Lawmakers to Examine Railroads Ahead of Spring Session
Washington February 1 congress leaders on interstate commerce panels gather data on railroads amid charges and counter charges from employees and employers and talk of further rate increases. The issue likely returns to Congress at a spring special session as officials weigh the burden of proposed rail rate hikes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yting R. KR. Fuss
Congress
Washington
House
Senate Interstate Commerce Committees
Bergdoll to be grilled in German Reichstag interpellation
Berlin Feb 1. Members of the People's Party prepare an interpellation for the Reichstag to demand an explanation of Grover Cleveland Bergdoll's entry into Germany and his activities since arriving, outlining his alleged escapades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hans
Bergdoll
Berlin
Grover Cleveland
Germany
People’s Party
Reichstag
Warmth for frosty nights in laundered blankets
Luxurious warmth for frosty nights as blankets are laundered in pure soft water with mild soap and gentle rinsing. Send your blankets to Roswell Laundry Co to refresh them with careful drying and visit their Soft Water Plant. The staff of the Coyote annual held a booster assembly with a live coyote. Post Office lobby will be locked nightly 11:30 PM to 6:30 AM for security.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roswell Laundry Co
Federal Building
Post Office
Ted
Wilson to Call Senate Special Session March Fourth
President Wilson will convene two special senate sessions on March fourth to act on cabinet nominations. The move aims to facilitate the executive start of the new administration, announced at the White House.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson
Senate
Washington
White House
Quick reprisals follow a murder in Ireland
Cork Ireland February 1 Quick reprisals after the murder of Mrs Kings wife of a county inspector at Maplow today left one man dead and another wounded. Police rushed the station arresting ten men who were ordered to flee as shots were fired.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cork
Irelad
Kings
Maplow
Car service ads and concert tickets in a fragment
A fragmented page item advertises FOEE Quick Service with a call to Dad O Dell Service Car and a Hall Bros car wash offer. Also promotes Dr Finis L Anderson eye ear nose throat services and Graves concert tickets on Feb 18 at the Record Office for $1.10 with limited supply. Includes a Y M C A auto schools plug.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dad O'Dell
E. Second
Finis L. Anderson
Hyes
Record Office
Oil drilling advances in southeastern New Mexico reports
The Trinidad Oil Corporation plans a test well in Hagerman pasture with work to start soon as obstacles are cleared. Other firms like National Exploration, Buffalo-Roswell, and Petroleum Exploration Company report progress in Da Baca, Chaves, Lincoln, and Eddy counties with ongoing casing, tooling, and reorganizations amid steady activity in Roswell territory.
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Trinidad Oil Corporation
Hagerman
Roswell
New Mexico
National Exploration Company
Orchard Park
Lake Arthur
Paris
Picacho
Buchanan
Buffalo-Roswell Company
Petroleum Exploration Company
de Baca
John T. Holman
Illinois Producers Company
Dayton
da Baca
Chaves
Lincoln
Eddy
Kiwanis Club Outlines 1921 Prospects in Roswell
Kiwanis meet at Chamber of Commerce noon with E M Spencer presiding in president Jaffa Miller’s absence. Visitors J G Tatum and J O Casey attend. Murdock returns from Santa Fe praising Roswell. Members Mullis Mable Allison and Meldrum Gray discuss year’s work. Mell reports on building committee. Prager seeks county approval to use courthouse lawn as park space. Dr Swearengin will be in Roswell office from the rat to fifteenth monthly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kiwanis Club
Chamber of Commerce
Jaffa Miller
E. M. Spencer
J. G. Tatum
Plains
J. O. Casey
Murdock
Santa Fe
Roswell
John H. Mullis
J. L. Mable
S. L. Allison
Meldrum Gray
Judge Mell
Willard Prager
Court House
Roswell Ad Club to discuss printing industry topic
The Roswell Ad Club meets tomorrow at 12 15 p m at the Chamber of Commerce. Tom J Hall of Hall Poorbaugh Press will present The Printing Industry Its Relation to Business Some Things a Business Man and Advertiser Should Know about Printing. Roswell Auto Co invites Ford owners to buy inside boots for blowouts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roswell
Ad Club
Chamber of Commerce
Tom J. Hall
Hall- Poorbaugh Press
Murdock Returns from Santa Fe Duty Excusal
M L Murdock returned from Santa Fe where he was excused from further duty on the Federal grand jury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Home Farm
Santa Fe
M. L. Murdock
Leaves for Mexico Missouri Family Sets Home There
Mrs Ioie Pullen and her children of Orchard Park departed last night for Mexico Missouri to establish their future home there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
Ioie Pullen
Orchard Park
Unions Allege Conspiracy to Crush Railroad Brotherhoods
Chicago February 1 A conspiracy to crush the railroad brotherhoods in the effort to drive down wages will be charged before the United States Railroad labor board today by B M Jewell head of the railway employers of the American Federation of Labor who is slated to appear before the board to answer the demands of the railway executives that the national shop agreements be abrogated Jewell also will allege that the rail roads are in financial difficulties because of mismanagement and inefficiency
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
United States Railroad Labor Board
B. M. Jewell
American Federation of Labor
Jewell
Special grand jury sworn. indictments in Davisson embezzlement case
The district court met at nine with a special grand jury headed by foreman H. W. Johnson. Twenty two true bills were returned against Ben C. Davisson for embezzlement and unauthorized use of public money. Davisson pled not guilty and the case resumes tomorrow morning. A divorce was granted in Mary R Alvarez vs Manuel Alvarez. The court also hears the case of six destitute children of Joe Gist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. E. Willis
W. B. McCoy
Earl Knox
W. Arnold
J. L. Chatten
R. R. Brown
H. B. Switzler
W. R. Foster
W. L. Vermillion
E. W. Mitchell
J. W. Haven
Glenn McCoy
P. H. Adams
I. W. Woolsey
Davisson
Mary R. Alvarez
Manuel Alvarez
Joe Gist
Madame X comes to Liberty in two day run
The film adaptation of Alexandre Bisson's play Madame X stars Pauline Frederick. It depicts a mother’s sacrifice and a murder tied to her son’s reputation, touted as an emotional tour de force. Also notices on Howard Electric Bath and an Elevator Conductor exam set for February 19, 1921 at Roswell post office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexandre Bisson
Pauline Frederick
Goldwyn
Liberty Theatre
Howard
C. A. Porter
Annals of Medicine
Board Civil Service Examiners
Post Office
Roswell
New Industrial Plans by Ford
Henry Ford, at his Dearborn country home, is said to be plotting bold industry changes. He plans a two hundred million dollar Ford company that will remain independent of General Motors and free from Wall Street vetoes. Ford seeks funds on his own terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Henry Ford
Dearborn
Ford Company
General Motors Corporation
Wall Street
Ford
Mexico seeks McAdoo to run its railroads
Washington reports Mexico invites William G. McAdoo to rehabilitate and manage its state railroads. McAdoo, guest of President Obregon in Mexico, may stay indefinitely as Obregon seeks U.S. recognition by stabilizing Mexico financially and industrially. Arrangements reportedly set to employ him for several years at over fifty thousand dollars annually.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
McAdoo
Washington
William G. McAdoo
Obregon
United States
Bank Robbers Escape With Thirty Thousand
Six men forced entry at Kenwood Trust & Savings Bank in Chicago and herded six employees and three women into a rear room before fleeing with thirty thousand dollars.
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Chicago
Kenwood Trust & Savings Bank
House opposes rivers and harbors funding rise
Washington February 1 The House voted 205 to 120 against raising rivers and harbors appropriations for the next fiscal year to twenty eight million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Texas lawmakers weigh industrial court model in hearing
Austin state news reports Senator Witt’s bill to form a commission on industrial relations akin to Kansas’ industrial court. The measure will be examined at a public Senate Commercial Jurisprudence Committee hearing Thursday afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Austin
Senator Witt
Commission On Industrial Relations
Kansas Industrial Court
Senate Committee On Commercial Jurisprudence
Daniels Seeks Oil Export Embargo Bill Approval
Secretary Daniels backed the Phelan bill authorizing the President to impose an embargo on oil exports. Senator Phelan responded to a query today, confirming the measure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniels
Washington
Secretary of the Navy
Phelan
Restrain Ten Cent Gas Rate Increase In OK
Oklahoma City February 1 The state supreme court issued a writ restraining the state corporation commission from enforcing an order granting Oklahoma Natural Gas Company a ten cent rate increase. Robert Kellahin, insurance man, went to Carlsbad today to adjust a fire loss. He will be home tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Okla
Oklahoma City
State Supreme Court
State Corporation Commission
Oklahoma Natural Gas Company
Robert Kellahin
Carlsbad
Palmer family to leave for Akron Ohio tonight
The Palmer family, residents of the Berendos for two years, will depart tonight for their former home in Akron, Ohio. Also noted is an item about Roswell Floral Up, back to Ohio, and a brief cinema listing for Madame X at the Liberty Theatre with Pauline Frederick, plus a singer Miss Margaret Mathes in costume.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Akron
Fear Lynching Triggers Guard at County Jail
Fear of an attempted lynching leads police to guard the Los Angeles county jail where Floyd and Allen Watson Carr, the confessed kidnappers of Mrs. Gladys Witherell, are held. The Feb. 4 report notes heightened precautions amid tense public mood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Floyd
Allen Watson Carr
Gladys Witherell
For Sale Roswell Corner Lot With 100x98 Ground
A splendid home with 100 by 98 feet of extra ground located at the corner of Penn and Alameda streets in Roswell. Address Reuben M. Ellerd, owner, Box 6, Plainview, Texas. Contact details provided.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Penn
Alameda Sts
Roswell
Reuben M. Ellerd
Plainview
Texas
Institute Team Heads to El Paso Game
The Institute basketball team and Coach J B Wonsetler depart in the morning for El Paso to meet the El Paso team on Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Institute
el Paso
J. B. Wonsetler
Four Burned to Death in Pennsylvania Freight Wreck
Four men died in a fiery rail crash at Newark Ohio when a freight train collided with a second train on a siding. Three other crew members were seriously injured. The deadly wreck occurred on February 1 as trains operated by the Pennsylvania Railroad collided, killing the four crewmen aboard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newark
Ohio
Feright
Pennsylvania Railroad
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