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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1922
Page
2
President Harding calls for a coal commission empowered to end profiteering and to deter strikes. He supports laws to avert labor stoppages and punish crimes including violent incidents such as the Herrin massacre.
The president’s message stresses keeping transport lines open and protecting workers, creating a federal coal agency to curb profiteering, surveying the coal industry to prevent next year’s strikes, expanding Railroad Labor Board powers, giving the federal government tools to protect aliens, enforcing anti conspiracy laws, condemning employers who weaken unions, and noting degraded locomotives and unsafe equipment threaten transport facilities.
President Harding told Congress he will employ all state power to prevent rail and coal strikes from disrupting transport. Republicans praised the address, while Democrats questioned its substance. He asserted existing laws already cover conspiracies and fuel supply issues and said no new laws are needed now, aiming to rally public support for drastic actions if needed.
Henry Edward Pellew 94, long resident of the United States now in Washington, becomes the sixth Viscount Exmouth after the fifth Viscount’s death in a nursing home. Pellew has lived in Washington, D. C., since 1888, connecting modern times to the Napoleonic era.
Major David A. Reed of Pittsburgh was sworn in as Pennsylvania's senator to replace the late William E. Crow. This makes the Keystone State have two senators serving in Washington for the first time in ten months, following another swearing in earlier, a record for the period.
Prohibition agents warned New York cabarets and restaurants that permitting patrons to drink liquor on premises would lead to prosecutions. Ralph A. Day and other federal officials visited Palais Royal, Club Montmartre, and many Broadway venues after midnight, stressing existing restrictions and shifting responsibility to owners.
Reports from Philadelphia Montreals Paris Dublin Cleveland New Orleans Cork and Wellsburg summarize ongoing events. Peace talks in Philadelphia progress with optimism. An eight year old girl Adelia Lampe is held for killing a three year old. Indictments over the Clifton mine battle surface. Paris backs Poincare on reparations. Shawbridge fire toll rises to twelve. Griffith funeral draws large crowds. Coal miners ordered back to work. Gasoline prices drop in Louisiana. Irregular forces dissipate around Cork with many returning unarmed.
Germany faces a currency collapse amid Allied demands for reparations after the London conference failure. Reichsbank president von Glase napp warns against coercive payment, stressing tax and circulation limits while trade with the United States suffers from a plunging mark.
Six deaths and hundreds homeless mark a devastating forest fire in northeastern Minnesota. Governor Preus ordered National Guard units to Duluth and surrounding areas to assist in firefighting as towns were wiped out and more communities faced imminent danger.
Edwin B. Trafton, famed Wyoming guide whose adventures helped inspire a Western novel, collapsed and died in Los Angeles while drinking an ice cream soda. He spent 35 years guiding in Yellowstone and rode with Buffalo Bill in the era of the old West.
Secretary Hoover announces fair distribution of anthracite this winter, with households and industries possibly using bituminous coal due to shortages. He notes Stockpiles are exhausted and production may not meet demand, while federal distributors will manage supply and pricing to aid households and essential industry.
Harding vetoes plan to have Hughes deliver the Republican keynote in Ohio as party leaders heat up for the state convention. Alcohol policy chatter and prohibition debate surface with Association Against the Prohibition Amendment predicting beer and light wings by next summer.
Reports from Pitman Glassboro Camden Trenton and other towns note construction booms new high school plans and housing as well as deaths robberies and accidents. Highlights include Pitman high school expansion bids Glassboro normal school project and a fatality in Bridgeton from an electric accident.
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