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Newspaper
Browning Leader Record
Location
Browning, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1921
Page
6
The report summarizes recent European efforts to press for debt discussions with the United States and to plan measures for liquidation, noting visits by Rene Viviani and expected journeys by Belgian and Italian leaders to Washington.
Former French premier Rene Viviani met President Harding at the White House after presenting credentials as envoy extraordinary. Officials say the visit was largely courtesy though Viviani is open to discussions on Franco American relations. A White House dinner is planned for April 5 with prominent guests.
Washington reports Japanese engineers have begun a powerful station at Osaka in Nagasaki prefecture seven hundred miles south by east of Vladivostok. The new installation, to be called the Arlington of Japan, will communicate with world regions once rivals Russia Island. The move follows years of effort to take Russian Island from American control.
Petroleum stocks rose by seven percent in February, with domestic production averaging about 130,000 barrels a day higher than a year earlier. Imports fell by 19 million barrels below the December total, and total on hand stocks reached around 152 million barrels. Output for February reached 35,112,000 barrels, while imports totaled 11,384,000 barrels, mainly from Mexico, giving an available total of 46,496,000 versus 38,689,000 in February 1920.
Geneva talks by the international Red Cross conference will cover restrictions on blockades and the use of asphyxiating gases and other humane war limits.
J. K. Myers, night watchman at the Stuart bank southwest of Des Moines, was fatally shot by five bandits who robbed the bank the other night.
Florence Burgess Meehan recalls Bangkok as a royal capital where the king passes in grand processions and the state owns key industries. Rama VI governs with autocratic power yet a democratic spirit, maintaining clear lines between royal prerogative and governance, while ordering hair length for Siamese women.
University of Pennsylvania acting provost Josiah Penniman notes archaeologic finds illuminate biblical background. Discoveries of ancient records clarify inheritance laws and trade routes to Egypt. Old Testament serves as key background to New Testament parables, with works like Wisdom of Solomon and Last Days of David offering insight.
Smuggling across the Dutch and Danish borders is reportedly flourishing on a colossal scale with officials’ connivance. The border army fails to stop millions of marks of tobacco cigarettes coffee and sugar crossing duty free. Customs squads are organized to catch smugglers, but receipts fall as control remains only on paper.
Two women at Red Shanks Farcet caught 28 rats in one morning while threshing was in progress. Dressed suitably and with two dogs they attend farms and farmers praise their work.
In a brief exchange, Farmer Corn tossel notes that cheaper food won’t solve the wider expense problem for people who equate living with constant parties and moviegoing. The dialogue frames a critique of rising living costs and consumer habits.
Jefferson City Mo. Secretary Jewell Mayes of the State Board of Agriculture says the Snow and freezing temperatures have damaged Missouri fruit by about 7 million dollars. He notes the crop is likely half destroyed though overall value may rebound from last year.
In Columbia Missouri seven University of Missouri students were charged with manufacturing intoxicating liquor and transporting liquor after authorities said they were moving grape juice in fermentation from the main building during fraternity initiation. Bond set at 750 dollars each, posted by local businessmen.
Forty cadets will graduate from the Missouri Military Academy in Mexico Missouri. Among them are William Biggs Roy Browning Harry Hussman Horace Krause of St. Louis Verne Wilson Perkins Welles and Stephens Fuller of Kansas City John Goodall of Carbondale Floyd Hazleton of Wichita and Olin Callison of St Louis. Commencement begins May 22 with a baccalaureate sermon and runs to May 26 including athletic events.
Heavy rains in the Ozark region reduce the threat from green bugs to growing wheat. Monett Missouri reports that pests influx from Oklahoma and Arkansas had raised concerns, but county agents now declare the prospect of damage materially diminished.
Governor Hyde signs a bill allowing courts to close houses of ill fame by injunction and to take action against inmates agents or property owners, declaring such establishments a public nuisance in Jefferson City Missouri.
Cleanup Week in Mexico Missouri from April 18 to 23 has been designated by Ed C Offutt, chairman of the Civic Committee of the Andrian County Chamber of Commerce. The committee will seek aid from the Federation of Women's Clubs to help clean the city.
Springfield Missouri reports cloudy skies protected the Ozark fruit crop from frost danger and spared orchards from burning smudge pots. Temperature fell to 34 degrees, while nearly three inches of rain drenched the Ozark region in 48 hours.
Greene County 22 banks report total deposits of 19,206,083.54 dollars and resources at 22,558,760.91 dollars according to the latest financial report.
F M Wright, former chief clerk in the Missouri Pacific claim office in St Louis and later in Kansas City, died at Clinton after moving to Sedalia where he headed the Sedalia claim department.
A civil service examination will be held in Lebanon on April 9 to fill a contemplated vacancy in the Brush Creek post office. The exam seeks qualified applicants for the staff and expects competitive eligibility based on standard civil service criteria.
Kirksville Missouri. J P Noonan a young farmer from Adair near here has suffered fourteen bones broken and seven fractures on his left arm alone the latest coming when a double tree on a wagon broke and he fell. He has had six operations and seven anesthetics and stayed unconscious for six days after a sawmill shaft incident. He vows to live to 100 despite the injuries.
Zack Galloway of Aurora was elected president of the Ozark Pure-bred Live Stock Breeders Association. Named as vice presidents representing cattle and hog breeds were Clint Marbut Aurora S A Farmer Pearl BoE Staley Willard A Doggett Marionville A C Daily Springfield Ly D Freeman Purdy C R Gee Aurora and Frank Hegilley Springfield.
Governor Hyde approves a proposed constitutional amendment by Senator McCullough of Knox. The measure would give citizens the right to hold office, bar foreigners from voting on their first papers, and authorize laws allowing citizens absent in other states to mail ballots home to be counted.
A man claiming to be Charles Williams a Quincy nurse was found in the north end of Kansas City suffering from a dislocated hip and scalp wounds. He said he had been beaten and robbed of $50 at General Hospital.
Four Joplin ice and fuel firms fuse into Consolidated Ice Fuel and Mercantile Company. The new group includes Haggart Ice and Fuel Palmer Ice Company People's Ice Company and Nance TM Ice Company.
A new barracks is under construction on the Wentworth Military Academy campus in Lexington Missouri and will be ready for occupancy next fall. The facility will house the smaller boys' department and marks the third straight building project at the school to address growing enrollment.
Nodaway County Circuit Court in Maryville Missouri schedules 146 new cases for the April term starting April 4, plus 65 drainage cases carried over. The list includes 1 divorce suit, 15 criminal cases and 6 jury actions.
The annual meeting of the Second District Missionary Society of the Church of Christ will be held in Warrensburg on May 9 and 10. Plans for next year's work will be mapped out with about 200 delegates expected from 22 counties.
Maryville Missouri reports Joseph Jackson Jr was elected president to fill the vacancy caused by his father Joseph Jackson Sr death Roy F Hanna was chosen cashier succeeding the new president.
Burlington passenger train No. 1 derailed the engine after hitting a 30 foot long 4 foot deep landslide caused by recent heavy rains near Elsberry 52 miles south of Hannibal Missouri. No injuries were reported.
The Sedalia Missouri local Executive Committee of the Association to Alleviate Suffering in Ireland reports over $2,000 collected so far with several committees still to report.
The Missouri Drummers Association will hold its annual convention in Mexico June 23 to 25. The program includes athletic contests parades free acts and a water carnival as entertainment highlights.
The Missouri Car Company, capitalized at a half million dollars, offers to establish a street car manufacturing plant in Poplar Bluff Missouri if citizens meet specified requirements. the proposal is being reviewed under advisement.
Hinest McCray twenty years old deserted from the United States army and was arrested in Pepler Bluff Missouri and returned to Camp Pike for containment.
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