Harding to speak in five coast cities on Alaska trip
President Harding will deliver fourte en addresses en route to the Pacific coast during his Alaska voyage and later speak in five coast cities after returning home. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports electricity costs are the only large living expense that has declined since 1917. General Pershing urged military men toward religion to boost navy efficiency. Winter wheat shows deterioration in most regions except portions of the Southwest and Pacific coast. Mystic Shrine nobles parade 20 000 strong before the President in Washington. The People’s Reconstruction League attacked Secretary Wallace’s handling of the Packers and yards act. Coal purchase and storage for summer is urged by Federal Fuel Distributor F R Wadleigh. President Harding praised moves for better highways and home improvement at Shrine ceremonies. The White House opened to Shriners as 300 000 arrived. The Supreme Court opposed Iowa and others banning foreign languages in schools. Charles E Loddell resigned as farm loan board chairman. Louis J Pettyjohn of Dodge City named to replace him.
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Harding
Pacific Coast
Alaska
Washington
Charles E. Loddell
Farm Loan Board
Louis J. Pettyjohn
Dodge City
Kan
Striking Buffalo workers win demand over blacklist
Multiple items: Buffalo union clothing workers vote to strike after employers refuse to recognize the union and abolish a controversial Blacklist system. Also Shrine officers elected Washington Dykeman named Imperial potentate. Miss Violet Johnstone wins 50 000 heart balm suit against Dr Karl Connell. District court Omaha awards full requested verdict. Murder verdict in Indiana. American Legion to address national flag conference. various political and legal notes from Hartford Hartford to Des Moines.
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Buffalo
Violet Johnstone
New York
Karl Connell
Omaha
Neb
Notable deaths of Harriet Webb James and John C. Houk
Harriet Webb James fifty six daughter of Thomas L James former Garfield postmaster general died in Utica New York from heart trouble. She witnessed Garfield assassination. John C Houk former congressman from Tennessee second district died in Knoxville Tennessee.
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Misa
Harriet Webb James
Thomas L. James
Garfield
Utica
N. Y
John C. Houk
Tennessee
Knoxville
Tennewe
World News in Brief From Around the Globe
Reports from Peking say the Chinese cabinet has resigned while French troops occupy Krupp plants at Neuwierl and workers quit in protest. Col Haskell informs Moscow the American relief mission will depart after harvest. Germany seeks a new reparations conference with plans to present resources. The Moscow Harvester plant closes for funds. In London, McNeill denies Geddes retirement rumors. England builds a large submarine with 1000 ton displacement. Geneva results bring a Swiss alcohol monopoly defeat. home distilleries legalized. Madrid reports 45 Spaniards killed and 210 wounded near Tiznizza, Moors retreat after bayonet charge. A Berlin dispatch notes a freight train wreck near Essen. two German schoolboys shot by a French guard.
Treasury and foreign policy clash over Prohibition and reparations
A sprawling roundup covers German reparations talks led by Cuno, French and Belgian replies, and Ruhr measures. U.S. Prohibition strict enforcement abroad. shipboard liquor rules and reactions. and political shifts in U.S. parties amid opium and tax discussions.
Police raids broaden as Japanese unions face crackdown
Tokyo June 8 police action widens against labor leaders with two union chiefs under arrest. raids target socialist and communist circles amid claims of preventing propaganda. university buildings at Waseda searched. faculty turmoil and student protests mark the crackdown. premier Kato flags Moscow talks while cabinet cites Russian responsibility for Niklaievsk massacre as Sakhalin evacuation precondition.
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Tokyo
Waseda University
Kato
Py Jotfe
China
Japan
Moscow
Nikolaievsk
Sakhalin Island
Mats
Oregon Caterpillars Halt Train and Destroy Crops
Caterpillars halted the Albany Newport train delaying it one hour twenty five minutes. They devastated orchards along the route and fed on fir needles and tree bark. The infestation covered railway tracks over an inch deep, straining the transport and exhausting the sand used for grates in the damaged area.
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Rile Ang
Newport Road
Albany
Plunging Car Kills Girl In a Second-Floor Flat
New York June 8 Margaret Mc Laughlin twelve is dead and three or more are injured from a runaway trolley car that sped backward down Amsterdam avenue crashing through the front into the second story of a five story building at One Hundred and Eighteenth street. The girl was playing a piano when the car struck and damaged the first three floors.
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New York
Margaret McLaughlin
Amsterdam Avenue
One Hundred and Eighteenth Street
Moscow welcomes members of American Congress
Moscow on June 8 reports the presence of Irving T. Bush New York Representative Carroll L. Beedy of Maine and Representative Ross A. Colling of Mississippi. The anticipated arrival of Senator Brookhart of Iowa on Monday and other congressmen is noted by the Russian press as signaling growing American interest in Russian affairs.
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Moscow
Irving T. Bush
New York
Carroll L. Beedy
Maine
Ross A. Colling
Mississippi
Brookhart
Iota
American Congress
Pearls Stolen From Mrs Mabel Gilman Corey
London reports Scotland Yard and continental police hunting tourist thieves in a case involving a 180 pearl necklace valued at 200000 dollars. The piece was a Christmas gift from W. E. Corey to his wife in 1918 while traveling from Paris to London. Corey is expected in Paris on June 16.
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London
Scotland Yard
Continental Police
Mabel Gilman Corey
W. E. Corey
Abe Waa
Wey
Paris
Corey
Refined to Print Act Fined in Boston Court
George B Mandell publisher of the Boston Transcript was fined 100 in Judge Creed session of municipal court for refusing to print a report for the minimum wage commission. Diamond sentenced at Valparaiso Indiana trial locating fog Hla wife Nettle Dips tanced to Michigan City on Lotiug pronounced.
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Harry Dinmont
Valparaiso, Ind
Nettle Dinmond
Boston
Mass
George B. Mandell
Boston Transcript
Creed
Munnicipal Court
Valparaiso
Ind
Jang Diamond
Fog Hla
Michigan City
Lotiug
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Estabrook & Co
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Kameneff
American Relief Administration
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Tizzlazza
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Essen
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Cuno
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Sitch
Ruhr
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Imperial
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Lauganne
Ismet Pasha
Turkey
Turkleih
Mr. Grew
Lbert H. Gary
American Iron and Steel Institute
Millon
Federal Council of Churches
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Prince of Wales
Ganda
Oregon
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