Gompers Roused by Red Wave in Europe
Samuel Gompers arrives in London amid reports of French labor unrest including a Lyons demonstration resembling bolshevism. He meets with British labor leaders and plans talks with the French Federation of Labor in Paris next week. He departs for Paris Wednesday after a Grosvenor welcome and a meeting with the Trades Union Congress committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Samuel Gompers
Gompers
France
Lyons
French Labor Party
Radical Socialist Party
World Federation of Labor
French Federation of Labor
Paris
Trades Union Congress
Hotel Grosvenor
British Prisoners Starved In German Camps Reports
London reports many British soldiers freed from German prison camps arrive home emaciated from mistreatment. Nineteen buried in Danish graves. Budapest dispatch records Hungarian losses up to July include 24,000 officers and 815,000 other ranks killed and 41,000 officers and 1,900,000 other ranks wounded, with 22,000 officers and 150,000 other ranks missing or prisoners. Comment notes disparity between officer and enlisted losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Copenhagen
Budapest
Amsterdam
Senate agrees on excess profits tax for 1920
Washington reports conferees have approved in the war revenue bill rates taxing war excess profits of corporations in 1920 and thereafter, estimated to raise about 1.6 billion dollars annually. The 1919 rates were deferred, and the 80 percent war profits levy may extend into 1920 only for remaining war contracts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Washington
Stme
Unemployed Demonstrators Mass at Boston City Hall
Hundreds of unemployed including 300 former army chauffeurs stormed Boston City Hall in a large protest against unemployment. Reserve police were called and the mob was held in check to prevent violence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston City Hall
Boston
Army
Reserve Police
Denied Faith School Report Targets Iliff and DU
Fifty Presbyterian elders and clergymen adopt a report declaring the Iliff School of Theology and Denver University to be hotbeds of infidelity in Denver Colorado on January 20.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver University
Denver, Colo
Presbyterian Eliers
Iliff School of Theology
Shipping Board to Cut War Costs and Rates
Officials forecast rapid action to write off about 30 percent of wartime shipping costs and then cut freight rates in American bottoms. Chairman Hurley, in France, aims to place the merchant fleet on a solid financial base, with actions possibly approved this week and discussed at next Wednesday’s shipping interests conference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Shipping Board
Hurley
France
The
Wilson
Congress
Conference of Shipping Interests
Filipinos to Seek Independence Mission Arrives in U S
A 25 member Philippine mission of legislators and professionals will visit the United States to promote trade and press for independence. Manuel Quezon, senate president and independence party leader, said he was named mission chairman and is in the U S on his honeymoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Wash
Philippine Islands
United States
Manuel Quezon
Senate of the Islands
Independence Party
Ife
Tacoma Shipyard Strike Threat Endangers 9,000 Workers
Tacoma Washington January 20 1930 The Tacoma Metal Trades Council voted unanimously to strike next Tuesday to press a new wage scale. The Seattle Metal Trades Council joined in a shipyard strike on the same day affecting about 25,000 workers in Seattle. Most plants employing metal workers will close except sheet metal shops. The proposed scale calls for $8 for mechanics $7 for semi skilled workers and a minimum of $5.50 for common labor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tacoma
Wash
Tacoma Metal Trades Council
Seattle Metal Trades Council
Seattle
Americans Slain in Mexico Prompt Calls for Action
Representative Stephen G Porter of Pennsylvania urged punishment of Mexican bandits and an official U S inquiry after reports that American citizens were murdered in the Tampico oil fields during 1918. Porter said deadly attacks demand government accountability and protection for Americans in Mexico.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Porter
Pennsylvania
Matter
Washington
Tampico
Stephen G. Porter
House Committee On Foreign Relations
Congress
Mexico
U. S
United States
Train Kills Flu Victim In Quarantine Escape
Delirious from influenza Mrs. Mabel H. Brown ing 1131 Green Bay road Glencoe Illinois wandered onto Chicago and Northwestern tracks while still in a nightgown and was run over and killed instantly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glencoe
Mabel H. Browning
Green Bay Road
Chicago & Northwestern Railroad
Appropriation Bills Set for Senate and House This Week
Washington reports that both chambers will tackle key spending measures this week. The Senate is to resume the $100,000,000 European relief food bill amid opposition, with Senator Penrose’s plan to remove Hoover from supervising fund expenditures. In the House, the diplomatic and consular bill leads, including the annual foreign service appropriation. Naval and military bills also move forward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
House
Penrose
Herbert Hoover
Naval Affairs Committee
Military Affairs Committee
Riots at German national assembly elections spark unrest
London reports grave riots as Germans vote for a national assembly. Leipsic lacks gas and water amid a general strife. The Lokal Anzeiger claims Berlin’s Ebert Scheidemann government will skip the assembly elections. An appeal by independent socialists for a general strike over Liebknecht and Luxemburg deaths failed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Germany
National Assembly
Leipsic
Copenhagen
Exchange Telegraph Company
Amsterdam
Lokal Anzieger
Berlin
Ebert-Scheidemann
Independent Socialists of
Karl Liebknecht
Rosa Luxemburg
Big Five Dominate Paris Peace Conference Talks
The big five nations America Britain France Italy and Japan will participate in all meetings and commissions. Other wartime powers Belgium Brazil China Greece Poland Portugal Romania Serbia and the Czecho-Slovaks will attend sessions on matters affecting them. Russia's status will be decided once related issues are examined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
America
Britain
France
Italy
Japan
Belgium
Brazil
China
Greece
Poland
Portugal
Roumania
Serbia
Russia
Germany
Austria
Beating Germany in Science Declared by Redfield
Secretary of Commerce Redfield told a Republican club lunch that America must send commerce as a servant of nations not as an exploiter. He said the U S has overtaken Germany in scientific progress during the war and even beat them at their own game.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secretary of Commerce
Redfield
U. S
Huns
New York
America
Republican Club
Rochambeau Is All Right Returns After Delay
The Rochambeau with 83 American soldiers aboard was reported missing after diverting to Halifax but wireless reports say repairs to machinery caused a delay. The vessel, part of the Eighty eighth division composed of Middle Western men, is due in New York late Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Halifax
Eighty Eighth
Kaiser Bill Walks in Castle Grounds as Music Lifts Health
William Hohenzollern shows marked health improvement and strolls in the castle grounds morning and afternoon. In the evenings a parlor concert entertains him with piano, harp, and violoncello performed by three members of his suite.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Hohenzollern
Amerogen
Holland
Jen
Grain men at meet on wheat distribution plan
Frank Crowell acting head of the Food Administration Grain Corporation met Chicago millers and elevator interests to outline the government wheat sale program. The plan calls for selling enough wheat to keep mills running at 12 cents over the basic price with February allocations and a January 27 reply deadline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Frank ©. Crowell
Food Administration Grain Corporation
Food Administration
Crowell
Middle West
Mr. Crowell
St. Louis
Kansas City
Omaha
Cleveland
Congress
United States
Lever
House Agricultural Committee
Wilson
Husband slain in midnight coasting accident
Martin C. Kehoe Jr., a prominent investment broker, died after a fall from a ravine on Racine avenue during a late night sledding party in Highland Park. Frederick K. MacKenzie, of 400 North Sheridan Road, Highland Park, suffered two fractured ribs and was treated at Highland Park Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Highland Park
Martin C. Kehoe, Jr
Highland Park Hospital
Racine Avenue
Frederick K. MacKenzie
North Sheridan Road
Italian Envoys Named for Peace Conference
Paris January 20 The Italian delegation to the peace congress is completed with Antonio Salandra former premier and minister of the interior and Signor Barsedital deputy for Rome joining the peace table.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
Paris
Antonia Salandra
Signor Barsedtal
Centenarian Frederick Layton Ends Life at Home
Philadelphia reports Frederick Layton a hundred years old hanged himself with a rope made from a bed sheet at his residence. The tragic event occurred on January 20 in Philadelphia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Jan
Frederick Layton
Western Heroes Are Back Home After Western Front Feats
More than 406 Illinois men among 5,150 aboard hospital ship Comfort and transports Lapland Wilhelming and Sierra arrive to Camp Mills and Merritt. Officers and soldiers from the Eighth Illinois and the Blackhawk division recount fierce fighting in the Champagne sector with Lt Harvey J Taylor Chicago awarded Croix de Guerre for heroism on October 24 near Soissons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Illinois
Comfort
Lapland
Wilhelming
Sierra
Tilmots
Eighth Ilinois
Wilhelmina
Champagne
France
Eighth
Three Hundred and Seventieth Infantry
Mangin
Harvey J. Taylor
Chicago
Taylor
Soissons
Victory Liberty loan planned for April final drive
Washington reports that only one more major war loan will be issued by the treasury. Secretary Glass expects the Victory Liberty loan to run for three weeks in April with a target between 85 and 6,000,000,000 dollars. No further bond issues are planned or likely this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Treasury Department
Glass
Baltimore man convicted in war contractor bribery case
Samuel Swenson of Cambridge Mass was found guilty in federal court of bribing Loyal F. Fox, a government store inspector at the sulphate nitrate plant in Perryville Md. He received a 15 month sentence in Maryland penitentiary. Swenson planned the bribe to gain preference on bids for unused nitrate soda bags.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Samuel Swenson
Cambridge
Mass
Fox
Perryville
Maryland
Swenson
Also Mentioned on This Page
Europe
Sir James Ian MacPherson
James Ian Macpherson
Ireland
Fen
Ebert
BIG Five
BEAT
Rochambeau IS All Right
Willi
Kaiser Bill
Eleanor Bliss
Gen
Tasker H. Bliss
General Bliss
Iowa
Kaiser
Three Hundred and Thirty-seventh Artillery
National Army
Camp Dodge
Camp Mills
Merritt
Glory of Negro Unit
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!