Strike Struggles Ease as Railroads, Uprising Action Fade
Strikes ease as U S and railroads coordinate efforts. Switchmen return to eastern terminals in Toledo and Baltimore amid indications of an early end. Sonora seeks recognition as belligerent while Carranza moves to cross into U S territory if allowed. Union leaders defend motives as a broad investigation into the Lever Act unfolds.
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U.S
Carranza
Sonora
Toledo
Baltimore
U. S. Whisky Branded Snake Bite By Scotch
Greenock Scotland April 16 American rye whisky now being imported is said to be of the Shock variety by the chief constable who filed a report. Pre war whiskies with three years bonded were mild by comparison. He warns the new whiskies, known locally as snake bite, are terrible in effect and can poison and madden drinkers.
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Greenock
Scotland
Hero
Sonora Regiments Reinforce Frontier Amid Threatened Federal Action
Colonel Abelardo Rodriguez leads 1 200 Sonora troops, many Yaqui Indians, from Nogales toward Agua Prieta to reinforce state forces facing a possible federal assault. The unit is well equipped for a prolonged siege and moves to counter the threat across the border near Douglas, Arizona.
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Nogales
Ariz
Abelardo Rodriguez
Sonora
Agua Prieta
Douglas
Apsa
Driguez
Mexico seeks U S permission to move troops through to Sonora
Washington reports Mexico asks to move federal forces by rail through El Paso to Douglas and across the border to attack Hermosillo, Sonora. Officials note US under pressure to grant passage while detailing no reply date or full terms. Former Ambassador Wilson criticizes policy toward Mexico.
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Washington
Mexico
United States
Sonora
Carranza
el Paso
Douglas, Aris
Agua Prie
Hermosillo
Pulpito Pass
Chihuahua
Texas
New Mexico
Arizona
State Department
Douglas
Ariz
Henry Lane
Wilson
Senate
Diaz
Madero
Huerta
Fortune teller jailed for failing to pay court fines
Katherine Sophia told a police operative she would have good fortune on a journey, but in Municipal Court yesterday she could not pay a $100 fine and costs for a fortune teller charge. She was ordered to begin a stint at the City Work House as additional misfortune.
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Katherine Sophia
Katherine
Dancing on a Volcano at Barracks Near Brest
In Brest on April 16 youths at a large American barracks danced inside a deserted building left by departing troops. Boxes on the walls bore English words like dynamite and detonators, and police found cigarette butts and empty bottles scattered across the floor, signaling a dangerous setup.
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Brest
Caillaux Exempted From Death Penalty By Prosecutor
Paris reports Theodore Lescouve, Procurator General, concluded the treason trial of former French premier Joseph Caillaux. He urged penalties under Penal Code Articles 77 and 79 and found Article 205 of the Military Code inapplicable. The prosecutor argued Caillaux shares less guilt than Polo Pasha and Duval, reserving the political penalty. The High Court will hear defense arguments on Saturday and Sunday.
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Paris
Theodore Lescouve
Joseph Caillaux
France
Court of Cassaition
M. Caillaux
Bolo Pasha
M. Duval
Caillaux
Polo Pasha
Deatth
High Court
Army Flyers Die in Crash Near Sanderson
Lieu tenant Don M. Hansell of Springfield Missouri and Sergeant William T Maxwell of Dallas Texas were killed when their airplane crashed just after takeoff during border patrol duty in Sanderson Texas. The craft fell as it cleared the ground and buried the crew beneath wreckage.
Armour Co Official Held by U S Agents on Profiteering Charge
New York April 16. Harry G Mills assistant superintendent of an Armour plant in Brooklyn arrested by a Department of Justice agent on profiteering charges under the Lever Act. Held at 2500 dollar bond for hearing. A Brooklyn butcher says orders rose from 32 to 38 cents a pound. Also William Cleary Swift & Co manager in Brooklyn arrested and held on 2500 dollar bail for exam on April 29 for selling frozen beef at 21 cents a pound after a prior sale at 14 1/2 cents.
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New York
Harry G. Mills
Armour & Co
Brooklyn
Department of Justice
William Cleary
Brookly
Swift & Co
Chicago
Overall Club Idea Takes Gotham By Storm Across Cities
New York crowds back the General Overall movement against high clothing costs. Five thousand Dewitt Clinton High School students vote to wear khaki overalls. Columbia juniors face a rule of strictly overalls for girls and men. Similar clubs form in Washington, San Francisco, Peoria, Scranton, Topeka, Liberal, Ft. Smith, Toledo, Louisville, and Miami.
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Cheese Club
Dramatic
Dewitt Clinton
Columbia
Washington
San Francisco
Peoria
Scranton
Topeka
Liberal
Ft. Smith
Ark
Toledo
Louisville
Miami
Theodore N. Vail Dies in Baltimore
Theodore N. Vail chairman of the board of ATandT died at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore from cardiac and kidney troubles. He had been brought from Jekyll Island, Georgia, and his burial is planned for Morristown, New Jersey.
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Baltimore
Theodore N. Vail
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Vail
Jekyll Island
Georgia
Morristown
N. J
Ohio women face losing vote in primary and referendum
Ohio voters confront a decisive move as a petition with 16 000 Hamilton County signatures aims to bar women from the April 27 primary and November electors. The drive would place suffrage questions to male voters in November while Cox names Julian for U S Senator if Harding resigns.
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Columbus
John H. Druffel
Ohio Anti- Woman Suffrage League
Ohio
United States
Cox
Warrer G. Harding
Senate
Julian
San Francisco
Hoover
Senator Howard Sutherland Seeks Republican Nomination
Senator Howard Sutherland of West Virginia announces his candidacy for the Republican Presidential nomination. He says if West Virginia voters back him in the primary and instruct delegates we expect those delegates to support his candidacy. The statement continues on the fourth page.
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Washington
Howard Sutherland
West Virginia
Farmer's Crops Pilfered. He Rises Tombstones
Washington reports an ironic Census Bureau inquiry as a Pennsylvania farmer claims locals deprive him of crop gathering through an altruistic impulse. He says he has not planted for twenty years and is turning about forty acres into a cemetery to fill it soon.
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Bureau
Danville Boy Missing Believed Kidnapped
Seven year old W H Trimble Jr son of a Danville railway fireman vanished from in front of his home at 7 pm. Neighbors recall the lad delivering milk before he disappeared. Police and county officials traced a passing automobile, though no trace of the boy or the vehicle was found. Powell Luster reported the car to authorities as the search spread through the county.
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Danville
W. H. Trimble, Jr
W. H. Trimble
Trimble
Porte
Powell Luster
Madden charges overprofits in surplus army sales
Illinois Republican Representative Madden told the House that insiders and their outside partners earned from 100 to 500 percent profit on surplus war supplies. He cited “good authority” but refused to name the dealers, prompting calls for Justice Department action and the disclosure of involved names.
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Washington
War Department
Representative Madden
Illinois
Madden
Kahn
Military Committee
Representative Fields
Kentucky
Department of Justice
Gard
Ohio
Congress
Robbers Take $10,000 Payroll From Atlantic Lithographing
In New York on April 16 two robbers battered the cashier at the Atlantic Lithographing and Printing Company next to West Thirty seventh Street Police Station and escaped with the payroll totaling $10,000.
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New York
Atlantic Lithographing and Printing Company
West Thirtyseventh Street
Bodies of 11 Russians found aboard derelict yacht Ostara
In Sulina on the Danube, the yacht Ostara yielded the bodies of eleven Russians from the Falzfein and Skadowski families, each shot dead. 14,000 rubles and jewels were aboard. the fate of the refugees remains a mystery as Romanian authorities investigate bolstered by Russian friends.
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Bucharest
Ostara
Sulina
Danube
Black Sea
Falzfein
Skadowski
Odessa
Constanza
Strike of New York Elevator Men Forces Tenants to Run Own Cars
In New York on April 16 volunteers operated skyscraper elevators as the city faces a strike by 7,000 to 17,000 operators. Building tenants and volunteers filled roles in the Equitable and Woolworth towers while mediation efforts began. Tenants ran elevators temporarily, with management promising to hire back operators if the strike ends.
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New York
Wall Street
J. J. Belan
State Industrial Commission On Mediation and Arbitration
Belan
Financial District
Equitable
Woolworth
United States Tank Fleet Tops World Scale
New York April 16 The United States Shipping Board operates the largest tank steamer fleet under a single direction Captain Paul Foley director of operations said tonight The fleet totals about 600000 deadweight tons and will reach 900000 tons soon The board aims for a 10000000 ton program with 8000000 tons oil burning Saving over 85000000 in operating costs is expected this year by holding government tankers for bunker accounts and fueling oil stations Production is 60 percent US sourced with equal access for foreign citizens Britain controls 90 to 97 percent of future oil under existing arrangements
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New York
United States Shipping Board
Paul Foley
Foley
Shipping Board
United States
Great Britain
Admiral Badger Rejects Sims Charge on War Duration
Rear Admiral C. J. Badger told the Senate committee that Navy policy on sending destroyers to Europe early in the war did not extend hostilities. He said the Allied blockade of Germany, not the anti submarine campaign, was the main naval factor in winning the war, forcing Germany to exhaust its resources.
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Washington
Navy Department
C. J. Badger
Senate
Hale
Sims
Department
Badger
Germany
Three German Officers Accused of Conspiracy Feared Revolt
In Berlin on April 15 three Reichswehr officers and three civilians were arrested on charges of conspiring against the government. Notably Altwater, a submarine commander, and Captain Lieutenant von Viebahn, newly returned from England, met with others in the Defense Ministry to discuss joint action on nationalist and communist lines. The plot was uncovered by aides of Minister Gessler. A Belgian prisoner linked to the Fraternity of Front Soldiers and related newspapers circulated alarmist reports on reactionary plots.
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Berlin
Reichswehr
Altwater
von Viebahn
England
Ministry of Defense
Gessler
Belgium
Die Freiheit
Vorwaerts
Suit Filed to Set Aside Mary Pickford Divorce
The Nevada Attorney General Leonard B. Fowler filed suit in Minden to set aside the divorce decree granted to Gladys Moore known as Mary Pickford from Owen E. Moore. The action, filed late today, was in the interest of the State of Nevada.
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Minden
Langan
Gladys M.oore
Mary Pickford
Owen E. Moore
Leonard B. Fowler
Nevada
Burton declines Tariff Commission post for private business
Theodore E. Burton former Ohio senator and head of Merchants' National Bank of New York is expected to decline the Tariff Commission seat nominated by President Wilson. He has consulted with Congress and administration officials and may notify the White House early next week.
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Washington
Theodore E. Burton
Ohio
Merchants’ National Bank of New York
Tariff Commission
Wilson
Strikers Barred from Union if They Do Not Return
Chicago reports Major General Leonard Wood finds no link between the railway workers strike and the Industrial Workers of the World. A. F. Whitney orders Chicago terminal district strikers to return by midnight Saturday or face expulsion and loss of seniority. With 25 insurgent leaders jailed, freight and livestock movement nears normal as stock yards receipts run near normal. The Railroad Labor Board forms a public group with Henry T Hunt as chairman and G Wallace W Hanger as secretary to review the wage dispute.
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East
Pennsylvania
Baltimore
Toledo
Labor Board
New York
Palmer
Frank Morrison
American Federation of Labor
Washington
Wood
Central Department
Chicago
Industrial Workers of the World
Federal Grand Jury
Trenton
N. J
Newark
Leonard Wood
United States Army
Michigan
San Francisco
A. F.whitney
Brotherhood
Chicago Terminal
Morrisons
Railroad Labor Board
Henry T Hunt
Cincinnati
G. Wallace W. Hanger
Hanger
R. M. Barton
Memphis
Tenn
A. O. Wharton
Morrison Challenges Palmer Statement
AFL Secretary Frank Morrison rejects Attorney General Palmer's claim that the railway strike stemmed from radical activity. He cites an independent railway executive inquiry finding the dispute was a straightforward pay dispute and accuses the DOJ of misunderstanding the situation.
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Washington
Pallmer
Frank. Morrison
American Federation of Labor
United States
Baltimore and Pennsylvania railroad workers vote to return to work
Baltimore officers say yardmen of the Baltimore & Ohio will resume duties with signings by vice president C W Galloway following a pact similar to that with Washington terminal men. Philadelphia reports say Sayiteh workers and other Pennsylvania employees are also returning to duties after the strike action.
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Baltimore & Ohio and
Pennsylvania
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
C. W. Galloway
Washington Terminal
Philadelphia
Sayiteh
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