Gospel of Reds Sent to Orient
London via Montreal January 21 Russia's Bolshevik government scores a broad Asia propaganda push to send agents and funds to destabilize China India and Persia. Obstacles include the Omsk army guarding the Urals while Ukraine reformers in Kiev show weakness and possible Bolshevik ties. Danish envoy M de Scavenius cites hundreds of propagandists in Berlin and plans to move to England and France amid Entente inaction.
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London
Montreal
China
India
Persia
Asia
Omsk
Ural
Ukraine
New
Kiev
Copenhagen
Russia
Germany
England
France
Harold de &Cavenius
Petrograd
Berlin
M. de Scavenius
Kerencky
Poles Defend Lemberg Amid Surrounding Forces
Poles in Lemberg defend the city as Ukrainian forces surround it for a month. Women and boys join the fighting while railways are cut and shelling from German 9 inch guns and aircraft continues daily, with no Ukrainian capture yet.
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Associated Press
Warsaw
Lemberg
Przsmyl
Morrison Claims 135000 Idle in 21 U S Cities
Washington Jan 22 Reports from 21 U S cities show more than 135000 unemployed. Detroit leads with 50000 jobless while Seattle reports thousands and rising. Frank Morrison of the AFL urges immigration restriction as unrest grows and government intervention may be needed. He calls for returning soldiers’ employment legislation and an immigration halt until normal conditions return.
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Washington
House Immigration Committee
Frank Morrison
American Federation of Labor
Morrison
William H. Johnston
International Association of Machinists
War Labor Board
Congress
Gompers Helps Form International Union
London sources report Samuel Gompers and American labor delegates backing an international trades union congress. A five member British committee will represent labor at the new congress and aid assembly. Plans aim to convene with the peace conference, with Gompers to confer in days ahead and proceed to Paris to discuss with French labor leaders.
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London
Samuel Gompers
England
International Trades Union Congress
Gompers
Forward Soviet Note To Paris Conference
American officials at the State Department said the Bolshevik foreign minister Tchitcherin had proposed a conference date and place for Soviet and American emissaries to discuss withdrawal of U S troops from Russia. The note was sent to Paris by wireless to be considered with other Russia questions.
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Washington
State Department
Tchitcherin
United States
Russia
Paris
Red Cross Man Has 227 Battle Wounds
On the troopship Giuseppe Verdi which arrived Tuesday a Red Cross ambulance driver Lieutenant Ernest Hemmingway of Oak Park Illinois claimed 227 wounds from a mortar shell near the Austrian line. He displayed Italian war crosses and was cited by General Jaz.
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New York
Giuseppe Verdi
Red Cross
Ernest W. Femmingway
Oak Park
Zillehois
Hemmingway
Bishe
Jaz
Lutherans Plan Fund To Rebuild Churches
Chicago January conference of Lutheran leaders outlined a plan to raise 1 million dollars to rebuild churches destroyed in the war in France Finland and Russia. Rev N C Stubb of New York presided as Rev Mauritz Larsen noted 9 000 000 Lutherans in devastated areas and the drive to begin February 1.
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Chicago
Europe
N. C. Stubb
New York
Mauritz Larsen
France
Finland
Russia
Turn Guns on Hoover in Senate
Washington January 22 Growing opposition and protracted debate again prevented the senate from voting on the 100000000 famine relief bill. Hardwick Poindexter Harding Weeks Hollis Johnson and others attacked or defended the measure with an amendment proposing a three member commission to administer the fund.
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Senate
Washington
Wilson
Europe
Harding
Ohio
Johnson
California
Poindexter
Hardwick
Georgia
Hollis
New Hampshire
Democrat
Weeks
Massachusetts
Penroce
Pennsylvania
Congress
Enator Harding
America
League of Nations
Senator Weeks
Metal Trade Unions On Pacific Strike
In Seattle Tacoma and Anacortes between 34 000 and 37 000 metal trades workers began a strike at 10 am Tuesday halting most of Washington ship building. About 8 000 shipyard wood workers may lose work due to yard closures. The Tacoma action involved about 10 000 metal trades workers closing four yards.
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Seattle
Wash
Tacoma
Anacortes
Washington
Mann Reminds House of Special Session
Republican Leader Mann warned the House that only four of fourteen appropriation bills had passed in seven weeks of the short session and only six weeks remained to pass supply measures. He questioned whether the president urged a Democratic push to force an extra session.
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Washington
Mann
House
Representative Mann
Congress
German Constitution Draft Lets People Elect Emperor for Seven Years
The draft German constitution proposes that the emperor be elected by the entire German people for seven years. The chancellor would be appointed by the emperor and answerable to the chamber, resigning if the chamber withdraws confidence. It also requires Reichstag approval of all treaties with any league of nations once formed.
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Ondon
Empire
League of Nations
Germany
League
Reichstag
Favorable Report on Ford Contest Moves Forward
Washington Jan 22 The senate privileges and elections committee orders a favorable report on Chairman Pomerene s resolution for immediate investigation and balloting possession in the Ford Newberry Michigan senatorial contest. Democrats present back the measure while Knox Kellogg Lodge oppose claiming illegality and irregularity with timed objections and walkouts. King favors hearings only if valuable evidence is at stake.
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Washington
Ford-Newberry
Michigan
Senate Privileges and Election Committee
Pomerene
Kenyon
Senate
Knox
Pennsylvania
Kellogg
Minnesota
Pomerone
King
Utah
Senator Lodge
Massachusetts
Lodge
Promises Navy Will Be Home Soon
Franklin D. Roosevelt after a navy conference said the American navy should be out of European waters not later than February 15 with about 3 000 men remaining. Armistice left 70 000 sailors in Europe. now about 23 000. Many at aviation stations in France and Ireland, but being sent home quickly. Uncertainty remains over German passenger ships for transport and ship delivery timing.
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Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Simson
Europe
France
Ireland
Retain Comfort Kits for Discharged Servicemen
Washington January 22 Secretary Baker orders that enlisted men leaving the service may keep their safety razor comb shaving brush steel mirror and towels saved to each man.
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Washington
Baker
Rock Island Jail Break Liberates Noted Convicts
In Rock Island Illinois on January 22 a jail escape freed 20 to 25 prisoners after a turnkey was shot and two guards overpowered. Fourteen escapees were Joliet penitentiary convicts recently paroled to work at local plants. The group fled via an unbarred window. several automobiles were stolen as police hunted for them.
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Rock Island
John Sexton
Joliet
United States Arsenal
Jacob Wigers
Arthur Miller
James Ellsworth
Jacob Schaul
John Miller
Chicago
Miller
Here
Clothing Men Have Problems Of Peace
The National Association of Clothiers opened its 23rd annual convention in Chicago to address postwar issues. A committee will travel to Washington to discuss the luxury tax in revenue legislation. The group forecasts a spring rise in double breasted men's coats due to cloth surpluses.
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Chicago
National Association of Clothiers
Washington
American Experts In Budapest Four Days
The American commission led by Prof. A C Coolidge, in Budapest for four days, conferred with politicians of all parties financiers newspapers and editors and delegations from Romanian and Czecho-Slovak territories on Hungarys situation The mission also met former archduke Joseph Habsburg at the palace in Budapest.
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Paris
A. C. Coolidge
Budapest
Hungary
Joseph Hapsburg
United States to pay British costs for troop transport
Washington January 22 United States will pay the British government actual cost for transporting American soldiers in British vessels. Colonel Battison said General Hines head of the embarkation bureau would go to London soon to determine the amount.
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Washington
United States
Battison
Army Embarkation Bureau
House Military Committee
Hines
London
Chimes Play Irish Tunes Ahead of Independence
In San Francisco on January 22 the chimes of St. Patrick's Catholic church rang at noon in anticipation of Ireland's expected declaration of independence. The tunes included The Nation Once Again and other Irish songs, echoing through the business district.
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San Francisco
Ireland
St. Patrick's Catholic Church
Supreme council appoints relief commissions for Triest Bucharest Constantinople
Paris January 22 The supreme council of supply and relief adopted a resolution to appoint inter allied relief commissions for Triest Bucharest and Constantinople Herbert Hoover presided as director general. The council also decided to request Marshal Foch to ensure transport of foodstuffs through Danzig for Poland and took measures to provision Finland and to compel Germany to feed Russian prisoners in Germany.
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Paris
Supreme Council of Supply and Relief
Triest
Bucharest
Constantinople
Herbert C. Hoover
Marshal Foch
Danzig
Poland
Finland
Germany
Paris Meeting Hints Probe into Russian Situation
At a Paris session the supreme council outlined a plan for an inquiry into political conditions in Russia, avoiding direct talks with Bolshevik leaders. The proposal, still unwritten, seeks a united approach with no Soviet agents present, amid concerns over a sovereign remedy.
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Associated Press
Paris
Supreme Council of the Great Powers
Russia
Sergius Sazonoff
Lloyd George
M. Pichon
Grand Jury Frees Woman Who Slew Sahara Emperor
Nassau county grand jury declined to indict Madame Jacques Lebaudy for the January 11 shooting death of her self styled “Emperor of Sahara” husband in Westbury. She and her 15 year old daughter Jacqueline left jail with relief and cried tears of thanks as she sought seclusion.
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Mineola
N. Y
Nassau County
Jacques Lebaudy
Westbury
Sahara
Madame Lebaudy
Jacquelin
Phineas Seaman
Increase in telephone rates argued by ex-Postmaster
Edward Reynolds former VP and GM of the Postal Telegraph Cable testifies before the House Post Office committee in Washington arguing that government control only serves to raise telephone charges. He accuses Burleson and the control panel of seeking to consolidate telegraph and telephone lines into a monopoly and urges immediate return of Postal Telegraph lines.
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Washington
Edward Reynolds
New York
Postal Telegraph Cable Company
Burleson
House Post Office Committee
Reynolds
F. W. Putnam
Minnesota Commission
Congress
Western Union
Bell Telephone
Theodore N. Vail
Necomb Cerlton
Western Union Company
Compliments to Steamer Westbro Guard for Courage
Secretary Daniel 3 officially compliments the armed guard of the steamer Westbro. The crew of twenty three men and five navy enlisted personnel aided the ship's crew in shifting cargo at sea to save the vessel during a dangerous condition.
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Washington
Daniel 3
Westbro
Navy
Shp
Counter Revolt in Hungary Reported in Budapest
Amsterdam Jan 38 reported counter revolts in Hungary with officers leading demonstrations at Budapest and clashes with police described in the dispatch.
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Hungary
Amsterdam
Budapest
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