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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1924
Page
10
A playful exchange hints at a quick wit in a comic dialogue between Megs Cook and Delaware Blue Hen. The quip compares speed to lighting a room and slipping into bed before darkness, with a nod to bright electric light over sunlight for growing wild oats.
The national executive committee authorized a president's parley to aid ex service women, with a fund for relief to be the drive’s main objective. Past department presidents join a national parley, with Alpha Fund proceeds split between department and national patleys and local units for rehabilitation and hospitalization work.
Russell G. Creviston of Marion Indiana has been named to succeed Colonel Bolles as national adjutant. Creviston has served as assistant national adjutant to Bolles who recently retired, and takes over the post with plans to continue the organization’s administrative work.
Mr Creviston played a prominent role in Legion affairs for four years. He traveled from Minneapolis to national headquarters where he worked with returned soldiers through a War Camp community organization.
A national scale education drive led by the American Legion mobilizes nearly 2,000 workers in California. The campaign seeks to counter voter apathy by boosting registration and encouraging participation in government. Forty districts will supervise Legion posts, clubs, and civic groups with monthly cross-post visits and speakers promoting civic duty.
American Legion members moved a meeting to the bedside of two plastered ex-service men in Anchor Age Alaska. They formally adopted the veterans as members, one identified as Chris Sladore who was badly injured by a rock fall along the Alaska railroad line.
In Washington the House Ways and Means committee, after a 16 to 4 vote in favor of a bonus, adjourned the debate over a plan to recommend. A clash between Reps. Treadway of Massachusetts and Crowther of New York sparked a near fistfight amid disputes over cash versus insurance and loans. Chairman Green opposed cash, saying it would require taxes or bonds and warning against a billion dollar cash package. Democrats coalition with some Republicans favors a two feature plan allowing either cash or insurance, while others push cash, signaling a likely floor vote with broad support for cash among Democrats and some Republicans.
Rome will elevate two American prelates to the cardinalate at a March 24 consistory. Archbishop Patrick J. Hayes of New York and Archbishop George W. Mundelein of Chicago are named. The Vatican announcement credits Pope Pius XI with honoring American charity and solidarity amid European suffering.
Chairman Thompson of the Federal Trade Commission warned at a public meeting that price fixing is at an unprecedented level and could collapse the business structure. He cited the Civil War era panic of 1878 as a warning and urged changes to prevent another economic downturn.
London states the government will not proceed with building a new naval base at Singapore. The project was estimated to cost £10,000,000 ($43,000,000) and likely would cost much more.
Charles R. B. Forbes, former director of the veterans bureau, pleads not guilty before a U S commission to fraud conspiracy and bribery charges from a Chicago grand jury. Bond set at 10000 dollars. He will appear in federal court in Chicago for trial on March 17.
Pryor Oklahoma man Bill Van Dusen thirty faces murder charges for allegedly ejecting his sister-in-law and her infant from a tent during a blizzard, causing pneumonia and the infant's death. County attorney W W Powell notes the law regards such ejection as murder if it results in death.
Director Schacht of the Reichsbank returned from Paris and told newspaper men that his plan for a gold bank issue had been accepted by the experts commission and approved by the French.
Berlin and Vienna saw pitched battles between workers and police. One person was killed and more than forty five wounded as clashes erupted at Ludwigshafen and in Vienna, reflecting escalating labor turmoil across the region.
A Russian scientist reports a method to create wire stronger than steel from common rock salt. By heating and realigning atomic structures, the material’s durability and ductility allegedly increase up to 300 times. Further experiments with other metals are planned with potential global impact.
A differential caller asks if their graces are at home to a footman while a new footman humorously replies. The quip contrasts aging with youth, noting that no man can feel as old as he thinks at twenty one.
The Detroit News notes a metal marker near Independence Hall in Philadelphia marking where Abraham Lincoln stood to raise a flag during the Civil War. It replaces a marble Washington statue as marble eroded, moved to city hall corridor. Lincoln’s body lay in state at Independence Hall before burial in Springfield, with others like Henry Clay and John Quincy Adams honored similarly.
A fragmented dialogue mentions a sane model in orange lemon plain and strawberry. The speaker Baleswanda urges a plan while a jovial man replies. Fortunate is the actress who does not depend on wardrobe for mood or dress.
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