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Newspaper
Laredo Weekly Times
Location
Laredo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1921
Page
1
Police report recovery of $200,000 in Liberty bonds and $46,000 in currency tied to a post office theft near Fort Worth. Two mail pouches were found near Lake Worth, ending the bandit's spree.
Associated Press report from January cites Rev. W A Mather returning from Paotingfu predicting famine in China will claim more lives in six months than World War I. He states more than fifteen million face immediate starvation and forty five million are in the famine zone across the country.
Chicago Jan 15 A petition protesting Judge K M Landis as national baseball commissioner has been prepared by Thomas Sutherland and sent to Illinois Congress members. In letters to newspapers he urged officials to consider the petition and labeled the action an attack on government and a sign of infidelity to public service.
Milan Italy January 15 delegates at the league of national socialists conference heard Dr Bernhard Dernberg former German minister of finance declare there is no possibility Germany will seek war again and that the old militaristic spirit has been cured forever through the conference closing session remarks.
Representative Fordney of Michigan, chair of the ways and means committee, met with Mr. Harding in Marion on January 15 to discuss tax policy for a post March 4 special session and the temporary tariff legislation of the current Congress.
Washington January 15. Preliminary work on the details of the new campaign to unionize the steel industry began today with William Hannon, secretary of the executive council of the international unions of the steel industry affiliated with the AFL. Education of workers to unionism benefits will be a key function, says M. J. Tighe, president of the Amalgamated and Associated Steel and Tin Workers, who heads the new committee.
Rufus Clements of San Antonio and Fort Worth was killed when the bandits wrecked their car near Fort Worth after a raid on the Jackson street post office sub-station in Dallas. W S Scrivner, wounded yet jailed, confessed involvement and names four fugitives. About $28,000, largely non negotiable due to mutilation, was seized from two registered pouches and split at the leader’s home. Scrivner led detectives toward the remaining suspects as police promise a sensational arrest of the alleged mastermind.
Fort Worth police and detectives identify the man killed on the Lake Worth road as Pat Murphy alias Rute Clements, a former Texas convict who had cash from the Dallas sub post office hold-up. W S Scrivner admits involvement in the Dallas hold-up and led officers to a Jennings avenue house believed tied to the gang. the residence was empty, neighbors say the occupants fled Friday night with two trunks. The manhunt for missing money and bandits continues around Lake Worth.
In London on January 15 Patrick Kenny was charged with taking part in an alleged Sinn Fein plot to attack police and ignite sixty thousand barrels of oil at the Vacuum Oil Company plant. The operation aimed to set 2.5 million gallons of oil ablaze at the facility.
Washington January 15 United States House Foreign Affairs Committee approved a joint resolution urging President Wilson to convene a world conference on universal disarmament with no opposition. The panel rejected 2 to 1 an amendment to invite Ireland and the Philippines.
Financial snapshot from Laredo National Bank in Laredo Texas shows capital stock 10,000.00, surplus fund 86,135.18, circulation 180,000.00, rediscounts 257,818.98, other liabilities 2,887.26, total assets 85,494,620.68. Signatures include A. L. Vidaurri and J. R. Fasnacht with assistant cashier titles.
In Hot Springs Arkansas authorities report G N Burkhart who allegedly killed his wife near Mount Ida was himself killed by a deputy sheriff last night near Glenwood. Word of the death arrived today confirming the fatal encounter and ending the pursuit.
Paul Ruthers of Highland Park Illinois was arrested here on January 15 on a larceny warrant sworn by the husband of Mrs. Phillips Fran zen of Madison Wisconsin who eloped with him weeks ago.
The house emergency tariff bill, amended by ten provisions, was approved by the senate finance committee and will be reported to the senate on Monday. No roll call was taken on the seven amendments, while Senator Simmons of North Carolina said Democrats generally opposed the measure.
Commander Evangeline Booth, who fell ill in Spartanburg, is slightly improved and hopes to attend the Greenville dedication of a Salvation Army hospital, though her doctor says she cannot deliver an address today.
Washington January 15 The war finance corporation revived by congressional action over Wilson's veto says it is now functioning and prepared to consider applications for loans to finance exports just as it did before suspending activities last May.
Mexico City on January 15 delegates to the Pan American Federation of Labor planned rapid action on resolutions, chose the next meeting city, elected officers, and aimed to conclude the current session started last Monday. It appears Samuel Gompers will be re elected president of the federation.
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