Canal Locks Deemed Safe From Invasion By Goethals
Colonel Goethals told a Senate committee that the Panama Canal remains secure from military attack. The Gatun and Miraflores locks are far from coasts, armed guards are planned, and ships can pass through in under eight hours. He warned one or two saboteurs could not damage the locks, though Gatun’s sluice gates are critical.
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Gatun
Goethals
Atlantic
Mirafiores
Pacific
Commission
Colonel Goethals
Brandegee
Culebra
United States
Gatun Lake
Panama
Blackburn
Canal Zone
Customs Bureau
Areaa
Mr. Blackburn
What Constitutes Good Whiskey Case Sets Test for Pure Food Law
In Washington on January 22 District Attorney Baker opened a test case to define whiskey under the pure food law. He filed against James Clark Distilling Company after seizing 38 barrels of whiskey worth about 4000 dollars, alleged misbranded under the act. The defense, backed by the National Wholesale Liquor Dealers Association, contends the liquor is a blend and not misbranded, arguing the case seeks Attorney General Bonaparte’s opinion and clarifies whiskey as a rectified grain spirit with minimal fusel oil content.
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Washington
United States
Baker
James Clark Distilling Company
National Wholesale Liquor Dealers’ Association
Warwick M. Hough
Hough
Bonaparte
Mough
Decrease in Internal Revenue in December 1997
Washington reports December 1997 internal revenue receipts fell by 2,418,277 compared with December 1996. Six month totals show a 343,510 decline year to date. Spirits, tobacco, butter, and miscellaneous sources contributed notable losses, with total six month receipts at 135,151,264.
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Washington
Kahn Proposes Pacific Coast Port Defense Bill
Representative Kahn of California introduced a bill in Washington on January 22 to defend Pacific Coast ports. The measure would fund 1,020,000 dollars for constructing fifteen submarine torpedo boats by contract, at a total cost not exceeding 5,900,000 dollars.
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Washington
Kahn
California
Pacific
Supreme Court Grants Immediate Hearing on Bronson Primary Law
The Supreme Court today granted an immediate hearing in the case testing the Bronson primary election law opposed by Senator Foraker. Oral arguments will be held Thursday with briefs to follow.
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Columbus
Ohio
Supreme Court
Bronson
Foraker
Orar
Coffee to Postum: a health claim for blood renewal
An advertisement claims coffee harms red blood cells and blood quality, urging readers to switch to Postum. It references a trial, mentions the book The Road to Wellness in packages, and promotes Postum as a healthier alternative with a persuasive tone.
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Welivile
Primary Election Date Discussion Delayed in Erie and Allen Cases
Justice Shauck asked if counsel in Erie and Allen county cases would accept a Friday date. Prosecutor Webber said he wrote to both prosecutors requesting their telegraphed preferences but has not received replies.
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Shauck
Erie
Allen Counties
Webber
Army and Navy News From The Tribune Bureau
Washington reports an unusual reprimand of Lieutenant James A. Thomas at Fort De Soto after a court martial found fault with his conduct in a public barroom with soldiers. Brigadier General Davis condemns his pride and urges return to humility while detailing other orders, promotions, and vessel movements.
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Washington
J. M. K. Davis
Coast Artillery
Fort de Soto
Florida
James A. Thomas
Brownsville
Davis
Thomas
George R. Smith
Boston
San Francisco
John P. Hains
Coast Artillery Corps
Foston
Charles H. Hilton
Harold W. Jones
Philippines
Army Transport Service
Arthur N. Pickel
15Th Cavalry
Edward R. Copperock
Cavalry
Abbott Boone
8Th Cavalry
John P. Bubb
4Th Infantry
Henry A. Brown
Field Artillery
Corps of Engineers
Washington Barracks
David Y. Beckham
NAVY
R. M. Berry
C. C. Marsh
Board of Inspection and Survey
Bureau of Navigation
A. F. Frehteler
Nel J. H. Pendleton
Navy Bureaus Chief Defends Battleship Craftwork Before Panel
Rear Admiral Capps testified to the House Naval Affairs Committee denying widespread charges against U S Navy construction methods. He defended freeboard turret ports and waterline design noting improvements since 1900 and the impact of new trunnions on gun placement. He urged that critics rely on facts, not misinformation, and said an official statement will follow excluding press in-room discussion.
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Capps
Bureau of Construction of the Navy
House Committee On Naval Affairs
Bureau of Construction
Admiral Capps
Great Britain
Kearsarge
Kentucky
Foss
Confederate Veterans Dine at Waldorf Astoria Dinner
The eighteenth annual dinner of the Confederate Veteran Camp of New York was held at the Waldorf Astoria with about four hundred guests. Edward Owen presided as toastmaster. Guests included Rear Admiral Casper F. Goodrich, Col. Robert Lee Howze, Sen. John W. Daniel, Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, Col. Justus N. Williams, and several society presidents. Daniel toasted “Robert E. Lee, Virginia and the Union,” Woodford spoke on “A Look Backward,” and R. E. Lee Jr. toasted “The South in History.”
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Waldorf-Astoria
Edward Owen
Casper F. Goodrich
Robert Lee Howze
West Point
John W. Daniel
Virginia
Stewart L. Woodford
Justus N. Williams
George S. Baker
Bruce L. Rice
Tennessee Society
William A. Barber
South Carolinians
Woodford
R. E. Lee, Jr
Currency hearings begin in Washington on Aldrich bill
The House Committee on Ranking and Currency opened its public hearings on currency reorganization and federal guarantee bills with only committee members and Representative Fulton of Oklahoma present. Representative Burgess of Texas clashed with Chairman Fowler over sectional aims and the Aldrich currency bill, arguing it would let states largely control paper circulation fluctuations.
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Washington
House Committee On
Fulton
Oklahoma
Burgess
Texas
Fowler
New Jersey
Congress
Kimball Amuses House With Presidential Naming
Washington Jan 22 Representative W P Kimball of Kentucky elicited laughter in the House with a maiden speech naming likely presidential candidates and upcoming leaders. He predicted Bryan for president, Clark for Speaker, Watterson as Treasury secretary, and De Armond as floor leader, amid humorous asides about Taft and Roosevelt. The Penal Code debate continued with section 212 as adjournment came, and a contested amendment to bar obscene books from the mails stalled on a lack of quorum.
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Washington
House
W. P. Kimball
Kentucky
the Treasury
Bryan
Champ Clark
Missouri
Henry Watterson
Treasury
de Armond
Kimball
Mr. Clark
Transylvania
Mr. Payne
New York
Chicago
William H. Taft
Taft
Roosevelt
White House
Co. R
Hughes
Mr. Kimball
Houston
Tennessee
Ship subsidies favored at National Board of Trade session
Washington Jan 22 The National Board of Trade opening session discussed boosting American merchant marine between U S and South America citing ship shortage. The board backed 50 million dollars yearly inland waterway funding, urged separate form for order bills of lading, and favored subsidized mail lines to South America plus government aid for shipping. A committee was appointed to oppose a bill before Agriculture hearings. Delegates met at the White House with President Roosevelt and later attended the board banquet at the New Willard with top officials including Fairbanks Straus Cannon and various senators and representatives.
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National Board of Trade
E. R. Wood
Merchant Marine Committee
United States
South American
South America
A. M. Read
Committee On Uniform Bills of
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
Congress
Henry A. Fry
William Harris Douging
New York Produce Exchange
Douglas
James Brown Scott
Department of State
Hague
Agricultural Department
M. M. Kline
Philadelphia
House Committee On Agriculture
Board of Trade
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Roosevelt
New Willard
Fairbanks
Straus
Department of Commerce and Labor
Cannon
Mayor Des Planches
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Delaware
Newlands
Ovada
Jackson
Maryland
Burton
Olcott
New York
Ohio
McCreary
Waneer
Jean
Cook
Moore
Bingham
Pennsylvania
Loudenslager and Wood
New Jersey
Meyer
Josiah Marvel
Extensive Military Post Planned at New Castle
The federal government condemned forty acres between Fort Constitution and Fort Stark in Portsmouth New Hampshire for an extensive new military post. The site covers fine summer estates including those of Jacob Wendel of New York and John Barrett of Chicago who will contest the takings. War Department has drawn plans and an initial expenditure of 400000 dollars is planned.
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Fort Constitution
Fort Stark
Newcastle
Jacob Wendel
New York
John Barrett
Chicago
War Department
Strike In Tyne Shipyards Shuts Down Thousands Jobs
In Newcastle on Tyne four thousand shipyard workers refused a proposed wage cut and did not return to work, making the strike a fact. Some ports on the northeast coast were also affected.
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Newcastle-on-Tyne
Tyne
One Inquiry Enough Senate debate on Harvester investigation relief
Washington Jan 22 Senate spent the morning hour discussing a resolution by Senator Hansbrough to relieve the Department of Commerce and Labor from further investigating the International Harvester Company. He cited Justice Department evidence to begin a suit and noted political factors in his state. The debate touched tariff revision and adjourned after the Penal Code discussion.
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Washington
Senate
Hansbrough
Department of Commerce and Labor
International Harvester Company
Department of Justice
Deficiency Bill Reported For Urgent Consideration
Washington January 22 Chairman Tawney of the Appropriations Committee reported urgency deficiency bill and announced it would be taken up tomorrow. The bill totals 24 174 450 with items for Treasury District back pay naval interior commerce and labor courts postal service Isthmi an Canal and other agencies. The total is 784 905 less than committee estimates. One paragraph provides that trial expenses for Hyde Dimond Benson and Schneider land fraud cases be paid by the United States, about 50 000, with Bonaparte proposing the District cover half.
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Appropriations Committee
Bonaparte
Jersey lawyer dies by own action in Syracuse
Irving E. Salmon of Morristown New Jersey a member of Reed and Salmon shot himself near Syracuse after being treated for nervous trouble at Clifton Springs sanatorium He planned to be picked up by his brother Joshua Salmon Boonton New Jersey His pockets held Masons and Elks certificates $50 cash and a New York draft for $50 He leaves a wife and was a Rutgers graduate and Morris County lawyer with political ties
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Irving E. Salmon
Morristown
N. J
Reed & Salmon
Salmon
Clifton Springs
Joshua Salmon
Boonton
Clifton
Tribune
Morris County
Joshua R. Salmon
Rutgers College
Thomas J. Hillery
Tobacco Factory Fire Fatalities Against Jim Crow Laws
In Clarksville Tennessee on January 22 an attempt to torch the Hayes Sorey Tobacco Company plant ended in the deaths of two Black men named Tony Allen and Walter Watkins as they tried to flee a night watchman. A third Black man escaped, possibly wounded. In Boston on January 22 the New England Constitution and Suffrage League sent a petition and bill to two Massachusetts delegates in Washington opposing segregation of interstate passengers by color.
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Tenn
Hayes-Sorey Tobacco Company
Tony” Allen
Walter Watkins
Frog Eye
Boston
New England Constitution and Suffrage League
Massachusetts
Washington
Death by own action stops divorce trial in Albuquerque
In Albuquerque on January 22, the divorce trial of Mrs. Pearl Turner and Mark C. Turner was halted after authorities learned by phone that Mrs. Turner had shot herself at her father's home. She left a note for her mother saying she could not face her husband’s accusation of moral unfitness to rear their child, and had sought divorce on cruelty and non support.
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Pearl Turner
Mark C. Turner
Legislators under fire by Massachusetts Total Abstinence Society
At the annual meeting in Boston on January 22, presiding officers of both Massachusetts Legislature branches were sharply criticised by the Total Abstinence Society for efforts to thwart temperance. Ex-Governor John D. Long, former Secretary of the Navy, serves as society president.
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Boston
Massachusetts Total Abstinence Society
John D. Long
Navy
Slap at Mayor Johnson on McKinley Day Dinner
Cleveland dispatch says Mayor Johnson will skip the McKinley Day dinner of the Tippecanoe Club where Taft and Senators Dick and Foraker were set to speak. Club officials returned payment for mayor and secretary plates without explanation to E. W. Dody.
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Johnson
Tippecanoe Club
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Dick and Foraker
E. W. Dody
Dody
Bequest for Ghost Study Favored by Clark University President
Worcester January 22 The late Joseph A Battles bequest of 5000 dollars for the study of ghosts and psychic phenomena is favored by President G Stanley Hall who says there is no doubt the bequest will be accepted and apparitions investigated at Clark University.
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Worcester
Mass
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Joseph A. Battles
G. Stanley Hall
Setback for Mayor Johnson in traction talks
Frederick H. Reed vice-president of J G White Co of New York presented arguments before the Cleveland City Council on January 22 1926 asserting a higher overhead construction charge than Mayor Johnson demands. Reed said the correct percentage would range from 2 to 47 percent when including property labor and material.
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Cleveland
Frederick H. Reed
J. G. White & Co
New York
Johnson
F. H. Goff
Cleveland Electric Railway Company
Reed
Passenger Fare Probe by Upstate P S Board
Albany reports the Public Service Commission outlines its first annual review of railroads and utilities outside NYC including passenger fare questions. It discusses two cent mileage books, service adequacy, complaints, and progress on gas and electric meters with six month additions totaling 187.97 million dollars.
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Public Service Commission
2D District
New York City
Commission
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United States
Chicago Railways Case Up Before Supreme Court
The Supreme Court heard arguments on whether shareholders of West Chicago Street Railroad Company may appeal a circuit court reorganization order paving the way for Chicago Railways Company. City officials argue the appeal is a delay tactic before February 1 when rights lapse. Attorneys debated jurisdiction and the conduct of Judge Grosscup while noting potential property confiscation and urgency to avoid loss of millions. The court reserved judgment.
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Chicago Street Railroad
Supreme Court of the
United States
West Chicago Street Railroad Company
Grosseup
United States Circuit Court of
Northern District of Illinois
Chicago Railways Company
Supreme Court
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Wickersham, Gurley and Burry
Burry
West Chicago Company
Crawford
Grosscup
City of
Chicago
Wickersham
Circuit Court
Taft Draws First Blood at RNC Delegates Vote
Taft wins initial victory as two district delegates to the Republican National Convention are chosen to back his candidacy. A. E. Perry and E. O. Butler, of Colgate, Okla., are instructed to vote for him.
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Tribune Bureau
Washington
Taft
A. E. Perry
E. O. Butler
Colgate
Okla
Eggers Reinstated by Court of Appeals in Vice Squad Case
Albany Jan 2 The Court of Appeals affirms the Appellate Division ruling reinstating Lt William J Eggers to the New York police force former head of the vice squad. Eggers was dismissed by McAdoo for failing to suppress an alleged disorderly house and later cleared on appeal. His record prior to dismissal noted many important arrests and service.
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Court of Appeals
New York
William J. Eggers
McAdoo
Eggers
West Sith Street
McClellan
McAvoy
William Howell
Howell
Louis Grant
Partridge
Morton and
Cody
Billafer
Marineau
Bertha Claiche
Kings County judges to rise from two to five in plan
An Albany telegraph dispatch reports Senator Otto G. Foelker proposing a constitutional amendment to increase Kings County judges from two to five and extend terms from six to fourteen years. The two current judges would have their terms extended to fourteen years from their original election. A second bill by Senator Gilchrist would allow New York City to appoint two extra city magistrates in Brooklyn and raise salaries to 35000, or 37000 in Richmond and Queens.
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Kings
Senate
Otto G. Foelker
Gilchrist
New York City
Brooklyn
Richmond
Queens
State Associated Dailies elect officers at Albany meeting
At the annual Albany meeting the New York State Associated Dailies elected Frederick P. Hall of Jamestown as president Horace A. Knapp of Auburn as vice president and Gardner Kline of Amsterdam as secretary treasurer.
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Albany
New York State
Frederick P. Hall
Jamestown
Horace A. Knapp
Auburn
Gardner Kline
Amsterdam
Senate bill for canal improvement raises laughs in Albany
Albany Jan 2 Senator Ackroyd Utica introduced last year’s bill to appropriate 578 480 4703 for canal improvements. He urged immediate advancement to final passage under Commerce and Navigation, not Finance. Cha asked why the change and Ackroyd smiled saying the bill was before Finance last year and never got out, prompting laughter as it began its regular course.
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Utica
Committee On Commerce and Navigation
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Governor Receives Jackson Charges In Albany
Albany January 22 Governor Hughes has formally received charges against Attorney General Jackson filed by Charles H Peck treasurer of the Mutual Fire Insurance Company Rochester. The claim alleges discrimination against mutual cooperative fire insurance firms not tied to the state league. The Governor has not acted yet.
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Albany
Hughes
Jackson
Charles H. Peck
Mutual Fire Insurance Company
Rochester
State League
Sutton Leads at Billiards Revelation of 18.2 Balkline Duel
George B. Sutton of Chicago defeated local player George F. Slosson in the seventh game of the 18.2 balkline billiard series at Slosson’s academy last night by 80 to 374. Sutton posted a 163 in the thirteenth inning and a 14 in the eleventh, finishing with a strong 237-21 average. Sutton has four wins to Slosson’s three. A large crowd watched as Sutton maintained steady runs and a dominant block of 30 points in twenty-one innings.
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George B. Sutton
Chicago
George F. Slesson
Academy
Sutton
Slosson
ASO
Siasson
Remy
Six Day Race Out West In Kansas City
A brutal six day bicycle race in Kansas City Missouri saw Holbrook start the sprint and Root and Moran claim early reins while Monroe dropped a lap. By 6 30 pm the standings showed Monroe and Morgan four laps behind the leaders with 411 miles and 6 laps completed at the twentieth hour.
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Holbrook
Root
Moran
Monroe
Morgan
Kansas Rate Law Turned Down by House Committee
Topeka January 2 The House Committee on Railroads reported unfavorably the proposed bill for a cent passenger fare rate The committee said no emergency existed as the state already had a 2 cent rate and such a law would secure credit and finance for railroads as borrowers.
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Topeka
Kan
House Committee On Railroads
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