Fordney tariff bill delayed as new obstacles arise
Senate delay on the Fordney emergency tariff bill sparks new opposition amid filibuster charges. Senator King delivers a four hour speech on Russia, with debates over cloture petitions and shifting focus to big appropriation bills. Leaders expect action to lay aside the tariff and move to money measures from the house.
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Russia
Washington
Senate
King
Utah
Penrose
Ashurst
Arizona
Thomas
Colorado
Pennsylvania
McCumber
North Dakota
Ashurst Troken
France
Maryland
House
Sir Merton Russell Cotes Dies in London
London obituaries report Sir Merton Russell Cotes, noted art connoisseur and collector, has died in London aged notable for his contributions to art collection and public museums.
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Merton Russell Cotes
London
Sir Merton Russell Cotes
Mutineers on Japanese Steamer Quelled by Rifle Fire
In Norfolk at Lamberts Point early tonight thirty seven Chinese seamen aboard the Tiaho Maru attempted desertion after denying shore leave and overpowering officers. A volley of rifle shots wounded Kwok Yow, alleged leader, fatally or probably fatally, as police and guards moved in to control the crew.
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Norfolk
Norfolk and Western Railroad
Lamberts Point
Muutineers
Kwok Yow
Wife Seeks Divorce From Eugene Stecher
Philadelphia January 28 Mrs Frieda Stecher wife of Eugene Ike Stecher who is in Germany with draft evader Grover Cleveland Bergdoll has filed for divorce. It is said she has received neither money nor word from him since his flight and has tried to obtain passports to Germany to live with her parents in Saxony but was refused.
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Philadelphia
Frieda Stecher
Eugene
Ike) Stecher
Germany
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll
Saxony
Coolidge Visits Atlanta Penitentiary During Trip
Vice President elect Coolidge spent two hours at the federal penitentiary in Atlanta accompanied by Mrs Coolidge and Governors Dorsey of Georgia and Parker of Louisiana. He did not speak with prisoners, but toured the facility as part of a penitentiary visit while attending the Southern Tarif Congress.
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Coolidge
Atlanta
Federal Penitentiary
Dorsey
Georgia
Parker
Louisiana
Daniels Ordered to Revoke His Order
Washington January 28 Secretary Daniels was ordered by the DC Supreme Court to revoke a November 1919 order placing Lt Cmdr George A Berry on the inactive list. The secretary must allow Berry to appear before a naval retirement board to claim line of duty injury and retirement with normal pay. The ruling is the first in a set of about six hundred similar cases.
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Washington
Daniels
Siddons
District of Columbia Supreme Court
George A. Berry
Naval Reserve
Naval Secretary
Berry
Naval Retirement Board
Col Elisha Theall Dies At Naval Hospital
Col Elisha Theall United States Marine Corps died at the naval hospital from complications following an automobile accident a year ago. Secretary Daniels described him as one of the most capable and efficient officers in the service. He lived in Washington. The death occurred today after the accident last year.
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Elisha Theall
Washington
United States Marine Corps
Daniels
Naval Hospital
Temporary State House Under Roof
Charleston West Virginia January 28. Carpenters completed roofing of the temporary state capitol building under construction near the executive mansion grounds. Secretary of State Houston G Young reports space plans for all departments and a block long central hallway from Capitol to Summers streets. Salvage operations continue for records from the burned old building with $100000 in films found in the photo graphic division of the agriculture department.
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Charleston
W. Va
State Capitol
Executive Mansion
Houston G. Young
Young
Capitol
Summers Streets
Capitol Street
State House
Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Department
Carpenter Walt Lilly Sentenced in Illicit Distilling Case
Walter Lilly a Raleigh County carpenter pleaded guilty at a recent federal term in Bluefield to illicit distilling. Judge Edwin Y Webb presided in Charleston with Judge Miller absent ill and sentenced Lilly to six months in jail. He traveled from North Carolina to oversee in the absence of Judge Miller.
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Charleston
W. Va
Walter Lilly
Raleigh County
Bluefield
Edwin Y. Webb
North Carolina
Miller
Plot to Kill Day Law Enforcement Officers
State Solicitor Henry Jones said sufficient evidence shows a murder gang planned to exterminate all officers of the law who might raid moonshine operations in Tuscumbia Alabama. He cited statements from two suspects related to the killing of one prohibition officer and wounding of two others during a raid.
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Tuscumbia
Ala
Henry Jones
Here
Prohibition
Bandits Hold Up Union Station Cash Haul
In Tampa on January 28 two men robbed the Union Station main office of the American Railway Express Company taking 19700 in cash and two merchandise packages. They fled with a confederate in an automobile.
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Tampa
Fla
Union Station
American Railway Express Company
Paderewski Resigns Polish Delegate to League
Ignace Jan Paderewski former Polish premier resigns as Polish delegate to the League of Nations. He sent the letter from Switzerland and the government Accepted the resignation.
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Warsaw
Ignace Jan Paderewski
Poland
League of Nations
Switzerland
Matewan Trial Juryman Cousin of Jack Dempsey
In Williamson West Virginia on January 28 1920 jurors for the Matewan killings trial are named with seven accepted of seventy six examined. Juror Lark Smith William Dempsey and John Fayley join W C Colvin M C Dingess J Elkins and F F Tiller with Dempsey a second cousin of heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey. The six other murder charges will be pursued after this trial ends.
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Williamson
W. Va
Mingo
Albert C. Felts
Matewan
James Damron
Isaac Brewer
Felts
Brewer
Lark Smith
William Dempsey
John Fayley
W. C. Colvin
M. C. Dingess
J. Elkins
F. F. Tiller
Senate OKs repeal of anti boxing law in Topeka
In Topeka Kansas on January 28 the senate passed a bill repealing the anti boxing law and allowing ten round no decision bouts. The action marks a shift in local combat sports regulation and enables professional boxing events subject to state approval.
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Topeka
Kas
Senate
Watkins Attacks Calder Bill Over Coal Profiteering Claims
Thomas H. Watkins, head of the Pennsylvania Coal and Coke Co, testifies before the senate committee on the Calder bill to regulate coal industries. He disputes Senator Calder’s charge of a one and a half billion dollar loss, citing estimates that profiteering could have affected at most 600 million. He criticizes the bill as hysterical and political. LaFollette sets hearings to close. supporters expect a favorable majority report with tax tweaks and a potential vote this session.
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Washington
Senator Calder
Republican
New York
Thomas H. Watkins
Pennsylvania Q Coal and Coke Corporation
Senate
Calder
Watkins
LaFollette
Manufacturers Committee
Six Negroes Locked Up in Arkansas After Mississippi Murder Suspect Lynch
Six negroes five white men and a woman were arrested near Terrell in Crittenden county as accomplices in the escape of Henry Lowry a negro alleged murderer from Nodena county Mississippi. Lowry was lynched on Wednesday and the group arrived in Little Rock today taken to the state penitentiary for safekeeping.
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Little Rock
Ark
Jen
Terrell
Crittenden County
Henry Lowry
Nodena County
Miss
State Penitentiary
Lowry
J C Mohler Dies in Charleston at 51
J C Mohler prominent lumberman and Masonic leader in Charleston died today at age 51. He is survived by a sister Mrs Fannie Martin of Huntington. Masonic lodges will conduct funeral services Sunday at 2 PM in Charleston.
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J. C. Mohler
Charleston
W. Va
Wheeling
Fannie Martin
Huntington
Man Named Simmons Faces Trial After Eighteen Years
Clarence Simmons also known as Jackson Smyth is on federal trial in Oklahoma City for horse theft and for firing the shot that wounded Deputy U.S. Marshal Wiley Haines during a 1903 gun fight near Pawhuska. Principal Osage witness William Watson identified Simmons as the horse thief.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Clarence Simmons
Jackson J. Smyth
Oklahoma
Simmons
Pawhuska
Martin
Wiley Haines
United States
Haines
William Watson
Verdun Medal Design Chosen for City Honor
John Flanagan of New York is selected by the War Department to design the Verdun medal commemorating the fortress defense by French troops during the war in the name of Congress.
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Verdun
Washington
John Flanagan
New York
War Department
Congress
President Grant Adrift After Gale Blocks Harbor
A special dispatch from Danzig reports the American steamer President Grant carrying 1400 Americans of the demobilized Polish army went adrift in a heavy gale and now blocks the harbor entrance at Berlin on January 28.
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Grant
Berlin
Danzig
President Grant
United States
German Reparations Pact Near Final Agreement
A committee of experts for the Allied supreme council tentatively resolves on Germany’s reparations plan, with annual payments and annuities tied to Germany’s foreign trade. The scheme may span about forty two years with a sliding scale from 2 to 6 billion gold marks and a 12.5 percent ad valorem tax on exports to satisfy creditors.
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Associated Press
Peril
Committee of Experts
Allied Supreme Council
Germany
Supreme Council
Brussels
Briand
Conference of the Supreme Council
Paris
Archbishop of Liverpool Dies Sends Vacancies Across Britain
London January 28 reports the death of Dr Thomas Whiteside archbishop of Liverpool. With his passing all Roman Catholic sees in Great Britain are now vacant except Westminster and Edinburgh.
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Liverpool
London
Thomas Whiteside
Great Britain
Westminster
Edinburg
Army Budget Storm Over Pentagon 150000 Goal
Washington January 28 storm warnings rose in the House as the appropriations committee proposed an army bill for 150000 men next year. Republicans vowed to fight the cut below 175000, while President Wilson’s stance on the 175000 resolution remained unsettled. Chairman Kahn warned against dropping below 176000 and indicated Harding favored the 150000 figure only as a future aim.
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Washington
House
Appropriations Committee
Anthony
Appropriations
Senate
White House
War Department
Wilson
Congress
Kahn
Military Committee
Harding
Marion
New England Railroads Refuse 12 Million Gift Offer
Washington heard W H Williams testify that New England railroads rejected a 12 million dollar cut proposed by trunk line executives to stabilize credit. Williams described talks with West of Hudson leaders and New York New Haven and Hartford and Boston and Maine presidents to settle joint freight rate disputes and finance annual deficits.
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New England
Washington
Trunk Line
Interstate Commerce Commission
W. H. Williams
Wabash Railroad
Hudson River
Rea
Pennsylvania
Maher
Norfolk and Western
Pearson
New York
New Haven
Hartford
Hustis
Boston
Maine
Trunk
Federal Commission
Brackett Named Executive VP of Northern West Virginia Coal Group
George S. Brackett of Fairmont was elected executive vice president and secretary of the Northern West Virginia Coal Operators' Association to succeed George T. Bell, who resigned. Bell will relocate to Washington.
Brines Acquitted in Dartmouth Death Case
William P. Brines, a University of Pennsylvania sophomore, was acquitted of killing Elmer C. Drewes. The jury found insufficient evidence connecting Brines to Drewes’s death, noting the case relied on circumstantial proof and an uncorroborated car sighting. The verdict was unanimous and delivered immediately after deliberations.
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Philadelphia
William P. Brines
Elmer C. Drewes
University of Pennsylvania
Dartmouth College
Ferguson
Criminal Court
Brines
Drewes
Germantown
Salary fight over Ireland minister in diplomatic bill
In Washington on January 28 the house blocked an amendment to provide a $10,000 salary for a minister to Ireland on grounds of lack of authority and no executive recognition. Rep Mason argued policy should be debated by Congress, while Pres Wilson’s stance on recognition remained uncertain. The discussion touched salaries for ministers to Finland and the Serbs Croats and Slovenes and adjustments to Turkey and Tokyo embassy posts.
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Washington
Republic of Ireland
Mason
Illinois
Foreign Affairs Committee
Ireland
Rogers
Club-Committee of Appropriations
House
Towner
Iowa
Congress
Representative Connally
Texas
Harding
Mr. Mason
Wilson
Finland
Turkey
Czecho-Slovakia
Poland
Tokio
Peking
Housing Conference Links Building Shortage to Moral Well being
Washington attendees at a national housing conference urged investigation of illegal combinations in the building industry and punishment for guilty parties. The group called the current housing shortage a grave menace and pressed manufacturers contractors and retailers to reduce construction costs to enable timely building.
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Washington
National Council of the Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Japanese Reply Not Yet Renewed on Langdon Shooting
Tokyo dispatch notes Japanese government regrets Langdon death and will provide reparations as circumstances require. It emphasizes impartial investigation and promises measures to prevent recurrence. Washington says the Tokio note may be a new communication not yet received. no new points on Siberian policy are raised.
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Langdon
Associated P Tokio
Warren G. Langdon
Vladivostok
Washington
Siberia
Windivostok
Japan
Russia
Asahi Shimbun
Associated Press
Tokio
State Department
United States
Viedivostok
W. H. Langdon
Mexico Adopts More Conciliatory Attitude
Unofficial advices indicate the Obregon government paused current land claims and barred new filings by nonowners at Tuxpam Vera Cruz. The move follows a State Department protest over Mexican encroachment on American oil rights and signals a softer stance toward U.S. investors.
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Washington
Mexico
State Department
Obregon
Tuxpam
Vera Cruz
Mooney Reports on Pan-Amer Labor Conference Trip
Fred Mooney secretary treasurer of district 17 United Mine Workers with headquarters in Charleston returned from Mexico City where he represented his district at the Pan-Amer labor conference which began January 10. He said Mother Jones and Mooney were guests of President Obregon during the conference.
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Charleston
W. Va
Fred Mooney
United Mine Workers
Mexico City
Jones
Ac Mooney
Obregon
Mooney
Belgian cargo ship Cannonier reaches New York after distress
The Belgian cargo steamship Cannonier, reported in distress last Wednesday, arrived at New York harbor with its crew detailing two months of hardship, sickness, and waiting. The skipper steered the ship into port and provided the full account of the voyage.
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Cannonier
New York
Nonier
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Fordney
Jack Dempsey
Albert Felts
Watking Attnges
MR. Kahn
Dartmouth
America
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