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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1919
Page
1
Walker D Hines argues in San Francisco that federal control is a fact and high costs reflect broader changes postwar. He warns against assuming private management will reduce costs and pushes for fundamental, lasting regulation to attract new capital and ensure viable railroads.
Paris May 14. Allies at St Germain will be represented by fewer powers than at Versailles. The states that declared war on or broke relations with Austria Hungary will form the negotiating teams.
New York on May 14 Julius Barnes the wheat director said immediate reductions in the price of wheat are assured after a conference with grain industry representatives including handlers millers jobbers and bakers.
London reports Italian forces landing at Zara and Sebenica on the Dalmatian coast. Troops are being moved eastward and fortifying ridges and passes, according to Reuters from Belgrade.
A letter from Mrs. E. B. Reppert, federal reserve chairman of the Woman's Liberty Loan Committee, commends the Bryan Eagle and Texas press for their role in boosting liberty loans. She notes women’s vital contributions, citing district totals surpassing twenty-five million dollars and over 56 000 women workers aiding subscriptions.
Paris May 14 Italian delegates to the peace conference are no longer insisting on fulfillment of the secret London treaty and the eastern Adriatic territory dispute appears to move toward settlement. The status of Fiume remains under discussion with plans for a free city akin to Danzig not accepted.
Washington May 9 reports that the former German crown prince has formed a pottery company using North Sea calcareous sands on the island of Wieringen. Frederick Williams Hohenzollern is named director and manager and is described as a large investor in the enterprise.
L. B. Mendola heads south today for Houston to marry Miss Catherine Welsh at St. Patrick church on Thursday morning. Father Lee to perform the low mass wedding. The couple will host a dinner in Bryan after the ceremony, with the groom having lived in Bryan and worked 19 years at David Reed Co. They will reside in Bryan after May 17.
Plans to oppose the federal prohibition amendment were announced at the headquarters of the association against national prohibition. Rep Reuben L. Haskell of Brooklyn will introduce a repeal resolution and call for a nationwide referendum. Rep James A. Gallivan of Boston to join the effort.
A draft charter for a proposed 100 million dollar Cotton Exports Corporation was completed in New Orleans and will be reviewed by a full committee. The plan funds cotton exports, arranges warehousing, and may acquire ships for global transport while excluding domestic business. Headquarters undecided with bids from Atlanta New Orleans Memphis Birmingham and Jacksonville. Liberty bonds will be accepted for stock.
New York May 14. The secret democratic league of America issued an appeal urging support for the peace treaty aligned with Wilson's fourteen points. It argues the covenant will solve many world problems in a gentle and humane way.
A Mexican bill to create a ten mile dry zone along the border would be introduced in the Mexican Congress. The law would take effect a month before the United States goes dry and extend from the Pacific coast to the Rio Grande mouth. A second bill seeks a ten mile free zone to admit imports duty free within the dry area.
Berlin report says the new German government plans a press bureau located opposite the foreign office in a Prussian palace. It will house officials who inspire the press and include a journalists club with library reading rooms billiard rooms and an American bar.
Washington reports two wheat diseases previously unknown in this county may cause heavy losses to individual farmers but the area losses will not affect total production this year, according to the agriculture department statement issued today.
Rev J B Gambrell of Texas denounces War Department stance on religious training in army camps at the Southern Baptist Convention opening in Atlanta May 14. Gambrell re-elected president without opposition.
The remains of Edith Cavell, executed by Germans, are sent to England for interment at Norwich cathedral. A solemn Brussels ceremony featured mourning streets and military honors from British American and Belgian troops.
Berlin May 14 Count Rantzau head of the German peace mission will today deliver to entente representatives a note with counter proposals on cessions of territory according to the Versailles correspondent of the National Zeitung.
Montauk Point May 14 The navy dirigible C5 departed for St Johns New Foundland for a coastal flight test that may be followed by an attempt to fly across the Atlantic if the performance is satisfactory.
Prof W L Stangel of the animal husbandry department announces the sixth annual freshman livestock judging contest will be held Saturday, June 14. Five gold medals will go to top contenders in cattle hogs horses sheep and an all round high man will win a medal from A M Waldrop and Company.
Jess Cook of the U S Army Medical Corps in France writes from Aix les Bains to Mr and Mrs I M Cook describing a scenic town built beside a lake in the Alps. He mentions sights including snowy peaks and a view toward Switzerland, notes the Casino where a famous incident occurred, and recalls the YMCA occupying the building.
The Navy Department relayed a message from seaplane NC-4 to Commander Read in Washington at 11 15 this morning. The reply was heard within three minutes after broadcast to Europe and the U S West Coast. The communication occurred without prior notice to involved stations.
G. R. Abney district engineer and S. E. McCarthy of Austin for the State Highway Commission are surveying Millican road district No. 2 to adjust delays in construction. Work to be completed in a couple of weeks, then bids will be asked and construction on the needed road stretch will begin.
The city school board elected W. T. James as president M. B. Parker as vice president and J. S. Doane as secretary. W. C. Lawson was named superintendent and 24 teachers were reappointed with salary readjustments to meet living costs. A new high school teacher, Eugene S. Lawler, was chosen. Temporary and eventual permanent improvements will relieve crowded west side rooms. Commencement is May 30 at Colonial theatre with a May 23 class night benefiting the Corral. The next term starts September 15.
Chatham May 14 NC4 left at 9 23 am to join other planes at Trepassey Newfoundland the start point for the trans Atlantic flight No 4 planned to fly today to Halifax coast guard navy air transport unit reports
The county board of equalization asks the federal government for four surplus 2-ton Army trucks. Each truck would cost $25 yearly for freight and upkeep, with title remaining with the government. One truck would serve each precinct, and the county expects a favorable return on the modest investment.
Washington census bureau data shows April cotton consumption totaling 475,753 bales lint and 11,169 linters. The figures reflect domestic demand across textile sectors and contribute to the year’s supply assessments.
Paris May 14. The peace conference council of four named a subcommittee with one member from England France Italy Japan and the United States to handle objections and proposals from the German peace plenipotentiaries.
The Austrian delegation to the peace conference, seventy persons, passed through Berne Switzerland today on a special train bound for Paris.
Paris dispatch reports the women's international conference presented a resolution from Zurich calling the terms of the German peace tacitly sanction diplomacy deny self determination and justify the victor’s spoils of war as violations of justice.
Paris May 14 The note reported by Echo de Paris is forecast as the German delegation request to send three members to greet Austrian arrivals at St Germain.
Paris reports renewed British push for an agreement to pool former German merchant vessels and distribute them by wartime tonnage loss. Poland also asserts ownership of some surrendered ships and presented the claim to the council of foreign ministers.
Alberto J. Pani, newly named Mexican minister to France, presented his credentials to President Poincare with the usual ceremony. His withdrawal from France followed reports that he had been kept waiting long in Paris without a chance to present credentials.
Paris May 14 Count Rantzau head of the German peace delegation planned to ask permission to send German delegates to receive the Austrian representatives. It had been announced that the allies planned to keep the delegations separate.
Berlin officials begin removing marble busts lithographs and chromes honoring the dethroned Hohenzollerns from public buildings schools and offices following a municipal council resolution.
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, widow of the late president, returned from Europe today aboard the steamship Giuseppe Verdi docking in New York on May 14.
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