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Newspaper
The Evening Press
Location
Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1918
Page
2
The Senate committee heard testimony on Hog Island shaping up amid labor and efficiency concerns. Senators pressed for faster rivet production, noting a drop from peak output after a riveting contest and questioning management’s handling of evaders and skilled workers.
Amsterdam dispatch from Sept 20 reports the Austro Hungarian peace offer remains open as Vienna issues an official statement. It rebuts Balfour statements and says peace requires discussion. Baron Burian asserts no weakening in the central alliance with Germany Bulgaria and Turkey.
Representative Johnson of Washington resigns from Congress to join the Army after being commissioned a captain in the chemical warfare service. In his final House address he urges unity to win the war and signals Republican resistance to Bolshevik and internationalist pressures amid a broad national focus on war financing and revenue.
Alfred Maine September 20 a true bill charging murder in the first degree was returned against Rev Henry H Hall Wells Baptist preacher accused of murdering his wife Minnie on June 12 by the York County grand jury. Hall is accused of pushing her from a railroad bridge into the bed of Little River while on a strawberry expedition.
Washington reports drastic new regulations by Provost Marshal General Crowder to remove shipyard workers who miss more than two and a half to three days per month without good cause. Emergency Fleet head Piez said the policy targets slackers across essential war industries and envisions moving exemptions into military service. He noted 60,000 of 360,000 shipyard workers are exempted, with 60,000 more slated for approval soon.
Paris dispatch reports more than thirty killed and about one hundred injured when the first and second sections of the Marseilles express collided in the Pacy tunnel between Dijon and Laroche. American soldiers aided in rescuing the wounded and earned praise for their efforts.
An American engineers company commanded by a Boston captain held a stretch of the Franco American front south of Soissons during the July German offensive. For over six hours they fought as infantry, thinning lines faced two enemy groups, and their deployment on a road embankment helped prevent a collapse before infantry could retake the position.
President Wilson will cast his ballot in the primaries at Princeton New Jersey next Tuesday, leaving Washington early in the morning and returning the same day. Secretary Tumulty will accompany him to Princeton and then to Jersey City to vote with no speeches planned during the absence.
Washington September 20 General H G H Grosderovitch newly appointed Montenegrin minister to the United States called on President Wilson at the White House to present his credentials making a formal diplomatic greeting and exchange.
The Penny Press notes the Law and Order League returned 46.33 to town funds after prosecuting liquor law violators. Job seekers flood courthouse for roles on a new building. John J Murphy and Lizzie O'Brien to marry in St John church. The town clerk reports mouldy papers and old records. A 1787 dated record and an old Acts book were found. Spanish influenza hits Ridgefield with a death and multiple illnesses.
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