Notable World News In Brief From The Era
Chief Justice Taft has recovered from temporary disability easing his Supreme Court attendance. Cardinal Hayes or Cardinal Mundelein may preside at the national Eucharistic congress in Mexico City in October. William J. Conners of Buffalo and Palm Beach wed for the third time to Miss Grace J. Hammond. Columbia University awarded LL D degrees to Andrew W. Mellon Victor F. Lawson and Melville E. Stone. J H Thomas recovered from pleurisy and left for the seaside but injured fingers in a car accident.
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Taft
Supreme Court
Cardinal Hayes
New York
Cardinal Mundelein
Chicago
Mexico City
William J. Conners
Buffalo
Palm Beach
Grace J. Hammond
Brooklyn
St. Petersburg
Fla
Columbia University
Andrew W. Mellon
the Treasury
Victor Fr. Lawson
Chicago Daily News
Melville E. Stone
Associated Press
J. H. Thomas
British Hood visits Honolulu in naval show of force
A special service squadron led by the battle cruiser Hood arrived in Honolulu for a week long visit. Other items note a fire damage at a Montgomery Alabama home, the sudden death of Viscount Pirrie aboard the Ebro, a drowning of four Marines near Quantico, a Boston banker’s death at Montecito, and various transport and political items across the United States.
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Hood
Honolulu
Montgomery
Ala
Ilks
South
Notable Postwar Diplomatic And Political Moves Across Europe
Reports from Paris London and Berlin recount diplomat and political shifts across Europe. Extradition treaties with Bulgaria proceed. Justice Feetham to head the Irish boundary commission. Durand dies in England. Mesopotamian assembly stalls Anglo Iraqi treaty. Deutsche Bank reports no dividend for 1923. Lifeboat conference to convene in London with U.S. and European delegates. Reichstag backs Dawes report. Albanian ministers near accepting Nationalist gains including Goritza. Berlin brewery strike reduces beer supply. Alberta north country forest fires threaten millions in timber. U.S. Supreme Court allows briefs in Chicago sanitary district water case. Finland April paper exports rise to 20 000 tons with new factories rising.
Congress Passes $150 Million Road Fund and Other Session Notes
The House approves a $150 million two year road appropriation while the Senate Daugherty committee resumes hearings. Secretary Melton may answer recent testimony. William C. Morrow is nominated by President Coolidge as special government counsel regarding naval oil reserve No 1 in California. A grand jury in Washington hears John C. Shaffer testify on Wyoming oil reserve claims. Judge Thompson orders $108657 inheritance tax returned to the Frick estate. A bill seeks $1 million annually for three years to fund vocational rehabilitation with state matching. Harry M. Daugherty challenges the Brookhart Wheeler committee authority and refuses to testify.
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William C. Morrow
Tacoma
Wash
President Coolidge
Naval Oil Reserve No. 1
California
Washington
John C. Shaffer
Chicago
Shaffer
Senate Oil Committee
Wyoming
Fragmented Illinois items span river search to railroad crash
The report lists multiple unrelated events: a body pulled from the Kishwaukee River after an all night search. a man named Alfred Duodack drowned in Lake Decatur. a shooting after a quarrel in Kewanee. bond votes on Sunday shows in Sterling. a death of Mary Grace in Harrisburg. a streetcar crash near Moline killing a woman, Emma Markland. hydro electric plant plans for Dixonville. road opening between Blackbridge and Venice. a crow omen near Winnebago. coaching appointments at Batavia and Illinois track. a congressional candidacy in Monmouth. a Flag Day tablet dedication in Oregon. others include requisitions for return of two men and a fatal rail accident near Lefevre. and Kane county doctors opposing free dispensary work by Elgin nurses.
Prominent Citizens and Crises Dominate Local News
Joseph Goffinet a Blue Mound landowner dies after a fall at seventy five. William Townshend dies of sleeping sickness in Stockton after ten days. B F Peek of Deere & Co. announces congress candidacy. A gun battle near Rockford results in one bandit capture named Tony Gezingo. St Luke's hospital reports seventy five thousand daily ill in Chicago against nine teen thousand beds. Eastern Cuban Plantation Co declared bankrupt with claims exceeding assets by fifty thousand. IHInvis road bonds sold for nine million seven hundred eighty seven thousand two hundred dollars to First National Bank of New York. Warren county highway work expands with fifty miles of roads. Various Republicans named as possible Circuit Court judge candidates. Ku Klux Klan officers surrender on murder warrants in Herrin. Eleven men post ten thousand bonds.
Alton city hall foundation to host new building plan
The foundation of the burned historic Alton city hall will host a new building under council plans. Bond proceeds of 75000 dollars from a remodeling measure remain available if the old foundation is used. J E Hill of the University of Illinois will supervise agricultural education succeeding Carl Colvin who resigns to take Haiti post. A $50000 drive to fund an aged home proceeds with July 16 deadline to use conditional bequests totaling 250000 from C H Little and Joseph Emmert.
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Alton
J. E. Hill
College of Agriculture
University of Illinois
Carl Colvin
Haiti
Mr. Colvin
Ilinois
Freeport
C. H. Little
Joseph Emmert
Winnebago County
Old People’s Home
Bonus funds to forward soldiers bonus law
Washington reports the War department will proceed with the soldiers bonus as planned using nonappropriated funds totaling several million dollars from War department assets. Acting Secretary Dwight Davis announced the decision after talks with Budget Director Lord and Comptroller General McCarl. Navy department and veterans' bureau are study similar plans.
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Washington
Coolidge
Congress
War Department
Dwight Davis
Lord
McCarl
Navy Department
Veterans’ Bureau
Pusey Heads A M A Urges Birth Control and Eugenics
Dr William Allen Pusey in his inaugural address as president of the American Medical Association calls for leadership by physicians to broaden knowledge of birth control and eugenics. The house of delegates denounces promiscuous liquor prescriptions and self treatment of addicts. A recommendation asks repeal of national prohibition act sections that restrict use of alcohol in medicine to protect the patient physician relationship.
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Chicago
William Allen Pusey
American Medical Association
House of Delegates
Decision on Income Tax Levy In Washington
Officials of the bureau of internal revenue said Nelson T. Hartson, solicitor, issued an informal decision that the 25 percent income tax cut applies to part of the levy withheld at the source. The ruling, though informal, was given at the Treasury division’s request as it studies drafting regulations to enforce the 25 percent tax reduction for 1922 incomes.
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Washington
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Nelson T. Hartson
Bureau
Division of Rules and Regulations
Treasury Department
Government Forecasts Surplus Near 400 Million Dollars
Washington reports the government surplus for the year will approach 400 million dollars. President Coolidge has been informed by General Lt. M. Lord, director of the budget. Earlier estimates cited about 329 million. higher receipts from customs and internal revenue taxes, excluding the income tax, explain the larger prospective total.
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Washington
Coolidge
Lt. M. Lord
Lord
Pancho Villa Retains Title Against Bud Taylor in Brooklyn
Pancho Villa defeats Bud Taylor in a twelve round title defense at Nostrand club in Brooklyn. Villa dominates from start to finish, pressing the Terre Haute challenger from rope to rope and leaving Taylor with a battered look as the final bell ends the bout.
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Pancho Villa
Terre Haute
New York
Bud Taylor
Nostrand
Brooklyn
Villa
Naylor
Granddaughter of Adams Dies in Colorado at 101
Mrs Reneca Bean, granddaughter of John Quincy Adams, sixth U S president, died at her home in Detersburg Colorado near Denver on April 7. She had just celebrated her 102nd birthday.
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John Quincy Adams
Denver
Cole
Reneca Bean
John Quincey Adams
United States
Detersburg
Colo
Bean
Immigrants Move Into Washington State Farmland
Many European immigrants including Hollanders Italians Russians and Scandinavians have moved into Washington from the eastern U S and taken up agricultural lands securing new farming areas in Olympia.
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State of Washington
Olympia, Wash
United States
Four Years’ Sentence for Wisconsin Banker
William Barker, former president of the Allez State Bank in Superior Wisconsin, was sentenced to four years in state prison after pleading guilty to embezzlement. The case centers on misuse of bank funds during his tenure as bank president.
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Wisconsin Bankers Superior
Wis
William Barker
Allez State Bank
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