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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1918
Page
8
President vetoes joint Senate resolution to extend the railroad administration time to relinquish more short lines, arguing it would force government control of diverse feeders and neglect local conditions. He urges selective retention and fair sharing of through shipments, cars, and power. Congress urged to permit flexible agreements.
The United States employment service of the Department of Labor will on August 1 begin taking charge of mobilizing and placing labor for war industries employing 100 or more workers. Secretary Wilson announces in a Gulfport Miss letter to the Southern Sociological Congress, stating safeguards for living standards morale and age limits, and caution about women entering heavy and hazardous industry.
Three of the 22 typhoid fever cases under treatment in the District trace to an Alexandria Va epidemic. Dr W C Fowler, district health officer, says there were six more cases than the prior week. He expects no wider outbreak, noting Alexandria’s source likely bad water or milk after a conference with Dr W M Smith.
Announcement yesterday unveiled a new ice cream corporation with a capital of 25 million dollars. W S Corby named Washington representative, with W E Telling and J H Coolidge Jr to head the venture. The firm plans branches in several cities and aims for national scope led by executives from a Cleveland ice cream company.
About 60 to 100 district public school teachers, along with 81 clerks, mostly women, began lectures and demonstrations at Carroll Institute for wartime service. They will join the War Risk Insurance Bureau of the Treasury after training, with courses starting each Monday morning.
A Tokyo dispatch reports Bolsheviks at Irkutsk defeated by Czecho Slovaks as Siberia aims for autonomous Russian republic status. The new Siberian government seeks repudiation of Brest Litovsk, rearming the army, and sending forces against Germany while Russia would acknowledge national debt.
London telegram says Gen Muravieff commander of Bolshevik forces opposing Czecho Slobaks died by his own hand after issuing a treacherous order to attack Moscow and Simbirsk. He reportedly betrayed the revolution, leading to his suicide as troops refused his bid to betray Soviet authority.
The U S cabinet debates who should carry economic aid to Russia with final choices not yet made. Officials warn of a potential famine this winter as agriculture has collapsed amid political turmoil and German grain seizures, leaving no seed for planting.
London July 11. The Bolshevik government of Russia has agreed to enter peace negotiations with Finland, which had expressed through the German government a desire to arrange a peace treaty with Russia.
Senator Smith of South Carolina pressed President Wilson on further price fixing rules for manufactured cotton products. He stressed cotton’s role in finance and urged the government not to harm the industry.
The Rev Edward Wright of Ballston Va has been informed of the death or capture of his nephew Lieut Clifford Glover of the royal flying corps. He reportedly went missing May 15 after diving into cloud bank while attacking a German squad, last seen in a cloud bank. A coroner's jury found Edgar Wallace, colored, crushed to death by the Raleigh Hotel ash hoist on Wednesday.
Director General McAdoo dismisses all invitations to public functions on the Pacific coast, telegraphing Pacific Railway Club president William Wolmer that his West stay is fully demanded by railroad work. Provost Marshal General Crowder declines extending draft dates for harvest actions and suspends alien drafting until new treaty rules are issued. Baker to tell of trip abroad while Secretary Baker will address the Young Women's Country Club on What I Saw in France. The Engineer Band will play. men in uniform are invited.
Officers of the bureau of navigation hosted a dinner at the Army and Navy Club in honor of Rear Admiral Leigh D. Palmer, chief of the bureau, who delivered a brief speech. Washington attendees who returned from New York reported they heard Rockefeller Jr. and others discuss plans to raise 112 million dollars for Y M C A war work. Participants included George Otis Smith, John C. Letts, Charles Henry Butler, William Knowles Cooper, Clifford L. Johnson, and L. W. De Gast.
Seger heads Union Pacific after being elected president succeeding HB. EB Calvin who was recently named Federal manager of the United Pro and other Western roads. The announcement came today from New York dated July 11.
Charley M Schwab director general of the Emergency Fleet Corporation addressed the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World at their fourteenth annual convention in San Francisco. A war message urged unity with war leaders and aggressive efforts to support the conflict.
The State Department announced the safe arrival of Gordon Paddock, United States consul at Tabriz, in Teheran. He left Tabriz with a group of Americans and Europeans as Turks threatened the city, which led to the consulate’s seizure and hospital attack. Details of their wanderings were not released.
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