Packer Regulation Battle Reaches Senate Vote
Washington January 24. The senate rejected striking the plan for voluntary licensing of meat packers while defeating Senator Sterling's bid to hand administration to the federal trade commission. Gronna bill would create a three member livestock commission with voluntary licensing and federal regulation of packers and stockyards. Debate closed with a hairline split as final vote neared. In New York Morse says Schwab denied government payment for services.
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Washington
Jan
Senate
Packer
Sterling
South Dakota
Federal Trade Commission
Bth
Gronna
Republican
North Dakota
Kendrick
Kenyon Sendrick
House
Smoot
Utah
Kenyon
Iowa
Commission
Congress
Schwab
New York
Morse
Charles M. Schwab
Bethlehem Steel Company
Eugene G. Grace
Mr. Grace
George F. Burgess
Mullah Suppressed After Long Somaliland Campaign
An official report states Maal Mullah, ruler of Somaliland, and his followers were crushed in three weeks with air power and ground forces. From 1919 to 1920, British operations pursued rebels across Somaliland as air sorties eliminated most strongholds and captives or killed others.
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Somaliland
Train hold up robs fireman near Louisiana Mo
Four masked men halted a Chicago and Alton passenger train about ten miles east of Louisiana Missouri shortly after midnight. They escaped after obtaining money from the fireman. The train ran from Kansas City to Chicago.
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Louisiana
Chicago and Alton
Here
Kansas City
Chicago
Lenine Rumor of Death Circulates in Copenhagen Dispatch
Copenhagen reports persist that Nikolai Lenine the Soviet premier may be dead. Helsingfors dispatches to Berlingske Tidende note Lenine’s absence from several recent Soviet meetings led by Leon Trotzky, fueling anti Bolshevik press claims of his demise.
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Copenhagen
Nikolai Lenine
Helsingfors
Berlingske Tidende
Lenine
Leon Trotzky
Mexico Raises Its Oil Tax
Washington reports a proposed oil tax revision by Mexico would lift the export tax on petroleum by about thirty percent and introduce a tax on escaping natural gas. The changes, to be announced in a forthcoming circular, would take effect in February unless oil producers convince the government of the policy’s injustice. The gas tax had been discussed before, but this marks official intent to tax oil by products despite limited usefulness of the gas.
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Washington
Lynching Sparks Race Tension in North Carolina
Nine Negroes arrested in connection with a shooting at Norlina arrive at Raleigh as a mob shoots two prisoners. In Warrenton a lynching follows a gun battle that wounded five whites and three Blacks. A jury is convened and guards remain on duty amid fears of a broader revolt.
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Raleigh
N. C
Traylor Brothers
Norlina
Warrenton
State Penitentiary
Keening
Plummer Bullock
Alfred Williams
Warren County
Home Guards
Morrison
Measure Aids Profiteering in Coal Industry
Washington January 24 AP former Governor Oakley G Curtis of Maine denounces the Calder bill to regulate coal as the greatest aid to profiteering, arguing it taxes coal brokerage commissions up to 90 percent and panders to profiteers. Senate committee hearings will examine labor conditions as operators and union men prepare to testify.
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Washington
Calder
Oakley G. Curtis
Maine
Senate
Reed
Missouri
Oil interests confer on tax plan in Mexico City
Representatives of petroleum companies in Mexico will meet in Mexico City to discuss a draft law that would set a fixed tax rate on petroleum properties and curb irregularities in tax payments. The measure, prepared by Secretary of the Treasury Adolfo De La Huerta, will be submitted to Congress after the February 7 session begins.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Adolfo de la Huerta
the Treasury
Mexican Congress
Twelve-year-old bandit foiled by Hyde Park resident
Chicago police report a youth of about twelve who had held up several women in Hyde Park was stopped by Mrs. Albert who raised her hands at his command and allowed her handbag to fall as he fled a block before being distanced.
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Chicago
Hyde
Five Allies Hold Vital Meet Paris
Representatives of Britain France Italy Belgium and Japan met in Paris for a pivotal conference seen as second in importance to the Versailles treaty. British Prime Minister David Lloyd George and French Premier Aristide Briand led talks expected to shape key decisions in the coming week.
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Paris
Jan
Great Britain
France
Italy
Belgium
Japan
David Lloydorge
Aristide Briand
Srepublic
Cuba's Banks Seek Protection Under Cuban Bill
A Cuban congress bill aims to shield banks by creating a three member committee to supervise financial affairs. It ends the moratorium, allows banks and certain merchants to come under the committee, and provides government appointed control if a bank fails.
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Washington
Cuba
Suoc H. Crowder
State Department
Cork Lord Mayor Surrenders to Immigration in Norfolk
Donal O Callaghan lord mayor of Cork was surrendered today by his counsel Judge Joseph Lawless to immigration authorities in Norfolk Virginia. He received a seaman s certificate and could sail on a foreign bound vessel at once. His plans on arrival as a stowaway without a passport were described as indefinite.
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Norfolk
Donal O'Callaghan
Cork
Joseph Lawless
Supreme Court upholds Alice Gold and Silver sale to Anaconda
The Supreme Court rejected minority claims that the 1911 sale of Alice Gold and Silver Mining properties near Butte Montana to Anaconda Copper Mining was void for monopoly concerns. It held no market control proof and found the price inadequate though no public bid was received, affirming lower court rulings.
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Washington
Jan
Alice Gold and Silver Mining Company
Supreme Court
Butte, Mont
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Anaconda Company
Anaconda
Anaconde Company
Alice
Indians Lose Valuable Land Pretension in Supreme Court
Washington January 24 The Supreme Court denied Maggie Parje a Creek Indian a claim to Oklahoma oil lands valued at more than 2 million dollars. The land was originally allotted to her sister Anna Bird and, under Oklahoma succession law, passed to her father after Anna's death.
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Washington
Maggie Parje
Oklahoma
Supreme Court
Anna Bird
Maggie
Schwab Cited in Shipping Board Voucher Scandal
Percy Morse testified before the Walsh committee on Shipping Board affairs corroborating Colonel E. H. Abadie about a $260000 voucher charged to overhead for Charles M Schwab in October 1918. Morse also referenced an $18000 voucher for D Cravath charged to overhead, tied to Bethlehem Shipbuilding Company.
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Shipping Board
New York
Percy Morse
Bethlehem Shipbuilding Company
Walsh Som
United States Shippin Board
E. H. Abadie
Charles M. Schwab
Morse
Abadie
D. Cravath
Thelehem Company
Misplaced Charges Reported in Bethlehem Shipbuilding Records
New York January 24 The total mis piece charges amounting to 339000 were found on Bethlehem Shipbuilding Company books. Perley Morse testified before the Walsh congressional committee about a voucher numbered 699 dated February 18 1918 with 100000 earmarked for ship construction.
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New York
Bethlehem Shipbuilding Company
Perley Morse
Shipping Board
Walsh Congressional Committee
Morse
Abadie
Payne
Bethlehem Corporation
Neeee
Martin J. Gillen
Bethlehem Steel Administration
Hauch
House approves 360000 seed distribution funding
The house voted to appropriate 360000 for free seed distribution by members, 120000 more than the current year. A London AP item notes King Haakon of Norway arriving in England for a visit to Windsor with Prince Olaf, and Olaf being kept in his cabin for an hour after arriving ten minutes late to breakfast.
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Washington
House
King
London
King Naakon
Norway
England
Prince Olaf
Saidringham
Rolio
Punpoe
Daily News Corres
Automobile Plunges with Six Persons Into River
A large black automobile carrying six occupants swerved off Broad Street in Chicago near midnight Saturday and plunged into the water. A grappling team searched the stream the next day as the vehicle was dragged from the water while an engineer noted the effort and fatigue of workers.
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Chicago
Chi
Thomas Janson
Tribal Indians to be wards of federal government
The Supreme Court ruled that tribal Indians will be wards of the federal government until allotted, affecting more than pas acres of Osage grazing lands.
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Washington
Contelamies
Supreme Court
Pastor Kyle Tied to $212000 Mail Robbery
Mt. Vernon Illinois January 24 AP Guy Kyle 47 former Free Methodist pastor here confessed complicity in the $212000 mail robbery on January 14 and will be arraigned before a federal commissioner in East St. Louis tomorrow officials announced.
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Mt. Vernon
Ill
Guy Kyle
The
Free Methodist Church
East St. Logis
Dallas Wireless Police Network Ready For Use
A wireless telephone system for Dallas police patrols will be installed and ready in a few days. Receiving sets go into police cars to broadcast reports of burglaries and highway robberies citywide. A state wide wireless station to flash news of law violations across Texas and into Oklahoma is also ready.
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Dallas
Texas
Oklahoma
Senate Passes Division Law Creating New Judicial Districts
The Eleventh district is created in Senate Bill No. 64, passed by the Senate in the sixteenth legislature. It sets the Twelfth and Seventh districts and shifts counties among Jerome Cassia Minidoka Twin Falls Payette Washington Valley Adams Gem Canyon Elmore. The bill moves judges between districts and allows elections of supreme and district court judges.
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Senate
Sutcliffe
Seaver
van Hoeven
Paddock
Whitcomb
Burkey
McMurray
Kerrick
Canyon
Smith of
Gooding
Jerome
Cassia
Minidoka
Twin Falls
Payette
Washington, Valley
Adams
Gem
Elmore County
Supreme Court
Gasoline Explosion Destroys Memphis Tenements
In Memphis on January 24 a gasoline tank car exploded near a Colgar Berse filling station destroying a block of tenement houses. Police estimate 6 to 15 dead with about 40 injured, all of them black, as rescuers battle fires and search remains. Casualty tallies and damage were being updated.
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Memphis
Colgar-Berse Company
Bly Ly & Spark From & Workman's
Tenn
Heiress Missing With Son in Springfield Case
Mrs. Glen Davis Smith heiress of the Little estate and her three year old son Robert vanished with Mrs. Hattie Crafton after leaving Springfield at six PM. Police launched a state wide search as the disappearance is treated as a major missing person case.
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Springfield
Glen Davis Smith
Robert
Hattie Crafton
Smith
Captain Streeter dies after long Chicago land fight
Captain George Wellington Streeter, famed figure in a long Chicago legal battle over lakefront land known as Streetsville, dies aboard his house boat after a life spanning since 1886. His reefed claim to the 193 acres near the lakefront created a historic dispute and a shifting shoreline saga.
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Chicago
George Wellington Streeter
Captain Streeter
Near North
Lake Michigan
Streetserville
Chicago Lake Front
Reutan
Streater
Beeston
Gold Coast
Mexican rail chiefs meet Texas officials in Houston conference
Francisco Perez director general of the National Railways of Mexico leads a party of officials in Houston for talks with local railroad officials on reestablishing business relations between Texas lines and Mexican railways.
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Houston
Francisco Perez
National Railways of Mexico
Texas Lines
Winter storm disrupts Rocky Mountain region from Cheyenne to Nebraska
A heavy new storm swept from Cheyenne across Colorado, northern New Mexico and Oklahoma into Kansas and central Nebraska isolating Denver and other cities from telegraph and telephone lines for a time. The storm center lay at Goodland Kansas with tracking into North and South Dakota.
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Denver
Colo
Rocky Mountain
Weather Bureau
Cheyenne
Colorado
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Kansas
Nebraska
South
Dakota
Goodland
Denver Hit By Eight Inch Snow Storm Paralyzes Communications
A heavy snow blanketed Denver and much of eastern Colorado with eight inches depth causing near total telegraph and telephone outages for hours. Weather officials called it the season's most severe storm with rain reported in New Mexico Utah Oklahoma eastern Arizona Colorado Kansas and Wyoming.
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Denver
Colo
Colorado
Weather Bureau
New Mexico
Utah
Alahoma
Arizona
Kansas
Wyoming
Cabinet Resigns in Madrid on Jan 24
The Cabinet of Premier Dato resigned today in Madrid after pressure from opposition and growing political turmoil.
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Madrid
Dato To
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