Harding Shipping Board Plan Practical Now Urges High Pay
Washington opinion piece argues the Harding administration should treat the shipping board as a wartime inheritance and push for quick businesslike management. It contends high salaries for experts are justified to salvage the program, warns against partisan friction, and cites submarine peril and wartime costs as context for reform.
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Mark Sullivan
Washington, D. C
Harding
Congress
Shipping Board
United States Circuit
Supreme Court
Jessy
Wilson
Wil ‘Son
Lasker
Courier Delivery Notice With Early Morning Deadline
The Courier should be delivered at your home before 5 30 o clock. If you fail to receive your paper by that time due to carrier error or other causes, please call 30 and a copy will be sent. One call must reach this office before 6 30 PM.
Senate Accepts Terms of Pact With Germany
Washington Aug 24 After a five hour wrangle the Senate refused to set aside the antibeer bill conference report and moves toward a 30 day recess as talks on the peace treaty with Germany proceed. President Harding and Secretary Hughes outlined terms to Republican members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee with Lodge reporting a forthcoming briefing. The treaty is described as short and chiefly a peace pact with potential follow up on commerce and amity. Public release of the text is delayed until signatures are affixed in Berlin and Washington.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Senate
United States
Germany
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Harding
Hughes
White House
Senator Lodge
Massachusetts
Foreign Relations Committee
Reischtag
Ellis Loring Drevel
Berlin
Frederich Rosen
Washington
Rail Unions Begin Strike Ballot Distribution Nationwide
Cleveland Aug 24 Ballots will be sent out next Wednesday for a strike rate among more than 400000 railroad workers nationwide, union officials announced today. Results are not expected to be tabulated for a month after the vote.
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United Press
Cleveland, .C
Railroad Brotherhood
Mrs Louis Rust Dies From Camp Stove Fire Near Shell Rock
Waverly Aug 4 Special Burns from a gasoline stove exploded as Mrs Louis Rust cooked supper in a tent at a Shell Rock camp set up hours earlier by her husband. She was found face down amid flames and died after transfer to Waverly hospital. The couple left for vacation yesterday. Mrs Rust had worked in a local dry goods store and her husband worked in Waverly.
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Waverly
French swindle ring seized as $20 million fraud scheme exposed
Federal agents in Cleveland seize 16 million in securities tied to Charles W French. Associates claim big business orchestrated bank wrecking to corner iron ore, with plans to buy banks nationwide and issue deposits. The sweep covers at least 17 companies amid fake firms and fraudulent bonds spread across Kansas City Milwaukee and Washington.
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United Press
Chicago
Big Business
Charles W. French
Trust
J. H. Leet
Cleveland
French
Leet
Steel Trust
Milwaukee
Washington, D. C
Milwauke Bank
Washington
Kansas
CIA
Imeine
Pacific Trust Company of Independence
Guarantee Securities Company
Kansas City
Alva
Harshman
Clinnin
Austria Signs Peace Treaty With United States
Vienna reports the peace treaty with the United States signed at 1 PM in a result of long negotiations. American commissioners Arthur Hugh Frazier and A Grant Smith led talks in Vienna and Budapest, with treaties following the German agreement in principle and likely including commerce and amity provisions.
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Associated Press
Vienna
United States
Austria
Germany
Hungary
Washington
Associated Tress
Washington, D. C
State Department
Altho
Hunogary
Budapest
Arthur Hugh Frazier
American Commission
Grant Smith
Historic Battery Pairings Across Early League Schedule
In Chicago Philadelphia Chicago Batteries Hast Kerr and Schalk. St Louis Boston St. Louis Batteries Shocker and Sew. Brooklyn Philadelphia Batteries Alexa er, Schupp and Mnder and Kille eier. Philadelphia FR HE First game Cincinnati Beaw Philadelphia BBC Batteries Rixey and Wingo Hubbard and Henine. Second game Cincinnati EB HOB Philadelphia in 1 Batteries Markle and Wingo Sedgewick Brugey. At Boston St. Louis Boston Batteries Dank Oesehger Gou St. Louis Boston 83 BB Batteries Piefer and Ainsmith Fillingim Gowdy rRmf At New Fork First game Pittsburg New York i Batteries Adams Schmidt Neh and Smith. Second in Pittsburgh OR Reo New York Field Batteries Cooper and delimit Douglas Snyder.
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Philadelphia
Cincinnati
BBC
Rixey
Wingo
Hubbard
Heniine
Markle
Sedgewick
Brugey
St. Louis
Boston
Piefer
Ainsmith
Fillingim
Gowdy
New Fork
Pittsburg
New York
Adams and Schmidt
Smith
Pittsburgh
Reo
Cooper and Delimit
Douglas and Snyder
McAdoo opposes railroads funding plan in Senate letter
William G. McAdoo argues the government is not morally or legally bound to fund the railroads debt beyond remaining indebtedness of about 262 million dollars. He urges railroads to abandon labor claims and proposes a 10 year wait for 763 million while paying 500 million on under maintenance claims, warning against questionable securities and policy risks.
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Associated Tress
Washington, D. C
Senate Interstate Commerce
William G. McAdoo
Senate
Stanley
Kentucky
McAdoo
Harding
McAdso
United States
Conferees Reach Agreement on Exports Credits Bill
Washington Aug 24 conferees reached a complete agreement on terms of the agricultural exports credits bill long debated by the house and senate. The dispute, aside from the controversy over the engineer Dill, was a major hurdle to the recess politically arranged for Congress.
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Associated Press
Washington, D.C
House
Senate
Congress
Highways U. S. and Agriculture Weather Report States Roads Clear
The report covers towns Lea Minn Algona Charles City Des Moines Faribault New Hampton Poxtville Waterloo and Waverly in the territory and notes highways in good motoring condition. Partly cloudy unsettled weather forecast for tonight and Thursday with local temperatures reported yesterday.
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U. & Department_of Agriculure
Weather Bureau
Charles City
Lea
Minn
Algona
Charles
Jar Rapids
Davenport
Des Debugie
Faribault
O Wis
Magon
Marshall Town
New Hampton
Poxtville
Waterloo
Waveney ' Y
Americans Die as ZR-2 Dirigible Explodes in Flight
Aboard the American dirigible ZR-2, about 62 crew members including 21 Americans were aboard for a trial flight when an explosion near Hull caused a fiery plunge into the Humber River. Only six survivors reported, with several Americans among the dead. Major Pritchard noted among the British crew previously.
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United Press
London
Hall
America
Maxfield
United Airs Navy
British Air Service
Lieut
Little
Wasterly
Hoyt
Bieg
Coil
Pritchard
Roosevelt Field
Long Island
Pugiland
Gas Bay
Hadeen
A. H. Maxfield, Sr
Paul
E. W. Coil
Tucson
Ariz
V. N. Bieg
Bryn Mawr
C. G. Pepnoyer
Berkeley
Cal
H. Ww. Host
J. &. Lawrence
M. H. Easterly
J. B. Anderson
S. H. Halliburton
C. A. Tinker
Observer
Maitlang
Bedford
Howien
Hull. Eng
Humber
Howden
Hull
Hazlett to Speak Under Guard in Waterloo Time
Ida Crouch Hazlett, Socialist leader abducted in Mason City by Ku Klux Klan, to address Lincoln Park in Waterloo under police guard. Mayor Frisbee and American Legion pledge protection as socialists rally support for Hazlett and Debs, while Mason City details recount her removal and return.
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Mason City
Ku Klux Klan
Ida Crouch Hazlett
Lin Com Park
Liberation
Eugene Debs
N. W. Frisbee
American Legion
Mason-Cit
Eugene
Sabe
Ida Crouch - Hazlett
New City
Liark
Louis Eickelberg
Teangements Fort
Ma‘son City
Waterloo
Associated Press
Ida Grouch Hazlett
Central Park
Salvation Army
BER
Arlett
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Swindle Gang
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U. S
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Coryeleskia
Chicago Batteries
Hast, Kerr and Schalk
Shocker
Detroit
Detroit Batteries
Foh Cole and Woodal
Brooklyn
Brooklyn Batteries
Alexa’ Ifer, Schupp and
H. E. Beani Nee
Sah Neill
Perkins
Ruel
Nder and Killeeier
Boston Batteries
Dank Oesehger
Gou
Clemons Dy
W'Adoo
Sen
Lomas
Bulletin
Washington, DC
Navy Department
Tutted Press
Oskaloosa
VE. van Nostrand
American Balloon Service
van Nostrand
Ave
Norman
Oonuueren
Tex
Americtn
Walker
Victoria Pier
Wann
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Legion
Trac
Hazlett
Rooksland
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