U S Troop Returns and Key Diplomatic Changes
About 275000 American troops are to return from Europe this month with 250000 more expected in May and 300000 in June as transport limits allow. Hugh Gibson is named first US minister to Poland. Died: Robert S. McCormick in Hinsdale after pneumonia. Newton D. Baker, Warren Pershing and General Pershing’s son arrive in Brest aboard Leviathan.
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Paris
Hugh 8. Gibson
United States
Poland
Robert S. McCormick
Russia
France
Austria-Hungary
Hinsdale, I
Newton PD
Baker and Warren
General Pershing
Brest
Leviathan
War records and postwar notes across global fronts
Washington reports show 16 million dollars of returned checks held by the war risk bureau due to changed addresses. The Shipping Board begins selling 15 wooden steamships to Nuevairema Steamship for 650000 each. Wilson delays wartime prohibition until peace and demobilization are addressed. Viscount Ishii will return to Japan for talks. Victory Liberty loan details outline two short-term note classes totaling 3450000000. An American military mission arrives in Bern to study Swiss mil system. Bolshevik killings reach 1800 in Ufa including 400 women. German cabinet backs a referendum on peace per Wilson points. Daniels crosses into occupied Germany at Coblenz. A scouting party ambushes Bolshevik patrol near Archangel. Berne reports recognition of the new German government. Munich reportedly in chaos with halted work and looting. Lenin signals Budapest visit for a new international communist congress. Morenul, Brest governor, reviews Rainbow division and reads Clemenceau message.
War Damages in Belgium Put at 7 Billion
Central Industrial committee at Brussels reports peace damages to be 7 billion dollars. Paris budget committee seeks full reimbursement from all enemy nations with priority for reparations. Wilson plans US return April 27 or 28 after Versailles opening.
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Belgium
Germany
Central Industrial Committee
Brussels
Chamber of Deputies
Paris
Wilson
United States
Peace Congress
Versailles
Echo de Paris
E. M. House
Bolsheviks terror report and wartime dispatches
Reports from Libau to Stockholm describe Bolshevik terror in Riga with 70 000 victims including women and children. A Zurich dispatch notes Cecilie planning divorce from Frederick William. An express train crash near Le Mans kills 14 Americans and 6 French soldiers. many injured. Sebastopol capture, Dniester front clashes, and Berlin street clashes with venders mirror wartime unrest.
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Riga
Libau
Svenska Dagblast
Stockholm
Hasen
Dvina
le Mans
Sebastopol
London
Koumannang
Dniester River
Iowa Senate Screens Insurance Probe and School Aid Bills
The Iowa senate considered a sweeping inquiry into five fire insurance firms alleged to fix rates under the Blanchard law and weighed bills on medical licensure, public education funding, and a large slate of state conservation and infrastructure appropriations. Lawmakers debated primary versus convention nominations, while the house passed a measure to expand malpractice coverages and an amended quarantine provision for Spanish influenza.
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Senate
General Assembly
Miller
House
Mayne
Killéa
Wormley
Plymouth
Williams
Sess Committee
Ular
Olé O. Roe
J. A. Tracy
State Board of Education
P. Ik. Holbrook
Onawa
D D. Murphy
Etkader
Charles’ R. Brenton
Dallas Center
Board of’ Parole
D. C
Hauge
Commission
Senate Committee
Pitt
Woodworth Club
Board of Health
York
Stata
Saas
New York City
Iowa
Hes House
Iowa mentions and events in community notes
A patchwork of notes highlights diverse Iowa happenings. Edible milk from a bean stunt. Woodmen convention setup. legal cases including speeding verdicts in Cedar Rapids. church incidents. honors for Captain James Norman Hall. strikes and labor talks in Sioux City. war map work credited to Lieut M H Howell. drainage projects delayed by mud. new aviation tech claims. local political and educational rallies. and charitable gifts shaping hospital naming amid ongoing national concerns.
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Ipaner
Grinnell Stad
Woodmen of the World
Woodmen
Circle
Mason City
Jamies “Young
Cedar. Rapids
Paul Périgord
Apak
Iowa
Lamont
F. M. Smith
James Norman Hall
Cerro Gordo
Franklins
Hancock
A. W. Judy
Centerville
Louisa County
D M. Overholt
Ilona City
Chester Giles
Perry
Sgt
B. M. Giles
D. S. Giles
United, Presbyterian Church
Hepburn
Fred Graham
Philip
Cook
Trowbridge
St. Louis
Lieut
Charles Merrick
Boone
France
Sheldon High School
Edward Dippo
Emma‘Lamb Young
Clinton
Agatha Hospital
Jane S Lamb
Libertyville
W. R. Beers
Fort Dodge
Tates
League of Nations
George Wagner
Marshalstow
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U.S
Teutonic War News
Europe
Newton D. Baker
Washington
War Tisk Bureau
The
Shipping Board
Nueirema Steamship Company of
New York
Viscount Ishii
Japan
Washington Dispatch
Victory
Berne
Ufa
Omsk
Welimar
the Navy
Josephus Daniels
Coblenz
Meuse
Archangel
Munich
Copenhagen
London Exchange Telegraph Company
Spartacans
Nikolai Lenine
Bela Kun
Budapest
Admirnal Morenu
Clemenceau
Council of Four
Patricia
Boston
Frank W. Carvanaugh
One Hundred and Second Field Artillery
Mexico City
Aureliano Blanquet
Huerta
Vera Cruz
Cavextla
Andrew Curry
Venice
Cal
Sims
New York Harbor
United States Navy
Daniel C. Roper
Internal Revenue
Congress
Louieville
Zurich
Cecilie
Frederick William
Anastasie
Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Berlin
Alexander Regiment
Vendoys
Bagin
House ‘of Representatives
Buser
Muncatine
Fish and Game Fund
Board of Conservation
L. H. Pammell
Ames
Delaware County
Hinshaw
Harding
W. E. Albert
Lansing
Fish and Game Department
Committee On
Methodist
Ua State
Weather and Crop Service Bureau
State Entomologiat
Executive Council
State University of
Iowa City
Capitol
Hardingar House
Griffin Shiupehanton
Fralley
Joe Fralley
Lee County
Frailey
Sento Establieh
Bnilth
Seath
Earnsie
Hoover
Germay
Ci Wire
Aiba
Baek
Meen
Eer
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