Probers Seek Civilian Profit Links in War Dept
General H M Lord and Colonel Julian Schley testified before the House committee probe into war expenditures. The aim is to expose possible private profits tied to the War Department via civilian dollar a year men and the Council of National Defense. Lord defended the finance division and proxy signatures while noting irregular contracts and noncompetitive purchases.
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New York Tribune
Washington Bureau
Washington
H. M. Lord
War Department
Julian Schley
General Committee
House
National Defence
Lord
Council of National Defence
Graham
Council
Reaves
General Lord
the Treasury
Pershing
General Pershing
Consolidated Financial Control
Goethals
Division of Finance
Otto Kahn
Diion
Finance Division
Quartermasters’ Corps
Schley
Board of Review
Senate Caps Hare Salary At Twelve Thousand A Year
Washington June 24 the Senate approved an amendment lowering C W Hare director of sales pay to 12000 annually from 25000 amid debate over wartime surplus meat disposal. Senators McKellar and Reed criticized the War Department handling and alleged packer favoritism in selling meat valued at about 35000000.
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McKellar
Washington
Senate
France
Maryland
Reed
Missouri
C. W. Hare
Hare
Democrat
Tennessee
War Department
United States
High Flying Villagers Stop the Town Clock in Greenwich
In Greenwich Village locals cuttingly bored by raids and style shifts halted the Jefferson Market police court clock at 1 50 AM by entangling a kite in the hour hand. A clockmaker investigated and found the kite obstruction as villagers seek the mind who chose 2 AM kite flying.
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Greenwich
Greenwich Village
Tower of Jefferson Market
Conductor Arrested After L Wreck Inquiry
Police investigation into the Broadway elevated collision on the Brooklyn Rapid Transit led to a second arrest. Conductor Martin Sttevens of 938 Gates Avenue Jamaica train was charged with felonious assault for allegedly failing to display rear end lights when stopping to fight a fire on the ties. Twenty five people injured, two expected to die, including William Kessler of 102 Fountain Avenue Brooklyn, motor man of the Canarsie train, and an unidentified Black man.
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Broadway
Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Martin Sttevens
Gates Avenue
Jamaica
William Kessler
Fountain Avenue
Brooklyn
Lithographing To Be Taught by U S Bureau Training Service
The U S Department of Labor Training Service will publish a pamphlet on lithographic training. Experts have studied the best way to present lithography subjects and offer an instructor training course for upgrading workers and guiding new hires. The aim is to provide concrete guidance for employers and instructors to improve efficiency in lithographic trades.
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Department of Labor Training Service
Washington
United States Training Service
Department of Labor
Tdeas
U. S. Training
Ihs
Senate Votes for 400000 Army and Buying Camp Sites
The Senate adopted committee amendments to the Army Appropriation bill setting an average army of 400,000 for the year starting July 1, with no record vote. It approved authorizing the War Department to buy camp sites, notably a disputed site at Camp Benning, Georgia, amid sharp criticism of War Department waste. An Arkansas aviation camp site was also approved. A watch-time provision for War Department contracts was restored 83 to 20, and a Baker request to form a Paris standards committee was eliminated after a point of order.
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Washington
Senate
House
Baker
War Department
Camp Benning
Columbus
Owen
Oklahoma
Department
King
Utah
Robinson
Arkansas
Senator McKellar
Tennessee
International Aircraft Standards Commission
Paris
United States
Commission
American Teachers Sought in Philippines
The Philippine Legislature now entirely Filipino oversees 4700 schools with 12 303 teachers. Instruction will stay in English after independence, per Maximo Kalaw. Illiteracy is widespread among 10 500 000 residents, with 70 percent over ten illiterate. high school enrollment rose 220 percent from 1912 to 1918, totaling 16 000. Kalaw notes many more American teachers will be employed next year.
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Maximo Kalaw
Philippine Mission
Kalaw
Uruguayan Revolt is Nipped in Bud
Washington June 24 The Uruguayan Minister of the Interior resigned and President Baum accepted. A legation statement announced removal of Montevideo garrison officers and the chief of police as measures to maintain order under the constitution. Dispatches said the removals targeted former President Viera partisans and a revolution was planned. Montevideo was reported quiet.
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Legation
Washington
Brumbia
Uruguayan Legation
Baum
Montevideo
Viera
Police Games Thrill Show at Sheepshead Bay Airfield
A new thriller for the annual police games promises the largest show yet at Sheepshead Bay Speedway from July 19 to 26. Colonel W R Miller, in charge of Long Island army aviation fields, has pledged Deputy Police Commissioner Wallis daily aerial performances from 2:30 to 6 oclock, featuring airman stunts.
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Sheepshead Bay
W. R. Miller
Long Island
Wallis
Kansas City Fort Worth Air Passenger Line Planned
Kansas City to Fort Worth via Coffeyville Tulsa and Ardmore with a small dirigible to make a July pilot trip. Regular service expected at least twice weekly by September after landing facilities are arranged. Charles Ora of Commercial Airship Syndicate said a sport blimp had been ordered from Goodyear.
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Kansas City
Fegular
Fort Worth
Tex
Coffeyville
Kan
Tulsa
Oklahoma City
Ardmore
Okla
Charles Ora
Commercial Airship Syndicate
Septemer
Ora
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
War Invalids Study While in Sanatorium
In El Paso Texas doctors report recovering soldiers and sailors disabled by tuberculosis gain better spirits during sanatorium treatment. Federal Board for Vocational Education offers drafting, commercial work, Spanish and general education to 26 of 30 patients, making convalescence more bearable. Plans include more crafts and arts programs to provide enjoyable, profitable activity.
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Tex
Gune
el Paso
Federal Board For Vocational Education
Bureau of War Risk Insurance
Federal Board
Sixteen-Year-Old Inherits Gates Millions and Furniture
Miss Delora Angels of Lake Forest inherits the J. W. Gates millions and, with the fortune, seven carloads of fine furniture valued at $100,000 arrive in Chicago. The cars carried furnishings from Mrs. Gutes homes in New York and the South.
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Delora Angels
Lake Forest
J. W. Gates
Chicago
Loup Says He Was Figurehead Behind Brokerage Firm
Herbert C. Loup of H. C. Loup & Co. at 80 Broad Street testified after a district attorney inquiry that he was only nominal head of the firm. Frank B. Taylor ran the business while Loup drew about 100 dollars weekly, with no dividends ever declared. The firm faced involuntary bankruptcy. liabilities were projected near 2 million dollars, with 12,000 Alaska Zinc & Copper shares found in a strong box and an estimated 10,000 dollars in assets.
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Herbert C. Loup
H. C. Loup & Co
Broad Street
Swann
Far Rockaway
Dooling
Loup
Frank B. Taylor
Taylor
James Fitzpatrick
Joseph Kelsey
Kelsey
Joseph Kaye
Emporium
Penn
Kaye
Martin Conboy
Loup Company
Conboy
Alaska Zinc & Copper Company
G. F. Burgess
Spellman
Alaska
Edison to Talk Economics at Edison Dealers Banquet
Thomas A. Edison will address economic problems at a Friday night banquet honoring him. The Edison dealers convention opened yesterday at the Commodore with more than 1,800 expected attendees for the event.
Despondent Fireman Hangs Self After Car Crash
William A. Weigin twenty four year old fireman of Engine Company 5 at 340 East Fourteenth Street Bronx committed suicide by hanging in his home 2526 Raymond Avenue The Bronx after allegedly causing a serious injury to a woman in an automobile accident He left a note to his father and his brother a probationary officer found the body Weigin had told his mother he would read after breakfast following the upstate collision though the injured woman remained hospitalized The act followed his repeated belief that he was to blame for the crash
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William A. Weigin
East Fourteenth Street
Raymond Avnue
Bronx
Weigin
August A. Weigin
William
Old 69th to honor Elsie Janis at benefit show
The 165th Infantry formerly the 11th Regiment plans a New York benefit at the Central Opera House on Sixty seventh Street to aid wounded soldiers. The event features Elsie Janis and the regiment’s own show.
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Elsie Janis
165Th Infantry
11Th Regiment
New York
Central Opera House
Sixty-seventh Street
Sincere speakers announced for district ceremony on Third Avenue
The text notes Elsie Janie receiving a medal for her work at Chivesu Thierry with Father Francis P. Duffy among the principal speakers at the event on the evening of dune 27 on Third Avenue.
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Third Avenue
Mise Elsie Janie
Chivesu Thierry
Francis P. Duffy
Employees Made Stockholders by Firm
Loyal Lewenstein & Sons converters and manufacturers of cotton goods at 40 to 46 West Twenty-third announce workers on payroll three years or more will receive stock valued at 100000 on January 1 1919. Stock pays 7 percent annual dividends quarterly, delivery to beneficiaries if death before 1923, pro rata share if leaving before January 1928, and future rewards planned for ineligible workers.
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M. Lewenstein & Sons
West
Sipak
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Freer
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Nassau St
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Gates
William Daly
108Th Infantry
Uncle Sam
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Porto Rico
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Atlantic
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Motor Transport Corps
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Cotton Concern
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