Pilgrim Baby Adoptions Spark Clamor for Others
English baby Joan arrives aboard Aquitania and finds a foster home in the Midwest as hundreds of women seek to adopt the twelve other English infants. National Adoption Society workers report overwhelming demand. Miss Spence's School for Girls receives nonstop inquiries by letters and calls.
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Aquitania
Joan
Middle West
National Adoption Society
Josephine Plows-Day
Clara B. Spence
Miss
British National Adoption Society
Miss Spence
West Fifty-nifth Street
Detective Victim Weeps Over Ethics Violations in Pickpocket Case
Harry Davis, 32, arrested yesterday by Detectives Rastis and Mugge after allegedly attempting to pick the pocket of Mugge near the L train at MpiFd Avenue. Davis, said to be aided by Joseph Pearless, 106s Fifty-seventh Street Brooklyn, admitted the act and wept over violating professional ethics while on a train between 120th and 133d Streets. Both men were jailed at the 120th Precinct on attempted grand larceny charges.
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Harry Davis
West
114Th Street
120Th Street
Mugge
Davis
120Th
Stillman Case President Due Settlement Near Tomorrow
Terms under consideration would grant Mrs Stillman seven thousand five hundred dollars monthly for herself and four children Anne James Alexander Guy. Stillman to cover education and all litigation costs. Guy named as legitimate with guardian ad litem John Mack watching interests until court action. Settlement expected within the week with final accord possibly as soon as tomorrow.
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Jamey A. Stillman
Ange Urquhart Potter Stillman
The
Tribune
Stillman
New York
Guy
James A. Stillman
Mack
Guy Stillman
Jay Leeds
Harding to Visit New York for Memorial and Review
President Harding will travel to New York aboard the presidential yacht Mayflower, anchoring near Ninety-sixth Street. He will attend a memorial service at Pier 4 for expeditionary forces, address the Academy of Political Science at the Hotel Astor, and review the 23d Regiment in Brooklyn accompanied by officials and military escorts.
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Lrncheon
Academy of Political Science
Brooklyn
Harding
New York
Hudson River
Weeks
Knox
Pennsylvania
New
Indiana
Calder
Edge
New Jersey
Sawyer
George B. Christian Jr
Sherrill
West Twenty-third Street
F. W. Galbraith Jr
American Legion
Hoboken
Astor
Edwin P. Maynard
James Robb
2D Brigade
National Guard
Warding
Generalawyer
Baron de Cartier de Marchienne
Balgis
United States
Nator Calder
Wadsworth
Jeremiah Wood
Edwin PB. Maynard
George A. Wingate
George T
Norway to Get 100 Idle U S Ships From James River Boneyard
Norfolk May 22 plans to turn over 100 wooden ships to Norway from the James River boneyard near Claremont are nearly complete. An inspection and photographs are planned. Shipping Board officials say no firm orders exist yet, but expect action soon. England may also seek some ships, preferably steel, in the York River. In total 476 idle ships remain in James and York rivers costing the government over 300 million dollars.
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Norway
James River
Claremont
Shipping Board
England
Anghor
York River
James
York Rivers
Turks in Angora Rebel Brother of Enver Slain
The Eleutheroa Tipos reports mutiny in Angora seat of the Turkish Nationalist government. Fighting occurs among nationalist troops. Nouri Pasha, Enver Pasha's brother, is said to have been killed and many arrests are noted.
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Enver
Athens
Eleutheroa Tipos
Constantinople
Nouri Pasha
Enver Pasha
Ship unions reject compromise on 120000 marine workers
Unions meeting at Cooper Union voted unanimously to reject a tentative Washington agreement for a 15 percent wage cut for one year, opposing a 10 percent concession by owners. The strike, affecting 120,000 seamen on Atlantic Gulf and Pacific routes, continues as negotiators push Washington talks forward.
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Atlantic
Gulf
Pacific
Cooper Union
Washington
Marine Engineers’ Benevolent Association
Davis
Admiral Benson
United States Shipping Board
New York
J. 8. Jenkins
Bureau of Industrial Relations
Fred G. Davis
H. H. Raymond
Wilthrop L. Marvin
American Steamship Owners Association
Benson
Shipping Board
Thomas RB. Healey
Ernest Pegg
Pacific Coast Council
Healey
Foye
Pacific Coast Marine
Peue
W. 5. Brown
National Marine Workers’ Association
Bert L. Todd
George N. Willeys
Boston
B. Thurston
Norfolk
James K. Dukes
Philadelphia
William Hyman
Baltimore
Harding backs existing world order over a new association
Washington reports President Harding favors using the Supreme Council and the Council of Ambassadors to manage postwar affairs and disarmament. He has no concrete plan for a formal association of nations and prefers not to bind the United States to a written constitution.
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Washington
Harding
Association of Nations
Supreme Council
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League of Nations
Munch
Harvey
London
United States
Allied Supreme Council
League Idea
Morgan to Float 100 Million Bond Loan for France
J P Morgan Co announced the French government authorized sale of 100 million dollars of twenty year 7 percent bonds. The issue accrues a 9 million dollar annual sinking fund toward bond purchases, with bonds offered at 95 yielding just over 8 percent. Proceeds to retire maturing US obligations and fund purchases of foodstuffs and raw materials.
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France
J. P. Morgan & Co
Honda
Toe
M. Jean de Sieyes
New York City
M. Jean de Rincquesen
Iacade
United States
Britain Proposes Evacuation of Rhine Towns at Allied Talks
London May 2 Britain seeks to widen the next Supreme Allied Council agenda. The plan would discuss evacuating Rhine border towns now held by Anglo French troops, arguing many reparations payments have begun. Paris counters penalties serve multiple Treaty of Versailles obligations including disarmament and war crime trials.
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New York Tribune Inc
London
Supreme Allied Council
Germany
Rhine
Paris
Japan to Quit Shantung and Siberia Report
A Colonial Conference summary in Tokyo states Japan will evacuate Siberia and restore Shantung to China at the earliest moment while preserving fundamental Far East policy. Officials expect negotiations with China on restoration terms and protection of Japanese interests.
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Associated Press
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Siberia
Shantung
China
Foreign Office
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Far East
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Manchuria
Corea
Kwantung
Hara
Tokio
Tapan
Tsing-tau
Ni40
Saghalin
Nikolaievsk
Kokivin Shimbun
Chinese Eastern Railway
Nichi Nichi Shimbun
Far Eastern
Nichi Nichi
Drift Log Mistaken for Sea Lion Off Staten Island
Margaret George of Androvette Street Staten Island mistook a sea lion for a drift log while gathering driftwood. She towed it home but it moved, later revealing a wounded animal. Two local boys joined to confirm it was a sea creature with a propeller wound. The sea lion died after removal and was placed on display at Charleston Best Club.
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Androvette Street
Kreiserville
Staten Island
Sindbad
Margaret
Charleston Best Club
Teutons Attack in Two Columns Capture Guns in Silesia
London dispatch reports the first major action of the Polish insurrection in Upper Silesia. German forces attacked in two columns near Gogolin and Krappitz, seizing four field guns, eight machine guns, and 150 rifles as they pressed to renew the assault amid heavy fighting across Rosenberg Kreuzburg Ratibor and Krappite districts. Police suspicions noted Korfanty proclamation on disarmament viewed as joke or clever move.
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Upper Silesia
Grossteiner Forest
London Times
Ratiber
Sowietsko
Krappitx
Gogolin
Oppeln
Rosenberg
Kreuzburg
Ratibor
Krappite
Adelbert Korfanty
Berlin
Oppein
Allies Welcome German Compliance On Armament Demands
An Allied official says Germany is meeting demands for war materials and fortresses, with plans to surrender specified items by dates in the Interallied Commission note. He denies rumors of a rift between Lloyd George and the British ambassador, praising President Harding's European policy.
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New York Tribune Inc
Berlin
Tribune
Commission of Control
Rinwechenerwehr
Lloyd George
Lord d'Aberdon
Harding
Balloon Race Balloons Forced Down Near Nashville
The St Louis chamber of commerce balloon among nine that went aloft in a national elimination race was landed ten miles from Nashville due to extraordinary atmospheric conditions. Pilots H. E. Honeywell and J. M. O'Reilly cited the weather as the reason. reports say Birmingham's jetty may have descended elsewhere.
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Chamber of Commerce
St Louie
Birmingham
Ala
H. E. Honeywell
Bt. Louis
J. M. O'Reilley
Heald
Rev. Donaldson
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