Hays and White Ordered Before Senate Inquiry
Chicago August 23 The Senate committee investigating campaign expenditures ordered Will Hays and George White to appear and bring all books on receipts and expenditures. It also directed Chairman Kenyon to telegraph Governor Cox asking him to appear or send a rep to substantiate charges of a $15,000,000 campaign fund. Sen Selden Spencer resigns to focus on his reelection campaign.
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Chicago
Senate
Will I. Hays
George White
William. Kenyon
James I. Cox
Sen
Selden P. Spencer
Missouri Today
Campaign Investigation Committee
Suffrage Ratification in Snarl of Technicalities
Nashville Tenn August 23 The ratification by Tennessee has halted in legal snags despite the 36 state threshold. The Attorney General’s office began clearing technical obstacles to certify Tennessee’s ratification and enable the formal proclamation by Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby.
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Nashville
Tenn
Tennessee
United States
Bainbridge Colby
Washington
Ridiculous Says Harding Of Campaign Fund Charge
Senator Warren G. Harding, Republican presidential nominee, calls Cox charge that $15,000,000 from selfish interests funded the Republican campaign absolutely untrue and perfectly ridiculous. Harding comments came after Cox alleged large contributions and limitless Republican spending in a South Bend speech last week.
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Harding
Campaign Fund Charge
Marion, O
Warren G. Harding
James M. Cox
South Bend
Ind
Republican
Police Chief and Aide Killed After Car chase Shootout
Salem report says Walnut Cove Chief of Police Matthews and Walter Madison were killed in a battle with a sheriff's posse. Three escaping prisoners, all negro, were wounded. the trio had fled after dancing with white girls at a carnival dance. The incident occurred as officers pursued the escapees from the carnival event.
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Salem
N. C
Matthews
Walnut Cove
Walter Madison
Trains Involved Crashes Report Fatalities Across Cities
In La Grande Oregon a passenger train struck a motor truck at a grade crossing killing three and seriously injuring three others. In Camden New Jersey a collision between a Pennsylvania electric train and a 15 passenger bus killed six and injured four.
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LA Grande
Ore
Camden
N. J
Here
Pennsylvania Electric
Merger Creates International Petroleum Company in Canada
NEW YORK Aug. 23 Mercer of the International Petroleum Company and the Tropical Oil Company report a merger involving assets of 100 000 000. An organization of a new International Petroleum Company under Canadian law is planned.
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New York
Mercer
International Petroleum Company
Tropical Oil Company
Canada
Oil Refineries Urge Inquiry Into Gas Shortage Charges
Independent oil refiners telegraphed Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer urging a prompt investigation into what they termed false charges that oil operators caused the recent gasoline shortage. They defend refinery practices and request scrutiny of claims linking shortages to industry manipulation.
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Los Angeles
Rtt
A. Mitchell Palmer
Distribution of Yardmen's Trust Fund Demanded
In Columbus Ohio on August 23 Benjamin Callahan head of the Columbus Yardmen Association sues for the appointment of a receiver and the accounting and distribution of the yard men brotherhoods trust fund totaling 10 million dollars to be handled through the court action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
Ohio
Yardmen Brotherhood
Benjamin Callahan
Columbus Yardmen’s Association
Riots Renewed in Belfast Police Shot and Killed
Rioting intensified in Belfast and suburbs with three police fatalities. Police Sergeant Thomas Craddock was shot in King Street, amid mobs controlling Lisburn south of the city. Following the assassination of Police Inspector Swanseyy, mobs began targeting Nationalist homes.
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Belfast
Thomas Craddock
King Street
Lisburn
Here
Swanseyy
Zamora Kidnaps Americans. US launches field columns
The American Embassy in Mexico City reports Pedro Zamora the Mexican bandit has kidnapped five Americans in Jalisco. Three expeditionary columns are ordered to pursue Zamora and secure the captives. In San Francisco a gasoline schooner Majore adrift for ten days is rescued by the Western Cross and towed to Seattle. In Seattle a car crash on the Fremont bridge kills pioneer resident Al Kaufman and his seventeen year old daughter Louise.
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Washington
Mexico City
State Department
Pedro Zamora
Jalisco
Zamora
San Francisco
Majore
Western Cross
Coos Bay
Seattle
al Kaufman
Louise
Fremont Bridge
Plane Crash Kills Three At Vermey Field
Redwood City Calif Aug 23 three men died when their airplane plunged from an 800 foot elevation at Vermey aviation field. The crash occurred yesterday and the victims were identified locally.
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Redwood City
Calif
Vermey Aviation Field
Syrian premier slain by bandits on Damascus train
Droubi Pasha premier of Syria and cabinet member Abder Ilaaman were killed when bandits attacked their train from Damascus. Paris dispatch adds that French garrison at Adana in Asia Minor has been reinforced and virtually relieved after a two month siege.
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Haifa
Spain
Droubi Pasha
Syria
Abder Ilaaman
Damascus
Paris
Adana
Asia Minor
Flour mill shipped to Fairbanks on Ketchikan
Seattle August 23 reports a complete flour mill with a capacity of twenty five barrels daily was shipped aboard the steamer Ketchikan en route to Fairbanks. The Tanana Valley Agricultural Association will set up and operate it using grain raised in the Fairbanks district.
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Seattle
Alaska
Ketchikan
Fairbanks
Tanana Valley Agricultural Association
Policemen Shot and Killed in Black Belt Rioting
Chicago reporters say two policemen were attacked and killed at the Black Belt cafe last night. Authorities arrested three men charged with firing the shots and held more than 100 spectators as witnesses.
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Chicago
Black Belt
Marshal Foch Plans U S Visit After Europe Quiets
METZ Aug 23 Marshal Foch generalissimo of the Allied forces in the world war announced intent to visit the United States as soon as the European situation quiets down.
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Marshal Foch
U. S
Europe
Metz
United States
Death at Admiralty Island Two Drowned While Hunting
Two Alaska Electric Light and Power Company men Harry H. Bennett and Roy F. Norton drowned near Falls Creek on Admiralty Island after their skiff capsized while ashore with supplies. Norton’s body was found on the beach, Bennett’s body remained missing as rescue parties searched. Norton had been a strong swimmer, while Bennett wore heavy gear likely causing quick sinking. The accident occurred Saturday afternoon as they traveled from the gas boat Attaboy to shore near Hidden Creek.
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Harry H. Bennett
Roy F. Norton
Alaska Electric Light and Power Company
Falls Creek
Admiralty Island
Here
Norton
Bennett
Attaboy
John J. Woodard
Juneau
Woodard
R. BE. Cowden
Teddy
Alford John Bradford Post
American Legion
Chester K. Tripp
Perry Coleman
George E. Mann
M. Dahl
Falls
Hidden Creek
Admirality Island
Pasboat
Cowden
Alaska Filectric Hight and Power Company
Volun
Russians Routed as Polish Offense Deepens War Losses
Aug 23 Warsaw reports the Bolshevik army crushed by Polish counteroffensive. Soviet units flee eastward while main forces are bottled up on the north front. Poland claims 35,000 prisoners and vast munitions as fighting rages around Ciechanow and Mlawa with attempts to cut off two Russian divisions.
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Warsaw
Poland
Weygand
Danvig
Mlawa
Ciechanow
British Italian Premiers Confer on Danzig Crisis
British Premier David Lloyd George and Italian Premier Giovanni Giolitti met in two conferences at Lucerne to discuss the Danzig and Adriatic situation and allied action to secure Poland unrestricted use of Danzig and its communications under the Versailles treaty. France will be consulted before public release of the proposals.
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London
David Lloyd George
England
Giovanni Giolitti
Italy
Danzig
Adriatic
London Times
Lucerne
Switzerland
United States
Poland
France
German Workmen in Danzig Proclaim Soviet Regime
Berlin reports say German workers in Danzig proclaimed a Soviet regime and immediately ordered a blockade of Poland. The French cruiser Gueydon was refused dock access, despite Soviet orders against unloading munitions intended for the Polish army. British Commissioner Tower warned he would not be responsible for results if the cruiser tried to unload.
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Berlin
Andon
Danzig
Poland
Gueydon
Tower
United States cautions Poland on boundaries in counter drive
The American Government, via Prince Lubomirski, Polish minister to the United States, warned Poland not to advance beyond the ethnographic boundary of Poland in its victorious counter drive against the Bolshevik Russians. The note was delivered today in Washington.
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Washington
Poland
Prince Lubomirsky
United States
Rocky Mountain Limited Derailed In Iowa City Incident
The Rock Island Rocky Mountain Limited derailed near Iowa City today. One woman was seriously injured and several passengers were badly bruised, but no fatalities were reported.
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Chicago
Iowa City
Princess Sophia Purser’s Safe Recovered After 1918 Wreck
After two seasons of search the purser’s safe from the Princess Sophia wreck has been recovered and brought to Juneau. It was raised by Deep Sea Salvage Company’s Enterprise and is now at the First National Bank awaiting a federal court order to access its contents. The safe’s discovery followed earlier dives and a Friday the Thirteenth finding, with divers Walters and Close completing the lift and transport amid rough conditions and a damaged wreck site.
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First National Bank
Deep Sea Salvage Company Boat Enterprise
Jeremiah Neterer
U. S. Federal Court of the
Western District of Washington
Seattle
Princess Sophia
Geneby
Frank W. Walters
Vancouver
Dean Sea Salvage Company
Walters
John W. Close
Daniel Kern
Kern
Ketchikan
Juneau
Enterprise
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Hays
White
Cox
Big G. O. P. Fund
Drougi Pasha
Admiralty
H. H. Bennett
Hunter
Gen. Weygand
Cenfer
Rocky Mountain Limited
Sophia
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