Senators on Harding Plea Pledge Bonus Bill Delay
President Harding urged the Senate to delay action on the bonus bill, warning it would imperil financial stability. He pressed for tax and budget prudence, urging pending foreign loan settlements and a redirection of Treasury plans to reduce war debts and adjust internal measures within two years. The address drew wide applause from lawmakers and spectators in the Capitol.
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Tesdune
Washington
Harding
Senate
Lowe
Capitol
Senate Chamber
Wlaite
Lodge
Sretor Fede
Underwood
Mrafferding
Treasury
Willhm G. McAdoo
Penrose
Sured Deste
Democratic
Ellen
Jie
Wiler
Ketiuis
Marding
United States
Chamber of Deputies
Briand
France
Chamber
Hivand
le Temps
Pacific
Swiss Glaciers Recede in Heat Wave
Glaciers on the Swiss Alps are said to be shrinking due to extreme heat. Ascent of the fountains becomes dangerous and more difficult. The hot European summer has affected several regions. Belgium faces a prolonged drought lowering water supply. villages transport water from distant points by buckets.
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Berne
Swiss Alps
Europe
Brussels
Belgium
U.S. Traps Five Firms Here in Big Tax Fraud
Federal officials announced a wide crackdown on tax delinquents led by 140 Internal Revenue inspectors. Indictments target five New York firms for evading luxury and excise taxes under the 1918 revenue act, with evidence suggesting funds diverted from customers to company use. No mercy, penalties include heavy fines and possible imprisonment, as officials pursue cases through a federal grand jury.
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United States
Lusury
Internal Revenue
William H. Edwards
Hayward Ant
Tribune
New York State
Martin & Martin
Fifth Avenue
Edwards
Isaac Siegel
New York County
Siegel
Evicted mother and baby found at river's brink
Presco Zebra aged forty years and her six month old daughter were found at the water's edge near East Seventy-fourth Street after a dispossess notice. She had failed to pay rent on 321 East Seventy-fourth Street for over a year and a half. Police arraigned her on a disorderly conduct charge at East Sixty-seventh Street station before she was sent to Bellevue Hospital for examination.
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Presco Zebra
Fast Seventy-fourth Street
Fellevue Hospital
Fast Sixty-seventh Street
James McKnight
East Sixty-seventh Street
East Seventy-fourth Street
Seventy
Soldier Dead Neglect Laid To Hylan Aid
A New York legislative graft probe blames the U S Public Health Service and city health officials for graveside neglect of American soldiers who died in city hospitals and Fox Hills Hospital. An undertaker buried two or three soldiers in one grave without proper markers or embalming. An army nurse reported three names on a single stone amid a system seen as profit driven. The committee forwarded testimony to federal authorities and promised further action by the city department of health and officials involved.
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New York City
France
Schuyler M. Moyer
Carmelius W. Wickorum
Fox Hills Hospital
Fox Mills
Moyer
United States Public Health Service
Hylan
Department of Health
Enm
Theodore Douglas Robinson
Roosevelt
Meyer
Wickersham
Joint Legislative Committee
City of
New York
Staten Island
United States Public Health Sevice
Fox Hills
Slill
O'Malley
O'Brien
Falling Wall Buries Many in Dax Fire Tragedy
A wall collapsed during a blaze at a me cantile establishment in Dax France owned by Senator Millies Lacroix. Eleven bodies were recovered from the debris by this afternoon as rescue teams worked at the scene.
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Dax
France
Millies-Lacroix
France Quietly Holds Rhine as Berlin Punishment Demanded
Paris reports Premier Briand told the Senate France will keep occupying the Rhine until Germany meets Versailles terms for punishing World War I violators. He condemned the Leipzig findings as scandalous and urged Allied nations to share France’s stance.
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Paris
France
Germany
Rhine
Briand
Senate
32000 Transit Workers Face Wage Cuts in New York
Transit workers on virtually all lines in the city face wage reductions from July 24 to August 6, with cuts ranging from 10 to 12 percent. Leaders say the move is largely accepted to save about 6 million dollars annually. Interborough, Brooklyn Rapid Transit and New York Railways negotiate with unions. some locals already vote to accept.
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Prenter City
Yestarday
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
Rooklyn Rapid Transit Company
New York Railways Company
Interborough
Frank Hedley
Hedley
Interborough Brotherhood
Patrick J. Connolly
Connolly
De Valera in London Urges A Just Peace
De Valera and Sinn Féin leaders arrive in London for talks with Lloyd George on Irish settlement. The delegation includes Griffith Stack Barton Plunkett and O Neill with party members, greeted by crowds and hosted near Buckingham Palace. Smuts to attend. first session at Downing Street. London optimism grows as truce holds in Ireland and Belfast crowds mark Boyne Day with 40 000 parade.
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Tribune'n Buropean Bureau
New York
Tribuan
London
Ramon de Valera
Irish Republic
Ltte
Sinn Win
Dublin
Lloyd George
de Valera
Arthur Griffith
Sinn Féin
Austin Stack
West Kerry
Robert ©. Barton
West Wexford
Count Plunkett
North Roscommon
Laurence O'Neill
Huston Station
Tish Self-Determination League
Suckingham Palace
Smuts
Downing Street
Jon C. Smuts
South Africa
James Steig
Ulster
Griffith
Erin
Ireland
Royal Irish Constabulary
Sinough
Battle of the Boyne
Finaghy
Ulater
James Craig
Associated Press
Art’ O'Brien
Vs Entertainment
League
Nitroglycerine Hidden in Bank Box Warned by Convict
Philadelphia July 12. Detectives found nitroglycerine and dynamite in a safe deposit handbag in a major bank. Prisoner Joseph Berger, confined in Cleveland for safe blowing, admitted to his wife that he made the material. The box contained a half unit bottle of nitroglycerine labeled with hazel, prompting careful removal through crowded streets. Berger, also known as John Smith, is linked to a cloth robbery and was sentenced to a long term.
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Philadelphia
Joseph Berger
Cleveland
Berger
God
Berger Berger
John Smith
Disarmament Council Welcomes Armistice Day Conference Invite
Tokio reports first public acknowledgment of President Harding's invitation on disarmament. The Japanese government is said to have received the invitation for a joint conference. the navy reportedly welcomed the move after studying armament questions.
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Tokio
Associated Press
America
Harding
Asahi Shimbun
Airman Hawker Death Marks End of Transatlantic Dream
Australian aviator Harry G Hawker died at Hendon when his plane crashed and burned on the field. His body lay miles from the wreck, the 29 year old pioneer had earned substantial pay for experimental flight work. Survived by wife and daughter Pamela, Hawker tried a non stop crossing from St John s Newfoundland to Lisbon seeking the £50 000 prize when a radiator problem forced a water landing 850 miles west of Ireland. He and navigator Mackenzie Grieve were later rescued by the Mary which reached the Orkneys and transferred Hawker to London. The story interweaves with ongoing disarmament talks and a Paris correspondence on a new nation to replace the League.
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London
Associated Press
Harry G. Hawker
Avistor
Hendon
Hawker
Pamela
Mackenzie Grieve
Mary
Newfoundland
Atlantic
United States Navy
John Alcock
Trepassey
N. F
St. John's
London Daily Mail
FP. P. Raynham
St. John’s
Raynham
Lisbon
Azores
Ireland
Orkneys
Four Year Old Survives 65 Foot Fall With No Bones Broken
Charles Hunton aged four from West 127th Street fell sixty five feet in an airshaft during a pillow fight with his brother Arthur last Saturday night. He was unconscious and struck stone flags but X rays showed no broken bones or internal injuries. At Harlem Hospital he recovered enough to ask for ice cream while doctors say his chances of recovery are excellent.
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Charles Hunton
West 127Th Street
Arthur
Harlem Hospital
Arthur Hunton
Charlie
Boy Fined for Peddling Under Mayor's Window
Abraham Novich a sixteen year old from 30 Pike Street Manhattan was arraigned in Night Court for peddling without a license. Magistrate Nolan fined him three dollars. He sold beads under Mayor Hylan's window in City Hall Park causing a crowd and annoyance. He admitted lacking a pedlar license and said he did not know it was required. He chose the spot hoping for willing buyers.
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Abraham Novich
Pike Street
Manhattan
Thomas A. Nolan
Raymond
Elizabeth Street
Novich
Hylan
City Hall Park
Third Anniversary of End of Actual Warfare Favored by Harding and Hughes
Washington report notes France and Italy formally accept a disarmament conference to be convened in Washington on Armistice Day 1921. Japan expected to join, Italy and France already on board, while the aim is to ease wars and reduce naval and military burdens. The president and Secretary Hughes favor the date and foresee broader talks possibly touching on associational ideas, with logistics and national approvals still to come.
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New York
Telhvine
Paris
France
Harding
Washington
Society of Nations
Supreme Council
Atti
League
Associated Press
Sheldon Whitehouse
Secretary Hughes
the Tribune
Italy
Japan
White House
State Department
China
Teexrin
Hughes
Phigh
Thin J
Philippines
Pacife
Association of Nations
Frontiera
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Flying Arms Council
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Joubt
Far East
Foreign Office
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