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Newspaper
The Jansen News
Location
Jansen, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1920
Page
2
Geneva report notes the League of Nations council awarded permanent mandates control to five non mandatory powers and four mandatory states despite British protests. The decision, confirmed from Brussels talks, faced renewed British opposition and a second vote.
Four men from Moscow sought U S entry with counterfeit French bank notes totaling over $100,000. Officials warn of a broader scheme to fuel strikes unrest and Bolshivism in the United States directed from Moscow. American agents in central Europe may have thwarted the operation.
Chicago reports a large country milk surplus and higher prices. J W Coverdale, secretary of the American farm bureau federation, advocates a national conference to improve milk marketing and promote cooperation among producers and condensaries.
Washington D C reports that fourteen states had no National Guard troops recognized by the federal government on June 30. The list includes Arkansas Delaware Illinois Indiana Louisiana Massachusetts Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Mexico North Dakota South Dakota and West Virginia. The recognized guards totaled 56 100 officers and men at year end.
The National City Bank of New York informs its Havana branch to place 10,000,000 dollars at the disposal of Cuban sugar planters to prepare for the coming crop.
More than five thousand Irish sympathizers attended the MacSwiney memorial mass at St Patrick’s Cathedral and then stormed the Union Club across the street. They wrecked plate glass windows and doors with stones bolts and watches to protest the flag displayed by club officials. The crowds came from every precinct in Massachusetts.
Eight defendants waived preliminaries at a Council Bluffs arraignment. Merle Phillips Orville Phillips Fred B Poffenbarger face charges for robbing U S mails, while Mrs T A Daly Hugh A Reed Clyde R Poffenbarger and Fred A Poffenbarger charged with concealing stolen money. Bonds total 130000 with no sureties. Commissioner Byers says bonds could drop if money is recovered.
Pre war hog prices spread nationwide as big farm receipts swell supplies. The ten market total reached about 182000 head, up from 124000 a week earlier. Chicago closed near the day’s bottom, down about one dollar per hundredweight, with a practical top at 16.00. Five years ago, the price was 8.15 per hundredweight.
Representative M O Mc Laughlin of Nebraska introduces a bill in Congress proposing a 25 cent per bushel tariff on imported wheat. He says the duty follows discussions with many farmers and cites market disruption from Canadian wheat and false India crop reports. He notes a 2 million bushel flood shipped from Galveston as evidence of foreign influence.
W J Black passenger traffic manager of the Santa Fe system says large numbers of immigrants from Europe are heading to California and Chicago. He notes many are aliens who returned to Europe to fight for their homelands and that California bound migrants are mainly French Italians and Greeks who are skilled agriculturists drawn to California vineyards and orchards for opportunity.
A private detective agency posts a reward of 50000 dollars for exclusive information identifying those responsible for the Wall Street bomb explosion of September 16. The offer aims to reveal the perpetrators and brings renewed focus to the case in New York.
George H. Dinklage a 32 year old farmer eight miles west of Pender Wayne county killed his wife and three children with an axe after killing a goose for Thanksgiving dinner A fourth child a two year old is in a hospital here suffering injuries from the attack authorities investigated and reported the case as a family tragedy
Fremont forms Kiwanis with 50 members as Lincoln hosts poultry management course January 10 to 15. Thedford defeats Seneca 512 to 360 in county seat vote. Nebraska bar exams admit 12 men and 1 woman in Lincoln. Community notes report hospital builds, sugar beet field stocks, fire losses, and early 20th century farming economics across towns including Columbus, Beatrice, Omaha, and Gibbon.
Norval Clark of Seward earned the top state score for club work and a free trip to the Chicago International livestock show. D Harris Cook of Plattsmouth died after heart trouble following a Northwestern initiation. A White Leghorn hen laid 268 eggs in the Lincoln Experiment Station egg contest, about 200 more than average. Neighbors gathered Oscar Groth’s corn as his year-old son died recently and another son was injured in a wagon accident. Nathaniel Vandorn died near Stromsburg two weeks before his 100th birthday, born in 1820 in Ohio and moved to Polk County, Nebraska in 1880. A bandit killed in Fremont last week after a Cheyenne hold-up. Nebraska livestock men to meet in Lincoln during the Organized Agriculture week.
In a chaotic scene investigators described two suspects captured after a street assault. A pastor testified the felons slugged a man, dragged him, and threatened arson. The Rev. amid the confusion identified Fredbarger and Poffen as likely assailants.
Dublin is surrounded and combed by troops amid raids and arrests across the country. Six arrests were made at Queenstown with raids on Cork and Queens Town town halls and clerks’ residences. Authorities aim to round up republican suspects as violence escalates and figures remain undisclosed.
The body of Father Griffin, who disappeared days ago, was located in a shallow grave about four miles from Galway. A bullet was found in his temple, indicating a likely homicide.
Telegram to the governor requests a credit extension for Nebraska farmers amid agricultural needs. The message cites corn, cattle, immature pigs, and feeder stock as priorities and urges Federal Reserve support for teenie farmers in Madigan Gobumty and nearby regions.
Constantine signals no change in Greece policy toward England and the allies. He states any future Greek government will preserve the court’s friendly attitude toward allied powers.
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