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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1919
Page
1
Investigators report profiteering by High Point grocers in side meat ham and breakfast bacon. Prices show 13.5 cents per pound for side meat, 15 cents for ham, and 18 cents margin on bacon, deemed excessive beyond legal limits. case to District Attorney W. C. Hammer.
In Hickory North Carolina John Fredell was shot five times by Longe John Lail in front of his wife and children. The shooting followed a daytime dispute over liquor and the victim was buried in a large crowd. The report notes the incident as a cold blooded homicide in Burke county.
Five masked men robbed the Rowland North Carolina post office early today firing shots and escaping in a stolen car. Authorities say the loot totaled about 1500 dollars in stamps liberty bonds and cash with the car abandoned at Fayetteville as investigators pursue a train likely used by the robbers.
Paris August 26 The peace treaty with Germany and accompanying conventions, signed at Versailles, were presented for ratification to the chamber this afternoon by Premier Clemenceau.
A Bolshevik government wireless message from Moscow admits that allied forces occupied Odessa, the chief Russian port on the Black Sea. The occupation followed a two day bombardment by 30 vessels, according to dispatches.
In Alliance Ohio a mutilated head of a six month old child was found beside the Pennsylvania railroad tracks east of the city. Police search for the trunk and continue the investigation into the grisly discovery.
Washington reports say Russian Soviet interests fund propaganda to inflame race tensions in the United States. Justice Department officials confirm an organized effort described by Rep. Byrne of South Carolina. Newspapers are cited as vehicles in a widening investigation into I W W and Soviet links.
Announcement from Greenville reports Major General EK M Lewis who commanded the 30th division Over geas will address the division association reunion on September 20. Brig Gen Lawrence Tyson of Knoxville Brig Gen S W Fatson of North Carolina and Sgt Robert L Fulton of North Carolina are listed as other speakers. Governors from Tennessee North Carolina and South Carolina will respond to welcome addresses.
London reports the war office states General Denekine, the anti Bolshevik leader in southern Russia, is continuing a rapid advance along the entire western front.
Director General of Railroads Hines asked the wages and working conditions board to promptly consider any claims by railroad workers for readjustments to ensure equal treatment under the general wage adjustment principle. He cited yesterday’s four cent per hour shopmen increase as a step toward applying the ten hours pay for eight hours work rule to all workers, despite public interests in avoiding broad wage hikes.
Washington reports two A. Kk. F. soldiers unaccounted for from the battle against Germans. Earlier lists showed over 100 missing. Total U S casualties reach 291 732 with 777 422 deaths from all causes.
In Vladivostok Aug 26 Lieu tenant General Bozenoff, the highest Russian authority in eastern Siberia, denies reports that Admiral Kolchak’s government has abandoned Omsk and moved to Irkutsk.
Grace Kephart died at Wade Mecum Monday morning. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 4 PM at Wesley Memorial Methodist Episcopal church with Rev. W A Lambeth Rev J H Earnhardt and Rev James A Clarke officiating. Interment in Oakwood Cemetery. Daughters of the American Revolution members urged to attend.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee quickly passed a string of amendments to the peace treaty removing the United States from international commissions overseeing European reconstruction. The roll was nine to seven along party lines. American representation would be dropped from these commissions except the reparations body and others set by the League of Nations.
Edward Kraus, a burglary convict from Monroe County, took his own life at Auburn Prison by drinking wood alcohol after an escape from a road camp, was recaptured within hours. The incident occurred amid his struggle to modify his sentence and regain freedom.
In Hornell New York a young boy noted a brief shower of hail or freezing precipitation that fell for five minutes though the sun shone, melting quickly as it touched the ground.
Paul McFarland has left his parents and returned to Charlotte where he works.
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