Ulster cabinet fails to move on peace terms
Ulster Cabinet met with no developments announced, leaving peace terms for Ireland to be initiated by Ulster leaders. Sinn Fein call for a give and take approach amid stalled negotiations. Michael Farran of the Irish Labor Party expressed hope for peace and freedom if talks succeed, and pledged labor support if negotiators reject British proposals. De Valera praised labor’s support for the Irish cause and lauded sacrifices shown by Irish workers over the past two years.
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Belfast
Ireland
Sinn
Dublin
Michael Farran
Irish Labor Party
Republican Congress
Labor
de Valera
America
Japan to Deal with the Opium Problem at Once
The Japan League of Nations Association adopted a resolution urging serious international attention to opium. It stressed cooperation and proactive Japanese action, noting Kwantung Province would suffer most from opium misuse. A second resolution urged labor laws aligned with Washington Conference agreements.
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Japan
Japan League of Nations Association
Kwantung Province
Canton Employers Raise Wages of All Mechanics
Canton reports employers in the city raised mechanics' wages by 20 to 50 percent to avert a threatened general strike. The action covers power-plant, railroad, shipping, and factory workers, hailed as the greatest victory by laborers in China. Tea Guild workmen are now seeking further increases.
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Canton
China
Co-Operative Marketing Plan to Help Farmers
Alberta growers plan a co operative marketing scheme for this year's potato crop modeled after Michigan and Minnesota efforts. J H Hare, marketing commissioner, studied handling grading and shipping methods in Michigan Minnesota and Ontario. The Edmonton Potato Growers Association will pilot a small tag driven program through the Department of Agriculture.
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Calgary
Alto
Michigan
Minnesota
Alberta
J. H. Hare
Department of Agriculture
Ontario
Edmonton Potato Growers’ Association
Reed to Leave Nome for Juneau in September
Judge T M Reed named by President Harding to succeed Judge R W Jennings as US district judge for the division will leave Nome August 25 for Juneau by Victoria. He sails to Seattle and will reach Juneau on the first available steamer. Reed cannot relieve Jennings before mid September, with respectful exchanges following the nomination.
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T. M. Reed
Harding
R. W. Jennings
U. S. District’s Court
Nome
Juneau
Victoria
Seattle
Reed
Jennings
Open Air Schools Approved in France by Hygienists
Paris aug 6 open air schools as part of the French public school system have been approved by a committee of hygienists and educators after conferences between the ministry of public instruction and Julian Clarence Levi of New York representing the French American Union for Open Air Schools. Previously open air schools in France relied on private efforts.
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Paris
Ministry of Public Instruction
Julian Clarence Levi
New York
Union For Open Air Schools
France
Financial Outlook Improves as Loan Rates Ease
SPOKANE Aug. 6 John Perrin chairman of the board of the 12th Federal Reserve Bank district said prospective large crops indicate improvement in the financial situation and that the worst has passed There is now no money stringency and loaning rates worldwide have measurably eased The nation's Federals are steadily increasing
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Spokane
John Perrin
12Th
Federal Reserve Bank District
Fordney Tariff Bill Faces Senate Hurdle
Washington Aug 6 Final action by the Senate finance committee on the Fordney tariff bill appears farther away than ever. Controversial phrases of the bill are yet unconsidered.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Bering Strait Expedition Sails From Yokohama
A 56 member expedition from Yokohama sails for Thu kotskoi Promontory near the Bering Strait to survey natural resources and search for workable gold. Led by Kanzaki the mixed Japanese Russian American crew includes experts, with wireless gear aboard and rifles for defense.
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Tokio
Thukotskoi
Bering Strait
Nichinichi
Yokohama
Kogen Company
Hitsui
Mitsubishi
Kanzaki
Diet
Japan
Russia
United States
Navy
Foreign Office
Kurile Islands
GE President Honored by Japan for Wireless Services
Tokyo reporters announce Owen D. P. Young, vice president of the General Electric Company of America, has been awarded the fourth class Order of Merit and an Order of the Rising Sun for his contributions to wireless telegraphy in Japan.
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Tokio
Owen PD. Young
General Electric Company of America
Japan
First Film Fair to Open in Los Angeles in January
Plans for the first film fair an exhibit to show all stages of the motion picture industry are being made by the Ethical Motion Picture Society of America. The exposition is set to open in Los Angeles in January and close in March 1922. The exhibit aims to stress the industrys value to science labor and as a medium of instruction in art science and history.
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Los Angeles
Ethical Motion Picture Society S of America
Bremerton Police Chief Faces New Larceny Charge
Bremerton, Wash. Aug. 6. Chief Frank Reynolds, already charged with extortion, faces an additional grand larceny count over a diamond ring allegedly held as bail for Mrs. Virginia Munco last June. Reynolds, on vacation with full pay, was granted leave by the city council which also passed a resolution deeming him a victim of trumped up charges.
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Bremerton
Wash
Frank Reynolds
Virginia Munco
Reynolds
Good Roads Association Set for Tacoma Convention
The Washington State Good Roads Association will hold its annual convention in Tacoma on September 15 and 16. Leaders from the organization announced the dates at the meeting in Tacoma.
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Good Roads Association
Tacoma
Wash
Washington State Good Roads Association
Epidemic of Cholera Now Most Serious
Soviet Russia faces a worsening cholera outbreak amid harsh conditions and terrible sanitation. Officials warn the epidemic’s spread compounds hardship, with public health measures strained by difficult domestic circumstances.
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Soviet Russia
Russian malcontents making fool charges
Riga Aug 6 The Soviet Public Health Commissar Dr N Semashko notes in Izvestia that cholera fight is hampered by filthy urban conditions with sewage and water systems in disrepair People walk streets with over shoes in mud Mass migrations from the Volga region spread infection across vast distances General vaccination quarantines and rapid sanitation work are ordered Sewage repairs are being rushed
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Riga
Russia
N. Semashko
Moscow Izvestia
Volga
Propaganda Charge Against Western Powers Over Aid
From Riga dated August 6 the Third International executive committee in Moscow broadcast a world proletariat appeal. It says England and America want the Russian workers to trade bread for counter revolution. It accuses France Rumania and Poland of plotting against the Soviets and urges the proletariat to thwart aid conditions at their roots.
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Riga
Russia
The
Third Internationale
Moscow
World Proletariat
England
America
France
Rumania
Poland
Trotsky denies Bolshevik mobilization against neighbors
In an interview with the Stosta Agency in Moscow, Leon Trotsky says the Red Army is three times smaller than nine months ago and still demobilizing, while military schools expand. He denies regiments fight with Kemal Pasha and notes potential field strength remains adequate. Russia may soon realize a loan in France as Krassin reports offers and focus on food and seed imports. locomotives ordered abroad arrive this month.
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Riga
Leon Trotsky
Stosta
Moscow
Russia
Red Army
Mustapha Kemal Pasha
France
Leonid Krassin
Rosta
M. Krassin
British Floating Exhibition Ship Planned
A new company aims to build a large, unprecedented ship to cruise the world as a floating exhibition of British manufactures. Directors include Sir George B. Hunter, the Mauretania builders, the Duke of Northumberland, Earl Grey, Marquis Beaufort Pease, and Lloyd’s Bank deputy chairman, with the vessel titled the British trade ship.
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London
Times
United Kingdom
George B. Hunter
Duke of Northumberland
Earl Grey
Beaumont Pease
Lloyd’s Bank
Colonel Repond Resigns as Pope's Guard Chief at Vatican
Rome Aug 6 Colonel Repond long noted for shaping the Swiss Guards toward a martial posture has resigned. Pope Benedict appointed Colonel Hirschbuhl to succeed him. Repond, formerly of the Swiss regular army, had driven drills and strict discipline, and even proposed cannon on St Peter's roof.
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Rome
Repond
Vatican
Pius X
Benedict
Hirschbuhl
Bélvedere Court
Vatican Gardens
Pris
St. Peter's
Holy Father
Canton
Petite
Four
Musicians in New York Given Two Weeks Notice
New York vaudeville and moving picture theater musicians have been given a two weeks notice of discharge. Managers say the Musicians Mutual Protective Union directors refused wage cut talks, about a 20 percent reduction.
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Musicians of
New York
Musicians’ Mutual Protective Union
Liquor Cache Confiscated From Chicago Trust Company
Prohibition officials seized about $10,000 worth of assorted liquor from the Michigan Avenue Trust Company. The supply is linked to Walter Spurgin, former company president, said to be in Mexico, with a search pending.
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Chicago
Prohibition
Michigan Avenue Trust Company
Walter Spurgin
Spurgin
Mexico
Face Dirty Reprimanded Sullen Boy Takes His Life
In San Francisco 12 year old Patrick Ward, a newsboy, was found hanging to a bedpost at his home. A leather strap used for selling papers was found tight around his neck. Police report he had been scolded shortly before the body was discovered.
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San Francisco
Patrick Ward
Coal groups protest Ford rail rate cuts
The Northern West Virginia Coal Association has protested to the Interstate Commerce Commission against proposed coal rate reductions on Henry Ford's Detroit Toledo and Irontown Railroad. The association calls the move one of Ford's overzealous enterprises.
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Washington
Northern West Virginia Coal Association
Interstate Commerce Commission
Henry Ford
Detroit, Toledo and Irontown
Ford
Britain Sets September 1 as War Termination Date
London August 6 reports Prime Minister Lloyd George announced in the House of Commons that the official termination of the war will take effect September 1, with exceptions only for Turkey.
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London
Turkey
Lloyd George
House of Commons
Bay Area Building Trades Vote For General Strike
In San Francisco Bay region the rank and file urged a general strike to settle the open shop dispute. Officers were instructed to stay out of the action and warned of charter revocation if any union member persisted. Forty five unions voted for the strike, 681 opposed, with 2,500 in favor and 681 against.
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San Francisco
Cal
San Francisco Bay Region
International Building Trades Union
Bay Cities
Capitol Building Plan for Juneau If Treasury Drafts Wing
Delegate Dan A. Sutherland may sponsor a bill to secure Congressional authorization to begin a Territorial Capitol building under the unit plan. He reports Supervising Architect Whittemore can draft a wing to house legislative, gubernatorial, financial and educational offices within the current $155,000 appropriation. If Juneau voters urge action, the bill will be prepared.
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Juneau
Congress
Dan A. Sutherland
Juneau Commercial Association
Capitol
Whittemore
Treasury Department
Sutherland
Superintendent of Education
Will Be Hard Winter Outside Salvation Army Gives Facts
Commander Evangeline Booth warns of a harsh industrial winter. In New York City 800 weekly employment applications are registered, but many more apply without registration. Among workers seeking jobs, 34 hold professional credentials for well paying roles. Most relief seekers are under 40 and eager to work, yet no jobs exist. Last week 84 families with young children faced imminent eviction due to hunger and lack of rent money.
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New York
Evangeline Booth
Salvation Army
United States
New York City
Dreds
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Edna Mae Alexander
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Wires
Senate
Thukotskoi Promontory
General Electric Company
Lenine
Bolsheviki
Jacquelne Wadeyne
Brussels
American Young Women's Christian Association
Pope's Guard
Britain
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