State troops sent to West Frankfort amid riot fears
Five hundred more troops are en route to West Frankfort after Maj. Wilbur Satterfield warned Adjutant General Dickson that rioting could resume. Wires are cut and several killed with over twenty injured after clashes sparked by the discovery of Hemphill and Calenter ra bodies. Troops from MeLEANSboro Salem Mount Vernon and Cairo units arrive to protect property and disperse crowds.
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West Frankfort
West Prenkfort
Dickson
Springfield
Wilbur Satterfield
Major Satterfield
Tenth Infantry
L N. G
Tony Hemp
Johnston City
W. E. Satterfield
Mount Vernon
Meleansboro
Compartity I
Salem
U S Olympic Stars Angry On Board
On August 7 the American Olympic team on the U S Olympic ship held an indignation meeting. A committee was appointed to confer with officials and protest conditions. Athletes demanded better lodging at the Antwerp schoolhouse and sought details on return voyage plans and post landing home arrangements.
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U. S
Princess Matolka
Antwerp
New York
Rush to Chicago Heights
Chicago August 7 deputies from Chicane rushed to Chicago Heights when an alert dispatch summoned officers to a developing incident amid tense urban unrest and a call for rapid response.
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Chicago Heights
Tension Reported Between Colored and White Workers in Chicago Heights
Reports indicate ill feeling between colored and white employees in Chicago Heights factories. Village officials deny trouble but dispatch additional inquiries. The sheriff reports that about 500 Black residents have left the city since warnings of unrest began.
Babe Ruth Hits Two Home Runs Against Tigers
Babe Ruth belted Nos. 40 and 41 in Detroit as Danes pitched. The first shot came in the third inning on the first ball pitched. The second grand slam came in the sixth with two runners aboard.
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Detroit
Mich
Babe Ruth
Detroit Tigers
Danes
Governor Cox to Receive Presidential Nomination Notification
Dayton August 7 Democratic factions gather as Governor Cox is formally notified of his presidential nomination. Senator Robinson of Arkansas will deliver the notification speech and Cox will announce his acceptance and outline campaign themes.
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Dayton
Cox
Robinson
Arkansas
San Francisco
Coercion Bill Passed by House of Commons
London August 7 The Irish coercion bill cleared its third reading in the house of commons by 200 to 18. Nationalist Joseph Devlin of Belfast was suspended and escorted from the chamber as many Nationalists Labor members and some independents berated the government amid calls to order. Devlin called the proceedings sham and humbug as the speaker was absent and the house sat as a committee. The suspension passed 220 to 43.
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London
House of Commons
Ireland
Joseph Devlin
Belfast
Labor Party
Lberals
Devlin
Auto plant lays off 2000 in Toledo due to transport woes
2000 workers are out of employment at the Willys Overland automobile plant in Toledo Ohio because officials say transportation problems prevent obtaining raw materials. In London a brick was thrown through a window at 10 Downing Street during Lloyd George's absence. a man was arrested. In Kansas City three bandits in a motor car held up Ralph Williams a 17 year old messenger for Wilson and Co gaining 3179 dollars in currency and fleeing toward Missouri.
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Toledo
Willys- Overland Company
Stone
London
Lloyd George
Downing Street
Kansas City
Ralph Williams
Wilson & Co. Packers
Kas
Missouri
Wilson and Allies Debate Poland Crisis at White House
President Wilson hosts a White House meeting with Secretary Colby and Undersecretary Davis to review the Polish crisis. Dispatches report Teheran evacuation and consular moves in Persia as Soviet Russia reportedly holds five years of munition reserves from World War I era stocks and captured materiel, including German ammo and Japanese rifles.
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Colby
Davis
State Department
Wilson
White House
Soviet
Russia
Poland
Denekine
Kolchak
Russian wartime armament output rapid and unit growth
The report notes wartime arms production in Russia with 1914 to 1916 dates from Tula factories and other large munitions plants. It lists factories at Tula Kazan Perm Patiloff and in the Ural mountains producing small arms for Soviet armies. Only one airplane plant, Dux in Moscow, is active with four to six planes monthly using Fiat motors seized at Murman and Archangel.
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Kolchak
Tula
Kazan
Perm
Patiloff
Ural Mountains
Russia
Dux
Moscow
Spa
Fiat
Murman
Archangel
Spanish forces capture Mount Tafersit in Morocco action
Four columns under Gen. Ferandez Silvestric seized Mount Tafersit and nearby positions, the Spanish high commissioner in Morocco telegraphed. Natives offered some resistance with several Spanish casualties reported.
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Madrid
Ferandez Silvestric
Melilla
Morocco
Mount Tafersit
Denver Rioting Subsides After 6 Hour Clash
Denver remains quiet after a night of street car striker clashes. Two killed and thirty four injured as rioters damaged eight street cars and the Denver Post office. About two thousand volunteer police expected to prevent a recurrence. Dead include union sympathizer Blake and A G Smith of Denver.
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Denver
Colo
Denver Post
Blake
Smith
A. G
Fate of Europe Now in Balance Final Decision Sunday
Reds' envoy sends lengthy wireless report to Moscow as the note from Russia to Britain awaits a Boulogne Folkestone conference. Lloyd George Kameneff Wilson Millerand Foch to meet. a dual decision on war or peace with Russia will be chosen. The Russian note cites Poland armistice and demands guarantees against renewed hostilities.
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Reds
Moscow
London
Europe
Russia
Great Britain
Lloyd George
M. Kameneff
Wilson
Kameneff
Boulogne
Folkestone
Admiral Wilson
Millerand
France
Marshal Foch
Warsaw
Warsaw Front Shifts As Polish Defenses Strain
In a Moscow issued statement, Russian Soviet forces press from the west as Polish positions near Warsaw bend. The Koscinszko air squadron, largely American, is moved from the southern front to help defend the Polish capital. American and legation staff evacuations and consulate closures proceed as the government contemplates possible relocation to Posen or Czestochowa amid a breached defensive line east of Warsaw.
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Poland
Wrangle
Western
Bug
Kovel
Lutsk
Volhynia
Moscow
Warsaw
Koscinszko
Rankin
Legation
Camp Grappe
Vistula
Posen
Czestochowa
Wets Now Ask For Another Hearing In Supreme Court
Guthrie and Root, counsel for brewer Feigenspan, file petition for reconsideration of June 7 ruling upholding the eighteenth amendment and Volstead Act. They argue the court left no reasons, calling it unprecedented to decide a major constitutional case without expressing conclusions and urging rehearing amid vast interests.
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Root
U. S. Supreme Court
Washington
William D. Guthrie
Elihu Root
Christian Feigenspan
Newark
N. J
United States Supreme Court
Feigenspan
McKenna
Upa
United States
Agnes Messersmith Returns from Los Angeles
Agnes Messersmith arrived back Thursday from Los Angeles California. No other details are provided in the brief note.
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Agnes Messersmith
Los Angeles
Cal
Soldiers In Charge To Keep Peace End Strike Vote
Soldiers in charge have held two days of riot control as tramway workers vote to end their strike. The action follows unrest and disruption to public transport, with authorities promising to maintain order while negotiation talks continue.
Poles To The Allies War Situation Message
Denver under martial law as Col Ballou and 250 federal troops take control after two days of rioting sparked by a city car strike. The tramway union votes today on ending the strike. A separate note from Warsaw reports the foreign office sent a special message to Britain Italy France Japan and the United States detailing the Polish situation.
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The
Evening Journal
Denver
Col. Ballou
Tramway Union
Warsaw
Foreign Office
Great Britain
Italy
France
Japan
United States
Rich Poles Reach Paris Express Out Of War Refugees
Paris dispatch reports the first deluxe express from Poland since Warsaw’s danger arrives in Paris filled with Polish millionaires fleeing the red invasion. The train is packed with wealth in money securities and jewels, yet carrying little clothing due to weight.
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Paris
Poland
Warsaw
Fire Rages Through Port Coquitlam Business District
Fire destroyed the entire lower business section of Port Coquitlam British Columbia starting at the fire department headquarters and sweeping through about six stores several residences and the Canadian Pacific railway freight sheds.
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Canadian City
Port Coquitlam
B. C
Fire Department
Canadian Pacific Railway
Rhode Island Population in 1920 Tops Eight Hundred Thousand
Washington reports Rhode Island's 1920 population at 804,307, up 61,787 since 1910 or 11.06 percent. Other figures include Mahoning County Ohio 186,810. Coles County Illinois 35,108. La Salle County Illinois 92,925. Cairo Michigan 15,208. Manitowoc Wisconsin 17,553.
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Washington
Rhode Island
Census Bureau
Mahoning County
Yougstown
Coles County
Charleston
la Salle County
Streator
la Salle
Cairo
Manitowoc
Wis
Army to abolish six departments in favor of nine corps areas
Washington Aug 7 An army reorganization plan aims to dissolve six existing departments and create nine corps areas. The proposal, prepared in the War Department, awaits approval from Secretary Baker. Abolished departments include northeastern Boston eastern Governor's Island central Chicago western San Francisco southern Fort Sam Houston southeastern Charleston with respective commanders named Edwards Bullard Wood Liggett Dickman Morrison.
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Washington
Army
War Department
Baker
Boston
Edwards
Eastern
Governor's Island
N. Y
Bullard
Central
Chicago
Leonard Wood
Western
San Francisco
Liggett
Southern
Fort
Sam Houston
Tex
Dickman
Southeastern
Charleston, & C
Morrison
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Satterfield
Adjutant General
Hemphill
Calenterra
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Fox
Watkins
Chicane
Gov. Cox
Erin
Act To Restore Order
Commons
Wyllis-Overland Company
Toledo, O
Teheran
John L. Caldwell
Tabriz
Persia
Punk
Ing—Tramway
England
Ilinois
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