Farmers Hit Two Billion By Declines At Open Market
President Hawes of the American Bankers Association urges tax cuts and broader credit to farmers as Secretary Meredith warns the drop in corn and cotton prices will cost farmers about two and a half billion dollars this year. He calls for banker support of cooperative farming and credits to maintain food supply. Hawes backs tax reduction and government economy while pushing rail and trade reforms to ease industrial unrest. He believes the nation faces possible price declines but sees optimism for industrial life and governance.
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The
American Bankers’ Association
Washington
Meredith
Bankers of America
Mr. Meredith
Richard 8. Hawes
Association
Roads
Labor and capital clash over future prosperity
Mr Hawes argues for mutual duties between labor and capital and cautions that strikes disrupt progress. He urges capital to improve conditions in step with production and investment, and advocates workers' freedom to seek their own salvation without being bound by organizations.
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Mr. Hawes
Creel denies official or private Mexican trip on Wilson link
George Creel formerly head of the committee on public information declares his Mexico visit was neither official U S government business nor a private mission as President Wilson's representative. The statement was issued in San Antonio Texas on October 20.
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San Antonio
Tex
George Creel
Committee On Public Information
Mexico
United States
Promdent Wilson
Democrats and Republicans to file campaign reports in Chicago
National Democratic Chairman White pledged compliance with a Senate committee request for reports of campaign funds. He asked party chairs to file collections and disbursements since prior testimony, to be submitted publicly on October 28 in Chicago. National Republican Chairman Hays in Chicago also said he would comply.
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Chicago
White
United States Senate Committee
Auditorium Hotel
National Republican
Hays
Senate Committee
Sylvia Pankhurst Arrested in London for Seditious Literature
Sylvia Pankhurst once a leading suffragist figure was arrested in London on a charge of possessing seditious literature. Police raided the Workers' Dreadnought offices which had been ordered suppressed amid her recent turn to communism.
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London
Sylvia Pankhurst
Workers’ Dreadnought
Miss Pankhurst
House of Commons
Miners’ Federation
Government to Maintain Irish Policy in Hunger Strike Case
London reports that the government will press on with the Ireland bill as Andrew Bonar Law says the policy is to end police murder reprisals. He notes no release for Lord Mayor MacSwiney or other convicted or awaiting-trial hunger strikers. Home Secretary Shortt confirms no fed prisoners and no alteration in policy.
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London
Andrew Bonar Law
House of Commons
Malone
Leyton
Bonar Law
Home Secretary
Shortt
MacSwiney
Cork
Funeral Turmoil as Army Halts Fitzgerald Tribute
In Cork a dramatic church scene halted by an army officer and four soldiers ending a requiem for Michael Fitzgerald. A 100-person limit was imposed on the funeral procession and soldiers blocked march in military formation. Irish volunteers restored order amid crowd distress. Six lorries and an armored car trailed mourners through business streets as anger rose over the display.
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Cork
Michael Fitzgerald
Fermoy
Great Headquarters
Fitzgerald
Joseph Murphy
Donovan
Kenny
Sean
Hennessey
Reilly
Upton
Black and Tan murder relatives present at shootings
The relatives of the ten victims were present when the shootings occurred, according to witnesses. The article notes the crowd included family members closely linked to those killed.
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Black and Tan
French Charge Denies Negotiations With Harding
Washington report says Count Dehetre the French charge denied any French authority to approach Senator Harding with proposals for a new world order. He told Undersecretary of State Davis that Paris had delegated no spokesman to act for it, officially or unofficially, in talks with Harding.
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Washington
State Department
Count Dehetre
Harling
Davis
Harding
Wrangel's Forces Defeated by Reds in Ukraine
Heavy losses reported as Wrangel's anti Bolshevik forces fail to seize the Kakhovka bridgehead. Bolsheviks claim victory while Reds push toward Taurida behind the Volopeir as Leon Trotsky directs Dnieper operations from Orel.
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REDS
Rakhovka
Minsk
Slutsk-Polesia
Sebastopol
Baron Wrangel
Russia
Kakhovka
Baranovitch
Taurida
Voleper
Leon Trotzky
Dnieper
Orel
Wrance
Zemstves
London
Sheviks
Compromise Reports Heard In Opening Of Parliament
London lawmakers opened with a coal strike and Irish problem looming large. Sir Robert Horne urged peaceful solutions and warned against concessions as a quarterly bargaining pattern. Lloyd George refused to concede wages without guarantees of higher coal output and called for cabinet-backed talks and a miners’ inquiry.
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Westiminster
Robert Horne
Board of Trade
Robert
Lloyd George
Sir Robert
America
Lloyd George Firm
England
Triple Alliance
Britain
House of Commons
Commons
Empire
U. S. Ship Building Slumps in Latest Lloyds Figures
U S ship output dropped behind Britain by 1 959 000 gross tons in the quarter ended Sept 30 though the United States still produced more than twice as much tanker tonnage as all other nations combined Lloyds Register of Shipping reports U S shipbuilding had led Britain earlier in the year by 1 931 000 tons and remains ahead in oil tankers.
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New York
United States
Great Britain
Lloyd’s Register of Shipping
King Alexander Dies From Monkey Bite In Athens
King Alexander of Greece died Tuesday from infection after wounds from two monkeys bitten while defending a dog. He ascended the throne in 1917 following his father King Constantine's flight amid upheaval. The monarch’s death threatens a global power struggle over succession and a possible internal crisis under Eleutherios Venizelos.
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London
Alexander
Greece
Athens
Brindisei
Constantine
Eleutherios Venezilos
Six killed as railroad collision occurs in Erie
A night train collision at Erie Union Station leaves six dead and fifteen injured after the Chicago Boston limited sideswiped a Buffalo Cleveland train that was on the same track. The express ran through an open switch striking the Buffalo Cleveland train head on.
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Erie
Chicago-Boston Limited
New York Central Railroad
Union Station
Chicago-Boston Express
Buffalo
Plebiscite Result to Be Respected in Austria
Paris dispatch reports Allied powers will honor the Klengenfurt district plebiscite held a week earlier. The council of ambassadors informed Vienna that it does not expect Austria to violate article 88 of the treaty of St Germain, which bans Austria’s union with Germany without League of Nations approval.
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Vienna
Paris
Klengenfurt
Austria
Council
Allies warn Poles on Vilna occupation note
A note handed to the Polish government by French and British representatives in Warsaw states the allied governments view Vilna’s occupation as contrary to the armistice with Lithuania and to Poland’s assurances to the League of Nations. The note is friendly but firm.
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London
Get
Vilna
Warsaw
Lithuania
League of Nations
Poland
Cies
Treasury loans urged for farmers by Hampton
George P. Hampton, managing director of the Farmers' National council, asked President Wilson to back at least 250 million dollars in treasury certificates to fund loans to farmers. He argued elastic dollar policy should be turned down.
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Washington
Treasury
George P. Hampton
Farmers’ National Council
Wilson
Fisher Plan on Dollar Stabilization Opposed by Bankers
The currency commission of the American Bankers Association, meeting in Washington, opened its annual convention and after a year of study rejected Prof. Irving Fisher’s plan to stabilize the dollar by altering gold backing as prices change. It warned of grave dangers and recommended against memorializing Congress in favor of Yale economist proposals.
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Irving Fisher
Currency Commission
American Bankers’ Association
Congress
Yale
Mondell Injured in Wyoming Car Crash
Representative Frank W. Mondell, Republican House leader, was injured in an automobile crash near Riverton while inspecting Shoshone reclamation work. His leg was reported broken and he is being transported to a Lander hospital. More details were not yet available.
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Shoshone Reservation
Lander
Wyo
Frank W. Mondell
House of Representatives
Riverton
Mondell
Mrs Cox Pledges 1000 for League of Nations Drive
Mrs James M Cox wife of the presidential candidate contributes 1000 toward the women's League of Nations campaign as announced by the Democratic headquarters women's bureau in New York on October 20.
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Cox
New York
Women's Bureau of Democratic
James M. Cox
League of Nations
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