Saturday, July 27, 2019

The Week at Home, July 27, 1919

From the New York Tribune, Sunday, July 27, 1919

The Week At Home

Washington was swept by race riots in which several were killed, both among the blacks and whites, and many more were shot. Rioting started from charges that negroes were assaulting white women. Returned soldiers and sailors attacked the blacks and the blacks swept through the streets in automobiles, firing indiscriminately. Troops were called out. There was fighting in all sections of the city and it was feared it would be necessary to put Washington under martial law.

President Wilson issued a statement saying the report that he was the author of the Shantung section of the treaty was altogether false. Some of the Republican leaders proposed to amend the treaty so as to strike out the Shantung section, while the feeling in favor of reservations on the league of nations covenant was strengthened rather than weakened.

President Wilson returned from his week end at sea, suffering from an attack of acute dysentery, and it was thought possible his western trip might have to be delayed.

Secretary Lansing returned from Paris after nearly eight months abroad as one of the American peace delegation. He denied the reports that he intended to resign from the cabinet.

Ambassador Fletcher told the Rules Committee of the House of Representatives that since 1917 about 50 Americans had been killed or outraged in Mexico without a single arrest of conviction having followed. Senator Fall of New Mexico told the Senate that Carranzistas as well as Villistas had been concerned in the border fighting of the last six months. Mrs. John W. Correll and her son arrived in New York with the story of how Correll had been killed by Mexicans, Jun 16, on his ranch near Tampico.

The House passed the prohibition enforcement bill by a vote of 287 to 100. The bill permits keeping liquor in the home and giving it to guests.

Senator Kenyon of Iowa charged that the packers have started “the most tremendous propaganda ever instituted in the country” in order to defeat government regulation of the packing industry. The Anthracite Consumers’ League warned the Senate that food prices must drop or the price of coal would go up. Quartermaster General Rogers told a Congressional committee that pressure on the War 

Department by the National Canners’ Association was the reason for withholding from the market $23 million worth of canned vegetables no longer needed by the army.

Secretary Baker told the House Military Affairs Committee that a hurried cut in the size of the army would be dangerous, and sought to place on Congress the blame for too rapid demobilization by withholding the necessary appropriations to support an adequate army. Military, naval and commercial aeronautic experts recommend the establishment of an air ministry as a separate division of the Cabinet.

As a witness in his million dollar libel suit against The Chicago Tribune, Henry Ford said he had once planned to have his publicity manager rewrite the Bible in “plain, modern English.” He said he could read, but not fast, and objected to reading aloud because he was bothered by hay fever.

The Zionist organization of America says great numbers of Jews are planning a migration to Palestine as soon as the political status of the country is established. Nathan Straus wants to be the first Mayor of Jerusalem.

The Lusk committee discovered that Bolshevik leaders here planned a “Red Guard” composed of former members of the United State army. Several hundred soldiers were said to have expressed willingness to join the “Red Guard.”

At Fort Leavenworth Disciplinary Barracks, 2,200 military prisoners mutinied.

With 250 vessels tied up in the port of New York and 14,000 seamen idle, the steamship owners refused to make any concessions to the seamen’s union. The owners said the strike was breaking and many of the men were returning to work.

A dirigible balloon sailing over the Chicago business district caught fire and fell through the skylight of the Illinois Trust and Savings Bank. Ten persons were killed and 25 injured. Most of the dead were employes of the bank.


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