Alaska Legislature Opens as Members Arrive for Session
The seventh biennial Alaska Legislature convenes Monday with most members present. Several senators and representatives travel on ships Alameda Admiral Rogers and Alaska as health and travel delay a few arrivals. Organizational talks proceed informally with no definite action planned before tomorrow.
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Alaska
Senator Ayer
Admiral Rogers
Senator Hunt
Seattle
Harry Watson
W. L Paul
Petersburg
J. W. Murray
C. H. Wilcox
Ben A. Grier
W. A. Sherman
K. K E. Sheldon
George C. Moody
M. H. Ross
John J. Elliott
F. A. Aldrich
Charles W. Brown
John W. Dunn
N. O. Hardy
B. Perguson
W. D. Grant
A. N. Nylan
R. N. Sundquist
Thomas D. Jensen
Tourists for Alaska Next Summer Promise to Break All Records
Tacoma reports Harry G. Watson of Anchorage, passenger agent for the Alaska Railroad, touring eastern cities to boost summer tourism to Alaska. He says outlook is remarkably good and all previous records would likely be broken next summer, with Alaska boat accommodations booked into late August.
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Alaska
Tacoma
Harry G. Watson
Anchorage
Alaska Rail
Entrapments in Liquor Purchases Declared Illegal
Boston February 28 The federal court ruled that using speed boats to buy liquor from foreign vessels off the American coast is entrapment and that the Coast Guard seizure of the British rum runner Marjorie K Bachman last October was illegal.
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Boston
Marjorie K. Bachman
Coast Guard
Explosion on Caju Island harms 300 in Rio de Janeiro
In Rio de Janeiro on February 23 an explosion on Caju Island near Nichteroy involved 40 tons of powder and other combustibles. Ten people were killed and about 300 injured, with property losses estimated at 1 million dollars.
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Rio DE Janerio
Caju Island
Nichteroy
Soviet Trade Union Delegates Report On Russia Conditions
British London feb 28 delegates of the British Trades Union Congress toured Russia for six weeks and produced a 250 page volume. They find the Soviet strong and stable with broad support among workers and peasants and a federal structure that affords cultural and political liberties with religious toleration. The report says foreign study is warranted. Washington feb 28 frank b kellogg conveyed an optimistic view of international matters to president coolidge, with no change in his stance on Russia.
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London
Thritish Trades Union Congress
Russia
Washington
Frank B. Kellogg
Coolidge
Christian workers to hold conference in South America
New York February 28 bound for the first Congress on Christian Work in South America the main body of 200 delegates from 40 Protestant institutions in North America and Europe sailed for Montevideo aboard the Southern Cross. The congress runs March 20 to April 8 in Montevideo with regional conferences in Rio de Janeiro March 12 15 and Buenos Aires April 13 14. Delegates and visitors will tour South American cities studying religious and educational facilities as several delegations are already there. The main group sails December and February 14 ships arrive Rio de Janeiro March 12 and Montevideo March 26 then depart for New York April 9 reaching April 27. The congress is under the Committee on Cooperation in Latin America and aims to expand the 1916 program begun in Panama. As outlined by Samuel Guy Inman.
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South America
North America
Europe
Montevideo
Southern Cross
Rio de Janeiro
Buenos Aires
Ional
Committee On Cooperation In
Latin America
Congress On Christian Churches In
Panama
Agriculture Laws Needed by Coolidge Push
President Coolidge urged that the agricultural conference program be enacted into law this session. The rivers and harbors bill, carrying 41 million dollars and 51 new proposals from the Senate, faced a stormy late night session with riders. Democrats backed the measure in conference, hoping to pass before adjournment, while a Cape Cod purchase filibuster jeopardized the bill.
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Washington
Coolidge
Congress
Ile
Senate
Cape Cod
Mass
Pauline Frederick’s Property Is Attached
New York February 28 A writ of attachment directed the sheriff to seize any property in New York belonging to Pauline Frederick the screen actress issued by Supreme Court Justice Wagner on petition of George Edwin Josephs a lawyer. Josephs holds a judgment from November 1921 in a Los Angeles court for 28649 for professional services and says he has been unable to collect any of it.
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New York
Pauline Frederick
Supreme Court
Wagner
George Edwin Josephs
Josephs
Los Angeles
Glacier Bay National Monument Established in Alaska
The first Glacier Monument was created by presidential proclamation at the Interior Secretary’s recommendation. About 1,220 square miles in Southeastern Alaska, including Glacier Bay and the Muir Glacier region, were set aside as a national monument. Protests and an Interior Department investigation preceded the final withdrawal.
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Washington
Yeh
Alaska
Glacier Bay National Monument
Cape Fairweather
Lynn Canal
Icy Straits
Capt. Fairweather
Glacier Bay
Litugia Bay
Juneau
Sutherland
Interior Department
Department
George A. Parks
Bone
France's Gambling Casinos Profit Big 1924
Paris reports the Chamber of Deputies says France's gambling casinos earned 204 million francs in 1924. The share allocated to the State, treasury and municipalities rose to 40 percent from 25 percent.
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France
Paris
Chamber of Deputies
James Edgar Martine Dies Suddenly in Miami
Miami, Feb 28 James Edgar Martine former United States Senator from New Jersey and a noted supporter of the Wilson presidency died last night. The death occurred during a quiet stay in Miami from apoplexy.
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Miami
Fla
James Edgar Martine
United States
New Jersey
Solona
Wilson
Mitchell cited over articles without War Department approval
Secretary Weeks told the House Aircraft Committee that General Mitchell published pieces in the Saturday Evening Post without official approval after President Coolidge warned him. Weeks said no one was muzzled and MITCHELL would have been approved if submitted. He said neither he nor Coolidge could force a resignation and noted Mitchell’s limited knowledge of Japan beyond personal observation.
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Yeb
Weeks
House Aircraft Committee
Mitchell
War Department
Coolidge
Saturday Evening Post
Gen
Patrick
Japan
Aquitania Runs Into Violent Storm at Sea
Cherbourg reports a violent Atlantic storm battered the Aquitania as it neared port. Thirty two first class passengers and forty crew members were slightly injured over the final days of the voyage, described as the worst in ten years.
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Aquitania
Cherbourg
Longworth Selected Republican Speaker on First Ballot
Washington, Feb 28 Reuters Longworth of Ohio was chosen as the Republican candidate for Speaker of the House at the caucus on the first ballot Madden of Illinois received 85 votes Madden moved to make the selection unanimous which was done Tilson of Connecticut was named by acclamation to succeed Longworth as party leader
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Washington
Nicholas Longworth
Ohio
Longworth
Martin B
Assassination Plot Credited to Anarchist Groups
New York report says J P Morgan Charles Schwab T Coleman DuPont and President Wilson were named targets for assassination by anarchists before U S entry into World War I. Ralph M Wasley of the National Civic Federation confirms revelations from Gompers autobiography noting DuPont assassination progress near culmination thwarted by the government.
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New York
J. P. Morgan
Charles Schwab
T.coleman DuPont
Wilson
United States
Ralph M. Wasley
National Civic Federation
Gompers
Easley
DuPont
Student Killed in Duel Over Fraternity Honor
FRANKFORT Germany Feb 25 Richard Wall president of the Nationalist Students Fraternity at Frankfort University was killed today in a duel with swords fought on behalf of the honor of his fraternity He had considered the fraternity insulted by his adversary.
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Frankfort
Germany
Richard Wall
atFrankfort University
Pajamas on a Man's Shoulders Cited in Conspiracy Case
In Chicago on February 25 Mrs. Arthur Miller of Denver testified in the conspiracy case against Stokes identifying a photograph as her daughter wearing pajamas astride a man's shoulders. She named the man as William Keyer of St. Louis.
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Chicago
Arthur Miller
Denver
Stokes
Muscle Shoals Commission Call Reported by House
Washington Feb 28 The House Military Committee has reported a resolution urging President Coolidge to create a commission to make recommendations regarding Muscle Shoals. The measure frames the issue as a sense of the House.
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Washington
House Military Committee
House
Coolidge
Government suit on Teapot Dome lease to go forward
In Cheyenne on February 28 the court set March 9 to continue the trial of the Government's bid to annul the Teapot Dome oil lease after the petition for continuance was overruled.
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Cheyenne
Teapot Dome
Head of German government dies after operation
Berlin February 28 President Ebert died at 10 16 this morning after an operation for appendicitis developed peritonitis last Tuesday He faced denunciations over government loans to the Barmat Brothers and a libel case while shaping postwar order He was born in 1871 at Heigelberg and rose from saddlery apprentice to Social Democratic leader ending as Reichstag head and President of Germany.
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Berlin
Ebert
Barmat Brothers
Kaiser Wilhelm
Heigelberg
Bremen
Social Democratic Party
Coggie Reichstag
Germany
Reichstag
Longer Life Is Aim Now of Medical Body
San Francisco February 28 The California governing committee of the Gorgas Memorial Institute, seven San Francisco physicians, says the average life should be increased from fifty eight years to a longer span. The national body funds the memorial to the late George Williams Gorgas and plans to raise life expectancy within the next forty years.
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San Francisco
California
Gorgas Memorial Institute
George Williamsford Gorgas
Three Men Rescued After Month Adrift At Sea
Three men in an open boat were rescued by the tanker Lightburne 275 miles south of Miami after adrift in the Atlantic for nearly a month. The wireless message reached Easthampton Long Island during the night, confirming the peril and rescue.
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Easthampton
Long Island
Lightburne
Miami
Pla
British Divine Takes Fling At Books Written Since 1890
In Manchester on February 28 Rev. Garfield H Williams, secretary of the Missionary Council of the Church Assembly, told the Student Christian Movement conference that almost all worthwhile books are from before the 20th century. He said modern students ignore newer works unless dated 1923 or 1924 and called today’s youth exceedingly conceited.
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Manchester
Eng
Garfield H Williams
Missionary Council of the Church Assembly
Student Christian Movement Conference
Williams
Burke Cleared in Indian Affairs Probe in Oklahoma
Washington February 28 Commissioner of Indian Affairs Charles H H Burke and other officials were exonerated of corruption charges in Oklahoma in a majority report filed with the House by the special investigating House Indian affairs committee.
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Washington
Indian Affairs
Charles Hh, Burke
Oklahoma
House
House Indian Affairs Committee
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