Allies Occupy German Cities in Major Spring Advance
Allied French British and Belgian troops moved into Dusseldorf Duisburg and each seized key river towns in a planned occupation across the Ruhr area. The operation followed reparations talks ending with Lloyd George saying no solution was reached and Germany must face penalties.
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Camions
Mayence
Germany
Duesseldorf
Duishure
Ruhrort
Tuhr
Rhine
Cologne
Duisburg
Truhrert
Degoutte
Foch
Neuss
Lef Bank
Dusseldorf
Yaris
A Mayerce
Ministry of War
Aris
London
Algiers
Lloyd George
Chinese Drownings Reported After Steamer Wreck
News from Swatow province reports the British steamer Hong Moh wreck off Lamoek Island with 1,160 Chinese aboard. Only 248 rescued as of the latest word, leaving many believed drowned. The ship was 3,000 tons and owned in Singapore.
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Hongkong
Hong Moh
Lamoek Island
Swatow
Wkwatmstung Province
Singapore
Packers Cut Wages Across Industry In Large Scale Decrease
Chicago March 9 wage reductions of about 12 to 1 percent affect over 100000 packing industry workers nationwide. Effective March 16 the new scale lowers hourly rates from 58 to 45 cents plus revised overtime rules, with time and a half after ten hours daily or 54 hours weekly, and double time on Sundays and holidays. The six hour weekly guaranty remains, with fines and one and a half after 54 days in a week.
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Chicago
Railroads announce wage cuts for unskilled labor
The Southern Pacific Western Pacific Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe and Northwestern Pacific plan wage reductions about 3 81 3 percent for unskilled labor starting April 16 affecting an estimated 17 800 workers. protests and complaints will be heard until April 7 for the affected employees.
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San Francisco
Cal
Southern Paccific
Western Pacific
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Northwestern Pacific
Honda
Claritas Wold
Gi Wes
U S Princess Anastasia Undergoes Major Operation Abroad
Athens dispatch reports Princess Anastasia wife of Prince Christopher formerly Mrs Leeds of New York underwent a difficult operation. Dr Gerovianos and Dr Toover led the team and described the princess as in serious condition but not out of danger for several days after the surgery.
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Athens
Greece
Dprincess
Anastasia
Prince Christopher
Leeds
New York
Gerovianos
Toover
Town
Sue
Harding's 2GC Promotion Nomination for Army Medical Corps
Washington March 9 President Harding names Dr C B Sawyer of Marion Ohio as his personal physician and indicates a near term nomination for brigadier general in the army medical corps.
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Doctor Sawyer
Marion, O
Washington
Harding
C. BE. Sawyer
Army Medical Corps
Paper Workers Vote to Accept Pay Cut
Kalamazoo Michigan March 9 Em ployes of the Bryant Paper company voted to accept a reduction of w ages to remain competitive with other mills. A committee of employees will meet company officers to set a lower pay rate.
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Kalamazoo
Mich
Bryant Paper Company
Indiana Assembly Closes After Fast Session Passes Taxation Bill
Sine die adjournment ends the first session under new tax system aims. The House suspended rules to fund school relief by directing 200000 from the common school fund into the deficiency fund, totaling 400000. Senate bills on full train crew and switching crew were approved. codification failed due to cost. Governor McCray signed bills increasing Marion Lake county surveyor salaries. motion picture morality bill passed Senate.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Newman
Osborn
Gibbons
Midoll
Morgan
Senate
House of Representatives
Latts Senate
Barker
Boone
Grayson
Fifield
House Committee On Education
House
Baxter
Smith
Gibson County
William Brown
Assembly
Houston
Reformatory Removal Bill Moves Indiana Institution
Governor Mc Sray signs a bill to move the Indiana Reformatory from Jeffersonville to the State Farm at Putnamville or nearby if a governor-appointed commission approves. Senator Duncan introduced the measure, with the legislative visiting committee preferring relocation to costly improvements at the current site.
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Mc Sray
Indiana Reformatory
Jeffersonville
Putnamville
Duncan
Legislative
Petitioners Cannot End Road Supervision After Request
An opinion to L. I. Wright from Attorney General U.S. Lesh holds that once petitioners secure state highway supervision of bordering roads, they cannot withdraw or discontinue that supervision. The view stresses the program as broader protection for taxed residents and notes withdrawal cannot halt ongoing inspection.
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State Highway Commission
L. I. Wright
U.S. Lesh
Tesh
House Passes Bonus Bill No 387 in 7 to TA Vote
The state soldiers' bonus measure proposed by Representative Newman passed the house seven to a. The bill, without debate, was explained as enabling a public vote at the November general election. It provides a monthly bonus of 16 dollars for veterans and allows a 300 dollar per month education stipend up to three years for those attending higher education, with normal tuition fees charged.
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Humphreys Senate
Thnophrexys
Newman
Army
Navy
Marine Corps
United States
Stte
Jeffersonville
Traves W. Mikesell
Clark
Mikesell
Francis M. Bord
Kokomo
Als
Roy Creason
Zoln Creason
Seymour
Lucy Seddlemeyer
Washington, D. C
Indiana Railroad Commission
United States Supreme Court
Indiana backs deep waterway to Atlantic via Great Lakes
The senate adopted a concurrent resolution by Senator Meeker praising the governor’s push for a Great Lakes to Atlantic deep water route. It urges Indiana’s federal representatives to aid rapid prosecution, arguing access to ocean markets would unlock undeveloped resources and reduce transport costs amid the Tidewater effort.
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Senate
Meeker
Great Lakes
Indiana
Congress
St. Lawrence
Alsa
Great-Leakes-St. Lawrence Tidewater Association
Atlantic
Indiana Sugar Maple Planted in California Exposition Park
Indiana will plant a native sugar maple in the Forest of States at Exposition Park Los Angeles as a representative tree from Indiana. Governor Warren T. McCray approved the request noting sugar maple may thrive better in California soil than other Indiana natives.
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California
Forest of States
Exposition Park
Los Angeles
Indiana
Warren T. McCray
McCray
Indiana Briefs Highlight Tax Cuts and Local Incidents
Shelbyville values for tax assessment will drop about 50 percent due to market slumps in grain and livestock. In Porter a Toronto train wreck case sees Long and Block bond for involuntary manslaughter. Lafayette suspends a new traffic ordinance after farmer opposition. The Supreme Court upholds Indiana workers compensation limits against lower court injunctions.
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Shelbyville
Shelby County
Valparaiso
William Long
Jackson
Mich
George E. Block
Michigan City
Ind
Toronto
Michigan - Central Railroad
Porter
New York Central
H. O. Seipel
Long
Block
Porters
William Pennington
Lafayette
Washington
DD. C
Supreme Court of the United States
Lower Vein Coal Company
Industrial Board of Indiana
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