Wire tapping probes loom in Florida as feds weigh inquiry
A Southern District of Florida grand jury meets next Monday to consider an inquiry into alleged wire tapping activities. Police and Justice Department officials say confidence men have “cleaned up” over 2 million dollars in Florida over the past two years, with a large gang disrupted in St Augustine and Jacksonville. Chicago notes report possible broader investigations into Florida wire tapping by government agents.
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Associate Press
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Jacksonville
Associated Press
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Chicaco
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Physical Directors Needed Overseas
Athletic officers in Southeastern camps seek urgent recruitment of one hundred overseas physical directors. Men with success in army, association, camp, or college work in America are preferred. Applicants should contact C. Cubben in Atlanta. fluency in French is helpful but not required.
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Atlanta
Cubben
Peters Sulid
Negro unit to deploy next week in 93d arrival
Washington February 5 Approximately 13,500 men are due to arrive next week. The force includes a full regiment and battalions of the Ninety Third division Negro troops, the War Department announced.
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Washington
War Department
Georgia Soldier Recalls Turkish Cruelty in Holy Land
Atlanta sergeant Albert B Mathieu describes conditions in Palestine after Jerusalem fell to the British. He witnessed starvation, mutilated children, and forced labor under Turkish rule, urging Americans to aid the Holy Land natives. He served with the No. 7 light Car Patrol and traveled from Savannah to New York before sailing to England.
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Mathieu
Ormond Street
United States
Egypt
Holy Land
Allenby
Jerusalem
Palestine
England
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Meredith Gray
Sergeant Mathieu
America
Savannah
New York
Holloran
Gray
Dublin
Army Doctors Identify Virus Germs From War Ills
London Feb 5 The director general of the army medical service in France reports that trench fever influenza and some forms of nepritis have been isolated and identified by army officers. Investigations are believed to have isolated germs of mumps measles and typhus whose causes were previously obscure.
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London
Associated Press
Army Medical Service
France
Unemployment Claim Cited by AFL Leader
Washington Feb 5 half a million men in the United States are jobless AFL secretary Frank Morrison urged the house rules committee to grant priority for immigration prohibition legislation lasting four years.
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Washington
Associated Press
House Rules Committee
Frank Morrison
American Federation of Labor
United States
Georgia Weather Forecast Rain and Cold Tonight
Rain and a drop in temperatures across Georgia tonight, with a trend toward clearing by Thursday. Southeast counties may see lingering showers and cooler conditions before gradual improvement.
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Georgia
Ceolder
Intervention in Russia Not Part of Allied Plan
Paris February 5 The British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour told newspaper correspondents that large scale intervention in Russia will not be considered. He said the great powers are doing all they can about the disquieting situation and that an alliance of the societies of nations is in the process of formation.
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Paris
Associated, Press
Russia
Balfour
Society of Nations
Absent Council Delays City Meeting Call For Quorum
Three council members were absent and one ill leaving no quorum for the regular meeting. Aldermen Burke Mashburn Horton were absent and Alderman Taylor ill. Aldermen Poole Warren and Mayor Sheppard attended. A special meeting was called for tonight and another possible for tomorrow if no quorum forms.
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Taylor
Poole
Warren
Sheppard
Sumter County Delegates Named for Peace Meet in Atlanta
Judge W M Harper appointed twenty five Sumter county men to attend the Southern Congress of the League to Enforce Peace in Atlanta on Feb 28 and March 1. Names span districts 27 16 15 and 17 with commissions mailed and acceptance blanks. The event aims to rally national sentiment behind the League of Nations. Taft will preside.
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Atlanta
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Americus
Sheppard
Chamber of Commerce
Harper
N. A. Ray
Stephen Old Timmerman
R. 8. Oliver, Randolph Logan
New C. Sheppard
Claude Denis
J. Harden
Clit Johnson
J. T. Methyin
W. H. Chambliss
W. A. Parker
Ernest Statham
BE. A. Luke
Cobb Summerford
J. J. Wilson
Evan T. Mathis
Randolph Logan
C. D. Brinkley
J. A
Board of County Commissioners
League of Nations
World Peace Congress
Taft
Wilson Refused to Help Packer Swift
Letters read before the Senate Agriculture Committee hearing on meat industry regulation indicate that last February President Wilson conducted a personal investigation into protests against the Federal Trade Commission, with the result showing his refusal to assist the packing firm Swift.
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Washington
Associated Press
Senate Agriculture Committee
Wilson
Federal Trade Commission
Greek Nita brothers face disorderly conduct row over soup
Tom and John Nita of the Americas Greek colony were charged with disorderly conduct after claiming two portions of overripe chicken at a local Greek restaurant. An interpreter aided testimony. a witness could not judge the conduct in Greek. Recorder Fort ruled it a draw and dismissed the charge.
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Tom
John Nita
Americas
Recorder Fort
Ross Hubbard
Allied rifle strength for armistice era unveiled
Washington reports U S Army total strength on November 11 reached 3 703 273 officers and men including Marines attached to the army in France War Department figures released show Allied rifle strength above German totals by July 1 and an Allied rifle force of 1 485 000 by November 1 under the armistice signing period
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Washington
Associated Press
United States Army
Marine Corps
France
War Department
Acquittal Ends Trials for Lynching Case
The jury acquitted Jeff Jenkins, second of eighteen defendants charged with murder in the lynching of two Black men last November in Tuscumbia Alabama. The judge said he would press the remaining sixteen cases of arrests.
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Tnscumbia
Ala
Associated Press
Jeff Jenkins
Mrs Roosevelt Sails to Visit Son's Grave
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt sails from New York aboard the French liner Lorraine to visit her son Quentin Roosevelt's grave in France. She will spend weeks with her sister Miss Emily Carew, while also meeting Lieut. Col. Theodore Roosevelt and Captain Kermit Roosevelt who are serving in the war.
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New York
Associated Press
Theodore Roosevelt
Lorraine
France
Quentin
Emily Carew
Italy
Weimer Under Guard Telephone Line Cut
Berlin reports that independent socialists disrupted telephone links between Weimar and Eisenach and Erfurt for several hours Monday. An Alpine corps of 1,000 men has arrived to police Weimar as the national assembly prepares to meet Thursday.
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Berlin
Associated Press
Weimar
Eisenbach
Erfurt
Tageblatt
National Assembly
London Strike Paralyzes Tubes and Underground Lines
London remains mired in a citywide strike with nearly all tubes and underground lines shut. Thousands struggle to reach work through heavy slush as services stay paralyzed despite ongoing protests.
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London
Associated Press
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