Senate approves texts of peace treaty inquiry
Senate adopts resolutions demanding the full peace treaty text from the state department and orders a foreign relations committee probe into how copies reached private hands in New York. The measures pass with little opposition amid a stormy, brief session and a plan to summon peace delegates for testimony.
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Washington
State Department
Germany
Foreign Relations Committee
New York
Senate
Wilson
Lansing
Paris
White House
Hitchcock
Nebraska
Lodge
Kelloy
Minnesota
Coal Car glut to move as idle stock revived in WV KY
Huntington West Virginia June 5 coal operators in West Virginia and eastern Kentucky plan to put about twenty thousand government built coal cars into service. Two thousand cars from the Huntington plant of American Car and Foundry are on local tracks awaiting deployment. The US railroad administration bought the cars for three thousand dollars each. Some were accepted by Chesapeake and Ohio while others were rejected by various lines. Rising coal demand pushes urgency to utilize the idle assets.
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Huntington
W. Va
West Virginia
Kentucky
American Car and Foundry Company
United States Railroad Administration
Chesapeake and Ohio
President Wilson Congratulates on Suffrage Amendment
President Wilson sends warm congratulations to Carrie Chapman Catt of the National Woman Suffrage Association. He rejoices over Congress adopting the suffrage amendment and asks to convey his regards to the association.
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Washington
Wilson
White House
Carrie Chapman Catt
National Woman Suffrage Association
Suffrage Cause
Congress
Explosion in tunnel kills eighty three at coal mine
Investigations continued in Wilkes Barre and Washington into a deadly tunnel blast at the Delta and Hudson Coal Company tram. Eighty three men died and fifty were injured when a trolley wire touched a powder keg on a nine car electric train.
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Wilkes-Barre
Delaware and Hudson Coal Company
Deficit Reported for U S Rail Administration
Washington reports the railroad administration shows a $58 million deficit in April and $250 million for the first four months of the year. Director General Hines cites reduced business, wage and material cost increases, and only a 25 percent rate rise as factors. No fare increases are planned now, as economy measures continue.
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Washington
Hines
Railroad Administration
New Epoch in Pan American Relations
Washington in an inaugural note the second Pan American commercial conference concludes with Pan American Union Director General Joan Barrett declaring a new epoch in Pan American relations. He says the All American idea now guides policy and Latin America and United States interests are equally considered by leading North and South American authorities. Delegates exceed 750 from the United States and Latin America.
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Washington
Joan Parrett
Pan-American Union
Barrett
United States
North
South America
Latin America
Allied reply to Germany may be issued as four day ultimatum
Paris four days for Germany to accept or reject conditions will frame the proposed reparations as a supplementary agreement. The plan defines reparations procedures, avoids a fixed total sum, and sets category based payments while noting a possible Austrian treaty alignment and a Silesia plebiscite. No change to emperor punishment or colonial disposition expected.
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Paris
Associated Press
Council of Four
Count von Stockdarff-Rantzau
Usey
Council
Germany
Libe
Commission
Upper Silesia
Worldwide Prohibition Move Drives Global League
Washington June temperance workers gathered for the Anti Saloon League annual convention. Delegates adopted the World’s League Against Alcoholism and passed resolutions backing a campaign against liquor and resisting proposals to relax wartime prohibition.
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Washington
Anti-Saloon League of America
Invaders Driven Out of Costa Rica and Refuge Sought
A cablegram to Costa Rican representative Carlos Lara said invading forces were driven from Costa Rican territory and took refuge in Nicaragua. It noted no American Marines had landed in Costa Rica and suggested any landing would only be on a mission of courtesy and friendship.
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Washington
Nicaragua
Carlos Lara
Mr. Lara
United States
Punta Arenas
Port Limon
Soldiers relief bill passes in Senate for disabled veterans
Washington June 6 after brief debate the senate adopted a bill by Senator Kenyon Republican of Iowa providing vocational rehabilitation for about 4009 men disabled in military service despite federal board rulings that they were not entitled because they were not receiving compensation from the war risk insurance bureau.
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Washington
Senate
Kenyon
Iowa
Federal Board For Vocational Education
War List Insurance Bureau
Increases Rate on Tax Theory At Charleston
The special legislative session raised the corporate net income tax rate from one half to three quarters of one percent. The decision by the boards of public works upholds the tax commissioner's interpretation following Turkey Kneely Coal Co. appeal. Peace Terms Sent to Congressmen in Paris. Berlin plans to send photographic copies of the peace terms to every U.S. senator and representative.
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Charleston
W. Va
Jane
Boards of Public Works
Turkey Kneely Coal Company
Paris
Berlin
United States
New Zealand to Help Britain in Packers Fight
London dispatch reports Great Britain will seek New Zealand aid against American packers. NZ officials consider selling meat in Tayne don at a set price and resist price cuts by forming a joint stand if the trust lowers prices.
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Vo Pidit
London
New Zealand
Great Britain
Daily Mail
Christ Church
No 7
Taynedon
Local Lagoa Trouble Spreads Among Union Men
Hundreds attended a meeting at the Colonial Theatre yesterday as Local Lagoa trouble spreads. Union men showed little excitement and did not congregate on streets while discussing the situation.
Execution of Levine Nissen Triggers German Unrest
Lavine Nissen, a Bolshevik leader linked to the Munich soviet regime, was executed outside Munich after a two day trial. The Bavarian cabinet refused clemency, sparking strikes and street clashes in Nuremberg Munich and Leipzig as Germany readies military forces in Berlin and beyond.
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Munish
Bavaria
Associated Press
Lavine Nissen
Munich
Standelenh
Davarian
Tkayaria
Levine Niesen
Levien
Levine
Wook
London
Evine Nissen
Copenhagen
Solders and Workers ‘Council
Greater Berlin
Nuremburg
Leipsig
Berlin
Local railroad strike expands to Portsmouth and Columbus
About 750 machinists and shop workers at Norfolk and Western will walk out at nine tomorrow morning in Columbus and Portsmouth Ohio joining the Pocahontas division walkout. Union leaders anticipate further union action if settlements fail with meetings planned in Bluefield Roanoke and additional shop centers.
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Columbus
Ohio
Associated Press
Norfolk and Western Railroad
Portsmouth
Norfolk and Western Railway
Pocahontas
Binefield
Roanoke
Carmen
West Roanoke
Bluefield
B. D. Landeman
Machinists’ Union
Shoemaker
O'Brien
Boilermakers
J. A. Frank
Seamen's Strike in Melbourne Keeps Ocean Trade Halted
The Melbourne seamen's strike continues to disrupt coastal trade of Australia and many ocean-going steamship lines despite arbitration offers from employers.
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Melbourne
Australia
Wrench Miners End Strike With 8 Hour Day
After a four hour meeting in Paris presided by Minister of Labor M Jaguard, directors of Pas De Calais and Department Du Nord mines reached an agreement. Miners did not attend. The eight hour day, including a half hour rest for underground workers, goes into force June 16 with increased wages.
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Paris
M. Jaguard
Pas de Calais
Department du Nord
Ford Libel Trial Hearings On Border Conditions
Witnesses testifying for the defense describe conditions along the Mexican border to counter accusations in Henry Ford’s libel suit against the Chicago Daily Tribune. The judge allows broad testimony while ruling out certain related deposits.
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Mr.lemens
Janes Mire
Nellie M. Austin
Sebastian
Texan
Rio Grande
Henry Ford
Chicago
V. T. Conrad
Roseve Ft Aamith
J.C. Tuweker
Elinor Medill Patterson
The
Tribune
Count Venern Storff
Washington
Berlin Hopeful On Prospects For Peace Talks Returns
Berlin officials, citing surface indicators, grow optimistic about a path to verbal negotiations with the Entente. Count Von Brockdorff-Rantzau and the peace commission have pressed for a basis to talk as neutral intervention may be used to ease ice breaking. Observers note the German envoy holds a slight strategic advantage in current counter proposals.
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Berlin
Versailles
Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau
Peace Commission
Wilhelmstrasse
Nationwide Telegraphers Strike Threat Looms
Washington reports President J. Konenkamp of the Commercial Telegraphers Union plans a nationwide walkout upon arriving in Chicago. He cites support from Western Union employees in ten southeastern states and notes timing and scope undecided, with officials saying the strike would not cripple communications.
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Washington
J. Konenkamp
Commercial Telegraphers’ Union of America
Chicago
Postal Telegraph Cable Company
Western Union Telegraph and Cable Company
Konenkamp
Western Union Cable Company
Burleson
Postoffice Department
Westernnion
New York
Newcomb Carlton
Congress
Postmaster General
Kellogg
Minnesota
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
N. Kingsbury
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Cummins
Senate Compite Tee
Senate
Esch
House Interstate Commerce Committee
Atlanta
Western Union Telegraph
J. C. Worthen
Western Union Southern Division
Senate backs hearing for Irish delegates at Paris peace talks
The Senate adopted by 60 to 1 a resolution by Senator Bohrah requesting the American peace delegates at Paris to secure a hearing before the peace conference for the Irish delegates led by Edward De Valera, provisional president of the Irish Republic. Senator Williams of Mississippi voted no.
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Senate
Washington
Borah
Paris
Edward de Valera
Williams
Mississippi
No Extra Session Planned in Kentucky by Governor
Kentucky will not call an extra session to act on the federal woman suffrage amendment. Governor Black announced the decision. A delegation of women plans to visit the governor this week to seek reconsideration.
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Kentucky
Frankford
United States Senate
Black
Wilson Dayd Peace Treaty Toes The Mark
Dispatches from Paris outline a middle course for the peace treaty with Germany. Allies expect a decision next week on German counter proposals, with reparations and colonial dispositions debated and viewed as possibly unaffordable by experts. President Wilson reiterates the draft fails to meet his fourteen points. Portuguese cabinet resigns but stays on until after Brazil’s President-elect Pessoa’s visit.
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Associated Press
Germany
Paris
Isette
Upper Silesia
Wilson
Copenhagen
Admoiral Kolchak
Omerk
Russia
Kolchek
Pessoa
Brazil
Conference near Feldkirch Ends As Austrian Peace Delegation Heads to Paris
A conference at Feldkirch between Austrian government representatives and Dr Renner and Herr Schuller of the Austrian peace delegation ends today. The delegation will immediately depart for Paris. A Vienna telegram notes the peace commission of the Austrian national assembly was to meet there, with Foreign Minister Raner to report on Saturday.
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Itasel
Feldkirch
Dr Renner
Herr Schuller
Paris
Vienna
National Assembly
Raner
Renner
Woman High Flier Sets Record at 2900 Meters
A new altitude record for women aviators was set today at issues Mouli Navy when Baroness Roche ascended to 2,900 meters. The flight duration was one hour and forty nine minutes.
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Paris
Aavass
Bulgaria Mobilizes Troops Toward Serbian Frontier
Copenhagen reports that part of the Bulgarian army has mobilized and is marching toward the Serbian frontier. The move, tied to unclear motives amid talks at a peace conference, follows repeated unconfirmed notices of mobilization over three months with no stated reason for possible conflict with Serbia.
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Copenhagen
Balkan
Bulgaria
Serbia
Switzerland
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Nellie Austin
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