Last effort drive ends Red Cross campaign in Wayne County
The final Red Cross drive wraps up at 6 30 PM with 200 Richmond army and navy workers and 16 out of town leaders reporting results at the Y M C A A total over 30 000 is raised in Wayne County for Red Cross work central committee estimates Richmond contributed 20 000 county about 10 000 The drive featured a free for all fight in Richmond streets as Territory restrictions were lifted and many businesses and lodges contributed funds before the continuation on Page Nine
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Red Cross Army and Navy
Wayne County
Richmond Army and Navy
Red Cross
Edgar Haas
Central Committee
Richmond
Pennsy to take off 4 passenger trains
Four Pennsylvania lines passenger trains will be removed next Sunday. On the Indianapolis division trains 1019 and 1022, arriving at 5:05 p m and 1:30 p m, will be taken off. on the Richmond division trains 906 and 907, arriving at 11:30 p m and 6:00 a m, will be removed. The changes are blamed on the large freight traffic now in hand.
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Pennsylvania
Indianapolis
Richmond
Weather forecast for Indiana shows fair tonight and Tuesday
United States Weather Bureau reports fair conditions for Indiana tonight and Tuesday with likely thunderstorms in the extreme north portion. Temperatures warmest in the north and central areas. no significant changes to expect.
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Indiana
United States Weather Bureau
Signs of Great Fight Seen Across Front in Europe
War brief notes British raids across Belgium to St Quentin signal possible offensive prelude. Haig has not yet delivered a major onslaught since Messines ridge. Ground gained near Lens and Warneton. Aisne front quieting with Crown Prince drive near Vauxaillon. Weather outlook shows increasing cloudiness with warm conditions in the upper plains.
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France
London
Belgium
St. Quentin
Haig
Messines
Ro Val
Lens
Warneton
Aisne
Vauxaillon
Miss Elsie Kiser Recalls Panamanian Mission School
Miss Elsie Janet Kiser, a teacher in Methodist Episcopal missionary schools in Panama, spoke at First M E church last night describing her work in the zone. She showed lantern slides and noted her ninety students come from about a dozen nationalities with colors ranging from white to dark.
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Elsie Janet Kiser
Methodist Episcopal Missionary Schools
Panama
M. E. Church
Labor to Act in Ramsey Case Meeting Called
Under the Richmond Trades council a mass meeting will be held in the high school auditorium Thursday at 8 o'clock to discuss Superintendent Giles action notifying D. D. Ramsay that his contract as Whitewater principal would not be renewed. Robert Graham, chair of the committee, said the report will state Ramsay was dismissed without a hearing or explanation. Anyone interested is invited to attend and speak.
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Richmond Trades Council
Giles
D. D. Ramsay
Whitewater
Robert Graham
Trades Council
Ramsey
Graham
Hollweg Accused of Trying to Strangle German Newspapers
London dispatch reports protests by Tageblatt Tageszeitung and Rundschau over Chancellor von Bethmann Hollweg allowing only 44 percent of prior paper quotas. Newspapers accuse him of attempting to cripple the German press. Cologne Gazette warns the move may wipe out papers. Edgar Iliff remains gravely ill after a period of intestinal trouble.
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Hollweg
London
Exchange Telegraph Company
Amsterdam
von Bethmann- Hollweg
Tageblatt
Tageszeitung
Rundschau
Berlin
Cologne
Billy Is Host to Hoosier Neighbors Arraigns Slackers
WARSAW Ind June 25 Billy Sunday hosted a crowd of 7000 at Winona Lake auditorium then invited visitors to his cottage. He toured rooms posed for pictures and asked for suggestions as he prepared to leave for Hood River Ore with Mrs Sunday who is recovering from surgery. Sunday urged patriotic youths to join the colors and prayed for power to shoot straight.
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Billy Sunday
Winona Lake
Sunday
Billy
Hood River
Ore
Dam Break Floods Price River Valley in Utah
The Price River Irrigation dam near Fairview failed after millions of gallons of melt water surged in. Eleven thousand acre feet of stored water rushed down the Price river valley with no loss of life reported. Communities including Scofield Helper Castle Gate and Colton evacuated as 40 miles of Denver and Rio Grande railroad track could be damaged and coal mine shipments in Carbon county faced disruption.
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Fairview
Utah
Mammoth
Price River Irrigation Company
San Pete County
Price River
Scofield
Helper
Castle Gate
Colton
Denver and Rio Grande
Carbon County
Senate Poised to Pass Prohibition Food Bill Amendments
Washington June 25 The Senate faces the fate of prohibition as a wartime food control bill with its drastic liquor prohibitions. Leaders plan to expedite the House passed measure with amendments. debate centers on permitting malt liquor and wine manufacture. Strong dry senators oppose extending prohibition to beer and wine though many favor restricting whiskey and spirits. A final vote on retaining prohibition provisions or foodstuff use limits is anticipated within a week or ten days.
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Washington
Senate
House
Chamberlain
Agriculture Committee
Reed
Missouri
Confessed Slayer Says Ruth Attracted Him in Italy Interrogation Focuses on Cruger Case
Alfredo Cocchi recounts to Judge Zucconi that Ruth Cruger drew him in with her eyes during shop visits for skating repairs. He claims an overpowering attraction led to an unintentional killing, describing a trance-like state and inability to resist, with continued testimony continued on page three.
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Grace Humiston
New York
Ruth Cruger
Alfredo Cocchi
Bologne
Italy
Cocchi
Zucconi
America
Ruth
Singing in Tongue Draws Crowd at Hip Sing Tong HQ
In Chicago on June 25 a crowd gathered on South Clark near Harrison for the Hip Sing Tong HQ opening. President Young Gew spoke urging Chinese Americans to help the United States in the war against Germany, with the event decorated by Chinese and American flags.
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Chicago
South Clark Street
Harrison
Hip Sing Tong
Young Gew
United States
Germany
Gus J. Karger
Washington
Misa Jeasie Wilson
Europe
British vessel sinks U boat in Atlantic port
Officers report sinking a German submarine after a shell hit its magazine causing a magazine explosion aboard the U boat. The British steamer arrived with the news and the incident is continued on page nine.
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Atlantic
Admiral Sims Serves Coffee to Submarine Survivors
Base of the American fleet in British waters witnessed Vice Admiral Sims serving hot coffee to survivors of a torpedoed British merchant ship. Fifty-five crew members were rescued by a British destroyer within an hour after the attack, with Charles Dalton of New York among the survivors.
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Associated Press
Sims
Admiral Sims
Charles Dalton
New York
Dalton
Elliott Promises of Bié Vote Across Counties
Voters in the Sixth Indiana District choose a successor to the late Judes Comstock. Richard N. is listed as the Republican nominee with early returns suggesting a small lead for Finly Gry's Democratic ticket. Farmers in Wayne County plan to use autos to reach polls, with turnout near normal. Elliott is predicted to win Henry County by 800 to 1,000, while Fayette County remains contested.
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Indiana
Judes
Comstock
Congress
Richard N
Finly Gry
Wayne County
Edwin Morrow
Elliott
Henry County
Fayette County
ONE NEGRO SHOT SECOND HANGED IN FLORIDA AND TEXAS
In Punta Gorda Florida Shep Trent a Black man was dragged from officers and shot dead after being arrested for an alleged assault on a white woman. In Galveston Texas Chester Sawyer a Black man accused of attacking a white woman was taken from jail and hanged by a small mob.
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Punta Gordo
Fla
Shep Trent
Cleveland
Trent
Galveston
Tex
Chester Sawyer
Engelbert Stricken H H Engelbert in Serious Illness
H H Engelbert, cigar and tobacco dealer, is seriously ill at his home after a hemorrhage last night. He had been in good health yesterday, and the attack was unexpected.
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Edgar Iliff
Mr. Iliff
H. H. Engelbert
Long-Haired Gray Fights Navy Policy in Indiana Race
Washington correspondent Gus J. Karger recalls Indiana figure Finly H. Gray, ex mayor of Connersville, as a persistent critic of naval buildup while switching from pacifist to militant stances. Gray's 1912 opposition to battleships contrasts with his 1916 bid and vice versa, as Congress debates peace and war. The Sixth Indiana district faces a 1916 contest with Gray once more in the spotlight.
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Finly H. Gray
Connersville
Finlyore
Gray
Jim Mann
Jefferson
Congress
Sixth
Finly Gray
Daniel Webster Comstock
Repub
Uccan
Comstock
United States
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