Arrangements Set for 2000 Polish Emigrants Weekly to U S
In Warsaw the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society plans to move 2000 people weekly from Poland to the United States. Polish authorities estimate 250,000 have applied for passports, mostly women and children. The first 800 left Danzig three weeks ago. The American consulate has a special passport vise department and thousands wait daily in front of the consulate.
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Poland
Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society of America
Hebrew Association
United States
Warsaw
America
Danzig
Jacob Wassel
New York
Eign
Villa Hurls Defiance As Bandit Leader Declares War
Gen Francisco Villa defies the Mexican revolutionary government by declaring war with a 100000 peso bounty. He has chosen war over peace and threatens immediate raiding. Government troops mobilize, to pursue Villa and his band to fight on sight.
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EL Paso
Tex
Francisco Villa
Revolutionary Government of
Mexico
Price of Food Still Climbing Across United States
Washington May 26 Coincident with reports of nationwide price cutting the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced food prices rose in the thirty days March 15 to April 15 the greatest increase since April 1915. Twenty two common food items advanced about five percent reaching record highs with potatoes leading at thirty four percent. Milk eggs lard navy beans and prunes fell. Sugar rose eight percent. City increases ranged seven percent in Omaha five in Butte Denver and Houston four in Los Angeles and Seattle three in Portland Salt Lake City and San Francisco.
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Washington
Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Cleveland
Detroit
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Omaha
Butte
Denver
Houston
Los Angeles
Seattle
Portland
Ore
Salt Lake
San Francisco
Aerial Mail From San Francisco to Portland Planned
Otto Praeger said the post office considers a nine hour mail service between Portland and San Francisco, likely the first post transcontinental route after the September start. He noted air service would drastically reduce the current thirty hour train time and praised Portland landing field conditions as ideal.
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San Francisco
Portland
Post Office Department
Otto Praeger
New York
Praeger
Fraser River salmon catch declines amid treaty aims
Montreal May 26 John Mc Cullen of Skeena River says Fraser River sockeye catches have fallen from a million cases annually to under forty thousand in recent years. Officials from the United States and Canada completed a treaty to protect sockeye salmon and regulate fisheries in waters near the border.
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Montreal
John McCullen
Skeena River
Frazer River
United States
Canada
Yukon River Lowest Recorded in Years
Seattle May 26 The Yukon River will not open until June 12 the latest in years according to a telegram to White Pass and Yukon Railway agents The Yukon is said to be the lowest in twenty five years This low water delays freight and passenger movements from Lake Lebarge for at least ten days and many passengers and much freight await the first river steamers at Whitehorse
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Seattle
Yukon River
White Pass
Britain’s Part in Russia Attacked
A manifesto issued in London accuses Britain of complicity in the Polish assault on Bolshevik Russia. It charges the government with breaking pledges by sending munitions to Poland and notes a cruel blockade of Russia while goods continue to Poland. The Dockers’ Union Triennial Conference adopts a resolution banning further munitions landings for use against Russia.
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London
Bolshevik Russi
Great Britain
Poland
Russia
the Dockers’ Union
Cabrera Captured in Mexico City Amid Civil War News
A report from Villa Juarez, Puebla, states Louis Cabrera former Secretary of Finance under Venustiano Carranza is now a prisoner in Mexico City. In Washington Sir Aukland Geddes presented credentials as British Ambassador to President Wilson. Levi Morton will disposes a $10 million estate in probate. Albania faces civil war with uncertain outcomes per Durazzo dispatch.
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EL Paso
Tex
Louis Cabrera
Venustiano Carranza
Villa Juarez
Puebla
Mexico City
Avaro Obregon
Washington
Sir Aukland Geddes
United States
Wilson
Levi Morton
London
Albania
Durazzo
British Bush Indian Troops to Fight Reds
Bolsheviki forces push into Persia and occupy Nesht as British troops retire toward Teheran. Indian troops to be landed at Batum to reinforce British forces, with more troops to follow as transport becomes available, per the Daily Sketch.
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London
Persia
Nesht
Teheran
Batum
Daily Sketch
Steam roller used in naval inquiry questioned
Washington May 26. Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels said steam roller methods were used on him as he faced the Senate Naval Investigating Sub Committee. He would appeal to the full committee if Senator Hale forced into the record an unfair statement about conditions aboard American warships at the war start. Senator Pittman pledged to protect Daniels on the floor. The inquiry focused on Daniels’ claim that the Navy was ready from bow to stern in April 1917.
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Washington
Navy
Josephus Daniels
Senate Naval
Frederick Hale
Maine
Key Pittman
Nevada
Hale
Senate
Daniels
Elem
Stern
Ex Kaiser Yachts Offered for Sale in New York
A schooner rigged yacht Meteor IV and Meteor VI built for Emperor William of Germany were advertised for sale in New York today. Meteor IV is priced at 15,000,000 marks and Meteor VI at 17,500,000 marks.
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New York
William of Germany
Armenian Mandate Claimed Perilous Impasse
New York May 26 The United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee received a wire from American Committees for Armenian Independence warning that recognizing Armenian rights or mandate would desert Armenia of its resources and put American soldiers to a role of preventing Armenians from governing themselves. They note President Wilsons request for mandate authority has been sent to the committee where many Republicans expect it to be buried indefinitely.
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New York
Tis America Committees
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Armenia
United States
Wilson
Congress
Senate
Sub Chaser Probes Hawk Inlet Fish Trap Robberies
The Sub Chaser 310 under Lieut. W S Morse departed the Channel for Hawk Inlet to investigate alleged fish trap robberies reported by Hawk Inlet Cannery superintendent P E Harris.
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W. S. Morse
Hawk Inlet
P. E. Harris
Campaign funds show big donors to Wood and Palmer
Washington May 26. Campaign fund totals reveal 49610 in contributions to Attorney General Palmer's backers from C C Carlin Virginia. James McClurg Guffey named as top donor among Pittsburgh oil figures. William C Proctor testified he advanced 500000 to Leonard Wood's campaign fund but only 10000 counted as a contribution, noting the sum exceeded other sources and any shift in prohibition law.
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Virginia
Palmer
Senate
James McClurg Guffey
Pittsburgh
Carlin
William C. Proctor
Proctor Gamble Company
Cincinnati
Leonard Wood
Willis to Nominate Harding at GOP Convention
Former Ohio governor Frank F. Willis will nominate U S Senator Warren G. Harding of Ohio for president at the Republican National Convention in Chicago. Nominations are expected to begin Thursday June 10.
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Chicago
Frank F. Willis
Ohio
United States
Warren G. Harding
McAdoo Praised For Presidential Nomination At Texas Dems
The Texas Democratic State Convention endorsed President Wilson's administration and urged William G. McAdoo for the Democratic nomination. Delegates, including three women, will go to the national convention uninstructed under unit rule, with Postmaster General Albert Sidney Burleson as a district delegate. The platform opposes ...
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Dallas
Tex
Texas
Wilson
William G. McAdoo
Albert Sidney Burleson
Austin
Train wreck near Albuquerque leaves two dead
In La Joy, south of Albuquerque, an Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe passenger train derailed after track washing by high water. The engineer and fireman died, about 30 passengers injured, a special relief train with doctors and nurses rushed to the scene within half an hour of the accident.
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Albuquerque
N. M
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
la Joy
Here
France's finances rapidly improving prompt bumper crop outlook
Paris May 26 reports show a booming crop prospect and a stronger French treasury as tax receipts exceed estimates. American and British investors have bought mining and other industrial shares, driving a sharp drop in the franc from 17 to 15 per dollar. Experts see no immediate further major shift in franc dollar values.
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Paris
Freight Situation Improves Slowly Across Nation
The Interstate Commerce Commission reports continued but slow improvement in freight movement nationwide as of May 26.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission Today
Wilson accepts offer to lend London embassy residence
President Wilson stated before Congress that he would accept the gift of a London residence from J Morgan of New York to serve as the American Embassy property in London. The offer comes with no recommendation from the president.
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Washington
Wilson
Congress
J. Morgan
New York
London
United States
Woolen Co Charged With Profiteering
New York May 26 The American Woolen Company is charged by a federal grand jury with profiteering. The indictment alleges the company sold woolen cloth at unjust and unreasonable prices in the asserted trade.
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New York
American Woolen Company
Delaware Delegates Chosen Uninstructed at Dover Convention
Six uninstructed delegates to the Democratic National Convention at San Francisco were chosen by the Delaware Democratic State Convention. The body adopted resolutions endorsing the League of Nations without nullifying reservations.
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Dover
Del
San Francisco
Delaware
League of Nations
Maryland Republicans sidestep prohibition stance at convention
In Baltimore on May 26 the Maryland Republican State Convention refused to declare the party line on national prohibition. The action passed to individual candidates whileMaj Gen Wood was ratified as the party’s choice for president in the state primary. Eight delegates at large, each with half a vote, were elected to the Republican National Convention.
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Baltimore
Maryland
Wood
Sutherland Leads Wood by 2000 in West Virginia Primary
Wheeling May 26 United States Senator Howard Sutherland of West Virginia led Maj General Leonard Wood by 2000 votes in the West Virginia Republican presidential primary returns to date.
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Wheeling
W. Va
United States
Howard Sutherland
West Virginia
Leonard Wood
Kremer to Call Democratic National Convention to Order
Washington May 26 J Bruce Kremer of Montana Vice Chairman of the Democratic National Committee will call the Democratic National Convention to order at San Francisco June 26 Announcement was made here that Kremer was chosen because Homer S Cummings will act as temporary chairman and a Western man should open the first National Convention held West of the Rockies
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Washington
J. Bruce Kremer
Montana
Democratic National Committee
San Francisco
Kremer
Homer 5S. Cummings
Rockies
Firebugs Hold Seattle In Grip Of Terror
Seattle faces arson terror as firebugs allegedly torch seven hotels in a month. Fire Department and insurance investigators tie the Lincoln Hotel fire in April to incendiary methods, with five lives lost, and suspect a single gang behind all recent blazes in the city.
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Seattle
British Denies Oil Monopoly Sought by Britain
New York May 26 Sir Aukland Geddes British Ambassador to the United States issued a statement denying charges that Great Britain seeks to monopolize the world petroleum supply. He said Britain's policy aims at peace order and improving the lot of the oppressed.
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New York
Sir Aukland Geddes
United States
Wilson
Polk
Senate
Great Britain
Sir Aukland
Britain
Champagne Seized at Needles Amid Federal Action
Federal authorities seized six hundred forty cases of champagne consigned by the California Wine Association to a Chicago hotel. The seizure occurred today at Needles California as agents acted against interstate shipments.
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Los Angeles
California Wine Association
Chicago
Needles
Calif
Two Americans Held in Chihuahua Prisoners Named Carranza Crisis
Washington May 26 Two Americans Homer Carr and a man with unknown initials were taken prisoner at Jiminez in Chihuahua. No details given. Also Mexico City May 26 Special commission found Gen Rodolfo Herrera guilty in the death of former President Venustiano Carranza at a Puebla mountains hut after a night assault. Carranza died from wounds after pleading for aid.
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Washington
Homer Carr
MacDonald
Jiminez
Chihuahua
State Department
Mexico City
Special Commission
Avaro Obregon
Pablo Gonzales
Venustiano Carranza
Puebla
Rodolfo Herrera
Herrera
Carranza
Petersburg Cannery Destroyed by Fire
Petersburg Alaska May 26 The Mountain Point Packing Companys cannery on Wrangell Narrows six miles from here burned late yesterday All buildings except the China house were destroyed The loss is estimated at about 20000 dollars
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Petersburg
Alaska
Mountain Point Packing Company
Wrangell Narrows
China House
Senator Sherman attacks legion relief plan in Senate
Senator Lawrence Y. Sherman of Illinois condemned the proposed soldiers relief legislation as a disgraceful deterioration of patriotism and said the American Legion seeks to loot the United States Treasury, calling the organization disgraceful.
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Washington
Lawrence Y. Sherman
Illinois
Senate Today
American Legion
United States Treasury
Memorial Day Message From Wilson to Legion
President Wilson sent a Memorial Day message to the American Legion Weekly praising veterans of the world war. He said the memory of those who died in France and the return of those who survived will shape the nation's tasks. He quoted that arms served Liberty and spirits will serve Justice at home.
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Washington
France
Wilson
American Legion Weekly
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McAdoo
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Sutherland
Bruce Kremer
U.S
Commission
Sherman
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