Huns to Get Treaty Monday
Paris May 1 German peace terms to be presented Monday. Germany loses 70 percent of iron ore one third of coal 20 percent of potash output and up to 8 million people and all colonies. Kiao Chau to Japan with China to follow on details. Japanese Chinese and Allied delegates attend council as statements reach agreement.
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China
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Urge care for wheat crop storage urged
Washington May 1 Farmers and grain elevator men are urged by the department of agriculture to make every provision for the safe storage and handling of the prospective huge wheat crop. If next winter is severe, congestion at terminal elevators and railroads could cause heavy losses without adequate storage. Stacking wheat promptly under proper conditions is recommended as a preferable alternative to threshing now to ease railway congestion.
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Department of Agriculture
Strike may delay peace terms presentation
Paris reports a 24 hour strike on May 1 casts doubt on presenting peace terms to Germany that day. Officials expect the function to be postponed to Friday May 2.
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Paris
Ex Kaiser Still Has Friends In Germany
Amsterdam April 80 Ex Kaiser counts many loyalists in Germany an address of homage bearing 500000 signatures received at Amerongen. Albanians Denounce Italy Saloniki May 1 Rebels opposing Italian troops grow in number with 4000 fighters reported by Hellas.
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Amerongen
Ration set at 930 grams daily for occupied German areas
The interallied military commission orders a daily 930 gram per person ration for 7 million in the left bank occupied zones, an 80 gram increase in weight and 2406 extra calories, paid by Germany and distributed via German cards. 850,000 residents in the American sector, 13 percent of occupied zones.
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Interallied Organization
Bombs mailed to senators parts of May Day plot
New York reports two bombs mailed to U S Senator Cummis of Iowa and Senator Smoot of Idaho were sent as part of a planned May Day terror plot. A Salisbury post office, N C, flagged a bomb addressed to Senator Overman and notified Washington.
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All Agencies Work to Cope With Reds Boast
New York May 1 federal and municipal agencies labored to trace the authors of a nationwide bomb conspiracy and to guard against the Reds boast of a surprise on May Day as they acted to protect prominent Americans amid fears of attacks.
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New York
Prominent figures targeted by mail bombs across the country
Federal and local authorities report seventeen internal bomb devices mailed to public officials including Postmaster General Burleson and Attorney General Palmer. Some exploded during inspection, others found near New York, Seattle, Philadelphia, Boston, and San Francisco. Gimbel Brothers labels forged, no total damages known.
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New York City
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Georgia
Hardwick
Ole Hanson
Seattle
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Palmes
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Hylan
New York
Sproul
Pennsylvania
John D. Rockefeller
J. P. Morgan
Lamar
Post Office Department
F. C. Howe
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W. M. Wood
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Boston
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Richard B. Enright
Holmes
United States Supreme Court
Post Office
Gimbel Brothers
San Francisco
District Attorney's Office
Charles M. Fickert
Edward Cunha
Cunha
Broadway
Britain Faces Big Deficit In War Budget
London reports a Commons budget statement by Austin Chamberlain as of May 1 1918 19 detailing 34.4 percent of expenditures covered by revenue the rest by borrowing. National debt stood at 37 275 000 000 dollars on March 31 with a wartime peak of 39 900 000 000 a year earlier. Current year spending was projected at 7 170 095 000 with expected revenue of 5 798 250 000 without new taxes leaving a gap requiring new taxation likely around 5 000 000 000 to be raised by taxes and the remainder by loans.
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House of Commons
Austin Chamberlain
Chicago Prohibits May Day Parade Planned for Today
May Day parade by Chicago radicals to protest Debs imprisonment and war prisoner liberation was prohibited by police and abandoned by the Reds. City double policed to curb possible demonstrations and rioting.
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Greece Proclaims Union of Isles with Greece
In Athens on May 1 a proclamation declares the Dodecanese islands united with Greece. Italy asserts claims to the islands, grounding sovereignty on rights secured after the Turkish war and in 1912.
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Bolsheviki Lose Petrograd City and Italian Occupation Falters
Finnish Anti-Bolsheviki forces reportedly occupy Petrograd while revolt against Italian troops spreads from Saloniki to Albania. Advices to Hellas note rebels led by a commander with about 4,000 men expanding the movement amid regional turmoil.
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Petro
Saloniki
Greece
Albania
Hellas
Grain Dealers Organize Southwestern League
Kansas City May 1 announcement explains formation of the Southwestern Grain Dealers league with members to come from Missouri Kansas Oklahoma Texas Colorado and Nebraska across the region.
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Nebraska
Argentine Corn Arrives in Iowa From Argentina
A cargo of corn from Argentina is en route to Clinton Iowa for a starch manufacturer. It was bought and shipped by water to Iowa cheaper than local corn. Another Argentine cargo lies off New Brunswick as Chicago buyers bid, while millions of bushels are said to wait in Midwest farm cribs for higher prices.
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Argentina
Mississippi River
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Iowa
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Middle West
Budapest Reds Jail 600 in Mass Arrests
Budapest reports six hundred arrests by Soviet authorities as financiers publishers editors writers and ministers are jailed. More than thirty editors and newspaper owners along with many reporters are said to have been detained for not championing the cause.
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Hungary
Tennessee Battleship Tennessee launched at New York
New York May 1 crowds watched the launching of the U S S Tennessee the United States superdreadnought battleship. The vessel 624 feet long with twelve 14 inch guns cost about 15 million and is sister ship to the California under construction at Mare Island. Miss Helen Roberts daughter of Governor A H Roberts christened the ship with champagne while 7 000 spectators observed.
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New York
New York Navy Yard
United States
Tennessee
Helen Roberts
Sixtoe
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Navy
California
Mare Island Navy Yard
Half of Soldiers Released In War Demobilization
Washington May 1 reports the halfway demobilization of the American forces. The April 24 discharge total reached 1 888. The A W F strength now stands at 58 percent of its November 11 peak, while U S strength is 31 percent of that level.
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War Department
Washington
United States
Omaha Mayor Bars Socialists Adverts Meeting
Omaha mayor Smit forbade an adverts meeting of Socialists and T W We to promote an international labor day program. He said the aim was to prevent preaching anarchy in Omaha. The committee planned the event at the socialists headquarters, and the hall custodian said he would close the venue under the mayor's order.
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Smit
T. W. We
Ormada
Salvador Quake May Be Severe
A South American Cable Company report from New York says the San Salvador earthquake two days earlier may prove as disastrous as the 1917 quake. No details yet, but the agent in San Salvador cables that damage is extensive and the disaster appears to rival that of 1947.
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South American Cable Company
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