Premier Lloyd George declares terms to Ireland will be offered
London Aug 20 British premier Lloyd George said Ireland terms were laid out fully to Eamonn De Valera and that no haggi ng terms were offered. He warned rejection would challenge crown authority and unity of the empire while promising a forthcoming bill if an agreement is reached. Dublin Aug 18 Sinn Fein declares the English peace offer cannot be accepted and urges readiness for possible war with Ireland to maintain dominion status.
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London
Lloyd George
Ireland
Eamonn de Valera
Jesus
Dublin
de Valera
England
Irish Republican Army
Sinn Fein
Greek King Loses Friend in Athens Term
Aug 20. In Athens, former Greek premier Demetrios Rhallys reportedly died. His cabinet authorized the plebiscite on King Constantine’s return and was in office when the king reclaimed the throne.
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Atheny
Demetrios Rhallys
Greece
Ead
Constantine
New Tax Bill To Save Millions In Nations Tax Levy
Washington reports a proposed admin bill to cut the 1938 revenue act by about 700 million dollars in annual taxes. Fordney notes repeal of excess profits and surtax cuts take effect 1922 and 1923, with estimates of net revenue loss and specific tax reductions and exemptions across corporations and individuals. Representative Frear of Wisconsin signals a supplemental report opposing the sales tax and urging taxation of undistributed profits.
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Washington
Fordney
House
Representative Frear
Wisconsin
Waye and Means Committee
Congress to Take Up Unemployment Issue
Washington reports unemployment has reached seven million five hundred thirty five thousand, prompting administration and congressional officials to consider measures for relief and faster economic readjustment. Eugene Meyer Jr. says government action is vital to prevent a dire winter, Crim Singer urges immediate steps, and officials stress there is work for all if managed intelligently.
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Washington
Davis
United States
Eugene Meyer, Jr
Direcor
War Finance Corporation
Crim Singer
Meyer
U S to Ship Food to Soviet Russia Under Relief Plan
Washington Aug 20 Secretary Hoover announced plans to ship large sums of cereals and other foods to Soviet Russia through the American Relief Administration. The relief effort will cost about 10 million dollars, covering expenditures abroad and in the United States, with several steamers slated from New York to transport the cargo.
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Washington
United States
Soviet Russia
American Relief Administration
Hoover
Relief Society
Russia
America
New York
Whisky Yacht Raided Seizing 95 Cases In Cleveland
In Cleveland on August 19 Captain Wee Wam L. Curry of Toronto and six men along with four women were captured in a dramatic raid on a large steam yacht tied at Whisky Island near the Cayahoga River. Police found ninety five cases of various white liquors aboard, believed to be used by a major whisky ring operating between the U S and Canada.
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Cleveland, O
Wee Wam L. Curry
Toronto
Can
United States
Canada
Whisky Island
Cayahogs River
Flyer Killed in Air Drop Incident
Rockford August 19 Bud Bride of Chicago was instantly killed when his parachute failed to open after leaping from an airplane while practicing for an aerial elopement Bridgens previously worked as a moving picture actor.
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Bud" Bridgens
Chicago
Rockford
Bud" Brideens
Bridgens
EXPECT TROUBLE IN MEXICO
San Antonio reports trouble brewing along the border as United States Justice agents warn of renewed revolutionary activity in Mexico.
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Mexico
United States
San Antonio
Tex
United States Department of Justice
Reductions of Army and Navy Criticized in Senate
Washington, Aug. 18. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge attacked the economy program for the army and navy amid Senate debate on army and navy cutbacks and tied opposition to the $100,000,000 good roads bill. He argued savings should not be redirected to roads that do not guarantee safety or peace.
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Washington
Senate
Henry Cabot Lodge
Harding
United States
Lodge
Navy
Borah
Congress
Burns Heads U s Sleuths
William J Burns of New York, head of the Burns Detective agency, was named director of the Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice, by Attorney General Daugherty and will sever ties with his agency to take charge immediately. A. G Wells, a 66 year old millionaire businessman and prominent resident of Depere Wisconsin, has died.
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Detective Agency
Bureau of Investigation
Daugherty
Washington
William J. Burns
New York
Burns Detective Agency
Department of Justice
Burns
Itaas
SenatePasses Townsend Good Roads Bill At 75 Million
The Senate approved a 75 million dollar federal aid bill for good roads by a viva voce vote, sending it to conference with the House. The measure originally stood at 100 million, was cut to 50 million by Senator New, and a highway commission provision was removed. The act preserves 15 million for national forest roads and trails.
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Washington
Townsend
Senate
House
Congress
New
Indiana
Bighway Commission
Secretary of Agriculture
Beer Restrictions Weaker Amid Conference Actions
Washington dispatch reports hurried debate on the Beer bill with Senator Sterling pressing to send amendments to conference. The Senate adopted the House substitute rewriting the Stanley amendment to impose penalties on federal agents for searching without warrants or probable cause. Wayne Wheeler of the Anti Saloon League attended the conferees meeting, and Senator Reed condemned him as unwarranted insolence.
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Washington
Sterling
Ant
Hiaiét
Senate
Ashhurst
Arizona
House
Stanley
Wayne B. Wheeler
Anti- Saloon League
Reed
Cloudburst Hits Chicago In Heavy Street Flooding
Chicago endured one of its heaviest rains in years as a three hour downpour flooded streets up to three feet deep. Thousands of cars stalled and residents waded through water while basements flooded damaging property. Streetcar service halted as lightning lit the sky and several buildings were struck.
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Chicago
Jealous husband linked to Kennedy killing case
Los Angeles August 20 defense of Arthur C. Burch and Madatyn Obenchain in the Kennedy murder case rests on the claim the victim was slain by a jealous spouse who suspected flirtation with his wife. A correspondent unearthed information prompting Ralph Chenchaip, ex-husband of Obenchain, to predict the real killers would soon be jailed while Burch and Obenchain would be released.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Arthur C. Burch
Mada Tyqne Obenchain
J. Belton Kennedy
Kennedy
Ralph Chenchaip
Arthur Burek
Diverse News Clippings From World Events
A patchwork of international notices reports leaders and clerics in Europe, the Vatican appoints a New York auxiliary archbishop, and Russian relief, German diplomacy, and Greek military activity are touched. It notes a preacher drowned, a potential peace talks scene, and a Ku Klux Klan recruitment event in Chicago with 12 000 attendees near Lake Zurich.
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Gon
Peyton’ O. Maton
United States ‘Army
Berlin
Hamp
Knoldon
Nashville
Sit
Pe Henedict
Mgr
j'Dunn
New York
Phe
Vatican
Rome
Shilrd
Melvin G. Lasgow
Hope
Ind
Russia
Americh Relief
London
Archblabop
Montes daOea Y Obre- Gon
Mexico
Riga
Paris
Henry 5
Giles
Hope Presbyterian’ Church
Augora
Turkiah Way
Central News Dispatch
Athens
Afigora
Soga
Philadelphia Dispatch
Grover
Qieveland Bergdall
Eberbach
Badan
Bergdolf
Switserland
Germany
Diesel
State Department
Washington
Presbyterian Church
United States
Americ
Centralia
Cal
A. D. Foron
National Federation of Business and Professlonal Women's Clubs, Inc
Harding
Onicago
Onioo
Ku’ Klux Klan
Chicago
Markets and grain and livestock price snapshot
The page provides a chaotic listing of prices for wheat, flour, hay, cattle, hogs, sheep, and live poultry. Entries include spring wheat and patent grades, No 1 timothy hay, No 2 timothy and clover mixes, various cattle classes with quoted ranges, hog prices by weight class, and sheep and poultry notes with sporadic figures and misspellings.
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Wautern Wee
Sabe
Rogsters
NG Xo
Goons
Pring Geass
Declared Master Mind in Bergdoll Case Denounced
Samuel T. Ansell former acting judge advocate general of the army and defense counsel for Grover Bergdoll faced charges of conspiracy along with Col Hunt and Col Cresson. A majority report blamed Hunt for security lapses enabling the escape, while criticizing Cresdon and praising Bergdoll’s seizure of gold assets. Angell is named as the driving force.
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Samuel T. Ansell
Army
Counsal
Washington
Samuel Titsden Ansell
John H. Hont
Cresson
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll
Apeeini
Thursye
Ansell
Lubring
Indiana
Johnsty
Kentucky
Food
Virginia
Peters
Maine
Mearthuy
Oregon
Hunt
Bergdort
Onel Creseon
Bergdoll
Creedon
Brucé BR. Campbell
Peter
Harria
Hont
Bergdol
Maryland
Harris
Angell
Barria
Anewell
Gormmenda
Bérgdoll
Miller
Emma C. Bergdoll
Treasury Department
Philadelphia
Luhring
Coronel Hunt
Bergdoif
Angell Aa
New Grain Rate Authorized by Interstate Commission
Washington August 19 railroads were authorized by the Interstate Commerce Commission to establish grain and grain products rates from Chicago Mississippi river crossings and points in Missouri and other states to Atlantic ports for export at nine and a half cents per hundredweight. Rates may be established on ten days notice.
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Waaoetington
Railrogde
Interstate Commerce Commission
Estabtlah
Chicago
Maes
Atlantic
Porte
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Declaren Terme
Dall Eireann
Gloria Caruso
Frear
Winconsin
Ite
Corporatione
U. S
Auass
Geoda
Cleveland
Flyer
A. G. Wells
Depere
Wis
Charles A. Kram
Post Office Department
Mr. Kram
Senator New
Burch
Obenchain
Barnatable
Mass
Cape Verda Island
Burzani's Bay
HREE
Npbergooll
Blaine
Slacker
Interstate Cammaras Commission
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