Oil Tariff Fight Seeks Duty to Protect Mid-Continent Producers
Sena tor Harreld and Curtis back duties on crude oil to narrow Mexico gap, with mid continent producers and independents pushing for a dollar per barrel or equalizing import export levies. Opponents warn protection raises prices for farmers, railroads, the navy, and all oil users while hurting rebuilding and road funding.
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Washington
Bere
Senate Finance Committee
Mexico
Harreld
Curtis
Kansas
Harry H. Smith
Tulsa
Etary
Mid-Continent Oil Gas Association
Mid-Continent
W. H. Ig
Naval Association of Independent
Columbia
Venezuela
Titee
Irt
Navy
Uel
Immigration Sanitation Rules Urged By Public Health Service
The Public Health Service urged immigrants be reasonably clean to prevent infection. As typhus and plague wane in Europe, travelers must not return to prewar dirty conditions. Steamship lines should maintain sanitary facilities, with consular intervention if ships sail without proper health measures.
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Ashington
Public Health Service
Europe
Earth Service
United States
Health Service
Ate Department
Carriage Collides With Freight Train In Washington
S B Hayes of this city was killed and another man injured when their carriage crashed into a freight train at Washington on December 29. Authorities report the horses were frightened and dashed into the train.
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Washington
S. B. Hayes
Pittsburg Mayor Receives Life Membership Banquet Honor
Pittsburg December 29. Mayor W. abcock, retiring December 31, was guest of honor at a Pittsburg Press Club banquet. The mayor was presented with a gold membership card extending life club status during the event.
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Pittsburg
W. ‘Abcock
Bomb explodes at Roman Catholic temple in Falls Road
A bomb exploded at a Roman Catholic church on Falls Road Belfast early today with no casualties reported. Police sealed off the area as investigators collected evidence and searched for suspects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belfast
Histel
Falls Road
Bonds Awarded On Ohio Soldier Bonus Issue
A syndicate led by Stacy & Bunn and including Cleveland Chicago and New York banks won the 20.09 million dollar Ohio soldiers bonus bond issue with a bid of 353 202 premium and accrued interest to delivery. It was judged the best among about fifty bids.
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Columbus
Cleveland
Chicago
New York
Stacy & Bunn
Dail Eireann Faces Ratification Plan For Treaty
Dublin reports no compromise yet between opponents and supporters of the Anglo Irish treaty. The plan envisions the Dail approving the treaty while a separate ratifying board summoned under the treaty would complete ratification, potentially with attendance by Trinity College members and Northern Ireland deputies.
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Associated Press
Dublin
Dail Eireann
Eamonn de Valera
Dail
House of Commons of
Southern Ireland
Northern Ireland
Trinity College
Trinity
Ireland
West Virginia Extends 1921 Auto Licenses Two Weeks
The state road commission announced that 1921 automobile licenses remain valid through January 15, 1922. Beginning January 16, all vehicles must display new tags. About 30,000 licenses issued so far, with an expected 350,000 total. adjoining states to honor 1921 licenses until January 15.
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Charleston
W. Va
State Road Commission
Automobile Bureau of
The
Road Commission
West Virginia
Charles G Martin Dies At Mulberry Leader In Phosphate Industry
Charles C. Martin longtime manager of the International Agricultural Corporation phosphate plant in Mulberry Fla died suddenly at his home from paralysis. A Huntsville Alabama native he was fifty five years old and had been prominently connected with the Merchant and Miners Steamship Company and the Seaboard Air Line Railroad.
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Charles G. Martin
Mulberry
Fla
Charles C. Martin
International Agricultural Corporation
Merchant and Miners Steamship Company
Seaboard Air Line Railroad
Huntsville
Alabama
Wage Cut Proposed for Nashville Railway Employees
President W. R. Cole announced a plan to cut wages across 6,000 workers at the Nashville Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway. The proposed average decrease is ten percent, with no reductions before hearings and compliance with the transportation act.
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Nashville
Nashville, Chattanooga and
St. Louis Railway
W. R. Cole
Cole
FTC Dismisses Unfair Competition Charge Against Southern Macaroni
The federal trade commission dismissed without prejudice a charge of unfair competition against Southern Macaroni Manufacturing Company of New Orleans Louisiana. Dec 2% report notes the action was announced today.
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Washington
Federal Trade Commission
Southern Macaroni Manufacturing Company
New Orleans
Mall Must Face Trial On Conspiracy Charge
Governor Len Small freed of most charges in Illinois case. Only conspiracy with former Governor Fred Sterling and Vernon Curtis to defraud the state remains. Trial date not set. judge ordered January 7 for embezzlement charge, while prosecutors seek separate trials.
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Associated Press
Waukegan
Lil
Len Small
Fred Sterling
Vernon Curtis
Sterling
Claire Edwards
Small
Circuit Court
Lake County
Edwards
C. Fred Mortimer
Sangamon
James H. Wilkerson
Illinois
Mortimer
Curtis
Sangamon County
Sterling and Mr. Curtis
Hoover outlines survey on US coal industry and British competition
Washington reports a National Unemployment Conference special staff will study the bituminous coal situation over several months. Funding will come from coalmen, not exceed six to seven thousand dollars. Hoover notes Britain is selling coal below cost as English mines boost output with more contracts in the West Indies and Pacific coast bunkers appearing, not yet a serious US coal threat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
National Unemployment Conference
Hoover
Mr. Hoover
West Indies
Pacific
Chilean Senate Deliberates Reply on Tacna Arica
Santiago Chile December 29 The senate held a secret session to discuss Chile’s reply to Peru on Tacna Arica. Officials said rumors of a breakdown could not be confirmed and negotiations may have reached an acute stage.
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Santiago
Chile
Senate
Tacna-Arica
Peru
Pittsburg Coal Producers Refuse to Meet UMWA Over Wage Talks
Pittsburg December 29. The Pittsburg Coal Producers Association declined to meet United Mine Workers of America representatives on January 6 to negotiate a new wage agreement. R M Garner stated the public and industry would not benefit from such a meeting. John L Lewis stated the UMWA would not comment on the producers action. The current agreement expires April 1 and was set in 1920 for two years.
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Pittsburg
Pittsburg Coal Producers Association
United Mine Workers of America
John L. Lewis
Miners’ Organization
Pittsburg Association
R. M. Gardner
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Indianapolis
Ind
Pittsburg Coal Producers’ Association
Poisoned Booze Toll Rises With Two More Victims
New York dispatch reports nine dead and five blinded or seriously ill from poisoned liquor. A fifty year old woman found on East Thirty Fifth Street died en route to a hospital after drinking wood alcohol. Teenager John Dooley was rushed from home to hospital after losing consciousness and later was reported to have drunk liquor from neighbors and from near his West Twenty Sixth Street home. Charles Williams, a Black man, died after consuming wood alcohol thinking it was gin. George L. Henry of Brookline Massachusetts was found dead in a Broadway hotel with empty gin and whiskey bottles nearby. Two women and an unidentified man remain hospitalized at Bellevue after being found in a gutter.
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New York
East Thirty-Fifth Street
Fifth Avenue
Miss Sargent
John Dooley
West Twenty-Sixth Street
Charles Williams
George L. Henry
Brookline
Mass
Broadway
Bellevue Hospital
New Charter Defeated in St Paul Election
First returns from today's election show the proposed new charter defeated in St Paul Minnesota. The Pioneer Press, which backed the charter, reports the defeat of shifting from a commission form to an aldermanic system.
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St. Paul, Minn
St. Paul
Pioneer Press
Colorado Rangers Mustered Out as Coal Strike Quiets
Walsenburg Colorado December 29 military officials began mustering out the Colorado rangers who have been on duty since the coal miners strike in the southern fields. It is expected most rangers will be discharged by January 6 when martial law may be ended. The situation has been quiet for several days.
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Walsenburg
Colo
Colorado Rangers
Rangers
Bandits Foiled In Pearl River Bank Hold-Up
Four armed robbers failed a planned assault on the First National Bank in Pearl River New York. Two men were killed another wounded, and the gang fled as police and fire units hunted across Rockland County and into Orange County. Authorities found two pistols in the bank and believe the payroll was not taken.
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Associated Press
Pearl River
N. Y
First National Bank
Otto Miller
James P. Moore
Nyack Hospital
Seigfried Butz
Moore
Dexter Felder Co
Butz
Miller
Rockland County
New Jersey Line
Orange County
Two Men Arrested for Double Murder in St Louis
James Hogan aged 24 and Luke Kennedy 40 were arrested in St Louis and charged with the murder of Joseph Cipolla and Everett Summers whose bodies were found on a country road this week. Both suspects have prison records, police say.
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St. Louis
James Hogan
Luke Kennedy
Joseph Cipolla
Everett Summers
Hogan
Kennedy
Fresh Crime Wave Drenches New York City
December 29 reports show seven killed and five wounded in Christmas crimes district wide. A bank hold up at Fleet National Bank Pearl River left two officials dead and a client critically wounded, while robbers looted $16 from an auto restaurant on Broadway and Forty first street before fleeing in a taxi. Brooklyn naval base sees $1,000,000 in army supplies stolen and three civilian workers arrested on smuggling charges, as police warn criminals may switch off street lights to aid ambushes.
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Associated Press
New York
Fieet National Bank
Pearl River
Great White Way
Broadway
Forty-first Street
Brooklyn Naval Base
Army
Death of Soldier Lawrence H. Robinson Reported
Mr and Mrs T P Robinson of 708 Bluefield Avenue received a telegram that their son Lawrence H Robinson killed in action at the Marne on July 15 1918 will reach Bluefield today. The body will be taken to Lebanon Virginia for funeral and interment.
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T. P. Robinson
Bluefield Avenue
Lawrence H. Robinson
the Marne
Bluefield
Lebanon
New Rule of Visit and Search for Submarines Debated
Washington reports on a naval conference where Elihu Root’s resolution urges submarines to follow established laws of war and protect neutrals. The plan calls for a subcommittee to draft a formal rule of visit and search for merchant vessels, with Balfour backing an amended preamble.
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Associated Press
Washington
Elihu Root
Naval Committee
Root
Arthur J. Balfour
Mr. Balfour
Hughes
Petition Seeks Audit of Clairton Treasurer Accounts
A petition filed in quarter sessions court by six Clairton residents requests an audit of W L Baker treasurer of the People's Party committee alleging his account with the court clerk is not true or correct. Earlier a similar petition sought an audit of J R McVey Citizens' Party treasurer's accounts in Clairton.
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Pittsburg
Clairton
W.L. Baker
People’s Party Committee
Baker
J. R. McVey
Citizens’ Party
Problems Before Arm Conference Standstill
The Washington arm conference naval committee debates proposals to limit submarine warfare and propose humane restrictions on all warfare. Japan and Britain seek clarifications on the four power Pacific treaty and scope while the capital ship agreement nears final form. Sen. King denounces the talks as monumentally failed and hints at a Wilson position.
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Washington
Naval Committee
Navyl
United States
Great Britain
Shantung
France
Japan
Baron Shidehara
Hughes
Arthur J. Balfour
Harding
Oac
Australia
New Zealand
Senate
King
Utah
Borah
Idaho
Joseph Tumulty
Woodrow Wilson
Wilson
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Ilinois
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Naval Committee of Arms Conference
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