Pirates in the Atlantic Mystery Shrugs Off War Flags
A spate of disappearances and shipwrecks in the Atlantic fuels theories of a new sea raider. Investigators weigh Soviet or German submarines as the culprit, while Captain Warnell’s daughter urges action. The Carol Deering vanished with 13 crew members near Diamond Shoals as two other American steamers go missing.
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Jules Verne
Russia
Carol Deering
Diamond Shoals
Hatteras
New York
Wasi liter
Department of Commerce
Deering
Hewitt
Sabine
Tex
Union Sulphur Company
New York city
Texas
Edward Chamberlain
New Orleans
Norfolk
W. B. Warnell
Lulu Deering
Portland
Maine
Lorrimer
Washington
Frederick Hate
Woman Presides House Session First in History
Miss Alice Robertson from Oklahoma becomes the first woman to preside over a House session in 132 years. She chairs during a roll call as Walsh, Speaker Pro Tempore, calls her to the chair amid an ovation. Uncle Joe Cannon and members applaud, while she maintains a cautious stance against radical reform and suffrage advocacy.
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House
Alice Robertson
Oklahoma
Miss Robertson
Walsh
Uncle Joe" Cannon
Race in Congress to outlaw beer
The Senate and House clashed over measures to ban medical beer while a Treasury official said regulations on Palmer’s ruling that beer is medicine are ready. Senator Willis introduced a bill aligning with Volstead provisions, aiming to beat the medical beer regulations into law, with House and Senate timing under study and possible quick issuance of regulations.
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Senate
House
Treasury
Palmer
Associated Press
House rules committee
prohibition
Volstead
Campbell
rules committee
Hawaii
Virgin Islands
Congress
Treasury Department
Dinwiddie
Harding
Assist Chief of Bureau Alanson Named to Plant Industry Unit
Henry E. Alanson, with the Department of Agriculture since 1911, was appointed assistant to the chief of the bureau of plant industry. He will oversee personnel and administrative functions and previously served as scientific assistant to Dr. B. T. Galloway.
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Henry E. Alanson
Department of Agriculture
bureau of plant industry
Alanson
B. T. Galloway
Secretary of Agriculture
Mellon Rules Ready for Medicinal Beer Use
Treasury Secretary Mellon contemplates issuing regulations that permit beer for medicinal purposes if Congress delays a Volstead Act amendment. The move comes amid disputes among prohibition leaders and with Antisaloon figures over enforcement and policy. President Harding discussed prohibition matters with Dinwiddie, hopes for a vacation after adjournment, and considered an Alaska or Hawaii trip next year.
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HARRY N. PRICH
Washington Post Co
Treasury Department
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Congress
Secretary of the Treasury
Mellon
House
Metlon
Palmer
B. G. Dinwiddie
Antisaloon league
Wayne 3. Wheeler
Wheeler
Dinwiddie
Potomac
White House
Washington
Harding
Alaska
Hawaii
Hume Ford
Pan-Pacific union
Honolulu
United States Chamber of Commerce
Ford
Maine
Manila
Samoa
United States
Pacific
Oglethorpe Head Ousted
Col Frederick S Foltz relieved of duty as colonel of the Sixth U S Cavalry and Fort Oglethorpe commandant amid recent charges of mistreatment of prisoners. Col Robert R Wallace named his successor as senior regimental officer. Private George P Rhodes alleged he was shackled severely on returning from an absence without leave, causing leg swelling.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Frederick S. Foltz
Weekd
Sixth United States cavalry
Fort Oglethorpe
Robert R. Wallach
George P. Rhodes
Relief of Congestion in High Schools Board Plan
A special meeting of the board of education is called for Thursday at noon at the Franklin school to outline policies for the coming year’s school estimates. The board will discuss asking Congress for funding, extending the building program to ease high school congestion, adding assembly halls, and salary increases for teachers and officials.
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Franklin
Congress
Ballou
Washington
Central High school
Business High school
Eastern High school
Armstrong High school
pny
Denby Shifts Vessels to Reform Fleets and Name Flagships
Secretary Denby orders the transfer of battleships Arizona Nevada Oklahoma to the Pacific and New York Texas Wyoming Arkansas to the Atlantic while Maryland and California are set for flagship roles. Pacific fleet will feature California Maryland New Mexico Idaho Tennessee Mississippi Arizona Oklahoma Nevada. Atlantic will include Pennsylvania Wyoming New York Texas Arkansas Florida North Dakota Delaware. Utah becomes flagship of the European squadron as Pittsburgh returns to the United States with Chattanooga St Louis and eighteen destroyers.
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Associated Press
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Nevada
Oklahoma
Atlantic
Pacific
Denby
Maryland
New York
Texas
Wyoming
Arkansas
California
Mare Island navy yard
New Mexico
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Tennessee
Mississippi
Pennsylvania
Florida
North Dakota
Delaware
Utah
Pittsburgh
Chattanooga
St. Louis
Caribbean sea
Panga bay
When You Think of Writing Think of Whiting Age
A compact note prompts readers to recall the WHITING era of writing craft. It frames WHITING as a standard of literary rigor and discipline for aspiring scribes.
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WHITING
Postpone July Postal Rate Hike At Southern Publishers Meet
The Southern Newspaper Publishers' association opened in Asheville with resolutions urging a postponement of the July 1 postal rate increase. F G Bell proposed informing the federal post offices committee of the publishers' stance. Bell along with Urey Woodson and Charles B Atkinson were named to wire Washington officials.
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Asheville
N. C
of & Lee memorial
Washington and Lee university
Southern Newspaper Publishers’ association
Battery Park hotel
F. G. Bell
committee on
United States
Savannah
Morning News
Urey Woodson
Owensboro
Messenger
Charles B. Atkinson
Atlanta
Journal
Washington
Unemployed Rioters Clash With Police in Berlin
In Berlin thousands of unemployed workers stormed a labor union assembly demanding job sharing. The union president was beaten and left bleeding as 5,000 protesters clashed with police for two hours. The crowd damaged the building and rumor of the president’s death spread before authorities restored order.
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Associated Preas
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labor union council
coun‘ceil
Four Die in Electric Chair at Rockview Penitentiary
Four men were electrocuted at Rockview for the murder of Szima Florian in Erie. The condemned were Milton Hudson Robert Trammell William Stragin and Steva Schipp. It marked a rare event of four simultaneous executions in Pennsylvania for the same crime.
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Rockview
Szima Florian
Erie
Jayat
Milton Hudson
Robert Trammell
William Stragin
Steva Schipp
Pennsylvania
Shipping boardPinpoints new leaders and big salaries
Chairman Lasker and President Harding discuss reorganization of the Emergency Fleet Corporation and appointing top executives. The board seeks the nation’s best minds, with salaries potentially between fifty thousand and one hundred thousand dollars a year, higher than current board pay. Lasker reviews candidates with Charles Piez as key adviser amid a sweeping overhaul to transform the fleet into a national asset.
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Washington Post Co
Lasker
shipping board
Harding
America
United States
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Mr. Lasker
new shipping board
Congress
Piez
White House
Charles Piez
Chicago
Hurley
Washington
Japanese Leaders Favor Autonomy for Korea Under Monarchy
Reports from Korea indicate pro Japanese authorities favor granting Korea autonomy under a restored Korean monarch as a counter to independence movements. In Seoul pro Japanese Koreans support the plan while independence activists oppose it.
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Associated Press
Peking
sine sheers
Korea
Seoul
Air Armada of U S Top Hop Off Today
Langley Va June 20 The largest peacetime air fleet gathers as U S forces prepare bombing tests of ex German submarine U 117 50 miles off Virginia capes with navy planes bombers and Marine units a second phase targets the radio controlled battleship Iowa to be tested June 28 near Cape Charles to Cape Henlopen and Camp Eustis Fort Monroe host training for 550 student officers in big gun handling and practice barrages.
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Associated Press
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Hapton Roads
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Uncle Sam
Virginia capes
Cape Charles
navy
Hampton Roads
nime
Martin
Lieut Read
marine corps
de Haviland
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Cape Henlopen
coast artillery
Camp Eustis
Fort Monroe
Britain signals willingness to discuss Pacific armament limits
London June 30 British Prime Minister Lloyd George opened the imperial conference emphasizing friendly U S cooperation as a cardinal principle and urging talks on armament limits with the United States. He said Britain aims to avoid Pacific naval arms race and would apply wartime Japan friendship to Far East questions including China. The session discussed Anglo Japanese relations and postwar disarmament, with Australia’s Hughes planning U S visits to explain renewals if pursued.
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Principie
Saya
London
Future of
China
Britain
Associated Press
United States
Lioyd George
Japan
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Pacific
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India
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