Hymans Elected League President At Geneva Session
Paul Hymans of Belgium won the presidency of the League of Nations at Geneva with 35 of 41 votes. Delegates from major nations, including Tittoni Bourgeois Viviani Ishii Matsui Quinones de Leon and Cecil attended. The United States sent observers while arrangements were made for U.S. representation on key commissions.
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Geneva
Paul Hymans
Belgium
League of Nations
Assembly of the League
M. Hymans
Germany
Austria
Turkey
Danzig
Commission On Mandates
Balkan
A. J. Balfour
Tomasso Tittoni
Italy
Leon Bourgeois
Rene Viviani
France
Viscount Kikujiro Ishii
Baron Keishiro Matsui
Japan
Honduras and Ecuador Boycott Regional Assembly Meeting
Honduras and Ecuador were the only other American nations not sending delegates to the assembly meeting, joining a small group of nonparticipants in the regional gathering.
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Honduras
Ecuador
Navy Yeoman Honored In Leadership Essay Contest
Enlisted man Herman Earle Burt of Wellsburg New York earned an honorable mention in Admiral H B Wilson prize competition. Burt ranked on par with two captains a junior lieutenant and an ensign as officers traded swords for pens to write on leadership aboard the Pennsylvania flagship.
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New York
Navy
H. B. Wilson
Herman Earle Burt
Wellsburg
N. Y
Pennsylvania
Bleriot Plane Works Closure Leaves 2000 Jobless in Paris
Paris reports the Bleriot airplane works shutting down indefinitely. About 2,000 workers lose their jobs as operations are halted.
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Paris
Dream of cousin’s death leads to fatal crossing accident
Osborn Shippee aged 22 of Laporte Indiana dreamed last night of a cousin’s death at a New York Central crossing eight years ago. At the same crossing today the gates fell and knocked him unconscious. He stepped on the accelerator and drove into an oncoming train. He may live.
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Laporte
Ind
Indians to Ask Citizenship Without Reservations
Federal legislation granting citizenship without reservations to Native Americans will be urged by the Society of American Indians at its ninth annual conference in St. Louis. Separately, in Los Angeles high rents drive two Southern California pastors to relocate their families into their church buildings.
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St. Louis
Society of American Indians
Los Angeles
Cal
Southern California
M. C. Owees
Warren Elsing
Subud
Congress to Push Timber Bill for National Forest Aid
A plan unveiled for the next Congress calls for a national forest program with annual federal appropriations of at least 11 million dollars. The initiative seeks expanded federal ownership and state cooperation to protect against fires, reforest denuded lands, extend national forests, and gather timber data.
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Washington
Charles Lathrop Pack
American Forestry Association
Reform Creed Pushes English Education and Moral Crusades
Rev Clarence True Wilson outlines a reform creed urging English as the exclusive language for American schooling and press, a democratic expansion of initiative and recall, and national censorship of movies. He calls for a cigarette crusade, Sabbath observance, Bible teaching in public schools, and minimal minister salaries noted in a Methodist board report.
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Tobacco Trust
Josep B. Hingeley
Board of
Conference Claimants
Reconstruction era church funding and education estimates
A report by Abram W Harris cites a board of curates and university sponsors aiming to provide livelihoods for clergy. It notes 43 institutions, white and black denominational schools, with an $80 million endowment and over 51,200 students, 119,834 alumni.
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Currate
Abram W. Harris
P RL
Northwestern University
Venizelas Defeated in Greek Election Report
Greece faced a calm election day with Venizelos supporters clashing briefly with opponents. Reports say Venizelos will resign before parliament convenes after final results. The campaign centered on restoring King Constantine to the throne following King Alexander's death.
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Greece
Venizelos
Boses
Demetrios Gounaris
Wrangel's retreat as Wrangel forces lose Crimea
American warships will aid Crimean refugees as Wrangel flees the Crimea leaving the stronghold to Bolshevik forces. General Wrangel and staff evacuated aboard the French ship Waldeck Rousseau and expected in Constantinople.
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Washington
Black Sea
Crimea
State
Navy Departments
McCully
State Department
Sebastopol
Constantinople
Waldeck Rousseau
Foreign Office
General Wrangel
Government seeks January hearing in Newberry case appeal
The government asked the Supreme Court to set January 3 for arguments on the appeal by Senator Newberry and 16 others. The request was filed by counsel for Newberry.
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Counsel
Washington
Supreme Court
Trumay di. Newberry
Five Sinn Fein Homes Burned in Tipperary
London reports that during the day five Sinn Fein houses in Tipperary were burned with military assistance in extinguishing the fires and some rifle fire following the blazes.
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London
Sinn
Merle Phillips Confesses in Mail Pouch Robbery
Merle Phillips twenty years old admitted involvement as a mail piler in a Saturday night theft near Council Bluffs. He says he guarded the locomotive while two accomplices dumped pouches from the Burlington train. the trio fled by car. Investigators say three thieves acted. others were not yet arrested.
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Council Bluffs
Merle Phillips
Burlington
Phillips
Union Pacific
Depat
Chicago
Six Small Misses At Lincoln Club Host Charity Tea
Six young girls from the Lincoln School joined Evelyn Bambrick Saturday for a small social and charitable project. They hemmed handkerchiefs for Chicago nursery children then shared lunch on old Rylyn’s mother’s dishes. Helen Easter of Ainsworth attended as an out of town guest.
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Coln
Lincoln Club
Evelyn Bambrick
Chicago
Gantt
Rylyn
Helen Easter
Ainsworth
German business leader first woman member of Berlin Stock Exchange
Mrs Margaret Bruehle, head of a major German cereal company, becomes the first woman admitted to the Berlin stock exchange. The other item notes New York and Chicago modiste Mrs Margaret A Howard, who died recently, left a legacy of $400000 to found a home for aged and indigent seamstresses.
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Margaret Bruehle
Germany
Berlin Stock Exchange
Margaret A. Howard
New York
Chicago
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Lord Robert
League
Lloyd George
Great Britain
Union of South Africa
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Honorio Pueyrredon
Argentina
Dr. Gasto da Cunha
Brazil
Antonio Huneus
Chile
Manuel Peralta
Costa Rica
Carlos Urneta
Colombia
Aristifles Aguero
Cuba
Harmondio Arias
Panama
Mariano H. Cornejo
Peru
Juan Carlos Blanco
Uruguay
Arturo R. Avila
Salvador
United States
Council of the League
Financial Commission
Commission of Economics and Mandates
GOB
Dreamer
Reds
Congress
Methodist Benevolent Board
Boston
Boards of Benevolence
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Clarence True Wilson
Board of Temperance and Morals
Cergymen
Venizelas
Thens
Bolsheviki
Crimean Peninsula
Wrangel
JU. S
Denikine
Yudenich
Admiral Kolchak
Batum
Newberry
Tipperary Homes
Piler
Washington County Red Crogs
Commercial Club
G. P. Wyckoff
Red Cross
Dee
Wyckoff
Bohemia
Centra
Slovakia
American Red Cross
Lydia Eicher
Centennial
Ncoma
Bertha Hay
William Stewart
Curtis
Miss Hay
Dr. Wyckoff
Miss Haines
Miss Eicher
War Alumni Auxiliary
A. R. Dewey
E. R. Jenkins
L. S. Patterson
C. C. Cunningham
W. G. Stewart
R. 3. Wartel
Manton Hebner
J. B. Crail
W. A. Gibson
Chas, Benz
David Walingford
Oscar Jugenheimer
R. H. Walker
Lydia Juzeler
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