Owners Stand Averts Rail Strike Higher Rates Pass On
Chicago May 18 Railroad trainmen demand a quarter billion dollar annual wage increase. Managers say demands are high yet the rise is needed and likely to be passed to the public as higher freight rates. Union leaders express optimism a settlement may come quickly as the Railroad Labor Board weighs the case.
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Chicaco
Railroad Labor Board
Don Usamoenunx
United Press State
Hicago
Oweere
Chhothy Sheg
Brothers Bond of
Nees
S. I. Whitney
The
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
Nutehed
J. T. Whitter
Railroad Managers’ Association
Shea
Firemen ordered to drop union ties under new city ordinance
San Antonio city officials moved to bar Fire Department members from union membership. Fire Chief Wright announced the three to four day window for compliance after the City Commission approved the ordinance by a 5 to 4 vote. Commissioner Hay Lambert dissented. The measure aims to keep firefighters and police answerable only to the public authorities, amid concerns over insurance and property protection.
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Dmesrbers
San Antonio Fire Department
Loti
No. S
Fief Commission
Yésteray
Onion, Watt Fine and
Polles
Wright
Corportios
Central, Fire and
Cauhell
Tight
Hay Lambert
Gary
Ynion
Ala
Bac Antonio
Lawraolly
Han
Hic
Senator Fall Life Threatened Says Senate Testimony
Washington May 18 The life of Senator Fall Republican of New Mexico who chairs the sub committee on Mexican affairs and Cap William A Hanson an employe of that committee were threatened in 1919 by Raymond de Negri former Consul General for the Mexican government in New York and Charles E Jones of New York testified before the Senate committee Jones quoted De Negri saying the Mexican government will do everything and spare no money to eliminate its enemies.
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Washington, D.C
Mven
Senator Fall
Republican
New Mexico
William A. Hanson
Raymond de Negri
New York
Charles E. Jones
Senate
Mexico
Jones
de Negri
Man Kills Bride Then Self at Inauspicious Home
May 318 Pallure to cg John O Connell, 30, killed his bride of two months and then died by his own hand at his mother in law Mrs G A Wallace home. Friends reported he had been seeking employment for weeks and had dependency issues. the couple wed only two months earlier.
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John O'Connell
O'Connell
G. A. Wallace
Billion-Dollar Rail Wage Rise Seen By Labor Board
International News Service reports Chicago May 18 that the Federal Railway Labor Board is poised to grant a billion-dollar annual wage increase sought by about two million railroad workers to avert a nationwide strike. Rail unions back the demand while railroad officials say the public will bear the cost through higher rates. If approved, freight costs to shippers could rise by at least 58 percent.
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Chicago
Federal Railway Labor Board
United States
Railway Labor Board
Kansas Miners Strike Could Spread to Southwest District
Kansas City May 13 That the strike of Kansas miners caused by refusals to raise the price of explosive may extend into Oklahoma Arkansas and Missouri. Conservative estimates say about 6 percent of the Kansas field’s furnaces are idle. Next winter’s fuel supply would be greatly reduced by a cut in mining in the Southwest.
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Kansas City
Kansas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Missouri
Southwest
Londonderry Riots Prompt Military Crackdown in Ireland
Reports from Dublin and Londonderry on May 18 describe intensified rioting between Unionists and Sinn Feiners, with arrival of troops, deployment of forces in the west and southwest, and warnings of a possible state of war. Casualties include two killed and six seriously injured as authorities prepare drastic measures and assume military control of key areas.
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Mller
Ap Parently
Gready
Londonderry
Ireland
Col Repington
Acuch Fead West
San Antonio Evening News
New York Times
Dublin
Derry
Bolsheviks Launch Offensive to Recapture Kiev
In a dispatch from Warsaw dated May 18 four hundred Soviet troops were swept into the Dneiper river during a bid to retake Kiev. Polish forces under Pilsudski repulsed the assault, driving the Russians back with many dead and drowning losses. The Warsaw telegram said Russian advances against Kiev failed, with five divisions massed between the Dvina and Lepel, and reiterated by the Polish War Office.
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Tashington
D. C
Russia
Dneiper
Bolshevists
Glibow
Kiev
Warsaw
Pilsudski
London
Polish War Office
Centre
Dvica
Lepel
Pennsylvania and World News Mixed Vote Forecast
The report notes a light forecasted vote in Pennsylvania primaries with Edward Randolph Wood leading the Republican ballot and Attorney General Falcorf on the Democratic side. It also mentions Leonard Wood’s delegation contest and mixed interest in Vermont and other regions, plus a distant Ukraine report on Bolshevik rule hardship and food scarcity.
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Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Edward Randolph
Wood
Philadelphia
Falcorr
Leonard “Wood
Private
Governor Aims for Senate Seat in Virginia
Fragmentary text notes a governor seeking a Senate seat in Virginia. It mentions a four year term and the governor taking office in 2018, but the source text is garbled with missing phrases and unclear details. The fragment lacks verifiable names or dates beyond 2018.
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Bavmenee
Virginis
Probers Find Huge Waste in Nitrate Plan
Washington May 18. A Graham committee report charges massive waste and extravagance in the nitrate plant program used during WWI. It cites 116,060,000 spent by armistice date with no nitrate produced, faulting Air Nine and Bernard Baruch while Garrett denies misdirection and cites training camp expenditures.
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F Ashington
D.C
Chasgen
Alabama
Toledo
Ciockmatt
Jehalas Longworth
Hla
Musee Shoals
Air Nitenth ‘Corporation
Ploote
Tennessee
Garrett
France
Missing New York girl located after nationwide search
Henrietta Bulte a 16 year old from New York who vanished in April and prompted a nationwide police hunt has been found in Los Angeles California with 765 dollars. Authorities notified her parents that she is safe and will be returned, though few details of the case are released.
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New
Henrietta Bulte
New York
Los Angeles
Cal
Weather Forecast for San Antonio Area May 1920
San Antonio and vicinity fair tonight and Wednesday. Temperatures rise to around 78 degrees with light southwesterly winds. A warmer trend tonight into Wednesday.
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San Antonio
Vicinity
Texas
Lmora
Xetord
Weather Bureau
Leeasy
Pmidaigit
Oklahoma
Warner
Deposed Mexican President Seen Near Topela Village
Carranza, dethroned Mexican president, is fleeing northward with a shell escort, last sighted Sunday passing through Topela, 90 miles north of Mexico City, while Villa heads toward the capital unaccompanied. Obregon enforces political discipline. peace returns to Mexico City, and rebel forces report growing harmony among factions as 6,000 Carrancistas troop movements continue.
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United Preat
Washington, D
Villa
City of Cypress
Oscar 5
Goll
National News Service
Stat
Torrez
Mexico
Eines
Cal
Antonio Vasquez
Gch
Obregon
Pablo Gonzales
Tibaru Constitutional‘ists
Federal District
Gonzales
Vera Cruz
Puebla
Carranza Sry
Margoia
Carranza
Obregon Gonzales split looms over Mexico City power
Dispatches report deep rifts between General Alvaro Obregon and Pablo Gonzalez as factions align with the 1857 Constitution supporters and radical changes. Ambitions and exile threats color the street politics while readiness to act grows in Mexico City amid uncertain timelines and renewed regional loyalties.
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Alvaro Obregon
Pablo Gonzales
City of
Mexico
Carrenss
Obregon
Drewent
Gonzalen Atand
Gonzales
Dorenen
Tor
Bea
Acces
Kore
Agalnat
Ghsegoutas
Almazan
Uold Tames
Pureoe Oh Raat
Revoluti Ena
Matamorés
Matamoros
Uncle Kills Niece and Shoots Self in Tragic City
A Bloomington man, Raymond ONeill, 133, reportedly killed his 14 year old niece in her home yesterday afternoon and then fatally shot himself. Dillon, the mother, says the tragedy shocked the family. Investigators are reviewing the case with limited details available from local records.
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Evel Ditlow
Raymond
O'Neill
Bloomington
Nory
Catholic’ School
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Internatonal News Service
Lafayette
B. Gleason
Lafayette B. Glennon
Tim G. O. P
Chicaro
Aeb
Emerald Isle
Marbrine
Bolsheviks
Henry J. Riley
Cably
San Antonio Evening Note
Chicago Tribune
Berlin
Bolacheviki
Faror
GOV
Westmoreland Davis
Topela
Serview
Venustiano Carranza
Guaran
San Marcos
Care
Randstag
Obregoniates
Oregon
Clinton
For
T- Louis
Dillon
Chereunseras
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