Terms for last loan liberal payment plan announced
Washington March 29 completed details of the victory liberty loan terms. Deferred payments may extend six months from May 10 to Nov 11 with 10 per cent due by May 10 and 10 per cent by July 15. Four installments of 2 per cent are due Aug 12, Sept 9, Oct 7, and Nov 11. accrued interest due with final payment. Full payment may be made May 20. Treasury officials expect extended terms will boost subscriptions. Also five surrendered German submarines will be sent to the United States for exhibition during the liberty loan drive, including U-MT mine layers and smaller subs, to be shown at American ports.
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Pope Intervenes On Prisoner Releases Amid War
The Cologne Volks Zeitung prints an autograph reply from Pope Benedict to Cardinal Von Hartmann asking for releases of German POWs. The Pope says he consulted an exalted personage, with Berlin papers guessing it refers to President Wilson who is said to share the pope's wishes and may support them.
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Gendarmes patrol streets in Buenos Aires after election clash
Mounted gendarmes armed with rifles patrolled Avenida de Mayo all last night after threats of clashes between socialist and radical party supporters. Citizens watched newspaper bulletins displaying returns from Sunday’s elections.
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Rioting in Korea and arrests widen unrest in Seul
Reports from Associated Press describe continued Korean nationalist demonstrations in Seoul with numerous arrests. In the provinces Khota notes 40 Koreans left unaccounted or killed in recent days amid rising tension with Japanese authorities.
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Six-bandit raid robs Detroit State Bank of cash and bonds
Six masked bandits looted the West Side Commonwealth State Bank in Detroit on Friday evening, taking about $10,000 in cash and unregistered liberty bonds. Cashiers Mooney and Mallick were forced from the cages, patrons held in the lavatory as the vault was rifled, and the bandits fled in a touring car toward Toledo. Police theorize a highway pursuit along routes from Detroit to Toledo.
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German Finances Not Exhausted If People Find Work
German finance minister Dr. Schiffer said Germany is not bankrupt if people can find work, but bankruptcy looms if work is unavailable. He stressed delays in peace talks worsen Bolshevism risk yet voiced optimism if food and raw materials are secured. He noted American investment looks favorable amid reconstruction, and that taxation would await peace terms. He called for paying old debts and securing credit, with higher taxes on income and property to raise funds and temper prices.
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Declare Austria Has Need of German Union
A Paris symposium on the potential union of German Austria with Germany is summarized. President Seitz favors a plebiscite, Boehm says German Austria lacks resources and must unite with Germany, Renner asserts the union is already completed, Czernin argues for waiting until peace talks finish before a referendum.
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Japanese mass meeting opposes league covenant without racial clause
At a Tokio mass meeting, prominent residents adopted a resolution opposing any league of nations covenant that lacks a clause abolishing racial discrimination. The resolution also opposes abolition of conscription, Japan’s acquisition of German Shantung rights, and the international labor agreement. Japanese papers have editorialized with suspicion toward U S motives in world politics regarding China, Siberia, and Korea.
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Forces in Danzig resist pressure from peace talks
Paris reports Germany reinforcing Danzig garrison to resist any peace conference plan for the port. Amsterdam notes allied note demanding Polish troops land at Danzig, Berlin replying with constraints. Berlin explains dispute as armistice compliance, citing Polish divisions under Gen Haller and the potential to keep East Prussia Polish if Danzig falls under Polish control.
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East Prussia
Transport and two battleships leave Washington
The War Department announced the departure from Brest of the transport Leviathan with more than 12 000 troops aboard and the battleships Rhode Island and Virginia. They carry units of the eighty fifth division and casuals. Leviathan to New York April 2. Virginia and Rhode Island to Newport News April 6. Metapan and Eastern Queen also due New York and Newport News with casuals in early April.
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Call for 50 000 men to garrison duty in Europe
Washington March 29 an immediate call for 50 000 volunteers for service in Europe was prepared by the war department and likely to be published today. The volunteers would be sent to Camp Meade Md for three year enlistments with early duty in France to relieve expeditionary forces. Most recruits expected from recently discharged troops seeking to return to service.
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Cloud Cops to Lead New York Police Aviation Squad
In New York, 26 aviators from American, British, and French forces were sworn into the police reserves under Deputy Commissioner Rodman Wanamaker. Colonel Jefferson D. Mount Thompson announced a 150‑strong aviation squadron to fly by June with planes ordered in May. Landing sites include Governor's Island, Van Cortlandt Park, and Sheepshead Bay, with possible rooftop bases later.
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Rathbun Boy Sent to Prison in Pardon Scandal
Des Moines reports the Iowa House Judiciary Committee heard testimony on the Rathbun pardon case. The focus was a alleged bargain between the Rathbuns and state counsel leading to Rathbun's imprisonment and the quashing of indictments against his father, brother, and attorney George Clark. Special prosecutor A. C. Burt Johnson faced sharp criticism for involvement.
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Burt) Johnson
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Communists Plan Unified Proletarian Party in Hungary
Bela Kun from Budapest speaking to old party delegates announced the need for united revolutionary action and a new unified proletarian party. He said the Soviet constitution follows Leninist guidance but rejects copying Russian mistakes and that a dictatorship does not always mean terror. The resolution to dissolve the communist party for a united party passed unanimously, and ex ministers Szefnak and Szfenzi were ordered imprisoned.
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Railroads Get Government Loans to Stay Operating
Washington March 29 The War Finance Corporation advanced nearly 135 million dollars to keep rail transportation running until Congress approves funding Eleven loans totaling 12 519 200 were announced The largest grant went to Chicago Rock Island and Pacific 2 8 million The Lehigh Valley received 2 4 million New York Central 2 0 million and Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul 1 6 million Other loans ranged from 992 000 to 62 400 including Michigan Central Chesapeake and Ohio Boston and Maine Wheeling and Lake Erie and more
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Two Dukes Lose British Peerages for War Alimony
London March 28 The Duke of Albany and the Duke of Cumberland along with Viscount Taafe have been deprived of their British peerages by a king's order in council for adhering to the enemy during the war. Albany a cousin of King George and Cumberland a cousin of the late King Edward both served with German forces for part of the war. Fachman is noted as a royal duke of Great Britain. Taafe is from an ancient Irish family and was living in Silesia when the war began, where he fought with the Austrian army as a captain.
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Poland Seeks Alliance With Entente Powers Declines Close Tie
The Polish diet unanimously approved entering political, economic and military conventions with the Entente at the earliest moment. The action is interpreted as Poland seeking no close alliance with the Entente powers.
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Threatening Letter Sent to Senator Phelan
A letter signed C. C. of C. threatened U S Senator James D. Phelan with a 2000 payment. Sent from Saratoga, the note was received in San Francisco on March 20 and made public March 29. Police trace the writer, Phelan says he will ignore the demand.
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San Francisco
White Rats Complaint on Vaudeville Booking Offices
Frank Fogarty, former White Rats president, testifies at a FTC hearing that White Rats members are discriminated against by vaudeville booking offices and lose job opportunities nationwide. He says actors must be booked by Red Booking offices in the East or Orpheum in the West to secure engagements.
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Federal Trade Commission
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Crowds Follow Wilson To Each Daily Meeting
In Paris on March 28 enhanced precautions shield President Wilson and visiting premiers as crowds press to witness his arrivals. Officials keep meeting times secret to minimize danger amid anxious but calm public, while Wilson continues his heavy schedule with brief personal walks.
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Secret Service
Grayson
Big British Dirigible to Cross the Atlantic Ocean
The Aero Club of America reports the British air ministry may invite a rigid dirigible to fly Atlantic to Atlantic City in May during the Pan American Aero nautical exposition. Likely candidates are the R-33 or R-34, tested in England, about 700 feet long, 80 feet wide, 95 feet high, lifting around 63 tons, with a 48 hour trip possible at 6000 feet.
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Poison test finds no poison in Mrs Reaney body
Detroit reports no traces of poison in the viscera of Mrs Mary Theresa Reaney whose estranged husband Patrick J Reaney of Dallas Texas stands charged with murder He allegedly forced her to drink a convection in a hotel room on February 25 after a failed reconciliation Detroit officers await extradition hearing in Dallas Monday
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Polish Frontier Up Before Four Premiers
Paris reports that President Wilson and the premiers of Britain France and Italy continued talks on a preliminary peace with Germany. They discussed the Polish frontier with possible difficulties over annexing two to three million Germans, while reparations may be settled sooner than the Polish issue.
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Wilson
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Italy
Poland
Villa Would Shoulder Rifle for Uncle Sam Aid
Francisco Villa told an American prisoner in his camp that he stood ready to shoulder his rifle and aid the United States to repel a foreign invasion if needed. The prisoner arrived at the border after ten days as Villa’s captive in western Chihuahua.
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Mexico
Challenges Count To Duel Declined In Berlin
General Von Plesser challenged Count Hoensbroech to a duel over a pamphlet calling the emperor cowardly. Hoensbroech declined to accept the challenge, according to Lokal Anzeiger reporting from Berlin.
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Count Hoensbroech
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Lokal Anzeiger
German financial mission to meet allies in Versailles
Berlin dispatch says the German financial commission will leave Weimar for Versailles for talks with allied financial experts arriving Saturday. Paris reports question the venue with Wilson, Clemenceau, Lloyd George, and Orlando unsure where the German delegation will be received.
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Railroad Troops Arrive at Murman Coast This Week
ARCHANGEL March 28 The first detachment of American railroad troops destined for work on the Murman railway have arrived on the Murman coast. Other detachments are expected to follow soon. Kolchak Takes Ufa LONDON March 28 A crisp line from Omsk announces that Admiral Kolchak's army, as a result of a brilliant attack and much hard fighting, had recaptured the town of Ufa which recently was occupied by the Bolsheviks. The dispatch adds that the red army is now threatened with envelopment.
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Murman
Kolchak
Ufa
London
Tten
Omsk
Admiral Kolchak
Red Army
Evidence Concluded In Big Paris Trial
Paris March 28 All witnesses have been heard and counsel speeches begun in the trial of Raoul Villain for the assassination of Jean Jaures, the French socialist leader, on July 31, 2014. A verdict is expected Saturday night. M Vancour quoted reactionary newspapers calling Jaures a friend of Germany and argued they helped create the atmosphere for Villain’s crime.
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Jellicoe Arrives in Bombay on New Zealand Battlecruiser
Admiral Viscount Jellicoe, former grand fleet commander, arrived in Bombay aboard the battle cruiser New Zealand during a tour of the British dominions. After an official reception, he left for Delhi to discuss naval policy and imperial affairs with officials.
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Montreal
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Robbery at Central Station Rewards Offered
ST LOUIS March 29 Central police station reports the robbery of $35 from a person named Mriday. Captain Albert Schwarts offers a $25 reward for information leading to the robber’s arrest. The stolen money belonged to a person or entity indicated as pad OPES.
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