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Newspaper
Pendleton Times
Location
Pendleton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1923
Page
6
Stresemann forms a multi party cabinet to push an authoritarian program while coal and steel magnates demand long workdays and tax cuts. Reichstag strife, Bolshevik plots, Berlin currency plunge, and a prohibition reform push frame a volatile week in Germany and Soviet Russia.
The Stinnes group and Otto Wolff trust pursue talks with France in the Ruhr independent of Berlin. Paris rejects Stresemann's plan for a France Belgium Germany conference in the occupied zone and cites Germany’s stance on passive resistance as a local matter.
AVID LLOYD GEORGE in Canada on his American tour warns that wars are not finished and the next conflict could erase civilization. He casts pessimistic views on Europe and hopes the British empire becomes a dominant league of nations through the London imperial conference plans. The scheme seeks empire economic unity, imperial food and material pools, public contract preference, and a British market for manufactures while funding development abroad. The empire premiers differ on policies and criticize Baldwin's acts.
In Portland Oregon the American Federation of Labor rejected requests to back a farmers labor national party. Of 114 unions on the roll call 87 endorsed the resolutions committee report praising partisan principles over fixed party schemes. The convention also refused to recognize the Soviet government until Russians vote on endorsement or repudiation of their rulers.
Governor Walton calls an extraordinary session to push a bill aiding the Ku Klux Klan amid impeachment inquiries. The lower house investigates alleged parole abuses and martial law actions while threatening a long inquiry before a senate trial.
Nothe r governor McCray of Indiana battles public concerns over financial embarrassments. Irregularities in signing notes are alleged, bankruptcy proceedings have begun, and civil suits started. A grand jury investigates as McCray denies wrongdoing and cites political blackmail while offering to reveal all facts.
TTIS reports a generally prosperous economy with promising business conditions. Agriculture shows satisfactory corn markets and fair hog prices while cattle markets are favorable. Fruit movement hampered by car shortages. agriculture, railroads and growers work to relieve strain. Textile and steel tread water. some mining lags. Oklahoma oil region faces issues from regional overproduction.
Senators were pleased by assurances that President Coolidge will not press the Hughes plan for reparations. Lloyd George supports the unbiased commission concept, favored by many European nations, though France rejects it. Coolidge sees no benefit in a world economic conference until Europe’s conditions shift.
EIXEIRA GOMEZ, Portugal’s new president, confronts ongoing upheaval as two revolutionary outbreaks already occur and another is expected soon. Enemies predict he may be assassinated or forced into exile.
Henry Ford says his offer to purchase Muscle Shoals remains before Congress and will not be withdrawn. He blames Secretary Weeks and political influences for the bid’s rejection and for selling the Gorgas steam plant included in his offer.
Joseph Sparks credits Director Frank T. Hines with improvements in veteran relief aimed at reducing medical exams and travel for beneficiaries. He highlights permanent partial ratings, vocational trainee placement success, depot consolidation, overhead cuts, supply centralization, new inspection division, and a strict budget system as key bureau gains.
Carl Huff a World War II veteran from Alex Oklahoma was deemed insane and ordered to Norman State Asylum but the American Legion auxiliary arranged for him to be taken to a hospital for observation and treatment. He served 16 months overseas and now receives care while the Legion contests his compensation claim.
A Wichita man owed Clarence English 100 dollars for hospital expenses after English was gassed and wounded. The check bounced, but a Legion post commander arranged a delegation to settle the debt, and English was paid in full through cooperation of American Legion comrades.
In a crowded smoking car full of proud fathers about their kids, Mr Spiffington interrupts with a brag that his six year old son is remarkable and never said a bright thing. The joke lands as the group yawns.
American Education Week, sponsored by the American Legion with school church and civic support, runs Sunday November 18. The week features daily aims from constitution education to teacher pay, flag etiquette, adult literacy, community development, and physical education to broaden youth education nationwide.
The American Legion post funds and runs a city supervised kindergarten in West Palm Beach Florida. Two teachers are employed and a waiting list will form to meet demand. If successful the program may expand in 1924.
Corinne notes the change in fashion at social dances as corsets loosen and girls display more spirited behavior. The piece reflects a wartime era attitude via American Legion Weekly framing.
Scientific American notes rapid advances in aviation with speed records near 245 mph, endurance flights, coast to coast work by the army air service, 250 hour engine tests, and gliders helicopters and dirigibles showing new capabilities. Metal replaces wood in airframe building and pilotless planes perform evolutions.
The Bible has been rendered wholly or partly into 770 languages and dialects with no end in sight. Translation proceeds at one complete book into a new language every six weeks, a record maintained for over twenty years.
J W Gannon of Montgomery tells the Detroit News that thunder vibrations, not rain, drive worms to the surface after unusually hard storms. He notes locals use a plank to vibrate the ground and pull worms out for bait in minutes.
A quip from Pick Me Up plays on fate and cremation in a dark humor aside. The exchange contrasts literal and figurative death with a punchline about burial and cremation.
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