Vacation Delays Hit Senate Inquiries and Alien Property Probe
Senate funds panel puts Illinois primary inquiry on hold until July 26 as vacation time slows work. The alien property custodian probe lacks any approved funds, risking most activities until Congress reconvenes. Chairman Borah notes a $20,000 to $25,000 shortfall. Garvan volunteers to testify in a broad, non partisan review of the office. Subpoenas are being prepared for Illinois and Pennsylvania witnesses amid process server challenges.
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Senate Campaign Funds Committee
Illinois
Washington
Congress
Senate Campaign Funds
King
Utah
Cuba
Crowder
Keyes
Alien Property Committee
Senate
Borah
Garvan
Francis 2. Garvan
Porah
Miltce
Chicago
Pennsylvania
Indian Pageant Features Birth of Chicago Show
Indian Cavalry Troop C L14th Cavalry from Haskell University will participate in the Birth of Chicago pageant at Soldiers Field. Indian schoolboys appear in wax paint and feathers then in regalia, with hundreds more coming from Wisconsin reservations to join the show commemorating Chicago’s founding and pioneer westward movement. The event ties to a Loyal Order of Moose convention.
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Chicago
U. S. Army
Haskell University of Kannas
Soldiers Field Stadium
Fndian
Wisconsin
Body of Judge Bachman Found In The Farragut Hostelry
Judge E K Bachman prominent Bristol attorney and Democratic nominee for judge in Tennessee was found dead in his room at the Farragut Hotel in Knoxville this morning. The body was held in Knoxville pending a coroner’s inquest this afternoon. Bachman had been attending a Federal Court session in Eroville and was last seen at the hotel Monday afternoon.
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Bristol
Knoxville
E. K. Bachman
Twentieth Judicial District of
Tennessee
Taurragut
Bachman
Eroville
World Court as Campaign Issue in Southern Primaries
The world court issue shapes Democratic senatorial campaigns in Georgia and South Carolina. Senator Walter F. George and E. D. Smith face opponents stressing American adherence to the world court. Georgia primary is Sept 6 and South Carolina Aug 1.
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Georgia
South Carolina
Atlanta
United States
Walter F. George
E. D. Smith
Senaor
R. B. Russell
Georgia Supreme Court
League “T Am
League of Nations
World Court
Mr. Russell
Georgia Democrats
People of America
Cuban execution and Virginia railway lease arguments
In Santiago Cuba Salva tore Aguilera was executed by garrote for killing his aunt in March 1924, the first Cuban execution in two decades. In Washington the Interstate Commerce Commission opened oral arguments on Norfolk and Western’s Virginian Railway lease, opposed by Chesapeake and Ohio Virginia, and others, with debate over merger advantages versus public interest concerns.
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Santiago
Cuba
Salvatore Aguilera
Francisco Paula Romero
Frank Davis
Savannah
San Juan
Will
Aguilera
Washington
Norfolk and Western
Virginian Railway
Interstate Commerce Commission
Chesapeake and Ohio
State of
Virginia
Walter R. Staples
Haskell. Davis
Commission
Davis
Staples
Examiner
Seaman recounts life and death battle with sharks
Boston July 8. Officers of the British steamer Ripley Castle tell of a two hour struggle for life at sea after seaman Tony Madison 26 fell from deck near the equator while bound Philadelphia to Cape Town. Rescued alive with injuries from sharks and birds, Madison died later.
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Boston
Lita
Ripley Castle
Bim
Equator
Phialdelphia
Capetown
Tony Madison
George Sinclair
Madison
New York City
Ripley Gustle
Weather Outlook for Virginia and Tennessee
Virginia shows fair skies tonight and warmth spread to the extreme west. Friday brings partly cloudy skies with possible afternoon thunderstorms in the west, light variable winds becoming moderate. Tennessee anticipates increasing cloudiness with showers and thunderstorms Friday and tonight in the west, with little change in temperature.
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Virginia
West Portion
Tennessee
Coolidge Lands First Fish Since Presidency
President Coolidge fished for the first time since taking office, catching a three pound pike on Lake Osgood near White Pine camp. The event occurred within hours of arrival as he paddled with Oscar Otis in the Adirondack wilderness, signaling a quiet, leisure-filled vacation.
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Paul Smith
N. Y
Coci
Vermont Hills
Washington
Coolidge
Osgood Lake
Osgood
Irwin R. Kirkwood
Adirondack
Cooder
Mrs McPherson To Tell Abduction Story Before Grand Jury
Evangelist Aime Semple McPherson is set to testify before the Los Angeles county grand jury about her May 18 kidnapping at Ocean Park. The federal grand jury reviews three weeks of government inquiry while others named may recount details of the escape to Agu Prieta near the Mexican border. If her testimony ends early, her mother Minnie Kennedy will be called as next witness.
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Mexico
Semple McPherson
Evangelist
The
Los Angeles
Mitt
Ocean Park
Agu Prieta
Douglas
Arizona
Minnie Kennedy
Miller pleads not guilty in defraud indictment
New York July 8 Thomas W Miller former alien property custodian pleaded not guilty to an indictment charging him and Harry M Daugherty former attorney general and the late John T King with conspiracy to defraud the government The case involves the release of 7000000 dollars of sequestered American Metal Company assets to alleged Swiss owners Miller posted 5000 bail and set September 7 for trial He defended his innocence in a brief press statement to reporters.
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New York
Thomas W. Miller
Harry M. Daugherty
John T. King
Miller
Senate
Alery
American Metal Company
Daugherty
Youth Sought in Tryon Girl Murder Case
In Tryon North Carolina a youth known as Jimmy is sought in the fatal shooting of 17 year old Jean Braswell and the serious wounding of Q C Sonner 21, after a man identified only as Jimmy allegedly fired at Braswell and then turned the gun on Sonner during a road trip near Green River Cove. A witness describes the suspect as a youth who fled after the quarrel aboard a car.
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Tryon
N. C
Jimmy
Jean Braswell
Q. C. Sonner
Sonner
Miss Braswell
Green River Cove
Taxicab Company faces heavy loss to stockholders
United States Circuit Court of Appeals rules there is no 12 mile limit preventing seizure beyond that point for American ships in the American rum sunner Underwriter case. In Chicago a $1 million test to stockholders emerges from Premier Taxicab Company's crash as creditors place liabilities at about $1.3 million and assets at $1 million with only about $500,000 salvageable.
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New York
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
United States
High
Giveult Court of Appeals
Chicago
Samuel L. Howard
Dozen Bodies Believed Inside S-51 Submarine
Divers report about 12 bodies inside the hulk of the submarine S-51 raised from the Atlantic off Block Island. The craft, rammed and sunk by City of Rome last September, had eight bodies recovered. search continues for 25 missing sailors as the vessel is brought to Brooklyn for dry dock work and removal of debris.
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United States
Block Island
Rome
New ‘York
Navy Yard
Brooklyn
Navy
Atlantic Ocean
Block Island S. 1
Edward Ellsberg
Atlantic
Savannah Line
City of Rome
Wade
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Long Island Sound
East River
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Judge Bachman
Farragut
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
James L. Quackenbush
Interborough Company
Adirondacks
Alien Property
Notan Miller
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New York Harbor
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