Distillers Challenge Beer Bill Over Medical Whisky Limits
Distillers told Treasury and prohibition officials they suffer irreparable losses from current prohibitor rules restricting whisky supplies to druggists. They claim 500 percent sales drop in four months and threaten independent court action to test the law’s constitutionality, possibly allied with brewers against the Campbell beer bill.
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Mrs. George Gould Buried After Sudden Death
Mrs. George J. Gould, who died suddenly of heart disease on the Lakewood estate golf links, was buried today. About a hundred friends attended the Episcopal service at the Gould home with Rev. Dr. Edward Mithews officiating. The cortege moved to Woodlawn Cemetery where the casket was placed in the Jay Gould mausoleum as a crowd of nearly two thousand watched.
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New York
George J. Gold
Lake-wood
Gould
Fifth Avenue
Edward Mithews
Church of the
T Heavenly Rest
St. Bartholomews Zpang
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Jay Gould
Arbuckle Jury Unfilled as Peremptory Challenges Pile Up
San Francisco reports the Fatty Arbuckle manslaughter trial entering its third day with the jury box refilled five times as jurors are excused for cause and the new panel remains unchosen amid vigorous peremptory challenges. Assistant district attorney Milton U. Ran caused surprise by asking a prospective juror whether he could be swayed if a minor attended the party linked to Virginia Rappe's fatal injuries.
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Calif
Roscoe C
Fatty
Arbuckle
Milton U'Ran
Atttorney
Virgina Rappe
Miss Veeder Hit by Auto in Northwest Washington
Suzanne Veeder daughter of Commodore Ten Eyck DeWitt Veeder U S N retired living at 1740 P Street Northwest was seriously injured last night when an automobile believed driven by Kenji Onozawa struck her at New Hampshire Avenue and a Northwest street. She was taken home then to Emergency Hospital per Dr James J Mitchell. Commodore Veeder notified Mrs Veeder is in New York.
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Suzanne Veeder
Commodore Ten Eyck DeWitt Veeder
U. S.N
P Street
Kenji Onozawa
Johnson Avenue
New Hampshire Avenue
Miss Veeder
Icy Green
Veeder
James J. Mitchell
New York
Junk Pile Destiny of Doomed Ships
Naval vessels slated for disposal under the arms limitation pact would have to be scrapped or sunk, experts said. Remodeling battleships or cruisers for civilian use proved impractical, with engines, armor, and guns posing insurmountable hurdles and salvaging offered only limited prospects.
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Associated Press
Paris
United States Navy
Democrats Block Vote On Newberry Controversy
Senate debates seating Henry Ford’s rival Truman H. Newberry amid heated partisan exchanges. Chairman Spencer defends the majority report while Democrats Harrison Walsh and Swanson clash over a night session and timing for a vote. a recess until morning is set as effort for a unanimous date resumes.
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Swanson
Walsh
Harrison
Associated Press
Senate
Privileges and Elections Committee
Henry Ford
Truman H. Newberry
Michigan
Spencer
Senator Newberry
Pomerene
Ohio
Mississippi
Newberry
Stanley
Kentucky
McKellar
Tennessee
Spencver
Washingtonian Weds Miss Barncord in Corrigansville
Cumberland Maryland Nov 16 Mr and Mrs C P Barncord Corrigansville announce the marriage of their daughter Catherine Dercas to Carroll Edward Dobbin of Washington DC The bride was a teacher at Maryland avenue school The groom is a geologist with the United States Geological Survey
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Eelal
Washington
Cumberland
C. P. Barncord
Corrigansville
Catherine Dercas
Carroll Edward Dobbin
Washington, DC
Maryland Avenue School
United States Geological Survey
Brown Alumni in Washington Hails Hughes Letter
At a Brown University club luncheon in Washington the alumni voted to send Secretary of State Hughes a congratulatory letter. The message honors his world triumph and recalls Brown’s notable alumni William L. Marey Richard Olney and John Hay. The resolution was signed by John Lapham president and other officers including A B Gottshall Arthur D Call William Desley William Slade Leon Truesdell and A C Waters.
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Brown University Club
Hughes
Brown
Brown University Alumni Association of Washington
District of Columbia
William L. Marey
Richard Olney
John Hay
Brown University
John Lapham
A.B. Gottshall
Arthur D. Call
William A. Desley
William Slade
Leon E. Truesdell
A. C. Waters
Britain Seeks Cruisers and Tighter Submarine Limits
Britain argues for more light cruisers to guard communications with dominions and flexibility in tonnage for auxiliary vessels. Admiralty favors redistributing existing ships, may cut submarines and destroyers, stressing need for long-range cruisers and coastal defense. A 4 to 3 to 1 ratio among major powers could guide future reductions.
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Norman W. Baxter
London
United States
Dominions
Washington
Admiralty
Mr. Balfour
Japan
England
Civil Service Chief Links Funds to Integrity Crisis
Detroit, Nov 18. John H. Bartlett, president of the Civil Service Commission, says insufficient appropriations hinder investigations of moral character and records for federal appointees. He warns lack of funds leads to certifying many with only scholastic ratings of 70 percent, with no review of ethics, record, or loyalty.
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Detroit
Associated Press
Civil Service Commission
John H. Bartlett
National Civil Service Reform League
Bartlett
Twelve killed in German factory blast near Wiesbaden
Mayence reports twelve dead and sixty injured from a Detzheim explosion near Wiesbaden Prussia. Factory damage valued at 25,000,000 marks. General Degoutte led rescue efforts with French troops aiding survivors and victims. Detzheim lies forty-six miles north of Oppau where a September 21 blast killed about 1,000.
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Mayence
Detzheim
Wiesbaden
Prussia
Degoutte
Detsheilm
Oppau
Four Women Delegates Dominate Washington Conference Invitations
The four women advisory delegates to the Washington conference, led by Eleanor Franklin Egan as committee secretary, are overwhelmed with invitations and busy as they prepare their subcommittees and attend meetings. Katharine Phillips Edson also participates in Far Eastern subcommittee work, while Wirrer Bird and others juggle events and lunches at national clubs and hotels.
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Constance Drexel
Washington
Eleanor Franklin Egan
State Department
United States
Navy
Advisory Committee
Egan
Katharine Phillips Edson
Stephen Porter
The
House
Thomas G. Wirrer
Charles Sumner Bird
Maud Wood Park
League of Women Voters
Shoreham
Martial law precedes Colorado mine strike
Huerfano county to be placed under martial law at midnight on the eve of a 3500 miner strike against Colorado Fuel and Iron Company in southern Colorado. Gov. Oliver H. Shoup ordered Col. Patrick Hamrock to command state Rangers to maintain peace as Sheriff Harry Capps sought help to control the unrest. Union leaders said workers would strike tomorrow to protest a 30 percent wage cut at eleven company mines.
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Denver
Colo
Associated Press
Huerfano County
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
Colorado
Patrick Hamrock
Trinidad
Colorado State Rangers
Col. Hamrock
Oliver H. Shoup
Shoup
Harry Capps
Congress Considers End to Armament Parley Delays
Congressional leaders from both parties weigh delaying debate on arms limitation and extending the arms talks. A recess could be proposed when the new session opens December 5, potentially postponing annual appropriations, tariff revision, and debt funding amid ongoing conference work on tax reform.
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Congress
Senate
House
Harding
Snubs Mayor Thompson in Chicago speech silence
Detroit mayor James Couzens publishes a letter to Mayor William Hale Thompson declining to speak at a Cook County Real Estate Board banquet on December 8. He cites Thompson’s stance on the Washington unemployment conference calling it a capitalist move against unions and wage suppression, vowing not to visit Chicago while Thompson remains in office.
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Detroit
Mich
James Couzens
William Hale Thomipson
Chicago
Couzens
Cook County
Thompson
Washington
Th Conference
Cleared of Wife Murder Charge in Pulaski Trial
Pulaski Virginia November 16 Joe W Rhoades was acquitted today of murdering his wife on September 28 after a 15 minute jury deliberation.
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Pulaski
Joe W. Rhoades
Fixed salary for Charles and entourage fixed by ambassadors
Paris reports the council of ambassadors fixed the money allowance for former Emperor Charles I of Austria Hungary and his family and set the conditions for future state reimbursement. Portugal escapes charges. No amount disclosed. Madeira notes say Charles and Zita head to exile on Madeira with the British cruiser Cardiff bringing them toward Funchal.
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Paris
Council of Ambassadors
Charles
Austria-Hungary
Portugal
Libraltar
Association Presa
Zita
Pexile
Madeira
Cardiff
Funchal
Atlantic
Africa
Eating of U S Marine by Haitians recounts
Senate special investigating committee heard P M Pilkington describe cannibal killings of Private Lawrence and Ident Muth by Haitian bandits. He testified natives are amiable but anti-American sentiment runs high and cited security failings for foreign capital and US treaty issues.
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Lawrence
Ident
Marine Corps
Haiti
Senate
P. M. Pilkington
New York
United States
Pilkington
d’Artiguenave
National Bank of Haiti
National City Bank of New York
SAY FIRE CLOAKED MURDER IN SAGINAW MICH
An inquiry into Adrian B Champlain and his wife’s deaths, bodies burned beyond recognition, began at Hemlock farm home. Richard Champlain, 22, survived and is jailed awaiting results, with investigators convinced the couple were slain and the house set ablaze to hide the crime. Bedding remnants gave off kerosene odor.
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Saginaw
Mich
Adrian B Champlain
Hemlock
Here
Richard Champlain
Maryland Breaks Engine During Test Run
The superdreadnought Maryland, which set speed records at 22% knots from Rockland Maine, arrived disabled in Boston. Engine trouble developed during continued tests after leaving Rockland, with one engine reportedly out of commission. Despite the accident, trial board members said tests of guns and engines along the coast were very successful and the 16 inch guns operated perfectly.
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Boston
Maryland
Rockland
Maine
Prefers Road Job to Exile
Ernest Dymott, a white man, pleaded guilty to selling whisky and asked for mercy. Judge Hartman sentenced him to six months on the county roads but allowed him to stay in Winston-Salem if found in the city within two years. Dymott later told the judge he would begin serving his sentence in the city.
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Ernest Dymott
Hartman
Dymott
Union Files Antitrust Charge in Milk Strike
New York news report says the milk wagon drivers union filed antitrust complaints with the Attorney General and U S District Attorney alleging Sherman act violations by the milk conference board and 12 large distributors. The union also seeks injunctions to restrain violence during the strike affecting 85 percent of Metropolitan area milk customers.
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New York
Associated Press
John B. Johnson
Daugherty
United States
Hayward
Greater
Milk Conference Board
Supreme Court
Kaepper
Brooklyn
City hosts entertain visitors of armament conference
Mrs William Hamilton Bayly chairs a committee plan to make women guests feel at home. A tea at Rauscher's, a Washington scenes film, souvenirs, ribbons, and an information bureau mark the hospitality effort. Delegates, secretaries, and college women receive welcome events and tours around the area with club teas and a Corcoran Gallery exhibit.
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William Hamilton Bayly
Citizens’ Committee
Rauscher's
Washington
Pan-American Union
Washington Monument
Committee On
Wlre
National Association of University Women
Glenn L. Swiggett
James Meredith Helm
Edith Benham
Paris
Woodrow Wilson
Ecommiies
Bayly
Mount Rainier volunteers plan seventh annual banquet
Plans for the Mount Rainier Volunteer Fire Department seventh annual banquet are being perfected by the committee chaired by Peter Hagan with Dr. John W. Kiemm as assistant. The stag affair at Star Hall Monday evening will feature a turkey draw and a guest from Washington’s Third District Drum Corps, Tom Murray. Upward of 100 Prince Georges County League of Women Voters members met at Berwyn Presbyterian Church to hear Mrs. Charles Hiliott, Miss Lavina Engle and Mrs. Maloy discuss proposed legislative programs. Berwyn civic matters included charter talks for Berwyn’s incorporation and a council plan. County officials discussed Berwyn’s future governance, with a November 25 meeting to further consider the charter. Officers were elected: H. Herbert Smith, president. Mrs. G. P. Pickford, vice president. T. Raymond Burch, secretary. Dr. W. Allen Griffith, treasurer. Also noted were recent marriages in Rockville and Washington, court appeals from justices decisions, and the burial of Paul Hull with military honors in Rockville Union Cemetery following World War I service.
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Mount Rainier
Prince Georges County
Woods
Berwyn
Lillian Major
Alan Decker
Swain
Edward Brosius
Morning Stor
Ervin Butt
Butt
William McGaha
McGann
Mosby Butt
Charles Taylor
Taylor
Harry Shaw
Shaw
Robert Elkenson
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Frederick H. Brooke
William Atherton Dupuy
Wade Hampton Ellis
J. Borden Harriman
Frank B. Noyes
Mary Patten
Glen L. Swiggett
Lyman B. Swarmaledt
Charles B. Wheeler
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