Senate adopts Walsh report on Naval Reserve oil leases
The Senate party line vote 40 to 30 approves Senator Walsh’s majority report condemning Albert Fall and Edwin Denby over Naval Reserve oil leases. Spencer’s minority view is rejected, with Republicans split and Democrats backing Walsh, marking a end to the Senate investigation.
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New York World News Service
Washington
Jah
Senate
Walsh
Dem
Mont
Naval Reserve
Albert B. Fall
Albert B. Fall, Former Secretary of the Interior
Edwin Denby
Navy
Sotic
Fall
Denby
Harry F. Sinclair
Edward L. Doheny
Spencer
Reed
Haseen
Bureau of Mines
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
Johnson
Rep. Cal
Caraway
Ark
Dem. Mass
Scor
Bingham
Bursum
Butler
Cameron
Capper
Cummins
Curtis
Ernst
Fernald
Fess
Gooding
Hale
Keyes
McKinley
McLean
Means
Metcalf
Oddie
Pepper
Phipps
Smoot
Sterling
Wadsworth
Warren
Watson
Willis
Borah
Brookhart
Couzens
Frazier
Hiram Johnson
Norbeck
Norris
Bruce
McCormick
Finis
Soldier May Get Trotsky's Place
Berlin January 20 General Budenny a famed cavalry commander will succeed Leon Trotsky as head of the Red army, per Ruth Rischer parliamentary leader of the German Communist party who just returned from Moscow. Trotsky retires amid disputes with Stalin Zinoviev Kamenev and may live near Moscow as a private citizen.
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New York World News Service
Berlin
Budenny
Leon Trotsky
Red Army
Ruth Rischer
German Communist Party
Moscow
Trotsky
Stalin
Zinogieff
Kameneff
Russia
Fraulein Fischerek
Heichstag
Trotsky Hever
World Service
Drastic blue laws seek Sunday candy ban in New York
Albany reports a sweeping blue law program aiming to halt most activities on Sunday. Assemblyman Burton D Esmond says leaders of the Lord s Day Alliance outlined a plan prohibiting gasoline sales ice cream and candy sales motion pictures baseball games and other sports and even drugstore sales except on physician prescriptions.
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N. Y
Girl Slayer May Get 7 Years
Dorothy Ellingson a sixteen year old who shot and killed her mother last week may face seven years in prison. The case was moved to the Juvenile Court for a preliminary hearing Thursday with alienists testifying to possible mental illness.
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New York World News Service
San Francisco
Dorothy Ellingson
Dorothy
Alexander Moslin
Earl Ellingson
David Stein
Emil Kreuter
Lichtenberger Admits Shooting Sweetheart in Pekin
Fred Lichtenberger confessed to shooting Mary Bitenmiller after two days together in his automobile and then wounded himself. Both were hospitalized in Pekin in serious condition after the incident that followed her disappearance from church.
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Peoria
Fred Lichternberger
Mary Bitenmiller
Pekin
Lichtenberger
Luther government seen as step toward German monarchy
In Berlin the Reichstag debate splinters along lines of Socialists Democrats and Catholic Left opposing Chancellor Luther while Nationalists and junkers back the cabinet as a move toward restoring imperial rule. Wirth allies support the cabinet with scrutiny.
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New York World News Service
Berlin
Luther
Rudolph Breitscheid
Democrats
Catholic Center
Junker
von Tirpitz
Junkers
Imperia
Wirth
Two Barnes Brothers Held for Highland County Deputy Slaying
Harold and Frank Barnes of Cleveland were arrested by Springfield police in connection with the Hillsboro deputy slaying of Harry P. Magill Jr. and wounding of Edward Lemon. The suspects, described as not brothers, were found with four revolvers and $600 and implicated in a Hillsboro hardware store robbery before fleeing in Magill’s car.
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Frank
Harold Barnes
Cleveland
Springfield
Harry P. Magill, Jr
Highland County
Edward Lemon
Hillsboro
Liberty
Magill
Lemon
Ohio
B. R. Rider
Vernon Fairley
The
Commercial Tribune
Barnes
J. A. Bakefield
Bowersfield Pike
Bowersfield
Xenia
Bakefield
Hey
Bunseith
Springfield Police
Fairley
Mr. Fairley
Mr. Magill
Eptess
George Bunseith
Cincinnati
Harold
Frank Barnes
Storms pummel Northeast leaving fatalities and damage
A violent snow and sleet storm sweeps the Northeast as New York reports one death and eighteen injuries from a trolley collision. Buffalo residents walk to work as officials seek 75 000 for snow removal. A rum runner’s speed boat is stranded on the Jersey Coast. Schools in Springfield Mass. run one session. Boston area farmers cut off. Storm warnings stretch from Eastport Maine to Delaware Breakwater.
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Manhattan
Buffalo
Commissioner of Public Works
Jersey
Springfield
Mass
Boston
Eastport
Maine
Delaware
Flood Strikes Georgia as Rivers Rise and Homes Flood
Flood conditions eased slightly but remained worsening in Georgia Alabama South Carolina Louisiana and Mississippi with about ten deaths and massive property loss. In Albany more than 200 colored residents fled Flint river floods while Dover residents faced marooning. Newton county seat saw only two families left as 400 others evacuate by boat. Courthouse occupants on the second floor reported water around Newton and telephones cut off.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Alabama
South Carolina
Louisiana
Mississippi
South Georgia
Albany
Dover
Newton
Baker
Camilla
Court to rule on crossword answers clash with Daily Graphic
New York court case pits The Bronx Home News against MacFadden papers over publishing probable crossword puzzle answers. The Graphic offers 25000 cash prizes and claims copyright on question and drawing, while Home News also prints answers from other papers.
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New York World News Service
New York
Supreme Court of
New York County
Bronx Home News
Daily Graphic
Home News
Joseph Schultz
MacFadden Publications
Bernarr MacFadden
The
Graphic
James W. White
Mr. MacFadden
Puzzlies
White
Schultz
Evening Journal
the American
Daily Mirror
Miners vote against general strike in District No 1
Union leaders say 88 of 90 locals opposed the threatened general strike by 60 000 hard coal miners in District No 1 United Mineworkers and that the 11 000 Pennsylvania Coal Company men near end of their strike.
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Scranton
United Mineworkers
Pennsylvania Coal Company
Hang the Kaiser cry returns in French Chamber
Paris January 20 Deputy Bonnet of Paris revived the old chant Hang the Kaiser in the Chamber of Deputies. He declared the German Crown Prince aimed to resume power and urged renewed charges against war criminals starting with the Kaiser and the Gotha aristocracy.
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Paris
Chamber of Deputies
Bonnet
France
Kaiser
Gotha
N. Y. World News Service
N. Y. World) Press Publishing Company
Walter S. Gifford Rises to AT&T Presidency at 40
Walter S. Gifford, Harvard graduate of 19, climbs from payroll clerk at Western Electric to President of American Telephone and Telegraph Company, a $2 billion firm. The rapid rise includes roles as chief statistician and executive vice president, with key reforms and wartime service shaping his path.
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New York World News Service
New York
Harvard
Walter S. Gifford
General Electric Company
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Gifford
Walter Gifford
Telephone Company
Harry B. Thayer
Boston
Thayer
Mr. Gifford
Salem
Mass
Western Electric Company
Chicago
Western Electric
General Electric
Theodore N. Vail
The
Bell System
Harpens Ioe
Wilson
Council of National Defense
Europe
Inter-Allied Munitions Board
American Surety Company
First National Bank of New York
Rum Running Profits Put at 100 Million, Prohibition Official Says
Philadelphia officials report bootleggers in the area have grossed more than 100 million dollars in recent years, per Major William G. Murdock, Federal Prohibition Enforcement Director for the state.
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New York World News Service
Philadelphia
William G. Murdock
Damrosch Urged As Envoy To Berlin By Public
Suggestions that Walter Damrosch the musician and native of Germany be named American Ambassador to Berlin have been laid before President Coolidge.
Senator Edwards Linked To Weehawken Liquor Conspiracy
Jersey City January trial testimony ties New Jersey Senator Edwards to a liquor backer network. Federal agents say Edwards received money in 1923 to back a plan to buy 100 cases of liquor via William Griffin, who claimed Edwards as backer and escrow holder. The defense claims a frame up while prosecutors promise to present charges regardless of the case verdict.
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Edwards
Weehawken
Jersey
Associated Press
Jersey City
N. J
Edward Edwards
New Jersey
Treast Department
Charles L. Hurlbut
Ayta
Lionel Wilson
Wilson
William Griffin
Consuir
Griffin
John Milton
Hudson County
Wilf
Hurlbut
Wington
George Cutley
Fense
Tes
Egan
First National Bank of Jersey C
Camwell
Edwart
Senator Wards
Ator Edwards
Surance
Arthur van Tassel
Edward
Senator Edwards
Caldwell
Vickers
Delinquency Charge Sheds Light on Peacock Inn Party
Details emerge of a December 6 party at the Peacock Inn cabaret on Sixth and Main where seven youths and adults were said to be intoxicated. John Hollar of Rapid Runroad is summoned to juvenile court on a charge of contributing to the delinquency of a seventeen year old attendee. The incident followed a rumored surprise party for the daughter of a prominent Cincinnati bootlegger.
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Peacock Inn
John Hollar
Rapid
Runroad
Pear
A. C. Crouse
George Remt
King
Seder
Atlanta
Remus
Price
Holland
Charles W. Hoffman
Juvenile Project Association
Poli
Association
Cincinnati
Juvenile Court
The
Protective Association
Wheat Prices Hit New Peace Time Highs In Chicago
Cash wheat No 1 red sold at 2.05 with futures rising as July at 1.68 and new crop expectations. Arthur Cutten predicts cash wheat reaching 2.50 before the new crop arrives. The market strength spans the West and Wall Street as dips fail to curb the rise.
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New York World News Service
Chicago
Arthur Cutten
Wall Street
Porter presses for hearing as America defends opium policy
At the International Opium Conference in Geneva, Representative Stephen G. Porter of Pennsylvania urged a hearing on U S proposals and rebutted Lord Cecil's claim that Americans consume more opium than Indians. Porter cited League of Nations data showing similar per capita use, while Britain faced questions over its stance on opium in the Far East.
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New York World News Service
Geneva
Stephen G. Porter
Pennsylvania
America
Lord Cecil
India
Porter
Pennsylvanian
United States
Far East
Great Britain
Michael MacWhite
Ireland
Alfred Sze
China
Sze
League
Japan
Agimura
Loudon
Holland
Philippines
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Reichstag
University of Cincinnati
Wooster College
East
Atlantic Seaboard
New York City
Freddy
Arno Dosch-Fleurot
Cecil
Upper
Hout
John
Albin E. Johnson
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