Government girds to guard public in strike
Government officials rush to avert a rail strike and keep mail and food moving. A public group from the railroad labor board proposes immediate freight-rate cuts as a path to settlement, with Daugherty and Hays to brief the Cabinet and planners to act by October 30.
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Rail Labor Board Group
Associated Press
Railroad Labor Board
Washington
W. W. Atterbury
Pennsylvania Railroad
Chicago
Labor leader says only miracle can halt walkout
Cleveland dispatch reports union leaders warn only a miracle can prevent the nationwide railroad strike from starting at 6 am Sunday October 16. W G Lee president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen says no plan exists to delay and outlines wage grievances driving the action.
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Cleveland
Ohio
W. G. Lee
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
Chicago
Mr Lee
Lee
Railroad Labor Board
Brotherhood of Engineers
City's Stock of Food and Fuel Adequate to Withstand Tie-Up
City officials and business leaders said a railroad strike on October 30 would not hurt residents. A month of food reserves exists, with river and canal transport able to move supplies if rail stops. Coal stores could last months, and additional soft coal could fuel furnaces if needed. Officials urged prudent buying and no hoarding to avoid shortages.
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Congress
Cummins
Iowa
Interstate Commerce Committee
Washington
John C. Letts
Letts
J. R Zimmerman
Coal Dealers’ Association
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
Charles F Columbus
Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ Association
Arty
Columbus
Balkans Crisis Brace for War Threats and Armament Talks
Reports from Washington warn of grave risks as Central Eastern Europe teeters on renewed conflict. Entente policy is blamed by observers for the crisis while Europe and the world fear the impact on arms limitation efforts. The coming conference faces frank debate on safeguards for France and a non Wilson treaty path.
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Washington Post Co
Europe
Washington
Balkans
France
Wilson
Formal Peace Nears Line-Up Indicates Margin of Seven or Eight
Ratification of the peace treaties appears assured with a final vote margin of seven or eight over the required two thirds. Democratic leaders like Underwood and Hitchcock have supported ratification, aiming to keep partisan politics secondary to national interest as the Senate takes up the treaties ahead of a possible Wednesday action.
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Underwood
Hitchcock
Albert W. Fox
Washington Post Co
Capitol
Senate
Wilson
League of Nations
Underwood and
Poles Raise Flag in Upper Silesia Amid Economic Unity Plan
Berlin dispatch reports Polish flags raised in Katowitz Myslowitz Pless and Rybnik districts as Polish guards defend the new border. German storekeepers fear Polish money withdrawals while banks fill with panicked customers. A League of Nations decision aims to keep Silesia economically united for fifteen years with shared railways and utilities, despite immediate jurisdiction by Poles or Germans.
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Berlin
Associated Press
Kattowitz
Myslowitz
Pless
Rybnik
Upper Silesia
Abendblatt
League of Nations
Buenos Aires
Council of the
Paris
la Nacion
Silesia
Sarre
Germany
Arms Delegation Sails From Japan To Washington
Japan sends its disarmament policy delegation led by Prince Fukugawa aboard Kashima Maru from Yokohama. Crowds cheer Uchida as the ship departs. American ambassador receives the policy documents amid praise for future Washington conference harmony. A parallel mission, Baron Shibusawa’s commercial group, seeks a world commerce association among Britain the United States and Japan with reciprocal customs aims.
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Yokohama
Associated Press
United States
Cabinet Council
Advisory Council
Viscount Uchida
Prince Fukugawa
House of Peers
Tokyo
Washington
Uchida
Diplomatic Corps
Europe
Commercial Union
America
Tokyo Chamber of Commerce
Great Britain
Japan
New York
London
Gore Eye Treatment Brings Hope for Senator Gore
Former Oklahoma senator Thomas P. Gore, blind for 40 years, shows flashes of light and partial daytime vision after initial treatment by Dr. Samuel J. Harris in Boston. Harris predicts further progress within three months, citing an optic nerve that may be dormant rather than destroyed. Gore remains hopeful, describing the chance for regained sight as possible, with a plan combining electric therapy, exercises, and psychology.
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Thomas P. Gore
Oklahoma
Samuel J. Harris
Boston
Harris
Gore
Senator Gore
Downtown explosion halts car near gas blast hole
A gas explosion in downtown Washington tore a large hole in F street between Thirteenth and Fourteenth, jolting nearby buildings. Motorman W C Caldwell applied brakes, stopping his Lincoln Park car mere feet from the crater as debris sprayed into the air. The blast was heard blocks away, and emergency crews rushed to the scene. The incident prompted plans for a new Central Union Mission rescue home, valued around $200,000, to house dormitories for 1900, a free restaurant, and baths, with entrances on Louisiana Avenue and C Street Northwest.
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Thirteenth
Sph
Lincoln Park
Caldwell
F Street
Fourteenth Streets
Washington
Central Union Mission
Louisiana Avenue
John 8. Bennett
First Street
Bennett
C Street
Supt. Bennett
Supt Bennett
Leiter Moves Liquors Worth Fortune to Dupont Circle
Reported thefts culminated in a daring transfer of thousands of bottles and gallons of spirits from Joseph E Let ter’s country home to his city house at Dupont Circle. Detectives guarded the three-truck move, following a sensational wine cellar robbery valued at $300,000. Meanwhile a fatal dice game quarrel near Bells, Tennessee left a farmer dead and menhunt for another suspect.
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Country Home
City House
Joseph BE Letter
Leesburg Pike
Chainbridge
Leiter
Dupont Circle
Morgan Bradford Agency
Index to Today's Issue Page 11 Will Protect Public in Strike
Page index summarizes items across the issue. Headlines include public safety during strike, food stocks, Balkan crisis notes, peace near, and various updates from police, government, and society sections.
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Gore
Silesia
Japan
Kukluzx
H. E. Briscoe
Rockville
Officer shot in alley as patrolmen intrude on dice game
Policeman H B Chinn of the Third precinct was shot and beaten during an investigation of a shooting at 1148 Lingers court. His partner Millard Collins fired inside John Henderson’s home at 1148 Lingers court as shots rang out. Jeanette Davis was wounded in both legs while bystanders helped. Henderson and James Davis were arrested. others, including George Scoth, are sought as investigators question witnesses and monitor a dice game dispute.
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H .B Chinn
Millard Colins
Singers Court Northwest
Chinn
Collins
Lingers Court
Voney
John Henderson
Jeanette Davis
Ricketts Court Rhorthwest
Uhenffenn
Clarence Jones
Twenty-first Street
Brien
Livingston
Third Precinct
James Davis
Davis
George Scoth Colored
D Street
Northwest
Henderson
Fercy Sanders
Waifs to Leave Russia for Abroad Famine Relief
Riga reports the Russian soviet government plans to evacuate famine children to foreign lands. Volga commune children will go to Germany while Moscow and Petrograd arrivals head to England. Evacuees stay abroad until age 17. A sum of twenty eight billion rubles funds the program for about 160,000 Volga region children, with Bulgaria agreeing to take 20,000.
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Riga
Volga
Germany
Moscow
Petrograd
England
Bulgaria
Britain to mark Armistice celebration at cenotaph
London reports government plans a large Armistice Day ceremony at the cenotaph in Whitehall with wreaths laid by representations of King George the government the dominions and India and two minutes of silence at 11 am across the United Kingdom. Riga reports Turkish foreign minister Yussuf Kemal Heyek complains to Soviet Russia of Greek atrocities including alleged burning of villagers as they evacuated in September.
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Government For Arms
Whitehall
George
Dominnions
India
Empire
United Kingdom
Riga
Yussuf Kemal Hey
Aosta
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