Senate Adopts Two Important Amendments to Bonus Bill
The Senate votes through key changes to the administration bonus bill amid coal strike tensions. The measure faces opposition over constitutional questions while lawmakers push for price controls to curb profiteering as fuel distribution efforts ramp up.
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Railway Shopmen Strike Tactics Mentioned in Report
Violence and unauthorized rail actions mark the shopmen strike with Alton trains tied up at Roadhouse Illinois and attempts to blow bridges. Dynamite used in Florida Alabama Illinois. suspicions of wrecking trains involve Michigan Central Gary Indiana suspects confessing others.
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Gary
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Elkhart
Grable Pushes for Living Wage in Rail Jobs Case
F Grable of the Brotherhood petitioned the railroad labor board last week to set a living wage for railway workers. The board refused, saying a just and reasonable wage meets the living wage standard. Grable then wired Senate committee Chairman Cummins urging transportation law amendments to guarantee a minimum living wage for railroad employees.
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Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way
Railway Labor Board
Senate Passes Soldiers Bonus Bill With Two Amendments
The senate approved the soldiers bonus bill and adopted two amendments. McNary of Oregon proposed a 350 million dollar appropriation for reclaiming arid and swamp lands to create farms for ex service members. Simmons of North Carolina urged using interest on foreign debt to pay the bonus, a stance opposed by the administration. The move complicates House Senate reconciliation and may prompt a presidential veto despite hopes to push rapid conference.
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Harding
Treasury Mellon
Washington
Competing German Reparations Plans Face Uncertain Moratorium
In late week briefings the Allied Reparations Committee remained undecided as Berlin proposed guarantees France rejected. Delacroix of Belgium suggested a temporary compromise with four points including promissory notes backed by three major banks, a 300 billion gold mark transfer to a foreign bank, guarantees to France, and a November premiers conference to readdress reparations and war debts.
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Disasters Claim Numerous Lives Across Three Regions
Last week saw a Chilean ship sink near Coquimbo with 316 dead and six rescued. The Japanese cruiser Nikka perished in a typhoon with heavy suspected losses. In California a Jackson gold mine fire trapped 47 miners below levels above them with no rescue expected at press time.
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Nikka
Jackson
Cal
Prohibition Vote Defeat in Sweden Sparks Wet Victory
Despite reformers aid, Swedish prohibitionists lose as the wet dry question goes to a popular vote. Cities swing heavily toward wet, delivering a decisive result.
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Sweden
Evelyn Drew Reade Weds Lee Trenhohn in Abingdon
Evelyn Drew Reade daughter of Mrs. Willoughby Reade of the Meadows Abingdon Virginia recently married Lee Trenhohn son of Mrs. W de Saussure Trenholm in a ceremony.
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Willoughby Reade
the Meadows
Abingdon
Lee Trenhohn
W. de Saussure Trenholm
Bear chef Trevey bakes daily bread for zoo bears
At the National Zoological Park in Washington for a decade C. C. Trevey serves the bears a daily bread ritual. He bakes about 300 loaves a day and is described as the bears’ best friend as a photographer captures Trevey kneading dough before a "big" moment.
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C. C
Trevey
National Zoological Park
Washington
Integrating sphere tests candle power of lights at bureau
The Bureau of Standards uses an Integrating sphere to measure average candle power. The large pumpkin shaped device centers an electric bulb to evaluate light intensity on the interior spherical surface.
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Bureau of Standards
Oklahoma Landholder Owns Ten Top Farms
Miss Mary Houston owns and manages ten of the state's most valuable farms in Oklahoma. The harp is believed to have originated from the hunting bow with tightly stretched strings emitting a musical sound.
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Mary Houston
Oklahoma
Eight-day Easter service and unusual sign painter claim
The text notes that the Christian Easter began as an eight day thanksgiving service. It mentions that no one visits Lake Avernus bank near Naples due to the foul water. It also claims Miss Eva La Rose of Lawrence Massachusetts is said to be the only woman sign painter in New England.
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