Supreme Court upholds federal prohibition as constitutional
The U S Supreme Court ruled the eighteenth amendment and Volstead Act constitutional, sustaining federal enforcement over state laws. The decision covers seven suits from Rhode Island, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Missouri, and Kentucky, with 60 days given for petitions to repeal. Justice McKenna dissented on the decision.
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United States Supreme Court
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Missouri
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Christian Felgenspan
New Jersey Brewing Corporation
George C. Dempsey, & Boston
St. Louis Brewing Association
Kentucky Distilleries and Warehouse Company
Louisville
Manitowoc Products Company
Milwaukee
McKenna
Supreme Court
Reading Company
Chinaman Born in US Allowed to Return to U S
The Supreme Court overruled Secretary of Labor Wilson in denying Kwock Jen Fat of Monteray California entry after a trip to China. Fat was argued to be a US citizen by birth, and the government sought to exclude him. The court faulted the Labor Department for an inadequate record in the case.
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Supreme Court
Secretary of Labor
Wilson
Kwock Jen Fat
Monteray
Cal
United States
China
U. S. Wants Wood to Be President Procter Statement
Colonel William Cooper Procter, Wood manager, issued a pre battle statement claiming the General has led in primaries from first to second and that America wants him as the next president. Delegates are said to be firmly with them and unshifting in support.
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Chicago
William Cooper Procter
Voice of America
America
Mexico to banish enemies of new regime
A Chihuahua City report says enemies of the new regime in Mexico will be banished from their home communities. Three prominent lawyers and a newspaper editor are said to have been ordered to depart. They supported the election of Ygnacio Bonillas as president and Andres G. Orils as governor, and were told to leave the state of Chihuahua.
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Mexico
Chihuahua City
Ygnacio Bonillas
Andres G. Orils
Chihuahua
Colby Apologizes for Flag Burning Incident
Washington report says Secretary Colby on behalf of the American government issued a verbal apology to the British ambassador for the burning of a British flag by Irish women. The apology followed a request for an official report from District of Columbia authorities. The timing and details of the report remain awaiting government action.
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Washington
Colby
District of Columbia
Non-Party Leaders Meet at Norfolk
Norfolk Neb June. Non partisan league leaders from the third Nebraska district gather in Norfolk for a meeting to name a congressional candidate to run by petition. They denounce Webb Rice and Judge Evans as unsatisfactory. Elvana defeated Crowley in the primaries. A county mass convention will name three county candidates for petition drives. Walter Mills, league organizer, will lecture Tuesday evening.
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Neb
Nebraska
Congress
Webb Rice
Judge Evans
Elvana
Ferdinand Crowley
Walter Thomas Mills
League
Kansas
MISS HAY A BOSS AT CONVENTION INFLUENCE
Long article notes Mary Garrett Hay of New York as a powerful force in the Republican Women’s division. It reports she has pressed for hearing before the resolutions committee and outlines proposed planks on high living costs, federal regulation, price control, and fair trade to aid home makers amid economic pressures.
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Will IL Hays
National Committee
Hays
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Garrett Hay
New York
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Resolutions Committee
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Maude Wood Park
Washington
Gifford Pinchot
Philadelphia
F. Louis Slade
George Gellhorn
St. Louis
Richard Edwards
Richard Edwardes
Congress
Dietrich Fatally Shot by Police in Misidentified Attack
Chicago detectives and a watchman connected a late Sunday sighting to a supposed bandit in Charles C. Dietrich’s office. Dietrich fled when officers fired after misreading the danger, and he died at the hospital from the injuries inflicted in the confrontation.
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Chicago
Charles C. Dietrich
Dietrich
Italy May Break With Allies
June report warns Italy may split from France and Britain and seek a separate peace with Germany unless indemnity terms are increased. Rome signals direct talks with Berlin if Hythe decisions and broader concessions are denied by the allies.
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Italy
Germany
France
Great Britain
Nittl
Lloyd George
Milleranid
Kome
London
Parle
Apa
Berlin
Hythe
19 000 Soldier Leave to Attack Francisco Villa
Mexico City reports say 15 thousand troops were sent by the new government to engage Francisco Villa and capture him if possible. Ignacio Bonillas and Gil Garra_s freed by the revolutionaries. Rodolfo Berrero, accused in Carranza murder, arrives to present proof. Parade of 26 000 troops showcases Huerta regime support. Obregon appears in uniform. Villa attacked Parral yesterday and was repulsed with losses. Railway service between Chihuahua and Jimenez resumes. French library holds 72,000 books on the Revolution.
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Francisco Villa
Ignacio Bonillas
United States
Gil Garras
Carranza
Tampico
Rodolfo Berrero
Revolutionary Army
Rodolfo de la Huerta
G O P Women Seek Committee Places
In Chicago on June 4 Republican women pressed for admission to the national committee. A sub committee will meet Monday after a caucus led by Miss Mary Garrett Hay to set out demands. They seek a woman vice chairman and a woman assistant secretary, arguing for parity in the inner party circle.
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Chicago
National Committee
Mary Garrett Hay
New York
Circe
Miss Hay
House for repeal of war time laws
Washington reports the House adopted a joint resolution to repeal all wartime statutes except the Lever act espionage and trading with the enemy acts. It now goes to the Senate where changes are expected. The move may influence prohibition politics and could lift wartime prohibition alongside 2.75 percent beer laws in New York New Jersey and other states unless federal authorities intervene.
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House
Judiciary Committee
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Wilson
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New Jersey
Children Defeat Park Ban In Evanston Aldermen
Chicago June 4 Evanston aldermen denied a petition from about 100 residents to bar children from playing in the suburb's main park. The board ruled that preserving green space for kids outweighed other concerns and that rain grass was secondary to happy children.
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Chicago
Evanston
Gompers Rejects Fall Plan For Mexico Intervention
Samuel Gompers, AFL president, denounces the Senate Fall subcommittee report urging U S policing in Mexico unless constitutional changes align with American oil and mining interests. He calls the core recommendations vicious and notes they reflect corporate aims tied to land and timber interests.
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Washington
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Senate
Mexico
Albert B. Sall
United States
Gompers
Senator Fall
De Valera Leaves Waldorf Astoria for West
New York June 4 Eamon De Valera president of the Irish republic gave up his Waldorf Astoria apartments and left for the west. He plans to be in Chicago on the eve of the republican national convention. Some friends say he may go to San Francisco to meet Archbishop Mannix and then to Rome, but advisers would not discuss the report.
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Eamon de Lavera
Waldorf-Astoria
West
de Valera
Chicago
San Francisco
Mannix
Australia
Rome
Farmers Seek Equal Railroad Rates Across Services
Chicago June 4. The American Farm Bureau Federation urged equalization of proposed freight rate increases between passenger and freight service. Farmers pay 60 to 45 percent of rail revenue, a passenger rate rise is sought. Attorney Clifford Thorne reported on ICC hearings. A $35,000 budget was set to establish an economics and statistics bureau.
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Chicago
American Farm Bureau Federation
Clifford Thorne
Interstate Commerce Commission
Bureau of Economics and Statistics
Irish Resolution Blocked in House by Time Constraint
Washington June 4 Irish supporters faced Speaker Gillett's denial to grant the floor for bringing up a sympathy resolution for Ireland. The measure had been favorably reported by the foreign affairs committee and was to be handled on the floor by Representative Mason of Illinois.
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Washington
House
Gillett
Ireland
Foreign Affairs Committee
Mason
Illinois
Senate approves merchant marine bill conference report
The Senate accepted the conference report on the Merchant Marine bill by 45 to 14. It outlines a general U S policy for sale of war built ships to private American interests as deemed beneficial by the shipping board. Also notes a Kansas girl waking from a 460 hour coma and beginning recovery.
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Washington
Senate Today
United States
S Sipping Board
Donaldsea
Actor Clifton Crawford Dies In Apparent Accident
London coroner's jury rules actor Clifton Crawford died accidentally after falling from his hotel window while suffering from insomnia. The inquest concluded the death was unintentional. Separately, Denmark's Social Democrats plan an amendment for republic governance in Vig dag.
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London
Cliffton Crawford
Girls, You Must Not Do That Again At Beach
New York June 1 A fragment from a June 1 report recalls a seaside incident at Coney Island where a young woman in a bathing outfit attracted attention. Police women noted bare knees as a privacy concern, while no arrests were made and the day ended without incident.
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New York
Coney Island
Obregon Fight For Oil Firms Heads Toward Clash
Mexico City reports that General Obregon aims to assert central control over Tampico oil fields driving a potential showdown with Pelaez. Oil firms paid 4 million pesos in March and April and again 4 million in May while Obregon seeks to limit further payments and offer protection guarantees. Yaqui troops may be used if diplomacy fails. Production grows as export capacity lags behind, and a controversial dinner involving American sailors is cited in an official-mistated account.
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Mexico City
America
Tampico
General Obregon
Carranea
Pelaez
Obregon
Carranza
Pelaes
Carranka
Pelwes
Mexio
Mexico
Rural Carrier Gets Job Through Wilson
Washington June 1 The appointment by order of President Wilson of Hiram Lenoy Atwood as carrier on rural mail route No 2 Carter is effective tomorrow. It is the only rural carrier appointment by executive order ever made in South Dakota. Atwood served in the Spanish American War and the Philippine Insurrection and later lost an arm in an accident. Local patrons and the Carter postmaster urged his appointment through Congressman Harry L Gandy. Postmaster General Burleson made the appointment, citing wartime service and proven efficiency.
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Wilson
Hiram Lenoy Atwood
Carter
South Dakota
Atwood
Civil Service Regula Fione
Harry L. Gandy
Vailing
Civil Service Commission
Post Office Department
Gandy
Burleson
Masaryk Grants Amnesty to Political Offenders
Prague May 20 President Thomas G Masaryk grants amnesty to all political offenders except those convicted of espionage or murder.
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Checho
Slovakia
Thomas G. Masnaryk
Cummings Sees Wilson At White House Meeting
Cummings, chairman of the Democratic committee, conferred with President Wiles today at the White House in Washington. A June report notes a L Homer at eight for Cummings and Wilson in the recap.
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Wilson
Washington
Homer
Senate to reject mandate on Armenia aid plan
Washington June 11 expectations rise that the Senate foreign affairs committee will back a resolution refusing President Wilsons request for a mandate for Armenia. Debate limited to under 46 minutes per senator. Missouri Senator Mitchick offered a substitute proposing a seven member commission including three Americans and three Armenians to raise bonds for Armenia rehabilitation without US obligation. Senator Reed criticized the mandate plan.
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Washington
Wilson
Armenia
Senate Foreign Afaia
Senate
Mtchcock
Banda
United States
Reed
Cumming Boomed as Dark Horse Nominee Leader
Chicago June 1 J E Rhodes a Denver veteran politician and friend of Senator Cummins arrived to campaign for Cummins as a dark horse nominee for the republican leadership. He predicts no clear nominee will emerge from ballots and a dark horse will win. Rhodes once lived in Grinnell and was key in Cummins youth era under the barbed wire trust fleet.
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Chicago
J. E. Rodes
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Cummins
Rhodes
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Cumming
Grinnell
Fifty Thousand Veterans Parade in New York City
Fifty thousand veterans from three wars paraded through New York City on Memorial Day across five boroughs. Grand Army of the Republic veterans led the march as Pershing spoke. At Arlington National Cemetery earlier, Civil War veterans joined khaki clad veterans for graves of World War I dead, and Roosevelt graveside tribute drew about four thousand floral offerings at Oyster Bay.
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Grand Army of the Republic
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Washington
Arington National Cemetery
France
Oyster Bay
N. Y
Theodore Roosevelt
Quentin Roosevelt
American Legion
Iowa Delegates Arrive in Chicago for Republican Convention
Chicago June 1 Members of the Iowa delegation to the Republican convention began arriving in Chicago National Committeeman John T Adams Inter Fred Davis Sioux City secretary of the delegation arrived and started setting up Iowa headquarters in the Auditorium H O Weaver who handles the delegation arrives tomorrow Lowden leaders rely on Iowa support and have Pickett of Waterloo counsel for the Lowden forces asked to deliver a nominating speech.
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Chicago
Iowa
John T. Adams
Fred Davis
Sioux City
H. O. Weaver
Lowden
Pickett
Wraterlan
More Claims Carranza Killed Self Rise In Mexico City
Washington reports the Carranza death narrative remains unsettled as embalmer Cureeon claims to prove self-inflicted death. A statement aligned with former Premier Berlanca and seven others was published, asserting examination shows a wound on Carranza's chest caused by his own vital action.
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Washington
Careranna
Mexico City
Berlanca
Carranza
Reds Lose Heavily Against Poles
A London dated communique from Warsaw reports major Soviet defeats as Poles claim several divisions encircled and destroyed near ChaNeWa and Jalisayee. The Werewina river line from Lorisett to the Dneleper is reported crossed by Polish forces with prisoners taken.
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London
Warsaw
Poa Armica
Polutex
Meladetechno
Cqanewa
Jalisayee
Pane
Werewina
Lorisett
Dneleper
League Question May Cause Row At Convention
United News Staff reports on the 1920 Republican convention as leaders debate a League of Nations plank. Borah backs a straddle stance while Johnson and Lodge prepare for potential floor fight. Hoovers and other candidates weigh in as labor and independence planks draw attention.
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League of Nations
Johnson-Horah
Revolutions Committee
Borah
Senate
Washington
Monroe
United States
Johnson
Herbert Hoover
League
Will Hays
Johnseon
Senator Johnson
California
Senator Lodge
Supreme Court
Independents Lead in Berlin Vote in German Election
Berlin returns show independents leading with 459,060 votes and 45 seats, beating majority socialists at 184,700 votes and 44 seats. Volkspartei 140,000 votes, others share 265,100. Count von Bernstorff defeated, Heifferich and Bauer elected. Nationwide tallies place independents at 3,047,621 votes, 45 seats. socialist 3,522,596 votes, 44 seats. Volkspartei 2,639,003 votes, 29 seats.
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