Coolidge Cabinet Weighs Relief Plan for Wheat Growers
President Coolidge and advisers review options to prevent a repeat of this year’s wheat crisis. Agriculture experts survey hard red wheat conditions while no specific remedy is chosen. Proposals include lower grain freight rates and letting United Grain Corp handle this season’s crop. A bankers’ committee from the Ninth Federal Reserve District will meet next week to back the plan.
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Associated Press
Washington
Coolidge
Department of Agriculture
Wallace
Congress
Chicago
United Grain Corporation
Ninth Federal Reserve District
Des Moines Man Found Dead From Gas In Home
The body of forty seven year old George L Koehl was found upright in a chair in his Des Moines home early today by his wife and mother after spending the night with neighbors. He appears to have been asphyxiated by a gas leak from the kitchen range and likely died not long before discovery.
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Des Moines
George L. Koehl
Koehl
International Union to Operate Presses of New York Dailies
A meeting in New York will draft a contract between the International union and the New York publishers association. The agreement aims to have International members operate the presses deserted Monday night by the local union.
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International Union
New York
Associated Press
International Pressmans and Assistants Union
New York Publishers Association
International
Fourth man killed in Bureau explosion raises death toll
The death of James F. Kendigo of Salinga, Pa., from injuries in yesterday's laboratory explosion brings the total killed to four. Five others remain hospitalized in critical condition.
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Aerociated
Washington, D. C
James F. Kendigo
Salinga
Bureau of Standards
Stokes Marital Trouble Is Aired
Chicago men report that Mrs. W K E D Stokes accuses her husband of conspiring to ruin her name. Indictments may follow as Frank T. Jordan says a suit against the prosecutor will be filed for usurpation of power. Witnesses support her claim of efforts to brand her as a habitue of a notorious resort dating back twenty years.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Charles S. Wharton
W KE. D. Stokes
New York
Frank T. Jordan
Stokes
Mra Stokes
Orco
Helen Horwood
Jordan
Log of Point Arguello Radio Station in Wreck Inquiry
The naval court of inquiry in San Diego resumed with Lt Cmdr John M. Ashley presenting the log of the Point Arguello radio station. It recorded signals warning the destroyer squadron it was still too far north to turn east toward the Santa Barbara channel before the disaster off Point Honda, California.
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Associated Press
San Diego
Cal
Naval Court of Inquiry
Point Honda
California
John M. Ashley
Eleventh Naval District
Ashley
Point Arguello
Santa Barbara Channel
Government outlines merchant fleet operation plan
Washington September 21 The shipping board has evolved a new plan of operation for the government merchant fleet to replace the one declared invalid by Attorney General Dougherty. It will be shaped quickly for presentation to President Coolidge and his legal advisers.
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Dougherty
Shipping Board
Coolidge
Blackmail Plot Charged Against Ward Evidence in Trial
New York Sept 21 Complaints claim a blackmail plot targeted George S Ward father of Walter S Ward on trial for murder. Deputy Attorney General O Neill introduced the complaint signed by J J Commerham who claimed knowledge of the blackmart society details.
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Associated Press
White Plains
New York
George S Ward
Walter S. Wart
Larence Peters
O'Neill
J. J. Commerham
Warner
Blackmart Society
Senator Underwood shifts stance on league of nations
Oscar W Underwood of Alabama, a former Democratic presidential hopeful, is reported by the Chicago Tribune to have softened his support for the league of nations. While en route to a fishing vacation in Wisconsin, he said his original views are known but that his trip abroad showed the league at work, signaling a possible change in position.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Oscar W. Underwood
Alabama
League of Nations
The
Chicago Tribune Today
Underwood
League
Washington
Wisconsin
Iowa Enjoys Fair And Warm Weather
Iowa enjoyed fair and warm weather following a spell of unusual cold and heavy rains. The Des Moines weather office reported one of the heaviest 24 hour rainfall periods on record, with the northwest part of the state receiving the most rain.
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Associated Preen
Des Moines
Iowa
Weather Bureau
Drunk Driver Fined Record $750 in Iowa Incident
The Associated Press reports Charles Alle an insurance man of Cedar Rapids received a record as he was fined 750 dollars by a Independence justice of the peace for operating a vehicle while intoxicated and crashing through a plate glass window. In Boone a separate case saw Joseph A Wells of Perry fined 1000 dollars for drunken driving.
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Associated
Iowa
Charles Alle
Justice of the Peace
Independence
Ulle
Boone
Joseph A. Wells
Perry
Senator cites league failure in Italy Greece dispute shift
The senator notes that the league’s failure to function in the Italy Greece dispute has influenced his attitude and states he does not expect the league to be a campaign issue in the upcoming presidential race.
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League
Italy
Greece
Bok Prize Jury Named For Peace Plan Award
The policy committee selects Elihu Root and six others to judge the $100,000 Bok peace prize for a U S plan to prevent war through international cooperation. Jurors include Edward M House James Harbord Ellen Fitz Pendleton Roscoe Pound William Allen White Brand Whitlock. Debates center on timing and Senate passage to fund the prize.
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Elihu Root
Associated P'ress
New York
Edward W. Bok
Philadelphia
United States
McKinley
Roosevelt
Edward M. House
Woodrow Wilson
James Guthrie Har
Bord
Radio Corporation of America
Ellen Fitz Pendleton
Wellesley College
Roscoe Pound
Harvard Law School
William Allen White
Epperia
Kans
Brand Whitlock
Belgium
Market and union meeting shapes Iowa farming policy
In Des Moines on September 21 the Iowa Farmers Union held its annual meeting focusing on marketing and group purchasing reforms to aid farmers. In Fort Dodge Charles Dillion warned that freight rates drive farm troubles and accused politicians of misleading farmers for political gain.
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Associated Ress
Des Moines
Iowa Farmers’ Union
Farmers’ Exchange
Fort Dodge
Charles Dillion
Western Railway Committee
Italy evacuates Corfu ahead of official deadline
London dispatch says Italy began evacuation of Corfu ahead of the September 27 deadline set by the ambassadors. Artillery brigades guns and ammunition already have been embarked.
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Associated Press
London
Ambasadors
Italy
Corfu
Athens
Attorneys General to Meet Over National Gasoline Situation
Nebraska Attorney General C. S. Spillman announced a national conference of all attorneys general at the Old Colony club in Chicago on October 15 to 17 to investigate the national gasoline situation. The gathering follows action at Minneapolis where the issue was discussed.
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Associated Tress
Lincoln
Nebr
Nebraska
C. S. Spillman
Old Colony Club
Chicago
Minneapolis
W W W Workers Vote Today On Strike Action
All branches of the marine transport workers department of the J W W W will vote today on a strike to join the New Orleans branch and support the 3000 longshoremen who walked out last week. local headquarters reported.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
Marine Transport Workers Department
Medrim seeks dissolution of House of David colony
Mrs Estella A Medrim a twenty year member files in U S district court a suit seeking dissolution of the House of David Colony at Benton Harbor Michigan and the appointment of a receiver for its property in Grand Rapids Sept 21.
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Grand Rapipe
Mich
House of David
Benton Harbor
United States District Court
Estella A. Medrim
Walton faces impeachment amid Klan clash in Oklahoma
Oklahoma legislators move to impeach Governor J C Walton for defying the constitution while he campaigns against the Ku Klux Klan. He accuses the group of intruding into state affairs and vows to mobilize opponents if needed. The military court hearings implicate local Klan figures including Judge G W Clark Sheriff Cavner and County Attorney Wright with alleged ties and violence.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
J. C. Walton
Oklahoma
Walton
Jorney
J. K. Wright
Cavner
G. W. Clark
A. A. Maupin
Clark W
Clark
Wright
Dr. Maupin
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Norriman
Military
Col
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C. N. Jewsett
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