War debts and reparations spar in Britain France and US
London argues for equal treatment in debt funding and insists on simultaneous payments to Britain from European debtors. The US presses to collect war damages from Germany out of German reparations, while disputes loom over sequestered property and the Dawes plan.
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France
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Europe
John Simon
America
Washington
Austen Chamberlain
Hughes
Germany
Italy
Belgium
Atim
Paris
German Reichstag Elections Signal Dawes Plan Support
The three Republican parties hold 230 seats, near a majority, while monarchist groups have 170. Small parties like the Bavarian Peoples and Peasants shape the balance. Doctor Dernberg notes Germans favor honest Dawes Plan pledges and international co operation leading to peace and reconciliation. A middle party coalition is expected.
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Doctor Dernberg
Germany
League of Nations
People’s Party
Notable deaths and health concerns echo crisis at week’s end
Gompers collapsed en route after Pan American Labor convention in Mexico City and was rushed home amid poor health. August Belmont died suddenly in New York at seventy one, key financier behind New York subway and Cape Cod canal projects and racing figure. Mahlon Pitney, former Supreme Court justice, retired after two strokes and did not recover.
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Mexico City
Pan-American Federation of Labor Convention
August Belmont
New York
Belmont
Cape Cod Canal
Mahlon Pitney
United States Supreme Court
Samuel Gompers Claimed By Death
Samuel Gompers died in San Antonio after arriving from Mexico City where he had been stricken earlier. He directed the American Federation of Labor for more than four decades and passed away surrounded by loyal comrades in a San Antonio hotel. His death ends a long career as a leading labor champion.
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Mexico City
President's funeral procession routes to final resting place
Requests to board the train at points along the route arise so the full council can escort the fallen president to his Washington home. Services were held in Washington and the body was brought to New York Wednesday for additional services. Burial occurred at Sleepy Hollow cemetery in Tarrytown, New York.
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Gompers Laid to Rest as Nation Honors Labor Leader
The obituary recounts Samuel Gompers last words praising American institutions and the public funeral procession. Soldiers from Fort Sam Houston led the escort as his bronze coffin traveled to the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad station. Gompers, founder and long-time president of the American Federation of Labor, shaped labor policy through wars and strikes and mentored presidents from McKinley to Coolidge.
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Gompers Burial Plot Near Carnegie and Rockefeller Graves
Samuel Gompers is to be buried in Sleepy Hollow, Tarrytown N Y within 200 feet of Andrew Carnegie and close to the Rockefeller mausoleum. The plot lies near graves of John D Archbold and Carl Schurz marking a site of prominent American figures.
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Samuel Gompers
America
Sleepy Hollow
Andrew Carnegie
Wilam Rockefeller
John D. Archbold
Standard Oil Company
Qurl Schurz
Chandlers Bury Hatchet in Atlanta Divorce Reconciliation
Asa G Chandler capital ist of Atlanta and Coca Cola founder and his wife, estranged for several months, began domestic relations anew December 11 after a reconciliation reported by the Atlanta Constitution. The couple had separated after her arrest months earlier during a raid on an Atlanta apartment house.
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Asa G. Chandler
Coca Cola Company
Atlanta Constitution
Chandler
Public Service Licenses Denied by Montana Rail Commission
The Montana railroad commission rejected two public carrier license applications on December 9. Matt Kuechan’s bid Roundup to Mine No. 4 and other intermediate points was refused, with a stop order outside Roundup. FE Blankenburg’s route Glendive to Fairview was denied, but J A Blankenburg’s license for the same area was confirmed if service remains satisfactory.
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Roundup
ED Blankenburg
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Fairview
J. A. Blankenburg
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