Borah Accuses $ and Influence in Preconvention Campaigns
Idaho Senator Borah charges war profiteers and wealthy interests with bankrolling preconvention campaigns to control the Republican and Democratic conventions. He cites Wood and Doheny as examples and warns of a “cameless situation” that corrupts the electorate and threatens the nation. Democratic senators push back as Borah vows to reveal facts, urging a clean-up of party nominations.
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Senator Borah Defends Third-Term View Amid Debate
Senator Borah argues a Democrat could seek a third term and praises the president for leading the treaty fight while opposing endorsements of corrupt practices. He notes testimony hints at corruption as Indiana reports fuel concern over influence by large corporations on politics.
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Chicago Now A Large Town
Census figures show Chicago’s population rising by about 700000 in ten years. The city now has 2,884,827 inhabitants, a growth of roughly 22 percent since the last tally. Officials had hoped for 3,000,000 but stopped at near 2.88 million.
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JURY TRIAL TO PROBE PROHIBITION ENFORCEMENT
Milwaukee March 27 Jurors will decide if juries in the eastern district of Wisconsin will nullify prohibition by refusing to convict violators as a case begins in Milwaukee United States court.
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Chicago Movers Strike Halts Citywide Van Service
About 1500 moving van drivers and helpers walked out in Chicago demanding a $10 weekly raise and a nine hour day plus overtime pay. The strike includes nearly all major household goods firms and stops furniture moving and storage across the city. If prolonged, rent hikes and spring relocations could worsen as moving crews remain idle.
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Serbian Army Demobilizes Bond Belgrade Announces Demobilization
The Serbian government at Belgrade orders general demobilization. The move is seen as proof of confidence in the United States and in a peaceful settlement of the Adriatic question.
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Coal Miners of Illinois to Quit April 1
Peoria March 27 The United Mine Workers leader Franklin Farrington says miners in Illinois will suspend work starting April 1 not a strike as negotiations in New York continue possibly a brief halt or longer the spring midnight deadline of March 21 looms with the agreement expiring and potential reversal depending on talks.
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Bolsheviks Seize Maikop City Amid Black Sea Push
Wireless reports from March 27 say Bolsheviks occupied Maikop in Kuban while another force took Petrchenka in the Murmansk area. Anti Bolshevik troops rally near Sochi as refugees seek safety amid shifting fronts and Allied evacuations in the Black Sea region.
German border families cross into Switzerland for meals
Geneva March 27 report says towns on the Swiss German frontier are calm but rail and telegraph lines are chaotic and food grows scarcer in southern Germany. Wealthy German families, after trouble securing passports, cross the border for meals but must return within twenty four hours and pay high prices due to the exchange rate.
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Germany
Labor Party Forces Out Old Cabinet in Germany
Berlin dispatch reports organized labor wrecked the Bauer government as unions demand full bargaining terms. President Ebert asks Foreign Minister Munzler to form a new government after the cabinet resigns under pressure from the general strike and civil unrest.
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Communists in Ruhr Holdouts Near Wesel amid Allied Movements
Reports say the Red Army trenches lie just over a half mile from Wesel with about 6000 men, as Belgian and French forces move to the Rhine left bank. Communist casualties are cited at about sixty dead and one hundred wounded. Workers’ councils in Essen demand government withdrawal from the Muenster district before peace. Dulmen fell without resistance as government troops retreated.
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Hungary Offered Charles Return to Hapsburg Throne
Geneva reports Admiral Tor thy, regent of Hungary, secretly but officially offered the Hungarian throne to Former Emperor Charles with assurance the Hapsburg monarchy would return. The move claimed to have majority public support, via sources in Prancina where the ex-emperor resides.
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Judge of Dublin Is Shot to Death
London reports magistrate Alan Bell who presided over Sinn Fein bank inquiries was shot dead outside a Dublin Masonic lodge. He was pulled from a tram by four masked men near Pall’s Bridge and killed, with his body taken to hospital. Bell also led investigations into ministerial corruption and Lord Lieutenant French’s bankers.
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Novorossiysk Is Last Base Ten Be Captured
Last base ten in the sequence of battles is Novorossiysk. The line notes this port city as the final fortress to be captured as forces move toward Bromberg.
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Determined to Vote Women of Illinois at Presidential Primary
Paris March 7 Odessa in Ukraine is reported occupied by Ukrainian forces and Warsaw has moved the government to Bromberg. Novorossisk in southern Russia falls to the Bolsheviks as Denikin loses his last base.
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Hatsheviki
Illinois Women to Vote at Presidential Primary
Special to the Evening Journal reports in Chicago that Illinois women will vote at the presidential primary on April 13 whether or not the suffrage amendment is ratified, per rulings from the attorney general.
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German Regulars Retake Wesel in Southeast Action
Government troops move southeast of Wesel and force workers to retreat, lifting the siege as Allied forces advance in Germany. The report from Wesel notes a break in the siege and strategic reshaping of the frontline.
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Evening Journal
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Refusal Ends German Cabinet Formation Efforts
Paris dispatch reports Hermiat Mueller refused to form a new German cabinet today in Berlin. The political move ends attempts to establish a governing body and leaves the country without a new leadership arrangement at this time.
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Paris
Death of Wilson Sought in Deep Political Plot Claim
In Jackson Mississippi on March 27 Senator John Sharp Williams asserts there was a conspiracy to kill or undermine President Wilson. He charges that senators and politicians engineered a plan to protract the peace treaty debates before the League of Nations issue was even written. He cites Washington’s move to appoint Wilson head of the Paris peace delegation as part of the plot.
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Dry chiefs admit defeat in Ohio prohibition vote recount
Columbus report states Dry leaders practically abandon attempt for reversal of the result as recounts proceed in about one third of the state's precincts. With fifteen contested precincts left, 209 votes still favor ratification while opposition remains defeated.
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India bars Germans from entering for five years
Washington reports the Indian government has ordered the exclusion of German nationals for five years from the Versailles treaty signing. Consul General Smith in Calcutta confirmed the move to the state department.
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