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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1919
Page
23
Fragmentary note describes a Brigadier General ordering return of troops and mules, with references to B. Erwin and a clash with Ville. Text is garbled and unreadable in key names and dates. Unable to confirm full events or entities from the fragment.
Major General Robert L. Howze is ordered to Fort Bliss to assume command of the El Paso border district as violence on the border concerns policymakers. In Mexico City, Luis Cabrera advocates a reciprocal border guard service with the United States to prevent clashes, noting past obstacles over Pershing expedition withdrawal and signaling potential quick resolution amid foreign-property protection and air questions.
Washington reports indicate Mexico City papers freely discuss potential U S intervention. An A B C article outlines seven possible methods including invasion and frontier seizure, recognition of rebels, withdrawal of recognition, ultimatums on debt and petroleum issues, arbitration, and pressure to end the rebellion.
Twenty three New York theaters are now closed after the Actors Equity strike with the Casino and Liberty joining the walkout. George M. Cohan leads an independent actors group as he contemplates retiring to build a new labor split. Chicago theaters also shut as PMA affiliated films are banned and operators threaten walkouts to enforce the ban.
Louisville August 23 amid partial resumption of street car service the fifth day of a strike by motormen and conductors has left Hines demoralized except for lines to Jeffersonville and New Albany Indiana no cars operated tonight and none planned tomorrow. Fourteen cars ran briefly under police escort earlier. twenty two people were arrested for disorders and nine were seized after a brick was thrown from a fourth story building. A trades and labor committee urged Mayor Smith to seek arbitration of grievances.
San Diego August 23 authorities say hope of finding Lieutenants Frederick Waterhouse and C H Connelly is abandoned after limited air search. In Lower California Mexican cavalry and US forces comb the region for the missing aviators with no trace found by 2 PM.
Austin telegram quotes Texas Governor W P Hebby telling NAACP officials that John R Shillady, secretary of the organization, was the sole offender in the matter and had been punished before the inquiry. The governor urges the organization to keep its representatives and propaganda out of the state. He notes Shillady was in Texas to meet Austin branch members.
Greenville August 23 solicitor J Robert Martin served notice of a motion for re sentence for Thurston A Vaughn former superintendent of the South Carolina Odd Fellows orphanage who had confessed to attacking several young girl inmates and was sentenced to death in 1912 on criminal assault charges In Memory of Perry Put In Bay Ohio August 23 memorial commission marks the 134th birthday of Commodore Oliver H Perry hero of the Battle of Lake Erie with his famous phrase We have met the enemy and they are ours.
New York August 23 the army transport Great Northern sails for San Francisco signaling a permanent shift to Pacific transport service. Her sister ship Northern Pacific will follow west in about six weeks, with both vessels to be used permanently in the transport service on the Pacific.
The line will run San Francisco to Honolulu Manila Vladivostok Nagasaki Honolulu and back to San Francisco. When American forces withdraw from Siberia these ships will sail. One vessel has set an unusual transport record between France and its service. The trip from San Francisco to Manila will take about 15 days, improving mail service between those ports and linking The Great Northern and Northern Sl.
In Sylvania Georgia on August 23 special reports say the Great Northe company on outbreak war deployed ward ships on the Pacific and added two county policemen to Screven County headquarters. B I Cannady from Burks county and T G Holt of Midville were attached as emissaries to bolster local law enforcement.
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