13 Feb 1924
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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1924
Page
1
President Coolidge pledges immediate nonshrinking prosecutions of oil land lease cases and appeals for bipartisan support for tax and agriculture measures. He denounces graft, stresses due process, and urges national unity and renewed focus on farming amid broad economic prosperity.
London papers hedge on MacDonald’s Commons speech with criticism of platitudes and gaze at Wheatley relief policy. editors note Conservative cheers and Labour discord. Paris outlets report tempered sympathy and skepticism, with Le Matin deeming policy not markedly distinctive and Echo de Paris noting little new in Downing Street plans.
Washington February 13 summary notes that the national motion picture conference opened with religious and other groups discussing government regulation of films. John J. Tigert education commissioner spoke on the educational aspect of motion pictures and the role of religion and foreign missions in shaping policy.
In Jacksonville on February 13 the miners and operators joint committee, reduced from 63 to 21 members, began an executive session to draft a tentative wage agreement for central competitive field bituminous miners. Operators favor renewing the current contract but oppose four year terms. they prefer three years or one year. A 21 member sub committee will finalize details.
Two Santa Fe trainmen were killed when a passenger engine blew up near Lubbock Texas early today. An hour later roadmaster ER Foster was killed after being run over by a special train en route to the wreck. The dead engineers are O Ek Plumiee and Tim Cronin, both of Slaton Texas.
Moscow reports that Norway has granted de jure recognition to the Russian Soviet government. The foreign office in Oslo confirmed the telegram from Madame Alexandra Kollontai, Soviet representative in Norway, this February.
Berlin reports say fighting in Pirmasens in the Bavarian Palatinate last night left 17 dead and 20 wounded during a battle for a government building that was set on fire. Seventy to sixty died in later tallies. French troops were sent, and the inter allied commission ordered the dissolution of nationalist groups and gymnastic societies in the area.
Howard Jones resigns as director of athletics at the University of Iowa and will become athletic director at Trinity College Durham North Carolina for five years. He reportedly will receive 50000 dollars and Iowa alumni say he was offered 7500 dollars per year to stay.
In a Rotary Club talk in Ossining Frank A. Vanderlip criticizes officials from both parties. He questions the Marian newspaper sale at $550000, calls for accountability, cites Teapot Dome and Denby, Walsh, and Do heney, and urges Coolidge to seek resignations amid alleged scandals. He accuses the prior administration of waste and improper conduct toward veterans and the shipping board.
Howard Carter halts excavation after public works department tensions flare over access for researchers and wives. A Luxor press viewing reveals the famed Tutankhamen mummy case in a breathtaking, gilded sarcophagus, event described as unprecedented in Egyptology.
The Iowa Senate approved a hardening of the dry laws, 46 to 0, with amendments defining intoxicating liquor, forfeitures for illegal transport, and tougher penalties. A confession of amendments addressed nuisance abatement, prosecution duties, and penalties for bootleggers and rum runners.
The Iowa House passed by unanimous vote a Harrison resolution criticizing a six cent fuel price rise in forty days and backing President Coolidge in a federal inquiry. The measure cites an unlawful combination by firms and notes Nebraska AG Spillman will coordinate with national attorneys general.
Art Bender a 35 year old taxi driver was shot four times in the back and found deceased in his car after a late night call from a man identified as Markowitz. The body was discovered by J McManus a Council Bluffs realtor who found the vehicle near downtown after midnight.
President Coolidge, returning from New York where he spoke at the Lincoln birthday dinner for the National Republican Club, arrived in Washington at 7 a.m. today. He had been absent from the capital for less than twenty hours on the first substantial trip since taking office.
Discussion centered on increasing appointive board members from two to three by governor with senate ratification. Some critics labeled it new legislation while others objected to wording. The author joked he might wait until the forty first assembly. The House passed the bill before noon and sent it to the Senate for concurrence.
Washington reports indicate President Coolidge may withdraw Silas H. Strawn as special government counsel and replace him with James R. Garfield amid Senate oil leasing inquiries. Atlee Pomerene also faces possible recall as opposition grows.
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