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Newspaper
Reno Evening Gazette
Location
Reno, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1920
Page
1
Rioting renewed in Londonderry with multiple casualties as rifle and revolver fire roars through the city. Barricaded houses, suspended business, and troops in armored cars attempt to quell the clashes between Sinn Fein and Unionist factions.
Washington June 21 The government aims to enter the world carrying trade under the Jones shipping act. Senator Jones outlined provisions of the act and warned rivals that the United States will use all legitimate means to secure its share despite foreign opposition and possible retaliation.
The Bolshevik Inn Communication reports flinging Polish troops across the Tasips river east of Rezhitza and driving them toward Korosten and Oyrutch toward Proskuroy. They also say they have broken enemy resistance along the Dneister and advance toward Kamenets-Potolskye.
June 21 James Hamilton Lewis, former U S senator for Minors and a Democratic vice presidential hopeful, announces his personal platform and its push at the convention. He plans to depart for San Francisco tonight claiming the Democracy must act for the people or the people will act against the party.
N E A correspondent reports crowds at the St Francis Hotel as Southern Colonels gather for their Portland convention. Delegates, including Cox, Owen and McAdoo allies, mingle under Palmer headquarters signs while questions swirl about ballot voting. John Martin, a 1906 national committee member, denies birth as a colonel.
Washington reports the 191st wheat crop averaged 2.15 a bushel to growers in a four district survey. Winter wheat costs ranged 1.87 to 2.56, with a 2.60 price needed for 80 percent profit. Dollar wheat would cover costs on only two of 481 farms. Tufts honors Hoover with a doctor of science degree as 227 graduates receive diplomas.
Fire at Broadway park destroys grand stand as nurses and orderlies move patients at the county hospital nearby. Walter Tobin age forty dies of excitement during the blaze, physicians report.
Chicago police probe a riot after a parade by Star Order of Ethiopia members ended with an American flag burned. Two white men were killed and two Black participants injured as gunfire erupted near a cigar store and a hall where Abyssinian return talks were to be held. Police captured a leader’s flamboyant robes amid raids.
Cambridge July 21 Charles E Wighes spoke at Harvard Law School centennial on legal education and democracy. He warned that passion for legislation signals no democratic progress and cited wasted efforts, rising autocracy risks, and threats to personal rights amid war powers abuses.
Ned Joyce of Los Angeles was arrested after a complaint by Mary Dixon of the North Platte chamber of commerce accusing him of selling stock in a Delon Texas oil refining company without a state securities permit. Joyce allegedly sold over 100000 in the county with 30000 taken by QC McNeil. County Judge Woodhirst bound him over to the grand jury. ball amount to be set later.
Democratic observers in San Francisco report a shift after Chicago conventions. The party debates a progressive platform with Cox and Harding seen as opposite poles, while leaders search for a candidate to unite the left and appeal to wets and others.
London reports the Hythe conference plan for German reparations being linked to Allied debts cannot stand as U S refusal to accept it persists. The Times notes Britain faces its own debt burden and proposes Germany pay reparations as annuities scaled to Germany's capacity to pay.
Pierre June 21 A special session of the state legislature convened after a postponement due to flood conditions. Lawmakers plan to limit work to emergencies and repudiate broader measures, with non urgent items carried to the January regular session.
Atlantic City June 21 Rotary Sunday observed by local churches in honor of delegates to the eleventh annual convention of the international association of rotary clubs opening tonight. Three handed contest for president features John Nagler Dyer Vincedence Ind Estres Snedecor Portland Ore and B Harris Champagne Mo. King Alfonso to sign rent decree Monday forbidding landlord evictions for nonpayment of set rents. Mexico opens special session with talks on foreign debt bank reorganization petroleum sanitation and merchant marine.
Marion Ohio June 21 A longtime resident recounts Warren G Harding then a mischievous boy who helped haul a ghost parade prop and painted a house door in Iberia area. Neighbors describe him as clever, independent and a devout student who later became Republican nominee.
Philadelphia dispatch notes unconfirmed reports of about 5000 workers quitting nationwide, causing freight delays and shortages. Strike leaders insist the action targets the railroad labor board, not the lines, amid board delays and worker agitation.
A wireless dispatch from Moscow quotes an official statement saying Bolshevik troops have crossed the Dnieper in the Retchiten area as Polish forces retreat in Knorsten. A Polish attack southwest of Polotsk was repulsed according to the report.
A political conference in Pachutay was held in Mexico City today attended by Gen. Obregon Gen. P Bias Calles minister of war and Gen. Antholo Villareal minister of agriculture.
June 21 in Washington the Republican national committee met with Senator Warren G Harding and sub committee members to map a campaign structure. Harry Daugherty will be relieved of duties to focus on campaign tasks as an executive committee of up to fifteen members forms to run outreach including women. The formal notification is planned for mid July at Marion.
Hythe conference delegates authorize Greece to take military measures in Turkey to protect Constantinople and the straits. Premiers Lloyd George and Miller, with Foch and Francois-Marsal, arrive for talks. Venizelos offers Greece’s mandate for Armenia and Italy seeks twenty percent of German reparations.
Elihu Root proposes a two panel method for an International Court of Justice with one panel named by the Assembly of the League of Nations and another by the Council. The plan would seat judges from both panels and remain flexible to include Germany and Prussia as great powers in the future.
Warfront reports fifty Soviet divisions assembled for a large offensive along a 1200 kilometer front. Reds push toward Minsk and Vilna with aims to link to East Prussia as German shipments reach the Baltic via the Polish corridor.
Washington June 21 A call for a convention of railroad workers to form a one big union was published by the Butte Montana Daily Bulletin. Government officials said they believed an I W W publication issued the order. The call, signed by the committee, invites those attending the Chicago convention to contact E Pride at 225 North Western University Building. Leaders of the labor movement and the rail workers board in Chicago are attacked by Moe cay.
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