President Held Back by Storms In Naval Escort Drama
News from Newport and Washington reports heavy seas delaying the presidential party aboard the George Washington. Destroyers Gamble Meredith and Harding escort the liner toward Boston as cruisers join if conditions improve. New Mexico’s turbine trouble slows the fleet but no major damage feared. President Wilson conducts a boat drill and prepares for a single landing speech in Boston before returning to Washington. Senator La Follette defends loyalty in Senate amid unrest claims.
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Hog Island foremen resume work after strike
Four hundred Hog Island shipyard foremen, 65 percent from the men’s union, end a shutdown over pay and overtime demands. They will return to work while awaiting a final decision in a week, as Piez of the Emergency Fleet Corporation warns finances are strained and promises a fair deal. The move affects about 20,000 workers and delayed the launch of the freighter Saugus.
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Senate May Repeal Daylight Saving Act
In Washington on May 21 the senate agriculture committee favorably reported the $31,000,000 annual agricultural bill with committee amendments totaling about $5,000. The daylight saving repeal amendment, proposed by Chairman Gore, passed unanimously. The plan would shift clocks and cites farmer protests claiming the act did not benefit their industry.
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60000 Men Strike in Petrograd
British Wireless says sixty thousand workers are on strike in Petrograd demanding the end of civil war and free trade. Reports from London sources sympathetic to the Russian revolution indicate rising opposition to Bolshevik rule among educated workers. Military outlook improves for anti Bolshevik forces with Denikin’s Caucasus victory and Bolshevik failures at Archangel.
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British Wireless Service
Petrograd
Russia
Denikine
Caucasus
Archangel
Glass Explains New Victory Liberty Loan Plan
Washington reports reveal Secretary Glass addressing fears that the Victory Liberty loan would be altered from bonds to notes. He confirms the April 2 start, aims for broad public participation and potential oversubscription, with small denominations and five year maturity. Bankers pledge support through the Investment Bankers' Association.
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Deny Engagement Of Princess To Briton
Paris report of Princess Yolanda engagement to the Prince of Wales is denied by the Italian embassy. The British press bureau in London said the Paris claim is unfounded. Paris newspapers had suggested a possible engagement after the peace treaty signing.
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Berlin Restricts Dances Night Revels After Armistice
Berlin authorities move to curb postwar revels by restricting dance halls to prewar licensed venues and limiting operating days and hours in the city. Separate item notes Nevada Senate rejects a prize fight amendment restricting white and colored boxers in contests and blocks a boxing bill.
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Papal envoy attends rite for Gibbons in landmark jubilee
In Washington on February 21 Cardinal James Gibbons received a historic golden episcopal jubilee with a papal envoy present Archibishop Cerretti read a papal blessing and a banquet followed where fellow bishops presented a $50000 purse from their collective gift. The day drew a large clergy and laity assembly including Justice McKenna and Admiral Capps as talks on Irish freedom sparked audience cheers.
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St Louis
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Rome
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Belgium
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Chicago
Russian Leader Fears Conference as Bolshevik Opposition Rises
New York dispatch reports former all-Russian provisional government president Avskentieff, deposed last November, labeling the Princes Island conferences morally impossible for over sixty million Russians. He seeks aid from Paris talks, traveling with two ex-ministers and other Kerensky supporters. The group plans to sail in about five weeks and meet with Madame Brehekovskaya and other Kerensky partisans.
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Russia
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Omsk
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Vladimir Zenzinoff
Pan African Congress Opens in Paris With 40 Negro Delegates
The Pan African congress opened in Paris with forty Negro delegates including ten American representatives led by Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois. Delegates from the French chamber of deputies also attend as talks begin on measures for land, capital, industry and education for Black people worldwide.
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Long Term Meted Out To Berger
Federal Judge Landis sentenced Congressman elect Vietor L. Berger of Milwaukee and four Socialist leaders to twenty years each for conspiracy to obstruct the draft under the espionage act. Bail set at 25 000 per defendant. appeals to the Supreme Court anticipated.
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Socialist Party
J. Louis Engdahl
American Socialist
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Young People’s Socialist League
Samuel P. Alschuler
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
William Bross Lloyd
Premier George’s Proposal Averts Miner Strike
Premier Lloyd George reported formed new proposals for the miners federation at a Thursday conference to avert a strike feared to spread to railway men and transport workers. Miner leader Robert Smillie said the executive would consider the government move and could call a full conference, potentially delaying the March 15 strike favored by many miners.
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Lloyd George
Miners’ Federation
Lkely
Robert Smillie
American Troops Arrive in Berlin Guard Food Transports
A Copenhagen dispatch reports American troops, possibly the 113th New York regiment, have arrived in Berlin and are quartered in various hotels. Their duty is said to be protecting expected transports of food during the postwar relief effort.
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Wilson Note Of Sympathy
President Wilson sent a condolence message after the attack on Premier Clemenceau. He expressed heartfelt sympathy, hope for Clemenceau’s full recovery, and noted his deep shock at the incident. Signed Woodrow Wilson.
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British Delegates Say Germany Will Need Food Stocks
Paris report by Associated Press cites fourteen British officers who visited Germany and warn of imminent famine or Bolshevism without outside relief. They note Germany lives on capital in food, widespread unemployment, and rail shortages, with Berlin, Hamburg and other cities bearing the strain. Unrest fades slightly under Noske’s firm policy, but coal and raw material shortages cripple peacetime industry.
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No Senate Debate On League Thursday
Washington Feb 21 Senator Pall Republican member of the senate foreign relations committee telegraphed from New Mexico to Secretary Tumulty declining President Wilson's invitation to attend the White House dinner next Wednesday to discuss the proposed constitution of the league of nations The message was not made public The senator has not been in Washington during the present session Senator Borah Idaho has also refused to attend The other committee members were expected to confer with the President There was no league talk in the senate Thursday but Borah plans to speak today Reed Missouri will speak Saturday and Hitchcock Nebraska may reply
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Missouri
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Nebraska
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Peace Conference Adjourns After Paris Attack
London Feb 31 report says the Paris peace conference adjourns after an attack on Prime Minister Clemenceau. Exchange Telegraph dispatch notes the decision follows the incident and results in the session's pause.
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Paris Press Reports Clemenceau Stable as Raids Hit Anarchists
Paris dispatch says Premier Clemenceau remains in satisfactory condition with a 104 pulse and 37 C temperature while his household shows distress. Emile Cottin, the would be assassin, is held at police HQ as raids target anarchist groups tied to the Liberty society and the Seine federation.
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M. Tanguy
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Tanguy
Deis
Cuttin
Paul
Fess Drops Out of Speakership Race
Representative Fess of Ohio, chairman of the Republican congressional committee, withdraws from the race for House speakership. The field narrows to Mann of Illinois and Gillett of Massachusetts as party unity is cited. Supporters expect Gillett's election, while Mann backers remain unconvinced.
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Fess
Ohio
Republican Congressional Committee
House
Mann Ot Sinois
Gillett
Massachusetts
Mann
Suffrage Bill Expected in Canada Parliament
Ottawa Feb 21 The Duke of Devonshire governor general of Canada declared in an opening address to parliament that a bill enabling women to vote and granting them the privilege of sitting in parliament would be introduced in the coming session.
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