Senate passes pension increases and war measures in wave
Senate moves pension rise to fifty dollars for civil war veterans and thirty dollars for widows, with further bills boosting war risk insurance and reorganizing the army. Imports hit a March high as exports reach a historic second. Admiral Brittain's suicide on duty shocks the fleet, body to be transported on Solace. Amundsen lands in far eastern Siberia after 79 months of polar silence. Additional notes cover immigration, a fatal aviation accident near Long Beach, U S naval moves in Mexican waters, a new sugar price, and major fires and mill losses in Idaho and Texas.
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Senate
Department of Commerce
Carto Be Brittain
Henry B. Wilson
Atlantic
Cuban
Admiral Wilson
Navy Department
Admiral Brittain
United States
Solace
Richmond
Roald Amundsen
South Pole
Siberia
Nome
Alaska
Anadir
Diswitch
Ee Anwundsen
North Pole
East
Richard TL. Halsey
Hono- Yih
Halsey
George Daly
Wilmington
Dunty
Pacific Ocean
Recreation
Long Beach
Cal
Daly
Sonoran
Sinaloa
Mexico
Salem
McCawley Htve
San Diego
Mazatlan
McCawley
Tupolo- Wampa
Sonora
California-Hawaiian Sugar Refining Company
New Town
Texas
Burkburnett
Europe and Asia News Roundup of Postwar Turmoil
Reports from Paris and San Remo detail a French senate verdict against a former premier for commerce with the enemy. In China, Anhai battles rage with looting and heavy casualties as territory changes hands. Armenia is slated for independence though boundaries remain undefined. A Chinese royal scandal and a Russian imperial family burial add to a day of upheaval.
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France
Neuilly’ Hospital
Paris
High Court of Justice
Interior
Anahal
China
Anhai
Senate approves vast marine and naval appropriations in swift session
The Senate spent about 80 minutes approving a $464.9 million marine appropriation, far below the House’s $824.5 million. The bill advances with almost no debate, boosting the three year building program and naval base funding for San Francisco, while naval aviation and San Francisco Day Dose items draw brief discussion. Senate leaders stress rising western coast defense needs amid Pacific danger concerns.
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Senate
House
Naval Base
San Francisco
Biy
Naval Aviation
San Princisco
Semitor Lodge
Massachusetts
Page
Naval Committee
United States
Pacific
Demands Upheld for Russian Troops Withdrawal in Siberia
After the first session of the Russian Japanese commission on April 4 and 1 the Japanese issued new demands calling for Russian armed forces to withdraw from a 30 kilometer zone around stations in Siberia. M Vilensky exposed the terms to the press.
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Siberia
Vladivostok
Sberia
M. Vilensky
Market Report: Chicago Livestock April 28
Cattle receipts 000. beef steers top at 13.56 with bulk around 11.50. cows and heifers 9 to 11. Bulls strong to higher, calves steady with feeders uneven. Hogs receipts 22,000. market steady to lower, top 15.35, bulk 15.15 to 15.30. pigs 13.65 to 14.36. 150 lb hogs down. Sheep receipts 11,000. market uneven 60c lower. best wooled lambs 18.25, bulk 17.50 to 18.25. sheep scarce, best ewes 15.00.
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Chicago Livestock
Chicago
Omaha Livestock Prices Report With Mixed cattle and hogs
Hogs receipts 11 000 market barely active but strong to 25c higher closing at full advance top 14.25 bulk 147714 60 piece load at 15 Cattle receipts 4 000 beef steers stock active market strong to 25c higher bulls and canners steady veals steady to lower stockers and feeders steady Sheep receipts 4 000 lambs 15 to 25c lower other classes steady top wooled lambs 19 60 clipped 17 60 shearing 19 40
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Omaha
St Paul Livestock Market Report April 28
Receipts 5 600 cattle 3 600 cows and calves. Hogs receipts 5 600 with prices 14.45 to 14.35 per cwt. Killers steady fat steers 13 50 to 15 0. Cows and heifers 6 50 to 11 50. Calves 5 12 50. Stockers and feeders steady 5 12 50. Sheep receipts 8 00 lambs 8 19 25 wethers 12 14 50 ewes 4 14.
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St. Paul
Lloge
Grain prices and receipts in Minneapolis market report
Minneapolis grain market April 28 reports wheat receipts 123 cars versus 189 a year earlier. Cash bids list No 1 northern wheat at 3.10 to 3.15, corn No 3 yellow 1.67 to 1.48, oats No 3 white 1.01% to 1.02, barley 1.40 to 1.70, rye No 2 2.08 to 2.09.
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Minneapolis Grain
Minneapolis
Few Workers Report at Butte Mines
Butte April 27 less than a third of the normal miners reported to work at the mines yesterday morning. Members of the metal trades unions refused to endorse the strike called by Metal Mine Workers Union No 800. I W W members were leaving town and soldiers patrolled roads to the mines.
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Butte
Metal Trades
Metal Mine Workers’ Union No
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San Remo Conference Ends With Broad Allied Accord
At San Remo the allied powers issued a common declaration insisting Germany disarm and meet reparations, warning against infractions of the Versailles treaty. Allies pledge unity, discuss future talks, and note Greece gains Thrace and Smyrna while Russia is treated with caution.
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Goeppert
Paris
Cerfn
Germany
Murder Suspect Captured After Wolf Farm Slayings
Turtle Lake North Dakota April 28 a man thought to be Dave Hanson was arrested by officials here after the deaths of Jacob Wolf six of his family and a hired boy at the Wolf farm near Turtle Lake last Thursday. He is held pending investigation and no charges have been filed.
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Hubert Howard
Frederick I. Milliner
Harvey Gainer
Mars
Theo Asttempt
Gamar
Cedar Creek
Neb
Jack Dempsey
Jess Willard
Toledo
Jack Kearns
Floyd Fitzsimmons
Benton Harbor
Mich
Michigan
Dempsey
William Ray
Marion County
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Indianapolis
Martha Huff
Ray
United States
National Wheat Growers’ Association
Kansas City
National Tuberculosis Association
St. Louis
Victor C. Waugh
University of Michigan
Association
Alabama
Mississippi
Tennessee
Turtle Lake
N. D
Dave Hanson
Jacob Wolf
Wolf Farm
Hanson
Supreme Court restricts Reading coal trust dissolution order
The Supreme Court sustained government charges of illegal combination against the Reading Company and related firms in a major antitrust ruling. It ordered dissolution of the Reading interests, including the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad and Coal and Iron, and reorganization to separate voting from control, with stock and bond dispositions directed.
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Supreme Court
Reading Company
Pontsylvany Holding Corporation
Con
Reading Companies
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Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company
Lehigh
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
Lehigh Valles Railrounds Company
Justice Clark
Lehigh Valley
Philadelphia
Do FO
Sts.tin
Supreme Court of the Reading Company
Philadelphia & Reading Hallway Company
Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Company
Central Railroad of New Jersey
Lehigh & Wilkesbarre Coal Company
State Supreme Court Orders Payment for Legal Services
The Montana Supreme Court rules the state must pay Pigott and Pew $1,000 each for services rendered the Montana Efficiency and Trade Commission. The opinion, written by Justice Holloway, also notes questions about which primary law governs if both measures pass, with no ruling on priority. The decision affirms the commission could hire experts and staff to investigate state finances and administration. Also noted are state efforts to recruit 1,200 farm laborers, a mumps quarantine rule, and a record year for fishing and game licenses with near 70,000 total licenses.
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Germany
Fueture
Pigott
Pew
W. J. Pigott
Supreme Court
C. J. Pew
Helena
Montana Efficiency and Trade Commission
Holloway
Finnaccrs
Ktenographers
State Board of Examiners
George P. Porter
Montana
J. L. DeHart
Allies Frown On Japan Concessions
London reports a joint loan push for China by financiers from the United States, England, France and Japan. France informs Great Britain she will join the U S and Britain in refusing Japan’s demands for railroad concessions and imperial treatment.
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China
United States
England
France
Japan
Great Britain
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