Diaz Grant to Americans in Lower California Lands
The million-acre Lower California tract once granted to the California and Mexican Land Company of Los Angeles faced confiscation in 1917. American investors spent over $1 million on irrigation before production, while Japanese settlers began to move in under short-term leases, prompting U.S. inquiries into new negotiations and American rights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Company
Washington
Mexico City
Lower
California
Department
Amado Augirre
Development and Agriculture
Diaz
California and Mexican Land Company of
Los Angeles
Harrison Grey Otis
Colorado
Mexico
General Aguirre
Phillips
State Department
Phelan
44-Hour Week Adopted At United Shoe Plant
Beverley Massachusetts April 1 The United Shoe Machinery Company plant opens a 44-hour week with wage adjustments. An official says workers may clear as much pay as before on the 50-hour schedule. Lawrence Massachusetts April 1 Four racial groups about 65 percent of textile mill strikers vote for a 44-hour workweek with pay for 54 hours, per strike leader A J Muste.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beverley
Mass
United Shoe Machinery Company
Lawrence
French Troops Hold Out In Hungary Border Zone
A small French force in the neutral zone between Hungary and Romania was attacked by Hungarian troops. About 350 French soldiers were captured, with Hungary promising prisoner release on request by the French general. Widespread unrest reported in Hungary, Germany warns Germans to leave Budapest, and communist forces invaded German West Hungary but were repulsed after clashes with locals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Hungary
Roumania
Berlin
Budapest
Copenhagen
Bandit Slayers Captured After Robbery and Murder
Police report three men tied to a Kenosha vault heist at the American Brass company and the murder of a policeman. They fled in a stolen taxi with $50,000, were arrested at the Riverside hotel in McHenry Illinois, and identified by officers. Suspects named Te land L. Darlon R. E. Curtiss Sarkis Boshnaklan. Two wore soldier uniforms. one wore a brown suit and hat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Racine
Kenosha
Wis
Me. Henry
Ill
American Brass Company
Teland L. Darlon
North
Sawyer Avenue
R. E. Curtiss
Marengo
Sarkis Boshnaklan
Washington, D. C
Jack Walsh
Mce Henry
Riverside Hotel
King George approves military crosses for two American officers
London reports King George conferred the military cross on Capt. Samuel Evens Adams of the Lancashire Fusiliers and Capt. William Milholland of the Royal Scots. Both captains are members of the American medical corps and noted as decorated during wartime service.
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King George
Adams and
Milholland
London
Samuel Evens Adams
Lancashire Fusiliers
William Milholland
Royal Scots
American Medical Corps
Warsaw Fears Hun Trick On Danzig Link
Warsaw reports gravest apprehension over a German force active in Lithuania aiding allied bombardment of Bolshevist coast defenses. Fear centers on the allies allowing Germany to keep Danzig and align with Russia.
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Warsaw
Lithuania
Bolshevist
Germany
Danzig
Russia
Peace talks swirl as Wilson aims for accord and Foch caution
Paris dispatch reports the American peace delegation threatening a separate peace if allied powers do not unite for immediate agreement. London notes Foch may order a Rhine advance if German delegates refuse to sign. German officials insist actions follow Wilsons fourteen points as Spa hosts talks on finances and indemnity.
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Chicago
Paris
The
Tribune
Germany
Austria
America
London
Evening News
Marshal Foch
Rhine
Department of
German Foreign Office
Wilson
German Financial Commission
Spa
Wilson urges peace conference to show results
Paris April 1 President Wilson in an authorized statement on delays at the peace conference says he is willing to share responsibility. He notes the slowness is not due to any one nation or its representatives and declares the time for talk is over and results must follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monsey
Spa
Paris
Chateau de Villette
Compeigne
Marshal Foch
Wilson
Naval Guns in Barcelona
Drastic Spanish measures to quell strikes described by dispatches to the state department. Warship guns mounted in Barcelona harbors, strict newspaper censorship enforced, Madrid papers ceased publication in protest, several thousand arrests reported, and employers barred from reimbursing time losses for returning workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
State Department
Barcelona
Madrid
Meat Packers Freed From Food Administration Control
Washington DC April 1 meat packers nationwide were released from Food Administration control ending wartime food restrictions and oversight. The action lifts federal supervision of meat production and distribution as agencies conclude wartime allocation measures.
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Food Administration
Washington, D. C
United States
Hindenburg Forces Ring Polish Rail Route
Paris dispatch says German army units under General Von Hindenburg are assembling at Graudenz and Thorn to defend the rail line from Dansiz to Posen as relief for Poland.
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Paris
von Hinden
Dissolution of Corn Products Refining Ordered by Judge
New York April 1 Federal Judge Learned Mandel ordered the dissolution of the Corn Products Refining company. The decree requires sale to competitors before 1021 of all but three manufacturing plants. The company may keep sites at Argo and Pekin Illinois but must dispose of plants in Chicago and Granite City Illinois.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Corn Products Refining Company
Learned Mand
Supreme Court of the Corporation
Argo
Pekin
Chicago
Granite City
Washington
Eugene V. Debs
Supreme Court
Palmer
Federal District Court
Revolt in Westphalia Sparks General Strike and Protests
Report from Cologne dated April 1 describes a mass meeting at Dortmund calling for overthrow of the government, disarming middle classes, arming the proletariat, and dissolving the national assembly at Weimar. A general strike is underway in Dortmund and the Ruhr. About thirty thousand miners are idle in Essen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cologne
Westphalia
Dortmund
National Assembly
Weimar
Ruhr
Essen
Gompers Sails for Home from France
Washington reports the American Federation of Labor says Samuel Gompers and his party left France and sailed for New York aboard the steamer Pottrie am, restoring the labor leader to U S shores after a foreign voyage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
American Federation of Labor Headquarters
France
Samuel Gomp Rs
New York
Pottrie
Tragic Scaffold Collapse Kills Many at Delaware Launch
At Bristol Pennsylvania during the launch of the freighter Waukau a temporary scaffold collapsed sending about 150 people into the Delaware River. Forty to fifty are feared dead with about 100 rescued as divers and emergency crews searched the water. The loss may rise as bodies were lodged against pilings and docks.
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Bristol
Merchant Shipbuilding Company
Delaware River
Harriman
Delaware
Kaiser Turns to Socialism in Dinner Table Display
The Hague diarist for the Daily Mail claims Kaiser Wilhelm has embraced socialism, often declaring the days of socialism and helping to wait on the table after dressing in a general’s uniform. He supposedly talks continually while the Empress spends most of her time in prayer.
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London
Hague
Daily Mail
Wilhelm
Ensign Held as Fence in Auto Theft Ring
Ensign W. C Schulling of the Great Lakes naval training station was arrested by Waukegan authorities as a fence for automobile thieves. He was held in default of $2,000 bonds. Lake county supervisor George Bairstow admitted buying two machines later found to be stolen, a suspicion that led to the arrest.
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Chicago
W. C Schulling
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Waukegan
Justice of the Peace
Taylor
George Bairstow
Lake County
James G. Welch
Ensign Schulling
Rules on Rates for Soldiers Denies Reduced Rail Fares
The Supreme Court upheld land grant railroads charging general public rates for discharged soldiers and others not entitled to reduced fares. Debs may call a nationwide strike as he begins a ten-year espionage act sentence after the court denied a rehearing.
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Godsel
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Pierce-Arrow Automobile Company
France
Smyth
Supreme Court
Union Pacific Railroad
Court of Claims
Debs
Akron
Eugene V. Debs
Bolshevism Claims Reach U S During War Surfacing
Paris reports a wireless message from Tehitcherin to Bela Kun intercepted by France. It states that the revolutionary movement is gaining in America with New York, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan especially infected by bolshevism. A riot in Philadelphia is attributed to bolshevist influence.
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Paris
Tehitcherin
Bela Kun
America
New York
Pennsylvania
Indiana
Illinois
Michigan
Philadelphia
Doctor Northcutt Charged With Nurse Murder In S F
Dr Nohriam Northcutt a prominent San Francisco physician was arrested by Chief Duncan Mathewson and charged with murdering Army nurse Miss Ines Elizabeth Reed whose body was found tossed from a Crystal Springs road cliff weeks ago investigators say the death resulted from a criminal operation.
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San Francisco
Nohriam Northcutt
Duncan Mathewson
Supreme Court Recessed Until April 14
The Supreme Court recessed in Washington until April 14 when arguments in pending cases will resume.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court
Washington
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U. S
McHenry
W.W
Foch
Chateau
Campeigne
Lloyd George
Council of Four
Echo de Paris
Presi
Dent Wilson
Sults
Hindenburg
Burg
Graudenz
Thorn
Dansiz and
Posen
Gompers
Sir
Oseph Rickett
Joseph Compton Rickett
England
Kaiser
Ensign
Great Lakes
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