World News Roundup From Capitals And Conflicts
A weekly synthesis reports on British cabinet actions over the German reparations note and Allied diplomacy, plus broad international items. It notes the Singapore naval base debate, Ruhr passive resistance, a U.S. state affairs briefing, and various incidents across America, Europe, and beyond including labor strikes, voyages, and treaty renewals.
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House of Commons
Singapore
Insane Prison Riot Sparks Breakout at Illinois State Hospital
Seventy five inmates at the Illinois state hospital for the criminal insane in Chester attacked guards with knives after breaking through bars in the bull pen. Thirty one escaped through a newly created passage, four recaptured, twenty six at large, and two guards wounded. Jackson, a Chicago murder convict, was killed by a guard during the melee.
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Chester
Ill
Illinois State Hospital
Jackson
Chicago
Illinois State Penitentiary
Joliet
Withholding Wheat Aids Chicago Area Farmers
Southwestern grain growers report success with the American Farm Bureau plan to store wheat on farms and finance it via the intermediate credit act. The Wichita intermediate credit bank is advancing over 100000 dollars daily for storing farm wheat and expects to lend up to two million dollars daily.
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Chicago
American Farm Bureau Federation
Farm Bureau
Kansas City
Intermediate Credit Bank
Wichita
Kas
M. C. Lasater
Wichita Institution
Legion defamer to jail in Chicago six months
Arthur Lorenz former Staats Zeitung editor was sentenced to six months in the workhouse for malicious defamation of the American Legion. Judge Hugo Pam ruled his editorial remarks branded Legion members as bums vagabonds and tramps and attacked the World War army as scum.
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Arthur Lorenz
Staats Zeitung
Chicago
American Legion
Hugo Pam
Lorenz
Son
The
Legion
Missouri and Kansas ranked high in rural mail routes
Washington report shows Missouri fifth and Kansas sixth in the nation for rural delivery routes and mileage served, per the Post Office Department.
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Washington
Missouri
Kansas
Post Office Department
Detroit to Build World Tallest Hotel
Detroit plans a 29 story hotel on the Cadillac site. It will be the tallest hotel in the world and is to be erected immediately as the old Cadillac hotel is razed.
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Germany
Washington
Cosgrave
Irish Free State
Geneva
Assembly of the Lague of Nations
Free State
League
Detroit
Cadillac
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