France to Expand Air Force and Reorganize Army
France plans a peace footing overhaul under War Minister Barthou to greatly widen air power while reducing infantry and cavalry. Infantry regiments rise to 189, cavalry to 67, artillery to 10 percent, and new air units expand from four to twenty-six. Colonial troops shift operations but may assist in war, with 40,000 colonial and 10,060 regulars included. Special schools to train officers and reserve classes formed after service.
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Barthou
France
North
Africa
Tero
Artilery
Boundary dispute rises between Honduras and Guatemala
Reports note Honduran armed forces occupy disputed land south and east of the Motagua river. Guatemala holds the land since independence, a tropical wilderness with forests and mountains, now settled along the railroad from Puerto Barrios to Guatemala City and banana plantations. Honduras cites old maps. sensational claims allege Guatemalan sales to Honduran interests.
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Guatemala
Honduras
Motazua
Puerto Barrios
Guatemala City
Matacua
Central America
Kingdom of
Pan Pacific Press Meet Planned at University of Missouri
During Journalism Week at the University of Missouri in Columbia the Pan-Pacific Press Conference was proposed to meet yearly to improve relations among Pacific Rim nations. Dean Walter Williams and American journalists discussed organizing the conference at the World Press Congress in Honolulu next October. The plan envisions annual meetings to discuss national situations and adopt policy to foster better understanding between peoples of the United States Japan and other Pacific countries.
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Columbia
Pacific Ocean
University of Missouri
Walter Williams
School of Journalism
World Press Congress
Honolulu
United States
Japan
Catherine O Leary Obituary Burial in St Marys Church
Catherine O Leary wife of Patrick O Leary of 300 Nichols Street was buried yesterday. Funeral at 5:30 at the late home followed by a solemn mass at St Marys church. Survived by husband and five children John Catherine Henry Edward and David. Interment at Michaels cemetery.
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Catherine O'Leary
Patrick O'Leary
Nichols Street
St. Mary's Church
John
Catherine
Henry
Edward
David
John Hammill
John Denahy
Michael Buckley
Daniel Cronan
Dennis Halloran
Patrick Dumphy
John O'Leary
Oklahoma
New York
New Haven
Waterbury
Michaels Cemetery
Shell-Shocked to Be Taught Carpentry
Knights of Columbus reconstruction committee approves carpentry training for shell shocked soldiers at St Elizabeths Hospital Washington with government Red Cross support. Over five hundred men reserved training as toy makers and the program aims to ease transition to skilled wood work through cabinet making under chief instructor James Kelly. More than 5900 men at St Elizabeths are eligible for free K C training.
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Knights of Columbus Reconstruction Committee
St Elizabeth’s Hospital
Washington, D. C
K. of C
U. S
William J. McGinley
Eare
St. Elizabeth's
James Kelly
Belleau Wood
St.lizabeth’s
Five Times Wed Woman Is Held for Murder of Four Husbands
Twin Falls Idaho June 15 Mrs Lydia Southard accused of murdering four former husbands and her 26 month old daughter and a brother in law arrives from Honolulu and San Francisco in custody for trial in October. She claims a clear conscience and says she has documentary proof of her babies death. Authorities say charges allege murder by poison.
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Twin Falls
Idaho
Lydia Southard
United States Navy
Honolulu
San Francisco
Sherif H. W. Ormsby
Southard
Somthard
Pacific
Saxbush
Southardos
Loraine Marie
Robert C. Dooley
Re. Southard
Too Much Berry Leads Mrs Berry to Police Court
New York June 15 Mrs Mary Berry escaped a full sentence after a witty arraignment at Bridge Plaza Court Magistrate Dale directed a suspended sentence. When asked for her name and address she answered Mary Berry and Forty one Berry street. Asked what she drank she replied Berry wine. The magistrate noted the pun and suspended the sentence.
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Serry
New York
Mary Berry
Dale
Bridge Plaza
Berry Street
Secretary Davis Seen As Fraternal Boss Not A Millionaire
Washington reports Secretary of Labor Davis admitted he is not a millionaire though linked to the Loyal Order of Moose. He said a bank loan myth arose from his role as director general of the Moose, explaining dues fund a home and school for 1,200 orphans in Mooreheart Indiana. Davis, born in Wales in 1873 and brought to the United States in 1881, rose from Pittsburgh mills to the Cabinet.
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Washington
Davis
Pittsburgh
Sf Gabinet
United States
Loyal Order of Mouse
Tts
Mooreheart
Ind
Labor
Jim” Davis
Secretary of
Order of Moose
Tredesar
Wales
Worker in Steel Mills Moves Across Pittsburgh and Sharon
The narrative follows a man who left work to find employment in the steel mills at Sharon Pennsylvania. In 1882 he moved to Pittsburgh to work as a puddler in the steel industry. He later returned to El- and remains a member of the Amalgamated Iron and Steel Workers International Union.
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Sharon
Pittsburgh
el- Clerk
Amalgamated Iron and Steel Workers’ International Union
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