Far Eastern Socialists to Hold Congress
Delegates from China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia and Siberia arrive for the Far Eastern Peoples Congress opened in Moscow yesterday. India and Islamic states are not represented. Dr Katayama, a leading Japanese Socialist, and Chinese delegate Kain Kan Hu outline aims for regional independence via a non partisan conference.
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Korea
Mongolia
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Siberia
India
Katayama
Calles Severely Injured After Horseback Fall
Mexico City reports P. Elias Calles secretary of the interior was thrown from his horse and confined to bed with possible broken bones and internal injuries. He had been in delicate health for months and recently returned from the United States where doctors advised horseback exercise.
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Mexico City
P. Elias Calles
Secretary of the Interior
United States
Former Bank Official Indictment Discharged in Yakima
In Yakima Washington on January 23 the superior court dismissed an indictment against Sikko Barghoorn of Spokane president of the defunct Central Bank and Trust Co of Yakima for accepting deposits while insolvent. A former state bank examiner and a deputy state bank examiner refused to testify for the prosecution as ordered.
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Sikko Barghoorn
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Deputhy State Bank
Woman Freezes in Open Boat on Lake Superior
Alfred Peterson, a Knife River fisherman, reached Port Wing Wisconsin after his wife died in an open row boat in Lake Superior. He himself suffered frostbite while trying to free the boat as they drifted among ice floes during a 27 hour ordeal.
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Alfred Peterson
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Swedish Aviatrix Killed in Parachute Descent
Stockholm January 24 AP says Elaea Anderson the only Swedish woman with an aviatrix certificate was killed at Askerund while making a parachute descent. Four thousand spectators watched as her chutes failed to open and she plummeted about two thousand feet to her death.
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Stockholm
Elaea Anderson
Askeraund
Misa Anderson
Woman Factor Garland Case Sparks Separation In Boston
In Boston on January 23 AP reports another factor in the separation of Mr and Mrs Charles Garland. Garland reconsidered a million dollar heritage decision after interviews with him and Miss Lillian Conrad. A family member confirmed the situation drove Mrs Garland to leave him. Mrs Garland lives in Dedham with her infant daughter while Garland resides on a North Carver farm and she has accepted a final settlement from the heritage for their children.
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Charles Garland
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Lillian Conrad
Miss Conrad
Dedham
Philip W. Wrenn
Wrenn
North
Carver
National Ski Association backs abolition of professional skiing
Chicago January 23 The National Ski Association reelected G O Torguson of Glenwood Minnesota president for a fourth term at its annual convention The body went on record as abolition of professional skiing and will operate as an amateur organization until 1923 The next convention will be in Minneapolis
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G. O. Torguson
Glenwood
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National Ski Association
Minneapolis
Hungarian Premier Prorogues Parliament Over Charles Backers
Budapest reports Premier Bethlen prorogues the national assembly until February 18 as deputies friendly to former Emperor Charles push for restoration. Count Rakowski reads a letter from Charles pledging not to accept any other crown without Hungary’s government consent if he returns.
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Count Rakowski
Indian Council Debates Gandhi and Co operation Policy
The Indian Council of State met in Delhi on January 20 and debated India's political situation. A resolution for a joint session to plan a conference of all political viewpoints was rejected. Home Secretary O’Donnell and Sir Muhammad Shafi defended government policy and discussed Gandhi’s non cooperation stance and possible conference.
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Indian Council of State
Rustamji Dhanijibhai Sethna
High Court of
Bombay
Muhammad Shafi
Viceroy’s Council
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M. K. Ghandi
Sankaran Navarama
Gandhi
Desperate Chicago man confesses to hatchet killings
Patrick Tierney, 24, walked into a Chicago police station and confessed to decapitating his wife and baby as they slept. He said poverty and jealousy drove him after two days without food, bought a hatchet with eighty cents, and sought poison before surrendering. He claimed military service in San Francisco and noted a police family background.
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Jan
Patrick Tierney
Tierney
San Francisco
New York
Wyoming Leads in Homestead and Prospecting Entries
Cheyenne Wyoming January 23 AP figures from the United States land office show Wyoming leads the nation in handling homestead entries and oil and gas prospecting permits. Wyoming offices processed 1377 applications while Montana ranked second with 1250.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
United States Land Office
Wyoming
Montana
Chemists Taking The Wood Out of Wood Alcohol
Washington January 22 AP Prohibition authorities pursue two German chemists alleged to work with a bootleg organization in New York to neutralize the poisonous denatured alcohol. Ben Atking of the industrial alcohol division says the bootleggers were engaged in wholesale denatured alcohol and the German chemists were brought to this country to aid.
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Bootfegeer
New York
Sah Ben Atking
Industrial Alcohol Divn
Prohibition Bureau
Bootle
No Suffrage Bill in Quebec Stirs Women’s Efforts
Quebec women seeking voting rights face a setback as the government announces no suffrage bill will be introduced this session. Although federal law allows women to vote in dominion elections, provincial ballots remain restricted. A referendum may be considered at next summer’s provincial election to gauge public opinion.
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Quebec
Legisature
Free Beer Opens Juarez Brewery Attracts Thousands
Juarez celebrated the opening of its first brewery with free beer drawing over 5000 people. Police reserves patrolled as 1000 entered at a time. 100 barrels of liquor were consumed. The $200000 facility aims for a 60000 barrel yearly capacity in El Paso jurisdiction.
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Juarez
Jygres
Court Orders Soviet Experts Ross Release Base Precedent
The U S circuit court of appeals grants McGregor Ross the right to stay in the United States after Ellis Island release, ruling deportation lacks basis for indefinite imprisonment. Bolshevik claims at Genoa hinge on Alabama precedent, with Russia listing vast reparations, debts, and gold rubles in a sweeping prosecution of Allied powers.
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Norwegian steamer Mod sinks mid ocean in fresh radiograms
Boston report says the steamship Mod en route from New York to Antwerp Bermen and Hamburg is sinking in mid ocean. The Continental State states Mod lost all lifeboats and propeller and the George Washington goes to assist. Mod positioned at 46.15 N 41.10 W.
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Veterans form drive for noncash bonus options
In Washington on January 23 two thousand veterans joined a committee pledging to explain advantages of options other than cash in the national bonus law. A ten thousand member national educational committee is being organized by the Veterans of Foreign Wars with Robert G. Woodside leading the effort to show Congress that about ninety percent of those not in distress would choose a noncash bonus option.
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Robert G. Woodside
Congress
Weather outlook for tonight and Tuesday
Tonight and Tuesday bring fair skies with mild temperatures. The north portion remains cooler while highs stay comfortable and calm winds persist.
Feasibility of Water Ways Project Is Unquestioned
President Harding declares the St Lawrence Great Lakes waterways feasible and essential for inland markets. He addresses the national agricultural conference, praising extended transportation, urging credit, law reform, cooperative finance, and farm reclamation to aid farmers nationwide. Delegates from agriculture and allied industries attend, with study of financing, production, and distribution. The conference opens at the New Willard hotel in Washington.
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National Agricultural Conference
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Harding
St. Lawrence- Great Lakes Waterways
Ent
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Great Lakes
St. Lawrence-Great Lakes
White House
New Willard Hotel
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Cotton ginned before Jan 16 191? Census data
Washington reports 7,913,971 running bales ginned before January 16, including 123,569 round bales and small counts of American Egyptian and Sea Island varieties. Ginnings for the prior year reached 12,014,742 running bales. State totals list Texas leading with 2,212,161 bales. Final census report due in March.
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Sea Island
Census Bureau
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California
Texas
Stockholders to meet on bond sale and railroad link
Western Pacific railroad stockholders are called to a Wilmington Delaware meeting on February 20 to approve sale of bonds for acquiring the Sacramento Northern railroad. They will also decide on funding an extension from the Sac Northern to Vallejo California with an estimated cost of 1 million dollars.
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Western Pacific Railroad
Wilmington
Sacramento Northern Railroad
Ers
Sacramento Northern
Vallejo
Calif
Conference on Agriculture Promotes Sustaining Rural Policy
Secretary Wallace opens a conference to address the present agricultural low mood and to set a permanent policy for sustaining agriculture. Anderson of Minnesota is named permanent chairman and H C Taylor as executive secretary. Proposals cover legislative action, administrative and educational efforts, and farmer-led organization.
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Anderson
Minnesota
Joint Congressional Inquiry Commission
H. C. Taylor
Bureau of Markets and Crop Estimates
Renee
Indi.cen
Eight Die As Norwegian Freighter Sinks Off St John Island
Eight crew members of the Norwegian freighter Mod were drowned when the vessel sank Sunday morning off St John Island, according to a radio telegram received by the naval radio station here. The ship went down after perilous weather, with rescue efforts continuing for other survivors.
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Mod
St. John Island
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