Kansans see rail value drop as motor travel rises
S T Howe, Kansas state tax commission chair, reports four Kansas streetcar lines abandoned and interurban lines losing value due to motor transportation. Overall valuation of utilities shows gains offset by railroad and pipe line declines, with total property value around 458 million dollars and power lines added this year.
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S. T. Howe
State Tax Commission
Fort Scott
Parsons
Iola
Strong City
Tax Commission
Fair Roads
Missouri Pacific
Commission
Telegraph
Telephone
Telephone and Telegraph
Kansans in Topeka panel and other Kansas news notes
A Topeka committee clears Travis of conduct issues and affirms fitness for society. Kansans in San Diego hear a Kansan organist, Dean Hirschler of Emporia, in Cabrillo Park. Wheat wage disputes arise as Central Branch farmers seek higher pay. Northwestern Kansas farmers plan a joint stance. Liberal high graduates barred from a class play, sugar eggs and butter prices fall in Concordia, and the Kansas Pharmaceutical Association opposes liquor sales in drug stores. Also reported: a Topeka president elected, a Wichita murder confession, Atchison poultry plant news, a drowning in Walnut River near El Dorado, and Cloud County projects paused due to labor shortages.
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San Diego
Cal
Cabrillo Park
Daniel A. Hirschler
School of Music
College of Emporia
Park
Hirschler
Pacific Coast
Dean Hirschler
Kansas
Emporia
United States
Central Branch
Cloud County
Western Kansas
Hutchinson
Northwestern Kansas
Kansas Pharmaceutical Association
Congress
Committee Files Report on Mexico and US Claims Panel
Washington reports the Fall committee on Mexican affairs urged swift recognition of the new Mexican government once order is established and indemnity for American losses is promised. It called for a claims commission to adjudicate damages, binding findings, and possible armed intervention if terms fail, plus US funding to help Mexico repay debts and strengthen institutions.
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Washington
Mexican Affairs
Senate
Mexico
Claims Commission
Republic of Mexico
United States
Five Dead in Frisco Wreck Near White Ok
Five killed and many injured in a head on collision of two St Louis and San Francisco passenger trains near White Ok about fifty miles northeast of Tulsa. Eastbound engine Abe Durham trapped under wreckage. fireman injured. News agent killed in mail car.
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Tulsa
St. Louis
San Francisco
White
Here
Abe Durham
Allen Gompers Debate Highlights Labor Strike Rights
In Carnegie Hall New York the Gompers AFL chief and Kansas Governor Allen argued capital versus labor. Gompers called the Kansas industrial court law un American and defended a worker right to strike while Allen asserted government power to protect the public when strikes threaten welfare. The lively exchange drew cheers and boos as both sides claimed merit. the event had no decision and left a divided house. Copenhagen reports Petrograd shows mass desertions with about 150 parishioners leaving daily.
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New York
Kansas
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Henry J. Allen
Allen
Gompers
Gompars
Armenian mandate rejected by senate in Wilson appeal
Telegraphic briefs report President Wilson’s plea for a U S mandate over Armenia defeated in the senate by a two to one margin. Thirteen Democrats sided with Republicans on the final roll call. Also noted are a Yale historian fiancé engagement, Pope Benedict XVI urging peace, a million dollar fire at a Galveston warehouse, a car collision involving King Alexander of Greece, injuries to Count de Kernaion and others, and the Buffalo Lackawanna Journal printed on brown wrapping paper at extra cost.
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Wilson
Armenia
Senate
United Republican
Alexander of
Greece
Count Allain de Kernarion
Font ‘Ainbleau
Paris
Women Hecklers Invade Congress Shouted Down in Senate and House
In Washington a pair of protests by Irish freedom supporters erupted in both chambers. A woman disrupted Senator Brandegee’s speech in the Senate shouting “Why not eject the English Hun” as guards surged toward the gallery. The episode spilled into the House where a young woman shouted “Cowards” and hecklers chased through benches before guards subdued them.
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Washington
Senate
House
Brandegee
Connecticut
Ireland
Capitol
Marshall
Gillet
Turks to Defend Thrace Amid Greek Move on Thrace
In Adrianople vilayet European Turkey leaders rush families to Istanbul as Greek plans to occupy Thrace loom. Turks and Bulgarians reportedly agreed to defend Thrace. a Rodos meeting near Gallipoli in May urged burning Thrace rather than ceding it to the Greeks.
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Constantinople
Amrade
Thrace
Quarantine Extends For European Corn Borer In Dunkirk NY
Washington reports the European corn borer quarantine has grown to include Dunkirk township in western New York with minor damage elsewhere in New York area. Additional quarantines cover parts of New Hampshire Massachusetts and Pennsylvania as the pest proves more destructive. In Texas pledges support for railroads were adopted at the Texas Bankers Association meeting and the Farmers State Bank at Dix Nebraska was closed by the state department of trade and commerce. Germany submits a report to the allied control commission on artillery activity. Washington votes by a to 3 roll call.
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New York
Dunkirk Township
Department of Agriculture
New Hampshire
Mass
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
Galveston
Tex
Kansas City, Mexico & Orient Heliroad
West
Texas
Texas Bankers” Association
Lincoln
Neb
State Department of Trade and Commerce
Farmers Stain Bank
Dix
Wilson vetoes peace treaty plan in Senate delay
President Wilson vetoed the peacemaking plan arguing it would surrender U S rights regarding Germany and abandon wartime aims. Republicans concede they cannot override the veto and plan a swift vote as Democrats blame the treaty delay on political campaigns. The White House message raises whether the U S should steer world affairs or join others in the treaty's goals. House reading drew cheers and derision before a vote plan was set.
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Washington
Wilson
United States
Ermany
House
Senate
Chicago Prepares as Conspiracy Fliers Flee for Convention
Chicago officials urge known crooks to leave town before the Republican national convention. Chief Garrity and Chief Mooney warn arrests for anyone who stays past a set deadline. Five hundred uniformed officers will guard downtown, with six hundred detectives at hotels theaters and the Coliseum.
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Chicago
John J. Garrity
Mooney
House Passes Market Bill to Legalize Collective Farming Sales
Washington reports the House approved a market bill by 233 to 5 to let farmers and other agricultural producers combine for collective marketing and sale of their products despite antitrust laws. Drafted by Chairman Volstead as a substitute for earlier measures. Supporters say it enables fair prices. opponents warn of higher living costs and classify it as class legislation.
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Washington
House
Senate
Volstead
Judiciary Committee
Post Arrigned by Palmer in Deportation Case Charge
Attorney General Palmer told a House rules committee that Louis F. Post showed a perverted sympathy for the criminal anarchist and substituted his own views for public obligations in deportation efforts. The testimony concerned Post's official conduct in deportation proceedings.
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Washington
Louis F. Post
Ishar
Palmer
House
Post
New Employment Offices Open for Wheat Harvest Aid
Federal labor officials announce five new United States employment service offices to recruit sixty thousand harvest workers across Kansas Oklahoma and Texas with Kansas City as the main distribution center. A $25 000 federal fund will support wage and location planning as crews are assigned to farms and cooks enginemen and teamsters are listed for Negro workers.
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United States Employment Service
Kansas
Ohiohoma
Texas
A. L Berkman
Federal Department of Labor
Oklahoma
Dakotas
Inva
Minnesota
Nebraska
Federal Employment Service
Bureau of Information
Union Station
Colipus
Grand Arena
Kansas Farm Bureaa
Kansas City Chamber of Commerce
Pulitzer Prizes Awarded In New York News Honors
The Pulitzer prize awards include John J. Leary Jr of the New York World receiving $1,000 for a year of reporting on the coal strike, Harvey H. Newbranch of the Evening World-Herald Omaha earning $500 for best editorial, and Eugene ONeill awarded $1,000 for Best Original American Play of 1919 for Beyond the Horizon.
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New York
John J. Leary, Jr
New York World
School of Journalism
Columbia University
Harvey EH
Newbranch
Evening World-Herald
Omaha
Neb
Eugene O'Neill
Defeated Villa's Bandits in Mexican Clash Report
Telegram from Luio Montes de Oci states Chihuahu a trooops under Gen Ignacio Enriques defeated Villa with Prandeco Villa forces after a two hour engagement. Fight location not disclosed, likely toward Durango mountains. Reward notices on missing persons and floods in Nebraska cited. Belgian rulers to Brasil.
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Ignacio Enriques
Prandeco Villa
Luio Montes de Oci
Mexica
Villi
Durango
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