Cartoons in Ford libel suit ruled out as trial opens
In Mount Clemens Michigan on August 7 closing arguments began in Henry Ford’s $1,000,000 libel suit against the Chicago Tribune. Judge Tucker ruled out a cartoon and an editorial while allowing evidence linking Tribune publisher McCormick to John D Rockefeller. Prosecution cited alleged editorial claims about Ford’s stance on intervention and the national guard. Weymouth Kirkland for Ford argued two main charges: Ford as an ignorant idealist and as an anarchist.
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Associated Press
Mount Clemens
Mich
Henry Ford
Chicago Tribune
Tucker
William Lucking
Rockefeller
BR. R. McCormick
Tribune
H. F. McCormick
International Harvester ,Company
Edith Rockefeller
McCormick
John UD. Rockefeller
Mr. Lucking
Ford
National Guard
Detroit
Weymouth Kirkland
Mr. Ford
U S Heiresses Wed to Alien Nobles Struggle with Poverty
Cable dispatches from Berlin report several former American heiresses who married German, Austrian, and Hungarian nobles are now "dead broke" and facing poverty for the first time. Some may return to America to shed titles and reclaim wealth, with Countess Laszlo Szechenyi and Countess Calloredo Mansfield among those cited as living abroad and seeking new ventures.
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Berin
Aho
America
Laszlo Szechenyi
Gladys Vanderbilt
Switzerland
Calloredo- Mansfield
Nora Ischnoof
New York
Wiait
Rockefeller and Morgan blamed as national bandits
The article argues that government guarantees on railway securities are unfair compared with Liberty bond yields. It cites Plumb supporting labor’s plan for public ownership under a tri-partite corporate model. It describes a widening earnings gap, rising prices, and a revolt among 100,000 railway workers, with 6,000,000 adults backing labor’s program and questioning the returns on labor versus capital invested in railways.
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Jetry
Liberty
Publc
Plumb
United States
Lfe
Packer Suits Wilsons Decision As H C S Result
A long Chicago dispatch reports contention over President Wilson’s stance on packers. Wilson & Co. repudiates part of a statement and pledges full DOJ cooperation. Durand of the Federal Trade Commission says the five big Chicago packers control livestock markets and set prices, refuting earlier denials by Armour, Swift, and Morris.
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Wilson
Congress
Wilson Denios
Thomas
Department of Justice
Chicago
W. ¥. Durand
Federal Trade Commission
Ilinois Agricultural Association
Bor 7
Ogden Armour
Louis W. Swift
Nelson Morris
Association
Faderst Trade Commission
Anonort
Ts Allagotlas
Mail Clerks and Freight Workers Strike Vote
York, New Haven and Hartford rail cars in this city led to a strike of 800 mechanics quitting. Boston, Aug 7 Boston & Maine reports 1,800 Billerica shop workers stayed away, with 800 terminal yard mechanics giving notice to quit. Wabash Freight movement impeded as strike reduces labor on Detroit division. officials unsure of exact numbers. Vienna assembly leader Seitz says Austria will open as asylum for fleeing Hungarian Soviet members. Budapest food crisis worsens as rural areas cut off by Romanian advances. peasants urged to arrest Communists fleeing toward Austria.
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Boston
Boston & Maine Railroad
Billerica
Detroit
Mich
Wabash Railroad
Vienna
Seitz
Austrian National Assembly
Austria
Budapest
Berlin
Hungary
Tol
Aus‘tria
Archduke Joseph Hungary Head as Cabinet Totters
Archduke Joseph of Hungary rises amid cabinet instability as the empire dissolves in 1918. He led a Hungarian Austrian independence movement and was later urged by Emperor Charles to resolve the political crisis before the country. Rumors last April claimed his execution by Communists in Budapest. Bela Kun and other Hungarian Soviet leaders may be demanded by the Entente for surrender by Austria to the new Hungarian government.
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Hungary
Austria
Charles of Austria
Easpest
Kun
Berlin
Bela Kun
Vienna
Almeida elected Portugal president by parliament
Antonio Almeida former premier and minister of colonies was elected president of Portugal by parliament with 131 votes to 31. A 54 year old physician, he was imprisoned during the monarchic regime for plots to overthrow the monarchy and served as premier from January 1913 to April 1917.
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Associated Press
Lisbon
Antonio Almeida
Portugal
Bond Set for Book Return in Ancient NY Property Ledger
In Pottsville Pa the court orders J E Spanmnuth a local bookdealer to post a 10000 bond to New York City. The ancient deed book, over 200 years old and tied to New York property worth billions, is held by Sheriff Wyatt and will be turned over to New York officials to prevent a forthcoming possession suit.
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Pottsville
J. E. Spanmnuth
New York City
Wyatt
New York
Willing to try League Helloce tells senators
Senator Kellogg Republican Minnesota argues in the senate that the League of Nations covenant can be ratified with interpretive reservations without resubmission. He favors reservations on Monroe doctrine domestic questions and congressional power over peace or war and says treaties limit sovereign power but do not violate the constitution.
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Associated Press
Washington
Do CL
League of Nations
Congress
Kellogg
Minnesota
Senate
Kallogg
League
Dle
France
United States
Crowder Honored by Cuba for Census Law Work
Havana Cuba Aug 6 A vote of thanks and public gratitude to Maj Gen E H Crowder US Army for revising Cuba electoral and census laws was passed by both houses of the Cuban congress. The senate approved the electoral reform bill 14 to 2 without amendment, awaiting President Menocal's signature.
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Associated Press
Havana
Cuba
E H. Crowder
United States Army
Senate
Crowder
Menocal
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