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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1920
Page
1
Warsaw reports the Polish official communique stating that Gen. Budenny's army was annihilated on Wednesday, with details limited to the claim of total destruction and no further operational specifics.
Reports from London and Paris describe Bolshevik mobilization and Polish success as Polish forces push northward reaching Suwalki and Sejny by way of Galicia. The communiqué notes encirclement efforts around Lemberg and a heavy defeat of Russian columns near Grodno.
A fragment from a 1920 Doubleday work blends temperance satire with a Babbitt narrative. It threads a bar scene where Bob abandons drinking, hints at a Cleveland or Sullivan County setting, and sketches an early marriage, a lawyer’s office job, and a vaunted Rubaiyat obsession that frames their romance.
A Seattle telegram to Chief D A White of San Francisco seeks a strict watch for Charles W Hayes a 30 year old chauffeur tied to a $55 000 daytime theft from the Anglo and London Paris National Bank. Hayes is described as 5 9 ruddy with a facial scar and a gray suit and fedora. His license plate is 3709 and the bank suspects kidnapping.
Chicago report notes E H Moore Cox aide delivering documents to prove charges in the senate campaign fund investigation. Committee adjourns until Tuesday in Chicago. Poindexter forms subcommittee to collect funds for a potential 200000 loan or guarantee from the national committee. Battleground states listed across the union.
The Monarch lumber mill in North Portland was sold to Stanley Dol lar of San Francisco for more than $1,000,000, announced by former owner L. W. David. Fire damages Fairfield block reported in Vancouver B C with losses around $30,000.
The 1920 census reports Washington state at 1,366,416 population, up 214,326 since 1910 or 18.8 percent. Twin Falls, Idaho, shows 8,324 residents, increasing 58,3 percent since 1910.
The census bureau announced a revised Spokane population total of 104,437, up from 104,204 cited May 7, following a chamber of commerce list of uncounted residents. County population reached 141,239 including the city’s revised figure.
Armored cars of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit company were ordered out in large numbers in defiance of strikers seeking to disrupt surface transit. The vehicles, protected by wire screenings, moved through Brooklyn streets with two policemen beside each motorman and one at the conductor’s elbow, carrying few passengers.
In New York on September 2, officials warn that six hundred babies in a children's dispensary face eviction unless the city buys the building. The price tag is described as prohibitive, jeopardizing the facility and care.
A verse from the New York Sun envisions Benedict Arnold returning to view a group of figures including O Gorman Vardaman Kirby Lane Norris La Follette Cummins Jones Works Stone Grenna Clapp and declares they are eleven while he was once alone.
In Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania thousands of miners, amid Lackawanna and Luzerne counties, stayed home as a protest vacation against President Wilsons anthracite wage award. The stoppage was ordered at a meeting of insurgent miners and lacks UMWA approval.
Police in Chicago said a definite clue emerged in the murder of dry goods dealer Howard B. Rhodes. L. H. Merriman, father in law of Rhodes, disclosed Rhodes was shot at home a month earlier. Authorities believe a deliberate plot involved two men seen nearby and planned the crime. State's Attorney Hoyne planned to question Mrs. Jacobson again.
Governor James M. Cox plans an extensive stump tour beginning with a swing around the circle. The Democratic candidate pledges U S entry into the League of Nations and will campaign in every state west of the Mississippi, excluding Arkansas Texas and Louisiana. He opens with a speech in Lansing Michigan tomorrow.
In Marion Ohio on September 2 1920 Chicago Cubs met the local semi pro baseball team for an exhibition. A procession of educational leaders arrived by car from Chicago to meet Warren G Harding and discuss issues with about 700000 school teachers represented by the associations.
In Honolulu on September 1 the prince of Wales prepared to depart for Acapulco, Mexico, continuing a world tour after a week in Hawaii. He arrived from Australia and will visit the west coast of Mexico next.
In Portland on September 2 police search for a man seen talking to himself. He sold a stolen suitcase for 2.50 and a pawnbroker found inside 990 in gold and currency.
Riverside California authorities escalate a kidnap investigation into 22 month old Edna Simmons who vanished Tuesday. After speaking with her father George Simmons officials broadcast descriptions and divers searched Mocking Bird Canyon dam while dynamiting stream sections to reveal any body. Failing to locate the child strengthens the kidnapping theory as footprints led toward the water.
An earthquake struck the Benevento district causing panic but no casualties. The tremor lasted about ten seconds, delaying reports from Rome. Authorities linked the quake to seismic activity in central Italy as residents sought safety.
A San Francisco conference called by Senator James D. Phelan aims to unite all anti-Japanese groups for the November California vote. Samuel Shortridge, the Republican nominee for Phelan’s Senate seat, attended as plans develop for a central body to lead the campaign.
The case tests whether a woman must reveal her age to register for state elections in Portland Maine. Mrs E. Ernest Holman, wife of a prominent citizen, was denied registration for refusing to disclose her age.
Galveston Texas Sept 2 Brigadier General Wolters announced Colonel Billie Mayfield provost marshal of the Galveston military zone was relieved of his command today after he took responsibility for the attempted arrest of G W Sanders editor of the Houston Press Monday night Sanders was involved in the incident and Mayfield reported the responsibility.
It is estimated that 70,000 tons of cork are needed annually to bottle beer and mineral water consumed in Great Britain.
A Star preview discusses an O. Henry attributed story Holding Up a Train, says writer Jennings supplied it in his own outlaw style after money pressures. Jennings claims O. Henry rewrote and published it, then feared disclosure of his convict past. The piece notes blackmail and the alleged death cause.
President Wilson weighing response to Poland’s note regarding Polish armies on the east frontier with Soviet Russia. Poland’s reply was sent to the White House late last night as he prepared to make the note public at the State Department.
Berlin Sept. 2. Foreign Minister Simons declared that Germany has refused proposals from both Russia and the Entente to join in war with the other. The statement outlines Berlin's stance amid ongoing global tensions.
Sixteen open indictments outline charges against 23 individuals for importation transportation concealment or sale of narcotics. Secret indictments and four true bills accompany the report. Bail set mostly at 1000 with Heck Meyers Ed Louie 500 and Donald E Brown 750. several defendants face no true bills.
In Winnipeg on Sept 2 a justice dismissed the humane officer’s complaint after ruling that a boa constrictor could not be fed dead chicks. The decision centers on animal care practices and legal standards for livestock.
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