Recount Granted for Johnson Vote in New Jersey
Chief Justice William Gummere ordered a state wide recount of the New Jersey presidential preference vote for Hiram W. Johnson and Leonard Wood. Five counties will start the recount with a $50,000 deposit required, and Johnson may abandon if results do not change. If Wood leads, Johnson bears costs.
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Newark
N. J
William 8. Gummere
Supreme Court Today
Hiram W. Johnson
Leonard Wood
Essex
Morris
Camden
Gloucester
Cape May
Johnson
Secretary of State of
New Jersey
Gummere
Gummers
Harry Kalisch
General Wood
Connecticut Guard drills May Day alert at Hartford armory
Hartford May Day alarm drill involved about 60 troopers from the First regiment Connecticut State Guard called to test readiness. Col C W Burpee issued officers calls after Justice Department notice. most men released after two hours except a corporal’s squad kept at the state armory and small detachments guarding capitol and other sites. No other alarms were given statewide.
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Hartford
Conn
Connecticut State Guard
State Armory
Lucien F. Burpee
Military Emergency Board Today
Department of Justice
Washington
Connecticut
State Guard
C. W. Burpee
State Capitol
Chicago rent strike leads to arrests and one conviction
Thousands of Chicago families joined a May Day rent strike defying eviction orders. H J Standish of the Chicago Tenants Protection League estimated 10 000 tenants would resist landlords. Anita Apiclia at 447 Water Street was fined 25 dollars and jailed three months for keeping a house of ill fame, with an appeal bond set at 1200. Other raid defendants faced proceedings in the Sty court and a full county session was reported.
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Chicago
H. J. Standish
Chicago Tenants’ Protective League
Anita Apiclia
Waterstreet
Jedl
Solomon Badesch
Sty Court
Aptcilla
Edward McCarthy
Edward J. Crowley, Jr
Patrick Daly
Joseph Ferrer
Miguel Ortula
S72
State Street
Salvator Aiello
South Avenue
Lafayette Street
Alexander L. Delaney
Street Traffic in Rochester Ground to a Standstill
Rochester May 1 Street traffic in the city was at a standstill today as street railway employes voted to strike despite a prior arbitration agreement with the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes. The men demand about a ninety percent wage increase and refused the company’s undisclosed compromise offer.
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Rochester
Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway
Rescue of 2,300 Refugees by Red Cross Aid
Geneva May 1 Miss Gladys Aaghan of Minneapolis and Prana El Fronerik of Buffalo led Knits of Columbus volunteers in moving 2,900 refugees from southern Russia across the Dnieper. Americans aided fleeing Soviet advances using lifeboats and life oats amid ice floes and the perilous river crossing. One boat was crushed and sunk during the crossing.
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Geneva, Mey
Gladys Aaghan
Minneapolis
Minn
Amerian Red Cross
Prana EL Fronerik
Buffalo
Knicits of
Columbus
Foussia
Red Cross
Bers
Dnieper
Midae
Union Bakers Ready to Strike in New Haven
Union bakers in New Haven warn of a strike if wage and hour demands are unmet. They seek an $8 weekly boost and a seven and a half hour day, while Master Bakers offer partial increases but require bread bakers to start at 4 AM. The dispute notes paying Polish and Jewish bakers $10 to $12 more weekly and foremen at $65 versus $32. Cake bakers quitting today would halt union work until resolution.
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New Haven
Conn
Eastern League season opener postponed again in Hartford
Wet grounds force the fourth postponement of the Eastern Baseball League opener in Hartford Conn delaying Albany matchups. Hartford plans to play its first game tomorrow in New Haven if conditions permit.
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Hartford. Conn
Albany
Hartford
New Haven
May Day Passes Quietly Amid Strikes Across City
May Day passes without drama aside from ongoing strikes. Jewish bakers demand a five dollar weekly wage rise, while 40 bakery drivers join. Freight clerks and steamboat dock hand striking disrupts shipping. railroad switchmen out, limiting freight to the South and West. Columbia Graphophone cuts staff as Harvey Hubbell shuts due to material shortages. Carpenters gain wages to one dollar an hour.
Boston Milk Price Cut Aids Demand Reduction
Boston on May 1 saw milk sold at 16 14 cents per quart for May and June after one of the city’s large distributors cut prices by three quarters of a cent. The cut followed the New England Milk Producers Association agreeing to a similar distributor reduction. The firm welcomed a probe into claims dealers seek to curb production by pressuring dairy slaughter to hold prices high. The state senate urged the attorney general to investigate.
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Boston
Mass
New England Milk Producers Association
State Senate
Carpenters Strike Across NYC Shipyards and Gloucester Yard
Philadelphia May 1 More than six hundred carpenters and joiners at the New York Shipyard Gambon and 150 at the Puseyami Jones yard Gloucester New Jersey struck today to press a demand for higher wages. About 309 carpenters out at Crammp's Shipyard. Structura iron workers also struck in sympathy with carpenters seeking wage increases.
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Philadelpha
New York
Gambon
Puseyami Jones Yard
Gloucester
N. J
Crammp
Structura Iron
Place A Ban On Potatoes By Pittsburgh Women
Twelve thousand members of the Congress of Women's Clubs of the Pittsburgh district pledge to wear only staple clothing and ban potatoes for two weeks to protest high living costs. Officers say the campaign starts immediately and will urge friends to cooperate. Miss Helen Grimes, president, notes staple clothing costs are lower than latest style items.
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Pittsburgh
Congress of Women's Clubs
Congress
Helen Grimes
The
Federal Fair Price Committees
Cabinet Stays In Office Amid Resignation Turmoil
Madrid reports Premier Allende Salazar's cabinet agreed to remain in office until Monday after resigning this week. No official steps yet toward forming a new government. In New Haven, May 1 forecasts call for pair weather tonight and Sunday.
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Madrid
Allende Salazar
New Haven
Wheeler Replaces Cronan Chief of Detectives Temporarily
Captain Charles A. Wheeler of the Traffic department was assigned to replace Captain Edward Cronan as head of the local detective department after Cronan was suspended last night. Wheeler’s appointment is temporary until final action in Cronan’s case, with no expected personnel changes. Cronan remained at his desk briefly and will attend a May 10 hearing.
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Charles A. Wheeler
Trafic Department
Edward ©. Cronan
Paten
Cronan
Federal intervention sought as yard walkout continues
Buffalo reports show Federal men may intervene as the labor dispute over yard comraders and settlement terms persists. Officials note split loyalties among strikers while New York Central officials claim near normal operations in central yards. Some retirees return and ten experienced workers are moved from other parts of the system as freight embargoes start on most roads except the New York Central.
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Buffalo
Securat
Stete
United States Attorney
Daniel W. Dinan
New York Central Lines
Central Yards
New York Central
Walsh Calls in Field Men to Enforce Tax Laws
The field men of the Internal Revenue forces in Hartford have been summoned by Chief James J. Walsh for new instructions and assignments. They have recently located many illicit stills, and the forthcoming orders will push a greater effort to curb the illegal liquor trade.
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Internal Revenue Forces
Hartford
James J. Walsh
Father Dies in Accident on Brewster Turnpike
Coroner John J. Phelan ruled the death of Michael Marina an accidental death after he jumped from a motorcycle sidecar to shield his daughter riding with him on the Brewster turnpike. In Danbury inquest testimony showed Marina and his daughter were in the sidecar with driver Victor Berradi. Near Storms Bridge a sharp curve frightened him, he placed his daughter in the seat and leaped. The motorcycle struck the fence and rails, crushing his skull. he died soon after. The daughter was unhurt and the driver bruised.
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John J. Phelan
Michael Marina
Brewster Turnpike
Soroner Phelan
Danbury
Parina
Victor Berradi
Storm's Bridge
Farina
Mexican ambassador renounces presidential bid in Mexico
Ysnado Bonillas, Mexico's ambassador to the United States, has renounced his candidacy for the Mexican presidency. He said his diplomatic duties demand focus and that he wishes to avoid entanglements, sacrificing his political persona to help safeguard national autonomy amid alleged conspiracies threatening order.
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Laredo
Texas
Ysnado Bonillas
United States
el Heraldo de Mexico
Mexico
Cis
Senor Bonillas
Mexico afire with revolt May Day prep
Washington May 1 Forewarned by the Department of Justice those responsible for order in cities and industrial centers were prepared to act at the first sign of disruption by radical elements. Authorities reported no violence early today as Communist agitators sought to mobilize workers for a May Day show of power. Assistant Attorney General Garvan said precautions dampened radical ardor and that special care protected congress, federal judges, and an attorney targeted for assassination. Agents kept in touch with radical groups to report developments and aid order, but were told not to incite participants. Garvan noted an amazing amount of money spent.
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Washington
Department of Justice
Garvan
Women Speakers at Convention in Hartford
Hartford May 1 For the second time in Connecticut history women will address a state political party convention. Democratic women in the state will sit on the platform and deliver brief addresses before the keynote by Homer S. Cummings. Mrs Hattie Rossner Jacobs of Birmingham Ala will speak. the other speaker is undecided. The first such address by a woman at a Connecticut convention occurred in 1912 at a New Haven progressive party event.
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Hartford
Conn
Connecticut
Democratic State Committee
Homer S. Cummings
Hattie Rossner Jacobs
Birrmingham
Ala
Progressive Party
New Haven
WW. T. Hincks
Bridgeport
Negligence Basis of Suit in Bridgeport Case
Alex Dott sues Paul H. O'Neil of Bridgeport for 7000 dollars alleging injuries after being thrown from a truck at Hancock avenue and Cherry street on May 10. He seeks recovery of medical expenses and damages from the defendant’s agent’s actions.
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Alex Dott
Paul H. O'Neil
Bridgeport
Hancock Avenue
Cherry Street
Boothe Seeks Foreclosure Over Railroad Avenue Property
David B. Boothe of Stratford sues James Duffy of Guilford in Superior Court to foreclose on 28 feet of Railroad Avenue property. A note for 2800 dollars was given by Catherine Kinsella on June 22, 1982, secured by a mortgage on the same property. she died leaving the property to Dusty without provisions for the note.
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David B. Boothe
Stratford
James Duffy
Guilford
Railroad Avenu
Catherine Kinsella
Boothe
Railroad Avenue
Nine bills in conference advance nation budget talks
Washington May 1 nine bills including five annual appropriation measures are in conference between Senate and House a record pace. A tenth measure water power development awaits final action. The in conference funds cover naval rivers and harbors fortifications agricultural and diplomatic and consular. Other bills include army reorganization army and navy pay railroad deficiency and civil service retirement. The House began consideration of the sundry civil bill the last of the thirties appropriations.
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Washington
Senate
House
Last Rites For William E. Smith At St Augustine Church
The funeral for William E. Smith, former Times staffer, was held at St. Augustine's with a solemn high mass. Attendees included prominent newspaper men, merchants, and lawyers. pallbearers listed and representatives from Times, Post and Telegram, Herald, and Sunday Herald attended. Burial followed at St. Michael's cemetery with committal by Father Bowen.
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William E. Smith
Times
St. Augustine's Church
James B. Nihil
George Donohue
Joseph Ganley
Schmidt
Harold Youd
June Gilhuty
John Hanley
Fritz K. Weber
God
Edward McManus
Daniel McNamara
the Times
John McDonough
Edward O'Brien
Henry Tierney
Joseph Smith
The
Lynne W. Wilson
Herbert Booth
Baward Lynch
Edward J. Maher
James J. McGovern
Rebels Surround Mexico City With Ring of Soldiers
Rebels have placed a steel ring of revolutionary troops around Mexico City and in all states except one, according to General Villareal and General Calles. They report Sonora as first state to revolt, with governors and commanders named as they outline recent gains and pending provisional leadership.
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Mexico City
Agua Prieta
Sonora
Mexico
Carranza
A. I Villareal
Villareal
P. Ees Calles
Adolph [Dela Quierta
Amma
Carlos
Acua Prieta
de la Huerta
Sinaloa
Florencio de la Vega
de Laerta
Angel Flores
Counnier
Ary
Galincan
Flores
Mawutlum
Chitiahuna
Chihuahua City
Parral
Jimimez
Juarez
Ojinaza
United States
Great Atlantic Fleet Anchors in Hudson
The Great Atlantic fleet arrived in home waters to give 25,000 American bluejackets a rest from winter drills. Eight battleships totaling over 200,000 tons, plus destroyers and tenders, entered in mist and were expected to anchor by noon. Admiral Henry B. Wilson, Secretary Daniels, and Admiral Coontz were aboard the Pennsylvania as seaplanes and destroyers welcomed the fleet.
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New York
Guantanamo
Cuba
Hudson River
Pennsylvania
Henry B. Wilson
Navy Daniels
Robert B. Coontz
Tay
Navy Yard
John H- Glennon
Third Naval District
J. D. MacDonald
New York Navy
Bridgeport Volunteer Offers Blood for Local Student
In Meritten Conn on May 1 a Bridgeport resident volunteers to donate blood for Julius Taitz a high school student in weakened condition after tonsil operation. Frank Bell visiting from Bridgeport offers to serve without charge and may have his offer accepted.
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Meritten
Conn
Julius “‘Taitz
Frank Bell
Bridgeport
Observed May Day in American occupied Coblenz area
Local labor leaders outline May Day programs in towns under American troops. Officials pledge no disorder and warn radicals they will be removed if they incite trouble.
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Coblenz
Lansthitax
Paris Masses Her Soldiers In May Day Security
Paris May 1 troops massed at strategic points to quell possible disorders during May Day celebrations. Police patrols filled streets as high school students boarded many omnibuses. Federation of Labor planned a 4 pm meeting to decide on general strike continuation to support railroad workers. A Republican Guard brigadier was shot in the back. inspector Lecomte assaulted. Special train for Havre and New York steamer left on time.
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Paris
Federation of Labor
Jean Jouhaux
Rondeau
Republican Guard
Lecomte
Havre
New York
Clean-Up Week Promotes Spring Cleaning Across Venues
May 3 marks cleanup day with focus on indoor spaces from attics to cellars. The notice lists affected areas including Washington and Connellsville with 15,804 and Alameda figures showing increases of 59 and 5,423 respectively, reflecting 7.5 and 25.2 percent rises.
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Secretary of State
Capitol
Imay
Cabinet
Wheeler
Walsh
BILLS
Great Atlantic Fleet
Hudson
Bridgeporter
Population Statistics
Washington, Mass
Connellsville
Alameda
Cal
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