China Arms Reduction Debate at Washington Conference
The Washington conference revived calls to reduce land armaments in China and linked tariff increases to defense cuts. Baron Shidehara of Japan raised objections to listing private claims and to translations, while leaders echo economic grounds for China to cut military costs.
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Washington
France
China
Underwood
Robert Borden
Canada
Robert
Japan
Orient
Baron Shidehara
Illinois Plans Big Things
Chicarro Jan 21 plans to make Illinois the foremost manufacturing state. The first America’s business-building conference opened with a Stratford hotel luncheon. Attendees included 60 Illinois chambers of commerce and 22 Illinois railroads with observers from business groups statewide. World-renowned surveys will map local industry potential in every city. Local chambers, state officials, and railways will coordinate to publicize Illinois advantages.
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Chicarro
Illinois
Chicago
America
Stratford Hotel
Big mail theft flattens Elkart scene
Nineteen finger rings and 511 in cash plus 160600 in bonds formed the total value seized in a registered mail theft in Elkart Indiana. Attorney Robert Proctor said two men confessed to the robbery and $100000 in bonds were recovered four hours after the crime found in the post office.
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Elkart
Ind
Robert Kk. Proctor
George E. Scruggs
Genoa Conference Delegation Personnel Decided
Soviet foreign minister Tchitcherin reports to the Italian Premier that the Russian central executive committee has been recalled on extraordinary missions to decide the personnel of the Russian delegation for the Genoa conference.
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Moscow
Tchitcherin
Genoa
Frank J F Thiel Promoted To Assistant Treasurer Post
Washington native Frank J F Thiel has been elevated from deputy assistant to the post of assistant treasurer of the United States He will succeed Guy F Anen of Maryland in the new role and assumes duties immediately.
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Frank J. F Thiel
Washington
United States
Guy F. Anen
Maryland
Poincare backs France in pushing for Germany pay
Premier Poincare won a near unanimous confidence vote in Paris backing a hard line to enforce the Versailles terms. He urged delivering Germany’s war criminals and warned of allied penalties if Germany evades reparations and evinced France’s intent to resist Genoa talks without strict protocol adherence.
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Paris
Iran
Poincare
Chamber of Deputies
Germany
France
Great Britain
Luroue
Berlin
Rhineland
Genoa
Cannes
England
Ex-Emperor Charles and Zita Face Deportation if Restoration Fails
Bern reports former Emperor Charles and his wife Zita may be moved to a remote island beyond Madeira if any attempt to restore their throne fails. Ex-Empress Zita, visiting for her son Robert, was informed by the Swiss government of a joint message from British French and Italian ambassadors.
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Bern
Switzerland
Charles of
Austria-Hungary
Zita
Europe
Madeira
Robert
Harding Opens Big Parley at National Agricultural Conference
President Harding opens a nationwide agricultural conference in Washington with a representative gathering, seeking far reaching results to remedy the current ills of American agriculture.
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Washington
Harding
Former instructor charged in Beaumont boy's death
H C Twyman, former military instructor at the Texas Juvenile Training School Gatesville, is indicted for murder in Coryell County over the death of 14 year old Dell Thames of Beaumont. Thames died at the school on September 25 1921 from being choked.
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H. C. Twyman
Texas Juvenile School
Gatesville
Tex
Texas Juvenile Training School
Dell Thames
Beaumont
Coryell County Grand Jury
Pope Benedict XV Dies After Prolonged Illness
Rome, Jan. 22. Benedict XV, the 20th sovereign pontiff, died in the Vatican after a day of agony from pneumonia. He had been ailing since inflammation of the lungs and a weak heart, with doctors optimistic at times before ultimate decline. The pope requested the last rites as death approached while cardinals and prelates prayed, and Vatican officials announced the end near.
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Rome
Benedict III
Church of
Vatican
Papal
Sam
Pontifical Beaside
Mgr. Zampani
Merry del Val
Giorgi
Holy Father
Cardinal Gasparri
Papal Rite As Pontiff Near Death Receives Last Sacraments
In Rome, the pope, conscious but frail, received the last rites with cardinal and monastic aides present. Mgr Zampini read the ceremony as the pope was anointed with a drop of holy water and absolution granted in articulo mortis. Monks and religious heads recited prayers and indulgences before a silent procession to St. Peter's Basilica.
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Lis Holiness
Mgr. Zampini
Grand Penitentiary of the Sacred College
Vatican
Giorgi
Rome
Basilica of
St. Peter
Scala Regia
Foreign debt and soldiers bonus bills agreed in senate
Washington January 19. A secret Republican conference decided on passage of the foreign debt funding bill with unanimous support from Senate Republicans according to Senator Lodge. The soldiers bonus bill faced some opposition but was adopted by a large majority after lengthy discussion. Senator McCumber proposed first passing the debt bill then the bonus measure.
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Washington
Senate
Lodge
Massachusetts
McCumber
North Dakota
Senate Finance Committee
Hoover Sees Likely General Coal Strike By End of March
Washington, Jan. 20. Secretary Hoover warned the stage is set for a general strike in the bituminous coal industry as wage contracts expire at the end of March. He said lack of progress in negotiations between coal operators and miners signals a breakdown, with administration officials' talks failing to yield concrete results.
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Washington
Hoover
Kelly
Newtownards
Ireland
W. A. Powers
Kansas City
Elle M. Locke
Supreme Court of the United States
Moscow
Blagovieshtchensk
Russia
Morris Dearing
Republican Congressional Committee
Rev
C. W. Chase
Old Mission
Mich
Sau Beaman
Japan
China
Korea
Mongolia
Far
Siberia
Chile
Peru
United States
AL. Collier
Santiago
Frederick A. Sterling
Wu Allairs
Lima
State Department
Harding backs waterway plans amid agricultural crisis
President Harding told the national agricultural conference that the St. Lawrence-Great Lakes waterway plan is unchallenged and would connect the continent to ocean routes, boosting industry and farmer access to capital and markets. He urged a code of law and finance to supply working capital to farmers and highlighted European cooperative lenders as models.
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Washington
St. Lawrence-Great Lakes
Harding
Europe
St. Lawrence Waterways
Great Lakes
Rhine
Danube
Black
North Sea
Mediterranean
Baltic
North America
Marding
Federal Farm Loan Board
Sweden’s Elsa Anderson Killed in Askersund
News bits report Elsa Anderson the only Swedish woman aviator with a certificate killed at Askersund. Other items note mass arrests of Indian nationalists in Calcutta, a fatal fire in Oklahoma City, typhus in Moscow, and various political and international developments from 1919 era.
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Elsa Anderson
Askersund
Calcutta
Will Hall
Negro Packing House
Oklahoma City
Fisherman Reaches Port After Wife Dies In Lake Storm
Alfred Peterson of Knife River Minnesota reached Port Wing Wisconsin after a gale drove his open boat on Lake Superior. His wife died in the same storm as the ice coated waters swept the vessel away.
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Port Wing
Wis
Lake Superior
Alfred Peterson
Knife River
Minn
Big Gain in Grain Exports Show 1921 Surge
Washington reports 1921 grain exports up sharply from 1920 with corn leading. Corn shipments reached 129 million bushels worth 93 million dollars, versus 18 million bushels valued at 26 million in 1920.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Market Prices and Commodities Report January Market Notes
The Market section lists commodity quotes for wheat corn oats rye flour and grains with March May and July futures and USDA style price ranges. Livestock prices cover prime and feeder cattle hogs sheep and live poultry with grade ranges and regional delivery.
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See-Ee
Dbbe
OOE
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