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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1920
Page
1
President Wilson approved the anthracite coal commission’s majority plan boosting contract miners pay by 20 percent and all other miners by 17 percent. Back pay totals about $18,000,000 with 175,000 workers affected. average increase about $85,000,000 annually.
The text notes mine workers claiming the eight hour day as a fundamental right and references collective bargaining. It also reports the Interstate Commerce Commission being urged to modify an emergency coal transport order benefiting Northwestern states, with cautions of possible cancellations and precedent.
Paris report says Susan Grandies motion picture star and her director died in an automobile accident near Provins on August 31.
A temporary restraining order blocks state officials from enforcing the old two cent passenger fare law after September 1. The order was issued by the U S district court in St Paul in response to a railroad operator's application.
Washington on August 31 reports that airplane mail service between the United States and Cuba will begin this fall. Postmaster General Burleson confirmed the plan.
Turmoil in Belfast escalates with gunfire and casualties since Saturday. A 15 girl led a Sinn Fein assault on York Street while troops moved in, as fatalities climb and labor leaders urge Lloyd George to grant Cork mayor Terence Mac Sweeney clemency.
News wires report Russian Bolshevik forces recaptured Grodno and forced Polish evacuation of Bialystok amid heavy fighting near Lemberg and in the Viedava and Grubeshoff regions. Minsk dispatch notes Bolsheviks captured a fort west of Brest Litovsk as they regroup for a new offensive. Warsaw indicates Polish commander Rozwadowski says many divisions are rearming while fronts stiffen in eastern Galicia.
The report claims Bolsheviks plan a great offensive in eastern Galicia with 15 new divisions and that military operations will begin soon. It notes 70,000 in Germany and that 76,000 Red Army fugitives are interned there, with German officials urging Poland to transfer them across the Polish corridor toward central Germany.
Federal authorities hunt for American and British kidnap victims by Pedro Zamora amid reports the outlaws were demoralized and fleeing. Zamora remains near Zenzontle with a small group as Provisional President de la Huerta proposes expanding presidential accountability to Congress for misuses of national funds.
Mr and Mrs William Quinn announce the arrival of an eight pound daughter born yesterday. The child will be known as Betty Evelyn and joins the family with joy.
Will Hays testified that 39 campaign contributions over 1000 were funneled to the G O P through state organizations and eight went directly to the national committee. He noted a total campaign budget near 3.1 million with about 1 million for state or local efforts. Rockefeller and other giants signed a pro Republican document, while Cummings discussed Democratic expenses in 1914.
Washington reports Italy informs the United States that both governments share sentiment on Russia and Poland in the recent U S note. Poland also confirms similar assurances. A reply will come after Rome's premier resumes duties. Budapest reports Premier Teleky ill with blood poisoning and rumors of poisoning surround the case.
Warsaw reports Soviet forces pressing a front wedge to sever Poland's lines with heavy fighting north of Belzinc and Lemberg. A Soviet detachment reached Tyslowice as Poles counterattack at Sarniki, smashing several Soviet squadrons near Lemberg. London notes a counter offensive east of Brest-Litovsk with four villages occupied.
Gov. James M. Cox denies before the Chicago senate committee that wets support the Democratic presidential bid. He says wets have not contributed to the campaign and have not been active in political riots recently, calling the charge absurd.
The U S Chamber of Commerce predicts a gradual and natural readjustment of business conditions without financial disorder. Despite labor unrest tight money and high costs and the Russo Polish war the bulletin notes satisfactory crop and other conditions and widespread belief that business will remain satisfactory through the year with no reason to anticipate a panic.
Washington Aug 31 Utah led in percentage population growth among states in the fourteenth census. The 1920 Utah population was 449 446, up 20.4 percent in ten years, the second largest numerical increase in its history.
Governor Phillip awaits a 10 pound pig from Nebraska’s Gov. S. R. McKelvie. The pig traveled by air from Lincoln to Wisconsin as the state fair opened.
Bakuba, an 80 mile northeast of Bagdad town, recently seized by Arab tribesmen, was occupied by Sikh troops with only slight resistance. Elsewhere in Mesopotamia the situation remains unchanged.
Dr. Felisario Porras newly elected president of Panama lands in New York aboard the Colon from Cristobal and Havana with his wife son and daughter. Also aboard are Gen. Edmond Puyo of Cuba and Luig Anderson a Costa Rican presidential candidate.
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