Mooney Frameup Claims Tied to San Francisco Trial
US investigator John B. Densmore says Thomas J. Mooney did not receive full justice in his 1918 trial for a preparedness bomb case. The report submitted to Congress cites flimsy testimony, district attorney conduct, and alleged perjury, highlighting investigative failures and questions about the verdict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Thomas J. Mooney
San Francisco
John B. Densmore
Department of Justice
House
Department of Labor
Densmore
Wilson
Ins
Wickert
Frank C. Oxman
Warning to Wilson From Mexico Ex-General Urges Peace Tales
Open letter in La República pages by J. B. Trias urges consult with advisers to find nonmilitary paths to peace in Mexico, arguing intervention breaches sovereignty. Mexican editors Lasco and Alvarez arrested for failing to file translations under the trading with the enemy act.
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el Paso
Tex
Wilson
la Repwh- Nea
J. B. Trias
Trias
Mexico
Jose L. Velasco
Luis R. Alvarez
Sundry Civil Bill Signed by President Wilson
Washington reported that the $613,000,000 sundry civil appropriation bill was signed by President Wilson after revision to meet his objections. The measure includes $14,000,000 for rehabilitation and education of disabled service members, replacing none in the vetoed bill, and funds for several government departments that had run dry since July 1, the start of the fiscal year.
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Washington
Congress
Wilson
Fire Claims Two Dead In Chicago Boarding House Blaze
Chicago fire killed Captain Hugh Murray of the Sixteenth fire engine company and an infant in a South Chicago district blaze that consumed a three story boarding house at 8560 Buffalo Avenue. Four hundred residents were left homeless as the fire swept an entire block, origin traced to the rear structure and blamed on spontaneous combustion.
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Chicago
Hugh Murray
Sixteenth Fire Engine Company
Buffalo Avenue
Blacks in the Streets of the American Capital
July 21 Washington reports seven mob incidents against Black people in two weeks following assaults on white women. Large crowds, including discharged soldiers, roamed Pennsylvania Avenue and other areas seeking victims. Dozens were injured and hospital ambulances carried the wounded as police and troops struggled to contain at least six bands across the city.
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Washington
Pennsylvania Avenue
Caphal
Yanks Out of France Aug 1
Paris July 25 An American uniform on the streets of Paris will be a rarity by August first as the A. B. P. authorities press a general cleanup. Military police are questioning every officer and soldier about authority in Paris and ordering those lacking official papers to take the next train to Brest.
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Paris
A. BE. P
Brest
Chinese to Fight Russians in Northwestern Frontiers
China dispatches five thousand troops trained with Japanese aid toward Urga to defend the northwest against General Semenoff. For the first time in Chinese history, automobiles will transport troops, and airplanes are expected to be used as well.
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Peking
Semenoff
China
National Defense Army
Urga
Ten Years for Ten Words in Budapest Case
In Budapest on July 21 Bela Kon was prosecuted for rumor-mongering. A lawyer visiting a barber shop warned of French entry and Bolshevik advances. Kon received ten years in the penitentiary and ten years at hard labor for uttering ten words.
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Budapest
Bela Kon
Shoot to kill on Rhine orders spark deadly crackdown
French and Belgian guards on the Rhine were ordered to shoot to kill any person acting suspiciously near the left bank. In the Düsseldorf region alone five persons were shot while attempting to smuggle goods across the river.
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Ludwigshaeven
Rhine
Dusseldorf
Rulne
Taft Pushes Peace Pact Compromise Plan
Washington July 26 Former President Taft has written to Republican leaders and Democratic Senators, proposing reservations to the peace treaty to ease ratification. Dem leaders stand firm for unreserved ratification while Taft’s plan draws sharp opposition from administration allies. Hitchcock says Taft oversteps and threatens Democratic unity. Taft aims to steer the debate and save the Republican Party.
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Washington
Taft
Hitchcock
Nebraska
Senate
Wilson
McNary
Oregon
McCumber
North Dakota
League
Foreign Relations Committee
Yatt
Aft
Wings Overland Drops Profit Sharing Plan
Toledo O July 21 The Wings Overland company abandons its profit sharing for the quarter ending June 30 and says employees remaining at work may share in the October profit division due to sustaining a loss from a strike. The board declared its regular dividend at a recent meeting.
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Toledo
Wings Overland Company
St Joseph Board Reverses on 2% Beer Licenses
The St Joseph excise board reversed its decision and granted licenses to saloons for selling 2 percent beer. Within an hour more than 40 license applications were filed in St Joseph Missouri.
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St. Joseph
Blazing airship crashes into Chicago bank
A Goodyear dirigible on a test flight caught fire and crashed through the glass roof of the Sinois Trust and Savings Bank at Jackson Boulevard and La Salle Street. Seven people died and twenty five were injured as flames engulfed the rotunda where hundreds of clerks worked. Four of the five crew leapt free. two survived in the streets. Thousands watched the catastrophe.
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Chicago
Sinois Trust and Savings Bank
Jackson Boulevard
la Salle Street
Hank Rotunda
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
Akron
Loop
Foch to Visit the U S as Legion Guests
New York reports that Marshal Ferdinand Foch commander in chief of the Allied armies will be invited by the American Legion to visit the United States this fall and attend the next Legion meeting in November. The invitation follows strong veteran support and is expected to be dispatched soon.
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New York
Thirteenth Death in Wingfoot Airship Disaster
Marcus Callopy a teller in the foreign department of Illinois Just & Savings Bank died at 5 80 p m Wednesday at St Luke s hospital. He was the latest casualty in the Wingfoot disaster when the dirigible burned over Chicago last Monday and its engine and wreckage collapsed into the bank.
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Chicago
Marcus Callopy
Foreign Department
Illnois Just & Savings Bank
St. Luke's Hospital
Catopy
Father and Daughter Die in Chicago Gas Leak
Warbert Caddock aged forty and his eight year old daughter May bel died from asphyxiation due to a hidden gas pipe leak in their Chicago home. Authorities noted the fatal accident occurred within the residence.
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Chicago
Warbert Caddock
Maybel
Paris chamber backs Clemenceau cabinet vote
A wide range of international items fills this brief summary. Highlights include Paris lawmakers approving the Clemenceau cabinet 272 to 181, the London embargo on coal exports, a large civilian and military discharge at Camp Grant, and diplomatic resumptions between Roumania and the Ukraine. Also noted are U.S. political shifts, labor strikes, and military promotions amid global tensions.
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Paris Chamber of Deputies
Clemenceau
LaVerna W. Noyes
Chicago
Eta
Iin
Grobe
Arizona
London
Exchange ‘Pelegraph
Camp Grant
Roumania
Ukraine
Berne
Sproul
Harrisburg
Senate
Washington
Sherman
Illnois
Kansas
Topeka
Kan
James Bradley Orman
Colorado
Western Railroad and Irrigation
Pueblo
Congress
United States
Chatfield
New York
Roy Emerson
Thas
Kate Emerson
Creston
Mount Ayr
Ill
Homer Fuller
Thetsy River
Hungary
Vienna
Lord Lytton
George Primrose
San Francisco
Primrose
Ont
Benson
Slms
Housa
White House
II! Paso
Tex
Francisco Villa
Mexico
Turkey
State Department
Bulgaria
Germany
Austria
Market Prices Report From Chicago Exchange
Chicago market notes list commodities and livestock with prices for corn flour hogs cattle and sheep, including futures like July and Dec contracts and various grade prices for wheat rye and barley. Detailed entries show prices for hay, oats, and dairy items alongside live futures figures and regional market terms.
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Chicago
Rim
Lél Orsi
Real Galves
Ught
Prohibition Enforcement Bill Passes House in 1920 Vote
The measure, deemed drastic, passed 287 to 100 after a heated debate with Igoe's recommit motion defeated. It imposes reporting of liquor quantities after Jan 16 1920, creates presumptions against private possession, bans sale, manufacturing, and advertising, and empowers search and seizure by Internal Revenue officers with penalties up to 1,000 dollars or six months for first offenses.
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Washington
Measuire Ag
Wilson
House
Igoa
Mondell
Babka
Bee
Blackmon
Buchanan
Carew
Casey
Cleary
Coady
Cullen
Dent
Defait
Donovan
Dooling
Dupre
Bagan
Fitzgerald
Gallagher
Gallivan
Ganty
Gard
Goldfogle
Small
Smith
Steele
Sullivan
Total
Baebrach
Britten
Burdick
Burke
Curry
Dyer
Edmonds
Freeman
Garland
Glynn
Haskell
Hull
Husted
Jefferis
Juul
Kahn
Kennedy
Kleczka
la Guardia
Lampert
Leinbach
Longworth
McArthur
MacCrate
Madden
Mann
Merritt
Moore
Morin
Mudd
Newton
Nolan
Ogden
Porter
Radcliffe
Ramsey
Reber
Rodenberg
Sanford
Siegel
Snyder
Stephens
Tinkham
Ware
Veigh
Walsh
Werd
Watson
Commissioners of Internal Revenue
Iquoria
Internet Revenue Bureau
Department of Justice
Airplane Falls in Grant Park During Test Flight
Chicago July 24 pilot John Sikve ning flying government mall airplane en route to Cleveland to test engines tumbled in a somersault over Grant Park crashing to the ground. Despite the rough landing the pilot was uninjured and resumed his trip to Cleveland.
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Chicago
John Sikvening
Government Mall Air
Cleveland
Nother
Grant Park
Shoalog
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Tom Mooney
Secret Service
U. S
House of Representatives
Murra
Signor Tittoni
Nitti
France
Bela Kun
Fos
Pact
Gopl
Widgs Overland Company of
Sadigh
El-Sullanes
Persia
Sadigh M-Sullanes
Mirza Ali-Kuli Khan
Farls
Earth
Foch
American Legion
Burns
Mall
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