War Fraud Probes Narrowed as House Adjourns
Washington reports Republicans push to adjourn the house to block a Woodruff Johnson war fraud probe. A special grand jury, led by Attorney General Daugherty, begins work on wartime ship construction contracts with the shipping board amid secret proceedings.
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Washington
Jine
House
Woodruft-Johnson
Charlies W. Morse
United States
Shipping Board
McCoy
Supreme Court of the District of Columbian
Congress
Daugherty
Department of Justice
Royal C. Johnson
South Dakota
Campbell
Rules Committee
Gillett
Mendel
Johnson
Brown
Wisconsin
Gorman
Uivnela
Keller
Minnesota
Scott
Tennessee
Woodruff
Michigan
Christopherson
James
Cahn
Olio
John
Mary Pickford Wins Divorce Case In Nevada Ruling
Nevada Supreme Court rules unanimously that the state attorney general had no right to pursue annulment proceedings in the Mary Dickford divorce case. The decision upholds the divorce status as remanded by the lower court.
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Carson City
Nev
Mary Dickford
Nevada Supreme Court
Britain Will Not Cancel War Debts Without U S Action
London dispatch reports Premier Lloyd George scolding U S reluctance on Versailles treaty and insisting Britain will not erase war debts unless America does the same. He urged America acceptance of the treaty and League of Nations to ease reparations and praised Franco British accord on payments. He warned against one sided debt cancellation.
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America
Britain
Lloyd George
France
Germany
Liogd George
Reparations Commission
League of Nations
Great Britain
United States
England
Plan Hits Treaty As Irish Provisional Pact Stirs
Britain denounces the agreement between Michael Collins and Eamon de Valera as aimed at the Anglo Irish treaty. Churchill warns that a Irish republic would trigger military action and Dublin would be held as a strategic step.
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Churchill
Southern
Ireland
Michael Collins
Eamon de Valera
de Valera
la Egard
Rioting erupts in Belfast amid shooting and arson
In Belfast Milfields district rioting followed the shooting of two republican combatants. Police reported four deaths and several wounded as crowds attacked Peter's Place and Peter's Hill baths, with houses set ablaze and a toon and a wen killed in a later arson incident.
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Pierre
Milfields
Belfeet
Roulston
Oeipleth Tiv
Linea Ttiothem
Ed Theer
tMaéh
Brevern
Tery
Peter’s Place
Peter's Hill
Toon
Bonus measure report boosts soldier aid in U.S. Senate
The McCumber soldier bonus plan wins favorable reporting from the Senate Finance Committee amid a 9 to 4 tally. The Fordney McCumber bill estimates 3.5 billion dollars at two years, offers dollar a day for home service and 1.25 for foreign service, with cash and certificate provisions and 20 year payout.
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Washington
McCumber
Senate Finance Committee
Fordney McCumber
Senate
Secretary of Interior
Hoover Assumes Control Over Coal Price Scale
Secretary Hoover takes responsibility for fixing a reasonable coal price during the strike. He warns against any operator agreement to set prices, proposes district committees to advise on fair rates, and says he will take personal responsibility to curb runaways. Alabama operators begin implementing the plan.
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Washington
Hoover
Commerce
Harding
Mr. Hoover
Woeover
Mr. Ogle
Vocational training and loan provisions for veterans
The text outlines a daily wage of 1.75 dollars during government vocational training with a cap at 140 percent of the cash value of a bonus. It also notes national banks may loan 50 percent of the bonus certificate’s face value before 1926 and the post office department may provide loans afterward.
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Post Office Department
New Grain Bill Offered Congress
A new bill to regulate future grain trading was introduced in the Senate by Senator Capper with support from the agricultural bloc and Secretary Wallace. The measure aims to empower the Agriculture Department to address grades on contracts and elevator capacity, retaining the Capper-Tindher provision that co operative producer associations be treated like other members on boards of trade.
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Washington
United States Supreme Court
Senate
Capper
Kas
Wallace
Department of Agriculture
Agriculture Committee
Secretary of Agriculture
Boards of Trade
Brown's Tire Shop Offers Free Inner Tubes with Vacuum Cup Tires
Brown's Tire Shop at 91010 promotes a special offer giving free inner tubes with the purchase of Vacuum Cup tires. Limited time deal advertised to attract customers.
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Brown's Tire Shop
Rail pay cuts ordered by U S railroad labor board
The United States railroad labor board will announce wage reductions for railway shopmen this week despite protests from labor board members. Albert Wharton, former shop crafts leader and AFL Railway Employees Dept. president, drafts a minority decision to accompany the major order.
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Chicago
United States Railroad Labor Board
Albert ©. Wharton
Railway Employees Department
American Federation of Labor
Indianan Shot in Seattle
In Seattle a 50 year old Indiana man James Gordon of Logansport was found unconscious in an alley with a bullet in his skull and a revolver nearby. He regained consciousness briefly and said he was shot and robbed of 3100 intended for Los Angeles.
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Seattle
Wash
James Gordon
Loganeport
Ind
Los Angeles
Bondelz War Rebellion Crushed in Southwest Africa
Reuter dispatch from Windhoek reports the Bondelz tribe uprising in the southwest protectorate of Africa has been crushed. Two policemen were killed and two wounded during the suppression. rebel losses are described as considerable.
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London
Bondelzwarts
Southwest
Protectorate of
Africa
Windhoek
Hottentot
Strike vote by railroad men signals potential walkout
In Detroit officials of the United Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees and Railway Shop Laborers began preparing strike ballots for 478000 members and 75000 nonunion workers. They will vote on accepting wage cuts of 1 to 5 cents per hour ordered by the railway labor board in Chicago. A majority rejection could enable E F Grable, grand president, to issue a strike call and set a walkout date.
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Mich
Alay
United Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way
Brotherhood
United States Railway Labor Board
Chicago
E. F. Grable
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