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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1913
Page
6
A weekly High Point column piles witty observations on hats fashion taxes and social mores. It lampoons New York spring cleaning costs silk hats divorce cases and salon gossip with zany remarks about rabbits lobsters and eyepopping trivia for a playful reader.
Reports say Austria-Hungary announced immediate action against Montenegro over Scutari. Germany Italy and possibly Serbia back Austria as stock markets drop. Montenegro prepares with royal procession in Cetinje and relief for wounded soldiers accompanies a fortress handover ceremony.
Former Police Captain Thomas F. Walsh testified in Supreme Court detailing a Harlem graft ring that siphoned about a half million dollars over five years. He accused Inspectors Sweeney Hussey Thompson and Martha of involvement while sparking tensions as they await trial in handcuffs.
Governor Tener signed the mothers pension bill introduced by Senator Sheatz of Philadelphia. The law provides monthly payments to indigent, widowed, or abandoned mothers at home and becomes operative when five to seven women are appointed as administrators or trustees by the governor.
Boston news item states Dr Charles W Eliot former Harvard president and head of the American Federation of Sex Hygiene declined the chairmanship of the Bay State White Slave Commission offered by Governor Foss. He cited inability to take on further duties but conveyed sympathy for the movement.
Isthmian Canal Commission officials say the Panama Canal could be used to move battleships from the Atlantic to the Pacific in October if necessary. They report more than 99 percent of the 4,446,530 cubic yards of concrete for the locks is finished and ready for water.
In Washington four tariff schedules lumber sugar tobacco and agricultural moved through the House under Democratic leadership with a heavy manual to push the bill. The sugar clause free entry in three years survived a Mann amendment defeated 186 to 88 prompting bitter reactions from Republicans and Bull Moose. Leader Underwood enforced rapid debate and curtailed time as opponents hissed and fretted.
Revised figures show floods in March and April cost seven roads in Ohio and Indiana about 20 million dollars. Property losses total 11 million with 9 million in disrupted traffic. Big Four and Pennsylvania lead with 3 million and 3 million respectively in property loss.
President Wilson toured Newark and Elizabeth New Jersey urging jury reform. He denounced efforts to thwart changes and commented on jury selection schemes without endorsing a specific plan, noting his prior support for a Supreme Court commission but accepting Governor favored commissioners.
Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania introduces a bill to amend oleomargarine laws. It would rename the product margerin, ban colored margerin, and set a new tax scale for manufacturers and dealers in butter substitutes.
Sacramento measures alter anti alien land bill to permit ineligible aliens to lease agricultural land for up to three years. The amendment aligns Senate and Assembly language, allowing renewal and appealing to large landholders. Secretary Bryan monitored the conference as Governor Johnson and lawmakers debated lease terms and renewals.
A fire discovered in the laundry at the Long Island Home private sanitarium near Amityville forced about 1,200 patients across four facilities to safety. Nurses and attendants guided 300 inmates to the first floor while others battled the blaze, then kept 400 plus patients under control as panic rose.
In Boston, Judge Loring of the Supreme Court ruled in John Cornellier v Haverhill Shoe Manufacturers Association that striking workers may insist on union representation. The decision holds that employees have the right to associate with a union and have it present their demands to employers.
Frederick Hoehn shot his wife Emma Hoehn at a dinner gathering in St Louis after she rejected reconciliation following six months of separation. Four bullets struck her as guests looked on. Hoehn fled to his home and was captured hiding in the cellar.
Yale freshmen debating team coached by Prof. William H Taft was defeated by Harvard first-year men on the question That Cabinet Officers Should Be Given a Seat and Voice in Congress. Judges voted 2 to 1 with strong audience interest in New Haven Conn
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