Tulsa Race Riot Claims 30 Lives and martial law imposed
Tulsa is under martial law after a night of race rioting left about 30 dead and 5000 homeless. National guard and state troops moved in as fires spread through the negro district and clashes with white residents continued along the Frisco tracks.
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Tulsa
Okla
Tulse
Tulsa County
Adjt
Chiries
Barret
B. A. Robertson
Oklahoma City
Dick Rowland
Fegru Bootblack
Bhick Belt
Ball Park
S. 4. Gilmore
So.m
Tulsa Infantry
Charles F. Barrer
Frisco
Sall
Anhiure
Hey
Germans Beat French in Benthen Clash
French soldiers repelled a German force in Benthen southeastern Silesia near the Polish frontier. About 3,000 Germans were reported in the fighting. French tanks supported a charge and gained the upper hand with French losses not announced. German casualties cited as substantial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oppelu
Jube
Benthen
Silesia
News of the Week Cut Down for Busy Readers
Warren S Stone became a top national labor leader with a salary of 25000 a year as grand chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. Rev Phoebe A Hanford, suffrage worker and first woman chaplain to the Connecticut legislature, died at 92 in Rochester New York. Sir James Graeme Arbuckle, 85, ex banker and former Spanish consul to St Louis, died in Los Angeles. Ei S Washburn, a prominent woman in Eastern social circles, died in Kavitte Wisconsin. S Moore, Iowa banker, died at Boone Ta.
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Phoebe A
Hanaford
N, Y
Warren S. Stone
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers of
Cleveland
Phoebe A. Hanford
Connecticut
Rochester
N. Y
James Graeme Arbuckle
Los Angeles
Cal
Texas
St. Louis
Spain
Colombia
Mexico
Ei S Washburn
Kavitte
Wis
Washington News Roundup From Capital Posts Mixed Updates
General investigation ordered into Tulsa race riots by Department of Justice. Senate continues Schurman nomination to China. Shipping board deficit alleged by Senator Poindexter. Haugen packet control bill moves in House. Federal Reserve hints at lowering bank rates in summer. US refuses to surrender seized German ships. McKellar urges recall of Ambassador Harvey. Armament talks reportedly under American initiative. Harding weighs immediate debt payments to railroads with long repayment. Borah Amendment and disarmament conference included in Senate bill. Memorial Day remarks stress leadership in world stabilization. Frank Lowden elected president of Western Wines Association. Cook County May autos tally released. Death by lightning reported near Atlanita and Wlots. Chicago printers strike over wages. Bankrobber gang holds up Millers and Yroders back in Minnesota with $16,000.
Iowa News Roundup: War, Weather, and Local Events
Fort Dodge carpenters vote 90 cent wage scale in effect June 1. Iowa City cavalry troop awarded 32 horses by U S government. State records show 414 883 registered vehicles in Iowa by May 1 1921. Private Trancis 38 Laren's funeral held in Iowa City by the American Legion. Marsham farmer Hugh Trero files bankruptcy Liabilities 19 117 12 with assets 15 025. A windstorm at Ackley topples buildings with farm structures hit hardest. Sioux City man Horace Green 37 kills wife after dispute. Buck Grove sees first active corn and oats shipments in months. Dr Bird T Banwin elected chair of National Research Council child welfare committee. Creston police seize 1500 worth of silks from suitcases tied to Joe Banach. Midland Packing receivers salaries total over 20 000. H Company H National Guard recruiting to full strength. Estherville man killed in Spirit Lake road crash. Centerville arrest for statutory charge against Arch Dempster alias red Shier. Cascade Farmers Creamery contracts $320 000 building with J B Aitchison. Des Moines court case over 4500 judgment in stock purchase fraud. Des Moines youths jailed six months for illegal still operation then paroled. Adair county brutal attack details reveal $6000 hidden. University of Iowa staff changes and local gas rate dispute progress.
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Fort Dodge
American Legion
Hugh Trero
Marsham
Ackiey
Horace Green
Sioux City
Buck Grove
Bird T. Banwin
Iowa Child Welfare Research Station
Iowa City
National Research Council
Washington, D. C
Joe Banach
Creston
Jameson Department
Osceola
Midland Packing Company
Stillwell
McMillan
Spirit Lake
Superior
Secident
Red Shier
Arch Dempster
Centerville
Chicago
Illinois
Farmers’ Creamery Company
Cascade
J. B. Aitchison
Dan Barrett
W. W. Kuehl
A. M. Parmenter
Farmers’ Savings Bank of
Grimes
Parmenter
Kuehl
Planters’ Terminal ‘Elevator Company
Kueh
Des Moines
Percy
Knoxville
Hugene
Chuck” Sellera
George Livingston
Supreme Court
George Fields
W. J. Metuch
Phoee Demming
Adair County
Ed Demming
George H. Gallup
Jefferson
Jowan
University of Town
Roy K. Forney
Tabor
Sioux City Gas Company
Senator Proposes Game Sanctuary Network for East
Senator Shields of Tennessee introduced a congressional bill to establish sanctuaries for game animals birds and fish within national forest reserves. He notes existing protected areas in the West and Appalachians and urges further purchases under the Weeks Law to create breeding and protection grounds east of the Mississippi for wildlife and recreation.
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Ashington
Senator Shields
Tennessee
National Forest Reserve
Shields
United States
Rocky Mountains
Middle West
Mississippi River
Congress
Appalachian Mountains
Commission Tna
Agricultural Department
New Wampshire
Virginia
North Carolina
Georgia
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Alabama
Arkansas
Massachusetts
South Carolina
Mississippi
Mandates in International Relations Aims and Classifications
Analyzed is the mandate concept in international law as a system where victorious powers supervise backward territories for humanitarian and economic development. It outlines League of Nations oversight, responsibilities, and class distinctions A B and C with examples like Mesopotamia Palestine Pacific islands, plus notes on perceived motives and imperial context.
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League of the Civilized Nations
Btt
League of Nations
Council of the League
League
Nations
Council of the League of Nations
Ic Auding
Mesopotamia
Pacific
Equator
Palestine Mandate
Western governors press for Colorado river reclamation plan
A Denver conference of eight western state governors including Gampbell of Arizona and Davis of Idaho urged rapid passage of the Smith McNary cooperative reclamation bill. They seek a $250 million revolving fund for irrigation, mandatory veteran employment on funded projects, and an early federal ambassador to aid Colorado River Basin water settlements, to reduce costly court litigation.
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Denver
Harding
Congress
Thomas FE. Gampbelt
Arizona
League of the Southwest
J. W. Davis
Idaho
Reclamation Association
Emmet D. Boyle
Nevada
Charles He. Mahey
Utah
Touls Hart
Washington
Joseph B. Dixon
Montana
Shoup
Colorado
Mecham
New Mexico
Gov. Davis
Colorado River
Commerce and the Lifeblood of a Nation in Courts
An expert survey cites Article 1, section 8, paragraph 3 as the source of most litigation. The scope has widened from regulating foreign and interstate trade to covering people and humane issues like white slave laws and labor acts, shaping numerous Supreme Court decisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Supreme Court
Congress
Interstate Commerce Commission
Marshall
Commerce Section
Supreme Court
Congress forms Veterans Association of the Sixty-seventh Congress
Veterans of World War Civil and Spanish American wars met in Washington at the University Club to form The Veterans Association of the Sixty-seventh Congress. Fifty attendees included 26 World War veterans who are American Legion members. Roy G. Fitzgerald was named president and John E. Rankin secretary, with John Thomas Taylor outlining Legion legislative goals on consolidation, vocational training, hospitalization, and emergency retirement bills.
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America
Navy
Congress
Washington
University Club
Veterans’ Association
United States Senate
House of Representatives
Congressional
The
World One
American Legion
Henry Z. Osborne
California
Roy G. Fitzgerald
Ohio
John E. Rankin
Mississippi
Congressional Veterans
John Thomas Taylor
National Legislative Committee of the Legion
War on Legions Bachelors in Kansas Sparks Campaign
Miss McCoy of Topeka heads a campaign for the American Legion Auxiliary urging Kansas to keep bachelors out. The effort quotes homey benefits of Auxiliary support at banquets and clubhouses, while noting wartime service of Miss McCoy in a bank.
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Kansas
Sunflower
Miss McCoy
Topeka
Women’s Auxiliary of the
American Legion
Legion
Legion Flag Adorns New Orleans Historic Quarter Building
The American Legion will fly its flag on a city parcel in the heart of the old French Quarter, near the Spanish Cabildo site. The Legion building will include an auditorium, offices, and clubrooms, plus Louisiana department headquarters and service bureaus.
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American Legion
New Orleans
Posta
Legion
Gulf of Mexico
Louisiana Purchase
Louisiana Department
Legion Employment and Service Bureau
Wowlen’s
Pellematre
Louldane Department
Rise of Legion Man Colonel Shaughnessy Recalled
Colonel Hdoward H Shaughnessy former assistant director of the American Petroleum Institute in New York joined Fidelity post of the American Legion in New York City after leaving a $25 000 job for one paying 85 000 yen He rose from a 16 year old ticket agent and telegraph operator for the Chicago and Northwestern railroad to high posts in the transportation corps The War Department praised him for service in France earning the Distinguished Service Medal
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Hdoward H. Shaughnessy
Fidelity Post
American Legion
New York City
Shaughnessy
Wi] Hays
American Petroleum Institute
Chcago
Chicago & Northwestern Railroad
Thirteenth Engineers
George van Horn Moseley
Staf
Transportation Corps
ChaTteau- Thierry
Ts-sur-Tille
St Mihiel
Meuse-Argonne
Wandger
Pershing
Made Legion Drive Success In New Orleans
Anthony Kelley a discharged navy veteran becomes a Legion worker in New Orleans. He climbs a flag pole atop city hall and hangs from a building coping to promote a membership drive while motion pictures capture the stunt. He recalls stormy sea nights and wartime service aboard the Navy 88.
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Anthody Kelley
Navy
New Orleans
Rollin Post
Amercan Legion
Kelley
Legion
Montana Law Exempts Ex-Service Men From Poll Tax
The legislature passed a law backed by the American Tanglon providing for statewide registration of all veterans from all wars. Ex-service men are exempt from poll tax payments, and county assessors must maintain records of veterans and their organizations. Other states are expected to follow.
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Montana
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United States Shipping Board
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House
Federal Reserve Books
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Reads
Frank O. Lowden
Ref Hlinois
Firstern Wrneslan Association of Almerica
Syracuse
N.Y
Cook County
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Harry Irish
At- Tanita
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Wlots
Wigin
Millers
Mintexnolis
Norm
Mneecoe
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