Daugherty Resignation Debate Shapes 1924 Politics
Washington dispatch analyzes efforts to push Attorney General Daugherty from Coolidge's cabinet. It outlines White House pressures to stay amid unproven charges, the Ohio political line, and the risk of partisan grounds undermining the presidency and party unity.
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Mark Sullivan
Washington
D.C
Daugherty
Coolidge
Harding
Ohio
Mr. Harding
Mr. Daugherty
Daugherty Strong
Republican Party
Feng
Fess
Willis
Delivery notice for Courier before 5 30 each day
The Courier will be delivered to homes before 5 30. If the paper is not received by that time due to sorter error or other cause, call 5100 and a copy will be sent. Phone calls should reach the office before 6 80 p m.
Texas Troops Guard Lufkin After Lynching Attempt
Lufkin Texas quiet after an aborted lynching attempt of Booker T. McMillan alias Williams held in Angelina county jail on murder charges tied to the slaying of Andy Sulser a sawmill commissary clerk. The 143rd Texas National Guard unit from Nacogdoches arrived to man the jail perimeter.
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Lufkin
Tex
Booker T. McMillan
Williams
Angelina County
Andy Sulser
One Hundred Forty-third Infantry
Texas National Guard
Nacogdoches
U. H. Mm
McAilen
Military Reviewers Finish Leavenworth Penitentiary Cases
Majors Frank K. Ross and James Stansfield closed hearings at Leavenworth penitentiary and will report in April on 227 soldier prisoners. They then moved to Fort Leavenworth to review records of two inmates at the United States disciplinary barracks.
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Leavenworth
Kan
Frank K. Ross
James Stansfield
War Department
Leavenworth Penitentiary
United States Disciplinary Barracks
Fort Leavenworth
Iowa editors see Haiti on transport trip
Port au Prince Haiti February 28 The visit of the transport Henderson carrying owners and publishers of newspapers from the Midwest and Southwest is the most notable since the United States intervened in 1915 The party included Frank B Noyes president of the Associated Press former Senator Lafayette Young of the Des Moines Capital and Iowa editors They met President Louis Borno in the capital witnessed a parade by the native gendarmerie and many toured inland before sailing for Santo Domingo City en route to naval maneuvers at Culebra
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Associated Press
Port Au Prince
Haiti
Heb
Henderson
Middlewestern
United States
Frank B. Noyes
Lafayette Young
Des Moines
Iowa
Louis Borno
Santo Domingo
Culebra
Double Pig Girdle and Necklace for Earth Killed in ’23
Washington, Feb. 23. A double file of hogs around the world at the equator and a single unbroken line from the north pole to the south end of South America illustrate the department of agriculture's graphic depiction of America's hog slaughter last year. The statisticians calculate 81,532,600 hogs killed for consumption would reach 61,770 miles if placed end to end, four feet per hog.
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Washington, D. C
North Pole
South America
Department of Agriculture of America
Cable Briefs International News Wire
Funeral for Mrs. Louis Selfridge, mother of H Gordon Selfridge, held at St. Mark's Church. Burial at High Cliffe church yard in Hampshire. Spain hit by a cold wave with snowstorms. Nearly seven feet of snow in Catalina.
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International News Wire
Condon
Louis Selfridge
H. Gordon Selfridge
Chicago
St. Mark's Church
High Cliffe Church Yard
Hampshire
Barcelona
Spain
Tajay
Catalina
Nebraska Sues To Oust Oil Firms Under Monopoly Act
Nebraska Attorney General Spillman filed a district court suit alleging a price fixing conspiracy among refining firms in Omaha. He seeks to oust foreign corporations including Standard Oil Indiana, Sinclair, National Refining, Manhattan Oil, Shaffer, Texas, Tidal, and Texaco, and to dissolve firms placed in trustees’ hands.
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Omaha
Neb
O. S. Spillman Obainkt
Standard ON Company
Indiana
Sinclinir Refining Company
The
National Refining Company
Manhattan O3 Company
Shaffer Oil & Refining Co
Texas Company
Tidal Refining Company
Texaco Company
Towa May Send 3 700 Boys to Army Camps
Chicago Tech 23 locations quotas and dates for citizens military training camps in 1924 were announced. The seventh corps area including Iowa has a 3 700 boy quota at Fort Snelling Fort Des Moines and Fort Leavenworth from August 1 to 30. A minimum of 28 000 boys aged 17 to 24 are expected to attend.
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Chicago
Tech
The
Military Training Camps Association
Seventh Corps
Iowa
Pore Snelling
Minn
Fort Des Moines
Fort Leavenworth
Kan
Spencer Postmaster Names New Assistant at Office
February 28 report from Spencer states C G Rankin, longtime local post office employee, has been named assistant postmaster by Postmaster KE Render. Miss Elia Bowman, who held the position 22 years, is involved in the transition.
Manchester Youth Held Pending Probe of Negro Lad's Death
In Manchester Indiana 4 year old Charles Cornwell, a white boy, is held for investigation after Jimmie Carson, a 4 year old black boy, was found dead in woods. Cornwell gave conflicting stories and was last seen with Carson. An autopsy and inquest will follow under County Attorney Yoram. Carson was son of Henry Carson, a dry cleaning shop owner.
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Cedar Rapids
Fen
Immie Carson
Manchester
Tate
Charles Cornwell
Cornwell
Yoram
Jimmie
Henry Carson
Iis
Inquest Planned in Dubuque Woman Death
Dubuque Feb 28 The coroner will hold an inquest over Mrs. Frank Latenser 56 who died from injuries after an automobile driven by William Hansen, a wealthy commission merchant, skidded and struck her as she walked roadside Hansen faces charges of careless driving witnesses say the accident was unavoidable
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Warren T. McCray
Indiana
Indianapalis
Supreme Court of the United States
Fr.c. Walton
Oklahoma
Woodrow Wilson
Margaret Woodrow Wilson
Gifford Pinchot
Pennsylvania
New York
A. Mitchell Palmer
United States
Wilson
Southern Pacific Railway
Dubuque, Ta
Frank Latenser
William Hansen
Hansen
Polt
Cattle and Hogs Destroyed as California Fights Epizootic
Dozens of ranches report hoof and mouth disease across California as state and federal officials start drastic eradication. Stray dogs and cats in infected areas ordered killed. Secretary Wallace seeks federal appropriation as measures extend to milk and cream cans.
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Oakland
Cal
California
Joo. Richardson
Washington
Wallace
Congress
Express
Daugherty Plans to Leave Cabinet Amid Probe
Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty arrived in Chicago amid a Senate investigation into the Veterans Bureau. He refused to comment publicly and said he would stay on in government business, aiming to finish matters before possibly joining his wife in Miami. Brig. Gen. Charles K. Sawyer accompanied him.
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rLtional News
Wireton
BD. O
Ene
Harry M. Dauggherty
Tuser Blanel
Senate
Despartment Af
Chicago
James B. Witsai
Coolidge
Bior
Associated Press
Larry M. Daugherty
United States
Federal Grand Jury
Veterans’ Bureau
Washington
Daughterty
Senate Oil Committee
Miami
Fia
Xenarat
Department of Justice
Veterius
Federal
Sawyer
Charles KE. Sawyer
Charles J. Forbes
Harding
Senate Veterans’ Committee
Edwards urges Thorp investigation of dry law agencies
Senator Edwards, of New Jersey, urged a Senate inquiry into federal enforcement agencies amid debate over the accidental shooting of Senator Greene in Vermont during a bootlegger chase. He backed a resolution for the Judiciary Committee to probe agency efficiency and the Prohibition Bureau amid charges from reform supporters.
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Washington
Greene
Vermont
National Prohibition Department
Edward Democrat
New Jersey
Senate
Nuch
Edwards
Senate Judiciary Committee
Forty one pirates sentenced to death in Canton
Canton China Feb 28 Forty one pirates were sentenced to death for attacking the steamer Kwonetka near Hongkong Jan 20. They were captured in a lawnel after a battle with a revenue cutter. Two months later members of the Iraud were sentenced to 19 years imprisonment. TWO PACE MURDER TRIAL Hutchinson Kan Feb 8 Dr Kenn B Ubis and Frank Leonard were held for trial on murder charges in the killing of William Gibbs, wealthy recluse, on Dec 29.
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Canton
China
Hongkong
Nm Tembers
Iraud
Pace
Hutchinson
Kan
Kenn B. Ubis
Frank Leonard
William Gibbs
Insurgent Demand Shifts Tax Schedule in Revenue Bill
Washington dispatch reports Republican insurgents and Democrats negotiating over tax rates in a revenue bill. Insurgents threaten to back elimination of the Democratic income tax structure while seeking a normal rate framework. Key figures include Longworth and Representative Tongzel with debates over rates for incomes under and over $4,000. The vote stood 222 to 129 as leaders pressed for a definite plan.
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Alby
Washington
Longworth
Ind
Jasekent
Ohio
Lvacsdur
Clothes His Wife with Fence Posts and Goes to Jail
Fresno Gal Seb 28 A J Marcel plead guilty to petty larceny for taking 100 fence posts valued at 26 dollars from a neighbor to provide for his wife. He told Justice of the Peace J Church he needed them and was sentenced to 20 days in jail.
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Fresno
Gal
A. J. Marcel
Barle J. Church
Justice of the Peace
Nday
Welfare League head to resign March 15 in Waterloo
Mrs. Dorothy Taylor will resign as superintendent of the Waterloo Social Welfare League effective March 15. Helena Hughes of Ames will replace her, after Taylor’s cabinet role aided by the League’s expanded social work and the new eye ear nose and throat clinic. Bragdon, league president, calls the move a regretful but progressive shift while noting no other staffing changes.
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Helena Hughes, Ames
Taylor
Dorothy Taylor
Waterloo Social Welfare
J. Bragdon
League Board
Helena
Hughes
Ames
Milse
Social Service League
Board of Supervisors
Osituloosa
Mm Qs
Kuleasa
Bragdon
Welfare League
Waterloo
Ars
Paylor
Personnet of
Aqua
Legislature Lacks Quorum, Adjourns to March Fifth
State Capital, Bes Moines, Feb. 1. Both houses of the general assembly adjourned after failing to reach a quorum. Absentees left yesterday, and with clear calendars little business was possible. An insurance investigation by a special Senate committee halted until the next hearing in March.
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Bes Moines
General Assembly
Senate
Laddie Boy Poet Smith Ends His Life in Tacoma
Eliot Smith, 54, a naturalist poet and engineer, hanged himself in Tacoma Washington, claiming illness made him a burden to his wife. An intimate friend of Richard Harding Davis, Smith authored several poems and last fall published "Laddie Boy" about President Harding's dog. He had been confined for nine months.
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Tacoma
Wash
Eliot
Smith
Richard Harding Davis
Harding
Father Takes Baby When Mother's Gone
Des Moines reports Jack Anthony saying he would not be without his baby after a separation. He then abducted three year old Fred Anthony while the mother visited neighbors. Police hunted for Anthony and the child with no immediate result.
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Des Moines
Jack Anthony
Pearl Anthony
Fred Anthony
Anthony
Forty Congressmen Seek Bills Legalizing 2 3 Beer
Forty members of the House announced they will introduce next week bills to legalize manufacture and sale of beverages with 2.75 percent alcohol by volume. The letter, sent to all members, calls others to join the effort to modify the Volstead Act.
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Washington
D. C
Critten
Grown
New Jersey
Newbrumm
Cellar
Incendiary Suspect Starts Hunger Strike
Anton Hart, a 19 year old suspect tied to 13 incendiary fires, began a hunger strike in the local jail. Jailers report he has refused all sustenance for two days while state and city marshals pursue further investigation. he denies involvement.
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Des Moines
Peb
Anton Hart
Hart
Ile
McAdoo to Tour Missouri in Fight Against Reed
New York feb 28 William G McAdoo will go to Missouri to answer attacks by Senator Reed campaign manager Judge David T Rockwell of Ohio announced today Arrangements for the trip are being made and McAdoo will invade Reed s home state before March 8
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New York
Wiliam G. McAdoo
Missouri
Senator Reed
David T. Rockwell
Ohio
McAdoo
Reed
Secret session in Ludendorff high treason trial
Munich February 25 The first secret session of the Ludendorff HittJer high treason trial was held as Lieut. Cal Herman Kriebel testified. Kriebel, anti French, recalled his Spa trip after the 1918 collapse and his encounter with insulted Germans. Much of his testimony repeated prior Hittier uprising details and Munich events from November 5.
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Munich
Fev
Cal
Herman Kriebel
Kriebel
Spa
Senate Telegrams Tie Doheny Sinclair to Tax Records
Washington blames a Senate oil inquiry for expanding into new telegrams between McLean, Doheny, Sinclair, and others. A Mitchell Palmer is summoned to testify as lawmakers press for tax records and possible discovery act refunds amid mentions of Underwood and Willis. The panel reads telegrams, discusses Peabody and Palm Beach testimonies, and plans further action pending tomorrow.
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Associated Press
Washington
D. C
Elf
Edward S. Mclean
Senate
E- 1
Doheny
Harry S. Sinclair
McLean
Florida
A. Mitchell Palmer
Wilson
Stersons
Meo
James
Yero Underwood
Willis
Walsh
Mantua
Underwood
Ohio
Wis
McKellar
Tennessee
President Coolidge
Oil Committee
Sinclair
A. B. Fal
Moses
Republian
New Hampshire
Ascangler
Kieg
Utah
Treasury
Mcfean
Kari ¢. Schuyler
Denver
Denver Group
Teapot Dome
EB. B.mclean
Washington Post
Palm Beach
Geteral
Monttana
Alabama
Montana
Congressional
Palmer
Senator Underwood
Bennett
Gome
John Major
Washington McLean
Smithers
Whits Frouse
Colusan
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Daugherty Republican Organization
Attorneyeneral
Doughne
MrsWood
Wilsore
Ittelies
Margaret Wilson
Gibberdt
Texas
Martin Invinelbie
Kreath
San Felira Cigars
Lic
Earth
Cable Briefs
Nebraska
Towa
Spencer
Negro Lad
Dubuque
VET Bureau
Sen. Edwards
Thorp
Wos
Repub- Teas
Savertoery
Dumoewits
Treagon
Udendorff
Star Chamber
Doheny, Sinclair
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