Vanderlip Plan Backed In Closed Senate Banking Session
In a behind closed door session the Senate banking committee heard Prof Jeremiah W Jenks advocate a government controlled central bank to replace twelve regional banks and favor Vanderlip’s plan as a more ideal currency scheme. Vanderlip issued a statement clarifying he acted at the committee’s request to draft a central bank plan and aims to cooperate with lawmakers while avoiding political confusion.
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Vamderlip
Glass
Senate Banking Committee
Jeremiah W Jenks
University of the City of New York
Jenks
Washington
Frank A. Vanderlip
National City Bank of New York
Vanderlip
kKovernment Offictars
Owens- Glass
Saya Vanderlip
New York
Frank A Vanderlip
National City Bank
Carter Glass
House Banking and Currency Committee
House Committee On Banking and Currency
Senate Committee On Banking and Currency
Senate Committee
Oppose Widows Pensions Borah Kenyon Attack Senate Practice
Senators Borah and Kenyon introduced a resolution condemning the practice of granting one year's pay to a widow of a senator who died in office. They call the custom unwarranted by law and urge its discontinuation. Kenyon withdrew the measure briefly over a joint-authorship issue and will refile next session.
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Borah
Kenyon
Senate
Red Light Bill Passed to Abolish District in Capital
Senator Kenyon of Town sponsors a law to abolish the red light district in the National Capital by injunctions against property owners and occupants. The Senate approved the measure after several sessions. the House did not act last session. The bill mirrors the Des Moines plan for enforcement against properties used for immoral purposes.
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Kenyon
House
Senate
Town
Two Pretty Sisters Walk Six Days With Pet Dog To Win Wager
Helen Ordway and Miss Ordway with dog Bo completed a six day hike from Peekskill to New York City and back to win 200 from their father Dr. Aslan P. Ordway. They endured rain and rest days, declare it a family matter, and sent a cable home urging payment.
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Helen Ordway
Richard G. Tunison
Aslan P. Ordway
Peekakill
New York City
Must Control Ships Southern Congress Opens
President Wilson's Mobile visit anchors the seventh Southern Commercial Congress. Speakers including Majority Leader Underwood and Secretary Daniels urge building American merchant shipping to profit from the Panama Canal. Daniels says the canal boosts naval mobility but does not double power, requiring fortifications and fewer troops than predicted.
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Daniels
Navy
Panama
Big Ditch
Mobile
Alg
Wilson
Oscar Underwood
Josephus Daniels
Southern Commercial Congress
South
United States
Latin America
Underwood
Alabama
Morgan
Isthmus
Emmet O'Neal
Panama Canal
Poison Wins 8 Day Fight Over Mercury Poisoning
Isaac Levy a retired Brooklyn clothing merchant died after eight days of illness from bichloride of mercury taken by mistake. His eleven children wept at the bedside and his wife stayed home unable to visit the hospital. Levy fought to the end, similar to a Georgia banker who was poisoned previously.
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Brooklyn
New York
Isaac Levy
Poison on bottles proposed to regulate mercury sales
Congress may regulate interstate shipments of bichloride of mercury after Isaac Levy a New York manufacturer died yesterday in Bensonhurst. Representative Calder of New York plans to introduce a bill with universal bottle standards color and labeling to prevent similar accidents.
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Congress
Isaac Levy
New York
Representative Calder
Bensonhurst
Levy
Calder
Israel L. Feinsberg
Bénsonhurat
Farm legislation next at Congress says Gore
Senator Gore told the International Dry Farming Congress in Tulsa that after the currency bill is settled Congress will consider measures to aid farmers. He said rural credit study in Europe could lead to a plan to loan funds for cropping at 4 percent interest. Mrs Bella von Dorn Harbert urged better farm housing and noted rural residents leaving for cities.
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Tulsa Okla
Congress
Senator Gore
Oklahoma
International Dry Farming Congress
Europe
International Congress of Farm Worden
Bella von Dorn Harbert
Manseathe
Congres
Oppose New Pension Rule By G A R Members
G A R members oppose a pension commission order requiring Civil War soldiers to prove age family history and Bible records. The group argues the proof is unattainable for many, especially Black soldiers formerly enslaved, and says it nullifies the Sherwood bill of 1912 guaranteeing pensions without such proof. Private J M Dalzell leads the Washington protest.
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A. R
G A. F
J. M. Dalzell
Washington
Indictment Against Gibson Granted Murder Charge Dismissed
The indictment against Burton W. Gibson, twice tried for the death of Rosa Menachix Szabo by strangulation on Greenwood Lake, July 16, 1912, was dismissed as juries failed to agree in Orange County. New York authorities may pursue further action as the Austrian consul was expected to take Gibson to New York for related estate-misuse indictments. Advance a Yacht Case Dates set for January 5, 1914, by the Supreme Court to hear arguments on yacht tax liability for foreign-built vessels, some never in American waters, with cases brought on writs of error by Pierce, Billings, Rainey, Gordon, Ibennetiye, and Goelet.
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Goshen
N. Y
Burton W. Gibson
New York
Oranges County
Rosa Menachix Szabo
Greenwood Lake
Gibeon
Mia Szabo
Supreme Court
Enor
H Clav Pierce
Cornelius K. G Billings
Roy A Rainey
James Gorden
Ibennetiye
Hardes Goelet
Supreme Court of Appeals
Richmond
JuHan
Willams
Common Council
Alexandria County
Corporation Court
Williams
B. F. Board Motor Truck Company
Board-Armatrong Company
Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York
Mie
B. Fleet Board
Lake Forest
N. C
Alice McMenamin
Southern Railway
Thaw Ex Assemblyman Hearing Delayed Amid Cheers
Rochester reports Gov Felker grants Thaw a two week continuance in extradition proceedings keeping the November 4 deadline for a supplementary brief on the conspiracy indictment. Crowd of about 3,000 erupts at city hall as Stone likens Jerome to the Hound of the Baskervilles and Thaw's attorneys accuse delays. Richard Butler, former New York State assembly member, surrenders on conspiracy charges tied to Thaw escape, released on $3,000 bail.
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Jerome
Hound of the
New York
Butler
Baul
Rochester
Gev. Felker
Harry K. Thaw
New York County Grand Jury
William Travers Jerome
Eld
Pennsylvania
New Hampshire
Mr. Stone
Thaw
Stanford White
Richard Butler
State Assembly
Harry Thaw
Metteawan
Ritual Murder Charge Denied By Papal Encyclical Claims Baseless
London and Kiel dispatches report Cardinal Merry del Val confirming Pope Innocent IV issued an encyclical declaring the charge of ritual murder against Judaism a baseless wicked invention. The Belis case in Kiel ties to affidavits arguing historic proof of such killings was forged. In Kiel the Heirs trial resumes with medical and religious witnesses on alleged ritual murder, and a Lodz clash erupts between Christian and Jewish recruits.
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Cardinal Merry del Val
Innocent
London
Lord Rothschild
Papal Secretary of State
Innocent IV
Mendel Belis
Kiel
Yushinaku
Pranaites
Judasm
Russia
Ambrosius
Lodz
Settlement on Slums Bill Nearing Final Form
After a conference with District commissioners Health Officer Woodward and a subcommittee, the alley slums elimination bill for the Capital reached near final form. It will go to the President with commissioners recommendations before December 1, with minor alterations only. Mrs Wilson and the President reportedly share interest in clearing Washington's alleys.
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Woodward
Clisena
Washington
Treasury Officials Draft Rules for New Income Tax
Treasury officials conferred yesterday on regulations to govern the collection of the new income tax from individuals. Secretary McAdoo and Assistant Secretary Williams with Internal Revenue officers are preparing a code to instruct both government collectors and the large number of taxpayers. The regulations will be issued soon, covering individuals, while Saturday's announcements relate only to collections at the source.
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Treasury
McAdoon
Williams
Internal Revenue
Contractor Bonifant Dead in Hunting Accident
John Bonifant a Silver Spring contractor died after a hunting accident Sunday in Garfield Hospital. He was with cousin Andrew Noke fourteen? aged 15 when Nolte’s shotgun discharged. Bonifant, married with two young children, was struck in the back. Funeral arrangements to be made today.
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John Bonifant
Silver Spring
Garfield Hospital
Bonifant
Andrew Noke
Nolte
Mr. Bonifant
Bryan approves plan for a naval holiday
Secretary Bryan yesterday gave cordial approval to Secretary Daniels statement that if other naval powers agreed to suspend naval construction for a stated period, or as Winston Churchill put it take naval holiday, the United States would gladly join. A similar idea was in Bryan's proposal for a universal peace pact but was abandoned due to strong opposition.
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Bryan
Daniels
Winston Churchill
United States
Smugglers Tale Doubted By Customs Chiefs
Washington officials dismiss the Norfolk dispatch about a Nova Scotia schooner carrying rock plaster and Paris gowns valued at $100,000. Customs agents and the marine hospital surgeon will inspect arriving ships, while court actions and local notices unfold. Funeral and local crime notes also feature, with Bloodhounds planned for Alexandria County and several dignified obituaries.
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Washington Post
Alreal
King Street
Alexandria
Arthur Snowden
Marine Hospital
George T Ton
Norfolk
Cape Henry
Nova Scotia
John A. Corwin
Baltimore
Breathitt duelists die in creekside duel near South Quicksand
Lexington report details a Creekside duel in Breathitt county last night over a woman. Clelt Miller and Woodson Alen exchanged shots, each striking the other through the heart, killing both. A local investigation follows.
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Lexington
South Quicksand Creek
Breathitt County
Clelt Miller
Woodson Alen
NEW SUFFRAGE FIGHT MEANS WAR IN DISTRICTS
Mrs Dorr editor of the Suffragist arrives in Washington to lead national push for the federal suffrage amendment. She vows to mobilize support and oppose anti and pro amendment factions in congressional districts. The Suffragist magazine debuts November 15 with a mass meeting the next day at the Columbia Theater.
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Dorr
Columbia Theater
Pupils Hear Sex Hygiene Lectures In Chicago High Schools
Chicago reports the start of sex hygiene lessons as part of the regular curriculum with six lectures across five institutions. Physicians were appointed to deliver talks for both boys and girls in segregated meetings, covering diseases and mating instincts in direct terms.
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Chicago
Banker Cummins in Tombs Awaiting Supreme Court Appeal
Williart J Cummins, convict in the Carnegie Trust Co failure, was sent to the Tombs today with his four to eight year sentence deferred for a week. His attorney plans an immediate appeal to the U S Supreme Court claiming article 14 of the Constitution was violated in the conviction.
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Sing Sing
U. S. Supreme Court
New York
Williart J Cumming
Carnegie Trust Company
State Court of Appeals
Tombs
Bing Sing
Cummins
United States Supreme Court
Paymaster Ammen Dead in Mare Island Hospital
Paymaster U. W. Ammen US Navy retired died at Mare Island Hospital after months of brain tuberculosis. He was son of Rear Admiral Daniel Ammen who fought in the Civil War. Also note postponement of the Christian Endeavor Convention in Sydney due to smallpox with dates and venue yet undecided.
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Daniel Aconocn
Vallejo
Cal
U &. Ammen
United States Navy
Mare Island Hospital
Daniel Ammen
Christian Endeavor
Boston
Sydney
Australia
Francis H . Clark
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