President Wilson Orders Expedited George Washington Voyage
President Wilson ordered immediate sailing of the US Navy steamer George Washington. Admiral Benson at Paris and Acting Secretary Roosevelt said the ship would depart New York for Brest at the earliest opportunity, likely Friday afternoon, April 11, and arrive at Brest around April 17. The move aims to ensure the vessel is ready if wartime peace talks require the president’s presence in Paris.
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Washington
Wilson
George Washington
Navy Department
William
Benson
Paris
New York
Brest
Admral Benson
White House
St. Admiral
Tumulty
Grayson
Whch
President Wilson
France
New York Navy Yards
Navy Yard
Roosevelt
Permits Sale Of Game In Missouri Under Debate
A Missouri senate approved the Alves amendment allowing legally killed game to be sold, ending a prior prohibition. The Mayes amendment seeks to empower Southwest hunters to market surplus ducks. Senate actions also included Browntee bills on a St. Louis discount firm and ward elections, plus house measures taxing city insurers and hospital patient funding in Marshall.
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Jepperson
Alves
Senate
Mayes
Missouri
St. Lous
St. Louie
House
St. Louis
Marshall
Woodmen Plan Referendum on Rate Increase
Chicago April 9 Modern Woodmen of America would submit to referendum the question of rate increases adopted at a recent meeting of representatives of the order. The referendum will be voted on by the various camps at the next institute meeting in May.
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Chicago
America
Odessa Taken By Ukrainian Soviet Forces
Paris dispatches report Odessa captured by Ukrainian Soviet troops per Kiev-Moscow wireless dated April 7. Official confirmation pending. Indications point to broader Bolshevik pressure with possible Allied evacuation to the Dniester and fortification of Perekop for Sebastopol defense.
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Odessa
Associated Press
Paris
Kiev
Moscow
Paris Matin
Dniester
Bessarabia
Romania
Perekop
Sebastopol
Business Romance In Woolworths Life
New York April 9 Frank W Woolworth started a five and ten cent shop in Utica New York with $50 capital forty years ago and rose to millionaire proprietor of a vast chain in the United States Canada and England He died suddenly at his Glencove Long Island home His rise from a penny pawn shop to the 51 story Woolworth Building and 800 plus branches is described with emphasis on profits nearing 9 million yearly the 88509000 incorporation figure and his early life in Rodman Jefferson county New York born April 13 1852.
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New York
Frank W. Woolworth
Utica
N. Y
United States
Canada
England
Glan Cove
L. I
Woolworth
Rodman
Jefferson County
Cry
Lancaster
Asking Dismissal Of Suit Brewers Begun
New York April 9 Dismissal of the suit by Jacob Hoffman Brewing Company against government authorities to enjoin enforcement of the war time prohibition act was asked in papers filed in federal district court by Earl Br Barnes assistant United States district attorney The government seeks judicial notice that the peace treaty is not ratified and a state of war persists with Germany Exhibits supporting the claim are deemed insufficient and irrelevant and should be struck from the complaint
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New York
Jacob Hoffman Brewing Company
Federal District Court
Earl BR. Barnes
United States Disstrict
Wilson
Congress
Barker
United States
Germany
Clemency Board Reviews 1683 Soldier Cases
The special clemency board appointed to review soldiers in confinement has considered 1,683 cases, about one third of those needing action. It has recommended clemency in 202 cases, shortening average sentences from seven years to ranges of four months to one year and nine months. Total clemency has cut 9,330 years from aggregate sentences. Five life terms were reviewed, with two to twenty years, and clemency denied in the other three.
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Washington
World War Veterans group forms in Boston
Pow Boston reports Gen. Clarence R. Edwards presided as Post No. 1 of the World War Veterans organized at the department of the northeast headquarters on Tuesday, marking the start of a local post in the city.
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Boston
Clarence R. Edwards
The
World War Veterans
Department of the Northeast
Nation faces huge cost from record winter wheat crop
Washington April 9 forecast from the department of agriculture says the winter wheat crop may total 837 million bushels the largest ever grown. Government must cover the difference between the 2.26 a bushel guarantee and world prices. Total value could reach about 1.892 billion dollars with spring wheat pushing total to roughly 2.5 billion. Officials doubt exact government payout but expect big farmer prosperity and rapid money circulation. Surplus export potential could exceed prewar levels.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Argentine
Australia
United States
Little Reduction In Prices Of Clothing
In Chipago on April 9 1919 there may be no rise in prices for medium to better grade clothing and a potential moderate drop for lower grade goods with reworking wool and cotton. The forecast follows a meeting of the National Association of Retail Clothiers and the National Association of Clothing Manufacturers noting continued high raw material and labor costs as the basis.
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Chipago
National Association of Retail Clothiers
National Association of Clothing Manufacturers
Hesim
Home Made Booze Causes Three Deaths in Freeport
In Freeport on April 9 authorities investigate three deaths linked to home made whiskey containing wood alcohol. Victims are Mrs Oscar Ruthe Mrs John Soliday and "Red" Galbraith who allegedly brewed the drink and was found dead in his room. two women died early Tuesday.
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Freeport
Uws
Oscar Ruthe
John Soliday
Red” Galbraith
Galbraith
Rush of HGGS. Prict Up. Chicago market report
Chicago April 9 no abundant supply of et Over before reached Chicago Tuesday 73 457 case. Notwithstanding the record price talks rivals the market was slightly higher than Monday. Exporters were said to be taking liberal quantities to Europe.
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Chicago
Europe
Americans on Mauretania kept as aliens until proven
New York April 9 2700 veterans mostly American who served with the British army were held aboard the Cunard liner Mauretania after a dispute between American immigration officials and British authorities. They will be mustered out at Camp Mills once citizenship is proven. Commissioner Caminetti said Americans aboard with possible English or West Indian origins would be treated as ordinary immigrants and release awaited identity confirmation. Possible fines for Cunard line were not yet determined.
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New York
Cunard
Mauretania
England
Camp Mills
Cunard Line
Washington
Camunetti
Caminetti
West Indies
Thirty three Bolshevists slain at Pinsk on plots
War saw April 7 report that 33 Bolshevists were executed at Pinsk while plotting to overpower the garrison and seize the city. American Red Cross officer Col. Fronczak estimated about 70 captured with roughly every second one shot after the building was surrounded. Pinsk had fallen to Bolshevists a month earlier.
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Warsaw
Pinsk
Poland
Francis E. Fronczak
D Pinsk
Prudential Official John Brydon Dies in Newark Hospital
John Brydon of Newark, No J, supervisor in the Prudential Life Insurance Co investigation department, died Tuesday morning in a local hospital from heart trouble after being admitted Monday evening.
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Prudential, van Wie
Procatur
John of
Senate Approves 8 Bills Waterways Measure Delayed
SPRINGFIELD IL April 9 Consideration of waterway bills was postponed due to Senator Richard J Barr illness. Civil service advocates led by Morton D Hull aimed to place building workers under civil service and cap water power lease terms. Barr, who led a Joliet waterway route tour, is confined by a cold. Bills passed include licensing vendors of alcohol outside cities, restoring soldiers positions, aligning reserve militia with organized militia, raising teachers pension tax, fixing Indian day, funding a monument at Hillsboro, appropriating for a veterinary college, and making pension fund trustees governor appointed.
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Springfield
Senate
Richard J. Barr
Joliet
Civil Service
Morton D. Hull
Chicago
William L. Hackett
Barr
Carlson
Dailey
Department of Statistics
Brady
Curtis
Perver
Canaday
Jesse J. Philips
Hillsboro
Lantz
University of Hlinolls
Spence
Teachers’ Pension Fund
Officials Announce Forrest Medal Award
Washington April 0 Sergeant Arthur J Forrest of the 849th Infantry received the Congressional Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry near Remonville on November 1, 1918. He worked through enemy fire to reach a firing point and charge enemy machine guns, driving their crews from the post. Two others and four additional enlisted men were decorated.
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Washington
Arthur J. Forrest
849Th Infantry
South Maple Street
Hannibal Moe
War Department
Remonville
Porrest
Japan Will Accept League Covenant Says Kawakami Delegate
SAN FRANCISCO April 9 K K Kawakami said Japan will accept the covenant of the league of nations. He left for Chicago to join Baron Shinpei Goto touring the United States. He noted compromises are needed by each nation for the organization and Japan has long been conciliatory in foreign affairs.
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San Francisco
Japan
League of Nations
K. K. Kawakami
Chicago
Shinpei Goto
United States
Blame Karolyi for Communist Revolt in Budapest
In Budapest on April 7 a report says Count Michael Karolyi engineered the communist movement to frighten the allies and attract attention to Hungary. Bela Kun seeks dictatorial power while socialists push a moderate government. Most insist only a few Budapest madmen want nationalization. Gen. Smuts visited seeking boundary talks but reportedly left for Paris without agreement.
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Associated Press
Budapest
Michael Karolyi
Hungary
Bela Kun
Trotzky
Gen. Smuts
Paris
Camouflaged Saloon Opens Salvation Army Resort in Chicago
Chicago opens the first substitute saloon run by the Salvation Army where familiar features remain but interior decor, lunch counter, and social elements are camouflaged. Aimed as a model for future outlets nationwide, the venue includes coffee stands, books, magazines, a phonograph, and writing booths as a hedge against prohibition.
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Chicago
Salvation Army
German Congress in Berlin Opens Amid Tense Atmosphere
In Berlin on April 7 the soldiers and workers and peasants congress opened under a tense, uncertain mood with heavy military presence and searches of spectators. About 288 delegates were expected from 260 workers and peasants councils and 28 soldiers councils, though many could not attend. One Warkan delegate attended. Nine delegates from German Austria joined. The confirmed majority Socialists will hold sway, while Independent Socialists plan motions for the release of political prisoners.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Austria
Mobs Loot Food Bins in Saxony Riots
Dispatches from Copen hagen report plundering and shooting tied to a general strike by independent and majority socialist workers in Madgeburg Prussian Saxony. Warehouses of weekly food reserves were looted, with damage over 400000 marks. Police station stormed, rioters repulsed, troops advancing, and arms distributed to insurgents. Eight thousand workers met at Dom Plaz demanding release of former Deputy Brandes. Train service ceased.
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Associated Press
Copenhagen
Madgeburg
Prussian
Saxony
Dom-Plaz
Brandes
New Republic
Berlin
Munich
Tageblatt
Bavaria
Vossische Zeitung
Nuremberg
Vossische Zittung
Hoffman
Bamberg
Franconia
Erlin
Labor Ministry
Erzberger
Zurich
Mathias Erzberger
Marshal Foch
Spa
France
Poland
Germany
London
Foch Praises Australian Troops For Enduring Valor
Marshal Foch sends message to Australia praising its troops for endurance and boldness. He notes their initiative and fighting qualities alongside British American and French allies, recalling their actions in grave hours of 1908 and their decisive stand against the enemy. He expresses undying memory of incomparable soldiers.
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London
Marshal Foch
Australia
Grange Urges 4 Percent Rate for Victory Liberty Loan
A National Grange member sent a public letter to Rotary Glass urging a fixed 4 percent interest rate on the Victory Liberty loan. The appeal was addressed to masters of state granges and other farming representatives, pressing that the rate not be raised. Washington remarks dated April.
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Tera
National Grange
Rotary Glass
Washington
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New York City
Navy
Clemency Board
Amerigars
Veterans of War
Red Cross
Forrest
U. S
Karoly
Salvation Army Resorts
Soviet
Foch
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