Recommendations for wire control board on private restore and rates
May 23 Washington wire control board proposals urge coordinated operation of telephone and telegraph systems under interstate commerce oversight without monopoly. They seek rate fixing by ICC, and a tribunal to hear disputes between employers, employees and management, with wage changes delayed.
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Washington
Wire Control Board
Intetits Commerce Commission
Goroe Ourleses
Cihei Ve
Burleson
Representative Moon
Tennessee
Interstate Commerce Commission
Telegraph and Telephone
Commission
Mannheim Citizens Storm Bank in Alarm Over Peace Pact
Associated Press report from Mannheim on May 22 describes panic as residents fear Germany will not sign the peace treaty and believe Allied forces will occupy the city. Citizens stormed the municipal savings bank and many fled Mannheim.
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Associated Press
Mannheim
Germany
Municipal Savings Bank
Big Liners Land With 33 D Units
Troops from the 130th infantry 33rd division sail on the Imperator and Leviathan to camps Funston Dodge Sherman Taylor Shelby Pike Grant Meade Upton and Custer with detachments from the 28th 32nd and 41st divisions and hundreds of nurses. Officers include Major General Harris Snow Nemon and Starbird. Seattle arrives with 60 officers and 1506 men of the 324th field artillery 88rd division from Brest.
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130Th Infantry
Dix
Grant
Sherman
Taylor
Gordon
Shelby
Pike
Dodge
89Th Division
177Th
S9th
Imperator
354Th Infantry
Funston
Meade
Upton
Custer
Peter ©. Harris
William A. Snow
Tiemann N. Eomn
Alfred A. Starbird
Seattle
New York
324Th Field Artillery
Ohio
West Virginia
Brest
Yale
Prest
Nebraska
Camp Mills
N. Y
33Rd Division
Ilinois National Guard
Iinois
Lee
Meritt
Pie
Bowie
Taylor and Sherman
D. A. Russell
Oglethorpe
32Nd Infantry
Fire Losses For Year Greatest Since 1906
New York May 23 Fire losses totaling 290 million dollars marked the greatest yearly figure since 1906 except for the San Francisco quake. The National Board of Fire Underwriters reported 441 convictions for incendiary cases across 42 states, with 172 attempts to defraud insurers and 156 linked to pyromania or insanity.
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New York
San Francisco
National Board of Fire Underwriters
Gardner Faces Deficit If He Vetoes Budget
Jefferson City Missouri May 23 Gov Gardner faces a potential $3.5 million veto clash as he attempts to balance the budget while maintaining adequate public school facilities and state institution management. The state’s finances show continued strain with prior deficits and delayed property assessments, and the tax plan now relies on indirect revenue sources to raise about $17 million for the two year period.
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Jefferson City
Gardner
Major
McAllister
Sullivan
Middlekamp
State Board of Equalization
State Tax Commission
Tax Commission
House
Senate
Senator Hale Supports Woman Suffrage in Senate
Washington May 22 The woman suffrage constitutional amendment resolution passed by the House gained another vote in the Senate when Senator Hale Republican of Maine said he would support it. Hale had opposed the resolution at the last session. Suffragists previously claimed sufficient votes to ensure adoption in the Senate.
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Washington
House
Senate
Hale
Maine
Sen
Senator Hale defends Maine women suffrage stance
Senator Hale sent a telegram to Col. Fred N. Dow of Portland, Maine, explaining he voted against a prior resolution because Maine defeated woman suffrage in 1917. He now supports it, citing the state legislature’s grant of presidential suffrage to Maine women and arguing that if they can vote for president they are qualified for all elections.
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Ate
Hale
Fred N. Dow
Portland
Maine
Canadian Golf Tour Postponed by One Week
CHICAGO May 23 The Royal Canadian Golf association wired President Charles P Thompson of the Western Golf association a willingness to postpone for a week the tour of Canada by crack American golfers and the move was to be arranged shortly.
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Chicago
The
Royal Canadian Golf Association
Charles P. Thompson
Western Golf Association
Golfers set Western Amateur bid with Red Cross tour
The plan arranges for national champions and leading players from Atlanta New York Boston to join the Western Amateur at St. Louis June 16-22 and the Red Cross exhibitions in Canada. The schedule has Red Cross matches at Hamilton Toronto Ottawa Montreal and St Andrew by the Sea from June 23 to June 28.
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St. Louis
Red Cross
Canada
Charles Evans, Jr
Robbie Jones
Perry Adair
Atlanta
Jerome D. Travers
John G. Anderson
Grantland Rice
Oswald Kirkby
New York
Francis Ouimet
Boston
West
Hamilton
Ont
Toronto
Ottawa
Montreal
St. Andrew-by-the-Sea
N. B
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Loewenstein
Maine ST
Missouri
Senator Bowker
Vernon County
Ways and Means Committee
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Sheraton
Spring Medicine Hood
Aria
Rangoon Shantung
Yard
Lie
Lux
Lie Luzell
Reiger
France
the Yard
Children’s
Tno
Une West
Beleetrie
Jee Pda
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Bridas
Feridaw
Priday
Lisle Hole
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Briday
Tle
Wood Knob
Nile
Faust
House Frriday
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