Funding Bill To Refinance International Debt Outlined
Senate finance committee approved a funding bill to restructure eleven billion dollars of foreign government debt to the United States with maturities by June 15, 1947 and interest at least five percent. The measure, backed by Secretary Mellon and Sen. Simmons, would require semiannual interest payments and keep principal noncancelable.
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United States
Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Penrose
Mellon
Senate
McCumber
Raning
Secretary of the Treasury
House
Simmons
North Carolina
Finance
Congress
Russia
Railroad Board Powers In Jeopardy In Injunction Suit
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company asks a federal court to rule on the railroad labor board's authority and enforcement methods. Judge R M Barton said the suit, issued yesterday by Judge Landis, would settle the board’s powers and decisions in disputed shop crafts cases pending a December 21 hearing.
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Chicago
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
United States Railroad Labor Board
R. M. Barton
Railroad Labor Board
Lige K. M. Landis
Pennsylvania
Million Investment Planned to Open Powhatan Coal Field
Bellaire Ohio December 10 The Cleveland and Western Coal Co owner of several thousand acres near Powhatan plans to spend a million dollars to develop the field A King vice president announced The program includes a shaft a tipple and two hundred houses The shaft and tipple contract will be let next Tuesday King says the Powhatan field could become the coal center of the state
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Bellaire
Ohio
Cleveland and Western Coal Co
Powhatan
A. ©. King
Damages Sought From Indiana Coke and Gas Co
The Mississippi Valley Iron Co of St Louis filed in federal court seeking 1 750 000 dollars in damages from the Indiana Coke and Gas Co of Terre Haute. The suit says a breach of war grant and contract forced the iron works to close its plant on October 25 1920.
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Indianapolis
Indiana Coke and Gas Co
Terre Haute
Mississippi Valley Iron Company
St. Louis
Open War Declared by Senate Irreconcilables
Washington December 10 the irreconcilables in the senate declared open war on the four power Pacific treaty. Senator Reed Missouri a leading Democratic foe of the league of nations denounced the new treaty as treacherous treasonable and damnable and said he and others would oppose ratification to the end.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate
Reed
Missouri
League of Nations
Watson Seeks Answers on Executions in France War Zone
Senator Watson lays out a list of over 100 former soldiers for testimony in a probe accusing higher officers of illegal executions in France. He reads letters from servicemen claiming many were hanged or shot without trials. A photo of a condemned man tied to a rope is shown to the committee as part of the evidence.
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Senate
Watson
Georgia
France
War Department
Senator Watson
Shields
Walter E. Bethel
Brandegee
American Legion
Paris
Westville
Oklo
Paroled Life Prisoner Amalek Brooks in Missouri
Ama lek Brooks, serving a life sentence for murder, is paroled from the Missouri penitentiary by Gov. Hyde after fourteen years of advocacy by former Sen. Burton. Brooks and his brother John were convicted in 1907 in Iron County for the killing of John Clemons. John Brooks was paroled in 1918 through Burton's efforts and died in 1920.
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Jefferson City
Amalek Brooks
Hyde
United States
Burton
Kansas
Brooks
Amalek
John
Iron County
John Clemons
Tron County
United States Senate
Progress in Shantung railway control talks with Japan
Chinese delegates demand full control of the Kao-Chow-Tsinanfu line and offer to operate it as a unified system. Japan seeks time to study proposals and compensation for return under reparations, with adjournment set for Monday. Ambassador Shidehara attends for Japan as talks continue at the Pan American Union building.
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Associated Press
Washington
Shantung
China
Japan
Germany
Shidehara
E Sasuieter
Alfred Sze
Pan- American Union Building
Kiao-Chow-Tsinantu
Bank Bandit Slain After Tar River Bank Robbery
In Tar River Oklahoma the Cardin State Bank was robbed of 5000 dollars. One bandit was slain another probably fatally wounded and a third escaped. The incident occurred tonight in Miami Oklahoma on December 10.
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Miami
Okla
Cardin State Bank
Tar River
No Developments In Irish Affairs As Week Ends
London reports no striking progress in Irish affairs before mid next week. The prime minister spends the weekend at Chequers Court and will brief his Belfast cabinet on Monday. The Dublin Catholic hierarchy meets Tuesday to voice support for the treaty, with many Dail Eireann members expected to back it. In Belfast, rival crowds clashed as police dispersed stone throwing at night.
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Associated Press
London
Chequers Court
James Craig
Austen Chamberlain
Belfast
Ulster
Dublin
Dail Eireann
Arthur Griffith
Dail Eireenn
Sinn
Attacks on Britain cheered by Irishmen at convention
At the Friends of Irish Freedom convention in New York more than 1700 delegates from all states cheered attacks on Britain and its peace terms for Ireland. Daniel S. Cohalan, elected permanent chairman, vowed Irish Americans would keep working until Ireland has a government with the same institutions and freedom as America. He criticized British efforts to sway American opinion and warned against allied schemes. Also spoke Professor William Lacey of Pittsburg.
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Great Britain
Ireland
Friends of Irish Freedom
United States
Daniel S. Cohalan
Supreme Court
America
Cohalan
England
Harding
Hughes
Wilson
House
League of Nations
William Lacey
Pittsburg
Dr Eaton to Speak at Chamber Meeting and Screen Coal Story
Dr Charlies A Eaton renowned WWI figure and former Leslie's Weekly editor arrives in Bluefield for the Chamber of Commerce monthly meeting to discuss national service in war industries. The program also features a first showing of The Story of Coal loaned by the Interior Department and a brief tribute to industrial relations authority Charley Aubrey Faton.
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Charlies A. Eaton
Chamber of Commerce
Philadelhia
Bluefield
Minneapolis
Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce
Jo Eaton
American Educational Association
Wheeling
Huntington
Director of Mines
Eaton
Leslie's Weekly
Wilson
Dr. Eaton
National Service
Dr. Beton
Charles Schwar
Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Charley Aubrey Faton
America
Reed Denounces Proposed Treaty and Predicts Fight
In Washington on December 10 Senator Reed of Missouri denounced the four power Pacific treaty as treacherous and damnable and predicted a hot fight in the Senate. Irreconcilables largely withheld comment while privately signaling unfriendly attitudes toward ratification. Republicans and some Democrats predicted overwhelming approval, while others called the pact innocuous and similar to the league covenant. The treaty would terminate the Anglo Japanese alliance.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
United States
Senate
Reed
Missouri
Harrison
Mississippi
Twenty Two More Federal Judges
The House passed the Walsh bill by 197 to 90 to add twenty two federal district judges, sending it to the Senate after an amendment on full time duty was ruled out. Jurisdictions include Massachusetts North Jersey regions and multiple states with allocations to specific districts. The bill calls for annual conferences led by the Chief Justice with senior circuit judges and the attorney general, plus yearly reports on court business and delay reduction plans.
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Senate
Washington
Taft
Daugherty
Massachusetts
Newark
New York
Pennsylvania
Final Arguments Heard in Wheeling Recall Case
The West Virginia Supreme Court heard final arguments in the mandamus case by S. M. Noyes and others against Wheeling city clerk Howard C. Lane over recall petitions targeting H. R. Crago and Wheeling councilmen. Key questions were mandamus as remedy and alleged arbitrary bias by Lane. The court took the matter under advisement and planned a ruling for Tuesday.
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Charleston
W. Va
State Supreme Court
S. M. Noyes
Howard C. Lane
Wheeling
H. R. Crago
Lane
Noyes
Thut
R. 8. Spillman
J. J. P. O'Brien
Brennan
Crago
Four Power Pacific Peace Pact Announced at Conference
A new ten year Pacific peace treaty among the United States Great Britain France and Japan was announced at the arms conference. It commits the four powers to respect island possessions and to consult on disputes. Ratification by the US Senate is required to bind the nation.
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Associated Press
Washington
Pacific
United States
Great Britain
Japan
France
America
Asia
Pacific Ocean
Lodge
Italy
China
Belgium
Netherlands
Portu
Senate
Tokio
Senator Lodge
United States of America
British Empire
Malone and Doris Stevens Sail to Europe After Secret Wedding
Dudley Field Malone former port collector and his Omaha bride Doris Stevens left New York for Europe aboard the Rotterdam. They wed last Monday at Peekskill N Y and had dodged reporters amid divorce and engagement rumors as suffragists protested at the White House.
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New York
Dudley Field Malone
Europe
Rotterdam
Doris Stevens
Omaha
White House
Malone
Miss Stevens
Peekskill
N. Y
Mrs Delmont Pleads Guilty to Bigamy Charge
Madera California December 10 Mrs Bambina Maud Delmont who swore to the San Francisco complaint accusing Roscoe C Arbuckle of murdering Virginia Rappe pleaded guilty to a bigamy charge in the superior court here today and asked probation A decision on her request will be made later.
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Calif
Bambina Maud Delmont
San Francisco
Roscoe C. Arbuckle
Virginia Rappe
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