Opposition grows to nations league in Congress debate
Washington reports mounting opposition in both houses to the proposed world binding covenant backed by President Wilson. Representative Simeon D. Fess denounces the plan as a surrender of sovereignty and tariff policy while senators like Borah and Reed warn it risks U.S. freedom and finances under British dominance.
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House
Senate
United States
Wilson
Simeon D. Fess
Ohio
International Labor Bureau
Executive Council
Fess
Borah
Idaho
Paris
England
Great Britain
Jefferson
Lincoln
League of Nations
Senators to Speak Over the United States League Fight
U. S. Senators opposing the League of Nations plan plan a national speaking tour. Borah and Reed lead Republicans against President Wilson while Kelloy and Kenyon plan appearances in Minnesota and Iowa to press opposed views. The fight is set to intensify before the anticipated June session and ratification battle.
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Reed
Missouri
U. S
League
Washington
Borah
Idaho
Thomas
Colorado
New York
League of Nations
Wilson
Lodge
Wadsworth
Brooklyn
Syracuse
Buffalo
Hitchcock
Nebraska
Committee On Foreign Relations
Senate
Kenyon
Iowa
Kelloy
Minnesota
Minneapolis
Red Cross Allocates 100000 for Cantonment Health Units
The Red Cross will use an additional 100000 dollars to fund sanitary units and dispensaries at military cantonments in the United States through June.
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The
Red Cross
GOP Names Chairmen Of Committees In House
Washington March 6 Republican committee on committees tentatively slated the chairmanships for ten principal House committees and the rules panel. Objections were raised to Fordney Good Steere son but did not force a record vote. The seniority rule stands, with a 13 to 8 party ratio on these panels, and new emphasis on expenditures committees as investigating bodies. Chairmen named include Yordney Michigan Good Town Kahn California Butler Pennsylvania Esch Wisconsin Volstead Minnesota Haugen Iowa Porter Pennsylvania Kennedy Iowa Steener son Minnesota Campbell Kansas Mann Illinois acts as temporary chair.
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House
Rules Committee
Republican Committee On Committees
Fordney
Ways and Means
Good
Appropriations
Steererson
Yordney
Michigan
Steenerson
Minnesota
Campbell
Kansas
Committee On Committees
Rep. Mann
Illinois
Red Cross Edition Publishes Four Page U S News Weekly
The Red Cross edition of the American Sentinel translates Arctic Russian type with care to provide American soldiers in the Archangel district a four page weekly newspaper.
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Red Cross
American Sentinel
Archangel
U. S. News
Rebuilt Bombed Catholic Cathedral Site In Epernay
In Epernay a bombed-to-pieces site opposite the cathedral has been rebuilt to accommodate thousands of travelers. The sisters of Secretary of State Lansing supervise the reconstruction work.
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Epernay
Lansing
Lloyd George says draft peace treaty ready for signing
London reports premier Lloyd George and Foreign Secretary Balfour announce the draft peace treaty is finished and will be signed by the end of March. Germans to Paris for signature. no changes to main articles planned.
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Lloyd George
London
Balfour
Evening News
Paris
Czecho-Slovakia
Supreme Council
Armistice Commission
Poland
Car Hits Train Injuring Thirty Five Near Toledo
A southbound Toledo Bowling Green and Southern traction car collided with a Clover Leaf passenger train at a crossing in Mamee nine miles south of Toledo. The car rolled down a 16 foot embankment after the impact. Thirty five people were injured, none fatally, in the crash.
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Toledo
Toledo, Bowling Green & Southern Traction
Maumee
Here
Pershing Credits Americans for World War Victory
General Pershing told Maj. Alfred H. Beach that American men won the war in 1918, not 1920, and urged giving full credit to France and England while acknowledging American achievement. The message was reported from Cheyenne Wyoming dated March 8.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
France
England
General Pershing
Maj
Alfred H. Beach
World news notes on war, politics and crime
The roundup includes Brewers of Boston plan candy making after July 1. War Trade Board removes peanuts from restricted imports. Divorce proposal defeated in Rome. Amelia E. Barr dies at 87. Double censorship of cablegrams ends. London debt figures posted. War department transfers high explosives to interior. Berlin reports fierce fighting and Spartacan violence. A bank robbery in Wisconsin ends with a posse killing the bandit. Moscow described as an “abode of maniacs” under Bolsheviks. 513 people arraigned in Indianapolis for liquor transport violations. Spartacan prisoners executed in Berlin. Federal warrants may fund railroads. Archangel dispatch reports Vistavka destruction. US Navy to pause six battle-cruisers. Sims comments on London incident.
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War Trade Board
Washington
Italy
Chamber of Deputies
Rome
Amelia E. Barr
Richmond Hill
New York City
United States
Great Britain
London
Washington War Department
Interior Department
Berlin
Copenhagen
Silver Lake
Wis
Joseph Meyer
Kenosha
Moscow
Berne
Illinois
Ohio
Kentucky
Indiana
Indianapolis
Railroad
Congress
Archangel
Vistavka
Vaga
Daniels
France
Admiral Sims
Yankees Riot in London Involves Allied Troops
A riot in London on March 10 brought together American soldiers and sailors with Canadian and Australian troops to clash with British police. Policeman Field is critically injured with a fractured skull, four other officers have scalp wounds, while five Americans are hospitalized at Lancaster Gate Red Cross. Twenty Americans are under arrest by Provost Marshal Major Campbell after a raid on a sailors game behind the Eagle hut.
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London
P. C. Field
Lancaster Gate Red Cross Hospital
Major Campbell
Eagle Hut
Mrs. Fairbanks Weds Today
Mrs Beth Sully Fairbanks widow of Douglas Fairbanks and James Evans Jr of this city were granted a marriage license and announced plans for a Wednesday wedding at the Church of the Ascension in New York.
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New York
Beth Sully Fairbanks
Douglas Fairbanks
James Evans Jr
Train Dispatcher Killed by Son in Alabama Incident
Birmingham March 11 J A Kirtley 45 chief train dispatcher for Louisville Nashville railroad shot and killed by his 11 year old son at Roebuck Springs while defending his mother who was attacked by the father with a fire poker authorities said the boy fired the fatal shot
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Birmingham
Ala
J. A. Kirtley
Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Roebuck Springs
Here
Buford Transport's Worst Trip After Sea Toll
Newport News report recalls the Buford's three week voyage from Bordeaux as heavy seas wrecked steering gear and courses. Disoriented by gale winds, fuel ran low as over 1 000 men including detachments from Sixth coast artillery and infantry units endured the perilous voyage.
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Newport News
Port Buford
Cape Elenry
Anand
Bordeaux
Buford
Sixth Coast Artillery
Fort Logan
Colo
Sixth Heavy Mobile Ordnance Repair Shop
Camp Grant
Columbus
Arkansas
Dunois
Minnesota
Tennessee
Texas
Three Hundred and Forty-fifth Infantry
Eighty-seventh
Louisiana
Mississippi
Virginia
Illinois
Ohio
Korea Declares Independence from Japan in Silent Cable
San Francisco reports Korea has proclaimed independence and sent delegates to Paris to seek recognition. Delegates Son Pyung Ui, Song Chat, and Kit Sun Chu travel, with Doctor Khee joining from Washington. The cablegram cites a National Independence union of 3,000,000 people and churches.
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Korea
Japan
France
Son Pyung Ui
Hes Song Chat
Kit Sun Chu
Doctor Khee
Washington
Paris
Shanghai
C. H. Ahn
National Korean Association
Korean National Independence Union
Churches of Heaven
Seoul
Pyonyang
Sou Pyung Hi
Phee Song Chai
Kil Sun Chu
Versailles
Doctor Rhee
Strikers Riot in Cuba Leaves One Policeman Dead
Havana reports a clash at union headquarters as workers protested a general strike settlement. One policeman killed and several workers wounded, two seriously, after shots were exchanged between police and demonstrators.
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Havana
Cuba
Hilary A Herbert Dead at 85 in Tampa
Hilary A. Herbert former secretary of the navy in Grover Cleveland’s second term died in Tampa Florida at age eighty five.
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Navy
Grover Cleveland
Tampa
Fla
Hilary A. Herbert
Balfour to Quit Foreign Office in Coming Peace Meeting
A. J. Balfour plans to retire as secretary for foreign affairs at the close of the peace meeting. He will be succeeded by Earl Curzon, president of the council and government leader in the House of Lords.
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