World News Roundup From Capitals Across the Globe
A brisk weekly scan notes Russian troop concentrations along the Romanian frontier and along the Dniester line, German Socialists pushing a Dawes reparations referendum, labor strife feared in Germany, Turkish-Syrian clashes with French casualties, and Balkan war fever with troop moves. It also cites Coolidge, MacDonald letters, and wider unrest from Japan to Spain and beyond.
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Balkans
Bessarabian
Europe
Dniester River
Lost aviators safe in Alaska after plane wreck
Maj. Frederick L. Martin and Sergt. Alva L. Harvey survived a mountain crash in fog near Chignik Alaska. They reached a trapper’s cabin at Port Moller Bay on May 7 and walked to the beach before rescue, crediting concentrated food and nerve for their survival.
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Cordova
Alaska
Maj
Frederick L. Martin
Sergt
Alva L. Harvey
Port Moller
Chignik
Alaska Peninsula
Port Moll Bay
Maj. Martin
Major Martin
St. Paul Island
Port Moller Bay
Stay at Home Vote Trends Across States
Washington analyst Simon Michelet examines 1920 stay at home rates. In Kansas seventy two of every one hundred eligible voters did not vote, while Missouri saw forty eight abstentions per hundred eligible. Michelet, longtime secretary to Senator Knute Nelson, highlights widespread voter neglect in the largest presidential turnout on record.
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Washington
Kansas
Missouri
Simon Michelet
Michelet
Knute Nelson
Minnesota
Judiciary Committee
Senate
Papers Face a Price Hike Across Parcel Post Rates
Washington lawmakers debate a 65 million dollar postal salary bill raising parcel post and second class mail rates. If approved newspapers face higher publication costs, likely passing prices to readers as Congress considers wage increases and House action looms amid Senate hopes for quick passage.
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Washington
Congress
Congressional
House
Senate
Political Upset in Japan as Government Faces Defeat
Early returns show decisive government defeat in Japan amid elections. Premier Kiyoura reportedly pledged to resign if his administration is beaten, signaling a potential political upheaval and leadership change.
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Japan
Tokio
Kiyoura
Poison in Candy Case Observed in Oklahoma City
Miss Mary Ann Hays deputy clerk in the internal revenue office received candy found to contain poison enough to kill a dozen people Lee Gill assistant county attorney stated.
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Oklahoma
Oklahoma City
Mary Ann Hays
Internal Revenue Office
Lee Gill
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Dneister River
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Hubert Work
Secretary of the Interior
Work
Texas
George E. B. Peddy
Mayfield
White House
Coolidge
Republican Party
Nicholas Murray Butler
Columbia University
Methodist Episcopal Church
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Methodist Episcopal General Conference
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Mass
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Railroad Labor Board
Wilbur
National Security League
Nelson
Monroe
President Monroe
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Arlington
Southern Methodist College of Bishops
Nashville
General Conference
New York Central Railroad
Amsterdam
N. Y
J. Q. McLarty
Buffalo, Tex
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Coffeyville
Kas
Adair School
Glen Oak
Okla
Keefover
Clarence A. Knight
Caribidd
Aguilar
Carranza
San Antonio
Tex
United States
Mexico
Long's Canyon
Light
Douglas
Aliz
Hugh Calkins
Tucson
Camp Jones
Townsend
Forest Service
Creekola
Strike Axe
Pawhuska
Wheat Belt
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Farm Labor Bureau
Kansas City
London
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Matin
Hamburg
Berlin
Dransfeld
Coettingen
Germany
Corriere Italia
Nationalist
Reichstag
People’s Party
Reuter
Seville
Spain
Morocco
America
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Crignik
Harbor
Unalaska Island
North Pacific Ocean Shore Line
Sileat Nigat
Arrar
Western Newspaper Union
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Wvgu Ac
Bary
Ting
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