Fiume Mayor Seeks Peace as Italian Forces Advance
In Rome and Milan dispatches, Fiume's mayor asks General Caviglia to disperse hostilities while talks with Ferrario aim at capitulation terms. Premier Giolitti convenes ministers as Italian troops push into Fiume and surrounding areas amid heavy fighting and reports of Gabriele d Annunzio wounded.
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Rome
Fiume
Cavigia
Cavigna
Gehoral Ferrario
Giolitti
Caviglia
London
Der
Exchange Telegraph
Piame
Danubian
Whitehead Torpedo Works
Public Gardens
Monte Calvario
Susak
Simonetti
Eapero
Dyannanzio
Expero
Andrea Doria
Espero
Triest
Red Cross
Milan
Annunzio
Sun Jay
Gabrielle dAnnunzio
Ivannunzio
Gabriele dAnnunzio
DiAnnunzio
Piume
Congress panel to hear Virgin Islands petition for new law code
Washington December 29 The joint Congressional commission on the Virgin Islands was called by Chairman Kenyon to meet Friday to hear residents of the new Insular possession petitioning Congress for a legislative petition to replace the old Diaz code with a new territory legal code.
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Washington
Virgin Islands
Kenyon
Congress
Deficiency requests total 175 million from three departments
Washington on December 20 three executive departments asked Congress for deficiency appropriations. The War department seeks 76 million, the Post Office requests 35.9947 million for mail transportation, and the Treasury seeks 2.241 million for the coast guard.
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Congress
Washington
Baker
War Department
Baorleson
Treasury Department
Coast Guard Service
Constitutional amendment to bar tax-exempt securities
In Washington on December 20 chairman McFadden of the banking committee proposed a constitutional amendment to prevent the issu ance by the federal government states or any county or municipality of tax exempt securities. He noted that fifteen billion dollars of securities today are exempt from taxation.
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Washington
McFadden
Banking Committee
Pennsylvanian State Bankers’ Association
Hamburg Seizes Cuban Ship Maximio Gomez
The Cuban steamer Maximio Gomez, arriving from Galveston on December 17, has been seized by Hamburg authorities over a dispute about port charges. She previously bore the German name Constancia.
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Constantin
Hamburg
Maximio Gomez
Whch
Galveston
Tex
Constantia
Mississippi River Group Seeks 100 Million Yearly Bonded Waterway Plans
St Louis sources say 27 central states will urge Congress to approve 100 million dollars annually for ten years for inland waterways improvements. James E. Smith leads about 800 delegates across 250 districts to press the mississippi valley association program before January 19 20. The push backs Newton bill and favors resubmission of a prior plan for continued funding.
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St. Louis
Central States
House Committee
James E. Smith
Mississippi Valley Association
Smith
Campbell
Pennsylvania
Newton
Japan not yielding on land law opposition says officials
State department officials deny Representative Julius Kahn’s claim that Japan abandoned its opposition to California’s anti Japanese land law. Negotiations on a bilateral treaty continue with broader U S outreach to Congress.
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State Department
Representative Kahn
California
Washington
Julius Kahn
Japan
Congress
United States
Morris
Baron, Shidelara
Kahn
Substitute Plan Sparks Legislative Debate on Tax Policy
Fragmented report describes calls for a proposed substitute statute to bar tax acquisition and mentions negotiations among Morris Kalin and other figures. It notes a pending treaty discussion and incomplete summaries of reports, with references to bandit activity and a cash reward in Fort Worth Texas.
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California
Morris
Kalin
Albmniss
Tokyo
Russian Reds to Free Yanks Amid Frontier App
Unconfirmed reports from Vetrograd indicate Americans may be allowed to leave Russia via the frontier. Details withheld. names not released. Miss Irene Knigavetch, interpreter for the American Red Cross, captured with Captain Kilpatrick, reached Constantinople after escaping, with Kilpatrick reportedly en route to Moscow for transfer.
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Washington
Vetrogr
State Department
Engenit
Finland
Paris
Irene Knizovetch
American Red Cross
Met Kilpatrick
Uniontown
Nova Alexjievska
Budenny
Sea of Azov
Constantinople
Red Cross
Miss Knuigavetch
Kilpatrick
Moscow
Miss Knigavetch
Prince Knigavetch
Russian
Federal raid nets liquor dealers in Hurley Wisconsin
Forty eight federal prohibition agents from Chicago raided Hurley Wisconsin seizing thousands in moonshine and liquor within an hour. About 70 saloonkeepers and others were arrested while no shots were fired. The operation followed a night of bargain liquor sales and targeted by Joseph Callahan and Frank D Richardson.
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Hurley
Wis
Row
Prohibition
Frank D. Richardson
Chicago
Joseph Callahan
Sod
Wide Open Town Hurley Faces Prohibition Backlash
Federal agents moved against Hurley Wisconsin as sentiment against prohibition surged after a deadly clash in October. Dozens of prisoners were escorted to the county jail with bonds set from 500 to 2000 while authorities planned warrants and arrests.
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Rembellion
Tron Mountain
Hurley
Wisconsin
Callahan
Iron River
Ashland
Wis
United States
Walter S. Kate
Lenine says French Socialists must accept all Moscow terms
Lenin warns the French Socialist party that only full acceptance of Moscow's 21 conditions can allow them to join the third international. A telegram from Lenin Trotzky and Zinovieff was read at the congress, signed by the leaders of all parties reported to be members.
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Tours
Moscow
French Socialist Congress
Nikolai Lenine
Leon Trotzky
S. Zinovieff
Petrograd
Harding to Receive Scottish Rite Degrees in Columbus
President elect Harding will become a Scottish Rite Mason January 5. The Columbus chapter will confer the degrees on him alone starting at noon with the fourth degree and ending at 7 30 p m The thirty second degree will be conferred, noting Presidents Garfield and McKinley were Columbus lodge members.
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Columbus
Harding
Garfield
McKinley
Columbus Lodge
Western Railway Fires and Closures Hit Hundreds
Across Illinois towns Aurora Galesburg and Burlington announce 25 percent lay offs at Burlington shops and yards. Edison phonograph works in West Orange closes indefinitely affecting 800 workers. Inland Steel cuts 40 percent of its 3,000 employees with planned resume of normal operations in January as steel buyings rise.
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Aurora
Ill
Burlington Railroad
Galesburg
Burlington Road
Burlington
Burlington Route
West Orange
N. J
Thomas A. Edison
Tuc
Hammond
Ind
Inland Steel Company
East Chicago
Parley Under Way to Plan Capitulation
Italian port city negotiates surrender terms as powers chart steps toward capitulation and redress in the Austrian theater.
Fire wipes out Terre Haute retail district in 400000 loss
Terre Haute Ind Dec 20 Fire swept the retail business district causing an estimated loss of 400000 as flames ripped through stores in the heart of the city. The blaze followed an earthquake in California and a surrender of powers in Fiume as reported by The Evening Journal.
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Terre Haute
Ind
California Town Shaken by Morning Earthquake
Special to The Evening Journal from Willows California reports a severe earthquake shock at 2 15 am causing alarm but no damage is noted. Local residents were startled as the ground shook the town.
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California
the Evening Journal
Willows
Cal
Bandits Rob Bank Try to Flee With Ten Thousand Dollars
In Culver, bandits attacked a bank today and attempted escape in an automobile carrying ten thousand dollars. The wounded include Jake Sains a grocer and Jerome Beichel a stock buyer, with one unidentified bandit also shot.
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Kvelling Journal
Culver
Jake Sains
Jerome Beichel
Monmouth Rotary picks McMichael as Edinburgh delegate
The Monmouth Rotary Club selected Dr T H McMichael president of Monmouth College and J C Shimmin as delegates to the International Rotary meeting in Edinburgh Scotland next June. The club offered to cover McMichael’s expenses up to 1200 dollars and hopes he may be accompanied by Mrs McMichael.
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McMichael
Monmouth Review
Edinburgh
Scotland
Monmouth Rotary Club
T. H. McMichael
Monmouth College
J. C. Shimmin
McMichaels
Shimmin
Isle of Man
Fairfield to Host New YMCA Community Project
Fairfield voters and citizens will see a pioneering YMCA plan in early next year. A state and national YMCA decision supports testing a secretary system in a shared city setting, with Iowa chosen as the trial site and Fairfield slated for designation. The state YMCA secretary will discuss the plan at the Community Club dinner in January.
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Fairfield Journal
Fairfield
Iowa
Fairfield Expecms
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