Clash Over League of Nations Amid Senate Deliberations
Senators debated ratification of the peace treaty and the Knox resolution as Senator Borah threatened to quit the Republican Party. Senator Hitchcock cited broad public support for the league while Senator Root urged separate action on terms and covenant and warned of pitfalls in Article X.
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Senate
Senator Borah
Idaho
New York
George W. Wickersham
Oscar S. Straus
Turkey
Borah
Straus
Taft
Mr. Borah
Hitchcock
League
Nebraska
Root
Lodge
Foreign Relations Committee
League of Nations
League of Peace
Negotiations on Strengthening International Arbitration System
International talks focus on bolstering the global arbitration framework. Delegations discuss dispute resolution efficiency, fairness standards, and cross border enforcement to improve consistency and trust in cross border commerce and investment.
Hays for Knox Plan and Paris Attitude
Will H. Hays arrived from Washington to discuss the Knox resolution and the League of Nations covenant. He endorsed the Knox plan, citing the American people as the client and criticizing the “sign here” attitude as overbearing in treaty negotiations.
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Capitol
League
New York
America
Troopship Movements Across U.S. Ports June 21
Reported arrivals include the Rochambeau at New York with 872 troops and discharges, the Nebraska at Newport News with 1,224 returning troops, and the Ohioan at Philadelphia with 1,622 troops. Additional notes list future War Department arrivals and units sailing or departing from Brest Archangel and various U.S. ports.
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New York
Rochambeau
Havre
Newport News
Nebraska
Brest
Transportation Corps
Philadelphia
Ohioan
Washington
War Department
Louisiana
Harrisburg
Orduna
Antigone
Newport
Lake Benbow
Charleston
Powhatan
Fate of Former Kaiser Dominates Berlin Debate
Berlin readers report fierce reaction to possible peace terms linking a plebiscite in West Prussia with surrender of William II. Vorwaerts condemns the idea as impossible and monstrous, while officers’ league calls surrender humiliating and insists Germans will not yield their former commander.
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Berlin
Associated Press
West Prussia
Vorwaerts
William II
Gompers Re-elected President At AFL Convention
Samuel Gompers was unanimously re elected president of the American Federation of Labor at Atlantic City. He will receive ten thousand dollars a year. The convention debated plans to study labor capital problems and potential remedial legislation while opposing anti sedition and radical tendencies.
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Atlantic City
N J
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Gompers
Organized Labor
Executive Council
Congress
Washington
Basil M. Manly
Nation War Labor Board
Frank I’. Walsh
Goampers
Spoi
Pennsylvania
Morrison
Italian Cabinet reshapes Peace Conference delegation
Paris dispatch notes that Tomasso Tittoni is likely to become Foreign Minister and will replace Sig. Orlando as principal delegate to the Peace Conference in the new Italian Cabinet.
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Paris
Havas
The
Temps
Tomasso
Tittoni
Sig. Orlando
Woman Operated On for Trench Sore Throat
Katherine Force sister of Mrs. William K. Dick and aunt by marriage to Mrs. Astor underwent an operation for tonsillitis after two years of war work in France. She had been confined to the RitzCarlton for two weeks with a severe attack but has fully recovered. Her return from France followed six months with Nina L. Duryee relief efforts and U.S. government service.
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Astor
France
New York
Katherine Re.force
Miss Force
William K. Dick
John Jacob Astor
Ritz-Carlton
Willia N H. Force
Chatham Hotel
Nina L. Duryea
United States
Elsie Janis Adopts War Hero Enrico Cardi Ward
New York June 21 Miss Elsie Janis adopts fifteen year old French war hero Enrico Cardi as her ward He came to the United States seeking work and a plan to learn English He is at the Jani Manor House in North Tarrytown with Mrs Elizabeth J Henning and will stay He decorates his room with war trophies and Miss Janis mother posts a 500 bond via Mrs Martha S Reynolds to guarantee his welfare
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NEW_YORK
Elsie Janis
Enrico Cardi
United States
Jani
North Tarrytown
Elizabeth J. Henning
East Thirty-second Street
Janis
France
Enrico
Ellis Island
Martha S. Reynolds
West 105Th Street
Miss Janis
Telephone workers threaten nationwide walkout
In Youngstown Ohio June 21 operators and other Bell and Automatic Telephone employees announced they will strike unless the companies meet Postmaster General Burleson’s order granting collective bargaining rights by Tuesday.
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Youngstown, CO
Bell and Automatic Telephone Companies
Burleson
Bill Heninger Returns to Navy After Army Service
Bill Heninger enlists in the navy by special revision of the Bureau of Navigation marking his third hitch. He previously served in the army and over seas with the Ninety-first Division in Belgium during the armistice period and now resumes his naval career as a first class fireman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill” Heninger
Navy
Bureau of Navigation
Seven Seas
Bill
Army
Heninger
Audenarde
Belgium
U S Mission for Ireland Adds Two Members
John A. Murphy of Buffalo and L S Trigg join Walsh and Dunne in Paris for the American mission to the Peace Conference on Ireland. A cablegram urged delay, then a later message urged Murphy and Trigg to proceed to Paris aboard the French Huer spagne.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John A. Murphy
L. S. Trigg
Walsh
Dunne
Paris
New York
Buffalo
N. Y
Trigg
Frank P. Walsh
War Labor Board
Edward P. Dunne
Illinois
Ireland
Murphy
Germans Delay R-34 Flight Across Atlantic
Information from the Navy Department says the British dirigible R-34 is unlikely to depart Great Britain for its round trip before July 4. The start is postponed pending German action on the peace treaty and depends on its signing.
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Washington
Navy Department
Great Britain
Atlantic
Train Strikes Auto. Father and Son Die In Delaware At Crossing
A Pennsylvania passenger train struck an automobile three miles south of Delaware, Ohio. Charles Demorest, 38, and his five year old son Floyd are dead, and another son Charles, 14, is believed dying from injuries.
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Delaware, O
Charles Demorest
Farmer
Floyd
Charles
Pennsylvania
Here
U S Russian Bureau Formed At Stockholm
American minister Ira Nelson Morris announced the United States has formed a Russian bureau in the Stockholm legation. The unit, staffed by Americans, will handle all matters concerning Russia and report latest news, while the U S says it does not recognize the Soviets. Morris also said thirty Americans held by the Russians in Archangel have been freed through these channels.
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Stockholm
Russia
Archangel
Will of M D Vought Probed In Lancaster Probate
Property valued at half a million dollars from the estate of farmer M D Vought goes to his widow and two daughters Mrs Mary Kiger and Miss Ida Vought. Upon their deaths the property passes to grandsons John and Forest Kiger. The will was probated in Lancaster today.
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Lancaster, O
M. D. Vought
Mary Kiger
Ida Vought
John
Forest Kiger
Appointments and leaves for city schools in 1919 1920
The board lists new appointments across multiple schools including Fairview Oakley Whittier Raschig and Stowe. Leave of absence granted indefinitely for Corinne Skillman and Claire Roudebush with other staff on study or vacation terms. Transfers include Anna Sanford moving to Douglass School and summer sessions planned for many departments.
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Derrickson
Helen Greer
Laura A. Lightfoot
Washburn
Anita Gregson
Anna Hathaway
Washington
Alice Essel
R. Harry Fink
Westwood
Dorothy Lurie
Windsor
Maud E. Gray
Gladys M. Pemberton
Winton Place
Lillian Michael
Walter Brunsman
Helen Richards
Gertrude Unthank
Lila Buck
Anna Cellarius
Marie Gregson
Lenore R. Hayes
Edith Oskamp
Edith Otting
Lucile F. Schwarz
Towne Abercrombie
Charles S. Jennings
William Kidney
Leah Rabe
Jacob Rindsberg
N. R. Rosenbarger
Louis Ehrgott
Marian E. Hartzel
Corinne Skillman
Kennedy School
Claire N. Roudebush
Raschig
Grace Anna _ Fry
Teachers’ College
Ruth Sanders Cordes
Bess J. Kauble
Anna Sanford
Stowe
Douglass School
Condon
Edith T. Hartman
Fairview School
Ethel Stemmer
Oakley
Mary D Robinson
Whittier
Warren G. Brownfield
Anna Lee Wolfe
Harriett R. Graham
Matilda Remy
Academeic
Anna L. Peter
Rate for student machine shop workers set at 25 cents hourly
The recommendation fixes summer pay for students in machine shops at 25 cents per hour and lists student workers to be certified as eligible for study and compensation. John F. Arundel named director of vocational education and will receive one month's salary for supervising summer vocational work.
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Civil Service Commissioners
John F. Arundel
One Glorious Day for Furniture Men
Cincinnati Furniture Exchange members and guests gathered at Cody's farm near Erlanger Kentucky for the twenty first annual reunion. more than 150 attendees enjoyed a morning baseball game between furniture manufacturers and accessory men with a 9 to 7 favored by manufacturers. A chicken dinner followed with music by Getz's Band and cabaret entertainment.
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Tom
Cody
Cincinna Si Furniture Exchange
Ohio
Erlanger
M. O. Dure
Frank Gusweiler
Getz
Henry A. Sprengard
John Cornette, Jr
George W. Schutte, Jr
E. C. Iveuss
Louis A. Bode
L. W. Froehlich
H. W. Backer
Picnic Party Injured as Auto Overturns in Newark Hill Collision
Twenty five men women and children returning from a Sunday school picnic were injured when their automobile dashed down a hill and overturned in Newark New Jersey. Physicians at the hospital reported several likely to die.
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Newark
N. J
Mafry Montjoy Escapes by Picking Locks at Juvenile Detention
Police report Mary Montjoy an inmate at Juvenile Place of Detention escaped early yesterday by picking door locks with a button hook. Her home address is Lexington Kentucky.
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Mairy
Mary Montjoy
Juvenile Place of Detention
Lexington
Mormon Resist Evacuation in Juarez Mexican District
In Western Chihuahua the Mormon community in the Casas Grandes area resists a U S warning to leave. General Dieguez warned Americans to depart when crisis arrives and to wait for troops. Mormon officials deem mass exodus impractical for about 630 residents. Six American Red Cross nurses were advised to return to American side amid Villa presence. Local authorities opened an investigation into the incident.
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Juarez
Mexico
Morimon
Chihuahua
de Manuel Dieguez
Dow
Stewart
Dieguez
Casas Grandes- Vermon
Envienbie
American State Department
Casas Grandes
Chittuahua City
Villa
Red Cross
Carranza
White Cross
Romero
Gonzales
Children compete for silver Victory rings in Ohio stamp drive
The plan began in Hamilton County with a contest to reward children who sell $250 in War Savings Stamps with a silver Victory ring. W H Pearson directs sales at Washington and reports go to Gerson J Brown. The race runs through September 6 with credits from Vacation Thrift Committees and prizes donated by Ohio businesses. One ring per child, regardless of higher totals.
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Ohio
Hamilton County
W. H. Pearson
Washington
Gerson J. Brown
Brown
Hoffman
Windsor
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Mr. Straus
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Harry W. Smith
Gentlemeans
Tailoring
Kinross Mille
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Gag
Wade
Fourth Street
Cincinnati
KNOX
Kaiser May Huy
Utrecht
Amerongen
Camuel Gumplas
Germany
Holland
Kriege
Foreign Office
Friedrich von Berg
Herr. Honenzollern
War Office
Ministry of Justice
Orlando
U. S
Ira Nelson Morris
Sweden
Rochambeaux
Lansing
Edward M. House
House
Morris
Gulbransen
Otto Grau Piano
William Callman
Laura Knight
Zenobia Couzzins
Winifred Jones
Elizabeth Bogart
Harry Martin
Jennie Austin
Myrtle Richardson
Florence Couzzins
Henrietta Ingram
Ida Liverpool
Virginia Doll
Sanfred Showes
Frank F. Goodwin
Emily Ebber
Grace Slade
Rose Helmers
Guilford
J. B. LeClerc
Sands
Florence Eyater
Gustav Stecher
O. L. McCormack
Rose Taylor
East Side Industrial Arts
John P. Lee Rothenberg
G. C. Blocher
Oodward High
C. B. Lambirth
Waghes High
Himmelman
Woodward High
Cummins
Viola
N. Hall
Fairview
Anna Martin
Edith Reilly
M Rothenberg
Edith A. Dolan
Bloom
Edythe Steinkamp
Civil Services
Amelia Ryburn
James Jameson
Francis Leslie
Stowe School
William Ryan
Isabelle Givens
Anderson Township
Co. W. Hardman
E. D. Roberts
Attendance Department and Vocational Bureau
Dr. Condon
Atlas National
ATLAS_NATIONAL BANK
Walnut Street
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