Government ready for enforcement of prohibition measures
Nevada to host a coordinated crackdown as federal and state agents plan joint action starting January 16. Judge R C Stoddard, federal prohibition director for the state, notes that federal authorities will assist state prosecutions where needed and handle violations of federal revenue laws and interstate liquor shipments. A corps of agents under W A Kelly will operate across the state with public publicity to bolster support for prohibition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
alleen
Nevada
R. C. Stoddard
Judge Stoddard
Washington
department of justice
W. A. Kelly
Sanaeisco
Kelly
Boyle
Fowler
United States
Woodburn
Jude Stoddard
Clay Peters
Prizes Offered for Intercollegiate Aeronautic Contest
The Aero Club of America announced that thirty four universities will compete in this year's sixth intercollegiate aeronautic trophies contest. Prizes include trophies and five thousand dollars in Victory bonds funded by the late Samuel H Valentine will be awarded to undergraduates for prize essays on aeronautics along with medals of merit. In the past year four thousand five hundred college men earned airplane pilot certificates, seven hundred qualified as seaplane pilots and free balloon navigators, and one hundred twenty received dirigible pilot certificates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NEW YORK
Aero Club of America
Samuel H. Valentine
aero club
Paris Favors Jan 10 Signing of Peace Protocol
Paris reports that supreme council circles expect Germany to sign the peace protocol and ratification of the Versailles treaty to be exchanged on Saturday January 10. The League of Nations council is then expected to meet about four weeks later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
PARIS
supreme council
Germany
council of the
League of Nations
Dry laws face one more big fight in capital and states
Chicago reports liquor interests vow to pursue challenges to the Volstead enforcement act after a Supreme Court ruling. Levy Mayer says the main battle lies ahead against the Eighteenth Amendment. DOJ moves to prosecute beer sellers since October 28, while Anti-Saloon League leaders call the decision a sweeping victory and discuss compensation questions for dealers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CHICAGO
supreme court
Levy Mayer
Mayer
Rhode Island
WASHINGTON, Jan
department of justice
Anti-Saloon League
suppreme court
Wayne B. Wheeler
Anti-Saloon League of America
Wheeler
congress
Tne
Ruppert
Brandeis
Christians Plan Nationwide Church Merger in America
About twenty denominations have agreed to confer in Philadelphia February 3 to 6 on a plan to form the United Churches of Christ in America. The council would elect two ministers and two lay delegates per 100000 communicants and aim for eventual organic union while preserving existing denominational bodies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NEW YORK
Presbyterian church
Philadelphia
United Churches of Christ in America
Presbyterian
general assembly
United States of America
federal council of the Churches of Christ
America
churches
council of the United Church
United Interests
council
United Churches
United States
Methodist Episcopal Church
Protestant Episcopal Church
Reformed Church
Congressional Church
Disciples of Christ
Christian Union of the
United Presbyterian Church of North America
Welsh Presbyterian Church
United Brethers
Primitive Methodists
Society of Friends
United Lutheran Church and
Reformed Church in America
Sugar profiteering being investigated in Utah
Salt Lake City January 6 provisional report says sugar profiteering bought in Utah and shipped to Eastern states is under investigation by the United States district attorney's office. Prosecution will be instituted in a number of cases, the official stated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
SALT LAKE CITY
Utah
United States district
Ukrainians Enlist for Service in Army in Cleveland
United States District Attorney Ed Wertz notes about 200 Ukrainians registered in Cleveland yesterday, bringing the total Cleveland Volunteers to 3000. The text also touches on neutrality and the Eighteenth Amendment, deeming the first provision nonjusticiable and asserting the amendment was adopted regularly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CLEVELAND
Jan
United States Districtorney
S. Wertz
Ukraisy
jin ‘viok
Cleeland
Smallpox Epidemic Strikes Toronto City
Toronto January 6 The provincial board of health seeks mandamus to vaccinate every resident as four to five hundred cases are treated locally. The first victims include a 66 year old man and a 17 month old child.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
TORONTO
provincial board of health
civil board
Quake Victims Counted as Death Toll Rises in Vera Cruz
Reports from Mexico City cite only rough estimates after Saturday night tremors in Coutzlan Vera Cruz. Bodies recovered include twenty four from Baconda and several from the Rivera San Francisco de la Pena area. Two houses remain standing with no death count yet, as officials assess the extent of the disaster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MEXICO CITY
Coutzlan
Vera Cruz
rivera San Francisco de la Pena
Vera. Cruz
Baconda. a
Republicans Hear Leaders Tell Poly for Campaign
Republicans from fourteen Midwestern states met to mold party issues and plan for Republican women’s participation. They discussed equal representation on the national committee, labor and industry concerns, and preparations for the national convention. Will Hays said the party offers women the same as men, and the gathering included over 1200 attendees. Major General Leonard Wood urged stamping out anarchism and upholding law and order, while Governor Frank Lowden pressed for active public involvement in industrial reform and ratification of the League covenant with reservations. Hays endorsed a firing squad for anarchists and outlined platform priorities as he and others toured Iowa and planned further meetings in Denver and San Francisco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CHICAGO
gan
national committee
Will H. Hays
Republican national committee
Republican party
Edward P. Thay
state central committee
Hays
John
Glover South
woman's
national ‘committee
Wood
Rede
Leonard Wood
Lowden
Borah
Idaho
League of Nations
senate
Des Moines
Iowa
Denver
Sar
Francisco
Wardell comments on dry decision impact in district
Francisco January 6 United States supreme court decision on prohibition enforcement will have little effect in the district covering Northern California and Nevada. Internal Revenue collector Wardell says brewers reduced alcohol to under half a percent, so no extension of police powers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
FRANCISCO
United States’ supreme court
California
Nevada
Justus
Wardell
tineternal
Stockmen of the Pacific Coast Form Association
Report from San Francisco dated January 6 notes the formation of the Western Fair Association by stockmen of the Pacific coast at a meeting held yesterday. The group aims to facilitate exchange and coordination among coastal stock interests and related professions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
SAN FRANCISCO
Pacific coast
Western Fair “Association
eck
shigcuit
Democrats Gather in Washington for Convention Decision
Washington Jan 6 Announcement from the White House that President Wilson will send a greeting to the Jackson Day dinner and the Democratic national committee meeting sparks interest among leaders. Delegates from key cities arrive as preparations focus on third term questions and party policy. Twenty prominent Democrats listed for speeches include Bryan Daniels Palmer Cox Gerard and Hitchcock with Mrs Oleson among attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WASHINGTON
White House
Wilson
Jackson
dent
McNab
aix
Kansas City
Gavin’ McNab
San Francisco
Chicago
Intenois
Cleveland
Cincinnati
olher
national. com
mittee
Women's
Democratic national committee
Pattie Ruffner
Jacobs
Alabama
Mary
Way
California
Caroline
Reuthz, Rees
Connecticut
John K. Ottley
Georgia
Myra Wilson
Illinois
June Jucky
William E. .Paltangil
Maine
Susan" Fitzgerald
Massachusetts
Emma.E. Bower
Michigan
Peter. Oleson
Minnesota
Dorothy Branch Jackson
New Hampshire
John Sherwin Crosby
New York
Mary Owen, Graham
North Carolina
William Jennings Bryan
Daniels
Palmer
Cox
Ohio
Germany
Champ Cark
Missouri
house
Gov
Cornwell
West Virginia
Hitchcock
Nebraska
Pomerene
Underwood fof
and Owen
Oklahoma
Peter Oleson
Hamm book sale conviction upheld by appeals court
Francisco Jan. 6 The United States circuit court of appeals affirmed the conviction of Edward Hamm for obstructing recruitment during the war by selling the book Finished Mystery. The court held Hamm properly convicted for yelling a copy to M. J. Meeker and found no ground to reverse the decision.
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SLANS
FRANCISCO
United ‘States circuit
court of appeals
Edward Hamm
federal court iin
Los ‘Angeles
Hamm
Railroads 10 keep changes after government control
Washington reports that several postwar railroad operation changes will continue after return to private control on March 1. The Association of Railway Executives, chaired by Thomas Dr. Witt Cuyler, outlines a treaty preserving car distribution rules, ongoing operation statistics, and current transportation charge methods to avoid litigation. It calls for a government study body, anti discrimination safeguards, stabilized rates, and a loan fund to support additions and improvements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WASHINGTON
Association of Railway Executives
AO’ ng
Thomas
Witt Cuyler
rail-road administration
Cuyler
congress
interstate commerce commission ag
Delegates Named to Conference in Paris
Ottawa reports that Tom Moore president of the Canadian Trades and Labor Congress will represent North America at the Paris conference on January 26. T. A. Ackland deputy minister of labor will represent the Canadian government at the meeting under the treaty provisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OTTAWA
Ont
Tom Moore
Canadian’ Trades and ‘Labor ‘Congress
North America
Paris
T. A. Ackland
Gregory Forms Law Firm in New York
Former U S Attorney General Thomas W. Gregory, who resigned last February, is admitted to the New York bar and will join the law firm Gregory Earle and Wood with offices announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
GREGORY
YORK
INDW
Thomas “W. Gregory
United States
New
General's Cook Is Knight and Objects to Criticism
A cryptic note references General's Cook being knighted and objects to criticism. The fragment mentions decorations and a phrase about severities and a shamblegio, suggesting confusion or garbled text with unclear context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
IS. KNIGHT
Radical arrests sweep Chicago and New York raid day
Federal authorities in Chicago and New York stepped up nationwide action against radicals. Rafael Mallen, a federal trade commission statistician, was arrested while 224 radicals faced deportation hearings. Haywood and Berger appeals continued, with Lloyd and others set for grand jury review.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CHICAGO
Rafael Mallen
federal trade commission
Mallen
Mexico
department of justice
Clyne
Washington
liss
mo Mallen
Communist Labor party
Camp Grant
Harry R. Lands
Haywood
pacman
William. D. Haywood
Milwauk Haywood
Willam Broas Lloyd
Raditel
Macklay
Hoyne
Lloyd
Nbérty
NEW YORK
Edward Blore
Ellis Island
Federl
Wiliam J.Flynn
department of ‘juatica
secret service
busla
Oscar Tyverowski
Communist party
Hyl
Smith
Hugene Nawold
ommur
Edward
Elore
Army Promotions Confirmed Amid Opposition Turmoil
Army announces confirmed promotions amid opposition chatter. Statements note three officers elevated, with one captain advancing amid rearrangements and unnamed dissent.
Street car hits pole and upsets in poly red crowd
An unclear report describes a street car collision with a pole and a crowd near a poly red area. The fragment mentions twenty people affected and a rites event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bae
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