Peage Likely in Harvest er Co Case
Washington reports government hopes to dissolve International Harvester under Sherman anti trust to avoid court battles. Edgar A Bancroft returns to Chicago to put dissolution proposals in writing. Republicans decry steel bill as harmful and warn of import surges and factory closures. Money trust probe to be sweeping with judiciary committee empowered to subpoena witnesses and papers.
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Washington
International Harvester Company
Edgar A. Bancroft
Chicago
Finance Committee
la Follette
Senate
Tariff Board
House Ways and Means Committee
Ways and Means Committee
Money Trust
House
Judiciary Committee
Fifty Thousand Miners Return to Work in Britain
London reports more than fifty thousand miners back at work as the strike nears its end. The Easter holiday crowd stays in cities due to crippled train service across the kingdom, affecting seaside and country resort travel.
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London
Morgan Silent On War as He Leaves Rome for Florence
J Pierpont Morgan departed Rome for Florence and declined to comment on reports that his talks with King Victor Emmanuel and planned audience with the Kaiser at Venice aim to pressure an end to the Turko Italian war. He will stay at the Hotel Ville in Venice.
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Rome
J. Pierpont Morgan
Florence
Victor Emmanuel
Venice
Mr. Morgan
Ville
New Idea in Airplanes Claims Patented Autobalanced Craft
New York April 6 reports Rudolph Dressler of West Eighth Street Coney Island claims an automatically balanced air pressure driven aeroplane. He asserts it will go indefinitely and has patented the device with prior rights over others working on similar ideas.
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New York
Rudolph Dressler
West Eighth Street
Coney Island
Dressler
Operators Stand on Commission Finding in Union Talks
New York April 6 coal operators issue a statement saying they will stand on the mine strike commission’s decision regarding recognition of the United Mine Workers. They argue most anthracite workers are not union members and urge the existing plan for governance and grievances, with a Philadelphia conference set for next Wednesday and a ten-operator meeting in New York on April 9.
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New York
United Mine Workers of America
Mine Workers’ Union
Philadelphia
Lorimer report progress under heavy workload
Washington report says the Lorimer investigating committee is moving with utmost dispatch to finish its report. Senator Jones notes over 9,000 pages of testimony behind them as members face a heavy task. Portuguese seek loan to cover foreign debt with British and French financiers.
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Washington
Senator Jones
Lorimer Investigating Committee
Bristow
Lorimer
London
Two Smiths Run for Mayor
La Crosse Wisconsin April 6 August Smith defeated August Smith in Viroqua Wisconsin mayoral race according to the completed official count.
Death inspires plan for posthumous psychic signals
New York April 6 members of the American Society for Psychical Research seek an authoritative communication from the afterlife via Dr Isaac K Funk a noted psychical investigator who planned a code of signals to reach a living person after death The intended recipient is believed to be Dr William James Hyslop editor of the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research and the signal would prove contact through a medium or other means in the next world.
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New York
American Society For Psychical Research
Isaac K. Funk
Funk
William James
Harvard
Dr. Funk
James H. Hyslop
Journal of the American Society For Psychical Research
Bar Groups Discuss Judicial Recall Plan
William Nottingham president of the State Bar association calls a special Albany meeting April 13 to act on judicial recall. The move aims to have every state bar association state its position for a report at the American Bar association meeting next August.
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Albany
N. Y
William Nottingham
Syracuse
State Bar Association
American Bar Association
Bill limits private contractor hours on government work
Washington reports the bill limiting labor to eight hours a day on government projects has favorably passed the senate education and labor committee after already passing the house. No amendments were offered, though the measure has faced strong opposition from manufacturers and government contractors nationwide.
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Washington
Senate Committee On Education and Labor
House
Senate
Japan denies lease talks for Magdalene Bay
Tokyo reports no attempt to lease Magdalene Bay. The Foreign Office calls the claim baseless linking it to a former diet member who sought fishing concessions in Mexico years ago.
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Tokio
Japan
Magdalene Bay
Foreign Office
Diet
Mexico
Mercy Slan ders Case With Jury in Slander Suit
Chicago April 6 The jury debates whether Mercy Talbot can claim damages up to 100000 from Dean Marion Talbot of the University of Chicago over alleged slander. Judge Pomeroy's charge favored the defendant while Mercy, in high spirits, awaited the verdict after closing arguments by Everett Jennings.
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Marion Talbot
University of Chicago
Chicago
Mercy
Pomeroy
Miss Mercy
Everett Jennings
Jennnings
Francis Walker
Miss Talbot
Dean Talbot
Jennings
Talbot
George RE. Vincent
University of Minnesota
Taft to warn Japan over Magdalena Bay land claim
President Taft and Senator Lodge frame a diplomatic warning to Japan over territorial ambitions at Magdalena Bay. The reply, prepared at the White House, will be sent in executive session to the Senate, signaling Washington’s stance to Japan and European powers.
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Washington
Taft
Senate
Japan
California
Pacific
White House
Senator Lodge
Mexico
Lodge
Magdalena Bay
State Department
Oriental Steamship Company
Chartered Company of
Lower California
Maine
New England
Gas Consumers Win in Des Moines Rate Battle
Eighteen years of struggle by gas users ends as Judge Sloan recommends denying the Des Moines Gas company injunction against enforcing a 90 cent per thousand cubic feet rate. The master rejects considering the company’s claimed going value of 300000, notes improper transfers to engineers in Philadelphia, and holds no right to add such value to plant worth.
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Des Moines
Robert Sloan
Sloan
United Gas Improvement Company of
Philadelphia
Des Moines Company
Roosevelt In Train Peril At Cumberland
A railroad accident near Cumberland Maryland delayed Col Roosevelt's train for about two hours. For two miles rails were torn up after a freight locomotive wheel left the rail. Roosevelt's journey continued after the danger section was discovered and secured.
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Cumberland
Roosevelt
West Virginia
Guards Clash With Strikers at Garf ield Silk Mill
In Passaic New Jersey on April 6 a clash erupted outside the Forstmann Huffman silk mill in Garfield as several hundred strikers faced forty deputies and police. Bricks and stones were thrown, guards fired warning shots, and the crowd dispersed. Six arrests were made and a dozen women were wounded. Industrial Workers of the World organizer Charles Rothfisher urged the crowd before the confrontation. Deputy Henry Regan was struck and injured. A separate report says Peter Orlow ski fell ten floors to his death at Hately Cold Storage in Chicago.
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Passaic
N. J
Forstmann & Huffman
Garfield
Charles Rothfisher
Industrial Workers of the World
Henry Regan
Sun Yat Sen Leaves Shanghai for Wu Chang Visit
Dr. Sun Yat Sen ex provisional president of the republic departed Shanghai for Wu Chang to meet Gen. Li Yuen Heng vice president. The dispatch dispels the earlier cable news that Li Yuen Heng had been assassinated.
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Shanghai
Sun Yat Sen
Chinese Republic
Wu Chang
Li Yuen Heng
Tientsin
Easter Outing for 11,000 in Montreal Readers
More than 11,000 Montreal residents plan an Easter outing in New York City. They will spend about $900,000 there and on railroad fares, with large groups traveling for the holiday.
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Montreal
Que
New York City
Destructive Flood Rages Across Mississippi Valley
April reports from Hickman Kentucky and towns along the Mississippi describe 3 000 homeless in Hickman with a tent city and widespread ruin. Refugees flee rising waters as levees hold at Cairo while Ohio crest looms near Louisville with fears of further breaches and mass property losses estimated up to ten million dollars.
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St. Louis
Mississippi River
Missouri
Cairo
Ohio
Louisville
Memphis
Tenn
Charleston
Bird's Mill
Wyatt
Randolph
William Lynn
S Point
Lynn
Caruthersville
Tennessee
Ohie
Hickman
West Hickman
Allen Comes For Food in Mount Airy Outlaw Sighting
On April 6 an outlaw hunted by Virginia authorities was seen near Mount Airy twelve miles from the Hillsville area. Sheriff C H Haynes of Surry County led detectives on the trail after tips from residents. A local man named Shug Smith reported the outlaw, Allen, was at his home seeking food.
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Mount Airy
Sidnalen
Virginia
Hillsville
C. H. Haynes
Surry Ty
Trade Talks Seen Between Canada and West Indies
Ottawa April 6 The trade conferences between Canada and West Indian governments will involve a mutual preferential tariff on an agreed list of articles. The list comprises main export products and imports for both sides as the key items of the pact.
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Canada
Ottawa
Ont
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Thomas B. Catron
United States
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Catron
England
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Italy
Jones
New York Association
U. S
Mississippy
W. E. Borah
Senator Borah
Congress
Guards Club
Silk Mill
Peter Overkowski
Hately Cold Storage Company
West Thirty-seventh
Trum Streets
Utad
Kentucky
Allen
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