Panama Zone Urges Open Shop and Policy Overhaul
A Washington report urges sweeping changes in the Panama Canal Zone including open shop labor, periodic wage adjustments, and ending naval base operations. It forecasts a $5,000,000 annual saving and calls for employing tropical workers and reducing housing and other subsidies for white employees.
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Washington
Thoroudh
Panama Canal Zone
Weeks
Canal Zone
United States
Ennai
Morrow
Congress
Pannama
Panag
Commission Led By Brig. Gen Connor On Zone Affairs
The Nalroad company and similar private life commercial activities were discussed with emphasis on agriculture in the zone. The commission was led by Brig. Gen. W. D. Connor as head, with Capt. A. B. Pry from the Treasury, engineer F A Molitor of New York, and H A Wilson a New York banker and businessman.
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Nalroad Company
W. DD. Connor
Capt
A. B. Pry
Treasury Department
F. A. Molitor
New York
H. AV. Wilson
Plot to Split Germany Seen
A Boersen Zeitung report, citing authoritative private sources, claims a broad Tyrol Bavaria union movement is growing. It says Munich Budapest and Vienna groups foster it and that rifles and ammunition have been smuggled across the Bavarian border to arm Tyrolean sympathizers.
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Berlin
Boersen Zeitung
Cca
Tyrol
Bavaria
Munich
Budapest
Vienna
Import Quarantine Bans Livestock From Most Countries
Washington reports the Department of Agriculture imposes special quarantines on importing cattle sheep goats swine and other animals from foreign countries excluding Canada and Mexico Importers must obtain a permit from the secretary of agriculture before entry as disease concerns rise.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Canada
Mexico
Secretary of Agriculture
Two Dominions Get Seats at Armament Conference
The British cabinet voted to grant Canada and Australia equal representation with the empire at the Washington armament conference. Six delegates will be sent, according to Mercision. This opened the most important session presided over by the premier since his vacation.
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Lowan
Canada
Austrailia
Empire
Washington
Training period cut for reserve army engineers
The War Department announces a reduction of the training peril for reserve officers of the army engineer crops from three to two months to enable larger attendance.
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Washington
del. T
Army
War Department
Settlement Bid Fails in Mexican Debt Talks
Thomas W. Lamont of J P Morgan travels to Mexico City to press Obregon for terms on loans used to back the Huerta regime. Carranza resists, Obregon assurances unresolved. Dover’s presence linked to Harding but denied as a personal representative.
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Washington
Oct
Thomas W. Lamont
J. Pierpont Morgan & Co
Mexico City
Obregon
Huerta
Carranza
Mexico
Lamont
Elmer Dover
Dover
Harding
White House
Hardings Endorses Tax Changes Across Senate Conference
Senate agricultural bloc presses tax program as Capper Lodge group submits the plan to President Hoover. Key points include preserving higher surtaxes, reducing large tax rates, repealing taxes on candy and jewelry, suspending whisky bonds, and retaining corporate taxes while opposing the Smoot plan. Democrats express renewed hope for amendments through the pending bill.
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Washington
Get
Senate
Capper
Senator Lodge
Lodge
Penrose
Watson
Curtis
Lenroot
McCormick
Lewters
Mobbensen Dew
Arkansas
Smoot plan faces opposition over sales tax burden
Senator Learnet denounces a proposed Smoot manufacturing sales tax as harmful to manufacturers and consumers. He argues the tax cannot be passed to buyers, worsening costs and labor burdens while dealers would add commissions to raise prices.
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Learnet
Repultican
Wisconsin
Greeks Repel Turkish Offensive Near Asiun Karahissar
General Papoulas drives back a Turkish nationalist assault near Asiun Karahissar in Asia Minor. Greek forces counterattack, inflicting heavy losses while Greek casualties are reported as small.
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Athens
Papoulas
Asia Minor
Asiun-Karahissar
Bankruptcy Ends Parker Led Co operative Stores
Chicago October 7 Judge Evans A Kivans appoints Central Trust as receivers for the Co operative Society of America amid probate litigation. The 191 store chain linked to Harrison M Parker faces creditors as certificate holders gain recognition in the ruling, countering Parker’s insistence that holders were only stockholders.
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Chicago
Co-operative Society of America
Harrison M. Parker
Evans A. Kivans
Central Trust Company
Co-operative Secciety of America
Herrs Parker
Insurance Emopans
Wisconsin Dairies
People’s Life
Randolph and
Wells Streets
Evans
Parker
Young America romance on the 1921 World Series game
In the second game of the 1921 World Series between Manhattan clubs, Waite Hoyt of the Yankees outdueled Arthur Nehf of the Giants in a pitching duel. The Yankees took the win with Nehf errant and Meusel driving in Ruth, including a steal of home by Meusel.
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Manhattan Island
Waite Hoyt
Arthur Nehl
Giants
McGraw
Nehif
Nelo Wes
Aml
Yanks
Bob Mensel
Ruth
Mike McNally
Tony Rob Mensel
Sith
Yankees
Wpoo
Miller
Peckinbaugh Shorlatop
Feld
Bancroft
Vriseh
Unclear historical game summary muddled by OCR
Faint stroke of baseball action describes a game with Babe Ruth and Yankee players facing Witte and Hoyt. Mentions steals by Ruth, box score details, strikeouts by Hoyt Byrne Kelly Nehf Bancroft and misc plays including double plays and passed balls. Final score sequence appears garbled with errant digits and alignment.
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Hoyt
Byrne
Kelly
Bancroft
Nehf
Bank of Holder robbed after explosion near Holder Illinois
In Holder Illinois a gang blew open the vault of the Bank of Holder using nitroglycerin to force safes and escaped with contents of twenty five safety deposit boxes. Shots were exchanged as townspeople flooded the streets and the robbers fled along the railroad right of way three miles north of the village.
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Bloomington
Til
Yegemen
Bank of Holder
Nine Moros Die In Kulaykulay Fight In Suln Province
Nine Moros were killed in a clash at Kulaykulay Suu province between thirty Moros and a 16 man Philippine constabulary detachment led by Governor Carl Moore of Suln province. An official dispatch received at constabulary headquarters confirms the incident.
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Philippine Constabulary
Kulaykulay
Sulu
Manila
S. Lb
Suu Province
Carl Moore
Suln
Constabulary
Urges Funding of Allied War Loans
Secretary Melton urged legislation to fund and refund allied war loans. He told the House Ways and Means Committee that no payment schedule is possible due to conditions in creditor nations. He favored refunding and funding at the earliest time to straighten the treasury and indicated no authority for accepting foreign bonds.
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Washington
Mellon
House
Ways and Means Committee
Treasury
Melton
France
Italy
Russia
EXTRA GIANTS TAKE THE SEC GAME 13 5 WORLD SERIES
The New York Nationals defeated the Yankees 14 to 5 in the third game of the world series. A dramatic batting rally in the third inning prompted pitcher changes for both teams. Barnes relieved Toney for the Nationals and Quinn relieved Shawkey for the Yankees. In the seventh, the Nationals pushed across eight runs.
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New York Nationals
Yankees
Barnes
Toney
Nationals
Quinn
Yanks
Shawkey
Robert Ross Paul Visits Spotted Poland China Sale
Robert Ross Paul arrived Wednesday morning at the home of Mr. and Mrs. BE J Paul in time to attend his father's Spotted Poland China sale. He will stay at home and assist with the Paul herd in a few years.
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Robert Ross Paul
BE. J. Paul
Paul
Senator Colt Calls For Panama Toll Arbitration
Senator Colt of Rhode Island urged arbitration with Great Britain on Panama Canal tolls for American shops and ships. He said the Hay-Pauncefote treaty allows double construction and preferred arbitration over the proposed toll bill vote next Sunday.
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Washington
Great Britain
Colt
Rhode Island
Chicago Mail Heist Nets $191000 in Loot Recovered
A Chicago robbery on an Illinois Central platform near Roosevelt street led to the loss of five mail packages valued at $191000. Hours later suspects were arrested and the loot recovered in what police call the greatest single operation in the city’s history, led by Detective Lt. William Shoemaker.
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Chicago
Roosevelt
William Shoemaker
Detective Bureau
Eocap
Perlsonmers
Paste
Voice in dark brings joy at Red Cross convention reunion
A totally blind World War veteran in the Columbus exhibit crowd hears a familiar laugh and voice. Marty Corcoran of the One Hundred and Sixty fifth New York Seacoast Battalion greets him with a heartfelt embrace, recalling memories from Astoria and Rainbow division days.
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Columbus
Pather Duffy
Marty Corcoran
Chalain
New York
Astoria
Long Tivia
Corcoran
One Hundred and Sixty-fifth
One Hundred
Sistyesixity
Ohio
Chatem Pivlerry
New York Scientist Discovers Land-Living Fix
A New York scientist reports discovery of a land living fix. The note suggests that solving such problems does not require formal science training, reflecting optimism about practical fixes and widespread know-how.
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New York
Wwe
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