Farms hold record grain stocks with wheat as exception
New government estimates show farms hold larger grain stocks on March 1 than on any prior date, led by corn and oats. Wheat holdings rose little from last year while corn and oats show sharp increases. state totals list Illinois Minnesota Ohio and others with sizable stockpiles.
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Harding chairs first cabinet meeting in new administration
President Harding and his department heads met to discuss foreign relations and administrative organization. The War Department said the occupation troops would not be withdrawn and the President planned to push Senate ratification of the Colombia treaty. Cabinet members declined to disclose details, with next sessions slated for Friday and weekly thereafter.
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New Officials Inherit Dispute Over Cable Line
Washington March 9 incoming cabinet officers replaced predecessors in a disputed Western Union Telegraph Company case. Judge Stafford substituted Secretaries Hughes Weeks and Denby as defendants in pending legal proceedings over the Miami Barbadoes cable connection aimed at completing a South American route.
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District Supreme Court
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Weeks
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Barbadoes
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South America
Japan Accepts Mandate for Yap and Other German Territories
Washington reports Japan accepted the League mandate awarding German possessions north of the equator including Yap. Japan seeks non discriminatory treatment for Japanese citizens in mandated lands, with U.S. reservation on Yap. The mandate requires League Council consent for any modification and reflects Allied power negotiations.
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Australia
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Council of the League
Costa Rica Begins Disbanding Army After Boundary Demand
Washington reports Costa Rica orders immediate withdrawal from disputed territory beyond the Sixaola River and halts further advances on the Panamá Costa Rica boundary. Dr Octavio Beeche conveyed the move to the State Department as fulfillment of U S demands and a pledge to honor the fixed boundary set by Chief Justice White.
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Supreme Court Upholds Postmaster General Authority
Washington March 8 The Supreme Court upheld Burleson postmaster general authority to withdraw second class mailing privileges from papers violating the espionage act by printing articles tending to create insubordination or disloyalty in the military or naval forces. The Milwaukee Leader and New York Call lost privileges. justice Clark said the injuries were caused by the papers own charges and the articles aimed to stir internal strife.
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Wood to Study Philippine Problem for Independence Aspirations
Major General Leonard Wood has been detailed by President Harding to go to the Philippine Islands to study conditions there in light of aspirations for independence. The mission was formally entrusted to General Wood at a conference with the president yesterday, with Secretary Weeks of the War Department also present.
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Dickens' Office Boy in Breage Photo Marks Dickens Birthday
A photo of C. Jackson of Breage Cornwall is tied to the 100th anniversary of Charles Dickens birth. Jackson served as Dickens's office boy when the novelist was editor at Am the Year Round and assisted with managing callers.
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Miss Nellie Cashman Visits San Francisco After 48 Years
The famed sourdough woman Nellie Cashman, renowned for her Alaska deeds, visits her former San Francisco home for the first time in 48 years. She previously decided between South Africa Alaska via a coin toss in 1873 and will return to Wiseman Alaska after the visit.
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German Reich Delegates Depart London for Berlin
Berlin reports the occupation of Duesseldorf by French forces with control of the town hall as airships circled. Belgian troops occupy Duisburg and Rhine bridges are closed. German delegates leave London for Berlin aboard a special non stop train after London reparations talks.
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Belgium
Allied forces reach Düsseldorf amid urban redirection
On March 9 French and British aircraft flew over Düsseldorf as allied troops with machine guns prepared positions on bridges roads and in factories. British tanks and cavalry landed to the north and French artillery engineers to the south. Belgian infantry crossed the Rhine bridge into the city center.
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Duesseldorf
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Belgian Forces to Reinforce Occupation Troops
Premier de Wiart told the chamber of deputies that a regiment of grenadiers would reinforce the occupied area in Whiteland and that cavalry may not join. He said Belgian troops would not extend the movement without government approval.
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Fehren Calls Break in London Talks After Penalties Imposed
Berlin reports Chancellor Fehren announces termination of negotiations with London. He says Allies have begun penalties, threatening force rather than legal means, and urges Germany to endure with fortitude and patience amid defeat. He expresses confidence in the German people.
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Workmen Revolt Against Soviet Mobilization
A Helsingfors dispatch to the Times reports Petrograd workmen revolting against forced mobilization. Street fighting left the soviets in control of most of the city before Kozlovski’s forces, aided by artillery, claim victory and a march on Petrograd possible.
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