Wilson lauds Brazil’s Pessoa at Pan-American dinner
President Wilson, while praising Dr. Epitacio Pessoa, Brazilian president-elect, at a Pan-American Peace Delegation dinner, discusses the duties of the presidency, interprets national spirit, and recalls efforts toward a regional alliance and a League of Nations covenant. He notes shared Atlantic-American ideals and mutual pledge among self-governing nations.
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Associated Press
Paris
Wilson
Epitacio Pessoa
Brazil
Pessoa
Mr. Pessoa
Commission
League of Nations
Practical Side of Irish Independence Seen By Limerick Mayor
Alphonsus O Mara mayor and leading manufacturer argues for economic independence and self rule to boost industry and end excessive taxation by England. He cites capital shortages and limited credit as barriers to Ireland’s industrial advance and warns of continued oppression under occupation. The piece also reports Vienna protests over Italian art claims and outlines three classes of restitution sought by Italy.
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Limerick
Ireland
Associated Press
Alphonsus O’mara
Mr. O'Mara
England
Shannon
d’Ancona
Italy
Venice
Ancona
Padua
Ravenna
Pola
Lissa
Island
Fiume
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Budapest
Rembrandt
Raphael
Madonna del Prato
Jupiter and
Correggio
Austrian Imperial Museum
Titian
Hof Museum
Florentine
Tuscany
Anna Maria of Medici
Austria
Plan to provide land for soldiers adopted in Russia
OMSK Siberia April 30 The Associated Press reports N Petrof minister of agriculture in the anti Bolshevik government proposes a Russian land reform inspired by the American system He says land development should be left to peasants and that small holders deserve chance to expand their holdings The plan envisages a special fund to buy land and distribute it to landless peasants and those with insufficient areas with lease and purchase as the method for rebuilding the union’s rural base.
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American League
United States
America
League of Nations
Americas
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Western Hemisphere
Ireland
England
Dublin
Omsk
Siberia
Correnoa
Associated Press
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Petroff
American angel nurses amputates in Macedonian refugee crisis
Miss Maria P Kouroyen an American Red Cross nurse used a razor ether and thread to amputate a Greek soldier’s crushed leg in a box car amid typhus cholera and starvation. A local doctor doubted survival yet the nurse later received a visit from the patient who now has an artificial limb from Athens.
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Drama
Macedonia
Maria P. Kouroyen
American Red Cross
Kouroyen
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston
Miss Kouroyen
Abner J. Cobb
Denver
Col
Red Cross
Miss’ Kouroyen
Athens
Red Cross Aids 150000 Tomsk Refugees In Siberia
American Red Cross volunteers reach Tomsk amid a large refugee crisis. They disinfect barracks, establish a clearing station with baths and hospital facilities, open a sewing room for refugee women, and plan employment and schooling to restore self support. American doctors will assist, and University Medical School joins the relief effort.
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Tomsk
Siberia
Associated Press
Russia
American Red Cross
Red Cross
Tomsk University Medical School
France Establishes Seventeen Economic Regions
France creates seventeen economic regions led by regional capitals including Paris Lille Nancy Marseille Bordeaux Amiens Rouen Caen Nantes Brest Limoges Toulouse Montpellier Grenoble Lyons Clermont Ferrand with future Alsace Lorraine and southern Paris region plans. Regions will serve consultative roles for local industry and commerce as a step toward decentralization.
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Paris
Associated Press
Europe
France
M. Clementes
Lille
Nancy
Marseilles
Bordeaux
Amiens
Rouen
Caen
Nantes
Brest
Limoges
Toulouse
Montpellier
Grenoble
Lyons
Clermont Ferrand
Alsace- Lorraine
Chambers of Commerce
Chamber of Deputies
American team surveys Crete agricultural potential
American scientific agriculturists are completing a survey of Crete similar to that done in Greece. Major C. G. Hopkins of Illinois and Lieutenant G. J. Bouyoucos lead the Red Cross agricultural survey to educate Greek and Cretan farmers and raise crop yields using modern machinery and methods.
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Crete
Greece
C. G. Hopkins
Ilinois
American Red Cross Agricultural Survey
U. S. Ships Returning Home From War Zone
United States troopships Yale Charles and Nepati have carried troops between France and England for a year and are set to return to America. The Charles on its final trip departs Southampton with 2,000 German prisoners destined for reconstruction work in France.
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Southampton
United States
Yale
Charles
Nepati
France
England
America
Korean status getting worse in Korea independence movement
Rev Edward W Thwing reports from Korea that independence efforts against Japan have devolved into brutal military lawlessness. He cites beatings of Koreans and missionaries, Japanese suspicion of plots, fabricated information by spies, and arrests with torture before trials.
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Peking
Associated Press
Korea
Japan
Edward W. Thwing
International Reform Bureau
Thwing
Iorea
Ohio State to Run 4 Week Women Gardening Course
In Columbus the Ohio State University will host a four week summer course for women in gardening and poultry starting June 2. Prominent Cleveland clubs funded twenty scholarships with a total of 40 places. The program offers practical training in canning drying truck crops and market flower production with no tuition and no entrance exam for women over 18.
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Columbus
Cleveland
Ohio State University
Ohio
Shaker Lakes
Woman's Land Army Committee of
War Work in Naturalization in WWI Effort
The Bureau of Naturalization under the Department of Labor aided foreign-born soldiers to become citizens during World War I. Nearly 200,000 men were naturalized under wartime rules, many proving devotion by serving abroad. Units at home helped families enter citizenship classes and improve living standards, with broad civic cooperation ongoing.
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Washington
Bureau of Naturalization
Department of Labor
Rudgnan
Frank J. Briccolo
Revere
Mass
America
Army
Naturalization
Raymond F. Crist
German Occupation Opinion Pieces Amuse American Officers
Coblenz May 31 A P dispatch reports German editors visiting the Rhine zone under American control publish anti American views to influence German civilians. One Leipzig writer mocks American policies while noting food restrictions and widespread surveillance. The piece concludes Americans are not worse than other occupying armies and that union with the empire remains possible.
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Coblenz
Associated Press
Rhine
Leipsic
Closeu
Colbenz
Whaéever
Rhineland
Rhinelands
Knights of Columbus Open Sailors Hotel in Dublin
The Knights of Columbus have opened an admirably equipped hotel in Dublin for United States soldiers and sailors on leave. It is the first such Knights of Columbus institution in Ireland and is welcomed warmly.
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Dublin
Knights of Columbus
United States
Ireland
France to spend billions on postwar public works railroads roads
Paris May 11. Minister of Public Works M Clayeille said France will spend about 13 billion francs on rebuilding and new public works. The program includes electrifying 5200 miles of railroads, constructing 3500 miles of local lines, rebuilding 6000 miles of national roads and 60000 miles of other highways, plus over 2000 bridges and twelve tunnels. Labor shortages and war damage drive the effort.
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Paris
Associated Press
France
M. Clayveille
Army Educational Corps trains 200000 soldiers abroad
Paris reports the Educational Corps of the United States Army provides broad vocations and academic instruction for about 200,000 khaki pupils. Brigadier General Robert I. Rees leads a staff of 7500 instructors teaching from basics to university subjects across U.S. post schools in France and authorized English, French, German, and other programs.
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Paris
Associated Press
Sam
Educational Corps
United States Army
Robert I. Rees
Frank E E. Spaulding
Cleveland
John Erskine
Columbia
Kenyon L. Butterfield
Massachusetts Agricultural College
America
American Library Association
France
Coblenz
Army University
Beaume
Fetv
Opera Stars Fought Bolshevism Taint by Forming a Soviet
London May 31 Prima donnas tenors and conductors formed a small Petrograd soviet to run the Maryinsky Opera. An admin committee of two conductors four singers two chorus and two orchestra artists governed by vote while hunger and upheaval tested the troupe. They quelled a mob outside the theater by addressing the crowd and defending the building.
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London
Petrograd
Albert Coates
Russia
Maryinsky Opera
Coates
Bolshevisky
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