Japanese reply to U S protest on California land laws
Tokyo sources say the foreign office will not release the reply to Washington on California land ownership legislation. The press notes the issue runs deeper than land or treaties and implicates racial discrimination, while a new patriotic association is forming under Count Shigamori Uesugi to defend Japanese individuality against western influence.
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Associated Press
Tokio
Foreign Office
United States
California
Washington
Iichiro Tokutomi
The
Kokumin Shimbun
Japan
America
Pacific
Patriotic Association
Shigamori Uesugi
Kansas City Picked For Southern Presbyterian Assembly
Kansas City was chosen as the meeting site for the 1914 Southern Presbyterian general assembly. The decision came after a unanimous rising vote amid competition from Waco Texas Newport News Virginia and Rock Hill South Carolina. The report notes ongoing debate on church political activities and a sermon outreach resolution.
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Associated Press
Atlanta
Kansas City
General Assembly
Southern Presbyterian Church
Southern Presbyterian Assembly
W. H Wallace
Waco
Tex
Newport News
Rockhill
New Castle
Monmouth
Xenia
Ohio
United Presbyterian Assembly
Northern Presbyterian Assembly
Christ
C. A. R. Janvier
J. B. Lee
Philadelphia
Federal Council of Churches of Christ In America
Miners Get Back Money In Anthracite Back Pay
The last act of Charles P. Neill as U S Commissioner of Labor awarded Pennsylvania anthracite miners $500000 in back pay under the March 1912 sliding scale. The Anthracite Conciliation Board deadlocked, prompting Neill to umpire before resigning May 15. He will lead labor matters at the American Smelting and Refining Company, a Guggenheim empire firm.
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Charles P. Neill
United States Commissioner of Labor
Pennsylvania
Anthracite Conciliation Board
Neill
Labor Department
American Smelting and Refining Company
Guggenheim
Knights of Pythias Grand Lodge Convened in Alabama
Three hundred delegates from subordinate lodges and grand officers gathered in Montgomery for the Knights of Pythias of Alabama annual meeting. Supreme Chancellor Thomas J. Carling of Macon Georgia spoke as officers are set to be elected and reports heard through Thursday.
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Montgomery
Ala
Grand Lodge Knights of Pythias of
Alabama
Thomas J. Carling
Macon
Order
W. A. Gunter, Jr
City Commission
T. D. Samford
Opelika
Grand Lodge
Alabama Pythians
Carling
Supreme Domain
Alabama Seeks Sixteenth Section Lands in Historic Case
Chief Justice Dowdell grants a writ of error to the U S Supreme Court in state versus Susie Schmidt from Talladega county. The case questions whether state claims to sixteenth section school lands were barred by the statute of limitations and conflicts with federal law. The dispute concerns nearly two hundred thousand acres and awaits a federal hearing likely months away.
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Montgomery
Ala
R. B. Evans
Special Council
J. R. Dowdell
Alabama Supreme Court
United States Supreme Court
Susie Schmidt
Talladega County
Federal Supreme Court
Wickersham Fights Guggenheim Move on Alaska Port
Delegate Wickersham of Alaska accused Senator Chamberlain of drafting a bill that would grant the Guggenheims control of Cordova harbor and the Copper River entrance to coal fields. He said the Morgan-Guggenheim syndicate held Alaska "by the throat" and asked to bring a New York banker to testify. The territories committee planned a Friday session to hear the banker.
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Washington
Wickersham
Alaska
Senate Territories Committee
Chamberlain
Guggenheims
Cordova
Bering Coal Fields
Senator Chamberlain
Copper River
Three Tree Point
Senate
Cordova Harbor
Ryan
Controller Bay
Morgan-Guggenheim Syndicate
New York
Florida Liquor Bill Could Drastically Limit Sales
Special to The Item from Tallahassee May 21 reports the Davis liquor bill clearing the Florida senate and facing the house. It would require saloons to close at 9 pm and ban screens and treating while prohibiting sales smaller than a half pint. Governors and dealers disagree on veto prospects as the house leans in favor and local options history shapes opinion.
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Tallahassee
Fla
Florida Senate
House
Florida
Trammer
English Rulers in Berlin For Royal Wedding Procession
May 21 reports from Berlin describe the arrival of Prince Ernest August and his bride to be with King George and Queen Mary, the emperors greeting the British royals, a guard review, and a state procession to the castle as Zeppelin balloons fly overhead.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Hohenzollern
Aoe Apolaise
Princernest August of Cumberland
George
Queen Mary
England
Ernest August
Emperor Ligta
Frederick William
Emperor William
Judges Named for Hearing of L and N Injunction
United States Circuit Judge David D. Shelby Don A. Pardee and Federal Judge W N Grubb will sit in Atlanta next Wednesday to hear arguments on whether the Louisville and Nashville railroad should receive a permanent injunction against the Alabama Railroad Commission order for a 212 cent passenger rate. A restraining order had been granted by Judge Grubb last week.
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Montgomery
Ala
United States
David D. Shelby
Don A. Pardee
W. N. Grubb
Birmingham
Atlanta
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Rder
Alabama Railroad Commission
Capitol
Louisville and Nashville
Grubb
Weather Forecast for Alabama Mississippi
Mobile forecast shows showers through Thursday with light to moderate south winds. Tonight and Thursday likely rainy conditions across the region with unsettled weather continuing.
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Mobile
Alabama - Mississippi
Dinamite Plot Hearings Tie to Textile Strike Case
Law and order notes detail testimony in a Boston court linking Frederick E. Atteaux and William M. Wood to a 1912 Lawrence dynamite plot aimed at discrediting strikers. Witness Breen testified he paid for planting dynamite while experts described explosive samples and safety risks in the case.
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Associated Press
Boston
William M. Wood
American Woolen Company
Frederick E. Atteaux
Lawrence
John J. Brenn
Breen
Lawrence School Committee
Essex County
Dennis P. Collins
Wood
Atteaux
John J. Breen
Walter Wedgett
Macon Banker Still Fighting Against Death
Macon Ga May 21 Despite physicians saying he cannot live B Sanders Walker the young local banker who swallowed poison a week ago is fighting for life His pulse 126 respiration 31 and temp 99 show stubborn vitality Doctors credit his quick purge of bichloride of mercury with aiding his survival Family stays by his bedside and telegrams offering treatment advice arrive from across the country
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Associated Press
Macon
B. Sanders Walker
Walker
Senate Finance Committee to hear no more manufacturers
Democratic members of the Senate Finance Committee decide to end hearings with manufacturers after next Tuesday and begin actual drafting of the Underwood bill schedules. Chairman Simmons says conferrals should end by Tuesday and briefs may continue until the bill is completed. The target is to report to the full committee next Monday and have the bill ready for the Senate by June 7.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Simmons
Finance Committee
Senate
Committee
State road trip starts at Mobile to map Alabama highways
State Highway Engineer W S Keller and Captain John Craft planned a multiweek touring trip beginning in Mobile on June 9 to trace the proposed state highways. The northern route would pass through Thomasville Selma Birmingham Cullman and Huntsville ending in Dothan, Alabama.
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W. S. Keller
Mobile
Fay McClure
John Craft
State Highway Commission
Messrs Keller
Craft
Thomasville
Selma
Birmingham
Cullman
Huntaville
Dothan
Alabama
Wilson urges Sisson to speak guardedly on Japan
President Wilson summoned Representative Sisson of Mississippi and urged restraint in any speech on the Japanese alien land question. Sisson promised not to touch on negotiations or incendiary topics, limiting remarks to alien land ownership. The White House aims to reassure Japan while avoiding remarks that could harm negotiations.
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Washington
Wilson
Sisson
Mississippi
Japan
White House
Congress
State Department J
Birmingham milk ordinance stirs doubt among Birmingham dairymen
In Birmingham the 60 degree milk ordinance remains unclear to many dairymen. Interviews with W J Lee and other operators reveal confusion over the law, with inspectors reporting deliveries up to 70 degrees and some dairymen insisting 60 degrees is not enforced.
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Birmingham
W. J. Lee
Gridley-Lee Dairy Products Co
City Meat and Milk
Z. M. Duncan
Mr. Lee
D. C. Bell
Thirteenth Avenue
Ensley
Glen Iris
Wee Glass
Hisiaiée
Glass
BE. M. Duncan
Dr. Duncan
Nee
Duncan
Health Department
County to sue officials for illegal payments in Mobile case
The Mobile county seeks to recover sums it says were illegally paid to three current officials and one former official. Ex sheriff John F Powers and United States Fidelity and Guarantee Co face $1000 claims for bond breach. Sheriff T T Palmer and American Bonding Co face $1000 claims for $236 paid for telephones and bailiffs. Carl Holaborn register in chancery $220 Phelan B Dorson tax collector $70 and S H Smith clerk of the circuit court $180 also named. Suits to be heard at current law and equity term.
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Mobile
Iit
Special Examiners of
Alabama
Supreme Court
Williama
John F. Powers
United States Fidelty and Guarantee Company
H. Smith
Law and Equity Court
Coast Confederation Formed To Promote Coast Trade
The Chamber of Commerce ratified the constitution of the New Orleans Mobile and Mississippi Coast Confederation of Commercial Bodies. Permanent delegates named were L. C. Irvine, William T. Kelly, Jake Reiss, George Fearn Jr., and BE. C. Fowlkes. The group aims to improve transportation and roads and aid industrial agricultural and horticultural interests while promoting the coast as a health and pleasure resort.
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Mobile
New Orleans
Chamber of Commerce
Mississippi Coast
Dissolution Conference on Union Pacific-Southern Pacific Merger
Maxwell Evarts and F. H. Loomis of the Southern Pacific met Attorney General McReynolds in Washington to discuss dissolution of the Union Pacific Southern Pacific merger. The attorney general called the meeting the first in a series.
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Associated Press
Washington
Maxwell Evarts
F. H. Loomis
Southern Pacific
McReynolds
Union Pacific- Southern Pacific
Fertilizer Tags Ordered by Alabama State Officials
Montgomery May 21 A contract for eight and one-half million fertilizer tags to be delivered by September 1 in the capitol basement was awarded to the Mercantile Paper Company of Montgomery by State Auditor Smith at 61 cents per thousand. The total contract value is 4 335 dollars.
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Montgomery
Ala
Capitol
Smith
Mercantile Paper Company of
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