Noise of Bombing Drowns Voice of Peace Dove
Chicago dispatch reports raifle and recutives seeking peac e mediation in the Southern Railway shopmen strike. Explosions marred peace efforts with dynamite on a Venice California roundhouse roof and bombs hurled at homes of Santa Fe workers. Train service resumed after guard reductions in North Carolina and Indiana, while Kidnapping and harassment reports circulated in Arkansas and Kentucky involving rail yard workers and security guards.
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Associated Frese
Chicago
Raileand
New York
der Peare
Aien
Venice
Pine Roundhouse
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
San Bernardino
Cal
Michigan Central
Garr
Tnd
Little Rock
Missouri Pacific
Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis
Paducah
Southern Railroad
Spencer and Salisbury
N. C
Princeton
Ind
Salisbury
Ray Thomas P. Jimison
Britain and US differ on loan records and documents
The piece analyzes conflicting views on a loan, noting lack of records among participants and calling for American documents and British sources to clarify the arrangement. It cites Lord Balfo ur and The New Statesman, with references to public reward for accessible documents and 1922 copyright context.
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Lord Balfour
New Statesman
New York Grening Post, Inc
Broken Promise to Bride Brings Death
In St Paul Aug 23 two bandits died in a failed holdup at Nick Bal welcom keeper. Ehler Lea alias Bush Lee and accomplice Mondey Hetty Enter promised to marry after Lea swore to reform. Lea was shot thrice by a constable. Hetty Enter, 23, previously married Lea that afternoon. the third bandit remained at large. Walter Hansen of Cooper identified as linked to prior crimes.
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Associated Press
St. Paul
Minn
Fata
Ehler Lea
Albert Lea
Bush Lee
Nick Bal Welcom
Mondey Hetty
Ewin Theart
Lea
Piedze
Baarden
Salann
Towa
Crim Walter Hansen
al Avis
Foe Cooper
Raisis
Fats
Workia
North Dakota
Tadey
National encampment events planned for Aug to Sept
Des Moines reports preparations for the national encampment of OH GA and auxiliary organizations. The program runs September 24 to 28 with registration, opening ceremonies at the Coliseum, addresses by officials, lawn fete, garden party, capital grounds fireworks, a grand parade, a reception at the statehouse, and closing day elections and installation of officers.
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Des Moines
Oh GA. R
Stutehouse
Colaeur
Coliseum
Railroads Tied Up by Heavy Storms in Central Iowa
Heavy storms washed out stretches of track on five lines into the city, delaying through trains on the Chicago Great Western Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Wabash and Chicago Burlington Quincy routes by up to four hours. Officials said normal service would not be restored until today.
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Maines
Iowa
Chicago Great Western
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Chicago, Rock Island
Wade Hopeful for Rail Strike Peace in Iowa
Iowa City reporting Judge Martin J. Wade, back home briefly, says he expects early settlement of the railroad shopmen strike in several weeks and hopes peace will come within one to three days. Wade indicated confidence in a speedy resolution.
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Iowa City
Wes
Martin J. Wade
Ecdses
Wade
Farmers Seek 10 Percent Cut in All State Salaries
Creston Iowa August 23 The Union County farm bureau adopts resolutions demanding a ten percent salary cut for all public officials from governor to minor officials. The measure calls on candidates to pledge to support the cut to gain farmer votes.
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Creston
Union County
Bireia
Retired Lee County farmer commits suicide in Keokuk home
Keokuk Aug 23 A retired farmer of Lee County William White 62 shot himself in the right temple in his bathroom this morning. His body was found face downward on the floor about ten minutes later family said he had been in ill health for some time and this illness influenced the deed signing.
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Keokuk
Wiliam
White
Lee County
Mike
Mke A Collings
Ireland
Islith Flace
Bandon
County Cork
Clonakilty
Michael Collins
Gow Ready to Take Over Railroads When Other Measures Fail
Secretary of War Weeks said in Washington that in an extreme emergency the government would take over the railroads to prevent a transport breakdown. He stressed the last resort nature of such action and said railroads must maintain service if negotiations fail.
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Gow
Unite Pressy
Washington, D.C
New York
Weeks
Former U S Senator Hopkins Dies at 76
St Aug 23 Former United States Senator Hopkins died at his home today. A Republican leader in Congress he figured prominently in national debates during his eras. Hopkins was 76 years old.
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United States
Hopkins
Congreve
T40
William Lorliner
Elles
Honey on Hand for Wilson Dam Work
Secretary Weeks asks President Harding to decide whether the unexpected surprise of an old amount approved by Congress can be used to fund the dam at Muscle Shoals. The note mentions Shiacton likely as the place and date August 3.
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Wilson
Shiacton, le
Harding
Congress
Muscle Shoals
Bank Robbers Shoot Down Town Marshal
Kansas City Aug 23 Le Roy Tarazan town marshal of Bon- Mer Springs suburb of Kansas Ocean was shot and killed today by four bandits after surprise raid on the Farmers State Bank. The bandits escaped.
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Kansas City
Leroy Tarazan
Bon- Mer Springs
Kansaas Ocean
Farmers State Bank
Teachers to Take Allegiance Oath in Iowa
Des Moines August 23 The Iowa Woman's Relief Corps plans to push a bill in the next legislature requiring all public school teachers to be naturalized citizens and to take the oath of allegiance. The corps will also participate in the national encampment of the G A R and auxiliary in Des Moines September 24 to 28 with the town department pledging 7000 dollars to the entertainment fund.
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Des Moines
Aus
Department of Iowa Woman's Relief Corps
Iowa
Relief Corps
Boy of 6 Drowned in Storm Flooded Field
Des Moines reports a six year old boy named David Stevens drowned while wading in surface water in a pasture west of Adel after a storm. He was with several other boys, lost his balance, and was carried by the current for several hundred feet before recovery.
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Des Moines
David Stevens
Adel
Stevens
Clarksville Couple Wed at Little Brown Church
Clarksville Aug 23 Miss Gladys Sutcliffe and William Shafer were united in marriage at 3 pm Tuesday at the Little Brown church in the Yate near Nashua with Rev Edward Lee officiating. Attendants were Miss Christina Sutcliffe and Miss Ada Sutcliffe. Walter Sutcliffe was best man. Flower girls were Bens Sutcliffe and Cullen Scoles. The couple's reception followed at the Sutcliffe home, and they plan to live on a farm near Plainfield after a week in McGregor.
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Clarksville
Gladys Sutcliffe
Wiliam Shafer
Little Brown Church
Mrs. Shafer
McGregor
Plainfield
Big Steel Wage Increase Prompts Regional Rise
The Brier Hill Steel in Youngstown and Trumbull Steel in Warren joined Youngstown Sheet and Tube with a 20 percent raise, following U S Steel. Independent firms are expected to follow, with about 75,000 workers in the district set to feel the impact as common labor wages rise in the steel belt.
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Associated Press
Youngstown, O
Brier Hill Steel Company
Youngstown
Trumbull Steel Company
Warren
Youngstown, Sheet & Tube Co
U. S. Steel Corporation
U S Proposes Allies Relinquish Chinese Railway Control
Washington Aug 23 The United States proposes that allied powers relinquish control over the Chinese Eastern railway after Japanese troops evacuate Siberia. Secretary Hughes sent the note initiating the idea and negotiations continue. The plan would honor the open door principle for the railway with Japan already signaling acceptance.
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Washington, D. C
Siberia
Hughes
Priniple
Japan
Fugitive Convicts Back On The Run On Reservation
Four convicts who escaped from the state prison near Sioux Falls last Thursday have been located near a field on the Ponca Indian reservation after a period of dodging. A man accompanying the party relayed word from a newspaper source.
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Sioux Falls
S. D
Ponca Indian Reservation
Nossa
Fifteen U.S. Senators in Berlin for Vienna congress
A delegation of fifteen United States senators led by Senator V B McKinsey of Illinois passed through Berlin en route to Vienna to attend an international parliamentary congress starting next Monday. The group travels to join delegates for the event and the purpose of the visit is to participate in the congress.
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Berlin
United Sta
V .B. McKinsey
Ilinois
Gay
Vienna
International — Parliamentary Congress
Peace Reigns Says Sur Yat Sen in Ching Versatile
Auz Yat Sen, leader of the South faction, declared peace between north and south and that the war is ended. In Cleveland, Mrs. Jame Elliott Shaw noted as a lecturer and biographer died aged 85.
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Sur Yat Sen
Shanghai
China
Yat Sen
Cleveland, O
Jame Elliott Shaw
Authe
Increased Wages Bait for Miners to Desert Union
Thirteen thousand bituminous miners in Westmoreland and Fayette counties face a proposal of wage hikes nearing record levels before a potential strike. Union leaders, representing 75 locals and over 10 600 workers, voted to withhold the average raise of about 2 56 dollars per day until Independent companies grant recognition. Mule drivers rise to 7 80 daily. pick miners to 1 45. loaders to 2 10 per 100 bushels. coke drawers to 2 16. roof riders and others to 7 55. assistant track layers to 6 75. fire bosses to 8 80. mine laborers to 6 50.
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iHrese
Pittsburgh
Pap
Westmoreland
Mayette
Nonunton
Footedale
Fayette County
J. C. Frick
W. J. Rainey
Miners of Iowa Slam Picks Into Soft Coal Veins
International and United Press reports detail the coal strike mood across states. Philadelphia talks collapse over arbitration and contract length while Pittsburgh producers resist backoff. federal measures to curb price gouging move toward Congress. Indiana mines reopen as Cleveland agreement spreads. Production forecasts expect about 7 million tons for the week, down from normal by around 2 million tons.
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Iowa
Harding
United Press
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Hara
Cone
Associated Press
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh | Coal Producers’ Association Today
United Mine Workers
Congress
Indiana
International News Wire
Terre Atte
Ind
Cleveland
Indiana Bituminous Coal Operators’ Association
Washington, D. Cr
Labor and Interior Departments
United States
Peaches Cheapest in Past Five Years
Peaches, priced near prewar levels, come from California in large loads this week via Waterloo Fruit & Commission Co. A railway strike reduced fruit movement last week, boosting shipments. Boxes pack more fruit per crate, aiding supply. Colorado, Washington and Michigan also plan weeklong peach shipments in baskets.
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California
Waterloo Fruit & Commission Co
Colorado
Washington
Michigan
Prominent Women With Red Fugitives Among Radicals
United Press dispatch reports W. Foster, Reinstein, Lozynsky and three women among radicals fleeing from Bridgman and Chicago after a Communist party convention raid. Authorities claim buried papers in Wolfsie resort list all U S Communists and enable mass arrests. Foster denies Gary wreck link and says frame up over labor activism.
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United Press
Ifldgman
Mich
Perea
Rose Pastor Strokes
Enma Reeves Bon
Foster
Boris Reinstein
Arnold Lozynsky
Here
Communist Party
United States
Commmunist Party
Wolfsiee
T.C. Shanahan
Chicago
Reinstein
Losowsky
Michigan
Charles Johnson
Michigan Central Railroad
Gary
Oviated
Michigan Central
Ind
Trades Union Education League
Bridgman, Mich
Mother of Triplets Home One Is Loaned
Mrs. Charles M. Brees, mother of triplet sons, was moved from Presbyterian hospital to her parents home at 522 Conger Street yesterday. The two frail babes remain with her. the strongest was to be temporarily farmed out to breastfeed. A recent bereaved mother volunteered to take one of the triplets in an act of kindness and for the babes' welfare. The birth occurred last Friday.
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Charles M. Brees
Presbyterian Hospital
Frank McDonald
Conger Street
Mrs Hitchcock in Critical Condition at 86
Mrs Mary Hitchcock age 86 long frail in grave condition this afternoon amid general breakdown from advanced age. Widow of Nelson Hitchcock who died twelve years ago she resides at 411 Wellington Street with son Gary Flitchcock his wife and daughter Minnie Bellows.
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Mary Hitchcock
Hitchcock
Nelson Hitchcock
Wellington Street
Gary Flitchcock
Minnie Bellows
McKernan Bound Over In Deed Case
R J McKernan waived preliminary hearing before Judge Gwynne and was bound over to the grand jury in 1000 bond on larceny of a deed from Waterloo Savings Bank. He claims the deed and escrow papers were his property. Simultaneous suit seeks 325000 damages against several defendants including Sudlow and Merrills Warnock over related allegations.
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R. J. McKernan
Waterloo Savings Bank
J. W. Gwynne
J.C. Murtagh
MccCoy & Beecher
Winneshiek County
Wisconsin
McKernan
Oma- Helens
J. M
Gage
Waterloo
Sudlow
Rock Island
Til
Merrills Warnock
Peck Naional Detective Bureau
Davenport
Mr. McKernan
Wishiek County
AEG
Death of Micky Collins Leaves Irish Free State to Face More War
Michael Collins, key Free State figure and commander in chief, is killed beside the Cork road. Richard Mulcahy to succeed him as commander in chief and minister of defence. Cabinet convened to plan the response as Cork and Tipperary face renewed offensives. Collins’ death prompts calls to arrest De Valera, while Irish public mourns with a state funeral planned and Glasnevin Cemetery set for burial with military honors.
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Free State
Cork
Tipperary
Hme
Richard Mulcahy
Irish “Provisional
Irish Republican Army
Collins
Mulcahy
Michael Collins
Ireland
Dell Eireann
Arthur Griffith
da Valera
Erskine Childers
de Valera
Micky
Dublin
Marlen EF
Pew
International News Service
Harry Boland
Egmonn_ De Valera
Cnier
Commandant Dempsey, Jeader
Dempsey
Colins
De_Valera
Stel
Boland
Boand
Griffith
William T. Cosgrave
Four Courts
Rory O’conner
Mount Jar
Glasnevin
Tyra
Charles Stewart Parnell
Irish Provisional Government
Callins
Associated Press
Chicago
Patrick Collins
International News Wire
Collings
County Cork
London
Colting
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U. S
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Ilarding
Rose Pastor Stokes
Radical Meet
M’kernan
Irish Free State
Micky” Collins
DD. CI
Henry N. Counden
House of Representatives
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