Cox Warns Senate Oligarchy Fights for Big Stakes
Paducah Ky Oct 8 1920 Governor Cox declares the presidential contest shapes Supreme Court vacancies as a real danger of a reactionary victory next to the League of Nations scrapping. He cites four vacancies and warns the Senate will control confirmation if Harding wins. Cox labels the Senate oligarchy as playing for big stakes. Harding tours Missouri with stops at St Joseph and Kansas City. Cox platform collapse incident in Bowling Green injures several. Atlanta audience notes shift toward Vereen as new state Democratic chairman with Flynt possibly retained. Final Georgia results show Hardwick leading with 102 counties.
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Great Britain Demands Reds Free Prisoners
London reports Britain threatens action if Soviet Russia fails to free British prisoners by October 10. Notes exchanged between British and Soviet governments quote Leonid Krassin pressing for fulfillment of conditions from last July’s mutual prisoner lease bargain and cessation of hostilities.
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Senate Probers Still Trailing Cox Note
Dayton Oct 8 The senate sub committee investigating campaign expenditures continued its efforts to determine the disposition of the $5 000 note alleged to have been given by Governor Cox to a local bank in August 1917 and paid by Dayton Metal Products in June 1919. Employees of the bank and former bank officials were called today.
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Soldiers of The Gray March In Houston
Soldiers of the Gray march through Houston in a two mile line past colored bunting. The scene echoes Civil War era mobilization, with Wes of the Confederacy leading a modest parade amid the city.
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Orders Flags Lowered In U. S. November 14
President Wilson directs that on Sunday November 14 the American flag be flown at half staff on all public buildings and naval and military posts as a token of participation in memorial services for Americans who died in the world war.
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GA to get new congress seat due to census gain
Washington reports final census figures show the West and South gaining political clout as population rises to 105,683,108. Fifty new House seats are needed to preserve current representation, with Alabama Georgia South Carolina Tennessee Virginia Arkansas each gaining one, Texas three, and North Carolina two.
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U. S. Wooden Vessels In Little Demand
Washington Oct 8 Bids for only four of 285 wooden vessels offered for sale by the U S Shipping Board were opened today at the board's headquarters. Total bids for the four ships reached 116500, far below the government cost. Bids were under consideration.
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Irish Bomb British Lorry Soldier Dies in Cork
Civilians bombed a military lorry in Barrack Street Cork this morning. One soldier was killed and three wounded. Two men and a woman were shot in the legs as soldiers who escaped injury fired on the crowd.
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Radical leaders held as dangerous in Chicago raid
The Justice Department said Nicolai John Jazzinski and John Holoeny were arrested after agents found vast radical literature in their Chicago possession. Jazzinski held nearly a half ton of communist articles including a pamphlet urging armed revolution by foreign elements. One hundred thousand were shipped from Chicago yesterday and traced to authorities. Documents tied Holoeny to the radical Russian anarchist group in America.
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Steamer Believed Gulf Storm Victim
Fears are entertained for the safety of the steamship Lake Lillieuson which left New York September 23 with a cargo for Tampico. The last report placed her near Sand Key on September 29 entering the Gulf where a tropical disturbance is reported. The crew numbered 35 men.
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MacSWEENEY'S 57TH DAY Reported in London
London dispatch reports Lord Mayor Rarescen facing severe illness on his 57th day, with observers noting he struggles to whisper and remains under care. The brief item notes the dire condition while offering no details on cause or prognosis.
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Dodgers March to Cleveland for World Series Play
Brooklyn Dodgers head to Cleveland to face the Indians as the World Series resumes. Leon Cadore declares team morale won Brooklyn the pennant and predicts a victory in the series.
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Germany Again Asks For Reparations Limit
Paris reports Germany reiterates demand for a definite reparations sum. A new proposal has been sent from Berlin to Paris this week via Charles Laurents, French ambassador to Germany.
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Gas soaked plane demonstration at Mineola lands safely
Washington experts from army and navy aviation service prepare a government report on a flaming oil soaked fire proofed airplane demonstration and its midnight landing witnessed last night at Mineola. Civilian aviator Paul Collins conducted the flight before a 6000 foot rise, fully saturated with gasoline, enabling a controlled glide and safe touchdown amid a dramatic pursuit by observers.
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Cotton Prices Seen To Rise As Selloff Pressures
Macon reports show merchants and cotton factors expect a price rebound after widespread selling as traders anticipate declines in all goods. M S Goode, a leading southern cotton factor, told the Ha cott Chapter of the American Institute of Banking that sharp near term gains are foreseen. Governor Harding of the Federal Reserve Bank said the bank will not lend to farmers to hold crops for higher prices and noted a Georgia tax exemption petition for cotton loan uses.
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Americus Spot Cotton Prices Reported
The Americus market shows good middling cotton at 22 1 2 cents per pound. A fragment notes five colored women and a reference to the United States, but details are unclear in the damaged text.
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Valdosta City Council Opposes Telephone Rate Rise
The Valdosta city council voted to oppose a proposed telephone rate increase. They instructed City Attorney Lane to file objections with the Georgia Railroad Commission and seek Chamber of Commerce support to challenge the change, aiming to spare residents from higher charges. The council also discussed how rate hikes affect other utilities and dividends.
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Bountiful Crop Harvest Estimated for Washington State
Washington officials announced October 1 estimates for major crops including Wheat 967,655,000 bushels Corn 4,260,000,000 bushels Oats 1,444,009,000 bushels Potatoes 14,986,000 Sweet potatoes 103,779,000 Tobacco 1,478,788,000 Peanuts 30,217,000 bushels. A storm warning forecast gale force winds off the mid Atlantic coast tonight. Local visits noted from Hawkinsville to Americus and Athens, with various residents passing through. A minor root fire prompted minimal damage and small emergency response.
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