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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1919
Page
8
Berlin braces under martial rule as government seeks to crush the Spartacans. Soldiers patrol streets, enforce a gun ban, and loot and vandalism spread amid the upheaval. Reports claim authorities show no mercy and aim to erase Bolshevik influence from the city.
Three trains carrying portions of the Sunset Division toward California demobilization passed yesterday afternoon and evening. Red Cross workers greeted the troops at the station with fruit and treats. A highlight was stories about Tightning Kelley, once famed as a cinder man at the University of Southern California and believed to have broken the 100 yard world record in 1919.
Associated Press reports German revolutionists seize control in Bremen with minority socialists aiding the insurrection. Bourgeois papers face Spartacan censorship as ultra radicals topple governments in multiple cities and threaten looting of assets. In Tokyo a new college building at the Western Educational Institution of Tokyo is dedicated with officials and missionaries in attendance. Controversy over even numbers noted as Glamore seek even counts of rooms and doors in houses.
At Falmouth England on January 14 the Mary B. Mitchell a sailing vessel operating as a decoy ship in the war program sank two German submarines after engaging both at close range. The vessel fired twelve pounder and hidden six pounders and fatally struck the subs with mortar-like hits. The second submarine was damaged and sank following a direct shot near its conning tower.
London reports Lieut Charles J Furney of the Britannia awarded a $160000 grant for an invention that protected Dettich warships from German mines for over three years. The waterplane torpedo device with side fins and a guiding cable is credited with saving many lives and preventing losses.
A National War Labor Review report outlines how wartime pay awards for women paralleled men’s increases. It notes no special provisions beyond applying board principles and that women received proportionate gains, with minimums adjusted but not showing discrimination.
Geneva January 14 A Russian woman Madame Valopa has returned with 7,006,000 rubles to support Bolshevism. The movement appears spreading in the Rhine regions and in the Low Countries, with reports of Bolshevik activity reaching Switzerland and Germany.
Friends report Senator George Young of Sweetwater county is improved though still confined to hospital by illness that may be Spanish influenza. As vice president of District 22 United Mine Workers he missed the senate and mine code conference due to sickness. The note mentions a British scene and naval artist Sir John Lavery in a separate anecdote.
In Chicago on January 14, Socialists and I W W members tried to seize control of a Congress of Workmen called to press for a new trial for Mooney and Billings serving life for the Preparedness Day bombing. Adolph Germer and Rev St John Tucker led convicts who refused to leave, blocking the program as they pressed for political prisoner releases.
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