Planes to Try Flight Across Atlantic Ocean May Start From Rockaway
Naval seaplanes prepared for a trans Atlantic flight in May will begin from Rockaway Beach Long Island with the kickoff point possibly Newfoundland. Plans call for a direct Ireland route or a longer Azores path as Navy ships scout harbor facilities and bases for takeoff and landings.
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Washington
Atlantic Ocean
Rockaway Heach
Long Island
New Foundland
Ireland
Azores
Roosevelt
Barney
Nest
Navy Department
New York
Naval Air Station
Rockaway Beach
Curtiss Airplane and Motor Corporation
Garden City
Hitchcock and Lenroot to debate league charter
Washington March 25 Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska chair of the foreign relations committee will debate the proposed league of nations constitution with Senator Lenroot of Wisconsin before the Economy club of New York on April 7. He will also join a Philadelphia debate on April 5 with George Wharton Pepper. Senator Phelan of California cables the American peace commissioners opposing race equality provisions that could grant the league jurisdiction over immigration naturalization and related domestic questions.
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Washington
Senator Hitchcock
Nebraska
Senate
League of Nations
Leyroot
Wisconsin
Economy Club
New York
Hitchcock
Philadelphia
George Wharton Pepper
League For the Preservation of American Independence
Borah
Phelan
California
Paris
Idaho
League Over
Welcome Home Parade for 27th Division in New York
New York brims with soldiers and crowds for a welcome home parade honoring the 27th Division. A five mile Fifth Avenue route from Washington Square to 110th Street is packed with an expected 1.9 million spectators as 27,000 guardsmen return after breaking the Hindenburg line with King Albert of Belgium and General Rawlinson sending greetings.
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New York
New York National
Flanders
Belgium
George
England
H. 8S. Rawlinson
Federal Judge Rules Armistice End Date Established
Louisville March 25 Federal Judge Walter Evans ruled the European war ended with the armistice signing and that President Wilson declared this in an official speech. He rejected Palmer's telegram saying only Congress could terminate the war for the US and ignored Baker's note equating armistice with only a ceasefire.
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Louisville
Walter Evans
Wilson
Evans
Palmer
Congress
United States
Baker
Two Army Officers Sent Back For Stowaway Plot
Two army officers en route home on a transports will see only a brief glimpse of home before being shipped back to face charges on arrival in France. A cablegram reported their presence on the ship. Similar punishment was given to five officers who stowed away when the armistice was signed last November. Their ship docked at New York. they were marched across a pier to an outward bound vessel. The return of stowaways for trial is seen as a deterrent.
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Washiington
France
New York
Push Work on Treaty as Reds Fear Slows Progress
Paris dispatch reports President Wilson, premiers Clemenceau Lloyd George and Orlando held a hour long talk at the foreign office amid concern over eastern European revolutions and slow results at the Paris conference. The supreme council again discussed Poland and a Baltic corridor while the league of nations debate continues among the commissions and leaders.
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Associated Press
Paris
Wilson
Clemenceau
Lloyd George
Orlando
Foreign Office
Supreme War Council
Europe
Supreme Council
League of Nations
War Council
Poland
Cambon Committee
East Prussia
Baltic
France
Koenigsberg
Danzig
League of Nations Commission
O Leary Freed Claims Espionage Case Vindicates Patriotism
New York March 25 Jeremiah A O Leary former editor of Bull magazine declares acquittal on four counts in the espionage indictment proves his Americanism and loyalty He says an Irish American cannot be unfaithful to the United States and that socialists and Bolshevists hoped for his conviction while he remains loving his country more than ever
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New York
Jeremiah A. O'Leary
Bull
Great Britain
United States
O'Leary
Government OKs Sale of Seized Liquor in Wet States
Washington reports that customs and revenue agents may confiscate seized whiskey and other spirits and sell them for industrial or drinking use in wet states, not in dry states, arguing the federal government is not bound by state laws. The agencies say they will auction only in wet states and avoid dry areas.
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Washington
Department of Justice
Brutal confirmation of Romanoff execution by Bolsheviks
General Paris reports the former czar and his wife and daughters were killed in Ekaterinburg under brutal treatment. The bodies were moved, burned, and scattered in nearby villages. Diamonds in the women’s waists identified the victims. Bloodstains and bullet holes matched the crime scene. The surviving Russian public now believes the Romanoff household was wiped out by Bolsheviks.
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San Francisco
Russia
Robert C. Paris
Vladivostok
France
Nicholas
Ekaterinburg
Siberia
Paris
Ezirina
Ccztrina
Agitators in Occupied Area Plot Against U S Forces
Three Spartacan sympathizers admitted to American authorities they entered the occupied zone to organize workers into Spartacan groups. They planned to attack a police station, seize arms and railway stations, and later take banks with aid from unoccupied Germany. Nineteen Germans were arrested on charges of causing unrest as plans unraveled after poor worker interest.
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Associated Press
Coblenz
Cobleng
Germany
Spencer Favors Amendment To Covenant In Senate Address
Senator Seldon P. Spencer of Missouri urged against the league of nations covenant as written stating it would be deficient without amendment. He defended the Monroe Doctrine and American sovereignty, insisting Congress must control war powers to safeguard national interests.
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Spencer
Kansas City
League of Nations
Seldon P. Spencer
Missouri
Congress
Lagardia Urges Relief to Halt Bolshevism Spreading
Chicago March 25 Immediate sending of food and clothing to Budapest for distribution to restore order was urged by Congressman Laguardia former American consul in Hungary. He warned Bolshevism would spread to Poland Czecho Slovakia and Yugoslav states if not curbed. He described wartime contacts with Hungarian leaders and German Austrian factions and a plan to place agents to foment revolution. He noted Hungary’s easy prey to Bolshevik propaganda and theHungarian people’s sense of having nothing to lose.
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Chicago
Budapest
Hun- Say
Fol LaguarVa
New York
Hungary
Poland
Czecho-Slovakia
Fiume
Rome
M. C. Bucky
Zanella
Col. Marchetti
State Department
Laguardia
United States
Switzerland
Von Eckhardt Going Home No Interview
Former German minister to Mexico Heinrich Von Eckhardt who sent the Zimmerman note arrived in New York from Mexico City on his way to Germany. He is accompanied by former German consul general Johannes Brunow and has assurances of safe conduct from American and allied governments. Neither man answered questions upon arrival.
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New York
Heinrich von Eckhardt
Mexico
Zimmerman
Germany
Japan
United States
Mexico City
Johannes Brunow
von Eckhardt
Brunow
March Visits Spot Where His Son Fell
Fort Worth Texas March 25 Secretary of War Baker attended a luncheon when General March chief of staff visited the site of the death of his son Lieutenant Peyton C March Jr who was killed last year in an airplane crash The spot was banked with flowers in the shape of an airplane wing Young March fell 2000 feet to his death Both Baker and March said the demobilization system would be revised so as to muster men out in forty eight hours after their arrival
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Fort Worth
Texas
Baker
General March
Peyton C. March, Jr
Young March
March
Debs Pardon Urged in Cabled Campaign to Wilson
The Social Democratic League of America urges a full pardon for Eugene V. Debs, jailed ten years for espionage law violations and amnesty for all who voiced honest opposition to the war. Signers include Charles Edward Russell John Spargo J G Phelps Stokes Charlotte Perkins Gilman Chester M Wright and Upton Sinclair.
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New York
Eugene V. Debs
America
Wilson
Social Democratic League of America
Charles Edward Russell
John Spargo
J. G. Phelps Stokes
Charlotte Perkins
Gulman
Chester M. Wright
Upton Sinclair
Wireless Call For Help From Steamer At Sea
The steamer Melrose, which left St Nazaire March 9 for New York, sent wireless distress calls claiming she had lost her rudder. Position given places her far southeast of Bermuda about 900 miles east of it. Troops aboard include a detachment of the 317th Tank Corps, an ordnance detachment of an officer and 21 men and two officers remain aboard. No details on the accident were available from Washington.
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Halifax
N.S
Melrose
St. Nazaire
New York
Bermuda
Tank Corps
Washington
Bermunda
France
Newport News
317Th Tank Corps Company
Reds Gain New State in Europe
A Budapest dispatch says Soviet backed Bolshevik elements seized control of the city and arranged revolutionary events while Paris and Belgrade reports note lines drawn by peace talks, French troops and Rumanians to hold disputed zones. Foreigners in Hungary reportedly safe though the new regime claims hostilities would begin.
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Associated Press
Copenhagen
Budapest
Washington
State Department
Hungary
Boleshvik
Paris
Austria-Hungary
Peace Conference
Inter-Allied Food Commission
Hitchcock
Senate Ofreign
League of Nations
Belgrade
Berne
Bela Kun
Leon Trotzky
Russia
Ammv
Bolshevist
Szegesin- Debreczen
Aradszat-Mamement
Boy Scouts Proud Of Part They Had In Nation's Work
New York reports at the national council meeting nearly 370 delegates from 455,000 scouts discussed Americanization democratization and youth education and the postwar reconstruction role. New permanent camps were bought in 11 cities while merit badges were earned by 60,160 scouts in 1918 and four gold medals were awarded to parents of scouts who died in rescue efforts. Ralph Waldo Emerson praised the efficiency of the organization while 1,856,906 liberty loan subscriptions totaled 276,895,000. Lieut Col Theodore Roosevelt said the Scouts can help develop Americanism as the nation’s army did.
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New York
Boy Scouts of America
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Treasury Department
Boy Scouts
Theodore Roosevelt
Burleson Deemed Despotic in Postal Telegraph Move
Clarence H Mackay denounces Postmaster General Burleson after Mackay was ousted as president of the Postal Telegraph Cable company He calls the action arbitrary brutal and a step toward monopolizing wire communication He accuses Burleson of rate hikes favoring Bell and Western Union and of punishing rivals and obstructing competition
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New York
Burleson
Clarence H. Mackay
Postal Telegraph Cable Company
Mackay
Baltimore
William Hohenzollern
United States
Commercial Cable and Postal Company
Postal
Bell Telephone
Western Union
Brazilian coffee seeks inclusion in Allied relief to Germany
Reports from Rio de Janeiro dated March 25 indicate Brazilian coffee rework requests urge the government to have Brazilian coffee included among allied foodstuffs sent to relief efforts in Germany.
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Rio Janeiro
Germany
Sailors Overcome by Smoke at Great Lakes Mattress Fire
Three sailors R. B. Rothback E. L. P. Paubach and H. A. Marten were overcome by smoke while fighting a fire in a mattress store room at the detention camp. They recovered.
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Jackins
Great Lakes
R. EB. Rothback
EL P. Paubach
H. A. Marten
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Romanoff
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Debs
Bermudas
REDS
Lenine
Hohenzollen
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