Franco-American Treaty Sent to Senate for Ratification
President Wilson transmitted to the Senate the Franco-American pact pledging immediate aid to France in unprovoked German attack. The treaty mirrors Britain's accord with France and is to operate under the League of Nations framework with approval by its council. Wilson cited long friendship and France's aid in American independence as the debt that warrants swift ratification.
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Great Britain
France
Washington
Wilson
Senate
United States
Germany
Ling
Council of the League of Nations
League of Nations
The
Council of the League
Sherman assails Densmore over Mooney report
Washington July 30 Senator Sherman of Illinois attacked John B. Densmore director general of the United States employment service in the senate charging official mendacity over letters last May in which Densmore denied any staff involvement with the Mooney case. He said the service has been prostituted evidence suppressed and denied by a United States official.
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Washington
John B. Densmore
United States Employment Service
Mooney
Congress
Senate
Sherman
Illlinois
Densmore
Nsmore
United States
Army Officers Ordered to Chicago Amid Riots
Muskegon July 80 Capt Frank L Beals director at Camp Roosevelt along with Lieutenants Gregg and Shepherd and six army sergeants were hurriedly ordered back to Chicago by the war department. The move is believed connected to race riots as they left immediately with full equipment and ammunition.
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Muskegon, Mich
Frank L. Beals
Camp Roosevelt
Gregg
Shepherd
Chicago
War Department
He's Now at Mad Bad Injun War Chief
Tris Speaker becomes manager of the Cleveland Indians, dubbed the $55,000 pilot after owner Jim’s figure. A legendary star with over .800 batting for 12 years, Speaker succeeds Lee Fohl who has resigned as Indians skipper and vows a fierce fight on the field.
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Tris Speaker
Cleveland
Jim Ago
Tris
Lee Fob
Speaker
Indians
War Department reports 4480 Americans captured in France
A June 3 recheck shows 4480 Americans captured in France with 816 officers. The Twenty-eighth division suffered 18 officers and 714 men, and the Twenty-sixth 19 officers and 4388 men. Uniform fit rulings will use manikins from measurements of 100,000 men. Official backing for the American Legion includes Camp Dix HQ, posters, literature, and speaking access for ex soldiers. The plan also covers back pay and war risk allotments assistance.
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Washington
War Department
France
Army
American Legion
Organization of American Veterans of the World War
Congress
Department
Legion
Camp Dix
City workers told to stay home amid South Side trouble
Chicago July 30 A thousand two hundred negro city employees were urged to remain at home during racial tensions on the South Side. About 200 of them in city hall left early. The department of public works laid off 500 street repair workers white and black to prevent trouble.
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Chicago
Department of Public Works
Interurban workers vote to strike at two this morning
Aurora and Elgin men on the Aurora, Elgin and Chicago Interurban road voted yesterday to go on strike at two o'clock this morning. The walkout threatens a complete tie-up of transportation on the third-rail line. High, West Chicago, Wheaton, Glen Ellyn, Villa Park and Lombard would lose electric power from interurban dynamos, affecting large local plants.
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Chicago
Aurora
Third Ordered Home Coblenz Arranges Rhine Move homeward
The Third division of the American army is ordered home from Germany and will entrain for Brest on August 5. Guns used to halt Germans on the Marne last year will be shipped via the Rhine to Rotterdam and the United States. About 40,000 American troops remain on the Rhine after the division departs, including the First division, hospital and engineers. Five American commercial travelers may proceed through the Coblenz bridgehead to reopen trade relations with Germany, allowing American firms to compete in German markets.
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Coblenz
Germany
Brest
Marne
Rhine
Rotterdam
United States
Transportation Department
Army
Chicago Riot Crisis Prompts Martial Law Pledge
Chicago riots spread to the North Side as 4,800 troops brace to quell the unrest. Reports say 83 killed and 500 injured, with blacks and whites fighting, mobs converging on Oak Street, Division Street, and the Loop. Police impose deadlines, shots fired, and houses attacked.
Riots escalate as police move to curb sailors and mobs
The article details bungled arrest attempts at a Twenty-ninth street beach riot, calls for swift police action against sailors leading mobs, and the swearing in of a coroner's jury. It notes Eb Parker's plea for order, coroner work, and potential special council session as authorities pledge impartial punishment.
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Twenty-ninth Street
Hoffman
South Side
Ht. Eb. Parker
The
Advocate
Negro Belt
R. C. McDuffy
Great Lakes
Morgan Collins
Kauffman
Stock Yards
Wentworth Avenue
Prefers Death to Charity in Kim berly Tragedy
In Kimberly near Nelsonville Ohio seven children aged six weeks to ten years and their mother Mrs Tony Stravisar were found dead in their home. Authorities say the mother burned or asphyxiated them then herself to avoid removal to the county home. The children were tied to beds and sprinkled with a substance as part of the deadly episode believed caused by distress over separation.
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Nelsonville
Athens County
Tony Stravisar
Kimberly
Here
Surface Line and Elevated M& Reject Compromise Offer
Fifteen thousand street car and elevated railway workers went on strike at four o clock Tuesday morning in Chicago. No car moved from barns and transit was crippled as workers blocked operations after a failed wage compromise. Thousands faced difficulty reaching the business district, with taxis and buses in high demand while many walked to work. Governor Lowden forced concessions from the elevated lines but the strike disrupted commerce and daily routines across the metropolis.
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Chicago
Lowden
William Quinlan
Leonard A. Busby
Surseqt Lines
Cleverland
Boston
Detroit
Hungarian Soviet Leader Kills Self in Budapest Assembly
Alexander Garbai, president of the Hungarian Soviet government, shot himself in the Budapest assembly building after denouncing the Soviet and its supporters and accusing Bela Kun of steering the nation toward ruin.
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Alexander Garbai
Geneva
Budapest
Bela Kun
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