Allies set ultimatum to Romania over Hungary actions
Paris reports the supreme council will deliver a drastic ultimatum to Romania with a time limit. If Romania refuses, diplomatic relations will end and allied envoys will withdraw from Bucharest. The note centers on reparation and evacuation, demanding Romania acknowledge transfer of requisitioned goods to the allies and compensate for items not returnable.
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Paris
Supreme Council
Hungary
Romania
Bucharet
Rumania
War and Radical Revolt Cut Socialist Party Members
Chicago reports that war and radical revolt reduced national Socialist Party membership to 42,217 from a prewar 117,000. The convention urged Irish and Indian political freedom, criticized Congress over Victor Berger, and backed October 8 industrial action to free Debs and Mooney. The Communist Labor Party of America adopted a platform seeking an immediate social overhaul and a cooperative commonwealth.
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Chicago
National Socialist Party
Ireland
India
Congress
Victor Berger
Milwaukee
Tom Mooney
Eugene V. Debs
Communist Labor Party of America
Third International
Moscow
Russia
Citizen army plan opposed by Major General O'Ryan
Major General John F. O'Ryan told a Senate sub committee that a regular army is an absolute institution drawing men who fail in civil life into an asylum. He proposed a citizen army of one and a half million and opposed a large standing army in any form that would persist. He said universities or professional allies should be limited to border duty and minor uses.
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Washington
John F. O'Ryan
Senate
Wilson to Speak for Ratification of Peace Treaty
President Wilson leaves for a speaking tour confident the Senate will ratify the peace treaty without amendments or reservations that would require renegotiation. Senate leaders and Senator Hitchcock frame the fight as a clean cut issue with proposed reservations debated and possibly defeated. Hearings continue on European questions as Republicans discuss a compromise on reservations while planning to submit the treaty for open Senate debate soon.
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Washington
Wilson
Senate
Hitchcock
Foreign Relations Committee
Lodge
Knox
United States
Aland Islands
Hungary
Czecho-Slovakia
Germany
Siem
League
Ireland
Federal Judge Nomination for Missouri Succeeds Dyer
Judge C. B. Faris of the Missouri Supreme Court is the president’s pick for the St. Louis federal district judgeship to replace Judge Dyer. Nomination to the Senate hinges on Attorney General Palmer’s approval, with a delay tied to his return to Washington.
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Washington
C. B. Faris
Missouri Supreme Court
St. Louis
Dyer
Senate
White House
Faris
Palmer
Pennsylvania
O. K
Transports Arrive With 4000 Men Of The First Division
New York reports four thousand officers and men of the First Division returned home on the Amphion Suwanee and Mobile. The 1st Infantry earned the Fourragere of the Legion of Honor. The 18th Infantry and the 2nd Machine Gun Battalion also notable, with heavy casualties. Callao carried 1,300 more troops, arriving Wednesday night.
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New York
Amphion
Suwanee
Mobile
Ith
Legion of Honor
Brest
Callao
Sea Gives Up Pieces Of Eight From Spanish Galleon
London reports salvage of the Spanish galleon sunk near Tobermory Scotland yielded silver coins treated with acid. Of five examined by an expert three are called pieces of eight. An American buyer offers 780 an ounce for plates and salvers in good preservation, higher for sacred pieces used in mass.
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London
Tobermory
Scotland
President Wilson begins nationwide peace tour from Washington
President Wilson leaves Washington on a 25 day special train tour to urge ratification of the peace treaty without amendments. He will speak in nearly every western state and in Ohio Indiana Kentucky and Tennessee with brief stops in Des Moines Seattle Los Angeles and Louisville among others. The trip parallels his France voyage in distance and aims to educate the public on the peace process while touching on living costs.
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Wilson
Columbus
Ohio
Secret Service
Mr. Wilson
Pacific Coast
Canadian
Mexico
Mississippi
Indiana
Kentucky
Tennessee
France
Des Moines
Seattle
Los Angeles
Louisville
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Kansas City
Omaha
Sioux Falls
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Bismarck
Billings
Helena
Coeur D'Alene
Spokane
Tacoma
Portland
San Francisco
San Diego
Reno
Salt Lake City
Cheyenne
Denver
Puebo
Wichita
Oklahoma City
Little Rock
Memphis
Plans Completed For Pershing Reception
New York reports that arrangements for General Pershing's reception and the First Division parade with the American commander in chief at the lead have been completed by Major General Shanks and the mayor's committee. Pershing's Leviathan is due Sunday or Monday, and 23,000 to 25,000 troops are expected in the parade.
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New York
Pershine
Shanks
Peshing
Leviathan
Washington
Division
Hungarian Countess Szecheny to Visit America
Washington dispatch reports Countess Lacelo Szecheny, formerly Miss Glady Vanderbilt, sailing from Europe to New York. She travels on a state department visa under a special arrangement that does not alter the policy against passports for enemy subjects. Her husband is a Hungarian nobleman and she is expected to be the first enemy power subject to visit the United States since the war.
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Washington
Lacelo Szecheny
Glady Vanderbilt
Europa
New York
State Department
Countess Szecheny
Deny Western Union Higher Rate Schedule
SPRINGFIELD Illinois September 4 The Illinois public utilities commission suspended current Western Union Telegraph rates order will revert to prewar charges pending investigation and hearings The commission acted after recognizing that higher rates imposed during federal control were not continued by Congress Western Union filed to keep the higher rates but the commission stayed them pending review
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Springfield
Ill
Western Union Telegraph Company
Illinois
Bee
State Public Utilities Commission
Congress
Public Utilities Commission
Favors Punishment for Men Who Shir k
Washington September 4 Military commanders should hold power to enforce summary justice against soldiers who shirk on the eve of battle said Major General J F O Ryan commander of the New York national guard before a Senate military sub committee considering the Chamberlain bill for military justice reform He supported board recommendations to modify articles of war and court martial procedures while opposing radical changes and urging an appellate power to relieve convictions when appropriate without removing the punishment.
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Washington
J. F. O’ryan
New York National Guard
Senate
O'Ryan
War Department
O’ryan
Congressional Body Will Greet Pershing
General John J. Pershing to be formally welcomed at New York by a joint House Senate committee on his return from France. The welcome plan will involve consults on capitol reception with Pershing, War Department officials, and congressional leaders. Members include Senators Wadsworth Warren and Mondell Clark, and Representatives Kahn and others.
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John J. Pershing
Leviathan
France
New York
House
Senate
Capitol
Wadsworth
Warren
Wyoming
Gen. Pershing
Kahn
California
Mondell
Clark
Missouri
Congress
War Department
Palmer libel suits target Palmer Garvan and publishers
Four federal libel suits filed in New York name Attorney General Palmer Alien Property Custodian Garvan and the publications Saturday Evening Post Munsey's Magazine and New York Tribune as defendants. Plaintiffs Julius Forstmann and Forstmann & Huffman claim damages total 850000, alleging war disloyalty charges were false and pro German.
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New York
Palmer
Alien Property
Garvan
Julius Forstmann
Forstmann & Huffman Company
Pasaic
N. J
Saturday Evening Post
Munsey
New York Tribune
Germany
Expense To House Details War Fund Allocations
A White House report shows $2.9 million of the $50 million war fund remained unspent as of August 5. The Appropriations Committee sought an itemized statement of expenditures from both the $50 million and the $100 million wartime grants. The State Department received the largest share, $12.39 million, including $4 million for the Trans Siberian and Chinese Eastern railways. Other disbursements covered peace conference costs and related political intelligence servicing.
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Washington
Wilson
Congress
House Appropriations Committee
White House
State Department
Bernard M. Baruch
American Commission
Wisconsin Ratifies Soldiers Bonus Law
Wisconsin ratified a soldiers bonus bill in a special election, approving about 15 million dollars to be funded by a three mill property tax and surtaxes. The plan pays veterans ten dollars per month of service with a minimum of fifty six dollars, covering soldiers sailors marines and nurses from World War I.
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Milwaukee
Wisconsin
British Coal Miners Vote on Strike Action
In London on September 3 the coal miners backed a ballot on direct action and pledged to vote for it at the triple alliance meeting tomorrow. They endorsed rejecting the government scheme and called for nationalization of the mines at the Trades Union Congress in Glasgow on September 8.
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London
National Executive Committee
Trades Union Congress
Glasgow
Border Firing Blamed on Mexican Federals at Laredo
Mexican federal soldiers fired on an American army airplane near Laredo while on border patrol. The consul said the machine was within Mexican territory and the attack was unwarranted, done without the detachment commander. The case has been sent to higher authorities for punishment instructions.
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Laredo
Tex
Garcia
National Debt Rises in August Total Debt Reaches 26.6 Billion
The United States treasury reports a jump of 796.7 million in August bringing the national debt to 26.597 billion. The rise comes from new treasury certificates issued in anticipation of tax payments and the victory loan.
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Washington
United States
Treasury
Canned Sermons For Empty Presbyterian Pulpits
Lake Geneva Wis Sept 4 0000 3000 of 10000 Presbyterian pulpits are vacant and phonograph records of approved sermons by ordained ministers may be provided for use in vacant pulpits following action at the Presbyterian new era conference endorsed by Dr W S Marquis of Chicago associate secretary.
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Lake Geneva
Wis
W.S. Marquis of
Chicago
Reds Told to Defend Their City
Hellingfors reports Admiral Cowan arrives in relation to plans for a Baltic attack on Petrograd. German Riga dispatch claimed a British proclamation about an imminent assault, which Berlin says is untrue as General Gough is in England. Bolsheviks seize Dubovka south of Saratov as Tsaritsyn evacuates. 3,000 prisoners taken at Omsk. Kolchak urges Russians to bear arms and sustain the fight.
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Cowan
Baltic
Petrograd
Berlin
Riga
Gough
London
Helsingfors
England
Admiral Cowan
Baltic Sea
Dubovka
Volga
Saratox
Moscow
Tsaritsyn
Kamishin
Szareff
Omsk
Orenburg
Admiral Kolchak
Russia
Kolchak
Patriarch 131 Seeks Insurance Policy in Kentucky
Lexington dispatch reports Uncle Johnny Shell, said to be likely the world's oldest man, turning 131 and seeking a life insurance policy. An agent notes his card only covers the first 105 years, while Shell plans to use funds to pay a farm mortgage. He married twice, sired 29 children, and lived 75 years in one home. He fought in the Civil War and was born near Knoxville, Tennessee.
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Lexington
Johnny Schell
Sonny
Johnny
Shell
Knoxville
Tenn
Bunker Hill
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