Early wartime contracts revived by Skinner & Eddy firm
Washington reports 25 steel ship contracts for Skinner & Eddy of Seattle under the Emergency Fleet Corporation will be reinstated with reduced price. Total tonnage about 250,000. Other suspended contracts may follow.
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Skinner & Eddy Corporation
Seattle
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Washington, D. C
News Dispatch
Fleet Corporation
Messuage
Pueblo
Walsenburg
Colo
Buena Vista
Kek
Camp Lewis
War Department
Hawaii
Philippines
Portland
War
Fort Douglas
Salt Lake City
United States
Germany
Austria
Navy
Debs refus es delay on prison sentence amid strikes claim
Debs insisted he would not seek delay or respite as he prepared for federal imprisonment. Editors at a Seventh district conference in Chicago drafted resolutions opposing a nationwide strike to free Mooney and urged enforcement actions to locate the guilty parties.
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Eugenee
Debs
Seventh Federal Reserve District
Victory Liberty Loan
Chicago
Thomas Mooney
San Francisco
Mooney
American Federation of Labor
New York
Daniel L. Porter
Internal Revenue Department
United States
International Brotherhood of Blacksmiths and Helpers
Indianapolis
Arkansas
Texas
Oklahoma
Dallas
Tex
Ravenna
Bolshevik Massacre Report Details Osa Slayings
American Red Cross investigators recount mass killings of more than 2,000 civilians in and around Osa, Russia, with 500 dead in Osa and 1,500 in surrounding districts. They describe executions of lawyers and doctors, exhumations, and systematic destruction of churches, with priests hunted and religious teaching barred.
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Omsk
Osa
Messrs. Simmons and
Emerson
Rudolph Tenster
American Red Cross
Perm
Casagrande
Eekaterinburg
Vern
Workmen's Council
Seattle Bootleggers Arrested Shake Up in City Police
Seattle reports nine arrests including Police Sergeant Gus Hasselind and Patrolman W V Patten along with former officers Ed Hagen Dick Russell Fred Smart and Edward Carey chauffeur. An alleged confession from one suspect and recovery of 1717 bottles of liquor stolen from a federal warehouse on March 29 30 marked a major crackdown described by United States Attorney Saunders as cleaning up one of the most desperate bootlegging rings.
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Seattle
Gus Hasselind
W. V. Patten
Ed Hagen
Dick Russell
Fred Smart
Edward Carey
United States
Ht. ©. Saunders
Frisco Bank Messenger Slugged and Robbed in Daylight
Charles Craighead, a Bank of California messenger, was held up by two armed men in broad daylight in San Francisco’s business district. He was beaten, had his hands tied, and robbed of 3544 in old bills, which he carried to the subtreasury to exchange for new currency.
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San Francisco
Charles Craighead
Bank of California
Evner
Craig
Hawker Seeks Newfoundland Flight for First Transatlantic
Marry C Hawker holder of the British Michelin prize for 1918 for eight hours twenty three minutes and holder of the 1916 altitude record of twenty nine thousand five hundred feet is in Newfoundland with a British plane awaiting favorable weather to attempt the first cross Atlantic air flight.
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Marry C. Hawker
Newfoundland
Pullman and Express Men Given Increase
Washington reports wage increases for about 69,000 American Railway Express employees with an extra 25 dollars a month above 1918 scales. Sleeping and parlor car workers gain 25 dollars monthly, dining car staff receive 25 dollars more than the basic minimum. Net gains vary by prior year adjustments, and the orders take effect immediately.
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Washington
American Railway Express Company
Hines
Chicago Livestock Market Reports Strong Prices Across Classes
Chicago April 1 market receipts total 28 000 cattle and 11 000 sheep with a strong trend. Cattle show steady to higher beef steer prices with light and heavy categories up to about 20.70 and veal calves near 14 015. Sheep and lambs rise with woolled lambs higher and ewe ranges around 12 0 16 50, culls lower.
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Chicago
Livestock Receipts Rise At St Paul Sale
St Paul Livestock at South St Paul on April 16 reports 6 000 Mogs receipts with prices around 207 to 220 and dull steady tone. Cattle receipts 3 500 with steers around 619, cows and heifers 016 to 16, veal calves 6 50, stockers 5 25 to 7 15. Sheep 4 500 receipts with lambs 120 to 190, wethers 14 to 15 50, ewes 5 to 14 24.
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St. Paul
South St. Paul
Setady
Jaiha
Wethers
Omaha Market Report Shows Mixed Hog and Steer Prices
Omaha April 16 hogs receipts 17 000 market higher heavy 20 25 20 65 mixed 20 18 20 45 bulk 20 20 20 50 cattle receipts 4 900 market higher native steers 1470 18 cows and heifers 97 14 50 stockers and feeders 41 5 calves 7 13 50 sheep receipts 6 700 market steady culls 6 9 wethers 15 7 16 lambs 17 18 yearlings 16 17 30
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Omaha
Wheat and grain receipts and prices in Minneapolis
Minneapolis Grain notes 98 car wheat receipts versus year ago. No 1 northern wheat 2.462?. corn No 2 yellow 1.61 to 5.63. oats No 7 white 0. ((text partially garbled)) flax 3.83. flour 20 cents higher. shipments 42,916 barrels. barley 1.07. rye No 2 1.69 to 1.70. bran 38.
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Minneapolis
Sugar dealers urged to stock up ahead of heavy demand
New York April 15 The United States food administration advised refined sugar dealers to replenish stocks now to avoid potential shortages during the peak buying season from June to October. Officials said there is no current shortage and none anticipated before next fall.
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New York
Uhited
States Food Administration
The
Food Administration
Plan to Resume Work on New Rockford Extension
Federal Manager W P Kemney reports the Great Northern will resume the New Rockford extension in eastern Montana this season. The 150 mile Watford to New Rockford segment and the Chippewa to Richey stretch would complete Lewistown to Great Falls routing tapping Judith basin wheat. Project cost 12 to 15 million dollars with Missouri river bridge work. Railroad officials remain doubtful the current financial climate allows the project.
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St. Paul
Rockford
Great Northern
Montana
Watford
Chippewa
Richey
Lewistown
Debtor Nations Face Compensation Burden Postwar
Paris reports Austria Hungary Bulgaria and Turkey are weak debtors but the reparations commission examines their liability for damages. Germany’s responsibility to pay for damages remains central as assets of debtor states have largely vanished. Some compensation may reach Italy Romania and Serbia from the wreckage.
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Paris
Austria-Hungary
Bugaria
Turkey
Germany
Huis
Commission
Wrich
Taly
Tumania
Serbia
Saxon War Minister Dragged Out and Killed in Dresden
In Dresden on Saturday Herr Neuring the Saxony war minister was dragged from the building by demonstrators who overpowered guards and threw him into fire where he died while attempting to swim to the bank. The unrest followed disputes over wounded pay and a large crowd marched to the war ministry demanding action.
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Copenhagen
Therr Nuering
Saxony
Dresden
Imi
War Ministry
Tierr Neuring
Cheater
Herr Neuring
War Ininistry
GROOMING THREE PLANES FOR LONG OCEAN FLIGHT
New York April 15 two and possibly three NCO airplanes will take part in the navy department’s attempt to win the honor of a trans Atlantic flight for America Lieutenant Commander Scofield naval aid for aviation said yesterday. Three machines are being prepared at Rockaway head tests are to decide whether they shall be equipped with three or four 12 cylinder Liberty motors and other details. Commander Scoffield said haste to outdo British or other rivals would not interfere with precautions to make the flight safe and sane.
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New York
Navy
America
Scofield
Rockaway Head
Scoffield
Gasoline Explosion Burns Ten Aboard Sub Chaser 297
In San Diego a gasoline explosion on submarine chaser No. 297 near the municipal pier sent flames high and burned ten crew members, with two believed fatally. One was a gasoline pump driver aboard an oil rack. others were aboard the craft as the fire spread. A wireless spark ignited the gasoline during pumping from a 660 gallon storage tank.
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San Diego
Cal
U. S
Municipal Pier
Aete
Johnson
Flying Circus to Tour Montana for Victory Loan Drives
Montana to host a national guard reorganization with seven city tours. Adj. Gen. Greenan seeks War Department permission to form the regiment as Chinook and Great Falls apply for company authority. Pay scales and drilling requirements outlined. Whitefish crossing dispute also covered.
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Helena
Second Montana Infantry
National Guard of Montana
Second Montana
Adj
Phil Greenan
War Department
Civeus
Montana
Victory Liberty Loan
Carl W. Riddick
Washington
Butte
Missoula
Lewistown
Great Falls
Welona
Miles City
Billings
Arimy
Navy
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Hungary
Danzig
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Mexico
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Morelos
Philip Scheidemann
Zeitung Ammittage
War Labor Board
Western Chemical Company
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Department of Commerce
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Redfield
Peek
Sweet
Sollciter Thurman
Railroad Administration
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Council of Four
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Brest
Idaho
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Chinook
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Whitefish
Mathead County
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Kew
Joseph Oker
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C. T. Stewart
Edward Chamber
Industrial Accident Board
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