Triple Council Quiet in Paris Amid Treaty Talks
In Paris the three powers discuss minor peace treaty issues while disputes linger over Kiel and Silesia. Belgium protests treaty terms affecting Germany, and Italy’s position remains cautious. Hungary’s Trumania forces near Budapest, and Moscow reports a 48 hour Romanian evacuation ultimatum. Spain dissolves parliament with June 4 elections planned.
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Preas
Council of
Italy
Orlando
Europe
Munich
Hoffman
Hungary
Trumania
Ferdinand
Budapest
Bela Kum
Moscow
Non-Partisan League Leaders Must Stand Trial
In St Paul on May 2 the Minnesota Supreme Court upheld indictments against A C Townley president of the National Non Partisan League and Joseph Gilbert league organizer. They must face trial on charges of disloyalty for conspiracy related acts including public utterances to discourage patriotic wartime cooperation and a pamphlet cited as a violation of the espionage act.
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ST. Paul
Mann
A. C. Townley
National Non- Partisan League
Joseph Gilbert
State Supreme Court
Jackson County District Court
Townley
Gilbert
Jackson County
Townély
Supposed Bomb Turns Out To Be Scrapbook Item
A May Day bomb scare linked to Senator Hiram Johnson unfolds as Capitol police inspect a package labeled for a Chicago department store. The device was soaked and ruined a scrapbook of speech extracts sent by a political admirer.
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Washington
Chicago
Hiram Jonhsen
Capitol
Plan Recall Over Soldier’s Rejection Spurs Petition
Residents of Greeley and nearby areas plan recall petitions against World County commissioners for appointing A. T. Lyonsenstedte as a recall candidate. The move follows a soldier’s refusal of the initial plan and targets the county officials.
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Grreley
Golo
X-Sohete
Greeley and Vicinity
County Commissioners of
Wold County
A. T. Ly- Lewenatstede Ds Rete
Unsettled Weekend Weather Forecast Incoherent
Unclear weather report notes unsettled conditions Saturday with possible rain and low temperatures. Sunday may be fair with cooler northern areas, but the text is garbled and several details are unreadable.
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North Por
Von Hindenburg Announces Retirement Plans
Field Marshal Von Hindenburg writes President Ebert announcing his intention to retire to private life. He notes service during the transitional period and fulfillment of his task with the preliminary peace. Ebert assents to the retirement.
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Asoctated
Berlin
von Hindenburg
Ebert
Herr Ebert
Relief officials report Germany fed but under siege by ration limits
The supreme council of supply and relief plans to ship 375,200 tons of food to Germany monthly, plus minor imports, to keep the country "alive and going." Kellogg and Taylor credit relief efforts for public order but warn Germans remain underfed, disillusioned, and morally degenerate despite aid. aid totals include 230,000 tons cereals and 70,000 tons fats monthly.
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Dy Associated Press
New York
Supreme Council of Supply and Relief
Germany
Vernon L. Kellogg
Herbert Moorer
Europe
Kellogg
Mr. Hoover
Alonzo B. Taylor
Three Thousand Mob Victims In 30 Years
A National Association for the Advancement of Colored People report states that 3,224 people were killed by mobs in the past thirty years. The South accounts for 2,844 victims, the North 219, the West 166, Alaska and other areas 15, with Texas third at 335. Fifty colored women and eleven white women were lynched across fourteen states.
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New York
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
North Tins
South
West
Alaska
Nebraska
Mother Drowns Her Three Babies In Well
In CLATHE Kansas on May 2 Mrs. Leonard Vance a 27 year old wife of a wealthy farmer drowned three of her children in a farm well. She was rescued by her husband after she jumped into the well herself. The fourth child six months old was saved by the mother’s arm hold.
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Clathe
Kan
Leonard Vance
Here
Toyreday
Vance
German plan to buy food from Argentine Germans
Buenos Aires dispatch says the Argentine legalian in Berlin cables that a syndicate has formed to make heavy purchases of essential news, proposals and other food staff. The organized delegates will submit for their mandate immediately.
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Argentine
Buenos Aires
Berlin
Gergaga
Poindexter Opposes US Handling of Italian Controversy
Senator Poindexter of Washington denounces the American peace conference delegation for assuming full responsibility in the Italian controversy. He says the issue is a European problem and accuses the United States of gaining a diplomatic win by shifting settlement to itself. He warns this domination provokes western resentment.
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Associated Press
Washington
West
Poindexter
Canadian Soldier Charged With Fraud
Denver report says Richard B Temple a former Canadian soldier was arrested on a charge of using mail to defraud. He allegedly obtained a ticket from Amarillo to El Paso via the Red Cross and sought a refund of the fare from the railroad company after reaching Colorado, according to officials.
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Denver
Richard B. Temple
Amarill
Tex
Temple
Amarillo
el Paso
Amarilo
Colorado
Howard Kermitt
Los Angeles Mayor Acquitted in Bribery Trial
Mayor F. P. Woodman was acquitted by a superior court jury after weeks on trial for allegedly accepting a bribe to protect vice conditions. The case highlighted corruption concerns in city governance and concluded with no conviction.
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Los Anaries
May
F. P. Woodman
Superior Court
One Year Ago Attacks Flare South of the Bomme
Reported new German offensives flare to the south of the Bomme as British troops resist. Fresh German divisions reinforce near Flanders with renewed pressure on Allied lines and continued artillery duels along the front.
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Bomme
Flanders
Fate of German Cables Concerns Council of Three
The council of three discusses the future of the German Atlantic and Pacific cables. A plan proposes joint administration by five great powers until a cable congress can resolve cross country differences. The proposal contrasts with keeping cables as prizes of war by Britain France and others.
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Council OF Three
Associated Press
AIS
Sanyo
Great Britain
France
Financial Affairs Again In Discussion
The German and Inter Allied financial commission met at the Trianon hotel in Versailles for a prolonged discussion. The talks continue the negotiations begun at Senlis near Compiègne, with delegates including Warburg and Lamont among others.
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Versailles
Inter-Allied Financial Commission
Trianon Hotel
Chateau Plessie Villoire
Senlis
Gompiegne
Bunkers Warburg
Moelehoir Mnd Sleaus
the Lamont
Munich Falls to Hoffman’s Loyal Troops
Reports from Copenhagen and London state that Munich has fallen to government forces. A dispatch dated Thursday claims the Bavarian capital was occupied Wednesday evening, with authorities noting entry into Munich beginning at noon today.
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Munich
Hoffman
Associated Pres
London
Copenhagen
Berman
Vossrache Zeitung
Spaniards Riot Over Food Prices in Madrid Province
In the May 2 report ten people were killed and sixteen seriously injured during protests over the high cost of living in Tarancón on April 28. Gendarmes clashed with civilians as crowds looted markets. a 25 percent price reduction was ordered, but merchants sold at old prices the next day.
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Associated Press
Madrid
Tarancon
Wyoming Credits Subscriptions in Victory Loan Drive
Reports from the Tenth district show subcriptions by state, with Wyoming listed at 81 0500 dollars. Nebraska and Colorado reported larger totals, while New Mexico counties contributed 942 800 dollars.
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Kansas
Cheyenne and County Speed Up on Bonds
Cheyenne and Laramie county, lagging in Liberty Loan subscriptions, began to speed up yesterday. Daily totals reached 214,700 for the city and 25,800 for the county outside the city, with a combined 240,500. If the pace continues, Laramie county will likely exceed its quota, about half of which is already subscribed.
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Cheyenne
Laramie County
Bumper Crop Forecast For Winter Wheat By USDA Report
Washington May 2 The United States Chamber of Commerce disputes a USDA forecast of a record winter wheat harvest potentially reaching 900000000 bushels about 16 percent above 1944. The report notes wide acreage and yields across the country with 25 percent south of the Mason Dixon line and southern states new to winter wheat. Reports say spring wheat seeding delays due to rains and acreage may fall.
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Awashington
Department of Agriculture
United States Chamber of Commoéree
la Ees
Near
Twenty Nine Arrests Reported In Police Blotter
Twenty nine arrests were made by the police yesterday, bringing the weekly total to about 150. Most offenders yesterday and in prior days were charged with drunkenness, vagrancy, and begging.
Albany Printers Strike Produces Only One Bulletin
Albany May 2 The city’s only newspaper was the Bulletin a single sheet of reproduced typewritten news issued by the Victory Liberty Loan committee. Linotype operators walked out tying up regular papers. the Bulletin appeared in newspaper form without ads but with local news claiming the largest circulation delay.
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Albany
Bulletin
Victory Liberty Loan ‘Committee
Ferro
Abel
Lion Kills Keeper In Cage And Escapes
Panic gripped Woodbury on May 2 as a lion from a natural history exhibition in the sideshow killed a keeper before a small crowd. The lion escaped its cage and fled toward a nearby woods. pursuers with pikes and flames tracked and finally killed the animal with a fusilade of shots.
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Woodbury
Ionesson
Gireus
Yes Oo
Lamp Posts a Light Way for Yankee Planes
The Navy plans trans Atlantic flights from Newfoundland to the Azores using three NC planes. Sixty destroyers will sweep the night sky with searchlights while lamp posts spaced 34 miles guide the pilots. Daylight reckoning will show large numbers on ships for navigation. Flying will be about 1000 feet high. Fuel burn starts high then drops as the journey continues.
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Ty Associated Press
NEW
Newfyland
Navy
Azores
Rockaway Polini Naval Air Station
N.C
Newfoundland
Ifeht
Jugoslav Forces Open New Front in Austrian Territory
Paris dispatch reports seventeen Yugoslav troops attacked Austrian positions near Areldatein Villach Regenbach and Nalger. The clash involved about 4 000 Central Powers troops. Jugoslav forces pushed six miles beyond the armistice line by Tuesday evening and crossed the Drave river on Wednesday, severing links between German Austria and Italy.
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Associated Bloss
Paris
Areldatein
Villach
Régenbach
Nalger
Vienna
Zurich
Drave River
Arnoldstein
Klagenfurt
Alimony Record in Maine Sets Hefty Provisions
New York report details Lyman Kendall divorce from Mrs Kendall in Maine. Property valued at 4.5 million transfer plus 1 million allotment, and annual support of 100 thousand dollars for life. Kendall, 50, married Kendall 20 years, no scandal. she is 40. He rose from modest means in the West to wealth in Wall Street.
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New York
Lyman Kendall
Maine
Kendall
Wall Street
North Dakota challenges federal power over rail rate control
North Dakota filed its brief in the Supreme Court contesting federal authority to interfere with intrastate freight and passenger rates. The appeal arises from a state supreme court ruling enjoining the Northern Pacific railroad from raising rates per a Railroad Administration order. The brief argues Congress did not intend to grant federal authorities power and that the act did not confer arbitrary power on the president.
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Washington
Cpmad
North Dakota
Vridat
Supreme Court
State Supreme Court
Écreen
Northern Pa Celtic
Railroad Administration
Congress
Youngest Married Couple in State Sets Record
In Cottonwood Falls on May 2 the youngest married couple in Kansas was recorded. Marry C. Brown of Cottonwood Falls and Alverta Mehur of Emporia have a combined age under 22 years. Harry recently reached his sixteenth birthday, just weeks before the marriage.
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Cottonwood Falls
Kan
C. Brown
Thin City
Belde
Alverta Mehur
Emporia
Han
Harry
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Mitchell
Copricant
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Poindexte
League OF Nations
Los Angeles
Cable Council
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Bavaria
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County
United States Chamber OF Commerce
Lion
Keeper
Atlantic
Austrian
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