Mill Workers Strike for Higher Wages Across Several Plants
Fourteen thousand mill workers in Chicago struck for a wage rise from 85 cents to 1.10 an hour. Northern Minnesota timber workers walked out for an eight hour day. Butte laborers voted to strike for a $1 daily increase, rejecting a 50 cent offer. Nineteen thousand railroad switchmen remain on strike as seniority rights stay denied.
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Chicago
Associated
ST. Paul
Associated Press
Minnesota
Butte
Butte Workingmen’s Union
Eyak Roadway Ten Built This Season Declared Official
J. M. Myers of Portland, a bureau of public roads representative, arrived in Cordova and announced immediate work on a roadway around Lake Hyak with about $28,000 available. A crew of thirty to forty men will be hired to rush construction in favorable weather, with wages at the going rate. The Kataila-Chilkat road linking the former site with oil fields will also be built at once, requiring more workers.
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Lake Hyak
J. M. Myers
Portland
Bureau of Public Roads
Cordova
Five Summer Camps for Boy Scouts of Pacific Northwest
Five outdoor training camps for Puget Sound boy scouts will be run at cost under experienced leaders. The Seattle council will run a twelve week Seattle camp on Wood Canal and Mount Rainier National Park for a month, Tacoma Council camp at American Lake for six weeks, Cascades near Mount Pilchuk for three weeks by Everett Council, and several one or two week trips into the Olympic mountains including a voyage across the Pacific divide. Camps welcome scouts from all cities within reach of the sound.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Associated Press
Boy Scouts of
Puget Sound
Scout
L. S. Booth
Seattle Boy Scouts Council
Wood Canal
Mount Ranier National Park
Tacoma
American Lake
Cascades
Mount
Bids Sought for Yakima Reservation Land Parcels
Bids for ninety two allotments on the Yakima Indian reservation close May 25 at 2 PM local time. Appraisals show six 80 acre tracts valued from 12 600 to 21 000 dollars, seven 86 acre tracts from 5 000 to 7 000 dollars, and eleven parcels valued 3 000 to 5 000 dollars each.
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Yakima, Wash
Associated Press
Yakima Indian Reservation
Don M. Carr
Yakima Agency
Misemore Elected Petersburg Mayor by City Council
S. Misemore, cashier of the Petersburg Bank, was elected mayor of Petersburg by the city council. The vote confirms his leadership for the next term.
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T. S. Misemore
Petersburg Bank
Petersburg
Prohibition in Politics Sparks Debate in Congress
Washington reports Representative Ballivan of Massachusetts estimated annual prohibition enforcement costs at 88 million dollars. The House considers political entanglements with prohibition while other actions include mail rate reforms and Civil War pension increases. Officials anticipate a veto for the Knox peace resolution.
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Washington
Associated Press
Ballivan
Massachusetts
House of Representatives
Oil permits require pencil sketches for locating sites
Juneau dispatch reports Frank A. Boyle registrar and receiver of the United States land office says oil permit applications must include a rough pencil sketch showing natural monuments landmarks and adjoining claims to locate the site.
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Juneau
Daily Times
Frank A. Boyle
United States Land Office
Roosevelt coins to be put in circulation
The senate yesterday passed the bill authorizing the coinage of Roosevelt two cent pieces. The measure allows the mint to issue 2 cent coins bearing the Roosevelt design for public circulation.
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Roosevelt
Washington
Associated Press
Senate
War brides from France seek adjustment in Pittsburgh club
In Pittsburgh 12,000 of about 50,000 French war brides have returned to France due to cultural incompatibilities. L'Espoir Franco-American club, formed at Mile. Odette de Bouglon's suggestion and led by war-bride Mrs Reginald H Johnson, aims to ease adaptation. Members study English but feel isolated, noting French individualism clashes with American life.
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Pittsburgh
Associated Press
France
Reginald H. Johnson
L’espoir
Mile
Odette de Bouglon
Paris
Johnson
University of Pittsburgh
War telegraph and telephone debt prompt appropriation
Postmaster General Burleson says wartime telegraphs and telephones cost the government more than fourteen million dollars and urges immediate congressional appropriation to liquidate the deficit.
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Washington
Associated Press
Burleson
Practical Steps to Develop Alaska Coal for Navy Use
Secretary of the Navy Daniels has appointed a five officer commission to depart for Matanuska Alaska to lead coal mine development as Congress prepares naval appropriation funding. Secretary Payne asserts Alaska coal is a potential fuel source for the nation’s warships.
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Alaska
United States Navy
Seattle
Associated Press
Washington
Post-Intelligencer
Matanuska Field
Navy
Daniels
Matanuska
Secretary of the Interior
Payne
Grigsby Seeks Status of Soviet Decree on Siberian Fur Trade
John W. Troy reports the Amdir Soviet in Siberia will allow US fur trade only through the Soviet government store. The matter goes to Alaska's George Grigsby to determine how American citizens may trade in Siberia.
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Seattle
Associated Press
John W. Troy
United States
Juneau
Amidir
Siberia
George B. Grigsby
Congress
Alaska
Caetani dynamites canal to unite lake with Mediterranean
Prince Caetani and Don Gelasio Caetani oversee a massive explosion project in the Pontine Marshes near Roma. Fifty tons of explosives and 1,200 bombs created a canal from Lake Caprolace to the Mediterranean, aiming to drain swampland and boost fish trade for the Roman market.
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Rome
Associated Press
Gelasio Caetani
Prince Caetani
Col di Lana
Lake Caprolace
Mediterranean Sea
Duke of
Cisterna
Pontine
Campagna
Terracina
Monaci
Fogliano
Caprolace
Mediterranean
Caetani
Economists to discuss war problems at academy meeting
Economists bankers and educators will discuss problems from the war focusing on the high cost of living and price inflation at the American Academy of Political Science semi annual meeting. Professor Samuel McCune Lindsay of Columbia University said the forum aims to unite top national thought to mitigate reconstruction hazards.
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New York
Associated Press
American Academy of Political Science
Samuel McCune Lindsay
Columbia University
Downfall of Carranza Seems Certain
Carranza faces growing threats as desertions from his forces swell. Juarez falls boost revolutions and push toward Coahuila, Carranza’s base, while southern rebels press toward Mexico City.
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Carranza
Washington
Associated Press
Juarez
Coahuila
Mexico City
Guerilla Warfare Document Reveals Irish Volunteers Tactics
Dublin May 5 AP report highlights a discovered article titled Guerilla Warfare in the Cork man Paul John Vignoiss’s effects. It argues Volunteers must develop guerilla training and wage war against invaders using prolonged, organized tactics. Colonel D D Pullen and bride plan Alaska trip after Canal Zone wedding.
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Dublin
Associated Press
Ireland
Paul John Vignoiss
Cork
Irish Volunteers
Slayer Leads Searchers to Tomb of 10 Victim
James C Hirrt alias Walter Andrew Watson, accused slayer, led officers to a burial spot for Nina Lee Delaney and confessed to killings. Police report more possible victims unearthed, bringing alleged total to over thirty. Delaney’s body found by searchers near the spot Huirt indicated.
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Los Angeles
Associated Press
James C. Hurrt
Walter Andrew Watson
Imperial Valley
Nina Lee Delaney
Huirt
Dixieland
Cal
Wood Easily Defeats Johnson in Maryland Primary
In Maryland a light vote produced a two to one Republican victory for General Leonard Wood over Senator Hiram Johnson. Democratic delegates remained uninstructed. In Utah a Republican state convention elected eight uninstructed delegates to the Chicago convention, two of whom were women.
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Baltimore
Associated Press
Leonard Wood
Hiram Johnson
Prince
Utah
Chicago
Physiology reader Barcroft seals himself in glass box for six days
Cambridge May 5 Joseph Barcroft Kings College physiology reader endured six days in a hermetically sealed glass box to test oxygen in breath and air needs for aviators. He recorded sensations noting sleeplessness and headaches near the end while exercising and eating in two compartments.
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Cambridge
Associated Press
Joseph Barcroft
Kings College
Barcroft
Toll Rises to Seventy in Peggs Tornado
Muskoge e Okla May 5 The death toll from Sunday’s Peggs tornado reaches seventy with many wounded gravely injured and unlikely to survive.
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Muskogee
Okla
Associated Press
Peggs
Examinations for Alaska Teachers Set for June
Alaska Department of Education announces teachers holding temporary certificates must upgrade before next school year. Examinations will be held June 3-5 in Ketchikan Juneau Cordova Anchorage Kodiak Fairbanks Nome. Eligible applicants should contact local officials. age 18 plus four years of schooling and one year professional training required. First grade asks about 12 subjects, second grade 13, third grade 11.
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Alaska
Commissioner of Education
Ketchkan
Juneau
Cordova
Anchorage
Kodiak
Fairbanks
Nome
Mr. Henderson
W. A. Knox
Ketchikan
J. E. Lanz
Emma Keever
John H. Dunn
Howard McGinley
Henrietta Mirick
Emma Lee Orr
Dolly Varden Mine Still in Litigation
Ottawa May 5 The minister of justice has not yet decided on disallowance of the BC legislature special statute that vested ownership of the Dolly Varden mine in the Taylor Engineering Company. Disallowance is expected.
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Ottawa
Associated Press
Minister of Justice
British Columbia
Dolly Varden
Taylor Engineering Company
Interior Secretary urges coal burning ships amid oil shortage
Secretary of the Interior Payne urges that all merchant marine and naval vessels be designed to burn coal, in anticipation of an oil shortage. The public statement stresses coal as a secure fuel for future ships.
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Washington
Associated Press
Secretary of the Interior
Payne
Washington University Heavy Rowing Crew Boosted Weights
Washington coach Ed Leader has reorganized the varsity rowing team raising the average oarman weight to 177 pounds the heaviest in years. Last year’s Washington champions averaged just over 165 pounds, reflecting the current upgrade in crew strength.
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Seattle
Associated Press
Ed Leader
University of Washington
Washington
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