Tuscan Prince Mysteriously Lost Off Washington Coast
Fierce search efforts continued for the British liner Tuscan Prince and its forty three crew after a faint wireless SOS indicated sinking off the Washington and Vancouver Island coast. Rescue vessels including the Algonquin and Snohomish scoured the area amid conflicting reports of fires and wreckage.
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Associated Press
Seattle
Wash
Washington
British Columbia
Estavan Point
Vancouver Island
Pacific Ocean
Nika
Umarilla Reef
Cape Flattery
Santa Rita
Carmanah Light
Albert Head
Victoria
Hatchena Point
Point Hadena
Coast Guard
Port Angeles
Coast Guard Tries to Reach Sinking Moncenisco Off Virginia
Coast guard headquarters efforts to contact the Italian steamship Moncenisco, sunk about 600 miles off the Virginia coast, have failed at noon. The steamer Carplaka, bound from New Orleans to Havre, answered the distress call but could not communicate with Moncenisco.
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Associated Press
Norfolk
Coast Guard
Virginia
Carplaka
New Orleans
Havre
Irish Rebel Leader and Bride at Cave Honeymoon
London reports little fighting in the Ariegna mountains of County Cavan as General Bofin and his bride hide in a cave. The bridegroom directs rebel operations against Free State troops while pursuing a retreat through rough terrain. Bofin’s band has suffered two killed and seventeen wounded, with sixteen captured during a failed breakout toward Slige.
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Associated Press
London
Ariegna
County
Cavan
Bofin
Free State
Belfast
Fofin
Slige
Winter Storm Recovery After Blizzard Routs Roads
Chicago reports the cold wave breaking with the upper Mississippi valley and northwest recovering from a blizzard that shut down trans continental transport. Through trains resume on three lines, lines repaired, and communications restored as temperatures slowly rise.
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Chicago
Mississippi Valley
Northwest
North Pacific Seaboard
Western Gulf
Great Lakes Area
French and German Clash Reported in Gelsenkirchen
Duesseldorf reports rising friction between military and civilians in Gelsenkirchen. Arrests after an attack on a French officer include burgomaster and police chief. Five Germans including Essen officials face court martial for obstructing the occupation.
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Associated Press
Duesseldorf
Gelsenkirchen
Reich Bank
Arnstein
Schaefer
Essen
Bredeni
Ruhr
Johns Hopkins to consider McKoin readmission in Baltimore
Johns Hopkins medical school faculty plan to meet in a few days to decide on the re admission of Dr. B M McKoin former Met Rouge mayor. Dean J Whitridge Williams said McKoin withdrew his application to avoid publicity tied to the Morehouse parish disorders last August. McKoin will renew efforts to gain admission while free on $5 000 bail and remaining in Baltimore for now.
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Associated Press
Baltimore
Johns Hopkins Medical School
B. M. McKoin
Met Rouge
J. Whitridge Williams
McKain
Morehouse Parish
Louisiana
John Hopkins
Tomb of Tutankhamun Unsealed in Valley of the Kings Richest Ever
Luxor Egypt Feb 16 The sarcophagus of Pharaoh Tutankhamun was opened by British archaeologists as crowds gathered. Artifacts abound in the outer chamber with millions of dollars worth of funeral equipment. Egyptologists hope inscriptions within may confirm or deny theories about Israelite oppression and the Exodus.
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Valley OF Kings
Egypt
Associated Press
Luxor
Pharoah Tutenkhamen
James H. Breated
Allan Gardiner
New York
Pharoah Tutenkhamun
Valley of the Kings
Thebes
Liklihood
Ambrose Lansing
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Mr. Lansing
Semenkhare
Tutenkhamun
Akhnaton
Mr. Weigall
Aton
Moses
Ammon
Lansing
Meneptah
Ramess VI
Amenhotep
Loret
Inquiry into liquor import by foreign diplomats starts
The House voted 189 to 113 to launch a new inquiry into the importation of intoxicating liquors by foreign diplomats in Washington. The Cramton resolution calls on Secretary Mellon for a statement of liquor import amounts for all embassies and legations, after police linked diplomatic establishments to illicit supplies.
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Wasington
House
Washington
Cramton
Mellon
House Judiciary Committee
Crampton
Republican
Michigan
Bonar Law Refuses Transport for British Zone in Cologne
London reports Prime Minister Bonar Law at the conference with the French refused transportation facilities for the occupational forces in the British zone at Cologne. He reportedly offered to transfer a small section of the zone to complete French control.
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Associated Press
London
Bonar Law
Cologne
Harding Transmits $20,950,000 Scrapping Program Estimate
President Harding sent to Congress an estimate of 20.95 million dollars to fund the battleship scrapping program agreed at the Washington arms conference. The notice is dated February 16 in Washington.
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Congress
Washington
Harding
Cook County Judge Appointed Censor For Anti Klan Magazine
Chicago February 16 Tolerance the anti Ku Klux Klan magazine named a Cook County Circuit Court judge as official censor of its news columns. Judge Ira Rayner dismissed an injunction and agreed to oversee censorship pending adjudication of the periodical.
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Chicago
Tolerance
Cook County
Ira Rayner
Power Boat Carnival Opens Amid Choppy Lake Pontchartrain
The midwinter speed boat carnival in New Orleans, under the Mississippi Valley Tower Boat Association, faced postponements due to rough waters. New records were set in hydroplane classes with Ethel Salisbury Hanley leading a 320 cubic inch class record, and Doe's setting a 725 class mark. Miss Glenna Collett paired with Dorothy Kioto in the ladies golf final in West Palm Beach, while E J Northwood meets Georgia Dobin in Toronto.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
Red
Mississippi Valley Tower Boat Association
Lake Pontchartrain
Miss
Miss Terre Haute
F. R Casbeer
Terre Haute
Ind
Spo
New Basin Canal
Ethel XI
Ethel Salisbury Hanley
Chas. P. Hanley
Muscatine
Iowa
van Dyke II
J. Edwin Walmsley
Evansville
Chicago
Doe's
L. E. van Sant
Peoria
Motor VI
Walter Wild
Peoria, Ill
Mississippi Valley Power Boat Association
West Palm Beach
Fla
Glenna Collett
Providence
Kf. I
Dorothy Kiota
First Official Move to Make Britain Dry Starts in Parliament
In London on February 16 the British House of Commons saw the first private member bills on liquor, led by Edwin Scrymgeour of Dundee who seeks a ban on manufacture import and sale. Lady Astor also proposes stricter age sales laws.
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Britain
London
Edwin Scrymgeour
Prohibition
Dundee
Labor
United Kingdom
Lady Astor
Palace Department Store Celebrates 20th Anniversary Sale
In Monroe the Palace Department Store marks 20 years with a stupendous 10 day selling event. Owner Sigmund Masur, originator of The Palace idea, is hailed by friends and the public for building a premier Monroe shopping center focused on service and public satisfaction.
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Monroe
Palace Department
Fay
Paris
New York
London
Worich
Sigmund Masur
Movement delays as Louisiana Cotton Growers fight over sales offices
In Baton Rouge Feb 16 the Louisiana Cotton Growers Co Operative Association board delayed choosing a headquarters location for its sales offices. Shreveport and Baton Rouge contested the site, Monroe withdrew, and a March meeting was set to decide between the two cities while stressing regional coordination with university extension and farm bureau efforts.
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Associated Press
Baton Rouge
Louisiana Cotton Growers’ Co-Operative Associa
Shreveport
Andrew Querbes
Dent
Association
Monroe
Baton
S. M. Collins
Monroe Chamber of Commerce
Ben Johnson
W. R. Dodson
H. F. Kapp
Louisiana Farmer
City
Louisiana
Spi
The
State University
Farm Bureau
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Detroit
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E. J. Northwood
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Canada
Georgia Dobin
Boston
Weaks Supply Co
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Commons
Palace Department Store
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William B. Ennis
K. of P. Hall
First Christian Church
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First Methodist Church
H. C. Morrison
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