Prohibition Fight Rages as House Halts Wine Beer Vote
July 15 Washington action sees the House deny a straight repeal of the war time act. The chamber blocks a 23-4 percent beer amendment and resists moves to soften enforcement. Debates feature Dyer and Longworth as members clash over intoxicant definitions, jury rulings, and potential delays to wartime policies.
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Prohibition
House
Blanton
Texas
Galbvan
Massachusetts
Pell
New York
Longworth
Ohio
Representative Reber
Republcan Pennsylvania
Reber
Dyer
Igoe
Gard
Judiciary Committee
Congress
Troops To Return Home In August Convoys
July 15 York report states the last contingent of American troops bound for home will depart between August 15 and 20 aboard ships. Excluded are occupation forces and service of supply. Major General David C. Shanks, in charge at Hoboken, notes 58 cargo vessels are being used to speed the homeward movement amid earlier complaints about accommodations on return from France.
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York
Army of Occupation
Service of Supply
David C. Shanks
Hoboken
Bout Decided Dempsey Willard Ended In Third Round
The board of boxing control announced that 47 seconds of the third rest period elapsed when Willard's seconds threw in a towel signaling defeat. It also ruled the Toledo July 4 bout ended in the third round after inquiries nationwide. The statement, signed by Adam Empie, says wagers are not involved in the board's determination.
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Board of Boxing Control
Bhut
Dempsey-Willard
Willard
Toledo
Adam Empie
Army balloons fight elements all night long
Army balloons from Fort Omaha, aiming to set height and distance records, fought savage thunderstorms across Iowa Minnesota and Wisconsin. All four craft landed safely Monday after instruments were knocked out by electrical disturbances and ballast exhausted. Balloons reported landings near Rowley Iowa Portage Wisconsin Greene Iowa Ringstead Iowa. Ballon 2 reached 12000 feet.
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Neb
Iowa
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Fort Omaha
Rowley
Towa
Storage Holdings Greater This Year
Storage holdings of frozen and cured meats and poultry were larger July 1 than a year earlier, the Agriculture Department reported. Increases ranged from five percent for dry salt pork to 199 percent for frozen lamb and mutton, with poultry showing large gains. Total stocks included frozen beef 162,386,000 pounds, cured beef 29,217,000, frozen pork 153,894,000, frozen lamb and mutton 7,273,000, and dry salt and pickled pork 801,169,000 pounds.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Government To Help The Cattle Raisers
Washington July 15 The government plans financial aid to cattle producers to boost beef production. Senator Kendrick Wyoming said after a Monday conference with the War Finance Corporation and the Federal Reserve Board that the corporation will soon announce loans on proper security to corporations and individuals to increase beef exports. Gov Harding of the board said he would urge banks in cattle districts of the West to assist stockmen temporarily needing support.
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Washington
Kendrick
Wyoming
War Finance Corporation
Federal Reserve Board
Gov
Harding
All The Lusitania Damage Suits Dropped
New York July 14 A final decree dismissing all damage suits against Cunard Steamship Co after the Lusitania torpedoing was signed in U S district court by Judge Julius M Mayer The 64 claims totaling between 5 000 000 and 6 000 000 were brought against the company Judge Mayer intimated claimants might be reimbursed through U S indemnities from the German government
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New York
Cunard Steamship Company
Lusitania
United States District Court
Julius M. Mayer
Mayer
U.S
Population Of Town Held By Mexican Band
San Antonio Mexico is said to be held by a band of armed men since 6 o clock last night. Advices to military headquarters identify the attackers as Carranza soldiers. The town of San Antonio is described as a small community in the region near Marfa Texas.
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Marfa
Texas
San Antonio
Mexico
Carranza
Five Players Are Traded In National League Move
NEW YORK July trade involving five players was completed here Monday by the Philadelphia and St. Louis National League clubs. St Louis sent pitcher Lee Meadows and first baseman Jean Paulette to acquire pitchers F H Woodward and Elmer Jacobs and infielder Douglas Baird. Meadows is noted as the only major league pitcher who wears spectacles while playing.
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Philadelphia
St. Louis
Lee Meadows
Jean Paulette
F. H. Woodward
Elmer Jacobs
Douglas Baird
Meadows
Hungary Restocks Auto Tires Amid Smuggling Probe
Vienna reports from Budapest say Hungary has been equipped with new tires after weeks without them. The tires, claimed to be smuggled two carloads of French and Italian makes into the country, were sold for 230 dollars each.
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Hungary
Vienna
Budapest
Allies to request extradition of German leaders from Holland
The Tageblatt reports Allied powers will not seek trial for William I in Holland but will urge Holland to deliver him. The plan covers German statesmen who fled to neutral countries and lists 167 figures including generals admirals and former officials such as Bethmann-Holweg Zimmerman and Helfferich.
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the Tageblatt
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William
Germany
Moewe
Newport
Bethman-Holweg
Alfred Zimmerman
Hlelfferich
Interior
Triumphal Allied Parade Through Paris Opens Victory March
Paris July 15 Associated Press reports the allied and American troops began their triumphal march at 8 am with a drum corps leading a column of wounded veterans. President Poincare laid a wreath at the Arc de Triomphe while Joffre and Foch headed the procession amid thunderous acclaim from a vast crowd. General Pershing and dozens of American units followed in precise formation beneath a sea of flags.
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Associated Press
Paris
Poincare
Clemenceau
Lorraine
Edmund Gros
LaFayette Escadrille
Joffre
Marshal Joffre
The
Marne
Marshal Foch
John J. Pershing
Destructive tornado sighted near Independence Kansas
Reports from Bartlesville Oklahoma said Independence Kansas was struck by a powerful tornado. Later alerts from Joplin Missouri and Okmulgee Oklahoma indicated Independence escaped as a severe storm passed north. Attempts to reach Fredonia Neodesha and Chanute Kansas failed. At Independence the wind was high but caused no damage.
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Independence
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Joplin
Okmulgee
Fredonia
Neodesha
Chanute
Thousands Of Jews Held In Budapest
Vienna reports that three thousand Galician Jews have been arrested in Budapest streets. Bela Kun, head of the Hungarian Soviet government, replies to Poland's protest that pogroms are likely but Hungarian Jews should not pay for Galician Jews acts. He also refuses to return money found on Galician Jews.
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Vienna
Rby
Associated Press
Budapest
Bela Kun
Henry Ford on Witness Stand in Mt. Clemens
Henry Ford, testifying in his 1,000,000 libel suit against the Chicago Daily Tribune, faced a courtroom packed with spectators as editors from the Tribune and Detroit Free Press dominated the testimony with editorials and articles. Edsel B. Ford's testimony covered Ford Motor Company war-contract costs and profits, while accountants and a treasury umpire weighed personal profits.
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Henry Ford
Chicago Daily Tribune
Tucker
Mr. Ford
Tribune
The
Detroit Free Press
Ford
Edsel B. Ford
Ford Motor Company
Treasury Department
Elliott G. Stevenson
Ford Tribune
the Tribune
Theodore Delavigne
Free Press
Delavigne
Mr. Delavigine
Emerson Scores One Point In His Trial
In Mount Ayr Iowa on July 15 the defense in Rey Emerson of Creston Iowa charged with murdering his mother won a point when Dr Nf M Stanley could not identify the iron rod stains as blood. Stanley testified scrapings from elevator shaft walls floor and clothes came from blood but he could not confirm the rod stain. The defense argues the stains are natural to an undertaking establishment and will press its case as the trial continues.
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Mount Ayr
Towa
Rey Emerson
Creston
Nf. M Stanley
Emerson
Dr. Stanley
Prepare For Defeat Of The “Dry” Laws
CHICAGO July 15 A campaign to promote the purposes of the Association Opposed to National Prohibition and to repeal search and seizure laws will start at once, said J Clark Waldrey assistant managing director of the Chicago and Mid-West division at a dinner. The association, incorporated under New York law, aims to promote temporary use of alcohol and oppose prohibitions on tobacco. Waldrey said the eighteenth amendment would be defeated by honorable methods.
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Chicagq
Illinois
J. Clark Wald- Tey
Chicago and Mid-West
New York
Waldrey
Stadium Builders Home
Newport News dispatch reports the transport Paysandu brought 1,380 officers and men, including the 55th engineers who helped build the Pershing stadium in France, arriving Monday from St Nazaire.
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Newport News
Paysandu
55Th Wineers
France
St. Nazaire
Woman Held For Killing In Chicago
Mrs Vera Trepagnier of New Orleans was found guilty of manslaughter in Chicago for shooting publisher Paul Volland at his office after a dispute over publication rights for a Washington likeness. She, aged 60, faced trial before Judge Brentano. the state did not seek the death penalty.
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Hncago
Vera Trepagnier
New Orleans
Brentano
Paul Volland
Rage at Argo Plant Sparks Violent Clash in Chicago
In Chicago at the Argo Corn Products Refining plant five men and three women were arrested as 150 deputies patrolled after renewed rioting between strike supporters and non union workers guarding the plant. A woman and another person are expected to die, two more are seriously wounded and many others lightly hurt. Strikers blamed deputies and guards for the violence. Local union president Joseph Banas said he telegrammed John Fitzpatrick asking President Wilson to intervene.
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Corn Products Refining Company
Argo
Peters
Corn Products Company
Joseph Banas
John Fitzpatrick
Chicago Federation of Labor
Washington
Wilson
Diaz Ends Campaign Against Carranza
Mexican revolutionary Felix Diaz retires after more than three years opposing the Carranza government. In a manifesto from Coataxtla Veracruz he announces his departure from public life and his wish to flee to Cuba or the United States. He denies any ambition to become president and notes guerrilla bands in Vera Cruz never backed him.
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Mexico City
Felix Diaz
Carranza
Mexico
Cuba
United States
Diaz
National Army of Reorganization
Coataxtla
Vera Cruz
Bcome
Gen. Diaz
Tilden And Hardy Reach Fifth Round In National Clay Court
In Chicago at the South Side Tennis club William Tiden Jr of Philadelphia and Samuel Hardy of Chicago advance to the fifth round of the national clay court championships. Monday saw fifty nine matches with rain and wind halting several and only one doubles match finishing.
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Chicago
William T. Tiden, Jr
Philadelphia
Samuel Hardy
South Side Tennis Club
Tilden
Hardy
C. L. Johnston, Jr
New York
W. M Johnson
San Francisco
Alister McCormick
Lake Forest
Plan National Budget Plan Committee Formed
Washington July 15 After brief debate the senate approved a resolution by Senator McCormick Republican Illinois to appoint a committee to devise a national budget system. The panel will include six Republicans and four Democrats.
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Washington
Senate
McCormick
Ilaiis
Questions Raised On Wilson Versailles Probes
The senate foreign relations committee approved three resolutions seeking information from President Wilson on the 1919 Versailles peace talks. They cover the Shantung dispute, a Japan Germany understanding, and Costa Rica’s status. Debate continues with open session proposals and demands for full treaty drafts and negotiations data.
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Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Wilson
Versailles
Shantung
Japan
Germany
Costa Rica
Senate Chamber
White House
Lodge
Massachusetts
Borah
Idaho
Gen Bliss
Lansing
Henry White
LaFollette
Wisconsin
Hitchwork
Nebraska
Johnson
California
League
Hitchcock
Senate
Swanson
Virginia
League of Nations
Norris
Underwood
Alabama
Indiana Man Nominated to Federal Vocational Board
Washington July 15 G F Mc Intosh of Indiana was nominated by President Wilson to be member of the federal board for vocational education.
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Washington
G. F. McIntosh
Wilson
Federal Board For Vocational Education
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