World News Roundup Highlights Turbulent Europe
A sweeping World War era digest notes Sofia tensions with Yugoslavia over Bulgaria provocations, Belgrade calls for invasion, French finance talks on stabilizing chaos, and Poland Romania and Yugoslavia debt debates tied to a 800 million franc loan. Also covers shipping board shifts, immigration limits, lynching declines, and disasters from Pekin to Texan kill zones.
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England
Poland
Jago-Slavia
Rumania
Warsaw
Elgrade
Bucharest
France
Bok Prize Peage Plan Selected For Peace Prize
The jury unanimously chose Plan No. 1 469 as the best practicable method for the United States to cooperate with other nations to prevent war. Edward W Bok offered 100000 dollars in the prize. Fifty thousand is awarded immediately with the remainder contingent on the plan's support. Jury included Elihu Root and Edward M House.
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New York
Permanent Court of International Justice
League of Nations
United States
Edward W. Bok
Root
Elihu Root
James G. Harbord
Edward M. House
Ellen Fitz Pendleton
Roscoe Pound
William Allen White
Brand Whitlock
Bok
Booze Diplomats May Go Recall of Diplomats Over Prohibition
The State Department weighs formal requests to recall foreign diplomats who deal with American bootleggers. President Coolidge has authority to act if evidence shows violations of U S prohibitions on liquor, Secretary Hughes announces in a letter to Rep Edwin L Davis and other prohibition leaders in Congress.
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Washington
State Department
Coolidge
Hughes
United States
Edwin L. Davis
Tennessee
William D. Upshaw
Georgia
Louis C. Cramton
Michigan
Congress
Venizelos Ill in Athens Advances to Elections
Former premier and national assembly president Venizelos fell ill at a session and grew worse after returning home. Four physicians including a heart specialist were called. The acting president said the assembly would proceed to elect a permanent president. The Liberals announced Venizelos as candidate while M. Papanastasiou pledged to vote for him for his service to the country.
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Athens
Venizelos
National Assembly
M. Papanastasiou
Coolidges Cruise in a Gale on Potomac
President and Mrs. Coolidge and about twenty friends sailed the Potomac for nearly seven hours despite a fierce northwester and frigid winter weather. The outing showcased the First Couple's resolve amid harsh conditions.
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Washington
Earthquake Shakes Alaska Town
An earthquake struck Fairbanks Alaska at 1 50 in the morning and many believe it to be the strongest ever felt in the vicinity. No damage was reported.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
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Federal District Court
Wilmington
Del
Charles Beecher Warren
Japan
Mexico
Council of the
Lithuania
Baltic
Memel
Ruhr
Rhineland
French Ministry of War
Newark, N. J
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Missouri
Shipping Board
Moffat
Rio Blanco
Colorado
Interior Department
Ant
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Wayne B. Wheeler
Anti-Saloon League
Francis C. Hatley
National Liberal Alliance
Emergency Fleet Corporation
White House
Frank B. Kellogg
Great Britain
Lord Crewe
Mayfair
London
Harry K. Thaw
Stanford White
Philadelphia
New York Sun
Henry H. Curran
Ellis Island
Alabama Farm Bureau Federation
Interstate Commerce Commission
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South
Santa Ana
Los Angeles
Los Angeles Times
Senate
House Immigration Committees
Davis
Western Hemisphere
Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute
Pekin
Marion
Harding
Progreso
Yucatan
Vera Cruz
Fort Bliss
Texas
R. F. Coleman
Huntsville Penitentiary
Marvin Kincannon
A. L. Birch
Robert Journegan
Marlow
Mary Thaw
Howard Irish
Thaw
Lawrence Taff
Dallas
Tex
Selite Carrillo
de la Huerta
Samarcand
Russian Turkestan
Moscow
Seine
Paris
Phaleron
Greece
Sicilian
Mediterranean
Saxony
Germany
American National Lutheran Council
John A. Morehead
BOK Prize
World Court
Venizelos III
Little
Iano
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Polkcy
Freddie
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