World News Roundup From 1920 Cable Dispatches
A broad summary lists proposals and events from Washington to Warsaw. It notes permission sought to raise express rates, Russian troop withdrawals from Poland, coal wage awards in Cleveland, and notable incidents including Ruth’s knee injury, Ponzi's arrest, and a Bucharest to Chicago exchange of messages about war and labor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Railroad Labor Board
Chicago
Interstate Commerce Commission
Washington
American Railway Express Company
Soviets Plot With Huns for War on France
Western Newspaper Union reports from Kolno Poland that Bolshevik officials plan an alliance with Germany to invade France, then target England and America. They expect to use Germany to transport troops, threaten a German revolution if blocked, and aim to seize Poland with a neutral zone near Danzig.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union News Service
Kolno
Poland
Diettonen
East Prussia
Russia
Germany
France
England
America
Associated Press
Berlin
Danzig
Czerwone
Hans Scharnewsky
Scharnewsky
Around World Air Trip Goal By German Zeppelin Firm
Major Charles J. Glidden of the Aero Club of America says German Zeppelin builders aim to complete a nonstop circumnavigation within the next twelve months. He returned from a world trip organizing an international airplane race and confirms the firm’s long plan to win the first globe flight by air.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Zeppelin
Germany
Charles J. Glidden
The
Aero Club of America
Glidden
Pro-German Views Tied to Greek Assassination Plot
At Lyons Railway Station in Paris Greece Prime Minister Venizelos was wounded by assailants George Thyriakis and Apostolos Iseppia. The Greek legation claims the attackers acted from pro German persuasions after Venizelos’s fall of Constantine led to their removal from the Greek army and navy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Venizelos
Greece
Lyons
Parle
Nice
Paris
George Thyriakis
Apostolos Iseppia
Hleutheros Venizelos
Constantine
Veniszelos
Deserters Dwindle Among WWI Registrants
Washington reports fewer than one percent of over 14 million men registered under the selective service act have been or will be charged with wilful desertion, per a War Department announcement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Department
South High
Youngstown
David H. Griffith
Marion
Frank Eversole
Lancaster
Tiffin
Warren&. Stone
Robert Sharp
Frank Courtney
Deanville
Nelsonville
Maude
Hamilton
Lew Share Tung
Cincinnati
Camp Sherman
Kirk Hart
New Comerstown
Isleta
Henry Miles
South Barberton
Columbus, Delaware and Marion Electric Company
John Henry Kautz
Carthage
Manchester
Rachel
Charles Kline
Port Washington
Wolf Crossing
Uhrichsville
Ralph Frock
Waldo Stephenson
van Wert
Fort Wayne
Ouio’ Electric
Joseph Embry
Ewark
F. B. Embry
Dresden
Thomas Ramsey
Newark
Judd R. Hyde
Cleveland
City of Martins Ferry
Wheeling
Fred Hotel
Joseph Schott
Erp Eiae
Oil Company
Eres
Mahoning County
Americans Accused By Mexicans in Turmoil Report
Mexican authorities accuse powerful American business interests of trying to foment rebellion against the Provisional Government in Mexico. They confirm unrest in Jalisco and Divergent loyalties of Vera Cruz and Baja California governors, but downplay significance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Mexico
Jalisco
Vera Crus
Retalan Cantu
California
de la Huerta
Nelson and His Nervous Side Revealed by Friend
The article recalls Lord Nelson's love of duck hunting but poor aim and a family tale of his fear during a ride in a phaeton. Beckford recounts guiding Nelson, who grew anxious, begged to be set down, and walked beside the horses as the carriage returned home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord Nelson
Beckford
Nelson
Algy's Impatient Call Ends With Quiet Departure
Algy enters a hotel telephone booth in lordly mood but fails to get a reply after repeated calls. Frustration grows until a posted instruction at the desk directs him to request the number from a clerk and wait for connection, and he slips away unnoticed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Algy
Halloa
Overall crusade begins as wearers parade in Strand
A Daily Mall London note recalls a cheerful man in blue dungarees and a smaller companion in light blue overalls seen in the Strand on Saturday. The scene marks the start of an overall crusade in Britain and references the American protest against high clothing prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stoker
Strand
America
Dungarees
Daily
London
Strange Polar Sea Vegetation
Remarkable laminaria seaweed grows in polar waters reaching tree like stems. Studies show these plants thrive only in the coldest seas and perish once warmth passes their frigid habitat.
Cincinnati Markets Report of Grain Livestock and Dairy
Market notes list corn values for several grades, sound hay Timothy and clover prices, oats and wheat quotes, butter eggs and poultry figures, live poultry prices, and live stock ranges for cattle calves sheep hogs and sows with various grades and weights reflected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aluin
Ohio Gleanings: Diverse Ohio News Tidbits
Long list of Ohio notices reports and incidents from Youngstown to Cleveland. Indictments and divorces, suicides and accidents, rail fare changes, train crashes, and county population figures are summarized with multiple named places and people across the state.
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Ero
Wilson
Colby
Kenisson
Bituminous Coal Commission
W. D. Conner
Land and Coastwise Waterways Service
Frank T. Hines
Babe” Ruth
New York Americans
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Auditorium Theater
Parley P. Christensen
Farmer-Labor Party
Industrial Workers of the World
Missouri
Jefferson City
Charles Ponzi
Securities Exchange Company
Boston
Ponzi
Pike's Peak
Colo
Anne Martin
Bradigan
Reno
Nev
United States Senate
Joseph Lukatich
Thomas O'Brien
W. Stevens
Whiting
Ind
Cox
Camp Perry
Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie
Arlo Dearlin
Des Moines
Pwin
Minneapolis
Walter Smith
Twin Cities
Fort Snelling
Minn
Bandit
Englewood
J.B. Todd
Todd
Manhattan
Kan
mid-West Farm Bureau
Iowa
North and
South Dakota
Nebraska
Michigan
Indiana
Trinda
Ohio
Denver
Charles Ponsi
Montreal
Atlanta
Railway Express
United States
Lindley M. Garrison
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees
Sol Bergman
Cleveland, O
Fredonia
F. Wilson
Coyville
Donald Richey
Altoona
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
American Federation of Labor
Warren
Stone
Northwestern
Sioux City
Ralph Williams
Wilson & Co
Kansas City
James O'Neill
New London
Conn
Richard Neville Bowerman
Baltimore
Grant
Warsaw
Foreign Office
Praga
Pultusk
Daniah
Oresund
Admiralty
Cork
Sinn Fein
Millerand
Noyon
Florence
Ialy
Baron Wrangel
Crimean Peninaule
Constantinople
Japan
Korea
Kokumin Shimbu
Tokyo
Kasvin
Teheran
Timothy
Atens
Roward “Brown
Akron
Charles Driscoll
Lakewood
Donald Ensninger
Robert
David H. Ensminger
Butler
Erie
Laquor
Paragon Refining Company
Toledo
Antony Zazorc
Fairport
D. Lindley “Sears
Bucyrus
Joseph Clark
Harry Paul
Myers Lake
Canton
Harry Bernstein
Charles Garvin
Charles Krock
Kenton
Anthony Zazorc
C. W. Robb
Cuyahoga Falls
Salineville
W. D. Duck Music and Electrical
John McAlexander
Quincy
Logan County
Cincincinnati
State Utilities Commission
George Francis Burba
Columbus Dispatch
James M. Cox
Columbus
Ohio Fair Price Commission
Stark Electric Company
Alliance
August Fleisch
Fleisch
New York Central
Fremont
National Guard
George Moore
Helen Gee
Moore
Ohio’ Electric Railway
Whitney
Springfield
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