Joolidge Will Probe Depths In Oil Inquiry
President Coolidge meets with Senate leaders to discuss the oil land leasing probe and possible resignations rumors. Senator Walsh of Montana and Senator Robinson of Arkansas join the White House talks as the inquiry broadens under the oil leasing controversy.
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Washington
Senate
Coolidge Todavy
White House
Walsh
Montana
Robinson
Arkansas
Denby
Senate Committee
Daugherty
Coolidge
Bascom Slemp
House Naval Committee
Josephus Daniels
Sinclair and Doheny
Britten
Illinois
Daniels
Vinson
Georgia
Latimer
Navy
Congress
Doheny
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
Carinaval Reserve
Democratic Sena
H. Strawn
Alont
Imperial Diet dissolves after Tokyo riot over train wreck interpellations
In Tokio the imperial diet dissolved after the lower house broke into chaos over interpellations on a Nagoya train wreck. Water flasks flew as riotous scenes erupted. Premier Kiyoura refused to answer, a nonmember agitator was pushed aside, and six rallies followed as police bolstered security amid a tense political climate.
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Tokio
Nagoya
Kiyoura
Kenjiro Komatsu
House of Peers
Diet
Komatsu
Making Saint of Dead Leader
Moscow reports a movement to canonize Nikolai Lenin as a Bolshevik saint. The Laboring Moscow newspaper proposes renaming the party organ to Leninite Bolshevik party and prints amendments for a creed praising Lenin and outlining loyalty to the party, the proletariat, and the red army.
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Moscow
Nikolaiine
Laboring
Communist Party
Leninite Bolshev Party
Lenine
Arty
Comenine
Court suits at high price in Britain
London reports tailors flood ministers with circulars selling court dress for official functions. The lowest price for a conventional court suit with knee breeches and silk stockings is 150 pounds, a minister says others won’t buy. Some colleagues consider hiring at five pounds, but none want borrowed clothing.
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London
Land Offices Not Abolished in Interior Bill
The House approved its first appropriation bill for the Interior Department after a late bid to discontinue 21 land offices failed. The measure keeps register and receiver offices merged at 14 offices and delays retrenchment until June 1, 1925. The Interior bill totals about $262 million for the next fiscal year.
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Washington
House
Interior Department
Senate
PUTTING GERMANY ON PAYING BASIS
Berlin enters a new phase of the reparations inquiry as Brigadier General Charles Dawes leads the first expert committee to review Germany budget and currency. A second committee under Reginald McKenna of Great Britain will examine exported German capital, a key step toward placing Germany on a paying basis for the reparations commission. Henry M. Robinson of Los Angeles joins the panel, arriving from Paris.
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Berlin
Reich
Charles Dawes
Germany
Reginald McKenna
Great Britain
Henry M. Robinson
Los Angeles
Calif
Paris
DAY OFFENSIVE TO BE STARTED
Washington plans for a nationwide prohibition offensive will be set at a New York meeting of the committee of one thousand. The group will arrange law enforcement meetings in major cities and send deputations to smaller towns to expand the campaign up to villages and rural communities.
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Washington
New York
Committee of One Thousand
Heavy Orders For Rolling Stock Reported
New York January 31 AP heavy orders for rolling stock reported by equipment companies include 500 tank cars for the Union Pacific and orders for freight cars and locomotives from the Santa Fe rail system.
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New York
Union Pacific
Santa Fe
Drastic Japanese Nationality Bill Faces Peers Committee
In Tokio the house of peers sent a bill revising the nationality law to strip Japanese of citizenship if they acquire another nationality. The measure, tied to dual nationality issues affecting American born Japanese, was placed in committee before the diet’s abrupt dissolution. The ministry argued the change was necessary to resolve conflicting loyalties for those born in the United States.
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House of Peers
Diet
India
Sale certificates ordered stopped by Postmaster General
Washington says Postmaster General New, with Treasury Secretary Mellon, halted sale of treasury savings certificates by post masters in seventeen midwestern states to ease stress on small banks. North Dakota through Montana post offices ordered to discontinue sales though deposits remain accepted. previous ban on advertising and subscriptions remains in effect.
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Washington
Treasury Savings
Middlewestern
New
Mellon
The
Treasury
North Dakota
South Dakota
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Iowa
Missouri
Kansas
Nebraska
Texas
Arkansas
Colorado
Wyoming
Utah
New Mexico
Idaho
Arizona
Montana
Bureau to Erect Trachoma Hospital
Washington announces plans to build a sixty bed trachoma hospital with specialized fittings and lighting. The facility aims to aid visually impaired patients with safe, accessible design and color choices. Officials expect Pikeville residents to be invited to apply.
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Washington
Pikeville
U .S States
Brussels Dinner Sparks Belgo American Trade Tale
Senator Henri La Fontaine recalled a belian purchase myth that Manhattan Island was bought for a bottle of whiskey at a Belgo American Chamber of Commerce dinner. American ambassador Henry P. Fletcher joked that prohibition could someday allow buying New York with liquor. The tale amused Belgian guests.
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Brussels
Henri la Fontaine
Belgo- American Chamber of Commerce
Manhattan Island
Belgium
United States
Henry P. Fletcher
New York
Fort Hall Reservation Acreage Talks For Idaho Reservoir
In Washington on January 31 AP reports that Fort Hall Indian representatives are in conference with Indian and reclamation officials to settle acreage for a reservoir project at Americans Idaho. The plan would irrigate the Snake River valley and involves 42 000 acres of Fort Hall lands with disputed land value.
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Washington
Fort Hall
Americans
Idaho
Snake River
Interiegs Department
American Falls
Empire
Indian Bureau
Petroleum output hits record in the United States in 1923
Government statistics show US crude production about 735 million barrels in 1923 up 30 percent from 1922 with 87 million barrels imported and 17 million exported. Stocks rose to 633 million barrels as new fields in California Arkansas Texas Oklahoma boosted output while 1924 signals tighter supply and potential stock draws.
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Washington
United States
Geological Survey
California
Arkansas
Texas
Oklahoma
Anderson to Appeal Conviction in New York Court
A. Anderson will appeal his conviction to the New York Supreme Court. The appeal is announced by his counsel, former Governor Champ Campbell Whitman, following a league sentence dispute.
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Erson
Eee League of New York
Hhide
Champb. Whitman
Love Letters In Court Over Atlanta Tycoon Court Case
Mrs. DeBoucher sues Asa Candler for breach of promise in federal court. Readings of letters from Candler to DeBouchel detail romance from 1921 meeting at a Confederate veterans reunion to engagements and proposed marriage. Court hearings note deposition readiness as evidence, with Candler and DeBouchel present and security in court.
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Atlanta
Onezima Debhouche
New Orleans
Asa G. Candler
United States District Court
DeBoucher
Candier
Caner
Marria
de Bouchel
Pigs Develop Sharp Appetite at Port Facility
Pigs at a port facility showed a notably sharp appetite, drawing attention from workers and supervising staff who monitored feeding and handling conditions for safety.
Friends Fight In Automobile Slaying Case
Halton P. Siddall of Equality Illinois confessed to police that he killed his Ohio Dental College classmate John A. Mazzola of Panama City. Siddall said they argued over a friend and that Mazzola attacked with a knife before Siddall shot him and disposed of the body in a creek.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Wurde
Halton P. Siddall
Equality
Ills
Ohio Dental College
John A. Mazzola
Panama City
Mazzola
Siddall
British bobsledder breaks legs in Chamonix crash
Browning the British bobsled skipper suffered both legs broken after leaping a forty five degree turn on the chute. Four teammates unhurt as the course reopened with workmen smoothing rough ski jumps. The American hockey team trounced England 11 to 0 in a bid for semi finals. Sweden edged Czecho SlovaKia 9 to 8 in hockey.
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Chamonix
France
Browning
Chuta
Siguerd Overby
Americaneam
England
Sweden
Austria
Finland
Nathaniel W. Niles
Mra
Theresa W. Blanchard
Boston
United States
Relief measures all to be heard
A culture committee ordered to continue consideration of all farm relief bills and related resolutions including loans to affected areas. Unclear details from the fragmentary AP dispatch refer to ongoing hearings and potential actions by the committee in January.
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House
Teda Tie Ton
Culture Committee
Senate Delays Action on Denby Resignation and Oil Lease Holdouts
Washington January 31 AP The Senate takes up a Walsh resolution to annul the Sinclair and Doheny oil leases after unanimously passing the Denby resignation demand. Eighty eight senators vote. an amendment by Senator Trammell to impeach was opposed by Senator Lodge who warned such a move would delay action, while noting Denby as an honest man.
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Washington
Denby
Senate
Walsh
Sinclair
Doheny
Robinson
Trammell
Florida
Lodge
Massachusetts
Borter
Legislative Branch
Secretary of the Navy
Penby
Hie
Testifieg
Ter
California
Wysminger
Naval Oil
Interior
Mellon backs plan to cut 1923 income tax payments
Secretary Mellon sees as feasible the Republican plan to start 1923 income tax reductions with March 15 payments. He says the treasury faces little difficulty and most taxpayers would pay in four installments with retroactive credits rather than cash rebates. Officials estimate a potential revenue drop near 200 million dollars if the plan holds.
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Washington
Mellon
House
Ways and Means Committee
Treasury
Ways and Means
Garner
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Masgrola
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