Keymen's Strike Seen to Affect City Indirectly
A Waterloo report finds the June 11 commercial telegraphers strike will not materially disrupt local communications. Managers from American Telegraph & Telephone and Postal Telegraph say operations here are unaffected. Only minor delays could occur in long distance links if a sympathetic strike occurs.
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Waterloo
American Telegraph & Telephone Service
Western Union
Commercial Telegraphers’ Union
Postal Telegraph Company
Postal
Chicago
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen Opens Triennial Convention
Denver hosts the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen as 880 delegates gather for the triennial convention. Meetings run into July with two daily sessions. wage questions, railroad government control, and congressional legislation will be discussed in executive sessions. Walker D. Hines, director general of railroads, to speak Wednesday.
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Associated Press
Denver
Colo
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen
Congress
Walker D. Hines
Grieve Invited by Raynham for Ocean Trial Again
Frederick P. Raynham the British airman invites Lieut. Commander Mackenzie Grieve to attempt the transatlantic flight again this time as navigator of the Martinsyde plane. Raynham's former navigator Captain Morgan was seriously injured in the Martinsyde crash at St John’s Newfoundland recently.
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Frederick P. Raynham
Mackenzie Grieve
Harry Hawker
Atlantic
Raynham
Capt
Morgan
St. Johna
Newfoundland
Woman Aviator Aims for Nonstop Ocean Flight
Ruth Law arrived at the Hotel McAlpin in New York after a long flight race and expressed a wish to be the first to fly non stop from continent to continent. She plans to attempt as soon as a machine under construction is finished and backs the northern route chosen by Grieve and Hawker.
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New York
Ruth Law
McAlpin
Police haul in a night of crime and chaos
A busy Saturday night into Sunday saw police arrest 27 suspects, with eight gamblers seized after a craps game and a string of drunkenness and disorder charges. One boy aged about 10 faced larceny counts, and several for forgery, assaults, and traffic violations crowded the docket as officers processed cases through Monday morning.
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Douglas Street
Municipal Court
Harry Shannon
Mason City
George White
Marshalltown
Colfax
Wilmer Griffith
Mulberry
Carl Jensen
Seventh Street
Garner Would Train Apes as Farm Hands
A professor argues apes educated and housed in modern environments could become a laboring race. He envisions refined lady apes solving the servant problem and cites a trained Africa boy ape who learned tasks, comparing it to training a dog to herd sheep.
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Garner
French Congo
Smithsonian Institution
Sam
Africa
Parla
Chinese Riots Hit Business in Amoy City
In Amoy China on June 9 business activity halted and schools closed as protests followed student arrests in Peking after earlier disturbances tied to government actions. Local authorities reported widespread shutdowns and public warnings amid continuing unrest.
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Associated Press
Amoy
China
Peking
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