Useless Boards to Be Absorbed Under Reorganization Plan
Congress moves toward a government reorganization with a five member board to study functions and propose mergers. The plan, approved by administration leaders, would allow the president to act on consolidations without new legislation. A concurrent push seeks to fast track the federal inheritance tax appeal via a legislative resolution.
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House Republicans
Representative Lampert
Nelson
Wisconsin
Moses
Senate Post Office
Congress
Coolidge
Cretary Hoover
Smoot
Repblican
Utah
Apes
Michigan
Creaton
Ed U
Fisk
Legisatures
Texas
Arab
Arkansas
Ware
Kentucky
Louisiana
Mary- North Carolina
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Grange Hurt In Bears All Stars Game
Red Grange sustained a torn ligament and a broken bone in his right arm during the first period as he attempted to buck the Pittsburgh line. Dr Gustav Berg said the injury required removal to a hospital for X rays. Bears officials said he would be out of the lineup for several days.
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Pittsburgh
Chicago
Fire Hits Plant in Savannah Island Waterway
A heavy fire swept the Southern Slizer and Ical Company plant on an island in Savannah Savannah on December 10 causing an estimated $1,000,000 in damage. Fire crews fought the blaze through the day with no immediate reports of casualties.
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Savannah
Southern Slizer and
Ical Company
Inson Island
President Coolidge Nominates Officials for Senate Review
A new batch of public appointments was sent to the Senate including United States attorneys Albert D. Walton Wyoming and Carl M. Morris Utah, U.S. marshals Hugh L. Patton Wyoming and Clarence R. Hotchkiss Oregon, Frank M. Breshears Idaho, and registrars of land offices across Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Wyoming, and New Mexico.
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Washington
Senate
Coolidge
United States
Albert D. Walton
Wyoming
Carl M. Morris
Utah
United States Marshals
Hugh L. Patton
Clarence R. Hotchkiss
Oregon
Frank M. Breshears
Idaho
Peter G. Johnston
Blackfoot
Alfred Hagens
Boise
Clara M. Crisler
Carson City
Nev
Walter L. Tooze
Portland
Ore
H. A. Canada
Roseburg
J. W. Donnelly
the Dalles
George W. McKnight
Yale
Eli ¥. Taylor
Salt Lake City
James D. Gallup
Buffalo
Wyo
M. T. Christensen
Hoover proposes commission for Boulder Canyon Highway funding
Secretary Hoover told the Senate irrigation committee Congress should authorize a commission to negotiate a financial agreement among government, municipalities, and power firms for the Boulder Canyon project. He urged using the project for flood control water storage and power with early power markets in southern California, and called for basin-state input on development reports.
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Washington
Congress
Boulder Canyon
Black Canyon
Bsecretary
Hoover
Senate Committee On Irrigation and Reclamation
California
Boulder
Moab Gusher High Flow Raises Production Hopes
Report from Moab Utah notes the Mid west Exploration and Southern Oil test well blew in early Tuesday. Officials estimate initial flow at 250 barrels daily, but staff assessment puts potential at 500 barrels daily with possible further gains. Fire halted by steam and foam. casing to be cemented and sand layer to be penetrated.
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Salt Lake City
Moab
Utah
Big Six Dome
Midwest Exploration Company
Southern Oil Company
Germans Seek Early Return of Property
Washington reports Secretary Mellon devised a plan to restore seized German property and issue securities to fund settlement of all claims. The plan envisions about 150 million dollars in guaranteed securities, liquidated through reparations receipts and American occupation costs, with no new Treasury drain. It would use 30.6 million to pay American claims and transfer about 50.09 million in new securities for equal cash to support American claims.
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Washington
Mixed Claims Commission
Mellon
Congress
United States
Treasury
Aserty
Air Service Chief Says War Department Shortchanges Air Force
Major General Mason M. Patrick told a court martial the War Department hampered air service by slow funds and weak radio and meteorological support. He said air forces were treated as a stepchild and lacked proper staff representation, despite requests for legislative action.
Why Women Keep You Waiting Said Solved
Johns Hopkins University psychologists report a study finding women err almost 100 percent in time estimation while men err about 45 percent. In tests subjects guessed elapsed time after sitting still for a minute and a half, with women ranging from seconds to ten minutes and the largest male error at three and a half minutes.
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Baltimore
Johns Hopkins University
Turkish Delegation Refuses Mosul Mediation At League Talks
Geneva dispatch reports Turkish foreign minister Tevfik Rushdi Bey stating the delegation will not participate in further League of Nations meetings on Mosul. He says acceptance of the Hague court decision by the council is beyond mandate, seeks mediation alternatives.
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Turkey
League Council
Geneva
Tevfik Rushdi Bey
Associated Press
Council of the League of Nations
Mosul
Hague
Permanent Court of International Justice
Mesopotamia
Laidoner
Esthenia
League of Nations
Mosa
Irak
Drowned man identified as relative of Washburn Child
A man likely W. F. Johnson uncle of Mrs. Richard Washburn Child, wife of the ex ambassador to Italy, drowned when a skiff capsized in the Neches river at Beaumont Texas. Johnson lived on a house boat and fished for a living. body not found.
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Beaumont
Tex
W. F. Johnson
Richard Washburn
Italy
Neches
Johnson
Budget urged for air equipment under national defense plan
Washington reports that a twenty million dollar annual expenditure for five years to procure aircraft for the army and navy was approved. The special House aircraft committee endorses a unified national defense department, a separate aviation budget, a civil aeronautics bureau, and unified air service coordination, with emphasis on expanding air power and commercial air mail development.
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Washington
Army
Navy
Special House
Department of National Defense
Reid
Illinois
Wiliam Mitchell
War and Navy Departments
Bureau of Civil Aeronautics
Department of Commerce
Air Service
Army General Staff
Navy General Board
Naval Aircraft Factory
Phitat’phia
McCook Field
Dayton
Bureau of Standards
Me“ook
Court of Claims
Secretary of Nations Defense
National Defense
United States
France
England
Patrick
War Department
Chemistry saves output of farms
Washington reports new applications of chemistry to growing preserving and utilizing farm crops described in the annual report of the bureau of chemistry. The work includes higher protein wheat methods wasteage and lemon use for citric acid lemon juice and pectin. Nine year old hen eggs retain vitamins after long storage.
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Washington
Bureau of Chemistry
Riots Raid Melussa Village in Tangier Frontier Clash
Ten riqns were killed and thirty wounded when Melussa village near the Tangiers frontier was raided by followers of Riffian chieftain Amaryouef El Ghornar. The village had recently surrendered and thirty Spanish soldiers occupied the town.
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Tangier
Morocco
Melussa
Tangiers
Amaryouef el Ghornar
Utah Weather Forecast Shows Fair Nights and Mild Friday
The forecast calls for fair conditions tonight and Friday with only minor temperature changes. No rain is expected and winds remain light across the state.
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Utah
Army Air Service Faces Aircraft Shortage and Training Gaps
Major General Mason M. Patrick testified at Colonel William Mitchells court martial that the Army Air Service suffers from a lack of pursuit and bombardment planes due to insufficient appropriations. He said air personnel training has been minimal, bombing practice limited, and anti aircraft fire only partly effective, urging development of gunnery and continued use of anti air defenses.
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Washington
Army
Congress
War and Navy Departments
Mason M. Patrick
Army Air Service
William Mitchell
Patrick
Air Service
Mbs
Pair of armed prisoners captured after cafe clash in Salt Lake City
In Salt Lake City two armed fugitives were captured after a scuffle with Patrolman J. Ross Hunsaker. Harry M. Dix was shot in the right thigh and taken to a hospital, while Harry Kennedy was arrested after disarming him of a high calibre revolver. Kennedy confessed to firing the shot that hit Dix and said they planned to obtain a revolver to rob payroll workers of the Ohio Copper company in Bingham. A mask was found on Dix. Both men are held for further investigation.
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Sa't Lake City
J. Ross Hunsaker
Harry M. Dix
Dix
Harry Kennedy
Kennedy
Salt Lake
Ohio Copper Company of
Bingham
Ford Collecting Old Time Music for Ford in Detroit
Mellie Dunham the Maine fiddler, accompanied by his wife, arrived in Detroit to perform old time tunes for Henry Ford. He will appear Friday night before a Dearborn dancing class to teach steps and showcase his repertoire for Ford and his musicians. Ford aims to compare tunes for his American edition of old time dance music.
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Detroit
Mellie Dunham
Norway
Maime
Henry Ford
Dearborn
Ford
Wham
Mr. Ford
Maine
Mellie
Pershing Criticizes Chileans Over Tacna Arica Actions
General Pershing condemned Chilean authorities in Tacna Arica for abuses around the plebiscite process. He cites unlawful deportations and intimidation of Peruvians, arguing these acts undermine electoral freedom before and after the arbitral award.
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Arica
Chile
Tacna-Arica
General Pershing
Pebiscitary Commission
Barber shops closed in Plain City for sanitary violations
A state inspector has shut down all barber shops in Plain City Utah after finding both shops failed to meet sanitary regulations. The action affects the town near Ogden as inspectors enforce health rules in barber services.
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Ogden
Utah
Plain City
Forty Miners Likely Dead After Alabama Mine Blast
Rescue teams fear 30 to 40 workers killed in the Overton Mine No. 1 explosion near Birmingham Alabama Fuel & Iron Company with 60 to 70 men in the pit. By noon 10 dead, 17 rescued, most victims identified as Negro workers, with numbers uncertain and ongoing checks.
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Birmingham
Als
Overton
Alabama Fuel A Iron Company
First Resorts
Overton No. 2
Itave
Rey Wening
Wet members call for show down in prohibition row
Washington reports the Wet Members Association moves to a showdown over the prohibition amendment and Secretary Andrews powers. W H Stayton condemns cereal beverage tax provisions while opposing higher limits and says the group may test enforcement of the Volstead act.
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Washington
Reevents
Prohibition
Association Against the
Andrews
The
Treasury
W. H. Stayton
Association
European United States Proposed Seale Eorth Commerce
Brussels reports a scrambled AP summary about a Belgian chamber Inland secretary and the notion of a “Seale Eorth commerce” proposal. The fragmented text references Brussels December context and possible international trade themes.
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Brussels
Belgium
Ican Chamber of Inland
Seale Eorth Commerce
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