Parity With England Amendment Passes Senate Panel
A Senate Foreign Relations Committee vote 9 to 8 adopted an amendment to the peace treaty granting the United States as many representatives as the British empire in the League of Nations assembly. The rule ties U S votes to the aggregate votes of Britain and its self governing dominions in the council or assembly.
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Washington
United States
League of Nations Assembly
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
McCumber
North Dakota
League Called
Esseni Ul Watch
Great Britain
League
Empire
Assembly of the League
Nationwide drive on high prices sparks public interest
Milwaukee District Attorney Zabel files complaint against Cudahy Bros Packing for unlawfully storing 75 000 pounds of meat for 18 months to two years. Armour reports government anti inflation campaigns hurt business and livestock prices. St Louis Real Estate Exchange warns higher taxes on landlords would trigger rising rents. Indiana indictments target 12 firms for cold storage law violations. In Maplewood a two hour sale liquidates a ton of army foodstuffs for 200 dollars to 75 buyers.
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Milwaukee
Zabel
Cudahy Bros. Packing Company
Cheston Armour & Company
St. Louis
St. Louis Real Estate Exchange
Wollbrinck
Indianapolis
Marion County Grand Jury
Frank Genario
Frank Lorch
Maplewood
Maplewood City Hall
Washington study targets retail food dealers for excess profits
Lists of dealers in big cities are being compiled to enable criminal action under Palmer's proposed amendments to the Lever food control bill. A Missouri weigher was fined for issuing a false weight certificate. U S Bureau of Markets reports frozen fish in storage down from last year. Pershing questioned by War Investigation Committee about surplus stocks and post war actions.
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Washington
Congress
Palmer
H. E. Hemmacher
Donk Brothers’ Coal Co
St. Louis
Ittner
U. S. Bureau of Markets
Department of Agriculture
Paris
Gen. Pershing
War Investigation Committee of Congress
Newark Man Reunites with Daughter Held by Romani Group
Louis Mitchell locates his 18 year old daughter who three years ago was coerced into an arranged marriage after being held against her will by a Romani band that installed a so called queen and forced union with a Romani chief's son.
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Newark
Louis Mitchell
Sale of American Expeditionary Force Property in France to France
The War Department reports a contract with France to sell $400 million worth of AEF fixed installations and surplus materiel in France. Payment will be in ten year gold bonds. price is 30 percent below commission valuation. Most material was imported free of duty. storing salvage would have incurred large losses.
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Washington
France
United States
War Department
Special Liquidation Commission
Frencc
Suit to Seize Meats Seeks Receiver in Cleveland Case
County Prosecutor Samuel Doerfler filed in common pleas court a suit to seize and sell meats claimed held in Sheriff Street storage and to prevent disposal by the market. The petition seeks an injunction and appointment of a receiver to manage the meats at regulated prices, following a state supreme court ruling in Columbus.
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Cleveland
Sheriff Street
Common Pleas Court
County
Samuel Doerfler
Doerfler
State Supreme Court
Columbus
Living Cost Must Drop Amid Peace Effort
The piece argues U S government must show results in 90 days to lower living costs. It notes the executive council of the railroad shop crafts union urged locals to accept President Wilson's compromise on wage demands pending price level restoration.
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Washington
United States
Wilson
Proze of Wil Stock Game Ends With Anti Fraud Plan
The American Petroleum Institute forms a three member committee to draft law banning tire or advertising of wildcat stocks. Members are R L Welch Judge Charberlain and R W Stewart. The body also backs a 31 million research bureau and adjourns to meet in New York in three months.
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Colorado
American Petroleum Institute
R. L. Welch
Institute
New York
Vienna’s Future Hangs on Peace Terms and League Decision
The peace conference hands Austria a revised treaty text and allied reply at St Germain. Vienna with 2.9 million residents faces possible loss of commercial status, becoming a largely residential capital if Austria remains separate or joins Germany is blocked by the League of Nations.
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Paris
Austria
St. Germain
Paul Durasta
Servia
Supreme Council
League of Nations
League
Germany
France
Switzerland
Vienna
Jugo- Slavia
Czecho-Slovakia
Hungary
Fiume
Aviators Fired Upon Near Rio Grande
Capt. David W. McNabb of the United States Army Air Corps was slightly wounded on an aerial patrol along the international boundary near Laredo Texas when Mexican forces fired volleys at his aircraft. Lieut. von de B. Johnston accompanied him as the plane was fired upon near the water.
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Laredo
Tex
Rio Grande
David W. McNabb
United States Aviation Corps
Here
von de B. Johnston
McNabb
Radical Socialists Organize in Chicago
About 300 representatives of the left wing of the national socialist party formed the Communist Labor Party of America in Chicago and adopted the Soviet Republic emblem with the motto Workers of the World Unite.
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Chicago
National Socialist Party
Communist Labor Party of America
Soviet Republic of
Russia
Workers of the World
Carnegie Estate Tax Estimate Sees Treasury Benefit
Tax experts estimate about seven million dollars of Andrew Carnegie's thirty million estate will be paid to the United States treasury as inheritance taxes, reducing the net transfer and funding government revenues.
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New York
Andrew Carnegie
United States Treasury
Mexican Congress Adjourns Without Oil Reforms
The extraordinary session in Mexico City planned for the first week in May to consider urgent measures including Article 27 amendments on nationalizing oil lands adjourned without touching the petroleum measures.
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Mexico City
Mexican Congress
Reform urged in army court martial procedure
William Bissell Thomas a Minneapolis lawyer and two year veteran of the American expeditionary forces urged reform in army court martial procedure before the Senate military sub committee in Washington.
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Washington
Senate
William Bissell Thomas
Minneapolis
American Expeditionary Forces
Marriage Licenses Issued In August 1919
A list records marriages licensed in August 1919 naming grooms and brides with dates from August 2 to September 1. Notable pairs include Milton Courtney with Collie Sanders, Ivy Potts with Annie Neal, Clarence St John with Rosa Betts, Edwin Sanders with Huston, Claude Knight with Susie Gamble, and others.
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Milton Courtney
Collie Sanders
Ivy Potts
Annie Neal
Clarence St. John
Rosa Betts
Edwin Sanders
Huston
Claude Knight
Susie Gamble
J. B. Hudson
Lula Robbins
Charles H. Lammey
Vashti Howell
Daniel T. Creel
Hattie Bailey
Hugh M. Gamble
Isadore V. Hart
James R. Kilgore
Bessie A. Bounds
W. O. Miller
Opal Brown McElroy
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Centaur Company
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