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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1920
Page
1
Paris reports a wave of crime as the prefect pleads for 2000 more officers. Apache gang activity, auto and cyclist robbers, and a spate of murders including the Bessarabo case alarm the capital. Nightlife patrons increasingly arm themselves amid fear.
Tom Owens twenty four alleged slayer of Homer Nida taxi driver was found dead hanging to a billboard on a state highway three miles west of Tulsa shortly after midnight Police had chased the mob of two hundred citizens Owens reportedly shot Nida and confessed planning the murder for days to obtain a car for a trip to Texas with Marie Harmon wife of an oil well driller both Owens and Harmon signed confessions in the county attorney's office
Paris officials face a stand by Mile Cécile Sorel known as Europe's beauty as she demands champagne imports for engagements. If prohibition refuses permission to import 40 cases of French champagne she will cancel American appearances and depart to seek approval from the board.
Sorel makes a public appearance via dutomatic channels as the situation unfolds. Authorities monitor the flow of information and verify the timing and source of the arrival.
Vienna reports Minister Streter outlined a plan in parliament to restore former Emperor Charles to the throne. Sixty nine deputies tied to Friedrichs party were named as implicated with names to be released in a secret session. Also noted is a marriage announcement from Greencastle and Chambersburg.
In a decision the court enjoined the International Brotherhood of Bridge and Iron Workers from a sympathetic strike to halt the Atlantic Smelting and Refining Works plant near Newark. Vice Chancellor Backes ruled such strikes form a labor monopoly and violate public policy, with other defendants covered by the restraining order.
Chicago August 30 600000 commercial travelers allied with the International Federation of Commercial Travelers will protest to President Wilson over rail fare hikes Drummers face a 20 percent fare rise and 01 percent Pullman rate increase The federation will act on the protest at its Atlantic City convention September 20 21 and 22 led by David K Clink secretary treasurer of the federation
Witness reports from Robert Witten and Captain Francis McCulloch recount the July 16 1918 massacre at the Ekaterinburg prison. Eleven victims were killed including Nicholas II and his family. Jailer Yurovski ordered the execution with twelve soldiers carrying it out. The czar tried to shield his wife and children before being shot. the others were killed with revolvers and bayonets.
Dublin reports three more deaths in Belfast rioting following Inspector Swanzy’s killing near Lisburn. London notes Lord Mayor MacSweeney of Cork collapses in Brixton prison amid a 17 day hunger strike. condition described as critical and grave by family.
The Bolshivik authorities in Ekaterinburg post a large sign on the square overlooking the former Emperor Nicholas prison declaring it the Square of National Vengeance. Ekaterinburg to Moscow reports say a prominent local figure is promoted to head of life insurance in the province and given the town’s finest house.
An outbreak of anthrax has killed scores of army animals among livestock in southwest Texas. The disease was reported at the Southern Department headquarters. Five border towns have been quarantined as authorities dispatch a veterinary unit to stamp out the outbreak.
Mexico City reports Arturo M. Laracho Mexican consul at Laredo Texas is in the city seeking to arrange emigration of 10000 Mexicans to the southern United States to work in cotton fields.
New York reports Brooklyn facing its worst street railway tieup as over 8,000 workers strike and 2 million residents are inconvenienced. Police reserve units battle mobs at multiple terminals while attempts to run surface cars meet attacks from striking Amalgamated Association members.
Western Siberian peasants have overthrown soviets in Tomsk Novonikolatovsk Omsk Barnaul and other towns continuing a growing anti Bolshevik insurrection. Kirghiz tribesmen aided by Cossacks and released officers join the movement which threatens Soviet control east of Brest Litovsk as Poland offers new peace talks.
Paris reports General Maxime Weygand warned that Bolsheviks will rebound from their military defeat within six months. He cautioned Western Europe to stay vigilant through winter unless a general peace is reached, noting poor Minsk communications and garbled wire messages amid the Warsaw parley.
Gov John J Cromwell said federal troops will replace the state constabulary in Mingo County to quell threats after anonymous letters to prominent citizens and officials. The detachment from the central department at Chicago was requested to take charge of the situation.
Reports say Canton has sent 20,000 Kwangsi troops to attack Fukien commander Chenhmin. He has advanced and captured several towns along the Fuklen Kwangtung border, signaling renewed fighting in southern China.
Montgomery August 30 Governor Kilby called an extraordinary session of the legislature to qualify women to vote in November elections and to arrange a constitutional convention.
New York Aug 30 Without formal announcement Mrs Hugo Reisinger daughter of Adolphus Busch of St Louis wed Charles K Greenough a New York Newport society figure. Greenough already had a wife and two children. The Reisinger home at 993 Fifth Avenue may become Greenoughs residence.
The Anthracite Coal Commission authorizes a twenty percent wage increase. The action comes as part of an effort to raise pay for coal industry workers amid labor and economic pressures.
President Wilson approved the anthracite coal commission majority report raising contract miners pay by 20 percent. The new minimum wage for the lowest paid men in the industry is set at 53 1/2 cents per hour after an extended study and official approval.
Wheeling West Virginia August 30 two former law associates of Jon W Davis United States ambassador to Great Britain said in recent letters to them that he would resign his post and become a member of a New York law firm.
London reports the South Wales ballot on a miners strike shows 143 471 in favor and 42.0% against, yielding a two third majority for striking. News mentions young miners aged 14 to 18 voting heavily, with seven of ten votes cast in Scottish fields.
Chicago August meeting at the Auditorium organized by the Press club aims to hear Frank Comerford, former special prosecutor at the William Bross Lloyd trial, declare a radical plot to overthrow the government and urge union audience attendance.
Aug 30 report notes Rt. E. Shayvler of Omaha, Nebraska bishop, arriving on the White Star liner Baltic. He says England will likely adopt prohibition within a decade amid widespread talk of the dry movement.
Federal agents here arrested Jon Leon Osborn of Houston twenty seven years old on a charge of evading the draft. Osborn recently returned from Merion and South America where he had been since early in 1917.
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