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Newspaper

Elgin Echo

Location

Elgin, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Apr 10, 1919

Page

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Barons Makino Denounces Racial Barriers At Peace Talks

Paris April 8 Baron Makino head of Japan's delegation delivers a formal statement at the peace conference. He argues Japan seeks simple justice, rejects forced inferiority, favors equality in a League of Nations, and warns against racial discrimination while stressing mutual respect and shared effort for world peace.

Paris United States Janan Commodore Perry Townsend and Harris League of Nations of the World Armbitton America Perry Japan League of Nations Elihu Root

Fierce Fight at Sensburg Reported in East Prussia

Berlin Lotal Anzeiger reports several hours of fighting between government troops and disorderly elements in Sensburg, 86 miles southeast of Koenigsberg, using machine guns and hand grenades.

Copenhagen Berlin Lotal Anzeiger Koensgeerg Sensburg Koenigsberg

Safety Zone Along Rhine Agreed In Peace Talks

Paris reports a partial accord in the Paris peace conference. Germany would be denied garrisons fortifications and war factories along the Rhine and a 30 mile right bank strip. France to receive temporary combined French economic and political authority over Saar mines to revive northern France industry. Six years to restore Saar mines.

Paris Germany Rhine France Saar Saar Valley Council of Four

Fifty Crown at Launching Tragedy in Bristol

At Bristol Pennsylvania during the launching of the freighter Waukau a temporary scaffold collapsed. Between forty and fifty persons are believed dead, with nearly 360 onlookers thrown into the Delaware river. About 100 were rescued.

Bristol Merchant Shipbuilding Company Delaware River

Wilson Accepts Part Blame for Peace Conference Delays

President Wilson stated he was willing to share responsibility for the delays at the peace conference. He stressed the delays were not due to any single country or its representatives and urged that talk time has ended and results must follow.

Paris Wilson

Averts Great Lakes Marine Workers Strike

A threatened strike by five marine workers organizations over dredging and drilling on the Great Lakes has been averted temporarily. The dispute will be submitted to a national commission for review, with a meeting to be held in Buffalo or Cleveland at a date to be fixed later.

Detroit Great Lakes Buffalo Cleveland

D S Medal for General Wood Washington April 4

A War Department list names officers awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for meritorious service during the war. Included are Maj Generals Leonard Wood Hugh L Scott and John Morrison with signatures by the War Department.

Washington War Department Leonard Wood Hugh L. Scott Joho ¥. Morrison

Housing and Banking Bills Pass Iowa Senate Unanimously

The housing measure regulating dwellings in cities of 16 000 or more and allowing smaller towns by ordinance passed the senate with near unanimity. A banking bill empowering the state superintendent to deny certificates to new banks also cleared the chamber, amid debate over “spite banks” and war-time concerns.

Thirty-eighth General Assembly Senate House Iowa Bankers’ Trust Pitt Harrison County State Superintendent of Banking W. L. Harding J. C. Mabry Albia J. H. Trewin Cedar Rapida Code Commission Assembly Lawe of A. G. Whitney Ladd Whitmore Price Monros County Price of Albis Parker van Alstine Beeman Brookhart House of Representatives Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home Institute For State Sanitarium State Hospitala State Penitentiary Reformatory State Hospital and Colony Women’s Reformatory Hale Larson Insurance Committee Neff Pottawattamle County Bil Guard of Health Evans Butler County Board of Control W. J. Greener Clinton Greenell Francia Taylor County Anderson Windebago County Ned Hoyt Jos Brailey Des Moines War Mathera America Uncle Sam Aldarman Story County Girls’ Industrial School Mitchellville Alderman Girls’Industrial Lake Sioux City Klaus Delaware Morgan Jasper County T.P. Harrington Kossuth County K. 5. LeValley Franklin County Congregational Church Harrington Smith

Wilson III Meets Helm as President Is Struck by Cold

Paris reports President Wilson confined to bed with a severe cold. Admiral Grayson, his physician, notes the illness came during talks with Clemenceau and Lloyd George. Officials say the condition is serious but not life threatening. temporary bed rest and rest at the White House.

Paris Wilson Parla White House Council of Four Grayson Visitore Whon Admiral Grayson H. M. Howse Eling Albert Belgium Clemenceau Lloyd George Supreme Council EB. M. House Council ‘of Four Turnuity Washington Wil‘son

Yanks Reinforced to Russia as Allied Forces Hold Front

London reports British authorities anxious over Murmansk region. Announcement says British reinforcements will follow the American troops heading to North Russia. At Archangel, bolshevik assaults on the front and flanks near Odozerka in were repulsed by allied forces on Tuesday.

London Murmansk Tug ‘Sia Russia Archangel Odozerskain

Revolt Brings New King Named Theodore in Abyssinia

Adis Ababa April 5. A grandson of King Johannes I, who died in 1889, proclaimed himself king as Theodore after a revolt. The government dispatched a punitive expedition to crush the uprising.

Johannes II Theodore Adis Abara Abyselnia Johannes I Kng

Spring-Ting Promotes Pierce Golden Medical Discovery

An old-fashioned house-cleaning appeal urges temperance tonics for a run-down winter or spring. It promotes Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a safe alterative and blood purifier to restore stomach tone nerves and overall strength. Testimony from C W Jones BON at 610 Second Ave endorses the remedy.

Pierce Golden Pierce’ Golden

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