Outlook for Next Nine Months Sees Trouble for Party
Washington essay by Mark Sullivan surveys mood in Congress and party leaders. Republicans fear anti incumbency momentum from 1924 to 1928 and possible defeat influencing long term power. Democrats worry about factional splits on prohibition and Ford influence as division widens within the party. The piece notes a nine month congressional recess may ease tensions, but broad skepticism about Harding era prospects persists.
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Mark Sullivan
Washington, D. C
Harding
Congress
Senate
House
Jose
Ower
Henry Ford
Johnson
Washington
Hiram Johnson
Meni
Mr. Harding
Human Fly Falls to Death in Broadway Climb
Thousands watched as Harry F Young known as the human fly fell from the Martinique hotel wall. He began his ascent at street level and vanished into the eighth to ninth floor area before tumbling to the pavement. Police and medics reported instant death with severe injuries.
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Cinternational News Wire
New York
Broadway
Thirty-second Street
Harry IF. Young
Martinique Hotel
Young
Courier Home Delivery Cutoff Notice
The notice informs readers the Courier should be delivered before 5:30 PM. If the carrier or another cause delays you may call 5100. a replacement copy will be sent. Call reach offices before 6:30 PM.
Philadelphia Police Round Up 1,600 Motorists
PhiladelphiaPolice conducted a weekend motor vehicle law round up arresting over 1,600 motorists following a general order by Supt Mills. The action came after Henry G Brock, a wealthy clubman and banker, was arrested and bailed at 35,000 for running down and killing three people as they alighted from a streetcar. Two men and a boy died in a separate motor accident and a 6 year old, Alexander Kerdelos Sr, died from injuries after being struck by an automobile. Six people were injured in other accidents.
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Philadelphia
Police Mills
Henry G. Brock
Liberty
Alexander Kerdelos
Bomb Attack Hits British Headquarters in Cairo
In Cairo on March 5 an Egyptian war killed and three British soldiers wounded after two unidentified natives on a car hurled bombs at the British headquarters. Military intelligence communications were threatened with disruption, marking the third such outrage in three weeks.
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Cairo
Britigh
Robbed Treasurer of Movie House Helps Bandit Carry Loot
A lone bandit robbed the Newman theatre in Kansas City Missouri of ten thousand dollars cash. Treasurer Gus Eyssell, forced to help carry the loot, handed over receipts and accompanied the bandit to a taxi before they fled toward the suburbs. The bandit claimed the bag was too heavy and promised to return in an hour.
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Kansas City
Newman Theatre
Gus Eyssell
Eyssell
Russell
Cyclone Causes $206,000 Damage in Missouri
St Joseph Mo March 5 A cyclone last night ripped through business and residential districts causing about 206000 in damage. Eight people were injured though not in serious condition as the storm swept from the southwest after striking Mosby and caused damage in Kansas City Troy and Hiawatha Kansas.
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St. Joseph
Mosby
Kansas City
Troy
Hiawatha
Kan
Tutankhamun coffin found empty shocks Paris
Paris dispatch reports Tutankhamun's 3000 year old tomb inner chamber opened by Carnarvon expedition, but an anonymous French Egyptologist claims the mummy was removed earlier. He alleges Carnarvon postponed internal investigation to avoid failure amid publicity. The source notes skepticism and mocks the publicity surrounding the find.
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Paris
Hesatle
Belgium
Lord Carnarvon
Egypt
McNary declines post as comptroller amid charges made public
Washington reports that James G. McNary, nominated for comptroller of the currency, refused to accept the post after Senate rejection. Senator Couzens released charges from a lengthy Banking Committee probe alleging McNary's extensive loans from his El Paso bank and loans to officers and related entities, questioning his fitness for the high office.
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Washington, D. C
James G. McNary
New Mexico
Senate
Harding
DB. RL Crissinger
Federal Reserve Board
Milo D. Campbell
Michigan
Reserve Board
McNary
White House
Texas
James Cousens
MccNary
el Paso
Tex
Senate Banking and Currency Committee
Couzens
Natonal Bank of
Caesar
Organize Grand Jury to Weigh Testimony in Kian Death Cases
Attorney General A V W Coco presented state testimony to the Morehouse parish grand jury in Bostrop Louisiana. The hearing covered kidnappings floggings and other offenses by masked bands last summer linked to the slayings of Watt Daniel and T F Richard. Officials expected the day to organize the grand jury and receive the judge's charges.
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Bostrop
Marchto
A. V W. Coco
Morehouse, Parish
Watt Daniel
T. F. Richard
President Extends Custodian Powers Over Alien Property
President Harding signed an order giving the alien property custodian all powers from the new act to return seized property to former enemies up to ten thousand dollars. The custodian may withdraw money or property from the treasury with interest and income and use it for payments under the act.
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Washington, D. C
Harding
Treasury
Ex Kaiser Wilhelm to Have Add to Family Says London Paper
Ex Kaiser Wilhelm of Hohenzollern expects an addition to his family in a few months and wishes his bride to go to the Island of Corfu for the event as reported by the Daily Chronicle's special correspondent today.
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Kaiser
London
Kaiser Wilhelm of
Hohenzollern
Corfu
Daily Chronicle
Reno's Two Courts Unhitch Total of 742 Couples in '22
Tana Nev March 6 The two district courts of Washoe county with Reno as county seat granted a total of 742 divorces in 1922 per federal census figures. Cruelty cited in 296 cases, De Berlion next with 226, and failure to provide listed third.
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Reno
Tana
Nev
Washoe County
Meno
de Berlion
Fumigating Gases Kill Family of 6
Six people died and many exposed as lethal fumes from a pesticide used to halt rats and roaches leaked from a restaurant into adjoining apartments above. The operation, led by O Wall, is tied to the National Hygienic Corporation of Buffalo. a man claiming to head the firm was detained for questioning. Victims include William Kratzenberg and Mary Kratzenberg and their family. multiple other relatives died or were endangered in Cedar Falls and Chicago.
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United Press
Chicago
March
O. Wall
Dunning Insane Asylum
National Hygienic Corporation of Buffalo
William Kratzenberg
Mary Kratzenberg
Sohn Kratzenberg
Laura
Zimmanski
Henry Zimmanski
Iareld
Edward Cooper
Albert la Pelt
Gala Fish
Cooper
la Pelt
Cedar
Falla
Cedar. Falls
West
Yarco
No Sins
Whitney Weds Miss Marie Norton Abroad
Paris March 5 The fashionably noted wedding of Miss Marie Norton of New York to Cornelius Vanderbit Whitney son of Mr and Mrs Harry Payne Whitney took place today in Paris The event highlighted sculptured gowns as a key style with Mrs Whitney and bridesmaids in statuesque gowns Frances Norton and Whitney among the bridesmaids
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Paris
Marie Norton
New York
Cornelius Vanderbit Whitney
Harry
Payne Whitney
Cornelius: Vanderbilt
Slayer, Fugitive Since 1898 Seeks US Home
Elyria Ohio March 5 A man calling himself Ole Hull appeared at the West Broad Street homestead with a crippled companion and left. Coroner notified after the sick man died. The occupant is believed to be John Hull, who disappeared in December 1893 the day after his wife was murdered in Cleveland. Hull’s sister Miss Jada Hull has kept the home, and the stranger urged care as he claimed to need a physician, but refused to seek help. Hull and his wife separated in 1893 and his wife’s stabbing death in Cleveland remains unsolved, with Hull’s fate long sought.
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Presa
Elyria
Hye
Hull
West Broad Strreet
Perry
John Hull
Cleveland
Jada Hull
Hulf
Trulf
Presidential Train Leaves at Noon for Florida Trip
Subpoenas issued to Attorney General Daugherty, Lasker, and John Horton Payne sparked a bid to haul them from Washington for a wartime ship contract trial. The presidential party, including Mrs Harding, moved to safety after a brief White House departure, boarding the special train to Ormond Florida.
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Associated Progad
Washington, D. C
Naugherty
Chalmaan Lasker
The
Shipping Board
John Horton Payne
Red Cross
Washington
Ifarding
Florida
W. Morse
New York
United States Marshal’s Office
Lasker
Morse
Payne
Ormond
Pia
Daugherty
Department of Justice
Congress
Union Station
White House
Soldier Insurance Extended to Cover Further Disability
In Washington D C March 5 the Senate passed a bill extending war risk insurance to broaden disability presumptions and benefits. Tubercular and neuro psychiatric diseases arising within three years of discharge will be treated as service related, qualifying veterans for hospitalization and compensation. Hospitals under the veterans bureau will be open to veterans of the Civil War Spanish American War and World War I with government transport to facilities at no cost.
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Ington
D. C
Senate
Veterans Bureau
Pinchot Nephew Wins in Willesden Byelection
London reports Johnstone, 26, son of Lady Johnstone, defeated Col. G F Stanley undersecretary of home affairs in the Willesden east byelection. He is one of the house's youngest members and half American through his mother who is married to Sir Alan Johnstone. Lady Johnstone led the campaign.
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London
Harcourt Johnstone
G. F. Stanley
Home Affairs
Willesden
House of Commons
Alan Johnstone
Gifford Pinchot
Pennsylvania
Johnstone
Lady Johnstone
Abe Martin Becomes Postmaster General in Washington
Harry S. New, nicknamed Abe Martin, arrives at the U S Capitol and accepts the postmaster general role under the tall Treasury building. He greets visitors in his easy manner and declines to reveal his plans, joking about critics and the "Index."
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United Press
Washington, D. C
Abe Martin
Harry S. New
Capitol
Postofice Department
New
Ife
Albert Work
Interior
Dickens
Germany buys up U.S. Shipping Board fleet, London says
London reports Germany has acquired a large portion of the United States Shipping Board fleet following Harding subsidy defeat. The Hariman group is said to have secured six combined passenger and cargo steamers for North German Lloyd, and Hugo Stinnes reportedly bought 12 vessels from the Shipping Board fleets serving Baltic and Mediterranean routes.
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London
Germany
United States Shipping Boards
Harding
Daily
Mat
Northclife
Harriman Group
North German Lloyd Company
Hugo Stinnes Hag
Shipping Board
Mediterranean
Pilot of Fallen Air Bomber Badly Hurt
Major Fot lett Bradley, injured in yesterday’s Army bomber crash that killed Lieut. Stanley Smith, remained in serious condition at a hospital. The Martin bomber Bradley piloted fell from 5000 feet in Brooklyn en route to Chanute Field from Mitchell Field. Four enlisted men escaped serious injury.
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New York
Fotlett Bradley
Stanley Smith
Maj. Bradley
Brooklyn
Channie Field
Rantoul
Mitchell Field
Coolness of Two Gilg Saves 300 in Theatre Fire
New York March 5 Nearly 260 persons escaped a blaze at the Crystal Balmotion theatre due to the actions of Miss Soleen Thompson organist and Miss Olga Buchinger cashier. Buchinger saved receipts and kittens, directed patrons to exits as the fire raged two and a half hours, while manager N Schafer battled flames until overcome. Firemen faced smoke and heat. the incident ended with many lives saved.
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YY United Presay
New York
Theate Tate
Soleen Thompson
Buchinger
Olga
Buchingering
Miss Thompson
N. Schaafer
Krupps Employes Pledge Loyalty at Secret Jubilee
Essen reports reveal Krupp workers 1040 attendees pledged loyalty to the Krupps at a secret jubilee. Bertha Krupp-Bohlen attended with her family as 5000 gathered. diamond pins given, funds avoided to preempt French seizures.
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D. Wey
Essen
Opyright
sCrupp Works
Frau Bertha Krupp-Bohlen
International News Service
Dr. Krupp von Bohlen Halbach
Germany
Sertha Krupp-Hohlen
Bether
Ali
Ndter
Gen
DeGoutts
Bertha Krupp-Bohlen
Stupp von” Bohlen Halbach
Krupp
Krupps
Sach
Ruhr
Prench
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