Road chiefs weigh wage cuts at Chicago meeting
U S railway executives headed for Chicago to discuss possible wage reductions on major lines. They claim the Transportation Act guarantees six percent, but say roads are not earning that rate and have cut staff to minimum for safe operation. The wage board ordered rescinding February 1 notices and set February 10 hearings on petitions to reduce wages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Amerian Association of Railway Executives
W. W. Oa
Pennsylvania Railroad
E Loomis
Lehigh Valley
M. L. Bell
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
Federal Railway Wage Board
United States Railway Labor Board
Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad
Cork mayor Seaman Donal O Callaghan vanishes from sight
New York AP report says Donal O Callaghan lord mayor of Cork who came to the U S as a stowaway and held seaman status has disappeared after last public appearance addressing the American relief in Ireland committee. His movements remain unknown and the hotel says he left days ago. De Valera’s fate referenced in the same notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Donal O'Callaghan
Cork
United States
American Committee For Relief In
Ireland
Harry Boland
Eamonn de Valera
Irish Republic
O'Callaghan
de Valera
Nebraska Biennial Budget Presented by Governor
Lincoln Nebraska January 27 1935 Governor McKelvie presented Nebraska's first biennial budget to the legislature. The plan calls for an expenditure of 26845602.61 to operate all departments for the coming two years with 2156549.59 to be raised by state taxation.
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Lincoln
Neb
Nebraska
McKelvie
Prominent Colorado Woman Frances McEwen Telford Dies
Frances McEwen Telford, hailed as the best beloved woman in Colorado, died in Denver at 81. She proposed the Lincoln Highway idea and was widow of Texas LB Belford, former Colorado Supreme Court justice and first Colorado congressman.
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Denver
Frances McEwen Telford
Colorado
Texas
Belford
Colorado Supreme Court
Court Looks Out for Guns in Matewan Trial
Williamson West Virginia January 27 AP trial of twenty four men accused in the Matewan battle May 19 before Judge B D Bailey proceeds. Defense motion to quash seven murder indictments over grand juror residency is overruled as deputies guard entrances for weapons entry. Colonel Herman Hall commands federal troops aiding civil authorities to maintain order.
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Williamson
W. Va
Matewan
B.D. Bailey
Circuit Court
West Virginia
Mingone Court House
Herman Hall
Mone
Suspect Held in Union Station Mail Robbery Case
James Schupp is held by police as the alleged leader of four men who held up postal workers and stole twelve bags of mail unloading from a Union Station truck on January 18. He was captured after a dramatic escape last Friday night during a rooftop gun battle. police say two pistols and thirty six cartridges were found on him.
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Chicago
James Schupp
Union Station
Schupp
Shoddy Has Large Part in Wool Goods
Chicago January 27 AP Continued support of the truth in fabric bill before Congress was urged to merchants by Howard E. Greene secretary of the National Sheen and Wool Bureau. He warned British and American textile practices misled customers by mislabeled wool products and urged reliable labeling to ensure buyers know contents and grades.
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Chicago
Congress
Merchant Team of America
National
Howard E. Greene
Sheen and Wool Bureau of America
Greene
Mr. Greene
Ozaki Plan For Arms Restraint Not Feasible
Tokio January 26 AP A majority of opposition party members oppose Y Ozaki's plan to introduce a diet resolution urging restraint on arms as idealistic and impracticable The Jiji Shimpo notes the current international situation makes permanent peace difficult due to Americas non participation in the League and emphasizes Japan must strengthen national defense The piece questions the feasibility of a naval holiday approach by Britain and the United States and flags Japan's grave security responsibilities
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Tokio
Y. Ozaki
Japan
Jiji Shimpo
America
League of Nations
Far East
United States
Great Britain
M. Ozuki
Interchurch Movement Denies Red Labor Links
Washington officials rejected charges that William Ze Foster authored a radical report on steel labor conditions for the Interchurch World Movement. Senator Walsh pressed to make the report public, while chair Mellow Francis McConnell defended the commission’s stance and urged against branding the steel strike as a red movement.
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Washington
William Ze Foster
Steel Workers Strike Committee
Interchurch Work Movement
Senate Educational and Labor Committee
Francis McConnell
Vittaburgh
Interchurch Commission
Eic
Intercsurch
Walsh
Montana
Admiral Cleaves To Return From Vindivontok Saturday
Admiral Albert Cleaves commander in chief of the American Pacific fleet is returning from Vindivontok where a naval court of inquiry investigated the shooting of Naval Lieutenant Warren H. Landon by a Japanese sentry.
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Nmaring
Manila
P. 1
Albert Cleaves
Vindivontok
Warren H. Langdon
Young Wife Kidnapped for Ransom in Los Angeles
Mrs. Gladys Witherell 23, wife of C S Witherell president of a loan company, vanished after a staged car crash call. Kidnappers warn of death if ransom is not paid and have threatened to kill her. authorities and relatives report several thousand dollars demanded. Her husband offers a five hundred dollar reward for information.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Gladys Witherell
C. S. Witherell
A. J. Witherell
Chicago
Witherell
Building Trust Probe to Expand Nationwide
New York January 27 AP Joseph Kaufman was named special assistant attorney general to direct the nation wide probe of the building trust. He will investigate alleged federal anti trust violations across the building materials trade to ensure housing needs are met and violators punished.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Department of Justice
Joseph Kaufman
Kaufman
Wheat on Hand in United States January 1 1921
Wheat stocks on hand in the United States on January 1 1921 were estimated at 20 million bushels by the department of agriculture, compared with 417 million bushels a year earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Department of Agriculture
RIVAL MASONIC LODGES IN Florida Banned From Emblems Use
Justice George Mell ruled that neither of two rival Negro Masonic lodges in Florida is entitled to use the Masonic square and compass emblems. The decision came in a suit filed by one lodge to stop the other from using the insignia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami
Fle
Piorida
George Mell
British Will Ask Extension On War Loan
Paris reports Lord Chalmers permanent secretary to the British treasury will seek postponement of Britain's debt payments to the United States to 1936 and 1947. Sir Auckland Geddes, British ambassador to the United States, has arrived to brief Prime Minister Lloyd George. Aquitania sails February 5 bearing officials back to the U S. Credits from 1917 to 1920 total 4.277 billion with 80.08 million repaid.
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Paris
Lord Chalmers
British Treasury
United States
Eriinage
Echo de Paris
Sir Auckland Geddes
Lloyd George
Sir Auckland
Southampton
Daily Mail
United States Treasury
Great Britain
Kyle's partner taken in tow in mail theft case
Loren Williamson, business partner with Guy Kyle in a garage business and former preacher, confessed complicity in the $216,000 mail theft on January 14 in Mount Vernon, HLgJan. 27 AP. Williamson was arrested shortly before noon today and denies participation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Vernon
Hlgjan
Loren Williamson
Guy Kyle
Myc Hae
Williamson
Murder charge hearing for Burnell Lawson in Omaha
The police court hearing for Burnell Lawson, a Little Rock Arkansas man charged with murdering his wife in an Omaha apartment, began and was adjourned to Saturday on defense motion.
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Omaha
Burnell Lawson
Little Rock
Ark
Kearns signs Babe Herman among Dempsey boxers
Jack Kearns manager for Jack Dempsey announced signing Babe Herman of Sacramento California. Kearns praised Herman after a six round decision win last night calling him one of the best bantam boxers he had ever seen.
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Portland
Ore
Jack Kearns
Jack Dempsey
Babe
Herman
Sacramento
California
Kearns
Japan to protest wireless station construction in interior China
Japan plans to protest the build of a large wireless station with American capital at Shanghai with branches in Tianjin Chi Fu and Harbin. The protest rests on claims the project violates agreements authorizing Japan to operate wireless plants in interior China.
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Tokio
Japan
Shafighai
Tien Tain Chi-Fu
Harbin
Nichi Nichi
China
Money and Marriage Involved In Widower Dominic
A report notes Dominic, twice a widower, attends his Communion with a sense of justification amid ongoing money and marriage concerns shaping his life and choices.
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Dominic
Trial of Rev. Baker Lee for performing interracial marriage
The trial of the Rev. Baker Lee, former rector of Christ Church, was to proceed before twelve peers of the Episcopal church on a charge of violating ecclesiastical law by conducting a marriage ceremony for Alfred J. Dupont of Wilmington Del and Miss Jessie D. Ball of Los Angeles.
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Tos Angeles
Jar
Baker I’. Lee
Christ Church T Have
Episcopal Ehtrch
Alfred. J. Dupont
Wilmington
Del
Jessie D. Ball
Los Angeles
Episcopal Church Controversy Over Marital Conventions
At a Los Angeles diocese convention a resolution promised support for Bishop Johnson if he called Mr. Lee to trial for violating Canon 42 which bars marrying a divorced person with a living former spouse. DuPont, a widower now married to Mrs Ball, is central to the dispute as Mr. Lee defends his actions claiming justification and vows to fight any charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Diocese of
Los Angeles
Joseph H. Johnson
Lee
Johnson
DuPont
Ball
New York
Swiss Socialists reject Moscow International adhesion
In Berne on January 26, Swiss Socialists voted against joining the third Moscow International by a margin of 16,600 to support the proposition, marking a clear stance within the Swiss left.
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Berne
Switzerland
Verdict in Utah electoral vote dispute discussed
Salt Lake lawyers stated Mrs. Margaret L. Judd was not legally elected to deliver Utah's electoral vote. Therefore she could not be fined for failure to deliver the vote as the misunderstanding over her trip to Washington continues to be untangled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salt Lake
Eetrae
Margaret L. Judd
Washington
Utah
Judd
Rail union chiefs offer to move fifty million bushels of wheat for Hoover
Western farmers pledge fifty million bushels of wheat to starving Europe and China. Engine and train crews would move the grain at no labor cost, with railroads providing solid trains to transport the donation free of charge. The telegrams were signed by Warren B. Stone and other union presidents.
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Cleveland
Herbert Hoover
Europe
China
Hoover
Conster
Warren 8. Stone
L. E B. Sheppard
W. B. Carter
W. G. Lee
Mr. Stone
Young Man Fatally Injured Adjusting Light Socket at Brick Plant
A bricksetter named A T Clark fell from a scaffold while installing a light globe at a brick plant around 8 30 this morning. He died within minutes from injuries as coroner S Pering investigates. Clark, 4 years married with a six month old baby, is survived by his wife, parents Thomas and Mrs Clark of Blackfoot, and siblings.
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A.T. Clark
A. Abgutile
Mornix
Her & Hall ‘Company
Clark
Thomas Clark Hwlackfoot
North Third Avenue
Blackfoot
Clarke
George
Arwell
Dorsey Pd
Women ordered to jump overboard in shipwreck deaths
Manila reports the Felicidad wreck near the Agno river mouth in Pangasinan where the captain allegedly ordered all aboard to leap into waves. Thirty six lives were lost, mostly women and children, with fourteen survivors including the captain and four crew members. An O Meral investigation was ordered into the tragedy.
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Manila
Agno River
Pangasioan
Wessel
Shimmying Sands Startle Quakers In Philly Area
Earth tremors in the Philadelphia region last night were likely caused by sandy settling, not a seismic disturbance, according to Father Francis A. Tondorf of Georgetown University. He said the region is not in a seismic belt and found no cause for alarm, noting similar movements have occurred before due to sands.
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Washington
Philadelphia
Francis A. Tondorf
Georgetown University
Father Tondorf
Britain and France clash over reparations terms
Paris Jan 27 AP reports the British delegation could not accept the French view on German reparations at the supreme allied council. Lloyd George conferred privately with Briand and Loucheur while Foch urged penalties for noncompliance. Latvia and Estonia were recognized, but Lithuania and Georgia were deferred. United States objected to the Latvia Estonia decision.
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Paris
Supreme Allied Council
David Lloyd George
Fish
Louis Louchenr
Liberated
Mr. Lloyd George
Briand
Lloyd George
France
Great Britain
Bolongne
Germany
Belgium
Marsial Foch
Russian Empire
Lithuania
Georgia
Letvia
Esthonia
United States
Colby
Washington
Rivers Harbors Bill Advances With Lump Sum Fund
The appropriation committee sent a rivers and harbors bill to the house with a lump sum of 15.25 million dollars, 41.864 million less than estimates. The total exceeds last year by 2.85 million, with 47.149 million unspent as of December 1, totaling 62.999 million available through June 30, 1992 for selected works in commerce and navigation.
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Washington
House
Iowa Supreme Court to hear three municipal utility cases
Washington January 27 three caveat cases involve disputes between Iowa municipalities and public utility firms over city power to enforce franchise terms. Appeals include Southern Iowa Electric vs Chariton rates, Panfield vs Iowa Electric rates, and Museatine Lighting vs Museatine city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Supreme Court
Suthern Iowa Electric Company
Museatine Lighting Company
Fyairet
Museatine
Man testifies in Mrs Peete murder trial in Bakersfield
Juror recalls curiosity led to a partial check of the collar of a Bakersfield residence as Mrs Louise L Peete faces trial for the mining promoter Jacob Charles Denton. Thomas T Miller explains actions during testimony in Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles
Louise L. Peete
Eollar
Jacob Charles Denton
Thomas T. Miller
Bakersfield
Calif
Mra. Peete
Washington Springs Alien Bill Proposed in Legislature
Olympia lawmakers introduce a bill to prohibit aliens not eligible for citizenship from owning or leaving land in Washington. The measure, sent to the Committee on Federal Relations and Immigration, aims to restrict land ownership by noncitizens pending further action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olympia
Wash
Washington
Howe of Representatives
Committee On Federal Relations and Immigration
American property in Germany is released after wartime control
Berlin reports Dr. Haniel von Haimhausen says American property seized by Germany during the war has been unconditionally released. Settlements remain unsettled due to Versailles treaty provisions requiring international clearing. Some American factories stayed staffed. few temporary transfers occurred to protect holdings. No forced sales of stocks or bonds occurred.
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Berlin
Germany
United States
Haniel von Haimhausen
International Harvester Company
Foreign Office
England
Uni
European affairs scramble market on unsettled conditions
Unsettled European political and economic conditions drove sharp declines in the wheat market. Early quotations shifted lower across contracts, with March and May values sliding as corn and oats hit new season lows and hog and grain provisions weakened amid the overall downturn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Europe
Irish for ward protest over Cork mayoral vote
A local Irish sympathizers committee attended a Salt Lake meeting this week and sent votes against the Cork Lord Mayor O Callaghan to Harrington Colby secretary of state at Washington.
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Salt Lake
Kopouiat
O'Callaghan
Cork
Hainbridge Colby
China to Build Its First National Mint in Shanghai
Philadelphia Jan 27 AP Construction of Chinas first national mint will start in Shanghai under mint expert Clifford Tlew ett from Philadelphia aided by U S loan services. The mint aims to standardize currency and produce up to two million dollars daily, with Hewett credited for prior mint work.
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Philadelphia
China
Shanghai
Clifford Tlewett
United States
Hewett
Eevee
Tve
Mintg
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