Famine in China Described by Waterloo Ex‑Student
Paul MacEachron, formerly of Waterloo and now principal at Porter Middle School Techow China, reports North China famine with 20 million at risk. He describes scarce rain two years, seed wheat aid, 500000 already surviving on weeds and roots, and families driven to starvation, death, and even child endangerment as villages lose livestock and harvests fade.
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Paul MacEachron
Waterloo
Porter Middle School
Techow
Shartung
China
The
Courier
North China
Zamiye
Chinli
Shantung
Henan
Shansi
Yellow River
Mongolia
Shens
Peking
Kao Liang
Peace Talks in Ireland Aim for Settlement Within Week
In Dublin and London efforts to secure an early peace in Ireland intensify with talks lasting over a week. Rev Patrick Clune, bishop of Perth, working for Lloyd George, hopes for a truce before Christmas after conversations with Sinn Fein and nationalist leaders. Six Dublin city officers were arrested at Dublin City Hall in a related move.
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Associated Press
Dublin
Ireland
Patrick
Joseph Clune
Perth
Australia
Lloyd George
Monsignor Clune
County Clare
England
Arthur Griffith
Sinn Fein
London
Dec
Corporation
Exports to England and Japan Fall Off
The Associated Press reports October shows Britain and Japan bought fewer US goods than a year earlier. Germany Canada Mexico Chile and the Dutch East Indies are listed as sources where US imports rose versus the same period last year. The report notes these shifts among larger trading nations.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. CC
iGreat
Britain
Japan
United States
Germany
Canada
Mexico
Chile
Dutch East Indies
Injunction Over Liners Sale Mooted By Congress Action
The district supreme court injunction blocking the sale of former German passenger liners was set aside by the district court of appeals. Congress then authorized the ships' sale, making the court question moot. William Randolph Hearst had applied for the injunction. Washington DC, Dec 6.
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Associated Press
Shipping Board
District Supreme Court
William Randolph Hearst
District Court of Appeals
Congress
Masons Seek to Cut High Building Costs
Detroit on December 6 hosts the eleventh annual convention of the Mason Contractors Association of the United States and Canada. The meeting opened with discussions on ways to reduce building costs and will continue through Wednesday.
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Masons
Associated Press
Detroit
Mich
Mason Contractors’ Association of
United States
Canada
Mrs Harding to Take Tea at White House Today
Mrs Warren G Harding wife of the president elect accepts an invitation from Mrs Wilson to have tea at the White House this afternoon in Washington DC with Mrs Wilson hosting the event and Mrs Harding attending.
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Rs. Harding
White House
Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Warren G. Harding
Wilson
Heveltea
Navy desertions blamed on drunkenness says judge advocate general
Washington, D. C. Dec. 6. Drunkenness remained the main cause for trials of enlisted navy deserters or those overstaying leave in the last fiscal year. Of 1,725 cases, pleas of drunkenness were entered in 384, and the "having a good time" excuse appeared in 362. Homesickness caused 40 sailors to take French leave, and eight cited hard work aboard as the reason. More than 41,000 cases were tried by court martial that year. Admiral Clark urged faster trials and fewer courts martial.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
George R. Clark
Daniels
Clark
Argentina Sees Assembly Postpone Covenant Amendments
The League of Nations assembly postponed consideration of amending Article X and other provisions, sending the Argentine proposals to a committee for study to next session. Argentina’s push for universal admission and council relations faced debate, with British and South African delegates challenging procedural limits.
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Associated Press
Geneva
League of Nations
Assembly
J. Doherty
League
Rene Viviani
France
N. W. Rowell
Canada
Council of the League
Paul Hymans
Senor Pueyrredon
Argentina
Lord Robert Cecil
Union of South Africa
Robert
Lord Robert
Hijalmar Branting
Sweden
Doherty
Ceckk
Balfour
Council
A. J. Balfour
Great Britain
Robert Cecil
Honorio Pueyrredon
Paris
Passage of appropriation bills in Congress begins
Washington December 6. The Senate and House opened the last session of the Sixty sixth Congress with formalities and the swearing in of new members. Major work will be passage of annual appropriation bills and groundwork for the Harding administration.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Pas ‘Sage
Harding
Senate
House
Wilson
Congress
Houston
Tomorow
Senator Lodge
Massachusetts
Rep
Mondell
Wyoming
Carter Glass
Virginia
Senator Martin
J. Thomas Heflin
Alabama
Senator Bankhead
Good Fellows Club Fund Plans 1920 Gift Drive
The Good Fellows club retains a fund totaling 1,351.50 with donations from FP A Kiessling Waterloo Electrical Supply and Social Circle noted. At today’s meeting plans will be set for the 1920 survey and distribution of Christmas gifts for underprivileged children, as letters pour in from families fearing Santa will pass them by due to unemployment and illness.
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A. Kiessling
Waterloo
Social Circle
Good Fellows Club
Good Fellow
Santa Claus
Ministers Against Dancers Rally at Waterloo Meeting
Waterloo Ministers Association protested using the cast high auditorium for Pavlova on December 28.19 ministers signed the objection and planned to present it to J. W. Arbuckle, East School Board president. Officers were elected Clyde J. Askins and Clinton F. Smith, to take office January 2. Thanksgiving address by Rev. B. J. Purser Jr. noted a surplus from Dr. Gunsaulus fund to aid starving children in Europe.
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Waterloo Ministerial Association
Nso Jtel Russell-Lamson
Pavlova
J. W. Arbuckle
East School Board
I Clyde J. Askins
First Baptist Church
Clinton F. Smith
First Evangelical Church
B. J. Purser, Jr
Walnut Street Baptist Church
J. R. Macartney
Association
Frank Gunsaulus
Chicago
Pr. Gunsaulus
Europe
Leader's Death Halts Mob Till Troops Come
Wise Virginia dispatch states that national guard detachments from Roanoke and Lynchburg arrived to restore order after a jail storming by a mob seeking to lynch a negro accused of assault and robbery. Sheriff Corder’s deputies held the jail. Tate Blondell, alleged leader, was killed in the exchange, stopping the mob before troops arrived.
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Wise
National Guard
Roanoke
Lynchburg
Corder
Tate Blondell
House immigration committee favors Johnson bill to halt entry
The House immigration committee, led by Chairman Johnson, ordered a favorable report on the Johnson bill prohibiting immigration into the United States for two years. The measure would be given House preference, signaling support for a halt to newcomers.
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Associated
Wheat Tariffs and Grain Exchange Regulation Bill
Washington D C December bills to impose 30 cent duty per bushel on wheat 135 a barrel on flour and 30 percent ad valorem on semolina and other wheat products were drafted by Representative Steenerson Minnesota He plans to introduce the measures in Congress and also a resolution to empower the federal trade commission to probe foreign governments activity in U S grain markets The grain exchange regulation requires exchanges to admit farmer groups organized on cooperative lines on equal footing with other members
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Steenerson
Minnesota
Congress
Federal Trade Commission
United States
Canada
Harding Outlines Congress Cooperation in Farewell Speech
President elect Harding called for teamwork between the White House and Congress in a Senate floor address. He expressed reluctance to leave the Senate, praised its role, urged continued cooperation, and hoped for cordial relations during the next four years. He noted three months remain in the current administration and stressed not wasting those months.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
White House
Congress
Harding
Senate
Senator Lodge
Massachusetts
Mr. Harding
House
de Jlay
Altho
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President Likely Will Not Address Congress
President Wilson did not indicate he would address Congress in person tomorrow and told the visiting committee he would communicate with Congress. He met the committee in the Blue Room with a cane, appearing in good spirits, and said he would send his message instead.
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Leesa
Washington
D. C
Wilson
Congress
Congressional Committee
Champ Clark
Underwood
Alabama
Senate
White House
Lodge
Mondell
Fordney
Clark
Mendeil
Massachusetts
Supreme Court Reverses Des Moines Terminal Ruling
The supreme court today reversed federal court decrees that held the Des Moines Union Railway Company had complete title to the joint railroad and terminal facilities worth 2 million dollars in Des Moines. The decision supports portions of lower court rulings that disposed of surplus earnings totaling 500000 dollars from income due to other railways using the terminals and interprets a 1882 contract among the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul and the Wisconsin or Wa bash railways.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Supreme Court
Des Moines Union Railway Comany
Des Moines
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Wabash Railway
Congress in Brief Opens as Harding Takes Seat in Senate
Washington December 6 The third and final session of the sixty sixth Congress opened with President elect Harding in the Senate. Vice President Marshall called the session to order at noon amid cheering crowds as Harding exchanged handshakes with senators and smiled. No business was transacted awaiting a communication from President Wilson.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Harding
Senate
Marshall
Wilson
Lehigh Valley R R Found Guilty of Antitrust Violations
The Supreme Court sustained charges of monopoly and Sherman Act violations in the Lehigh Valley railroad case. It upheld the commodities clause violation in the Lehigh Goal Sales formation and ordered redistribution of stock held by officers and directors to dissolve restraint of trade. Justices McReynolds and Brandeis did not participate.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Lehigh Valey Railroad Company
Supreme Court
Clarke
Lehigh Goal Sales Company
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
McReynolds
Bransdéis
Lads caught in raid reveal wider spree of burglaries
Waterloo police captured three youths Sam Smith 15 Lyle Cameron 14 and Sam Higgins 16 during a store burglary at Fifth Street hardware. They recovered loot from seven burglaries including a Robert Apfel sporting goods store Luther grocery and E and D Market. Higgins hid items in lockers at east high, officers found weapons and bandit gear in the locker search.
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Fifth Street Hardware Company
Waterloo
Sam Smith
North Barclay Street
Lyle Cameron
Adams Street
Sam Higgins
Webster Street
Higgins
Robert Apfel
Chief Young
Johns Street
East High School
Virden Creek
Young
Lafayette Street
Yatrance
Luther Grocery
Riehl Street
S. EB
Jerald Sulky Company
E. & D. Market
Fourth Street
fie C._H.Gruener grocery
Webster and
Fourth Streets
Charles QC
Schupe Barbershop
Fifth Street
Tom’ Malcom
Alfred Lien
East High
Nick Carter
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House Appropriations Committee
Kenyon-Kendrick
Eliot Harding
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
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Oteeneron Plan Board
Smoke la Azora
Girard
Harvester
Des Moines Union
Ehigh Valley
Gov't
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