Payne appointed director general of railroad administration
John Barton Payne, secretary of interior, takes over as director general of railroad administration succeeding Walker D. Hines. The Berlin list of German war criminals is set for court appearances June 7 and June 20. French chamber of deputies backed the government in confidence votes last week.
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John Barton Payne
Secretary of
Interior
Railroad Administration
Walker D. Hines
Berlin
Supreme Court
French Chamber of Deputies
War Risk Insurance Claims Liquidated Over One Billion
Director Jones reports 132270 claims filed with the bureau of war risk insurance and 127151 liquidated including death and total permanent disability claims. The total liquidated amount reaches 1 135 552 173 dollars.
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Bureau of War Risk Insurance
Jones
McAdoo Defends Farm Loan Act Keeping Farmers On The Land
Former Treasury Secretary W G McAdoo argues the farm loan act finances agriculture as a vital national industry not charity. He says the country must keep the country raised boy on the farm by making farming profitable with long term credits at reasonable rates.
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Secretary of the Treasury
W. G. McAdoo
McAdoo
Congress
Thief Uses Hypnosis Defense In Patent Rights Theft
Dallas, Texas. Mrs Ma deline Tether, 22, is charged with stealing patent rights valued over 100000. Her attorneys claim hypnotic influence by her husband negates criminal intent. Hypnotized in the DA’s office, she performed feats under observation with physicians testifying to genuine trance. Prosecutors and jurists watch the unprecedented South case.
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Dallas
Tex
Madeline
Tether
Bru- Dette
Atttorney
William J. Pierson
South
Noah Roark
Widow Ends Ten Year Wait, Seeks Divorce
Mrs. Adeline Fields of San Francisco sued for divorce after ten years of waiting for her husband William F. Fields who vanished after their September 1909 marriage. She testified she kept a nightly light burning for him for a decade. Judge Graham granted the divorce.
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San Francisco
Adeline Fields
William F. Fields
Fields
Graham
Duel over Italian beauty ends in murder on Garrett Mountain
Frances Genarro, 26, a material witness, is at the center of a fatal knife duel between Salvatore Nobile and Salvatore Guererie fought over her affections on Garrett Mountain New Jersey. Nobile was slain, Guererie a fugitive, as police learn of the two rivals’ pact.
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Jersey City
Garrett Mountain
N. J
Frances Genarro
Salvatore Nobile
Salvatore Guererie
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