Connecticut council weighs curbing Hearst papers
In Hartford the Connecticut State Council of Defence debated measures to curb Hearst publications amid wartime loyalty concerns. Leaders including Richard M. Bissell and Lt. Gov. Holcomb discussed disloyal content in The New York Tribune and Hearst papers, with no action taken and consideration continuing.
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Connecticut
Willam Randolph Hearst
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State Council of Defence
Marcus H. Holcomb
Juune
Richard M. Bissell
Hartford Fire Insurance Company
Council
Bissell
New York Tribune
The
Tribune
Hearst
Wilson
Englewood Hisses Ex Mayors Speech On Hearst Papers
Ex mayor Daniel Fellows Platt harshly criticised efforts to bar Hearst papers from Englewood and was hissed by the audience at the Englewood Opera House. The War Savings Stamp Committee says he will not be asked to speak again as a four minute man. Local newsdealers praised for boycotting The New York American and The New York Evening Journal, with a resolution urging continued support for Englewood dealers and publication of the resolution.
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Gam
Englewood
N. J
Daniel Fellows Platt
Englewood Opera House
Citizens’ Movement
Hearst
Mr. Platt
Platt
United States
Graham Sumner
Germany
New York American
Lusitania
Japan
Mexico
New York
England
New | York American
New York | Evening Journal
Union News Company
Englewod
New York Evening Journal
Begaa
Englewood Press
Floyd R. Dubois
Connecticut State Guard and Military Emergency Board Roles
The Connecticut State Guard, once named the Connecticut Home Guard, was created by an act of the 19% Legislature of Connecticut to raise equip and direct a state home guard. A Military Emergency Board oversees this effort. over 10 000 members are armed and drilled. The State Guard can replace the National Guard called into Federal service. The State Guard News is published monthly in New Haven by Home Guard Publishing Company. Captain William H. Avis edits. Board members include Major General Lucien I. Burpee Benedict M. Holden and J. Moss Ives. Regimental commanders span Hartford New Haven New London Bridgeport Waterbury Middletown with respective colonels and naval commander Franc R. Cooley.
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Jnstice
George W. Wheeler
Bridgeport
Supreme Court of Errors
Ahko
Hearst
George BR. Chandler
Council
Connecticut State Council of Defence
Lt Wen
Holcomb
Republican
Homer
Cummings
Eochairman
Democratic Nuctional Committee
Bond Hotel
Connecticut State Guard News
Connecticut State Guard
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Mount Vernon
America
Taft
New Haven
Yellow Sheet
Colunies
Panama Canal
New York Herald
California
Canada
United States
William R. Hearst
Connecticut Home Guard
Connecticut
Legislatre
State Guard
Ormer National Guard
France
State Guard News
The
Home Guard Publishing Company
William H. Avis
Military Emergency Board
Lucien I. Burpee
Hartford
Suerior Court
Benédict M. Holden
Quartermaster’s
Philadelphia
J. Moss Ives
Danbury
First Regiment
Charles W. Burpe
J. Richard North
Eugene T. Kirkland
New London
Cliford B. Wilson
Geddes
Waterbury
Joseph ‘J. Elliott
Middletown
Franc’ R. Cooley
Pile of Letters Urges Ford on Democratic Ticket
Lansing reports petitions to place Ford on the Democratic gunnery ballot for U.S. Senator were received at the Secretary of State office by noon. A stack four inches thick arrived, with numerous signatures and supporting affidavits urging his candidacy.
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Ford
Lansing
Mich
Ig Ford
United States
Forest Hills voters move to bar Hearst papers
At a Forest Hills Taxpayers Association meeting in the Methodist Episcopal Church a resolution urged the Long Island News Company to stop supplying Hearst newspapers and asked local dealers to refuse them. The group sent a petition to Congress to seek national action against Hearst papers and asked subscribers to discontinue reading The American and New York Journal. One member, SW Eckman, dissented.
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Forest Hills Methodist Episcopal Church
Long Island News Company
The
New York American
New York Evening Journal
Forest Hills
Thesr
Association
Tte
Congress
Hearst
SW. Eckman
Greenway Terrace
Lyman Beecher Stowe
Tax Payers’ Association of
Forest Hilla
Chaikin
S.J. Divenport
Gardner Osborn
Amaricen
Journal
Osborn
the American
Johns-Manville Company
Hearst Publiations
W. Eckman
Red Crowe
America
Flushing Group Backs Fight On Hearst Papers
Flushing Long Island June 25 members of the Flushing branch of the National Security League at a meeting last night commended the national executive committee’s condemnation of Hearst papers and pledged support for the anti Hearst campaign.
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Flushing Security League
Hearst
Flushing
Long Island
National Security League
City's Din Smothers Warning Siren Test in First City Drill
The New York City air raid siren on Fortieth Street and First Avenue failed to carry beyond sixteen blocks during its first test. Emergency plans mobilize 1500 doctors, nurses, and volunteers, with homes offered as first aid stations, drills planned for major buildings, and a citywide alert network to inform relatives of any wounded.
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Fortieth Street
First Avenue
Police Department
Underhill
Division of National Defence
Fifth Avenue
George J. Gould
Henry C. Frick
Lewisohn
Daniel J. Donovan
Sirgeon
West 125Th Street
126Th Street
Flushing Branch Endorses Central Security League Resolution
The Flushing branch unanimously approves a Central Branch resolution condemning Hearst papers for defending Germany and opposing the Allied effort. It cites disrepute and unAmerican acts and endorses the central body’s condemnation and action approved by the executive committee.
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Mittee
National Executive Committee
Flushing
Central Branch
National Security League
New York City
Hearst
America
League
The
American Security League
Deming Town Declares War on Hearst Newspapers
Deming New Mexico joins anti Hearst campaign led by The Deming Headlight. The editorial cites New York towns burning Hearst papers after a Memorial Day controversy and Santa Fe bars Hearst outlets, urging nationwide mail bans on traitorous rags and loyalty to the country.
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Deming
N. M. Wune
William Randolph Hearst
Southwest
New York State
Hearst
Wilson
Santa Fé
Henrat
New Mexico
Demands That Hearst Be Treated as Enemy
Albuquerque city manager Paul Redington declared Hearst must be placed on the enemy list and treated as an enemy to the Allied cause. The New Mexico Council of Defence moves to drive Hearst's publications from the state as delegates gather for the Mother-Daughter Congress under war boards.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Congress
Paul Redington
Albuqerque
Hearst
New Mexico Council of Defence
Dowling assigns 200 workers to mend marginal way
Borough President Dowling sent 200 men to repair the marginal way along the North River front to improve traffic as heavy waterborne shipments arrive. Half are asphalt workers, half granite setters, cleaning up the stretch between Christopher and Canal streets this week. Restoration between Twenty third Street and Battery Place is projected at 400,000, with East Side work from Staten Island Perry to the Brooklyn Bridge at 140,000.
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Dowling
North River
Christopher
Canal Streets
Twenty-third Street
Battery Place
Brooklyn Bridge
13 Held as Draft Dodgers in Williamsburg Roundup
Thirteen of twenty two young men arrested in a Williamsburg slacker raid Monday night were held for further examination. Jacob Cohen of Manhattan was declared delinquent and turned over to Local Draft Board 24. Officials say the raid had a salutary moral effect as police stations were besieged by patriots seeking guidance to avoid registration.
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Williamsburg
Jacob Cohen
Christopher Street
Manhattan
Draft Board
McCabe Attacks Ferris Over Naming Democratic Ticket
Albany report notes Patrick McCabe Democratic leader of Albany County attacks P Harvey Ferris head of the steering committee for attempting to name the party's gubernatorial candidate. McCabe recalls Ferris's past influence and implies upstate allies fear big fees from Ferris's clients if Ferris controls the ticket. The piece frames a Tammany Hall era clash as a fresh inner party feud.
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the Tribune
Albany
Patrick McCabe
Albeny County
Charles F. Murphy
Democratic State Committee
New York
Tammany Hall
P. Harvey Ferris
Allen
Democratic Steering Committee
Ferris
Democratic Party
Fight Will Be Made to Save Paul Chapman
The Legislative League of New York called a special meeting for tomorrow afternoon at the Hotel Astor to seek ways to aid Paul Chapman, sixteen, of Brooklyn, sentenced to death at Sing Sing for murder in the first degree connected to a burglary. Speakers include Assemblyman Martin T. Donnelly, Matthew W. Wood, Miss Mary Wood, and Miss Marie de Montalvi, with Mrs. Chapman planning to attend.
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Hotel Astor
Paul Chapman
Brooklyn
Sing Sing
Chapman
Martin T. Donnelly
Matthew W. Wood
Mary Wood
Marie de Montalvi
Tribune Institute
Proma
Edge rejects call for special session on PUC rates
Gov Edge refuses George J Record's demand for a special legislative session to bar the Public Utility Commission from changing rates set by municipal franchises. He argues courts and officials must be trusted and that delaying action would rob New Jersey residents of gains in establishing a State Utility Commission to curb utility evils.
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Edge
George J. Record
Public Utility Commission
Court of Errors and Appeals
Record
New Jersey
Shoes and Sealing Wax and the Humbered Optimist
A collage of quirky notes and vignettes from city life. A Longacre Square Club talk on lax liquor laws suggests importing pulque from Mexico. Stray dogs are scarce under St Bartholomew’s Eve bans, prompting talk of stray cat regulations. A shoe trap on subways draws crowds while Herman Weed faces bribery charges after failed navy enlistments. An officer’s letter from a fallen comrade ends with a religious lament for freedom and sacrifice.
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Jersey City
Bakers and Grocers Closed by Food Board
Three bakers and two grocers were ordered closed for 3 days to a week for infractions of Federal Food Board regulations. Names include the Pecker Baking Company Cherry and Madison streets and Gustav Johnson Whit ney Avenue Elmhurst S 1 plus Morris Hecht East Ninety-eighth Street and Jacob Alberg 2u8 Rivington Street with penalties for wheat substitute, price fixing, and sugar sale abuses. New butter storage rules set costs by actual expenses with caps on markups and storage charges.
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Pecker Baking Company
Cherry and
Madison Streets
Gustav Johnson
Whitney Avenue
Elmhurst
S. 1
Morris Hecht
East Ninety-eighth Street
Jacob Alberg
Rivington Street
Alfonso Esposito
Ington Street
Federal Food Board
Lloensees
Labor Shortage Threatens Long Island City Industry
Long Island City faces a serious labor shortage as factories area shifted to supply gas for the Wright Martin aircraft factory and defense plant. About 10,000 workers will be employed there, with a government employment bureau to be opened in the Paynter Building Bridge Plaza.
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Long Island City
New York
Wright-Martin Aircraft
Min
Paynter
Bridge Plaza
Airmen Adrift Five Days In Sea After Plane Crash
Airman Lieutenant Knight B. Owen of the Navy Flying Corps spent five days and nights adrift in the North Sea after a patrol plane crash. He and partner were rescued, and Owen is recuperating in England at Ford Manor Lingfield with Mrs. Spender-Clay.
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New Bedford
Mass
North Sea
Knight B. Owen
Na’ i 2 Flying Corps
England
Owen
Straller
National plan to save Mooney life prompts July protests
Washington plan calls for nationwide protest meetings on July 3 to urge President to seek clemency for Thomas J. Mooney, the San Francisco labor leader convicted in the Preparedness Parade case. Activists aim to transfer Mooney’s case to federal court for a new trial amid alleged frame-up fears.
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Mooney
Snceus
Tribunal
Washington
Nath
Snatherap
Thomas J. Mooney
San Francisco
Binab
Mone
Mooney Defence Committee
Citizens Union Responds to Assembly Criticism on Socialist Aldermen
The Citizens Union via secretary Walter Tallmadge Arndt answers Assemblyman Abram Bogen’s critique of its endorsement of ten Socialist Assembly members. The union argues the endorsement was based on municipal record, noting some members with national stance flaws can still show strong local governance.
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The
Citizens Union
Walter Tallmadge Arndt
Assemblyman Abrambogen
Pullman Porters Seek Pay Increase Amid War Price Strain
Pullman porters report income halved by war price rises and call for higher wages. F. E. Cook of the New York division said the company awaits government takeover decisions before finalizing porter pay, but indicated at least a 30 percent raise may be granted.
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Pullman
F. E. Cook
New York
Pullman Camps
What Is Going On Today
A chaotic listing of events and notices including a loyalty day registration for Ghaman women, draft quota departures, museum and historical society programs, a luncheon of professional associations, a National League for Women Service meeting, a public band concert, and a public market discussion chaired by municipal officials. Numerous OCR errors obscure proper names and places.
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