Cox Clinches Democratic Nomination On Forty-Fourth Ballot
At the San Francisco convention Cox governor of Ohio won the Democratic presidential nomination after a long four day fight. He reached 702 votes on the forty-fourth ballot as McAdoo tally slumped and the platform moved to nominate him by acclamation amid bands and cheering.
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Associated Press
James Middleton Cox
Ohio
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Cox
Sam B. Amidon
Stock Exchange
Georgia
Clark Howell
Wilson
Cummings
League of Nations
Missouri
Ring Lardner
Irving
Cobb
Washington
Kentucky
Senator Reed Denounces League as Treason Cause
Senator Reed told a Kansas City mass meeting that the League of Nations is a league of treason and would bring national death. He said credentials committee hearings in San Francisco offered him a seat if he kept silent on the league issue, and his refusal led to denial of a seat at the convention.
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Associated Press
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League of Nations
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Credentials Committee
Irish Connaught Rangers Mutiny Report from India
Three fourths of the battalion of Irish Connaught rangers at Jallender in the Punjab mutinied after recent events in England. The troops remained loyal to officers but expressed solidarity with friends in Ireland, Reuters dispatch reported from London.
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Associated Press
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Japan to keep troops at Vladivostok and Saghalien posts
Premier Hara announced Japan will occupy supply points in Saghalien as needed to police and establish a government and settle the Nikolsk massacre. Troops will withdraw from unnecessary Siberian districts but stay in the Vladivostok region to deter Korea.
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Associated Press
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Siberia
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Wealthy woman bound and robbed in San Francisco hotel
Mrs C E Moeller a friend of Mrs John F Hylan wife of New York City's mayor was found bound and gagged in her room in a prominent San Francisco hotel. The room had been looted by burglars.
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Associated Press
C. E. Moeller
John F. Hylan
New York City
Plane Crash at Snoqualmie Kills Mechanic in Fourth of July Scene
E M Walsh a Seattle aeroplane mechanic was killed when a plane crashed from 150 feet during the Snoqualmie Fourth of July celebration. Frank B Miller of Seattle was slightly injured as hundreds of visitors watched the accident unfold on Sunday.
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Associated Press
E. M. Walsh
Frank B. Miller
Snoqualmie
Transport En Route Alaska Is Aground
The army transport South Bend with 280 men and supplies for the Alaska engineering commission grounded off Point Angeles in heavy fog while trying to reach Port Angeles harbor to pick up a pilot. It rests on land and is expected to float at high tide this afternoon.
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Train wreck on Great Northern fast mail injures four
Otto Vige of Everett and A H Warner of Leavenworth were killed when the Great Northern fast mail wrecked at Halford, fifty miles from Seattle. Express messenger Herman Chater and brakeman C E Wilkinson of Seattle were seriously injured as the engine left the track and six cars were demolished. No passengers were aboard.
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Associated Press
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Everett
A. H. Warner
Leavenworth
Herman Chater
C. E. Wilkinson
Great Northern
Halford
La Follette Leads for Empty Honor in New Party Bid
New York July 6 The committee of forty eight reports 30000 responses favor Senator La Follette for the presidential nomination of the new Labor party to be formed in Chicago on July 10. It also states he has strong backing from Northwest farmers and the party overall.
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Chicago
Labor Party
Gompers Defends Labor Stand on Platform Review
Samuel Gompers president of the American Federation of Labor denied commenting on the Democratic platform. He said it is too early to judge and the federation will release a statement of labor's attitude toward both platforms after the convention.
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Associated Press
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
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Three UMWA organizers killed by mine guards
Three organizers of the United Mine Workers of America were killed in a clash with mine guards at Roderfield McDowell County, according to a telegram received by Chief Kenny district president in Charleston.
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Wrangel Encircles Bolshevik Cavalry Corps in South Russia
The war office reports General Wrangel’s forces trapped and captured an entire Bolshevik cavalry corps of eighteen regiments with forty guns in southern Russia. A second Bolshevik cavalry corps and its staff were also captured, leaving a battlefield strewn with dead.
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Eighteen Die In Lackawanna Valley Line Wreck
Eighteen people were killed and over 100 injured when lightning struck a telegraph pole near South Pittson station, sending a pole onto the track in front of a Scranton bound train. The three-car consist telescoped in the collision.
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Attorney for I. W. W. Arrested at Astoria
George F. Vanderveer of Seattle, the attorney who defended the I. W. W. at Centralia after the Armistice day parade massacre, was arrested in Astoria on a charge of resisting an officer as he attempted to address a workingmen's picnic where I. W. W. literature was said to be distributed.
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Associated Press
George F. Vanderveer
Seattle
Centralia
Speed Record on Dirt Track at Tacoma
Tommy Milton won the ninth annual Speedway at Tacoma driving 225 miles in 2 hours 23 minutes. He averaged 95 miles per hour, the fastest dirt track record. Mulford finished second followed by Hearne with Klein Sarles Murphy Chevrolet and O'Donnell in that order. DePalma Durant Thomas and Boyer were forced out without serious accidents.
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Many Names Put Forward for Vice Presidency in Cox Fight
Reports from San Francisco Seattle and Dayton on the 6 July pace of the Democratic convention. Delegates shift between Cox McAdoo and Roosevelt with ballots showing Cox gaining. Alaska delegation supports James Hamilton Lewis while women’s committee changes kept as is. Harding praises Cox but says GOP plans unchanged in Ohio.
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McAdoo
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John W. Troy
Juneau
Women’s National Committee
Marion, CO
Harding
Ohio
Army Planes To Fly From New York To Nome
Four army Dehavilland planes will fly from New York to Nome on July 15 to test Alaska air routes for potential commercial lines. The mission aims to establish aero plane mail paths, photograph inaccessible areas, and support engineering work as the fleet crosses ten state borders and Canada. The crew includes Captain Stalair, Lieuts Nutt Nelson Cramerine Kirkpatrick, Sergeants Henriquez Vierra and Master Engineer English. The "Rolfe" returned yesterday from southeastern Alaska.
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Ross Kirkpatrick
Edmund Henriquez
Albert T. Vierra
Joseph W. English
How Allies Will Divide War Spoils
The allied premiers near agreement on reparations shares after the war. France to receive 52 percent, Great Britain 22, Italy 10, Belgium 8, Serbia 5, with 3 percent likely for other allies such as Roumania, Portugal and Japan. Italy to gain further economic advantages amid Bolshevik threats to Poland. Foch and Wilson consulted. At Humboldt Iowa seven killed when a Minneapolis-St. Louis train plunged through a bridge north of town.
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