Daugherty Denies Graft Claims In Hearings
Attorney General Daugherty issued four statements denying Miss Roxie Stinson's graft accusations and related claims. He called her testimony unreliable and said Means’ account would get full attention once concluded. He rejected any improper tie to a western oil deal or prize fight film showings and defended DOJ actions under Wheeler’s file.
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Gaston BoAsf
Seayate
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Anind Sabant
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Means
Wheeler
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Texas
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John DN. Hartitan
Atlornes
Japan Contests for Saghalien Oil Deposits Amid Occupation
Tokyo reports Sinclair oil interests press Saghalien oil lands dispute between Sinclair Oil and Japan sees forest lands in the Rus sian-claimed half of the island. Officials expect eventual exploration by Japanese rather than Americans. Government acknowledges Russian sovereignty in northern Saghalien while maintaining military occupation as a guarantee after the Nika leievekinw massacre.
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Mareh
Sinclair
Saghalien
Sinclair Corporation
Japan
Rusat
Sag Halien
Ruhr
Nikaleievekinw
Police Chief’s Fight Turns Political in Des Moines
In Des Moines the clash between Commissioner of Safety John MacVicar and Police Chief John Hammond widens after MacVicar’s order led to the arrest of detective Steve Howard. Hammond resigned in protest of the dismissal deemed unwarranted for alleged property destruction during a raid on a liquor establishment. Local politicians warn the dispute could ignite the upcoming city election and Hammond signals readiness to influence the outcome.
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Des Moines
Maresh
John MacVicar
John Hammond
MacVicars
Steve Howard
Howard
Hammond
MacVicar
Earthquake Detected Across Georgetown Campus Morn
An earthquake about 5900 miles away from Washington was recorded early today on the Georgetown University seismograph. Shocks began at 5:44 a m eastern standard time, peaked at 6:21 and ended at 6:90, described as rather pronounced by Father Tondorff the seismologist on duty.
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Washington, D.C
Washington
Georgetown University
Tondorff
Protection Plot in Fight Film Showing Baved by Witness
In Washington hearings Senator Wheeler pressed witnesses on a plan to show prize fight films legally in multiple states. Quinby admitted to suggesting a distribution scheme involving lawyers in each state and payments tied to exhibition, while noting limited state reach and prior fines. Deputy figures cited include Edward B. McLean’s circle and connections to Attorney General Daugherty.
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Senaor Wheeler
Mima
Urion
Daugherty
Mama
Mumia
Hon
Muma
New York
Grookhart
Quinty
Senator Jones
Quintry
Orr
Jess Saith
Martin
Jones
Washimgton
Quincy Balne
Quinby
Staten Island Hospital
New York State
Tex Rickard
Atel iLornes
Wheeler
Jill
Dison
Justine
Quincy
Kinhy
Sentor Wheeler
Sherta
United States District Attorney
I Hayward
Hayward
District Attorney's
Ashurst
Confiscated Booze Sparks Whisky Raid in Pawnee City
In Pawnee City Nebraska sheriff Gay Avery reports confiscating a barrel during a liquor raid. Strange noises from an adjacent room prompted investigation as officials tied the incident to broader political tensions and questions about who filed complaints in federal court. The case involved Hartman and Hamilton, with witnesses not called and political motives discussed by Baldwin.
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Pawnee City
Murel
Gay Avery
Mujor
Texas
Hartman
Hamilton
Dave Walker
Gene Daugherty
Baldwin
Startman
Flo
Action on Bowman Gravel Road Bill Delayed to Week's End
In state capitol des moines march 15 action on the Bowman gravel road bill will be late next week. The code commissioners will draft the measure on Monday or Tuesday. Senator Bowman and supporters say the bill will pass, aiming to let counties unable to fund the primary highway law use gravel for improving primary roads.
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Bowman
Icehouse and Horses Destroyed by Fire in Keokuk
Keokuk March 15 Fire believed incendiary destroyed the icehouse owned by Herman Izinger this morning along with a head of horses and several thousand tons of ice. This is the second winter fire for Izinger, whose large storage house on the Keokuk riverfront burned January 24. Loss is estimated at 10000.
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Keoxuk
Herman Izinger
Tzinger
Keokuk
Lcthouse
Sioux City Police Seek In Pant Slayers
Sioux City police investigate a wave of infanticide after a three day old baby girl found strangled in a hog yard pile of refuse. The body was wrapped in newspaper with a coat tied around the neck. An arrest is anticipated. This is the second such case recently.
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Sioux City
Ils
Firemen Hurt in Blaze at Dental Supply Co Des Moines
Two Des Moines firemen were seriously injured and about 50 000 in damages occurred in an early morning fire in the K P building. The M F Patterson Dental Supply company suffered the heaviest losses.
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Dental Supply CO
Des Moines
Marcel
K.P
M. F. Patterson Dental Supply Company
State briefs from several towns report court and civic updates
In Waukon a moonshiner fined 1115.75 smiled at sentence and paid in cash. Davenport carriers Enderton missing since leaving two days ago. authorities suspect mudbound marooning. Curell to cost 75000 for a new post office this summer. Aus cuts in electric rates by municipal plant following city manager Hopkins. Mount Pleasant notes a local king Tut born April 35 1923. Weicheal reports pounds on Jan 1 for a purebred Hereford calf.
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Davenport
Frank Enderton
Enderton
Postofice
Curell
Aus
Pp. F. Hopkins
Mount Teasant
Henry County
House Insists On State Funds Deposits In Des Moines Banks
Des Moines March 11 The Iowa House refused Senate amendments to the treasury bill and kept its own provision requiring state funds to be deposited only in Des Moines banks, while the Senate approved the agriculture department bill and debated school supervisor amendments. A concurrent resolution urges that all bills reported from committee be sent to the floor by next Friday.
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State Capitol
Des Moines
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Department of Agriculture
House
Treasury Department
Agricultural Department
Secretary of Agriculture
Executive Council
Secretary Wallace Denies Resigning from Cabinet
Washington March 14 Secretary Henry C Wallace denied rumors he will leave the agriculture department. He said he has no present intention to resign and has heard no prompting from the president. He noted cabinet members sometimes carry resignation thoughts but warned against newspaper captions and rumors.
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Wateriog Evening Courier
Washington, D.C
Henry C. Wallace
New York
Charles H. March
Litchfield
Minn
Mr. Wallace
Department
Walsh Illness Delays Oil Lease Inquiry Until Tuesday
Washington March 13 The oil inquiry was postponed until next week due to Senator Walsh illness. The committee recessed until Tuesday and will not set a program for remaining evidence until his return to the Capitol. Jurisdiction over possible oil deal probes from the 1920 Republican convention also deferred.
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Washington, D. C
Walsh
Montana
Porte
Harry F. Sinclair
Mable and Edna to Be Called to Court on Dines Shooting
Los Angeles report says film actresses Mable Normand and Edna Purviance will be summoned to assist Courtland St. Dines, Denver sportsman, as District Attorney Asa Keyes questions Dines next Wednesday about his memory lapse in the Horace Greer case. Subpoenas were sought by Greer’s attorneys to compel the actresses to testify.
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Cal
Mabel Normand
Edna Puryiance
Courtland St. Dines
Denver
Dines
Jasa Keyes
Horace Greer
Miss Normand
Greer
Doheny Arrives to Battle Government Lease Suit
Doheny, the millionaire oil magnate, reached Los Angeles with a large party and a slate of legal counsel to fight the government’s suit to annul the lease of the Huk Naval reserve. He arrived over the Santa Fe in his private car.
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Cal
Doheny
Milionaire Oil
Los Anesles
Hk Uilis Naval Reserve
Santa Fe
American bishops slated for consistory in Easter
Rome reports the conization of three American bishops, to occur at the Easter consistory. Named are Monsignor Griffin of Springfield, another Chicago suffragan, Monsignor Beckman of Lincoln, and Right Rev. Alphonse J. Smith of Nashville Tennessee.
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Monsignor Griffin
Springfield
Chicago
Francis J. L. Beckman
Lincoln
Alphonse J. Smith
Nashville
Tenn
Bank Robbery Shocks Lincoln Bank Cash Vanishes
A lone bandit, aided by no one, robbed the Bank of Western Placer in Lincoln California and escaped with cash possibly totaling 40 600. Cash was taken from the teller windows and the culprit vanished into the city streets. The bank’s cashier William Sparks and two other employees were absent at the time of the heist. Police pursued leads and searched for the suspect.
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Western Bank
Lincoln
Cal
William Sparks
Bank of Western Placer
The Boy Without a Playground and Youth Citizenship
Community leaders and juvenile justice officials unite on a faith in play. They assert that boys and girls become upright citizens or degenerate based on access to wholesome year round recreation. Local efforts rise to provide playgrounds and expanded programs to protect future citizens.
Ship naming grows with new nautical slang in port protest
United in New York reports slang terms like B.Y.Q.L.NOW joining S. O. 8L as ships adapt to Prohibition era moves. Testimony shows Orduna crew involved in bootlegging for over three years before the royal mail liner’s seizure. Orduna sailed to Hamburg today on a 1 100,000 bond, with libel action to resume in April when the ship returns to New York.
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Lbyy United
New York
S. O
Royal Mail
Hamburg
Treasury Department
Io New York
Attorneys General Continue Oil Probe
Chicago March 15 Various phases of the oil inquiry are on the program of a closed conference today of the executive committee of the National Attorneys General association. Cooperation of states to place facts before the department of justice and the attorney general of any affected state is discussed. Suppression of competition or discrimination in petroleum sales and oil conservation are studied with attendees including Bendot athsen Iowa.
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Chicago
National Attorneys General Association
Department of Justice
Ben Dot Athsen
Towa
Red Cross First Aid Car to Visit Waterloo City
An American Red Cross first aid demonstration car will arrive here Sunday March 23 on the Illinois Central. H B Cropper Waterloo chapter chairman announces the local chapter wants citizens to visit the car to hear lectures and view demonstrations. The car will stay two days and it is estimated more than 15 000 people attended similar demonstrations on the Batti More Ohio system tour.
Atlantic editor w s w washington society wedding
K P Shase associate publisher of the Atlantic News Telegraph and 4M Tane Ford Colton Washington society girl social worker were married this morning at Christchurch in Alexandria Virginia where George Washington worshiped They will make their residence in Atlantic after a few weeks tour of the east
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K. P. Shase
Atlantic News-Telegraph
Tane Ford Colton
Washington, D. c
Christchurch
Alexanrig
George Washington
East
Wales Prince Falls From Horse In Arborfield Chase
United Press reports the Prince of Wales was thrown from his horse during the Arborfield cross country steeplechase and carried from the field on a stretcher after suffering a bloody facial wound. Early word said injuries were not serious though further updates noted a broken shoulder blade repairing. Prince Henry also fell but was unhurt.
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London
Arborfield
Princes of Wales
Aj ‘Grst Aid
Wrst
Eddy
Prince Henry
Prince of Wales
Explosion of Gas Fatal in Operation at Union Memorial
Bernard Cohen, a patient, is dead after a mysterious thyline gas explosion in an operating room at Union Memorial Hospital Baltimore. Dr H Warren Buckley suffers slight burns. Cohen had just had a minor carbuncle operation while his wife was about to undergo major surgery. Details emerged today for an accident described as unprecedented in SAFEry.
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Baltimore
Bernard Cohen
H. Warren Buckley
Union Memorial Hospital
Cohen
Missouri Banishes Millionaire's Son for Shooting
St Louis March 15. John T Millikin Jr son of a chemical magnate was banished from Missouri and sentenced to three months in jail for a shooting last year. He was released on condition he never returns to Missouri in the future.
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St. Louis
John T. Millikin, Jr
Missouri
Millikin
For Ton
St Louis County
Dainty Frenchman Refuses Service Over Dirty Hands
Havre March 15 Jean Durand challenged seat hygiene on a train after refusing to show his ticket to the conductor. He wore no gloves and warned microbes could transfer between tickets. Police admonished him to obey the ticket presentation law thereafter.
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Havre
Jean Durand
Paria
Durand
Keeney acquitted in Gore murder trial at Fayette Court
Payetteville March 15 D Keeney president of district 17 United Mine Workers of America was acquitted by a Fayette circuit court jury today on charge of accessory in the murder of John Gore deputy sheriff of Logan county during the armed miners march in 1927 Back from California WW Wringaman returned from a winter in California with son in law and daughter Dr and Mrs P O Blanchard who visited in Kansas City on business Gallogly estate Mrs Anna F Gallogly named administratrix of the estates of her husband M F Gallogly who died at Cedar Falls early this week
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Payetteville
W_ Va
D. Nk Keeney
United Aine Wotkere ‘of America
Fayette Circuit Court
Tohn Gore
Storf
Logan County
California
Wringaman
P.O. Blanchard
Kansas City
Gallogly
Anna F. Gallogly
A Ats
M. F. Gallogly
Cedar Falls
Dever dark hof possibility urg by ghief brenn
Chicago March 15 Mayor Sam E. Dever of Chicago, notable for his anti bootlegger stance, emerges as a possible Dark Horse candidate for president. George Brennan, Illinois Democrat leader, urged Dever's openness to the Democratic National Convention, praising his honesty and bearing.
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United Press
Chicago
Sam EB. Dever
Damoc
George B. Brennan
Democrats
Illinois
Th of the People
Io Washton
ANE
Democ
Brennan
Mayor Dever
Tage
Aliho
New York
Dover
McAdoo Declares for Law and Order Amid Klansman Shouts
In Macon Georgia G M Adoo spoke on constitutional rights and liberty while facing heckling from a Klansman. An attorney questioned his stance on the Ku Klux Klan as shouts of put him out echoed from the crowd during the event.
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Macon
Marek Li
United States
McAdoo
Ku Klux Kan
BR Stevens
Interror
J Han
Mean Buyer topic highlighted at Waterloo Salesmen club Lunch
R H Hansen addressed Waterloo Salesmen Club on The Mean Buyer during a luncheon at Greater Waterloo Association. He urged forming universal contacts and spending more time preparing for the life work of salesmen. He showed a chart on sales resistance and urged focus on personality appearance poise and speech. Marriage license: Wil Schwarz Oelwein Winnie Eisler Waterloo.
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Waterloo Salesmen Club
Uncheon
Greater Waloo Association
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Hansen
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