Wage Pact Revisions Sought to Stem Mine Unrest
In New Lexington Ohio May 28 1927 reports say United Mine Workers may convene an international meeting in summer to discuss revising the Jacksonville wage pact to curb Southern field defections. Mines idle due to operators pay issues threaten union unity as Dark Hollow Meigs county and Goalline Crookaville Mine actions reflect broader discontent.
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New Lexington
Jacksonville
Acase
Kentucky
West Virginia
United Mine Workers of America
Ohio
Dark Hollow
Meigs County
Goalline
Crookaville
Four Years of Team Work at Ohio University
President Elmer Burritt Bryan lauds cordial town university relations at a Athens Chamber luncheon. He cites growth in staff students and funding, praise for the Chamber Memorial auditorium project and city deeds, and notes a new student teacher program in city schools.
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Elmer Burritt Bryan
Athens Chamber of Commerce
Ohio University
Bryan
American Association of Universities and Colleges
T. R. Biddle
Masonic Temple
Athens
New York
University
Chamber
Chamber of Commerce
Memorial Auditorium
Union Street
Mce- Guffey Elms
Darwin Lesson Shows Scope Trial Echoes in Dayton
The piece notes Professor Scope’s indictment for teaching Darwin’s theory in Dayton, Tennessee, comparing the tension between science and law to historic limits on knowledge. It argues vast “Big Business” contrasts with local constraints and cites radical views on industry size. The column closes with a nudge to turn to Page 4.
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Dayton
Tennessee
Scope
Moneyville
Ralston
Professor Scope
Boston Harbor
Europe
Plesse
U S To Send Air Expedition In Amundsen Search
Copenhagen May 28 United States will be asked to send an air expedition to search for Amundsen Ellsworth north pole fliers missing a week. The air shipping union directors meet tomorrow and are expected to recommend two naval planes to Spitzbergen and aero planes to Cape Columbia 250 miles north of Greenland.
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Copenhagen
United States
Polar
Shipping Union
Amundsen
Union
Spitzbergen
Cape Columbia
Greenland
Boy Lands Safely After SixStory Fall At Hotel Alms
Theodore Haefner son of the Hotel Alms owner in Cincinnati survives a six story fall from his parents apartment window. He toppled from the sill when a screen failed. The fall ended in soft soil of a new flower bed and left no injuries according to physicians. The boy reportedly forgot the incident.
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Cincintiati
Theodore Haefner
Theodore
Four plead guilty in Canaonville girl delinquency case
In juvenile court today fourteen charged with contributing to the delinquency of a 14 year old Canaonville girl saw four men plead guilty. George Millican was held for psychological exam. Edward Burt and Willis Rose were fined 100 dollars with workhouse terms. Carlos Reeves also fined 100 dollars with a Dayton workhouse term. Clarence Darnell received 50 dollar fine. Warrants for three others and examinations for six more were ordered. Names of the girl and under eighteen boys withheld.
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Dayton
Canaonville
George Millican
Athens
Edward Burt
Willis Rose
Carlos Reeves
Clarence Darnell
Frank Darnell
Peter Carsey
Harry Millican
S. M. Johnson
Plants To Observe Day Observed At Two Local Plants
The F. C. Stedman Company's packing plant and the Shafer wholesale grocery plant will close all day Saturday May 30 and employees will receive Memorial Day as a holiday.
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F. C. Stedman Company
Shafer
Evening Pick Stages Variety of Music and Entertainment
A radio listing highlights KGO offering classic and old-time string trio at 8 P. KFI airs a Scotch program at 7 P. WIP presents radio congress with famous leaders at 7 E. WRC schedules a marine band concert at 7:30 E broadcast by WGY and WJZ. WBZ and WLW also feature classical music programs and Brat at 10 K.
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KGO
KFI
WIP
Radio Congress
WRC
WGY
WJZ
WBZ
WLW
Brat
Mine No 7 resumes operations at Thomas Fork
Pomeroy May 28 Mine No 7 of the Stalter Essex company at Thomas Fork resumes operations with thirty men on a 60 40 cooperative basis and more miners to be added Friday. The firm plans to load two flats from this mine as Mine No 6 has operated since May 1. Pittsburgh Coal reports 148 men at Dark Hollow and 73 at Forest Run under the old 1917 wage scale with a daily production of 400 tons. Mine 17 of Pittsburgh company is slated to resume Monday under the 1917 scale.
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Pomeroy
Stalter-Essex Company
Thomas Fork
Pittsburgh Coal Company
Dark Hollow
Forest Run
Pittsburgh Company
Van Sweringen to Face I C C on Unified Rail Plan
Van Sweringen brothers face the Interstate Commerce Commission in Washington as they outline a plan to unite five railroads into a single system. W A Colston, chief counsel, says a detailed outline will be presented on how Chesapeake and Ohio Hocking Valley Marquette Erie Nickel Plate would consolidate.
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Washington
P. van Sweringen
Inter-State Commerce Commission
W. A. Colston
van Swweringen
Murder charge dropped in Columbus case against Arthur Brown
In Columbus on May 28 Municipal Judge Miller dismissed the first degree murder charge against Arthur Brown after deeming the testimony unreliable. The case involved the alleged murder of Mrs. Sarah Davis in her home on December 6 1923.
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Columbus
Miller
Arthur Brown
Sarah Davis
Ports and Courts Strained by Rum Seizures
Washington May 28 heavy seizures of rum vessels and liquor trigger an emergency drive. The Treasury and Justice Departments ordered joint arrangements for expediting court disposition of contraband storage cases while safeguarding vessels and liquor until final rulings. Officials stress broad agency cooperation to press the prohibition laws and curb coastwise liquor shipments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Department of Justice
Treasury
The
Coast Guard
Germany Not Obligated on Berlin Treaty Claims
The German American mixed claims commission ruled that Germany is not obligated under the Berlin treaty to compensate Americans for losses of prospective earnings or profits from property destruction during the war.
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Germany
Washington
Ships to Protect Japanese Colony
TOKIO May 28 Two cruisers were despatched to Tsingtao to protect the Japanese colony amid a strike by Chinese workers in the mills. The War department does not expect to land a naval force. Chinese strikers are reported still holding the seized Japanese mills.
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Tokio
Tsingtao
War Department
Commerce Chamber Drives to Collect Alumni Auditorium Pledges
The Athens Chamber of Commerce launches a campaign to raise 30000 in outstanding pledges for Ohio University’s alumni memorial auditorium. With 70000 promised and 40000 collected previously, four percent notes are used. new pledges may switch to six percent bankable notes. A 31 member committee, led by Jude 8 M Johnson, will recruit more as needed.
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S. M. Johnson
Ohio University
Athens Chamber of Commerce
Jude 8. M. Johnson
Judge Johnson
Prof
L. J. Addicott
W. N. Alderman
George C. Parks
C. M. Gill
W. H. McKee
H. R. McVay
T. R. Biddle
F. B. Dilley
F. W. Bush
F. L. Alderman
M. Johnson
B. M. Covert
H. R. Wileon
A. B. Roe
L. W. Roberts
F. D. Forsyth
T. W. Craig
W. H. Logan
J. B. Swanson
J. J. Woolley
Horn
W. B. Lawrence
T. N. Hoover
Rus- M.B
R. W. Finsterwald
C. O. Moore
Fred Bougher
Ambassdor Houghton urges realism in Anglophone ties
Ambassador Alanson B. Houghton addressed an English Speaking Union luncheon and warned that Anglophone nations should not be viewed as a single unity. He argued they are members of the same family but remain individual nations.
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London
Alanson B. Houghton
Old Explorer Predicts Amundsen Return Despite Peril
New York May 28 Captain Robert Bartlett of the Roosevelt 1905 09 says Amundsen and his party may reach the pole safely but advises waiting until September or October. He supports using navy dirigibles for search but ridicules the notion of hunting for Amundsen with airships as mere ornaments.
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New York
Roald Amundsen
Pole
Amundsen
Robert Abram Bartlett
Admiral Peary
Roosevelt
Peary
North Pole
Bartlett
United States’ Navy
CO OP Mining at Hocking Fails 10 Secure Approval
One miner voted to resume work in the Stalter Essex mine at Hocking near The Plains at a mass meeting. A petition signed by thirty three miners aimed to return to work on the 60 40 basis. Miners opposed further participation in cooperative ventures as harmful to the union and unfair to operators paying the Jacksonville scale.
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Stalter-Essex
Hocking
Plains
Athens
Jacksonville
Woman shoots herself in Wheeling home after apparent joke
In Wheeling West Virginia on May 23 8 Mrs Erritt Ullum age 24 shot herself in the breast dying instantly at home while her husband watched thinking she was fooling again Their four year old daughter witnessed the act.
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W. Va
Erritt Ullum
Stores in Athens Closed All Day Saturday Decorations Day
Stores in Athens will close for two consecutive days due to a Saturday holiday. Friday hours mirror usual Saturday openings, causing extended closures this week. Local families expect a large purchasing period to cover the two days.
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Athens
Sale of Federal Ships Nearer in Private Deals
New York May 28 Negotiations for selling the Leviathan and six other large trans Atlantic liners to private interests have opened under a policy to end government involvement in shipping. Emmett J McCormack of Moore and McCormack confirmed the talks and has presented a proposal to the United States Shipping Board backed by a bankers syndicate whose name will not be disclosed.
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New York
Emmett J. McCormack
Moore and McCormack
I Broadway
United States Shipping Board
McCormack
Communists Riot in Copenhagen Sparks Arrests
A communist riot erupted in Copenhagen today leading to the arrest of several participants as authorities moved to restore order. The incident underscored rising political tension in the city.
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Copenhagen
Ter Participanta
Thompson elected Dover township high school principal
Bert M. Thompson won the Dover township high school principal post by a narrow three vote margin after a long local education dispute. The Dover board also hired four high school teachers and three rural instructors while athletic director Paul Theissen and three women teachers were named. Some Chauncey village teachers remain unfilled.
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Bert M. Thompson
Chauncey Hgh
Dover Township
Board of Education
Thompson
Chauncey
H. R. McVay
Paul
T-Bone) Theissen
Ohio University
Helen Phillips
Ruth Fiske
Paul Henry
Esther Saylor
Little Sandy
Garret Blackford
Oregon Ridge
Helen H. Saylor
White
Big Sandy
Big Bailey
Seventy-Three Miners Return to Jail in Fairmont
In West Virginia on May 28, seventy-three of 116 striking miners convicted for picketing non union mines chose ten days in jail over fines. They preferred jail to paying $1 for fing and $3 costs, with the rest already jailed for contempt of injunction.
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Fairmont
Eight maimed as blast exposes mine disaster toll
Rescue workers report eight bodies recovered from the Carolina Coal mine near Sanford North Carolina after a deadly explosion entombed seventy two miners. Army surgeons Red Cross and local officials set up a temporary field hospital as rescue efforts continued amid hopes some may be alive.
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Sanford
N. C
Carolina
Army
Port Bragg
Stanford
American Red Cross
Mra. Nimocks
Fayettsville
Amiliary of the Legion
Unite States Bureau of Mines
Howard
Butler
W. D. Smith
North i
Wedding City Bridal Procession Prompts Citywide Coverage
A sweeping wedding day feature outlines the city bridal procession and related ceremonies. The piece highlights wedding logistics, guest etiquette, and the role of sponsors, with emphasis on community celebrations and essential preparations.
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Russia
Arthur Brisban
Star Company
U. S
Pomeroy Bend
Commerce Chamber
Uncle Sam
Harry Kirby
Alda Hayward
Winthrop
Moe
Newburyport
Mass
BM. Thompson
Dover
RED Cross
George
F. H. Ander
Carolina Coal Company
Eng
Wile
Frederic 3. Haskin
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