Americans Break Up Haitian Band of Outlaws in Caribean Battle
Santo Domingo May 28 All Haiti praises Capt Hermann Hanneken USMC and Lieut William Button with eighteen Leathernecks for destroying a 750 strong outlaw band. They killed the bandit chief Charlogne Massena Peralti in a night assault after penetrating the stronghold despite sentries. The force emerged unscathed and then routed the remaining outlaws, whose grip on the natives had lasted years. News surfaced two weeks later through command members.
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Santo Domingo
Haiti
Hermann Hanneken
William R. Button
Charlogne Massena Peralti
Heineken
Carribean
Army reorganization bill drops National Guard federalization
Washington May 28. The army reorganization bill sets a peace time force of 280,900 soldiers and 17,800 officers including Philippine Scouts. It omits the Senate plan to federalize the National Guard and universal military training. The bill retains a new War Department post for war supplies and follows Senate plans to restructure the General Staff after the French model.
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Washington
Senate
National Guard
Northwest rail managers predict Alaska tourist surge
May 28 Seattle report says a marked rise in Northwest tourist travel is expected this year, with Alaska destinations drawing more visitors as railroad managers meet today to discuss the trend.
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Seattle
Northwest
Alaska
Northwest Railroad
Gasoline Shortage Trims Pleasure Car Sales Coastwide
Spokane reports a gasoline shortage forcing sales limits to commercial truck owners. May 27. Oil experts warn of nationwide scarcity. May 28. Man ning predicts underground supply will run dry within twenty years. A C Bedford of Standard Oil cautions limited shortages may appear before the summer touring season. He cites crude oil shortfall and asks for government support abroad.
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Spokane
Standard Oil
Pacific Coast
Washington
United States
Manning
Bureau of Mines
San Francisco
A. C. Bedford
Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey
Limiting liquor permits for doctors to 100 in three months
Washington May 28 The Internal Revenue Collector's Office issued a ruling to curb indiscriminate liquor sales by prescription. Permits will be limited to one hundred in three months for each physician, except with good cause.
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Washington
Internal Revenue Collector's Office
Grigsby fights to save Alaska steamer lines
Seattle dispatch reports Alaska delegate George B. Grigsby battling the merchant marine bill. He argues three provisions would give two steamship firms control, blocking Canadian vessels and curbing routes to Juneau Sitka Ketchikan and other Alaska ports. The measure gains support but faces opposition.
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Grigsby
Alaska
Seattle
George B. Grigsby
Congress
Seattle Times
Washington
Cordova
Seward
Skagway
Nome
Ketchikan
Juneau
Douglas
Sitka
Dawson
Fairbanks
Bnt
Woolen Company Profits Jump Over 300 Percent
New York May 28 Walter M Wood president of the American Woolen Company denied ground for an indictment on profiteering in woolen cloth. Charles Evans Hughes has been retained to defend the charges while District Attorney H A Smythe ridiculed the claim and cited a 300 percent profit rise in the past year.
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New York
Walter M Wood
American Woolen Company
Charles Evans Hughes
United States Supreme Court
H. A. Smythe
Wood
Auction in St Louis Sets Fur Prices Decline
Grey fox and wolf pelts led the International Fur Exchange sale in St Louis on May 28. Top prices were five dollars for grey fox and twenty dollars for wolf, with overall sales half of February and prices down 25 to 50 percent. Wednesday’s total approached one million dollars. Coneys dominated the sale, with domestic carning twenty dollars and foreign up to sixty.
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ST. Louis
International Fur Exchange
China refuses direct talks with Japan on Shantung
Peking dispatches report that the Chinese government will not enter direct negotiations with Japan for Shantung restoration. It also says China will not negotiate with Austria and Germany for transfer of their rights in Tientsin and Hankou but would open concessions formerly held by the Central Powers in those cities to world interests.
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Honolulu
Peking Dispatches
Japan
Shantung
Austria
Germany
China
Tientsin
Hankou
Tokio
Nippu Jiji
Sugar embargo bill advances in Senate committee
Washington May 28 The Senate Agricultural Committee ordered a favorable report on Senator Charles L McNarys sugar export embargo bill. London May 28 Hostilities between Russian and Japanese troops ceased May 25 per Reuters dispatch from Vladivostok. Arrival of the Russo Japanese armistice commission at Khabarovsk is reported. Mexico City May 28 General Alvaro Obregon presidential candidate says he will seek amicable relations with other American nations if elected. Ottawa May 28 Canadas reparations claims against Germany totaling 1871000000 have been forwarded to England.
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Washington
Senate Agricultural Committee
Charles L. McNary
London
Reuter
Vladivostok
Khabarovsk
Mexico City
Alvaro Obregon
Ottawa
Canada
Germany
England
State Department retracts claim on missing Americans
The State Department said its earlier report that two Americans were seized by Mexicans in Jimenez Chihuahua was incorrect after receiving later advices.
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Washington
State Department
Jiminez
Chihuahua
Silver price slide sparks Senate talk on possible world combine
Washington May 28 Decline in silver prices prompts Western senators to discuss a possible international combine to suppress selling. Senator Pittman says the government will buy all American produced silver at $1 an ounce and notes Treasury is preparing producers certificates. He cites wartime melting of 300 million dollars in silver and explains prices fall due to Germany and France smelting silver and Asiatic markets. Senator Thomas questions factors and cautions against a boycott driving down prices.
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Washington
Senate
Pittman
Nevada
Treasury Department
Germany
France
Thomas
Colorado
U. S
Chicago publisher releases newsprint for small papers
Chicago May 28 Victor Langon publisher of the Chicago Daily News today released 100 tons of newsprint to be distributed among small papers nationwide that are out of stock and facing suspension due to their inability to buy at exhorbitant open market prices.
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Chicago
Victor Langon
Chicago Daily News
Today
Senate Campaign Inquiry Reveals New Disclosures
Washington May 28 Nebraska publisher Frank H. Harrison testified before 18 Senate committee investigating campaign expenditures. He said Senator Hiram W. Johnson spent 1913 on Nebraska primary efforts. Harding campaign managers testified about newspaper support shifts and costly ads. Lang alleged a 5 million fund to back William G. McAdoo and plans to raise 10 million for the Democratic national campaign. McLean could offer little on McAdoo, denying Liberty Loan groups aided his ambitions.
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Washington
Frank H. Harrison
Nebraska
Senate
Hiram W. Johnson
Harrison
Johnson
Harry M. Dougherty
United States
Warren G. Harding
Ohio
Ohio State Journal
The
Columbus Dispatch
Harding
Leonard Wood
Dougherty
William G. McAdoo
Democratic Committee
Atlantic City
Lang
Thomas F. Chadbourne
Bernard Baruch
McAdoo
Frederick A. Wallace
New York
Angus W. McLean
North Carolina
War Finance Corporation
Liberty Loan Publiclly
BEER and WINE LAWS at Chicago Convention Discussed
Chicago May 28. The Republican leadership plans to avoid discussing a possible shift in prohibition laws permitting light wines and beer at the convention opening June 8. A Perkins, national committeeman from Washington, says the issue is considered settled. Reports from Concord NC say Senator Hiram W Johnson of California will not block the convention if not nominated.
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Chicago
A. Perkins
Washington
Concord
North Carolina
United States
Hiram W. Johnson
California
Johnson campaign manager defeated for delegate in Oregon
Portland May 28 United States Senator Hiram W Johnson of California carried Oregon but his campaign manager Sanfield McDonald appears defeated for delegate at large to the Republican National Convention according to latest returns presented from Oregon polls.
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Sen. Johnson
Oregon
Portland
United States
Hiram W. Johnson
California
Sanfield McDonald
Prominent party leaders endorse Capper and Sheppard for president and senate
Area residents in THICAGO join the National Committee in backing Arthur Capper of Kansas for the Republican presidential nomination and Morris Sheppard of Texas, author of the Eighteenth Amendment, for the Democratic nomination.
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PROM
Ron
Johnson vows to stay in GOP if defeated at Chicago
Concord New Hampshire May 28 Senator Johnson of California today said he would not bolt the Republican party if defeated for the presidential nomination at the Chicago convention. He called the dispute a family quarrel and said he would abide by the majority decision.
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Johnson
Concord
N. H
United States
Hiram W. Johnson
California
Chicago
Democrats Van To Reach San Francisco By June 10
May 28 report from San Francisco states that the vanguard of the committee will arrive in the city during the first ten days of June, with the full committee in San Francisco by June 25. George P. Mera, assistant to Homer Cummings, announced that Cummings will be here June 10.
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San Francisco
Democratic National Committee
George P. Mera
Homer
Cummings
Mora
House Twenty Votes Overrule Veto Ends War Resolution
Seventeen Democrats joined Republicans to oppose President Wilson and override his veto of the resolution declaring the United States’ war with Germany and Austria at an end. The House failed to reach a two thirds majority, 219 to 152, 30 short. Seventeen Democrats and two Republicans shifted the outcome.
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Washington
House
Wilson
United States
Germany
Austria
Virginians Praise Stand On League Platform
The Virginia State Democratic Convention platform endorses President Wilson and his support for the League of Nations covenant. It commends his stance on peace, finance, and reconstruction and condemns Republican reservations as harming the League’s aims.
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Virginia
Wilson
Democratic Party
League of Nations
United States
Carter Glass
Versailles
Russian anarchists escape immigration officers in Seattle
Four men including two alleged Russian anarchists fled the United States immigration detention station in Seattle on Wednesday. Investigators found evidence that the group released prisoners in small batches but fled before completing the breakout.
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Seattle
United States
Lumber Plant Burns Near Martinez Fires Ruin Coos Bay Mill
Fire destroyed the Coos Bay Lumber Company plant near Martinez California last night causing more than 200000 dollars in damage. The blaze damaged the mill and surrounding facilities, with no immediate reports of injuries.
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Martinez
Calif
Coos Bay Lumber Company
Here
Water power bill approved by Senate moves to president
The Senate voted 45 to 21 to approve the long pending water power bill in conference. It creates a Federal Power Commission of the War Agriculture and Interior secretaries with broad authority over federal water power development. The measure allows preliminary permits for three years and licenses for fifty years, with options for government purchase after license expiry and state Supervision of rates.
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Washington
Senate
Wesley L Jones
Senate Commerce Committee
United States
Federal Power Commission
Secretaries of War, Agriculture, and Interior
Commission
State Public Service Commission
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ARMY
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Home
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William Proctor
Woods
Butler New York
Nicholas Murray Butler
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Shy
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