Immunity Extended to Rebels in Ruhr District
The Ruhr workmen army must surrender arms by April 10 under a government conference accord at Essen. Rebels are to be considered noncombatants if fighting ends by noon tomorrow, as a Wesel commander pledges to curb looting and withdraw with orders. The general strike is to be called off as of Friday morning.
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Dusseldorf
Workmen's Army
Ruhr
Central Committee
The
Workmen's General Conference
Essen
Wesel
Discharged Sailor With Bayonets Driven From Yard
In Charleston navy yard a discharged seaman from the U S S Savannah was marched off under armed escort as punishment for bad conduct. Navy discipline this year uses bayonets to push him from the yard instead of the traditional drum out.
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Boston
Charleston Navy Yard
U. S
Savannah
Aviator Murder Confession Ties to Two Officers
Calixton Ruiz, held in Mulege, admits killing Los Angeles Bay aviators Lewis Connolly and Waterhouse. He will be tried at Tia Juana after the confession reported from Calexico to the state department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Calixton Ruiz
Lewis Connolly
Waterhouse
Los Angeles Bay
California
Calexico
State Department
Ruiz
Mulege
Tia Juana
Must Bid for New Coal Field
The interior secretary approved rules for prospecting and leasing coal deposits under the oil coal and mineral lead leasing bill. Deposits outside parks reservations and the Appalachian forest reserve will be leased in units up to 2500 acres, with one lease per person or corporation per state. Competitive bidding sets a royalty not less than five cents per ton, highest bid wins. Prospecting permits may be granted to citizens to locate unknown deposits, with potential leases at department set royalties. Alaska deposits are excluded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Payne
Interior Department
United States
National Parks
Appalachian Forest Reserve
Secretary of the Interior
Women Dress for Dinner Then and Now Undress London Sermon
Rev Bernard Vaughan denounces contemporary fashion in a London sermon asserting that women once dressed for dinner while now they undress. He laments changes in attire as harmful to decency warmth and ornament and criticizes fashion designers for lacking taste and principle.
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London
Bernard Vaughan
Bandits Attack Train Near Mexico City
AU S military attaché Lieutenant Colonel Robert L. Campbell and an American woman doctor Paine were attacked by rebels near Tres Marias on the railway from Mexico City to Cuernavaca. The train was wrecked and track destroyed. Campbell and his party escaped unharmed.
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Washington
Robert L. Campbell
U. S
Mexico City
Paine
State Department
Tres Marias
Cuernavaca
Campbell
Nail supply secured as Pittsburg mills boost output
Pittsburg mills raise nail production by 15 percent to end builder fear of shortages. Demand rose with building booms in New York Chicago Detroit and other cities, but officials report supply now covers upcoming projects and consumption has been met.
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Pittsburg
New York
Chicago
Detroit
Corner Stone To Mark Signing Of Boundary Treaty
In Guayaquil on April 2 AP reports President Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno traveled toward the Ecuador Colombia border to join President Marco Safares for laying a corner stone at a monument honoring the July treaty signing that defined exact boundaries. The Chilean minister accompanies the party, adding political significance to a historic South American event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guayaquil
Equador
Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno
Colombia
Marco Safarez
Palmer outlines packers consent decree and court remedies
Washington reports Attorney General Palmer outlined court actions against the Dig Five Chicago packers. He described a civil decree stripping them from control of stockyards rail access storage and other lines, and enforcing plans to substitute producers in ownership while noting no immediate price drops.
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Washington
Palmer
House Agriculture Committee
America
Congress
Supreme Court
Steel Corporation
Mr. Palmer
Russian peasants desert from Reds in Soviet villages
The Amsterdam Handelsblad correspondent reports peasants desert the Red Army at every chance and return to their villages. They earn more on their own soil, receiving gifts from others, while Soviet power is weak and peasants follow village priests who resist the regime's policies.
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The
Hague
Red Army
Amsterdam Handelsblad
Soviet Russia
Libby Maine In Distress Off Cape Flattery
The motor ship Libby Maine with about 25 crew members inbound from Mexican ports sent eight distress calls and, after passing Cape Flattery, entered the Juan de Fuca Strait under her own power. An agent could not explain the calls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle
Libby Maine
O. S
Cape Flattery
Cape
Straits of Juan de Fuca
Flattery
British Peace Delegation Bill Draws Criticism
London reports a 503388 pound bill for the British delegation to the Paris peace conference sparks charges of extravagance. Sir Alfred Mond defends hotel and staff expenses noting Americans spent more while Britain ran five hotels and three other premises.
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London
Paris
House of Commons
Alfred Mond
Switchmen Strike at Chicago Yard Over Wages
Seven hundred switchmen and switch tenders in the Chicago terminal walked out protesting the removal of a yard master and demanding wage increases from 52 cents to 1 dollar an hour. The Chicago Yardmen's association led the action not authorized by the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen as 300 workers remained on duty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad
Chicago Yardmen's Association
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
Brotherhood
Columbus
Norfolk and Western Railway
Brotherhood of Railway Clerks
Roanoke
N. D. Maher
Norfolk and Western Railroad
International
Roanoke Association of Commerce
Persident Maher
Railroad
Romania's Take Ionescu Urges Balkan Pact With US In Speech
In Bucharest April 2 AP Take Ionescu urges a Balkan alliance including Romania Poland Czechoslovakia and Greece with America taking an important role. He warns without US interest in Balkan commerce Romania may fall under Germany and calls for Romanian troops to aid allies to protect Constantinople and the Dardanelles open to sea trade. He defends Romania's wartime sacrifices and notes postwar economic strain from German looting while criticizing depots Bolshevism and internationalism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bucharest
Europe
Rumania
Poland
Caecho-Slovakia
Greece
Take Ionescu
Romania
Associated Press
America
Germany
Constantinople
United States
Dardaelles
Clergyman accused of leading a gang of thieves
Vienna reports on April 2 that Thomas Pfefferkorn a clergyman is alleged to head a band of 25 thieves and incendiaries arrested at Mitterseil. He recruited from locals including the photographer the schoolmaster the postmaster and the letter carrier. The group burglarized an inn then set it afire and allegedly blackmailed prominent citizens.
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Vienna
Thomas Pfefferkorn
Mitterseil
Salzburger Volksblatt
Pfefferkorn
King and Queen in Simple Role for Holy Week
Madrid April 1 AP extreme brilliance marked Holy week ceremonies at the Royal palace. King Alfonso Queen Victoria and Queen Mother Marie Christine attended mass before a large congregation of titled persons and officers. The king and queen washed the feet of twelve blind men and twelve beggar women, then shared bread and baskets of food.
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Madrid
Royal Palace
Alfonso
Victoria
Marie Christine
Spain
Wind and rain cause damage in central states
A severe storm hit Wilton Iowa near Davenport with wind hail and rain blowing down barns outbuildings wind mills and sometimes houses. No deaths reported though communications were disrupted. Separately a blizzard swept Minnesota and the Dakotas with a 30 degree drop in temp and strong winds hindering rail and city traffic.
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Davenport
Wilton
Trade of railway gear for hogs and grain agreed
An accord from Belgrade reports Hungary will receive a large number of railway cars and locomotives from the Jugo-Slavs. In return Yugoslavia will supply Hungary with 20,000 hogs 70 carloads and 500 carloads of maize and wheat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Belgrade
Jugo-Slav
Hungary
Jugo-Slavia
Northcutt Ten Years For Nurse Murder
The California Supreme Court upheld the conviction and ten year minimum sentence for Dr. Ephraim Northcutt of San Francisco in the murder of Army nurse Miss Inez Elizabeth Reed of San Francisco and Fort Riley. Evidence showed the death followed an illegal operation and the court denied a rehearing.
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San Francisco
Ephraim Northcutt
Inez Elizabeth Reed
Fort Riley
Kan
San Mateo County
Supreme Court
Black man killed by mob after jail abduction near Spartanburg
George Robertson, a Black man, was taken from the Laurence SC city jail by a mob and died after being driven to a railroad bridge on the city outskirts. He allegedly cut three white boys with a knife during a dispute involving another Black person. The mob’s violence left his body riddled with bullets.
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Spartanburg
8. C
George Robertson
Laurence
S. C
Robertson
Senate panel backs 10000 American Indian enlistment unit
Washington April 2 The senate military committee authorized chairman Wadsworth to introduce an amendment to the army reorganization bill creating a separate unit for up to 10000 American Indians. On discharge they would retain tribal rights and gain full citizen rights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Wadsworth
Senate Military Committee
Army
Committee to Visit Fort Hall Reservation
Washington April 2 The house committee on Indian affairs will depart in May to tour Indian reservations from the southern states westward and return via the northern route. At Representative Smiths request the panel will visit Fort Hall to study the formation project and assess the need for enlarging funding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House Committee On Indian Affairs
Smith
Fort Hall
McCormick Testifies In Murder Trial At Marysville
Frank McCormick formerly of Des Moines Ta testifies in Marysville California on murder charge. He says Brown, a sheep rancher, attacked him and he shot in self defense. Proceedings held April 2 with AP reporting from the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marysville
Cal
Frank McCormick
Des Moines
Charles
Rail wage deadlock before President as talks break down
Washington April 2 AP The railroad wage dispute reaches President Wilson for the third time after labor demands a general pay increase and executives withdraw from talks. Union leaders say they will test the Transportation Act while public representation remains uncertain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Wilson
4. M. Jewell
Whiter
Butter mislisted as delegate in dispatches from Jackson
Jackson Miss April 2 AP J F Butter chosen by the Republican state convention as a delegate to the Chicago convention was mistakenly listed among the negro delegates in last night’s dispatches. Butter is a prominent Holly Springs, Miss citizen.
Japan Will Not Withdraw Forces Until Situation Clears
Premier Hara announced in a Tokyo cable that Japanese forces will not withdraw until the situation clears. The report is filed to the Nippu Jiji via the Nippon official news service.
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Honolulu
Hara
Japan
Tokio
Nippu Jiji
Stockyards Strike Ends as 900 Workers Return to Work
Nine hundred striking stockyards employees returned to work under an arbitration agreement with the Union Stock Yards and Transit Company. Live stock deliveries resumed and over 7,000 packing house workers went back to their jobs. Federal Judge Samuel Alschuler will hear the wage dispute, with a Monday start to the hearing after the men ended the strike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Union Stock Yards and Transit Company
Samuel Alschuler
Alschuler
Alice Gentle Sues for Divorce from Dr. Robert Gentle
Alice True Gentle, a grand opera singer, filed for divorce from Dr. Robert Bruce Gentle, a New York dentist, alleging desertion. The couple married in 1900 and have a 14 year old son named Bruce Gentle.
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Santa Crus
Cal
Alice True Gentle
Robert Bruce Gentle
New York
Bruce Gentle
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