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Newspaper
Cranbury Press
Location
Cranbury, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1919
Page
2
The capital scene reports shifts in executive actions and legislative agendas. Officials outline policy priorities while lawmakers consider bills affecting governance, economy, and public services, signaling a period of active reform and oversight.
A parade of items dominated by anti radical measures and labor tensions. Mek Kellar proposes deportation for attempted overthrow to an anarchist penal colony in a Philippine island. Russians in Gary form a red guard plan. International unions meet in Washington to discuss labor disputes. Admiral Coontz confirmed as chief of naval operations. War Dept to issue arms for home defense. Watson probes FTC actions against meat packers. Loans to Southwest cattle growers called in. Railroads to return to private control under federal supervision. A plan to Americanize aliens advances. Budget Bureau creation approved by House. Jenkins kidnapped in Puebla demand for ransom. FTC examiners accused of socialist leanings. King bill to make bombs in mails a capital offense advances. Mondell notes adjournment timing. Sexton named naval aviator in London. Pay for postal workers settled by conferees. Immigration restrictions against radicals eyed. Trade unionism condemned in Senate.
Across multiple items, church and labor groups urge ratification of the League of Nations covenant with minimal reservations, while AFL leaders press for a special Washington convention. Other notes cover Red Cross leadership, state bank violence, daylight saving, and church unity statements from Cardinal Mercier.
Bavaria formally demands Dr. Max Levien extradition after his prison escape and arrival in Vienna on October 9. The article notes Allied efforts and broader postwar unsettled diplomacy including labor, mandates, and political shifts across Europe.
After the industrial conference collapse in Washington the labor delegation quits over a rejected collective bargaining resolution. President Wilson pleads for continuation while coal miners prepare to strike November 1. Government keeps mines open with troops if needed and Congress weighs anti strike measures.
Senator Hitchcock denounces the treaty reservations as odious and predicts 40 Democrats will oppose ratification. The article also reports Bolshevik advances around Petrograd, Denikin's campaign near Moscow, Kronstadt bombardment claims, and American views on mandates in Armenia.
Premier Liosd George faced a near immediate crisis soon after parliament opened as a minor amendment defeat late on a day with only about half the membership present. Cabinet resignation was considered unlikely if outraged. In Alsace Lorraine, military authorities uncovered a conspiracy aiming to set up an autonomous republic. The leader confessed German financing with a Berlin intermediary linked to Rethmann-Hollives.
Boy Scouts aided a government war census locating 20 million feet of black walnut timber once propagated for airplane parts. German agents allegedly paid high prices decades ago for these forests now vanished. Scouts planted five trees per cut, sowing nuts along fences and hollows to ensure future supplies.
Twelve year old Spokane scout Denton McBean leaped from his cot and dived into Twin Jakes lake to save Raymond Rice, a war hero exhausted while swimming. Judge Webster, an eyewitness, praised the cool, decisive rescue and the control shown when Rice grabbed a bystander.
An Ogden boy used scout first aid to save a companion who fell from a horse and cut an artery. He applied a tourniquet to halt bleeding until medical help arrived. Dr. E Rich credited the scout with likely saving the boy’s life and praised his action.
Carl Pickwell leads a new Kansas City scouting group admitting only red headed boys. He has recruited enough promised members and expects 32 boys soon, with no specific shade of red required.
Twenty two Tacoma boy scouts ranked in especial merit after a year in a camp at Longmire Springs Suninter Nations park. They learned camp keeping forest conservation and the dual arts of being Americans. They tramped ten to twenty miles daily and studied trees animals and Western wood climate.
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