House Defers Admission On Lodge Resolution And Other Measures
The House refused to admit Washburns petition for the Lodge resolution on the League of Nations and peace. Resolutions urging friendly consideration of Italy's claims were admitted. Admission was refused for bills on a permanent federal employment service and discharging alien workers in favor of war veterans. Rejected also were resolutions opposing daylight saving repeal. The Ways and Means Committee favored auditing city books and granting certificates to Massachusetts veterans. Members from Weston Easthampton and Boston were appointed to confer with the Senate on budget items.
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House
R. M. Washburn
Worcester
Lodge
League of Nations
Italy
Bureau of Statistics
Massachusetts
Messrs. Young
Weston
Lyman
Easthampton
Fitzgerald
Boston
Madame Butterfly to Be Presented in All US Cities
Andreas Dippel announced next season's grand opera will present Puccini's Madame Butterfly in Italian with Japanese artists in all principal roles and chorus parts. The production will tour major U S and Canadian cities and American parts will be performed by American principals.
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New York
Andreas Dippel
Grand Opera
United States
Canada
Extension of Suffrage for Belgian Women
The Belgian Chamber of Deputies unanimously adopted an electoral reform bill. It delays full female voting but grants ballots to widows who have not remarried and to mothers of soldiers killed in battle or civilians shot by the Germans. Universal male suffrage over 21 is granted.
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Brussels
Chamber of Deputies
Brewery sues to halt enforcement of war time prohibition act
The Clausen Flannagan Brewery Corporation petitions Federal District Court in New York asking an injunction against acting deputy collector Richard J. McElligott and U S District Attorney Francis C. Caffey. The suit argues regulations restricting beer to 0.5 percent alcohol are unconstitutional and not authorized by the act. It contends beers with 0.25 to 0.5 percent alcohol are non intoxicating and lawful to manufacture and sell.
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Clausen- Flannagan Brewery Corporation
Richard J. McElligott
Collector of Internal Revenue
United States
Francis C. Caffey
Taft Receives Torrey Bequest and Clock in Worcester
By Miss Della C. Torrey's will filed in Worcester Taft is bequeathed one thousand dollars and the homestead tall clock. The Torrey estate totals forty seven thousand dollars with forty four thousand in personal property and nine thousand five hundred in real estate.
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Worcester
Della C. Torrey
Millbury
Taft
Illinois Labor party calls for U S recognition of Soviet
Springfield Ill April 11 Delegates to the State convention of the new Illinois Labor party adopt a unanimous resolution demanding recognition of the Russian soviet government by the United States and the withdrawal of American troops from Russia. Additional resolutions urge Ireland as a free country and urge President Wilson to push India self determination at the peace conference.
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Springfield
Ill
United States
Russia
Illinois Labor Party
Ireland
Wilson
India
Sherburne and Cole to Speak at Boston Chamber Meeting
Brigadier-Generals John H. Sherburne and Charles H. Cole will speak at the Boston Chamber of Commerce April meeting at the Hotel Brunswick next Wednesday. A luncheon and business session precede addresses, with President Henry S. Harriman presiding. the main item is electing a nominating committee for May 20 director elections.
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John H. Sherburne
51St Artillery
Charles H. Cole
Boston Chamber of Commerce
Hotel
Brunswick
Henry S. Harriman
Th Chamber
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