Notable deaths and world notes from 1920s era summary
Rear Admiral Charles B. Clark dies at 79 in Long Beach California after a storied career including command of the Oregon and the Santiago battle. Richard Derby Jr. son of Theodore Roosevelt’s grandson dies in New York. Rockefeller reports a $2,000,000 personal estate in New York. Major global and U S events span Prohibition debates, court re convening, postage stamp plans, tax figures, labor strikes, mining accidents, crime confessions, and international tensions.
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Charles B. Clark
Oregon
San Francisco
Key West
Santiago
Long Beach
Cal
Richard Derby, Jr
Theodore Roosevelt
St. Luke’s Hospital
New York
Richard Derby
Greek Army War and Turkish Ambitions Stir Europe
Edward W. Pickard reports on the Greek army revolt in Athens and the fall of Constantine as Kemal Pasha's nationalist movement seeks Thrace. Turkey’s restoration aims and wider Allied reactions unfold alongside Spens’s federal fuel role and calls for prudent coal use. The Marion grand jury indicts 76 in the Herrin mine massacre, 44 for murder, with 20 still at large and eight in jail.
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Thrace
Spens
Watson
Anatolia
Athens
Constantine
George
Mustapha Kemal Pasha
Constantinople
Onradee
Chicago
Marion
Herrin
Brundage
Illinois Chamber of Commerce
Near East Peace Efforts Amid Turkish Proposals and Allies’ Demands
Allies informally invite Turkey to a peace conference and back plans to allow Thrace to the Maritza and Adrianople while keeping the Dardanelles open. Russia may attend and Kemal is urged to State Turkey’s independence and straits freedom. Kemalists vow neutrality in the Straits during a forthcoming armistice conference with Britain.
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Near East
Turkey
Thrace
Maritza
Adrianople
Russia
M. Franklin-Bouillon
Smyrna
Kemal
Dardanelles
Sea of Marmora
Bosporus
Straits
Constantinople
Chicago Tribune
Great Britain
Sea of
Marmara
Ukrainia
Black Sea
Bulgaria Declines War Involvement Amid Thrace Claims
Dimitri Stancoff, Bulgarian minister to England, denied reports that Bulgaria would seize Thrace. He said Bulgaria is resolved to avoid military action, citing disarmament and its shift to an agricultural economy to avoid repeating past misfortunes.
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T Borer
Bulgaria
Thrace
Dimitri Stancoff
England
Soviet Russia Claims Champion of Islam Title and Turkey Demands
Soviet Russia declared itself the champion of Islam last week and sent a note to the Entente Balkan nations and Egypt demanding the restoration of Turkey in Europe. It warned it would not recognize any decision on the Turkish straits made without its participation or against its interests.
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Oviet
Russia
Balkan
Egypt
Turkey
Europe
Plan to terminate control of Chinese Eastern railway
Washington reports an accord between the United States and Japan to end the Stevens commission control once Japanese troop evacuation from Siberia is complete. China would take over operation and protection, with a risk of renewed international control if China fails. Peking reports a contrasting view as China suspends Russian indemnity, and Soviet protest hints at seizing the railway. Stevens, head of the commission, believes China will lose the line.
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United States
Japan
Stevens Commission
Siberia
Washington
Peking
China
John FF. Stevens
Britain Considering 50 Million Dollar Interest Payment Plan
Britain offers to pay 50 million dollars of interest due the United States while the World War Debt Funding Commission weighs the proposal. At 5 percent the next two installments would total 95 million, but the funding law allows 4 percent. Proposals include paying 50 million on October 15 and negotiating adjustments with Sir Robert Horne who is arriving soon. Congressman Burton of Ohio, a funding commission member, is in London assessing the plan.
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Britain
United States
World War Debt Funding Commission
Robert Horne
Burton
Ohio
Funding Commission
London
Ene Piehaly
Temporary injunction upheld against railway shopmen in Chicago
Federal Judge Wilkerson in Chicago sustained the temporary injunction obtained by Attorney General Daugherty against the railway shopmen on all points. Proceedings were perfunctory and union attorneys did not contest the order’s form. They hope to take the case directly to the U.S. Supreme Court on appeal.
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Federal
Wilkerson
Chicago
Daugherty
Supreme Court of the United States
Veterans march at Des Moines encampment parade
About twenty thousand Civil War veterans gathered in Des Moines for the fifty sixth Grand Army of the Republic encampment parade. They were reviewed by Lewis Pilcher and Hanford MacNider. M J Mackenhausen of White Bear Lake Minn collapsed and died after two hours marching. Judge J W Willett of Tama was elected commander in chief for next year.
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Des Moines
Grand Army of the Republic
Lewis
Pilchér
Hanford MacNider
American Legion
Senator Tom Watson Dies in Washington at 80
Thomas 3B Watson long active Georgia politician and Populist leader died suddenly of asthma in Washington. He ran for vice president in 1896 and for president in 1904. He served in the House after 1891 and as U S senator from Georgia starting in 1920. He opposed Woodrow Wilson and the League of Nations.
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Thomas E. Watson
Thomson, Ga
United States
Washington
Homas
Watson
Georgia
House of Representatives
Woodrow Wilson
League of Nations
De Valera Abdicates as Irish Republic Leader
Freeman's Journal reports Eamon de Valera abdicated leadership of the Irish republicans, with Liam Lynch succeeding. The note says the move destroys hope of national peace as Lynch drives his followers to bitterness and end of the republic.
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The
Freeman's Journal of ‘Dublin
Eamon de Valera
Irish Republicans
Liam Lynch
Lynch
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