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Newspaper
Laredo Weekly Times
Location
Laredo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1920
Page
15
Five thousand draft evaders have been convicted in federal courts with sentences from 30 days to a year. About 275,000 cases have been investigated of 318,314 reported, as rapid rounding up continues. The figures exclude draft evaders handled by military authorities.
The socialist party intends to campaign for Eugene V. Debs from a federal prison where he is confined. Publicity director says prominent socialists will be distributed by the campaign committee. Seymour Steadman, the vice presidential nominee, will tour Texas and Oklahoma starting mid month and ending in August.
Washington July 10. The date of the first League of Nations meeting has been set for November 15, State Department officials announced today.
Voters in New Brunswick go to the polls to decide on retaining the Prohibition Act of 1916 and on whether light wines and beer should be sold under government control. The election marks the first provincewide referendum since WWI, with both wets and drys campaigning and women voting for the first time.
Senator Kenyon declared the last congressionally approved appropriation to the department of justice to combat the cost of living was misused to boost Attorney General Palmer for the Democratic nomination. He said little of the money was used for its stated purpose and announced a Washington trip for a secret conference.
In Chicago on July 10 the Committee of Forty-Eight and delegates from liberal groups launched a third party movement at the first national convention. Senator Robert La Follette of Wisconsin appeared unopposed as the presidential nomination choice in the mail referendum, with nearly every delegate wearing a La Follette badge.
Washington July 10 Suspension of work in many steel plants threatens thousands of jobs as representatives from a score of mills told the Interstate Commerce Commission at a hearing on priority orders that a car shortage could halt production.
Chicago July 10. Army lieutenant Carl Wanderer says he is through talking and is waiting for the hanging after admitting to killing his wife and a tramp to cover up a planned crime. He enticed both to his home aiming to rob and claim inheritance of his wife's property. The wife, who expected a child, uttered the word the baby. The state attorney plans murder charges and notes Wanderer wished to be hanged to join her in death.
Paris July 10 Polish forces are withdrawing from Brest Litovsk in Villa and Pinsk as the result of the great Russian Bolsheviks offensive according to a telegram received here.
A major Swiss watch making exhibition opens in Geneva at the Palais Electoral tomorrow and runs through most of the month. Officials plan large scale participation to connect producers and buyers worldwide with informal trade conferences on postwar conditions. Exhibits include clocks de luxe, watches of all kinds, wrist watches, electric timepieces, silverware and jewelry.
Today the Washington State Letter Carriers' Association holds its annual convention in Walla Walla as part of a busy day of events across North America.
The Laredo National Bank of Laredo Texas reports its redemption fund loans and discounts and various assets including United States bonds and cash. It lists liabilities such as circulation reserve and other obligations totaling 3 820 416 67 with officers J K Beretta B M Alexander Sam W Brown M W Brennan Ih Vidaurri and J R Fasnacht.
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