Food price probe opens in Athens County under prosecutor Bartels
The Athens County food inquiry led by Prosecutor W B Bartels starts today. Investigations will cover milk, prices, and conditions in retailers, wholesalers, storage, and markets over three weeks with possible grand jury action. Questionnaires will be sent to county housewives to gather data. A separate probe will review the death of Mrs Strazisar and seven children in Kimberly.
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Athens County
W. B. Bartels
Bartels
Athens
Strazisar
Kimberly
Senate seeks fast relief for railroad workers amid cost of living rise
Washington August 2 Congress faces countrywide unrest over living costs. House and Senate leaders plan action on wages to match the cost of living, aiming immediate relief for railroad workers. Cummins warns delay could mean national collapse. Administration pressure on league of nations ratification grows heeding new proposals.
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L. C. Martin
United Press
Washington
Congress
House
League of Nations
Senate
Cummins
Senate Interstate Commerce Commission
Wilson
Hines
Railroad Brotherhood
Administration
League
Protests Prompt Hopeful White House Price Plan
Nationwide protests over high living costs push the White House to unveil recommendations within a fortnight. A committee led by Colver Hines and Leffingwell will draft proposals, with cabinet officers and officials to review next week and Palmer involved in filtering a plan to lower prices.
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Washington
Capitol
Federal Trade
Colver
Hines
Socialist government formed in Hungary under Julius Reidel
Trade unionists form a socialist government with Julius Reidel as premier after Bela Kun's government resigns. Official advices from Budapest say the cabinet aims to negotiate with the allies and maintain order.
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Copenhagen
Julius Reidel
Bela Kung
Budapest
Chicago Returns to Normal After Rail Strike and Riots
Chicago crowds resume daily life as 15 000 transit workers end a four day strike. Amid race rioting that left thirty five dead and caused extensive property damage, congestion and fear decline as normal business returns to the city.
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Chicago, Ill
Chicago
Strike Hit At Wheeling and Lake Erie Shops
Seven hundred workers in the Wheeling and Lake Erie shops at Massillon and Brewster walked out seeking an increase from 68 to 85 cents an hour. Union leaders urged the raise to offset living costs. Johannesburg capitalists form company to run aeroplane passenger service among South African points.
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Massilon, O
Wheeling and
Lake Erie
Brewster
Johannesburg
End of Soviet Rule in Hungary as Reds Quit
Vienna reports indicate Bela Kun and the full red cabinet resigned ending Hungary's Soviet government experiment. After hours of talks the Bolshevik regime capitulated as military defeats mounted. A socialist democratic union may form under Joseph Peich as premier, with a constitutional republic likely.
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Vienna
Hungary
Budapest
Bela Kun
Red
Socialistic Democratic Union
Joseph Peich
Socialists and Democrats
Hapsburg
Karolyi
Socialist Democrat Party
Deputies Recommend Ratification of German Peace Treaty
Paris reports the peace committee of the chamber of deputies voted 34 to 1 to back the German peace treaty. The recommendation comes late yesterday, urging approval ahead of broader parliamentary action.
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Paris
Chamber of Deputies
Wheat Exports Surge As Ohio Mills Load Eastbound
Local millers report rapid arrivals of wheat after threshing across southeastern Ohio. Prices range from 2.12 for number one to 2.05 for number three. Much grain moves to the eastern seaboard for shipment to Europe, with Baltimore receiving a large share. Export trade is strong while some farmers hold back, keeping a reserve in granaries.
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Athens County
Seaboard
Europe
Baltimore
Ohio
Leaders of Great Brotherhoods Declare for Immediate Relief
United Press reports Atlanta August 2 that railroad shopmen in the southeast will stay out until substantial settlement. Between 25 000 and 30 000 men walkout, officials say, though railroad bosses dispute the number. Leaders blame profiteers for rising living costs and urge action beyond a congressional wage survey.
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Atlanta
Shopmen Strike Looms Across Nation
Chicago August 2 1924 union secretary John D Saunders predicts a nationwide impact as 25000 workers in the Chicago district join a strike. Officials say 100000 nationwide may be affected with demands for 85 cents an hour and 60 cent helpers minimum. Roads named include Pennsylvania Chicago Burlington Quincey and more.
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Chicago
Ill
John D. Saunders
Council
Pennsylvania
Burlington and
Quincey
Lake Shore
Michigan Southern
Great Western
Illinois Central
Northwestern
Wheeling
Lake Erie
Big Strike Begins in Huntington West Virginia
A strike starts in Huntington on August 2 with workers from local industries walking off the job. Tensions rise as negotiations with management stall and no immediate settlement is reported.
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Huntington
W. VA
Grain Market Hit Hard By Proposed Food Price Probe
Grain dealers reacted to a government price probe with a sharp market drop as futures followed cash grains lower amid frost fears and rains. Trade expected further price cuts, with Julius Barnes to meet officials in New York on August 7 to discuss crop handling.
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Chicago
Ill
Julius Barnes
The
Grain Corporation
New York
Board of Trade
Fire destroys 75 cheap homes at stock yards area
In Chicago Illinois on August 2 a fire gutted 75 wooden tenement houses housing Mexicans Lithuanians and other workers near the stock yards. Five African Americans were blamed for starting the blaze amid rising race tensions. Police later said five people were initially missing but accounted for. A California ranchman cools his house by spraying the roof as he heads to irrigate his orange grove.
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Chicago
Ili
California
State workers promised pay raise by board in Columbus
Striking steam engineers and firemen return to state institutions after the state board of control promised to urge the legislature in December to grant salary boosts. The workers had been off for about three weeks demanding fifty cents an hour for an eight hour day. A note mentions indifferent tobacco cultivation results in Scotland despite suitable soil and climate.
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Columbus
State Board of Control
Scotland
Thieves Escape Leads to Whiskey Find in Iowa Cornfield
Bloodhounds trailed a show dynamo theft in Knorville Iowa and treed suspects in a cornfield. Sheriff uncovered forty two quarts of whiskey during the investigation.
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Knorville
Olmitz
Foundling Baby Adopts Faithful Couple After Prayer
San Francisco couple Paul and Mrs Huber welcomed a bright eyed foundling left on their doorstep after three childless years of prayer and hope.
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San Francisco
Cal
Paul Huber
America Demands Voice in International Labor Congress
Samuel Gompers and Daniel Tobin, American delegates, declared America must have a voice in directing the international labor congress or workers of other powers may act alone. The voting system grants two votes for up to 500000 workers, three for a million, plus one for each additional half million, and starts immediately. The congress headquarters will be in Holland. The Spanish government backs private plans to grow cotton in Morocco.
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Amsterdam
America
International Labor Congress
Samuel Gompers
Daniel Tobin
Gompers
International Congress
Holland
Milk price increase hits Athens dairies on August first
Leading Athens dairymen announced that milk will rise from thirteen to fifteen cents on August 1. They expect most dairies to follow and cited higher costs for feed bottles and labor as the reason, hoping not to raise prices again soon.
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Athens
Pitiless publicity may curb food profiteering says official
Martins Ferry Ohio August 2 Belmont County Prosecutor W S Dixon will not seek a special grand jury session now but will act if needed. He launches a personal probe into county price levels and begins a public speaking campaign to educate residents on the law. He deems pitiless publicity the most efficient remedy for food profiteering.
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Martins Ferry
W. S. Dixon
Belmont County
Slayers Break Jail in Akron Escape Plots
Posses scour Summit and Medina counties for Bob Flood Clyde Lawrence and Harold Halderman alleged slayers of Officer Wayne Knapp of Lodi who escaped Medina county jail early today. The trio was last seen heading toward Akron.
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Akron. O
Summit
Medina Counties
Bob Flood
Clyde Lawrence
Harold Halderman
Wayne Knapp
Lodi
Medina County
Akron
Athens Messenger carriers praised for perfect deliveries
The Messenger lists Earl Strickland Clinton Chadwick Wynne Vernon Patrick Griffin Theodore Moorhead Max Lewis Otto Weber as perfect delivering carriers for the last week. The paper offers free same day replacement for missed deliveries if reported before six o'clock.
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Messenger
Athens
Earl Strickland
Clinton Chadwick
Wynne Vernon Patrick Griffin
Theodore Moorhead
Max Lewis Otto Weber
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