Ford accuses ICC and coal profiteers in sweeping attack
Henry Ford denounces the Interstate Commerce Commission for controlling empty coal cars and aiding coal profiteers. He argues utilities and Wall Street manipulate shortages, rationing coal, driving prices up, and pressuring labor to strike. Ford predicts Ford plants may close September 15 amid talks of coal supplies and railroad service.
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Detroit
Interstate Commerce Commission
Henry Ford
Dearborn
Ford
Wall Street
Heving
Commission
Labor Board
Interstaate Commerce Commission
Louvile and Nashville Railroad
Cincinnati
Ernest F. Heasley
American Export and Inland Coal Company
Ford Motor Company
Ford Company
WIT SAVES A WOMAN After feigned death by ruse
Tony Belment rushed from a domestic relations court to the home of Mrs Annie Jack and shot her. Belment then killed himself with a gunshot, leaving Mrs Jack with a slight facial wound and survivors stating she feigned death to survive.
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New York
Tony Belment
Annie Jack
Belment
Jack
Sle
Tariff bill back with conferees over embargo and potash duty
Washington Sept 14 The administration tariff bill was sent back to conference by House leaders with instructions to remove the embargo licensing provision and the 144 cents a pound duty on potash. The vote stood 177 to 130. Speaker Gillett announced the result amid bipartisan applause. Representative Fish blasted the dye embargo as the worst example of invisible government, while Longworth urged adherence to procedure. A Civil War veteran’s will calls for a monument to General Robert E. Lee in Washington DC.
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Republican
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House
Senate
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Fish
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