Foch accused of aiding Rhine Republic plan across Rhine
Frankfurt-Berlin reports a Frankfort Gazette notice quotes General Mangin forbidding strikes against the Rhenish Republic and warning leaders of expulsion. It says the Rhinelanders seek an independent left bank state with French economic support and potential relief from indemnity, citing Foch Clemenceau discussions and a March 8 meeting with Centrist leaders.
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Berlin
Mangin
Mayence
Rhenish Republic
Frankfort
German Empire
Karlsruhe
Lokla Anzieser
Rhineland
Palatinate
Landau
Cologne
Wiesbaden
Dorten
Mannhein
Marshal Foch
Germany
Neue Baden Lande Zeitung
Foch
Clemenceau
France
Rhine
Herr Richter
Herr Holtmann
National Assembly
Gerard
Federal jury hung in white slave case in Charleston
A federal jury failed to reach a verdict in J. B. Blackwell’s case charged under the Mann white slave act for paying the fare of Dessie Jarvis to Bridgeport Illinois. Ladula McClung’s dynamite charge was dismissed for lack of evidence as he claimed no knowledge of its presence.
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Charleston
W. Va
J. B. Blackwell
Dessie Jarvis
Hunt
Bridgeport
Illnois
Ladula McClung
Fayette
Woman Held In Cleveland Bomb Inquiry
A Cleveland maid employed in two homes is held by police for federal examination as a suspected terrorist leader. Authorities say she is secretary of the local socialist branch, with radical literature found. Threats of violence and an armed July 4 parade were received by Mayor Davis in an unsigned letter. Philadelphia announces nationwide anarchist bureau actions with William Flynn leading the effort. no arrests soon, investigations will trace movements of anarchists.
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Cleveland
Theocialist Party
Law and Order 1
Davis
Masked Bandits Rob Interurban Car At Trafford City
Pittsburgh and Greensburg authorities hunt three masked bandits after an interurban car robbery at Trafford City at midnight. Conductor Howard Martin and motorman Feler Holland were aboard. $650 stolen. Three men arrested at Pavittaville but released as victims could not identify.
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Pittsburgh
Greensburg
Trafford City
Howard Martin
Feler Holland
Pavittaville
Martin
Hollant
Bills Move to Prohibit Immigration for Five Years
Washington June Bills proposing a five year immigration ban and tougher alien entry restrictions were introduced in the Senate. Senator King Democrat Utah would exclude alien anarchists and others who seek to overthrow governments by force. Senator Sterling Republican South Dakota would amend citizenship laws to denaturalize aliens who gain or aid others to gain citizenship by fraud.
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Washington, D. C
Senate
Byenator King
Utah
Sterling Republican
South Dakota
Utt brothers travel after brother's death in Morgantown
Pruntytown notes say Messrs James and Thomas Utt were summoned to Morgantown Saturday by the death of William Utt. The column lists social visits including Gail Evans and Ruth Woodyard at Salem, Marguerie Zumbro returning from Grafton, and other local briefings. Georgia Anne Bennett improves after illness.
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James and
Thomas Utt
Morgantown
Wiliam Utt
Gail Fvans
Ruth
Hazel Woodyard
Salem
Marguerie Zumbro
Grafton
Minta Lambert
Dora Robinson
Stella and
Mery Olive
Fetterman
M John Pierd
Union City
Guy Richardson
Harry Kunst
Hilla Binbridge
Uniontown
Gertrude Barnette
Roy Smallwood
Morrow
Georgia Anne
Lee Bennett
Local visitors and household notes from the week
A series of social notices from a small town highlights Miss Sallie Evans returning home after teaching in Elkins. Several guests visited Blanche Hustead including Ruth and Mary Stillwell and Orma Losh who cut his hand badly. Dr. Suddarth treated him. Louise Rector heads to Washington DC to resume work after illness. Rev. Davis preached in place of H. St. Clair. Many other visits include Miss Braxie Curry from Viola, Freda Shanks with Lula Evans, and John Keener with Lloyd Shriver. Ralph Zinger hosted visitors from Los Angeles and Miss Lottie Kiepfall visited Valley Falls.
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Sallie Evans
Elkins
Rose Mary Wilkes
Phylis Robinson
Ruth
Mary Stillwell
Harry Sapp
Orma Losh
Blanche Hustead
Suddarth
Louise Rector
Washington, D. C
Rev. Davis
Bridgeport
H. St. Clair
Braxie Curry
Viola
Freda Shanks
Lula Evans
Lester Goodwin
Clarksburg
John Keener
Lloyd Shriver
R. F. Zinser
Ora
Los Angeles
Calif
Ralph Zinger
Lottie Kiepfall
Valley Falls
Trouble Brews Among Workers in Pulp Mills
Beverly West Virginia June 1 A posse led by deputy sheriff Ed Long headed for the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Co plants after reports of serious trouble among employes and strikers. Early word said I W W agitators fomenting unrest at Davis and Luke and other company locations.
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Beverly
W. Va
West Virginia Pulp and Paper Co
Ed Long
W. W
Davis
Luke
Mad husband hurls wife from bridge in Pittsburgh
Mrs Mazyciak, 27, was thrown from a bridge over 38th Street last midnight by her husband John Mazyciak. She fell about fifty feet into a passing freight car, sustaining internal injuries. Police allege he acted in a rage over her refusal to live with him. he was arrested and awaits the outcome of her condition at a local hospital.
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Pittsburgh
38Rd Street
Bessarabia Opposes Kolchak Offers in Paris
Paris dispatch reports Bessarabian delegates decry an Allied proposal to let Romania control Moldavian areas of Bessarabia. Leader Alexander Kroupensky warns it amounts to ceding Bessarabia, with nearly 3 million people, to Romania. Delegation says Kolchak will reject such terms, preferring Russian decision.
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Associated Press
Paris
Bessarabia
Kolchak
Omsk
Romania
Alexander Kroupensky
Soldier at inquest escapes from Pittsburgh hearing
Harry W. Smith a 24 year old returned soldier escaped from the coroner's office in East Pittsburgh during his commitment for the death of 9 year old George Mikula killed while he drove the car Thursday. He asked to visit the wash room and fled leaping out a window to a car then fleeing across a lot a fence and a bridge into a moving Pennsylvania freight train.
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Pittsburgh
Harry W. Smith
George Mikula
Smith
Pennsylvania
Woman jailed for heating child with stove as punishment
Hitis Lurgh reports the case in Gurung near here where a 12 year old girl allegedly suffered burns after being held to a hot stove by her guardian as punishment for stealing. The magistrate sentenced the woman to 25 days in jail.
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Hitis Lurgh
Laure
Siien Jadidlos
Ohio may second in surge cause for suffrage
Ohio may be second to Pennsylvania in ratifying the federal woman suffrage amendment. The Ohio Assembly reconvenes June 16 to act, while court questions linger on referenda for suffrage and national prohibition. Court actions may decide the referendum issue. military affairs committee steers clear of trouble. The note lauds McAdoo's railroading foresight and government progress this year.
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Columbus
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Assembly
McAdoo
Ape Language Report From Congo Saintly Hunter
New York June 8 A strange animal half gorilla half chimpanzee with high intelligence and talking ability is claimed by Prof K P Garner renowned naturalist and monkey hunter. After 31 months in the French Congo he returned with 3000 specimens and a stuffed male ape. natives described a bovilla that spoke Waa-Hooa and Ahoo-Ahoo. Garner imitated the female call, and a mate arrived. he shot the six foot tall animal weighing over 200 pounds. The specimen rests at the Smithsonian in Washington.
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New York
French Congo
K. P. Garner
Garner
Conugo
Prot Garner
Eaides
Ierm
Smithsonian Institution
Washington
Druggists Seek Liquor Trade Shield In Prohibition Talks
Washington hearings heard drug trade representatives seek protection for long market medicines dependent on alcohol and a repeal of war time prohibition while labor figures in Indiana Minnesota and Colorado urged allowing light wines and beer. Director General Hines reported a four month railroad deficit totaling about 250 million dollars with April net income near 26 million as wage and material costs rose. He warned against rate hikes now, noting railroads raised 26 percent in rates versus larger cost increases and wages.
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Washington
House
Judiciary Committee
Fitzgerald
Massachusetts
War Department
Europe
Indiana
Minnesota
Colorado
Hines
Railroad Administration
Railroad
Break in cotton market as crop weather improves
New York June 7 reports say better weather for the new crop and weaker goods trade conditions pushed cotton futures lower. October delivery fell to 27.79 a bale, about six dollars and fifty cents below yesterday's close and twenty-two dollars under the recent high. Trade showed moderate demand for the decline, but last prices ranged near the day’s lows with May barely steady as declines of 123 to 193 points persisted from Thursday’s quotes.
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New York
Hungarian Halt Urged as Fighting Spreads in Hungary
Paris dispatch reports Premier Clemenceau telegraphed Budapest demanding immediate ceasefire after Hungarian troops renewed attacks on Czech and Slovak forces. Allied powers warn that extreme measures will be used to force Hungary to stop hostilities.
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Paris
Clemenceau
Vienna
Hungary
French Pluer Soars 500 Meters for World Sky Record
Lieutenant Casale of France set a new world height record by ascending 500 meters in a jet era flight. He broke his own previous mark of 81,000 feet, achieving 41,188 feet in the Paris region yesterday.
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Paris
Casale
Jeht
7000 Troops Land at Boston In Early Landing
Boston June 9 More than 7000 troops landed here today from transports President Grant and Winnifredian which reached here last night from Brest ahead of schedule. The Winnifredian carried 2400 officers and men of the Twenty third engineers aboard. The President Grant bore detachments of the Twenty third and 504th Engineers hospital and supply units and casuals from Pennsylvania and Ohio with one company from West Point candidates entrained for Camp Dev ene.
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Boston
President Grant
Winifredian
Brest
Winnifredian
Secret List of Americans Tied to Coblenz Shooting
June 9 report notes military inquiry failed to identify the shooter who fired three shots at Brig Gen Malin Craig's house in Coblenz. The item mentions a supposed German secret list of marked Americans and questions the involvement of Gen Craig and the Third Army in the incident.
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Coblenz
Coblena
Malin Craig
Third Army
Craig
Czechoslovak Troops Visit Pittsburgh in a War Veterans Parade
One hundred Czech Slovak veterans of the great war arrived in Pittsburgh for a short stay to share experiences at the hands of the arch fiend of civilization. Many were maimed, some with both legs gone, others missing arms, supported by crutches as a band played the Star Spangled Banner on arrival. After a brief downtown parade they spent the day as guests of the Czecho Slovak league and planned to depart for New York that night.
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Pittsburgh
Pittsburg
Union Station
After & J
New York
Railroad Administration Budget Cut Approved by House Panel
Washington June 9 The house appropriation committee reduced the amount sought by the Railroad Administration for the remainder of the calendar year by 450 million 600 thousand dollars from the 1 2 billion 9 hundred thousand dollar revolving fund.
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WAR Department
Washington
House
Railroad Administration
Business Men Endorse the Fourth of July Celebration
Daily Sentinel reports 22 members of the Businessmen’s Association met at the Central Hotel dining room to endorse a three day July Fourth celebration with 25 businessmen in charge. They also backed a local Boy Scouts council and raised 155 toward the Salvation Army quota. The meeting adjourned after actions. Dr T Henry Acker Jr of Bluefields Sanitarium died in Philadelphia after attending Jefferson Medical College exercises. autopsy to follow.
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Daily Sentinel
Businessmen’s Association
Central Hotel
Association
Boy Scouts Week
Boy Scouts
Salvation Army Fund
W. VA
Phyician
Philadelphia
T.henry Acker, Jr
Blucelds Sanitarium
Bluefield
Jefferson Medical College
Sr. Becker
Jefferson Hospital
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Mary E.veste
Madison Heights
Castoria
Congo
Pluer
Lermans
R. R
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