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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1919
Page
6
The Belfast strike wave expands as about 200000 workers nationwide walk out over shorter hours. Stores lit by electric power are attacked. police fire on rioters while saloons and plate glass windows are smashed.
Secretary Daniels ordered Rear Admiral Usher in New York to probe the suppression of a meeting of discharged soldiers sailors and marines last night by a naval guard and police reserves. The speakers criticized the government in the gathered gathering. Paris reports another arrest after a railway strike with Leon Midel the union secretary to face court martial.
Washington allows near beer production after President Wilson signed a Paris proclamation on January 23 removing restrictions. The proclamation must prove effective only after the U.S. seal is affixed by the State Department. The war time ban on brewing beer near beer and malt beverages remains in flux until official effectivity.
Washington D C Jan 28 congress completed final action on the administration bill granting 100000000 for European famine relief. The conferees report passed with no debate in both houses and now goes to the president for approval. Senator Townsend said opposition would be foolish given the overwhelming Senate majority. The aid funds will be administered by Herbert Hoover to feed starving people and curb Bolshevism.
Washington D C Jan 28 the house immigration committee approved a four year immigration ban following the peace treaty. The measure would bar general immigration for the reconstruction period with limited admissions for aliens bringing wives and children under specified conditions. European labor leaders opposed the plan while noting it would fail to curb emigration to the United States.
Copenhagen dispatch citing Politiken sources says Rosa Luxemburg, believed shot in Berlin on January 14, is alive and hidden to permit an escape from the German capital. The report labels the information as coming from quite reliable sources.
Washington January 28 Livestock raisers report higher profits than packers Edward Morris president of Morris Co told the house committee Morris accused that market committee of the American Livestock association comprises millionaires and has profited from livestock sales He named William Kent tariff commissioner as influential in pushing an FTC packers probe Kent is a partner of a market committee member Mor ris salary cited at seventy thousand dollars a year Armour and Swift salaries noted as twenty five and fifty thousand respectively.
Big transports Adriatic and Libourne arrive in New York Saturday carrying about 6000 men from the 84th division Ohio West Virginia 329th infantry 339th fields and other units. Adriatic brings companies B E L G and H of the 329th and 22nd and 324th machine gun battalions plus a New York casual company and sick and wounded. Libourne carries 45th coast artillery the 209th ammunition train and 339th field artillery plus assorted detachments. total aboard over 3000 men. Also listed are other ships and expected arrivals with additional detachments and casuals.
Saloniki dispatch reports the Turkish cabinet led by Tewfik Pasha has resigned after Allied insistence that Turkey return property taken during the war in occupied territories and halt drastic actions against Greeks and Armenians. The semi official statement cites these conditions as the cause of the resignation.
The notice states papers should arrive at homes before 5 30 p m If delayed due to carrier or other cause call 3330 before 6 30 p m and a replacement copy will be sent
Allied and German forces clash on Baltic frontier with Bolshevists retreating after a bold counterattack. reports say 600 killed in Estonia and Kovno remains under German influence as raids capture leaders and seize documents. Japanese forces clash on Zeya river with two killed and 15 wounded. Bolshevists report casualties and arrests in Mazongya.
R F Fulbright of Houston representing the Southwestern Industrial Traffic League told the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee that government ownership and operation of railroads should be rejected. He urged restoration of all rate regulatory powers to the Interstate Commerce Commission to protect shippers and argued against a railroad department, saying it could inject politics into railroad management. He cited wartime conditions as not proving government operation is preferable and claimed the shipping public does not want either ownership or operation by the government.
Des Moines Jan 28 Drafting of a roads bill will be started soon by the joint and remanities of the Iowa senate and house highways and motor vehicles committees appointed late yesterday It was said today Legislators expressed the proposed legislation would be approved by the full committees before introduction in either house and probably follow the Florida panhandle counties local option in deciding on road improvements
Washington D C dan 28 Letters of complaint suggestion or commendation as to railroad service received by the bureau for suggestions and complaints of the railroad administration during its first 16 weeks of activities up to Der 26 number 11 6 Classification for the letters he bureau announced today shows that those commending employes for courtesy and loyalty exceeded the complaints of discourtesy by nearly two to one.
An official report from a correspondent returning from the Ural front describes Perm under Bolshevik rule. Starvation, executions, torture, and terror marked daily life as inmates were shot, civilians were forced to dig graves, and peasants faced confiscation of provisions. The city’s population is depicted as emaciated and terrified.
London reports intense Armenian anxiety as Turkish troops join Tar tar bands attacking Armenian villages. Unofficial Armenian bureau says about 29000 people, many Armenian soldiers, were slaughtered in Baku and nearby after the city fell to Turkish reinforced by Tartars and German troops.
Bertin, via Copenhagen, Jan 27. Thousands of Russian officers flee Russia after evacuation by German armies. They refuse to fight for Bolsheviks or face execution, seeking to return to the Don river amid rigid Allied restrictions. Few aristocrats remain. wives and daughters held hostage by the Soviet government drive obedience and bolster the Red Army’s perceived efficiency.
Washington January 23. The Interstate Commerce Commission examiner found middle western railroad coal rates generally reasonable after a preliminary inquiry prompted by the Ohio Valley Coal Operators association. The report urged declaring Louisville and Nashville to Chicago rates unreasonable if over 250 cents a ton above Eldorado group to Chicago, and Illinois Central to St Louis/East St Louis rates unreasonable if more than 67.5 cents per ton above Eldorado group to similar destinations.
By the Associated Press Copenhagen Jan. 28 Sparta forces have overturned the government in Wilhelmshaven Germany and occupied banks and public buildings. They have ordered the court martial of their opponents. Railway traffic to and from Wilhelmshaven has been stopped.
An injunction restrains Michigan telephone companies including the Bell system from enacting long distance rates announced by Postmaster General Burleson. Judge Wiest ordered the Bell company to discontinue higher local Detroit rates in the circuit court ruling.
Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, in Paris to discuss forming an international labor congress with French, Belgian and English syndicalists, would not commit on attending the Berne labor and Socialist conference until it is clear which organizations will participate and whether Berne is authentic labor forum or German propaganda.
Allied troops, including Americans and British, repelled Bolshevik assaults at Tulgas on the Dvina river southeast of Archangel. An artillery duel persisted as outposts withdrew from Shenkursk and nearby areas, with reports of mass arrests and scorched settlements. Lenine orders retaking Narva. Further Bolshevik gains reported in northern sectors.
Senator Wadsworth of New York, back from France, defended the American fighting force in the senate today, praising Gen. Pershing while criticizing supply and equipment shortages. He said some defects were unavoidable, others due to inefficiency and confusion in the war department during the war.
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