Peace conference holds back on Budapest pullout
Paris reports the interallied conference refuses to press Romania to withdraw its troops from Budapest promptly. Delegates say Romanian forces may stay to stabilize the capital while Hungary forms a new government. Friedrich rejects monarchist return and defends arrests of Szammely and Lenine's men.
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Paris
Budapest
Supreme Council
Hungary
Roumania
Stephen Friedrich
Szammely
Lenine
Friedrich
Andrew Carnegie Dies After Brief Illness at Shadow Brook
Lenox Mass Aug 12 Andrew Carnegie steel magnate died at his Lenox summer home Shadow Brook at 7 10 am after an illness of less than three days bronchial pneumonia His death came swiftly as his daughter Mrs Roswell Miller could not reach his bedside His wife and private secretary were with him at the end He leaves his widow Miss Louise Whitefield and daughter Margaret who married En sign Roswell Miller in April 1914 Born in Scotland 1835 he rose from weaving to railways and steel barons He introduced the Bessemer process to America in 1868 transforming the industry and forging his vast fortune He gave away hundreds millions funding libraries colleges and peace efforts and built major philanthropic institutions across the world
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Lenox
Mass
Andrew Carnegie
Shadow Brook
Roswell Miller
Mr. Carnegie
Louise Whitefield
New York
Margaret
Ensign Roswell Miller
Scotland
Dunfermline
Fifeshire
America
Pittsburgh
Allegheny
Pennsylvania Railroad
Road
Mr. Woodruff
Woodruff Sleeping Car Company
Carnegie
Keystone Bridge Works
Union Iron Works
Bessemer
Hiis
Ife
Washington
Carnegie Foundation For the Advancement
Carnegie Corporation
International Peace Fund
The
Hague
Bureau of American Republics
Allied Engineers Societies
Army Demobilization Expected In Coming Weeks
Army officials announce demobilization will occur within a few weeks with completion targeted by October. The plan outlines phased procedures and return of personnel to civilian life once operations wind down.
Shipping improves embargos on perishable freight
The article reports that improved shipping conditions allow C. and N. to cancel an embargo on perishable freight. It notes that demobilization of U S army combatant troops will be completed by the end of October, as announced by Secretary of War Baker in Washington.
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Evening Journal
Washington, D. C
United States
Baker
Wilson documents reveal American draft of League covenant
The Washington report outlines how the U S draft differed from the Paris version especially on guaranteed territorial integrity and disarmament plans. It notes no Monroe Doctrine and a proposal to study abolishing compulsory military service while keeping arbitration provisions.
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Washington
Foreign Relations Committee
Wilson
Paris
League
Mobo Uttgs
League of Nations Commission
Bliss
Senate
General Bliss
Biles
Henry White
Shantung
Commission
Japan
Shantung Peninsula
China
President Wilson Denies Knowledge of German Japan Talks
President Wilson informs the Senate he has no memorandum or information regarding any German Japan negotiations aimed at intimidating Chinese peace delegates at Paris. He notes rumors existed but he cannot confirm them and says he knows of no such negotiations.
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Senate
General Bliss
American Peace Commission
Japan
Germany
Wilson
Paris
State Department
Spruce Cost U S $20 More During War, Testimony Says
Charles R. Sligh of Grand Rapids testifies before a house committee that in 1917 the bureau of aircraft production paid an average of $20 per thousand feet above market for spruce lumber used in airplane parts. Sligh cites war emergency as the reason for the premium. he led the spruce department of the aircraft production board during the war.
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Chicago
Bureau of Aircraft Production
House Committee On Aircraft Production
Charles R. Sligh
Grand Rapids
Mich
Army Clothing to Be Sold After Food Disposal
Secretary Baker said surplus army clothing including millions of underwear may be sold immediately after surplus food is disposed of. Sales could be run through municipalities parcel post or both.
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Washington
Baker
Turkish Attempt to Sink Goeben Foiled at Ismid
Constantinople reports say Turkish officers tried to sink the former German cruiser Goeben at Ismid in Asia Minor but British officers prevented the attack.
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Athens
Constantinople
Goeben
Ismid
Asia Minor
Kolchak Forces Crumble as Reds Advance Across Siberia
Washington reports warn the Kolchak movement in Siberia has collapsed as Kolchak forces retreat about 200 miles from key lines. Omsk faces possible evacuation while Bolshevik troops, including many German veterans, press the advance. Officials urge radical outside aid or congressional action to counter the growing Bolshevik grip. Copenhagen dispatches say Premier Lenin contemplates retirement amid wild strikes and executions of 150 strike leaders in Bolshevik territories.
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Washington
Kolchak
Siberia
Tost
Omsk
Russia
Congress
Copenhagen
Lenine
Helsingfors
Law Exempts Home Juices Permits Personal Use Wines
Washington Aug 12 Prohibition enforcement legislation advances in Congress as the senate judiciary committee begins review of the house bill revised by a subcommittee. It keeps the 0.5 percent alcohol definition, exempts private storage and personal use of intoxicants, and permits home made wines and fruit juices for household use. The measure narrows search warrants to standard federal practice and drops a prohibition on intoxication on public conveyances.
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Washington
Congress
Senate Judiciary Committee
House
Sterling
South Dakota
Fall of
New Mexico
Norris
Nebraska
Overman
North Carolina
Walsh
Montana
King
Utah
Prohibition Proviso Allows Beer Like Liquor Under Denatured Rule
The text notes that alcohol rules do not extend to decolized wine or to liquor produced by beer making processes if the liquor contains no more than half a percent alcohol and is denatured in a manner not identical to beer. It rejects dry advocates who seek to ban beverages that appear intoxicants.
Brooklyn Car Tieup Ends After Four Day Strike Settlement
New York August 12 subway service returned to normal on all Brooklyn Rapid Transit lines after a four day strike. Union officials planned to organize traction line workers in Manhattan and the Bronx to press for higher wages and better conditions.
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New York
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
Back & Normal
Manhattan
Bronx
Foreign Nations Watch Food Battle
Paris officials express interest in U S price fixing debate as France supports wheat at 3.25 per bushel and subsidizes mills to keep bread at about 6 cents a pound while consumer costs of other foods remain high.
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Paris
French Food Ministry
United States
France
Chicago and Northwestern resumes Iowa traffic after embargo
The Chicago and Northwestern Road lifts its embargo on perishable height for all Iowa points. Declared earlier due to labor conditions, shop conditions have improved and regular traffic is resumed.
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Kevening Journal
Chicago
Chicago and Northwestern Road
Iowa
Price Stabilization Plan Endangers Treasury Costs
Officials argued that using treasury funds to cap bread at six cents per pound would cost the United States government about 6 billion dollars annually. They warned that binding price controls by law is unworkable and that stable food prices require agreement among producers, consumers, and the government.
German Shipping Losses Surveyed By Tages-Zeitung
Berlin reports that Germany’s wartime shipping losses amount to over 4,000,000 gross register tons. From 1913 to the war’s date the fleet fell from 4,580 ships totaling 4,935,900 tons to 3,755 ships with 724,944 tons, leaving insufficient tonnage for Baltic trade and cargo space.
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New Germany
Two Shot In Bed In Illinois Motel Murder Probe
Denville Illinois August 12 police arrested Mrs Whisman and Mrs Bolg after the mysterious killings of Walter Whisman hotel clerk and Charles Holtz at the Holtz home. Wives claim burglars fired. police say shots came from Holtz revolver as the men slept. Whisman, nephew of Holtz, lived at the Holtz home.
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Denville
Ill
Walter Whisman
Charles Holtz
Holtz
Carnegie gifts reach three hundred fifty million dollars
A Carnegie Endowment report shows Andrew Carnegie had given away 350,695,658 dollars by June 1, 1918. News from Kingston Panama reports a race riot there suppressed with West Indian troops and machine guns after authorities acted.
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Washington
Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie Endowment For International Peace
Kingston
Panama
Jamalcn
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A. Carnegie
Lenox, Mass
Spruce
U. S
Brooklyn
Forsorder
Teuton
Berlin
Tages-Zeitung
Danville
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