Soviet seeks U.S. recognition amid debt payment bid
Washington reports that the Soviet government offered to pay the $232,000,000 debt and meet U.S. conditions for recognition, a proposal routed through Senator Wheeler and Parley Christensen. Secretary Hughes remains firm on requirements: property rights, contract sanctity, free labor, and life and property safety.
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Washington
United States
America
Wheeler
Montana
Parley P. Christensen
Farner-Labor
State Department
Christensen
Hughes
Russia
Lenin
Mr. Trotzky
Reval
Only One Des Moines High School Girl Seeks Marriage
Des Moines high school seniors answered a questionnaire showing 309 girls with varied career aims. Only one student desired marriage and a home, while others wished to become actresses interpreters farmers lawyers doctors writers teachers missionaries private secretaries nurses and musicians.
Chicago agents seize 25211 gallons liquor in May
Prohibition agents in Chicago last month seized 25,211 gallons of alcoholic beverages and made 187 arrests. They confiscated property valued at $16,268, not including booze, with expenses excluding salaries amounting to $50, according to Prohibition Director William D. Moss.
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Chicago
Prohibition
Wiliam D. Moss
Moss
Mutiny Quashed by Soviet Forces at Kazan
Stockholm dispatch reports the Second Cavalry Brigade mutiny at Kazan was crushed after heavy fighting with Moscow forces. Thirty mutineers were executed, per Moscow correspondent.
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Stockholm
Kazan
Moscow
Stockholm Tidinden
President Harding to Review Fleet at Seattle
President Harding will review the United States battle fleet off Seattle Washington as part of his Alaska trip. Orders direct concentration of fleet units for the review on July 27, with the event announced in Seattle.
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Harding
Seattle
Washington
Alaska
Admiral Andrews
United States
President Harding
Foreign Trade Shows Increase in April
Washington June 9 The Commerce department reported American foreign trade in April was 147 million dollars more than April 1922. Exports and imports totaled 304 million dollars, against 217,028,142 dollars in April last year. Copenhagen June 9 Both houses of parliament by a large majority adopted a government motion ratifying the commercial agreement with Russia granting de facto recognition to the Soviet government.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Denmark
Russia
Copenhagen
Peace Talk Usefullness Fades In Ruhr Contention
Brussels June 7 The Franco Belgian conference refuses to consider Germany s last reparations note until passive resistance ends and devises pressure moves Premiers Poincare and Theunis lead talks with cabinet members and generals Theunis submits a plan demanding 9490 gold marks and proposes an international rail consortium and annual 1 900 000 000 gold marks to the reparations commission Indirectly Belgium seeks control over German alcohol sugar tobacco and matches industries by international companies
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Brussels
Germany
Poincare
Theunis
Belgium
Clattas
American Congress Members Visit Moscow Signal Growing Interest
Moscow welcomes Irving T. Bush of New York Representative Carroll L. Beedy of Maine and Representative Ross A. Collins of Mississippi. The expected arrival of Senator Brookhart of Town and other congressmen is seen by the Russian press as proof of rising American interest in Russian affairs.
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Moscow
American Congress
Irving T. Bush
New York
Carroll L. Beedy
Maine
Ross A. Collins
Mississippi
Brookhart
Army Dirigible TC-1 Destroyed in Storm at Wright Field
The United States army service dirigible TC-1, the largest of its kind in the nation, was destroyed by fire after mooring at Wilbur Wright field Dayton Ohio. It had arrived from Scott Field Illinois on a test flight when a severe electrical storm struck. Sergt Harry Barnes and A Q Maranville were injured leaping forty feet to the ground.
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Dayton
United States Army Service
Wilbur Wright Field
Scottfield
Ilinois
Sergt
Harry Barnes
A. Q. Maranville
Chicago Council Cheers Gov Smith for Prohibition Act Repeal
Chicago city council approved a commendation for Gov. Al Smith of New York praising his signing of the prohibition enforcement repeal act and, by the same vote, endorsed repeal of the Illinois Unols search and seizure act.
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Chicago
al Smith
New York
Speed Money by Plane to Save Interest and Reduce Robberies
The federal reserve board is considering transporting money by airplane to cut interest charges and lower robbery risks. The plan was announced in St. Louis on June 7.
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St. Louis
Federal Reserve Board
Sex Equality Gains In Commons Law Passes Third Reading
London June 9 The house of commons approved a divorce law granting wives the right to divorce on the sole ground of misconduct with a sweeping 257 to 26 vote, marking a decisive advances in sex equality in family law.
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London
Commons
Cabinet Resignation Denied by Li Yuan Hung
In Peking Premier Shag Tseng's cabinet resignation, tendered earlier, was rejected by President Li Yuan Hung. Overtures are underway to invite Prender, currently in Montsti, to join or replace the cabinet.
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Peking
Shag-Tseng
Higheen
Li Yuan Hung
Vibe Prander
Montsti
Police raid targets labor unions in Tokyo crackdown
Tokyo reports police seize two top union leaders as raids widen against socialist and communist activities. Authorities say the action aims to curb propaganda and prevent plotting, with university searches at Waseda and student protests over press suppression and faculty resignations.
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Tokyo
Waseda University
Iberty
Kato
Joffe
China
Japan
Moscow
Nikolajevsk
Sakhalin Island
Russia
Plunging trolley car kills girl in second floor flat
In New York on June 8, twelve year old Margaret Mc Laughlin died when a runaway trolley hurtled several blocks, smashing into a five story building at One Hundred and Eighteenth Street. Three or more people were injured as the car toppled into the second floor, where the girl was playing the piano at the moment of impact.
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New York
Margaret McLaughlin
Trisntuin
One Hundred and Eighteenth Street
Pearl Necklace Stolen From Mrs Corey in Transit
Mrs Mabel Gilman Corey’s pearl necklace valued at 200000 disappears while en route from Paris to London. Scotland Yard and continental police hunt for thieves. the 180 pearl string was a 1918 Christmas gift from her husband W J Corey, a steel magnate. Corey expected in Paris June 16.
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Mabel Gilman Corey
London
Scotland Yard
Continental
W. J. Corey
Paris
Corey
Alaska Heat Wave Sets New Territorial Record
Dawson City reports a June heat spell with 91 in shade and 120 in sun marking the hottest day in 23 years since Dominion weather bureau records began, surpassed only by July 10, 1920 when it was one degree warmer.
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Dawson City
Yukon Territory
Dominion Weather Bureau
Millions of Butterflies Flutter Through South Florida Mystery
West Palm Beach Florida residents report a vast flock of white butterflies migrating southward. The swarm, visible for three days, confounds naturalists as they seek an explanation for the extraordinary aerial migration.
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West Palm Beach
Wia
South Florida
St Louis St Paul Boat Trips Resume After Seven Year Gap
St Louis Mo June 7 after a lapse of seven years regular passenger service on the upper Mississippi resumed with the steamer Harry G Drees leaving for St Paul Minn on its first trip Wednesday night
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St. Louis-St. Paul
St. Louis
Upper Mississippi
Harry G. Drees
St. Paul
Minn
Dry Ruling to Stand in Three-Mile Limit
Washington June ways treasury department regulations barring liquor from all ships within the three mile limit will stand as long as the Volstead act remains unchanged. It was officially stated here. Two Illinois Aviators Killed in Seoria Alabama June Clarence Brown twenty two of Laxa TL pilot and Varery Gibson twenty three of Atlanta TIL student flyer were killed when that plane fell 2000 feet while doing stunts.
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Washington
Jund
Treasury Department
Illinois
Seoria
Clarence Brown
Laxa
Varery Gibson
Atlanta
Til
U S Market Report Week Ending June 4 Dairy and Grain Prices
Washington reports weekly market figures with No 1 Timothy hay prices in multiple cities, No 1 alfalfa, bran and middlings values, linseed meal, White hominy feed, and No 2 red and hard winter wheat cash quotes. Chicago and Minneapolis provide livestock prices for hogs cattle veal lambs yearlings and fat cattle, plus fruit and vegetable prices for watermelons strawberries and potatoes in various markets.
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Washington
Cincinnati
Chicago
Minneapolis
St. Louis
Central
Florida
Tom Watson
California
Kentucky
Missouri
Alabama
Louisiana
Busa
Northern
Wisconsin
Spanish Army Defeats Moors in Meilil Sone Clash
Madrid reports a Spanish victory over Moors with more than 300 rebels killed. Spanish losses were 45 dead and 200 wounded. Colonel Valenzuela of the foreign legion was among the dead. The legion, composed of former doughboys from the AEF and veterans of British and Canadian forces, fought bravely in an open assault on a flat plain.
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Madrid
Meilil Sone
Valenzuela
Foreign Legion
Wis
Legion
A. BF
Kansas City Named 1924 Shrine Convention Mecca
The 1924 convention of the Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine will be held in Kansas City June 2 8 and 4 as the result of a unanimous vote at the convention in Washington. Other cities that had extended invitations withdrew before the vote.
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Washington
Kansas City
German Note Handover Proposes Reparations Annuities
Germany presents a reparations note to the Entente and United States proposing annuities totaling 1,200,000,000 gold marks annually unless an International loan becomes available for immediate capital payments.
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Berlin
Germany
Entente
United States
Russian peasants resist grain levy amid crop failures
Russian peasants, facing crop failures harsher than those that preceded the Samara famine, resist grain levy collections for export. The shortages fuel food riots and strikes. Meanwhile, Grants Ford Power Rights in Washington reports Henry Tord secured a license to construct a power plant at the High Dam on the Mississippi between St. Paul and Minneapolis.
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Samara
Ford
Washington
Henry Tord
High Dam
Mississippi River
St. Cau
Minneapolis
Cuno Salary Raised to 715 Dollars a Month
Chancellor Cuno receives a salary increase in Berlin raising his monthly income to 715 dollars as Germany seeks political and economic solutions. The move comes amid ongoing national difficulties and public expectations of leadership.
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Cuno
Berlin
Iowa State News Recap From April to Summer Plans
Iowa banks held deposits steady in April while state jobs and farm projects expanded. Eggs and butter production figures for 1921-22 highlight dairy output. pork and hog weights rise. a safety driving school opens in Des Moines. Road hard-surfacing progresses in 27 counties. Creston summer school enrollments soar. Iowa motor license plates set a new cost. Alumni events at Iowa State College, a Lincoln memorial bridge plan, and other state notes cover agriculture, art prizes, tax warrants, and federal labor talks.
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Ed Dee
Iowa
Des Moines
Pocahontas
Eugene Bogard
Corwith
Polk County Bankers’ Association
State Highway Commission
Creston
State Executive Council
Iowa State College
Ames
International Christian Endeavor
Kendall
Davis
Federal Department of Labor
Moosehart
Mississippi River
Clinton
Fulton
Abraham Lincoln
Council
Wilcox Company
S By.& High Es
Charles C. Corratt
Carlisle
Wentworth Military Academy
Lexington
B. A. Patton
Dows
Wright Company Farm Bureau
Iowa State Fair Management
A. R. Corey
Robinson
Hampton
Nebraska
Missouri
Fort Des Moines
Ang Tatta
Evening algebra session ends for reluctant classmate
A college student recalls inviting a roommate to tell a persistent classmate she would be out. When the classmate arrived for algebra, the student crawled from under the bed, prompting the classmate to leave without further request for help. The incident ended the arrangement.
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Anne
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