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Newspaper
Montezuma Enterprise
Location
Montezuma, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1922
Page
2
Army bill debate highlights pork barrel criticism as Senators clash over rivers and harbors funds. Lausanne talks falter with Curzon urging action, while Smyrna tensions rise and Turkish forces prep in Asia Minor amid European naval movements.
The Turkish objections to the peace treaty were outlined as Lord Curzon and Ismet Pasha claimed they had reached limits in concessions. Ismet balked at safeguards for foreign persons and property in Turkey and at some economic clauses. French and Italian delegates backed Curzon, who rejected overtures for a separate peace with Turkey.
German Chancellor Cuno, urged by labor unions, agrees to a Ruhr food rationing plan led by Burgomaster Schmidt of Dusseldorf. France expands seizures across the Rhine and in Hesse, threatening coal exports. Germany warns penalties for railway damage as French policy hardens. Public opinion in France criticizes Premier Poincare as too lenient toward Germany.
The Italian chamber of deputies ratified the naval limitation treaty and related pacts on submarines gas warfare and China tariff negotiated in the Washington conference. Premier Mussolini supported the treaties, leaving negligible opposition. Paris reports the Navy treaty will go to the French parliament with a favorable recommendation but Paris will not accept its armament limitation as a principle.
President Harding appeared before Congress and urged approval of the British war debt funding agreement. He read the American commission report endorsing the settlement as a business deal preserving obligations and a landmark step in postwar readjustment. Bills to implement the recommendation were introduced in both houses with prospects for rapid passage. Harding urged Congress to act promptly.
The House committee on immigration approved a bill to lower annual admissions to 186187, eliminating Japanese immigration while preserving family reunification. The Senate cleared a separate bill allowing Armenian refugees into the U S with up to 254000 Armenian orphans under 16 years old.
The Chicago organ HWE Ku Kinux Nian faces internal fighting among its publishers and editors while several prominent Chicagoans sue for large sums alleging libel for stating they were Klan members or applicants.
A Thursday explosion at the Dawson mine in New Mexico entombed 122 miners, with fears of heavy loss. A Cumberland mine blast in Vancouver Island killed 18 and injured many, with cause still unknown.
Edward E Barnard of the University of Chicago and Yerkey Observatory died last week at Williams Bay Wisconsin. He earned international fame for discovering Jupiter's fifth satellite in 1892.
Mrs John P Doyle of Washington DC and Baltimore Maryland has been appointed deputy game warden by Secretary Wallace. She is the first woman to hold the office and has begun enforcing game laws in North Carolina.
Report from Maxwell Street Chicago notes rubles bought with dollars by immigrants as speculation drives an active market. Polish marks and Austrian kronen are also sold at reduced prices with expectations the ruble will rebound.
Researchers at Liverpool University report synthetic sugar from formaldehyde via sun rays may become commercially valuable. They have produced glucose in syrup form but light rapidly decomposes it, so identifying a way to halt the rays after sugar forms is the key research task.
The first all metal airplane invented and flown in the United States conducted secret trials before Navy officials and Detroit leaders. Built entirely from copper aluminum alloys, the aircraft carried about two tons and reached TW miles per hour. Inventor William D. Stout of Detroit heads a new company to build commercial planes on the same design.
Arthur Teague of Fairmount Georgia declares he will seek the presidency as an Independent Prohibition candidate. He has already announced formal entry into the campaign without party sponsorship.
Ann Cooper Hewitt daughter of the late Peter Cooper Hewitt asks for an increase in annual expenses from 12000 to 35000 dollars. Baroness Maryon D Erlanger, her mother, seeks the larger amount for Little Ann following Hewitt's death in Paris in 1921.
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