Silent War Gap: 1919 Plans to Trade Islands
The 1919 Paris Peace Conference offered a tactic to restore German-held Pacific Islands to the United States via a German indemnity transfer, but options faltered. Breckinridge Long urged returning the Carolines, Marshalls, and Marianas to Germany before negotiating U S ownership, while the final mandate left these islands under Japanese control with a League pledge not to fortify.
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Wade Werner
Washington
Pacific Islands
Germany
State Department
United States
Carolines
Marianas
Marshalls
Southwest Pacific
Japan
Breckinridge Long
Long
Flawani
Philippines
League of Nations
Woodrow Wilson
Edward M. House
Parisi
Key Pittman
Senate
House
New Klondike Rush Opens Along Alcan Highway Route
NEA writer Tom Wolf traces the fairy tale development of the Wearbine tree air route linking Alaska with new highways. Grant McConnachie, a self-made bush pilot, started with nothing and, aided by a mining princess, built a wilderness air network that the Canadian government later used as the backbone for northern aviation. Now McConnachie runs the route, selling his airline and steering a busy postwar era of demand.
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Alcan
NEA Step
Tom Wolf
Whitehorse
Yukon
Wearbine Tree
Alaska
New Alean
Grant
Aero Club
MccConnachie
McConnachie
Myr
Northwest
McConnahie
Canadien
Marvel
Vic Fox
Grant McConnachie
Mack Satisfied With A's Camp in Savannah
Connie Mack, president and manager of the Athletics, returned from Savannah and said he was satisfied with the A's new training camp there. He arranged for players to stay at the General Oglethorpe hotel, with the field about six miles away, and anticipated gasoline rationing might require walking though he hoped to arrange transportation.
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Philadelphia
Connie Mack
The
Athletics
Savannah
Connie
General Oglethorpe Hotel
Mack
Seals and Rubber Info Mix in Elusive Report
A fragmented note covers synthetic rubbers linked to automobile electrical systems. It oddly includes a biology aside naming male adult seals as bulls and young seals as duds, illustrating a garbled source with no clear news focus.
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Harry Fishbein
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