Army brutality testimony fails to materialize
Washington January 19 Testimony on brutal treatment of enlisted men in home and foreign prison camps tied to charges soldiers were hanged in France. No evidence supported hangings. Five of ten expected witnesses appeared none. Bruce Bennear claimed no knowledge of the killings. Hearing adjourned with questions remaining on actual deaths.
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Senate Committee
France
Watson
Oreia
Bruce Bennear
Hill Garden
West Virginia
Beanear
Breandegee
Neaves
Gotme
Methuselah Was a Woman Look
Washington reports 1920 Federal census figures showing rising longevity. Centenarians total 4,267, up 712 in ten years, with 2,708 women and 1,861 men in that age bracket. Women outnumber men in every advanced age class from 70s onward.
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Washington
Canned Music Pinched in Hard Times Case
New York scene reports singer John W. Steel of the Ziertein Follies seeks Supreme Court relief on alimony set at $259 a week claiming his income fell from about $88,000 yearly from a phonograph company and other sources amid reduced pay.
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New York
Jan
John W. Steel
Ziertein Follies
Supreme Court
Tanor
Phonograph
Hig. BA
Ziegfeld
Bill to require steel railroad cars in interstate service
Senate bill introduced by Senator Haring of Georgia would force all railroads to use steel passenger cars in interstate service. The measure gives the Interstate Commerce Commission authority to enforce the provision.
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Washington
Senate
Haring
Georgia
Interstate Commerce Commission
Sen E
Stratford Land Planning Board to curb rash development
Stratford officials move toward a town plan governing all real estate surveys and lots. The act requires maps and certificates filed with the town clerk to record lot numbers and owner names, enabling the town council and planning board to ensure developments conform to a master plan and prevent haphazard street openings and “shacks.” Separately, Stratford church members praise a Frederick Blake oil painting memorial to Mrs. L. J. Long in Berean Church, East Main Street Bridgeport, depicting the Jordan River scene and viewable during services.
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Stratford
Town Planning Board
Berean
East Main Street
Bridgeport
Frederick Blake
L. J. Long
Herbert L. Bartram
Plurab and Bartram
Jordan
Farm sale nets Oxford dairy property to Stratford and Brooklyn buyers
George F. Brod of Stratford and John Knox of Brooklyn, N. Y., have purchased a 109 acre Oxford dairy farm from 3B. C. Woodbridge. The deal was arranged by Herbert Wells of Seymour and marks one of the finest dairy properties in the region changing hands.
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Brod
George F. Brod
Stratford
John Knox
Brooklyn
Oxford
Conn
C. Woodbridge
Herbert Wells
Saymour
New Offer to Mediate Packers Strike Coming
Washington dispatch reports the government will formally order renewed mediation to arbitrate the nationwide Packers strike. Cabinet members and congressmen authorized a fresh mediation effort after packing companies rejected the prior proposal as nonprotective.
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Washington
Associated Press
Fleeing Pasha Enver Captured in Caucasus
London reports Enver Pasha, former Turkish minister of war, captured in the Caucasus after fleeing Turkey. Dispatch says he is to be handed over to the Turkish Nationalist government at Angora.
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London
Associated Press
Enver Pasha
Turkey
Caucasus
Constantinople
Angora
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