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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1919
Page
6
Foreign leaders report plane crash fatalities in England. Bulgaria accepts peace terms and seeks Ferdinand extradition. Barcelona dispute ends with a workers and employers agreement. Finland pledges volunteers to Petrograd while Baltic talks stall. Armistice Day celebrated in Washington as rail and weather issues ripple across the region.
Ludwig C A Martins calling himself ambassador offers to ship Russian citizens from the United States to Russia for those desiring to leave or deemed undesirable by authorities. He writes to Secretary Lansing saying thousands have applied to return home and protests mistreatment by authorities and mobs.
Washington The House voted 142 to 12 against injecting the race question into the Esch railroad bill. An amendment by Rep Madden Illinois proposed that no discrimination be made in interstate passenger transportation against native born citizens. Southern and northern congressmen spoke in opposition.
Director General Hines presented a wage proposal to four railway brotherhoods at the wage conference closing session. The plan would raise wages by about three million dollars monthly and was taken under advisement by the representatives.
An alleged confession by L. Roberts, a confessed I W W member, states the Centralia shooting was planned three weeks before Armistice Day. Roberts surrendered after the attack in which four former American soldiers were killed during a holiday parade.
Washington reports Secretary Glass will accept Senate appointment if offered by Governor Davis. The leading candidate for his successor is H. E. C. Leffingwell, an assistant treasury secretary, with Bernard M. Baruch or Vance McCormick as other possibilities.
Mexico City reports American consular agent William O. Jenkins of Puebla was arrested and kept under surveillance at home. Officials claim Jenkins was not abducted by bandit leader Federico Cordova but acted in concert with him, per received information.
Richmond Virginia announces Secretary Glass appointed to fill the U S Senate seat for the late Thomas S Martin. Governor Davis’s aide Leroy Hodges states the appointment follows Martin’s reelection and a term until 1925. The governor may appoint until voters elect a successor.
Attorney General Palmer told the Senate that radical growth nationwide stems from weak federal laws against preaching overthrow. He said the department has over 60,000 radicals under surveillance and cannot cope due to law weaknesses in states.
Secretary Wilson opens a conference to end the coal strike with three proposed procedures. He rejects a 30 hour week and 60 percent wage hike as impossible and urges joint wage scale committees and phased agreements across districts to keep the current contract in force.
Spokane Washington. Members of the American Legion are being sworn in as special policemen to meet a projected invasion of 1000 to 2000 Industrial Workers of the World members said to be arriving from Montana and other parts of the northwest.
Centralia Washington authorities seek murder charges against eleven men, ten in custody, tied to an attack on an armistice day parade that killed four former servicemen. The incident involved alleged members of the Industrial Workers of the World.
In Washington the move to shut down the peace treaty debate by cloture remains doubtful until the roll call. Thirty Republicans signed the petition and leaders say more would support it, claiming the GOP will help reach the two thirds needed to invoke cloture.
The Southern Newspaper Publishers' association adopted a resolution to raise foreign and local advertising rates by 25 percent in southern newspapers. The move accompanies a $10,000 campaign to promote southern markets amid white paper shortages.
Helsingfors Baltic states conference at Dorpat reports Finland will aid General Yudenitch with 30000 volunteers in a new push to seize Petrograd within weeks. A conference delegate indicated pressure may force peace talks with the Bolsheviks.
Two Louisville distilleries sold whiskey openly at 75 dollars a case as war time prohibition loomed. Hundreds of orders filed before July 1 were filled after an injunction by Federal Judge Evans blocked government interference with the sales.
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