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BUME THE WAR DEPARTMENT
Te Improve Condition* a Force oi
Experienced Mall Clerka May Ba
Sent to Make Deliveries.
„ Waahlnfton —dTrom eight t oirn car i
load* of mall (or American eoldleri an ' k
undelivered In Fiance, Second Aunt (
ant Poatmaater General Prwjvr loU
the aenate poetofflce rommKtee. uat
"Utouaanda and probably mllUona" u .
let t era addrouad to the men ovrreeai
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Blame for toe failure to dellvet
thlj mail tu placed on the war do
partment by Mr. Praeger, who agali
: explained that the army authoritiei
.handle all soldiers' mall in France
the poetoffce department delivering;
outgoing mall at Hoboken and receiv I
ing returning mall at the French ports
Mr. Praeger said one way to Ira |
prove conditions overseas would be U
send a force of experienced mail
clerks to France to deliver the mat.
to too soldiers,
Mr. Praeger told the committee thai
one reason for the'confuHion in thi
delivery of mall to soldlprs was tin :
failure of the war department to keej i
up Its index system. This same causo J
he declared, also wa» responsible foi
the department's delay In sending oui
allotments to soldiers and In reportini j
casualties.
THIRTIETH DIVISION TO BAIL
FOR HOME JANUARY 20 TO 21
Washington—From eight to ten car
sail from Brest between January 2t
and 25 and will reach America ii
seven to ten days, barring mishap.
While the war department ia no l
ready to make official anouncement
It Is stated that tho division will l'an (
at Hoboken, N J.. rather than Nor |
folk. The entire division will he rush j
er directly Into various ramps aboui
New York, including Camp Dlx, Cami
Totten and others about Oovernor'i
Island. The men will.be kept In cami
eight days to two 'weeks, under obser
vatlon or quarantine, and will then l>«
sent to one of tho Southern camps
presumably Camp Sevier or Camp Gor
don and there' will be mustered out
They will be given new clothing and
back pay on leaving New York.
OLD WAY GOOD ENOUGH FOR
BECYB GLASS AND BURLESON
Kashlngton—Secretary of the Treas j
ury Glass and Postmaster General Bur
leson prefer the time-honored horse
drawn vehicle to the automobile and it
deference to their wishes tho house
appropriations committee amended tin
legislative bill so as to provide car |
rlages for their personal use Instead ol |
automobiles which will be furnished j
other members of tho cabinet.
W. J. BRYAN IN CONFERENCE
WITH WOMAN SUFFRAGISTS
Raleigh. With William Jennlngi
Bryan as tho special guest, the North
Carolina suffrage league mm In spe |
clal conference and agreed upon b
program of legislation to seek at the
hands of this general assembly, elect
ed officers for the next year, and Join
ed a great crowd at the city audito
rium where the great commoner wai
the speaker and suffrage his special
theme. The legislative agreement
reached by the suffragists was to ask
of this legislature simply the enact
ment of a provision that will give the
women the right to vote In the party
primaries, so that they may have s
voice at least In tho selection of the
candidates for the offices of the state
and county.
Mr. Bryun first discussed national
prohibition as an accomplished fart
and the great part democracy has had
In its accomplishment.
TO SAFEGUARD THE RIGHTS
OF MINORITY NATIONALITIES
Paris.—Presdent Wilson Is giving
considerable attention to the problem
of safeguarding the rights of minority
nationalities in the peace treaty; The
territories In question aro occupied
by mixed races. The rare having an
evldeet majority will. In principle, de
termine the future of the regions In
queatlon. hut when that is done the
pesre settlement. It Is held, must also
Include complete guarantees for the
protection of minority races.
TWENTY-SIX TONS INSURANCE
RECORDS ARE RECEIVED HERE
Washington-Twenty-six tons of In
surance records from the Amerraln
expeditionary forces were received In
Washington by the bureau of war risk
Insurance of the treasury department.
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! They reprei«t sl,B6o,B>o,R>o of gov
ernment Insurance written on Ameri
can soldiers overseas.
The records will be merged with the
, other regards on flic, representing a
I gre.nd total of more than $.18,000,000,-
I 000 of Insurance.
AMERICAN DELEGATEB ABE
NOT IDLE WHILE WAITING!
Paris.—While awaiting the a^lral
of tho entente premiers and'olher
officials who are necessary to Insure
! a full meeting of the supreme pea;«
1 council, the American delegates are
j making every effort to comp'ete the
| projects they expect to submit or to
I discuss before the peace conference
Itself. Attention was chiefly given to
the Important subject of a league of
nations.
Secretary Lansing and Colonel
I House were closeted for s°me time
with Lord Robert Cecil, and It Is bo
' lleved a comparison was being made
l of the plans prepared separately by
i the American and Brtlsh specialist!
en this subject.
BOLBHEVIKI CAPTURE VILNA,
DRIVING OUT POLIBH TROOPS
1 j .
1 ' Warsaw.—Vllna has fallen Into the
' hands of the bolshevik army, aeevral
' thousand strong, 'which drove out the
' Polish mllltla. A massacre of cvlll
' Inns began at once/partly because the
Poles had offered resistance and had
1 arrested or shot the members of the
| local bolshevik committees.
The Polish trops. who had no can
I non and only a few cartridges to tho
rifle and were command of Gen
eral Voltko, retired to Langovarova.
FOYERS IN FRANCE.
Four department* of tho French
Government-have asked the American
Y. W. (A. to open social und rocreu
j Hon centers for girts employed by
them—Flounce, Commerce, War and
Labor.
j Lieutenant l'oncet of the Ministry
I of Labor recently requested tliat this
I Y. W. f". A. work be begun for girls lo
his ofllces after seeing the social and
recreation centers which had been
opened ut the request of tho Ministry
of War. Sixteen centers of this kind
arc operated In nix cities In France.
Three of them aro In Paris.
The lust of these Foyers des All locs
is for girls who are working In the De
partment of Labor. It Is far down the
Seine, under the shadow of the Eiffel
Tower, and overlooks the Qual d'Orsay.
The rooms ore bright and cheerful,
with chintz hangings and cushions,
comfortable chairs, reading and writ
ing tables and a fireplace. A kitchen
has equipment so that girls can pre
pare meals for themselves. They go
to the foyer for their two hour lunch
eon time, for soclat evenings and for
classes In Kngllsh.
400,000 YANKS ARE
Y. W. C. A. VISITORS
Four hundred thousand persons and
more served In the cafeteria In one
year Is the record of the Y. W. O.' A.
Hostess House ut Camp Lewis, Atner-
I lean Ijtke, Wash.
The majority of the 400,000 diners
were mothers, wives, sweethenrta and
i friends who went to the camp to visit
their soldiers. Tho remainder were
soldiers themselves who broke the mo
notony of "chow" with home cooked
meals. In addition to all these guests,
i2, r ),000 little children were cared for In
I the nursery and the rest room served
! 70,000 tired wives and molhers,
Tho workers at the Information
' desk received and answered 97,000
(questions varying from how to get the
best connections to a destination clear
ncross the continent, the rates of sol
dlers' Insurance nnd the kind of cre
tonne n girl bride should have In her
living room now that Private John Is
coming home from France. Eleven
thousand of these queries required tel
ephone conversations with various
company commanders relative to hunt
ing up u soldier whose parents had ar
rived unexpectedly.
PEACE kUNFERENCE
UNO THEN IEH
/
GREATER PROBLEMB MUST BE
GIVEN PRECEDENCE OVER
LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
DEATH [ECREEO THE KAISER
Repudiation of Germany's War Debt
and Payment of Entire Cost of
War by Germany Demanded.
Washington.—Speeches advocating
postponement of consideration of the
league of nations proposal until after
the peace conference were made In
the Kenate by Senators Sterling, of
South Dakota,, Republican, and Myers,
of Montana, Democrat.
Both Insisted that problems of the
peace conference should not be com-1
plicated by this plan.
Senator Sterling contended that ex-1
Istlng relations between America, '
Great Britain, France and Italy made
a league of nations to enforce peace
unnecessary. Senator Myers advocat
ed establishing a restricted league
later, without Impairing the sover
eignly of Its members, and with the
central powers barred at least for this
generation.
Death for the former kaiser, life
Imprisonment of Von Bernstorff and
others, Senator Myers said, should be
provision! of the final peace treaty.
He also argued for repudiation of Ger
many's war debt and payment of the
entire cost of the war by the Ger
mans; for confiscation of the kaiser's
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Wc arc going tp sell every coat, every skirt, every
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I All sls ladies' dresses, removal sale 9.98
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i $22.50 and 24.00 A dresses in beautiful styles, all sizes 13.98
[ All $lB ladies' coats, all styles, sale price 10.89
' $7:50, ladies' skirts, nice styles, all sizes, 4.48
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All SIO.OO and 12.50 skirts, all newest styles, all sizes, 6.98
~ $18.50 and 20.00 serge dresses, all sizes, 12.98.
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* All S3O ladies' dresses in serges and silks, sale price 16.98 _
, $22.50 ladies' coats this season styles, all sizes, 13.48
$8.50 ladies' skirts, poplins, all sizes, only 5.48 T ~.. _
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One lot sls skirts, all samples,'no two alike/ all nice
1 v styles, 8.50 each
\ All $22.50, 25.00, 27.50 and 30.00 ladies' coats, all beauti
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So mark the date oi this Big Coming Event Just 10
' Days Only and no longer—look for the sign "REMOVAL
• SALE" Entire stock must go. Sale commences Friday
, morning, January 17, at 9:00 a. m. sharp.
FAIR DEPT. STORE
Graham, N. C.
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personal fortune ana retention by the
victors of both the *tr snd merchant -
marine fleets of Germany.
MORE THAN $200400.000 OF
AMERICAN PROPERTY SEIZED
Chrlstlanla.—More than $400,000,000
worth of American'property was seis
ed by the German government.
This Is the estimate of John Henry
Cooney, manager and custodian of all
the properties of the International
Harvester Company In Germany dur
ing the war. 'lt was a year ago," he
said, "that the Imperial German gov
ernment served notice on him that
It would begin "supervision" of the
I. H. C. factories and offices. On Jan
uary 4, 1118, the properties were for
mally confiscated, and on July i the
32 office workers In the Hamburg cen
tral branch were notified they must
leave the offices, and stay away.
"No attempt to take our properties
wan made until the American govern
ment began seizure of enemy alien
properties In America. It appeared
that from time to time the German
government was endeavoring to matrti '
each move of the American govern
ment as a reprisal.
NURSES PRODUCE WILD
WEST PICTURE SHOW
Entertain Roumanian Countess at
American Bhow In France.
Picture shows lire being put on In
France without cameras, scenery or
nny of the necessary properties, oc- j
cording to reports reaching the Na
tional Y. W. C. A. from a Y. W. C. A.
nurses' hut In a Base Hospital.
Having no film or camera, the
nurses at Base decided to put on a
living plctnre show ami Invited n ;
group of nurses from a nearby hos- j.
pltnl to be the audience. It was a
real thriller, one of the wild and wool-
ly west variety, with bucking bron
choes and wild rides on broom "tod
mop horses.
Imagination supplied the scebery,
with the exception of placards, which
announced "the sun" when It was sup
posed to be shining or "cacti" when
the cow punchers rode across the
desert
Countess Vacaresca of Ronmanla,
who had been talking to the nurses on
conditions In the German courts at the
time she was lad.v-ln-waitlng to the
Queen of Ronmanla, was the most ap
preciative of all the guests.
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INSIGNIA, CURTAINS,
If*- MADE FROM SKIRTS
Blue broadcloth skirts used for or
ganization Insignia and ftlald summer
dresses reconstructed Into window cur
tains are after war economies of the
' nine Y. W. C. A. secretaries In Arch
angel, Russia.
These secretaries have Just succeed
ed, In the face of food and cloth sh6rt
ages, in opening a Y. W. C. A. Hostess
 House for American troops stationed
In Archangel, a town behind the allied
lines. It was necessary to hunt up a
voile summer dress which one of the
secretaries had discarded for heavy
winter clothes In order to have cur
tuJns at the windows. They live on
| regulation army rations.
! Archangel la the fourth city In Rus
sia where the'Y. W. C. A. has estab
flshed work. Centers were opened
first In Petrograd and Moscow and
then In Samara, 000 miles eastward
i from Moscow.
I Miss Elizabeth Boies, head of Rus
sian work and one of the few Ameri
cans who remained In that country
throughout the revolution, Is en route
to America by way of England to re
| crult workers for Russia.
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