United States Rejects Yap Mandate as Invalid
Secretary Hughes informs Japan Great Britain France and Italy that the United States retains full rights in former German possessions. He notes Versailles does not grant Japan a mandate over Yap and cites Wilsons position that Yap should be internationalized for cable use. The notes emphasize US insistence on its equal rights and non-binding status of any council or league decisions without US agreement.
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Germany
Japan
Great Britain
France
Italy
Hughes
State Department
Supreme Council of Paris
Yap
Pacific Ocean
United States
London Foreign Office
Tokio
Council of the
League of Nations
Colby
Supreme Council
Paris
Wilson
Pacific
Mr. Wilson
Mr. Hughes
United
Dispute Over Union Officials Settled by Arbitration
Detroit, April 6. Arbitration by Judge Patrick O'Brien in disputes within the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes and railway shop laborers restores Alex M. Everett and John Hall to membership on the executive board. The agreement, signed by both sides, also assigns future arbitration to Judge O'Brien. Leo I. Kennedy’s removal dispute with Edward F. Grable is settled. Kennedy to remain in office under the terms being drafted.
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Detroit
Mich
Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way
Patrick O'Brien
Houghton
Alex M. Everett
Sebastopol
Calif
John Hall
Rock Island
Lll
Edward F. Grable
O’brien
Leo I. Kennedy
Pennsylvania
American Smelting and Refining picks Guggenheim slate
The organizational slate of directors representing Guggenheim interests was elected at the annual meeting of the American Smelting and Refining Company in Jersey City on April 6.
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Jersey City
Guggenheim
American Smelting and Refining Company
Central bureau to unify government relief for ex soldiers
The Dawes commission calls for one leading bureau to handle veteran rehabilitation, replacing three existing agencies. It recommends consolidation, central field offices, and new hospitals, with support pledged by the American Legion and Red Cross.
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Washington
Harding
Special Commission
Charles G. Dawes
Chicago
Veterans ‘Rehabilitation, Administration
Commission
Public Health Service
Bureau of War Risk
Board of Vocational Education
Congress
Buraus
Galbraith
American Legion
Red Cross
Mr. Dawes
Road law debate spurs unemployment protest in Charleston
West Virginia Senate recessed for addresses by former presiding officers Gustavus Northcott Wells Goodykoontz and Dr Charles A Sinsel. A southern county road engineer led unemployed men to Kanawha County Courthouse bearing banners urging passage of a road law to create jobs. The body passed five bills including a controversial check law amid partisan divisions and debates over lynching penalties and school bond measures.
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W. Va
State Senate
Gustavus A. Northcott
Huntington
Wells Goodykoontz
Williamson
Charles A. Sinsel
Grafton
Gohen C. Arnold
Senate of
West Virginia
Goodykoontz
National Congress
Northcott
Sinsel
Kanawha County Court House
Senate
Fleck
Bowers
Burr
Coulter
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Harmer
Henshaw
McClaren
Morton
Porter
Sanders
Shackleford
York
Arnold
Rosedale
Clarksburg
Clarksboro
House of Delescales
Flynn
Preston County
House of Delegates
Committee On Taxation and Finance
House
McClintic
Capehart
McDowell County
Birch
Braxton County
Center
Gilmer County
Chapman
Ceredo
Westmoreland
Kellogg
Kenova
Mine guard bill advances after Senate rejection
Senate rejection noted but mine guard measure moves on the House calendar. Judiciary committee reports it with a recommendation to pass. Sponsor Senator Hager says the bill would end the mine guard system by prohibiting officers from acting as guards or police for any person or organization.
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Senate
House
Judiciary Committee
Hager
Wreck of Royal Palm limited kills two more
Two killed and thirty injured in a derailment of the Royal Palm limited near New River Tennessee. The train toppled three coaches and three sleepers derailed. initial reports cite buckling of rails as the cause. A special train carried the dead and injured to Somerset Kentucky.
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Southern Railway
New River
Tenn
Somerset
F. BE. Cook
Orion
Mich
EK. J. Bussey
Norh
Jacksonville
Fla
Chicago
Indianapolis
Toledo
Detroit
Washington
The
Wathen
Southern Eager
Here
London strike talks hinge on pumping restart demand
London reports a day of progress toward coal wage talks dissolves into new friction as the government conditions negotiations on resumption of pumping at mines. Lloyd George and miners leaders weigh whether pump withdrawal blocks talks while a Downing Street meeting is arranged. Officials hope preliminary talks may unlock the board of trade session.
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Associated Press
London
Board of Trade
Triple Alliance
House of Commons
Miners’ Federation
Lloyd George
Frank Hodges
Downing Street
Hodges
Fear and murder on a Georgia peonage farm trial
Clyde Manning testifies that fear for his life drove him to help kill eleven enslaved workers on John J Williams's Jasper county plantation. Manning details drownings and beatings as federal probes of peonage unfold, naming Williams, three of his sons and other farmhands.
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Covington
Clyde Manning
Jasper County
John 8
Williams
Newton County
Manning
Williams Farm
Jouiny
Lindsey Peterson
Peterson
John B Hutcherson
Green F. Johnson
Hyland
Marvin
Leroy Williams
Dorsey
Gua Williams
Clyde Freeman
Charlie
Hisholm
Willie Preston
Atlanta
Macon
Pree
Price
Memorial services for 1222 WWI dead returned from France
In Hoboken the American Legion held memorial services for 1222 soldiers brought from France aboard the Cambrai. Nearly half were from Tennessee North Carolina and South Carolina with the Thirtieth division. others from the Twenty-seventh New York division. Major General John F. O'Ryan urged sane leadership to oppose false guides on the road to disaster.
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America
France
Hoboken
Cambrai
Tennessee
North Carolina
South Carolina
American Legion
115Th Infantry
John F. O'Ryan
Cary will leaves $100000 to charity in $350000 estate
Norwalk Connecticut April 6 the will of Annie Louise Cary former noted prima donna was admitted to probate and includes bequests of more than $100000 to charitable institutions. The total estate is estimated at $350000. Miss Cary known as Mrs. Charles M. Raymond died at her home here last Sunday at the age of seventy eight.
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Norwalk
Conn
Annie Louise Cary
Misa Cary
Charles M. Raymond
Coal Rates From Head of Great Lakes Declared Unreasonable
The Interstate Commerce Commission ruled coal rates from the head of the Great Lakes to Minnesota North Dakota and South Dakota unreasonable and prejudicial. New rates were set to take effect July 6 with a 35 percent increase tied to the last freight rate rise. The decision aimed to equalize interstate rates with state routes from Duluth and allow adjustments for indirect routes and intermediate points.
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Great Lakes
Minnesota
North Dakota
South Dakota
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
Supreme Court
Duluth
Lakes
Missouri River
Alleged Bank Robbery Murder Suspect Recaptured
After a seven month search John Kelly alias James Whalen, linked to the First National Bank of Sandy Spring robbery and the murder of Francis M. Hallowell, who with three inmates escaped a city jail on September 5, was captured in Toledo, Ohio, per Baltimore authorities.
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Baltimore
John Kelly
James Whalen
First National Bank
Sandy Spring
Francis M. Hallowell
Toledo
Ohio
Non Jewish Zionist League forms in India
A Calcutta dispatch reports Musleums and Christians in India form a non-Jewish Zionist league to support Zionist aims. Branches will be founded across India with headquarters in Calcutta and aid planned for rebuilding Palestine.
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Non-Jewish Zionist League
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
London
India
Zionist League
Calcutta
Palestina
Bishop Collins Denny to Visit Bluefield for District Meeting
Bishop Collins Denny of Roanoke Va and Holston Conference will arrive Bluefield today for lunch with local clergy. Afternoon talks focus on Bluefield district matters and push to raise 33 108 000 for Methodist Episcopal Church South education efforts with meetings in Bramwell and Bluefield tomorrow.
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Rlmond
Holston
Bluefield
M. Pice
Russell Street
Bluefi
Pocahontas
Bluefie
Glenalum
Denny Reva
M. P. Carico
T. S. Hamil
B. T. Sells
Bwell
Bramwell
Finane
Browell
Ernest Henson
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Henry Stuart
Hassinger
Tennessee
Virginia
Stone
M. K
J. B. Randall
F. W. Udy
I. P. Martin
J. A. Stone
H. A. Carlton
J.A. Stone
Christian Education Movement
Senator Straus Endorses Einstein Weizmann Welcome
The New York Senate unanimously approved a resolution by Senator Nathan Straus Jr to extend the hand clasp of fellowship to Dr. Albert Einstein and Dr. Chaim Weizmann, expressing a heartfelt welcome to the two scientists. The measure was sent to the Assembly for concurrence.
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Albany
N. Y
Senate Today
Nathan Straus
New York
Albert Einstein
Chaim Weitzemann
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