Opening Day Sparks Series of Congressional Proposals
Washington reports a flood of bills on December 8 as both houses debate child labor limits, abolition of the shipping board, creation of foreign trade zones, and anti sedition measures. Proposals include constitutional amendments, treaty powers shifts, and酒 Volstead repeal efforts with four percent beer, plus a conference to outlaw war.
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Jones
Senate Commerce Committee
Fleet Corporation
The
Shipping Board
Edge
Jersey
McLeod
Michigan
House
Oly Aeronautics
Griffin
Congress
Gibson
Vermont
Federal Trade Commission
Johnson
Washington
Ashington
la Guarne
New York
Mebeéd
Edwards
New Jersey
Sid
Prohibition Debate Opens as New Congress Refocuses Volstead Act
Washington reports at session start the Volstead act and 18th amendment face a flood of reform proposals. Senator Edge of New Jersey seeks to raise legal alcohol content to 2.75 percent and to allow physicians to prescribe more liquor in ten days. Other bills aim to tighten enforcement and consider repeal or amendment.
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Washington
Congress
House
Edge
New Jersey
Senate
Voistead
Edge Billa
Judiciary Committee
Anti-Saloon League
Girls Should Paint in the Proper Way
New York AP report describes a Barnard College health exhibit showing how to paint cheeks from the inside out. Displays include athletic gear and a section labelled antiques with corset heavy undergarments and a hair switch. Also featured are exhibits on ideal diets titled Miss Too Fat Miss Too Thin and Miss Just Right.
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New York
Det. 3
Barnard College
Chang's Army Retreats Toward Mukden in Manchuria
Tokyo reports say General Kuo Sung Lien's forces, allied with former Chang Tso Lin loyalists, move toward Mukden while Sinminfu and Shengking province sit west of the city. Banks close, foreigners evacuate, and consuls plan protection as tensions rise.
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Toyko
Foreign Office
Kuo Sung Lien
Chang Tso Lin
Mukden
Manchuria
Kuo
Sinminfu
Shengking
Kirin
Chang
Peking
Tokyo
Port Arthur
Cooke Child Earns Mother Custody Ruling
Shirley Cooke, aged six, faces a US Supreme Court decision on custody between Toronto attorney Henry J. Cooke and her mother Hilda Betty Cooke. The child favors remaining with her mother and has expressed preference to stay with Mama, while the case hinges on a writ of habeas corpus filed by the father. The dispute has been aired previously in the West.
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Salt Lake City
Dec
Shirley Cooke
Supreme Court
Henry J. Cooke
Toronto
Hilda Betty Cooke
Shirley
Cooke
Shiley
West
Crowder Attends Maceo Ceremony in Havana
United States Ambassador E. H. Crowder participated in ceremonies in Havana honoring Cuban patriot General Antonio Maceo who died in battle with Spain on December 7, 1896.
Nye appointment questioned by Dakota Attorney General
In Dakota the Attorney General, George Keer, says Gerald Nye's appointment to fill the late Edwin Ladd’s U S Senate vacancy is legal. Governor Lorne named Nye, with Spalding of Fargo leading the Republican committee in supporting the choice.
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Nye
Dakota
Bismarck
N. D
United States Senate
Washington
Gerald Nye
Coopertown
United States
George Keer
Abates
K. F. Spalding
Fargo
Republican State Central Committee
Lorne
Edwin F. Ladd
Shafer
Omaha police urge uniforms for off duty soldiers
Omaha police officials asked Colonel Tenny Ross to issue an order requiring soldiers to wear uniforms off duty. The move follows a series of robberies and a grocery store holdup linked to soldiers, with three soldiers arrested and confessing to multiple robberies. The chief of staff will refer the matter to the War Department in Washington.
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Omaha
Neb
Tenny Ross
Seventh Corps
United States Army
Ross
War Department
Washington
Winston F. Duk
Gln Harrington
Harry Flynn
Fort Omaha
Duke
Harrington
Ag ‘Lynn
ParisWoman at Center of Espionage Case
Paris December reports allege Marthe Moreuil a 25 year old Parisian former nurse model and parachute jumper plotted to obtain French wartime air service secrets. Three men James Leather Fisher Williams and Ernest Phillips arrested they allegedly employed her. Authorities say she confessed and named the men who funded her actions.
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Paris
Great Britain
Marthe Moereuil
James Leather
Fisher Williams
Ernest Oliver Phillips
Mile Moreuil
Leather
Phillips
Miles Moreuil
Ouess
Pierrefeu
St. Rafaele
St. Nazaire
Bordeaux
Ayre
Williams
Rennes
Nantes
Milo
Moreuil
Militar
Petit Parisian
League of Nations Council
Henri de Kerills
Echo de Paris
Mile. Moreuil
French Introduces Indian Bill in Congress
Representative French Republican Idaho introduced a bill to make Indians subject to state or territorial laws on marriage health and education. Treaty obligations and related rights would not be changed by the measure.
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Washington
Idaho
Wounded Man Carried 15 Miles After Quail Hunt Accident
Benjamin Acancara Jr. of Ross Marin County was accidentally shot during a quail hunt and carried fifteen miles by the unidentified shooter to Ross General Hospital. He required removal of his right eye. The shooter, named St. Keil, fled after delivering aid.
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Lance
Benjamin Acancara, Jr
Ross Marin County
Ross General Hospital
Point Reyes
St. Keil
Acancara
Country church fading yet faith remains cornerstone
Chicago reports at the seventh annual American Farm Bureau federation meeting reveal C. E. Bradfute warns the country church is largely gone but urges sustained faith in God and social unity. He urges studying the McNary Haugen plan and calls for fair taxation relief for farmers. The note also covers livestock market standards as C B Denman stresses uniform grades to enable orderly marketing amid large sales volumes.
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Chicago
C. E. Bradfute
American Farm Bureau Federation
Federation
Bradfute
Coolidge
National Farm Bureau
President
Agricultural Commission
C. B. Denman
National Livestock Producers Association
Lewis and Munn Wrestle Tonight in Denver
Ed Lewis world heavyweight champion and Wayne Munn Nebraska college star meet in a finish match at the city auditorium in Denver. This is their second meeting since Munn won the crown in Kansas City about a year ago. Alan Eustace and Sailor Jack Lewis meet in the semi windup.
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Denver
Strangler
Coolidge Submits Message and House Starts to Work
President Coolidge urged a program of hard work for the new Congress. The House moved quickly on a major tax reduction bill while the Senate reviewed the message and prepared hearings. Storms loomed as Senators Jones and Ashurst signaled reform and river water tensions in Arizona and Colorado.
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Coolidge
HOUSE
Senate
Washington
Congress
Air Board
World Court
Houses of
Chicago
Capitol Hill
Jones
Dawes
Ashurst
Arizona
Mexico
Army replies to Col Mitchell in aviation case at court martial
General Hanson Ely testifies against Colonel Mitchell asserting a unified air service. Ely opposes a separate air force and defends aviation as a component of overall defense while rejecting the view that airpower could dominate national defense. The trial moves through questions on morale and air power’s role.
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Washington
Army
Wm. Mitchell
Hanson E. Ely
Army War College
Ely
Mitchell
Sherman Moreland
Reid
Coolidge
Western Union Boosts Dividend To Eight Per Share
New York Dec 8 The Western Union Telegraph Company directors raised the annual dividend rate on capital stock from 7 to 8 a share and authorized a quarterly payment of 2 1/2 per share. Dividends had been 7 yearly since 1919.
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New York
Western Union Teleaph Company
Kipling Improves After Night Quiet in Sussex
Dec 8 medical bulletin from Bulbul Kipling residence in Burwash reports the author treated for bronchial pneumonia had another good night and is maintaining improvement.
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Kipling
Burwash
Sussex
England
Wyard
Washoe basket weaver Dat La La Lee dies at 90
Dat La La Lee, renowned Washoe artist who wove tribal history into basketry, died after a long illness. Buried near the Carson Indian School in Stewart Nevada with an unfinished basket she valued as her finest work. Her baskets, some worth 5000, are exhibited at the Smithsonian and Carnegie institutions.
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Reno
Nev
Dat-La- La-Lee
Washoe
Smithsonian Institute
Carnegie Institute
Berenger Named as Ambassador to United States
Paris reports the appointment of Senator Victor Henry Berenger as French ambassador to the United States approved by the council of ministers. He is to relieve Emile Daeschner in Washington with six month renewals and brings long experience as a leading financial authority in the senate finance commission.
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Paris
Victor Henry Berenger
United States
Council of Ministers
Berenger
Emile Daeschner
Washington
Senate Finance Commission
Caillaux
Idaho Timber Tract Is Sold to Weyerhaeuser Interests
In Duluth Minnesota on December 8 AP reports the sale of 16000 acres of northern Idaho timber containing over 200 million feet of pine to the Weyerhaeuser interests for about 1.8 million dollars. The Clearwater Timber Company a Weyerhaeuser subsidiary will supply a mill to be built at Lewiston Idaho and served by a 41 mile railroad line built by Northern Pacific and Union Pacific.
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Duluth
Minn
Idaho
Weyerhaeuser
Henry Turrish
Clearwater Timber Company
Werverboeurer
Lewiston
Northern Pacific
Union Pacific
George M. Bowers Dies. Ex-Congressman From West Virginia
George Mead Bowers, 63, former representative from West Virginia's second district from 1916 to 1923, died at his home in Martinsburg from a stroke. A longtime Republican figure in eastern Virginia politics, he was a notable party leader for years.
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Martinsburo
W. Va
George Mead Bowers
Congress
West Virginia
Ale Home
Bowers
Est Virginis
Ferguson Refuses Texas Legislature Extra Session Call
Governor Miriam A. Ferguson declares she will not call a special session despite a petition from about forty-five legislators. She cites economy and existing highway, tick eradication, and foot and mouth disease work as reasons to avoid convening while urging cooperation if needs arise.
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Austin
Texas
Miriam A. Ferguson
Lee Satterwhite
House
Ane
Destesek
Roosevelts On A Great Hunt In Asia
Chicago reports the James Simpson Roosevelt expedition making major game headway in Central Asia. Kermit Roosevelt bagged a world record ibex with 59% inch horns as part of eleven ibex and other big game captured. The party, including Theodore Roosevelt and Suydam Cutting, travels toward Kashmir and Nepal en route to further hunts and wildlife collection for the Field Museum.
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Chicago
Kermit Peorevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
James Simpson- Roosevelt
Central Asia
Field Museum
Roosevelt
Fem
Kashmir
India
Nepal
Roosevelts
George K. Cherrie
Suydam Cutting
Rooseve
Russia
Qaspian
Federal inheritance tax repeal drive expands nationwide
A nationwide push to repeal the federal inheritance tax gains momentum led by Speaker Liv Batterwhite of the Texas house. The effort, coordinated with Texas tax officials, seeks support from other state legislatures to meet in Washington this Thursday to discuss the proposal.
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Washington
Liv Batterwhite
Texas House
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