World News Briefs Signaling Postwar Policy Shifts
A tentative agreement on investigating wholesale and retail prices nationwide was announced by Attorney General Daugherty in Washington. House Ways and Means will pause soldier bonus legislation until the Senate clarifies action on the foreign debt funding bill. The Shipping Board seeks $100 million for FY 1923. Five powers at the Washington conference limit aircraft use. Per capita money in the U S fell by $6.09 last year per treasury. The new peace dollar may be withdrawn and remodeled. President Harding signed an order creating a permanent hospital for ex servicemen at St Louis. Senator McCumber of North Dakota was named chair of the Senate Finance Committee. Senator Newberry of Michigan denied wrongdoing in Senate. A broad bonus bill for veterans is anticipated in the current session. The House passed the treasury appropriation bill around $169 million. The American delegation urged abolition of poisonous gases and backed the Elihu Root resolution. Japan and China failed to agree on the return of the Kisochou Tsunanfu railway. Japan’s budget allocates 646,662,000 yen to army, 393,600,000 to navy. the rest to other uses. A naval pact unanimous in outlawing submarine use against merchant ships was reached. West Virginia coal miners appeal to President Harding for aid as their families face starvation.
Appointment to Senate and a Toll of Tragic News
Domestic George Wharton Pepper was appointed U.S. senator by Governor Sproul to succeed the late Bates Penrose. Four children died and seventeen injured when a school bus was struck by a train near Van Wert. Other reports include deaths of prominent figures and a jail break in Colorado Springs.
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Boxing in Michigan Receives New Lease of Life
Governor Groesbeck supports boxing in Lansing with strict adherence to state laws. The report also notes Melbourne unions voting seven to one for one big union amid broader international dispatches on leaders, conflicts, and political changes.
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Japan Forced to Scrap Forts After Saipan Fortifications
Washington reports reveal Japan dismantled fortifications on Saipan near Guam, breaking pledges not to fortify mandated territory. The disclosure comes amid five power naval talks debating “Japan proper” definitions and treaty terms. Secretary Hughes presses to keep calls for future conferences and insists ships slated for scrap remain scrapped as is.
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Ndt
Hughes
U. S
Bomb Hurls Shock On Tram Ride In Belfast District
A bomb thrown at a Crumlin Road tramcar missed its target as the driver sped away. An nearby couple returning from their door were shot dead by rifle fire in the street amid the blast and alarm.
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Belfast
Ireland
Crumlin Road
Drake Worker of Miracles and the Drake Penelope Tale
Elizabeth Sydenham wife of Sir Francis Drake is likened to Penelope waiting for Ulysses. After ten plus years with no word from the sea rover she weds another suitor. A legend claims Drake fired a globe turning cannon to signal his survival and reunite them at the wedding.
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New Clancy Mustered by Air Over Queensland
North Queensland bound airman Mr. Love spent six weeks exploring the region by airplane and demonstrated aerial mustering of two large flocks. His plane gathered scattered sheep, drove them together, and directed them to the paddock corner, a feat he claims could have been done even through a gate.
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Clancy
Banjo” Patterson
Queensland
Love
Mr. Love
Christian Science Monitor
A Messenger Boy
A messenger exchanges terse commands with a boy as a dime novel is set aside and the task to carry a message is given. The exchange hints at a hurried pursuit and a sly, wily trail.
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Gezzo
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