Mellon Says Charges Against Treasury Baseless
Secretary Mellon told President Coolidge the inquiry into irregularities in the Bureau of Engraving found the charges baseless. He insisted Brewer’s accusations had no element of fact and that the treasury’s report confirms the integrity of government securities and treasury operations.
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Washington
Mellon
Coolidge
Treasury
Bureau of Engraving
Charles B. Brewer
Department of Justice
Harding
Brewer
Treasury Service
Two Ways of Settling Japanese Question
The National Committee on American Japanese Relations proposes two paths for Congress to resolve the Japanese exclusion immigration issue. One follows Hughes by regulating immigration under general law with a cap of 146 Japanese immigrants yearly. The other authorizes talks with Japan to extend or adapt the gentlemen's agreement while suspending the bill's restrictive provisions during negotiations.
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Washington
National Committee On
Senate
House
Congress
Secretary of State
Hughes
Japan
Easter Eggs Pay Church Debt in Conshohocken
In Conshohocken Pennsylvania Easter Eggs paid off St Mark s Lutheran Church debt. Candy was produced with 2132 eggs and machinery installed. Net profit 1948 dollars cleared the indebtedness. In Chicago neighbors speculate Mrs Harry Strune 25 killed her 11 month old baby and committed suicide per coroner s inquest.
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Conshohocken
St. Mark's Lutheran Church
Chicago
Harry Strune
Suljelde
German Trade Revival Assured as $5,000,000 Credit Created
New York reports a $5,000,000 American dollar credit to German importers and exporters, marking a revival of prewar German American trade. Twenty one major banks across New York, Chicago, and Boston participate, led by the International Acceptance Bank and Paul M. Warburg. A German Gold Rediscount Bank, backed by Steven Dawes era plans, aids the process, aiming to restore Germany’s credit and currency stability.
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New York
Great Britain
America
France
Germany
International Acceptance Bank, Inc
Paul M. Warburg
Chicago
Boston
National City Bank
Chase National Bank
Guaranty Trust Company
Equitable Trust Company
J. Henry Schroder Banking Corporation
National Bank of Commerce
Corn Exchange Bank
New York Trust Company
Farmers’ Loan and ‘Trust Company
Bankers’ Trust Company
Irving Bank and
Columbia Trust Company
Bank of the Manhattan Company
Chemical National Bank
National Park Bank
American Exchange National Bank
Seaboard National Bank
Title Guarantee and Trust Company
First National Bank
Old Colony Trust Company
Illinois Merchants’ Trust Company of Chicago
Hjalmar Schacht
Dawes
Schacht Bank
Bank of England
Goodyear Balloon Wins Big Goodyear Balloon Contest
The Goodyear III, piloted by W. T. Van Orman with C. K. Wollam, landed near Rochester Minnesota after a 48 hour 24 minute flight to win the national balloon elimination race. The team finished about 73 miles short of the 1910 American distance record. Capt. H. E. Honeywell, with T. E. Boudinot, placed second near Sanborn Minnesota at roughly 1,050 miles.
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San Antonio
Tex
Kelly Field
Minnesota
W. T. van Orman
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
C. K. Wollam
Rochester
Minn
W. R. Hawley
St. Louis
van Orman
Wollam
H. E. Honeywell
Kansas City
Honeywell
Sanborn
Decline of Japanese Population in Tsingtao China
Population figures show Japanese presence shrinking from over 30,000 during 1914 to 1922 to about 12,000 as influence wanes in Tsingtao and surrounding areas in Shantung. The assessment uses colony demographics to gauge shifting control.
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Shantung
Tsingtao
China
Pope Greets Cardinal Mundelein in Private Farewell
Pope Pius held a cordial private audience with Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago lasting over an hour. The meeting in Rome marked a formal farewell between the pope and the Chicago church leader.
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Pope
Cardinal Mundelein
Rome
Pope Pius
Chicago
Federal pay boost eyed for postal workers
House and Senate post office subcommittees plan a flat $300 increase for clerks and carriers. They reject local-rate adjustments and the Edge-Kelly three-tier proposal, keep five pay classes, and push to enact the bill this session.
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Washington, D. C
House
Senate Post Office
Postmaster General New
Postmaster General News
House Post Office
Senate
White Plains man accused of poisoning wife with germs
Westchester County District Attorney Arthur Rowland charges Clarence Baring inventor and manufacturer with administering pneumonia and diphtheria germs to his wife, Sally Griffith Baring. Baring held without bail on murder by arsenic claim. arraignment pending and possible grand jury review. His defense suggests neuropathic overwork and temporary mental instability.
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White Plains N. Y
Arthur Rowland
Westchester County
Clarence Baring
Sally Griffith Baring
Baring
White Plains
Rowland
Coolidge Calls Recreation Meet In Washington
President Coolidge announced a national conference on outdoor recreation to be held May 22 to 24 in Washington. White House statement said Secretary Roosevelt will chair the conference and lead a committee with Weeks Work Wallace Hoover and Assistant Secretary Roosevelt to draft a national recreation policy and issue invitations.
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Washington
Coolidge
White House
Weeks
Work
Wallace
Hoover
Roosevelt
Executions Ordered for 43 Rebel Officers in Chiapas Fight
Gen Juan Alonzo and forty two officers captured near Ixtapa in Chiapas were tried by summary court martial and immediately executed, according to a war office report from Gen Agapito Lastra.
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Mexico City
Juan Alonzo
Ixtapa
Chiapas
War Office
Agapito Lastra
Former Premier Held for Theft in Newfoundland
Sir Richard Squires, ex premier of Newfoundland, was arrested in St Johns on larceny charges based on a commission's findings about irregularities under his government which resigned last July. Adam Harrise, 27, of Saratoga Springs New York, was arrested in Bridgeport Conn for robbery of 140000 from a bank messenger’s car and the driver’s murder in Montreal on April 2.
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St. Johns
N. F
Sir Richard Squires
Newfoundland
Squires
Bridgeport
Conn
Adam Harrise
Saratoga Springs
N. Y
Montreal
Youth Killed by Live Wire in Iowa Tree Trimming
Noble Kingston, age 21, was electrocuted in Shelbyville while trimming tree limbs that concealed high voltage lines. Linemen removed the body.
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Pana
Noble Kingston
Shelbyville
Honduran turmoil claims several American marines
San Salvador reports several U S Marines killed in Honduras as rebels besiege Tegucigalpa. An American legation attache travels to La Libertad to contact Washington while reinforcements slip through rebel lines to enter the capital.
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San Salvador
Washington
Honduras
Tegucigalpa
la Libertad
Salvador
Omapala
Sumner Welles
Ceiba
Republic
Milwaukee
Amapala
Honduran
Legation
State
Navy
Central American Republic
L. D. Causey
Hughes
Sinister influence of large political donations on governance
The piece argues that vast contributions from business interests to political parties corrupt representative government and create hidden control over legislation and administration. It warns that both major parties foster this system, equating party largesse with buyable influence and railing against open bribery as a natural consequence.
Proverbial Reflections on News and Prophecy
A brief antiquated musing notes how scant news comes from a hanging tale and suggests the best reply to prophecy is another forecast. It then counsels readiness for the worst so the best can sustain itself.
Publishers Attack Higher Postal Rates
The American Newspaper Publishers Association at the Waldorf Astoria condemns Postmaster General New’s plan to raise second class postage. The group backs the McKinley amendment to cut rates to 1919 levels and argues the increase is unjust as newspapers already pay their way.
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New York
American Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Waldorf-Astoria
New
S. E. Thomason
The
Chicago Tribune
Thomason
Post Office
Pastor Indicted for Assaulting Janitor in Bet hany
Sullivan New Jersey report says Moultrie County grand jury indicts Rev. A. L. Schaffer pastor of the Bethany Methodist Episcopal Church on charges of assault with intent to do bodily harm.
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Sullivan
Moultrie County
A. L. Schaffer
Methodist Episcopal Church
Bethany
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Engraving Bureau Inquiry
U. S
Goodyear
William E. Borah
Idaho
W. L. Douglas
Oxford
Winton
W. L. Douglas Shoe Co
Spark St
Brockton
Mass
Kewanee
Cecil Beard
Hennepin Canal
Beard
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