Chiefs of Railroad Brotherhoods Meet at Cincinnati Tuesday
Edward H. Fitzgerald said sixteen fraternity chiefs and other railway union executives will gather in Cincinnati next Tuesday to discuss issues affecting railroad workers. About forty leaders are expected, meeting on guidance from B. M. Jewell of the AFL workers department.
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Railroad Brotherhoods
Cincinnati
Associated Press
Edward H. Fitzgerald
Brotherhood of Railway Clerks
B. M. Jewell
American Federation of Labor
Chang Resigns Presidency of China Today
Tokio reports President Hsu Shih Chang of China resigned at an extraordinary cabinet session. General Li Yuan Hung, who became president after Yuan Shih Kai’s death in 1916, has been restored to office per official advices from Peking today.
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Tokio
Associated Press
Hsu Shih Chang
China
Li Yuan Hung
Yuan Shih Kai
Pekin
Chang
Seek a Reconciliation Between Sun and Chen
In Canton Sun Yat Sen and General Shen Shiungmin, former military governor, are targets of ongoing talks to reconcile the split in the southern government. The finances worsen while Chen leverages revenue control to press Sun toward abdication as Sun moves north into Kiangsi.
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Hong Kong
Associated Press
Sun Yat Sen
Canton
Shen Shiungmin
Chen
Sun
Kiangsi
Weather outlook for Chicago tonight and Friday
Weather indications forecast unsettled conditions with showers Friday and across the western and southern portions tonight. Temperatures expected to rise slightly tonight making it somewhat warmer.
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Chicago
Vladivostok President Deposed and Arrested
President Murlulov of Vladivostok’s government has been deposed and placed under arrest by order of the constitutional assembly, according to messages received. The report notes the action was taken amid political turmoil in the region.
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Tokio
Associated Press
Murlulov
Vladivostok
The
Constitutional Assembly
Actress Constance Talmadge Granted Interlocutory Divorce
Constance Talmadge, screen actress, obtained an interlocutory decree of divorce from John Pialoglou, tobacco manufacturer of New York, in Los Angeles on grounds of mental cruelty. No answer to the suit was filed by Pialoglou.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Associated Press
Constance Talmadge
John Pialoglou
New York
Pialoglou
Wyoming in Grip of Blt Snow Storm
Snow fell generally in central and southern Wyoming yesterday and today. Cheyenne experiences its first white June in memory, with snow starting late yesterday afternoon and continuing until late at night.
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Wyoming
Cheyenne
Wyo
Associated Press
Balloon No 1 Lands In Fort Wayne Race
Balloon No 1 piloted by Lieutenant Von Hoffman and aid Ralph F Venzill of the Aero Club of St. Louis landed six miles north of Fort Wayne Indiana shortly before noon today in the national balloon race reported by the Associated Press.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Associated Press
von Hoffman
Ralph F Venzill
The
Aero Club of St. Louis
Here
Police disguise fail in Hammond highway robbery attempt
In Hammond Indiana two bandits tried to rob motorists on the highway toward Gary. Disguised as a spooning couple, officers shot from their car, killing bandit Lloyd Parisey and wounding bandit Howard Fowler who is hospitalized with a chest wound. Fowler gave the name Howard Fowler.
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Hammond
Ind
Howard Fowler
Here
Gary
Lloyd Parisey
Fowler
Dead man found to be author of battle hymn
Paul Barnes died May 7 at Manhattan State Hospital Ward's Island. Once famous for Good Bye Dolly Grey the war song used by US troops, he was blind and a pauper and lived in the hospital about two years. Barnes and his wife worked in music halls but faded after the war, leading to his insanity.
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New York
N. Y
Associated Pries
Paul Barnes
Manhattan State Hospital
Ward's Island
Dolly Grey
Spain
Barnes
Broadway
English Bar Member Executed for Murder
Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong a leading Welsh solicitor was executed in Gloucester jail for murder the first English bar member to face capital punishment. He had been convicted after evidence showed his wife was poisoned and after exhumation revealed poison use.
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London
Associated Press
Herbert Rowse Armstrong
Gloucester
Major Armstrong
Oswald Martin
Report on Bonus Bill In Making
The finance committee report on the soldier bonus bill amendment remains in progress. Chairman M. Cumber hoped to report it and the bill to the senate before week’s end, placing the measure on the calendar for consideration.
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Washington, D. C
Associated Press
Financial Committee
M. Cumber
Senate
Moorish Marriages Held At Midnight Ceremony
Moorish marriages are performed at midnight with the bride confined to her room for several days after the ceremony.
Debt Funding Commission Meets in Washington
The allied debt funding commission met in Washington DC for its second meeting since its creation by Congress to negotiate funding of eleven billion dollars owed to the United States abroad.
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Washington, D. C
Associated Press
Allied Debt Funding Commission
Congress
Labor Board Minority to Protest Wage Cuts in Rail Plan
Chicago June 1 The United States railroad labor board will issue a majority decision reducing wages for railway shipments this week with a minority protest being prepared by Albert O. Wharton former head of shop crafts unions and AFL. The move follows a prior saving of about 50 million dollars and covers clerks telegraphers and other smaller classes. train and engine service men are excluded. An audience was granted to the shop crafts unions executive council regarding outside contract cases.
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Chicago
Ill
United States Railroad Labor Board
Albert O. Wharton
Raiway
American Federation of Labor
Shop Crafts Unions
IRL BEING HELD PRISONER AT THE BLUFFS
Police and Lottie Davidson's parents believe the fifteen year old girl is being held prisoner in Council Bluffs Iowa. A letter believed written by force to her mother says she is being held in a house about ten blocks from her home and that she is all right.
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Council Bluffs
Associated Press
Lottie Davidson
Chinese Pigtail Industry Faces Decline Over Double Hair Nets
A Commerce Department report from Consul Gauss in Teinan says American women favor double hair nets, threatening China’s export pigtail industry. It notes a U S importers association aims to curtail double nets and a proposed Chinese hair net guild to discourage their manufacture.
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Washington ,D. C
Associated Press
China
Commerce Department
Gauss
Teinan
United States
Washington
Death of Deaf Boy Killed by Train Near Stockton
Roy Boller eleven year old son of Mr and Mrs Chris Boller was struck and killed by a Rock Island freight train while walking along the right of way in Stockton Iowa The boy had been deaf since recovering from scarlet fever four years earlier The incident occurred yesterday and the death was reported by the Associated Press.
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Stockton
Associated Press
Roy Boller
Chris Boller
Rock Island
Will Let Contract for New 35000 Masonic Home Soon
A Creston Masonic Temple Association board met at the Iowana Hotel to review preliminary plans for a new Masonic Home on the old temple site at Oak and Montgomery. Clarence Yule was chosen as architect. a single story plus semibasement building about 147 by 55 feet is planned with gymnasium and banquet hall in the basement and a lodge-focused main floor. Construction is expected to start with contract let within thirty days, with a projected cost near 35000.
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Chamber of Commeree
Iowana Hotel
Clarence Yule
Mageoni
Temple Grand
North Oak
Montgomery Street
Yule
Association
K. D. Seeberger
J. C. DeLay
Man shoots wife then wounds himself in Waterloo tragedy
At 7:40 pm in Waterloo Iowa Associated Press reports 26 year old Reilly Downs shot himself after believing he had killed his wife Gladys Turner Downs 20 who had left him and returned with friends for clothing. Mrs Downs fled with a minor forehead grazing wound. The man cannot live.
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Waterloo
Associated Press
Reilly Downs
Himeelf
Gladys Turner Downs
Relief Secretary Weds Russian Woman
John G. Anderson of Washington and Mlle Agrippina Tichonova daughter of a Moscow professor were married in Moscow May 18. The ceremony at the Soviet marriage bureau was followed by a church wedding. The bride has worked in the American relief administration offices where Anderson is secretary to the executive.
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Moscow
John G. Anderson
Washington, D. C
Mlle
Agrippina Tichonova
American Relief Administration
Mr. Anderson
Market roundup shows varied cattle hogs and sheep prices
Today's Markets report cattle receipts 14 000 with beef steers steady and bulls weaker while hogs gain modestly and sheep ease up to 25 cents. Egg and butter prices steady. grain futures show mixed moves with cattle and hogs noted in Des Moines estimates.
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Chicago
Lamson Bros. & Co
Hubbel
Des Moines
Arrest Girls Refusing to Work Sparks Bulgarian Tension
Premier Stamboulsky calls for arrest and punishment of girls aged 16 to 20 who refuse the new government work law in Varna and Sofia. Only about 100 have complied with sewing typing and hospital tasks since the May 1 enactment. Wealthy families dominate compliance as peasants gather for a congress while bourgeois fear a dictatorship and mass valuables are moved. The American Legion faces heavy guard after threats toward Minister Charles Wilson.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Associated Press
Stamboulsky
Varna
American Legion
Charles Wilson
Morse Demurrers Overruled in War Contract Case
In Washington on June 1 Chief Justice McCoy overruled demurrers by Charles W. Morse his three sons and eight others to indictments charging conspiracy to defraud the United States through war contracts with the Emergency Fleet Corporation. The court ruled the charges definite enough to protect defendants against later prosecution and held that defrauding the corporation, an agency of the U S Shipping Board, is fraud against the government. District Attorney Peyton Gordon said a trial date before summer recess would be sought. The amethyst is called the prelate's gem, linked to the Roman Catholic bishops' pastoral ring.
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Washington, D. C
Charles W. Morse
United States
Emergency Fleet Corporation
McCoy
District of Columbia Supreme Court
United State Shipping Board
Peyton Gordon
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