Railroads Plan War Time Labor Wage Cut Across UP System
A Chicago conference between Union Pacific officials and railroad labor heads agreed on a common wage scale reduction of eighteen cents an hour, from 48 to 30 cents. The plan affects about 5,000 workers and awaits unions’ reaction at a March 24 meeting. General manager W M Jeffers called the session long but quiet.
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Omaha
Mar
Union Pacific Railroad
Railroad
W. M. Jeffers
Union Pacific
Railroads move to cut wartime wages for skilled workers
The nation’s railroads plan wage cuts for skilled employees following unskilled reductions. Associations say adjustments will be made individually by roads, with labor boards to handle disputes. Chicago and Alton signals steps to cut pay for its president W G Bierd, aiming to lower freight and passenger rates.
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Association of
Railway Executives
New Haven
Conn
Labor Board
Chicago and Alton Railroad
W. G. Kierd
Brin
Lehigh Valley Officials Meet Workers Over Wage Cuts
In Bethlehem Pennsylvania on March 11 officials of the Lehigh Valley railroad and more than 5,000 common labor employees gathered to discuss wage reductions being considered, following similar proposals on other railroads.
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Bethrlehem
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company
Kronstadt Demands Surrender of Petrograd in Ultimatum
Revolutionary authorities at Kronstadt issue an ultimatum to Petrograd demanding surrender by March 25 or face general bombardment. Reports of arrests and executions in Oranienbaum and Petrograd. Kronstadt denies Bolshevik claims of hunger, says food and ammunition are abundant.
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London
Kronstadt
Petrograd
Abo
Finland
London Times
Oranienbaum
Systerbak
Wealthy Brandeis Divorced Case Filed in Omaha Court
Mrs. Madeline Frank Brandeis filed for divorce from Ervine John Brandeis a wealthy vice president of a major local department store. She accuses cruelty in the petition filed in district court here yesterday. Mrs. Brandeis is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Frank of San Francisco.
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Omaha
Mar
Madeline Frank Brandeis
Ervine John Brandeis
Brandeis
Woman shoots children and herself in Wyoming tragedy
Leven Wyoming March 11 AP Mrs James Watters wife of a prominent rancher in the Big Horn basin shot and killed three of her children wounded three others then killed herself. One child later died. The slain children ranged from five to twelve. The husband found the locked house and drawn shades. Nine bullets fired according to officers.
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Leven
Wyo
James Watters
Big Horn Basin
Watters
Newspapers allege high freight rates on newsprint panels
Nine newspapers from Oklahoma Texas Kansas and Nebraska filed complaints with the Interstate Commerce Commission accusing railroads of charging unreasonable rates for newsprint panels. Complainants include Enid Eagle Denison Herald Wichita Falls Record News El Paso Times Kansas City Star News Marae Tribune Ft Smith and Hutchinson News.
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Washington
Mar
Interstate Commerce Commission
Enid
Okla
Eagle
Denison
Tex
Herald
Wichita Falls
Record News
el Paso
Times
Kansas City
Kas
Gauren, Ae
News
Marae
Neb
Tribune
Ft. Smith
Government concedes error in corporate bond tax case
Solicitor General Frierson closed the government's argument before the Supreme Court admitting the Internal Revenue Bureau erred in treating the difference between the market value of an investment on March 1, 1918 and its sale date as profit.
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Washington
Frierson
Supreme Court
Internal Revenue Bureau
Ogden Couple Held for Murder in Termain Case
Mr and Mrs John Scarsino were ordered held for trial on first degree murder charges after a city court preliminary examination. Termain, a seven month old baby in the home, was shot in a dispute linked to their daughter Annie, 17, during a claimed self defense.
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Ogden
John Scarsino
Mike Termain
Annie
Termain
Palmer ruling contested by Anti-Saloon League leader
Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel of the Anti-Saloon League, outlined three steps to overturn Former Attorney General Palmer's opinion that beer and wine could be prescribed as medicine. He urged a revised opinion, state enforcement against medicinal prescribing, and possible federal law change. He warned brewers against exploiting Palmer’s ruling and cited the medical association's stance that beer has no therapeutic value.
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Boston
Mass
A. Mitchell Palmer
Wayne B. Wheeler
Anti-Saloon League of America
Palmer
Wheeler
National Medical Association
AG Daugherty to Rule on Palmer Beer Medicine Ruling
Washington March 11 AP Early review by Attorney General Daugherty of Palmer's ruling making beer valid as medicine under the Volstead act is awaited He will study the opinion and issue a formal view Regulations to align with Palmer are being drafted by internal revenue officials with no set enactment date Daugherty says DOJ is not seeking extra enforcement powers.
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Washington
Daugherty
Palmer
Internal Revenue
Department of Justice
Western Railroads Move to Cut War Wage Scales
Virtually all major western railroads plan wage reductions to align with wartime pay scales and to stay solvent as traffic rates strain finances. Leaders indicate cuts in unskilled and skilled positions, with the Chicago and Great Western pledging a 20 percent cut for all employees, from president to porter, as Rio Grande announces further layoffs of 100 shopmen.
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New York
New York Central
New Haven
Hartford
Santa Fe
Chicago
Milwaukee
St. Paul
Great Western
Rock Island
Pacific
Chicago and Northwestern
Federal Labor Board
Chicago, Mar. WL
Chicago and Great Western Railroad
Great Westen
Open battle over validity of the Transportation Act
Washington March 11 AP opening arguments before the supreme court in the Wisconsin rate case contend the transportation act as construed by the ICC gives the commission control over state rates and destroys dual federalism. Railroads argue Congress authority is needed to correct state injustices and protect interstate commerce.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Wisconsin
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
M. BR. Oldrich
John E. Benton
National Association of Railway and Utility Commissions
Oldrich
Congress
Bruce Scott
The
Karolyis No Country as Italy Seeks Refuge Break
Count Michael Karolyi, expelled from Italy, seeks internment in Florence while denying communist agitation charges. Italian investigators probe his activities as police report a Naples associate and a Vatican contact letter lures him to the United States, where an American consul reportedly refused his passport visa.
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Rome
Michael Karolyi
Italy
Europe
Florence
Naples
John. Hech
Karoly
Vatican
United States
Hoch
Mediators Considered as Strike Looms in Meat Packing
Washington March 11 AP Secretary Davis attended the cabinet meeting with data on the meat packing wage cut set for March 14. Officials expect the Labor Department to appoint mediators in Chicago to avert a potential strike.
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Washington
Mar
Davis
Harding
Department of Labor
Chicago
Building shows an increase in February expenditures
The February Bradstreets reports total building expenditures in 146 cities at 77,840,102 dollars. This compares to a 25 percent drop from February 1920 but a 32 percent rise from January of the same year, signaling improving builder activity across the country.
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New York
Bradstreets
Clara Hamon Trials Recital Shooting Reveals Turbulent Marriage
Ardmore Oklahoma March 11 Clara Smith Hamon on trial for murder sobbed as prosecutor described J Hamon saying he never had a chance. Evidence outlines a volatile marriage with quarrels and Clara allegedly buying a pistol two weeks before the shooting as Hamon planned to return to his family and join a church.
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Clara
Hamon
Texas
Freeling
Republcan National
Oklapene
Oklahoma Oe
Anid
Freeline
Yee Geow Hanged After Neck Not Broken in Wyoming
Yee Geow was executed at the state penitentiary in Rawlins Wyoming becoming the only one among six men to not have a broken neck when the trap sprung. He died of strangulation after thirteen minutes.
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Rawlins
Wyo
Yee Geow
State Penitentiary
Yee
Jury Acquits Mrs Matheson in Husband Murder Case
Sioux Falls dispatch reports the jury found Mrs Anna Matheson not guilty of the murder of her husband Martin Matheson last July. The verdict came this morning after deliberations in the case tried in district court.
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Sioux Falls
Anna Matheson
Come
Martin
Railroad Merger Being Considered in West
In Los Angeles on March 11 an AP report states a possible merger among the Southern Pacific, Rock Island, and El Paso and Southwestern railroads. N L Amster of Boston, a Chicago Rock Island Pacific director, disclosed the discussion though no formal proposal had been made. Southern Pacific officials said they were unaware of any plan.
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Los Angeles
Southern Pacific
Rock Island
el Paso
Southwestern
N. L. Amster
Boston
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad
Amster
Heirs contest $800000000 Baker estate in two associations
Heirs to the $800000000 Baker estate enroll in two associations to fight for possession. O N Ford of Gresham Oregon says he is a Baker heir and director of the Detroit Baker heirs association. In Salt Lake City two more heirs H E Baker and Thomas W Hemphill are named amid about 3000 claimants seeking a share.
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Portland
Ore
Jacob Baker
Philadelphia
Baker
O. N. Ford
Gresham
Baker Heirs’ Association
Detroit
Michigan
Salt Lake
Mar
Colonel Jacob Baker
H. E. Baker
Western Pacific Railroad
Thomas W. Hemphill
Hemphill Brothers Auto and Tractor School
Postal savings gain exceeds ten million in February
The Post Office Department reports that postal savings deposits rose to more than 10 million in February despite disturbed financial conditions. Total deposits in the system on March 1 stood at about 163.35 million. At least seven post offices posted February gains of 20,000 or more, including New York, Boston, Seattle, Brooklyn, Tacoma, Roslyn, Washington, and Ironwood Michigan.
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Washington
Post Office Department
Tal
New York
Boston
Seattle
Brooklyn
Tacoma
Roslyn
Ironwood
Mieh
Obregon Becomes Mexican President Per France Recognition Move
Paris reports the French Journal officiel carried a letter from General Alvaro Obregon to President Miller announcing Obregon's election as Mexico's president. The action signals an effort to secure French recognition for the Mexican government.
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Paris
Pevoiament
Ficial
Alvaro Obregon
Miller
General Obregon
Mexico
Obregon
France
Kansas City Man Bound Over on Murder Charge
A Kansas City man was bound over to the criminal court for trial on a charge of first degree murder after preliminary hearings in which the fate of the case was determined. The suspect faced the judge following testimony from witnesses and evidence presented by prosecutors.
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Kansas City
Denzel Chechen
Mive Plorence Barton
Criminal Court
Jury finds fatal shooting felonious inquest findings
A coroner's inquest in Pocatello determined that Robert J. Morgan died from a bullet fired from a gun held by Ernest Monfort, a city patrolman. The verdict, issued after testimony, states Morgan died March 8 following being shot March 2.
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Schumacher and Hall
Robert J. Morgan
Short Line
Ernest Monfort
Morgan
J. Morgan
Inquest Witness Describes Morgan Shooting at Lynn Hospital
BR F Wilcox testified Morgan made a signed statement at Lynn hospital on March 7 noting an arrest after a drink incident. He said a plan to escape failed and a suspect shouted to roll him. hospital staff corroborated events while Dr. Roberts explained a six and a half inch wound and bullet near the left fifth lumbar vertebra.
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Morgan
Lynn Hospital
Tam
Mr. Wilcox
I. McDougall
J. H. Peterson
Young
Lyn Hospital
Gertrude You
Moran
Ferguson
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Act
Hesta
Roberts
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Roberta
E.N. Roberts
Navy
Newton
J. TE. Lynn
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