Campaign eight days set to boost votes and gifts
The Chronicle urges rapid campaign action over the next eight days with a giant gift drive including Paige car and gold and silver prizes. It notes many readers have not yet started. subscriptions and coupons count for votes, urging candidates to begin now amid a large vote schedule. The blast at the gas tank injures Henrold, Reynolds, and Parley assists them to safety.
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Confiscation of Scottish Mexican Oil Company Property
News brief reports the Mesiean government’s seizure of Scottish Mexican Oil Company property with American stockholders, the first under Carranza decrees, drawing protests from Covent Brite and U.S. wires. British government involvement noted. Also covered is a Marine Transport Workers’ Industrial Union circular turned to justice, alleging an international revolutionary workers network.
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Canadians strike threat over coal imports from West Virginia
Sydney unemployed mass meeting warns of general strike against the dominion government for allowing the Canadian National Railways to buy coal in West Virginia while Nova Scotian miners are out of work. M P Cameron cites three causes including imperial commandeering of St. Lawrence vessels, higher freight rates, and higher pit mouth coal costs compared with American coal reaching Montreal or Campbellton.
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Steel Workers Plan Nationwide Strike Vote
Representatives of 24 steel industry unions adopted a resolution urging a strike vote among members. A conference of international union presidents in Pittsburgh on July 20 will decide on definite next steps.
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Scandinavians Urged to Join Seamen's Revolt
Washington July 11 copies of circular inviting seamen especially those of Scandinavian ancestry to join the seamen's revolt circulate, urged by organizers to rally support among Nordic crews aboard vessels amid labor pressure and strikes in the shipping industry.
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Poomis And Watters In Paris Close Restaurants
Paris faces widespread restaurant and hotel closures as strike threats loom. Police clash with strike breakers as waiters and workers protest, risking milk shortages in three weeks if rail strikes extend. Milie Centers say Paris can cope without milk if demands are not met.
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National Strike Wave Boosts Telephones Across Coast
A national strike wave advances as the Pacific Coast telephone workers approve a plan to back the Santa Barbara union of telephone operators in a sympathy strike. The telegram to the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers asks for a nationwide walkout, signaling coordinated action with Western workers.
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Papa Jopere to accompany Foch at head of parade
Paris on July 11 official note states Marshal Joffre will lead the victory parade with Marshal Foch along the entire route through Paris on July 14. The move aims to placate supporters who protested that Joffre’s name was omitted from the original program.
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Exoneration of Pan-American Commission Members in Iowa Inquiry
Des Moines Iowa July 11 exoneration of Woodworth Slum and other members of the Pan American Pacific exposition commission on charges of misappropriation and misuse of funds. State committee on retrenchment and reforms spent the day compiling the report from one o'clock in the afternoon to midnight.
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Fire rescue by soldier in gas mask at Burley
A fire broke out in the basement of the Western Tire Supply building in Burley on Wednesday morning about 10 o clock. A soldier in a gas mask aided in rescuing victims from the blaze, with several people reported saved from the basement during the incident.
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FAW Aims to End Marine Walkout After Talks
Representatives of the International Sea men's union and Vice Chairman Stevens and other shipping board officials failed to reach an agreement today toward ending the strike of marine engineers, oilers and firemen on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Discussions to continue tomorrow in New York with Stevens and others traveling there early.
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Mexican Gulf to Japan shop links planned
Tort o July 11 Japanese interests plan shipping routes from the Gulf of Mexico to Japan to supply cotton shiv the United States. Costs are expected to be far below current rates. Trade has shipped Japan twice as much cotton as the United States. American cotton remains preferred. export limits may rise next week. Last year 609000 bales of American cotton were shipped to Japan.
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Belgians Buy Modern Tools From American Army
Belgian headships announce arrangements with the United States army for purchasing machine tools used by American forces in Europe. The sale aims to accelerate re establishment of metal plants, with shipment from the United States and neutral ports aiding access to needed materials.
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Militia Secures Texas Border City After Race Clash
Nearly 200 Texas National Guard members from Dallas and Nacogdoches arrived by train and auto at Long View by order of Governor Hobby to quell white and black clashes. Earlier a fire exchange wounded four whites as a mixed group searched for a Black schoolteacher alleged to publish derogatory material. Negro homes were burned, rangers expected to relieve troops. search for two alleged raiders continued.
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Investigation hearings on wartime enemy assets to be held
Washington July 1. The family foundation incorporated to control and remote the use of enemy gradients secured from the government during the war will be examined next week by the House Ways and Means Committee. Attorney General Palmer and Alien Property Custodian Vin will join with officials and officials to attend hearings as requested by Chairman Fordney.
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German Majority Socialists Plan Funds for Party
The German Majority Socialists vote a weekly contribution to support the party for all women members set at 10 18ths of a cent and for male members at 1 cent plus 2 13ths, as a condition of party membership, with the plan dated July 9.
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Seminoff Cossack Chief Eyed as Siberian King Hopeful
Peggy Hull reports on Ataman Seminoff, a Cossack leader in Siberia backed by Chinese bandits and Mongolian outlaws. He defied Admiral Kolchak, mined the Trans-Siberian railway, and built a following as he sought a distant throne with foreign support. His aura and daring sparked Mongolian interest and alarm among allied powers.
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Seminoff and Josephine Crown Siberia Dream Again
In Siberia Seminoff, a warlord, proclaims loyalty to a chain of Napoleon and Robespierre icons while praising Josephine, a stunning 19 year old with 15 servants and a pearls rope. He denies traitor rumors and envisions a throne with Josephine as queen if his bid succeeds.
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