Railroads accused of shaping policy to oppose unions
Frank P. Walsh, union spokesman, told the railway labor board in Chicago that Pennsylvania and New York Central dominated road policies against national labor agreements. He alleged railroads sought to smash unions via publicity and public opinion, citing correspondence and press agent Ivy Lee. Cuyler denied misusing figures, while Barton questioned the relevance of publicity to board duties.
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Chicago
Pennsylvania
New York Central
Frank P. Walsh
Railway Labor Board
T. Dewett Cuyler
Association of
Railroad Executives
Mr. Walsh
W. W. Atterbury
Walsh
Railroad Labor Board
Frank Walsh
R. M. Barton
Association of Railroad Executives
Cuyler
Ivy Lee
Barton
Mr. Cuyler
Labor barred from Mexico decree affects foreigners
Washington reports President Obregon issued a decree barring all foreign laborers from Mexico with emphasis on American workers. Officials say the move aims to preserve native jobs during work scarcity, with exceptions for those proving sufficient sustenance for colonization or agriculture.
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Washington
Mexico
Obregon
State Department
New movement in behalf of women advocates feminist campaign
A new women's national party plans a feminist campaign to urge President and Congress to back a blanket bill removing all sex discrimination. The movement seeks presidential support and will seek endorsements to modify state laws that discriminate against women.
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Washington
New
Woman's National Party
Presidy
Gongress
Japanese House Votes Down Confidence Motion
The Japanese House of Representatives defeated a motion of no confidence amid a scandal linked to the Tokio street car project and Nip Nip workers, with overwhelming support for the government.
Patti's Castle Sold to Welsh Memorial Association
Craig y Nos castle in Wales, home of the late Madame Patti, has been sold to the Welsh national memorial association. The estate's remaining assets, including farms sheep runs and quarries, will be sold later. Patti modernized the property at great cost adding a 300 seat theatre.
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London
Craigy-Nos Castle
Wales
Madame Adeline Patti
Welsh National Memorial Association
Madame Patti
Japan Stands Firm on Yap Mandate Policy
Tokyo May 18 AP Viscount Uchida foreign minister declared Japan will stand firmly on its mandate over Yap at a diet committee meeting Representative Uehara questioned whether US Britain and the league council affected Japan s interests and Japan would insist on its rights under the mandate Uchida affirmed The exchange touched on anti Japanese agitation in the United States and a charge against John F Stevens Moscow Soviet Russia was noted as a temporary trade arrangement Ten members of the House of Representatives will visit America this summer
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Tokio
Japan
Yap
Viscount Uchida
Diet
Uehara
United States
Great Britain
League of Nations Council
California
John F. Stevens
Chicago
Siberia
Viscount Uehida
Stevens
Soviet Russia
M. Uchida
Ife
Moscow
Chita
House of Representatives
America
Bert Taylor Dies, Noted Humorist and Tribune Columnist
Chicago March 19 AP Bert Les ton Taylor known as B L T humorist and columnist for the Chicago Tribune died of pneumonia at his home after two weeks illness Bronchial trouble and sinking health He was born 1866 Goshen Massachusetts worked in Plainfield New Hampshire edited the Duluth News Tribune and founded the Tribune column in 1891 He contributed to Puck the Sun and other publications before returning to Chicago He leaves a widow Emma Bonner Province Rhode Island and two daughters Alva and Barbara
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Chicago
Bert Leston Taylor
Chicago Tribune
Goshen
Mass
Plainfield
N. H
Duluth News-Tribune
Tribune
New York
Puck
the Sun
the Charlat
Emma Bonner
Province
R. I
Alva
Barbara
Drunk's Friend Laid At Tribute At Jerry McAuley Mission
John H. Wyburn died on his sixty second birthday and his body was to be brought back from Clifton Springs to lie in state at the Jerry McAuley mission in Water street. As an ex tank he led the mission for fifteen years helping hundreds of ex tanks become prosperous. Hundreds of former servicemen were expected to visit the mission to pay tribute.
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New York
John H. Wyburn
Clifton Springs
Jerry McAuley
Wyburn
Water Street
Ball
Idaho
Washington
W. H. Ball
T. F. Mullen
Pocatello
Scientist Finds a New Comet
Cambridge Massachusetts March 19 AP reports the discovery of a ninth magnitude comet announced by a cablegram to Harvard Observatory from the Central Bureau of Astronomical Telegrams. Astronomer Reid sighted the new celestial object in the constellation Aprivornus.
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Cambridge
Mass
Harvard Observatory
Centra Bureau of Astronomical
Capestown
Astronoie
Reid
Confession in Slaying of Youth Links Insurance Plot
Virgil Decker 18 confessed to killing his friend LeRoy Lovett 19 by striking him with an iron bar as they slept in a Tippecanoe River cottage near Warsaw Indiana. A religious letter and motherly influence prompted the admission and Decker said he planned to collect Lovett's life insurance.
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Warsaw
Ind
B. Moon
Kosciuske County
Virgil Decker
LeRoy Lovett
Elkhart
Manion
Lovett
Decker
Lovett Lad
George Walker
Nappanee
Jesus
Virgil
Mrs. Moon
Tippecanoe River
Here
Levitt
Guy
Fred Decker
Virgil Dcker
LeRoy
Erett
Utah raises intrastate fares to mirror interstate rates
Utah announces April 1 fare increases across intrastate routes on the Oregon Short Line and connected lines including Denver and Rio Grande Western Pacific and Union Pacific affiliates. The move follows a state court ruling pushing the federal ICC to decide rate authority, with a separate legal action challenging the railroad order.
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Salt Lake City
Mer
Utah
John K. Durham
Oregon Short Line Railroad
Durham
Oregon
State District Court
Utah Public Utilities Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
Interstate Commanes Commission
World radio receiving record set by New York Times operator
A world record for receiving radio messages at 48 words a minute with two errors was set by B G Suetter of the New York Times. He won a receiving test at the second district amateur convention, surpassing Tony Gerhart of San Francisco who had 47 words a minute.
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New York
B. G. Suetter
New York Times
Scutter
Tony Gerhart
San Francisco
Packers Ready to Strike but Want Hearing
Chicago reports union packing house employees with nine other union signatories head to Washington for arbitration talks. Nationwide votes show strong strike support if wage cuts and hours are not revised, with Kansas City Yard tallies 5224 to 79 in favor. Local votes in St Joseph, Wheeling, and Cleveland also favor striking. Officials stress willingness to arbitrate while demanding a square deal.
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Chicago
Washington
Davis
Lane
Kansas City
St. Joseph
Wheeling
W. Va
Cleveland
Ohio
Bir
Armour and Company
Omaha
Cudahy Packs Company
Michael Murphy
Packing House
W. J. Burns
Amalgamated
Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen’s Union
Wisconsin & Northern Deal Sought by Minnesota Line
Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie seeks Interstate Commerce Commission approval to buy the 133 mile Wisconsin and Northern railroad for 3.24 million dollars. The asset is described as a short line serving a high traffic district but lacking a market for its origin product.
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Washington
Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway Company
Interstate Commerce Commission
Wisconsin & Northern Railroad
Population figures for Portland race groups in 1920
The 1920 census reports Portland Oregon had 252 961 white residents. Among minorities there were 1 846 Chinese 1 715 Japanese 1 556 negroes and 210 Indians Filipinos and others. The Chinese population declined by 3 853 or 67.6 percent.
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Washington
Mar
Portland
Ore
Ecensus Bureau
Ed Brandt recounts Pauline shooting and injury
Ed Brandt, first shot by W H Ball in Pauline, recalls arrival at Lynn Brothers hospital with a severely injured right arm. He says no prior quarrel with Ball and disputes meeting Ball in the Pauline store. Brandt describes confrontational ride and Ball firing after a terse exchange, wounding him as observers report the scene. Ball remains in unstable condition awaiting transfusion.
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Pauline
Ed Brandt
W. H. Ball
Brandt
Fr. Brant
Lynn Brothers Hospital
Conspirators Charged in Assassin Plot Against War Minister
Polish army intelligence seized four suspects including General Nicolai Peremkin and two staff members with a woman named Countess Jeanne Zamojska. They are accused of plotting to kill Boris Savinkoff, minister of war in the Kerensky cabinet, in Petrograd 1917. All four are held in a military prison.
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Warsaw
Nicolai Peremkin
Jeanne Zamojska
Boris Savinkoff
Kerensky
Petrograd
Poland
Mexican railway strike ends as leaders reach settlement
Mexico City AP report says railroad unions ordered to resume work immediately after talks between national railway leaders and government officials. Officials declined to release settlement details. President Obregon and Treasury Secretary Adolfo De La Muerta led final conferences.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Obregon
Adolfo de la Muerta
Treasury
Propagandis Arrests Stir Upper Silesia Plebiscite
Captain Leach, linked to the Kapp regime, was arrested by Italian troops in Oppelin for leading a German group prepared to use force in Silesia if the plebiscite favored Poland. He was released after offering evidence he wrote for a German newspaper. Reports from Gleiwitz said two Poles were shot by plebiscite police while opposing Polish interference.
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Oppelin
Upper Silesia
Captain Leach
Wolfgang Kapp
Berlin
Foreign Office
Silesia
Captain Lench
Gleiwitz
Poland
Hinky Dink Kenna’s barroom forced to close by high rents
Chicago March 19 AP high rents force Alderman Hinky Dink Kenna to close his Workingmen's Exchange barroom on Lower Clark Street. The space once offered the largest nickel beer and hosted political friends and loyalists but has been rented as a restaurant for $1000 a month after Kenna paid $500 and kept it as a hangout despite losses.
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Chicago
Hinky Dink
Kenna
Workingmen’s Exchange
Clarkstree
First Ward
Strike breakers on derailed car near packing plant
Sioux Falls March 19 AP Police probe derailment of a street car bound for John Morrell Packing plant where 700 workers are on strike. The car struck a section after rail spikes were pulled, remaining upright. Archie Holcomb arrested for flourishing a gun during a clash with strike sympathizers.
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Sioux Falls
M. D
John Morrell Packing Company
Art
Archie Holcomb
Salt Lake Cuts Wages City Work
Salt Lake City officials tentatively agreed to cut wages for city labor from 4.83 to 3.25 a day for new workers and from 3.75 to 3.25 for street department staff. Commissioner Burgen confirms county wage reductions. Street Commissioner Berton notes new hires will earn 3.25 daily.
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Salt Lake
Salt
Sergeant Admits He Shot Major Cronkhite
Land Potheir of Central Falls admitted guilt to involuntary manslaughter in the 1918 death of Major Alexander Cronkhite at Camp Lewis. The case moved after an army court had initially ruled the incident accidental. Potheir was arrested in Auburn at the New Haven railroad yard where he worked as a brakeman.
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R. T
Reland Potheir
Central Falls
Alexander P. Cronkhite
Adelbert Cronkhite
Lewis
Wash
Cronkhite
Camp Lewis
Army
France
Potheir
Aovent of Justice
Auburn
New Haven Railroad
Investigation Probes 1918 Camp Cronkhite Death
DOJ agents in Seattle review a long closed inquiry into Major Lee der Cronkhite's death at Camp Lewis Tacoma in 1918. The Camp Lewis board had ruled the death accidental while on the camp pad. Officials in Washington state released little detail on the investigation and detention of a former service member tied to the case.
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Seattle
Wash
Department of Justice
Wamcalie
Leeder Cronkhite
Camp Is
Tacoma
Camp Lewis
Sally Cronkhite
Range
Department At
Washington
Providence
Roland
Major Cronkhite
Ambushes and casualties across Cork and Dungarvan patrols
Multiple ambush incidents report heavy fighting across Castletownroche and near Dungarvan Cork with deaths and missing officers. In Kinsale an Irish Republican ambush leaves crown soldiers dead and wounded. A separate UK trial in Scotland convicts Sinn Fein members for violent acts with two not proven.
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Belfast
Kinsale
County Cork
Immigration fears spur publican army in Dublin
A chaotic report from Dublin on March 19 describes authorities or publicans attempting to control movement amid fears of immigration. The article notes threats and a tense climate as people consider passage toward America, with references to Listowell and potential danger.
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Dublin
Publican Army
la Tabin Vent
Anny Listowell
Dea
Améslea
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Edith Marshall Wilson
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Packers
Dick Stead
Stead
Hhus
Helma
Russ
Propagandis
Sergeant
Mself
Castletownroche
Cork
Dungarvan
Falabersh
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