Commons erupts as two MPs clash over Irish crisis
In London two MPs, Joseph Devlin and Major John Molson, scuffled during a Commons inquiry into Ireland. The row disrupted the session before Molson apologized and the debate resumed. Separately, Eamonn De Valera in New York warned Britain of Irish retaliation for Dublin killings. In Cork a submerged officer’s body was found with bullet wounds as troops remained active.
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London
House of Commons
Joseph Devila
John Molson
Major Molson
Devlin
Homer Greenwood
Ireland
Dublin
William Henry Davidson
Mr. Devlin
Major Molson Flarose
Deviin
New York
Eamonn de Valera
Irish Republic
Sinn
Cork
Lin
Irish arrests spread to councils and Galway college
In many towns documents belonging to local councils were seized. In Galway those detained included Professor O Bri an and numerous college students. Nearby houses in Galway were burned including Mrs Delia O Conor and her recently returned US resident home. George Nurnaghan, a noted Sinn Fein supporter and north Ireland solicitor, was arrested in Omagh. Constable Ryan, kidnapped in Cork on Sunday, has been released.
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Listowel
Clonmel
Galway
Professor O'Brian
Delia O'Connor
Ireland
United States
George Nurnaghan
North Ireland
Omagh
Constable Ryan
Cork
General agreement expected at international conference
Washington says American officials expect agreement on key issues at the international communications conference within days. Principles include abolishing cable monopolies on the east coast of South America, equal landing rights in cables, and fair distribution of German cables among allied powers. The Yap island issue is tied to equal landing rights to safeguard American interests and prevent discrimination by Japan as the Yap administrator.
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Washington
South America
Yap
Pacific
Japan
Plans for a Farmers Conference in St Louis
The National Board of Farm Organizations met in Washington to discuss plans for a farmers conference in St Louis on December 16. They favored early passage of laws legalizing cooperative marketing and saw War Finance Corporation reestablishment as potential relief. They also discussed candidates for secretary of agriculture but did not name anyone.
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Washington
National Board of Farm Organizations
St. Louis
War Finance Corporation
Neely Withdraws Contest in First District Race
Congressman M M Neely of Fairmont Democrat withdraws his bid to contest the first district race after defeat by Benjamin Rosenbloom. He cited unlikely gains and decided to drop the contest in Marion county court. Neely had claimed a lead of about 1450 votes in the district.
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Fairmont
W. Va
M. M. Neely
Benjamin Rosenbloom
Marion County
Central American Union Convention Planned for May Fifteenth
Washington reports that a convention to study political and constitutional questions for the Central American Union will meet May 15 at a later announced venue. An executive committee of foreign ministers from five Central American nations will oversee the proceedings with each country sending twenty five delegates.
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Washington
Thanksgiving Pardons Expected by President Wilson
President Wilson faces several clemency appeals with Justice Department recommendations for pardons. Officials anticipate the usual Thanksgiving grants to be issued in the coming days.
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Washington
Wilson
Department of Justice
Gasoline output hits record in September 1920
Washington reports that September 1920 set all time gasoline output records. Refineries averaged 15,000,000 gallons daily, lifting nine month total to 3.5 billion gallons, up from 2.98 billion gallons in the same period of 1919.
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Washington
Bureau of Mines
Building trust probe wins first court test in New York
The joint legislative committees probing the alleged building trust scored a court victory as Supreme Court Justice Hotchkiss denied a motion to quash service of a subpoena on Elizabeth O'Dess, an employee of the builders' supply bureau, in New York on November 22.
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New York
Building Trust
Supreme Court
Hotchkiss
Elizabeth O'Des
Builders ‘Supply Bureau
Harding 10 GWE Up Senate Seat Suk After January 1
President-elect Harding plans a short Washington stay after returning from Panama then goes to Marion to resign from the Senate around January 1. Daugherty says he invited senators to confer on the league of nations and other matters with no fixed schedule.
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Washington
Reed
Missouri
Pomerone
Ohio
Shields
Tennesse
Harding
League of Nations
Panama
Harry M. Daugherty
Daugherty
Borah
Johnson
California
Lodge
Knox
Poindexter
Herbert Hoover
Marion
Rome
Mr. Daugherty
Newport News
Senate
Davis
Willis
Parismina
Associated Press
Cristobal
Panama Canal Zone
Canal Zone
New Orleans
Colon
Mr. Harding
Meyer Says Most Bankers Back War Finance Revival
Eugene Meyer Jr former managing director of the War Finance Corporation announces in Chicago that hundreds of bankers he spoke with during a Calder committee trip through the central west have endorsed reviving the War Finance Corporation with one exception. He says business conditions in the area are serious and urgent action is needed to restore sound financing.
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War Finance Corporation
Chicago
Eugene Meyer, Jr
Central West
Calder Senate Committee On Reconstruction
The
Finance Corporation
Meyer
MORE DISORDERS IN MINGO STRIKE ZONE
Unidentified shooters fired at the White Star Mining tipple in Merrimac within Mingo county coal strike areas. Miners and tipple workers escaped injury as Sheriff Showards of Kentucky prepared deputies to patrol Tug river borders after militia withdrawal. A separate incident near Chattaroy saw three imported workers from Standard Thaker Coal Company assaulted by an unidentified mob and escape.
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Williamson
W. Va
Kentuky
Tug River
White Star Mining Company
Merrimac
Mingo County
Showards
Eet
Prae
Kentucky
Chattaroy
Probe of M Case Asked in Mooney Fraud Claim
San Francisco District Attorney Brady asked the grand jury to investigate statements by police officer Hand and others that Thomas J. Mooney and Warren K. Billings were convicted in the 1916 Preparedness Day bombing through fraud. A letter allegedly showing a witness admitting false testimony was presented to the jury.
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San Francisco
Matthew Brady
Grand Jury
Hand
Thomas J. Mooney
Warren K. Billings
Mooney
Blonde Woman Murder Suspect Sought in Philadelphia
Police broadcast requests tonight for the arrest of a blonde woman driving a big red car in connection with the killing of Henry T. Pierce eastern manager of the Insley Manufacturing Company. Pierce was found dead behind his office with his head crushed by a wrench. the car reportedly bore Pennsylvania license 122 206.
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Philadelphia
Henry T. Pierce
Insley Manufacturing Company
Pierce
Pennsylvania
Aged Pythian James Wesley Fisher Dies in Steubenville
James Wesley Fisher aged 85, longtime member of Steuben Lodge No. 1 Knights of Pythias, died at his Steubenville home after a weeklong illness. He had been in declining health for about two years, and was one of the charter members of the lodge organized in March 1869.
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Steubenville
Ohio
James Wesley Fisher
United States
Steuben Lodge No. 1
Knights of Pythies
Dr Woodford Hinzman Dies From Tuberculosis
Dr Woodford Hinzman longtime physician at the West Virginia Tuberculosis Sanitarium Terra Alta died at 9 AM from tuberculosis. Survived by widow Ella Hinzman two sisters Mrs A B Sutton Weston and Mrs Carl Walker Austinburg Ohio and brother J Hinz Weston. Interment Wednesday at 10 30 in Hackers Creek Odd Fellows cemetery.
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Clarksburg
W. Va
Woodford Hinzman
West Virginia
Terra Alta
Woodford Hingman
Lewis County Medical Association
Ella Hinzman
A. B. Sutton
Weston
Carl Walker
Austinburg
Ohio
J. Hinz
Odd Fellows Cemetery
Hackerscreek
Lewis Defeats Zbyzko In Catch Wrestling Match
Ed Lewis of Lexington Ky defeated Wlade Zbyzko of Poland with a flying head-lock in one hour twenty five minutes and forty five seconds. Lewis earned the right to fight Joe Stecher of Dodge Neb the world champion who had earlier thrown Leon ODonnell of France in eleven minutes forty seconds with a body scissors and arm hold.
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Lewis
Zbyzko
New York
Strangler) Lewis
Lexington
Wlade Zbyzko
Poland
Joe Stecher
Dodge
Neb
Leon O'Donnell
France
States Represented on Train to Mexico City Inauguration
Five states California Arizona Texas New York and Illinois will be represented by delegations on a special train leaving Nogales Arizona November 25 to witness General Alvaro Obregon's inauguration as president of Mexico on December 1. A car will carry Mexican citizens from Sonora Sinaloa and Nayarit.
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Nogales
Ariz
Mexico City
Alvaro Obregon
Mexico
California
Arizona
Texas
New York
Illinois
Sonora
Sinaloa
Nayarit
Weirton Steel Opens Furnaces. 750 More Jobs Noted
The Weirton Steel Company in Weirton West Virginia announced three of seven new open hearth furnaces began operation today. The first metal was poured this afternoon and the remaining furnaces will start up later in the week as the Blooming mill and other departments begin, bringing total employment to 750 additional men.
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Weirton
W. Va
Weirton Steel Company
Blooming Mill
$1200 Found on Alleged Bandits
Roanoke Virginia November 22. William Porter alias William Harris and Charles Carter held in connection with the Glasgow bank robbery last Friday. A search found $1200 on Porter and Carter in bandages and linings. Police recovered $456 on James Rodgers and bonds in a barracks.
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Roanoke
William Porter
Alies
William Harris
Charles Carter
Glasgow
Porter
James Rodgers
Retiro
Liberty
Filth and misery aboard refggee ships shocks world
Constantinople report describes ninety or more Bosphorus ships as floating hospitals and mad houses. refugees suffer extreme filth, disease, thirst, and despair as death rates rise from cold and undernourishment. American Red Cross and Near East Relief mobilize aid amid fears of cannibalism and mass tragedy. Greece agrees to receive 30,000 Crimean refugees.
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Associated Press
Constantinople
Bosphorus
American Red Cross
Near East
Rollef
Stamboul
Paris
Athens
Smallpox Serum Rush to Haiti From Navy
Secretary Daniels announced the naval hospital of Washington rushed smallpox serum to Haiti for the epidemic there. Rear Admiral Knapp reported over 300 cases with only one death so far, while Haitian doctors initially denied the outbreak and are not assisting.
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Washington
Navy
Naval Hospital
Haiti
Daniels
Kapapp
Knapp
Executive Pledges Full Support Against Plague
The executive vows to lend every assistance possible to combat the plague, mobilizing resources and coordinating agencies to curb the outbreak and protect public health.
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Executive
Sister Asks to be Heard on Shipping Board Inquiry
New York reports Lester Sister urged Representative Joseph Walsh to allow her to testify before a House committee investigating the Shipping Board. Sister, a former secretary, faces accusations of collusion in securing contracts for the Wallace Downey Shipbuilding Co. of New York, which are denied by Silver.
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New York
Lester Sister
Joseph Walsh
House Aoe
Sisiler
Tucker K. Sands
Wallace Downey Shipbuilding Company
Ty Sivler
Non-Partisan League Eyes 1922 Role After Governor Vote
Charleston reports Samuel B. Montgomery’s gubernatorial vote nearing 80,000 with several counties missing. Supporters call the result an irreducible minimum and say the Non-Partisan League will permanetly organize and actively shape the 1922 election.
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Charleston
W. Va
Samuel B. Montgomery
League
Montgomery
State Executive Committee
Boy Saves Brother From Giant Eagle Attack
In Glenda Wyoming on November 22 eight year old Walter Spaulding fought a giant eagle in a ranch yard. He grabbed the bird by the neck while John seven and another boy Milo helped. Mrs Spaulding struck the bird with a stick. Mr Spaulding arrived with a shotgun and killed the eagle. Walter and his brother suffered severe claw lacerations.
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Glenda
Wyo
Spaulding
Walter Spaulding
Walter
John
Milo
Mr. Spaulding
Meteor Explodes Near Howesville Shocks Preston County
Morgantown West Virginia November reports say a large meteor fell near Howesville five miles south of Kingwood striking in the business district by the rail station. The blast damaged an automobile and left occupants dazed but unharmed. No telephone service in Howesville delayed details.
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Morgantown
W. Va
Kingwood
Preston County
Howesville
Howeesville
Greek Cabinet Appointments Named in Athens Dispatch
Athens dispatch reports three new Greek cabinet members named today. M. Baltedji becomes minister of communication, M. Bousios takes over agriculture, and M. Vasilikia is appointed minister of justice.
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Paris
Athens
M. Baltedji
M. Bousios
M. Vasikia
Children of Refugees Reach New York
Two elf named boys and girls, children of officers on General Baron Wrangel's staff, flee Crimea after Bolshevik defeat and are cared for at the Near East Relief Trachoma W Hospital in Constantinople.
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New York
Baron Wrangel
Crimea
Trachoma W Hospital
Coonstantinople
Eight-Hour Day Granted to Inside Pumpmen
Philadelphia November 22. Under a ruling of the anthracite board of conciliation inside pumpmen in hard coal mines were awarded an eight hour day with the same pay minus twenty cents as now received for twelve hours.
Francis E. Nichols Paralyzed in West Virginia
Fairmont West Virginia November 22 Francis E Nichols prominent in Masonic circles and former state officer lies at death's door from effects of a stroke He is about seventy years old.
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Francis E. Nichols
Fairmont
W. Va
West Virginia
George M. Smith Dead Tribune editor dies in New York home
George M. Smith longtime managing editor of the New York Tribune died suddenly at his home in New York on November 22 from ptomaine poisoning complicated by heart disease. He had been ill since the previous Tuesday.
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George M. Smith
New York
New York “Tribune
League Assembly Votes To Appeal For Mediation In Armenia
Geneva November 22 The League of Nations assembly votes unanimously to appeal to powers for mediation between Turkish nationalists led by Mustapha Kemal Pasha and Armenians. M Viviani presses for prompt action while Mr Balfour resists, Dr Nansen urges an expeditionary force if needed. The council met but took no formal step.
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Associated Press
Geneva
Assembly of the
League of Nations
Mustapha Kemal Pasha
M. Viviani
France
Council of the League
League
Lord Robert Cecil
A. J. Balfour
Rene Vivian
Hjalmar Branting
Fridtjof Nansen
J. Dougherty
Canada
M. Stalatych
Jugo-Slovakia
Mr. Balfour
League Council
Armenia
United States
Robert Cecil
Hy. l L. Fisher
M. Vivian
Dr. Nansen
Wepah Kemal Pasha
Kemal Pasha
Gaston de Cunha
M. le Fontaine
Belgium
Hialmar Branting
Balfour
Dr. da Cunha
Brazil
Assembly
Harding
Foreign Committee
French Repulse Near Tarsus In November Report
A fragmented World War I dispatch states French forces repulsed an attack northeast of Tarsus near Constantinople in November. The report suggests significant enemy pressure and potential casualties though details are unclear.
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Constantinople
Tarsus
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Neely
Gwe
Pomerone and Shields
Mingo
Tipple
Sailants
Non-Partisan League
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