Irish plot to damage British naval forces uncovered
Two Irish nationals BW. T. O Leary and J. D. McGough faced Bow Street court on charges under the official secrets act for alleged possession and transfer of information about Portsmouth Haslar harbor. Five Irish men and one woman linked to the plot were reported as arrested after intercepts.
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London
T. O Leary
J. D. McGough
Bow Street
Scotland Yard
O'Leary
McGough
Portsmouth
London Daily Mail
Mail
Irish Publican
Departments to Be Reorganized in Senate Action
Senators discuss moving a bill to reorganize government departments after Isle of Pines treaty. Senator Smoot and President Coolidge consider action this session amid opposition.
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Washington
Senate
Isle of Pines
Smoot
Utah
Departmental
Coolidge
Supreme Court Rules No Profits From War Contracts With Government
The Supreme Court today held prospective profits cannot be recovered from the government in war contract cases. The decision involves the College Point corporation of Long Island New York and clarifies government liability for expected earnings on wartime deals.
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Washington
Supreme Court
College Point Corporation
Long Island
N. Y
Fire destroys Nye-Schneider Jenks grain elevator in Lincoln
Fire of unknown origin leveled the Nye-Schneider Jenks grain elevator in Lincoln causing an estimated 500000 dollars in damage. About 230000 bushels of wheat were destroyed.
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Lincoln, Neb
Nye-Schneider Jenks
Aliens Slipping Over Border Across Cuba and U S
Commissioner general of immigration W. W. Husband told the House appropriations committee about 20,000 Europeans are waiting in Cuba to slip into the United States. He said more cross the northern border due to proximity to towns and Mexico offers fewer entry chances. Deportations reached 4,247 in six months versus 6,409 the prior year, with about 28,000 of last year’s 28,000 seamen migrants evading law.
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Washington
Cuba
United States
W. W. Husband
House Appropriations Committee
Mexico
Mr. Husband
Europe
Husband
Fort LAP Record Sparks Maine Publication
A terse note reports a fortification event at 7 o'clock with attempts to publish a new record for Maine. The fragment references a location and time without additional context or participants.
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Mere
Maine
Mrs Kellogg Returns to Washington Society Spotlight
Mrs Frank B Kellogg wife of the newly appointed secretary of state excites Washington society as they await her return to the capital.
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Frank B. Kellogg
Washington
Galveston Woman, 84, Former UDC Leader Dies
Mrs Cornelia H K Stone of Galveston Texas longtime president general of the United Daughters of the Confederacy died last night at age 84. The announcement came from Washington on January 19.
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Washington
Cornelia HK. Stone
Galveston
Tex
The
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Engine Goes Over Precipice Near Zacatecas
An express train from Juarez to Mexico City broke a rail in cold weather and plunged down a cliff south of Zacatecas. Two killed, three injured. the engineer and fireman escaped with burns. Ammunition box handlers in the following car died.
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Mexico City
Juarez
Zacatecas
Guadalupe
Tribute Paid to Past Solons in Senate Remembrance
Washington January 19 AP intimate memories of three stalwarts of former days crowded the senate as it paused to honor Henry Cabot Lodge Frank B Brandegee and Lebaron B Colt. Leaders from both sides praised the public service and recalled their roles in league of nations immigration and foreign relations.
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Washington
Senate
Henry Cabote
Frank B. Brandegee
Lebabron B. Cold
Senator Lodge
League of Nations
Foreign Relations Committee
Woodrow Wilson
Brandegee
Connecticut
Colt
Immigration Committee
Earthquake Shakes Kingston St Vincent Last Night
An AP report states a severe earthquake struck Kingston St Vincent at 11 56 pm local time. The quake was brief, beginning with a tremor and ending suddenly in a strong shock.
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Kingston, St. Vincent
Putt Premium Offered for Bandit Captures in St Louis
A St Louis businessman offers $100 to each officer who shoots and captures a bandit and to each officer who kills a robber, aiming to spur police to curb crime in the city.
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St. Louis
Senate Defeats Plan to Elevate Gun Elevation on Battleships
Senate votes 45 to 22 to suspend rules on Senator McKellar's amendment to the naval appropriation bill seeking gun elevation to match British ships. President Coolidge opposes action fearing renewed naval armament. Only one Republican supports the motion.
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Washington
Senate
Hale
Navy Committee
McKellar
Tennessee
Coolidge
Johnson
California
Shipstead
Minnesota
Bruce
Caraway
Dill
Georgia
King
Neeley
Ralston
Se Tary
Smith
House Irrigation Committee
Safot
Utah
Norris
Robinson
Arkansas
Tariff Commission
House
Deadwood
8. D
Salt Lake City
Last Rites for Justice Dunn
Funeral services for Justice Robert N. Dunn were held at 2:30 at the First Christian Church with Rev. C. E. Burgess in charge. Interment was at Morris Hill cemetery Boise. A son, Charles, Navy officer, returned home Friday to visit before his death. Honorary pallbearers included Governor Moore and former Chief Justices McCarthy and Rice. Legislature and state house adjourned for the funeral.
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Boise
Tribune
Justice Robert N. Dunn
First Christian Church
C. E. Burgess
State House
Morris Hill Cemetery
Charles
United States Navy
J. L. Williams
Clyde Summers
Justice Dunn
C. C. Moore
Supreme Court
Charles McCarthy
John C. Rice
Bribe Trial Highlights Claims Against Means and Felder
Isidore Padorr testified in New York that he saw hundreds of thousands of dollars handed to Gaston Means and learned through Means' secretary Elmer Jarnecke that part of the funds were to go to Secretary of State Hughes as a bribe related to the Crager system glass casket mail fraud case.
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New York
Isidore Padorr
Gaston [T. Means
Thomas KH. Felder
Means
Elmer Jarnecke
Hughes
Crager System Glass Casket
Tariff talks continue between France and Germany
Paris on January 1 delays linger as Franco Germanic trade experts press the technical details of a temporary tariff accord. They await Germany’s final reply to Raybaldy’s proposal to avoid a breakdown and keep talks on course.
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Paris
Germanovernment
Minteter der Commerce
Raypaldy
Mors
Power potential spotted on Snake River survey maps
Government and geological survey officials published 17 colored maps showing water power prospects on the Snake River from Lewiston Idaho to Huntington Oregon. They estimate above one million horsepower possible with the river fall of 1321 feet, including 15 undeveloped sites and a major Salmon river diversions plan.
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Washington
Department of Interior Engineers
Snake River
Idaho
The
Geological Survey
Lewiston
Huntington
Oregon
Salmon River
Salt Lake City
Spokane
Mississippi Valley
Pacific Coast
Copperfield
Ore
Crook Captured After A Fight In Indianapolis
General Chapman once a top figure in criminal ventures nationwide was jailed in Indianapolis awaiting arraignment before a U S commissioner. He faces steps to be returned to Atlanta federal penitentiary from which he escaped December 30 192. Detectives captured him after a pistol fight in Muncie Indiana ending a nationwide manhunt.
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Indianapolis
Chapman
United States
Atlanta
Muncie
Ind
Few Candidates in the Running for Agriculture Secretary
Washington January 19 AP reports that only about six names remain from an initial list of nearly 200 candidates for the post of secretary of agriculture after March 4. President Coolidge aims to find someone who meets the office’s chief demands and may decide this week.
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Washington
Coolidge
Miners Strike Averts Walkout Efforts In Scranton
In Scranton Pennsylvania on January 19 business leaders labor officials and other agencies pursued steps to avert a general strike by sixty thousand anthracite miners. An appeal to Governor Pinchot for intervention was among actions taken.
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Scranton
Pinchot
Foreign trade going strong
Secretary Hoover told the House Appropriations Committee that American export organizations should stay in the foreign trade field for the next year or two. He warned that Europe’s economic recovery will raise competition in U S exports, especially in steel rails, and urged unusual assignments to help exporters through the difficult period. The situation is described as of concern rather than gravity.
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Washington
Hoover
House Appropriation Committee
Commerce Department
Weer
Europe
Young Slayer Faces Potential Death Penalty in San Francisco
Dorothy Ellingson, 16, who killed her mother after a dispute over her company and hours, is under police scrutiny as three musician friends are charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Religious leaders condemn the episode, urging home and social solidarity. Dorothy says she will be 17 next April and possibly 18 for capital punishment if proven.
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San Francisco
Calif
Dorothy Ellingson
Tss
Ellingson
Los Angeles
Eric A. Bloom
Dorothy
California
Frank J. Egan
Earl
Joseph Ellingson
Mussolini On Trail Of Ibanez Hoax Brochure Ban Ordered
Premier Mussolini and Interior Minister Federzoni ordered seizure of Vicente Blasco Ibanez brochure critical of King Alfonso and directed prefects to curb its circulation in Italy. The move followed a Spanish ambassador's demand, per Le Gaulois Rome dispatch.
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Paris
Mussoli
Italy
Federazoni
Interior
Vicente Blasco
Paderewski Performs in Vatican Before Pope and Cardinals
Paderewski the pianist statesman visited Rome and played in the Vatican for the pope and leading church officials including Cardinals Gasparri and Merry del Val and Monsignor Zepliak.
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Paderewski
Rome
Ignace Jan Paderewski
Vatican
Gasparri
Merry del Val
Monsignor
Zepliak
Russians in Chinese Ranks Reported in Shanghai
Shanghai dispatch notes telegraph wires cut and Chinese telegraph firms rejecting messages. Twelve thousand troops of Chang Yuen Ming, once interned after a defeat, have sailed toward the Tsing Tao area likely to disband. Western officials fear Chi Hsieh Yuan may soon be defeated by pacification commissioner Lu Yung Hsiang, with Russians joining Lu’s forces possibly worsening the situation.
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Shanghai
Chang Yuen- Ming
Chang
Chi Hsieh-Yuan
Tsing Tao
Reking
Lu Yung Hsiang
Lu Yuang-Hsiang
Texans Have Woman Chief In Lone Star State
Austin and Texas prepare for the inaugural of Byeves Amanda Ferguson as governor, the first female chief executive in Texas alongside Wyoming. The noon swearing in by Chief Justice C M Cureton will be followed by a noonday oath ceremony and a grand capital celebration. The ball and reception conclude tomorrow night with lawmakers and officials in attendance.
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Austin
Tex
Texas
Wyoming
Union
Commonwealth
Byeves
Amanda Ferguson
Supreme Court
C. M. Cureton
Rockne Declines USC Coaching Post
Knute Rockne of Notre Dame will not accept the head football coach job at the University of Southern California, according to a Los Angeles AP report dated January 19. The decision ends USC’s pursuit and leaves Notre Dame in control of Rockne’s coaching services.
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Rockne
Los Angeles
Knute Rockne
Notre Dame
University of Southern California
Carrie Catt Urges Unified Peace Effort At Conference
Mrs Carrie Chapman Catt as general chairman calls for unity behind a common program for world peace at a conference opened by nine national women's organizations. She argues security for all nations requires action and urges alliance with the army navy and American Legion to promote abolition of war.
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Washington
America
Carrie Napman Catt
Catt
Sausage Maker Accused of Using Robins for Flavor
Sylvia Niere, proprietor of a San Francisco sausage factory, was arrested by Game Warden W. Hellmer at Kentfield after admitting to using robins in his sausages to imitate foreign import flavors.
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San Francisco
Sylvia Niere
Kentfield
Hellmer
Niere
Rains Swell Rivers Across Six Southern States
Rains continued across six southern states causing rivers to rise and prompting flood warnings. Three deaths were reported with two missing after a Selma trestle collapse and a landslide near Cartersville. Georgia and Alabama areas faced high water, with towns like Albany and Columbus recording major river levels and infrastructure damage.
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Atlanta
Selma
Ala
Cartersville
Albany
Asa
Will Taft
Flint River
Georgia
Alabama
Macon
Ocmulgee
Columbus
Chattahoochee
Submarine Delivers Bootleg Liquor to Jersey Coast
Prohibition authorities investigate reports that a German crew used a submarine to smuggle 75,000 cases of liquor from a mother ship about 50 miles off Asbury Park New Jersey to small craft near the shore.
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New York
Asbury Park
N. J
New Jersey
Aviators Walter Clinton and A W Stevens Return Safely
Walter Clinton and Captain A W Stevens, missing for about ten days in the Amazon, have returned safely to the Rice expedition advance camp on the Parina River in a hydroplane. They landed on rocks but were aided by friendly Indians and repaired their craft to reach the camp, the message from Boavista reported.
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New York
Walter Clinton
A. W. Stevens
Amazon River
South America
Parina River
John F. Grinan
Radio Club of America
Parina
Rice Expedition
Boavista
Rio Blanco
Patrick Held Over in Gene 1 Dynamite Dam Case
Bristol Ga Jan 19 AP Patrick 27 held in Gene 1 case at Marion on charge of dynamiting the dam at Christmas Eve. He faces questions over the blast that cost lives and today the state says he may prove an alibi.
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Bristol
Patrick
Marion
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