President Wilson to Discuss Peace Treaty With Senate Panel
The Senate foreign relations committee agreed to meet with President Wilson at the White House at 10 am Tuesday to review disputed treaty points and the League covenant. The panel will call five Versailles advisers and continue hearings, with some witnesses abroad and others to testify in Washington.
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Washington
Wilson
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
League of Nations
Lodge
Mr. Wilson
White House
Johnson
Hitchcock
Nebraska
Versailes
Shantung
Russia
E.T. Williams
S. K. Holmbeck
Wiliam C. Bullitt
John C. Ferguson
Thomas F. Millard
Tasker H. Bliss
EM. House
Henry White
House
Kitchcock
Senate
Tumulty
United States
Jurors award six cents in Ford libel case
Mount Clemens Michigan August 15 A jury awarded Henry Ford six cents damages against the Chicago Tribune for calling him an anarchist The verdict came after ten hours of deliberation with ballots 8 to 4 then two jurors joining the majority The case ended with a brief report and a rapid exit by jurors and lawyers alike
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Mount Clemens
Mich
Henry Ford
Chicago Tribune
Orry Hulett
Leonard Measel
Ford
Hulett
Alfred J. Murphy
Tribune Company
Solomon News E Company
Tucker
History of the Libel Suit of Henry Ford
Mt Clemens Mich Aug 15 The Chicago Tribune editorial called Ford an anarchist after a June 23 1916 item alleged he opposed border recruiting The case moved from Federal to Detroit state court with venue change Judge Tucker Hearings began May 12 featuring witnesses from the Mexican border and an expert from the University of Michigan The trial highlighted debates on what constitutes an anarchist and the role of government in maintaining order involving Tribune and Ford counsel and Captain Patterson
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MT. Clemens
Mich
Columbus
N. M
Europe
Chicago Tribune
Ilford
The
Tribune
Ford
Detroit
Rio Grande
Ford Company
Chicago
James G. Tucker
Macomb County
Reeves
University of Michigan
Henry Kelley
Elliott G. Stevenson
Alfred Lucking
Joseph Medill Patterson
Patterson
Rooneh Shopmen End Strike Return to Work
Rooneh Aug 15 One thousand striking shopmen resume work after a committee returns from Chicago and a conference with railway officials.
Airplane Wins Back Springfield Race Title
A Canadian Curtis airplane piloted by Lieu tenant M. Ackerman arrived at the state fair grounds at 3 30 p m Thursday and won the three cornered race from Joliet, marking a notable win in the Springfield event.
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Springfield
M. Ackerman
Curtis
Aetate Fair Grounds
Joliet
Democrats of Texas Consider New Party Formation
In Fort Worth on August 15, Democrats from Texas met to discuss rebuilding the party. Two factions attended: one proposing a new party called the American party with a platform opposing the league of nations, equal suffrage, and prohibition, and another led by former Senator Joseph W Bailey seeking reform within the existing party.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Texas
American Party
Joseph W. Bailey
League of Nations
Seizures Reported Reveal Teeth Of Federal Probe
Federal action to curb high cost of living included seizures in Chicago St Louis and Birmingham of butter coffee and sugar as Palmer seeks broader food control powers Critics question constitutionality while House members are ordered back to Washington to push new legislation Mayors from New Jersey to press for effective relief and the food administration sets a fair sugar price at eleven cents per pound
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House
Palmer
Senate Agriculture Committee
Chicago
St. Louis
Birmingham
Department of Justice
Mr. Palmer
House Agriculture Committee
New Jersey
Agriculture Committee
The
Food Administration
Department
Department of Agriculture
Congress
Clugston Boy Gives New Story On Crime
In MACOMA Illinois on August 15 fourteen year old George Clugston was questioned about his father Lawrence Clugston's murder by poisoning. He altered earlier statements claiming his mother urged him to say his father consented to a Chicago trip. the family bitterly disputes the doctor C W Alverson involved.
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Macoma
Ill
George Clugston
C. W. Alverson
Lawrence Clugston
Chicago
Suppress Sinn Fein To Stamp Out Crime In Ireland
London Aug 14 The government declares action to suppress Sinn Fein and kindred groups in County Clare due to rising crime. The move targets republican organizations and related groups to curb illicit activity in the county.
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Sinn Fein
London
County Clara
Ireland
Engine Crash Kills 8 as Street Car Collides with Engine
PARKERSBURG W Va Aug 15 The death toll from the crash between a crowded street car and a railroad engine at Parmanco near Bere Thursday rose to eight with eight more succumbing in hospitals. More than twenty injured.
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Parkersburg
W. Va
Parmanco
Bere
Shopmen in Chicago Annul Strike Vote
Chicago Aug 15 railway shopmen’s strike off and men to return to work Saturday after an all day meeting. Mass meeting of car repairers with about 27 000 strikers also decided to resume work. Strike began Aug 1 in defiance of international officers. About 300 000 on strike at peak. Demands were 85 cents an hour for skilled workers and 60 cents for helpers.
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Chicago
Chicago District Council
Washington
Hines
Railroad Administration
Boston
Atlanta
Decatur Man Powers Perfect Score in Grand American
Chauncey Powers of Decatur Illinois tied Dave Pauskee of Worthington Minnesota with a perfect 100 in class A of the Grand American Handicap Trap tournament. Powers won the shoot-off 20 straight to Pauskee's 19. Mrs A N Winkler of Chicago won the women's championship with 90. Lt Cmdr F P Williams USN beat Capt Tracey H Lewis in the army navy title after a 99 tie. Williams also captured Class B with 20 straight over B C Meentz. Class C went to E C Wheeler with 95 and Class D to J C Harris of Fairbury Illinois after a 20 straight shoot-off with D C Hayward.
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Chauncey Powers
Decatur
Dave Pauskee
Worthington
Minn
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Pauskee
A. N. Winkler
F. P P. Williams
Washington
D. C
Army
Navy
Tracey H. Lewis
U.S. A
Williams
Lewis
B.C. Meentz
Ashbum
Lil
E. C. Wheeler
J. C. Harris
Fairbury
D.C. Hayward
Wevyaukeyua
Wis
Theatrical Trouble In Chicago In Court Truce Declared
In Chicago on August 14 a truce halted the actors strike that had closed the Cort theater and Cohan's Grand Opera house. After A H Woods sought an injunction to stop the company from striking on Up In Mabel's Room both sides agreed to halt hostilities pending a court hearing. The Cort and Cohan's Grand theaters remained closed, not part of the truce.
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Chicago
Cort Theater
Cohan
Grand Opera House
A. H. Woods
Woods’ Theater
Mabel
Cort and Cohan
Kerensky in Vienna Rasse Aug 18 Report
Alexander Kerensky, former Russian premier and minister of war, is in Vienna according to the Frankfurter Zeitung. The report places him in the Austrian capital on August 18 as part of ongoing post revolutionary movements and political developments in Europe.
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Vienna
Rasse
Alexander Kerensky
Russia
Frankfort Zeitung
Right To Steer Auto With One Hand On Woman In Car
St Louis officials question the right to steer with one hand while the other rests on a woman, citing driver attention and costs averaging 7.50 per case. Edward C. Francis of Francis Bros. Tire Co faced 7.60 in Clayton for reckless driving after admitting one hand on the wheel and the other on a back seat. He called the ruling a holdup and argued he was not driving.
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ST. Louis
Justice of the Peace
Werremeyer
Clayton
Edward C. Francis
Francis Bros. Tire Co
Morganford Road
Schoenb
Oliver Overbeck
France
Clayton Road
South Road
Busch’s Grove
Four Army Aviators Lost In Desert Near Presidio
EI Paso Texas August 14 Officers at the aviation field and military headquarters are concerned over the fate of Lieutenants I G Peterson and Paul H Davis American army aviators believed lost on the desert south of Presidio Texas They left Marta Texas Sunday to patrol the Big Border area and nothing has been heard since
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Paso
Texas
I. G. Peterson
Paul H. Davis
Presidio
Marta
Big Berd
Carmen of Illinois Plan Organization Rally Discussed
Representatives of the 114 locals of the Brotherhood of Railway Car Men in Illinois will meet in Bloomington today to discuss forming a state organization. The gathering represents about 40,000 union car men and is not called to discuss the current shopmen strike.
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Bloomington
Iocals
Brotherhood of Railway Car Men
Lllinois
Texans Threaten To Fight On House Floor
WASHINGTON Aug 11 Members of the House intervened to stop a possible clash between Democrats Blanton and Mardy of Texas. Blanton accused Mardy of being a rubber stamp for the Administration and Hardy rushed at him before colleagues restrained them.
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Washington
House
Blanton
Mardy
Texas
Hardy
American Shoe Firms Seek German Market Abroad
The Tageblatt reports from Berlin that American shoe dealers led by firms in Philadelphia and Boston are actively expanding into Germany. Large stores have already been rented by Americans in major German cities as producers seek a new market.
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Associated Press
Berlin
The
Tageblatt
Philadelphia
Boston
Germany
War Department to auction 600 acres double harness goods
Washington August 15 announcement of the coming sale at auction of 600 acre of double harness and 114000 new halters by the War Department.
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Washington
War Department
Rioting Ends as Peoria Talks Seek Keystone Strike Settlement
In Peoria Illinois on August 15 a joint arbitration talks between Brigadier General Dickson city officials Keystone Steel & Wire executives and union members led to a conference planned for morning. About 125 strike breakers were moved from the plant and 1000 Illinois Reserve infantry backed order as 5 people were shot and crowds clashed overnight. The dispute centers on union recognition with no wage or hours demands stated.
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Peoria
Frank S. Dickson
E. N. Woodruff
Keystone Steel & Wire Company
Bartonville
Chicago
Tenth Regiment of
Illinois Reserve Infantry
P. W. Sommer
W. H. Sommer
Charles W. LaPorte
Concern
Ed F. Lewis
International Association of Iron, Tin & Steel Workers
Edward Knight
Bone O Fe
Peorin
Lewis Hines
Suikers
Peora
New German Code Issued and Oath Taken
Berlin August 13 the new German constitution was promulgated today President Ebert appointed Premier Bauer as imperial chancellor and decrees that all public officials and defense personnel shall take the oath under the new framework The national assembly will be called the Reichstag and the federal council the bundesrat replaces the federal committee.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Ebert
Bauer Imperial
National Assembly
Reichstag
Federal Council
Bundesrat
Federal Committee
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