Analysis of Pact Articles Seemed Endorsed by Senate
Paris April 28 delegates debated the League of Nations plan as the world’s supreme weapon for preventing wars. Japan disputed Article 21 defending the Monroe Doctrine, Italy absent for Fiume talks, Wilson urged while stressing the League as a mutual agreement among sovereign states.
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Paris
Peace Conference
Japa
United States
Italy
Rome
Fiume
League of Nations
League
Willia
Wilson
Society of Is
Ign
Embry
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Samuel Gompers Hurt In Accident
New York April 28 A marked improvement was shown today in the condition of Samuel Gompers president of the American Federation of Labor who was injured in a collision between a taxi and a street car yesterday A second examination showed only one rib fractured and no internal injuries The physician said recovery would be gradual fractured hip strained He is 69 and in poor health for some time Telegrams of sympathy poured in from across the nation Secretary Guy Oyster said Gompers slept well and his pulse and temperature were normal Mrs Gompers who is ill in Washington has been notified while Gompers asked news be kept from her
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Gompers
United States
Guy Oyster
Washington
Violence at Lawrence as textile strike flares again
Lawrence Massachusetts April 28 violent morning as two police officers are struck by stones in the Elm and Jackson street tenement district during the 13th week of the textile strike. Patrolman Mahoney suffers a shoulder wound and hand cut while Mounted Officer Lynch is struck on the forehead with a brick. Shots are fired, police return fire, reinforcements rush in, three arrests made, pickets dispersed, and many strikers return to work.
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Lawrence
Mass
Elm
Jackson Streets
John Mahoney
John Lynch
Lowell
Monroe Doctrine role in League of Nations debate
The document notes that the Monroe Doctrine adds no extra power and cannot limit the League of Nations. It discusses Articles 22 to 26 covering peace activities, colonies, amendments, and the expanded secretariat, with Wilson seeking broad American endorsement and opposing annexations at the expense of small nations.
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League of Nations
League
Wilson
America
Representail Powers
Fenwick Fish Case Ahead in Superior Court this Week
Judge Joel H. Reed will close the April session with two trials on the docket. About 30 cases were carried over to fall as the term’s rush persisted. The Ingham versus Brooks estate fishing rights suit, pending since 1914, leads the week, followed by the Gale Newberry versus Newberry divorce alleging intolerable cruelty with $30,000 alimony sought. State's Attorney Ernest A. Inglis represents Ingham. Lewis Sperry for Brooks. William J. Coughlin for Gale Newberry. Gustaf B. Carlson for Newberry.
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Joel H. Reed
George C. Ingham
Jarvis Brooks
Fenwick
Ingham
Brooks
Long Island Sound
Ernest A. Inglis
Lewis Sperry
Lola Whitman
Gale Newberry
John M. Newberry
William J. Coughlin
Gustaf B. Carlson
Mustering Out "YD" at Camp Devens Mass April 28
At Camp Devens on April 28 Yankee division soldiers from all sections cheer as they start leaving the service. The 104th Infantry receives final pay while lines form to the finance office and transport departs to Ayer depot. Major General McCain oversees orderly demobilization as 8,600 are counted likely to rise before sundown.
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Devens
Mass
Reveille
104Th Infantry
Knights of Columbus
Ayer
McCain
Lost Battalion Home Arrives As 7,042 Troops Land
The Lost Battalion from the 308th Infantry, battered by five days in the Argonne forest and refusing to surrender, returned to New York aboard the transport America. The vessel carried 7,042 troops including 660 sick and wounded, with units from the 808th and 807th Infantry, and headquarters, plus the 807th machine gun and supply companies. The Lorraine followed with 854 casuals onboard.
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New York
308Th Infantry
Argonne Forest
America
154Th Infantry
Penne
807Th
Death of Rev Wil iam T Swinnerton at Stamford
Reverend Wil iam T. Swinnerton, born June 7, 1849 in Nun eaton England, and native of Stamford, died today from cerebral hemorrhage. He came to the United States at age 21, studied at Andover Seminary, and served Congregational churches on Cape Cod and in Vermont. He leaves a widow Miss Almira of Waterville Vermont and two children.
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W. T. Swinnerton
Stamford
Wiliam T. Swinnerton
Nuneaton
England
Andover Seminary
Cape Cod Atville
Cambridge
Piainfieldy Vt
North
Almira
Ieee
Page resigns rumor ties to Fiume crisis in Italy
Daily dispatches report Thomas Nelson Page may have resigned as American ambassador to Italy before the Fiume crisis in the peace talks. The State Department denied any knowledge of a resignation, noting Page was en route to London or Paris, with officials saying only Paris knew his movements.
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London
Thomas Nelson Page
Italy
Fiume
Washington
State Department
Department
Polk
Paris
Noted Spiritualist Dead in Boston
Mrs May S Pepper Vanderbilt a prominent spiritualist medium dies in a Boston hospital. Previously pastor of the First Spiritualists Church of Brooklyn and bishop of its spiritualistic sect she married B Ward Vanderbilt in 1907. A 1907 annulment suit by Vanderbilt daughter Minerva cited incapacity and alleged influence by letters from the medium's spirit control Little Bright Eyes.
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Boston
May S. Pepper Vanderbilt
B. Ward Vanderbilt
New York
Brooklyn
M. Vanderbilt
Minerva Vanderbilt
Connecticut utility panel dismisses appeal on Hope Street rails
The Public Utilities Commission of Connecticut dismissed an appeal by Connecticut company challenging Stamford selectmen's order to relocate rails on Hope Street. It held the track relocation a public improvement and ruled the company's poor financial condition does not justify delaying the project while cars operate over Hope Street.
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Stamford
Public Utilities Commission of Connecticut
Connecticut Company
Selectmen of
Hope Street
James K. Lynch Dead in San Francisco
James K. Lynch head of the San Francisco Federal Reserve bank died in the city today. In New York thousands of loan workers were urged to increase efforts as the Second Federal Reserve district shows only 196 766 650 in daily subscriptions. In Budapest a martial law dispatch reports heavy Rumanian army advances with four towns occupied and threats against bourgeois hostages.
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San Francisco
James K. Lynch
San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank
New York
Federal Reserve
Budapest
Amst
Vienna
Nyirbathor
Gyula
Vagar
Fire at Stamford Military Academy Damages Little
Stamford Military Academy students formed a bucket brigade as a defect caused a fire today. The boys fought the flames until firemen arrived. Damage was small.
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Stamford Academy
Stamford
Stamford Military Academy
Thought Italian Boy Was Drowned at River Front
A young Italian boy fishing from the steamboat dock vanished Sunday night causing a crowd to form. Rumors of drowning spread until the boy emerged from under the dock perfectly dry, having simply crawled to stay near the water.
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East Court Street
Wesleyan Man Cited For Distinguished Conduct In Action
John S. Piper of Headquarters Company 103rd Infantry received a regimental citation for distinguished conduct in action in the Chemin Des Dames battle on March 10 1918. He was wounded and gased, sent to a base hospital, and later invalided home after discharge in December 1917. Piper marched with his company in the 26th Division parade in Boston last Friday and learned of the honor, having entered Wesleyan in 1919 but spent 18 months in service.
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John S. Piper
103Nd Infantry
Camp Deveus
Mass
Chemin Des Dames
Boston
Camp Devens
Piper
Wesleyan
Believe Aviators To Be Lost In Massachusetts Bay
Chatham April 28 authorities at the naval air station believe Lieutenant John B Buchanan and two comrades are dead after a seaplane forced down in a storm between Plymouth and Provincetown. Coast guardsmen report wing sections and wreckage along the beach and a coastwise steamer may have picked up survivors.
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Boston Bay
Chatham
John 8. Buchanan
Massachusetts Bay
Plymouth
Provincetown
Naval Air Station
Eaton
Pastor Ludwick Yankins Found Dead in Canal Tangle
In Ansonia on April 28 Ludwick Yankins a pastor at American Brass Co. was found in a canal. He had disappeared earlier amid beliefs about tax demands and a clock alarm. He reportedly earned about $4,000 and planned to return to Russia with his wife and two children.
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Ansonia
Ludwick Yankins
American Brass Co., Inc
Russia
Auto Thieves Arrested in Albany Case
New London April 28 local police announced Frank Bek and John M. of Springfield were arrested in Albany North Carolina and confessed to stealing an automobile reported missing here two weeks ago.
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New London
Frank B.ek
Ice Act Lr
John M
Springfi Maxs
Albany
N. C
Three Troopships Sail For Home From France
Washington reports three troop ships sailed from France on April 25 carrying about 6,000 American soldiers. The Wilhelmina and Cape Finistere, from Brest, expect New York arrivals May 5, with 1,724 and 1,052 personnel respectively, including units destined for Camp Custer Camp Dodge Camp Upton and other posts. The Huron, from Bordeaux, aims for New York around May 7 with units for Camp Dix Camp Devens and other camps, under Brigadier General Edwin B. Winans who is aboard the Wilhelmina.
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Washington
France
War Department
Wilhelmina
Cape Finistere
Brest
New York
Bordeaux
Acen
120Th Field Artillery
Campa
57Th Fieldry
324Th
127Th Ith Infantry
Camp Custer
64Th Infantry Brigade
Camp Grant
Camp Dodge
77Th Division
Camp Upton
Edwin B. Winans
Huron
Camp Dix
82Nd Division
307 Mobile
Camp Devens
Fighting 69th Home New York Review Parade
Thousands of New Yorkers cheered the 165th infantry regiment as it marched up Fifth Avenue in review. More than 1,000 Croix de Guerre banner bearers led the unit of the Rainbow division, with a white banner displaying 615 gold stars honoring the regiment’s dead.
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New York
165Th Infantry Regiment
69Th
Fifth Avenue
80th Division To Ship Home From Camp Lee
The War Department announced an early convoy assignment for the 80th Division, formed from New Jersey Maryland Delaware and the District of Columbia with a detachment of the 20th Engineers. The 89th and 88th divisions were released for return to the United States on April 25 and 26.
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Washington
War Department
Camp Lee
New Jersey
Lee Maryland
Delaware
District of Columbia
20Th Engineers
United
Hartford Loan 2-3 Taken In Two Thirds Quota
Hartford officials report two thirds of the loan quota secured with increments around one million dollars. The Soke, or entire amount, stood at 12 million dollars. A Hartford bank subscribed 750 thousand dollars, eight percent of its deposits, as part of the forenoon deposits. A Polish saloon keeper from the East Side deposited 5 thousand dollars in five and ten dollar bills with the Hartford loan committee.
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Hartfo
Hartford
East Side
Hartford Loan Committee
New England's Loan Figure Reported in Boston
Boston April 28 ten million amount appears in a New England financial brief noting loan figures. The short item highlights a large loan and its regional implications.
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New England
Boston
Netherlands to surrender Kaiser for international tribunal
Washington April 2 reports state that plenary peace talks may set up a five judge international tribunal to try the former German emperor for offenses against international law and the sanctity of treaties. The proposed articles call for a tribunal from five powers and seek the Netherlands to surrender the Kaiser for trial.
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Washington
State Department
Therlands
Sion
Belgium
Kaiser
Hohenzollern
G Peror
International
Netherlands
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