Idle in 1914 Compared to Now Says Cabinet Member
Secretary Davis notes 7,000,000 unemployed in 1914 versus today's 5,735,000 and argues many in 1914 were breadwinners. He cites 12,000,000 still at work, $590,000,000 in bonds, and that current figures reflect non breadwinner dependents. He warns against distortion and stresses context of 1920 employment levels.
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Washington
Davis
Europe
Commissioner of Labor Statistics
McCormack
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Department of Labor
United States
Greeks to Resume Battle in Asia Minor Campaign
Smyrna Sept 15 General Papoulas chief of Greek forces in Asia Minor said operations against Turkish nationalists, interrupted, will be resumed. He expressed confidence in his troops ability to prevail in the campaign.
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Smyrna
Papoulas
Asia Minor
Baseball scores from national and American leagues
National League results show New York and Cincinnati with one and six runs respectively while Philadelphia tallies six. Chicago posts ten in a win over Boston ten to two with Pittsburgh five and Brooklyn nine two. St Louis leads at seven percent. American League reports Chicago New York Meveland Philadelphia five Detroit zero. Boston one St Louis six Washington one.
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Perch
New York
Aneee
Tere
Chicago
Philadelphia
Cincinnati
Boston
Pittsburgh
Brooklyn
St. Louis
Meveland
Detroit
Washington
Offensive halted to rest Greek troops as supply lines form
The general called the first phase a painful and continuous battle while noting the Greek armies are sufficient to capture An gora. The halt allows rest and arrangement for bringing up provisions and supplies.
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Angora
Price cuts hit Gary as wages shrink across sectors
Sept 15 report notes broad price reductions in Gary including restaurant meals, rents, and clothing. Steel workers face wage cuts while physicians lower call charges to $2 and attorneys reduce divorce case fees from $100 to $50.
Six Yanks on Rhine Killed in German Accident
Paris report says six soldiers of the American army of occupation in Germany died when a military lorry was struck by the Dortmund Frankfort express, according to a Coblenz dispatch.
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U. S
Paris
Germany
Dortmund
Frankfort
Coblenz
Prisoner Uprising Escapes Joliet Pen Firefight
Carlos Stepina leading five men broke from Joliet penitentiary under gunfire. Theodore Schiller was killed, George Williams wounded, John Koch wounded, and Edward Thorpe and John Ryan survived. Stepina and Thorpe fled, with police in pursuit after the wall breach and shooting incident.
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Joliet
Carlos Stepina
Chicago
Joliet Penitentiary
Stepinga
Sergt
Horace Odell
John Alcock
Edward Thorpe
Cicero Avenue
Theodore Schiller
West North Avenue
John Koch
George Williams
Williams
Joliet Hospital
John Ryan
Elgin, Joliet
Navy balks at economy proposals in Dawes report
Director of the Budget Dawes told the Senate Finance Committee the Navy resists the administration economy plan. He said executive pressure is aimed at aligning the Navy with other departments to trim expenditures. Other federal agencies have cut projected costs by about 305 million, with 50 million more sought. Dawes notes no Navy reduction is yet promised but expects overall savings of 350 million.
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Washington
Navy Department
Dawes
Senate Finance Committee
Navy
Harding
Senate Committee
Secretary of the Treasury
Melom
Dawes Announces Major Cuts in Shipping Board Expenditures
General Dawes outlined revised economy savings totaling 100 million dollars for the Shipping Board, War Department, railroads payments, veterans bureau and miscellaneous costs. The War Department budget drops from 450 million to 390 million, with 50 million saved on army maintenance and 210 million cut in rivers and harbor projects. Brig. Gen. F. W. M. Lord supplied the figures to the House Ways and Means Committee.
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Shipping Board
House
Ways All Means
Mellon
Dawes
General Dawes
War Department
Veterans’ Bureau
FW. M. Lord
Fatty Arbuckle Indicted for Murder and Manslaughter
San Francisco prosecutors cite two charges against movie star Roscoe Arbuckle in the Virginia Rappe case. A grand jury returned a murder indictment while the DA proceeds with manslaughter actions in the justice system. Witnesses including Miss Prevost and Miss Blake testified after Arbuckle’s September 5 party.
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San Francisco
Cal
Rowcoe
Fatty
Arbuckle
Virginia Rappe
Mathew Brady
Justice Court
Mambina Mand Delmont
Miss Rappe
Zeb Prevost
Alice Blake
Grace Halston
Miss Prevost
Miss Blake
Bliss Rappe
Moore elected to international court by League assembly
John Bassett Moore of the United States was elected one of eleven judges to the international court of justice by the League of Nations assembly on the second ballot. He will accept the post. at sixty one, he has long taught international law at Columbia University and served in U.S. government roles.
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Geneva
Switzerland
John Bassett Moore
United States
International Court of Justice
Assembly of the League of Nations
Rafael Altimagra Creves
Spain
Ruy Barbosa
Brazil
Antonio S&s de Abustamente
Cuba
Moore
Roscoe Pound
Elihu Root
Jones Brown Scott
Special Commission
The
League of Nations
League Assembly
Robert Cecil
Union of South Africa
Lord Robert
Herbert A. L. Fasher
Great Britain
Washington
New York
International diplomat with Hague court role since 1911
Biography notes a secretary of state from IS8S8 to Isl and an assistant secretary in 1898 plus secretary and counsel of the Spanish American peace commission in 1808. He is a counsellor of the State department in Wid and has been a member of The Hague Permanent Court since 1911. He serves as vice chairman of an international high commission formed at the Pan American financial conference in 2015 and has authored many books on international relations.
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Isl
Wright aircraft tender to join Navy fleet
Captain Alfred W. Johnson, commander of the air force Atlantic Meet, will have the new aircraft tender Wright as his flagship about October 1. The Wright, built by the Shipping Board, will be the Navy's first regular aircraft tender, turned over to the Navy in 1920.
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Washington
Alfred W. Johnson
Air Force
Atlantic Meet
Wright
Navy
The
Shipping Board
South Africa's 1920 mineral output cited in recovery
Washington reports South Africa's post depression rebound linked to 1920 mineral production totaling 4.6604 billion dollars. Gold output reached 3.24 billion, diamonds 1.045 billion, coal 258 million, copper 11 million, tin 21 million.
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Washington
South Africa
Polish cabinet warns of death for food smuggling
A Warsaw dispatch reports the Polish cabinet has issued a public proclamation threatening life imprisonment or death for individuals smuggling food out of Poland.
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Poland
Berlin
Warsaw
Marine Corps Recruiting Resumes Today
Washington reports that general recruiting in the Marine Corps will be resumed today Sept 1, with nationwide efforts to expand enlistments and fill ranks across the service.
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Marine Corps
Washington
Senate Finance Committee Reduces Transportation Tax
Washington September 15 the senate finance committee approved retaining freight passenger and Pullman charges at half the current rate for the calendar year 022 then repeal on January 1 122. Express packages oil by pipeline retain full tax. House rates on cereal beverages stay but may change. Sales taxes later focus on candy jewelry furs sporting goods and more. Additional 24 percent rise in corporate income tax and repeal of capital stock tax take effect next July.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
White House
Mellon
De Valera Accepts Invitation to Settle Dispute
Eamon de Valera accepts an invitation to discuss and settle the long running dispute. Officials from both sides will convene at a neutral venue to negotiate terms and seek a peaceful accommodation.
Ireland to attend Inverness talks as sovereign state
In Dublin Sep 15 The Irish delegates will attend the Inverness conference only as representatives of an independent Ireland. De Valera accepts the invitation in Lloyd George's terms but insists Ireland remains a sovereign state with independent negotiation authority.
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Evening Journal
Dublin
Famonn de Valera
Loyd George
Inverness Conference
Lloyd George
Ireland
Coalition Wins in New York Mayoral Primary
Henry M. Curran, coalitionist Republican, bested rivals in the New York Manhattan mayoral race, securing the Republican nomination with a wide margin over FL LaGuardia Judge Haskell and former state senator William M. Bennett, setting Curran as Mayor Hylan’s November opponent.
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New York
Henry HM. Curran
Borough of
Manhattan
Hylan
Curran
Judge OBrien Named Rail Referee for Union Disputes
Detroit Mich September 15 Judge Patrick H OBrien of Houghton Mich named permanent arbitrator for the United States Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees and Railway Shop Laborers The judge will rule on points of law and interpret the union constitution and will have no voice in union affairs
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Detroit
Mich
Patrick H. O’brien
Houghton
United States Brotherhood of M Maintenance of Way
International
O'Brien
Prohibition Agent Arrested in $400,000 Whisky Ring
Harold Stamps a prohibition agent under Maj. A. J. Dalrymple was arrested on bribery charges in the Weiss Behrens whisky ring case. He allegedly accepted $15,000 hush money and supplied a forged permit for moving 1,500 cases of whisky from Cincinnati to Chicago.
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Chicago
Harold Stamps
A. J. Dalrymple
Weiss-Behrens
Stamps
Cinecinnati
Harding porch quilt on exhibition for charity ward
The Harding front porch autographed quilt is finished and on display in a downtown store window. The proceeds will fund a Harding charity ward in a local hospital. In Nebraska Ouba a 41 year old mother bore her twenty second child, having married young and endured two marriages with twenty plus children total.
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Marion
Ouba
Neb
Earl M. Rowray
Rowray
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