Yankee Workers Enjoying Wages Highest Known
Washington figures reveal wages at record highs with rising hours and living standards. Secretary Davis cites a prosperous year with 7.4 percent job growth and 6.6 percent wage gains, noting 2.5 billion dollars in savings and 18 million cars owned by workers. A broad sense of national prosperity and cooperative relations between employers and workers is reported.
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Washington
Dec
Jeas Davis
Davis
Ezra Meeker Seeks 50-Cent Commemorative Coin
Ezra Meeker, 95 year old Oregon Trail pioneer, travels to Washington to urge Congress to authorize fifty cent pieces honoring the 76th anniversary of the pioneer march along the Oregon Trail.
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Washington
Ezra Meeker
Congress
March of Pioneers
Locarno pact signed to secure Europe’s frontiers anew
Great Britain France Germany Belgium and Italy signed the Locarno treaty to uphold territorial frontiers set by Versailles and pledged arbitration with four parallel accords. Poland’s premier Skrzynski and Czecho Slovakia’s prime minister Edouard Benes endorsed the arbitration pacts. The ceremony occurred in the foreign office’s Victorian reception room.
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London
A.P
Locarno
Europe
Great Britain
France
Germany
Belgium
Italy
Poland
Czecho-Slovakia
M. Skrzynski
Edouard Benes
Foreign Office
Mitchell Charge Heated as Byrd, Rodgers Test Navy Planes
In Washington on December 1 the army pressed Col William Mitchell's charges against the navy. Navy heroes Byrd and Rodgers testified that Loening amphibian planes performed in the Polar air and that exploration was limited by weather, rebutting Mitchell's claim of bungling amateurs and untested Arctic ships.
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Washington
Army
Col
William Mitchell
Navy
Richard E. Byrd
John Rodgers
Mitchell
Byrd
Arctic
Locarno Pact Signed In London With Simple Ceremony
Foreign Office in London witnessed the signing of the Locarno security pact after a subdued ceremony. Delegations from Italy Belgium Poland and Czecho Slovakia arrived by 10:30 to 11 am as Premier Baldwin avoided the crowd entering the Foreign Office. Leaders Briand Stresemann and Luther hailed the agreement as a foundation of peace and arbitration guiding postwar Europe with hopes for reduced armament and renewed cooperation.
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Buckingham Palace
Foreign Office
Downing Street
Baldwin
No. 10
Versailles
Europe
Luther
Germany
Briand
France
Chamberlain
Great Britain
Italy
Belgium
Poland
Czecho-Slovakia
London
Der
A.P
M. Briand
Associated Press
Austen Chamberlain
Stresemann
United Press
Locarno
Regulation Fixes Skirt Length for Greek Women
Police in Athens enforce a new rule banning Greek girls over 12 and Greek women from wearing skirts more than 12 inches off the ground. Violators face prosecution as the measure takes effect December 13.
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Landon
Atheny
Daily Mail
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