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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1921
Page
7
Germany won the Upper Silesia plebiscite with about 876000 votes for Germany and 385900 for Poland as Allied observers reported. General Lerond of the interallied commission warned Poland against massing troops and pledged entente will to enforce the decision.
Representatives of C G W railway employes met with general manager L Hinkle in five sessions at Detween Ta. on March 21 but reached no deal. They will report back in about 16 days and, if the employer rejects the wage cut proposal, the dispute would go to the railway labor board for settlement.
Washington March 21 United Press reports the resignation of William Wilson former secretary of labor from the international high commission has been received by President Harding and will be accepted. Obadiah Gardner Democrat who resigned to make room for Wilson likely will be reappointed due to his familiarity with commission work. Harding explained Wilsons resignation was not requested but he called Wilson to the White House to discuss the situation.
Funeral services for Bert Lesten Taylor known as B L T were held today at the Fourth Presbyterian church in Chicago with only immediate family present. He died Saturday after a brief illness from pneumonia.
New York reports a housing boom as Henry H Curren cites March two week permits for 1076 homes up from 410 a 61 percent rise. He attributes the growth to a ten year tax exemption on new dwellings. Chicago meanwhile shows a smaller rise with March permits at about 1300 including many small homes.
Two unnamed prominent men testify they will refute James A Stillmans attack on Guy Stillman. They say they were guests at the Pocantico Hills home in 1918 and confirm both Stillmans were there. Letters about the couple's summer home are in Mrs Stillman's lawyers' hands.
The eastern federation of the Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks Freight Handlers Express and Station Employees sends a resolution to grand president BE Fitzgerald urging a referendum or strike bill for immediate use if railways refuse to follow the Transportation Act of 1920. Rail officials are warned to comply, as wage cuts could ignite widespread chaos and an industrial upheaval.
Illinois Central railroad will meet with unskilled labor representatives in Chicago on March 25 and 29 to discuss a proposed wage reduction of about 25 percent. The company denies ordering an April 17 cut, saying talks are to consider the matter. If no agreement is reached the issue goes to the railroad labor board.
Louis F. Post, former assistant secretary of labor, denounces the early 1920 roundup of alleged radicals. He cites 3,000 arrests and 500 deportations, with over 700 guilty of nothing more than conscious membership in the communist party. He condemns private detective agencies used by the justice department.
Adjunct General C L Martin of Kansas, supported by 35 governors, met President Harding as his possible appointment to head the militia bureau remained under War Dept review. A Manila dispatch notes a separate inquiry into nine constabulary officers, exonerating Lucien Sweet and three Filipino officers.
Highway department weather bulletin lists towns Albert Lea Altona Charles City Cedar Rapids Davenport Des Moines Dubuque Mason City La Crosse Marshkall New Hampton Postville Waterloo and Waverly. Dirt roads locally muddy gravel and sandy roads good. Tall forecast tonight and Tuesday.
Briefs argue the seven year ratification limit on the prohibition amendment is invalid and Congress lacked power to set time bounds on state ratifications The challenge cites Harding's proposed six to seven year limit and claims the court did not rule on this phase previously The case of J J Dillon of San Francisco tests the law with a wine transport without permit through prohibition officers and Levi Coke leads the anti prohibition brief.
Delegates from the Association of Masters, Mates and Pilots left for Philadelphia to discuss plans for a strike of seagoing towboats on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts starting April 1. William A. Mather cited nonrenewal of the 1920 agreement and wage cuts as cause, affecting about 150 towboats and 3,490 men.
The million dollar Howesand Mining and Smelting Co plant at Epitlania Beach B C twenty miles north of Vancouver was reported destroyed by fire last night. Telegraph communication is down and details are unavailable at midnight. The plant is owned by a New York company.
Maj. Gen. Hunter Liggett, commander of the first American army in World War I, retires from active duty in San Francisco after 42 years of service. Ninth Army officials and civilian friends witness the retirement ceremony.
The Women's Christian Temperance Union under Miss Anna A Gordon announces a campaign beginning April to oppose Sunday work and tobacco. A week of prayer will precede antitobacco Sunday on April 16 with materials sent to WCTU branches and churches. The effort cites 400,000 workers on Sundays and targets golf, auto travel, movies, theatres, and dancing.
Austen Chamberlain, chancellor of the exchequer, today elected leader of the Unionist party at the Carlton Club. The selection was unanimous by Unionist members of the house of commons, succeeding Andrew Bonar Law who retired due to ill health announced last week.
The census bureau reports the U S population density in 1920 averaged 26.6 persons per square mile nationwide, up from 20.9 in 1910. Nevada shows the lowest density at less than one person per square mile, while Rhode Island leads at 566.4. Massachusetts New Jersey Connecticut and New York also exceed 200 per square mile.
William Henry Norris a seventeen year old pled guilty to killing City Marshal Rieves of Redding and now awaits appeal to the California Supreme Court. Superior Judge O Busick signed the stay order and Mar tin A Welsh will escort Norris to San Quentin for Good Friday.
Tynace Pad of Poland arrived in Chicago en route to the Pacific coast and refused reporters entry. He said he would likely issue a statement on the Upper Silesia plebiscite tonight from his hotel room.
The National Association of Owners of Railroad Securities presented a plan to Congress aiming to save millions annually by coordinating railroad facilities and services through a railway service agency to be created by act of Congress. H Davies Warfield said adoption would be urged at Senate Interstate Commerce Committee hearings, arguing that intensive management could avert government ownership and that the plan would cut costs while improving service and lowering fares.
Washington March 2. Packers employees pressed their wage and working conditions case at a Davis Department of Labor conference with Secretary Davis presiding. A private hearing was granted for workers and labor leaders backed by the AFL while Packers’ representatives arrived with industry allies. The key demand is reinstating the wartime arbitration pact recently terminated, ahead of any wage cut objections.
The Supreme Court refused to review Texas court decisions assigning values to a locomotive fireman at 40001 dollars and a switchman at 22.06 dollars. Heirs of Buford McCoy and H. C. Melis won the respective smaller verdicts in the case.
The California provision granting benefits to resident workers injured outside the state under in state contracts was held constitutional by the Supreme Court. An appeal against the law was dismissed.
The Supreme Court allowed the conviction of Thomas H. Matters to stand for conspiring to issue fraudulent bank certificates of deposit at the First National Bank of Sutton, Nebraska, as reported March 31 by United Press.
Casualties rise from Sinn Fein attacks across Ireland with 26 deaths and one missing amid hours of harassment. Eleven soldiers and 16 Sinn Fein fighters killed, 15 soldiers and seven Republicans wounded. Belfast and Londonderry see sectarian rioting with police constables killed in ambushes.
Deputy United States Marshal Martin Szymanowski tackled Joe Urbaytis who fled handcuffs after his February 17 post office robbery arrest. Urbaytis and four others pleaded not guilty at arraignment before Judge Killits and were returned to jail with trials set for April 11.
In Williamson West Virginia on March 24 a Mingo county jury found 16 defendants not guilty in the case tied to the death of Albert C Wells during the Matewan gun fight last May. The defendants were discharged by Judge R D Batley and remanded to jail on bond for six others. The trial lasted 46 days and the acquittal drew cheers from miners outside the court.
Muskogee Oklahoma March 21 A fire in the business district believed started by lightning was under control early today after a quarter block was practically destroyed. Loss probably will reach about 250000 dollars.
Governmental costs for 227 U.S. cities with populations over 20 000 exceeded revenues by 8 991 900 dollars in 191%. Excluding permanent outlays revenues total 1 224 112 000 dollars or 35.32 per capita, beating costs by 255 902 000 dollars. net indebtedness stands at 2 869 551 000 dollars. New York City alone accounts for 1 009 309 000 dollars of the total.
Chicago, March 21. W. W. Atterbury, vice president of the Pennsylvania lines, told the railroad labor board that national agreements are the most serious issue facing the nation. He said the agreements were foisted on the roads and labor leaders refused to confer with railroad officials. He cited a 1920 meeting showing unions would not alter the national agreement, and urged that each railroad negotiate with its own employees as the path to industrial peace.
Mrs. Mabel Walker, 19, was wounded by a bullet from her husband’s revolver in Des Moines. He was explaining the gun when it discharged accidentally, the bullet entering her arm and body before doctors could locate it. The couple had been married five months.
Federal Judge J W Woodrough ordered Jesse Newton of Omaha removed as receiver for the North American Hotel Company due to Nebraska creditors counsel failing to reveal a prior receiver had been appointed in Council Bluffs when Newton was named.
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