Fiume Faces 24 Hour Ultimatum and Allied Naval Blockade
Paris reports Captain Gabriel d Annunzio may be given 24 hours to abandon Fiume as allied warships threaten the city. Italian mediators and King Victor Emmanuel discuss a settlement with President Wilson's stance delaying decisions. D Annunzio arrives with famed air squadron while Italy orders aviation gear moved to prevent flights.
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Paris
Gabriele d’Annunzio
Fiume
Berlin
Laibach
Vienna
Abbazia
d'Annunzio
Corpus Christi Death Toll Rises From Storm Wave
Corpus Christi residents search for more storm victims as death toll climbs toward 800. Rescue reports recount romance and tragedy including Capt. B. M. Egeland and his wife who perished after sacrificing life preservers, with Mrs. Egeland to be buried in Webster, South Dakota.
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Corpus Christi
Tex
Texas
B. M. Egeland
Army Rest Camp
Captain Egeland
Egeland
Linton, Tex
Webster
Italian leaders split over Fiume incident
Rome reports Premier Nitti and Foreign Minister Tittoni disagree over the Fiume incident with Tittoni disapproving of Nitti. Trieste dispatch notes airplanes landing near Fiume for Captain Gabriele d'Annunzio. A Lombardy brigade sent to join d Annunzio’s forces is returned to its garrison.
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Rome
Nitti
Tittoni
Fiume
Trieste
Gabriele d’Annunzio
Lombardy
Messagero
Mexican Patrols and Rebel Bands Tangle Oil Lands
testimony before the Senate Investigating Mexican Situation spotlights foreign oil land forfeiture fears. Tra Jewel Williams of Panuco Boston Oil says Americans in oil work risked lives to keep naval fuel flowing, noting eleven sacrifices. He cites patrols and rebel bands as sources of disorder and demands exact payroll funds data.
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Washington
Mexico
Tra Jewel Williams
Panuco Boston Oil Company
Senate
Senate committee favors reclamation bill for $250000000
Washington Sept 20 law says the senate irrigation committee unanimously ordered a favorable report on Senator Jones of Washington bill to appropriate 250 million dollars for completing current reclamation projects and building new ones as deemed feasible by the reclamation service.
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Washington
Senate Irrigation Committee
Jones of
Ashington
Realfamation Service
Corpus Christi Flood Relief Draws National Funds
Corpus Christi officials report incoming aid from across the United States for storm rehabilitation with potential totals near five million dollars. Roy Miller, head of the citizen relief committee, says responses exceed expectations but cautions the need is far from met due to prior droughts and crop losses.
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Corpus Christi
Tex
Roy Miller
Citizen Relief Committee
Ruth homers to clinch Boston win in Ruth Day celebration
Babe Ruth hit a ninth inning homer to lift the Red Sox past the Cubs 4 to 3 in the first game of a Fenway doubleheader. It was Ruth day with special exercises honoring the slugger.
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Boston
Babe” Ruth
Chicago
Ruth
Fenway Park
Boston Police on the Carpet Riots Fallout
Boston authorities discharge nineteen patrolmen for disobedience during the first night of the Boston patrolmen riot. Twenty seven other officers found guilty of insubordination receive 40 days pay fines or 30 weeks trench duty as an alternative penalty.
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Boston
Metropolitan Park Commission
Metropolitan Force
Factory owner offers plant to striking workers
August Goldsmith of Goldsmith Stern & Co offered the jewelry firm plant valued at 500000 dollars and six months of his services without pay to the workers demanding a 25 percent wage raise. The workers refused, walked out ten days ago, and the plant has remained idle.
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New York
Goldsmith, Stern & Co
United States
August Goldsmith
Palmer Urges Armistice to End Strikes and Unrest
In Freeport Pennsylvania Attorney General Palmer called for a six month industrial armistice to ease postwar problems. He warned against selfish strikes, urged labor share without coercion, and stressed patience and general interests to achieve economic stability and lower living costs.
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Freeport
Palmer
Bach
Senator Johnson Attacks League in Midwest Tour
In St Paul Senator Hiram W. Johnson denounces the league of nations covenant, calling it a league of armed nations and a threat to American ideals. He argues it betrays Monroe doctrine principles and would force U.S. to police the world. He plans further talks in Minneapolis at the Lincoln Club and a mass meeting at the armory.
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St. Paul
Hiram W. Johnson
Middlewest
Twin Cities
Metropolitan Opera House
Johnson
League of Nations
America
League of Armed Nations
Shantung
Teague
Europe
Asia
Africa
Lincoln Club
Minneapolis
Armory
Difficulty Removing Dead From Frontline Battlefields
Paris reports the question of recovering soldiers’ bodies from front cemeteries was raised in the chamber of deputies by M. Pacaud asking the war minister for government measures. He noted a bill to ban removals for three years due to transport limits and mentioned abundant battlefield graves.
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Paris
Chamber of Deputies
M. Pacaud
Vendee
Admirals for Sure Elevation Recognized by Proclamation
Washington made admirals by presidential proclamation for the war period, and Congress has permanently recognized Admiral Sims and Admiral Benson. The article notes Minneapolis and a St. Paul address ending with Senator Johnson urging support in Washington for an equal vote amendment in the league of nations assembly. He argues for real Americans in the Senate as Minnesota’s Kellogg and Nelson are called out amid shouts.
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Washington
Congress
Sims
Benson
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Johnson
Senate
United States
Great Britain
Assembly of
League of Nations
California
Wilson
Minnesota
Kellogg
Nelson
Miners Class All Chambers Commerce With the Wobblies
The United Mine Workers of America in Cleveland classed the Chamber of Commerce of the United States and other syndicalist groups as hostile to organized labor. An amendment bans members from joining such organizations, extending to local chambers of commerce. The move targets Bolshevik efforts and supports opposition to Rockefeller plan governance in Colorado mines.
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Cleveland
United Mine Workers of America
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Industrial Workers of the World
United Mine Workers
Lewis
Chambers of Commerce
Rockefeller
Colorado
Allies Now Owe Nearly Ten Billion
A new credit agreement to Italy has raised the nation’s debts to about 9.65 billion dollars, signaling a significant shift in Allied financial obligations amid ongoing postwar assistance.
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Agenet
Italy
Rumanians Steel Centers Prepare for Finish Fight
Budapest reports show Rumanians withdrawing and requisitioning railway equipment, depleting Hungary of transport and food supplies. Rumanians demand par value exchange for white kronin and blue Bolshevik money, threatening Hungary’s ability to obtain essentials. Geneva notes Romania recalls volunteers in southern Russia and concentrates on the Dniester, while repatriating 50,000 troops from Transylvania.
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Budapest
Associated Press
Geneva
Romania
Russia
Dniester
Rumanian Bureau
Berne
Transylvania
Steel strike set to begin Monday across Pittsburg district
Pittsburg reports workers at steel plants prepare as walkout looms with all plants to shut for the weekend. U S Steel officials call for loyal employees to guard property. Chicago says 25 union organizers head to cities to press independents to sign up. Gary reports escalate as employers claim 82 percent stay, union leaders say 90 percent will walk out.
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Pittsburg
United States Steel Corporation
Chicago
National Strike Committee
Gary
Ind
Peace Body Takes Recess After Peace Treaty Debates
Paris reports the peace conference has little immediate business left and may take a fortnight’s vacation while a government forms in Budapest for delivering the Hungarian treaty. General Theodoroff acknowledged excesses in occupied Bulgarian areas and pledged punishment, noting prosecutions begun, while Bulgaria accepts plebiscite outcomes.
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Paris
Budapest
Bulgaria
Theodoroff
Barian
Germans Warned Keep Out of Letvia
Berlin reports on September 20 that the Lettish frontier of eastern Prussia is closed to German volunteers. German troops along the frontier have orders to stop all crossings into Letvia with arms if needed. At Mitau the German commander warned unit heads of the difficulties if troops stayed in Letvia against Entente wishes.
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Berlin
Prussia
Germany
Letvia
Mitau
Russian Soviet seeks peace under allied terms
Copenhagen dispatch reports the Petrograd city soviet authorizes its peoples commissaries to start peace negotiations with the Allies on terms fixed by the Allied powers. The central Moscow government has not made a peace offer, making any Petrograd move a separate proposal. Living conditions in Petrograd are described as very bad.
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Copenhagen
London
Petrograd
Central Soviet
Moscow
Petrograd City
Steel Mills Prepare for Monday Strike Amid Workers Meetings
Youngstown text reports mass meetings for steel workers across the district as plans for a strike on Monday unfold. Mills continue operations at near full capacity with no disclosed worker numbers or official statements from organizers or mills, fueling speculation on the turnout.
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Youngstown
Steel Company
Steel Plants to Run If Workers Report for Duty
Reports that United States Steel would shut down its Pittsburgh district plants unless workers showed 100 percent loyalty were denied by Carnegie Steel officials. Plants will operate so long as men report for work.
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Pittsburgh
United States Steel Corporation
Carnegie Steel Company
Proposal to strike by Great Lakes unions delayed
Detroit Mich September 20 The proposed strike of the marine firemen oilers water tenders and coal passers union of the great lakes in sympathy with the iron and steel workers will be postponed from Monday morning to Wednesday or Thursday due to delays in tallying the referendum vote in the upper lake districts union officials said this morning.
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Detroit
Mich
Great Lakes
Iron and Steel Workers
Lake
No Concerted Action
It was learned at United States Steel offices today that strike actions planned for Monday will be left to the discretion of plant heads and subsidiaries. Plans are not expected to be uniform and will be guided largely by local conditions.
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New York
United States Steel Corporation
Not Sympathetic Strike In Pueblo Colorado
After a long night session the steel workers committee issued a statement clarifying the Monday strike. They say the action aims to force Colorado Fuel and Iron to recognize workers right to collective bargaining under employee controlled systems, not company favored. They contend wages are not enough to cover living costs and contrast their 12 demands with the Rockefeller plan adopted by the company.
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Pueblo
Colo
Steel Workers
Colorado Fuel & Tron Company
Week Will Tell
Detroit report notes a week or ten days would pass before details unfold, with the story continuing from the dune page. The brief item references timeframes and pending developments expected to clarify the situation in the near term.
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Detroit
Mich
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