Wilson Presses for Speed at Peace Conference Delays
President Wilson told the allied powers there would be no blame on Premiers Ocean or Orlando for delays and urged speed in shaping the League of Nations terms. Officials warned that if progress stalls, the world must know why, as American delegates press Monroe Doctrine safeguards and seek swift agreement on Covenant revisions.
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John Edwin Nevin
Wilson
Ocean
Orlando
Germany
Ague of Nations
Elihurt
Cam 6
The
League
Department
State Department
Fexct
Howver
Winisters' Council Meets at Noon in Ver Peace Meeting
April 1 report shows the council of formers met at the Quai d'Or noon to discuss peace issues and the advisability of holding bas ns of the conference at Ver. The plenary session was missing reports of the import.
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Council of For Misters
Quai d
Bas Ns
Ver
Hot Election in Chicago Today Sparks Close Mayor Race
Chicago voters head to the polls for a high stakes mayoral contest with Republican incumbent William Hale Thompson facing independent Maclay Hoyne. A record turnout is forecast as Democrats split with John Fitzpatrick and M. Sweitzer. Socialist John Collins is seen delivering a strong showing. Prohibition advocates back loan closures set for May 1.
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Chicago
Maclay Hoyne
Thompson
United States
Hoyne
John Fitzpatrick
Ae M. Sweitzer
John Collins
Soci T
Ters
Drowning at Bristol launching of cargo carrier Waukau
At Harriman near Bristol Pennsylvania a platform around the shipways collapsed during the launch of the cargo carrier Waukau. Between ten and twenty people are believed drowned with four bodies recovered and many others injured or treated in area hospitals.
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Bristol
Waukau
Merchant Shipsbuilding Corporation
Harriman
Here
Delaware River
Used Clothing Campaign Accepts All Rubber Goods
Red Cross conducts clothing drive for destitute Europeans this week. All rubber items acceptable, but Army and Navy uniforms not accepted. Drop at Red Cross headquarters behind Holy Trinity church between 9 12 a m and 2 5 p m. Those unable to bring items may request pickup by calling Mrs. H S Hall at 22 Silver Street South Farms, phone 1018.
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Red Cross
Europe
Holy Trinity Church
H. S. Hall
Silverstreet
South Farms
Captain Strickland Arrives in Boston Over Howitzer
Captain Daniel W. Strickland of the 102nd Infantry arrived from New Haven to consult with Northeast department officials about New Haven units in the 26th division parade. He urged moving the giant German howitzer on Boston Common to New Haven for review, noting Connecticut soldiers captured it. Army authorities have refused to remove it from Boston.
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Boston
Daniel W. Strickland
102Nd Infantry
New Haven
Department of the Northeast
Strickland
Boston Common
Connecticut
Assignment for convoy units announced by War Department
Assigned for convoy at Washington on April 1 the following units: Base Hospital 71, 114th Engineers and Train, 553rd Pioneer Infantry, 372nd Aero Squadron, Ordnance Casual Companies 30 to 37 inclusive. Casual Company No. 8, Transportation Corps, 312th Clothing Unit, 336th Butchery Company, 1103rd Replacement Squadron.
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Washington
War Department
114Th Engineers
Pioneer Infantry
Transportation Corps
Allied Troops to Roumania Reported Sent at Once
Paris dispatch says allied troops will be sent into Roumania immediately to counter the Russo Hungarian bolshevism threat. Earlier reports indicate troops have already arrived at Constanza. The prospect of renewed war stirs uneasiness among French socialists.
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Roumania
Paris
Constanze
Packing Restrictions Lifted for Packing Industry
Washington April 1 President Wilson ordered removal of wartime packing restrictions per the food administration. The announcement states the change reflects new policy for the sector and aims to ease wartime controls.
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Washington
Wilson
Food Administration
Sub Treasury Report New York Loss to Banks
Sub Treasury report from New York notes a cash net loss of 466000 dollars on Monday as banks accounted for the decline. The total loss reflects ongoing financial pressures in the banking sector during the period.
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Treaury
New York
Sub-Treasury
Hays on Scene to Fight Mann in Capitol Visit
April 1 Republican National Chairman Will Hays met with GOP leaders in Washington. His unannounced arrival came amid factional strife over House steering committee control led by Rep. Mann of Illinois. Longworth and Gillett oppose Mann, while caucus plans could throw the committee toward four new members. The outcome remains uncertain and difficult.
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Will H. Hays
Capitol
Washington
Mes R. Mann
Ilinois
Nicholas Longworth
Ohio
Longworth
Gillett
Mann
Illinois
Hays
Mondell
Wyoming
Ays
Embezzlers Sentenced in Bank Fleece Case
New Haven April 1 State's attorney A N Alling urged against leniency as two bank fraud cases proceeded. Domenico Competer a porter at First National Bank was sentenced to a year in the state reformatory with sentence suspended for theft of 695 dollars. he pledged reimbursement. William A Rancow received six months in the reformatory for forging four checks of 64 dollars each passed at Union and New Haven Trust Co. Both pleas for leniency were grounded on restitution plans.
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Riling
New Haven
Criminal Superior Court
A. N. Alling
Domenico Competer
First National Bank
State Reformatory
William A. Rancow
Reformatory
Union and New Haven Trust Co
Webb
Astor Brings Home U-Boat From War Mission
Senior Lieutenant Vincent Astor is en route home as second in command of UC-97, one of four enemy submarines captured and ferried back to the United States by American crews. Advices to this effect were confirmed by Mrs. Astor, following his prior service guiding the armistice waterways commission through the Kiel canal into Germany.
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Astor
New York
Vincent Astor
United States
Harwich
England
Allied Armistice Waterways Commission
Kiel Canal
Germany
Female editors not successful in Atlantic City paper
After eight months as New Jersey’s only newspaper edited managed and printed entirely by women the Evening Union in Atlantic City went back under male leadership yesterday The editorial news and advertising teams were all college women but reporters and editors failed to develop a news sense and pep in handling stories raising questions about women’s newsroom performance.
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Atlantic City
New Jersey
Evening Union
Walter E. Edge
Rejected Suitor Shoots Nurse in Chicago
Miss Jennie Bodeen, a nurse, was shot and seriously wounded by Albert Bottenhagen, a rejected suitor, early today in Chicago. Bottenhagen fled and police fear a possible suicide. Bodeen is expected to recover.
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Chicago
Jennie Bodeen
Albert Bottenhagen
Miss Bodeen
Bottenhagen
Stamford Man Dead in Apparent Suicide at Home
Stamford man William B. Lucas, 39, was found in a stupor on his couch at his Stamford home and died today at Stamford Hospital. He appeared to have died by his own action after being found by his wife around 11 p.m. last night and did not regain consciousness.
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Stamford
William
Lucas
Stamford Hospital
Mtly
England May Retain Tariff
London April 1 The Lloyd George cabinet will decide before September 1 whether tariff protection of certain British industries shall become permanent policy. Free traders protest as protectionist lists may expand beyond dyes and potash. Raw materials and Empire goods may enter freely while U S competition grows.
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London
Lloyd-George
England
United States
Japan
Germany
Husky
Canada
Australia
America
Great Britain
Belgium
France
Italy
Board of Trade
Allied Troops Prepare Campaign Against Hungarian Bolsheviks
Allied forces have arrived at Constanza Romania and Pressburg near Vienna as Bucharest reports indicate a large scale military push. Servians plan intervention while German authorities warn residents to evacuate Budapest. The entente readies a broad invasion along the southern frontier with several nations taking part.
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Berlin
Copenhagen
London
Constanza
Roumania
Bucharest
Pressburg
Vienna
Budapest
Entente
Two Aged Ladies Dead in Connecticut Homes
In New Britain on April 1 Mrs Harriet A Slocum aged 90 a Bristol resident and widow of Charles D Slocum died from injuries after a fall at her home last December at the local hospital Mrs Frances Deming widow of Sel den Deming aged 93 of Newington died last night in Newington at the house where she was born.
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New Britain
Harriet A. Slocum
Bristol
Charles D. Slocum
Frances Deming
Selden Deming
Newington
Omsk and Archangel Fronts Linked Report
London April 1 allied forces linked the Omsk and Archangel fronts. A Chronicle dispatch from Omsk reports Siberian troops on skis traveled miles over snow to aid Russian and allied troops.
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Omsk
Archangel
London
The
Chronicle
Siberian
Ie No
German Financial Mission Meets in Paris
Paris April 1 The first meeting of the German financial mission and the allied mission was held today. The question of assets and liabilities was taken up.
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Paris
Clearing House Statement from New York on April 1
Clearing house statement reports total exchanges at 812,948,037 dollars with 622 thousand 658 transactions and balances totaling 52,377,441 dollars. The data reflects daily activity and aggregate figures from the New York clearing system.
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New York
Exchange Dealings Lifted In War Time Ruling
Washington April 1 federal reserve board lifted wartime restrictions on foreign exchange dealings. Dealers may transfer funds to persons not enemies or allies of enemies who reside in Mahonis Lithuania and Poland, easing transfers and broadening permitted transactions.
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Ashington
Federal Reserve Board
Mahonis
Lithuania
Poland
Model marriage comes to naught in modern era case
Washington reports the five year cycle of Grace Nasin Grant who in 1915 helped spark six modern marriage principles. Now separated from her husband and seeking separate maintenance for herself and her three year old daughter Muriel, she disputes the radical views she once claimed to utter and defends a fifty fifty home living arrangement.
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Washington
Washington, D. C
Grace Nasiin Grant
University of Chicago
Bolshevik Army Losing Ground in Eastern Front
London April 1 dispatch from Moscow reports the Bolshevik army losing ground along the eastern front. The Red army retreated in the Pskov and Marienburg districts while anti Bolshevik forces captured several villages north of the Donetz. Pskov lies 162 miles southeast of Petrograd and Marienburg 57 miles north of Pskov.
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London
Moscow
Red Army
Pskov
Marienburg
Antibolshevik
Donetz
Petrograd
51st Brigade Sails For Home From Brest
Brig. Gen. John H. Sherburne and the 51st artillery brigade, largely New England men, sailed today from Brest for Boston aboard the steamship Mongolian. Major Wayland M. Minot, adjutant, First Lieut. John A. Talbot and Second Lieut. Maurice Kinney were among other officers aboard. A cable announcing the departure was received at the Northeastern Department headquarters.
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51St Brigade
Boston
John H. Sherburne
51St Artillery Brigade
New England
Brest
Wayland M. Minot
John A. Talbot
Maurice Kinney
British Labor Troubles Near Settlement, Henderson Says
Arthur Henderson, renowned British labor leader, told the peace conference in Paris on April 1 that English labor troubles were moving toward settlement. He conferred with Col. E. M. House of the American delegation on socialist opposition to the League of Nations.
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Paris
Arthur Henderson
England
Fugitive From Justice Held in Lawrence Mass
Charles Cohley charged as a fugitive from justice from Newark New Jersey was arraigned in the Lawrence district court and held on $600 bond until April 8. Extradition papers will be secured to return him to Newark where he allegedly stole employer documents valued at $800.
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Lawrence
Mass
Newark
N. J
Charles Cohley
Ukrainians Defeat Reds at Borodianka Move on Kiev
Copenhagen April 1 Ukraine says forces defeated Russian Bolsheviks at Borodianka and are advancing toward Kiev the capital. A truce rumor circulated as the official statement reached here.
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Copenhagen
Borodianka
Kiev
Passaic Textile Strikers Return To Work In Peace
In Passaic New Jersey on April 1 about three thousand of twelve thousand striking textile workers returned to mills after nearly seven weeks idle. Four hundred men armed with revolvers and heavy bags stood on duty at the mills as no trouble occurred.
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Passaic
N. J
Copper Prices Rise in New York Market
Metal prices report shows copper strong in New York on April 1 with spot at 15 8 8 to 15 1 2. Futures indicate April at 15.45 to 15.55, May 15.60 to 15.65, June 15 5 5 to 0.15 7 8, and July 15 3 4 to 16, with August and September at 15 to 16.
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New York
Confessions Read In Hartford Court In Madden Murder Case
William F. Miller of West Haven and John Neuss testified before Judge Warner on confessions about the Madden murder in Manchester. Neuss identified Jim Moore as the gunman and described the car pursuit, Klein the driver, and the gang’s flight to Berlin, Wallingford, Hoboken, and New York after the crime.
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Hartford
William F. Miller
West Haven
John Neuss
William F. Madden
Manchester
Warner
William F. Hurley
State Police
Hurley
Henry J. Costello
Madden
Miller
Hoboken
Neuss
Cheney
Captain Hurley
Jim Moore
Moore Brothers
Canada
Captain Madden
Moore
Macomber
Klein
Berlin
Wallingford
125Th Street
New York
Hine Predicts Prosperity Era in South
Atlanta April 1 Walker D Hines director general of railroads predicted the greatest era of prosperity the United States has known and urged southern businessmen to help secure a $370000000 railroad advance this year He also announced William G McAdoo will act as special counsel for administration in New York matters without pay. 332nd Infantry sails home from Genoa April 14 or 15 aboard Canopic and Duca d'Aosta as Italians reserve troops plan a tribute to the Americans who fought with them
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Atlanta
United States
South
Walker D. Hines
President's Club of
Railroads
Secretary of the Treasury
State of
New York
Three Hundred and Thirty-Second Infantry
Genoa
Italian Bureau of Information
Army strength reaches 2,131,503 in surprise report
The War Department released an estimate showing the U S Army at 2,131,503 troops. Of these, 1,409,789 are in Europe, 603,179 in the United States, 63,760 at sea, and 8,893 in Siberia. The figure excludes 23,800 Marines with the A E F.
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U. S. Army
Washington
United States Army
War Department
Europe
United States
Siberia
Dinner For Cummings Planned In Hartford
An announced dinner in Hartford will honor Homer S. Cummings of Stamford, recent national Democratic chairman elect. The event, set for Wednesday night, invites all Democratic state committee members and town committee chairmen to attend.
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Cummings
Hartford
Homer
Stamford
National Democratic
Democratic State Committee
May Court-Martial Ludendorff Proposed in Weimar Speech
A Stockholm dispatch to the Times reports that German premier Philip Scheidemann intimated Ludendorff could be court marshaled for participating in an anti-German demonstration at Weimar, the seat of the national assembly.
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Ludendorff
London
Philip Scheidmann
Germany
Weimar
German National Assembly
Stockholm
Times
Armistice Talks Advance Between Ukrainians and Poles
Reports from War saw indicate progress in armistice negotiations between Ukrainian and Polish leaders. Details remain sparse but both sides show willingness to move toward a ceasefire and document terms.
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Ene
Warsaw
20000 Troop Ships On Way Home From Europe
Boston reports 20000 Yankee division troops are on the way home aboard the transport Agamemnon and other ships due in Sunday. Plans include grandstands in Boston for welcomed arrivals, tickets for members of the 26th division, and coordinated welcome efforts with state and city officials across six states.
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Agamemnon
Boston
Albert S. Williams
Williams
France
C. R. Edwards
Charles. H. Cole
State House
Mount Verton
Governors Land
Vernon
Sion
Monitor
Wicome
Bolshevik Leaders Back Allies in Paris Dispatch Date
A Paris dispatch via Daily News reports Lenine and Trotsky support joining with the Allies under stated terms. Conditions include Bolshevik propaganda limits, withdrawal of forces from invaded districts, and a neutral stance ready to aid relief efforts in Russia. The note reflects tentative international mediation and shifting alliance dynamics.
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Lenine
Trotzky
London
Leon Trotsky
Paris
Ipsia
Daily News Today
Russia
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