Secrecy Budget’s Keynote Sparks Capitol Rumpus
In Wyoming legislature the budget bill H R 118 triggered a heated session in committee of the whole with an executive meeting that barred reporters and staff. Democratic leader Thurman Arnold led a caucus after a minority walkout as turmoil intensified on the measure for state expenses and salary raises.
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OME
Ways and Means Committee
Wyoming
Chamber
House
Star Chamber
Minority
Thurman W. Arnold
Private detectives linked to bombing outrages
Charles Recht, a New York lawyer, suggested private detective agencies were partly responsible for bomb outrages. He said they benefit by “keeping the pot boiling” and cited a confession to a reputed Chicago lawyer by a detective agency employee who said he was hired to write threatening letters.
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Ashington
Charles Recht
New York
Chicago
House Ready to Fight for Little Army
Wesey ton February 1 The House debated a 328000000 army appropriation bill and pledged to resist any move to raise enlisted personnel above 160000 The sub committee chair Anthony said reductions target waste and extra vance in the military establishment He claimed an army of 150000 with about 14000 officers would suffice and that the National Guard would gain in value with War Department support After March 4 the army size would be reduced he asserted
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Wesey Ton
House
Anthony
National Guard
War Department
Wrath of Convict Debs Aims at Wilson in Socialist Rhetoric
The statement from Eugene V. Debs, jailed under espionage law, rejects a Wilson commutation. He says he would not seek parole and remains unrepentant, claiming the president is a discredited figure and criticizing postwar policy and education funding.
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Atlanta
Eugene V. Debs
Woodrow Wilson
Ana Selon Eeri
Indpendents Win Access to Hearings on Railroad Rules
In Chicago on February 1 seven independent employee organizations were admitted as parties to hearings before the railroad labor board on rules and working conditions, despite opposition from AFL affiliated railroad brotherhoods. Board decision hailed as victory for independents. brothers claim they represent all workers. About 150000 men belong to these independent groups.
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Hicago
American Federation of Labor
Railroad Labor Board
B. M. Jewell
Railway
Brotherhoods
Mrs. Harding Begins White House Wardrobe Selection
Mrs. W. G. Harding spent eight hours in a hotel suite reviewing gowns fabrics and accessories as she chose contents for the White House wardrobe. A tea gown and an evening gown in blue were selected with no foreign frills cited and American jewels highlighted.
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New York
W. G. Harding
White House
Mrs. Harding
Body of Unknown World War II Hero to Rest at Arlington
In a House Military Committee reading, Secretary Baker suggests bringing a body from Flanders Field to Arlington's amphitheater as a symbolic interment. He envisions the site becoming America's Westminster Abbey for its heroic dead and cites General Lejeune's wartime leadership of the Second Division.
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Flanders Field
UEWN
America
Lejeune
House Military Committee
Baker
Arlington Amphitheater
Westminster Abbey
Denver Ice Cream to Be Mixed Here
Corbett Ice Cream of Denver will open a Cheyenne factory on West Seventeenth Street in the old Salvation Army building. The facility will produce Denver style ice cream for Cheyenne and surrounding markets and may include cold storage.
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Cheyenne
Denver
Corbett Ice Cream Company of
Salvation Army
West Seventeenth Street
Laramie
Premier declines reply on arrests of communists in France
In the chamber of deputies Premier Bri refused to answer Deputy Berthon's interpellation about communist arrests in France including Abramovitch known as Dr Zalensky, alleged Trotzky agent. Police said Abramovitch received ten thousand francs from Berlin via an American Express check in Paris that was not honored due to deceptive form.
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Briand
Chamber of Deputies
Berthon
France
Abramovitch
Zalensky
Trotzky
Supreme Council
Berlin
Nice
Otto Markiewicz
American Express
Paris
Dillon Blocks Riverton Split in Fremont County Fight
John Dillon of Lander argued the Pilot county plan split Fremont unfairly and would harm his hometown. The Wyoming Senate voted 14 to 8 to abandon the Riverton division for at least two years, with Dillon asserting voter intent favored no division and urging a Sublette route instead.
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John Dillon
Lander
Cheyenne
State Senate
Riverton
Fremont County
Senate
Pilot County
Dillon
Continental Divide
Sublette
Dent-Elect to Pay Income Tax on Salary
President-elect Warren G. Harding will receive about $75,000 a year, but the internal revenue office says he must pay nearly a quarter in taxes. The note contrasts with Woodrow Wilson who was exempt from income tax as president before the 1918 revenue laws.
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Ashington
Warren G. Harding
Woodrow Wilson
Treasury
Harding
Wilson
Internal Revenue Office
Supreme Court
Sheriff Seeks Public Help in Missing Misses Search
UCSON Ariz Feb 1 Sheriff Ben Daniels appealed for help from every automobile owner to aid in locating Miss Margaret Seil and her cousin Miss Tena S Brockmeyer 20 who have been missing from their home since January 23 in the area.
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Ucson, Ariz
Ben Daniels
Margaret Seil
Tena S. Brockmeyer
Dinneen Claims Gas Price Cut Long Ago
W E Dinneen disputes a Tribune story asserting rising gas prices in Cheyenne He says he has sold gasoline at 32 cents a gallon for nearly two months and has advertised the price in the Tribune.
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Dinneen
W.E. Dinneen
the Tribune
Cheyenne
Mr. Dinneen
Tribune
Woman with Smallpox Births Baby at Camp
Rock River Wyoming February 1 Mrs A O Orr wife of an Ohio Oil Company camp worker at Rock Creek field is ill with smallpox. She gave birth to a son on January 18 and the infant has contracted the disease. Friends are alarmed by the mother's condition.
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Rock River
Wyo
A. O. Orr
Ohio Ol Company
Rock Creek
President Wilson Cheered at Theatre Return
President Wilson and Mrs. Wilson attended a theater performance of John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln in Washington. The president, entering through a stage door, was recognized by the audience which arose and cheered as he moved to a lower box.
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Ashington
Wilson
Plaintiff Sues Henry Ford Over Libelous Dearborn Independent
Morris Gest, theatrical producer, files a 5 million dollar Praecipe in circuit court asserting an January 22 Dearborn Independent article libeled him and his productions Aphrodite and Mecca. The piece accused Gest of pandering to debased tastes and cited his immigrant background and past as a ticket speculator.
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Hicago
Henry Ford
The
Dearborn Independent
Circuit Court Today
Morris Gest
Independent
Gest
Mecca
Boston
Officers Descend on Shoshoni In Broad Raid
In Shoshoni Wyoming on February 1 Sheriff W S Burch and assistants including two federal agents raided pool halls disorderly houses and soft drink parlors arresting 86 people and seizing multiple trucks of equipment liquor and gambling devices Five women were told to leave town or accompany the sheriff to Lander and all raids were conducted simultaneously as doors were locked and suspects detained.
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Shoshoni
Wyo
Burch
Grand Jury Probes 1919 World Series Indictments In Chicago
Chicago, Feb 1. State's Attorney Robert E Crowe reports a grand jury investigation into claims that indictments against eight Chicago players in the 1919 World Series were to be pigeonholed and the men not tried. Witnesses include Maclay Hoyne and Hartley Repologle. Crowe says trials will proceed quickly.
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Chicago
Robert E. Crowe
Maclay Hoyne
George T. Kenney
Thomas D Nash
Hartley Repologle
Henry Serger
L. G. Edwardson
New York
Nash
Crowe
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