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Newspaper
Cheyenne State Leader
Location
Cheyenne, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1920
Page
7
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The War Department announced the establishment of six army corps areas with headquarters in Ft. Sheridan Fort Crook Fort Sam Houston Presidio and San Francisco. Alaska and Porto Rico attachments shift administrative control to Ninth and Second corps areas. Nine corps area commanders named with Shanks Bullard Cronkhite Morrison Read Wood Bundy Dickman Liggett Muir and Hines listed.
Walter Brown testified at a coroner's inquest into the collision between a Union Pacific engine and a freight train killing Ray M. Cannon and Edward Burke. The accident occurred after poor visibility and absence of rear caboose lights led to the crash.
In Boston on August 20 three receivers were appointed to settle the Ponzi affair. Hearings begin Saturday as Charles Ponzi, brought from jail, is examined as an alleged bankrupt and agrees to surrender property to satisfy claims. He estimates assets at 4 million dollars while liabilities range from 4 to 7 million.
Advices from Kattowitz say French troops occupy main streets in Upper Silesia and patrols disperse crowds. Polish troops cross the frontier and reach near Kattowitz. Laurahutte clash leaves 12 security police dead and many wounded as Poles advance. Weather: fair weekend with rising temps.
At Shash Raba Mesopotamia Dr Digley political officer Bran field commandant of the levies and irrigation official Mr Buchanan along with two British officers were killed after three days of resistance. The message notes the Arab levies remained loyal and perished beside the British defenders.
Reports in San Antonio Spanish papers say the Mexican government would seek the extradition of General John J. Pershing and other US officers who crossed into Mexico after bandits if the United States seeks Villa for the Columbus New Mexico raid. US officials dismissed the reports as propaganda with no significance.
C. E. Farnsworth faced charges for taking a new Ford from Thompson Motor Co. where he worked. He was tried before Justice Frank Houseman. ruling pending at 10 this morning. Farnsworth posted a $100 bond after legal arguments. The car valued at $900 was allegedly taken without consent for joy riding and damaged in the process.
Colonel Leonard Deitrick formerly of Cheyenne has been transferred from New Jersey to Chicago where he will serve as division financial officer. A letter to his sister Mrs. Joseph Williams reports the move.
Five socialist assemblymen ousted from the New York State Legislature have been renominated for the September 16 special election. The county socialist committee announced the campaign and the Committee of Forty-Eight will back the ticket in districts formerly held by the ousted members, according to Julius Garber.
Three bandits entered a San Francisco printing company's office on Friday night, pistol whipped the employer and took payroll funds totaling 3250 dollars. They fled in an automobile, leaving the workers unpaid.
Yakima Washington August 20 Franklin D Roosevelt democratic vice presidential nominee spoke here stating reclamation is the key to the high cost of living. He pledged to push for a forty million dollar annual appropriation for reclamation projects and delivered the remarks Friday afternoon.
Suffrage leaders blocked a reconsideration motion as the Tennessee House adjourned without voting on revoking ratification of the federal suffrage amendment. Opponents lost the right to reopen the issue, while suffrage forces planned to push a Saturday motion to seal the action and bypass further parliamentary tactics.
Three airplanes intended to be distributed along the line between Omaha and the Pacific coast in the Cheyenne air mail extension project failed to depart Friday afternoon due to bad weather.
National Woman's party says more legislative or executive action may be needed in several states before election machinery allows women to vote in November. Alice Paul, chairman, wired attorneys general in doubtful states asking if polling roads open after ratification. Only nine states remain to be heard from.
In Kalamazoo Michigan on Friday night Harry Greb of Pittsburgh won a newspaper decision over Chuck Wiggins of Indianapolis in a ten round boxing match.
A Warsaw dispatch says Poland’s army advances northeast of Warsaw after repelling a Bolshevik drive toward Plock. Recaptured towns include Sokolow Dorhica and Biala with prisoners and supplies. peasants near Litno use axes and scythes against retreating Reds, taking no prisoners.
An Associated Press dispatch says Polish delegates traveling to Minsk were slowed by endless detours on ruined roads east of the city. The party left Warsaw at dawn Saturday and, after thirty hours, had not reached Sprest-Litovsk, four hours away by car in normal times.
Terms from M. Danishevsky include full Polish independence, frontier per Curzon note with gains east of Bialystok, Polish army cut to 60 000, a 72 hour ceasefire, neutral zone after retreat, land grants for families of war casualties, free transit rights to Russia, and full political military amnesty. Fr n congratulates Paris mission and J Jusserand, urging praise for Pilsudski and Polish army.
A London firm used an ordinary desk phone to talk with a pilot flying across the English Channel to Paris. The connection ran from Croydon to the air ministry wireless setup after two desk calls, marking what is claimed as the first commercial telephone conversation via central and wireless links with an aircraft.
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