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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