World News Briefs From The Week In 1922
A round view of international affairs includes King Constantine delaying front action until July 3, a push for U S–Britain–France policy alignment on mandates, Japan’s Siberia evacuation, and disputes over Upper Silesia. Labor talks in London consider lockouts, while Britain warns Turkish nationalists over Constantinople. Vatican criticism of British Palestine policy sparks diplomatic note, and U S actions address wartime contracts, freight rates, Mexican oil, Ford senate contest, and Greek naturalized citizens in the army.
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Hughes
Porter
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Henry Ford
Newberry
Michigan
Senate
Congress
Athens
Lordon
New York
Canada
Maritime
United States
House
Large scale labor unrest and fires hit the nation
Reports detail Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association members striking in Boston and being hired for U S Shipping Board work. Newspapers faced walkouts on June 14 while a Lick Creek camp dispute led to arrests after a clash with authorities. Additional items cover meat pricing critique by Everett C Brown, grain exchange politics, and a series of fires and crimes across states.
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Washington
Marine Engineers’ Beneficial Association
Boston
United States
Shipping Board
Lick Creek
Nea Williamson
Everett. C. Brown
National Livestock Exchange
Cleveland
Labor Factions Battle Over AFL Presidency Fight
Denver report on supporters of Samuel Gompers and John Lewis in a bid for the AFL presidency. Lewis announces candidacy while Gompers denounces politics as too exalted. Campaign HQs set, miners and other unions backing Lewis claim 4 257 miners votes, with machinists and carpenters also aligning with Lewis as both sides mobilize delegates.
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Denver
Samuel Gompers
John Lewis
United Mine Workers
Cdfftest
American Federation of Labor
Gompers
Lewis
United States
Executive Council
Machinists Union
Carpenters and Joiners Union
Dreadnoughts Ordered to Pacific Fleet in Reshuffle
Secretary Denby announced a major redistribition of battleships between the Atlantic and Pacific fleets. Arizona Nevada Oklahoma will move to the Pacific, Maryland New York Texas Wisconsin Kansas to the Atlantic, plus formation of a combined unit including the Ullah Chattanooga St Louis and 18 destroyers. The two fleets will unite for three months annually for training and the new super dreadnought California will replace New Mexico as Pacific fleet flagship.
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Pacific
Athintic
Denby
Atlantic
Caribbean Sea
Panama Bay
California
Mare Island Navy Yard
New Mexico
Seven Hospitals Approved for Soldier Treatment Network
Secretary Mellon announced approval of seven hospital projects totaling 3,010,000 to treat former soldiers. The plan includes 850,000 for a 250 bed unit and upgrades at United States Public Health Service Hospital No. 55 at Fort Bayard New Mexico.
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Washington
Board of Consultants
Mellon
United States Public Health Service
Naval planes sink U-117 off Cape Charles Virginia
On board U S Henderson off Cape Charles Va the submersible U-117 rested on the Atlantic bottom 50 miles from the Virginia capes after a direct hit with a 163 pound bomb. Three F-6 L type planes attacked at 1200 feet and nine bombs scored the sinking 16 minutes after the hit.
England Not to Aid Japs Against U S
Washington reports that Britain will notify by June its intention to renew the Anglo Japanese alliance. The state department is informed and assurances are given that US rights will be guarded. Imperial conference discussions aim to let dominions and colonies voice views on the treaty and its relation to America.
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Washington
Japan
Great Britain
State Department
London
America
Denby Names Nine for U S Admirals
Secretary Denby announced five temporary rear admirals and four captains recommended for permanent rear admiral ranks. Leading the list is Rear Admiral Mark I Bristol, who commands American naval forces in the eastern Mediterranean and serves as American high commissioner at Constantinople. Also named are Archibald H Scales Nathan Twin in Richard P Jackson and Thomas P Magruder as rear admirals. captains include Benjamin F Hutchinson Sumner F E W Wittelle William V Pratt and Louis A C Nulton.
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Washington
Naval Selection Board
Denby
Lst
Mark I. Bristol
Mediterranean
Constantinople
Archibald H. Scales
Nathan ©. Twinin
Richard P. Jackson
Thomas P. Magruder
Benjamin F. Hutchinson
United States Seeks End to Smuggling Ring
Immigration officials renew efforts against a well organized gang smuggling aliens from Mexico. Department of Labor notes several members arrested. Report claims gang members paid up to 350 dollars per entrant to enter the United States illegally.
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Washington
Department of Labor
Ilegally
Veterans of World War form congressional veterans group
In Washington the A E F spirit returned as World War veterans in Congress joined members who served in the Civil War and Spanish American War to organize The Veterans Association of the Sixty seventh Congress. The dinner elected Roy G. Fitzgerald president and John E. Rankin secretary.
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America
Navy
Mtline
Congress
Washington
University
Veterans’ Associaton
Sixty-seventh Congress
United States Senate
House of Representatives
Congressional Veterans
American Legion
Henry Z. Osborne
California
Roy G. Fitzgerald
Ohio
Association
Congressmwan
John E. Rankin
Mississippi
Congressional
Almer Fein Legion
John Thomas Taylor
National Legislative Committee of the Legion
Taylor
Legion
War on Legions Bachelors Prompts Kansas Campaign
Miss McCoy of Topeka leads the Women’s Auxiliary in a state wide drive urging no bachelor posts in Kansas. The effort mixes social banquets home cooking and club house upkeep as part of a broader Legion outreach.
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Kansas
Sunflower
Miss McCoy
Topeka
Women's Auxiliary of the
American Legion
Legion
Legion Flag to Fly Over Historic New Orleans Quarter
The American Legion will raise its flag in a section of New Orleans that has seen five flags as the city administration hands over a building in the old French quarter. The new Legion post HQ will host an auditorium offices and clubrooms and house Louisiana department headquarters and the Legion's employment and service bureau with local posts auxiliary and the Pelicannaire official organ nearby.
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American Legion
New Orleans
Frrench
Legion
Gulf of Mexico
Louisiana Department
Women’s, Auxiliary
Pelicanaire
Made Legion Drive Success in New Orleans Event
Anthony Wesley Kelley, a discharged Navy man, led a bold American Legion membership push in New Orleans by climbing a flag pole at city hall and hanging from a building’s coping to attract attention. Cameras captured the stunt as a measure to boost post membership. Kelley recalled wartime service and noted his naval and merchant marine careers before his discharge in 1919.
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Anthony Wesley
Navy
New Orleans
Rollin Post
American Legion
Kelley
Bilin
Legion
Merchant Marine
Legion Man Shaughnessy Realigns Career After Army Return
Colonel Edward H. Shaughnessy, formerly of the American Petroleum Institute and later head of transportation roles, joins Fidelity post of the American Legion in New York City. He accepts a postmaster general level job with a $5,000 annual pay, reflecting a shift from government and military service to civil life.
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Edward H. Shaughnessy
Fidelity Post
American Legion
New York City
Troma
Shuthnessy
Will Hays
American Petroleum Institute
New York
Elfy
Chicago
Chicago & Northwestern Railroad
Shaughnessy
Thirteenth Engineers
Brig. Con
George van Horn Moseley
Stat
Transportation Corps
Charla Thierry
Issar Tide
St. Mihiel
Meuse-Argonne
Montana Law Grants Poll Tax Exemption to Veterans
The Montana legislature passed a law backed by the American Legion that requires counties to register all veterans and exempts exservice men from poll tax payments. The act aims to record names and organizations of veterans within each county and anticipates similar actions by other states soon.
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American Legion
Montana
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France
Upper Silesia
Supreme Council
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Great
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United States Harness Company
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Department of Justice
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Lantz Grain Exchange
Chicago Board of Trade
Witneis House
Homer J. Tee
Willian G. McAdog
Secretary of the Treasury
Wellesley Hills
Mass
Isaac Gross
East Side
Hoboken
Natian Association of Retail Clothiers
Pittsburg
Atourney
James A. Stillman
Guy Stillman
Mr. Stilan
Mrs. Stillman
Wyoming
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Edward EF. Meyer
O. P. Duvall
Twin Falls
Idaho
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Grygla
Minn
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Federation Presidency
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Pacific Fleet
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Brazil
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