World News Briefs From The South
Lloyd George cancels the Irish peace conference at Inverness after De Valera insists on recognizing Ireland's independence. Argentine and U.S. banking loan talks suspended. Zionist congress ends with no move to move HQ to Palestine or Switzerland. Latvia and Estonia may join the League of Nations. Letvia appears in reports. Dublin approves Lloyd George replies on Irish peace talks. Cardinal Mercier denied safe passage to Warsaw. Explosion kills three aboard the Deutschland near Liverpool. Spanish operations against Moors continue with Moroccan guard killed. Postmaster promotions show many appointments are from the classified service. Supreme Court review asked of Fruit Growers Express contract with Southern railroads. Repeal of excess profits tax delayed until 1922. South sees improved credit conditions. post office to mail all periodicals. Tax ruling requires amended returns for inflated invested capital.
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Lloyd George
Inverness
Eamonn de Valera
Scotland
de Valera
Ireland
Buenos Aires
Carlsbad
Czecho-Slovakia
London
Palestine
Switzerland
League of Nations
Letvia
Esthonia
Dail Eireann
Dublin
Lloyd-George
Paris
Cardinal Mercier
Belgium
Germany
Warsaw
Birkhead
Mersey
Liverpool
England
Berenguer
Giralda
Department
Hays
Senate
Federal Trade Commission
Beck
Supreme Court
Circuit Court of Appeals
Commission
Fruit Growers’ Express, Inc
Southern
Atlantic Seaboard
Senate Finance Committee
House
South
Washington
Treasury
Federal Reserve Board
Post Office Department
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Washington dries up to aid 1922 campaigns
A reported Democratic movement aims to make the party bone-dry for the 1922 congressional and 1924 presidential contests. The Harding administration bets on securities sales for railroads, with Kuhn Loeb buying 7.5 million in railroad bonds. A government home ownership program is discussed to curb unrest and provide jobs. A shipboard graft claim targets U S shipping lines with foreign links, trials in West Virginia loom, and a permanent Camp Campbell in North Carolina is set as a field artillery post. Investigations of Ku Klux Klan activity may be undertaken by several agencies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Democratic National Organization
William G. McAdoo
Kuhn, Loeb & Co
Bankers
New York
Railroad Administration
United States Railroad
United States
Shipping Board
Harding
New England
Senate
West Virginia
Z. T. Winser
Mingo
Lorgan
Mingo County
Logan County
Thirteenth Field Artillery Brigade
Department of Justice
Post Office Department
Congress
Series of early 20th century incidents across the nation
Reports reach Knoxville of a deputy sheriff T. C. Partin being shot near Pineville Kentucky and killed instantly. Dauntless arrives in New York with bodies from the ZR-2 disaster. Oscar E. Carlson elected national commander in chief of the United Spanish War Veterans on ballot nine at Minneapolis. Henry James and a Beulah James arrested in Virginia for kidnapping Chattanooga children. A New Orleans session of federal employees federation pushes civil service equality for women. Roosevelt moved for surgery in New York after illness. King Alexander sails for Greece after drug and liquor raid in New York harbor, carrying 17 would-be immigrants. Four miners trapped by a Carbondale mine collapse await rescue as wives await at the shaft. Southern Baseball League ruling may decide the pennant. Atlanta protests Memphis exhibition game. Sixty Baptist missionaries reach Shanghai. D. T. Rounsville shot dead in a Minnesota bank. Noah W. Cooper promotes Sunday blue law as U S senate candidate from Tennessee. Federal Employees consider libel suit against Ohio paper. Kirby Fox and Gappings convicted for the murder of Brazell in Columbia, S C, awaiting execution in Georgia. Manhattan borough president Henry Curran set to oppose Mayor Hylan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. C. Partin
Pineville
Knoxville
Tenn
Dauntless
New York Harbor
Oscar E. Carlson
Department of Illinois
United Spanish War Veterans
Minneapolis
Henry James
Beulah James
Smithville
Margaret
Jack Woodland
Chattanooga
Campbell
N. B
New York
King Alexander
Greece
Carbondale
Martin
Southern Baseball League
Southern Association
Atlanta
Memphis
Seattle
China
Japan
Shanghai
Nashville
D. T. Rounsville
First National Bank of
Dodge Center
Minn
Noah W. Cooper
United States Senate
Tennessee
Executive Council
National Federation of Federal Employees
Ohio
J. S. Kirby
Fox
Jessie Gappings
William Brazell
Columbia
S. C
Georgia
Young Brazell
Henry H. Curran
Borough of
Manhattan
John F. Hylan
Armament matter to be handled by league commission
Geneva reports the League of Nations commission says the Washington naval disarmament conference handles naval arms limits best. It expects land armaments to be considered on the same basis, with a gradual policy. The council commission notes mankind remains far from peace ideals and cites replies on curbing armaments spending for two years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
League Commission
Naval
Geneva
Commission On Disarmament
Council of the
League of Nations
Washington
League
Assembly Commission
Assembly
Council
Mellon’s Estimate Correct Despite Incomplete Reports
Washington officials said incomplete September 15 tax collection reports point to Secretary Mellon’s $525,000,000 estimate likely being realized. In Kentucky, twenty masked men overpowered guards at the B. McClasky & Sons distillery in Bloomfield and fled in seven touring cars with 88 cases and three barrels of whiskey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mellon
Washington
Treasury
Bloomfield
B. McClasky & Sons
Committee to review school textbooks for bias in Tokyo
A Japanese peace workers group recommends forming a committee to submit school textbooks to critical examination to root out sources of international prejudice ignorance and hatred. In Washington wholesale prices rose 2.75 percent in August from July with wholesale food prices up 13.5 percent, per the Labor Department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Department of Labor
Five Dynamiters Captured In Shoe Shop Bombing
Chicago police seized fourteen hundred sticks of dynamite and 100 sticks of TNT after capturing five dynamiters in the act of bombing a shoe repair shop. Berlin clash breaks up Hun celebration at Wilmersdorff as socialists overthrow nationalists during Tannenburg anniversary events from 1914.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Berlin
Wilmersdorff
Tannenburg
East Prussia
Cotton Association to Meet in Birmingham in October
J Skottowe Wannanmaker, president of the American Cotton Association, announced the organization has accepted an invitation to hold its next annual meeting in Birmingham from October 26 to 29.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cotton Association
Columbia
S. C
J. Skottowe Wannmamaker
American Cotton Association
Birmingham
Drowned While Riding Brother in Beaufort S C
William Haddock a 21 year old white youth drowned near his Hundred Pines home while trying to rescue his brother who called for help. Strong local incident with a fatal drowning during a rescue attempt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beaufort
S. W
William Haddock
Hundred Pines
Body of Actress Virginia Rappe Viewed by Thousands
About 8,000 people viewed the body of actress Virginia Rappe in Los Angeles. She died amid the alleged murder case involving Roscoe Arbuckle, who is held in a San Francisco prison. The public viewing followed her death and sparked attention across California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Virginia Rappe
Roscoe
Fatty
Strike Voted But Deferred by Rail Workers in Chicago
Chicago railroad shopmen members of the Six Federated Shop Crafts union voted to strike in protest of the July 1 1921 wage reduction but will defer action for now. The vote reflects union opposition to the wage cut while keeping options open for future action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Federated Shop Crafts Union
Signs of Limited European Economic Improvement
Washington reports that signs of improvement in Europe remain scarce in the latest monthly summary from the commerce department. The assessment notes that conditions across economic and financial sectors show little progress toward stabilization or growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Europe
Commerce Department
Oil Station Burns At Port Tampa City
Fire at Gulf Refining property in Port Tampa City, Tampa, started by a stray locomotive spark, caused about 30000 dollars in damage to the refinery complex and nearby facilities. Local firefighters contained the blaze with no injuries reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tampa
Fla
Gulf Refining Company
Port Tampa City
Adjutant Jack Williams North Dakota Legion Pioneer
The article profiles Jack Williams longtime Fargo newsie and first state adjutant of the North Dakota American Legion department. He built popularity selling extras, rose to pressroom work, enlisted as a private in WWI, and earned education by street and night study. He led the Fargo Trades and Labor Assembly before enlisting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Dakota Legion Department
Newsie
North Dakota
Jack Williams
American Legion Department
Williams
Extra
Fargo
N. D
Third Engineers
Fargo Trades and Labor Assembly
Northwest Beauty Named by Seattle Legion
Miss Hazel Jordan of Everett Wash has been chosen by the American Legion of Seattle as one of the three most beautiful girls in the Northwest. The awards cite annual ocean dips and outdoor living for sparkling eyes and natural beauty, noting she is eighteen and lives on Puget Sound’s eastern shore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hazel Jordan
The
American Legion of Seattle Wash
Great Northwest
Northwest
United States
Legion of Seattle
Jordan
Everett
Wash
Puget Sound
Indianaplis Soldier Fatally Wounded by Shell at Home
Frank M. Kinne of Indianapolis had survived World War I and earned artillery expertise but was nearly blown apart in his home by a three inch shell he brought back from France during a souvenir unloading. His mother and sister slept upstairs unharmed. The local American Legion post arranged a military funeral.
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Frank M. Kinne
Indianapolis
Ind
France
Kinne
The
American Legion
Regular Army
Special Rates Set for Legion Convention Travel
Sixteen railroad lines across 27 states offer one cent per mile fare to the American Legion convention in Kansas City on October 30 to November 1. Participating roads include Missouri Pacific KC Southern Frisco Rock Island Illinois Central and others. The one cent fare zone covers Denver Minneapolis Buffalo Richmond Jacksonville Birmingham New Orleans Port Arthur and surrounding cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
American Legion
Kansas City
Missouri Pacific
Kansas City Southern
Frisco
Rock Island
Chicago
Milwaukee
St. Paul
Wabash
Illinois Central
Chicago Great Western
Chicago and Northwestern
Burlington
Chicago and Alton
Santa Fe
Peoria
St. Louis
Missouri
Kansas
Texas
Union Pacific
Denver
Minneapolis
Buffalo
N. C
Savannah
Jacksonville
Fla
Birmingham
Air
New Orleans
Port Arthur
Tex
Well Posted Legion Man
J W Chapman of Gallup New Mexico is spotlighted as commander of New Mexico’s American Legion department. His varied career spans farming trapper dynamite work oil field labor and film work plus law, with WWI service in mechanics balloon school and armistice training. He helped craft the organization’s non political clause and summarizes himself as American born Episcopalian and prohibitionist who sings dances plays piano and is married.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Chapman
Gallup
New Mexico
Department of the American Legion
United States
Mexico
Chapman
America
Legion
A. FP
K. of
Decorations and titles won by British guests at Legion convention
Notable titles earned by General Douglas Haig Admiral Beatty and Gen Sir William Currie highlight British and Canadian presence at the third annual American Legion convention in Kansas City held October 31 to November 2. Officials say their participation, alongside Britain and dominions, underscores unity at President Harding’s disarmament conference.
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American Legion
Kansas City
Douglas Haig
Great Britain
Dominions
Harding
Swale’s rise from dishwashing to public service in Washington
Thomas W. Swale, commander of the American Legion in Washington, recounts how a bar room scuffle with a gang cleaner led to his kitchen duty then to politics. A Seattle lawyer, Swale later served two terms in the Washington legislature and, in wartime, ran I. W. W. investigations for the Army in the Pacific Northwest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Legion
Washington Department
Thomas W. Swale
The
American Legion
Department of the
State of Washington
Great Northern
Swale
Washington
Army Intelligence
I. W. W. Investigations
Pacific Northwest
Seattle
Wash
Ardmore Legion Salvages 2000-Volume Library
George R. Anderson post of the American Legion in Ardmore Oklahoma salvaged a library of 2000 volumes that had been collected during the war for shipment to army camps. The volumes were stored and forgotten until recently when a Legion member found them in a store room and organized their return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George R. Anderson
American Legion
Ardmore
Okla
Post
Ardmore Hu
Legion Post
625000 Bottles Sold In New York Biggest Item Yet
Gibson Snow Company wholesaler George B Evans reports lac tonic sale records for New York trade territory. The product, introduced over a year ago, has moved about 625000 bottles, with Evans predicting A rates near 750000 annually if the trend continues. Promotion positions the item as a major East Coast growth story.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
York
East
George B. Evans
Managup
Gibson-Snow Company
Alang
Buflaly
Rochester
Syracuse
Evans
Evselaty
Blinkers Pursue Old Ways in Cartoons Magazine Note
A cartoon feature notes Blinks continues to pursue an old tenor of his ways. The piece comments on borrowing an amount, reflecting ongoing themes from earlier strips.
Bayer Aspirin Ad Promotes Trusted Bayer Tablets
An old advertisement touts genuine Bayer Aspirin with the Bayer Cross on tablets for colds, headaches, neuralgia, rheumatism, earache, toothache, lumbago and other pains. It emphasizes dosage directions by physicians over 21 years and notes small tin boxes and larger packages sold by druggists. A brief vacation joke follows about fly fishing and fly swatting.
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Bayer
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American Legion News Service
Puget Sound Organization
Department of New Mexico
Beatty
New
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F. J. Cheney & Co
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Hunt
Richards Medicine Co
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