LANSING RATIONS OF PACT MISTAKE CLAIMS AT HEARING
William O Bullitt testifies before the senate foreign relations committee that Secretary Lansing opposed ratification of the peace treaty and leagues covenant though a member of the American peace commission. He cites private conversations, including Lansing opposing Shantung to Japan and calling the league thoroughly bad, and says if the public knew the treaty's meaning it would be defeat.
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Associated Press
Wasgton
Lansing
American Peace Commission
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
William O. Bullitt
Philadelphia
Paris
League
Bullett
Lodge
Henry White
General Bliss
American Commission
Bullitt
Shantung
Japan
Senate
Knox
Capitol
State Department
Watertown
N. Y
M. House
House
Russia
Kolchak
Moscow
Malle
Sinn Fein Founder Vows to Carry On After Raids
Dublin report quotes Arthur Griffith, a Sinn Fein founder, saying raids and suppression of the Irish parliament were arranged in Belfast with Ulster Unionists leaders. He asserts Sinn Fein will continue to function as before.
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Associated Press
Dublin
Arthur Griffith
Sinn Fein
Belfast
Ulster Unionists Council
Griffith
Carranza Not Accused Of Attacking Bandits Report
Washington Sept 2 Senate subcommittee heard that Carranza seems to have made little effort to drive Manuel Palaez and his rebel army from Mexican oil fields. Smith former Penn Mexico Oil head and Doheney Mexican Petroleum head provided accounts on the oil situation and their monthly tribute from oil companies.
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Associated Press
Washington
Carranza
Manuel Palaez
Evi Smith
Penn Mexico Oil Company
Senate Foreign Relations
Ch. I. Doheney
Mexican Petroleum Company
Palaez
Progress Report From Omsk Front
Government communique from Omsk reports stubborn fighting near Labourvsk with offensive actions toward Kourgan. Forces occupy Pieloukhove station and push along the railway front capturing many prisoners and a large amount of war material.
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Omsk
Labourvsk
Kourgan
Pieloukhove
Exhume body to find a cause of soldier death
At the request of Amelia Salinas Mexican consul general in New York the body of Private David Treich of Company D 19th Infantry was exhumed at Mount Hebron Cemetery Flushing to determine the cause of death and to aid the trial of Lieutenant Juan Aspeiti of the Mexican army on homicide charges in Chihuahua City.
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Associated Press
New York
Amelia Salinas
David Treich
19Th Infantry
el Paso
Texas
Mount Hebron
Flushing
Juan Aspeiti
Chihuahua City
Furniture houses used for storing food in Chicago
Evidence from Chicago city food bureau inquiry shows foods stored in furniture warehouses and wholesalers buying government canned goods at varying prices and selling at profit. One wholesaler claimed a 33 percent profit while another admitted relabeling government cans as his own brand.
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Associated Press
Chicago
City Food ‘Bureau
Attack on the Big Five Packers Prompts Senate Hearing
Washington Sept 12 Excoronation of the big five packers dominated three hours of debate before the Senate Agricultural Committee. Howard L. Buke of Omaha Neb vice president of the American National Livestock Association urged immediate passage of the Kendrick and Kenyon bills to regulate the packing industry federally.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate Agricultural Committee
Howard L. Buke
Oman
American National Livestock Association
Pvho
Kendrick
Kenyon
Oil tanker limps into port reports loss of another
Tampa, Sept 12. With machinery disabled lifeboats and wireless blown away the oil tanker Ligionier of Gulf Refining limped into port this afternoon and said the steel barge Monongahela with 16 men aboard is believed lost with all hands or adrift somewhere in the gulf.
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Associated Press
Tampa
Fla
Ligionier
Gulf Refining Company
Monongahela
Gulf
Mystery Sunk Then Reappears Four Days Late
The British auxiliary schooner Mystery was reported sunk in the Gulf hurricane but arrived safely four days overdue at Nassau Providence Bahama Islands according to a wireless message received tonight.
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Associated Press
Miami
Fla
Mystery
Nassau
Providence
Bahame Islands
Pershing Returns to Washington Plans Laclede Visit
General John J. Pershing arrived in Washington amid informal cheers from women and girls. Vice President Marshall greeted him and Pershing talked of a planned visit to his boyhood home in Laclede Missouri, saying he wished to forget he was ever anything else but a Missouri boy. The scene contrasted with the earlier celebrations as the parade preparations and AEF affairs continued.
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New York
Philadelphia
John J. Pershing
Washington
Pennsylvania Avenue
France
Marshall
Secretary Baker
Gen. March
Gen. Pershing
Potoman
General Pershing
Republic
War Department
American Expeditionary Force
Laclede
Missouri
St. Mithiel~ Salient
Borah Attacks Wilson and League in Omaha Speech
Senator William E Borah assailed President Wilson and the league of nations in Omaha, denouncing the transfer of Germany's rights in Shantung to Japan and the sending of U S troops to Siberia as violations of the Constitution. He urged wrecking the covenant and warned of 800 million people under the league and 800 million subject peoples under its control.
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Associated Press
Omaha
Neb
William E. Borah
Fie
Wilson
England
Germany
Shantung
Japan
Siberia
United States
Borah
Russia
Ireland
Egypt
Paris
League
Lloyd- George
Peace Council
League of 1 ‘Nations
Police union to quit strike and await White House talks
Frank McCarthy, New England organizer of the AFL, said the policemen's union would return to work and wait for the White House labor conference on October 6 after Samuel Gompers's suggestion. Police Commissioner Curtis, who issued reinstatement orders, said he would not reverse them before the attorney general rules if patrolmen are "employees" with a right to strike or "officers" without that right.
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Associated Press
Boston
Frank McCarthy
New England
American Federation of Labor
Policemen’s Union
Samuel Gompers
White House
Curtis
Scottish Trade Council Calls Big Labor Meeting
Glasgow Sept 12 The trades union congress in session here completed its main business with a resolution to call a special conference of British captains of labor. The purpose is to decide action if the government refuses the congress demand for repeal of the conscription law and withdrawal of British troops from Russia.
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Glasgow
Trades Union Congress
Russia
Prospect of Strike by Maintenance of Way Employees
Detroit, Sept 12 There is little prospect of an immediate strike by about 600000 maintenance of way and shop employees represented in the convention of the United Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way and Railway Shop Laborers. Brotherhood officials declared after a closed session that no immediate strike action is planned.
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Associated Press
Detroit
Mich
United Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way
Supreme Council Delays Meeting Until Next Tuesday
Paris Sept 12 The supreme council did not meet today and it was announced that chief plenipotentiaries of the great powers are unlikely to gather before Tuesday.
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Supreme Council
Paris
Big Two Sets Things in Paris
In Paris on September 12 the Big Two influence dominates Balkan financial decisions amid peace talks. Key figures like George Clemenceau guide policy as tensions shift and negotiations proceed.
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Paris
George ‘Clemenceauts
Balkan
Ropetrrs
Wilson says unanimous league rule safeguards sovereignty
President Wilson argues the League of Nations requires unanimous votes, giving the United States a de facto veto in both council and assembly. He insists Britain cannot dominate decisions, urges acceptance of reservations to the treaty, and warns against political motives toward 1920. He spoke in Spokane and Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, before heading to Tacoma.
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Great Britain
League of Nations’ Assembly
Wilson
Coeur d'Alene
Idaho
United States
Borah
Senate
Coeur d’Alene
League of Nations Assembly
League
America Honors Bound to Peace Treaty Speech in Rathdrum
President Wilson told a Rathdrum crowd that America is bound in honor to ratify the peace treaty after alighting from the Cogur Alene train. It was his third on the trip. He warned that quitting would invite war as he urged support for the treaty.
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Ida
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Alene
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