Taft Nomination as Chief Justice Confirmed
Former President William Howard Taft was nominated and confirmed as chief justice by the Senate in executive session. Senators Borah Johnson Knox Kellogg Willis Underwood Smith Overman Broussard opposed and supported Taft. Taft’s long public service and desire for the judiciary highlighted.
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Washington
William Howard Taft
Harding
United States
Senate
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Johnson
Fght
Taft
Knox
Pennsylvania
Kellogg
Minnesota
Willis
Ohio
Underwood
Alabama
Smith
South Carolina
Overman
North Carolina
Broussard
Louisiana
Roosevelt
Lynching of Bilbro in Madison County
In Madison County Mississippi a mob lynched Bilbro, a negro farmhand, after a quarrel with tenant M. Pace. Pace was found at Jackson hospital with his throat cut and skull fractured. Bilbro fled but was recaptured by a posse following the attack.
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Jackson, Miss
Bilbro
Madison County
Here
M. Pace
Jackson
Pace
Treasury approves five soldiers homes for tuberculosis care
Approval by the Treasury Department, announced by Secretary Mellon, covers construction of five soldiers' homes for veterans with tuberculosis, with a total new-build cost of 8,100,000 dollars. The Battle Mountain sanatorium at Hot Springs will house 100 patients, and Leavenworth Soldiers' Home in Kansas for 200. Other projects are planned for Milwaukee, Dayton, and Marion, Indiana.
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Washington
Treasury Department
Mellon
Battle Mountain
Hot Springs
Leavenworth
Kan
Milwaukee
Dayton
Marion
Ind
Cement Plant Case Upholds Legality of Bond Sale
The Supreme Court denied a writ of prohibition sought by Edwin K. Wakin to halt bonds by the Cement Commission. It ruled that cement and related products are state necessities and that their manufacture distribution and sale promote public welfare and equal economic opportunity.
Lloyd George Invites Irish Leaders to Reconciliation Conference
Premier Lloyd George sent letters to Eamon de Valera and Sir James Craig inviting a conference between Dublin and Belfast representatives to explore a settlement. The aim is to end the Ireland conflict in a spirit of conciliation with safe conduct for all chosen participants. London papers react with surprise at the liberal peace move and lack of preconditions.
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de Valera
James
Ireland
Northern Ireland
Southern Ireland
James Craig, Premler
James Craig
London
Lloyd George
Free Summer Camp for Young Men at Fort Logan
Government funded August program offers a free month at Fort Logan Colorado for males aged 16 to 85. Physical training and drill aim to build fitness and self-reliance with no service obligation. applications due by July 10 to Col. Paul A. Wolf.
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Denver
Fort Logan
Colo
Paul A. Wolf
Wood
Plot to murder British ministers prompts London security
The Sketch reports special precautions to guard cabinet members after a plot to kill them was uncovered. Police seek three men sent to London by abroad organizations to assassinate ministers. One is a French medical student and Paris secret society member, another an Irishman from the western United States, and the third a Spaniard of Irish extraction.
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London
Paris
United States
Spaoiard
Paper Mill Workers to Arbitrate in North America
Workers across paper mills in the United States and Canada except International Paper Company have agreed to arbitration after a strike that began May 2. They will resume at the existing wage scale and accept the arbitration board’s ruling on whether wage cuts are warranted.
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New York
Wilon
Canada
International Paper Company
Congress Plans Peace Resolution End to War With Germany
Washington reports that a congressional compromise plan to declare the World War era state of war with Germany and Austria at an end moves toward President Harding. Republicans claim the draft will pass despite Democratic opposition, while reserving U S rights, property and indemnities from the armistice and Versailles terms.
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Senate
House
Harding
Germany
Austria
Hitchcock
Nebraska
Representative Flood
Virginia
United States of America
Congress
Seizure of Six New Orleans Breweries Under Volstead Act
Government agents raided and seized six New Orleans breweries declaring all real and personal property under government ownership. The action, the largest seizure in U S history under the Volstead act, targets rooms and facilities for producing and selling beer with unlawful alcohol content. Rebel activity in Tamaulipas is now directed by General Pablo Gonzales.
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New Orleans
United States
Gonzales
Mexico City
Tamaulipas
Pablo Gonzales
Carranza
War Office
Columbia
Texas
Admiral Magruder Sees U S Aid For France
Rear Admiral T H Magruder, the American naval attache in Paris, reportedly said the United States would always aid France if attacked. The Navy Department would take cognizance if the quote was accurate, as it closely resembled a rebuke Admiral Semmes received from President Taft.
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Washington
T. H. Magruder
Paris
Parks
United States
France
Navy Department
Margruder
Sime m
Tart
Wage Reductions Ordered For Nearly All Railroads
Chicago June 28 men on virtually every railroad face a 12 per cent wage cut effective July 1 following a Labor Board decision expansion to nearly 100 roads. The board added rates for marine workers and dining car staff, with the total cut estimated around 400 million dollars if applied nationwide. In San Francisco about 65 per cent of Southern Pacific shop workers voted to reject the 12 per cent decrease.
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United States Railroad Labor Board
Labor Board
San Francisco
Calif
Southern Pacific System
United States Railroad Labor Boar
Gordon
Southern Pacific System Federation of Shop Crafts
Federation
New Orleans
Portland
Ore
Fom
Ogden
De Valera silent on Lloyd George conference invitation
Dublin leader Eamon de Valera has not given a definite reply to Premier Lloyd George's invitation to a conference on an Irish settlement. He says he desires lasting peace but insists unity of Ireland is essential. In Belfast, Sir James Craig says the Ulster cabinet has accepted the invitation for a conference between northern and southern Ireland and the British cabinet.
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Union News Service
Fhamdon
Lloyd George Hias
Eamonn de Waltera
James Craig
King George’s
Ireland
Dublin
Eamonn de Valera
Lloyd George
Belfast
Northern
Southern Ireland
Official Held in Liquor Graft Arrest in Washington
Witham B P Ryan former assistant chief of the Prohibition Bureau legal division was arrested on bribery charges tied to liquor permit issuance. He posted $2,500 bond after arraignment before United States Commissioner Richardson. The complaint alleges he accepted $200 to approve a wholesale permit for sacramental wine sales.
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Witham BP
Ryan
The
Prohibition Bureau
Brribery
United States
Hichardson
Egan
Tariff bill introduced in House to raise revenues
Washington reports the administration's permanent tariff bill has been introduced in the House with no official revenue estimate. Unofficial figures place annual revenue around 700 million dollars, higher than prewar Payne Aldrich levels. The measure tightens duties on many imports, preserves free lists for print paper and leather, and lowers wool and cloth rates compared with Payne Aldrich, while lumber remains largely free.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Ways and Means Committee
Payne-Aldrich
New and Old Tariff Compared On Commodities
A report compares tariffs under the new bill and the Underwood law across items such as tungsten ore cattle beef hogs but ter apples hay sugar and per unit prices. It lists per pound and per bushel rates with cents and dollars, noting underwood law exemptions and price changes.
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Underwood
Underwood Law
Disabled Youth Saves Sister in Cistern Rescue
In Topeka Kansas 15 year old Frank Herceldshei mer Jr confined to bed two months with rheumatism became a town hero when his six year old sister fell into a cistern. He jumped from bed and dived in to hold her above water until help arrived. The girl was unconscious at pullout but revived.
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Topeka
Kan
Frank Herceldsheimer, Jr
Frank
Flood Breaches Dike North of Omaha Plains Farm Losses
Flood waters from the Missouri River overwhelmed a hastily built dike north of Omaha Nebraska, flooding hundreds of acres of farmland. The breach sent a torrent into the lowlands, signaling a high likelihood of repeated flood damage this year.
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Omaha
Neb
Missouri River
Arrestee Charged With Inciting Negroes in New York
Morria Sorner a clothing cutter was arrested on charges of distributing circulars exhorting Negroes to mob violence The pamphlets bore the Executive Committee of the Communist Party of America label Sorner said he was employed by unknown persons to distribute them in Tulen
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New York
Morria Sorner
Communist Party of America
Tulen
Sorner
Frontier Days Plans And Wyoming News Notes
Brief Wyoming notes cover Cheyenne Frontier Days events from July 26 to 29 with expanded Arts building space, a Frontier Days Cowboy band touring the Midwest, and reduced air mail divisions. Also reported are a Cheyenne man shot by a jealous fiancé in Sundance, a Laramie school bond plan, three Sundance fatalities, Jackson’s all-woman administration expansion, the death of Miss Margaret Grier, oil price cuts, Irish Republic recognition efforts, a Basin Greybull narcotics raid, and Cheyenne’s crowd projections for the frontier celebration.
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Bolin
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Kit Carson
Cole
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Kb. W. Stevenson
A. E. Dunphy
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William Stewart
St. John’s Hospital
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Sundance
Ralph McHenry
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New Hauven
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Louis Schneider
Margaret Grier
University of Denver
Sam Underwood
Midwest Refining Company
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Ohio Oil Company
Findlay
Salt Creek
American Association For Recognition
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Norris
Ireland
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Basin
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Greybull
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