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Newspaper
The Review
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1919
Page
6
World events dominate the column with Montenegro uprisings and rail cuts, Allied advances and Bolshevik actions in Russia, new aviation efforts in Paris, and U S policy moves on wage talks and immigration. The piece also notes strikes in Japan, military dispatches, and political shifts in Mexico and Turkey.
President Wilson on Labor Day urged every citizen to help reduce the cost of living by boosting production. He plans a future conference with labor and industry to improve relations between capital and labor and address wages. He praised organized labor for supporting efforts to lower living costs and called for patience and vigilance.
Paris reports sixty two French women who married American soldiers and were divorced in the United States have returned to France aboard the same steamer. The reason given is not personal differences but difficulty adapting to American living.
Paris papers dedicate space to General Pershing as he bids farewell to the French press. He expresses affection for France and confidence that the shared struggle will cement Franco American friendship.
In Knoxville Tennessee a mob battered down the county jail doors to seize Maurice Mayes the man held for the murder of Mrs Bertie Lindsey. The crowd freed several other prisoners including men convicted of first degree murder and one awaiting electrocution.
Glenn E. Plumb attacked the government during a Richmond meeting of organized railroad employees, saying price conditions cannot normalize while a financial autocracy inflates prices and values. He promoted his tri partisan railroad control plan in his remarks.
Washington asks Congress for an extra 825000 to cover American peace commission expenses in Paris from last July 1 to year end. President Wilson transmitted a detailed account of costs with total liabilities to date at 1250629.74 dollars.
Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin spoke for sixteen hours blocking a final vote on the public lands leasing bill. He argued the measure benefits the Standard Oil Company and denounced it as a monopoly.
President Samuel Gompers held talks with President Wilson at the White House after two days of AFL discussions about the steel workers dispute with United States Steel. The meeting followed reports of plant layoffs aimed at pressuring a settlement and calls for a capital labor conference. Senator Kenyon said labor committees from both houses will hold joint sessions to act on the issue.
Washington says American troops on the Mexican border have 100 tanks and 650 more are held elsewhere. Brigadier General S. D. Rockenback, former head of the American tank corps in France, says a tank with two machine guns and two six pounders equals a battery of field artillery. One thousand and fifty more tanks are under construction for the army.
James McCants, adjutant general of Florida, arrived from Washington and telegraphed his resignation citing constant interference by Gov. Sidney J. Catts making it impossible to serve under the governor.
Richmond lawmakers heard a bill ratifying woman suffrage in Virginia. The measure, submitted by Governor Westmoreland Davis, follows a telegram from President Wilson urging action.
The State Department announces recognition of Peru's de facto government. Secretary Lansing instructs the Lima legation to inform Peru's foreign affairs minister that President Leguia is recognized as head of the de facto regime.
Washington reports final itinerary for President Wilson's peace treaty tour calls for 30 western city speeches before September 30. Republican senators meet to decide plans for sending opposing speakers behind him.
William Jennings Bryan laid before the House Interstate Commerce Committee his plan for combined state and federal ownership of railroad lines to solve the railroad reorganization issue. He denounced private ownership as indefensible and intolerable and condemned railroad magnates as political corruptionists.
The North State Telephone Co directs a switch to mailing bills on the 1st of each month with itemized tolls and a local office for payments. Subscribers may pay by mail or at the office, with arrears carried to the next bill and a potential suspension of service if not paid by the 10th.
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