25 Aug 1920
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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1920
Page
1
Detroit police had sought Eugene Leroy in a murder case involving a woman's body found in a trunk. Leroy, listed as wanted, was captured aboard the British freighter Dryden when it arrived, and will be returned to Detroit for custody.
Reports from Washington indicate John W. Davis ambassador to Great Britain may resign and not return to England. State Department officials said there was no critical information about his plans. Some friends cite the financial burden of the post as a possible reason.
New York Aug 2 The Republican national committee treasurer said since the Chicago convention less than 1,000,000 has been raised for the party's national campaign The exact sum shown on the treasurer's books was 90400382 He added the national chairman WH Hays estimated 3,000,000 was the amount required to carry on the campaign Governor Cox was charged with raising over 700,000 in one place but for national state and county campaigns combined Ohio had collected 100 which is not specified clearly
Major Lewis K Davis led a U S engineer consulting team that organized relief for 90000 Armenian refugees in Alexandropol Armenia The motto No work no food defined the effort He earned city trust by directing the treasury and distributing aid He declined an Armenia industrial post to remain with the Near East Relief Organization
Fresno authorities report Mrs Brown shot her two children, the eight year old daughter killed, ten year old wounded, after placing them against a wall with a four inch shotgun. Police deem the mother possibly insane.
Washington reporters and suffragists believed Secretary Colby would issue a proclamation announcing ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment before nightfall. In Utah, Aug 25, fourteen year old Ray Cleve confessed to police that he killed his father and two brothers. the mother had told him the father planned to murder them. The suspect who supplied the pistol remains in custody. Ruth Shepley is cast for the leading role in Wild Cherry.
A battered dispatch reports Bolsheviki demoralized and fleeing across fronts as negotiations between Paris and London stall. Warsaw and Polish forces tighten border defences while British diplomacy pushes a peace terms stance. observers warn of widening disorder and mass Soviet detachments dissolving amid claims of partial truces and shifting alliances.
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