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Newspaper
Forest City Courier
Location
Forest City, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1920
Page
2
In private administration circles the choice shows no surprise as McAdoo's firm stance in the declining ten run plan draws steady skepticism and no immediate reversal.
New York leader William McAdoo says he cannot permit his name to go before the San Francisco convention. The self elimination shocks inner administration circles and leaves the Democratic field in flux as leaders had seen McAdoo as a foremost candidate for the nomination.
London report says American buyers have virtually secured an option on the Letvian flax crop with prices described as phenomenal. The Central News notes strong foreign interest and likely impact on market prices.
Washington reports larger telephone firms earned 7,307,678 in February an increase of 2,021,914 from the same month last year reflecting stronger operating incomes across the sector.
Mexico City reports 22 bubonic plague cases with 22 fatalities since the outbreak began in Vera Cruz on April 14. Official word notes unofficial counts as authorities monitor the spread and impact across the region.
A North Carolina Supreme Court decision extends Luvenite court power to handle homicide cases where the defendant is under 16. The ruling was received by Lucius Ranson, county welfare officer, as part of the official report.
Prague reports the Czecho Slovak government has sold seven million tograms of sugar to the United States with negotiations under way for the value of an additional eight kilograms.
Greenville South Carolina and the states of North and South Carolina Georgia and Florida plan mutual action against discriminatory freight rates. In St Joseph Missouri banker Walter P Fulkerson is building rental housing for families with children and newly married couples. He will refund that month’s rent whenever a child is born in a rented unit.
Washington report says Senator Harding, the Republican nominee, accepted Wilson’s challenge to submit the peace treaty to a referendum. He asserted the Republican Party would welcome a public vote on foreign policy and the party line on nationality.
Herbert Hoover announces he will remain within the Republican Party after conferring with Senator Harding. He calls on all party elements to back the national ticket and says a large part of the Chicago platform is constructive and progressive.
In New Orleans a St. Louis cathedral wedding was delayed when Father Antoine of the Oblate Fathers of Mary Immaculate ordered lights out after deeming the bride “so shocking” in her attire. The bride was escorted away to change, then the ceremony was completed with the same groom and groom’s family, while the priest refused to name the bride.
Rome reports former Premier Nitti has dropped his plan to visit Spain and America and now intends an extended stay in Switzerland. A separate item notes a push to enact uniform automobile laws nationwide following a National Automobile Dealer Association meeting in St Louis. Washington lists the sale offer for the German raider Prince Eitel Freiderich, which sheltered in Hampton Roads during the war.
Chicago Clearing House head James B. Forgan said banks refused the city a 15,000,000 loan and that no more funds would be loaned at this time.
Montreal Alexander Howatt president of the Kansas district of the United Mine Workers spoke at an AFL convention and challenged the governor over enforcement of the court of industrial relations. He warned against attempts to ride into the White House.
Washington Department of Justice and Interstate Commerce Commission officials coordinate to ease freight congestion on national railroads and restore coastwise shipping to normal by resolving marine workers strikes.
In Peking a report says General Chang Ching Yao’s northern troops raided the Yo Chow Reformed Church mission, fifty miles north of Chang Sha, during retreat from Hu Nan capital. Rev. Mr. W. A. Reimert was killed in the attack.
Verne Dayton Ohio Gov James M Cox says he is not a candidate for the Democratic nomination for vice president. He declared at his country home I am not a candidate for the second place. The announcement drew loud applause from several thousand admirers who had gathered at his residence.
The Democratic national committee’s women’s bureau forwarded fifteen planks for the party platform. Key proposals urge collective bargaining through worker-chosen representatives, government control of essential industries, railroad nationalization, employment offices under federal and state joint control, a labor corps with harvest subsidies, expansion of the women in industry bureau, women on labor boards, and federal and state measures to support producers and consumer co-operatives, plus universal workers’ insurance.
Flurries of snow were reported in Omaha Nebraska on June 16 ending an eight day heat wave. Temperatures dropped about 22 degrees as the unusual cold spell began to melt before reaching the ground.
Final official statistics report 1,362,872 French soldiers killed in the great war. The figures come from the British ambassador and include note that many fates remain unknown. Dr Alexis Carrel and 10 other distinguished men are named in relation to honorary honors at Princeton University.
Employees of the Bank of Gary are awarded a fourteen percent dividend on salaries, matching the rate paid on stock holdings. Germany requests more time to cut its army, with Berlin stating the army reduced to 200,000 men. The Supreme Council in Gary considers additional three months for army demobilization.
Washington Warren G Hardin, Republican nominee, says he will not resign from the Senate before his term ends on March 4. He plans to withdraw his Columbus petition to run for reelection this week, citing need to avoid upsetting the party’s slim Senate margin.
Charles F. Kettering, Dayton manufacturer, announced a gift of 400000 for medical research in connection with the College of Homeopathy. The donation was reported by the Ohio State University board of trustees in Columbus, Ohio.
Senator Robert La Follette appears ahead in the referendum among Committee of 48 members as a potential presidential candidate, with findings reported at party headquarters.
Two seaplanes collided in mid-air above Pensacola Florida and plunged more than 500 feet into the gulf. William B. Livingston chief electrician was killed and body not recovered. The other plane was piloted by Lieut. John Farnsworth who was not fatally hurt.
Washington federal employees who have reached age seventy must be dropped from the rolls even if they have not met the 15 years service required under the retirement lawAttorney General Palmer ruled such employees cannot draw retirement pensions and must be removed from government payrolls.
Three national conventions will be held in Chicago the week of July 10. The Single Tax Party led by Robert C. MacAuley of Pennsylvania issued its call, while the Committee of Forty-Right and the National Labor Party have already issued their calls.
In Baton Rouge the lower house of the Louisiana legislature voted 67 to 44 against a resolution to ratify the federal woman suffrage amendment.
Hearings in the deportation proceedings against Ludwig C. A. K. Martens, a Soviet agent in the United States, were resumed before Immigration Inspector Shell at the Department of Labor. Counsel for both sides expect to complete the testimony presentation soon.
General Aguilar former Vera Cruz governor and Carranza son-in-law sails from Vera Cruz on the steamer Yuma. He issues a statement promising possible future judicial scrutiny as an official soldier or politician once political passions cool.
The American Federation of Labor urged Congress to cancel the gentlemen's agreement with Japan and to exclude Japanese and other Asiatic immigration. It also demanded exclusion of picture brides and instructed federation departments and unions to cooperate and press the legislation.
The American steamer West Jester rescued the Japanese steamer Kiyo Maru and 70 South American passengers after a fire erupted near Yokohama harbor during a storm. Advices from Kobe said the Kiyo Maru caught fire at sea but was saved from total destruction.
The American Federation of Labor backed government ownership of U S railroads at its Montreal convention after a heated battle. Roll call yielded 19 059 in favor to 8 349 against with building trades delegations largely opposing the move.
Mrs T T Cotham of Little Rock Arkansas, an Arkansas delegate at large, has been chosen to second the nomination of Attorney General A Witchell Palmer for the Presidential nomination. Mrs Cotham leads the Arkansas League of Women Voters and has directed Palmer Western headquarters for women in Chicago.
Colonel William Cooper Proctor, manager for General Leonard Wood's 1920 bid, arrived home from Chicago and sent a telegram to Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University asserting that Butler's statement about Wood’s support was wholly false and issued with malicious disregard for the truth.
Washington reports that between four thousand and five thousand federal employees will receive formal notice of retirement within a week as their active service ends on August 20 under the newly enacted Retirement Act. The act requires retirement within ninety days of signing and sixty days notice.
Reed of Missouri faces a legal contest over jurisdiction as a court questioned authority and a decision on an election or candidacy is challenged in a regional case. Proceedings focus on standing and proper venue with judges weighing the arguments.
Tokyo reports a renewed influenza outbreak spreading nationwide with 2,285,000 cases since the start last year and 119,006 deaths. The tally reflects a severe public health crisis as authorities monitor the epidemic's progression.
London report cites a Constantinople message to the Weekly Dispatch describing nationalists led by Mustapha Kemal Pasha entering an American school near Ismid and killing civilian refugees. The dispatch notes the refugees were murdered in the incident.
Washington reports bituminous coal production rose to a post strike high in the week ended June 12. Output for 1920 so far is 838,900,000 tons ahead of the same period last year.
In Los Angeles a federal jury found five railroad men guilty of violating the Lever Act while eleven were found not guilty and one hung jury in the switchmen strike case tried in district court here last April.
Tokyo cablegram to Nippu Jiji says the Japanese war office will send additional troops to Nikolaievsk. The dispatch notes that many Japanese soldiers and civilians were killed at Nikolaievsk by Bolsheviks last winter.
Spokane Washington report indicates the northwest states may shift in the fall elections. A non partisan league and allied groups led by farmers and laborers, including the workers non partisan league and committee of forty eight, threaten to capture Wisconsin Minnesota parts of Montana and Washington.
Justice William R Day said a ruling on the restraining order against prosecution of alleged profiteering by C A Weed and Co and the Schultzabch Co of Buffalo NY would likely take several days. The hearing centered on enjoining Attorney General Palmer from continuing prosecutions in the matter in Columbus Ohio.
One hundred daily newspapers nationwide lacking paper supplies will organize the Publishers' Purchasing Corporation under Delaware law for cooperative buying of print pat paper mills. An executive committee led by chairman Jason Rogers was elected to carry on the work.
Mrs. J A Slader of Asheville reports a run-down state improving after using Cardus. She says nervousness faded, sleep returned, appetite improved, back and side pain eased, and mood rose to normal as strength and health returned.
Fragmentary OCR note about performance or poetry, with unclear names or events. Reading shows references to dancing, poetry, and a possessive marker. lacks identifiable people, dates, or organizations to confirm a concrete news item.
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