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Newspaper
Fairfield Journal
Location
Fairfield, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1919
Page
1
Washington announces immediate resumption of trade with Germany with caveats. Dyes chemicals potash remain restricted under wartime act and reparation commission oversight. Formal notice to follow within 48 hours while broader economic controls ease.
Mount Clemens Michigan July 12 Edsel Ford president of Ford Motor company said the new stock purchase means no new automobile company will be formed as announced in California last March Wages would be increased from time to time but he declined to confirm a report that a seven dollar daily minimum would be put into effect soon
Nearly two hundred Texas National Guard troops from Dallas and Nacogdoches arrived in Longview by train and auto after a white mob attacked a Negro area over a Chicago paper story. Four whites were wounded in a shooting and five Black residences burned as officials predicted no further trouble.
Chicago July 12 It looks serious said Fred Rhode president of the Chicago Liquor Dealers Protective association on Wil sons discussion of wartime prohibition duration We were counting on resuming by mid August or by Sept 1 at the latest If not many will want to keep paying rent and stay in business
President John Fitzpatrick of the Chicago Federation of Labor urged an immediate congressional investigation into strike disorders at the Corn Products Refining company plant in Argo Illinois. He alleges guards fired on striking workers including women and children, with no provocation, and claims local authorities failed to act.
Paris dispatch reports L Intransigeant warns Switzerland risks losing its League of Nations seat if it fails to adhere within two months after the league begins operating. Geneva would no longer host the seat if expectations are not met.
Detroit July 12 Edsel Ford becomes president of Ford Motor company in a reorganization nearly complete with Henry Ford and Edsel as main partners. Frank L Klingensmith announced that all minority stock except a block held by James Cousens has been purchased.
Newport News Virginia July 12 with 8353 officers and men aboard the transport Huron arrived from Bordeaux Units included part of the 121st engineers and many casual companies for all parts of the country Eighty nine of the men were accompanied by wives they married in France.
Copenhagen July 12 Maximilian Harden editor of Die Zukunft Berlin probably will be appointed German ambassador to Washington once diplomatic relations are resumed according to the Fremdenblatt of Hamburg.
Washington reports renewed representations from Great Britain and France urging the United States to help Mexico regain stability so it can resume debt payments and protect foreign lives and property. British bondholders and French investors fear losses tied to loans and looted banks. French citizens with modest means had money in Mexican bonds earning no interest for six years.
Three transportsValacia Saxonia and Toloa arrived bringing units from the Eighty-seventh Depot Service and One Hundred and Fourteenth Guard companys army service corps. Saxonia carried engineers depot and medical staff, transportation corps units. Toloa hosted motor truck and transport detachments, military police and service park units.
Paris reports a semi official note that Marshal Joffre will sit on the grandstand with President Poincare and Premier Clemenceau at the Etoile during the peace parade. He will take salutes from Marshals Foch Petain and Pershing and other top commanders. He could not ride in the procession and his motor car would seem odd.
Gov Henry J Allen protests to the federal government over soldiers detained at Camp HM Va awaiting court martial. War department says men are prisoners awaiting trial.
President Wilson signed the District, army, navy and deficiency appropriation bills and a joint resolution directing the return of the country’s telegraph wires to private ownership.
Three allied warships from the American British and French navies head to Fiume where disorders have occurred between Italian troops and occupation forces. The allied supreme council approved the commission led by Generals Naulin Dirobilant and Summersall to investigate recent incidents and discuss the aerial convention before adjourning.
National League results show Chicago 6 Philadelphia 3 and New York 2 St Louis 0, with Pittsburgh 5 Brooklyn 2 and Cincinnati 4 6. American League notes Chicago 7 Philadelphia L Cleveland 5 New York 1 Detroit rain. Boston St Louis no game. American Association reports scattered scores: Columbus 6 Bloom 0 Peoria 8 Evansville 1 Moline 3 Terre Haute.
In Siberia near Romanovka and Novezhino, 300 Bolsheviks attacked an American camp of 74 men from Company A. Fifteen Americans and 25 Bolsheviks were killed or wounded as fighting persisted from June 25 through June 27. The raids damaged rail lines and telegraph, severing most communications along the Sudian railway.
New York July 12 The United States treasury department plans prosecutions of stock brokers who evaded income taxes. An examiner said the department is tracing funds allegedly wired from New York to banks elsewhere to conceal brokers earnings, with information being gathered for the district attorney’s office.
Securities valued at 2,000,000 belonging to former King Ferdinand of Bulgaria, in London since the war began, were declared forfeited to the crown after proceedings before a commissioner and a jury.
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