League of Nations shirks Ruhr issue amid rising resistance
Paris reports the League council will not place Ruhr reparations on its agenda and mediation between France and Germany is unlikely for now. Officials in Berlin insist resistance to French pressure is increasing, while French troops disperse protesters at the Rhineland border. Lloyd George criticizes the Ruhr occupation as folly in a Barcelona interview.
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League OF Nations
Ruhr
Associated Press
Paris
Council of the
League
France
Germany
Viviant
Berlin
Coblenz
Rhineland High Commission
Balting
Plymouth
Eng
Lloyd George
Spain
Commission To Meet On Funding Britain's War Debt
Washington February 3 The American debt funding commission meets to finalize recommendations for funding Britain's war debt. A draft will be submitted to President Harding, outlining procedures for Congress to translate negotiations into law and likely limiting changes to the foreign debt funding act to British terms before March 4 adjournment.
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Associated Press
Washington
American Debt Funding Commission
Harding
Great Britain
Congress
Lresident
State board pays first $2 of public school apportionment
The Texas state board of education on February 3, 1922-23 term began the payment schedule with a $2 per pupil apportionment toward the $10 total due. The action marks the initial installment in funding for the public schools for the new term in Austin.
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Associated Press
Austin
Texas
State Board of Education
Penniless Widow Seeks Alimony After Reopen Case
Chicago February 3. The decree granting Mrs Georgia Hamon Rohrer a divorce from William L Rohrer was set aside today. Mrs Rohrer said she is penniless and applied for alimony. She expected the Hamon estate would provide for her though it is insolvent. Rohrer’s counsel said she receives 200 dollars a month from the Hamon estate.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Georgia Hamon
Rohrer
Jake Hamon
William L. Rohrer
Hamon
Season for Increase in Midcontinent Oil Prices
Tulst Oklahoma February 3. Oil men attribute the price advance to salt water in Mexican light oil fields and a flood of low gravity crude in Texas Oklahoma and Kansas. Purchasers now seek high grade production across the three states.
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Associated Press
Tulst
Okla
Texas
Oklahoma
Kansas
Boll Weevil Damage Measured By New Statistical Methods
Atlanta February 3 The boll weevil impact on Southern cotton was analyzed by agricultural statisticians. New methods improved estimates of total 1922 cotton bales, influencing the government’s final bounty assessment.
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Associated Press
Atlanta Ga
Rum Runners Suffer Casualties in Jersey Coast Seizures
New York reports two casualties in early morning liquor landing operations off the Jersey coast. Customs officers seize the tug John L. Cann with three arrests and 600 cases, while coast guards capture the motorboat Rose near Highlands New Jersey.
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Associated Press
New York
Nquor
Jersey
John L. Cann
Coast Guards
Rose
Ocean Beach
Highlands
New Jersey
Resolution seeks liquor import data from embassies in Washington
Representative Cramton of Michigan introduced resolutions asking the state and treasury departments for reports on the amount of liquors imported by the various embassies and legations in Washington since prohibition.
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Associated Press
Washington
State and
Treasury Departments
Representative Cramton
Michigan
Heflin Defies Senate Over Expunged Remarks
Senator Heflin of Alabama vows to challenge senate rebukes after remarks critiquing the press are ordered expunged. He calls the coverage subsidized and says he may bar certain press representatives from the gallery.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate
Heflin
Alabama
Cold Wave Bringing Snow Across Texas
A strong Arctic air mass moving from the Rockies toward Texas caused sleet in Greenville and snow in Sherman and Amarillo. Temperatures ranged from four above at Amarillo to 26 at Wichita Falls with Abilene at 22. Freezing conditions were forecast down to the Gulf Coast within 36 hours.
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Dallas
Texas
Rocky Mountains
Greenville
Sherman
Amarillo
Abilene
Wichita Falls
Gulf Coast
Four Murders Suspect Starving in Jail Diet
Waco Texas Feb 3 Roy Mitchell begro charged with four murders is starving himself in jail in another county officers said he had not taken food in two days and would not talk. Arthur Pos teal charged with two murders was brought back to jail here from another county.
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Associated Press
Waco
Texas
Roy Mitchell
Begro
Arthur Posteal
The Wolf Escaped in New York
Federal agents went to detain David Lamar known as the wolf of Wall Street for a wat time offense at a New York hotel but found he had checked out and vanished without a forwarding address.
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New York
David Lamar
the Wolf of
Wall Street
Essex County Penitentiary
Lamar
Noted Woman Dead in Nashville Hermitage era member dies
Nashville Tenn Feb 3 Mrs Rachel Jackson Lawrence daughter of General Andrew Jackson's adopted son died at 7 this morning at Birdsong her country home aged 90 She was the last surviving member of the Hermitage household from Old Hickory's time and had been bedbound more than a year.
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Nashville
Tenn
Rachel Jackson Lawrence
Andrew Jackson
Birdsong
Hermitage
Old Hickory
Earthquake Measured At Georgetown University Observatory
An earthquake of unusual magnitude was recorded today on the seismograph at Georgetown University. The observatory director called the disturbance tremendous in scale. Additional shocks were recorded at the Cleveland and Salt Lake City observatories, with the event reported to have a southeasterly direction from Salt Lake City.
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Associated Plans
Washington
Georgetown University
Cleveland
Salt Lake City
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Laredo, Texas
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Kryptok
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