Stephenson
Barnard
League of Nations
World Court
Show Window Saloon With Whisky Dreamed by Police Chief
Cleveland Police Chief Jacob Grant, a longtime dry, advocates a regulated private saloon system with no shade on windows and a single large room. Enforced by a Federal board, it would operate 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. and require permits one per territory. He remains a dry but seeks normalcy amid rising crime blamed on liquor.
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Harry Wilson Sharpe
United Press
Leveland
Ohio
Jacob Grant
Cleveland
Graut
Grant
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Muncie
Henry W. Marshall
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Ed Bowen
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