Government Shipbuilding Fraud Surfaces in Three States
The government faces a shipbuilding fraud case involving more than 1.05 billion dollars tied to Pacific Coast builders. Grand juries in Oregon Washington and California are summoned as investigators name 20 influential magnates and verify payout schemes with inflated costs and false vouchers. Authorities plan further actions to recover funds.
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Franks
Oregon
Washington
California
Willian JH. Tidwell
Jens
United Surtees
Bert Schies Mager
Ehipyera
pDipbaliders
Atipbulldfog
Frowia
Schies Augeria
Beattie
Palmer
United States Shipping Board
General Bliss warns of war over Poland supply cutoffs
General Bliss reports that warnings about war to protect Poland against Bolshevik forces prompt discussions with Secretary Baker on curbing copper and chemical supplies. The note suggests Europe could return to conflict if Poland cannot resist Bolshevik armies, affecting U S policy.
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Washington
United States
Targist Curpine Cuttery
Poland
Latate
Baker
Europe
Fiume Placed Under Italian Sovereignty
The article reports that Fiume was awarded to Italy and placed under Italian sovereignty after leaders Dolgrada Licht George and Clemenceau reaffirmed their positions on Monday and accepted the new plan. The JagrBine company received the forwarded text detailing the decision.
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Miedeon
Covara
Ty Dolgrada
George
Clemenceau
Mallon Roveraignty
Four Die in Explosion at Sinclair Oil Plant
Reported from Chicago says four people burned to death and about twenty injured when a boiler exploded at the Sinclair Oil Refining plant. Safety concerns and ensuing investigations follow.
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Chicago
Jod
Sinclair Owh Refining Company
Britain Faces War Talks as Russia Threat Grows
London officials and cabinet chiefs gather for urgent conference on the Eastern crisis amid fears of Soviet control in European Russia and possible new war threats. In Washington, U S Marines and Haitian gendarmes fend off bandit forces outside Port au Prince with two Marines wounded. Honolulu reports Japan will seek a commission with China to negotiate Shan tung restoration.
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United States
Port Au Prince
Navy Department
J. Hi. Russell
Salt
Russell
Honolulu
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Japanese Foreign Office
China
Japan
Shantung
Tokyo
Nippu Uli
Hoover signals end of wartime food relief to Austria
Hoover told the House Ways and Means Committee the United States should warn the world it cannot extend post emergency aid to Austria. He supported Secretary of the Treasury Glausson request for a $10,000,000 grain corporation loan to buy food for Austria Poland and other European nations.
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Herbert Hoover
House
Ways and Means
United States
Austria
Borden
Hoover
Secretary of the Treasury
Glaes
The
Grain Corporation
Poland
Water power bill advances to conference in Senate
After ten years of debate the Senate passes the water power bill and sends it to a conference committee to resolve differences with the House. The measure would create a federal water power commission consisting of the secretaries of war, the interior and agriculture and authorize investigation before action.
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Washingtoo
Senate Pan
House
Federal Water-Power Commission
Twrtor
Agriculture
Wilson
Mlien
New York
Knox
Seven Sugar Men Indicted in Chicago Profiteering Case
Seven officials of three wholesale grocery bourses were indicted by a federal grand jury before Judge Carpenter on charges of profiteering in sugar. Other items include a fireworks factory blast in France killing seven, a North Sea mine spill, a German deserter exodus, a submarine captain’s death after poisoning, a Kentucky case over employer reward, and Michigan banks reporting gains.
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Carpenter
Atz Les Halos
France
Many Die as Berlin Rioters Storm Reichstag
Berlin reports a fierce clash on the Reichstag steps as a 30 000 strong mob of communists and independent socialists protests the Betrieb arnete gesetz. At least twenty are dead and over a hundred wounded in the midday riot sparked by the second reading of the factory councils bill.
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Reichstag
Unter den Linden
Tiergarten
Die Freihelt
Afrique Liner Tragedy Reported Off Bay of Biscay
More than 400 feared dead in the wreck of the steamer Afrique on Roche Bonne Shoal Bay of Biscay only 57 survivors landed as of dawn. Also noted are Winnipeg papers suspending publication due to newsprint shortage and other varied items from North America and Europe.
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Prince
Roche Bonne ‘Shoal
League Opens With Protest From Irish Republic Envoys
Paris January 19 Representatives of France Britain Italy Greece Belgium Spain Japan Brazil and others met in the French foreign office for the first League of Nations council session. Leon Bourgeois was elected chair and Sir Eve Drummond was named general secretary. The council formed a commission to trace the Saar basin frontiers and heard an Irish protest denouncing a perceived English delay in establishing a peace league.
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Belgium
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Japan
Brazil
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League of Nations
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League
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Eve Drummond
Sarre
Irish Republic
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Wilson
Washington
Free ‘Nations
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Foreign Affairs
Naion
Council of the League
Representaves
United States
M. Bourgeois
London
Lord Curzon
Arige
Edward W. Pickard
Russia
Germany
America
League Council
Earl Curzon of Kedlestone
Signor Selalota
Paul Hymans
Count Quinones de Leon
Euptherios Venizelos
Viscount Chinda
Gaston da Cunha
Movement in Europe and Italy Sentinel After WWI
Edward W. Pickard surveys the League of Nations opening in Paris noting US nonmembership and possible future involvement. He covers German communists in Berlin, Polish relief plans, British-Italian Adriatic settlement, and rising prohibition enforcement amid political campaigns and deportation debates.
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Poland
Adriatic
Italy to Honor War Heroes with Grand Rome Procession
Rome prepares a victory celebration for World War I heroes despite postponements due to the D'Annunzio incident and political unrest. Workmen build roads for a parade along the ancient Titus and Constantine routes, passing the Colosseum and Roman Forum to the Victor Emmanuel monument.
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Constantne
Expiros
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Colosseum
Titus Buit
Jerusalem
Roman Forum
Victor Emanuel I
Victors
Mary’s Thirst Triggers Citywide Fire and Police Response
In New York a 40 year old woman Mary Behn asked for whisky after paying bootleggers. She activated a fire alarm box by mistake while seeking a policeman, leading to a large response and a disorderly conduct charge. Meanwhile aboard the Archer purser Sammons celebrated two birthdays on one voyage across the Pacific. The ship, operated by Pacific Mail, carried a 6 million dollar cargo including silk and tea.
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San Francisco
Cal
W. C. Sammons
A Archer
Far East
Sammons
Pacific Mai Steamship Company
Endurance Test at Family Firm Conversat ion
Mr Grbeoln tells his son the three month tenure at their firm feels like an endurance test. The son agrees, and the father jokes about his own endurance. A corny age Herald joke contrasts happiness and debts in a domestic scene.
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