Impressive Pontifical Mass Draws 350000 at Lake Michigan
Pilgrims from around the world crowded two square miles by Lake Michigan for a solemn pontifical mass led by John Cardinal Rongzano as part of the International Eucharistic Congress. Police described a vast, fervent crowd with a 60,000-child choir, triggering security concerns and extended delays before the mass could conclude. Cardinal Mundelein praised Cardinal Bonzano and explained the meaning of the Eucharist in a sermon to the listening thousands.
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Chicago
Lake Michigan
America
Great Memorial Stadium
Lake Front
John Cardinal Rongzano
Pius XI
Curley
Baltimore
Solidiy
Cerdinal Bonsuno
Mundelein
Cardinal Bonzano
Jesus Christ
Christ
Coast Guards Race To Aid Drifting Yacht
Four Coast Guard teams raced to reach a drifting six crew yacht from Chicago after its rigging was wrecked in a gale. A steamship, which picked up the yacht off Milwaukee, relayed the report from Gary Ind. The vessel was adrift with four to six people aboard as it was abandoned by its crew.
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Chicago
Public Indifference Kills Bank of 1926
The Bank of 1926, a revue, was closed by its producers after a jury found it detrimental to public morals but remained open under a temporary injunction. The case tested the play jury system and signaled further action against it.
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New York
Brewster Maintains Lead In Early Maine Primary Returns
Early returns from 24 towns show Gov. Ralph O. Brewster edging ahead of Arthur L. Thayer for the Republican nomination as 224 of 633 precincts report. Brewster 1129, Thayer 648. The main issue is a constitutional amendment banning public funds for private schools. Congressman Ira G. Hersey faces Benjamin W. Blanchard in the fourth district. Ernest L. McLean secures the Democratic nomination in Augusta.
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Portland
Maine
Ralph O. Brewster
Arthur L. Thayer
Brewster
Thayer
Ira G. Hersey
Benjamin W. Blanchara
Arithur L. Sayer
Major Thayer
Benjamin W. Blanchard
Bangor
Ernest L. McLean
Augusta
Amendments Fail to Placate Opponents in Farm Bill Debate
Washington June 21. Farm bill managers try to placate opponents with amendments after a tight vote margin. The House agricultural committee adjourns to December while awaiting Senate action. Senator Willis proposes a general audit of the new farm board accounts. Cummins seeks producer majority control. Simmons defends the bill against Mellon opposition. Sackett calls it a raid on pockets. more amendments expected tomorrow.
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Washington
McNary
Senate
House Agricultural Committee
Willis
Republican
Ohio
Farm Board
Cummins
Iowa
Simmons
North Carolina
Secretary Mellon
Senator Sackett
Kentucky
Jury Completes Colosi Trial in Ohio County Court
A jury was completed in Wheeling West Virginia Ohio County Circuit Court to try Angelo Colosi sixteen for the alleged May third murder of Tillie Gesualdo thirty five at the Gesualdo home. A revolver bullet said to have been fired by Colosi pierced the woman's breast. Vinzeno Gesualdo husband of the victim is among witnesses summoned and may testify tomorrow. Jurors will view the crime scene as pre trial proceedings begin with opening arguments and witness examination.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Ohio County Circuit Court
Angelo Colosi
Tillie Gesualdo
Gesualdo
Colost
Vinzeno Gesualdo
Ilaly
Railroad firm gets extra time for train control devices
Washington June 21 The Interstate Commerce Commission grants Norfolk and Western railroad an extension to January 1 1927 to install automatic train control devices on specified sections of its lines.
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Washington
Norfolk and Western Railroad
Interstate Commerce Commission
Coolidge Presses Constructive Economy Plan for Tax Reform
President Coolidge outlines a program of constructive economy to trim the federal payroll and reduce debt while awaiting fuller results from the new revenue law. He warns against promising further tax relief before finances justify it and stresses gradual personnel reductions and cautious spending.
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Washington
Treasury
Uiis
Coolidge
Congress
Federal Service
Colidge
Lord
President Coolidge
Plan to adjourn stalls as House refuses date
Washington June 21 The House declined to set a definite adjournment date defeating a quit resolution sponsored by Representative Tilson. Madden of Illinois led opposition urging continuation until farm legislation and rivers and harbors pass the Senate and tying adjournment to the second deficiency bill for public buildings. The motion sent the adjournment resolution back to the Ways and Means Committee.
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Washington
House
Tilson
Representative Madden
Illinois
Senate
Madden
Ways and Means Committee
Representative Green
Iowa
Independent concerns fear to complain against Aluminum Company
Pittsburg June 21. Testimony showed independent firms hesitated to complain against the Aluminum Company of America for failing to deliver metal orders. F X Patterson, special examiner, cited Sanders Frary Clarke Co of New Britain Conn as among those fearful of retaliation. He said letters in files indicated unfilled orders and that officers warned of consequences if they complained. The hearing reviewed photostatic letters and Patterson claimed unbiased inquiry authorized by a senate resolution, noting the investigation extends beyond aluminum to vacuum cleaners and stoves.
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Pittsburg
Timony
Aluminum Company of America
Federal Commission
F. X. Patterson
Sanders Frary & Clarke Company
New Britain
Conn
Patterson
Aluminum Company
W. W. Smith
Smith
Senate
Revision of Covenant Proposes Hemisphere Based LEagues
Paris June 21 The International Judicial Association panel will discuss revising the covenant to form separate hemispheric nations leagues with a linking central organ. Alejandro Alvarez argues for Americas to form its own association while the eastern hemisphere has one. He also suggests economic leagues aligned with political bodies.
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Paris
League of Nations
Association of Nations
Hemisphere
International Juiidicial Association
Alejandro Alvarez
League
Association
Senor Alvarez
America
Pan-American Association
Western
Prohibitionists Named Candidate for New York Governor
The New York World reports Edward G. Dietrich of Syracuse, Wesleyan church president in America, is likely the Prohibitionist nominee for New York governor at the upcoming state convention. D Leigh Colvin, national Prohibition Party chair, will note the convention’s task to form a state ticket and back Franklin Christman’s senatorial bid.
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New York
New York World
Edward G. Dietrich
Syracuse
Wesleyan Church In America
Prohibitionists
D. Leigh Colvin
Prohibition Party
Franklin
W. Chistman
Arabs Defy Siege as French Bombard Damascus Gardens
In Damascus on June 21 French forces pound surround fortifications manned by Druses. The shelling targets villages and gardens near the city walls where 1,200 to 2,000 Druses resist with limited artillery. Sniper fire and air bombardment continue as Arab children play beneath falling shells.
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Damascus
Syria
Near East
Associated Press
Jiebel Kassioum
World ill will survey urged by advertising leaders
Bruce Barton proposed a world survey to analyze the cause of ill will toward the United States. He urged offering services to the U S Chamber of Commerce to conduct the study and share findings with Americans to remove distrust. President Coolidge sent greetings to the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World session in Philadelphia.
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Philadelphia
United States
Associated Advertising Clubs of the World
Bruce Barton
New York
United States Chamber of Commerce
Coolidge
Submarine Chaser Impaled On Mackinaw Rocks
At Mackinaw City Michigan on June 21 the US submarine chaser SCN 432 ran aground and was impaled on rocks. SCN 433 from Milwaukee and the reserve cutter Truant stood by to rescue the crew about forty men while lines were passed to BCN 442 to ease pounding from high winds and heavy seas.
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Mackinaw City
Mich
Mackinaw Harbor
Milwaukee
Wainwright Bill Creates Panel to Visit Philippines
The House passed a bill by Wainwright to form a board of three senators and five representatives to visit the Philippine Islands every two years to investigate government there. The measure was approved in Washington on June 21.
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Washington
Wainwright
Philipine Island
House
Miller motion reserved in Eden conspiracy case
In federal court Judge Mack reserved decision on Thomas W. Miller’s motion to dismiss a conspiracy indictment tied to a 7 million transfer of American Metal Company securities to a Swiss concern. Government counsel opposed. Miller cited the Garden of Eden parable to argue no crime, while Harry M. Daugherty faced related charges but his attorney spoke only briefly.
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New York
Thomas W. Miller
Miller
Harry M. Daugherty
Mack
Daugherty
John T. King
American Metal Company
Robert S. Johnstone
United States
Beidleman Claims Votes Not Counted in Pennsylvania Primary
Witness Edward Beidleman testifies before senate campaign funds committee that he did not receive credit for all votes cast for him in the Pennsylvania Republican primary. He details petitions to inspect official returns, coalitions with Senator Pepper, and finances of his campaign including county committee fundraising and personal expenses.
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Washington
Pennsylvania
Senate Camign
Edward Beldieman
John 8. Fisher
Reidleman
Reed
Alleghany County
Beldleman
John S. Fisher
Pepper
William S. Ware
W. Harry Baker
Republican State Central Committee
W. S. Mellon
Mellon
Mellons
Beidleman
Baker
Treasury
Albert M. Greenfield
Philadelphia
Vare
Senate
Greenfield
Thomas Watson
Pennsylvania Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Maude T. Seymour
Pinchot
Ella M. George
Fisher
Governor Al Smith Arrives for Eucharistic Congress
Governor Al Smith of New York arrives in Chicago with family and friends for the Eucharistic Congress. A uniformed escort and a Mayor Dever representative accompany him to Soldiers Field. His reply to a reporter’s praise of New York’s welcome to foreign cardinals is his longest press statement.
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Chicago
al Smith
New York
Dever
Word Cable Volume From Global Correspondents
Newspaper correspondents from four corners file reports daily about the Eucharistic Congress. The dispatch volume nears five hundred thousand words each day with Father Beaty sending about five hundred words to two Sydney papers.
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Ainee
Jane
Four
Father Beaty
Sydney
Australia
Nerse
Riot at San Antonio Republican meeting ends in adjournment
In San Antonio on June 21 fourteenth officers broke up a chaotic meeting of the Bexar County Republican executive committee after fist fights and a drawn revolver. Delegates sustaining injuries included Mrs. E P Butter and her mother. the clash divided factions backing Harry M Warebach and R B Creager over patronage and chairmanship. No arrests were reported.
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San Antonio
Texas
Bexar County
Republican Executive Committee
Harry M. Warebach
R. B. Creager
A. R. Holzschuler
A. M. Gray
Wurzbach
Court House
E. P. Butter
Bruiser
R. F. Coon
Coon
Veterans of Foreign Wars encampment opens in Clarksburg
Clarksburg West Virginia June 21 A five annual encampment of the Veterans of Foreign Wars opens with about 200 delegates from across the state and other areas. Harrison G Otis city manager gives the welcome address at 40 oclock a memorial service is led by Elliott Harver acting state department chaplain plans to expand the organization to twenty more towns in the state highlight the first day of the two day meeting.
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Clarksburg
W. Va
Veterans of Foreign Wars
West Virginia
Robert G. Woodside
Pittsburg
Harrison G. Otis
Elliott Harver
State Department
Rafet Pasha Arrested In Kemal Plot Case
Constantinople June 2 General Rafet Pasha who led the 1923 Kemalist return to Constantinople is arrested after a discovered conspiracy to assassinate President Mustapha Kemal at Smyrna. Opposed politicians are jailed and protests erupt in Constantinople and Smyrna as arrests spread through Turkey.
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Constatinople
Rafet Pasha
Constantinople
Mustapha Pasha Kemal
Smyrna
Turey
Half of Town's Workers Without Employment
Adams Massachusetts June 21 half of the town s working population was without employment due to a strike by 1800 Berkshire Cotton Company workers. Operations paused after the forenoon with ten percent of normal force. the strike followed a clash over increasing frames run by speeder tenders from two to three. Forty workers had earlier been discharged and the Polish Weavers Union declared the strike in sympathy.
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Adams
Mass
Berkeshire Cotton Company
Canderberry Held on Murder Charge After Son's Death
Grayson Kentucky June 21 John Canderberry forty five proprietor of a soft drink parlor was arrested shortly after 1 pm by four possesd by Sheriff Arthur James and held without bond in Carter county jail on a murder charge after his son Jesse Canderberry twenty nine was shot to death in front of the shop on the Midland trail around noon following a quarrel Officers searched the store and house and found whiskey and a suit Canderberry made no statement after arrest and faces arraignment before Judge A R McGill Wednesday or Thursday
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Grayson
Ohn
Canderberry
Arthur James
Carter County
Jesse Canderberry
Midland Trail
A. R. McGill
Nurse Miss Cole Destroys Self In Newton Home
Former St. Luke’s Hospital superintendent Mine Cole twenty five shot herself in Newton North Carolina after arranging a white dress atop a trunk. The death left colleagues puzzled as friends offered no clear motive. Miss Cole, formerly of Bluefield West Virginia, had been living in Newton recently and left a note for her sister requesting burial near her. Her sister Mrs. Younce and Pauline Cole are named relatives. Funeral plans hinge on arrival of a Bluefield friend.
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Newton
N. C
Mine Cole
Bluefield
W. Va
Hosital
Wilfong Younce
Mr. Younce
Mrs. Younce
Miss Cole
J. H. Rice
St. Luke's Hospital
W. B. Stevens
Eckman
North Carolina
Pauline Cole
Mrs. Wilfong Younce
Tacna Arica plebiscite commission adjourns ending its work
In Arica Chile on June 21 the Tacna Arica plebiscite commission adjourned after a final session. The resolution directs the body to meet only on call of the president, signaling a de facto breakup. General Lassiter, former chairman, sailed for Panama aboard the U S Denver.
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Arica
Chile
Tacna-Arica
General Lassiter
U. S
Modification Advocate Takes Lead in Minnesota Primary
St. Paul June 21 Melvin Maas prohibition modification advocate appears to have defeated Congressman Oscar E Keller for the Republican nomination in Minnesota's fourth district with Maas leading early returns. Fred A Snyder the dry candidate trailed second while Maas held about a two to one edge as districts reported. Maas is 28.
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St. Paul
Melvin Maas
Oscar E. Keller
Keller
Fred A. Snyder
Baas
Maas
Snyder
Possessions of Former Ruling Houses Near Confiscation Bill
Berlin June 21 Vast possessions of the former ruling houses of Germany are temporarily safe but threatened by a compromise bill to be introduced in the reichstag. The measure ignores many claims of the former princes and may face approval from Socialists despite nationalist opposition. If passed, rulers are expected to seek legal means to preserve assets.
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Berlin
Germany
Reichstag
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Associated Advertising Club
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Jury
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Rafet
Kemal
John Canderbury
ST. Luke’s Hospital
Minnesota
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