Herriot Faces Gravest Crisis Over Versailles Pact
Paris reports Premier Herriot confronts a crisis as Poland and Britain clash with France over a security pact. Poland rejects revising Versailles while Chamberlain presses a German plan to guarantee peace excluding Poland’s frontier, sparking a broader diplomatic standoff.
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Paris
Herriot
Skrznsky
Poland
Chamberlain
Great Britain
Geneva
House of Commons
M. Herriot
Skrzynski
League
Germany
Europe
Town Vacated for Oil Wells in Wyoming Move Order
The town of Lavaye Wyoming with 1500 residents is to be moved within sixty days to clear a path for Ohio Oil Company oil development. Federal Judge T Blake Kennedy ruled the town established without legal basis and ordered all buildings and residents displaced. Contempt penalties apply if any sign of the town remains after the deadline.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Lavoye
Wyoming
T. Blake Kennedy
Kennedy
Ohio Oil Company
Lavaye
Old West
Gift supports Kewanee parks and crippled-children aid in Illinois
Property valued at 400000 has been turned over by E B Baker president of the Kewanee Roller Co for public use in Kewanee Illinois. The fund will yield about 30000 annually to develop the citys park system and aid crippled children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kewanee, Ill
E. B. Baker
Kewanee Roiler Co
Kewanee
Planes Collide in Flight Over Texas Parachute Exits
In San Antonio two Kelly Field planes collided at about 4000 feet. Both pilots bailed out with parachutes and landed safely as their burning aircraft, locked wing in wing, crashed to the ground.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Tex
Kelly Field
Customs official killed in Niagara bomb blast
Niagara Falls New York Orville A Pewster a federal customs official active in suppressing liquor smuggling was instantly killed by a bomb explosion. Elmer Whitacre a friend was fatally hurt in the blast.
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Niagara Falls
N. Y
Orville A. Pewster
Elmer Whitacre
Reed's Senate reform speech on oath and journal amendment
Senator James A. Reed of Missouri secured by unanimous vote a resolution to amend the Journal after President Coolidge's inaugural address. He criticized the Dawes led disbanding of the Senate outdoors and urged compliance with the oath, stressing constitutional limits without attacking the Vice President.
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Washington, D. C
James A. Reed
Missouri
Senate
Coolidge
Dawes
Reed
Supreme Court ruling curbs Rail Board authority
The Supreme Court held railroads may choose their own representative groups in labor disputes, limiting Railroad Labor Board reach. Pennsylvania Railroad argued for recognizing only company allied grievance committees, paid from payroll, even if not a majority of employees. The decision signals broader railroads’ leverage in wage and dispute talks.
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Washington, D. DC
Supreme Court
Railroad Labor Board
Taft
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Pennsylvania Company
National College of Arts Planned with $2.5 Million Buildi ng Fund
New York plans for a National College of Arts announced by the Council of the National Academy of Design after a special meeting. It calls for a $2,500,000 building fund and a $1,800,000 endowment, plus a $700,000 fund to send twenty five students abroad annually. The academy hopes to raise $6,000,000 for expansion, including a $1,000,000 endowment for exhibitions of American art in member cities.
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New York
National College of Arts
Council of the
National Academy of Design
General Mitchell Loses His Post in Army Air Service
Brig. Gen. William Mitchell reverts to colonel as Secretary Weeks withholds renomination for a new term after April 27. Weeks proposes Lieut. Col. James F. B. Fechet to replace Mitchell. the President sends Fechet’s nomination to the Senate. Fechet heads air service field at Kelly Field Texas. In Leningrad an oxygen tank explosion kills 26 and injures many, triggering panic and debris.
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Washington, D. C
William Mitchell
Army Air Service
Weeks
James FB. Fechet
Mitchell
Senate
Fechet
Air Service Advanced
Kelly Field
Tex
National Anti Tobacco Convention Backs Capitol Ban
Washington D C resolutions urged Congress to ban all tobacco use in the capitol and government buildings plus public gathering places in the District of Columbia. The measures were adopted by the national convention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Congress
Capitol
Government Department
District of Columbia
Kellogg Sworn In as Secretary of State
Kellogg is sworn in as Secretary of State by Associate Justice Pierce Butler at the State Department succeeding Hughes. The Minnesota native begins duties after a brief farewell to Hughes and a meeting with President Coolidge to discuss foreign policy.
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Oath
State Department
Pierce Butler
United States Supreme Court
Washington
D. C
Frank B. Kelllogg
Charles B. Hughes
Supreme Court
Kellogg
Minnesota
Congress
Butler
Kellogg Posed With Mrs. Kellogg
Hughes
Justice Butler
Secretary of State
Secretary Hughes
Bermuda
New York
Sec
Pry Kellogg
Coolidge
Most Brazen Tax Refund Case Involving Atlantic Steamship
Washington report details a $7.282 million tax refund granted to the Atlantic, Gulf and West Indies Steamship Corp. for 1917–1920 amid charges of asset concealment and bankruptcy pressure. Senate testimony labeled the action a bold fraud scheme, with officials noting the company’s misleading finances and the potential $9.9 million liability.
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Washington
Atlantic, Gulf and West Indies Steamship Corporation
Couzens
Senate
L. C. Manson
Mellon
McKellar
Tennessee
Reed
Pennsylvania
Nelson T. Hartson
Root, Clark, Buckner & Howland
Hartson
Treasury
Big gains shown in church goers census
The Christian Herald census reports an 80 percent rise in national population since 1891 but a 130 percent rise in church membership, totaling 46,142,210 communicants in 1924. Catholic Church leads with about 16 million. Evangelical group at 28,021,953, led by Methodists 8,700,007 and Baptists 8,227,225.
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New York
The
Christian Herald
Evangelical
Methodists
Baptists
Arizona estate tax eyed at 3 to 5 million
The State of Arizona expects to collect an inheritance tax of between 3 million and 5 million from the estate of the late William A. Clark, announced by Neil Osborne Jr., State Inheritance Tax Collector. In Washington, President Coolidge plans not to reappoint David J. Lewis of Maryland to the Tariff Commission. Alfred Dennis of Princess Anne County Md would be offered the post.
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Isbee, Arex
Arizona
William A. Clark
Neil Osborne, Jr
Washington, D. C
Coolidge
David J. Lewis
Maryland
Tariff Commission
Alfred Dennis
Princess Anne County
Fithian
Earl F. Gritten
Ilinois Brotherhood of Threshermen
Illinois
Gritten
Threshermen
Democrats Propose Nationwide Caucus Initiative
Franklin D Roosevelt of New York has launched a plan to hold a nationwide conference of Democratic leaders in early summer to strengthen party unity. He reports broad agreement on five organizational reforms including year-round national committee activity, closer state ties, a continuing financial base, and expanded publicity of party policy.
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Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt
New York
Thomas J. Walsh
Montana
Roosevelt
National Committee
Roof collapse injures 25 volunteers at Torrington tabernacle
In Torrington Connecticut twenty five volunteers were injured when the roof of a tabernacle under construction collapsed. Eighteen were seriously hurt as about sixty people were on the roof at the time, and the weight likely caused the timbers to fail.
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Torrington, Conn
Fugitive Dean Southerland Held as Bride Waits
Toledo, Ohio, records show Robert Farnsworth alias Dean P Southerland held as a fugitive from New York. An Illinois girl, his bride of under a week, is said to be his fifth undivorced mate awaiting his release or conviction.
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Toledo, O
Robert Farnsworth
Dean P. Southerland
New York
Prairie fire damages oil wells and farms near Sedan
A major prairie fire in Sedan area southwest of Independence Kansas caused extensive damage to oil properties and farm buildings. Sills burned, tubing dropped into wells, endangering operations. In Terre Haute Indiana two shot firers were killed and another entombed at the B Shirkeville mine seven miles northwest after a windy blast.
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Independence
Kan
Sedan
Here
Terre Haute
Ind
B Shirkeville
Anti injunctive bill approved by Illinois House
After four hours of debate, the judiciary committee backed labor's anti injunction bill 17 to 13 with no amendments. Support came from John H Walker Victor Olander and Rev Father J W Maguire while Cyrus E Dietz Otto Jaburek Colin C H Fyffe opposed for employers associations. The session also introduced bills on wine making aldermen racing and other measures.
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Springfield
Judiciary Committee
Finois House of Representatives
Labor
John H. Walker
Victor Olander
State Federation of Labor
J. W. Maguire
National Catholic Welfare Conference
Chicago
Illinois
Charles Coin
United States
John W. Gibson
Katherine Hancock Goode
The
Anti-Saloon League
Office of State Prohibition Enforcement Commissioner
Small
Carlistrom
General Assembly
Department of Conservation
Fish and Game
Department of Agriculture
Frank Abbey
Fish and Game Committee
Senate
R. K. Duvall
Belleville
Illinois News Roundup Highlights Robberies and Civic Moves
Arson and theft concerns spread as robberies target business districts near Pana while L. C. Browne is elected president of the Minois Farmers Institute in Springfield with G. W. Curtiss as vice president. Officials address Lake Michigan water use and levee plans, and Joliet reports first European fowl pest in a backyard flock. Carl Springer declared dead in Danville. $8,200 distributed to heirs H. J. Clarkson Eddison Clarkson and Daisy Peek.
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L. C. Browne
LaGrange
The
Minois Farmers’ Institute
Springfield
G. W. Curtiss
Stockton
H. E. Young
Clayton ©. Pickett
Chicago
Joliet
Urbana
Carl Springer
W. J. Bookwalter
Danville
H. J. Clarkson
Eddison Clarkson
Daisy Peek
Indianapolis
Springer
New York City
Calls superstition menace to health in Illinois pupils
Dr. Isaac D. Rawlings states a survey of 1 581 high school students in Illinois Indiana Kentucky and Tennessee found 19 percent believe a mad stone can prevent hydrophobia 60 percent think malaria stems from contaminated water and 23 percent accept a horse hair in water trough as a disease source.
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Springfield
Isaac D. Rawlings
Illinois State Academy of Science
Illinois
Indiana
Kentucky
Tennessee
Chicago
Rockford High School Pool Tragedy Sparks Investigation
A. B. Anderson, seventeen, a freshman, was found drowned in the Rockford high school pool. In McHenry, the village board approves summer paving plans costing 125000 dollars. Chicago action reduces the school board’s borrowing limit on 1925 tax collections from 36000000 to 25500000 dollars.
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A. B. Anderson
Rockford
Board of Education of
Chicago
Fire destroys farm records and library buildings in Oregon
The report notes a fire at former Governor Lowden's Oregon farm destroying cattle records and library buildings. A Springfield attorney general opinion allows railroad and utility surveyors to enter property for surveys without notice, with liability for damages.
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Oregon
Lowden
Carlstrom
Springfield
Randolph Boyd
Galva
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Army Air Chief
Leningrad
BIG Ship Company
Movement
Democratic Party
Judiciary Committee of
House
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Pana
Lake Michigan
Illinois River
Whkliam E. Hull
Henry T. Rainey
Sanitary District
McHenry
State Department of Public Welfare
Fred Lichtenberg
Mary Lichtenmiller
Pekin
Lichtenberg
Howard Storch
Northwestern University
Evanston
Calvary Cemetery
Leah Harris
Storch
Sigma Chi Fraternity
Fox River Valley Federation
Conservancy
Fox River
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