League of Nations Adopts Monroe Doctrine Amendment
Paris April 12 The League of Nations commission approves an amendment to the Monroe Doctrine in the peace covenant to preserve peace. President Wilson defends the doctrine as a bulwark against absolutism, while Germany is told Bavaria will not join the peace treaty.
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League of Nations Commission
Bavaria
Paris
Germany
Rhine
Poland
Petit Journal
Lloyd George
Versailles
Japan
France
Ague of Nations Commission
Wilson
Europe
Basle
Stuttgart
Railways Director Cuts Freight Rates on Road Materials
Washington April 12 Railways Director Hines ordered a 10 cent per ton reduction in freight rates for sand gravel crushed stone and other road-building materials shipped to states counties or municipalities. The minimum charge remains 40 cents per net ton except where standard commercial rates are already lower.
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Washington
Railways
Hines
Michigan Day Vote Shows Dry Amendment Opposed
Detroit reports 1,625 precincts of 2,389 returning a defeat for the constitutional amendment modifying prohibition. The tabulated 115,400 vote against the measure doubles the dry victory margin from three years ago by about 55,000.
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Detroit
Mich
Quebec Referendum Keeps Wine and Beer Licenses
In Quebec the vote to decide if wine and beer licenses will be granted or the province remains dry favored light wines and beer. About 100,000 supporters backed the light liquor measure.
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Quebec
Mtrea
Disabled Transport Safe
A brief report notes a transport ship named ironbach carrying the One and misty seventh infantry was considered safe on April 14 in ork.
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Ork
Ironbach
One
Sergeant Welzis Chaperones Mil Reaching France Visit
Sergeant Joseph Andrew Welzis, chosen by Secretary Baker, chaperones fourteen-year-old Milton Pershing, son of the general, on a trip to Europe to meet his father for the first time since American forces entered France. Welz enlisted in 1909 after medical studies, railroad work, and plumbing.
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Joseph Andrew Welzis
Milton Pershing
France
Baker
Europe
United States
Young Welz
New Haven
Mutiny Reported by American Troops in Archangel
Advices from Archangel confirm the first mutiny of American troops in World War I. A company of infantry refused orders to move to the front, one man was jailed then released, and the soldiers demanded withdrawal from Russia. Col. George E. Stewart commanded the 339th Infantry, largely Michigan draftees.
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Washington
War Department
Archangel
Russia
339Th Infantry
Michigan
George E. Stewart
Stewart
Obozerskaya
Ashington
Frank W. Woolworth Dead at 66 in Glen Cove
New York April 10 Frank W Woolworth originator of the 5 and 10 cent stores and a merchandising pioneer died at his home in Glen Cove after several months illness. He was sixty six years old and had built a chain that once dominated affordable retail.
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New York
Frank W. Woolworth
Glen Cove
L. L
Fur Auction Nets $750000 in New York Sale
Approximately 114000 pounds of rabbit pelts from the antipode sold at auction in New York. Total sales reached $750000, lifting the year’s grand total to $3250000.
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New York
Bank Heist by Ex-Soldiers Raiders in St Louis
Police believe discharged soldiers robbed the Baden Bank of St Louis of 59400 dollars. Officers pursued the bandit car for two miles as they searched the city for the highwaymen.
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St. Louis
Baden Bank
25 Die in Dusseldorf Riot Sparks Wide Germany Strikes
The Lokal Anzeiger reports 25 killed and 25 wounded as government troops fire on Spartacan demonstrators in Dusseldorf. The city plunges into darkness as gas and electric power fail and transit stops. Escalating strikes spread across Brunswick Baden and Munich with revolutionary councils forming and hostages taken.
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Copenhagen
Dusseldorf
Lokal Anzeiger
Berlin
Spartacan
Brunswick
Diet
Workers’ Council
Bavaria
Baden
Karlsruhe
Mannheim
Acht Uhr Blatt
Council of People’s Mandatories
Munich
Frankenische Tagepost
Nuremberg
Communist Council
Herr Klatz
Moniteur
Central Soldiers and Workmen’s Committee For
Essen
Krupp
Railroad Workers Granted $65 Million Wage Increase
Washington April 11 Director General Hines ordered a retroactive wage raise totaling 65 million dollars for 400000 railroad engineers firemen trainmen and conductors in passenger and freight service members of the four major brotherhoods effective January 1 1919.
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Washington
Hines
Four Big Brotherhoods
Deadly storm claims a hundred in Texas and Oklahoma
Fragmentary dispatches report a windstorm of unusual severity that swept northern Texas and southern Oklahoma Tuesday night. Authorities tally about one hundred deaths as rescue and recovery work continues in affected towns and rural areas.
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Dallas
Tex
Texas
Oklahoma
Two Million Rifle Cartridges Cross Border To Mexico
Two million rounds of 7 millimeter rifle cartridges were moved to the Mexican side of the border from Laredo Texas on April 12 under permission of American authorities.
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Mexico
Laredo
Tex
Governor Kidnapped in Laredo Ransom Case
Governor Andres Ozuna and his brother Gregorio Ozuna were abducted from a train returning from a governors conference in Laredo Texas and are held for ransom according to reports.
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Laredo
Tex
Andres Ozuna
Gregorio Ozuna
Greatest Wheat Crop Estimated At 37 Million Bushels
Washington April 10 report from the department of agriculture forecasts the largest winter wheat crop on record at 37,000,000 bushels valued at 1,891,620,000 dollars at 2.26 per bushel. Condition on April 1 was 99.8 percent of normal, with anticipated production 152,000,000 bushels above the 1914 record if harvest goes well.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Massacre in Danzig as Troops Fire on Crowds
A riot in Danzig outside the railway station left three dead and several injured after troops, subjected to abuse all day, opened fire on demonstrators. The clash occurred Thursday evening as troops guarded the square in front of the station. Public disorder and casualties mark the incident.
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Copenhagen
Danzig
U. S. Men Attack Russians On North Russian Front
Archangel April 14 American and Russian forces raided the Bolshevik position near Bolshie Ozerki taking nine prisoners and two machine guns and destroying a blockhouse. Kadish road patrols seized three prisoners at dawn. Other sectors on the North Russian front were quiet.
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Archangel
Bolshie Ozerki
Kadish
Victory Loan Campaign Launch in Seven States Press Rooms
More than 2,500 editors from newspapers in the Fifth district states began the Victory Liberty loan publicity swing in Chicago on April 14 as part of the nationwide drive to promote the bond issue.
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Victory Loan
Chicago
Seventh Federal Reserve District
Victory Liberty Loan
Nine Killed in Riots Across Several Cities in Ping Yang
Nine people died and many were injured in riots spanning Songdo Changshan Song Yang Wiju and Honghyon in Ping Yang province. Officials report unrest began in Songdo and spread to nearby towns.
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Seoul
Songdo
Changshan
Song Yang
Wiju
Honghyon
Ping Yang
League Covenant Summary Shapes Future Assembly and Rules
Paris reports outline the league of nations framework with an assembly of up to three representatives per member state and a council of five great powers plus others. It covers membership, withdrawal with two years’ notice, unanimous decisions, enforcement through a permanent secretariat and court, armament reduction, arbitration, and mandate administration of former German and Ottoman territories.
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Paris
League of Nations
League
Court of International Justice
Council
Ottoman Empire
Soldiers Rob Girls in Budapest After Soviet Takeover
Refugees from Budapest report looting by two soldiers in the streets tearing earrings from women. Food is scarce as salt and flour are rationed, milk and fats are unobtainable, and sugar commands high prices. Bela Kun opposes Romanian actions while awaiting a larger army.
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Amsterdam
Budapest
Oldensaal
Bela Kun
Hungary
League of Nations Covenant Provisions and Amendments
Text outlines league concerns including the treatment of natives and slave traffic, opium and arms trades, transit and trade conditions, public health, and Red Cross work. It notes the league as central to coordinating international activities and explains amendment approval by council states and assembly majorities. Democratic dissent leads to loss of league membership.
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The
League
Assembly
Melbourne Trades Hall backs 40 hour week for Australia
The Melbourne Trades Hall council urges a national move to a 40 hour week across industries to curb unemployment. It notes war productivity gains and post armistice demobilization have raised jobless numbers while average Australian unions run 48 hours a week with some sectors at 44 hours.
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Melbourne
Trades Hall Council of
Australia
Morgan heiress opposes German delegates at Versailles
Paris April 14. A widely circulated report claimed Miss Anne Morgan would house German delegates at Versailles. Miss Morgan replied in the interior that her home will not serve as lodgings for German representatives. The building is currently used as a hospital.
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Anne Morgan
Paris
Versailles
J. Pierpont Morgan
Imperial treasury funds support occupation armies
Berlin reports the imperial treasury will pay a monthly average of 109,000,000 marks about 27 million dollars to maintain the occupying armies. The announcement states this funding sustains the military presence in occupied regions.
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Berlin
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