Germans Threaten to Break Peace Treaty Over Mandates
Western Newspaper Union News Service reports from Geneva that Germany sent a note to the League of Nations claiming the right to break the peace treaty if its mandate demands are not met. British Labor MP George Nicoll Barnes urged admitting Germany to the League. Britain France Spain and Belgium offered troops for Vilna to maintain order during the plebiscite.
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Union News Service
Geneva
Germany
Loague of Nations
League
Inter-Allied Supreme Council
George Nicoll Barnes
League of Nations Assembly
League of Boon
Barnes
United States
Russia
America
Great Britain
France
Spain
Vilna
Lithuania
Poland
Zelignowski
Mexican Mob Storms Nogales Jail Amid Turmoil
About a thousand laborers attacked the Nogales city jail in Sonora shouting curses at Mayor A Villasenbr and threatening to hang him. The mob, not breaking into the jail, pressed the disruption as Gov. Flavio Borquez arrived from Hermosillo to ease tensions over the mayor's arrest on alleged connivance with a Tucson policeman to hand Modesto Martinez to U.S. authorities for murder trial.
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Nogales
Ariz
Sopora
A. ©. Villasenbr
Flavio A. Borquez
Hermosillo
Villasenor
Tucson
Modesto Martinez
Sixteen Woodsmen Drowned at Chesuncook Lake Maine
Sixteen woodsmen drowned when a motorboat caught fire on Chesuncook lake in the lumber district. As the group crossed from Chesuncook dam to Cuxabesis, attempts to fight the blaze failed and panicked passengers went overboard.
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Bangor
Maine
Chesuncook Lake
Chesuncook Dam
Cuxabesis
Japs Urge Wider Talks and Naval Understanding
An Asahi Shimbun article from Dan ke proposes extending Washington negotiations between Japan and the United States to cover all bilateral subjects, highlighting a naval understanding as essential. In Nebraska, Dennis Chester, alleged slayer of Florence Barton, fled near Oconto after an escape from a railroad train, then attempted suicide by strangulation at the county jail.
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Washington
Japan
United States
Asahi Shimbun
Danke
Broken Bow
Dennis Chester
Florence Barton
Kanaas City
Oconto
Fation
Soll
Forged Tickets Leave Emigrants Stranded in Cherbourg
Two hundred fifty emigrants bound for the United States are left penniless at Cherbourg after ocean steamship tickets, bought for Paris by a supposed navigation company agent, prove forged. Manager Chaplin of the American Society for the Protection of Emigrants has asked police to arrest the man trusted with securing the tickets.
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Cherbourg
France
United States
Paris
Chaplin
American Society For the Protection of Emigrants
Belgian President Elected at League of Nations Assembly
Paul Hymans of Belgium was chosen permanent president of the League of Nations at the Geneva assembly opening. He captured 35 votes to Motta of Switzerland's 4, with one vote each for Ador of Switzerland and Leon Bourgeois of France. Hymans, a former Belgian foreign minister, led the session as Motta welcomed delegates from many nations. The assembly adjourned amid bells in Geneva and a crowd, including several women delegates in colorful attire.
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Union Nova Service
Geneva
Paul Hymans
Belgium
League of Nations
Motta
Switzerland
Ador
Leon Bourgeois
France
M. Hymans
United States
M. Motta
Peace Conference
Wilson
Assembly
League
League Assembly
Ajalmar Tranding
Tlon
Robert Ceecil
South Africa
Albania
Bulgaria
Austria
Vivian
Bourgeoise
Germany
Robert Cecil
Rene Vivian
Signor Titon
Hymans
Peru
Chile
Bolivia
Postoffice Clerk Hid $18,000 In Tire Outside Henderson
Henderson North Carolina postoffice clerk L V Graves formerly of Omaha Nebraska was arrested on theft charges for stealing registered mail. Inspectors say he concealed eighteen thousand dollars in an extra tire on his car when captured including seventeen thousand in cash and a one thousand Liberty bond.
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Postoffice
Henderson, N. C
L. V. Graves
Omaha
Neb
Boy Saves Woman From Death Near Chicago
Edward Agnew, a one year old boy, clung to Mrs B Hamilton Lee as waves washed her toward the lake. Her husband, a government aviator in the air service between Chicago and Minneapolis, and others prevented her from dying after four attempts to destroy her life. She was taken to the Psychopathic laboratory for evaluation.
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Chicago
B. Hamilton Lee
Minneapolis
Edward Agnew
Dynamiter Wrecks Germantown Home and Rockville Scene
Two children died in Rockville when a dynamite blast wrecked a home near Germantown. In Montgomery County police guard an alleged dynamiter amid threats of violence while a man who died and his injured wife were moved from a Sandy Springs hospital and the couple’s shattered Maryland home is described.
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Germantown
Rockville
Montgomery County
Maryland
General Hospital
Sandy Springs
Japan and United States tension eases in California dispute
In Tokio a cautious mood prevails as officials see progress in talks with the United States over the California ownership issue. A Washington cable conference is discussed by Japan’s upper house, while two thousand university students debate whether Japan should fight America. The gathering ends with no vote amid divided views on war.
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Tokio
Japan
United States
California
House of Peers
Washington
Viscount Uchida
Yap
America
League of Nations names six vice presidents
In a tense session the League of Nations assembly completed its organization by electing six vice presidents who, with six committee chairmen, form an executive committee for the assembly. Non European nations, whom many favors were sought for, received four vice presidents rather than the three they had requested.
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Geneva
League of Nations Assembly
Assembly
Storms wreck Pacific ships off Oregon and California
Storms off the Oregon and northern California coasts drove the steam schooner G. Lindauver ashore at Albion California and blocked the tug Storm King from attempting to float the schooner Joan of Arc ashore at Port Orford Oregon. Both crews were rescued and neither vessel is believed salvageable. The ships operated in the lumber trade.
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San Francisco
Oregon
California
G. ©. Lindauver
Albion
Calif
Joan of Arc
Port Orford
Child Excluded From Fortune in Supreme Court Ruling
The appellate division upheld a lower court decision awarding custody of Baby Irene to Margaret Ryan of Ottawa, denying Molly Matters of Chicago and excluding the child from nearly 498000 dollars as the daughter of a wealthy American.
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Toronto
Venizelos Defeated As Greece Seeks New Cabinet
Athens reports Premier Venizelos loses influence as his cabinet resigns. Admiral Coundouriotis drafts George Ithalis to form a new ministry, but Ithalis declines and Demetrios Gounaris takes charge. Election results show Venizelos supporters crushed, with royalists leading. two killed amid unrest near the foreign office. Constantine contemplates return with mixed signals from allies and Paris.
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Union News Service
Athens
Venizelos
Coundouriotis
Greece
George Khallis
Ithallis
M. Rhallis
Demetrios Gounaris
Gounaris
Constantine
Saloniki
Attica
M. Venizelos
Foreign Office
Robbery at Bust Ninth Street Residence Stuns Elite
Three men entered a fashionable Bust Ninth Street residence and bound Mrs. Charlotte King Palmer and her two servants, kidnapping jewels and furs valued at about $500,000 with $4,000 insurance on the jewels. An extensive search is underway for the suspects.
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New York
Nineteenth Street
Charlotte King Palmer
Fall River Mills Keep Wages Unchanged in Agreement
Wages of about 35,000 cotton mill operatives in Fall River Mass will remain at the six month scale after an agreement reached by representatives of manufacturers and employees. The accord followed multiple sessions between the Fall River Manufacturers Association executive committee and the Fall River Textile Council and is viewed as significant beyond the city.
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Fall River
Mass
Vast $84 Million Mail Train Robbery Reported
Western Nebraska summary says the transcontinental mall robbery between Omaha and Council Bluffs totals about 84.5 million in losses with bonds in pouches. Insurance near 3 million, some recoveries claimed, while investigators rush in from many cities. No solid progress. suspect Merle Phillips’s tale questioned. another suspect Frank Williams alibi verified.
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Western
Union News Service
Own
Neb
Navy
Omaha
Council Bluffs
L. J. Patterson
Cornell Bluffs
Hughes
Merle Phillips
Frank Williams
Phillips
Williams
Lighthouse keeper endures deadly storm alone twenty two years
Alfred H. Griffiths, longtime keeper at a Midland Ontario lighthouse, braved a violent Lake Huron storm for three days with his wife dead and buried aboard the mainland rescue effort finally arriving after the seas calmed. The woman's body was brought ashore for burial.
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Midland
Ont
Lake Huron
Alfred H. Griffiths
Buwhal
President Wilson Health Improves at White House
White House officials report President Wilson’s health has improved since the election and the shedding of anxiety over the electorate’s decision. Despite cold weather he spends time daily on the south portico and remains active in public business and drafting Congress’s annual message.
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Washington
Wilson
White House
Congress
Youth Admits Theft in Denver Bank Embezzlement Case
Julius Josephson, a former bookkeeper at American Bank and Trust Company in Denver, confessed to embezzling 86,000. He detailed how he took the funds and lost them gambling, admitting guilt to police.
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Denver
Julius Josephson
American Bank and Trust Company
Baseball Player Jailed for Bigamy in Fort Worth Texas
Robert R. Evans a former major league pitcher received a two year federal sentence for bigamy. He admitted marrying three women and said his career spanned more than ten years with the Washington and Detroit American League clubs and the Brooklyn National League club.
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Fort Worth
Texas
Robert R. Bvans
Evans
Washington
Detroit
Brooklyn
Wyoming News Notes and Local Developments
Through trains shift times on the Union Pacific line as Wyoming reports a string of local items. In Laramie the Cathedral Home for Children opens after ten years of effort while Casper chief of police B. Ellithorpe resigns after serving since January. Detroit Tigers sign Greybull standouts Joe Eddleman and Paddy Reagan. Oil lease interests grow in Salt Creek field with Columbine and Ohio Oil companies. Wheatland farmer John Thompson buys Way side ranch and nearby holdings to convert to a sheep operation. Armstrong plant at Ohio City suffers a boiler house fire causing about 2000 dollars in damage. Yellowstone welcomes 79,777 tourists and 15,586 autos, setting records. The body of air mail pilot John P. Woodward is found near Tie Siding after a fatal crash during a snowstorm. Wyoming oil output for eight months ends August at 11 million barrels, with a monthly breakdown. Producers and Refiners Corporation reports assets at 85 million, with leaseholds over 24 million and 5.2 million in reserve. Casper adopts a new gas safety and milk ordinance. Donald Forsyth becomes youngest U S insurance commissioner at 23. State university seeks funding for a major building program.
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Laramie
Wyoming Historical Department
BE. M. Ellithorpe
Casper
Eillthorpe
Joe Eddleman
Paddy Reagan
Greybull
Paddy
Detroit Tigers
Washington
Payne
Department of the Interior
Columbine Oil Company
Ohio Oil Company
Salt Creek
John Thompson
Wheatland
Wayside
Colonel Shanton
Paul Pascoe
Armstrong
Ohio City
Rock Creek
Armstrong Company
America
Yellowstone National Park
Union
John P. Woodward
Air Mail
Tie Siding
Cheyenne
Wyo
Woodward
Wyoming
Producers’ & Refiners
J. F. O'Donnell
J. Roy Colvin
Donald M. Forsyth
United States
Carey
Forsyth
R. B. Forsyth
State University
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U. S-Japan
Western Newspaper Union News Service
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