Millions of New Yorkers Walking Today
New York workers faced a heavy rainstorm as subway and elevated lines were shut down by a trainmen strike. Interborough Rapid Transit operated few cars under police, buses and vans filled in, Wall Street brokers offered lifts, and office openings were delayed while ferries sped to meet demand. The strike paralyzed systems in Manhattan, the Bronx, and parts of Brooklyn and Queens with no violence reported yet concerns of future trouble when strike-breakers are used.
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New York
Interiurban Rapid Transit Company
Wall Street
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
Manhattan
Bronx
Brooklyn
Queens
Seven Trainor Family Killed in Ohio Auto Crash
In Cleveland Ohio on August 18 seven members of the John Trainor family were killed when their car was struck at a crossing by a train. The auto tried to beat the train, the driver apparently misjudging the vehicle’s speed, wiping out the father mother four sons a daughter and a female relative.
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Cleveland
Cleveland, O
John Trainor Famiiy
Rifle Fire Exchanges Between Forces at Cork Harbor
Military units on Rocky Island in Cork harbor traded shots for an extended period with a rifle party. Casualty numbers were not reported. Haulbowlin Island nearby hosts a naval dock yard and an ordnance storehouse depot.
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Queenstown
Ireland
Associated Press
Rocky Island
Cork Harbor
Haulbowlin Island
Daylight Living Bill May Pass House Over Veto
Washington august 18 The House will vote Tuesday on passing the daylight saving bill over President Wilson's veto.
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Washington
House
Wilson
Australians Take Honor In National Tennis Doubles
Australians Brooks and Peterson won the National tennis doubles by defeating California pair Johnson and Griffin on Saturday in Boston.
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Boston
Brooks
Peterson
Johnson and Griffin
Calfornia
Heavy stocks of foodstuffs being seized
Federal war rants have been issued for the arrest of officers of the John Campbell Wholesale Sugar Merchants Corporation charging violation of the food control act. Officials are accused of profiteering by buying sugar for nine dollars and thirty six cents per hundred pounds and reselling it for thirteen dollars per hundred pounds. St Louis plants raided the same day. Federal authorities seized forty two thousand twenty six cases of eyes containing sixteen million five hundred sixty nine thousand three hundred and sixty eggs in cold storage plants in St Louis.
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Chicago
John Campbell Wholesale Sugar Merchants Corporation
ST. Louis
Federal raid seizes millions of eggs and butter in Detroit
Federal agents raided the Detroit Refrigerating Company plant and seized seven million eggs and three hundred thousand pounds of butter. The items will be sold by federal authorities.
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Detroit
Detroit Refrigerating Company
Regency Abolition Demanded by Hungarian Socialists
Budapest Aug 18 Socialist leaders refuse to join the new government unless Archduke Joseph relinquishes the regency. Joseph insists resigning would trigger civil war, keeping the regency in place amid political standoff.
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Budapest
Hungary
Archduke Joseph
Joseph
Czecho Slovak Troops Occupy Pressburg Bridgehead
Berlin reports Czecho Slovak troops now hold the bridgehead at Pressburg thirty three miles east of Vienna on the Austria Hungary border.
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Berlin
Associated Press
Pressburg
Vienna
Austria and
Hungary
Republican urges Senate to ratify League covenant
Washington Aug 18 Geo W Wickersham United States attorney general under Taft says through the League to Enforce Peace that the Senate should ratify the peace treaty with the League of Nations covenant and then perfect the document by amendment via the Assembly Council of the League as provided by the framers for state amendments.
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Washington
Geo. W. Wickersham
United States
Taft
League
Senate
League of Nations
Pershing to Review Italian Troops in Rome Visit
Paris Aug 18 General Pershing left Paris Saturday night for Rome with King Emmanuel to review the Italian troops on Monday and visit the Italian battlefields. He will later present distinguished service medals to thirty eight Italian officers.
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Paris
Grigsby Prepares Full Territorial Government Bill for Alaska
Delegate George B. Grigsby of Alaska is drafting a comprehensive territorial government bill. It would grant the Alaska Territorial Legislature full powers used by other territories since the full form arose. The measure would include jurisdiction over Alaska fisheries and game. He aims for hearings in December and pressing for passage as vital to Alaska’s needs.
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Washington
George B. Grigsby
Alaska
Alaska Territorial
Fisheries and Game of
Grigsby
Congress
House Committee On Territories
Bank official tied to two million shortage in Philadelphia
A warrant from the district attorney seeks the arrest of Charles Ambler former State insurance commissioner on conspiracy and malfeasance in connection with the North Pennsylvania Bank failure last July. Experts say the apparent shortage tops two million dollars and the bank had been in precarious condition for some time.
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Philadelphia
Charles Ambler
North Pennsylvania Bank
Powerful Wireless Station Planned Near Paris
Aug 18 reports a new wireless station to be erected near Bordeaux with a sending radius of 12500 miles and a daily capacity of 72000 words. The facility is described as one of the most powerful in the world.
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Paris
Bordeau
Timber Loss Heavy in Oregon Fires Across State
In Portland Oregon on August 18 officers report more than forty forest fires raging in the McKenzie river country. Much valuable timber is believed to have been destroyed as flames spread across the region.
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Portland
Ore
M. Kenzie River
Dismissal of Cummings Seen as Revenge Move
Mexico City reports late Saturday that President Carranza ordered Charles Cummings to leave the country. No reason given, but linked to a British House of Commons statement on recognizing the Carranza government only with protection for British citizens in Mexico. The expulsion could shift English policy toward Mexico.
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Washington
Mexico City
Carranza
Charles Cummings
Mexico
Cummings
House of Commons
England
Carranza to Inform Congress on Sept 1 Details
El Paso dispatch reports the Mexican consulate says President Carranza will inform the Mexican congress on September 1 about the state of affairs and relations among the American, British, and Mexican governments.
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EL Paso
Carranza
Mexican Congress
Canadian government fixes Winter wheat price at $2.15 per bushel
Ottawa reports the first price for Winter wheat set at 2.15 dollars per bushel to farmers. Trinidad miners entombed after Laveta mine explosion. condition unknown. Paris clashes injure consumers and food dealers in the Southeast. Brest dock workers seize provisions and discount them by half.
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Ottawa
Paris
Brest
UV. 5S Education Chief on Alameda to Cordova
W. T. Lopp, head of the UV. 5S bureau of Education in Alaska, was a passenger aboard the Alameda bound for Cordova indicating his travel plans and involvement in Alaska education administration.
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W. T. Lopp
UV. 5S
Bureau of Education
Alaska
Alameda
Cordova
Bitter controversy at the Episcopal convention
In Detroit this October the General Convention will debate radical revisions to the book of common prayer. Proposals include faith healing with holy oil, requiem prayers, and prayers for the dead. Changes to marriage vows replacing "obey" for the bride and "with all my worldly goods I thee endow" for the groom are expected to spark dispute.
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New York
Episcopal Church
Detroit
Demand for Large Wage Increase by Railroad Firemen
In Cleveland on August 18 a wage surge of thirty five to sixty five percent over current rates is demanded for seventeen thousand railroad firemen and hostlers in the United States and Canada. The demand will be presented to rail companies following a convention of three hundred Brotherhood officials.
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Cleveland, O
United States
Canada
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers
Germans violated treaty by militarizing police force
Coblenz Aug 18 report says Germany is beginning militarization of a police force in breach of the peace terms with the Allies. No details on the force size have been made public.
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Coblenz
Germany
German mobs take heavy toll in Chemnetz city death toll
Berlin August 18 Associated Press reports eight officers and fifteen privates killed and eighty five privates wounded while suppressing food riots in Chemnetz Saxony last week.
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City OF
Chemnetz
Berlin
Associated Press
Saxony
Officials in Washington urge immediate action in Mexico
Washington officials say drastic measures are imperative after Mexican bandits seized American aviators Lieuts Paul H. Davis and Harold G. Peterson. The captors demand fifteen thousand dollars ransom and threaten death if not paid by Monday. The missing officers, last heard Aug 10, reportedly landed after engine trouble during border patrol.
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Washington
Mexico
EL Paso
Tex
Paul H. Davis
Harold G. Peterson
Aviators in Mexican bandit case urge ransom payment
OFFICERS URGE PAYMENT EL PASO Tex Aug 18 The army aviators Lieut Davis and Lieut Peterson held by Mexican bandits have sent messages to headquarters urging ransom be paid They fear they will be murdered if money is not promptly paid
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EL Paso
Tex
Army
Lieut
Davis
Peterson
State Department Demands Immediate Action Over Captured Aviators
Secretary Lansing announced vigorous representations to the Mexican Government over the capture and detention of two American army aviation officers. The embassy was instructed to seek immediate action for their release. Details will be released to the public, with the United States weighing how ransom should be handled between Mexico and the American government.
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State Department
Washington
Lansing
Mexico City
United States
Mexico
Wealthy cattlemen in Texas authorize bank loan for ransom
Wealthy cattlemen in the Big Bend district authorize Marfa State Bank to draw fifteen thousand dollars from them to meet a ransom demand by Mexican bandits for the release of American aviators.
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Marfa, Tex
Big Bend
Texas Stockmen Permit Ransom Payment In Bandits Case
Money totaling fifteen thousand dollars as ransom for American officers was authorized by Texas stockmen and will be delivered today to an agent of the bandits near Candeleria Texas.
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Marfa
Tex
Texas
Candeleria
British Labor Leader to Tour United States
Arthur Henderson secretary of the British Labor party has accepted the AFL invitation to visit the United States arriving in October. He will conduct a lecture tour speaking in principal industrial centers.
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New York
Arthur Henderson
British Labor Party
American Federation of Labor
United States
America
Former German Kaiser Buys Dutch Estate
Utrecht Holland Aug 18 Reports that former Kaiser William of Germany has purchased the estate of Droon at the village of Droon five miles north of Amerongen in Holland.
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Kaiser
Holland
Utrecht
Kaiser William
Germany
Droon
Amerongen
Socialists Call Chicago Convention to Form Communist Party
The left wing of the Socialist party in New York invites radicals to a September 1 convention in Chicago to organize the Communist party of America and sever all ties with the Socialist party.
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New York
Lef
Socialist Party
Radicals
Chicago
Communist Party of America
Investigation of Expenses of Board on Pacific Coast
A special House committee departed Washington for Seattle to begin a Pacific tour examining expenses tied to the Shipping Board Fleet Corporation. The panel aims to complete the inquiry by October 1.
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Pacific Coast
The
Shipping Board Corporation
Shi
Washington
House of Representatives
Seattle
Pacific
Shipping Board Fleet Corporation
Plane fire in air injures two women during flight
In Venice California on August 18 an aeroplane catching fire midair injured two passengers, Mrs Leo Trost and Mrs EL Green of El Paso, during an exhibition flight. Their condition was described as serious and potentially fatal.
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Venice
Cal
Leo Trost
EL. Green
Elpaso
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Hampton Roads
Newsmexico
Wybe Pacific
Admiral Rodman
New Mexico
Columbus
San Salvador
Panama Canal
Canal
Heart of
Chicago Wholesale Merchants’ Corporation
Prince Joseph Fears
General Pershing
MR. Grigsby
Insurance
Britain
Cable Briefs
Trinidad
Colo
Laveta
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