Hunger Famine Drives Red Troops Toward Moscow
Berlin reports Red troops have joined starving peasants moving toward Moscow from Tambov Voronezh and Penza. Refugees describe famine and cholera driving desertions of tens of thousands of children as authorities brace the capital. Maxim Gorky aims to lead relief efforts as famine widens and distrust grows.
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Berlin
Red
Tambov
Voronezh
Penza
Moscow
Soviet Republic
Russia
Siberia
Caucasus
Ukraine
Smolensk
Samara
Saratov
Maxim Gorky
Helsingfors
Western Europe
America
Karl Radek
Izvestia
Leonid Krassin
Great Britain
Krassin
Petrograd
Senate to Study Foreign Film Industry Data
Senator Wadsworth introduced a resolution asking the secretary of commerce to report on the motion picture industry abroad and the impact of importing foreign films. the measure was amended to seek the basic facts of development.
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Washington
Wadsworth
Senate
Secretary of Commerce
Senate passes McNary bill to extend War Finance powers
President Harding gains legislative victory as the Senate approves the McNary bill extending the War Finance Corporation powers to aid marketing surplus farm products abroad. It substitutes the Norris bill which would have created a separate government corporation with $100,007,000 capital.
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War Finance Board
Washington
Harding
Senate
McNary
War Finance Corporation
Norris
Dry boundary extends twelve miles from coast as legal limit
Washington reports the United States set a twelve mile dry boundary at sea, replacing the old three mile zone. The coast guard seized the British schooner Henry L Marshall off New Jersey and U S Attorney William Hayward pressed libel against it for violations of Volstead and customs laws, signaling possible vessel forfeiture.
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Washington
United States
United States Attorney General’s Office
William Hayward
New York
Henry L. Marshall
Coast Guard
Jersey
Hayward
Goff
Marshall
Leader demands tax cuts and spending restrain in reform plan
Washington reports Republican Leader Mondell urging no new taxes but reduced burdens. Secretary Mellon says internal revenue must reach about 3.83 billion, with more than 250 million in expenditure cuts to avoid higher taxes. plan calls for repealing excess profits tax and certain nuisance levies while raising corporation tax to 15 percent and shrinking surtaxes.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Mondell
Treasury
Mellon
Ways and Means Committee
Railroad Control
Shipping Board
Washington Notes on Health Rivers and War Industry
United States Public Health Service doctors study the Illinois River to find remedies for unusable waters. Shipping Board seeks reconsideration of liquor prohibition on American ships due to deficits. Diet dye industry, tariffs, and military cuts feature in discussions with officials and industry leaders across the period.
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United States Public Health Service
Illinois
Shipping Board
Internal Revenue Bureau
General Fries
Admiral Smith
Charles A. Lyman
National Board of Farm Organizations
American Shina
Five Thousand Dollar Rum Fines Imposed in Atlantic City
In Atlantic City court 12 defendants were convicted or pled guilty to violations of the state prohibition enforcement act. William Maynard proprietor of the Firemen's hotel at Margate received the heaviest fine of 1750 dollars and was jailed for lack of cash.
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Atlantic City
William Maynard
Margate
Maynard
Czecho Slovakia Mints First Metal Coins in Prague
The Czecho Slovakia Republic has minted its first metal currency. The 20 heller coins were struck at the Kremnica mint in Prague and measure 20 millimeters in diameter. The inscription reads Chereoslovakia Republic and seven new presses were installed in the state mint.
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Washington
Czecho-Slovakia
C. S. Winans
Prague
Commerce Department
Kremnice
Chereoslovakia Republic
Borah Seeks Army Cut to 100000 Men in Senate
Senator Borah offers a resolution to reduce the regular army from 150000 to 100000 enlisting men. He argues for strict government economy and claims the cut would save about 100 million dollars. He attacks navy waste and Rhine troop costs, urging nonpartisan fiscal restraint.
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Washington
Senate
Senator Borah
Borah
Virginia Capes
United States
Rhine
Germany
World notes of unrest and relief from cities across nations
A digest of worldwide items reports Sing Sing retirement of chief engineer William Mead after 41 years, Worthington’s alleged bond ring deposits totaling 500000 in European banks, 40000 Canadian CPR boxcars for 1921 crop movement, U.S. newsreels to be reviewed by new censors, Dail Eireann summoned for talks on Lloyd George proposals, and President Harding urging disarmament in Lancaster New Hampshire.
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Ossining
N. Y
Sing Sing
William Mead
Chicago
John W. Worthington
Polish Loan State Bank
Warsaw
Deutsches Bank
Berlin
Posen
John V. Clinnin
Winnipeg
Man
Canadian Pacific Railway
E. D. Cotterell
New York
Board of Censorship
London
Dail Eireann
Dublin
Lloyd George
de Valera
Irish Republic
Lancaster
N. H
Hardin
Pruning the New Jersey Budget Prompts State Cuts
Governor Edwards moves toward retrenchment to shrink the state payrolls and curb ballooning expenses. Departments will prepare budget trims as federal and state liquor raids highlight widespread disregard of law amid illicit liquor as New Jersey battles smuggling along the coast and dense taxation.
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Trenton
New Jersey
Edwards
State Budget Commission
George
Appropriations Committee
Hudson River Tunnel
Delaware River Bridge
Chiel
Republican State Committee
Special Commission On Taxation
New York State
Atlantic Ocean
Farmer Brown
Swedesboro
Levishiture
Hobart
Anti-Saloon League
van Ness
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M'Nary
Adela Enriquez
Senorita
Emiliano Chamorro
Nicaragua
Attorney General’s Office
Statute
Chu Chin Chien
China
France
World News
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