Nationwide strike tightens as telegraphers loom
Chicago June 18 The climax of a nation wide strike by Commercial Telegraphers may come within 24 hours after a conference at strike headquarters. A telegram to Samuel Gompers will seek AFL decisions. Western Union business heavily hit while others report normal operations. About 5 000 girl operators and 1 000 men in northern and central California plus 3 000 workers in southern California reportedly join the telegraph and telephone crafts strike.
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Chicago
Sarminel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Gompers
Telegraphers’ Union
Wilson
Western Union
Association
Postal Telegraph Company
California
Handley Page Bomber May Cross The Ocean
Harbor Grace N F June 18 Vice Admiral Mark Kerr commands the Handley Page bomber prepared for a trans Atlantic flight and says a final test hop will be made to trial new radiators before the takeoff. An unconfirmed report suggests the trial may include a flight to a Canadian city.
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N. F
Mark Kerr
Handley-Page
Negative Reply Will Be Wired To Entente Is Opinion In Berlin
Berlin dispatch reports that Allied powers may send a negative response to the German delegation. The text notes little change in peace terms, widespread doubt over signing, and possible consequences including Bolshevik spread. Demonstrations in Versailles injured several delegates, while Count Brockdorff-Rantzau may not return.
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Berlin
Associated Press
Haniel von Haimhausen
M. Clemenceau
Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau
Versailles
Giesberts
Frau Dornblush
Attache Meyer
Herr Meyer
Germany
League of Nations
Entente
Peace Envoys See Germans Likely To Sign Treaty
Paris June 17 The peace conference leaders largely doubt Germany will sign the peace treaty, via Marcel Hutin of Echo de Paris. Only one leader he cites believes the Germans would accept the revised pact. He notes Four-Power Council consensus on consequences of refusal and a 600,000 man allied force to advance June 24, pressuring Germany to sign.
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Germany
Marcel Hutin
Echo de Paris
M. Hutin
Council of Four
Wilson
Baltimore
National Assembly
Weimar
Havas
Clemenceau
Quincy Soldier Lands in New York Arrival
A Quincy soldier lands in New York on June 18 as Private Bernard I. Donhardt of 217 Booth Seventh Street joins the Company of the 816th Engineers.
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Quincy
New York
Bernard I. Donhardt
Booth
816Th Engineers
Bill 10 permit increased city bonds defeated
Springfield IL June 18 down state representatives from both parties joined to defeat Senator Glackin s bill to permit cities to raise bonded indebtedness by one third The measure drew 73 votes for and 73 against leaving it one vote short of a majority The opposition claimed bonds would raise future taxes while supporters argued no immediate tax rise Some sixty bills pending third reading to adjust tax rates could be discarded if the bonding measure fails signaling possible earlier adjournment Also noted were moves on a waterway bill and various senate and house actions across finance housing and labor measures
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Glackin
Chicago
Igoe
Lee O'Neil Browne
Lowden
Desplaines
Lockport
Illinois River
Utica
Dunne
House
Senate
Homer Tice
Greenview
Swift
Kessinger
Magazines Use Pink Wrappers Is Claim
In Joliet Illinois on June 18 members of the Illinois Daily Newspaper Publishers' Association held their annual meeting. They discussed a post office ruling allowing pink wrappers to distinguish newspapers from less urgent mail and noted magazines were adopting the idea and sometimes beating newspapers in the mails. President A S Regis ruled politics was out of order.
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Joliet
Ill
Illinois Daily Newspaper Publishers’ Association
Post Office Department
A. S. Regis
Kansas Needs Men To Harvest Wheat Crop
Topeka Kansas urgent need of men in the wheatfields has driven Governor Allen to telegraph Secretary Baker to authorize camp commanders to discharge at the earliest possible time men from Kansas farms still in military service. The governor cites hundreds of farmers letters urging action.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas
Allen
Baker
Plan Night Sessions Of Senate This Week
Senate Republican leaders set night sessions to push remaining appropriation bills before July 1. Senator Curtis of Kansas formally announced that tonight’s program starts with the district of Columbia applications bill on the agenda.
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Washington
Senate
Curtis
Kansas
District of Columbia
Pittsfield Village News Briefs Highlight Local People and Events
Pittsfield notes Bert Crawford visiting his parents and a dredging job held for months. Ann McDonnold returns from Quincy after an operation. street carnival to be held at Bates park due to streets ban. Pump repairs at city pumping station by Central Illinois Public Service. Rev Henry Schutz from Springfield visits. Dan Murphy to return home soon after Navy discharge. States Attorney Edwin Johnston in Belleville. John B Gregg retires after 35 years. former Milton principal and county superintendent to reside in town. Bertha Houchins and Helen Carey visit. Houchins’ Red Cross service connected to Denver. Ernest Wilkins of St Louis visits. formerly a local printer. Line Fourteen Club to entertain July 6 at B J Rainwater home. Olile Kaesterson and M Bates marry June 1 at Ordway Colorado. Kaesterson known in Pittsfield. Itsfield Lodge I O O F elects Harverseas Noble Grand and Albert Hoos vice grand. installation July 4.
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A. G. Crawford
Ann McDonnold
Quincy
Bates Park
Central
Ilinois Public Service Company
Henry Schutz
Springfield
Emmett O. Murphy
Dan
Bertha Houchins
Helen ‘Arey
Jas Houchins
Red Cross
Denver
Perry
Ernest Wilkins
St. Louis
B. J. Rainwater
Line Fourteen Club
Olile Kaesterson
M. Bates
Ordway
Colorado
Pittsfield
Itsfield Lodge No
Albert Hoos
Specific Reply To Charges Of Dunne And Walsh On Jails
Dublin Castle released a detailed reply to Frank P. Walsh and Edward F. Dunne on Ireland prison conditions. It rejects charges of cruelty as baseless, cites a Belfast prison judicial committee finding no truth, and describes cells as properly equipped with water-heated lighting, books, and exercise grounds enclosed by iron rails, not cages.
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Ireland
Frank P. Walsh
Edward F. Dunne
United States
Dublin Castle
James Ian Macpherson
Sinn Fein
Belfast
London Pays Tribute To Alcock And Brown Arrival
London honors Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant A W Brown in a formal procession after their historic June non stop trans Atlantic flight. The aviators are carried on soldiers shoulders from Euston station to a central memorial.
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London
John Alcock
A. W. Brown
Euston
Sta
London Welcomes Two WWI Air Victors Parade
Miss Marguerite Kennedy and Lieut Brown's fiancee joined dignitaries to greet the returning flyers in a grand parade from Dublin. The royal air force officers and Aero club members rode flag draped cars as crowds cheered along the route. An aerial escort accompanied the train bearing the two airmen into London.
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Marguerite Kennedy
Brown
Dublin
Harry G. Hawker
MacKenzie Grieve
Royal Air Force
Aero Club
London
Telephone Operators Excursion Draws Moonlight Crowd
The Quincy telephone operators sponsored the season’s largest moonlight excursion Tuesday night. The G. W. Hill left port at 9 o clock carrying several hundred friends of the operators. Dancing and river breezes made a three hour ride, with Chicago men attending from the State Chamber of Commerce meeting enjoying the trip.
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Quincy
G. W. Hill
Chicago
State Chamber of Commerce
Minor Police Cases From Fifth and Wing Streets
Two men living near Fifth and Wing streets named Jess Mullins and Billy Jones were arrested at midnight Tuesday by Patrolmen Belker and Parker. Mullins was bad.
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Fifth and Wing Streets
Jess Mullins
Billy Jones
Belker
Parker
Mullins
Vagrancy case set for hearing after street solicitation claim
A man describes a dispute as a friendly argument with Bobbie and says he does not want to prose cute him. The case will be heard in police court today. A colored woman named Se. B. Smith was arrested on a vagrancy charge for soliciting on the Main street beat Tuesday night after a complaint by a white man.
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Bobbie
Se. B. Smith
Heickelschulte
O'Brien
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