Nonpartisans Ejected by Kansan Town Residents
On June 2 in Ellinwort three Nonpartisan league officials Walter Thomas Mills J C Stevie and Amos Kilnworth reported being driven from a farmer picnic by men in soldier uniforms. They showed an American flag and claimed no Kansan government seat exists as they left after no interview was granted. They said they were escorted from the grounds and forced into a stockyard while papers were splattered.
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Topeka
League
Ellinwort
Walter Thomas Mills
J. C Stevie
M LL
Amos Kilnworth
Oga Staiin
Mille
Kansan
Poles Striped to Guide Cars in Pocatello
The Pocatello Chamber of Commerce board met at noon with Vice President AM. Defer ent Mrs G G Marriott spoke for the American and French Children’s League and the group backed the Tag Liag event Saturday. Brady reported on a Washington city visit by the Indian affairs committee. A motion urged the city to hire a full time sanitary inspector. The auto committee ordered yellow striped poles and road signs to guide motorists into and out of the city.
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Board of Governors
The
Pocatello Chamber of Commerce
Bannock Prill
Ho Clarke
G. G. Marriott
French Children’s League
Brady
Johnson Tours Cleveland With Two Campaign Speeches
California Senator Hiram W. Johnson, a Republican presidential hopeful, will address the City Club at a noon luncheon on the league of nations and then speak publicly on sound Americanism. He vows to push a platform plank opposing the league at the Chicago convention.
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Cleveland
Hiram W. Johnson
California
City Club
League of Nations
Chicago
Johnson
Indiana
Marvin A.riley
Trenton
Nicholas Murray Butler
New York
Riley
John K. McNeill
Harry M. Monness
Dr. Butler
George John R. Davies
Mr. Riley
Butler
Ohio
Harry Daugherty
Senator Harding
Adolph K. Hynicka
Harding
Krox
Philander C. Knox
Pennsylvania
Hiram Johnson
National
Senate
Washington
Johnson Headquarters
Edward Keating
Congress
Colorado
Plumb Plan League
Labor
McAdoo
LA City Water Supply Protection Bill Passed
Washington June 2 AP report state the Los Angeles water protection bill is finished after house concurrence with senate amendments. The measure authorizes sale of government land to the city and grants rights to occupy lands in three forest reserves. it now goes to the president.
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Washington
Los Angeles
House
Senate
Bergdoll Escape Investigation Ordered by House Rules
Washington June 2 AP The House Rules Committee favorably reported a resolution calling for a congressional investigation into the escape of Grover Cleveland Bergdoll a Philadelphia draft evader.
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Washington
Grover Cleveland
Bergdoll
Philadelphia
House Rules Committee
Flood damaged Omaha Creek forces move thirty homes
Flood waters from the Omaha creek moved thirty residences from their foundations and damaged local shops in Homer Nebraska. A cloudburst near Homer caused the downpour and subsequent destruction before waters receded.
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Homer. Neb
Omaha Creek
Cupid Busy Day Grants 566 New York Marriages
Five hundred sixty six marriage licenses were issued yesterday in Greater New York City the largest one day total on record for the license bureau.
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Cupid
New York
New York City
Wheat Standards Remain Unchanged by Secretary Meredith
Washington June. Secretary Meredith announced that federal wheat standards stay the same, continuing the 1917 and 1918 revisions. He said lowering standards would cut farmers’ returns, while advocates argued higher prices for producers.
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Washington
Meredith
Central
North
cNanwe
Profiteer Is Given Limit By The Court
The John A. Roberts corporation of Utica was fined $55,000 by Federal Judge Harland B. Howe after being convicted on eleven counts of profiteering. The judge noted jail time would deter others but ordered the maximum $5,000 on each count since the defendant is a corporation.
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Syracuse
N. Y
John A. Roberts Corporation
Utica
Harland B. Howe
Howe
Speeding Auto Goes Over Grade in Calamity
Heraldsburg, June 2 A touring car party of four went off a mountain grade while speeding, the car rolling four times and landing right side up among boulders in a gully. A woman beneath the car escaped unhurt. the driver sustained a cracked rib. The vehicle was towed back to the road and then moved to a garage under its own power.
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Heraldsburg
Cal
Here
Six Killed by Gas Explosion in Pa Coal Mine
Pittsburg June 2 At least six men were killed when a gas explosion buried miners in the Ontario Gas Coal company shaft near Cokesburg Pa Foreman says exact death toll awaits body recovery as earth masses collapse over the shaft after the blast.
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Pittsburg
Ontario Gas Coal Company
Cokesburg
Easter Prizes Awarded in New York
Awards announced in New York include John ny Jr receiving 1000 dollars for coverage at the New York World and Eugene O Neill winning 1000 dollars for Beyond the Horizon. Justin H. Smith earns 2000 dollars for War with Mexico and Albert Beveridge wins 1000 dollars for Life of Marshall.
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Omaha
Nebr
Tougene O'Neill
Justin H. Smith
Mexico
United States
Albert J. Beveridge
Indiana
Marshall
Delaware Legislature Rejects Susan B Anthony Amendment
Dover June 2 The Delaware legislature adjourned at 3 30 p m without ratifying the Susan B Anthony federal suffrage amendment. A test vote on Lyons motion to send the ratification resolution to committee failed 24 to 10.
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Dover
Dela
Delaware
Susan BB. Anthony
Representative Lyons
House
Lyons
Huerta Takes Oath of Office as Mexico's Provisional Leader
Adolfo de la Huerta, elected provisional president, took the oath of office in Mexico City amid a grand military display. General Manuel Peláez arrived and claimed 7000 well-armed troops, while China signaled possible recognition of the new regime. Elias Calles named minister of war in Huerta’s cabinet.
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Mestiv City
Adolfo de la Hueta
Mexico
Chamber of Deputies
Segation
Manuel Pelaes
Cstate
Tamaulipas
Obregon
Cenerel D Pelaez
Calles
Washington
I Elias Calles
Sonora
President de la Huerta
State Department
Baruch accused of profiting in position prompts demand
In Washington on June 2 AP reports B M Baruch former War Industries Board chair writes Rep Mason demanding Congress and the attorney general present evidence for his May 27 claim that Baruch aided a $50 million copper theft. Baruch warns Mason could be a participant in crime if he avoids action.
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Washington
B. M Baruch
The
War Industrial Board
Mason
Tinois
Congress
House
Barney Baruch
United States
Bolivia Seaport Bid Puts Pressure on Peru and Chile
In Buenos Aires on May 31 AP reports Chilean minister to Bolivia Dr Emile Bello Codecido says Bolivia and Chile are cooperating to secure a Pacific outlet for Bolivia. He mentions options on Arica as a free port or ceded strip with railroad internationalization and notes Peru may yield to necessity after a Tacna Arica plebiscite. He doubts League of Nations intervention.
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Buenos Aires
Chile
Bolivia
Pacific
Peru
Emile Bello Codecido
la Nacion
Arica
Codeeldo
Tacna
Codecido
League of Nations
Man from Sterling paralyzed after bed fall
Denver June 2 AP Charles W. Jameson aged 60 of Sterling Colo fell from his bed at home in late April and since then has been treated for paralysis. An X ray revealed a broken neck and doctors say he has a small chance for recovery.
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Denver
Colo
Charles W. Jameson
Sterling
Bubonic Plague Case Reported in Vera Cruz
Mexico City reports a bubonic plague case found in Atoyac, Vera Cruz state. Authorities announced the discovery on June 2, detailing the location and intent to monitor contacts and control measures.
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Mexico City
Atoyac
Vera Cruz
Quarantine Declared Over Bubonic Plague Reach
Havana reports a quarantine in response to bubonic plague. Ships from Mexico are fumigated and passengers placed in quarantine. Cuba’s sanitary department tightens controls at Havana ports as the outbreak prompts extra measures.
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Havana
Cuba
Mexico
New Orleans
Cuban Sanitary Department
Convention Plans Swing Into Shape For GOP Nomination
Reports from Chicago detail Republican convention plans with talks on platform planks and suffrage, preconvention caucuses, and anticipated ballots for Preowle W. Henley, plus debates over seating contested Florida and Georgia delegations and possible night sessions. The scene includes Wood and London forces, unpledged delegates, and talks of a national primary day and campaign finance reform.
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Chicago
W. Henley
Benator Lodge
Massachusetts
Henley
Moniday
Kenley
Florida
Georgia
Bean
H. L. Anderson
Jacksonville
Wood
Lowden
Henry Lincoln Johnson
Atlanta
Pickett
Roscoe Pickett
Johnson
London
Congress
National Committee
National
T. Coleman Dupont
Delaware
Senator Johnson
Siberia
Senator Harding
General Wood
Ft. Sheridan
Gov. Lowden
Tomosgen
Pli
P Mann
Palmer Charged With Evading Law by Sugar Inquiry
A majority report from the sugar investigating committee accuses Attorney General Palmer of using government power to fix sugar prices in Louisiana, acting without legal authority and against his official duty. The report, chaired by Rep. Husted, says the approach was ineffective and spurred Cuban price increases and market reactions.
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Washington
Sugar Investigating Committee
House
Palmer
Louisiana
Husted
Republican
New York
Joseph K. Willing
Philadelphia
A. Mitchell Palmer
Pershing
Pennsylvania
Bonniwell
T. W
Dead bodies robbed of $30,000 in New York morgue
New York morgue authorities report a shortage of 309 008 dollars taken from pockets of unidentified dead. Commissioner Hirshfield and Public Administrator Hoes say they have informed the district attorney for grand jury action.
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New York
Hirshfield
Hoes
District Attorney’s Office
Grand Jury
Hoover Sugar Policy Cable From Hoover to Wilson Made Public
A Paris cable from July 23, 1919, by Herbert Hoover urging immediate sugar policy action was shown in the House. Hoover argued for continued control and possible purchase of the Cuban crop, warning Congress to authorize 1920 measures and criticizing lack of White House action.
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Washington
Paris
Herbert Hoover
Julius H. Karnes
United States Grain Corporation
Wilson
Tinkham
Hrepublican
Massachusetta
Massachusetts
Hoover
Cuba
Congress
United States
Barnes
Tauasig
Zabriskie
Sugar Equalisation Board
White House
Palmer Faces Senate Probe Over Pennsylvania Campaign
Washington moves to hear Palmer on charges that prohibition laws were flaunted during his Pennsylvania campaign for the Democratic nomination. Eugene C. Bonniwell alleges saloon and bonded warehouse influence and outlines fundraising and enforcement lapses amid McAdoo opposition.
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Washington
Palmer
Senate Committee
Eugene C. Conniwell
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Senate
Eugene C. Bonniwell
Bonniwell
W. G. McAdoo
Department of Justice
Prohibition Enforcement
Mr. McAdoo
McAdoo
Scranton
Bonnivelle
Dauphin County
Missouri
Spencer
W. G. MccAdoo
Reed
Railroads Ordered to Relieve Freight Congestion
The Interstate Commerce Commission warned June 2 that penalties under the Interstate Commerce Act could be imposed if railroads do not comply with orders to relieve freight congestion. In a letter to Daniel Willard, ICC cited inspector reports showing equipment deliveries not being made as ordered. The matter will be investigated.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
Daniel Willard
Association of Railway Executives Car Service Committee
Death of David Fanuto, Central Europe Petrol King
Vienna reports the death of oil firm leader David Fanuto of David Fanuto and Company. He was known as the Petroleum King of Central Europe and died here on June 2.
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Vienna
David Panto
David Fanuto
Cuba Holds Onto Sugar Crop To Ease Shortage
Havana officials report the Havana Chamber of Commerce petitioning the government to retain 400,000 sacks of the current sugar crop on the island to prevent a severe export-led shortage. The chamber warns that without this measure the sugar shortage will worsen.
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Havana
Cuba
Havana Chamber of Commerce
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New York World
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Calles of
Baruch
Hope
Azaten
Senatuor Heveridge
McCormick
Illinois
Penrose
Woou
Cieneral Wood
South Dakota
Commonwealth
Krutler
Sugar
Penny Wets
Woman Worker
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John H. Rosseter
Gregory
Hoover Organization
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Glenn E. Plumb
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