Peace plan moves in House for end of German war
Washington April 7 the House foreign relations committee favors adopting a resolution declaring the war with Germany ended. A nine hour debate rule was set for Thursday. Minority Flood prepares a contrasting report. Democrats show doubt, Venable questions Congress power, Mendel argues end is within rights. Authorities cited outline methods of termination and urge immediate end of war powers.
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Washington
House Committee On Foreign Relations
Germany
Porter
House
Representative Flood
Virginia
Representative Venable
Mississippi
Congress
Representative Mendel
United States
Census reveals 1920 population gains across multiple cities
The census bureau lists city by city population figures with gains from 1910. Logan Utah grows 1,917 to 9,439. Grand Junction Colorado up 1,111 to 8,665. Vinita Oklahoma up 979 to 4,361. Albany Georgia rises to 11,555. Carrick Pennsylvania climbs to 10,804. Ogden Utah reaches 32,804. Zanesville Ohio to 29,569. Huntington Indiana up 3,728 to 14,000. Wilmington North Carolina to 33,372. Cambridge Ohio up to 13,104. Greensburg Pennsylvania to 15,033.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Logan
Utah
Grand Junction
Colo
Vinita Okla
Albany
Carrick
Ogden
Zanseville
Ohio
Huntington
Ind
Wilmington
Cambridge
Greensburg
Bank Robbery Ends With President Locked In Vault
Two men entered People Bank after noon and locked President S. M. Caldwell in a vault with $8,000. Caldwell’s cries drew a passerby to free him. A posse spotted the bandits at Glasgow Junction five miles away. In a burst of gunfire the robbers abandoned their car and fled into the hills.
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People Bank
S. M. Caldwell
Caldwell
Glasgow Junction
Women Pickets Use Planes to Picket Embassy
Irish pickets in Washington used a flying machine to drop leaflets near the British embassy. Four land pickets were arrested for insulting a foreign diplomat, while aerial pickets escaped arrest as police offered no sky patrols. United States Attorney set $1,000 bond per arrested woman. they were jailed for police court.
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Associated Press
Washington
Manor Walsh
Germantown
Blaine Barrie
Philadelphia
Helen O'Brien
St. Louis
Kathleen O'Brien
Robert Emmett Doyle
Daniel Sullivan
United States
Laskey
State Department
Charges of Vice In Gotham Starts Series of Probes
New York city launches a fifth probe into vice conditions ordered by Mayor Hylan. Commissioner Hirshfield is to investigate Revelry charges raised by Rev John Roach Stratton and to report on dancing and eating establishments. Existing inquiries into police, along with a legislative probe into Tammany city administrator, continue.
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New York
New York City
Hylan
David Mitchfield
John Roach Stratton
Calvary Baptist Church
James E. Smith
Smith
Tammany
Albany
Louis
Cabarete
Enright
Dominick Henry
Tenderloin
Thomas McDonald
Woman Wills Beer To Relatives And Friends
NEW YORK April 6 Beer as the last treat was provided for relatives and friends by Mrs Margaretha Apman who died three weeks ago in her will filed in the Brooklyn surrogate's court. She leaves an estate valued at 22000 to relatives in Germany and this country. The will directs that funeral coaches be paid from her estate and that attendees be taken to Niederstein's Hotel Middle Village Long Island for lunch coffee and beer at her expense. Her two nephews were named to carry out these provisions.
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New York
Margaretha Apman
Brooklyn
Apman
Germany
Niederstein’s
Middle Village
Long Island
Howat Refuses Recognition of Industrial Court in Kansas
Pittsburgh Kan April 7 United Mine Workers District 14 officials led by President Alexander Howat were summoned to appear before the Kansas industrial relations court but all refused to obey The Howat statement declared the union does not recognize the court and its members should dig coal to understand the business The group faces legal action for noncompliance and will not answer questions citing lack of recognized authority and existence.
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Pittsburg
Kan
Alexander Howat
United Mine Workers
District 14
August Dorcy
Thomas Harvey
Thomas Cunningham
R. B. Foster
Kansas Industrial Relations Court
A. J. Curran
District Court
Howat
Army Bill Subject of Attack on Army Size
In Washington on April 7, Senator McKellar assailed the army reorganization bill as building a military system rivaling any in history. He focused on a large general staff, an under secretary of war, and a war council, while opposing universal training for now. Senate leaders defended the bill as modernizing the war department and cutting red tape, deferring peacetime strength decisions until universal training is resolved.
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Washington
Senator McKellar
Tennessee
Senate
War Council
McKellar
Wadsworth
New York
Frelinghuysen
New Jersey
War Department
General Wood Outlines Budget System Plan in Cairo Address
General Leo nard Wood, Republican presidential hopeful, called for a president directed budget system to curb waste and move the nation toward millions in savings. He spoke in Cairo after stops in Jacksonville and Jerseyville urging Americans to adopt American ideals and standards.
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General Wood
Cairo
Ill
Leonard Wood
Illinois
Jacksonville
Jerseyville
Alton
East St. Louis
Belleville
Centralia
Duquoin
Carbondale
America
Cross Pacific Plane Hoped Within Two Years Daniels
Secretary Daniels told the Senate naval committee he hopes a machine will fly across the Pacific in two years or less. He spoke on the naval bill provision to preserve the NC-4 in the national museum and to explain funding for Pacific coast naval facilities.
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Cross-Pacific Plane
Daniels
Washington
Senate Naval Committee
Pacific
National Museum
Pacific Coast
Peak Mississippi River flood reaches Dubuque
The Mississippi River crest hit 20.9 feet in Dubuque on Tuesday and the Weather Bureau expects the river to begin falling. Estimated damage from the flood stands at 200000 dollars, about 23000 more than the 1916 flood.
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Dubuque Dubuque
Weather Bureau
Woman Hangs Self in Cedar Rapids Room
Mrs. Alex McKenie of Cedar Rapids died by suicide on a Tuesday in April, hanging herself from a bedpost in her room. The event was reported as a death by own action and noted locally.
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Cedar Rapids
Alex McKenie
Harts on Trial in U S House
Brigadier General William Harts, former commander in Paris, testified before a House investigating committee that he is satisfied with his records at the post. He said about 100 brutality cases were reported among 10,000 arrests during his four months in command and that no strong arm arrests were reported to him. Johnson pressed that officers should have known of abuses. General March and other officers acknowledged a basis for charges.
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Washington
Paris
William Harts
House For Investigating
Harts
Johnson
General March
Engine Men And Firemen Tie With Switchmen Strike Rally
Chicago April 7 freight engine men and firemen on all roads in the switching district voted Tuesday to join the striking switchmen. An estimated 8600 more men would join the action, aiming for 25000 total on strike today. About 1000 railroad brotherhood members attended the meeting as a warning was issued that the group may repudiates the strike. Switchmen reported delegations to Milwaukee and Kansas City to call further strikes.
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Chicago
Railroad Brotherhood
Milwaukee
Kansas City
Chicago Fire Laddies Withdraw Resignations
Chicago firemen voted to withdraw their resignations and accept the ten per cent wage advance in the revised city budget. George B. Hargan, president of the firemen's association, announced the move. The 1,250 resignations would have taken effect April 10. The force currently earns a minimum of 1800 dollars yearly, with an $800 requested increase.
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Chicago
George B. Hargan
Firemen’s Association
Hold Up Man Inventor of Burglar Alarms
St Louis police learned that Charles F. Smith the electrical contractor who robbed the Easton Taylor Trust Co. of more than 15 000 and killed one officer while wounding three others before his own death was the inventor of a burglar alarm. Smith formerly lived in Dayton Ohio and his wife blamed a head injury from an accident seven years ago for his actions saying it sometimes caused epileptic like spells.
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ST. Louis
Charles F. Smith
Easton-Taylor Trust Co
Smith
Dayton
Ohio
Escapees From State Hospital Near Chester Still At Large
In Chester Illinois 15 patients fled the state hospital for the criminally insane Saturday night. By Tuesday morning all but two had been recaptured. An armed posse continues the search for the remaining two as deputies report the escapees were found wandering in fields and resting in brush.
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Chester
Chester State Hospital
McAdoo Announces Birth of Daughter Mary Faith
New York April 7. Mr and Mrs William McAdoo announce the birth of a daughter Mary Faith McAdoo. This is the second child of Mrs McAdoo, following Eleanor Wilson, the President’s youngest daughter.
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New York
William McAdoo
Mary Faith McAdoo
California Man Sweeps Primaries in Michigan
Detroit April 7 The race for presidential primary favors Republican Hiram W Johnson of California with 124 727 votes over Leonard Wood 81 904 as 1645 of 2421 precincts report Johnson leads in Warne county and carries six of thirteen districts while Wood edges ahead in others Edwards supports Wayne county Hoover leads Democrats with 17 662 across 1472 precincts Bryan 11586 McAdoo 10934 Palmer 7570 lone Socialist Eugene V Dobbs unopposed for nomination for president. Former Governor Fred Warner leads Oscar Marx for Republican national committeeman.
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Detroit
Hiram W. Johnson
California
Leonard Wood
Johnson
Lowden
Illinois
Herbert Hoover
Edwards
New Jersey
Bryan
McAdoo
Palmer
Eugene V
Warne County
Wood
Edward
Wayne County
Hoover
Fred Warner
Oscar Marx
William F. Connelly
Commander Of Vice Squad To Be Called In Probe
Ensign Henry I. Hyneman said Lieutenant E. M. Hudson, commander of the naval anti vice squad, would be examined when a court reconvened. George Steck, a chief yeoman, sought permission to alter statements after testifying he was accosted while visiting Newport, later clarifying the encounters occurred while he wore uniform and the men were in civilian clothes.
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New York
Henry I. Hyneman
Naval Court
Newport
R. I
E. M. Hudson
George Paul Steck
New York Courts Aid Tenants with Eviction Stays
In New York on April 7 nearly 1,000 evicted tenants faced courts under rent profiteering laws. Landlords often agreed to delay evictions or magistrates granted stays from one to six months as many courts focused on rent cases. Crowds gathered, streets around courthouses were blocked, and police reserves were needed. A tenant described her rent rising from 37 to 65 dollars for a six room apartment, with an eviction ordered but a stay allowed at her last rent while she found another home.
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New York
Hoan Takes Lead In Milwaukee Mayoral Race
Milwaukee mayoral race shifts as Daniel W. Hoan leads over Williams with 80 of 199 precincts tabulated. Hoan has 15,112 votes to Williams 14,732.
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Hoan
Milwaukee
Daniel W. Hoan
Williams
Muscatine Fears Flood Threat As Mississippi Rises
Muscatine Va April 7 1 With the river’s rising stage levees near the city face danger and hundreds of men and teams are being employed to raise barriers while plans are laid for flood relief and victim assistance.
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Muscatine
Invasion Discussion Shapes French Press Support
Paris reports stirring Mayence scenes with troop movements eastward including auto trucks and Moroccan troops. Premier Millerand defends occupation of German cities as necessary, while critics seek concrete Allied participation and cost coverage, noting Berlin’s militarist influence and Versailles implications.
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Paris
Mayence
Ilenry Biden
Journal Des Debate
France
Miller
Echo de Paris
England
Berlin
Pertinax
M. Millerand
Wilson
Premisr Millerand
Rhine
Germany
Ruhr
Pension bill carries large sum for Civil and later wars
April 6 1921 House passed annual pension bill carrying $214,020.00 without a record vote. It covers claims of 624 427 veterans of the Civil Spanish American and Mexican wars.
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Washington
House
Senate
German Ruhr note seeks temporary troops with allied guarantee
Berlin reports a German note to allies requesting permission to send a limited number of troops into the Ruhr in response to sanguinary fighting in the Rhine Westphalia region. Germany offers guarantees for withdrawal. France demands occupation of five towns in equal force. Berlin warns the move risks peace and urges restoration of order amid civil unrest. French action shocks Berlin and draws British misgivings. German papers blast the government for provoking the crisis.
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Ruhr
Frankfort
Ranau
Homberg
Dieburg
Darmstadt
Germany
France
Republic
London
Rhine
Lloyd George
Wales
Winston Spencer Churchill
Paris
Westminister Gazette
United States
Treiheit
von Watter
Reichswehr
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