Packers Vote On Question Amid Packing House Strike Fear
Chicago March 16 AP Balloting in the national referendum strike vote of packing house employees began today as Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen members vote or prepare to vote. Ten allied unions with packing house members held talks on a simultaneous strike. About 2,000 workers gathered at a south side union hall last night to vote, opening ballot boxes as demonstrations grew. Final company returns show 3,987 of 5,724 workers voted on the plan yesterday.
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Chicago
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher
Armour and Company
Independent Packers Close Shops Amid Wage Clash
Eight independent packers in or near the Chicago stockyards shut down or cut forces, leaving about 2,000 workers idle as unions plan strike ballots. Leaders cite low hog prices and unprofitable slaughter. conference with international officers and a Washington meeting aims to avert or prepare for a strike. Representatives from several unions pledged support to the Amalgamated Order of Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen as talks continue and a possible government injunction is considered.
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Chicago
Patrick Brennan
Independent Packing Company
Brennan Packing Company
Bond, Lanham and Company
William Davies Company, Inc
Siegel-Heckinger Packing and Provision Company
Dennis Lane
Amalgamated Order of Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of
North America
Lane
National Packing Plant
Amalgamated Order of Eat
Washington
Labor
Davis
International Brotherhood of Stationary Firemen
International Union of Steam and Operating Engineers
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Ffoura
Sheet Metal Workers Internationa Alliance
International Association of Machinists
International Brotherhood of Om
International Association of Plumbers
Modern Girl Is Not as Harsh as She May Look
Chicago March 16 AP Dean Mary Ross Potter of Northwestern University defends the modern girl at a ministers wives meeting. She says lip stick rouge and powder are not wrong and the dress of today differs from mothers generation yet women remain sweet, good and independent, a spirit shaped by war.
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Chicago
Mary Ross Potter
Northwestern University
Dean Potter
Murder Shakes Warsaw As Youth LeRoy Lovett Dies
Warsaw Indiana March 16 AP coroner inquest links LeRoy Lovett of Elkhart to a death on a railroad crossing. Virgil Decker, Lovett’s double, is arrested and charged with murder after Lovett’s body is identified and the inquest returns a verdict of murder unknown suspect. Virgil’s half brother Arthur is also held. Insurance policies totaling twenty four thousand dollars loom in the case as investigators probe a cover up.
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Warsaw
Ind
Here
Virgil Decker
LeRoy Lovett
Elishart
Lovett
Virgil
Levett
Marion
Fred
Virgil R
Gliff Fowler
Decker
Fred Decker
Tianoe River
Sai
Fowler
Mar
H. W. Graham
Elkhart
N. B. Aspinwall
Arraignment in Murder Case In Kansas City
Denae Chester was arraigned in criminal court on a first degree murder charge for the killing of Florence Horton, a society girl, who was shot to death on a county road last fall while motoring with her fiancé.
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Kansas City
Denae Chester
Missa Florence Horton
Fragmentary union names from old industrial list
The text lists multiple labor unions and related bodies such as Steamfitters, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Coopers International Union, Brotherhood of Railroad Con, and Amalgamated Order of Utters and Minteber Workmen of North America in a damaged OCR fragment. The passage seems to catalog organizations rather than describe actions or events.
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Steamfitters
Tnited
Canada
International Airhood of Elecrical Workers
Coopers International Union of North America
Brotherhood of Railroad Cone of Port
Order of
Utters and
Minteber Workmen
North America
Northwest Man Is In Demand
A Washington report notes a delegation of Northwest Republican senators and representatives urged President Harding to appoint a Northwest man to the Interstate Commerce Commission. The group included Borah Gooding Poindexter Stanfield Oddie Cameron and representatives French Smith. They also pressed relief legislation for western stock growers and discussed embargo ideas on wool products as an emergency measure. The president took the embargo suggestions under advisement.
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Washington
Mar
Northwest
Interstate Commerce Commission
Harding
Serators
Borah and Gooding
Idaho
Poindexter
Stanfield
Oregon
Oddie
Nevada
Cameron
Arizona
French
Smith
Congress
Man Dies Before Finishing His Own Grave in Hazleton
Hazleton Pennsylvania March 16 AP Frank Marterilli died from a paralytic stroke yesterday preventing completion of his own grave digging. Friends said he feared he would not live long and two days before death began digging the grave himself.
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Hazleton
Frank Marterilli
Frields
Funeral for Mis. Abdo Abeinour in Venice Calif
Funeral services were held for Mis. Abdo Abeinour 41 years after her birth in Cairo Egypt. The Oriental dancer known as La Belle Fatima at Chicago and St. Louis world fairs died Monday and is survived by a husband and a daughter.
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Venice
Calif
Mis
Abdo Abeinour
la Belle Fatima
Chicago
St. Louis
Cairo
Egypt
Petrograd Safe Claims Red Leader Amid Kronstadt Rumors
Moscow dispatch quotes War Minister Leon Trotzky stating Petrograd is impregnable and says rumors of unrest and bombardment are fiction. He blames emigrant centers abroad for fomenting revolution to derail peace with Poland and the Britain trade agreement.
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London
Leon Trotzky
Moscow
Petrograd
Oman
Kronstadt Fortified as Thousands Gather in Russian Fortress
Helsingfors dispatch quotes an American Red Cross worker claiming fifty thousand men have assembled at Kronstadt with numbers rising daily. A wireless dispatch says Kronstadt receives provisions and ammunition for three years. Politiken alleges Victor M. Te was organizer of the Kerensky era counter revolution.
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Copenhagen
Kronstadt
Helsingfors
Sssian
Victor M. Te
Kerensky
Politiken
Cuban Voters Favor Alfonso in Partial Cuba Elections
Alfredo Zayas y Alfonso won the presidency in partial elections across several Cuban provinces. With liberals largely abstaining, 12,419 votes backed Zayas as conservatives carried Havana and other regions. General Crowder observed voting, noting few clashes, while Zayas expected support in Congress to avert a potential parliamentary strike.
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Havana
Alfredo Y. Alfonso
Conservative-Popular Coalition
National League
Cuba
Department of Communications
Liberal Party
Dr. Zayas
Gomez
Oriente
Crowder
Central Electoral Board
Alfredo Zayas Y Alfonso
National Congress
Heral
Tempor
Nufiee Magah Gov
Madawska Starts Under Own Steam After Fog Collision
New York March 16 AP reports the army transport Madawska damaged in a dense fog collision with the shipping board steamer Invincible. Both ships were 17 miles off Barbaget New Jersey when wireless at daybreak said Madawska had begun under her own steam toward this port.
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New York
Mar
Madawska
Shipping Board
Invincible
Barbaget
N. J
Big shipment of Chinese fireworks arrives at Boston
Boston March 16 AP reports the British steamship Romeo berthed under special protection after a record import of Chinese fireworks. The vessel carries five thousand packages of Fourth of July accessories including rockets crackers and star shells awaiting offloading under strict safety measures.
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Boston
Romeo
Court Instructs Jury in Hamon Case Ardmore Trial
Ardmore Oklahoma March 16 AP Judge Champion instructed the jury in the Clara Smith Hamon murder case on admissibility of letters Hamon wrote to the defendant and charged the jury on murder and first and second degree homicide while noting threats and a will question.
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Clara Hamon
Ardmore
Okla
Clara Smith Hamon
Jake L. Hamon
Hamon
YoungsterSprofa Faces Narcotics Charges In Bowery Arrest
New York police arrested 15 year old Paul Sprofa in a Bowery alley after reports he sold decks of drugs for $1 each. Officers found narcotics concealed in his school books and later discovered a cache behind an old wall on the Lower East Side.
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New York
Mar
Paul Sprofa
Children’s Court
Ile
Bowery
Lower East Side
Troops Banned From Evacuation Day Parade in Boston
Boston officials refused to allow regular army and navy troops to march in uniform in the Evacuation Day parade amid protests by Irish societies and groups seeking recognition for Ireland and India. Secretary Denby and Secretary Weeks backed the decision, citing expected presence of Irish and Indian advocacy contingents in the parade.
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Boston
Mass
Harding
Denby
Weeks
Army
Navy
India
Row
Kman
AY 1St Army Corps
Omed Dunn
Ihaval
William H. Griffin
Maraha
Not Thinking of Social Equality Says Moton at UNC
Dr. R. R. Moton of Tuskegee Institute told University of North Carolina students that social equality between whites and blacks is a myth and a condition few southern Negroes desire. He asserted whites have shaped language and religion and what is learned in civilization.
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Chapel Hill
N.C
R. Re Mpton
Tuskegee Institute
University of North Carolina
Dr. Moton
Coffee market hits new low amid liquidation pressure
New York on March 16 under sustained liquidation pressure and a weak exchange rate the coffee market fell to new lows not seen since 1908 May contracts traded near low 5.50 and July near 5.50 declines around 27 to 29 points from last night’s close Spot Rio No 7 coffee was about six cents a pound.
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New York
Mar
Constantine Denies Abdication to George
Athens March 16 AP King Constantine said there was no foundation to reports that the United States was considering abdicating in favor of his son Prince George. He added, I have no intention of abdicating in favor of George or anyone else and asked for peace.
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Athens
Mar
Constantine
United States
Geo
George
Lawson Taken to Penitentiary After Murder Conviction
Burneve Lawson of Little Rock Arkansas was convicted by a jury here and sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering his wife on January 24. He was taken to the state penitentiary at He went out of here, smiling, according to reports from the county jail.
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Pringe
H. H. Brown
Uvativist
Clara Haa Sieritt
Geers
F . Brown
Boe Ial Ae
Hardy Retail State
picLu
W. P. McLean
Fort Worth
Tex
Saleh
Predling
Clara
Borge Thomas
Omaha
Mar
Burne’ Ve Lawson
Little Rock
Ark
Germany Faces New Reparations Demands and Debates
London reports the British house of commons delayed the 50 percent levy on imported German goods until March 31. Paris notes the allied reparations commission orders Germany to pay one billion gold marks by March 23 and complete twenty billion by May 1, with further conditions. The Ruhr area sees French forces strengthening control as occupation continues near Duisburg and Essen.
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London
House of Commons
Commons
Paris
Allied Reparations Commission
Germany
Bank of France
Bank of England
Federal ‘Reserve Bank
United States
Ment &R
Duisburg
Mion-Ruhr
Here
Ward Essen
Tariff and new zone outlined along Rhine fronts
Reports indicate a plan to collect customs in a Rhine frontier zone. The outline would run along extents of newly occupied territory and bridgeheads held by the Entente. General Allen has participated in discussions on tariff questions and zone limits.
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Coblens
Man
Casto
Rhine
Allen
Paris Air Indexes Allied Claims To Berlin
Paris March 16 AP reported the commission has forwarded allied claims to Berlin. The exact total is not yet announced but expects to reach about 550 million gold marks, roughly one and a half times the Paris conference indemnity figure. Calculating totals proved difficult due to fluctuating exchange rates and extensive checks of prewar values in today’s market conditions.
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Paris
Berlin
Advance to finance cotton export loan approved
Washington reports War Finance Corporation approval of two American institutions for an advance to finance exporting land 15,000 bales of cotton to Czecho-Slovakia. The amount is not yet determined. The move reverses Treasury policy toward Germany under former Secretary Houston.
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Washington
Mar
Ge Czecho-Slovakia
War Finance Corporation
Germany
Treasury
Houston
Wife on Visit Not Kidnapped in Chicago
Victor Herbert denies reports that his wife vanished during a visit. He explains Mrs Herbert left Bat her mother in Ban and was visiting an actress. Authorities clarified there is no evidence of kidnapping or crime, and the couple remains separated by travel.
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Chicago
Victor Herbert
Power
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