President veto blocks daylight repeal and vetoes sundry bill
President Wilson vetoed the daylight saving repeal in the agricultural appropriation bill and vetoed the Sundry Civil Appropriation Bill over funds for veterans rehabilitation. He signed the Indian bill and a tunnel resolution, while House leaders expect votes to override the daylight repeal.
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Washington
Wilson
New York
New Jersey
Hudson River
Mondell
Haugen
Agricultural Committee
House
Appropriations Committee
Department of Agriculture
United States
Congress
Lure Of France Draws Many U S Soldiers To Marry
NEW YORK July 13 The lure of France with low living costs and welcoming widows draws thousands of American Expeditionary Force members to stay. Lieut Ethan Armstrong, a Bangor Maine Plattsburg graduate, says officers and soldiers with jobs in France and no ties may obtain discharge and remain. Reunions include marriages to French widows with farms, and many servicemen bring American labor saving methods to Marne Valley estates. Armstrong notes Maine girls are superior and warns of potential unhappiness for brides adjusting to U S life and language after arrival.
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New York
France
Ethan Armstrong
Bangor
Armstrong
Plattsburg
Lieut. Armstrong
United States
Marne Valley
Paris
Maine
German ratification pact pledge by Ebert dated 1919
Paris July 11 Associated Press reports the German ratification document for the peace treaty includes the text of the treaty annexes and Rhine occupation convention. It bears Ebert’s signature promising to fulfill all clauses and to ensure execution. Berlin date July 9 1919.
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Associated Press
Paris
Rhineland
German Empire
Ebert
Berlin
Lyis
Ignature
Prohibition Fight Opens Amid House Debate Split
The House concluded a 12 hour debate on the prohibition enforcement bill as allies and foes prepared for a paragraph by paragraph vote on Monday. Igoe challenged the anti repeal move while Volstead remained noncommittal, signaling a likely hard fight over the War Time Prohibition Act and its enforcement.
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Washington
Igos
Igoe
Missouri
House
Nighttime sighting as R-34 over New York prompts family moment
Mrs Hensley, wife of Colonel William N. Hensley aboard the R-34, cradles a ten months old babe on a hotel roof in New York after the midnight return voyage begun from Scotland. She wakes the sleeping child and points to the sky saying there is daddy, amid public fascination with the airship.
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New York City
Scotland
Hensley
William N. Hensley
World Treaty Session Opens Amid European Turmoil
Paris July 12 Henry White represented the United States as Secretary Lansing said farewell and posed for photos with Council of Five members. The Teschen coal dispute and fate of territories from East Prussia to Armenia dominated talks as Europe endures postwar fragility and economic strain. The conference urged Czech and Polish talks and warned of a council-ruled decision within ten days if no agreement is reached.
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Paris
Henry White
United States
Council of Five
Lansing
Tien-Tsin
China
Italy
Teschen
Europe
Russia
Hungary
Turkey
Poland
Czecho
Slovakia
East Prussia
Czecho-Slovakia
Minor
Armenia
World
Peace conference praised as world unity in war era
The text hails the peace conference as history's greatest example of unified world statesmanship directing the nations. It warns that allowing the spirit behind it to disintegrate during this emergency would endanger hopes for lasting peace entered during the war.
Crowder declines Cuban felicitation for electoral reform
Major General Enoch H. Crowder, US judge advocate general, in Havana, refuses a felicitation resolution from the Liberty party after criticism of the American minister and Cuba’s administration. He says he cares only for reform work and has no other interests in Cuba’s electoral law.
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Havana
Enoch H. Crowder
United States
National Assembly of the
Liberty Party
Faustino Guerra
Cuba
Cerra
Man kills wife in divorce dispute then drowns
In Racine Wisconsin on July 18 Joseph Arra depon aged 22 killed his wife Mildred aged 20 who refused to withdraw a divorce suit by shooting her three times in the back. He then fled with three men pursuing him. He leaped from the government breakwater into the lake and drowned.
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Bylls
Racine
Wis
Mildred
Joseph Arradepon
Woman protests tubs full of beer hindering wash work
In Kansas City on July 13 a colored woman told the Free Legal Aid Bureau she cannot wash for others while her husband keeps bath tubs full of beer. She says she must support herself and family by taking in washing and objects to the beer-flooded tubs.
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Kansas City
Free Legal Aid Bureau
Kentucky Man Believed Oldest Person Claims Split Ages
Lexington July 13 The National Geographic Society was asked to verify claims about John Shell of Leslie County who may be the oldest man. Shell is said to be 115, while a tax ticket suggests he could be 130 or 131. His family, descendants, and rugged outdoor life are cited as factors in his longevity.
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Lexington
National Geographical Society
John Shell
Greasy Creek
Leslie County
Henry Chappel
Shell
Kentucky Mountains
Daniel Boone
Hiden
Conference on Marine Strike Fails to End Board-Union Talks
In New York a prolonged meeting between the United States Shipping Board and the International Union of Marine Workers failed to settle the North Atlantic and Gulf Coast strike. Union leaders say strikers grow daily and many of the 50 000 Shipping Board workers have walked out, while the federal board deadline nears Tuesday. Raymond B. Stevens, vice chairman, said talks would continue in Washington and a Monday reply to union demands would be issued. He noted a difference in attitude from the previous approach and pledged adjustments.
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New York
United States Shipping Board
International Union of Marine Workers Unions
North Atlantic
Mexican Gulf
Shipping Board
Federal Board
Raymond B. Stevens
Washington
Stevens
Pri
Los jury Saturday v New Jr for the defense of Miss
The document described by the district attorney would drop a preliminary hearing and bar disclosure of prosecution facts before the jury trial. New’s relatives prepared an insanity defense and planned an alienist examination, which the indictment could also block.
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New, Jr
Frieda Lesser
New
Two Bills To Cut Cost Of Living Intro'd
Washington July 13 Congressmen Upshaw and Campbell introduced two bills to ease living costs. Upshaw would direct Secretary Baker to sell army surplus foods totaling 121 million dollars. Campbell proposed cross department cooperation to produce and distribute foodstuffs.
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Washington
Upshaw
Georgia
Campbell
Kansas
Baker
Proclamation Calls General Election in Lima Peru
Provisional President Leguia issued a proclamation ordering general elections in Lima with a newly convened national assembly. The assembly will convene September 15 as a constituent body to draft constitutional reforms, which will then be submitted to a direct vote at the general elections.
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Lima
Peru
Leguia
Veteran Chicago critic William Payne dies at 61
William Morton Payne longtime literary critic for the Chicago Morning News and Chicago Daily Journal died Friday at age 61 in Chicago. A former associate editor of the Daily Journal, he was born in Newburyport Mass. His translations of French German Italian and Scandinavian prose and poetry earned him international reputation.
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Chicago
William Morton Payne
Old Chicago Morning News
Chicago Daily Journal
Diel
Newbury Port
Mass
British airship B-34 reports sea fight victory over Ireland
July 12 London reports the British airship B-34 passed Clifden Ireland at 2 10 Greenwich time. The air ministry estimated B-34 would land near eight Sunday morning. Putham air drome relayed a wireless from R-34 indicating a landing around 6 o'clock GMT Sunday. The craft flew northeast Ireland at sixty knots, steering toward East Fortune then Pulham.
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Associated Press
London
Clifden
Ireland
Greenwich
New York
Air Ministry
Putham
East Fortune
Pulham
Paris News Spurs Senate Memorandum On Shantung
Paris reports Senator Borah has urged the Senate to receive a joint memorandum from Secretary Lansing and General Bliss on the Shantung situation. Conference circles note the move draws attention to high authority and potential actions, though the details remain unclear.
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Paris
Borah
United States Senate
Lansing
Henry Vt
Bliss
Charters Seaplane To Overhaul Liner
SEATTLE July 13 A seaplane was chartered at 1 dollar a minute to catch the steamer Kalima Maru missed at Seattle. J J Mayer Seattle Red Cross worker bound for Vladi vyostok rode the flight to near Port Townsend and boarded the steamer after a 35 minute chase by boat. Estimated plane cost was seventy five dollars.
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Seattle
Wash
Oriental Ports
J. J. Mayer
Seattle Red Cross
Vladivyostok
Port Townsend
Mayer
Vancouver
Five Firemen Die in Philadelphia Warehouse Fire
In Philadelphia on a Saturday blaze at the burlap bag plant of Jacob Potash and Brothers, five firefighters were killed and 31 injured as the three story brick warehouse burned. Roof and walls collapsed trapping crews while three survivors slid down a failing ladder to safety. cause not yet determined in the third fire at the building in 15 years.
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Philadelphia
Jacob Potash and Brothers
Planes Collide Killing Two in One Aircraft
In Little Rock Arkansas Lieut T J Lenihan of San Francisco and Chaplain R H O Dowd of Brooklyn were killed when their fighter collided with an aircraft from Ebertsfield during a Saturday morning flight. The second machine also crashed but its crew remained uninjured. Rockford Machinists issue general strike appeal to the A F L awaiting national committee action.
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Ark
Tuly B
T. J. Lenihan
San Francisco
Flyer
Ebertsfield
Chapain R. H. O'Dowd
Brooklyn
N. Y
Camp Pike
Lieut
Lenthan
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