Salaries Increase Now Issue Passes House Committee
The joint Ways and Means Committee proposed a comprehensive salary hike totaling 84000 yearly, including doubling the Governor’s salary to 8000. The plan raises elected and many appointive officials and deputies with varied effective dates. Key figures: Governor 8000, Attorney General 4800, Engineer 4800, Land Commissioner 4800, Education Commissioner 4800, Secretary of State 4000, Auditor 4000, Treasurer 4000, State Superintendent 4000, Game and Fish Commissioner 3000, others 2700. Debate featured strong rhetoric and signals of possible Senate changes to retain some increases.
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Joint
Ways and Means Committee
House
Underwood
Senate
DeLoney
State Department
Wyoming Weather Forecast Partly Cloudy Weekend
Partly cloudy conditions expected Saturday and Sunday across Wyoming with little temperature change. No significant precipitation anticipated.
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Wyoming
Tre mont Trust Bank Closed Amid Conspiracy Claim
Tremont Trust Company remained closed as vice president Simon Swig blamed a conspiracy for the shutdown. He said the bank holds 17 million dollars in vaults and depositors would be paid in full despite the closure. The suspension caused little reaction in banking circles.
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Oston
Tremont Trust Company
Simon Swig
Caruso Improvenses After Son’s Smile Helps Recovery
New York reports the tenor Caruso shows improvement after four days of severe illness. Secretary Zirato says the turning point came when Harico Junior, from Indiana military school, visited and his son's smile renewed the singer's will to live. Gloria, 14 months old, delighted him with the new word pretty.
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Bruno Zirato
Hnrico Junior
Indiana Military School
Credi
Caruso
Zirato
Harico
Gloria
Knights of Pythias Celebrate Founding Anniversary
The Knights of Pythias marked its founding with an entertainment and banquet at the hall. About 75 knights attended including Chief Justice Potter of the Wyoming Supreme Court who gave a brief address. The event featured a third rank degree exemplification and a successful banquet to close the celebration.
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Gheyenne Knights of Pythias
Order
Knights of Pythias Hall
Potter
State Supreme Court
Wyoming
Bank Robbery Wreck Ends With Wounded Bandit in Harrison
Henry Starr, famed Oklahoma bank robber, was seriously wounded in an early morning attempt to rob the People's State Bank of Harrison Arkansas. A sheriff's posse hunted two accomplices believed to have fled the scene in the aftermath.
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Harrison, Ark
Henry Starr
Oklahoma
People’s State Bank
Harrison
Harding Urges Usual Business InDC On Inauguration Day
President-Elect Harding asks merchants in Washington to keep commerce active during inauguration day, urging business to proceed as usual for the common good. A bank robbery in progress ends with Starr wounded, Meyers returning fire from the vault. robbers escape without obtaining money.
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Ashington
Harding
District of Columbia
Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ Association
Lec
Starr
Here
W. J. Meyers
Meyers
Potter Missing Editor Potter Reported Found in Detroit
Detroit police said they would pause the search for M Henry Potter editor of the American Publishing association of Philadelphia who had disappeared after arriving to interview Henry Ford. A Philadelphia firm said they had heard from Potter 24 hours after he was last seen. He was in Detroit on Monday.
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Etroit
Detroit
M. Henry Potter
American Publishing Association of Philadelphia
Henry Ford
Philadelphia
Potter
Potter, Detroit Missing Writer Tied to Ford Attacks
Philadelphia report states M. Henry Potter, once an English writer for the Jewish World, is missing in Detroit. Potter and J. Aaron Lazar have published under the American Publishing Association a small 8 page weekly called Facts, which has run three issues attacking Henry Ford.
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Philadelphia
M. Henry Potter
Detroit
Jewish World
Potter
J. Aaron Lazar
American Publishing Association
Wm Small
Henry Ford
New National Woman's Party Emerges After Disbanding
In Washington on February 18 a transformation from the National Woman's Party to a new organization occurred. Leaders say the new group will continue the old energy with a focus on removing legal disabilities for women while avoiding radical or militarist influence. Debates over disarmament versus enfranchisement marked the convention as the majority backed suffrage goals and the minority's disarmament stance was rejected.
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Washington
National Woman’s Party
America
Resolutions Committee
Sacramental wine dealer named as bootleg ring leader
In Chicago on February 18 the government revealed that Morris H. Gindrich a sacramental wine dealer was identified by a witness as the elusive "Max Bergson" who allegedly controlled the shipment of about 1000 cases of whiskey at the center of Chicago's famed bootleg ring.
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Chicago
Mike de Vite- Heitler
Morris H. Gindrich
Max Bergson
Crowder Retirement Bill Dead in House Debate
In Washington on February 18 the house adjourned after seven hours of wrangling over a bill to retire Major General Crowder the wartime provost marshal general with the rank of lieutenant general. The measure remained stuck on the private calendar and could not be reached again this session.
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Ashington
Crowder
Senate accelerates three big appropriation bills
Washington February 18. In six hours the Senate passed three annual appropriation bills totaling more than 860 million dollars. The measures cover the post office budget 74 million, the diplomatic and consular bill 10.4 million, and the 276 million deficiency bill. Senate amendments added about 145 thousand to the house totals, likely requiring conference adjustments.
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Ashington
Senate
Harding
Post Office
House
House of Commons Rejects Bottomley Amendment
London February 18 The House of Commons defeated Horatio Bottomleys amendment to the reply to the throne speech censuring government policy on the Versailles treaty by 181 to 40 The result flushes Bottomleys bid to strike a harsher tone in the official response amid Versailles concerns.
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London
Associated Press
House of Commons Today
Horatio Bottomley
Thief Cured by Operation Sent Up for New Thievery
ITTSBURGH Pa Feb 18 Martin Hendel once said cured of robbery mania by a skull operation was sentenced to six to nine years in prison for stealing an overcoat.
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Ittsburgh
Martin Hendel
Murderer of Teachers Eludes Capture in Ohio
In Quueveland Ohio February 18 two Parmia Heights high school teachers Miss Louise Wolf and Miss Mabel Foote were found murdered. Sheriff Stannard questioned several suspects who all had alibis. A footprint trail from the scene points to a single killer hiding in a nearby shanty and woods.
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Ueveland
Ohio
Louise Wolf
Mabel Foote
Parmia Heights
Charles B. Stannard
Osteopathic Board Bill Fails in Wyoming Legislature
Wyoming lawmakers debate H B 238 creating a state board of osteopathic examiners. The measure passes third reading in the House but prospects in the Senate look bleak as two of three committee members are physicians. Budget talks advance with Senate unanimous support for the center.
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House
Wyoming
Senate
Mr. Noblitt
Blanton Defends Truth Behind His Boasts in Congress
In Slington on February 18 Rep. Blanton a Texas Democrat issued a formal statement replying to Rep. Sumners also a Texas Democrat who accused him of claiming sole credit for blocking pay raises Blanton cited Congressional Record evidence of vetoed appropriations and criticized Sumners calling him a bachelor who drew 20 cents a mile for eight years while traveling to Dallas and said the audience roared its approval as Blanton tried to speak.
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We Slington
Blanton
Texas
House
Sumners
Dallas
Sumner
Farmers Will Meet to Demand Protection
Washington February 18 A mass meeting is called for April 20 in Washington by the National Farmers' Union president Charles E Barrett. He says the perilous condition of agriculture prompts action and urges farmers to press legislative measures in behalf of agriculture with due respect for authority.
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Washington
National Farmers’ Union
Charles 8S. Barrett
Davis Loaded for Bear in Office Shooting Murder
Charles T. Davis, a wealthy surgical instrument maker, held without bail for murder after Detective Joseph Briggets was killed in Davis's office. A second detective and an insurance adjuster were wounded as Davis claimed he kept a riot siren, riot gun, and revolver to guard against criminals.
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York
Charles T. Davis
Joseph Briggets
Davis
Briggets
Wyoming repeals anti carbon black gas ban by legislature
The Wyoming house repealed the anti carbon black gas law after a fierce vote, contradicting the senate which had kept the natural gas waste prohibition. An amended proviso would place regulation under the public service commission to conserve gas used for carbon black, with domestic priority and possible limits on gas drawn from wells. A local option amendment to exempt carbon black in towns failed.
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Wyoming
House of the
Senate
Ewart
Public Service Commission
Mercer
May
Youth who robbed father of 314000 faces return to Idaho
Elliott Wood Michener a 14 year old from Philadelphia and New York thefts is held in Northport awaiting Idaho officials. Police say he stole liberty bonds and certificates valued at 14500 from CG B Michener of Coeur d Alene Idaho last Tuesday. The boy reportedly left Baldwin Locomotive Works with 4200 cash and was later arrested in New York with 3500 recovered.
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Pokane
Wash
Elliott Wood Michener
Northport
CG. B. Michener
Coeuk A’ Alene
Ida
Idaho
Philadelphia
Baldwin Locomotive Works
New York
Brennan Beats Martin In 15 Round Soldier Championship Fight
Bill Brennan of Chicago defeated Bob Martin of West Virginia, holder of the American Expeditionary Force title, in a brutal 15 round bout at Madison Square Garden. The decision was unanimous with Brennan showing strong form late, while both fighters suffered facial cuts and lasting marks.
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EW York
Bill Brennan
Chicago
Bob Martin
West Virginia
Madison Square Garden
Brennan
Fordney emergency tariff bill moves toward conference
Supporters plan to send the Fordney emergency tariff bill to conference on the Senate amendments. House leaders agreed to clear parliamentary paths and seek privileged status if routine procedure fails. The rules committee would then advance the measure by a majority vote for immediate conference.
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Wee Anon
Senate
House
Rules Committee
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