British Rusal policy blamed as trade with Russia fails
Sir Robert Stevenson argues in Glasgow that trade with Soviet Russia is a failure due to famine and a regime more eager to spend gold on propaganda. Britain warns against sending goods to Russia while US and British officials press for Russia's intact territorial and political future.
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Horne
Glasgow
Russia
Lloyd George
Lenine
Sir Robert
Great Britain
United States
Near
Far East
Washington
Hughes
Siberia
Hay
China
Japan
Shantung
Mr. Hughes
Pacific Ocean
Sir Robert Stevenson
Rise of a Great American Merchant Marine Policy
The cabinet discussion shows President Harding backing a robust American merchant marine. Officials and the Shipping Board aim to craft a stable build up despite foreign and a few domestic opposition. Americans, confident in national resolve, expect success as with canal and war endeavors. President Nelson of Smith College notes Americans need education in drama and banking literacy.
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Flarding
Baltimore
Harding
United States
Shipping Board
Nelison
Smith College
Unemployment Conference Urges Community Action
The unemployment conference praises members for initiating a movement to reduce idleness. It urges state and municipal cooperation, public improvements, and federal aid through road funding and railroad refunds. Central agency in Washington coordinates efforts to spur local job-creating projects.
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United States
Washington
Congress
New Railroad Plans For Reducing Freight Rates
The railroads consider lowering freight rates in proportion to wage cuts approved by the labor board or agreed through carrier worker talks. The policy could boost traffic and net revenues, with shippers already pressing for rate decreases, and would raise public esteem while expanding business despite aging equipment. Other Remarks: economic and political musings on unemployment, China Japan, and a quip about aging texts.
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Railroad Labor Board
What Other Papers Say In Japan's Hands
The Philadelphia Public Ledger argues that joint disarmament progress hinges on Japan's sacrifices of vital interests. It notes Japan’s pivotal role in the Washington conference and warns seeds of war exist unless Tokyo shifts course and aligns with parley aims, including relinquishing claims in Korea Formosa Manchuria Shantung and Siberia.
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Japan
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Tokyo
Washington
Far East
Mikado
Korea
Formosa
Manchuria
Saghalten
Shantung
Siberia
Pacific
Washington conference aims and British breach of promise shift
The essay discusses President Harding's cautions on disarmament and the Washington conference. It argues that disarmament requires practical steps, not rhetoric, and that success hinges on statesmen willing to compromise. It notes British courts souring on breach of promise, Justice McCardie criticizing damages and predicting reforms to curb such suits as an ethical shift.
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Tuttsurgh
Justice McCardie
London
Open Sessions of the Disarmament Conference
Baltimore Sun argues the American delegation should push for maximum publicity and open full sessions. It emphasizes that public knowledge of important proposals before final decisions is essential to form broad sentiment and influence deliberations.
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Baltimore Sun
Ad Men Elect W. Erickson President at N Y Meeting
W Erickson of New York has been elected president of the American Association of Advertising Agents at its annual convention in Philadelphia. Other officers include H S Gardner of St Louis as vice president Eugene Kfe Gurckin of Philadelphia as secretary and John P Hailman of New York as treasurer.
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Philadelphia
W. Erickson
New York
American Association of Advertising Agents
H. S. Gardner
St. Louis
Eugene Kfe Gurckin
John P. Hailman
Bompard Attacks Witte Memoirs as German Ally Claim
Louis Bompard former French ambassador to Russia publishes in Revue de Paris a sharp critique of Count Witte’s memoirs, alleging Witte was a German ally and dupe of Kaiser Wilhelm II. He argues Witte aided the 1905 treaty that aimed to isolate Britain and shift France toward Germany, while detailing Bompard’s own diplomatic career and recall episode.
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Louis Bompard
France
Russia
Revue de Paris
Count Witte
William
Germany
Kaiser
Witte
Nicholas Li
Nicholas II
Broerkoe
Bompard
Great Britain
Morocco
Algeciras
Britain
Bijoerkoe
England
Metz
Petrograd
Constantinople
Department of Foreign Affairs
Paris
Delcasse
Tunisia
Madagascar
Bomnard
Neva
Helen Petrovna Hahn
Wittes
Tiflis
Grivan
Blavatsky
Marquisd
DE Fontengy
Ordered to Fort Houston by High Army Command
Brg. Gen. William R Smith was ordered to take command of Fort Houston Texas headquarters of the Eighth corps area training center. Gen Smith, fresh from duty in the Philippine islands, is chosen to lead training of regular army national guard and civilians from Arizona Colorado New Mexico Oklahoma and Texas the states of the Eighth training corps. Maj. Gen. John W. Hines was named to command the Eighth corps area with headquarters at Fort Sam Houston. The training area remains distinct from the corps area despite same geography. The tax bill is not on the rocks nor are the taxes breakers.
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Brg
William R Smith
Harbord
Ehief
Fortham Houston
Tex
Eighth Corps Area Training Center
Smith
Philippine Islands
Arizona
Colorado
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Texas
Eighth Training Corps
John W. Hines
Fort Sam Houston
Corps
Corps Training Area
Proceedings in Brief From Congress and Committees
Met at 11 o'clock and recessed at 11 05 a m for Senator Knox funeral then 2 20 p m session. Knox seat draped for 30 days. Unanimous consent to defer final peace treaty action with Germany Austria Hungary until Monday. Overman directs salary and expense report for Federal reserve banks. Woodrow Wilson Democracy statement cited in Record. Calder collates DC Building Association protest letter. War Department bill to deter deserters and slackers under draft law. Lodge bills exports munitions to revolutionists. Recommitted Siegel bill to expand House to 460 seats after census. Simmons Kuklux Klan inquiry halted. possible continuation if able. Mellon modifies foreign loan program funding under commission. House Judiciary to probe presidential unilateral address limits under Cochran resolution.
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Knox
Germany
Austria
Hungary
Overman
North Carolina
Federal Reserve Board
War Department
Senator Wadsworth
China
Lodge
House
William J. Simmons
Kuklux Klan
Rules Committee
Simmons
Campbell
Wzard
Secretary of the Treasury
Mellon
Ways and Means Committee
House Judiciary Committee
House of Congress
Bourke Cochran
New York
New Albanian trade school opens with U.S. aid
A new Albanian trade school, funded largely by American schoolchildren, opens in Tirana under Prof Louis Heron from Washington D C. The project, first of its kind in Albania, includes elementary schools aided by the Junior Red Cross in Gazzu, Elbasan and Scutari and two Tirana schools, creating a model elementary school where girls and boys study together.
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Tirana
Albania
Associated Press
Louis Heron
Washington, D.C
McKinley High School
Red Cross
United States
Dugazzo
Elbasan
Scutaria
PREDICTS SHIPPING REVIVAL
New York October 14 Robert Dollar a prominent Pacific coast steamshipman who has returned from a six months trip around the world predicted the postwar shipping lull has bottomed and an upward turn is coming He asserted the United States with its large merchant fleet will secure a full share of world business After leaving Seattle six months ago Dollar visited China Japan the Philippines and Europe returning East He said he received generous greeting as a representative commercial American.
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New York
Robert Dollar
Pacific Coast Steamshipman
United States
Seattle
Cant Dollar
China
Japan
Philippines
Nilia
Europe
Amer
Low Fares Extended for Legion Convention Travelers
In Kansas City on October 14 the 1 cent passenger rate for American Legion members and their families attending the national convention October 31 to November 2 was extended to all Western Passenger Association railroads. The 1 cent rate covers sleeping cars and day coaches, while Eastern railroads have granted 11 cent fares and Pacific coast roads 13 cents per mile for sleepers and coaches.
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Kansas City
American Legion
National Legion
Transcontinental Passenger Association
Pacific
Japanese Cruisers Idzumo Yakumo to Visit New York
Word from the New York navy yard says the Japanese cruisers Idzumo and Yakumo under Vice Admiral Tetsutaro Sato and carrying over 600 naval cadets will arrive October 28 for a week. They left Japan in early September and recently passed through the Panama Canal with Admiral Sato's staff of 162 officers onboard.
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New York
New York Navy Yard
Idzumo
Yakumo
Tetsutaro Sato
Japanese Naval College
Japan
Panama Canal
Sato
Anthrax Concerns and Wyoming Prosperity Report
Dr William L Ford warns anthrax risk remains low in Europe and the United States with most cases linked to shaving brushes and furs while good import inspections and sterilization are advised The Wyoming outlook from Pat Sullivan highlights strong business activity in Casper and a booming oil industry with a population surge and high refinery output.
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Europa
William Ll. Ford
New York
United States
Ford
Europe
America
Wyoming
Pat Sullivan
Thit State
Casper
Mr. Sullivan
Willard
Sullivan
Cheyenne
Newsboy Scotty Scott Honored With Battle Ship Memorial Plan
Young newsboy Albert Edward Scott, 15 when he joined the army, died in France on July 23, 1918. Louis Newman leads New York newsboys to present his case to Assistant Secretary Roosevelt for a battleship memorial and tablet in Boston, with aim to unveil the tribute with a 200 piece boys band and a wreath for Scotty’s memory.
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Scotty
Boston
Epiede
France
Albert Edward Scott
United States
Brookline
Mass
Navy
Roosevelt
Louis Newman
Roosevelt Newsboys Association
Young Newman
Newsboys of America
Trin
Theodore Roosevelt
Newmam
New York
Letty
Massachusetts
Preston
Marshal Foch
Siotty
America
U. S. Envoy Leaves Peru for New York
American Ambassador William Elliott Gonzales departed Lima for Callao to board a steamer to New York amid friendly gestures from government officials and Lima residents. A formal reception hosted by Foreign Minister Salomon was attended by the diplomatic corps and Peru’s Senate and Chamber of Deputies. After reporting to Washington, Gonzales will return to Charleston, with Frederick A. Sterling acting as chargé d'affaires.
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Tama
William Elliott Gonzales
Peru
Callao
New York
Lima
United States
Farenell
Salamoen
Diplomatic Corps
Peruvian Senate
Chamber of Deputies
Washington
Ganaves
Charleston
Frederick A. Sterling
St Louis
Spain Orders 58 New Warships
Madrid dispatch reports Spain's cabinet has ordered four light cruisers six destroyers twenty eight submarines and twenty gunboats. The plan aims to complete the fleet within six years as approved by the cabinet.
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Spain
London
Madrid
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