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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1923
Page
1
A column on political maneuvering in Washington notes Coolidge pushing a Mexican treaty, Lodge’s committee room filling with rubber pigeonholes, and a Republican party fracturing into factions. It predicts Gillett’s Speaker election amid insurgent rules changes and calls for careful policy over self-interest.
Dr Fowler reports Hilton school faces constant danger of carbon monoxide and illuminating gas from an aging heating unit. Four hundred pupils and staff experience fainting and sickened air, with strong gas odor throughout the building and in classrooms, prompting immediate remediation urged by the health officer and Superintendent Ballou.
New York report from December four describes Mrs Duff Cooper formerly Lady Diana Manners revealing her beauty method. In a studio she rubs ice on her face and every part of her body to keep flesh firm, saying ice is the secret.
Maj. Gen. George Owen Squier, chief signal officer of the Army and noted for electrical research, resigns to become effective December 31. He is in New York on leave and a successor is expected to be appointed soon. Squier, born in Dryden Michigan, 1865, will continue research and scientific study. Rumors of a commercial project are unconfirmed.
London dispatch reports last hour of heated campaigning ahead of Thursday elections. Key figures Livya George and Winston Churchill pressed last minute rallies while Herbert Asquith focused on Paisley. Labour, despite noisy scenes, projects party gains as demonstrations flare near Watthamstow.
President Calvin Coolidge won the South Dakota Republican primary with 50,379 votes to 27,347 for Hiram Johnson. The convention then endorsed Coolidge unanimously and also indorsed Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas for vice president. The event drew loud applause as speakers touted Coolidge as a farmer-friendly leader and stressed Capper as a strong running mate.
Maryland and the District of Columbia agreed to mutual recognition of auto license tags from January 1 to March 1. The pact, signed after Maryland officials believed a gasoline tax measure would pass Congress, requires a Maryland style registration card with each District tag. The accord includes antiglare headlight regulations aligned with Maryland standards and aims to push for a title certificate system similar to Maryland’s.
The British counterdraft of the ship liquor and Hanor in transit treaty is in the State Department, after delivery by British charge d affaires Henry G. Chilton. Officials declined to discuss the contents, noting no texts have been published, while the exchange signals a step forward in talks.
New York reports President Coolidge’s clemency order text was not released, leaving Comptroller Charles L. Craig silent on accepting any pardon. Friends doubted whether he would accept, as his contempt of court sentence loomed from Federal Judge Meyer amid ongoing uncertainty.
The deadlock over the House Speaker is broken and Mr. Gillett will be elected today on the first ballot. Longworth and La Follette insurgent leaders sign a pact. the rules committee will study revision for 30 days with old rules remaining in effect. A presidential message is anticipated tomorrow as Congress faces pending adjudication.
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