Secretary Baker Flags Army Pay Potentials Deficit
Secretary Baker said he would notify Congress that the army pay appropriation is inadequate given actual strength. He noted authorized army strength around 280,000, with pay funding based on 180,000, current strength about 220,000, and ongoing recruitment that may widen the deficit. The War Department can exceed appropriations when needed.
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Washington
Baker
Congress
Wis
War Department
Polish assurances limit Poland drive to natural frontier
Washington reports Polish officials promise complete assurance that victorious Polish armies will not push beyond the natural frontier of the reconstituted republic. A Warsaw communication reiterates the U S stand that Allies must declare Russia's integrity while forbidding Polish transgression. Britain backs no offensive expansion and diplomacy hinges on next rounds of talks among Lloyd George Dialitti Millerand Lehrenbach and Simons.
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Washington
United States
Poland
Warsaw
Legation
State Department
Colby
Russia
Minsk
Great Britain
Lloyd George
Livestock Agents Plan Litigation Over Brokerage Rules
Kansas City based Livestock Exchange files injunction against Edwin T. Meredith to halt regulation of brokerage rates by the secretary of agriculture. Petition to be filed in federal court in Kansas City and Washington claims the new order to revert to old charges harms commission men who have recently raised their fees.
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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 Seek Methodist Help to Reform Dancing
In New York on August 28 the American National Association of Masters of Dancing urged the Methodist church to aid reform of dance rather than uphold a ban. The resolution, adopted at the convention opening, accuses the church of hampering dancing teachers while praising the Red Cross and other war agencies for recognizing dance as educational entertainment and exercise.
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New York
Methodist Church
American National Association of Masters of Dancing
American Red Cross
Woman Charged With Murder After Lover's Death
Toledo brief details a love triangle ending in murder as Myrtle Hensley is jailed for first degree murder. Her daughter and son-in-law are witnesses on $15,000 bond. Leo Cousino died after a confrontation, a revolver once belonging to him found hidden. Hensley confessed to shooting him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Myrtle Hensley
Sousine
Hilda Shinbach
Cousino
Ponzi Fights Bankruptcy and Solvency Trial
Charles Ponzi, facing receivership and multi million dollar claims, filed a denial of bankruptcy in federal court claiming solvency and requesting a jury trial. proceedings may be delayed until the federal grand jury meets next month. State larceny charges were scheduled but deferred to federal action. habeas corpus proceedings may follow to bring Ponzi to trial.
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Boston
Charles Ponzi
D. V. McIssaacs
Ponzi
A. Hurwitz
Oil Strike Near Arctic Circle Yields Small Flow
Imperial Oil reports a new oil strike just north of the Great Slave Lake near the Mackenzie River. The output is about ten barrels a day and may not be economical to develop.
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Toronto
Imperial Oil Company
Arctic Circle
Great Slave Lake
MacKenzie River
Insane mother aided son in fatal shooting of father
In Ogden Utah James Clough 47 was shot dead Sunday night by son Raymond 14 acting at the urging of his mother Ollie Clough 40 who stood behind him and urged more shots. Police say both confessed and the boy said his mother had three prior commitments to insane asylums in Texas.
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Ogden
Utah
James Clough
Raymond Clough
Ollie Clough
Texas
Suffrage Order Delayed State Certification in Tennessee
Nashville reports that arguments on an order restraining state and legislative officials from certifying Tennessee's ratification of the federal suffrage amendment may be heard Wednesday or Thursday. The order extends to chief clerks of the senate and house and covers Saturday business, as anti-members from Decatur, Alabama, remain out of jurisdiction and the legislative process stalls.
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Nashville
Tenn
Washington
Tennessee
Senate
House
Decatur
Ala
Britain to Recognize Egyptian Independence
The London Times reports Britain will recognize Egypt's independence after talks between Viscount Milner and an Egyptian delegation led by Said Zagloul Pasha. Key points include Egypt acknowledging Britain's privileged Nile Valley position, allowing access during war, a British garrison in the canal zone, control over 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
In Naples Italy Aug 238 the next US president may hear The Star Spangled Banner via wireless telephone from the yacht of William Marconi in the Mediterranean. Guests danced aboard as London orchestra music arrived clearly. Marconi receives London news by wireless 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 Hamlin a former Wyoming state Senator and resident of Colorado Springs was robbed of a black leather bag from a car owned by Spencer Penrose. The bag contained more than 1000 dollars in valuables. The car was parked on Sixteenth street in Denver and the loss occurred while Hamlin briefly left the vehicle. No clue to the thief or 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 forecast shows fair days with showers in extreme northwest
The forecast calls for generally fair weather on Tuesday and Wednesday with showers in the extreme northwest. Tuesday remains warm while Wednesday turns somewhat cooler.
Two Die In Toledo Seed & Oil Plant Fire
Two men are dead one missing and two firefighters hospitalized after a fire and explosion at the Toledo Seed and Oil company plant in Toledo Ohio The engineer William Jensen re entered the burning building after sounding the alarm and died from burns Identify of the second body remains unknown and rescue efforts continued
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Toledo, O
Toledo Seed & Oil Company
William Jensen
Lisburn killings and Cork mayor murder linked
Dublin reports that after the Lisburn shooting of Police Inspector Swansey only one of the attackers in Cork mayor Maac Curtain’s murder is said to remain alive. Forty men allegedly participated, leaders are pursued, and forty Lisburn houses were burned in reprisal.
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Dublin
Swansey
Lisburn
Maac Curtain
Cork
German Controller In London to Look Up That Grub-Stake
London August 23 German food controller Herr Hermes arrived with experts to consult the British food controller on methods to execute the Spa agreement for German miners.
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London
Herr Hermes
Brush Fires Threaten Manitoba Homesteads
A brush fire sweeping northward about three miles from Inwood endangers a score or more homesteads in the Inwood district Manitoba. Strong winds hamper firefighters as no casualties are reported.
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Winnipeg
Inwood
Manitoba
Hughes Makes Clear Support for Harding Coolidge Ticket
New York Aug 23 Charles Evans Hughes the Republican presidential nominee in 1916 assured Will Hays national chairman of his hearty sympathy with the Harding Coolidge ticket and his intent to actively further the Republican campaign in a Monday meeting in New York.
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New York
Charles Evans Hughes
Will H. Hays
Yellow millionaire to be handed stone hammer at Leavenworth
Irvine E. Bergdoll, a wealthy army slacker, appeared at Fort Leavenworth on Monday to begin a four year sentence. He is to be put to work with a stone breaking gang.
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Yellow Millionaire
Leavenworth
Wheat tops Wyong crops amid regional drought and car shortages
Farmers in southern Wyoming report the bumper wheat crop, with yields from twenty five to forty bushels per acre on dry land and irrigation. The Platte valley acres near Guernsey grow small grains alfalfa and corn, while sugar beets expand toward the Nebraska line, aided by irrigation and new beet dumps at railroad stations.
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Wyoming
Jack A. Bristol
International Harvester Company
Mr. Bristol
Platte Valley
Guernsey
Nebraska Line
Nebraska
Cox declines to testify on slush fund charge
Dayton Ohio August 23 Governor Cox refuses to testify before the senate campaign fund committee regarding a claimed 16 million dollar slush fund for the Republican campaign. He says he will send information and make public other facts in future addresses while not appearing in person. The committee orders Hays White and treasurers to appear with books and papers and asks Cox to present evidence or send a representative. Senator Kenyon chairs the inquiry and plans to telegram Cox.
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Dayton
Cox
Kenyon
Iowa
Senate
Reed
Missouri
Chicago
Will Hays
George White
James M. Cox
Spencer
Premiers George Giolitti Seek Peace Through Moderation
An official statement from LuZerne reports Lloyd George and Giolitti agreeing to reestablish world peace at the earliest moment. It says future peace hinges on existing treaties and urges victors to show moderation while the vanquished should display loyalty in enforcing terms. England and Italy aim to extend Spa understandings to all outstanding questions.
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Luzerne
Switzerland
Associated Press
Lloyd George
Giolitti
England
Italy
Spa
Governor Cox Likely Subpoenaed by Senate Campaign Committee
A Senate campaign committee announced plans to investigate both national campaigns. A committee member told the Associated Press that Governor Cox, the Democratic nominee, may be subpoenaed and required to appear unless he volunteers.
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Chicago
Cox
Senate
Associated Press
Polish Triumph Growing on Eastern Front Panic
Berlin Aug 23 The Lokal Anzeiger correspondent reports Russian retreat along the East Prussian border has become a panic under Polish cavalry pressure. Cattle herds and troops are fleeing as officers and commissars try to restore order with revolvers. some regiments have discarded their weapons.
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Berlin
Lokal Anzeiger
Poles Recapture Bialystok as Bolsheviks Fight Retreat
Dispatches report Polish forces recaptured Bialystok after fierce Bolshevik resistance. Russian Red troops reel along the front from Warsaw toward Mlawa and Soldau, with 11 000 Red prisoners taken in two days as Poles press toward Ostrelanka Tomza and Bialystok.
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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 claims two officers lives
In Chicago on Monday William Tiennessy and James Mulcahy were killed after an attack at the Beaux Arts club described as a black and tan cafe in the city’s south side. Police arrested three suspects including bailiff Wishhey Miller who confessed to shooting both officers as officers detained over 100 patrons.
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Chicago
William Tiennessy
James Mulcahy
Po Ncemen
Beaux Arts Club
South Side
Black Belt
Hwishhey Miller
Americans Freed By Mexican Outlaw Release Details
Six Americans kidnapped in Jalisco were freed by the outlaw Pedro Zamora. He continues to hold two captives: W A Gardiner, superintendent of the Esperanza Mining Co, for 100000 pesos and W B Johnson, a British subject, for 60000 pesos.
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Mexico City
Pedro Zamora
Jalisco
W. A. Gardiner
Hsperanza Mining Company
W. B. Johnson
Man Held Over Trunk Murder Mystery In Texas
A man fitting the description of Eugene Leroy, wanted in the New York and Detroit trunk murder case, was detained by Fort Worth officers and federal agents on a train from Merkel Texas.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Eugene Leroy
New York
Detroit
Merkel
Texas
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