German American Hyphenates Unite To Spread Kultur
The German American Citizens League of America headlines an appeal urging Congress to reject the peace treaty. It accuses President Wilson of deceiving the German people and denounces the treaty as a barbarian peace. The league, formed in 1918 after the German-American Alliance loss of charter, cites Chicago politics and seeks to promote German-American aims.
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Congress
Wilson
Fong
William Hale Thompson
Chicago
Fall
New Mexico
Germany
United States
America
Newton Plans to Close Rand School
Attorney General Newton Senator Clayton R. Lusk and Deputy Attorney General Samuel A. Berger will seek a Supreme Court order to cancel the certificate of incorporation of the American Socialist Society, operator of the Rend School of Social Sciences, on grounds of indictment and Bolshevik and I. W. W. propaganda links revealed by the Lusk Committee. A letter allegedly from the school urged readers to “take over the state” and to meet the militia.
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Newton
Clayton R. Lusk
Samuel A. Berger
Supreme Court
The
American Socialist Society
Rend School of Social Sciences
Federal Grand Jury
Lusk Committee
A. E. Stevenson
Lusk
German American Citizens League urged as national political group
Henry C. Campbell notes Chicago born German American Citizens League aims to be nationwide and political, contrasting with the disbanded German American Alliance. It seeks study of American history, German language and Kultur, opposes nativist influences, while promoting Americanism and a German language press and national periodical.
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New League
United States
Allanes
Germanloan Alliance
Shonta Reported Sinking Rapidly In Illness
Theodore F. Shonta, president of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, ill at his Park Avenue home for three weeks, was reported sinking rapidly. He suffered a chill that developed into broncho pneumonia and pleurisy. Drs Squier and Erdmann operated for lung pus removal, with a relapse noted and condition described as critical at 9:30 P.M.
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Theodore F. Shonta
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
Park Avenue
Mr. Shonta
J. Bentley Squier
East Forty-ninth Street
John F. Erdmann
West Fifty Second Street
Shonta
Shonts
Squier
Bobby Ashe Must Go Back to N Y Nursery
Appellate Division orders the six month old Bobby Ashe to be returned from the Feinblooms to the New York Nursery and Child's Hospital. The Feinblooms had kept and hoped to adopt the child after discovering him in a Mount Vernon ash can. The court originally required return, a stay was granted, and yesterday the stay was vacated.
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John Feinbloom
Bobby Ashe
Mount Vernon
New York
Bobby
Feinblooms
Child's Hospital
Supreme Court
Feinbloom
Appellate Division
North Dakota Voters Approve Industrial Laws
North Dakota voters approve state industrial laws from the last Legislature, about 8 000 votes ahead. The plan includes grain elevators, flour mills, and a state bank with 17 000 000 in state bonds. Westman laws on administration go into effect July 1.
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Speciae Sorre Pemeert Fargo
N. D
North Dakota
League
Air Heroes Home After Atlantic Flight Return
Air heroes returned yesterday from an epoch making Atlantic flight. Lieutenant Commander Albert C Read and the NC-4 seaplane crew are welcomed back as the first to cross the ocean. Commander John H Towers, admiral of the NC seaplanes, leads the NC-3 crew, with Lieutenant Commander P N L Bellinger aboard NC-1. Full welcome report on Page II.
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America
Atlantic
Albert C. Read
John H. Towers
P. N. L. Bellinger
Wilkins Guilty Verdict Shocks Nassau County Jury
In Mineola New York June 27 after twenty three hours deliberation a Nassau County jury found Dr Walter Keene Wilkins guilty of first degree murder The verdict came after eleven jurors were swayed and jurors granted clemency but Justice Manning stated first degree murder carries only the death penalty The defendant maintained his innocence and announced plans to appeal as he awaited sentence next Tuesday morning.
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Carterona
Mineola
N. Y
Nassau County
Walter Keene Wilkins
Daniel D. Smith
Manning
Oscar W. Parnes
Charles N. Wysong
Soice
Mrs Wysong
Mr. Wysong
Dr.Wilkins
Judges Urge Tougher Bail Rules After City Complaints
Mayor Hylan accuses General Sessions judges of granting bail too freely after a letter from Police Commissioner Enright, forwarded by District Attorney Swann. Swann notes about fifty prisoners are out on bail ranging from 2500 to 10000 dollars and urges quicker trials.
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Swann
Hylan
Enright
Hanten
Signing Set For 3 PM At Versailles Peace Talks
Paris June 27 German plenipotentiaries Dr Hermann Muller and Dr Johannes Bell arrived at Versailles to sign the peace treaty. The council of four fixed 3 PM tomorrow for the ceremony while reservations and conforming text questions were settled by a Clemenceau letter. China refused to sign over Shantung reservations. Italy will be represented by Sonnino Imperiali di Francavilla and Crespi. Paderewski’s Poland pressed supplies issue to the supreme council. Marshal Foch to witness signing. Lloyd George and Wilson to depart Paris after.
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Paris
Associated Press
Hermann Mueller
Johannes Bell
Versailles
Berlin
Council of Four
Paul Durasta
Clemenceau
M.dutasta
M. Clemenceau
China
Shantung
Lord Milner
Great Britain
Edward M. House
United States
M. Simon
France
Signor Grespi
Italy
Viscount Chinda
Japan
Ignace Jan Paderewski
Supreme Council
Sonnino Tr “Ign
Baron Sonnino
Marquis Imperiali di Francavilla
Silvio Crespi
Titton
Versailles Palace
Marshal Foch
Founcaire
Poincaré
Hall of Mirrors
Temps
Briand
Ribot
Viviani
Painleve
Lloyd George
Wilson
London
Balfour
Lansing
Ermier
Austria
German Revolt Expected 1000 Reds Arrested
London reports say peace signing may trigger a German revolt aiming to topple the government and seed a dictatorship. Eastern Germany shows unrest, with Hamburg also tense as rail strikes and food train blockades threaten Berlin. about 1000 revolutionary leaders have been arrested and jailed at Mowbit.
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New York
Hamburg
Ludendorff
Copenhagen
Berlin
Noske
National Defence
Zeitung Am Mittung
Berlin Reds Face Trial for Treason
Berlin defense headlines report the Independent Socialist and Communist members face treason charges. The Associated Press notes ongoing proceedings and the case’s political implications in the capital, with officials preparing for judicial action on the matter.
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Berlin
Associated Press
Communists Plan Revolt In Italy Next Month
Italian German and Austrian Communists held a conference in Southern Tyrol to prepare a revolution in Italy. The dispatch from Vienna says the plan fixed the revolt for the middle of July.
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Italy
Associated Press
Tyrol
Vienna
Berlin Plot to Trap Foch Army and Split Germany
Berlin dispatch claims a secret plan by the Scheideman government to refuse the peace treaty and allow Allied troops to advance to the Elbe, with proposals for a separate northeast German state and cooperation with East Prussia's leaders. The plan allegedly aimed to form a republic or monarchy including East and West Prussia and Posen, led by Wig and other provincial presidents, and to attack once peace was signed. Seashore Summer Timetable advertisement notes New Jersey Central schedule changes effective June 19.
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Berlin
Associated Press
Philipp Scheideman
Germany
Elbe
Danzig
Tageblatt
Poland
Polea
Grand Duke of
Mecklenburg
East Prussia
West Prussia
Posen
Adolph von Batocki
Herr Schhackenburg
Herr von Buslow
Err Wig
Prussian
Three Republicans desert camp on league of nations vote
Washington June 27 three Republican senators Spencer of Missouri Capper of Kansas and Kellogg of Minnesota switch toward reservations and away from supporting the league of nations as written Senator Spencer said he would oppose the league unless Article X is amended while Kellogg kept silent Kellogg may support reservations and Capper already backed them the administration fears losing Republican backing for ratification as details emerge
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York
Washington
Spencer
Missouri
Capper
Kansas
Kellogg
Minnesota
Hitchcock
League
League of Nations
Senate
President Wilson Signs Pact Backing France If Attacked
Paris dispatch reports President Wilson will depart for Brest to sign the German treaty and protocol and, if ready, the pact with Great Britain to aid France if threatened by Germany. He plans to return to Washington to brief Congress and then tour the country to explain the peace treaty and the league covenant.
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Britain
France
Paris
Associated Press
Wilson
Brest
Gare Des Invalides
George Washington
United States
Great Britain
Germany
Lansing
Senate
Goodby
Hotel de Crillon
General Pershing
Washington
Congress
League of Nations
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Henry C. Campbell
Milwaukee Journal
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Air Heroes Home
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Avgust
Ebert
Foch
Scheidemann
Seashore
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Carter Field
Raricy
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