Formation of a Third Party Moves Beyond Question
A conference committee chair said forming a new party is no longer a question of if but how. Delegates, including representatives from the National Labor Party and other groups, discussed amalgamation into one big convention. Amid platform debates on Irish representation, De Valera spoke as Irish questions drew applause.
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Associated Press
Chicuro
Arthur A. Bayes
Hayes
Committee of Forty-Eight
National Labor Party
Nonpartisan League of South Dakota
World War Veterans
American Constitutional Committee
Rank and File Veterans
Single Tax Party
Chicago
R. W. Bagnall
Detroit
National Association’ For the Advancement of Colored People
O. W. Thomason
National Nonpartisan League
League
North Dakota
Swinktrne Hale
New York
Palmer
Hale
Parley P.christensen
Utah
Fef
West
Christensen
Department of Jabor
Louis
Post
de Valera
Trelani
Francis H. Warren
Tim
De La Huerta Aims to Make Mexico Day
The newspaper Universal reports Provisional President De La Huerta plans to present a Mexico Day proposal to Congress. The move seeks regeneration of Indian and mixed-race populations, described as heavy consumers of alcohol, through the new holiday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DE LA Huerta
Mexico
Universal
Kavale Election Contest In District Court Today
Benson Minnesota hearing set in district court on the Bull contesting Rev. O J Kavale Benson for Congress Republican nomination under the corrupt practices act. Kavale defeated Congressman Wolstead and was endorsed by the Non wartigan league.
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Associated Press
Benson, Minn
O. J. Kavale
Benson
Kayale
Wolstead
Nonwartigan League
Liberal party talks draft platform amid tax and autonomy debates
United Press dispatch from Philadelphia reports a conference of forty eight committees hearing from groups including the single tax party and the American War Veterans. The Likely ticket favored by many is Robert M. La Follette for president and Amos Pinchot for vice president with La Follette awaiting guarantees of liberalism and permanence before accepting any nomination. The resolutions committee planned to address Ireland independence plank and autonomy for India among other items.
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Fallette
Pinchut le
Tinker
Liberal Party
Harold D. Jacobs
United Press
Chicago
Single Inx
Monparesan League
Constitutional Party
Ameritan War V Veterans
Robert C. Macauley
Philadelphia
Lite Single Roners
Macauley
Robert M. la Follette
Hen Fara
Amos
Pinchot
Amos Pinchot
Tha Follette
Resolutions Committee
Committee of Forty-Eight
United States
Ireland
Democrade
Frank P. Walsh
Eamonn de Vatera
Trish Republic
Single Tax Party
India
Poles Retire As Fighting Persists Near Minsk
Wireless Communique from Warsaw reports fighting continuing near Minsk with morale high. Poles conduct withdrawals along the Pripet while Reds seize Sarny and Rovno changes hands amid counterattacks. Moscow dispatches note Polish morale strong and retreat may be ordered as forces fall back along multiple fronts.
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Warsaw
Minsk
United Press
Imoleswicz
Pripet
Horrn
Sarny
Rovno
Materi
Poland
Moscow
Dneister
Novayansh
Dniester
Women Delegates Feel Equal Footing At Chicago Convention
The article notes women delegates at a Chicago convention feel at home among men, with equal status and active involvement. It highlights leaders like Mrs Flora C G Thomasen and Olympia Brown, emphasizing focused suffrage reform goals and peer-level participation rather than social roles.
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Flora CG. Thomasen
Woman's Club
United Pre
Ricrson
Committee of Forty-Eight
Labor Party
Paris
Olympia Brown
Sixteen Aliens Escape Detained at Ellis Island
An Associated Press report notes that sixteen aliens detained at Ellis Island escaped as Immigration Inspector Hayes appeared at the federal district attorney's office to file charges of conspiracy against certain hospital attendants on the island.
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Associated Press
New York
Ellis Island
Hayes
Federal District. Attorney’s Office
Willows California Fire Ravages Town Business District
A late yesterday fire in Willows California scorched the town’s business section, an agricultural city, with damage estimates ranging from 500 000 to 1 000 000 dollars. Authorities describe the blaze as sweeping through the area, causing extensive destruction to shops and facilities.
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Associated Press
Calif
Costly living and railways dominate Marion talks
In Marion Iowa and Ohio, Senator Cummins and Scottar Harding, with J L Tabor of Barnesville, discuss high living costs and the railway crisis, praising the new railway law while urging proper support for agriculture and rural prosperity. Harding plans limited visitor access until his July 22 address. Northampton, Mass plans a 100-member committee for Coolidge nomination day events at Amherst.
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Associated Press
Marion
Scottar Harding
Senator Cummins
Iowa
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
J. L. Tabor
Barnesville
Ohio State Grange
Cummins
Tabor
Senator Harding
Harding
Warding
Town
Thatman
Senate Interstate Commerce Commission
Coolidge
Northampton
Mass
Chamber of Commerce Today
J. Henry Roraback
Hartford
National Republcan Committee
Alienfield
Smith College
Nonpartisans Seek Aid for Farmers in AP Dispatch
Associated Press reports a Chicaco convention where Nonpartisan league leaders urged working people to move savings from capitalist banks to credit unions to support grain farmers needing 25 million dollars. Carl Thompson led the appeal, which the convention recorded in proceedings. Labor allies endorsed wider distribution of the appeal as a labor response. The session adjourned for a night meeting to hear conference committee reports on amalgamation with the forty-eighters.
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Associated Press
Chicaco
Rep- SS
League
Carl
Thompson
Thompsons
Axes
National Labor Committee
Seamen Plan 48-Hour Week Fight at Hague Meeting
Delegates at the International Seamen's Congress threaten reprisals against nations opposing a forty eight hour week. They plan a global campaign starting at Amsterdam on August 5 to pressure British shipowners, the main opponent, and may organize a merchant marine strike abroad. Countries adhering to the forty eight hour week would boycott those who resist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Genoa
International Seamen’s Congress
International Seamen’s Meeting
Amsterdam
Yardmen Delegates Meet Until Awards Made
One hundred fifty delegates from railway yard men associations across the country meet to press for wage awards from the U S Labor Board. They vow to continue meetings until the board’s decision is announced, with a July 30 target promised.
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Associated Press
Chicago
United States Labor Board
Collision sinks steamer Lake Frampton off Atlantic City
Two crewmen are missing after the Lake Frampton, a 1918 steel vessel, collided head on with the Southern Pacific liner Comus near Atlantic City. The Comus sustained damage but returned to port. Captain Powers aboard the Comus sent word that two crew members, an oiler and a fireman, were missing. The Lake Frampton, bound from New York to Norfolk, was operated for the United States Shipping Board by West India Steamship Co.
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United Press
New York
Lake Frampton
Southern Pacific
Comus
Atlantic City
N.S
Norfolk
New Orleans
BP. M. Middoe
West India Steamship Company
Frank Powers
Powers
Bumt
Captain Powers
United States Shipping Board
United States’ Shipping Board
Liake'Frampton
Newport News
West India Company
Ofer
Acernan
Another Woman Emerges in Wanderer Case
Carl Wanderer, confessing to the murder of his wife and an unknown man used in a staged holdup, faced a grand jury today with expected indictments. A possible other woman, 16 year old Julia Schmitt, denied suspecting Wanderer’s marriage as detective Norton presented a letter. the “ragged bum” helper, John J. Maloney of Pontiac, Texas, was identified and once pardoned for manslaughter.
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Carl Wanderer
Gilet
United Press
Thiengo
D. Norton
Wanewerer
Mias
Julia Schmitt
Norton
Norston
Wanderer
Leutenant
John J. Maloney
Pontiac
Te. J
Rhode Island State Prison
Nebraska corn production expected to exceed last year's yield
A joint crop report by the U S Bureau of Crop Estimates and the state agriculture department projects Nebraska corn output this year at 188 243 000 bushels, up from 186 186 000 last year, with acreage 5 percent higher at 5 030 900. Black rust on wheat appeared after July 1 though losses from the disease cannot be reported until August 1, and total wheat production is forecast at 3 453 060 bushels less than last year’s 60 675 000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nebraska
Associated Press
Omaha
Neb
United States “Bureau of Crop Estimates
State Department of Agriculture
Bandits Take $2000 From Dairy Proprietor
Three men in an automobile halted George Hansen as he went to the bank in Minneapolis and seized $2000 in cash before fleeing. The incident, reported by Associated Press, details a bold robbery targeting a dairy business proprietor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Minneapolis
Minn
George Hansen
Nordau seeks clear Palestine mandate policy from Britain
London Dr Max Nordau at the international Zionist conference demanded an explicit British definition of the Palestine mandate and its terms so Jews know the relationship between the Zionist organization and the British government and what policy will be pursued by the mandate power.
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Associated Press
London
Max Nordau
International Zionist Conference
Palestine
Zionists Organization
Allied German Meeting Halted Over Coal Delays
Spa dispatch reports Allied and German experts failed to agree on total coal tonnage, with Allies seeking 29 million tons annually while Germany resisted. French Premier Millerand urged full fulfillment of the peace treaty as discussions paused. A Turkish peace treaty draft was approved for Constantinople with a ten day signing ultimatum. A joint commission will manage Danzig transport arrangements.
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Associated Press
Spa
Uningd Press
Balelum
Millérand
Ruhr
Constantinople
Piso
Danzig
Wis
Potes
League of Nations
Vermont Governor blocks special session on woman suffrage ratification
Governor Clement issued a proclamation refusing to call the Vermont legislature in special session to ratify the federal amendment for woman suffrage. He said the measure invades the state constitution, urged taking it up next session, and criticized federal agents and powerful organizations behind the attempts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bulland
Clement
Washington
Harding
Vermont
Supreme Court
Congress
Tt 14
Service Cross for March Citations Honor Peyton Maren
The Associated Press reports General Peyton Maren, then lieutenant in the Astor battery, awarded the Service Cross by President Wilson for gallant conduct before Manila on August 13, 1896. He led a charge on enemy breastworks as volunteers responded to a brigadier general's call.
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Ifiy Associated Press
Washington, D. Y
P Ont Wilson
Crenerst March
Army
Philippines
General Peyton
Maren
Pieutenant
Astor Battery
Manilla
Jim Cox Defeats Harding in Picnic Day Race
A gray horse named Jim Cox defeated Hard ing, a mule named for the Democratic presidential nominee, in a race at a local picnic yesterday. The event was reported by Associated Press with quirky local flair.
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Associated Press
Lenin
Jim Cos
Harding
Cox Arrives in Columbus for Roosevelt Ticket Effort
Governor Cox arrives in Columbus from Dayton for the Roosevelt running mate conference. He chairs talks at the executive mansion, plans a midday lunch, and prepares to meet Roosevelt in Columbus or Dayton. A crowd greets him as he receives telegrams and congratulations from supporters.
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Cox
Ohio State House
Sy Associated Press
Columbus
Mer
Roosevelt
Executive Mansion
Washington
Dayton
Franklin TD
San Francisco
Ansberry
Ohio
San Francisca v
State House
Franklin
Glee Clun
Franklin County
Dash
Hin Desi
James H. Cox
New Lebanon
N.Y
Ramuel J. Tilden
Tilden
Sam Small
Ay United Fress
Crand
Capitol
Trail
Socialists Demand Debs Pardon From Wilson
A Socialist national committee meeting in Detroit plans to urge President Wilson within two weeks to pardon Eugene V. Debs, the Socialist nominee imprisoned on charges of violating the espionage act.
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Debs
Wilson
Associated Press
Detroit
Mich
Eugene V. Debs
Socialist National Committee
Death of Ex Empress Eugenie Shocks Europe
Ex Empress Eugenie of France known as Europe s queen of sorrow dies in Madrid from acute intestinal infection. Her passing is sudden though health had been failing for some time.
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United Press
Eugenie
France
Europe
Madrid
Train collision kills two in Arizona incident
Phoenix reports state that a southbound Santa Fe train collided with two northbound Cantaloupe Express trains between Kirkland and Hillside. Two people were killed and six to eight injured as a result of the wreck. Further details are pending.
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Associated Press
Phoenix
Ariz
Kirkland
Hillside
Lithuania and Soviet Reach Agreement Basis
Moscow reports that Lithuania and the Soviet Union have agreed on peace terms including boundaries and indemnity. Russia recognizes Lithuania's rights to Vilnius Kaunas and Grodno, and parts of Grodno province ethnographically Lithuanian, with assurances against aggression and modified demands. Negotiations face data gaps on ethnographic details and involve boundary disputes with Poland Latvia and Germany.
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Associated Press
Moscow
Lithuania
Russia
Adolf Joffe
Toda
Vilni
Kovno
Grodno
Rusela
Becaus
M. Joffe
Mine Workers Cite Morgan Backing in Anthracite Monopoly
Scranton miners told the coal commission that J. P. Morgan & Co. exerts dominant influence over the anthracite monopoly and labor policy. They sought admission of seven exhibits detailing alleged monopolistic control and profiteering, arguing the commission’s reach extends to issues formally submitted by operators and miners.
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Banking House of
Morgana & Co
Associated
Scranton
Anthracity Goal Commission
Commission
W. Jett Lauck
Morkers
J. P. Morgan & Co
Nho
Representi Avex Tive
Jim
Enthracite
Eld
Man Dies Behind Niagara Falls Barrel Dare
Charles Stephens, a Bristol barber, attempted a death defying stunt by riding a padded electric lit barrel over Horseshoe Falls at Niagara. His body remained unrecovered as parts of the barrel surfaced downstream. Stephens, 34, had prior feats such as parachute drops and even entering a lion's mouth.
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United Preas
Nimcara Foie
N.J
Charles Stephenk
Niagara
Wil Stephens
Bristol
Jangland
Stephena
Chinch Bug Reported in Effingham County Wheat
A note from UI agronomy says chinch bugs are destroying wheat in a portion of Effingham County. The University of Illinois will direct eradication efforts and coordinate attacking the pest.
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Illinois
Associated Press
Champaign
Theterich, UI
University of Ilinois
Effingham
Cox or Davis in 1944 Democratic convention plan
In Charleston West Virginia plans were outlined to swing the Democratic national convention toward John W Davis, ambassador to Great Britain, on the forty-fifth ballot if Governor Cox had not secured the nomination on the forty-fourth. Governor Willis S. Cornwell spoke on the matter, declaring the strategy here today.
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Associated Press
Charleston
W.a
John W. Davis
Great Britain
Cox
W. Ww
Cornwall
Prohibition Wins in New Brunswick Plebiscite
The Saturday plebiscite in New Brunswick shows Prohibition ahead by nearly two to one. United Press reports a decisive vote favoring Prohibition, with official tallies expected to be released today. Strong support centers on John N Ro reforms and temperance measures projected to be enacted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prohibition
New Brunswick
tBy United Freax
1St. John, N. Ro
America Would Speed Up League
Special report from Washington discusses President Wilson's call for a first League of Nations assembly on November 15 and the United States absence from active deliberations. It weighs impact of US membership, potential ratification prospects under Harding or Cox, and the political stakes ahead of March 4, 1921.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Assembly of the League of Nations
Wilson
United States
League
Axcn
Washington
Aiied
Sourell
Brussels
League of: Nations
Versailles
Senate
Harding
Presdant
Eastot
White House
Monday Rose Secures Case Continuance In Embezzlement Affair
Chicago Wisconsin Rose Schweiberg known as Monday Rose faced embezzlement charges for 370 000 from her employers. She appeared in court today without an attorney and won a continuance until September. Schweihers was arrested in Winnipeg last February and described working as a clerk by day and night while occupying a North Shore apartment.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Rose Schweiberg
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