Chicago Race Riots Spread as Troops Patrol Black Belt
Chicago amid four days of race violence sees six thousand troops deployed with rifles and bayonets in the Negro quarters. Rioting, looting, and shootings continue, with about 30 dead and hundreds injured. A barred zone is established around eleven miles, searches for weapons intensify, and authorities urge protection of life and property as mobs clash in multiple districts.
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Chicago
Radivemman
Daniel Carlton
John Ward
Ward
Englewood
Dickson
Black Belt
Associated Press
Lowden
Thompson
22Nd Street
65Th Street
Michigan Boulevard
Wentworth Avenue
New York Central Railroad
Illinois
South Side
Fifty-Eighth Street
Racine Avenue
Sixty-Third
Loomis
Iforty
Seventh Street
Indiana Avenue
Fiftieth
State Street
Negro‘ District
Poice
Thirty-First
Dearborn
Twenty-Fourth
Thomas
Posten
Victa
White
Polisen
Arthur Jolhnson
Toni
Walicemen
Doxen
Move to end Chicago street car strike pursued in talks
Chicago July 38. A conference including Governor Tawden and transit leaders sought to end a two day street car strike that halted surface and elevated lines. Leaders proposed a referendum among 45 000 carmen on an eight hour day with overtime pay and a wage rise, while union radicals were blamed for blocking worker judgment. A resumption of service appeared possible.
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Chicago
Tawden
L. A. Vasesly
Surface Lines Fbrit
Ten I Budd
Wdlliam D. Mahon
Street Car Men's Union
Consc
Publics Utilities Commission
Denounces W F M as Company Union in Bisbee Hearings
In Douglas on July 30 the Warren district I W W activities were reviewed during preliminary hearings of Geral Sherman, Phelps Dodge engineer, among 250 suspects linked to deportations after Bisbee strife. County Attorney French objected to witness questioning about I W W membership to avoid impeachment. George Rice testified the Western Federation of Miners controlled by rival men. he left AFL to join I W W, calling it the only good union. Dr N G C Bledsoe testified late and the proceeding will continue tomorrow.
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Western Federation of Miners
George Rice
American Federation of Labor Organization
Fice
HUNS TO PLACE BLAME FOR WAR
A State tribunal will inquire into responsibility for the war. Comprised of the empire's supreme court president as chair, plus the military court president and judges from Prussia Bavaria and Hansa high courts. Ten assistant judges to be elected by the national assembly and a German states committee. Writings public. Tribunal can only determine guilt, not punish.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Supreme Court of the
Empire
Military Court
National Assembly
The Editor to Be One of Which Will Chairman
A fragmentary note indicates that an editor named B N may become or be considered for the chairman position. The unreadable text suggests a political or organizational leadership context.
Telegraph Rate War Ends as Government Returns Wires
Washington July 30 government control of telegraph and telephone properties ends at midnight tomorrow. Postmaster General Burleson issued orders to return them to private owners under a congressional resolution signed by President Wilson ten days ago. He stated public opinion would decide how the trust was met and criticized the Postal Telegraph company while noting most wires cooperated with the resolution.
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Washington
Burleson
Congress
Wilson
Postal Telegraph Company
Hits Postal Company
Capgresa
Wilson presses reservations clash with senators on league
President Wilson met four Republican senators to press for unreserved ratification of the Versailles treaty. He warned reservations might spur other nations to qualify their acceptance. Senators Dillingham Harding Fernald Lemroe t voiced no change in view as debate on the treaty resumes. The foreign relations committee opens hearings with Bernard Baruch as first witness while Congress weighs entangling alliances and the war declaration authority.
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Washington
Thea
Germany
Wilson
League of Nations
Senate
Dillingham
Vermont
Iarding
Ohio
Fernald
Maine
Lemroot
Wisconsin
Harding
Foreign Relations Committee
Bernard Ba~ruch
Committee
Debati
Congress
France
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