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Newspaper
The Evening Press
Location
Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1919
Page
4
Partial OCR text shows mailbox and street addresses with two Main Streets and a ponderous note. Readable items mention Middletown and Postomice as locales with postal classification and inline addresses.
Haven April 2 reports partly cloudy to Thursday with warmer conditions later. Frosts observed as far south as Tennessee and North Carolina. New Haven tied a thirty eight year April low. City forecasts show unsettled, cloudy conditions with slowly rising temperatures. City readings include New Haven 25 and New York 26 all cloudy. other cities show varied clear or cloudy skies and lows around freezing in parts.
The Mt Higby station reports 24 hours ending noon with wind from the northwest and clear skies. Other notes discuss court martial reforms, President Wilson, League of Nations, Secretary Baker abroad, Lt Colonel Roosevelt entering politics, and aviation plans with Harry Hawker. Mentions election results in Chicago Hartford Seattle and debates on taxes, jitneys, and naval policy.
Brigadier General Ansell told the Senate Military Affairs Committee that many court martial sentences during the war were excessive for disciplinary offenses. He reviewed over 20,000 cases and urged a broad revision, arguing that officers were often punished severely for absent without leave as if for desertion. Critics, including General Crowder, favored executive clemency and board investigations to guide reforms. Justice for the boys is demanded, not clemency.
The New York Sun urges Europe to end delays at Paris and return to work. It argues the league of nations should not delay the peace treaty, warning that idleness risks bolshevism and social unrest across Hungary Poland and Germany. It calls for completing the treaty and restoring industrial activity to avert chaos.
The article argues Bolshevism described in Hungary is only in name a flawed form of state socialism. It claims true Bolshevism is organized crime, not governance, and that Germany’s noisy movement lacks strength. The optimistic tone says fear is unwarranted as the world moves toward convalescence.
The piece argues for church unity in the United States, citing trench parallelism and ecumenical cooperation among Protestant Catholic and Jewish chaplains. It notes Bishop Greer inviting a Catholic priest to St John the Divine and compares unity to a league of nations. It also reports Connecticut house votes on Sunday motion pictures showing urban support and rural reluctance, urging clear legislative discussion and reform of Sunday observance laws.
Paris reports a special commission may set Germanys reparations instead of the treaty mechanism. Britain and France may favor the plan, with Germany possibly agreeing. An American official says the us will back the fourteen points regardless of reparations. Additional notes cover Saare basin fate, King Alberts Belgium claim, Tsingtau, and Geneva as League of Nations seat.
In Ottawa on April 2, Thomas Viens criticized Canada’s expeditionary force to Liberia, claiming the United States did not meet its agreed quota. N W Rowell replied that Canada must honor its commitment to the allies regardless of US troop numbers.
Washington reports no official word from the Mexican government or embassies about alleged land concessions in lower California to Japanese interests. State Department expects Mexico City to furnish details, though officials doubt the announcements attributed to General Aguirre.
The cafeteria supper of the season at Congregational Parish in Cromwell runs Thursday from 5 30 to 8 o clock with proceeds aiding church activities and community outreach.
An advert extols Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound as an easy, ready-to-use way to darken gray hair naturally and evenly. It claims a dampened brush through strands removes gray in one night with repeated applications yielding dark, glossy, luxuriant hair and a younger appearance.
The Baltimore American argues that race should not bar nations from equality and calls for a universal standard of political equality among nations. It asserts Japan is right to push for end of color barriers in international relations, urging all to join in building an indestructible barrier against forces hindering world progress.
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