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Newspaper
The Jansen News
Location
Jansen, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1924
Page
2
Berlin reports the cabinet has decided to resign at a date set by Chancellor Marx and President Ebert. If Ebert does not extend the Marx Street cabinet, a new ministry likely to include bourgeois parties and Nationalists with Reichstag mandates could take over after the holidays.
Winter term at the Agricultural College in Lincoln offers varied short courses for farmers and families. Auto Tractor Mechanics and Farm Shop open December 29 for four weeks, with poultry raising and ice cream making intensives January 13–16.
The Nebraska capitol commission outlined a tentative legislative program for the session. Proposals include continuing the capitol fund tax to raise 2.5 million dollars, in addition to 5 million already appropriated, and granting the commission authority to contract for furnishings and lighting. The panel debated whether Lincoln’s municipal lighting plant or a private supplier should handle lighting but concluded it lacks authority to award the contract.
First evidence of a return flow of gold to Europe appeared as two shipments totaling $12,000,000 were consigned to Germany and Great Britain. The United States had imported heavily for four years, supplying more than a third of the world’s gold.
Miss Elizabeth Berglund and Miss Ineborg Nystul of the Augustana Synod escaped a bandit raid on Jechow in Henan province and are now with friends in Kinhsien. Both are Minnesota natives.
The secretary of agriculture reports that American agriculture is in the best position since 1920 but still far from its prewar condition as he presents his annual findings to the president.
The senate Post Office committee approves a good roads bill providing 150 million dollars in federal aid to construct rural post roads and recommends immediate passage.
Wool prices climbed to a new seasonal high as the Bee Hive Wool company of St. Louis paid 48 cents per pound for 18 000 fleece lots in Rock Springs Wyoming, signaling strong demand and high market activity for wool.
Premier Harriot pledged the government will combat communistic violence in France in a chamber declaration. He equated the communist and clerical offensives as threats to the republic and ordered a police campaign. Police raided the so called soviet agency headquarters at Bobigny seeking key documents.
Nebraska reports no bonded debt with assets of 66,626,329.63 and liabilities equal to that amount, leaving an excess of assets over liabilities of 66,626,329.53. The statement from State Auditor Marsh to the federal trade commission dates November 25, prepared by State Accountant C A Sommer, under July 1, 1924. Counties and subdivisions hold millions in bonds despite the statewide absence of bonded debt.
The first Boy Scouts of Japan were organized at the Naval club with speeches by an imperial representative and remarks from the minister of the navy, high army officials, and the minister of education. A nationwide campaign to recruit scouts has begun.
Lincoln reports the semiannual survey of chickens cows and pigs will begin in the early part of the month. A. F. Anderson head of the government department of agriculture bureau of crop and livestock estimates announces the survey.
Gene Stratton Porter dies in Los Angeles after a street car collision with the automobile she rode in. She suffers a skull fracture and internal injuries from the crash.
Postmaster General reports postal revenues for the year ended June 30, 1924 rose by 40,120,853 dollars, a 7.53 percent gain. Delivery service expanded to 48 more cities and 43 additional villages.
In Cairo two members of the new Egyptian cabinet resign citing the government's compliance with Great Britain's ultimatum as the cause.
The Department of Agriculture reports only 48 percent of corn in the principal producing area matured before the season's first killing frost. This signals reduced yield expectations and potential price effects for farmers and markets.
Osaka Mainichi quotes Japanese navy officials saying geographic and strategic constraints prevent consent to limiting auxiliary war ships.
Reports from a national poultry show indicate a mysterious fatal illness hitting chickens across the United States, with New York declaring an embargo on live birds from several states. Purdue professor A C Philips identifies the windpipe as the infection site, noting transmission during transit or fattening in market feeding batteries.
New plan seeks higher rates on nearly all postal classes except letter mail to raise revenue for proposed pay increases. Newspapers and periodicals would see postage rises, a contentious issue in Congress, with costs spread across the postal system to be absorbed by the public.
France proposes a 1925 military budget of 4.468 billion francs for maintaining the standing army and other defence costs. General Nollet said it is a transitory budget before a full reorganization bill, noting 1925 spending is 75 percent of pre war levels due to franc depreciation.
Britain will keep troops in the Rhineland after evacuating the Cologne bridgehead. A withdrawal from the Cologne area is expected after January 10, but English forces will not leave Germany. The garrison will be moved to a new zone, likely the Coblenz region, to preserve interallied occupation under the treaty.
Grace Abbott, Chief of the Children's Bureau, releases the annual fiscal year 1924 report noting 747,297 copies of prenatal infant and child care pamphlets distributed. The outreach reaches at least three quarters of a million children as each booklet helps mothers benefit all their children.
Paris Finance Minister Clemente says France's four billion franc internal loan was heavily oversubscribed, signaling strong investor demand and confidence in the government's borrowing plan.
President Coolidge signed the deficiency bill providing 126 million dollars for the administration and initial payments under the soldier bonus act and for carrying out the reclamation fact finding commission recommendations.
President Coolidge considers authorization for a bicentennial celebration of George Washington's birthday on February 22, 1932. The move aims to honor the founding father with national commemorations and related events.
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