Slemp Appointment Sparks Democratic Attack in 1924 Race
Washington August 18 The Democratic National Committee denounces President Coolidges choice of C Bascom Slemp Virginia former U S Representative as Executive Secretary saying it signals Coolidges 1924 presidential bid and endorses southern district office sale allegations tied to Slemp while noting his December floor exposure over alleged office trafficking by Republicans.
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Washington
C. Bascom Slemp
Virginia
U. S
Coolidge
Democratic National Committee
Gment
Slemp
Communists in Germany Start More Trouble
Berlin Aug 16 reports say communist strikes have ended in some areas but danger spreads elsewhere. Communists control Helmstedt disarming police and clashes at Arnstadt injure several. Other strikes cripple public utilities while a jail at Dattelin is stormed and police are disarmed, militia summoned.
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Berlin
Elswhere
Helmstedt
Arnstadt
Dattelin
Electrical wizard urges Ford for president as an experiment
Charles P. Steinmetz of General Electric urged electing Henry Ford as president at the Babson Business Conference in Wellesley Hills Massachusetts. He said the United States badly needs a business leader and Ford is the most successful man in the world today.
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U. S
Ford
Wellesley Hills
Mass
Henry Ford
Charles P. Steinmetz
General Electric Company
United States
Elks Endorse Harding Monument Plan in Seattle
Everett Washington August 16 The State Elks Association backs a monument to the late President Harding in Woodland Park Seattle where he spoke to 40000 boys Each lodge in the state will raise a portion of the $25000 projected cost of the monument
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Everett
Wash
State
Elks’ Association
Harding
Woodland Park
Seattle
Lodge of
Elks
Trade balance of U S shows favorable amount
Washington August 16 official Commerce Department data show July exports and imports with a favorable trade balance of 26 million dollars. The report notes higher exports and solid import levels contributing to the favorable balance.
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U. S
Washington
Department of Commerce
Dead Face on Church Wall in Oxford Cathedral
In Oxford at Christ Church Cathedral an old wall shows a white patch of drying mortar forming a profile that resembles Dean Liddell. The faded cement displays a chin nose and bald crown with curly hair, expected to fade as the wall continues to dry.
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Oxford
England
Dean Liddell
Christ Church Cathedral
Fourth living First Lady widowed after Harding death
Mrs Florence Harding joins the living presidents' widows, becoming the fourth among them. The report notes the status of other widows including Frances Cleveland Preston and Mary Scott Lord Harrison, plus details of their marriages, birth years, and residences in New York and Princeton. It mentions Harding and her late husband Warren G. Harding celebrating their 32nd anniversary on a westward trip.
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Chicago
Florence Harding
Warren G. Harding
The
Land
Harding
Florence Kling
Marion
the Land
Grover Cleveland
Frances Folsom Cleveland Preston
Benjamin Harrison
Theodore Roosevelt
Mary Scott
Lord Harrison
Walter Erskine Dimmick
Samuel B. Dimmick
Pennsylvania
Mr. Dimmick
Harrison
E. 15Th Street
New York City
Frances Preston
Oscar Folsom
Cleveland
White House
Thomas J. Preston, Jr
Princeton
N. J
Roosevelt
Alice Hathaway Lee
George Cabot Lee
New York
Mr. Roosevelt
Edith Kermit Carew
Gasoline price cuts sweep Atlantic coast
Aug 16 reports a gasoline price cutting war across the Atlantic seaboard as four large companies announce reductions of one to two cents per gallon. Additional cuts are anticipated if crude oil prices fall, an outcome many expect.
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New York
Atlantic Seaboard
Ku Klux Klan Plans Purchase of Valparaiso University
Milton Elrod editor of the Fiery Cross announces negotiations for the purchase of Valparaiso University in Valparaiso Indiana for 350000 dollars to assume its debts and rename it the National University open to students of all races and creeds.
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Indianapolis
Milton Elrod
the Fiery Cross
Ku Klux Klan
Valparaiso University
Valparaiso
Ind
Elrod
National University
U. S. Won't Tell Husband's Income
Chicago August 16 alimony seekers will get no help from the government. Mrs Mabel G Reinecke, collector of internal revenue, said statements were needed due to the activities of a woman's alimony club haunting the collector s office to learn figures husbands reported on income tax.
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Chicago
Mabel G. Reinecke
Internal Revenue
Walsh backs McAdoo for Democratic presidential nomination
Helena Mont Aug 16 United States Senator Thomas J Walsh endorsed McAdoo for the Democratic nomination at a banquet here. Walsh urged support for McAdoo as the party candidate.
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Helena
Mont
United States
Thomas J. Walsh
McAdoo
United Mine Workers Allocate 10000 for Kemmerer Disaster Sufferers
The United Mine Workers have appropriated $10,000 for relief of sufferers in the Kemmerer disaster in Wyoming.
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New York
United Mine Workers
Wyoming
Fire Bug Confesses to Crime in Mission Fire
SACRAMENTO August 16 Officers announced that F Padilla a Mexican confessed he set fire to the Japanese Mission in April causing the death of 10 children.
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Fire Bug
Sacramento
F. Padilla
Germany Warned Over Reparations Straining Resources
Paris August 16 The Interallied commission formally informs Germany that reparations are a prior claim on resources. Germany must use available resources to back the new gold loan, according to the notice.
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Paris
Interallied Commission
Germany
Former Alaskan Is Buried In Furs
Texarkana reports that Dr. Fred M. Spiers once United States Commissioner in Alaska was buried in a sable fur coat fur boots and fur cape wrapped around his body. The burial robes valued at 35000 dollars.
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Texarkana
Fred M. Spiers
United States
Alaska
Seized Craft Reaches Nome After Siberian Seizure
Aug 16 Nome reports Olaf Swen som company schooner Blue Sea arrives after seizure in Siberia. Theodore Karieff, former Anadyr District governor, arrested. Burke placed in charge. Captain Anderson fears trader troubles persist. natives face starvation from trader restrictions. Belinda, Nome schooner, confiscated and turned into Red gunboat. cargo seized. Anderson arrested then released.
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Nome
Olaf Swensom
Blue Sea
Siberia
Theodore Karieff
Anadyr
Burke
Anderson
Belinda
Koslof
Vladivostok
East Cape
Scotchmen Bet Vastly On Horse Races In Glasgow
London Aug 16 Betting among thrifty Scots shocks MPs as a Glasgow bookmaker tells a House Committee he handles about 25 000 a day in bets, over 8 million a year, operating a credit account system in established offices and staying within the law.
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London
House of Commons
House Committee On
Man Arrested Over Fake Death Claim in Limoges
PARIS, Aug. 16 A man is arrested at Limoges on the unusual charge of having died twenty years ago. He used the name Vesian, but police say Vesian died in 1903 and was buried. When confronted, the accused produced identification papers.
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Paris
Limoges
Vesian
Mary Miles Min ter age dispute sparks suit talk
In Los Angeles on August 16 Margaret Shelby, Mary Miles Min ter's sister, declared Mary was born in 1962, refuting Homer O'Reilly's claim that the actress is 30 rather than 21. The dispute relates to a threatened million dollar suit against Mary's mother.
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Los Angeles
Dallas
Homer O'Reilly
Mary Miles Minter
Mary
Margaret Shelby
Eteter
Miss Shelby
Weiress
O'Reilly
Requests Safety For American Under Arrest
National Commander McFarland of the Disabled American Veterans asks Secretary Hughes to safeguard Hoover Griffiths held in Eberbach Germany for an alleged kidnapping attempt involving Grover Bergdoll. Cincinnati reports the U S government will seek Griffiths release and Bergdoll extradition.
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Washington
McFarland
Disabled American War Veterans
State Hughes
Hoover Griffiths
Eberbach
Germany
Grover Bergdoll
Cincinnati
Hoover Griffith
Bergdoll
Hughes
Lasance
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Latvian man shoots woman then kills himself after 25 year pursuit
In Riga on August 16, 66-year-old John Meklis fatally shot 50-year-old Anna Demut after a quarter century courtship and then killed himself. He left a note to relatives apologizing that he could not win her in this world and wished to meet her in the next.
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Riga
John Meklis
Anna Demut
Recognition of Mexicans Near Mexico City Accord Signed
Records of a conference between American and Mexican commissions embodying an agreement designed to resume diplomatic negotiations were signed at 2 16 this morning near Mexico City.
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Mexico City
Seattle Council Ignores Request for Wage Advance
SEATTLE Aug. 16 The Seattle City Council last night ignored the request of city employees for universal wage increases in pay.
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Seattle Council
Seattle
84 Important Arrests Made in Conspiracy
Washington dispatch reports 84 persons already arrested in Savannah under the conspiracy section of the prohibition enforcement act. Officials say they have rounded up a major bootleg force. further indictments are expected under the Volstead act and customs laws.
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Washington
Savannah
Department of Justice
United States
End of 132-Hour Day Begins In Pittsburgh Mills
Pittsburgh Aug 16 The 132hour day in blast furnaces open hearth and Bessemer converter sections began to end as three shift operations start in mills able to hire enough workers. Some in rolling mills and other departments must work ten hours for now, but will shift to eight hours once more staff is found.
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Pittsburgh
Planta
Jail Stormed in Germany as Prisoners Freed
A mob stormed the jail at Jeitz near Halle, breaking doors and releasing all prisoners. Most freed inmates were ordinary criminals, according to a dispatch from Halle.
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Berlin
Allegemeine Zeitung
Halle
Jeitz
Urge Establishment of Finger Print Bureau
DES MOINES August 16 speakers at the annual convention of the International Association for Identification urged the establishment of a federal bureau where fingerprints of every man woman and child in the United States will be filed.
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Des Moines
International Association For Identification
United States
Ruhr miners win 245 percent wage increase
Dusseldorf August 16 wages of Ruhr pit miners are increased 245 percent with immediate effect and retroactive to August 6. The move affects all Ruhr coal pits and is expected to impact production costs and miner living standards.
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Dusseldorf
Ruhr
London Report Claims Argentina Loan Try Worth 20 Million
The Daily Mail reports a London effort to raise a new Argentine loan of about £20,000,000. The piece notes the size and location but provides no details on terms or lenders.
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London
The
Daily Mail
Argentina
President Coolidge’s Father Ponders Change of Leadership
An aged New England farmer in patched clothes tends his Plymouth, Vermont farm as his son Calvin Coolidge assumes the presidency following Harding’s death. The elder Coolidge, quiet and frugal, recalls the midnight oath and admits a wish to visit Washington and the White House while avoiding reporters.
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Calvin Coolidge
America
Coolidge
Plymouth
John C. Coolidge
New England
Green Mountain
Washington
United States
Cal
White House
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