Redfield Quits Commerce Post After Cabinet Rift
William C. Redfield resigns as secretary of commerce effective November 1 after confirming personal business aims. He cites eight years in Washington and denies that the move stems from quarrel with Hines over steel pricing, noting the board on steel prices was dissolved. He is the sixth cabinet departure in Wilson's six years.
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Washington
William C. Redfield
Commerce
Wilson
Redfield
Hines
Reidfield
Rrector General
Europe
Paris
Mr. Hines
Railroad Administration
Mr. Redfield
United States Proposes Four Reservations on League Treaty
The foreign relations committee reported four reservations by Senator Lodge to the league treaty. They aim to keep the United States out of mandating actions, withdraw from the league, and restrict internal affairs and reparations oversight while reaffirming the Monroe doctrine. Debate split Republicans and Democrats. a minority report is expected after further hearings. Italy’s claim to Fiume is also discussed with Laguardia citing Italian heritage and a blue-penciled Tardieu compromise.
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United States
League
Congress
Lodge
Shienessee
Great Britain
France
Italy
Japan
Senate
Ted
Foreign Relations Committee
Fiume
Laguardia
New York
Washington
3000 Troops Guard Mexican Oil Regions
General Francisco Burguia leads 20000 federal troops to Tamaulipas Coahuila and Vera Cruz to preserve order around Mexico's principal oil fields as 3000 military police operate in the same areas, according to the Mexican consul in Galveston.
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Galveston
Tex
Francisco Burguia
Tamaulipas
Coahuila
Vera Cruz
Mexico
Mende Fierro
Radio Station Believed Aflame Near Camperdown
Radio operators near Camperdown Halifax N Sable Island station reported on fire last night and fear it has been destroyed. Officials at Camperdown tried to establish contact but could not reach Sable Island station.
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Halifax
N. 8
Camperdown
Sable Island
Betrayer Georges Ton Quien Sentenced to Death
Paris reports Georges Ton Quien was convicted by a court martial of betraying Edith Cavell and was condemned to death. The case draws international attention as the Allied trial prosecutes the alleged betrayer.
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Paris
Georges Geston Quien
Edith Cavell
Sherman Flays President For His Assertion
Illinois Senator Sherman condemns President Wilson's claim that the international labor conference under the unratified peace treaty would meet in the United States next month. He accuses the president of contempt for law and warned of assembling foreign representatives on American soil without Senate ratification.
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Washington
Wilson
West
Middle West
Hiram Johnson
California
Johnson
Borah
Idaho
Senate
Columbus
International Labor Conference
Sherman
Illinois
United States
Yoerte
Andegun
Poles Hold 1400 Soldiers From Poland Delays Horse Shipment
Fourteen hundred Polish troops, sent to transport 6900 horses and mules from the United States to Poland, are held near Coblenz as Germany refuses to supervise rail transport. The Rhine frontier area is clarified, with American forces extending on the west bank and preparing for relief by the Eighth Division.
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Coblenz
Associated Press
Poland
United States Army
Germany
Eighth Division
United States Expeditionary Forces
Rhine
Cochem
Moselle
Mayen
Andermach
Ehrenbreitstein
Nueved
Montabaur
Foch
Vesteriag
Pershing
Terms Given Austria Kill Any Hope Hapsburgs Have Returning
Paris reports the peace conference will reconvene next Monday while Austrian terms shock Vienna. Bulgaria likely to get Dobruja back and Thrace to a commission. Monarchist and Romanians lean toward a Hungarian monarchial restoration amid Hungary elections.
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Austria
Hapsburgs
Paris
Thrace
Bulgaria
Aegean Sea
Dobrudja
Vienna
Associated Press
Hungary
Europe
House of Hapsburg
Italy says Fiume incident a severe blow from Allies
The Rome paper says the inter allied commission's Fiume inquiry conclusions are enormous and hard to believe from governments allied in arms with Italy. Earlier clashes in Fiume involved Italian and French troops over flags torn from Italians. Paris reports the commission recommends public order in Fiume by an American and British police force with marines forming the American contingent.
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Rome
Inter-Allied Commission
Fiume
Giornale d'Italia
Italy
Brotherhood of Arms
Paris
German Austria Union Sparks Allied Objection
Berlin reports that Germany sought to allow Austria representation in the German reichsrat via article 61, claiming no violent intent but acknowledging a spontaneous German Austrian union. The Allied peace council demanded the article be suppressed within two weeks, warning of possible further Rhine occupation if not.
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Berlin
Basle
Austria
Reichsrath
Germany
Rhine
Baron von Luraner Leaves Paris for Berlin Mission
Paris reports Baron Kurt von Luraner the German peace mission chief departed for Berlin last night for a brief stay before returning to continue talks.
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Paris
Harvas
Baron Kurt von Luraner
Berlin
Wilson stirs crowd as he defends treaty aims abroad
St Louis, Sept. 5. President Wilson addressed a chamber of commerce luncheon praising the league of nations as a path to peace and a new world system. He warned against isolation, urged support for Article 10 and reparations work, and linked economic unity with avoiding war.
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St. Louis
Chamber of Commerce
Wilson
Frederick W. Gardner
Missouri
Henry W. Kiel
Mra. Wilson
Kiel
Ste
Washington
Shantung
United States
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
League of Nations
League
McCumber Proposes Mild Reservation to League Article 10
Senator McCumber of North Dakota announced and discussed in the senate a reservation to article 10 of the league of nations. The plan favors lighter restrictions than those approved by the foreign relations committee, aiming to define congressional limits on territorial guarantees.
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Washington
McCumber
North Dakota
Senate
League of Nations
Foreign Relations Committee
Congress
Belgium restricts coal exports to shield industries
Antwerp reports that Belgium will not export coal from now on. Minister M. Jasper announced the prohibition to safeguard Belgian industries in effect today, September 4.
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Antwerp
M. Jasper
Belgium
Reopened German Nitrate Mines in Chile Postwar
Santiago Chile Sept 5 Work has recommenced on German nitrate properties tied up during the war. It is said that already 200000 tons of nitrates have been sold.
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Santiago
Chile
French Road Wreck Kills Thirteen Near Toulouse
Thirteen people died and forty were injured when two trains collided near Toulouse this morning. The accident occurred on the French road near the city, with emergency crews rushing to the scene.
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Paris
Toulouse
Members Broke and Convention Socialists Ends
A fragmented text notes a 20 year sentence and calls for labor control. mentions Berger and standpat factions within socialist circles. Limited readable details leave the exact event unclear.
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Berger
Nationalist party moves to control unions and form craft groups
Sept 6 delegates vote to keep the nationalist party aligned with organized labor aiming to seize control of trades unions. Moves include creating craft groups to convert labor, amending the constitution to elect the national executive committee by annual convention, and reducing the committee size from 15 to 7. Also a citizenship requirement for membership. Delegates from radical conventions announce they are broke and may borrow to leave the city.
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Nationalialist Party
Louis
Wthden
Lnst
Communist Labor Party of America
Mexico
Communist Party
New York
Massachusetts
Army Lieutenants Missing After Flight Over Lower California
Searchers seek Lieutenants F. B. Waterhouse and H. Connell who disappeared August 20 while flying. Radio reports say they were last seen over San Juan de Dios, a Lower California settlement about 60 miles southeast of San Quentin and 162 miles down the coast from San Diego.
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San Diego
Cal
F. B. Waterhouse
H. Connelly
Rockwell
San Juan de Dios
California
San Quentin
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