Polk Third Man to Quit Department
Frank J. Polk resigned as under secretary of state, effective June 13, with Wilson accepting the letter of resignation. Polk, a former New York official and Paris peace delegate, will return to law practice in New York City, leaving a third senior state department official to depart this year.
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Washington, Jones
Frank J. Polk
Wilson
Polk
Washington
New York City
White House
Woodrow Wilson
State Department
Congress
Lansing
City of
New York
New York Civil Service Commission
Wage Commission for Coal Fields Sets New Panel
President Wilson named a three man panel to resolve the anthracite wage dispute. Thompson of Columbus Ohio will represent the public, Ferry of McAdoo Pa the miners, and Connell of Scranton Pa the operators with a wage award due within sixty days retroactive to April 1. Miners to stay at work until the decision.
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Washington
Wilson
William O. Thompson
Columbus
Ohio
Neal J. Ferry
McAdoo
William L. Connell
Scranton
Thompson
Ohio State University
Ferry
Micrg
United Mine Workers of America
Connell
Penrose Posts Telephonic Ties Ahead of Convention
In Philadelphia on June 4 AP reports linemen stringing wires at United States Senator Penrose home. No official statement. likely he will not attend the Republican national convention but will stay in close telephonic contact with Chicago proceedings.
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Philadelphia
Penrose
Chicago
West schools outdoing east in public facilities
Boston June 4 AP Western states are outdoing those of the east in providing public educational facilities. Dr Leonard I Ayers educational director of the Russell Sage foundation said to state school superintendents that Massachusetts slipped from first to ninth in attendance money for public schools and teacher salaries since 1900. Montana leads the country with Utah California and Arizona rising, while New Jersey shows the only eastern improvement in forty years.
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Boston
Leonard I. Ayers
Russell Sage Foundation
Assachusetts
Ayers
Tg State
Montana
Utah
California
Arizona
New Jersey
Obregon Retires from Army Service in Mexico City
Mexico City June 3 AP General Alvaro Obregon commander of revolutionary forces during the revolt that toppled the Carranza government has retired from the army. Press dispatches say General Manuel Diguez former Guadalajara governor freed on orders of provisional President Adolfo de la Huerta. General Jacinto B Trevino named secretary of industry and has relinquished command to General Francisco Cosio Robelo.
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Mexico City
Alvaro Obregon
Carranza
Excessor
Manuel Diguez
Guadalajara
Adolfo de la Huerta
Jacinto B. Trevino
Francisco Cosio Robelo
Former Ambassador Bonillas Released From Mexican Prison
Washington reports former Ambassador Ygnacio Bonillas freed from Mexico City jail on June 2 after capture during Carranza era. Official Advices confirm release.
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Washington
Ygnacio Bonillas
Mexico City
Carranza
State Department
Second arrest in Blakely Coughlin kidnapping case
In Norristown Pa a second arrest was made in the kidnapping of thirteen month old Blakely Coughlin. James Malone 27 was taken from his Philadelphia home and held for a hearing with no charge yet filed. Authorities say Malone is a friend of Catherine Dundon a former Coughlin family cook who was arrested earlier. Rewards totaling 7500 dollars remain offered as clues fail to locate the child.
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Norristown
Blakely Coughlin
Philadelphia
James Malone
Malone
Catherine Dundon
Coughlin
Adopted President's Wheat Export Duty in Argentina
In Buenos Aires on June 4 the chamber of deputies approved President Kroggen's plan to levy duties on wheat and flour to lower bread costs. A four peso duty on wheat and five on flour per hundred kilos funds wheat purchases and bread pricing by presidential decree, with the bill moving to the senate.
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Buenos Aires
Kroggen
Chamber of Deputies
Senate
Suffragists Establish Picket Line for Republican Convention
Chicago June 4 AP Leaders of the National Woman party rented a shop opposite the Coliseum to base a protest picket at the Republican national convention. Members moved in to prepare banners as Miss Alice Paul directs efforts demanding enfranchisement for women.
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Chicago
National Womans Party
Alice Paul
Paul
Republican Party
Womans Party
Snow on Mars Reports First Autumn Snowfall
A telegram to the Harvard College Observatory from Prof. Wm. H. Pickering, stationed at Mandeville Jamaica, reports Mars autumn snowfall near Isidis and Syrtis Major. The telegram notes the event but provides no information on ice prices.
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Cambridge
Mars
Harvard College Observatory
Wm. H. Pickering
Mandeville
Jamaica
Isidis
Syrtis Major
Bergdoll on Way to Border
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll the wealthy draft evader escaped custody in Philadelphia May 21 and is reported trying to reach the Mexican border with a chauffeur and companion. Authorities in Texas Arizona and San Antonio issued alerts and described the car and occupants while pursuing possible routes to the boundary.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll
Philadelphia
Department of Justice
San Antonio
Tex
Louieville
Bureau of Investigations
Bergdoll
Louisville
Canada
Arizona
Mexico
Texas
Rio Grande
SUGAR ACTION IS POSTPONED IN SALT LAKE
Hearing on the sugar profiteering charge against Merrill Nibley of the Utah Idaho Sugar company was postponed due to the absence of U S District Attorney B Evans. The hearing will occur after Evans returns to Salt Lake City from Washington.
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Utah-Idaho Sugar Co
Salt Lake
Merrill Nibley
Utah-Idaho Sugar Company
United States
B. Evans
Washington
Palmer
Mr. Evans
Renomination of Rear Admiral Oman as Virgin Islands governor
President Wilson renominated Rear Admiral Joseph W. Oman of the United States Navy to serve again as governor of the Virgin Islands. The announcement was made on June 4 in Washington.
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Governor Islands
Washington
Joseph W. Oman
United States Navy
Wilson
The
Virgin Islands
Caldwell Resident Dan Banks Seeks State Treasurer Seat
Dan Banks of Caldwell, a College of Idaho graduate and longtime local business associate, announces his candidacy for state treasurer on the Republican ticket. He heads the bureau of budget and taxation and previously served as deputy bank examiner. he also published a Caldwell paper and has state finance experience.
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Dan Banks
Caldwell
Banks
College of Idaho
State Treasurer's Office
Bureau of Budget and Taxation
Department of Finance
Wood Loses Delegation Convention Program Forms
Chicago June 4 AP The Wood and Johnson camps move toward a defined plan as Johnson takes personal charge and Hitchcock serves as field general. Delegates begin caucusing and organizers announce daily press interviews while state contests on the Republican national committee unfold at the Coliseum.
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Chicago
Johnson
California
Sereeiment Amoang
Eed
Frank HM
Hitckrock
Wood
Republican National Committee
Marshal
Lake Michigan
Rommiteapé Ita
Coliseum
Georgia
Lowden
Florida
Campaign Expense Probe Seeks Wood Campaign Funds
Horace Stebbins eastern treasurer for the Wood national campaign says absence for subpoena was due to a long planned Canadian woods trip. He details receipts from William Loeb and associates, cites totals around 1.18 million dollars, and notes most spending went to publicity.
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Senate Campaign Investigating Committee
Senate
Canadian Woods
United States
Pomerene
Ohio
Stebbins
William Loeb
Col. Procter
Mr. Loeb
Chicago
Sprague
Loeb
Kenyon
Mr. Stebbins
Woods
New Jersey
Stebbin
Sugar Policy Hearings Spotlight Czech Sugar Purchases
Irving Schwartz testified before a joint legislative committee that the United States should buy all export sugar from Czecho Slovakia to fund phosphate imports and break Cuban dominance. He argued such purchases would triple Czecho Slovakia’s sugar output and lower U S prices. A cable from a sugar brokerage said France requisitioned its beet sugar crop for 1920 1921 signaling continued government control. Local brokers note high prices drawing sugar from around the world and prompting plans for large crops next season.
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New York
United States
Czecho-Slovakia
America
Irving Schwarts
Joint Legislative Committee
Schwartz
Buildings Burned to Kill Plague in Vera Cras
Four new bubonic plague cases reported in Vera Cras include three soldiers and a laundress. One patient died at hospital amid another hospital death. Municipal docks and adjacent buildings were burned to eradicate infection sources.
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Vera Cras
Youngster Leads Band at Republican Convention
John Hand III aged 9 grandson of a Chicago band director will direct nearly 1000 musicians at the convention opening. A march The Republican composed by his father will be played and dedicated to the convention. He will use a baton presented to his father by Theodore Roosevelt, carved from wood from the Brazil expedition.
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Chicago
John Hand
Ile
Theodore Roosevelt
Brazil
Judge bars city from blocking gas rate increase
Federal Judge H. T. Reet signed an injunction preventing Sioux City from stopping the gas company from charging 1.60 dollars per thousand cubic feet starting July 1. The rate rise to cover higher costs faces expected local opposition.
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Sioux City
Hi. T. Reet
Pushing Cause of Irrigation Arrives in City En Route to Chicago
Governor D. W. Davis travels through the city on his way to Chicago for talks with national figures on western reclamation and irrigation. He has promoted irrigation during his Washington visit and will attend the Republican convention with Boise colleagues R. Sheridan, R. F. Bicknell, R. E. B. Shephard, and Herb Lemp.
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D. W. Davis
Chicago
Washington, D. C
Davis
Washington
Pocatello
Sheridan
R. F. Bicknell
R. EB. Shepherd
Herb Lemp
Boise
Lowden Delegates Split as South Carolina Fights for Regularity
South Carolina Republicans clash over delegate regularity as Wood and Lowden factions contest seats. The Tolbert and Wood camps accuse each other of machine rules and intimidation, while the committee seats seventeen Lowden delegates and faces riot threats in Tennessee.
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Chicago
South Carolina
Republican Committee
National Committee
Denmark
Adams
Wood
Tolbert
Lowdon
Bean
Florida
Frank H. Hitchcock
J. E. Levy
Florence SC
Jackson
Georgia
Tennessee
Memphis
General Wood
Mills
Friends
Ogden Mills, Jr
New York
Republican Executive Committee
Milla
Indiana
Senator Watsoma
Commiefe
Root R. Church
South
Charles B. Quinn
Bob Church
Oklahoma
Hugh Scott
Holdenville
Albert Kelley
Bristow
Jake L. Hamon
Lowden
McGraw
Typhoid Fever Follows Homer Flood in Nebraska
Homer, Nebraska mayor appeals to Governor McKenvie for funds and troops to rebuild after a recent flood. Town in serious condition and an epidemic of typhoid is feared following a burst near Homer.
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Homer
Allen
McKenvie
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Obregon
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Bonillas
Mexican Line
Western
Idaho
Frank Hitchcock
Wood Faction
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Cooper Procter
Hitchcock
Procter
Gen. Wood
Horace, Stebbins
Weod
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