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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1920
Page
2
Summary of legislative moves at the national capital including shipping board reforms, railroad policy plans for the 1921 sessions, and immigration concerns. Press covers government employment cuts, a New York building fraud probe, and a canceled treaty claim in Mexico City. Also notes stock market highs, bank leadership, and industrial activity with El Dorado optimism for 1921.
Elliott C. Mc Dougal of Marine Trust predicts prices will fall and business conditions gap to normal in two years. October shows a 3 percent drop in retail food prices nationwide. India tea market rises with Ce yellon value strength. New pack Southern tomatoes demand slips after price rise. Atlantic City meeting notes improved outlook and use of Confidence Advertising. A seam less back Oxford men's footwear announced. Women’s hose demand shows two extremes in prompt delivery.
The American women’s team defeated a combined Girton and Newham Colleges squad 4 to 3 in England. Jeffy Duffy, a Chicago middleweight, impressed New York writers with a one round knockout of Terry Mitchell despite a 10 pound weight disadvantage.
Lloyd George pledges July trade deal with Soviet Russia in Commons. Five day truce talks calm fighting near Harbin between Bolsheviks and Semenoff forces. 50 000 Crimean refugees reach Constantinople aboard forty ships. Bolsheviks seize Kamenez Podolsk. Crimea occupation widens. Armenia rejects Turkish protection backed Soviet state. Italian government survives confidence vote 202 to 85. Paderewski signs Poland Danzig accord. Empress Augusta Victoria ill. Frederick William visits. Hsu Shu Cheng escapes frontier tensions.
Thomas L. Sloan leader of the Society of American Indians predicts emancipation from government reservations within four years at the ninth annual conference in St. Louis. Jamaican ginger banned by Internal Revenue official Williams with effect in ninety days. International Ladies Garment Workers Union of Baltimore to establish cooperative manufacturing and selling firms for women’s garments. California Governor Stephens invited by Mexico’s President elect Obregon to attend the December 1 inauguration in Mexico City. Auction data show 1800 live turkeys sold at prices suggesting Thanksgiving retail will be about a quarter lower than last year. Camp Kearny near San Diego is turned over to the Public Health Service as a major wartime mobilization point.
Representative Wood of Indiana plans major cuts to the federal payroll, aiming to reduce Washington DC employment from over 90000 to about 60000. He argues payroll reductions will boost efficiency, with total civil service costs seen at about 136 million for the coming year, and seeks cuts to the bone.
Members of the new Greek Ministry met at Takos Palace and informed Queen Mother Olga she is Regent of Greece until former King Constantine arrives. The Regent said she assumed office in conformity with the Constitution due to the absence of her son Constantine.
Four nations Great Britain France Spain and Belgium will dispatch troops to Vilna to keep order during the plebiscite. Giuseppe Motta was elected honorary president of the first League of Nations assembly.
In Council Bluffs Iowa authorities recover $25000 of the Burlington mail car loot from a chicken house at T A Daly home. Five suspects including Daly and H A Reed are jailed while three youths provided statements leading to arrests. The heist involved a shipment of government securities and occurred as a train paused for a crossing near Union Pacific transfer.
In a Federation of Engineering Societies address Herbert Hoover said the nation faces unemployment and readjustment due to an unparalleled period of speculation extravagance and waste. He warned of the real effects of four years of world destruction. The report also notes large telephone companies earned 52 798 723 in eight months ending August up from 51 735 153 in 1919. Camp Kearney near San Diego was turned over to the U S public health service. President Wilson's health was improving per White House officials. Secretary Daniels said the Navy will uphold Rear Admiral Scales in discharging midshipmen for hazing. Food prices fell 3 percent in October nationwide.
In Washington the A F L executive council moves to restrict radicals in unions and curb immigration to ease unemployment. They seek closer labor capital cooperation, with conservative leaders purging radicals from steel committee and urging immigration controls amid declining industrial employment.
Police halted a fleeing automobile after a pistol battle, killing one of three robbers. The trio were found with $150,000 in Liberty bonds and currency stolen from the Bank of Glasgow, Glasgow Virginia. James B. Rodgers, 28, of Philadelphia, was identified as the dead man. The other two occupants were captured and the loot recovered.
Constantinople reports Armenia rejects the Turkish Nationalists demand to establish a Soviet government under Turkish protection. The Armenians say acceptance would mean loss of sovereign rights and hostilities have resumed.
New York The Lockwood Committee began the second phase of its probe into alleged price fixing by cement lime gravel brick sand and other building material manufacturers and dealers. Evidence shows a national cement monopoly divides districts contracts and controls prices, forcing builders to buy locally. Hugh White of George M Fuller Construction testified that material costs have fallen, citing an $87 000 cut on a $700 000 Plaza Hotel annex sub contract, over 10 percent.
Frank A. Munsey purchases the Baltimore American and the Baltimore Star, announced by General Felix Agnus veteran publisher. Other items note 16 woodsmen drowned at Chesancook Lake in Maine after a motor boat fire and typhoid cases in Salem Ohio.
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