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Newspaper
Plainfield Messenger
Location
Plainfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1921
Page
2
A round of global and domestic items. Notable deaths include Walker I A Ziegler of Allentown and Arthur Lewis Siften in Ottawa, with economic, political and social notes from Washington, London, and Chicago. The report also cites the Memphis tank car blast, U S trade totals, and various local incidents.
Congress moved to suspend Army enlistments until 175000 soldiers are reached while the House backed the measure and sent it to the President. Debates over Japan’s Pacific role and Vladivostok incidents loom as reparations talks face hurdles with Briand and Lloyd George. Harding departs for Florida without cabinet selections, eyeing posts later in St Augustine.
The House voted 267 to 76 to keep the 435 seats for ten years under a new apportionment. California gains three seats, Ohio and Michigan two each. New Jersey Connecticut North Carolina Texas Washington one each. Missouri and Iowa Indiana Kentucky Kansas Maine Mississippi Nebraska Rhode Island Vermont lose two and one respectively. Critics say wartime population shifts biased the census and hurt rural representation.
Attorney General A Mitchell Palmer appears before the Senate judiciary subcommittee to answer charges of illegal and unauthorized DOJ practices against radicals. He opposes Senator France's amnesty resolution but supports permanent anti radical protections and denies malfeasance amid Untermyer accusations. Palmer cites agent reports to back his denials and recalls a prior dispute with Untermyer over enemy property actions.
Aristide Briand has named a strong cabinet and secured broad support except from the Radicals, giving him a sizeable majority in the chamber. He serves as foreign minister and briefed parliament on the cabinet policy, paving the way for allied premiers to meet in Paris to discuss reparations arms limits for Germany Austria Turkey and Greece.
An Austrian reparations panel urges stringent measures to enable free exchange with Czecho Slovakia Roumania and Hungary to avert famine. Workers demand ending profiteering and a plebiscite on fusion with Germany. Finance Minister Grim warns union with Germany may come by revolution if foreign credits do not arrive.
Mrs. Harry A. Wilson of Clearfield Pennsylvania reports relief after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for severe monthly pains fever dizziness and long periods of illness after childbirth. The letter promotes the product as restoring health and urges prompt use to safeguard future comfort and happiness.
A man confronts a Chinese laundry owner over damaged collars, claiming they ruin his shirts. The laundryman remains unmoved and bluntly replies that the customer should buy more collars.
A Birmingham Age-Herald quip questions a music dealer's claim that the song Two Loving Hearts in a Little Bungalo will live forever. The dealer counters with a wry estimate of about six months.
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