Armenian and Syrian Refugees in a Plight
San Francisco dispatch reports Herbert Hoover, ex federal food administrator, joining the Near East relief executive committee aiding nearly 2,000,000 Armenian and Syrian refugees. He cites about 1.8 million Armenians in the Caucasus, 800,000 destitute, urging full support for Colonel Haskell’s administration to avert a major wartime tragedy.
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San Francisco
Herbert Hoover
Allied Relief Abroad
Congress
Caucasus
Turkey
Haskell
Representations Sent to Mexican Government
Washington reports two separate cases prompting U S representations to Mexico City via the American embassy. The Mazatlan consul cites American sailors held on pretexts and the Carranza government is urged to act. Also pressed to capture bandits who abducted rancher Frederick Huge near Muzquiz, with Huge released after a $1,500 ransom pledge.
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Washington
State Department
Mexico City
Mazatlan
Mexico
Summerlin
Carranza
Rederick Huuge
Muzquiz
Huge
Department
Loyal Americans Replace Radicals in Northwest Lumber Camps
Loyal Americans mainly former service men are taking the place of radicals in Washington lumber camps and mills. G. I. Sypher, manager of the Seattle district of the Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen, reported to Puget Sound legion delegates that lumbermen across the Northwest are aiding in this replacement effort.
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Seattle
Wash
Washington
Sypher
The
Loyal Legion of Loggers
Puget Sound Legion
Northwest
Nine Crew Members Face Inquiry On Army Transport America
Two petty officers and nine crew members aboard the United States army transport America faced an official investigation at Hoboken pier after charges of mutiny on the high seas and other crimes, with unofficial reports suggesting an I W W agitator sparked the trouble.
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New York
United States Army
America
Hoboken
Rocker peller aground near Tampa jetty in high seas
The American tanker John D Rockefeller ran aground at the shore end of the Tampa jetty as a high sea rages. A tug awaits calmer weather to assist. Stores advertised as most attractive, inviting visits for new and familiar merchandise.
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Tampa
John D. Rockefeller
Rockefeller
American Legion Warns Members on Law and Order
Franklin D Olier national commander of the American Legion declares that no level of the Legion may take the law into its own hands. He urges members to support civilian authorities and uphold the Constitution in times of emergency.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Franklin D'Olier
American Legion
United States
Skunk Hunter Controversy Reaches Nashville School
In Nashville Indiana the public school faces a clash as skunk hunters refuse to change clothes while girls demand action. Teachers and the school board study the dispute with a decision due within a day or two.
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International News Service
Nashville
Ind
Hkither
Union Record Officials Face Espionage Indictment Demurrers
Demurrers to indictments charging Anna Louise Strong and Seattle Union Record officials E. B. Aust George P Listman and Frank A Rust with conspiracy to violate the espionage act were filed in federal court Seattle. The filings challenge the constitutional validity of the cited parts of the act.
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Seattle
Anna Louise Strong
E. B. Aust
George P. Listman
Frank A. Rust
Seattle Union Record
Suspects plead guilty in Oregon merchant murder case
Peter Axel Branner and William Oscar Wilson, brought from Utah two weeks earlier, confessed to police in the November 28 murder of Frank Gowan, a Chinese American merchant in Astoria. They were sentenced in court to life imprisonment and accused of robbing Gowan's store.
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Astoria
Ore
Peter Axel Branner
William Oscar Wilson
Utah
Frank Gowan
Gowan
Pershing in St. Louis Receives Warm Ovation
General Pershing, visiting his native state for the first time since before World War I entry, was given a continuous ovation in St Louis. He warned against radicalism and urged universal military training in a broad address.
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ST. Louis
Pershing
America
Tryon Named New Head of Air Ministry
Maj. George Clement Tryon, a unionist MP for Brighton, is appointed to succeed Brig. Gen. John E. B. Seely as head of the Air Ministry in London on December 22.
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London
George Clement Tryon
Brighton
John E. B. Seely
Air Ministry
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