Reclamation Commission Ends Utah Hearings Echoing Financial Woes
Salt Lake City reports closure of ten day hearings by the Work reclamation fact finding commission. Former Arizona governor Thomas Campbell, chairman, says progress made and expects final recommendations within a month. Delegates from western projects urged Congress to authorize action aiding finances and reclamation.
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Salt Lake City
Secretary of Interior
Hubert Work
Reclamation
Thomas Campbell
Arizona
Lee R. Taylor
Federated Water Users’ Association
Secretary of the Interior
Coolidge
Congress
Reclamation Service
Commission
Colorado River
Colorado
Campbell
Ress
Unt
Hunt
Chas. R. Mabey
Utah
Washington
Montana Students Arrested in Post Office Robbery
Robert Ackler 19 Butte R A Hellar 21 Bolton and Bernard Quesnell 21 Kalispell Montana University of Montana students confessed to robbing the Missoula postoffice of 35000 dollars last night. Money from Spokane to Missoula Trust Co. was concealed under a bridge on the Missoula River and later recovered.
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Butte
Mont
Robert Ackler
R. A. Hellar
Bolton
Bernard Quesnell
Kalispell
University of Montana At
Missoula
Desgee
Postoffice
Spokane
Going after Volstead Act
Anti prohibition forces nationwide form a committee including the AFL the National Association Against the Prohibition Amendment and other groups. They plan to set headquarters in Washington and launch a national campus education drive to show the evils and failures of the Volstead Act.
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Washington
American Federation of Labor
National Association Against the Prohibition Amendment
Constitutional Liberty League of Massachusetts
The
Oration League, Inc
Miners in Session as Wage Talks Loom
Indianapolis AP reports at the United Mine Workers convention delegates move into week two with impatience over conflicts and await the scale committee report. The panel will meet operators February 11 to draft a new wage agreement.
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Indianapolis
Ind
United Mine Workers Convention
Bandits Loot Hammond Distillery Warehouse Whiskey
A gang 20 to 30 strong raided Hammond Distillery in Hammond Indiana used as a government warehouse. Three guards were forcibly given whiskey until intoxicated, then the robbers took sixty barrels of whiskey from the plant.
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Chicago
Hammond Distillery Company
Hammond
Ind
Russian royal visitors sail toward Detroit intrigue
Prince and Princess Orloff with Nicolas Sokoloff depart Cherbourg aboard the George Washington en route to America. They plan Detroit settlement but may seek to verify a young woman claiming to be Grand Duchess Olga, as reported by Echo de Paris.
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Paris
Prince
Princess Orloff
Peter of
Russia
America
Cherbourg
George Washington
Nicolas Sokoloff
Czar
Echo de Paris
Detroit
Olga
Samuelson sues motion picture rivals for 450000
Sidney K. Samuelson, operator of a Newton New Jersey theatre, files a federal suit under the Sherman act seeking 450000 in treble damages. Defendants include Famous Players Lasky Fox Associated First National Goldwyn Metro Pictures and Will Hays. He alleges a conspiracy to monopolize the industry and punish him for noncompliance with the exhibitors contracts and arbitration clauses.
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New York
Sidney K. Samuelson
Newton
N. J
Will H. Hays
United States
Famous Players-Lasky Corporation
Fox Film Corporation
Associated First National Pictures, Inc
Goldwyn Pictures Corporation
Metro Pictures Corporation
Muelson
Samuelson
Railway Strike Nearing End After Negotiations
London January 28 AP The public hopes for an early end to the railway strike after a six hour conference among the emergency committee of the trades union congress railway managers and the ASLEF. Secretary J Bromley hailed the talks as bringing good news and stated that objections would soon cease to exist. Dockers and road transport workers threaten strike due to wage demands.
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London
Trades Union Congress
Railway Managers
Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers
J. Bromley
Missouri Democrats Face Delegates Fight in St Louis
The Missouri Democratic state committee met in St Louis on January 28 to set a time and place for the state convention and to apportion delegates from 114 counties. The gathering signals the first test between McAdoo supporters and James A Reed loyalists following Reed's presidential bid announcement.
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St. Louis
Missouri
Democratic State Committee
Wm. G. McAdoo
James A. Reed
Ford still awaited as Hill Muscle Shoals hearing proceeds
Washington January 28 AP reports the house military committee continues Muscle Shoals hearings awaiting Henry Ford's decision on his offer. The panel aims to conclude by Wednesday.
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Washington
Henry Ford
Muscle Shoals
House Military Committee
Senator Targets Land Fraud Inquiry In Texas Case
A resolution by Senator Heflin calls for a Senate investigation into land frauds in Texas alleging a Texas Republican official used political influence with the postmaster general and attorney general to block inquiry. It names R B Creager and several Texas land companies as participants in the alleged schemes affecting citizens in fifteen states and misuse of the mails.
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Washington
R. B. Creager
Texas
Heflin
Alabama
Senate
Brownsville
Alamo Land and Sugar Company
Charles F. C. Ladd
W. E. Stewart Land Company
C. Il. Jessup
C. H. Swallow
William H. Hays
Harry M. Daugherty
Lower
Rio Grande Valley
Lincoln Case Has New Angles in Slaying Probe
Aurora, Jan. 28 AP Warren J. Lincoln, confessed slayer of his wife and Byron Shoup, is deemed insane and should be sent to an asylum without trial, Dr. Joseph Springer reports. The case now considers a prior murder, a burned body near Lincoln, and a possible second marriage after divorce.
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Aurora
Warren J. Lincoln
Byron Shoup
Joseph Springer
Cook County
Springer
States Attorney’s Office
Lincoln
Garrett Attacks the Administration in House
Washington January 28 AP Representative Garrett of Tennessee the Democratic leader assailed President Coolidge and Attorney General Daugherty for delaying action on naval oil disclosures. He said the president has no confidence in Daugherty and called for a general clean up of departments. He criticized the White House midnight statement as political. The House returned to other business.
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Washington
Coolidge
Daugherty
Garrett
Tennessee
White House
United States
House
Senate
Walsh
Montana
Washington Star
Teapot Dome
Sinclair
Harding
Fall
Secretary of the Navy
Secretary of the Interior
Lenroot
New Governor in Mexican State Tamaluipas Named
Pelro Quintana, ex customs collector at Matamoros, named governor of Tamaulipas by President Obregon. General Beneece Lopez, the acting military governor, will focus on operations while Quintana handles civil affairs. Quintana closed Matamoros gambling venues as his first act. Rebel bands with prisoners near San Fernando were reported advancing toward Matamoros.
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Brownsville
Tex
Pelro Quintana
Matamoros
Tamaulipas
Obregon
Beneece Lopez
Lopez de Lara
Lopez
Quintana
Mata
Jackson Sues Chicago Club Over Contract Claim
Milwaukee court opens trial on Joe Jackson suit against the Chicago White Sox for 18500 alleging a three year contract was breached after certain players were banished from organized baseball.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Joe Jackson
Chicago
Jackson
Chicago White Sox
Fourteen Die By Explosion In Manville Cottage Fire
From Pawtucket RI January 28 AP a two family cottage at eerie Hill Manville suffered a fatal blast asphyxiation or an explosion fire. Bodies of Michael Conway and six members of the Hamel family were found in the ruins seven others missing. Mrs Conway woke to gas odor lit a lamp and the explosion followed. The Conway family escaped but Michael Conway was killed. In the adjoining home a ten member family is believed dead.
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Pawtucket
R. I
Eerie Hill
Manville
Michael Conway
Adelard Hamel
Debt fixers due in Berlin
Paris January 28 AP The Dawes committee of reparations experts held its last Paris session before moving to Berlin for further work on Germany finances. The group will travel tonight and meet tomorrow aboard the train. They reviewed general banking and railroad issues and remained cautiously optimistic about progress on the reparations problem.
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Paris
Charles G. Dawes
Berlin
Germany
Fourth trial sought in Utah murder case
Mrs Martha Gardnerner faces a fourth district court trial for first degree murder tied to the 1921 Welby Utah shooting that killed deputy sheriff Joseph Irvine. Prosecutors say she aided her husband George Gardner in shooting Irvine during service of papers. The couple’s ranch near Welby was the scene. Previous trials ended in jury disagreements.
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Salt Lake City
Martha Ganranerdner
Gardner
George Gardner
Zeuth
Forerdlan
Joseph Irvine
Irvine
Gardner Reach
Welby
Utah
Supreme Court Dismisses Government Suit Against Exchange
The Supreme Court dismissed the government's suit alleging the New York Sugar and Coffee Exchange violated antitrust laws. The action, filed in Washington in January, sought to regulate perceived anti competitive practices within the exchange.
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Washington, Jan
New York Sugar and Offee Exchange
Supreme Court
Nomination of George B. Christian Jr Held Up by Senate
Action upon the nomination of George B. Christian Jr for secretary to the president and member of the federal trade mission was postponed by the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee for two weeks.
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Washington
Jam
Jeorge B Christian, Jr
Harding
Federal Trade « Mission
Senate Interstate Commerce Co
Senate weighs Teapot Dome scandal and oil leases
Senate debates naval oil disclosures amid signs of an annulment of the Sinclair Teapot Dome lease. President Coolidge plans to place prosecution of annulment suits with two independent lawyers and Congress may appropriate 100000 for the suit. Senator Walsh leads the discussion while Lenroot defends the administration’s actions. (Continued on Page Three)
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Washington
Senate
Coolidge
Department of Justice
Walsh
Montana
Teapot Dome
Sinclair
Lennott
E. L. Doheny
Doheny
California Reserve
Congress
House
Daugherty
Walsh Springs
Rebels Advance on Mexico City from Vera Cruz Front
Wireless reports from Vera Cruz state General Guadalupe Sanchez has assumed command at Esperanza and begun an advance toward Mexico City. He reportedly repulsed federal incidents and withstood clashes along the front, signaling a strategic push by the rebels.
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el Paso
Tex
Vera Cruz
Guadalupe Sanchez
Mexico City
de la Huerta Juntan
Sanchez
Esperanza
Lenine Tribute Fills Moscow Memorial as Funeral Opens
In Moscow the body of Nikolai Lenine lies in an unfinished tomb near the Kremlin as a half million people pay tribute. The ceremony, held in subzero cold, marks a grand memorial with lines of officials praising Lenine at the sunken chamber door bearing his name. In Berlin a memorial meeting for Lenine unfolds as protesters shout against police and capitalism, and police respond with clubs, making three arrests.
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Moscow
Nikolai Lenine
Kremlin
Lenine
New Russia
House of Unions
Red Square
Rodckipett
Central
Missouri Supreme Court bans national bank branch expansion
The Missouri Supreme Court ruled that national banks may not establish branches under state law, reversing prior implications. Justice Sutherland noted federal law does not authorize branch banks for national banks, and a branch cannot be created under existing federal rules. The decision was delivered in Washington on January 26.
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Washington
Missouri
Supreme Court
First National Bank of
Reed Not Strong With Delegation
In St Louis on January 28 the Missouri Democratic state committee voted 38 to 26 to hold the 192 state convention in Springfield. McAdoo forces claim 38 votes on the committee while Reed supporters say they oppose moving the convention to Springfield. The move comes within a day of Reed announcing his candidacy.
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St. Louis
Missouri
James A. Reed
Democratic State Committee
Decidin
Springfield
McAdoo
Reed
Heed
United States hockey team trounces Belgium in Olympic opener
The United States defeated Belgium 19 to 0 in Chamonix in the opening Olympic hockey match. Boston players Harry Drury W. W. Rice and J. J. McCarthy sparked the attack as the U S dominated the first period before Frank Sinnott and John J Lyons relieved them at center.
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Chamonix
France
United States
Herry Drury
W. W. Rice
J. J. McCarthy
Boston
Haddock
Frank Sinnott
McCarthy
John J. Lyons
Drury
Bank Fails to Open Doors After Cash Loss
The First National bank in Huron South Dakota failed to open as officials found rugs made on the bank recently had depleted its cash reserve.
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Huron
First National Bank
National Bank
Prosecution on Trail of Oily Factors in Oil Reserve Case
Washington moves to null oil reserve leases with executive and legislative action. President Coolidge seeks two lawyers to lead civil and criminal suits as Senate debates Walsh resolution authorizing special counsel. Witnesses question Fall and Zevely as exams hinge on court and council actions.
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Washington
Coolidge
Senate
Walsh Montana
Walsh
Caraway
Arkansas
Representative Garrett
House
Garrett
Congress
Eenenae
Hoves
Bear L. E. Gregory
Wyoming
California
Albert B. Fall
Interior
Harry F. Sinclair
E. L
Thomas Johnson
Three Rivers
Doheny
Archie Roosevelt
G. D. Nee Sinclair
J. W. Zevely
Fall
Zevely
New Orleans
Cara Company
Calif
Senate committee seeks labor leaders on radical activity
Washington D C January 28 AP Borah headed subcommittee asks Provident Gompers and other labor figures to testify on alleged internal communist agitation within unions. Hearings follow prior state department evidence and prior labor press disclosures.
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Washington
Senate Foreign Relations
Borah
Idaho
Provident Gompers
Moscow
State Department
Ousneanbiion
Norris Announces Campaign for renomination in Nebraska
Washington January 28 AP reports Senator Norris of Nebraska a Republican who was reelected two years ago has decided to seek renomination at the end of his present term.
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Washington
Enater Norris
Nebraska
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New Jersey
U. S
Schutzpolizei
Protection Police
Lice
Ree
Cook
Norris
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