Attempted Fraud Involving Prohibition Bribery Case
Federal agents take into custody Antonio Pappano, a fencing instructor, amid bribery and fraud allegations tied to liquor withdrawal permits. In New York, two women clerks and three men were arrested for conspiracy to defraud the United States through forged permits and telegrams, with bribe offers and sums cited.
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Washington
Internal Revenue Bureau
Antonio Pappano
Federal Prohibition
New York
Pappano
Federal Prohibition Director's Office
United States
Mary Perkins
Tegina Sassone
Edward Donegan
Brooklyn
Sigmund (Heansy) Rosenfeld
Geo. St. Stibberson
Donegan
Rosenfeld
New York State
Murderer of American miner Berens arrested in Mexico
The killer of John Berens, an American mining man, who was slain last month in Mexico, has been arrested and is held for trial in Nichoacan. The American embassy cited a Mexico City newspaper report as the source of the arrest.
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Washington
John Berens
Mexico
Nichoacan
State Department
Mexico City
Phonograph Works Closed In West Orange N J
Edison, Inc shuts phonograph works indefinitely affecting 800 employees while the record department remains unaffected as general business conditions are cited by company officials. Gold price rise urged as miners suffer. Baker claims many mines idle and gold is now costly to mine. Cyclone devastates Oviedo and surrounding mining settlements destroying forty homes and crops.
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Phonograph Works
West Orange
N. J
Thomas A. Edison, Inc
Record Department
Washington
Baker
California
House
Oviedo
Spain
Bama de Langreo
Postal Official Arrested in Honolulu Embezzlement Case
San Francisco reports Assistant Postmaster William Peter sen of Honolulu was arrested and charged with embezzling 27000 dollars from postoffice funds. He admitted taking the money and claimed ignorance of its fate. Honolulu inspector cables details as Peter served fifteen years there. William Kane, a post office clerk, was also arrested for embezzling custome funds.
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San Francisco
William
Petersen
Honolulu
Postoffice
William Kane
Tax burden gut as Houston estimates soldiers bonus cost
Secretary Houston told the Senate finance committee the total cost of the soldiers bonus could reach about 2.2 billion dollars under any one of five optional plans, with costs ranging from 1.34 to 4.53 billion for different provisions. He urged no new tax burdens and noted deficits under current spending.
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Weeters
Union News Service
Washington
Houston
Treasury Department
Treasury
Senate Finance Committee
House
McCumber
North Dakota
Treasury Administration
Congress
War Finance Corporation
Adams
Smoot
Utah
Twenty three Banks Closed In North Dakota State
Two more state banks in North Dakota, the First Farmers of Minot and the Security State at Carpio, owned by the Savings and Loan Trust Company of Minot, were closed. They held deposits totaling about $465,000 and had $65,000 capital. This brings total closed state banks to twenty seven, after three weeks of bank closures with no public announcements by the state bank examiner.
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N. D
Fargo
North Dakota
Farmers of
Minot
Carpio
Savings and Loan Trust Company of
State Bank
Poly
Ford Plant Closure Hits Highland Park Factory
Detroit Michigan Ford Motor Company's Highland Park plant is closed for an indefinite period with about 650 000 men employed there. The shutdown follows an inventory from December 24 to January 8 and is expected to keep the shops idle for days after the count, possibly until February 1.
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Detroit
Mich
Ford Motor Company
Highland Park
Hindu deemed white. Singh granted U.S. citizenship
District Judge J D Call in Brigham City Utah ruled Pumea Singh aged 46 a Hindu who is black qualifies as white under the naturalization statute and may become an American citizen. The decision centers on whether Hindu identity falls within the “white race” group allowed to naturalize.
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Salt Lake City
J. D. Call
Brigham City
Utah
Pumea Singh
Hoovers Rice Banquet Honors European Relief
One thousand of New York's wealthy sat at a plain board for a banquet meal of boiled rice with white bread and cocoa. The event, arranged by Herbert Hoover as chairman of the European relief council, honored America's aid to 3,600,000 starving European children, with the rice same as served at relief stations.
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New York
Herbert Hoover
European Relief Council
America
Europe
D'Annunzio Proclaims Prohibition on Dying for Italy
Rome reports D Annunzio issues proclamation quitting Fiume and hints treaty recognition may settle the Fiume dispute. Surrender talks proceed with Fiume municipal council as legionnaires resume guerilla actions, using ambushes and hidden fire. Venice notes pianist Luisella Baccara’s lingering ties to D Annunzio amid divorce prospects.
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Rome
Fiume
D'Annunzio
Legionnairies
Ine
Legionnairres
Venice
Signorina
Luisella Baccara
D'Annunovio
Flame
Prohibition Commissioner Plans Fewer Liquor Permits
Washington Prohibition Commissioner Kramer announced plans to reduce federal liquor permits over the next year. The Licenses issue will be held to a strict minimum to curb illegal liquor sales.
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Washington
Prohibition
Kramer
Three Departments Seek $116 Million Deficiency Appropriations
Three executive departments asked Congress for deficiency funding totaling 116 million dollars. Secretary Baker projected the War Department require 76 million more before July 1 for army pay and subsistence and 521 thousand for the military academy upkeep. Postmaster General Burle don sought 85.0847 million for mail transportation due to higher rates.
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Washington
Congress
Baker
War Department
Military Academy
Burledon
May Mean New Pact
Washington reports negotiations between American ambassador Morris and Japanese ambassador Shidehara near completion. A proposed treaty amendment would grant Japanese subjects in the United States equal civil rights and impose a strict exclusion of Japanese labor immigration to the United States and Hawaii, while allowing entry to the Philippines. The plan would affect California land laws and retain a general prohibition on new Japanese immigration, yet allow scholars and merchants entry.
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Washington
Roland
Morris
Japan
Baron Shidehara
United States
State Department
Japanese Foreign Office
Senate
Hawaii
Philippine Islands
California
Fuel Administrator Calls For Coal Price Readjustment
Fuel Administrator Eugene C. Hultman warned Boston coal dealers and other retailers that anthracite prices in many communities were excessive. He urged a prompt readjustment and stated there was no justification for continuing the high prices.
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Boston
Massachusetts
Eugene C. Hultman
Thieves Loot Federal Building Evidence Rooms In Virginia
Federal agents testified before Judge Waddill that liquor evidence stored in the Richmond federal building was twice looted last year. The claim alleges that all seized contraband liquor disappeared after thefts within the storage rooms controlled by federal prohibition officials.
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Richmond
Virginia
Feder
Waddill
Federal
Exports to Spain Rise Sharply as Market Grows
The Department of Commerce notes a 240 percent increase in American exports to Spain from 1914 to 1910, highlighting Spain’s growing market. Trade Commissioner Arthur Young attributes the boost to the displacement of Germany and, to a lesser extent, France and Great Britain by U S exports in Spain.
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Spain
Washington
Department of Commerce
Arthur Young
Germany
France
Great Britain
United States
Republicans Seek Tax Relief and Higher Prices Clash
Western Newspaper Union News reports in Washington that Senator Frelinghuysen outlines GOP tasks to remedy taxes by removing excess profits tax, lowering levies on small incomes, and funding revenue with tariffs and a sales tax on manufacturers. Debate centers on replacing lost revenue and the impact on consumers as lawmakers weigh price pressures and supply dynamics.
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Union News Flerrice
Washington
Joseph S. Frelinghuysen
Senate
Harding
Houston
Frelinghuysen
Republian Party
Taft
Congress
Dotheboys Hall
Republican Party
United States
Volunteer Wage Cut Offered in Pullman Work Force
In Chicago nearly 9,000 employees at the Pullman Company plant in Pullman Illinois offered to accept wage reductions up to 20 percent. The voluntary move came through the employees' industrial relations committee, and without any company prompting or expected force reductions.
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Chicago
Pullman Company
Alt Pullman, Ill
Well Known Actresses Marry in Greenwich Conn
The marriage of Const ance Talmadge to John Platoglio was announced with a ceremony at Greenwich Connecticut on December 26 in the presence of the bride’s mother and two sisters Norma and Natalie. Dorothy Gish wed James Rennie at the same time and place with mutual attendants.
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New York
Constance Talmadge
John Platoglio
New York City
Greenwich
Conn
Dee
Norma
Natalie
Dorothy Gish
Miss Talmadge
James Rennie
Wyoming Briefs Report Wage Cut and Deaths Across State
Wyoming notes report wage cuts for wool sheepherders in Carbon County, a nationwide hunt for Hart murder suspects yielded a Casper arrest, and medical leaders were elected in Northwest Wyoming. An air mail crash near Omaha left pilot Cox unhurt. UW inspectors visited high schools. condemned inmate Yee Geow attempted self-harm. two Wyoming banks closed over reserves. extension workers meet in Laramie. Casper stockholders oppose moving United States Wool to Denver plant. Jelm mica vein development to begin. damages sought in Greybull pool hall case. Land Office push in Cheyenne. Cody rancher Fred Black dies by suicide. carbon black plants affected by Supreme Court ruling. accidental cartridge explosion injures hands. Judge Kimball sentences Henry Johnson to life for murder.
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Maude Moore
Martin Hunter
Leroy Hart
Knoxville
Tenn
Casper
Hunter
Pat Royce
Frances M. Lane
Cody
Northwest Wyoming Medical Society
Lowell
J. H. Carder
Greybull
Chester Harris
Basin
Cheyenne
Cox
Omaha
C. R. Maxwell
Department of Education
University of Wyoming
North Central Association
Yee Geow
Bank of Lusk
Wyo
State Bank of Meetteetse
Hoffman
Lusk
Meeteetse
Extension Workers
Laramie
Farm Bureau
Western
United States Wool Company
Denver
Half Moon Mining and Milling Company
Jelm
Foxpark
L. D. McDonald
Ideal Pool Hall
A. Baker
General Land Office
Washington
Fred Black
Carter Mountain District
Court House
United States Supreme Court
Cowley
Wye
Lovell
Charles Hoff
Upton
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Revenue Bureau
U.S
Union News Germer
Ford
Los Angeles
Pendegast
Italy
Council
Uolon News Service
Western Newspaper Union News Service
Solons
Wyoming
Astern
Carbon County
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