Railroad Coordination Plan Proposed to Reform National Rail Service
Railroads consider a national railway service with regional boards to coordinate lines, share terminals and cars, and cut costs. The plan hinges on federal supremacy in interstate commerce, aiming to reduce rates and revive a failing system while avoiding state-imposed barriers and ensuring paying operations.
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National Railway Service
Mountain Pacific Territories
United States Supreme Court
United States
National Association of Owners of
Toward Peace in Upper Silesia and German Prosperity
The plebiscite in upper Silesia is seen as fair, with Germany to gain if the German majority prevails. Allied authorities will maintain order, aiming for a prompt peace settlement including reparations. The US plans a peace treaty with Germany, hoping for renewed commerce and prosperity through tariff arrangements and improved relations.
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Upper Silesia
Germany
Silesia
Centrol
United States
Upper
Atwace
Japanese shipbuilding costs cut to meet world competition
The article notes 1920 Japanese earnings fell by 90 million yen from 1919 and first half 1920 earnings rose. Japan pushes cost cuts in ship production and operation. Shipbuilders offer orders at 50 dollars per dead weight ton, possible steel timber and machinery duties abated. Sailor wages slashed, crews replaced by cheaper Chinese and Korean sailors.
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Japan
Shipping Board
American Lines
United States
Timely Visit by President to Walter Reed
The President and Mrs. Harding toured Walter Reed hospital meeting wounded soldiers and pledging ongoing government care. The visit underscored bipartisan support for veteran welfare, highlighting Dr Sawyer and military medical staff. It aims to correct past coordination gaps and improve facilities for 30,000 sick and wounded veterans.
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Mia
Walter Reed Hospital
Harding
Sawyer
Congress
Met
France Adopts Eighteen Month Universal Service
France moves toward universal military service of eighteen months replacing three years, aiming to ease European military burdens. The change, delayed to 1922, faces public opposition amid fears of danger during the transition. By 1923, France will face a reduced force and potential vulnerability, with reform aimed at further reductions later.
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France
Europe
Orgesch
Einwohnerwehler, &c
Ite
Germany
Bargains With Bolshevists and Turks Cope in Headlines
A collage of opinion from papers like the Philadelphia Public Ledger and Cleveland Plain Dealer rails against Britain and its allies for trade with Bolshevik Russia and the Ottoman Turks. The pieces critique policy as opportunistic and warn of Bolshevist influence while lamenting Chicago politics and spring frog songs as seasonal curiosities. Prices and rail issues are also touched, noting wholesale declines yet uneven effects and idle railcars.
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Scrantom
Rudyard Xipiing
Great Britain
Russia
London
Morning Post
Armenia
Cleveland Plain
Dease
March
Japanese Crown Price An Ard Yough Golf Enthusiast In Egypt Voyage
Japan's crown prince arrives in Egypt aboard the Katori en route to England. He is devoted to golf, learned in Tokyo suburbs, resembling a St Andrew loyalist. Lord Stanhope, his fiancée Lady Eileen Stowne, and Chevening Park mark notable aristocratic ties and historic estates in Kent.
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Japan
Egypt
England
Tokyo
India
Scotland
Europe
St. Andrew
Earldom of Stanhope
Chevening Park
Kent
Sevenoaks
Lord Stanhope
Thomas Lennard
Earl of Sussex
James Stanhope
Viscount Mahon
Earl of Stanhope
Inigo Jones
Tippoo Sahib
Duke of Wellington
Geneva
Hester
Earl of Chatham
George III
William Pite
Robespierre
Paria
Stanhope
House of Lords
French Republic
Great Britain
British Admiralty
Philip Stanhope
Lord Rosebery
Duchess of
Cleveland
Eileen Browne
Countess of Stanhope
Ireland
Elizabeth
Marquisa DE Fontenoy
Seaplanes to Map Mississippi River Marshes
The War Department launches photographic mapping of the Mississippi river delta marshes using naval seaplanes to support river and harbor improvements. The Navy, at the War Department’s request, will provide seaplanes due to the lack of army landing fields.
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Mississippi River Delta
War Department
Navy Department
Trade with Russia Futile Says Hoover In 1920 View
Secretary Hoover stated that resuming trade with Bolshevik Russia is futile because their economic system prevents real production and export capacity. He warned even with nominal reforms Russia cannot restore substantial commodities or imports, and European recovery hinges on Russia abandoning its current system.
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Russia
Hoover
Ruama
Europe
Treasury finds no old debt owed to France
Treasury officials reviewed revolutionary era records and announced no evidence of the United States owing France money for loans in the Revolutionary War. The Paris Eclair had claimed 96 billion francs due France and disputed Louisiana purchase payments, but Treasury records showed no such balances or paid amounts.
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Treasury
United States
France
Paris Eclair
Jean Bernard
M.lernard
America
Louisiana
Mexico Reclaims 3.7 Million Acre Chihuahua Land Grant
In a decree cited by EB Universal Mexico City reports President Obregon reverts Gen. Luis Terrazas holdings in Chihuahua totaling over 3.7 million acres. Noncompliance with contract terms including village establishment and land division prompted the government action, amid claims of months of talks to sell much of the tract to an American concern.
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Mexico City
Chihuahua
Luis Terrazas
Diaz
Obregon
EB. Universal
Terrazas
el Universal Asperia
South Wales Coal Owners Reveal Heavy Losses in Coal Trade
Finlay Gibson of the South Wales Coal Owners Association presents figures showing 2,887,193 tons of disposable coal at 53s id per ton, leaving 125 7d per ton loss, with Minland consumption at 1,067,699 tons incurring 83s per ton and a 153 6d loss. Total proceeds £5,719,240 against £7,888,906 costs, pits losing £1,969,666, average loss 13s 7d per ton.
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Cardiff
South Wales
Finlay Gibson
South Wales Coal Owners Association
Minland
Ex Senators Join Tax Suit Against Tax on Investment Gains
Former Senators Smich of Georgia and Gore of Oklahoma filed with the Supreme Court as friends of the court in the corporate bond case. They oppose taxing increases in value of capital investments as income. The brief says they act as individuals to aid the Court and notes Congress paused the income tax amendment.
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Smich
Georgia
Gore
Oklahoma
Supreme Court
Friends of the Court
Congress
Coal Mine Fatalities Drop as 1920 Output Rises
The Bureau of Mines reports a fatality rate of 3.20 per million tons mined in 1920, down from 4.24 in 1919, the lowest in industry history. A total of 2,260 miners died, 57 fewer than 1919, while coal production rose 18 percent to 645,883,000 tons and employment reached 776,000.
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Bureau of Mines
Calls for consolidated veteran affairs bureau and reform of pharmacy laws
Former army officer Samuel Hillman urges merging the war risks bureau Public Health Service and vocational training board into a single veteran affairs bureau. He credits the wartime bureau’s efficiency, argues former service men should head key posts, and supports relaxing complex prohibition enforcement on pharmacists to protect public health.
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Samuel Hillman
Army
The
Willard
Rsk
Great Bureau
Charles W. Woodruff
Detroit
Washington
Woodruff
Hercot
Montana oil taxes risk stalling new fields say operator
Montana oilmen warn that a proposed X percent tax on production would force suspensions of exploration and testing in unproved fields. They note heavy costs already paid from severance, corporate, income, and personal property taxes and fear prohibitive levies will deter risky prospecting and dry holes profitability.
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Manldna Ig
Ma Helena
Montana
Recalled from Paris to Washington for State Department work
Paris March 21 AP Leland Harrison counselor of the American embassy has been recalled to Washington for work in the Department of State and will sail Saturday aboard the Mauretania. He will be succeeded by Frederick A Stermg as operative counselor of the embassy.
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Hinky Dink
Delphia Public Ledger
Chicago Poltics
Ite
Packingtown
Chicago
Paris
Associated Press
Leland Harrison
Washington
Department of State
Mauretania
Harrison
Frederick A Ster Mg
Harding to appoint Esch to Interstate Commerce Commission
Former Wisconsin representative Esch is to receive a recommission appointment likely within days as a member of the Interstate Commerce Commission, announced yesterday from the White House.
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Esch
Wiscont’ Sin
Interstate Commerce Commission
White House
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