Restoration of Government to Its Foundations
Nicholas Murray Butler accuses a diverse group of financiers promoters and munitions makers of attempting to buy the Republican nomination for General Wood. He praises New York delegates for blocking money power at the convention and endorses Harding and Coolidge as the patriotic Republican ticket. He urges restoral of the nation to traditional Republican principles.
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New York
General Wood
Nicholas Murray Butler
Republican Party
Lowden
Wood
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
Michigan
Ohio
Belgium
James R. Sheffield
Harding
Connecticut
New Jersey
Minnesota
Ilinois
Iowa
Missouri
North Dakota
California
Washington
Texas
Kentucky
Coolidge
Congress Appropriated About Five Billion Dollars
Washington reports the sixty sixth congress ended its session June 5 with total appropriations of 4 859 890 327 dollars. Of this 4 293 395 279 covers government expenses for the fiscal year beginning July 1 and 486 495 048 covers deficiencies for the ending month.
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Washington
Good
House Appropriations Committee
Congress
Paymento
Campaign for Harding Presidency Begins in Chicago
The Republican drive for Senator Warren G. Harding's presidential election opened at national committee headquarters in Chicago. Chairman Ways, Victor Heinz, and other leaders reviewed convention matters as the campaign shifted from the Coliseum to a hotel. A 5,000,000 lithographs batch of candidates will be distributed this week with pictures and autographs obtained.
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Chicago
Warren
Harding
National Committee
Ways
Victor Heinz
Hays
Senator Harding
Socialist Party Files Names of Candidates in West Virginia
The Socialist party of West Virginia filed its November candidates with the secretary of state. Governor nominee Dr. M B Holt of Weston, physician. secretary of state J H Snyder of Fairmont. superintendent of schools Jesse Bird of Barrackville. treasurer J B West of Mannington. auditor W A Vincent of Shinston. attorney general P H H Camp of Charleston. and St Garrett of Harrisville as agricultural commissioner. The ticket was chosen by convention delegates but was an unofficial act.
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Charleston
W. Va
Socialist Party of
West Virginia
M. 8. Holt
Weston
J. H. Snyder
Feirmont
Jesse Bird
Barracksville
Payne urges oil expansion abroad to secure U S supply
Secretary of the Interior Payne, in a letter to Senator Phelan of California, urged developing foreign oil sources by American interests to assure adequate United States supply. Phelan had introduced a bill in the last Congress for a United States oil corporation to develop oil fields overseas.
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Washington
United States
Interior
Payne
Phelan
California
United States Oil Corporation
Ohio State President Granted Coal Commission Service
The Ohio State University board of trustees approved Dr. W. A. Thompson to serve on the commission named by President Wilson to settle the anthracite coal miners and operators dispute. Thompson had pledged to serve if the university gave permission.
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Dr. Thompson
Columbus
Ohio State University
W. A. Thompson
Wilson
Thompson
Marion Plans Old Fashioned Fourth of July Celebration
A Marion Ohio citizens committee tentatively decides to celebrate Warren G Harding's nomination for president with an old fashioned Fourth of July event. The plan follows news that the senator will not return to Ohio before July 1.
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Marion
Warren Harding
Citizens’ Committee
Ohio
National Agrarian Party backs Obregon in Mexico City meeting
Pledged by its president to support General Obregon the National Agrarian party organized last night in Mexico City. Officers elected include Antonio Diaz Soto y Gama as president with General Obregon Alvarado Villareal Calles and Magana named honorary presidents. Wilson to make statement on water power bill expected tomorrow at the White House.
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Obregon
Mexico City
General Obregon
National Agrarian Party
Heraldo
Antonio Diaz
Soto Y Gama
Alvarado
Villareal
Calles
Magana
Wilson
Washington
White House
Coolidge Praised by Massachusetts Senators in Chicago Stop
Governor Coolidge received congratulations from Massachusetts senators at a Held House reception in Boston. Lieutenant Governor Cox Frank J. Hall and state delegates joined the greeting. Coolidge thanked supporters, emphasizing friendship over office and recalling the convention’s honors. An Oregon delegate nominated him for vice president.
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Massachusetts
Chicago
Boston
Coolidge
Oregon
Walsh Declines National Nomination For President
Senator Walsh of Massachusetts announces he will not accept any nomination for a national office. He says he is more interested in party principles than in candidates and that he does not seek the presidency at this time.
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Washington
Walsh
Massachusetts
Naional
Homer Cummings to Make Keynote Speech
In San Francisco on June 14 the national convention offices for Democratic contenders opened. William H. Cumming is set to deliver the keynote, with Homer S. Cummings expected to give the keynote speech as temporary chairman.
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San Francisco
United States
Robert L. Owen
Oklahoma
A. Mitchell Palmer
James M. Cox
Ohio
K E. H. Moore
Bainbridge Colby
District of Columbia
Carter Glass
Virginia
J. Bruce Kremer
Homer 8. Cummings
Daniels Urges Flag as Symbol of World Peace
Secretary Daniels told a Flag Day mass meeting on the capitol steps that the American flag should be the vitalizing symbol of world peace. He urged citizens to ignore selfish pleas and praised the altruism that sent the army overseas. A Play Day preceded the address with historical costumes and a 5000-voice chorus aided by the U S Marine Band.
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Washington
Secretary Daniels
Capitol
Daniels
United States Marine Band
One Dead and Two Injured In Lake Shore Crash Near Toledo
A Lake Shore electric car collided with a motor truck at Genoa, fifteen miles east of Toledo, killing W. H. Jones of Norfolk Virginia and injuring Mrs. Glen James and Wesley Tillotson. More than twenty others suffered minor injuries. The car turned on its side after striking a telephone pole.
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Toledo
Lake Shore
Genoa
W. H. Jones
Norfolk
Glen James
Wesley Tillotson
Ten Are Reported Dead in Wise County Gun War
Blood flowed in Wise county Va Sunday as guns were used in a large clash linked to a feud between the Free and Berry families. Ten people died and many were wounded including a baby hit by a stray bullet in Norton near Easerville. Additional shootings were reported at Ramsey, Dungannon and Appalachia with few details.
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Wise County
Norton
Esserville
Free
Berry
Robert Fee
George Polly
Dewitt Fee
Tom
George Berry
Bluefield
Easerville
Fee
Berrys
George
Tom Berry
Robert
Pearl Lee
Bates
Hall
Lee
Ramsey
Dungannon
Appalachia
Palmer to Seek ICC Action on New York Harbor Strike Relief
Washington reports Attorney General Palmer will urge the Interstate Commerce Commission to help end the New York harbor strike and ease nationwide freight congestion. Officials of the Erie Railroad will accept the department of justice ruling applying the Adamson eight hour law to tugs and barges carrying the road's rolling stock.
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Washington
Department of Justice
New York Harbor
Interstate Commerce Commission
Palmer
Irie Railroad
Department
Gompers Urges Nonpartisan Labor Build for League of Nations
Samuel Gompers addressed the federation urging support for a nonpartisan political program and Congressional adoption of the League of Nations. He said ratification failures were pitiable and contended the people would overwhelmingly back the league if asked. He warned campaign politics may sideline the issue and stressed labor’s broader social demands and the need for unity beyond a single union.
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Montreal
United States
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Federation
Congress
League of Nations
Gompers
League
Bic
Tr. Gomners
J. W. Oxden
Trade Union Concrete
James 7. A. Meellar
Canadian Trades and Labor Congress
Cornwell to Nominate Davis for Democratic Nomination
Charleston report from June 14 states Governor J. J. Cornwell will nominate John W. Davis, ambassador to Great Britain, at the Democratic national convention in San Francisco if he can attend. The move stems from their long acquaintance and Davis’s desire for Cornwell to deliver the nominating address.
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Charleston
J. J. Cornwell
John W. Davis
Great Britain
San Francisco
Cornwell
Ambassador Davis
Weather Forecast Warns Democrats Convention to Bundle Up
San Francisco on June 14 expects a cool Pacific breeze with westerly winds and fogs in the afternoons. The Weather Bureau advises heavy inner and outer clothing and a light overcoat for visitors to the national Democratic convention, dismissing the idea of summer heat.
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San Francisco
United States Weather Bureau
Pacific Coast
Thompson coal lands in Greene County sold to Piedmont and Gallatin
Waynesburg Pa June 14 Their J W Thompson coal interests totaling 40000 acres in Greene county were transferred to Piedmont Coal Co and the Gallatin Land Co under two deeds the largest in county history. The Piedmont deed contains 1050 pages bears 1526 in revenue stamps and transfers 625 tracts totaling 28000 acres.
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Waynesburg
J. W. Thompson
Greene County
Piedmont Coal Company
Gallatin Land Company
Piedmont
Koontz Wins Democratic Governor Nomination In West Virginia
Official primary returns from Raleigh and Berkeley counties show Koontz with 29,706 votes and Littlepage with 29,005, a 701 vote Koontz majority. Recount underway in Kanawha for the Republican governor race. Bond leads Moore for state auditor with 672 vote margin prompting recounts in several counties. Republican gubernatorial totals exclude Kanawha where Montgomery leads Morgan by about 2,030. Creaseup 30,755. Montgomery 43,453. Morgan 48,082.
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Charleston
W. Va
Secretary of State
Raleigh
Berkley
Kanawha
Koontz
Littlepage
Akron Rubber Co Buys 65 Acres of Nitro Land
Six five acres at Nitro West Virginia including plants and houses were sold from Charleston Industrial Corp to Miller Rubber Co of Akron Ohio makers of automobile tires. The Nitro property lies in a sector built during the war for powder manufacture. Plans for future development were not disclosed. Charleston Industrial Corp bought Nitro for about eight million dollars.
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Charleston
W. Va
Nitro
Charleston Industrial Corporation
Miller Rubber Company
Akron
Ohio
Rubber Company
War Department
Zehman Kills Wife and Five in Family Tragedy at Shir ley
Middlebourne West Virginia June 14 Fred Zehman forty five field superintendent of the South Penn Oil Company killed his wife and four children in their home at Shirley Tyler County and then drowned himself in a barrel. Ill health was alleged to have affected his mentality.
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Middlebourne
W. Va
Fred Zehman
South Penn Oil Company
Shirley
Tyler County
Zekman
Dempsey Testifies in Draft Evasion Trial in San Francisco
World heavyweight boxing champion William Harrison known as Jack Dempsey took the stand to deny charges of evading the selective draft act and to contest accusations of non support and cruelty raised by his former wife Maxine Dempsey during his trial in San Francisco.
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Centes
San Francisco
William Harrison
Jack Dempsey
Dempsey
Maxine Dempsey
Army Transportation Service to Replace Port of Embarkation
The army port of embarkation at Hoboken New Jersey will cease tomorrow. Its duties will be taken over by the headquarters of the Army Transportation Service under Colonel John J. Bradley, assistant secretary of the transportation service.
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Army Transportation Service
Hoboken, N. J
Army
John J. Bradley
the Transportation Service
Utah Delcates Endorse McAdoo for Democratic Nomination
The Utah state Democratic convention by resolution favored William G. McAdoo former secretary of the treasury as the Democratic nominee at the San Francisco convention June 28. Eight uninstructed delegates and eight alternates were chosen.
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Utah
McAdoo
Salt Lake
William G. McAdoo
Secretary of the Treasury
San Francisco
Senator Johnson Arrives Home Silent on Convention
Senator Johnson of California, a leading Republican hopeful, arrived in Washington and went directly to his home in Irendale Maryland. He declined to comment on the convention or his future plans.
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Johnson
Washington
Senator Johnson
California
Riredale
Germany Pleads Three Month Delay in Army Reduction
Berlin reports that Germany has asked the supreme council for a further three month delay in reducing the army to 100000 men. It was recently announced that the 200000 man reduction had been accomplished.
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Germany
Berlin
Supreme Council
The
Tageblatt
Mrs. Ella Kellogg Dies After Long Illness
Battle Creek report states Ella Kellogg, noted writer on child welfare and domestic science, died today after a prolonged illness. She was married to Dr. J. H. Kellogg, head of the Battle Creek Sanitarium.
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Ella Kellogg
Battle Creek
J. H. Kellogg
Bolsheviki Drive Poles Back Near Kiev
Reports late Tuesday say Bolsheviki push into the Kiev region with their largest force yet, forcing Polish main units to withdraw from the area.
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Warsaw
Kiev
Harding Finds Life of Nominee a Strenuous One
Senator Harding faces a strenuous day as he nears the Republican nomination. He met staff and well wishers at the Capitol, reviewed telegrams, golfed, and planned to brief party leaders after July 1. He will likely confirm plans with Chairman Hays and key figures next Monday and may not resign his Senate seat yet.
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Harding
Capitol
Postes
Conate
Senate
Marion
Ohio
Hays
Republican National Committee
Senator Lodge
Massachusetts
Chicago
Senator Smoot
Utah
Fettle
Calvin Coolidge
Taft
Wood
Hiram Johnson
Pomerone
Coolidge
Capitol Building
Leslie M. Shaw
Senator Land
West Virginia
Pourne
B. H. Warner, Jr
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Homer Cummings
Frisco Convention
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Morgan
Akron Rubber CO
Fred Zehmaan
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