Keller Defies House Judiciary Panel Over Impeachment Evidence
Representative Keller again failed to appear before the House Judiciary Committee to testify under oath about impeachment charges against Attorney General Daugherty. Keller's counsel said the committee exceeded its authority and Keller was not required to respond. The panel deferred action until Monday and warned it could refer Keller for contempt if he refuses again.
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Volstead
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Kellers
France Awaits American Proposals on German Reparations
Paris estimates Washington proposals could aid securing reparations from Germany. French officials note bankers’ ideas from June guide talks, with a target range of forty to sixty billion marks. Washington reports show tightening credit, rising prices, and growing unemployment as Reichsbank raises rediscount rate to 10 percent and tightens credit controls.
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Paris
Germany
Washington
International Bankers’ Committee
Reichbank
Navy selects oversight for future midshipmen balls
The incident at the midshipmen ball after the Army Navy game in Philadelphia prompted an official investigation. The Navy Department says measures to prevent disorderly conduct should have sufficed and regrets the steps did not meet the end. It recommends assigning responsible naval academy officers to supervise future balls, as no officer was specifically detailed this year.
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Washington
Philadelphia
Denby
Navy Department
Cural Academy
Smith seeks clearance for father in Humble wreck case
Erwin J. Smith said he will present information to Houston officials to exonerate his father Joseph H. Smith watchman for the Houston East and West Texas railroad of responsibility for the Humble wreck in which 20 wreaths will be sent. Joseph Smith, found at Hockley, suffers a nervous breakdown and will not explain how he left Houston. The elder Smith was held responsible by a board of inquiry yesterday.
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Austin
Texas
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Houston, East and West Texas
Humble
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Hockley
Here
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Houston
Smith
TAPS THE MAINS TO SECURE FUEL
Officials of the Oklahoma Natural Gas Company plan action against Drumwright Mayor Nicodemus for tapping gas mains to furnish the town with fuel. A company official called the move Bolshevik after efforts to compel supply failed and the mayor declared an emergency. The company says only a state order from the corporation commission allows such gas taps.
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Associated Press
Tulsa
Okla
Oklahoma Natural Gas Company
Nicodemus
Drumwright
Drumright
Joc
Plumvwright
State Corporation Commission
President Narutowicz Assassinated At Warsaw Art Exhibition
Gabriel Narutowicz, Poland’s first president, was fatally shot in Warsaw during an art exhibition. Opposition from nationalist factions had grown after his election by the national assembly a week earlier amid prior riotous clashes and deaths. The assassin was identified as artist Niewiadomski.
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Warsaw
Gabriel Narutowicz
Poland
National Assembly
Narutowicz
Niewadomaki
Justice Pitney Resigns From Supreme Court
Washington December 16 Associate Justice Pitney announced his resignation sending it to President Harding to take effect January 1. the move ends his tenure and opens a vacancy on the high court.
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Associated Press
Washington
Pitney
The
Supreme Court Today
Harding
Lodge Challenge to Senate Seat Sparks Protest in Mass
Massachusetts protest against Henry Cabot Lodge’s reelection moved to the Senate. Attorney for John A. Nichols cites irregularities in the November vote and seeks an immediate hearing. The challenge, framed as a Liberal Republican effort, aims to unseat Lodge.
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Associated Press
Washington
Massachusetts
Henry Cabot Lodge
Jeader
Senate
John A. Nichols
Prohibition
Republican League of Massachusetts
Senate Committee On Privileges and Elections
Congress
Lodge
Conrad Crocker
Nichols
William A. Gaston
Hberal
Nero
Child to protest Turkish move at Lausanne talks
Ambassador Child head of the American delegation to the Near East conference plans to protest the Turkish proposal to expel the Greek Church patriarch from Constantinople at today's sub-committee on minorities session. Drafting of the Lausanne treaty continues with experts working on non disputed clauses and word circulates that January 24 may be fixed for signing.
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Associated Press
Lausanne
Ambhassador Child
Constantinople
Sub-Commission On Minorities
Kansans to expel Ku Klux Klan by business ban
Governor Henry Allen announced at the governors conference that Kansas will not use force but will drive out the Ku Klux Klan by denying it permission to do business within the state. He noted the Klan’s use of masked threats and violence as reasons for opposition, and said a writ is being sought in the Kansas supreme court to enforce the ban.
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White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
Kansas
Henry Allen
Kansas Supreme Court
Allen
Farmers to borrow from farm loan banks proposed
Washington December 16 legislation to allow farmers to borrow from farm loan banks for nine month periods was urged at the National Council of Farmers' Cooperative Marketing Associations convention. It would permit individual borrowings up to 25000 dollars.
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Associated Press
Washington
National Council of Farmers' Co-operative Marketing Associations
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