World news brief highlights from Washington and beyond
Wide week in review with U S troops moving to Mexican oil region. Aviator Harry Hawker dies in London crash. Belgium invited to disarmament talks. Canada plans women train compartments. Bastille Day marked with dancing as Belfast riots kill and wound people. Submarine trial in Leipzig. unemployment measures in Tampico oil fields. Postal councils to form nationwide. Harding eyes arms talks. coal and copper issues across states. Plane crash in Langindfield Maryland. memorial services for war dead. Alaska upgrades governorship. New world altitude parachute record.
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Guadalupe J. Sanchez
Vera Cruz
Independence Belge
Brussels
Belgium
Canadian Pacific
France
Belfast
Supreme Court
Leipsic
Leutenants
Ludwig Dittmanh
Johann Boldt
Tampico
Obregon
Ceasar Topez Y Lara
Tatulinas
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Moscow
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American Industrial Workers of the World
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Communist Party of America
Leon Trotzky
Carl Radek
Scott C. Bone
Alaska
Mabel Cody
Cisha
Pebronary
Grain Dealers’ National Association
United States Grain Growers, Inc
Congress
Ro TL Mansfield
Bergdoll case shows paid to influence higher ups
A Philadelphia woman testifies her daughter was coerced to raise 100000 to secure release for Grover Bergdoll. Campbell deposited 4500 with Washerman Bros and 2000 later, all wiped out by stock trading. Campbell denied pay but was summoned. Bergdoll’s counsel claimed immunity.
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Sako
Bruce Xki
Campbell
Grover C. Bergdoll
Shieker
Duade Pyunday
Emini Co. Bergdoll
Philadelphia
Bergdoll
Washerman Bros
New York Stock Exchange
Umpket
Emma €. Bergdoll
Inside Story of Bribery in 1919 World Series Trial
Chicago prosecutors pressed the 1919 World Series bribery case as Billy Duras testified about an alleged plot to throw the series to Cincinnati. The admitted accomplice exposed details of a conspiracy involving White Sox players and others to gamblers seeking a fix.
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Chicago
Chicago White Sox
Bil Duras
Sretur
Cincinnati
Dawes Forecasts Large Saving in Federal Budget
Washington reports an estimated saving of 81172.572.628 in government expenditures for the current fiscal year. Director Dawes advised that 28,829,113 will be kept as continuous appropriations for building and construction, to be postponed to future years.
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Washington
Espn
Wording
Buivet Dawes
General Dawes
Oil Tanks in Casper Hit by Lightning Fire
Lightning struck a Midwest refining company tank farm near Casper, Wyo. Two oil storage tanks caught fire this afternoon. Scores of workers battled the blaze but it raged fiercely. Three men were on the tanks when the lightning struck, leaping to the ground. two were slightly injured.
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Casper
Wio
Midwest Refining Company
Prisoners Fire Penitentiary in Pittsburg Virginia
Prisoners in the western penitentiary at Pittsburg Virginia broke discipline and set four buildings ablaze causing an uproar. Guards deputy sheriffs and armed citizens fought to quell the disorder. Six convicts were shot and two more were wounded with possible deaths among the injured. The blaze tore through several structures before being contained within two hours.
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Pittsburg
Reine
Sunder Centrol
Emery the New Commander of the American Legion
Maj John Garfield Emery of Grand Rapids Mich was unanimously elected national commander of the American Legion to succeed the late Frederick W Galbraith Jr. Emery, a World War I veteran, served as a vice commander and participated in Meuse Argonne fighting before discharge.
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F. W. Galbraith, Jr
John Garfield Emery
Grand Thapids
American Legion
Indianapolis
Frederick W. Galbraith, Jr
Huery
Legion
Cleveland
Thomas J. Bannigan
Hartford
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Fort Sheridan
France
Blois
Gondrecourt
Eighteenth Infantry
Somery
Canfleny
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Meuse-Argonne
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Veterans cultivate fruit in California’s Imperial Valley project
Disabled World War I veterans plant and tend fields in California’s Imperial Valley aided by $100 monthly government stipends. The American Legion, state departments, and local clubs push veterans’ farming and education efforts, with cross state campaigns for roads and memorials.
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Imperial Valley
California
Federal Board of Yocational Education
Misher
American Legion
Worker for the Auxiliary
Mrs. Fenlon of Devils Lake North Dakota supported war efforts by managing a North Dakota ranch with her husband serving, organized the local Women’s Auxiliary to the American Legion, and led in supplying care kits. She was elected first vice president of the North Dakota Women’s Auxiliary.
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Partick
Uniontown
Department of Poland
American Legion
Moscow
Kilpatrick
Led Cross
Germany
North Dakota
Eugene Foitlon
Womens Auxiliary
Ameren Legion
Fenlon
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