Troops of France occupy Ruhr region over German default
Paris reports France agrees to action in the Ruhr after Germany fails to deliver coal payments under Versailles terms. Essen is occupied by French troops, with 600000 residents under military supervision as the German and Allied authorities maintain other laws. Paris says press and posts remain as usual under the occupation.
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Associated Press
Essen
Germany
Ruhr
France
Belgium
Fssen
de Goutte
Allied Engineer Commission
Paris
Chamber
Senate
Poincare
Chamber of Deputies
Near East
Constantiople
Sarre
Swedish Farmers Censured for Neglect of Land
In Sweden a farmer may be reprimanded by provincial governors for abusing Mother Earth. The Swedish Cultivation Extension Committee says corrective action is needed where land is overgrown with weeds, underproduces, or grain is left unthreshed. Of 1,177 cases, 123 required provincial attention before improvement occurred.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Phones Needed by South America
Havana Cuba Associated Press reports Lewis J Proctor vice president of ITT Corp says improved internal and international telephone communications are urgent commercial needs for South America. He notes better links will accelerate Latin American business progress and lift trade conditions toward a steadier upbeat as he returns from a tour of investigation in the region.
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Associated Preas
Havana
Cuba
South America
Lewis J. Proctor
International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation of
New York
Latin America
Proctor
South Amana
Blockade runners flood Jersey town on liquor flotilla
Highlands New Jersey January 11 bootleggers haven as summer resort buzzes with rum running activity. A fleet of 22 vessels including three steamers and nineteen schooners lie off Ambrose Channel lightship and land thousands of cases of liquor at many locations along the coast.
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Highlands
N. J
Haven
New Jersey
Ambrose Channel
Open Hearing Reveals Ku Klux Klan Kidnaping Ring
Bastrop, La. — State’s attorneys hear testimony in an open inquiry into the Watt Daniel and Thomas Richard kidnapping and slaying, naming 13 men linked to a Morehouse parish Klan outfit. Key witnesses include Addie May Hamilton and Harry Neelis, with Sheriff Fred Carpenter implicated nearby.
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Bastrop
Watt Daniel
Thomas Richard
Morehouse Parish
Ku Klux Klan
Addie May Hamilton
Mokehouse
Harry Neelis
Jeff Burnett
J. K. Skipworth
Jim Tisdale
Monroe
A. B. Campbell
Jane
B. M. McKain
Mer Rouge
Rogers
Richard
Neelis
Fred Carpenter
Emigrants Flock to South America From Europe
Hamburg reports South American countries are becoming lands of promise for European emigrants as German shipping expands services to the southern Western Hemisphere. US immigration restrictions cited as a key driver pushing migrants westward seeking new opportunities daily opening up in the region.
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Preas
Hamburg
United States
Motive for Minister's Death Remains Unsolved
New York report on the apparent suicide of Rev. Dr. Percy Gordon aged 60 formerly an assistant pastor at a Louisville church. His body was found in a bath tub in his Hotel Walcott apartment with a bullet wound to the temple and a revolver with an empty chamber nearby.
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New York
Percy Gordon
Louisville
Walcott
Great Rum Fleet Off Sandy Hook Battled Dry Navy
A 22 vessel rum fleet operatives off Sandy Hook yesterday while New York dry navy reorganized. Prohibition forces captured four small boats during attempts to land liquor from mother ships. A second fleet of 50 rum carriers roams shore to shore as thousands of cases reportedly land. Rum stock from the Bahamas remains vast with no bidders, liquor sent to other cities by motor trucks.
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Highland
N. J
Sandy Hook
New York
Bahamas
Lawenceburg official shot near Old Joe distillery
Burdette M Huffaker a 62 year old storekeeper and gauger in the revenue service was found shot twice outside the Old Joe distillery seven miles southwest of Lawrenceburg Kentucky on Gilbert's Creek during night duty. A search began. Thieves suspected. telephone wires cut and a window raised. no whiskey taken.
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Burdette
M. Huffaker
Government Revenue Service
Gilbert’s Creek
Huffaker
Arehouse
Hulfaker
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