World News Roundup Passages From Across the Week
A sweep of international items notes Premier Allende's cabinet resignation in Chile and a potential new cabinet formation. France and Britain propose sending the Upper Silesia dispute to the League of Nations amid tensions with Poland and Germany. The Vorwaerts reports a 1 billion mark payment to allies planned for August 30, and a dissolution of German self protection troops in Upper Silesia soon. The Maple Leaf VII sets a sailing speed record in trials near Southampton. Canada projects a wheat crop surge of about 25 million bushels, with other grains down. Canadian liquor exports may rise after Windsor ruling easing export limits. Baron Byng af Vimy is sworn as Canada’s governor general in Ottawa. A Calgary arrest ties to the Roseburg murder case. Mrs Brumfield asserts the remains are her husband’s. In Mexico City, General Jose Alessio Robles is slain by armed assailants as he drives.}
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France
Great Britain
Upper Silesian
League of Nations
Drasnage
Poland
Germany
Upper Silesia
Supreme Allied Council
Vorwaerts
Detroit
Solent
Southhampton
Canada
Ustimates
United States
Windsor
Quebec
R. M. Brumfield
Dennis Russel
Roseburg
Ore
Calgary
Alta
Brumfield
Russell
Jose Alessio Robles
Spain
President Declines to Name Himself Delegate
A White House statement said President Har ding designated Secretary Hughes of the State Department to head the American delegation to the disarmament conference. This overrules expectations that the President would act as delegate personally.
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Harding
White House
Hughes
State Department
Purdue president DF W B Stone dies in Canadian Rockies
On a burial trip to LaFayette Indiana the body of DF W B Stone Purdue University president who died in the Canadian Rockies near Banff July 17 passed through St Paul Friday. Other items note Babe Ruth’s 44th homer at Philadelphia and the shooting death of Father James F B Coyle by Rev Stephenson at St Paul.
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LaFayette
Ind
DF W. B. Stone
Purdue University
Canadian Rockies
Banff
St. Paul
Len Smail
Mester
Babe Ruth
Philadelphia
Philadelphia Americans
James FB. Coyle
St. Paul's Catholic Church
Sh. R. Stephenson
Stephenson
Coyle
Iwatter
Pedro Gussman
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce
George T. Marding
Warren G. Harding
Monroe
Mich
Warren C. Spurgin
Chicago
Chihuahua City
Mexico
Eusebio Tiermosillo
Chihuahua
Jaarez
Spurgin
el Paso
el Miguel
United States
Stephen
Princess Rosa
Alvera Yanis
Kansas City
Seattle
Porthind
Ore
Tax Exemption Raised for Married Earners in 1918 Law Tentative
Washington reform discussions raise the exemption for married men with annual net income up to 1000 to 2500, retroactive to January 1 1921, plus prior 200 per dependent head of family increase. Longworth dye embargo extension passes House 186 to 91 along party lines. Senate to decide Newberry seat challenge follows committee vote 8 to 4. Harding returns from New Hampshire vacation as Mayflower docks. Tariff plan favored by Republicans in conference to become part of permanent tariff bill. Congress recess date setback moves from August 20 to August 24 or 25.
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House
Ways and Means Committee
Senate
Senate Privileges and Elections Committee
Truman H. Newberry
Michigan
Henry Fora
Democratic Committee
Harding
Washington
White Mountains
New Hampshire
Potomac
Senate Finance Committee
Congress
Yosemite Holdup At Tioga Lodge Franks Cash Skimming
A Yosemite Park hold up ended with a pistol raid at Tioga lodge cash drawer capturing 150 dollars. Guests and staff pursued the robber after the theft.
Lodge Named To Lead Senate Voice At Disarmament Talks
President Harding designates Senator Henry Cabot Lodge as a member of the American delegation to the disarmament conference and names him as chairman of the foreign relations committee to speak for the Senate as talks proceed. Secretary Hughes is the other early appointee with further selections expected. A $200000 appropriation for delegation expenses is approved, with the Pan American Building earmarked for meetings.
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Washington
Senate
Harding
Henry Cabot Lodge
Massachusetts
Foreign Relations Committee
White House
Senator Lodge
Hughes
Lodge
Congress
Senate Appropriations Committee
Pan American
State Department
Whitehouse
Timber sale near Warland tops Montana year sales
R P McLaughlin state forester announced sale of 5 270 000 feet of timber and land near Warland at 3 dollars per 1 000 feet. Baird & Harper sawmill owners intend use of the timber for years of operation. State retains land title and will classify timber after removal for possible sale as farming land or reforestation. Helena reports Montana wealth in 1920 totaled 193 721 083 dollars with mineral output rising to 81 905 728 and agricultural output at 72 020 880, livestock sales dropping from 71 842 648 in 1919 to 32 293 820 in 1920.
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Helena
Warland
R. P. McLaughlin
Baird & Harper
Montana
Federal Forest Service
McLaughlin
Gattlers
Missoula
Helens
Charles D. Greenfield, Jr
Division of Labor, Industry and Publicity
State Department of Agriculture
Bomb fuse failures avert Washington dam disaster
A bomb weighing 73 pounds of TNT failed to explode behind a Leavenworth dam in Washington. A tar-sealed fuse choked, sparing possible flooding of farming districts and property worth millions. Workmen found the device. federal agents were dispatched to Leavenworth.
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Seattle
Wash
Leavenworth Wash
Tr Ives
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Federal Secret Service
Leavenworth
King Peter of Serbia Dies in Belgrade
Belgrade reports the death of King Peter of Serbia after a long illness. He had been in and out of danger with pleurisy and lung congestion, slipping into unconsciousness before passing away on a Sunday night after a period of worsening condition.
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Peter
Serbia
Belgrade
Three Killed In Augusta Race Riot
Three are dead and eight wounded in a clash between whites and blacks in Augusta Georgia. The violence followed the shooting of Ben T High tower, manager of a wagon works, by Walter Smalley, a black chauffeur, who then opened fire before he was killed. All known wounded are white men. an unidentified woman was reported shot nearby.
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Yosemite Park
Tioga Lodge
Allen Aldridge
Therkeley
Cal
Bert Fairbanks
Williams
Kenneth Tudson
Healdsburg
Alaska
Blunt's Reef
William R. McClintock
Earl du Pree
John P. Helkkila
M. J. Albern
Herman Hall
Nineteenth Infantry Regiment
Camp Sherman
Ohio
Presidio
San Francisco
Ninth Corps
John B. Kennedy
Los Angeles
Beverly Hills
Madeline Oberchain
Evanston
Ill
Topeka
Santa
Augusta
Ben T. Hightower
Walter Smalley
Clean up drive plans for Montana pendings relief
Melena Lief Trederickson state director of vocational education con fers with Montana field reps on a statewide clean up drive to settle all pending claims. The itinerary opens Glaszow September 12 with stops in Havre Kalispell Miesouri Butte Florence Great Falls Lewistown Billings Miles City Glendive Helena and other cities across October. William L Hill is nominated as assayer in Helena to lead the U S assay office remaining details await Senate action.
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William L. Hill
Helena
United States
Senate
Harding
Associated Press
Washington
Herbert A. B. Goodall
Montana
Philippine
Four-Furnace Restart at East Helena Smelter
Montana mining revival continues as American Smelting and Refining announces an extra furnace at the East Helena plant this month bringing four furnaces to full capacity. The operation will employ about 450 workers on the payroll. The East Helena facility remains the only smelter in Montana.
Wheat yields rise in Flathead valley reports
Kalispell reports by T. C. Hand, Kajispell flour mill manager, show fall wheat yields in the Flathead valley ranging from 25 to 40 bushels per acre with several fields higher. Across seven locations, yields span 25 to 45 14 bushels per acre, including a Lake Blaine area 22 acre field yielding 1,000 bushels total. Spring wheat threshing is not yet underway but expected at 15 to 25 bushels per acre.
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Kalispell
T. C. Hand
Kajispell Flour Mis Company
Hand
Lake Blaine
Butte Carpenter Hall Rated Fair to Labor
The Silver Bow Building Trades council announced that Butte's carpenters' union hall, the only hall owned by organized labor, is rated fair to organized labor after a boycott lasting nearly two years. The carpenters' union had left the Building Trades council, calling it radical and controlled by interests hostile to the A P of L.
Grass Fire Devours 1500 Acres Near DeSmet to Missoula
A blaze sweeping from the Northern Pacific tracks west of DeSmet to the Missoula forest boundary burned 1500 acres of grass. Reported to be set by engine No. 1, twenty men went to the scene but timber prevented progress. A second fire in Fortune district of the Blackfeet est. burned over 100 acres amid high winds threatening lodgepole growth.
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Missoula
DeSmet
Missoula Forest
No. 1
Fortune
Blackfeet Forest
Forest Service
Montana
Idaho
Wolf Creek
Flathead Forest
Lightning Shaves Rancher’s Head in Bolt Incident
Steve O'Donnell, a prominent Gallatin valley rancher, was struck by lightning while riding a hay rack late Friday evening. The bolt shaved the hair on the right side of his head, left the left side intact, and lightly burned the horses. He recovered with treatment after riding to the house.
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Bozeman
Steve O'Donnell
Gallatin Valley
O'Donnell
Northern Pacific Approved to Take Over Billings Route
The Interstate Commerce Commission approved Friday the Northern Pacific railroads plan to take over the 14mile stretch from Billings to Shepherd near the Thittings and Central Montana line. Officials expect operations to start soon, noting the line serves a farming region with intermittent traffic.
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Billings
Northern Pacific Railroaad
Thittings & Central Montana
Shepherd
Interstate Commerce Commission
Washington
Northern Pacific
Many Transits Seeking Work in Lewistown
The Lewistown chamber of commerce employment bureau reports a daily rise in men asking for jobs as seasonal harvesters flood the basin. Police impose strict anti begging measures, though reports of panhandling persist among incoming laborers.
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Lewistown
Chamber of Commerce Employment Bureau
Immigration Office Moved to Falls in Montana
The U S immigration branch office formerly in Havre has moved to Great Falls. R J Smith now oversees operations as immigration inspector in charge. He has secured quarters in Room 70 Todd building for a more central Montana location.
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Falls
Great Falls
United States Immigration Branch
Havre
R. J. Smith
Todd Building
Rancher Killed by Lightning in Utica Field
A Utica report states rancher Peter Ring was struck and killed by lightning while plowing during a Thursday electrical storm. This is the second lightning death in two weeks, following the July 31 fatality of Mrs. Harry B. Lay, wife of a Democrat News manager.
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Lewistown
Utica
Peter Ring
Harry B. Lay
Democrat-News
Bucking horse mark chosen for Powder River trail
A Powder River trail marker featuring a bucking horse was chosen at a Miles City meeting led by A T Stennis of the Wolf Point Chamber. The trail from Scobey to Wolf Point to Terry will be marked soon with prepared plans near completion, and Scobey records the initial segment.
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Powder River Trail Association
Miles City
A. T. Stennis
Wolf Point
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