War Department Expenditures Probe Details A E F Funds
New York Tribune reports Baker figures show up to June 1 total War Department spending at 14.544 billion dollars with 1.839 billion transferred to the A E F for abroad use. Overviews outline major disbursement areas including quartermasters and ordnance, and note five subcommittees and a publicity unit to digest testimony.
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New York Tribune
Washington Bureau
Washington
War Department
Baker
War Exenditures Special Committee
Lord
Army
Oancers’ Corps
Medical Department
Signal Corps
Provost Marshal General's Office
Adjutant General's Office
Advocate General's Office
Senate Panel Adds 20000 Navy Personnel in 1920 Bill
The Senate Naval Committee completed the 1920 naval appropriation bill totaling 846,272,000 dollars, 44,803,000 more than the House. It increases enlisted personnel to 191,000 from 171,000 and raises the aviation fund to 35,000,000, with the measure to be considered after the army appropriation.
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Washington
House
Senate Naval Committee
Senate
Navy
Home
Navy Aviation
Senate Committee
Baker Seeks $30,000 Fund for War Dept Inquiry
Secretary of War Baker asked the House for a special $30,000 appropriation to pay salaries and printing for a three month investigation of War Department employees and their ties to outside firms and relatives already in government service. The inquiry, ordered June 5, aims to locate who and where these personnel are, including in the Panama Canal Zone, with some not speaking English.
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Baker
House
New York Tribune
Washington Bureau
Washington
War Department
Baker J
Mr. Baker
Fanema Canal Zone
Senate Approves Large Army Air Service Funds
Washington June 23 The Senate tentatively approved an army air service appropriation of 55 million dollars an increase of 40 million over the House. It also set 230 million for transportation a 500 thousand cut from the House. The panel backed 45 million for subsistence 25 million for clothing with notable boosts.
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Washington
Senate
Army Air Service
House
City escalator finally opens after months of work
Thousands of riders stepped from West Side subway trains into Park Place and discovered the escalator in operation. The energy saving device has taken months to build and at times seemed abandoned. It covers seventy nine steps from platform to street and handles all but sixteen.
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Park Place
Senate Military Committee Eyes Expanded War Program
The Military Committee recommends vocational training facilities from 10500 to 5000000 dollars and approves storage and shipping facility spending increase from 22760000 to 45000000 dollars. The Senate tentatively approves air service funding and authorizes purchases for Curtiss Elmwood plant in Buffalo and Dayton Wright plant, plus Ream Field in San Diego for an aerial gunner school. A proposed director of sales position for C W Hare is dropped on a feint of order amid testimony about a second salary from a gas company.
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Military Committee
Air Service
Senate
Curtiss-Elmwood
Buffalo
Dayton-Wright Airplane
Dayton
Ohio
Ream Field
San Diego
Cal
War Department
C. W. Hare
Philadelphia
McKellar
Tennessean
Wadsworth
Hare
War Cross Brings No Job So Bill Rejoins the Army
Bill Jewell earned the Croix de Guerre in Argonne with a Negro regiment but could not find civilian work in New York. He enlisted yesterday at the M161 Eighth Avenue recruiting station for service on the Mexican border, joking the Army will appreciate his medal. The day marked record Army recruiting in New York district, with 367 men enlisted in the week ending last Saturday. A 19 year old, Bernard Judelson, left a $25 weekly job to join as a private, aiming to become a radio operator. The first hundred motor transport corps recruits head to a transcontinental trip from New York or Washington to San Francisco, planned for July 1, with Fort Meigs, Washington, D.C. as prep, to test army truck endurance along the Lincoln Highway.
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Bill Jewell
New York
M161
Eighth Avenue
Bill
Argonne
Thia Town
Bernard Judelson
Signal Corps
Motor Transport Corps
Washington
San Francisco
Fort Meigs
Washington, D.C
Engineer Corps
Field Artillery
Medical Corps
Air Service
Army
Treadwell Cleveland's Estate Found Insolvent
The Surrogates Court reports insolvency for Treadwell Cleveland, former Choate associate. Executors say assets are minimal, debts total about $80,571 with major claims from Frances E. Cleveland, Gertie A. Gorman, and Jane E. Dodge. Only bank balance noted was $366 at American Exchange National Bank via Adolph S. Pop er assignment.
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Choate
Evelyn Melntoch Cleveland
Treadwell Cleveland
Joseph H. Choate
Cleveland
American Exchange National Bank
Adolph S. Poper
Frances E. Cleveland
Gertie A. Gorman
Jane E. Dodge
Three Bills to End Packers' Monopoly Given to Congress
Washington reports three measures to curb alleged packer monopolies by the Big Five. Introduced in Senate and House by Kenyon and Anderson, the bills propose a federal licensing system under Agriculture to dismantle stockyard control, curb influence over related foods, replace refrigerator cars, and create storage and marketing systems to foster competition. A commissioner of foodstuffs would administer the law.
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New York Tribune
Washington Bureau
Washington
Congress
Senate
House
Kenyon
Towa
Anderson
Minnesota
Kendrick
Senate Agricultural Committee
Kenyon-Anderson
Federal Trade Commission
Department of Agriculture
Farmers’ National Commission On Packing Plants and Allied Industries
Secretary of Agriculture
Camp Upton To Be Permanent Army Post
Camp Upton at Yaphank will be retained by the government as a permanent army post. Charles J. Buckner, acting for the government, filed a petition with the United States District Court at Brooklyn seeking condemnation of part of the leased property held by thirty-eight individuals. The entire site won’t be seized. Experts value the property at about $230,000. Commissioners will be appointed to fix the land’s true value if condemnation is approved.
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Camp Upton
Yaphank
Charles J. Buckner
United States District Attorney
United States District Court
Brooklyn
Minnesota Without Presidential Electors in 1920
Minnesota faces the absence of presidential electors for the 1920 election unless a special legislative session is called. The 1918 shift from convention nominating to primary was reversed this year, but the law forgot to provide for electors. Strong entities include Governor Burnanist and Representative Ernest Lundeon, with implications for state ratifications and political mapping.
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Assembly
ST. Paul
Minnesota
Wilson
Burnanist
Ernest Lundeon
Minneapolis
Executors of Ziegler Estate Seek Relieved Duties
Matilda Ziegler widow of William Ziegler asks Surrogates Court to release her as executrix and trustee. W S Champe seeks coexecutorship citing his need for a rent from Arctic expeditions and estate income. The will provides instalments to William Ziegler, Jr adopted son, and the estate now totals about $10,098.
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W. S. Champe
Matilda Ziegler
William Ziegler
Iiliam
Cha Aphon
Champe
Royal Baking Powder Company
American Maize Products Company
Noroton
Tribune Fresh Air Fund Drive Seeks $90,000 for 6,000 Vacations
The Tribune Fresh Air Fund launches its forty third annual drive to fund two week country vacations for 6,000 children from tenements. It needs $90,000 and has 4,000 invitations from country families. 226 children go out Friday and more follow weekly. Contributions support vacations, relief, and scouting opportunities across the country.
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New York
Red Cross
Tribune Fresh Air Fund
Liner La Touraine Misses Iceberg by Narrow Margin
The French liner La Touraine arrived from Havre reporting a near miss with a large iceberg about 500 yards off the port bow in fog east of the Grand Banks. Captain Bourdeaux reduced speed for twenty hours due to thick weather as the ship approached a clearing on Thursday afternoon.
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la Touraine
Havre
Touraine
Grand Banks
Bourdeaux
Owen Johnson
France
Touraing
Charles A. Davis
Roger Perkins
Red Cross
Balkans
Ile
Rene T. Verlagst
Antwerp
The Spark Divine at Broad Way Theatre This Week
Screen star Alice Joyce headlines The Spark Divine at Broad Way Theatre this week. The plot follows Marcia a newly rich mother whose cold love tests lead to a kidnapping and eventual reconciliation with husband Robert Jardine. William Carleton Jr. plays Jardine as Charlie Chaplin appears in Sunnyside nearby.
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Alice Joyce
Broad Way Theatre
Love
Heven
Little Marcia
Marcia
Robert Jardine
William Carlton, Jr
Icicle
Robert
Miss Joyce
Mr. Carleton
Jardine
Charlie Chaplin
Soldier Recalls Homeward Glow After War Returns
A Memphis born soldier from the 2d Balloon Company recalls how sighting the Statue of Liberty renewed his focus on home and work rather than war era distractions. He and his fellows want to shed uniforms and return to civilian life. The Strand program features Dorothy Dalton in Other Men's Wives with its plots of temptation and divorce, plus Mack Sennett shorts and Nicolai overture.
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Schwartz
2D Balloon Company
Memphis
Tenn
France
Broadway
Dorothy Dalton
Cynthia Brook
Strand
Fenwick Flint
James Gordon
Cynthia Gold
James L. Barclay
Gorgone
Southampton
Don
Miss Dalton
Mack Sennett
Pizarro
Fims
Bim
Nicolai
Walter Pontius
Katherine Tillman Weds John F. Martin Jr in Trinity Church
Miss Katharine Tillman daughter of Brigadier General Samuel E. Tillman married John F. Martin Jr at the Church of the Holy Trinity in East Eighty-eighth Street. Ceremony led by Rev. Dr. James A. Chalmers with few relatives present. Martin, Princeton graduate and diplomat, will sail to England soon with his bride.
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Katharine Delaplaine Tillman
Samuel E. Tillman
United States Military Academy
Tillman
Church of the Holy Trinity
East Eighty-eighth Street
John F. Martin, Ix
John F. Martin
Jacksonville
Fla
Henry P. Fletcher
Mexico
James A. Chalmers
John A. Dix
Fast Seventy-ninth Street
Martin
Princeton
England
London
Anna V. Olyphant
Edward Lansing Pruyn
Robert GC. Pruyn
Albany
Grace Church
Anne Goodrich
Frederick Pruyn
Robert D. Pruyn
Langdon P. Marvin
Beverly R. Robinson
Philip Lyndon Dodge
Roger M. Poor
Cornplius S. Lee
M. Horsman Swain
Tr. Murray la Mont
Hotel Plaza
Swain
Florence Appleton
James Clarke Milholland
St. George's Church
Seabright
N.J * Co
Winthrop Aldrich
Southampton
Long Island
Gerald Livingston Hoyt
Beverly
Mass
Samuel A. Weldon
Egerton L. Winthrop
Curtis Hotel
Lenox
Warren Delano
Barrytown
Three Brooklyn Men Win Wesleyan Honors
At Wesleyan University Middletown Connecticut commencement three Brooklyn men received high honors Lynn J Radcliffe Andrew Redheffer and Joseph Roland Smith were among the graduates Also Willard Earle Honsinger and Wilson Davis Langley earned Master of Science in course degrees
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Lynn J. Radcliffe
Andrew Red
Keffer
Joseph R. Smith
Middletown
Gonn
Wesleyan University
Fred Bingham Barrows
Ayer
Mass
John Elmer Cavelti
Stratford
Conn
Cuthbert Charles Gabel
Belvidere
Ill
Raymond Charles Baker
Drama Overseas Revue Heads Palace Bill This Week
Overseas entertainers Elisabeth Brice and Will Morrissey present Toot Sweet in vaudeville format at the Palace. May Boley appears in capital burlesque impersonations with Will Cressy and Blanche Dayne also in the show. The Man Who Remembered is a one act, plus Emms Haig Jack Waldron dances Chilson Ohrman sings and Al Herman performs. Sunnyside Chaplin film follows with a bucolic mood.
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Palace
the Palace
Elisabeth Brice
Will Morrissey
May Boley
Will Cressy
Blanche Dayne
France
Emms Haig
Jack Waldron
Chilson Ohrman
al Herman
Sunnyside
Charlie Chaplin
Martin Bomber to Start Its Long Flight Tomorrow
The Glenn J. Martin twin engined bomber is set to launch an 8,000 mile transcontinental attempt tomorrow from this location. Officials say the flight aims to test endurance and performance, with the crew preparing for a long, weather dependent journey across the country.
Plane with Dayton to San Francisco on single-stop flight arrives
An air craft traveling from Dayton to San Francisco with one stop is due to land here today. Captain Roy N. Francis will command the flight, with Lieutenant Edward A. Clune as assistant pilot. The journey resumes Wednesday after dawn, beginning with a leg from Mineola to North Platte Neb, about 1,500 miles.
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Sity
San Francisco
Dayton
Ohio
Roy N. Francis
Fromineola
North Platte
Neb
Edward A. Clune
Quinn Scores Curb Market as Medium Of Swindlers Gain
Alderman William F. Quinn accuses officials of failing to curb a rampant curb market on Broad Street amid a flood of worthless securities. E. R. McCormick of the Curb Market Association counters that steps to purge fake dealers and unlisted firms are being enforced to protect investors.
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Quinn
Liberty
William F. Quinn
Hylan
Swann
Enright
Broad Street
Lamb
Curb Market Association
E. R. McCormick
Alderman Quinn
Musicals and Plays in New York Openings and Updates
John D. Williams rehearses a new play Up From Nowhere by Booth Tarkington and Harry Leon Wilson with Norman Trevor in Toby's Row lead and George Marion in a chief role, reopening in New York August 24. Madge Derny, premier Paris opera dancer, arrives to sign with J J Shubert for a Winter Garden extravaganza.
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John D. Williams
Booth Tarkington
Harry Leon Wilson
Norman Trevor
George Marion
New York
Argust 24
Madge Derny
Opera Comique
Paris
Ne York
J. J. Shubert
Winter Garden
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Your Town
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Katherine Tillman
John F. Martin, Jr
Holy Trinity Church
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Ealer
John Cort
Henry Miller
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Brice
Alace
Win May “Boley
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Ane
Stale
Chinon Orman
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Dayne
Avon Comedy
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Riverside
Honert Warwick
Secret Service
Mark Dennett
Sins Rivoli Orchestra
Charles Ray
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Wise Fools
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Devi Tslagco Eaewenta
Dark Rosaleen
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Chaplin
Oklahoma
Coman Theatre
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Bae
Sberron
UIT
Dreider
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Mila. Derny
Harold Brighouse
A. H. Woods
Bijou
Jose Willard
Park Theatre
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Coney Island
Central Theatre
United States Health Service
Harold de Becker
Kathleen
Earl Derr Biggers
Metropolitan
Atess
BE & J
Shubert
Foremost
Stephen Rathbun
Bun Grove
Beau
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Booth
Tom
Tae Mbetterdle
Arthur Hammerstein
Selwyn
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Reese Cmt
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Trane Ane
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Hudson Sos
Louis Mann
Garrick Pee
Greg Rama
Fenauson
47Th Street
Churchill
Saane
Dorothy
Strand Symphony
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