World news digest reports League adjournment and global trends
A weekly roundup notes the League of Nations opium conference adjourning after heated exchanges between American and Indian delegates. It covers Soviet replies to British notes, Egyptian parliamentary protests, France's stance on American opium proposals, and global events from petroleum output to Hoover's anti waste plan.
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Postal deficits shrink as revenues rise in 1924 report
Postmaster General New for President Coolidge reports 1924 postal revenues up 7.53 percent to 572.95 million dollars while audited expenditures rise 5.4 percent to 587.38 million. The annual deficit falls to 14.43 million, reflecting efficiency without sacrificing service.
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Railroad Wages Up Again Across Major Lines
The U S railroad labor board awarded about a five percent wage rise and adjusted work rules ending a long dispute between the Brotherhoods of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen and major carriers in the West Southwest and Southeast. The ruling covers roughly seventy five thousand workers and halts court proceedings by which the board warned compellable hearings. The Santa Fe line is cited as engineers and firemen reportedly voting on a strike this week.
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Quiet in Egypt and Sudan Despite Troop Reinforcement
Dispatches from Viscount Allenby report Egypt in good order with no need for force though troops are being reinforced. Sudan conditions are described as easier and satisfactory with no new incidents reaching Cairo. Zagloul Pasha, former premier, has a passport for Europe and may travel to a European health resort.
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Tragic Drowning of Two Children in Woodbridge Creek
In Perth Amboy New Jersey officials found the bodies of James Antal age four and Joseph I Antal in a Woodbridge creek while searching for the missing brothers. Their mother Elizabeth Antal was killed recently by a train.
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Guthrie Farmer Shoots Ex Wife Then Kills Self
John G. Taylor a farmer in Guthrie Oklahoma shot and killed his recently divorced wife to whom he had been married nearly sixty years, and then killed himself. The tragedy follows a long marriage and the couple's separation.
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