Senate wrestles over Muscle Shoals bills in chaotic vote
The Senate moved among substitutions and rounds of voting on the Muscle Shoals issue. The Underwood private leasing bill won 46 to 33 in one vote, while a later 43 to 38 tally kept the Underwood plan intact as the Norris government operation measure faced renewed opposition.
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Associated Press
Washington
Underwood Muscle Shoals
Senate
Underwood
Jones
Washneton
Norrin
Senator McKellar
Tennessee
Muscle Shoals
Norris
Alabama
Nebraska
Cummins
Thirteen Year Old Confesses To Blackmail Notes
A 13 year old Boston area pupil admitted authorship of twelve blackmail letters sent to wealthy residents in Boston Cambridge Lynn and Braintree. He said he copied the act from films and the notes demanded up to 5000 dollars under threat of death signed the red league and the brotherhood of death. No action will be taken due to age. In Bloomington Illinois two men posing as bank inspectors robbed Farmers State Bank of Chenoa of 75000 dollars in cash and bonds.
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Associated Press
Boston
Mass
aJn
Cambridge
Lynn
Braintree
Hyman Nathanson
Post Office
Hyman
Red League
Brotherhood of Death
Vilna
J. F. Kelley
Farmers’ State Bank
Chenoa
Here
Man Executed After Protest of Innocence in Tennessee
Ben Burchfield was executed by electric chair at Tennessee State Prison at 6 50 AM after he proclaimed his innocence. He bid farewell to fellow inmates, saying he would meet his mother in the hereafter. The alleged killer of his wife and four others at Hristo Tennessee on November 26 1922 maintained his innocence to the end.
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Nashwhale
Ben Burchfield
Alayer
Hristo
Tenn
Tennessee
Burchfield
Fight Over Senate Secretary Appointment Stirs Des Moines
Des Moines January 14. The senate battled over W. W. Peterson of Council Bluffs for assistant secretary, backed by Lt Governor Clem Kimball. The vote to drop candidate L. J. Coeckshoot came amid opposition from Sen Brookhart, with debate over representation from Pottawattamie county. The committee report left the office vacant awaiting further action. An adjournment pact linked to Governor Hammill’s inaugural.
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Joan
Des Moines
W. W. Peterson
Council Bluffs
State
Senate
Clem Kimball
Pete
Fter
Brookhart
Washington
L. J. Coeckshoot
Atlantic
Polones
Shane
Wapello
Peterson
Stockhart
Pottawattamie County
Baird
Council Blatts
Washington County
United States
Cockshoot
House
Hammill
Senate fails to confirm Merritt Green for education board
In Des Moines on January 14 the Iowa state senate did not confirm Merritt Green of Marshalltown to the state board of education. Green faced rejection as the chamber declined to approve his appointment.
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Des Moines
Senate
Merritt Green
Marshaltown
State Board of Education
State’ Economy Block
Green
Charles R. Brenton
Dallas Center
State College
Ames
Associated Press
Marshalltown
State Senate
Farm to factory trade drives future U S prosperity
L. G. Michael, ex-agricultural adviser to Russia, told Iowa Farm Moreau federation delegates that U S prosperity rests on exchanging farm and manufactured goods rather than exporting raw products. He warned that prices for farmers must rise so they can buy more manufactured goods and urged cooperative marketing to compete internationally.
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United States
L. G. Michael
Iowa Farm Moreau Federation
Mr. Michael
Michael
America
Teachers College in South Dakota Burns Forces Evacuation
More than fifty female students at Black Hills Teachers College fled Wenona Hall as flames consumed the dormitory. The fire caused an estimated two hundred thousand dollars in damage with partial loss insured. Firemen escaped injury amid collapsing timbers and exploding chemicals.
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Teachers’ College
South Dakota
Burns
Hike Teachera College
Wenona
Declines Pardons for Kendall Offered to Robbard and Haley
Hugh Rothbard, jailed for the 1898 murder of Theodore Frith and Henry Talcott in Dubuque railway yards, declines parole at Fort Madison. Robbard and Leon Hardy, also convicted in the same crime, were pardoned last week and left the prison.
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Asacuated
Dubuuqe
Hugh Rothbard
Dubuque
Fort Madison Penitentiary
Kendall
Robbard
Leon Hardy
Leonard Haley
Haley
Texa
Theodore Frith
Henry Talcott
C. M
St. P
Meredith and Meredith Pay Five Dollar Parking Fines
From Des Moines Iowa January 14 the Associated Press reports H H Stipp civil service commissioner and EB Meredith former secretary of agriculture were among motorists fined five dollars for parking violations. The piece continues with quotes on cooperative farming and the need for farmers to unite in production and marketing to improve prices and policy.
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Associated Presa
Des Moines
H. H. Stipp
Civil Service
EB. T. Meredith
Secretary of Agriculture
First Report on Farm Relief Urges Aid and Grazing Policy
The agricultural commission recommends relief for the livestock industry through existing agencies and a new land policy to allow grazing on unappropriated public domain. A later report will cover transportation charges and tariffs. President Coolidge to consider the commission’s early recommendations at a White House breakfast.
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Associated Preps
Washington
Coolidge
Hig Agricultural Commission
Congress
White House
Carey
Commission
Department of Agriculture
Board of the General Federation of Women's Clubs Meets
Washington January 14 board members of the General Federation of Women's Clubs convened to discuss federation interests. They debated a citizenship training conference proposed to be called by President Coolidge, with several state federation presidents present.
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Associated Press
Washington
General Federation of Women's Clubs
Coolidge
John D. Sherman
Federation
Three Parties To Continue Search For Missing Climbers
At Long's Peak near Estes Park Colorado three searching parties begin dawn operations to locate Herbert Sortland and recover Agnes Vaille. Rescue teams face subzero weather and a winter storm as they fan out through snow packed passes toward the timberline and hope for spring sun to reveal a body.
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Associated Press
Est
S Park
Colo
Seale Long's Peak
Herbert Sortland
Long's Peak Inn
Timberline
Agnes Vaille
Sortland
Miss Vaille
Passawea
Scotland
Four near death from poison hooch
Four people were gravely ill at an Orange County hospital after drinking liquor from a bootlegger’s artificial arm. Police arrested F. Ochoa, owner and operator of the hollow decoy arm that dispensed the deadly drink.
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Associated Press
Santa Ana
Cal
Orange County Hospital
F. Ochoa
Submarine Grounded Near Orleans Harbor Remains Afloat
At Chatham Massachusetts on January 14 the submarine 8 19 stayed firmly aground on the outer bar of Orleans harbor after grounding early yesterday. The crew remained aboard, officials believe the vessel is undamaged and will be refloated at the next flood tide later today.
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Associated Press
Chatham
Mass
Orleans Harbor
Fox
US shows favorable 1924 trade balance of $977 million
Commerce department figures released in Washington show the calendar year 1924 ending with a favorable trade balance of 977 million dollars for the United States. The data cover the nation’s foreterm trade for the twelve months.
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Associated Press
Washington
United States
Commerce Department
Distribution of Dawes annuities settled in Paris
Allied representatives signed the Dawes plan distribution agreement with Romania and Italy in Paris on January 14, removing a limit on American damage claims. The document, in French and English, comprises 27 clauses across five chapters detailing reparation payments, occupation costs, and miscellaneous topics including Hungary and Bulgaria settlements.
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Praga
Paris
Dawes
Romania
Italy
Winston Churchill
Germany
Hungary
Bulgaria
Danzig
Ruhr
Rhineland
United States
Coblenz
Rhine
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