Congress to abstain would repeal Prohibition
New York February 3 William H Stayton leader of the Anti Prohibition Association said at the Enlightenment Dinner that if Congress members abstained from liquor for a week the Eighteenth Amendment could be repealed. He claimed wealthy supporters urged Coolidge to pledge abstinence and urged enforcement against 580 lawmakers.
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New York
Congress
William H. Stayton
Anti-Prohibition Association
Hotel Astor
Stayton
Coolidge
Italian diplomat James De Martino named new U S ambassador
Washington February 3 James De Martino will succeed Prince Caetani as Italian ambassador to the United States when Caetani retires early this month. De Martino, then ambassador to Tokyo, has held top posts in Italy’s foreign service since 1909 including secretary-general at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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Washington
James de Martino
Prince Caetani
de Martino
United States
Tokio
Berlin
Constantinople
Berne
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
London
Borah Questions Italy War Debt Settlement Plan
Senator Borah of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee asked Secretary Mellon whether Italy proposed any plan to settle its war debt to the United States, in Washington on February 3.
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Washington
Borah
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Mellon
Italy
United States
Extravagant Wife Refused Alimony in San Francisco Divorce
Judge Thomas F. Graham rules that a wife who lives extravagantly and refuses to live with her husband is not entitled to alimony. He grants John Mathis a divorce for desertion and orders Jessie Mathis, then in New York City, no alimony.
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Beverly Bayne
Hollywood
Cal
Francis
Bushman
Joab B. Banton
Jimmy O'Connell
Cory Dolan
New York Giants
Heinie Sand
Philadelphia
Pearl Tinsler
California
San Francisco
Thomas F. Graham
John Mathis
Jessie
New York City
Mathis
Alaska Bills Proposed in Congress for Jail and Aviation School
Washington February 3. Delegate Sutherland introduces two bills in Congress. One seeks 200000 dollars for a new jail at Ketchikan. The other calls for establishing an aviation school at the Agricultural College and School of Mines at Fairbanks Alaska.
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Washington
Congress
Sutherland
Ketchikan
The
Agricultural College
School of Mines
Fairbanks
Mexico Now Recognized As Sovereign Government
Washington February 3 Secretary of State Hughes issued a statement declaring that Mexico is fully recognized as an independent sovereign government.
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Mexico
Washington
State Hughes
Coolidge Signs Air Mail Contract Authorization
President Coolidge signed a bill authorizing the Postmaster General to contract for carrying mail at a minimum postage rate of 10 cents per ounce for first class service. Four fifths of the payment would go to the operator for the mail carried.
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Washington
Coolidge
New Hunch for Hidden Gold Draws Swede Across Ocean
Pete Osland known as that lucky Swede returns to Tonopah after a Sweden visit. Years ago he leased Halifax mine here and, clinging to a hunch, refused to share powder costs. He mined $28,000 on the 1,000 foot level before leaving, then heard of a new strike nearby and came back to Nevada to test his luck again.
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Tonopash
Pete Osland
Lucky Swede
Tonopah
Sweden
Pete
Halifax
Cow Springs
Nevada Desert
Nine measures picked by Republican Steering Committee
The Senate faces action before March 4 adjournment on nine measures led by the German commercial treaty. The list excludes the President's Agricultural Committee recommendations and places the McLean bill second, seeking to reduce government loan rates via Treasury auth ority. Other items include civil service retirement, naval reserve expansion, McFadden bill, Brookhart game refuge Will, departmental reorganization, French spoliation claims, and a Wadsworth constitutional amendment requiring post submission state legislatures for changes in the organization law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
McLean
Treasury
Commerce Commission
Brookhart
Governmental Department
Wadsworth
Coolidge Accepts No Special Session After March 4
President Coolidge agrees with the Republican Steering Committee that farm relief cannot be prioritized. He does not plan a special session after March 4.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White House
Republican Steering Committee
Coolidge
Tribute to Faithful Dog Carries Message of Love
In Darien Wisconsin a bronze reproduction of Lassie the collie tops a grave monument for Mrs Jennie H Langs. The inscription Be Kind to Animals under the recumbent dog urges kindness to animals, reflecting the Langs dedication to humane work and memorial gesture.
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Darien
Wis
Lassie
Charles H. Langs
Jennie H. Langs
Langs
Kasson Credits Dog in Nome Race
Leonard Seppala met the relay team from Unalaklik at Shaktolik and ran 40 miles before turning back toward Chinik or Golofin where Olsen carried the serum to Bluff. Gunnar Kasson, with Hammon Consolidated Gold Fields Company, waited two days without sleep at Bluff. (Continued on Page Seven.)
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Nome
Leonard Seppala
Unalaklik
Shaktolik
Foothills
Bonanza
Chinik
Golofin
Olsen
Bluff
Gunnar Kasson
Hammon Consolidated Gold Fields Company
Rescue Worker Reaches Man in Cave in Kentucky
Floyd Collins, trapped in a cave with a broken leg since last Friday, was reached by a rescue worker in a sinkhole passage near Cave City Kentucky. Collins lies nearly erect as rescuers clear a tunnel to him, despite a fallen sandstone block pinning his foot and constant dripping water.
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Cave City
Floyd Collins
Collins
Collings
Cocaine Threat Spurs Cairo Police Appeal
Cairo police commandant warns cocaine habit endangers Egypt as drug use harms youth, floods hospitals and prisons, and urges stricter laws and public support to curb the evil. He laments the lack of adequate statutes and calls for action to save the nation.
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Cairo
Egypt
Fox pelts fall in London market sales in January
The London market for fox pelts shows a 60 percent drop in blue fox prices and a general decline across other pelts during January sales. Alfred Fraser, New York agent for Lamson & Co., reported via cable to B. M. Behrends Bank, noting October price declines in Cross fox and whites 10 percent, silver fox 30 percent, and blue fox 50 percent.
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London
Alfred Fraser
New York
Lamson & Co
B. M. Behrends Bank
Fraser
Mine Tender to be Rushed to Nome Area
Commandant J. W. Chase of the Bremerton navy yard is ordered to outfit the mine tender Swallow for a voyage to the edge of the ice pack in the Bering Sea to assist in potential trouble from the antitoxin air fight for Nome. Dr. Magruder of the Public Health Service comments on the frozen serum.
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Seattle
J. W. Chase
Navy Yard
Bremerton
Swallow
Bering Sea
Magruder
Public Health Service
Arrangements Made to Fly to Nome
Anchorage February 3 final arrangements are completed for Roy G Darling's flight to Nome. He hires Ralph T Mackie of the Canadian Royal Flying Service as mechanic replacing Farnsworth. Darling will use a standard passenger biplane with 150 hp engine, 25 foot wings, 75 mph speed and eighty gallon fuel capacity.
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Anchorage
Roy
Darling
Nome
Ralph T. Mackie
Canadian Royal Flying Service
Farnsworth
Beer by the glass approved in BC plebiscite districts
Victoria BC reports that the new beer halls will sell draught beer bottled at up to four and a half percent alcohol. The policy applies only in electoral districts that voted for beer by the glass in the June plebiscite.
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Victoria
B. C
Peh
British Columbia
New Beer Halls
Manion
Will of Bachelor Recluse Is Rejected
In Chicago on February 3 the probate court rejected the purported will of Edwin Jennings a bachelor recluse who left a 6 000 000 estate. The court ruled the mutilated document was mailed post death and revoked by the deceased opening the estate to cousins seeking heirs proof.
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Chicago
Edwin Jennings
Johnson Alleges Extortion in Fight for Seat
Marius Johnson files a petition challenging T. D. Schall's Senate seating claiming extortion of over 75000 dollars from bootleggers for Schall campaign use and alleging headquarters promised protection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnson
Washington
Marius Johnson
T. D. Schall
Senate
Schall
House asserts authority to initiate revenue legislation
Washington February 3 The House voted 225 to null to return the postal pay and rate bill to the Senate asserting its right to begin revenue measures. The action centers on postal pay and rate adjustments with lawmakers signaling future fiscal steps.
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Washington
House
Senate
Former Slave Dies Respected Citizen
Thomas E. Smith, an aged man born a slave in Virginia who escaped to Union lines and joined the Civil War, has died in Middletown Connecticut. He owned a four story brick Main Street block, built an antique and second hand shop, grew wealthy, and earned community respect. He was an active prohibition worker and had been nominated for state office.
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Middletown
Conn
Thomas E. Smith
Virginia
Main Street
Nettie May MacLean Granted Interlocutory Divorce
TACOMA February 3 Nettie May MacLean who last February charged her husband Kenneth Ross then a Bowdoin College student in Maine with the murder of their one year old baby has been granted an interlocutory divorce.
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Tacoma
Netttie May McLean
Kenneth Ross
Bowdoin College
Maine
Nome Board Pleads for Air Antitoxin Flight
Nome Alaska February reports the Board of Health asks Governor Scott C. Bone in Juneau to authorize an air shipment of diphtheria antitoxin. They request 106,000,000 units sent immediately by plane, with a Seattle Alameda consignment split at Nenana or Fairbanks to reach Nome within days. One new diphtheria case is noted as hospital and radio service continue.
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Board of Health
Scott C. Bone
Juneau
Seattle
Alameda
Nenana
Fairbanks
Nome
Welch
Bone
H. C. Devighne
John, Jr
John Winthers
Nome Board Seeks Plane Airlift For Serum Delivery
The Nome Board of Health asks Gov Hone for authority to airlift 60 000 serum units from Fairbanks tomorrow to aid diphtheria patients, amid reports Seattle’s 1 100 000 unit shipment may have reached Nenana. The Alameda carrying the next batch is due in Nenana tonight and the Juneau 300 000 unit shipment arrived today. Governor praised Nenana chief Wetzler for coordinating dog team transport. Death and case numbers remain unclear, with officials labeling the Nome outbreak potentially dangerous.
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Nome Board of Health
Fairbanks
Seattle
Nenana
Hone
Nome
Lameda
Juneau
Wetzler
Bone
R. M. Clerk Wetzler
Phosphates output in French Morocco doubles in 1924
Casablanca February 3 French Morocco phosphate production reached 436000 tons in 1924, more than doubling 1923 output. The rise signals strengthening mining activity and export potential in the colonial territory amid regional trade growth.
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Casablanca
French Morocco
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Kasson
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Lazarus
Dorothy Ellingson
Keith Lord
Lord
Lynn
Mass
Nettie May MacLean
GOV, Bone
H. (. DeVighne
Territorial Commissioner of Health
Curtis Welch
DeVighne
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