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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1921
Page
10
Senate and House civil service committees prepare hearings on a bill to reclassify government salaries and establish a permanent pay plan. The editorial urges timely action, citing wartime bonuses, lack of system, and need for living wages aligned with duties, with a commission ready to report within the year.
Secretary Hoover forms a seven member commission of engineering experts to study the housing problem. A spring building revival could ease unemployment once costs and interest rates fall. High labor costs and mortgage rates keep many from borrowing for homes despite ample savings in banks.
The nationwide shipping strike hardens with tugmen opposing handling ships driven by strikebreakers. Tugworkers hold a contract to January 1, 1922 but face pressure to join deep sea crews. Sailings show owners resisting defeat while public opinion shifts toward restoring normal shipping conditions.
The Medical Society of the District goes on record in favor of a home and school for mental defectives and urges early passage of the Tinkham bill with funding for a suitable building. Physicians plan to press Congress to act, arguing that Washington lags in caring for mentally handicapped residents.
Viceroy Reading met with Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in Simla to discuss Indian nationalists and the rise of nationalist sentiment among low caste Hindus. Gandhi, a sceptic of British rule, had urged nonviolence but warned the empire could fall through a sea of blood.
Lewiston Maine May 16 The Bates college debating council accepted Oxford University's challenge for a joint debate in England on June 16 The Bates team includes Robert B Watts of Portland Maine Charles M Starbird of Danville Maine and Edward AL Morris of Baltimore Md Bates debaters have been undefeated for four years and have defeated Harvard Yale and Cornell
The London Paris exchange highlights renewed friction between Mr George and M Briand amid postwar tensions over Upper Silesia. Briand defends treaty terms while Lloyd George insists on enforcing Allied decisions and opposing German troop use. American editorials weigh impacts on Germany and peace.
A large group of senators and representatives will visit the East Coast Marine Corps base at Quantico Virginia next Thursday as guests of Secretary Denby. Invitations went out via Vice President Codfige and Speaker Gillett. President Harding has assigned the yacht MacRower for the party.
Christie's in London sold a large Tudor to Georgian silver collection from Enville Hall Worcestershire by order of Sir John Foley Grey. The sale traces the earls of Stamford and Grey lineage through complex inheritance and royal connections. The piece highlights a long line of aristocratic history spanning Dorset Stamford Grey and the eighth Earl of Stamford’s era.
Proceedings span bills on naval policy and pensions with multiple nominations for U S offices. Actions include authorizing cadet strength, West Point land sales, and a Potomac bridge grant. Debates touch disarmament, foreign oil restrictions, excess profits tax, and wartime debt relief.
Niagara resident Louis P Starr notes the surge of over two thousand bills proposing to award captured German cannons to towns and cities during Congress current session. Oscar T Knowles calls for centralized welfare and education oversight, praising streamlined veterans claims handling.
Ignatius Tribich Lincoln, known as an international spy, stood before Vienna's central criminal court on high treason and forgery charges and was acquitted. Former Austrian then naturalized British subject and MP Lincoln was deprived of British rights in 1919 and deported from England. After the Kapp revolt, German authorities sought his arrest, but he fled to Austria and was arrested in February.
Paris May 16 Charles Jonnart former allied high commissioner at Athens and later extraordinary ambassador to the Vatican has conditionaly accepted the post as diplomatic representative of France for six months pending parliament approval. He will depart for Rome next week to assume duties with cabinet ratification anticipated tomorrow.
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