The Tomahawk. [volume] (White Earth, Becker County, Minn.) 1903-192?, 1923-11-08
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Washington - President Coolidge
administration seriously considering
aiding Germany to buy American
wheat; Borah confers on subject with
president.
Washington Veterans bureau in
quiry digging further into irregulari-
ties; government paid $173,O0O for
$4,000 property at Excelsior Springs,
Mo.
Washington - Representative F. A.
Britten (rep., Ill) urges United
States to build up League Of Ameri-
cans" and to keep out of all European
entanglements.
Washington Senator w. E. Bor-
all (rep., Idaho) plans to revive bill
to curtail power of supreme court in
order to forestall more restrictive leg
islation proposed by Senator r. NJ. La
Toilette (rep., Wis.,
Washington - President Coolidge
between two fires on foreign policy.
Hiram Johnson or other irreconcilable
to declare against him il he leans to
world court; il against it, Secretary
c. z. Hughes or Secretary Herbert
Hoover might oppose him.
Washington Sensational testi-
mony against Colonel Charles R.
Forbes, former director Of the veter-
ans bureau, involving charges Of con-
spiracy and graft; dope and rum
plots, given before senate committee
by E. H. Mortimer Of Philadelphia.
Washington Next conference on
prohibition enforcement to be con-
Quoted here in January by Association
| Against the Prohibition Amendment
when alternatives of enforce or modi-
fy" will be insisted upon. II state and
| federal agencies have not succeeded
in the intervening trial period" in
compelling obedience to liquor laws.
Westinghouse complete set Of ma
rine maps and charts and other infor-
native data required by government
advisers to the modern merchantmen
| will 60 to the Royal Japanese hydro
graphic office on the transport Ar
come, due to sail from Hampton
Roads. The equipment, gift from
the United States navy, is intended
to replace that lost in the earthquake.
Secretary DENLY notified the naval at
tache at Toxic that the shipment was
enroute.
Washington Statistics just COM
pleted by the internal revenue bureau
paid to the federal govrnment on but
one net income of 100000 or more.
That income was not reported by John
D. Rockefeller. In fact If statistics
count for anything, the net income
turned in by Mr.. Rockefeller for 1921
was only somewhere between $1,000
900 and $1,500,000. This fact caused
much surprise because it had been
generally conceded that one Of four
net incomes Of $5,OO0,OO0 or more
returned the previous year, 1920, rep
resented Mr.. Rockefeller's income.
Domestic
Seattle, Wash. - Ezra Meeker Of
Seattle, blazer Of the Oregon trail,
who is almost SO years old, was re-
ported much improved in an attack
of illness.
New York - John Hays Hammond.
chairman Of the federal coal commits
sion, urged a policy of dollar diplo-
macy" for the United States as the
best means Of assuring a bright fu-
ture for the world.
Columbus, Ohio Fire threatened
to destroy the seven stosy state office
building, formerly the Hartman hotel.
The fire originated in the basement.
Several hundred state employees made
their way to safety before the blaze
gained much Roadway.
San Francisco - An amended d.
vorce complaint charging desertion,
was filed here for Marjorie Rambeau,
actress, against Hugh Dillman Nc
Ghauty of New York. The original bill
charged cruelty. Miss Rambeau is
playing in Los Angeles.
New Orleans-The United States
circuit court of appeals affirmed the
verdict of jury of the district court
of northern Alabama. finding five men
guilty Of aogging Ben Walker Of Pei
ham, Ala, and sentencing them to five
years Imprisonment and fined 500
each.
Detroit, Mich.-Eleven men were
burned, seven seriously, in an explo-
sion in the boiler room of plant No. 10
Of the Fisher Body corporation. The
cause of the explosion Is undetermined
although the theory is expressed that
a bursting steam pipe resulted in the
men being scalded.
Fayette, Mo.-A. L. Mckinney of To-
peka. Kan, and Jefferson City, Mo-,
an organizer for the Ku Klux Khan,
departed from this city on orders of a
delegation of prominent business men.
The departure of Mckinney followed
the circulation Of reports that he
would form a local branch of Khan
and initiate members at the court
house.
St. Louis-Two sisters were mar
ried to two brothers in the presence of
two sisters Of the brides who had mar