World News Roundup From Capitals And Beyond
A week of global briefings notes German industrialists endorsing the Dawes plan, France pressing reparations terms, and British and American positions on disarmament. Reports cover a fatal train collision in Switzerland, a $100000 fund to block land-fraud inquiry, political deaths, labor moves in Chicago, and disease controls in California.
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Poincare
Louis Barthou
The
Reparations Commission
France
Annual apple blossom festival draws visitors from many states
Rain did not dampen the second annual apple blossom festival at Rogers Arkansas as visitors from Missouri Arkansas Oklahoma Kansas and Tennessee joined locals. Other items report a lineman killed at Pitcher and charges against Pat Marr in Texarkana, plus various international notes and a Mellon statement defending treasury security safeguards.
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Northwest
Arkansas
Rogers
Missouri
Oklahoma
Kansas
Tennessee
House Passes Child Act Resolution for Federal Labor Standard
The House approved a proposed constitutional child labor amendment. Thirteen Republicans and fifty-six Democrats, mainly from the South, opposed. The measure now moves to the Senate amid questions of fate. The amendment would authorize Congress to limit or prohibit employment of anyone under 18. Proponents argue a federal standard pressures lagging states to raise protections.
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Washington
House
Senate
United States Supreme Court
Congress
Propaganda Warns Germans Over Ration Reports Ahead of Elections
Berlin government issues a proclamation urging Germans to accept the rationing experts reports as eight days remain before the Reichstag vote. It warns rejection could trigger a crisis and possible war while urging adherence to the Dawes plan. A subpoena for Henry Ford's secretary E G Siebold is issued for the Muscle Shoals hearing in Washington.
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Washington
Mellon
Coolidge
Treasury
Bureau of Engraving
Charles B. Prewer
Department of Justice
Harding
Brewer
The
Berlin
Germany
Dawes
Ford
Washinton
E. G. Siebold
Henry Ford
Senate Agricultural Committee
River Bill Aims to Boost Midwest Prosperity
Pittsburgh notes Rep. C. A. Newton of St. Louis predicted that a pending river and harbor bill would bring increased prosperity to the Middle Western states if Congress passes it.
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Pittsburgh
Middle Western States
Congress
Rep. C. A. Newton
St. Louis
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