Plan Made for Merchant Marine Subsidies
Washington reports a final conference of officials from leading marine transportation companies and the shipping board subsidy committee set for January 5. They will review a tentative plan to subsidize the American merchant marine, including a $100,000,000 revolving loan fund, tax relief, insurance schemes, and direct wage subsidies to achieve parity with British shipping.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White House
Washington
Shipping Board
Harding
Congress
Merchant Marine Act
Navy
Teserve
Great Britain
Wall Street calm about alchemy reports
New York December 27 Wall Street was undisturbed by reports that a German scientist may have synthesized gold. Chemists expressed skepticism while noting current limits, with experts debating whether synthetic gold could ever be practical or valuable.
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Wall Street
New York
Questh Et All
Horace G. Byers
Chemistry
Cooper Union
Irving Fisher
Yale
London
Germany
Byers
Knights of the
Black Art
Consolidate Stores to Occupy Lower Cobbs Room
Consolidation moves Cobb ten cent store to occupy the lower room on the square. Hall's Investment Company will take the vacated space. Ward Jameson spent the holidays in Honea Path with relatives. Bids for operation of prescribed routes and services noted. Customs receipts and tonnage taxes support proposed direct aid from 1922 23 income about 300 million dollars, 10 percent set aside for American ship remuneration. Tonnage taxes in American ports expected to rise from 2,000,080 to 4,000,000 if dues become effective.
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Cobb's
Ten-Cent
Hall's Investment Company
Soviet approves economic pole policy in Russia
Moscow reports the ninth all Russian Soviet congress approved Lenine’s economic policy. Some Communists grudgingly accepted the plan, citing lack of alternatives and fears of capitalistic terms. Critics fault the council leaders Bogdanoff and Krassin for poor appeals to workers and foreign investors, and say nationalization did not remove the bourgeois.
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Moscow
Nikolai Lenine
Lenine
Council of Commissaries
Supreme Economic Council
M. Bogdanoff
Council
Leonid Krassin
Police Court Christmas Holiday Drunkenness Fines Total $195
Eighteen defendants appeared in police court after a Monday holiday. Three faced drunkenness charges while others were cited for disorderly conduct and related offenses. Fines totaled $195 with various amounts paid or bonds forfeited.
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Will Foster
Monroe McClinton
Jim Lomax
Dec Williams
Jim Smith
Dave Smith
Will Crawford
Jack Leech
Henry Sims
Virginia Brown
Lewis Williams
Christmas Visitors Raid Seizes Copper Still In Lowndesville Area
Two special officers led by Mrs. Elizabeth Brickman of Atlanta captured a thirty gallon copper still and numerous implements on Christmas day near the Savannah river behind Dr. and Mrs. J. B. White and Lowndesville. No persons were found in the vicinity. Andrew White of Washington D. C. was visiting Mrs. L. W. White on North Main Street.
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Savannah River
3. B. White
Lowndesville
Elizabeth Brickman
Atlanta
Andrew White
D. C
L. W
White
North Main Street
Congress Plans Much Activity this Session
Washington notes outline major aims for the new session including merchant marine support, a veterans bonus, permanent tariffs, and regular appropriations to sustain the government. House leader Mondell said no settlement on the merchant marine or soldiers’ bonus yet, but both are in plan. He aims to push all House appropriation bills by April 1 to give the Senate time to finish and adjourn in June. Funding for a soldiers’ bonus may require a special tax. discussion on a subsidized merchant fleet awaits broader debate. President Harding may travel to Pinehurst, N C, for a brief New Year’s break. no final decision on plans tonight.
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Washington
Congress
Representative Mondel
House
White House
Harding
Mondell
Senate
Involuntary Bankruptcy Filed Against Ingersoll Watch Co
An involuntary petition in bankruptcy was filed in federal court today against Robert H. Ingersoll and brother, manufacturers of the Ingersoll watches, of New York City. Liabilities were set at 3,000,000 dollars and assets, exclusive of goodwill, at 2,000,000. The company admitted its inability to pay debts and expressed willingness to be adjudged bankrupt, with the petition brought by National City Bank of New York, Chase National Bank of New York, and Hathaway, Smith Folds and Company, carrying combined claims of 450,000 dollars.
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New York
Robert H. Ingersoll and Brother
Ingersoll
National City Bank of New York
Chase National Bank of New York
Hathaway, Smith Folds and Company
Second elopement ends with arrest in Georgia
Eva Tolbert seventeen and Parvin Thornton twenty were found after disappearing December fifteen. Thornton was jailed in Oglethorpe county on kidnapping charges while Eva Tolbert returned to her Arnoldsville area home. Thornton and Eva Tolbert had previously eloped with Eva's sister Ora Tolbert on Halloween night and then planned a second elopement with Eva's younger sister.
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Athens
Eva Tolbert
Parvin Thornton
Aiken
S. C
Thornton
Oglethorpe County
Arnoldsville
Naval Committee Postponed Meeting In Submarine Debate
Washington dispatches report the naval conference postponing its next meeting to Wednesday to allow home officials to issue firmer instructions on the American plan to limit submarine strength. French and Japanese opposition remains, with talks of a world conference in 1928 or 1929 and possible a general building holiday in submarines if talks fail to unite the powers.
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Washington
Arma! Conference Naval Committee
Groupe
Armamnts
Naval Committee
Heme
France
Italy
Japan
Paris
Courag
Tokyo
Britain
Atlantic
Pacific
Mediterranean
Adriatic
Debs Visits Washington After Prison Term
Socialist leader Eugene V Debs arrived in Washington from Allentown federal penitentiary and met with Attorney General Daugherty and President Harding. Debs said his trip was at the AGs request and that he would devote time to freeing prisoners while continuing his broader political work. He traveled with companions and reporters, planned to remain in the capital overnight for further discussions.
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Washington
Eugene V. Debs
Allents Federal Penitentiary
Harding
Dauigherty
Daugherty
Debs
Terre Haute
Ind
White House
Department of Justice
Department
Samuel Gampers
American Federation of Labor
Cheathams Visit Florence Residents on North Main Street
Mr and Mrs Matt Cheatham of Florence visit Mr and Mrs P B Cheatham on North Main street. The article notes discussion of reassembling the conference of the powers, likely seven years hence, beginning to take shape over the Christmas recess.
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Matt Cheatham
Florence
Mrs
P. B. Cheatham
North Main Street
Conference of the Powers
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Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry
Fish
Fisher
Dr. Howe
Moizant
Ward Jameson
Honea Path
Soviet
Walter Davis
Bolton Gaines
Richard Gaines
Grady Beauford
Gaines Boyd
Mattie Boyd
Bill
Congressional
Pinehurst
N. C
Dropped Ingersoll
Jers
Theodore
Clelia Roter
Lucy Robins
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