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Newspaper
Fulton County Tribune
Location
Wauseon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1919
Page
6
Edward W. Pickard outlines peace aims and German conditions, noting how a rapid treaty may avert anarchy. He reports on German political strife, Bolshevik influence, and Allies pressing for reparations and border decisions while urging unity at Paris.
A poorly legible revival pamphlet accuses former Hungarian premier Istvan Tisza and the Vienna court of orchestrating the Sarajevo murder to topple the duchess of Hohenberg and destabilize Europe. It asserts Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s wife was targeted to trigger conflict, claiming Magyar magnates plotted with Austrian leadership to remove the duke and avenge the Sarajevo incident.
A law dispute seeks to collect a $117,450 judgment against Romanoff for Marine Transportation Service. Nichols, once deposed, is believed slain. A bank refuses to pay funds until Nichols is served or proven dead, and a receiver appointment was denied awaiting next of kin notice after proof of death. Justice Benedict noted service or kin notification is required.
President Wilson arrives in Paris after a U S trip and resumes work at the peace conference. He meets with Premier Clemenceau and Lloyd George and reviews papers with Colonel House. The commission debates Greek territorial awards and questions of war crime trials while Portugal outlines its war effort.
Olympia Washington adjourned after appropriating about 35 million dollars for land reclamation permanent road construction relief for returned soldiers and sailors increased workmen’s compensation allowances establishing a safety first department recognizing labor unions and doubling automobile license taxes Arizona repassed a two year 3 million highway bill and 100 thousand for surveying irrigation and reclamation projects
Havana reports deny that Germany maintained a submarine base on the Cuban coast or that Cuba was a hotbed of pro German propaganda. Secretary Juan Montalvo rebutted Maximilian Tech’s New York speech via a camouffeur used by the U.S. government. The dismissal counters recent Allied claims.
Fraulein Klara Bohm Seluck emerges as a leading figure among women elected to the German national convention at Weimar. The longtime feminist activist is noted for her leadership in Germany's movement for women’s rights and suffrage.
Wichita dispatch reports federal prosecutor Fred Robertson will present evidence in the trial of 32 alleged IWW members for espionage to show a vast conspiracy aimed at overthrowing the U S government. He links Soviet Russia and the IWW and claims a chain from Seattle oil fields to Kansas Oklahoma and the Atlantic seaboard to fuel strikes and sabotage.
The surgeon general reports for the week ending March 7 show improved health in army camps at home with fewer influenza and pneumonia cases. In contrast, the France expeditionary force had worse results, with pneumonia causing a large share of deaths among its 46 deaths that week.
The international committee of the Red Cross sent a petition to the Paris peace conference urging a blockade suspension and requesting immediate aid for starving women and children, the destitute, and the hospitals of middle and eastern Europe.
London reports the Soviet government names an international commissary to push a world wide communist revolution. Dispatch cites Moscow advices. In New York Daniels sails from Washington aboard the Levitathan to attend a Paris trip after a Democratic committee dinner. Madison warns influenza remains grave as officials restrict amusements. Arthur Woods asks mayors to aid soldiers’ economic welfare efforts.
Italy's loans from the United States rise to 1,421,500,000 dollars after a new credit of 16,000,000. Total credits for all allies reach 8,857,157,000 dollars.
Berlin warns that famine looms in April without large food imports. Atlanta clerks walkout in sympathy with Nashville Chattanooga & St Louis clerks. Sinn Fein seeks safe conduct for delegates to peace talks. Florence Duke, 20, jailed twelve years for car thefts, rejecting clemency. Roosevelt birthplace memorial plan moves forward. Kentucky Equal Rights association denounces militant suffragists. Chicago soldiers help fight a warehouse fire causing about 200000 in losses. Cosmopolitan Bank in the Bronx vault theft totaling 20000 surfaced by police. Allies reportedly cap battleships as part of armaments limits.
Frank A. Vanderlip warns Paris and America that without resuming production Europe faces a collapse of civilization. He cites indemnity terms, battered central empires, and the threat of Bolshevism if terms delay recovery and industrial life cannot resume. He urges unified action beyond partisan differences.
Washington March 15 steps were taken to provide a substitute for the government free employment agencies which will become stranded March 22 due to failure of congress to appropriate funds. Director General Densmore urged business labor and public welfare interests to take over the work of the agencies, which would be curtailed 80 percent and 700 offices abandoned unless taken over by the requested organizations.
General John J. O'Ryan returns with his division as the only general not transferred from his command. The Twenty Seventh Division led by O'Ryan broke the Hindenburg Line, marking a key wartime achievement.
Berlin reports describe Spartacist prisoners chained and executed as government troops advanced. Accounts note handcuffed captives marched by armored cars and soldiers with machine guns while crowds were kept back. Some prisoners were executed in Monbit prison and Lichtenberg fell under siege with widespread killings.
Washington reports the Victory Liberty loan campaign will run from April 21 to May 10. Secretary Glass announced the shift to five year notes from long term bonds and hinted at a 4 3 percent or higher interest rate, with notes near par and total issue size undisclosed.
Archangel reports heavy bombardment repulsed by American British and Russian forces at Vistavka amid ten-gun salvos. In New York three men and one woman held as anarchists after raid on East Fifteenth Street. Tenor Caruso to pay $153,933.70 income tax for 1918. Basel reports German ex-emperor unlikely to relocate due to climate. Chicago politician Kantor held to grand jury in $40,000 bond for perjury. U S employment seen drop in unemployed by about 250,000 postwar measures. Sergeant James L. Copan returns from France with Countess Marteline de la Touche.
A Kansas City report details hurricane force winds and storms across Missouri Kansas Oklahoma and Arkansas. Five killed in Porter Oklahoma and dozens injured as floods and tornadoes demolish homes. Topeka and Wichita report high winds and heavy rain as telegraph lines fail and roads wash out. Wisconsin and Minnesota lines suffer further rail disruptions with bridges swept away and trains delayed.
Countess Markievicz arrives in Dublin after release from Holloway prison. She is carried on shoulders by volunteers in a torchlight procession as St Patrick's division forms a guard of honor. She speaks to crowds praising the republic of Ireland and predicts victory in the freedom struggle.
Brussels reported March 17 that German delegates accepted all of Admiral Sir Rosslyn Wemyss’s naval proposals. The article also includes a satirical Optimist cartoon caption and various light remarks, including a joke about a landlady and a boarder and a quip about an unmarried twin sister.
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