Regimental Choice in National Guard Testifies to Jewish Discrimination
Inquiry in the State Arsenal probes whether Jews were barred from Battery D and other units as captain and officers face questions. Witnesses recount steps to join, alleged refusals, and remarks on private club versus public property status of the Guard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Guard
Thirty-fifth Street
Seventh Avenue
Max J. Klein
Second Field Artillery
Howard E. Sullivan
Louis Stotenbury
Whitman
Stotesbury
Lein
Maurice Simmons
Kah
Committee For the Protection of
Jein
Klein
General Stotesbury
Adjutant General
Simmons
Mr. Klein
Second Wield Artillery
Charles E. Klein
Charles J. McGronan
MecGronan
Bullivan
Bull
Frank J. Conaton
Sullivan
Maurice Landsman
Bristow Street
Bronx
Seventy-first Regiment
J. Willams Macy
Pernally
Althoug
Abram L. Nathan
West Eightyseventh Street
Gran Jury
Mayor
Préparednes Committee
Refuse gasoline for Gerard's cars
Amid petrol shortages in Berlin the German Foreign Office refused Ambassador Gerard permission to buy fuel and the military authorities warned that any imported petrol would be confiscated. The ban affects private use and neutral diplomats as Germany tightens control over supplies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Amsterdam
London Daily Mail
Berlin
Gerard
Foreign Office
Germany
Stones At Vanderbilt Home Spark Sanity Hearing
An undersized Italian wood carver named Saebes Fowdbes, claiming injuries by General Leonard Wood John D Rockefeller J P Morgan and Theodore Roosevelt, was held for observation after throwing stones at William K Vanderbilt's Fifth Avenue home. A stuck stone shattered a mirror and window, with about $1000 damage. He admitted past confinement at Poughkeepsie State Hospital and said he aimed at Rockefellers home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leonard Wood
John D. Rockefeller
J. P. Morgan
Theodore Roosevelt
Koenig
William K. Vanderbilt
Fifth Avenue
Fifty-second Street
Louis E. Bisch
Paycopathic Laboratory
Olice
Fowdbes
Lavender
Mr. Vanderbilt
Stilletto
Vanderbilt
House Backs Government Armor Plant and Air Force Increase
The House approved the Naval Appropriations bill with a rider to build a Government armor plate plant at $11 million and boosted aeronautics funding from $2 million to $5.5 million. The vote 114 to 100 followed a heated debate over private vs government armor plate production.
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New York Times
Washington
House Today
Roberts
Massachusets
House
Senate
Thomas
Butler
The
Trade Commission
Secretary of the Navy
Blehem
Madden
Illinois
Graham Ofennsylvania
Garland O
Pennsylvania
South African Assembly Backing Diamond Export Tax
A Cape Town dispatch reports the Committee on Ways and Means in the South African Assembly has approved a measure to impose an export tax on diamonds. The proposed tax would be as high as five percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Reuter
Cape Town
Committee On Ways and Means of the
South African Assembly
British Submarine Sets 46 Day Atlantic Outing Record
A British submarine stayed at sea forty six days without surfacing and sank German warcraft while dodging mines. The commander demonstrated daring and the vessel carried fuel and food for the voyage with reserve capacity. The Times correspondent discussed German merchant submarine ideas and British interception risks.
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NEW York Times
London
New York
Arta
Erith
Tuw Times
THC Times
Germany
America
Atlantic
Times
Canada Ministers Face Probe Over Fused Contract Letters
Letters claimed to be from Frank Webb of New York to General Sir Sam Hughes offer fuse production at 3.50 to 3.75 each before a 5,000,000 fuse contract with American Ammunition and International Arms. Hughes and Bertram deny knowledge of the letters as Meredith-Duff Commission investigates alleged munition profits. The commission said the matter would be studied.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Ottawa
Frank Webb
New York
Sam Hughes
Genera Hughes
Meredith-Duff Commission
American Ammunition and
International Arms Ad
Hughes
F. H. Markey
Mr. Webb
General Hughes
Alexander Bertram
Imperial Munitions Board
Neral Hughes
Government wartime shell contracts court testimony
The session features Colonel J Wesley Allison and E F B Johnstone cross examining amid claims of noninterference in Canadian Shell Committee contracts. Ministers defend secrecy citing undisclosed information, with references to Sir Courtenay Bennett and Sir Robert Borden, and remarks on Morgans and middlemen in munitions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Wesley Allison
E. F. B. Johnstone
Canadian Shell Committee
Johnstone
Courtenay Bennett
New York
Shell Committee
War Office
Sir Sam
Commission
Shell
J. P. Morgan & Co
United States
Morgans
Morgan
Robert Borden
Hughes
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Arthur Blackborne
Lorena L. Barber
Salvador de Mendonca Catal
Thomas E. Kirby
Otto Bernet
American Art Association
East
Madison
Dan
Cuticura
Dept. 6
Boston
NEW York School OF Filing
Singer
Wm. A. White & Sons
Cedar St
Times Square
Adjt
Militia
Max
J. Klein
Kle
Nathan W. Friedman
West 172d Street
Adore
Horner
George A. Wingate
Nassau Street
Byeneral Stotesbury
Frank Silverman
Stones Vanderbilt House
Lunatic
Kellogg
Caveters
PRA Lagos
NAVY
Jackson Heights
Grand Central
Ueensboro Corporation
Bridge Plaza, L. I. City, N. Y
Bacardi
Packard
Welch’s
Welch
One Welch Grape Juice Company
Westfield
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