Alaska Development Hopes Tone Hidden in Interior Report
Secretary Fall's annual report to Congress omits any plan for re organizing Alaska agencies and development strategy. It highlights using rail traffic for coal mineral, oil prospects, and agricultural resources with drilling planned on the Alaskan Peninsula to test oil deposits. An appendix summarizes Governor Bone's report.
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Shatle
Alaska
Katalla
Alaskan
Fall
Bone
Harding Opposes Madden Amendment to Ship Subsidy
President in a letter to Senate Commerce Committee Chair urges elimination of Madden amendment adding Congress control over extending government aid to ship companies.
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Harding
Madden
Washington
Jones
Senate Commerce Committee
Congress
Gen Leonard Wood to stay as Philippines Governor General
Washington reports General Leonard Wood has decided to remain at his post as Governor General of the Philippines. He declines the University of Pennsylvania provostship and will continue in government service at the Islands. His leave of absence expires January first.
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Washington
Leonard Wood
The
Philippines
Islands
Wood
University of Pennsylvania
Nationalists bar Turkish foreign offices amid war
Ankara says no foreign consulates or post offices under any power at war with Turkey may continue to operate. The proclamation declares the continuation of such offices is prohibited under Nationalist authority.
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Angora
Turkey
Entente Plan to Keep Straits Open Involves International Commission
Lausanne Dec 7 A Peace Conference communique announces the Entente plan to keep the Dardanelles and Bosphorus open in peace and war. The Straits would be controlled by an International Commission appointed by the Conference. The commission would include representatives of the great powers plus the United States Turkey and Black Sea rim nations.
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Lausanne
Peace Conference
Dardanelles Straits
Bosphorus
United States
Turkey
Black Sea
Family Dies After Gasoline In Stove Fire Toll
In Eugene Oregon a woman mistook gasoline for kerosene and poured it on a smouldering tire in a stove. The resulting explosion killed Mrs Iver Johnson and her six children and left four others with severe burns.
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Eugene
Ore
Iver Johnson
Officers Cheer Clemenceau After Address at Army War College
Major General McGlachlin led Army War College officers in cheers for M Clemenceau on the college steps after his address. He laid a wreath at Arlington National Cemetery on the Unknown Soldier grave and later visited Mount Vernon aboard Secretary Denbys yacht Sylph.
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Washington
McGlachlin
Army War College
United States Army
M. Clemenceau
National Cemetery
Arlington
Denby
Statesman
Mount Vernon
Portland Club President Barred by Baseball Leagues
William H. Klepper, president of the Portland Club in the Pacific Coast League, is forever barred from further participation in the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues. The action follows accusations he made regarding the Tacoma Club's capital stock at its organization.
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Louisville
William H. Klepper
Portland
Pacific Coast Baseball League
National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues
Board of Arbitration
Klepper
Tacoma
Road lowers rate on reindeer meat
Dec 7 The Union Pacific Railway cuts freight rate on Alaska reindeer meat for eastern market to 3.13 dollars per hundred pounds.
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Seattle
Alaska
Union Pacific Railway
Illinois Governor Condemned for Release
Fifteen hundred people at a Chicago luncheon denounced Governor Small for commuting the sentences of William Bross Lloyd and fifteen communist associates released from Joliet penitentiary. General Pershing joined in the protest warning of the Herrin massacre as well as Ku Klux Klan activity by officials.
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Chicago
Associated Chambers of Commerce
Charles G. Dawes
Pershing
Dawes
Herrin
Ku Klux Klan
House bill would draft all men 21 to 30 in war time
Representative Johnson of South Dakota introduced a bill granting the President power to draft in war time all men aged twenty one to thirty not in the militia and without exemption for industrial occupation. The measure aims to push full conscription during war.
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Washington
Johnson
South Dakota
Carpentier Challenges Siki to a Fifth Bout in Ring
Georges Carpentier declares the quarrel with Battling Siki should be settled in the ring and offers to fight again at any date. He vows to finish Siki in under three rounds, regardless of any past disqualifications.
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Paris
Siki
Georges Carpentier
Europe
Carpentier
Sik, official hints return to Senegal on boxing career
Paris Dec 7. An official of the Ministry of the Colonies reportedly advised Battling Sik to return to Senegal. Sik admitted the suggestion but did not say if he would follow it. He said he planned to abandon boxing for another occupation.
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Paris
Ministry of the Colonies
Senegal
Battling Sik
Hoxings
Catholic Orders Guard Against Fires After Recent Incendiaries
Montreal December 7 Catholic orders have announced elaborate plans to guard against fires following suspected incendiarism at Catholic colleges in Winnipeg and Montreal. Authorities cite recent threats attributed to the Ku Klux Klan and say stringent measures are now in place.
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Montreal
Winnipeg
Wobblies Plan Big Strike in Coast Cities
Police seize I W W literature revealing a planned New Year start to a Pacific Coast harbor workers strike. The document mentions a protest at the Los Angeles Jail and Hall of Records and notes an influx of I W W members to assist stranded marine transport workers. Police estimate city I W W numbers rising to about five hundred.
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Los Angeles
Pacific Coast
Industrial Workers of the World
Harbor District
Los Angeles County
Hall of Records
Central American Federation Delayed for Government Guidance
Washington reported that the Central American Conference adjourned to Saturday to allow delegates to consult their governments. The talks on a federation of the five Central American states require unanimous consent to proceed.
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Washington
Clara Phillips may flee to Mexico to escape extradition
Mexican Consul General J G Zeertuche said Mrs. Clara Phillips cannot be extradited from Mexico due to no extradition treaty. In Los Angeles a prisoner named Hol T Johnson questioned whether he knew of Phillips escape after Monday night flight. Johnson denied knowledge of the escape.
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San Francisco
Clara Phillips
Mexico
J. G. Zeertuche
Los Angeles
Hol. T. Johnson
Alberta Meadows
Wiss
Philipps
Johnson
Mississippi Governor Defended in Stenographer Suit
In Oxford on December 7 a $109,000 suit by Frances Birkhead against Governor Lee Y. M. Russell moved through initial court stages. Opening statements by defense and prosecution followed as Governor Russell testified, denying seduction claims and alleging forgery of papers offered by the prosecution.
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Oxford
Frances Birkhead
Lee Y M. Russell
Russell
Clemenceau Sees Wilson Fifteen Minute Visit
Washington report says Clemenceau’s talk with ex President Wilson lasted about a quarter hour. The French leader left without comment on the purpose of the visit but noted Wilson’s smile at the mention of the fourteen points drawing applause. Philadelphia bulletin says Joan Wanamaker shows marked improvement after serious illness. physicians will issue only one daily update henceforth.
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Washington
M. Clemenceau
Wilson
Philadelphia
Joan Wanamaker
New York
Army Officers Die in Langley Field Collision
Major Gearhart Captain Doyle and four enlisted air service personnel were killed at Langley Field when a Martin bombing plane collided with another aircraft during landing. The incident occurred near Newport News Virginia yesterday.
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Newport News
Gearhart
Doyle
Army Air Service
Langley Field
Martin
Mellon Urges Tax Cuts and Treasury Certificate Use
Secretary Mellon urges reducing the top surtax rate from fifty percent to twenty five percent and proposes using proceeds from Treasury certificates sales in anticipation of federal tax payments. He does not seek a general revenue law revision or new taxes, hoping deficits be met by back taxes and other income.
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Washington
Treasury
Mellon
Congress
Lumber Vessel Burns in Blaine Harbor
Fire broke out in the hold of the steamship Willie Higgins loading lumber at Blaine. The blaze, believed caused by an explosion, threatened the vessel but was checked with part of the Bellingham fire department aiding Elaine. One sailor was reported injured.
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Bellingham
Willie Higgins
Blaine
Elaine
Neighbor of Lincoln Dies at Advanced Age
Hamilton December 7 Judge Stewart longtime neighbor of Abraham Lincoln and a Springfield photographer in the fifties died at his home today at eighty eight years old.
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Hamilton
Judge Stewart
Abraham Lincoln
Springfield
Ilinois
Oakland Bank Bandit Shot After Danville Hold Up
A California bank bandit robbed two women clerks at the San Ramon Valley Bank in Danville, dumped cash in a sack, and fled to Oakland. Posses from Martinez and Walnut Creek tracked him down. he was shot by police and killed. Nine thousand dollars loot was recovered. a boy in the bandit's car was wounded by police fire.
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Oakland
San Ramon Valley
Danville
Here
Martinez
Walnut Creek
Civil Service Reform League Pushes Merit Based Federal Posts
The National Civil Service Reform League opened its annual convention in Washington with plans to remove politics from the Post Office Department and appoint postmasters on merit. Debates covered veteran preferences in federal hiring and alleged political workers in prohibition enforcement.
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Washington
National Civil Service Reform League
Post Office Department
Burch Hearing Postponed in Kennedy Murder Case
Los Angeles December 7 hearing on Arthur Burch charged with insanity has been postponed from today to Saturday after the court recently dismissed him following three trials for the murder of J Belton Kennedy.
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Burch
Los Angeles
Arthur Burch
J. Belton Kennedy
Crisis Reached Says Haynes in Asking Funds
Prohibition Director Haynes says the enforcement crisis has arrived and asks the Treasury for 9 million dollars to continue work next year. He argues that sustaining similar funding for five to six years could later permit reductions, and praises current enforcement machinery with a general push to tighten enforcement.
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Haynes
Washington
Prohibition
Treasury Department
Cousens Sworn In as U S Senator for Detroit
Senator Cousens of Detroit was sworn in to the United States Senate today, filling the seat left vacant by Trestate H Newberry. The change marks a new chapter in Michigan politics as Cousens takes office.
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Couzens
Washington
Cousens
Detroit
United States
Tretate H. Newberry
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