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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1913
Page
6
A satirical roundup from High Point North Carolina touching on politics culture and curiosities. It riffs on strikes poetry artichokes mosquitoes and football while tossing jibes at journalists bankers and international affairs. It notes jokes jokes and social trends with humorous zest and retro tone.
The Senate failed to ratify renewals of twenty three arbitration pacts with Great Britain Italy and Spain amid debate on compulsory arbitration. The opposition centered on Panama Canal tolls and Japan policy with many senators warning against binding commitments. A similar treaty with France has been renewed.
Three hundred Americans in southern Tamaulipas representing sixty eight families sent a long message through Consul Miller asking President Wilson for prompt protection. They state they have been left unprotected by both sides in the dispute and fear for their safety and their families. They say protection is necessary now as it would be useless after death.
Representative Graham of Pennsylvania introduced a bill to appropriate 15 million dollars for three first class battleships. Each ship would be heavily armed and armored with maximum speed and the greatest practicable radius of action, cost not exceeding six million dollars.
American ambassador Walter Hines Page was welcomed in London with an after dinner speech by Field Marshal Earl Roberts. Attending at the head of the table were Sir Edward Grey, the Earl of Halsbury, the Earl of Aberdeen and Augustine Birrell as notable guests.
Pemiscot County bank in Caruthersville Missouri closed its doors and is under state bank commissioner due to a cash shortage. John H. Cunningham reports the shortage at least two hundred thousand dollars, potentially up to two hundred fifty thousand. Most of the loss involves county funds, with the bank turning over twelve thousand dollars to the commissioner.
The Senate finance subcommittee moved to place livestock wheat and meats on the free list reversing prior action to tax meats and impose compensatory duties. President Wilson and administration leaders supported the move aligning with free cattle hogs and hogs and free wheat and oats policy.
Secretary Daniels opened the Newport summer conference of the Naval War College urging no stand patters. He called for systematic training of recruits to ensure education and drilling for all aboard ships. He stressed regular courses in engineering electricity machinery carpentry and other trades with primary instruction by younger officers.
Metcalf and Lincoln editor Richard L. Metcalfe selected by President Wilson to be civil governor of the Panama Canal Zone after a conference with Garrison Bryan and Daniels. Train wreck report from Beavers Creek near Macon details deaths and injuries including Oscar D. Touchstone. Beavers Creek lies ten miles from Fort Valley with Macon wrecker and Fort Valley relief trains dispatched. Conductor Jenkins alerted Everett station two miles from the scene.
In a brief executive session the senate confirmed Franklin P. Colcock as collector of customs at Beaufont to succeed Robert Smalls who has held the office for more than fifteen years. Republican senators opposed Colcock's confirmation arguing the Taft plan would eliminate Smalls on July 1 making a short appointment a slap.
Report from the border describes intense daytime fighting as Gen. Lucio Blanco’s rebels press on Matamoros. Major Ramos is wounded and in critical condition at a Brownsville hospital. Private Davis of the U S cavalry is also wounded on patrol. An estimated 200 killed and as many wounded, with 112 federal troops surrendering to U S authorities.
London reports forty members of the Leopard Society have been hanged in the British colony of Sierra Leone for cannibalism and human sacrifices. Trials presided by Sir William Brandford Griffith were part of a broader arrest of around one hundred members, with others facing deportation. The Leopard Society, linked to the Mendi, enforced deadly rites and demands.
Tokyo brands the Webb anti-alien land law discriminatory and a violation of international law and the 1911 treaty. The note is long and argumentative and invites further negotiations while avoiding any final issue. Bryan and Chinda agree not to publish details or substance of the exchanges.
Dramatic Epsom Downs Derby seen as suffragette tries to seize the king's horse Anmer before the finish. The horse falls fatally injuring the rider and injuring a jockey. The woman identified as E Davison believed to be Emily Wilding Davison of the suffrage movement.
Attorney General Mc Reynolds calls the final decree to dissolve the tobacco trust an obvious subterfuge and miscarRiage of justice. He contemplates a graduated tobacco excise tax and weighs renewed anti trust action though no decision yet on reopening the decree. He argues true dissolution requires breaking control beyond stock distribution to the same shareholders.
Los Angeles crowds cheered the overthrow of the recall era as Police Judge H. H. Rose won the mayoralty with incomplete returns a 7000 vote lead over John W. Shenk. Rose ran as an independent without the backing of the city’s major newspapers.
Washington reports that 24 governments have accepted the invitation to the Panama Pacific exposition in San Francisco for 1915. Fifteen others have not yet answered. Accepted nations include Argentina Bolivia Brazil Canada Chile China Costa Rica Cuba Denmark Dominican Republic Ecuador France Guatemala Haiti Honduras Japan Mexico Netherlands Nicaragua Panama Peru.
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