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Newspaper
Montezuma Enterprise
Location
Montezuma, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1921
Page
2
Foreign and domestic pressure impacts the League of Nations as the Volstead Law faces elastic rulings. Reports of trouble over the Upper Silesia vote emerge while Soviet Russia seeks trade openings with the United States.
The article reviews renewed German uprisings led by communists across major industrial regions including Dresden Leipzig and Hamburg with prisons storms and bank robberies, amid fears of spread beyond Prussian Saxony. It also covers US labor packers wage talks and eight hour days, American involvement in the League of Nations, and looming prohibition policy and constitutional challenges.
The article outlines New York’s ten year tax exemption for homes started before April 1, designed to spur construction despite lower costs. It notes a boom in home building, compares state rent problems, and contrasts with Upper Silesia plebiscite dynamics where German and Polish influences split by urban and rural voters amid coercion fears.
Enforcement of the Volstead act grows broader through recent rulings and court actions. The Palmer ruling may allow dispensing beer and wine by doctors' prescriptions, with greater permitted quantities, raising questions about the act's scope. Federal prohibition directors note the action and the evident intention behind it.
In a Rhine area incident American soldiers Grover Cleveland Bergdoll faced capture after attempt to arrest by Carl Neat and Fred Zimmer. Neat received 15 months and Zimmer six. The Legion's national committee wrote to the secretary of war urging U S action to bring Bergdoll back and free the sergeants. The letter condemns the Bergdoll case as a disgrace to the government and a cruel insult to 5,000,000 World War I veterans.
President Harding selects Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood to depart April 5 with W. Cameron Forbes and advisers for Philippines mission. The aim is a detailed unbiased report to guide American withdrawal after a self governing native regime is established.
The paragraph notes Guy Stillman aged 28 months is the child at issue in the Stillman divorce, with parentage in dispute.
A flag created for President Harding measures 7 feet 6 inches by 6 feet with about 45 000 stitches in the embroidered coat of arms, reflecting careful craftsmanship and ceremonial use.
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