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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1927
Page
5
A chronological outline of Teapot Dome oil reserve events from 1915 to 1927, detailing executive actions, leases, investigations, and trials involving Fall Sinclair Doheny Everhart and other figures, including transfers of authority, bond purchases, and eventual convictions and acquittals. The timeline covers lease discussions, Senate investigations, civil suits, indictments, and Supreme Court rulings shaping the case.
Oregon begins a special election in the third district to replace Maurice Crumpacker who died. Republican Franklin Korrell and Democrat Elton Watkins contest the race in Multnomah County with Wyomings and legal challenges shaping nominations under direct primary rules. Little voter interest noted as polls open.
The two day Methodist conference at Grtane features themes on manhood and the church, devotionals, sermons by Dr. R E Gornall and T C Kennedy, business sessions, round tables on evangelism, and a large layman turnout urged. Supper served by Ladies Aid, with committee reports and license renewals to follow. attendees invited to bring Junior Laymen and to confirm supper counts with Dr Bragg.
C A Holmquist urged strict safeguards for market milk at the 56th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association in Cincinnati. He urged locating pasteurizing plants away from barns, preventing direct contact with stables, preventing dust infiltration, and restricting plant use to milk handling with proper ventilation lighting and fly screening.
The Way of All Flesh, a convincingly human drama starring Emil Jannings, comes to the Fox Theatre on Wednesday and Thursday. Belle Bennett portrays Jannings wife with noted sympathy, while Phyllis Haver appears as the other woman in this American made vehicle from Paramount with top industry talent.
Alabama Attorney General C McCall delays trials on flogging indictments until after January 1 as appeals continue. Julius Lumpkin faces bribery charges tied to flogging testimony involving Arthur Hutt and others. several convicts appeal ten year sentences. Grand jury issued 102 indictments. 17 men arrested, 28 warrants remain. Klan leaders denounced for alleged flogging roles or failure to prevent them.
Dr. J. P. Van Horn president of Upper Town university and his wife were injured when their car crashed into a side road vehicle near West Union. The car overturned three times, Stanley Baldwin and Geneva Parner escaped with minor injuries. All are expected to recover soon. Edna May Wilbur is noted as an instructor in Enelich Lindsay California High School.
Thomas G. Frost of Knoxville sues B. B. Long for 15000 damages claiming Long stole his wife. Frost testified tearfully about the affair and a California trip that ended with Mrs. Long leaving Frost. Court attaches could not locate Mrs. Long to testify for the plaintiff.
An old advertisement urges thin people to regain strength by Burke's Cod Liver Oil and Iron tablets. It touts the product as a balanced tonic for weak blood or “thin blood” and warns against cheap imitations, urging purchase from the original Burke’s brand. The note cites dates oct 13-15.
New York City operates three training schools for public school teachers. The program length increased from two to three years. At closing in June they announced enrollment for September of 6 646 pupils, up 1 240.
Twenty-one Boston school teachers, two with fifty years of service, have been retired and their names added to the pension roll by the retirement board.
Education costs in the United States now exceed fourteen times the level of thirty-five years ago, despite the population increasing by about 83 percent in that period. A trial delay was set to October 17 to allow subpoenas for O'Neil. Sinclair received a three month jail term and a $500 fine for Senate contempt, with appeals delaying execution. Justice Hitz in DC held bribery indictments against Fall and Doheny and son. Fall and Sinclair scheduled to face trial on the Teapot Dome conspiracy indictment on October 17.
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