Trotsky Shown As Key Driver In Russian Revolution
Paris correspondent Arno Dosch-Fleurot recalls Lenin Trotsky and Dzerzhinsky as the three pillars of the Soviet state with Trotsky the driving force behind the October upheaval. He details how Trotsky led the revolution from hiding and through the Petrograd crisis, while Kameneff Zinovieff and Stalin rose to power.
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Russia
Leon Trotsky
Kameneff
Zinovieff
Stalin
Arno Dosch-Fleurot
Paris
World News Service
New York World
Moscow
Communist Party
Trotsky
Lenin
Djerzinski
Djerainski
Pétrograd
Pths
Petrograd
Herensky
Sverdlov
Riga
Plane Crash In North Little Rock Kills One Injures Pilot
George Turner was killed instantly and passenger pilot Inman was seriously injured when a commercial airplane nose-dived and crashed to earth over North Little Rock late today, bursting into flames before bystanders could reach the occupants.
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Little Rock
Ark
George Turner
Inman
North Little Rock
Scouts Salute President Coolidge at White House
About 200 Brooklyn Boy Scouts from Troop 61 gathered at the east Portico of the White House to salute President Coolidge as he left church. He returned the salute and the scouts recited the Scout oath, arranged by Colin Livingstone of the National Council. They later laid a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier before the Coolidges undertook a Potomac cruise aboard the Mayflower.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Brooklyn
White House
President Coolidge
Colin H. Livingstone
National Council, Boy Scouts of America
Coolidge
Troop 61
Church
Navy Yard
Potomac
Quantico
Trotsky Ousted From Soviet War Council Warning
A semi official Soviet communiqué announced Leon Trotsky must resign from the War Council or face removal from the Political Bureau and Executive Committee for disobedience. It cites his anti Leninist stance toward peasants and lack of genuine admission of errors as reasons for action.
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Moscow
Leon Trotsky
Executive Committee
Communist Party
Trotsky
War Council
Lenin
Soviet Recognition Denied at Washington
Washington officials say there are no assurances for U S recognition of Moscow this year. Moscow must meet conditions including debt recognition and indemnification before formal ties can be extended, despite Rakovsky’s claim that recognition could come in 1925.
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New York World News Service
Washington
Christian Rakovsky
London
United States
Moscow
Rakovsky
Japan
White House
Russia
Tchitcherin
Coolidge
Czar Nicholas
Hughes
Irish Arrests in Plot to Blow Up British Ships
Five Irish men and one Irish woman were arrested across London on charges of involvement in a plot to blow up British battleships and submarines. Two suspects reputedly worked as sub officers at the Portsmouth dockyards. The Mail says they were extremists linked to the Irish Republican movement aiming to sour Anglo Irish relations and provoke hostility to the Saorstat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Daily Mail
Portsmouth
Mail
Tear gas bombs trigger panic at Norwood Odd Fellows meeting
A tear gas bomb released during Helen S. Jacksons Norwood Odd Fellows Temple talk caused a frantic stampede as hundreds fled, windows shattered and bystanders injured. Police and fire units evacuated the crowd, with Ms Jackson briefly arrested for inciting a riot and bond set at $500.
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Norwood
Odd Fellows Temple
Main Avenue
Ross Avenue
Helen S. Jackson
Harry E. Foertsch
Montgomery Road
L. J. Shank
Helen Foertsch
Marcella Foertsch
Andrew Hart
Louis H. Nolte
John F. Hickey
St. Matthew's Church
Nolte
Frank C. Arata
Norwood Odd Fellows’ Lodge
Arata
Hart
Jackson
No. 1
No. 2
A. C. Clements
Feldman Avenue
Piepmeyer
Senate Group Presses Fight on Paris Pact and Dawes Plan
The irreconcilables in the Senate rally against the Paris agreement tied to Dawes Plan funds, arguing it draws the U S into long reparations disputes. They seek fuller text from Secretary Hughes and accuse the administration of surrendering U S claims, with Senator Borah backing light on Paris details. Colonel Harvey accuses the pact of European plots to bind U S in reparations for decades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York World News Service
Washington
Senate
Germany
United States
Kellogg
Johnson
Hughes
Foreign Relations Committee
Clementel
France
Theunis
Belgium
Churchill
England
Dawes
George Harvey
London
Europe
Borah
Paris
Harvey
Coolidge
America
Congress
Lindsey recounts Klan bid to oust Denver Juvenile Court
Judge Ben B. Lindsey describes KKK efforts to destroy him after opposing the movement in Colorado. He notes the court’s 25 years saving Denver taxpayers millions and shaping child welfare, while detailing the Klan’s attempts to install a klan judge and threaten his position.
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Ben B. Lindsey
Denver
New York World News Service
Juvenile Court of
Ku Klux Klan
Colorado
Death and Ruin in Wake of Flood Across Deep South
Atlanta reports describe heavy rains causing floods across Georgia Alabama and South Carolina. A Southern Railway train plunged through a weakened trestle near Selma Alabama killing two workers and injuring others while a Nashville Chattanooga and St. Louis train hit a slide near Cartersville Georgia killing two crew members. In Albany Georgia two men Will Tift and Asa Tift believed dead in Flint River flood. About forty West Point homes under water as the Chattahoochee River rose to 25 feet.
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Associated Press
Atlanta
Georgia
Alabama
South Carolina
Co. L. Dunham
T. F. Foster
Southern Railway
Selma
Ala
Nashville
Chattanooga
Chattanooga & St. Louis
Cartersville
W. F. Hetzell
J. M. Cooper
Albany
Will Tift
Asa Tift
Flint
West Point
Chattahoochee
National conference opens with public rally on war
The six day session begins with a public rally featuring Judge Florence Allen of the Ohio Supreme Court Lord Thomson of England Air Minister in the MacDonald Cabinet and Major General John F. O Ryan. The gathering includes Representatives and Senators and a White House reception was postponed.
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Washington
Florence Allem
Ohio Supreme Court
Lord Thomson
England
MacDonald
John F. O’ryan
White House
O’ryan
Allen
Mussolini Targets Freemasons as Church Ties Sought
Milan dispatch reports Mussolini moving to suppress Freemason lodges to win Catholic support and secure long term power. The Vatican reportedly anxious over Protestant influence. bankers and opposition fear broader civil code changes.
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Mussolini
Freemasons
Church
Holl
Milan
Via Pétis
Tron
Mulwell Ion
Vatican
Rome
Ae Freemason
All of the
Lira
Musi
Dickens
Italy
Chamber of Deputies
Fascisti
Fascisti Vio
Maf&s Tini
Parliam
Gerald Chapman Captured After Fight With Muncie Police
New York report states Gerald Chapman about 35 known as the Count of Gramercy was captured after a fight with Muncie Indiana officers. Once famed for the October 24 mail truck robbery in Atlanta he escaped twice and was recaptured following a lengthy manhunt.
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Gerald Chapman
Muncie
Ind
New York
Jan
Grammercy
Atlanta
Chapman
Berlin Communists stage carnival style anti Luther protest
Berlin crowds join a monster demonstration against Chancellor Luther's Monarchist government. About twenty thousand march under police protection as speakers call for civil war. youths in scarlet urge return of fathers while floats depict jailed figures and moments of humor temper the mood.
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New York World News Service
Berlin
Luther
N. Y
World News Service
Notorious bandit Gerald Chapman captured in Muncie
Gerald Chapman, escaped Atlanta Penitentiary inmate linked to a two million dollar New York mail robbery, was captured after a pistol battle in Muncie Indiana. He admitted his identity but offered no statement and was sent to Indianapolis for federal processing. Local and federal officers recovered valuables and cash from his room and person.
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Postal General Post Office
Ohris
Chapman
Clapsman
New York City
Atlanta ‘Penitentiary
Liberty
Muncie
Ind
Gerald Chapman
Atlanta
New York
Puckett
Indianapolis
Collins
Mr. Smith
Postoffice
Kelley
Winchester
Ft. Wayne
Chapman Arrest Recalls Crimes in East
Gerald Chapman, an escaped Atlanta prisoner, is sought on charges tied to a mail wagon robbery in 1921 and the October 1923 New Britain detective killing. Post office investigators and police press for recapture, with possible return to Atlanta or trial in New Britain.
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Chapman
New York
Gerald Chapman
Atlanta
New Britain
Conn
Athens
Greenwich Village
Vernon
N. Y
Skelly
James Doran
Frank Shay
Cr. H. Clarahan
Postoffice
New York City
Doran
Shay
Clarahan
Paris
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Father Hickey
Col. Harvey
Charles Michelson
Tle Court
Lindsey
Premi
New York War
Reed
Giolitti
Victor Emmanuel
Nar
Bop Adi
Fascioli
Foreign Office
Home Office
Interior
Federzoni
Matteotti
N.Y World News Service
World
Press Pub. Co
Count of
Grammercy Park
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