Kenyon Proposes Federal Coal Tribunal and Code
Senator Kenyon recommends a federal coal tribunal and a codified set of laws to regulate coal operators and miners. The plan, modeled after the railway labor board, would require mutual concessions to end conflicts in West Virginia Kentucky fields and would set wage standards and rights for organizing and bargaining.
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Washington
Senate
Kenyon
Labor Committee
West Virginia-Kentucky
West Virginia
United Mine Workers
Wes Virginia
United States
Railway Labor Board
Congress
Coal Board
France Seeks Identities for Six Unknown Poilus
Paris reports six living unknown poilus whose memories are blank from wartime horrors. Government care continues while authorities publish photos and detailed descriptions to metro and provincial press in hopes relatives will identify them.
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Paris
France
Minister of Pensions
Snow blankets the South as record depths fall
Snow storms bring deep accumulations across southern states with Virginia reporting a twenty year record at Danville and Lynchburg streetcar service crippled. The Weather Bureau warns of further snowfall across sixteen eastern and southern states and freezing temperatures possible in northern Florida and Georgia.
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Washington
South Atlantic
Weather Bureau
Alabama-Mississippi
Virginia
Danville
Lynchburg
Richmond
Georgia
Florida
Harvey Talks to Poincare in Paris Meeting Postponed
American ambassador George Harvey and Premier Raymond Poincare were to meet in Paris but the talk was postponed to Monday Myron Herrick the U S ambassador to France will join the Monday session Harvey aims to outline the U S position on the Genoa economic conference and the world financial situation President Harding's Genoa participation hinges on these talks The Cannes allied supreme council meeting preceded the discussions in Paris
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Paris
George Harvey
Great Britain
Raymond Poincare
Myron T. Herrick
U.S
France
Cannes
Allied Supreme Council
Poincare
Harvey
Genoa
Hardine
United States
Ore
Ford contract favored by War Secretary
Senator Oscar Underwood of Alabama said Secretary Ford's offer to purchase and lease the Muscle Shoals nitrate plants would gain a friendly endorsement in Congress. Underwood met with the War Secretary to request his support for the Ford contract.
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Washington
Congress
Bry Ford
Oscar Underwood
Alabama
J. Underwood
Department
Ford
Motor Company Clerk Robbed of Bonds in Hattiesburg
In Hattiesburg Mississippi on January 27 the Girauldt Motor Company was robbed of 18000 dollars in bonds, paper and notes. Two men held up the night clerk and details remain under police investigation as the city faces unrest during a broader Mingo disturbance inquiry.
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Hattiesburg, Mias
Girauldt, Motor Company
Townley Arrest Warrant Drawn in Embezzlement Case
Fargo detective squads issue a warrant for A. Townley president of the Nonpartisan League charged with involvement in the alleged embezzlement of 3000 dollars from the Scandinavian American Bank of Fargo.
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Fargo, N. D
A. ©. Townley
Nonpartisaan League
Bank of
Fargo
Townley to face warrant in Cass County case
Cass County district court issued a warrant targeting A C Townley for allegedly advising J J Hastings to commit embezzlement of 3000 dollars from the Scandinavian American Bank. Hastings allegedly took funds. Townley jailed in Jackson Minnesota for 90 days on espionage conviction and to be served upon release next week in Fargo related matter. Seattle police report no trace of J J Hartings former Fargo bank vice president, a fugitive in the same embezzlement case, warrant issued January 23 per North Dakota authorities.
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Cass County District Court
Townley
Jackson, Minn
Fargo
J. J. Hastings
Hastings
A. C. Townley
Seattle
J. J. Hartings
Bank of Fargo
North Dakota
Duel to death on the range near Challis Idaho
In Challis range dispute over sheep Dan Brear shot and killed Oscar Taylor in a gunfight. Witnesses say both drew simultaneously and a fusillade occurred. Taylor died. Brear is jailed in Custer county on murder charges as Nate Taylor heads to Challis for the body.
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Blackfoot
Ida
Challis
Dan Brear
Oscar Taylor
Taylor
Nate Taylor
Brear
Custer County
Rehearing Sought in Covoperative Society Bankruptcy
Creditors of the Covoperative Society of America led by president Harrison Parker petition for a federal rehearing of their bankruptcy petition dismissal filed weeks ago. The filing alleges concealment of assets to defraud creditors.
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Chicago
Covoperative Society of America
Harrison Parker
Relief Plans Urge Work For Unemployed Across Departments
President Harding urged six federal departments to create winter work in repair and construction, noting strong local and private efforts to employ the jobless. He praised municipal bonds and emergency committees, urging agencies to do their utmost in this humane effort to relieve distress from unemployment.
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Bayor
Officers Decide on New School for Criminal Science
Vancouver delegates reported the North West Association of Sheriffs and Police held a convention where a plan for a school of criminal science was approved. The institution would be the first of its kind on the American continent, to be located in Seattle with a substantial endowment anticipated.
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Vancouver
B. C
Agene Criminale
Northwest Association of Eriffs and Police
Ual
Seattle
Brtorencoming
Sweden Proposes State Monopoly on Imports and Labor Arbitration
Chrisianta January 27 AP reports the Swedish government at storming the opening of the storming the king would submit a plan for a state monopoly on importation of cereal ity brandy and wine and for arbitration of labor ties as drastic measures.
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Chrisianta
Bandits Raid Crafton Bank Lose Loot in Shootout
Five men robbed the First National Bank of Crafton of about 30,000 dollars in cash and securities after killing Harold Moss. They fled in a car but were pursued by Pittsburgh detectives engaging in a rolling gun battle. The suspects hid in a house on Pennsylvania Avenue as police surrounded the area.
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Pittsburgh
First National Bank
Crafton
Harold Moss
Pennsylvania Avenue
George McCandless
Director of Public Safety
Pennsylvania Railroad
Central Police Station
First National Bank of
Wages Cut for Printers to Take Effect Feb 1
Cleveland reports that wages of workers at several commercial printing houses will be reduced by 10 percent starting February. The shops, largely open shop, include compositors and pressmen who previously earned about 45 dollars per week on a forty eight hour schedule.
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Cleveland
Irish Congress for Independence Declares Demand for Self Rule
Paris January 27 The world congress of the Irish race begins its final day with a resolution denouncing the London conference and the Anglo Irish treaty as a denial of self determination. It pledges delegates to use every means to obtain complete independence for Ireland.
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Paris
World Congress of the Irish Race
Ireland
Baptist Brothers in a Controversy Shocks Raleigh Church
Six members of a Raleigh Primitive Baptist church swear out warrants against former pastor W. A. Simpking and three others after they barricaded doors last Sunday forcing services to be held elsewhere amid recent dissensions in the congregation.
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Raleigh, N
Primitive Baptist Church
W. A. Simpking
Fashionable Paris Embraces Life Size Dolls For Style
Paris parade of trendsetting dolls stretches three to five feet, hanging limp with trailing limbs. A pale pierrot with wide eyes and red bow lips sits by a settee, its white face and black suit creating a stark effect. Another figure is a shock headed peasant with a grotesque leer wearing a blue blouse red and white striped trousers and wooden sabots.
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Paris
Pierrot
Stillman Wins Appeal Over Divorce Hearing Costs
New York January 27 AP James A Stillman defeats order to pay Mrs Anne A Stillman 7500 for Canadian divorce hearings. Appellate division reverses judge Morehauser ruling, states fund already provided. only 2000 needed for the hearings, 7500 excessive.
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New York
James A. Stillman
Anne A. Stillman
The
Supreme Court
Morehauser
Indian youths brave trek to Watcomb after parents die
Six children left their parents' frozen hut in the northern wilderness. Fourteen year old Atchimo and neighbor John Hingoosh ferried the five younger siblings to Watcomb over a fortnight of snow on a dog sled. The parents died of influenza on January 13, and the baby’s survival remains uncertain.
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Ft. William
Ont
Watcomb
Atchime Nan Tuchees
Atchimo
John Hingoosh
Hingoosh
Watecomb
Veterans' Bureau to Buy Hospitals
Washington January 27 The Veterans Bureau plans to purchase modern fireproof hospitals in localities with large numbers of disabled veterans and move patients from contract hospitals to government owned facilities as announced by Director Forbes.
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Washington
Veterans’ Bureau
Forbes
Judge Walter I. Smith Dies at 69 in Council Bluffs
Judge Walter I. Smith, 69, a member of the United States circuit court of appeals, died at a hospital in Council Bluffs after months of paralysis. A resident of the city for years, he served as a congressman for ten years and was appointed to the appeals court by President Taft in 1910. He leaves a widow and three children.
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Council Bluffs
Walter I. Smith
United States Circuit Court of Appee
Smith
Congress
States Circuit Court of Appeals
Taft
Supreme Court of the United States
Rome Cardinals Ready for Conclave After Benedict’s Death
In Rome on January 27 the Sacred College prepares for the February 2 conclave to elect Benedict XV’s successor. Factional splits center on rapprochement with Italy, two-thirds vote needed, with Gasparri backing Benedict policy and Laurenti rising as a fresh favorite. Foreign cardinals arrive as women gain access to conclave quarters.
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Rome
Benedict
St. Peters
Sacred College
Vatican
Ehoose
Peace Party
Gasparri
Quirinal
Cardinal Ratti
Milan
Merry del Val
Cardinal Laurenti
Laurenti
Roman Catholic World Missions
Cardinal van Kossum
Holland
Woek
Pies X
Sisters of Mercy
Seige
Weeks In Favor Horse Racing
Washington January 27 AP War Department Secretary Weeks stated racing is favored as a means to develop thoroughbred horses in a letter to White L. Moss of the Kentucky senate judiciary committee. He declined sending two army officers to testify on an anti racing bill, noting the issue is betting rather than prohibition. If racing ends breeding results would harm the U S horse industry and impair cavalry and infantry horse needs in war.
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Washington
War Department
Weeks
White L. Moss
Judiciary Committee
Kentucky State Senate
War
Mesa
Seneres
Kentucky
United States
Woman Elected President of Twin Falls School Board
Mrs Jane Craven Scott wife of a Twin Falls physician was elected president of the local school board last night She had served on the board since the town s inception and succeeds BD W Raff whose resignation was announced
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Twin Falls
Jane Craven Scott
Scott
E Town
W. Raff
Ue Mabe
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