Barnes Chosen Wheat Director to Oversee 1919 Crop
Julius H. Barnes, president of the federal grain corporation, appointed wheat director by President Wilson to direct the entire 1919 wheat crop and administer a $1,000,000,000 government fund. Hoover recommended him. Barnes will also head the corporation as purchasing agent for relief programs.
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Congress
New York
Julius H. Barnes
Federal Grain Corporation
United States
Wilson
The
Food Administration
Barnes
Herbert Hoover
Government Grain Corporation
American Relief Administration
Mr. Barnes
Hoover
Grain Corporation
Revolution in Turkey Declares Soviet Government
Paris telegraphs that a revolutionary committee has formed in Constantinople and a soviet government is proclaimed. The Bolshevist envoy at Odessa notes the Turkish consul in Paris has received official word of the change in government.
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Paris
Turkey
Constantinople
Kiev
Bolshevist
Odessa
Pioneer Utah Merchant Dies in Ogden Pioneer
Fred J. Kiesel former mayor of Ogden and pioneer citizen of Utah died April 22 at his family residence. Born in 1841 he came to Utah in 1862 and in 1866 opened a stock of goods in Ogden that founded the state’s first cooperative store and preceded the Z CM I.
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Utah
Ogden
Fred J. Kiesel
Mr. Kiesel
ZC. M. IL
Strike at Leadville Settled for Four Dollar Wages
Leadville Colorado miners and operators reached a settlement Tuesday night ending a strike by about 1000 workers including metal miners engineers and pump men. The agreement sets a daily wage of four dollars, down fifty cents from prior pay.
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Leadville
Colo
Mont. Police Chief Pontet Burned in Home Tragedy
Robert Pontet long time head of Creat Palla police, aged fifteen years, died in a home fire on Tuesday. Alvin Peter, a roomer in the same house, aided Pontet at a window as smoke overwhelmed him, Pontet fell sixteen feet to the ground and died from injuries.
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Creat Walls
Mont
Robert Pontet
Creat Palla
Alvin Peterson
Mr. Pontet
Ghiss
Aid to Irrigationists creates state revolving fund
A state assembly on Tuesday passed a measure to establish a $100,000 state revolving fund aimed at assisting irrigation interests. The plan proposes investment through interest coupons of district bonds.
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Srerimento
Cid
Senate
Assembly
Hog Prices Set New Record at R210 Per Hundredweight
Hog prices reached a new high at the stock yards on April 24 with a record R210 per hundredweight. The previous peak dates to last September, reflecting stronger demand and market activity.
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Chicago
Stockyards
Mide
Villa Bandits Loot Rail Lines Across Towns
Villa followers rampage in El Paso wrecking railroads and terrorizing civilians as minting men report unrest spreading from northern Mesbew and threatening nearby towns.
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Villa
el Paso Villa
Western soldiers at Fort Russell demobilize after arrival
Fifteen hundred overseas soldiers from the Hor Mah and Bастh Piel artillery regiments arrived at Port D. A. Tie wel on April 18 for demobilization. They are Werterh Pons.
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Fort Russell
Cheyenne
Wyo
Hor, Mah and Basth Piel Artillery Regiienta
Port D. A
Tie
Pershing Highway Plan Outlined for Lincoln Route
A proposed Pershing Highway project spans Lincoln to the metro area, with talks centered on extending a route from New York to Portland. Officials schedule an April 1 meeting to discuss design and funding.
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Pershing Highway
Lincoln
Neb-Dlalta
Ate Hui
New Yow
Wilson Opposes Secret Treaties at Peace Talks
Paris report says President Wilson’s firm stance on Adriatic questions shocks delegates and challenges secret pacts. He argues changes since the pact of London and new states alter Italy’s claims and denies renewed reliance on old secret agreements as a basis for a lasting peace. The U.S. delegation stresses adherence to agreed principles.
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Paris
Wilson
Adriatic
Japan
Great Britain
France
Italy
Germany
Shantung
Fiume
Dalmatian
United States
Call for Veterans Made Utah American Legion Meeting
Salt Lake City issued April 23 by General Richard W. Young calls the first meeting of the Utah branch of the American Legion to be held in Salt Lake on May 1. All veterans of the army navy or marine corps are urged to attend as delegates to the national convention in St Louis May 8 9 and 10 will be chosen from attending service men. Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roosevelt of New York City chairs the temporary committee launching the national organization.
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American League
Utah
Salt Lake City
American Legion
Richard W. Young
Salt Lake
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
United States
National Organization
Wight
St. Louis
Theodore Roosevelt
New York City
Gustave Noske Leads German Defense Against Spartacists
Gustave Noske, the German minister of defense, fights the Spartacans across the German republic as authorities curb the rising revolutionary movement.
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Gustave Noske
German Republic
Mob hanged a man at telegraph pole in Forest City
Forest City report states Arke Sam Melntyre a Black man was mobbed from the county jail and hanged to a telegraph pole. He was charged with murdering a Black farmer on February 4 last.
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Forest City
Arke
Sam Melntyre
Melntyre
Tragic Slaying At Madras Ranch Suspicious Gunfire
Three members of Charlea Sar family were found dead with bullet wounds in their Madras home on a ranch. Suspected foul play involves a man named Bar, and the case points to a possible homicide. Susie Sar, Charlea Sar, and David Ilardwick reportedly died from gunshot injuries.
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Oregon
Madras
Ore
Charlea Sar
Susie
David Ilardwick
Italians threaten to withdraw from peace talks over Fiume demand
Paris report says Italian delegates refuse further conferences unless their terms from the London pact are met, insisting on Fiume. Vittorio Orlando absent as France and Britain waver between Wilson’s internationalization of Fiume and Italy’s sacred pact claim. Economic straits at home raise fears of a Rome collapse and possible regime change.
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Paris
Italy
Vittorio Orlando
White House
London
Fiume
Wilson
America
France
Britain
Orlando
Rome
Air Service Career Call Emphasized by Captain Glidden
Captain Charles J. Glidden of the U S Air Service urged men to apply for training in aviation or balloon operations. He advised sending name and address to the Department Air Service Officer at 104 Broad Street New York for an important nationwide program after service with the army flying and balloon schools in Georgia and Nebraska.
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Charles J. Glidden
U. S. Air Service
Military Aeronautics
Washington
Air Service
Department Air Service
Broad Street
New York
N. Y
United States Army Flying School
Southfield
Americus
Georgia
United States Army Balloon School
Fort Omaha
Nebraska
Sioux City Move Aims to Recall Mayor Wallace Short
One hundred residents of Sioux City Iowa met to demand the immediate recall of Mayor Wallace M Short over alleged friendliness toward the I W W The group organized to mobilize the required legal steps to trigger recall proceedings
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Sioux City
Iowa
Wallace M. Short
Czernin Freed on Parole After Arrest Near Swiss Frontier
Count Czernin former Austro Hungarian foreign minister was arrested near Buchs on grounds of lacking a passport. He has been released on parole in Geneva following the incident.
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Geneva
Czernin
Beleskirch
Buchs
Piirvale
Canadian Troops Sail Home From Siberia on April 21
About 1100 Canadian troops sailed from here for home on April 21 aboard the steamer Mont Eagle. An American military band played at the dock as the Monteagle departed.
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Siberia
Windivestok
Here
Rock Pile for Former Kaiser Riles Detroit Bishop
The passage notes a plan to repurpose the former Kaiser into a permanent occupation site. Bishop Theodore Henderson of Detroit endorses the approach, with emphasis on transforming large structures into smaller units.
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Boston
William Hohensollerns
Germany
Theodore 8. Henderson
Detroit
Experts Explain Hung Oage France Mines Restored Years
Washington reports describe German devastation in Northern France as systematic and diabolical. A preliminary April 21 bureau of mines study estimates five years to rehabilitate coal, iron and steel and twelve to fifteen years to restore mines and mills to normal output.
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Washington
France
Frank H. Probert
Bureau of Mines
Europe
Probert
Germany
Pas de Calais
Mexican Moonshine Ring Captured Near Douglas
In the Moctezuma district of Sonora, about eighty miles south of Douglas Arizona, fourteen alleged proprietors of illicit wine or mescal distilleries were captured in a roundup.
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Douglas, Ariz
Moctezuma
Sonora
Here
Illeit
James W Good to Chair key House Appropriations Panel
Representative James W. Good of Iowa is named to lead the important House committees on appropriations in the upcoming congress. His appointment positions him to steer federal spending and funding priorities.
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James W. Good
Iowa
House
Draft Dodger Caught Near Crescent City
Louie Jackson a 23 year old resident of Bayaside near Eureka was captured by Wise after being traced for nineteen months through northern California for alleged draft evasion. He was taken into custody at a lumber mill in Crescent City.
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Eureka
Cale
California
Louie Jackson
Bayaside
Here
Wise
Crescent City
Convention plan shift for National Guard gathering
Plan change announced by Seattle adjutant general Harvey J. Mows, president of the National Guard Association of the United States, indicates the May convention will likely be held in St. Louis instead of Chicago.
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Seattle
Adjt
Harvey J. Mows
The
National Guard Association of the United States
St .Louis
Chicago
Wilson Appeals to Loyal Americans for Victory Liberty Loan
President Wilson asked the nation to lend full support to the $4.5 billion Victory Liberty loan, urging Americans to redeem the pledge of blood with treasure as subscriptions began pouring in ahead of the campaign opening. He cited sixty thousand dead in France and framed the loan as essential to completing wartime commitments and securing a freer world.
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Washington
America
Wilson
France
Treasury
Anarchists Seize Vienna as Bolshevik Tone Spreads
Soldiers' council takes control of Vienna with quiet streets and beginning widespread communization of unresisting property. Government name may stay, but Bolshevik aims prevail. Volkswehr takes policing. Parliament building occupied after 5000 troops available to aid the move, police dispersed.
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Vienna
Soldiers’ Council
Budapest
Volkswehr
Uprising in Bavaria Reported by German Papers
The Vossische Zeitung says Bavarian communists seized Bamberg central station and the former royal barracks. A Munich dispatch to the Tageblatt reports Friday fighting near Freising with significant losses on both sides as government troops clash with communists.
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Berlin
Bamberg
Hoffman
Vossische Zeitung
Freising
Munich
Tageblatt
Americans Marry British Wives in War Years
Colonel J Obed Smith, European commissioner for Canaan emigration, notes Americans have married British women at a great rate but Canadians lead, with 200 marriages weekly and about twenty thousand already wed to Canadian soldiers, in contrast to American marriages to English girls.
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London
J Obed Smith
Canaan
Five Bolshevist Attack Sparks Parliament Disturbance
In Vienna a crowd of Bolshevik sympathisers tried to storm the Austrian parliament. Five five men were killed and forty wounded as demonstrators and bystanders sustained injuries during the clashes.
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Copenhagen
Vienna
Change of Government at Sebastopol
London Sebastopol has been evacuated by the Crimean government and is moving toward Constantinople. The Sebastopol government now rests with the revolutionary committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sebastopol
London
Constantinople
Revolutionary Committee
Airship Crash Near Saint Didier Leaves Two Dead
An airship en route from Strashburg to Parlin fell near Bt. Didier on Sunday. Two crewmen were burned to death and a third suffered serious injuries. The airship itself was destroyed in the crash.
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Falla
Por
Strashburg
Parlin
Didier
Mexico Rejects Monroe Doctrine Claim in Foreign Policy
Mexican President condemns the Monroe Doctrine as an attack on sovereignty. Reports say Alberto J. Pani is recalled from Paris to await orders in Spain, with Mexico denying recognition of the doctrine and asserting independence. Possible recall of General Eduardo Haya as minister to Italy is noted but not confirmed.
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Mexico City
Paris
Alberto J. Pani
France
Spain
Salvador Diego Fernandez
Department of Foreign Relations
Pani
Senor Pani
Carranza
Legation Corps
Friends of
Mexico
Mexican Department of Foreign Relations
Eduardo Haya
Italy
Postmaster General Burleson Warned of Propaganda Attack
Charles Johnson Post, director of the publishers' advisory board, stated on Thursday that the charge against Postmaster General Burleson as the victim of organized propaganda misreads the issue. He argued that the defense is needed by the post office as demoralization within the service harms business and American homes.
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Post
Burleson
New York
Charles Johnson Post
Publishers’ Advisory Board
May Delay President's Return Amid Paris Peace Talks
Confidential Paris dispatches report Italy's demands and Wilson's firm stance against recognizing secret treaties, complicating the peace conference and likely delaying the president's return to the United States.
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Washington
Paris
Italy
Wilson
United States
Villa changes stance after Parral capture
Francisco Villa fights into Parral in the mining camp southeast of Chihuahua City and declares protection for all foreign properties and forty Americans in the area. He orders the execution of Jose de la Luz Herrera the former mayor of Parral and his two sons.
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Villa
Juarez
Mexico
Francisco Villa
Parral
Chihuahua City
Jose de la Luz Herrera
Prohibition Enforcement Proposed by Government
The government proposes a literal enforcement of the war time prohibition act banning production and sale of all beers and wines whether or not they are intoxicants as announced by the Department of Justice through a federal court representative on April 24.
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New York
Department of Justice
Hoover Not In Berlin Amid Paris Dispatch Error
Herbert C. Louver head of the relief organization expressed surprise and annoyance at a dispatch reporting his presence in Berlin. He had not been away from Paris for weeks.
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Hoover
Berlin
Paris
Herbert C. Louver
Alded Relief Organization
Subscriptions Rise for Victory Liberty Loan
Washington reports April 24 subscriptions add 50 million dollars to the Victory Liberty loan drive, bringing total pledges to about 100 million dollars.
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Washington
Victory
Liberty
National Loan
Palmer declines opinion on cotton growers price action
Washington attorney general Palmer has refused to state whether Southern cotton growers can withhold harvest to support higher prices this year, leaving the legality of the action unsettled.
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Washington
Palmer
Praises Wilson by League on Adriatic note
The League of Free Nations association cabled President Wilson praising his Paris statement on Italian demands in the Adriatic and the diplomatic relief it outlined.
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Wilson
New York
League of Free Nations Association
Adriatic
Influenza Ravages Congo Reported By Alapatchey
An influenza epidemic in the Belgian Congo is reported by Alapatchey, causing widespread illness among native populations. The brief dispatch notes rapid spread and concerns over public health conditions in the region.
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Congo
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