Mitchells trial risks amid government record access fight
In a court martial, Col William Mitchell wins consent to hand aviation documents to the defense. Major General Robert C. Davis and others withdraw subpoena requests as Col McMullen secures approval from White House, War, Navy, and Agriculture that records be provided. Mrs Mitchell attends, declaring support and noting the case should be fully aired.
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Washington
William Mitchell
Robert C. Davis
Army
Jones
Shenandoah Inquiry Court
A. N. Krogstal
Honolulu
Col. McMullen
White House
War Navy
Agricultural Departments
Washington Loses Fight Over Japanese Land Control
Washington State Supreme Court rejected efforts to bar Japanese from land ownership. The decision upheld lower court rulings canceling a 60 year lease on 10 acres to J. T. Kusumi and possession of eight acres by Ryotan Jurior, with escheat to the State. The court found no evidence that transfers were made through dummies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Washington State
State Supreme Court
Commonwealth
J. T. Kusumi
Ryotan Jurior
Bandit Takes $273 In Hotel Berkeley Drug Store
A man entered J. N. Scow’s Berkeley drug store and robbed it of 273 dollars at gunpoint last night. He wrote a receipt during the crime, reading received of J. N. Scow two hundred seventy three dollars, signed The Bandit.
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Berkeley
Cal
J. N. Scow
Scow
Missing Alaskan drops from sight mystery deepens
Seattle dispatch says Katherine Bowers 16 daughter of Alaska businessman Harry Bowes seeks her father after a telegram from Portland says Bowes left October 29 en route to San Francisco and Los Angeles with $15,000. Bowes family deaths leave her as the only living relative while remains in Portland await search results.
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Seattle
Post-Intelligencer
San Francisco Dispatch
Katherine Bowers
Harry Bowes
Alaska
George E. Clark
Portland
Bowers
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Filipinos Prepare Draft Bill For National Plebiscite
Manila reports a four bill draft to counter U S pressure on Philippine independence. The bill would call a national election in which all Filipinos may vote on independence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
United States
Canadian Parliament Will Be Called Soon
Ottawa report says Premier Mackenzie King will call Parliament at the earliest possible moment, an official announcement indicates. The move signals a prompt session to address pending issues and potential government actions.
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Ottawa
Mackenzie King
Tax on Forgetfulness Latest Of French Finance Fashions
Paris on November 5 reports a new French revenue novelty a tax on forgetfulness. Loss and misplaced items are redeemable at the Local Property Office of Police Headquarters with a fee of 4 percent of value for money and securities jewelry except items with no intrinsic value and other articles priced at two francs or one franc depending on category.
Warnings Bar Prohibits Weddings On Eve Of Holidays
In Munster Germany a Provincial Synod decree bars Protestant ministers from performing marriages on days preceding church holidays to curb heavy wedding guest drinking that disrupts Sunday services as guests stagger home toward worship.
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Muenster
West Vphalia
Germany
Alaska Mails Cost Estimates Revised by Underwood
Seattle November 6 Jack Underwood Seattle Chamber of Commerce representative telegraphed that Postmaster General New is still weighing curtailment costs in the Alaska mail service. He says New's investigator estimates omit postal fees to Alaska, making government income exceed 450000 dollars while delivery costs reach 750000 dollars and income stands at 125000 dollars.
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Seattle
Jack Underwood
Washington
Seattle Chamber of Commerce
New
Alaska
Underwood
Standard Oil to Map Coast Airways Across Pacific Towns
The Standard Oil Company announced a plan to establish a widespread system of guide signs for aviations along the airway of Pacific towns. Names of the towns will be printed in big letters on the top of the company's distributing stations.
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San Francisco
Standard Oil Company
Pacific
Lindley Wood Named Viceroy of India in Succession
London Nov 5 Edward Frederick Lindley Wood former president of the board of education was appointed viceroy of India to succeed the Earl of Reading who retires next April.
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London
Edward Frederick Lindley Wood
Board of Education
Viceroy of India
Earl of Reading
United States Destroyers Arrive in Bierut to Protect Americans
American destroyers Goghlan and Samson arrived at Bierut from Alexandria to safeguard American lives and property in Syria amid tensions. The ships anchor offshore as authorities assess security needs and coordinate with local officials.
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United States
Bierut
Goghlan
Samson
Alexandria
Syria
Oldfield Sees Voters Turning From the G O P
Democratic National Chairman William A. Oldfield said Tuesday's elections show the pendulum swinging toward a Democratic Congress in 1926 and a Democratic President in 1928, denouncing perceived propaganda favoring the Coolidge administration. George Wolvany of Tammany Hall praised Walker's mayoral victory and urged a clean, progressive Democratic administration in New York.
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Washington
William A. Oldfield
Democratic National Congressional Campaign Committee
Ile
Coolidge
New York
George Wolvany
Tammany Hall
James J. Walker
Democratic Party
Tammany Weil
Walker
Ross Watson Acquitted in Nanaimo Bank Robbery Case
Ross Watson a former Seattle police officer was acquitted in Nanaimo British Columbia of complicity in last year’s bank robbery. H L Johnson testified that he is the man identified as Watson Johnson denied Watson’s involvement and a Chicago gunman recently captured after a Seattle jailbreak is also charged in the case. Watson plans a lawsuit for compensation claiming bankruptcy and sale of all possessions including his home to fund his defense. Meanwhile Canadian whiskey traffic post prohibition is largely dammed up with moonshine and cut whiskey flooding markets as authorities report widespread liquor mislabeling and numerous seizures across Detroit St Paul and the Twin Cities. There are about 16 000 blind pigs in Detroit indicating a big illicit supply despite the border crackdown.
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Nanaimo
B. C
Ross Watson
Seattle
H. L. Johnson
Johnson
Watson
Chicago
British Columbia
St Paul
Detroit
Cleveland
Chicuro
Minnesota
Twin Cities
Frank H. Croul
Detroit River
Lakes St. Clair
Huron
Erie
Bank Robbery Trial Narrowly: Band Members Cleared
Vancouver witnesses T H Johnson and Harry Stone, who helped acquit Ross Watson, are ready to testify that William Bagley did not belong to the band that robbed the Nanaimo bank.
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Vancouver
B. C
T. H. Johnson
Harry Stone
Ross Watson
William Bagley
Nanaimo
American Firms Take Polish Zinc Mines
The W. A. Harriman Company of New York and the Anaconda Copper Company of Montana have jointly assumed control of the Polish holdings of the George von Geisches heirs' mining company. The operation is in poor financial shape and the heirs will receive a small amount of stock. the mines are mainly zinc.
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Breslau
Germany
W. A. Harriman Company
New York
Anaconda Copper Company
Montana
George von Geisches Heirs’ Mining Company
Dynamite Cartridge Explodes Near Tacoma
In Tacoma Washington a dynamite cartridge exploded at the Du Pont Powder Company house killing two men instantly and injuring two others. Authorities investigated the blast as a fatal accident at the industrial site.
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Tacoma
Wash
Dupont Powder Company
Modifications of Volstead Act Likely, Says Hill
Representative John Phillip Hill of Maryland predicts inevitable changes to the Volstead Act during a San Francisco meeting of church and prohibition groups. He cites the Federal Council of Churches research report as a strong critique of Volsteadism influencing public opinion.
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San Francisco
John Phillip Hill
Maryland
Federal Council of Churches
Tin mines of Alaska yield large output
The Alaska Department of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce reports that 19 500 tons of tin were shipped from placer tin mines in the Nome district during the present year.
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Alaska
Seattle
Alaska Department of the
Seattle Chamber of Commerce
Nome
Sea Captain Heads Cruise to Seek Asthma Cure
Port Angeles, Wash. Nov. 5 Capt. N A Sandberg sails from here in the Tofoot auxiliary schooner Elsie he built himself to Atunna and Marquesa Islands. A 80 year seaman he says he undertakes the voyage not for romance but to seek a cure for his asthma. Frank Karl and Roy Stelich accompany him to engage in the copra trade.
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Port Angeles
Wash
N. A. Sandberg
Elsie
Atunna
Marquesa Islands
Sandberg
Frank Karl
Roy Stelich
Arrests in Mussolini plot and party shakeup
Rome reports say former Socialist deputy Zamboni was arrested on charges of planning to kill Premier Mussolini. Three more arrests followed as police detained Zanizoni on a mission to assassinate the premier and Gen Louis Capello on a Turin-bound train.
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Rome
Zamboni
Mussolini
Unitarian
Socialist Party
Grand Orient
Drazon
Popolo Quaglia
Fascist Party
Italy
Oregon and Western states Back Pacific Northwest Exposition
Oregon Washington Idaho Montana and Alaska delegates pledged moral and financial support for the Pacific Northwest Industrial and Commercial Exposition to be staged at Madison Square Garden New York from May 10 to 23 next year. President Coolidge will be invited to open the exposition in person.
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Portland
Ore
Oregon
Washington
Idaho
Montana
Alaska
Madison Square Garden
New York City
Coolidge
Dr Never Sleep Brinker Visits on Way South
SEATTLE Nov 5 Dr Never Sleep C G Brinker who runs a Nome drug store for the Lomen Brothers arrived en route to San Francisco to visit friends. He went to Alaska 25 years ago and this is his first trip out since 1915. His nickname came from the vigil during the 1918 influenza epidemic.
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Seattle
C. GG. Brinker
Nome
Lomen Brothers
San Francisco
Brinker
Alaska
Pershing Wins Plebiscite Guarantee In Chile
A Foreign Ministry communiqué says Chile accepts General Pershing’s motion on guarantees for the Tacna Arica plebiscite. The guarantees ensure a fair vote, remove several officials, curb censorship, reduce troops in the Tacna Arica provinces, and ease entry and travel in the plebiscite zone.
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Santiago
Navy
Chile
John J. Pershing
Coolidge
Tacna-Arica
Pershing's Son Trains as Paris Garage Mechanic
General Pershing's son Warren, 16, works in a Paris garage during vacation. He began six weeks of motor repair bench labor, earning the foreman's early rebuke but proving steady and dedicated. He plans to return for more work during his Swiss school days, showing his skill may match his father's fame.
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Pershing
Paris
Warren
General Pershing
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Billy" Mitchell
Hilly
Alore
Elizabeth Miller
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Girace
Bivvy
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Standard Oil
Coast Airways
India Post
Oldfield
Democratic Congress
Dr, Mwares B. Sanford
William
Rowan
TF Frederick
Ladyinnes Ker
Mary Blanch Sanford
Salvation Army
Frederick Stock
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Legion of Honor
W. A. Rowan
Manhattan
Lady Innes-Ker
Ann Parsons
Babb
Gen. Pershing
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