British Policy Shifts in Ireland to End Terror
London reports a radical change in Irish policy after talks between Lloyd George and Sir Hamar Greenwood. Military rule is blamed for driving moderates to extremists, while Sinn Féin resists Home Rule. A new approach aims to strip gunmen from both sides and ease the atmosphere for settlements. In Dublin, a major raid isolates large city sections. arrests are few and no arms found, with Sinn Féin leaders De Valera and Collins among those suspected.
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Tibune
European Bureau
Cortieht
New York Tribune Inc
London
Lloyd George
Hamar Greenwood
Ireland
Sir Hamar
Checqusrs
Sinn Féin
Sir Auckland Gede
Dublin
Sinn Meiners
de Valera
Collins
Navy eyes catapult takeoffs for sea planes test
Navy plans to launch seaplanes from catapults rather than from ship decks if tests prove successful. Captain Craven, head of naval aviation, said the system would allow more planes to be stored inboard and reduce danger in operations. The program, costing about 36 million dollars, targets the next fiscal year.
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Hodne Naval Committee
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Pat
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pSitiar
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Urrete
Craven
Naval
Revolt of Peasants in Ukraine Alarms Reds
Central News dispatch from Riga reports a serious peasant rebellion in Podolia Ukraine led by Colonel Tusunik. Moscow fears the unrest may spread as Ukrainian peasants protest Soviet failure to remedy grievances.
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Riga
Moscow
Podolia
Ukraine
Tusunik
Langdon Slayer Admits Firing The First Shot
The Washington report states Langdon’s killer changed his story and admitted firing first. Japanes soldiers in Vladivostok halted Americans before General directions eased. A Japanese court of inquiry recommends court martial for the sentry after contradictory accounts and a fatal breast wound to Lieutenant Langdon.
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Vladivostok
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Gleaves
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Japanese Board
Dantely
Army size fixed at 175000 by both Houses in wartime vote
The Tribune reports Congress fixed the army at 175000 and ordered a halt to enlistments until reduced. The Senate backed 150000 in earlier plans but then approved 175000 after Pershing and Baker insisted 160000 was too small. House and Senate votes aligned, signaling likely final agreement.
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Policeman Admits He Left Beat to Spy in Divorce Case
In Newark the case of Robert F. Reeve against his wife Mabel Reeve revealed New York police were used as private detectives. Patrolman Russell McKay testified he spied on Mrs. Reeve from a building on West Fifty-sixth Street in December 1919 with permission from a captain, though the judge questioned the credibility of the testimony. The court awarded Reeve a decree, while noting doubts about the witness and the process. The proceedings occurred before Vice-Chancellor Walker at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
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Chadwick Avnue
Mabel Reeve
Mabel Johnson
Went Fifty-f1th Street
Manhattan
Russell McKay
Went
Forty-seventh Street
Reave
Reeve
Weat Fifty-sixth Street
New York Police Department
West Forty-seventh Street
McKay
Jude
James McAuley
Treeve
Love Lin
Madison Square Garden
Tax on All Sales Scheme Favored by Hardin and Bacharach
President elect Harding supports a general sales tax as the basis for tax revision, with Bacharach citing three methods and favoring a final sales tax of about 1 percent. The plan aims to replace the excess profits tax and may require weeks after March 4 to set executive machinery running while Congress reconvenes for tariff and tax legislation.
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Washington
Jun
Marding
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House
Ways and Means Committee
Marion
Harding
Senator Warning
Hardings
Isaae Hucharach
New Jersey
House Committee On Ways and Means
Treasury
Bacharach
Secretary of the Treasury
Waya and Means Committee
Mr. Bacharach
Arding
Sparta Sold to Vanderlip Ends Village Prohibition Era
SCARBOROUGH, WN Jan 17 The village of Sparta is now wholly owned by Frank A. Vanderlip and will be bone dry. He announced the purchase of the remaining holdouts Nicholas Sellazzo and M K Burgson who resisted earlier. Sellazzo demanded 20000 for his share the rest sold to Vanderlip.
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Sparta
Frank A. Vanderlip
Vanderlip
Nicholas Sellazzo
M. K. Burgson
Sellazzo
Sinng Sing
The
Gove
Sollazzo
Felouda
Storekeeper And Son Shot In Brooklyn Hold-Up
Samuel Meshman and his son Abraham, both injured, were shot during a hold-up at their 435 Hegeman Avenue store in Brooklyn as two young gunmen fled with empty cash drawers. Police chase followed. victims in serious condition at St Mary's Hospital.
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Liberty Avenue
Brownsville
Ieiden
Uoon
Star
Dutch Pressure Dutch Emperor and Crown Prince to Leave Holland
Berlin reports from Vienna claim the Dutch government seeks departure of the former German Emperor and former Crown Prince over alleged involvement in preparations for a revolutionary coup. A Prussian Royalist party in Berlin aims to unify Orgesch movements, while the former German Empress remains gravely ill after a relapse following the Crown Prince’s visit.
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Tageblatt
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Holland
London
London Times
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Frederick William
Wieringen
Court Spares Dog Convicted as a Killer in County
Winchester reports a foxhound named Old King, owned by Frank Jones, convicted of sheep slaughter after lengthy deliberation. Judge W Lee Evans promises leniency if the dog is moved from the county. Two puppy sons were exonerated amid broad attention and local comparisons to famous men’s trials.
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W. Lee Evans
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Hound
O'Ryan Seen as Hylan Pick for Police Commissioner
Major General John P. O'Ryan, National Guard commander, named by Mayor Hylan as his candidate for Police Commissioner. Officers say the mayor favored O'Ryan, though both men denied confirmation. Newspaper reporters pressed for clarity as the mayor appears briefly in the newsroom and refuses to answer direct questions.
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National Guard
France
Hylan
O'Ryan
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General O'Ryan
Vlan
Enright
Genergl O'ryan
Fifth Avenue Chase Ends With Fugitive Confession
Hundreds crowd Fifth Avenue as William Davis, 34, of 122 West Second Street, is chased after attempting to steal an imported beaded bag from J M Giddings & Co. He is shot at, grazed on the head, and captured at East Fifty-Second Street station after a pursuit led by Detective John Barron. Davis claims he is a salesman. a woman accomplice fled.
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West Sevenecond Street
Schoorman
J. M. Gidding &Co
Fifth Avenue
Davis
Forty-sixth Feet
Forty-seventh Street
Perssons
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Davis West
Timothy Finnegan
Giddings
Nathaniel Gidding
Joseph Gwen
Owen
East Fifty-iroh Street
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Victims Had It Coming Jucciat Dispatch to Thy Tribus
Mrs Cleopatra McGory Hurtzman aged twenty confessed in Chicago that she lured men for a gang led by her husband. She claimed involvement in over fifty hold ups in two months and described how she enticed victims at hotels and restaurants to be robbed by Kurt Harteman and others. She recounted a life from a Texas farm to a carnival, waitress work, marriage, and eventual entry into banditry. The husband and another member were in custody, with police pursuing the gang.
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Thy Tribus
Chicago
Cleopatra McGory Hurtzman
Peoria Street
Wichita Falls
Tex
Harrow
Okla
Kat Harteman
Fura
Iamonds
Motors
Breaks Left Leg as He Broke Right Year Ago
Jw Pits, a stableman from Lyndhurst, fell from a feed box a year ago and broke his right leg. Today he fell again, breaking his left leg after previously shaving and collapsing. He is about fifty five and lives on Green Avenue. He was taken to Hackensack Hospital. T. George.
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J. Jw Pits
Fitty-Agton
Green Avenue
Hackensack Hospital
T.—George
City Officials Promise Police Aid for Grand Jury Inquiry
Mayor John B. Hylan and Police Commissioner Richard E. Enright agreed to cooperate with the January grand jury investigating the Hylan administration. District Attorney Swann and Governor Whitman announced rescission of Rule 184, enabling police to aid the inquiry without obstruction.
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Richard E. Enright
Hylan
Charles S. Whitman
Enright
Whitman
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