Police Fund Slush Reveals Lobbying Payoff Plot
Commissioner Hirshfield’s probe into a detectives slush fund shows $10,000 raised for lobbying Albany for a bill granting permanent ranks and higher pay. After the mayor veto, a $4,000 check was returned. $6,000 kept. Detectives faced demotion. Senator Lusk and Senator Smith deny direct lobbying.
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Thomas J. Finn
Detective Endowment Association
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Cortland
Ernest Smith
Staten Island
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Waz
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Lusk
Samuel Berger
C. Ernest Smith
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Civil Service
Schuyler M. Meyer
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Devotive Bill Slush Fund
New York County
Albeny County
Charles S. Shotwell
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Nobth Street
Yesterasy
Cantinond
Peace Treaty Missing Since Defeat in Senate
Washington dispatch reports the fate of the Versailles treaty remains unknown after defeat in the Senate. Officials differ on its location with claims it stays in the State Department or on President Wilson’s desk via Tumulty. The last known point was Tumulty’s hands, but the White House offers no details.
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America
Wilson
Tribune
Washington
Thay
Congress
Senate
State Department
United States
Lloyd George
Flamencess
Fletcher
ReWspapermen
Paine Fas
Piet
Joseph P. Tumulty
White House
Canadian Pacific Adds Women Smokers on Trains
Montreal July 14 Canadian Pacific announces smoking compartments for women on its trains. The company says the move recognizes gender equality in travel.
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Canadian Pacific
Montreal
Canadian Pacific Railroad
Gross Fraud in Burial of War Heroes Charged
Evidence links profiteering in unclaimed soldier burials to an undertaker William A. Skahill who allegedly charged about $100 per burial and placed multiple bodies in single graves. Col. C. K. Haskell of the Public Health Service reported the findings and urged federal action and possible exhumations. The American Legion seeks a federal check system to prevent repeats as officials investigate delays and funding issues.
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United States Public Health Service Inspection Department
Haskell
Department of Justice
Hugh Cummings
William A. Skahill
West Fiftieth Street
Skahill
St. Michael's Cemetery
Astoria
Legion
C. W. Wickersham
American Legion Committee
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Joint Legislative Committee
Wickersham
Hirshfield
Fox Hills Hospital
Staten Island
Hey
Wlaw
Lawyer Pleads Gift Of Whisky Leads To Fine In Atlantic City
Harry S. Misirvo a Philadelphia lawyer acted as his own attorney when arraigned before County Judge Ingersoll on illegal possession of Scotch whisky. He admitted possession but said it was a gift from a grateful client. He was found guilty fined 50 dollars and the twenty four bottles were confiscated. He sought directions from a detective on the way to his client’s home and was arrested when he left with the liquor.
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Atlantic City
Harry S. Misirvo
Philadelphia
Ingersoll
Mesirva
Drought Ends as Rain Falls Across Britain
After a three months drought that scorched fields and burned furze woods, rain fell in various parts of the country including London this afternoon. The unique night was watched by crowds in the city and West End.
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London
Writhin
West End
Britain Asked Canceling of Allied Debts
Secretary Mellon told the Senate Finance Committee that Britain breached two pledges to cancel inter Allied war debts. Austen Chamberlain in 1919 and Lloyd George in 1920 urged general cancellation to stabilize world finances, arguing debt relief would boost confidence and aid recovery across Europe.
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R. Lindsay
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Wilson
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Reparations Commission
Germany
Central
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France
Veterans Lose Preference in Civil Service
The State Court of Appeals reversed wars era preference rules declaring Chapter 282 of the Laws of 1920 unconstitutional. The decision affects about 2,000 prospective civil service appointees and stalls the distribution of soldier bonus bonds while the court ponders the law's constitutionality.
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Cardozo
Westchester County National Bank of
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Japan Raises Initial Hitch On Disarming
Washington July 14 Japan is ready to enter the disarmament conference but withholds assent to unrestricted discussion of the Far Eastern questions. American officials see a necessary accompaniment to any disarmament program and are optimistic a satisfactory path will be found. Japan fears broadening the agenda could destabilize delicate Orient relations and set a larger readjustment task than Versailles. Two possible approaches loom: informal pressure for acceptance or formal invitations, with likely a mix of both.
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Associated Press
Japan
Harding
State Department
Tokio
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Orient
China
Far East
America
Edward Bell
Ford Offers to Lease Federal Nitrate Plant
Secretary Hoover transmitted to day a proposal from Henry Ford of Detroit to lease the Muscle Shoals nitrate plant in Alabama for one hundred years at 1,500,000 dollars annually plus a 5,000,000 dollar cash payment for lands and equipment, to Weeks.
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Hoover
Weeks
Henry Ford
Detroit
Muscle Shoals
Ala
Whitney undergoes appendicitis operation at Roosevelt Hospital
Marty Payne Whitney of 871 Fifth Avenue was operated on for appendicitis yesterday at Roosevelt Hospital. Dr. James J. Russell of 37 East Sixty first Street performed the operation. Indications of a speedy recovery were reported last night. Whitney, son of the late William Whitney, had noticed symptoms for two or three days before his removal.
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Roosevelt Hospital
James J. Russell
East Sixtyfirst Street
Whitney
Russell
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William, . Whitney
Hammerstein Memorial to Be Auctioned If Widow Fails to Pay
Mrs Emma Swift Hammerstein faces a forced sale of the Hammerstein memorial in Woodlawn Cemetery after missing payments on a 1919 contract. BH Stone & Co seeks disposal of the large Vermont granite monument unless the widow can raise funds. The widow asserts she cannot earn income from the Manhattan Opera House and calls the action a hold-up while vowing to fight.
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Oscar Hammerstein
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BH. Stone & Co
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Premier Lloyd George Asks Irish Council On Peace Efforts
Premier Lloyd George chaired a ministers' council at the House of Commons to review talks with Eamon de Valera. He spoke at a Liberal Coalitionists dinner praising broader efforts for Irish settlement and noted U S invitation to discuss Pacific peace, urging discretion on Ireland.
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Associated Press
Lloyd George
House of Commons
de Valera
Ireland
de Velera
United States
Pacific
Fight Opens to Prove Stillman Father of Guy
Poughkeepsie July 14 Guy Stillman infant co defendant in the Stillman divorce case faced the first innings at resumed hearings. Hamilton Phelps Clawson testified James A Stillman was with Anne Urquhart Stillman on January 16 1918 at their Pleasantville estate ten months before Guy's birth. Other defense witnesses will claim Stillman and wife were together early 1918 paving the way for a motion to declare Guy legitimate.
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N. Y
Guy Stillman
James A. Stillman
Daniel J. Gleason Teday
Hamilton Phelps Clawson
Buffalo
Anne Urquhart Stillman
Pleasantville
Steward
Helen
Frank Murphy
Modesty
Four Die As Plane Falls And Bursts Into Flame
An aircraft from Jacuzzi Brothers in Berkeley crashed at Medesto killing pilot Bud Coffey and three Jacuzzi employees Gioconda Jacuzzi John Kauke and A MacLeish. The machine caught fire midair and struck a high voltage wire, burning the occupants almost beyond recognition.
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Calif
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Berkeley
Modesto
Oakland Tribune
Bud" Coffey
Gioconda Jacuzzi
John Kauke
A. MacLeish
Jacuzzi Works
Wall of Water Thunders Toward Crawford In Nebras
Alliance Neb July 14 reports say several persons died one killed thousands of cattle perished as ranches homesteads and fields were wrecked by a canyon cloudburst on White River Canyon. Crawford fears flood as a fourteen foot wall of water roars toward the city from the inundated region.
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Canyon Cloudburst Alliance
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Andrews
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Dublin Peace Talks Open With Lloyd George and De Valera
In London today Premier Lloyd George met for over two hours with Sinn Féin leader Eamon de Valera to discuss an Irish settlement. They planned to resume talks tomorrow, with a possible commonwealth status near Cuba's liberal model while maintaining imperial military oversight. A joint communiqué was hoped for, signaling progress toward peace as Irish and English officials stressed the talks are preparatory to broader peace parleying.
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New York Tribune Inc
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Sinn Féin
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