President Waited for Daugherty to Get Off His Neck
Washington March reports say Attorney General Harry Daugherty faced a pivotal moment as pressure mounted for resignation or a victory over opponents. The White House weighed six factors including evidence burden, investigation pace, gun running records, and primaries outcomes in the South Dakota race.
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George Fe.derng
International F Suift
Washington, D. C
Daugherty
Bi Tbanes
Np Far
Senate
Department of Justice
Senate Committee
Mexico
South Bakers
South Dakota
White House
Coolidge
C. Bascom Slemyp
Hughes
Slemp Ane Frank 8. Stearns
Wallace
Slemp
Stearns
Obituaries mark deaths of Muartuari R. M. White and others
Obituary notes MUARTUARI R M WHITE aged 15 died at 2 30 am at home on Lafayette Street Ho. Also JOSEPHINE FESSLER widow of Rudolph Fessler aged about 90 died today at 402 New Street. BARBARA BRINKMAN mother of Dr J E Brinkman died Monday at Hollywood Cal after apoplexy on March 8. Burial plans pending for several and details cover early life moves from Dubuque to Waterloo and Charles City to California.
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R. M. White
Royal Murray White
Josephine
Josephine F Esster
Rudolph Fessler
Ely Fiay
New Street
Switzerland
H Hand
America
Emale
Dubuque
Waterloo
Fessler
R. A
C. J. Fessler
Barbara Brinkman
J. E. Brinkman
William Rootz
Hollywood
Cal
Charles City
California
Tiurlal
Hollywoor
Navy Secretary Cadet at Annapolis Earned Class Honors
Curtis Wilbur, chief justice of California, sworn in as secretary with naval training background. An Annapolis graduate, he earned high honors and served as cadet captain in 1888 before pursuing a legal career.
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Navy
Annapolis
Curtis . Wilbur
Supreme Court of California
Coolidge
Wilbur
U. S. Naval Academy
Drake Professor Nominated as Minister to Poland
Alfred J. Pearson of Drake University Des Moines nominated by President Coolidge to be minister to Poland. Born in Sweden he came to the United States as a child and has led Drake’s modern language department for years. He would accept if Senate confirms the nomination.
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Washington, D. C
Alfred JF. Person
Drake University
Des Moines
Coolidge
Poland
Alfred 3. Pearson
Sweden
United States
M.C. A
Pearson
Senate
Government Employee Roster Released by Civil Service Commission
The Civil Service Commission released figures showing 544 671 names on Uncle Sam s payrolls for last year. Of these 650 worked in Washington departments and 279 448 outside the District of Columbia. Male workers numbered 484 486 and female 60 186. The Post Office payroll lists 296 631 employees.
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Washington
Uncle Sam
Civil Service Conmission
District of Columbia
Post Office Department
Red Cross Hospital Plans Memorial for U S quake aid
A Yokio memorial honoring American help after the Japanese quake will be erected near Memorial Hospital. Charge dAffaires Jefferson at the American embassy announced the plan, funded by the American National Red Cross for 2004, with half for construction and half for an endowment under permanent trust control.
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Ashington
Memorial Hospital
MOM
America
Yokio
Red Cross
Jefferson
Capital to Lose Men Street Sweepers
The article laments Paris street sweeping jobs shrinking due to modern machinery. It notes only one sweep will be needed and many roles will vanish as old workers fare poorly. Remaining workers fade from public view, with nostalgia for the broom-wielders of past eras.
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Paris
Eris
Executions in Texas for Double Slaying
In Huntsville Texas Firnest Lawson and Blaine Dyer were electrocuted at the state penitentiary shortly after midnight. Lawson had been convicted of killing John R Crain a night watchman during a holdup. Dyer was executed for killing J C Gibson a Dallas policeman during a drugstore holdup last December.
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Huntsville
Tex
Firnest Lawson
Blaine Dyer
State Penitentary Hare
Lawson
John R. Crain
Dyer
J. C. Gibson
Dallas
Johnson Defeats Godlidge in South Dakota Primary
Unofficial returns show Senator Johnson winning South Dakota's Republican presidential endorsement by about 2000 votes. Gov. McMaster led the GOP senatorial race, with McAdoo leading the Democratic presidential indorsement and Cherry winning the Democratic Senate nomination.
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Johnson
Godlidge
South Dakota
Associated Press
Sioux Falls
Jotason
California
Calvin Coolidge
North Dakota
Senator Johnson
President Coolidge
Remilt
Sioux Falls Press
Sioux Falls Argus l Leader
Mitchell Republican
McMaster
W. OH. McMaster
Thomas Sterling
Isles
Sterling
White Robin Perches in Mulberry Yard Near Minister
A white robin caused local stir today by taking refuge in a mulberry tree in the yard of Rev. F. N. Smith, pastor of the Free Methodist church at 441 Lane. The bird, pure white with brown wing specks, drew naturalists and curious children from nearby creeks as they noted the early spring signs.
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F. N. Smith
Mr Smith
Free Methodist Church
Mulberry
J W Slocum Named on Pharmacy Board Des Moines
Gov Kendall announced the reappointment of J W Slocum to the state commission on pharmacy beginning April 23 for three years. Dr HL Marshall of Des Moines was named to the state board of osteopathy beginning April 15, and Dr L W Daugherty of Mason City joined the chiropractic examiners for three years.
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Des Moines
N. EL Kendall
J_ Ww
Slocum
Langla
Commission
Pharmacy
Marshall
State Board of Osteopathy
L W. Daugherty
Mason City
Shoard
Chiropractic Examiners
La Follette Illness Not Thought Serious
Physicians attending Senator da Follette Wisconsin say his pneumonia condition shows encouragement and improvement. He has been confined to bed for ten days with a persistent cold, though earlier reports minimized the illness as not serious.
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la Follette
Washington
D. C
da Follette
Wisconsin
la Pollette
Des Moines Boy Struck by Auto Dies
A Des Moines boy, Homer Glasser, age 6, died at a local hospital after being struck by a car driven by TL AL Hall. The accident was ruled unavoidable. Homer was the son of Dr. F. J. Glasser of Des Moines.
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Des Moines
Tual
Homer Glasser
AL Hall
Ful
Homer
F. J. Glasser
Total Vote of lin School Elections May Be Contested
Ontario Cal March 25 Today is election day in the Camp Baldy school district north of here. The exact vote is known but the outcome is uncertain with only one eligible voter registered to cast a ballot. Questions arose whether he may act as election judge inspector and voter before poll closing time.
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Ontario
Cal
Camp Baldy
Here
Resignation Letter From Attorney General Flares Over Criticism
The article outlines an attorney general's resignation letter amid claims he would not abandon public duty for political attack. He denounces attacks as dangerous to government function and accuses powerful interests and war profiteers of attempts to discredit him. Public integrity and the square deal are cited as guiding principles.
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Senate
Farrore
Department of Justice
High Court
Constitutional Court
Low Court
Wade
Tthis
Daugherty Says Resignation Request Strikes at Justice
Former Attorney General Thos. M. Daugherty denounces calls for his resignation as an attack on the justice department. He argues the Senate inquiry relies on gossip and political bias, defends his record, and warns of a constitutional crisis over due process and civil rights. He declines to apologize and asserts his steadfastness under attack.
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Reedings
Senate
Department of Justice
Pam
Republican Party
Republic
Manchester Boy Charged with Murder Adjudged Moron
A 13 or 14 year old Manchester boy charged with second degree murder in the death of four year old Matthew Carson was examined by university psychopathic experts. They found him to be cognitively limited, with the mind of a child of eight in parts, and not fully accountable for his acts though capable of learning a trade under restraint. A final disposition may occur without a jury trial.
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Manchester
Charles Cornwell
Matthew James Car
The
State University
Onednesday
George W. Wood
Carr & Carr
Cornwell
G. Dittmer
M. Je Yoran
Town City
Brennan
Orton
Wood
Carmwell
Ornwell
Carson Child
Maquoketa
Carson
Jay
Jones
Cedar Rapids Building Trades Win Wage Increase Pact
The Cedar Rapids Federation of Labor building trades council and the Employers' association ratified new wage scales and working conditions effective April 1 for one year. The contracts show a 12 percent increase.
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Cedar Rapids. In
Building Trades Council
The
Cedar Rapids Federation of Labor
Employers’ Association
Naw
Chamberlain Works Lands Large Order
Waterloo and Fort Wayne based Chamberlain Works reports a large order for clothes wringers totaling about 125 000 dollars. Production runs 150 wringers daily with 40 workers and a planned shift increase to meet demand, delivery promised before October 1.
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Chamberlain
Seoedeng
Waterloo
Fort Wayne
Ind
Fr. Chamberlain
Chamberlain Works
Dawes Kin Ill in Paris Amid Pneumonia Battle
Mrs Bertie Durr Dawes wife of former Congressman Beman Dawes of Columbus Ohio is ill with pneumonia at the Hotel Ritz in Paris. Doctors report some improvement but danger remains. Beman Dawes brother of Gen Charles Gates Dawes head of a reparations experts committee.
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Paris
Bertie Durr Dawes
Lincoln
Neb
Beman Dawes
Columbus
Filipinos Cite Military Weakness in Independence Effort
Manila dispatch notes Theo Tepsy of the Philippine independence commission tells President Coolidge that the Philippines shows military weakness. He argues cooperation with Governor General Wood is unlikely unless certain Filipino rights are recognized.
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Manila
Theo Tepsy
Commission For Philippine Independence
Coolidge
Philippines
Wood
Local notices and events from Lincoln area
Various community notices include Dr TLrt McCoy traveling to Excelsior Springs for 40 days, Mrs Mabel Warner returning from Erie, Mrs T J Close moving from St Francis hospital, and Dorothy Smith, age 6, listed as a scarlet fever patient. Also mentions L V Nicholas of the National Petroleum Marketers Association broadcasting from WOAW Omaha, and upcoming bake sales at Tunis store Fourth Street East, and Ubiqune Cleaners with Westminster A class activity.
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Tlrt McCoy
Excelsior Springs
Mabel Warner
Erie
T. J. Close
St. Francis Hospital
Dorothy Smith
Jefferson
W. F. Huxtorg
L. V. Nicholas
National Petroleum Marketers Association
WOAW
Omaha
Neb
Ciizens
Playgrounds Campaign Pushes City Takeover Vote
Waterloo residents hear intensive drive by the playground commission and supporters to place municipal playgrounds under city control. Headquarters at Schureman Drug Co. No. 3. seven playgrounds planned, funded by community chest, serving 6,000 children last year with 30,000 in attendance. A half mill tax would raise about 33,780 for the program, equating to roughly 80 cents per taxpayer.
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Playground Commission
Schureman Drug Company
G. W.W. Wood
E. A. Boggs
Jackson MccGoy
J. C. Hartman
G. J. Rudolph
Judge Wood
Waterloo
Community Chest
Commission
Wilson 250000 Estate In Bonds And Personal Property
Washington March 2g Woodrow Wilson left a probate filing by his widow Mrs Edith Bolting Wilson for an estate valued at 3250800. The entire estate was in bonds securities and other personal properties with probate sought in the district court here.
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Washington, D. C
Woodrow Wilson
Penn
Edith Bolting Wilson
Gladys Fallon Weds H G Young in Independence
Gladys Fallon and H G Young marry Tuesday evening at the Methodist parsonage in Independence with Rev. Hawking officiating. Miss Bertha McChery and Carl Graham attend, and both families are locals. Fallon is daughter of Ava Anderson, worked for Northwestern Bell, while Young is son of Mrs C L Young and an area native who served in the war.
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Gladys Fallon
H. G. Young
Independence
Ming
Hmertert
Misa Bertha McChery
Carl ©. Graham
Ava
Anterson
Northwestern 3 Telephone Company
Prize Offered for Best Answer to Radio Problem
An anonymous donor offers $800 for the best answer to who should pay for broadcasting. Alfred M. Caddell of the American Radio Association says entries must be mailed by July 20, 1924, with up to 1500 words and a short summary. The issue includes industry costs and public benefits and opposes a broadcasting monopoly.
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Puy
Alfred M. Caddell
American Radio Association
New York
Radio Public
Rock Island Settles Shop Strike of 1929
John Scott of the AFL says Rock Island lines and Federated Shop Crafts ended the 1922 shopmen strike with mediation by the Department of Labor. High officials of Rock Island lines are in New York.
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Rock Island
Chicago
John Scott
American Federation of Labor
Federated Shop Crafts
Department of Tabor
Scott
New York
King Shaken by Train Derailment Near Naples
King Victor Emmanuel suffered a bad shaking after a derailment while traveling from Rome to Naples. The train reached Naples this morning after a delay. The incident follows a day of disrupted travel and concerns over railway safety in the region.
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Naples
Italy
Victor Emmanuel
Rome
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