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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1919
Page
2
Washington reports the Agriculture Department calls for federal control of meat manufacture sale and distribution to curb high consumer prices and prevent future shortages. It says there is no longer need for meat conservation cites ample supply and notes beef cattle prices fell since March 1.
John P. Kinsman, VC hero of the Boer War, and Otto Schuele were sentenced in New York to no less than one year and three months in Sing Sing for swindling New Zealand sheep raiser Newport Logan out of 7000 dollars. They lured Logan into a supposed Canadian race bet after discovering no races had been run in Canada for a year.
San Francisco story details James Bourke a miner from Good Springs Nevada who visited the beach with a buoyant wooden leg. After swimming he left the leg on shore and found it gone when he returned, joking that the tide had stolen his wooden limb.
At Lake Madison near Sioux Falls between ten and fifteen people are reported drowned after an excursion boat struck a snag and overturned twice. About thirty were aboard. fifteen had been rescued by midnight. Poor wire communication delayed fuller details from the scene.
Passengers arriving from Mexican ports report about two thousand Mayo Indians joining Felix Diaz in the Peto district of Yucatan. General Hernandez, Carranza’s garrison commander there, has sent federal forces with cannon and machine guns in pursuit of the Indians.
July 4 report notes a delay in presenting the completed peace treaty to Austrian delegates as drafting remains unfinished. La Liberte states that Italy related clauses still need insertion before finalizing the document.
In Columbus on July 5 William G McAdoo urged defending the League of Nations amid crowd estimates of 25 000 to 30 000 at the Methodist Centenary exposition. Officials say over 110 000 visited the grounds that day, nearly triple the Willard Dempsey crowd in Toledo. The audience endorsed a pro league resolution after his speech and a 10 000 strong religious pageant from 38 nations closed the day.
In Knoxville Tennessee on July 5 lawyer J Arthur Atchley urged a long penitentiary term for Charles DeArmond convicted of selling opium. He argued a sentence to Atlanta could be fatal and that one year was insufficient to break the habit. DeArmond asked for jail rather than prison. Judge E T Sanford took the case under advisement.
Three transports the General Gurgas the Elient and Rhode Island arrived from France on Friday. Three more ships the Siboney the El Sol and the Mercury wirelessed they would dock. The eight thousand men aboard are mostly Negroes from eastern and southern states. The ships due to dock carry about 8,000 more men, though the aboard organizations could not be ascertained.
Maywood Missouri. Lingg attempted to take over the Maywood Missourian but the deal with current owner Mr Gardner fell through. The paper will remain under Gardner's management with the Gardner family continuing in town. Locals note Margerite Cason will train executives in Chicago. Leon Lindstrom and Margaret Patton wed in Monroe City and plan to live in a Maywood bungalow after his return from service. Various residents and visitors are listed with brief notes on travel and activities.
Four parachute jumpers including Major T Orde Lees and Miss Sylvia Boyden leapt from over 1000 feet at College Park to test Sperry’s new parachute. Plane carried motion picture crews as Lawrence Sperry’s design featured a shock absorber and quick releasing device.
On the George Washington and the Oklahoma at noon today twenty one gun salutes marked the Fourth of July. King Albert of Belgium sent warm wishes for the welfare of the United States and independence. President Wilson replied with cordial good wishes and hope for a new era of independence and prosperity for Belgium.
Milwaukee July 5 The first meeting of the new National Educational Association board favored Salt Lake City as the site for the next annual convention. Julia Lathrop spoke on child welfare in schools with emphasis on the Junior Red Cross. Mrs Josephine Corliss Preston of Washington was elected president along with other officers.
A planned Fourth of July commemoration in Cork was banned by military authorities. A Sinn Fein MP was slated to speak, while Napoleon 1¢ supposedly defended Nero in school days and denounced Tacitus. Lower Manhattan faced oversupply of commercial space in 1916 amid busy downtown demand.
Washington July 5 A famous reply Retreat Hell no to a French order at Chateau Thiery has been traced to Captain Lloyd M Williams of the 51st Company Fifth Marines. He reported the retort to his battalion commander then died six days later after being gassed and wounded. The phrase was later attributed to General Bundy before officials clarified Williams as the source.
Alton B Parker is named president succeeding V Event Macey who retires due to ill health. Macey will serve as vice president and remain on the executive council. The federation expands its work to reconstruction and labor issues and conducts a campaign against Bolshevism including textbooks scrutiny in schools and colleges.
Army balloon crew member Sergeant A. Marquard of the thirty first United States balloon company is missing after a captive balloon broke from moorings above Lake Erie during a flight over the Willard Dempsey arena. Fred Delavan, a New York motion picture man, was rescued by a motor boat party. Delavan reported no trace of Marquard by nightfall.
Nearly four hundred Keokuk residents rode the steamer Keokuk on a Friday river excursion, with the same boat later taking about two hundred passengers to Hannibal. The Alabama from St. Louis with a separate excursion was not yet in sight near 11 o clock last night.
E. F. Hunsaker returned home Thursday after visiting H. F. Wagner of Waterloo Iowa. Dan Barry came back Friday from Springfield where he attended his high school fraternity reunion and enjoyed his first return since moving to Quincy. Robert Pagett of Keokuk visited Harry Githens at 1228 Vermont Street on Friday.
In Chicago on Friday a temperature of 95 degrees was recorded. Coroner reports attribute three deaths to heat, outlining the lethal effects of the heat wave on residents.
CHICAGO July 5 An unidentified man went missing after fire tore through a yacht basin destroying twenty one boats and threatening a crowded amusement park. Cap'n George Wellington Streeter, the river pirate known for Lake Shore acres squatting, was seen on a launch that caught fire and sank during the blaze as he towed about thirty five boats to safety.
The cruiser Huntington arrived in Boston harbor from Brest with 56 officers and 1,815 enlisted men. The transport includes the 400th and 47th aero squadrons, 70th veterinary hospitals, camp hospital 250, 69th depot service company and casual companies from Wisconsin and Georgia.
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