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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1920
Page
12
Senate leaders expect the soldier bonus bill to be referred to the finance committee and buried this session as Democrats vow a filibuster if called up. President Wilson has framed the issue as partisan, pushing both parties to delay until after the election.
The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company announces a new rate schedule approved by the public utilities commission becomes effective today and runs until January 31, 1921. Increases include 10 percent for unlimited residence service 20 percent for two party business service and 9 percent for two party residence service limited to 46 messages every two months.
Senator Edge of New Jersey argues for a transformed Vice Presidency as a second command and chief of staff to the President. He would place the Vice President in charge of the national budget as a future government fixture. The plan, announced as he heads to the Republican convention in Chicago as a delegate at large, is seen as making the office more attractive.
Italian aviators Magierd and Ferrari completed a Rome to Tokyo flight. Masiero landed at 1 21 p m and Ferrari at 2 05 p m in Tokyo. Earlier Massero and Ferrari arrived at Osaka from Seoul after a Taiku stopover, passing the Korean straits patrolled by destroyers.
One hundred twenty thousand women came to Washington for war service with a small incidence of trouble, says Commissioner Louis Brownlow at the Florence Crittenton Mission annual conference. About 50,000 workers remain in the capital. Leaders from many Florence Crittenton homes attend. delegates welcome remarks note the mission as a theological laboratory. A distant oil shale find near Kimberley in western Australia is reported.
Federal authorities pursue a man identified by Postal Telegraph operator Miss Caroline Cook in Fernandina Florida as Grover C Bergdoll escaped draft dodger The man arrived by yacht and shipped an empty trunk on the Seaboard train and was spotted after a telegram from Sumter J Lewry Tampa It was signed Bergdoll and a $4000 reward was offered for his catch
Guatemala City reports that on May 31 the president expelled Italian agitator Onofre Auele as a pernicious foreigner by executive order.
Rail and steamship traffic to Vera Cruz and Mexico City ordered stopped for a plague quarantine. All travel is halted except rail service to Jalapa, affecting regional movement and commerce. Authorities enforce the health measure to curb disease spread.
Reports from Mexico City papers say bubonic plague prompted health department suspension and new case counts range from three to five. Elsewhere in London May 31 thousands of steel workers in Sheffield and Rotherham idle over a proposed three-ship system, with six unions affected and one union withdrawing causing others to halt work.
House and Senate conferees tentatively approve merchant marine legislation to sell government owned ships as soon as practicable. It authorizes the shipping board to sell certain classes to aliens if advisable. Final agreement hoped for today with a policy aim to maintain a privately owned U S merchant marine for national defense and commerce.
The Rust Engineering Company dissolves as of April 1920. E M Rust S M Rust and J Lee Rust transfer all assets to The Rust Engineering Company, a Delaware corporation with offices in Pittsburgh Birmingham and Washington DC. Debts may be paid at the Washington office and claims presented there.
The event was not for profit but a celebration to honor old friendships and forge new ones. It offers 25 percent off all men’s and boys’ clothing hats footwear furnishings excluding collars Manhattan products and two hosiery lines and extends until Saturday before regular prices resume.
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