Athens Included in Strike Order of Telegraph Men
Athens joins the nationwide walkout in support of Atlanta telegraph and telephone operators. Western Union workers across several states are ordered to strike immediately by the Commercial Telegraphers Union president S J Koenkamp. Officials report rapid compliance, though the impact may be limited.
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Athens
Atlanta
South
Associated Press
Washingon
Western Union Telegraph Company
Florida
Alabama
Georgia
North
South Carolina
West Virginia
Kentucky
Mississippi
New Orleans
Commercal Telegraphers Union
S. J. Koenkamp
Koenkamp
Postal Telegraph Company
Telegraph Union
H. Worthen
Southern Division
The
Western Union
Man killed by locomotive at Colbert while supervising rails
W. H. Wade of Atlanta died en route to Athens after being struck by a Seaboard locomotive at Colbert while directing a construction crew on the road bed. He died from loss of blood after injuries to his left leg and right foot were sewn. Wade’s remains were to be sent to Atlanta from the W. F. Dorsey Undertaking establishment.
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W. H. Wade
Atlanta
Athens
Colbert
Wade
Seaboard
W. F. Dorsey
U S Civil Service Exams Planned for Rural Carrier Posts
United States civil service examinations to fit rural carrier positions at Nicholson and possible vacancies on rural routes from other post offices in Jackson county will be held in Athens on July 12. Application blanks will be given out here, Wednesday.
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United States Civil Service
Nicholson
Jackson County
Athens
South Dakota Seeks November Vote on Prohibition Law
Pierre South Dakota June 65 The direct legislation organization filed with the secretary of state a referendum petition bearing 16000 signatures calling for a November 1920 vote on the 1919 dry prohibition law.
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Associated Press
Pierre
South Dakota
South Dakota Direct Legislation Organization
Secretary of State
Indee
Burleson Restores Telephones to Private Ownership
Washington June 5 Postmaster General Burleson ordered the telephone and telegraph systems returned to private ownership immediately in a statement accompanying the formal order he said existing rates would remain in effect and orders forbidding discharge of employees because of union affiliation would stand
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Associated Press
Washington
Burleson
Senate Debates Heated Over Peace Treaty and League
Washington June 6. A five hour senate debate covered the treaty publication, treaty principles, the league of nations, and charges of partisanship. Hitchcock accused Lodge and Borah of a scandalous attack. Lodge denied concealment and called for investigation. Borah claimed a conduit linking pro league backers to Taft and reporters. Acting Secretary Polk denied the state department had disclosed financial sections to NY press.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate
League of Nations
Hitchcock
Lodge
Borah
New York
Democratic State Department
League
Taft
Polk
State Department
Senator Lodge
O Connor Elected to Congress from First District
New Orleans June 5 James O Connor of New Orleans was elected today representative from the first Louisiana district to fill the unexpired term of Albert Stopinal who died recently.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
James O'Connor
Louisana
Albert Stopinal
Foreign money for Mexico sought by government
Mexico pledges to protect foreign investments and pay all debts if others are patient. Dr Juan B Rojo, Mexico's chargé d affaires ad interim, told the Pan American Commercial Congress. Allied intervention in Hungary urged by former Austro Hungarian foreign minister Julius Andriasy as a remedy for communist waste. Bolsheviks defeated evacuate Uralsk as Siberians and Cossacks gain control of the Uralsk region.
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Associated Press
Washington
Mexico
Juan B. Rojo
Pan-American Commercial Congress
Hungary
Vienna
Julious Andriasy
Uralsk
Stockholm
Ural River
Helsingfors
Athens Crushers Attend Big State Convention
Athens cotton seed mills will send delegates to the Georgia Cotton Seed Crushers Association annual meeting in Savannah June 17 18. Georgia and South Carolina crushers meet jointly with plans for a business like program plus leisure activities. Several Athens men are expected to attend with a boat tour of the Savannah port Tybee beach cabaret luncheon and other entertainments planned by the Savannah committee.
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Athens
Georgia Cotton Seed Crushers Association
Savannah
South Carolina
Savanah
Tybee Beach
Branson Endorses Special Tax Commission in North Carolina
In a letter to Dr J H T McPherson of the commission Dr E C Branson former president of the State Normal School and UNC rural economics professor praises the commission endorsing it as an effective campaign document. He requests revised bulletins and notes the upheaval in North Carolina tax matters and recent legislative results.
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Special Tax Commission
E. C. Branson
State Normal School
University of North Carolina
J. H. T. McPherson
Commission
the Normal
North Carolina
Athens Women to Aid Georgia Club Organization
Athens women will assist the Georgia Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs at a two day meeting in Atlanta at the Chamber of Commerce on June 13 and 14. A Friday dinner opens the convention with sessions Saturday featuring Miss Lena Madesin Phillips and others. Georgia cities including Macon Augusta Savannah Rome Athens and Atlanta will be represented.
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Athens
Georgia Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs
Atlanta
Chamber of Commerce
Lena Madesin Phillips
Kentucky
National Committee On Federation
Helen McCormick
New York
Nina B. Price
Georgia
Macon
Augusta
Savannah
Rome
Former Kaiser Sees His 2000th Tree In Amerongen
Amerongen June 5 Former Emperor William sawed his 2000th tree in the presence of the Bentinck family and the Burgomaster of Amerongen The tree blocks bore inscriptions and seven were given to local friends At the castle a confirmation ceremony for Count Bentincks youngest son Herr Hohen zollern accompanied the monarch who also awarded a gold pin to his companion Miss Jo Ingram returns home after entertaining time in Chattanooga after honorable discharge at Fort Oglethorpe.
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Amerongen
William
Bentinck
Herr Hohen
Zollern
Jo Ingram
Chattanooga
Fort Oglethorpe
Visitors Board for University of Georgia Named for Meeting
Official list of the University of Georgia board of visitors was received from the Governor’s office. The group, chaired by RR. Hull, includes Walter P. Thomas, J. C. Dukes, M. Barker, Thomas mpkin, and others. They will meet here next Monday to inspect university conditions and prepare a final report to the board of trustees.
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Board of Visitors
University of Georgia
Governor's Office
Walter P. Thomas
LaGrange
J. C. Dukes
Dawson
M. Barker
College Park
Thomas Mpkin
Cartersville
RR. Hull
Georgia’ ‘Normal School
Valdosta
Athens ministers help frame Sewanee drive plans
Athens ministers join Atlanta diocese in shaping a campaign to raise 75 000 as part of a 1 000 000 endowment for the University of the South Sewanee Tenn At a Wednesday luncheon in Atlanta bishops and lay leaders urged pledges from prominent Episcopalians in Atlanta Columbus Macon La Grange Griffin Marietta Cedartown and Athens The plan aims to relieve deficits and fund better faculty salaries by building a substantial endowment to support tuition and operations.
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Atlanta
University of the South
Sewanee
Tegn
H. J. Mikell
Athens
Mee
Episcopal Church
Columbus
Macon
la Grange
Griffin
Marietta
Cedartown
Milton Dargan
D. Evans
H. E. Stockbridge
O. N. Dana
H. W. Anderson
W. R. Prescott
T. D. Tinsley
R. P. Spencer
Harris Cope
Cartersville
R. P. Sheppard
Albion W. Knight
Allgood Hurt In Auto Spill Believed To Live
Charlie Allgood 28, son of Athens police officer C H Allgood, was injured when a Buick on the Mitchell Bridge road sideswiped a telegraph pole near Prince avenue and Normal High School. He regained consciousness after the crash and physicians say he has a good chance to recover though he suffers brain concussion, a broken arm, and other injuries. Two young women in the car escaped with minor injuries.
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Charlie Allgood
Young Allgood
C. H. Allgood
Athens
Mitchell Bridge
Prince Avenue
Naval Recruiting Office Planned in Athens Georgia
The War Department plans to expand its recruiting for the United States Marine Corps and Navy. Local mail addressed to Naval Recruiting Office, Athens, Ga., has increased, though no formal announcement has been made. Washington discusses boosting enlistments to avert vessel junking.
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United States Marine Corps
Navy
Athens
Naval Recruiting Office
Washington
Koons Charges Postal Shirked War Duties
Assistant Postmaster General Koons told the house interstate commerce committee that if other ice companies had adopted the Postal policy it would have strangled the government in war. He charged the Postal avoided government business gave no special effort to expedite it and transferred many government messages to Western Union for delivery in cities where the Postal ran offices.
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Washington
Koons
House Interstate Commerce Committee
Ice Companies
Postal
Western Union
Yank Red Cross Man In Charge Of 1500 Czecho Slovak Unit
Major John Reifanider, formerly of Frederick Maryland now in Tokio, arrives to escort 1600 Czecho Slovak troops from Vladivostok via the Suez Canal to Trieste and Prague. He recounts tense Siberian duties with Red Cross trains and Cossack threats near Krasnoyarsk, aided by British forces when needed.
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Yank Red Cross
Tokio
Associated Press
John Reifanider
Frederick, Md
American Red Cross
Siberia
Vladivostok
Suez Canal
Trieste
Prague
Reidfaunder
R. B. Teusler
Virginia
Red Cross
Russia
Omsk
Omak
Reifsiider
Krasnoyarsk
The Crawford Chapter C of C memorial gift noted
Mrs W D Ellis Jr sent twenty five dollars to the Mary Anne Lipscomb Memorial School. The gift has been gratefully acknowledged by the Crawford Chapter C of C.
83 Die In Mine After Powder Explosion In Delaware and Hudson Mine
Wilkesbarre Pa June eighty three men dead fifty injured and burned many to die from a disaster in the Baltimore tunnel mine of the Delaware and Hudson Coal Co Survivors say 300 pounds of black powder detonated when a sagging wire contacted a steel powder keg about 200 feet from the tunnel entrance A sheet of flames enveloped workers in cars with no escape Rescue parties found the dead and dying piled in cars and along the tunnel bodies burned to a crisp
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Associated Press
Wilkesbarre
Baltimore Tunnel
Delaware and Hudson Coal Co
August Ruddie
Plans for Scout Week in Athens Are Forming
Georgia campaign head Ely Callaway leads the drive to enlist associate members for the Boy Scouts during June 8 14. The effort seeks fathers and mothers to join with a one dollar minimum, aiding troop equipment and promoting youth development through an organization praised for wartime service.
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Athens
Georgia
Uncle Sam
America
Ely R. Callaway
Beat
South
Boy Scout Movement
Callaway
United War Work
Dixie First
Famous Old Dickens Inn to Be Sold in Ipswich
Ipswich England June 4 The Great White Hotel one of Dickens Inns to be sold The inn famed from Pickwick Papers where Mr Pickwick encounters a bedroom scene over the front porch a sign described as a stone statue of a rampaging animal with a wild mane resembling an insane carthorse remains.
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Ipswich
Eng
Great White
Pickwick
Man Held For Banks Scam Returns $75 to Victim
James Allen Caldwell posed as a helper to a dying relative and obtained $75 from Clinton Ashford of Watkinsville by claiming a good check could be cashed. Ashford, alerted by the scar and weight clue, alerted authorities who arrested Caldwell in Athens after he bought a ticket toward Atlanta. The suspect faces multiple charges of passing bad checks across several states.
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Athens Banner
Athens
Clinton Ashford
Watkinsville
J. B. Allen
J. M. Caldwell
Capt
C. F. James
Mr. Ashford
James Allen Caldwell
Hilory
Lew Gag
Ashford
Seguin
Georgia
Alabama
Florida
South Carolina
Allen
Georgia Bankers’ Protective Association
Banner
Willard Begins Rigorous Prep For Dempsey Bout
Willard, nearing his heavyweight title defense against Jack Dempsey, began intensive training in Toledo. He scheduled six round workouts, ran five miles daily, worked at increasing weights, and shadowboxed as part of his conditioning plan ahead of the June title match.
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Associated Press
Toledo
Jack Dempsey
Jess Willard
Willard
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Wirz
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