Nationwide Coal Rationing Plan Approved For War Needs
The Interstate Commerce Commission declares an emergency east of the Mississippi and orders railroads to prioritize food livestock coal and fuel. Hoover and coal operators back the plan as cabinet meets to finalize a wartime fuel rationing system led by a presidential commission directing coal shipments and prioritizing essential uses.
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Washington
IN. S
Interstate Commerce Commission
Mississippi River
West Bank
Secretary of Commerce
Hoover
Secretary of Commerce Hoover
White House
O. K
Herbert Hoover
Daugherty
Harding
Departments of Commerce, Justice and Interior
Centralized coal control plan under interstate commission
The proposal would centralize coal distribution under the Interstate Commerce Commission empowered by the Transportation Act of 1920. A government representative would oversee each coal region with a operators’ committee to speed production and shipments, aiming to keep prices near those of June 1 last year. Administrations acknowledge the plan may face breakdowns but hope it sustains essential industries during rail and local transport strikes.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Southern West Virginia coal operators expect no price rise
Huntington W Va July 26 Southern West Virginia coal operators do not expect any advance in coal prices despite the railroad strike. They say the price at 3 50 a ton agreed in Washington will not be exceeded. Storing at the mines began this week to secure railroad cars and supply. By week’s end a large stockpile is anticipated and four days work is expected this week, compared with last week’s three.
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Huntington
W. Va
West Virginia
Washington
Indiana Coal Strike Talks Collapse After Police Note
Indianapolis July 24 The chance for state mediation in the coal strike dimmed when Governor McCray received a police note from John Pressler president of district 11 United Mine Workers stating he could not meet operators to sign an agreement detrimental to the national strike.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Indiana
T. McCray
John Pressler
District 11
United Mine Workers
Republican Thad H. Brown campaigns in Athens for secretary of state
Colum bus July 25 ill health is blamed for the death by own action of C Malcolm Kinnaird 55 general manager of the Crystal Ice Manufacturing and Fuel Company whose lifeless body was found today on a bench in the office of the companys fuel department West Broad Street Thad H Brown of Columbus a candidate for the Republican nomination for secretary of state was in Athens today to promote his candidacy.
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Pig WN
Athens
AEET
Thad H. Brown
Columbus
State Civil Service Commission
C. Mallecolm Kinnaird
Crystal Iee Manufacturing and Fuel Company
West Broad Street
Borah
Washington
Senate
Idaho
Senate Labor Committee
United States Coal Commission
Vandals Damage County Tool House Near Athens Depot
Marauders broke into the county tool house by the old K and M railroad depot in Athens and stole gasoline and oil from the road roller. They replaced grease cups with sand, a discovery that stopped the machine before use. The act is blamed on a discharged worker or someone with a grudge. A similar incident occurred near Guysville last winter involving gasoline removal and water in the tank.
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Athens
Parker
Guysville
Miniature Drug Ring Broken Up in East Ohio
In Zanesville Ohio on July 25 Mr and Mrs Edward Coulter both white and Albert Hutchison colored all of Steubenville were arraigned before United States Commissioner Frazer on charges of illegal possession and sale of narcotics Hutchison a porter for Beall Steele wholesale druggists at Steubenville allegedly stole cocaine and morphine and sold it to the Coulters who in turn sold drugs in small lots to addicts near Steubenville
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Zanesville
Edward Coulter
Albert Hutchison
Steubenville
United States
Frazer
Hutchison
Beall, & Steele Company
Coulters
Coulter
Toy Pistol Held Up Cleveland Gas Stationer
At the point of a toy pistol Frank Harvey held up Joseph C Sleck a Standard Oil filling station leader at West 58th and Edgewater and took 330 this morning. He was caught three minutes later by the flying squadron while attempting to escape to the ore docks.
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Cleveland
Frank Harvey
Joseph C. Sleck
Standard Oil
West 58Th
Edgewater
Bandits Robbed NY Restaurant Manager After Shootout
Five armed robbers raided James MacDonald’s Broadway restaurant manager early today and fled with nearly 300 dollars. Police reserves exchanged about a dozen shots with the gang. key member escaped.
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New York
James MacDonald
Broadway
Key
Mother Prevented Whitney Fontaine Marriage Says Mrs Fontaine
Mrs Fawn Fontaine, mother of dancer Evan Burrows Fontaine, says Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney twice proposed marriage and his father favored the match. She cites opposition by Whitney's mother and says Mrs Whitney refused to consent. Whitney reportedly delayed marriage and later had a son named Cornelius Jr.
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New York
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Sonny") Whitney
Evan Burrows Fontaine
Cornelius Jr
Fawn Fontaine
International News Service
Kew Gardens
Harding plans 280 day minimum wage deal to end coal strike
President Harding proposes a nationwide settlement with coal operators and miners guaranteeing a minimum wage for at least 280 days per year. A joint Cleveland conference of bituminous mine owners and striking miners is planned to seek a common agreement with leaders including John L. Lewis and Lee Hall. Washington reportedly influenced the arrangements, kept deliberately secret.
Mine Workers Leader Denies Cleveland Conference Plans
Columbus July 25 George W Savage secretary treasurer of the Ohio United Mine Workers dismissed reports from New York that Lee Hall president of the union was arranging a joint conference with bituminous mine owners and striking miners in Cleveland. Savage said no official or member had made such arrangements.
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Ohio
New York
Cleveland
Lee Hall
State Organization
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
Washington
Columbus
George W. Savage
Ohio United Mine Workers
President Hall
Savage
Coal strike eyed for possible conference in Cleveland
Cleveland report says a joint miners and operators conference may meet Saturday to end the four month long coal strike. Ma her Col lieries president says operators in eastern Ohio have long been willing to wage a conference. Borah introduces a bill to nationalize regulation of the coal industry and create a US coal commission.
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Cleveland
T. K. Maher
Maher Collieries Companies
International News Service Today
Ohio
Michael Gallagher
M. A. Hanna & Co
Pittsburgh Vein Operators Association
Steubenville District Keeps Coal flowing Despite Shortfalls
In Steubenville Ohio the coal district thrives with a dozen stripping mines active. Small open shop mines supply local industrial and domestic needs, keeping shortages from hitting the area.
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Steubenville, C
Steubenville
Strikebreaker Tarred in Missouri Railroad Attack
A mob surged into the Chicago and Alton Railroad shops at Slater Missouri and abducted strikebreaker Joe Ward. They coated him with tar and feathers. he was later found badly injured and transported to a Kansas City hospital by Deputy U S Marshall Max Joffe.
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Slater
Chicago & Alton Railroad
Joe Ward
Ward
Kansas City
United States
Max Joffe
Candidates Welcome to Address the Women
Republican women of Athens invite any candidate to present claims to women voters at the court house on Wednesday at 2 o clock. The meeting will explain the primaries and the ballot.
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Republican Women of
Athens
Court House
Arrest Girl for Calling Another Central a Seab
Huntington, July 26. Alice Hazard, a Chesapeake and Ohio telephone operator, was arrested by federal authorities on charges of violating the federal injunction restraining striking railroad employees from interfering with the road’s operation. Hazard was accused of calling another operator a scab.
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Huntington
W. Va
Alice Hazard
Chesapeake & Ohio Telephone
Migs Hazard
Cleveland Candidate Predicts Gov Nomination
Carmi A. Thompson of Cleveland, a Republican candidate for governor, announced that he expected to be nominated at the party's convention. He spoke in Cleveland, predicting victory in the nomination process.
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Cleveland, O
Carmi A. Thompson
Cleveland
Final fighting looms as Cork and Mayo battles intensify
A train carrying rebel prisoners to Dublin was ambushed in County Wexford with two soldiers killed. Regulars landed near Cork clashed with rebels on the outskirts as Mayo is cleared. Irregulars retreat leaving destruction. Fermoy hosts irregular headquarters while final clash foreseen in Cork region.
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Daniel O'Connell
Dublin
County Wexford
Harcourt Station
Tree State
Cork
Ireland
Tree
Clare Morris
Mayo
County Mayo
Fermoy
Belfast Bomb Near Labor Ministry Sparks Transport Strike Threat
A bomb exploded near the ministry of labor in Belfast on July 25 amid reports an arrest of C. F. Ridgeway, organizer of the Irish transportation union, prompted the blast. Transportation workers threaten a general strike.
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Belfast
Ministry of Labor
Free State
C. F. Ridgeway
Irish Transportation Union
Ohio set to feel coal shortages amid strikes and drought
Ohio industry faces a tightening coal supply with mines at a low ebb. In Cleveland water pumping may be limited and the Cleveland Railway and Light system runs low. Train cancellations and delayed service worsen the impact as no immediate move to resume mining appears planned.
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William J. Huske
I. N
Cleveland
Ohio
Cleveland Railway and Light Company
Federal plans push miners back to work in southwestern Pa
The Harding plan with military protection aims to reopen Henderson Coal Company and Morgansea mines where 400 miners’ families face eviction. Strike breakers are to be imported by carload as troops move to mining properties under federal control. The Stars and Stripes flies over tipples and tent colonies as injunctions clash with miner protests.
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Warren W. Wheaton
1. N.S
Canonsburg
Harding
Union
Pennsylvania
Henderson Coal Company
Hendersonville
Morgansea
Washington
Cokeburg
Pittsburg
Filbert
Fayette County
Miners’ Union
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
Nemacolin
Greens County
German Firms Collect Souvenirs for the Yanks
Berlin dispatch notes hotel and shop owners urged to prepare souvenirs for American tourists. The Berliner Tageblatt cites Americans favoring keepsakes and placards to decorate trunks and bags. German firms already assemble artful placards to attract Yankee buyers.
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International News Service
Berlin
Berliner Tageblatt
She's Only Woman Railroad Chief
Mrs Meta J Erickson leads a California railroad project against male skepticism. She serves as president of the Ama Centaah of California and breaks gender barriers in railroading leadership.
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Meta J. Erickson
Ama ~ Centaah
California
Railroad Provident i Ay
Millionaire Stock Plunger’s Failure Recalls Big Coop
Allan A. Ryan, famed for the 1920 Stutz coup, is credited with engineering the downfall of Allan A. Ryan & Co. in New York. The firm faced liabilities of 32 million and assets of only 643 thousand. Ryan was expelled from the exchange as his fortune collapsed.
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BIG Coop
Allan A. Ryan
Allan A. Ryan & Co
New York
Ryan
Exchange
Flaming cross reappears near Athens height nine feet
Residents in eastern Athens reported a nine foot flaming cross on East Hill near East bridge between 9 and 10 PM Monday. Sheriff Parker and Deputy McKinley found the cross still burning. the frame was taken to the county garage. It marked a third such Klan symbol sighting in weeks amid rumors of a local Klansman group.
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Athens
East Hill
East Bridge
Parker
McKinley
Ku Klux Klan
Steary
Republican Women of Athens Meet at Court House
The Republican women of Athens are urged to attend a meeting at the Court House Wednesday after noon at 2 o'clock. Able speakers will explain the primaries and the ballot.
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Athens
Hare
Court House
Fire damages Hebard Storage warehouse in Chicago
A fire in Chicago caused an estimated d amage of 50 000 to 100 000 dollars destroying a Hebard Storage company warehouse. The blaze prompted investigations by local fire authorities and displaced workers.
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Chicago
Hebard Storage Company
Bush Officers to Quell Reds
Lincoln police received appeals from Havelock's mayor for help as about two hundred floaters believed to be I W W members surrounded Burlington shops. A large force of deputy sheriffs and deputy U S marshals with riot guns rushed to Havelock by auto from Lincoln.
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Lincoln
Neb
Lincoln Police Department
Havelock
Burlington
United States
Shuttleworth Not President of Murray Local, Clarifies
Murray City labor leader Harry Shuttleworth, a Thompson supporter and Local No. 394 member, denies being president of United Mine Workers in Murray. He says a Columbus paper misidentified him and expects a correction from the same source in Columbus.
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Columbus
Harry Shuttleworth
Murray City
Carmi Thompson
United Mine Works
Murray
Shuttleworth
Athens
Messenger
Labor Committee
Thompson
Labor Board Backed Amid Transportation Strike Tension
Washington officials declare support for the United States labor board as railroads plan a shift to company unions to counterstrike shopmen. J M Jewell denounces the move while boards consider seniority as a smoke screen. Traff ic curtailments persist with multiple lines suspending trains.
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Chicago
Western Railroads
Ines
United States Railway Labor Board
Strikin
J. M. Jewell
Labor Board
Ben W. Hooper
Grand Trunk
Chicago & Nor Western
Soo Lines
Legion asks Sawyer to step aside over veteran hospital plan
In Chicago on July 25 the American Legion demanded Brigadier General Charles Sawyer, President Harding's physician, stand aside to allow the veterans bureau hospital program to proceed. The legion accuses Sawyer of obstructing the effort to build hospitals for 10,000 mentally disabled World War veterans lacking proper facilities.
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Chicago
American Legion
Charles Sawyer
Harding
Legion
Sawyer
Veterans’ Bureau
Veteran’s Bureau
Husband held on murder charge in Detroit
Van Walters, 30, is held on a murder charge after confessing to beating his wife Florence. He claimed she was withholding money she saved to buy a death suit when she refused to sign him for a new suit.
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Detroit
Mich
van Walters
Florence
When in Doubt Ask Haskin: Readers’ Questions Answered
Frederick Isenaer of the Athens Messenger Information Bureau invites readers to send brief questions with return stamps. Haskin offers himself as a target for inquiries, promising to furnish facts via sources he can locate, though he cannot know all.
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Washington
Haskin
Frederick Isenaer
Fms
Athens Messenformation Bureau
Washin
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