Dawes Sees Senate Kill Rule Reform Debated
Vice President Dawes watched a push for Senate rule reform collapse as Sen ator Underwood proposed majority cloture on appropriations and revenue bills. Reed assailed the gag rule as throttling free speech while Robinson warned it would be tyranny. debate focused on majority power and constitutionality.
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Washington
Dawes
Senate
Underwood
Alabama
Reed
Missouri
Robinson
Arkansas
Congress
America
U S World War Dead in Army and Navy 126 935 Washington
Publicized WWI death toll shows 121 614 enlisted and 6 045 officers, plus 276 army nurses. Army losses total 119 568 with 85 191 enlisted and 1 824 officers killed in action. Navy deaths include disease 5 352 enlisted and 284 officers.
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Washington
United States Army
Navy
Army
Senate panel backs delaying all prohibition modification bills
Washington. A senate judiciary subcommittee at public hearings with wets and drys recommended shelving all prohibition modification measures. It adopted a brief report to the full committee urging that joint resolutions and bills on relaxing prohibition be indefinitely postponed. The report says bills permitting light wine and beer manufacture run contrary to the eighteenth amendment.
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Washington
Senate Judiciary
Ford Co Seven Year Profit Totals 526 Million
The Ford Motor Company earned a net profit of 526 441 501 from 1917 to 1924 with 1922 as its peak year delivering 115 797 361 in net profit.
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Ford Co
Ford Motor Company
Rivers and Harbors Measure Passes in House Vote
Washington report notes the omni bus rivers and harbors bill cleared the House by 219 to 127 after earlier failed attempts to delete Illinois river appropriation and to end surveys for the New York State canal. Approved surveys cover Menominee harbor, Saginaw river, Mackinaw and Mussel longe bays, Black river, Galena river, and nine foot channel projects on the Mississippi and Ohio rivers in Illinois and Michigan.
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Washington
Sosnowski
Republican of
Michigan
New York State Canal
Menominee Harbor
Wisconsin
South Haven Harbor
Illinois
Galena River
Ilinois
Galena
Mississippi River
Missouri River
Minneapolis
Mississippi
Quindaro Bend
Ohio
Shawneetown
One Year in Prison and 2000 Dollar Fine for Carroll
Earl Carroll, Broadway’s “bathtub episode” creator, is sentenced to one year and a day in Atlanta federal prison and a $2,000 fine for perjury before the grand jury probing the Earl Carroll theater wine party on Washington’s Birthday night.
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Carroll
New York
Earl Carroll
Atlanta
Earl Carroll Theater
Washington
Prisoner Receives Life Sentence for Three Lak Verne Murders
Asa Bartlett a Ku Kluxan and township constable was sentenced to life in Marquette prison after a brief hearing for the murders of August Krubach his descendant Jeanette and her fiancé William Franke of Chicago near Three Lak Vern.
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Asa Bartlett
Ku Kluxan
Marquette
Vic August Krubachh
Krubach
Jeanette
William Franke
Chicago
Three million dollar theaters planned for Omaha
Omaha will see three new theaters costing three million dollars this year. The state Sunday School convention will meet at Alliance June 8 to 10. A late census puts Omaha population at 215000. A Citizens' Military Training Camp will form at Fort Crook in summer 1927.
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Omaha
Ross Moore
Randolph
Alliance
Federal Census Bureau
Citizens
Fort Crook
Beatrice
International Federation of Cosmopolitan Clubs
Herman Woltemade
Lincoln
Madame Schumann-Heink
Harry Page
Grand Island
A. J. Lingle
Fremont
Central United Presbyterian Church
Ak-Sar-Ben
Bennet
J. M. Bates
Red Cloud
Paul Britt
Bethany
Odell
Deshler
Bridgeport
Verne Hedge
Alumni Association
University of Nebraska
Cornhusker
Secretary of State
Pool
Sidney
Stewart
Tecumseh
Nebraska Supreme Court
American Exchange Bank of Bristow
Farmers’ Mutual Insurance Company
Hooper
Jacob Sass
State Fair Board
Sarpy County
Wilcox
Papillion
Waterloo
Elkhorn
Omaha Imian
Macy
John Ritchhart
Department of Commerce
Nebraska
North Platte
McPherson G. A. R. Post
Posts Institution
The
People’s Cooperative Milling
Nebraska Power executive wins Forbes public relations cup
J. E. Davidson of the Nebraska Power company receives the Forbes silver loving cup and certificate for the best public relations program. The award, presented by B. C. Forbes, was accepted amid cheers from more than four thousand delegates. Davidson remarked that his team earned the honor while he traveled for the national association.
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Omaha
J. E. Davidson
Nebraska Power Company
B. C. Forbes
Forbes Magazine
National Electric Light Association
Davidson
National Association
Pershing Sohn of Lincoln Seeks Citizens Training Camp
Francis Warren Pershing of Lincoln son of the General of the Armies has applied for admission to the Citizens Military Training Camps. He is 17, a Phillips Exeter Academy student, and will train at Fort Snelling from August 1 to 30 after vaccines.
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Omaha
Francis Warren Pershing
Lincoln
Phillips Exeter Academy
Exeter
New Hampshire
Fort Snelling
St. Paul
Minnesota
Special Nebraska Day at Philadelphia Exposition
George C. Mason appointed by Governor McMullen announced a special Nebraska day at the Philadelphia septennial exposition on September 1. The date marks the 57th anniversary of Daniel Freeman's patent to homestead No. 1 on 160 acres in Gage county near Beatrice.
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Lincoln
Philadelphia
George C. Mason
McMullen
Daniel Freeman
Gage County
Beatrice
Homestead Entries Canceled for Lacking Proof
Judge J H H Hewett, register of the government land office, reports cancellation for expiration of 19 homestead entries. Applicants failed to prove up on the homesteads, which are now open for entry.
Fairbury Club Hosts Party and Prepares for Jayhawker Golf
The Fairbury country club house opened with a party featuring golf tennis swimming a picnic and dancing. The course popularity is shown by its selection for the Jayhawker golf tournament set for early August.
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Fairbury
Fairbury Country Club
Walter Potter Wins D A R Gold Medal in Geneva
Twelve year old Walter Potter of rural district 55 captured the Stephen Bennett chapter D A R gold medal for the highest grade in United States history in county schools, awarded annually in Geneva.
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Geneva
Stephen Bennett
Fairmont
Walter Potter
United States
Birds Banded At Banding Station Near Fairbury
More than 3800 birds have been banded at the government banding station on the Calloway homestead near here. The station is conducted by the Misses Susie and Agne Calloway and is said to be the only active institution of its sort in the state.
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Fairbury
Calloway Homestead
Susie
Agne Calloway
Cloud Burst Floods Panama Region With Record Rain
A cloud burst lasting 80 minutes dropped 8 inches of rain in Panama region, the hardest storm in memory. Weather caused severe flooding and deep hail in some areas, with accumulations reaching foots in exposed spots.
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Panama
Hell
Bounty Totals for Fillmore County Recounted
Crow reports 1,196 bounties paid since January 1 for gophers 539 and coyotes 77. Warrants totaling 327.50 were drawn by Fillmore County clerk for the payments.
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Fillmore County
Churches Unite for Summer Bible School in Grand Island
The Baptist Congregational and Trinity Methodist churches of Grand Island join for a daily vacation Bible school from June 7 to 27, expecting about 250 children to attend.
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Grand Island
Baptist, Congregational
Trinity Methodist
Navy Air Expansion Bill Clears Senate for Large Purchase Plan
Washington Senate approves a near 100 million dollar navy air expansion measure to fund a five year program. The plan adds 1 600 planes including 235 aircraft by 1927 and 818 by 1928 with total costs around 85 million for airplanes plus a metal clad airship for experiments. The bill sets a five year building schedule and maintains naval aircraft at 1 600 with ongoing annual output thereafter.
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Washington
Naval Aviation
Senate
House
Coolidge
Navy
Wilburn
Thatcher bill funds Kentucky veterans hospital for 250 patients
The House veteran's committee reports a measure to authorize $1,125,000 for a veterans' bureau hospital in Kentucky. The facility would house 250 patients. In Washington, 46-year-old real-estate operator Thomas B. Brown was arrested on murder charges for the fatal shooting of 35-year-old Treasury Department clerk Frances Voegele.
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House Veteran’s Committee
Veterans’ Bureau
Kentucky
Thomas B. Brown
Washington
Frances _Voegele
Treasury Department
Inland Waterways approves Brodie barge line purchase
Secretary Davis sanctions the Brodie barge line buy by Inland Waterways Corp for upper Mississippi service between St Louis and Minneapolis and St Paul. James R Weir notes Amazon valley rubber could meet world needs if crops are protected from diseases and proper measures are taken.
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Brodie
Inland Waterways Corporation
Mississippi River
St. Louis
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Davis
Amazon Valley
James R. Weir
Department of Agricult
Veteran Garnett Receives Back Pension in Kentucky
Totally blind for many years, Benjamin Garnett a seventy nine year old Civil War veteran of Salem Kentucky, has just been awarded back pension money amounting to 7485 dollars.
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Benjamin Garnett
Salem, Ky
French Debt Now Up to Senate for Action
The 6.85 billion dollar French debt funding agreement cleared the House 236 to 112 and moves to the Senate amid a likely battle over ratification. Opponents object to the liberal terms that extend payments over 62 years with annual installments rising from 90 million dollars toward the total including interest.
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Washington
Senate
House
Ways and Means Committee
Paris
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