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Newspaper
New Mexico State Record
Location
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1919
Page
2
Allied leaders led by Marshal Foch prepare a strike if Hunt refuses to sign a peace pact. The plan centers on forcing concessions to end hostilities and secure a formal agreement with the opposing side.
Paris May 20 Marshal Fochtwidt reports plans for military actions to be used if German plenipotentiaries decline to sign the peace. Pershing’s London visit may be postponed awaiting Allied responses. Reconstructive programs and economic shifts tied to wartime realities are discussed amid diplomatic debate.
Heavy laden United States Navy dirigible OF broke from its moorings at Trepassey and veered into the harbor. It drifted eighty five miles off shot according to a report. The crew fought for control for six hours. One injury noted a sprained ankle. Washington, a separate accident reported involved a boy dead after being struck by an automobile. Lindsley resigns as director for the War Risk Insurance bureau.
In fighting after Greek troops landed at Smyrna a clash left about two hundred Turks and one hundred Greeks dead. The engagement followed the initial landing and occurred near Constantinople, with both sides suffering significant casualties.
Waxnington Senator overson of North Carolina who chairs the Senate committee on propaganda said a bill designed to reach persons advocating overthrow of the government by force will be introduced in the extra session. He was among the men tailed in the May day bomb plot, but the package was held up by post office authorities.
In Hermosillo the legislature voted to repeal the current dry law and permit liquor sales in the state. The law may take effect by June 1. Agua Prieta already plans saloons and an active rush for licenses seen as highly valuable amid expected American patronage.
British fleet anchored off the coast of East Prussia to stand guard as Memel is occupied. The move reflects strategic postwar security aims and assertive posture in the Baltic region.
Western Newspaper Union report from London May 17 notes a British force near Memel, with plans for occupation. Berlin and Paris dispatches discuss multiple peace treaty drafts. It describes Germany prepared to prompt ratification linked to trade resumption, and outlines anticipated negotiations in Constantinople and with Italy and Yugoslavia. The piece mentions Turkish Bulgarian accords, Adriatic settlement, and German policy under Chancellor Scheidemann advocating adherence to Wilsonian principles. Reports also cover Allied naval concentrations at Smyrna and U.S. force deployments, plus Latvia Lithuania Bolshevik tensions and German influence around Riga.
After June 15 the prohibition on issuing passports to wives and mothers of American officers and enlisted men will be removed. The State Department announced that passports will be issued in such cases provided the servicemen are not about to return home, but travelers may not reenter the United States within six months.
Telegraph sprints from Paris and Berlin report President Ebert defending the peace treaty and urging German restraint while Marshal Foch is sent to the Rhine to prepare for action if signings fail. The Four Powers debate immediate blockade reimposition or lift upon signatures with notes on reparations and territorial changes. British air raids strike Dakka near the Afghan frontier with heavy casualties and gun captures.
Washington reports the sixty sixth Congress will convene in an extraordinary session called by President Wilson from Paris. In Werapington German propaganda is blamed for Mexican reports of large Chinese and Japanese immigration. Officials say no such mass movement was sent, and both the Japanese embassy and Chinese legation deny the claims.
Daily aerial mail service on the Chicago to Cleveland leg of the Chicago New York route is established on a satisfactory schedule. One flight per day from each terminus to Bryan, Ohio, the relay point, arranged until expansion is complete. Elapsed time for the Chicago to Cleveland relay was three hours and thirteen minutes.
A split in the Hun envoy delegation over the terms of the peace treaty at Versailles leads to the resignation of the envoy chief. The move signals growing discord within the delegation as negotiations continue.
Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau heads the German peace delegation amid reports of deep rifts with Berlin over the treaty. A split exists between those opposed to signing and a minority urging acceptance, with the count possibly returning to Berlin to seek government guidance.
Chicago detectives followed a man carrying a typewriter from State Street to a bar. He claimed the machine came from Pittsburgh and admitted offering it for whisky. After ten minutes of typing he produced a garbled phrase, then was locked up.
Irma Caster, nineteen, a Rentschler school teacher in Washtenaw county, lay in University Hospital with five bullet wounds as Robert Warner, nineteen, a discharged soldier, was jailed after admitting he shot her in her schoolroom. He planned the attack after she refused his advances and had bought the revolver four days earlier.
In Martine California Miss Onelta Hall was found not guilty after an hour of deliberation in the Sacramento river houseboat murder trial. The defense claimed self defense while the prosecutor argued robbery as the motive. Washington reports: soldiers who married abroad may receive immediate discharge on arrival. Congress plans to investigate front line casualties after the armistice, noting heavy losses on November 11 before the armistice took effect.
San Francisco papers report the protected cruiser Marbiehend en route from San Diego to San Francisco for naval duty was mysteriously slowed near Pigeon Point. A fifty-foot whale was found on the bow ram by searchlight. Commander Charles H Heft informed the mayor's office. The vessel was placed on sale for 308 dollars to raise funds for crew entertainment arrangements.
Miss Eva Lunt spent 180 dollars on items for the bottom drawer after receiving an engagement ring from George William Wilkinson who went to Woolwich for munition work. The courtship lasted two years before he wrote that he could not be useful and would be no good to anyone.
A chaotic police report notes burglars invaded Philip Neluh's home. Revolvers were found, but two suspects were taken along by the burglars. A bartender John Dooner fired at the floor and accidentally shot his own foot while attempting intimidation.
A carrier pigeon with an eight note attached to its leg landed at a hotel window in Atlantic City prompting naval coast guards to rescue Ensign C. E. near the shore after his boat disabled at sea.
C B Denver lists carload prices for hay and grain with noted discounts on 48 lb sacks and related terms. The fragment references Hungarian patent and discount notes, but specifics are unclear. Entities include C B Denver and mentions of hay grain pricing and packaging weights.
A fragmented listing shows metal market settlement prices for Colorado and Chicago inputs. It notes values for silver, tungsten, live stock including cattle and hogs, butter and poultry prices, potatoes, grains, and sugar costs, with scattered figures and unit measurements across markets.
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