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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1923
Page
136
Contemporary pieces crafted by Indian children in mission schools will be displayed alongside curios distinctive to Indian culture. The event aims to raise funds with all proceeds directed to benefit the Indians.
In Warsaw the diet, by a majority vote, ratified three treaties with Turkey signed at Lausanne, including a pact of eternal friendship and commerce deals. A noisy demonstration followed as two socialist deputies faced immunity removal and court action, radicals leaving the hall after protests.
In Miami Florida December 1 an appeal by Hetry Ford of Detroit in an $11 million suit brought by Edward Huff a local inventor for royalties on magnetos used by Ford will be heard December 4 in the United States Court of Appeals at New Orleans. The appeal follows a ruling by Federal Judge Henry D Clayton in Jacksonville that the damages case could be presented to a jury.
Nugent also serves as counsel for 200 railroad employees who accuse loan companies of victimization. He says suits will be filed in Federal courts nationwide to reach the man higher up. Rhodes seeks 50 000 actual and 50 000 punitive damages for alleged health loss from worry over a conspiracy of loan companions threatening job loss.
Paris reports Jean Laporte set a new world altitude record for a hydro airplane at 5535 meters verified by an Aero club official. He surpassed American navy flier Inent C F Harper’s 4236 meter mark by 3299 meters, but frostbite and extreme cold forced a descent after the flight.
Huston Thompson succeeded Victor Murdock as chairman of the Federal Trade Commission in a one year rotation. The change follows the commission’s usual practice of rotating the chair among its members after Murdock’s year at the helm.
Admiral Robison testified the navy plans to store Teapot Dome oil and expand reserves despite doubts over legality raised by former Interior Secretary Fall. He cited Doheny’s 1917 opinion as influential and outlined storage targets, royalty values, and the need for oil to avert a war-time supply shortage. Senators pressed on funding and feasibility of long term storage.
President Coolidge issued recess appointments naming John W Van Heuvel to be United States marshal for the southern district of Alabama and Douglas Smith to be United States marshal for the middle districts of Alabama. The moves came on the eve of Congress but no reason was given. Nominations will be sent to the Senate for confirmation next week amid a spread of recess appointments associated with the Harding era.
A prize board of judges has begun trimming the entrants in a competition. The field is narrowed as judges review performances and select the top contenders for advance. The process continues with further rounds and criteria tightens.
New York December 1 United States Ambassador to Italy Richard Washburn Child sailed home on the steamship Samaria after a two months holiday. He said he has no immediate plan to quit public life and will return to Italy to discuss one or two policies with the Italian government. He noted no significance to Signor Schanzer’s debt remark and downplayed King Alfonso’s visit.
Automobile license tags will be obtainable at the District building tomorrow and thereafter, Wade H. Coombs announced yesterday. Tags for motorcycles will not be available at the same time due to delays from the supplier.
A personal message from Italian Premier Mussolini to the people of the United States was carried to New York aboard the Rotterdam by Frederick H. Fleitman. Fleitman said he would go to Washington to deliver or reveal the contents Monday and declined to disclose the message’s nature.
Minnesota enforces a new law banning highway advertising signs on trunk routes. Thousands of displays from small metal tags to large billboards are being removed as of today. This action targets roadside signage along major highways, reshaping commercial visual clutter nationwide.
A severe earthquake was felt in the Ceprano district near Rome during the night, causing panic among inhabitants according to a dispatch from Rome. The tremors were reported by the Bays news agency.
Yale University observers from the astronomical observatory plan spring deployment of a 36 foot long photographic refractor telescope, the largest in the Southern hemisphere and third largest worldwide. They aim to map star positions and motions with high precision using long-exposure photographs. Lenses by J B McDowell Company, rest assembled at Yale. location likely New Zealand or South Africa.
Seattle Dec 1 The bridal suite on the steamship President Grant will leave Tuesday for the Far East. Maj. and Mrs. Frederick McLaughlin of Chicago have engaged the suite. Mrs. McLaughlin was Irene Castle, the dancer, before her wedding to Mas Mr McLaughlin.
The University of Pennsylvania alumni in Philadelphia plan a smoker at the University Club on Wednesday evening to discuss winter meetings and entertainments and to elect officers. Expected guests include Senator George Wharton Pepper Dr Hubert Work Secretary Leo S Rowe and several U S officials and representatives.
Presidents and execs of national and state farm groups with over 700000 members plan a four day Washington demonstration from January 6 to 9 to press for the Norris Sinclair government marketing corporation bill, announced by the Farmers' National Council.
Havana reports a new push to reach a deal between President Zayas administration and the Veterans and Patriots association after accusations of corruption. A conference with Gen Alfredo Rego was disclosed, but the association’s supreme council had earlier repudiated Rego. Coinciding with the meeting, an appeal to the U S public warned of an intolerable Cuban condition that must end by force or pressure.
Durant Okla Dec L A conference of anti Ku Klux Klan groups adjourned after an all night session uniting five county units. The society did not name itself and key details remained unsettled. Most effort aimed to draw Parm Labor union into the fold, but the union declined. A resolution backed merging all anti klan orders in the state was adopted.
Henry Slaughter a 15 year old boy residing at 1204 N street northwest suffered cuts and a sprained wrist when knocked from his bicycle by an automobile at Thirteenth and IT streets northwest yesterday. He was taken to Emergency hospital for treatment.
Arthur B Murtha organizer of the Hiram Johnson for President club says he sent a letter to H Edmund Machold speaker of the New York assembly asking support for a preferential presidential primary law in New York. Murtha says enactment will revitalize the Republican party in New York.
Former Missouri Governor Frederick D. Gardiner received endorsement from the Democratic Press association of Missouri. Resolutions urged an honest and humane administration of the United States veterans bureau as part of the nomination support.
The Review and Herald Publishing Company orchestra held its first winter concert last night in Columbia hall at Washington Missionary College Takoma Park. Local talent performed with direction by Mrs Princes Pierce Stratton. Soloists included Elden Lockwood cornet Hilton Butler xylophone Robert Bane violin and Grace Washburn vocal solos.
A resolution adopted by the newly organized cotton bloc in Congress urges government method changes for cotton crop estimates. A five member committee was named to draft legislation. Representative Rankin of Mississippi criticized government misinformation on crops and called for uniform estimates by the same government branch. The bloc also backed leasing Muscle Shoals to Henry Ford.
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