New Plan To Enforce Dry Act Approved In Senate
Washington June 20. A reorganization of the prohibition enforcement service would create a separate enforcement unit in each state headed by a estate director, abolish multi state districts, and establish a mobile force of agents under Director Haynes. The plan aims to tighten control, save about 150000, and requires treasury approval for jurisdiction.
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Washington
Prohibition Enforcement
Blair
Internal Revenue Bureau
Haynes
Penrose
Watson
Senate Finance Committee
Penrose and Watson
Treasury
Prohibition
Mobile
Britain not against U S in Anglo Japanese treaty
Austen Chamberlain, government leader in the house of commons, stated that Britain will not join any alliance directed against America or that would require action against the United States, while not prejudicing the imperial conference.
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London
Austen Chamberlain
House of Commons
House
America
Senate drops regulator provisions in Sterling packer bill
Washington June 20 the senate voted 85 to 30 to omit the bill’s regulatory provisions for food products of the packing industry. The chamber then defeated the agriculture committee’s report 34 to 81 and later passed the amended house bill regulating the packers by 45 to 21.
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Washington
Senate
Agriculture Committee
Rioting Forces Adjournment of Reichstag Session
In Berlin on June 20 rioting with Communist deputies joining a massed charge caused the Reichstag to adjourn. An interpellation on the Munich assassination of independent socialist leader Gareis sparked the clash in a session that turned into a battle royal.
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Berlin
Munich
Gareis
N W Train Wreck Kills Five Near Whitney Nebraska
Five killed and eighty three injured when Northwestern train No 606 derailed after a bridge collapse two miles east of Whitney Nebraska. Seven serious injuries reported as rescue work followed the crash on June 18.
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N. W
Hot Springs
S. D
Northwestern
Whitney
Neb
Four Die in Fire at Resh Home in Myersdale
Four persons died when a house owned by coal miner John Resh burned in Myersdale Pennsylvania on June 18. The victims include three of the Resh children and Anna Decker.
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Myersdale
John Resh
Resh
Anna Decker
Sims Sails For Home With Floral Car Welcome
Rear Admiral William S. Sims sailed from Southampton aboard the Olympic for New York on a car packed with floral testimonials. A New York round robin by McCutcheon Street and Irwin urged a pension fund if Navy Secretary Denby sacks Sims, praising his outspoken support for goodwill between the United States and Britain.
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Southampton
England
Williams. Sims
Sims
New York
London
William S. Sims
Waterloo Station
Olympic
Admiral Sims
George Barr McCutcheon
Julian Street
Wallace Irwin
Admirl Sims
Labor Seeks Aid for Unemployed and Seamen’s Union Split
At the Denver AFL convention Samuel Gompers is urged to appoint a special committee to study federal and state aid to the unemployed amid a claimed $20 million daily loss. Resolutions seek La Follette federal inquiry into seamen lockouts and reaffiliation with the International Federation of Trade Unions. The San Francisco Labor Council urges action against Chinese smuggling and defends exclusion laws amid a broader intra-labor dispute.
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Denver
Colo
The
American Federation of Labor
Samuel Gompers
United States Senate
International Seamen’s Union
United States Shipping Board
America
American
Gompers
International Federation of Trade Unions
International Association of Machinists
Executive Council
European Labor Movement
United Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners
San Francisco Labor Council
Department of Labor
United States
National Organization of the Enemies of Labor
Federation
Beer ban loom expected as Volstead bill nears passage
Washington reports Prohibition Commissioner Haynes predicts Congress will pass the Volstead supplemental enforcement bill soon. If that happens any current beer regulations would be nullified, he says, and no new rules would be issued unless congress delays the bill.
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Haynes
Washington
Prohibition
Congress
Illinois pit bill wrecked at Springfield
The Illinois House exploded the Lantz bill intended to shut down the Chicago Board of Trade. Twenty eight amendments, all proposed by opponents, were adopted leaving the measure hardly recognizable.
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Springfield
Ill
House
Lantz
Chicago Board of Trade
Beloit Couple Drowns After Canoe Upset
Beloit Wisconsin June 20 Richard Ward 38 of Beloit and Ruth Nice 22 a Jefferson home teacher drowned when their canoe overturned in the Rock River.
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Beloit
Wis
Richard Ward
Ruth Nice
Jefferson
Rock River
Ex Solon Shoots Wife and Ends Life in Wyoming
Alfred P. Roberts a former state legislator allegedly shot his former wife in Solon Wyoming then killed himself at her home in Kemmerer June 20. Mrs Roberts expected to recover from non fatal injuries.
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Solon
Kemmerer
Wyo
Alfred P. Roberts
Huge Mail Loot Is Missing in Chicago Heist
Tim Murphy of the Gashouse Workers Union allegedly hid about 200000 of the Polk street station mail robbery loot. Vincenzo Cosmano, his lieutenant, allegedly received about 60000. Northup says other gang members got roughly 13000 each. About 125000 of the 380000 taken has been recovered and nearly all the gang, except three, have been arrested.
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Chicago
Tim Murphy
Gashouse Workers’ Union
Polk Street
John BE. Northup
United States
Vincenzo Cosmano
Murphy
Northup
House Votes For Peace Porter Substitute Passes
The Porter substitute for the Knox peace resolution was approved by the House on Monday and sent to conference. Leaders expect delays as the Senate and House clash over which draft should prevail after two days of debate.
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Washington
Porter
House
Senate
Five Die in Auto Accident Near Uniontown
Five people killed and six injured when the car they rode in side swiped another vehicle on Dutch Hill road and plunged into a creek near Uniontown Pennsylvania.
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Uniontown
Dutch Hill
Moonshiner Aims to Pay College Way
Everett Washington June 20 Clifford Coleman arrested when found in possession of two stills. Police say he planned to moonshine to fund attendance at business college.
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Everett
Wash
C Clifford Coleman
Business College
Nurse Testimony In Divorce Case Claims Beauvais Telegram
Mary Olive Galligan testified that on Guy Stillman’s birth day in 1918 Mrs. Anne Stilman ordered a telegram to Fred Beauvais in Montreal reading Little brown bear has arrived. James A. Stillman did not attend birth. flowers were sent daily. Dr Hugh L Russell confirmed Beauvais handwriting on letters and noted limited Stillman hospital visits.
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Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Anne A. Stilman
Guy Stillman
Fred Beauvais
Montreal
James A. Stillman
New York
Mary Olive Galligan
Guy
Mr. Stillman
Mrs. Stillman
Hugh L. Russell
Osteopath of
Buffalo
Beauvais
Russell
Burglars on Roof Turn to Romantic Entrances
Tom Foster finds his apartment ransacked by burglars but discovers on the roof a young woman named Helen Rogers drying her hair. Hazel, Tom’s sister, and Helen strike up a rapport, and the trio improvise a plan to pursue potential clues while a romance blossoms between Tom and Helen.
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Tom Foster
Hazel
Tom
West
Helen Rogers
Hazel Foster
Helen
George Sanders
Shore
Little Grace
Mary
Representative Mason Dies in Washington
Representative William E. Mason of Chicago Illinois congressman at large died in Washington from heart trouble after a period of critical illness. He had rallied briefly on Wednesday, but doctors reported he had passed the danger point.
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Illinois
Washington
William E. Mason
Chicago
Shrine to Levy $2 Year From Shriners for St. Louis Hospital
The Imperial Council of the Mystic Shrine will assess each of the 500000 Shriners in North America $2 a year for maintenance of a large hospital in St Louis serving crippled children of all creeds and races. A fund of 1100000 was voted to the hospital by the council.
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Des Moines
Imperial Council of the Mystic Shrine
North America
St. Louis
New National Commander of the American Legion Named
John G. Emery of Grand Rapids Michigan was unanimously elected National Commander by the American Legion national executive committee in Indianapolis. He succeeds Col Frederick W. Galbraith Jr who was killed in an automobile accident here.
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Indianapolis
John G. Emery
Grand Rapids
Mich
American Legion
National Executive Committee
Frederick W. Galbraith Jr
No Debs Decision Delayed Two Months
Washington June 20 Attorney General Daugherty said the Debs case will take about two months to resolve as business piles up and he prepares recommendations for the President.
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Washington
Daugherty
Debs
Harding Denies Half Holiday for Government Clerks
President Harding replies to government employee representatives denying an order for Saturday half holidays year round. The exchange comes via a letter in Washington dated June 20.
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Harding
Washington
St George Day Legend and Dragon Tale
St George day on April 23 honors England's patron saint, a legendary prince of Cappadocia. The familiar image shows him on horseback slaying a dragon to save Aja the princess, a tale tied to crusade era myths and the English war cry at Antioch.
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England
Cappadocia
London
St. George
Cecilia
Aja
Antioch
Castaway Remains Found Near Patagonia After Shipwreck
A United States windjammer near Cape Horn sent a boat ashore for water and found a crude wigwam and the remains of a lone seaman, presumed the sole survivor of a vessel wrecked off the Patagonian coast.
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Seven Seas
Pacific
South Atlantic
United States
Cape Horn
Patagonian
Monk First to Wear Spectacles in Florence
A Florentine monk Alexander de Spina devised the first spectacles in 1285 while working on an illuminated missal. He attached two lenses with wires behind his ears to aid his failing eyesight, marking the birth of eyeglasses.
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Alexander de Spina
Florence
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U. S
New Japan Alliance
Gabriel Noradounghian
Armenia
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World Union
Germany
Francis J. Jones
Francis I. Jones
New Jersey
United States Employment Service
Secretary of Labor
Davis
J. B. Densmore
Mary Gilligan
Stork
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Mason
Mammoth Hospital
J. G. Emery
Legion
Michigan
Col
F. W. Galbraith
Veterans
ST. George and the Dragon
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