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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1920
Page
2
Events at Washington loom large as crucial happenings in industrial activities at home and abroad. The column surveys key developments in trade policy, manufacturing, and maritime affairs shaping national priorities.
Reports note Poland will not be bound by US admonitions to halt at the ethnographic frontier. US officials suggest Poland seeks imperial aims while insisting the United States remains midlying between France and Britain on policy.
Government backed Seaboard Air Line debt restructuring with a 3 million loan, notes totaling 4 million maturing September 15. Army asks bids for 250 001 pairs of service shoes with delivery by November 1 and completion by March 31 1921. Economic mood shows relief in some trades while silk woolen and leather face surplus and weak demand amid claims of German dumping. Grand jury indicts 42 ocean steamship lines for Sherman Act conspiracy. Embargo freezes certain Boston and Maine carload freight including coal to New England. International Paper's Philip T Dodge denies Canadian merger rumors. Pat Neff defeats Lexus senator in Democratic gubernatorial race by 77 383 votes.
The Postmaster General ordered the removal of eleven Chicago post office clerks for soliciting money from the public and publishing false and slanderous statements about the postal service. Separately, discussions at a Columbus farm meeting outlined forming a large wheat pool to give farmers control over grain marketing and sales. A Liverpool strike halted papers for a day, and a firefighting incident in New York saved three people from a warehouse blaze with minor injuries.
The Benny Leonard Eddie Fitzsimmons bout at Tex Richard's Madison Square Garden was canceled at Fitzsimmons manager's request. Athletics shortstop Maurice Shannon was suspended by Connie Mack for the rest of the season. Walter Johnson may not pitch again this season due to his pitching arm issue. Secretary Daniels congratulated the American eight from Annapolis for winning at Antwerp. The Yankees have trouble with the St. Louis Browns. Jack Reed was signed as athletic mentor by Clarkson Technical Institute. Readville hosts the Grand Circuit with Bogalusa winning a 2 08 heat for two year olds. Olympic track awards total around 40 of 100 for the United States. Willie Jackson defeated Gene Delmont in Jersey City. Antwerp Prizes awarded by King Albert. only 80 Americans attended. Brand Whitlock, Belgium ambassador, stood without a seat in the official stand.
Reports span Ecuador's Inauguration with Jose Luis Tamayo in Guayaquil as diplomats attend. Knights of Columbus depart Rome for Genoa. North Canada hinterland preservation urged by H A Conway after a 1500 mile northern trip. Brazilian battleship Sao Paulo sails from Zeebrugge with King Albert and Queen Elizabeth aboard. Japan offers financial aid to industries amid a downturn. Armenians massacred by Kurds in Anatolia, with women and children burned in a church as reported from Constantinople.
Lieutenant Max Miller premier United States Air Mail Service pilot crashes his all metal monoplane near Morristown New Jersey during Newark to Chicago run. Mechanician Gustav Rierson also killed. Bags of registered mail released to save others with one bag lost. Miller held many Air Mail Service records and had flown fourteen months without interruption.
Washington reports crop indications for $920 favoring a fall in staple food prices this autumn. Wheat is expected to approach last year’s record crop and the corn harvest is likely to be a record, according to the department of agriculture despite increased railroad rates.
Maryland recorded the greatest growth rate of any state in the past ten years, with 1920 figures released by the Census Bureau showing a larger increase than 1910. Massachusetts ranks third in growth among the ten states highlighted. Maryland stands alone in surpassing its 1910-1920 growth.
A federal grand jury in New York charges 39 steamship lines including Inter national Mercantile Marine and others with conspiring to fix interstate and foreign rates on lumber coal oil and grain. The indictment covers 75 freight forwarding firms and 150 individuals allied to the Transatlantic Associated Freight Conferences and the Steamship Freight Brokers' Association. A concurrent equity suit seeks permanent injunction to dissolve both groups under the Sherman Act.
The United States plans a tour by General John J. Pershing to South American republics that aided in the war, aiming to express American appreciation. Also: injunction against a suffrage proclamation in Washington, sugar prices drop, and Connecticut population figures show gains with revised New Haven city totals.
Tennessee house votes to reconsider ratification and then to nonconcur with Senate action leaving suffrage fate unsettled. Washington officials say Colby acted on governor’s certification and may be unaffected unless certification is reversed or ruled invalid. Maine governor urges full suffrage rights for all women and proposes study by Supreme Judicial Court for any office eligibility limits. Mississippi clerks begin opening voter books for women ahead of November election.
William M. Wood of the American Woolen Company announces the firm will show its spring 1921 line on September 9 and begin preparatory work on September 13 with all departments reopening as soon as possible. The existing wage scale will remain unchanged from the closure period.
General Wrangel's forces fall back north of the Crimea as Bolshevik troops cross the Dnelper in strong force. Cavalry raiders seize Alexandrovsk and push southward, cutting the railway as Wrangel is pressed toward the Isthmus in a desperate counter effort.
Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania reports at least 60 000 workers in the anthracite region idle after a strike vote by 300 United Mine Workers delegates from sixty five locals. Insurgent leaders claim fifty six collieries idle and many others only half efficient as Hazleton scales committee drafts new demands. Williams accuses officials of empty promises and calls for abolition of contractor system and equal pay for all coal workers. A union delegate urges members to go home and urge friends to take a vacation if demands are not met.
United States government will closely monitor Cuban elections as announced by the American Legation in Havana. Reports also note Villa followers demobilized in Mexico with six months pay, Wat king to begin prohibition campaign by airplane, and Georgia women granted voting rights in the upcoming primary and general elections. Shipping and gas price actions appear in Chicago and New York summaries.
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