No Surrender Latest Signal in Rail Strike Crisis
Labor board seeks last minute break in deadlock between carriers and 400,000 railway shop workers as United States officials plan hearings in Chicago. Rail chiefs refuse to yield to shop crafts demands, while union leaders stand firm amid looming nationwide strike.
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Chicago
United States Labor Board
Blackstone
B. M. Jewell
T. de Witt Cuyler
Association of Railway Executives
Jewell
Labor Board
United States
Detroit
Ben W. Hooper
Hooper
Hoover
Labbor
Big Four Brotherhoods
Coliseum
The
Boars
Speeding auto burns on road near Decker in Indiana
James Sisson Jr. drove east of Decker on the cemetery road when straw spread on the surface caught fire from his exhaust. The flames damaged his battery box and scorched the road before locals helped extinguish the blaze. A similar incident nearby also involved a car fire that was put out before damage occurred.
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Sisson
Jake Seible
Rebels Lose Fort Dublin as Free State Forces Take Four Courts
June 30 The Four Courts stronghold of Irish rebels fell to Free State troops at 9 am. Eamonn de Valera became insurgent commander and declared war on Collins government. Rory O Connors forces were driven out amid heavy artillery and many rebels fled or were captured nearby. Free State troops battered remaining fortifications.
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Dublin
Four Courts
Free State
Eamonn de Valera
Irish Republic
Rory O’connor
de Valera
Collins
Miami student acquitted in campus murder at Stillwater
Karl Gordon of Miami, a federal vocational student at Oklahoma A and M college, was acquitted by a district court jury of the murder of Beckham Cobb of Birmingham Alabama. Cobb was killed on the campus May 9 during an alleged confrontation over an insult to Mrs Cobb.
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Stillwater
Okla
Karl Gordon
Miami
Oklahoma A. and
M. College
Beckham Cobb
Birmingham
Ala
Cobb
Gordon
Mason County divorce suit seeks sixty thousand alimony
Mrs. Mollie Campbell of Cardis filed in Mason circuit court for divorce from R. C. Campbell and alimony of 60 000 dollars. Campbell, a leading landowner in Mason County, owns property valued at over 200 000 dollars.
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Maysville
Mollie Campbell
Cardis
Mason Circuit Court
R. C. Campbell
Campbell
Mason County
Plans for Parley Arranged in Washington
Washington on June 30 officials prepared for a Saturday conference called by President Harding to consider a basis for resuming work in coal mines after acceptances from both operators and the miners union. John L. Lewis led union officials in Washington as government aides Davis and Hoover prepared to represent the administration.
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Washington
Harding
Commerce and Labor Departments
Davis
Hoover
Trains Must Operate Says Harding Amid Rail Strike Threat
Washington reports that President Harding orders trains to run and vows no transportation interruption if the threatened shop crafts rail strike proceeds. Administration defends the labor board under the Cummins Esch act and backs its decisions despite limited enforcement powers.
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Washington
Railroad Labor Board
Cummins-Esch Transportation Act
Labor Board
Warding
Railway Labor Board
Brotherhoods of
Grand jury to probe Herrin massacre as unrest grows
After a governor ordered National Guard mobilization to quell coal field unrest in Colorado and Illinois, a Marion Illinois grand jury will convene July 10 to investigate the Herrin massacre. Coroner and officials begin mine excavation amid rumors of buried bodies.
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Marion
Ill
Herrin
Hartwell
Southern Illinois Coal Company
Trip
McCown
Miller Murder Trial Set for September 18
Greene circuit court schedules murder case of Henry Miller for September 18 after arrival of jail transfer from Sullivan county. Prosecutors accuse Miller of killing Junie Carr at Gilmour on April 2 following a quarrel. Miller reportedly surrendered after pursuit and two shots fired to threaten surrender.
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Ed Douthitt
Edgar Collins
Sullivan County
Henry Miller
Greene
Miller
Junie Carr
Gilmour
Garr
Vandalia
Alcoholism Tied to Fourteen Deaths in Lucas County
Coroner C. J. Henseler reports fourteen alcoholism related deaths in Lucas County between July 1, 1921 and today. The tally also lists forty seven homicides and fifty self destruction cases in the same period.
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Toledo
Lucas County
C. J. Henseler
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