World Happenings Stir in Capital and Abroad
Column notes that John W. Davis may resign to head a new international law firm in New York with a $100,000 annual guarantee. Brigadier General Charles G. Treat sails toward the Philippines from Fort Sam Houston. Diplomatic talks with Japan over California referendum progress, with a favorable outlook. Portugal’s Viscount D Artes returns to Wardman Park Inn. Denmark’s minister Bruin also back from Bar Harbor. Japanese requests a commission to resolve Japan US issues. potential lawsuit if California anti Japanese laws pass. Obituary of George Buell Webster in Watertown. Two Japanese men sentenced in Tokyo for selling stolen documents. 49 insane patients sent home by August. 34 deportations among 153 investigated. Theophilus Olenn, former Brooklyn alderman, dies. Albany Lutheran conference officers elected.
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John W. Davis
United States
Great Britain
New York
Washington
Charles G. Treat
Fort Sam Houston
San Francisco
Philippine Islands
State Department
Baron Shidehara
California
Viscount D’arte
Portugal
Bar Harbor
Wardman Park Inn
Denmark
Bruin
Legation
Southern
Woolworth
Chicago
Brooklyn
Grand Isles County
Vermont
Albany
The
Lutheran Church
Redwood
T. Duerschner
Troy
W. Hammer
Hudson
George Bohler
Poughkeepsie
Hoover outlines housing program and national measures
Hoover tells the Senate Reconstruction Commission a program to aid housing includes restoring investment fields of banking funds, reorganizing federal departments, and completing the New York barge canal. Gary Indiana reports labor shifts with a shortage of common labor and a surplus of skilled workers due to layoffs in other industries. Cotton yarn prices vary as manufacturers seek foreign buyers, and lightweight underwear makers prepare samples while awaiting prices. Henry Ford promises immediate pre war price restoration across all products with notable cuts for trucks and small cars.
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Herbert Hoover
Senate Reconstruction Commission
New York Barge Canal
Gary
Ind
Argentina
Knit Goods Association of America
Henry Ford
Ford Company
Explosion clues lead to dynamite theft and a mail heist
DoJ agents and police seek clues after a 150 pound dynamite theft from Aetna Explosives in Lambert TL and a South Bend mail truck robbery with losses estimated up to 20000. White House signals President Wilson may join the campaign at an unspecified time. Massachusetts orders coal rationing to ease shortage. Mrs Gladys Kimball Warburton named acting California prohibition agent after Loren Hadley’s death. Warburton previously served in military intelligence. Seven thousand barrels of whisky valued at 4 million dollars burned at Cedar Brook warehouse in Lawrenceburg Kentucky. cause undetermined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Justice
New York
Aetna Explosive Company
Lambert
White House
Wilson
Massachusetts
South Bend
Ind
Gladys Kimball Warburton
San Francisco
California
Loren A. Hadley
Warburton
Lawrenceburg
Cedar Brook
Boxing and sports notes from across the era
An offer of 150000 for a Dempsey Brennan bout was wired to Jack Kearns from Floyd Fitzsimmons in Benton Harbor with October targets. Wiggins Greb set for ten rounds in South Bend on October 14. Ray defeated in Stockholm mile by Lundgren. Babe Ruth Day celebrated in Baltimore. Yale football notes lift Callahan from injury as Munger and Acosta miss time. Incognitos beat New York XI 377 at Livingston. Brooklyn pennant bets set at Ebbets Field pricing from 1 to 6. refunds if games unplayed. Bezdek reshuffles Penn State pack with Hess to guard.
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Jack Dempsey
Bill Brennan
Jack Kearns
New York
Floyd Fitzsimmons
Benton Harbor
Mich
Chuck Wiggins
Indianapolis
Harry Greb
Pittsburgh
South Bend
Jose Ray
A. C
Munger
Shevlin
Acosta
Cruickshank
England
New—York
Staten Island Cricket and Tennis Club
Livingston
Brooklyn
Charles—B—Ebbets
Ebbets Field
Pavilion
Hugo Bezdek
Penn State
Hess
Bezdek
Global White Deaths and Political Shifts Reported
Reports tally nine deaths from yellow fever in Vera Cruz Mexico. France elects Alexander Millerand president after Deschanel resigns for health reasons with 695 of 818 votes. Italian strike referendum rejects employers worker pact in Turin. Canadian shoe stocks rise but no overseas market. Cholera kills many in China with coffins piling up. A Russian Soviet film is seized in London. Earl of Lytton named undersecretary for India. Toronto Chamber of Commerce backs imperial preference 83 to 21.
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Vera Cruz
Mexico
National Assembly
Versailles
Alexander Millerand
France
M. Paul Deschanel
Millerand
Turin
China
Russia
London
Earl of Lytton
India
Lord Sinha
Lord Lytton
Congress of the Chamber of Commerce of the Empire
Toronto
Lower Prices Sweep Country Across Cotton Goods
General belief grows that peak prices are past as Henry Ford cuts car prices and Amoskeag cotton products follow. Franklin Company slashes car prices 17 to 21 percent while Sears Roebuck and Montgomery Ward announce broad retail reductions in clothing, shoes, furniture, and staples.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Henry Ford
Amoskeag Manufacturing Company
H. B. Franklin Manufacturing Company
Ford
Sears, Roebuck & Co
Montgomery Warn & Co
Chicago
Lst
New York Times
Lew Hahn
National Retail Dry Goods Association
Mr. Hahn
Hahn
Pogrom Toll Rises as Refugees Reach Kiev
London reports more than 200 Jews killed in Galician pogroms in Ukraine. A Kiev correspondent says 10,000 new refugees have reached Kiev and warns they may suffer worse conditions than last winter’s refugees, who died at about 100 daily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kieff
London
Ukraiians
Ukraine
Civil War Veterans Overcome by Heat at G A R Encampment
In Indianapolis 15000 veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic endured a hot parade for the fifty fourth annual encampment. Many fell prostrate and were carried to first aid stations to recover from mild heat exhaustion after marching less than a mile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Grand Army of the Republic
Massachusetts Plans Coal Rationing Amid Shortage
Governor Coolidge orders state control of anthracite distribution in Massachusetts. Retail dealers may deliver at most three tons per family and no coal to households with more than a one month supply. Eugene Hultman announces the measure after a New Haven transport official conference. Prices vary up to 20 dollars a ton in parts of New England as officials seek trainload coal deliveries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Massachusetts
Coolidge
Eugene C. Hultman
State Commission On Necessaries of
State House
Committee of
Coal Dealers
F. E. Dewey
New Haven Railroad
CooHdge
Coal Committee
New England
Shrine foundation laid for World War soldiers memory
The article notes government actions to aid soldiers, including army commissaries extending credit on officer terms, and Treasury Secretary Houston predicting no return to prewar price levels. It also mentions political plans and the laying of the Immaculate Conception shrine foundation at Catholic University by Cardinal Gibbons and Cardinal O Connell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Department
Houston
Wilson
White House
League of Nations
Japan urged to adopt firm stance on California land ban
Japanese leaders react to California landownership referendum proposals and anti Japanese agitation. Viscount Kaneko warns of lasting harm to U.S.-Japan ties if the measure passes. Bank of Japan governor urges assimilation and decorum among immigrants. House of Peers seeks a firm diplomatic line with the United States through Uchida.
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Tokyo
California
United States
Viscount Thirsaki Isato
America
Kentaro Kaneko
Japan-America Society of Tokio
Japan
Kaneko
Perry
Jinosuke Inouye
Bank of Japan
Yomi-Uri Shimbun
House of Peers
Baron Yoshiro Sakatani
Viscount Uchida
Kensei-Kai
Roland §. Morris
Bainbridge Colby
Greece exchange restrictions eased misread in trade dispatch
Trade Commissioner George Wythe in Constantinople reports the Bank of Athens Constantinople branch received a telegram about the removal of exchange restrictions in Greece. Yet American businessmen recently in Greece deem the decree of little significance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Wythe
Constantinople
Bank of Athens
Greece
Newberry Appeals Certainty Of Corrupt Practices Act
Senator Newberry of Michigan and sixteen co defendants convicted last March at Grand Rapids on corruption charges tied to the 1918 Michigan senatorial election have formally appealed to the United States Supreme Court. They challenge the constitutionality of the Federal Corrupt Practices Act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Newberry
Michigan
Grand Rapids
Mich
United States Supreme Court
Jewel wealth of European royal houses tied to Swiss banks
Reliable authority says jewels of the Romanoffs Hapsburgs and Hohenzollerns deposited in Swiss banks have a value of 480 million dollars. Jewels sold or pawned in Switzerland since 1911 by these families total twice that sum. Figures exclude transactions by other princely families.
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Switzerland
Geneva
Romanoffs
Hapsburgs
Hohenzollerns
Wall Street Sees Decline in Living Costs Soon
Leading bankers predict a six month drop in living costs and a return to normal money markets after large commodity liquidations. They cite woolen market conditions, cotton releases from Southern warehouses, and steel price declines as drivers. Ford’s car price cut signals falling material costs with no wage cuts. Wool and textile firms push price cuts, while labor demand weakens as consumers balk at high prices.
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Wall Street
South
Detroit
Henry Ford
Ford
American Woolen Company
Labtory
Italian Radical Starving in Prison as Hunger Striker
Fiossa Flor, the Italian Socialist agitator imprisoned on political charges, has refused all food for eight days following the example of Irish hunger strikers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Naples
Fiossa ‘Flor
Behrman Loses renomination in New Orleans primary
New Orleans mayor Martin Behrman conceded defeat in the Democratic primary after sixteen years in office. In South Bend Indiana two bandits robbed a USPS mail truck, escaping with 5000 to 20000 dollars in mail. In Albany New York the Senate backed resolutions urging Congress to investigate rising building costs and alleged price fixing. In Paris Alexandre Millerand elected president by a wide margin in a joint session at Versailles. In Los Angeles the body of J C Denton, missing since June 2, found buried in a sealed room under three tons of earth at 675 Catalina Street.
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New Orleans
Martin Behrman
South Bend
Ind
J. N. Hunter
Albany
N. Y
Senate
Assembly
Congress
Paris
Alexandre Millerand
France
Chamber of Deputies
Versailles
Paul Deschanel
Los Angeles
J. C. Denton
Catalina Street
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Roumania
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