Confusion in Congress on Wartime Prohibition Enforcement
War time prohibition unfolds with uncertainty as Congress debates a straight enforcement bill while Justice officials warn of prosecutions for beer and distilled spirits. Attorney General Palmer urges swift action and outlines arrest protocols amid divisions over alcohol percentages and demobilization timelines.
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Department of Justice
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Congress
Wilson
Baltimore
Washington
Congress Right to Define Intoxicating Liquor Question of Fact
The congressional committee reported that defining intoxicating liquor as a beverage containing more than one half of one percent alcohol is a question of fact for Congress, not law. It notes war prohibition continuity and the need for enforcement legislation, with Palmer and Treasury urging action. The report mentions Wardman Park Motel dining room as a luncheon venue.
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Igoe
Missouri
Attorney Generals
Judiciary Committee
House
Congress
Court
Palyner
Department of Justice
Circuit Court of
Ap New ‘York
Bureau of Investigation
Internal Revenue Bureau
Treasury Department
United States
Hous
Congres
Wolstead
Palmer
Secretary of the Treasury
Apologies by Japan pressed U. S. rights in Far East
The United States pressed for full recognition of American rights after Japan apologized for violence against U S soldiers at Tientsin on March 12. Officials in Tokyo issued formal regrets to Ambassador Paul Reinsch and Col Wilder and stressed harmony with Americans.
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Tientsin
U. S
Peking
Col
Winder
Aviv
Japan
United States
Fitteenth Infantry
China
Stewart Heintzleman
United Tes
Polk
Mingum Burkey
State Polk
Hoy Higgins
Paul | Rteinach
Heintzleman
Col. Wilder
Fifteenth Infantry
Kamel
Kaniho
Tokyo
Marcel
Kamei
Cel Wilder
Obata
Heinseh
Tokugawa
Tok
State Department
Washington
Cossack Armies Rout Reds and Finns Meet Defeat
Kuban and Don Cossacks advance along the Don bend capturing 4,000 Bolsheviks and 10 guns while taking 1,500 prisoners and 3 armored trains and occupying Millerovo. Bolsheviks defeat Finns at Vydlisha and advance on the frontier. Trotsky orders Kronstadt destruction and Petrograd rail and bridge blows.
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Don River
Don Cossacks
Millerovo
Kusban Cossacks
Boleshevik
Ekasterinodar
Kertch
Crimea
London
Vydlisha
Helsingfors
Petrograd
Trotzky
Kronstadt
Europe weighs fate of former German emperor in Holland
London dispatch reports diplomats say the former German emperor cannot be punished. Bethmann Hollweg bears sole responsibility for acts of his subordinates. Officials doubt extradition and foresee trial possibly in absentia if in Netherlands.
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Lansing
Holland
Associated Press
London
C. B. Harmsworth
House of Commons
Netherlands
Raymond testimony in libel suit cites 1916 antiwar stance
Clifford S. Raymond, author of Ford Is an Anarchist, testifies in Judge Tucker's Mount Clemens court that the Detroit Tribune editors debated intervention in Mexico and opposed entering war with Germany while noting the Lucitania sinking as a trigger. He says Tiffany Blake led the editorial staff and Capt. J. M. Patterson helped shape policy.
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Mount Clemens
Mich
Tucker
Clifford S. Raymond
Ford
Detroit
Chicago Daily Tribune
Raymond
Tribunes
Tiffany Blake
the Tribune
Mexico
Rio Grande
Alfred Lucking
J. M. Patterson
Tribune
Germany
Luceltania
United States
Peace treaty terms move forward on long voyage home
President Wilson signs Indian appropriation and railroad deficit bills at sea aboard the George Washington after a mid Atlantic transfer of mail bags from the Great Northern. War brides join soldiers aboard and greetings from King George V, Emperor of Japan, and King Alfonso of Spain arrive by wireless. An ongoing Senate debate over the League of Nations Covenant continues with Borah accusing bankers of exploitation and Hitchcock defending broad support.
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Orleck
Wilson
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Washington
Grayson
Joseph P. Tusmulty
Army
Department of Justice
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Hotel de Crinon
American Jelegation
Paris
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England
Alfonso
Spain
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George
Fai
Senate
Senator Borah
Thomas W. Lamont
Morgan Banking House
New York Evening Post
League
Taft
Sendter Hitchcock
Democral
Gerry
Krhodt Island
Fall
New Mexico
Boral
Peace League
Idaho
Kuhn, Loch & Co
Ireland
Sarah
Great Britain
Wash
Democrat
Montana
Phelan
California
Danish politician Hynngar joins cabinet as minister without portfolio
Copenhagen reports that FL P Hynn gar, formerly a representative of the Schleswig Danes in the Prussian diet and later in the reichstag, has entered the Danish cabinet as a minister without portfolio on June 316.
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FL P. Hynngar
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