Cabinet shuffle appoints Work to Interior and New to Postmaster General
President Harding announced a March 4 cabinet change with Work to succeed Fall as secretary of the interior and Indiana Senator Harry S. New to become postmaster general. New’s appointment follows a tense political week as Indiana Republicans faced shifts in party strategy. Work, previously assistant postmaster general, earned trust by reorganizing post office bureaus under Hays.
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Associated Pro
Washington
Work
Albert Fall
Interior
Harry S. New
Indiana
White House
Fall
Senator New
Senate
Congress
Harding
Colorado
Mr Work
Indiana Republican Organization
Will R. Wood
National Republican Congressional Committee
New
Post Office Department
Will Hays
Mississippi Misssissippi Eliminated in Southern Conference Cup
Millaads College of Jackson representing the SIAA fell to Furman University of Greenville South Carolina by 40 to 21 as the southern inter collegiate conference basketball tournament opened in Atlanta Georgia on February 27.
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Atlanta
Millaads College
Jackson
Miss
Furman University of Greenville
S. C
Wage Adjustment at Gulf States Steel Gadsden Plants
An announced wage increase for common labor at Gulf States Steel Company's Gadsden plants takes effect March 1. Industrial sources expect rises of five to ten percent, though the exact amount was not officially disclosed.
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Associated Press
Birmingham
Ala
Gulf States Steel Company
Gadsden
Prehistoric Ozark Inhabitants Unearthed In Missouri Hill Region
Archaeologists led by M Raymond Harrington of the Hye Foundation report new digs near Noel Missouri uncovering ten to fifteen century old skeletons of a unique Ozark Indian type. Evidence suggests crude weapons, including spear throwers, and burials wrapped in grass mats. Cremated remains show three mat weaves, hinting at three distinct tribes. Homes were built under lime cliffs and rock formations.
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Noel
Ozark Mountains
Missouri
M. Raymond Harrington
Hye Foundation
New York
Harrington
America
Ozarks
Mata
Texas murderer admits guilt in revolting child killing
Wylie “Texas” Morgan, held without bail in Philadelphia, confessed to kidnapping and murdering six year old Lillian Gilmore and assaulting her sister Dorothy. Police say he led them to the body on Neshaminy Creek after a lengthy signed statement.
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Philadelphia
Wylie F. M. Morgan
Lillian Gilmore
Associated Press
Wylie
Texas
Morgan
Neshaminy Creek
Graydon
Pennsylvania
Lillian
Dorothy
Maud, Tex
Dorothy Gilmore
Rules committee adopts farm credits bill debate plan
Washington February 27 The rules committee approved a plan giving the farm credits bill four hours of general debate and leaders expressed hope for a final vote before adjournment tomorrow.
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Associated Press
Washington
Rules Committee
Churches Urge Leaders to Halt War Drift and Seek Peace
The Federal Council of Churches appeals to 150,000 Protestant churches to press the US government for cooperation with foreign nations. It calls for an international conference to address Europe’s economic and political crisis, warns against expediency in Near Eastern settlements, and seeks remedies for Armenian persecution and property confiscation. Debts should be part of the economic talks.
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Associated Press
Washington
Federal Council of Churches of Christ In America
Council
Europe
United States
Arkansas Senator Caraway Fights on Washington Street Car
Senator Caraway of Arkansas and an unidentified passenger exchanged blows on a Washington street car after a jostling incident and insult. The altercation moved to the street near Fourteenth and H streets Northwest with hats lost and Caraway using his umbrella in the scuffle.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senator Caraway
Arkansas
Fourteenth and
H Streets
Northwest
Caraway
Senate
Logtown School Pupils Escape Bus Car Collision
A Logtown bound school bus carrying fifteen pupils was struck by a Lee Avenue street car at Lee avenue and Forest street. The front wheels were smashed, the driver was knocked from the seat, but the motorman halted the vehicle with emergency brakes. No children were injured, and an official inquiry cleared the motorman of fault as unavoidable.
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Logtown
Monroe
Lee Avenue
Forest Street
Speed
Detectives pursue blonde woman seen with Gotham killer
New York police surge forty detectives to locate a well dressed blonde woman with a dark bag after Frederick Schneider a 47 year old contractor is shot in a Bronx area at dusk. Authorities claim the killer may be the woman seen with Schneider in his car and wearing a coat later identified.
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Associated Press
New York
Frederick Schneider
Bronx
Schneider
William Schneider
Broadway
Nicholas Fuelder
Puelder
Fuelder
Monroe Fans Organize 1923 Baseball Club Season
Monroe organizers appointed F. G. Hudson as president F. B. Surgaine as secretary treasurer and D. Aubrey Haas as manager to lead the 1923 season. A board includes Dr. Wm Bendel P. M. Atkins Jack Harrington H. G. Prophit Dick Downes and Wm. Feazel. An April 5 exhibition with the New York Yankees is planned ahead of a April 15 start.
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Monroe Baseball Club
F. G. Hudson
F. B. Surgaine
D. Aubrey Haas
Wm. Bendel
P. M. Atkins
Jack Harrington
H. G. Prophit
Dick Downes
Wm. Feazel
Monroe
Haas
Hunnicutt
Brookhaven
Veach
Hazelhurst
Barbour
Jimmy Arnspiger
Haynesville
Dutch Weigent
Lake Charles
New York Yankees
Shipping bill ends as White House abandons aid plan
Washington, Feb 27. The administration will abandon efforts to obtain government aid for the American Merchant Marine after the failure of the shipping bill this session. Lasker described new plans for the fleet as startlingly novel though details are withheld. Senators Ransdell and Pomerene urged treaties be abrogated to aid ships, while debate continued ahead of a possible recommitment vote before adjournment.
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Associated Press
Washington
White House
Congress
Senate
The
Shipping Board
Lasker
Harding
Administration
Wilson
Ransdell
Louisiana
Pomerone
Ohio
Hines Named Veterans Bureau Head by Harding
Brigadier General Frank T. Hines retired was nominated by President Harding to direct the Veterans Bureau. He succeeds C R Forbes who retires tomorrow. Hines was the youngest brigadier general in the regular army when he left to join Baltic Steamship, and he led the army embarkation service moving troops to France and back.
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Associated Press
Washington
Frank T. Hines
Harding
Veterans’ Bureau
C. R. Forbes
Hines
Baltic Steamship Company
France
Army Embarkation Service
National Guard
Utah
Utah Light Artillery
Philippines
Spain
Skull of First Man to Trod Earth Found in New York
Anthropologists announced a fossilized human skull from the tertiary period may be the oldest relic. Dr. Franz Boas asserted it could be 500 000 years old, older than the Java pithecanthropus erectus, and could redefine humanity's timeline and migration.
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New York
Associated Press
Buenos Aires
Franz Boas
Columbia University
Java
Dr. Boas
North American
Ouachita River Freshet Sparks Rise as Rain Persists
Heavy rains across North Louisiana and Arkansas push the Ouachita River up at least 12 inches this point with a likely further rise from swollen headwaters. Levees decks and dams reduce flood risk though backwater floods several low areas and lakes in Ouachita parish. Contingent on page three.
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North Louistiana
Arkansas
Ouachua
Ouachita Parish
Cheniere
French Agree to Surrender Part of German Money
London reports that France will surrender the portion of German money seized at Cologne last Saturday intended to pay British troops. The move ends a tension point, though the Cologne incident remains delicate as British authorities insist on the return of the funds.
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Associated Press
London
Cologne
Times
Multiple Nominations and Dispatches From Feb 27
On Feb 27 T W Huge of Duluth died at 75 as grand chancellor of Scottish Rite. McKenzie Mesa of Kentucky named for assistant secretary of the treasury. Richard M Tosbin of California nominated as minister to the Netherlands. Governors discuss prohibition enforcement to be held in April. Alaska to form naval oil reserve. 20 million acres withdrawn. Prospective jurors questioned about Kkk in Hart case liquor conspiracy. Lenape and El Sud collision in Hudson River. Lenape carries Brooklyn players bound for Florida.
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Associated Press
Duluth
Minn
T. W. Huge
Supreme Council
Scottish Rite of Free Masonry
Southern Jurisdiction
Washington
McKenzie Mesa
Kentucky
the Treasury
Richard M. Tosbin
California
Starding
Netherlands
William Phillpis
Harding
Alaska
Naval Oil Reserve
Fall
Interior Department
New York
Harold L. Hart
Charleston
S. C
Galveston
Tex
Hudson River
Florida
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Ozark Hill
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Penn
Leo F. Yerzia
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H. R. Speed
Weaks Supply Co
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U. S
Gen Hines
VETS
Spurgeon Wingo
Louisiana Baptist Convention
First Baptist Church
Finance
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Great Lake
Iproviders
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Portland
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