Congress moves to probes rail worker strikes nationwide
Washington lawmakers consider a resolution by Senator McCormick directing the interstate commerce committee to investigate rail labor walkouts not authorized by union leaders. President Wilson's aides weigh early appointment of the railroad labor board as embargoes and strikes disrupt freight nationwide.
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McCormick
Republican
Illinois
Fig
Interstate Commerce Committee
T G Contigent Expenses Committee
Railrad
Wilson
Striking switchmen halt freight across multiple cities
Chicago reports 8,000 idle as freight traffic drops 30 to 40 percent and 49,000 packing plant workers are out of work amid plant suspensions. Other cities see idle workers, embargoes, and walkouts including Buffalo Toledo Detroit Cleveland Pittsburgh and San Francisco as unions vote or threaten to strike.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Wednday
Lackawanna Steel Company
Grand Lodge
The
International Yard Workers Association
Switchmen’s Union
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
Yardinen
Kansas City
Anl
W. M. Corbett
Kansas City Terminal Company
Cleveland
Collinwood
New York Central
Detroit
Mich
Michigan Central
Chicago
Los Angeles
Toledo
Gary
B. of
R. T
Sheridan
Wyo
Niagara Falls
Elmira
N.Y
Delaware
Lackawanna
Lehigh Valley
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Memphis
Fort Wayne
San Francisco
Scranton
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad
Bombardment Report From German Troops
A Mayence dispatch to the Matin says German regular troops bombarded Dusseldorf and Paris with shells on April 8. The report notes heavy bombardment and confirms ongoing hostilities in the European theater.
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Dusseldorf
Paris
Aged Spiritualist Dies Then Revives at Coryville Home
Mrs. Eliza beth Blake, 72, of Coryville, a spiritualistic medium, was pronounced dead four hours earlier after pneumonia. Four hours later she revived, opening eyes and flushing cheeks, whispering of her deceased husband. Relatives and friends gathered as an undertaker was sent for and obituaries filed. She may not live 24 hours more.
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Irontown
Elizabeth Blake
Coryville
Ford Asks Senate To Investigate Case
Detroit April 9 telegram urges immediate and thorough investigation of charges in the Newberry Ford senatorial campaign of 2018. Henry Ford states the urgency due to counter charges from the Newberry trial about large and unlawful sums. Elections committee, already ordering a recount in Michigan, is set to meet today.
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Detroit
Newberry-Ford
United Sates Senate Elections Committee
Henry Ford
Newberry
Ford
Elections Committee
Michigan
Cairo Explosion Toll Reaches Five Dead
The death toll from the Fayville Illinois nit rator slant explosion at the Aetna Explosive Company rose to five as Isaac Howell died at a focal hospital from injuries. Howell worked as a laborer at the plant.
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Cairo
Aetna Explosive Company
Fayvile
Ill
Isaac Howell
Focal
Howell
Supporters for Training Bill Back Down in Senate
Washington April 9 supporters of compulsory universal military training retreat from pressing four months of youth training as part of the army reorganization bill. With the shift advocates push for voluntary training, a vote on the voluntary substitute was expected, and no direct vote on compulsory plan if voluntary passes.
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Washington
Senate
Wadsworth
New York
Frelinghuysen
New Jersey
Thomas
Colorado
McKellar
Tennessee
Admiral Wilson Defends Navy At Senate Hearing
Admiral J B Wilson commander in chief of the Atlantic fleet testifies before a Senate investigation committee that the U S Navy was thoroughly prepared in April 1917 and worked closely with allies from declaration of war. He rejects Admiral Sims charges about delays and says cooperation shortened the war and saved lives and property.
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Washington
J. B. Wilson
Sims
Navy Department
Senate Investigation Committee
Department
United States
Daniels
United States Navy
Naval Operations
Secretary of the Navy
Hale
Wilson
Two Drownings in Muscatine Flood Creek
Muscatine Iowa April flood claims two victims George Gibson and George MacHartland of New Boston Illinois when their light boat overturned on Wednesday evening. Flood waters threaten 20 000 acres south of Muscatine as levee breaks and city sections remain under water. City levees require constant vigilance with hundreds of volunteers aiding efforts while factories suspend operations and streetcar service is cut on some lines.
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Muscatine
Mississippi
George Gibson
George MacHartland
New Boston
Ill
Muscatine Island
Haus
Missouri Telephone Company to Enlarge Capital
Jefferson City Mo April 9 The Missouri public service commission authorized Southwestern Bell Telephone Company to increase its capital by 3 000 for the purpose of taking in the Oklahoma Texas Bell companies All systems are owned by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.
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Jefferson City
Missouri Public Service Commission
Southwestern Pet Tele Done Company
Apital Ae
Oklahoma
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Peace Bill Near Final House Vote Amid Debates
The peace resolution nears final adoption in the House after a six hour debate. The rule limiting debate and barring amendments passed 214 to 155 with seven Democrats for and one Republican against. Debate touched on partisanship and constitutional authority with lawmakers citing international law, treaty powers and wartime policy before the final vote scheduled for late today.
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Washington
House
Committee On Foreign Affairs
Representative Huddleston
Alabama
Wilson
Pau
North Carolina
Montague
Virginia
Austro- Hungary
Congress
Executive Branch
Senate
Representative Campbell
Representative Flood
Florida
Foreign Affairs Committee
Mason
Yates
Madden
Juul
Gallagher
Britten
Chindblom
Copley
Fuller
Graham
King
Ireland
Smith
Cannon
McKinley
McKensie
Wheeler
Brooks
Illinois
Kennedy
Hull
Sweet
Haugen
Good
Remsey
Dowell
Dickensin
Towner
Green
Baise
Iowa
Mapes
Kelley
Cramton
Fordney
McLaughlin
Currie
Scott
James
Michigan
John M. Rainey
Henry T. Rainey
McAndrews
Ilinois
Doremus
Michener
Police Judge Frees Little Man Who Slew Masher in Chicago
In Chicago a small man named Joseph Manne was exonerated in police court after a coroner's jury ruled no murder occurred in the death of a tavern patron Walsh. Manne, five feet tall, had knocked Walsh down during an incident described as a dampened altercation. The judge held Manne had no authority to arrest after the coroner's finding, freeing him.
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Chicago
Joseph Manne
Walsh
Are
Wage Stewart
Manne
Forecasts Decline In Condition Of 1920 Wheat Crop
Washington April 9 A severe winter Hessian fly and an unfavourable seeding period cut winter wheat condition in key states. The Agriculture Department forecast 483,617,000 bushels vs 731,636,000 last year. Acreage planted weaker, but a larger crop was anticipated.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Kansas
Illinois
Missouri
Indiana
Ohio
Great Central
Dark horse chances loom in GOP race at convention
Capitol observers weigh Johnson Michigan win as a signal reshaping the Republican contest Chicago canvass looms ten weeks ahead Hoover shows early strength while five candidates remain in the running General Wood Johnson Lowden Hoover Harding considered leading options Pershing Coolidge Borah Sproul Knox eyed as possible dark horses Congress members discount Butler Poindexter booms.
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Washington
Capitol
Johnson
Michigan
Chicago
Herbert Hoover
Wood
Lowden
Harding
Garfield
Horatio Seymour
General Grant
Dark Horse
John J. Pershing
Coolidge
Borah
Sproul
Knox
Congress
Nicholas Murray Butler
Poindexter
Workers Don't Get More For Producing More Pleader Says
Chicago April remarks by J W Johnson for the Livestock Handlers Union claim workers gain no extra pay for higher output. He cites prewar shares of 17 percent for laborers and compares with 20 percent in England and 25 percent in Italy, urging Aribiter Samuel Alschuler to increase wages.
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Chicago
J. W. Johnson
Samuel Alschuler
England
Italy
Census reveals population increases in several cities
The 1920 census figures show Brockton Massachusetts at 66,188 with a 9,260 rise or 163 percent since 1910 Auburn New York 36,142 up 1,474 or 47 percent Marshalltown Iowa 15,731 up 2,357 or 17.6 percent Memphis Tennessee 162,351 up 1,246 or 238 percent Johnson City Tennessee 12,442 up 3,940 or 463 percent Vallejo California 16,853 up 5,518 or 48.6 percent Richmond California 16,848 up 10,141 or 1476 percent.
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Washington
Brockton
Mass
Auburnn
N. Y
Marshalltown
Iowa
Auburn
Memphis
Tenn
Johnson City
Vallejo
Cal
Richmond
Kapp in Danzig report from Paris dispatch
Paris dispatch says Dr. Wolfgang Kapp, leader of the recent German revolution, is in Danzig. The Pan-German faction controlling Danzig remains in power according to the Vienna source.
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Kapp
Danzig
Paris
Wolfgank Kapp
Germany
Vienna
Pan-Germantata
Fala
Apatch
London Paper Sees Crisis In Allies Ranks
The London Times reports a crisis in Anglo French relations amid disputes over the neutral zone and German occupation. It notes a French note through the British ambassador in Paris and outlines proposals ranging from German occupation with guarantees to allied oversight, while judging France’s haste in action as justified despite allied delays.
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London
London Times
France
the Times
M. Cambon
Earl Curzon
Downing Street
Lloyd George
Paris
Premeirs
Italy
Belgium
United States
Brussels
Ruhr
Marshal Foch
Germany
Bandit Robs Mail Car On Chicago Kansas City Run
A bandit robs the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe mail car on train No 9 from Chicago to Kansas City between Lexington Junction and Kansas City. He forces three clerks to lie down and binds the fourth before rifling registered mail. The thief departs at Sheffield, Kansas City suburb.
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Kansas City
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Chicago
Lexington Junction
Here
Sheffield
New York Rent Cases Pass Four Thousand Mark
New York April 9 Rent cases heard this week since anti profiteering measures passed rose above four thousand. About 500 Bronz tenants celebrated as Judge Robtski maintained order. Of 500 cases 85 percent ruled on a 25 percent rent increase as of April 1 1919 with some suits dismissed for improper service and others allowing tenants to remain at current rents while seeking new quarters.
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New York
Justice Robtski
Copper production costs rise sharply over four years
The cost of producing copper more than doubled in four years. Statistica reports that the cost per pound in 1918 ranged from % to 16 cents, while in 1919 it varied from 12 to $2 cents, indicating a wide fluctuation in mining expenses.
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Statistica
France Alone In Ruhr Occupation Protest Sparks Allied Debate
Bulletin from London and Brussels reports Britain protests France over Ruhr occupation while Belgium edges toward sending a detachment as a token of solidarity. A British cabinet statement says France acted alone, with Allies opposing large troop use and calling for German-led restoration of order. Washington notes U.S. stance favors Germany restoring control with limited force if needed.
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Brussels
Albert
France
Belgium
Ruhr
Associated Press
London
Paul Cambon
Lloyd George
Cabinet Council
Great Britain
United States
Italy
Staement
Germany
Britain
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Pacific
Atlantic
Missouri Telephone Company
London Paper
Allies
Bulletin
U. S
State Department
Ruhr Valley
America
Ebert
Wallace
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