France 10 Force Mine Operation Sparks Court Martial Threats
Essen reports the French will operate Ruhr districts and requisition German labor. Those who refuse to cooperate face court-martial, while mines and coal may be confiscated if needed. Berlin opposes the seizure. French troops tighten control with new railway and censorship measures. Public vigilance grows as occupation deepens.
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Berlin
Essen
Times
Ruhr
Deutsche Bergwerke Zeitung
France
Rulr
International Justice
Areps
Verden
Muelhem
Bottrop
Oberhausen
Bochum
Essen Street
Requisition Quariers
Mine Owners Defy French in Ruhr Coal Row
Representatives of German magnates skipped the control commission meeting and pledged to follow Berlin orders over French or Belgian coal deliveries. Herr Thomas of Stinnes declared they would go to jail but refuse to resume shipments. No reparations coal or coke moved to France or Belgium, while some Ruhr routes diverted west. Deliveries to Italy reportedly continued.
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Duesseldorf
Control Commission
Berlin
Herr Thomas
Stinnes
Geisenkirschen
France
Belgium
Ruhr
South Germany
Italy
U. S. 10 guard rum sale by druggists
Philadelphia reports government order to bottle bonded rum gin and alcohol for prescription use. Officials say all liquor released from bonded warehouses will be guaranteed for proof and quality to protect public health amid poisonings from phony drugstore liquor. Refugee evacuation in Kurdistan by RAF aircraft saves 60 civilians amid gale conditions.
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Philadelphia
Frank K. Bowers
Internal Revenue
Second District
New York
David I. Blair
Washington
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Internal Revenue District
Pennsylvania
Bowers
Blair
Sulaimaniyeh
Kurdistan
Midnight Joe Sentenced for Highway Robbery Ring
A black bandit known as Midnight Joe was convicted on seven indictments charging highway robbery and related crimes. Judge William Sumthers sentenced him in Mayo Landing criminal court to seven concurrent terms totaling ten years, the longest in Atlantic county history. He terrorized motorists on the city outskirts before capture in a trap set by city detectives. he accepted the sentence without a murmur.
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Joe
Atlantic County
Atlanle City
No. Dan
Daslingstone Drinomount
Madeht Joe
Willian Sumthers
Mayo Landing
Atlanc
Drummond
Augus Fie City
TO EMBARK AT ANTWERP Final Orders Sent Commander of U S Troops in Germany
Major General Henry T. Allen, in Coblenz, received final instructions from the War Department to embark the Eighth Infantry and detachments at Antwerp aboard the St Michel. The Belgian port was preferred over Bremen, with exact sailing date still undetermined. Rhineland high command officers will sail between February 1 and 15. Pheasants Starve in Snow Rochester, N Y January 18 Pheasants die by the scores from deep snows hindering food access. A Wayne County resident reported twenty birds dying together and others wandering, unable to reach the earth.
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U. S
Germany
Coblenz
Henry T. Allen
War Department
Eighth Infantry
St. Miciel
Antwerp
Allen
Bremenins
American Department of the Rhineland High Commission
United States
Rochester
N.Y
Wayne County
Confesses Killing Father Amid Allegations of Abuse
Mabel Mae Phifer admitted shooting her father Jacob Howell after claiming years of abuse and torment toward her and her two children. She was held without bail on first degree murder charges as police and investigators continued the case.
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Alliance
Sheild Birk
Gipson
Pitter
Clear Hine Hid
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Rochester Times-Union
U. S. 10
Co A
Co. of
Baltimore
Stewart, Son & CO
President Street
Ouretore
JAS. E. Doll, Juweler Fresserick, Md
Earl E Jacobson’s ‘Department Store
O. K
Poplin
RSA
Nellar
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