Disarmament Debate Signals Japan Cannot Reduce Armaments
A League of Nations armaments session with Japan asserting no cuts while the United States expands arms dominates debates. The commission backs three stage disarmament: no further increases, gradual reductions, then general cuts with police exemptions. Also noted are Holland’s conditional aid, Poland's note on Grodno, and a Chile Bolivia dispute affecting league membership. Committees meet as assembly delays to 4 pm to decide council member selection.
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Associated Press
Japan
United States
Viscount Kikujiro Ishii
Armaments Commission
M. Doret
Haiti
Council of the
League
Holland
League of Nations
Vilna
Poland
Council of the League
Grodno
Chile
Bolivia
League of Nations Assembly
Assembly of
The
Code Body Asks Extra Session
Des Moines Indiana December 11 The joint legislative committee on code revision unanimously recommended a special session of the legislature to complete the principal work of revising the code but urged preliminaries be handled during the regular winter session. They also recommended February 10 as the final date for submitting all bills except appropriation measures.
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Des Moines
Joint Legislative Committee On
Police Open Fire on Prague Crowd Demanding Parliament
Prague December 10 A police detachment attempting to clear demonstrators in front of the parliament building says it was surrounded and attacked and fired on the crowd wounding at least eighteen persons four seriously. Troops guard government buildings as clashes widen. Dispatches reported over fifty casualties among police and civilians in fighting for control of central social democratic offices.
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Prague
Czecho-Slovakia
Social-Democratic Party
Gipp Condition Unchanged at Notre Dame Hospital
South Bend December 11 Notre Dame football player George Gipp remained in the same condition this morning after a throat infection hospital authorities reported.
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Gipp
South Bend
Ind
George Gipp
Notre Dame
Townley Has No Power in N D League
Minneapolis December 11 A C Townley president of the National Non Partisan league has no direct voice in the North Dakota branch a condition that has lasted nearly two years Oliver S Morris the leagues national publicity director said today Fargo N D December 11 Chris Le Vang state senator told a Langdon farmers meeting that Townley would retire from North Dakota league activities to focus on organizing farmers in other states Townley regarded his North Dakota work as finished.
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A. C. Townley
National Non-Partisan League
North Dakota
Townley
Mills Real Power Behind Throne Gave Townley Authority in North Dakota
Fargo, Dec. 11. This is the North Dakota installment on Document 101 from the National Non-Partisan League. Walter Thomas Mills wrote the document in which the league’s ruling leaders authorize its executive committee, led by A. C. Townley, and Mills analyzes democracy and organization within the movement.
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Townley
NO. Dakota
Fargo, N. Dak
National Non-Partisan League
Endicott Building
St. Paul
Walter Thomas Mills
United States
California
League
North Dakota
Association
The
A. C. Townley
National Nonpartisan League
Debates Over Irish Policy Roil London Commons
London dispatch reports liberal leaders plan to open debate in the House of Commons on government Irish policy next Tuesday. Premier Lloyd George’s martial law announcement in southwestern Ireland prompts questions on cabinet plans and legislative consent, with mixed press reaction. A separate Dublin raid on a bicycle shop along Parnell Street uncovered a bomb factory: arms, ammunition, bombs and gelignite seized. three men arrested, one shot while fleeing.
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Associated Press
London
House of Commons
Ireland
Lloyd George
Liloyd George
London Times
Daily News
Daily Herald
Organ of Labor
Dublin
Parnell Street
Thieves Steal Three Autos In County
Ottumwa Iowa December 11 Automo bile thieves in Appanoose county last night stole three automobiles with two recovered already and the third still missing.
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Ottumwa
Appanoose County
Milk price cut at Brown County Milk Exchange
In Green Bay Wisconsin on December 11 milk was reduced to nine cents a quart by the Brown County Equity Milk Exchange, with milk sold at voting booths. The manager predicted a further drop to eight cents today.
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Green Bay
Wis
Brown County Equity Milk Exchange
Country Faces Unprecedented Deficit Say Senator Declares
Washington Dec 11 United States faces a deficit exceeding 1.25 billion dollars Senator McCumber says rigid economy is needed in appropriations and all taxes must be paid when due He argues loans to foreign nations cannot cover the gap and that taxes should rise while expenditures fall The administration's idea to issue long term obligations to the public is criticized Treasury shows cash 160 million with revenues 650 million and several maturing certificates yielding a total deficit of 1 229 981 765 including safety balance and railway estimates
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate
McCumber
Finance Committee
United States
Houston
Smoot
Simmons
Glass
the Treasury
Treasury
Hamon Widow Returns to Chicago Home Under Guard
Mrs. Jake L. Hamon widow of the slain Oklahoma millionaire returns to her Chicago apartment with her daughter Olive Belle. She declines to be interviewed and the residence is guarded by two detectives as the case attracts attention.
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Chicago
Ill
Jake L. Hamon
Olive Belle
Hamon
Price Tag Clue Foils Bettendorf Bandit Robbery Trio
Detectives tracked three men identified as Robert McCausland Charles Russell and Morris Costello to Davenport theater where they sat in front row and were arrested after a price tag on a pipe linked to stolen car ownership. Victims from Bettendorf poolroom and confectionery store named them. Cooper linked the trio to the case. The men claimed Davenport residence and gave alibis that unraveled under questioning. The Dodge car they used was abandoned in Muscatine.
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Bettendorf
Columbia Theater
Davenport
Muscatine
Harry Cooper
Cooper
Caudle
Rock Island
Avenport
Robert McCausland
Charles Russell
Morris Costello
McCausland
Costello
Burlington
Clinton
Foreign Trade Corporation to Be Formed at $100 Million
Chicago December 11 The foreign trade conference voted to form a foreign trade corporation capitalized at $100,000,000 under the Edge Act. A 30 member committee led by John McHugh will proceed, with underwriting financed by a second list. Directors to reflect commerce finance agriculture and industry across regions.
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Chicago
Ill
Foreign Trade Conference
John McHugh
New York
Finance
Agriculture
Industry
Wilmington
Del
Charles A. Hinsch
Cincinnati
Peter W. Goebel
Kansas City
Kansas
Thomas B. McAdams
Richmond
John Sherwin
Cleveland
Committee On Plan and Scope
Weather outlook by region with unsettled patterns
Iowa sees increasing cloudiness tonight with unsettled conditions by Sunday and moderate temperatures. Illinois mostly fair, warmer in the south tonight. Washington reports a week of unsettled Great Lakes with rains and local snows, followed by colder conditions. Upper Mississippi and Lower Missouri Valleys see rain or snow early, turning fair and much colder toward week end.
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Illinois
Washington, D. C
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Mississippi
Lower
Missouri
Tepeleni District Earthquake Destroys Villages
An Avlona message reported from Tepeleni in southern Albania that all villages in the Tepeleni district were destroyed by a violent earthquake. Two hundred people were killed and about 15,000 rendered homeless as Tepeleni town itself was razed and shocks continued.
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Tepeleni
Albania
Rome
Avlona
Tempo
Argentina
Buenos Aires
Patagonia
Honduras
Bryan to Meet with Harding over Association of Nations
President elect Harding will confer with William Jennings Bryan in Marion on December 17 to discuss plans for an association of nations and a framework for a future foreign policy. Colonel George Harvey and Herbert Hoover influence debate on Versailles league participation as Bryan accepts invitation and prepares to travel from Miami to Marion.
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Harding
William Jennings Bryan
Wilson
Association of Nations
George Harvey
United States
Versailles Teague
Harvey
Herbert Hoover
Bryan
Miami
Fla
W. J. Bryan
Influx of Aliens Seen as Serious by Immigration Panel
Washington December 11. The immigration committee chair warns that an influx of central European aliens is serious and dangerous and urges a one year immigration ban. He cites state department photos and consular reports, condemning the flow as anti-government and anti-God. He predicts ships arriving at Ellis Island with immigrants hanging over the edges.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Europe
State Department
House
Johnson
Immigration Committee
United States
Ellis Island
Train Hits Auto Near Richfield Injures Five
Milwaukee Wis Dec 11 five persons were hurt three probably fatally when their automobile crashed into a Milwaukee road freight train near Richfield early today authorities said one person remained in critical condition with possible fatal injuries while others suffered minor to serious hurts in the collision between the auto and the freight at a crossing
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Milwaukee
Wis
Milwaukee Road
Richfield
Iday
Mason appeals for League aid to send Irish probe team
Representative Mason of Illinois released a cable to Paul Hymans, head of the League of Nations, urging the League to back a commission’s Irish inquiry. He notes the British embassy refused passports to the investigators and says the League could prove American freedom from British domination by obtaining British cooperation to reveal Ireland’s conditions.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Mason
Illinois
Paul Hymans
League of Nations
League
Committee of One Hundred
Ireland
State Department
America
Ex-King Constantine Summoned to Take Greek Throne
Exiled Greek monarch Constantine receives official plebiscite invitation to return and claim the throne. Greece plans to receive him at Venice with a Greek cruiser and naval escort, while health concerns shift his return route from Brindisi to an ordinary train via Lucerne and Athens.
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Switzerland
Associated Press
Greece
Athens
Constantine
Venice
Sophia
Brindisi
Georgios Streit
Stefan Paparrigopoulos
Constine
Victory in Senate on farmer relief and tax deferment
Washington Dec 11 Supporters of the revived war finance corporation measure vow victory as the Senate takes up the joint resolution. The Senate finance committee rejects any deferment of income and other December 15 tax payments. The House votes to shorten Christmas recess and move to pass annual appropriation bills, adjourning Dec 23 and reconvening Dec 29.
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Washington, D. C
War Finance Corporation
Senate
Senate Finance Committee
House
Representative Mondell
Papers Found In Car Linked To Bank Loot
Securities wills civil war discharges deeds and many other valuable papers were found in a burlap sack in a freight car by leather dealers' employees. The company held the papers for Edgewood officials to identify as part of valuables taken in a state bank robbery over a month earlier. The lot includes historical documents spanning over 60 years and the bag arrived in a carhead with East St. Louis leather.
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Chicago, Ill
Edgewood
Ill
East St. Louis
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