Filibuster Charge Sparks Senate Tariff Debate
Senator Ashurst accuses a filibuster in objecting to the Fedney emergency tariff bill as the Senate resumes debate. Senator King seeks time to speak on Russian trade while McCumber hints at tariff discussion and Colorado senator Denies organized delay.
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Washington
Dea
Ashurst
Arizona
Senate
Penrose
Thomas
Colorado
King
Utah
McCumber
North Dakota
Doctor Takes Witness Stand In Own Defense
Dr HW Winnes a former state veterinarian testified in his murder trial over the death of Lura Parsons a settlement school teacher found crushed on a Pine Mountain trail. He described his travel to Dillon and the last sighting of Parsons on the railroad track area.
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Harlan, Kya
HW. C. Winnes
Mies Lura Parsons
Pine Mountain
Dillon
Roads Meet on Wage Reduction
Representatives from several large railroads met the labor committee of the American Association of Railway Executives in Chicago to discuss a general wage reduction for all member roads. The meeting anticipated a recommendation to bring the issue before the United States railroad labor board.
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Chicago
Labor Committee
American Association of Railway Executives
United States Railroad Labor Board
Big Budget For Rivers And Harbors Appropriation
Washington June 28 The rivers and harbors appropriation bill carries 15 250 000 as a lump sum an increase of 2 800 000 over last year and 41 864 915 below estimates. With unexpended balances a total of 47 299 006 will be available for existing projects according to the house appropriations committee report dated June 10 1922.
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Washington
Tan
House Appropriations Committee
Slacker Passport Scam Ties Greek Clergy to Fraud
Athens Greece AP report says over fifty forged passports were filed daily at the American consulate with signatures and seals faked by a Greek clique. The ring sold bogus documents to evade military service and to reach America for about 3000 drachmas, with arrests reported as Greek authorities investigate.
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Athens
Jon
United States
W. L. Lowrie
Foreign Office
America
Bills Propose Abolishing State Sheriff Office
Bills were introduced in both houses by Senator Crawford and Representative Ohlemansa to eliminate the State sheriff’s office and indirectly abolish the bone dry law requiring that office.
Missing Los Angeles woman prompts bounty and kidnap theory
Los Angeles January 28 AP reports rewards totaling over 2500 dollars for information on Mrs Gladys Witherell 25 wife of O S Witherell president of a loan firm who vanished Tuesday night Police and private detectives pursue possible kidnapper theory while a ransom note for 50000 is doubted as authentic and a smaller demand for 29000 is considered real if unpaid death is threatened The husband received a note in his wife's handwriting begging for help indicating possible abduction
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Los Angeles
Gladys Withcrell
Withcrell
John C. Kratz
Witherells
Sam
Coal Measure To Be Pushed In Senate Vote
Proponents of the Calder bill seek a Senate vote before March 4 to regulate the coal industry during emergencies and possibly operate mines. The measure remains in the manufactures committee with hearings and will be reported out soon amid expected revisions. A minority report opposing the system is anticipated and taxation provisions may be altered to curb middlemen. Chairman LaFollette warned coal trade representatives that no further testimony would be taken after Saturday, with night sessions to finish by then.
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Washington
Senate
Manufactures
LaFollette
Murguia Letter Sparks Row in Mexico City
A letter reportedly by General Francisco Murguia attacking former associates in Mexico City prompted a broad denial from KE Alcala, the general's legal agent. Newspapers questioned the document’s authenticity, with Excelsior calling it suspicious and suggesting there is much to read between the lines.
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Mexico City
Francisco Murguia
Carranza
KE. Alcala
Murguia
Excelsior
Pacific Telephone to defer layoffs in Oregon to Feb 25
Salem Oregon January 28 The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company will postpone its plan to drop several hundred employees mainly in Portland until February 25 after a request from the public service commission. A letter from the company’s Portland offices stated the delay.
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Salem
Ore
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company
Public Service Commission
Portland
Young Hippo and Park Goat Tale Emerges in Bronx Park
New York reports a curious scene at Bronx geological park where Gerda a pygmy mapapelanore mother, has dwindling maternal care for her newborn ten pound son born yesterday. Speculation rises that Mrs Bana a mountain goat may adopt the calf as the park story focuses on unlikely guardianship and animal relations.
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New York
Gerda
Bronx
Geological Park
Treasurer confesses theft after staged robbery at Marion county
Marion Ohio January 28 AP Treasurer Harry Forry 35 Democrat son in law of State Rep Hl W Crookston was kidnapped robbed of 14208 in his office. He confessed after arrest claiming he staged the assault to cover mounting debts from his failed bid for reelection and mortgage burdens. His wife had just given birth to a fourth child.
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Marion, O
Harry
Marion County
Court House
Perry
Forry
Low
Hl. W. Crookston
Unknown man jumps into Niagara River above the falls
An unidentified man leaped from the river railing at Niagara Falls around 2 15 am and disappeared. He told a Cleveland based contact named W Rhodes he was in the park to take a farewell look before leaving for Cleveland. A search for the body followed.
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Niagara Falls
Falls
Rhodes
River Nen
Richards moral citizenship bill heads to second reading
Pierre January 28 The Richards moral citizenship bill was introduced in the South Dakota House by Representative Ohman Beadle County. It will receive its second reading late today and then go to the committee for review.
Big Airship R34 Damaged During Yorkshire Landing
London January 28 AP reports airship R34 was damaged during a landing on the Yorkshire coast at two this morning and drifted out to sea for a time. Naval destroyers searched for the craft. by 11 o'clock it was officially declared only partially disabled and returning to base. No crew injuries reported.
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London
Yorkshire
America
England
Booze Permits Must Be Proved
Washington January 28 AP Commissioner of Internal Revenue Williams ordered new rules to ensure liquor sold from bonded warehouses is legal By requiring warehouse proprietors and customs officers to confirm permit authenticity before sales and directing reference of permits to the federal prohibition director for approval confirmation.
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Washington
Internal Revenue
Williams
Unions To Vote On Reductions In Wages
The Atlantic coast shipbuilding inductions board and union labor group announced a plan to submit a ten percent wage cut proposal to workers. If approved, 40 000 to 50 000 workers in Atlantic coast yards would be affected.
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Philadelphia
Atlantic Coast Shipbuilding Inductions Board
Atlantic Coast
Knights vs Tal Indian team at the YMCA gym
The Knights of Columbus basketball team will meet the Tal Indian show quintet at the YMCA gym this evening. Indian players are reported as fast scorers and the Knights expect a tough contest.
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Knights of Columbus
Y. M. C. A. Gemnasiaen
Knights
Idaho Lower House Endorses Jap Immigration Exclusion
The Idaho legislature's lower house passed 35 to 15 a concurrent resolution urging prohibition of further Japanese immigration to the United States with exceptions for students merchants and teachers. The vote drew applause and a later reconsideration motion failed as debate proved the session's most spirited. Callahan changed his vote and signaled a reconsideration for Friday.
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Idaho
United States
van de Steeg Canyon
Statesman
Japan
Callahan
Shoshone
Young
Adaounty
Moonshine Still Found in City Hall Place Tenement
New York police entered a fifth floor City Hall Place tenement room and uncovered an elaborate moonshine still, a rack of 11 guns and ammunition. Three men resisted for 30 minutes before being subdued and arrested for operating a liquor still in violation of the liquor law.
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New York
City Hall Place
One Irish Constable Killed in Ambush Near Castle Tata
A Dublin constable was killed and Visional Commissioner Holmes was wounded in an ambush near Castle Tata in Kerry. The attacker used a machine gun. Holmes's wounds are serious.
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Dublin
Holmes
Snow Storms Halt Mail Run in Wasatch and Wyoming
Snow storms in the Wasatch mountains and Wyoming blocked any attempt to carry the mall east of Salt Lake City. Pilot Monty Mouton departed for Rico with radio reports from Reno saying weather was clearing in Nevada.
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Salt Lake
Wasatch Mountains
Fnn
Wyoming
Here
Monty” Mouton
Riko
Heno
Nevada
Prune Hook Is Used On Army Bill
National Guard faces funding cuts as Army appropriation bill totals 328 million down from current. War Department urged to favor infantry growth, reduce animal and motor units, and trim nonessential branches to ease costs and aid Guard expansion. West Point sees a modest increase to 2.36 million while the department’s request tops 6.46 million.
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ARMY
Philippine Scouts
Germany
Anthony
Miliary
Appropriations Committee
House
War Department
National Guard
Guard
West Point
Harvard professor predicts return to normal by spring
Prof Charles J Bullock of Harvard says the economy should normalize by April or May after a period of rapid price declines. He credits Europe owing the U S fifteen to twenty billion dollars and the federal reserve system for preventing a worse panic. Wholesale prices fell sharply but are stabilizing as retail prices and labor adjust.
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Boston
Charles J. Bullock
Committee On Economic Research
Harvard University
Associated Savings Trust Companies of
Massachusetts
Europe
Denver Soldier After Bergdoll
Frank Zimmer, a Denver native, helped attempt to capture draft evader Grover Cleveland Bergdoll in Germany. His parents Nicholas and Mrs. Zimmer now live in Wheat Ridge Colorado. Zimmer, 27, served as supply sergeant in the 361st Infantry of the 61st Division, previously living in Seattle and stationed at Camp Lewis. His mother says he has not yet been discharged.
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Denver
Frank Zimmer
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll
Eberbach
Germany
Nicholas Zimmer
Wheatridge
Colo
Zimmer
361St Infantry
Seattle
Camp Lewis
Army
Spain Denies Interest in La Piedad Case Protests
Reported anger in Spain over a Supreme Court decision transferring church property in Puebla, Mexico was denied by the Spanish legation. Officials said they would seek a review, but no protest had been received.
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Mexico City
Supreme Court
la Piedad
Publa
Spain
Legation
Ford Plant Resumes Limited Work as Talks Continue
Detroit January 28 AP a limited number of employees will return to work in some departments of the Ford Motor Company plant. No definite date for full restoration of normal operations was announced. The plant has been idle since December 24 due to unspecified conditions.
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Detroit
Ford Motor
South Holds Up to Record on Moonshine
A 1920 report from the Southern prohibition district tallies 9401 illicit stills seized and 5328 arrests in Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Kentucky and Tennessee. Kentucky led arrests with 1182 and prosecutions yielded $288583 in fines and 2578 months imprisonment. Vehicles boats and horses were confiscated in the crackdown including 309 automobiles eight boats 66 other vehicles 93 horses and mules and one house.
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Louisville
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Kentucky
Tennessee
S. R. Brame
Irish Republican MP Roger N Sweetman Resigns Seat
London January 28 Roger N Sweetman a member of the Irish Republican parliament resigns his seat citing a radical disagreement with the majority on vital policy matters.
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London
Roger N. Sweetman
Hay
Birthday date of McKinley disputed by friends in Canton
Close friends and former aides of President William McKinley in Canton dispute claims he was born February 26. They point to January 29 on the McKinley mausoleum and official sketches, noting a prior typographical error in a congressional directory. The controversy resurfaced at a Pittsburgh dinner where James Francis Burke cited public records as February 26.
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Canton
William McKinley
Congressional
McKinley Musoleum
McKinley
Senate panel backs 5500 junior army officer appointments
Washington January 28 The senate military committee voted to recommend confirmation of about 5500 original junior army officer appointments. The nominations were sent after a senate dispute over Wilson nominations and involve no promotions, only new positions created by the army reorganization act.
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Washington
Senate Military Committee
Senate
Wilson
Rioting charges dismissed in Denver streetcar riot case
Indictments accusing FP W. Jeffray, a Denver clothing merchant, of rioting and milling to riot were dismissed by District Judge Haggert after District Attorney Philip Van Clee argued insufficient evidence. The stabbing streetcar riot last summer left seven dead.
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Denver
W. Jeffray
Haggert
Philip van Clee
Omaha Dentist Favors Service
An Omaha dentist arranged urgent dental aid for William Peterson of Little Sioux Iowa after an aviator carried James from Omaha to fetch the patient. The dentist urged immediate treatment and dispatched the plane to bring in the patient for quick work.
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Omaha
BR. James
Little Sioux
William Peterson
English anger over reparations sparks Allied split
Paris January 23 AP report says Allied supreme council divisions over German reparations interrupted the conference. The 4:39 PM session was abandoned after British Prime Minister Lloyd George and French Premier Briand found the reparations projects unsatisfactory, signaling possible collapse of talks.
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Paris
Allied Supreme Council
O'Cloeck
Lord George
Briand
Figure Set On Reparations
Paris reports a proposed German reparations package totaling 269 billion gold marks about 67 billion dollars payable over 42 years. Installments vary by period with annual taxes on exports and a Belgian plan urging 5 to 6 billion gold marks yearly maximum and 3 billion minimum, stirring Allied tensions at a major council session.
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Paris
Germany
Supreme Council
Great Britain
France
Italy
Belgium
Japan
Supreme Allied Council
Briand
Greatritain
M. Jaspar
M. Jaapar
Jaspar
Lloyd George
Gun Fighters of Old Days Focus of Oklahoma Trial
Oklahoma City reports Clarence Simmons faces a federal trial for wounding a U S marshal in a 1903 gun fight near Pawhuska. The case invoked tales of frontier bandits as Simmons stands before a southern district jury with over 100 witnesses subpoenaed.
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Oklahoma City
Man
Oklahoma
Clarence Simmons
Federal District Court
Simmons
Federal Court of
Southern District
United States
Pawhu
Wiley Haines
Simmonson
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Greece
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Marion
Ohio
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Bergdoll
FORD
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