Williamson Clean-up Decree Triggers Mayor Pro Tem Named
Late Senator William York Republican was named mayor pro tem by three Republican city commissioners after two Democrats left the meeting in Williamson West Virginia. The action followed military pressure to clean up the city as crime and disorder concerns rose.
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Williamson
W. Va
City Commission
York
Porter
Cincinnati
Haen
Greenway Hatfield
Hail
William Francis
Welch
Francis
Baranshee
Fiverett Dotson
Francis’ Company
W. A. Wilson
Vulcan
Nathan Beavers
Nolan End
Sprigg
United Mine Workers
C. H. Workman
District 17
Indianapolis
Dave Robb
Fowler
Mayflower Placed at Disposal for Harding Voyage
Washington reports that under President Wilson the Mayflower presidential yacht was placed at the disposal of President elect Harding. A radiogram notified Harding on the steamer Pastores en route to Norfolk that the Mayflower would be at Hampton Roads to assist his passage to Washington. Harding had previously declined use of the Mayflower and a battleship.
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Washington
Wilson
Daniels
Harding
Panama
Senator Harding
Pastores
Norfolk
Hampton Roads
Colby
South America
Walsh committee ends session on shipping board inquiry
The Walsh congressional committee wrapped up three weeks of open hearings in New York. John Cranor and Lester Sisler testified denying the $40,000 fee claim and said they cannot fathom Sands motives. The panel will reconvene in Washington before returning to New York. Start Immigration Bill Today. The House immigration committee plans to meet tomorrow to draft legislation on immigration for the next Congress. Members will bring existing measures to the panel, guiding the bill’s formulation.
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New York
Walsh
United States Shipping Board
Congress
Washington
John Cranor
Downey Shipbuilding Corporation
Lester Sisler
Shipping Board
Tucker K. Sands
Sands
House Immigration Committee
Nine Story Apartment Collapse Kills Foreman at Fifty Second
New York reports a nine story apartment building under repair collapsed on Broadway at Fifty second street burying several people. At least one foreman, Jeff Smith, is believed dead and six others are missing or injured. Rescue crews fear more victims remain beneath wreckage as debris piles up to six feet on the sidewalk.
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New York
Broadway
Fifty-second Street
Jeff Smith
Wrecking Company
Smith
Armenian Cloud Broken by Wilson Mediator Role
Geneva December 1 The League of Nations assembly shows renewed optimism as President Wilson accepts mediation over the Armenian crisis. British, French, and American delegates hail the move with renewed hope, noting active cooperation among Americas and Europe to address the Black Sea region dispute.
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Associated Press
Geneva
League of Nations
Wilson
Arthur J. Balfour
Mustapha Kemal
United Stats
Brazil
Spain
Americas
Europe
South America
Black Sea
Rene Viviani
France
New York Flyer Derailed Near Springfield Ohio
Only minor injuries were sustained by several passengers when the Big Four New York flyer derailed ten miles west of Springfield shortly after two today. Twenty five passengers were transferred to the second section to continue to Columbus as the engine and two coaches overturned and a third partially capsized.
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Springfield
Ohio
Here
Columbus
Obregon Installed as Mexico President in Peaceful Transfer
General Alvaro Obregon was sworn in as president of Mexico at midnight amid a large turnout of international diplomats and officials. Provisional President De La Huerta and newly named cabinet members attended services, while celebration and receptions followed in Mexico City. In San Antonio, DOJ agents raided border towns seizing documents tied to a suspected Mexican revolutionary government.
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Associated Press
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Alvaro Obregon
Mexico
George T. Summerlin
United States
de la Huerta
Chile
Italy
Germany
Spain
Belgium
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China
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Uruguay
Cuba
Peru
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France
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Guatemala
Salvador
Honduras
Nicaragua
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Larrazolo
New Mexico
Chamber of Deputies
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Taday
National Palace
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Chapultepec
Francisco Villa
Durango
Adolfo de la Huerta
Villa
Canutillo
San Antonio
Texas
Department of Justice
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Eagle Pass
Laredo
Brownsville
W. A. Wiseman
President Wilson Noninterference in Coal Commission Changes
President Wilson states the government will not interfere with the joint scale committee as it makes changes or modifications it mutually agrees to in the agreement with the anthracite coal commission.
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Wilson
Joint Scale Committee
Anthracite Coal Commission
Condition of former Empress unchanged at Doorn
Agusta Victoria the former German empress remained conscious at five pm yet greatly exhausted by heart attacks. A castle resident told The Associated Press she is resigned and longs for the end of her suffering dating from 1918.
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Associated Press
Doorn
Holland
Agusta Victoria
Resume Wage Parleys Monday in Philadelphia
Washington Dec 1 The joint scale committee of anthracite miners and operators met here and agreed to resume wage negotiations in Philadelphia next Monday. Secretary Wilson who met with the committee issued a statement.
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Washington
Joint Scale Committee
Philadelphia
Wilson
White Sox to Rebuild at Waxahachie Camp in 1921
Chicago announces Waxahachie Texas as the 1921 spring training site for the American League club. Manager William Gleason will depart in early March with about forty players including many recruits to replace seven stars lost in the scandal.
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White Sox
Chicago
American League Baseball Club
Waxahachie
Texas
William Gleason
Four Army Civilians Convicted of Bay Ridge Looting
In Brooklyn federal court on December 1, four army civilian employees were found guilty of conspiracy to defraud the government over thefts totaling nearly $100,000 in army shirts shoes and other supplies from the Bay Ridge military base. The defendants are John Sonand Morris Rosenberg Bernard Schenstack and Lawrence Pupple.
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New York
Brooklyn
Bay Ridge
John Sonand
Morris Rosenberg
Bernard Schenstack
Lawrence Pupple
Amnesty Group to Testify on Espionage Law Repeal
Members of the amnesty committee of the American Federation of Labor will appear this month before the senate judiciary committee at hearings on Senator France's resolution for the repeal of the espionage law.
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Washington
The
American Federation of Labor
Senate
J Judiciary Committee
France
Fourteen New Members to Join House Appropriations Panel
Republican leaders plan a complete reorganization of the House Appropriations Committee adding fourteen members to reach a thirty five member panel. Mondell and Mann, with Bueller, confer to select the new members as hearings on winter revenue legislation loom. The move follows the desire to consolidate budgets but faces veto risk and questions about timing and committee conflicts.
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Washington
House
Committee On Appropriations
Committee On Committees
Representative Mondell
Wyoming
Representative Mann
Illinois
Representative Buuler
Pennsylvania
Mondell
Wilson
Dondell
Appropriations
Representative Fordney
Michigan
Ways and Means
Congress
Represenues Mondel
Anthracite Wage Talks Open After Wilson Conference
Washington December 1 The door to further wage increases in the anthracite coal industry beyond the 17 per cent raise was opened at a conference between the anthracite joint scale committee and Secretary Wilson. The government will not interfere with mutually agreed changes to the federal commission award. The outcome depends on operators who gave no attitude hints as talks resume next Monday in Philadelphia.
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Washington
Federal Commission
Anthracite Joint Scale Committee
Wilson
Department of Labor
Joint Scale Committee
Anthracite
Airplanes to Greet Harding at Virginia Cape
Thirty airplanes from Langley Field will greet President-elect Harding Saturday morning as an escort of honor. He will land at Old Point before visiting Norfolk and Newport News, according to an announcement made here today.
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Harding
Newport News
Langley Field
Virginia Capes
Old Point
Norfolk
Elizabeth O'Dea Admits Destroying Cards in Building Trust Probe
New York stenographer Elizabeth O'Dea, once cited for contempt by the legislative committee probing the Building Trust, testified she destroyed the bureau's quotation cards used for estimates on the card system.
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New York
Elizabeth O'Dea
Builders Supply Bureau
Building Trust
Bureau
Southern Pacific to organize Pacific Oil Company in Delaware
The Southern Pacific Company announces the creation of the Pacific Oil Company to separate its oil and railroad properties. Delaware incorporation with 3.5 million shares at no par, $15 per share to Southern Pacific, funding about $52.5 million. The new firm will buy from Southern Pacific Land Company about 259000 acres in California and 209,690 shares of Associated Oil Company stock, valuing the land at roughly $43.75 million. Shareholders may exchange one new share per Southern Pacific share at $15. The land includes 25000 acres of proven oil lands among 259000 acres.
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New York
Pacific Oil Company
Southern Pacific Compan
Delaware
Southern Pacific Company
Southern Pacific Land Company
Associated Oil Company
California
Southern Pacific
Armenia Seeks Major General Wood for Relief Fund
Armenia asks Major General Leonard Wood to administer a proposed $20 million Near East Relief fund to save Armenia and establish a national existence. Dr Aharonian reports to the League of Nations assembly in Geneva that Wood is a preferred administrator, though no action has been taken.
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New York
Armenia
Leonard Wood
Near East
Aharonian
League of Nations Assembly
Geneva
Wood
League of Nations
Armenian Committee
Mustapha Ke
Governors Move To Aid Farmers With Federal Debt Relief
Harrisburg December 1 Governors and governors elect from most states voted to study the acute farm crisis and recommend federal legislation to refund debts for farmers hit by low prices and excess stocks. A committee was named to survey and report, with plans to press Congress to act using extensions of the federal reserve system and possibly create a foreign trade corporation to finance American farm sales abroad.
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Harrisburg
Union
W. L. Harding
Iowa
Harding
Bickett
North Carolina
Holcourb
Connecticut
Parker
Louisiana
Goodrich
Indiana
Washington
Congress
Governors
Federal Reserve System
Trustee Refuses Estate Bequest At Bulky Value
Henry D. Tudor, managing trustee of the $1,250,000 Garland estate, said Charles Garland of Buzzards Bay Mass rejected the bequest. Tudor said Garland adopted his inheritance ideas from associations in Greenwich Villages Bohemian quarter where he spent four months years ago.
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New York
Henry D. Tudor
Charles Garland
Buzzards Bay
Mass
Young Garland
Greenwich Village
Confession Treadway Claims He Killed Peirce in Philadelphia
Peter D. Treadway confessed to killing Henry T. Peirce, a manufacturers’ agent, after being brought to the central station. He claimed he held a towel over Peirce’s face until death and said Boots Phillips and Moss are not responsible. A warrant for “Al” Smith, fourth party member, was issued. Smith remains at large.
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Philadelphia
Peter D. Treadway
Henry T. Peirce
Marie (Boots) Phillips
Sue Rogers
J. A. Moss
Ala” Smith
Peirce
Treadway
Smith
Wheeling
W. Va
Moss
Pittsburg
Warant
Marion Elliott
Marie Phillips
Central
Miss Phillips
al” Smith
Ross A. Rogers
Interstate Commission Orders Wisconsin Rate Increases
The Interstate Commerce Commission ordered all Wisconsin roads to immediately raise intrastate rates to align with the advances authorized in interstate tariffs.
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Washington
Wisconsin
Interstate Commerce Commis«Sion
D Annunzio Declares War on Italy From Fiume
London dispatch reports Gabrielle D Annunzio commanding insurgents at Fiume declares war on Italy effective December 3. Trieste notes an ultimatum from Fiume and a proclamation from Rome pledges to enforce Rapallo terms.
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Gabrielle D’annunzio
Italy
Associated Press
London
Gabrielle D'Annunzio
Insurgenta
Fiume
Milan
London “Times
Trieste
Smallest West Virginia Treasury Fund Reported
The December monthly report from Treasurer W. S. Johnson shows the state treasury balance at the end of November was the smallest in the current administration. The total cash balance stood at 1,517,382 dollars.
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Treasury
Charleston
W. Va
W. S&s. Johnson
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