Americans Meet With White House Aides On Peace Progress
A March 26 report from Washington states an American peace delegation met with White House officials to relay progress toward peace. Details were limited as officials declined to elaborate, amid debates over League of Nations provisions and Monroe Doctrine preservation. Senator Borah and Senator Poindexter voiced opposition to the treaty as proposed.
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Ashington
White House
League of Nations
Wilson
Senate Passes Five Measures Wednesday
SPRINGFIELD ILL March 27 The senate passed several bills including Mueller increasing salaries for probation officers in counties of the third class Deitich allowing cities under 100 000 population to levy a five mill tax for public hospitals and the Salem site in Menard county for a state park. Also passed were Glaskin zoning to direct districts McCullough banning mufflers on public highways, Kessinger creating a juvenile offenders time, and Roos enlarging corporate limits of the Chicago sanitary district.
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Springfield
Ill
Nate
Mueller
Ase
Deitich
Id Salem
Menard County
State Park
Gov
Senate
Glaskin City
McCullough
Kessinger
Roos
Chicago Sanitary
New Voters League To Get Its Name In 1920
In St Louis the National Woman Suffrage Association adjourned without naming the league. The new organization will be a two house body with delegates from voting and non voting states. Deliberations aimed to protect voting rights for women and back federal and state legislation. A budget of 120000 was set with 89000 raised to fund the year. Militant suffragists faced arraignment over demonstrations as the movement moves toward Congressional victory.
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ST. Louis
Aar
National Woman Suffrage Associaton
Suan B. Anthony
United States
Thall
House of Delegates
House of Voters
Tarly
Deny Rumors on Europe Treaty Terms Revisions
In response to rumors of a European crisis and potential pogroms, officials deny any immediate collapse of ranks or mass violence. They emphasize the need to revise old treaty language to avert misunderstandings and preserve stability across nations.
Finance expert predicts easing of postwar tensions after peace
A financier, speaking on the peace conference, said conditions are serious but not panicky and relief will come when peace is signed and embargoes Lifted. He assessed Britain as favorable versus Napoleonic debts, urged France to raise taxes, noted Italy's tax efforts, warned Belgium could rebound once German reparations begin.
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Weeee Cage
Great Britain
France
Italy
Belgium
Germany
War Supplies Sold To Foreign Governments
War Department reports sales of surplus war supplies to foreign governments totaling over 200 million dollars. France purchased 155 million in smokeless powder copper and steel plates. Italy 41 million in machine guns and ammo. Netherlands 685 thousand nitrate of soda. Other buyers included Czecho Slovakia, Britain 2.3 million, Cuba 108 thousand, Liberia 14.5 thousand and Switzerland 9.5 thousand.
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Washington
War Department
France
Italy
Netherlands
Czecho- Slovakia
Great Britain
Cuba
Liberia
Switzerland
Railroads Get Government Loans Near $5.7 Million
Washington March 27 The War Finance Corporation advanced about 5.7 million in loans secured by railroad indebtedness certificates. Chicago Burlington and Quincy received around 4 million, Western Maryland 931 thousand, and Chesapeake and Ohio 56 thousand. Additional applications are pending and will be noted.
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Washington
Railroad Administration
War Finance Corporation
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Western Maryland
Chesapeake and Ohio
Secon
Secavio
Pogrom Report Alleges Mass Jewish Slaughter in Buenos Aires
The Zionist Organization of America says a January 9 pogrom in Buenos Aires, aided by police, killed many Jews and buried victims in a common grave. The report notes no Bolsheviks were present among Argentine Jews and cites conflicting cable dispatches from Buenos Aires.
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New York
Buenos Aires
Zionist Organization of America
White Guard
Zionist Organization
Argentina
Irigoyen
Poindexter Fears World League Rule
Senator Poindexter of Washington warns at the Business Men's Club in Cincinnati that the proposed league of nations is utterly intolerable in any form. He says union of action is desirable only if it does not surrender national independence, and that any league would destroy autonomy of nations. Europe may seek control, but the United States would err to yield liberty to a new world government.
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UN Maguc
League of Nams
Borah
Cincinnati
Poindexter
Washington
Business Men's Club
League of Nations
Ie Senate
Union of Action and Co-Operation
Free Nations
Europe
United States
Optometrists Bill Enacted By House
SPRINGFIELD Ill March 27 The house by a vote of 87 to 3 passed Representative Roderick s bill providing for licensing of optometrists by the department of regulation and education By adoption of a joint resolution sent to the speaker s desk from the department of health the house favored setting aside the week beginning with the second Sunday in May as Toarth Sunday
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Springfield
Ill
House
Postwar Conference Aims To Set Borders And Policy
Allies must decide on reducing forces and ending chaos, fix German frontiers, resolve Italian and Czech claims, conciliate Poland and other states, and determine occupation talks. They may establish a League of Nations to bind nations and push the peace process forward regardless of German signature.
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Brats
Germany
Belgium
League of Nations
Urs
Von Eckhardt Sails Under Full Immunity
Heinrich Von Eckhardt former German minister to Mexico his wife and three children and Johannes Brunow counsellor of the German legation at Mexico City sailed under a safe conduct guaranteed by the American and allied governments. The party will go to Germany from Rotterdam. The envoy recalled last December for anti American propaganda departed thanking the United States for immunity from arrest and noting courtesies from American officials. He took eighty thousand dollars in American currency and twenty seven pieces of baggage which customs officials examined minutely.
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New York
Heinrich von Eckhardt
Mexico
Johannes Brunow
Mexico City
Germany
Rotterdam
Berlin
United States
Herr von Eckhardt
Champ Clark declines to endorse League Covenant in Worcester
Champ Clark spoke at Mechanics Hall Worcester March 27 and did not specifically endorse the league of nations covenant. He praised President Wilson as the greatest man in the world and urged peace delegates to finish Europe’s problems rightly. He favored Irish freedom and mocked the Lodge Lowell debate as a funny political episode.
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Worcester
Mass
Champ Clark
Mechanics’ Hall
Wilson
Europe
Ireland
Lowell
Hughes Proposes Seven Changes to League Covenant
New York March 27 Charles E Hughes called for seven amendments to the league of nations covenant in a Union League Club address. He argued the American continent needs protection from European aggression and opposed foreign territory enforcement and perpetual independence guarantees for member nations. He said the document was not a finished product and urged a better piece of work.
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New York
League of Nations
United States
Charles E. Hughes
Union League Club
Toton
Hughes Critiques Tenth Article of League Covenant
The speech questions the clause that Protects territorial integrity of league members arguing it prevents changes in member nations and risks future conflict. He also urges explicit Monroe Doctrine recognition and a clause to bar European aggression in the American continent while preserving option to refuse a league mandate.
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Mr. Hughes
League
Hughes
Senator King Seeks Stable Wool Prices Across Allies
Senator King of Utah asked Bernard Baruch to press the British government to temporarily stabilize wool prices among allied governments until the present clip is disposed of. The War Department earlier agreed to withdraw wartime wool stocks from July to November to aid growers in disposing their clip.
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Washington
King
Utah
Bernard Baruch
Ws. Industries Board
War Department
Woodmen Rates Increased to Meet Influenza Losses
Chicago March 27 The Modern Woodmen of America boosted member rates to cover abnormal death losses from influenza. The fund fell from 12 million to 700 thousand, with a 30 percent flat rise for current members and higher rates for new members. Two rate tables set higher premiums by age, while a 20 cent per thousand patriotic assessment continues for soldier and sailor members.
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Chicago
Woodmen of America
Sant
Ont Emerg
German agent ties Weisgerber to war work in Kiel canal
NEW Y una army engineer testifies at a court martial that Edwin C. Weisgerber of Pittsburgh told him he worked for the German government under military direction. He said Weisgerber was involved with underwater explosives during Kiel canal construction and gas use against Africans. Capt. Belcher says Weisgerber threatened to withhold a gas substitute unless promoted.
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New Yuna
Lewis D. Rowell
Wasnu
Edwin C. Weisgerber
Pittsburgh
United States
Weisgerber
Rowell
Kiel Canal
Africa
Paul W. Belcher
Edmund 4. Doyle
Army
Henry W. Swartley
Many Federal Labor Offices Kept Open
Washington reports that 364 of 460 local federal employment offices could stay open if Congress funds them. For the week ending March 15, the service placed 35,211 veterans and 57,174 civilians, with 109,666 registered for work aid and 92,663 help wanted applications received.
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Washington
Federal Employment Service
Congress
German Delegates To Conference Picked
Berlin March 26 Associated Press reports the German military representation to the peace conference will be General Von Hammerstein Major Von Boeck Lieutenant Colonel Von Aylander Major Poettcher Captain Gever. The mission will be under General Von Weisberg of the Prussian war ministry.
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Associated Press
Berlin
von Hammerstein
Armistice Commission
von Boeck
Prince's Army
von Aylander
Poettcher
Saxon General Staff
Gever
Wurttemburg
von Weisberg
Prussian War Ministry
Arrest Oakland Man For Bomb Outrages
Oakland, March 27 The department of justice sought bail of ten thousand dollars for Paval Mellincoff in a bomb case that led to the death of Mrs Geo D Greenwood. Mellincoff was arrested in San Francisco and questioned about the Greenwood case and possible knowledge of dynamite plots in the east.
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Oakland
Cal
Department of Justice
Paval Mellincoff
Geo. D. Greenwood
Mellincoff
San Francisco
Greenwood
Ports Are Free Shot Since War Paris
The Italian delegation at the peace conference announced the suppression of the military and commercial blockade in the Adriatic, restoring prewar trading conditions until peace is declared. Allied warships may search merchant ships. In Paris the American peace delegation and other delegations discussed a plan to include all four enemy powers in one peace treaty, noting the US did not declare war on Turkey and Bulgaria but believing it not insurmountable for the US to sign.
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Paris
Adriatic
Mer
United States
Turkey
Bulgaria
Thun Attends Turmoil Over Postwar Debts and Boundaries
The text notes rapid gathering of data assessing Turkey and Bulgaria’s financial and economic capacity, alongside what remains of Austria-Hungary, to meet wartime charges and to accept new boundaries. It emphasizes the challenge of balancing debt obligations with territorial settlements in the peacetime arrangement.
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Thun
Turkey
Bulgaria
Austria-Hungary
Big Medical Reserve Corps For Army Plan
Washington March 27 Plans to build up a large medical reserve corps including all members of the profession who have served creditably during the war are disclosed by the war department. Commissions in the reserve are being offered officers of the reserve department who are being discharged from the service. Under the present law these officers cannot be returned to the in active ist of the reserve but must be discharged and re appointed. Officers discharged are being requested to apply for appointment as they will be contributing support to the formation of a reserve corps for any future contingency that may arise. It is proposed to give these officers rank in the reserve at least equal to that held at the time of their discharge.
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Washington
War Department
Reserve Department
Assign Apprentices To Deep Sea Duties
Washington March 27 a new policy of training apprentices for the main clause service by assigning the men to vessels in deep sea service is announced by the shipping board. Nine apprentices sail from New Orleans aboard the freighter Waalhaven bound for a French port to gain actual seagoing experience and assess progress compared with port near ships.
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Washington
Shipping Board
New Orleans
Waalhaven
Boiler Makers Refuse to Adjust Clocks in Portland
Portland boiler makers union adopts resolution to go to work at regular time on March 30 despite clock change. They argue the time shift favors the street car company and oppose the change.
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Portland
Ore
Portland Boiler Makers’ Union
California Brewers Open Path to 2 Percent Beer
Resolutions by the California State Brewers association declare the organization will resume brewing beer with 2 percent alcohol content, based on New York attorneys’ view that such content does not violate the law. No further action will occur until the federal test case is decided.
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San Francisco
California State Brewers’ Association
New York
Eattery
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