Army funding debate trims significant war depart costs
Senate reports a 328 million dollar army appropriation with 65 million cut from current levels. Protecting 150000 regulars excludes Philippine Scouts Flying Cadets and 14000 commissioned officers. West Point funding rises 200277 to 2361488. Clayton antitrust act updates and rail interlocking rules cited. Ashurst accuses filibuster on Fordney tariff measure. Thomas denies organized delay.
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Jean, Jr
House
War Department
Philippine Scouts
Army
Germany
Chalromn Anthony
Appropriations Committee
National Guard
Oren Lizatidis
Wat
West Point
Wee
Wis
Senate Interstate Commerce
Interstate Commerce
Wilson
Frelinghuysen
Interstate Commerce Commission
Senate clash over Russian trade stalls discussion
Senator Ashurst accuses Senator King of filibustering during a bid to discuss Russian trade. Senator McCumber urges tariff talk while Ashurst vows to speak at length and maintain free discussion despite the elotive proposal.
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Ashurst
King
Utah
McCumber
North Dakota
Chicagoan Killed by Tenant in Wheatfield Farm Dispute
A Chicago meat dealer and Union Stockyards worker, 60, was shot and killed by Lloyd Garrett, 37, a tenant on Barrett’s farm near Wheatfield Indiana. Authorities say the killing followed a quarrel over rent settlement and Garrett’s family eviction.
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Robert Barrett
Indiana Dispatch
Wheatfield
Ind
Ehert Arrert
Union
Lloyd Garrett
Barrett
Garrett
Bergdoll Case Probed After Bergdell Escape Claim
Washington reports a new inquiry into Grover Bergdoll the draft evader allegedly aided to escape while recently located in Germany The probe follows Bergdell s account claiming a 100 000 payoff and Secretary Baker says the investigation continues seeking all possible information authorities did not comment on guards alleged intoxication or court martial outcomes.
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Washington
Grover Cleveland Beredell
Germany
Bergdell
Baker
Berlin
Mr. Baker
Kansas legislature favors regulation of grain futures
Topeka Kansas January 20. A joint committee reported they do not favor absolute prohibition of grain futures trading. They seek regulations to prevent gambling by individuals who are neither buying nor selling grain.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
County officer admits big theft in courthouse robbery
Marion Ohio January 20 Treasurer Harry C Ferry of Marion county confessed to stealing about 14800 dollars from the courthouse safe after police grew suspicious of his report of two masked bandits. Ferry is son in law of Representative Horace W Crookston and was 35 years old. He admitted scratching his face and striking himself to simulate a robbery.
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Marion, O
Harry C. Ferry
Marion County
Ferry
Forry
Horace W. Crookston
Harvey Benedict
Rail executives meet over wage cuts amid freight shrinkage
Chicago January 20 The American Association of Railway Executives met to decide policy on sweeping wage reductions as railroads face 225 percent shrinkage in workers refusal to accept lower pay. The group considers observing current pay rates until orderly changes via railroad labor board.
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Chicago
American Association of Railway Executives
Atlanta, Birminghom & Atlantic Railroad
United States Railroad Labor Board
Robert &. Rinkerd
Thomass DeWitt Cuyler
Ralf Daber Beard
Binkered
Tt Wae
Plaa
Rail Label Board
Railroad Administration
Defunct links loom as industry leaders meet in Chicago
Valley railroad and Mo of Bett of the Mackleben join a later committee of the American Association of Holb and Executives. Other heads of the Countee expected in Chicago are Besler of Central d of New Jersey and iO allies. Byram leads Chicago Milwaukee & St. Vant. Moher heads Norfolk & Western while R. Scott presides over the South elftern Texas and Louisiana club.
Militia Leader Resigns Amid State Security Shakeup
Reported at headquarters the brigadier will command all state military forces as protests and resignations ripple through the militia. Several officers are said to have offered their resignations, signaling a broad shakeup in New Jersey's security structure.
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Crimden
New Jersey Nation
Howard S$. Borden
Ohionemeur Hovts
Cut in Ship Wages Finally Approved by Labor Board
Labor group agrees to a ten percent wage cut affecting Bethlehem Shipyard workers in Philadelphia district with votes set for February 5 and wage reductions taking effect February 14 in Bethlehem and March in other yards. The proposal also covers elimination of the ten percent allowance over piecework rates and correction of black book rates amid postwar wage revisions led by the industrial board successor to the Macey board.
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Atlantic
Wien
Bethlehem
Agen Laprernny Philadelphi Coast
Athantic
Philadelphia
Bethtehen
Industrial Board
Macey Board
Wases
Custer Wolf, Vast Range Terror, Killed by Agriculture Dept
Washington reports the death of the so called Custer wolf the master criminal of the animal world killed by a Department of Agriculture marksman after a seven month chase near Custer North Dakota. The creature terrorized ranchers for nine years killed select cattle and harmed ranges while eluding traps and poisons and allying with two coyotes after a prior mate was killed.
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Washington
Custer
Department of Agriculture
Williams
Departmente
N. D
The Custer Wolf Tragedy and Battle to Survive
The account describes a legendary Custer wolf that hunted in off world fashion, dying after a bold effort to evade death. WilHams reports the wolf stepped into a trap and fled, wounded but continuing, then a final pursuit led to its capture. The episode ends with a celebratory scene at Coster akin to Armistice Day.
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Aimbush
Wil- Hams
Ife
Coster
Irish gun shells British near Castle Island ambush
Dublin reports an ambush near Castle Island County Kerry killed one constable and wounded Divisional Commissioner Holmes and five constables. Holmes sustained serious injuries. The attackers used machine guns. Baron Punsany of Punsany Castle was rearrested after an earlier arrest over obsolete ammunition found there.
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Holmes
Castleisland
County Kerry
Punsany
Punsany Castre
Ford Plant Reopens Highland Park With Limited Runs
Detroit January 20 Ford Motor Companys Highland Park plant reopened with foremen millwrights steamfitters and many departments recalled to work. By Monday production will run at 25 percent and rise gradually. First jobs go to selected workers by card. The plant normally employs 49000.
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Detroit
Now Motor Company
Highland Park
War Debts Fixed At Sixty Billion Dollars
A Paris committee of experts set Germanys total inter allied war debt at sixty billion dollars to be paid over about eighty years with annual payments from five hundred million to one billion five hundred million. Allies to add 12 percent of German exports, bringing indemnities to the total. Briand says he is satisfied with the agreement. Washington notes informal European proposals to transfer the ten billion dollar US war debt to Germany.
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Paris
Germany
Supreme Council
Briand
France
Washington
United States
Europe
Great Britain
Council OKs reparations plan with 42 payments
City council approves a reparations program totaling funding in 42 installments. The plan includes a separate export tax component as part of the measure.
Allied Council approves German reparations plan details
The Allied Supreme Council approved Germanys reparations plan. It calls for 34 billion dollars to be paid in 42 installments and imposes a 12 percent export tax on German goods. The decision was announced from Paris on January 20.
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Evening Journal
Paris
Allied Supreme Council Today
Germany
Justice Dept denies agents linked to Bergdoll kidnapping claim
Washington January 2 Department of Justice officials denied that the two alleged American detectives charged with attempting to kidnap draft evader Grover Bergdoll at Eberbach Bend were agents of the department.
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The
Evening Journal
Washington, D. C
Department of Justice
Grover Bergdoll
Eberbach Beden
Cork lord mayor ordered to leave United States
Secretary Wilson in Washington orders Daniel O Callaghan lord mayor of Cork to depart the United States by February 1. The action follows a diplomatic note and sets the expulsion as an official government measure.
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Cork
Bandits Rob Detroit Bank
Three bandits robbed the American State Bank in Dertoit Michigan of 14000 dollars today.
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Detroit
The
Evening Journal
Dertoit, Mich
Dan
American State Bank
Canadian Passes Taken by Bergdoll and Chauffeur
Berlin reports Bergdoll the American draft evader and his driver Isaac Stecher possess Canadian passports after escaping the United States in July 1920 and reaching Germany via England and Holland. Disputed by Eberbach Baden Carl Neal and Frank Zimmer, the alleged American detectives linked to their kidnapping remain in custody. American officials in Coblenz say no orders for action against Bergdoll and Stecher were issued as the inquiry continues.
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Berlin
Cleveland Bergdoll
Isaac Stecher
United States
Germany
England
Holland
Eberbach
Baden
Carl Neal
Frank Zimmer
Coblenz
Bergdell and Stecher
Oil Output Drops Behind As U S Production Lags Demand
Washington reports 21920 total U S oil production at 148 402 000 barrels while domestic consumption hits 431 186 000 barrels. Annual stock change shows a net increase of over 10 million barrels despite a supply shortfall. Geological Survey preliminary 1920 figures suggest production may rise after lease adjustments and held changes are accounted for.
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Washington
United States
Geological Survey
Ian
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