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Newspaper
Quincy Whig
Location
Quincy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1919
Page
1
Washington reports show negotiations on the peace treaty proceeding mainly outside the Senate chamber. debate centers on the Johnson amendment for equal voting power with Britain and potential procedural moves, with no firm statements from leaders.
CHICAGO Sept 25 four men two brothers Walter Leo and William Filipkowski and John Wejda a postal clerk were held on 25000 bonds after confessing to stealing 234000 from Standard Oil Indiana payroll at Whiting Ind last week as money moved in transit Police postal inspectors say they recovered 15600 leaving 97300 unaccounted The hearing was set for Sept 29 William Filipkowski was arrested after about 10000 was taken from a bank he had deposited it.
Jefferson City Sept 25 Gov Gardner begins a ten day state tour. He no longer denies he is a candidate and friends and appointees press his bid. Mrs Gardner accompanies him on leg one by auto through several counties visiting the Soldiers Home Mt Vernon state sanitarium and the Southwest Star Teachers Institute at Springfield.
New York September 25 Twelve American owned steamships valued at over 10 million dollars, owned by a German subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey, have been ordered from German ports to the Firth of Forth for allocation among Allied nations at war with Germany. The action, said to be ordered by the allied naval armistice commission president, was protested by Standard Oil to the U.S. State Department and the Shipping Board. Cable reports from Paris say Frank Polk sought to have eighteen tank ships assigned to Germany, while the Brest peace council ordered the vessels turned over to the Allies.
Chicago dispatch notes signs of activity at United States Steel plants on the third strike day. Reports of 1400 to 3000 workers returning to Gary and Illinois Steel South Chicago were denied by union chiefs. Inland Steel at Indiana Harbor planned six months closure, with 400 to 500 men ready to return if protected. Local officials pledged more forces amid fears of clashes.
New York dispatch reports eleven U S war vessels docked at the navy yard with crews too small for operation. A shortage of enlisted men and officer resignations raise the prospect that Atlantic fleet fall and winter maneuvers may be abandoned. Destroyers suffer the heaviest losses as men depart. Many officers have resigned to Secretary Daniels over navy salaries.
Washington reports a new three ton experimental military tank by the army ordnance bureau. Details are scarce but it weighs half as much as the six ton fighting flivver used in France. The war department's program includes thousands of tanks across several weight classes, with the three ton model among the smallest planned.
In Pittsburgh on September 25, organized labor’s strategy board met to plan action as the steel workers strike spreads. Officials report mixed conditions across plants like Homestead, Clairton, Braddock, Duquesne, and Jones and Laughlin while unions claim progress and hunger for further organizing. Secretary Foster says 342,000 workers are on strike, Homestead might close by week’s end, but company reports claim mills operate near normal and rioting occurred in New Castle and Farrell until calmer conditions emerged.
Wireless tele graph instruments will receive weather observations from Arlington, Virginia for balloon races. Sets have been installed at Meramec Park to time with the Arlington station. Army and navy balloons will join the championship race Friday afternoon and use wireless data on wind conditions. A circular wire aerial will replace the trailing wire, per Lieut. Esterly.
Washington seeks the real causes and aims of the nationwide steel strike. John Fitzpatrick, head of the strikers group, agrees to testify on labor's side as Senator Kenyon schedules cross examination and public hearings to wrap up within a fortnight.
Washington reports reveal that big five packers earned profits two to three times higher during the war than prewar years, per a Federal Trade Commission investigation. The June 28 1918 report was sent to President Wilson and later to the Senate. documents were referred to the Agricultural Committee amid talks of federal meat packing regulation.
Stockholm dispatch reports Bolshevik war minister Leon Tritzky stating at Petrograd that the massive global conflict against capitalism will be fought not in Finland or Estonia but in America and England, with emphasis on the Far East as a front.
Berlin dispatch reports an altercation at Saarbrücken between bourgeois residents and French soldiers. About 100 French troops took part. many on both sides were wounded. Several Germans were arrested for attacking the French.
Order prevails in Gary Indiana. The steel strike situation remains practically unchanged as of September 25.
Samuel Gompers testified that United States Steel chairman E H Gary treated labor with contempt as unions press labor section of the Cummins railroad bill. He argued the strike is a necessity for labor, while senators questioned how to prevent a general railroad strike and the risks of giving government wage power.
Clarence Ralph Tank of 4743 Cupples Place and Dora Elizabeth Noyes of 4652 Chateau Avenue were married mid bridge with a Illinois clergyman on the Illinois side at the Free Bridge. Hauk Dairy Sales executive was the groom. his brother is company president. Bride recently lived in Oklahoma. Ilauk had a recent divorce. The couple has three children, a married daughter and two sons aged 14 and 12.
Twenty two hundred soldiers of the First Division with four gold service stripes and many with wound chevrons, along with two hundred members of an honor escort to General Pershing, arrived at Camp Grant in Rockford NL for discharge. They will be processed and become civilians by Friday.
A Moscow wireless message says Russian red troops commanded by Gen Lubkoff have occupied Tomsk, 500 miles east of Omsk, the all-Russian seat of government on the Trans-Siberian railway line.
The third day of the great steel strike produced no clear gains for either side. Washington hearings begin today as the Senate labor committee probes the industrial dispute. Foster claims 15 000 more workers joined the walkout, totaling 324 000, while Pittsburgh officials say the flow of labor into mills continues. Pittsburgh leaders mediate with managers seeking to regain the offensive, while labor organizers recruit nonunion workers to reinforce the strike. Despite forecasts, steel plants report increased production in key facilities. Violence drops as Cleveland sees rioting while Buffalo Pittsburgh New Castle and Farrell remain calmer warily.
Paris reports Premier Clemenceau addressing the chamber explaining that the League of Nations covenant could exist despite possible U S Senate rejection. He said France would still have protective alliance treaties with Great Britain and the United States in force, assuring France’s security even without U S ratification. The debate covered whether the league can survive without the United States and how guarantees to France would operate.
Washington Sept 25 The state department was asked to furnish a list of all presents tendered President Wilson through that department by kings princes or foreign states since December 1 1918 under a resolution introduced by Representative Ramseyer Republican of Iowa.
President Wilson and his party arrived in Denver Colorado at 10 25 in the morning after a brief stop in Cheyenne Wyoming, continuing a swift transcontinental schedule. The visit underscores a rigorous campaign and the forward pace of the presidential tour through the mountain states.
Paris dispatches report an Italian unit with armored cars crossed the demarcation line near Toguire Dalmatia and entered the town after routing a dozen Yugoslav soldiers. Two American vessels left Spalato for Toguire as Rome denies DAnnunzios supporters advancing toward Trau Spalato and Sebenico.
A moonshine still and equipment for making white mule were found last night in a garage between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets. The men resisted arrest. one escaped, others were taken into custody. Ten gallons of Naad were seized for evidence.
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