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Newspaper
Plainfield Messenger
Location
Plainfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1922
Page
2
A Washington gathering of 34 Republican and Democratic senators and electees frames a progressive reform bloc. President Harding proposes 3.08 billion in new appropriations for the next fiscal year.
Yale University endowments at New Haven stood at 32 million 662 thousand and 11 dollars for the year ending June 30 with 6 million 985 thousand donated. Detroit Mayor James Couzens named U S senator. quake reports from Oaxaca to Veracruz. Greek executions in Xanthi. Mussolini and Sao Paulo immigrant deals. Mexico City trade and rail notes.
The report notes Mosul oil field disputes causing deadlock at Lausanne while France claims readiness to occupy the Ruhr. The House approves a ship subsidy bill amid international tension and shifting alliances.
Ed W. Pickard notes Greece executed three ex premiers two ex cabinet officers and a general for treason tied to the Asia Minor disaster. Britain protests and breaks off diplomatic relations while oil field claims and open door policy in the region loom large amid Near East tensions.
A military court in Athens found several conspirators guilty of high treason after Greece’s defeat by the Turks. Six were executed, including former premiers Gounaris Stratos Protopapadakis and generals Hadjanestis, with others jailed for life. Britain protested and severed relations, while King George faced palace detention amid unfolding diplomatic strain.
Reports say official communiques omit key facts from Lausanne talks. Cor respondents cite dissension while committees on Turkey frontiers and Mosul oil fields make little progress. Turkey refuses Mudros terms and refuses to bear allied troops costs in Constantinople.
In Chicago Clemenceau warns France fears a renewed German strike aided by an alliance with soviet Russia and Turkey. He points to 45 German disarmament violations, hidden war material, and argues Germany bankrupted to avoid paying France. He denies that France is militaristic.
The ship subsidy bill cleared the House in a comfortable margin after late Wednesday debate. Administration forces showed full strength and the Republican majority accepted several amendments, including annual congressional authorization of merchant marine fund payments to operators.
In the Senate the Democrats mounted a determined filibuster to prevent passage of the Dyer anti-lynching bill which the House had passed. Leader Senator Underwood warned Republicans that all business including presidential appointments would be blocked until efforts to pass the measure ended.
Spas Couzens, Detroit mayor, will become Michigan's senator succeeding Truman Newberry. Governor Groesbeck appointed him on Wednesday and Couzens agreed from New York where he spent Thanksgiving with his daughter. He will take seat after arranging Detroit affairs. Couzens rose from newsboy to fortune with Ford auto ventures and led Detroit’s public railway project.
President Harding clarifies his position on the Eighteenth Amendment and orders full cooperation of federal authorities with prohibition agencies. Attorneys are urged to push liquor cases and seek heavy penalties where appropriate. Philadelphia adds fifty new prohibition agents after the Army Navy game riot.
APAN withdrew from Shantung on December 1 after concessions to the Chinese in the payment. On December 2 China assumed Kiaochow and Tsingtao opened as an autonomous port under Chinese sovereignty. China will allow Japanese participation in public enterprises at Tsingtao.
The Italian chamber of deputies approved 275 to 90 giving Premier Mussolini full authority to reform the economy and rehabilitate finances. He acts as receiver for a nearly bankrupt country and broad popular support is shown by labor groups offering to work an extra hour daily for the government.
Governor Small of Illinois issues pardons to William Bross Lloyd and fifteen other Communists jailed under the state espionage law. he acts following Justice Carter's dissent instead of the majority view.
The nation mourns James R. Mann of Chicago a highly informed courageous lawmaker who served 26 years in Congress across 13 consecutive terms and was re-elected in November. His legislative knowledge and independence defined his tenure in the House.
President Harding presents the second annual federal budget to Congress listing appropriations of 3 078 940 331 for the coming fiscal year, excluding postal service, with comparisons to current year’s actual and estimated outlays and revenues. The report notes war charges and ordinary expenditures as normal.
Peoria Illinois December 5th Thirty men raided Liberty Yeast corporation plant at Pekin and held up employees and guards. They escaped with sixty barrels of bonded whisky stored since before the Volstead act. Liquor loaded on motor trucks and driven south toward Springfield, each truck carrying twelve barrels.
Madelynn Connor Obenchain and Arthur Courtney Burch of Evanston released after more than a year in indictments for the murder of J Belton Kennedy. Burch jailed again on an insanity warrant.
United States attorneys under Attorney General Daugherty filed six new lawsuits against contractors who built army cantonments for the government. The actions seek to recover nearly 30 million dollars.
John Ross aged 73 won the 50 yard dash for men over sixty five at the Thanksgiving Day track meet at San Quentin State Prison. Ross had a gland transplant last year. Seven men condemned to death witnessed the event.
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