Illinois convention debates compulsory voting for women
In Springfield on April 16 delegates discussed compelling all citizens to vote. The suffrage committee pushed for equal suffrage for women and debated language. Some proposed penalties for nonvoters and loss of suffrage for repeated nonparticipation, but no final action was taken. Grace Wilbur Trout attended as Illinois Equal Suffrage Association president.
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Springfield
Grace Wilbur Trout
Illinois Equal Suffrage Association
Frank RK
Dove
Shelbyville
Wm. Sneed
Herrin
Revenue Committee
Minois
Mississippi River
St. Louis
W. E. Hadley
Edwardsville
State committee drafts ward plan and memorial honors Sullivan
A committee proposed a substitute to recognize dependents as state wards and to include the University of Illinois while keeping the current provision allowing public funds to sectarian institutions. A memorial on Roger C. Sullivan of Chicago was adopted, with tributes by Martin O'Brien and Frank S. Whitman.
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Martin O'Brien
Chicago
Frank S. Whitman
Telvidere
Government May Aid Firms To Buy Ships
Washington April 16 Government financial aid for companies purchasing shipping board vessels to enable them to compete with foreign lines is recommended by businessmen and members of Congress who advised with the board on methods of transferring government owned merchant marine. A resolution calls for selling ships on prices and terms that firmly establish the American merchant marine. A plan by Eugene Meyer proposes selling the fleet through an organization like the Railway Equipment Finance corporation with bonds against payments by buyers and small initial payments.
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Washington
Shipping Board
Congress
Eugene Meyer
War Finance Corporation
Railway Equipment Finance Corporation
Five Boys Tie Lad To Stake Start Fire
Lancaster Ohio April 16 Juvenile court authorities expect to bring five boys who are alleged to have attacked Charles Kneller aged 10 a newsboy tied him to a stake piled kindling about him and set the wood afire leaving him to his fate The boy was badly burned and rescued He will recover Investigation shows the assault arose from jealousy because the newsboy had obtained the position
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Lancaster
Ohio
Charles Kneller
Gleaners Tried to Buy Chicago Stock Yards
G I Slocum of Detroit, president of the National Gleaners Association, told a state meeting in Kankakee Illinois on April 16 that the group had sought to purchase the Chicago stock yards. He said the government sale decision created an opportunity to secure a market for their products.
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Kankakee, Ills
G. I. Slocum
Detroit
National Gleaners’ Association
Chicago
Gleaners
Readjustment Start Point Is Washington Governor Lowden Says
Des Moines Iowa April 16 Governor Lowden urged beginning readjustment after the war in Washington saying a return to simple government principles will cut the vast government workforce and spread reform from the capital. He argued production thrivess thrift and economy are essential and the government should serve the people. He also proposed a finance department to regulate department expenditures.
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Des Moines
Towa
Washington
Lowden
Ningls
Towa Business Congress
Iowa
Verbal Arguments In Mine Parley Today
New York April 16 progress in anthracite wage talks as workers and operators finished presenting statistics and began verbal arguments on the first six demands. After five hours the sub committee adjourned to reconvene without a definite action. Miners seek a contract term of up to two years, while operators want a longer period. Printing in raised characters for the blind has existed for 130 years.
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New York
Confessed Slayer Declares De mented State In Miller Case
Steubenville Ohio April 16 County authorities with Harry Miller of Akron returned from Adena and say Miller who allegedly confessed to killing 11 year old Frances South last month is demented and not credited with the crime Officers examined the crime scene near Adena where he indicated eight locations where a revolver and bloodstained shirt were hidden but not found An audience of 800 Adena residents gathered as Miller was shown to them and could not be identified He is held in jail pending further investigation.
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Steubenville
Ohio
Harry Miller
Akron
Adena
Miller
Frances South
Aged Man Slays Granddaughter With Axe in Muskegon
In Muskegon Heights, 72 year old Stuart C Moon killed his granddaughter Irma Moon with an axe after luring her from a school room. Moon, a retired lumber man, told officers he acted out of love to remove her from misery. He is in custody on murder charges and a possible mental health evaluation will be ordered.
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Muskegon
Mich
Stuart C. Moon
Irma Moon
Moon
Muskeggon Heights
W. A. Lyon
Elevator Employes Strike In New York
Seventeen thousand elevator workers in New York city’s tallest buildings and stores walked out at 9 am after a mass meeting of 6,000 operators and starters refused wage demands of 5 to 10 dollars weekly plus eight hour day and time and a half for overtime.
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New York
Obregon Said to Still Be Hiding in Mexico City
Reports from Mexico City suggest Lieutenant Colonel Obregon remains in the capital, eluding early claims of flight. Local papers say a habeas corpus writ issued by a district judge compels Obregon to appear in the Roberto Cejudo case, at the deadline of 72 hours.
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Mexico City
Obregon
Democrat
Roberto Cejudo
Plumb Plan Outlined to Railway Workers Convention
Glenn E. Plumb, author of the Plumb plan, explained the proposal to the biennial convention of the railway employes department of the AFL in Kansas City on April 16. A resolution calls for a $1 assessment from each member across eight crafts to fund a factory producing overalls caps and gloves sold to members at cost.
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Kansas City
Glenn E. Plumb
Plumb
Railway Employes Department
American Federation of Labor
Portege of Roosevelt Retires From the Force
New York April 16 Captain Edward J Bourke a portege of the late Colonel Theodore Roosevelt retired from the police department after 25 years service. He once arrested Mike Callahan a political power for opening a saloon on Sunday and earned Roosevelt’s praise and a promotion. He later received the Congressional Medal of Honor for bravery in the Spanish War.
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New York
Edward J. Bourke
Police
Theodore Roosevelt
Bourke
Mike Callahan
Roosevelt
Rourke
Children to Get Ten Day Spring Vacation
Chicago officials say school children may enjoy a ten day spring vacation this year instead of five due to a strike by school engineers demanding a 40 percent salary raise, with calls for action on Friday.
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Chicago
Six Men Die in Mine Shaft Fire at New Iberia Estate
Six men died after a fire started by a struck match in a 90 foot salt mine shaft on the former Joseph Jefferson estate near New Iberia. The blaze occurred on a Thursday as gas fumes ignited while lighting a cigarette, burning the men who were at the bottom of the shaft.
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New Iberia
Joseph Jefferson
Here
Convicted Negro to Be Hanged Today in Chicago
William Y. Mills, a Black man convicted of murdering two men, is scheduled for execution at 9 a.m. in the county jail. Acting Governor Oglesby refused to intervene in the sentence.
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Chicago
William Y. Mills
Oglesby
Lima High to Stage Rip Van Winkle and Miles Standish
Prof Warner will lead Lima High School members to Sutter Saturday night to perform Rip Van Winkle and The Courtship of Miles Standish. Patrons banding together for Lima telephone service meet at the Lima Community House Saturday at 7 30 p m to discuss higher costs and poor service and plan action. Robert Curtis, famed London operatic star, has sung principal tenor roles in 40 operas over 20 years, mostly in one theater.
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Warner
Sutter
Rip van Winkle
Miles Standiah
Lnes
Lima
Robert Curtis
London
Aung
Artista Possens
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