Riots Hit Frisco as 28,000 Shipyard Workers Strike
Seventeen ships yards and factories across the bay area halt work after a 28,000 iron workers strike. Fifteen injured, 30 rioters arrested as unions press for higher pay. Employers await federal action while Marines are sent to Union Ironworks to protect plants.
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San Francisco
United States
Union Ironworks
Mare Island
Pacific Coast
U. S
Washington
Oakland
Tron Works
Bay District
Hall & Scott
United Railroad
Union Iron Works
Labor Temple
Iron Trades and Shipbuilding Industry
Tron Trades Council
Hurley
Shipping Board
Seattle
Portland
Baseball Results from National American and Western Leagues
Standings show National League leaders with New York at 90 49 and Philadelphia 77 59. American League top Chicago at 94 48, followed by New York 66 73 and Boston 84 53. Association and Western League final standings list Indianapolis Milwaukee Louisville Kansas City St. Joseph Hutchinson and others with varied win totals and percentages.
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Ww. L. A
W.L.P.C
New York
Chicago
Philadelia
Brooklyn
St. Louis
Boston
Cincinnati
Pittsburgh
American League
Wash'gton
Cleveland
RyOtrolt
PhiladelVia
Vince AN Association
Ind’apolis
Milwaukee
Blaskes
Apolis
Louisville
Kan. City
Columbus
Toledo
Western League
Hutch’son
Des Moines
Joplin
Wichita
St. Joseph
Omaha
Lincoln
Denver
Gust
Baseball Scores and Odd Results From The Week
In American Association play Pittsburgh lost to Boston 1 4 while Cincinnati beat Philadelphia 4 1 and Chicago shutout New York 0 1. New York edged Boston 1 6 with no other games scheduled. Louisville outlasted Kansas City 4 3 in 10 innings. Milwaukee beat Indianapolis 3 2, Toledo defeated Minneapolis 6 4, Columbus over St. Paul 5 4 in 10 innings. Western League action saw Hutchinson win 4 2 over Joplin in 10 innings.
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Pittsburgh
Boston
Cincinnati
Philadelphia
Chicago
New York
American Association
Louisville
Kansas City
Indianapolis
Milwaukee
Toledo
Minneapolis
Columbus
St. Paul
Hutchinson
Joplin
Swedes Express Regret Over Cipher Telegrams
At a large liberal meeting in Stockholm Professor Eden announced a resolution denouncing the foreign office for sending cipher telegrams in ignorance of their contents and demanding swift steps to prove Sweden's strict neutrality toward all belligerents.
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Stockholm
Eden
Liberal Party
Germany protests Swedish telegram phrasing via Argentina
London reported Germany sent a note to Sweden through the Stockholm correspondent of the Central News agency expressing regret over the disputed wording of telegrams transmitted by Sweden to Germany and noting appreciation for Sweden's government in forwarding messages.
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London
Germany
Sweden
Stockholm
Central
Argentina
Clemenceau Praises Liberty as U S Field Day Begins
American Expeditionary Force holds first field day in France with former French premier Georges Clemenceau as guest of honor. Demonstrations of machine gun rifle and bayonet followed by an American athletic program. Clemenceau praises the army defending liberty and civilization against barbarians.
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France
Expeditionary Army
Georges Clemenceau
M. Clemenceau
Sibert
America
Plymouth
Plymouth Rock
Big Ship Strike Settled After Eight Weeks
James L. Hughes a mediator from the labor department announced a settlement between Standard Ship Building Corp on Shooters' Island and its 2,000 employees who had been on strike eight weeks. The Marine Trades council’s ten members will get a substantial wage increase.
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New York
James L. Hughes
United States Department of Labor
Standard Shipbuilding Corporation
Shooters’ Island
Marine Trades Council
Wheat rate talks headed by Wilson for Pacific region
Washington reports say representatives of Oregon Washington and Idaho farming and warehouse interests will meet President Wilson on Thursday to press for a fixed wheat price aligned with railroad rates. Tri state grange groups argue farmers sell 30 cents below Chicago price. Cold storage officials discuss expanding facilities and warehouse licensing rules. An official denial was issued to counter rumors government will seize canned and dried foods.
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Washington
Oregon
Idaho
Wilson
Tristate Grange
Food Administration
Department of Agriculture
Man in U.S. Army Uniform Held Oversea Impersonation Probe
Federal officers probe Richard von Dohlen also known as T von Miller at Fort Bliss for impersonating an army captain. He was bound over to a federal grand jury in 2500 dollars. Von Dohlen, a former Villa army captain, worked as an army shop mechanic and appeared in uniform on the street. He declined to explain.
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Tex
Fort Bliss
Richard von Dohlen
T. von Miller
Federal Grand Jury
von Dohlen
Villa
United States Army
German Newspapers Suspended Over Luxburg Incident
The Hague report says several German papers including Deutsche Tages Zeitung were suspended for not backing the government regarding the Luxburg incident in Buenos Aires, a Berlin dispatch stated.
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The
Hague
Deutsche Tages Zeitung
Buenos Aires
Berlin
Organization of National Federal Employees Union Begun
Washington September 18 delegates from across the country opened talks to form a national federal employees union. The prospective body aims to reach about 15,000 members with speakers including Samuel Gompers Jeannette Rankin and other noted labor leaders.
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Washington
Federal Employees’ Union
Samue Gompers
Jeannette Rankin
Congress
Montana
British Raid Foes Lines On French Front
British and Scottish troops conducted raids Sunday night on German trenches in Arras and Somme sectors. German casualties were reported as many killed in dugouts and prisoners taken, according to the British war office statement.
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London
Arras
Somme
France
British War Office
Berlin
Drumtire
Flanders
German books to be eliminated from Cincinnati schools
The Cincinnati German textbook censoring committee proposed to Superintendent Condon that the books Fm Vaderland and Von Grossen Koenig be removed entirely from the public schools. They indicated several additional German titles would likely be discarded as well.
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Kaiser
Cincinnati
Cincinnati Public Schools
Condon
Fm Vaderland
von Grossen Koenig
Food Will Win the War Public Billboards Pledge Help
The food administration plans to convert government properties across major cities into electric billboard signs reading Food will win the war don’t waste it. Post offices city halls and other government buildings will display the uniform design with no cost to the government. Advertising firms and electric light companies offer support for erecting the signs.
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Washington
The
Food Administration
Kerensky Marries Actress After Riga Fall
Prime Minister Alexander Kerensky wed a second time days after Riga’s fall amid the Korniloff revolt. The bride is Mile. Timmet, an actress from the Alexandra theater, marking his second marriage.
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Russia
Riga
London
Korniloff
Kerensky
Mile. Timmet
Alexandra Theater
Kaiser Sends Regrets Over Luxburg Incident
Argentine reports say Germany regrets Count von Luxburgs remarks and seeks his return to explain personally. The Argentine foreign office awaits a formal note while Luxburg plans to sail to Bilbao. Foreign Minister Peyrre don rejects the undersecretary’s assurances as insufficient. Meanwhile rail strike disorders worsen with a 50 yard bridge wreck and troop train disruptions near Rosario as national troops reinforce.
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Buenos Aires
Lius B. Molina
Berlin
Foreign Office
Count von Luxburg
Argentina
Molina
Baron von Dem Bussche-Haddenhausen
Germany
Doctor von Kuehlmann
Munich
Bilbao
Spain
Peyrredon
Doctor Molina
Luxburg
Pueyrredon
Bomb damages U S consulate and air raids widen war front
Destructive German bomb hits the American consular agency at Dunkirk on September 7, injuring no one, with archives saved. British sea planes bomb Belgian coast near Zeebrugge destroying a destroyer and sinking a trawler. French Ardennes attack repelled. intensified artillery along Craonne Massiges and Flanders fronts as German and Allied forces clash.
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Kaiser
Zeebrugge
Washington
Dunkirk
France
State Department
Benjamin Morel
Yaide Ie
Grand Vey
Morel
United States
London
Ostend
Blankenberghe
Germans Launch Violent Woevre Front Attack
Paris reports a months long battle on the Woevre plain ends with a German cannonade and infantry assault. French counter attacks recapture trenches around Apremont forest as a Vosges surprise attack is repelled and artillery duels continue elsewhere.
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Paris
Woevre
War Office
Apremont Forest
Vosges
Strikers Riot in Argentina Disrupt Railway Lines
In Buenos Aires on September 18 disorders erupted during the Argentine railway strike. Strikers blew up bridges and damaged tracks to stop troop trains, with the strike spreading and leaders threatening to cripple the entire country.
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Buenos Aires
Kerensky Upends Last Foe in Russian Revolt
Dispatches from Petrograd report the W area leaders in the Kornilov revolt have submitted to Premier Kerensky. General Kal edines of the Don Cossacks offers his support to the Provisional Government as it reorganizes with Kerensky at the helm. Washington reports Alexieff’s appointment signals a broad army reorganization to place new generals in command.
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London
Petrograd
Worniloff
Kerensky
Kaledines
Don Cossacks
M. Kerensky
Don Cossack Grand Council
Novo Teherkask
Washington
Alexieff
Mutiny Probe Chief Appointed For Korniloff Case
Petrograd reports Attorney General Shablovak has been named president of a special commission to investigate General Korniloff and aides mutiny. He heads to the front to thwart Bolshevik and Maximite interference as the government consolidates power. Suppression targets include the Novaya Jisu and Rabichky press outlets.
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Shablovak
Special Commission
Korniloff
Front
Bolsheviki
Maximiliste
Pepera
Novaya Jisu
Rabichky
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By Tye
Count Luxburg
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Rosario
Teuton
Ardennes
French War Office
Craonne
Massiges
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Kerensky Downs
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Navy
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