Will Hays Testifies On Bonds To Republican Fund Drive
Will J Hays disclosed before the Senate oil committee that Harry F Sinclair turned over government bonds totaling about 185000 to the Republican national committee with additional funds to cover a prior deficit. Hays says 75000 was previously disclosed and that 85000 bonds were later returned, with further transfers to John T Pratt and Mr Sinclair, amid financed support for the 1920 campaign.
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Washington
Will J H. Heys
Harry F. Sinclair
Republican National Committee
Hays
Senate Oil Committee
Continental Trading Company
Heyullicat National Committee
Fiver
Cheyenne
Wyoming
Sinclair
Sinclairad
Sinclai
Trinite Trust Company
Virginia Assembly Pays Tribute to Brazil Delegates
In Richmond the joint Virginia General Assembly led by Governor Byrd paid tribute to Brazilian representatives Senor Lendolfo Collor and Alamco du Sil. Speaker Holt and Delegate Dovell honored the guests as Byrd praised Brazil and Virginia, highlighting shared heritage and the early U S recognition of Brazil's independence.
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Virginia Assembly
Brazil
State Capitol
Richmond
Senate of
Virginia
Byrd
Vonue Alamco du Sil
United States of Brazil
Senor
Lendolfo Collor
Chamber of Depties
Holt
Dovell
House
Virginia Senate Recesses Without Major Action At Capitol
March 1 at Richmond the Virginia Senate recessed after a brief session with a delegation in attendance. Much time was spent by Senator Garrett on budget amendments while a Lay urged probe into the state corporation commission over bus transportation. In Richmond a local dentist Dr J A Cameron Hoggan was found dead from gas in his office following a prior skull fracture in an automobile crash.
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State Capitol
Richmond
House of Delegates
Garrett
Senate Finance Committee
Lay
Virginia
General Assembly
Marek L
J. A. Cameron Hoggan
Hoggan
Bottom of Bay Dragged in Hunt for Three Airmen
Norfolk March 1 The coast guard and fishing boats scour the Chesapeake Bay near Horn Harbor and Wolf Trap after an amphibian plane with three Navy flyers from Hampton Roads Naval Air Station vanished early Monday. Local residents Irvine Hudgins and others corroborate hearing a plane and motor sound about 42 minutes after takeoff, as air and sea searchers press to locate Commander J. Ellyson Lieutenant Commander Huse Schmidt and Lieutenant Rogers Range.
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Horn Harbor
Wolf Trap
Hampton Roads Naval Air Station
Annapolis
Sey Air Service
J. &. Ellyson
Huse Schmidt
Rogers S. Rangest Nausen
Irvine Hudgins
Morn Harbor
Hudgins
Keywarin
Hugins
Hampton Roads Naval Operating Base
Cape Charles
M. R. Browning
W. H. Layfield
Pennsylvania Railroad
Browning
Wilsonia
Navy
Chesapeake Bay
Weather summary for Virginia and Tennessee
Readings from the U. S. weather station show fair conditions for Virginia and Tennessee with colder nights and light to moderate winds. Details list 6 p.m. highs, lows, and daily rainfall, noting no readings for last year on February 29 and presenting February averages for high, low, and overall temperature.
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Virginia
Tennessee
U. S
L. Bunn
New Motor Gives Fame by West Elizabeth Inventor
Lester J. Hendershot of West Elizabeth Pa. claims an electromagnetism based motor that powers rotary earth movement without fuel. The 29 year old inventor, with limited schooling, has drawn attention after demonstrations with Colonel Lindbergh and Major Lanphier at Belfridge Field Mt Clemens Mich. He has worked between jobs in a basement and on projects at Cornell, later moving to Washington and Detroit with D Barr Beat to pursue air mail contracts. He previously worked as a concrete inspector and has ties to Westinghouse Electric and the Pennsylvania Railroad.
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Pittsburgh
Lester J. Hendershot
West Elizabeth
Charles A. Lindbergh
Thomas Lanphier
Belfridge Field
Mt Clemens
Mich
Hendershot
Cornell University
Westinghouse Electric & Manufacuring Co
Pennsylvania Railroad
Washington
Detroit
Lindbergh Voted Wilson Award Recipient
New York March 1 The cane of Col Charles A Lindbergh was inscribed with the Woodrow Wilson peace award joining Cecil Viscount of England and Elihu Root as recipients. The $26,000 prize and medal honor Lindbergh for promoting international friendship and peaceful ties between the United States and merican neighbors.
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New York
Charles A. Lindbergh
Viscount Cecil
England
Elihu Root
Woodrow Wilson
America
Woodrow Wilson Foundation
The
World Court
Colonel Lindbergh
United States
Mayor Thompson Drives Draft Coolidge Effort Amidendorsements
Mayor Thompson with thousands in support launched a draft Coolidge movement for the Republican nomination Denounced the world court and Volstead Act urging America first flood control inland waterways and home rule for Illinois Delegates bound from Cook County to Kansas City to back the renomination While observers doubt a Coolidge draft the meeting endorsed Frank L Smith for state senate and urged a nationwide referendum on prohibition plus a new war draft referendum policy.
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World Court
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Kansas City
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Walter P. Steffen
Coolidge
Thompson Lang
Frank C. Lowden
Lowden
Small
Frank L. Smith
Europe
Thirteen Miners Die in German Mine Accident
In Recklinghausen Westphalia Prussia two cage incidents killed thirteen miners and injured 35 as cages broke away and plunged to the shaft bottom near Recklinghausen.
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Berlin
Recklinghausen
Swestfalen
Prussia
Freight Train Backs Into Car In Virginia Crash
In Brookneal Virginia a backward running freight train struck an automobile driven by J P Churchman 55 of Rutledge Tennessee. Churchman was hospitalized after suffering cuts and bruises while a black boy in the car escaped injury. Churchman a salesman regained consciousness and is not thought to be seriously hurt.
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Lynchburg
J. P. Churchman
Rutledge
Tenn
Brookneal
Churchman
Leading Norfolk businessman dies in residence
Norfolk Va March 1 F S Royster Sr president of the Royster Guano Company and one of the citys leading businessmen died at his home today after several weeks illness He was 61 years old and his passing marks a loss to local commerce and industry Royster a longtime resident and civic figure leaves a widow two sons and a daughter with holdings in local enterprises and charitable causes the community mourns the passing of a man whose work helped shape Norfolk business and agricultural supply sectors.
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Norfolk
Royster Guano Company
Morfolk
Obari
Another Member of War Time Commanding Quartet is Dead
ROME March 1. Marshal Ar mando Diaz dies at 67 as one of the four allied wartime commanders. Diaz led Italian forces, earned the title Duce of Victory, and died after influenza developed into pneumonia. Flags in Rome and condolences from King Victor Emmanuel and Mussolini.
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War Time Commanding Quartet
Rome
Isonzo
Austria
Victor Emmanuel
Mussolini
Marshal Diaz
Santa Maria del Popolo
Cardinal Mandelein
Chicago
Woman Senator Makes Address at State Capitol
STATE CAPITOL RICHMOND March 1 The maiden speech of the maiden from Buchanan Delegate Miss Ruth Henderson was delivered this morning in welcome to Delegate Tuck who returned to the House for the first time since his marriage last Saturday Miss Henderson said it brought a blush of regret to her cheeks to congratulate the ex bachelor from Halifax On behalf of the House she presented Mr Tuck a silver service Mr Tuck responded with thanks admitting that his speaking days were now over A joint resolution of Floor Leader Dovell to begin next Tuesday the House should consider only Senate bills and the Senate only House bills was adopted
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State Capitol
Richmond
Buchanan
Ruth Henderson
Tuck
House of Delegates
Dovell
House
Senate
Atlantic Coast Line Chief John R Kenley Dies at 81
John R Kenley longtime head of the Atlantic Coast Line died after a long illness in Wilmington North Carolina at age 81. He began as a resident and construction engineer in 1868 and became ACL president in 1913 after holding key intermediate posts. Born in Baltimore he worked as a construction engineer and superintendent for the Union Railroad before joining ACL in 1886. Funeral plans were not announced.
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Miv Kenly
Dirigible Los Angeles Ready to Return Home
Washington reports the dirigible Los Angeles, 668 feet long, moored at the Patoka near Cuba awaiting a signal to begin a 1390 mile trip back to Lakehurst New Jersey. Pilot Commander Rosendahl planned to fly via Panama but overnighted near Cuban waters due to unfavorable Lakehurst landing conditions. The craft may perform an excursion toward Havana before resuming the coastward voyage, estimated at about 25 hours.
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Cuban
Patoka
Los Angeles
Lakehurst
C. F E. Rosendahl
Panama
New Jersey
Cuacanayaba Bay
Cuba
Havana
United States
Rosendahl
Navy Department
Caribbean
France Field
Canal Zone
Panama City
Guacanayaba Bay
Mrs Coolidge visits mother in old state in Northampton
Mrs Calvin Coolidge arrived in Northampton at 9 30 am to visit her mother Mrs Lemira Goodhue who is ill in Dickinson Hospital AP report dated March 1 describes the progress of the First Lady’s trip and her time in the Massachusetts city while her mother receives medical care.
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Mother
Old State
Northampton
Mar
Calvin Coolidge
Lemira Goodhue
Dickinson Hospital
Chance of Venire for Alleged Slayer of Woman
A Chesterfield county jury will try John Wesley Faison on March 12 for the killing of Mrs Elsie Holt Snipes. Judge W Kirk Mathews ordered a venire change as Richmond jurors would be hard to seat. A mistrial occurred in December after jurors failed to agree. Snipes died after being taken to hospital following an incident on November 15. Faison, former Hermitage Club manager, was arrested soon after. He had claimed Mrs Snipes killed herself after he warned of ending their affair and his wife and children.
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Hermitage Club
Faison
Snipes
Marines Mass in North Nicaragua to Fight Rebels
In a jungle ambush near Daraili in northern Nicaragua, five Marines died and two later succumbed to wounds, with additional casualties among those wounded. The clash involved units from Condega and Yali, as Marines repelled rebel fire from Augusti Sandina followers. Rebellions’ exact losses were not reported.
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Managua
Nicaragua
Augusti Sandina
Quilali
el Chipote
Hight Maries
Daraili
William K. MaceNulty
Lith
Edward F. O’day
John Cramp
Council Bluffs
Jamestown
Ni D
Cicero D. Austin Rockette
Texas
Curtis J. Mott
Trenton
Washington
Lem C. Davis
Wilbourn
Otis Northport
Alabama
Charles Hisham
Longmire
Lewis E. Ballard
Condega
O'Days
House Naval Commission Cuts Appropriation
Washington reports the House naval committee again rejected the department's recommendation and voted to authorize only 14,800,000 for the modernization of two battleships instead of 34,670,000 for renovating five capital ships, divisive among lawmakers.
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Washington
House Naval Commodey
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