12 Feb 1924
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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1924
Page
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Report details grand jury activity since February starting with 172 examined and daily tallies from Monday through Saturday. Trial of criminal cases begins February 21 with many witnesses expected. petit jury excused until next Tuesday and no court sessions this week.
The Associated Press reports that miners and operators in Jacksonville Pennsylvania are moving to subcommittee talks to settle wage demands quickly. A Penna spokesman urged referent deliberations to a sub-committee of miners and operators.
Settlement reached between William Joseph Simmons and Dr. Thram Wesley Evans for 146000 dollars paid to Colonel Simmons. Report cited by close friends, via the Atlanta Journal.
President Coolidge departed Washington at 11 22 this morning to deliver a speech in New York before the National Republican Club. The trip underscores the administration's outreach ahead of party events and rallies in the Northeast.
The Maryland House debated a joint resolution calling for an investigation of the Maryland Amusement League. Dimarco of Baltimore City voted alone against recommitting the measure to the House Judiciary committee for correction. Some members fear the resolution will die in committee.
Emory L. Coblentz state director of welfare may reconsider not seeking reappointment. He is on vacation in Atlantic City and awaiting a discussion with Governor Ritchie about the post next Tuesday. The move follows recent state prison incidents and amid Annapolis expectations that incumbents will be reappointed before February 20.
Officers arrest Thomas Howard and John Boyce for alleged chicken peddling after a baby carriage on East Patrick Street was found with eight chickens instead of a child. The chickens could not be identified as stolen. hearing postponed.
Delegate Alton Y Bennett will introduce a resolution in the Maryland General Assembly asking Congress to designate the Star Spangled Banner as the national anthem. The American Legion supports official adop tion, noting the hymn’s historic status. Social events at Catoctin Country Club list a Valentine Dundee party on the 4th and a Mah Jongs and Rudge party on February 23.
Alexander Armstrong former Maryland attorney general testified Friday in Columbus Ohio in the case against William G. Bentham and Dwight Harrison of the Dollings Co. He described stock sales stoppages in Maryland and discussed correspondence with Harrison about four Dollings interests. He cited investigations into misrepresentations by Dollings salesmen and actions to suspend sales, noting details of the International Note and Mortgage Co. and other firms. The session opened with George D. Porter as a witness and Judge Sater denied a defense motion. The trial includes claims of an $858,818.55 operating deficit at the American Motor Truex Co. from 1920 to July 1926 with dividends paid.
Paul Sloman of Montgomery county is urged by friends as a Republican candidate for Congress from the Sixth district currently represented by Frederick N. Zihlman. The move follows Allegany County Republican Central Committee endorsement of Zihlman for another term. Sloman’s supporters plan to test sentiment at the Lincoln Day banquet in Hagerstown today.
An open competitive Civil service exam for the position of clerk carrier will be held at the post office on Saturday March 8 at 9 a.m. Applications must be made on the prescribed form available from W. A. Harter local secretary of the Civil Service Board at the post office.
Mountain City Lodge Knights of Pythias will mark the sixtieth diamond jubilee Monday night February 18 at 8 46 in the lodge room Frederick public invited. Supreme Lodge in San Francisco set a nationwide program to be read by W Thomas Summers Austin Howard Niles Basteriag and Wimer Brown with Mountain City Lodge Orchestra providing music. Over 1 560 members notified to attend a large turnout expected from Pythian Sisters and the public.
The Associated Press report from Egypt on February 13 states the lid of Tutankhamun's sarcophagus was raised revealing the king's body inside. The unveiled mummy case is described as the most splendid painted coffin ever found in Egypt.
The District of Columbia gasoline tax bill passed the House to create permanent automobile reciprocity with Maryland. A companion measure must pass the Senate before reciprocity takes effect. The vote was mixed with some noes and amendments by Rep. Frederick N. Zibiman.
The Potomac River Bridge Commission purchase panel will meet in Balimore on Friday with John N. Mackall as chairman to discuss buying the Brunswick and Point of Rocks bridges for 200000. Maryland and Virginia would share costs 100000 each and remove tolls once purchased. The panel may then seek approval from Governor Ritchie in Annapolis after further negotiations.
A House Indian Affairs Sub-Committee questioned the legality of a ruling by former Secretary Bo Fall permitting leasing of unallotted Indian reservation lands for mining and gas production after reviewing the former secretary's actions. The probe by the sub-committee aims to determine if the leasing decision complied with existing law and policy.
President Coolidge's remarks to the Nationals Republican Club will be broadcast by WI2 and WEAF in New York and WOAP from Washington with start expected between 9 and 9 30. Senator Wadsworth will speak before the president during the same program.
Delegations from northern county and Middletown district press the Board of County Commissioners for road upgrades. The northern group requests a Two-to-One funding plan and cites a partly funded local effort of about 4200 dollars toward widening a route between Six g Bridge over the Monocacy and Motter's Station. The Middletown delegation seeks about two miles of improvements from the state road below the new bridge toward Burklitsville.
Louis Wiley of the New York Times told Pennsylvania editors at a joint meeting that radio broadcasting cannot replace newspapers. He noted readers can reread print but must listen to radio as it airs and emphasized selecting what is heard. He also praised President Coolidge for supporting a resignation demand until an investigation is completed.
Fire alarms sounded at the Western Penitentiary in Pittsburgh as a laundry fire of undetermined origin caused minor damage. No disorder occurred and guards were killed in yesterday’s disturbance. officials investigate with the Prison Board.
In Hamilton Bermuda on February 12 renowned scientist Dr Jacques Loeb head of physiology at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research New York died last night after a brief illness of heart trouble. He was a leading figure in physiological studies and his death shocks the medical community.
Indianapolis reports March 4 as the start date for Governor Warren T. McCray’s trial on two indictments from Marion County grand juries. The article also notes obituaries and a brief history of billiards origins. It references Elizabeth Howard Turner, Francis Scott Key’s granddaughter, who died in San Francisco at eighty-one, and details about her family.
In London on February 12 the MacDonald Cabinet endured a sharp questions session in the Commons as opposition benches pressed the new Labour government. Premier MacDonald warned the government would only fall on a substantial issue and urged calm as he acknowledged no party held a majority.
The Rev William Montgomery Brown of Giallo Ohio, once Arkansas bishop, faces extreme heresy charges. Bishops Hall Vrancia and Cravatt allege he taught and distributed in a book doctrines contrary to the Protestant Episcopal Church of America.
Delegates at the National Conference for Progressive Politics adopt a resolution calling a July 4 Cleveland convention of workers farmers and progressives to form a third major political party. The gathering aims to nominate President and Vice President and decide other convention matters.
Washington, Feb. 12. The Senate committee reopened its probe into Secretary Fall as witnesses testified on financial transactions linked to Fall's connections during his career. The focus remained on dealings surrounding the Albuquerque Morning Journal and related interests amid renewed scrutiny.
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