Root Urges Separation Of League Covenant From Treaty
Former Secretary of State Elihu Root in a letter to Senator Lodge urged separation of the league of nations covenant from the peace treaty and adoption of reservations to the treaty including Article X. He criticized the Monroe doctrine clause and proposed withdrawal provisions. He favored keeping reservations to avoid entangling commitments while reaffirming consent to ratification with limits.
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Washington
Elihu Root
Senator Lodge
Massachusetts
Senate
Mr. Root
America
League
League of Nations
Europe
United States
Knot
United Sates
Borah
Roosevelt
Foreign Relations Committee
Idaho
Republican Party
Hitchcock
Nebraska
Knox
Pennsylvania
Root
German Visitors In Holland To Purchase Home For The Kaiser
German visitors in Amerongen signal discussions to buy property near Utrecht as a future residence for the ex emperor. Dr Kriege of the German foreign office reports a plan to tax unearned increment heavily. Guards and policing around the castle area are tightened and local telegraph operations shortened to 7 30 p m as officials reduce staff.
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Associated Press
Amerongen
Germany
Holland
Utrecht
Kriege
Foreign Office
Tere
War Board
Ministry of Justice
Industrial Workers Drift to Kansas During Wheat Harvest
Kansas City, June 22. United States district attorney Fred Robertson says the I W W plans to center its activity in Kansas this summer during the wheat harvest. A Chicago bulletin urged one thousand delegates to gather by July 1. Reports say I W W stickers appear on poles and barns across the country directing attention to Kansas.
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Kansas City
Kansas
Fred Robertson
United States District Attorney
Kan
Robertson
Chicago
Washington policy makes border news El Paso dispatch
Washington policy toward Mexico alarmed Carranza and Villa partisans as an Associated Press dispatch from Washington outlined a new American stance. Couriers were sent to Villa’s camp and to Jucres for Gen. Gonzalez and staff. Mining companies with Mexican interests telegraphed the dispatch to interior reps.
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EL Paso
Texas
Rio Grande
Associated Press
Washington
Carranza
Villa
Mexico
Gonzalez
Governor Welcomes Illinois Men Home From War
Springfield June 22 Governor Lowden issued a statement welcoming Illinois soldiers returning for Sangamon county home coming to be held Tuesday The message praises their service acknowledges wounded and sick veterans and urges them to help preserve liberty resume peaceful relations and meet future challenges for Illinois America and the nation
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Springfield
Ill
Illinois
Lowden
Sangamon County
United States
America
Brazil Leader Praises U S Ties at Washington Dinner
President elect Epitacio Pessoa of Brazil praised U S friendship at a dinner hosted by the vice president. He cited U S entry into the war as pivotal to Brazil’s course and thanked officials for their welcoming reception in Washington.
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Washington
Brazil
United States
Epitacio Pessoa
New York
Pessoa
Polk
White House
Marshall
Weimar Caucuses Split Over Peace Treaty Signing
Reports from Weimar recount three party caucuses voting on peace treaty terms. Majorities favor signing: Socialists 75 to 39. Democrats split with Baron Von Richthofen 1 for and 58 against. Centrists show 4 for unconditional acceptance and 60 for conditional acceptance.
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Weimar
Baron von Richthofen
Minister to Sweden Arrives Unannounced in New York
Ira Nelson Morris American minister to Sweden arrived unannounced on the Rochambeau from France where he said he had long talks with Secretary Lansing and Col. Edward M. House about the Russian situation He plans to visit the state department in Washington early next week then go to Chicago to attend to personal affairs.
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New York
Ira Nelson Morris
Sweden
Rochambeau
France
Lansing
Edward M. House
State Department
Washington
Chicago
Amendment to repeal war-time prohibition defeated
Washington June 23. A proposed amendment to the prohibition enforcement bill granting the President power to repeal wartime prohibition as it affects sale of light wines and beer was defeated by the House judiciary committee by a 12 to ? vote.
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Washington
Rehouse Judiciary
Beira planed flight attempt to Irish coast set for 9 am
In Johns N F on June 22 a Beiraones Oe bombing plane pilot Admiral Mark Kerr plans a harbor race start for a flight to the Irish coast. Start time is tentatively 9 am today.
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Weet Johns
N. F
Beieranes Oe
Mark Kerr
German fleet scuttles at Scapa Flow and cabinet talks
On the day Scheidemann's ministry yielded to Bauer, German crews opened seacocks at Scapa Flow. Large ships sank or beaching ensued while smaller craft remained afloat. Germans aboard these interned ships faced hostile fire as vessels sank. The new cabinet under Bauer debated peace terms and a cabinet reshuffle. Erzberger and Noske named among key ministers as Berlin debates approving the treaty. Reports from Berlin and Weimar described tense negotiations and possible admission to the League of Nations amid demands for indemnity. Italy's cabinet crisis continued with Nitti and Tomini news.
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Associated Press
Scheidemann
Berlin
Herr Bauer
Scapa Flow
Edward David
Assembly
Mathias Erzberger
Armistice Commission
Gustav Noske
Germany
Schiedemann
Eduuard David
Count von Bernstorff
Spanish War Legion resolutions oppose Bolshevism
The United Spanish War Veterans state convention at Kewanee I 11 adopted resolutions denouncing Bolshevism and supporting suppression of attacks on the republican government. A name change to United States War Veterans was not voted on. Officers elected include Department commander Oscar E. Carlstrom and others. installation by General James E. Stewart.
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Kewanee
United Spanish War Veterans
United States War Veterans
Galesburg
Peoria
Oscar E. Carlstrom
Aledo
Fred Brown
Sterling
John Wold
Chicago
Edward J. Barcal
H. W. Jamieson
James E. Stewart
German Note Strong In Terms Toned Down
Berlin reports that after agreeing to a note with conditions on immediate entry to the league of nations indemnity limits and renunciations of allied efforts to extradite the former emperor the German government lost nerve. The note, ready to dispatch, was withheld at the last moment fearing entente rejection.
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Associated Prose
Berlin
Germany
League of Nations
Entente
BALDENNES GERMANS WILL SIGN THE TREATY
Berlin report from Associated Press states that Theo von Wolff editor in chief of the Tageblatt says supporters of signing the treaty are so active among majority social factions and clericals that a peremptory refusal to sign seems hardly possible.
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Baliennes
Associated Pres
Berlin
Theodor Wolff
The
Tageblatt
Weima
Winnipeg Riot Triggers Martial Law as Strikes Turn Violent
Winnipeg battles between thousands of strikers and police end with the city under military control. Mayor Gray transfers authority to Gen Ketchen after deadly and injurious clashes on Main Street. Rioting subsides as soldiers and armored cars patrol the downtown, with hundreds held in custody and streetcar service halted.
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Winnipeg
Charles ¥. Gray
Ketchen
Main _ street
Mike Sokolnoki
Robert C. Johnsone
Jack Barrett
Royal Mounted Police
Northwest Mounted Police
Main Street
Portage Avenue
City Hall
Gray
Gen. Ketchen
Eneral
Down Town
Freight Engines Collide at Mackinaw Station Fire Burns
Two freight locomotives collided in front of Mackinaw station in Bloomington on Saturday afternoon. One engine caught fire and burned to the ground. No serious injuries were reported.
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Mackinaw Station
Burns
Bloomington
Tus
Atackinaw
German cabinet formed under Herr Bauer rises to power
Berlin reports a new German cabinet led by Premier Herr Bauer, former labor minister, with Dr. Herman Mueller as foreign minister. The lineup includes Eduard David as interior minister and Mathias Erzberger as finance and vice premier, among others. Details note Bauer as socialist, Mueller a rival socialist, and no justice minister yet.
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Berlin
Herr Bauer
Herman Mueller
Eduard David
Finance
Mathias Erzberger
Herr Wissell
Jabor
Herr Schlick
Treasury
Iflerr Meyer
Post and Telegraphs
Herr Gifesherts
Colonial Office
Bell
Dr. Mueller
Philipp Scheidemann
Reichstag
David
Germany
Herr Landsberg
Matias Erzberger
Stores Of Liquor To Be Total Loss If Dry Program Goes Through
Washington reports vast stores of distilled liquor estimated at 70,000,000 gallons could become a total loss if prohibition enforcement proceeds. Dry leaders offer limited disposal for physicians to prescribe one pint every ten days. exporting liquor faces strong legal hurdles. Wets doubt passage of disposal provisions, while manufacturers' beer and light wines may be diverted to near beer or other drinks.
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Washington
Volstead
House
Judiciary Committee
Igoe
Missouri
Alaskan Orders Send Naval Units to Quell Uprising
Juneau dispatch reports Governor orders Submarine chaser No. 310 to Yakutat to quell a reported native uprising. Gunboat Vicksburg is to Kodiak and Port Althrop where cannery workers are striking and reports claim Bolsheviki activity have been received.
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Juneau
Alaska
Thomas Riges, Sr
Yakutat
Vicksburg
Kodiak
Port Althrop
Pershing Awards Digi Hense Service Cross to Sergeant Hoblay
Sergeant Hoblay of Cedar Rapids receives the Digi Hense Service Cross in a ceremony under the Washington dispatch. June 23 report notes a formal commendation for brave service.
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Pershing
Sergeant Hoblay
Cedar Rapids
Tow
Sceak
Berte L
Kinkade
Joseph
Washington
German Fleet Sunk at Scapa Flow by Crews
German officers and crews sank most of their fleet at Scapa Flow. All battleships and battle cruisers except Baden were submerged or beached as they opened seacocks. Eighteen destroyers were beached. several ships went down with flags flying. Casualties occurred among crews. German prisoners are in British custody.
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Associated Press
London
Scapa Flow
Baden
Admiralty
Haden
Kaiser
Kaiserin
Koenig
Albert Payern Markgraf
Kronprinz Wilhelm
Prinz Regent Luitpold
Grosser
To Revise Cookbooks If Volstead Act Wins
Washington dispatch reports that the Volstead enforcement bill as drafted would bar possession of any recipes or directions for making intoxicating liquor. Section 19 would target common cookbook entries like berry cordial and potato or carrot “old reliable” preparations, forcing housewives to cut recipes with scissors if enacted.
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Washington
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Prszes
U. S. Amity
German Armistice Commission
Copenhagen
Francisco Nittori
Tomasso Tomino
Spanish War Legion
Mueller and
Bauer
Gustav Nuske
Dr. Schmidt
Terr Moser
Treasury Department
Naufbeuren
Bavaria
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