Croker Visits City Discusses Old Times and Causes
Richard Croker, ex-Tammany Hall leader, visits New York in his Savoy Hotel suite with wife Mrs. Croker. He sails for Ireland on the Cunard Carmania, plans return in October, and shares views on Prohibition, racing, prizefighting, and cost of living. He predicts Jack Dempsey will win the world heavyweight title and recalls Orby, his Derby winner.
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Tammany Hall
Hotel Savoy
America
Mr. Croker
Praca
Tammany
Ireland
Hylan
Palm Beach
Ai’ Smith
Orby
Glenecsirn
Orby Stock
Jack Dempsey
Ton
Dempsey
Toledo
BereDsey
Mayor Snyder Wins LA Mayoral Race by Plurality
Ex Mayor Meredith P. Snyder defeated incumbent Frederick T. Woodman by more than 20 000 votes in Los Angeles municipal election returns with two thirds of precincts reported. Woodman had been acquitted on charges tied to receiving money to protect vice.
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Los Angeles
Meredith P. Snyder
Frederick T. Woodman
Woodman
War Dept to Cut Provost Guards Near Camps
Military provost guards in all cities adjacent to army camps will be reduced by June 15 and discontinued as soon as possible, the War Department announced.
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Wihnik Soo
Washington
War Department
Honors Fosdick and Mott. War Dept Awards D and M
Secretary Baker awarded Distinguished Service Medals to Raymond B. Fosdick and John P. Mott, along with John J. Burke and others. Isabelle Stambaugh received the Distinguished Service Cross for bravery near Amiens in 1918, while Lieut. Col. A Fries earned the French Order of Commander of the Legion of Honor.
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Washington
Raymond B. Fosdick
New York
Commission
John P. Mott
Young Men’s Christian Association
War Work Council
John J. Burke
National Catholic War Council
Baker
Isabelle Stambaugh
Army Nurse Corps
Amiens
A. Fries
P. A. Curry
J. Franklin Bell
Marlborough Churchill
Frederick F. Russell
Golden L. Hi. Ruggles
Max Clayton Tyler
James J. Dillard
Richard Park
John M. Kunn
Fulton ©. Gardner
George K. Wilson
William H. Welch
F. B. Wells
T. Edward Hamblibton
Mercier Set for Fall Visit to New York and Baltimore
Cardinal Mercier archbishop of Mechlin and primate of Belgium will visit the United States in September on a brief trip. In a cable message he credits American aid through the Commission for Relief in Belgium for alleviating wartime suffering and expresses gratitude to Americans. He will travel to Baltimore to be hosted by Cardinal Gibbons after arriving in New York.
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Cardinal Mercier
Ma- Mines
Belgium
Belshin
New York
Sepee
Commission For Relief
America
Atlantic
Hooover
Commission
United States Army
Baltimore
Cardinal Gibbons
Court orders return of foundling to hospital custody
Supreme Court Justice Tierney denied the plea of Mr. and Mrs. Finetoom for custody of Bobby Ashe, the Mt. Vernon foundling. He ruled the child must be delivered to New York Nursery and Childs Hospital, noting the Finetooms had not legally adopted the boy and had agreed to return him within 24 hours of demand. The court did not consider the couple’s finances or religion.
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Supreme Court
Tierney
John M. Finetoom
West
Bobby Ashe
Mt. Vernon
New York
Poles Boycott Jews Spark Jersey City Tensions
Reports of atrocities in Poland provoke Poles in Jersey City to attack Jewish shops. Poles threaten boycotts and violence while police under Captain James F Hooney and Director Charles F X O'Brien seek neutrality and order on Henderson Street near Sixth to Ninth Streets.
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Henderson Street
Sixth
Ninth Streets
Jersey City
Poland
James F. Hooney
Seventh Street
Charles F. X. O’brien
Department of Public Safety
Kunwald Freed to Leave Country from Fort Oglethorpe
Dr. Ernest Kunwald former leader of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra was released from internment at Fort Oglethorpe after a year as an alien enemy. He departed for New York to proceed to Austria.
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Kunwald
Chattanooga
Tenn
Ernest Kunwald
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Fort Ogletho
New York
Austria
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