Hoover urges price cap on coal amid Russia aid debate
In Richmond Hoovers says public support could enforce a $3.50 ton coal price as a just measure in parts, while confirming the American Relief Administration will stay in Russia as long as needed. He notes medical supplies are depleted and a survey will guide winter needs, with Quaker service highlighted as pivotal in relief work.
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Herbert Hoover
Secretary of Commerce
W. Dudley Foulke
Mr. Hoover
Richmond
Washington
Foulke
Farlham College
Reed
Senator Reed
Fond Administration
American Relief Administration
Russia
Reparations Body Frames Reply On Loan To Germany
Paris June 6 members of the reparations commission met unofficially today to frame a reply to the International Bankers committee on the advisability of a loan to Germany. The informal reply, if decided, will be shared with bankers at their next meeting tomorrow. J P Morgan and other bankers are due back tonight from London. The commission will not include the informal reply in its official proceedings. The next regular meeting is announced for Friday.
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Associated Preset
Paris
Reparations Commission
Tonsiher
International Bankers Committee
Germany
J. P. Morgan
Bankers Committee
London
Wild
Commission
Senate backs Harding on larger forces push
President Harding backed the Senate move to retain larger provisions for officers enlisted personnel and the national guard in the army appropriation bill. He urged retention as vital to military defense under the national defense act and said the Senate provisions represent the minimum for a modest developmental program while awaiting fuller readjustment.
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Associated Procey
Washington
Senate
House
Harding
Warren
Senate Appropriations Committees
Wayne contracts go to Newcastle
The Indiana state road commission received bids for more than twenty bridges and culverts across the state and deferred awards. Burk Construction Company of New Cenette was the low bidder on two culverts along state road No 21 in Wayne County at 1728 and 1659 dollars. Burk also bid lowest for flooring and painting the Stanning Symons creek bridge on road No 24 in Wayne County at 1349 dollars.
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Associated Press
Indianapolis
State Commission
Burk Construction Company
Newcenette
State Road No. 21
Wayne County
French Commission Ready to Discuss War Debts
Paris reports the French commission is prepared to discuss the war debt owed the United States. The finance minister said the mission is ready to depart for the United States once Premier Poincare approves the plan.
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New Associated Press
Paris
United States
Poincare
Revival in Richmond shows surge in building permits
A Richmond revival in construction is noted with over 200 permits issued since January and about 60 houses under construction. J Ed Higgs, the building inspector, says brick homes may become more common in two years, as modern low ceilings and furnaces favor brick, though frame houses remain popular for their lower initial cost.
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Richmond
J. Ed Higes
Higes
Higgs
Smithvilde
Court House
McConahs
Florida Democrats End Spirited Campaign Today
Florida Democrats face primary voting to nominate one US senate candidate four house members two state supreme court justices and other county officers. Both Senator Trammell and challenger Albert W Gilchrist voiced confidence in the ballot outcome as campaigns run in three of four districts where incumbents meet opposition.
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Jaunsus Vine
Fia
Sume
Florida
United States Senate
House of Representatives
State Supreme Court
Trammell
Albert W. Gilchrist
Cams Palgas
Ward Rebuffs Jury In Peters Shooting Inquiry
Mrs Burroughs Ward, summoned before the grand jury in White Plains on June 6, refused to answer certain questions related to the shooting of Lawrence Peters by her husband. She left the jury room for a conference with Supreme Court Justice Mauchauser as the court ruled communications between Mrs Ward and her husband private but compelled her to answer the questions.
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White Plains
N. Y
Burroughs Ward
Grand Jury
Lawrence Peters
Churches Urged to Aid Armenians Under Turkish Rule
The Federal Council of Churches in America called on churches and their members to urge Congress to protect Armenians and other Christians under Turkish rule. It asked the United States to fund support for a body administering Armenian affairs and criticized allied talks with Turkish Nationalists seen as threatening Armenian protection.
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Associated Press
Washington, D.C
Congress
Federal Council of Christ Churches In America
United States
Armena
Federal Council
Georgia party chairman held on 25000 dollar bond in lumber war contract case
John L. Phillips, Georgia Republican state chairman, is held on a 25000 dollar bond pending grand jury action on charges by the Justice Department accusing him of conspiring to defraud the United States in a surplus lumber disposal contract with the War Department. He surrendered on arrival from Philadelphia, waiving examination, as the investigation by the special grand jury continues and a first indictment awaits.
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Washington
John L. Phillips
Georgia
Liberty
Department of Justice
United States
Philadelphia
Philling
Hitt
Special Grand Jury
War Department
Phillips and Stephens
Phillips
Department
German Socialist Leader Recovers From Acid Attack Near Kassel
Kasel June 6 German socialist leader Philip Scheidemann former foreign secretary recovered from an acid attack while on holiday near Wilhelmshöhe. The assailant used Prussic acid from long range in the open air and Scheidemann briefly fired at the attacker before unconsciousness. He was with his daughter and granddaughter. as Kassel mayor and Reichstag member he faced ongoing political threats and recent hostile press coverage.
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Prost
Kassel
Germany
Phlip Scheidemann
Foreign Strairs
Wilthelmsbore
Scheidemann
Wabern
Hert Scheidemann
Reichstag
Weather Forecast for Richmond and Vicinity
Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday. Warm trend continues over the next 36 hours as barometric pressures rise east of the Mississippi and low pressures form over northern states. Generally fair with intervals of clouds, may become unsettled. Indiana forecast: generally fair tonight and Wednesday with some clearing in the northeast portion.
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Richmond
W. E. Moore
Mississippi River
Indiana
United States Weather Bureau
Beveridge Urges repeal of Sherman act at Credit Men meet
Albert J. Beveridge, Republican Senate candidate, addressed the twenty seventh annual national convention of Credit Men in Indianapolis. He urged fundamental changes or repeal of the Sherman antitrust law and replacement with a modern business statute, citing proposed reforms such as a national incorporation act and a meta sales tax. He warned that current laws stifle business and that government interference harms railway operation and tariffs. The gathering drew over 3,000 delegates from across the nation, with visitors from Atlanta and Buffalo seeking the 1923 convention.
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Associated Press
Indianapolis
Albert J. Beveridge
United States Senate
National Convention of Credit Men
Atlanta Ga
Buffalo
Mr. Beveridge
Inter- State Commerce Commission
Supreme Court
Beveridge
Rail Strike Vote To Be Taken By 200000 Railroad Workers
Cincinnati June 6 union leaders in a meeting decided that approximately 200000 railroad workers will cast a strike vote through their respective organizations within 30 days. The wage cut for this class of employees was announced, and shop craft votes are due return June 30. Representatives from most railroad labor groups attended the Cincinnati conference discussing recent wage-reduction rulings by the railroad labor board.
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Associated Press
Cincinnati
Big Four” Brotherhood
United States Railroad Labor Board
B. M. Jowell
Railway Department
American Federation of Labor
Jewell
Big Four
Railroad Labor Board
Samuel Gompers
Federation of Labor
Chicago
G. l L. Bramton
Washington
International Association of Machinists
Brumson
B. M. Jewel
Lillian Russell Moore Dies After Shipboard Accident
Mrs. Lillian Russell Moore wife of Alexander P Moore Pittsburg Leader publisher died at 2 20 am after weeks of illness following an on ship accident returning from Europe Physicians believed she would recover last week but she remained conscious until death She passed away at her home in Pittsburg on June 6 according to Associated Press report lingering illness and accident details noted with continued coverage on page twelve
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Associated Prenny
Pittsburg
Lillian Russell Moore
Europe
Moore
Alexander P. Moore
Brookhart Leads in Iowa Returns. Incumbents Ahead
Des Moines Iowa June 6 Smith W Brookhart of Washington Iowa maintains enough vote to nominate Republican for US senator from Iowa in 932 of 248 precincts. Brookhart leads by about two to one with 54 490 votes to next rival 25 641 in precincts reported. Incumbents also lead in four congressional contests with incomplete returns.
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AsSociated Prose
Des Moines
Iowa
Brookhart
Smith W. Brookhart
Charles E. Pickett
Clifford Thorns
Postoffice Business Jumps 15 Percent in May
May 45 saw a roughly 15 percent rise in postoffice department activity from the year prior, signaling growing prosperity. Glover noted this as the strongest increase in seven years, with Louisville up 32 percent and Dayton 27 percent, Brooklyn 24 percent, Kansas City Denver and Des Moines each 23 percent. Receipts from 50 largest post offices reached nearly $22,000,000 vs $19,600,000 last year.
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Washington
Postoffice
Department
Glover
Louisville
Dayton
Ohio
Brooklyn
New York
Kansas City
Denver
Des Moines
Will Tour Europe For Veterans Bureau
Major F Leon Fraser chief of the New York division of the Veterans bureau will depart soon for a European tour on behalf of the bureau Director Forbes announced. He will survey foreign beneficiaries of the wartime compensation law which sends about 600 000 monthly abroad and arrange reciprocal military care agreements with European nations for disabled veterans under allied governments.
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Associaweare
Washington
F. Leon Fraser
New York
Veteran's Bureau
Forbes
Rail Board Cuts Wages of Shop Men
The Railroad Labor Board ordered wage reductions for railroad shop workers, cutting seven cents per hour for mechanics and nine cents for freight car men affecting about 400000 workers. The decision, criticized by minority labor voices, aims to save about 60 million annually and takes effect July 1, with clerks and telegraphers to follow.
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Chicago
United States Railroad Labor Board
Carmen
Cil
Ft Isions
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Earlham College
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Lewisville
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Herbert C. Hoover
Wayne
Newcastle
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Ilillian Russell
Brockhart
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