Austrian Delegates Handed Complete Peace Treaty Today
Paris July 21 Austrian peace representatives were handed the complete peace treaty drafted by the Allies. Key provisions require Austria to accept responsibility for losses, surrender a portion of fleets, pay long term reparations, abolish conscription, reduce the army to thirty thousand, assume prewar Austro Hungarian debt, curb armaments, and renounce Bucharest and Brest Litovsk pacts. Indemnities to be set by a reparations commission with a preliminary “reasonable sum” due within two years.
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Paris
Austria
Austro-Hungary
Bucharest
Roumania
Brest-Litovsk
Russia
Reparations Commission
Firefighters Barely Hold Northwest Forest Fires
Spokane dispatch reports firefighters barely containing wildfires across the northwest from Montana to the Rockies. Lack of personnel hampers forest supervisors as new fires flare near Sand Point Idaho and west of Newport Washington. Fires blaze on Big Creek and Roundtop near Priest River Pend Oreille Lake divide amid federal action delays.
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Spokane
Washington
Montana
Rockies
Back River
Sand Point
Idaho
Ryan
Newport
Big Creek
Roundtop
Priest River
Pend O’'Reille Lake
International Proletariat Strike Fails in Europe
July 21 reports from Paris indicate the planned international proletariat strike against Allied intervention in Russia and Hungary will be a complete failure. Radical leaders reportedly lost control of their followers or did not heed warnings from several countries.
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Paris
Russia
Hungary
State of war proclaimed in Honduras depose government
Washington July 21 The state department says a state of war has been proclaimed in Honduras because of an alleged movement to depose the present government. The news came in advices to the department.
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Washington
State Department
Honduras
Department
Education as LT is in Russia
United Press report describes Soviet education as a broad state system teaching reading over writing and ideology. It notes meals, clothing aid, and nurseries funded by the state, with schools extending from urban to rural areas, and lectures and meetings replacing traditional social life as part of the push to spread socialism and communism.
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New York
Soviet Russia
Russia
Moscow
Petrograd
America
England
Nobles’ Club
Europe
Major Barlow Relieved From ATE Duty at Institute
General orders remove all retired Army officers from active service. Major Warren S. Barlow, longtime military science instructor at the New Mexico Military Institute, leaves active duty after fourteen years of service. Major A. E. Lohman will succeed him, to arrive late August, with Colonel Willson aiding the selection.
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Peyton C. March
Army
United States Army
Warren S. Barlow
New Mexico Military Institute
Major Barlow
Institute
Lohman
Regular Army
New Mexico
Las Cruces
Willson
Washington
Yankees and Reds May Be Champs in World Series Talk
New York Yankees and Cincinnati Reds look like the top teams in their leagues with strong management by Miller Huggins and Pat Moran. Both have powerful lineups and pitching depth, though Cincinnati faces internal trouble and Cleveland and Chicago teams show weakness in pitching.
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New York
New York Yankees
Cincinnati
Pat Moran
Miller Huggins
Yankees
Yanks
Huggins
Giants
Reds
Cleveland
Chicago Cubs
White Sox
Through the Revolution Theatre Crowd of Free Tickets
A fragment describes factory workers and government employees receiving government distributed tickets. They sit with caps on, likely attending a theatre for the first time, while ordinary people must buy tickets from Lonny a privileged worker or a government employee.
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Lonny
Berlin Taxi Rampage and Washington Race Riots
A satirical piece contrasts a Berlin taxicab with Paul Revere, then reports Washington DC race riots with five negroes firing on sailors near the naval hospital. Renewed disturbances spread across downtown with soldiers and marines patrolling. about a hundred injured. Louis Brownlow appeals for calm.
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Washington
District Red Cross Officers Hold Conference in Roswell
The Chaves County Red Cross hosted a district officer meeting over a weekend with emphasis on Home Service led by Mrs. James B Herbst and Mrs Grace Carson. Division Field Rep EB W Corn of Denver outlined future plans including education and reconstruction work. delegates from Denver Albuquerque and Taos traveled after the sessions.
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Chaves County
Red Cross
American Red Cross
Home Service Department
James B. Herbst
Grace Carson
E. W. Corn
Denver
C. F. Beeson
Chaves
Lettie G. Welsh
EB. W. Corn
A. B. Cessna
English teachers sought in Prague Bohemia
An urgent call announces English teachers are needed in Prague Czecho-Slovakia as a wave of language learning sweeps Bohemia. The piece notes high demand for lessons and that Americans’ language is commonly called American due to Wilson era influence, with Germans previously taught by the Seecie Saray.
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Prague
Czecho-Slovakia
Bohemia
Wilson
Seecie Saray
Progressive Republicans Call for Immediate Living Cost Relief
Progressive Republicans led by Senator Capper demand Congress act at once to cut high living costs. They urge decisive action before the next election and announce a Senate inquiry into price inflation, studying foods, clothing, rents, and profit practices by wholesalers and retailers.
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Congress
Washington
United Press
Capper
Kansas
Senate
Bela Kun Flees Hungary for Vienna Dispatch Says
Basle Switzerland July 21 reports that Bela Kun Soviet foreign minister and de facto ruler in early Hungary has fled to Vienna. For days reports had suggested his escape, and his fall from power was accomplished last week according to the dispatch received here.
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Basle
Switzerland
President Wilson Suffering Dysentery Reported Not Serious
Washington July 21 President Wilson is suffering from an attack of dysentery and has been ordered to remain in bed Dr Grayson announced He said the attack was not serious The President has cancelled his engagements.
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Berlin
Paul Revere
Massachusetts
Paul
Pittsburgh
Washington
Wilson
Grayson
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