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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1920
Page
1
A Cheyenne business meeting at the Chamber of Commerce advanced plans for a three story, sunlit basement apartment house worth 200000. The project aims to open 34 units with eight percent net return and a preferential lease list for investors.
Report says France could surrender Miquelon off Newfoundland and Guadeloupe, Martinique with Mount Pelee, French Guiana, and possibly Madagascar, French Somaliland, and Indo China to Britain or others. The colonies have been unprofitable and add to France’s burden, limiting development efforts.
In New York on February 12 Herbert Hoover argues private ownership better preserves competition. He criticizes government operation of railroads and shipping as socialism born of war and warns such schemes invite inefficiency and political interference.
New York, Feb 17 General Salvador Alvarado founder and publisher of El Heraldo de Mexico and Heraldo Semanario says Mexico will end disorder in 1921 when the presidential election in July is respected. He arrives in New York seeking peace measures and printing machinery for his papers.
In Washington on February 17 observers speculate on when a revolt against Representative Frank W. Mondell of Wyoming, leader of the Republican faction in the House, will finally occur. The discussion centers on how much longer the GOP will tolerate his control.
Henry Morgenthau Jr former ambassador warns that without a new world order and European program the United States will face another European war within ten years. He spoke to Columbia University students asserting America failed to secure Constantinople mandate and must share responsibility for stabilizing Europe and Asia.
Luding C. A. K. Martens, the Russian Soviet representative in the United States, began a cross examination before the senate foreign relations subcommittee. The session sought to probe his purpose in coming to the United States and the stance of his government toward the United States.
Annapolis Md Feb 17 The Maryland general assembly refused to ratify the federal woman suffrage amendment with the senate voting 18 to 9 against and the house 64 to 36 against ratification A suffrage delegation led by Mrs Donald Hooker from Baltimore attended the session Five more states are needed to ratify the amendment
Washington report says public utilities reps told the coal strike commission the public bore the cost of a 14 percent wage hike for coal miners. M H Aylesworth of the National Electric Light Association testified that the public was led to believe the increase could not be passed to consumers, but utilities added the rise to rates.
As Soviet food export begins Lenine names Leon Trotzky director and high commissioner of food transportation. Trotzky has been minister of war. General Polanoff will fill that post. General Ivanoff named to command Red forces in Turkestan.
Washington report describes deepening confusion in negotiations over the peace treaty. Senator Hitchcock, Democratic leader, warns that efforts to win Republican support for modifying Article 10 stalled, suggesting the talks may repeat prior stalemate.
Washington reports that President Wilson warned the allied supreme council the United States might withdraw the Versailles treaty from Senate consideration if the Adriatic settlement excludes American participation. Officials said the move could also force reconsideration of the Anglo French American pact as inseparable from Versailles. A later White House note called a Paris Beho report false as officials clarified the matter.
Cheyenne public urged to assist today in a city census by volunteer enumerators. Chamber of Commerce backs an unofficial count to identify residents missed by official tally and ensure accurate city population figures for the census report.
Casper Wyoming February 17. J B Jones a member of the Brotherhood of Railroad Car Men was found dead in an alley. A chemical analysis of his stomach shows wood alcohol and perfume in a highly perfumed hair tonic he drank Monday night. Jones had come here from Texas.
Fear grows for 20 Americans at Mar ash north of Aleppo as Turkish intimidation and French occupation cause terror since January 21. French troops using Armenian and Senegalese troops intensify local hostility toward Christians, triggering concern for the group’s fate as reports arrive from Adana dated February 13.
Albany February 17 Mor ris Hilquit socialist leader testified at the investigation of five suspended socialist assemblymen. He said American socialists would oppose Bolshevik efforts to impose government by force and that the Third International had not issued secret instructions, exercising moral influence instead. He described the International as not yet organized at the time of the war debate.
Information on how to serve legal papers on Nicholas Romanoff, deposed czar of Russia, was requested from Supreme Court Justice Callahan by the Marine Transport Service, holder of a judgment for 117540.11 dollars.
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