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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1920
Page
6
W J Lauck, former War Labor Board secretary, prepared a study for railway brotherhoods arguing profiteering in industry drives high prices. It cites sugar, meat, shoes, coal, and 1919 profits, urging wage gains and price restraint to curb living costs.
The Copenhagen study cites final World War death estimates totaling 35.88 million, based on reduced birth rates and war related mortality. Military deaths reached 9.829 million, with European nations losing about 8.8 percent of their population and Serbia identified as the hardest hit.
Dayton Ohio Lieut Louis Meister a McCook Field pilot plunged from a height of 1000 feet at The Point on Stillwater River and narrowly escaped death.
Washington reports a special Senate Immigration Committee meeting to consider immediate immigration law amendments after Secretary Wilson ruled that membership in the Communist Labor party alone cannot deport aliens. Chairman Johnson criticized Wilson and Post and urged quick passage of antiunion measures.
Assistant Secretary of Labor Louis F. Post testifies before the House Rules Committee defending his actions in alien deportations. He accuses Commissioner General Caminetti of delaying cases to push memoranda, says he changed the practice to decide records directly, and notes that hundreds of warrants were canceled on Caminetti’s recommendations. He emphasizes only the secretary may issue warrants and that the immigration bureau held many aliens in jail for months.
Department of Labor data show the February family food budget exactly doubled from February 1918. Britain saw 180 percent, Italy 187 percent, and Germany 224 percent. Sugar rose 76 percent and potatoes surged 275 percent in the year ending last February in the United States.
Moscow wireless says Britain on eve of negotiations with Soviet Russia. Foreign Secretary Karl Curzon has sent to M. Tebitcherin a declaration proposing direct talks with General Wrangel of the Russian Volunteer Army to start definite negotiations.
New York buyers face dull business as retailers cut prices to ease high costs. Merchants expect deflation to bring cheaper goods, with some liquidating stock to ride the next cycle. Some warn of woolen and worsted industry standstill without lower material costs or labor relief.
In St Louis eight robbers hit the Drovers National Bank taking 19000 dollars. Officials fired, killing one bandit and capturing another. A pursuing posse wounded two more as heavily armed men looted cages and held customers in a private room before escaping. One robber claimed the high cost of living forced the crime.
In Chicago Dr John Dill Robertson runs a municipal reduction plant where fat women work to shed surplus tissue. An eight week campaign enters its second week with an average loss of 83 pounds per pupil. Twenty four participants weighed 4.4 pounds less than last week. seven day average drop was 3.9 pounds. Hulda Solberg fell from 224 to just under 212.
Washington reports Japan withdraws objections to the Chinese consortium and prepares a communication accepting terms agreed by the United States Great Britain and France. The plan, to be effective after signatures, ends a two year US effort to finance China via four nation bankers. Breckenridge Long notified Britain and France.
Admiral Benson testified to the Senate committee that a coordinated attack on German submarine bases by American and British forces was agreed before the war ended. He said the plan was confidential and discussed with Admiral Jellicoe, former First Sea Lord.
Reports state Bolshevik forces looting Kiev stores as they prepare to abandon the city. Dispatches from Warsaw indicate great confusion there and the American Red Cross has charged a special train to bring supplies to Kiev.
Charles Evans Hughes leads motions to quash indictments against 125 bituminous coal miners and operators from Indiana Ohio Illinois and Pennsylvania. The filings challenge constitutionality of Lever Food Control act sections cited in the indictments and argue those sections are inoperative as they relate to fuel.
More than 20 packing companies urge Senators to oppose Senator Gronna’s plan to create a Federal Livestock Commission with three members at 10000 salaries. They warn of class legislation and agency overlap, claiming the measure would burden one industry while others stay free. Swiss royal exiles to be expelled amid waning sympathy and intrigues for restoration.
Memphis reports continued daily rainfall across the Mississippi valley as rivers rise. Hardwood mills in Arkansas Mississippi and Louisiana remain closed with little chance of resuming operations soon. Officials warn production may not return to normal until mid to late summer.
Washington report notes favorable House Railways and Canals committee view on a Great Lakes to Ohio River waterway across Ohio. It cites Rep Charles J Thompson of Defiance urging Commerce Secretary to compare coal transport costs by canals and navigable waters versus railroad rates nationwide.
Berlin reports a purchasing group of American origin acquired a 25 000 000 mark block of new General Electric stock. President Rathenau has not disclosed the group's identity. The sale brings in about 1 750 000 dollars earmarked to finance U S raw material imports.
Frank Carter of New York who starred in the juvenile lead of See-Saw was instantly killed when a new $10,000 automobile he bought for his wife crashed into a bank on the National Pike near Grantsville Maryland.
Eight people were killed and about seventy injured when two Southern Pacific electric trains collided head on at Bertha Station ten miles west of Portland. Officials say the disaster resulted from disregard of orders by the inbound train crew.
A testimonial letters tout Peterson Ointment as a miraculous cure for a long standing leg ulcer and pain. The writer from Medina New York reports dramatic relief after nine dollars worth of salve and vows to never be without it. Mail orders handled by the Peterson Ointment Co Inc.
Advertises Eatonic as a cure for acid stomach bloating indigestion sourness and gas. Claims over 500000 users reported relief and promises refund if not satisfactory. States tablets provide fast relief and removal of cause once acids are eliminated. Obtainable from any druggist.
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