Today’s anniversaries June 1 highlights
June 1 entries include Sir James Ross discovering the North Magnetic Pole in 1815, the 1840 London meeting of the Society for the Extinction of Slave Trade led by the Prince Consort, and the 1851 founding of the UK alliance against liquor traffic. Other items note Ionian Islands ceded to Greece in 1864, poet Catherine A Warfield’s death in 1877, Elizabeth Blackwell’s 1910 death, 1917 Chinese provincial independence, and the destroyer Ward launch in 1918.
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North Magnetic Pole
James Ross
Society For the
London
Prince Consort
United Kingdom
America
Hastings
England
Bristol
China
Ward
Mare Island
Calif
Self-made British leader Sir Robert Horne hailed as rising Speaker
Sir Robert Horne, son of a Presbyterian minister, is seen as Britain’s likely Speaker of the Commons. Rising from a cottage to a top legal career, he left a high paying government post to become Minister of Labour, drawing praise from his forty-something peers and his devoted 86-year-old mother who receives daily letters from him.
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Robert Horne
James Lowther
House of Commons
Britain
Sir Robert
Birthdays Today Highlight Notable Figures Across Fields
The day marks birthdays of Princess Yolande of Italy born in Rome 19 years ago John Drinkwater renowned English poet and dramatist born 38 years ago Rt Rev Patrick R Heffron Catholic bishop of Winona born in New York City 60 years ago Dr Ernest Fox Nichols Yale professor who resigned to pursue industry born in Leavenworth Kansas 51 years ago Blanche Swest Chicago born photoplay actress 26 years ago Otto L Miller Brooklyn NL catcher born in Minden Nebraska 31 years ago.
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Yolande
Italy
Prince of Wales
Rome
John Drinkwater
America
Patrick R. Heffron
Winona
New York City
Ernest Fox Nichols
Yale
Leavenworth
Kas
Blanche Swest
Chicago
Otto L. Miller
Brooklyn
Minden
Neb
Pardons for Friendless Convicts Recommended in Texas
The Texas Board of Pardon Advisers recommended twenty two pardons for poor and friendless penitentiary convicts after hearings in El Paso San Antonio Dallas Fort Worth Galveston Houston. About three thousand appeared before the board during the trip, which uncovered many hardship stories including a mother of seven caring for her family while her husband served five years for theft.
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Austin
Texas
Board of Pardon Advisers
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Women Democrats Lead 54 Delegates for National Convention
Led by Mrs. John Sherwin Crosby the Mother of New York Women Democrats a special train carrying 54 women delegates and alternates departs New York June 19 for the National Democratic Convention in San Francisco. The trip includes en route additions from other states and visits to Pike's Peak the Grand Canyon Riverside Hollywood and Los Angeles and Catalina Islands with return by the Canadian Rockies July 11. Delegates at large include Elisabeth Marbury Harriet May Mills and alternates include Mrs. Maurice Connolly and Nellie Hewitt. Crosby founded the first Women’s Democratic Club in 1904 and the Woman’s National Democratic League in 1912. The group plans resolutions on oil and coal public utilities government ownership railroads stricter child labor laws and more.
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Associated Press
New York
John Sherwin Crosby
Mother of
San Francisco
United States
Chicago
Pike’s Peak
Colorado Springs
Grand Canyon
Colorado
Riverside
Hollywood
Los Angeles
Catalina Islands
Canadian Rockies
Elisabeth Marbury
Harriet May Mills
Maurice Connolly
Corona
L. L
Nellie Hewitt
Carthage
Platform Committee
Crosby
Sheppard- Towner
Winnsboro and Gilmer Railroad Incorporation
The Winnsboro and Gilmer Railroad company files articles of incorporation with the secretary of state. Capitalized at 125000 dollars, it plans to operate 31 miles of track purchased from the Marshall and East Texas Railroad, running through Wood and Upshur counties between Winnsboro and Gilmer. Officers listed include Birkguard of Dallas as president, W. E. Stevenson of Winnsboro as vice president, and Jordin Alois of Winnsboro as secretary-treasurer.
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Associated Press
Austin
Texas
Winnsboro and
Gilmer
Winnsboro
Jordin Alois
Secrtary
Orient Railroad to Halt Without Government Aid
Representatives from twenty one towns met in San Angelo Texas to warn the Kansas City Mexico Orient railroad will cease operations September 1 if its $100000 monthly losses cannot be covered by aid from the three hundred million revolving fund. The road serves an 800 mile stretch from Wichita Kansas to Alpine Texas and carries vital cattle and sheep industry commerce. Houston Harte notes the line began profitable only as government control ended, then suffered under wartime diversion and resource shifts.
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Associated Press
San Angelo
Texas
Kansas City, Mexico & Orient Railroad
West Texas
Houston Harte
San Angelo Standard
Orient Road Way
Orient
Mr. Harte
Orient Railroad
Wichita
Kansas
Alpine
Interstate Commerce Commission
Local Recitals and Meetings This Week
Tuesday notices include the Sunbeam Band meeting at 4 PM at the Baptist Church and the Tuesday Music and Literary Club meeting at 4 PM at Mrs A P Nye's residence. Mrs Thomas Reed presents her pupils in recital at Elks Hall at 8 15 PM. Wednesday recitals at Elks Hall at 4 30 PM and 8 15 PM. plus many travel and visit notices.
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Sunbeam Band of the Baptist Church
A. P. Nye
Thomas Reed
Elks Hall
Elk's Hall
Community singing and dance at Fort McIntosh Service Club
Attendees included Mesdames Buenz Burnett Barr Thompson Cone Biskamp Emerson Lanpman and J K Thompson. Evening program features community singing and a dance at the Fort McIntosh Service Club, starting at 7 30 p m with Nelson as hostess. Miss Ofelia Garcia hosted a house party at Los Ojuelos ranch with guests including Carrie Henry Angelita Castillo Rebecca Avila Leonor Magnon Esther and Alice Penn.
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J. O. Buenz
Burnett
Barr
A. G. Thompson
Cone
Biskamp
Emerson
Lanpman
J. K. Thompson
Fort Mclntosh
Miss Nelson
Ofelia Garcia
Los Ojuejos Ranch
Eusebio Garcia
Carrie Henry
Angelita Castillo
Rebecca Avila
Leonor Magnon
Esther
Alice Penn
Weather forecast from New Orleans and Fort McIntosh report
The Times carries daily forecast from the U S Weather Bureau New Orleans. Tonight and Wednesday are cloudy and unsettled. Observations at Fort McIntosh for the 24 hours ending 7 am today show no report obtainable.
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United States Weather Bureau
New Orleans
the Telephone Co
Fort McIntosh
Strike Sparks Disorder as City Struck by Unrest in Wichita Falls
June 1 The police chief ordered crowds banned on streets after disorder from the cook and waiter strike. Four non union waiters reported assaulted, while strike leaders denied union involvement. Brick layers barbers and metal workers joined in sympathy protests last night.
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Associated Press
Wichita Falls
Texas
Dallas Woman Receives Belgium War Relief Decoration
Miss Elizbeth Cochran of Dallas received a decoration from Queen Elizabeth of Belgium for selling flowers to raise funds for Belgian babies. She earned an inscribed silver medal showing the Belgian king and queen and surpassed all others by selling 400 dollars worth of flowers in one day.
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Dallas
Texas
Elizabeth Cochran
Quert Mlizabeth
Belgium
Miss Cochran
Wilson offers hospital ships to Vera Cruz to fight plague
President Wilson proposes immediate dispatch of hospital ships nurses doctors and medicine to Vera Cruz to combat a bubonic plague outbreak with 11 authentic cases and five deaths. The first case appeared May 15.
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United States
Associated Press
Vera Cruz
Mex
Wilson
Congress Votes to Adjourn Sine Die at Four Saturday
Washington January 1 The house adopted a resolution to adjourn Congress sine die at 4 o clock Saturday The action ends the current session and clears legislative business until a new session is convened later this year.
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Associated Press
Washington
Jane
The
House Today
Congress
Lopez Worker Plans Move to Mexico Stolen Savings
Jose Lopez, a railroad shop worker in El Paso, saved $809 over six years to move his family back to Mexico. While he attended church, the $800 he kept at home was stolen, forcing him to work another six years to raise funds for the move.
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Associated Presa
Paso
Texas
Jose Lopez
Mexico
Palmer accuses Post of sympathy toward anarchists
Attorney General Palmer told a House committee that Louis F. Post, assistant secretary of labor, shows perverted sympathy for criminal anarchists. He cited Post's autocratic stance as undermining public law and the government’s efforts to curb subversive activity, saying Post deprives the people of their day in court.
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Associated Press
Washington
Louis FF. Post
Labor
Palmer
House Committee Today
Post
Texas Company to build 29 employee houses in Port Arthur
Port Arthur notes the Texas Company has secured building permits for twenty nine houses at four thousand one hundred dollars each to rent to its workers cheaply. This marks the first installment of a planned one hundred rent houses to ease local housing shortage.
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Associated Press
Port Arthur
Texas
Texas Company
Berlin tightens grip on oil and luxury imports
The Inter-Allied Rhine land commission enforces a new German ordinance restricting imports through the so called hole in the West. Violations incur fines and imprisonment as channels through occupied territory are shut to curb evasion of duties.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Occupied
Germany
Inter-Allied Rhineland Commission
Desperate thief shoots captors in Oklahoma mining camp
In Pitcher Oklahoma three alleged sugar thieves were being transported to Miami when a prisoner drew a hidden pistol and killed detective B Vanderpool and Morris Chandler head of a local grocery. Officers in a following car fired back, wounding and recapturing the trio. The shooter is believed fatally wounded.
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Associated Press
Miami
Okla
Jane
Pitcher
B. Vanderpool
Morris’ Chandler
Soviet Open London Trading Office Granted
London reports that after yesterday's meeting between Gregory Krasin and Premier Lloyd George, the Soviet government has been granted permission to open a central trading office in London. The consent was conveyed by the Evening Standard and involves immediate setup.
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Associated Press
London
Gregory Krassit
Lloyd George
Evening Standard
President Wil son Signs Cotton Futures Appropriation Bill
President Wilson signed the annual agricultural appropriation bill in Washington on June 1, continuing the existing cotton futures contracts and the trading on cotton exchanges under the law.
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Ly Associated Press
Washington
Wilson
Amnual Agricultural
Local Notables Arrive for Brief City Visits
Hon Marshall Hicks of San Antonio arrived in the city this morning on a short business visit. D. D. Davis of Dolores is in the city occupying his seat in the county commissioners court session. Lloyd McGown, a leading San Antonio lawyer, is here on legal business. Roy Campbell returned from a short business trip to San Antonio. Stewart T H Lewis of Austin arrived for a brief business visit. G N Worrell came from Eagle Pass to assume cashier duties at the American Railways offices here, with Mrs Worrell and baby set to join him soon as they move to Laredo.
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Marshall Hicks
San Antonio
D. D. Davis
Dolores
County Commissioners Court
Lloyd McGown
Roy Campbell
Stewart TH. Lewis
Austin
G. N. Worrell
Eagle Pass
American Railways Express
Federal wheat control ends as wheat director ceases function
Washington on June 1 reports federal control of wheat products ended when the wheat director ceased to operate under wartime law. Food administration control ended by presidential proclamation, marking the removal of the $2.20 wheat guarantee established during the war.
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Associated Press
Washington
Food Administration
Referendum Vote Declared Inoperative By Supreme Court
Washington June 1 The supreme court held federal constitutional amendments cannot be submitted to a referendum in states with such provisions and declared the Oslo state referendum amendment inoperative for ratification. The court also ruled unconstitutional the War Revenue Act requiring the president and federal judges to pay income tax on salaries.
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Associated Press
Washington
Supreme Court
Oslo State
Hie Supreme Court
Quarantine Threatens Texas Over Pest Bill
Will and Charley J Marlett of the federal horticultural board warned that a bill creating regulated zones in worm infested districts could trigger a Texas wide quarantine by hindering prompt inspections. The board said its duties with Texas are concluded, hoping for continued federal aid.
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Associated Press
Austin
Texas
June
Charley J. Marlett
Federal Horticultural Board
Washington Today
Enteredme
Amend road laws seek vehicle registration shift
Austin June 1 State Comptroller Mark L Wigington urges amending road laws to move vehicle registration from January to May or October to ease January tax collector workload. He has written to every state tax collector asking the governor to submit the amendment in the current special session.
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Associated Press
Austin
Texas
Mark L. Wigington
Coanty
Open Letter Regarding Mexican Consulate Surrender
An open letter to The Times disputes a name on a list of consulate employees to be surrendered to Mr Antonio de Saracho. The writer says he will resign as soon as Mr Lisandra feta, Mexican vice consul, hands over the office to the new consular officials.
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Times
Antonio de Saracho
Lisandra Feta
Bee Man Holds Up Bee Wagon In Montana Incident
A Beegel bee man from Big Timber Montana sent to Texas with a large consignment of bees. While en route locals seized the baggage car and kept it until the train arrived. The bee man arrived on the platform and recovered his insects.
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Associated Press
Big Timber
Mont
Texas
Burgis Elected President of Texas Retail Jewelers
Dallas June 1. B T Burgis of Wichita Falls was elected president of the Texas Retail Jewelers association at the annual convention. Forty one applications for membership were received. The next annual convention will be held in Dallas.
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Associated Press
Dallas
Texas
B. T. Burgis
Wichita Falls
Texas Retail Jewelers’ Association
Second Hand Autos Trade In Texas Surges
Austin Texas June 1 More than three thousand second hand motor vehicles changed hands in Texas during the week May 19 according to reports received by the State Highway Commission. New cars registered numbered 2 664 bringing the total registered for 1920 to 353 667. Thirty nine dealers were licensed 88 motor cycles registered 3886 chauffeurs licensed and 227 duplicate registration seals issued.
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Associated Press
Austin
Texas
State Highway Commission
Rhine Republic Inaugurated At Wiesbaden
June 1 reports the Rhine Republic opening in Wiesbaden amid turmoil. Eighty lives were lost in a theater fire at Valence sur Rhone, France, shocking observers and prompting investigations.
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Rhine Republic
Wiesbaden
Valence-sur-Rhone
France
National Church and Community Convention Opens in Cleveland
Community work will be the topic as delegates convene in Cleveland for a national Church and Community Convention starting today. The event gathers church leaders and lay delegates to discuss service projects, outreach efforts, and collaborative initiatives across communities.
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Cleveland
New banks approved in Texas by State Banking Board
Permits to do business in Texas have been granted to new banks. First State Bank of Dobbin in Montgomery County with 15000 capital, Security State Bank of Decatur in Wise County with 60000 capital, Citizens State Bank of Boerne in Kendall County with 25000 capital, Nacogdoches State Bank in Nacogdoches County with 100000 capital, and First State Bank of Eliasville in Young County with 25000 capital.
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Austin
Texas
State Banking Board
First State Bank of
Dobbin
Montgomery County
Capital Stock
Security State Bank of Decenur
Wise County
Citizens State Bank of Boerne
Kendall County
Capital
Nacogdoches State Bank
Nacodoches County
Eliasville
Young County
Tuberculosis Deaths Decline In Texas And Nation
Austin reports tuberculosis deaths have fallen from 200000 to 150000 over fifteen years due to anti tuberculosis work. The Texas Public Health Association notes five states spent 100000 in 1905, while 1920 funding by the National Tuberculosis Association and 1000 affiliated groups is projected above 4 million dollars.
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Associated Press
Austin
Texas
Texas Public Health Association
National Tuberculosis Association
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