World News Briefs Span War News and Global Events
A digest of international and domestic items includes Harding opposing the tariff bill and the soldiers bonus, Key's Fort McHenry monument dedication, and LaFollette attacking the Supreme Court at the AFL meeting. Reports cover war surplus value, a U.S. attorney nomination, ship subsidy talks, prohibition-era liquor sales on ships, executions in South Carolina, Lutheran pension gains, and multiple disasters and crimes across the United States and overseas.
Secretary Wallace May Resign Over Reorganization Plan
Secretary Wallace faces a potential cabinet resignation if President Harding accepts a plan to transfer the bureau of roads and forestry to Interior and the bureau of markets to Commerce. Wallace and allied farm groups oppose the shifts and threaten action to block congressional approval, while Harding reportedly supports the transfers.
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Harding
Congress
Government Reorganization Commission
Bureau of Roads
Bureau of Forestry
Department of the Interior
Bureau of Markets
Department of Commerce
Secretary of Agriculture
Henry C. Wallace
Wallace
Department of Agriculture
Thomas to Assist in War Fraud Prosecutions
Former Senator Charles B. Thomas of Colorado, a Democrat, is named by Attorney General Daugherty as a special assistant to aid in prosecuting war frauds. A new "special tribunal" within the Justice Department will decide whether to pursue or drop suits with centralization of expertise. Hoover and Peyton Gordon will handle cases with equal authority. The plan divides work among five special assistants over aviation camps foreign expenditures quartermaster ordnance and related areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles 8. Thomas
Colorado
Daugherty
Department of Justice
Board of Review
Thomas
Ely
Lamul
Hoover
United States
Peyton Gordon
District of Columbia
Gordon
Senate
Iowa
Ottumwa
Pocahontas
Clarinda Coal Company
Otto Weger
Dyersville
Bebe, Goodrich
Glenwood
William Tiernan
Granger
Charles E. Berry
Iowa City
Herman Wilhelmi
Marshalltown
Harry H. Harison
Cambridge
Bloomfield
Anke Voss
Clinton
Atlantic
Farmers Bank of
Nebraska City
Ralph Broder
Stockton
Muscatine County
Durant
Sac City
Dawson Moss
Moss
Washington
Treasury Department
State Board of Education
Executive Council
Board of Education
Douglas Philips
Central City
Cornell College
Mt. Vernon
Bottomley Sent to Prison for Fraud
Horatio Bottomley, MP and John Bull publisher, was found guilty at Old Bailey of fraudulent conversion of 150000 pounds and sentenced to seven years. The jury reached the verdict swiftly. bail was denied and he was sent to Brixton prison. He had run victory premium bond clubs after the armistice and faced expulsion from Parliament.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horatio Bottomley
John Bull
Old Bailey
House of Commons
Mr. Bottomley
Brixton
Bottomley
Victory
America
Reed May Sit in Senate Seat of Knox
Maj. David A. Reed, a World War veteran and Princeton graduate, nominated by Republicans in Pennsylvania to fill the unexpired term after Former Senator Knox's death. At forty-two, he would be a young senator, a lawyer from Pittsburgh, who served in the 311th field artillery and fought at Verdun and the Argonne, later chairing Pennsylvania’s industrial accidents commission and joining the American Legion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maj
David A. Reed
Pennsylvania
Senate
Knox
Major Reed
France
James H. Reed
Princeton
Pittsburgh
Reed
Three Hundred and Eleventh Field Artillery
Verdun
Argonne
Allied Economic Commission
Tener
Industrial Accidents Commission
American Legion
Lessons From Judahs History and Leadership
Lesson outlines study topics from Judahs prosperity and adversity with figures Asa Athaliah Jehoiada Uzziah Isaiah Hezekiah Jeremiah Jehoiakim Nebuchadnezzar. Emphasizes reliance on God courage and faithful leadership, with summaries of each lesson and suggested assignments for classes and portraits of biblical figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cranwell
Judah
God
Golden Text
Asa
Joash
Jehoiada
Uzziah
Isaiah
Hezekiah
Hilkiah
Jeremiah
Baruch
Jehoiakim
Hbedmelech
Zedekiah
Athaliah
Jonsh
Jesus
Christ
Elvic
Isaiaah
Nebuchadnezzar
Jerusalem
Improved Uniform International Sunday School Lesson
Reverend P B Fitzwater presents weekly religious instruction for the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago. The feature outlines a lesson plan and sermon guidance aimed at teachers and students, with emphasis on biblical interpretation and moral teaching for Sunday schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. B. Fitzwater
Moody Bible Institute of Chicago
Western Newspaper Union
In His Steps and Christ's Suffering as Example
A devotional line cites I Peter 2 21 urging followers to imitate Christ who suffered for humanity. The verse frames hardship as a model for conduct and moral bearing in daily life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christ
Peter
Trusting Men Quote
A short quotation framed as a saying by Cavour notes that trusting people reduces mistakes versus perpetual distrust. The line emphasizes prudent trust in others as a guiding principle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cavour
Silence Is Golden Quotation in Medieval Style
A brief quotation attributes a proverb about silence to Martin Tarquin Tupper, noting its value as more eloquent than speech.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martin Tarquin Tupper
Also Mentioned on This Page
Francis Scott Key
Fort McHenry
LaFollette
Supreme Court of the United States
American Federation of Labor
Cincinnati
War Department
W. O. Potter
Eastern District
Tinois
House Merchant Marine Committee
House
McCumber
Ladd
North Dakota
Repubican
Three Mile
Lasker
Merchant Marine
J. Kerby
J. C. Gappteo
C. O. Fox
Penitentiary At
Columbus
William Brazell
Columba
Lensville
Ministerial Pension
Augustana Synod of the
Lutheran Church
St. Paul, Minn
Po Hce
Francis Bowman
Califon
N. J
New York Central Lines
Toledo
Mercy Hospital
Des Moines
Narragansett Bay
American
Hayward
New York
Walter S. Ward
Clarence Peters
Westchester County
White Plains
N. Y
Morschauser
St Joseph
Wis
Wisconsin
Central College
Pella, Ja
Clara Gilmore
Albay
Province of
P. I
Ora Bell Downs Ridgeley
North Avenue State Bank
Chicago
Rail Labor Board
Louis Holland
Kansas City
Associated Advertising Clubs of the World
Milwaukee
A. F. of L
M. Jewell
Arverne
L. I
James
Honolulu
San Francisco
McCandless
Topeka
Kan
William Green
OS City
Tex
Clinton and
Adams Streets
Branson Millikin
William McGhee
Millikin
Hamlet
N. C
J. S. Jones
Pontiac (Us) Reformatory
Byron Corbridge
Jacksonville
Ill
Devereaux
Springfield
Thomas A. Edison
Rutgers College
New Brunswick
William Prestage
Old Floyd
Monroe, la
Herman Tuholske
St. Louis, Mo
Walter Allen
Prairie Grove
Ark
Camp Pise
George K. Fisher
St. Louis
St. Louis County
H. D. Loveland
Public Utilities Commissioners
Belfast
Joseph Cooper
William James
Dublin
Peace Palace
The
Hague
Samsun
London
Molla Usfurstedt Mallory
American Dawn Tennis
Kent
Beckenhun
Enghind
Miss McWhare
Southern Pacific de Mexico
Rosares
Mex
C. S. Thomas
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