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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1919
Page
1
A terse sports report notes tensions among card players as phrases like Let Us Alone and Out God First appear in heated exchanges. The piece highlights a confrontational mood and bold declarations as contests unfold within the scene.
A revival scene depicts church officials and congregants pleading to be left alone amid clashes over dancing liquor and music. Aboard stewards resist external pressure as preachers confront insistence and control within revival efforts.
A general strike of skilled workers started at the Carolina Shipbuilding Corporation in Wilmington as 1,009 employees quit in protest of alleged discrimination in favor of negro labor. The walkout followed a vote of 227 in favor and 7 against at a closed meeting.
Rev. Burke Culpepper led a Friday afternoon service at Wesley Memorial Church based on Psalm 139 urging self examination. He contrasted women's and men's observations, reflected on eye imagery, warned about sharing troubles, and favored traditional courting over modern conveniences while urging honest home reflection.
In Paris on Sept 20 the chamber of deputies heard M Pecaud press the war ministry on allowing families to remove their dead. He cited a bill to ban removals for three years due to transport limits and urged possible exhumation. M Brami, for the ministry, said exhumation was impossible and no exceptions would be made.
In Boston on Sept 20 the carmen union plans a special meeting to decide on action in the police strike. Police union members were invited to join. The outcome was not expected before tomorrow when allied unions report their sympathy actions.
Rio Janeri reports the Brazilian Ministry of Communications has authorized a contract with Handley Page to carry mail once Congress allocates funds. Lieutenant Locatelliof the Italian aviation mission to Argentina halted his Buenos Aires to Rio journey due to illness and weather and will sail to Rio Janeiro.
H. H. Merrick of Chicago, president of the Mississippi Valley association, denounced strikes in New Orleans addressing a meeting. He warned about local longshoremen seeking shorter hours and higher pay, criticizing labor leaders as drunk with power and questioning AFL unity and impact on national industry.
Washington news reports steps to speed final action on the peace treaty as the Senate, not in session, negotiates reservations. Informal talks between senators favoring mild and drastic reservations are planned while a test of strength on the article 3 amendment to equalize U S and Britain voting power looms next week. Republican leaders say Johnson will not be recalled from his speaking tour and view the league amendment as likely to pass. Democrats expect its defeat.
An Evening News dispatch from Kirkwall reports a White Star liner aground north of Ronaldsway after a gale. The vessel Ve dic of 5753 tons net refloated later, with 2000 Russian troops aboard believed to be on board.
A war office communique reports British, Serbian, and Russian troops routing Bolsheviks near Lake Onega and capturing two villages on the northwest shore. The incidents lack dates but are viewed as signaling a shift toward Petrograd with possible plans to evacuate Archangel via that route.
Washington reports to the department on justice of profiteering in shoes and other wearing apparel and price increases for the new sugar crop prompted the department to urge Chairman Haughen of the agricultural committee to act early on the amendment to the food control act.
A young woman attempted to kiss General Pershing as he left a Washington hotel function. Staff restrained her after she wrapped an arm around his neck, triggering a crowd surge and Pershing rushing to his car. The incident left one worker facing a $100 loss from a wager.
Miss Mars C. Kilbreth, longtime acting president of the New York State Woman Voters' Anti-Suffrage party, announced at a house warming that she succeeded Mrs. James S. Wadsworth Jr. as president of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage.
About 300 high school students left classes at 10 am in Cedar Rapids Iowa marching downtown to Grant Vocational school where they were joined by roughly 200 more pupils in a protest for shorter class periods.
The Enterprise printed nineteen thousand four hundred seventy lines of advertising yesterday showing merchants value ad space to reach buyers. Advertising replaces old selling methods and reflects merchants investing in up to date promotions.
Copenhagen dispatch says the Petrograd city soviet has empowered its commissaries to start peace negotiations with the allies on conditions fixed by the allies. No central government peace offer reported. Report notes Petrograd living conditions are dire with a cholera epidemic and famine threats.
All United States Steel plants in the district will close tonight for an indefinite period if any worker is a member of the steel workers union. Fully loyal plants will stay open and workers will be cared for by the company, per unverified reports from a trusted source.
Freeport Pennsylvania September 206 attorney general Palmer urged a six month absolute industrial armistice to allow solving economic issues caused by the war.
In New York on September 20 reports said negotiations aimed at absorbing the American Tobacco Company by United Retail Stores Corporation were underway. The deal would involve at least the tobacco firm’s capital of 50 million dollars.
London reports informal talks on a working accord between younger Unionist members led by Lord Robert Cecil and the Labour Party. Lloyd George aims to lead such a coalition, with wide possibilities as he returns to London. Much depends on Labour’s response to joining in ministry reconstruction.
About 25 members are expected for the Western North Carolina Press Association annual fall meeting in Asheville. Sessions run morning, afternoon, and evening with a banquet at the Board of Trade rooms on Broadway as guests of the local trade organization.
The body of William B. Bixby of Davenport was found on a street in Iowa City last night. Authorities report a broken neck and a disordered room three floors below the body. The room door was locked and clothing was hidden in the room.
Key West divers inspect the sunken Valbanera wreck after the hurricane disaster. About 450 passengers and crew were aboard the Spanish steamer en route to Havana when it foundered. Searches continue for survivors or bodies as two Cuban vessels aid the operation.
In Corpus Christi and coastal towns residents resumed a flood of searches for more hurricane disaster victims. Officials warned the death toll may double as shoreline searches continue while city services recover and relief committees urge clothing and financial aid for refugees. Food supplies were reported adequate.
London Sept 20 The Cork Examiner the sole Irish paper to print a Sinn Fein loan advertisement has been suppressed by British authorities Troops occupy the newspaper plant and seize print equipment amid the action.
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