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Newspaper
Laramie Boomerang
Location
Laramie, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1919
Page
1
Suffragists plan campaigns as state legislatures consider ratification before the next presidential election. In states delaying sessions, calls for special sessions arise while anti suffragists concede only remote delay prospects. Twenty nine states already grant some form of women's suffrage.
Forty carloads of flour have been distributed by the American relief commission in Russia. Following the Bolshevist evacuation of Petrograd, the city faces pressure from Lettish and German volunteers.
Mexico City reports a potential exodus of about one hundred thousand California wine growers and makers seeking to relocate. With prohibition threatening ruin, vast grape growing areas in northern Mexico stand ready to supply wine making. President Carranza supports the movement and Mexico’s agriculture department plans aid to resettle and rebuild the industry.
Cedar Rapids reports Lowden Iowa without a mayor as six prominent German citizens hide. A scuffle in the park left the mayor with a damaged face after Struck challenged him and others fled. One man tried to draw a revolver, was disarmed and fined five dollars.
The article notes a high court showdown as wets and drys dispute whether state referendums can ratify the Eighteenth Amendment. Fourteen states have referendum laws with action already underway in ten. Ohio may lead action pending state court decisions.
The Austrian government decreed a three day national period of mourning in protest against the peace terms handed them by the allies in Zurich.
June 5. A new private secretary to Senator Francis E. Warren has been chosen. He wired the senator naming the appointment and expects to report within thirty days. The Lander Commercial notes his prior service and his recent active push for Wyoming.
Michael Jf. Ryan of Philadelphia, a Friends of Irish Freedom delegate, says Irish unity under Freedom is near and that five to six of the population would back full separation. Chicago delegates Frank P. Walsh and Edward F. Dunne to arrive, with hopes Wilson uses influence for safe passage for Irish leaders to France and the peace conference.
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Three seal eales totaling about 0,080 pounds were sold by Charles Carter for Brown at 51 1/2 cents and handled by J. H. for Union company at 52 cents. Two clips remain from the spring crop of Allen and Robinson. Salmon Brothers’ 100,000 pound clip shorn in the past two weeks was sold yesterday with price undisclosed, believed to exceed 50 cents. Wool is at Sublet awaiting loading.
New York reports the Salvation Army home service fund drive aims for 13 million dollars. Commander Booth notes the national campaign, with strong support from veterans and cautious business leaders, has surpassed five million and will exceed the target as funds continue to come in.
Winnipeg reports a hopeful settlement in twenty four hours as labor delegates from the province were urged to appear for talks. The plan is to reach an honorable agreement for both sides. Washington warns that the United States and Canada face wider disruption if the strike in Atlanta continues. President Konenkamp says telegraphers and electrical workers will strike unless sanctioned and notes a general strike date to be announced within seventy two hours.
Seattle June 5 James Bruce the first of 27 radicals arrested after the general strike was found not guilty of leadership anarchism by a jury in the superior court. The prosecutor then said he would drop other cases except against individuals with stronger evidence.
London June 6 General Jan e Christian Smuts has not been approached on the subject of the British ambassadorship to the United States as reported from Washington according to Reuters Ltd.
Street car employes have joined a general strike in Vancouver British Columbia forcing thousands to walk to work or stay home.
Railroad men predict higher dining car prices once private control returns. Before the war most lines charged 2 to 2.50 dollars a meal. Government wartime caps cut meals to 1 dollar, with some lines using a la carte while others kept table d hote. When government control ends, the 1 dollar meal may disappear.
Springfield June 5 A joint resolution was introduced in the state senate for ratification of the woman suffrage amendment. Illinois aims to lead in adopting the constitutional change and set a precedent for other states.
In Wilkes-Barre a Baltimore tunnel blast at the Delaware and Hudson Coal Co. kills eighty five, with up to one hundred feared dead as sixteen cars carrying about 200 men were entering the tunnel. Deaths come from inhaled fumes and fires. many bodies blown to atoms. Relatives search wreckage as relief workers remove victims.
President Carlton of Western Union says only 42 of 600 workers walked out in Atlanta. Union claims 62 quit and will not return until demands are met. The report labels the figure as misleading.
A national symposium shows editors favor private ownership and operation of railroads. Of 5,922 responses, 83 percent support private management, 75 percent back railroad competition, and 78 percent oppose government ownership. Regional splits vary by party, with Texas Democratic editors 68 percent in favor and Pennsylvania Republicans 84 percent against extending government control.
Paris June 5 The allies will issue a formal answer to German counter proposals by June 12. Big Four experts prepare joint recommendations while Britain and the United States edge toward agreement on changes. efforts to win French support and Turkish delegates to act as witnesses in forthcoming discussions on upper Silesia and related terms.
Washington dispatch reports the American Federation of Labor will take measures at its Atlantic City convention to keep organized labor free of anarchist and Bolshevist elements. Cheyenne proclaims next week Boy Scout week in Wyoming per Governor Carey.
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