Bolsheviks Close on Warsaw as Polish Defenses Strain
The Bolsheviks push toward Warsaw from north and east threatening the capital. Polish forces under General Haller retreat along the Vos river while a Polish mission and American relief representatives head to the front to discuss treatment of 300000 children cared for by Americans. Western dispatches note Minsk peace delays and a potential Armenia Soviet treaty.
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Warsaw
Associated Press
Haller
Vos
Pnitusk
Mlway
Thorn
Plonsk
Vistula
Battle Front
American Relief Organization
Moscow
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
France
Wrangell
Russia
Millerand
Lloyd George
Hythe
London
Tchitcherin
Minsk
Armenia
Artificial leg left to him by life long friend
James W. Phelps, now walking San Francisco streets on an artificial leg lent by Henry Marsh who died recently. The two men bonded over the loss of a leg, Marsh who could afford the limb lent it to Phelps with the promise that it would go to him after Marsh’s death.
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W. Phelps
San Francisco
Henry Marsh
Marsh
Phelps
Dominion Home Rule Promised in Ireland Plan
Dublin August 14 The Freeman's Journal reports M Wylie legal adviser to Viscount French resigns rather than accept Bonar Law pledged Monday to grant dominion home rule with full fiscal authority.
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Dublin
Associated Press
the Freeman’s Journal
M. Wylie
Viscount French
Ireland
Bonar Law
Forest fires threaten wide areas in western states
Missoula Montana reports six fires spreading as northern Idaho and Washington fires also burn. California forest fire danger rises with four fires burning uncontrolled, signaling a severe regional blaze situation.
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Missoula
Mont
Associated Press
Montana
Idaho
Washington
California
San Francisco
Associated
Forest Service
Vienna Taxed to the Breaking Point
Vienna faces a 1.2 million crown deficit as sources of revenue dry up. The city plans cuts across departments including downsizing young civil servants and teachers for 1900000 students, with the 1913 budget at 237.5 million crowns and current expenditures at 2.5 billion crowns, partly due to an 83 million mark wartime loan from Germany and exchange losses.
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Vienna
Associated Press
Germany
American Legion Forms Strong Football Team in San Francisco
The San Francisco Golden Gate post of the American Legion is assembling a football team with players from California colleges including Stanford and Santa Clara and former Princeton Harvard and Cornell stars. The club plans a September opener against the Olympic Club in San Francisco.
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San Francisco
Associated Press
California
Stanford
Santa Clara
Fairbanks Banker Held in San Francisco for Unsigned Conveyance
R. C. Woods, president of the First National Bank of Fairbanks, was brought to San Francisco from Placerville by a deputy U S marshal and held for a federal officer from Juneau. He is charged with failing to sign a $125 000 conveyance. Two appeals to the circuit court of appeals were dismissed for lack of jurisdiction.
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San Francisco
Associated Press
R. C. Woods
First National Bank of
Fairbanks
Placerville
United States
Juneau
Woods
Circuit Court of Appeals
Tennessee Speaker Defends Convictions on Suffrage Vote
Nashville reports Speaker Walker of the House refused to surrender his honest convictions for political expediency or party harmony. He telegraphed President Wilson that Tennessee men would not surrender their beliefs as the Senate ratifies woman suffrage.
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Nashville
Tenn
Associated Press
Tennessee
Walker
House
Wilson
Senate
Nome Squadron Heads to Dawson from New York
Four Army aircraft en route from New York to Nome are expected to depart Hazelton British Columbia for Dawson today according to Associated Press dispatches. The mission involves air travel across the region with plans to reach Dawson.
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Hazelton
B. C
Associated Press
Nome
New York
Dawson
General G A Woodruff Dies at Oakland Home
General G A Woodruff, retired, who served in the Civil War and the Custer campaign, died at his Oakland home last night at age 75.
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Gen. Woodruff
Oakland
Associated Press
G. A. Woodruff
Escapees Indicted for Murder in Sheriff Killing
Pendleton Oregon August 14 five prisoners who escaped when the sheriff was killed July 25 were indicted today on first degree murder charges by a grand jury.
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Pendleton
Ore
Associated Press
Vatican denies pope fell in accident reports
Rome August 14 via Associated Press the Vatican rejects newspaper claims that the pope sustained a fall and asserts there was no accident involving the pontiff.
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Rome
Associated Press
Vatican
Ahearn Reinstated on Olympic Team
Antwerp Aug 14 AP says Dan Ahearn was reinstated to the Olympic team after apologizing for breaking the committee rule.
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Ahearn
Antwerp
Associated Press
Dan Ahearn
Egrement Secretly Deported to Canada
Arthur Egrement, once a Canadian parliament member named in the New York five million dollar bond plot, has been secretly deported to Canada, disclosed at Ellis Island today by officials.
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New York
Associated Press
Arthur Egrement
Canada
Ellis Island
Mannix Defies Edict and Plans Ireland Visit
Archbishop Mannix says he will travel to Ireland before leaving the United Kingdom despite an official government edict prohibiting the trip. He declares he does not feel bound by government orders as police monitor his Nazareth House movements.
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Mannix
Ireland
London
Associated Press
United Kingdom
Nazareth House
Government Soldiers March to Mexicali
Three thousand Mexican government troops having landed at El Barril on the Gulf of California prepare to march north across the Colorado desert to engage the Cantu forces at Mexicali.
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San Diego
Associated Press
el Barril
Gulf of California
Colorado Desert
Mexicali
Griffin Triumphs In Casino Tennis Final
Clarence J. Griffin of California defeated national champion William Johnston to win the final singles at the Casino tennis tournament in Newport.
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Newport
Associated Press
Clarence J. Griffin
California
William Johnston
Richmond Foran, War Vet, Struck by Lightning in New Jersey
Richmond J. Foran, a machine gun battalion veteran who carried 22 wounds from the war, was killed by lightning today in Patterson New Jersey. The Associated Press dispatch notes his war service and his fatal death by a natural incident.
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Patterson
N. J
Associated Press
Richmond J. Foran
Balkan Pact Aims to Shield Czecho Slovakia Serbia Romania
An agreement among Prague Belgrade and Bucharest governments seeks self protection for Czecho Slovakia Serbia and Romania against Russian enemies in the Balkans.
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Balkans
Rome
Associated Press
Prague
Belgrade
Bucharest
Czecho-Slovakia
Serbia
Rumania
Missing Texas crewman linked to $1500 shortage
Police and federal agents hunt Leroy Fleming boatswain's mate on the battleship Texas who vanished from Bremerton. An initial shortage of 1500 dollars was found in his mail clerk accounts.
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Seattle
Associated Press
Leroy Fleming
Texas
Bremerton
Cox Attacks Senatorial Oligarchy At West Virginia Meet
Governor Cox charged the Republican opposition with trickery over the League of Nations and with backing a partisan spoils campaign behind a smoke screen. He warned of a powerful coalition seeking government control as millions flow into campaign funds. He urged Democrats to push a constructive progressive program promising substantial federal savings.
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Wheeling
W.va
Associated Press
Cox
League of Nations
West Virginia
Railways Take On A New Lease Of Life
Daniel Willard president of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad told the senate reconstruction and production committee that railroads will soon support themselves without outside aid. He noted return to private ownership with higher rates and wages has energized officers and employees.
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New York
Associated Press
Daniel Willard
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Senate Committee On Reconstruction and Production
D Annunzio Breaks With Fiume Council Over Free State Plan
Trieste Aug 14 The open rift between D Annunzio and Fiume national council widens as he declares the creation of a free and independent state of Fiume with plans to extend along the Wilson line between Italian and Yugoslav territory.
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Trieste
Associated Press
D’annunzio
National Council of Fiume
Fiume
Longshoremen vote to return to work on Monday
Coastwise longshoremen who have been on strike since March voted at a mass meeting last night to return to work Monday provided steam ship companies remove strike breakers and agree to submit the strikers demands to arbitration including a proposed 15 cent an hour wage advance.
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New York
Associated Press
Mediator Appointed to Settle Denver Tramway Strike
G Y Harrity of Portland named government mediator to handle settlement of the Denver tramway strike. The report also notes Indiana's population at 3,935,404, up 8.5 percent per the census department.
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Denver
Washington
Associated Press
G. Y. Harrity
Portland
State of
Indiana
Census Department
Japan reply to protest of Uncle Sam over Saghalien
Japan has sent a lengthy note to the state department protesting the American position on the northern Saghalien occupation and outlining its Siberian policy. The document is understood to be thorough and may be released to the public next week.
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Japan
Uncle Sam
Ciated Press
Saghalien
State Department
Siberia
Roosevelt says League of Nations endorsement could saved Poland morale
Franklin D. Roosevelt declared in Milwaukee that US backing of the League would have preserved Poland's morale and that American membership could have halted Russian armies without sending American troops abroad.
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Milwaukee
Associated Press
Franklin D. Roosevelt
League of Nations
United States
Poland
League
Express Rates Approved For 12.5 Percent Increase
The interstate commerce commission authorized a 12.5 percent rise in express rates after a request by the American Express Company. A proposed 25 percent increase was rejected as unjustified.
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Washington
Associated Press
Interstate Commerce Commission
American Express Company
Pharmacist Admits Poisoning Wife in San Diego Case
T F Flash chief pharmacist’s mate of the U S S Prairie was arrested and charged with his wife’s death and has admitted giving her poison, police announced.
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San Diego
Associated Press
T. F. Flash
Leaders of Denver mobs jailed in street car strike
Denver August 14 Associated Press reports legal action began against leaders of mobs during the street car strike. Meanwhile union leaders plan jitneys to compete with street cars amid the dispute.
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Denver
Associated Press
Globe Tro tter at 84 Still Active in Dairy Work
Grass Valley California reports H. B. Nichols 84, once aboard the Fannie Major wrecked July 4, 1852 off Cape Horn, remains vigorous enough to run a dairy. He survived the shipwreck after prayers and pumps, the vessel reaching San Francisco in September 1852.
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San Francisco
Nichols
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Goe
Oxford
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Cal
Cape Horn
South America
H. B. Nichols
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