Owan Opposes Lane Land Plan as Realty Deal
Iowa Republican Rep Boies told the House Public Lands Committee that Secretary Lane s plan for Soldiers and sailors farms is a land swamping scheme. He urged cash payments with no strings attached. Captain Basborne at Camp Shelby said 70 percent of 700 soldiers preferred land over cash bonuses as hearings proceed.
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Washington
Boies
Iowa
House Public Lands Committee
Lane
Congress
Ellis Basbore
Camp Shelby
Miss
Sinnott
Riot in the streets as patrolman arrests two men
A large crowd surged as Officer Brissie fought through to seize Thomas Lillis and Ralph Miller. The prisoners were recaptured after a man struck the officer behind the head. Traffic men formed a wedge to clear the street and the pair were charged with disorderly conduct and resisting an officer.
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Brissie
Twain
Thomas Lillis
Clark Street
Ralph Miller
Stanley Avenue
Patrol 5
Hayes
Orth
Nationwide Strike Set For Telegraph Workers
A union ordered a nationwide strike of telegraph and telephone operators to start next Wednesday at 8 am local time. The action targets Western Union AT T and Postal Telegraph, potentially involving 60 000 to 100 000 workers including about 26 000 union members. Western Union's Newcomb Carlton disputed the strike’s impact, saying it would fail to gain traction beyond the South and Southwest.
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Chicago
Commercial Telegraphers’ Union of America
S. J. Konenkamp
International
Pittsburg
Western Union Telegraph Company
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Postal Telegraph and Cable Company
New York
J. Konenkamp
Commercial Telegraphers’ Union
Newcomb Carlton
Strikers from Norfolk & Western plan Bluefield conference
Portsmouth June 7 Representatives of local federated crafts in the sympathetic strike of 1500 Norfolk & Western workers will travel Sunday to Bluefield for a Monday conference with the Advisory Board of the federated crafts across the system. Local heads say they will ignore eight Wilcoe dischargees they deem unjust and will continue demanding reinstatement.
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Portsmouth
Federated Crafts
Norfolk & Western
Bluefield
Wilcoe
Delegation Pledges No Early German Peace Text
Paris June 7 The American delegation insists it will not publish the German peace treaty until it is signed and will not disclose the current text to the United States Senate. A delegation member says the pledge to other powers remains intact and Germany was not asked to keep the treaty secret. The covenant of the League is published but treated as a separate matter from the peace terms.
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Paris
United States Senate
Senate
Germany
New York
League of Nations
Wilson
King
Utah
Kellogg
Minnesota
McCumber
Johnson
California
North Dakota
Johanson
Senator Borah
Taft
Lord Robert Cecil
Great Britain
Reed
Democratic National Committee
Borah
Anna Howard Shatv
Mr. Taft
Hitchcock
Mr. Borah
Globe
United States
League
Mr. Cecil
America
William Pitt
Man's Body Found In Cincinnati Suspected Outsider Origin
Coroner reports a man found dead with no clothing marks. A key bearing Grosheim and Francis Kyle & Son New York suggests origins elsewhere. Post mortem planned to check skull fractures while theories discuss possible self harm or rope may have slipped off. Four local youths who found the body named.
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Cincinnati
Grosheim
Francis Kyle & Son
New York
Bauer
Gerard Mattock
East Third Street
Robert McNally
Alvin Scherbenzerber
Fuller Street
Garden work ends in death by own action in cellar
Henry Burns 51, a truck driver, killed himself in the cellar of his Dana avenue home after garden work. His wife Anna left him outdoors for supper and found him with a bullet in his brain. Coroner Bauer ruled it a death by own action.
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Henry Burns
Anna
Dana Avenue
Mother hanged herself after illness leaves seven children
Early yesterday Mrs. Madeline Eckstein 38 of 2921 Borden street was found dead in the cellar hanging from a rope. Her husband John F. Eckstein a motorman rushed to the basement after their children alerted him. The coroner noted a prior influenza illness left her mentally weak.
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Madeline Eckstein
Borden Street
John F. Eckstein
Bauer
British Board of Trade Recognizes Cotton Meet
The British Board of Trade will send delegates to the New Orleans cotton conference signaling official recognition. Walter Parker of New Orleans welcomed the move, noting initial misgivings gave way as traders saw mutual aid and reconstruction linked to the conference. The commission plans to depart for the continent tonight.
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London
New Orleans
British Board of Trade
Walter Parker
Associated Press
Continent
Senate Rancor Recalls 1914 in Bitter Debate
The piece surveys a caustic Senate debate on the League of Nations era echoing 1914 rancor. It notes Borah Reed and Lodge clashing with Taft and Cecil, calls out hypocrisy and partisanship, and warns the U.S. risks isolation as Europe faces upheaval.
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Senate
Lawrence
Reed
Borah
Hungary Reacts as Red Soviet Republic Faces Collapse
Budapest endures terror hunger and arrests as Bela Kun’s regime falters. refugees flee across frontiers while civilians barter for food and essentials amid mass requisition. Americans notice peril and hope for safe passage to the United States as valuables are smuggled out by blockade runners and jewelers hide stocks.
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Budapest
Associated Press
Red
Bela Kun
Redguard
America
Hungary
Austria
Red Guards
Vienna
Agram
Street Railway Fare Hike Proposed By City Official
Youngstown Ohio June 7 William Sance city trolley commissioner recommended to council an operating expense increase of 5 cents per car mile. If approved fares would rise to 7 cents per ride.
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Youngstown
William Sance
City Trolley
Street Railway Company
Troopship Movements Across Ports Reported
June 7 dispatches describe the Kentuckian arriving at New York with 1 860 troops from St Nazaire. In Boston the battleship New Jersey and units totaling 1 354 officers and men are noted. Newport News reports over 5 000 Ninetieth Division personnel arriving on transports Huron and Wilhelmina. Washington lists Archangel assault deployments with multiple units and dates.
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New York
St Nazaire
Ninetieth
Boston
New Jersey
France
Newport News
Huron
Wilhelmina
Y M C A Praised by Baker for France Work
Secretary of War Newton D. Baker lauded the Y M C A for its work with American troops in France. He noted workers reached near No Man's Land and some were killed tending soldiers on battlefields. Seventy five Y M C A workers are buried in France, fourteen were killed by shell fire.
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New York
Newton D. Baker
Young Men's Christian Association
France
National War Work Council
No Man's Land
Discharge Favor Stirs Debate Over Yeowomen Roles
Secretary Daniels urged gradual discharge of 8000 yeowomen from clerical posts in the Navy during wartime. A year to transition to civil service exams and other work was proposed, while Chairman Butler favored retaining positions but stripping yeowoman rank and extra pay.
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Washington
Navy Department
Daniels
House Naval Committee
Butler
Flynn aims to trace hundred leads in bomb outrages
New York June 7 William J Flynn head of the Department of Justice forces says no action today as a hundred leads are followed. Officials cooperate with Secret Service to run down bomb throwers and identify the man who planted the Washington attack. Detroit officials return Tropoff and Storkoff to Cleveland for further examination.
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New York
William J. Flynn
Department of Justice
Secret Service
Washington
Flynn
Detroit
Mich
Cleveland
Harry L.davis
Pano Tropoff
Steve Storkoff
Tropoff
Kolchak Backs Allied Plan of Reconstruction
Paris June 7 Admiral Kolchak head of the All Russian government at Omsk replies to allied and associated powers proposing a democratic national reconstruction for Russia. He notes support for Poland’s independence and says final frontiers on border countries will need adjustment.
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Uceasially
Kolchak
Admiral Kolchak
Paris
Ravas
Omsk
Russia
Poland
Secret Indictments Returned At Cleveland
In Cleveland on June 7 a special grand jury returned two secret indictments in a four week investigation into crime conditions. One indictment reportedly contains twelve counts. No names or charges disclosed. Indictments to be held a few days before release. further actions to follow.
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Cleveland
I. P. Cagwin
Charters Revoked for Canadian and U S Railroad Unions
Washington June 7. Martin F Ryan president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Carmen revokes the charters of two local unions in Winpipes and three in Edmonton Canada. The action follows members diverting funds to organize the One Big Union and is part of broader discipline amid Western Canada strikes. Other international heads expected to follow.
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Washington
Martin F. Ryan
Thhe Brotherhood of Railroad Carmen
Winpipes
Fdmonton
Canada
Mred
Relief Efforts Mobilized as Alaska Epidemic Strikes
Naval ships with surgeons and medical supplies dispatched to Briay region Alaska to battle an influenza epidemic threatening 5000 people mostly in salmon canning. Gunboat Vicksburg coast guard cutters Bear and Unalga deploy with Northern Pacific medical staff as hospital ship Marblehead carries relief goods. Governor Riggs warns conditions worsen at Unalaska and Nank, pledges relief funds, and notes sixty deaths in one day. Marblehead expected to reach Unalaska by June 13.
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Washington
Jie
Briay
Alaska
Vicksburg
Coast Guard
Bear
Unalga
Pacific
Marblehead
Comfort
Charleston
S. C
Riggs
Navy Department
Unalaska
Nankck
$1.437 Found in Bills in Injured Man's Pocket
Bellevue Hospital surgeons examine Peter Fiore a 41 year old stevedore foreman after a fall on a ship at Pier No 35 North River. $1437 in mixed bills found in his pockets as he lies in critical condition with skull fracture and internal injuries.
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New York
Bellevue Hospital
Peter Fiore
John F. McHale
Fiore
North River
Air service cannot accept new Fourth of July exhibit requests
Washington June 7 Major General Menoher director of the air service announced that requests from across the country for aeronautical exhibits on July 4 had taxed the service so that new applications could not be considered.
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Washington
Menoher
Air Service
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Lord Robert
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British Empire
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Seeel
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