Assassinations Shock Munich State Session
London reports German chancellor Scheidemann says Bavarian war minister Rosshaupter killed. In Munich Auer wounded as deputies seized by Spartacans amid chaos. Eisner the Bavarian premier shot in Munich on way to Diet. Diet adjourned. Riots, arrests, and martial guard amid deadly violence across city.
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London
Philipp Scheidemann
Herr Rosshaupter
Associated Press
Munich
Iferr Auer
Landtag
Auer
Kurt Eisner
Diel
Diet
Herr Auer
Socialist
Bavaria
Interioor
People of
Auet
Bavarian Chamber of Deputies
Germany
Berlin
Eisner
Copenhagen
Count Arco Valley
Foreign Ministry
Prannerstrasse
Spartacan
Committee For Protection
Fisner
Workmen’s Council
Soldiers Refuse To Take German Parts
Washington Feb 22 Ten of Pershing s best heroism stories for the victory liberty loan campaign were to be filmed with Camp Dix soldiers as overseas heroes. The cast balked at portraying German bodies and villains, so professional New York actors were hired to play the German roles.
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Washington
Gen. Pershing
Camp Dix
N. J
Bronze button chosen for honorable discharge emblem
Washington February 28. A bronze button honoring honorable discharge will be issued by the War Department to fete those leaving the army. It mirrors the G A R emblem. A design was selected from 18 models submitted by American artists and sculptors.
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HMAS
Wabghington
Wilson Plans Boston Visit Parade and Speech
President Wilson's Boston trip details solidified with wireless notices. He will address a Mechanics Building gathering around 3 p.m. after a parade from Commonwealth Pier to his hotel. Thousands of servicemen to greet him as he passes through the city.
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Boston
Mass
Wilson
George Washington
Mechanics Building
Washington
Outer Harbor
Coast Guard
Ossipee
Arrval
Commonwealth Pier
Troops in Russia Welcome Recall and Debate Presence
Archangel news reports Washington’s plan to withdraw American troops in north Russia in spring. The 339th Infantry and 310th Engineers draft units face demobilization amid questions on replacement by regulars or Marines and overall American policy in Russia. Dewitt C. Poole Jr notes the embassy’s statement pending Paris peace talks.
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Associated Press
Archangel
Washington
Russia
339Th Infantry
Dewitt C. Poole, Jr
Paris
Vote Strikes July 1 As Dry Law Protest
New York unions including iron workers shipbuilders longshoremen hatters and rammers voted to strike on July 1 to protest prohibition under the slogan No Beer No Work The strike would affect about 166 000 workers The letter carriers association lent moral support while a speaker claimed the prohibition amendment is a ring to destroy liquor business and that coffee would rise in price if prohibition holds.
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New York
New York Iron Workers
General Federated Union
Ernest Bohm
Letter Carriers Association
Speeches by Wilson Lincoln and Lloyd George Seen as History Texts
Chicago February 22 Charles McKenny president of the Normal School at Ypsilanti Michigan told the National Council of State and Normal School Presidents and Principals that speeches by President Wilson Lloyd George and Abraham Lincoln would make excellent history texts for the future He noted the significance of such orations for educational use Also on the program were President Thomas Dutcher Emporia Kansas Principal John J Mahoney Lowell Massachusetts President David Feimley Normal Illinois and President Dwight B Waldo Kalamazoo Michigan
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Chicago
Wilson
Lloyd George
Abraham Lincoln
Charles McKenny
Normal School
Ypsilanti
Mich
National Council of State and Normal School
Thomas Dutcher
Emporia
Kans
John J. Mahoney
Lowell
Mass
David Feimiey
Normal Illinoia
Dwight B. Waldo
Kalamezoo, Mich
Clemenceau receives visitors after garden rest
Paris Feb 21 M Clemenceau spent a short morning in his garden and gave a good appetite at luncheon. He later received General Petain and Inspector Decandin amid the Cottin attack aftermath. Cardinal Annette brought a papal despatch from Cardinal Gasparri. Visitors included Major General Mordecay, Miss Margaret Wilson, Victor Huget, Captain Rene Fonck, and Dr Florant, Clemenceau’s physician, who stated the premier’s condition is excellent after his leg operation recovery.
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Paris
M. Clemenceau
General Petain
Decandin
Cottin
Mordecay
Ministry of War
Margaret Wilson
Wilson
Victor Hicoret
Rene Fonck
Aces
Florant
Red Cross Plans to Cleanse World
Paris, Feb 22. H P Davison of the American Red Cross outlined a peace time plan to form an international league of Red Cross societies to cleanse the world and prevent disease and suffering. He spoke at a dinner with peace delegates, ambassadors, ministers, and hundreds of reporters. Davison was named chairman of a committee representing the United States Great Britain France and Japan. Meetings of the five powers have begun and plans envisage an international office in Geneva.
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Paris
International League of Red Cross
H. P. Davison
American Red Cross
Davison
League of Nations
Red Cross
Lowden Urged To Let State Contracts Now
SPRINGFIELD Illinois February 22 Gov Lowden met with about 60 representatives of commercial and manufacturing interests behind closed doors to discuss Reconstruction era problems. The Illinois Manufacturers Association organized the session. Participants warned unemployment would persist until big state war material contracts were approved by the federal government enabling local producers to operate. Thomas Vredenburg of Springfield, a leader of a large lumber and cement firm, said material prices would rise and not fall soon.
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Springfield
Linois
Lowden
Ilinois
Kilner and Smith Set Air Travel Record Flight
Colonel Walter G Kilner and Major Albert Smith flew from Riverside to Rockwell Field in San Diego in 88 minutes covering 118 miles at an average 180 mph. The DeHavilland machine carried a 400 horsepower engine.
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San Diego
Calif
Walter G. Kilner
Riverside
Rockwell Field
Albert Smith
DeHaviland
Arrest Japanese in California County Jail
Twenty six Japanese were lodged in the county jail in Los Angeles valley on Friday as federal prisoners charged with entering the country illegally via Mexico. They were arrested in the Imperial Valley and federal officers report over 200 similar arrests in the past two months with deportations secured.
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LOS Anghil BS
Calif
Mexico
Imperial Valley
Monroe Doctrine Saved by League Pact Taft Says
Former President William H. Taft at the Pacific Coast Congress of the League to Enforce Peace asserted the Monroe doctrine could be upheld within a league of nations covenant. He cited Article KX extending the doctrine globally and challenged Senator Borah to vote for a treaty based on the Paris draft if the covenant recognizes the doctrine. He criticized Fess Reed and Poindexter for asserting the public does not read.
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San Francisco
William H. Taft
Pacific Coast
League
League of Nations
United States
Borah
Idaho
Taft
Paris
Fess
Reed
Poindexter
Stock swindles rise as liberty bond market grows
Washington officials told the federal trade commission that stock swindles linked to liberty bonds fuel social unrest. Bankers cited the revived fake security selling and promoters taking liberty bonds for sales paper, with 130 swindles investigated in the past year.
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Federal Trade Commission
Washington
Charles S. Hamlin
Federal Reserve Board
Capital Issues Committee
Liberty
Jason Westerfield
New York Stock Exchange
Richard H. Lee
Vigilance Committee
Associated Adt Clubs
Influenza Attacked Illinois Children
Springfield report on influenza shows higher prevalence among children than adults after a six week house to house canvass in mining communities. Dr. C St Clair Drake leads the survey as state health officials prepare a fuller state wide report for the U S Public Health Service.
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Springfield
State Department of Public Health
Hlinoig
C. St. Clair Drake
United States Department of Health
Jackson to join Sox after leaving White Sox
Chicago Feb 23 Joe Jackson star outfielder of the Chicago Americans quits the club early last season and accepts a shipyard job after his draft board classified him in class one with men of the White Sox this season no contract has been received from Savannah Ga where he has been living
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Jackson
SOX
Chicago
Joe Jackson
Chioans Americana
Claga
Savannah
Polish government recognized by allies at Paris
Paris officials announced that allies at Quai dOrsay recognize the Polish government led by Ignace Jan Paderewski. In Warsaw the Polish national assembly met with General Pilsudski handing authority back to the body, Paderewski seeking confidence, and debates on army, land reform, and national rights including Vilna and Teschen.
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Paris
Quai D'Orsay
Ignace Jan Paderewski
Polish Assembly
Associated Press
Warsaw
Europe
Polish National Assembly
Joseph Pilsudski
Diet
Szxgnace
Jan Paderewski
M. Vitto
Theodorowicz
Lemberg
M. Zida
Pilsudski
Paderewski
Poland
M. Paderewski
Teschen
Vilna
Brunswick Diet Stormed by Unemployed Workers
In Berlin on Thursday February 20 the Brunswick Diet was stormed by about 2,000 unemployed rioters during a session. The chairman and several deputies were roughly handled and a bourgeois member who called the unemployed chronic whilers was badly beaten and protected from serious harm.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Brunswick
Transport Woonsocket Arrives After Storms in New York
The transport Woonsocket reached New York ten days overdue with one propeller blade missing and 20 men from detachment casual company No. 15 under Captain J. A. Ulimin of Natchez Mississippi aboard. Departed Bordeaux January 27, it endured storms and stopped in Bermuda for coal before arrival.
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New York
Woonsocket
I[hinofa
J. A. Ulimin
Natchez
Miss
Bordeaux
Bermuda
Repatriation Talks Stalled Over Wounded POWs
Paris report states allied war council will not discuss repatriation of German prisoners of war except for wounded or seriously ill cases. Mathias Broberger, head of the German armistics commission, was informed of the position.
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Paris
Havas
Mathias Broberger
German Armistics Commission
Allied War Council
Butte Troops Withdrawn from City After Miner Strike
Butte Montana February 23 three companies of the 44th United States Infantry sent to Butte after miners strike declared February 7 are to leave town today for their camps.
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Butth
Mont
44Th
United States Infantry
Butte
Expect Decision Soon On Illinois Telephone Rates
Chicago February 22 The government and Illinois clash over the validity of Postmaster General Burleson’s rate increase and a ruling may come within two weeks. Superior Judge Foell adjourned after Friday arguments on dissolving an injunction against the new rates in Tliavis.
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Chicago
Illinois
Burleson
Tliavis
Foell
Charles M. Bracela
United States
War Agencies Cut From Sundry Civil Bill Reports
Washington reports that the sundry civil appropriation bill, presented by Rep Sherley, funds continuances for several wartime agencies including the Labor Department's Employment Service with 850.77 million dollars and returns 21.91 million unexpended war funds. It excludes the food and fuel administrations and others, discontinues the Public Information Bulletin April 1, and designates 660.90 million for the emergency shipping fund with the rest covering most departments.
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Washington
Department of Labor
House
Sherley
Appropriations Committee
Treasury
Food and Fuel Administrations
Committee On Public Information
Capital Issues Committee
War Trade Board
War Labor Administrative Services
Service Bureau
Emergency Shipping Fund
Shipping Board
Reparations Debate Shapes Peace Conference Plan
Paris February 21 The fight over how much Germany should pay for reparations dominates talks as leaders await Clemenceau’s recovery. The issue splits over including war costs, a move that could push the sum to uncollectable heights and may be referred to the council of great powers for final guidance. Presidents Wilson and other leaders likely to be consulted by cable and wireless as no decision has yet been reached.
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Paris
Clemenceau
Commission On
Council of the Great Powers
Wilson
Commission
Deny Passports For European Tourists
The state department in Washington announced a policy to refuse passports for travel to Great Britain and France except for essential business. The move follows requests from both governments to limit travel due to transportation difficulties and abnormal conditions, with no denial that Britain sought to bar prohibition agitators.
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Washington
State Department
Great Britain
France
Borah Attacks League Of Nations On Referendum Demand
Senator Borah of Idaho denounced the proposed league as a radical departure from U S policies and urged it be put to a vote of the people before any constitutional changes. He cited Taft's remarks as misleading and warned the United States must consult the public on such a shift. The speech drew cheers and a brief senate postponement.
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Washington
Boad
Idaho
Foreign Relations Committee
Senare
League of Nations
Taft
Borah
United States
Mr. Taft
Great Britain
U. S
British Empire
Theodore Roosevelt
Senate
Income Tax Return Forms To Be Mailed
Tax return forms for incomes under five thousand dollars will be mailed by revenue collectors to all who filed returns in that range last year. Failure to receive a blank does not excuse filing or paying the tax. blanks will be furnished on application. First time filers must apply to collectors or a bank. Similar distribution will follow for incomes above four thousand dollars and for corporation income reports, though those forms are not yet available.
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Washington
The
Revenue Bureau
Wilson to choose Paris residence for return
Paris February 21 President Wilson will not occupy the Murat mansion upon return to Paris. Colonel House inspected a Place des Etats Unis residence under consideration as the President home. It stands opposite the home of British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Arthur Balfour.
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Paris
Wilson
Murat Mansian
3B. M. House
Place Des Etats Unis
A. J. Balfour
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