Harvey Breaks with Coolidge in Editorial Clash
Washington editor Col George Harvey, former ambassador, criticizes the Paris German reparations settlement in the Washington Post as an affront to American traditions. The piece calls the agreement trapping the U S by European diplomats and questions the administration's foreign policy path under Coolidge.
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America
Hughes
Kellogg
Senate
Germany
Coolidge
George Harvey
Great Britain
Washington Post
Paris
United States
Europe
Col. Harvey
Col
Harvey
Rhine
Flaming Sword Order Denounced in Chattanooga Royal Proclamation
Dr Roy E Davis royal ambassador of the Knights of the Flaming Sword issues a proclamation in Chattanooga urging all members to withdraw. He declares the movement has no place in American institutions and seeks to stop the accumulation of millions for private, greedy individuals.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Roy &E., Davis
The
Knights of the Flaming Sword
Coolidge Approves $150 Million Public Building Bill
President Coolidge has approved the omnibus public building bill totaling 150 million dollars. The measure covers construction of new federal structures and remodeling of existing ones, per a Mellon letter to Representative Elliott of Indiana, chair of the House Public Buildings and Grounds Committee.
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Coolidge
Ashington
Mellon
Elliott
Indiana
House Committee On Public Buildings and Grounds
Submarine Loosen Efforts Continue After Grounding
In Chatham Massachusetts Navy tugs and coast guard cutters push to free the submarine 8 10 from sands after it ran aground recently. Five officers and the crew of 35 were rescued from the stricken vessel. In Constantinople an importer faces Turkish customs refusal over a Greek carpet bearing a facsimile of the American dollar. In Washington boxboard manufacturers hear calls to extend the eight hour day and six day week to all workers.
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Chatham
Mass
Coast Guard
Constantinople
Greece
Washington
Davis
Four Drown as Boat Upset on White River Arkansas
In Cotter Arkansas four people drowned when an overloaded rowboat capsized on White River a mile below Oakland. Three others were rescued including Alva Johnson who saved James Shew and Georgia Bearden. The dead were Rush Shew Tom Shew Tessie Billings and G W Hawkins. Bodies not recovered. The seven were en route to Oakland for a North Marion County school meeting. Johnson saved Bearden and James Shew before returning for others who vanished.
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Ark
White River
Oakland
Rush Shew
Tom
Tessie Billings
G. W. Hawkins
Alva Johnson
James Shew
Georgia Bearden
Marion County
Johnson
James Shaw
Miss Bearden
Minority report clears Denby in oil scandal stance
A Republican Senate Oil Committee minority report criticizes Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall for taking a $100,000 loan and favors from Edward L. Doheny regarding a California naval oil reserve. Signed by Smoot Stanfield Bursum Cameron and Spencer, it supports the majority’s condemnation of Fall.
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Washington
Edwin Denby
Senate Oil Committee
Albert B. Fall
Interior
Edward L. Doheny
California
Smoot
Utah
Stanfield
Oregon
Bursum
New Mexico
Cameron
Arizona
Spencer
Missouri
Senate
Walsh
Dem
Montana
Wealth of United States Estimated at 320 Billion Dollars
Washington reports the national wealth at December 1922 end estimated by the Census Bureau at 320.8 billion dollars, up 72.2 percent in a decade. Real estate and improvements taxed leads with 155.9 billion, followed by personal belongings valued at 39.8 billion.
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United States
Washington
Census Bureau
Dr. David Starr Jordan Receives $25000 Peace Prize
In Los Angeles Dr. David Starr Jordan, chancellor emeritus of Stanford University, was presented with the Raphael Herman $25,000 peace award at USC auditorium. Donor, a Detroit and Los Angeles capitalist, funded to reward an educational plan for world peace. McAdoo presided. speakers included Channing Cox. Jordan was hosted at Chamber of Commerce luncheon beforehand.
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Los Angeles
Cal
David Starr Jordan
Stanford University
Raphael Herman
University of Southern California
Detroit
August Thomas
Maine
World Federation of Educational Institutions
William Gibbs McAdoo
Channing Cox
Massachusetts
Dr. Jordan
Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce
Willebrandt Not to Become Federal Judge in California
Mrs. Mable Walker Willebrandt Assistant Attorney General in charge of prohibition cases will not join the federal bench in California. Backers of her candidacy have failed to secure the appointment and the fight is over.
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Washington
Mable Walker Willebrandt
Justice Department
California
Engineers Oppose Federal Power Plan in Washington
The American Engineering Council session in Washington voted against a pending bill requiring the Federal Power Commission to draft a comprehensive water resources plan for power development and navigation.
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Power Commission
Washington
Federal Power Commission
American Engineering Council
Passage of Champaign News Gazette editor Charles L. Kiser
Charles L. Kiser longtime managing editor of the Champaign News Gazette died after a heart attack caused by acute indigestion in Champaign Illinois.
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Champaign
Ill
Charles L. Kiser
Champaign News Gazette
Haynes Plans to Quit Cabinet Over Policy Disputes
Washington reports Roy A. Haynes, federal prohibition commissioner, will retire after the Coolidge inauguration due to long simmering clashes with Treasury superiors over enforcement policy. James H. Jones has controlled field work. succession discussions name Arthur Woods, former New York police commissioner, as a possible replacement. The plan hinges on a new law to make the prohibition unit an independent Treasury bureau, via the Cramton bill, with or without passage this session.
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Treasury Department
Roy A. Haynes
Prohibition
Arthur Woods
Police
New York
Haynes
Harding
Treasury
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
James H. Jones
Jones
Coolidge
Congress
Prohibition Unit
Bureau of the Treasury
Bureau of Internal Revenue
White House
Prohibition Bureau
Cramton
Postal Zoning Plan Attacked At Editors Meeting
Washington editors gathered at the New Willard Hotel as about 75 members and many correspondents debated a postal zoning plan. Dr Morris Fishbein gave a talk on how medical news is treated in the press prompting lively discussion. President Yost urged Publishers on free press rights and untrammeled distribution beyond geography.
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Washington
American Society of Newspaper Editors
New Willard Hotel
Casper
Yost
St. Louis
Morris Fishbein
The
American Medical Association
Postul
Illinois Central to Build 6 Million Dollar Shops
Illinois Central Railroad plans new shop facilities costing six million dollars at Paducah Kentucky. Construction will start soon after contracts are awarded, announced by President Charles R. Markham.
Miners Fight Leaves One Dead at Grant Town Mine
One miner was shot and killed and another seriously wounded in a gun fight between rival miner groups at the Grant Town Mine near Fairmont West Virginia. The incident occurred at the New England Fuel and Transportation Co mine. Local authorities investigated and no immediate arrests were reported.
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Fairmont
W. Va
Grant Town
New England Fuel and Transportation Co
Here
Presidents Talk Shop With Editors in Washington
President Coolidge urged editors to guard against propaganda and keep news policies separate from business motives. He praised American idealism as the nation’s core, saying newspapers must serve the public interest and support peaceful, honorable aims while maintaining financial strength. He warned that under freedom the press should resist being a propaganda tool and must reflect genuine public virtue.
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Washington, D. C
Coolidge
American Society of Newspaper Editors
United States
America
Bandit Gerald Chapman Captured After 2-Year Hunt
Gerald Chapman the infamous bank bandit and murderer captured by Muncie police after a long manhunt. He escaped Atlanta prison in 1923 while serving 25 years for a 1921 New York mail robbery and is to be returned to New Britain Connecticut to face murder charges linked to Policeman James Skelley’s October 11 shooting. He was overpowered after a violent struggle with four officers, narrowly missing Captain Fred Puckett.
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Muncie
Ind
Gerald Chapman
Atlanta
New York
Indianapolis
New Britain
Cohn
James Skelley
Skelley
Chapman
Walter J. Shean
Springfield
Mass
Fred Puckett
United States Banks Reported to Loan Poland Fifty Million
Warsaw reports indicate American banking interests have negotiated a fifty million dollar loan to Poland. Official quarters neither confirm nor deny the newspaper claims.
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Poland
Warsaw
Three Cars of Alcohol Seized in Minneapolis
Federal agents seized three carloads of liquor here from Minneapolis tied to a Philadelphia distillery. The contraband shipment was alleged to have been secreted and intercepted as part of Prohibition enforcement operations.
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St. Paul
Minn
Philadelphia
Minneapolis
Inauguration Day Draws Massive Illinois Crowd
Eight thousand residents from every Illinois county gathered at the state arsenal for the inauguration of Gov Len Small and other officers. Justice Stone administered the oath to Small and officials, followed by a formal program, luncheon, and a later inaugural ball. The Legislature recessed to January 27 for renovations and committee work.
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State Arsenal
Len Small
Justice Stone
State Supreme Court
Small
Fred E. Sterling
Rockford
Louis L. Emmerson
Mount Vernon
Oscar Nelson
Geneva
Omar M. Custer
Galesburg
Oscar Carlstrom
Aledo
Illinois
General Assembly
Robert E. Scholes
Peoria
Governor Small
Gordon
Executive Mansion
Arsenal
Albert L. Culberson
Lincoln Home and Tomb
Capital
Hamilton Club of
Chicago
Illinois factory revival boosts 15000 jobs and park plans advance
The Illinois monthly review reports a 2 percent rise in manufacturing employment over 30 days with 77 percent on full time. Col C J Miller notes progress on a statewide park system, ten parks now with one more planned and costs around $65000. Anton J Cermak says he will veto new law officers to enforce prohibition on county highways. A monument is planned next summer to mark the pioneer Swedish Methodist church site at Victoria, the oldest Swedish Methodist church before it was sold.
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Illinois Department of Labor
Springfield
United States
Col
C. J. Miller
State Department of Public Works and
Anton J. Cermak
Cook County Board
Chicago
Victoria
Victori
Cloakroom Planned for Women Solons
In Springfield a plan to convert a statehouse committee room into a rest and cloak room for the Fifty Fourth general assembly women is being considered. Some members of the lower house would hire a maid to assist during sessions. Proponents cite chivalry and privacy, while women seek equality and less disruption in their work.
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General Assembly
Springfield
Illinois electors cast votes for Coolidge and Dawes in Springfield
Presidential electors of Illinois met in Springfield and cast twenty nine electoral ballots for Calvin Coolidge and Charles Dawes as their state’s choice.
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Illinois
Springfield
Coolidge
Dawes
Wheat Unharmed by Severe December Ice Storm Says Farm Test
Laboratory tests by the Sanga Mon County Farm Bureau show wheat was not injured by the severe December ice storm. The finding highlights crop resilience in the region despite harsh winter conditions.
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Sangamon County
Blanding Reappointed to Inheritance Tax Post
Virgil Blanding of Moline is appointed again to head the inheritance tax division in the attorney general's office at Springfield.
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Virgil Blanding
Moline
Attorney General’s Office
Springfield
Illinois farm investment surpasses business totals in Urbana
University of Illinois at Urbana officials report farm investments in Illinois average about $25,000 per farm, higher than the average business investments in the same Urbana community. The finding highlights stronger capital per agricultural unit compared with commercial ventures locally.
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University of Illinois At Urbana
Winnebago Board Considers Poison Campaign Over Bounty
The Winnebago county board weighs ending the groundhog bounty and initiating a poisoning campaign to curb the ro dents, citing limited impact of payments on the pest issue.
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Winnebago County
Wilbur T. Norton Dies at Alton at Age Eighty
Wilbur T. Norton a three time post master and former owner editor of the Alton Telegraph and Alton Republican died in Alton aged eighty. He served in the Civil War and was a member of the State Historical Society. The obituary notes his long public service and local influence.
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Wilbur’ T. Norton
Alton Telegraph
Old
Alton
State Historical Society
Bank Inspectors steal 75000 in bank heist. multiple injuries
A nervous breakdown linked to extortion and bribery charges against a justice of the peace and highway officer is cited as the cause of Constable Percy Stewart's death in Peoria. Two men posing as bank inspectors fled with 75000 in cash and bonds after binding J. F. Kelley of Farmers' State Bank in Chenoa. Urbana students injured in a bobsled crash near University of Illinois. several named among the injured. Knox College star Karl Harrison, newly married, leaves Knox. Dr. Norman Bridge, former Chicago educator, dies in Los Angeles after a brief illness.
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Percy Stewart
Peoria
J. F. Kelley
Farmers’ State Bank of
Chenoa
Engagement announced for Hvar Swanson and Miss Sarat Willitts
In Galesburg an engagement is announced between Hvar Swanson of DeKalb and Lombard athlete noted for winning 16 letters in college and Miss Sarat Willitts of New Boston, formerly Lombard student now enrolled at the University of Wisconsin.
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Hvar Swanson
DeKalb
Sarat Willitts
New Boston
University of Wisconsin
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