League of Nations Covenant Near Completion at Conference
April 12 reports say the League covenant is ready for insertion in the treaty after a session from 8 pm to 2 am. Britain and France pressed for concessions including Monroe Doctrine safeguards while Japan pushed for race equality immigration rights but backed down after fear of infringing sovereignty. President Wilson showed fatigue yet optimism as delegates left, with continued Japanese threats to resist later.
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League of Nations
of Nations Commission
Lord Rtobert Cecil
Britain
League
Hotel Crillon
America
Japan
Wilson
To Consider Indemnity Amount in Germany Reparations
Paris April 12 The reparations session will soon undertake the task of fixing the exact sum Germany must pay in indemnity. Germany will be held fully liable for all Allied war costs. Indemnities will cover categories such as houses farms ships cars and agriculture losses.
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Paris
Germany
French Dissatisfaction Over League Decisions Stirred
Paris reports strong dissatisfaction as papers denounce League of Nations decisions. French demands are deemed unfavored and newspapers lament the League lacks practical character. Geneva was chosen as the League’s seat over Brussels.
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Paris
Journal
Ible
Geneva
Brussels
Canine Actors' Fare Raised on Chestnut Ridge Line
Officials of Chestnut Ridge railroad mull filing for higher rates after discovering trained dogs ride the line at a fraction of typical fares. The 11 mile Chestnut railroad runs between Kinkleton and Palmer, Pa.
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Chestnut Ridge Railroad
Interstate ’ Commission
Chestnut Railroad
Kinkleton
Palmer
Wire rate raise defended amid Telegraph dispute
Washington reports the wire control board defending a 20 percent rate increase for telegraph services amid the Western Union and Postal Telegraph Cable Co. dispute. The board cites 100 percent maintenance cost rise and public service obligations, noting Postal’s share of business and government work. It argues service to unprofitable areas is essential and warns against limiting service to profitable centers. The summary highlights board comparisons of company growth and operating costs for 1918 and 1919.
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Washington
Wire Control Board Today
Western Union Telegraph Co
Postal Telegraph Cable Co
Western Union
Nion
Whitman and others to be heard in Albany probe
Former Governor Charles S. Whitman Theodore Shonts and several corporate officials are expected to appear Monday afternoon in Albany for the legislative investigation into a $500000 slush fund claim tied to efforts to influence a six cent fare bill. The inquiry, led by Senator Alvah W Burlingame Jr, reserved subpoenas and will resume Monday at 4 30 p m with Richard H Burke the star witness to be examined.
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Albany
WN. Y
Charles S. Whitman
Theodore P. Shonts
Interboro Railway
Nicholas F. Brady
John B. Stanchfield
C. M. Thomas
Consolidated Gas Co
Albury
George F Thompson
Niagara
Judiciary Committee
Senate
Alvah W. Burlingame, Jr
Brooklyn
Whitman
Shonts
Thompson
Richard H. Burke
French Reinforcements Hold Sebastopol in South Russia
Geneva dispatch reports French troops defending Sebastopol reinforced and ordered to hold the city at all costs. Separately Odessa saw Mech and Greek forces withdraw after a Ukrainian Soviet force claim of seven to one odds in battle.
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Sebastopol
Geneva
Russia
Bucharest
Odessa
London Paris Flight Sets Record Speed
London and Paris were linked by a record flight with airmen maintaining an average speed of 172 miles per hour. The Army Flying Corps pilot completed the trip in one hour and fifteen minutes, according to the air ministry.
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London
Paris
Air Ministry
Army Flying Corps
Aliens Take Big Amounts Abroad
New York reports a grave banking exodus driven by Bolshevik propaganda. About 1,300,000 foreign-born aliens are expected to depart with nearly 4 billion dollars, risking most of the nation’s currency resources. A stay-at-home movement and bank involvement are urged to counter withdrawals. many travelers carry 2000 to 15000 dollars each.
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New York
Savings Bank
American Bankers’ Association
Europe
Victor Leisner
United States
Russian Food Shortage Report From Paris Telegraph
Paris April 12 A Hoover said up to 200000 Russians die monthly from famine under Soviet food relief. He notes priority for city children then Red Guard and workers, with the bourgeois and intellectuals left last. He blames Lenins and Trotzky socialization of farming for the famine.
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Paris
Russia
Herbett Hoover
Inter-Allsecision
Mrr
Hoover
Red Guard
Lenines and
Trotzky
Hartford 102nd Parade Plans Formed for Spring
In Hartford, plans were finalized for a parade in late April or early May. Officials seek a $10,000 appropriation from the common council to cover transportation and entertainment for about 1,000 Connecticut men of the 102d infantry and 750 from the machine gun battalion, with the state guard the Governor's Foot Guard and Spanish War veterans ready to serve as escorts.
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Hartford
Court of Common Council
Connecticut
102D Infantry
Connecticut State Guard
Zapata Death Reported by Mexican Official
General Pablo Gonzales sent an official report to President Carranza via the American embassy in Mexico City stating Emiliano Zapata, the noted Mexican bandit, was killed in action. His body was recovered and viewed by thousands.
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Zapata
Wash
Pablo Gonzales
Carranza
Emiliano Zapata
Mexico City
State Department
Russia Gone to Graveyard in Crimea Crisis
Paris reports Grand Duke Alexander Michaelovitch of Russia declares Crimea lost and Sebastopol untenable. He says allied forces cannot hold the port and that three thousand troops might have saved Crimea. He characterizes the situation as over.
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Russia
Paris
Grand Duke
Alexander Michaelovitch
Crimea
Sebastopol
Plane lands after engine stalls near Latrobe Park
A Baltimore aircraft piloted by Lieut. Bert Blair was forced to land in Latrobe Park when its engine failed en route to Hale Thorpe. The badly damaged plane narrowly avoided a house as Blair escaped unharmed.
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Baltimore
Bert Blair
Halethorpe
Latrobe Park
Bela Kun Says Romanian Abducted His Family
London a report from Budapest says Bela Kun former foreign minister of Hungary accuses a Romanian of abducting his family. He filed the charge as news reached the world today.
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Bela Kun
London
Bolshevist Foreicn
Hungary
Budapest
British Scientist Discovers Ten Acres of Santhing
London April 12 John Dew a British scientist announced after 2000 experiments that he had discovered severe ten acres of santhing.
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London
John Dew
Telephone Strike Set for Tuesday in Boston
Boston April 12 telephone operators vote to strike next Tuesday to press for higher wages with a nationwide walkout planned for next month. Union leaders expect 8,000 Boston workers to participate, joining 12,000 male colleagues, as secret ballots on special assessments are counted by May 11. Governor Beechman to confer with local officials and seek federal action to avert disruption during troop homecoming.
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Boston
New England
G. M. Bugniazer
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
New England Joint Council of Telephone Workers
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
International
Julian S. O’connor
Ourators’ Union
New England Telephone Co
Burleson
Noes
R. Livingstone Beechman
Rhode Island
Washington
Soviets Unite With Russians in German Regions
A Danzig Soviet proclaims junction with Russia as strikes widen into a political move calling for President Ebert's retirement. Agitators in Baden push for soviets to overturn the government while Bavarian farmers boycott Munich and Augsburg. Munich’s Bavarian soviet government reportedly joins Russian and Hungarian bolshevik governments amid street fighting in Danzig between Spartacists and government troops.
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Berlin
London
Danzig
Russia
Dazig
Ebert
Baden
Bavaria
Munich
Augsburg
Geneva
Chicks Safely Shipped Across Long Distances
Washington reports a shipment of 50 day old chicks from Riverdale New Jersey to Somerville Texas covered 1 400 miles with only one killed in action. Postal regulations were amended to allow such shipments during wartime express congestion and since then more than 20 000 000 chicks have moved through the mails with negligible loss.
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Washington
Riverdale
N. J
Somerville
Tex
Post Office Department
Mail for Rhine Provinces Gets Civilian Use Ruling
The Post Office announced civilians in the Rhine provinces under American Allied occupation may now mail from the area. The rule does not apply to mail for the American Expeditionary Forces. A Cologne dispatch reports Ruhr workers reject a seven hour work day amid Spartacists and strikers activity.
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Rhine
Washington
Germany
Post Office Department
Amsterdam
Rhur
Cologne
Spartacides
31000 TROOPS DUE NEXT WEEK ARRIVE ACROSS ATLANTIC PORTS
More than 31,000 American soldiers are set to land in New York next week aboard 25 transports, with nearly 7,000 more at other Atlantic ports, totaling about 38,000 on the seaboard. Ships include Kaiserin Augusta Victoria Graf Walderie Lancaster K I Luckenback Hisko Plattsburg and others carrying divisions, nurses, and hospital units under Brig. Gen. Ira N. Haynes.
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New York
Atlantic
Atlantic Seaboard
Graf Walderie
Germany
64Th Field Artillery
141St Field Artillery
Ira N. Haynes
Graf Walderze
David G. Mattingle
Massachusetts
Illinois
Lancaster
K. I. Luckenback
Hisko
Plattsburg
Corillo
Saxonia
Elinor
Westbrook
Towan
Roanoke
Seattle
Otsego
Charleston
DeKalb
Newport News
Pannonia
France
85Th
Custer) Division
Michigan
Wisconsin
C. D
Caring for Strikers Children Move to New York Homes
Lawrence strike leaders P. P. Cosgrove and Ime Kaplan arrived at South Station with the first group of strikers' children bound for New York. The children will be placed in homes in New York and other New England cities to keep them from the ongoing textile dispute until the strike ends.
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P. P. Cosgrove
Ime Kaplan
Lawrence
South Station
New York
Cosgrove
New England
Washington relaxes radio restrictions for amateur and education stations
Acting Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt announced that starting April 15 all restrictions will be removed from non commercial radio receiving stations. The order covers amateur, school and college, manufacturers of radio gear, and jewelers receiving time signals. Transmission restrictions remain in effect for all types of stations.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Argentine Senate Rejects Pact With Britain France Italy
Washington reports the Argentine Senate voted 13 to 5 against the convention with Great Britain France and Italy. The pact would have allowed credits to those countries to buy Argentine products, but opponents argued it would harm the agrarian population.
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Washington
Great Britain
France
Italy
State Department
War Nearly Wiped Out Family
London recalling a veteran T. W. Smith tells how his family suffered in the war. His father and four brothers died in one day on the Somme while his mother and three sisters were killed by German bombs. Smith enlisted at thirteen and served throughout the war.
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London
T. W. Smith
Smith
Somme
Alien Restrictions Lifted for 112 Brooklyn Parolees
New York date April 12 a notice announces that 112 alien enemies in Brooklyn are relieved from all restrictions of parole effective tomorrow. Bonds are canceled and obligations terminated, following orders from the Department of Justice in Washington.
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New York
Brooklyn
Department of Justice
Washington
Reign of Terror In Hungary Reported From Berlin
An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Berlin reports Hungary has begun a reign of terror. Five hundred refugees in Berlin describe alleged abuses, including feared actions by authorities. The brief item cites refugee testimony as it notes conditions in Hungary.
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Hungary
London
Berlin
American front gains and Civil War losses comparison
Washington reports General P C March says western front peaked at 162 kilometres in October, later reduced to 134 kilometres by armistice. Argonne losses 18.3 percent, Civil War battles like Chickamauga 82 percent, Shiloh 24 percent, Murfreesboro 23 percent. Demobilization 1.6 million men, overseas departures over 605 thousand. Army strength about 1.98 million, overseas 1.33 million. Health of overseas troops described as strikingly good with hospital admissions under 12 thousand in the latest week.
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Washington
United States
P. C. March
Dettysburg
Chicamauga
Shiloh
Murfreesboro
Burglar Breaks Into Tucker Garage and Office
Burglars entered the Tucker Garage last night affecting an entry through a rear window. They forced open the office door and pried apart two cash registers, taking less than five dollars in pennies nickels and dimes. The F. B. Fountain Co greenhouse was also entered and ransacked without further losses.
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Tucker
F. B. Fountain Co
Admiral Caperton Relieved and to Write War Account
Rear Admiral William B. Caperton, commander of the Pacific fleet, will be relieved from active duty on April 30 and retire June 30 to prepare a detailed account of his war work for the Navy Department archives. Acting Secretary Roosevelt praised his role in clearing South Atlantic waters of raiders and in strengthening U S relations with South American nations. Caperton is a Tennessee native. Americanization in Army Hospitals highlights new citizens from courses teaching illiterates, U S history, government, and physics. In New Haven hospital, 28 men were accepted for citizenship.
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Washington
William B. Caperton
Pacific
Navy Department
Navy
Roosevelt
Admiral Caperton
South Atlantic
United States
Dmiral Caperton
Tennessee
Government Troops Occupy Danzig Station
German government troops have occupied Danzig and taken over the railway station, according to advices from Berlin dated April 17. The report notes troop movements in Amsterdam as part of the broader action.
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Danzig
Amsterdam
Danae
Athe
Borlin
Only Instance Of Its Kind In Hist Washington News Item
Washington reports a singular World War I anomaly as the 339th infantry, drawn from Michigan and Wisconsin, is described as a company of soldiers refusing to fight inspired by Bolshevik ideas. General March notes officers’ prompts echoed Bolshevik rhetoric, while Army officials seek copies of the dispatch and a full inquiry into the incident. Parallels are drawn to Archangel and Murmansk movements as units move to or from the area.
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Washington
Archangel
Socn
Michigan
Wisco
C. March
Murmansk
March
President Greets World Figures During Paris Visit
President meets representatives of society in Paris during his peace labor. On Friday he dined with the king and queen of Romania and hosted distinguished statesmen, an astronomer, and a bishop. The visit included a delegation of peasants appealing through an interpreter on behalf of Czecho.
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Paris
Romania
Presi Son
Impeachment Move Targets Iowa Governor Harding
Des Moines officials L. Harding and Attorney M. Havyner face impeachment by Iowa’s legislature after a 17 to 14 committee vote recommending removal. The case includes charges of gubernatorial pardon influence and alleged political interference linked to a farmer, Liam Rathbun, and his convicted son sentenced to life imprisonment.
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Iowa
Des Moines
Towa
L. Harding
M. Havyner
Committee of the
Iun
Harding
Liam Rathbun
Bun
Lead surplus stocks to be sold by Washington says official
Washington reports surplus stocks of lead held by the department with about 7 000 tons in possession. The sale is described as a small national surplus not affecting market prices, with open market prices cited and discussions of curve effects across communities.
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Washington
Bio Department
Ohio Stance on Nations and April Tour Says Breeze Will Carry
Senator Por returns from Ohio and comments on Washington and the League of Nations. He notes one fourth of Ohio’s people support withdrawal while other senators who signed back the policy will find it easy to concede. He predicts the measure will pass with ease as the breeze shifts opinion.
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Ohio
Washington
League of Nations
Por
Robin
Burglary Report At Norwalk Saloon In April
Burglars entered Mrs Kiska's saloon at Norwalk on April 12 and took $102, a suit, and a package of clothing. All bottled goods were spilled and cigars soaked. loss estimated at $250.
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Norwalk
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