Geddes to London for talks on Ireland and rights with Lloyd George
London Jan 18 Ambassdor Geddes journeys to London for talks with Premier Lloyd George on the Irish question and Anglo American relations. Geddes seeks first hand information on key issues including Ireland, indebtedness to America, and Britain’s treaty with Japan. discussions will cover President-elect Harding’s tariff plans shipping and disarmament. Geddes meets Harding and reports on the President-elect’s views.
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London
Lloyd George
Geddes
Downing Street
England
United States
America
Japan
League of Nations
Harding
Paris
Sinn Fein
Secret Service
Universal Service
House of Commons
Sinn
Paris Prisons Crowded Amid Judge Walkout Over Pay
Paris reports overcrowded prisons with criminals awaiting trial as many courts close due to mass resignations by judges protesting low pay. Justices claim salaries trail prison guards by about 21 a month, with a typical judge earning roughly 100 monthly. An exam for judges yielded only two applicants.
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Paris
Disarmament Parley Set For Jan 25 Conference
Paris reports Premier Lloyd George and Premier Brinmi will hold a conference on German disarmament and related issues on January 24. The date had been fixed earlier as January 19 and January 25 was announced as the new meeting date.
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Paris
Lloyd George
Brinmi
Cork Police Station Siege Repulsed After Rifle Bomb Attack
A large armed mob attacked Pollen Station in Cork City for hours using rifles bombs and revolvers. Police officers repulsed the assault after a prolonged fight near Tuckey Street station. Public safety concerns rise after the heavy attack.
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Cork
Pollen Station
Cork, Inn
Tuckey’ Street
JOLT FOR HOME BREW Under old law penalty applies even without sale
Detroit January 18 United States Treasury ruling says home brewed beer manufacture is a violation and subjects the maker to a $1000 penalty even if there is no sale or consumption. John A Grogan Eastern Michigan district collector says the Detroiter can be penalized as a manufacture under the national prohibition act. The penalty mirrors an income tax delinquency charge and does not arise from a criminal case.
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Detroit
Mich
United States ‘Treasury Department
Washington
John A. Grogan
Internal Revenue
Afichigun
Grogan
Treasury Department
Langdon Death Details Suppress Alcohol Claim
Washington reports from the State Department say a Japanese sentry killed Lieut. W. Langdon of the United States cruiser Albany in Vinduvostok. The inquiry is said to establish the circumstances, including that Langdon was an abstainer and not intoxicated, refuting Japanese claims he appeared drunk.
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Washington
W. Nf. Lang
Don
United States
Albany
Vinduvostok
State Department
Board of Investigation
Court of Inquiry
Langdon
Dorf
Citele
Louis Barthon
Aml Dani Doumer
Anunce
Tolinn
Tustice
M. Rannevay
Titeviare
Pierre Marrind
Marine
Gabriel Guisthin
Palile Instruction
Victor Berard
Edmond Lefebvre du Prey
Coimmerce
Lucien Dior
Tihor
Daniel Vinicent
Persinas
Andre Maginot
Pulte Works
Yveste Troquer
Liberated Regions
Louis Loucheur
Barter Girls in California Alarm Armenian Colony
United States immigration commissioner George W. Moore disclosed that six Armenian women were brought to the United States and sold. Tarootlan Selvinn, a wealthy remedor, returned from Armenia with seven women and reportedly bartered six of them to wealthy Armenian colony members. Selvinn claimed marriage to one, while others were sold in Fresno amid bidding with prices ranging from 400 to 2000 dollars.
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Fresno
Gal. Dan
United States
George W. Moore
Tarootlan Selvinn
Remedor
Armenia
Selvian
Orient
Moore
Hess
Chicago May Take Cars Plan for Service Ownership
Chicago, January 18. Mayor Thompson's plan for public ownership of surface lines with a five cent fare was recommended to the city council by the transportation committee. The vote stood four to two in favor, and the report will be submitted to the council today. The administration aims to secure white approval, with the committee not amending the plan despite some backers disliking details.
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Chicago
Thompson
Finme White
Wayor
Harding to Gall Special Session
Washington reports that a called special session of Congress was set for April 4 after talks between Chairman Fordney and President-elect Harding. The farm bill faced ten amendments expanding coverage, drawing heavy debate in the Senate while other measures like tax and tariff reform and the soldiers' bonus faced renewed opposition.
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House
Washington
Snn
Congress
Wars and Means
Marlon
Harding
Uarding
Bite
Vari
Senate
Moroney
Senate Tiance
Tne
Wilson Names League Agent for Geneva Immigration Body
Roland B. Mahanes, solicitor of the Department of Labor, is appointed by President Wilson as American representative on the international commission of Immigration and emigration. The meeting will be in Geneva, Switzerland, on a date set by the League of Nations labor office. This marks the first appointment to League bodies since Senate rejection of the Versailles treaty.
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Washington
Roland B. Mahanes
Department of Labor
Wilson
International Commission of Immigration and Emigration
Geneva
Switzerland
International Labor Office
League of Nations
Senate
Harding refuses March 4 bid for charity ball
President elect and Mrs. Harding decline invitation to attend a charity ball in Washington on March 4 saying a substitute for the discarded Inaugural ball is not proper. The committee will not abandon the plan despite the decision.
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Washington
Jan
Harrison offers to quit as Philippine governor general
Francis Burton Harrison, governor general of the Philippines, said he offered to resign 18 months ago if President Wilson appointed a Filipino as his successor, a claim he made during a banquet in his honor by the Philippine Columbian association.
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Manila
P. 1
Francis Bur ‘Ton Harrison
The
Philippines
Wilson
Harrison
Philippine Columbian Association
Youngmen Net $25,000 Bonds in Bank Robbery
In Warren Ohio on January 18 thieves broke into the North Bloomfield Banking company at North Bloomfield twelve miles away and carried off Liberty bonds and Thrift stamps worth about 25,000. They rifled deposit boxes during the break in.
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Yougmen
Warren
North Bloomfield Banking Company
North Bloomfield
Cabinet Gossip Ties Hays and Lowden to Harding Talks
Will Hays and Frank Lowden joined President elect Harding for day long consultations on cabinet and diplomatic appointments. Lowden, Illinois former governor, is seen as a potential cabinet post or diplomatic mission while Hays may become postmaster general as the cabinet lineup is discussed. Also present were Walter S. Alkey Irving Griswold and Jacob Coxey, with Coxey once leader of Coxey’s Army.
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Marlon
Frank C. Lowden
Illinois
Fardlig
Lowden
Will H. Hays
Harding
Sr. Hays
Walter
Alkey
Kansas City
Rex Publicany
Irving I. Griswold
Plattsburg, N.Y
Jacob
Coxey
Massillon
Mrs C H McCormick Dies In Chicago
Mrs. Cyrus H. McCormick, Chicago society leader and wife of the International Harvester board chairman, died at St Luke s hospital after Gall bladder operation complications. Her husband hurried to her bedside on a special train. Gordon McCormick, her Princeton student son, was en route from Pittsburgh. An operation by Dr L L McArthur on January 4 preceded her hospital care.
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Cyrus H. McCormick
International Harvester Company
St. Luke's Hospital
McCormick
Gordon McCormick
Princeton
Pittsburg
Jin
Mrs. McCormick
L. L. McArthur
Revolt in Ukrainia Reported from Riga
London reports a serious peasant rebellion in Podolis, Ukrainia led by Colonel tifannik. Moscow fears the revolt may spread due to unrest among Ukrainians over grievances not remedied by the soviets.
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London
Riga
Suntay
Moscow
Podolis
Ukrainia
Tifannik
Robbers Halt Auto, Loot $12,000 in Toledo Shootout
Six highwaymen robbed a car carrying New York Central funds in Toledo at noon. Two railroad officers, Louis Schroeder and A. B. Long, were killed while resisting the theft. The gang intercepted the automobile near Union Station, seizing passenger fare receipts and the cash.
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Jno
New York Central — Railroad
Louis Schroeder
A. BE. Long
Union Station
Churchill posts new colonial secretary choose Wilston Chirendl
London January 18 Wilston Spencer Chirendl the wife minister has unofficially accepted the post of secretary of state for the colonies in succession to Viscount Milner who resigned the portfolio January 7.
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London
Wilston Spencer Chirendl
Viscount Milner
London to Versailles Pact Watch as New French Cabinet Forms
Paris press reacts tepidly to the British cabinet and the new French ministers. Briand aims to enforce the Versailles treaty while ministers including Orland, Barthon, Doumer, and Maginot take posts. observers note familiar faces linked to Clemenceau and Poincare amid cautious public sentiment.
Striking Vienna Telegraphs Win Promotions by Qualification
Workers in the Vienna postoffice telegraph and telephone branches strike for three days, with sociodemocratic department employees leading. Government concedes promotion by qualification rather than length of service, applying to permanent and nonpermanent staff alike.
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Vienna
Ian
Postoffiee
No Rise in Soft Coal Seen in Summer Outlook
Misery B. Gordon, secretary of the National Retail Coal Merchants Association, told the executive committee in Chcugs that soft coal will maintain current prices this summer while hard coal is likely to rise. He warned there is no coal shortage.
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Jan
Pelce
Misery B. Gordon
National Retail Coal Merchants’ Association
NAB OFFICIALS ARRESTED IN MUNCIE WHISKEY RING
January 18 reports from Muncie and Indianapolis note thirty arrests in the United States crackdown on Muncie whisky ring. Among those taken into custody are former police commissioners Police Captain George Fox and Leno Wil Unus, former prosecuting attorney Thoms V. Miller, attorney, and wealthy young manufacturer Kenneth Spurgeon, all linked to the whisky operation.
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Muncie
Indy
Deny. Smin
George Fox
Leno Wil- Unus
Attorne Thoms V. Miller
Keneth Spurgeon
Manufac Turer
United States
Munie
Lydia E Pinkham Plant Helps Pottsville Woman
Pottsville resident Mia LaLuie Siepert describes four to five years of female trouble and irregular health. After using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, she reports regaining health, gaining weight, and resumed ability to work. The testimonial urges others to try the product.
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Gydis E. Pinkham
Mia
LaLuie Siepert
Fourth Street
Pottsville
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