Harding Blocks Hove On Conference
President Harding sent a letter to Senator Lodge to block Senate action on Borah’s amendment for a new international economic conference. He warned that Senate advice could mislead foreign powers and hinder ongoing European negotiations. He also cautioned against disarmament moves that would be empty gestures without broad international cooperation.
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Washington
Lodge
Harding
Senate
Borah
United States
Doctor Seeks Release Pending Investigation in Kidnap Case
Baltimore December 29 Dr McKain physician at Johns Hopkins clinic held on request of Louisiana authorities for murder in the Mer Rouge kidnapping case demanded immediate release via habeas corpus. The petition was filed without prejudice to allow Louisiana to present its case.
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Baltimore
McKain
Johns Hopkins Clinic
Louisiana
Mer Rouge
Standard Oil of Indiana Declares 100 Percent Dividend
Chicago Dec 29 A 100 percent dividend has just been declared by the Standard Oil Company of Indiana. The move signals strong earnings for the firm amid continuing market stability and refinery operations. including details remain limited in this brief notice.
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Chicago
Standard Oil Company of
Indiana
Ex Alaskan Takes Position in East
Spokane dispatch notes R. R. Rogers a regent of the University of Washington and Alaska Pioneers will soon depart for the east to assume a highly responsible post in New York and New Jersey.
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Spokane
R. R. Rogers
University of Washington
Alaska Pioneers
East
New York
New Jersey
First Oil Wells Cost Half Million in Cold Bay District
Seattle December 29 The Standard Oil Company of California and Associated Oil Companies announce plans to drill their first wells in the Cold Bay district around February. Each company estimates the cost of drilling its initial well at about half a million dollars.
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Seattle
Standard and Associated Oil Companies
Cold Bay
Standard Oil Company of California
Banks Model Savings Plan After War Stamps
A local bank in Columbus adopts a savings system similar to federal war savings drives. Patrons may buy $82 certificates redeemable at $100 in five years, or pay $820 for certificates worth $1,000 in five years.
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Columbus, Univ
Alaska Oil Policy Advocated by Seattle Dinner Speaker
A.8. Kerry of the Alaska Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce told a Seattle dinner that the city should immediately build refineries to handle Alaska crude. He urged Seattle to follow a policy of giving Alaska what she wants, not what Seattle wants, in developing Alaskan resources.
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Seattle
Kerry
Alaska Bureau of the Chamber of Commerce
Alaska
U. S. Timber May Exhaust Supply This Century Chief Forester Warns
Boston December 29 Chief Forester Greeley of the Department of Agriculture told the New England Forestry Congress that the world lacks enough coniferous timber to last through the twentieth century. He warned the west coast could become the sole U S supplier within fifteen years and the nation might need to import timber from Siberia to compete globally.
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Boston
United States
Siberia
Greeley
Department of Agriculture
New England, Forestry Congress
Henry Ford Buys Coal Property for Ten Million
The Point Creek Coal Company sells its Pike County Kentucky properties to the Ford Motor Company. The announced purchase price is said to be close to ten million dollars. The Boston report dated December 29 notes the deal includes the coal assets and associated properties.
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Henry Ford
Boston
Point Creek Coal Company
Pike County
Kentucky
Ford Motor Company
Birth control linked to slower U.S. population growth
Chicago December 29. Dr Warren B Thompson of the Scripps Foundation for Popular Research at Miami University says birth control helps explain the diminished rate of population increase in the United States. His remarks were delivered to the American Statistical Association.
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Chicago
United States
Warren 8. Thompson
Scripps Foundation For Popular Research
Miami University
American Statistical Association
Bomb Explosion Destroys McCullough's Music Shop
A bomb blast in Hope near Dublin wrecked the music shop of McCullough injuring three passersby and scattering broken glass for yards. The shop was demolished though no one inside was hurt as it had closed for the night. McCullough had recently lost a Senate election bid.
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Dublin
McCullough
Hope
Senate
Wood skates from 1867 go on display in Chauncey store
Exhibit displays two old-time wooden skates made 55 years ago in Chauncey Ohio. Harvey Nye, owner, says the skates have been used nearly every winter since 1867 and he expects to wear them again this winter.
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Chauncey
Ohio
Harvey Nye
Schumann-Heink Recovering Ready to Tour again
Madame Schumann-Heink has recovered from pneumonia and will resume her concert tour with a performance in Maddenaville Pennsylvania on January fifth, as announced.
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Garden City
Madame Schumann-Heink
Maddenaville
Pennsylvania
War Looms as Greek Army Moves Toward Thrace
London dispatch reports the Greek cabinet ordered troop movements toward Thrace after Venizelos urged reinforcement. The Daily Express correspondent notes the move implies an inevitable Greek Turkish war and signals a major escalation at the Thracian front.
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London
Thrace
Daily Express
Athens
Venizelos
Allies Demand Turkish Guarantee of Foreigners' Rights
Dec 28 at Lausanne reports Ambassador Child asserting Turkey must guarantee foreigners' rights after the abolition of extraterritorial rights. He joins Soviet and Allied delegations in pressing the demand as Kemalist moves are noted.
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Turkey
Lausanne
Ambassador Child
Ex President Wilson Celebrates Sixty Sixth Birthday
Ex President Wilson marked his sixty sixth birthday in Washington with a quiet day. A Woodrow Wilson Foundation delegation visited to felicitate him and report on progress of the dollar foundation raised in his name.
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Washington
Wilson
Woodrow Wilson Foundation
the Dollar Foundation
Whiton
Coolidge
Senate
May B Ford claims memory lapse in murder plot charge
Mrs. May B Ford, charged with offering a supposed gunman 20000 to kill her husband Ney B Ford, says she is innocent and has blank memory of the plot. Police allege staged plan included killing at the farm, oiling bones, and arson to destroy evidence.
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Detroit
May B. Ford
Ney B. Ford
Ney
Ford
Kunath
Quiet Wedding in Seward Reconciles Two Residents
In Seward, Mrs Celia Noll and J H Flickenger united in marriage by Commissioner Curtis Morford. Attending witnesses were Mrs Ralph Reed and Mr John Walker. The couple will reside in Seward with Flickenger acting as agent for the Alaska Steamship Company.
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Thenga
Celia Noll
J. H. Flickenger
Seward
Curtis Morford
Ralph Reed
John Walker
Fiickenger
Alaska Steamship Company
Bergdoll's Return Report Denounced as Tommyrot by Mother
Philadelphia December 29 Mrs Emma Bergdoll mother of Grover Cleveland Bergdoll rejects German reports that her son is aboard a trans Atlantic liner and declares that claim all tommyrot.
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Bergdoll
Philadelphia
Emma Bergdoll
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll
Germany
Two Deaths From Storms On Atlantic
Plymouth December 29 two crew members from Atlantic ships died in the week long storm. William Holmes on the steamer Harmon suffered a fractured skull and died after being thrown to the deck. The Neotsfield’s second mate was washed overboard and not recovered. Several others were seriously injured by massive waves.
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Plymouth
Atlantic
William Holmes
Harmon
Neotsfield
Germans Ask U S Investigate Germanys Finances
German business men have asked the Chamber of Commerce of the United States to appoint an American commission to assess Germanys ability to pay reparations under the Versailles Treaty. The request has been published by the Chamber.
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Washington
Germany
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Chamber
Turkish Assembly Orders Delegates to Seek Angora Approval
In a stormy session the Grand National Assembly of Turkey instructs its Lausanne delegates to sign no agreement with the Allies without Angora approval, per dispatch from Moscow dated December 29.
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Moscow
Angora
Grand National Assembly of
Turkey
Lausanne
Senator McNary Advances Borah Amendment Debate
Washington December 29 Senator McNary Oregon vocal in Senate session as a farm bloc member defending the Borah amendment. He opposed isolationism listing Wilson and Lodge forces and argued ratifying Versailles with League of Nations covenant might have reduced unrest among nations.
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Washington
Senate
McNary
Oregon
Senate Agricultural Bloc
America
Wilson
Massachusetts
League of Nations
Hawaii Expected to Welcome Record Winter Tourists
Honolulu reports a forecast of a record tourist season with an unusually large winter influx from Los Angeles. Robert F. Cullen, district passenger agent for the Los Angeles Steamship Company, arrived with advance reports confirming the expected surge.
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Honolulu
Hawaii
Los Angeles
Robert F. Cullen
Los Angeles Steamship Company
Alaska Man Loses Claim by Sentence
United States Marshal Harvey T. Sullivan of Valdez escorted two recently sentenced prisoners to McNeill Island penitentiary. D. N. Lynch received a three year term for attempted murder linked to a dispute over Lynch's claims near Anchorage containing liquid lime deposits. Antone Golehuck, Seldovia Indian, was sentenced to life for murder. Lynch's conviction means the claims revert to the Government.
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Shuttle
United States
Marshall Harvey T. Sullivan
Valdez
McNeill Island Penitentiary
D. N. Lynch
John Thompson
Anchorage
Antone Golehuck
Seldovia
Liquor Booty on High Seas Nabbed by U S
New York December 29 customs officials report Nassau Bahamas details of a million dollar liquor robbery on the high seas. Perpetrators captured by American customs as the theft occurred off the coast of New York.
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U. S
New York
Nassau
Bahamas
High Seas
Alaska Spruce Goes to Australia by Alma Haviside
Seattle December 29 The barkentine Alma Haviside has just received a commission to load a million feet of Alaska spruce at Ketchikan for shipment to Austria.
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Seattle
Barkentine
Alma Haviside
Alaska
Ketchikan
Austria
Schooner Stockton City Wrecked Off Robinson Gulch
The schooner Stockton City was wrecked last night off Robinson Gulch seventy miles north of San Francisco during a heavy storm. The crew has been saved, according to advices received here.
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San Francisco
Stockton City
Robinson Gulch
Here
Italian Premier Declines Allied Parley in Paris
Premier Mussolini told the cabinet he would not attend the Allied premiers conference in Paris next week to discuss the reparations issue. He cited difficulties between England and France over the settlement as the reason for his absence.
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Allied
Rome
Mussolini
Paris
England
France
Featherweight title bout set for Decoration Day at Polo Grounds
Promoter Tom O Rourke announced that Eugene Cruqui European featherweight champion will fight Johnnie Kilbane world featherweight champion for the world title at the Polo Grounds on Decoration Day. Cruqui may take a $25000 purse or 20 percent of gate receipts.
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New York
Tom O'Rourke
Paris
Eugene Cruqui
Europe
Johnnie Kilbane
Polo Grounds
Cruqui
Trains Collide in Quincy Injuring Six
A collision between two freight trains in Quincy California injured six workers yesterday, with two sustaining serious injuries. Local officials investigated the cause as crews treated the wounded at the scene.
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Quincey, Cal
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