World events brief from Washington and beyond
A compilation of political, economic, and international notes. Honduran revolutionists reject peace plans. Zelaya assures U S interests will be protected. Senate defeats a 5 million fertilizer appropriation. FTC probes radio monopoly accusations. Coolidge urges government action and tax cuts. Coast artillery reorganization proposed. House judiciary panel advised on bribery inquiries. A threatening letter targets Senator Heflin. Congressmen corruption probe results and Lenroot resigns. Muscle Shoals sale approved. Ford’s Muscles Shoals deal moves to Senate. Plane pilot D H Pearson dies in Curwensville crash. Carnegie Corp grants and new appropriations. LA detective killed. wife suicides. Republican conventions instruct support for Coolidge. Knutson jailed on alleged offense. Moro suppression nearly complete. Florida fruit damage from gale. New York gale disruption and fatalities. U S religious census reports 45 457 868 church communicants, up 680 015.
Sugar beet price boost planned by Great Western for 1928 crop
Great Western Sugar company will pay western farmers one dollar more per ton for the 1928 sugar beet crop, with payment set for April 1 in Denver. Other items note the Interchurch World Movement ending with debts paid, a Welsh memorial at President Harding’s tomb, and legal actions against Williamson county Sheriff Galligan for Prohibition violations.
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Great Western Sugar Company
Denver
Colo
Woodrow Wilson
Paris
Berlin plans Solf to be U S envoy replaces Wiedfeldt
Berlin arranged for Wilhelm Solf the German ambassador to Tokyo to succeed Wiedfeldt as German representative in Washington. Solf has just arrived from Tokyo. Four killed and 25 injured in a Calais to Mediterranean express wreck near Lyons France. Most casualties were British subjects. Cairo dispatch notes Americans and British held up in Egypt and Palestine by railway suspensions due to floods.
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Berlin
Wilhelm Solf
Tokyo
Ambassador Wiedfeldt
Washington
Solf
Calais
Mediterranean
Lyons
France
Cairo
Egypt
Palestine
Nebraska Supreme Court Justice Chester Aldrich Dies
Chester H. Aldrich sixty one justice of the Nebraska Supreme Court and former governor died at Superior after a long illness John M Roach seventy three former president of the Chicago Surface Lines died at Fort Myer Florida Roach was a millionaire who rose from street car conductor Alfred H Smith president of the New York Central lines was killed in a fall from a horse in New York City
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Chester H. Aldrich
Nebraska Supreme Court
Superior, Neb
John M. Roach
Chicago Surface Lines
Fort Myer
Fla
Roach
Alfred H. Smith
New York Central Lines
New York City
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Zelaya
United States
Senate
Federal Trade Commission
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Coolidge
Coast Artillery Corps
Philippines
House
Judiciary
Heflin
New York
Chicago
Lenroot
Public Lands Committee
Henry Ford
Muscle Shoals
D. H. Pearson
Mall Air
Curwensville
Carnegie Corporation of New York
F. L. Pratt
Los Angeles Police Department
Mildred Pearl Lloyd
L. P. Schutt
Harold Knutson
Minnesota
Arlington, Va
Lanao
Manila
Orlando
Florida
New York Christian Herald
Interchurch World Movement of North America, Inc
President Harding
Marion
Mr. Harding
Galligan
Williamson County
Danville
John Layman
Atlantic Coast
H. W. Evans
Little Rock, Ark
Ku Klux Klan
Joseph Simmons
Klan
Hawkeye
State News
Sweden
Stockholm
Grand National Assembly
Angora
Kamchatka Peninsula
Moscow
Morocco
Sadi Lecoirfe
New Virginia
Black Hawk County
Blackhawk
W. E. Poogue
Rhode Island
Clarion
Sioux City
Oskaloosa
Mahaska County
Mahaska
Iowa
P. M. Dahlen
Cascade
Burbank
Bank
R. L. Polk & Co
Des Moines
Samuel Simmons
American Legion
Kalona
Iowa College
Orient
Iowa State Oriental Christian
Cedar Rapids
Martin van de Haar
Altoona
S. C. Rhode Island
F. W. Steffen
Dubuque
Chicago Commission
Dutukue
Iowa Horse Showers Association
Polk County
R. L. Polk and Company
Iowa Agricultural Experiment Association
Ames
Agricultural and Livestock Statisticians
State Industrial School
Chevrolet
Mperior
Lint
Michigan
Superior
Chevrolet Motor Company
Detroit
General Motors Corporation
Calumet
E. I. DU Pont DE Nemours & Co., Inc
Sporting Powder
Wilmington
Del
Dupont
Ortsiwansowice
Gothas Velvet
Encil Co
New Yorks
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