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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1923
Page
5
A March employment report from the department of labor says industry remains in a healthy condition with gains in most sectors. Building trades boom, iron and steel shine, and vehicle manufacturing reduces unemployment. widespread demand for farm labor grows as agricultural activity resumes, with shortages in the far west likely to worsen.
The U S farm labor supply was 12 percent short of demand on April 1, the Department of Agriculture reports. Shortages were greatest in the northern industrial belt from New England to the Mississippi. In the north Atlantic states supply was 23 percent below demand and in western states including mountain and Pacific regions 3 percent.
An order from the car service division of the American Railway Association after a conference with traffic and motive power officials of major eastern carriers requires all western railroads to return box cars to their home lines without delay. The move aims to forestall a car shortage in western movement during the coming summer and fall months.
Six leading negro groups met in New York on March 23 and 24 and signed a concordat calling for a united front against oppression. They issued a call for an all race conference by April 1, 1924 to address lynching Ku Kluxism segregation disfranchisement unequal enforcement of law and peonage.
London movement seeks expulsion of the Russian trade delegation and all Bolsheviks as protest against the execution of Russian Catholic prelate Father Budkiewicz. Initiated by clergy from multiple creeds, the drive gains nationwide support. Chicago reports plans for a national dairy marketing organization to standardize grades and brands and launch an advertising campaign for cooperative dairy products nationwide.
In Paris Greek foreign minister M Alexandersis says Greece will not pay any indemnity to Turkey and will not sign the peace treaty if Turkey presses for damages. In Washington, the public health service logs 75 encephalitis lethargica cases in the first quarter of 1923.
The New York Stock Exchange governing committee adopts a resolution prohibiting members from using radio to broadcast market information or business forecasts.
A joint meeting in San Francisco of leading California Republicans and Democrats pledged 250000 dollars to campaign for bringing both national party conventions to the city next year.
The USDA one reel film Halting Foreign Plant Foes shows efforts by the Federal Horticultural Board to stop foreign pests and diseases from entering the U S. Scenes include migrant arrivals at ports, inspection of cargo, border checks, fumigation of rail cars, shiploads of fruit, and sterilization at Washington to curb pests like the European corn borer and pink bollworm. The film explains plant quarantine aims after losses exceeding a billion dollars from foreign pests. It will be loaned free to exhibitors and sold at printing cost.
Federal and private timber owners in southern Oregon and northern California cooperated under the Bureau of Entomology to combat a western pine beetle epidemic. The effort felled 11,449 infested trees totaling 12,187,790 board feet, burned beetle brood bark, and employed about 200 workers for four months, costing 55,246.19 dollars. Surveys indicate a 72 percent reduction in infestation, saving enough timber in one year to cover costs, with future reductions yielding net profits and demonstrating large area control feasibility.
The plan aims to broadly apply control methods across western pine forests, leading to the conservation of millions of board feet of timber currently lost to insect destruction.
April report notes winter wheat at about 46 percent of normal with rye at 74 percent. Broad sows up 5 percent to 965,520 head from 894,000 last year. Labor supply down 1 percent and demand up 6 percent. Eastern fields weathered better. western areas worse. March freeze and drought hurt stands. heavy abandonment expected.
Thomas Devitt known as Tom died at Mary Lanning hospital from throat infection caused by a lodged fish bone. Swelling blocked breathing and an operation was performed in hope of relief.
F L Neely, recently named post master at Wayne, Nebraska, collapsed and died while working in his garden this afternoon. A longtime Wayne resident since 1883, he formerly ran a hardware business and retired years ago. He leaves a wife, a son in Omaha, and a daughter, Mrs Churchill, wife of a professor at Iowa State College.
Sabine notes farmers purchasing power mirrors the farm purse. The Republican Publicity Association, led by Jonathan Bourne Jr, cites mail-order growth as farm improvement. Montgomery Ward March 1924 sales nearly $12 million, up 62 percent vs March. first quarter $50.5 million, up from $10 million in 1922. Sears Roebuck March sales $SPATS, up over 50 percent. first quarter 19?? up dramatically from 1922.
Mrs Marvel, 70, a Lincoln banker’s mother and widow of a prominent banker, was struck by a Broadbend auto while crossing a drizzly Aurora street Tuesday. She died soon after. her husband, Mr Marvel, was at Clarke listening to a mothers tribute when the accident was reported. They would have marked their golden wedding next November. Sympathy goes out to the family.
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