Steel Mills Read to Fight Strikers in Pittsburgh War
Pittsburgh and nearby districts brace for a nation wide steel strike as unions pledge mass walkouts while employers prepare guards and mass meetings. McKeesport locals swear in 3000 deputies, police plan patrols, and several mills signal possible eight hour days if workers report.
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Steel Corporation
West
Penn
McKeesport
United States Steel Corporation
Planta
Ovn
Toe
Mer
Foster
Steel Workers’ National Committee
Bowever
Allegheny County
Jones & Laughlin Steel Company
Pittsburgh
Allegheney Steel Company
West Penn Steel Company
Brackenridge
Sharon
Wilkes Rolling Mill
Savage Arms Corporation
Irom
Shenango Valley
Wilkes Company
Bernstorff Appointment Denied in Berlin
Berlin reports deny that Count von Bernstorff former ambassador to the United States will be made permanent state secretary of the foreign office. A Berlin dispatch quoted the Zeitung am Mittag as claiming the appointment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Associated Press
von S Bernstorff
United States
Foreign Office
Zeitung Am Mittag
von Bernstorff
Missing Liggett Suspect in Cincinnati Manhunt
Detective Chief Cornwell reports Henry A Starr denies traveling with Sylvia and Margaret James to Baltimore when their train reached Cincinnati. Emmett E Wood's murder and a later motive for the robbery are debated as investigators probe a possible Westward escape and connections to Liggett Drug Company employees.
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Guy Burlingame
Detective Bureau
Fred Cornwell
Cincinnati
Henry A. Starr
Liggett Drug Company
Joseph Sylvia
Margaret James
Baltimore
Queen City
Emmett E. Wood
Starr
Sylvia
Middle West
San Francisco
Cornwell
Fourteenth and Fatreetas
Liggett
Eleventh Street
Liggett’s
West
Wood
William H. ‘Ford
Wood's
Alonzo Fletcher
T Street
Sixteen Held in Chicago Beer Smuggling Case
Federal Judge Landis held sixteen men to the grand jury on bonds of 15000 each in beer smuggling cases linked to transporting beer across the Wisconsin line. The sweep targets saloonkeepers, bartenders, and truck drivers implicated in seizures near Zion City and midway between Chicago and Kenosha. The order also names former State Senator Patrick J. Carroll and more than 50 saloonkeepers and cafe managers believed to have bought beer from Milwaukee through agents.
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Chicago
Landis
Grand Jury
Wisconsin and
Dilincia
Grand
Jim” O'Leary
Adn
Ion City
Kenosha
Wis
Wilson to aid Irish plans action this fall
Former Senator James Hamilton Lewis argues President Wilson will publicly back socialization of coal oil and transportation to support Ireland. He mails his view in a letter to Edward Dunne Frank Walsh and Michael Ryan, claiming Wilson will use the league of nations to press Irish demands after the peace treaty is ratified. Britain is seen as likely to accept a league backed Irish solution.
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Chicago
James Hamilton Lewis
Wilson
Edward F. Dunne
Frank F. Walsh
Michael J. Ryan
Ireland
League of Nations
Woodrow Wilson
League
International Court of Justice
Washington
Senate
United States
Paris
Britain
White House
Taft
Eo “Campagn
New Secretary Appointed to Tariff Commission
John Bethune elected to fill the vacancy in the United States Tariff Commission secretaryship after William Steuart moved to census work. Bethune, a Washington native, GWU graduate, Spanish War veteran, lawyer, and longtime administrator, has led memorial commissions and served as chief accountant for wartime building projects in Henry Park. He resides in Falls Church, Virginia, and captains the Colonial Rifles.
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United States Tariff Commission
William MM. Steuart
John ¥. Bethune
Bethune
Washington Public Schools
George Washington University
Santiago de Cuba
Lincoln Memorial Commission
Commission On Memorial To Women of the
Arlington Memorial Ampltheater Commission
Arlington Memorial Bridge Commission
Henry Park
War and Navy Department
Falls Church
Colonial Rifles
Ludendorff Article and Ex-Attache Letter on Page 9
The readers are informed that Gen. Ludendorff's article and the ex-attache's weekly letter appear today on page 9 in the magazine's feature section. A new humor page by Grantland Rice and Ding the cartoonist is also included in this section.
Johnson Amendment Fight Faces Senate Test Vote
Democratic leaders in the Senate challenged Republican claims of enough pledges for Senator Johnson's amendment to equalize British and American voting power in the League of Nations. They predicted about 50 votes against the amendment out of 96 and awaited Vice President Marshall's return for the first test vote, with mild reservationists weighing their positions and business interests pressing for final treaty settlement.
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Senate
League of Nations
Johnson
League Assembly
Marshall
Hitchcock
Wilson
Washington
British Empire
Lodges
Knox
Borah
Curtis
Pacific Coast
Johnson Opposes League Covenant in Twin Cities Speech
Senator Hiram W. Johnson campaigned in Minneapolis opposing ratification of the league covenant in its present form. He contrasted Wilson with Roosevelt, arguing Roosevelt would have rejected any pro British agreement and defended American sovereignty amid talks of international control.
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Minneapolis
Twin Cities
Hiram W. Johnson
Middle West
Wilson
Theodore Roosevelt
League of Nations
Johnson
Roosevelt
Mr. Roosevelt
Mr. Wilson
Shonts in Critical Condition Amid Health Decline
Theodore P. Shonts, president of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company and former Isthmian CanalCommission head, lies gravely ill from acute lung congestion tied to pleurisy after several months of illness and multiple surgeries. Family members gathered at his bedside as doctors battle to stabilize him.
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New York
Theodore P. Shonts
Interborough Rapid Transit Company
Isthmian Canal Commission
Shonts
Lansing Urges Pact Ratification At Water town Dedication
Secretary of State Robert Lansing urged ratification of the peace treaty without delay or changes during a dedication ceremony at Lansingdorf near Watertown. He said the treaty does not invade U.S. sovereignty and that immediate ratification is essential to restore peace and economic stability worldwide, despite calls for revisions.
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Lansingdorf, N
Associated Press
Watertown
Robert Lansing
William C. Bullitt
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Paris
Lansing
Republic
Lansingdorf
Water Town
Holland
Bullitt
the Sarth
Lenat
United States Senate
Senate
President Wilson Hits Southern California Welcome Tour
Reporting from Los Angeles on December 16, observers note strong support for the treaty and the League of Nations among Southern California readers. The article highlights large crowds, favorable editorials, and public interest in ratification, along with criticism from opposition senators. President Wilson explains treaty provisions to hopeful audiences while press coverage emphasizes Republican-leaning newspapers backing the League.
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Los Angeles
Calif
United States
Wilson
Washington
Oregon
California
White House
Alexandria
America
Southern California
League
Borah
Johnson
Read
League of Nations
Lodge
Knox
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Iron and Steel
Johnstown
Youngstown
Ohio
4& T
George H. Lysle
Swern
Homestead
Munhail
Whitaker
Hays
West Homestead
Mr. Foster
Pennsylvania
American Sheet and Tin Plate Company
New Kensington
Here
Steubenville Plant
Steubenville
Weirton
W Va
Carnegie Company
Mingo Junction
M. J Tighe
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and ‘Tin Workers
Mahoning Valley
Brier Bill Steel Company
Youngsteens
Sharon Steel Hoop Company
Hazelton
A. M. Byers Company
Girad
Trumbull Steel Company
Liberty Steel Company
Warren and Mahoning Valley
Niles
Puddiers
Byers Company
Cleveland Mills
Cleveland
American Steel and Wire Company
Stephen W. Ten
Bernstorff
Walter D. Wood
Charlottesville
Nevitt
Young Wood
L. N. Roetting
Woods
B. B. Foy
Cincin Mati
Aomen
Chicago Grand Jury
J. Hamilton Lewis
Peate
Idea
The
Great Britain
Italy
France
Spain
Austria
Tariff Board
Ild
Alfies
T. R
Colt
Condition Sq
Balfour
England
Viviani
Ishii
Japan
Undine
Madrid
Rocha
Navarro
Geneva
Lloyd George
U. S
Budy Wilgow
Gematora
Nce
Starta
Robert T, Smart
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