18 May 1919
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Newspaper
Laredo Weekly Times
Location
Laredo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1919
Page
1
The food administration grain corporation will be renamed The United States Grain Corporation and its capital stock raised from 150 million to 500 million dollars by executive order dated May 14, per a cable from Herbert Hoover.
Washington May 17 Senate and House convene for the first session since victory in the great war. The Sixty sixth Congress, in an extraordinary session, faces peace and reconstruction tasks. Notable figures include Senators Walsh McCormick Newberry Elkins Edge Harrison and Phipps.
Today Norway marks the 105th anniversary of its independence. A conference of Republican representatives from the Sixty-sixth Congress will meet to plan for an extra session. The eleventh annual exhibition of the National Railway Appliances Association opens in Chicago as city editors from many newspapers gather there.
Seaplane No 4 arrived at Horta Azores at 1 25 GMT with landfall at Flores at 11 35 No 1 close behind as No 3 passed Station 17 at 9 15 The task force noted wireless contact with torpedo tender Melville before noon In Pensacola Ensign Fowler and Chief Quartermaster Liyar were killed in a seaplane crash Washington reported NC4 arrived at Horta after leaving Trepassy at 6 o clock yesterday
London May 17 Earl Curzon of Kedleston told the Primrose League that if Germany refuses to sign the treaty the allies are not unprepared for any emergency. He added there can be no substantial modification of the peace terms. Berlin May 17 reports a plebiscite plan if concessions are refused. Demonstrations in Hamburg opposed the peace terms. Paris May 17 Austria would pay one twentieth of Germany’s indemnity, five billion gold marks. Italians seek return of art treasures to Rome.
From Trepassy the trio of airmen led by sea plane No. 4 reported at 8 30 this morning reaching two thirds of the course to the Azores as they flew toward Ponta Delgada in the Azores command.
The Bay's News notes Spain faces industrial and political tensions that could erupt, but celebrates King Alfonso XIII's birthday as he remains personally popular with all classes. The piece highlights his survival from multiple assassination attempts, his youthful rise, and his humanitarian stance during the late war as head of a Prisoners of War Bureau.
Paris May 17 The exchange of credentials between the Austrian peace delegation and representatives of the allied and associated powers will occur Monday at 3 30 o clock local time at the peace conference venue.
Paris May 17 Italy relinquishes its claim to the Dodecanese islands off the Asia Minor coast in favor of Greece. This ends a major controversy before the peace conference.
President Wilson reviewed the Red Cross parade in New York City as a war remembrance. Reports note hundreds of women and children lost in a Russian transport sinking. A German division near Dvinsk mutinied and refused to mobilize for the front.
Washington reports the 77th division New York National Army achieved the largest advance by any American division in France, moving seventy and one half kilometers. The 2d and 42d divisions followed in second and third, respectively.
Governors of many states and mayors of cities promise to observe America Day urged by the American Defense Society to begin a campaign against Bolshevism during the annual convention of the National City Editors Association.
The Southern Baptist convention establishes a new educational board to be based in Birmingham Alabama with Rev J W Glothlin of Louisville Kentucky named corresponding secretary and executive head.
Fort Worth Texas May 17 Rail road extensions to the new Texas oil field likely will start before lines revert to private ownership says B F Bush regional director here today.
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