France Fights German Trade Return and Ford Car Standoff
In postwar talks France pushes to shield its industries from German competition while rebuilding Northern France. A key episode covers Ford cars stored in French ports. France declines a buyout offer to protect home manufacturers, signaling a wait-and-see approach as French industry plans to resume production.
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France
Norhern
Germany
Ford
Ford Company
Fenach
America
Sallies On Job Again With Doughnuts And Chocolate
Salvation Army volunteers distributed over 100000 doughnuts and 3000 gallons of hot chocolate to sailors soldiers and police along Boston streets. Twenty motor trucks carried treats with 20 officers per vehicle under Colonel Adam Gifford and Lt Colonel Joseph Atkinson.
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Salvation Army
Boston Police
Adam Gifford
Cancellation of Steel Ship Contracts Ends War Construction
Washington April 25 The Shipping Board announced the cancellation of wartime contracts for two million tons of steel ships as part of winding down government work nationwide. The total cancellations since the armistice reach four million tons, with no details given on contract counts or yards affected.
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Washington
The
Shipping Board
Hurley
Governors Call Sight Wonderful Parade Praised by New England Governors
The New England governors on the reviewing stand praised the 26th parade as wonderful. Governors Coolidge Clement Bartlett Milliken Holcombe Beeckman lauded the event for its discipline, hospitality, and impact on the Commonwealth and neighboring states.
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New England
Coolidge
Massachusetts
Commonwealth
Boston
Clement
Vermont
Camp Devens
Milliken
Maine
Holcombe
Connecticut
Beeckman
Rhode Island
Fricke Found Not Guilty of Treason
A federal jury in New York after about five hours of deliberation acquitted Albert Paul Fricke of treason charges. The case drew attention to wartime loyalty and anti Huns rhetoric.
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New York
Albert Paul Fricke
Congressmen Arrive at Coblenz for Army Carnival
Chairman Dent and 12 House military affairs members arrived in Coblenz by special train to attend the third army carnival. They toured the bridgehead, visited relatives in occupation divisions, then plan to move on to Cologne Liege Louvain and Brussels before continuing to Nice by special train.
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Dent
House Committee On Military Affairs
Army of Occupation
Cologne
Liege
Louvain
Brussels
Nice
General John J. Lynch of Portland Dead
Gen John J Lynch inspector general with brigadier rank on Gov Plaisted staff in 1881 a Democrat and prominent lawyer died today Born in Lewiston in 1853 he led the First Maine National Guard as colonel from 1888 for six years and earlier captained the Montgomery Guards local militia The Cries of Our Allies Buy Bonds is noted.
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John J. Lynch
Harris M. Plaisted
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Maine National Guard
Montgomery Guards
Lewiston
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