Ruling Denies Presidential Pardon in Contempt Case
In Chicago May 15 AP reports a federal court opinion denying the president’s power to pardon in a civil contempt case involving Phillip Grossman. Judges Carpenter and Wilkerson say Grossman should be jailed for a year, upholding the independence of the judiciary and rejecting executive override.
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Chicago
United States
Federal
George Arpenter
James A. Wilkerson
Phillip Grossman
Daugherty
Grossman
Ke. M. Landis
Wilkerson
England
White
Toledo
Carpenter
Political will left by Sun Yat Sen in China
Peking May 15 AP reports under Chinese custom Dr Sun Yat Sen who died yesterday in Canton left a political will. It is believed his successor may be C. C. Wu son of Wu Ting Tang or Tang Shao Yi both influential figures in the constitutionalist party.
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Peking
N Yat Sen
South
Honolulu Chooses Factional Observance For Sun Yat Sen Death
Chinese residents of Honolulu prepare contrasting observances for Sun Yat Sen’s passing. Bun faction plans memorials and flags while anti Bun supporters buy fireworks and schedule banquets to celebrate the enemy’s death.
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Honolulu
Sun Yat Sen
Bun
Auto accident near Logan College claims student life
Logan Utah May 15 Malcolm Layton 20 a Utah Agricultural college student was killed in a car crash near Logan. Four other young people were injured including Josphine Groasard of Idaho Falls and three others as the vehicle on a bridge went into a ravine after the collision.
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Logan
Utah
Malcolm Layton
Utah Agricultural College
Joséphine Groasard
Idaho
Here
Watenicers Not Cut Down
Snake River water users in Twin Falls Idaho through a nine member committee met to study water shortages. They opposed restricting use to actual decree amounts for the present, delaying any regulation until river flow peaks for the season is determined.
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Twin Falls
Idaho
Snake River
Idaho man bound over in Utah manslaughter case
Thomas George of Rigby Idaho was bound over to the district court for involuntary manslaughter in the death of 21 year old James Wilford Holder from a collision in Salt Lake City on April 9 A not guilty plea was entered and police allege George had been drinking though the defendant denies it.
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Salt Lake City
Thomas George
Rigby
Idaho
James Wilford Holder
Noel Pratt
George
Berlin Espionage Chief Suspended Over Soviet Mission Raid
Berlin May 15 AP Dr Weiss chief of the espionage bureau in Berlin police is suspended pending inquiry into the raid on the Russian soviet trade mission. Weiss led the raid seeking the communist Rottenhardt, wanted by the Pomeranian state attorney on treason charges.
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Berlin
Dr. Weiss
Weiss
Red Hunter
Rottenhardt
Two Iowa Banks Shut by State Regulator
Des Moines May 15 AP The state banking department took over two Iowa banks amid financial trouble. The Farmers and Merchants Bank of Mount Pleasant and the Bridgewater Savings Bank of Bridgewater were closed and placed under state control.
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Des Moines
Iowa
State Banking Department
Farmers and Merchante Bank of
Mount Pleasant
Bridgewater Sevitges Bank of
Bridgewater
Bill vetoed on economy grounds by Coolidge vote override planned
President Coolidge vetoed the soldier bonus bill citing budget strain and 114 million annual outlays for 20 years with 2.5 billion in bonds after. Advocates sought an override in both houses where the measure had passed with two thirds, as Republicans debated immediate action and roll calls proceeded.
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Washington
Coolidge
Treasury
Capitol
Ihs
Genate
House
Budget Bureau
Eterans
Longworth
Congress
White House
Pr Dent H
Uproar Over Unit Rule at Kentucky Delegation Meeting
Kentucky's 26 member delegation to the Democratic national convention was pledged to William Gibbs McAdoo after a disorderly state convention adopted the unit rule. Senator Oscar Underwood supporters protested, threatening an appeal at the New York convention.
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Lexington
Kentucky
William Gibbs McAdoo
Oscar Underwood
Alabama
New York
Underwood
W. T. Hill
Eenator Underwood
McAdoo
Teapot Dome
Flint, Mich
Alfred Lucking
Tucking
Fordney-McCumber
Hughes
Coolidge
Bascom Blemp
iMenvon
Miners Reach Wage Agreement After Prolonged Dispute
London reports a wage agreement was reached ending the long miners dispute. The miners federation backs the settlement and calls for a full delegate conference on May 29 to endorse the accord.
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London
Indorne
Bank Fails to Open in Hare rsburg
The Farmers Security State Bank of Harrisburg near here failed to open today and was taken over by the state banking department. Deposits totaled about $70,000. It was a corrident bank of the Dakota Trust and Savings Bank which eloped here several days ago.
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Bronx Falls
Farmers Security State Bank of
Harersburg
State Banking Department
Dakota Trust Land Bavings Bank
Crime traced to Ludendorff Freedom Party
Berlin police link a second political assassination to General Ludendorffs Freedom Party as they seek Robert Gruette for luring Lieutenant Mueller into the woods near Roe, where he was murdered. Police say the killer worked for ultra nationalist circles and bore credentials from Reinhold Wulle. Two alleged accomplices are held. Gruette is believed to have fled the country.
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Berlin
Ludendorff
Freedom Party
Robert Gruette
Mueller
Reroe
Reinhold Wulle
Japanese Seek Return After Short Abroad Under New Policy
Washington reports on Japanese nationals in Pacific ports seeking to return after temporary visits abroad under a new exclusion policy. Experts say non quota entry is allowed for those previously admitted, if their stay abroad is temporary, defined as six months or less, with a required immigration visa same as quota immigrants.
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Washington
Pacific
House of the
United States
United Stats
Bureau of Immigration
Department of Labor
Workers Party Hears From The Communists
Chicago May 15 AP Charles B Ruthenberg executive secretary of the Workers party of America said a telegram from the communiste internationale at Moscow expressing interest in the Farmer Labor convention at St Paul June 27 was sent only to Workers party branches not to Farmer Labor units A Duluth Minnesota dispatch said the Moscow cablegram was sent by circular by Ruthenberg to Farmer Labor branches He said the circular was sent only to Workers party branches and there is nothing new as at the time of the national convention last December we made a similar message from Moscow to organize farmers and workers
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Chicago
Charles B. Ruthenberg
Workers’ Party of America
Ecommunist Internationale
Moscow
Farmer Laborey
St. Paul
Farmer- Labor Party
Workers’ Party
Duluth
Mina
Ruthenberg
Farmer-Labor
Workers Party
Mr. Ruthenberg
Moso
Langley Case Before House
The House committee investigating Representatives Langley of Kentucky and Zihlman of Maryland prepared for action. Langley was convicted in Kentucky federal court on prohibition charges. Zihlman was cleared by a grand jury with no action recommended. The panel cited no evidence to sustain the Maryland representative’s charges.
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Washington
House Committee
Langley
Kentucky
Zihman
Maryland
House
Gant
Zihlman
Grand Jury
Burton
Committed
Parisian Noted Proponent of Disarmament Dies at 70
Parisian statesman Taron D Entourhalles De Conatant, known as a leading advocate for international disarmament, has died at age 70. Details from the notice are limited, with a brief mention of his long career and influence.
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Paria
Taron D’entourhalles de
Conatant
Bonne Tor
Bartho
Silence Zone Tests In France Aims To Solve Mystery
Ten tons of melinite will be exploded tonight at Courtine Camp in central France as a test to solve the World War era mystery of silent zones where heavy gunfire is inaudible in some locations yet heard in others farther away. Psychists and mathematicians in England and France monitor the experiments with interest.
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Paris
Courtine
France
England
Foley declines Tammany chief after acceptance snags
Surrogate James A. Foley said he is ill and unfit to take the role as Tammany Hall chief after accepting it overnight. The selection followed heated debates but the executive committee approved Foley, who would resign his judicial post to lead New York’s oldest political organization.
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New York
James A. Foley
Tammany Hall
Daniel L. Ryan
Charles F. Murphy
Foley
Oil Grand Jury Work Slackers
Washington May 15 The special oil grand jury in the District of Columbia Supreme Court was slowed by witnesses from distant points failing to reach Washington. About a dozen are under subpoena with several expected tomorrow as part of the investigation into Albert B Fall's naval oil lease arrangements involving Harry F Sinclair and Edward L Doheny. Dr George Otta Smith testified he helped initiate land disposal policies for the navy but said he was not consulted about the Sinclair Doheny leases before they were signed.
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Washington
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Benton
First National Bank of
el Paso
Texas
New Mexico
Albert B. Fall
Interior
Naval Oil
Harry F. Sinclair
Edward L. Doheny
George Otta Smith
Geological Survey
Senate
Taft
Navy
Sinclair
Doheny
Fall
No charge returned in Maine man slaughter case
In Portland Cumberland county jury reports no bills were returned against Kenneth Rows MacLean, a former Bowdoin College student, and his wife Nettie MacLean of Tacoma Washington. They were arrested on charges of manslaughter after the death of their year old baby daughter.
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Portland
Maine
Kenneth Rows MacLean
Bowdoin College
Nettie MacLean
Tacoma
Wash
Cumberland County
British aviator halted by water in fuel during world flight attempt
Shanghai report says Stuart Maclaren, the British aviator pursuing a world circumnavigation, could not take off from Allahabad, British India, due to water found in his petrol. He arrived yesterday from Nasirabad and hopes to depart tomorrow for Calcutta.
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Shanghai
Stuart Maclaren
Allahabi
British India
Allahabad
Nasirabad
Calcutta
Exclusion Bill Passes House Amid Immigration Clash
Washington May 15 AP Overriding Coolidge the house adopted the conference report on the immigration bill setting July 1 1924 as the effective date for the Japanese exclusion provision The senate action and presidential decision loom as Congress nears adjournment with possible signatures or statements to temper Japanese sensitivities.
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Washington
Coolidge
House
Senate
Sabath
Democrat
Illinois
Coolidge Onete
White House
Congress
Soviet Envoy Calls Western Warning Interference in Rail Talks
Moscow reports quote M. Karakhan denouncing a US and French warning to China on railway creditor rights as a new attempt by powers to meddle in Russo Chinese negotiations. He accuses the West of acting beyond their rights and of pressuring property owners without their participation.
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Moscow
Peking
Chineas
M. Karakhan
Russia
China
Win
Boviet
Ruala
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