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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1920
Page
1
Director General Hines urged compulsory railroad consolidation before returning to private control. He warned without fundamental restructuring the system will fail and public demands may push toward government ownership. He backed a triple partnership of capital labor and the public to manage railroads.
Philadelphia police seize Grover Bergdoll, a key draft dodger, as part of a two brother case. He and his sibling faced charges for avoiding military service. The arrest marks a major step in the ongoing crackdown on draft evaders.
Grover Bergdoll was arrested in his mother's home, where Mrs. Bergdoll defied officers for hours. Detectives found him wrapped in a blanket in a box seat. Agents searched nationwide for the Bergdolls, descendants of a wealthy brewer, who were born in the United States and refused to fight for Germany.
Gabriel Porter, an American employee of the Penn-Mexico company, was killed at Tuxpam, Mexico on December 21 by a Mexican federal officer. Company officials in Pittsburgh say Porter’s death was accidental, conflicting with a state department report of a shooting.
Paris report states U S representatives will not attend the exchange of ratifications of the Versailles peace treaty on January 10. Signing of the protocol will occur a few minutes before the ratification exchange if all details are ready by the date.
Theodore Roosevelt also began his political career in the assembly as the legislature convened in Albany New York. His father entered public office as an assemblyman many years ago. The assembly and senate show strong Republican majorities and a small presence of women lawmakers.
Antwerp Jan 8 Brig Gen W D O Connor chief of staff of the American department of supply said a sale of American stocks remaining in France after the army left yielded 760 600 000 dollars. He valued the stocks at 1 700 000 000 dollars and said 75 000 000 would have been needed to transport them home. France paid 400 000 000 while other allies bought 360 000 000 in supplies. He denied France caused claims for damages and asserted the army did not pay for any ground used or material destroyed.
In Stockholm and London reports claim Nikelai Lenine proposes new peace terms. Colonel Tailents, British envoy in the Baltic states, carries a document calling for abolition of terrorism and revoluti onary tribunals. Princess Cantacuzene asserts 30,000,000 Russians died under Bolshevik rule from violence famine and disease.
Fragmentary lines allege German agents spread vodka to inflame crowds and distort promises. The text implies miscalculations and imprudent promises by the alleged agents, but details and names are unclear due to the garbled source.
Mount Clemens Michigan January article reports formal arrest on a warrant accusing Sila Prevost of killing J Stanley Brown whose body was found in a car on a country road two weeks earlier. The warrant cites deliberate premeditation in the homicide.
About 18 miners of the Laughlin nine at Kanmerifan Sheet and Tin Plate near here reach the surface after nearly two miles of smoky underground workings.
Authorities say Ludwig A. C. K. Martens self styled ambassador of the Russian Soviet government will be arrested in Washington. Officials describe Martens as a real leader of the communist party in the United States and indicate evidence on Soviet bureau activities in New York will be disclosed in the case. Martens arrived from New York with aides and checked into a local hotel near the department of justice.
Governor Alfred J. Leith urges New York to seek reversal of the state’s ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment. He argues many legislatures lacked clear authority and recommends a statewide referendum on the issue. The message notes the narrow legislative vote and questions whether ratification remains valid.
The text describes party pressure forcing lawmakers to vote for a resolution, then recommending the state rescind its ratification of the eighteenth amendment and submit the issue to voters at the 1920 general election to clarify New York's official position.
Rear Admiral Frederic Bassett reports at a Chicago Association of Commerce luncheon that young sailors at the Great Lakes naval training facility resist officers orders and drift toward Bolshevik ideas. He blames parents for lax discipline contributing to the unrest among seventeen and eighteen year olds.
Twenty persons were injured when several cars of passenger train No. 17 on the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul line known as the Colong hian went through a burning bridge two miles from Watauga South Carolina. The westbound train's locomotive and first coaches reportedly passed before the bridge collapsed and the steel coaches and sleepers did not catch fire. Victims were taken to Mobridge on a non special train.
General Connor with 10 officers and several hundred troops will depart Paris aboard the Northern Pacific on Sunday for Antwerp. The move ends most American forces in France, leaving only a small detachment for grave registration and other duties. Connor asks French authorities to hand over any future American deserters to General Allen at Coblenz.
Berlin January 8 Americans touring Germany show strong visits with December registrations led by the United States and France among foreign visitors. The report notes Americans and other travelers registering and police reports in the month.
Five daring bandits, one wearing a mask, grab a satchel containing a large payroll from Mayer Brothers Tailoring in front of the plant. They escape in a colored auto as police launch a city-wide search for the suspects and the missing funds.
In Columbus the United Mine Workers ratified President Wilson's plan to end the coal strike. The convention approved 1649 to 221 for a 14 percent increase and a presidential commission to draft a new wage agreement. Farrington and Howat pressed questions before order was restored.
A Senate committee led by Senator Townsend and including La Follette and Watson will investigate the federal trade commission. The inquiry will examine charges that several commission employees engage in radical propaganda, with Republicans and Democrats represented.
Senator Gore introduced bills to prohibit interstate transport of blood and thunder moving picture films or still pictures. The measure targets films depicting former convicts bandits or other outlaws. Convictions would carry fines from 5000 to 10000 dollars or imprisonment.
Senator Thederwood of Alabama warned that he would urge a resolution to appoint a bipartisan Senate committee to resolve the Versailles treaty deadlock. He said he had not yet brought up the measure due to holiday adjournment and current public pressure.
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