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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1919
Page
1
President Wilson urged peace through a league of nations during a long transcontinental trip stop in Bismarck while a bill to curb cold storage begins to move in Congress. Separate dispatches note a mutiny in Honduras, a murder arrest in Athens Georgia, and Boston labor tensions as Coolidge mobilizes the guard.
Thousands line Fifth Avenue as 22 000 first division veterans march past in tribute to General John J Pershing. Pershing's Own guard and officers ride at the head, with delegates from 47 states and insular possessions and 4000 veterans among the crowd.
Reuben Vail and Ed Stephenson were fined 50 and costs each in municipal court for assaulting J. H. Petty and R. La Coley with rocks and rotten eggs at Alma Furniture during a picket and egging by union forces. Petty and Coley identified the defendants. alibi and defense witnesses appeared. Bonds set at 200 each. appeals likely. Petty testified he did not discharge union men and ran an open shop with 25 percent of workers union members.
Policemen Jim P Myers Jim Pierce and Dallas Stout were dismissed by city officials. Officials cited dissatisfaction with law enforcement actions during plant picketing. Chief Welch now has only Woods Martin and Sergeant Mungo, and is seeking new officers to fill the ranks.
Dallas reports two 14 year old boys robbed a drug store messenger and fled with $8 and a gallon of ice cream. St Paul notes George Liberty fought overseas for liberty while Gust Noosas borrowed Mrs Liberty's ring and paid a $5 fine to gain his liberty. Springfield item quotes Latham Smith collapsing after a telephone girl’s retort. St Louis mentions Cora Fay's long unpaid bill of 7 709 606. Oklahoma City reports over twenty married teachers in August per Superintendent Whiteford.
Reports from Key West indicate a tropical disturbance likely in the southwest Gulf of Mexico moving northwest. Wind at Key West reached 60 miles per hour as barometer stood at 29.8 inches.
Paris Sept 10 The Rumanian delegates did not sign the Austrian treaty awaiting government instructions. The supreme council has given them until Saturday to reveal their definite intentions according to the Havas Agency.
Washington reports union stee l workers pressed for a quick conference with President Wilson to avert a strike as conditions worsen in the steel industry. The meeting would last 48 hours for a reply, with action undetermined if the president’s response is unfavorable. Boston authorities meanwhile seized police control, called on state guards, and prepared regiments to prevent further looting after a police strike left the city vulnerable to disorder and theft exceeding 260,000 dollars in merchandise.
Perth blaze engulfs streets as 200000 gallons of spirits mainly whisky erupt in flames. Liquor ran along roadways and fed the fire, with firefighters considering damming the flow with sand to halt the inferno.
Southusea, England, Sept. 10. Thomas oe, a Crimea naval veteran aged 88, made a two hour voyage in an airship and a submarine ride underwater. He lamented the air pilot did not loop the loop.
Samuel Gompers will appear before District of Columbia commissioners on September 10 to plead for Washington policemen ordered to resign from their union or leave the force.
Helskingsfjords dispatch reports the British destroyer was mined near Sietuskaer on Wednesday. Twenty four officers and crew drowned in the incident.
In Indianapolis on September 106, women and children fainted as hundreds rushed a local grocery when Stanley Wyckoff sugar distributor for Indiana offered 10,000 pounds of sugar at 11 cents.
John L. Lewis acting president of the United Mine Workers warns in Cleveland that if the Lackawanna and Hudson strike of 26,000 miners continues, he will send the union's full force to persuade the strikers.
Washington observers note the senate foreign relations committee moved to favorably report William E. Gonzales of Columbia South Carolina as minister to Peru effectively ending any substantial opposition.
At St Germain on Sept 10 Dr Karl Renner head of the Austrian peace delegation signed the peace treaty between the allies and Austria at 10 15 Ambling to his seat he bowed and smiled to delegates Frank L Polk head of the US delegation Henry White and General Bliss followed Signing proceeded with formal bows to M Clemenceau as the French delegation passed and Renner remained courteous.
Los Angeles September 10 humorist John Kendrick Bangs predicted another war with Germany is inevitable. He argued hostilities may have ceased but propaganda warfare persists, disrupting relations among the Allies.
The foreign relations committee presented the German peace treaty to the senate with 45 amendments and four reservations. The amendments seek equal voting powers for the United States, control over domestic jurisdiction, and a Monroe Doctrine guarantee while shifting Shantung from Japan to China and barring U.S. commitments without Congress. The report argues these changes protect American sovereignty and avert breaches of faith that could spark wars.
Norman W. Bartlett, son of William H. Bartlett and owner of a 400000 acre Vermejo Ranch in New Mexico, died Thursday night on a train to Chicago. His father had died on the ranch about a year earlier. Bartlett also maintained a home in Santa Barbara, California.
A disabled Pennsylvania soldier in a federal vocational retraining program cheered up the board by recalling meals, saying you ought to see me eat. The remark came as the federal board for vocational education met wounded veterans in its efforts to retrain them.
From Greensboro Parker R. Anderson and O. L. Grubbs and Morganton resident Manly Mc Dowell spent a few hours in the city today for a brief visit.
In Glasgow on September 19 the Trade Union Congress adopted a resolution favoring nationalization of coal mines by an overwhelming vote. Robert Smillie led the miners in presenting the motion which passed 4,478,008 to 77,988.
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