King Calls Troops as Nation Faces Industrial Crisis
London April 9 The railway and transport unions join miners in sympathy strike amid failed negotiations. King George orders army reserves and volunteers to active service to guard and distribute food as a general strike looms. Lloyd George declares national emergency and urges volunteers to replace rail workers and support police.
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London
King George
Triple Alliance
Livg George
Rollitin
Lloyd George
Iremier Lloyd George
Board of Trade
Union News Service
House of Commons
Alfred Bigland
Lost five navy balloon crewmen amid Pensacola search
The Navy says five men from Pensacola Florida who departed in a free balloon A 5004 on March 22 are not expected to be found alive. The department notes the search continues with little hope remaining for the men or the balloon.
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Washington
Hope
Navy Department
Pensacola
Fla
Department
Fees for Grazing Delayed to September First
Denver reports a new extension for grazing fees on national forests. September 1 is the latest payment date, replacing March 1, due to a recent agricultural bill amendment. Stockmen gain relief amid current economic conditions as western stock interests requested the change.
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Denver
Colo
West
Plea Declared by Adam in Liquor Case in Utah
Salt Lake City police arrested Adams for liquor possession. He claimed the bottle belonged to a woman, and Judge Fred Crockett noted a similar defense by a frat parent. Edwards was fined $75 for the offense.
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Howards
Adam
Fred Crockett
Edwards
United States Grain Growers Inc Formed
Preliminary organisation of wheat growers into a national cooperative marketing company has been completed in Chicago. Directors have been elected for the United States Grain Growers, Inc, with incorporation plans under Delaware law.
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Chicago
United States Grain Growers’, Inc
Delaware
England Sends Note on Oil Interests in Mandated Lands
London wires report British foreign secretary Lord Curzon answers Secretary Colby on oil rights in Mesopotamia and Palestine. He rejects American claims of bias and argues prewar British concessions and Stand ard Oil trust holdings justify British interests while citing US actions in Halt and Costa Rica to curb British exploitation.
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Walen News Service
London
United States
Mexico
Colby
Lord Curzon
San Rémo
Great Britain
France
Mesopotamia
Bagdad
Mosul
Palestine
Standard Oil Company
Philippines
Halt
Costa Rica
Women Police Squad Disrupted in Kalamazoo Michigan
Kalamazoo Chief Tully announced the resignation of two policewomen Miss Melva Nagler and Miss Jennie Workman amid ongoing friction within the women's squad. City Manager Freeman said cooperation had broken down over weeks and dismissal was deemed the only solution.
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Kalamazoo
Mich
Tully
Melva Nagler
Jennie Workman
Harry Freeman
Battle With Mountain Bandits Near Tug River
Gunfire terrorized Merrimac and Burnwell in Mingo county as masked bands fired hundreds of shots from Kentucky mountain tops. State police and deputized citizens returned fire for about an hour in Merrimac, with further attacks along the Tug River from the West Virginia side.
Man Arrested Over Forged Government Check In Salt Lake City
James W. Noble seized a piece of paper during his arrest by federal authorities probing an alleged forged endorsement on a government check from July. He swallowed it but was forced to disgorge it. the recovered masticated fragment bore a signature identical to that on the forged check under investigation.
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Salt Lake City
James W. Noble
Charles Maintains Claim to Throne Amid Compromise
Budapest reports a compromise with the Hungarian government in which Ex Emperor Charles will issue a proclamation affirming his claim to the throne and stating he yields only to circumstantial force. He expresses full confidence in the political capacity of the Hungarian people.
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Vienna
Charles
Budapest
Mexico Deports Radical American Activist Gale
Mexico City reports an American radical, Gale, deported via Vera Cruz for anti government activities. Authorities remain silent on his location as Obregon labels him a pernicious foreigner and states the action was taken against him.
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Mexico City
Lynn A
Gale
Mexico
Vera Crux
Obregon
Hughes Announces US Rights On German Possessions
Washington reports Secretary Hughes states the United States preserves full rights in former German territories and rejects any exclusive overseas claim by Japan. Britain and allies are warned that American consent is needed for disposition of overseas possessions. London notes warn coal miners’ dispute could trigger government seizure powers and wider industrial unrest.
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Washington
Japan
Yap
Colby Noy
Germany
United States
Death of Alfred G Field premier of Americano minstrels
Alfred G Field known as Al G Field, premier of the Americano minstrel troupe, died in Columbus Ohio from Bright's disease at age seventy two. Born in Leesburg Virginia, he entered the theatrical business in 1886 and organized a minstrel show that operated for decades.
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Columbus
Ohio
Alfred Griffin
al G.) Field
Americano Minstrels
Bright
Leesburg
Field
Oregon Treasurer Reconciles 3 Cent Bond Overpayment
Salem Oregon state treasurer O P Hoff after 23 years received a 3 cent check from the United States government. The mispaid funds relate to Spanish American War bonds issued in 1898 and payable at the Treasury Department.
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Salem
Ore
O. P. Hoff
United States
Treasury Department
British Protest Grows Over Turkish Atrocities in Asia Minor
A British protest expected to form over alleged cruelties by Turkish forces in Asia Minor. Reports describe a three day terror in Caesarea with Greek and Armenian Christians killed.
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London
Asia Minor
Caesarea
Chicago Murderers Refuse Drill Under Wanderer
Six doomed men in the death chamber rebelled and refused to drill any longer under Carl Wanderer who was convicted of killing a ragged stranger. Wanderer, a former army lieutenant, drilled the murder squad daily for a week but the men returned to their cells after he yelled attention. Lone Wolf Ward called him too hard boiled and Cardinia doubted the need of drilling to death before execution.
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Chicago
Carl Wanderer
Wanderer
Lone Wolf Ward
Daw Cardinia
Labor Unions Propose Conference To End Railroad Disputes
Five mechanical railroad unions with about 500000 members send a plan to President Harding proposing a conference of labor and management under the Railroad Labor Board. They seek rules on working conditions to replace current national agreements and defer wage disputes until rules are settled.
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Chicago
Harding
Railroad Labor Board
B. M. Jewell
Railway Employee Department
American Federation of Labor
Mr. Jewell
Estate Returned to Heirs and Widow in Siebken Case
The attorney general authorizes return to Herman Siebken's heirs of property valued around 8 million dollars seized by the alien property custodian during the war. Simultaneously his widow is to receive town property valued about 1 million dollars. Both holdings are said to be largely securities. The seizure followed Sieleken's failure to prove American citizenship at the time.
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Washington
Herman Siebken
New York
Sieleken
Confession Links Man to Elwell Murder Case
Buffalo dispatch reports BR. O. Harris alias B. Leonard alias Carlin says he joined a two man hit squad hired by a woman, Fairchild, to kill New York clubman and whist expert Joseph B. Elwell for 5000 dollars last June. He identifies "Bill Dunkin" as the shooter and claims the confession details his role. Harris is jailed in New York.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Joseph B. Elwell
New York
Fairchild
BR. O. Harris
B. Leonard
Carlin
Bill Dunkin
Elwell
Driver killed in nitroglycerine truck blast near Hominy
A. W. Weed driver for Osage Torpedo Co of Pawhuska was instantly killed when about a hundred quarts of nitroglycerine exploded five miles west of Hominy Oklahoma City reports flood conditions with two more deaths in Hollis Hartman county. Rail and other traffic in western Oklahoma heavily disrupted with eleven miles of St Louis & San Francisco track along the Washita river undermined.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Oklahoma
Hollis
Hartinan County
Hall Road
St. Louis
San Francisco
Washita River
Wyoming Briefs Highlight Oil Boom Hopes and Legal Wins
Western Newspaper Union notes Valley oil signs with firms staking 1.5 million dollars to test new fields. Wyoming government tasks begin April 1 with land appraisals. Dr J H Jeffrey in Natrona counts 90 days jail for practicing medicine without license. W Sheep Co wins 1 dollar against Pine Dome Oil and others over sheep losses from polluted streams. Roy and Roy Shurtz case yields no motive after charred remains found. Fraud involving L C Lesher and the Baker estate exposed. Virgin wool blankets debut in Rawlins with low price parity to shoddy goods. Free Chicago stock show trips offered for Champion Sheep Club members. Thermopolis may lose water and power after a fire. US Supreme Court upholds Wyoming claim to eighty acres of oil lands. May 10 bond issue opposition grows in Baggs over highway projects. Genealogy gifts to Wyoming history dept highlight Grant and Johnson lineages.
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Western
Union News Service
1 Star Valley
A. Baker
State Land Boards
J. H. Jeffrey
Wyoming Chiropractic Association
Natrona
L. C. Lesher
Thermopolis
Philadelphia
Lesher
Baker Estate
Wyoming Wool Growers’ Association
Rawlins
Paul H. Dupertius
Armour
Bureau of Agricultural Research
Thermopolis Electric Company
Wyoming
United States Supreme Court
Interior Department
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White House
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EMER
Isle OF Yap
Hughes
Admiralty
al. G. Field
Julio V. Peres
Chipas
Western Newspaper Union News Services
State Highway Department
Wyoming Historical Department
Harriet Anne Durbin
Cheyenne
Johnson
John Alden
Durbin
Mortimer N. Grant
Laramie
Grant
U. 8
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