Tragic Auto Crash Hovers Over Wilson Party
A Washington party car carrying three reporters and two others crashed near Portland, killing Ben F. Allen of the Cleveland Plain Dealer and James K. Patterson of the Oregon owner. Three others were injured as President Wilson’s tour faced tragedy and slowed pace on the Columbia highway.
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Ben. F. Allen
The
Cleveland Plain Dealer
James R. Patterson
Portland
Ore
Columbia Highway
Washington
Wilson
James KR. Patterson
Robert T. Small
Hiladelphia Public Ledger
Stanley M. Reynolds
Baltimore Sun
Arthur D. Palace
Crown Point
Columbia River
Multnomah County Fair Grounds
Gresham
Messrs
Allen
Small
Reynolds
David Lawrence
New York Evening Post
Mr. Lawrence
Patterson
C.H. Barnett
Mr. Allen
Senate
Untold Terms Hold Back World Peace Prospects
A wartime era remark notes that until a treaty is settled no hope remains for normal world conditions. The statement references broader geopolitical negotiations and the path to stabilization.
Senate gets the German peace treaty debate
The German peace treaty began Senate consideration in open session. Chairman Lodge of the foreign relations committee opened the discussion after the Senate adopted a motion to proceed. Lodge presented a copy of the treaty with Austria he had obtained from a Chicago newspaper, which Wilson had refused to transmit to the Senate.
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Washington
Senate
Lodee
Foreign Relations Committee
Lodge
Austria
Chicago
Wilson
Seventeen alien prisoners escape Fort Douglas tunnel
Seventeen enemy alien prisoners at the Fort Douglas war prison barracks in Salt Lake City escaped through a tunnel under the wire enclosure. An initial check shows no important prisoners among the escapees. Commandant George L. Pryam says 207 prisoners were in the compound, most TIW class. Police and sheriffs statewide were warned to watch for the escapees.
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Salt Lake City
War Prison
Fort Douglas
George L. Pryam
No School As Indiana Township Teachers Strike
In Stockton township Greene county near Linton 25 schools did not open yesterday due to a dispute between township trustee James T Roach and a summer formed teachers union. Union teachers persuaded the staff to return home after they arrived at the schoolhouses.
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Linton
Ind
Stockton Township
Greene County
James T. Roach
Roach
Disloyalty convictions yield three months in jail
A. C. Townley and Joseph Gilbert, leaders in the Nonpartisan league, are sentenced by Judge B C Dean to three months in Jackson county jail with no fine option. Stay of sentence granted for 60 days. Judge condemns the league and its publicity drive as false and damaging to the court.
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Jackson, Minn
Sept
W.A
C. Townley
Nonpartisan League
Joseph Gilbert
Jackson County
B.C. Dean
Townley
Gibbert
Dean
George Hoke
Gilbert
Eysten
Critcal
Nonpartisan League Publicity Bureau
Orint
Journalieu
28 PERISH AS HURRICANE HITS TEXAS COAST
Corpus Christi suffers heavy losses with 28 known dead and 4,000 homeless as Port Aransas is destroyed. A relief train with tents and food is sent, while communications fail coastwise and several towns report severe damage to homes and crops.
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Port Aransas
Corpus Christi
Kingsville
Gulf Coast Lines
Kingston
Corpus Christ
Roy Miller
Relief Committee
Houston
Galveston
Port Afansas
Gulf
Trotzky warnings to Finns threaten Bolshevik attack
Leninist leader Trotzky pledges no invasion if Finland proves loyal but warns that a provocation will trigger a shattering strike from Petrograd. He asserts Bolshevik strength and ties Finland’s fate to English revolutionary momentum as reported from Helsingfors.
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Helsingfors
Pravda
Léon Trotzky
Petrograd Sevich
Finland
Bourgesise
Vetrostad
Petrograd
England
Fiume in Sea of Anarchy Report on Occupation
The Italian irregulars led by Gabriele d Anunzio occupy Fiume with British and French observers barricaded within. Troops from Italy reinforce as discussions at the peace conference frame the incident as an internal Italian matter.
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Paris
Piume
D'Annunzio
Nitti
Signor
Tittani
Italy
Fiume
Gabriele d’Annunzio
D Annunzio Proclaims Fiume Union With Italy Amid Turmoil
Geneva reports Gabriele d Annunzio proclaims union of Fiume with Italy as British and French troops stay inside their quarters. Italian general Pittaluga arrested, city in chaos. Rome says Gen Bedoglio heads to Fiume with full powers while Robilant’s detachments refuse to disarm.
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Fiume
Italy
London
Gabriele d'Annunzio
Badoglio
Geneva
Arditt
Belgrade
Pittaluga
Rome
Bedoglio
Gabriele d’'Annunzio
Annunzio
Robilant
Sixth Army Corps
d’Annunzio
Nitti
Plane crash in Ohio destroys two houses
A government mail plane bound for Chicago crashed on roofs in Cleveland causing a gasoline explosion. Pilot E V Gardner escaped injury by leaping free and later flew to Chicago in another plane with recoverable mail. End Marseilles Strike Tieop. Marseilles settlement of dock laborers strike announced.
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Cleveland
Chicago
E. V. Gardner
Marseilles
Johnson rails at British world in Des Moines pro league rally
Senator Hiram Johnson told about 8,000 at the Des Moines Coliseum that the League of Nations covenant creates a British world, urging the crowd to oppose the treaty. The speech followed a pro league address by President Wilson nine days earlier. The audience yelled down his point that the pact would not prevent war.
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Des Moines
Hiram Johnson
California
Coliseum
Wilson
Johnson
Middle West
Great Britain
Jsen
League of Nationms
Wiliam KE
Borah
Idaho
Requests Japan to Fix Return Date Back Kiao Chow
In a diplomatic note, officials urge Japan to correct the return date for a subject connected to Kiao Chow. The request emphasizes timely resolution and proper handling of the matter by authorities.
Nitrate Plant Destroyed in Muscle Shoals Loss Reaches Two Million
A nitrate plant at Muscle Shoals Alabama was destroyed last night with losses totaling two million dollars. A separate dispatch reports the United States has asked Japan to fix a definite date for the return of Kiaochow to China, with no reply yet from Japan.
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United States
Japan
Kiaochow
China
Nitrate Plant Destroyed at Muscle Shoals
Fire in Shefield Alabama destroyed the government nitrate plant at Muscle Shoals last night. The estimated loss is two million dollars.
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Evening Journal
Shefield
Alabama
Government
Muscle Shoals
Senator Johnsons Washington summons alter anti league talks
The text describes Senator Johnson meeting plans with Senator John son at the Coliseum disrupted by a summons to Washington from Senator Lodge. Senator Borah wirelessly instructed Johnson to stay in daily contact with the Washington situation and continue his anti league speaking tour for now.
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Washington
Lodge
Senator Johnson
Coliseum
Idaho
Chicago
Borah
Johnson
Senate
Governor sends guards to Albemarle amid textile strike
Governor Bickett ordered national guardsmen from Lexington Statesville and Carthage to Albemarle at the mayor's request to quell a strike that has lasted several weeks and to help release rioters arrested during disturbances Sunday night.
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Raleigh
N. C
Albemarle
Bickett
Lexington
Statesville
Carthage
Bullitt Story Denied by Paris Telegraphers
London reports that a Reuters Paris dispatch says William C. Bullitt’s Senate testimony about talks with Prime Minister Lloyd George is a false tale.
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London
Reuter
Paris
William C. Bullitt
United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Lloyd George
Soldier dies after drinking poison mistaken for whisky
Todianapolis Ind Sept 16 One soldier Oliver Eager nineteen is dead and five others are in the hospital at Fort Benjamin Harrison after drinking poison they mistook for whisky The men were prisoners at the fort.
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Fort Benjamin Harrison
Todianapolis
Ind
Oliver Eager
Marshal Foch Seeks Body of Slain Son
Sept 16 report says Marshal Foch asked Belgium to search for the body of his son killed in August 1914 in the Ardennes. He avoided naming the son to confirm the death was his younger Foch.
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Marshal Foch
Ardennes
T’aris
Belgian Ardennés
Tew
Foch
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Texas
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Bosheviki
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Gardner
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Pact
U. 5
Lars
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North Carolina
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