World News Digest from The South and Europe Update
The London American relief administration reports all Americans imprisoned in Russia are freed. Belgium marks the anniversary of the scrap of paper incident with church bells and rejoicing. Colonel House denies foundation for rumors of rift with Wilson. Montevideo reports a $7.5 million loan to Uruguay via New York bankers. Canadian ports redirect Italian passenger traffic due to U.S. immigration laws. Fighting reported near Yachow as forces from Canton advance into Hupeh. France and the Vatican resume diplomacy with a papal nuncio to Paris. Caruso’s Naples room becomes a chapel after his death in Naples on August 2. Cuba plans a delegation to oppose Fordney tariff provisions on sugar and tobacco. Caruso dies after liver abscess surgery. prayers and a mass accompany his passing. Treasury seeks $266 million annual tax increase to cover expenditures. daily government spending remains $10 million. Government deficits projected at $336 million. The Army reports no new automobiles for sale. Senate packet control bill reaches president after passing both houses. ZR-2 dirigible to sail to Lakehurst August 25, weather permitting. War finance bonds may be issued pending Congress. Mellon to present revised tax sources. Marsh named Farmers’ National Council managing director. Federal Reserve criticism continues before Congress. top officials express concern. Dr Ben Reitman passport case taken up by State Department without stated reason. Harding officials push for U.S. reparations voice via an official channel.
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American Relief Administration
Russia
Belgium
Colonel House
Woodrow Wilson
Montevideo
Uruguay
New York
United States
Montreal
Canadian
Yachow
Hunan
Canton
China
Hupeh
France
Vatican
Paris
Rome
Beneventura Geretti
Naples
Italy
Enrico Caruso
Cuba
Washington
Senate Finance Committee
National Palace
Havana
Secretary of the Treasury
Mellon
Treasury Department
Wilson
Harris
Georgia
Senate
House
Howden
England
Benjamin C. Marsh
Farmers’ National Council
George P. Hampton
Federal Reserve System
John Skelton Williams
Governor Harding
Reserve Board
Governor Strong
New York Reserve Bank
Ben Reitman
Emma Goldman
Chicago Health Department
State Department
Reitman
Harding
U S Wins Early Victory in Egyptian Cotton Talks
In London the British conferees agree to allocate 50 percent of Egyptian cotton shipments from Alexandria to the United States. Washington reports say the president is enjoying a bully time in New Hampshire hills. Warnings come of dire conditions at the Johnson City Soldiers Home. Two agricultural bill amendments pass after a hard fight. Federal bonds plan moves ahead with a $100 million authorization.
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United States
London
Alexandria
New Hampshire
Washington
Forbes
War Tisk Insurance Bureau
Johnson City
Tenn
War-Finance Corporation
Atlantic
United Kingdom
United States Department of Agriculture
Treasury
Reparations Commission
A. A. Fries
Chemical Warfare Service
Senate Finance Committee
Multistate Incidents Highlight Hazardous Era News
A sprawling grain of 1930s headlines notes eleven injured with one dead when a sightseeing omnibus overturned in Denver. Des Moines trolley service halted by court order. a pistol duel in Pineville leaves one dead and two injured including the police chief. Melville Reeves arrested in New York for mail robberies. Miss Cora Robertson of Hillsboro killed after joking about her coffin. Wisconsin drinkers warned to keep feet off rails. four killed in Rouge, La, incident. an Indiana stock sale denial by the state securities commission. gold movement shows sixteen and a half million dollars arriving in New York. a Memphis cotton growers exchange forms with Carl Williams elected chair and C Q Mosey secretary. Dallas to host offices. Illinois pursues charges over missing books in Warren Spurgin case. Gov Groesbeck blocks Georgia extradition for Thomas Ray. Robert Emmet Burke dies in Chicago. Harding extols American peace mission in Lancaster New Hampshire. $46,000 in currency found in a corn field after a mail pouch robbery near Peters, Illinois.
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Colo
Des Moines
Pineville
Tenn
Melville Reeves
New York
Cora Robertson
Hillsboro
Wisconsin
Rouge
Baton Authority
Indiana
Farmers’ Finance Corporation
Indiana Securities Commission
Cotton Growers Exchange
Memphis
Carl Williams
Oklahoma City
C. Q. Mosey
Dallas
Texas
Dallias
Illinois
Warren C. Spurgin
Chicago
America
Harding
Lancaster
N. H
Northwood River
Ill
Peters
Supreme Council Opens in Session Deliberations Begin
The Allied Supreme Council met in Paris with Premier Briand welcoming United States envoy George Harvey and acknowledging his counsel. The first session adjourned after listening to French British and Italian experts on Silesia, without final discussion of the Upper Silesian question. Archbishop Mannix, returning to Australia from a world trip, said he will take the oath of allegiance to the King.
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Paris
Allied Supreme Council
Briand
United States
George Harvey
Great Britain
America
Mannix
Brisbane
Australia
Archbishop Mannix
Ireland
Unemployed men torch timber yard in East London riot
Disappointed workers who failed to secure posts at a timber yard attacked the premises in East London. They set fire to a stock of lumber valued at 1,000,000 pounds sterling after reports of the yard advertising for workers.
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London
Great Income Tax of Hawaii Reported
Honolulu Hawaii collects the largest per capita income and miscellaneous taxes in the nation not excepting New York says Colonel Howard Hathaway collector of internal revenue at Honolulu.
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Hawaii
Honolulu
T. H
New York
Howard Hathaway
Internal Revenue
Governor Small Arrives in Springfield With Party
Governor Small visits Springfield from Kankakee by automobile, traveling with his son Leslie and several party members. His arrival marks a local political stop during the ongoing campaign season.
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Small
Springfield
Leslie
Kankakee
Picked Up His Severed Foot After mower Accident
James Sharpe, 15, was operating a mowing machine when it severed his left foot. He picked up the detached limb and drove his horses to the house before fainting from blood loss. The incident occurred in Defiance on the date reported.
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Defiance
James Sharpe
China Chooses November 11 Date for Armament Talks
Washington reports the Chinese government notified the state department that November 11 will be the date for the conference on limitation of armaments and related discussions.
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China
Washington
State Department
Louisville & Nashville Seeks 52 Million Stock Increase
The Louisville and Nashville railroad requests ICC authorization to issue 52,009,000 dollars in capital stock as stock dividends for its stockholders.
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Washington
Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company
The
Interstate Commerce Commission
House Adjourns In Honor Of Virginia Representative
The House adjourned after a five minute session out of respect for Representative Rorer A James of Virginia who died at his home in Danville Virginia.
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Rorer A. James
Washington
Virginia
Danville
Body of Dr. Stone Recovered in Calgary
The body of the late Dr. W. B. Stone president of Pur due University has been recovered and is being brought to Baniff in Alberta.
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Dr. Stone
Calgary
Alberta
W. B. Stone
Purdue University
Baniff
Will Disband Bulgarian Army Plan Unveiled
Sofia reports the Bulgarian government has drafted a plan to disband the army and recruit a volunteer force. In Providence Rhode Island textile business grows more active as conditions in worsted woolen and silk improve and cotton manufacturers anticipate better times.
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Sofia
Providence
R. I
Beer Rules Await Mellon Decision on Prescriptions
Washington report states regulations will allow beer to be prescribed as medicine, one case at a time with no limit on the number of prescriptions, awaiting Secretary Mellon’s decision on issuance.
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Washington
Mellon
Commiss ons go Begging
Washington reports the War Department has 1000 commissions for second lieutenants but only 06 applications. Examinations are fixed for August 22 with applications due by August 13.
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Washington
War Department
Federal court bars rapid revenue seizures in bailment case
Judge James E. Boyd permanent the injunctions against J. W. Bailey withholding enforcement on 29 Western District assessments under the Volstead act. He ruled penalties require court findings after trial, protecting citizens’ rights against speculative actions by prohibition agents. In separate items, North Carolina officials discussed education and moving pictures projects, a Morehead City convention lauded NC journalism, a Charlotte crash killed a wife, a Cumberland farmer claims 19 cows were killed by the Coast Line, and Wake County begins a second vaccination drive for typhoid and diphtheria. Local notes also report Wilmington marshal status, Salisbury eye trouble, Henderson tax fears, and a Wilson county murder linked to moonshining.
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Greensboro
James E. Boyd
J. W. Bailey
Internal Revenue
North Carolina
Commissioner of
Commissioner of Prohibition
Boyd
Internal Revenue Department
Washington
Curley Named Baltimore Archbishop to Succeed Gibbons
Official notice announces Bishop Michael J. Curley of St. Augustine Florida as archbishop of Baltimore succeeding the late Cardinal Gibbons. Catholic officials received the appointment and prepared the transition plan.
Roads delay as Mecklenburg fights right of way terms
Mecklenburg officials contest a contract clause on right of way removal of telegraph poles and county payment for state road construction. State law forbids counties furnishing right of way for state roads. dispute blocks signing with the state highway commission.
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Charlotte
Mecklenburg Highway Commission
North Carolina Highway Commission
Charlotte-Statesville
J. L. DeLaney
Thomas Griffith
Mecklenburg Highway Law
Mecklenburg
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