Separate parleys may ease: strain of shops strike
Chicago dispatch notes the fourth week of the railroad strike. President Harding to meet with railroad officials while major lines seek separate settlements. News reports say 18,000 clerks and other workers voted to walk out, with Canada also facing rail labor unrest. Guards, injunctions, and service curtailments spread nationwide.
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Chicago
Washington
Kooper
Railroad Ister Board
Harding
W. L. McMenimen
Railway Labor Board
Davis
Mooseheart
Ilh
Canada
Grable
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
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Congress
New Orleans
Railroad Labor Board
Iowa Flier Rescues Self After Yukon Caribou Flight Disaster
Clinton Iowa aviator Clarence Prest recounts a perilous voyage across Yukon and Alaska with moving picture gear. After engine trouble near Deer Creek he landed amid a caribou herd, killed one caribou to eat, and endured days of navigation without a compass, sleeping in his open plane until a rescue party found him near Nimrod bar.
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Alaska
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Aight
Elwood banker fugitive Hil pleads to Clinton suit
W S Hil former Elwood bank cashier who fled Iowa has surrendered to Clinton authorities. Charges of embezzlement against him were dismissed. A separate suit against five Elwood citizens for conspiracy seeks damages of 60 dollars.
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W. S. Hil
Elwood
Clinton
Sioux City Enjoined From Enforcing Shop Ordinance
Federal Judge G. Scott issued an injunction halting enforcement of Sioux City Iowa stationers exam requirement for engineers. Great Northern Railway sought relief after arrest and firing of several engineers brought in to run local shops, arguing the city ordinance conflicts with federal law.
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Denby Presence in Peking Prevents Government Resignation
In Peking Chinese cabinet members planned to resign but remained in office after word that U S Secretary of the Navy Denby was staying as a guest. The president reported the cabinet halted its move, citing courtesy and hospitality as the reason for reconsideration. Denby himself had no knowledge of his role in the events.
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United Press
Peking
China
Denby
Benby
Road Development Work Expands Across 18 Counties
Cedar Rapids July 22 Road development work progresses with 29 projects set for July 25 to August 4 across 18 counties. Most contracts cover grading and drainage of primary roads, while 12 projects involve graveling.
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Cedar Rapids
Towa City Names New Chief of Police
Iowa City's municipal scandal closes as Mayor Erma Harvat appoints John J. Lorack as chief of police to replace the ousted Mike Malone. Lorack, 63, is a familiar local figure with years in the business community. Ingalls Swisher had resigned as mayor after the ouster.
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Towa City
Iowa City
Erma Harvat
John J. Lorack
Mike Malone
Ingalls Swisher
Lorack
Bercantie
Jealousy Blamed In Des Moines Double Shooting
Constance, 30, shot and killed his wife then killed himself this morning west of town at the Willis home where the couple had been living. Jealousy motive cited. The killing occurred in the Willis front room.
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Des Moined
Sioux City Terminal Seeks 190000 Stock Issue
Sioux City Terminal railroad asked the Interstate Commerce Commission for authority to issue 190000 dollars in new capital stock to pay off outstanding indebtedness. The request was announced from Washington. July 22.
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Washington, D. C
Sioux City Terminal Railroad
Interstate Commerce Commission
Vinton Powerplant to Close Part Time to Economize Coal
Vinton Ta July 22 Special Power will be shut off at the city plant from 10 p m until 6 a m thereafter by order of the mayor because of the limited supply of coal There is on hand enough to run 30 days under normal conditions but it is hoped by economizing to extend this period Citizens also have been asked to be sparing as possible in use of light and water
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Vinton
Dow
Picket Hotel Where Strikebreakers Stay
Northwestern railway shopmen picket the LaFayette hotel in Clinton on July 22 with about a dozen strikebreakers inside. President J D Brennan Mayor H W Cowles and Martin H Peace of the Federated Shop Crafts meet with Assistant General Manager F H Haumili of the Northwestern railway to discuss the dispute.
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Northwestern Railway
LaFayette
J. D. Brennan
H. W. Cowles
Marton H. Peace
Federated Shop Crafts
F. H. Haumili
Robin son named chairman of national commissions on memorials
Iowa brief reports Francis A. Robinson appointed chairman of the American Legion national committee on memorials by Hanford MacNider, the national commander, announced in Des Moines. Town City letter from Commercial club protests to President Harding, Gov Kendall and officials urging immediate action to end strikes. Council Bluffs: a farm worker fell 125 feet into a well on Tony Jensen farm near town, Brown of Kansas identified as the deceased, body not further identified.
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Kendall
Council Bluffs
Tony Jensen
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Weil
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Adams
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Lodge
Senate
McCormick
Hull
Democratic National Committee
Underwood
Harrison
Wilson
Democratic Party
Two Women Beaten by Unknown Thugs in Indiana
Fairfield Indiana July 32 Laouis Palm and his mother and sister eight miles southeast of Fairfield are in serious condition after unknown assailants ransacked the Palm home near 11 pm. Palm tied to a tree and beaten while the mother and sister were chloroformed and bound to a bedpost. Robbery motive cited as bloodhounds trail to Woolson area. Palm escaped and alerted neighbors. Sheriff Harris notified. Palm family described as wealthy with substantial money in the house.
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Palm
Palm Residence
Palm Hal
Ericson
Harris
Woolson
Wise couple to relocate near Wichita Kansas
Mrs. Albert Jean Wise leaves for Wichita with plans to settle near the city after visiting her parents and returning from the Philippines with her husband. Mr Wise will join her there and they will establish their home near Wichita.
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Albert Livingston
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Philippine Islands
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Militia Guards Pennsylvania Mines Amid Labor Tensions
In southwestern Pennsylvania soft coal mines reopen under guard of about 1,000 state militiamen after a four month shutdown. Troops patrol strategic points as mine owners prepare to restart production amid threats. In Greensburg an explosion injures a house, and talks in Washington seek to resume anthracite operations with John L. Lewis expected to join. Analysts debate economic conditions, building activity, and potential election issues beyond coal disputes.
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Washington
Pennsylvania
Srate
Pittsburgh
Busa
Cambria
Indiana
Associattion
Lewis
Associated Press
Washington, D. C
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Scranton
New York
John F. Durkan
Toda
Harding
Town Coal Strike stalls operations and meets Monday
Fort Dodge and Des Moines area transit by the Fort Dodge, Des Moines and Southern Interurban faces coal shortages. Only eight carloads remain at Frazer plant, 105 cars ordered from the east, 50 in transit. The company may suspend day power, run nights, and shift schedules, with 30 towns affected. Prices rise as Clinton reports nine days of steam coal left and mines quoting $15 a ton delivered.
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Fort Dodge, Des Moines & Southern Interurban Company
Clyde H. Crooks
Chicago & Northwestern Railroad
Plymouth Clay Products Company
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Crooks
Fort Dodge
Fred M. Steele
G. B. Motz
Pagent
Chicago
Clinton
Sai
Clinton Gas & Electric Co
Campaign Nears Yet Issues Unclear in War Era Debate
The article discusses the campaign approaching with unresolved issues while Democrats rely on herd times and farm relief programs. It notes the War Finance Corporation providing hundreds of millions to distressed farmers and institutions, helping stabilize prices and influence broader business conditions amid a period of economic strain.
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War Finance Corporation
Tha
White waits for warrant in row over strike card
Topeka Kansas July 22 United Press William Allen White publisher known for defying the Industrial court and siding with Gov Henry J Allen will be arrested soon after noon. The governor backs prosecution while White remains unyielding over a disorderly sympathy sign. Judge McDermott of the Industrial court visited Emporia to discuss White’s views and filed a report. A Lyon County complaint will be served today as White expects a visitor at 2 pm.
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William Allen White
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Industrial Court
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Kansas
Gov. Ailen
Fudge J. A. McDermott
Industrial
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Engineer and Five Passengers Killed in Missouri Wreck
Springfield dispatch reports engineer O H Ring Sapulpa Okla and four Hammer family members among seven killed when Frisco No 2 Texas Special met No 9 Meteor head on near Logan Missouri at 3 50 this morning. Ring blamed for misconstruction of orders and signals errors cited by railroad officials.
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O. H. Ring
Sapulpa
Okla
St. Louis San Francisco
Logan
Andrew Hammer
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Smail
St. Louis
Frisco
Ring
Promie
Chautauqua Quartet Wakes Song Records
The Weber Male quartet, touring Waterloo chautauqua, has released two records with Acalian in July, Still Still With Thee and Jesus Lover of My Soul. Isaac Van Grove of the Chicago Grand Opera praised them after Bloomington July 6, while Washington Missouri platform man Dr Charles Boying called them the best male quartet he had heard.
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Waterloo
Chautauqa
Acalian
Gerrish
Jesus
Mason
Isaac van Grove
Mary Garden
Chicago Grand Opera
Thea Webars
Bloomington
Denver Receiver Taken In Hand Of R R Company
Telegraph briefs from across North America report the Denver and Rio Grande Western railroad placed under a receiver. Other items mention Manitoba premier election, a name change for a county fair, a major Fort Worth fire, a cooperative fight against railroad freight differentials, trial progress in Obenchain murder case, whisky prescription probes, and War Department rifle team selections for Camp Perry.
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Denver & Io Grande Western Railroad
Winnipeg
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John Brack- 8
Manitoba Agricultural College
Chicago
Great Chicago-Cook County Fair Association
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The
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Smiles and Kinks Off Today's Wires in Chicago
Chicago reports James Tierney allegedly armed with four sticks of dynamite threatening to blow up the town before police persuaded him to drop the explosives. A circuit court barred John Haas from visiting or riding with any woman but his wife. In Denver, attorney John Hipp answered an ad, learned of a German estate left to him, and after correspondence the $6.24 value was settled in American money.
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James Tierney
John Haas
Denver
John Hipp
Germany
Hipp
Powers Got Ryan Club Gossip on Wall Street Downfall
New York gossip centers on Allan A. Ryan once powerful on Wall Street and Broadway. He defied stock exchange governors, faced expulsion, and then collapsed into personal bankruptcy with liabilities including theater tickets and clothing for his wife. His fortune dwindled from Stutz stock highs to minimal cash.
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New York
Allan A. Ryan
Wall Street
Broadway
Fifth Avenue
Ryan
Stock ‘Exchange
Stock Exchange
Allan Ryan
Thomas Fortune Ryan
Old Thomas Fortune
Ike Young Allan
Aslan
Shopmen Kidnap Trio Of Commissary Car Men
At Cedar Rapids, three men from the Rock Island commissary car were seized by shopmen as train No. 62 arrived at 4 30 this morning. The cook and two waiters of the Grier company employed to run the car were spirited away and no trace or fate is known.
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Cedar Rapids
Rock Island
Minneapolis
J.I., Grier Company
Iards
Germany Willing to Accept Allies Terms on Mora torium
Paris July 22 Germany formally accepted the allied commissions demands on guarantees. In a letter to the reparations commissions Chancellor Wirth said Germany, after careful deliberation, would accept the conditions for the duration of the moratorium which the German government assumed would soon be granted.
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Paris
Germany
Berlin
Wirth
Orlando Working on New Italian Cabinet
Rome July 22 Former Premier Orlando conferred with leaders of political factions to canvass forming a new ministry to succeed the Facta ministry. King Victor Emmanuel desires rapid government formation due to several European issues hanging fire.
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Orlando
Facta
Victor Emmanuel
Lloyd George Won't Come to Washington
London reports Premier Lloyd George rejected urges from advisers to visit Washington as head of the British debt funding commission to discuss world affairs with President Harding, aiming to offset his absence from the Washington conference.
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Lloyd George
Washington
British Debt Funding Commission
Harding
Two Held for Death of Deputy Sheriff in Missouri Shooting
In St Louis on July 22 two men are held over the fatal shooting of Deputy Sheriff Patrick J Nalty aged 30 and the wounding of Patrolman Ross Johnson aged 45 during a gun battle at Grand City, Missouri. Witnesses identified the teens as the shooters.
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Heve
Patrick J. Nalty
Ross Johnson
Granfta City
Bhava
Red Sox Schedule With Knights of Columbus and Others
The Mobile Red Sox, forming the Waterloo Red Sox, will play the Knights of Columbus Sunday at 2 p m on the Rose Hill diamond at Beach and Willow streets. Monday the Red Sox meet the Great Western on the same field. Thursday they face the First Southsran at Cadar River park. manager O C Bouck seeks more out of town Sunday games.
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Bouck
Albany Street
Engines require constant care of expert repairers
Washington July 22 The motive power of all railroads in the country will be crippled or halted within weeks if the federated shop craft strike continues. By mid August locomotives on most railroads will be legally unfit for travel unless federal inspection rules are violated. Engines demand constant servicing after each trip and only 4 500 repair points exist nationwide.
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United States
Strike Within a Strike at Valley Junction Shops
Des Moines July 22 a strike within a strike was declared at the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific shops at Valley Junction when 54 nonunion workers quit and worked out, reducing the foree of workers. I G Lewis, president of the Town Federation of Labor, visited the shops to verify reports that nonunion workers were being compelled to stay at their posts, but was told they were paid in full when they chose to leave.
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Burlington
Des Moines
Chicago- Rock Island & Pacific
Valley Junction
I. G. Lewis
Town Federation of Labor
Air Freight Service Predicted by Dutch Plane Expert
Dutch aviation pioneer A H G Fokker predicts Trans continental air freight and passenger service will begin soon in the United States. A company has been formed to back the venture and a charter will likely be applied for in Illinois next week.
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New York
A. HG. Fokker
Rotterdam
Ilinois
Wilkerson Steps in as Landis' Successor
James H Wilkerson became the federal judge for the northern district of Illinois, stepping into the shoes of K M Landis in Chicago on July 22.
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Landis
Chicago
James H Wilkerson
K. M. Landis
Northern District of Illinois
Police Teach Mexican Some Lessons In Courtesy
Atlanta July 22 police in a tale of customs differences detain Abel Reyes who followed two women to learn their addresses as a prelude to introduction. He was admonished to learn U.S. ways and fined 11 dollars for his pursuit. George Kolb pleads not guilty to deceiving an officer as prosecutors seek clearer charges. Lieut Win Durchdenwald of Waterloo’s 133rd Infantry wins the Iowa Rifle Association individual title at Camp Dodge in a weeklong tournament.
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Uncle Sam
Mexico
U.S. A
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Reyes
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Centes
George Kolb
Durchdenwald
Waterloo
One Hundred Thirty-third Infantry
Iowa Rifle Association
Camp Dodge
Street Cars Halt After Interurban Breaks Power
Local street cars of the W U F N were stalled for minutes at 1 p m when a trolley on the interurban line to Cedar Rapids dropped and threw the breaker out at the power house. Marriage licenses issued to Edward Manix and Ada Heick both of Waterloo and Royal Batley of Charles City. A man performing tricks in Handley Park amused onlookers while a crowd watched.
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Cedar Rapids
Edward Matnix
Waterloo
Ada Hieck
Royal A. Batley
Charles City
Hagel M. Harrington
Manches- OP Tae
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