Factory shift expansion urged to ease unemployment
Washington dispatch reports the employment conference committee will recommend two shift production, shorter hours, and shorter work weeks to reduce unemployment. Public hearings began with statistics from Massachusetts and noted divisions among manufacturers on relief measures. The panel also debated municipal works and emergency measures as sessions continued toward a public employment service discussion.
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Fronte Trient
Sfashington
Wasington
Manufacturers’ Committee
the Tribune
Solvng
Russell PF. Phelps
Department of Tabor
Massachusetts
Charles M. Schwab
Samuel Gompers
Milbec Ineanderss
Sceg Committee
Jats
Andrew J. Peters
Ston
Parari Clark
Labir Hoard
Mts
Nck Up
Connp
al Woods
New York City
Commission On
Mayoreters
Boston
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Mblic
John J. Jacks Fomer
State of
Pennsylvania
Patrolman Joseph Reuschele Slain on Riverside Drive
Patrolman Joseph Reuschele of the West 177th Street station is found dead on Riverside Drive after an apparent gun battle. The 37 year old, a popular officer who joined the force in 1907, was mortally wounded by a bullet below the heart as shots were exchanged with an assailant. Police issued alerts across the metropolitan district for a suspect believed wounded.
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Riverside Drive
168Th Street
John Emerson
Actors Equity Association
George MacQuartie
Joseph
A. Reuschele
West 177Th Street
Detective Bureau
Reuschele
Emerson
MacQuarrie
Rousehole
Helen MacKellar
Bay Pay
Altinge Theater
Rauathele
177Th Strennd Riverside Drive
West Winth Street
West Trith Street
Mrthchele
Reusehele
Plimpton Avenue
Metroipolitan
Siy
Two Die When U S Sub Goes to Bottom
A U S submarine R-6 sank in San Pedro Harbor after an opened rear torpedo tube shutter allowed seawater to flood the craft. One electrician Frank A Spalsbury drowned while seaman John E Dressein is missing and presumed alive or dead. divers and a floating crane joined rescue efforts.
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Ispesune
Tribune
Los Angeles
Seawan
United States
San Pedro Harbor
Here
Camden
Gamden
Ebing
Frank A. Spalsbury
Powers Lake
N. D
Chance
John E. Dressein
Moline
Overals
Dresfein
Jermas A. G. Stickney
Fist Train
W. §. Miller
J. R. Chambers
D. Jutt
J. M. Ste
Chambers
Skeleton of Diplodocus Found by Road Workers
Skeleton believed to be a diplodocus uncovered by Jefferson Highway workers ten miles south of Fort Scott Kansas. Engineers request Kansas State University to preserve the fossil identified by large ribs pelvis vertebrae. The diplodocus is a well known dicynodont with historic discovery in Canon City Colorado in 1877, eighty four feet long and twelve feet nine inches high.
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Fort Scott
Kan
Jefferson Highway
Here
Kansas State University
Canon City
Col
Rail heads call meeting to cut freight rates
Managers of the nation's principal railroads plan a meeting on May 14 in Chicago to discuss generally lowering freight rates. The move follows prolonged earnings pressures and a transport policy debate, with wage reductions and potential strikes looming among railroad unions.
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Chicago
Tribune
Thomas de Witt Cuyler
Association of
Railway Oxecatives
Cuyler
Bar Harbor
Ricer
Kates
Interstate Commerce Commission
Senate Rail Inquiry to Resume Hearings on Labor
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee chair Cummins said hearings would restart on railroad affairs. The panel will probe rail labor issues and may call two railroad labor representatives. The Pennsylvania Railroad faces questions over its stance toward the Railway Labor Board amid threatened strikes.
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Pesbmnen
Washington
Sept
Senator Cummins
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Twadine
Pennsylvania Railroad
Railway Labor Board
Gammine
Pennsylvania
Majority for Pact and undecided in Senate caucus
Democratic Senators met in caucus to weigh ratification of Germany Austria and Hungary treaties. Ex President Wilson influence grows opposition while many remain undecided or favor ratification to avoid worsening relations with Germany. Senator Glass confirmed Wilson talks and health status, with Democrats split and no vote taken.
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Tribune
Boston
A. Pratt Andrew
Gloucester
Congress
Channes I. Pettingell
Amesbury
Harding
Essex County
Andrew
Lufkin
Crete
Ln March
Washington
Sept
Germany
Austria
Hungary
Senate
Wilson
Versailles
Wusons
Fomor
Carter Glass
Virginia
Jones
New Mexico
Wilson Mol
Glass
Mr. Wilson
George White
Democratic National Committee
Repub
Sage Five
Chicago Police Shake-Down Rum Ring Exposed
Federal inquiry uncovers a Chicago police led bootlegger ring. Officers allegedly obtained whisky from shipments in Chicago, raided cars under pretence of confiscation, and protected bootleggers for a share of profits. Detectives Smale and others face arrest as grand jury probes names and coercion of witnesses.
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Chicago
Police Department
Charles Fitzmorris
Fitzmorris
Federal
Cruc Iate
France Demands Allied Backing Before Army Cuts
In a Paris dispatch, France links any land armament reductions to allied moral support against Germany. Paris pins hopes on the Washington conference for security and plans to press to maintain a large army while arguing Germany remains a threat. Marshal Foch is expected in Washington to present French objections if security assurances fail.
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Wilbur Forrest
The
Tribune
New York Tribune Inc
Paris
Washington
France
Versailles
Great Britain
United States
America
Trance
Germany
German Republic
Europe
Rhineland
Marshal Foch
Battle over disarmament plan stirs League at Geneva
At the League of Nations, France and Great Britain face a push led by Lord Robert Cecil for a general disarmament proposal. UK and France resist a preyear treaty, favoring regional steps, while the assembly debates the blockade and unilateral actions amid factional divisions.
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Geneva
France
Great Britain
Robert Cecil
South Africa
League of Nations
Robert
Signor Seehanzer
Italy
Dhe
H. A. J. Fisher
M. Reynald
United States
Russia
League
Inglank
Fisher
Alssisher
League Against Nations
Itelf
Dutiea Unger
Cost of Allied Rhine troops tops hundred billion marks
Berlin reports the expense of maintaining Allied troops on the Rhine through March 1921 at over 100 billion paper marks. Germany bears the cost under Versailles, having paid about 713.9 million paper marks. Allies advanced roughly 0.996 billion gold marks (about 95 billion paper marks).
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Ry Wirelasa
New York Tribune Inc
Berlin
Rhine
Germany
Largest Bomb Tests Off Coast At Aberdeen Arsenal
The largest bomb to date, weighing 4000 pounds, has been completed at Aberdeen arsenal and will be towed to Chesapeake Bay for coast defense tests. At Langley Field a Handley Page aircraft will carry it to Kea for drop tests under army and navy observation, with 2000 pound bombs also used.
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U. S
Aberdeen Arsenal
The
Tribune
Baltimore
Chesapeake Bay
Capes
Caperiments
Langley Field
Virginia
Handley Page
Kea
Army
Navy
Henry Asked Aid When He Had 21000
Details emerge at Meyer committee hearing showing Police Inspector Dominick Henry sought financial help from Italian Line claiming he was broke and received a 500 gratuity plus a large stock deposit to balance his accounts. Other officials tied to the inquiry include William F. Maber and James Geraghty with resignations and dual pay roles under review.
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Meyer
Dominick Henry
Wall Street
Francis Gilbert
Henry
Gilbert
Robert 5. Winsmore
Billings, Olcott & Winsmore
William F. Maber
United Fruit Company
James Fe Geraghty
John F. Gilchrist
Civil Service Commission
Department
Brown
Wingmore
Marcy C. Henry
Dominick
Mary C. Henry
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Kentucky
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Disarmament League
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New York County Republican Committee
William M. Calder
Brooklyn
Richard W. Lawrence
Bronx
Joseph F. de Bragga
Queens
J. P. Thomason
Flyer
Bureau of
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Jewish Memorial Hospital
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