Galloway Plant Machinists Join Walkout at Iowa Factory
Galloway company machinists represented by a three man union committee walked out at 10 15 am after demands for a new wage scale eight hour day and overtime pay were rejected. About one third of the total workforce joined the strike, with orderly departure and no disorders reported. Similar action was planned at other Waterloo factories, including the Town Dairy Separator and Waterloo Gasoline Engine plants, as union organizers push broader actions.
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William Galloway Company
Iowa Dairy
Galloway Company
W. A. Dodd
Dodd
Waterloo
AG. Abbey
International Association of Machinists
Waterloo Gasoline Company
Labor Temple
Abbey
Fowaairy
W. W. Marsh
Shaw Committee
H. Hi. Allenbaugu
Iowa Dairy Separator Company
Chicago
Lin
Widow Slain by Knife Suspect Held as Son
Chicago July 30 a man claimed as the widow Eugenie Brickwood's son Salomon Van Buren was arrested after her throat was cut and her body found in Greenwood avenue apartment. Van Buren denied kinship and said they were friends. Police note a son named John Brickwood may live in Carlisle Arkansas. Mrs Brickwood had recently sold land for cash and mortgage notes. The murder is believed to have occurred four days before discovery. A knife with blood was found near the bed.
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Chicago
Eugenie Brickwood
Greenwood Avenue
Salomon van Buren
E. Forty-third Street
van Buren
Hyde Park
Carlisle
Ark
John Brickwood
Arkansas
Greenwood
van Huren
Brickwood
Pacific Fleet to Be at San Francisco as Wilson Arrives
The Pacific fleet delays its San Francisco review until early September. Secretary Daniels announced the ships will reach San Diego and Los Angeles on schedule, not Aug. 15, and will be reviewed when President Wilson visits San Francisco for the league of nations speech. Daniels will lead a San Diego arrival around Aug. 6 and accompany the fleet to Honolulu for the Pearl Harbor dry dock opening around Aug. 25.
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Washington, D.C
Wilson
San Francisco
Navy Department
Washington, D. C
Daniels
White House
San Diego
Los Angeles
League of Nations
New Mexico
New York
Honolulu
Pearl Harbor
Kaiser Wilson Bad as Wilhelm Questioned by Berger
Victor L. Berger admitted before a special committee that his conviction for violating the espionage act and his speech cited Kaiser Wilson and Kaiser Wilhelm as equally bad. He also called the phrase making the world safe for democracy contemptible and said he would raise a red flag at Leavenworth to rally young men.
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Washington, D. C
Victor L. Berger
House of Representatives
Kaiser Wilson
Kaiser Wilhelm
Berger
New York
Leavenworth
Would Speed Road Building In United States
Col Edward S Cornell president of the National Highways Protective association urged sale of government road building machinery and material in France to contractors here to speed up state road programs. The statement was released in New York on clay 30.
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Associated Press
New York
Ciay
France
Edward S. Cornell
National Highways Protective Association
Ancestral Ledger Fragment Mentions Payments
A historic ledger fragment records small payments to multiple individuals and a car company, totaling 8320.56 with entries including Cramer Motor Car Co and amounts such as 5.00 and 2.00. The note references Baby Ike Fenn and Mrs Verry Greene in an unclear context.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cramer Motor Car Co
Verry
Greene
Holding Belgium Plan Attributed To German Leaders
Berlin reports Gen Ludendorff published by Deutsche Tages Zeitung claims Kaiser Wilhelm II decided the crown council’s 1917 Belgium policy and says Hindenburg and Ludendorff condemned Weimar leaders. It outlines proposed economic unity with Belgium and German control of taxes shipping railways and insurers.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Crown Council
Ludendorff
Deutsche Tages Zeitung
Germany
Liflendorff
Bauer
Hermann Mueller
German National Assembly
Weimar
von Hindenburg l
Liege
Mueller
Ereal
Belgium
National Zeitung
Antwerp
Hogs Rally as Riots Hamper Chicago Market
Chicago dispatch reports a sharp drop in livestock arrivals as race riots and labor troubles hinder packing houses. Hog arrivals totaled about 13 000, roughly one third of normal, triggering a morning price rally after yesterday's $1.25 fall per hundredweight. Packers had estimated facility crippling at about 50 percent, hoping to operate at 60 to 90 percent today.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Senate tightens security over Franco-American treaty copy
President Wilson’s pending defensive treaty with France is kept under tight guard in the Senate vaults as it awaits foreign relations committee review. Only the official copy bears Clemenceau and Wilson signatures, with access restricted and printed versions withheld for safekeeping.
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Ashington
Senate
Wilson
Sanderson
State Department
Unite States
United States
Clemenceau
Serond
French Republic
Senate J
Foreign Relations Committee
Prison Camp Cruelty to Yanks Attributed to Higher Officers
New York July 3 The congressional subcommittee hearing on disciplinary practices of the American expeditionary force moved from Governor's Island to an uptown hotel. Lieut H H Smith and Sergt Clarence H Ball serving sentences for cruelty at Castle Governor's Island testified. They named Col E H Grimstead and Maj Gen Frederick S Strong as responsible for Farm No 4 and described brutal treatment at multiple prisons in France.
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Associated Press
New York
Congressional
Governor's Island
France
Smith
Clarence HW. Ball
Castle
Governor’s Island
Smith and Ball
Joseph C. Ryszezewski
T. Q. Donaldson
Col
HE. P. Grimstead
148Th Infantry
Frederick S. Strong
Rain and heat ease after sultry spell in town
Showers likely tonight and Thursday bring cooler air after a record heat burst. A hot night left residents exhausted as the thermometer climbed to near 98 in the afternoon and fell to 71 at night. Light rain yesterday helped some areas, but corn drought symptoms grow if moisture stalls.
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Mercury
R. Th. Slips Py
Impr essario 18 In Coma In New York Theater Figure
Oscar Hammerstein, theatre builder and producer of grand opera, remains in a coma in New York on July 20. Doctors say his condition is critical and his life could end within hours despite efforts to revive him.
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Impressario
Associated Press
New York
Oscar Hammerstein
Grand Opera
Mr. Hammerstein
Chicago Strike Talks Open as Mahon Seeks Details
The International president of the street car workers Mahon arrived in Chicago and called a conference with nine owners and strikers to learn every detail of the strike. He may urge a referendum on a proposed wage package while awaiting reports from local leaders.
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Associated
Chtergo
Daly
Mahon
Auion
Chicago
Presi+dent Mahon
J Istrikebreakers
W. D. Mahan
International Union of Car Men
Detroit
BHI
Pershing Bank Boost Unanimously Voted
The record notes an unanimous vote for Pershing with March barely winning on a related motion. A committee vote 4 to 7 dismissed a proposal to confer the permanent rank of lieutenant general to Gen. Mareh, amid discussion of appointment authority.
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Pershing Bank
March
Watshitngton
Boyton C. Miargly
Taday
Gen. Pershing
Gen. Mareh
Mareh
Dillingham Plans Reservations After Meeting Wilson
Senator Dillingham of Vermont joined President Wilson in talks on the peace treaty as Congress recessed. Four Republicans Harding Fernald Lenroot and Dillingham were on Wilson's White House appointment list to discuss reservations, with other figures including Homer Cummings and Maj. Gen. Robert Alexander also in attendance.
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Associated Treg
Washington
Dillingham
Vermont
Wilson
Senate
Ingain
White House
Harding
Ohio
Fernald
Maine
Lenroot
Wisconsin
Homer
Army Planes Burned by Official Order in France
A House subcommittee hearing in New York investigated destruction of American aircraft in France. Witnesses, including Paul Lockwood, testified 100 planes at Colombes les Belles were burned after engines were removed and guards prevented photos. Salvaged parts reportedly worth about 15 cents each.
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Associated Less
New York
House of Representatives
Mroyat C. Johnson
South Dakota
Amercan
France
Colombes-les-Belles
Paul L. Lockwood
Stamford
First Army Division to Entraining for Brest August 15
The first American army division will begin entraining for Brest around August 15 on its return to the United States. About 8,000 troops will remain in the army of occupation, including the eighth infantry at Coblenz with engineers, military police, and artillery. The plan may change by Inter Allied Council input. The Third division starts entraining for Brest August 3, with a week to move there.
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Associated Press
Coblenz
Brest
United States
Army of Occupation
Eighth Infantry
Iso
Interallied Council
Paris
Washington
Germany
Rhine
Open Treaty Debate In Senate Breaks Century Old Custom
Senate action to consider the Colombia treaty in an open session Monday breaks a tradition held for over a century. Discussion today suggested similar moves may follow for treaties with Germany and France.
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Senate
Washington, D. C
Colombia
Germany
France
Fire kills three year old in barn blaze near airbank Iowa
A three year old boy died and his five year old brother escaped when a barn fire started by the youngsters engulfed buildings six miles northwest of airbank. East wind aided flames destroying a barn granary corncrib machine shed and more. Logs and contents valued around 25000 dollars. The farm had just been sold to Bailey Brothers and John Fearer of Cedar Falls.
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Airbank
Specialn
Mia
Ferdinand Krenzman
Grapary
Bailey Brothers
John Fearer
Cedar Falls
One New War Article And 30 Amendments in Courtmartial Plan
Washington July 30 One new article of war and changes in 30 others have been recommended by the special board of officers appointed early in the war to investigate the army courtmartial system. Secretary Baker said he would transmit the report to Congress. The board finds no radical defects and says criticisms stem from inexperienced personnel under stress to prepare 4,000,000 men for the fighting line.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Frank O. Lowden
Lowden
Wivn
Iail
John H. Simpson
Althe
Tralian
West Side
Iva Henry
South Side
Black Belt
Illinois
Wesro
Broca
Washington, D. C
Baker
Congress
Mn Baker
Conservatives Lose Majority in Swedish Parliament
Conservatives failed to retain control in Sweden's Riksdag, winning only 39 of 150 seats in the new first chamber. They shed 47 seats from the previous tally while peasants’ associations and agrarians align to give the right 57 votes. The Socialists rise to 48 seats, up from 19.
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Associated Press
Stockholm
Peasants’ Associations
Drowned Girl Found After Canoe Is Swept Over Dam
In Paterson New Jersey Miss Mabel Harris missing since Sunday canoe trip with Lester Decker was found in the Ramona river half a mile below Pompton Lake dam. Decker says the canoe was swept over the dam and the drowning occurred there.
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Associated Press
Paterson
N. J
Mabel Harris
Lester Decker
Ramona River
Pompton Lake
Decker
Delivery deadline notice and reprint phone line
The notice asks customers to receive The Courier before 5 30 and to call 880 if the paper is late due to carrier error. It adds that calls reaching the office before 6 30 p m will get a copy sent.
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Iowa
War Department
House
Graham
House War Investigating Committee
Council of Fifty Negroes
Pacific
Wilhelm
Baby Ike Fenn
Kaiser Ludendoref
Raps
Havas
Council of State
Lsmoke Diamond
Joe Clgars
Paul Pry
Janet
Carmen
National Union
United States Internal Revenue Collector's Office
First Army
San Felice
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