BOOTLEGGING.
WAR r ON DAUGHERTY GANG
AMERICAN VICE-PRESIDENCY
IT OABLS-P*IBH ABNOOIATIOR'-COPYJimih'l WASHINGTON. Aug. 29. Senator Wheeler, a candidate for the vice-Presidency, has renewed his war on “the Daugherty gang” in public office. In a formal statement Senator Wheeler dealt with the affidavit allegedly made in the Atlanta penitentiary by George Remus, the Ohio “bootleg king,” repudiating his sensational testimony 'of last spring before the Daugherty committee. The testimony before the investigating committee, the senator continued, disclosed that the present warden of the Atlanta penitentiary was a close friend and political associate of Harry Daugherty. This incident makes it clear.
President ... Coolidge has announced that he will assert all the rights given the United States under the treaties, made at the arms limitation conference with regard to the elevation of naval guns He states that he would loathe .to make any move which would stimulate further competition in armaments between nations, feeling that foreign countries should pay to the United States before spending additional money on armaments
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 1 September 1924, Page 5
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