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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1919
Page
2
National capital scene features rapid moves in the executive and legislative branches. Officials debate policies, budgets, and reforms as lawmakers push bills and agency directives amid partisan dynamics.
The Interstate Commerce Committee finished a draft for a permanent railroad policy after penalties on strikes and organizers. Debates over the peace treaty stalled Senate work. Labor Secretary Wilson named a conciliation commission for the New York longshoremen strike. Treasury announced a 1 million dollar Italy credit, bringing Allied aid to $9.65 billion. Army chaplains required for transports with 200+ soldiers. War Department holds 5,724 emergency liquidation contracts. Industrial Conference returned resolutions on collective bargaining to its general committee. Senate sought foreign securities details and questioned justice steps against radical aliens. House passed federal funding for industrial rehabilitation and sent it to conference. Shipping Board policy on merchant fleet disposal requested. Attorney General Palmer to enlist women in cost of living fight. Army stores may sell in bulk to municipalities at retail prices. Gompers fatigued. Brig Gen Vanderbilt awarded Distinguished Service Medal.
Representatives of the Steel and Iron Workers' Union filed a bill in equity in Allegheny county court to bar Mayor E V Babcock director of public safety C B Pritchard and Superintendent R J Alder and other officials from interfering with meetings of striking workers in the Pittsburgh district. Resolutions urging national advertisers to back New York publishers who refused strike demands in printing trades were adopted by the Audit Bureau of Circulation board in New York. Archbishop Giovani Bonzano apostolic delegate to the United States arrived in New York aboard the Italian liner Pead Acosta from Genoa and Naples.
Brig General Sherburne announces imminent nationwide distribution of sugar under a zone system as part of state life necessaries oversight. The General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church plans no debate on the League covenant in its House of Deputies. Walter A Shaw of Illinois elected president of the National Association of Railways and Utilities Commission. The O H Whiting Milling Company plant burned down costing about 125000 dollars. The Episcopal convention approves establishing a new diocese in Southern Virginia.
Dispatch from Paris claims Petrograd has fallen or is about to fall as the capital is fully invested and unable to hold out. Other items note Dublin arrest of Father O Donnell, Australian forces chaplain, and a Belgian Senate vote approving a progressive income tax.
Emil J. Simon, a New York radio engineer, reports a 600-foot Zeppelin in Span dau Germany ready to sail to America with bombs. The craft, built as a war machine, was not destroyed and could be used under American officers for a peaceful mission if permitted by Allied governments.
A provisional division of 5000 U S regulars under Brig Gen William H Sage sailed from Hoboken aboard the President Grant for occupation duty in Germany. The force includes the 5th Infantry under Col E B Fry and the 15th Infantry under Col F J McConnell to supervise the plebiscite in Silesia.
Stockholm report cites Prof. Guido Sehneider alleging Bolsheviks in Riga executed 25,632 men women and children. He claims intoxicated shooters repeatedly wounded victims and that young girls volunteered as executors promenading with rifles and firing at prisoners.
Field Marshal Viscount E H H Allenby, famed former commander in Palestine, was appointed British High Commissioner for Egypt and the Sudan in London.
The 1585 finding of iron ore in North Carolina marks the earliest recorded iron discovery in what would become the United States. This finds ties to early colonial exploration and mineral resource awareness in the southeastern region.
War Secretary Newton D Baker told Ohio Federation of Women’s Clubs that federal troops will be sent to suppress riots and disorder on any governor’s call. He warned against Bolshevik agitation and urged unity while demobilization continues, stating federal agencies will stay fully operational and enforce laws.
Albany New York gamblers winnings and profits from gambling are subject to state income tax. An unofficial opinion to Mark Graves head of the Income Tax Bureau notes losses may be deducted in net income in some schedules.
Washington reports the Senate will receive the King of Belgium on Tuesday October 28. Senator Lodge, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, proposed a recess at 1 30 P M to greet the royal visitor and the motion passed without discussion.
A statement from World War Legion headquarters in Washington announced the organization’s abandonment and the cancellation of its national encampment planned for Pittsburgh. It urges all World War Legion members to join the American Legion as the officially recognized veterans’ group of the war.
In New York a nationwide campaign by the Women’s Nonpartisan Committee for the League of Nations urges the U S Senate to ratify the peace treaty. Mrs J Borden Harriman chairs the executive committee, Dr Katharine B Davis leads the general body, and Carrie Chapman Catt is honorary chair. A New York committee of 100 will push petitions from women to the Senate, with plans to enlist women from all 47 states and begin national enrollment.
The Shantung amendment to the peace treaty failed in a 35 to 55 Senate vote with 14 Republicans joining the Democrats and three Democrats with the pro treaty side. Absent were six senators. two Republicans in favor, one Republican and three Democrats opposed. The session lasted six and a half hours with six amendments treated as one, replacing Japan with China in Shantung sections. Lodge signaled plans to strike out Shantung rights for Japan, while some Republicans pledged reservations opposing the award.
An auditing committee approved a favorable report on Senator Owen's resolution to instruct the Agriculture Committee to investigate the wheat situation. The inquiry would cover embargo reasons, transportation facilities for wheat from Oklahoma Kansas Texas and other states, and tonnage for shipments abroad.
Women who took war jobs in Cincinnati are assigned to a small cores line in several brass foundries. They excel in the task and will be retained, with a male foreman supervising the work to ensure proper oversight.
Federal investigators trace radical plots to destroy abandoned cantonments and government property from West Virginia to Colorado. Anton Gorski, linked to the Chicago post office blast, is under surveillance in Gary Indiana as authorities search for Alexander Ivanoff and confiscate German propaganda and a silk flag. Federal troops guard Gary steel mills while strike leaders disavow a communist call for a workers' dictatorship.
Paris reports the Supreme Council approved a notification text to neutrals inviting them to join the League of Nations and set covenant adherence terms. It also drafted a note to Germany demanding the surrender of German ships held by Dutch firms and in German ports, deeming sales void. A separate note states Memel destiny is for the Allies to decide, with Germany having renounced rights.
Dublin reports the death of Viscount Gough aged 70. He served as secretary of the British embassy in Washington from 1894 to 1896 and later in Berlin.
Gen. John J. Pershing is expected to appear before the Senate and House Military Affairs Committees to express views on army reorganization. His testimony will wrap up the hearings on the army reorganization bill before the House committee after more than four weeks of sessions.
Berlin reports a state tribunal will open to investigate responsibility for the war and charges against leading statesmen and generals. General Ludendorff Former Chancellor von Bethmann Hollweg and Bernstorff are named witnesses as Germany replaces the failed proposed international court with a domestic inquiry.
Report from Riga indicates the Germano Russian assault failed to hold the city as normalcy returns. Most newspapers resume printing though shortages and rising prices persist. Damage includes the state bank and the general staff headquarters. In Stockholm, Polish forces counterattack Baltic Germano Russian troops and claim capture of Kovno near Vilna.
Wireless dispatch from Berlin says the Western Russian Central Council replaces German rule in Mitau with a Russian governor general Scheidemann and declares a siege. Von Eberland invites Lithuanian delegates to Latkany conference. Lettish government returns to Riga. fighting intensifies as 6000 Estonian reinforcements arrive and German Russian forces seize Dunamunde and Kolderaa near the Duna.
Baron Romaro Avezzano named Italian Ambassador to the United States. He has served as Minister to Greece and arrived in Rome on Tuesday to take over from Couns Di Cellere.
London reports that British merchant ships lost through enemy action in the war total 7,759,000 gross tons. Submarine action accounts for 6,635,059 tons, with 14,287 lives lost in the sinkings.
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