Lawson Witnesses Denied by Fisk and White at Leak Probe
Pliny Fisk and Archibald White contradicted Thomas W. Lawson before the House Rules Committee as the leak inquiry resumed in the Capitol. Fisk urged Lawson to be jailed for perjury while White denied introducing Lawson to Count von Bernstorff or aiding any stock dealings. The testimony suggested a shortened hearing and potential recall of Lawson, with ongoing cross examination about meetings at the Belmont and Delmonico's and discussions with stock brokers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas W. Lawson
Washington
Pliny Fisk
Archibald S. White
Rules Committee of the House
Custom House
Mr. White
Lawson
Boston
Law~son
Fisk
McAdoo
Brent
White
Pisk
Belmont
Count
von Bernsternt
Sherman L. Whipple
Mc Sweeney
Lawson Cotes Pernstorfs
Whipple
Siinowiey
Federal Chemical Company
Inter
Delmonico's
W. Content & Co
Von
Bernstort
Content
Bernard Baruch
Negro Education Funds Awarded by General Education Board
The General Education Board announced total appropriations of 975200 to American schools and colleges from the John D. Rockefeller Fund. Cornell College gets 100000, DePauw University 150000, Swarthmore 126000, Fisk University 50000, Spelman Seminary 85000, and smaller gifts to Southern institutions from 2000 to 7600. An additional 40000 is set for rural district negro education retraining efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Education Board
John D. Rockefeller
Cornell College
Iowa
DePauw University
Indiana
Swarthmore College
Pennsylvania
Fisk University
Tennessee
Spelman Seminary
Atlanta
Steamship Ashore Near Barnegat Light
Reports say an unidentified steamship ran ashore about a mile south of Barnegat Light New Jersey and coast guards, blocked by heavy fog and rough seas, could not identify the vessel or render aid from Barnegat thirty miles from Sandy Hook.
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Barnegat Light
N. J
Coast Guard Service
Coast Guards
Barnegat
Sandy Hook
Milk Prices Seen Rising Again On Thursday
Borden to raise Grade B milk one cent per quart and all cream two cents per half pint starting Thursday. Other major dealers may follow, though dates are not set. The move is linked to money pressures since the last October strike and may last until new dairy and food laws are settled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Borden Company
Borden
Albany
Thes! Wicks Committee
Raymond E. van Cise
Mutual Company
Dairymen's League
Loton Horton
Sheffield Farms Company
Appendix Saving Law Planned in South Dakota
Pierre South Dakota January 29 Under terms of a bill to be presented to the legislature surgeons who remove an appendix that is not diseased will not be paid for the operation The bill requires that all removed vermiform appendices be sent to the State Laboratory for examination They will then be returned to the original possessors with reports on condition If not diseased the bill relieves patients of financial liability to the offending practitioner
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Pierre
South Dakota
Iceland Considers Peaceful National Service Plan
Iceland may draft a citizen soldiery to replace military duty. Dramatist Gudmundur Kamban spoke to the Political Equality Association at 125th Street about a bill before the Althing requiring youths to perform six months of constructive public labor such as road and bridge building, funded by the state. The proposal, already attracting Scandinavian interest, is expected to pass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iceland
Godmundur Kamban
Political Equality Association
Congress of Iceland
Kamban
Herman
Mrs Byrne Hunger Strike Becomes Passive Claim of Mental Coercion
Report on Mrs Ethel Byrne in a hunger strike notes she remains passively fed by tube. Officials say she is conscientious and in good mental condition while sister Margaret Sanger accuses mental suggestion used to break her will.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ethel Byrne
Corrections
Burdette G. Lewis
Margaret Sanger
Lewis
Ars, Byrne
Maeve
Kathaine B. Davis
Byrne
Katharine B. Davin
Meeting at Carnegie Hall Honors Dr. Wrunius Ramyss
A quiet dignified gathering at Carnegie Hall last night honored Dr Wrunius Ramyss amid a strong condemnation of Sanger prosecutors. Speakers argued against the use of force or intimidation in the birth control movement and urged adherence to lawful advocacy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sanger
Carnegie Hall
Reichstag to Hear Hollweg on Foreign Affairs
Berlin Jan 20 The Ways and Means Committee of the Reichstag will meet next Wednesday where Chancellor von Bethmann Hollweg will make a statement on foreign affairs It is understood the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Bundesrat will meet the same day
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Reichstag
Berlin
Wayn and Means
von Bethmann-Hollweg
Bundesrath
Greece salutes Allies in Zeppelom ceremony
A Reuters report from Athens says Greece saluted the Allies flags Monday afternoon in the Zeppelom in line with the Entente agreement. Allied ministers the commander of the First Army Corps and Greek Cabinet members attended. The public was excluded and no untoward incidents occurred.
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London
Greece
Zeppelon
Reuter
Athens
First Army Corps
Sargol Owners Guilty in Noted Federal Trial
Wylie B. Jones and Herbert F. Woodward found guilty in Broome district federal court of aiding fraud in operating the Sargol Company of Binghamton. Jury deliberated seven hours. sentence set for tomorrow. Government exhibit list included 2,500 items. Parke, Davis goods bought for resale. James Kingsley era noted. defense and prosecution teams named.
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Auburn
N. Y
Wylie B. Jones
Herbert F. Woodward
Sargol Company
Binghamton
Ron H
George W. Ragin
New York
Parke, Davis Company
Detroit
Jones
Abel Smith
George B. Curtiss
Frank J Crege
Syracuse
United States District Attorney
C. P. Kingsley
Woodward
Kingsley
Million Dollar Club Altruism Shifts To Belgian Relief
The Rocky Mountain Club, with 500 mining magnates, abandons a planned $1,000,000 clubhouse to aid Belgian relief. Herbert Hoover urged funds for Belgium, prompting John Hays Hammond to announce diverting the building fund to Hoover for relief work. Committees will solicit further donations across New York and the Western states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rocky Mountain Club
America
Belgium
Kovemnors
United States
Herbert C. Hoover
American Commission For Relief
Hoover
Bankers’ Club
Broadway
John Hays Hammond
Mining Engineers’ Organization
Europe
Mr. Hoover
Hammond
Board of Governors
Relief Commission
Cormittees
New York
Sentiment Brings "Tom Brown" Sentence to Prison Ship's Brig
Thomas Mott Osborne, former Sing Sing warden, finished a voluntary prison stay at Portsmouth Naval Prison with Bowdoin College's A H McCormick. He and "John Austin" lived as inmates, scrubbing decks and performing tasks. Osborne received a five day bread and water sentence for keeping his wife's wedding rings, later remitted after he surrendered them.
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Trinase
Osborne
Daniels
W. S. Hill
Beaks
Frown
Brown
Nice
Yarrowdale Crew Freed Amid War Prisoner Claims
Copenhagen reports the Ekstrabladet arrival of twenty six sailors from the Yarrowdale crew including Swedish Norwegian and American seamen freed after internment at Neustrelitz. They described the raider voyage via Faroe Islands Norwegian coast Skaw Cattegat Swinemunde and noted more neutrals held as prisoners of war. The group said 103 neutrals remained held and the freed crew were forced to sign an agreement not to claim against Germany.
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Copenhagen
Ekstrabladet
Atlantic
Neustrelitz
Faroe Islands
Skaw
Cattegat Sound
Swinemunde
Germay Clude
Germany
Theian
Georgie
State Department
British Demand Action Criticises Lloyd George
Cable report from London notes growing British demand for stronger wartime preparations and rising criticism of the Lloyd George government amid fears of German reprisals and intensified submarine threats. Analysts foresee a lively parliamentary session without an imminent cabinet crisis as the nation readies for possible future naval and land campaigns.
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the Tribune
London
Lloyd George
North Sea
Wilson vetoes alien bill again
President Wilson vetoed the immigration bill for the second time citing the literacy test as a change in national policy and opposing asylum limits for persecuted fugitives. He warned the measure could prompt international complications by letting officials judge foreign laws.
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Row Roe tAbune Bure
Washington
Wilson
Congress
America
Raider Off Santo Domingo Report Sparks Wireless Warnings
A German raider was reported cruising off Monte Christi on Santo Domingo's north coast. Entente warships issued wireless alerts from Norfolk warning vessels to avoid the 40N 80W area, about 700 miles off New York, with the raider’s reported position traced to January 19.
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Cape Haitien
Haiti
Monte Christi
Santo Domingo
Norfolk
New York
Aren
First Armed Sailing Ship Quevilley Brings Long Gun To New York
The French bark Quevilley from Marseilles was towed to anchor in the upper harbor as a long gray S-inch gun rose above its poop deck. It is the first sailing vessel entered New York armed and drew comment from shipping circles. Locals recalled pre steamship days when guns gleamed on clippers. The crew call the gun m tite mie and say it can take care of itself.
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Marseilles
Brest
New York
Quevilley
Germans draft enemies to forced labor in occupied areas
Copenhagen telegraph reports a copy of the Sehler wigsehe Grenzpost from the Siuth German Army Corps commander proclaiming that all interned and other civilians belonging to nations hostile to Germany shall be compelled to perform public labor, mirroring Germanys civilian service.
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Copenhagen
Sehlerwigsehe Grenzpost
Siuth
Germany
British blockade targets Helgoland Bight submarines
A Berlin Tageblatt dispatch from The Hague reports a new British blockade of Helgoland Bight aimed mainly at preventing German U-boat entry and departure. The measure extends to parts of the Dutch and Danish coasts and focuses on submarine movements.
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London
Berlin
U.S. May Open Ports to All Armed Ships
London reports the United States may permit British merchant ships armed fore and aft to enter American ports. Officials say the issue hinges on Germany and Britain, with the State Department seeking neutrality and avoiding arming loopholes. Ambassadors note Americans held as prisoners of war amid conflicting claims on armed merchantmen.
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U.S
London
Great Britain
Tribune Burau
Washington
United States
State Department
Halifax
Germany
Berlin
Gerard
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Fisk and White
M’adoo
Bernstorff
Palm Beach
Miame Tian
Coast Lane
Wway
Mrs. Byrne
Aids
Stra. Sanxgr
DR. Wrunios Ramyss
Hollweg
Utica
Post Office
Rochester
Harvey W. Wiley
William J. Gies
Columbia University
Lyman He Kebler
F. E. Smith
Tribune
Samuel Hop[kine Adan
Wylie Jones
Rocky Mountain Organization
W. B. Thompson
Tom Brown
Portsmouth
Yarrowdale
Arthur
Northcliffe Pres
Asquith
England
Mie
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