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Newspaper
Plainfield Messenger
Location
Plainfield, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1920
Page
3
In a France letter printed by Atlantic Monthly a German captain, bound by a code of never surrendering, is captured after a sergeant remarks on his gear and taunts him to run or take a shot. The captain resists, insisting officers do not surrender, but the sergeant offers a quick mercy shot to end the matter. The German remains uninterested.
A group of eight Kansas State Agricultural College students at Manhattan formed a corporation named The Perfect Bakery. They organized to cover their expenses and run a bakery producing bread cakes cookies and their specialty doughnuts.
A New Jersey inventor patents a frame to secure fly paper, with end grooves and a wood strip to tension the sheet. The design adapts for varying paper lengths and can be placed in any convenient spot, also serving as an embroidery frame or cloth stretcher.
A London Tit-Bits excerpt recounts a foot pad's hold up describing the time as five minutes to one. The victim says he fixed the moment by noting the church clock's hands mirrored his own position.
The piece argues against bold efforts toward growth, urging people to sit back and enjoy comfort instead. It frames resilience as unnecessary and champions a passive, relaxed lifestyle over striving and initiative.
Evansville reports home grown cherries at 15 cents a quart with a flood of berries in Vincennes and Vanderburg county. Bank robberies near Richland and a jail break at Bedford lead to $50 000 in bonds seized. Public works and rail fare debates unfold in East Chicago and Evansville Street Railway awaits 60 day trial prices.
Berlin reports indicate the coalition of Majority Socialists Centrists and Democrats loses 195 seats in the first republican Reichstag. 78 contests remain undecided as coalition blocs eye a fragile majority possibly impractical for governing.
Chicago will move to daylight saving time after 2 a.m. Sunday if Mayor Thompson signs the ordinance approved by the city council. Railroads will keep standard time except suburban trains, with schedules to be revised. Public clocks advance one hour Sunday morning and the measure runs until the last Sunday in October. A public vote on permanency is planned for September.
Gen Juan Barragan Manuel Aguirre Berlang Francisco Marquis Frederico Montes and others fled with Carranza and were ordered to a court martial for defrauding the treasury and involvement in Carranza murder. They are imprisoned in Santiago. Rodolfo Herrero arrives in Mexico City claiming proof Carranza killed himself.
Chicago June 9 Home rule for Hawaii will be asked by the territory delegation as a Republican platform plank announced by Senator John H Wise The pledge likely will be presented before the platform committee The delegates also urge turning over 200000 acres of agricultural land to Hawaiian people The delegation with two votes plans to vote one for Johnson and one for Poindexter until Poindexter is eliminated then both for Johnson
Representatives of the carriers asked the Interstate Commerce Commission for a 24 percent freight rate increase on shipments between points east of the Mississippi and points west of the river. The hearing was held in Washington on June 9.
Dr Edward Herman M Sell, a founder of the American Academy of Medicine in 1876 and the last surviving organizer, died in New York on June 9.
The American Federation of Labor executive council reports denouncing bolshevism profiteering and the cost of living rise. Gompers departs for Chicago to press labor reform before the Republican resolutions committee. It attacks the Cummins railroad law the Kansas court of industrial relations and U S Steel for avoiding labor talks.
Detroit, June 9. August Vollmer of the University of California blamed present day criminal procedure for a rise in crime. Speaking to the International Police Chiefs association, he warned war effects on crime will be seen for a decade and urged scientific methods in handling criminals and selecting law officers.
A gift of 125000 dollars from the Rockefeller Foundation to Milliken University is announced in Decatur. The donation reduces the remaining fundraising need to 310000 dollars of a 2000000 endowment campaign.
San Antonio on June 9 reports Second Lieutenant John P. Wilson of Charlotte North Carolina while stationed at Kelly Field jumped from 19 800 feet with a parachute breaking the world record for a parachute drop.
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