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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1919
Page
6
A global wire of wartime notes reports Maj. Gen. Hobard in Kars finding continued unrest across Turkey, with British bombardments and Russian advances near Kronstadt and Riga. Other items cover rail policy proposals, a Roselle bank robbery, Baltic and Siberian turmoil, and war credit debates in Washington.
Washington reports administration pressure to enact permanent railroad legislation could delay adjournment of the extraordinary session around November 10. Senate action on the German peace treaty and railroad bill is pivotal, while the House plans to pass the budget bill. Major committee activity expected in both chambers as the steel strike inquiry is reopened.
Due to President Wilson illness King Albert and Queen Elizabeth of Belgium will not be entertained at the White House during their Washington visit from October 27 to 30. The royal party and their son the Duke of Brabant will be hosted elsewhere, while Vice President Marshall and Mrs Marshall host in their stead.
Vienna reports the Danish Red Cross cannot supervise Austrian prisoners of war in Russia and Siberia. The Austrian government asks the American Red Cross to assume care for about 200000 POWs.
Washington official statement shows the army at 290477, well below 300000. Net reduction since November 11 is 92 percent. American forces abroad total 35000, including 8000 in Silesia.
Washington reports that the final crash of the Trotzky Lenine regime may be delayed for weeks but is inevitable. Official summaries say anti Bolshevik inertia has kept the Moscow government alive beyond September 15, according to a specially studied assessment.
Washington bulletin from Dr. Grayson says the president has recovered from prostration and remains in unchanged overall condition with only a slight digestive disturbance. The report notes this digestive issue was the only new development, while the general state shows progress.
Washington reports that a senate committee approved a highly stringent anti strike measure within the Cummins railroad bill. An added amendment would criminalize aiding abetting counseling or inducing railroad employees to strike, signaling tough new federal labor controls.
In Washington a looming strike threatens half a million bituminous coal miners starting November 1. After talks with labor leaders, United Mine Workers president John L. Lewis said the men would quit unless all demands, including a ten hour day and five day week, are granted.
After a full day to avert a strike by nearly half a million bituminous coal miners, Labor Secretary Wilson invites full scale committees from both sides to Washington for a renewed peace effort. Operators refuse to negotiate a six hour day and demand a strike be called off first. John L. Lewis signals strain yet says unions will meet if operators drop stone-wall stance and show willingness to frame a new agreement.
New York. Resolutions passed by the audit bureau of circulation board urge advertisers nationwide to back publishers who have refused to grant demands of striking printing trades workers. The bureau, including advertisers, agents and publishers in the United States and Canada, reports 250 printers employed reaffirming the stand and continuing the boycott.
General W D Connor reports the American forces in France number under 15,000 and are shrinking quickly. He says most troops will be repatriated within a month as the German prisoner repatriation completes.
St Paul Lieut Cameron Wright in charge of the landing field for transcontinental air racers was killed when the airplane he rode as a passenger went into a tail spin and dropped 200 feet. The accident occurred during a landing at the field, instantly ending Wright’s life.
Detroit reports that the 1916 general convention of the Protestant Episcopal church sustained by clerical and lay delegates allowed the innocent party in a divorce to be remarried within the church. An amendment to bar remarriage by an Episcopal priest where a former spouse is living was defeated by many clergy and some lay members.
Arthur Williams federal food administrator for New York announced plans to place New York City on a sugar rationing basis similar to wartime measures. He blamed prohibition driven sugar use for soft drinks and a strike that halted shipping for the severe sugar shortage, the worst since 1917.
John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers and coal operators’ representative Thomas T. Brewster met with Secretary of Labor Wilson in Washington to avert a threatened bituminous coal miners strike set for November 1. The first session was expected to last several hours.
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