Wilson Pact Attitude Is Changed On League
Secretary of State Colby announces President Wilson will accept reservations to clarify the League covenant but not nullify negate or stultify it. Colby says the convention in San Francisco will discuss Versailles treaty and League matters in a serious temper with Colby likely to speak for the president.
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Washington
Wilson
League of Nations
Colby
White House
San Francisco
Olby
State Department
Twentieth Century Limited
New York
League
America
Mr. Colby
Officials Appeal to the President Over Railroad Strikes
Washington June 22 Officials from railroad brotherhoods and government urged President Wilson to act to avert a major tie-up as outlaw strikes spread. Leaders of the movement are suspected to include communists and I W W members planning a Chicago convention to form a single union. Director General Payne backed the officials in seeking order and resumed traffic.
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Woashington
Wilson
Department of Justice
Chicago
Raiilroan Brotherhoods
John Barton Payne
Mr. Doak
Brotherhood of
Brotherhood
Payne
Doak
Presidency terms debated amid policy clarifications
The president seeks definitions for words like stultifying negative nullifying and clarifying. The secretary of state will maintain tight control of the state department during his absence and stay in touch with the administration and the nearby executive mansion at all hours after arriving in San Francisco.
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Secretary of State
State Department
Tonch
Executive Mansion
San Francisco
Chicago Riot Suspects Named in Abyssinian Shooting
Two Black witnesses identify G. Redding, Abyssinians organizer, as the shooter in the Fast Thirty-fifth Street affray that killed Navy Quartermaster Robert L. Rose and cigar clerk Joseph Hoyt. Joseph Ferno, labeled the Great Abyssinian, is named as the man who shot and likely fatally wounded Policeman Joseph T. Cowen.
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Chicago
Fast Thirty-fifth Street
G. Redding
Robert L. Rose
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Joseph Hoyt
Joseph Ferno
Joseph T. Cowen
Democrats Plan Night Meet At National Convention
San Francisco June 22 The Democratic National Committee chairman Homer Cummings announced a night session may follow the first session of the Democratic national convention opening here next Monday. There was a possibility of abandoning the two thirds rule for nominating a candidate and of the unit rule, an ancient custom that could be overturned only by a specific affirmative vote. The unit rule depends on instructions given each state delegation.
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San Francisco
Cal
Homer Cummings
Bolsheviks Claim Major Polish Push Across Dnieper Front
London dispatch reports Bolsheviks say they have hurled Polish forces across the Dnieper east of Rezhitse and are driving them back toward Kore, while Kiev’s fate and Ukraine policy spark debate. Polish commander Rydz-Smigly fortifies west of the Dniester as raids continue and allied shipping bottlenecks affect Baltic routes.
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Gerao
Gerzoy
Supreme Council
Kiev
Badenny
Radamiyt
Rydz Smighy
Dniester
Ukrainian Republic
Pilsudski
Poland
Vetiura
Petiura
London
Toe
Dnieper River
Rezhitse
Kore
Bolshevik Forces Advance Near Dniester Front
Reported bolshevik gains along the left bank of the Dniester claim they have broken enemy resistance and push toward Karpeneta Podolsky while a Polish attack southwest of Poltusk is repulsed. The route mentioned runs toward Proskurov and Lenburg as operations unfold in the southeast.
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Ovruteli
Proskurov
Lenburg
Dniester
Karpeneta-Podolsky
Mobilev
Polotsk
Canal Squadron for U S Cruisers For Central America Duty
A special service squadron of cruisers and gun boats will be kept in the Canal Zone and held available for duty in Mexico Central America and adjacent ports. The force is to be organized about October 1 and announced by the State Department. Also notes a railroad workers convention planned in Chicago June 29 and census figures for Chicago Heights, with a population of 19 653.
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Central America
Washington
Canal Zone
Mexico
Pavel
Chicago
Butte Daily Bulletin
Department of Justice
Chicago Heights
Six Die In A Vancouver Apartment Blaze
A fire in a fashionable Vancouver apartment building at midnight killed six residents and injured several others. The blaze started in a kitchen near a private dining room and spread through units housing the Continental and Commercial National Bank officials, Sea man Paper, and Mills Securities on the eleventh floor, causing $10,000 in damage and halting six elevators.
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B.C
Chicago
Continental and Commercial National Bank
South la Salle Street
Seaman Paper Company
Mills Securities Corporation
Civil War Seen In Late Irish Riots In Londonderry
Rioting between nationalists and unionists in Londonderry escalates to civil war conditions. Six killed Saturday night and Sunday, total deaths now thirteen. Unionists mobilize with rifles as fighting rages, docks refuse freight, Sinn Fein HQ fire reported.
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Ireland
Ulster
Londonderry
Rioting in Carlisle and Bridge Streets Flares Violent Clash
Morning shooting of three unionists led to a riot in Carlisle Street and a Sinn Fein stronghold on Bridge Street. Sinn Féiners fired back as a large mob charged the area. Five killed, ten seriously wounded, about 100 injured, and a large store burned amid attempts at incitement.
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Vantage Pointe
Peeace
Sinn Fein
Ten Chicago School Board Members Fined In Court Ruling
Mayor Thompson's officials receive heavy sentences for contempt as ten Chicago School Board members are fined in a decisive legal action. The verdict highlights ongoing governance clashes and accountability issues in city education administration.
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Chicago School Board
Ten Officials Guilty in School Superintendent Contempt Case
Ten members of Mayor Thompson's school board were found guilty of contempt by Judge Scanlan in criminal court. They received jail terms and fines for bars against Dr. Charles Chadsey from the office of school superintendent.
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Evening Journal
Chicago
Thompson
Scanlan
Charles Chadsey
Rescue 80 From Arctic Ice Near Christiania
A wireless message from the icebreaker Sviatogor reports it has found the steamer Solovel in Kara Sea ice and taken aboard all 80 crew. The Solovel, icebound for over three months, faced starvation and depletion of fuel before rescue aided by a British admiralty loan of the Sviatogor.
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Christiania
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Solovel
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Sviatogor
Maryland delegates push light wine and beer plank
Chicago June 22 Maryland delegation to the Democratic national convention passed through en route to San Francisco. Gov Albert C. Ritchie spokesman for Marylanders urged speedy maintenance of the eighteenth amendment, saying light wines and beer should be permitted in the United States.
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Chicago
Maryland
San Francisco
Wilson Will Not Be A Candidate For Third Term
Kansas City dispatch reports Jouett Shouse third assistant secretary of the treasury says President Wilson cannot campaign due to ill health. He cites lack of vigor since 1916 and notes Carter Glass or John W. Davis as strong possible successors. Shouse leads the Kansas delegation to San Francisco.
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Wilson
Jouett Sheuse
United States Treasury
Sheuse
San Francisco
Carter Glass
the Treasury
Shouse
McAdoo
Ace to wed war nurse from New Orleans
New York report states Pier Rugerio Piccio a lieutenant colonel in the royal Italian air force with 32 enemy planes downed obtained a license to wed Miss Loranda Batchelder of New Orleans a former Red Cross nurse. Piccio wears English French Belgian and Italian war decorations.
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New Orleans
New York
Pier Ruguero Piccio
Royal Italian Air Force
Loranda Batchelder
Red Cross
Earthquake Devastates Ingleside. Twenty-One Businesses Destroyed
Los Angeles reports that Ingleside, ten miles from the quake center, suffered severe damage after Monday's tremor. Twenty-one business buildings were destroyed and scores of homes wrecked, with extensive destruction across the town.
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the Evening Journal
Los Angeles
Ingleside
25 000 Jews Die Of Typhus In Kiev Records
Kiev cemetery records show 25 000 Jews died of typhus in six weeks before the Polish occupation. Superintendent Mandeber of Kiev's largest Jewish hospital disclosed this to Col. Henry Shaw of the American army, an investigator for the League of Red Cross Societies examining refugee deaths.
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Warsaw
Kiev
Mandeber
Henry Shaw
League of Red Cross Societies
Wilson Keeps Communication Line Open With Convention Leaders
Wilson plans direct contact with Democratic convention leaders in San Francisco through long distance telephone. Secretary Tumulty, acting for the president, spoke with Democratic national committee chairman Cummings at the Golden Gate city for an extended period.
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Washington
Wilson
San Francisco
Cal
Tumulty
Cummings
Democratic National Committee
Golden Gate City
Martial Law In Waterbury After Rioting
Waterbury Conn June 22 martial law proclaimed after violent clashes at Seavill Manufacturing between 8000 striking brass workers and 150 police plus city guards. Gov Holcomb ordered three militiamen companies and a machine gun unit to patrol streets. Officers Bergin and Leroy gravely wounded. Liberto Rizo, the dead striker, was shot. Police found radical literature on his person.
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Waterbury
Conn
Richard Leroy
John J. Bergin
Seavill Manufacturing Company
Marcus Holcomb
Willian P. Sandland
Bergin
Leroy
St. Mary’s Hospital
Liberto Rizo
Plot Foiled by Geneva Police in Archduke Plot
London reports from Prague say Geneva police thwarted a Hungarian communist plan to assassinate Archdukes Eugene and Frederick. Police reportedly uncovered the conspiracy and prevented the killings.
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the Express
Prague
Gesneva
Eugene
Frederick
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