Japan's Pride Hinted In Racial Equality Debate
Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska responding to arson Makino's remarks says Japan seeks racial equality but objects to international discrimination only when it harms national pride. He argues that global equality exists in the League and that domestic laws on marriage and real estate reflect internal affairs, not international policy. He denies abandoning discrimination rights.
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Washington
Aron Makino
Japanese Peace Commission
Japan
Hitchcock
Nebraska
Senate
Foreign Relations Committee
League
Executive Council
Inman’s Jap Land Bill Thwarted in Senate Rules
The Senate rules committee recommends denying Sen Inman’s proposal to prohibit Japanese land leasing in California, deeming it inadvisable. Inman denounces the move as an attempt to throttle his legislation as a delay is considered to consult President Wilson on whether the measure would embarrass the American delegation at the peace conference.
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Cal
Rules Committee
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Inman
California
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School in a baggage car marks town education milestone
In Grants, Maine, Richard and 18 or more children attend classes in a derailed Maine Central baggage car. The improvised school follows a log camp and a canvas tent, a paragraph in local education history with Abraham Lincoln as a distant compare.
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Grants
Maine Central Combination
Mldred Huntoon
Rangeley
Guy Rowe
Maxcel Grant
Richard Grant
Lemuel Milbury
Lottie Spinney
Barbara Grant
Henry Horton
Althea Milbury
Elizabeth Spinney
Evelyn Rowe
Frank Rowe
Richard
Maine Central
Abraham Lincoln
Bill Advances for New School Quarters in Town Legislature
The Legislature moves a bill to fund better school quarters for future citizens. The measure aims to improve facilities and resources for students in the town.
Malden Man Escapes From State Hospital
Concord N H April 3 William S Coombs of Malden Mass escaped during the night from the State hospital where he had been held for observation of his mental condition He was serving a sentence for breaking and entering and it is suspected he had inside help The escape is the fourth such incident among prisoners under observation in two weeks.
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Concord
N. H
William S. Coombs
Malden
Mass
State Hospital
Coombs
War Department sells old war planes to Curtiss in Buffalo
The War Department announced a contract with Curtiss Airplane and Motor Corp of Buffalo NY for 4608 OX-5 motors 1616 J-4 planes with out motors and 1100 standard planes without motors. The $2 720 009 sale deems the equipment obsolete worn out and only scrap value remains for standard planes. Most motors and planes require rebuilding or overhaul before use again.
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War Department
Curtiss Airplane and Motor Corporation
Buffalo
N. Y
Air Service
Curtiss Company
American Pajamas for Clothing in Balkans
Belgrade reports thousands of destitute men and boys in Serbia Montenegro and Greece now wear American pajamas as outer garments. The Red Cross has shipped over a million suits to the region amid severe clothing shortages. Women use bath robes and coats, while men wear discarded dress suits and old gowns due to lack of proper attire.
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Belgrade
Associated Press
Balkans
American Red Cross
Serbia
Montenegro
Greece
America
New England Fund Aims to Build Permanent American Memorial Hospital in Rheims
Mrs. Benjamin G. Lathrop, founder and president of the American Fund for French Wounded, told a Park Square Theatre audience that the fund will establish a permanent hospital in Rheims with 600 beds and endowed coty. She noted New England subscriptions may fully equip the operating room and emphasized a policy of aid when called for and withdrawal when the French can handle reconstruction.
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Benjamin G. Lathrop
American Fund For
New England
Park Square Theatre
Rheims
Lost Beluga Ship Found Victim of German Raider
The Beluga formerly Mary and Helen sailed May 16 1917 from San Francisco with gasoline for New South Wales and vanished. Crewman James Marvig now at a local immigration station says the vessel did not founder but was sunk by the German raider Wolf in the South Pacific and Indian Oceans during 1917. Built in Bath Maine in 1882 the 598 ton bark Beluga carried a cargo and crew to a watery grave.
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James Marvig
Loca
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South Pacific
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