U S Seeks to Guard Canal From Planes At Pan American Talks
At Havana the United States proposed changes to Pan American aviation agreements to permit two or more states to prohibit flights over strategic canal areas for military reasons. The plan aims to protect the Panama Canal and naval bases, with amendments to define fortified zones and extend control over routes for foreign as well as national aircraft.
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Havana
United States
Panama Canal
Communications Committee
Panama
Latin America
Pan-American Congress
Salvator
Committee On Intellectual Co-Operation
Hector Castro
Salvador
Henry P. Fletcher
Italy
Guantanama
Cuba
Naval Base
Inter-American Commercial Aviation Commission
Washington
Central America
Hoover delegate drive gains momentum in New York
A campaign to elect delegates pledged to Herbert Hoover's Republican presidential nomination began in New York state today. The effort aims to secure support for Hoover at the party convention.
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New York
Herbert Hoover
New York State
Vanderbilt Jr Surrenders Heritage to Meet Debts
Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr announces he has turned over his heritage to satisfy creditors in Reno. He accuses family members and says his attorneys are arranging a final settlement of his newspaper interests. He cites about 1.25 million dollars in debt and pleads for his father Gen. Vanderbilt not to interfere.
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Reno
Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr
Gen. Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt
Senators Bonds Under Joint Resolution Proposed in Senate
Washington January 24 A joint Senate resolution by Senator Prazier would authorize a public inventory of stock and bond holdings of the president, all cabinet officers, and all senators and representatives An emphasis targets holdings in electric companies as part of a broader sweep on industrial, railroad, banking, shipping, mining and other core corporations in the last two years Also noting the death of Talcott Williams a prominent newspaper man and former head of the Pulitzer School of Journalism at Columbia University at age 79 in New York.
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Washington, D. C
INS
United States
Senate
Prazier
North Dakota
Power, Trust
Democratic-insurgent Coalition
New York, Nan
Talcott Williams
Pulitzer School of Journalism
Columbia University
Northwest Winds Spread Fresh Midwest Winter Snow
Northwest gales sweep east from the Rockies bringing a new cold wave with heavy snow in the Midwest. Temperatures shift from 39 degrees at dawn to around 11 degrees tonight and colder by tomorrow as cold air pours into the region.
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Chicago
Dan
Ward Lad
Rockies
Marines Push Forward Against Sandino Rebellion in Nicaragua
Managua reported definite headway toward suppressing Gen. Augustine Sandino's revolt as 1,000 U.S. Marines join frontline forces to target scattered rebel bands. Couriers say Sandino's main force is breaking into small groups with few remaining in El Chipotle. aerial bombardments had wounded him, and engagements remain isolated rather than pitched battles.
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Managua
Nicaragua
INS
Augustine Sanding
United States Marine
Sandino
el Chipotle
Jadwin Explains Flood Curb Plan Before House Panel
Maj Gen Jadwin chief of army engineers outlines the administration flood relief plan. He says security and Mississippi utilization drive the program and that a levees only policy has proved ineffective. He favors broader measures beyond simply raising levees.
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Washington, D. C
Mississippi
ABC
Jadwin
Army Engineers
House
Patrolman Gearhart Faces Commission Over Drunken Taxi Tour
Des Moines reports Patrolman Earl Gearhart admitted to being drunk in a taxi after claiming he had drinks at a physician's suggestion. Witnesses testified he chartered a taxi with a lady friend and directed the driver in a costly tour.
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Des Moines
Civil Service Commission
Earl Gearhart
Gearhart
Bryan withdraws from Nebraska primary ballot
Former Nebraska governor Charles W. Bryan directed Secretary of State Marsh to remove his name from the Democratic presidential preference primary ballot at the pending election in Lincoln Nebraska.
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Lincoln
Nebdan
Charles W. Bryan
Nebraska
Marsh
Give Us Our Market A Slogan For American Agriculture
National Grange Master in Washington urges a domestic market as the key to farming prosperity. Dean Curtiss of Iowa State College argues prices rise with equal access to the American market and promotes an export debenture plan as a path to fair competition. Also: three Sioux City firefighters injured by a furnace explosion while responding to an oil burner incident.
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Chicago
United States
Dean C. F. Curtiss
Iowa State College
Curtiss
Dean Curtiss
Washington, D. C
McNary-Haugen
National Grange
Agriculture Committee
Altho
Representative Jones
Texas
Louis J.taber
Taber
Grange
Treasury Department
Congress
TURES
Sioux City
Congress Today Senate Takes Up Jones Shipments Bill
Senate opens hearings on the Jones ship shipments bill while the Public Lands Committee begins Teapot Dome inquiry. Interstate Commerce resumes Walsh resolution on power industry, and other committees tackle Muscles Shoals and the 1980 census with various hearings.
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Senate
Jones
Public Lands Committer
Interstate Ecommerce Committee
Walsh Resoluion
We Power Industry
Agriculture Committee
Flood Centre
Jadwin
Army Engineers
Military Affairs Committee
Elections Committee No
Beck
Census Committee
Senator-Elect Vare pleads for dismissal in election contest
The plea of Senator-Elect Vare of Pennsylvania for dismissal of the contest brought by Democrat William B. Wilson was heard yesterday by the Senate privileges and elections committee. Vare contends Wilson's complaint is insufficient to warrant a recount of the ballots.
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Washington, D. C
Vare
Pennsylvania
William B. Wilson
Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
Wilson
Dubuque Police Puzzles Over $980 Theft at Station
In Dubuque Virginia a theft of $980 from the police station safe remains unresolved. Officer Ben Meyer was dismissed for allegedly not cooperating with investigators. The money allegedly belonged to dairyman Ben Sherman and disappeared after New Year’s Eve.
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Dubuque
Josh
Toro
Jong
Ben Sherman
Chamberlin Lands at Middletown on National Flight Stop
Clarence Chamberlin famed trans Atlantic flyer landed at Middletown Airport at 11 26 a m ninety miles east of Allentown after leaving Allentown The Sperry Messenger biplane averaged about 75 miles an hour in perfect weather Three escort planes from Harrisburg failed to meet him Tomorrow he starts for Altoona the third leg of his 30000 mile tour for commercial aviation.
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Middletown
Harrisburg
Pan
Clarence Chamberlin
Allentown
Here
Sperry Messenger
Chamberlin
Atlona
Prairie reminiscence locates barber family farms
Judge H. Be Boies recalls pioneer residence in town with Prairie chickens roosting in cottonwort trees near the west library site. He notes his grandfather Dr. P. J. Barber lived there and owned a Hudson road farm where the Sam P. Hoover home now sits, with deer seen in the nearby lowland.
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West Library
Judge H. Be Boies
P. J. Barber
Prohibition Enforcement Claims Higher Efficiency
The treasury statement cites a 40 percent efficiency rise in prohibition enforcement over the past year based on Dr. J. M. Doran figures. He urges civil service reform to allow a second exam for 75 percent of city agents who failed the first test, noting 6,468 distilleries and 6,408 stills seized between July and November, plus 31,872 arrests and 3,110 automobiles seized.
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Washington, D. C
INS
The
Treasury Today
J. M. Doran
Prohibition
Civil Service
Ciry
Doran
Ford flivver starts endurance flight to Florida from Detroit
Ford Motor pilot Harry Brooks lifts off from Ford Airport at 7 15 a m on a non stop endurance flight to Miami. The five cylinder engine roared to life as the plane carried 50 gallons of gasoline and five gallons of oil. Brooks hopes to finish the trip in about 15 hours.
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ATR
Clarence Chamberlin
Sperry
Harry Brooks
Ford
Jeff
Detroit
Miami
Fach Dev
Ford Airport
Mich
Ford Motor Company
Brooks
Evangelline Lindbergh
Mexico City
Cal. Charles
A. Lindbergh
Goolidge Sees No Cause For Fright
Hackensack N J Jan 24 Inspector reports Sheriff Donaldson dropped a grand larceny complaint against Bert Acosta the trans Atlantic flyer after a $3500 attachment for electrical work on his Fokker monoplane. Acosta took the plane and fled to an unknown destination. President Coolidge commented on naval officer warnings of war with US and its competitors amid congressional appropriation debates.
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Hackensack
INS
Heriff
George Donaldson
Bert Acosta
trans-Atlantic Flier
Acosta
Washington, D. C
Coolidge
United “States
White Houses
Plunkett
Congress
Army
Navy
Thirteen Indictments Returned by Lin County Grand Jury
Thirteen indictments were returned this afternoon before Judge H B Boies. Names include John Ash for assault with intent to murder, Joseph Drain a negro charged with assault with intent to murder, Harold Frisby for carrying concealed weapons breaking and entering and larceny from a filling station, Hannibal and Della Davis for daytime larceny from a store, Clifford Johnson for illegal possession of narcotics. Others indicted were not in custody.
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Lin
H. B. Boies
John Ash
Assant
Doseph Drain
Harold Frisby
Hannibal
Della Davis
Clifford Johnson
Courier Delivery Rules and Late Paper Policy
The notice instructs readers that the Courier arrives before 5 30. If the paper is late due to carrier error or other cause readers should call 5100 for a replacement copy. The deadline for phone calls is 6 50 p m.
Everhart details bonds tied to Teapot Dome probe
M T Everhart son in law of former Interior Secretary Albert Fall testified before the Senate public lands committee about $198 000 paid by Harry F Sinclair after Fall leased the Teapot Dome reserve. He said he delivered the money to Fall in New Mexico, linked to reorganizing Fall's estate. The hearing opened with few witnesses and focus on the 230 500 in Liberty bonds and the fate of profits from the Canadian concern.
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M.T. Everhart
Albert B. Pall
Senate Oil Investigation Committee
Walsh
Montana
Leso
Teapot Dome Naval Oil Reserve
Harry F. Sinclair
Everhart
Congress
Washington, D. C
SPM
Unterter Fall
Senate Public Lands Committee
Marry F. Sinclair
Fall
Sinclair
Everhad
Ite
Washington
Simelatt
New Mexico
Fail
M.T. Everhar
Pueblo
Cole
Heter
Albert
Pall
Senate
Byers
Liberty
Dome Naval Oil
Harry Sinclair
Sos
E. C. Graham
Standard
Company of Indiana
A. C. Downing
New. York
John Mooney
Blair & Company
New York
Albert B. Fall
Teapot Dome
Jack
Ore Altho Everhart
Continental ‘Trading Company, Ltd
Canadian Corporation
Extings
Robert W. Stewart
Standard Oi Company
Indiana
H.M. Blackmer
Midwest Refining Company
James E. O'Neil
Prairie Oil & Gas Co
Banker's Wife to Face Trial Alone
Mrs Heptonstall, wife of former Perry banker M Hep tonstall, faces trial for criminal libel alone as her husband cannot be extradited from Sheffield Alabama. She is accused of writing and distributing a circular containing libelous statements about Oscar Wood, Perry former bank director.
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Perry
Man
Jolntly
M. Heptonstall
Lbel
Heptonstall
Sheffield
Ala
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