Repayment Demand Tied to France Naval Armament
Washington Jan 3 AP the administration backs a resolution urging repayment of debts owed to the United States as a prerequisite to funding European debts. Rep. Reavis asserts the measure targets France over its submarine armament program and calls for the debtor nation to pay its obligations rather than drawing funds from U.S. resources.
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Washington
United
France
Reavis
United States
House of Representatives
Senate
Congress
Mr. Reavis
Europe
Traquil
Germany
Reduction in Crude Oil Prices Reported
The principal purchasing agencies announce strict price cuts for the new year with Pennagrade at 3.50 per barrel, down five tenths. Corning, Cabell, Somerset and Somerset light trimmed twenty five cents, Ragland reduced ten cents per barrel.
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Pittsburgh
Principe
Pennagrade
Corning, Cabell, Somerset
Somerset Light
Ragland
Wheat market dives on late trading forces prices lower
Chicago January 8 AP Exerted late trading in wheat unsettled the market with declines up to 7 12 cents. May futures slipped toward 1.07 1 2 to 1.08 while July hovered near 97 4 4 cents. By noon July delivery traded at about 1 a bushel down and the day closed with nervous selling and NYSE weakness aiding the drop.
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Chicago
Mts
Palar
New York
Szechenyi Named Hungarian Minister to United States
Count Laszlo Szechenyi appointed Hungarian minister to the United States and now in Washington. He previously married Gladys M. Vanderbilt of New York City, as Countess Szechenyi.
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Budapest
Laszlo Szechenyi
United States
Washington
Szechenyi
Gladys M. Vanderbilt
New York City
Night and Wednesday Weather Update
Fair and colder tonight with cooler conditions spreading to the south portion. Stronger north winds and Arctic air may follow into Wednesday with lingering clear skies and frosty morning air.
Third Death in Chicago Firemen Joker Alarm Case
A $1,000 reward offered for arrest of a practical joker. A false alarm led to two fire engines crashing while responding, causing the third city firefighter to die from injuries.
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Chicago
Third City
Bankers Put in Overtime During New Year Crisis
In Chicago on January 3 AP reports several bankers managing over a billion dollars spent New Year holidays working twenty hours daily to resolve crises at two large banks with eighty five million dollars in assets impaired by excessive credit and investments. Junior VPs and reporters split for meals. four customers seen in a lunch room include James B. Forgan Frank O. Wetmore John J. Mitchell and Edmund D. Hulbert.
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Chicago
James B. Forgan
First National Bank
Frank O. Wetmore
the National
John J. Mitchell
Illinois Trust and Savings Bank
Edmund D. Hulbert
Merchants Loan and Trust Company
Corn Exchange National
Engravers Strike Across 30 Cities
About 3400 photoengravers in 30 cities began a strike over wage cuts and longer hours. Employers offered a 48 hour week at current pay or a $5 cut with a 44 hour week. The union rejected the changes, saying the pay reduction would be about eight percent from an average of $56 weekly. All Chicago union plants closed.
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Chicago
Photoengravers
Ve American Photoengravers Associaton
Louis Flader
Association
Engraving shops close nationwide over wage dispute
New York January 3 1930s era AP reports seventy commercial engraving shops employing about 1600 men closed as negotiators failed to reach a wage and working condition agreement between the photoengravers board of trade and the Photoengravers Union. Shops nationwide would stay shut until settlement.
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New York
Photoengravers Board of Trade
Photoengravers Union
Photoengravers strike across multiple cities sparks labor dispute
About 400 workers in fourteen Philadelphia shops refused to work claiming lockout while employers say the men struck over a proposed 48 hour week. Similar walkouts reported in Des Moines Waterloo Cedar Rapids Sioux City Davenport and a Denver group of about forty union members protest wage cuts and longer hours.
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Philadelphia
Des Moines
Waterloo
Sioux City
Cedar Rapids
Davenport
Denver
Denver Photoengravers Union
Cancellation of match outrages Greb manager Engle
Cincinnati January 3 AP report quotes Harry Greb and manager George Engle reacting to Johnny Wilson canceling their proposed match. Engle vows to pursue the matter with Rickard after placing $10 000 to bind the bout and Greb agreeing to 160 pounds for the scheduled fight.
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Cincinnati
New York
Harry Greb
George Engle
Boston Dispatch
Johnny Wilson
Greb
Engle
Wilson
Rickard Jas
Bank Merger Averts Serious Chicago Financial Trouble
Chicago January 3 AP The Fort Dearborn Bank merges with Continental and Commercial banks forming the second largest U S institution. Assets of Fort Dearborn valued near 60 million transfered as overextended credits and bad loans prompted the deal. Gar ranks include 400 million in deposits and 525 million in assets across absorbing institutions.
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Fort Dearborn National Bank
Continental and Commercial Bank of Chicago
Chicago
Robert FE. Crowe
Ofice
Fort Dearborn
Continental Banks
Continental
George M. Reynolds
The
Reynolds
Continental and Commercial National Bank
Continental and Commercial Trust and Savings Bank
United States
New York
Ft. Dearborn Trust and Savings Bank
Chicago Clearinghouse Association
Edward Tilden and Company
Chicago Clearing House
James B. Forgan
Chicago Clearing House Committee
Clearing House
Commercial
Cood
Drovers National
Drovers Trust and Savings Bank
Edw. Tilden and Company
Englewood State Bank
Tilden
LaSalle Street
Dearborn National
State Bank
Widow Kills Sons Then Commits Suicide in Birmingham
Mrs. Bessie Morris, a widow, shot and killed her two young sons Thomas age 2 and Wolson age 4 near Birmingham then took her own life, according to reports at police headquarters.
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Birmingham
Bessie Morris
Thomas
Wolson
Toronto baseball chief MecCaffey seriously ill in Toronto
Atlantic City dispatch reports President James J. MecCaffey of the Toronto club is seriously ill at a beach front hotel after leaving the city yesterday. Hotel officials confirm the condition and location.
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Atlantic City
N. J
James J. MecCaffey
Toronto Baseball Club
Toronto Dispatches
Pickford Divorce Deemed Worst of Its Kind
Carson City Nev Jan 3 Attorney General L B Fowler called Mary Pickford and Owen Moore divorce the worst of its kind and said it should be last of its kind in a closing brief filed in the state supreme court Fowler argued the decree was obtained by untruthful testimony and fraud and that allowing deceit to overthrow law would resemble anarchy.
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Carson City
Nev
Mary Pickford
Owen Moore
L. B. Fowler
Supreme Court
Misa Pickford
Ana Rchy
Decline in US Lead and Zinc Output in 1921
The Geological Survey reports 1921 lead output fell about 20 percent, zinc down almost 60 percent. Mississippian soft lead and Argentiferous western lead totals are given with district figures, while zinc ore recoverables drop from 584,772 tons in 1920 to 250,000 in 1921. Imports of zinc ore plunged to about 2,700 tons, mainly from Mexico.
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Washington, Jan
United States
Geological Survey
Mississipp
Missippi Valley
Missouri
Court orders reargument in Coronado labor case
The Supreme Court ordered the Coronado labor case set for reargument on February. On the same date it will hear two other labor cases involving Kansas state acts creating a court of industrial relations.
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Washington
Coronado
Supreme Court
Sailor Row. Five Wounded in Shanghai Knife Clash
Five American sailors were wounded in a Shanghai clash between shore parties from US and Italian gunboats. Italians armed with knives attacked unarmed sailors. the incident began in a dance hall. Four Wilmington crewmen and one Isabella sailor were hurt, with a naval inquiry ordered.
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Washington
Shanghai
Navy Department
J. Truss
Straus
Bullard
Wilmington
Isabell
Mil J. Ribe
Princeton
Minn
Cook
R. A. Germer
Homer Gillman
Spring Or Tenn
William Age Oenited
Mass Held for Baron Rosen at St. Nicholas Russian Church
A Mass was conducted in New York for Baron Rosen former Russian ambassador to Washington who died in the city on Saturday. The casket was moved to the Ree Height after private family services at the apartments, then to Fresh Pond J I for cremation.
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New York
Cele St. Nicholas
Baron Osen
Washington
Fresh Pond
J. I
German Flag Makes First Appearance
New York January 1917 report notes Germany's flag displayed among Allied nations. The ensign was raised on the same pole at 11 Broadway after the flag had been lowered in 1917, marking a symbolic turnover in wartime relations.
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New York
Jan
Germany
Broadway
Man Acquitted of Murder Is Killed in Accident
William P. Brines former University of Pennsylvania student who was acquitted last January of murdering Elmer C Drewes of Dartmouth was killed in an automobile accident near Cal on Sunday. Drewes was found dead with a bullet in the heart on the city outskirts in October 1920 Brines pleaded not guilty and did not testify at trial.
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Philadelphia
Wm. P. Brines
University of Pennsylvania
Elmer C. Drewes
Dartmouth College
Cal
John R. Wiggins
Drewds
Brines
Goodrich Brothers Banking in Fairbury Closes
Lincoln Nev Jan 3 AP reports Goodrich Brothers Banking company at Fairbury Nebraska, an old established firm, has been closed and a receiver will be sought Tuesday as announced by the attorney general's office.
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Lincoln, Nev
Goodrich Brothers Banking Company
Fairbury
Neb
Attorney General’s
Serious break in cotton market shocks New York trading
New York January 3 reports show a sharp drop in cotton prices after an early rise to 19.20 for March contracts. Late trading quotes put the price around 18.16 as unsettled western conditions weighed on markets.
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New York
Comptroller orders condition report from all national banks
The comptroller of the currency today issued a call for the condition of all national banks as of the close of business Saturday December 31.
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Washington
Comptroller of the Currency Today
WashIngton and Jefferson to honor football squad in banquet
Pittsburgh alumni association announced a testimonial banquet for the president's football squad after its return from Pasadena where it tied California 0 0. The team is due home January 13.
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Pittsburgh
API
Pittsburgh Alumni Association of Washington and Jefferson University
Pasadena
California
University of California
Kidnaping Probe Ties Roy Crane to Benton Youth
Salt Lake City police hold Roy Crane, 21, on suspicion of kidnapping Duard Thomas, 14, son of Benton jeweler W. G. Thomas. The boy was found with Crane after initially denying identity but later admitting he had been abducted to Salt Lake City. Crane reportedly expected $1,000 for the crime.
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Salt Lake City
Roy Crane
Duard Thomas
W. G. Thomas
Benton
Illinois
Crane
Dickinson and Woman Die in Stalled Car in Sioux City
Police say W F Dickinson a leading Sioux City undertaker and Anna Giddings were found dead in Dickinsons stalled car in Sioux City. Dickinson was shot in the right temple and Giddings is believed to have killed him then died by suicide with a self inflicted wound. A blood trail on the pavement accompanied the scene.
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Sioux Falls
W. F. Dickinson
Sioux City
Anna Giddings
Dickinson
Moton
Moore on Stand in Burch Trial
In Los Angeles on January 3 AP reports Arthur C. Burch's murder trial resumed as the defense seeks to recall Dr. Ross Moore an anesthetist who testified last week. Moore said Burch asked to discuss actions from noon to midnight on August 5 tied to Kennedy’s death and received a note from co-defendant Madelynne Obenchain.
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Los Angeles
Arthur C. Burch
J. Belton Kennedy
Ross Moore
Moore
Bureh
Madelynne Obenchain
Arthur
No Action Expected in Packer Strike Across Midwest
The White House said no federal action is likely in the Chicago and midwestern packing house strike and the labor department services offer will not be renewed. In Nebraska City nine women among nineteen strikers face contempt citations for federal court orders on picketing. In East St Louis about 300 people gathered at police headquarters after 23 strikers were arrested following an alleged beating of a Black worker.
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Washington
Chicago
White House
Labor Department
Lincoln, Neb
Nebraska City
East St. Louis
Hmls
Acti
Royalist push to settle Charles and Zita in Italy
Budapest reports rising Royalist activity as Count Julius Andrassy leads deputies against Premier Bethlen. Prince Sixtus of Bourbon de Parma and others in Rome seek to move Charles and Zita from Madeira to Italy for settlement.
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Budapest
Charles
Chambers of Deputies
Julius Andrassy
Count Bethlen
Sixtus of Bourbon de Parma
Zita
Rome
Madeira
Italy
New Mayor Aims to Lead City Parade
Youngstown on January 3 reports Mayor George L. Oles starting his administration with rapid staffing moves. He plans to lead a police parade through downtown to showcase a compliant force after warning officers of dismissal for drinking. Louis E. Guess named as his secretary.
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Youngstown
George L. Oles
Oles
Louis E. Guess
Ireland Hears Ratification Call Amid Debate on Treaty
Dublin reports show broad public support for ratification of the Anglo Irish treaty with 101 bodies backing it and county councils joining in. Michael Collins defends the pact as Eamon De Valera vows to press for a republic, while Countess Markievicz attacks provisions on provisional government and oath to King George.
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Dublin
Michael Collins
Dail Eireann
Dail
Trish Free State
Eamon de Valera
Thme
Arthur Griffith
Eamon DeValera
London
Limerick
North Tipperary
Tyrone
Louth
Wexford
Art O'Connor
South Kildare
Trish
O'Connor
Collins
Pierce Beasley
County Kerry
Countess Markiewicz
England
Ireland
Atlantic
King George
Cardinal Favors Peace Treaty Amid Ireland Row
In Belfast the primate of Ireland Cardinal Ogue urged prayers for success of the peace treaty as Irish groups in the Dail faced final action. London reports show Dublin factions still split over the treaty, with Sinn Fein elements tightening control in Eskra Tyrone as gun demand threats arose.
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Belfast
Cardinal Ogue
Ireland
Armagh
London
Dail Eireann
Great Britain
Dail
Dublin
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Burch
Packer
Markiewicz
Sinn Feiners
Hibernian
Eskra
County Tyrone
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