Effort to Annul War Tax Fails in House Debate
Washington June 1 Opposition to repealing the luxury tax section of the war revenue bill formed Saturday in the house with several sponsors ready to offer substitutes. The Ways and Means Committee and Chairman Fordney pressed for repeal, arguing it would remove costly apparel from taxation, while opponents warned of revenue loss of about 85 million dollars.
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House
Cannon
Hinois
Thomas
Kentucky
Sims
Tennessee
Ways and Means
Fordney
Representative Kitchen
North Carolina
Treasury
Congress
Ways and Means Committee
Moore
Pennsylvania
Wilson
Lomeonworth
White
Garner
Texas
Henry White
Cool Weather Then Warmer Early Week Forecast
Weather predictions for the week beginning Monday show showers in the Great Lakes region early, then generally fair skies and a rise to normal temperatures. The Upper Mississippi and Lower Missouri valleys expect below normal temperatures first half, then normal in the second half, with generally fair conditions overall.
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Washington
Region of Great Lakes
Mississippi
Missouri
Settlement talks fail to end Toronto labor disputes
Ottawa May 29 report says a four hour conference between Sir Robert Borden government members and Toronto employers and workers failed to secure a settlement of disputes that threaten to plunge Toronto into a general strike. Employers and employees representatives participated in the talks but no accord emerged.
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Ottawa
Ontario
Robert Borden
Toronto
Auto Dealer Finds Plane Trade Brisk
A Chicago auto dealer who added planes to stock reports selling forty airplanes in the first selling week and expanding into commercial aviation. He bought 150 Canadian army training planes making Chicago a leading commercial airplane center. Orders span Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Colorado and Wisconsin with deliveries planned to multiple midwestern cities.
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Hicago
Chicago
Illinois
Iowa
Indiana
Denver
Kansas City
American Engineer Beat by Bandits in Sonora
Franklin D. Harding chief consulting engineer of the Chicago Exploration and Development Cor please, walked into Agua Prieta after being abducted by Villa followers from Telamer. He said the camp was attacked Tuesday and he was driven to the Pueblo of Mars in Chihuahua where he was beaten and fed poorly before being released. He will report the incident to the American consul in Hermosillo.
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Agua Prieta
Sonora
Franklin D. Harding
Chicago Exploration and Development Corporation
Telamer
Here
Red’ Lopez
Harding
Hermosillo
Vandals Strike Chicago Professor Home in Act of Vandalism
In Chicago on Saturday three men entered the home of Professor Chester Frae of Armour Institute. Ink, coffee, talcum, and spices were rubbed into clothing. wallpaper was scribbled with obscenity. eggs shattered paintings. silverware flattened. furniture hacked. Mrs Frae blamed anti American sympathizers while the professor reportedly tore German papers from readers and objected to German, leaving a ten year old son locked in a closet.
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Chicago
Chester Frac
Engineering
Armour Institute
Uprising Against Red Rule In Volga Section
A Bolshevik radio dispatch reports uprisings in Kazan on May 15 with crowds besieging the Bolshevik commission residence demanding food removal of troops and hostage liberty. Hungarian detachments dispersed the crowds. An uprising at Nizhni-Novgorod was recently crushed with great cruelty.
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Omsk
Kazan
Volga
Samara
Moscow
Nizhni-Novgorod
Bavarians Offered Separate Peace Pact Rumor
London may thirty one prominent Germans mainly Bavarians met in Switzerland with allied representatives. It is believed Bavaria and other South German states may be offered peace terms if a separate peace occurs. The German government is reportedly aware and could take firm measures if the proposal proceeds.
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Bavarans
Switzerland
Berlin
Copenhagen
Central
Bavaria
Winnipeg Marchers Grow Bold in Pro-Strike Parade
A crowd of about two thousand soldiers and union men marched from parliament to city hall in Winnipeg on June 1 expressing labor-side demands in the general strike. They denounced Premier Norris and Mayor Gray, called for action, and threatened a third protest Monday while officials weighed using military forces to protect property.
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Winnipeg
Mann
Norris
Charles F. Gray
Parliament
Dominion
Richard McDonald
George A. Grierson
Decrease in Beef Prices Predicted Soon
CHICAGO June 1 A statement from the American Meat Packers association bureau of public relations says a drop in beef prices is immediately at hand. Beef already cheaper than pork poultry and mutton may fall further in the next days due to grass fed cattle moving to market exports ceasing and government purchases stopping. Retailers must replenish stock at lower wholesale figures before lower prices reach consumers.
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Chicago
Bureau of Public Relations
American Meat Packers Association
Woman Suspected Of Postal Fraud Cleared
CHICAGO June 1 Miss Lillian Postenbach daughter of the post master at Abbotsford Wis left home seven months ago when suspected in connection with a 23 cent discrepancy in a postal age fee but the police began seeking to tell her that her honest had been proved Her father aanened she had entered nursing at a Peoria St hospital but a few days ago received a card postmarked Chicago from her He wants her to come home.
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Chicago
Lillian Postenbach
Abbotsford
Wis
Peoria, St. Hospital
Lands Where Pilgrims Sailed
The seaplane NC-4, pride of the American navy, reached Plymouth sound and circled the place from which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed in 1620, landing in Cattewater. England gave her a splendid welcome as she completed her epoch making trans atlantic flight.
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Presa Lymouth
Eng
Plymouth Sound
New World
Catte Water
England
Peace Conference Fixes Noon for Austrian Treaty Presentation
Associated Press report says noon Tuesday is the time for presenting peace terms to the Austrian delegation. Entente powers reserve on financial and reparations points while discussing Adriatic settlement. Jugo-Slav delegates meet American officials except President Wilson. discussions continue on German terms and Austrian conditions. The Adriatic issue remains unsettled and Germany’s counter-proposals await Allied reply. Premier Clemenceau sent replies to two German notes, but texts are not public.
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Associated Press
Adriatic
Wilson
Austria
Clemenceau
Bomb Threat Letter Charged Woman Bailed in Governor Case
Sacramento June 1 Mrs Ethel McGown also known as Ethel Lower appeared in court after being charged with sending a threatening letter to Governor Stephenson. She posted 2500 bail which was reduced to 500 after voluntary surrender. She allegedly threatened to blow up the capitol unless 500 was placed under an ink pad in a local hotel.
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Sacramento
Calif
Ethel McGown
Hera
Ethel Lower
Stephenson
Pleasant rides offered in The Whig Want Ads
Hundreds enjoy pleasant rides during these days as inexpensive cars are advertised in The Whig Want Columns. Advertisers note ready money needs or sacrifices for used autos and families upgrading vehicles often sell older cars at actual value.
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WHIG
Senators Strike Against League of Nations in Memorial Day Address
U S Senators Poindexter Borah Moses Sherman oppose the league of nations in response to President Wilson's Memorial Day remarks. They condemn ceding national sovereignty and warn the dead would not support surrendering liberty. They call the proposal revolutionary, un American, and unpatriotic.
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Wilson
Poindexter
Europe
Great Britain
France
United States
Borah
Idaho
Shantung
Vienna
Versailles
Moses
New Hampshire
Sherman
Ilinois
League of Nations
Union of States
United States of America
Aviator Weds Girl 10,000 Feet Up In Handley-Page Plane
Lieut. R. W. Meade and Miss Marjorie Dumont wed aboard a Handley Page biplane 10,000 feet above Billington Field in Texas. The couple and 12 aboard, with Chaplain Lieut. J. E. Rees and pilot Lieut. BE. W. ilgore, celebrated after a 20 mile cruise through light clouds as Liberty engines roared.
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Iouston
Texas
Liberty Motors
R. W. Meade
Cincinnati
Ohio
Marjorie Dumont
Yorkville
Ind
Billington Field
Handley-Paige Pombin
BE. W. ‘Ilgore
New York
Washington
J. E. Rees
Neven
Kalamazoo Infant Drowns in Bath Accident
Kalamazoo Mich June 1 Mrs Albert Fairbrother of this city found her eleven months old son face down in the water of the bath after she left him briefly to fetch another child. The infant died from the immersion in a two to three minute lapse.
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Kalamazoo, Mich
Albert Fairbrother
Von Tirpitz Rides Tram Cars Now
Berlin dispatch notes Admiral von Tirpitz riding trams in the capital with a cropped chin, straphanging as a passenger. Vorwaerts recalls his past privilege when he once reserved a train compartment for himself, drawing criticism from Sunday excursionists and claims democracy has trimmed his prerogatives and his beard.
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Admiral von Tirpitz
Admiralty
Berlin
Vorwaerts
Mexican Rebel Chief Appeals to U S for Support
General Felipe Angeles, proclaimed provisional Mexican president by Villa’s forces, asks Washington to back his aims to restore the 1855 constitution and legal order. Acting Senator Park says no official communication has been received, noting Angeles is a rebel but praising his military record. He pledges protection for Mexicans and foreigners and rejects dealings with Huerta era figures.
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Felipe Angeles
Villa
Mexico
State Department
Park
Carranza
General Angeles
Queretaro
Felix Diaz
Geners
Manuel
Mondragon Rudolfo Yaires
President de la Bara
Huerta
Madero
General Assembly endorses forward drive for mission funds
The 1920 United Presbyterian General Assembly approved a ten million dollar forward drive to endow missionary and educational work and selected Sterling Kansas as Cooper College’s hub for the effort. Return committee urged Sabbath observance, prohibition, woman suffrage, divorce laws, and addressing the vice issue. Theassembly lamented President Wilsons repeal stance on wartime prohibition and planned a letter to Congress urging constitutional prohibition enforcement. No union with the Presbyterian church was decided, and new foreign missionaries were named: thirteen to Egypt, two to the Sudan, and six to India.
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Monmouth
United Presbyterian General Assembly
War Emergency Committee
Sterling
Kans
Cooper College
Committee On
Wilson
Congress
Presbyterian Church
Egypt
Sudan
India
Town Of Esperanza Attacked By Rebels
Yaqui Indians attacked the town of Esperanza located 525 kilometers south of Nogales on the main line not the Southern Pacific De Mexico. Reports say several Mexicans and one American were killed. Details are scarce.
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Nogales
Ariz
Esperanza
Southern Pacific de Mexico
Foster Dies at Home After Illness. Wealthy Bloomington Farmer
Johnn y M. Foster, prominent Bloomington farmer and stock raiser, died Saturday at his home from pernicious arteries and general infirmities. He had previously divided his estate, including 2,000 acres, between his two children.
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Bloomington
Johnny M. Foster
Austria To Get Terms On Monday
London dispatch notes Pan German union plan inviting the former German emperor to return. Paris reports the secret peace conference plenary to present the Austrian peace treaty Monday, with small powers pressing reservations on financial and reparations terms. Cavils over minorities and sovereignty spark debate. Clemenceau and Wilson push for cautious consensus.
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London
Pan-German Union
German National Assembly
Germany
Berlin
Associated Press
Paris
Telephone workers may strike Monday
Atlanta June 1 The Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph company and its employees have referred their differences to the wire operating board in New York for adjustment. Labor leaders warn of a nationwide strike of telegraph operators telephone and electrical workers if no settlement by Monday. President J Epps Brown denies discrimination for union membership and says only six of 330 women operators in Atlanta have been discharged since May 1.
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Atlanta
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company
Moniay
Wire Operating Board
New York
J. Epps Brown
Southerns Bell Telephone Company
Commercial Telegraphers Union
Brown
Threatened Police Strike In London Averted
London and other cities faced a threatened police strike but the situation improved as promises of higher pay led many to resign from the police union. A ballot had shown ten to one in favor of striking before the Home Office announced wage increases.
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London
Liverpool
Birmingham
Manchester
Home Office
Hoff mann ministry resigns in Bavaria prompting broader cabinet
May 31 report from Bamberg indicates the Hoffmann ministry has resigned in Bavaria. A new, broader governing group is expected to be formed to replace it.
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Hoffman
Bamberg
Bavaria
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