Miners Strife Flare Across West Virginia Kentucky Border
Heavy rifle fire rocks Merrimac Spriggs and nearby towns in Mingo county as state police clash with miners and private guards. Federal troops standby while Governor Morgan seeks federal help. One man reported killed. recent street battle left sixteen acquitted after a long trial.
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Camp Sherman
Mingo County
West Virginia
Fifth Army Corps
Fort Benjamin Harrison
Indianapolis
George B. Read
War Department
Washington
Morgan
West Viir
Kentucky
Merrimac
Spriggs
Sheriff Prison
Bryant Messer
Norfolk & Western
Williamson
Sheriff’s Office
J. R. Brockus
Auburn
Pinson
W. Va
Boy Drowns During Fishing Trip in Bloomington
Jefferson Fulford, 15, son of John Fulford superintendent of the Consolidated Stone Co, drowned while on a fishing trip yesterday. He fell into a pond estimated at thirty feet deep. Policemen used the pulmotor but could not save him.
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Bloomington
Ind
Jefferson Fulford
John Fulford
Consolidated Stone Company
Slackers list publication halted by Chicago papers
Chicago papers suspend publication after verification reveals the first man named on the slacker list was a lieutenant colonel and former chemical warfare service commander at Lakehurst New Jersey. He had volunteered service and rose from private to lieutenant colonel, with Legion membership and New York residence.
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Chicago
Fort Sheridan
Chemical Warfare Service
Lake Hurst
N. J
American Legion
New York
French Troops to Stay in Duesseldorf for Now
Duesseldorf May 13 French authorities refused to relay President Gutzberg's appeal to evacuate the city and surrounding zone to the supreme allied council. Occupation likely to continue until Germany pays one billion gold marks due on June 1. The withdrawal request was backed by figures showing daily occupation cost of nine million marks for the Duesseldorf area.
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Duesseldorf
Supreme Allied Council
Gutzberg
Germany
Federal board funds aid for ex-service men at Valparaiso
The Federal vocational board will spend 65000 dollars to equip Valparaiso University with mechanical shops to train 500 disabled ex-service men in vocational rehabilitation, enabling independence. An additional 22400 dollars will repair older buildings to classrooms.
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Federal Board
North State School
Washington
Federal Vocational Board
Valparaiso University
Pershing to be named Army Chief of Staff
Washington May 13 Secretary Weeks announced General John J Pershing would become chief of staff of the army after July 1 succeeding Major General Peyton C March His assistant will be Major General Jas C Harboard who previously served as Pershings staff assistant in France before leading the service of supply.
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John J. Pershing
U.S. Army
Washington
Army
Weeks
Pershing
Peyton C. March
Jas. C. Harboard
France
Service of Supply
Road house owners suspected in murder near Terre Haute
Near Terre Haute on May 13 Joseph Amandula an Italian was found murdered early yesterday morning. He had been shot through the head and his body was thrown under a bridge on the Clinton interurban line. James Corrado and his wife owners of a roadhouse near the city are under arrest suspected of connection with the murder. Robbery is believed to have been the motive.
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Terre Haute
Joseph Amandula
Clinton
James Corrado
Tomboy label linked to girl's self inflicted wound
Mary Feranamdis a 15 year old girl in Cleveland shot herself after being called a tomboy during a boys game. Police say the insult spurred the suicide attempt and hospital doctors report her condition serious. She obtained her father's revolver and fired a bullet through her breast in a vacant lot after leaving the game.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Mary Feranamdis
Mary
Labor Heads Fight Kenyon Welfare Bill
The American Federation of Labor protests Kenyon's welfare department bill from Cincinnati where the AFL executive council urged hearings and described the plan to shift duties from the labor department as a plot to destroy the independent cabinet position. President Gompers criticized the move as dismantling labor's department and urged representation before the Senate committee.
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Cincinnati
American Federation of Labor
United States
W. S. Kenyon
Samuel Gompers
Department of Labor
Weather Report Forecast For Tonight And Saturday
Fair tonight with a colder trend in the east and south portions Saturday. The outlook calls for continued dry conditions with cooler temperatures across the region.
Crown Loses 18 Men in Ireland Week
Dublin May 13 Official weekly summary reports 26 attacks on Crown forces in Ireland last week producing 28 casualties, 18 of them fatal. Four assassinations and three civilian murders blamed on Sinn Feiners. 58 raids on mails, 73 courts martial with 58 convictions. 2,876 prisoners are interned.
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Dublin
Ireland
Miners Officials Inspect Southern Indiana Strip Mine Field
President John Hessler of UMW District 11 and secretary William Mitch are on an inspection trip in southern Indiana. They visited Evansville and will stop at Lincoln City, planning to return Saturday.
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Indiana
Terre Haute
John Hessler
United Mine Workers of America
William Mitch
Evansville
Lincoln City
Priest in New Chicago tied to mail robbery loot
Anthony Gorek a priest in New Chicago Indiana is under arrest in Gary Indiana over a Toledo Ohio mail robbery. Federal officials say he confessed selling coupons from stolen bonds to cover parish debts and that he buried about seventy two thousand dollars in his back yard. He reportedly met Wanda Urbaytis on a train to Chicago who provided the package. Gorek held the bonds awaiting instruction. A hearing is set for May 19.
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Chicago
Anthony Gorek
New Chicago
Ind
Gary
Toledo
Ohio
Gorek
Wanda Urbaytis
Miss Arbayis
Murphy Slaying Case Postponed in Indiana Court
Terre Haute May 13 The Murphy case charged with killing Archibald Dicks at Frenchys road house north of the city was continued to May 24 on motion by the state. The grand jury is conducting a thorough investigation, with witnesses summoned including Lawrence Vickery Margaret Hall and Nellie Woll.
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Terre Haute
Francis “Mike” Murphy
Archibald Dicks
Broadlands
Frenchy
Lawrence Vickery
Frenchy” Place
Margaret Hall
North Ninth Street
Nellie Woll
Prison Break Near Huntsville Spurs Sheriff Action
A mass escape occurred at the Huntsville state penitentiary with 25 to 30 white convicts shooting guards and fleeing toward Phelps. Sheriff Dinford organized deputies and reported several convicts obtained guns as the breakout unfolded.
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Houston
Texas
Huntsville
Dinford
Phelps
Stockholders Affirm Acquisition of Southeastern RR
Milwaukee Wis May 18 Ac quisition of the Chicago Terre Haute and Southeastern railroad was affirmed at a meeting of stockholders of the Chicago Milwaukee and Saint Paul railway Directors whose terms expired and officers were re elected.
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Milwaukee, Wis
Chicago, Terre Haute & Southeastern Railroad
Chicago, Milwaukee & Pst. Paul Railway
Latter Road
WWI Poland Silesia crisis warning from Lloyd George
In a House of Commons speech Premier Lloyd George warned Poland that Germany could declare war if Polish forces do not withdraw from Upper Silesia. He called the clause a possible solution only after diplomacy fails and cited a revolutionary movement against the British government.
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London
Lloyd George
House of Commons
Europe
Poland
Germany
Upper Silesia
Dirrelle Chaney Offered Post Office Job by Will Hays
In Indianapolis on May 18 Dirrelle Chaney longtime clerk of the state printing board and state board of election commissioners received a telephone offer from Will Hays postmaster general in Washington for a post in the post office department at a $4000 yearly salary. Chaney and Hays were boyhood friends in Sullivan. Chaney had held the board clerkship since the Garvin administration. the printing board will choose his successor.
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Indianapolis
Dirrelle Chaney
State Printing Board
State Board of Election Commissioners
Will H. Hays
Washington
Chaney
Post Office Department
Hays
Mr. Hays
Sullivan
Mr. Chaney
Printing Board
Goodrich
McCray
Ed Jackson
Willi Adams
Supreme Court
Investigation opened into drunkenness in air mail service
Chicago May 13 investigation into charges of drunkenness inefficiency and defective planes in the government aerial mails was started by postal inspector William Clarehan under orders from Postmaster General Will Hays. He said hearsay evidence suggested defective planes and intoxicated repair crews but no direct proof yet. The charges will be thoroughly sifted.
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Chicago
William Clarehan
Will Hays
Clarehan
Immodest Dress Edict at Jefferson High School
Lafayette Indiana May 13 Principal J H Shock sent three Jefferson high school girls home for hose rolled below their knees and declared such dress immoral and immodest. The girls returned after being sent home, apparently complying with the orders.
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Lafayette
Ind
Jefferson High School
J. H. Shock
Mr. Shock
In Debt to State From Indiana Insurance Companies
Unpaid fees and taxes totaling 46 280.37 are due the state from fifty six insurers doing business in Indiana, per a report by the state board of accounts filed with the state insurance department yesterday. The report says the department should have collected the fees in the past.
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Indianapolis
Busisness
Indiana
State Board of Accounts
Seamen Accept 15-Cent Wage Cut at Cleveland Harbor
Three hundred unorganized seamen along the lake shore accept a 15 cent per hour wage cut. Five thousand union members remain unaffected. Union officials said the case is set for arbitration.
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Cleveland, CO
Lake Seamen’s Union
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Fort Harrison
Searding
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Sprigg
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Executive Council of
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Gompers
Labor Department
Kenyon
Frank Morrison
Executive Council
The
Senate Committee
Senate
Weather Report
Crown
U.S
Mike Murphy
Grand Jury
Houston, Texas
OLD_ SULLIVAN BOY
Airplane Service of Mail Department
Lafay
Ette High School
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