Plan Freight Embargo To Save Coal Nationwide Action Planned
Director General of Railroads Walker Hines and seven regional directors meet in Chicago to consider a nationwide freight embargo to conserve dwindling coal supplies. Potential steps include a freight embargo, 40 percent cut in passenger service, and closing non essential industries with millions of workers at risk. Mines in Kansas fall under receivership to state operation while North Dakota lignite mines and others face possible state control.
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Chicago
Walker D. Hines
Kansas
Ohio
North Dakota
Treaty to go into effect regardless of U S Senate action
Paris reports that the Versailles peace treaty will be put into force regardless of the American government's stance. The claim follows word that President Wilson might withdraw the pact from the United States senate.
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U. S. Senate
Paris
Strike Ends at Pickett Cotton Mill After 10 Days
Workers resume regular hours at Pickett Cotton Mill following a week long strike sparked by the discharge of a weaving room employee. Other departments quit in sympathy. management refuses comment but says all departments have restarted operations. In Washington, plans for a final senate vote on the treaty surface with a compromise path discussed among Republicans and Democrats, aiming for a noon session tomorrow to finalize action.
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Pickett
Washington
Senate
Lodge
Hitchcock
South mills warned as coal supplies cut by regional order
Atlanta reports a regional coal director order stopping coal deliveries to many southern cotton mills and other plants due to miners not returning to work. Water power keeps large plants running in Carolina and Georgia, but hundreds of coal dependent small facilities face scant supplies as seizures reduce stock.
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Atlanta
South
Carolinas
Georgia
House Adjourns After Oblique Session Ends Early
Washington reports that after about an hour of business the house adjourned with a few measures disposed of and Republican leader Mondell pledging no further action until the regular December session of Congress.
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House
Mondell
Young Man Shot While Hunting Near City
Bernice Stout, a young white man, is in the Sanitorium with painful wounds to the face and hand from an accidental gun discharge while hunting near the city yesterday afternoon. He says he laid the gun by his side to light a cigarette, and it went off. Doctors report his condition entirely satisfactory and expect recovery unless complications arise.
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Bernice Stout
Stout
Lundeen Determined After Fridge Car Incident
Earnest Lundeen former congressman declared he would press his fight against the league of nations despite being locked in a refrigerator car by sheriff and townsfolk in Ortonville. Crowds gathered and threats were reported as Sheriff Gowan escorted him to the station. Lundeen was later released from the car.
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Appleton
Ortonville
Earnest Lundeen
Twin Cities
League of Nations
Gowan
Lundeen
Agriculture Department official visits High Point on sweet potato housing plan
Representative Gay of the United States department of agriculture stopped in High Point en route to Asheboro to confer with Randolph county farm agent about housing sweet potatoes. He plans to tour Randolph county and then return to Greensboro to discuss with Samuel R. Bivens Guilford county farm agent. The large sweet potato harvest makes housing a major issue and the department offers full assistance.
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Representative Gay
United States Department of Agriculture
Asheboro
Randolph County
Gay
Greensboro
Samuel R. Bivens
Guilford County
Agricultural Department
Figures On Road Operations Under Government Control
Washington reports that government operation cost rose with more employees, higher wages, and shorter hours. Director General Hines testified that July employment rose 11.2 percent from December 1917 while pay climbed 3.9 percent. Total road compensation reached 226,140,935 dollars in July versus 153,039,988 in December. average daily pay in July was 4.93 dollars against 3.52.
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Washington
Hines
Senate
Lake Superior shipwreck recovery near Munsing
At noon today 18 bodies believed to be crew members of the missing ore carrier John Owens were recovered at Munsing Michigan on the south shore of Lake Superior, according to telephone reports from Escanaba.
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Green Bay
Wis
Estannaba
Mich
John Owens
Munsing
Lake Superior
Wilson Vetoes Prewar Rate Making Measure
President Wilson vetoed the bill restoring to the Interstate Commerce Commission prewar power to set intrastate rates and practices. He argued the move deprives the federal government of urgent control during federal railroad operation and emergencies. Senate leaders saw little chance of overriding the veto, with road operations to resume private control on July 1.
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Senate
United States
Cummins
Interstate Ecommerce Committee
Autho
Officer Merritt On Stand In Charlotte Riot Trial
In Charlotte on November 18 Officer Merritt testified at the morning hearing for patrolmen charged with murder. Prosecutors said his strike sparked the shooting at the car barn disturbance as the trial began.
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Officer Merritt
Charlotte
Merritt
Stane
Wilson Out Today for Sun Bath at White House Lawn
President Wilson again appeared in the executive offices and was wheeled to the lawn for a half hour of sunshine while Secretary Lansing led the cabinet meeting.
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Washington
White House
Wilson
Bolsheviks claim capture of ten generals at Omsk
London dispatch says Bolsheviks report the capture of 10 generals and 100 other officers at Omsk in an official Moscow statement. Wholchak's forces are said to be pursued eastward.
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London
Omsk
Moscow
Wholchak
Women’s Club Session Opens in City Settlement Wage Debate
The first session of the Third District Women’s clubs convention opened with representatives from Silver City Greensboro Jamestown Asheboro and Lexington. Thrift and YWCA work were highlighted along with a discussion on servant management and household labor strategies. In Washington negotiators for coal miners and operators remained at a standstill over wage scales as talks stalled awaiting counter proposals and potential government input.
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W. A. Lambeth
Desley Memorial Church
J. H. Petty
High Point Club
A. B. Kimball
Greensboro Club
R. T. Pickens
Eugene Reilley
Charlotte
Thrift
Reilley
Julia Thorns
Thorns
Asheboro
C. Hook
State Federation
Convict Wins Brown Derby
Pittsburgh readers report Andrew Otto wins the Brown Derby as he breaks jail twenty four hours before his nine month sentence would have expired.
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Pittsburgh
Andrew Otto
Otto
Extraordinary convention called for Southern Newspaper publishers
In Chattanooga on November 18, the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association announced an extraordinary convention to be held in Birmingham on November 24 and 25.
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Chattanooga
Southern Newspaper Publisher’s Association
Birmingham
Miller Faces Trial Over Alleged Railroad Pass Theft
Powell Miller, a young man, will be tried before Magistrate W. G. Brown this afternoon on a charge of using a railroad pass he is alleged to have stolen from a Southern railroad employee. The pass, used in travel across Southern lines, including a trip from Richmond to High Point before his arrest, may mark the first case in the region under the new railroad pass act.
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Powell Miller
W. G. Brown
Southern Railroad
Miller
Southern
Richmond
High Point
New Tactic Seen In Suburban Burglary
A smart burglar in Pittsburgh suburbs has been showing new methods. He provoked a family alarm and the neighbor, armed, fired a shot as the intruder fled. He had already ransacked the neighbor’s house before the homeowner returned.
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Pittsburgh
Hearst Buys Washington Times and Wisconsin News
Arthur Brisbane announced the sale of the Washington Times and Wisconsin News at Milwaukee to William Randolph Hearst. The sale price was not disclosed.
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Washington
Arthur Brisbane
Washington Times
Wisconsin News
Milwaukee
William Randolph Hearst
Greeks told peace plan 10 stand
Paris dispatch reports the supreme council informing Greek Premier Venizelos it can only confirm the peace conference view on the provisional occupation of Smyrna. A Budapest telegram from Sir George R. Clark says order is maintained, but protests the arrest of several socialist leaders.
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Paris
Supreme Council
Venizelos
Greece
Smyrma
George R. Clark
Budapest
George
Free cigars offered with shoe purchases in Columbus
In downtown Columbus shops male customers get a free cigar while being fitted for new shoes. The gimmick mirrors the old promotion of free suspenders with pants and is observed in a prominent High street store.
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Columbus
Ohio
Football elevens meet in gate at Greensboro
Guilford and Elon colleges prepare for a hard fought football game in Cone Park Greensboro to start at 3 o clock. Both teams evenly matched in weight with solid fall records. Robert Hayworth a High Pointer may play for Guilford attracting local spectators to the matchup.
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Juilford
Elon
Greensboro
Cone Park
Robert Hayworth
Guilford
Greenshoro
War Time Act Held Valid by Judge Fitch
In Bloomington on November 18 Judge Lewis Fitch ruled the War Time Act valid and in force. The decision was to be announced in Peoria later today after the judge delivered a copy to a local newspaper.
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Bloomington
Lewis Fitch
Peoria
New York cotton futures open steady then ease on weak foreign exchange
The cotton market opened steady with gains to 60 points on cheering cables but soon turned lower as foreign exchange weakness and concerns over money and coal restrictions weighed on sentiment. December slipped to 36.55 and January to 33.35, with nearby contracts showing net declines.
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New York
Dee
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