Hunger and chaos in Berlin amid postwar turmoil
Captain Samuel Powers of the United States army describes demoralization in Germany due to starvation and unemployment. He notes rioting and propaganda from Spartacists and reactionaries, refugees and repatriation issues, and widespread money inflation while Germans struggle to adapt to a new republic.
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Germany
United States Army
Samuel Powers
Berlin
Powers
International Harvester Company
Waitress Killed in Harlem Restaurant Shooting
Irma Dale, a waitress at a Broadway restaurant near Eighty first Street, was killed when a dishwasher, identified as Charles Arthurs of 16 West 186th Street, fired a revolver. Officer Albert Massoles of West Sixty-eighth Street Station tackled the suspect. The motive offered included money owed or alleged insults, with several conflicting accounts given at the station. The restaurant crowd panicked as tables toppled and glass shattered. Arthurs was held on a charge of homicide.
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Irma Dale
Broadway
Eightyfirst Street
Albert Massoles
West Sixty-eighth Street
Knickerbocker Hospital
Charles Arthur
West 186Th Street
Arthurs
Crown
Man Says Shooting Was a Frightening Plea for Love
Marcel Propper told Newark Jail he did not intend suicide but to terrify his fiancée who refused marriage. He bought a pistol, fired in an alley behind her home, then waited for reconciliation as police arrested him.
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Marcel Propper
Newark
Propper
Round-up of foreign born men leaving port on alleged false passes
About 100 Hungarians Serbians and Roumanians were removed from the 8S Rochambeau at pier 57 North River as it prepared to sail to Havre France on alleged fake Greek passports. The action followed a State Industrial Commission inquiry led by Miss Marian K Clark into ads offering fake passports. Ten detainees were released after it was found Miss Clark had no right to order detention and others pledged to appear as witnesses.
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S. Rochambeau
North River
Havre
France
Norfolk
Industrial Commission
State Industrial Commission Office
Marian K. Clark
Ellis Island
Miss Clark
Customs Inteligence Office
Norweat
Sayville Man Found Dead After Disappearance
The body of William H. Long, missing since Wednesday from the Ross Sanitarium Brentwood, was found in nearby woods. A shotgun, attached to a tree by a string, suggests suicide. Long had been in poor health after influenza last December and likely retrieved the gun from his Sayville home. The body was found by his sister.
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Sayville
L. I
William H. Long
Ross Sanitarium
Brentwood
Long
Himpeleies
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