Beggs Resolution Aims to Extend Rent Act to 1920
A Be ggs introduced a House resolution urging an extension of the rent act to May 22, 1920, with a special rule to substitute the Lampert bill. Lampert argued for a two year extension beyond 1926, labeling opposition tactics as filibuster driven by landlords and bondholders. The rules committee plans to meet to consider the measure as Beggs and Lampert advocate for their positions tomorrow.
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Beggs
Lampert
James Bega
Ohio
Thomas L Blanton
Texas
Rules
Legge
Begg
Rules Committee
Toorrow
Wisconsin
Blanton
Diet
Lamspert
Citizens Condemn School Censorship
Citizens association denounces censorship of school news by the board of education at a meeting in St David parish hall. The act urged public access to information through the press and opposed censoring school discourse. A resolution backed opposition to the proposed Tuien Station plaza project.
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Board of
Educat On
Radioial
Toad Citizens Association
Ites
Ias
St Davida Parish Hall
Treas
Tuien
Tousecarnly da Ft
Tia
Oyster and Rudolph Commissions Delayed
Delays tied to the state process postpone sworn oaths and installation of commissioners Rudolph and Oyster. Secretary Dan Ebovargea notes the board will complete formalities once commission documents arrive, while new committee chairs are announced at a Raleigh meeting.
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Oyster
Aria Ferry
Rpm
Dan
Ebovargea
LIM
Morgan
Sutops
Ae Pu Fontes Commission
Balaace
Naval Air Officer Killed As Seaplane Capsizes
Lieut Comdr Louis C Scheibla of the navy died after a seaplane overturned at Dahlgren proving grounds following a 60 mile flight from Anacostia. Pilot Lieut McMurrain survived. cause undetermined due to rough waters. Scheibla, 30, had just returned from Asiatic duties and served in ordnance and optical instrument manufacture.
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Louis C Scheibla
Navy
Lfe
Dahlgren Proving Grounds
Lieut
S B McMurrain
Bureau of Aeronautics
Navy Department
Potomac
Anacostia Naval Air Station
Scheibin
McMurrain
Scheibla
Bureau of Ordnance
Naval Hospital
Naval Air Stafier
Connecticut Avenue
Schiebla
Naval Service
Muscle Shoals vote in Senate expected this week
Indications pointed to a Senate vote on the Muscle Shoals save in the session before adjournment. The Henry Ford bid, passed by the House, faced committee review as the Agri Culture Committee prepared a report. Norris defended delaying any report until all five bids were fully considered.
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Congress
Henry Ford
Senate Agriculture Committee
House
Norrie
Benatog Underwood
Alabama
Ford Bia
Muscle Shoals
Norris
Underwood
Ford
Elen H Hooker
Atterbury
Hooker
Young Springfield man recalls Coolidge oath story
J H Fountain, a 2dits weekly paper publisher from Springfield VI, was present when Calvin Coolidge took the oath in Plymouth VI. He rushed 24 miles to Plymouth to file but could not reach the Associated Press due to a government commandeered Plymouth telephone. Fountain, visiting Washington, sought a line to Boston to relay the tale as President Harding died, staying with Senator Porter H Dale of Vermont.
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Springfield
Calvin Coolidge
United States
Plymouth
Washington
Fountain
Harding
Associated Presa
Boston
Cilic
Pountain
Clark
Porter H Dale
Vermont
Two Arrested After Chase For Illicit Whisky Seizure
A pursuit along Bladensburg road yesterday afternoon ended with two men detained and 23 gallons of alleged corn whisky seized. Officers Joe Helm and Oscar Mansfield of the Twelfth precinct chased the car for over a mile. Arrestees Albert Codum of 145 Ainger Place SE and George D Chichester of 633 Rhode Island Ave NW were charged with illegal possession and transportation of liquor.
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Bladensburg Road
Joe Helm
Oscar Mansfield
Twelfth Precinct
Albert Codum
Ainger Place
George D Chichester
Rhode Island Avenue
U. S. Art Gallery Aim Sets $2.9 Million Price
Senator Lodge proposes a $2,500,000 appropriation to start a $7,000,600 national gallery of art in Washington. The fireproof granite front building would rise on the Mall site between the Smithsonian natural history building group and Seventh Street. Architect Charles A Platt of New York, designer of the Freer Gallery, is selected by the Smithsonian board of regents, of which Lodge is a member.
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Todge
Massachusetts
Senate
Mall
Natural History
Smithsonian Institution Group
Seventh Street
Charles A Platt
New York
Platt
Board of Regents
The
Smithsonian Institution
Senator Lodge
Dentist Shot After Fracas At Partnership Club
Allwine, manager of the Partner, told police he found the dentist and his wife in a clinch near the door and took a gun. The husband intervened, shots were fired, both were hospitalized, and Mrs Pflug later drank veronal tablets. The husband died during surgery while she remained unconscious.
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Phue Aata
Allwine
Eighth Precinct
Ford
Murphy
Greenlow
Pflug
Pring
Cone Named to Fleet Board
The Meet corporation trustees yesterday named Hutch I Cone as a member to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of William Io Lese. Cone serves as special assistant to President Leleh Palmer.
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Meet Corporation
Ysterday
Hutch I Cone
Leleh ¢ Palmer
Mr Cone
Board of Trustees
William Io Lese
Death of Brigadier General Horatio Gates Gibson West Point’s oldest graduate
Brig Gen Horatio Gates Gibson oldest living West Point graduate dies at 96 in Washington at his home on N Street. A veteran of the Mexican and Civil Wars he rose from second lieutenant to colonel, later advanced to brigadier general by act of 1904. He served in Vera Cruz Puebla and the City of Mexico and earned honors at Williamsburg. He leaves two sons and two daughters with burial at West Point.
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West Point
N Street Northwest
Gibson
John
Elizabeth Q. Gated Gibson
Baltimore
Military Academy
Pennsylvania
Mexico
Vera Cruz
Puebla
City of
Second Ohio Artillery
Williamsburg
Regular Army
Third Artillery
Second Artillery
Aztec Club
Grand Army of the Republic
Order of Foreign Wars
Army and Navy Club
Gen Gibson
Harriett Atkinson
St Louis
Henry Kendrick Gibson
Horatio Gates Gibson Jr
Catherine Gibson White
George Weed Wallace
Benjamin W Atkingon
Stamps to Celebrate Walloon Tercentenary
The Post Office announces a special Huguenot-Walloon tercentenary issue commemorating Walloon settlers in New Netherland in 1624. The first sale starts May 1 in select cities including Jacksonville Portland Albany New Rochelle and New York with extended release after May 10 to other post offices.
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New Netherland
New York State
Jacksonville
Mayport
Albany
New Rochelle
New York
Allentown
Lancaster
Philadelphia
Reading
Charleston
Philatelic
Outdoor Play Project Meeting Called Here
Representatives of more than 100 organizations will be invited by President Coolidge's special recreation commission to meet May 22 to discuss opening all national facilities to public enjoyment. Secretary Weeks, chairman, says the meeting may begin with an address by President Coolidge. A committee will draft legislation on the subject. Senator Ashurst's mother dying in Alhambra California. Mrs Sarah E Ashurst is in critical condition at Agua, near here, doctors say hopeless prognosis.
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Special Recreation Commissio
Weeks
Coolidge
Ashurst
Alhambra
Calif
Sarah E Ashurst
Henry F .Ashurst
United States
Arizona
Agua
Here
Entire U. S May Hear Coolidge Speak Tuesday
The United States will hear President Coolidge deliver the annual Associated Press luncheon address in New York. A record broadcasting link of 10 radio stations will relay the 1 45 p m speech from the Waldorf Astoria, with WEAF as the lead station and ties to WCAP WFI WCAK WMAQ KSD WDAF WBAP WWJ and WNAC across major cities.
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President Coolidge
Associated Press
New York
WEAF
Waldorf- Astoria Hotel
WCAP
Washington
WFI
Philadelphia
WCAK
Pittsburgh
WMAQ
Chicago
KSD
St. Louis
WDAF
Kansas City
WBAP
Fort Worth
Tex
WWJ
Detroit
WNAC
Boston
Masses and Classes Called Danger to U S
Reverend Edmund A Walsh spoke at the Wapiya club banquet urging that masses and classes not be used in civic life. He cited Russia as land of dark and shadows and praised Russian physicians aiding 28 million starving people. He noted leaders and figures from education and government attending and participating in songs and remarks.
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Edmund A Walsh
Russia
Wapiya Club
Walsh
Everett M. Ellison
John J Tigert
Carl R Chindblom
Thaois
William Allen Wilbur
Columbian College
George Washington University
Clifton A Woodrum
Virginia
Chindblom
Noble P Barnes J
Ship Interests Seek Delay in Joint Rates Implementation
Port and shipping representatives from across the country urged the Interstate Commerce Commission to postpone the May 20 effective date of Section 28 of the merchant marine act. They argued the board’s certification of sufficient American tonnage is unfounded and that early rates would force through rail and water charges, harming most ports except New York and diverting traffic to Canadian routes.
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Shipping Board
Interstate Commerce Commission
New York
Treasury Officials Reexamine Alleged Duplicate Bonds
Treasury officials and a House committee revisited bonds at Riggs National Bank amid scrutiny of alleged bond duplication. Charles Brewer handed a duplicate bond to McFadden and Stephenson as they documented details while a guard and bank staff supervised. Another inspection is planned before hearings.
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Riggs National Bank
House
McFadden
Pennsylvania
Stephenson
South Carolina
Bank
Treasury Committee
Charles B Brewer
Department of Justice
Treasury Department
Brewer
Flying Ten Pin Strikes Boy In Bowling Alley
A flying bowling pin dented a boy’s head at a rear of a bowling alley near Twelfth and Hatredy Northeast yesterday. Seven year old Charles Armstrong of 730 Twelfth Street Northeast was treated for two scalp cuts by a private physician.
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Charles Armstrong
Twelfth Street
Twelfth
Hatreday
Charities Appeal Nets $36,832 Cash
In the final 24 hours of the Gaster appeal by Associated Charities and Citizens Relief, 32 donations total $670, raising membership to 4,433 and cash contributions for the year to $38,432. With two campaign days left, business and professional groups are urged to contribute to reach the goal before Sunday.
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Associated Charities and Citizens’ Relief Association
Delta Delta Delta Social Evening Opens Alpha Province Session
Delegates to the alpha province convention of the Delta Delta Delta opened their two day annual session at Wardman Park Inn with a get acquainted meeting last night. Miss Elizabeth Hoff spoke on fraternity matters as real business is set to begin today with Mrs Amos A Steele welcoming the delegates.
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Alpha Province
Delta Delta Delta
Elizabeth Hoff
Amos A Steele
Washington Alliance of the Organization
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