Global News in Brief Across Capitals and Seas
A roundup from Delhi to Puttiala reports an attack on the Prince of Wales party with no injuries known. The U S protests Japan narcotics smuggling. Italy delays Genoa conference due to a ministerial crisis. European debt funding prospects improve for the Allies. Young Robert of Habsburg recovers and leaves exile for Madeira. Reports on Kaiser era fugitives and Russo Japanese war talk surface in Moscow. British debt bonds outlook dominates political chatter.
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Prince of Wales Party
Delhi
Puttiala
Punjab
India
London Times
Disaster as Roma airship crashes in Hampton Roads
The Roma airship plunges from about 1000 feet at the Norfolk base. Thirty four men die and eleven survive after a rudder failure, gas ignition, and a collapse of the elevating rudder trigger a fiery, fatal descent. Fire crews work to recover bodies amid blazing hydrogen.
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Roma
Hampton Roads Naval Base
Norfolk
Portsmouth
Naval Base
Earth
Roma disaster list of survivors and dead released
Official Roma disaster list from Norfolk Virginia names survivors and dead. Includes captains majors lieutenants sergeants corporals civilians and air service personnel from McCook Field Dayton and national advisory committee for aeronautics. Several officers are listed as not hurt.
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Norfolk
Air Service
Walter J. Reed
John D. Reardon
Clarence H. Welch
Walter A. McNair
Bureau of Standards
Charles Dworack
McCookfield
Dayton
Harry A. Chapman
Joseph M. Biedenbach
Albert Flores
Byron T. Burt, Jr
Ray Hurley
National Advisory Committee For Aeronautics
Virden T. Peek
W. E. Riley
New York
John G. Thornell
Walter W. Zantsmeier
Dale Mabry
George D. Watts
Allen P. McFarland
Dursschmidt
John R. Hall
Wallace C. Burns
Clifford Be, Smythe
Wallace C. Cummings
Ambrose Y. Clinton
Harold K. Hine
R.D. McNally
Murry
Gorby
Flier Bought From Italy Figures in Airship Tragedies
New York reports the Roma disaster joins a string of 1919 1921 airship wrecks. The ZR-2 exploded near Hull killing 42 including 16 Americans on August 24 1921. Earlier B-34 crossed the Atlantic then wrecked by a gale at Heatherstone England January 1 1921. A hospital carrier airship also crashed near Washington in May 1921 with multiple fatalities.
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New York
Hampton Roads
United States
Hull
England
Long Island
Atlantic
Heatherstone
Army
Washington
Governor refuses to accept judge resignation in Illinois letter
Oklahoma City reports Gov. J. B. A. Robertson declines to accept Superior Court Judge H. R. Christopher's resignation. He cites duty to enforce laws and protect officers, praises the judge as honest, and notes the grand jury dispute over alleged election fraud led to public criticism and a call for resignation.
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Chicago
Robertson
Oklahoma City
J. B. A. Robertson
H. R. Christopher
Citizens’ Mass
Okmulgee
Bank of Commerce
House Members Back Foreign Bonds for Soldiers Bonus
About thirty representatives, many from the west, urge using refunded foreign bonds to finance the soldiers bonus. In a letter to Chairman Fordney they say it would avoid unjust taxes and prevent political upheaval, framed by Rep Frear and signed by 29 others.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Fordney
Ways and Means Committee
Congress
Representative Frear
Wisconsin
Postponed Genoa Conference Set for April 10
Boulogne report: France’s Premier Poincare and Britain’s Prime Minister Lloyd George agreed to push the Genoa economic conference to April 10 from the original March 8 date. After the talks, Lloyd George said no further Franco British pact discussions were needed and the pact would be ready for signature in a few days.
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Boulogne
Genoa
Poincare
France
Lloyd George
Great Britain
Red Cross Spent Nearly 9.9 Million on World War Vets
Washington report says the American Red Cross used 9,872,000 dollars last year to aid World War disabled veterans. National chairman John Barton Payne announced the total. about 7,000,000 went through local chapters and the rest was paid by the national organization.
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Washington
American Red Cross
John Barton Payne
U S Liberal to Veterans in Chicago Statement
Col. Charles R. Forbes, head of the United States Veterans Bureau, said in Chicago that the United States government has been more liberal and provided greater benefits to ex soldiers than any other nation.
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U. S
Chicago
United States
Charles R. Forbes
United States Veterans’ Bureau
Girl Dead Two Burned in Ainsworth Explosion
A 12 year old daughter of A M Robbins died from burns after a kerosene explosion in Ainsworth Nebraska. Two other girls suffered severe burns in the incident.
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Ainsworth
Neb
A. M. Robbins
Call for Chinese Cooks Best in Dovers Street Deli
The New York Sun reports a jolly Chinese shopkeeper in a Dovers Street delicatessen runs his business for locals, speaking pidgin to outsiders. He extols Chinese cooking as scientific and claims their methods predate Western cuisine, citing Emperor Pow Hay Se and Confucius and praising long cooking times and ginger.
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Dovers Street
New York Sun
Asia
West
United States
China
Europe
Pow Hay Se
Confucius
How She Lost Him in a Humorous Courtship Scene
In a lighthearted tale a woman boasts of talents to win Reginald Poorfellow after declaring love. She plays piano and sings to impress, but he gradually withdraws his embrace and slips away, leaving her ring as he exits.
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Reginald
Bunnhouser
Reginald Poorfellow
Nut Factory Plans to Use Trained Squirrels for Cracking
In Life, Rastus boasts of buying stock in a new nut factory that will crack pecans almonds and more with trained squirrels. The humorous dialogue asks if the Reah company is ready, noting the only missing element is training for the rodents.
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William Desmond Taylor
Detroit
Harry M. Fields
Praktikally
Dear Friend and a Child's Farewell Kiss
A narrator recalls finding Annie on the floor beside her bed with her face in a pillow. The girl insists she is not crying but kissing goodbye, saying she may not see another day. The line “cause I don’t know when I ever see another” reflects a child’s premature parting sentiment.
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Annie
Fragmented public speech excerpt on national unity
The text presents a clipped speech fragment where the speaker rejects excess territorial rhetoric. It contrasts pride in the nation with criticism of orators who focus on geographic breadth rather than improving living conditions. The quotes imply a critique of grandiose claims without practical action.
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Russell Herndon
McCurtain County
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Idabel, Ok
Severn Laforet
Home Bank of Canada
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Lurgan
County Armagh
American Relief Administration
Lisbon
London Evening Standard
Robert Burns Thompson
Robert Burns
Winnipeg
Pollockshawk
Scotland
Elizabeth Hyslop Burns
Anna Park
Langley Field
Mabry
Lieut
B. G. Burt
London
the Times
America
Air Ministry
Admiralty
L. M. Harris
Lewis Hilliard
Marion J. Beale
William Ryan
Virgil Hoffman
Schumacher, _ Corp
Joby B. Herron
Holmes
Yarborough
Gus Kingston
Vernon Blakeley
John Thompson
Marion Hill
W. W. Stryker
Robert Hanson
W. G. O’laughlin
F. Harryman
Charles’ Schulenberger
Italy
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