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Newspaper
Tucson Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1918
Page
2
The document argues for a Republican congress to limit presidential power in postwar policies. It condemns unlimited executive control over reconstruction and wartime spending, urging Americans to elect a Congress that represents the people's will and provides independent oversight.
In Douglas Arizona October 31 Tom Campbell governor candidate tours Southern Arizona with State Superintendent Matthews and Commissioner nominee Compton. They draw large crowds though meetings are restricted. The trip runs Florence to Yuma Nogales Tombstone Bisbee and through Sulphur Spring Valley Willcox and Gila Valley. Opponents plan a late incident by publishing Campbell's letter to Wit Haywood about Bisbee deportations.
Floral selective service board reports a call for nine men from the 1917 draft to train at Camp Cody in New Mexico between November 1 and 6. Additional draftees remain to be classified and assigned to duty as needed.
P. Reininger filed a lawsuit Thursday in superior court against H Ning over an assigned promissory note. The action centers on the validity and terms of the debt and seeks appropriate relief as provided by law.
A fragmented report notes claims of deaths in New York City and widespread unrest with bodies reportedly lying in the streets. The source appears garbled and incomplete, mentioning a state department and Western Machine Ads.
Minister Exkerden of Sweden delivered to Secretary Lansing a note from Count Andrassy requesting U S intervention on favorable action for Austria and allied armistice terms. Translation shows no material change from press dispatches. No Washington info indicated Allied terms in France had been finalized. reports of Marshal Foch terms at Berlin appeared based on London dispatches.
Paris reports informal talks among allied heads of state and Col E M House with military and naval advisers. Differences in views arise but are largely resolved as they seek full understanding before a formal supreme war council meeting. Proposals include Bosphorus and Dardanelles internationalization and occupation moves along Rhine.
Dr Tsui new Chinese consul in New York says China will press for the return of Tsing Tao, taken from Germany by Japan, as allies discuss general peace terms and the new modus vivendi. He cites the lease origin, wartime capture, and seeks abolition of extraterritorial rights and revision of foreign-davored customs to aid Chinese industry.
An inter party Reichstag committee, per Lokal Anzeiger, debates holding responsible the leaders of failed German peace moves in late 1916 and early 1917. Vorwaerts declares continental German policy collapsed and Hamburg Bagdam line reduced to Hamburg Bodenbach road.
War office reports Austrian forces near destruction as they advance after a retreating enemy. Heads of columns reach Serravalle Orbago Gaiarine and Oderzo with cavalry divisions moving across the plains. Sacile is reportedly entered by some squadrons. Sanguinary fighting continues at Agram the capital of Cratia Slavi with revolutionaries split.
John D. Rockefeller announced that the United War Work committee will accept only indirectly raised money from nationwide boxing carnivals organized by James Coffroth. Ministers nationwide protested boxing as brutal and forced the stance as the drive to raise 170.5 million for troops welfare.
In a dramatic World War II bulletin the French halt a major Hun counter drive amid reestablished communications. At the Dutch Spanish food commission HQ workers dole American corned beef from a rear wall stack while a large portrait of King Albert of Belgium overlooks the room and Brant Whitlock’s photo honors his service in Brussels.
Judge Samue l Pattes sided with County Attorney Kirk Moore in a tax suit against Pima county by dolep h lewishon et al and Glance Mining com pany. Plaintiffs sought to recover 4 545 and 5 519 98 in taxes on Helvetia mines and Glance Mining property amid claims of over valuation and arbitrary assessment. The ruling narrows taxpayer options by requiring appeals from the board of equalization before suit. Samuel Lo Kingan of KinganCampbeth represented Moore.
Lynn Massachusetts October 21 Henry Cabot Lodge Republican leader in the senate told a political rally that the war could last only a few weeks more and that Americanism must prevail over party. He defended Republicans in trenches and Liberty Loan support as worthy and criticized the president allocating blame for disloyalty. He supported several Wilson peace articles, notably the seventh ninth eleventh and thirteenth.
Bill Hays chairman of the Republican national committee urged voting Republicans into Congress to lead postwar reconstruction. He argued for preparedness for peace, saying the next Congress will bear the burden of reconstruction and national leaders should unite the party’s brain and heart.
Deep sea divers from Vancouver rushed to the wreck site of the Princess Sophia near Skagway after the Alaska ship sank last Friday night with about 340 lives lost. Dispatches say passengers deposited valuables with the purser before departure, and divers may recover treasure or bodies aboard the Sophia.
New York October 31 John D Rockefeller Sr has turned the three upper floors of his city home into dormitories for women taking special courses in recreational work to be started here on November 29 by the War Work Council of the Young Women's Christian Association. The house has been closed for several years.
Arizona mining leaders mobilize for the United War Work drive. Norman Carmichael of Arizona Copper Company leads the state as chairman with county leaders in major camps. Phelps Dodge loaned Charles F. Willis as state director of the speakers bureau.
Turkish troops have begun evacuation of Tabriz in Persia after advices to the state department. The move comes as British forces threaten in Macedonia during the Ottoman withdrawal.
Five Americans awarded British g allary medals for gallantry in action during the Russo Allied advance near Obaskeskaya on September 29. Decorated are First Lieutenant H. J. Costello of Bridgeport Connecticut Second Lieutenant L. P. Keith of Chicago Corporal M. G. Grabek of Calumet Michigan Private C. A. Miller of Battle Creek Michigan and Private J Drescoll of Detroit Michigan.
An undetermined origin blaze in Bisbee early today gutted the Copper Queen branch supply house of Phelps-Dodge, with losses estimated at 400000. The stock consisted of mining supplies and will cause significant inconvenience as replacement under war conditions is unlikely.
London reports a cessation of attacks on passenger steamers after a period of bombardment as Andrew Bonar PAW stated in the House today. He noted attacks on other steamers and vessels, though details remain incomplete due to the damaged text.
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