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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1912
Page
1
United Press reports a general strike of garment workers and tailors in New York with 80000 to 125000 idle and potentially more than 200000 if waist and dressmaker workers join. Pickets exceed 1500. demands include 15 to 20 percent pay raise, 8 hour day, and sanitary shops. No violence reported. union leaders urge restraint. Major firms close. shops silent on plans. Workers vow not to return until demands met.
In Viborg tensions flare as two Russian examiners demand access to a protocol under the Equality Law trade request. The mayor resists. police seize the document under a governor’s order and take it to examiners. The incident prompts plans to appeal to the Supreme Court amid broader discontent over a Russian appointed public buildings director.
London reports Dr. Alice Burns, living apart from her husband by nearly 13,000 miles, won a court ruling that she remains a married woman residing with her husband and is exempt from income tax. Officials argued she moved from New Zealand years ago to study medicine, but she claimed the separation is only geographical with no legal effect.
Consul General Julius G. Lay in Rio de Janeiro reports Brazil’s export trade for 1911 showing the United States as Brazil’s leading customer with 35.6 percent of export value. Great Britain held about 11 percent.
Washington reports a timely warning about the whooping cough sweeping through children. Authorities cite alarming estimates of 10 000 child deaths annually and urge vaccination and preventive measures amid seasonal rise.
The sermon notes Josephs dreams from God and the path to leadership through hardship. It argues envy and murder attempts by brothers fail, and urges youth to let God guide their aspirations, trusting purposeful delay to forge character.
Postmasters Warner and Moseley announce readiness for the parcels post set to begin January 1. stamps received and space arranged in Decatur offices to handle the new mail class as a direct competitor to express services. Shippers may send parcels to any of the 60 000 post offices from their doors. rural carriers add capacity to haul items from thread spools to steam engines.
The Solicitor General asks the Supreme Court to dismiss Johnson v habeas corpus as improper before trial. He argues the writ cannot substitute for a direct appeal and urges affirmance without ruling on the act's constitutionality. The case, challenging the white slave traffic act, is set for January 6.
Rome reports the National Association for the Preservation of the Italian language has coined new words to replace English sports terms. Football will be called giuoco del calico or game of the kick, reflecting Italianization of athletic vocabulary.
Berlin reports the German foreign minister von Eiderlein Taschter died suddenly today in Stuttgart where he was visiting for holidays with his sister. The unexpected death shocks Berlin and international circles.
London dispatch notes rising belief among diplomats that arbitration by the powers is the only solution to the Turkish Balkan deadlock. Turkish delegates prepared to push the matter to ambassadorial talks and may concede several points while seeking to keep Adrianople. Bulgarians likely to reject that demand. Delegates to reconvene Thursday.
Fifteen carpenters employed by the Crow's Nest Pass Coal Co. were crushed to death in an avalanche that buried the building where they were housed in Farnie B C on December 30.
Pittsburg note reports a new law ending the strike-on-pants matches after January 1 as American manufacturers shift to safer sesquisulphide matches. The Esch bill limits old matches, with Akron and Barberton production. Diamond brand moves toward non-poisonous types amid phossy jaw fears.
United Press reports in Indianapolis as 38 dynamiters faced sentencing after a federal trial. Frank M. Ryan led Iron Workers Union members with seven year terms while others received four years, three years, or shorter sentences. Farrell’s case was deferred. Judge Anderson condemned the crimes as linked to union violence yet distanced organized labor from the acts. Families cried in court as guards escorted the restrained defendants through the rain.
President Taft will play Santa in Washington with a private car packed with gifts for Taft family members and friends. The Yuletide supply covers members of the Taft family and other friends as Christmas approaches.
Paris reports the courts awarded Mme Louise Fiore widow of a cinematograph operator $125 for herself and $215 for each of three children after her husband was killed by a wounded buffalo in Central Africa. Fiore died while rescuing a hunter when his moving picture machine was left behind.
8 S. F. Darwin, a prominent Bellingham, Washington citizen, returns after 37 years away from Decatur. He recalls Decatur as a growing city with paved streets, an electric railway, and new buildings since 1876, and notes familiar scenes have vanished. He also remembers Civil War era figures Sherman and his march through the area.
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