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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1921
Page
4
Sir Oliver Lodge and Camille Flam Warton link recent solar taptions to brighter sunshine later this year and possible better Indian harvests. They suggest sun particles may aid vegetation and reduce atmospheric dust, while magnetic disturbances stem from a giant electrical culvert.
Washington D C June 9 The revisions of national agreements placed during government control required railroads to pay one extra hour per week for punching clocks regardless of hours worked costing $6 445 058 00 in the first six months of last year E T Whiter chairman of the conference committee of managers told the Senate investigating committee The order guaranteed piece workers the same minimum hourly rate as time workers and reduced output by 10 to 40 percent as soon as workers learned no raises would follow and only a minimum hourly rate was guaranteed
Savannah June 3 The Georgia Bar Association meeting at Tybee adopted a resolution urging the President to appoint William H. Taft to the Supreme Court bench as chief justice.
Washington D C June 6 More than 34000 pounds of mass metals with platinum deposits valued at about 75000 dollars were offered for sale by the director of stores The government owned buildings and improvements at Camp Johnson in Jacksonville Florida will be sold at public auction June 27.
Florida legislators adjourned a historic biannual session amid unfinished business and a clash with former governor Sidney Catts. The body disapproved many of Catts actions, investigated his office, and proposed reapportionment steps, while limiting expenses and preparing for a veterans bonus delay.
Washington June 3 The House foreign affairs committee with Democrats dissenting voted to report the Porter resolution to terminate the state of war with Germany and Austria Hungary The Republicans supported the Porter measure as a Knox substitute and Porter announced its presentation next week
A terse note indicates the report will be filed by the committee Democrats after pending actions. The brief mentions a filing timeline and party committee involvement without additional specifics.
Quitman Georgia June 6 Dorrough Ramsey 20 son of Mr and Mrs T F Ramsey punctured an eyeball with a long needle while sewing up a sack of oats in an effort to pull the needle through the sack. Physicians say the eyesight of the injured man is at risk.
The House foreign affairs committee reported a joint resolution concurring in the President's declared purpose to call an International Conference to limit armaments as a substitute for the Borah disarmament measure to the naval appropriation bill.
Washington June 3 Immigration officials moved to enforce the new act restricting entries to three percent of a country’s nationals then in the United States as of the 1910 census. A flood of arrivals is expected in the next two months as authorities forecast many bars will go up before year’s end with only twenty percent of the monthly quota available per country.
Early today a group raided the American steamer Mitchell off Sea Walls Point overpowered the guard and fifteen crew members fled in a launch toward Newport News. A naval relief party found eight wounded including a watchman. The attackers, calling themselves strikers, pledged to drive everyone from American ships.
Washington officials order a full investigation by Shipping Board agents in Norfolk into the attack on the steamer Mitchell today, as details remain scant and officials seek to establish the attackers and motive.
New York June 6 The Carnegie Corporation provides 17 400 000 additional funds with provisional conditions to the Carnegie Institute of Pittsburgh and the Carnegie Institute of Technology for maintenance and development. Plans call for a large technical institute serving youths from Pittsburgh and across the country with possible legal separation of the two institutes into independent boards.
Washington dispatch reports national disaster fund authorization of $50,000 to Pueblo for flood relief. The move follows telegraphic updates from Pueblo officials indicating the situation worsened hourly. The $100,000 already approved covers emergency needs while the new funds add supplies and relief workers.
Laura Bromwell, noted woman aviator, died in Mineola New York while performing a looping maneuver. The accident occurred midflight this afternoon near Mitchell Field.
The Tulsa riot left nine known black victims including Dr. A. C. Jackson and others identified among the dead. Many negroes fled the city while Red Cross aid organized transport and relief. Military police and National Guard withdrew to allow business reopening as authorities plan $500000 in assistance and area reconstruction.
A new four club golf league will be organized by Moultrie Albany Valdosta and Quitman country clubs. The league will use second string players with matches every Thursday afternoon through the summer. Teams include Moultrie Valdosta Albany Quitman and Thomasville is excluded from the lineup.
A report by the American Engineering Council concludes management bears over half the waste in industrial processes. Unemployment reached over a million, with billions tied up in idle equipment and high labor turnover cited as major waste. Building trades alone may lose about half a billion in 1921 wages.
Washington June 6 The Supreme Court ruled a state tax is an allowable deduction from estate income in computing net income. The decision affirms the Alabama case by executors of the Alan Woodward estate, holding the 1918 government denial was error.
Washington June 6 The Supreme Court refused to review New York court rulings holding the Lehigh Valley railroad company liable for damages from the Black Tom explosion of 1916.
The government asks the Supreme Court to dismiss its appeal in the Sherman antitrust suit against American Cane Company and its subsidiaries after losing in the lower court. The action hinges on its relation to a recent steel corporation decision.
The Supreme Court adjourned today in Washington D C closing sessions until October 10. Justice members will reconvene for the next term after the break.
The ICC on June 6 announced it declared unjustified and ordered cancellation of a proposed minimum rate scheme for less than carload shipments between Eastern interior points and Carolina Southeastern and Mississippi Valley areas. Affected carriers include Atlantic Coast Line Seaboard Air Line Southern Railway Clyde Merchants and Miners Ocean Steamship lines. The plan would have set a 100 pound minimum, with cotton piece goods using 200 pound rates, raising minimum charges on most small shipments. Objections were raised by the New England League and several Southern chambers of commerce and trade groups.
Clyde Manning, described as a farm boss for John S. Williams, was convicted of murder in the Superior Court yesterday and sentenced to life imprisonment. He testified he aided Williams in the killing to protect himself, while the defense argued fear for his life. The jury deliberated 35 minutes and returned the same verdict as Williams, with a recommendation for mercy. Manning seeks a new trial as Williams did.
Madison Wis June 6 the University of Wisconsin student Senate voted to abolish all forms of hazing following a Saturday night melee that injured eight freshmen and sophomores and drew more than a thousand students.
A downtown Pittsburgh blaze of unknown origin was controlled by 3:00 AM after the entire fire department responded. No deaths reported. property damage estimated between five hundred thousand and one million dollars.
Watermelon growers are advised on grading and sizing, stem-rot treatment, and careful handling from field to car. Prune vines to at most two melons per vine and keep stems, load with padded cars, and apply Adex Paste to stems or risk freight charges.
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