Potts Seethes Over Naval Retirement Action
Capt Templin M Potts U S Navy retired on grounds of insufficient sea service and campaigns to overturn the plucking board. He calls the retirement an injustice and seeks possible appeals to Wilson Congress or court. Potts meets attorney Samuel Maddox and weighs reinstatement as his aim.
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Templin M. Potts
Washington
Newport
Capt. Potts
Wash Inston
Capt. Potta
Samuel Maddox
Wilson
Congress
Potts
Amerisan
Danielis
Louisiana
Daniels
Admiral Andrews
Artment
Jee
Schley
Mr. Daniels
House
House Committee On Naval Affairs
Representative Padgett
Ten Byck de Witt Veeder
Wiliam P. White
Taft
Meyer
Honor for Maryland Physician at national medical meeting
Delegates at the sixty ninth annual convention of the American Institute of Fromepopathy elected Dr De Witt Wilcos of Boston as president. Dr Anna Vater of Pittsburgh was named censor and Dr Walter E L Reilly of Fulton Maryland was chosen second vice president.
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Maryland
Denver
Colo
American Institute of Fromepopathy
de Witt Wilcos
Boston
Anna Vater
Pittsburgh
Walter EL Reilly
Fulton, Md
Suffrage Test Draws Illinois Election Challenge
Chicago reports that John E. Hogan of Taylorville Illinois says the first test of the new woman's suffrage law will occur next Tuesday at Mount Auburn Christian county with a special election to choose a successor to late Mayor Windsor who was shot by editor Slater. Hogan notes he was retained to start the fight but will not reveal clients. He plans to take the case to the supreme court by October for a December decision.
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Chicago
John EF. Hogan
Taylorville
Minols
Mount ‘Auburn
Christian County
D. P. Windsor
F. P. Slater
Supreme Court
Slayer of Parents to Die in October Hangs Sentence
Ray Pfanschmidt, convicted of killing his father, mother, sister, and Miss Emma Kaempen, was sentenced in Adama county circuit court to be hanged Saturday October 18. Judge Williams asked if he had anything to say. Pfanschmidt replied I am innocent of this charge.
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Quincy, II
Ray Pfanschmidt
Emma Kaempen
Williams
Adama County
Three Year Term for Duffy in Bribery Case
Peter J. Duffy a former sergeant in the New York Police Department who was convicted of bribery was sentenced today to serve not less than three years and not more than four years in Sing Sing prison. The court granted a ten day stay of execution.
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New York
Peter J. Duffy
Sing Sing
Battle on Jol Island Exterminates Last Moros in Five Days
Maj. Gen. Bell cables a daring Philippines campaign led by Brig. Gen. Pershing on Jol Island. After five days of hand to hand fighting in heavy rain, Moros at Bagsak were defeated or killed, with no quarter given, amid praise for Pershing and Pine Scouts.
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Bell
Jol Island
Gen. Pershing
War Department
Philippines
John J. Pershing
Lati Ward
Jolo
Bagsak
Pershing
Amifl
Leutenants
Taylor A. Nichols
George C. Charlton
Philips Pine Scouts
Edwin TH. Rackley
Dog helps to save lift in Atlantic City incident
A one year old named Theodore Leslie was saved from drowning when a dog assisted a lifeguard during an ocean rescue near Atlantic City. The scene involved a cottager and a worker, with reports of wage disputes and a buoy aid. The details are unclear, but the dog appeared to play a key role in keeping the child safe until help arrived.
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Atlantic City
Theodore
Leslie
Cincinnati
Alfred Cincinnati
Ohindyst
Meyers
100000 MAY STRIKE ERIE LINES REFUSE RAISE
100000 conductors and trainmen may strike across 45 eastern roads to protest pay raises and required crews. Railroads say past raises total 30,000,000 and seek 317,000,000 more. states have full-crew laws forcing 5,000 extra brakemen, raising annual costs. A large walkout would cripple eastward lines.
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Arkansas
Washington
Indiana
Ohio
Pennyslvania
Maryland
New York
New Jersey
New
Chicago
Mississippi Valley
Wage demands Loom In Rail Labor Tangle Of 1914
In New York today 45 railroads and 1600 members of the Order of Railroad Conductors and Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen faced a strike vote over proposed wage increases. Conductors seek raises totaling 17 million dollars annually, with 830 to 70,600 and 45 numbers cited. Erie Railroad warns the cost is 1.2 million, threatening safety equipment and service. Arbitration under the Erdman act is debated as management and workers await a final decision. A separate air disaster reports Lt. Loren H. Call killed near Mobilization Camp in Texas after plunging from a plane. Call, 25, former Washington resident, died instantly. a warm air current theory is offered by aviation officers.
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New York
Hantern
Order of Railroad Conductors
Brotherhood of Railroad
Erie Railroad
New Jersey and New York
New York, Susquehanna and Western
Erie
J. C. Stuart
The
Iailroad Ocinls
Congress
Congress of & Bil
T. H. O’brien
Erie Road
Lee
Raureau
United States
Elisha Lee
Pennsylvania Railroad
Man survives 1625 foot fall from incapacitated air machine
In a June 2 1983 incident near Annapolis a gust toppled a crewmember from his seat as a steerable machine dropped into Chesapeake Bay. Lieut Towers survived with serious injuries while Ensign Billingsley aided. authorities say Towers may be the sole survivor able to recount the drop. The report notes aviation fatalities worldwide this year total about 288.
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Lient
Call
Army
Navy
Fort Myer
Timmas FE. Selfridge
Wort Myer
Orville Wright
Lieut
Chesapeake Bay
Annapolis
Towers
Taeut. Tahn H. Towers
Ensign Billingsley
Puff of air killed aviator over Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis
Ensign William D. Billingsley died when his aircraft tumbled 1600 feet after a wind puff unbalanced the plane. A Navy board found no fault by Billingsley or others and said the craft was inspected and Billingsley qualified for the aero license. Lieutenant Towers clung to the plane as it plunged and is recovering at the Naval Academy Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William D. Billingsley
Chesapeake Bay
Annapolis
Navy Department
Billingsley
John H. Towers
Lieut
Towers
Naval Academy Hospital
Eight Thousand Stolen From Mail at Regina Station
A mail pouch containing registered money packages was stolen at Regina Saskatchewan. The carrier missed the train and left the pouches on the station platform where they were later opened by a railway clerk but the money had vanished. Detectives investigate cause and suspects as theft reported today.
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Regina
Saskatchewan
Canadian Pacific Railway
Airboat wrecks in Lake Michigan during Chicago to Detroit flight
Two hydroaero planes started from Chicago to Detroit were wrecked by squalls over Lake Michigan. Janks Jannus and Paul McCullough were rescued after drifting, Walter Johnson landed safely near Whiting, and Beckwith Havens reached Michigan City with a passenger. Johnson planned to resume next day while Jannus would seek to recover his engine.
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Janks
McCullough
Hydroaero
Johnson
Havens
Chicago
Detroit
Lake Michigan
Anthony Janfius
St. Louis
Paul McCullough
Dahlke
Walter Johnson
New York
Whiting
Ind
Chicago U. S
Jannus
Beckwith Havens
Michigan City
Macatuwa Bay
Aviation
Jannus and McCullough
Janina
Bulgarians In Retreat As Serbs Recapture Istip
Balkan fighting reports from Salonik describe massacres by Bulgarian irregulars in Kilkish Planitza and Raynovo with 760 Kurkut men burned. Doiran in Greek hands after Bulgarian provisions fall to Greeks. Serbs retake Istip amid renewed Turkish- Bulgaria border moves. Official declarations of war issued from Belgrade.
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Belgrade
Doiran
Servian
Nish
Salonik
Father Michel
Kilkish
Planitza
Raynovo
London
Bulgaria
Servia
Konagevatz
Sofia
Ivanoff
Tchatalje
Turkey
Istip
Enos-Midia
Aegean Sea
Black Sea
Constantinople
Exchange Telegraph Company
Militant suffragettes strike in England and arson at Bungalow
Miss Sylvia Pankhurst sentenced to three months in jail after inciting riots at Downing Street and leading a mob to assault the premier and chancellor residences. An arson squad burned the Bun galow mansion at Rivington near Horwich, Lancashire, causing about $100 000 in damages. Two associates, Emma Emerson and Harry Golden, fined and released.
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London
William A. Lever
Port Sunlight
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Rivingtnn
Horwich
Lancashire
Sylvia Pankhurst
Emmeline Pankhurst
Bow Street
Downing Street
Poe
Miss Pankhurst
Trollawaa
Miss “Eliemerson
Jackson, Mich
Harry Golden
Misa Pankhurst
Human Fly Injured in Hackensack Accident
The famed stunt performer known as the human fly sustained serious injuries in Hackensack after a three foot tail from a wagon. He suffered a badly sprained shoulder and a finger laceration so severe it will require amputation. The incident followed a history of dangerous feats including cannon launches and balloon drops.
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Hackensack
Rodman Law
Iit
Wilson Health Improves As He Delays Return To Washington
President Wilson’s health has markedly improved over three days and he plans to extend his stay at his Cornish New Hampshire summer home. He may return to the capital if affairs demand, aided by Secretary Tumulty. The tariff bill progress reassures him, while he enjoys brisk golf and motor rides at Hanover.
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Cornish
N. H
Wilson
Washington
Tumuity
Senate Democrats
Hanover
Cox
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth
Cornishea
Green Hill
Saloonless United States Goal At 1920 Convention
Christian Endeavor Society meets in Los Angeles to declare a 1920 saloonless United States as the keynote of a temperance campaign. William Shaw says efforts will unify temperance groups at Columbus convention to push constitutional prohibition of liquor production and sale.
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Los Angeles
Cal
United States
Christian Endeavor Society
William Shaw
United Society of Christian Endeavor
Columbus
Ghio
Temperance Soceties
Ent National
Shaw
Mellen Resigns From New York New Haven Railroad Posts
A terse notice from New York announces the resignation of Mellen from his role at New York New Haven Railroad. Talsso Mayle and Maine KRailisad are cited in the brief, with references to his desire to vacate his position as president at the New York New Prevented Pasttardt na Morris Metromatd and as general manager at the Martie ceste. Railroad lineage and imitates of the board are mentioned in a concise public statement.
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New York
Talsso
Mayle
Maine
Krailisad
Tin New FT
Er Haven
Hartford
New
Morris Metromatd
Weneral
Mart
Wall street figures testifies before Senate lobby panel
David Lamar, famed Wall Street operator, unravelled under cross examination about motives behind his market influence schemes. He admitted using telephones to sway Washington and defended the tactics as past exploits, claiming the “explosion” aimed to expose rivals and secure Lauterbach’s reinstatement. The testimony, part of a broader probe into sugar lobbying and trust influence, ends with Lamar declaring he is the “villain in Wall Street.”
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Senate
Wall Street
David Lamar
Congress
Edward Lauterbach
Lamar
Washington
Himslf
Lauterbach
New New Jersey
Sugar Trust
Charles D. Westcott
Lves
Cuba
Agrarian League
Trust
Combine
Fee
Westcott
Hk. R. Hawley
Cuban- American Sugar Company
New York
Hawley
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Agers
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United States Aviation Corps
Washington, D. C
Texas City
Leutenant
Gulf
Cali
Lewis W. Call
Judge Advocate General
Army Aviation Service
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Coast Artillery
Marblehead
Mass
Palm Beach
Fla
Central High School
Central
George Washington University Scient
College Park
Aero Service
Leighton W. Uazlehurst
AL L. Welsh
T. . Rockwell
Frank 8. Scott
San
Rockwell
Rex Chandler
San Diego
Joseph D. Pach
Clive
William S Billingsley
Naval Boari
J. P. R. von Planck
Fishkil, N
Janing
Roy I. Francia
San Francisco
Clarendon Beach
Grant Park
Jamas
Ife- Savers
William Lever
Silvia Pankhurst
jJail
England
Sheik
Oman
India
Muscat
Simla
Ariba
Abedwila
Sesyid Weysy den Tarki
Musest
Woodstock
C. A. Grayson
Secret Service
Christian Endeavor Convention
Mellen
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Wolf
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Whitman
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Labor Federation
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Westcotter
Means Committee
Cummins
Dot
Westpart
Santo Domingo
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