Washington Debates Postwar Policy And Officials
Washington reports note Hughes will issue a proclamation withdrawing troops from San Domingo. Senate accepts a 170000 man minimum army for the first year. U S and Mexico relations hinge on a treaty of amity and commerce protecting American property. Colonel George R Richards named chief of the militia bureau. War Department announces Weeks as secretary. An estate tax deductible from estate income is discussed. Hugh R Robertson removed as U S district attorney for western Texas. Senate fights to reduce army to 150000 to avoid unpreparedness. War Finance Corporation funds eyed for stock raising. Hoover and Wallace call farmers and grain dealers to plan grain warehousing. Justice orders general Tulsa race riot probe. Jacob Gould Schurman confirmed minister to China. U S Shipping Board accused of gross mismanagement and daily deficits in senate remarks.
Flood damage estimated at Pueblo
A committee of real estate men quotes flood losses in Pueblo Colorado at fifteen to twenty million dollars for buildings and contents. Also noted were multiple deaths and political appointments across the nation in a wide range of settings.
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Pueblo
Colo
Tilden Wins World Hard Court Tennis Title at St Cloud
Sporting William T. Tilden II of Philadelphia added another championship to his string by winning the world hard court singles at St. Cloud France defeating H Washer of Belgium. Suzanne Englen captured the women's world hard court title at St. Cloud by beating Mrs Moiia Bjurstedt Maulroy the American contender.
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William T. Tilden II
Philadelphia
St. Cloud
France
H. Washer
Belgium
Mille
Suzanne Englen
Moiia Bjurstedt Maulroy
Foreign Fighting in Morocco Again Causes Spanish Losses
Dispatches report renewed clashes between Spanish troops and tribesmen near Abaran in Morocco with heavy Spanish casualties. Separate items note Obregon assuming Mexican railroad control with DeNegri aid, Northern Ireland's parliament opening sans Nationalists, and Koo pledging League of Nations restraint on armament.
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Morocco
Abaran
London
Legion Man Displays Nerve On Coal Cars To School
Thomas D. Lane, a University of Kansas law student and American Legion Argonne post member from St. Paul, traveled three days in a boxcar and coal gondolas to reach the Federal Board for Vocational Education in Minneapolis. He was deemed eligible for tuition, supplies and training pay until graduation.
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Marine Corps
Thomas D. Lane
University of Kansas
Lane
Argonne Post
American Legion
St. Paul
Chicago
Makes Drive for Auxiliary in American Legion History
Mrs. EH Clinton Murray of Houston Texas leads the Texas Women’s Auxiliary of the American Legion. She helped found the first unit in Houston in 1920 and as state president expanded the department from twenty three to more than eighty units. Murray aims to establish a unit at each of the 291 Legion posts in Texas. She worked with Red Cross Liberty bonds and canteen work during World War I and was born to Revolutionary stock with ties to Nathaniel Green Daniel Boone.
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America
Nathaniel Green
Daniel Boone
EH. Clinton Murray
Houston
Tex
Women’s Auxiliary of the
American Legion
Auxiliary of the
Medical Corps
Murray
Red Cross
Women’s Auxiliary
Austin
Legion
Texas
Mrs. Murray
Concordia Parish
Nathaniel Greene
Forrest
Turn Over Pop Comic Sheets Spark Legion Banter
A brief American Legion News Service item notes a humorous exchange about men wearing paper suits. One member fears the trend, the other quips that it would be cheap, while another quips about wives dressing husbands in comic sheets to amuse the kids.
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Pop
American Legion News Service
Back, I'm back to normalcy
Quote from American Legion Weekly noting return to normal life as the speaker reports wife is home again and life resumes after disruption.
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American Legion Weekly
Minne sota Legion departs strength through service drive
Under A. H. Vernon the Minnesota department of the American Legion built a service bureau handling about a thousand ex service claims monthly and created a department branch of the Legion News Service. He issued twenty thousand posters to publicize veteran aid and mobilized 20,000 business leaders to place vocational trainees.
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A. H. Vernon
Minnesota
Department of the American Legion
Legion
Vernon
Legion Service Bureau
American Legion News Service
Federal Board For Vocational Education
Armistice Day Bill Passes as First Legion Law
Father Moran of Farmington chairs the Armistice Day committee for the Minnesota American Legion state legislative group. He pushed Armistice Day to legal holiday status and helped establish Farmington’s Legion post after returning from ten months overseas as army chaplain. He is a noted Legion speaker and organizer.
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Minnesota American Legion
House
Senate
TD. J. Moran
Farmington
Father Moran
Legion
France
Legion State Headquarters
Minnesota
Virginia Legion Appeals for Veterans to Return Questionnaires
The Virginia department of the American Legion urges ex-service men and patriotic groups to cooperate with the Virginia war history commission. Veterans are asked to fill out and return questionnaires used to obtain Virginians military records.
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Virginia Department of the American Legion
Virginia War History Commission
Michigan Patriotic fund to aid ex service men welfare
A wartime total of 221000 dollars raised for the Michigan Patriotic fund will be turned over to the welfare committee of the Michigan Department of the American Legion. Department Commander Guy M. Wilson says the funds will be used for welfare work among ex service men.
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Michigan Patriotic Fund
Michigan Department of the American Legion
Guy M. Wilson
Oklahoma National Guard unit pledges pay for post home
Members of the Havens-Cannon Post No. 24 of the American Legion at Anadarko Oklahoma pledge their government pay to the post to build a post home and armory.
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Battery of Artillery
Oklahoma National Guard
Havens-Cannon
American Legion
Anadarko
Okla
Leprosy at Large in the United States
The United States Public Health Service estimates at least 500 to 1,000 lepers are at large in the country and the number is rising. The government did not delay in starting work on a federal home for lepers.
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United States
The
United States Public Health Service
Woolens From Massachusetts Make A Mile-Wide Blanket
A historic note claims textiles produced in Massachusetts last year could form a blanket one mile wide and 37 miles long, illustrating vast woolen output.
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Massachusette
Harding Approves Action Over Admiral Sims Irish Remarks
Senator Medill McCormick of Illinois pressed Secretary Denby and President Harding to address Rear Admiral Sims after his London remarks calling Irish supporters technical Americans and asses. Denby ordered an inquiry and demanded disavowal or clarification, warning of discipline if misquotations were confirmed.
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Washington
Willems
Sims
London
Denby
White House
Navy Department
Medill McCormick
Illinois
United States
McCormick
Harding
Admiral Sims
America
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San Domingo
Mexico
Hughes
A . Am
George R. Richards
Pennsylvania National Guard
Militia Bureau
War Department
Weeks
Supreme Court At
Hugh R. Robertson
Western District of
Department of Justice
Federal Reserve Board
War Finance Corporation
Hoover
Wallace
Tulsa
Daugherty
Jacob Gould Schurman
New York
China
United States Shipping Board
Poindexter
J. P. Brundage
Rogers Peet & Co
Freeport
Ohio Supreme Court
Columbus
E. L. Newcomb
Minneapollis
Northwestern Drugegist
Northwestern Pharmaceutical Bureau
Minn
Laura Bramwell
Mineola
L. I
Cook County
Maos
Hoffman
Frank O. Lowden
Holstein-Friesian Association of America
Syracuse
N.Y
Kaiser Wilhelm II
President Harding
M@eamship company
McKeesport Tin Plate Company
Pittsburgh
Charleston
W. Va
Walter 8. Tallahan
I. G. Gruenwald
St. Boniface Church
Aniwa
Antigo
Wis
Edward T. Bedford
Bedford
Wintermerearn
Green Farms
Conn
Michigan Central Railroad
Hammond
Ind
United States Army
Cambrai
Antwerp
John Emerson
Actors’ Equity Association
Ethel Barrymore
Frank Bacon
John W. Buckman
North Atlantic Coast Artillery District
Brookline
Mass
Sydney
Ill
Alvin J. Hert
Kentucky
F. A. Tucker
State Board of Health
Paris
Noblesville
San Antonio
Obregon
Ramon P. DeNegri
North Ireland
Belfast
Sinn Fein
Wellington Koo
League of Nations
League
Union
Sinn
Femn
Guadalajara
Tokyo
Hechi Shimbi
Harbin
Kharabovsk
Maritime
Siberia
M. Krassin
Rusela
Penser
Texas Organization
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