Anti-Strike Law Seen Triggering National Ballot Upset
At a capital conferences, AFL officials said passage of anti strike measures in the railroad bill would prompt a nationwide strike ballot. Wm Johnston of the machinists warned a vote from 350000 members may be ordered, with all affiliated unions likely to follow. An assessment of one dollar weekly would fund a defense fund next month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Washington, D. C
House of Congress
American Federation of Labor
Wm. Johnston
International Association of Machinists
Federation
Johnson
Cal
Gompers
Gift From Caruso Aids DAnnunzio At Fiume Stand
Mexico City October 7 Enrico Caruso sent 5000 lire to Captain Gabriele DAnnunzio to aid him in Fiume. The tenor says he knows little of politics and does not mix art with politics, but believes Fiume belongs to Italy and supports the Italian poet. He cites Paderewski as cautionary.
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Mexico City
Enrico Caruso
Gabriele D’annunzio
Fiume
D’annnunzio
Italy
Paderewski
Air Conditions Hamper Army Race As Pilot Nears Home
Chicago October 25 Aviators on the second lap of the twice trans continental Army air endurance race faced bad flying conditions. Lieutenant R M Bagby nearing his home hangar from Sidney Nebraska had flown 491 miles from his start when he landed overnight. W C B Brown planned to fly a new machine from Reno Nevada. Other flyers remained spread across the western half of the continent including F P Tewile in San Francisco and H W Sheridan aiming to reverse a 30 mile leg to Mineola New York.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Teday
W. C. B. Brown
Eno
Nev
R. M. Bagby
Hoday
Oine
Sidney
Neb
North Platte
HW. W
Ratifying Date Debated by Paris Peace Council
Paris on October 25 reports the supreme council discussed when to formally ratify the German peace treaty. A definite decision was reached that the date likely fixes at next Tuesday's meeting of the council.
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Paris
Gary mill claims strike broken as furnaces run
Chicago Oct 25 Federal soldiers keep Gary under military control as steel mill officials cite 27 of 43 open hearth furnaces in operation and a one day output of 1800 tons to support claims the Gary strike is broken. Eight blast furnaces ready to start and four more being prepared while labor leaders deny a ended weakening of the strike.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Gary
Ind
Leonard Wood
Army Central Department
Orientals Seek Wives of Education After Occidental Plan View
Reports from foreign missionaries say war created a great demand for educated wives in the Orient and Africa. The Interchurch World Movement notes many men, returning soldiers, seek educated spouses. A Moslem sheik reportedly offered to share his tent with an educated American girl rather than take more native wives.
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Associated Press
New York
Interchurch World Movement
Peace Council Records Questioned by Historian
Paris date line reports Aulard, a leading authority on the revolution, fears future historians will struggle to reconstruct the Big Five deliberations at the peace conference. He notes no complete records exist of the supreme council meetings and that notes were taken by various people in several languages.
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Paris
Aulard
Supreme Council
Germany
Clemenceau
Four Die as Silesian Trains Collide Near Kranowitz
Four people burned to death when a passenger train struck a freight train near Kranowitz in Silesia. The fiery wreck injured sixty and left eighteen others lightly hurt.
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Fress
Beuthen
Silesia
Kranowitz
Daylight Saving Time Change Confuses Readers
A newspaper note describes the 2 a.m. Sunday time change under daylight saving rules. It warns clocks may be moved forward an hour or back, railroad bulletins caution against backward movement, and trains may be adjusted to prevent accidents as officials coordinate the shift.
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Marge
Sanday
Abarth
Wilson
Congress
Berger Seat Fight: Unfit to Sit Report Denies Berger
Washington Oct 25 a special house committee recommended denial of Victor Berger Milwaukee Socialist a seat in the house for violations of the espionage act The committee urged a new election for the contestee Joseph P Carney The majority said Berger disloyal to the United States and that the house must exclude him Berger defended his actions asserting loyalty and constitutional rights as his appeal proceeds The report notes Berger’s activities aimed at hindering war efforts and that his sentence awaits appellate decision
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Washington, D. C
House of Representatives
Victor Berger
Milwaukee
House
Rodenburg
Illinois
Joseph P. Carney
Berger
United States
Vitor L. Berger
Bnt
Federal Grand Jury
Redenberg
United States District Court of Appeals
Chicago
Rodenberg
Victor L. Berger
Congress
Wisconsin
U S Flag Kissed In Phoenician Theater
An audience hissed the American flag as it was unfurled in a Phoenician theater last night and shouted anti US and anti Wilson cries during the playing of the Star Spangled Banner. The crowd cheered calls for greater Italy and for Fiume, reflecting nationalist tensions amid the region's politics.
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U.S
Fiume
Associated Press
Det
U S Plans Move to Free Envoy Mexicans Hold
Washington reports the U S embassy in Mexico City was instructed to press the Mexican government for action toward releasing William C. Jenkins. The consular agent is said held by rebels led by Cordoba and Uberra near Puebla, in a district under Carranza forces.
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Associated
Washington, D. C
Mexico City
William C. Jerkins
United States
Jenkins
Frederico Cordoba
Juan Uberra
Puebla
Republic
Thornty
Carranza
Cordoba
Jeuger
Two Years Furs Brought From Arctic by Braving Vessels
Notes from Alaska report that trading schooners this summer hauled over 2,500 furs stored on Banks Land as boats braved heavy Arctic ice to Banks Land Herschel Island and back. For two years ice trapped ships, so trappers amassed what some described as the greatest cargo ever brought into the Bering Sea.
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Alaska
Banks Land
Herschel Island
Bering Sea
Trotsky Heads Bolshevik Drive Against Northwestern Army
London reports say Leon Trotsky commands bolshevik forces attacking the Russian northwestern army and delaying its movement on Petrograd. Tharskoye Selo near Petrograd is claimed recaptured as bolshevik advance continues. Tobolsk falls to reds, staff of Trotsky captured. Trotsky escapes and reaches Petrograd.
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Associated Press
London
Leon Trotsky
Pat-rograd
Tharskoye Selo
Petrograd
Yudenitch
Moscow
Denikine
Turkestan
Odessa
Kolchak
Tobolsk
Siberia
Red
Copenhagen
Leon ‘Trotsky
Trussia
Thatkonselo
Alional Tidende
Trotsky
Petrovgrad
Aioe
Yudenite
Courier Delivery Time Notice
The Courier should be delivered to your home before 4 20 o clock. If the carrier errs or you do not receive the paper by then, please phone and a copy will be sent. Phone calls must reach this office before 6 50 p.m.
Ocean Tide Power Sought by France Amid Coal Shortage
France pursues tidal power experiments in St Brune bay Brittany under government orders to assess hydroelectric use and potential coal replacement. Study focuses on railways gas and domestic power with gasoline shifts possibly saving 4000 tons of coal daily but needing 60 000 tons of gasoline monthly imports.
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Frenell Wireless Servier
Cod
France
St. Brune Bay
Brittany
Petit Parisien
United States
Stage Girls to Give Evidence in Prohibition Case
Chorus girls are to witness in conspiracy charges against federal agents and others over enforcement of prohibition in New York. Grand jury will hear how agents with salaries of 36 dollars weekly dined at top hotels and entertained Broadway chorus girls. several will testify.
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Associated Press
New York
John A. Minton
Subways for Detroit Owned by City Planned
Detroit officials consider a municipal subway system costing 17,313,650 with two tubes and a central hub in downtown. The plan shifts construction to the city with surface extensions funded by the Detroit United Railway and limits fares to cost, while guaranteeing the railway’s investment.
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Detroit
Mich
Street Railway Commission
Detroit United Railway Company
British Envoy Takes Tea Three Cases To Washington
London dispatch reports Viscount Grey, bound for Washington to assume ambassadorial duties, had three cases of special tea collected at the foreign office. The tea was to be sent ahead due to difficulty obtaining a preferred salt tea in the United States.
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London
Viscount Grey
United States
British Foreign Office
Washington
Rioting in Canton Triggers Guard Mobilization in Ohio
Columbus Ohio Oct 26 reports of serious rioting at Canton tied to steel strike prompt Gov Cox to mobilize almost the entire Ohio National Guard for duty there. Cox also warned Canton Mayor Poor that failure to restore order could lead to removal from office. he was to appear Monday to show cause.
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Associated Press
Columbis
Pon
Canton
Cox
Ohio
Akron
Gov. Cox
Charles &. Poorman
Thia
Poormay
ABC Uprisings Face Wilson as He Seeks Health
Washington reports President Wilson improving and set to receive the prohibition enforcement bill with the attorney general on constitutionality. He faces a packed agenda with threatened strikes by coal, steel, and railroad workers, and a push for an industrial peace conference and a Treaty of Peace.
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ABC
Wilson
Washington, D.C
Berlin Finance Minister drops plan to stamp money
Berlin September 29 Finance Minister Ergberger faced heavy criticism as he abandoned a scheme to surrender about 40 trillion marks in 3 value notes, stamp and reissue them. The plan would have required millions of bills to be stamped, guarded transport to towns, and risked temptations for Spartacists and the general public amid low morale after the war.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Ergberger
Germany
Five Die In Taxi As Train Strikes Crossing
At Hastings Nebraska last night a taxicab was struck by a Chicago Burlington and Quincy passenger train on a crossing. Five people were killed and several others injured in the crash.
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Hastings
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad
Catalogo breeder declared loser by his attempt
The late Chartes duske Jones, famed for attempting a catalo buffalo cattle breed, died at his daughter's home. He claimed high costs made the project discouraging, yet he raised several herds, including a 70 catolo and 40 buffalo herd sold in 1915. His Yellowstone guard herd grew to 400, and he helped found Garden City.
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Chartes Duske
Bnitalo
Flathead
Mont.) Indian Agency
New York
Mr. Jones
Yellowstone National Park
Roosevelt
New Mexico
Yellowstone
Secretary of the Interior
Franklin K. Lane
Jones
Bloomington
Kansas
Tie
Buffalo
Ithru
Union
Hhe
Garden City
Idle Belgian Labor Reduced After Armistice War Toll
Brussels October 1 The number of Belgian laborers out of work, once 800000 at the armistice, has fallen to 200000 as experts estimate a prewar total that is one fourth. Minister Jaspar told the chamber of deputies Germany sought to send an army of German workers to rebuild the damaged areas, a proposal he refused.
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Brussels
M. Jaspar
Chamber of Deputies
Germany
Weather Outlook For Wenk Washington Week Ahead
Weather predictions for the week beginning Monday note generally fair skies and lower temperatures across the upper Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys as issued by the weather bureau. Local conditions in Washington show similar trend with cooler starts and daytime moderation anticipated.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
The
Weather Bureau Today
Upper
Mississippi
Lower
Missouri
Coal Strike Crisis Shapes Dutch: Wilson Cabinet Plans Action
Eight of nine governors of coal producing states favor a conference at Indianapolis to avert the threatened strike. President Wilson's cabinet to present a unified program on the coal crisis with Hines invited to explain railroad views. John L Lewis warned of a nationwide work stoppage next Friday night.
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Associated Prose
W. J. Harding
Indianapolis
Harding
J. C. Lewis
Iowa
United Mine Workers of America
Towa
Charles Webster
Mr. Webster
Washington, D. C
Wilson
Tumulty
Hines
Gen. Hines
Railroad Administration
Lansing
Glass
Stern
Palmer
Department of Justice
Voal
John L. Lewis
Lewis
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