United States Fleet to Cruise Australia This Summer
Secretary of the Navy Wilbur announces the American cruise of the United States Fleet to Australia planned for this summer will proceed despite protests from citizens and organizations. He says a letter explains that knowledge would deter speakers and writers from hampering government efforts to promote friendship and peace.
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Washington
Scretary
Navy
Wilbur
United States
Australia
Bishop Brown Embraces Heresy in Duty to Truth
New York April 25 Bishop Brown of the Protestant Episcopal Church, recently convicted of heresy, spoke at non denominational Community Church after Bishop Manning barred him from St Marks Bowery. He said he chose heresy over hypocrisy as the conflict between science and traditional theology shapes the present dispute.
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New York
Bishop Brown
Protestant Episcopal Church
Manning
St. Marks
Bowery
Brown
Episcopal Church
Two Beautiful Legs Cause Wife To Seek Divorce
Ruth Marjory Pinet Burket known as Renée Pinet seeks divorce from Flavius Burket alleging his jealousy over her legs. She says he calls them a sin and threatened to disfigure them, causing mental suffering. She notes his wealthy Kansas City background and income of $1,000 a month.
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Los Angeles
Ruth Marjory Pinet Burket
Renée Pinet
Flavius Burket
Salt Air resort wrecked by fire west of Salt Lake City
Fire of explained origin yesterday afternoon wrecked the Salt Air resort on the Great Salt Lake about 20 miles west of Salt Lake City. Loss is placed at 300000 dollars.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Salt Air Resort
Great Salt Lake
Here
Chauncey Depew Predicts Dry Law May Die as Letter
New York April 23 Chauncey Depew 1 years old today told reporters he once smoked 30 cigars daily and drank champagne but has quit all. He now exercises 10 minutes daily and avoids golf tennis and baseball. He praised President Coolidge and Vice President Dawes and predicted the Eighteenth Amendment will not be repealed but may become a dead letter.
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New York
Chauncey Depew
Todgy
Coolidge
Dawes
Duel Ends In Tragedy As Engineers Die In Mexico City
Mexico City April 28. Face to face at four yards Carlos Carrillo electrical engineer and Prof Jose Izquiedero shot each other dead yesterday. They quarreled over work while serving as aldermen in Tabuca suburb.
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Mexico City
Carlos Carrillo
Jose Izquiedero
Tacuba
President Suzzallo Not Resigning From UW Post
SEATTLE April 23. President Suzzallo of the University of Washington denied rumors he would resign for a higher salary elsewhere stating he has no intention of deserting the ship.
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Seattle
Suzzallo
University of Washington
Butler to quit as GOP helmsman in Washington report
New York dispatch says Senator William M. Butler will resign as chairman of the Republican National Committee when the committee meets next December to organize for the off year elections. Joseph B. Kealing is named to succeed him. Butler seeks reelection to the Senate, facing possible opposition from David I. Walsh.
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New York
Washington
New York American
William M. Butler
Massachusetts
Republican National Committee
Joseph B. Kealing
Indiana
Butler
Coolidge
Florida
National Committee
Senate
David I. Walsh
Walsh
Frederick H. Gillett
Mining Fraud Probe Ordered By Seattle Club
At the Mining Men's Club luncheon a committee was appointed to investigate mining stock swindling and present cases to the Prosecuting Attorney. J. M. Ruffner, Alaska silver and lead miner, said he went to New York for capital after failing in Washington State due to frauds that ruined mining confidence.
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Seattle
J. M. Ruffner
Alaska
New York
Washington State
Court of Appeals Dismisses Engineer Mine Appeal
The Court of Appeals in Vancouver has dismissed the appeal of Robert Williams of Milwaukee and Horace Williams of Los Angeles in the case against the estate of James Alexander, owner of the Engineer Mine. The ruling requires all witnesses to testify in person in Canada.
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Vancouver
B. C
Court of Appeals
Robert Williams
Milwaukee
Horace Williams
Los Angeles
United States
Jamé@s Alexander
Delegates shift labor talks to ANPA directors
Delegates at the American Newspaper Publishers Association convention in New York voted to move negotiation of labor contracts from the convention to the association's Directors. They also believed broadcasting news events would more likely help circulation than hinder it.
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New York
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Alaska Senate Rejects Stone Memorial on Parkes Vote
The Alaska Senate defeated House Joint Resolution No. 1 endorsing George A. Parks as Governor by a 4 to 5 vote, while Dimond defended a memorial denouncing the Stone interview charges about Alaska as lawless. Senator Hunt condemned conditions in Ketchikan, prompting sympathy from President Ayer. Dimond argued the Stone accusations miscast Alas kan people and praised Stone’s character.
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House
Sheldon
Coolidge
George A. Parks
Alaska
Senate
Ayer Dimond Howard
Pratt
Dimond
Stone
Ayer
Aldrich
Brown
Dunn Howard
Hunt
Senator Brown
Senator Hunt
Ketchikan
United States
United States. So Emphatic Was His Denunciation of What Senator Hunt
Associated Press
Fire destroys over two million bushels of grain
A Chicago blaze destroyed more than 2,000,000 bushels of corn and oats owned by the Grand Marketing Corporation when two wooden elevators burned. The south side fire threatened industry along the Chicago River and prompted a search for an aged watchman and his wife who lived in one of the affected buildings.
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Chicago
Grand Marketing Corporation
New York Seen as Modern Babylon in Suppressing Vice Report
The fifty first annual report of the New York Society for Suppressing Vice depicts New York as a modern Babylon, degraded below Berlin and Paris. It blames licentious ideas spread on stage and screen and in books.
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New York
New York Society
Vice Pictures
Babylon
Berlin
Paris
Seattle Fur Exchange Has Good Auction
Seattle April 28 Between 250000 and 300000 dollars worth of furs were sold yesterday at the annual auction of the Seattle Fur Exchange. Buyers came from New York St Louis Montreal Chicago and Pacific Coast points. Seward Peninsula led on fox basis ones and twos inferior bought for 25 dollars. Best Alaskan mink average lot brought 15 dollars and ordinary Yukon mink average 9 50 to 10 dollars. Otter from Alaska and British Columbia averaged 24 to 25 dollars. Ermine declined 10 percent average 1 75. Alaskan muskrats 80 cents to 1 10. Kamchatka sable best sold 135 down to 30 dollars.
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Seattle
Seattle Fur Exchange
New York
St. Louis
Montreal
Chicago
Pacific Coast
Seward Peninsula
Mildred Harris Secretly Marries Florida Real Estate Man
New York April 28 Mildred Harris the screen actress and ex wife of Charlie Chaplin says she is very happy as the bride of F Terrence McGovern a wealthy Florida real estate man She says they slipped to Mexico last November and secretly wed then returned to New York and were married again last week Friends say they had been engaged for about two years
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New York
Mildred Harris
Charlie Chaplin
F. Terrence McGovern
Florida
McGovern
Mexico
Greenwich
Wheeler Case Suspended Over Witness Shortage
In Great Falls Montana on April 23 the defense rested its case in Senator Wheeler's trial abandoning plans to call witnesses to dispute government star witness George P Hayes. The government refused to stipulate Washington telephone records and Hayes testified Booth of the Interior Department arranged a meeting with Wheeler.
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Great Falls
Mont
Sen. Wheeler
George P. Hayes
New York City
B. K. Wheeler
Washington
Hayes
Edwin Booth
Interior Department
Booth
Wheeler
Department of Interior
Bawin HH
Attorney Wanted Testimony in Wheeler Case
United States Senator T. J. Walsh counsel for Senator Wheeler telegraphed Assistant District Attorney Alexander Lehman to go to Great Falls to testify for Wheeler. Lehman is ill at home and hoped to contradict Hayes the Government star witness.
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New York
United States
T. J. Walsh
Wheeler
Alexander Lehman
Great Falla
Lehman
Hayes
G. O. P. Celebration Date Tied to President's Availability
Ripon Wis April 23 The Republican Party birth celebration tentatively set for July 1 hinges on President Coolidge attending plans call for July 4 observance but could shift if he prefers another date Invitations extend to Vice President Dawes and General Pershing
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Ripton
Wis
Coolidge
W. E. Campbell
Oshkosh
Dawes
Pershing
Taxation Bill Reported With Reduced Rates
The House Ways and Means Committee reported House Bill 76 with reduced red salmon taxes and the mining schedule still increased. Five committee members opposed the mining rise and signed a nonconcurrence. The bill was amended to remove auto license prohibitions, cut mildcare red salmon to five cents per hundred pounds, and restore a ten cent red salmon rate. Mining remains the only higher-rate section, estimated 14 to 16 percent above current law, with debate on proper procedure if that section is eliminated.
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House Ways and Means
Grant
Grier
Sherman
Sundquist
Watson
Rosa
Ross
Indians Barred by House From Local Pensions
An amendment offered by Jen sen to House Bill No. 23 was adopted to exclude Indians from the local age pension system. Supporters argue Alaska Indians are wards of the government and should be kept out despite their legal status. The measure mirrors provisions in the mothers pension bill and aims to resolve conflicts with a federal trustee arrangement.
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Jensen
Paul
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