Firemen and Oilers Join Rail Shopmen in Nationwide Strike
About 8,000 stationary firemen and oilers join the rail shopmen strike as unions announce possible further expansions this week. Peace talks resumed before the US Railroad Labor Board with rail chiefs meeting chairman Ben Hooper to seek a basis for agreement on five shopmen demands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Associated Press
National Railway Crisis
Clerks’ Union
American Federation of Railroad Workers
United States Railroad Labor Board
W. H. Finley
Chicago & Northwestern
W. G. Bierd
Chicago & Alton
Ben Hooper
Walter L. McMenimen
B.M. Jewell
Hooper
Labor Board
Miners Face arbitration showdown as troops eyed for flag
Washington July 17 Previous to President Harding’s call for mine owners to resume operations officials weighed the risks of armed protection and the American flag in danger zones. Employers split on arbitration terms, with a general acceptance by many regions while some Pennsylvania and Ohio groups rejected the plan.
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Washington
Harding
Pennsylvania
Ohio
White House
Illinois
Southwest
Mississippi
Pittsburgh
Indiana
Pittsburgh Producers’ Association
Thomas H. Watkins
Pennsylvania Coke and Coal Corporation
Ogle
Willmen Field
Pittsburgh Association
Hoover
Mellon
John Wingate Weeks
Senate
Final Gollapse of Arbitration Shifts to White House Action
President Harding invited bituminous mine operators to resume work at once after their acceptance of arbitration for the coal strike. He warned that government good offices end where workers and a minority of operators reject arbitration, stressing coal as a national necessity and public welfare.
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White House
Washington
Harding
Bigamy case rocks Covington marriage
Helen Cassimatis, 21, married Paschal Warne, 29, then learned he was already wed in 1918 Macedonia. Police arrested Warne in Covington after a warrant for bigamy. bond set at 3500. Cassimatis vowed love despite the situation and questioned the man she married.
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Helen Cassimatis
Miss Cassimatis
West Fifth Street
Covington
Paschal Warne
West Sixth Street
Kenton County Court
Warne
Bert King
Varne
Classimatis
Nestram
Macedonia
Cassimatis
James Higgins
Higgins
Cincinnati
John Street
Indians Form Court to Check Divorces
Two thousand Sioux Indians gathered at the Catholic Sioux Congress to establish an Indian Court of Domestic Relations on the reservation to prevent divorces. Indian speakers accused certain lawyers of provoking divorces among tribal members. Reverend William Hughes of Washington was named a tribal member with ceremonies and given the name Wambli Wakita meaning Watching Eagle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Hughes
Washington, D. C
Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions
Hughes
Indiana
American Legion
Attorney arrest in hail strike sparks federal action
Federal authorities move to quell violent rail strike after arrest of C H Harmeling of Sandfordtown Ky for driving a car carrying seven men who assaulted Newport guards at Covington L and N shops. Sparks and Bole report injuries. Harmeling denies knowledge of others. Police suspend vacations. injunction against strikers pending permanent order. costin says Big Four will stop farming out freight contracts to shed tension.
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Sawyer Smith
United States
Eastern District of
Kentucky
C. H. Harmeling
Sandfordtown
Harmeling
W. J. Sparks
Olan Bole
Newport
Louisville & Nashville
Covington
Park Place
Court Avenue
Smith
Sparks
Bole
Walter Evans
Western District of
Louisville
Girl S body Found By Lonely Road Near Ritter Estate
The body of Aileen Gregory, 19, was found by a lonely road on the Gertrude C. Ritter estate with a bullet near her heart and a revolver beside her. Her home is nearby. Her father is superintendent of the Ritter estate. An autoist saw the body and Attorney General Francis Archibald arranged an autopsy.
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Manchbester
Aileen Gregory
Gertrude C. Ritter
Ritter Estate
Francis Archibald
National Guard Ready for Strike Duty in North Carolina
Governor Morrison orders Adjutant General Metts to mobilize units to Rockingham Wilson Raleigh and Durham amid railway shopmen strike. Troops en route from Morehead City to be used where needed to restore order protect life and property. The governor warned lawless actions would meet full military resistance.
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Raleigh
N. C
Morrison
Metts
Rockingham
Wilson
Durham
Morehead City
Hamlet
Rocky Mount
Atlantic Oe Line
United States Gravahass
Auto Crash and Labor Turmoil Plague Rocky Mount Area
In Rocky Mount a night of strikes disrupts Atlantic Coast Line shops after guards were kidnapped by sympathizers. A nonunion machinist was seized and held out of town, with two workers removed earlier. Separately in Campbell County a Covington contractor, Louis Schlosser, 53, plunged off a Waterworks road embankment after his car struck a washout, tumbling six times and suffering serious injuries including a near-severed lip. He was helped by motorists and later carried home. his wrecked car was recovered by a garage crew.
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Rocky Mount
N. C
Atlantic Coast Line
Emmerson
Waterworks Road
Campbell County
Louis Schlosser
Banklick Street
Covington
Reservoir Hill
Water— Works Road
Schlosser
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Treasury Puzzles Dover Status in Customs Post
Washington July 17 The Treasury is unsure if Elmer Dover remains Assistant Secretary in charge of customs and internal revenue or has resigned effective July 15. Secretary Mellon and Dover gave conflicting signals, with officials weighing a successor though no decision was made. Dover said he knew nothing and remained on duty at the Treasury.
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Washington
the Treasury
Elmer Dover
Customs and Internal Revenue
Mr. Dover
Mellon
Dover
The
Treasury
Man Struck by Train While Attempting Freight Ride
Patrick Doyle 28 was struck by a Baltimore and Ohio passenger train in Cincinnati Elmwood yards as he tried to board a freight train back to New York City. Taken to Seton Hospital with a fractured leg and other injuries, doctors fear possible skull fracture. his condition is serious but not immediately dangerous.
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Elmwood Yards
New York City
Patrick Doyle
Seton Hospital
Doyle
New
York
Cincinnati
Big City
Two Detroit Rum-Runners Killings Attributed To Graft
In Detroit's down river district two men, Robert D. Cochran and Neal Doherty, were shot to death by occupants of a pursuing car. Police link the killings to rum runners amid ongoing Chicago grand jury probes into a large prohibition era graft and a $500,000 liquor scheme.
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Detroit
Mich
Robert D. Cochran
Neal Doherty
Emmons Boulevard
Lincoln Park
Cochran
Doherty
Chicago
Federal Grand Jury
Harry W. Mager
Internal Revenue
Benjamin M. Mitchell
Illinois
A. C. Earnshaw
Special Internal Revenue Intelligence Department
Earnshaw
Count De Chambrun to Represent France in Washington
Paris July 17. Count Charles De Chambrun was named by Premier Poincare to serve as Charge d Affaires at the French Embassy in Washington during Ambassador Jusserand’s upcoming leave. He was recalled from Constantinople where he serves in the French diplomatic service. He is brother of Count Albert De Chambrun who married Miss Sarah Longworth of Cincinnati.
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Paris
Associated Press
Count Charles de Chambrun
Poincare
Washington
Jusserand
Count de Chambrun
Constantinople
Count Albert de Chambrun
Sarah Longworth
Cincinnati
Four Die in Mine Clash as Brooke County Braces for Fallout
Four dead and many wounded followed a daybreak battle at Clifton Mine in Cliftonville and Pennsylvanian strikers. Sheriff Duval died among the fighting, with deputies rounding up prisoners and state police guarding the Cliftonville tent colony amid tense Brooke County conditions.
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Wellsburg
W. Va
Associated Press
Clifton
Richland Coal Company
Cliftonville
H. H. Duval
Union
Pennsylvania
Francis Milich
Monnessen
Crook
Duval
Thomas
Brooke County
Wheeling
Ohio County
Toha
Cliftonville mine clash leaves two feared dead and search under way
In Cliftonville West Virginia a large guard shell remains on duty as deputies and state police monitor crowds around the burning tipple. Officials say bodies may lie in the ruins after a night of heavy fighting near a tent colony of striking miners.
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Cliftonville
W. Va
Associated Press
White
Edwards
FE. J. Sexton
Duval
Mrs. Gertrude Fleischmann Granted Divorce After Abandonment
In Chicago Judge Charles McDonald grants Mrs. Gertrude Broscius Fleischmann a divorce from Harry Fleischmann son of Gustav Fleischmann of Cincinnati. She testified he left after their 1920 marriage the next day to California to build a love nest and has not been seen since. Detectives traced him to San Francisco and Los Angeles before losing the trail. no alimony due to lack of service.
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Chicago
Gertrude Broscius Fleischmann
Charles McDonald
Harry Fleischmann
Gustav Fleischmann
Cincinnati
California
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Debs Urges Unity Across Color in Strike Fight
Eugene V. Debs calls on railroad strikers and unions to unite and strike vote and fight together regardless of color or creed. He warns federal and state forces could suppress unrest and urges conversion to powerful industrial unions to oppose political parties and Wall Street. In Minnesota a Workers' Party leaflet praises the Herrin massacre as a defense and calls workers to unite against bosses.
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Debs
Chicago
Eugene V. Debs
American Railway Union
Mr. Debs
Department of Justice
Atlantic
America
Union
Wall Street
Herrin
Workers’ Party
ST. Paul, Minn
Lik
St. Paul
C. E. Ruthenberg
Workers’ Party of America
United States
Woman Takes Poison at Downtown Saloon Steps
A 40 year old woman identified as Mrs Lizzie Drees collapsed on the steps of the Black Kid saloon at 1023 West Sixth Street after swallowing poison amid marital troubles. She was rushed to General Hospital where doctors used heroic methods though last night officials said she was not in serious condition.
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Sixth Street
West Sixth Street
General Hospital
Lizzie Drees
Lorimer Returns to America From Colombia
Former United States Senator William Lorimer, ousted for corruption, has returned to Chicago from Colombia where he worked for a mining syndicate to recoup his fortunes and repay investors in the LaSalle Street Trust Company. He cites failing eyesight and may undergo an operation by Colonel P. J. A. Farrell, aiming to restore his vision. He says he is in good health aside from eye trouble.
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Chicago
William Lorimer
United States
Colombia
South America
LaSalle Street Trust Company
Lorimer
P. J. A. Farrell
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