Harding Plans War Assets Board To Liquidate War Losses
President Harding seeks Congressional authority to appoint a war liquidation board to take over and dispose of government property bought during the war. Cabinet members urge faster postwar clearance, citing a shipbuilding plant in Washington State valued at $25 million that may be sacrificed for a fraction of that price or held indefinitely. Secretary Hughes delivered a thorough foreign affairs survey to the cabinet, stressing restored trade and new nations. Postal congestion in Washington is blamed on executive departments mailing large volumes. a day-time distribution plan and press briefings with newspaper men are announced. Oklahoma factions clash over Indian commissioner choice. potential appointment may fall to former Rep. Burker or J. J. Each, with Winston Wright as a possible Osage candidate.
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Cardinal Gibbons Relapse Shakes Maryland Hope
Cardinal Gibbons suffered a sudden relapse as heart action weakened and temperature dropped. Doctors and Bishop Corrigan cautioned no immediate danger but grim prospects prompted careful disclosure after Bishop Bonzano and John Bonzano visited. The 87 year old, who hadrecently improved after a fall and rest, remains under careful observation with limited mobility.
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John Bonzano
Washington
Asphalt Surges Ashore After Sea Washes Up on Beach
Local reports describe a strange sea event washing miles of asphalt onto a gulf coast shore. Thousands of tons arrived with drifting planks and tarry mats drifting 20 to 60 feet inland. Fishermen say the asphalt originated from nearshore sources and covered the beach stretch about ten miles, hindering access and surf passage.
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Fordney tariff fight tests Harding power in Congress
Washington report notes President Harding used presidential influence to push emergency tariff and internal revenue plans amid Republican Senate opposition. Farmers hold balance of power, New England loses sway, and party aims for a temporary tariff act with reforms on state and local taxation while debates on the measure intensify.
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House Committee Begins Drafting Tariff Bill With Subcommittees
The House ways and means committee opened work on a permanent tariff bill and formed five subcommittees to handle details. Subcommittees cover chemicals metals timber agriculture cotton wool and include leaders Hawley Fordney Green and Timberlake with Young, Hadley, and others appointed to draft the report for the emergency tariff bill, lengthening the time limit to six months if the permanent bill is not enacted.
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Germany Rejects Immediate Payment of Reparations
Berlin reports German reply to Allied demand for 1,000,000,000 marks in gold by March 22 will be negative. Reichsbank opposes seizure of gold reserves, warning it would devalue the currency. Allies seek 20.6 billion marks by May 7 with provisions for alternative financing. Detected garbled lines mention a death in Ohio and an elderly man named John Flannigan but details are unclear.
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Papal Delegate Giovanni Bonzano May Be Cardinal
Rome March 22 The Associated Press reports that Monsignor Giovanni Bonzano apostolic delegate to the United States would be made a cardinal in the next consistory to be held in November or early 1922 Officials in Bonzano's circle denied knowledge of any such decision and termed the report unlikely given timing and procedures following the earlier creation of Archbishop Dougherty as cardinal.
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Mutiny Charge Grips Five Seamen After Atlantic Ferry
Five men held in Orleans Parish prison were shipped from the Rushville as mutineers on the high seas. Officials argued they may be linked to the Wall Street explosion, but no direct evidence tied them to the September 16 blast. The men faced federal mutiny charges in New York pending trial.
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Influenza Hits Rhire Army With Quarantine At Coblenz
March 22 dispatch reports influenza outbreak among U S occupation troops in Coblenz with the Second Battalion of the Eighth Infantry quarantined. Forty five cases noted and illness described as very severe with no deaths yet.
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Packer Peace Looms as Wage Accord Near
Labor Secretary Davis reports progress in mediation between the big five packers and their workers. Separate cabinet and employer employee sessions aim to fix hours and wage reductions, with a tentative wage settlement and extended rule time under consideration. Hoover and Wallace absent, signaling focus on detail rather than core issues.
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Bryant Seeks Correction On Presidency Run Remark
The report misstates Bryant’s comments at a Young Women’s Christian Association banquet about seeking the presidency. Bryant says if he had run after women’s suffrage he would have won. the note clarifies his position and cites earlier remarks in The Washington Post.
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Midnight Lunches End on Navy Warship Decks
Navy orders abolish the midnight lunch once served to deck divisions aboard fighting ships. The practice, tied to engineer crews since Memorial days, ended as submarine watches eased and wartime conditions shifted.
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Pennsylvania Railroad Spy System Claims Stir Board Testimony
Chicago March 22 A P charges the Pennsylvania railroad kept a spy system to aid coercion against unions and defend the open shop. Gen Atterbury denied a national open shop plan while admitting protective measures and a spy system. attorney Walsh alleged $800000 spent in 1914 for police systems and warned of intimidation and defamation tactics to force union membership.
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Poles Win Upper Silesia Plebecite Gains Across Districts
Polish claims decisive victories in nine of eleven Upper Silesia districts in a plebiscite, with majorities reported in 46 communes amid fighting reports near Beuthen. Germans largely favored the eastern districts, while Poland pushes for redrawing borders under Allied oversight, creating a near insoluble frontiers problem for the Supreme Council in Paris.
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