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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1919
Page
5
Red Cross volunteers worked last week in the work rooms serving a plentiful Tuesday meal of coffee sandwiches salad and doughnuts. The list names numerous volunteers across January dates with additional refugee work quota arriving this week and continued high public interest.
Readable fragments recount two young brothers aboard a destroyer badly damaged by an explosion. They refused medical aid to stay on duty, saluted their commander as they collapsed and died moments later, embodying navy bravery amid peril.
Amsterdam and Paris dispatches report Marshal Foch warning that renewal of the armistice with Germany carries added demands to secure peace. Allied forces may occupy Rhine right bank harbors. Duisburg to be occupied by two companies. The accord signed includes provisions for railroad equipment swaps and control of Russian prisoners for repatriation, with Berlin coordinating with allied relief bodies.
Washington reports Secretary Daniels said the Navy would use available powers to compel compliance with War Labor Board awards by companies under Navy contracts. After a talk with Joint Chairman Taft, Daniels noted all Navy contracts include cancellation clauses. The Bethlehem Steel dispute centers on implementing a board award.
Money available at once on improved farms through W HORNADAY. Phone 267 for details and terms.
Sunol sees oil trucks busy after gas shortages. High School pupils and teachers with Mr and Mrs Henry Pavint hosted a pleasant Friday evening party at Bachelors Hall with a religious service. Mr Powell returned from Gosper County. Mrs Barbara Kucera plans to move to California. Sidney visitors included Mr and Mrs John Demers. Joss Verbeek nears completion of a school building and bids for a $380000 project in Dix. W W Craig on sick list with flu.
In Treves on January 20 Marshal Foch told American correspondents that the Rhine must form the barrier between Germany and France and that peace must match victory. He praised American troops for their superb conduct, noting Pershing asked concentrate forces for a major sector and recounted the Argonne Meuse offensive and promises of further action if needed.
Horace A Moore traveled to Denver on Tuesday to attend the stock show. 1 RR Jones departed Wednesday for Omaha to wrap up business transactions. Miss Mabel Wallick left Tuesday for Lincoln to visit relatives and will be joined in Omaha by Miss Rose McFadden. The young ladies plan to open a new millinery store in Sidney.
Sherman Wallace traveled by train to Bushnell for business. Dick Miller and wife traded for Oulton on Monday. Bb Miller family shopped in Gurley Friday. Wim Busecker lost a valuable horse last week. Brain Ninvichs, Howard and Archie Rousacker resume school after a cold weather break. Twenty one bright faces attend school each morning. Mr and Mrs Gen Miller and Ruth shopped in Sidney Friday and Saturday. John Poppen visited the Wm Busacker home Sunday. Herman Miller spent Saturday evening at Berney Miller’s, celebrating Alvin’s seventh birthday. Harm Wererts came to market in Gurley first week. Jasper Jurgens shipped a carload of hogs to Denver Monday. Bh Miller and family visited John Tinkets Sunday. Wm Busseker and family attended to business in Datton Thursday. Henry Quick rode to Denver for the Live Stock Show last week. Jasper Jurgens and children with Mr and Mrs Fred Thompson witnessed the wedding of George Jurgens and Zola Austin near Gurley Sunday. A crowd of joyful youths met atop Trene Jurgens’ home last Saturday evening and recalled her bright days.
Under allied pressure Bulgaria orders prefects to file charges against anyone holding Greek boys and girls. Thousands were displaced from eastern Macedonia during the war. Though no missing children are openly surrendered, allied soldiers report daily finds of Greek children in the streets.
Police probe the murder of 81 year old Mire Joers found in her west end Milwaukee home. The partly nude body lay in a pool of blood with neck and nose broken. a collie lay beneath the doorstep, suggesting a struggle. Neighbors note rumors of hidden money.
Washington January 20 Senate conferees agreed to tax war excess profits of corporations from 1920 onward. The plan would raise about 1.6 billion dollars annually and extends the 50 percent war profits levy in 1920 only to remaining war contracts. A decision on the 1919 rates was deferred.
Washington reports treasury officials and Congress considering shrinking the variety of currency designs. Currently circulating are five kinds of dollar notes, five two dollar bills, six three dollar notes, seven ten dollar notes, seven twenty dollar notes, six fifty dollar notes, six one hundred dollar notes, four fadou notes, five thousand dollar notes, and two ten thousand dollar notes.
Paris Jan 20 The General headquarters of the American expeditionary forces officially denies a report in some American newspapers that the American army upon entering Luxembourg suppressed a movement directed against the existing government.
A fragment quotes the Rocky Mountain News with a provocative line on human brotherhood and police conduct, noting a belief that many broth ay s must be policemen who perform their duty without fear or favor.
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