Longworth Elected Speaker in Three Way House Fight
Nicholas Longworth won the Speakership with 229 votes in a three cornered GOP battle. John N. Garner received 173 and Henry Allen Cooper 13 as insurgents challenged party leadership. The session opened amid fights over the Mellon tax plan and farm legislation with hundreds of bills introduced.
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Longworth
Washington
Nicholas Longworth
House of Representatives
John N. Garner
Henry Allen Cooper
Wisconsin
Congress
Tax Bill Presented In House To Cut Federal Taxes
Chairman Green of the House Ways and Means Committee presented a bill slashing federal taxes by 226 million sixty thousand six hundred and sixty to the House. He urged quick consideration so it could reach the Senate before the second week of the session. The bill promises next year’s savings of about 193 million one hundred seventy five thousand dollars to income taxpayers.
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Green
Ways and Means Committee
Senate
No Invasion Of Country From Air Declared Impossible
Lieutenant Commander J. H. Frost testifies before the Army Court in Brigadier General William A. Mitchell's court martial. He states aerial invasion of the United States is impractical and that Alaska could not be seized under any conditions. He adds that any air assault by Asia would require Russian and Canadian Arctic routes.
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Washington
United States
J. H. Frost
Army
William A. Mitchell
Mitchell
America
Asia
Alaska
Frost
Coal Gas Kills Children in German Hospital
In Lengo Westphalia Germany seven babies died from coal gas while one to three others suffered injuries after a hospital incident on December 7. Acid from a damaged source also harmed some patients in the same facility. Authorities investigated the accident and its causes.
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Lengo
Westphalia
Germany
Childrens
Spokane Judge Proposes Abolishing All Divorces
Spokane Superior Judge Lindsley told the County Bar Association that he favors abolishing all divorces and replacing them with a state maintenance law that would bar remarriage. He argued there is no reforming the so called divorce evil and that regulation is more sensible than crime.
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Spokane
Wash
Lindsley
The
County Bar Association
Territory Wins Suit for Taxes Under Graduated Salmon Tax
The U S Supreme Court upheld Alaska Territory s graduated excise tax on salmon canning products after a two year fight. The ruling confirms about 219 000 due for 1923 24 packs and ensures 1925 taxes and next year s payments while removing protest clouds on large firms.
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Washington
U.S. Supreme Court
Alaska
Supreme Court
District Court
Pacific American Fisheries
T. M. Reed
Ketchikan
Reed
Appellate Court of
San Francisco
Vey Close
Girl Born to Wife of Japanese Crown Prince
Tokyo dispatch reports Princess Nagako, wife of Crown Prince Hirohito, delivered a girl on December 7. The birth adds a daughter to the imperial couple's family, reinforcing the historic line in the Japanese throne.
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Tokyo
Nagako
Hirohito
Police pledge protection for Seattle officials
Seattle December 7 Chief W B Bey eryns promises police protection to the City Council as Rev Ambrose Bailey and followers present impeachment petitions against Mayor Brown. Bailey says 2500 recall petitions circulate and preaches on Sunday night titled Can Advertising Dentistry Cure the Political Malitosis in Seattle. He and supporters address about 6000 people. Meyer Brown files in Superior Court to strike grand jury attacks on his administration as extrajudicial meddlesome and false.
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W. B. Beyeryns
Ambrose Bailey
Brown
Dailey
Meyer Brown
Grand Jury
George Washington and Scandinavian Origins Talked
In Chicago on December 7 Dr. Oscar Olson of Decorah Iowa addressed Norse and English languages citing five presidents ending in son as possibly having Scandinavian blood. He discussed linguistic roots and heritage connections presented at a Lutheran college event.
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Chicago
George Washington
Oscar Olson
Lutheran College
Decorah
Iowa
Aviators Die In Plane Crash At Thorne California
In Thorne California on December 7 Cecil Defrietas was killed and Bert Howe severely injured when their airplane crashed from a high altitude. Both were moving picture studio employees.
Lands surplus exhausted says Pres. Coolidge
President Coolidge told the American Farm Bureau Federation that lands surplus is exhausted as the industrial population grows faster than farming. He urged cooperative marketing to aid farmers and warned against government price fixing or direct buying and selling of farm produce as dangerous and not supported. The president and Mrs Coolidge arrived with officials to a friendly greeting.
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Chicago
Coolidge
American Farm Bureau Federation
Body of Judge Burke Nearing Seattle
Mrs. Thomas Burke travels to Seattle with the judge’s body after his sudden death during a Carnegie Endowment speech. The funeral is expected in Seattle on Friday afternoon.
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Burke
Seattle
Thomas Burke
Carnegie Endowment For International Peace
Man Confesses Brutal Murder of Young Woman
ST. LOUIS Dec 7 The body of Mrs. Callie Black aged 25 was found last night in an alley the woman beaten to death with a pipe Russell Miller express driver arrested this morning and confessed to the crime.
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ST. Louis
Callie Black
Russell Miller
Two Enginemen Die As Train Hits Rock Slide
BONNERS FERRY Idaho Dec 7 A Great Northern freight train struck a rock slide at Sitka last night. Head brake man Charles B McGuire was killed, engineer John Harrington injured, fireman Clarence Fing escaped. Locomotive and 11 cars plunged into the Kootenal river.
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Bonners Ferry
Idaho
Charles B. McGuire
John Harrington
Great Northern
Sitka
Kootenal River
McGuire
Harrington
Clarence Fing
American destroyers depart Syria report reaches Paris
Paris dispatch says the U S Navy ordered destroyers Coughlan and Lawson to depart Syria, leaving the region under instruction from Washington.
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Syria
Paris
Coughlan
Lawson
Navy Department of the United States
Former Gov Bass to Seek Senate Seat Against Moses
Concord December 7 1920 Former New Hampshire governor Robert Bass republican announced his bid for the U S Senate opposing incumbent George H Moses Bass favored U S World Court participation with the Harding Hughes Coolidge reservation and called for American involvement abroad.
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Moses
Concord
N. H
Dee
Robert Bags
U. S. Senate
George H. Moses
Four Die in Covered Wagon From Gas Fumes
Springfield dispatch reports an itinerant horse trader and his three children found dead in a wagon camp near Whitehall. They died from asphyxiation due to gas fumes from an oil stove.
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Springfield
Whitehall
Recommendations of Gov Parks on Alaska territorial policy
A list of eleven proposed measures includes authorizing the Interior to lease public domain for fur bearing animal propagation, amending laws on trade site acquisitions and homestead boundary surveys, aligning land district boundaries with judicial divisions, building a new administration facility in Juneau, allocating seal island revenues to public schools, repealing limits on placer mining claims, creating a territorial police force, issuing town lot patents to natives, funding topographic surveys, purchasing a boat as a Yukon River clinic, and extending mining investigations via a federal-territorial cooperative agreement.
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Juneau
Seal Islands
Alaskan
Yukon River
Alaska
Tanana
Bureau of Mines
Cowboy Objected To Horse Meat Plant Fire
Tronk Leta, a Montanan cowboy, was found wounded after detectives surprised him placing dynamite under a horse meat packing plant. He had set the plant on fire four times in protest that horses from Montana ranges were used to make dog and meat products exported to Europe, causing about $50,000 in damages.
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Tronk Leta
Europe
Lett
Montana
German Cabinet Resigns Over Locarno Pact
Berlin December 7 The German Cabinet has decided to resign ahead of the Locarno accord signing. President von Hindenburg is expected to ask Dr Luther to form a new ministry aligned with the Locarno program.
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Berlin
von Hindenburg
Luther
Fall and Doheny Indictments Upheld by DC Court of Appeals
The District of Columbia Court of Appeals ruled the indictments against former Secretary of the Interior Fall and Doheny valid, reversing lower court quashings in the bribery case.
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Washington
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
A. B. Fall
EB. J. Doheny
Investigators Say Prison Break Due to Carelessness
Salem report by the committee on the Oregon State prison break blames lax discipline and weak vigilance for the August 12 escape. Warden Dalrymple resigned after the findings were released.
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Salem
Oregon
Dalrymple
Ruler of Manchuria Is Defeated and Plans to Quit
Pekin dispatches say Gen Chang Tso Lin, Manchurian ruler, retreats after defeat by Gen Kao. Kao's forces feigned surrender and struck the left flank. Kao, once a follower of Chang, was to surrender, while Chang plans to retire to private life at Mukden.
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Manchuria
Pekin
Chang Tso Lin
Kao
Chang
Tokyo
Mukden
Eighteeths Are Found Alive In Colorado Mine Rescue
In Nederland Colorado a dramatic mine accident at the Fairview silver lead mine ends with eight miners saved. Two men died and one survivor, Robert Stephenson, helped build a bulkhead and directed the escape while singing at times.
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Nederland
Colo
Foirview
Prentice Norris
Robert Stephenson
President's Reply to Lewis Not Made Public
Washington announces the president said he answered the complaint of Pressi John J. Lewis of the United Workers but the motive and details remain undisclosed amid efforts by Gov. Pinedo. The president indicated no portion of the answer would be released ahead of next Tuesday.
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Lewis
Washington
Lec
Prent Coolidge
John J. Lewis
United 4 Workers
Pinedo
Northern Pacific Breaks Ground on Cascade Tunnel Project
Chicago December 7 The Northern Pacific has begun a tunnel in the Cascades destined to run seven and three quarters miles. President Ralph Budd says the project will cost about 8.6 million dollars and will shield the route between eastern and western Washington by ten miles. Completion is expected in two years.
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The
Northern Pacific
Cascades
Ralph Budd
Washington
le Miles
Two Portland Men Are Recommended for S. B.
Washington dispatch reports Senator Melnary of Oregon suggested Frankie Schull and Marshall N. Dana for seats on the Shipping Board. Dana is an editorial writer for the Portland Daily Journal and Schull heads the Pacific Flour Export Corporation, both prominent Portland figures.
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Washington
Cav!idge
United States
Oregon
Frankie Schull
Tipen
Marshall N. Dana
Shippine Board
Ore
Dec
T-Woon Dana
Portland Daily Journal
Frank L Schull
Pacific Flour Export Corporation
Portlandera
Progress Made in Alaskan Territory Governor Reports Growth
Governor Geo. Al Parks presents the first annual report from the Secretary of the Sector, noting steady industrial progress across fisheries, mining, and ores. Fisheries lead with higher value than 1922, while cod and halibut fishing face regulatory changes and seasonal employment impacts.
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Geo. al Parks
Lortary
I Varks
Lune
Alaska
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