Plan for civilian tribunal to govern major league baseball
Four major league club owners push to abolish the national commission and install a civilian tribunal of public figures to run all organized baseball. The group proposes high salaries from league receipts, with approval from A D Lasker and President John Heydler, citing gambling and betting evils.
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Chicago
Elu
William Veeck
Chicago National League
Charles A. Comisky
Chicago American League
Barney Dreyfuss
Pittsburg
John Moran
New York
National Commission
General Pershing
Leonard Wood
William Taft
Fram Johnson
K. M. Landis
William G. McAdoo
A. D.lasker
John Heydler
Trappers Catch 9000 Rats in Port Arthur Purge
Trappers employed by the United States Public Health Service in Port Arthur Texas captured about 9000 rats. Laboratory tests showed no bubonic plague infection in any rodents. Trapping cost the government thirty eight cents per rat not including lab expenses.
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Port Arthur
Texas
United States Public Health Service
Doctors Strike in Vienna Refusing Extra Fees
Four thousand Vienna doctors under benevolent associations walk out and refuse nonprivate visit duties, accepting only standard private practice fees. In Kerrity oil fields a raid on a gambling house leaves two deputies dead and one wounded. forty four men arrested.
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Vienna
Alc Benefi
Wichita Falls
Texas
Inu
Kerrity
Fourth Red Army Falls Riga in Polish Encirclement Victory
Polish forces report the Fourth Bolshevist army encircled at the Grodno Lida sector with almost all units captured. About 26,650 prisoners and 496 machine guns seized. only the commanding general and chief of staff escaped.
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Fourth Red Army
Riga
Tuewlan-Pollah
Pollah
Grodno-Lida
Graft Scandal Hits White Sox Eight Indicted In Fix
Chicago authorities indict eight White Sox players and reveal confessions of part in throwing the 1919 World Series for gamblers. Eddie Cicotte and others named amounts from 1 000 to 20 000 dollars with payments allegedly made under pillows. Comiskey suspends seven players and warns of lifetime ban if convicted.
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Union News Service
Chicago
Charles A. Comiskey
Chicago White Sox
Sox
Cincinnati
Gaimblers
Cook County Grand Jury
Comiskey
Meveland Tonlans
White Sox
Iis Seven
Charles McDonald
Jackson
Cleotte
Eddie Cicotte
Claude Willams
Joe Jackson
Buck” Weaver
Happy” Felach
Oscar Risberg
Qhick
Gandil
Fred McMullin
Cicotte
Chick Gandil
Packers Indicted in Boston on Lamb Profiteering Charge
Federal grand jury report on food costs led to indictments of Boston Armour & Co meat packers for lamb profiteering. Counsel entered a not guilty plea in Federal Court and requested ten days to withdraw and file a demurrer, a request granted.
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Boston—Armour & Co. Meat Packers
Edison Develops Delicate Device for Victims and Survivors
Thomas A. Edison is at work on a delicate apparatus designed to enable disputed communication between the dead and the living. He hopes to complete the instrument within a few months.
Death sentence altered for Marie Gagnon in Quebec
Ottawa reports that Marie Gagnon, mother of a two month old, was found guilty of murder and initially sentenced to death. Physicians' testimony led the cabinet to order life imprisonment, citing risk to the infant and confirming the murder conviction of Mrs Gagnon for killing her stepdaughter.
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Ottawa
Qont—Mrx
Marie Gagnon
Quebec
the Council
Mrr. Gagnon
Vagnon
Paice Decline Cited By Demand For Commodities
The report notes a Paice downturn driven by rising demand for commodities and tighter market conditions affecting supply and pricing.
Federal Reserve Sees Price Cuts Boosting Consumer Relief
The Federal Reserve Board reports wholesale price reductions widening into retail markets, with demand for value and quality driving purchases. Labor efficiency and rising production push toward normal operations, signaling a path toward economic stability despite global turmoil.
Postal Service Opens Between France and Brasil
The French government decreed postal service between France and Brazil under the public works ministry. Mail routes will link Bordeaux Vigo Lisbon Rio Janeiro Montevideo and Buenos Aires with biweekly sailings. Mixed cargo slips will complete a monthly round trip.
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Washington
France
Brasil
Ministry of Public Works
Paria
Department of Commerce
Mall Hounts
Bordeaux
Vigo
Lisbon
Rio Janeiro
Montevideo
Buenos Aires
American Legion Parade Opens Convention in Cleveland
A 20 000 veteran parade closed the American Legion's second annual convention in Cleveland with about 300 000 spectators and 60 000 visitors. Rain insurance of 15000 was claimed after only 37 hundredths of an inch fell. Centralia Washington sent a delegation with the Armistice Day flag carried by J B Murray. Four guards were killed in the old incident.
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Union News Service
Cleveland
American Legion
Franklin D'Oller
Permanent Committee On Rules and Regulations
Julia Wheelock
New York
Minnesota
United States
Col. J. R. McQuigg
Department of Ohio
W. 8. Fitzgerald
France
Francis
B. Drake
Legion
Patil
Drake
England
Belgium
The
Rhine
M. W. Woods
Idaho
Woods
Winfield Thompson
California
Canada
Weather Bureau
Centralia
Wash
T. W. Wis
J. B. Murray
Mano
Murray
Thue
Massachusetts Battleship to Be Used as Target
Destructive test of coastal defense weapons planned on the old battleship Massachusetts. The vessel will be turned over to the War Department about November 1 for use as a target by twelve inch coast guns and mortars at Mensacolu, Fla.
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Washington
Madechusetts
Massachusetts
War Department
Mensacolu
Fla
Railroads Report July Deficit Despite Higher Revenues
Major railroads posted a six percent deficit in July with operating income of 420 million dollars versus 80,825,481 for July 2019. Total operating revenues reached 528,782,086 against 455,280,142 last year, while operating expenses rose to 511,778,800 from 358,801,812.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Pilgrims' tercentenary disrupted by anti British protest at Carnegie Hall
Security moved to eject a crowd at Carnegie Hall during the land ing of the Pilgrims tercentenary as women led banners with anti British slogans. The disturbance halted the program as choirs refused to sing God Save the King and Samuel Gompers failed to be heard. The American Pickets denied targeting Gompers while condemning the British anthem and urging Americans to resist sending youth to sing it.
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Union News Service
New York
Carnegie Hall
America
England
Samuel Gompers
Mr. Gompers
Gompers
Colby
Gertrude Corliss
United States
Sulgrave
Agathst
White House sheep returned to Belair farm
The last of the White House flock have been rounded up and shipped back to the farm where they were born. By President Wilson's orders, most of the flock went to William Woodward at Belair Maryland, who sent the sheep to the White House during wartime to trim lawns and provide wool.
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Washington
White House
President Wilson
William Woodward
Belair
Mrs Bergdoll Found Guilty in Draft Evade Conspiracy
Mrs Emon Bergdoll and four co defendants were convicted of conspiracy to aid Grover and Erwin Bergdoll evade the draft. The verdicts were returned before Judge Dickinson in U S District Court. Bergdoll, her son Charles A Braun and former Magistrate James J Romig were found guilty on all counts.
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Bergdoll
Philadelphia
Emon . Bergdoll
Grover
Erwin
Dickinson
United States District Court
Charles A. Braun
James J. Romig
Hundreds of ships tied up in world ports due to low rates
Washington reports more than 750 merchant ships idle in British ports and hundreds in Japanese harbors. Officials cite low ocean freight rates and general stagnation in world trade as the cause. Only twenty six slipping board vessels are laid up in American ports, it is understood.
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Washington
London
Canada to see cost of living decline toward prewar levels
The Department of Labour in Ottawa reports further declines in Canada's cost of living are expected soon. The changes already noted suggest the start of a downward movement toward prewar levels.
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Canada
Ottawa
Department of Labor
Pier Fire at Galveston Causes Multi-Mmillion Damage
A wire sweep burned a waterfront area in Galveston Texas causing property damage estimated between 1.25 and 2 million dollars. Salvage prospects hinge on 280000 bushels of wheat aboard the Tratlan steamship Btna. Over 100 individuals and firms reported losses.
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Galveston
Texas
Tratlan
Btna
Wyoming Brief News Notes Highlights Across State
Reports include a Rock Springs robbery of $200 by two men in overalls, Emile Doerenberg named head of Wyoming University language department, and UP rail traffic in the Laramie to Rawlins district averaging one train every 150 minutes. The Wyoming State Fair ends after four ideal weather days with 20 000 plus attendees. Claude Gavin found guilty of embezzling $1 000 with total indictments in the thousands. Wyoming school enrollment nears 1000 with 326 East Side and 180 South Side pupils. Cheyenne to Salt Lake City mail service paused due to airplane shortages, resumed when planes available. Funeral for Glenrock pioneer Mrs E B Kimball follows a fatal fall. Interior stock raising land offers 2 011 084 Wyoming acres for homesteading. A reward of 250 is offered for Joe Korich, wanted for assault. Joe Glass survives a 80 foot car plunge near Kemmerer/ Diamondville. Wyoming Teachers Association meets in Lusk October 5-8. Moorcroft banker Arthur Jayne killed by lightning. life insurance around 75 000 and estate up to 100 000. 825 000 railroad ties moved via Wind River float transportation. Peberdy homestead on Lincoln highway robbed of 150 value. Cheyenne raid nets two large stills and mash. Police seize liquor materials. Leo Licati arrested.
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Union News Service
Rock Springs
Emile Doerenberg
University of Wyoming
Laramie
Union Pacific
Laramie City
Rawlins
Wyoming
East Side
South Side
West Side
North Side
Cheyenne
Salt Lake City
E, BH
Kimball
Glenrock
California
Montana
Department of the Interior
Michaels
Fremont County
Joe Korich
Guy Robertson
Robertson
Poposia
Hudson
Joe Glass
Diamondville
Kemmerer
Glass
Wyoming State Teachers' Association
Lusk
Wyw
Arthur Jayne
Moorcroft Bank
Jayne
Wind River
M. W. Thompson
Forest Management
J. D. Peberdy
Lincoln Highway
Wyoming Station
Bosler
Leo Licatl
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