Senator La Follette Attacks Teapot Dome Oil Deals
Wisconsin senator charges the Harding administration reversed Roosevelt Taft and Wilson policies on naval oil reserves. He urges a Senate Public Lands Committee investigation into Teapot Dome leases and related sales to private interests and accuses Fail and Denby of pressuring naval officers to export oil. He cites Wyoming Governor Carey and says reserves must serve the navy.
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Washington
New York Stock Exchange
Wyoming Naval Oil Reserve
la Follette
Wisconsin
Senate Public Lands Committee
Wyoming Teapot Dome
California
Wyoming
Hardiane
Naval Oil Reserve
Roosevelt
Taft
Wilson
Senate
White House
Interior Department
Administration
Fail
Denby
Navy
Fall
Teapot Dome
Carey
Salt Creek
Senator la Follette
McCumber
North Dakota
Poindexter
Finance Committee
Haiti Seeks U S Pullout After Self Rule Plea
A Washington filing by lawyers and foreign policy groups urges the restoration of Haitian self government and immediate American troop withdrawal. The 24-lawyer report contends the U S seizure of the Republic of Haiti violates the Constitution treaties and international law.
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Washington
State Department
Foreign Policy Association of New York
W Nations Popular Government League of Washington
United States
Republic of Haiti
Marshall Urges Literacy Test for All Citizens
In St Louis on April 27 former vice president Thomas R Marshall called for disfranchising every citizen who cannot read write or speak the American language. He voiced the opinion in an address delivered there.
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St. Louis
Thomas R. Marshall
United States
Harding Praises Grant Deeds At Birth Centennial
President Harding extolled General Grant during ceremonies in Point Pleasant Ohio marking the hundredth anniversary of Grant birth. He praised Grant's magnanimity and determination in war and urged world leaders to adopt his peaceful spirit for restoration and prosperity.
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Point Pleasant
Grant
Harding
Republic
Germans Shoot U. S. Officer During May Day Riot
In Mayence on May 2 a U S Army captain was wounded when his car veered into a marching crowd. The mob attacked the vehicle and struck the chauffeur, while French gendarmes intervened and made several arrests.
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Mayence
Rheinstrasse
Battle for Tientsin as Chang Tso-Lin troops seize city
A heavy battle raged along the Tientsin front. Chang Tso-Lin forces now hold the city and extend about 15 miles south of the Peking Tientsin railway, with Wu Pei Fu’s Chinese forces pressing in on the port city of Peking.
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Pao Ting Fu
China
Wu Pei Fu
Tientsin
Chang Tso-Lin
Peking-Tientsin
Peking
Booze Seized After Chase At New York Bay
New York police halted a two mile chase down the bay ending in the capture of nearly $100000 worth of imported whiskies aboard a large ocean steam lighter. A flurry of gunfire and clashes with the crew preceded six arrests.
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New York
Russians Accept Allies Terms at Genoa Peace Talks
At Genoa on May 2 the Russians agreed to all terms imposed by the Allies including unconditioned recognition of debts. A French article on foreign court decisions was dropped and Barthou's private property definition passed with Belgium objecting. Russia seeks world peace and aims to use the conference as a basis for broader settlement, while Lloyd George asserts British resolve to keep the talks alive.
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Genoa
Russia
Supreme Council
Barthou
Belgium
France
Egoanens Lloyd George
Lloyd George
Cannes
Paris
China insurgents repulsed as forces clash near Tientsin
April 27 Amoy reports Gen Grene and Gen Tso Lin’s troops retreat after skirmishes with Gen Wu Pei Fu south of Tientsin. Chihli forces tear up Peking Hankow railway tracks. Chang Tso Lin sends 40 000 more troops into Chihli Shantung and Anhwei to join 30 000 already there in a plan to topple the Peking government.
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Peking
Wu-Pei-Fu
Major General McAndrews Dies in Washington
Maj. Gen. James W. McAndrews, chief of staff of the American Expeditionary Forces for over a year, died in Washington after a long illness. General Pershing was at his bedside nearly to the end. He was commissioned major general in April 1918 and became Pershing's chief of staff the following month.
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Washington
James W. McAndrews
General Pershing
McAndrews
Greeks Arrive in Constantinople After 16 Day Sufferings
On the Greek steamer Michael Archangel from Novorossisk Russia 3 500 starving refugees reach Constantinople after 16 days at sea with limited bread and fresh water. The group includes 500 children and 3 000 adults among more than 20 000 Greeks driven from homes by Bolsheviks.
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Constantinople
Novorossisk
Russia
Bandit Gang Robs Manns Branch Bank of Ireland
A band of men robbed the Manns branch of the Bank of Ireland in Dublin today. They escaped after the heist.
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Irish Bank
Dublin
Manns
Bank of Ireland
Simmons Attacks Tariff Bill in Senate Speech
Senator Simmons of North Carolina denounced the pending Republican tariff bill as dangerous to the nation and its institutions. He warned of rate fixing and patronage tied to presidential powers, in a speech that outlined major Democratic lines for the 1924 elections and spurred mass pamphlet distribution.
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Washington
Simmons
North Caron
Senate
Congress
United States
Gompers Attacks Bolshevism in America at Mass Meeting
President Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor condemned Bolshevik influence in the United States. He alleged a red propaganda fund running to trillions of dollars, funded by jewels stolen from Russian nobility, tied to Genoa conference discourse and labor unrest led by Lenin associates.
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Chicago
Samuel Gompers
American Federation Labor
America
Russia
Gompers
Genoa
Municipal Pier
Lenin William Z. Foster
John Fitzpatrick
Edward Nockels
Chicago Federation of Labor
United States Plans Funding Talks With Debtor Nations
The World War foreign debt commission, led by Senator Reed Smoot and Representative Theodore Burton with Secretary Mellon Hughes Hoover, prepares to negotiate funding of $11.5 billion in debts. Debtors include Great Britain France and others, with loans from Liberty bonds and relief programs totaling over $10.15 billion.
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Washington
United States
Congress
World War Foreign Debt Commission
Senate
Reed Smoot
Utah
Theodore Burton
Ohio
Treasury
Mellon
Hughes
Commerce
Hoover
Great Britain
Secretary of War
Secretary of the Navy
American Relief Administration
United States Grain Corporation
Belgium
Cuba
Czechoslovakia
France
Greece
Italy
Liberia
Rumania
Russia
Serbia
Esthenia
Latvia
Lithuania
Poland
Armenia
Austria
Hungary
Debt Commission
Missing Liberty bonds valued up to 500000 at firm Engler Jones
News reports loss or theft of Liberty bonds from the Wall Street law firm William Eng ler Jones. Officials declined to comment on the incident tied to financial tickets.
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Wall Street
New York
William Engler & Jones
Young Illinois Woman Slain In church parsonage murder
Coroner reports Miss Gertrude Hanna twenty five year old former teacher found dead in the United Presbyterian church parsonage at Hoopeston Illinois. Authorities believe pregnancy indicates homicide.
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Illinois
Hoopesten
Gertrude Hanna
United Presbyterian Church
Strike Shuts Coke Ovens In Fayette Regions
Pittsburgh, April 28. Thirty two plants with 5 996 coke ovens have been closed in Fayette county coke regions since the strike began April 1. Loss in coke production totals 84 980 tons by April 22. United Mine Workers organizers have driven further plant closings, signaling more production decline this week.
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Pittsburgh
Fayette County
Connellisville Courier
United Mine Workers
Navy Personnel Bill Seeks $28 Million More Aid
Secretary Denby told sinate appropriations hearings the navy would need an additional 28.166 million over house figures to support an 86,000 man personnel base. Senate leaders indicated the bill would be reported on that basis to the senate.
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Washington
House
Denby
Senate Appropriations Committee
Senate
Notable Deaths and Disasters Across 1920s Headlines
Summary of diverse events including the deaths of Paul Deschanel and Richard Croker, a Supreme Court ruling on the Packers and Stockyards Act, a May Day clash in Germany, a Bay of Bengal cyclone, and rail returns to Fort Worth. Reports cover miner fatalities, theater robbery in Sedalia, a Champaign murder, and a perfect game by Charles Robertson.
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Paul Deschanel
France
Thed
Paris
Packers’ and Stock Yards
Supreme Court
Washington
Mayence
Germany
Bay of Bengal
Bombay
Fort Worth
Tex
Ivers
Richard Croker
Tammany Hall
New York
Glenesirn Castle
Sandyford
Dublin
Marshal Joffre
Celtic
Patterson
Kiski Coal Company
Bear Appella
Mississippi
Louisiana
Natchez
Liberty Theater
Sedalia
Charles H. Russell
Champaign
Jusserand
Alexander Howat
Kansas Miners’ Union
Crawford County
Girard
Kan
Woodrow Wilson
Democratic National Committee
Wilson
Grand Rapids
Mich
Jean Meyer
Anna van Eck
Henry Jacobi
Central Criminal Court
London
Alice White
Edward White
London County Council
Charles Robertson
Baseball
Hall of Fame
Tigers
Detroit
White Sox
Forest Fire Near Laureltown Threatens Rockefeller Estate
A major forest blaze along a five mile front, aided by heavy firefighting, moved at a reduced pace as wind slackened. The fire threatened John D. Rockefeller’s 150 acre Greenville estate with firefighters from his camp helping, and timber losses estimated at 3 million dollars.
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Lakewood
N. J
Laureltom Park
Here
John D. Rockefeller
Greenville
Markets Report Crowded With Grain Livestock Prices
The markets list price ranges for flour varieties, hay, cattle, hogs, and sheep. Wheat and rye values appear for hard and soft grades, with farm products priced for delivery and patent categories. Livestock categories include prime steers, heifers, yearlings, cows, calves, hogs, and various sheep classifications with specific price bands.
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Timothy
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A. G. Horsetian
Commission
Smoot
Burton
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New Jersey
Rockefeller
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