World News Briefs From The Day
Busy world roundup notes leaders dying James A Tawney former Minnesota congressman and House appropriations chair dies at Exelsior Springs Missouri at sixty four John C Spooner former Wisconsin senator dies at New York City Heavily summarized itemizing 1920 army bill 718 million dollars delays and war end proclamations plus peace conference leaks and Russian and German postwar moves.
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James A. Tawney
Minnesota
House
Appropriations Committee
Excelsior Springs
Mr. Tawney
United States
John C. Spooner
Wisconsin
New York
John Coit Spooner
Lawrenceburg
Ind
Knox Seeks Separate Ratification Of League Covenant
Knox pushes a plan to separate the League of Nations covenant from the peace treaty and require Senate debate on them separately. Allies reply to German counter proposals. five days left for final German decision. the conference notes shifts on borders and reparations while bolshevik advances raise concern.
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Susak
Cony
Upie
Riga
P. C. Knox
Knox
Rom League of Nations
Hans
Austria
Bolshevine
Wilson
Germany
Congress
America
New York
Boraly
Wall Street
Wall ‘Street
League of Nations
Mitchcock
League
Senate
Foreign Relations Committee
Hun
Council of Four
Upper Silesia
Financial Commission
Germaany
The
League of Tions
Paris
Hungary
Roumania
Czecho-Slovakia
Bela ‘Kan
Admiral Kolchak
Russia
Petrograd
Moscow
Armistice Commission
Lithuania
Latvia
Betrograd
Kolchak
Omsk
Telephone Girls of Chicago and 130000 Electric Workers Walkout
Chicago officials report that telephone girls and about 130 000 electrical workers are expected to strike Monday in solidarity with railway telegraphers. The walkout follows union calls and includes support from 200 brokers in a referendum plan. Officials in New York Chicago say trouble centers on contraband exchange news and quotations.
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Telephone Girls of
Chicago
United States
Commercial Telegraphers’ Union
Western Union Telegraph Company
Sylvester J. Konenkamp
Western Brokers’ Division
Telephone Girls
Electric Workers’ Union
Masonic Temple
Konenkamp
Western Union
Postal
New York
TA Mt “Co
Charles P. Ford
International Brotherhood of Electric Workers
Springfield
F. A. Davis
Wisconsin Beats Illinois in First State to File for Suffrage Amendment
Wisconsin wins race to file first with secretary of state ratifying the woman suffrage constitutional amendment. David G. James, father of Ada James, Wisconsin chairman of the National Woman Suffrage Association, filed the ratification in Washington and was greeted by suffragists in the capital.
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Illinois
Springfield
House
Senate
Madison
Wisconsin
Michigan
Washington
David G. James
Ada James
National Woman Suffrage Association
French Journalist Gaston Routier Executed by Court Martial
Paris reports Gaston Routier a prominent French journalist was sentenced to death by court martial for military intelligence aiding the foe. The court martial found him guilty of providing intelligence to enemy forces. Routier was a noted figure in wartime journalism.
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Black Sea
Robert C. Paris
Prague
Slovakia
Siberia
Messrs. Dunne
Walsh
Wilson
Paris
Gaston Routier
Routier
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Palmer
Navy Intelligence Bureau
Thomas W. Lamont
J. P. Morgan & Co
Mr. Lamont
Henry P. Davison
Parie
Davison
Ettha Root
Lodge
Adinistration
United States Senate
Dyer
Missouri
Rep
Cable
Italy
Reparations Commission
Citizens’ Council of
Greater Berlin
Die Freiheit
Die Freheit
Oar
Odessa
August Danner
International Harvester Company
Tokyo
China
Shanghai
Marshal Foch
Weygand
Clemenceau
Ape Fo
Ecordings Ee Fe
Ashed
Stockholm
Atwoblad
Holland
Countess Markievicz
Sinn Fein
Dublin
Ireland
Cork
Lake
Owego
Archangel
Charles F. Maas
Civil
Military Investigation
Fort Leavenworth
Department of Labor
American Federation of Labor
Atlantic City
N. J
Thomas Mooney
San Francisco
A. K
Martens
Lusk Committee
France
New York Harbor
Organized Labor
American Federation, of Labor
Waterigo
Rock Island
Minneapolis
St. Louis
Washburn
Edward W. Pickas
Gustav Stresemann
National Liberal Party
Wilhelm
Aurtore
Spain
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