United States settles allies claims for 893 million dollars
The War Department liquidation commission reports final settlements totaling 893,716,093 to cover claims by allied powers and their nationals. Bulk sales abroad and goods returned to the U S reduce the need for retail disposal, with bonds used for most of the balance.
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Washington
United States
War Department Liquidation Commission
Baker
France
Great Britain
Belgium
Italy
Poland
Czecho- Slovakia
Serbia
Near East
War Department
Poles Drive on Northern Front Take Two Towns
Warsaw reports Polish advances on the northern front occupying Glubokoi and Dokahuchac with many prisoners and booty as Bolsheviki retreat. Reinforcements poured in and ground regained. a Polish American relief train was shelled but all workers escaped injury.
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Warsaw
Associated Press
Glubokoi
Sventsiny
Dokahuchac
Beresina River
Arthur Fox
Philadelphia
Minsk
Borisov
Mail Carriers Urged to Show the Light to Reds
Two thousand postal employees paraded from Thirty-Fifth Street and Fifth Avenue to St Patrick's Cathedral yesterday. Postmaster Thomas G. Patten reviewed them en route. Monsignor Lavelle greeted attendees while Rev P J Casey urged unity and peace, calling for Bolsheviks and anarchists to be countered by police exemplars of good citizenship.
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Fifth Avenue
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Thomas G. Patten
Uien
Monsignor Lavelle
P. J. Casey, S. Jr
Police
John F Carr Decorated By the King of Italy
John Foster Carr of 241 Fifth Avenue, chair of the Librarians Council of the American Library Association, is decorated as an officer of the Order of the Crown of Italy for his work with the Books for Everybody movement. A letter from Romolo Triton and a note from Count Sforza convey the honor and thanks.
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John Foster Carr
241
Fifth Avenue
Librarians’ Council
American Library Associon
Italy
Mr. Carr
Order of the Crown of
Carr
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Uly
Order of the Crown
Princess Denies Slander In Suit By American Socialite
Princess Victor of Thurn and Taxis arrived in Rome after American reports claimed she was sued for slander by Bernard F. S. Gregory, a member of an aristocratic English family. She denied remarks attributed to her and said she never met Gregory and had no U.S. property subject to attachment.
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Rome
Victor
Thurn and Taxis
United States
Bernard Francis S. Gregory
Lida Nicholls
Uniontown
Rudolf Festetics
Bernard Gregory
America
Russian Prince Wounded in Paris Restaurant Shooting
Prince Vladimir Cantacuzene, a Russian noble, was wounded in the head by a revolver shot during a Friday night affray at a Montmartre restaurant. He later filed charges against an American described as “Mr Wealthy American” from Avenue Wagram. In Rome, Italian farm workers in Bari Province strike. police intervene at Spinazola with exchanged gunfire and no casualties. disturbances also reported from Terigi.
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Paris
Prince Vladimir Cantacuzene
Montmartre
Wealthy
Avenue Wagram
Rome
Bari
Spinazola
Tereigi
Independents Poll Big Vote In Germany
Berlin election day reports indicate strong Independents gains across industrial regions while the German People's party leads bourgeois factions. Early returns show Socialist majorities in multiple cities with turnout high in working class districts and Bavaria Diet polls between 70 and 75 percent.
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Berlin
Germany
Grester Berlin
Ebert
Krausen-Strasse
Mueller
Koester
German People's Party
National Liberals
German National Party
Democrats
Center
German Peop Party
National Party
Communi
Halle
Frankfort
Darmstadt
Nuremberg
Peoples’ Party
Middle Party
German People’s, Party
West End
Bavaria
Paterson Child Dies After River Fall
Five year old Peter Dounna of 31 Elm Street fell into swift water at the Paterson race way foot of McBride Avenue while playing with companions. Charles Lepton, sixteen, jumped in and brought him to shore. The boy was taken to St John’s Hospital unconscious but died after doctors failed to revive him.
French Reconstruction Rapid Says Paris Guaranty Trust Manager
Georges Hebmann of the Guaranty Trust Paris office reports rapid reconstruction in France. Agriculture rebounds toward prewar levels in Marne North Oise Voges and Calais with 103000 hectares planted versus 142500 in 1914 and 82000 in 1918. Of 3263 destroyed industrials, 24012 have resumed. by Jan 1919 1808, by now 2406 plants reopened. Meurthe and Moselle sees 11 percent of damaged plants operating.
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Paris
Guaranty Trust
Georges Hebmann
Guaranty Trust Company of
New York
France
Marne
North
Oise
Vogés
Mr.Hebmann
Department of
Calais
Meurthe
Moselle
800 Wives and Children Of Poles on Way to U. S.
The Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Society reports 800 Polish wives and children are sailing from Danzig to join husbands and fathers in America. This first group of an expected 50 000 families aims to reunite families separated by six years of war, with the society stressing it is not a new immigration program.
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Rat
Danzig
Hebrew Sheltering and
America
Hebrew Society
John L. Bernstein
Society
Poland
Lunacy Board Ends Work on Murder Suspects
OSSINING June 6 The second lunacy commission appointed by Governor Smith completed its inquiry into James Cassidy and Charles McLaughlin suspects in the Otto Fiala subway chopping case. It is understood the findings agree with the first board that both men are mentally deficient though not insane.
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Smith
James Cassidy
Charles McLaughlin
Otto Fiala
Explosion kills fourteen at Fort Pampalu near Turin
London reports a blast at Fort Pampalu northwest of Turin. Fourteen people were killed and about 100 injured as carloads of explosives detonated in the night. Many buildings were destroyed in the blast zone.
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London
Fort Pampalu
Turin
China Admitted to Anglo Japanese Pact Far East
Peking reports The Peking and Tientsin Times urge China join a triple Anglo Japanese alliance for Far East peace. They call for China’s full consent, restoration of Liaodong rights, control of South Manchuria railway, withdrawal of non treaty troops, and a China-Japan administration of Shantung railways under British supervision.
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Peking
China
Far East
Tien-Tsin
Times
Liao Tung Peninsula
Port Arthur
South Manchuria
Manchuria
Great Britain
Watts
Tsingtao
Germany
Shantung
Dairen
Post Offices In China Called For Immediate Withdrawals
Fragmentary quotation notes Britain and Japan urged to mutually withdraw post offices in China while Italy and the United States are reportedly ready to follow. The text implies international cooperation on ending such postings though specifics are unclear.
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Britain
Japan
China
Nce
Italy
United States
Accommodating Roomer Takes Poison in Morgue
William Weissman of 358 State Street Brooklyn killed himself in an undertaker's shop to avoid disturbing his landlady. Mrs Esther Cahoon testified he had been despondent due to illness and swallowed cyanide of potash at 283 Lexington Avenue Saturday night.
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William Weissman
State Street
Brooklyn
Esther Cahoon
Weissman
William J. Matthews
Lexington Avenue
Armed Robbers Halt Quiet Poker Game at 66 Bayard Street
Four armed men burst into a quiet poker game at 66 Bayard Street at 4 am yesterday, pistol whipped host Tony Colanco and took 400 dollars plus 200 dollars in jewelry. A diamond pin was recovered after a suspect crawled under a sink. Police were notified last night. detectives seek the robbers near the Elizabeth Street station.
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Bayard Street
Tony Colanco
Elizabeth Street
Boy in Sing Sing to Visit Doomed Mother
OSSINING June 6 Sing Sing rules enforced for years will be suspended this week to allow Theodore Dixon a death row inmate in the general prison to visit his mother Mrs Hattie Dixon in the women’s death house awaiting electrocution. For the first time a death house inmate has a child also serving a term in the prison. Warden Lawes suspended the rule banning visits among death row prisoners so the seventeen year old may see his brother before execution.
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Lawes
Albanian insurgents rout Italians near Alessio as warships shell city
Vienna dispatch reports Albanian insurgents annihilated an Italian battalion near Alessio and Italian warships shelled the city. Skirmishes also said near Scutari and Avlona with Italians retreating.
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Alessio
London
Vienna
Exchange Telegraph Company
Belgrade
Scutari
Avlona
Turks Granted 15 Day Delay to Present Peace Views
Constantinople dispatch reports Allies allow a fifteen day extension for Turkey to submit observations on the peace terms. Premier Damad Ferid Pasha denounces the treaty, warns of dire consequences if enforced, and blames Nationalists for the crisis. He cites fears for Oriental Thrace and Anatolia and questions amendments on the Strait Armenia and Smyrna.
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Constantinople
Turkey
Damad Ferid Pasha
Bro ‘Law
America
Europe
Mustapha Kemal Pash
Ali Fuad Bey
Ahmed Rustem Bey
Bilinski
Damad
Oriental Thrace
Anatolia
Orient
Thrace
The
Strait
Armenia
Smyrna
Turkish Premier Warns Bolshevik Threats Endanger Near East
Damad Pasha says Bolshevism threatens Turkey and the Near East and warns that Armenia border arbitration by President Wilson could fuel unrest. He asserts Batum is Armenia's natural port and urges fair treatment to avert prolonging the war.
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Turkey
Mesopotamia
Syria
Arabia
Wilson
Dama
Van
Bitlis
Mosul
Armenia
Batum
Near East
Damad
Anatolia
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American Library Association
German People’s Party
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Franklin Simon G Co
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KUMSI
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Queen Anne
Crepe Venus
Feminine Skirt Shop
Franklin Simon A Co
Mourning Apparel Shop
Organdie
Volle Gingham
Feminine Mourning Apparel Shop
Reed&barton
Hans
Starr
Arm ST
White House & Hardy Broadway
407Th Street
Metropolitan Opera House
G. Altman & Co
Madison Avenue
Fifth Avenue, New York
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