U S Failure to Aid Russia At Zero Hour
Elihu Root, head of the Wilson mission, calls the American people in default toward Russia declaring assurances of friendship were empty words. He urges prompt action and proposes establishing trade links to strengthen U S Russia ties as other nations move ahead. The remarks were made at a private dinner and released to the public.
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New York
Russia
Elihu Root
Wilson
Mr. Root
United States
Display of Founding Parchments Highlights Red Purge
Secretary Lansing unveiled the original Declaration of Independence and the Constitution for a viewing by officials and cameras to counter radical propaganda. The event, rare due to age, stressed the parchments’ preservation while comparing Magna Charta, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration, and the U.S. Constitution as milestones in civil liberty.
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Washington
Lansing
United States
State Department
Maine
California
Gulf of Canada
John Hancock
Mr. Lansing
United States of America
Pan American conference plans favor live delegate discussion
Washington Jan 18 delegates at the Pan American financial conference favor informal talks over formal addresses to spark ideas and problem solving. Ministers of finance and delegation chairmen, elected at the opening, met in a relaxed setting at the Pan American Union building to set the framework for next week sessions.
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Washington
Speaers
Ministers of Finance
Republis
the New World
Pan-American Union
Finance
Glass
Carlos Manuel Cespedes
Cuba
William G. McAdoo
The
Treasury
Ricardo Vecino
Urugay
Rafael H. Elizalde
Ecuador
Juan E. Paredes
Honduran
Ax Murderer Kills 3 Then Hangs Himself
Victor Lipponena a 38 year old farmer from West Brooklyn Brooklyns West Brooklyn killed three people and wounded two then hanged himself Afterward a neighbor woman who had tended to his wife was killed and her body crushed the infant The killer used a bob sled to reach two neighboring homes killing one man in view of his two children and fatally wounding an eighteen year old girl and probably mortally injuring her mother.
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Brooklyn
Conn
Victor Lipponena
No Early Action Planned on Peace Treaty Vote
Washington reports no quick Senate vote on the peace treaty as leaders push to resolve reservations. Round table committees held two sessions with progress on minor changes while crucial reservations on article ten and the Monroe Doctrine were postponed. Republican and Democratic leaders noted limited gains in preliminary talks and signaled no shift in core reservation principles.
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Senators Lodge
Massachusetts
New
Indiana
Lenroot
Wisconsin
Kellogg
Minnesota
Hitchcock
Nebraska
Simmons
North Carolina
McKellar
Tennessee
Walsh
Montana
Owen
Oklahoma
Texas Man Goes Free Under Cloud Three Years
Brownwood Texas January 15 a district court jury acquitted Harry J Spanell a former Texas music teacher after three and a half years under a murder cloud. The case involved the killing of his wife Crystal Spanell and Colonel M C Butler near Alpine on July 20 1916. The jury cleared him of Butlers murder by upholding an earlier acquittal on the wife slaying.
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Brownwood
Texas
Harry J. Spanell
Crystal Spanell
M. C. Butler
Alpine
Butler
Spanell
Army
Can't Sell Near Beer In New York Any More
NEW YORK, Jem. 18-Demon Rum died hard in New York Saturday but he died and even his distant relative, Near Beer, will be no more in this state after January 31, according to an announcement by Deputy Excise Commissioner D. Harry Ralston. Mr. Ralston asserted that no provision had been made for licensing alcoholic drinks of any kind after this month and that unless the legislature rushes through a new measure, saloonkeepers who hope to sell near-beer and light wines will have to shut up shop.
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New York
D. Harry Ralston
Ralston
German actor Bonn Offers To Substitute For Kaiser
Berlin January 16 Ferdi nand Bonn once Germanys leading actor and protege of former Emperor William offers to substitute himself for Count Hohenzollern and travel to London in disguise as the former monarch He says he would do this not for William but for German honor and believes he is the only man in Germany able to meet the Allied demand for extradition of the Count
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Berlin
Ferdinand Bonn
Germany
William
Count Hohenzolern
London
Bonn
Count Hohengollern
Raid 4 Stills In Prohibition Crackdown Across Midwest
In Chicago district raids seized four illegal stills — two in Detroit and two in Hammond Indiana — and two men driving whisky trucks were arrested in Peoria. Major A V Dalrymple, head of central prohibition forces, said the operations were on a major scale and recovered forty gallons of freshly manufactured brandy.
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Detroit
Hammond
Ind
Peoria
Chicago
A. V. Dalrymple
Central
Prohibition Forces
Defeat of Clemenceau Seen as Non Signficant in France
Maurice Casenaye says Clemenceau's defeat in the French presidential election shows no political change. He notes the president has no real power, Deschanel is son of a founder of the third republic, and describes Deschanel as highly esteemed, patriotic, and a former president of the chamber with republican ideals.
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New York
Paul Deschanel
Maurice Casenaye
United States
M. Clemenceau
England
France
M. Deschanel
French Academy
Chamber of Deputies
Chamber
Serum Necessary To Save Poison Victims Brought To New York
Poison olive victims Angelo and Dominick Delbene arrived in New York from Washington seeking a lifesaving serum. At Fordham hospital Angelo died before treatment could take effect. Dominick remained in critical condition as doctors prepared to administer the serum to save him.
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New York
Washington
Fordham Hospital
Angelo
Dominick Delbene
Anglo
Complete Force For Dry Law Enforcement
Washington reports the appointment of ten department commissioners for prohibition enforcement completes the government machinery. Some state directors are unnamed but their duties are handled by internal revenue officers. Prohibition Commissioner Kramer’s office faces many problems as the public learns the law, with telegrams and calls pouring in on diverse topics.
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Washiington
Prohibition Enforcement
Internal Revenue
Prohibition
Kramer
Kolchak a Prisoner Demand Retirement
Admiral Kolchak head of the all Russian government is held by social revolutionaries who formed a new government and demand his retirement in writing. Allied representatives ask Major General Jules Janin, commander of the Czechs, to safeguard him.
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Associated Press
Verkhnie
Udinsk
Kolchak
Jules Janin
Aliens To Old World Campaign Seeks Help for Foreign Born
New York January 18. The inter racial council chaired by Coleman Du Pont launches a campaign to help foreign born workers amid raids and deportations. It aims to counter Bolshevik propaganda, improve race relations, and end unrest in industry while noting widespread emigration fears and a drop in immigrant labor in the wake of wartime upheaval.
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New York
United States
Inter-Racial Council
Coleman du Pont
America
Council
Rockefeller Funeral In New York Monday
The body of Mrs. William Rockefeller will be sent to New York for services Monday. Aged 76, she had recently come to Brunswick with her husband and fell ill Saturday morning with angina pectoris, dying before aid could arrive. Survived by husband and four children: William G. Rockefeller, P. A. Rockefeller, Mrs. D. A. McAlpine, and Mrs. R. M. Hartley Dodge, plus a brother of John D. Rockefeller.
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Brunswick
William Rockefeller
Jekyl Island
New York
Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller
William G. Rockefeller
P. A. Rockefeller
D. A. McAlpine
R. M. Hartley Dodge
Freiheit Suspended for Incendiary Propaganda
Berlin reports the Freiheit has been suppressed indefinitely after Tuesday disorders. The government will not lift the embargo unless independents provide substantial guarantees to cease incendiary propaganda. A parliamentary guard is proposed for general protection of the national assembly.
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Berlin
Freiheit
National Assembly
Democrats Refuse To Pay Attention To Racial Issues
In New York on January 18, Democratic National Committee chairman Homer S. Cummings stated the party will conduct its presidential campaign focused on Americans and not on racial or group interests. He dismissed racial objections to the peace treaty as noise, affirmed support for the treaty and League of Nations, and noted six sub committees were appointed for convention planning. Women joined the arrangements committee for the first time, with Mrs. George Bass and Miss Mary E. Foy among the leaders.
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New York
Democratic Party
Homer S. Cummings
Democratic National Committee
Cummings
Mr. Cummings
National Committee
League of Nations
Arrangements
San Francisco
George Bass
Chicago
The
Mary E. Foy
Los Angeles
Attorneys Named to Try Socialists in New York
State's Attorney General Newton selected John P. Stanchfield and Martin W. Littleton as special counsel to aid the judiciary committee in the trial of five suspended Socialist assemblymen. A later up-to-date appointee may be added. The State Bar association adjourned without action on the ousting.
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New York
Newton
John P. Stanchfield
Martin W. Littleton
Judiciary Committee
Littleton
Stanchfield
State Bar Association
William D. Guthrie
De Valera Opens Drive For Irish Bond Sale
In New York on January 18 Eamon De Valera launched a campaign to promote a 10 million dollar bond issue for the Irish republic. He received the freedom of City Hall as a NY Guards unit played The Wearing Of The Green. Crowds cheered as he entered City Hall Park and Mayor Hylan presented an engrossed copy of aldermen resolutions.
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New York
Eamon de Valera
City Hall Park
de Valera
Hylan
Board of Aldermen
Peking Receives Irkutsk News From Verkhnie-Udinsk
An undated dispatch from Verkhnie-Udinsk reports the Social Revolutionaries fully in control of Irkutsk and fighting halted. Arm order trains of General Semenoff have retimed to Lake Baikal as Ernest L. Harris, the American consul general, travels with his staff toward Chita, four hundred miles east of Irkutsk.
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Associated Press
Peking
Verkhnie-Udinsk
Lake Baikal
Irkutsk
Siys
Semenoff
Ernest L. Harris
Chita
Senate probes naval awards letter sparks new angle
A Senate subcommittee heard Rear Admiral William S. Sims discuss a letter he wrote with Secretary Daniels on naval lessons of the great war. The letter criticizes co operation with overseas forces and cites a warning not to let the British pull wool over eyes. It implies unclear orders and delays in implementing allied cooperation.
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Senate
William S. Sims
Daniels
Navy Department
Admiral Sims
Naval Committee
Sims
General Board
Department
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Europe
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