Republicans Committee Meets For Suffrage Plank Debated
The Republican national committee meets in Chicago under Chairman Charles D Jules to hear contests for the convention and draft the suffrage plank. Carrie Chapman Catt and Senator Borah push the measure, with Borah to champion it in the platform. The plank calls for extending suffrage to women as justice to half the adult population.
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Chicago
Borah
Republican national committee
Charles D. Julles
Ales
Carrie Chapman Catt
National American Woman Surrage Association
William EB. Borah
Idaho
Republican party
John W W. McGrath
Theodore Roosevelt
Gavira to Confer With Pershing Today Near Casas Grandes
Gen Gabriel Gavira, Northern Chihuahua Constitutionalist commander, traveled to Casas Grandes to confer with Gen J. Pershing, head of the American expeditionary force. He is expected to return to Juarez tonight or tomorrow morning. Announcement from Juarez indicated a brief meeting, with Gavira planning to meet Pershing at Colonia Publan across the river from Casas Grandes.
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Ela PASO
Gabriel Gavira
Chihuahua
Casas Grandes
J. J. Pershing
Juarez
Francisco Gonzales
Gavire
Gonzales
Gavira
Gen. Pershing
Colonia Publan
Gonzalés
Century Old Indians Face Ouster From Ancient Tribal Home
Bakersfield California June Journal reports the Tejon tribe of Todianus, about 30 members many over 100, may be forced to relocate if legal actions succeed to remove them from southern Kern County land. Government action anticipated to back efforts for a reservation after years of push.
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BAKERSFIELD
Cal
June Jr
Tejon
Todianus
Kern county
Boyle Needed 10 Bring Peace
Carson City June 1 Sometime today or as soon as Gov Boyle returns to Carson the Mullin case will be trald before him for the Nth time Mike Bangies ghosts at will not down This time the complainant will be William E Wallace Mullin s associate on the industrial insurance commission and state labor commissioner Wallace waits for Governor Wallace waited around the governor s office all day yesterday expecting the chief executive to return from Reno but late in the afternoon a message came announcing that his return had been delayed Mullin s associate says he is going to give the governor the facts in the case and ask him to re quest Mullin to refrain from discussing affairs of the commission around saloons and barrooms Board Stops on Mullin It appears that the industrial commission consisting of Mullin Wallice and Hal Lemmon discarded one of Mullin s pet theories relative to the legality of a claim fled with the commission by Elmer Brown a Southern Nevada miner Mullin voted to reject the claim and Wallace and Lemmon acting on the advice of the attorney general and counsel for the Mine Operators Association put the steam roller over him blowing the claim which was for 1400 Mullin also had legal advice to the effet that the claim in
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LOUIS A. SPELLIER
CARSON CITY
Wallace
Reno
Kullin
Mullin
industrial commission
Wallice
Hal Lemmon
Elmer Brown
Nevada
Wallace and Lemmon
Mine Oprators Association
Paris Glain g troops stay check for Germans
Paris dispatch reports French forces hold at T Homme Mort near eight cebulk as Germans launch a Violent bombardment. Verdun confirms a major Verdun offensive failed to break the French line, with heavy guns and dense troops, though Little Courettes wood trench was briefly lost before strong French defense restored ground.
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PARIS
T Homme Mort
war office
arestess
Coupment
Verdun
French war office
Teutonic
inli No. 304
Meuse
Little Courettes wood
Washington weighs Carranza note aims to sway public opinion
Public opinion in Mexico is seen shaping the Carranza note. Washington expects the US to keep troops in Mexico until Carranza can ensure border security, with President Wilson and Secretary Lansing reviewing the note's text before a formal reply. Pershing’s expedition status remains under consideration.
New York Strike Crisis Deepens As Shops Reopen
A crisis in the garment industry intensified as the Cloak Suit and Skirt Manufacturers Protective Association ordered members to open their shops and allow former employees, locked out April 30, to return. The move follows ongoing negotiations between manufacturers and workers.
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NEW YORK
Brandeis Confirmed by Senate Vote 47 to 23
Washington June 1 Louis D Brandeis appointment to the high court was confirmed after a five month fight. The tally stood 47 for and 23 against with three Republicans La Follette Norris and Poindexter supporting Brandeis and Newlands the sole Democrat opposing. Clapp and Grenna voted in favor while paired in the final tally.
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WASHINGTON
Louis D. Brandeis
supreme court
senate
Brandeis
La Follette
Norris
Poindexter
Newlands
Clapp
Grenna
Dr Waite Sentenced to Death in New York
Dr Warren Waite was sentenced to die in the electric chair in the week of July 1 for the murder of his father in law John E Peck. The judge denied a new trial and Waite expressed remorse while pledging to surrender his body for punishment.
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CHICAGO
NEW YORK
Warren Waite
John E. Peck
Waite
Shearn
Glenn Curtiss Didn't Invent Hydroplane
Washington June 1 Priority of invention of the hydro aircraft was awarded to Albert S Junin over Glenn H Curtiss by the district supreme court The court reversed a patent commission ruling finding Junin conceived three years before Curtiss Yet the decision does not deny Curtiss any patentable subject matter he may have originated Consul At Mexico City Galveston Jane 1 The American consulate in Mexico City opened with J W Rowe in charge after a five year closure
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WASHINGTON
district supreme court
Albert S. Junin
Glenn H. Curtiss
Junin
Curtiss
MEXICO CITY
GALVESTON
Tex
Jane
J. W. Rowe
Shackleton expedition escapes after ships destroyed
A June 1 message from Lieut. Sir Ernest Shackleton, arriving at Port Stanley, details the Endurance sinking after severe ice encounters in early 1915. Shackleton saved all his men, reached Elephant Island, then South Georgia seeking whaler aid, with many privations and a hazardous three week voyage.
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Lieutenant
Elephant Island
Sir Ernest
South Georgia
LONDON
Ernest Shackleton
Port Stanley
Falkland Islands
KSL Endurance
Ernest
Be American First is Advise of Perkins
Chicago June 1 George W Perkins chairman of the executive committee of the Progressive party arrived here to attend the convention and urged delegates to put American first. He warned against bitter feeling in camps over presidential candidates and called for unity to restore the nation’s good name abroad after Carranza accused the United States of treachery.
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CHICAGO
George W. Perkins
Progressive party
Wilson
United States
General Allied Movement Out of Saloniki Toward Macedonian Border
Bulgarian army headquarters report dated May 24 describes a two month old Allied withdrawal from the fortified Saloniki camp and a shift toward the frontier. The center of operations runs along the Vardar valley east to Siruma and west to Florina, with daily artillery fire on the Giexgeli Doiran front. A French recon detachment reportedly fled Gorni Garbaje on May 22, leaving horses captured by Bulgarian forces.
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BERLIN
Saloniki
Vardar
Dovatupete
Siruma
Sub
End is Near Gazette Contest Drives Candidates Forward
Candidates push toward the four day close in a Gazette contest promising a new automobile to the winner. The campaign moves at a brisk pace with vivid, warlike imagery as supporters rally and the race tightens amid mounting excitement.
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RetUNG
thames
cmpaign
Samy
homer
Roosevelt 10 Stay Away From Big Convention
Pittsburg dispatch reports Colonel Roosevelt changed cars in the city on his way to New York. He was asked if he would go to Chicago for the Republican convention and replied I will not go to Chicago.
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ROOSEVELT
Chicago
PITTSBURG
New York
Kcaga
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WHPAPE
BOYLE
Mulin
Teutons
MEXICO
Carranza
Carrange
Carranavs
S Wilson
Lansing
Manufacturers’ Association
WAITES
GLENN CURTISS
south Pa
ANTARCTIC
MOORE DRIVE
SHACKLETON
PERKINS
heer
Gazelte
Virginia Hammond
Frohman
Alfred Chapman
Little Big Horn
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