France Must Loosen Grip To Aid German Recovery
Washington officials say France must loosen its grip on reparations to relieve Germany and enable private capital loans. Germany’s finances hinge on French decisions, with relief only achievable through concessions and secured investment guarantees amid the reparations scheme. A wreck on Santa Fe train No. 4 near Burrton injured nine, eight passengers in the club car, engine and cars derailed. gasoline cars burned after impact.
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Associated Press
Washington
Ciermany
Rhine
France
United States
Germany
Pranes
Wirth
Hutchinson
Santa Fe
Burrton
Hold Up Orders to Signal Men
Chicago July 8 Strike orders to 14 000 railroad signal men will be withheld pending a program acceptable to the executive council of the Brotherhood of Railroad Signal Men of America D W Heldt president announced tonight The announcement followed talks with labor board plans and guidance for an orderly response.
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Chicago
United States Railroad Labor Board
Executive Council
The
Brotherhood of Railroad Signal Men of
Aimer
Ion
D. W. Heldt
Chile Accepts Proposal on Tacna Arica Pact
Washington reports Chile accepts that no plebiscite will be held in Tacna Arica and that sovereignty will not be decided by direct talks. Both Chile and Peru will seek the United States to exercise good offices. The acceptance came after Chilean reply from Santiago.
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Chile
Washington
Tacna Arica
Peru
United States
Santiago
Warner to Broadcast Statewide Campaign Speech
Paris Texas July 8 Harry Ty Warner candidate for governor will broadcast a speech Tuesday evening from the Paris station reaching across Texas. He becomes the first statewide candidate to use radio in his campaign.
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Paris
Texas
Harry Ty Warner
Will
Amarillo Beauty Yard Contest Offers Ten Prizes
Civic groups and firms in Amarillo announce a contest rewarding lawn beauty and tidy premises with prizes totaling 25 dollars and 15 dollars for the cleanest alleys and best kept homes. Special North Side swing prize and library lamp offered. Deadline approaches. entries to Mrs. L A Wells, phone 339.
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Amarillo
Potter County Federation of Women's Clubs
City Light & Water Company
Potter County Federation
Lions Club
Amarillo Hardware Company
City of
Rotary Club
City Light and Water Company
Kiwanis Club
Morrow-Thomas Hardware Company
Green Brothers Furniture Company
L. A. Wells
Bankers to Meet in Lubbock Monday
Special to The News reports the seventeenth District State Bankers Association will meet in Lubbock on Monday July 10 with B M Holland of Slaton as temporary chairman. Local bankers will host visitors and officers for the ensuing year will be elected under State Bank Examiner Walden.
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Lubbock
Seventeenth District State Bankers’ Association
B. M. Holland
Slaton
Seventeenth District
Walden
Strikers storm stores after boy slain by guard
In Clinton Iowa July 8 a Milneis Central Railroad guard shot and killed 12 year old Jones Fitzgerald and wounded his father James Fitzgerald Sr and passerby Ebner Hankinson during a clash with striking workers. The crowd seized firearms from hardware stores before police intervened and confiscated them. The guard was arrested and removed from the county as crowds dispersed.
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Boy
Clinton
Wic
Milneis Central Railroad
Jones Fitzgerald
James Fitzgerald Sr
Ebner Hankinson
Pitsgerald
Anid
Hs Pittel
Ftzgerald
Fitzgerald
Tve
Hankinson
Jon
Charles Cline
Po- Hee
Texas records reveal 1100 murders per year
Texas vital statistics bureau reports about 1100 murders and 400 suicides annually. It also details births and deaths for February to April, noting 8446, 6476, and 5682 births and 4266, 4685, and 2857 deaths in those months, with small counts over 100 years old and triplets in March and April.
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Associated Press
Austin
Texas
Vital Statistics Bureau
State Health Department
Armed Illinois Guard Assembles For Railroad Strike
Springfield July 8 With 5567 men and 290 officers the Illinois national guard is under arms preparing for possible trouble in the railroad shopmen’s strike. Colonel Frank L. Taylor says the state is an armed camp ready to respond quickly to any flare up to prevent a Herrin style riot.
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Associated Press
Springfield
Illinois National Guard
Frank L. Taylor
Adjutant General’s Office
Taylor
Texas river control conference invites engineers
Austin Texas July 8 Governor Neff invited about 260 engineers to meet with the state reclamation department and the board of water engineers in Austin on August 7 for a general consideration of engineering problems and to formulate a program for water ward development and flood prevention.
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Austin
Texas
Neff
State Reclamation Department
Board of Water Engineers
Striking Shopmen Forcibly Remove Wabash Workers
MOBORLY Mo Striking shopmen seized twenty men from a Wabash train bound for Buffalo New York after forcing open a special coach at the city hall they searched the men and decided to send them back to Kansas City Missouri The men said they were guards employed at Fort Wayne Ind to protect Wabash property.
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Associated Press
Buffalo
N. Y
Kansas City
Kansi City
Fort Wayne
Ind
Postmaster Named for Texas Village in Hartley County
Postmaster General announces Murray Garnett to succeed Maggie Love as postmaster at Mid dle Water in Hartley County Texas. The appointment reflected ongoing federal staffing in rural service locations and confirms a local continuity of mail operations amid mid year changes.
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Washington
Work
Texas
Middle Water
Hartley County
Murray Garnett
Maggie
Love
Tevianed
Local clash teed up as three o'clock start
Today's game between Skipper Johnny Meanor's pennant winners and the Lubbock Hubbers will start at three. A record crowd is expected to pack the stands as Till anchors for the locals and Pennington is expected to work for the visitors.
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Johnny Meanor
Lubbock
Till
Pennington
Sunshine Special wreck injures train passengers near Grand Saline
Twelve passengers were slightly injured when the Sunshine Special of the Texas & Pacific Railroad derailed a half mile east of Grand Saline. The baggage car and two coaches left the track after the engine split a switch. Track clearing and service restoration were underway overnight.
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Hurton T. & P
Associated Press
Marshall
Texas
Sunshine
Texas & Pacific Railroad
Grand Saline
Wreck at Burrton Causes Fatalities and Readies Rescue
Wichita dispatchers reported five killed in a Santa Fe wreck at Burrton with fireman missing after leaping from the cab. Later updates said no confirmed deaths, several injured, and initial chaos followed the interurban collision.
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Wichita, Kans
Burrton
Arkansas Valley Interurban Company
Soup for M'Gee Well On Ground
A barrel of soup and 170 quarters of nitro glycerine arrived by car from Wichita Falls. The Meee test in Carson will be shot Monday. Owners say the explosion will occur between noon and 4 PM, likely about 2 PM.
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Wichita Falls
Carson
Fear Trouble at Pittsburg in Strike Warning
TOPEKA Kan July 8 Governor Aten said he received a Pittsburg sheriff message stating striking shopmen warned of trouble if strike-breakers are used. The sheriff said he was prepared to handle the situation. Charles J Martin adjutant general left for Parsons where Governor Allen has pledged Missouri Kansas Texas protection for workers if shops reopen.
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Pittsburg
Associated Press
Topeka
Kanv
Aten
Milt Gould
Charles J. Martin
Parsons
Allen
Missouri, Kansas & Texas
Governor Neff Announces Speaking Dates Across Texas
Governor Neff listed speaking engagements in Stephenville on July 12 Grandbury and Alvarado on July 13 Tyler on July 4 Kaufman on July 15 with Austin reporting.
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Austin
Texas
Neff
Stephenville
Grandbury
Alvarado
Tyler
Kaufman
Mighty homebrew blast blows hole in roof at De Long home
A 60 gallon homebrew exploded yesterday afternoon at 1925 Pierce Street, blasting through the roof and warping the back end of the house. Martin J. De Long fled, later sought on illegal manufacture charges as Roxie Harper posted bond. Officers described a brewing room with mash, barrels, and gear. over 70 cigarette cartons were seized as residents reported the blast rattling windows and shaking nearby homes.
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Martin J. DeLong
Pierce Street
Pell Mel
DeLong
Santa Fe
Roxie Harper
Federal court intervenes in midwest rail strike crisis
Federal authorities moved to restrain picketing at Aurora shops and block entry to trains in New Orleans and Southern Pacific lines. Illinois Iowa and Missouri areas saw troops deployed, while a Clinton clash left a boy dead and two injured. Railroads halted or rerouted service as labor board mediators pressed for peace after wave of disruptions.
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Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad
Aurora
New Orleans
Southern Pacific
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Burlington
Department of Justice
Washington
Sterting
Illinois
Clinton
Illinois Central
D. W. Heldt
Brotherhood of Signalmen
United States Railroad Labor Board
Yester
Drowning tragedy ties youths in Brazos River outing
Edward Sanders, 19, was found dead near a fresh grave at Graham cemetery beside Miss Lottie Anthony’s burial site. An empty poison bottle and photos of the drowned girl were found nearby. Sanders’ father said the youth had been despondent since the Fourth of July river tragedy.
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Graham
Tewae
Edward Sanders
Littl Graham
Lottie Anthony
Brazos River
Sanders
Anthony
Strike Bullets Greenville Worker Attacked Amid Walkout
A C Andrews, a laborer for the Missouri Kansas and Texas Railroad, was attacked and severely beaten by alleged strike sympathizers while returning home in Greenville Texas. After about 50 shopmen walked out last Saturday, divisions orders prompted 35 Chicago and Alton roundhouse workers to strike. Mayor Alexander said state authorities were notified and no troops were needed at present for trains or railroad property protection.
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Associated Press
Greenville
Tex
A. C. Andrews
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad
Andrews
Chicago and Alton Round House
Alexander
Injunction Blocks Picketing at Aurora Shops
In Chicago on July 8 federal judge George Carpenter granted an injunction prohibiting picketing at the Chicago Burlington and Quincy shops in Aurora Illinois. It was expected that other rail lines bringing workers into Chicago would seek similar orders promptly.
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Chicago
Burlington and Quincey
Aurora
Illc
George Carpenter
Superintendent Is Held in Atlanta Shooting Case
W. W. Waites, superintendent of terminals for the Southern Railway in Atlanta, was arrested late today on charges of shooting at a striking shopman and pointing a pistol at another. He was released on bonds totaling 600 dollars.
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Atlanta
W. W. Waites
Southern Railway
Judge issues TRO against six shopcraft unions for Burlington
In July 8 Judge M. J. Wood issued a temporary restraining order against six shopcrafts unions in favor of the Burlington railroad. The order covering all Burlington points in Southern Iowa bars the unions from interfering with railroad operations.
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Council Bluffs
M. J. Wood
Burlington Railroad
Burlington
Iowa
Marshall Yardmaster Attacked by Unknown Men
Marshall Texas early morning report says J G Buckmaster general yardmaster for the Texas Pacific was attacked and beaten by a gang of unidentified men. He escaped with minor injuries and no further harm reported.
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Marshall
Texas
J. G. Buckmaster
Texas& Pacific
Federal judges urged to protect railroad property in Texas
Dallas July 8 protection for employees and property due to a shopmen uprising has been asked of federal judges in districts in Texas along the Texas and Pacific Missouri Kansas and Texas and International Great Northern. Judge W Estes of Tyler presiding eastern Texas district has ordered marshal Phil Baer at Paris to deputize as many men as needed to guard Texas and Pacific properties. Other districts have not yet responded.
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Dallas
Texas
Texas and Pacific
Missouri
Kansas
International & Great Northern
Somerville
Texarkana
Phil Baer
Paris
Somer Ville
Outbreak in Various Localities Threatened
Springfield dispatch reports troops under Major John C. Smith of Champaign en route to Clinton after Adjutant General Black ordered action. Colonel Frank A. Taylor announced the move amid shopmen’s strike rumors. Regimental HQ Company F Ith Infantry mobilizes from Decatur to join the effort.
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Springfield
John C. Smith
Champaign
Clinton
Black
Frank A. Taylor
Generals Staff
Decatur
Missouri National Guard Mobilized Amid Insurrection Rumors
The Missouri National Guard and officers are ordered mobilized for instant service at 9 a.m. tomorrow by Executive Order of acting Governor William O'Roun. The move follows reports of lawlessness and insurrection within the state.
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Tire Guard
National Guard of
Missouri
William O ‘Roun
Guards for mine zone move ordered to Madisonville
Governor Edwin Morrow ordered troops from Hopkinsville and Livermore to Madisonville as county authorities feared the mine at Barbourville would become unmanageable. Local officials warned they could not handle potential trouble, prompting the escalation.
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Associated Press
Barbouville
Ernor Edwin Morrow
Hopkinsville
Livermore
Madisonville
Press Blamed for Outbreaks in Slater Missouri
Slater Missouri July 8 The town saw clashes as federal forces and a railroad shopmen dispute escalated. United States Marshal I K Marshall led eight men guarding the shops while strikers crowded Main Street and threats circulated against nonunion workers and newspaper men. A division superintendent remained calm though threats against him grew as reporters faced taunts to muzzle the press.
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Slater
Neing
I. K. Marshall
United States
Marshall
Murs
J. L. Marquette
Chicago and Alton Company
Marquette
Marshal Marshall
Loafers
Federal officers on duty at Slater Missouri
Deputy United States marshals guarded the Chicago and Alton shops at Slater under telegraphic orders from the justice department in Washington to prevent any infraction of federal laws. Marshal Parshall explained the action to city officials and newspaper men, stressing that interstate commerce interference would not be tolerated.
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Slater
United States
Chicago & Alton
TR. Parshall
Western
Missouri
Marshal Parshal
Washington
Parshall
Missouri opens campaign against prohibition amendment
A state-wide campaign was launched at a mass meeting in Washington under the Missouri branch of the National Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. Col. James W. Byrne, last year’s Democratic candidate for mayor of St. Louis, denounced the amendment and hypocrisy nationwide in a fiery speech.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Missouri
National Association Against
Harding Back Home After Ohio Trip Opens Washington Visit
President Harding returned to Washington today from a weeklong trip to Ohio. He arrived aboard a presidential train and prepared to resume duties amid public interest in his health and schedule.
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Washington
Harding
Ohio
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