Plan Exclusion Bill Draws Harlingen Japanese Farmers
Harlingen citizens accompanied by a Japanese interpreter pressured two Japanese settlers urging them to leave the Rio Grande valley. A Texas Legislature bill to bar Japanese from acquiring farm lands will be modeled on California law, amid anti-Japanese sentiment. The settlers, Okuma and family, said they bought land from Kishle via Yamada and will move only when conditions allow.
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Harlingen
Tex
Brownsville
Rio Grande Valley
Onalifordby
Los Angeles
San Aneonio
T. M. West
San Antonio
Texas
Bexar County
California
B. R. Kato
Assisrance
T. Okuma
O. Okuma
Rilo Grande Valley
Kishle
Z. Yamada
Lung Fish With Lungs Draws Bronx Zoo Crowd
Paleontologists call the lung fish one of the rarest freaks, a missing link between fish and reptile. The specimen resides in the Bronx Zoo drawing adentata visitors as it alternates between mud and water, feeding at night and using lungs on land while keeping gills for underwater life.
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New York
Bronx
Destroy Homes of Militant Irish in Dublin
Dublin castle announced its plan to destroy houses in areas known to be occupied by militant Sinn Feinners as a deterrent to further outrages. It also said mall services in Tipperary Sligo and Donegal would be suspended due to persistent interference with mall cars.
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Dublin
Dublin Castle
Sinn
Liquor Smugglers Killed in Texas Gunfight Near Laredo
Two liquor smugglers were killed in a gun battle with Captain Ryan and six Texas rangers in Yopata county sixty miles east of Laredo. Several smugglers escaped. none of the rangers were hurt. Rangers killed two pack horses and two pack mules, capturing a large quantity of whisky. The fight occurred twenty five miles from the Mexican border. The two smugglers have not been identified.
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Laredo
Texas
Ryan
Texas Rangers
Yopata County
Inaugural funds face Senate clash over $50 000 stand
Western Newspaper Union reports a heated Senate debate on a $50 000 appropriation for inauguration expenses in Washington. Senators Knox Norris Jones and Borah clash over cost, ceremony, and precedent as calls for economy and fear of a million dollar total rise.
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Washington
Jan
Harding
Senate
Europe
Knox
Pennsylvania
Congressional Committee
Capitol
Borah
Idaho
Norris
Nebraska
Jones
Fletcher
Florida
Congress
Lincoln
District of Columbia
Grocers Seek Restraining Order Against Packers
Washington. Interstate Commerce Commission heard from National Wholesale Grocers' Association representatives who asked for a restraining order to prevent packers from shipping non perishables in refrigerator cars. Packers argued that empty returns and shortages of perishables forced use of cars for any commodity.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
National Wholesale Grocers’ Association
Bill to Increase House Membership under 1920 census plan
Washington reports a census committee bill by Chairman Siegel to fix reapportionment for ten years under the 1920 census. The bill would raise House membership to 483, a boost of 48 with no state losing representation. A constitutional amendment would limit future House size to 500.
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Washington
Siegel
Census Committee
Bullion Returns to United States from India
A large shipment of gold bullion has arrived from India as relief from wartime flows to India and China reverses. The New York trust company that received it declined to state the amount.
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United States
New York
India
China
Oriental Exchange
Trust Company
U 88 Sunk Off San Pedro By Wickes Gunfire
United States destroyer Wickes fired 24 inch shells from 8,500 to 2,500 yards to sink U-boat 88, the former German raider, six miles off the San Pedro breakwater in Los Angeles, California.
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Los Angeles
Cal
United States
Wickes
San Pedro
Tragedy in Ditch After Car Skids Into Water Near Here
A man and a baby drowned in one foot of water after an automobile skidded and overturned into a ditch near Trenton. Seven others suffered cuts and bruises in the crash. Local authorities confirmed the fatalities and injury details at the scene.
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Trenton
Here
Jewel House Guarded After Plot to Blow Up Crown Jewels
Major General Sir George J. Younghusband, keeper of the Tower of London jewel house, denounced the recent plot to destroy the crown jewels. He said such an attack would fail, noting the strong security and constant guarding of the jewel house in recent years.
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London
George J. Younghusband
Tower of London
League of Nations envoy sought for talks with Harding
Paris reports informally discuss sending a league envoy to President-elect Harding after his inauguration to argue for keeping the league and revising the covenant. Debate centers on the Saar and Danzig areas and mandates, with allied powers preferring some form of continuation rather than abandonment. Washington notes Senate hearings on reducing world naval building and potential disarmament talks led by Borah, with Admiral Coontz opposing rigid percentage cuts and warning naval power balance remains unequal.
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Paris
Council of the
League of Nations
Harding
Association of Nations
League
Saar Valley
Danzig
League Council
United States
Union News Service
Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Borah
Wilson
Great Britain
Japan
France
Italy
Coontz
Daniels
England
Navy Intelligence Service
Senate Committee
Admiral Coontz
Explosion wrecks undersheriff's home near Girard Kansas
The home of Crawford county undersheriff O M Lamb near Girard was demolished by an explosion estimated to involve 200 pounds of dynamite. Lamb's father in law, Mr Roper, sleeping in a rear bedroom, was seriously injured though he escaped death. the blast shook buildings in Pittsburg about fifteen miles away. Lamb had led raids on bootleggers recently.
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Pittsburg
Kan
O. M. Lamb
Crawford County
Girard
Lamb
Mr. Roper
Roper
Lover's sight drives woman with illness in Kenosha affair
Mrs Grace Dreys of Pilot Michigan, longtime Kenosha society figure and daughter of a local pioneer, was taken to Northern Hospital at Oshkosh after a mental health episode triggered by sight of Ben Ames, the man she loved and gave up twenty two years ago.
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Kenosha
Ben
Ames
Grace Dreys
Pilot
Mich
Northern Hospital
Oshkosh
King Honors Hemphill for War Relief Service
King Albert instructed the Belgian ambassador to convey condolences to the Hemphill family of New York after the death of Alexander J. Hemphill last week. The king recalled Hemphill as treasurer of the Commission for Relief in Belgium for his notable wartime service aiding Belgians.
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Brussels
Albert Tins
United States
Alexander J. Hemphll
New York
Albert
Hemphill
Commission For Relief
Belgium
Thief Repents After Fifty Years in Raleigh News
A Tennessee letter delivered 185 to W. C. Nanny of Rutherford County confessing a horse theft from Nanny’s father-in-law in 1807. The sender, a repentant horse thief, claimed to have sold the horse and sent the money, stating the conscience moment after fifty years.
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Raleigh
N. C
W. C. Nanny
Rutherford County
Tennessee
Nanny
Arrests Under Volstead Act Rise in Washington
17,565 arrested under the Volstead Act in Washington. Internal Revenue collects 22,571,080.59 in penalties and taxes. Venue agents seize stills, ferments, mash, wine and cider, and spirits totaling large confiscations across distilleries and warehousing.
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Washington
Internal Revenue Department
Wullett Distilleries
Wentz Made 31000 From War Dept Coal Deals
Washington January 7 Senate committee probing coal costs heard Col D B Wentz earned 31000 in commissions for delivering coal to the War Department during the 1920 shortages. He said he could have moved 276000 tons more but declined as market fell. Wentz defended his conduct while suggesting profits exceeded his preferred limit.
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Washington
Senate
Bureau of Mines
National Coal Association
War Department
Col
D. B. Wentz
Calder
New York
Wentz
Department
Edge
New Jersey
Kenyon
Iowa
Colonel Wentz
Watkins Coal Company
Pennsylvania
The
Coal Association
Senator Kenyon
Mr. Wentz
Government dry dock contract awarded to P Lyall and Sons
In Victoria B C the contract for a new government dry dock at Esquimalt navy yards was awarded to P Lyall and Sons of Montreal and Vancouver for 4 300 000 the bid about 200 000 under government estimates announced by F B McCurdy minister of public works
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Victoria
B. C
Esquimalt Navy Yards
P. Lyall & Sons
Montreal
Vancouver
F. B. McCurdy
Whisky stock totals in government warehouses
Washington records show September stock in gallons: whisky 44,500,648. rum 406,556. gin 6,462. high wines 2,805. alcohol 876,008. cologne spirits 559,585. brandy 739,977. Con gress noted these figures.
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Washington
Congress
Swift Sales rise at East St. Louis branch
Swift & Co East St. Louis branch reported total sales of 46 million dollars for 1020, 10 million more than 1919, with last year’s slaughter at the facility including 150000 cattle 125000 sheep and 500000 hogs.
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East St. Louis
Swift & Co
Buffalo Hunt on Antelope Island Next Week
Stage Buffalo Hunt in Great Salt Lake area near Antelope Island Utah. Each person killing a buffalo will pay $200 according to John W. Thornley president of the Antelope Island Livestock Company owner of the animals.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Antelope Island
Great Salt Lake
John W. Thornley
Antelope Island Livestock Company
West Virginia Senate, Houseto Meet in City Venues
The West Virginia state Senate will convene in the YMCA auditorium and the House in the Baptist temple when the regular session opens January 18. The plan follows the burning of the state capitol, an incident officials say may cost millions. Gov. John J. Cornwell moved his temporary office to the armory. Other state officials arrange offices around the city.
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Charleston
W. Vae
West Virginia State Senate
Two masked men rob a freight train in Wyoming
Brief notes report a train robbery between Laramie and Cheyenne by two masked men led by a Conductor John O Donnell. Separately a Worland woman, 60, dies from injuries after falling from a roof while fixing a leak at her home. Governor Carey seeks a coal pricing inquiry by the Wyoming Public Service Commission.
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Wearrn
Union News Service
Laramie
Cheyenne
John O'Donnell
Anne Marie Davis
Worland
Carey
Wyoming Public Service Commission
Wyoming
Mabel Louise Anderson Macdonald
University of Wyoming
University of Kansas
Joshua Thompson
Rock Springs
Thompson
Ralph Kimball
Casper
Robert Carey
Wyoming Supreme Court
Cyrus Beard
Kimball
Supreme Court
Medicine Bow National Forest
Colorado, Wyoming & Eastern
Laramie City
Walden
Colo
Department of Agriculture
State Board of Sheep Commissioners
State Board of Livestock Commissioners
Snake River
Boggs and
Dixon
Clarence A. Barnard
Globe
Wye
Thermopolis
Barnard
Yee Geow
Laramie County
Rawing
Geon
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Treasury
Houston
U.S
Grocers
Griffin Wheel Company
Chicago
U. S
Sheriff's
King
ARMY
West Virginia Capitol
Leona Fulton
Harry Fulton
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