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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1924
Page
1
A compact wrap of postscript chatter and quick takes on politics, personalities, and missteps. Notes touch on Missouri Democrats, McAdoo, Cordell Hull, Mary Garden, and a quip about private wires, with European diplomacy, labor, and early 1920s social witticisms threaded through.
Philadelphia April 16 Harry K Thaw is expected to testify in his own defense tomorrow at the jury trial on sanity with his lawyers planning a forenoon appearance. Judge Patterson announced the plan after today’s session while Thaw expressed optimism and greeted bystanders with Cheerio.
In Chicago, a jury in Judge Joseph B. David's court awarded Helen F. Bornholdt ten thousand dollars against landlords B. T. Butler and Laura McIntosh. The case involves failure to heat a flat, contributing to Karl Bornholdt's 1920 pneumonia death, and is described as a potential precedent for tenants seeking action over neglect of heat and repairs.
The Navy weighs a plan to send nearly the entire Pacific fleet on a cruise to Australia beginning July 1926 and returning in September. Preparations are tentative but favored by some senior officers. Atlantic scout fleet maneuvers for 1943 may send most ships to the Pacific near Hawaii, with four battleships joining Annapolis midshipmen on their practice cruise. Training exercises with the dir igible Shenandoah are planned, likely off Newport, R. I.
Sumner Welles, sent by President Coolidge from Santo Domingo to Honduras to restore peace has arrived at Tegucigalpa. Honduran politicians dislike the mediation as American intervention, while rebels have recaptured Nacaome and Santa Ana and advance on Choluteca. Counterrevolutionaries are said to have been defeated in western Honduras.
Adolfo de la Huerta, leader of the revolution, is unable to respond to Cor doba’s demand to suspend Alvaro and return to Mexico. He has an appendicitis attack and was sent to Rochester Minnesota for treatment and possible operation.
Maj. Frederick L. Martin commander of the U S Army globe flight and his mechanician Seret Harvey were rescued after their air cruiser Seattle force landed near Cape Ixvak while en route Seward to Chignik Alaska. They endured exposure until picked up by the destroyer Hull and landed at Kanatak. An engine replacement will delay the world flight at least a week. The crew’s rescue completes a perilous recovery after an emergency descent.
Indictment in Baltimore charges Ralph E. Ruby and George Fowler Jr with manufacturing liquor after bribe schemes by Revenue Agents Thomas Wheeler and George T. King. The pair, once prohibition agents, led a shadowy undercover operation to infiltrate bootleg networks around Washington and Waldorf Maryland, gathering evidence amid bribe payments and staged raids. Twenty six to be arrested once the case fully unfolds, with headlines detailing the high level conspiracy and the agents’ double roles.
Paris April 1 The German government accepts the experts reports as a practical basis for a speedy reparation settlement and will collaborate with the commission. France Great Britain Belgium and Germany have accepted. Italy’s acceptance is expected soon. The reply is viewed as unconditional by reparations headquarters and signals earnest German collaboration.
Westfield New Jersey April 1 Harry Smith a World War I veteran revealed in his will that he bequeathed his wooden leg to Secretary of the Treasury Mellon. Smith who lost his leg at St Mihiel on September 18 1918 resented government action reducing his compensation and has had three artificial legs with the stump not yet fully healed.
Albert W. Fox reports that President Coolidge and Secretary of State Hughes oppose the Senate view that Masanao Hanihara’s note to the U S government was improper or threatening. Officials await the Presidents and Hughes’s statements before the Japanese exclusion amendment’s fate is decided. The Senate backed the exclusion amendment 44 to 4, with Colt McLean Sterling and Warren voting no. continuation noted on page ten.
Two aviators from Dayton Ohio launched toward Albany New York using a new long distance compass. They flew 570 miles with over 200 miles above clouds and landed within five miles of Albany after seven hours. They reported the compass a success and noted no serious deviation. Ident H C Downey piloted the craft. Bradley Jones acted as navigator.
Mexico City April 16 President Obregon ordered the repression of anarchistic agrarians in Coahuila and an arrest of those seizing cotton lands in the Laguana district near Torreon. Gen Mange reported that five miles of cotton lands were invaded and crops to be divided. Americans including J. M. Ulmer William Sturgeon and J. A. Jarene own the properties.
In Marion Illinois on April 16 unidentified shooters fired on the country home of Sam Stearns chairman of Williamson county board and reputed Klan leader. Farm employer Rosy Lizenby was shot in the leg. Mrs Stearns narrowly escaped. A bitter Herrin election fight ended with Klansmen victorious and several local officials arrested on accusations of anti klan actions.
The Actors' Entity association said negotiations with the Producing Managers' association are terminated until the managers guarantee "the life and strength of equity." Compromise proposals by Capt Vladimir Vladimirovich de the managers have been rejected. A Russian nobleman, Svashnikoff, now U S Army Reserve officer, recently became a citizen and works in Washington as a machine gun expert residing at 7138 California Avenue.
Salem faces bankruptcy with no funds for May and June. Salaries cannot be paid, police and fire departments must take vacations, and official city closure looms. Taxpayer nonpayment and higher expenses drive the collapse. Prisoners may be released as the jail food fund is exhausted.
Senator James Couzens of Michigan, confined in Johns Hopkins Hospital for observation of a illness, was reported doing well tonight. He passed a comfortable day. doctors said it may be a week or ten days before deciding on possible surgery. His general condition was such there was no immediate need for operation.
Paris dispatch reports the Bank of France begins building air bombproof vaults after secret studies to defend against enemy aircraft. The first vault, installed at a major Paris branch, signals a nationwide program for safeguarding assets across France.
Tokyo reports Premier Kiyoura expressing deep regret that the United States Congress acted against Japan. He says Japan has shown history of reasonableness and warns the exclusion measure strains friendship, while noting future steps may hinge on U.S. political timing and the presidential year.
A severe blizzard struck western Ontario Manitoba and southeastern Saskatchewan with heavy snow and sleet cutting telegraph lines. Winnipeg was isolated from the east and south for hours as storms battered the region amid thunder and lightning.
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