Opening Day Brings Wave of New National Proposals
Washington reports a flood of bills in Congress on opening day. Proposals include a child labor ban for under sixteen, separation of the shipping board from the fleet corporation, creation of foreign trade zones, abolition of the shipping board, an anti sedition bill, reapportionment and a standing Aeronautics committee, and executive treaty powers with a two thirds Senate vote. Additional measures call for uniform marriage and divorce laws, citizenship eligibility limits, abolition of the federal trade commission, and a conference to outlaw war. A beer repeal and four percent beer legalization bill also surface with sale in original packages only.
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Jones
Senate Commerce Committee
Fleet Corporation
The
Shipping Board
Edge
New Jersey
McLeod
Michigan
House
Aeronautics
Griffin
Gibson
Vermont
Federal Trade Commission
Johnson
Washington
Ashington
Prohibition Debate Opens With Edge Here
Washington dispatch reports the new Congress open to a flood of Volstead Act amendments and repeal proposals. Senator Edge of New Jersey seeks a higher alcohol limit to 2.75 percent and allowing physicians to prescribe more than one pint in ten days.
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Washington
Congress
House
Edge
New Jersey
Senate
Judiciary Committee
Anti-Saloon League
Girls Should Paint in the Proper Way
New York report describes a Barnard College health exhibit advising women to apply makeup from the inside out. The display includes athletic gear like tennis racquets and swimsuits and features sections labeled antiques and a corset, tu coat, heavy undergarments, and a hair switch. It also shows suggested diets under headings Miss Too Fat Miss Too Thin and Miss Just Right.
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New York
Barnard College
Chang's Army in Retreat Near Mukden
Dispatches say General Kuo Sung Lieus forces are likely to enter Barktin Manchuria with Sinminfu and Shengking as current positions. Mukden banks close amid fears of looting as foreigners evacuate and railway guards reassigned. Consuls meet to protect nationals while Moscow [sic] consular officials monitor the crisis.
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Toyko
Foreign Office
Kuo Sung Lieu
Chang Tso Lin
Binktien
Manchuria
Kuo
Sinminfu
Shengking
Mukden
Kirin
Chang
Peking
Tokyo
Port Arthur
Cooke Child Faces Court Over Custody Decision
In Salt Lake City a habeas corpus case pits Henry J. Cooke of Toronto against Isilda Betty Cooke over Shirley, six, with the supreme court expected to decide if the child stays with her mother or goes to her father. Shirley says she prefers to remain with her mama.
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Salt Lake City
Shirley Cooke
Supreme Court
Henry J. Cooke
Toronto
Isilda Betty Cooke
Shirley
Cooke
West
Crowder Attends Havana Ceremony Honoring General Maceo
United States Ambassador E H Crowder took part in Havana ceremonies honoring General Antonio Maceo the Cuban yatriel who was killed in battle with the Spanish on December 7 1896 The events marked a tribute to the famed fighter in the Cuban capital yesterday.
Nye Appointment Questioned by Dakota Attorney General
In Bismarck on December 8, the Dakota Attorney General ruled Governor Barke had no power to appoint a U.S. senator replacement for Edwin Ladd. The Nye supporters argued the appointment followed a formal process after a Spalding report, as the Senate prepared to decide on Gerald Nye of Cooper Town.
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Bismarck
N. P
United States Senate
Washington
Gerald Nye
Coopertown
United States
Dakota
George Fer
Bate
BL. F. Spalding
Fargo
Republican State Central Committee
Nye
Barke
Edwin F. Ladd
Bhafer
Omaha police push soldiers to wear uniforms off base
Omaha police officials urged Colonel Tenny Ross to issue an order requiring soldiers to wear uniforms when off duty after a conference citing recent robberies involving soldiers. They will refer the matter to the War Department in Washington. Duk, Harrington, and Flynn, soldiers at Fort Omaha, confessed to multiple robberies. Lynn admitted involvement in taxi cab holdups.
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Omaha
Neb
Tenny Ross
Seventh Corps
United States Army
Ress
War Department
Washington
Winston Pr. Duk
Gingston
Harry Flynn
Fort Omaha
Duke
Harrington
Lynn
Parisians Charged in Espionage Case Involving Parisian Milie
Paris dates reveal Marthe Moreuil a 25 year old former nurse and parachute jumper in custody on espionage charges. Three men James Leather Fisher Williams Ernest Oliver Phillips are also detained. they allegedly funded her spying and deny the accusation.
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Paris
Great Britain
Marthe Moreuil
James Leather
Fisher Williams
Ernest Oliver Phillips
Mile Moreuil
Leather
Phillips
Williams
Rennes
Nantes
Milo
Moreuil
Bcard
Petit Parisian
League of Nations Council
Henri de Kerilis
Echo de Paris
Mile. Moreuil
Frais Air Service
Alle Moreuil
French Introduces Indian Bill in Congress
Representative French of Idaho introduced a bill to subject Indians to state or territorial laws on marriage health and education. The bill would not alter treaties governing hunting and fishing rights.
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Washington
Idaho
Wounded Man Carried 15 Miles After Quail Hunt Accident
Benjamin Acancara Jr of Ross Marin County was accidentally shot during a quail hunt and carried fifteen miles by the shooter to Ross General Hospital. He required removal of his right eye. The shooter identified as HL Keil left after delivering him.
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San Francisco
Benjamin Acancara, Jr
Ross Marin County
Ross General Hospital
Point ‘Reyes
HL. Keil
Acaneara
Rural church largely gone and farm tax burden
Chicago reports from the American Farm Bureau federation quote O. E. Bradfute lamenting the fading country church and urging faith in God while stressing social life and genuine neighborly fellowship. He urges studying the McNary Haugen plan and notes farmers shoulder indirect taxes. Also B. Denman calls for uniform livestock standards to unlock market development through unified grading and volumes.
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Chicago
O. E. Bradfute
American Farm Bureau Federation
Federation
Bradfute
McNary
B. Denman
National Livestock Rockers Association
Lewis and Mann Wrestle Tonight for Heavyweight Title
Ed Lewis champion meets Wayne Mans in a finish match at the city auditorium in Denver. This marks the second meeting since Mans dethroned Lewis in Kansas City about a year ago. Alan Eustace and Sailor Jack Lewis also grid in the semi windup.
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Denver
Ed (Strangler) Lewis
Wayne
Big) Mans
Nebraska
City Auditorium
Lewis
Neas City
Alan Eustace
Kansas
Sailor Jack Lewis
Cheyenne
Coolidge Submits Message and House Starts to Work Storm Clouds
President Coolidge urged a hard working Congress as the House moved quickly to debate a massive tax reduction bill. The Senate lingered over the message and opened hearings while anticipation of storms to come grew among lawmakers. Senator Jones signaled a rules revision to curb debate except on taxes and appropriations. Senator Ashurst warned Arizona would defy the Colorado River agreement unless Mexico is barred from using river waters for irrigation.
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Coolidge
HOUSE
Senate
Washington
Congress
Jones
Dawes
Ashurst
Arizona
Mexico
Army Replies Colonel Mitchell in aviation court martial
The army opened its reply to Colonel Mitchell's charges before the court martial trying Major General Hanson Ely. Ely defends mixed air and ground forces and rejects a separate air force, saying infantry must be used first in war and aviation cannot stand alone. Prosecution notes and defense objections frame the early testimony.
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Washington
Army
Wm. Mitchell
Air Crusader
Hanson E. Ely
Army War College
Cponsel
Ely
Mitchell
Air Service
Sherman Moreland
Eneral
Mitchel
Reid
Presidentoolidge
Western Union Increases Dividend To 8 A Share
New York December 1919 Western Union Telegraph company directors raised the annual dividend rate from 7 to 8 dollars per share and authorized a quarterly payment of 2 dollars. Dividends had been kept at 7 dollars yearly since 1919.
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New York
Dec
Western Union Teleaph Company
Kipling Shows Improvement in Pneumonia
Medical bulletin from Kipling's Borewash home reports Rudyard Kipling, ill with bronchial pneumonia, had another good night and is maintaining improvement as of noon today.
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Kipling
Borwash
Sussex
England
Rudyard Kipling
Washoe basket weaver Dat-La-La-Lee buried in Nevada
Dat-La-La-Lee, famed Washoe artist who wove tribal history into baskets, was buried near the Carson Indian school in Stewart, Nevada. She died Sunday after illness resisted by medicine men and doctors. Her works are in major museums and some sell for thousands. she completed fifty baskets in over nine decades. An unfinished basket she began was placed with her in the grave.
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Reno
Nev
Dat-Lo- La-Lee
Washoe
Smithman Institute
Carnegie Institute
Berenger Named as Ambassador to United States
Paris reports Senator Victor Henry Berenger is approved as French ambassador to the United States. He will relieve Emile Daeschner in Washington and renew his appointment every six months. Berenger has long been a top financial authority as budget reporter for the senate finance commission and has served on the debt funding mission to Washington.
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Paris
Victor Henry Berenger
United States
Council of Ministers
Berenger
Emile Daeschner
Washington
Senate Finance Commission
Caillaux
Idaho Timber Tract Is Sold To Weyerhaeuser Interests
In Duluth Minnesota on December 8 AP reports the sale of 16000 acres of northern Idaho timber holding over 300 million feet of pine to the Weyerhaeuser interests for about 1.8 million dollars. Clearwater Timber Co a Weyerhaeuser subsidiary will use the timber for a Lewiston Idaho mill and will be served by a 41 mile railroad line to be built jointly by the Northern Pacific and Union Pacific railroads.
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Duluth
Minn
Idaho
Weyerhaeuser
Henry Turrish
Clearwater Timber Company
Lewiston
Northern Pacific
Union Pacific
George Mead Bowers Dies After Paralysis Stroke
George Mead Bowers 63 longtime Republican leader and former representative in Congress for West Virginia's second district from 1916 to 1923 died at his Martinsburg home from a stroke. He was a prominent figure in Eastern West Virginia politics.
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Martinsboro
W. Va
George Mead Bowers
West Virginia
Ferguson Refuses Call for Texas Special Session
Governor Miriam A Ferguson announced she will not call a special session of the Texas legislature despite a petition signed by 45 lawmakers. She cited economy and public funds while stressing openness if future needs arise, and noted prior passage of tick eradication and highway laws in 1925.
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Austin
Texas
Miriam A. Ferguson
Lee Satterwhite
House
Vennor
Roosevelts On A Great Hunt In Central Asia
A world record ibex with horns 59 inches long was bagged by Kermit Roosevelt and Theodore Roosevelt Jr during the James Simpson Roosevelt expedition for the Field Museum in Central Asia. Eleven ibex specimens, three Tien Shan sheep, four Siberian roe deer, and other game were taken as the explorers press toward Kashmir and Nepal chasing further big game.
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Chicago
Kermit Romevelt
Theadore Roosevelt
James Simpson- Roosevelt
Central Asia
Field Museum
Roosevelt
Kashgar
East Turkestan
Tien Shan
Kashmir
India
Nepal
Roosevelts
George K. Cherrie
Suydam Cutting
Repeal Inheritance Tax Drive Launched by Speaker Satterwhite
Washington dispatch reports Speaker Lee Satterwhite of Texas leads a new push to repeal the federal inheritance tax. The effort, aided by Texas tax clubs and American Bankers, invites state legislatures to meet here Thursday to discuss the plan.
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Washington
Dec
Lee Satterwhite
Texas Hive
Texas Tax Clubs
Jeet
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