Final drive for votes opens atop GOP nomination race
Chicago May 27 candidates for the Republican presidential nomination opened their final drive to win the 493 convention votes. Gen Wood leads with 153 pledged votes, Johnson 100, Lowden 74, Harding 39, with Poindexter and Pritchard also listed. The convention opens in Chicago Tuesday. many contests and a national committee meeting may alter prospects.
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Associated Prem
Ghigago
Epen
Vermont
Wood
National Committee
Gen
Goy
Lowden
Johnson
Harding
Sutherland
Miles Poindex
Origin of Booze Traced Through English Pedigree
Cleveland May 27 A Western Reserve University professor traces booze origins from bowse to bouse and booze in English texts. He notes early meanings as drink in excess and links 1529 bousing 1611 bowser as predecessor terms.
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Cleveland
Willam H. Hulme
Western Reserve ‘University
Hulme
Bowse
Bouse
Bousing
Bowser
College For Women
University
Dan E. Butler Enters Democratic Gubernatorial Race
Dan E. Butler of Toledo, longtime official with the state public utilities commission, filed his declaration of candidacy for the Democratic nomination for state author.
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Ly Associated Press
the Banner
Columbus
Dan E. Butler
Toledo
State Public Utilities Commission
Palmer Gives Ho Views On Nat Platform
Attorney General Palmer outlines a national platform favoring government control of railroads federal control of key industries and the manufacture of essential commodities. He endorses excess profits taxes aimed at higher income and investment taxes in a recent questionnaire from the Board of Farm Organizations.
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Palmer
Associated Preass
the Banner
Washington
Mate Public Today
Board of Farm Organizations
Miners reject wage proposal in Wilkes Barre session
In Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania on May 27 may 2 the convention of hard coal miners unanimously rejected the wage agreement submitted by Secretary of Labor Wilson. The plan offered by coal operators was the maximum concession.
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Associated Prose
Wilkesbarre
Secretary of Labor
Wilson
Strike leaders indicted in Newark federal case today
Ten leaders of the New Jersey railroad strike were indicted by a federal grand jury under the Sherman Antitrust Act. They face charges of conspiracy to restrain interstate commerce as the case unfolds in Newark.
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Associated Proos
The
Banner
Newark
N. J
New Jersey
DePauw Daily suppressed by university faculty
In Greencastle Indiana May 27 the DePauw Daily student publication was suppressed for the remainder of the school year after faculty objections to articles. The faculty also announced next year the paper would appear weekly or semi weekly under strict supervision of the journalism department.
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Associated Prewn
Qreencastle
Ind
DePauw
de Pauw University
Department of Jour- Inalium
Talking Machines Outlawed in Homes by Brethren Conference
At Loganport Indiana on May 27 the annual Brethren church conference voted against members owning talking machines phonographs or graphophones at home. A Dayton Ohio church had asked about permission to keep such devices. Some members sought council action to ban automobiles but opposition was small.
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Associated Press
Logansport
Ind
Old Order
The
Brethren Church
Dayton
Ohio
Telephone Wires Repaired After Tuesday Cut
Mt. Vernon Telephone Company restored lines today after wires were cut Tuesday night. The identity of the person or persons responsible remains unknown.
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Mt. Vernon Telephone Company
Character witness in behalf of a dog
In Omaha a district court judge heard testimony on behalf of a dog named Dick that bit Lena Chisno. City attorneys objected but the court ruled the dog had as much right to defense as a human and spared the animal from a death sentence. The Schwartz family, who owned Dick, paid nearly 200 for appeal and 15 witnesses testified for the dog, including W. W. Bradley of the Nebraska Humane Society and Pound Officer Peterson.
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Omaha
Estelle
Mary Schwarts
Lena Chisno
Tal
Schwartz
Prisoner at Camp Sherman Fatally Shot During Escape
CHILLICOTHE May 27 After holding up the guard with a file Arthur Dillingham a military prisoner at Camp Sherman was fatally shot by Private Arthur Jones while escaping the guardhouse. Dillingham seized keys, fired when pursued, felled sergeant Kakalak, and was shot through the body as he clubbed him. He had been awaiting court martial for a prior suspected robbery.
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Associated Prem
Chillicothe
Arthur Dillingham
Camp Sherman
Arthur Jones
Dilingham
Dillingham
Josep Kakalak
Kakalak
Jones
Red Cross
Senate Panel Rejects Armenian Mandate Proposal
The senate foreign relations committee disapproved President Wilson's Armenian mandate plan by an 11 to 4 vote. The panel reported a resolution declaring that Congress declined to grant executive power for an Armenia mandate.
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Associated Press
Washington
Wilson
Armenia
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Congress
Sugar sale snarls traffic in Anderson rush for 17½c sugar
Thousands of residents blocked traffic for blocks to buy granulated sugar at 17½ cents per pound offered by a local merchant. The rush began early and was expected to continue until the supply sold out as sugar fetched about 9 to 10 cents elsewhere before.
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Associated Prom
Anderson, Ind
Army Reorganization Plan Sets Army at 397,800 Total
The House and Senate conferees reached a complete agreement on the army reorganiza tion bill. The army will total 397,800 personnel including 280,000 soldiers 17,800 officers and Philippine scouts. In Youngstown merchants sold over 600 tons of sugar in the hut tent day.
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Prem
Washington
House
Senate
Philippine Scouts
Youngstown
Bank closes in Japan and LK goes up
The 74th Bank of Yokohama, controlled by Lover Magi, suspended operations today in Tokyo. The move led to a silk trade closure and caused a slump in the Tokyo stock market, with the exchange dropping sharply in response.
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Japan
Tokio
Associated Press
74Th
Bank of
Yokohama
Lover Magi
America
Silk Exchange
Prohibition Raids Target Edgewater Hotel in Chicago
Federal agents from Major Dalrymple's office raided the Edgewater Beach hotel in Chicago's affluent north shore area and arrested steward J P Spagat on liquor charges linked to a millionaire whiskey ring. Spagat posted 2500 bond for June 4 hearing. no liquor found. Stewart-Warner president Charles B Smith surrendered after a raid and was released on 1000 bond.
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Associated Press
Banner
Chicago
A. V. Dalrymple
Edgewater Beach
North Shore
J. P. Spagat
Spagat
U. S
Mason
Contiiuing
Choy
Major Dalrymple
Charles B. Smith
Stewart-Warner Speedometer Co
Austrian Commander Oes Vienna Death Revealed
Field Marshal Sxetozar Horoevie, commander of Austrian forces on the Italian front from 1915 to October 1918, has died. Reports say he died after a stroke, ending a long service in the war effort.
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Vienna
Sxetozar Horoevie
Widow of Geo B Cox to Build Big Theatre in Cincinnati
Mrs George B Cox widow of the late Republican leader will erect a twin theatre memorial in Cincinnati. The site cost 500000 dollars and the building is expected to cost about 1500000 dollars, as part of the theatrical company Mr Cox was involved with.
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BIG
Geo. B. Cox
Associated Press
Cincinnati
George B. Cox
Gox
Distribution of labor would ease copper mine staffing
Calumet Michigan May 27 copper mine labor shortage eyed as Great Lakes to Atlantic waterway would aid by diverting workers from eastern ports. C F Bailey employment manager of Calumet and Heela Mining Co told the joint international water ways commission at Marquette that miners avoid northern Michigan due to travel costs and would prefer eastern jobs.
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Associated Press
Calumet, Mich
United States
Wiope
Great Lakes
Atlantic
C. F. Bailey
Calumet and Heela Mining Co
International Waterways Commission
Marquette
New York
Michigan
President Wilson Vetoes Peace Resolution Message
The Associated Press reports from Washington that President Wilson will send his veto message against the Republican peace resolution to Congress today. White House officials refuse to reveal whether Versailles treaty language will accompany the veto.
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Associated Press
Banner
Washington
Wilson
Congress
White House
Workers Strike Demands Spread Across Great India Peninsula
London May 27 Over 12 000 workers of the Great India Peninsula railroad struck demanding higher wages. A Bombay dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Co reports great disorder in Bombay as the strike widens.
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Associated Press
Hanner
London
Great India Peninsular Railroad
Bombay
Exchange Telegraph Co
Harding Campaign Fund Tops 118.00 Reported
Associated Press wires report Warren G. Harding and running mate Harry M. Daugherty raised 4115,109 for the Republican nomination with 107,794 spent. Daugherty testified before the inquiry committee noting Harding wished no aggressive campaign and that only modest ads were used, mainly in Cincinnati.
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Associated
the Banner
Washington
Warren G. Harding
Ohio
Harry M. Daugherty
Columbus
Aper
Climate Committee of Inquiry
Daugherty
Harding
Aps
Cincinnati
Indiana
Thompson
M E s to Probe Century Expense
A Methodist Episcopal special committee on overhead expense reported to the general conference that there were no extravagant admin expenses or unreasonable travel allowances. It noted the centenary fund cost $4 656 920 for 113 250 000 raised. Education plans were approved to train teachers, addressing public school teacher shortages. A minority urged removing the amusements paragraph in the discipling, while the majority urged retention with a vote without debate. Hopes for ministers course study reforms faced clerical scrutiny. Youngstown steel mill workers in this district are removing operating equipment.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
Committee On Education
Methodist Episcopal Church
H. P. Sloan
New Jersey
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