Quiet day in Chicago riot zone
Chicago reports a lull after four days of urban violence as about 10 000 state troops and police hold the South Side Negro districts. Three Negroes die from wounds bringing total to 32, amid scattered clashes. two disturbances involve whites beating Black residents. Officials seek 2000 additional officers, while Brundage and Hoyne press grand jury investigations into causes and punishments.
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Chicago
South Side
Lowden
Thompson
Wholesale Grocers’ Association
Forty-seventh Street
Vincennes Avenue
State
Twentieth Streets
West Side
Brundage
Hoyne
Hloyne
Hursday
Poice
Fire
Per
Cummings Testifies on Junket Claim in Aircraft Probe
Washington reports recount a tense House sub committee hearing as Rep Cummings faces questions over branding a proposed Pacific coast trip a junket. Frear orders record cleanups while Cummings jokes and defends the probe as a wasteful political maneuver amid war scrutinies.
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Washington
Nomer
Cummings
Democratic House
Pacific Coast
Bland
Chairman Frear
Mr. Cummings
Chaiman Frear
Frear
Charley E. Hughes
Ships Put On Market
One hundred steamships built on the Great Lakes during the war have been sold by the shipping board to Anderson Overseas Corporation of New York for about 80 million dollars. The fleet will pass into French and Italian ownership with delivery starting August 10 at six or more ships weekly. Chairman Hurley, in his last act, announced the sale as he left the Shipping Board.
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Chaiman Frear
Mr. Cummings
Publi
Republican Organization
United States
House
Fras
Hughes
Cummings
Congress
Magee
New York
Frear
Lee
Patente
Pacific
Argee
Invton
Neo
Washington
Great Lakes
Shipping Board
Anderson Overseas Corporation of
Hurley
Iinois
White House
Wilson
John Barton Payne
Senate
Palmer
Senne
Federal Trade Commission
Commission On Industries
Telephone rates suspended for Illinois utilities
Springfield Aug 1 The Illinois public utilities commission suspended until Dec 20 the applications of nearly fifty telephone companies to keep federal rate increases in effect when private control resumes. If valid, firms return to pre federal rates. Key areas affected include La Salle Peoria Rock Island Kankakee Champaign Urbana Decatur Quincy Galesburg Vermilion County and Mt Vernon.
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Springfield
Ilinois
Public Utilities Commission
Congress
la Salle County
Mt. Vernon
Peoria
Rock Island
Moline
Kankakes
Champaign
Urbana
Decatur
Quincy
Galesburg
Vermilion County
Poor Time For Us To Talk About Mexico
Robert G. Speer, general secretary of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, denounced at the Presbyterian New Era conference in Stony Brook the anti-Japanese and anti-Mexican propaganda he said seeks to embroil the United States with Mexico and Japan, while noting domestic racial strife in American cities.
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Stonybrook
N. Y
Mexico
Robert G. Speer
Board of Foreign Missions
The
Presbyterian Church
United States
Austrian Cabinet Resigns Over St Germain Terms
The Austrian Cabinet led by Dr Karl Benner decides to resign amid unsettled affairs and protests over the St Germain peace terms. Vienna officials say financial provisions are especially onerous and provoke strong opposition within government circles.
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Associated Preas
Vienna
Karl Benner
Powerg
St. Germain-en-Yaye
Mos
Seven Republicans agree on four reservations for league pact
Washington August 1 Reuters seven Republican senators friendly to the treaty agreed on a definite group of four reservations to shape a middle ground for league acceptance. The reservations cover Article Ten powers Monroe Doctrine domestic issues and withdrawal. Senators McCumber McNary Cummins Colt Lenroot Kellogg and Spencer signaled they may hold the balance in ratification votes.
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Washington
Senate
League of Nations
Foreign Relations Committee
League
Shantung
Japan
Tokio
White House
A. Mitchell Palmer
Wilson
Versailles
Germany
McCumber
North Dakota
McNary
Oregon
Cummins
Iowa
Colt
Rhode Island
Lenroot
Wisconsin
Kellogg
Minnesota
Spencer
Missouri
Italian flyer completes first air crossing of South America
Lieut Locatelli of the Italian aviation mission, based in Argentina, completed a Buenos Aires to Valparaiso flight marking the first air crossing of the continent from Atlantic to Pacific. He had earlier flown to Mendoza and began the final leg after dawn crossing the Cordillera reaching Santiago in the afternoon.
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Asacciatad Press
Santiago
Chile
Lieut
Locatelli
Argentina
Buenos Aires
Valparaiso
South American
Atlantic
Pacific
Mendoza
Cordillera
Andes
France Sees League As Utopia Says Wing
Representative Wing of Illinois after six weeks in Paris declares Americans have worn out their welcome in France and that the French oppose a League of Nations while treating the idea as utopian. He cites a Bolshevist welcome and notes the French resentment toward the League. He says officials excepted, the French do not fully appreciate U.S. efforts and that Americans wish to go home.
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Washington
Frances
Ilinois
Burspa
Bing
France
League of Nations
Postal and Western Union telegraph rate duel
New York Aug 1 The government relinquished control of telegraph lines with a 20 percent rate cut on Postal lines while Western Union kept the postwar schedule. Postal president Clarence H Mackay warned rates could rise again if costs keep climbing. Western Union head Newcomb Carlton defended service to thousands of small communities and pledged wage concessions amid high living costs.
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New York
Postal Company
Western Union
Burleson
Clarence H. Mackay
The
Postal
Newcomb Carlton
Mackay
Postmaster-General
Bell Telephone
Western Union Companies
Postal Telegraph Cable Company
Carlton
Wester Union
Secret Service Men Sent Into Oil Field
Advices from Mexico City report Chief Orozco sending secret service men into the Tampico oil fields to obtain evidence against foreign oil companies. The action aims to confiscate foreign properties, with a leak warning companies they cannot secure local employment. State Department notes Pelaez is the main beneficiary, with salaries to protect the fields south of Tampico approved by several foreign offices.
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Washington
Mexico City
Orozco
Tampico
State Department
Hele
Ford libel trial testimony on anarchists at Mount Clemens
In Mount Clemens Michigan on August 1 Professor William A. Dunning testified in Henry Ford's libel suit against the Chicago Daily Tribune. Proceedings focused on similarities between Ford statements and those of anarchists with opposing counsel exchanging points on the meaning of anarchy and related ideas.
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Mount Clemens
Mich
William A. Dunning
Columbia University
Henry Ford
Chicago Daily Tribune
Elliott G. Stevenson
The
Tribune
Fred Lucking
Ms. Ford
Stevenson
Ford
Lucking
Judge Tucker
Professor Dunning
Emma Goldman
Goldman
Mother Earth
Mr. Ford
World Brotherhood
Brotherhood of Nations
Wilson
Dunning
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Attorney Stevenson
Russians Rout Reds And Take Volga City
London report says Gen Denkine’s forces captured Kamishin on the Volga from the Bolsheviki. Five thousand Bolsheviki, mine guns, and substantial material were seized as the town fell on July 30. the victory tightens the anti Bolshevik advance toward Saratov and threatens Bolshevik lines to Astrakhan. The pursuit extended 12 miles beyond Kamishin.
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Associated Press
London
Denkine
Theolsheviki
Kamishin
Volga
War Office
Demkine
Saratov
Astrakhan
Oscar Hammerstein in weakening health after surgery
New York August 1 Oscar Hammerstein Broadway producer in opera circles is said to be growing weaker by the hour after a critical illness that had kept him in danger through the night doctors report no improvement and caution that his condition remains serious
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New York
Oscar Hammerstein
Lords Delay Grants of Salient Rights Amid Reconstitution Plan
The Associated Press reports from London that on July 1 the House of Lords postponed granting the right to seats to presersses and stood back from the proposed reconstitution of the Lords. The delay affects debates on who may sit and participate in the chamber amid ongoing constitutional reform discussions.
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Associated Press
London
House of Lords Today
House of Lords
Eight High Officials Meet to Discuss Soaring Prices
Washington august 1 government machinery moved to relieve living costs as Wilson weighs railroad and profiteering concerns. Senate and House ponder price investigations and currency expansion while Palmer chairs a high level conference with eight top officials to curb prices and consider wage-related impacts. Plans emerge to sell surplus army foods via parcel post to ease costs.
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Washington
White House
Wilson
Railroad
Railroad Brotherhoods
Senate
House
Palmer
Glass
Houston
Redfield
Hines
Murdock
Federal Trade Commission
The
Treasury
Leffingwell
W. B. Colver
Railroad Administration
W. G. Lee
Wage and Adjustment Board
Lea
Baker
Burleson
Kelly
Pennsylvania
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Ninth National Guard
Italy
Public Utilities Board
U. S
Austria
Secret Service
Regales
Columbia
Volga City
Hammerstein
Cavice
Paris
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