Downfall Of Archduke Joseph Seen By Peace Council
The peace conference supreme council expects Archduke Joseph to resign as head of Hungary's government within days. It notes no need for drastic action beyond prior orders and says it will not deal with his government. Budapest reports say Archduke Joseph may become army commander with Baron Sigismund Pervenyi forming a new cabinet.
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Archduke Joseph
Council
Paris
Supreme Council of the Peace Conference
Archdukeoseph
Vienna
Baron Sigismund Pervenyi
Interior
Budapest
Amendments to war time food act aim to curb profiteering
The House considers a Palmer backed amendment extending food control to peace time with teeth. It covers apparel, containers of food, oil, fertilizer, fuel alcohol and retail sales, imposing a two year prison term and 5000 dollar fine for profiteering. Sugar price controls resume with licenses at risk and a 11 cent per pound target for consumers.
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Washington
Palmer
House
Controversy Over Shantung Treaty Details Emerges in Senate
Prof. E J Williams former State Department expert testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about the 1915 Shantung settlement granting Japan control in Shandong China. He recalled urging China sovereignty and proposing a blank provision transferring German assets to China while rights seized by Germany or Japan would revert to China in one year.
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Washington
Japan
Sheniing Province
China
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
E. J. Williams
State Department
Shantung
Peace Commission
Wilson
Great Britain
France
Shaotung
Tlovd George
Germany
Kiser Given Road Sentences Files Notice of Appeal
Scott Kiser former union official was convicted in police court on two counts of retailing liquor and received three months on the county roads for each count. Witnesses White and Kitchin did not appear and forfeited their bonds. Appeals were filed and bonds set at 300 each, totaling 850 for the former unionist, with a 250 bond for the gambling appeal.
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Kiser
Scott Kiser
Ile
R. W White
Charles Kitchin
Superior Court
Woman Drops Dead In Physician's Office
In San Francisco on August 22 Mrs F. W. Guirey of Oakland died in the office of Dr. Grant Selfridge nose specialist at 24 Stockton street just as an operation was to be performed. Selfridge had administered cocaine to dull pain and she sank to the floor. Attempts to revive her failed. Mrs Guirey was about 35 and wife of a Southern Pacific conductor. Dr. Selfridge had been treating her for several months.
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San Francisco
F. W. Guirey
Thirty-four Avenue
Oakland
Grant Selfridge
Stockton Street
Mr Picketts Improvement Reported At Home
W P Pickett who had been critically ill at his North Main street home for several days is reported to be very much improved today.
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W. P. Pickett
North Main Street
High Point Mayor Warns Of Possible Disorder Tonight
The Mayor Dr. D A Stanton warns that information suggests an attempt to unlawfully interfere with watchmen and private property in High Point. He states that any infraction will be dealt with summarily to preserve law and order and protect citizens.
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City of
High Point
D. A. Stanton
No Profiteering in Retail Meat and Groceries Says Dunn
Thomas Dunn, a St. Louis meat dealer, told the Senate agricultural committee there is no profit-taking in retail meat and grocery trade. He argued consumers want to pay high prices, noting some shoppers accept higher prices for better cuts and noting price variation by store. He stated there isn’t a retail food profiteer in the country, while acknowledging possible shoe profiteering.
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Washington
Thomas Dunn
St. Louis
Senate Agricultural Committee
Kenyon
Dunn
Jailbreak duo escape from Colusa jail
Thomas Martin and Otto Cole fashioned a key from a spoon to unlock the Colusa city jail door and flee. They were under arrest for stealing an automobile belonging to J. King of Marysville. Mrs. D. F. Massey has returned from St. Louis after visiting friends.
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Colusa
Thomas Martin
Otto Cole
J. King
Marysville
St. Louis
Biscuits Are Back in High Point Kitchens
A desolate period in High Point kitchens ends as Miranda and other cooks return. Biscuits meats gravies cakes and pies are daily highlights again amid renewed labor harmony and restored kitchen activity after shortages and picketing disrupted meals.
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High Point
Miranda
Changes Adopted by Labor Congress Endorses Industrial Equality
Asheville Aug 22 urgent recommendations call for radical changes in living systems and endorse industrial equality regardless of color. The Southern Labor congress adopted the proposals and recognized negro laborers as equal to white workers, a surprise shorthand measure to many attendees.
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Asheville
Southern Labor Congress
Page Resigns as Ambassador to Italy
Thomas Nelson Page of Virginia formally resigns as ambassador to Italy. After returning from Italy months ago he announced the resignation but a successor had not been appointed as of today according to the State Department.
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Washington
Thomas Nelson Page
Virginia
Italy
State Department
Eral
Page
Libel Cases Involving 52 Thousand Crated Eggs Seized
In Nashville district court on August 22 District Attorney Lee Douglass filed 13 libels against 52,761 cases of eggs totaling about eighteen and a half million eggs valued at 500000 dollars. The government seized the stock and will sell it to the public with proceeds after costs going to the owners.
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Nashville
U. S. District Court Today
Lee Douglass
Picketing Grows at Local Factories in High Point
High Point unionists resumed picketing at five plants including Tate Furniture Continental Furniture High Point Furniture and hosiery mills. About 150 to 200 workers at each plant joined mainly women in orderly protests though several non union employees were deterred or halted from entry and a car carrying black workers faced disruption. A foreman driven car was stopped and turned back amid attempts to bring non union operatives to the Piedmont Hosiery mill.
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High Point
Tate Furniture Company
Continental Furniture Company
High Point Furniture Company
High Point Hosiery Mill
Piedmont Hosiery Mill
Fred N. Tate
Mr. Tate
Piedmont Hosiery
Swift Son-in-law Renounces Birth to Become Yank
New York August 22 Count James Minott son in law of Louis Swift Chicago banker who was detained briefly during the war on a technical charge of German birth plans not to sail to Copenhagen and will renounce Italian birth to become a U S citizen staying in the United States he intends.
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Swift
Yank
New York
Copenhagen
Frederrick VI
James Minott
Louis F. Swift
Chicago
Germany
Yanks to Stay in Mexico as Long as Trails Remain
General Dickman announced that the punitive expedition will stay in Mexico as long as it can smell a hot trail unless orders to withdraw are given by the War Department. Lieutenant Waterhouse and Connolly, missing since Wednesday, have been found safe on the east side of Lower California, though Rockwell Field cannot confirm. Cavalry and new airplanes with radios and pigeons are aiding the border search for the missing aviators.
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Mexico
Dickman
San Diego
Cal
Waterhouse
Conn Ily
War Department
Connely
6Th Aero Squadron
Department
Rockwell Field
Mother Has Right to Spank Baby, Says Judge
Redwood City California August 21 A court ruled in favor of Mrs Louise Eaton giving her the right to spank her baby. Her husband had sued for divorce claiming excessive punishment while the court found no fault in the spanking in this domestic dispute.
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Redwood City
Cal
Louise Eaton
Walser Lexingto n business visitor in city today
Z. V. Walser of Lexington is noted as a business visitor in the city on this day.
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Z. V. Walser
Lexington
Express Car Robbery Ring Busted In Fayetteville
Police arrest John W. Joatres day clerk at American Express after a year long theft ring involving express cars. Confession links Lester Johnson and others. a raid at Johnsons home recovers stolen goods valued at thousands as officers seek remaining suspects.
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Payvetteville
Department of Justice
Marker
Hewlett
John WW
Joatres
American Express Company
James
Lester Johnson
Express
Johnson
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