Transit Board Fight Is Sunday Death Toll Will Retain
Tentative transit proposals to be released mid August favor keeping a five cent fare for now. The plan aims to boost efficiency, unify surfaces, and reduce transfers while delaying higher fares. It draws on a Merchants' Association survey and envisions old line improvements, new routes, and financial reorganization to ease congestion and fund future growth. Eight drownings reported in New York waters as youths, including the Ziegele siblings in Passaic river, with recoveries made later.
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Transit Board
New York
Miller
New Transit Commission
George McAneny
Leroy T. Harkness
John ¥. O'Ryan
Merchants’ Association
Charles B. Hughes
MHL
Lawrence Ziegele
South Nineteenth Street
Newark
Bertha
Misa Ziegele
Miss Ziegele
Ford Reported Probable Buyer of Wabash Road
Detroit dispatches report Henry Ford likely to purchase the Toledo and Fort Wayne division of the Wabash Rail Road. The move may align with Ford's Muscle Shoals nitrate plant bid, with government action on that offer shaping whether the Wabash becomes valuable for freight from Detroit to St. Louis via the Tennessee River connection.
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Muscle Shoals
Tribune
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Toledo and
Fort Wayne
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Toledo
Wabash
Ala
Fiat
Detroi
St. Louis
Woman Tarred And Feathered In Texas Town
Reports describe a Texas town attack where Dr Beulah Johnson was tarred and feathered by masked assailants at Tenaha. Other border town violence and Klan suppression debates unfold as Texas lawmakers plan special session actions to curb such groups.
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Shreveport
Drs. Beulah Johnson
Tenaha
Tex
Timpson
Tribuna Austin
Lee J. Rountree
M. Neff
James R. Hamilton
Criminal District Court
Travis County
Ku Klux Klan
Beaumont
Dallas
Houston
Fort Worth
Waco
Austin
Travia
French Warship Gift to Jugo-Slavs Triggers Italian Tension
Milan reports friction between Italy and Jugo-Slavia over treaty provisions ending the Fiume dispute. France plans to gift the battleship Vedette, renamed Alexander, to Jugo-Slavia, a move seen as provocative amid Adriatic tensions. The Italian cabinet discussed objections but will wait for full terms before acting.
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New York Tribune Inc
Milan
Italy
Jugo-Slavia
Fiume
France
Jaco Slavia
Belgrade
Jugo-Slav
Alexander
Rome
Adriatic
Lusk to Testify on Slush Fund Probe
Senator Meyer says the joint legislative committee will not interfere with David Hirshfield investigation into a $27000 slush fund tied to detectives backing Senator Clayton R. Lusk’s bill. Meyer urged Hirshfield to summon Enright and O’Hara for questioning and promised the committee’s hands-off stance.
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Schuyler M. Meyer
Legisl Tive
David Hirshfield
Hirshfield
Clayton R. Lusk
Meyer
Commissioner of Accounts
Senator Lusk
Lusk
Enright
Hylan
Irving O'Hara
Nirsh
Senator Meyer
J Hylan
O'Hara
Dan’ Gostigan
Jan
Legislative Investigating Committee
Police Department
Albany
Detectives Endowment Association
Detective Endowment Association
Sims Vindicated in Senate Naval Affairs Report
Washington July 17 Rear Admiral William S Sims receives full vindication in the Senate Naval Affairs sub committee majority report on the Sims Daniels controversy. The 188 page majority document upholds his right to criticize and notes his war service. A minority report supports former Secretary Daniels.
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William S. Sims
Senate Naval Affairs
Sims-Daniels
Hale
Maine
Ball
Delaware
Keyes
New Hampshire
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Pittman
Nevada
Trammell
Florida
Daniels
Germany
Wilson-Daniels
Admiral Sims
Senate Naval Affairs Committee
Navy Department
Congress
Europe
Naval Affairs Committee
Senate
United States Navy
Secretary of the Navy
Senate Committee On Naval Affairs
Cadorna's Florence Villa Robbed of War Papers
Milan dispatch reports General Luigi Cadorna's Florence villa burglarized at night with theft of key war documents believed linked to political enemies. Valuables including medals and an oil portrait were taken. Cadorna away on vacation, return to assess losses and implications for his war histories.
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Tribune
New York Tribune
Owo
Milan
Italy
Florence
Luigi Cadorna
Caporetto
Caderna
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Piave
General Cadoria
Raphael Cadorna
Orly
Fie
Last Informal Irish Parley Set for Today
London reports that Eamon De Valera will meet Prime Minister Lloyd George for their third conference on Irish peace, with possible Dominion home rule terms and self determination. The talks precede a potential tripartite conference including Sir James Craig.
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Sinn Féin
Lloyd George
Loyd George
Ne Valera
James Craig
Ulster
de Valera
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Dublin
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Asume
Southwark Cathedral
Oxford
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Associated Press
Sir James Craig
Ramon de Valera
Sud
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Erskine Childers
Mr. Robinson
Robert Barton
St Paul's Cathedral
Nazareth House
Archibishop Mannix
Australia
England
Downing Street
Belfast
Duffy
Veterans urge disarmament plan for empire defense
Ottawa July 17 A proposal urges placing the views of about 7 000 900 former British Empire soldiers and sailors before the Washington conference The dominion command of the Great War Veterans Association asks Field Marshal Earl Haig to persuade British delegates that former service members broadly favor disarmament with emergency defense provisions for the empire.
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Washington
Great War Veterans’ Association
Earl Haig
British Empire Service League
Arms Parley Success Rests On Nipponese Opinion
Washington dispatch outlines that the success of the armament and Far Eastern conference hinges on Japan and France. France resists land force cuts while Japan faces pressure from the civilized world to curb military spendings. Open Door doctrine and mandates in the Pacific are pivotal to any lasting agreement, with U S Britain and Japan close to terms on naval limits.
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Washington
Harding
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China
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Caroline Islands
Germany
United States
Great Britain
Jealous Suitor Shoots Rival Then Kills Self in Pennsylvania
Hanover Pa July 17 Samuel Bowman thirty eight died after attempting to kill Mrs Minnie Rosa twenty seven who had refused him. He shot rival Emanuel Rohrbaugh at ten feet injuring Mrs Read and then hanged himself from a tree after tying a noose and firing a revolver. Bowman was an overseas veteran.
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Centrenort
S. 1
Frank Eberhardt
Duck Island
West Highly-sixth Street
John G. Hemming
Hemming
Mr. Hemming
Italonan Coidang
John J. Kelly
Suffolk County
Mrs. Hemming
Leroy Young
Charles B. Partridge
Partridge
Eberhardt
Aend
New York
Jack Hemming
Manhattan
Northport
Jack
Tribune
Hanover
Samuel Bowman
Minnie Rosa
Bowman
Resh
Emanuel
M. Rohrbaugh
Rohrbaugh
Japan Divided Over Washington Conference Fate
Tokyo reports a split in opinion on President Harding's disarmament and Far East conference. Bureaucrats fear Anglo Saxon domination could curb Japan, while liberals urge bold participation to defend Japan's claims. Calls grow for a coalition and an assertive Japanese stance with China invitation viewed as pivotal.
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Japan
Harding
Asia
China
Privy Council
Chagai Shogyo Shimpo
Far East
United States
Grast Britain
Caina
Ching
England
America
Pacific
Tiji Suimpo
Nichi Nich
Nichi Nichi
Kensei-Kai
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Versailles
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