Governors Debate Klan at Conference in West Virginia
The fourteenth annual governors conference in White Sulphur Springs ended with a heated discussion of the Ku Klux Klan. Governors planned to travel to Washington for President Harding’s invitation to discuss prohibition enforcement at a Monday luncheon. Governor Allen of Kansas predicted the Klan’s demise while Governor Morrisson of North Carolina questioned its violence and asked about its record on lawlessness.
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Associated Press
White Sulphur Springs
W. Va
Washington
Harding
Allen
Kansas
Morrisson
North Carolina
National Council of Farmers Cooperative Marketing Associations Formed
Delegates from farmers associations authorize a permanent National Council to handle co operative marketing issues and act as a mouthpiece. They back nine month credit paper, raise farm land bank loan basis to 25 000,000, and favor amending the federal reserve law to aid farm credits. A farm credits department in federal land banks would discount or purchase agricultural paper and fund co operative marketing bodies.
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Associated Press
Washington
National Council of Farmers’ Cooperative Marketing Associations
Federal Reserve Law
Conference 19 Deadlocked Over Two Questions
British memorandum urges moslems to observe mandatory rights to sul oil fields, causing deadlock in Conference 19 on two key questions.
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Mosul
Irrigation Congress Demands Economy in Montana Government
Montana Irrigation and Drainage Institute adopts resolutions at its annual meeting calling for elimination of unnecessary government expenses at local county and state levels to keep the tax burden as low as possible while maintaining legitimate functions during agriculture and other industries' low spirits.
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Associated Press
Helena
Mont
Montana Irrigation and Drainage Institute
American destroyer rescues 400 from burning Vinh-Long
The American destroyer Bainbridge rescued 400 people from the burning French hospital ship Vinh-Long in the Sea of Marmora near San Stefano outside Constantinople. Fifteen aboard are missing as explosions followed a magazine fire. The Bainbridge, commanded by Lieut. Commander W. A. Edwards, ferried off passengers, mostly French soldiers and families on leave.
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Associated Press
Constantinople
Bainbridge
Sea of Marmora
San Stefano
Bizert
W. A. Edwards
Indictments in Mail Fraud Case Hit 43 Officials
A federal grand jury in Omaha indicted 43 individuals including 26 Nebraska bankers and several New York Chicago and Omaha executives for alleged mail fraud and conspiracy linked to the Lion Bonding and Surety Co. The 17 count, 40 page indictment alleges misrepresentation to sell bonds and stock and use of the mails to bolster the company’s surplus with bonds set at $5,000 each.
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Associated Press
Omaha
Neb
New York
Chicago
Nebraska
United States
J. W. Woodrough
Lion Bonding and Surety Company
Joseph Troggatt
New York City
J. Clarence Leonard
Edwin H. Carney
Fremont, Neb
Fred Viopp
Scribner, Neb
Edwin H. Luikart
Riverton
Wyo
William O. van Wyck
Oklahoma City
Okla
Philip H. Kohl
Wayne, Neb
H. Clifford Leigh
Portland
Ore
Henry C. Beatty
Charles C. Brandt
Arthur 8. Baty
J. Harvey Wheeler
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Fred J. Hannigan
Hutchinson
Kans
No Decision by Administration on Reparations
Washington reports a wall of official silence on American aid in the German reparations stalemate. Officials offered only that decisions remain pending and warned that public speculation is wide of the mark. A Paris dispatch about informal talks with Premier Poincare drew no official comment.
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Associated Press
Washington
Paris
Poincare
Keller Defies Testimony on Daugherty Impeachment Charges
Washington December 16 The House Judiciary Committee will consider what action to take after Representative Keller Republican Minnesota again refused to appear and testify on impeachment charges against Attorney General Daugherty. Keller’s refusal followed a dramatic withdrawal from further participation in the proceedings and a formal subpoena. Some members favor immediate contempt proceedings while others question the committee’s authority to act given Keller’s counsel led stance on his rights as a member of the House.
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Associated Press
Washington
Representative Keller
Minnesota
Daugherty
House Judiciary Committee
Keller
House
Jokers Produce Onow Before Butte Audience
TheJoshers club staged its eighth annual show before a full Broadway theater, raising hundreds of dollars for Christmas gifts for Butte's poor. Performers included the Butte Mines band led by Sam Treloar Sibyl Browns dancing girls and Charles Nevin with comic monologues. Proceeds fund presents for needy families.
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Broadway
Joshers’ Club
Butte
Billy Gemmell
Butte Mines
Sam Treloar
Colonial Minstrell
Sibyl Brown
Charles Nevin
Casey Witherspoon
Joshers
Disabled Vessel Held for Rum Probe
The schooner Salvatrice carrying 2,000 cases of alcohol and flying the French flag upside down was captured off Sandwich Massachusetts along with the Boston schooner Star. Coast Guard Captain Chris Sullivan led the seizure as both ships were placed under armed guard amid suspected rum running and contraband supply activity.
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Associated Press
Sandwich
Mass
Salvatrice
Boston
Star
Coast Guard
Chris Sullivan
Antwerp
Santiago
Cuba
Polish president Narutowicz assassinated at Warsaw art exhibit
Gabriel Narutowicz, president of Poland, was shot dead at a Warsaw paintings exhibition. The assassin, Neiwadomski, a deranged artist, was captured after the attack as ministers weighed a cabinet to govern. Jealous anti Jewish rioting followed his election and oath.
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Poland
Narutowicz
Bic
Prec
Warsaw
Gabriel Narutowicz
Polish Republic
Neiwadomski
de Camp
Netwadomakt
Officals Capture Last Of Outlaws In Moonshine War
Lexington Kentucky December 16 reports from prohibition headquarters say the Ballard gang opposition to federal moonshine forces ended with the capture of Charles Ballard in Bath County by Sheriff Ben Wells. He was too weak from blood loss to resist after a shooting. Charles brother Robert Ballard died at his cabin in Menefee County yesterday as federal men closed in.
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Associated Press
Lexington
Ballard
Menefee County
Charles Ballard
Prohibition
Bath County
Ben Wells
Robert Ballard
Charles
Twenty arrested in six gambling raids in Butte
Mike Lemich led officers to twenty suspects across six venues the Board of Trade Rialto Walker s Atlantic Crown Bar and 106 East Park Street. Bonds set at 100 each for most defendants with Lemich not bonded. Lemich claimed to seek a presidential gambling investigation commission.
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Mike Lemich
Butte
Murphy
Calpin
Board of Trade
Rialto Club Rooms
Walker’s
the Atlantic
Crown Bar
East Park Street
al Martin
J. L. Bukley
W. L. Lewis
H. Liehlendahl
W. Smith
Joe Busch
Walker's
Jack Frazier
J. Norris
W. G. Budjon
W. Mart
Robert Duffy
George Karris
Atlantic
John Doe
William Doe
Bill Smith
Pete Francia
Jack Neill
William Hanley
John Townsend
Pete Anderson
Rialto Rooms
Lemich
Harding
Train Crash on Elevated Shuttle Increases Injuries
In New York, a moving electric train on the Interboro Transit Lexingtion avenue shuttle crashed into a stalled southbound train. Twenty nine people were injured and seven women and children were among them. Motorman Patrick Keogh is believed fatally injured. The collision occurred during rush hour in semi-darkness, with passengers crowded aboard both trains.
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Associated Press
New York
Interboro Transit Company
Lexington Avenue
Patrick Keogh
Turkish Patriarch Expulsion Clash At Lausanne
At Lausanne the American delegation protested Turkey's plan to expel the Greek patriarch from Constantinople. No decision reached as Mosul oil field dispute reopens with Britain's memorandum pressing rights. Turkish plenipotentiary Risa Nur Sey says Turkey will yield on neither issue and the patriarchy remains.
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Associated Press
Lausanne
Constantinople
Mosul
Great Britain
Risa Nur Sey
Turkey
Farmers organize to protect witnesses at massacre trial
An undercover farmers group formed in Williamson and Johnson counties vows retaliation against attackers of witnesses in the Herrin mine riots murder trial. Investigators say the plan pledges tenfold tolls for each farmer killed due to testimony. One witness reportedly broke down before testifying citing concern for his wife and family.
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Associated Press
Marion
Herrin
Williamson
Johnson Counties
Madward Brundage
Massachusetts protest against Lodge contest moves to Senate
The Massachusetts bid to challenge Henry Cabot Lodge’s senate re election was sent to the Senate privileges and elections committee. Conrad W Crooker for John A Nichols Liberal Republican league charged irregularities and said Lodge was a minority winner.
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Associated Press
Washington
Massachusetts
Senate
Henry Cabot Lodge
Senator Lodge
Coolidge
Conrad W. Crocker
John A. Nichols
Prohibition
Republican League of Massachusetts
Crooker
Enate
Dillingham
Vermont
Committee
Congress
Republican League
Lodge
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Naclej Ratja
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