War Department rep urges martial law and rush of troops
Brigadier General Bandholtz requests federal troops for West Virginia strike area and predicts martial law will be proclaimed soon. He notes miners resist the president's order as federal troops are held in readiness at Camp Sherman and Camp Dix and could reach the state by noon.
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War Department
Camps
Dix
Sherman
Washington
H. H. Bandholtz
West Virginia
Harboard
Charleston
W. Va
Morgan
Logan
Boone
Bandholtz
Hotel Kanawha
Ohio
N. J
Kanawha
Fayette
Mingo
Logan Deputies Driven Back In Skirmish At Spruce Fork
Logan county deputies on Crooked Creek were driven a mile and a half back after a skirmish with an armed force across Spruce Fork ridge. Two deputies were wounded. In Camp Dix, New Jersey, orders to prepare the 16th Infantry for possible duty in West Virginia coal fields were issued, with no movement ordered yet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dix
N. J
Shanks
West Virginia
16Th Infantry
Lloyd George Irish reply awaited in Scotland
London on September 1 reports Premier Lloyd George has moved to Gairloch Scotland while Sinn Fein waits for Eamonn De Valera reply. The text likely goes to the British cabinet in London for approval and a formal nomination of plenipotentiaries including Arthur Griffith to represent a united Sinn Fein in forthcoming negotiations. A separate note from Richmond Virginia says miners seized an engine at Clothier halting C&O branch line service to West Virginia coal fields.
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Associated Press
London
Lloyd George
Gairloch
Scotland
Eamonn de Valera
Sinn Fein
Mansion House
Dublin
Dail Eireann
Arthur Griffith
Richmond
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway
West Virginia
Clothier
Receiver Sought for Paramount Petroleum in Shreveport
Confederated Progressive Oil Corporation filed in federal court seeking the appointment of a receiver for Paramount Petroleum Company Inc a ten million dollar company organized in Shreveport over a year ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Receiver Oil Corporation
Shreveport
Confederated
Progressive Oil Corporation
Paramount Petroleum Company, Inc
Governor Len Small Blames Milk Profiteers For Infant Mortality
In Emington Illinois on September 1 Governor Len Small told gathered farmers that babies in Chicago are dying for want of milk as great corporations charge extortionate prices. He branded milk profiteers and praised farmers resisting war price levels amid claims of cement trust and traction barons.
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Emington
Lil
Len Small
Chicago
Cement Trust
Great Cement Trust
Last effort to induce men to disperse in West Virginia
From Charleston a final bid by Major Thompson and Brigadier General Bandholtz sought to end the Boone Logan border standoff. Governor Morgan and UMW leaders were in talks as troops held back, awaiting another chance for peaceful surrender in the Logan county dispute.
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Charleston
Boone-Logan County
Logan County
Thompson
U.S. A
Morgan
H. H. Bandholtz
War Department
Bandholtz
Washington
United Mine Workers
General Bandholtz
Philip Murray
Secretary of War
West Virginia
Lively London Scenes as Sheriffs Arrest Borough Council Members
London authorities moved against the popular borough council using motor patrols to arrest members who refused to raise tax rates per a High Court order. George Lansbury and women councilors were not yet arrested, while unemployed crowds rallied in Shoreditch and Hackney with multiple arrests and seven day sentences for a local organizer's secretary.
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Associated Press
London
High Court
London County Council
Sherif
George Lansbury
Daily Herald
National Labor Organ
Shoreditch
Board of Guards
Auto Demolished and Six Occupants Injured
Parkersburg West Virginia September 1 an attempt to cross interurban tracks before an approaching car wrecked the Thompson auto entirely six people were injured R H Thompson was cut Mrs Marie Thompson suffered gashes Hazel Kearns also injured others escaped serious harm The baby was only slightly hurt
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parkersburg
W. Va
R. H. Thompson
Thompson
Marie Thompson
Hazel Kearna
Miners Fight Prompts Border Alert on Logan Boone Line
Reports say at least fifty miners dead on the Logan Boone border amid clashes with law officers. Sheriff Chafin seeks aid as reinforcements are mobilized. a Chesapeake and Ohio bridge on Big Creek near Logan was set afire but saved from major damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chesapeake and Ohio
Big Creek
Tazewell
Logan
Boone County
Chafin
Logan County
A. C. Pinson
Mingo County
Williamson Daily News
Logan Court House
McDowell County
Logan-Boone
Fayetteville
Joseph M. Crockett
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
Guyan Valley
Chesa
Federal troops unlikely in West Virginia unrest
Secretary Weeks said incomplete reports from General Bandholtz indicate insurrectionary forces in West Virginia are dispersing and soldiers may return home. If later reports confirm this, troops would not be sent, though remain in readiness until danger ends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Weeks
H. H. Bandhoittz
West Virginia
Bandholtz
Warlike Charleston Guards Planes Stationed In Kanawha City
Charleston braced for conflict as five large bombing planes from Langley Field landed at Kanawha City. Captain William Street led pilots and observers with more than a hundred volunteers mustered to guard the aircraft. Governor Morgan warned there could be no compromise with lawbreakers.
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Charleston
W. Va
Langley Field
Kanawha City Field
Allare
William Street
Street
J. B. Kincaid
Adjutant General's Department
Capitol Annex
Kanawha City
Captain Street
Kincaid
France
EK. F. Morgan
Fairmont Times
Charges waste and profligacy riot at ABA convention
Former Senator Charles Thomas of Colorado attacked federal power and wasteful spending in a speech to the American Bar Association convention. He argued for stronger states’ rights and warned the government’s transformation endangers the republic. A Japanese Bar Association gift underscored international ABA ties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas
Colorado
Cincinnati
United States
American Bar Association
Charles 38. Thomas
Bar Association
Sadadzuki
Armed men mass near Blair Clothier and Jeffrey camps
Madison West Virginia September 1 armed men marching toward concentration camps around Blair Clothier and Jeffrey. County officials estimate reinforcements at least 500. Sheriff Hill cites reports of miners killed on Spruce Fork ridge with 8000 to 10000 armed men in the villages.
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Madison
W. Va
Blair, Clothier
Jeffrey
Whiteaville
Clothier
Sheriff Hill
Spruce Fork Ridge
Bluefield Contingent Arrives in Logan for Front Nine Mile Trip
The Bluefield contingent totaling sixty seven arrived in Logan at 9 30 this morning. They departed at 10 o'clock by automobile for the front nine miles away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Logan
W. Va
Bluefield
Harding Urges Less Armies and Navies in Speech
President Harding at Army War College opening says armaments may diminish but warns there will always be a need for armed forces. He tells 200 officers they will not be called to service in ways they cannot wholeheartedly support.
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Washington
Harding
Army War College
West Virginia
America
Conflicting reports as armed bands clash near Spruce Ridge
Logan West Virginia September 1 conflicting accounts describe armed bands on Spruce Fork ridge while Logan county deputies volunteers and state troops patrol the area Captain I G Hollingsworth reported deputies driven from Crooked Creek by a ridge band an emergency force was sent to aid two deputies wounded reportedly but Colonel W K Eubanks would not confirm either claim indicating uncertainty over casualties and movements of forces.
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Logan
W. Va
Spruce Fork Ridge
Logan County
I. G. Hollingsworth
Crooked Creek
W. K. Eubanks
Gompers Attacks West Virginia Mine Autocracy and Gunmen
Samuel Gompers of the AFL denounces West Virginia mine owners and private armies backed by Baldwin Felts as he condemns violence and calls for federal action to end private gunmen, restore civil government, and enforce the coal commission award. He stresses absentee owners seek only dividends and urges justice for miners.
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Federal Coal Commission
Washington
West Virginia
Samuel Chompers
American Federation of Labor
Gompers
Baldwin- Felts Detective Agency
United States Coal Commission
United States
Federal
Bituminous Commission
Mingo County
Girl Mysteriously Shot Near Armonk Estate
Miss Alice Agnew seventeen daughter of banker Cornelius R. Agnew was shot in the head while horseback riding with her brother Rae on the Agnew estate near Armonk New York. She was rushed to a New York hospital in an unconscious state and attended later reported her condition satisfactory. authorities believed the bullet a stray from a hunter.
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White Plains
N. Y
Alice Agnew
Cornelius R. Agnew
Rae
Armonk
New York
Ohio Belt Telephone Seek Consolidation Plan
Washington dispatch reports the Ohio Belt Telephone Company and the Ohio State Telephone Company filing a joint petition with the Interstate Commerce Commission to consolidate. The proposed new entity would be named the Ohio Belt Telephone Company and this marks the first such filing since the transportation act was amended to allow telephone company consolidations.
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Washington
Ohio Belt Telephone Company
Ohio State Telephone Company
Interstate Commerce Commission
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CEN
Stanley H. Ford
C. H. Thompson
White House
Sharples
Phillip Murray
United Mine Workers of America
Spruce Fork
J. G. Hollingsworth
Popular Borough Council
Hackney
Spruce Ridge
Gumperg
Baaig
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