Witness outlines anarchist views in Ford libel case
Mount Clemens July 31 Henry Ford Chicago Tribune libel suit continues with Prof. William A. Dunning of Columbia cross examined by Elliott G. Stevenson. He says anarchists vary widely with some Christian in doctrine others view Christianity as enemy of peace. Emma Goldman identified as a leading anarchist. Dunning notes not all ideas belong to anarchists and many non anarchists share them. Government defined as force and Ford’s opposition to a strong military is described as opposing government itself.
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Mount Clemens
Mich
Chicago Tribune
William A. Dunning
Columbia University
Elliott G. Stevenson
Kropotkin
Emma Goldman
Dunning
Jesse Reeves
Tribune
Henry Ford
Stevenson
Ford
M. Stevenson
the Tribune
Million Dollar Fire Of Airplanes Described To House Panel
New York July 31 witnesses before the House sub committee investigating army irregularities described a bonfire that destroyed over 100 serviceable airplanes at Colombey les Belies near Toul. Witnesses could not explain orders or reasons for the fire. A Pershing denial noted later concerned burning at St Nazaire rather than the Colombey incident. The inquiry will resume in France next month.
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New York
House
Colombey-les-Belies
Toul
Air Service
Johnson
General Pershing
General March
St. Nazaire
United States
France
Laon Informers Trial Ends With Multiple Death Sentences
Paris reports that after a more than sixty day trial the Laon Informers case concluded. Of 28 accused eight were condemned to death including two women, three others were condemned by default, six were acquitted, and the rest received one to twenty years. The charges related to denouncing compatriots to German authorities during the Laon occupation. Canada to Market Wheat. The Dominion government will buy and market the 1919 Canadian wheat crop, selling at world prices with surplus proceeds shared with original sellers. speculation and profiteering will be prohibited.
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Paris
Laon
Canada
Halifax
Dominion
Berlin's Wondersteen Hair Remover Ad Claims Instant Results
A vintage advertorial promotes Berlin's Wondersteen as a dry odorless hair remover for chin cheeks and upper lips. It touts popularity in New York shops, physician endorsement, money back guarantee and a $1 price with a booklet offer from Berlin's ondersteen Co. 500 Fifth Avenue New York or Miller Arthur Drug Co.
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Berlin
Wondersteen
New York
Ondersteen Co
Fifth Avenue
Miller & Arthur Drug Co
Cummings reports strong public support for League of Nations
Homer S. Cummings, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, told President Wilson that the country favors immediate ratification of the Treaty and the League of Nations covenant without changes. He cited his fourteen state tour and said no state opposed the League, with California showing four to one in favor.
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Washington
Homer S. Cummings
Democratic National Committee
Wilson
League of Nations
Cummings
Paris
California
Johnson
League
Turk Tartar Forces Move On Armenia War Report
Associated Press reports from Paris that Turks and Tartars advance on Armenia from three sides. American relief supplies are cut off and Armenians face extermination without immediate protection. Major Joseph C. Green in Tiflis warns of disaster worse than 1915 massacres unless allied forces intervene. Hoover forwards message to peace conference.
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Associated Press
Paris
Tartara
Joseph C. Green
Cincinnati
American Relief Administration
Tiflis
Herbert Hoover
Relief
Green
Peace Conference
Major Green
Armenia
Caucasus
Karabagh
Alaghez
Russian Armenia
Khalil Bey
Azerbaijan
France Will Demand World Armed Force
Washington July 31 Information from Paris cited by opposition Senators says if the Senate fails to ratify the French defensive treaty, militarists in France will push the League of Nations to create a general staff and an international armed force. The foreign relations committee plans open hearings on the treaty’s financial and economic aspects with Bernard M. Baruch among the first witnesses. A senator reportedly proposed 72 amendments, including one on Irish independence redefining Ireland, the Philippines, and Korea as independent nations.
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Washington
Senate
Foreign Relations Committee
France
League of Nations
Paris
League
Bernard M. Baruch
Ireland
Philippines
Korea
Yanks Seek Permit to Bring German Wives Home
Washington July 31 two hundred American soldiers filed requests to bring German wives home Representative King Republican Illinois said soldiers are not allowed to fraternize with Germans but doughboys with frauleins are common He recalled an injury to his left wrist from Brest where he and other congressmen were stoned by a Bolshevik Also mentioned were Representatives Neely Goodall McClintic and Purnell
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Washington
King
Republican
Illinois
Brest
Representative Neely
West Virginia
Goodall
Maine
McClintic
Oklahoma
Purnell
Indiana
Sugar adulteration found in city sugar supply
An analysis in St Louis found 11.6 percent corn meal in sugar bought at William A. Deickmann’s store. Grand jury member Deickmann and City Health officials collected samples for further testing. O'Malley bought sugar at 12 cents a pound, with warning that today’s price runs higher than wartime levels.
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ST. Louis
William A. Deickmann
South Fourteenth Street
Health Department
Deickmann
George W. O'Malley
O'Malley
Buckland
Starkloff
Jordan
Deickmanne
Grand Jury
E. L. Barnhouse
Tenth Regiment Sent To Stock Yards Zone
Chicago dispatch reports the Illinois reserve militia First regiment moved from Seventh regiment armory to Stanton avenue riot HQ in the black belt. Additional First regiment companies patrolled Sixty third Street and Ravine avenue where Negroes live amid a nascent riot. Down-state Ninth and Tenth National Guard troops are stationed at the stock yards Dexter Pavilion near the black belt’s southern edge.
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Chicago
Illinois Reserve Militia
Seventh Regiment
Stanton Avenue
Black Belt
Sixty-third Street
Normal Avenue
Ravine Avenue
Ninth
Tenth National Guard
Dexter Pavillion
Drowning Of Girl In Lake Causes Arrest
PATERSON New Jersey July 31 Lester Decker twenty is under arrest in connection with the death of his sweetheart Miss Mabel Harris twenty who was drowned in Pompton Lake Sunday night. Decker says he and Harris were returning from a picnic when he slept in the canoe and awoke to find himself in water below a dam. He reached shore with difficulty and a search for Harris failed. He later told her mother she had gone to the sanitarium where she worked. Police say Decker confessed and the body had not been found early today.
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Decker
Prisoner Silent for 72 Days Is Freed in St Louis
In Clayton the 30 year old Stephen Kusmanisch was released after 72 days of silence. Court officials and interpreters could not compel him to speak and the case was nolle-pros. Arrested May 16 for alleged theft from the Boy Scouts Club at Spanish Lake, he mumbled "yes" when first asked, then remained mute. He did not thank the Judge upon release. He refused to answer in German or Magyar.
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St, Louis
Clayton
Stephen Kusmanisch
Nolle
Boy Scouts’ Club
Spanish Lake
Postal Force To Sell Army Food Surplus
The War Department will directly offer about 841 million pounds of surplus foodstuffs to consumers through postmasters nationwide. Canned vegetables and meats will be sold at government cost plus postage within a week. Secretary Baker led arrangements after a House resolution. a price list will be issued by Assistant Secretary Crowell to 54,000 postmasters and rural carriers who will take orders and inform buyers.
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Washington
War Department
House
Baker
Post Office Department
Kelly
Pennsylvania
Crowell
Postoffice Department
Wants Property Back Deeded From Sick Bed
Mrs. Ellen McCarthy, 72, of 3840 Cook Ave, sues daughter Mrs. Ann Estelle Moser at 4443 Page Blvd to recover title to $8,500 of real estate deeded last June during illness judged fatal. McCarthy alleges a promise to return if she lived and that she recovered, but the daughter refuses to deed back the home and a second West Belle Place property.
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ST. Louis
Ellen McCarthy
Cook Avenue
Ann Estelle Moser
Page Boulevard
West Belle Place
Vandeventer Avenue
Moser
Young Negro Chased Through City Hall
Chicago July 31 a young Negro Fletcher Williams was chased through City Hall corridors by a white man. Williams drew a knife and escaped to a side entrance before police escorted him to Central station. Five Booth Fisheries workers sheltered under a tarpaulin on a truck as they headed home, a shots fired at the Twenty second street viaduct failing to strike them.
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Chicago
City Hall
Fletcher Williams
Williams
Booth Fisheries
Twenty-second Street
Hungary Soviet Must Resign and Allied Reply
Rumors in Vienna say the Allies demanded the unconditional resignation of the Budapest Soviet government in replying to Soviet withdrawal talks opened by Bela Kun. Dispatches from Basel and Berlin say Hungary’s Soviet government proposed voluntary Soviet withdrawal and a new government, a plan said to have been sent to the Paris Supreme Council.
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Zurich
Switzerland
Havas
Budapest
Bela Kun
Vienna
Basle
Berlin
Col. Cunningham
Supreme Council
Paris
Government Food Goods Bid Inquiry Delayed
After a ten day delay by government officials in replying to Mayor O'Brien, a letter arrived with limited usable information. It mentions bids on large quantities of oatmeal raisins macaroni cherries and soda crackers but offers no freshness guarantees and the quantities are too large to justify purchase. No details were provided on sale conditions for bacon and hams. The mayor had moved to explore buying a car load of mixed foodstuffs to sell to citizens at a lower price than retail.
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O'Brien
Hurst And Boy Auto Thieves Taken Away
Deputy sheriffs took Hurst the sailor deserter and two boys Smoot and Blick from East St. Louis for theft of the Castle automobile. Hurst to be sent to naval authorities at Great Lakes, the others to Charles training school. One boy had escaped from a prior arrest and warned of another break for liberty en route to Waukegan.
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Henry Rheinold
Ed Smith
Ray Hurst
Tom Smoot
Harry Blick
East St. Louis
Castle
Hurst
Great Lakes
Rheinhold
Charles
Smith
Connery
Court House
State Highway Men Seek Federal Aid for Roads
Kansas City officials from Kansas Nebraska Texas Iowa and Oklahoma urge Congress to provide 400 million dollars in additional federal road funds to be spent 100 million annually over four years starting 1920 with a 1925 deadline to use it before reverting to the government. Delegates J. W. Holden W Colbinson and F R White attended.
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Kansas City
Kansas
Nebraska
Texas
Iowa
Oklahoma
Congress
Highway Department
J. W. Holden
W. Colbinson
F. R. White
Saloonkeeper Convicted Under New Illinois Liquor Statute
Chicago reports Samuel Katz a saloonkeeper was found guilty Wednesday of violating the state search and seizure law, the first conviction of the kind in Chicago since wartime prohibition and possibly the first in Illinois. Katz, convicted of selling whisky, was fined $50.
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Chicago
Samuel Katz
Katz
Romance of love at St Louis old folks home ends in wedding
George E. Carnes aged 68 married Annie Waite 55 at Memorial Home 2609 South Grand Ave St Louis after seeking and obtaining consent from the home’s 30 member board of directors. The ceremony Sunday afternoon was officiated by Rev William E Wheeler before nearly 100 inmates. Both had been married before.
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ST. Louis
George E. Carnes
Memorial Home
South Grand Avenue
Annie Waite
William E. Wheeler
St. Mark's English
Carnes
Love Triumphant as Carnes Wins Approval for Marriage
In a case before the directorate, Carnes sought Mrs. Springer’s consent to marriage. After months of consideration, Mrs. Springer urged caution. The matter was discussed in a formal session and love won by unanimous vote. Carnes declined to comment on the public nature of the event.
Sergeant York to Found York University for Tennessee Youth
Pall Mall Tenn July 31 Sergeant Alvin York the famed world war hero plans to devote his life to advancing education for rural and mountain Tennessee youth and proposes to establish the York University. He will tour major U.S. cities giving a lecture on his life and war service to raise funds.
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Pall Mall
Tenn
Alvin York
Tennessee
York University
York
Mexico to enact national workmen’s compensation law
Mexico plans a national workmen’s compensation law adopting key features from several U S state statutes. The measure aims to standardize benefits and protections for workers across the country, marking a significant development in labor policy.
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Mexico
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