Swanson Defends League Covenant and Monroe Doctrine
In Washington July 14 Senator Swanson of Virginia urged Senate support for the League of Nations covenant, calling it a world saving document. He said it does not create a superstate or surrender sovereignty and would protect American integrity, while preserving the Monroe doctrine. He warned rejecting it would hinder peace and modern civilization. Continued on page ten.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
League of Nations
Swanson
Virginia
Foreign Relations Committee
Senate Today
United States
League
Senate
Philippine Islands
Shaji
Great Britain
Tanan
Panama Canal
Artiela
Criieta
Asheres
Roosevelt
Monras
Ukrainians Resist Polish Advance and Federation Ties
The Ukrainian premier Temnykhy asserts Ukrainians will not submit to advancing Poles nor join a Russian federation. He warns of continued struggle against Russians, Germans, Poles, and Bolsheviks, arguing for liberty despite a long fight and noting limited Allied aid after Lansing’s remark on U.S. help to new Russian states.
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Associated Press
Vienna
M. Temniky
Petlura
Ukraine
Belgium
Old Russia
Admiral Kolchak
Russia
Paris
Lansing
United States
T. W. Peck Returns Home From Paris Peace Conference
Pvt. T W Peck, son of Mrs. Sarah Peck of 915 Lafayette St, Waterloo, is the first local attache to return from the Paris Peace Conference. After a year in service, he spent six months at Secretary Lansing's office and attended the conference daily. He carried a special photo ID pass for entrance. Secretary Lansing secured his discharge at the close of the conference, enabling a quick trip home aboard the Troy, where a soldiers’ newspaper The Trojan Journal was published aboard.
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T W. Peck
Sarah Peck
Lafayette Street
Waterloo
Paris
Peek
Lansing
Troy
Trojan Journal
Strike of Marine Workers Limited in Area
New York July 14 Officials of marine workers union on strike here and at Atlantic ports believed the wage increase concessions by the shipping board in Washington would not settle the controversy. Representatives at meetings were to reject a 10 percent wage rise for all shipboard employees. The terms mirror private shipping interests, and while they open room for further negotiations a generalized walkout is not expected on Tuesday. It will likely be confined to coastwise shipping as discussions continue.
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Associated Press
New York
Marine Workers’ Union
Atlantic
Shipping Board
Washington
Five Thousand Workers to Help Run Virginia Mills
Danville Virginia July 14 000emplees will participate in the management of Riverside & Ban River Cotton Mills Inc A mill cabinet of executive officers will join a house of representatives and senate to vote on plant affairs The announcement notes a Cinco cents slogan to preserve quality in an advertisement context
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Associated Press
Danville
House of Representatives
Senate
Riverside & Ban River Cotton Mills, Inc
House
Prosecution Evidence Bolsters Murder Case at Creston
Coroner James G. McKee testified Roy Emerson of Creston said his mother Mrs Emerson threatened to hang herself and jump from a window. McKee described finding her body in an elevator shaft at the Emerson undertaking business, with fresh blood spots on Emerson’s clothing disputed by witnesses.
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Mount Ayr
Roy Emerson
Creston
Hmerson
James G. McKee
Union County
McKee
Emerson
MeeKee
Charles L. Booton Dies at Allison Funeral Tuesday
Charles J. Booton, 45, longtime Iowa newspaper correspondent, died at his Allison home after a brief illness from pneumonia. He is survived by his father BE W. Hooton and brother F. C. Booton, deputy county auditor. He had lived in Allison about 12 years. Funeral services are set for 1:30 p.m. tomorrow, with burial in New Hartford beside his mother.
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New Hartford
Auto collision near Gazaon J C kills five
Five persons die and two sons are seriously injured when an automobile owned by George Virgil of Gazaon crosses a railroad at Sheldon crossing. Victims include Mrs George Virgil Rev Andrew Kennedy Blanche and Mabel Virgil and infant. Kennedy and two Virgil daughters die at Primghar hospital. Train reportedly had no lights or whistle. Investigation promised.
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Sheldon, Ja
George Virgil
Gaza I
Ilinois Central
Andrew J. Kennedy
Blanche Virgil
Mabel Virgil
Virgil
Harold
L Lloyd Virsil
Prinighar
Kennedy
Gaza
Sheldon
Blanche
Mabel
Primghar Hospital
Baby Fund Appeal Urges Help For Ice Milk Needs
A Waterloo appeal outlines dire needs for infants, noting a month old baby must rely on cow milk stored without refrigeration. The Social Welfare league seeks about $30 and donated iceboxes to preserve milk and medicines during hot July days. Readers are urged to donate to the Baby Fund via the league offices in the courthouse basement.
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Waterloo
Social Welfare League
Courier
Midisummer
Over Two Million Italian Soldiers Demobilized
Rome June 18. Nearly 2,200,000 Italian army troops have been demobilized since the armistice, government through Stefani reports. The total includes 225 general officers, 75,100 officers, and about 1,700,000 enlisted men. Remaining in service are around 2,000,000.
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Rome
Associated Press
Stefani Agency
Fiume Quiet After Disarmament Standoff Ends
Vienna dispatch reports Fiume returns to normal with Italian provost marshal in control. Two French and two Italian warships anchor in the harbor while handbills reading Italy or death appear. Signs in Jugo Slav language removed. American relief officers present.
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Associated Press
Vienna
Fiume
jTwo
Italy
Masked burglar shot by Philadelphia professor
A masked burglar was shot and killed at the Alpha Chi Phi fraternity house in Philadelphia. The incident occurred when Benjamin Franklin Shappelle, head of the Romance Languages department at the University of Pennsylvania summer school, shot the intruder.
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Associated Press
Philadelphia
Benjamin Franklin Shappelle
Department of Romantic Languages
University of Pennsylvania
Alpha Chi Hho
Towan Killed in Action Is Listed
A Serbian army casualty list via Roumanian and Berne bureaus reports Private Ben O. of Temesvar killed in action as Romanian forces evacuate the city near Belgrade. Temesvar, 72 miles northeast of Belgrade, is being abandoned with locomotives, cars, factory machinery, animals, and household goods removed. The Roumanian government rejects a Lenin bid for a Romania Russia alliance.
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Temmesvar
Associated Press
Geneva
Washington, D.C
Berne
Ben O
Decorah
Temesvar
Belgrade
Nikolai Lenine
Russia
Bettween Rowmania
Drys Fail To Force Vote On Prohibition Repeal
In Washington the house blocked a bid to force a repeal vote on wartime prohibition. A proposed amendment to soften enforcement was ruled not in order by Chairman Volstead of the judiciary committee. Representative Igoe of Missouri sponsored the pro prohibition amendment.
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Associated Press
Washington
Vic
House
Volstead
Igoe
Missouri
Onter
American Pictures Printed in London in Remarkable Time
London July 14 photographs taken in the United States and flown to England by air are published by morning papers. They preview a rapid exchange of New York and London newspapers and photos by air, including President Wilson’s arrival in New York and a Willard Dempsey fight shot at Toledo.
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Treas
London
United States
England
Putham
Viscount Northcliffe
New York
Wilson
Mineola
Toledo
Clashes at Argo Corn Products Plant Injure Several
Chicago July 14 Two women and a man were seriously injured when strikers at the Corn Products Renning company plant at Argo Illinois clashed with guards as nonunion men rode street cars. It follows riot last Tuesday that left three dead and many wounded. Officials say plant operates near full capacity with most strikers returning to work. Six strikers, three men and three women, were arrested. one allegedly carried a revolver.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Corn Products Renning ‘Company
Argo
Ill
Irish President seeks five million for new republic
Chicago July 14 Eamonn De Valera president of the Irish republic closed a three day Chicago campaign for Irish freedom He planned to visit San Francisco then big city tours He discussed bond financing with advisors and potential committee review He called at Col Richard O Sullivan Burke home to confer but Burke was ill and unable to meet him
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Associated Press
Chicago
Eamonn de Valera
San Francisco
Thompson
Iriish
Chicago Lankers
New York
Davis
Richard O*sullivan Burke
Ness
Courier Delivery Time and Evening Paper Reissue Policy
The Courier should be delivered before 3 30. If you do not receive by that time due to carrier error or other cause, call 8330 and a copy will be sent. Phone calls must reach this office before 6 00 p.m.
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Ics Hefars
Victory Parade Through Paris By Allied Troops
Paris July 14 marks a grand Allied and American parade with Marshal Joffre riding, Pershing leading, and 1,500 soldiers in line. French leaders, wreaths at the Arc de Triomphe, and a ceremonial Bastille Day scene accompany a patriotic display in bright midsummer weather.
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Associated Press
Paris
Poincare
Arc D'Triomphe
Clamenceau
Lorraine
Col
Edmund Gros
Lafayette Ascadrille
Marshal Joffre
Marne
Marshal Fock
President's Island
Ravenue
John J. Pershing
New York
Joan of Arc Park
Ninety-third Street
Riverside Drive
Gen. Pershing
Pershing
H. G. Harbord
Three Aires
George C. Marshall
John G. Quekemeyer
Thurston Hughes
Army
Henry T. Allen
John L. Hines
Brewster
Lanefitt
McGlachlin
le Jeune
Howze
Hersey
Lafitte
Poore
Marshal Foch
Admiral Blue to Retire From Navy Post
Rear Admiral Blue, chief of the Bureau of Navigation, aged 54, has been recommended for retirement by naval medical officers after months of illness. He is under treatment at the hospital at the Great Lakes naval training station.
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Admiral Blue
Associated Press
Washington, T
Bureau of Navigation
Naval Medical Officers
Great Lakes Naval Training Station
Congress fails to override veto on daylight law
Washington D C July 14 The house did not pass the agricultural appropriations bill with its daylight saving repeal rider over President Wilsons veto The vote stood 247 to 135 with 23 fewer than the two thirds required The repeal would have eliminated daylight saving on October 26 and while defeated no separate repeal bill is planned as it would likely be vetoed.
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Washington D.C
House
Wilson
Ford-Tribune Libel Suit Enters Third Month of Hearing
Mount Clemens Mich July 14 The government did not advance money to Ford Motor for war work Edsel Ford testified in the case against the Chicago Daily Tribune seeking 1000000 damages for libel over an editorial dated June 23 1916 Cross examination sought to show Ford opposed mobilization of the national guard along the Mexican border in 1916 Henry Ford then testified that day in the libel suit against the Tribune.
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Associated Press
Mount Clemens
Mich
Ford Motor Company
Edsel Ford
Ford
Henry Ford
Chicago Daily Tribune
Alfred Lucking
the Tribune
Mr. Ford
Germany
Cases of Tremens Increase Result of Booze Stoppage
Associated Press report from Chicago notes a 30 percent rise in delirium tremens cases in the Bridewell during the first two weeks of July, compared with last year. Seventy five tremens cases were admitted after wartime prohibition began July 1, up from sixty a year earlier, with officials blaming the liquor shortage and lack of substitutes for drinking.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Bridewell
Hospital of the Bridewell
German property tax plan outlined by Erzberger
Copenhagen dispatch reports German Finance Minister Mathias Erzberger announcing a property levy starting at 6000 marks and rising to 6.5 percent for property over 3,000,000 marks. Tax payable in installments over 30 years beginning January 1920.
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Associated Press
Copenhagen
Mathias Erzberger
Bertin
Tidends
Germany
Debate opens in the Senate over peace treaty ratification
In Washington the Senate begins formal consideration of the Versailles peace treaty and the league covenant. Senator Swanson opens the debate as the Foreign Relations Committee weighs resolutions seeking information on a secret 1918 Japan Germany pact and Shantung terms. President Wilson visits with senators as the panel amends resolutions and discusses treaty details.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Senate
Foreign Relations Committee
Swanson
Virginia
Lodge
Japan
Spssetore Thittes
Sonsefore
Hitchcock
Nebraska
Eanior Democrat
Wilson
White House
Smith
Dial
South Carolina
Stanley
Kentucky
McKellar
Tennessee
King
Utah
Stevenson
South Dakota
Johnson
France
Senate Foreign-Relations Committee
State Department
Germany
Buss
Lansing
Henry White
Costa Rica
la Follette
Wisconsin
Borah
Idaho
McCumber
North Dakota
California
Shantung
United States
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