Corn crops rise while wheat prospects lag in September report
U S Department of Agriculture crops report shows corn at 3,186,000,000 bushels with gains from August, while all wheat at 730,000,000 bushels, winter wheat 544,000,000 and spring wheat 210,000,000. Oats and kafir declines offset some corn gains as last year’s record remains above the five year average.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Vermont
New York
North Dakota
Minnesota
Indiana
Illinois
Plains States
De Valera warns ultimatum would mean war
In Dublin Eamon de Valera declares peace cannot rest on illusion and insists if England issues an ultimatum it means war. He accuses British leaders of selling Ireland a false peace and says force could be used, while Sinn Fein reports nothing to communicate ahead of a cabinet meeting in Inverness.
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Dublin
Inverness
Eamonnn de Valera
Ireland
Mr. de Valera
England
de Valera
Sinn Fein
Hecht Named U S Marshal for Southern New York District
William C. Hecht of New York will be appointed United States marshal for the southern New York district. He succeeds Marshal McCarthy who retires October 1. Senator Calder announced the selection at the White House after no conference with the President.
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Calder Saya Harding
Washington
William C. Hecht
New York
Hecht
Marshal McCarthy
Calder
White House
Kiurdins
Johnny Wilson
Happy Littleton
Ball Park
New Orleans
al Pillsbury
Ichyia Kumague
Germantown Cricket Club
Philadelphia
Mille Gade
Denmark
the Battery
New York City
Albany
William T. Hunter
St. Louis
United States
England
Allen Woodring
Charlie Paddock
Syracuse University
John W. Adkins
U.S. Marines
Camp Perry
Lord Londonderry
Doncaster
Polemareh
Luke George
Detroit
Lewis
Jatindra Goho-Gobar
San Francisco
J. P. Fetterman
Pittsburgh
Uniontown
Jim Barnes
Jack Hutchison
Great Neck
L. L
Washington Sees Wide Budget Cuts and Probe Talks
Secretary Denby approves a navy wage cut affecting about 68,000 civilians. A Senate fight looms over retroactive excess profits tax repeal and higher income surtax reductions. Elihu Root meets with Harding as probe into farm profiteering may hear McAdoo Baruch Ford testimony. A note to allied powers seeks protection of U S interests in mandate territories. War Finance backs $1.2 million advance to Arizona cotton growers. Harding cites improving U S Mexico relations. more federal budget cuts planned. immigration bill move after recess.
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Senate
Elihu Root
American Commission
White House
Harding
Sydney Anderson
William G. McAdoo
Bernard M. Baruch
Henry Ford
House Agricultural Commission
State Department
Allied Powers
Mandate
War Finance Corporation
Cotton Growers’ Association
Arizona
Mexico
Dawes
House Immigration Committee
Johnson
Wage scales out in Chicago ar b itration decision cuts 25 percent
Judge Landis issued the Chicago building arbitration ruling cutting wages from the 1.25 dollar hourly rate for many trades by 10 to 33 percent affecting about 50 000 union workers and allowing use of labor saving machinery. The decision forecasts 40 000 to 50 000 workers returning to work with savings about 20 percent in actual costs and a large project in Pittsburgh will see a 15 000 a week wage cut for two months.
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Chicago
Judge Landis
Koppers Company of
Pittsburgh
Gas Company
Landis
F. E. Davidson
Ilinois Society of Architects
United States
Calder's 2.75 Beer Tax Plan Heads to Senate
Senator Calder of New York told President Harding he will propose a tax on beer at $5 per barrel for beer up to 2.75 percent alcohol. He said the plan would be submitted to the Senate Finance Committee as an amendment to the revenue revision bill.
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Washington
Calder
New York
Harding
Senate Finance Committee
Haywood
Congress
Federal Reserve Bank
Chicago
Department of Immigration
Mack
Federal District Court
War Finance Corporation
Progressive O 1 Corporation
Shreveport
Paramount Petroleum Company, Inc
Ashion Art League of America
League
Nicholas County
W. Va
Albro E. Chase
Masonry
Portland
Ir Maine
Portland High School
Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railway
Hardwick
Georgia
Col. B. L. Burgg
Atlanta
Thomas I. Anderson
New England Shoe and Leather Exchange
Lake Michigan
Britain invites de Valera to Inverness conference
The British Cabinet has invited Mr. de Valera to send delegates to a cabinet ministers conference at Inverness Scotland on September 20. The Inverness correspondent for the Daily Mail notes a single condition that Ireland must remain within the British empire.
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London
de Valera
Inverness
Scotland
Daily Mail
Ireland
United States Demands Full Equality in Mandates
Washington states that the United States, not a League member, seeks equal rights in territories under A and B mandates. A note to Britain France Italy Belgium and Japan protests exclusion from Mesopotamia Palestine Syria East Africa Toro Cameroons and former German colonies in Africa, arguing American contributions preserve rights without joining the League.
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Hughes
United States
League of Nations
League
Great Britain
France
Italy
Belgium
Japan
Mesopotamia
Palestine
Syria
Lebanon
East Africa
Toro
Cameroons
Yap
Caroline
Marshall Islands
Pacific
Germany
Equator
State Department
Africa
Klan chapter forming in Detroit amid business ties
World brief reports a Ku Klux Klan chapter forming in Detroit with prominent businessmen invited to join. other items note Chicago grand jury probe of police entrapment, Sinn Fein conference invite in Dublin, Turkish Nationalist retreat and losses, US inquiry on German American treaty, Grand Trunk stock verdict, Boston shoe industry return to full time, and Molteno fire leaving seven hundred homeless.
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Detroit
Mich
Ku Klux Klan
Chicago
Inverness
Scotland
Eamonn de Valera
Dublin
Sinn Fein
Constantinople
Paris
American State Department
Ottawa
Grand Trunk Railway
World’s News In Midget Form
Gleanings of interest from Washington and late happenings in the realm of sports and foreign and domestic occurrences compiled as brief snapshots for quick reading.
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World News
Washington
August Wheat Exports Reach Record Levels
Exports of wheat in August totaled 833 595 000 bushels quadrupling any pre war August figure per figures from the Bureau of Markets. Secretary Weeks announced the sale of 101 acres in Detroit once used as an army rifle range for 254 100 dollars netting the government a profit of 236 827 dollars.
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Detroit
Army
Weeks
Federal
Veterans’ Bureau
Harding
Manila
Lefwitch Wylie
Quebec
Canada
Washington
Internal Revenue
Blair
Army Engineers
Congress
Hudson River
Hudson, N. Y
General crime wave prompts three new Chicago police stations
The article notes a looming winter crime surge in Chicago and reports Chief Fitzmorris ordered three new police stations opened to address rising street crime. It also covers unrelated items like lava rise in Hawaii, estate notices, legal bequests, and various sports results.
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Fitzmorris
Halemaumau
Ki Iauea
Hawaii
Jagger
Rancho San Ignacio
Ignace Paderewski
Pasco Robles
Cal
Poland
New York
Pocahontas
Matoaca
Petersburg
Appomattox
International and political briefs from around the world
Reports from Kingston Jamaica note yellow fever in Honduras with fourteen cases and four deaths. In Colombia a cabinet resignation is reported amid parliamentary crisis but deemed solvable. Italy’s socialist committee urges a large government loan for public works to combat unemployment. Lord Cecil accuses US delay in mandates at Geneva. UK workers back Washington disarmament conference. Labour urged representation. Russian reports state arrests of a American and two British correspondents by Bolsheviks and the Tolstoi daughter jailed.
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Spain
Honduras
Kingston
Jamaica
Colombia
Italian Socialist Party
United States
Trades Union Congress
Cardiff
Wales
Washington
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Mexico City
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Pasteur Institute
Mile
College of St. Teresa
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Minn
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