Threatened General Strike in Gotham Ports Over Hours
In New York on April 19 union leaders warned of a citywide strike across Manhattan and Brooklyn if private owners do not concede. They seek an eight hour day while employers push a 12 hour day. Mayor Hylan proposed nine hours pending arbitration. Iran Hannah of the Central Federated union warned of a joint council meeting and sympathetic action if owners refuse, threatening to halt harbor traffic and involve hundreds of thousands.
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New York
Manhattan
Brooklyn
Marine Workers
Hylan
Iran Hannah
Central Federated Union
City Hall
Hannah
Brooklyn Central Labor Union
The
United Hebrew Trades and
Women’s Trade Unions
Missouri Senator Confesses in Poker Story Bill Defeated
Jefferson City April 19 The Missouri Senate heard confessions from poker players about a bill that would exempt game participants who testify against others. Senators Varris Anderson Stark Cook recounted games with four jacks four aces four kings and humorous lines about poker. The bill was defeated.
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Jefferson City
Senate
Varris
Bill
Anderson
St. Louis
Stark
Cass County
Cook
Cole County
Toa
Audrain
Daniels Sees Forts Occupied By Yanks
Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels crossed the Rhine at Coblenz visiting Ehrenbreitstein and Neuwied with General Lejeune. He observed Germany’s improved condition after France, likening Germany’s past power to a dog with a bone. The report notes the move amid shell‑riddled France and names the locations and figures involved.
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Associated Press
Coblenz
Josephus Daniele
United States Navy
Rhine
Ehrenbreitstein
17Th Field Artillery
Gibraltar
Neuwied
John A. Lejeune
France
Germany
Probation Officers Salary Increase Approved by Governor
Springfield Illinois April 19 Governor Lowden signs the Mueller bill raising salaries for assistant probation officers in third class counties from 1800 to 2400 and for certain other probation officers from 1500 to 2000. He also approves funds for cement investigation, auditor's office, Joliet penitentiary, and St. Charles school for boys fire loss coverage.
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St. Charles
Lowden
Harlow Higinbotham dies in New York at 79
New York April 19 Harlow Niles Higinbotham longtime Chicago business leader and former president of the World's Columbian Exposition died after being struck by an automobile in New York He was 79 and had been en route to visit Hungarian regiments recently returned from France at the state headquarters in Chicago He also helped lead the Field Museum and Marshall Field and Company building Chicago's civic progress He survived by four children including Mrs Crane Mrs Patterson and Harlow D Higinbotham Jr and Warrvy Higinbotham
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New York
Harlow Niles Higginbotham
Marshall Field and Company of
Chicago
Grand Central Palace
Higginbotham
France
Harlow Higginbotham
Petter Palmer
Marshall Field
Middlewest
B. T. Trane
Tekyl Island
Joliet
Borning Jolt
Higinbethany
Lombard College
Galesburg
Business College
Department of Obie
Field, Palmer and Leemer
Marshall Field and Company
Higinbotham
Beo
Field Museum of National History
Crane
Joseph Medill Patterson
Harlow D
Miginbotham
Tohet
Warrvy
Higinbothan
Navy Officers Land Wear The Iron Cross
New York April 18 Seven German naval officers the first Iron Cross holders to visit New York since U S entry arrived aboard the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria on its first voyage as an American troop ship with 2319 troops and army nurses, commanded by Captain Frank Taylor Evans. Walter Dost, former Kaiserin captain, leading officer on German dreadnought, praised American reception and noted differences from British and French officers. The Roanoke also arrived from Bordeaux with 1995 AEF officers and men, nearly 1000 of whom are with the 20th Engineers. The Jowan carried 1786 officers and men of the Lighthouse Infantry.
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New York
America
Frank Taylor Evans
Bob” Evans
Walter Dost
Roanoke
Bordeaux
20Th Regiment of Engineers
Jowan
Lighth Infantry
Swiss Relief Ships Named for April Loadings
The Shipping Board announced three vessels assigned to Swiss relief. Sarecoxia and the Schenectady will load in Philadelphia this April for Bombay and the Wa bash will also load for the same port, carrying aid to Switzerland.
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BOR Swiss Rcclinr
Washington
Shipping Board
Sarecoxia
Schenectady
Philadedyfest
Wabash
Ai Line Timore
New York Brewers Move to Sell 234 Percent Beer
Brewers in New York begin distribution of a 2.34 percent alcohol beer labeled non intoxicating to test federal rules. They deposit the tax in banks after stamps are refused and plan further actions to prompt a government ruling on legality. Local officials weigh potential prosecutions as others in the country monitor developments.
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New York
New York District
Sriday
Attornoos
Hoffman and Gambrinus Breweries
Revenue Department
Hoffman Brewenes
Internal Revenue Collector
Hoffman
Gambrinus
Elihu Root
William J. Guthne
Act of Congress
Internal Revenue
District of
United States Brewers’ Association
Messrs. Root and
Guthne
Hoffman Concern
Federal District Attorney
Washington
Roper
The
Revenue Bureau
Palmer
Louis
ST. Louis
Norman Jones
St Louis Brewing Association
Peace Conference Hints at Early Treaty End
Premier Lloyd George defends peace actions in London as Four Power Council in Paris reviews Italian Fiume claims and Polish Danzig issues. Wilson could sail home mid May with a signed treaty, no German text planned, while unrest grows in Bremen Berlin and Vienna. Brig Gen Richardson arrives at Archangel to lead American forces. Helgoland fortifications to be dismantled but Kiel canal defenses stay.
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Associated Press
Lloyd George
London
House of Commons
Council of Four
Paris
White House
Fiume
Danzig
Wilson
Congress
Bremen
Berlin
Bavaria
Vienna
Parliament
Richardson
Archangel
Pershring
Helgoland
Germany
Elbe
Weser
Kiel Canal
Transports Sail for Atlantic Route as U S Troops Deploy
War department announces multiple National Guard and Division units sailing from France aboard Rainbow 42nd 83rd 35th 28th along with detachments from engineers telegraph and coast artillery. Liners including Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Nansemond Texan Minnesotan Chicago Santa Barbara Luella Liberty La Touraine carry troops civilians and families to New York Newport News and other ports with arrivals slated April 24 to May 1.
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Washington
Forty-Second
Rainbow
Eighty-Third
Ohio
Pennsylvania National Army
Missouri
Kansas National Guard
Twenty-Eighth
Pennsylvania National Guard
War Department
France
458Th
Coast Artillery Regiment
1Th
Sth
Prince Friederich Wilhelm
United States
Brest
New York
165Th Infantry
Nansemond
Newport News
Texan
1Sth Engineers
407Th
Twenty-Eighth Division
Chicago
Eleventh Engineers
Santa Barbara
S8th
Coast Artillery Corps
Luella
Liberty
la Touraine
Four Million Rounds of Shells Used at Somme
The war department released figures showing four million artillery rounds fired by British forces at the 1916 Somme battle, the largest single engagement total on record. Messines Ridge in 1917 ranked second with 2,753,000 rounds, while American forces at St Mihiel in 1918 fired 1,000,217 shells in one hour.
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Washington
the Somme
War Department
Messines Ridge
the St. Mihiel Salient
Atlantic flight attempt begins from East Church
Major J C P Wood launches from East Church England at 3 15 pm for Curragh in the first leg toward an Atlantic crossing in a Short airplane. Pilot Lancaster Parker accompanies with navigator Captain C C Wrhe. Weather ideal and sun bright as service for safety is held. Curragh expected by 7 pm. No news in Limerick or London by April 19.
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East Church
England
J. C. P. Wood
Limerick
Ireland
Atlantic
Waood
Ele
Lancaster Parker
Short
Air Force
Major Wood
C. C. Wrhe
Parker
Curragh
London
Foodstuffs Higher In March Than Feb
Washington report notes March price rise across 22 food items by about two percent from February and fourteen percent from March 1918. Over six years March 1913 to March 1919 the all foods index rose fifty percent, with flour bacon lard and cornmeal up over a hundred percent. Butter dipped in February then rose in March while beef and coffee showed modest gains. some staples such as navy beans potatoes rice and milk fell in price.
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Washington
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Regulations For Theater Passes
The Bureau of Internal Revenue will issue rules defining four exemptions from the admissions tax: children under 12, bona fide employees, municipal officers on official business, and armed forces in uniform. All others pay the tax at ten percent of the admission price or fraction thereof. Pass admissions also incur the tax, with a $1 seat costing ten cents and a $2 orchestra chair costing twenty cents.
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Washington
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Chicago to Launch Large Victory Loan Campaign
Chicago plans a massive victory loan drive starting April 21 at 12 01 am with a billion candlepower display along Victory Way Michigan Boulevard and Victory Forum. The event includes four hours of festivities ending at 4 am and features William G McAdoo as the principal speaker on April 29. A city workforce of 50 000 salesmen is organized and districts across the seventh federal reserve area await the zero hour to push bonds. Charlotte Michigan pledges its quota first and Kendall County Illinois expects to meet its goal today.
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Chicago
Victory Loan
Liberty Loan
Victory Way
Michigan Boulevard
Victory Forum
Wil
Wiliam G. McAdoo
Seventh
Federal Reserve District
Charlotte
Michigan
Kendall County
Ilinois
Employment Agencies Are Formed In Paris
The United States employment service announces completion of its overseas organization to help returning soldiers find work. Headquarters are in Paris with branches in six other French cities. Detachment of the 120th Infantry delivered the first cards at Newport News. About thirty percent expect to need new employment.
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Wasebengton
United States Employment Service
Paris
Employment — Service
Washington
120Th Infantry
Newport News
Employment Service
Federal Government Service
Camp Dodge
Iowa
Illinois
Michigan
Kansas Wheat Shows Bumper Crop Coming
Kansas wheat crop prospects rise as the state reports 10,788,000 acres sown with a condition around 93 and an implied potential yield over 215 million bushels. If realized, value under guaranteed prices could approach 475 million dollars, averaging about 35 dollars per person statewide.
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Peka. Kas
Kansas
J. C. Mohler
State Board of Agriculture
Mohler
Hearst Estate Left To Son Publisher Heiress Will
SAN FRANCISCO April 18 William R Hearst named chief beneficiary in the will of his mother Mrs Phoebe A Hearst The estate is estimated at 4 million to 10 million The Hearst building in San Francisco is left in trust to Mr Hearst’s four sons and the Pleasanton California estate is also left in trust Legacies of 250 000 to 1 000 are given to various family members and friends The University of California receives 60 000 in trust for scholarships and Mrs Hearst’s art collection The fortune is estimated at about 21 million by friends and the will notes charity philanthropy education and public work
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San Francisco
William R. Hearst
Phoebe A. Hearst
Hearst
University of
Califrnia
University
D Fortune
Strike Delays Rudeete Brerne Apriyrs From Bremen
A Wolff dispatch from Bremen reports a strike by rock workers prevents unloading food on an American steamship. Another Wolff telegram says labor leaders announced a general strike has been decided upon.
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Rudetee
Brerne
Apriyrs
Bremen
Wolff Bureau
Wolff
Lesachers
Rumanians Advance Into Transylvania After Appeal
Bucharest reports that at Transylvanian inhabitants' request Romania has ordered troops to advance. The forces will occupy the territory allotted to Romania by the supreme war council amid reports of Hungarian ill treatment.
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Bucharest
Transylvania
Romania
Supreme War Council
Wilson to Leave for Home Soon From Paris
Paris April 18. Associate Press reports well informed quarters that President Wilson may sail home by May 21 and perhaps earlier by May 15. He is expected to call an extra congressional session between May 15 and June 1. The peace treaty is anticipated to be signed before his departure. Germans seek early settlement to avoid delays. Poland German boundary was settled by the council of four. Danzig to be internationalized with a Polish corridor to the sea. Remaining Adriatic claims by Yugoslavia and Italy to be settled next. Baron Sonnino to present Italian case tomorrow. council plans decision at tomorrow's session.
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Associated Preas
Paris
Wilson
Associated Press
Council of Four
Danzig
Adriatic
Sidney Sonnino
Murder in Chicago Mystifies Detectives
Chicago detectives grapple with a west side murder of a young woman shot in the head after fleeing from a man. The same night, multiple robberies and a bank messenger theft, a druggist slain, a widow robbed of 3200 dollars, a saloonkeeper robbed, and a police pursuit with injuries and a capture, all reported in the sequence of violent crime across the city.
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Chicago
West Side
Five Marks An Issue In Bavarian Revolt
Paris reports April 17 that five marks per day is the leading issue in Munich due to the communist return after the Hoffmann government appeared victorious. Claims of a Bolshevik outbreak plan and promises to raise soldiers’ pay are noted amid broader German tensions and Schleswig unrest before the plebiscite. Oakland talks of a $560,000 strike fund to back wage demands and recognition from the Postmaster General Burleson, with Pacific coast unions largely supporting a strike.
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Paris
Munich
Bavaria
Hoffman
Schleswig
Oakland
Calif
Burleson
Macomb Publisher Hamp ton Dies at 92
John Hampton, proprietor of Macomb Bryntander, died today in Macomb aged 92. He helped publish this state section.
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Macomb
John Hampton
Macomb Bryntander
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