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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1919
Page
4
The piece surveys mutiny on a North Carolina coast schooner with a Porto Rican crewman facing murder and mutiny charges, noting the death penalty for either crime. It also discusses DAnnunzio's affair in Fiume, Italy, and the royal government's response amid tensions with the peace conference and potential shifts to a republic.
The former head of the Committee on Public Information, George Creel, is set to write a page for Leslie's Weekly with editorial permission for free expression. Criticism notes the high spending of his era and questions the value of his work to the public image of the United States.
Today marks the start of autumn and a wide range of events. The University of California Berkeley opened to students fifty years ago, Salt Lake City welcomes President Wilson for the League of Nations talk, and a Chicago meeting kicks off efforts to form a national building contractors association. Finance and business issues will be discussed by the Farm Mortgage Bankers Association in Chicago. Rural carriers meet in Dayton to consider legislative aims, pay, and possible AFL ties. Primaries in New Jersey and a four cornered Massachusetts gubernatorial race headline political action today. California and other states see conventions from the tuberculosis discussion in Des Moines to a Colorado American Legion gathering and the Alhambra and varnish industry meetings in various cities.
Moore Shipbuilding Company of Oakland plans a sextuple launch to set a new world record on October 11 with three tankers and three freighters entering Oakland harbor. The vessels total 64,200 tons, with the 12,000 ton tankers City of Reno Salina and Sapupa and the 9,400 ton freighters Talapa Moselle and Jaelow. President Wilson and Secretary Baker will press start buttons in Washington to begin the launches.
The timeline lists 1869 gold in New York at 144 with conspirators aiming for 200, 1891 ex Missouri governor Albert P Morehouse’s death, 1902 troops quell iron and steel unrest, 1909 Gunnison tunnel opening, 1912 universal peace congress in Geneva, 1914 French Peronne capture, 1915 reports of new Allied army at Dardanelles, 1916 Zeppelin raid on London, 1917 War Secretary Baker reviews Rainbow Division at Camp Mills.
Eugene N Foss seeks the Democratic nomination for governor of Massachusetts as primaries approach. A former Republican leader, he joined Democrats in 1909 and served three Massachusetts governor terms before losing re election in 1913. Foss is a leading U S manufacturer and Canada reciprocity advocate. born in Vermont, brother of Illinois congressman George Edmund Foss.
Today marks anniversaries for six public figures. Dr. Sidney KB Mezes born Belmont California 56 years ago. Emmet O Neal born Florence Alabama 56 years ago. Thomas Mott Osborne born Auburn New York 10 years ago. Rev James L Barton born Charlotte Vermont 64 years ago. Joseph D Sayers born Grenada Mississippi 75 years ago.
Allied patrols began invasion of Bulgaria and Serbian troops cut a main Bulgar railroad. British Army in Palestine captured 25 900 Turkish troops and 260 fans. Today’s calendar of sports notes racing at Aqueduct and Havre de Grace and trotting at Columbus grand circuit meet.
The Shah of Persia is enroute to London but the Persian legation states the visit will be unofficial with few attendants. London may host him at the Persian legation, as Britain increases influence in Persian affairs. A later trip to the United States is noted.
Advertisement notes new furs at D. T. Andrews dated 9-19-41. Mentions 10,000 cubic yards of dirt from the exhibit building and urges filling lots, directing inquiries to J. A. Dalton and work to begin about August 10, 1911.
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