Carmichael Faces Tough Speaker Fight as Legislature Arrives
Jan 5. As lawmakers reach the capital they weigh Archie Carmichael’s bid for speaker amid doubts his large bloc will translate to votes. Carmichael reportedly uses as claim agent the man who led prior campaigns, while Edward Johnston of Huntsville bolsters the Johnston camp. The Prohibition faction and Johnston allies contend Carmichael has not secured a decisive platform or support.
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Montgomery
Archie ‘Carmichael
Carmichael
Mr. Carmichael
Prohibition Caue
Edward Johnston
Huntsville
Johnston
Conditions for Working Children Highlighted at Conference
Reports from the eleventh annual Conference on Child Labor show overall progress in the United States but reveal ongoing abuses. Lewis Hine cites young Carolina mill workers and injured youths, while Illinois eyes a sixteen year age limit.
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Washington
Lewis W. Hine
National Child Labor Committee
North Carolina
Hine
Alabama
Josephine Eschenbrenner
United States
Eschenbrenner
Owen R. Lovejoy
Illinois
German American Alliance protests police bias over contraband shipments
The Mobile branch executive board of the German American Alliance decries police protection for horse shipments of contraband from Mobile. They urge Police Commissioner Laz Schwarz to strictly follow Wilson’s neutrality proclamation and halt special protection for any party shipping contraband out of Mobile.
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Alliance
Schwarz
Crathens
Europe
Mobile
German-American Alliance
Laz Schwarz
Wilson
Ala
National
United States
City of
Woodrow Wilson
National’ German-American Alliance
J. M. Friedman
Emil A. Brunnier
Government 10 Certify American Cargoes
Washington to certify American cargoes before departure to Europe. Treasury agents will supervise loading and issue certificates of manifest accuracy. Britain views it as meeting the request for cargo inspection to curb contraband and delay. Bryan notes inspection is voluntary, not mandatory.
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Associated Press
London
Great Britain
Washington
United States
Ambassador Page
Bryan
Treasury Department
Page
Foreign Office
England
Europe
Germany
Austria
Turkey
Treasury
Notice to Shippers Aids Customs Checks Nationwide
The government urges shippers to seek Treasury aid to prevent filing errors that complicate business. It says customs collectors can provide an officer to supervise cargo loading and certify manifest accuracy. Shippers should attach an affidavit with the manifest stating correct items and that packages contain only what is listed.
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Washington, Jaf
State, Treasury and Commerce Departments
Ambassador Page
Treasury Department
Germany Does Not Oppose Shipments
Washington January 5 Chairman Flood told proponents of legislation to curb war materiel exports that the German government via Berlin made plain it did not expect the United States to halt such shipments. He questioned Bartholdt who argued against exports and noted officials opposed exporting arms on international immorality.
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Washington
Flood
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Berlin
MME GERVILLE-REACHE AT POINT OF DEATH
Mme Gerville Readhe once leading contralto at the Manhattan Opera House and wife of Dr George G Rambaud director of the Pasteur Institute lay at the point of death today at Roosevelt Hospital where she had been for a week A second operation of blood transfusion from her husband appeared to revive her reply
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New York
Mme. Gerville
Manhattan Opera House
George G. Rambaud
Pasteur Institute
Roosevelt Hospital
Policeman and Two Criminals Die in Chicago Gun Battles
In Chicago on January 5 a policeman and a burglar were killed and a suspected highwayman mortally wounded during two revolver confrontations with robbers caught during an attempted hold up and burglary. Officer John Hausman died after being shot while confronting the fugitives. Detective Axel Jenkins killed burglar George Hennessy as he pried open a shop window. A second suspect, Jack Dutton, was wounded and escaped with an accomplice.
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Associated Press
Chicago
John Hausman
George Hennessy
Jack Dutton
Dutton
Hausman
Birmingham Grand Jury Probe Begins in Dark Plot
A special federal grand jury in Birmingham organized by Judge W I Grubb heard a general charge amid a sensational claim of an alleged plot to wreck the Standard Home Company building and loan association. Report says $50 000 was to be paid to Birmingham and other prominent men to damage the firm. Foreman is Thomas Bowron.
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Birmingham
W. I. Grubb
Standard Home Company
Building and Loan Association
United States
Thomas Bowron
Sailors Landed After Kronprinz Wilhem Sinking Haul
One hundred sailors from four captured ships are landed at Las Palmas after the Kronprinz Wilhelm seized and sank vessels Mont Agel Bellevue Annie Marie and Union. The Otavi towed the prisoners to the Canary Island port, with losses dating from December to November.
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Associated Press
Las Palmas
Canary Island
Paris
Kronprinz- Wilhelm
Otavi
Mont Agel
Bellevue
Annie Marie
Union
Confed pensioner forecasts end of pension era in 1975
J. K. P. Shelton of Cuba writes to the state pension board urging amendments to aid widows of veterans or those born after the war by granting one half the pension. He quips he does not know when the pension business will end, but expects it around 1975.
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Montgomery
J. K. P. Shelton
Cuba
State Board of Pension Examiners
Johnston drives bid to spare Henderson admin in Huntsville
In Huntsville, supporters of Mr Johnston say many lower-house members oppose hobbling the Henderson administration and favor a chance for prohibition or local option. Prohibition and local option backers visit Johnston headquarters opened Monday in the Exchange Hotel to express willingness to back the Henderson administration.
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Henderson
Johnston
Huntsville
Exchange Hotel
Rates on Cotton Linters Discriminating Against Salt Lake and Ogden
The interstate commerce commission ruled that linters rates from Texas Oklahoma Louisiana Arkansas and Memphis to Salt Lake City and Ogden and other points were unjustly discriminatory against Salt Lake City and Ogden and unduly preferential to Denver and to California and the north Pacific terminals.
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Salt Lake
Ogden
Associated Press
Washington
Texas
Oklahoma
Louisiana
Arkansas
Memphis
Salt Lake City
Interstate Commerce Commission
Denver
California
North Pacific
Woman in De Villiers Case Dies on Honeymoon
The Los Angeles report states Mrs. Roy L. Glover died in Nogales Arizona during a planned second honeymoon. She had been involved in the Christmas tragedy a year earlier when Daniel de Villiers killed her husband Roy L. Glover after he tried to persuade her to leave him. Glover had been jailed briefly before Mrs. De Villiers remarried.
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de Villiers
Los Angeles
Cal
Nogales
Ariz
Roy L. Glover
Daniel de Villiers
Glover
San Antonio
Glover Was Held In Jail Unt A Few Weeks Ago. Mrs. de Villiers
Hamburg American Liner Graecia Reported Prized by Britain
Copenhagen dispatch in the Daily Telegraph says a Norwegian captain recently from Gibraltar reports the Hamburg American liner Graecia sailing under the Norwegian flag as Bjoergvin was stopped by a British cruiser and taken as a prize to Gibraltar. The ship allegedly carried provisions for German warships in the Atlantic.
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Associated Press
London
Daily Telegraph
Copenhagen
Gibraltar
Atlantic
Bjoergvin
Commissioner Appoints Daviston Leader to County Board
Special to The Item reports F p. Simpson of Daviston appointed by the governor as a member of the county board. The move comes from Montgomery with a formal commission setting his duties and term. The article notes local impact and potential changes in county leadership.
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Montgomery
Jan
F P. Simpson
Daviston
Board of County of
French Army Officer Inspecting Next Horse Shipment
Major Raoul Maubert of the French army visits Mobile to inspect the upcoming horse shipment bound for Bordeaux. The Norwegian steamer Viking will carry the horses, supporting military needs.
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Raoul Maubert
Cawthon Hotel
Mobile
Bordeaux
Maubert
Viking
Wheat Advances to Record High Prices in Chicago
Wheat in Chicago climbed to $1.36 a bushel in cash trading and May futures at $1.37 between January 5 and 6 1920s context notes the European war driving demand. Traders cited higher Liverpool prices and tighter European visible supply as catalysts for the rally.
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Chicago
Liverpool
Boy’s Arm Fractured After Wagon Runover
Paul Schiorff an 11 year old of Spring Hill avenue near Ann street was run over by a wagon Monday afternoon about 5 o clock causing a fracture to his left arm just above the elbow.
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Paul Schiorff
Spring Hill Avenue
Ann Street
Justice Court Case In Axis Nolle Pressed For Irregular Papers
In Axis Alabama a city court Tuesday dropped the petit larceny case against Percy James after an appeal from Justice Andersons court. Nolle was pressed because the paper work from the justices court was irregular.
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Justice Court
Nolle
Caw
Percy James
Justice Anderson
Axis
Ala
Justices Court
Border clash talks aim to curb cross border firing
Administration officials expected a border conference between Brigadier General Scott and General Villa to settle terms preventing further firing into American territory. Scott has pressed Maytorena and Hill near Naco while Maytorena delays, awaiting Cabral with 8000 troops.
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Associated
Presa
Washington
International Bridge
Scott
General Villa
Naco
Maytorena
Gutierrez
General Hill
Carranza
Hill
Agua Prieta
General Cabral
Chamber of Commerce Annual Meeting Called in Mobile
The Mobile Chamber of Commerce will hold its annual meeting next Tuesday night in the reception room of the Cawthon Hotel at 7 30. Secretary George Card stated all members are urged to attend as there will be important matters to discuss after business hours allowing time for supper.
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Mobile Chamber of Commerce
Cawthon
Chamber of Commerce
George 4. Card
Two More Judicial Posts to Be Filled by Governor
Special to The Item reports the deaths of Judge D. W. Speake of Decatur and Judge Samuel F. Greene of Birmingham, leaving two Eighth Circuit and criminal court vacancies to be filled by the governor before leaving office. It notes no firm decision on appointments as yet.
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Montgomery
Alabama
D. W. Speake
Decatur
Eighth Judicial Circuit
Samuel FE. Greene
Birmingham
Criminal Court
Speake
Greene
Former Presidents to Testify in Burke Trial
Former President Taft and Governor Golbthais of the Panama Zone and possibly Theodore elt will testify at the trial of John Burke, former manager of the canal commissary, indicted for accepting a bribe set to begin in New York February 2.
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Associated Press
Washington
Taft
Golbthais
Panama Is Zone
Theodore Elt
John Burke
Canal
New York
Seaman Killed in Boxing Match Aboard Battleship Florida
Edward C. Ott ordinary seaman on the battleship Florida in New York was killed Saturday night in a boxing match aboard the ship. No details have been received by the Navy.
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Associated Press
Washington
Edward C. Ott
Florida
New York
Navy
Z i
Buy It Now Slogan Aimed at Nebraska Farmers
A nationwide campaign to revive business activity launches in Omaha urging the slogan buy it now. Directed primarily at farmers, the appeal urges purchasing necessary implements now rather than waiting until spring to hasten commercial and manufacturing lines.
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Associated Press
Omaha
Neb
Agricultural Publishers Association
British Bombard East African Port
British warships Goliath and Fox bombarded Dar Es Salaam, capital of German East Africa, injuring harbor vessels and signaling successful operations in the East African theater.
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Associated Press
Nairobi
British East Africa
London
Goliath
Fox
Dar-Es-Salaam
German East Africa
Weather Forecast for Alabama Tonight
Local residents should expect colder conditions tonight with continuing pain and fatigue reports. Warmer weather is forecast for tomorrow as temperatures rise and mugginess ease across the state.
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Alabama
Terrific battles reported on multiple fronts
German official statement says fighting near Steinbach drove back French forces while French attacks in the Argonne and Arras were repulsed. British and French fronts show activity with Belgian areas described as active. Russian reports claim Austrians encircled in the Carpathians as Germans press on near the Vistula.
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Associated Press
Berlin
London
Steinbach
Argonne
Arras
Peghee
Poland
Bzura
Right Wing Near Rhine as War Fights Persist in Alsace
London reports the French right wing within thirty miles of the Rhine holding Stein bach and surrounding heights in a stubborn local battle. Along the front, Poland shows little shift while Germans press the Bzura-Rawka line and Russians advance near Suszawa. In the Caucasus Turkish and Russian forces clash at Sari Kamysh with both sides claiming victory.
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London
Rhine
Steinbach
Poland
Bzura-Rawka
Suszawa
Caucasus
Sari Kamysh
Upper Alsace
Belfast
Swamps Block French Advance on West Front
Reports say swampy ground in west Flanders prevents a general Allied advance. French tactics elsewhere yield limited gains as fighting shifts toward the Vosges. British observers note potential progress on the Cernay front while Turkish actions in the Caucasus draw attention and Russia delays troop movements.
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West Flanders
Joffre
Vosges
Steinbach
Cernay
Muelhausen
Caucasus
London
Petrograd
Russia
Death of painter Anton von Werner announced in Berlin
The Associated Press reports the death of artist Anton von Werner born in 1843 in Berlin. He gained fame for his canvases depicting key episodes in the formation of the German empire and achieved international recognition.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Hague
London
Anton von Werner
Herr von Werner
German Empire
Currency Controller Seeks Report On Bank Condition
Washington January 5 the controller of the currency called for a report on the condition of national banks at the close of business December 31. The filing aims to assess stability, liquidity, and compliance across the banking system.
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Washington
Nationa
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