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Newspaper
Forest City Courier
Location
Forest City, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1920
Page
1
Report notes veterans plan to transform a city into a single hospitable hotel complex. Details describe development aims, funding considerations, and potential impacts on local economy. No specific dates or names provided.
Houston Texas gears up for a multi group Confederate reunion in early October. veterans plus families and allied organizations will swell the city as 000 visitors are expected. camping in tents, a large tent for gatherings, and pledges made to provide beds and meals across Houston and surrounding areas. the event marks the united confederate veterans anniversary and related society gatherings.
Eight Tennessee lawmakers left Decatur Alabama for Nashville amid a sudden filibuster in the capital. The departure marked a close to the contentious session action as state legislators regroup.
New York forties steamship companies and freight brokers, including the leading trans Atlantic firms, were indicted by the federal district on charges of conspiring and restraining trade in violation of the Sherman act.
New York dockworkers overwhelming their employers froze work after a mass walkout inspired by Irish sympathy. Over 2,000 longshoremen quit, intending to spread the strike to other U S ports until the Cork lord mayor is freed and Archbishop Mannix lands in Ireland. Women pickets and allied crews joined the action, with Irish sympathizers on other ships abandoning work in solidarity.
London report says nearly two million dollars of munitions and hydro airplanes recently confiscated by the Entente commission at Pintsche works on the Spree river were destroyed by about 3,000 workers, most of whom are communists, in Berlin.
The American Bar Association convention in St Louis urged establishing legal aid bureaus across the United States to provide free legal advice to the poor as a safeguard against the spread of radicalism.
The cat step and camel walk, advanced modern dance variations, were banned by a unanimous resolution of the American National Association of Masters of Dancing in New York. The move signals stricter standards and censure of movements deemed improper amid evolving dance trends.
Washington reports federal aid to North Carolina for 1920-21 totaled 1 709 290 85 dollars but Congress provided nothing for 1922. Once this money is spent plans for new projects must drop unless new funds are found, risking road equipment deterioration and delays.
Washington Secretary Daniels announced that he ordered the armored cruiser Pittsburgh to proceed from Reval to Danzig to protect Americans at that port.
Raleigh N C Governor Bickett performed his first official act under the nineteenth amendment by appointing Mrs Nolan Knight of Asheville a notary public.
In Columbia South Carolina Governor Cooper commissioned as notaries public five women of the state marking the first visible effect of the 19th amendment in South Carolina.
The article notes Pope Benedict as part of an allied commission to investigate the Albania Yugoslavia dispute. It claims Washington approved filming scenes in the Lourdes Chapel and that the Pope would appoint representatives to observe the conflict, with photographers present.
Florida fruit growers fear Cuban fruit entering the United States through Tampa districts. A mass meeting will be held at Grand to seek state action and federal horticultural board protection, with September 6 set for potential measures.
A Swiss project on Saint Gothard mountain proposes an electric power plant to generate 350000 horsepower with an estimated cost near 100000000 dollars. The plan envisions delivering substantial energy capacity from the mountain site.
Richmond reports that liberty bonds with all coupons clipped can be deposited at banks to transfer to the Richmond federal reserve bank. They will be exchanged for bonds with interest coupons attached for the remainder of the bond’s life. New ads will pay 4 1/2 percent interest instead of 4 percent.
Washington reports combined federal and state outlays for road building may total 250 million dollars in the current fiscal year. Thomas H. MacDonald, head of the Bureau of Public Roads, notes the last federal aid installment of 10 million was issued last July 1, with three quarters of the apportionment drawn from the 1919 appropriation.
Stimulated by Nora Americans the Good Roads Association of the Argentine Republic has just been organized and plans active moving pictures newspapers and public speaking propaganda. Marshal Foch denies planning to visit the United States in April. Strasbourg Dr Marcel Kneent, formerly of the French high commission to the United States, denied on behalf of Marshal Foch that the latter slanks to visit the United States in April.
Secretary Colby signed the proclamation after Tennessee completed ratification, sealing the suffrage amendment as part of the constitution. He announced the seal and certified record confirming the nineteenth amendment and praised the women’s sustained effort to secure the victory.
Fraet Iowa veteran public official James Wilson former secretary of agriculture died at his home in Fraet Iowa. He served in recent administrations and was a longtime community leader with ties to local agriculture and civic groups.
Washington reports earnings of the federal land banks reached a July record of 257203 dollars, about 18000 more than the prior month. The July gain extended the banks’ rising earnings trend with strong net returns across the system.
The governor said he would ask the Florida Supreme Court for an opinion on whether a special session of the legislature is necessary to align Florida laws with the suffrage amendment.
In Nashville the Tennessee House, with four members present for the first time since August 20, expunged from the journal all record of ratification of the suffrage amendment and voted 47 to 24 with 20 not voting to nonconcur in the Senate's ratification. Representative Riddick read a letter from Attorney General Thompson saying reconsideration is impossible since the house already ratified and Governor Roberts certified to Secretary Colby. Roberts declined to comment on legal effect, noting the matter is legal and the Washington record will decide legality.
Carl Paulson and his wife plus 15 children arrived from Copenhagen to operate a farm in Minnesota, asserting the labor problem is irrelevant to their immigration and agricultural plans.
Winnipeg Manitoba reports about one thousand American farmers have purchased roughly 3,000,000 acres of land in western Canada since the start of the year. The estimate comes from L A Welch of Winnipeg a farm land dealer.
Warsaw reports Russian Soviet reserves are being rushed to the southern front in great numbers. Information in the hands of Polish general Haller also notes reserves behind the Bolshevists northward are being brought up.
Premier Lloyd George defended the government stance on the MacSweeney hunger strike case. He said the government would not assume responsibility for releasing the Lord Mayor of Cork, whose condition was grave in Brixton prison.
Indianapolis report states the American Legion at national headquarters announced new foreign posts formed in Japan and Belgium. In West Virginia, Gov. John J Cornwell said he asked the US Army Central Department commander to dispatch troops into Mingo County to handle the local situation.
Paris reports indicate the destruction of Bolshevik forces may now be complete. The Warsaw host is gone save 30,000 fugitives. Polish forces have taken 80,000 prisoners and seized large quantities of guns and materials.
Washington critics call the anthracite coal commission award the most reactionary move by an industrial tribunal in the reconstruction era. W Jett Lauck, economist for the United Mine Workers, warns the findings will trigger trouble in the anthracite field.
Paris reports that Bolshevik reaction against Polish forward actions along the Warsaw front is not expected for the present. General Weygand, credited with defending Warsaw and pushing back Soviet forces, cautions the Poles not to advance too far eastward according to the Warsaw correspondent of The Petit Parisien.
In Murfreesboro Rutherford County citizens meet to oppose the woman suffrage amendment. They pass resolutions asserting the suffrage issue has split the Democratic party under current leaders and call for resignations from those authorities. They urge action to resolve the rift and oppose ratification.
Mexico's Provisional President Adolfo de la Huerta authorized a government air mail link between Mexico City and Tampico. Cosme Hinojosa, postmaster general, says Mexican manufactured planes will be used. A small flotilla will operate, with trips expected in about three hours.
The Senate investigation into national campaign funds has begun in Chicago. Officials scrutinize sums raised and amounts sought by party leaders, marking the inquiry as a central campaign issue.
Washington proposals urged the Interstate Commerce Commission to modify priority orders affecting coal transport to lake ports and limit coal exposure. Judge R H Sykes of Durham called the present coal shortage serious, noting labor shortages hinder fuel wood cutting.
Officials report Berlin is flooding the United States and England with surplus inferior goods. Exports to Great Britain are labeled Made in America while shipments to the United States bear Made in England, signaling a marking discrepancy.
Railroads of the country have begun operations on their own resources after costing the government about 100 million dollars monthly for six months during which earnings were guaranteed by the transportation act.
Dallas Tex-Pat M. Nem led Jos W. Bailey former United States senator from Texas by 77,383 votes for the democratic gubernatorial nomination according to final telegraphic reports of the Texas election bureau. The figures were Nem 244,445 Bailey 167,062.
An attorney general opinion to Governor Dorsey states women in Georgia have the right to vote in the coming state wide primary and the general election. The document is signed by R A Denny the state’s attorney general and Graham Wright assistant attorney general.
The Japanese legation at Peking refuses to surrender members of the Aofe rail jury group who have taken refuge there. The Chinese foreign office request seeks their extradition with evidence of crimes to be communicated to the Japanese minister.
In Rocky Mount the barber trade and city board clash as barbers raise prices from 40 cents to 50 and shaves to two bits. The board proposes a graduated license tax per chair, 50 dollars for 40–75 cent cuts and 500 dollars beyond 75 cents, with an exception for work on a dead man. The motion passes to next meeting. battle is anticipated. The report also notes news from Wilmington, Lexington Davidson, Winston-Salem, Monroe, Charlotte, Raleigh, and surrounding counties.
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