Harding Arrives in Washington for Inauguration
Crowds gathered at Union Station to greet President elect Warren G Harding arriving from Marion. Vice President elect Coolidge, District officials, and Secretary designate James J Davis greeted the party at the Wilard hotel as preparations for the inauguration day proceeded.
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Union Station
Marion
Coolidge
New Willard
White House
Senators Lodge
Knox
James J. Davis
Laebor
D. C
Pennsylvania Avenue
Pennsylvania
Germany Urged to Accept Paris Reparations Terms by Monday
London reports that Germany has until Monday noon to accept the Supreme Allied Council conditions. If rejected, Allied troops may occupy Duisburg Dusseldorf Ruhrort, impose tariffs on German goods, and control the Rhine customs boundary. German delays cited as misinterpretation. Berlin to respond at noon Monday.
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Supreme Allied Council
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Rhine
Costa Rica Plans For An Offensive
Panama March 3 Costa Rican forces are rushed to the Coto district where Panaman and Costa Rican troops have clashed. Dispatches say a steamer at Punta Arenas is loading troops and munitions and Costa Ricans plan to land on the eastern shore of Nurica point, at the Pacific boundary.
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Coto
Punta Arenas
Nurica Point
Pacific
Wilson Named to International Joint Commission
Washington March 3 William B Wilson retiring Secretary of Labor was appointed by the President as a member of the international joint commission to succeed Obadiah Gardiner. Tumulty said he declined a post claiming he could not devote full time to it. The alien bill passed the Senate and goes to the Governor after House action.
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Joint Commission
Washington, D. C
William B. Wilson
Labor
International Joint Commission
Obadiah Gardiner
White Hoagh
Tumulty
Olympia
Wash
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Senate
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Railway ‘Department
American Federation of Labor
National Federation
Harding chooses Davis for Labor and Christian for the President
Secretary of Labor James J. Davis of Pittsburgh and George B. Christian Jr. named as Secretary to the President. Announcement came as President-elect Harding tours Baltimore on his special train.
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Harding
James J. Davis
Pittsburgh
George B. Christian, Jr
Germany's Reparations Deliveries Estimated at Eight Billion
Paris reports Germany’s deliveries for the reparations account total war material valued at eight billion gold marks. Allied Reparations Commission notes this would leave twelve billion due from the first twenty billion Germany was to pay under the Versailles treaty.
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Germany
Lloyd George
Simons
Allied
Hospitals Bill Sent to Conference for Disabled Veterans
The Senate adopted and sent to conference a bill for fifteen million dollars to fund additional hospital facilities for disabled service men. The measure, originally in the sundry civil bill, was moved into a separate bill after warning it would probably fail.
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Washington, D. C
Senate
House Pays Special Tribute to Champ Clark
Washington March 3 The House completed arrangements for the funeral of Champ Clark in the House chamber Saturday at 10:00 am. The former Speaker died in his 74th year after 26 years in Congress and pleurisy complications. The body will lie in state in the Capitol rotunda before burial at Bowling Green. The House paid Mrs Clark his yearly salary of nine thousand dollars.
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House of Representatives
Champ Clark
House
Representative Clark
Clark
Bowling Green
McLean Defends Confirmation in Senate Banking Clash
In Washington on March 3 Senator McLean of the Senate banking committee defended his handling of John Skelton Williams’s confirmation as Comptroller of the Currency. Williams claimed the committee blocked his nomination, but McLean said hearings were public and the vote against reporting it was his duty. He criticized Williams as a poor loser amid political tensions.
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McLean
Senate Banking Committee
John Skelton Williams
Senate
Williams
Wiliams
Wilson and Colby to Resume Law Practice
President Wilson announced he would resume the practice of law, forming a partnership with Bainbridge Colby the retiring Secretary of State. They will operate offices in New York and Washington.
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Associated Press
Washington, D.C
Wilson
Bainbridge Colby
New York
Washington
Senate report estimates 1920 presidential campaign cost
A Senate committee report puts total campaign spending at 10.34 million dollars for 1920. Republicans and their committees spent 8.107 million, Democrats 2.238 million. Wood led individual spending at 1.773 million, Lowden 414 thousand, Hoover 173 thousand, Harding 113 thousand, Cox 22 thousand. The panel urged Congress to consider action, though no measures were offered. Chicago labor boards prepare for a potential Atlanta Birmingham and Atlantic railroad strike after a midnight union conference endorses the vote.
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Congress
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Reed
Leonard Wood
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Mitchell Palmer
Governor Cox
James W. Gerard
Senator Owen
McAdoo
France
Maryland
Standard Oil Reports 1920 Net Profit of 40 Million
The Standard Oil Company of Indiana reports net profit for 1920 of 40,973,484 after taxes, about 20 percent on over 203 million dollars invested. The company shows 36 million dollars invested in other firms. The stockholders met today in Whiting Indiana.
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Ill
Standard Oil Company
Insana
Whiting
Ind
Builders Organize to Counter Contractors in Wage Battle
In Ashvellie North Carolina on March 8 union builders launched a $100000 contracting concern to press back against contractor wage cut demands. The builders exchange holds up over a million and a half in construction work awaiting negotiations on wage readjustments.
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Ashvellie
N.C
Builders’ Exchange
Strike vote taken by A. B. and A. Workmen
Cincinnati March 3. A strike vote has been taken by all of the sixteen crafts and the stage is set for a walk-out on the Atlanta Birmingham and Atlantic Railway.
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Cincinnati
Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlantic Railway
Indiana coal operators surrender in Sherman case
Indianapolis March 3 coal operators indicted for conspiring with miners and retailers to push up soft coal prices surrendered to U S Marshal Storena. Each posted a bond of 10 000 for release.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Indiana
United States Marshall ‘Storena
Echols County Farmer Killed in Tarver Area
In Echols County near Statenville Georgia Gordon Hughes a prominent farmer was shot dead by Smith Carter another farmer. A coroner's jury ruled Hughes died from a pistol wound and called the act murder. Carter reportedly fled the county after the 8 AM incident following a fertilizer dispute.
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Gordon Hughes
Echols County
Smith Carter
Tar
Hughes
Carter
Brotherhoods and Unions Meet in Atlanta to Contest Wage Cuts
In Atlanta today representatives of brotherhoods and unions gathered to discuss responses to wage reductions. A secret session was held and officials refused to delay or confirm receipt of sanction for the strike. They did not disclose details of the session or its outcomes.
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Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad
Atlanta
Grand Lodge
Brotherhoods
Birmingham
Painting of General Gorgas Presented in Washington
Delegates to the Southern Commercial Congress presented to the War Department a painting of former Surgeon General Gorgas who died in London last year. The session focused on rail and water commerce with speakers including Senator Hoke Smith Representative W D Upshaw and M L Brittain Georgia superintendent of education.
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Southern Commercial Congress
War Department
Gorgas
London
Hoke. Smith
W. D. Upshaw
M. L. Brittain
Georgia
Convict Kills Guard at Virginia Quarry
Walter Snow, 35, died from a pistol wound after being attacked by a convict while serving as a guard at a rock quarry in Orange County. The assault triggered the escape of eight convicts, none yet apprehended. Snow was from Earlysville, Virginia.
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Walter Snow
Orange County
Snow
Earlysville
Coroner’s inquest hears gun use option leading to fatal shooting
Testimony states Hughes urged use of a gun and Carter then drew and fired. Hughes, unarmed, collapsed at Carter’s feet. Both men from prominent local families are well known in the state. Carter reportedly may surrender today.
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Carter
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