Curran Platform Promises More Homes And Schools In City
Borough President Henry Gur mas, Republican Coalition candidate, outlines a fifteen plank platform focused on more homes, more schools, parks, better transit at a cent fare, home rule, fair hours for workers, and improved city governance. He argues his ten-year record justifies support and predicts defeating Mayor Hylan in the upcoming campaign. The platform stresses urban development, port intelligence, and curb on favoritism, with emphasis on housing, education, and civic reform.
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Henry H. Gurmas
Republicar Coalition
Last Sight
Curran
Winskell
Uennett
la Guardia
Hylon
Tammany-Hearst
Gurvan
Republican Coalition Committee
Tis
Jowevrt
Ford Battling Muscle Shoals Nitrate Bidder Faces Chattanooga Offer
Henry Ford and Anthony Brady both pursue Muscle Shoals nitrate project with competing bids. Brady, a New York financier, reportedly offered up to 2 million dollars yearly while Ford seeks government oversight and operation through a wartime contract. Secretary Weeks in Washington weighs a federal role and possible congressional action.
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Anthony Brady
Chattanooga
Tribune
R James
Mrs Brady
Hales Bar
the Tribune
Washington
Henry Ford
Ford
Timgaterks
Congress
Curran’s mayoral bid outlined in fifteen platform planks
Borough President Henry H Curran presents a fifteen point platform for mayoral nomination. Key items include more housing, schools, playgrounds, beaches, and improved transit. value for taxpayers. strong law enforcement. intelligent port development. fair labor conditions. refuse disposal. impartial police administration. charter revision. city planning to shorten commutes. decorum at Board of Estimate. and a city‑focused Board of Estimate.
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Henry H. Curran
New York
Board of Estimate
Rent Law Debate and City School Seat Shortage
City parents face three days of school registration amid a report on 40 schools showing neglect by the Hearst Hylan Tammany administration. Officials note 19 299 new seats opened in four years with 600 removed. Mitchel administration added 42 000 seats, far surpassing Hylan. Rent profiteering committee seeks court appeal over a 10 percent rent cap ruling, citing housing crowding and inadequate quarters for drafting in the school buildings department.
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Hearst- Hylan-Tammany
Associated Women’s Clubs
Hylan
C. B. J. Snyder
Richmond
Queans
Board of Education
Mitchel
Board of Estimate
Supreme Court
Miller
Otto B. Shulhof
David Hirshfield
Copeland
Frank Mann
Henry M. Goldfogle
Albert J. Solosky
Howard J. Mannsh
Sidney Cohen
J. Pendleton Wilson
Lockwood
Lockwood Joint Legislative Committee
Lockwood Committee
Harold G. Aron
William D. Guthrie
Julian H. Cohen
Court of Appeals
Elmer G. Sammis
Housing Committee
Hirshfield
Rail Wreck Causes Editor To Miss Harding Trip
Washington dispatch reports Marion Star editor Briggs Van Fleet and his wife were invited by President Harding to a three day Mayflower cruise. A train wreck near Columbus delayed them, causing them to miss the ship. The President and Mrs Harding offered comfort, hosting the Van Fleets at the White House for several days.
Haynes to Lead Crusaders Today
Prohibition raids on North River piers seized fifteen thousand cases of whisky valued over one million dollars shipped via false permits from Maryland and Kentucky. Federal agents led by Special Agent E C Yellowly tracked bootlegging rings, arresting Archibald Madden at Hotel McAlpin along with John Walton and John Clark. Additional seizures and planned raids extended to Connecticut New Jersey and Atlantic City as Director Roy Haynes prepared to visit, with narcotics and liquor cases tied to Nassau Bahama smugglers.
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Maryland
Kentucky
North River
Seisure
Department of Justice
Secret Service, Customs, Revenue and Prohibition
E. C. Yellowly
Washington
McAlpin
Archibald Haddon
Rozedale
L. T
Madden
Harold L. Hart
Prohibition
New York State
New York
Prohibition Office
Efort
Knickerbocker
Connecticut
New Jersey
Atlantic City
John Walton
John Clark
Prince Street
Myrtle Avenue
Brooklyn
Green Miller
Yellowley Squad
Eling A. Harnstein
Auto-Fearing Maniac Holds Up Whitehall Street Traffic
A Kansas City man, John Machado, resisted automobile transport and walk ways from Old Slip to Whitehall Street causing a half hour delay as Sheriff Richardson and deputies fought to subdue him. After initial struggles at Penn Station and a failed subway plan, Machado agreed to Bellevue Hospital admission, eventually riding in a patrol wagon with minimal protest. The crowd watched as officers used a sidecar motorcycle and physical restraint to control the scene.
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South Ferry
Whitehall Street
Slip
John Machado
Richardson
Jackson County
Portugal
Hp’ Anh
Pennsylvania Station
Portugues
Machado
Bellevue Hospital
Kansas City
Hellevue Hospital
Bellevue
Flo
Sergeant Brown
Brogan
New York City
Harding Letter Credits Republicans With Accomplishments
President Harding releases a letter to Senator Medill McCormick praising Congress for monumental achievements and substantial spending cuts. He cites the extraordinary session's work to reduce expenditures and frame economic reconstruction, noting fiscal year projections and wartime production costs amid party politics in New Mexico’s election context.
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Washington
Congress
Harding
New Mexico
Medill McCormick
Illinois
McCormick
Bursum
Tribune
House
Senator McCormick
Angora Reported Taken From Turks by Greeks
London dispatch reports Angora the Turkish Nationalist capital captured by Greek forces. A Smyrna message stated the Greek army reached within forty miles of Angora as Mustapha Kemal Pasha resisted with stubborn defense in a last bid to save the capital.
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Angora
London
Smyrna
Mustapha Kemal Pasha
Way Fehtine
Liberal Revolution Reported in Colombia
A Quito Quito dispatch to La Prensa quotes Bogota reports that a liberal revolution has broken out in Colombia led by liberal elements. The dispatch says the revolting forces have placed President Saures, Bishop Herrera, and Conservative candidate Pedro Espina in jeopardy.
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Buenos Amen
la Prensa
Quito
Ecuador
Bogota
Capstal
Colombia
Alispatch
Saures
Bishop Herrera
Pedro Espina
League Faces Crisis Over Chilean Row
Geneva delegates clashed over the Chilean dispute at the league assembly as Bolivia pressed for revision of the 1904 Tacna Arica treaty. Chile refused a committee referral, risking withdrawal. Lord Cecil failed to broker a compromise. Bolivia urged use of a commission or the International Court of Justice. Six vice presidents and committee chairmen were elected for the assembly.
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Associated
Prosa
League Assembly
Augustin Edwards
Bolivia
Sefior Nuwards
van Karnebeck
Tacna
Arica
Associated Press
Carlos Victor Aramayo
Senor Aramayo
Cecil
Robert Cecil
South Africa
League
Chile
Senor Aramaya
International Court of Justice
Robert
Assembly
Leonourgeois
France
A. J. Balfour
Great Britain
Gustag da Cunka
Brazil
Viscount Ishii
Japan
Paul Hymans
Belgium
Eduard Benea
Czecho-Slovakia
Vittorio Scigloia
Italy
Take Ionescu
Rumania
Hjalmar Granting
Sweden
Charles U. Doherty
Canada
Senor Temenn
British Labor urges Irish talks no more war
Cardiff dispatch reports the Parliamentary Committee of the Trades Union Congress and the Labour Party executive called for a telegram to Premier Lloyd George urging government invited Irish representatives to a conference. The labor movement must resist further reference to force and say resumption of warfare in Ireland would outrage world morality and lack British sanction.
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Cardiff
Wales
Associated Press
Trades Union Congress
Labor Party
Lloyd George
Ireland
U S Demands Allies Respect Mandate Rights
Washington reports Secretary Hughes has sent notices to Great Britain France Japan and Italy reaffirming equality of privileges in League mandates. The note asserts U S rights in Class A and B mandates, seeks protection for American nationals, and warns against discriminatory concessions, while noting no action on Class C Pacific mandates.
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the Tribune
Washington
Hughes
Great Britain
France
Japan
Italy
State Department
Mandatory
League of ‘Nation
Pacific
Yap
Near East
Palestine
Mesopotamia
San Remo
America
United States
Assembly of the
League of Nations
Deserters trapped after motor bandits raid in France
Three khaki clad men, alleged deserters from American forces at Coblenz, were arrested by French gendarmes near Laignes after a twenty five mile running gun battle. Their stolen car, used in a Petit Saint George holdup, was abandoned when fuel ran low. Police pursued through Bar sur Seine and Chatillon sur Seine. the bandits surrendered in a wood. Names given: Carroll Day, Alva Good, Abe Abell, with French accomplice Druthont. American headquarters at Troyes reported sending military police to Coblenz for the arrest.
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Troyes
France
Associated Press
Coblenn
Laignes
Tay
Coblenz
Petit Saint George
Paris
Endarmes
An Sur
Tomobile
Bar-sur- Seine
Chatillon-sur-Seine
Carroll
Day
Alva
Good
Abe Abell
Drurhont
Enately
No Pretense Will Conceal Threat To Irish Freedom
London dispatch reports Eamon de Valera warns Britain that peace under force is unacceptable and urges scrapping the Pitt union to restore a natural Ireland England must not demand terms backed by force De Valera’s stance dominates looming Inverness cabinet session with ministers, Lloyd George backed by significant support while Sinn Féin loyalty remains a question.
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Arthur S. Draper
Tribune Gapyright
New York Tribune Inc
London
Eamon de Valera
England
Ireland
de Valera
Bri
Pitt Union
Austria
Hungary
del Valera
Inverness
Scotland
Sinn
Austen Chamberlain
Lord Birkenhead
Lord Carson
Montague
India
France
Invernaye
Winston Churchill
Colonies
Edward Greenwood
Robert Stevenson
Board of Trade
Brakaw Castle
Commandant Barton
Dublin
Lloyd George
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Tesa Thavete
Liberal Revolution
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Herrera
U. S
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Dail Eireann
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