Wilson endorses tobacco tax plan as emergency measure
Washington reports President Wilson approved Attorney General McReynolds plan for a progressive tobacco excise to curb big company dominance. The plan aimed to aid independent manufacturers, with McReynolds presenting it to Senator Simmons's Finance Committee for possible inclusion in tariff legislation. The White House clarified the idea is not a general policy, just an extraordinary measure to restore competition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Washington
Wilson
McReynolds
White House
Simmons
Senate Finance Committee
Washington Dispatch
Tur
Tmes
United States Circuit Court of New York
Mr. McReynolds
Department of Justice
Coness
Hitchcock
Nebraska
Senate
Tobacco Trust
United States Circuit Court
New York
Circuit Court
Cus
Sim- Mons
Finance Committee
We Hairman
Hilich
Mrs Woodford Named in Fairfield Fatal Accident Probe
Six witnesses testified before Coroner Phelan in Bridgeport on June 6 about the death of William Steinhauser near Fairfield. Testimony implicated Mrs Stewart L Woodford, widow of Gen Woodford, claiming her car was on the wrong side and moving fast while the chauffeur aided braking. she will testify in private next week.
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New York Times
Bridgeport
Phelan
William Steinhauser
Fairfield
Stewart L. Woodford
Gen. Woodford
Spain
Woodford
Conrad Olsen
Indictment Returns Stolen Million From Philadelphia Vaults
Walter S. Shourds former Superintendent of Merchants Union Trust Company faces a jury verdict of not guilty after restitution of nearly 1.5 million dollars in cash and securities. The case traced shortages since 1911 including 1.4 million in securities from director George W. Burnham Jr. and involved international fugitive searches before Shourds returned the funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Walter S. Shourds
Merchants Union Trust Company
Shourds
Trust
Supt Heeter Dismissed by Pittsburgh Board of Education
After weeks of inquiry the Pittsburgh Board of Public Education discharged Supt. L. E. Heeter for improper conduct. The vote, with Miss Beulah Kennard as sole dissenter, followed a 1000 page evidence record from a citizen committee. Heeter faced charges arising from a hospital incident and later alcohol related demonstrations by students.
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Pittsburgh
Board of Public Education
L. Heeter
Public
Beulah Kennard
Mah
Heeter
Gainet
By Heeter
Citizens’ Committee
Ac Ee
Dickensheets Held on Extortion Charges in New Jersey
George W. Dickensheets president of the First National Bank of Woodbury N J Henry Stille of Clayton N J Joseph J Summerill Gloucester County Public Prosecutor and Joseph B Best Woodbury N J were arrested in Philadelphia on extortion charges and released by a magistrate today Summerill and Best were paroled for a hearing next Friday details of an alleged $5 000 conspiracy and bond arrangements were disclosed with investigators recording evidence from a dictaphone managed by a court captain
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Philadelhia
George W. Dickensheets
First National Bank
Woodbury
N. J
Henry Stille
Clayton
Joseph J. Summerill
Gloucester County
Joseph B. Best
Gorman
Summerill
Best
David Wilson Moore, Jr
Tae
Seether
Charles Moore
Ifcore Oe
Brothers Glass Company
Dicketts
Stille
Com
Anthony
Moore
Drowned Woman in Newark Park Lake Tragedy
Mrs. Bridget Clark of 10 North Thirteenth Street drowned in Park Lake Newark while reaching for a lost oar. Patrick Dunn, her companion, was rescued by park policemen after the boat capsized amid a crowded lakeside crowd.
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Park Lake
Newark
Bridget Clark
North Thirteenth Street
Patrick Dunn
Park
Dunn
James
Whitman Boom Gains West Side Business Backing
District Attorney Charles S. Whitman won the endorsement of the West Side Business Men's Association for the Mayoralty bid. A steering committee was named to organize an ante primary campaign and circulate petitions to place Whitman on the ballot, with about four thousand signatures needed. The group outlined a nonpartisan front while leaning Republican in the room, and Hapgood maintained the Committee of One Hundred and Seven stance remains unchanged toward any properly constituted organization supporting Whitman.
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Charles S. Whitman
West Side Business Men's Association
Hotel Astor
Whitman
Itman
A. E. Stilger
Chelsea Exchange Bank
George A. Mahler
Thomas J. Buckley
Queens
E. A. Arnold
Frank Williams
Lawrence Emerich
Edward Carpenter
Perley Morse
Herman PD. Nessler
Michael A. Blake
Charles H. Darmstadt
John Mulcahy
Joseph F. Murphy
Joseph F. Feist
College
West Side
New York
Charlies S. Whitman
New York County
W Side Punspier Men's Association
Rie York
Michael A. Barnes
Carnegie Hall
Cooper Union
Republican County Organization
Citizens’ Democracy
Norman Apgood
Committee of One Hundred and Seven
Exee
Mr. Hapgood
Hapgood
Tammany Hall
Woodruff Enrolls Blank in Brooklyn Bull Moose Flap
Timothy L. Woodruff, once a Republican county leader, now with the Progressive Party, submitted a blank enrollment slip to the Brooklyn Bureau of Elections. The unsigned cross was missing, among 1,485 slips filed by Mark Reardon Jr., secretary of the Brooklyn Bull Moose. The group had urged followers to enroll under the Bull Moose banner amid internal tension.
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Kings County
Bull Moose
Timothy L. Woodruff
Progressive Party
Bureau of Elections
Brooklyn
Woodruff
Mark Reardon, Jr
Kings
The Psychology of the Kaiser by Prof Hugo Muensterberg
This excerpt notes a contribution by Hugo Muensterberg for The New York Times honoring Kaiser Wilhelm II’s twenty-fifth throne anniversary. It lists other prominent international contributors including the King of Italy Theodore Roosevelt Taft and Alfred H. Fried and urges reading tomorrow's Sunday Times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hugo Muensterberg
New York Times
Kaiser Wilhelm II
Italy
Theodore Roosevelt
William H. Taft
Duke of Argyll
William J. Bryan
Count Bernstorff
Lord Blyth
Gilbert Parker
Arthur von Gwinner
Andrew Carnegie
Nicholas Murray Butler
Alfred H. Fried
Socialist Editor Gets Big Sentence in Paterson Case
Alexander Scott editor of The Weekly Issue, jailed 1 to 15 years for defaming the government over the silk mill strike. fined $250. Appeal filed, bail set at $3,000. Scott aims for US Supreme Court on free speech issue. Also notes Paterson strike leaders and Manufacturers Association stance on talks.
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New York Times
Paterson
N. J
Alexander Scott
Trenton
Kienert
Scott
Samuel Ginsberg
Passaic
United States Supreme Court
Klewert
Hannah Silberman
Carroll
Supreme Court
Minturn
Hoboken
E l Lackawanna Railroad
Madison Square Garden
Manhattan
Benjamin Cohen
Lane Street
Mary Hall
Jersey
Pious
Reg
Manufacturers’ Association
Cent
Wood Jury Out Bribe Offer Made in Dynamite Case
The six counts accuse William M. Wood Frederick E. Atteaux and Dennis J. Collins of conspiracy tied to the Lawrence textile strike. A juror reported a $200 bribe offer and a life position to sway votes, prompting a grand jury inquiry and delays before verdicts on six counts.
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WOOD
Boston
Lawrence
William M. Wood
The
American Woolen Company
Freedrick E. Atteaux
Dennis J. Collins
Crosby
Morris Shuman
Shuman
Pelletier
Ome Sas
Joseph Assaf
Urbano de Pratto
Rebuffs by Vice Commission Roils Illinois Wage Probe
Special to The New York Times from Chicago reports Julius Rosenwald of Sears Roebuck criticizing the Illinois Senatorial Vice Commission as sensational and incompetent while declining to read his prepared statement. J Robinson of the Illinois Steel Co testifies wages range from 1.95 for a 10 hour day to 300 400 a month for skilled work. Gary employs 7800 men. inquiry questions probe fair living wages for a family.
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New York Times
Chicago
Illinois Senatorial Vice Commission
Julius Rosenwald
Sears, Roebuck & Co
O'Hara
Rosenwald
Beall
J . Robinson
Illinois Steel Company
Gary
Seizure of 500 Rifles and Bayonets in Dublin
Dublin June 6 customs authorities seized a steamer from Liverpool carrying 500 rifles and bayonets addressed to Lord Farnham at Farnham, County Cavan. Farnham, a 33 year old leading Ulster Unionist, has campaigned against Home Rule. The arms came from a London firm amid reports of an organized London supply network to Ulster Unionist centers.
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Dublin
Liverpool
Lord Farnham
Farnham
Cavan
London
Ulster
Little Girl Had Gems in Brooklyn Lawn Party Incident
Lillian Wheeler a 13 year old from 41 Bay Thirty-eighth Street Brooklyn faced Chil dren's Court for examination on a juvenile delinquency charge after jewels disappeared from Mrs Louise Fracktman wife of a Maiden Lane jeweler. The girl but later admitted finding the jewels in the street and denied taking them. The jewels were recovered and returned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lillian Wheeler
Bay Thirty-eighth Street
Brooklyn
Mayo
Children’s Court
Louise Fracktman
Twenty-fourth Avenue
Maiden Lane
Fracktman
New Head of Matteawan Named in Albany
John B. Riley State Superintendent of Prisons appoints Dr. Raymond F. C. Kieb as Matteawan State Hospital superintendent at 3500 dollars annually. Dr. Kieb succeeds acting superintendent Dr. Roy L. Leak as Dr. John Russell had resigned amid Sulzer Committee inquiries into an alleged bribe attempt by Harry K. Thaw.
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New York Times
Albany
John B. Riley
Raymond F. C. Kieb
Matteawan State Hospital
Kieb
Roy L. Leak
John Russell
Sulzer Committee of Inquiry
Harry K. Thaw
Pdannemora State Hospital
Leak
Matteawan
Russell
Auburn Convicts Strike Over Noon Menu Demands
Convicts in the cabinet at Auburn protest a noon menu of codfish potatoes pickled beets brown bread white bread and tea. Warden Ce F. Ratti gan orders work return after a token walk out by twenty seven inmates. Old-time officers seek to test the institution’s response.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Auburn
A& 2
Ce F. Rattigan
Say de Parten Waar
militant suffragettes disrupt peace talks and Davison deteriorates
Miss Davison lies critically ill after a major operation in London as militant suffragettes threaten the Balkan Allies Turkey peace conference at St James's Palace. police arrest three demonstrators including Marianne Hyde and Constance Andrews while Mme Jules Siegfried condemns militant tactics as harmful to the women's cause.
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London
Balkan
Turkey
St. James’s Palace
Women’s Freedom League
Marianne Hyde
Constance Andrews
Miss Ogilvie
Paris
Mme
Jules Siegfried
French National Association of Women
Paris Midi Today
Emil Wilding Davison
Freedom For Women
Siegfried
International Congress of Women
England
France
Minaa
Congress Sern
Fire in Loft Building Traps Fifty Women as Police Save
A twelve story loft at 143 West Twentieth Street burned last night. Fire started in Rubin and McElroy stock room on the top floor. Four policemen from the 1st Seven teenth Street Station rushed two elevators to the eleventh floor and saved all workers, evacuating them to the street in two trips. Loss estimated at about $3000.
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West Twentieth Street
1St Seventeenth Street
Stein
Stein, Moss & Co
Rubin & McElroy
Ury Freed by Gov Cox in Slaying Case After Innocence Claim
George Ury, held twelve years for the Wyandotte County slaying of celery king William Johnson, was pardoned by Gov. Cox as investigators found he and four codefendants were innocent. The State Board of Pardons noted an alibi and a plot to railroad the men, with three dying in prison.
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New York Times
Columbus
Ohio
George Ury
William Johnson
Celery King
Wyandotte County
Cox
Met Ury
State Board of Pardons
Ury
Johnson
Pemiscot County Bank Closure in Caruthersville
The Pemiscot County Bank at Caruthersville Missouri closed amid a reported shortage of funds. Bank President L. Dunn and officials said the loss could reach about 200000, largely from county funds. The bank turned the matter over to the Bank Commissioner for restitution.
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ST. Louis
Pemiscot County Bank
Caruthersville
Aherinne
Loke H. Dunn
A. C. Tindle
Mexican Colonel Orozco Executed in Central Mexico
A Cuernavaca dispatch reports Col. Pascual Orozco Sr. executed after friends offered $20,000 ransom. His body found hanged and bullet riddled near Jojutla, as Zapata refused to barter justice. A wartime council would determine innocence or guilt for clemency.
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Mexico City
Pascual Orozco
Emiliano Zapata
Cuernavaca
el Imparcial
Orozco
Tlachichilpa
Jojutla
Mexico
Detach Canal Army Officers Face Possible Replacements
In Panama on June 6 the War Department ordered Lieut. Col. Eugene T. Wilson and Captains Frank C. Whitlock Courtland Nixon Robert E. Wood Charles L. Baker and Lieut. Frederick Mears removed from detached service. Local belief says it signals a large purge of officers from key posts and new assignments, though the officers expect they may stay.
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New York Times
Panama
Eugene T. Wilson
Frank C. Whitlock
Courtland Nixon
Robert E. Wood
Charles L. Baker
Frederick Mears
War Department
Kaiserin Suffers Fatigue During Jubilee Preparations
Berlin reports the German Empress is extremely tired from recent royal wedding events and will rest during the forthcoming silver jubilee celebrations. A protracted cure is planned at Bad Homburg while the Kaiser sails on his annual North Cape cruise.
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Marconi
New York Times
Berlin
Bad Homburg
North Cape
Hyland Wins Big Money for German Derby Prospects
Berlin June 6 American race horse training methods gain praise in Germany as Baron Oppenheim’s stable under J. Hyland shows early success. Hyland’s horses have earned over $50,000 this season in major races and are favored to win Sunday's Vienna Derby and Hamburg’s German Derby later this month, each worth $25,000.
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Tramer
New York Times
Berlin
Germany
Baron Oppenheim
Cologne
J. Hyland
Sheepshead Bay
New York
Hyland
Hamburg
Missing Lady Churston Linked To Society Sensation
The Daily Citizen reports the disappearance of Denise Orme also known as Lady Churston wife of Hon John Yarde-Buller and heir to the Churston title. Scotland Yard has issued notices and searches continue with no results. Prior events include a 1907 breach of promise suit against Yarde-Buller and a stage comeback by Mrs Yarde-Buller the following year.
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Marconi
New York Times
London
The
Daily Citizen
West End
Churston
Denise Orme
Baron Churston
Scotland Yard
Denise Ore
John Yarde-Buller
Scots Guards
South Africa
Mabel Louise Atherton
Yarde-Buller
Atherton
Tragic Brooklyn toddler killed by trolley car
Four year old Jeremiah Duggan was killed at 44 Sands Street Brooklyn after running to greet his father as an eastbound Graham Avenue trolley struck him. His mother Margaret witnessed the scene while father Jeremiah arrived to a crowd. Motorman Harry Saliut said he did not see the boy until it was too late to stop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jeremiah Duggan
Sands Street
Brooklyn
Graham Avenue
Margaret Duggan
Neece
Harry Saliut
Inquiry now turns to Wilson lobby Townsend makes charge
Washington June 6 The Senate Investigating Committee adopted a resolution to recall Senators and probe pressure from the President to sway votes on tariff free trade items. Townsend of Michigan said the only clear lobby was withholding patronage and coercion by caucus. The panel approved the resolution amid debate over the President involvement.
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New York Times
Washington
Wilson
Senate
Townsend
Michigan
Party
Weeks Ofchusetts
Wen
Reed
Missouri
Overman
Walsh
Montana
Eee
Cummins
Iowa
Nelson
Minnesota
Ber
Lena
F. Sim
North Carolina
Kiam J. Stone
John Sharp Williams
Mississi
John W. Kern
Indiana
Char F. Johnson
Maine
Louisiana
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Mrs. Woodford
Autes
Newark Park
Sunday Times
Dr. Kieb
Miss Davison
Feminist Society
Davison
Jones
Innocent
Ohile
Missouri Bank
Caruthersville Institution
Col. Orozco
Zapata
Kaiserin
Lady Churlton
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