Prohibition items advanced by Senate and labor warns
The house committee allowed a provision to let the president restrict foodstuffs for liquor. Senate agriculture moved to separate prohibition and merge amendments into a single bill. Judiciary reported a national prohibition constitutional amendment. Labor leaders told the president wages are stagnant as food costs rise, urging quick action before July 1 to prevent a looming food shortage.
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Senate Agriculture Committee
Senate Judiciary Committee
Gompers
United Sta
England
Navy pay bills target injury caused by drugs and alcohol
Washington June 11 Secretary Daniels proposes a bill to withhold pay for navy personnel incapacitated by injuries from drug use alcohol or other misconduct. Existing law already covers sickness or disease from these causes. A second draft would raise machinists and water tenders pay from 40 to 45 dollars monthly and grant yeomen who can take dictation at a set speed an additional 10 dollars monthly.
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Washington
Daniels
Navy
Canadian Recruiting Offices Open in Minnesota
St Paul June 11 Canadian recruiting offices have been opened in St Paul Minneapolis and Duluth and in Canadian cities Col W G Bell of Winnipeg arrived to take charge of Canadian recruiting in Minnesota He says 6000 Canadians of military age live in Minnesota and he plans to recruit a full regiment for overseas service with the Canadian expeditionary forces Fifty men were rested for the Canadian forces to lay in the Twin cities.
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St Paul
Minneapolis
Duluth
W. G. Bell
Winnipeg
Twin Cities
Minnesota
Bell
Minnesot
Canadian — Expeditionary Forces
Opposition to Norris amendment teases Senate debate
Washington June 11 a Norris amendment to the administration priority shipments bill extending relief to carriers and any shipper provokes an all day Senate debate with tomorrow’s discussion planned. Opponents call it costly and impractical. Omaha June 11 a tent hospital at Fort Omaha was destroyed by fire of mysterious origin with equipment lost and authorities investigating. Pistols were invented at Pistoia and first used by English cavalry in 1544.
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Norris
Administration
Senate
Omaha
Fort Omaha
Pistoia
Italy
Baby Keet funeral pall over the city
On Springfield Missouri June 11 baby Lloyd Keet was buried as thousands gathered at St Pauls church and Maple Park cemetery. Authorities continued pursuing six suspects after letters demanded ransom and described strangling the infant. Warrant issued charging complicity against Dick Carter as search continues.
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Maple Park
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Pla
Grenshaw Farm
Here
Paul O'Day
Dick Carter
Little Troyd
Alz
Stockton
Little Cedar County
C. J. Piersol
Cletus Adams
Kansas City
Debates on War Tax Bill Revisions in Senate Finance Panel
Washington reports radical changes to the income tax section of the House war tax bill were approved by the senate finance committee. Amendments naming surtax reductions for incomes over 40,000 were debated with Penrose and Lodge proposing further cuts. Holding company profits and double taxation were addressed, a 12 percent war munition tax repealed, and publication taxation settlement postponed.
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Senate Finance Commtee
Penros
Lodge
Treasury Department
Penrose Lodge
la Follette
House
Btill
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