Cuba Names General Gerardo Machado Morales President
The article profiles General Gerardo Machado y Morales as Cuba’s new president, detailing his birthplace Vilaclara Santa Clara, early life in the independence struggle, service in the Cuban army, and political rise through the Liberal Unionist movement culminating in his landslide election. It notes his family’s patriotic history and his roles as lieutenant colonel, governor, and Interior Secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Havana
Cuba
Gerardo Machado Y Morales
Pre & Nt
Gerardo Machado
Villa
Gerado Machado
Villaclara
Providence of
Las Villas
Santa Clara
Gerardo Machado Y Castellon
Lutgarda Morales
Ontario sets opening for liquor sale in hotels
Ontario moves to allow 4.4 percent liquor to be sold in hotels under government license tomorrow. Hotels rush to remove brass rails and adjust bars to serve only at tables. Breweries shipped supplies overnight to meet demand as border traffic from the United States intensifies. Prices vary with estimates from ten cents per ten ounces to five cents in Ottawa amid Quebec competition.
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Toronto
Ont
Ontario
United States
Ottawa
Quebec
Mayo Attacks Bryan Over Evolution View
Dr. W. J. Mayo of Rochester, Minn., told a Sioux Falls audience that Bryan is sincere or uninformed on evolution, insisting there is no conflict between science and religion. He claimed scientists agree life evolves morally, mentally, and physically, and praised modern progress and healthful changes in society.
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Associated Press
Sioux Falls
8. D
W. J. Mayo
Rochester
Minn
Wm. J. Bryan
Bryan
Mayo
South Dakota
Pocahontas Man Killed as Car Rolls into Ditch in Storm
Pocahontas on May 20 Carl Johnson was killed when the car rolled over into a ditch during a heavy rain storm. His father Albert A. Johnson was badly hurt. A accompanying windstorm caused damage with barns shifted and smaller buildings blown over.
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Associated Press
Pocahontas
Carl Johnson
Albert A. Johnson
Machado Aided by Civilians in Failed Santa Clara Uprising
The uprising failed and General Machado was imprisoned at Camp Columbia before a court martial, then released. After 1920 General Gomez sought Machado to safeguard Liberal party interests in the United States and Machado directed party activity, winning provincial governorships and fostering his later presidential bid.
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Machado
Santa Clara
Mendez Penate
Camp Columbia
Gomez
United States
General Machado
Liberal Party
Court decree on R R taxes is protested
Des Moines May 20 Attorney General Ben J Gibson filed in federal court contending Judge Wade's decree in favor of the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific and the Chicago Great Western railroads on a tax reduction is void as it followed a law enacted after the decree became effective The petition asks Wade to vacate the permanent injunction against collection of about 750000 in back taxes and prompts immediate state tax collection if granted Judge Wade set a hearing for Friday on the Gibson petition noted as based on the new law applying to decrees made on and after May 13
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Associated Press
Des Moines
Ben J. Gibson
Martin J. Wade
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
Chicago Great Western Railway
Gibson
Wade
Coolidge
Congress
Permant
J. G. Gamble
Rock Island
Supreme Court
Washington
Neill Garrett
Chicago Great Western
Mystery Girl Identified After Sleeping Sickness Found
Des Moines reports reveal 16 year old Geneva Martin known as Dolly Ford was identified as Geneva Martin after a letter from her father in St. Joseph Missouri. She had been in jail since April seeking a home with flowers and butterflies. An Indian suitor Edward LaDurie claimed paternity but the father asserts the tale is false.
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Des Moines
Geneva Martin
Dolly Ford
St. Joseph
Edward LaDurie
Utah
Most Iowa Corn Planting Nearly Finished
Des Moines May 20 state weather bulletin notes about three fourths of Iowa corn planting completed with early fields showing good stand though cutworms and wireworms active on seed. Replanting reported where Trost killed corn. warmth and moisture needed to finish termination and ensure even stand. Oats are yellow and thin in some areas from drought and freezes, but overall crop looks fair. winter wheat and barley show steady progress. Frosts damaged fruits in northern Iowa and the strawberry crop is poor. early potatoes that emerged were frozen.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
Iowa
Enidt
Iowa Weather and Crop Bureau
Sister Identifies Man in Federal Identification Case
Mrs Estilla Raitcounter 19 sister of Arthur Frazier Sioux Indian Testifies that the mystery man identified as Arthur Lopez Frazier is her brother Additional witnesses corroborate in federal court in Minneapolis May 20.
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Associated Press
Minneapolis
Minn
Estilla Raitcounter
Arthur Frazier
Arthur Lopez-Frazier
Federal District Court
Prohibition Enforcement Sparks Debate Over Poster Campaign
Washington May 10 Prohibitionists clash with General Lincoln Andrews over posters for the July 1 dry law campaign They demand slogans emphasize general law observance not the eighteenth amendment Anti-Saloon League criticism rises as Andrews supporters are cast as pro prohibition A Potomac tale recalls Caesar the dog who saved a woman years ago and a wreath laid in Eddy's memory by an unknown son
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Washington, D. C
Lincoln C. Andrews
Andrews
Big Eddy
Potomac
Washington
Caesar
Potomac River
Eddy
Rum Vessels Block Halifax Harbor Amid Dry Campaign
New York May 20 Rum ships driven from American shores by the coast guard blockade jam Halifax harbor. Thirteen steamers and schooners tied up, five arrived yesterday as the dry drive gains force. Senator Watson testified the administration will use all agencies to dry up the country and law could be modified if necessary. A German vessel remains off Sandy Hook. rum row is said to be largely cleaned up.
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National Capitol
Republic
New York
Coast Guard
Halifax Harbor
Senate Committee
Watson
Indiana
Halifax
Sandy Hook
Lake Ontario
St. Lawrence
Ontario
Dagle of Des Moines to Run for State Commander
Des Moines resident Frank Dagie of Crocker Post No. 12 G A R will seek the department commander post at the Mason City encampment in June. Dagie joined the Union Army at 15, served as a private in Company E of the Second Wisconsin infantry, was promoted to sergeant, and later helped found a college at Winnebago City, Minnesota.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
Frank Dagie
Crocker Post
Mason City
Darle
Second Wisconsin Infantry
Minnesota
Winnebago City
Russian guest delivers Russia talk at Iowa club meet
Madame Pierre Ponardine of Russia and Harvey Ingham editor of the Des Moines Register spoke at the 16th biennial Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs convention in Des Moines. Addresses covered Russia and its customs as caucuses for national convention delegates were held with Mrs. John D. Sherman of Colorado as a distinguished guest.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
Pierre Ponardine
Russia
Harvey Ingham
Des Moines Register
Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs
Mme. Ponatfidine
John DD. Sherman
Colorado
National Federation
Bill Kelly to Take Job at Cedar Rapids
Bill Kelly of Burlington has accepted the athletic director post at Washington High School in Cedar Rapids. Superintendent Arthur Deamer said the contract was not signed by noon but is expected before delivery.
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Associated Press
Cedar Rapids
Bill Kelly
Burlington
Washington High School
Arthur Deamer
Engineers Board Named by Hammill
Des Moines May 20 B F Fleming of Iowa City and H W Hartapee of Des Moines were named by Governor Hammill to be members of the board of engineering examiners Their four year terms begin July first
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Associated Press
Des Moines
B. F. Fleming
Iowa City
H. W. Hartapee
Hammill
Board of
Engineering Examiners
Sheriff Hints Trail to Shoemaker Slaying Suspect
MISSOURI VALLEY May 20 Sheriff Milliman says a new lead brings him and deputies close to catching the tramp who killed special northwestern railroad officer Allen Shoemaker in Missouri Valley Sunday night. Six tramps in the rondoma freight car were jailed in Logan after arrest. Two Northwestern detectives from Chicago joined the hunt. Sheriff notes four officers have been slain since 1898 and their slayers captured.
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Associated Press
Missouri Valley
Presbyterian Row Starts Tomorrow
Leaders of all groups in the United States Presbyterian church plan to decide which candidates to back for moderator as the general assembly convenes in Columbus Ohio tomorrow. The modernist fundamentalist split and dissent within the judicial commission are to be debated, with potential church division if unresolved.
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Associated Presa
Columbus
Presbyterian Church
United States of America
General Assembly of the Church
Clarence Howard McCartney
Philadelphia
Ohio
Judicial Commission of the
Grand Assembly of the Presbyterian Church
William Jennings Bryan
Clarence Edward MacArtney
Assembly
Mark Matthews
Seattle Wash
Judicial Commissions
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Assistant Cashier of South Dakota Bank Ends His Life
TYNDALL, D. May 20. Charles Rohac, assistant cashier of the Security Bank of Tyndall, a state institution, killed himself in the bank vault early this morning. A suspected shortage in his accounts is cited as the cause. Rohac had served as county treasurer and lived many years in the county. He was about 60, leaving a wife and four children.
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Dakota Bank
Associated Press
Tyndall
Charles Rohac
Security Bank of
Bohne
Lightning Kills Eight in Belgium Damage Runs High
Eight persons were killed by lightning last night in Belgium and damages are estimated in the millions of francs. The event occurred in Brussels on May 20 as reports confirm multiple fatalities and significant destruction.
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Associated Press
Brussels
Disappearance of Robert White Tops Chicago Trial News
May 20 report says Robert White, key witness in the William Darling Shepherd typhoid murder trial, may have fled to Florida with his family after a $25 000 offer. State's Attorney Crowe raids the Jones Detective Agency seeking White, delaying juror selection and postponing a court session.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Robert White
Wm. Darling Shepherd
Wm. N. McClintock
Robert F. Crowe
Crowe
Jones Detective Agency
White
Robert #. Crowe
William Darling Shepherd
Nelson McClintock
C. Farman
Serenes
Shepherd
Veniremen
J. A. Bidwell
Outgoing Dubuque Manager Faces $50,000 Slander Suit
Ossian E. Carr the Dubuque city manager for five years is charged with slander in a pending damage suit filed by James F. Lee Paving Company of Dubuque The notice was served half an hour before his departure to Fort Worth Texas Carr said the timing and past two years of statements explain his readiness to defend himself.
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Dubuque
Ossian E. Carr
Fort Worth
Texas
James F. Lee
Carr
Soldiers and citizens battle forest fires near Laona
National guardsmen join townspeople in a concerted effort to quell spreading forest fires that threatened Laona Wisconsin. One home was destroyed as fires closed in on the 1 000 resident village with no relief in sight.
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Associated Press
Laona
Wis
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Jose Marti
Liberal Unionist Party
Mendieta
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Geon
Federal Supreme Court
Mystery Girl
Siis Chorib
Man
RUM
Dagle
Shoemaker
Presbyterian Row
Belgium
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