Senate Passes Literacy Test Measure in Alaska Senate
The Alaska Senate today approved the Grier literacy bill House ill No 14 by unanimous vote without debate. Amendments to strike the exemption clause were defeated after tied votes with Dimond leading opposition. Senate also passed Senate Bill No 9 on Highway Engineer salary, and several other measures including memorials and bills on incompetents guardianships forest funds and executors with broad support.
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Senate
Alaska
Aldrich
Senator Slunt
Dimond
Brown
Dunn
Ayer
Howard
Pratt
Hunt
Yukon River
Sheldon
Elliot
Dawes Calls Constitution Nation's Guiding Light in Boston
In Boston on April 20, Vice President Charles G. Dawes addressed the 150th anniversary of Paul Revere's ride at Old North Church. He likened the Constitution to a guiding light for the nation and praised character and fidelity to high ideals as foundations of American strength. He noted Revere’s lanterns symbolizing the start of the Revolutionary War and connected them to the birth of constitutional liberty.
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Mass
Old North Church
Charles G. Dawes
United States
Paul Revere
Lexington and Concord
Pauline Revere Thayer
Revere
General Dawes
William Dawes
Middlesex
Dawes
Thayer
New England
Robert Newman
Paul Reverel
Lexington
Concord
Longfellow
Doctor Prescott
Hal
Robbery Frustrated Outside Frederick & Nelson Store
Seattle reports a daylight robbery attempt against Frederick and Nelson messengers thwarted outside the store. Detectives, led by Charles Tennant, arrested Len H. White and Charles B. Pearl. three accomplices fled. The store had previously been robbed of $2,000 last summer.
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Seattle
Frederick
Cooper Named AP General Manager to Succeed Martin
New York President Noyes announces Kent Cooper will succeed Roy Martin as head of the Associated Press. Cooper began in a minor post 15 years ago and has served as Assistant General Manager for five years.
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New York
Noyes
Kent Cooper
The
Associated Press
Roy Martin
Cooper
Submarine Rules to be Discussed at Rio Conference
Washington April 20 An old WWI issue revived for the Pan American conference of jurists to be held in Rio de Janeiro this year. A draft convention on maritime neutrality contemplates rigid visit and search rules for submarines affecting merchant ships and warns against unnecessary attacks or seizures. The 29 articles aim to safeguard commercial freedom and ease neutrals from duties during maritime neutrality.
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Washington
English liquor runner admits hard struggle
London April 20 The Daily Mail prints a telegram from Sir Broderick Hartwell who left England to supervise a large liquor shipment to an American syndicate. He says over 20 000 cases were begged and three schooners paid, funds used, no money left unless schooners land the cargo. About a hundred people funded the purchase hoping for 120 percent profit. He faces a dire situation and is expected back in London soon.
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Daily Mail Today
Broderick Hartwell
England
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Tle
Depest
Comijusion
Minit
Hartwell
Jury Disagrees After 48 Hours in Tacoma Murder
In Tacoma on April 20 the jury in the murder trial of Arden Lloyd and Charles Kinney of Seattle failed to reach a verdict after 48 hours of deliberation over the holdup killing of Percy Schmidt, a bank manager, on February 7. The prosecutor, Seldon, announced a retrial as soon as possible.
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Tacoma
Arden Lloyd
Charles Kinney
Seattle
Percy Schmidt
Seldon
Chinese Alaska Bound Acquitted of Gambling
Five Chinese men were acquitted in Seattle Justice Court on a charge of operating a lottery. Defense counsel John I Dore argued that Chinese workers bound for Alaska canneries yearly came to Seattle and that stopping their internal gambling would drive them and their money elsewhere. Prosecutor Thodes pressed for a closed town ruling.
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Seattle
John I. Dore
Alaska
Thodes
Woman Who Killed Eight Pronounced Insane in Bannerburg case
Mrs Ammianael Sorensen of Bannerburg confessed to killing eight people over seven years by poison including three children from her first husband. Police report she is now pronounced insane after the spree.
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Ammianael Sorensen
Bannerburg
No Mercury Found in Olson's Body in Chicago Case
Chicago April 20 Except for a trace of mercury likely from medication no poisons were detected in the organs of Dr Oscar Olson. The coroner's chemist reported this after exhumation linked to the Emma Nelson McClintock case and the millionaire son murder indictment of William D Shephard.
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Chicago
Oscar Olson
Wolff
Olson
Emma Nelson McClintock
William D. Shepherd
Parts of two states hit by severe storm
A storm swept eastern Ohio and the West Virginia Panhandle injuring ten people with two serious injuries. Buildings and residences were wrecked in Wheeling and Wellaberg West Virginia and in Martin's Ferry Ohio. Debris covered streets and reports from Ohio indicated many injuries at Wheeling.
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West Virginia
Bar One Oil Lease in the Wheeler Case
In Great Falls Montana on April 20 the court barred the oil lease for the present trial after objections that the lease obtained by L B Lincoln was not before the Department of the Interior when Campbell employed Wheeler. A ghost of the Senate investigation appeared as H G Glosser testified about a conference between Wheeler and Campbell and J L Wertheimer testified Wheeler promised to fix things up in Washington for Campbell.
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Mont
Thomas J. Walsh
DR. K. Wheeler
L. B. Lincoln
Department of the Interior
Campbell
Wheeler
Senate
H. G. Glosser
Gordon Campbell
Montana
J. L. Wertheimer
Washington
Fourteen Year Old Boy Found Dead at Oil Derrick
Fullerton California April 20 The nude body of Terry Courtney 14 was found hanging from a cross bar of an oil derrick near here late yesterday afternoon. He had been missing since Saturday afternoon. An investigation indicates suicide.
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Fullerton
Cal
Terry Courtney
Here
Former Superior Court Judge Killed in Spokane Incident
Spokane report says former Superior Court Judge George W. Belt was instantly killed Saturday night after being struck by a bicycle ridden by James Kierman, a post office messenger, who could not see Belt due to blinding rainfall. Geneva notes Russia refused to participate in arms traffic conference.
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George W. Belt
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James Kierman
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Geneva
Russia
18 Year Old School Boy Found Dead In Seattle
Noah Claflin, 18, former Queen Anne High School student, was found dead yesterday morning in Seattle. A cup of poison and a note reading Life is too empty appear nearby. He spoke with Vivian Patton Saturday night and told his mother he would have a good sleep, replying It will have a good sleep all right.
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Seattle
Noah Claflin
Queen Anne Hirth School
Claflin
Vivian Patton
U S Marines Landed in Honduras Amid Revolution
Washington reports the cruiser Denver with a special service squadron has landed 155 marines at Ceiba Honduras to safeguard American lives and property during a revolutionary outbreak. In Managua the village of Cocotpee is said to have fallen to revolutionists advancing toward Comayagua, 409 miles from Tegucigalpa.
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Denver
Ceiba
Honduras
Managua
Cocotpee
Comayagua
Teguelgalpa
German Voters Detached As German Presidency Fight Heats Up
BERLIN April 20 With decisive balloting for President of Germany a week away the contest between Dr Marx and former Field Marshal von Hindenburg has left the people apathetic.
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Germany
German Republic
von Hinderburg
Berlin
Dr. Marx
Hindenburg Breaks Routine Talks With Reuters
In Hanover Von Hindenburg deviated from his usual silence and spoke with a Reuters correspondent. He declined to say if he preferred meeting Kaiser William or becoming President of Germany, revealing no clear preference.
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London
von Hindenburg
Reuter
Hanover
Kaiser William
Germany
Bomb plotter confesses in Sofia outrage
Sofia dispatch says Peter Zatgorski of Sveti Kral cathedral was arrested and confessed to complicity in last Thursday’s bomb explosion that killed 160. He named principals Kosta Yankoff, Chief, and A Nin kof, Sub Chief, of the Sofia Communists Executive Committee. Ninkoff placed the bomb and a student lit the fuse.
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Sofia
Matin
Peter Zatgorski
Sveti Kral
Kosta Yankoff
A. Ninkoff
Sofia Communists Executive Committee
Ninkoff
Zatgorski
Insurance Bill Defeated In Alaska House By 13 to 3 Vote
By a 13 to 3 margin the Alaska House indefinitely postponed Bill No. 49 the Industrial Insurance measure introduced by Representative Ross. It marks the second disapproval of such a bill since 1923. The session cited sympathy for Representative Watson whose mother died in Oregon as the House convened and adjourned for an hour. Several new bills were introduced and committees reported measures including funding for Haines schoolhouse and a Philadelphia World’s Fair exhibit for Alaska.
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Representtaive Ross
Alaska
Ross
Elliot
Moody
Nylen, Paul
Kashevgaro
Representative Watson
L. EF. Watson
Marshfield
Ore
Ways and Means
Hardy
Haines
Watson
Philadelphia
Sundquist
Grier
Bristol Bay
Norton Sound
House Joint Memorial
Coast Guard
Bering Sea
Paul
Senate
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