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Newspaper
Athens Banner
Location
Athens, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1921
Page
5
The Sweet bill creates new machinery coordinates the old and provides funding for relief measures. It could cost about half a billion dollars annually, and responsibility shifts to the executive branch. The American Legion backs it, urging efficient administration and minimal waste.
Riga reports American officials have prepared a list of all Americans in Russia including those in Bolshevik prisons. Walter Brown of American relief will receive the list and confer with Soviet delegates. At least a hundred claim to be Americans and seek exit to the United States.
Riga dispatch reports famine risk rising in Soviet Russia due to collapsed rail system. Locomotives and rolling stock scarce as treaty swaps deplete available equipment. roadbeds rotting and tracks damaged. Government seeks funds and materials while travel remains restricted and fares largely unpaid.
Fashion authorities in New York and Paris say bobbed hair is no longer stylish with long wavy hair piled high and a large white-tucked comb in the back cited as the latest trend. They advise women to let hair grow and to seek a tonic that speeds growth, noting many will be out of fashion for months.
Washington says every industrial establishment and manfacturer in the United States informed that bids for the Muscle Shoals Nitrate Plant and dams are welcomed by the War Department. No bid the government considers competent is received. Henry Ford’s is the only acceptable offer, and other offers are deemed wholly unacceptable.
Advertises old newspapers for sale at 10 cents per bundle or three bundles for 25 cents. Includes the note 2 5! indicating a contact or page reference.
Vienna authorities raised taxicab fares by doubling them and now charge 60 times the crowns on the meter. Horse-drawn vehicles have dropped meters and fares depend on bargaining with the individual driver.
New York hosts a nonprofit Art Center to bridge beauty and utility and bring art to daily life. Seven societies will coordinate art in trade and advance decorative crafts, industrial graphics, and home goods. Mrs. Ripley Hitchcock, leader, says publishers and advertisers will help fund and patronize American art.
In Des Moines a test of urban transit pits motor buses against street railways. Buses have cut into streetcar ridership, threatening the revenue base and a potential five year franchise when the current agreement expires September 1.
In Athens a surge of families apply at Red Cross offices to care for a seven year old boy and a five year old girl. The children’s father is hospitalized and the mother is deceased. Officials say dozens want the siblings and they will place them with suitable families in the coming days.
New York report shows the average factory worker earns about 25 dollars weekly, with June wages at 26.71 and a year decline of 2.06. Printing and paper goods pay the most at 30.32, while clothing trades average 23.00 per week.
Mrs. Dutton leads the New York Woman’s Exchange venture aiding dependent women. The program hires 70 workers in New York and opened in September, enabling women in small towns to mail products for sale locally through the exchange’s shop.
William Philip Simms surveys conditions in the Philippines amid interest from the Wood Forbes commission. He notes suspected Japanese visits carried surveying gear and rumors they seek gold. Military experts debate the islands' strategic value in war, stressing naval power and defense as key to keeping the archipelago a U S asset.
Annapolis reports two tests at the naval radio station sending photographs and written documents via facsimile across the ocean. A photo of the Dempsey Carpentier fight was transmitted for Le Matin, Paris, and a message from C. V. Va nanda of the New York Times to Le Matin was described as almost perfect.
Work on a large pool near Lexington road owned by Misses Nettle and Wille Jonces is almost finished and will open to the public within ten days. The center will feature a 500-person pool, bath houses, shoot-the-shoots, wheels, spring boards, a dancing pavilion, towers, and greenhouses, promising one of the south’s finest recreation sites.
President and Mrs. Harding left Lancaster New Hampshire on Saturday after a vacation stay at Mount Prospect with Secretary of War Weeks. They planned to sail from Boston on the Mayflower for Washington.
Observers say Harding must force a Pacific showdown with powers shaping the region. A conference on the Chinese question and disarmament could illuminate the Philippines dilemma, or else independence with a Protectorate and U.S. security may serve as a compromise.
Paul H. Conolly sues Alliance Insurance Company of Philadelphia and Royal Insurance Company of London for a total of 70000 in Clarke County city court. He claims fire damage to Denny Motor Car and Standard Motor Company properties went unpaid. The suits seek 32723.70 plus interest and 4000 as attorney fees from Alliance, and 27720 plus interest and 3500 as attorney fees from Royal.
Secretary Mellon told the House Ways and Means Committee that three months show a shrinkage of 330 million dollars in estimated government income for the fiscal year. Total income is now forecast at 4.2176 billion against 4.1476 billion in April. Expenditures have fallen only 11.9 million from the earlier 18.294 million estimate. Receipts from the five part revenue are expected to drop to 120 million due to weak business conditions.
A burglar raided Teronews James De Rothentd’s palatial Des Moines mansion Thursday night, but left with nothing of value after promising not to involve the police. The house housed a collection of old masters valued at several million francs. In the same city a streetcar shutdown prompted thousands to use other conveyances as federal orders halted service.
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