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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1920
Page
14
Democrats ready to filibuster if the measure is brought up. The soldier bonus bill passes the House under a gag rule and heads to the Senate where it is expected to be shelved. President Wilson opposes the bill, aligning Republicans and Democrats to block action until after the election.
Chesaneake and Potomac Telephone Company increases new rates today under a public utilities commission order. The schedule lasts until January 31, 1921 with former rates restored. 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 40 messages monthly.
In Matanzas Cuba on May 31 Corporal Vasquez was executed by firing squad for the murder of a Cuban sugar cane planter. It marks the first capital punishment carried out in Cuba since Estrada Palma era.
Senator Edge of New Jersey proposes to transform the Vice Presidency into a real second command by placing the Vice President in charge of the national budget. The plan aims to make the office more attractive as Edge departs for the Republican national convention in Chicago as a delegate at large.
Lieuts. Magierd and Ferrari finished the Rome to Tokyo leg, Masiero arriving at 1 21 p m and Ferrari at 2 05 p m in Tokyo. Earlier Masiero and Ferrari arrived at Osake from Seoul after a Taiku stopover, successfully crossing the Korean straits patrolled by destroyers.
Commissioner Louis Brownlow reports 120000 women came to Washington for war service unchaperoned 50,000 still in the capital. Florence Critttenton Mission delegates from 50 homes attend as Mrs Kate Waller Barrett calls the mission a sociological laboratory. Local president Mrs Charles W Fitts welcomes delegates. Melbourne reports a prospector found a large body of oil shale east of Kimberley in Western Australia.
Miss Carrollines Cook of Fernandina identifies a man as Grover C. Bergdoll the escaped draft dodger, after a telegram to the American Legion commander is received and a $4,000 reward is offered authorities trace the man from a small yacht and an empty trunk shipment before he sails to Charleston via a Seaboard line.
Guatemala City reports President issues executive order expelling Italian agitator Onofre Avele as a pernicious foreigner.
A May 31 dispatch reports authorities ordering halts on rail and steamship traffic to Vera Cruz and Mexico City. Exceptions allow railway traffic to Jalapa while other routes remain closed to curb the outbreak.
Reports from Mexico City newspapers note bubonic plague suspensions by the city health department amid three to five new cases. In London, May 31, about 20,000 steel workers in Sheffield and Rotherham idle as a three-shift plan stalls. Six unions involved. five accept 2000 enginemen, the sixth refuses, causing work stoppages.
House and Senate conferees tentatively agree on selling 28 government ships with provisions allowing the shipping board to sell certain classes to aliens if advisable. Final agreement hoped for today. Policy aims to maintain a privately owned U S merchant marine with naval auxiliary potential.
This was not for profit but a celebration to honor old friendships and build new ones. The offer closes after the week with advance notice given. until then men and boys clothing hats footwear furnishings discounts of 25 percent apply, excluding collars Manhattan products and two hosiery lines. women's footwear and specialties also discounted.
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