Veracity dispute fuels Bergdoll case in House probe
A tug of words between Samuel T. Ansell the Bergdoll counsel and Judge John W. Westcott at a House committee hearing on Philadelphia draft deserter Grover Cleveland Bergdoll sparked intense exchanges. Westcott denied Ansell claim of being his associate counsel and condemned the charges as untrue.
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Washington
Samuel T. Ansell
Army
John W. Westcott
New Jersey
House
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll
Philadelphia
Ansell
Bergdoll
Wescott
Matty
Peters
Mr. Ansell
Hard ing warns to end preapproval of emergency spending
President Harding tells executive departments to stop spending beyond budgeted limits and asks Congress to cover deficits. He urges that only true emergencies justify pre appropriation spending and discusses a possible emergency expenditures commission involving major appropriations leaders.
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Washington
Harding
Congress
Senate
House Appropriations
Warren
Senate Appropriations Committee
Admin
Wage Cuts Announced by United States Steel Corporation
New York May 3. Elbert H Gary announces a roughly twenty percent wage cut for day labor and salary adjustments across US Steel plants affecting 150 000 to 175 000 employees. He notes the twelve hour day cannot be fully abandoned yet and has been eliminated in some departments with aims to remove it entirely within a year. Price reductions of about 7 per ton on several products followed, with tin plates dropping from 140 to 125 per ton.
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New York
United States Steel Corporation
Elbert H. Gary
Gary
Inheritance Tax Bill Amended After Extra Session
The extraordinary session ends with the budget measure and tax changes. Gov Morgan sought amendments to the inheritance tax bill, including the appointment of an official appraiser at up to $5,000 salary. The amended inheritance tax bill was enacted as the session concluded.
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Charleston
W. Va
Morgan
Stillman Quits Bank Presidency in Divorce Row
Stillman resigns as president and chairman of National City Bank amid ongoing divorce proceedings with his wife. Charles Edwin Mitchell elected to succeed him as president, and E. P. Swenson takes the chair. Stillman to pursue further hearings before Referee Daniel J. Gleason.
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National City
Charles Edwin Mitchell
New York
James A. Stillman
National City Bank
United States
Stillman
National City Company
E.P. Swenson
Daniel J. Gleason
Plans for New Commercial Bank and Office Building
Local architect Alex B. Mahood has completed plans for the Commercial Bank home and adjacent office building to be bid to contractors within two weeks. The fireproof brick and limestone structure will front Federal and Commerce streets with a marble lobby, banking room, two vaults, president and directors rooms, and six office floors.
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Alex. B. Mahood
Commercial Bank
The
Federal and
Commerce Streets
Federal Street
Commerce Street
Commercial Bank En
State Treasury Reports April Cash Balances in West Virginia
Charleston May 2 There was on April 30 a grand total cash balance of all funds in the state treasury of 2,992,500.58, a little more than half a million less than at the end of March. The grand total including investments on April 30 was 13,163,735.38. Differences reflect payments to funds with no material impact on any single account.
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Charleston
W. Va
Treasury
General School Fund
Iate Road Fund
Anti-Trust Law Questioned Over War Time Act
In Indianapolis defense counsel argue the Sherman act is inapplicable to the soft coal conspiracy, claiming the Lever wartime fuel control act suspended anti trust provisions. The motion to quash targets 226 operators miners and firms across six states with alleged criminal price fixing.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Indiana
Federal Court For Indiana
Pennsylvania
Illinois
Ohio
Congress
Pittsburg
H. M. Daugherty
Ellsworth Collieries Company
Lackawanna Coal and Coke Company
United States District Court
United States
Bodies of 100 American Soldiers Sail Home from France
In Antwerp on May 3 the bodies of 100 American soldiers killed overseas were placed aboard a steamship bound for the United States. Religious services will be held here to honor the fallen before departure.
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Antwerp
France
United States
Hoover urges protection as German trade harms American lines
Secretary Hoover told the House Ways and Means Committee that immediate action is needed to curb German foreign trade's impact on U S lines. He called for a large protective tariff and a new method for valuing imports, citing Germany's subsidies and depreciated currency. He warned such policies risk disaster but argued they are necessary to shield the U S home market and American industry from cheap German competition.
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Washington
United States
Hoover
House
Ways and Means Committee
Commerce Department
Germany
Senate
Senate passes emergency immigration bill in 1919
The Senate approved an emergency immigration bill restricting alien admissions to three percent per nationality in the United States for fourteen months from mid November. The vote was 78 to 1 with Senator Heed dissenting. The bill eliminates exemptions for classes or races, except existing treaty-based entries, and excludes religious or political persecution asylum from the limit as sent back to conference.
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Washington
Senate
United States
Heed
Missouri
House
Senate Immigration Committee
Dr. W R Brooks Dead at Geneva Home
Dr William R Brooks professor of astronomy at Hobarth College died at his Geneva home tonight. Born in 1844 at Mandstone Kent England he was recognized as discovering more comets than any living astronomer since 1900.
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W. R. Brooks
Ceneva
William Rt. Brooks
Hobarh College
Mandstone
Kent
England
May 30 Proclaimed Public Memorial Day by Harding
Washington May 3 The annual memorial day proclamation designates May 30 as a federal holiday. President Harding urges citizens to honor those who died in service to the nation and to cherish peace and liberty.
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Washington
Harding
Warren G. Harding
United States
District of Columbia
Supreme Council Sets German Reparations Ultimatum
The supreme council agrees on the German reparations ultimatum due May 6 and to be handed to the reparations commission. The total payable rises to 6.75 billion pounds with Belgium debts included. A bond scheme will issue 600 million pounds when the ultimatum expires.
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Associated Press
London
Supreme Council
Germany
Reparations Commission
Paris
Berlin
Belgium
Jury recommendation ignored in dynamiting case
Fayetteville West Virginia May 3 Four men convicted of dynamiting the Willis Branch Coal Company property were sentenced by Judge Eary to seven years in the state penitentiary. The defendants Lee Donnel Clarence Donnell Robert Ratliff and John Kidd rejected the jury's plea for minimum sentences and faced a seven year term. The judge said the decision rested with him not the jury and noted the labor trouble context and employer rights amid union issues.
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Willis Branch Coal Company
Fayetteville
W. Va
Judge Eary
Circuit Court
State
Lee Donnel
Clarence Donnell
Robert Ratliff
John Kidd
Wary
Judge Bary
Bary
Billy Sunday to Arrive in Bluefield Saturday Night
Rev William A Sunday arrives in Bluefield at 9 05 PM Saturday from Cincinnati. Fred W Rapp says crowds will greet him warmly and citywide invitation urged for all residents to attend the depot reception and tabernacle events. Local organizers urge broad turnout and church leaders extend invitations.
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William A
Bluefield
Cincinnati
Fred W. Rapp
Bill
B. Hancock
T. O' J. Wilson
Tie Up Shipping May Be Averted
Washington reports a probable resumption of talks among the shipping board steamship owners and marine workers to resolve wage and working condition disputes. A conference and possible concession on wage cuts are under discussion as the threat of a shipping tie up eases. In Baltimore riots surrounded the marine workers strike as police boarded vessels to prevent further outbreaks while crowds attacked the cattle ship Western King.
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Shipping Board
Benson
Harding
Davis
Hoover
Marine Engineers
Baltimore
Marine Workers
Baltimore Police Force
Suey Ck
Wescom
Western King
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