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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1922
Page
5
Nationwide employment improves in November with 44 653 more workers across 1 428 firms in 65 centers. Indiana shows strong steel and automotive sectors while Illinois reports better overall industrial hiring and continued construction activity despite rail bottlenecks.
Georges Clemenceau will deliver his farewell speech at the American Committee for Devastated France dinner in the Hotel Pennsylvania New York. The remarks will be broadcast Tuesday night to over one million listeners via Western Union wires from Newark WJZ, with East of the Mississippi coverage and possible reach to San Francisco and London.
The internal revenue advisory service will extend help to every county and town after the new year. Filing period runs January 1 to March 15. Deputies will be trained in districts and then dispatched to assist taxpayers with 1040A for incomes up to 5000 dollars and 1040 for higher incomes.
In Menifee county near the Duff shooting site Prohibition Agent Robert C. Duff was killed Saturday. Dave Treadway a 28 year old federal officer and posse member was killed by an ambush Sunday afternoon near the same area.
Germany was to receive an emphatic no to reparations and loan proposals at the allied premiers conference. The big four, including a Versailles treaty participant, prepared to deliver an answer and continue work on their own reparations plan.
Post master Hart urges the public to mail Christmas parcels early to ensure delivery by Christmas morning. With Christmas Monday, no mail will be delivered Sunday or Monday, making Friday or Saturday arrivals essential. Packages to Terre Haute and nearby areas should be mailed by Wednesday. extra staff will operate at the Linton post office the week before Christmas.
In Cincinnati a barrel of sweet potatoes split revealing 4000 quarts of old Kentucky whisky valued at 40000 dollars. The whisky, bottled in 1915, was tied to a bootlegging network shipping Christmas liquor to Chicago via South routes. Federal agents pursue leads across Kentucky Chicago and the South as workers salvage perishable goods.
In New York on December 11, 1939, Bengt Carlson agreed to all demands from his four adult daughters after a conciliation board mediated the family walkout. Terms included ending the 9 pm curfew, unlimited social visits, music use at night, and acknowledgment that the daughters are grown. The walkout ended as the family mother and daughters returned.
Twelve labor leaders from international craft unions and state federations oppose the administration shipping bill. Their views, presented to Samuel Gompers of the AFL, warn of economic and financial risks and foresee evil results if enacted. G. W. Perkins of the Cigarette Makers Association criticizes the government aid plan as unsound and perniciously vicious. William Weeks, secretary-treasurer of the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen, notes anxiety over the bill’s forced passage.
H M Trackrey of the Arkansas State Labor Federation attacked the measure as dangerous to seamen and unfair to farming interests, arguing it contemplates actions at variance with the wishes of the people.
Washington December 11 Friday will be a billion dollar day at the treasury as 700 million dollars will be paid to holders of victory notes called for redemption 200 million to holders of maturing treasury certificates and 100 million in interest on the public debt. The treasury also offers 300 million of 44 percent notes maturing in 2 1/2 years and 400 million of treasury certificates in two series bearing 3 1/4 and 4 percent interest maturing in three months and one year respectively.
James M. McIntosh aged 55 vice president of National City bank ended his life at his home in Indianapolis Sunday afternoon. Despondent over financial difficulties he had recently resigned as president and was named vice president and director. James P. Goodrich, former Indiana governor, succeeded him. He is survived by his widow and two daughters.
Unsettled weather tonight and Tuesday with rain turning to snow. Cold north and northwest areas tonight, much colder Tuesday afternoon or night with strong shifting winds.
The Shantung province was restored to China at noon yesterday by Japan after a deal paying bandits $100,000 to refrain from violence post withdrawal. One thousand bandits joined the Tsingtao police. China avoided a display of weakness without military power. The dispute over Shantung influenced debates on the Versailles treaty and recalled Germany’s 1897 lease of Kiaochau and railroad rights, now superseded by wartime and postwar adjustments.
Rebels torched homes of Free State supporters including Mrs. Jennie Wyse Power and other officials like J. J. Walsh Michael Dunphy and Sean McGarry. A mother and two children were injured. General Hales, assassinated last week, arrived in Cork for burial as Stephen O Mara mayor of Limerick was arrested.
In Hammond Indiana Daniel McIntyre was killed and Frederick Paul seriously injured when both touched a high voltage wire while posing for a photograph atop a boxcar.
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