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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1919
Page
6
The Senate moves toward open sessions for the Colombia treaty and related accords with France and the Versailles framework. Leaders push for open doors Monday as foreign relations debates unfold, while experts prepared to testify on the peace terms and the League of Nations.
Former President Taft suggests interpretative reservations in the senate to unite moderate democratic and republican senators against drastic covenant amendments. Republicans favoring the league idea work on a program they believe will gain administration acceptance and lead to ratification.
A proposed financial reform program calling for 25 billion marks yearly was agreed by Finance Minister Matthias Erzberger and expert advisors. The plan, published by the North German Gazette, reflects complete consensus on reforms.
Philip Thompson aged 14, son of John West Thompson, American citizen, was kidnapped from his father's ranch thirty miles from Mexico City. Bandits hold him for 1500 pesos ransom after taking a horse and revolver and threatening execution if payment is not made. The State Department has been advised. Urgent representations have been made to the Mexican government.
Washington reports a bill unanimously approved by the immigration committee to deport 515 enemy aliens for violations of war statutes. The aliens are held at Fort Oglethorpe Georgia and Fort Douglas Utah, with hearings to be held by the Department of Justice before deportation.
Dallas hosts Texas Conference of Social Welfare annual meeting for three days beginning October 27. Beeville Bee County liquidates remaining 400000 of good roads bond issue. Orange ships 2000 cattle to San Diego for Nelms Rose plant. Zavalla Bank organized with 15000 capital stock. Carpenter president, Ely Tubb VP. Trinity reports Orah Ney found shot in road. Hico engineer killed on live wires. Brownsville ships first carload 1919 lower Rio Grande corn to El Paso mills. Ballinger farmers plan to import cotton pickers. crop best ever. Jacksonville notes prizes for clean premises. healthier sanitation. Houston first hospital maintenance fund subscription 500 dollars. Laredo man charged with morphine smuggling. bond set at 300 dollars. San Antonio surplus government foods to be sold next Friday. Wharton voting results show bond issue carried for highways. San Antonio reports five wool alcohol deaths in 60 days. pecan crop forecast strong but prices fall. Floresville two weeks of fruitless sun give way to 4.25 inch rain. boll weevils and leaf worms proliferate. crop damage suspected.
A road bond issue of 100000 will be voted in the special district along the Galveston Harrisburg and San Antonio Railway from Seguin to the Bexar County line on July 24. The bonds will be supplemented by 60000 from the federal government to build the Houston Bay Antonio highway link. A thorough organization has been perfected to carry the election.
Secretary of the Navy reports 297 Texans, including 11 from Houston and 9 from San Antonio, died from 1917 war start to July 1. Pneumonia and influenza were leading causes. 13 perished aboard Cyclops and 2 in Manley explosion. Listed Texans include Holmes Beaumont and Brown Palestine among many others.
German finance minister Mathias Erzberger disclosed that Germany had rejected a 1917 peace offer. He accused conservatives of blocking peace and faced socialist charges of murder. He cited a papal nuncio letter to Chancellor Michaels about Belgium independence and wartime guarantees.
The sale would quickly dispose of the 120000000 surplus stock of foodstuffs held by the War Department under a plan to ensure opportunity for the people to buy. Republicans on the House War Investigating Committee urged immediate action on Thursday. Democrats withheld decision pending review of subcommittee evidence.
Leading republican senators expect the peace treaty to remain in the foreign relations committee for four to six weeks as President Wilson resumes public speaking. Senator Lodge and other members seek information on debates, drafts, and the secret Japan Germany pact, while discussing the Colombia treaty and a revised payment figure of 15 million dollars.
San Antonio reports the reorganized Texas National Guard may hold its first encampment at Camp Mabry in August or September after a Washington letter on plans. Oklahoma troops in the same district may join Texas at camp late August. The reorganization creates three infantry regiments, one artillery regiment, engineers, signal, field hospital, ambulance, and six cavalry regiments.
Jess Willard paid $100,000 of a $175,000 price to purchase a 700 acre farm near Lawrence Kansas, following his $140,000 earnings from the July 4 boxing match with Jack Dempsey in Toledo.
Records on file in the Big Bend military district headquarters state that since December 1 1917 the Eighth Cavalry killed ten supposed Carranza officers and soldiers in the Big Bend and Ojinaga districts according to Colonel George T Langhorne the district commander.
An old advertisement promotes Dodson's Liver Tone as a safe vegetable liver cleanser that taxes calomel. It claims the product strengthens digestion, eliminates headaches and dizziness, and leaves the bowels regular without salivation, urging use by adults and children alike.
The passage presents a mix of quotations and jests from a 19th or early 20th century period, including a Birmingham Age citation about Solomon Islanders and a schoolyard fable. It features a teacher asking Willie to share fairly and a series of brief, pointed jokes about perception and intellect.
A dialogue from the Boston Tran script shows Maud declaring she will not sing without compensation. Another voice retorts that having her voice would still not imply singing for nothing.
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