Railways face $400 million wage cuts by U.S. Labor Board
The United States Railroad Labor Board orders an average 12 percent wage reduction effective July 1, slashing about $400 million from 104 railroads across 31 unions. Rates vary 5 to 18 percent by job, with section workers hit hardest and common labor scaled to $97.10 monthly for track laborers. Brotherhoods plan a July 1 meeting to discuss the decision.
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Chicago
Asolated Press
United States Railroad Labor Board
Oeaot Ier
South
Advertisements Index Amusements and Classifieds
Index to advertisements lists businesses and products such as Bon-Opto Eye Remedy Claremont Dangant Prune Hutton & Co. Gates Motor Car Co Temple Car Graul-Phonographs Lucky Strike Cigarettes Magnus White-Optometrist Morand-Cleaning Ocean View Hotel Pacific Manufacturing Co Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Provident Savings Bank Shillito's Merchandise Southern Railway Excursion and Talking Machine Co. records among others with page references and sections for classified want ads and financial notices.
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Perederand
Bon-Opto Eye Remedy
Aban Isaiss
Claremont
Cabavite
Eae
Hutton & Co
Csc
Gates Motor Car Co
Temple Car
Gidding
Lucky Strike
Magnus White
Optometrist
McAlpin
Miller’s
Ocean View
Pacific Manufacturing Co
Pinkham
Pogue’s
Provident Savings Bank and T. Co
PUPP
Shillito’s
Southern Railway
Stanley Optical.Co
Ulland Coal Co
Aie Cay
the Talking Machine Co
Mine Union Officials To Meet To Consider Wage Agreement
CLEARFIELD Pa May 31 The Executive Board of District No 2 United Mineworkers of America is to meet June 2 at the request of J S Sommerville Altoona President of the Central Coal Association who urges reopening of the miners operators wage agreement Sommerville suggests mutual discussion of Central Pennsylvania production impact President Brophy notes international officers including John L Lewis support protecting the wage agreement integrity The meeting aims to decide next steps in the wage talks
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Clearfield
District No. 2
United Mineworkers of America
John Brophy
J. S. Sommerville
Altoona
Central Coal Association
Sommerville
Brophy
Pennsylvania
John L. Lewis
International Organization
Rare old liquors unearthed in cellar in Tiffin
Prohibition agents probing for contraband liquor found nearly eight hundred gallons of rare wines and liquors in a deep vault beneath a Tiffin residence. Valued at about 50 000 dollars, the stock was sealed behind a thick oak door and iron lock, unused since the death of Trusman H. Bagby former Seneca County Probate Judge over twenty years ago.
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Tiffin
Trusman H. Bagby
Seneca County
Nott Murder Trial Briefly Disrupted by Witness Outburst
Bridgeport May 31 Mrs Ethel H Nott’s murder trial halted for 45 minutes as she hysterically challenged witness William Rooney who testified he waited with a hatchet for George B Nott. The state introduced over fifty letters from Mrs Nott to Elwood B Wade, later kept by Wade in prison and handed to his widow. Rooney testified Wade sought help to attack Nott and showed a revolver given by Mrs Nott, and that a hatchet was provided a week before the killing. He said Wade offered $200 for beating Nott.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Ethel H. Nott
William Rooney
George B. Nott
Mrs. Nott
Elwood B. Wade
Wade
State
Cummings
Eliza A. Wade
Stard
Rooney
Nott
Henry F Shannon
Dike Flood Spreads Across 5 000 Acres In Washington
Flood waters from the Columbia River broke a 75 foot dike six miles north of Woodland washing over about 5 000 acres to depths of eight to ten feet. No lives were lost as residents were warned. Crop damage was estimated at about $500 000. Early today a culvert on the Northern Pacific railroad fill failed allowing further spread. The culvert had been sandbagged against the rising waters overnight.
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Woodland
Wash
Columbia River
Here
Northern Pacific Railroad
Baruch appeals for showdown on Graf charge
In Washington on May 31 Senator Kenyon received a Baruch letter urging a congressional inquiry into alleged copper profiteering during the war. Baruch defends himself as financially clean and willing to produce records while denouncing the charges as heartless lies and seeking to quiet his detractors.
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Washington
Kenyon
Iowa
Senate
B. M. Baruch
War Industries Board
Congressional
Congress
Baruch
Paris
State Troops Sought to Quell Wisconsin Strike Riots
Brown County Sheriff called on Governor Blaine for immediate troop dispatch to Green Bay to quell disturbances tied to three paper mill strikes. In Green Bay officials and pickets at Northern Paper Mill clash as 1,000 or more protestors confront workers and security. Police patrols and deputies monitor the area as Sheriff Ryan says authorities can no longer control the situation.
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Madison
Wis
Blaine
Brown County
Green Bay
Ryan
Peonage Farm Boss Guilty of Murder in Georgia
Clyde Manning, a black farm boss on the John S. Williams plantation near Covington, was found guilty of murder in the death of Lind sey Peterson, one of eleven alleged peonage victims. Manning received a life sentence.
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Covington
Clyde Manning
John S. Williams
Lindsey Peterson
Manning
Jimmie amnesia case seeks Cincinnati identity
The Red Cross and The Commercial Tribune appeal for help to locate Jimmie an amnesia patient missing since last Thursday after promising to return to Red Cross headquarters He is a memory loss case able to read and write English but writes French perfectly and may wander east or west in search of memory or loved ones The paper recalls similar Cincinnati cases and asks readers to contact authorities if they know him.
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Jimmie
Cincinnati
Topsy
England
Canada
United States
Taayhap
Japhet
American Red Cross
Red Cross
Canadian Patriotic League
W. C. Kendis
Longview Asylum
The
Commercial Tribune
Frederick Soter
New York City
United States Army
Red Whiskers Burnett Fires On Texas Cowboys Posse
Arizona outlaw Red Whiskers Burnett who has evaded sheriffs and posses for ten days after the Mariana Teague murder opened fire on a cowboy posse near the Bar S ranch twenty-five miles from Globe. No cowboys were hit.
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Globe, Ariz
Burnett
Arizona
Mariana Teague
Jury Discharges as McGannon Trial Shifts Focus
Cleveland May 31 The jury in the McGannon perjury case was discharged after witnesses said a woman juror spread prejudicial remarks. Judge Florence E. Allen reset the trial for June 9 and ordered new contempt proceedings against McGannon and three others. Miss Catherine Chambers, a bailiff, faced an information alleging she tried to obstruct justice, with affidavits from two jurors.
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Cleveland
William H. McGannon
Harold C.kagy
Catherine Chambers
Administration of Justice
McGannon
Florence E. Allen
Judge Allen
William L. David
Miss Chambers
Common Pleas
Edward W. Stanton
David
James I. McCafferty
Ellen Griffith
Bernon
Berger's Paper and Call Restored to Mail Rights
The Milwaukee Leader and New York Call were restored to second class mailing privileges by the Post Office Department. Denied previously due to material about American participation in the war, they regained access as Victor Berger, editor of the Leader, had his espionage act conviction set aside by the Supreme Court.
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Washington
Milwaukee Leader
New York Call
Postoffice Department
Burleson
Victor Berger
Leader
Supreme Court
Woman Drinks Poision After Custody Dispute
Mrs. Pearl Serison, 21, drank poison last night in her mother's home at 1562 West Sixth Street after bells rang. She is in serious condition at General Hospital. Her husband Lawrence Serison seeks custody and had recently moved from Moline Illinois.
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Pearl Serison
West Sixth Street
Lawrence Serison
Cincinnati
Moline
Ill
S. Harlow
Sixth Street
Mrs. Serison
Sinn Fein Explodes Mine Wounding Soldiers Near Youghal
Three soldiers were killed instantly and three mortally wounded when mines exploded under a marching party from Youghal Barracks en route to the rifle range. The attackers fled. An Irish Loyalist Constabulary officer was killed in a night clash with ambushers near Blarney Castle.
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Cork
Associated Press
Youghal
Irish Loyal Constabulary
Blarney Castle
Nonaghan
Eden Park Robber Flees as Witness Intervenes
Purcell Scroggins reports a hold up near Eden Park on Gilbert avenue in which a white man snatched $8. The suspect fled when William Ritchie, driving by, sprang from his car and frightened the robber with his sudden intervention.
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Eden Park
Gilbert Avenue
Purcell Scroggins
Main Street
Investigation Ordered Into Morgantown Plane Crash
Secretary Weeks ordered an Inspector General inquiry into the Morgantown Maryland air crash that killed four officers, an enlisted man, and two civilians. The review will be broader than the Air Service Board of Inquiry findings exonerating pilot Lt Stanley Ames and noting no defect in the aircraft.
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Washington
Inspector General of the Army
Morgantown
Weeks
March
Air Service
Board of Inquiry
Menoher
Stanley Ames
de Levergne
Langley Field
Rewra
Chauffeur admits part in Hyde Park hold-up case
One of three men arrested last night confessed to involvement in the Walter E. Oliver robbery at Erie avenue Paxton road. Abe Litz drove the car and said he received six dollars. Kramer and Smith deny involvement while Oliver plans to sign warrants against Litz and Kramer. A fourth suspect is being sought by police.
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Abe Litz
Walter Oliver
Gan Point
Walter E. Oliver
lLueders Avenue
Hyde Park
Erie Avenue
Paxton Road
Oliver
West Court Street
Fifth and
Walnut Streets
Weatherly
McCorkhill
Grannan
Bahlke
Fifth
Walnut Hills
Litz
Kramer
First District
Litz and
Tulsa Race Riot Turmoil Ends with One Dead Five Hurt
In Tulsa Oklahoma on May 31 a dead black man and five wounded people, two white and three black, followed clashes between armed white rioters and a group of about 200 black residents near the Courthouse after an arrest for an attack on a white girl. National Guardsmen arrived before midnight as mobs paraded toward the black district.
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Oklahoma
Tulsa
Okla
National Guard Called Out To Aid Tulsa Police
Oklahoma City May 31 three units of the National Guard were ordered to Tulsa to aid local police in handling race trouble. Governor Robertson said he gave Adjutant General Barrett full control of the situation and discretion to act following a report from Tulsa’s mayor.
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Oklahoma Y
Okla
Engineers Strike Curbs Car Service in Cincinnati
Ohio Traction Company faces a strike as 29 stationary engineers quit at 11 pm after wage talks failed. Day service to continue with nonstriking crews while owl service starts limited and routes scale back until new arrangements are reached.
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Cincinnati
Ohio Traction Company
T. H. Schoepf
Traction Company
Charles B. Manwood
Stationary Engineers’ Union
Schoepf
Walter Draper
Explosion at Aberdeen Army Grounds Kills Two
Two soldiers die and thirteen wounded in a bombing accident during airplane bomb testing at Aberdeen Maryland. Major investigators said losses include Private Allen A. Shermer and Private E. H. Grinnel among the dead, with Captain Joseph E. Hall among the gravely injured.
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Washington
Aberdeen
MD.) Army Proving Grounds
War Department
William A. Borden
Claudius H. M. Roberts
Allen A. Shermer
Fourteenth Squadron
Air Service
E. H. Grinnel
Joseph E. Hall
New Haven
Conn
Carl G. Eliason
Hagerstown
Lewis R. Reese
Quartermaster Corps
Gwynnbrook
Ae Aereecen
Charles J.O Neill
Thirty-fourth Ordnance Company
Edward Jarry
Robert M. Herr
S. P. Mance
Forty-seventh Ordnance Company
L. J. Titlow
Raymond F. Bohle
Borden
Captain Roberts
Clarence C. Williams
Ordnance
Bull Runs Loose Through City Streets
A bull escaped from Schlemer's stockyard at Lindsay and John streets and wandered into the heart of the city. Mounted Officer Geil confronted the animal at Seventh and Main, firing a shot that grazed Taurus above the eye. George Weaver lassoed the bull on Smith Street, and it was returned to the stockyards for fattening.
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Schlemer
Lindsay
John
M. P. Geil
Seventh
Main Streets
Geil
Main Street
Second Street
Smith Street
Taurus
George Weaver
Hannibal Street
Cincinnati
French Premier Briand Wins Confidence Vote in Senate
Paris May 31 Premier Briand secured a confidence vote as the Senate rejected a motion to send the London agreement to a commission. The tally stood 277 to a non specified opposition.
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Paris
Briand
Senate
London
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Say
Auto Bandits
Firemen and Oilers
Ohio Traction
Draper
Zoo-Eden
Gilbert
Linton Avenue
Mt. Adams
Fairview
Clifton-Ludlow
Hartwell
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