Couzens and Mellon feud fuels senatorial probe
Washington May 3 The Senate plans votes on two resolutions to end or extend the Mellon treasury investigation focusing on income tax. One proposal calls for discharge, the other would broaden the inquiry and cover prohibition enforcement, reopening the Heney episode and stoking ties to Pinchot's defeat. The public faces confusion as debate promises to probe the investigation's scope, conduct, and outcomes.
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Mark Sullivan
Washington
Senate
Mellon
The
Treasury
Soj
Coolidge
Watson
Indiana
Heney
Gifford Pinchot
Pennsylvania
Republican
Couzens
Michigan
Nationwide Strike Shuts Down Argentina Over Pension Law
President De Alvear faces a crisis as a general strike looms against the new pension law. Workers and employers refuse to implement a five percent wage deduction for a pension fund, prompting clashes in Rosario and threats to halt commerce and industry. Some banks hold collected funds while many firms delay payments.
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Associated Press
Buenos Aires
de Alvear
Jin
Rosario
Congress
Altho
Berlin to Have Berlin Keynote Song for Demos Convention
Irving Berlin is to write the keynote song for the national Democratic convention in New York. Elizabeth Marbury, national committee member and women visitors arrangements chair, said a good Berlin song could be as important as the keynote speech.
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New York
Irving Berlin
Elizabeth Marbury
Courier delivery instruction notice at home by 5 30
The Courier should be detated at your home before 5:30 o clock. If through error of the carrier bay or other cause you fail to receive your paper by that time, please phone 35100 and copy of the paper will be sent. Phone calls must reach this office before 6:30 p m.
Washington legislature updates across committees and bills
Senate and house meet as conferees continue deliberations on immigration. Senate agriculture advances Muscle Shoals hearing while House shipping board inquiry proceeds. Insular affairs pursues Philippine bill and rivers and harbors weighs Chicago drainage canal proposal. WILPF session continues.
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House
House Immigration Cit
Senate Agriculture Committee
Muscle Shoals
Shipping Board
House Insular Affairs
Women’s International League For Peace and Freedom
House Rivers and Harbors Committee
Chicago Ice Cream Strike Leaves Sunday Ice Creamless
Chicago faces an ice cream famine as ice cream wagon drivers strike after failed talks among union leaders, company officials, and a federal arbitrator. The strike, effective Thursday, continues until substantial salary increases are granted, exhausting shop reserves and forcing manufacturers to admit Sunday will be ice creamless.
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Chicago
Tucker Couple Report Daughter Born in Bald Win
Town records show Mrs. Susan Simpson Tucker 47 of Jersey City and her 17 year old husband Burton Tucker of South Essex Mass welcomed a daughter in Bald Win. The infant Peggy, from Mrs Tucker’s first marriage, died from a progressive illness. the couple had moved south seeking a climate change.
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Flempstead
Gilbert
Bald Win
Susan Simpson
Tucker
Jersey City
Burton
South Essex
Mass
Jersey
Peggy
Pegey
Dawes Report Dominates German Election Campaign
Berlin voters go to the polls in a Sunday election as the Dawes Young reparations plan splits parties. Reactionaries denounce the report as a new Versailles while government and socialists push acceptance as the path to peace. Chancellor Marx argues nonfulfillment is unthinkable.
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United Press
Berlin
Dawes-Young
Versailles
Germany
Marx
Headless body found in Mississippi River near Davenport
Mystery shrouds the discovery of a headless young woman in the Mississippi River at Davenport Iowa. Authorities notify nearby towns to aid identification and believe the woman was slain and cast into the river. arms torn away and one limb nearly severed. clothing ruined. The coroner suspects the body rested in water for about four months.
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Davenport
Nashua Man Sentenced 10 Months in Jail for White Slavery
Andy Butler of Nashua Iowa was convicted in federal court of violating the Mann Act for transporting four young married women, all 20 years old, from Nashua to Kansas City Missouri for alleged immoral purposes. Judge George sentenced Butler to ten months in Black Hawk county jail.
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Dubuque
Andy Butler
Nashua
Kansas City
Black Hawk County
George
Wulf Commander Named Leader of Eleventh Legion District
Sioux City reporter Thrace F. Wall, longtime newspaperman and former Monahan post commander, has been named commander of the Eleventh district American Legion. He succeeds O. P. Bennett of Mapleton, who resigns to run for county attorney.
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Sioux City
Thrace F. Wall
Monahan Post
American Legion
United States
Eleventh District Legion
O. P. Bennett
Mapleton
Robbers Flee After Vault Explosion At Farm ers State Bank
Bank robbers fled Farm ers State bank in Fagle Nebraska after an explosion wrecked vault doors. A volley of shots followed as police exchanged fire with the robbers who escaped in a car. Sherill's posse began searches at dawn.
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Fagle. Neb
Farmers State Bank
Sherill
President Western Grocery Co Is Dead
Chicago May 3 Frank Letts 63 a widely known grocery man died unexpectedly today in a hospital here He was president of the Western Grocery company of Iowa and an officer of other concerns During the war he was director of supplies for the American Red Cross Traveler Ends Life Des Moines May 3 Winfield Tilden 67 a traveling salesman took his own life asphyxiating himself at his home here yesterday
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Chicago
Frank
Letts
Vic
Western Grocery Company
Iowa
American Red Cross
Des Moines
Winfield J Tilden
Weather Outlook for Washington Week Begins With Fair Skies
Weather outlook for the week starting Monday covers Washington and regional areas with generally fair skies. Temperatures stay normal as local showers are possible at the week's start, affecting the upper Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys.
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Washington, D. C
Upper Mississippi
Lower
Missouri Valley
Daugherty Threatened With Criminal Prosecution Over Inquiry
Washington May 3. Former Attorney General Harry M Daugherty faces possible criminal action before a federal grand jury as a retaliation by Senator Brookhart whose plan would have the committee report evidence to the Senate and request Attorney General Harlan Fiske Stone to present it for grand jury action. The move targets Daugherty over efforts to halt the Wheeler Brookhart inquiry into his DOJ administration.
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International News Wire
Washington, D. C
Ormer
Harry M. Daugherty
Wheeler-Brookhart Committee
Department of Justice
Brookhart
Republican
Iowa
Daugherty
Senate
Harlan Fiske Stone
Thelrominittee
Mels. Paughert
The
Midland National
Washington Court House
Ohio
Mel Daugherty
Western Union ‘Telegraph Company
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Wheeler
Montana
H Ofifela
Moses
New Hampshire
Coon
Blair Coon
Star “Y Witnnesses
Senate Today
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Montani
Off
Coan
Cites Committee
Washington, D.C
24 Planes to Carry Continuous 32 Hour Coast Mail
Fantoriumvisco Cal May 3 A 32 hour air mail service between New York and San Francisco will begin July 1. Carl A Kege general air mail superintendent announced on arrival to arrange the service. Twenty four planes will be in the air continuously between each city with 1000 miles of night flying possible. Emergency landing fields every 25 miles have been arranged to facilitate winter service.
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Fantoriumvisco
Cal
New York
San Franccisca
Carl A. Kege
Wie Mall
Oon
Serview
Meee
Chieige
Cheyenne
Winsterview
Priest Loses Life Saving Dog On Bridge Tracks
West Union Iowa May 2 Special Reverend Father Minogue Garber died after he and his pet dog jumped onto a bridge pier to escape an approaching Milwaukee train. The engine struck him hurling him 30 feet to the tracks as the dog was killed, its front legs severed. Father Minogue, about 65, led the Garber parish on the short line between West Union and Turkey River junction for roughly 20 years. The engineer with 40 years of service had no prior fatalities.
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West Union
Father Minogue, Garber
Milwaukee
Here
Father Minogue
Yenus
Lather
Garber
Turkey River Junction
Burglary at Bartles-Sheperd Office Cracks Safe
Robbers gained entry by a front window cracking a fireproof safe in the Bartles Shepherd company office at 1344 Logan Avenue. They stole mostly coins from the cash drawer and safe, leaving notes of a suspected second job by the same gang. Police link to a prior loot at T. S. Wheeler Lumber. two pennies and a nickel found near the safe.
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Shepherd OF Company
Logan
A. J. Lommel
Sant
Toa i
Charles Burbank
T. S. Wheeler Lumber Company
Rainbow Drive
Hartles- Shepherd
Waterloo Wins 1925 Convention of Iowa Travelers Prot Ass'n
Mason City Iowa May 3 Waterloo was chosen this morning as the meeting place for the 1924 convention of the Travelers Protective Association by about 200 delegates in session. Harold Vincent of Ottumwa, present president, will continue in office for another year. Fred White of the Iowa highway commission and George Huniley of Waterloo, national director, were principal speakers yesterday. A concert by the Mason City Chamber of Commerce club and a dance were the features of last night's entertainment.
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Mason City
Waterloo
Travelers’ Protective Association
Harold Vincent
Ottumarra
Fred White
Iowa Highway Commission
George Huniley
Mason City Chamber of Commerce Glen Club
Foley May Succeed Murphy as Big Boss
New York May 2 Surrogate James A Foley may succeed his father in law Charles K F Murphy as leader of Tammany if he resigns the death. Agreement on Foley’s selection was reached in conference with influential Tammany members. The election is expected at Wednesday’s executive committee meeting.
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New York
James A. Foley
Charles KF. Murphy
Tammany
New York Times
Foley
Chicago records 86 murders in first 41 days
Chicago crime commission reports 86 murders in the first 41 days of 1824 and urges closer cooperation among police, coroner, prosecutor, and courts to curb violence.
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Chicago
Chicago Crime Commission
Twelve killed in dock strikers outbreak in British Guiana
A Georgetown dispatch to the Paris Mail today reports twelve killed and twenty one wounded in violence during the dock strike in British Guiana. The militia was called out.
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Londoan
British Guiana
Dipatch
Georgetown
Parls Mail
Antisaloon League Seeks Iowa Candidate Opinions on Prohibition
The Iowa Antisaloon League plans to mail a questionnaire to all candidates asking if they will uphold the eighteenth amendment and Volstead Act. Primary contenders for Congress, state legislature, and county offices face yes or no prompts on prohibition and enforcement, with results announced before the state primary.
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Associated Press
Iowa
Iowa Antisaloon League
Congress
Legislack
Maiblic
An Loan League
Towa
Bishop Caf Hold-Up Man Murderer Confesses
Cedar Traplis May. Lewis a negro arrested at Joliet last week for holding up the Bishop cafeteria on April 14 confessed to Chief Bemisk he is wanted in Cleveland Ohio for a 1917 murder. He said the shooting occurred during a crap game and that he and six others escaped during a jail break. If true, Cleveland authorities will take him.
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Cedar Traplis
Hoy Lewis
Joliet
Bemisk
Cleveland
Lewis
Ohio
Bank With Deposits of Five Million Closed
St Paul Minnesota May 3 The Capital Trust and Savings bank St Paul with deposits of 5 00 100 was ordered closed today A J Igel state superintendent of banks announced Frozen assets was the cause The bank has a capital of 500 000 and was organized in December 1880
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St. Paul, Minn
Capital Trust & Savings Bank
St. Paul
A. J. Igel
Veipel
Cuban Forces Fight Twice with Rebels Near Cienfuegos
Havana May 3. Details of two engagements yesterday near Cienfuegos between government forces and rebel troops were sent to La Prensa by its correspondent at Cienfuegos. The paper notes other news could not be given.
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Havana
Cienfuegos
P Government
la Prenza
Cable Briefs on Rejected Proportional Representation
Cable briefs report tense reactions to the rejection of proportional representation in the British House of Commons. Berlin coverage notes nationalists mounting attacks on the Socialists ahead of tomorrow’s general election. Antwerp reports a stormy opening session of the first Jewish Students' World Congress. Lorient notes French naval engineers assembling two German submarine engines without blueprints. Paris cites Cardinal Mundelein and party departing for Cherbourg.
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Tondon
Cardinal Mundelein
Chicago
Cherlbourg
Miss Jesmer Sues Thadant Heir for 100000 Damages
Helen Jesmer former Follies beauty sues Philip Margnan Th dant wealthy stepson of Federal Attorney Hayward for injuries from a motorcar crash she claims left her beauty ruined sight damaged and in emotional instability. Damages estimated around 100000 with reported figures near 100000.
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Oyark
Muby d
Helen Jesmer
Follies
Philip Margnan
Dant
Itayward
President Coolidge Vetoes Bur Tum Pension Bill
President Coolidge vetoed the Burstum omnibus pension bill citing economy and added fiscal burden. Senator Uursum plans to push the measure again, believing votes exist in both chambers. The veto memo argues no conditions justify extra taxpayer costs, with projected costs at 242 million dollars for five years and 425 million for the following nineteen.
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Associated Presse
Washington, D. C
Coolidge
Treasury
Uursum
New Mexico
Senate
House
Congress
Conlidge
Bank Robbers Blown Jail Escape Near Newton Kansas
Bank robbers James Woodruff and Pat Carroll dynamited a jail corner in Walton State Bank raid era, escaping custody. An entire wall was wrecked as their friends smuggled in dynamite. Deputies pursued in a following chase toward an awaiting car.
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Newton
Kan
Lhrue Il Western
Kansas
James Woodruff
Pat Carroll
Walton State Bank
Globe girdling Yank planes Eli on without chief
False Pass Alaska May 3 a party with dog teams will depart from Chignik to search for Maj Frederick L Martin missing globe flyer along the Bering sea. Weather favorable and three aviators who left Santa Monica March 17 with Martin may depart Dutch Harbor soon.
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Associated Press
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Chignik
Corto
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Globe Filer
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Santa Monica
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Washington, D. C
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Bonus Bill Again Booms On White House Steps
Washington May 3 The bonus bill returned to confront President Coolidge as both houses passed it and it looms toward a possible veto. If not signed or vetoed within 100 days it becomes law automatically. Congress members report mixed views after recent talks with the president as pressure mounts at the White House door.
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International News Wire
Washington, D. C
White House
Congress
Coolidge
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