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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1921
Page
2
Discharges and promotions fill the week with 20000 army men freed in ten days and Taft sworn in as chief justice. Trade and aviation losses cited, seas of numbers on tariffs and debts loom. New chairs and disarmament talk mix with crop forecasts and bank robberies.
A United States message reports Senator France touring Russia and planning a July return to Riga Latvia. Myron T Herrick arrives as ambassador to France on the France steamer. A Moscow dispatch cites a communist union congress calling for class war. Drought affects Belgian water supply and rioting occurs in Belfast. Japan to participate in disarmament talks. Swiss glaciers reportedly recede in heat. Quebec floods accompany northern fire fighting efforts leaving five thousand men at work.
Sporting Georges Carpentier sails from New York aboard the Savoie for a brief stay in France. He plans to return to the United States for an October 12 bout with an unnamed opponent while a new contract with Tex Rickard to defend his light heavyweight crown is finalized and an opponent will be chosen later.
Edward Y Preston longtime general manager of agencies for Travelers Insurance died at his Hartford Connecticut home at age eighty four.
Secretary Hoover discusses diverting a large share of national savings to housing to relieve a 1.5 million home shortage. He notes banks and insurance firms hold most savings but lend little to housing, proposing postal savings and Fed act changes to channel funds to home construction. Ohio building and loan groups stand ready to assist government plans.
Columbus based Ohio Building Association League with assets of 500 million dollars sent a telegram to Herbert Hoover, commending his housing policy speech. James A. Devine, secretary of the league, said the nation faces a difficult housing problem and vowed to assist the government program to expand home ownership.
Marion Erin, a farmer believed hopelessly paralyzed by physicians, leaped from his bed during a lightning strike on his house. The bolt caused a momentary surge of energy and he walked with alacrity, though doctors warned the cure might not be permanent.
The Ohio Public Utilities Commission asks Attorney General for a ruling on the protest by Cincinnati and Suburban Bell Telephone Co against collection of $200,000 from public service corporations under the commission’s operation. It argues the commission has no employees or expenses since staff were surrendered to the Department of Commerce.
After seven hours of battle with floodwaters up to 15 feet in the White river canyon, Alliance residents saved belongings as waters receded. Mrs. A. Bassett died when her home was swept away. she is the only known victim.
Greek forces push toward Balmahmoud about 15 miles east of Asian Karahissar and west of Kutala as Turkish Nationalists fortify with large reinforcements from Angora. Greek units encounter enemy positions and press the advance amid growing Tartars and Kurds arriving to bolster the Turkish defense.
Walter B. Berger, attorney for the hanged bandit Harry Ward, revealed a gang planned to seize bodies from gallows for revival with pulmotors. A stranger proposed obtaining the body after the hanging and delivering it to an undertaker for revival attempts.
An old Dublin woman died to reveal a thousand pounds in hoarded gold hid in egg cups and utensils. Irish and Kent cases show pensioners living in poverty but keeping large cash hoards. A Geneva widow saved £820 in a clock presented to the commune on her seventy sixth birthday as aristocratic poverty ends.
Popular Mechanics Magazine notes a Linotype simplification that reduces China’s language to 85 signs enabling 42 languages to be set with the same type. The system claims printing in Chinese becomes as easy as in other languages, potentially simplifying China’s publishing industry.
A Washington state game warden reports that an electrically charged curtain at canal intakes keeps fish from entering irrigation ditches. A double row of steel piles wired to energize a 12 foot water section blocks passage, potentially saving large numbers of fish fry in irrigation systems.
Description traces color sources for pigments including madder yielding Turkey red, yellow sap yielding gamboge from Siam, and raw sienna and raw umber from earths in Siena and Umbria Italy.
Advice explains mending cracked wallpaper by cutting matching leftover pattern and fitting it over the crack then pasting firmly to restore appearance. The method emphasizes aligning the pattern for a seamless look.
Market listing shows prices for corn and wheat futures, hay and grainal, butter eggs and poultry, cattle, calves, sheep and hogs. Notable figures include No 2 white corn at 71 72c and No 2 red wheat at $1.28 1.80, butter creamery extras 41c, eggs extra firsts 20c, broilers 10c per lb, steer prices from $4 to $8.50 and hogs around $10.50 to $11.00.
The appointment of Lord Byng of Vimy as governor general is seen as a reluctant reform. His wartime leadership at Vimy Ridge boosted Canadian prestige, and his selection reflects Britain’s evolving imperial role. Rideau Hall will lack a family voice as the Byngs are childless.
Rear Admiral B W Eberle is named commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet with admiral rank. He succeeds Hugh Redman who moves to Hampton Roads. Vice Admiral H P Jones takes command of the Atlantic Fleet. John D McDonald becomes second in the Atlantic with battleship force. W R Shoemaker becomes vice admiral of the Pacific fleet.
Captain Roald Amundsen and four companions were rescued at Nome Alaska after a two month ordeal following the Maud being disabled. They were picked up at East Cape Siberia by the Herman after trekking across the Bering Strait. Amundsen plans to tow the Maud to Nome for repairs and intends another expedition once waters open.
Brig. Gen. Charles Dawes takes duties as director of the budget after meeting with President Harding. He plans to enlist leading businessmen without pay to aid in reorganizing federal finances on economical and scientific lines. Abbot of Chicago’s Central Trust becomes temporary assistant director as Moseley and Smither join as coordinators from the War Department.
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