Insurgent Republicans Fail To Force Lodge Shakeup In Senate
Washington report says Lodge kept as Republican leader, resisting major changes. Insurgent Republicans and farm bloc push for power shift, while Harding aims to avoid a special session and seek renomination. Budget battles loom over river harbor funding and Henry Ford Muscle Shoals plans amid mixed party support.
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Dry Sleuth Wins Fame by Cleanups in Moist Capital
Washington, D. C., Feb. 4. J. N. Asher, a versatile prohibition agent, cleaned up the nation’s capital of blind tigers, earning praise from Prohibition Commissioner Haynes. Plans map Asher to Baltimore, Philadelphia, and other eastern cities where bootlegging thrives, with him using various disguises to pursue violators.
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Snzy Einstein
New York
Prohibition
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Asher
Baltimore
Philadelphia
Tzzy
Clothiers See Fine Business Outlook
Des Moines reports from the Iowa Retail Clothiers association opening day show optimism and few failures during the prior gloom. C R Rohde of Waterloo announced resignation and urged a clothier successor. H Crewe of Clarion is a prospective candidate. Bert L Butler seeks presidency. Rockefeller improves at Ormond with no recent illness.
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Retail Clothiers Association
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C. R. Rohde
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Lowa
Rohde
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H. Crewe
Clarion
Bert L. Butler
Atlantic
W., P. Kerwin
United States to Seek Separate Amity Treaty With Turkey
The United States will negotiate a separate Amity and Commerce treaty with Turkey despite the Lausanne conference collapse. Washington states the move reflects ongoing treaty rights, open door policy, and equal economic opportunity for American investors in Turkish territory.
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Hughes
Federal Probe Expands From Louisiana Across Nation
The federal investigation into Ku Klux Klan activities, started in Louisiana after hooded mob killings, has gone nationwide with DOJ agents in about a dozen states. Officials say charges range from kidnapping to murder as federal action may target the Klan's leadership and influence on courts, peace officers, and juries. The probe centers on whether local klans acted with authorization or as independent groups, with political activity noted in Washington and several states. Headquarters in Georgia sparked the initial expansion.
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Russian Paraders Willing to March to Ruhr Banner Message
A large demonstration in Petrograd denounces French seizure of the Ruhr. Students march with banners pledging readiness to march at the first soviet signal. The Tambov Fourth Military Congress sent Trotzky a message saying their powder is dry and rifles are clean.
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Lives 30 Years as Negro Then Learns He Is White
Wilbur Richmond, after thirty years as a Negro, married a colored woman and had four children. On learning from his dying mother that he is white, he faced two weeks of torment and filed to be declared white in Hamilton county circuit court, while his wife sued for divorce.
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Wilbur Richmand
Hamilton County
Hisiself
Senate May Hook Into Teapot Dome
In Washington on February 5 the senate public lands commission instructed Senator Smoot of Utah to seek senate consent for an investigation into the leasing of Teapot Dome naval reserve lands. The move follows a preliminary probe of the lease granted by Secretary of the Interior Fall to the Sinclair Oil Company.
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Senate Public Lands Commission
Smoot
Utah
Senate
Teapot Dome Naval of Reserve
Secretary of the Interior
Sinclair Old Company
Highways weather report covers multiple Iowa towns
Main highways northern town fair to good. Much roughness has been smoothed out by traffic. Includes Algona Charles City Cedar Rapids Davenport Des Moines Dubuque La Crosse Mason City Waterloo report area.
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Cedar Rapids
Davenport
Des Moines
Nubuque
la Cros Wis
Mason City
Waverfly
Prisoners Arrested for Moonshine in Jail Cell
Lincoln Neb Feb 5 A minixura moonshine plant found in the county jail after two prisoners appeared for lunch alcohol intoxicated Sheriff Claud Hansel said four quarts of bran mash were discovered under a bed in a cell occupied by the men The still had operated over a radiator at night The operators were turned over to federal officers.
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Neb
Claud Hansel
Hansel
Four Killed in Wichita Fire Destroys Getto building
An early morning blaze destroyed the Getto Buy Ag landmark in Wichita. At least 31 injured, four believed dead, with eight hospitalized and several seriously burned. Fire engulfed 36 upper floor apartments as occupants escaped via ropes. Cause under investigation amid chaotic search.
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Associated Press
Wichita
Kan
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Getto Buy Ag
Iielés
Sanford Takes Oath as Associate Justice
Knoxville recap of Judge Edward T. Sanford taking the oath as associate justice of the U S Supreme Court in Knoxville. The event drew about 200 lawyers officials and citizens. Sanford expected to travel to Washington and join the bench later in February.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Edward T. Sanford
Harding
Supreme Court of the United States
Washington
Harding to Send Debt Message to Congress Tuesday
President Harding plans to address Congress on the British debt, aiming for speedy action this session. House leader Mondell says the president will urge immediate attention and expects Congress to begin debate within the week as the session nears its March 4 end.
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Iowa House considers outlawing Ku Klux Klan
A bill in the Iowa legislature seeks to outlaw the Ku Klux Klan and criminalize Klan membership, disguises in public, and enforcing penalties. The measure, drafted by World War veterans, would bar Klan halls, threaten jail for membership, and impose up to a year’s imprisonment for unlawful assembly with masked participants. Funeral set for Rev Wirtin F Spry at Waterloo church with burial near Geneva. notes on his service, health decline from diabetes, and family tributes.
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Homme
Harding May Hold Farm Credits Bills to Force Ship Vote
Washington Feb foresees Lenroot copper farm credits stalled in Congress without action on the administration shipping bill. After several conferences to map the final four weeks of the sixty-seventh Congress, Rep Mondell warned that the farm credits measures might not become law before March 4 due to multiple obstacles, despite passage in both chambers.
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Submarine Chasers Move to Nab Rum Runners Off California
Submarine chasers Vaughn and Cygan, ordered to gun down smugglers off the California coast, are being overhauled in Oakland after federal authorities arranged rapid trials for a naval officer and two patrolmen charged with aiding rum runners. The vessels were turned over to the Coast Guard by the Navy Department for operation along the coast.
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Cygan
California
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Oakland
Poison Hood Kills Four Persons Sunday
Four persons are dead and another is dying in Harlem from poison liquor consumed Sunday, police reports indicate. Three of the deceased are women.
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New York
Harlem
Celebrate Founding of Moody Institute
Chicago February 3. A weeklong celebration opens marking the thirty seventh anniversary of Moody Bible Institute founded by Dr. D L Moody. The school is reputed to be the world’s largest bible training institution.
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Moody Bible Institute
D. L. Moody
Americans Spend 376 Millions for New Shoes in 1922
St Louis Feb 5 Americans spent more than 375 million dollars in 1922 for new shoes and boot industry plants. A tally by Ta M M. Davis editor of a trade publication shows the shoe trade industry total investment at around 100 million dollars, with more than 75 060 shoe repair shops in the United States.
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Ta M M. Davis
Alice Trades
Davis
United States
Blanket of cold and sleet grips southern states
A cold wave drove temperatures down across the southern states with freezing readings forecast for regions like Lo Pulgh e and Vicksburg. Snow and seven inches of sleet covered Vicksburg as Arkansas saw near continuous snow and ice, while the Midwest and Northwest faced rising temps and a easing chill.
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Uncle of Japanese Emperor Is Stricken
Tokio Feb 5 Prince Sadanatu Fushimi lord keeper of the privy seal to Emperor Yoshihito died yesterday from a stroke of apoplexy.
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Sadanatu Fushimi
Yoshihito
Girl missing three days found dead in cornfield
Esther Beck, 26, daughter of former schools superintendent James K. Beck, disappeared from Bloomington home Thursday. Found eight miles away in a cornfield by farmer Melvin Reeves while en route to Sunday school. Died before medical aid. presumed exposure. She had recently suffered a nervous breakdown. found without hat and shoes, clothing torn.
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Esther Beck
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Miss Beck
War Near East Steps Toward Action At Angora
The Lausanne peace talks collapsed as Turkey refused to sign. British air force could bomb Angora if Mosul attacks resume. Greek forces in Thrace massed as Turkish reinforcements arrive. The near east crisis prompts warning and possible further concessions by Britain.
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