Palmer Defends Alien Property Claims Before Senate Panel
A Mitchell Palmer testified before a Senate judiciary subcommittee defending his handling of alien enemy property claims. He rebutted charges by Harold Remington and Leslie Kennard that his office overstepped, asserting federal courts upheld the custodian’s powers and that Congress must resolve disputed claims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vigor Custs
Senate
A. Mitchell Palmer
Senate Judiciary Subcommittee
Siien Property
Harold Remington
New York
Leslie 3. Kennard
Indiana
Remington
Department of Justice
Palmer
Kennard
Far Committee
New
Republican
Congress
Teele
Manas
Sted
Marace Stilwell
Whennart
Davis
Bolshevik Offensive in Pskot Region Is Stopped
A Bolshevik offensive east and west of Pskot was repulsed by Esthonian troops with reinforcements, according to a wire service report. The dispatch cites unrest and disease in Bolshevik territory and notes the Russian embassy attache reports a sustained Bolshevik wireless warning from Omsk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pskot
Hitut
Ee- Ss
Bol-Hevik
Teo
Kameneff
Bol- Kk
A. M. Nikolaiert
Hasay
Tolshevik
Omsk
Cohen
Moscow Strikes Back In Path Of Soviet Movement
Fragmentary historical lines describe Soviet resistance with phrases about reaching high aims, plants in Moscow strike, a motto Down with the soviets, epidemics spreading, and bread shortages with no medicines. Deserters are described as immense.
Buyers of Army Food Slow in Paying Up
J G McGrath director of the surplus army food sale appeals to community centers and organizations to settle credit accounts. With about two thirds of the approximately $5,000 gross returned, only $3,200 has been paid, leaving an $1,800 deficiency. He will receive checks at the District building office until 5 this afternoon and a meeting in the District building boardroom at 8 tonight will discuss forming a permanent food selling organization with Representatives Oliver and Kelly and Commissioner Gardiner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Department
J. G. McGrath
McGrath
Gardimer
Instrict
Oliver
Alabama
Kelly
Pennsylvania
Gardiner
Stock Frauds Charged in Tar Island Case
A federal grand jury indicted broker Howard B. Wood and Dr E York Ames of Louisiana, along with Cuthbert W. Wright and W W I Cherry, for using the mails to defraud investors in Tar Island Producing and Refining Corp. The schemes involved about $356,000, with most stock in New York and New England. The firm claimed oil prospects in Marion County Texas and ownership of property with two wells producing 100 gallons, while the treas ed property actually contained two abandoned wells.
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New York
Howard B. Wood
York Ames
Louisiana
Cuthbert W. Wright
W.W. I. Cherry
Tar Island
Ames x
Wright
Kerry
Marion County
Texas
Matlh
Kun seeks safe conduct to Argentine republic
London dispatch says Bela Kun, former head of the Budapest soviet government, has asked the allies for safe conduct to the Argentine republic where he plans to reside, according to a Vienna sourced Exchange Telegraph dispatch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Bela Kun
Budapest
Argentine
Copenhager
Vienna
Denials by Williams at Senate hearing arise in bank suits
Comptroller John Skelton Williams renewed denials before the Senate banking committee after testimony by J. Poole and F. Hogan that he discriminated against the Federal National Bank in deposits. Letters from R. W. Bolling and L. G. Kaufman charged the accusations as fabrication and misrepresentation. A. E. Jones testified of alleged unfair proceedings in the First National Bank failure and alleged handling of coal stock tied to J. W. Thompson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Bolling
L.G. Kaufman
Chatham Phoenix
A. E. Jones
Williams
J. W. Thompson
John Skelton Williams
Senate Banking and Currency ‘Committee
John Poole
Frank J. Hogan
Federal National Bank
McLean
R. W. Bolling
Emergency Fleet Corporation
L. G. Kaufman
Chatham Phoenix Bank
New York
Feet Corporation
Boiling
Poole
Bogan
Kaufman
Treasury
McAdoo
Riggs Bank
Milton J. Ailes
Aites
Ringes National Bank
Hogan
United States Trust Company
Wiliams
Hagen
National City Bank
New York City
Riggs National Bank
Comptroller's
First National Bank of
Uniontown
Comptroller
Thompson
Jones
Comptrollers Office
Williames
Senator Fletcher
Florida
Rescues Seaman Off Hudson River By Admiral Huse
Near West Sixty-ninth Street Admiral Harry McLaren Pinckney Huse of the Train Force United States Atlantic Fleet rescued seaman William Joseph Buckley after he fell overboard from a barge as the flagship U S 8 Columbia prepared to board. The barge swerved due to a heavy tide and Buckley went into the water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry McLaren Pinckney Huse
United States Atlantic Fleet
Hudson River
West Sixty-ninth Street
Columbia
Huse
William Joseph Buckley
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L. S. Kennard
Turkey
Isok
xErhmer
Patmer
Tod Reed
Auton
Federal Jury
Kun
Argentina
U.S. Trust Co
Poincare
Mercier
Antwerp
Cardinal Mercier
Belgium
Mechlin
Parker-Bridget CO
Fourteenth and
G Streets
Washington
Madras
Victor
Columbia Records
van Wickle
F St
District of Columbia
Sali
Devi
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Clark
Enwin B
Hesse
Alec Breery
Cisek
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Bangkok
Tyssowski
ST. N. W
Keith
Palm Beach
Panama
Hata
T. J. Nash
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