Hoover Sought Action in 1919 Sugar Crisis
A 1919 cable from Hoover to Wilson warning that ending augur control required immediate action was read in the House. Hoover urged rationing non essential use and Congress approval for continued control, allocations, embargoes, and sugar market policy with Cuba.
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Hoover
Washington
Paris
Herbert Hoover
Julius Parnes
United States Grain Corporation
Wilson
Tinkham
Massachuse
Massachusetts
Messag
Barnes
Cuba
U S Offers to Help Fight Bubonic Plague in Vera Cruz
President Wilson offers to send hospital ships nurses doctors and medical supplies to Vera Cruz to fight bubonic plague. Eleven authenticated cases with five deaths have appeared by May 31 with the outbreak centered at warehouses of a docking company and several rodent deaths nearby.
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Wilson
Vera Cruz
Sra Cruz
Ruly
Cheao
Patti Harrold Takes Lead in Irene at Vanderbilt Theater
Patti Harrold stepped into the title role of Irene at the Vanderbilt Theater on short notice replacing Adele Rowland who needed rest. Harrold, a granddaughter of the famed Adine Patti, earned immediate audience approval in her debut and had joined the Leno Company’s chorus about two weeks earlier as understudy.
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Patti Harrold
Irene
Thal
Tuddigore
Vanderbilt Theater
Migs Harrold
Adele Rowland
Miss Harold
Miss Harrold
Orvilly
Adiine Patti
Bus overturn injures eighteen girls returning from YWCA outing
A sightseeing bus overturned near Bear Mountain on Monday night at Rowervard and Thirty-first Street, injuring eighteen girls none seriously. Thirteen were taken to North Hudson Hospital. three, Mildred Nigro, Helen McDonald, and Florence Carlson, remained for treatment. The driver Franklin G. Tippen, twenty-five, of Tompkins Cove, was slightly hurt.
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Bear Mountain
Rowevard
Streat
Wondeliff
North Bergen
N. 1
North Hudson Hospital
Mildred Nigro
East Second _ Street
Brooklyn
Mise Helen WcDonald
Miversite Drive
Manhattan
Mise Florence Carlson
Rutledge Street
Franklin G. Tippen
Tompkins Cove
Burglary Suspect Held on Bail in Manhattan Apartment Theft
John Buckley a 29 year old tile layer of 444 Manhattan Avenue was held in 10000 bail for examination tomorrow by Magistrate Levine in the West Side Court accused of entering the Kuhs apartment at 240 West Ninety-ninth Street Monday and stealing jewelry and clothing worth several hundred dollars. Police say Buckley entered via a dumb waiter and hid loot in the building courtyard where a janitor observed him and notified Detective Allin. Buckley denies the burglary.
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John Buckley
Manhattan Avenue
Levine
West Side Court
Gilbert Kuh
West Ninety-ninth Street
Buckley
Allin
100Th Street
Sinter
Min
Buckler
Tal
First Two Sessions at Riker Library Sale Net $7169
The first two sessions of the Riker Library sale at Samuel R. Anderson Galleries on Fifteenth Street grossed $7169. Buyers included J P Horn purchasing Ferris Greenslet illustrated writings for 50 and memoirs of John Hengs Jesse for 12 credits. Sir Walter Scott novel set sold for 12.80 and natural history works fetched 102. Morris bought a late edition of Ulveralist by Hamilton for 1.
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Riker
Samuel “R
Anderson Galleries
Pash
Fifteeninth Street
J.P. Horn
Ferris Greenslet
Sian
John Henengs
Jesse
C. FE
BR. Gee
Walter Scott
Morris
Alexander Hamilton
Sixty Families to Fight Rent Advances in Court
Springfield residents strike back at rent hikes as members of the Rent Payers Protective Association prepare to challenge a 64 percent increase tied to a one block area. Needing to vacate notices loom as the group plans to take the cases to court.
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Springfield
Mass
Sisty | Simere Samilies
Rent Payers Protective Association
Honaing
General Aguilar Surrenders and Plans to Leave Mexico
Vera Cruz reports General Candido Aguilar, governor of Vera Cruz and Carranza’s son in law, has surrendered to the new government and will depart by the first available steamer. He arrived with General Medina. his family followed today. An El Universal dispatch says Aguilar will embark for Havana soon. Adolfo de la Huerta says ex patriates may return but will face trial if charged. An extraordinary Congress session will be called. General Diaz is willing to return to private life after the overthrow.
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Carranza
Vera Cruz
Havana
de la Huerta
Associated Press
Candido Aguiar
General Aguilar
Medina
Mexico City
Claido Aguilar
Hvata
EL Universal
Alvarado Pascual
Ortiz Rubio
Treasury
Mexico
Adolfo de la Huerta
Congress
Felix Diaz
Ife
Luis Mediig Barron
Cnvoy
Diaz
Obreron
Italian Wool Workers Defeat One Day Strike
Lawrence Mass June 1 The one day strike called by parts of the American Woolen Company’s union failed as Italian workers refused to join. The move aimed to protest President Wood’s shown confidence. With no strike, supporters concede it weakens Amalgamma Union influence and strengthens Wood and AFL allies.
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Aned
Tribuna
Lawrence
Mass
American Woolen Company
Amahamated
William M. Wood
Wood
Amalgamated Textile
Ti File
Amalgamated
American Federation of Labor
Embezzler Sentenced Hour After Indictment
Augustus H. Schumacher, a Phoenix National Bank teller, pleaded guilty to embezzling 84700 and was sentenced by Judge Edwin Thomas to three years in a federal prison in Atlanta. He confessed less than an hour after grand jurors indicted him and his wife had earlier turned over 10000 of the stolen funds.
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Hartford
Gonn
Augustus H. Schumacher
Phoenix National Bank
United States District Court
Edwin Thomas
Atlanta
Schumacher
Toca Bank
5000 Waiters to Strike Today in City Wide Action
William Lehman of Local No 1 announces a 5000 waiter strike affecting about 900 restaurants. Waiters seek a nine hour day rather than higher wages, with demands submitted to 1100 restaurant proprietors citywide. Lehman says the public will support the move and expects spread to other cities.
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William Lehman
International Alliance of America
Lehman
Alliance
Lehman Sali
Detective Hughes On Trial For Bribery Charge
Detective Sergeant Thomas S. Hughes faced trial before Judge Julian Mack for allegedly offering a bribe to Harold J. Dobbs an internal revenue agent. The case details a meeting on April 17 1920 at a restaurant where Hughes purportedly offered 5000 to obtain papers in the Gramatin Company and Herba Products Company case tied to conspiracy and prohibition law. Dobbs allegedly collected 1000 and was to receive 4000 later while three DOJ agents monitored the matter.
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Thomas S. Hughes
Julian ¥. Mack
United States District Court
Harold J. Dobbs
Internal Revenue
Hughes
Robert A. Peatte
United States Distri
Dobbs
William Street
Gramatin & Co
Herba Products Company
Henry F. Maresca
Giovanni Rubino
Charles D'Angelis
Gramatin Company
Berba Products Company
Maresca
Rubine
D’angeli
Cahal
United States District Attorney's Office
Menaage
Department of Justice
Danish coal deal links Danish firms with London buyer
In Copenhagen on June 1 the sale of 1,090,000 tons of American coal to Danish interests by a London firm was announced. The negotiations cover shipments for this year and 1921.
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Danes Bay
Copenhagen
London
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