15 Nov 1923
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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1923
Page
1
The claims commission at Washington upheld 278 claims against Germany for 22 million dollars tied to the Lusitania disaster. Other items note sugar transport by idle ships, a new winter wheat variety named ride, and administrative reorganization affecting the reclamation service.
Personal Samuel W. McCall seventy three former Massachusetts governor from 1911 to 1929 and long time representative in Congress from 1893 to 1913 died at his Winchester home of pneumonia. Also reported: George B. Huntington fifty five president of the Ann Arbor and Sault Ste. Marie railway died suddenly at his home in Milwaukee. Edward L. Hamilton of Niles, former twenty four year congressman, died at sanitarium in St. Joseph following an operation.
Saturday games produced scores with Minnesota 34 over Northwestern 14 and Yale 31 beating Army 10 among others. Kentucky suffered a 0 to 82 loss to Cornell, while Colgate shutout Centre 0 to 10 and Indiana defeated Hanover 32. Zev finished second in Latonia stakes with My Own third as the race clocked 3 00 45 for a mile and three quarters.
A Winnipeg dispatch notes Canada tightening controls affecting the United States while a Mexico City report states the U S has seized Venezuelan interests in Mexico amid diplomatic rupture. Oslo and Edinburgh report a Bolshevik aid to Norwegian strikers and a Scottish victory by “Weta” over prohibition foes. Cracow riots leave 17 dead, Tendon conference contemplates a British empire tariff fence, and Bucharest to introduce measures to curb profiteering. German moves include a shift of the dye trust to America and dictator powers after Reichstag delay. London warns on Germany's potato and sugar crops for 1025 with lower harvests foretold.
News review outlines the German crisis with monarchists and Democrats clashing, Hitler’s royalist forces advancing toward Berlin, Reichswehr loyalties split, Stresemann’s government declaring resolve to fight. France and Britain debate reparations and the Ruhr as allied diplomats seek a way to involve the United States.
In Munich the Bavarian Fasciats led by Hitler and Ludendorff toppled Dr. von Knilling and the von Kahr government, proclaiming a national dictatorship with Ludendorff as dictator and Hitler as president adviser. Crowds watched, shots rang from a hall, ministers von Kniling and Schweyer jailed for alleged talks with Stresemann.
Ten bandits held the town of Ogden Kansas population about 500 at bay for two hours. They blasted the vault door of the Ogden State Bank, while guards outside kept pressure. Inside, around 2000 dollars in cash and 300 liberty bonds were looted.
United States coast guard outlines comprehensive plans to run down rum runners with a proposed $20,000,000 appropriation for the next fiscal year. Funds would buy and build seagoing cutters capable of overtaking the fastest rum runners within U S territorial waters.
Thomas D. Campbell of Montana urged President Coolidge to raise the wheat tariff, through either congressional action or Fordney McCumber provisions. Campbell, introduced by Eugene Meyer Jr of the War Finance Corp, was described as the greatest wheat grower in the world.
The Sulgrave Institution reports the purchase of the ancestral home of John Adams and his son John Quincy Adams at Fiore near Sulgrave Northamptonshire England amid ties to George Washington’s Sulgrave manor. The board stated the cottage near the manor will be preserved as a historic site.
The American Automobile Association announces a campaign to remove war taxes on autos and accessories. It targets the 6 percent levy on passenger cars and the 8 percent on trucks as an unfair tax on transportation and essential goods.
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