Hoover Eyes Conference on Coal Price Talks
Washington reports Secretary Hoover seeks a wholesale and retail coal dealer conference to explain benefits of price agreements. Operators representing 80 percent of bituminous coal may cap spot prices at 3.50 dollars per ton during the strike. plans to coordinate with producing fields in Pennsylvania and fear of noncooperating Western Kentucky operators. Chicago retail prices rise 25 to 60 cents per ton as West Virginia mine price limits trigger further hikes with expectations of coal reaching nine dollars per ton soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
D. C
Hoover
Department of Commerce
Pennsylvania
Western Kentucky
Chicago
Retailera
Risa
West Virginia
Secretary of Commerce
Alabama
Hazard
Kentucky
Appalachian
Tennessee
Garfeld
Apot
Mother of Three a Slayer in Chicago Case
Victoria Turek mother of three confessed she and Leopold Mikrut a former Toomer in the Turek home hanged her husband Joseph 14 years old. Turek found hanging under a stairway in his room days ago and his wife said he died by his own action. detectives probed the affair while Mrs. Turek was questioned repeatedly.
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Chicago
Victoria Turek
Leopold Mikrut
Toomer
Turek
Joseph
Dry Law and Bankers See Thrift Rise After Amendment
National survey of bank executives finds bankers nationwide view prohibition as boosting thrift and savings since the amendment. Ten questionnaires from the National Women's Christian Temperance Association reflect bankers' opinions on financial impact of the ban.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
National Women's Christian Tamperanuceétibion
Hankera
Poincaire Wins in Chamber Vote Split
Paris deputies pass Premier Poincare plan 484 to 100 as he reveals alleged attempts to influence the reparations commission to weaken France against Germany. The premier appeared startled by the disclosures about external pressure on the loan issue.
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Poincaire
Chamber
Paris
Chamber of Deputies
Premier Poincare
Repartions Commission
France
Germany
Enator
M’cumber
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
McCumber
Finance Committee
House
Smoot
Robbers Ransack Home in Los Angeles
Three masked robbers bound Mia Valentine J. Rowen and her maid Miss Anna Fasberg at the Rowen residence in Los Angeles, ransacked the home and escaped with jewels, money and other valuables totaling about 25000 dollars.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Mia
Valentine J. Rowen
Anna Fasberg
Rowen
Two Fliers Die In Mountain Crash Near El Paso
El Paso Texas lieutenant Ben Jenkins Jr of the reserve corps and Sergeant Arthur Juengling of the Twelfth observation squadron at Fort Elisa were burned to death when their airplane crashed into a mountainside and was destroyed by fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
el Paso
Tex
Ben Jenkins Jr
Arthur Juengling
Fort Elisa
Farmer Killed in Rock Blasting Accident in Beresford District
D-Gust T. Johnson, a prominent Beresford district farmer near Sioux Falls, was killed while inspecting an unexpended blasting charge on his farm. The charge exploded and blew off his head, ending a long sharp-edged routine in field work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux Falls
Gust T. Johnson
Beresford
Two Bandits Slain After Metamora Bank Raid Clash
In Metamora a bank robbery sparked a heavy battle as nearly a thousand armed men clashed in hills and swamps around Davison. Two bandits were killed, an officer wounded, and a fourth suspect was arrested at Lapeer. weapons included automatic rifles and shotguns.
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Pontiac
Mich
Lapeer
Metamora
Truat
Davision
German Reparation Talks Move into Bankers Court
The piece reviews wartime labor unrest in the United States with rail strike threats over wage cuts, government price fixes for coal, and ongoing reparations negotiations in Europe. It notes Germany’s surrender-like proposals, Paris bankers’ study of payment capacity, and political fragility of the German cabinet amid cross-Atlantic finance and Irish matters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
International Bankers
Paris
J. Pierpont Morgan
United States
Germany
Reichstag
Lieyé George
House of Commons
Frabee
Iowa News Sketches of Crime and Civic Tales
A collage of arrest, court, and local incidents from the era recaps Bud Powell’s Missouri penitentiary sentence for white slavery while Clinton high school girls vote to graduate in fourteen inch skirts. Other items note self-inflicted deaths, farm accidents, paving contracts, state board savings, a Perry shooting, Iowa City transfusion saves, a Mason City youngster paroled, Grotta convention crowds, a county seat remonstrance, Spirit Lake fish hatchery distributions, a rural census on purebred bulls, university scholarship winners, orchard pests, and a Dr Harry P Webb federal drug act case.
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Bud” Powell
Missouri
Clinton
Arthur Zimmerman
Hirt
Iowa City
Carroll
State Board of Control
Tthe
Julia Hinds
William Hinds
Perry
T. Mathews
Mugrongoe
Iowa City Hospital
Howard Kelso
H. F. Brammen
Cecil Jenken
Mason City
Davenport
Oelwein
Weat Union
Anthony Pennington
Pennington
Atata Hatchery
Orleany
Spirit Lake
West
Okoboji
East Okoboji
Lydia Roberts- Chamberlain
Columbia
Coa
Grinnell
Ames
Cornell
Des Moines University
Drake
State Teachers College
Morningside
Parsons
Simpson
Upper Iowa
Story County
Auditor of State
Harry P. Webb
Swan
Fort Leavenworth
Iowa
Archangel Michael Statue Gift Marks Legion Hope
The American Legion received a silver statuette of Archangel Michael, presented by General Armando Diaz to Commander Hanford MacNider. The miniature mirrors the Rome’s St. Michael atop San Angelo, a symbol of peace as wars end. The San Angelo fortress, built in Hadrianic times, later served as a fortress and mausoleum.
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Archangel Michael
Diaz
Michael
Thia
Armando Diaz
Italy
Hanford MacNider
American Legion
Legion
St. Michael
San Angelo
Rome
Hadrian
Gregory
Plans relief of affliTel by labor and Legion
John B. Walker, eight years as president of the Illinois State Federation of Labor, proposes an official arrangement between organized labor and the American Legion to aid the World War sick and wounded and their dependents. Commander Mac Nider of the Legion responds, and the proposal is under consideration. Walker began work in the mines before age ten and has held numerous offices in miners' organizations.
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Edward W., Pickard
United States Railay Labor Board
Hewever
Eoward H. Fringerald
Railway Clerks’ Organization
Cincinnati
Federal Board
B. M. Jewell
Labor Board
Reland
Free State
Linn Fenners
House of Commons
Winston Churchill
Michael Colwha
Arthur Griffith
Churchill
de Valera
Collings
Griffith
Church
Lamington Evins
Ireland
Dublin
Ulster
Free Statera
Belfast
John B. Walker
Winois
Steel Helmet inventor Dead in Paris Doctor Monprofit
Doctor Monprofit, French deputy and ambulance corps veteran, introduced the steel helmet in World War I. He died recently in Paris. His advocacy included ideas for breastplates and a “fly hat” concept during campaigns in the Balkans in 1914.
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Paris
Doctor Monprofit
Chamber of Deputies of
France
Ambulance Corps
Balkans
Dark humor note from American Legion Weekly
The excerpt features a squire telling a New England boss to relay a sharp insult to his apprentice about fixing a carpentry job. The boss appears immediately afterward, eager for confrontation, asking if the apprentice was told he was a blinked fool. The exchange highlights blunt humor and workplace banter typical of the period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
American Legion Weekly
Correspondence Courses Spread Through War Department Plan
The War department introduces correspondence courses in cavalry infantry and artillery as part of a national citizen training movement supported by the American Legion. A nationwide plan outlines how courses will be applied with instruction in every branch.
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War Department
Amarkcin Legion
Ivo
Newerrler
Home Town Paper Aid for World War II Wounded
The American Legion auxiliary urges editors to send home-town newspapers to wounded American servicemen in hospitals nationwide. With about 80 090 wounded, many far from home, the program asks town editors to distribute papers daily or weekly and to request local lists of names from state chapters and Indianapolis national headquarters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
American Legion
Legion
Indianapolis
Ind
AIDS Stranded Ex-Soldiers Aid by Washington Legion
Bill Franklin, post commander of the American Legion Vincent B. Costello post, aids stranded ex soldiers seeking compensation claim adjustments in Washington DC. He locates men with real chances of settlement and supports them. some are helped home if claims are hopeless. District of Columbia recently expanded oversight of this work.
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Washington, D. C
Bill Franklin
American Legion
Bill Frankelin
Prank- Min
Vincent B. Costello
Washington
District of Columbia
Expert on Army Paper Work Pollock Named New Veterans Bureau Chief
Marion Pollock of the American Legion is named head of the personnel division at the U S Veterans Bureau in Washington DC. He is renowned as the Walking Encyclopedia on army paperwork and orders, having served in France as chief of the orders division and could recite almost every general headquarters order from the war.
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Marion
Pollock
American Legion
United Stated Veterans’ Bureau
Washington, D. C
A. BE. PF
Leutenants
France
Adjutant General's Department
Ward
Legion News and War Veterans Actions Across Nations
The American Legion reports on postwar veteran issues including compensation checks for ex soldiers. David Philips of Dover Ohio received a $2500 check but returned $2250. Washington informs about farm tenets on Yakima reservation and radio outreach. Forbes cites $3.6 billion in veteran war risk insurance. Congress extends medals for World War gallantry and army officers urge recounting of valor by enlisted men.
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Yakima
Wash
Tadian
Washington
American Legion
War Fisk
Charles R. Forbes
United States Veterans’ Bureau
Congress
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