Wireless strike hits ships over wage rise at sea
London June 15 A strike by marine wireless operators declared by the Association of Wireless Telegraphists demands a wage rise of about 180 percent over prewar rates and improved conditions. Shipboard workers must cease work at voyage end and refuse further trips, risking port congestion and delayed liners like the Mauretania. Shore operators are unaffected as the union warns of potential international impact.
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London
Association of
Wireless Telegraphists
Marconi
Mauretania
Southampton
Marcon Company
Martoni Company
Probably
Teing
Italy Fixes Indemnity Claim at 60 600 000 000 Ire
Paris June 15 Italy has fixed reparations claims against the defeated powers at 60 600 000 000 iron about 12 120 000 000 dollars. The figure includes pensions and is based on Rome dispatches.
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Italy
Paris
Rome
Hera
West Point Class of 1920 Holds Banquet Flight to The Night Boat
West Point’s 273 graduates rode a special train from the academy after commencement for a class banquet at the Hotel Astor and a theater visit to The Night Boat. Speakers included Colonel H J Keeler and remarks by Secretary of War and General Pershing. Sixteen will visit France. others return home to finish training and report to commands.
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War College
West Point
Hotel Astor
Liberty Theater
Astor
Gh.q
Chaumont
Keeler
H. J. Keeler
Secretary of War
General Pershing
France
Battlefelds
Wrangel Moves North as Bolsheviks Lose Ground
General Wrangel's anti Bolshevik forces push from Crimea toward the Dnieper region. They have taken 4,000 Bolshevik prisoners and forty large guns, while sustaining about 800 casualties. The advance runs through Melitopol to Mariupol with air and armored car support. General Wrangel commands the eastern wing while Stanoff and Koutop direct bolshevik forces retreating toward Alexandrovsk.
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Constantinople
Associated Press
Wrangel
Crimean
Crimea
Sea of Azov
Kaskovka
Dnieper
Melitopol
Mariupol
Stanoff
Koutop
Mariopol
Alexandrovsk
Perekop
Guenitz
Crimean Peninsulas
Wrengel
Soviet to Seek Offsets If It Must Pay Debts
London June 15 Soviet Russia refuses liability for debts contracted by Russia before November 1917 and would seek offsets if forced to meet obligations. Trade envoy denies responsibility and recalls the 1915 treaty giving Russia Constantinople, signaling a stance on postwar debt claims.
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The
Times
Gregory Krassin
M. Krausin
Russia
Constantinople
Krassin
12Ursia
London
Many Lepers at Large Here Says Dr Cassassa
Dr Cassassa claims hundreds of lepers roam New York after diagnosing Mrs Henrietta Kahn of West Ninety Fifth Street with leprosy. He questions a family physician’s reporting, while Dr Monaghan, Health Commissioner, says the doctor is mistaken and leprosy cases are not known to the Health Department.
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Charles O. P. Vessassa
Sity
Henrietta Kahn
West Ninety-fifth Street
New York
Kahn
Rosy
Cassassa
Health Department
Fr. Monaghan
$10,000 Plunder Recovered in Brooklyn Navy Base Theft
Police linked to a Brooklyn naval base theft recovered $10,000 worth of material after two raids. Three men were arrested Peter Flores a 29 year old electrician at 47 Concord Street Herman Frank 1180 President Street and Harry Renkoff 67 Sands Street charged with grand larceny and receiving stolen goods respectively. The recovered goods were found at Flores home and at a tailor shop run by Renkoff.
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Font
Twenty-ninth Street
Brooklyn
Peter Flores
Concord Street
Herman Frank
President Street
Harry Renkof
Sands Street
Flores
Renkoff
French Girl Weds Yale Man After Syracuse Graduation
Mlle Geneveve Bergier daughter of Judge Benri Bergier Lille France and Paul Moody Atkins of Chicago Yale graduate were married at St Josephs Church at 10 this morning. Bride earned a master's degree Monday after arriving last September and has French university training. She was twice honored by the French government for war work. Atkins served in France during the war.
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Syracuse
Mlle
Geneveve Bergier
Benri Bergier
Lille
France
Syracuse University
Paul Moody Atkins
Chicago
Yale University
St. Joseph's Church
Atkins
Thief Connelly Arrested After Citi Jewelry Store Heist
Witnesses describe a cobblestone smash of a plate glass window at M A Warhy Jewelry, where diamonds and gold rings valued at 33800 were seized. Frank Connelly, 25, of 226 East Eighty Fifth Street, was arrested near West 173rd Street after a gunfight and chase following a daylight robbery attempt. A second man fled under cover of gunfire and denied involvement. Police at West 152nd Street Station secured Connolly.
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Manhattan
Yester
Frank Connelly
Onty-Five
East Eighty-ifth Street
M. A. War- Hy
Amsterdam Avenue
Anther
152D Reet
Grante
Wartell
Connolly
High Bridge
Loughran
West 152d Street
West 173d Street
New Trade Routes Urged To Aid Western Shippers
The Southern Commercial Congress urged new trade routes from South Atlantic and Gulf ports to aid Midwest manufacturing shippers. A memorandum to Admiral Benson of the Shipping Board asks prompt allocation of ships and preference for financially strong firms. It warns against disposing vessels before routes are permanent or unprofitable. The note recalls a 1918 class graduation at Trophy Point with Pershing addressing cadets.
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Southern Commercial Congress
South Atlantic
Gulf Washington
Gulf Coast
Middle West
Shipping Committee
The
Admiral Benson
Shipping Board
Shippy Board
Commercial Congress Committee
Battle Monument
Trophy Point
Plains
John J. Pershing
Baker
New York
James B. Cullum
Sewickley, Pa
West Point Grants 270 Graduates in Largest Class
West Point released the largest graduating class in the institution's history numbering 270 men and possibly the last of the wartime cadets. The ceremony marks a significant milestone as the academy turns its focus to peacetime duty and future leadership roles.
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Tan Tribune
West Point
Judge Warns Women in Divorce Court Over Attire
In Springfield Ohio on June 13 Judge Frank W Geiger of Common Pleas Court warned that women applying for divorces must dress modestly. He called out peekaboo waists and see more skirts, saying attire must cover more despite heat in court.
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Springfield
Ohio
Frank W. Geiger
Common Pleas Court
Many Women Shoplifters Are Let Off With Fines
More than twenty women faced arraignment in the Court of Sp Est yesterday for shoplifting. Nearly all were found guilty and fined from 25 to 100 dollars. Two nurses Armenie Schuring and Hela Griggs were each fined 75 dollars for stealing property valued at 25 dollars from a department store. Detectives reported large quantities of other store property with tags concealed on their persons. Matilda Weisman and Emily Niburger were convicted and fined 10 dollars each for dresses stolen from three stores.
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Jersey
Spesterday
Hyded Kg
Armenie Schuring
Wadsworth Avenue
Hela Griggs
Riverside Drive
H Stores Mutual Prowesive
Moss, Murphy
Fwards
Matilda Weisman
Nue
Weehawken, N. J
Emily Niberger
Union Street
Union St
N. J
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Marconi International Marine Communion
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Ate
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J. Hastings
Tracy Davis
Eee
Persia
Central News
George Tehitcherin
Inter
Copenhagen
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Leon Trotzky
Nikolai Lenine
Tokio
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Lenine
Moscow
M. Litvinof
Honolulu
Japan
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Siberia
America
Monroe Clothes
Monroe
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Ike
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59Th
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Bronx
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149Th Street
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Flatbush Ave
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Market St
Jersey City
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Yale
Trust Department
American Exchange National Bank
Broadway
New York City
Pennsylvaniat
Seventh Avenue
33Rd Streets
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Waldorf-Astoria Telephone & Telegraph
Longacre
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Audson Terminal
Hotel Pennsylvania
Waldorf-Astoria
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