Panamanian unrest delays Pershing visit in Panama
About a thousand demonstrators marched in Panama on May 3 protesting Tobago Island cession to the United States. Mobs stoned Panama government officials and forced Gen John J Pershing’s automobile to return to a hotel. All American officers were ordered from a ball to avert trouble. Apologies came from the President and other high Panama officials amid mounting feeling over the recount.
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Panama
United States
Tobago Island
John J. Pershing
Switchmen Ready to Return After Strike Rift
Chicago May 3 John Grunau president of the Chicago Yards men's Association says 19 000 switchmen who struck in sympathy with yardmen are ready to return to work if their seniority rights are restored. Twenty of the 42 defendants in the conspiracy case have quit the railroads for other work.
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Chicago
John Grunau
Chicago Yardsmen’s Association
Massachusetts Cloth Mill Workers Strike Over Loom Rule
New Bedford May 3 Twenty thousand cloth mill workers strike in protest of a rule requiring operating more looms than previously.
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Massachusetts
New Bedford
Mass
Bakers Strike Causes Hardship in Seattle
Seattle May 3 Master bakers of the city worked all day Sunday to keep up the bread supply after a strike began last Saturday night. Ten of the larger shops are in full operation and a bread shortage is not believed imminent.
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Seattle
Newspaper Men See Increase in Newsprint Prices
Washington on May 3 Frank A Munsey owner of a chain of newspapers testified before the Senate committee on the newsprint shortage predicting prices for daily papers will rise by five to ten cents. William Randolph Hearst also testified urging smaller paper sizes and arguing revenue would not necessarily fall.
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Washington
Senate
Frank A. Munsey
William Randolph Hearst
Amazon Cannibals Attack Explorers in Amazon
A letter from Dr. A Hamilton Rice leading a South American Amazon expedition describes an attack by cannibals described as large and scantily clad. Two cannibals were killed, the attackers fled, and no member of the expedition suffered casualties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newport, R. I
A. Hamilton Rice
Amazon
South America
Coast Guard Cutter Bear Sails Home With Mail
The Coast Guard Cutter Bear sailed from Seattle for Nome carrying 13 tons of mail and medicines for Nome and other Seward Peninsula points. The voyage marks the first spring mail run for the cutter and underscores relief efforts during the period.
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Coast Guard
Seattle
United States Coast Guard
Bear
Nome
Seward Peninsula
Anti-Saloon League shifts on Herbert Hoover
Westerville Ohio May 3 The Anti-Saloon League through Dr Pp A Baker has placed its seal of official approval on Herbert C Hoover. It also notes investigation of other candidates including Gen Leonard Wood Gov Frank Lowden William G McAdoo Charles Hughes Senator Miles Poindexter and William J Bryan The league says it offers no single candidate this year but will name candidates friendly to national prohibition Previously Hoover was not approved alongside Lowden and Harding Johnson Cox Edwards remain disapproved
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Westerville
Ohio
Anti-Saloon League
Pp. A. Baker
Herbert C. Hoover
Leonard Wood
Frank O. Lowden
William G. McAdoo
Charles B. Hughes
Miles Poindexter
William J. Bryan
Baker
Gov
Lowden
Edward I. Edwards
Wilson Men Sweep Empire State of South
Dallas May 3 The administration's supporters won 1 200 of 1 400 delegates to the Democratic State convention to choose delegates for San Francisco The remaining 200 delegates were chosen by the Bailey faction which backs former Senator Bailey who plans to run for Governor in the summer primary.
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Dallas
Tex
Wilson
San Francisco
Joseph W. Bailey
Marconi Company Loses $3 Million Patent Suit
In San Francisco on May 3 the United States Circuit Court of Appeals denied Marconi’s claim for damages from Kilbourne and Clark Company of Seattle. Marconi had sued for 3,009,000 dollars, but the court sustained Marconi’s title to the mechanisms while ruling Kilbourne and Clark did not infringe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Marconi Company
Kilbourne and Clark Company
Seattle
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Well Known Hoonah Couple United In Marriage
Franklin Freemont Wheeler and Estella May Anderson wed at the Catholic Church with Father Rocatti officiating. Wheeler, a Hoonah man, and the bride previously resided here. Mrs. Wheeler left for Seattle on the Princess Mary for a business trip before returning to live in Hoonah. They registered at the Zynda Hotel.
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Franklin Freemont Wheeler
Estella May Anderson
Father Rocatti
Mr. Wheeler
Hoonah
Oklahoma Tornado Kills Fifty in Cherokees Pegges
A Cherokee County tornado Sunday destroyed Pegges town killing about fifty and wounding around 150. Thirty seven bodies have been recovered so far as trains with doctors nurses and supplies rush to the scene. Telegraph lines are down and details are sparse with five dead and eight injured north of Chelsea.
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Muskogee
Okla
Pegges
Cherokee County
Chelsea
Ferris Takes Over Hotel Stedman as Proprieter and Manager
Ketchikan May 3. L S Ferris, long time Treadwell Company steward, becomes proprietor and active manager of the Hotel Stedman at Ketchikan on May 1. He and Mrs Ferris arrived from Gastineau Channel last week, and he has purchased the majority interest in the building.
Editors Call Off Alaska Excursion Due To No Accommodations
Seattle May 3 The proposed Alaska trip by Washington State Press Association members and coast newspaper men is canceled. Tour organizers found summer reservations on Alaska steamers were taken up so raggedly that sufficient accommodations for about 100 editors and their wives could not be arranged on any July departure from Seattle.
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Seattle
Alaska
Washington State Press Association
Toeir
Two Die and Pilot Injured In Airplane Crash Near Vallejo
In Vallejo California on May 3 Charles Stoffer and eight year old Josephine Silvera were killed when their plane nose dived from 300 feet. The pilot Charles Stoffer Jr. was seriously injured in the crash.
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Vallejo
Calif
Charles Stoffer
Josephine Silvera
Charles Stoffer, Jr
Jimmy Wilde defeats New England champion Dyson in first round
Lawrence Mass May 3 Jimmy Wilde knocked out Bobby Dyson New England bantam champion in the first round of their fight here Saturday night.
Alaska Trade Improves With March Shipping Surge
Seattle May 3 Convincing evidence that Alaska commerce is reviving appears in the March Port Warden report by Fred M. Lathes. Departures to the North reach 2 797 versus 1 987 last March while arrivals total 459 versus 929. Cargo value climbs to 1 554 782 dollars from 768 707. Shipping men foresee a sustained prosperous season with trade rising steadily.
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Seattle
Alaska
Fred M. Lathes
Charles W Morse indicted for Shipping Board Act violation
Charles W Morse a former convicted banker was indicted by a Federal grand jury in New York for violating the Shipping Board Act which bars sale of American registered vessels to foreigners. Morse previously served part of a ten year term for bank frauds in Atlanta and was pardoned on doctors advice. He resumed business activity in shipping after release.
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New York
Charles W. Morse
Shipping Board Act
Morse
Atlanta
Hve
Yakima restaurant owner shoots wife, baby, dies by suicide
Yakima May 3 Frank Kappert, restaurant owner, is dead after shooting his wife and baby at the home of Mrs Kappert's parents near Yakima. He allegedly fired five bullets into his wife's body, two passing through the baby as it lay in arms, then killed himself. The couple had been estranged.
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Yakima
Frank Kappert
Kappert
Fire destroys City Mill Works plant in Tacoma
A fire of unknown origin swept through the City Mill Works Company plant on the Tacoma waterfront, causing estimated losses of about $100,000. The blaze damaged the waterfront facility, with authorities investigating the cause.
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Tacoma
City Mill Works Company
Canada forms large steel combination
Montreal May 3. Nine Canadian steel coal and transportation firms merge into the British Steel Corporation with 500 million dollars capitalization. The deal creates the empire’s largest merger outside the United States and ties Canada’s Atlantic deposits to Britain’s steel making expertise and finances.
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Montreal
Que
British Steel Corporation
British Empire
United States Steel Corporation
Dominion of Canada
Atlantic Seaboard
Great Britain
Bishop McDowell Advocates Lawful Order at Conference
Des Moines Iowa May 3 Bishop William F McDowell of Washington urged declarations against lawlessness and anarchy at the Methodist Quadrennial conference. He outlined the church’s principles for orderly government as thirty four bishops and numerous ministers and lay delegates attended the General Conference.
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Des Moines
William F. McDowell
Washington
Bomb suspect commits suicide in New York office
Tony Tazick alias Andrea Salesdo, held by the Department of Justice for bomb outrages last June, leapt from a fourteenth story window and died. The blast also damaged Attorney General Palmer’s Washington residence, with the bomber killed by his own act in the same incident.
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New York
Tony Tazick
Andrrea Salesdo
Department of Justice
Department
A. Mitchell Palmer
Washington City
Supreme Court Takes Recess Over Prohibition Cases
Washington May 3 The United States Supreme Court did not rule on the Prohibition Amendment or Volstead Act today and adjourned until May 17.
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Supreme Court
Washington
United States Supreme Court
Rebels and Federals Close in on Torreon Drive toward Mexico City
Troops from Sonora and Sinaloa converge on Torreon while Chihuahua rebels threaten the city. Military leaders warn of decisive fighting soon and a possible quick drive on Mexico City if Senora forces win near the state border. The revolutionists aim to press through the heart of Mexico as headway appears substantial.
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Agua
Prieta
Sonora
Sinaloa
Torreon
Carranza
Chihuahua
Mexico City
Meico
Mexican Bandits Kill American And Son Near Tampico
Washington reports Eben Francis Greenlaw and his son, both Americans, were killed by bandits near Tampico, Mexico. The Navy sent destroyers to Vera Cruz and Tampico to protect American interests. officials say no American intervention is planned.
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Washington
State Department
Eben Francis Greenlaw
Tampico
Mexico
Navy Department
Vera Cruz
Union Labor backs Sonora in conflict in Mexico
May 3 in Agua Prieta the secretary of the executive board of the Mexico labor party confirmed widespread anti Carranza sentiment. He also said the American Federation of Labor would support the movement.
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Sonora
Agua Prieta
Mexico
Mexico Labor Party
American Federation of Labor
Revolutionists Seize Juarez. Bridge Communication Halted
Juarez is in full possession of revolutionists with the customs house closed and the international bridge halted. No fighting is reported as El Paso dispatches confirm the situation.
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EL Paso
Tex
Juarez
International Bridge
Supreme Court upholds steel trust dissolution ruling
The Supreme Court refused a rehearing in the United States Steel dissolution suit. In Portland Oregon federal court, Northwest Steel and Columbia River Shipbuilding were fined 2500 dollars each and their presidents Bowles and Smith were ordered arrested for contempt for refusing to submit books and records to the Federal Grand Jury probing war program shipbuilding frauds.
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Washington
United States Supreme Court
United States Steel Corporation
Portland
Ore
Bean
Northwest Steel Company
Columbia River Shipbuilding Corporation
J. R. Bowles
Alfred Smith
Federal Grand Jury
Johnson refuses funds for New Jersey recount
Senator Hiram Johnson declines to provide 25 000 dollars with General Leonard Wood to cover recount costs from the recent New Jersey primary. He had pressed for a recount claiming he was deprived of votes in the election.
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Newark
N. J
Hiram Johnson
Gen
Leonard Wood
New Jersey
Johnson
Poles Capture Kiev in Dnieper River Debacle
Polish forces under Gen Pilsudski seize Kiev on the Dnieper from Bolsheviks, a dramatic advance following relief of Warsaw. Kiev lies about 450 miles east of Warsaw, signaling broad gains as Polish troops push rapidly into Russia with multiple victories in recent weeks.
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Warsaw
Pilsudski
Kiev
Dnieper
Polish successes distress Soviets rocked Warsaw
Public riots and uprisings among Soviet troops erupted after news of Polish successes against the Bolsheviki. Reports say demand for government change grows across classes and Soviet rule becomes more irksome daily.
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Warsaw
May Day passes quietly worldwide with strikes and calm
May Day passed off quietly across America and Europe. No attempted assassinations occurred. Strikes occurred in the United States mainly due to wage contract expirations, not the holiday. In Seattle 500 timber workers struck with no disturbances, and employers say none will be reinstated.
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Seattle
Associated Press
America
Europe
United States
May Day Dull Across Nation as Precautions Suppress Protests
Preparedness by Department of Justice officials helped prevent trouble as Radicals anticipated May Day demonstrations across the country, but the day remained unusually quiet. Precautionary measures forestalled outbreaks and reduced public unrest.
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Washington
Department of Justice
Labor supporters in Glasgow push for Scottish republic
May Day rally in Glasgow draws 40 000 people. Resolutions praised the Russian Soviet Republic and urged creation of a cooperative republic for Scotland. Organizers called for socialist reforms and self rule within a cooperative framework.
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Glasgow
Scotland
Disorders in Paris after May Day strike
Paris reports show three killed two seriously wounded and one hundred wounded in clashes after the May Day general strike. Police arrested 105 people, including foreigners, to be deported.
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Paris
Hunger strikers moved to hospitals in Belfast count
In Belfast on May 3, authorities removed thirty-five more hunger strikers from the jail to hospitals, bringing the total released over two days to sixty nine. Officials report no hunger prisoners remain in custody.
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Belfast
Ireland
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U. S
Salvation Army Training College
New York City
Salvation Army
Evangeline Booth
Gruneau
Munsey
Hearst
Herbert Hoover
Empire State OF
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Bailey Down
Oklahoma
Peggs
L. S. Ferris
HOTEL
Stedman
Jimmy Wilde
New England
Shipping Board
Canada
Canadian Steel, Coal and Transportation Companies
Bishop
Methodist Episcopal
American and Son
Steel Trust
Russia
Republic
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