Pan American Talk Finances Debates in Washington
Delegates to the Pan American financial congress discussed financial and transportation problems with reports from various group conferences. Highlights include talks by Houston Thompson on international competition, Paul M. Warburg on fiscal standards, and Senator McCormick on the federal budget system. The reports urge extension of ocean freight and passenger service between U S and South American ports and improved Latin American rail, postal, and communications links. Delegates head to Annapolis Philadelphia and New York for upcoming sessions.
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Washington
pan-American Financial Congress
Houston Thompson
United States
Federal Trade Commission
Paul M. Warburg
Federal Reserve Board
McCormick
Ilinois
Congress
Congress Committee On Transportation
South American
New York
Buenos Aires
Bureau of Audit
Virgilio R. Beteta
Guatemala
Annapolis
Philadelphia
Railroads Returning to Normal Conditions in East
New York January 22. Railroads of the eastern region show a gradual return to normal operations since the armistice with continued growth in export freight. A. T. Hardin, regional director, reports to Walker D. Hines. Since March freight business rose after wartime shipments ceased. roads handle more traffic than offered. Passenger traffic remains heavy with monthly increases over 1917 and 1918.
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New York
A. T. Hardin
Walker D. Hines
Johnson May Back Hitchcock At Next Senate Caucus
Yankton South Dakota January 22 Senator Edwin W Johnson said after missing the recent democratic caucus that he would probably vote for Senator Hitchcock at the next senate caucus if the administration leader election ends in a tie between Hitch cock and Underwood Johnson noted his likely support hinges on the tie outcome and his absence at the caucus was cited in the report
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Yankton
S. D
Edwin WN. Johnson
Senate
Hitchcock
Underwood
Lusitania Trade Barrier Faces British Reply
International row over reparations to resumed trade with Britain shows German and Hamburg letters mocking and moralizing the Lusitania sinking. British firm rebukes German rhetoric, noting collective guilt for the ship’s loss of 1,000 civilians and the wartime atrocity.
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International News Service
London
England
Lusitania
The
Evening Standard
Merscheid-Solingen
Hamburg
War correspondent pleads for postwar mercy and aid
A writer recounts orders to destroy ammunition and a large cargo ship destined to kill thousands of soldiers. The piece calls the destruction a victory and urges closing cruelties of war. It stresses mercy toward former enemies and private help to spare them from starvation once they can no longer harm.
State officers testify power companies case details
State officers testified that plant expenditure accounts used in rate making do not reflect actual value. They cited Glendive, Wibaux and Helena plants where rate making figures were far lower than reported costs. Assessed values in Dawson and Wibaux counties differed from rate making figures, showing capitalization theory did not reveal true property value. The board adjourned to continue testimony tomorrow.
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Boyle
Bonner
Commission
Glendive
Wibaux
Helena
County Board of Equalization
Dawson County
Wibaux County
Special mission to establish political and economic ties with United States
A special mission from Southern Russia led by under secretary P. P. Gronsky will depart for America to establish political relations with the United States and resume economic ties in export and import. The delegation consists of specialists in economic political and military affairs.
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Novorosslysk
Russian Telegraph Agency
Russia
P. P. Gronsky
America
United States
Tri-State Livestock Sales Close With Champion Bull Sold
Fargo ND January 22 The week long series of cattle auctions tied to the Tri State Grain Growers convention ended today with cattle sales topping 125000 dollars. Avon Superior the North Dakota grand champion bull fetched 3000 dollars and was sold by Knight Farming Co to Anton Litovsky of Lidgerwood ND.
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Fargo
N. B D
Avon Superior
North Dakota
Knight Farming Company
Anton Litovsky
Lidgerwood
N. D
Foreign oil firms to drill wells under provisional rule
Mexico City January 22 Foreign oil companies may obtain provisional permits to drill new wells until Congress enacts a new petroleum law. The decree follows a request by the American Association of Oil Producers in Mexico, which warned wells were being exhausted and pipelines insufficient, signaling a near crisis in the Mexican oil industry.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Mexican Congress
Carranza
American Association of Oil Producers
Appeals filed to speed ruling on North Dakota tax act
Washington officials seek expedited review in the Supreme Court of federal court decrees holding unconstitutional the 1919 North Dakota excise tax act. The action, brought by Director General Hines for five railroad companies and Farmers' Grain and Shipping Co., enjoined the state from enforcing the act.
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Washington
North Dakota Corporation
Supreme Court
Hines
North Dakota
Farmers’ Grain and Shipping Company
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Great Britain
Ansonia
Boucher
Society
Boucher’s, Inc
R. M. Hobbs
Men’s Quality Store
Butte
West Park Street
Garranza
Fornia
Japan
Fall
Augustin Garza
San Diego
Walls
Brownsville
Webb Station
Sun Ignace
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Power Companies
Woody
Public Service Commission
Coats
Chambray
Yx Cale
Ywaaevuy
Cc A. B. C
Kaynee
Madras
Poplin
Jane Trathaway
Panama
F. A. Konsdhe
N. Main Street
Montana
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