Relief funds sought to aid destitute miners
Logan report from subdistrict No. 1 convention commends officers work and urges relief funds through county associations. Resolution backs governor and director Tetlow to push freight-rate fixes, with funds to be distributed by local red cross or allied groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clinton Webbb
Messenger
Logan
Mar
District No. 6
Marshall
B. F. North
Ed Smith
Committee On
Hocking
Athens County
Conol
Thomas Gears
Bell
E. V. Ervin
Ath
W. Wallace
Oral Daugherty Fern Mills
Red Cross
Hall
Ohio Coal
Aew
Ohio
Barry L. Davis
Percy Tellow
Davis
Public Utilities Commission of
Tetlow
British Miners Stand By Support for American Strike
The British miners union will back American miners in their national strike starting at midnight. British coal miners will not halt coal shipments to the United States unless the United Mine Workers request it, according to Vernon Heartshorn of the South Wales mine federation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. A. Wray
London
British Miners’ Union
United States
United Mine Workers of America
Vernon Heartshorn
South Wales Mine Federation
Miners’ Federation of Great Britain
Battle lines drawn for the finish fight on coal strike
Washington officials watch the looming coal strike as 525,000 union miners and up to 200,000 non union workers prepare to walk out at midnight. Twenty states affected, three months of coal reserves, government stay out policy until public suffering prompts action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George R. Holmes
International News Service
Washington
Mar
Union Battle Deepens in West Virginia Fields
Dispatch from Charleston notes Kanawha Logan and Norfolk and Western mines prepare to post a new scale amid a coal field clash with the United Mine Workers. State police patrol Mingo Boone and Logan borders while operators claim the union is dead and vow a 100 percent strike to win.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleston
W. Va
Kanawha
Logan
Norfolk and Western
United Mine Workers of America
Mingo County
Norfolk and Western Fields
Boone
West Virginia
Frank Keeney
United Mine Workers
Mingo Field
David Fowler
Pike, Ky
Miners and constitution changes dominate session actions
Delegates concurring with the vice president report push for higher penalties on sub lease violations and endorse pension and contract mine handling suggestions. Amendments to the constitution draft and a per capita tax change to fifteen cents were approved, while criticism of some newspapers and praise for others passed in a warm resolution. Adjournment set for Friday at nine o'clock.
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Swyer
Aliso
Wein
Committee On Constitution
Daugherty
Sone
Irvin
Mine Strike At Hocking Mine Affects 205 Workers
Local Union No 6096 officials say 205 men at the Hocking mine near Athens walked off Monday after a coal company fired a union member. Union reps allege the strike aimed to stop coal-wasting latch knocks at shaft bottoms, not a worker dismissal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hocking
Athens
Worth Wins Battle Berlin
Chancellor Wirth secured a confidence vote in the Reichstag on Thursday amid political maneuvering in Berlin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Mar
Wirth
Reichstag
Man from Baltimore shoots sleeping wife in Middletown tragedy
Ambrose Watts, 33, of Baltimore Street, claims a dream led him to shoot his wife while she slept at 3:25 this morning. The incident occurred in Middletown and the presumed motive remains unclear as police investigate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middletown
Ambrose Watts
Baltimore Street
What They Say About Trouble
In Columbus March 31 W D McKinney secretary of the Southern Ohio Coal Exchange says the coal strike is aimed at the public not operators and seeks a seven fifty daily wage with five days work weekly. Ohio United Mine Workers president Lee Hall counters that operators refuse to meet for wage talks and that McKinney misstates the miners demands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. N.S
Columbus
W. D. McKinney
Southern Ohio Coal Exchange
McKinney
Lee Hall
Ohio United Mine Workers
Radio Starts Ships to Save Distressed Vessel
Fire aboard the American-Hawaiian liner Lowian prompts tug assistance after a wireless message reports she is about 150 miles at sea en route from Los Angeles to the Panama Canal.
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Panama City
Mar
Panama Canal
Los Angeles
Nation braces for coal strike with 63 million tons on hand
The nation faces a nationwide coal strike at midnight with about 63 million tons in reserve, roughly 41 days of supply. Geological Survey coal statistician F. G. Tryon testified before the House Labor Committee as it resumed investigations into the suspension of work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
International News Service
House Labor Committee
F. G. Tryon
Geological Survey
Twins' estate feud hinges on one or two people
Chicago reports a probate question over the $100,000 estate of Rose and Josefa Blazek the 43 year old twins. The dispute centers on Franz the 11 year old boy whether he has two mothers or a mother and an aunt. Post mortem inquiry may settle the question.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
International News Service
Rose
Josefa Blazek
Franz
Rosa
Franaz
Jess E. Rose
Josefa
Benjamin Breakstone
Czecho Slovakia
Cotton dealer bunch caught in New York indictments
In New York on March 31 two indictments were filed against the American Cotton Exchange and six of its officers and directors. They face bucketing charges and violation of penal section 390. Names were not released. arraignment likely this afternoon before Judge Thomas T Crain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
American Cotton Exchange
Thomas €. T. Crain
Ohio historical notes on Cox White Garfield and lynching
Yesterday's in Ohio notes births of James M. Cox born in Jacksonburg and Dr. J Campbell White born in Wooster. It records 1882 Garfield widow pension and 1892 mob lynching of Joseph Lyttle in Findlay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James M. Cox
Jacksonburg
J. Campbell White
Wooster College
Wooster
Congress
Garfield
Joseph Lyttle
Findlay
Anthracite Miners Plan 12 O'clock Strike Across Region
In the anthracite coal region 155 000 mine workers will walk out at midnight uniting with 450 000 bituminous workers in a nationwide coal industry tie up. Strike ordered as 100 percent effective with tools removed from mines and only pumps running to dewater. District leaders hope for peaceful suspension and miners told to stay off company property.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George W. Williams
Wilkesbarre
City Examiners Conclude Athens Check
E. A. Hagerty and C. S. Hetrick of the state bureau of accounting finished four weeks of city accounts examination in Athens. No findings report will be issued by the state office for about three weeks. The examiners then traveled to Jackson to review that city’s books.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. A. Hagerty
C. S. Hetrick
State Bureau of Accounting
Athens City
State Office
Athens
Jackson
Banker Montfort defends spanking claim in separation suit
Frank D. Montfort a retired banker told the New York supreme court he felt compelled to spank his wife Adele who he described as a social jazzer for admiring the Napoleonic ideals of an Italian count in papers filed answering her separation suit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Frank D. Montfort
Supreme Court
Adele
Governor appoints Dr J C Blower to state medical board
Columbus Mar 31 Governor Davis named Dr J C Blower of Akron to fill the vacancy on the state medical board left by Dr Ben R McClellan of Xenia Blower formerly lived in Glouster Ohio joining the board to serve.
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Columbus
Mar
Davis
J. C. Blower
Akron
State Medical Board
Ben R. McClellan
Xenia
Blower
Kansas Miners to Strike Despite Court Extension
Kansas coal field miners will quit work at midnight and strike, despite a 30 day extension of the wage scale by the Kansas court of industrial relations. John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, said the order applies only to operators and the union does not recognize the court's authority to force men to work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Indianapolis
Kansas Court of Industrial Relations
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
International News Service
Body of Newport Woman Recovered From Boat Galley
The body of Mrs. Arthur Schletker, 23, of Newport Kentucky, who drowned when the boat Helper sank in the Ohio River weeks ago, was found last night in the galley of the craft. The husband, the boat’s engineer, recovered the body.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Mar
Arthur Schletker
Newport
Ohio River
State officers accused of take off fines in prohibition cases
Attorney Bernard Fox charged in court that state officers employed by the state prohibition director receive no salaries but get a take off from fines after convictions. He alleged some officers carry blank search warrants and fill them to fit each case after an arrest in the trial of Al Lamarding, saloon keeper, for violation of prohibition laws.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
Mar
Prohibition
Bernard Fox
al Lamarding
Irish peace pact tests Dublin and Belfast govts
London report outlines a tense trial of the Irish peace agreement signed by North and South Ireland with Britain. Michael Collins calls for unity but caution remains as Dublin Belfast authorities enforce the plan. Key points include protections for Catholics in Ulster, a ceasefire on the border, a mixed Ulster police force, and another unity conference. Churchill warns publics not to expect rapid results.
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Belfast
Mar
London
Ulster
Dublin
North
South Ireland
Michael Collins
Irish Provisional Government
Northern Ireland
Irish Republican Army
Winston Churchill
House of Common
Miners Strike Breaks Amid Kentucky Rebellion
Chicago reports the first break in a national coal strike as western Kentucky operators vote to honor an agreement through 1922 and decline to strike at midnight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Mar
International News Service
Kentucky
Lockout Claim Sparks AFL Leader Remarks on Coal Strike
Samuel Gompers, AFL president, accuses coal operators of breaking their contract and deliberately forcing miners to quit work, calling it a lockout in a lengthy statement tracing the dispute’s history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
International News Service
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Service Man Visit by U S Veterans Bureau Representative
Traveling representative Cc. W. Kitner of the United States Veterans Bureau from Columbus will visit Athens Tuesday. He will base at Attorney M. D. Hughes office in the Cline building to answer former service men questions about compensation claims or vocational training.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cc. W. Kitner
United States Veterans’ Bureau
Columbus
Athens
M. D. Hughes
Cline
Missing Surveyor Cutter With New York customs officers
The Surveyor, a crack customs cutter with 12 aboard including leading New York port customs officers who directed raids on sea bootleggers, has been missing for 24 hours during a booze hunt.
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New York
Parsium Mine Strike Shuts Down WV Operation
About 660 miners walked out at the Parsium mine near Moundsville West Virginia today halting operations. It is the first union mine in the state to strike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moundsville
W. VA
Parsium
Here
West Virginia
Walking Saloon Seized in Milwaukee Bootleg Case
Police seized a portable saloon from Milwaukee said to belong to Mike Madumich. The device included a leather rubber vest with a two quart capacity, a faucet and a whisky glass. Madumich paid a $160 fine for its possession.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Mike Madumich
Tent Colonists Will Receive Small Benefit
Williamson West Virginia March 81 Coincident with the April 1 strike David Fowler United Mine Workers financial officer announced a big reduction in benefits being paid to tent colonists in Mingo county Men are reduced from 5 to 3 per week women from 3 to 1 and children from 1 to 50 cents The inmates of tent colonies have been living in these camps since the Mingo strike of July 1920.
Family quarrel ends in fatal shooting in Cincinnati
Enoch Rooney aged 42 died from wounds after a shooting by his brother, 85, who is jailed on a murder charge. The incident followed a family quarrel and occurred in Cincinnati on March 31.
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Cincinnati
Mar
Enoch Rooney
Dance at Chauncey K of P Hall Saturday
A dance is planned at the K of P hall in Chauncey on Saturday April 1 with good music and a park plan for attendees.
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K. of P. Hall
Chauncey
Masons Attention Special Communication at Para wa Lodge No 25
Masons attention for Parawa Lodge number twenty five F and A M. Friday March 31 work in M M degree moves at 4 00 oclock W Lee W M M A Palmer Sec
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Masons
Parawathia Lodge No. 25
W. Lee
W. M
A. Palmer
Prediction of nationwide coal strike by non-union workers
Joan Moore of the United Mine Workers told the House Labor Committee that about 90 percent of the 200,000 non-union coal miners are prepared to lay down their tools tonight. She blamed the failure to avert a strike on a "little bow among the operators" and said talks with operators and miners had collapsed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Mar
Joan Moore
United Mine Workers of America
House Labor Committee
Moore
James Powers Found Guilty in Covington Theatre Murder
James Powers was convicted of murder in the death of theatre owner Morris Lee in Covington Kentucky. He faces the electric chair after a trial held late at night. Lee and his family were followed from the theatre before the shooting occurred. three accomplices Isaiah Mc Knight George Sanders and Raymond Rogers await trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
James Powers
Morris Lee
Covington
Lee
Isaiah McKnight
George Sanders
Raymond Rogers
Free Views of the Panama Canal Map Offered
The National Geographic Society produces a four color bird's eye map of the Panama Canal. The 12 by 7 1/2 inch coated paper print offers a vivid look beyond flat outlines. Readers can request a free copy by mailing two cents for postage and completing the coupon with name and address.
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Panama
Who Canal
National Geographic Society
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P. S. Seel
D. W. Wallace
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Percy Tetlow
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Ullary
Newry
By C. H. Haddox
Uence
Uadeh
Mark Uopengion
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