Denison Texas Strike Survey by National Guard Leaders
Adjutant General Thomas Barton and Texas Rangers captain Tom Hickman arrived in Denison to survey the strike, meeting with Missouri Kansas Texas railroad officials and local unions. A parade of union men is planned, with assurances of state or federal protection before any reopening of shops. Unrest and talk of possible federal troop deployment mark the scene as officials assess safety and import of workers.
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Associated Press
Denison
Texas
Thomas Barton
Texas National Guard
Tom Hickman
Texas Rangers
Pat M. Neff
Barton
Hickman
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad
W. M. Whitenton
Whitenton
Leaders Fail To Make Headway On Rail Strike
Chicago July 14 The four hour conference among railroads shopmen and the United States Railroad Labor Board yielded no conclusions on the ongoing railway strike. Chairman Hooper and shopmen leaders issued statements while talks continued over seniority demands contract terms and regional boards of adjustment amid rising troop deployments and disrupted services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Railroad Labor Board
Ben W. Hooper
M. Jewell
J. ¥. Grable
United Brotherhood of Maintenance of
Mr. Jewell
Wasington
Hhe
Washington
Hooper
Poplar Uff
Davis
Ohio
Weeks
Neff
Texas
Denison
Resa
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad
Genvall Dougherty
Postister
United States
Byram
Chicago
Aml
Miwaukee Railroad
Hale Holden
Chicago Burtings On
Quiner
Janes Gorman
Rock Island
C. H. Markwan
Chiefs Central
Rrroad
Othrs
Conriot Neeton
Labor Board
Labor Board of
Hoopwa
Public Klan Initiation Draws Dallas Crowd
In Dallas on July 14 more than 20 000 watched a public Ku Klux Klan initiation. Officials had announced 5,000 candidates would be initiated. Women with American flags led the program into the stadium, and the event proceeded without confusion. This was described as the first public initiation of new candidates in the Southwest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
Klan
One Wounded in Strikers Clash Near Tulsa
One man was seriously wounded in a clash between railroad strikers and guards at Lefeber near Tulsa on the Midland Valley Railway tonight, according to reports to the U S marshal's office in Muskogee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muskogeer
Okla
Yep Ae
Lefeber
Tulsa
Midland Valley Railway
United States Raur Phal
Unions Call For Removal Of Deputies From Railroad Shops
In Urbenville Texas on July 14 members of the union drive adopt resolutions urging the removal of fifty United States deputies from Missouri Kansas and Texas Railroad shops and yards. The resolutions claim the deputies threaten train crew safety and that their presence is unnecessary under current conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Urbenville
Tex
Jeeal
United States
Missouri, Kansas and Texas
Mona Lisa Smile Wins 3500 Proposals in Arkansas
Edith Mae Patterson, a Pine Bluff schoolteacher, has reportedly received about 3500 marriage proposals after winning beauty contests and prizes of £1000 and $2500. She plans to keep teaching and will not marry until the right man comes, though she entered an international contest and gained local fame for her Mona Lisa smile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pine Bluff
Ark
Edith Mae Patterson
Miss Patterson
United States
Matterson
Weer
Miss Paterson
Amateurs Pick Up Daily News Radio Broadcast
Radio listeners report catching the Daily News program with homemade and hunting case sets. Antenna lines stretch thirty feet in the hall as Clyde Allard and Edgar Kanouse hear music and baseball scores. A program is set for 8:30 to 9:30 tonight and listeners outside Amarillo are urged to write if they can receive the station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daily News
A. M. Barling
Amarillo
Seven Reported Killed On Mount Everett Expedition
Mount Philadelphia July 14 The Public Ledger reports a London dispatch that an expedition to climb Mount Everett was abandoned after an avalanche. Seven climbers were killed and three members L Mallory T H Sommerville and A C Crawford escaped with narrow margins.
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Philadelphia
the Pubic Ledger
London
Mount
Everett
L. Mallory
T. H. Sommerville
A.C. Crawford
Ferguson Heads Bankers in Texas Association
Ferguson of Wichita Falls was elected president of the State Bankers' Association for the twenty fourth district. Jo M Crews of Childrens was named vice president and William Cove ntton of Alford secretary treasurer. The officers, with W L Rush of Decatur and F L Massie of Vernon, form the executive committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wichita Falls
Texas
T. Perguson
State Bankers’ Association
Jo M. Crews
Ch Ldrens Wa
William Covenitton
Alford
W. L. Rush
Decatur
F. L. Massie
Vernon
Whiteeye
Man Smothered as Gravel Caves at Willmering Pit
One man Howard Picture died and Charlie Blackwell was rescued by a hair's breadth when a 40 foot pit wall collapsed at the Majenta pit of Willmering Sand and Gravel Company 12 miles west of Amarillo. Blackwell was pulled free after 30 minutes. Picture, 23, died at the scene. Body to be sent to Clarendon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Majenta
Willmering Sand and Gravel Company
Amarillo
Fort Worth
Denver
Howard Picture
Charlie Blackwell
W. F. Hester
Blackwell
Picture
Clarendon
Grigs Undertaking Company
Cleveland workers vote to join shop workers strike
Cleveland Ohio July 14 members of the American Federation of Railroad Workers employed here voted to join the shopmen's strike at 9 o'clock Monday morning according to union officials The union has 90 600 members and about 1 200 pipe fitters coach repairers painters freight car repairers and inspectors will be affected The inclusion of inspectors will hinder traffic at once.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Cleveland
Ohio
American Federation of Railroad Workers
American Federation of Labor
Sherman man denies resignation amid strike threats
Sherman July 14. R G Finer commercial agent of the Texas & Pacific Railway denied he resigned because of threats by alleged railroad shop strikers. Finer, said to be accused by the strikers of working in the railroad yards, spoke to Associated Press in Sherman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherman
Texas
R. G. Finer
The
Texas & Pacific Railway Today
Piner
Wrecks on Three Lines Hit Heavy Casualties
JOPLIN Missouri July 44 One dead and two injured as two Frisco freight trains collide head on at a bridge near Carl Junction twelve miles northwest of Joplin. Wharton Texas July 14 A Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe mixed passenger freight wreck eighteen miles north of Wharton kills expressman Jake Herman and injuries seven passengers as trains derail and spill baggage car, passenger coach, and box car. Children and women were among the injured with a panic among male passengers aiding their release.
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Joplin
Carl Junction
Here
Wharton
Texas
Jake Herman
Gulf, Colorado
Santa Fe
Womn
Mountain wreck near Sauda injures several on Southern Railway
Reported tonight near Sauda North Carolina a wreck involved a baggage and passenger coach on the Southern Railway. Extra engines used for mountain grades broke from control and struck the train injuring several people and disabling two engines. No further details available from the telegrams received.
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Asheville N
Southern Railway
Sa‘uda
N. C
Baltimore and Ohio Train Shot Near Camden Station
A Baltimore and Ohio passenger train bound for Washington was fired upon near Camden station. One bullet passed through a window close to the head of W. B. Evans of Baltimore as the train neared the city. Authorities have not yet identified the shooter.
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Baltimore
Baltimore and Ohio
Washington
Camden Station
W. BE. Evans
UMWA Likely to Refuse Harding Arbitration Offer
Washington reports a near certainty that the United Mine Workers of America will reject President Harding s proposal for arbitration to end the coal strike. John L Lewis Willam Green and Phillip Murray left the White House final conference with Harding and Secretary Davis intent on recommending a refusal to the union policy committee meeting tomorrow.
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Washington
United Mine Workers of America
Harding
John L. Lewis
Willam Green
Phillip Murray
White House
Davis
Illinois Attorney Brundage Leaves After Mine Massacre
Marion Illinois July 14 Attorney W J Brundage of Illinois departed for Chicago after taking a personal hand in the massacre investigation of about twenty union workers at the Southern Illinois Coal Company strip mine on June 22. He met with State's Attorney Delos Duty and Sheriff Melvin Thaxton and said he secured full cooperation of county officials to bring those responsible to justice.
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Marion
Feveral
W. J. Brundage
Ilinois
Chicago
Reu
Illnois Coal Company
Lune
Delos Duty
Melvin Thaxton
Williamon Comunty
Justee
Judge Orders Hour Restraining Judgment in Pacific Strike Case
Federal Judge J C Hutcheson ruled after nearly four hours in Houston directing Southern Pacific and striking shopmen to draft a restraining order injunction. The document to be submitted for approval Saturday at 1 o clock.
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Associated Press
Houston
J. C. Hutcheson
Klan Initiation Draws Large Crowd at Lake Wichita
In Wichita Falls Texas on July 14 an estimated twenty five to thirty thousand people witnessed the initiation of 800 candidates by the Ku Klux Klan on the edge of Lake Wichita across Archer County. Klansmen came from Young Wilbarger Archer and Wichita counties and distant points in Oklahoma. Automobiles lined up for five miles around the scene as a blazing cross illuminated the area and the main road was blocked around the ceremony.
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Wichita Falls
Texas
Ku Klux Klan
Lake Wichita
Archer County
Young, Wilbarger
Archer
Wichita Counties
Oklahoma
Former Justice Seized in Tulsa by Masked Men
In Tulsa on July 14 8 former justice of the peace E Hallman was seized by three masked men in front of his home and forced into an automobile. He had not returned by late tonight and his fate was unknown. Reports say Hallman was accused of being a professional bondsman.
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Tulsa
E. Hallman
Justice of Peace
Hallman
Three Men Mangled by Rock Island Train Near Crossing
Three unidentified men were found dead on a Rock Island track two miles east of town after a morning train passage. The bodies showed severe mangling with limbs and other parts scattered along the track. Theories include sleep death, self harm, or foul play, with witnesses noting laughter moments before the incident and two pistols plus playing cards found nearby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rock Island
J. J. Nowell
Nowell
Door
Ife
Henry Hasly
Sayre Okda
Aiarllo
Government Plans to Keep Tight Grasp on Strike
Washington July 14 The Harding White House signals a firm government grip on the rail and coal strikes with reliance on U S Railroad Labor Board chairman Hooper to find solutions Potential federal troop use denied by union leaders while protection requests from Denison Tex Ark and Fort Worth Tex persist and actions at Ohio and Hattiesburg investigated The War Department awaits reports and Weeks notes travel disruption from strike violence
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Washington
White House
Harding
Hooper
United States Railroad Labor Board
Post Office Department
Denison
Texas
Texarkana
Marshall and
Fort Worth
Hattiesburg
Miss
War Department
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad
Conclude Evidence In Case Of Morgan In Austin
The embezzlement case against Lon D. Morgan in the criminal district court was concluded Friday afternoon in Austin Texas. Arguments will be held Saturday morning. Former State Treasurer John W. Baker testified that he instructed the former chief clerk to cover shortages by moving a debit slip for 2480 dollars to the state bank guaranty fund vault.
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Associated Press
Austin
Texas
Lon D. Morgan
Criminal District Court
John W. Baker
Treasury
State Bank Guaranty Fund
Judge issues injunction to curb Roanoke show crafts strike
United States District Judge Henry C. McDowell of the western district of Virginia issued an injunction restraining striking show crafts in Roanoke from interfering with or delaying the movement and passage of Norfolk and Western Railway Company trains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roanoke
United States
Henry C. McDowell
Western District of Virginia
Lynchburg
Norfolk & Western Railway Company
Employee Beating in Chattanooga by Masked Robbers
CHATTANOOGA Tenn July Mc Bernard Mallon Jr of the Southern Railway Cincinnati office assisting yards was held up by masked men tonight, forced into a toteup, beaten and slightly injured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chattanooga
Tenn
Bernard Mallon, Jr
The
Southern Railway
Cincinnati
Cummins Rules Rail Board Decisions Binding
Senator Cummins of Iowa, chair of the interstate commerce committee and coauthor of the Transportation Act of 1920, declared that Railroad Labor Board decisions are binding on carriers and workers, not mere concessions by union officials. He argued the agency can compel obedience to rulings despite no explicit penalties in the act.
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Washington
Senator Cummins
Iowa
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Railroad
Cummins
Oil firm cuts prices on crude and fuel oil in California
SAN FRANCISCO July 14 The Standard Oil Company of California announced price reductions of about a barrel for crude grades and a base price of fuel oil at $1.25 per barrel. The changes take effect tomorrow as overreduction and weak demand were cited as reasons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Standard Oil Company of California
Militia Replaces Infantry at Nevada Encampment
Three hundred militia men from Sedalia and St. Louis arrived in Poplar Bluff Missouri to relieve 250 troops of the One Hundred Thirty-eighth Infantry ordered to entrain for the state encampment of national guardsmen at Nevada.
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Poplar Bluff
One Hundred Twenty Eighth Field Artillery
Sedalia
St. Louis
One Hundred Thirty-Eighth Infantry
National
Nevada
Six Unnatural Deaths Reported Yesterday
The article reports six unnatural deaths yesterday including three unidentified men crushed on Rock Island tracks. It also notes the suicide of 38 year old Guvnn Winter, Amarillo resident W M Wineinger dying at Groom, and the death of Howard Pictures in a gravel pit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marino
Rock Island
Guvnn Winter
W. M. Wineinger
Amarillo
Groom
Howard Pictures
Gravel Pit
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Auldathom
Isabel Strander
Edith Mak Patterson
Arkansas
Ferguson
Howard
Charles Blackwell
Hart
Probing Herrin
R. I. Train
George Stauffer
Department of Justice
Union
J P. Noonan
International Brotherhood of Filectrical Workers
President Gompers
Highth Corps
Board Decisions Binding
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