Underworld Food Trade Conspiracy Highlighted by Official
Edwin O'Malley, Commissioner of Public Markets, accuses speculators of creating artificial shortages to raise food prices. He cites drained perishable carloads at Port Newark yards and fraudulent rejections sold to the same firms. He proposes three terminal markets in Gansevoort Market, Manhattan, the Bronx, and Brooklyn.
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Edwin O'Malley
We. O'Malley
Mir
Port Kearney
Jersey City
Mr. Oialley
Jeaey City
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
O'Malley
Gansevoort Market
Mankettan
Bronx
Brooklyn
Postponement of Building New Court House Urged
The Citizens' Union urged the Board of Estimate to delay building the County Courthouse. Secretary Walter T. Arndt said bids for foundation and superstructure put the cost at about 7 000 000, near the total original estimate of 14 000 000 for the completed building. The union cited high costs and the need for homes over new courthouse facilities.
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Citizens Union
Citizens’ Union
Walter T. Arndt
Board of Estimate
Fone
Tw County
Mr. Arndt
Investment pitch for Mortgage Certificates guarantees
A sales pitch explains that buyers of Mortgage Certificates have principal protection and guaranteed interest. It asserts Payment is guaranteed by the Bond & Mortgage Guarantee Company with no risk of loss, offering investors 5 1/2 percent net, for three years or more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bond & Mortgage Guarantee Company
Citizens Union urges delay on new courthouse project
Mr. Arndt cites bids showing the courthouse should not be built now. He says high costs and material shortages, plus the need to resume private housing construction, argue against a multi million dollar public project at this time.
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Arndt
Citizens Union
Violinist Paddles 650 Miles in Fifteen Days
Violinist Preston W. Bryant completed a 650 mile paddle from Toronto to New York in fifteen days, finishing at the Hudson shores 206th Street. He carried greetings from Toronto Mayor Thomas T. Church to New York Mayor Hylan and averaged over forty miles daily despite a prior storm rescue.
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Preston W. Bryant
Manhattan
Toronto
Hudson River
206Th Street
Toronton
Canada
New York
Hylan
Mr. Bryant
Lake Ontario
Hamilton
Port Dauhousie
Welland Canal
Lake Erie
Buffalo
Niagara River
Tonawanda
Berge Canal
Troy
Hudson
Lynching Follows Confession In Miss Anza Tandon Killing
In Georgia near Rincon a Black man named Philip Gaithers was lynched after confessing to the murder of 17 year old Miss Anza Tandon. A crowd of several hundred gathered as oil was poured on his clothing and a torch was lit. When he broke the chains a fusillade killed him and spectators scrambled for body parts and clothing. No arrests were made.
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Savannah
Philip Gaithers
Rincon
Gay
Irg
Union Radio Men Let Two Shi and Hold Ups
Liverpool June 21 Permission has been given by the Wireless Operators Association for the steamers Haverford and Belgie to sail without union operators aboard to avoid inconveniencing passengers in Liverpool. Ten or twelve other steamers due to sail soon, some bound for the United States, will be held up unless the wireless operators strike is settled as stewards, seamen and firemen refuse to board them.
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Liverpool
Wireless Operators’ Association
Haverford
Belgie
United States
Plot to Slay Persian Ruler in Teheran Disclosed
A June dispatch reports a night time plot against the Shah of Persia and his Cabinet was discovered. Precautionary measures were taken following the disclosure as authorities investigate the attempted attack.
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Paris
Hayas
Teheran
Persia
Arrest Reported Near in $400000 Caruso Jewel Heist
Suffolk County District Attorney Leroy M. Young planned a second John Doe inquiry in Easthampton for the Enrico Caruso jewel theft case as detectives chase leads from Seabury Beach to New York. Mrs. Caruso vows full effort. Geriald the chauffeur remains at work while investigators press servants and inspect abandoned boats for clues.
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Easthampton
Leroy M. Young
Suffolk County
John Doe
Enrico Caruso
Crly
Beief
New York
Seabury Beach
Lake Georgica
Caruso
Figerald
W. C. Morford
Lak
Coast Guard
Ama|gunset
Montauk Point
Connecticut
di Martini
William A. Jones
Mary Pickford Fights Nevada Summons
Mary Pickford and Owen Moore contest Nevada court summons arguing lack of jurisdiction in Nevada affairs. Nevada Attorney General seeks to null divorce, while Judge McCarran upholds Nevada statutes. A July 10 hearing in Minden will decide on publication of the summons and related motions.
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Los Angeles
Fairbanks
Owen Moore
Nevada
Carson
Ga McNab
McCarran
Mairbanks
Reg
Minden
Five Minute Honeymoon Ends With Missing Husband and Lost $1000
Mrs Anna Welton told Justice Cohalan that a five minute honeymoon with Frederick Welton cost her $1000 and her husband vanished. She seeks an annulment alleging a fraud in a July 1919 meeting and a hotel departure with the money. The case underscores a public dispute over a sudden marriage and disappearance.
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Anna Welton
Cohalan
Supreme Court
Frederick Welton
Finee
Welton
Sugar Rationing Fails To Begin On Date Set
Sugar rationing planned for hotels and restaurants did not start yesterday, except in a few places. Hotel and restaurant officials said notices were sent and expect rationing to take effect soon, with wholesale sugar dealers limiting purchases to conserve supply. The program runs until fall awaiting the next Cuban crop.
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Alain W. Riles
Hotel Menta Association
Riley
Holesale
Vague shooting wounds Albert Flowers in Guovnesvild
Albert Flowers twenty four is hospitalized with buckshot wound to the back after a close range shot tied to a man named Blowers and Miss Hattie Williams. Williams did not hear the shot. Blowers was captured by posse at the hospital. No suspect yet cleared.
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Guovnesvilde
Albert Flowers
To-Ly
Hattie Williames
Nick Strawherrie
Mise Williams
Huard
Posse
Tate
Lie
Pen
New York Woman Near Death As Sidecar Leaps Of Bank
Mrs. Daniel Webber of 1304 Ninn Avenue Bronx New York City was seriously injured when a sidecar motorcycle driven by her husband plunged from an embankment at the Orange County Turnpike Bear Mountain Road. She is in Tuxedo Hospital believed to be dying. The machine leaped a ditch after loss of control.
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Middletown
N. Y
Daniel Webber
Ninn Avenue
Bnrox
New York City
Orange County Turnpike
Bear Mountain Road
Webber
Tuxedo Hospital
Chambers of Commerce urged to advise governments on reducing expenditures
Paris June 21 The American delegation's Committee on resolutions proposes that national and local chambers offer business guidance to governments on cutting costs and personnel. Adjutant General Charles Hl Sherrill cited wartime lessons, including New York State's $4,000,000 war-spending figure, to bolster the call for public faith in governance.
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Paris
International Congress of Chambers of Commerce
Charles Hl. Sherrill
New York
Congress
Chambers of Commerce
Goer Sheil
Phen
Times
Chambers of Commeree
Adjutant General's Office
New York State
Mexico to Hold First Full Cabinet Session Since 1913
Mexico City reports Provisional President Adolfo de Influenta will chair a full cabinet meeting for the first time since 1913. He plans to wear diplomatic garb and will include ten civilian officials in attendance.
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Mexico
Mexico City
Adolfo de Influerta
Fiihig
Curfew for Men Urged to Make Women Safe
Miss Amy Wren urged Sunrise Club to back an 8 pm curfew for men to protect working women. She argued the alleged immorality of night work rests on male power and laws, calling for legislation to keep men off streets after eight.
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Sunrise Club
Amy Wren
Café Boulevard
Miss Wren
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Coca-Cola Company
Atlanta
Europe
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Iby
Farra
Tomgsten
MAZDA
Eveready
Daylo
Life
Windoree
National Garden Company, Inc
Long Island City
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McGibbon & Co
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Fifth Avenue
Edison
The
New York Edison Company
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15Th Street
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