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Newspaper
Cokeville Register
Location
Cokeville, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1919
Page
2
The May 2 brief argues South Dakota and Massachusetts suits to block toll increases should be dismissed. It states the postmaster general governs intrastate rates as part of the national postal service and that regulating rates protects public use and just compensation.
Minnesota Supreme Court upholds Jackson County ruling that A C Townley president of the National Nonpartisan League and Joseph Gilbert must face trial on charges of disloyalty. Gilbert accused of public pamphlets to discourage wartime patriotism and Townley held responsible for a Nonpartisan League leaflet in violation of espionage law.
Mrs Ciladys Wetdover, language teacher at Hood River High School, was dismissed by the city school board in May. The board alleged medical tendencies that affected her employment in the district.
Organization plans a Republican conference in Washington on May 22 to consider a platform policy. The event will involve state chairs of both men’s and women’s parties, central committees, and members of the national committee.
On the initiative of the American giasion, Poles and Germans reached a pact Friday. Poland will deliver 10000 tons of polutees to Germany in exchange for permission to ship goods to the German market.
Fragmentary report states German military forces reduced with references to Colen Ub MW 1 MTOR and Jane Hanke amid shifts in the old and new German army. Intelligence officers in the United States provided the account with unspecified details on reorganizations and units.
A dispute at the Los Angeles Shipbuilding plant ended with a settlement after six workers were shown as employed in the year. The Dietoek company adjusted the factory operations following the weekday meeting at the port facility.
New York reports on postwar breakthroughs by General Electric engineers Ernst Alexanderson and C A Hoxie. The innovations include simultaneous wireless voice sending and receiving, a barrage receiver filtering unwanted signals, and rapid wireless photography. Devices aim to bring wireless telephony into homes with interconnected antennae and practical national use.
Geneva report says Joachim Hohenzollern, youngest son of the former German emperor, hopes to emigrate to the United States after peace is signed. He has arrived from Berlin and plans to stay in Switzerland until the peace settlement. The family bought a large estate near Lugano for exile.
During World War I the barrage receiver was developed to counter German wireless noise that blocked Allied communications. Adapted from lessons in February 1918, the device connected ordinary citizens to others by bypassing toll operators and wireless interference. Its wartime success suggested broad peacetime uses to greatly increase noninterfering communications.
Washington reports 125 cases of total blindness among American forces and under 4000 amputations. The War Risk Insurance Bureau notes most blindness cases are not yet permanent and denies any double arm and leg losses. Over 1000 artificial limbs have been supplied to discharged men, and eligible servicemen may receive medical care or monthly compensation depending on disability and need.
Horton slowly recovers in hospital after Detroit man Anthony Morton, a Black man, refused to doff his hat during the national anthem before a crowd.
Konrad Detaler, a German army engineer, spent over four years in the New Guinea bush hiding from Allied forces. He surrendered to Australian troops after learning of the armistice and now resides in an internment camp. The account mixes his wartime patrols with vivid notes on life among Papuans and local humor about helmet targets.
Fragmented OCR notes describe German occupation policing and a long awaited return of a missing person. It also mentions a 1018 sugar cane area in the United States totaling 585 800 acres, up 12 percent from prior years.
The Paris Figure reports a remarkable discovery of 80 000 year old cave paintings in subterrenean galleries. Among animals documented are reindeers bears elephants and rhinos. A rare bas relief lion and several birds are shown. A silhouette called the Cave of the Three Brothers depicts a man walking on four feet with an elongated necklike spine.
February 5 is set as the festival of Nippon martyrs by Japanese Catholics. St Francis Xavier began Christianity in the 16th century, but persecution followed, killing thousands of converts including nobles and children. The festival commemorates their deaths and the martyrs' confraternity.
A party of visitors in St Andrews asks a worker at a thick arch about its name and history. The man, facing the street, cannot identify the structure and simply suggests the place is very ancient.
A fragmented item notes the bald eagle as America's emblem faced threats. An Alaska law offers a bounty of 00 cents per eagle killed, yielding over eagles killed in ten months. The bird is charged with prey on salmon deer and other game birds.
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