NO ALLIANCES SAYS HARDING CRITICS ANSWERED
President Harding responded to senate critics of the four power Pacific treaty with two statements, one prepared and one extemporaneous. He asserted no alliance or entanglement is contemplated and challenged claims that U S delegates withheld information, while praising progress toward peace and dialogue over conflict. He said the Japanese homeland is not covered by article 2 and tied the league of nations to peace aims without direct connection to the four power pact.
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Harling
Senate
United States
Harding
Hughes
Lodge
Japan
New York
Orient
White House
Congress
League of Nations
League
Fire devastates Rogers Dam plant near Big Rapids
Fire destroyed the Rogers Dam plant of the Consumers' Power company six miles south of Big Rapids Michigan, with damage estimated at $400000. In Moline Illinois Eleanor Settle has been in suspended animation for 58 days, unable to recognize anyone while murmuring "mamma."
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Consumers’ Power Company
Big Rapids
Mich
Here
Moline
Ill
Eleanor Settle
Emma Goldman and Berkman Leave Riga for Reval and Stockholm
Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, deported from America, leave Riga for Reval Estonia on December 24. Berkman says to a correspondent they plan to go to Stockholm.
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Emma Goldman
Riga
Latvia
Alexander Berkman
America
Reval
Esthenia
Berkman
Stockholm
Harding Frees Debs From Prison Sentence
President Harding commuted the remaining ten-year wartime espionage sentence of Eugene V. Debs to expire at once. Debs can spend Christmas and New Year with his family in Terre Haute Indiana after long separation while in federal penitentiary.
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Washington
Eugene V. Debs
Harding
Federal
Terre Haute
Ind
Kidnapping bandit slain after Chicago holdup
Earl Timmons alias Carl Gilbert, the man killed by Patrolman William F. MacNaughton following a kidnapping and robbery, confessed to participating in a June card game raid at Jacob Loeb's home. Clyde Timmons tied him to Utah train robbery and another home burglary. MacNaughton, on the force 35 years, will be promoted to sergeant by Chief Fitzmorris.
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Chicago
Earl Timmons
Carl Gilbert
William F. MacNaughton
James J. Callahan
White Sox
Jacob Loeb
Kimbark Avenue
Clyde Timmons
Timmons
Utah
J. F. Walsh
Ardmore Avenue
MacNaughton
RAIL DIRECTORS MUST QUIT
Washington Dec. 22 William Rockefeller Harold 8 Vanderbilt and George F Baker will have to give up by December 31 certain places they now hold on boards of directors of railroad corporations under a ruling by the Interstate Commerce Commission Rockefeller may stay as Chicago Milwaukee St Paul officer but must drop from either New York Central or Delaware Lackawanna & Western Vanderbilt may serve as officer on two western lines but must retire from either New York Central or Delaware Lackawanna & Western Baker must choose which of three competing systems to remain with
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Western
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha
Chicago & Northwestern
New York Central
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
Baker
Reds to Form Party
New York December 24 radical delegates at a convention discussed unifying all revolutionary elements within America's workers to form a single party.
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Reds
New York
America
George White Burns in Noble County Gas Blast
Former Congressman and former Democratic national committee chairman George White was badly burned in a gas explosion at an oil well in Noble county near Marietta Ohio on December 24 with reports naming the incident a serious injury.
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Marietta, O
Democratic National Committee
Noble County
Col Watterson Editor Is Dead in Jacksonville
Henry Watterson longtime journalist and former Louisville Courier Journal owner died at 81 in Jacksonville Florida from heart failure. born February 16 1840 he shaped Democratic platform helped guide campaigns and once joined Confederate army. He mentored Lincoln and advocated harmony after the Civil War.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Henry Watterson
Louisville
Courier-Journal
Watterson
Washington, D. C
Democratic Party
Washington
D. C
Tennessee
Forrest
Polk
Sherman
Johnston
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
Crover Cleveland
Cleveland
Congress
Samuel J. Tilden
Kentucky
Tilden
Senate Votes Russia Relief in Bipartisan Move
The Senate approved the House bill providing 20 million dollars for famine relief in Russia with two amendments. One designates 500 thousand dollars for hospitalization of former service members in Arizona and another 100 thousand dollars to aid government unemployment relief. Senator Borah praised Lenin as a major wartime intellect, noting intently that he might recognize that government. Separately, the Missouri Kansas & Texas railroad plans over 3 million dollars of yard improvements at Denison, Texas, the largest west of the Mississippi.
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Senate
House
Russia
Arizona
Lenin
Borah
Denison
Tex
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad
Mississippi River
Two Jail Breakers Shot
Schreiver Louisiana December 24. While attempting to board a train after breaking jail at Napoleonville two white men were shot by Deputy Sheriff Landry. One is believed to be alive with injuries. The incident follows a jail escape and indicates a violent pursuit by local law enforcement.
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Schreiver
Napoleonville
Bheriff Landry
U S MARKET REPORT Week ending Dec 17 1920 grain and dairy prices
U S market wrap covers grain turning down amid weak demand with slight uptick on the loth and lth. Reports from Chicago Minneapolis Kansas City show cash prices for wheat corn and oats and futures for May contracts. Fruits vegetables dairy hay feed and live stock prices listed, with hogs cattle and sheep price moves and weekly shipments across 12 markets.
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Atlanta
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Prairie
Famine Deaths Rise Across Russian Districts
Moscow reports accelerating death tolls in famine districts with Saratov burying over 200 daily. American relief feeds more than 800,000 children and aims to surpass 1,000,000 by Christmas, while European relief groups feed under 100,000 children combined.
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Moscow
Russia
Saratov
Interstate commission blocks railroad rate cuts
The Interstate Commerce Commission forbids a proposed cut by the Detroit Toledo and Iron ton railroad on coal carload rates from Ohio mines to Toledo Detroit and other destinations. In a separate brief item the Hold Up Iowa bank at Pisgah Iowa saw five men rob the bank of 2100 after forcing the cashier his assistant and three customers into a rear room.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Ohio
Washington
Detroit, Toledo & Ironton” Railroad
Toledo
Detroit
Iown Bank
Council Bluffs
Pisgah
France Demands Submarine Equality in Debate
France calls for a minimum submarine tonnage of 90 000 or parity with the United States and Great Britain as the central issue in the ongoing submarine dispute. Washington, Dec 24. The demand forms the outstanding point in the debate on the submarine question.
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France
Washington
United States
Great Britain
Michigan News Tersely Told
Traverse City couple return from years with the Y M C A in Czechoslovakia. Owosso jury in one drunk case with two women acquits five to one. State boards authorize 17000 to repair school wiring. Ann Arbor railroad lays off 60 workers and adopts 40 hour week. Wayland man to prison for carrying concealed weapons. Grand Rapids figures in patent case loss for Chene. Fire warnings near liquor raid in Owosso. Ludington revival of grain carrying. Albion auto collision with downed wires. Three Rivers man released on own recognizance after murder case. Houghton high school fire losses 150000. Kalamazoo forms American Legion post Murdock. Portage schools vote against consolidation. Port Huron man jailed for moonshine. Richland man nearly suffocates from heater fumes. Corunna oil stove explosion damages home. Flint woman fined for liquor possession. Hillsdale Civil War veteran dies. Ann Arbor UM budget for 1922 summer school set. Bay City oldest resident dies at 100. Cheboygan beekeepers elect officers. Lansing electric rates cut 12 percent. Baldwin railroad theft ring busted. Constantine floods darken 12 villages. Kalkaska two boys die in snow. Lansing to pay funeral and hospital costs for deputy warden riot victim. Search and seizure warrants upheld across state. Kalamazoo widow and children left destitute after acquittal in Dr Coller case.
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Lansing
Coldwater
State Administrative Board
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Allegan
William Farnham
Wayland
John Armstrong
Ionia
Clemens
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Christian Gehring
Groesbeck
Grand Rapids
Victor Talking Machine Company
Chene Talking Machine Company
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Cincinnati
Steve Border
Ludington
Milwaukee
J. G. Gordon
Pere Marquette Line
Nevada
Albion
G. W. Dunham
Old American School Furniture Company
Arthur C. Dennison
United States Court of Appeals
Mary A. Bullard
George A. Bullard
Seating Company
Peter Viergever
Edward Joost
Slack
George Coney
Gladwin County
Coney
Lavinnie Plummer Slack
Baldwin
Pere Marquette Railroad
Lake County
Constantine
Michigan
St. Joseph
Michigan Gas & Electric Co
Elkhart Electric Co
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Kalkaska
Leonard
John Gilde
South Boardman
Cornelius Gilde
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Menhennit
Marquette
Bob” Harper
State Attorney General's Department
Wayne County
Kalamazoo
Robert Bird Thompson
Frank
Coler
Vicksburg
Coller
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Minton
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St. Augustine
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Houghton
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Port Huron
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