Kenyon Sees Republican Ticket Solid Yet Frustrations Shared
Fort Dodge Iowa June 15 Senator W B Kenyon returns home from the convention and says Republicans failed to nominate a progressive. He supports Harding for president and urges all Republicans to work hard for victory in November. He criticizes the sick boss influence and praises Harding as a man of character and ability.
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Kenyon
Johnson
Wilson
Harding
Coolidge
Mississippi
McAdoo
Marshall
Cox
Philadelphia
San Francisco
Washington
Hiram Johnson
Roosevelt
Congress
Ogden Woman Tries Poison Mistaking Flour Bread Board
One grandson is dead another dying and seven relatives ill after Mrs. William Howard of Brigham City mistook poison for flour while dusting a bread board. Poison had been stored in a cupboard after an orchard was sprayed.
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Ogden
Wm. Howard
Brigham City
Princeton Bestows Honorary Degrees at Commencement
Princeton awarded honorary degrees to Sir Auckland Geddes British ambassador to the United States Alexis Carrel and ten others at the third commencement. Three hundred one undergraduates received diplomas as the endowment fund surpassed eight million dollars. Geddes received the Doctor of Laws.
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Princeton
Auckland Campbell Geddes
Tis Country
Alexis Carrel
Princeton University
Lord Geddes
Backus Dies at Florida Home at 56
Edward W. Backus 56 longtime U S ambassador to Brazil under Hayes Garfield and Arthur died at his home in Harpoon Springs Florida last night He was a financial backer of the Marconi department of the wireless telegraph He was knighted in 1905 by the king of Portugal for services in Brazil developing the Amazon
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Tetersburg
Fla
Edward W. Backus
United States
Brazil
Hayes
Garfield
Arthur
Harpon Springs
Backus
Marconi Department
Wireless Telegraph
Portugal
Amazon
Resolute Wins Trial Run for America's Cup Defense
The Resolute defeated the Vanitie in a trial race to defend the America's Cup, finishing two minutes seven seconds ahead in elapsed time and three minutes forty two seconds in corrected time. The wind shifted, altering the course to a reach for the final fourteen miles.
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Newport
Rbi
Cloth Or Clothing Question Reaches Supreme Court
The US Supreme Court faces whether cloth counts as clothing under the Lever Act. Federal Judge Hand granted a government writ of error in the case of American Woolen Co of New York and Massachusetts and William M. Wood, president, who were charged with profiteering on bolts of cloth after Judge Mack quashed the indictment for cloth not being wearable apparel.
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New York
Supreme Court of the United
Federation of Labor Demands Amnesty and Policy Reforms
At the Montreal convention the American Federation of Labor urged President Wilson and Attorney General Palmer to seek amnesty for political prisoners and repeal the espionage act. Delegates criticized postal rate zoning and urged Meoney and Billings pardons, while opposing compulsory military training and endorsing currency relief and lower living costs.
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Montreal
American Federation of Labor
Wilson
Palmer
United States
Lucy Robbins
Central Labor Body of
New York
Federation
France
Executive Council
California
Thomas J. Meoney
William T. Billings
Congress
Samuel Gompers
Post Office Department
Post‘office Department
Army
Navy
Postal
Aining
Boston
Curtis
Divorce party night before Elwell’s murder noted
New York AP dispatch reports Victor Von Schlegel divorced from Viola Krause attended Elwell dinner party the night before his murder. Police questioned Von Schlegel and Mrs Krause amid leads that the party celebrated Krause’s divorce. clues lead to blind alleys. A witness added Elwell was driven to a dance hall after the party and returned home at 3:46 am.
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New York
Victor von Schiegell
Viola Krause
Joseph W. Eliwell
Ellwell
von Schlegel
Joyce
Walter Lewisohn
Miss Krause
Lewisohn
Flwell
von Schegell
von Schlegell
Eliwell
Von
Joseph B. Elwes
Elwell
Fay Perty
Mr. Joyce
Hallé
White Light District
Harding's Retirement From Senate Would Give Cox Control
Washington June 15 AP War ren G Harding the Republican presidential nominee does not intend to retire from the United States senate until his term expires on March 4. He will withdraw his petition for re election in Columbus. Harding's retirement would endanger Republicans narrow margin by allowing Governor Cox to appoint a Democrat.
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Washington
Warren G. Harding
United States Senate
Harding
Senate
Columbus
Cox
Ohio
Leslie M. Shaw
Treasury
Shaw
Senator Harding
Henry Lane Wilson
Mexico
Western states host pivotal 1936 GOP battle
AP report from Chicago on June 15 details Will Hays finishing talks with western Republican leaders before heading to Sullivan Indiana and then Washington to coordinate the formal nomination notification. Western states west of the Mississippi are identified as the election battleground with calls to establish main headquarters in Chicago. Senator Watson and Congressman Rodenberg comment on the ticket and governor Lowden’s nomination.
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Chicago
Will Hays
Sullivan
Ind
Washington
Senator Harding
A. T. Hert
Clarence Miller
National Committee
New York
Charman Hays
Watson
Iadianapolis
Rodenberg
Silinios
Lowden
Too Many Felines Start a Crusade For Public Health
New York plans to rid the city of thousands of stray cats left by owners during summer absences. The health department will lead the effort with aid from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. A separate campaign will fumigate ship holds with cyanide gas to prevent bubonic plague and exterminate rats.
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New York
Department of Health
Society For the
Department
Dempsey Acquitted of Draft Evasion in San Francisco
William H. Dempsey world heavyweight champion was found not guilty on a selective draft evasion indictment by a U S district court jury after a brief deliberation. The case charged direct evasion false statements on a questionnaire and to the draft board. A joint conspiracy indictment remains against Dempsey and manager Jack Kearns.
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San Francisco
Cal
William Harrison
Jack) Dempsey
United States District Court
M. T. Dooling
Dempsey
District Draft Board
Jack Kearns
Priscilla Dempsey
U. S. District Court Today
Escapes From Mexican Custody Shocks Capital
Mexico City today reports General Juan Barragan former chief of staff to the late President Carranza escaped custody while under guard permission to visit his sick mother. He slipped into a sick room and fled through a window over rooftops. Barragan had been jailed over Carranza’s death and missing national funds.
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Mexico City
Juan Barragan
Carranza
Barragan
Murder Charge Goes to Trial in Budapest
In Budapest on June 15 AP reports twenty former Bela Kun era commissaries face murder charges. Trials to be set by month end before a royal court in Budapest. About a thousand witnesses summoned. later trials for roughly a thousand minor offenders. Indictments span 200 pages detailing revolutionary tribunal killings.
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Budapest
Bela Kun
Organization of Revolutionary Tribunals
Bankers praised for steady stance amid spending boom
Boston June 15 AP bankers of the country were complimented on their attitude toward the depreciated dollar and rising consumption as Gardi ner B. Perry of Albany NY president of the American Institute of Banking opened its annual convention. Perry said the mania for spending and high cost of living has been a form of circular gymnastics but bankers face the facts and study future effects.
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Boston
Gardiner B. Perry
Albany
N. Y
American Institute of Banking
Perry
French government agrees with Knights to aid relatives visits
New Haven Conn June 15 AP reports the French government and the Knights of Columbus Seas organization will allow relatives of US expeditionary force members who died at the front to visit American cemeteries in the AUESAUL region. The news was released to William J McGinley supreme secretary of the order.
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New Haven
Conn
Knights of Columbus Over Seas
Auesaul
William J. McGinley
Order
Florida Fights Bubonic Plague in Pensacola
Pensacola authorities accelerate plague eradication after official bubonic outbreak report. City teams in protective gear conduct rat control and sanitation measures to curb spread amid the public health emergency.
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Florida
Theatre magnate Augustus Koenig dies at 65
Philadelphia June 15 AP Augustus Koenig theatrical magnate died suddenly at his home aged 65. He was financially involved in burlesque houses in the United States and Canada.
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Philadelphia
Augustus Koenig
Koenig
Canada
Ten Escape Death In Auto Smashup Near McCammon
Mr and Mrs Frank Howman six children and two others escaped death when the seven passenger Buick belonging to Mr Bowman ran off the highway near McCammon Idaho about 5 pm. Brakes failed on a turn causing a ten foot embankment crash. all occupants were pinned beneath the car and rescued by passing motorists. Bowman and Burnham ranchers of Ashton sustained minor injuries. the car was badly damaged and towed to McCammon for repairs before continuing toward Salt Lake City.
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Frank Howman
Mee
Frank Burpham
Salt Lake
Awiton
Bowman
McCammon
Mr. Bowman
Burnham
Wm. H. Jackson
Robert Hoskinson
Pocatello
Mr. Jackson
Mr. Burnham
Ashton
Monday Moon
Convention Debates Open Shop Policy and Labor Proposals
Delegates form a committee to study committee activities on convention proposals. The body adjourns briefly as it backs the coast-wise longshoremen strike and reaffirms the open shop stand favored by transportation interests at New York and Gulf ports. Other resolutions target the New York merchants association funding open shop battles with $5,000,000 to challenge organized labor.
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New York
Galveston
Gulf
Atlantic
Merchants’ Association of New York
Water route opposition heard on Great Lakes plan
Shipbuilders and harbor workers told the joint commission on international boundary waters that the proposed Great Lakes to Atlantic water route via Welland canal and St Lawrence river would require deepening rivers harbors and canals at costs possibly exceeding the project budget.
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Buffalo
Great Lakes
Atlantic
Welland Canal
St Lawrence River
Joint Commission On International Boundary Waters
Tn Harbor Works
St. Lawrence
California Limited Wreck Kills Two Injures Many Near Reno
Eastbound Santa Fe train No 4 the California Limited derailed near Reno Colorado when a side rod broke on the second engine causing the engine to overturn and three Pullman cars. Two killed about fifty injured as relief trains with doctors and nurses were dispatched to the scene.
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H. J. Green
San Diego
Cal
Eliza H. Douglas
Los Angeles
Bertha Meyers
Alhambra
Frank J. Bride
Chicago
W .L. Anderson
Adolph Schiedler
Otto Palmer
A. C. Stubbs
St. Louis
J. W. Reeves
D .R. Mitchell
David Penn
Frank W. Freedland
Angola
N. Y
Reno
Colo
Rene
la Junta
Lenroot indicates possible party shift if Harding backs old guard
Superior Wis June 15 AP Senator Lenroot of Wisconsin regrets Harding nomination by the Republican convention. He would join a new party if Harding adopts reactionary policies and is controlled by the old guard, while praising Harding as a likable McKinley type.
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Superior
Wis
Harding
Lenroot
McKinley
Wilson
Old Guard
Argentine Gold Shipped to America Reaches New Total
Buenos Aires reports additional gold from the Argentine embassy deposits in Washington bringing the movement's total to 19.6 million dollars in gold exports. Official figures show an embassy account balance of 52.638 million dollars.
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Buenos Aires
Washington
Argentina
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