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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1918
Page
3
In a Washington address to 95 Mexican editors, President Wilson defends U S policy toward Mexico as disinterested and friendly He says U S aims to aid Mexico, not interfere, and advocates a Pan American bond to protect political independence and territorial integrity while urging trust over suspicion. He cites naval rumors as German misinformation and stresses mutual respect and peaceful cooperation.
In a June 5 air clash over France two German flights misidentified friends and attacked each other. British leaders drew the trap, shooting down the decoy Halberstadt and two German scouts while other German planes fell in battle. A separate engagement saw about eight British planes defeat nearly forty enemy machines, with several Germans killed orcrashed. An observer died in a separate duel while a pilot barely escaped with his life and fallen comrade.
June 12 a resolution by the American Medical Association urges President Wilson to keep Major General Wm. C. Gorgas as Surgeon General despite impending retirement next October. A second resolution calls on members to focus wartime procurement on U.S. and allied homegrown products when possible. Gorgas supported granting women doctors equal military rank. Mrs. Martha H. W. Rockhill urged equal rank for women serving in France, noting about 2000 have volunteered. The delegates will elect officers Thursday morning for the coming year. Governor Lewden of Illinois addressed the convention.
Washington reports the house ways and means committee drafting a wartime tax bill to include installment payments. Albert R. Palmer of New York urges provisions. Debate centered on taxing gross sales and gross incomes versus war profits and stock dividends.
Center ville Iowa June 12 A cashier CE Tucker was locked up bound and gagged in the Moravia State Savings bank vault all night. Employees freed him when the bank opened. $6,200 is missing and no burglars have been captured.
Pittsfield June 12 The funeral of Mrs Edward Huseman was held Tuesday morning in St Marys Catholic church with Rev Fr Curran officiating Interment was in the Catholic cemetery north of town She died Saturday night after several weeks illness She is survived by her husband her mother many brothers and one sister County Clerk W S Binns issued a license to marry Creston McNary and Miss Ethel Campbell both of New Canton A meeting on War Savings Stamps sales is set for Wednesday evening in Kinderhook with speakers Lee Capps H P Hooper and Bentley Caughlan George Geisendorfer of Bluffs visiting his daughter Mrs R D Conboy in the city The June term of the circuit court opens next Monday with Judge Harry Higbee presiding There will be no jury and only chancery and nonjury cases There have been fourteen new chancery cases since April There are five divorce cases three partition suits three foreclosures one quiet title suit one deed set aside bill and one bill for homestead and dower Also common law cases Filed Supervisor T E Aldrich appointed chair of the War Savings committee for Levee township He will campaign for War Savings Stamps Mrs C W Caughlan returned from Payson Bus Davis stationed at Newport News Va on a ten day furlough The county board of supervisors voted to submit a county tuberculosis sanatorium proposition to a general election vote The Liberty Loan flag was presented by R T Hicks chairman of the Liberty Loan committee to counties and cities that met their quota Pike county sold over 150 percent of its quota The flag will be kept in the office of County Clerk W S Binns Mr and Mrs James Ducey and daughter Rue spent Sunday at Jefferson Barracks Mo with Virgil Ducey who recently enlisted
Edward Pickup and family of Springfield have been spending many days with relatives and friends as a son of Mr. and Mrs. Ducey is stationed there with the army.
A patented detachable heel allows replacement without tools. The invention adds a separate heel component that can be attached easily to existing shoe bodies, promising quicker repairs and customizable comfort.
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