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Newspaper
Laredo Weekly Times
Location
Laredo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1923
Page
7
Paris reports Czecho Slovakia plans to offer mediation between France and Germany on reparations as Ruhr tensions rise. French troops increase in the Ruhr while Duesseldorf nears martial law and German authorities face police actions.
Stanley Baldwin, chancellor of the exchequer, returned from a debt funding mission to Washington and said the U S debt settlement is "in the hands of the politicians." He noted terms differ as Britain bears government responsibility, while in the United States Congress represents the people. The American debt funding commission proposed about 4 percent interest with full extinguishment of the British debt in 62 years.
Cleveland reports charges that a mob special carrying armed men was run over the Missouri and North Arkansas railroad to punish strikers. F B Robertson, president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, seeks Arkansas governor’s thorough probe of Flarrison and Heber Springs lynching and expulsion events. Chicago notes a battle for supremacy as Federated Shop Crafts and new unions contend after a US railroad labor board election order.
Austin officials who convened a conference between railroad operators and striking shopmen await returns from six invitees. Two railroads already oppose the effort to settle a strike that began last July.
Three Oklahoma banks did not open for business today according to the state bank commissioner. The institutions are First National Kiowa Farmers State Gage Foss State Foss. Officials note the Gage bank held a large balance at Woodward’s Central Exchange Bank, closed last week, and Kiowa and Foss banks were correspondents of Southwest National, now consolidated with First National.
Secretary Weeks authorized a change allowing 26 000 tons of ammonium nitrates stored at the Old Hickory army base to be sold at public auction on February 20. Sale limits are one carload per purchase. Congress members from over 40 districts pressed for the change to help communities obtain fertilizer.
The report says Turks resumed deportations at Ana tolia despite Greece blocking new refugees as cholera typhus and smallpox rage. A Trebizond order sent 3,000 Greeks aboard three ships while refugees move to Greece from Constantinople. Lausanne notes two Turkey Greece conventions on prisoner return and compulsory minority exchange to be signed Monday.
Federal Prohibition Commissioner Haynes addressed officials and citizens in Austin urging renewed efforts against law violations. He spoke of safeguarding the sanctity of the law and announced plans for greater state federal cooperation with twenty five Texas agents at the conference. He departs tonight for New Orleans.
The new South Wales government plans community settlements rural credits and rural cooperative associations to aid settlers. The bill notes prior settlers lacked community spirit due to geography and unfamiliar neighbors, aiming to foster cooperative living.
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