Outlaw Strike Dims as Nation Sees Partial Rebound
The rump strike by railroad switchmen and yardmen eases nationwide with more trains running and increased service. Volunteers including college students and business leaders join small groups of strikers returning to work. leaders jailed in Chicago offer a compromise for organizational recognition and release. Some workers remain idle on the Pacific coast and in the west.
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Chicago
Pacific Coast
West
Kanass City
Indianapolis
Detroit
Oklahoma City
Wilson
Four Brotherhoods
Michigan
Kansas City
New York
Brotherhood
East
United Fruit Company
Fall River
Miller Admits Murder of 10 Year Old Girl. Commission to Probe
Steubenville reports a commission will be appointed to examine Harry Miller 26 of Akron who confessed to killing Frances South 10 near Adena Ohio. Officials believe Miller is demented and he claimed the revolver used was hidden in a tree. In Paris Allied powers threaten Germany with renewed blockade if Versailles disarmament fails.
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Steubenville
Harry Miller
Akron
Frances South
Adena
Ohio
Miller
Beach Bottom
W. Va
Paris
France
Great Britain
Italy
Belgium
Germany
Pomerania
von Kapp
Ims
Berlin
Unter den Linen
Gischoff
von Luettwitz
Outlaw strike leaders jailed amid government cleanup
Federal officials dismissed any compromise with jailed strike leaders who hope to win release by ending the strike and gaining recognition of the outlaw organizations nationwide. Officials say end of strike and punishment of plotters remain the aim while western activity shows mixed progress.
Toledo Strike Ends Vote To Return To Work
Two thousand switchmen in Toledo vote this afternoon to resume work after a week out. They return under conditions offered by the Baltimore and Ohio railroad to end discrimination and apply the same terms across all affected lines.
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Toledo
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Brakeman Locks Car Door to Deter Hoboes
Fourteen husky hoboes confronted by a brakeman as trains halted. The brakeman locked the car door and refused to remove them. Police chief welcomed the men upon arrival in Eugene after the incident on April 16.
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Eugene, Obe
Eugene
Columbus man says South bridge at Athens safe for travel
A Columbus construction man inspected the South bridge out of Athens on Thursday and declared it safe for travel. County signs were removed as a precaution. Repairs will be made quickly after finding stringers beneath the north end eaten through by train smoke and water. The bridge is expected to stay in use during repairs.
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Columbus
Athens
General Wood to Visit Ohio for Speaking Tour
General Leonard Wood notified Ohio headquarters that he will fulfill his speaking engagement next week with two exceptions. He may skip Monday talks at Steubenville and Youngstown due to scheduling.
Ohio strikers expand to surround towns
Cleveland yardmen leaders plan to organize switchmen in surrounding towns after the arrest of John Grunau in Chicago. Frank O Rourke urges one more week of abstention, predicts victory if unity holds. Insurgent organizers move to Akron Lorain Huron Holloway Willard Ashtabula to recruit and disrupt freight traffic. W G Lee removal opposed by switchmen lodge.
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Cleveland
John Grunau
Chicago
Frank J. O'Rourke
Bliss Morton
Palmer
Akron
Lorain
Huron
Holloway
Willard
Ashtabula
Ohio
W. G. Lee
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Lodge of Switchmen
Belgium to Participate in Council of Premiers Talks
PARIS April 16 Belgium has accepted an invitation to take part in the conferences of the council of premiers opening in San Remo tomorrow. Poland assured France of approval of occupation of the German Rhine cities and said it would cooperate to enforce Versailles terms.
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Paris
Belgium
Council of Premiers
San Remo
Poland
France
Germany
Senator Howard Sutherland Enters Republican Race
SUTHERLAND TO ENTER WHEELING WEST VIRGINIA April 16. Senator Howard Sutherland of West Virginia will at five oclock this afternoon make formal announcement of his entrance to the Republican race for president.
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Sutherland
Wheeling
W. Va
Howard Sutherland
West Virginia
Death of Paul DeMott in Wesel Prison Escape Attempt
American army investigators confirm German Reichswehr claim that Paul R. DeMott of Paterson New Jersey was killed while attempting to escape from Wesel prison. The passport had been extended for journalist work and later altered to allow West Prussia access. DeMott was arrested for alleged illicit links to the Ruhr revolt. investigation continues.
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Berlin
Reichswehr
Paul R. DeMott
Paterson
N. J
Wesel
Foster
E. L. Dressel
DeMott
Baltic States
Paris
West Prussia
Ruhr
Shortage of Farm Labor Alarms Athens County
County Agent Raymond warns a labor shortage and high wages will reduce farm output in Athens County and southern Ohio. Farmers struggle to hire help as workers rush to cities for industrial jobs, threatening a food shortage and higher prices. Orchard owners fear losing thousands of bushels of apples without seasonal labor.
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Athens County
Raymond
Ohio
Troy Township
Japanese Forces Heavy Losses at Khabarovsk Fight
Tokyo dispatch reports Japanese troops suffered 237 killed in fierce combat at Khabarovsk Siberia last Monday. Russians tally 400 killed and claim 1500 prisoners. Street fighting persisted through the day. Russians may include social revolutionaries allied with Moscow government. Khabarovsk lies at the Amur Ussuri junction on the Trans Siberian line.
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London
Khabarovsk
Siberia
Tokio
Moscow
Leffingwell Resigns as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
President Wilson accepted the resignation of R. C. Leffingwell the assistant secretary of the treasury announced at the White House. Leffingwell steps down from his post in Washington on April 16.
New Yorkers Puff Their Way Upward As Operators Strike
New Yorkers face an elevator strike on April 16 as operators walk out across major buildings. Thousands trek stairs to upper floors, with reports of workers and observers climbing 10 to 17 floors amid limited elevator service and crowded stairways. Some reach 33rd and 34th floors, while the Woolworth Building’s 58 stories stay unaffected.
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Harold D. Jacobs
United Press
New York
Lower
Broadway
City Investing
City Investment Building
Equitable
Metropolitan
Flatiron
Trinity and
Realty
Woolworth
Mexican government seeks U S rail transit for troops to Sonora
April 16 report says Carranza asks State Department to permit Mexican troops to ride American railroads from Chicagoga through Southern New Mexico and Arizona to reach rebels in Sonora. Federals beat Agna Prieta as Sonora invaders advance. Four towns in Sinaloa fall to the rebels. Choix falls after a one hour resistance, with Carranza garrison surrendering and joining the Sonora movement.
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State Department
United States
Sonora
Carranza
New Mexico
Arizona
Chicagoga
Choix
Sinola
Carranzists
Break Comes in Toledo Walkout
The return of 42 of the 250 striking switchmen on the New York Central Lines in Toledo marks the first break in the strike. A few men also resumed work on other roads, and officials anticipate many more returning over the weekend as workers follow the Central's lead.
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Toledo
New York Central
Toledo Railroad
River Takes Two Victims In Dayton Boat Mishap
The Miami River capsized a boat carrying Harrison Miller 22 and Paul Stadden 22, brothers in law, and Fred Hornberg. Miller and Stadden are presumed dead. Hornberg is hospitalized in serious condition but may recover. Workers with the conservancy engineers widening the river at the site were aboard.
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Dayton
Miami River
Harrison Miller
Paul Stadden
Fred Hornberg
Conservancy
Hornberg
Governor Cox Urges Pic Houses to Show Yankee Graves
Governor Cox asks Ohio motion picture houses to screen pictures of American graves in France on Memorial Day to heighten the memorial observance. The governor says the display will add to the sentiment of honoring fallen soldiers.
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Columbus
Cox
France
Explosion at C. A. 8. Products injures nine in Columbus
An explosion at the C. A. 8. Products Company in Columbus injured nine people, with two men badly burned and seven others hurt. The blast was caused by accumulated gas in an overhead electric circulator.
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Columbus
C. A. 8. Products Company
Burkhart Sues Gahegan Over Coal Land Sale in Athens
Benjamin Burkhart files suit in Athens county court seeking 11 839 10 plus interest from William Gahegan over a 1918 contract to sell fourteen tracts of real estate with coal mining rights in Rome and Bern townships. About 1500 acres involved. $60 000 price with staged payments and trustee bank arrangements.
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Benjamin Burkhart
Athens County
Burkhart
Marietta Bank
Gahagan
Athens Man Die s in Akron Auto Crash
Lloyd O. Wadley about 35 was killed in an automobile accident in Akron Thursday night. His sister in law, Mrs. W B Dailey, and his father H D Wadley are traveling to Columbus with the body. Wadley had lived in Columbus and sold used cars for Packard, earlier ran a delivery system in Athens, and operated a taxi service in Chillicothe during Camp Sherman. He leaves a widow Julia Sheldon and two sons Sheldon and Jack. Funeral plans await arrival of the body.
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Lloyd O. Wadley
Akron
W. B. Dailey
Chris Sheldon
Wadley
Columbus
Packard Agency
Young Wadley
H. D. Wadley
Athens
Chillicothe
Camp Sherman
Julia Sheldon
Sheldon
Jack
Chyris Sheldon
Mine Blast Kills Six at New Iberia Salt Mine
A gasoline explosion at a salt mine near New Iberia Louisiana killed six men late yesterday. The deceased include Ansell Pananen Emil Holonen Frank Mellen all from Vegaune Michigan and George Jenkinson of Detroit Michigan.
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Orleans
New Ibera
Ansell Pananen
Emil Holonen
Frank Mellen
Vegaune
Michigan
George Jenkinson
Detroit, Mich
Railroad chiefs respond to managers ultimatum in Cleveland
Three rail union leaders meet in Cleveland over the New York managers ultimatum demanding strikers return by noon tomorrow. After a brief conference W G Lee said a reply had been sent from Cleveland and expressed confidence the strike would end by Monday.
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Cleveland
Railroad General Managers Association of New York
Brotherhood
W. G. Lee
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Warren 8. Stone
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
W. 8
Carter
Brotherhood of Lomotive
Lee
New York
Four Suspects in Bank Robbery Escaped After Gun Battle
Columbus police officer Leo Fraher engaged in a brief gun battle with four suspects at a crossing. Three white men and a Negro fled on foot after abandoning a seven passenger Cole automobile, matching the Carrollton bank robbery description. Fraher and other officers pursued but the men escaped.
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Columbus
Leo Fraher
Geggs
Carrollton
Norfolk and Western Main Street
Fraher
Cole
Miner Suspended by Union Convention in Bellaire
Charles E. Johnson a coal miner was suspended for 99 years by the mine workers convention in session at Bellaire after being found guilty of slandering union officials.
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Bellaire
Charles E. Johnson
Mine Workers’ Convention
Procter and Gamble Plant Shuts Down in Cincinnati
The Procter and Gamble plant in Cincinnati closed today due to a switchmen's strike, putting about 2500 workers out of work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Procter and Gamble
Cincinnati
Procter and Gamble Company
Wage Demand Moves To Rail Board Action
The railroad labor board met for the first time in Washington to consider higher wage demands by railroad trainmen. Seven board members attended the initial session with A. O. Wharton and Judge R. M. Barton expected later. Trainmen leaders and managers aim to resolve disputes quickly to deter the outlaw strike. R. N. Doak planned to present the workers case, while Kk. T. Whitter attended to present management positions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Railroad Labor Board
A. O. Wharton
R. M. Barton
R. N. Doak
Kk. T. Whitter
Railroad Administration
Daily cost of U.S. forces in Germany named
Secretary of War Baker informed Chairman Kahn that the daily cost of maintaining United States troops in Germany is 175000 dollars, not 1200000 as cited in congressional debate on the army appropriation bill.
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U. S
Germany
Washington
United States
Congress
Baker
Kahn
Military Affair Committee
Chicago Public Schools Close As Strike Ends
Chicago public schools remain closed for a week after 325 school engineers walked out for higher pay. The strike follows a demand for monthly salaries between 278 and 325 dollars, with the school board expecting an early settlement.
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Chicago
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