House Passes Literacy Measure as Bone Dry Law Defeated
The Alaska House rejected the Hardy bill by 10 to 6, proposing repeal of the Bone Dry Law and extending the Volstead Act to all courts. Murray defended repeal, citing conflicts with the Volstead Act and predicted future Congress changes, while others opposed. A salary bill for the Commissioner of Education also passed unanimously, raising the salary from 4000 to 5000 dollars.
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Alaska
House
Hardy
Grier
Murray
Moody
Sheldon
Wilcox
El-iot
Ferguson
Grant
Jensen
Nylen
Ross
Sherman
Sundquist
Paul
Watson
Circuit Court of Appeals
District Court
Education
Socialists Refuse Cabinet and Briand Moves to Form Ministry
Paris reports the Socialists, in a meeting, unanimously refused to participate in Briand's cabinet. Briand then sought a center group ministry as de Monzie and Briand reached an agreement with Deputies and Senators for a special meeting tomorrow to authorize a four billion franc currency issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Briand
Chamber of Deputies
de Monzie
Bank of France
New Belgian cabinet formed after Theunis resignation
Emile Vandervelde, socialist leader and former minister, undertakes to form a ministry to succeed the Theunis cabinet which resigned on April 6. He approved by his party and will select ministers at the extraordinary Socialist Congress meeting next Monday in Brussels.
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Brussels
Albert
Emile Vandervelde
Theunis
Vandervelde
Radio Thieves Lift Insurers Rates in New York
New York April 14 Thieves boost burglary insurance costs by 180 percent as about 1,000,000 dollars worth of radio equipment is reported stolen in New York City.
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New York
New York City
Supreme Court upholds open shop case in San Francisco
The Supreme Court ruled that the Builders' Exchange Industrial Association and others challenging the San Francisco open shop did not violate the Sherman Act. The case tested federal power over interstate commerce in strikes affecting state matters, with background on San Francisco's union city status since 1921 and local labor disputes in construction. The article notes ongoing arbitration in 1921 and references an extended discussion on page seven.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Builders’ Exchange Industrial Association
San Francisco
Industrial Association of
Union
Capt Amundsen Reaches Base For Polar Flight
Oslo dispatch reports the transport Farm with Capt Roald Amundsen and aviator Ellsworth arriving at King Bay Spitzbergen yesterday per radio advisories.
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Capt. Amundsen
Oslo
Roald Amundsen
Ellsworth
King Bay
Spitzbergen
Pres. Church Controversy Breaks Out in New York
The Modernists clashed with Fundamentalists as Cameron F. P. Hall of Broome Street Tabernacle was licensed and Dr Carlson G. Fuller of Feather Bed Lane Presbyterian in the Bronx kept his fellowship after refusing to affirm the Virgin Birth and certain miracles.
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New York
Presbyterian Church
Death mystery as man found shot near Auburn rails
Auburn April 14 Coroner Lacy said Charles Carpenter 45 was found dead on the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway tracks a quarter mile south of Auburn. Two bullets in head a pistol in his hand and a note said he intended self destruction but circumstances suggest he did not kill himself.
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Auburn
Wash
Lacy
Charles ©. Carpenter
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
Carpenter
Tax Question Decided By U.S. Supreme Court
The Supreme Court rules federal and state taxes have priority over wages in settling a bankrupt estate in the West Coast Rubber Corporation case against the United States, San Francisco city and county. The decision clarifies tax priority in bankruptcy proceedings.
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Washington
Supreme Court
West Coast Rubber Corporation
United States
San Francisco
Mayday
Nancy Astor
House of Commons
Hayday
Justice McCoy
District Supreme Court
Washington, D. C
Albert B. Fall
Harry F. Sinclair
BE. L. Doheny
Alaskan Pioneer L J Reedy Buried in Seattle
Alaskan pioneer L J Reedy, who died last Saturday, was buried today in Seattle with a simple funeral. He was widely known for his early exploration efforts and contributions to the state's development.
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Seattle
L. J. Reedy
Flooding at Ford plant dam releases millions of gallons
The Ford Motor Company Flat Rock power plant dam burst today, flooding 5000 acres to depths up to 12 feet. State Police warned residents as guards telephoned danger, and rescuers moved by boat from house to house. No deaths reported. debris and livestock swept downstream for 10 miles. An earlier earth bank failure near the Detroit Edison dam preceded the event.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Company
Flat Rock
Detroit-Edison Company
Ford
Poison Found In Exhumed Body In Indiana
Chicago April 14 Poison has been found in the body of Walter Cunningham aged 138 years which was exhumed yesterday at Valparaiso Indiana.
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Chicago
Walter Cunningham
Valparaiso
Indiana
Woman collapses during sanity hearing in Crown Point
In Crown Point on April 14 Mrs. Anna Cunningham, held for the deaths of her husband and four children, including Walter, over six years, collapsed in her cell this forenoon and lapsed into a coma. Physicians say the planned sanity hearing this afternoon cannot proceed.
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Crown Point
Anna Cunningham
Walter
Chicago Poison Case Patient Deaths Weighed by Mercury
A coroner chemist report confirms sufficient mercury was found in all organs of Mrs Emma McClintock to kill a person within ten days. The finding ties to a suspected poisoning case in Chicago dated April 14.
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Chicago
Emma McClintock
Maiden Dearborn Makes First Successful Trip
DETROIT April 14 The Maiden Dearborn returned last night from the flight to the Chicago Ford Company. The company announces that service between the Ford plants at Chicago St Louis St Paul and Iron Mountain will be extended until several planes are leaving daily on regular schedules. With the introduction of the airplane the Ford Company now uses every type of modern transport including railroads ocean and lake steamers motor trucks and the airline operated exclusively for the company's business.
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Detroit
Dearborn
Chicago Ford Company
Ford
Chicago
St. Loui
St. Paul
Iron Mountain
Ford Company
Russian Girl Denied Admittance Dies in Seattle
Raissa Pogonovskiy, a Russian immigrant girl, died from poison taken 11 days after she was refused admission to the United States. George De Timofeev, a San Francisco motorman once engaged to her in Moscow, hurried to Seattle and was at her bedside at the time of death.
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Seattle
Raissa Pogonovskiy
United States
George de Timofeev
San Francisco
Moscow
Count Hirate Passes Away Today in Tokio
Tokio April 14 Count Tosuke Hirata aged 76 years formerly Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal died here today.
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Hirate
Tokio
Tosuke Hirata
Privy Seal
Cows In Engine When Stock Train Wrecked
Cattle were tossed in many directions last Saturday when a stock train wrecked on the Canadian Pacific at Elk Horn Manitoba. Eight cars piled on top of the locomotive as it hit a faulty switch. The engineer and fireman were hurled from the cab just as cows filled their places.
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Canadian Pacific
Elkhorn
Manitoba
Senator Dill Plans Alaska Tour After Honolulu Abandonment
SEATTLE April 14 Senator C C Dill of Washington abandons plans to join the fleet to Honolulu this summer and announces a tour of Alaska to promote his political agenda.
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Seattle
C C. Dill
Washington
Honolulu
Alaska
Couple Killings End in Self Inflicted Tragedy
TACOMA April 14 A Winston of Aberdeen went to his divorced wife's home where the first anniversary of her marriage to Fred B Arnold was being celebrated last night. He shot and killed Arnold then killed himself in the presence of several children including Winston's 15 year old daughter.
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Tacoma
A. Winston
Aberdeen
Fred B Arnold
Arnold
Winston
Policemen Killed in Fight with Fugitive Wagner
In Kingsport Tennessee on April 14 two police officials were shot and killed and another was critically wounded by a man named Wagner, a fugitive wanted on a serious charge in Mississippi. The fugitive escaped after a running gunfight with five officers.
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Kingsport
Tenn
Wagner
Mississippi
Ketchikan Chronicle Expands to Eight Columns
Ketchikan April 14 The Daily Chronicle became an eight column eight page newspaper, the first Alaska paper to publish eight columns. The move marks a historic enlargement for the publication.
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Ketchikan
Daily Chronicle
Alaska
Inventor of First Auto Dies in Kokomo
Elwood Haynes, credited with building America’s first automobile, died at his Kokomo home after influenza. In 1894 he tested a gasoline powered buggy, eight miles per hour, a milestone in motor vehicle history later preserved at the Smithsonian.
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Elwood Haynes
Kokomo
Ind
America
Smithsonian Institute
Washington, D. C
Haynes
Literacy test bill wins strong House vote
The House approved No. 14, the Grief Literacy Test for voters, with only two votes against. The amendment exempts those who have voted in any prior primary, general, or special election. Joss Fairbanks Nylen voted no. Telegram endorsements poured in from Ketchikan to Nome, with notable protest against the amendment.
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House
Joss
Fairbanks
Nylen
Nome
Kerr
Ross
Rustgard
Ketchikan
J. A. Talbot
Ketchikan American Legion
Women's
Decision on Filing Express Claims Declared by Supreme Court
Washington April 14. The Supreme Court rules a shipper must file a written claim within four months from delivery to recover express company damages for delivery delay. The decision clarifies timing for pursuing claims under interstate express services.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Ridicule of Congress Decried by Church Board
In Washington on April 14 the Board of Temperance Prohibition and Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church issued a statement declaring that constant ridicule of Congress is one of the most insidious evils in the country and fails to consider many things to be commended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wasitiington
Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Congress
Postal Workers Must Get Busy or Lose Their Jobs
Washington April 14. Postmaster General New urged postal workers to raise efficiency by at least five percent and warned that incompetent staff will be dropped from the service.
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Washington
Postmaster General New
Supreme Court rules industrial courts cannot regulate wages
The Supreme Court declares that hours and wages regulation by the Kansas Industrial Court in a wage dispute with Charles Wolff Packing Co is unconstitutional. The ruling limited state authority to compulsory arbitration in essential industries and blocks wage control by the Industrial Court.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Charles Wolff Packing Company
Topeka
Court of Industrial Relations of
Kansas
Aration of Food
Industrial Court
Federal Supreme Court
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Alcert B.faly
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Ketchikan Chronicle
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