France Opposes US Move Over Monroe Doctrine Covenant
Paris reports say France fears European application of the Monroe Doctrine could bar US aid to France in case of future German aggression. The League amendments include French and Japanese reservations with plenary-session reconsideration possible. London papers call the revised covenant weaker, opposing unanimous voting and withdrawal terms.
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Paris
League of Nations
League of Nations Commission
Commission
Sarre
Rhine
Council of Four
Licely
France
United States
Germany to Pay 5 Billion in Cash Under Peace Treaty
Paris reports Germany must pay 35 billion in tangible goods and 2 billion in interest bearing bonds. Interests on bonds set at two to three percent until 1926, then eight percent. Central commission to safeguard bond markets. Damages to be fixed by a mixed Allied commission, report by May 1, 1921.
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Paris
Mmiet
Germany
Paor
Hull
Lump Sum Reparation Decided After Lloyd George Appeal
Paris reports Premier Lloyd George pushed four allied leaders to overhaul the postwar financial plan. A lump sum reparations figure is to be fixed now for Germany within Sd years, with a secret total around 250000000000 francs covering damages and pensions. The plan aims to ease treasury operations and mutual aid among the allies.
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Paris
Tull
Lloyd George
Great Britain
de Keho de Paris
Council of Four
Germany
France
Boche Workmen Adorn Left Sleeves With A E F Mark
Report from France describes German prisoners of war awarded unauthorized gold service chevrons and marked P Wr on their backs. Military police investigate the embellishments, explaining they claim affiliation with the American army and Mer of War claims.
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France
German Official Goes Insane In Soviet Cabinet Turmoil
NurembergApril 1 A Goie dispatch from Munich reports the German garrison has set up a military dictatorship backing the Hoffman ministry as the Soviet regime fights to oust it Dr Adolph Lapp appointed foreign affairs commissioner in the Soviet cabinet reportedly insanity confined to an asylum Dr Tarvin leads independents amid rumors of arrests of Soviet leaders including Tandager Wagner and Neulson
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Nuremberg
Go Ie
Third
Munich
Garriy Son
Hoffman
Adolph Lapp
Reort
Megaliiian
Tarvin
Ineepe Sorialista
Tandager
Herr Wagner
Herr Neulson
Lloyd George's Brief Paris Visit Promised
The Petit Journal reports Prime Minister Lloyd George will have a brief home leave to England before returning to Paris Friday for peace conference talks. Paris dispatches say conference leaders have agreed on the date to call German delegates, aiming for before April 20. Cardinal Mercier is to meet with Belgian delegates amid the visit of American congressmen to Brussels for a U.S. trip next October.
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Andege
Ee Jond George
England
Petit Journal
Paris
Cardinal Mercier
Belgium
Bruesch
United States
Massachusetts Governor Question Sends Democrats on a Long Shipboard Origin
A Boston to New York voyage recounts a brigadier general who declined to discuss Massachusetts politics while alighting from a ship. Democrats, led by party figures such as Patrick McGovern, pressed him about Governor candidacy, but he insisted he could not speak while in the army and would not discuss his feelings.
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Boston
New York
Massachusetts
Tam
Whys
General Cole
Democratic State Committee of
Cole
Patrick McGovern
Reston
Bastinity
Warships Return Home Amid Vast Atlantic Fleet Reception
New York April 14 Atlantic fleet with 30,000 sailors and Marines ashore for leave after a year away. Seventy-plus ships and a hundred-strong destroyer force, led by the Pennsylvania under Admiral Mayo, anchor in Ambrose Channel and North River. Aerial and naval review dazzles as planes sweep overhead and ships stream toward port.
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New York
New York Harbor
North River
Ambrose Channel
Mississippi
Oklahoma
Wyoming
Pennsylvania
Mayo
United
Copana
Ambrear Light Slip
Trotzky Admits Defeat on Eastern Front
Tondon April We Taon Trotzky Bolshevik minister of war and marine reports a decisive shift. In a wireless message from Moscow read here he says all efforts must be directed to the eastern front, the only front we love. He urges sending old and experienced troops to that theater and warns against any further operations toward Ekaterinburg, Form and Ufa.
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Tondon
Taon Trotzky
Reamrin
Astielts
Moscow
Soviet Attack Expected Near Dresden and Troop Movements
Berlin dispatch reports Soviet forces may assault the Neu Stadt area on the right bank of the Elbe. Frontier troops near Friedrich Augustus bridge bolster defenses. Jager and Grenadier units reportedly unreliable as arms shift to insurgents. The piece also includes disjointed anecdotes from the Boston Transcript about manners and humor.
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Berlin
Gopen-sluggen
Dresden
von Riche Zeitung
Neustadt
Merna
Friedrich ‘Augustus
Suma
Jager and Grenadier
Prohibition Enforcement Question Hits Congress
Washington April 14 Intern al Revenue Commissioner Roper faced hundreds of inquiries and protests after announcing the revenue bureau lacks authority and agents to enforce prohibition after July 1 Treasury officials say no postponement of prohibition until the 1920 constitutional amendment. Officials expect the rescinding war time prohibition net to become an issue in the coming special session. Several members of Congress pressed the bureau for details while Roper declined further comment.
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Washington, D. C
Internal Revenue
Roper
Internal Revenue Bureau
Revenue Bureau
Ropar
Treasury
Department
Wilson
Congress
Too Wet to Start the Ocean Flight
In St Johns Nova Scotia April 14 Harry C Hawker and Lieutenant Commander Grieve the Sopwith biplane team delayed the transatlantic leg due to wet ground dense fog and airdrome conditions. Captain Raynham and Maine partisans eye a potential test flight tonight or tomorrow for the Daily Mail prize while Hawker faces a two day delay.
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St. Johns
Harry C. Hawker
Grieve
Sopwith
Raynham
Maine
Daily Mail
Hawker
Desperate survivors in Greece flee to Red Cross
Washington reports describe women carrying dead babies and emaciated children as survivors arrive in Athens. The Red Cross notes lack of food and brutal treatment, with scenes of skeletal youths and mothers arriving at refugee stations amid decimation of Mandinian Greek populations.
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Washington, D. C
Trey Maconi
American Red Cross
Athens
Armerican Beil
Maendonia
Georgia's Dry Law Bars Possession of Liquors
Georgia high court rules that possession of liquor is prohibited even if acquired before the dry law. Andrew Barbour convicted for having more than the permitted gallon of wine, as the state maintains ownership or property rights cannot override prohibition.
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Georgia
Atpreme
Andrew TD Barbour
Barbour
State Supreme Court
Riot at Pur Trading Company Factory Injures Several
In Brooklyn New York on April 14 several hundred workers and strike pickets clashed at the Pur Trading company factory. A number of persons were injured and windows were broken before police dispersed the rioters. The strikers had quit work last week over wage and hour demands.
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Pur Trading Company
Brooklyn
New York
Merchant Marine Needs Men For Key Positions
Washington April 14 the shipping board announced a call for first mates and first assistant engineers to join the merchant marine service. Applications are urged to be sent to the board's office bureaus located at all port cities. A joke telegram about an ice plow and a misread message highlights comedic miscommunication in a separate anecdote from Tanbury News.
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Washington, D
Mer ‘Chant Marine Service
Shipping Board
Howe Ana
Che
Evemy
Yirl
Pace Merchant
Ested
Tanbury News
Victory Liberty loan quotas and terms outlined
Washington reports three fourths quotas for the Victory Liberty loan with a 4% interest rate and four year maturity. Secretary Cass announced terms including tax exemptions and potential convertibility to higher rate notes. Campaigns begin with official opening April 21 and run to May 10, with district quotas set for New York Boston Philadelphia and others.
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Washington, D.C
Tory
Treasury
Gnome
Federal Reserve Dinstriote
Iiue
J Amant
Cass
Siow
Sentary Glue
Liberty Bonnly
Ma Foreal Arcoyrance
New York
Boston
Philadelphia
Woolworth Will Stayed By Deaths Hand
New York April 1 Death stayed the will of Frank W Woolworth founder of the Woolworth stores as he prepared to execute a new document granting large legacies to employees friends and relatives Mrs Jennie Woolworth would inherit the bulk of the estate with a committee to protect her interests The value has been estimated between 50 000 000 and 260 000 000.
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New York
Frank W. Woolworth
Woolworth Stores
Bert Tar
Eae
Gille
Charles J. P McCann
Lavtawinf
Jennie Woolworth
Woolworth le Andor Meillenl Earr
Messina
Farewell to American Troops and Noted Hearst Matriarch
Admiral Morean reports to Brest authorities as American division receives praise from Premier Clemenceau. General Read accepts Legion of Honor through the vice admiral while several officers are named chevalier. Mrs. Pacebe Hearst dies in California at 75, mother of publisher William Randolph Hearst, mourned nationwide for philanthropy.
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Sutuy
Morean
Brest
Nevinwell
Clemencewu
Uriganlier
George W. Read
Cniwat
Legion of Honey
City loses a horse in drowned wagon accident
A heavy wagon toppled from a Brooklyn street embankment into the river on Saturday afternoon after the ground sank under the wheels. The horse, Old Tom, sustained a broken leg and was later shot by Officer David Henderson. The driver escaped injury as the wagon sank with the horse to the river bed nearly six feet below. Civil workers removed the carcass and broken shaft the next day.
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Bown An
Brooklyn
David Henderson
Tom
North Barre
Streess
J.C. DeBrume
Rveral
Explosion Wrecks Italian Bake Shop in Waterbury
An early morning explosion at Di Blasi Brothers bakery at 14 Griggs Street in Waterbury injured Vittore Justi who was buried under debris and required stitches. Camille Di Blasi suffered brick injuries. The brothers, Italian bakers, allegedly faced rival retaliation after refusing to join a bread price cartel.
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Waterbury
Conn
di Blasi Brothers
Griggs Stroat
Vittore Justi
Camille di Blasi
di Blasi
Williamstown native George H L Flint dies aged 71
George HL Flint of Wasetods aged 71, born September 4 1857 in Williamston, died after a week of illness. He lived in Williamstown and Washington, ran a gristmill and sawmill, and was highly regarded. Survived by widow Sarah M Flint and multiple sons and daughters including Elmer B Comstock, Delmeri Carpenter, and Nathan W Flint. brother Fred A Flint and sister Tia J Flint. Funeral Tuesday at 2 pm from the house with Rev Pant Weller officiating.
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George HL. Flint
Wasetods
Harden
Flint
Williamston
Lucius
Sarah
K Ing) Flint
Williamstown
Washington
Sarah M. Flint
Ste
Elmer B. Comstock
North Hatley
P.Q
Delmeri
Carpenter
Lay Cus E. Flint
Watre
Charles H. Flint
Jamaica
Viains
Mars
George F
Nathen W
Glarence M
S. Winslow
Fred A. Flint
Tia J. Flint
Los Angeles
Cal
Hey
Pant Weller
Bigamy case resumes in Washington county court
The Washington county court, in recess for 10 days, resumes at 2 pm. Ellis Sibley, reportedly arrested in Maine, is expected to be brought in on a bigamy charge. He allegedly has a living wife near Bangor, Maine, and was married to Doris Knapp before service in the army. State Attorney E St Davis filed the information. the man was arrested in Maine on a cuplae. The first jury trial is Fred Green vs Northfield Trust Company.
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Washington County Court
Ellis Sibley
Maine
Alwart
Bangor
Doris Knapp
E. St. Davis
Fred Green
Northfield Trust Company
Shadowed Mrs Evans and Strike Leader Arrested in Mass Demonstration
Lawrence April 4. Samuel Bramball chairman of the strike committee was arrested during a mill district demonstration for interfering with a police driver. State arbitration board members planned to begin an investigation as thousands of pickets displayed M8-14 cards demanding 54 hours for 48 work. Mrs Glendower Evans of Brookline, a stockholder, wore the card amid police attention as Bramball questioned her rights. The strike enters its 11th week with most mines operating at reduced force.
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Lawrence
Mars
Samuel Bramball
State Board of Concuustion and Arbitration
Glendower Evans
Brookline
Arlington Sills
Bramball
Nile
Strike Called Tomorrow At 7 In Boston Area
Boston daily reports a planned 7 am strike by telephone operators across New England Telephone and Providence Welcome camps. Officials plan to keep government service intact with enlisted men operating lines if needed, while unions organize pickets at railroad terminals. The dispute centers on wage increases and fulfillment of prior claims amid government and company resistance.
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Boston
New England Telephone & Telegraph
Providence
Matt B. Jones
Telephone Company
Cpesield Dre
Mie
Ipostations Department
Foster Weitenheimer
Sigual
Springfield Armory
Watertown Arena
Canp Devens
Coast Defense
John White
Clarence RB. Hoywards
Vermont Welcoming Committee for Vermont Boys
A Vermont delegation led by Governor Percival W. Clement will welcome the 26th division in Boston this week. The committee includes Adjutant General Herbert T. Johnson, Harvey E. Goodell, Judge Lee of St. Johnsbury, Joseph G. Brown, and representatives from 12 towns, with details of trains and ships named. Free travel and lodging arrangements are described for veterans and their families through official offices.
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Winifredian
New Jersey
Parker House
Boston
Johnson
26Th Division
Montpelier
Little Building
Thea
Adjutant General
Died of fracture skull in Shelburne area
Frank Tatler died at Mary Fletcher hospital after a fall downstairs. An autopsy by Dr. B Stone found death due to a fractured skull from the mishap. He leaves a widow and two children, plus two brothers, and had resided in the city for decades while working at Willard quarry and serving on the fire commission board.
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Bomiington
Frank Tatler
Mary Fletcher Hospital
B. Stone
Tale Bound of Healths
Hall
Mr. Rafter
Mrx
Joli Long
Honnier
Thomas
Albany
Martly
Baker
Thin City
Fs. N. Willard Etane
Shelburne
Board of Fire Commissioners
Hiv
Swanton man charged after nine bottles liquor found
In Albany on April 14 George Breyette of Swanton was arrested after a search of his house yielded nine bottles of liquor. Joseph Lashway, present during the search, was also arrested and jailed in Franklin County. Sheriff George P. Catlin and Deputy Sheriff G. Tones conducted the search amid an investigation into intoxication.
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Albany
George Breyette
Wanton
Breyette
Swanton
Magquan
Joseph Lashway
Franklin County
Haven
Breyette House
George P. Catlin
Sehobnebury
Sher!ie G
Swinton
Barre’s fifth and fifth annual TIF raises $190000
Partial OCR reads Barre’s fifth annual TIF district raises about $190,000. Vote tallies show a decisive outcome with four-fifths support. Details are garbled but indicate approval of the loan or financing plan by the community.
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