Farmers Driven to Leave Farms Amid High Living Costs
Washington reports wide farmer unrest from 40 000 postal replies to a living cost survey. Major grievances include lack of farm labor due to city jobs, high middleman profits, and weak farmer consumer contact. Officials warn the mood threatens economic structure as some farmers consider quitting or reducing acreage.
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Washington
Postoffice Department
George L. Wood
Senate Postoffice Committee
James I. Blakslee
Post Office Department
Blakslee
Senate
New England
Middle Western States
Georgia
Eastern Agricultural Section
East Chatham
N. Y
Palmyra
Missouri
Parcel Post Direct
Revere
Scandal over Martian messages sparks Paris debate
Father Alfani of the Kimenian Observatory in Florence dismisses rumors of interplanetary wireless chatter as absolutely scandalous. He cites atmospheric discharges as the cause of observed signals and mocks a recent interview with Marconi suggesting signals from outside Earth.
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Florence
Alfani
Kimenian Observatory
Vessels Sent to Relief of Maine Inhabitants
Washington reports the Coast Guard sent two vessels to clear ice blocked harbors after a Rockland Maine chamber appeal. The coast residents face actual want of food with island communities isolated by heavy ice formations.
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Washington
Rockland
Chamber of Commerce
Maine
Coast Guard Service
Navy Department
Census aid boosts enumerator efforts in Cincinnati
William A. Hopkins urged missed residents to request home enumerations. Over 100 have contacted him. About twenty small county areas and seven city blocks remain uncovered. Enums to submit vouchers and IDs quickly to receive pay. rates: 4 cents per name, 30 cents per farm, and $2 per day for rural workers.
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Cincinnati
William A. Hopkins
Hopkins
Iirkins
Federal
The
Commercial Tribune
Walter Draper
Cincinnati Traction Company
Anti-Labor Charge Against Justice Department Cost of Living Literature
Agnes Nestor of the National Women's Trade Union League protests to Secretary Wilson and Cabinet members that a Justice Department cost of living campaign is anti labor. Officials declined to comment. She says it opposes the eight hour day and higher wages for workers and uses women to push this campaign.
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Washington
Department of Justice
Wilson
Agnes Nestor
National Women's Trade Union League
Chicago
Departent of Justice
Nester
Beds To Be Deported In Small Groups
Commissioner Caminetti says the immigration service plans to send undesirables home in small detachments and expects no more large “Soviet Arks.” Aliens ordered deported will be sent to their home countries, with small group removals possible on regular passenger ships. Since last June about 1,400 aliens have already been deported.
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Washington
Bureau of Immigration
General Caminetti
United States
Caminetti
Influenza Cases Rise in City and Suburbs
Hyde Park physician reports twenty new influenza cases as total city cases reach seventy six for the week. Health Officer Dr. Peters says no epidemic danger, urges care. Newport reports 49 county cases with Ft. Thomas on the mend. serum and nursing plans aid containment.
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Health Department
W. H. Peters
Hyde Park
Peters
Committee On Hygiene and Sanitation
Academy of Medicine
Academy
Newport
Campbell County
Ft. Thomas Army Post
Wallace DeWitt
Ft. Thomas
John Todd
A. L. Buckley
Dr. Todd
Ft. Thomas Post Hospital
Release of Detzer Believed To Indicate Not Guilty Verdict
New York January 30 Captain Karl W Detzer released by order of Major William F Kelly Judge Advocate Governors Island where he had been in custody. The court martial for cruelty to prisoners at Le Mans concluded today without recommendation for imprisonment or dismissal. Verdict awaits Washington review with expectations of acquittal or a reprimand.
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New York
Karl W. Detzer
le Mans
France
William F. Kelly
Governors Island
Detzer
Kelly
Washington
Sugar Theft Probe Leads to Four Arrests in Findlay
In Findlay Ohio on January 20 William Stone Emery Vansant Clarence Vansant and Earl Peterman were arrested over a sugar theft valued at about $5 000 from Big Four railroad cars. The sugar owned by wholesale grocers was reportedly stolen and the quartet has confessed according to police.
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Findlay, CO
William Stone
Emery Vansant
Clarence Vansant
Earl Peterman
Prohibition cartoon label heads Britain’s beer bottles
A caricature of Uncle Sam with a long nose and the word Prohibition will appear on six million labels for beer wine and whisky in Great Britain. The label warns If prohibition wins there will be no more beer with dealers objecting to its vulgar wording. A second label shows an inverted pyramid labeled Prohibition with Local option is the thin end of this wedge.
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London
Great Britain
Cattlemen Killed in Polk County Fence Cutting Shootout
In Polk County Florida three cattlemen were killed and one captured after a clash with Deputy Sheriffs during an attempt to cut wire fences on phosphate land owned by the American Agricultural Company. Names include T. W. Albritton and A. J. Albritton. Miram D. Alderman and Jesse Albritton are reported dead or captured.
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Tampa
Fla
Polk County
American Agricultural Company
Florida
Newton Hatcher
Sam Williams
T. W. Albritton
Tinker Tom
A. J. Albritton
Miram. D. Alderman
Jesse Albritton
Gastronomic Feats of Cabinet Officers Deplored by Rucker
In Washington on January 30 Representative Rucker a Democrat from Missouri condemned Cabinet officers for excessive eating while opposing a 10000 appropriation for State Department vehicle upkeep. He quipped that officials and clerks are always at lunch and cite delays in hours.
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Rucker
Washington
Representative Rucker
Missouri
House
State Department
Europe May Get New U S Loan Of 50 Million
Washington January 30 Republican members of the House Ways and Means Committee informally agreed to favor legislation authorizing the Treasury to extend credits of 50 million dollars to European countries for food relief. The beneficiary list will be decided later, with Austria Armenia Poland discussed as possible recipients.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Treasury
Poland
Armenia
Austria
Glass
Wilson
Fordney
Kitchin
North Carolina
Garner
Texas
Perme
Republican Legisative Steering Committee
Alican
Budapest
France
England
United States
Europe
Earth to Mars by billion-dollar station urged by Steinmetz
New York notes wireless contact with Mars may be possible by consolidating electric power into a single sending station costing about one billion dollars. Towers over 1,000 feet would be needed to reach Mars at varying distances. Steinmetz compares effort to wartime intensity and urges recording mysteri ous signals to test interplanetary communication. London reports William Marconi predicting April 21 as Mars nears Earth for sound investigations, but warns against placing too much emphasis on a single date.
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New York
Mars
Charles P. Steinmetz
United States
Dr. Steinmetz
Earth
London
William Marconi
The
Daily Mail
Scientist questions planetary theory of mysterious sounds
Stockholm on January 30 Prof Arrhenius of the Technical Institute challenges the idea that the mysterious wireless sounds from England come from planets. He notes a German report from a year earlier and suggests solar influence on the equipment is more likely than planetary signals.
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Stockholm
Arrhenius
Technical Institute
England
Influenza Delays Trial in Newberry Conspiracy Case
Grand Rapids Mich Jan 30 A jury panel for the elections conspiracy trial of United States Senator Newberry and 122 co defendants was not complete as court adjourned Four defendants also on sick list with influenza and more than a dozen talesmen excused Jurors urged to health outdoors exercise urged by Judge Sessions with a physician appointed to monitor illness and two challenges remaining for each side.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
United States
Newberry
Federal District Court
Talesmen
Clarence W. Sessions
Sessions
Sheridan G. Long
Newaygo
Frank Armstrong
Armstrong
Alanson
French Stowaway Seeks Doughboy Daddy Adopted by Officer
Georges Pierrot a thirteen year old French stowaway who arrived aboard the West Cornifix was claimed at Ellis Island as the adopted son of Lt Howell French of Columbus Ohio His adoption seeks reversal of a deportation to France The officer served with the 112th Field Signal Corps Thirty seventh Division and met Georges in Dijon France before the Argonne offensive.
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New York
Georges Pierrot
America
West Cornifix
Ellis Island
Howell French
Columbus
France
French
112Th Field Signal Corps
Dijon
Georges
Bacon Gifts Stir Danish Campaign for Schleswig Plebiscite
Berlin January 30 Danes accused of bribing voters with bacon sausage butter and clothing in the Schleswig plebiscite drive. Germans who favor Danish occupation dubbed Bacon Danes amid lavish propaganda and real estate buys in Flensburg where they own three newspapers. Despite the tactics the Tageblatt correspondent predicts Germany will prevail if all eligible voters turn out.
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Berlin
Schlesswig
Tageblatt
Flensburg
Germany
Taft Reservation Clash With Lodge on League Treaty
The final bi partisan treaty talks feature two Republican reservations to Article X of the League of Nations pact. Democrats present Taft’s proposal while Senator Lodge signals support for the Lodge reservations.
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Washington
America
League of Nations
William Howard Taft
Senator Lodge
Deadlock on Article X halts treaty talks in Senate
Democratic and Republican leaders failed to bridge the dispute over Article X of the peace treaty after Senator Lodge refused a Taft reservation. The breakdown prompted plans to move the treaty to the open Senate on February 10 with proposed reservations and debates on the Monroe Doctrine.
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Washington
Senate
Senator Lodge
Massachusetts
Taft
Hitchcock
Nebraska
Lodge
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Ways and Means
Steinmetz
Congress
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