World News Digest Highlights Global Turmoil and Political Shifts
A sweeping roundup covers railways under two governments, reorganization plans merging War and Navy departments, peace treaty ratification efforts, and tariff doubts. It notes high Ku Klux Klan officials possibly summoned, a Florida double execution, and a broad array of international incidents from Europe to Asia.
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Ku Klux Klan
Washington
Department of Justice
Daugherty
Revised Tax Bill Reported But Not Be fore Radical “Drys” Get Into Action
Congress opens with debate over treaties with Germany Austria and Hungary and a revised tax bill as Republicans push to meet campaign promises. Borah opposes US reparations representation, while team factions vie over the Campbell Willis antibeer bill. Unrest in Albania Serbia raises League of Nations concerns and regional tensions in the Adriatic.
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Serbia
Albania
Edward W. Pickard
Congress
House
Senate
Harding
Watson
Indiana
Germany
Austria
Hungary
Foreign Relations Committee
Borah
United States
Penrose
Finance Committee
Gerry
la Follette
Secretary of the Treasury
San Noli
League of Nations
Council of the League
League
Supreme Council of the
Jugoslavia
Great Britain
France
Adriatic
Tirana
Greece
Italy
Vallona
Conference on Armaments Limits Agenda Briefing
Powers invited to the Washington conference approve Hughes outline on naval and land armament limits plus China and Siberia questions. Premier Lloyd George and Curzon will not attend due to Britain's domestic issues. Treasury prohibition unit refutes home brew reports and bans home production of alcohol without permits. Railroads face a potential big strike as six federated shop crafts unions defer action pending new wage rules. Chicago carpenters reject Landis arbitration and stand with contractors amid mounting tensions.
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Far East
Hughes
Washington
China
Siberia
London
Lloyd George
Curzon
Great Britain
Federated Shop Crafts
General Railroad
United States Railway Labor Board
Chicago
Landis
League admits three nations as Latvia Lithuania Feisbonia join
The League of Nations welcomes Latvia and Lithuania and Feisbonia as new members in a unanimous vote. The council refers a Poland Lithuania dispute over Vilna to the assembly for settlement while debates continue over Greco Turkish intervention. The Malabar coast revolt, Angora’s guard duties, and Ireland Britain talks frame a day of widespread international tension.
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League of Nations
Feisbonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Council of the League
Assembly
Poland
Vilna
Greece
Asia
Salt
Angora
Sakaria River
Malabar
India
Great Britain
Turkey
Oppau Blast Devastates German Plant and Town
The Oppau synthetic nitrate plant disaster in Germany killed about 1,500 people and injured thousands. The explosions destroyed the town within a fifty mile radius, with casualties including French troops guarding the works and others on a transport. Oppau lies in the Rhine Palatinate, a former wartime chemical munition district.
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Germany
Oppau
Qoppau
Rhine Palatinate
Wife Takes Husband's Advice After Pinkham Remedy
Mrs. M Natale of Springfield Massachusetts credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring her health after a surgeon advised operation. She describes four months of limited work and withdrawal from pregnancy risks, then a easier birth and renewed well being guiding her to urge other women to try the product.
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Ation
Lydia EB. Pinkham
Not Altogether Conquered Airman Boasts About Mastery
A boastful airman claims mankind has conquered air after conquering land and sea. An amused listener challenges him with a brisk quip about jumping from a six floor window to prove who is boss. The exchange reflects a sharp punch line over technological pride.
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Othe
Kansas in the Latin Quarter Ward Lockwood in Paris
Atchison native Ward Lockwood, studying art in Paris, reports a comic phone mix up in which a French operator and a multilingual caller spoke past each other. A Chinaman on the line reportedly could only speak Spanish besides his native tongue, prompting the quip about language barriers.
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Kansas
Ward Lockwood
Atchison
Paris
the Globe
Atchison Globe
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Minnesota
Justice Tutt
Canada
Supreme Court
Joint Congressional Committee On Reorganization
War
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War Finance Corporation
Senator Penrose
Treasury
William Flick
Ogle County
Dixon Go
Iowa
A. L. Urick
Gene Real Construction
New York
Mildred EK. Henor
Grace Lawes
Trerman
Oregonian
Wranburg
Federal Reserve Bank
Crestview
Fla
Putnam
George McCoy
Ponca City
Oklo
Newman Grove
Neb
William Graver
W. Fr. Graver
Beverly Hills
The
Graver Tank Company
Ann Arbor
Mich
Empire State
Yokohama
San Francisco
Jesse St. Clarke
Cincinnati
Union Central Life Insurance Company
Petoskey, Mich
Meyers Bros.’ Commission
St. Louis
District Court of Appeals
Los Angeles
Cal
Louise Peete
Jacob C. Denton
Chattanooga
Tenn
Sons of Veterans
Strand Waiie
National Women’s Party
W. IE. Hamilton
Simpson College
Indianola
William MelLachlin
Spokane
Wash
Pennsylvania System
Herbert Smith
Dowagiac
Robert L. Bean
Megunticook National Bank of
Camden
Portland
Hop Palmer
Millard Wright
Fayette, Mo
Norah Johnson Nettele
Union, Conn
Lake Mashapaug
Alfred Harris Bright
Soo Line
Minneapolis
Allies’ Control Commission
Berlin
Signor di Vigno
Chamber of Deputies
Bari
Fascisti
Emma Goldman
Moscow
Soviet Russia
Crooked Island
Gulfport
Porto Rico
John A. Banckerman
Mobile
A. T. Krasnotchekoff
Far Eastern
Republic of
Siys
Vladivostok
Reval
Information
Collin Oxgilvie Cameron
Thornton, Davidson & Co
Montreal
Maximilian Hardin
Ceblegram
Hardin
Manila
Philippines
Alesander Stamboulisky
Sofia
Balkan
Margaret Wintringham
House of Commons
Lincolnshire
Commons
Trady Astor
Travis
St. Mary’s
San Antonio
Raymond Robins
Europe
International Congress of Working Women
Geneva
Pat Harrison
Mississippi
Harrison
McCormick
Illinocis
New Mexico
Lodge
Holm O. Bursum
Mr. Bursumi
Albert Fall
Joseph C. Grew
Denmark
Switzerland
John D. Prime
New Jersey
Copenhagen
Prime
Columbia University
Secretary of Commerce
Hoover
Elizabeth Christman
Ida M. Tarbell
Sarah Conboy
Mary van Kleeck
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Treasury Department
de Valera
Scotland
Gairloch
Britain
Ireland
Lydia E. Pinkham
Dell
Bediharan
Ourr
A. B. Richard
Hunt
Medicine Co
Sherman
Texas
WiLlike
Grama
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