Hoover Says Government Powerless Over Coal Strike
Secretary Hoover told the Senate that the administration cannot legally force a settlement or protect the public from coal profiteering. He testified that efforts to end the strike have so far only limited price increases.
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Hoover
Senate
Linton Men Held On Suspicion At Capital
Telegram from Indianapolis reports seven Linton men named John Wheeler Don Larimore Clyde Layman Charles Hoops Ray Wilson Thomas Norton and Thomas Malone among groups held on suspicion after a Morgantown refrigerator car theft. Police halted a freight train near Indianapolis and detained Linton and Sullivan men on vagrancy and theft suspicions with no charges confirmed.
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Daily Citizen
Indianapolis
John Wheeler
Don Larimore
Clyde Layman
Charles Hoops
Ray Wilson
Thomas Norton
Thomas Malone
Linton
Sullivan
Morgantown
Linton and Sullivan
Grant Otho Dorsey Hearing on June 14
Habeas corpus proceedings filed by attorneys for Otho Dorsey led Jasper judge to grant a hearing for Wednesday June 14 in Jasper. Dorsey denies killing Louis E. Bement and John Turner Willis and asks bail until trial set for September 6 in Petersburg.
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Petersburg
Ind
Jasper
Otho Dorsey
Dorsey
Louis E. Bement
John Turner Willis
Worthington honors its first mayor C A Geckler
C A Geckler 88 lifelong bachelor and former Worthington mayor died Sunday afternoon after years of illness. His funeral was held yesterday at his sister Mrs Z P East home with Odd Fellows custody and Rev J M Larmore presiding. Geckler was a civic-minded town figure known for his views on public affairs and town improvement. he had been ill since a 1914 apoplexy.
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Worthington
Ind
Charles A. Geckler
Z. P. East
Lodge of Odd Fellows
J. M. Larmore
Methodist Episcopal Church
Geckled
East
Geckler
Three Miners Shot on Way to Work in Somerset County
Three coal miners employed by Reitz Coal in Somerset county were ambushed and shot as they traveled to work this morning. All three are believed fatally wounded. The incident occurred near Johnstown, Pennsylvania, with authorities investigating potential motives and identifying suspects.
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Johnstown
Reitz Coal Company
Somerset County
Mine Officers Cannot Touch Large Surplus
Supreme Court Coronado decision blocks immediate access by United Mine Workers to nearly seven hundred thousand dollars held in escrow since 1917 to satisfy damages against a local union in Arkansas. Miners face delays as Coronado attorneys contest in lower courts, delaying the return of needed funds during the current strike.
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Washington
Supreme Court of the United States
Coronado
United Mine Workers
Arkansas
Threatened Split At Baptist Convention
Old fashioned Baptists north of the Mason Dixon line threaten to secede and form a new denomination at the Baptist Northern Convention opening June 14 in Indianapolis. Liberal leaders predict no major disruption as fundamen talists push evangelistic aims over education amid rising tensions.
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Indianapolis
Mason and Dixon Line
Baptist Northern Convention
Brookhart landslide shifts Iowa GOP machinery questions
Noncommittal remarks in Washington greeted news that Smith W. Brookhart won the Iowa United States Senate race. Iowa Senators Cummins and Rawson offered cautious reactions as speculation rose on how the Brookhart landslide would influence party alignment.
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Des Moines
Washington
Cummins and
Rawson
Iowa
Smith W. Brookhart
United States
Brookhart
Expert engineer surveys electric plant for city needs
City council session notes a survey of the municipal light plant led by Harry C Varney of Indianapolis. Varney is paid 106 for the first day and 35 daily thereafter to assess current capacity and future load, with a report due at the next meeting in two weeks. The council also considers hose purchases and street oiling progress.
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Shake
Fire Committee
Moss
Light and
Harry C. Varney
Indianapolis
Supreme Court funds seen ending miners strike
Union officials in Washington say a Supreme Court ruling releasing 750000 from United Mine Workers funds may speed an end to the strike. The decision frees monies tied to the Coronado Coal damage suit and could yield 350000 more from a Pennsylvania Mining suit, prompting talks and possible lifting of a looming injunction.
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Supreme Court
Washington
United Mine Workers’ Fund
Coronado Coal Company
United Mine Workers
Pennsylvania Mining Company
Anderson
Indianapolis
Tragic Life of Marie Beall Revealed by Friend
Terre Haute Indiana June 7 close friends disclose Marie Beall once interpreter in the Hungarian community faced beatings and sought a good home for her children while rising through work at a restaurant night school and a Chicago sanitarium Her life leading to the slaying of Frank Warren Anderson unfolds with details of romance and hardship Collingswood New Jersey June 7 Denial by F M Anderson of his son Frank Warren Anderson being a gay Lothario or lover he describes his son as romantic but principled and notes the fifty one names list covers schoolmates age fourteen to fifteen not couples
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Weisman
Gill
Inman
Herman Schloot
Terre Haute
Ind
Marie Beall
Frank Warren Anderson
America
Marie
Stephen
As Sanitarium
Chicago
Dayton
Collingswood
N. J
Kansas City
Percy Marie Beall
F. M. Anderson
Mr. Anderson
Railroad Wage Cuts Spark Immediate Strike Ballot
In Cincinnati on June 7 the railway labor board orders wage reductions for seven large labor groups, prompting a rapid vote by eleven unions. About 1.2 million railroad workers are affected, with ballots due within thirty days and possible widespread walkouts if approved.
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New
Railroad Labor Board
B. W. Jewell
American Federation of Labor
Conference of Railway Union
Labor Board
Jewell
Chicago
Davis
Harding
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