Senate Moves On Cruiser Bill As Session Winds Down
Washington report notes the Senate cleared two of three major items while pressing to finish the cruiser construction bill in a few days. House recesses as farm relief and tariff reform move to a possible special session, with hearings planned on tariff revision and radio commission extension. Opposition centers on a three year construction deadline opposed by President Coolidge and Senator Borah.
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Senate
Boulder Dam
House
Congress
Sesson
Radio Commission
Senate Public Lands
Walsh
Sinclair
Salt Creek Field
Coolidge
Borah
Wisconsin Moves to Remove Governor Kohler
Attorney General John W. Reynolds was appointed special counsel to seek removal of Governor Kohler in the name of the state. He claims Kohler violated the corrupt practices act in his primary campaign. The action follows a petition by four progressive Republicans led by Robert M. La Follette.
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Madison
Wis
John W. Reynolds
J. Kohier
Robert M. la Foliette
Kohler
Record snowfall and storm disrupts Midwest to West
Winter weather sweeps the north central and western states with snow and ice. Deaths are reported in several areas as roads flood and towns become isolated. Passenger cars and buses marooned for hours, crews clear highways, and rail services are halted across multiple states from Wisconsin to Idaho.
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Gary
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Deansville
Wis
Waterloo
Iowa
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Superior
Horigon
Oshkosh
LaCrosse
Linton
N. D
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Red Desert
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Wyo
Boise
Idaho
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Bingham
Utah
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Missouri
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Oklahoma
Texas
Mississippi River
Lake Superior
Barber’s Plane Forced Down Near Elko in Snowstorm
Pilot Frank Barber of Boeing Air Transport and two passengers were forced down 35 miles northeast of Elko Nevada. Barber was slightly injured when the wing hit a mountainside. The two passengers, A P Ames and T J Pflueger, were uninjured. A 10-man rancher rescue party reached the site after a day-long snowbound ordeal. They were taken to a valley ranch house and later to safety as storms delayed further transfer.
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Frank Barber
Boeing Air Trans- Pet
Elko
Nev
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Barber
A. P. Ames
Camden
T. J. Pflueger
San Francisco
Salt Lake
Harryee
Secret Pass
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Tre Valley
Barbet
Seset
Hukiag
President Coolidge Faults Slow Interstate Commerce Commission
President Coolidge criticizes the Interstate Commerce Commission for slow action while backing consolidation plans. He cites the three year delay on mail carriage rates awarding railroads 45 million dollars in back pay and plans to have the case heard by the court of claims. A railroad consolidation bill drafted by a Senate committee is expected next week to allow government approved mergers without making them mandatory.
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Coolidge
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Post Office
Court of Claims
Congress
Senore Interstate Commerce
Fess
Ohio
Senate approves invitation for world fair exhibits
Washington January 26 The Senate adopted a resolution authorizing the president to invite countries to send exhibits to the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893 and sent the measure to President Coolidge for signature.
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Chicago
Senate
Coolidge
Alma Rubens in Nervous Breakdown After Escape Attempt
Hollywood actress Alma Rubens wife of Ricardo Cortez was treated in a California sanitarium after an attempted escape from a physician and assistant. She knocked Barnett with a paper knife, was placed in an ambulance, and police were summoned as she fought to flee.
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Alma Rubens
Alhambra
Hollywood Boulevard
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Ricardo Cortez
E. W. Meyer
H. Barnett
C. C. Howerd
Barnett
Cortez
Hunter Killed Near Mt. Pleasant in Rabbit Hunt
Boyd Morley, 20, died near Mt. Pleasant Utah after a companion fired a shotgun while rabbit hunting. The blast struck Morley in the head.
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MT. Pleasant
Utah
Boyd Morley
Here
Fire destroys Southworth Flour mill in Granger Utah
Fire of unknown origin destroyed the Southworth Flour mill in Granger Utah early today. Damage estimated at 7500 dollars, with 2500 dollars worth of wheat burned.
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Granger
Utah
Southworth
Seventeen Trapped After Mine Explosion in Kingston WV
In Kingston West Virginia a blast in mine number 6 of Kingston Pocahontas Coal Co traps seventeen miners while one man is believed dead. Seventy one men were in the mine. fifty three escaped via another entry. Rescue teams under RM Lambie work from two openings as others search for missing workers.
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W. Va
Kingston Pocahontas Coal Company
Blaine Parker
RM. Lambie
State Mining Department
Idaho House Considers High School Fraternity Ban
Education committee introduces a bill to prohibit fraternities in schools through high school with later amendment to limit scope to high schools only. The measure follows a study of California schools deeming fraternities detrimental to scholarship and promoting lawlessness.
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Boise
House
Education Committee
California
Coolidge requests 1.56 million for Agriculture Department
President Coolidge has sent to Congress a recommendation for a 1,560,000 appropriation for multiple Agriculture Department activities. Items include weather bureau building. Cheyenne dry land erection. forest fire fighting. tobacco statistics. beetle control. A meningitis death reported in Trah and Bingham.
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Coolidge
Congrees
Department of Agriculture
Weather Bureau
San Juan
Porto Rico
Cheyenne
Wyoming
Parachute saved pilot from burning plane in Ohio
Lieut J B Haddon a Army Air pilot jumped from a burning plane near New Carlisle after losing consciousness at 32 000 feet He regained consciousness at 10 000 feet and diverted to 3 000 feet where a connecting rod broke causing the craft to burst into flames He was testing a new training biplane at Fairfield depot Burlington police say George Henry 62 Groveville hanged himself after failing to fix a malfunctioning radio
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Ohio
J. B. Haddon
Army Air
New Carlisle
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Fairfield Intermediate Air Depot
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Tim Cmazy
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George Heniy
Groveville
Here
Plane wreck survives in snowbound valley in the pass
Blaine Stubblefield of the Boring company said Barber’s plane likely suffered engine trouble or was driven into the mountain in a snowstorm. The mail cargo is undamaged and will be retrieved. the plane will remain until spring, until rescue teams can reach the site.
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Hugh Barker
San Francisco
Woman is Dead and Man Unconscious in Spokane
In Spokane Washington Mrs Johanna Winkleman was found dead at home late last night while her husband Herman G Winkleman lay unconscious in another room when police investigated his absence from work. A peculiar odor lingered though open windows dispelled a gas theory. Physicians checked a report of gas stones but unclear cause remains.
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Wash
Johanna Winkleman
Herman G Winkleman
Winkleman
Oil battle at Standard Oil Indiana contest heats up
In a Senate session Senator Nye of North Dakota urged the oil industry to cleanse itself of agents and officials whose methods bring the industry into bad repute as John D Rockefeller Jr and Robert W Stewart contest control of Standard Oil Company of Indiana.
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Wasigston
Senate
John D Stockefeller
Robert W. Stewart
Standard Oil Company
Indiana
Nye Republican
North Dakota
Utah Legislature in Recess Ahead of Monday Sessions
Salt Lake City January 26 AP Both Utah houses recessed with a Monday agenda including a Boulder dam joint session at 2 30 p m hearings by house committees on liquor witness exemptions school board expenses and state crime costs. Proposals to raise juror pay set and a constitutional amendment to extend county attorney tenure also listed. senate calendar is clear.
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Judiciary Committee
Richard Katherndahl
Clark County
Boulder Dam
House
Grant McParlane
Utah
Thomas H. Burton
Mate
Education Committee
House Committee On Fish and Game
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Appropriations Committee
McFarlane
Senate
Mountain girl sentenced for shooting at merchant wife
Martha Bates, 24, of Whitesburg Kentucky, was sentenced to three years in penitentiary after firing a shot at Mrs Lily Lucas wife of a local merchant. Two years earlier Bates slapped Rev Arlie Brown and received a 30 day jail term later pardoned by the governor.
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Martha Bates
Lily Lucas
Miss Bates
Arlie Brown
Narrow Escape in Farm Fire at Organ Brothers Ranch
Five men and a woman escaped a farmhouse fire at the Organ Brothers ranch near Cambridge after being awakened in the night. They leaped from second story windows into the snow. Mrs Organ was rescued from the porch roof as the under structure burned. Three men suffered frozen feet and all faced exposure.
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Brothers
Charlies Organ
Ernest
Salvation Army leadership sits for peace talks after high council ousters
Hope for an amicable settlement rose as a hearing on General Bramwell Booths injunction against electing a successor prompted remarks about damage from continued litigation. Reporters said both sides favored settlement and a peace conference was held.
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Salvation Army
High Council
Bramwell Booth
Chicago police raids sweep city again in mass roundup
Chicago police launched a broad roundup with about half the force involved. By dawn roughly 600 arrests were reported as raids continued through the night, with Deputy Commissioner John Stege saying several robbery suspects had been captured and two holdups prevented during the operations.
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Petomere
John Stege
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