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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1921
Page
2
President elect Harding held a conference with Major General Leonard Wood who is considered for governor of the Philippine Islands. A formal announcement may come soon as Harding and his wife wrapped up farewell visits in Marion before leaving for Washington.
In New York on March 1, shorts sold freely as cables showed disappointing German proposals. Oils, shippings, steels and chemical shares weakened. Rail stocks fell with Northern Pacific and Norfolk and Western down two points. American Woolen rose on quarterly dividend. Call money opened at 7 percent.
Fire on the Shipping Board steamship East Chicago in Baltimore today heavily damaged the vessel and its cargo. Vice-President A. J. Townsend of the Baltimore Steamship Company quoted cargo value at 2 000 000 and ship value at 750 000. Authorities blamed a boiler oil fuel pipe for the blaze and flooded holds with water, delaying a scheduled sailing to Belfast and Glasgow.
The article notes early age registration of boys and girls in a new Russian system yielding better results than mixed groups in colonies. Miss Haines of Moorestown New Jersey, an ex Red Cross executive, studies Russia's institutions for the American Friends service committee while detailing widespread need for food clothing and medical supplies among Moscow's industrial population.
A report from Moscow to the American Friends Service Committee notes that corporal punishment is banned in Russian schools. It describes child discipline with alternative methods and mentions coeducation in Russia as part of new educational reforms.
Eleven persons have been killed and over 100 wounded in Florence as authorities quell disorders tied to a Tuscan revolutionary plot. More than 500 arrests reported as soldiers act decisively to suppress the conspiracy.
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