Bandits Hold Prisoners on Mountain Top
Paotzuku peak in Shantung remains held by bandits with about forty Chinese prisoners, including children aged five to twelve. Major Pinger reports muddy air, two acre pear shaped summit, trenches, dugouts, guarded entrance, and scarce food. Prisoners show filth and disease while some foreigners were given a primitive dugout and protests led to minor improvements.
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Tientsin
Paotzuku Mountains
Shantung
Roland W. Pinger
Associated Press
Pinger
Paotzuku Top
Signalmen Ask Wage Increase Across Major Railroads
Chicago May 25 AP wage talks seek a total rise of about 4500 for 15000 men across 75 carriers. Helt cites cost of living gains since July 1 1922. Increases vary by class from 12 to 15 cents per hour with retroactive date and staged raises up to four years. Railroads involved include Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Great Northern Northern Pacific and others.
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Chicago
Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen of America
D. W. Helt
Union
Helt
Milwaukee and St. Paul
Great Northern
Northern Pacific
Los Angeles & Salt Lake
Oregon Rhotte
Oregon Washington Railroad and Navigation Company
Southern Pacific
Union Pacific
Western Pacific
Artist Society Secretary Convicted Over Provocative Painting
New York May 25 AP Abraham Baylinson secretary of the independent artists guild was convicted of exhibiting a painting that outraged public decency. The work titled Father Forgive Them depicts dry advocates raiding Christ as he turns water into wine at a wedding feast.
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New York
Abraham 8S Baylinson
The
Independent Artists
Christ
cabinet row cleared up in Paris crisis
Paris May 25 The ministerial crisis ended in half an hour as the senate backed Premier Poincare's policy while demanding action against communist activities. President Millerand preserved stability and warned a government with broad support should not withdraw during reparations talks. Marcel Cachin and others face assize court trials for alleged state crimes.
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Paris
Senate
M. Poincare
Marcel Cachin
Assize Court
Poincare
Echo de Paris
Elysee Palace
Millerand
Gary Seeks Christian Guidance In Steel Forum
Elbert H. Gary chair of United States Steel urged a Christian course as practical business sense at the American Iron and Steel Institute meeting. He predicted steady finished steel demand for six months and urged fair pricing. He proposed Secretary Hughes arbitrate Franco German only differences and defended the Bible and biblical history citing Palestine and Athens.
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New York
Elbert H. Gary
United States Steel Corporation
American Iron and Steel Institute
Gary
Ruhr
Hughes
France
Belgium
Germany
Holy Land
Palestine
Corinth
United States
Great Britain
Italy
Japan
China
Austria
Russia
Athens
Whitney promoted to vice president and director at several rail firms
Ogden Utah May 24 AP W A Whitney general manager of the Utah Idaho Central Line and Utah rapid transit company is promoted to vice president and director of the company He also becomes vice president in charge of operations for the Oregon Lumber company the Sumpter Valley railroad company and the Mount Hood railroad company
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Ogden
Utah
W. A. Whitney
Utah Rapid Transit Company
Mr. Whitney
Oregon Lumber Company
Sumpter Valley Railroad Company
Mount Hood Railroad Company
Trains Collision Near Cisco Kills Six in Texas
Six people die in a collision between two Texas and Pacific passenger trains between Cisco and Putman Texas. A porter and five unidentified men are among the deceased. an engineman is likely fatally injured. Several passengers are also hurt. Officials say a switch may have been tampered with.
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Abilene
Texas
Sixersons
Egre Porter
Texas and Pacific
Cisco
Putman
Dallas
Dan Harsten
Dothan
Mrs Stillman urges husband's affinity to fight like tiger
Mrs Stillman urges James A Stillman to contest paternity and custody in Granative Quebec dispatch. She says she is weak from recent surgery and has offered to adopt Mrs Leeds' son if Stillman accepts responsibility. The case involves Frei Beavois and Harold McCormick's son Powler.
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Mrs. Stillman
Husband
New York
Stillman
Morence Leeds
James A. Stillman
Leeds
New York Times
Granative
Quebec
Turks Say Harem Not Feasible In Modern Turkey
Dr Rand Key a Turkish nationalist assembly member and former minister says Turkey has no harem and cannot support multiple wives. He arrived in Chicago on Thursday and dismisses reports that Sultan Mohammed VI abandoned a harem of eighty seven beauties. He notes only household staff remained with the sultan.
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Chicago
Turkey
Rand Key
Turkish Nationalist Assembly
Dr. Bey
Mohammed VI
Strike at Shelby Was a Failure
Shelby Ment May 25 AP reports a walkout by workers building the arena for the Dempsey Gibbons July fight failed to develop. One man quit among 150 on the main arena, ten at the rodeo arena stopped work but were replaced within five miles, while ten others remained on the job. The strike call from Shelby Federated Labor Union demanded higher wages.
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Shelby
Ment
Jack Dempsey
Tommy Gibbons
Rodeo Arena
Shelby Federated Labor Union
Executions Tied to Georgia Soviet Counter Rebellion
Fifteen Russians including generals and nobles were executed in Georgia amid a counter revolutionary plot, dating to 1922. The conspirators linked with former Georgian leaders and anti Bolshevik abroad figures, and involved plans for a September uprising.
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Moscow
Soviet Republic of
Georgia
Tiflis
M. Gordani
M. Tseretelli
Kerensky
Zulokedze
Prince Andronikoff
Cholokaeff
Central Committee
The
Mensheviki
Put His Gold Back Into Ground
Widow testifies in superior court that George Washington Carmack died with no more than 1000 dollars. She says part of his Khiondyke earnings went to fruitless Cascade prospecting and that the rest was spent.
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Seattle
Geo
Washington
Carmack
Marguerite Laimee Carmack
Olympia
Wash
Superior
Cascade Mountains
Utah murderer Gardner gains reprieve after lunacy inquiry
George Gardner sentenced to death for Deputy Sheriff Gordon Stuart murder received a temporary reprieve as a Utah lunacy commission found possible sanity doubts. Governor Mabey granted delay until June 16 while the state pardon board may revisit its earlier denial of commutation. The 1922 killings occurred at the Gardner ranch near Welby and the partner Joseph Irvine was later killed.
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Salt Lake
George Gardner
Gordon Stuart
Mabey
Gardner
State Pardon Board
Stuart
Gardner Ranch
Welby
Utah
Progressives on Trail of Railroad Valuation Debate
Chicago May 25 AP Senator Hubert M Karine views Wisconsin led a railroad valuation conference aimed at forcing the Interstate Commerce Commission to comply with road valuations. The gathering drew 300 plus railroad leaders and prominent politicians. Other speakers included La Follette Hylan Dever Stone Sweet Bryan Manly Richberg and others. A Chicago business petition labeled the meeting a menace to public interests.
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Chicago
Hubert M
Railroa
Dever
LaFollette
Hylan
New York City
Warren 8. Stone
The
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Sweet
Colorado
William J. Bryan
Tomorow
Basil Manly
B. Jewell
American Federation of Labor
Donald R. Richberg
la Follette
J. P. Haynes
Chicago Association of Commerce
Senator la Follette
Ruhr strike widens as steel workers join coal miners
In Essen on May 25 the communist led Ruhr strike grows with thousands of iron and steel workers and miners out. About 50,000 miners are reported idle in the Gelsenkirchen district, while 20 Remscheid steel workers demanded a 50 percent raise. Police and French authorities negotiate over a workers police, and a large mine blast at Rubrort harbor disrupts Rhine Herne canal, affecting coal transport.
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Essen
Ruhr
Remischeid
Elberfeld
Gelsenkirchen
Rhine Herne Canal
Rubrort Harbor
Rhine
Duisberg
Sympathy Strike Rumor Sweeps Ruhr Mines
Dispatches from Berlin and Ruhr reports sparked belief that a general coal strike spread to all Ruhr mines in sympathy with Dortmund strikers. later messages clarified the action limited to the Gelsenkirchen district.
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Berlin
Ruhr
Dortmund
Gelsenkirchen
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Kaigan
Steel Trust
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Flo Leeds
Jay
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Mars
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Flanders
Peter E. Lene
Pocatello
Ida'o
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