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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1930
Page
6
Washington debates the London treaty reservations as Norris and Borah press secret pact concerns. McKellar seeks dis mantling bases while Reed and Nye press campaign finance hearings. Hoover plans a two week August vacation and guarded public appearances as talks with Legge and Capper unfold.
Britain wrestles with postwar issues as Egyptian Wafdists clash with authorities in Alexandria leaving civilians dead and hundreds wounded. In India Mahatma Gandhi ready to join the London round table conference after potential release.
Chancellor Bruening uses dictatorial powers under von Hindenburg to decree an emergency finance law after Reichstag rejection. The measure raises income tax adds a tax on bachelors and spinsters a head tax and a special levy on food and drink in inns and restaurants while Parliament may repeal it.
Germany's answer to Briand's European federation proposal shows general acceptance but with significant reservations. Germany and Italy press for Russia and Turkey inclusion and insist the union not threaten the United States. Britain offers a tentative, cautious view and suggests including the plan in the League of Nations agenda. Greece Austria Poland also accept. Russia seeks invitation.
Peiping dispatches report fifteen Kuomintang leaders signed a manifesto ending the rift between right and left wings and calling a national conference within a month to form a government to replace Chiang Kai-shek’s. Yen Hsi-shan is predicted to head the new government.
The week highlights leaders and luminaries including Brig. Gen. H Smither Rear Admiral A H Robertson Henry Sydnor Harrison Judge Jesse Holdom James M Lynch and violinist Leopold von Auer with brief notices of their roles and prominence.
Dr Charcot argues Columbus was a tall freckled vegetarian who rarely drank and favored perfumed scents. He reframes Columbus as a traveling salesman rather than great explorer, noting modesty and strong sea sense with a fire of emotion in gray eyes. Charcot also outlines Columbus birthplace theories and family.
Osage Indian John Stink, 60, valued at 150000, agreed to move from a tent on his allotment five miles south of Pawhuska Oklahoma. Indian agent J George Wright persuaded him to occupy a small frame house and stop visiting Pawhuska. He kept away after a 10 year lapse in tribal funds and the killing of his dogs by a town policeman. The Osage agency has provided a Sioux housekeeper.
In San Francisco Lizzie the egg eating ancient flivver is described by Dr OC H Cummings a city dentist. The nurse driver reportedly brings the car daily to a nearby grocery and drops eggs into the radiator. The doctor muses on possible beefsteak fuel and dental work for the outlandish vehicle.
In Kelso Washington the annual featherweight grappling match at Mulholland Dam on the Coweeman river sparked a pillow fight that turned violent. Two loggers were knocked out and ten bunkhouses overturned as five others sought first aid and seventeen miles of trekking to town rather than continue the fracas.
L J Jordan, 25, is dead after a pistol duel with Miss Nesbit Hanford, a stenographer and expectant mother, who is under guard on a murder charge. Witnesses say the pair, old sweethearts, arranged a meeting at a schoolyard where Jordan died after saying she shot him. Police allege the meeting was planned to kill him over an impending marriage to another woman.
Dr. Ernst Nirsche of Nuremberg was fined $250 or 20 days in jail after removing a patient's appendix without consent during a major operation on a young woman. An expert said the appendix removal was indicated but not strictly necessary, and the court called it a technical assault.
A German tale notes a deceased man named Georg Ibing who faked death to collect life insurance then vanished after a river trip. His widow and friend profited from the claim, while Ibing’s corpse allegedly roped into a burglary scheme now faces fraud charges in Halle and Frankfurt.
Deputies Dwight Bell and Monroe Gunter fired on a fleeing car in Ardmore Oklahoma when it failed to stop. occupants M T Meeks and M J Watson fled across a plowed field. Meeks cried out that he had broken his leg and Watson followed after three steps before also falling. Hospital records confirm the incident.
An advertisement touts Phillips Milk of Magnesia as a quick remedy for gas and sour stomach. It promises acid neutralization, tranquilized digestion, and suitability for children. The copy warns to get the genuine Phillips’ product, noting imitators don’t act the same.
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