Coolidge Leads California Primary With Big Margin
California returns show President Coolidge leading Johnson by about 21 000 votes as 4 482 of 6 974 precincts report. McAdoo dominates Democratic uninstructed delegates, while Debs wins on the socialist ticket and Randall on prohibition. Johnson strength centers in San Francisco and Sacramento, with Coolidge strong in Los Angeles and southern counties.
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Associated Press
San Francisco
Johnson
Coolidge
McAdoo
California
United States
Hiram Johnson
Washington
Calif
Calvin Coolidge
Petmary
Wm. G. McAdoo
Eugene V. Debs
Charles H. Randall
Prieco
Sacramento County
Los Angeles
Indiana
Indianapolis
Ind
Jackson
Carleton B. McCulnoch
Hiram W. Johnson
Butler in New York tussles over prohibition stance
The Anti Saloon League of New York and Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler clash after he denounced prohibition in a public address. League counsel asks if Butler represents the Republican Party. Butler says league officials are ecclesiastical politicians and hints at an accounting if forced. Morris denies Butler spoke for the party.
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New York
Anti- Saloon League of
Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia
Butter
Prohibition
League
George K. Morris
Charles D. Hilles
Butler
Morris
Man's Body Found. Suspected Suicide Near Montpelier
The unknown man died from two gunshot wounds and was found near Montpelier, Iowa, by mushroom hunters Joe Smith and Fred Lee. Officials believe the death was a suicide.
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Muscatine
Montpelier
Joe Smith
Fred Lee
Kansas Man Dies on Rock Island Train
J. M. Tharp of Winfield Kansas died on a Rock Island train from Kansas City just before arriving in Des Moines Iowa. A telegram found in his pocket signed Daughter indicated a death in the family at Vinton and asked if Tharp would come there. Death attributed to heart trouble.
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Associated
Preas
Des Moines
J. M. Tharp
Winfield
Kansas
Rock Island
Kansas City
Vinton
Tharp
Unified Methodist Episcopal Church Restored by Union Vote
In Springfield on May 7 the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Episcopal Church South voted 842 to 13 to unite as one church with two jurisdictions under a shared constitution and conferences. The decision, applauded, follows a 1929 report and awaits confirmation by the southern church.
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Springfield
Mass
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Methodist Episcopal General Conference
General Conference
Des Moines
Masc
Wm. Fraser McDowell
Washington
Coneras
Special Commission On Unification
David G. Downey
New York
Wm. A. C. Hughes
Washington, D. C
Council of Bishops of the
Iowa Dentists Convene in Des Moines May Meeting
The Iowa state dental convention will be held in Des Moines from May 6 to 9. The local committee plans entertainment for several hundred dentists and will host addresses by prominent dental professionals on subjects of general interest.
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Iowa
McLean and Zevely Testify Before DC Oil Grand Jury
Edward B. McLean publisher of the Washington Post and J W Zevely counsel for Harry F Sinclair were summoned as witnesses today before the special oil grand jury in the District of Columbia supreme court in Washington.
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Washington
Edward B. McLean
The
Washington Post
J. W. Zevely
Harry F. Sinclair
Special Oil Grand
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Des Moines Man Tests Theory and Is Adjudged Insane
Des Moines newspaper man John Duncan was sent to the state insane hospital at Clarinda after successfully claiming insanity to avoid punishment. The sanity commission labeled him a dangerous fanatic and he was expected to gain freedom soon, though a rival reporter exposed the hoax.
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Des Moines
John Duncan
Clardina
Duncan
Germany
Sanity Commission
Six Men Sentenced to Death Bound for Amite Execution
Six men convicted of Dallas Calmes murder were moved from New Orleans to Amite La to face Friday hangings. Guards escorted the condemned in handcuffs to trains for a 69 mile trip and they will stay in Tangipahoa parish jail until the noon execution.
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Amite
Dallas Calmes
New Orleans
National Guard
Rennison
Roy Leona
Brooklyn
N. Y
Leona
Independence
Natale DeMore
Andrea Lamantia
Chicago
Joseph Giglio
Joseph Rocchio
Joseph Rink
Tangpahoa Parish
Liberty weekly prize winner announced by Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Tribune and New York Daily News launched Liberty a 25000 prize weekly magazine George A Elwell of Jamestown Ohio won 20000 for best title and slogan Elwell of commercial artist writer and inventor submitted 3017 entries publishers received 1595022 rates including 31 from abroad Queen Marie of Romania among entrants
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Associated Pree
Chicago
Liberty
Chicago Tribune
New York Daily News
George A. Elwell
Jamestown
Ohio
Flwell
Queen Marie
Romania
Elwell
World fliers push forward in far north
Alaska war time dispatches report army lieutenants in three world flight planes leaving Atta Island for a 350 mile hop if weather allows. Major Frederick L. Martin is missing since last week and search efforts extend across the Aleutians with dog teams steamship and natives aiding as teams roam near Chignik Heiden Port Moller and Port Heiden in the Bristol Bay region in hopes of clues or a sighting.
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Associated Press
Cordova
Alaska
Army
Frederick L. Martin
Atta Island
United States Coast Guard
Algonquin
Chignik
Aleutian Islands
Haida
Atka Island
Aleutian
Bristol Bay
Bering Sea
Port Moller
Port Heidan
Pacific-American Fisheries
Johannes
Martin
Alva Harvey
Aleutians
Chignik Laat
Natvies
Meshik
Seal Islands
Francis committee to report on physical education reforms
The committee on physical education appointed by Miss May E K Francis to inquire into corrective work in physical education, playgrounds and teacher training prepared to report today. The report will be released in a few days, possibly after term end, with fall term as a possible release time.
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Associated Presss
Des Moines
Committee On Physical Education
May EK. Francis
Japanese Government Workers Federation Forming March-May
Tokio reports the largest labor group in Japan is forming as the Government Workers' General Federation. It will include about 50 000 workers from government arsenals and will hold its inaugural meeting on May Day.
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TOKIO
Japan
Government Workers’ General Federation
National Conference on Home Education Gathers in Minneapolis
Bodies interested in children's welfare join a national conference at the University of Minnesota May 7 led by U S Commissioner of Education John J Tigert. Delegates include the International Kindergarten Union and the National Congress of Mothers and Parents Teachers Associations. Professor Walter Bittner urged correspondence school courses to aid adults in completing secondary education.
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Minneapolis
University of Minnesota
John J. Tigert
United States
International Kindergarten Union
National
Congresa of Mothers and Parent Teachers’ Associations
St. Paul
Walter 8. Bittner
Indiana University
Richard Jk. Price
University of Minnesota Extension Division
Daugherty Accused By Boston Stockholders' Attorney
Conrad W. Crocker, Boston attorney for minority stockholders of the Boston and Maine, told the senate Daugherty pressured the judge in the New Haven merger case. He said Federal Judge Meyer was “grossly imposed upon” by Daugherty, who modified then vacated the decree and dropped indictments against William Rockefeller and other railroad directors.
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Washington
Conrad W. Crocker
Boston
Maine
Senate
Daugherty
New Haven
Meyer
Crocker
Daucherty
William Rockefeller
Road
Mercury to Pass Between Earth and Sun Today
Mercury will transit the earth from between Earth and the sun at 3 42 P M central time today per Prof Phillip Fox of Dearborn Observatory Northwestern University Father Micael Selea of the Philippine Observatory says the event cannot be viewed again in the United States until 1953 Prof Edwin B Frost of Yerkes Observatory announced observers should use a telescope with an aperture of about 3 inches or more.
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Wrenn
Chicago
Philip Fox
Dearborn Observatory
Northwestern University
Micael Selea
Philippine Observatory
United States
Edwin B. Frost
Yerkes
Williams Bay
Wis
Immigration bill delays and Japanese exclusion plan
President Coolidge presses to delay the effective date of the Japanese exclusion provision in the immigration bill. Conferees reconsider the date, aiming March 1 1925, with a diplomatic abrogation to be negotiated. Congress faces floor action as leaders rally to oppose the conference report. 6000 Japanese in Japan await transport to San Francisco per Nichi Hei.
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Coolidge
Johnson
House Immigration Committee
Reed
Pennsylvania
Senate
House
Congress
Tokio
White House
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