D Annunzio Threatens Destruction Over Fiume Crisis
D Annunzio declares he will detonate a bomb at his headquarters and blow up the city rather than yield to enemy demands. Trieste reports his forces attacking outposts near Fiume as Italian premier Giolitti faces ratification of the Rapallo treaty and possible military action.
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Fiume
Laly
Jugo- Slavia
D'Annunzio
London
Giolitti
Italy
Chamber of Deputies
Gabriele D'Annunzio
Rome
Times
Jugo-Slavia
Chamber
Senate
Goodrich Sells Lake Line To Thorp Associates
Chicago December reports Albert W. Goodrich sells Goodrich Transit Company the largest Lake Michigan passenger and freight steamer line to H. W. Thorp and associates. Goodrich to receive over 1 million cash for stock in deal described as the Great Lakes’ largest passenger line sale. Company owns six of the lake’s largest steamships.
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Chicago
Goodrich Transit Company
Lake Michigan
Albert W. Goodrich
H. W. Thorp and
W. J. Thorp
Goodrich
Great Lakes
Indict Woman ex-day chief in California probe
Mrs G K Warburton former prohibition officer for California and John T D Cos tello secretary to U S Senator Phelan along with five others were brought before a United States commissioner on charges of conspiracy to violate the end prohibition enforcement laws.
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San Francisco
G, Kk
Warburton
California
John TD. Costello
United States
Senavor Phelan
Claretag
Date Set for Plea Hearing on December 4
The ball was set at S100 each and December 4 was designated as the date on which they will plead in the upcoming court appearance.
Row Over Kaiser's Holdings Sparks Assembly Disorder
Disorder broke out in the Prussian assembly after a debate on a motion by the majority socialists to transfer property owned by the Hohen Vollern family to the Prussian state and provide an income to former ruling house members. The vice president suspended the session due to the disruption.
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Berlin
Hohenvollern
Jury Deadlocks on Murder Charge in Venice Case
A jury of ten men and two women reported a disagreement after hearing the murder case of Mrs Maybelle Roe charged with killing Metuntl Graydon at Venice. The panel stood eight to four in favor of disagreement after initial deliberations.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Maybelle Roe
Mettullough Graydon
Venice
Morris Sees New U S Plan as Fresh Deal
Chicago December 2 Edward Morris president of Morris Co packers says the Palmar plan requiring packers to divest their stock yards interests is a new accord with the government decree and a novel approach in the U S plan discussion.
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New Deal
Chicago Packer
Chicago
Palmer
Edward Morris
Morris & Co, Packers
Fire Sweeps Alabama Town
Reports from Jasper Alabama indicate an entire block is burned and fire has jumped to a second block. Communication with the town was cut off soon after the blaze began, and the fire is progressing unchecked through the heart of the town.
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Jasper
Birmingham
Ala
Roumanian Railways Leased to British Syndicate
Vienna reports negotiations completed for leasing the Roumanian state railways to a British syndicate for twenty five years under terms arranged in Bucharest dispatches.
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Vienna
Bucharest
Women Cast Votes in British Columbia General Election
Vancouver December 2 1928 Canadian women voted for the first time in the province as ballots were cast in the general legislative election across British Columbia. Women participated in the polls on Wednesday marking a historic milestone in the province.
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Vancouver
B. C
British Columbia
Immigrants surge for U.S. entry amid Europe wide rush
New York reporters cite 15 million people from all European nationalities seeking passage to the United States. Frederick Wallis of Ellis Island notes 2,000 people crowded there and 87 percent of arrivals pass through the island. He warns of limited room and a vast Polish passport demand with 311,000 applications observed by the Polish foreign office.
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New York
Europe
United States
Transatlantic Steamship Company
Frederick A.wallis
Ellis Island
Wallis
Washington
House
Senate
Flis Island
Foreign Office
Poland
End Strife in Ireland Seeks Details of Massacre
Dublin dispatch notes a labor inquiry panel arriving to push for peace in Ireland. They urge dialogue among Irish labor, Catholic hierarchy, and peace advocates, while awaiting invitation to full conference. Sixteen cadets are accounted for after a Kilmichael ambush. Eight bystandings are reported to have been wounded.
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Dublin
Ireland
Labor Commission of Inquiry
Labor Party
Great Britain
Irish Labor Party
Catholic Hierarchy
Laborcommission Plan
British Labor Party
Kilmichael
County Cork
Cork
England
Macesacre
Recruits Ambushed by Fleeing Band in Military Route
A lone survivor among recruits near Nebt reports a fatal ambush by a armed group in khaki and fun hats. The wounded man, near death, says the attackers mistook them for soldiers and opened fire. Officials say the attackers suffered no casualties, while mine or trap theories explain the ambush.
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Nebt
Pa Senate Opens Sober Eleventh Annual Conference
Harrisburg reports describe a gathering where representatives from the Great Lakes, New England, and the Pacific slope, alongside southern delegates and governors-elect, assembled in the Pennsylvania Senate for the opening of their eleventh annual conference.
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Harrisburg
Babe
New England
Great Lakes
Pennsylvania
Senate
General Obregon sworn into office in historic ceremony
General Obregon is proclaimed president during a midnight inauguration in the capital. Well wishers from Arizona New Mexico and California traveled by special trains to witness the event. Mexican dignitaries pledged cooperation with American capital and support for expanding a through line from Kansas City to Chihuahua City.
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Paso
Tex
Mexico
Arizona
New Mexico
California
General Obregon
Chambers of Commerce
Telegras
Kansas City
Kansas City, Mexican and Orient Railroad
Texas
Chihuahua City
Austria Voted to Join League of Nations
Geneva reports Austria was unanimously approved for admission to the League of Nations by the commission for new states. Bulgaria’s admission application appeared likely. A letter accepting Wilson's mediation offer in Armenia was drafted and read, thrilling the council and assembly as they consider the mediation method and possible concessions to Kemal.
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Geneva
Armenian Commission
The
League of Nations Assembly
Leonard Wood
United States
Mustapha Kemal
Switzerland
Austria
League of Nations
Commission For
Assembly of the League
Bulgaria
Wilson
Armenia
Council of the League
Council
Europe
Assembly
A. J. Balfour
League of Nations invites US to join arms council
The council of the League unanimously approved inviting the United States to appoint a representative to sit on the military commission. The aim is to facilitate general talks on reducing armaments with the US in a consultative capacity. A note of the invitation was sent to Washington after the session.
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U. S
Council of the League
Military Commission
United States
Washington
Blaze at Union Asbestos plant linked to arson claims
Chicago reports identify a firebug who allegedly forced a watchman to stay silent as a $200000 blaze destroyed the Union Asbestos and Rubber plant on Loomis street and damaged the nearby Munns Kalsemine Works. Fred Karatzke was questioned after a claimed steering pay remark, with Carl Mozier examined by investigators.
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Chicago
Willam McCauley
Union Asbestos and Rubber Company
Loomis Street
EB. A. Munns Kalsemine Company
Fred Karatzke
Lyman Avenue
Karatzke
Carl Mozier
Asbestos
Census reports East St. Louis population totals
The census bureau announced East St. Louis Illinois had 7,433 Negro residents, up 1,551, while the white population reached 59,306, up 6,660 or 12.7 percent.
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East St. Louis
Washington
Til
Peru Promulgates Law For Embassy Building Purchase
Lima officials announced the government has promulgated the recently adopted law authorizing the purchase of a building to present to the American embassy in Lima. The move follows approval and aims to house diplomatic offices.
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Lima
Peru
Missouri Farmer Gored to Death
St. Joseph Mo Dec 2 A M Meadowfield a retired farmer was gored to death by a bull Edgerton Mo reading from a fragmentary dispatch indicates a fatal ranching accident near Edgerton with Meadowfield as the deceased in a goring incident near Missouri outskirts.
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Missouri
St. Joseph, Mo
A. M. Meadowfield
Edgerton, Mo
Turks Take Great Dislike to Yanks
A dispatch from Constantinople reports rising Turkish nationalist hostility to American relief work. They deny permission to operate and forbid flying the American flag from facilities and vehicles. Food for Armenian orphans is seized, and refugees face harsh conditions including bombardment and dire shortages in Hadjin.
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Constantinople
Henry Riggs
Kharpuat
Mr. Riggs
Mustapha Kemal
Hadjin
Asia Minor
Adana
Italy Slights War, Say Military Chiefs Regard It Lightly
Military leaders warn that Italy treats war with undue casualness. Reports quote officials stressing seriousness, discipline, and strategic consequences amid broader tensions.
Mutiny Scene Spurs Allied Naval Move as Railway Robbery Reported
Special report from Trieste notes British and U S ships rushing to the area after an apparent mutiny while a second train is robbed. The declaration of wartime status with Italy by Captain D Annunzio is not treated as grave by local military leaders. Cannons and rifle fire echo along the Gulf of Quarnero amid rising tensions in Fiume.
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Trieste
Italy
D'Annunzio
Fiume
Gulf of Quarnero
Ships to the Rescue Higgins gunboats aid Shanghai amid mutiny looting
American and British gunboats rush to Shanghai as mutinous Chinese troops loot and burn sections of the city during the ongoing crisis.
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Evening Journal
Shanghai
China
Train Robbery Strikes Mail Car in Route to Cincinnati
A northbound mail train from Chattanooga to Cincinnati was robbed today by four bandits who rifled a mail car. The incident also involved a robbery at the Oneida post office.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Cincinnati
Oneida
Big Judgment for W S Hart in Ince Case.
Wilt and S Start, film actor, won $87,779.73 against producer Thomas H Ince in Los Angeles. Hart claimed profits from a June 1917 contract could accrue to about $750,000, with Hart to receive $1,000 weekly salary and a $4,000 weekly guarantee plus profits and bonuses on a series of westerns.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Wilt
S. Start
Thomas H. Ince
Work
Superior Court
Hart
Sait
Ince
German Opera for Gotham Opens in New York
Mrs Oscar Hammerstein announces a Christmas matinee season of grand and light German opera at the Manhattan opera house. It marks the first German sung opera in the United States since entry into the war. An earlier Lexington Avenue effort was abandoned after a demonstration by former servicemen.
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New York
Manhattan Opera House
Oscar Hammerstein
United States
Lexington Avenue Opera House
New War On the Soviets Planned by Central Powers
Paris reports a major offensive planned by Poland Hungary and Roumania against Russia in mid March. Kerensky's plans gauge an army of 690000 with 250000 Poles Hungarians and 200000 Romanians and Wrangelists to be mobilized backed by a distant power.
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Poland
Hungary
Roumania
Kerensky
Paris
Hunga
Ensky
Russia
Itx
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Narenta
LD Annunzio
Arditi
Pola
Vinme
Vegta
Ade Gunsin
Lae
Cavagna
D’annunzian
Tis
Annunzio
LAKE
H. W. Thorp and Associates
Kaiser’s
Morris
U. S. Plan
Alabama
British Lease Roads
Detachment of Cadets
Governors
Commission On New States
Republic
WOOD
Armenia Arm
Assembly—Council
Turkey
Serres
Robert Cecil
W. S. Hart
Gotham
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