Difficulty Over Facts Budget dispute looms over city school funding
A proposed 70 million dollar next year school budget dominates dispute among ten city and state authorities. The plan would be about a third of city spending and fuel tax increases of roughly 4.1 mills. The dispute centers on control between city administration and the State Board of Regents, with the Mayor and several others contesting authority as various boards set payrolls and salaries. The Governor has signed only the teachers’ pay increase, while legal and procedural issues persist.
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Aad of Public Safety
New York
Board of Education
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Board of Estimate and Apportionment
Corporation Counsel
City Commissioner of Accounts
State
Hirst Air Mail Strike Is Amicably Settled
Second Assistant Postmaster General Praeger reached an amicable settlement with air mail pilots after a one day strike. Pilot Charles H Anglin represented the pilots, and EH Hamilton Lee will be reinstated while Leon Smith will not be reinstated.
Watchman Kills Two Ends Life In Hotel Feud
A hotel dispute between Judson Rogers and porter John McGoldrick escalated to a triple shooting at the San Remo Hotel. Rogers killed McGoldrick and Detective James Maher and then took his own life as police closed in. Detective Maher, 35, was shot after identifying the proprietor as a possible target. The incident disrupted guests and exposed tensions between staff and management.
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San Remo
Seventy-fifth Street
Central Park West
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McGoldrick
James Maher
Rogers
Maher
Edmund Brennan
Brennan
Nia
Bridget Genner
West Sixtyighth Street
Golden
Brennen
Tmsl Crocona Hace
Bronx
Yeterday
Pinkerton
Woouhaven
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Thomas Walsh
Steel Barred Merrick Road House Raided
City police raided the steel barred Merrick Road residence described as an old mansion in a fashionable section alleged to be a resort for men and women gamblers.
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Merrick Road
Three Arrested Give Cash Bail
Three men were arrested in a dawn raid on an alleged gambling house on Merrick Road near Lynbrook. Nassau County Association leaders and state troopers found roulette, tables, and heavy gambling equipment. several guests, a cashier and doorkeeper were detained. Bail was set at 2000 each and the prisoners were to be arraigned in Cedarhurst.
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Tong Island
Nassau County Association
Merrick Road
Nassau
Charles R. Weeks
Alfred P. Davidson
Third Avenue Railroad
Paul D. Cravath
Willard D. Straight
John P. Pratt
Frank N. Doubleday
Neil H. van de Water
Cedarhurst
van de Water
John J McIntyre
New York
Peter Burke
Edw Kruse
John 8. Thompson
Oyator Hay
Henry Bauman
North Hempstead
Joseph Dehman
Constable Thompson
Cariella Negra
Durance
Vanderbilt
John
John Cashier
John Doorkeoper
Anttico
Hieman
van Niltigan
Laufa Ruisigs
Wax Wilson Meisner
Priouore
French Quick to Punish Profiteers
PAIS July 27 reports public anger over profiteering. In Montmartre a grocer hiked chicken and rabbit prices to 4 francs from 7 centimes causing a crowd to storm the shop. police helped close the shutters as valuables were driven into the street. In Dunkirk workers protest high living costs, calling for price reductions, and similar demonstrations in Rowan last week yielded lower prices.
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Dunkirk
France
Rowan
Ishii Calls U. S. War Inconceivable Says Japanese fear is unfounded
Viscount Kikujiro Ishii, ambassador to the United States, returned to Japan and told newspapers that some Japanese fear war with the United States over China, but he calls such a conflict inconceivable. He urged Japan to pursue its racial equality proposal and cooperate with America on China.
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United States
Japan
China
Drys Aim to Fast Track Prohibition Bill Through Congress
Washington reports indicate dry leaders plan to push the Senate Judiciary Committee’s prohibition bill this week and press the House to finish action before its August to September recess. They seek to prevent a six week pause that could aid liquor interests, while debates swirl over tightening home production restrictions and a potential life rank for Pershing.
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Borah Attacks Shantung Clause Seeding Future War
Washington July 27 Senator William E Borah Idaho declares the Shantung provision should be dropped from the peace treaty as seeds of future war He cites the league of nations unanimous consent as futile and notes the President accepted the clause Despite anticipated senate debate over Wilsons papers and reservations Washington and Tokyo discuss Japans plans in China The Foreign Relations Committee plans the treatys first reading Continued on next page ENEVA July 27 Bela Kun claims 81 Hungarian revolutionists were shot or hanged by order of Bela Kun in June per Voros Assag from Budapest
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Shantung
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Japan
ENEVA
Bela Kun
Vorox Assag
Budapest
Kaiser Spurned Peace in 1917 Says Michaelis
Berlin July 27 1917 former Imperial Chancellor Dr George Michaelis declares in a Taegliche Rundschau statement that he bore no responsibility for the 1917 peace overtures attributed to him Erzberger said in the German National Assembly that Britain and France through the Vatican sought to offer peace in August 1917 Michaelis says the proposals reached him in September and were discussed with Foreign Secretary von Kuhlmann He recounts a Crown Council on September 11 and a memorandum that Belgium must be treated carefully while Germany seeks territorial integrity and restoration of colonies He says his efforts aimed to permit negotiation under Vatican secrecy and he did his utmost though enemies blocked success Ludendorff also denies knowledge of the Vatican letter until Erzberger revealed it.
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Taegliche Rundschau
Mathias Erzberger
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Erzberger
Germany
Great Britain
France
Vatican
Michaelis
von Kuehlmann
Belgium
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Zebrugge
von Kuhlmann
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Ludendorff
Berliner Zeitung
Henry Ersberger
Napal
Weimar
Herr Wells
Ebert
Croatian Mutinies in Croatia Quickly Subdued
A Belgrade dispatch reports the mutinies in Croatia were purely local and swiftly stopped. It adds proofs that foreign agitation sparked the unrest and that authorities quelled the disturbances without wider impact.
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Garriaona
Croatia
Belgrade
Troops Withdrawn From Capital as Rioting Ends
Washington reports that all 2,000 regular troops sent to restore order during last week's rioting have been withdrawn. The city remains under National Guard protection with a provost guard still in place. The War Department had recreated the Provost Guard at local authorities' request and briefly rearmed the force.
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