Secretary Baker Sees Army Pay Deficit Likely
Secretary Baker said the army pay appropriation is insufficient for the current force level and will notify Congress when it reconvenes. He noted authorized strength around 280,000, actual about 220,000, with recruiting continuing and a potential need for a deficiency measure. The War Department may exceed appropriations in such cases.
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Washington
Baker
Congress
Wis
War Department
Poles Reassure US on Limited Polish Advance
Washington reports Polish officials assure the United States that Poland will not push beyond the natural frontier of a reconstituted Poland. The note reiterates US aims for Russia's integrity and no Polish transgression, with Britain seeking a joint allied policy.
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Washington
United States
Poland
Warsaw
Legation
State Department
Colby
Russia
Minsk
Great Britain
Lloyd George
Livestock Agents Move to Court Over Brokerage Rates
Kansas City based livestock interests announce an injunction petition against Edwin T. Meredith, secretary of agriculture, to restrain him from regulating brokerage rates for livestock commission men. The filing will occur in federal court in Kansas City and in Washington, as agents seek to prevent further rate changes after recent increases and a secretary ordered return to former charges.
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Kansas City
Edwin T. Meredith
Secretary of Agriculture
Washington
I. N. Watson
Kansas City Livestock Exchange
Meredith
Livestock Commission
Dance Masters Ask Methodists to Aid Dancing Reform
An open four day convention in New York saw the American National Association of Masters of Dancing urge the Methodist church to support reform rather than ban on dancing. The resolution criticizes church restraint and notes praise from the Red Cross and other war agencies for dance as education entertainment and exercise.
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New York
Methodist Church
American National Association of Masters of Dancing
American Red Cross
Toledo Mystery: Woman Arrested in Double Love Tragedy
Leo Cousino died from a self inflicted gunshot after a love triangle led to a murder plot. Myrtle Hensley, mother of the other woman, is jailed for first degree murder with her daughter and son in law as witnesses. A 45 caliber revolver found at the scene helped reveal the crime.
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Toledo
Leo Cousino
Cousino
Myrtle Hensley
Sousine
Hilda Shinbach
Ponzi Resists Bankruptcy Claim in Federal Court
Charles Ponzi, under receivership for alleged multmillion frauds, filed a denial of bankruptcy claiming solvency and seeking a jury trial. A federal grand jury will likely hear the case next month, while state larceny charges were postponed as federal authorities take precedence.
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Boston
Charles Ponzi
D. V. McIssaacs
Ponzi
A. Hurwitz
Oil Strike Near Arctic Circle With Limited Flow
Imperial Oil reports a small oil discovery just inside the Arctic circle north of Great Slave Lake near the Mackenzie River. The flow is about ten barrels per day and may not be economically viable.
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Toronto
Imperial Oil Company
Arctic Circle
Great Slave Lake
MacKenzie River
Insane mother linked to murder of father in Utah
In Ogden Utah James Clough 47 was shot dead Sunday night by his son Raymond 14 acting at the mother's urging Ollie Clough 40 stood behind him guiding the shot police say both the boy and the mother confessed The mother allegedly had three prior involuntary commitments to insane asylums in Texas.
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Ogden
Utah
James Clough
Raymond Clough
Ollie Clough
Texas
Suffrage Order Delayed Certification In Tennessee
Tennessee debates the order restraining state and legislative officials from certifying Tennessee’s ratification of the federal suffrage amendment. Hearings may occur Wednesday or Thursday as the process stalls. The legislature remains largely inoperative with anti-members absent in Decatur, Alabama.
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Nashville
Tenn
Washington
Tennessee
Senate
House
Decatur
Ala
Britain to Recognize Egypt Independence Says Times
The Times reports Britain has agreed to recognize Egypt’s independence after talks with Viscount Milner’s mission and Egyptian delegate Said Zagloul Pasha. Key points include Britain’s privileged Nile valley position, access rights in war, a garrison in Egypt, Egypt controlling foreign relations with limits, and abolition of capitulations.
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London
London Times
Great Britain
Egypt
The
Times
Viscount Milner
Said Zagloul Pasha
Ofustice
Canal
Wireless Anthem May Greet Victor
Naples Italy Aug 238. The next U S president may be greeted by The Star Spangled Banner transmitted by wireless telephone from William Marconi s yacht in the Mediterranean. Marconi guests danced on board to London music as transmission proved distinct. He receives London news daily and works on a direction finder to locate ships at sea.
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Naples
Italy
United States
William Marconi
Mediterranean Sea
Senor Marconi
London
Clarence Hamlin Victim of Thieves
Clarence CG Hamlin a former Wyoming state senator and Colorado Springs resident was robbed on Sixteenth Street in Denver. Thieves took a black leather bag from a car owned by Spencer Penrose containing over $1000 in valuables after Hamlin forgot the grip while they were out for a drive. No trace of the bag has been found.
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Clarence CG. Hamlin
Wyoming State Senate
Colorado Springs
Colo
Spencer Penrose
Sixteenth Street
Denver
Mr. Hamlin
Hamlin
Mr. Penrose
Weather Outlook For Tuesday And Wednesday
Generally fair with showers in the extreme northwest. Warm Tuesday, then cooler Wednesday.
Two Die in Toledo Seed and Oil Plant Fire
In Toledo on Monday night a fire and explosion at the Toledo Seed & Oil company plant left two men dead, one missing, and two firefighters hospitalized. Identified victim is engineer William Jensen who re entered the burning building after signaling the alarm.
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Toledo, O
Toledo Seed & Oil Company
William Jensen
Lisburn killings and Cork mayor shooting linked
Dublin reports the Lisburn police shooting of Inspector Swansey prompts claims that only one of the Cork mayor Lord Mayor Maac Curtain attackers remains alive. Republicans accuse many participated in the April night while leaders are hunted and forty Lisburn houses burned in reprisal.
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Dublin
Swansey
Lisburn
Maac Curtain
Cork
German Controller In London to Look Up That Grub-Stake
LONDON Aug. 23 German food control chief Herr Hermes arrived with experts in London to meet the British food controller and discuss the Spa agreement regarding German miners and the best methods for its implementation.
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London
Herr Hermes
Brush Fires Threaten Manitoba Homesteads Inwood District
A brush fire sweeping northward three miles from Inwood endangers a score or more homesteads in Manitoba’s Inwood district. Strong winds hinder firefighters as no casualties are reported.
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Winnipeg
Inwood
Manitoba
Hughes Assures He Is for Republicans
New York August 23 Charles Evans Hughes the Republican presidential nominee in 1916 assured Will Hays Republican national chairman that he fully supports the Harding Coolidge ticket and will actively aid the Republican campaign days after returning to New York from a speaking tour.
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New York
Charles Evans Hughes
Will H. Hays
Yellow millionaire to be handed stone hammer at Leavenworth
Irvine E. Bergdoll the wealthy army slacker was brought to the disciplinary bar at Fort Leavenworth on Monday to serve a four year sentence he is to be put to work with a stone breaking gang.
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Yellow Millionaire
Leavenworth
Wheat King of Wyong Crops This Year
Farm crops across southern Wyoming show a historic boom with a bumper wheat crop noted by Jack A. Bristol of International Harvester. Dry land yields 25 to 40 bushels per acre, and along the Platte valley east of Guernsey small grains alfalfa and corn thrive, while sugar beets expand toward the Nebraska line with new beet dumps and nearby sugar factories.
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Wyoming
Jack A. Bristol
International Harvester Company
Mr. Bristol
Platte Valley
Guernsey
Nebraska Line
Nebraska
Cox to Decline to Testify on Slush Fund Charge
Dayton Ohio August developments center on Governor Cox amid charges of a 15 million dollar slush fund for the Republican campaign. Cox refused to testify, promising to send information to the Senate committee and to publish details in future addresses. The committee ordered Hays White and campaign treasurers to appear with books and papers.
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Cox
Dayton
Kenyon
Iowa
Senate
Reed
Missouri
Chicago
Will Hays
George White
James M. Cox
Spencer
Peace clarity charted after Spa talks with Giolitti and Lloyd George
An official statement from Luzern on August 23 reports that Premiers Lloyd George and Giolitti agree on reestablishing world peace at the earliest moment. It calls for victors to show moderation in enforcing terms and the vanquished to display loyalty in execution, aiming to extend Spa understandings to all outstanding questions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Luzerne
Switzerland
Associated Press
Lloyd George
Giolitti
England
Italy
Spa
Governor Cox May Face Senate Campaign Subpoena
A Senate campaign committee member said Governor Cox the Democratic nominee could be subpoenaed to testify before the committees investigating the Republican and Democratic national campaigns unless he agrees to appear voluntarily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Cox
Senate
Associated Press
Polish Triumph Growing on Russian Front Panic at East Prussian Border
Berlin reports from the Lokal Anzeiger correspondent say a Russian retreat on the East Prussian border has turned into a panic under Polish cavalry pressure. Cavalry and infantry flee, officers and commissars try to restore order with revolvers, some regiments discard weapons.
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Berlin
Lokal Anzeiger
Poles recapture Bialystok as red forces retreat
Dispatches report Polish forces retaking Bialystok after stiff Bolshevik resistance. The front along the Narew and Bug forks tightens as Polish armies press from War saw toward Ostralenka and Tomza, with 11 000 Bolshevik prisoners taken in two days.
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Warsaw
Mlawa
Soldau
Modlin
Graudenz
Bylau
Blonsk
Przasnysh Makov-Rozany
Narew
Bug
Ostralenka
Tomza
Bialystok
Grodno
Ostrelenka
Lomza
Middle Narew
Beaux Arts club shooting kills two police officers
In Chicago on Monday William Tiennessy and James Mulcahy were killed when attacked at the Beaux Arts club a black and tan cafe in the south side black belt. Police say three men fired the shots and have detained over 100 patrons. bailiff Wishhey Miller confessed to shooting the officers.
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Chicago
William Tiennessy
James Mulcahy
Po Ncemen
Beaux Arts Club
South Side
Black Belt
Hwishhey Miller
Americans Free by Mexican Outlaw
Mexican bandit Pedro Zamora released six Americans captured in Jalisco. He continues to hold two hostages, W A Gardiner of the Esperanza Mining Co and W B Johnson a British subject, demanding 100000 and 60000 pesos respectively.
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Mexico City
Pedro Zamora
Jalisco
W. A. Gardiner
Hsperanza Mining Company
W. B. Johnson
Man Held Over Trunk Murder Case Near Fort Worth
A man described as matching Eugene Leroy, sought in the trunk murder mystery linked to New York and Detroit, was seized Monday night by police and federal officers as he stepped from a Merkel Texas train in Fort Worth.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Eugene Leroy
New York
Detroit
Merkel
Texas
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