Coolidge Wins Illinois and Nebraska in Primary Returns
Illinois voters renominated Governor Small and backed Coolidge for president over Johnson as Medill McCormick and Chas. S. Deneen fought for the Republican U S Senate. Democratic McAdoo led presidential preference but an opposed slate dominated the state. Nebraskans backed Coolidge with Johnson conceding. McMullen led for governor and Thomas led for U S Senate in early returns.
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Deneen
McCormick
Cook County
Essington
Small
Coolidge
Johnson
McAdoo
Dever
Smith
Chicago
Hillinois
Len Small
United States
Medill McCormick
Chas
Wm. G. McAdoo
Organization State
Wm. E. Dever
al Smith
New York
Judge Jones
Organization Choice
Lee O'Neill Browne
Beer and Light Wines
Kent Keller
Charles M. Borchers
Charles B. Thomas
Nebraska
Lincoln
Neb
Frank Harrison
Hiram Johnson
Senate Reinstates Practice Teaching Plan at Cedar Falls
Senate votes 26 to 23 to restore the practice teaching section of the Cedar Falls Teachers College bill. A critic teacher supervises cadet teachers in partner schools, with the state paying critics about 27000 dollars last year while cadets receive no pay.
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Associated Press
State Capitol
Des Moines
Mason City
Waterloo
Cherokee
Teachers College
Cedar Falls
Senate
House
Newberry
Clayton
Bowman
Blackhawk
Manta
Audubon
Horchem
Dubuque
Holdoegel
Calhoun
Weather boosts Iowa farmers into field work
The Iowa weather and crop bulletin reports warm, sunny days dried soil and enabled farmers to advance early field tasks. Oats feeding is underway in the south. winter wheat and grasses survived well except where snow was blown away. Spring pigs may be fewer due to sow breeding decline and seed corn should be ample using 1922 stock.
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Associated
Preas
Des Moines
Weather Bureau
Bureau
Department of Agriculture
Senate restores high tax on Fords
The Senate approved raising the minimum registration fee for light automobiles from 8 to 10 dollars, reversing a House reduction. The vote was 31 to 18. The bill also exempts cooperative transmission lines from certain taxes. An attempt to exempt swine and sheep under six months failed, but a Senate amendment exempting all sheep and swine under nine months passed. The doctors naming dispute narrowed to physicians for medicine, osteopathic physicians and surgeons, and chiropractors as chiropractors.
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State Capitol
Des Moines
House
Senate
Eliot
Scott County
Senate clash over college training's value and funding tied to Cedar Falls aid
Senators argued about a college training practice likened to a political machine. Price and Shinn criticized it while Bowman warned Cedar Falls elimination could jeopardize Ames College federal aid of over 18 000 dollars for similar work. A new amendment would reclassify entrants to state schools to stop non residents from evading tuition.
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Price
Monroe
Shinn
Harrison
Bowman
Senate
Cedar Falls
Ames College
Indictment as Plot Denounced by Senator Wheeler
Senator Wheeler of Montana denounced the indictment as part of a conspiracy. He recalled his career and said enemies rose after he prosecuted graft while leading the Daugherty inquiry. The Senate ordered a five member special committee to investigate the charges.
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Treas
Wheeler
Montana
Senate
Daugherty
Brookhart
Daugherty Committee
United States
Massachusetts
Butte
Walsh
Department of Justice
Washington
Iowan murders his mother and sister then commits suicide
Edwin McFarland 45 strangled his mother 70 and sister 32 with ropes and hanged himself in the Winthrop kitchen. A brutal struggle with sister Helen ended when she was knocked unconscious by a flatiron. Nephew Kurt McParland found the bodies after delaying to open the estate store.
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Associated Press
Winthrop
Edwin McFarland
McFarland
Helen
D. C. McFarland
Kurt McParland
New Cable Record Set In Transmitting Gen Dawe Report
The Associated Press reports a world record cable dispatch of about 44 000 words from Paris to the New York AP desk. Western Union operated four direct ocean cables so the report could reach American newspapers simultaneously with its reparation commission briefing.
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Gen. Dawe
Associated Press
New York
Paris
Reparation Commission
Western Union Telegraph Company
Newcomb Carlton
News Association
America
United States
Inquiry continues into political deals at 1920 Republican convention
Senate oil committee heard J W Baughn of Harlingen Texas testify that former Oklahoma Republican committeeman Jake Hannon claimed to have signed the check behind Warren G Harding's nomination at Chicago in 1920. The panel adjourned until Friday amid witness attendance troubles.
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Associated Press
Washington
Chicago
Senate Oil Committee
J. W. Baughn
Harlingen
Texas
Oklahoma
Jake Hannon
Republican National
New Attorney General Takes Post Today
Harlan F. Stone of New York assumed the office of attorney general with a pledge to keep the nation on the straight path of justice. He vowed the constitution and laws would shield innocence and swiftly avenge guilt as he met with President Coolidge and began his duties in a private oath ceremony.
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Associatedress
Washington
Harlan F. Stone
New York
Mr. Stone
Coolidge
White House
Department of Justice
Stone
Department
Four Sentenced to Death After Kiev Counterrevolution Trial
Four individuals, three men and one woman, were sentenced to death at a counter revolutionary trial in Kiev. Twenty others received prison terms ranging from five to ten years, including priests Vasilenka and Smirnoft.
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Inv
Associated Presse
Moscow
Kiev
Protessors Vasilenka
Smirnoft
Appointments appoint Blanchard and Sheehan as Council Bluffs judges
Governor Kendall today named John L. Blanchard and Daniel H. Sheehan as municipal court judges for Council Bluffs. The court had been established at the March 1 city election.
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Des Moines
Kendall
John L. Blanchard
Daniel H. Sheehan
Municipal Court of
Council Bluffs
McFarland Suspended by Kitchen Door Amid Estate Burden
The article notes McFarland was suspended from the jamb of a kitchen door while his mother was in another room. He had been dealing with settling his father D. C. McFarland's estate, a pioneer merchant who died last December. Friends saw no sign of mental distress prior to the incident.
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McFarland
Dawes Plan Seeks Sound Money and New Bank for Germany
Paris April 9 The Dawes and McKenna committees report Germany can pay reparations if a new gold bank is created and sound money is established. The plan funds 460 million gold marks via a national bank, ties payments to an index of prosperity, and uses German railroads and industry as security while leaving Ruhr control contested. The league of nations and a future American commissioner would arbitrate disputes and oversee guarantees.
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Associated Press
Paris
Germany
Reparations Commission
Chas. G. Dawes
Reginald McKenna
League of Nations
Dawes
United States
General Board of Control
League Finance Committee
Ruhr
Rhineland
League For Arbitration
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Illinois
Test Deneen
Winnifred Mason Huck
Wm. E. Mason
Linois
Henry R. Rathbone
Richard Yates
Ley Small
E. J. Brundage
L. G. Essington
C. E B. Carlstrom
Brundage
Congression
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Moore Bailiwicks
Brundage-McCormick-Essington
Omaha
Adam McMullen
Beatrice
A. N. Mathers
C. H. Gustafson
United States Grain Growers Inc
George Sterling
Gustafson
April
John J. Thomas
Seward
Kenneth W. McDonald
Bridgeport
Thomas
McDonald
Douglas County
State Senate
PRAC
Tice
Iowa
Senate Today
White House Cop
Justice DE
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