Women Suffrage Demand Marks International Rally
Londres. Miss Chrystal Macmillan, first secretary of the International Woman Suffrage alliance, declares that the League of Nations must fully recognize the movement or women will act. She outlines plans for the Madrid convention May 2 to 8 with delegates from India, China, Japan and other nations.
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William L. Mallabar
International News Service
London
League of Nations
Chrystal Macmillan
International Woman Suffrage Alliance
Spain
Miss Macmillan
Italy
France
Woman Suffrage Alliance
China
Japan
International Alliance
Madrid
Budapest
East
Free Women of the World
India
Threatening letters come to Capt Detzer after acquittal
New York February 6 Captain Karl W Detzer was acquitted by a general court martial on cruelty charges to American troops at Lemans and received several threatening letters warning him not to appear in middle western cities The letters were mailed from Indianapolis Chicago and St Louis Detzer said the threats would not deter him from traveling West to identify and confront the writers of the messages
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New York
Governor’s Island
Karl W. Detzer
Lemans
Detzer
Robert Lee Bullard
Department of the East
Inedianapolis
Chicago
St. Louis
Reappearance of the German danger warned by Tardieu
Paris reports former French high commissioner Andre Tardieu foresees the multiform, insinuating and insidious German danger reappearing. He writes in LIllustration that unity among allies must continue to prevent threats to national independence across France, Italy, Belgium, Britain and the United States over the next 30 to 50 years.
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Paris
Andre Tardieu
United States
L’ilustration
Germany
France
Italy
Belgium
Great Britain
Economic Council Is Ready for Work
Paris Feb 6 The supreme economic council met to consider the exchange question and the general European situation and hear rests on proposed trading with Russian cooperative societies. It organized and elected M Isaac French minister of commerce, and also discussed revictuating tonnage issues based on reports from commissions.
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Paris
Supreme Economic Council
M. Isaac
United States not seeking European credit extension
London Feb 6 Irving T. Bush of New York warned at a luncheon that American funds are unavailable for extending European credits or trading in foreign securities. He said the U S is seen abroad as wealthy yet suffers from indigestion due to Liberty bonds, and that America needs work not substitutes for labor to restore the economy. He predicted no panic but described a period of adjustment.
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London
United States
Irving T. Bush
New York
Auckland Geddes
National Service and Reconstruction
America
Bush
Government sells high grade steel surplus
The Navy Department will place 16,000 tons of high grade steel on the market this month to relieve a steel shortage. The stock covers every variety used in manufacturing, building, bridges and auto construction, with prices based on current market quotations. Most stock is at east coast navy yards and the sale is set for February 26.
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Washington
Navy Department
East Coast Navy Yards
De Kay Sentenced in Bank Wreck Case
Henry E. De Kay of Ashburn, Virginia, uncle of Jean De Kay the Hull House missing woman, was sentenced in Providence federal court to five years in state prison for taking part in the 1914 wrecking of the Atlantic National Bank in this city.
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Providence
R. 1
Henry E. de Kay
Ashbourn
Jean de Kay
Hull House
Chicago
Atlantic National Bank
De Kay Awaiting Appeal After Bank Funds Guilty Verdict
Liberated on $15,000 bail pending appeal, De Kay was found guilty five years ago of misapplying bank funds. His plea for pardon and arrest of judgment was overruled last year. An appeal from sentence is expected to be heard next spring by the circuit court of appeals in Boston.
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de Kay
Circuit Court of Appeals
Boston
Peace talks under way between Britain and Soviet Russia
Stockholm February 6. Svenska Dagbladet attributes Adolph Joffe and confirms peace negotiations are in progress as Joffe leaves Dorpat. He heads the Bolshevist peace delegation and says Russia seeks peace with all nations and will insist only on noninterference in its internal affairs.
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Stockholm
Great Britain
Soviet
Russia
Svenska Dagbladet
Adolph Joffe
Dorpat
M. Joffe
Spanish ambassador recalled over wheat contract rumors
Madrid reports in Libertad that Spain recalls its ambassador to Argentina by cable amid alleged mismanagement of the wheat purchase scheme. The paper claims ships at Argentine ports found no wheat and contracts were worthless.
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Madrid
Libertad Today
Argentina
William Thorne Dies in New York at 55
William Van Schoonhoven Thorne railroad director and financier died at his New York home after a brief pneumonia illness. He was 55. Thorne began in railroads as an assistant engineer with the Great Northern railway.
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New York
William van Schoonhoven Thorne
Thorne
Great Northern Railway
Influenza Epidemic Reports Mixed Signs In Spokane
Spokane on February 6 reports a subsiding trend in influenza with 154 new cases and deaths for the day. City totals reach 1,639 as physicians warn many new patients are more severe than earlier cases.
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Spokane
Wash
Missing bank messenger in Chicago with 38000 Liberty bonds
Chicago police search for George Franze, Harris Trust bank messenger, who vanished today with 38000 in Liberty bonds. Authorities are unsure if he was robbed in the foggy loop or left voluntarily.
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Chicago
Wyeb
George Franze
Liberty Bonds
Harris Trust and Savings Bank
Franze
Villa backs Obregon in Mexican presidency bid
Washington dispatches report Francisco Villa, the Mexican revolutionary leader, has agreed to back Gen. Alvaro Obregon for the presidency. The news, deemed unofficial, reached Washington on February 6.
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Washington
Francisco Villa
Mexico
Alvaro Obregon
Extradition Talks Shape German War Crimes Fallout
Berlin dispatch reports Germany will join government deliberations on extradition of war crimes suspects, signaling how Allied demands may test the Versailles treaty. Swiss authorities weigh following Holland in handling extradition. Crown Prince Rupprecht and others are in Switzerland. Further, a severe Atlantic gale halts the Princess Anne off Rockaway, endangering crew and 32 passengers as rescue efforts intensify.
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Berlin
Germany
Geneva
Holland
Rupprecht
Bavaria
Switzerland
Frederick Davison
Governor’s Island
Atlantic
Old Dominion Line
Rockaway Point
Norfolk
New York
Coast Guard
Princess Anne
Storm Paralyzes Atlantic Coast Food and Fuel Delivery
Continued report describes worsening effects of the blizzard on the Atlantic coast. City fuel supply distribution strained, coal orders diverted to public utilities, and Perth Amboy docks show near total halt in operations. Gas shortages and widespread disruption follow as relief promises emerge.
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Perth Amboy
Great Tidewater
League of Nations meetings set at St James Palace
Executive council sessions of the League of Nations will convene at St James Palace starting next Wednesday with Leon Bourgeois arriving to settle the agenda. The opening meeting will be public.
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London
Executive Council
The
League of Nations
St. James’ Palace
Leon Bourgeois
Government Accepts Bid for Hog Island Housing
Philadelphia February 6 The government accepted a local syndicate bid for all Hog Island houses built by the United States Shipping Board during the war and not sold. The high bid totaled 5 541 000 dollars for 1 471 houses, securing the national wartime housing stock.
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Philadelpia
United States Shipping Board
Hog Island
Two Million Estate Divided by Untested 1905 Pencil Will
International News Service reports a $2,000,000 estate of Ora Haley split among his widow Gussie Haley and three children Ora Benjamin Haley Annie Gusaia George and Mattie Blanch Smith. The purported will dated December 6 1905 was a lead pencil note stating intentions to divide half to the wife and half equally among the children. Haley never completed a formal will.
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International News Service
Pdemer
Colorado
Ora Haley
Wyoming
Gussie Haley
Ora Benjamin Haley
Annie Gusaia George
Mattie Blanch Smith
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