Food Riots Rage in Ruhr District
Copenhagen reports a general strike involving 150000 workers, with Berlin declaring a state of siege in the Ruhr. Street fighting erupts in Frankfurt, Westphalia districts seized by troops, and food relief dispatched as Spartacist arrests rise. Reports warn of an imminent crisis and potential wider upheaval across Germany amid industrial disruptions and calls for general strikes.
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Copenhagen
Berlin
Ruhr
Frankfort
Main
Westphalia
Indus
Rhine
Ernst Daumig
Ret
Workmen’s Council
Stuttgart
Germany
Red
Ihelmshaven
Rhenish
Se Tcreen
sRuhr
Clash at Stuttgart Ends in Bloodshed and Disorder
A clash between government troops and Spartacist demonstrators in Stuttgart left three dead and many wounded, with Abendblatt reports quoting a Bhagen dispatch. In Wuerttemberg, authorities warn of government collapse if unrest persists. Also dated April 2, a failed Polish strike attempt is noted as bolshevik influence diminishes amid brutal crowd control.
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Stuttgart
Ondon
Stutt
Bhagen
Abendblatt
Wuerttemberg
Bourgoise
Street Fighting In Stuttgart April 2
A fragmentary report describes a violent street clash in Stuttgart involving government strikers at the Bay Factory Site in Stamford. The Carlisle Car of Andover Massachusetts will be located at a large factory site here.
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Bay
Stamford
Carlisle Car
Military training in high schools and colleges
Boston April 2 the war department announces military training in high schools and colleges as part of a program. Any school enrolling 100 boys over 14 may apply to establish a unit of the student officers training corps with an army officer to instruct. Uniforms arms and equipment provided. Summer camps offered. The plan is not a move to militarize the curriculum and requires two years of training only.
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Boston
War Department
F. W. Schneider
Flvte Officers’ Training Corps
Army
Street Railway Problem Stirs Portland Discussion
C M Clark, Philadelphia financier visiting Portland, comments that street railways across the United States face unresolved financial woes. He says operating expenses and revenues must align more closely to avoid increasing receiverships, and notes relief beyond fare hikes is needed to avert disasters in many systems.
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Portland
Ore
United States
C. M. Clark
Philadelphia
Portland Railway, Light & Power Co
Hartford Globe Sold to Hartford Group with Daily Plan
Thomas J. Spellacy, John F. Crosby of Hartford and Alexander Troup of New Haven have purchased the Hartford Globe. The new owners, all prominent figures in law and media, plan to issue a new daily in Hartford in the near future. Spellacy is a former district attorney and former Democratic gubernatorial nominee. Crosby is the current district attorney, and Troup publishes the New Haven Union.
Stock Brokers Suspended In New York Court Action
New York brokers Pople Henry & Co. announced their suspension after an involuntary bankruptcy petition was filed in the U S court. Edward H. Childs was named receiver by the court as the firm consented to the appointment. No assets or liabilities were disclosed.
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New York
New York Stock Exchange
Pople
Hungarian Bolseviks Seek Berlin Alliance Against Entente
Geneva April 2 A Hungarian bolshevik government delegation has been sent to Berlin to conclude an alliance against the Entente, according to a report received from Budapest today.
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Berlin
Geneva
Entente
Budapest
Petition with Wilson principles signs reaches 3 million
Weimar via Berlin and London April 2 A petition urging Germany to settle the colonial question by Wilson’s fourteen points has been received by the national assembly. It carries 3 000 000 signatures. Dauwig released London April 2 Ernest Dauwig of the Berlin soldiers and workers council, arrested Monday for January counter revolution complicity, has been acquitted and freed. This is viewed as significant amid continuing German rioting.
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Weimar
Berlin
London
Wilson
National Assembly
Dauwig
Ernest Dauwig
Soldiers and Workmen’s Council of Berlin
Alleged Bolsheviks Arrested in Wilkes Barre Raid
Eleven foreigners, alleged Bolshevik leaders in the district, were arrested after a raid on Bolshevik headquarters following a gun battle. Radicals' activity has stirred unrest at several coal field collieries in the area.
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Wilkesbarre
Korea Hostile To Americans Grows In Seoul News
Reports from Seoul state hostility to Americans is increasing as Koreans resist Japanese rule. The information cites local belief that Japan’s rule provokes growing resistance among Koreans with rumors spreading in Seoul today.
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Korea
Tokio
Infor
Seoul
Lieut Colonel On Trial in Secret Martial at Governors
Lieut Col Virginitus E Clerk formerly stationed at McCookfield Dayton Ohio as aero nautical engineer is being tried secret martial at Governors that have not.
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New York
Virginitus E. Clerk
McCookfield
Dayton
Ohio
85 Per Cent of 26th Enroute for Home
Boston officials report that about 85 percent of the 26th Yankee Division is on ships en route home. Transports Mount Vernon America Agamemnon and Mongolia carry 23,566 officers and men toward Boston as the division, totaling about 28,000, prepares for a planned parade likely on April 30 with Boston's 100000 schoolchildren in the front ranks.
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Boston
Mount Vernon
America
Agamemnon
Mongolia
Harry C. Haley
52Nd Infantry
1061St Engineers
104Th Infantry
George H. Shelton
101St Infantry
103Rd Infantry
101St Engineers
Ars
51St Artillery Brigade
John H. Sherburne
101St Field Artillery
102Nd Field Artillery
103Rd Field Artillery
Camp Devens
New England
Sinn Fein Secret Service Established in Cork
Sinn Fein leaders announce a secret service to monitor German and other secret services. Some Irish Constabulary members are said to serve, with educated youths volunteering freely. The group claims to be well warned of police moves, and only one arrest occurred among Cork members ahead of a German plot bust.
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Germany
Cork
Ireland
Sinn Fein
Sinn
Sinn Fermers
Sinn Fernérs
Republican Movement
Panama Signs Travelers Treaty In Washington
Panama ratifies the commercial travelers treaty, aided by an international commission led by William G. McAdoo. The pact aims to ease South American entry for travelers by ending many prior requirements, reducing the need for separate city licenses and duties on samples, which caused delays.
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Panama
Washington
State Department
William G.mcadoo
Proposal to Feed Russia Gains Entente Support
Paris dispatch to the Westminster Gazette reports that reforms by American commissioner Stephen Lulett advance a plan to feed Russia using the Belgium system. A neutral supervisor for Russia is expected to be Hjelmar Branting of Sweden, a prominent socialist statesman.
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Russia
London
Stephen Lulett
Belgium
Paris
Westminster Gazette
Hjelmar Branting
Sweden
Restaurant Thieves Arraigned in Waterbury
Charles Berger cashier and waiters Samuel Eugleman Peter Philips and Otto Schmidt all employed at Hodson s Hotel and restaurant were arraigned in city court and bound over to superior court for theft of many thousands of dollars. Berger held on five thousand dollar bond while Eugleman Philips and Schmidt posted two thousand five hundred dollars each.
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Waterbury
Charles Berger
Samuel Eugleman
Peter Philips
Otto Schmidt
Hodson’s
Berger
Eugleman
Philips
Schmidt
High School Military Training Starts in Bridgeport
In Bridgeport on April 2 an organized junior officer training program began at the local high school with 532 volunteers from morning classes. Lieb Stack of the U S A stirred the crowd with a patriotic address and pledged to personally start the training, with expectations that afternoon volunteers will double the number.
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Bridgeport
Lieb. Stack
Sub Treasury Report New York Losses and Expenditures
A terse summary notes New York figures with a reported loss of 834 dollars and expenditures totaling 2,228,000 dollars. The fragmentary text suggests a financial report section listing negative and positive totals without context or dates.
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Treasury
New York
Tyee
Connecticut Assembly Deliberates On Prohibition and School Bills
Hartford April 2 The house tabled the unfavorable report on the women and minors minimum wage bill while passing a constitutional amendment for state prohibition after 1922. Bills favoring Connecticut company charter changes, street railway expansion, and boxing regulation drew attention. The senate rejected several tax exemptions and a medical examination bill, reappointed state trustees, and upheld or challenged various committee actions. The house also moved to reimburse liquor license holders after prohibition and passed a wildlife protection bill with broader coverage for hares and rabbits.
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Hartford
House
Rogers
Manchester
Connecticut Company
New London
Meriden
New Britain
Yale Gymnasium
Senate
Albert Mossman
Norwalk
Pees
Thomas W. Doyle
John Q. Murphy
Hartford Assessors
Wilson
Hemenway
Leonard
Bacon Academy
Colchester
Connecticut State Board of Agriculture
Connecticut Hospital For the Insane
Connecticut School For Boys
George L. Fox
Connecticut
Fish and Game Commission
Boston Welcomes 101st Infantry Home From War
The transport America linked with Boston via wireless this afternoon to greet Col Edward L. Logan and the 101st Infantry of the 26th Division. Governor Coolidge and Mayor Peters sent replies, expressing wholehearted welcome and pride, relayed through Cape Race.
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Boston
Transport
America
101St
103Rd
Mid-Ocean
Edward L. Logan
101St Infantry
Cape Race
Coolridge
Massachusetts
Free Forger Putnam Sought Across Towns in $1200 Checks
Greenwich police seek George Putnam, a free specialist, on charges of forging checks totaling 600 dollars on New Rochelle bank and 300 dollars on Rye bank and 300 dollars on Port Chester bank. He allegedly passed a 300 dollar check in New Rochelle. Putnam has been missing since March 22 and has prior burglary sentences. He has a wife and five children.
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Greenwich
George Putnam
New Rochelle
N. Y
Portchester
Goldberg
Putnam
Noroton
Johannesburg Strikers Back To Work Amid City Paralyzing Strike
A Johannesburg dispatch reports many strikers plan to return to work tomorrow. The city remains without light and railway traffic, with services paralyzed. Radicals reportedly preach bolshevism urging workers to seize and operate municipal enterprises.
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South Africa
London
Johannesburg
Daily Express
Wilson Flirting With Lenine A Paris Report Says
London April 2 The Globe displayed a Paris report claiming Wilson favored negotiations with Lenine and that American agents are active in Russia The Paris dispatch notes a political incident and describes American diplomacy and activity regarding the Russian leadership.
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Wilson
Lenine
London
Globe
Paris
Ginest
Ata
Post
Russia
Fourteen Killed In Red Battle
A violent street battle in Veneva during April left fourteen people dead as machine gun fire erupted between Sparte factions. The confrontation drew heavy casualties and disrupted local order, prompting authorities to launch investigations and martial law considerations.
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Veneva
Sparte
Thompson Wins Chicago Mayor Election In Raw Returns
Chicago April 2 practically complete returns show William Hale Thompson republican ahead of County Clerk Robert Sweitzer democrat by 17 600 votes in the mayoralty race with Maclay Hoyne indpendent third. Wet vote total 535 292 with Thompson leading 257 888 to 240 238 for Sweitzer. Hoyne 110 898. other candidates small totals.
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Chicago
William Hale Thompson
Robert M. Sweitzer
Maclay Hoyne
Thompson
Sweitzer
Robert Sweitzer
Rebuff to Prohibition Shocks Chicago Voters
Chicago voters delivered a strong rebuke to prohibition by defeating anti wet forces in the local election. Wet leaders predicted the result would energize the Republican push during the forthcoming 1920 campaign and link the issue to wartime measures taking effect July 1. E J Davis of the Anti Saloon League defended the wets saying they made no push to browbeat Chicago and denounced wet tactics as sedition.
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Chicago
Republican Party
E. J. Davis
Anti-Saloon League
Congress
Supreme Court
Health of Troops Overseas Shows Marked Improvement
The Surgeon General reports better troop health overseas. In the week ending the 13th there were 311 deaths from disease, down from 453 the prior week, with 145 due to pneumonia as new cases fell by half. In the U.S. 95 deaths from disease occurred the week ending March 21, including 33 tuberculosis and 32 pneumonia. Overseas non-effectives numbered 11,000. total affected abroad stood at 67,605, down 65 percent since November 11.
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Washington
Ireland
Lieutenants Discharged From Army for Various Infractions
Washington April 2 The War Department announced the dishonorable discharge of four second lieutenants for army regulation violations. Nimmon Levering of Company F first replacement regiment was absent without leave at Camp Gordon. John P Scarborough of the 29th Infantry was drunk in uniform at a Louisiana post. Kee C Murphy of the 71st Infantry was drunk at Camp Meade. Raymond Newell of the Ninth Regiment field artillery passed worthless checks at the Malden Mass bank while at Camp Jackson S C Newell’s sentence was commuted by President Wilson to a reprimand and confinement on the post for three months.
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Washington
War Department
Nimmon F. Levering
Camp Gordon
John P. Scarborough
29Th Infantry
oSee
Louisiana
Raymond Newell
Ninth Regiment Field Artillery
Malden
Mass
Camp Jackson
S. C. Newell
Wilson
Leviathan Carries Record Load from Brest to New York
The monster transport Leviathan arrived today in New York after six and a half days from Brest with the largest passenger list ever on an ocean liner. She carried 14,416 aboard, including 12,274 army officers and enlisted men. Before departure from Hoboken on the previous voyage, 000 extra bunks were added and kitchen facilities enlarged so every passenger was fed within one hour and twenty minutes after mess call.
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New York
Brest
Hoboken
France
Conditions Worsen in Petrograd and Finland Bolster Controls
Dispatches from Helsingfors report Petrograd conditions deteriorating with freezing potatoes as the sole available food. Hospitals overflow, medicines are scarce, and Finland moves to curb Bolshevik literature smuggling from Russia as relief efforts falter.
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Petrograd
Washington
State Department
Helsingfors
Finland
Russia
Explosion at DuPont Works in New Jersey
Two men were killed in an explosion that wrecked wheel and press mills at the Du Pont Powder Works in Wayne near Paterson New Jersey. The blast occurred in April and the plant spans twenty mills. It was felt across the surrounding territory and it is unclear if other mills were damaged.
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DuPont Works
Paterson
N. J
DuPont Powder Works
Wayne
Here
Americans Arrive in Queenstown and Liverpool in April
About one thousand American sailors reached Queenstown and Liverpool today and await passage home. Captain Priangie and U S officials praised the crew while sailors remained ashore, awaiting orders as officials organized transport and clearance.
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Queenstown
Liverpool
Pas
Priangie
U. S
Seca
aTee Sanlents
Middlesex Coroner reports 23 sudden deaths in early 1919
Coroner Stephen B. Bee lists twenty three sudden death cases in Middlesex County for the first three months of 1919. The records include drownings at Middletown Portland Cromwell Killingworth and East Haddam asphyxiations and burns in East Haddam and Middlefield deaths of an infant at Middletown and other residents with locations across the county.
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Middlesex County
Middlesex
Stephen B. Bee
Connecticut
Asylum Dock
Edward P. Merwin
Durham
George Pritchard
City
Julius Puttlewitz
Middletown
Vandelin Parezi
Killingworth
Harold Savage
Portland
Amelia L. Carlson
Wanda Sharp
Abbie Howe
Henry Matthinson
Jones
James C. Burr
William H. Swan
Cromwell
Nils Bengston
Henry B. Bailey
Michael Healey
East Hampton
William H. Conn
Frank Westron
Middlefield
GOP Wins in Hartford in City Election Sweep
Hartford April 2 Republican candidates swept the city in a light turnout election. Eight of ten alderman seats went Republican, boosting control to 12-8. Two assessors chosen, third remains Democrat. Proposals for Morgan Street improvements and a $50,000 public bath were approved. Bulkeley Street funding defeated. Labor vote larger than expected, swinging several wards Republican.
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Hartford
Council
Morgan Street
Bulkeley Street
Albert M. Simons
John F. Cograve
James T. Farrell
Constable
August J. Meyer
Thomas J. Con
Louis Jaffer
Philip M. Leakin
Board of Education
Labor Party
Samuel Hoffenberg
Harry G. Cohn
John F. Cosgrove
Frank J. Madden
American Labor Party
Charles A. Hellyar
Had The Wrong Man. New Haven April 2
Judge Martin T. Manton of the United States circuit court in New York, an expert on Chinese cases, presided as a Waterbury laundryman Yuen Tan Foon faced an opium possession charge. The wrong man was brought to court and the trial was adjourned after the accused resembled Foon and proved to be someone else. The case was adjourned with the court officials present and Manton summoned from New York.
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New Haven
Martin T. Manton
United States Circuit Court of
New York
Yuen Tan Foon
Waterbury
Foon
Manton
Jewish Committee Seeks Minority Rights Clause in Peace Treaty
A Jewish committee led by Judge Julian Mack of Chicago urged Secretary Lansing Henry White and General Tasker Bliss of the American peace commission to include a clause in the peace treaty guaranteeing minority rights worldwide. They cited discrimination against Jews in Roumania and elsewhere.
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Paris
Julian Mack
Chicago
Lansing
Henry White
Tasker H. Bliss
American Peace Commission
Roumania
Strikes Sweep Spanish Cities As Ambassadors Confer
Serious general strikes grip major Spanish cities including Bilbao with leaders and officials reporting in Madrid after talks between American and British ambassadors and Prime Minister Romanones. Rumors of further upheaval circulate as the situation intensifies.
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Bilbao
Spain
Romanones
Madrid
Bar- Bare
France to gain Saare basin minerals amid peace talks
Paris reports substantial progress at the peace conference. France will receive Saare basin minerals while Germany retains sovereignty over its fortifications. Rhine demilitarization is planned with land retention. Indemnities are reduced and trade freedom edging toward ratification. The conference aims to finish by the weekend and invite wider signatories next week.
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Paris
Wilson
Ropean
France
Saare
Germ
Rhine
Germany
Esthenia
International 4
Foreign Council
Meniace
Saare Basin
Three Hurt In Engine Blow In New Haven
Three men were injured when freight train No. 60 bound for Conn. derailed near New Haven at 11 43 this afternoon. Officials say the engineer jumped from the tie before the crash. Names of injured are not released.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Haven
Conn
President May Pardon Rumor Re Debs Inquiries
A rumor from Paris and Washington discusses a possible presidential pardon for Eugene V Debs and other war critics under the espionage act. President Wilson has asked Attorney General Palmer for guidance and any official word would likely be issued from Washington.
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Paris
United States
Eugene V. Debs
Wilson
Palmer
Washington
Court Bars Bell Telephone Rate Increase in Pa Case
Harrisburg, April 2. A Dauphin County court granted a temporary injunction blocking Bell Telephone from collecting the higher rate. Officials say the decision may become permanent after today's reevaluation by state authorities.
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Burleson
Hungarian Soviets Occupy London and Czech Patch Expanded
Central News dispatch from Vienna reports that Hungarian Soviets have been territorial occupied by Allied forces, with Bolshevist influence spreading toward a Czech patch. Prague is identified as the capital of Czechoslovakia.
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London
Vien
Bolshevist
MD Ciey
Prague
Slovakia
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