IMPORTANT NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THI®
AND OTHER NATIONS FOR
SEVtN DAYS GIVEN
THE NEWS THE SOUTH
What Is Taking Place In The Bouth*
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Foreign
Complying with suggestions made
by various members of the supreme
council, the Jugo-Slav government has
given special instructions to all the
Jugoslav officers to avoid clashes
with the Italians.
The Socialist delegates in the Ital
ian parliament just dissolved have
addressed a manifesto to the country,
strongly condemning the war, which
"has left behind it a threatening pre
ponderance of professional militar
ism." Far from serving liberty, war
is death to all liberties," they declare.
Advices received by the peace con
ference from Rome, Italy, have per
suaded the members of the supreme
council that Italy will ratify the Ger
man peace treaty by royal decree. The
general opinion in the council is that
such a ratification will be valid under
the Italian constitution, as the treaty
does not involve any Italian territ>
rial changes.
Economic negotiations between
Luxembourg and Belgium have been
broken off by Belgium as a result of
the referendum in Luxembourg un
der which France became Luxem
bourg's financial ally. The Belgian
minister in Luxembourg has been re
called.
George Tchitchenrin, Russian Bol
shevik foreign minister, in a message
sent broadcast by wireless, says: "Our
intentions regarding peace remain the
same as when the Bullitt mission ar
rived. We are ready to make peace
at any moment, provided military op
erations are stopped immediately and
the blockade is lifted. We have not
imposed and do not wish to impose
Communism on anybody."
Finn troops, it is reported, have
broken the Bolshevik lines and cap
tured several divisions.
The Italian steamer Epiro, with 200
Italian troops and some United States
officers on board, bound for Cattaro,
is declared to have been shot at by
Jugo-Slav regular troops.
The French chamber of deputies
ratified the German peace treaty by
a vote of 372 to 53. It now goes to
the senate.
The blockade of Germany, which
was threatened by the allies in case
the troops of General von der Goltz
•were not removed from the Baltic re
gion, will begin at once. No food
ships will be permitted to start for
Germany until further orders are is
sued. Vessels now on the way to Ger
man ports, however, will be permit
ted to proceed to their destinations.
Major General Graves, commander
o fthe American forces in Siberia, has
demanded an apology from General
Rozanoff, in command of Russians
(not Bolshevists) in Priamur province,
for the arest of Capt. L. J. Johns of
the 2t7h regiment, and Corporal Ben
jamin Sperling of the 3-st, and the
flogging of the latter by cossacks com
manded by General Kalmikoff. This
is one of the most serious incidents
since the allies landed in Siberia.
King Albert and Queen Elizabeth of
Belgium, on their way, via the U. S.
S. George' Washington, sent a wireless
message to President Wilson, express
ing regret over his illness.
Domestic
Haskel B. Harrod, for the past 18
years a trusted teller in the Chatta
nooga, Tenn., First National bank, con
fessed to a shortage of thirty-five thou
sand dollars, but was not arrested.
Notable improvements in rural
schools and other conditions of the
schools are reported all over the South,
and it is pointed out that the rural
school teacher is being better paid
than ever before.
The United States' trade with for
eign nations has grown enormously
and has reached ten billion five hun
dred million dollars a year.
The Belgian royalty in the United
States to voice their gratitude and
that of the Belgian people for the gen
erous aid given them by this country
in their time of direst need, spent
their first hours quietly at their hotel,
resting after their voyage across the
ocean and celebrating their nineteenth
wedding anniversary.
The taking over of the Bulolch home
at Roswell, Ga., by the Roosevelt Me
morial Association is now an assured
proposition, dependent only on Geor
gia's doing its allotted share in the
national campaign for ten million dol
lars as evidence of the interest of the
state "and its people in the perpetua
tion of the memory and ideals of The
odore Roosevelt.
The destroyer Greene, which was
disabled by a boiler explosion, was
towed in port at Key West, Fla. James
Joseph Quinn of Philadelphia, fireman,
was instantly killed, two other men se
verely scalded and several others
slightly injured. The explosion was
in the port boiler.
Unless the United States Supreme
court reverses the Ohio state courts,
the action of the state legislature in
ratifying the federal prohibition
amendment will go to popular refer
endum at the coming November elec
tion.
Experts say that the live stock in
dustry and dairy industry are going
ahead so rapidly that it is only a
question of a few years until the South
will be the leading cattle, hog sheep
raising section of the United States.
Because of the illness of President
Wilson, King Albert of Belgium has
decided to cancel all his engagements
in connection with his tour of the Unit
ed States after those in Boston and
Buffalo up to October 14.
From October 18th to the 31st an
intensified safety campaign to reduce
personal injuries to employees and the
public will be conduct by the Amer
ican , Railway Administration. The
idea is an outgrowth of the "no acci
dent week" observed by the railroads
in the southern region in January, and
every one in railroad employ from
president to office boy will strive dur
ing this period to avoid injury by ac
cident to himself oi in any way en
dangering the safety of others.
The South is building many good
roads. Large areas of fertile land are
being prepared for cultivation by
drainage and clearing. Progress is
being made in the clearing out of
cutover timberlands and all softs of
new methods are being introduced.
The United States gunboat Wheel
ing, for the last five years operating
chiefly in gulf waters, has been put
out of commission at the naval station
in New Orleans. The Wheeling was
caught m the recent tropical hurricane
and was badly damaged in a collision
with a Mallory line steamer.
Health bureaus throughout the en
tire South report that health condi
tions are splendid and getting better.
The whole South is beginning to wake
up to the fact that good sanitation is
the first requisite for good health.
Washington
Bodies of all American soldiers, in
terred in Germany, Belgium. Italy,
Great Britain and Luxembourg and in
northern Russia will be returned to
the United States as soon as neces
sary transportation can be arranged.
Secretary Baker announces that he
has issued instructions to the pur
chase, storage and traffic division of
the general staff to take charge of
the matter and to hasten it as much
as possible.
Oficial information bearing on the
reported disappearance in Ukrania of
Brig. Gen. Edgar Jadwin, representa
tive of the American peace delega
tion, had not been received in Wash
ington. Major General Churchill, the
chief of military intelligence, cabled
the American military attache at War
saw, Poland, to thoroughly investigate
the report.
President Wilson's condition is re
ported improving slowly.
Admiral Knapp, commanding the
American naval forcesin European wa
ters, says that intervention by the
American naval forces at Trau, Dal
matia, prevented bloodshed "which per
haps would have resulted in a state
of actual war between Italy and Jugo
slavia."
The Russian ambassador has inform
ed the state department that that the
superior Russian commander in Sibe
ria has appologized to the commander
of the American forces in Siberia for
the incident at Iman, Siberia,* involv
ing the arrest by cossacks of an Amer
ican officer and enlisted men and the
flogging of the latter.
Investigation has been started by
the bureau of internal revenue of the
complaints made by jewelry men that
articles taxable under the luxury
clause of the revenue act are being
sold in tobacco and stationery boxes
without collection* ofthe tax.
American aid for Armenia soon will
be unnecessary, says James W. Gerard,
former United States ambassador to
Germany. He says there will be no
Armenian problem because all the Ar
menians will have starved to death
in a month.
Breaking a three weeks' deadlock,
senate and house conferees have at
last reached an agreement on the pro
hibition enforcement bill. Quick ap
proval of the conferees' report is ex
pected.
At last reaching the stage of action
in its consideration of the peace trea
ty the senate has swept aside 36 out
of the 45 unendments which had been
written iuco the document by the for
eign relations committee.
In the absence of a definite agree
ment, senate leaders think that the
debate on the remaining amendments
to the peace treaty will run on for sev
eral days before another roll call vote
is taken.
John W. Bennett of Waycross has
been nominated by the president to
be United States attorney for the
southern district of Georgia.
A dispatch from El Paso, Texas, says
American aviators flying into Mex
ico will be fired upon by Mexican
troops. The dispatch states that Ig
nacie Bonillas, Mexican ambassador
at Washington, had been instructed to
convey this information to the state
department.
Ten thousand emergency officers arc
to be relieved of their commissions
between now and the first of No
vember, and warning is given that
men retained in the service, both reg
ulars and emergensy officers, will un
doubtedly sufer reduction in rank in
numerous cases.
Brand Whitlock of Ohio, now min
ister to Belgium, has been nominat
ed by President Wilson to be ambas
sador to that country.
Southern states business interests
are to have immediate government
aid in fostering larger participation in
foreign trade and in the development
of their ports. Trade Commissioner
Garrard Harris of the department of
commerce left Washington for Bir
mingham and later will go to Mobile
and New Orleans to inaugurate the
work. Temporary headquarters will
i be established first at Mobile.
THE COURIER, FOREST CITY, N. C.
I—Airplane view of Waterloo station, one of the great rail centers of London that was tied up by the strike of
rail workers. 2 —Representative Fiorello La Guardia of New York presenting Admiral Ugo Conz of the Italian navy
with the gold medal awarded him by the king of Italy. 3 —Mrs. Edward McViekar, chairman of the American
League for Woman's Service, and Breck Trowbridge, chairman of the Roumanian relief committee, receiving from
Senator Gogu Negulescu of Roumania decorations conferred by his government.
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Steel Mills Resuming Production
and Strikers Losing Ground
Every Day.
GARY SAYS NO COMPROMISE
Tells Senate Committee Corporation
Will Never Deal With Unions—
Lockout and Strike of Printers
in New York—War Over
Fiume is Imminent.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD.
President Wilson is a "very sick
nan," according to his physician, Rear
Admiral Grayson. After a consultation
with Prs. Dercum of Philadelphia and
Ruffin and Stitt of Washington, it was
announced that absolute rest was es
sential for some 'ime. It was reported
that an operation of some sort would
be performed.
Despite the confident assertions of
Fit/.patrick, Foster and other union
leaders, the developments of the week
in the steel strike went to strengthen
the beb'ef that the battle will be won
by the employers. The mills at Gary
kept increasing their production until
it was said to have reached 50 per cent
of the normal, and many other plants
in that district, including South Chi
cago, reported that their workers were
returning. The Indiana Steel com
pany at Gary, for instance, was oper
ating on Thursday with about 5.000
men, or half the usual force, and the
Mark Manufactuping company, employ
ing between 5,000 and 6,000 men, was
preparing to reopen its plant with a
large force. The strikers still out in
thai area were growing restless as they
saw their fellow workers returning by
the thousands, and feared they would
lose their places permanently.
In the Pittsburgh region there was
rot much change in the situation. At
the opening of the week the strike
against the Bethlehem company, the
largest independent steel concern in
the country, began, but it was far from
successful. A few of the company's
departments in its various plants were
closed, but most of them were oper
ating as usual, though with somewhat
reduced forces. The Pennsylvania
state police had the situation well in
hand and violence was quickly sup
pressed.
Judge Gary, appearing before the
senate committee on labor, made it
clear that there is ng hope of arbitra
tion or other amicable settlement of
the strike, for the United States Steel
corporation intends to fight the unions
to a finish. He said the issue is the
open shop against the closed shop, in
volving the right of employers to hire
whom they please; that the closed
shop Is immoral, meaning decreased
production, higher prices and national
decay; that the Steel corporation will
never recognize the unions or contract
with them, and that it will never deal
with union leaders as such. He de
clared the corporation does not object
to its employees organizing, and is will
ing at all times to grant them hearings
concerning grievances. He told of the
wages paid the employees and what
the corporation has done in the way
of housing them. The average wages,
excluding administration and selling
forces, have advanced from $2.88 on
July 1, 1914, to $6.27 on July 1, 1919.
Judge Gary was followed on the
stand by William Z. Foster, who is
considered by many as the real leader
of the strike.
Another labor dispute that will be
felt by the entire country is centered
in New York. A simultaneous lockout
and strike took place in some 250 print
ing and publishing plants which put
out virtually all the trade publications
and magazines issued in that city and
a large percentage of the books. Ten
thousand members of local printing
trades unions were thrown out of work.
The action followed the refusal of the
employers to grant a 44-liour week ef
fective at once and a weekly wage in
crease of sl4. A large number of week
ly and monthly magazines suspended
publication to join the lockout. The
international unions have denounced
•the strike and outlawed the strikers,
and the employers announced their
plants would remained closed until
they could be operated with forces
composed entirely of members of the
international unions.
Great Britain, almost tied up by the
great railway strike, saw a chance for
peaceful settlement toward the end
of the week when representatives of
the transport workers and other trades
went into conference with Premier
Lloyd George. None of the railroad
men were in the deputation. The allied
unions were seeking a compromise as
an alternative to going on a sympa
thetic strike. So far the government
had been firm in its refusal to yield
anything to the strikers, and many
trains were being operated under
armed guard. The use of soldiers in
this way aroused the bitter protests
of organized labor generally. As a con
sequence of the Strike the United
States shipping board stopped the
clearance of vessels for England.
Labor in England has thought up
something that it seems to have over
looked in this country. Union com
positors on some papers asserted the
1 ight to censor the news they set up
so it would not be unfavorable to the
strikers, and in at least one instance
they compelled the withdrawal of an
advertisement for men to take the
places of those who had quit.
Before this appears in type D'An
minzio's Italians and the Jugo-Slavs
may be openly at -war. The rebel
leader has said he considers such a
state exists, and he and his followers
apparently will welcome the outbreak
of hostilities. At Spalato there already
has been fighting, in which it was re
ported some 200 men were killed. Two
American cruisers hurried there .to re
store order. D'Annunzio's army in
creases daily with the arrival of de-
from the regulars and he dis
played his defiant spirit by refusing
to treat with the government as long
as Nitti remains at its head. He was
planning a juncture of Italian troops
at Zara and Sebenico and there were
persistent rumors that unless the gov
ernment yielded and supported him
he would proclaim a new republic. The
situation of the Italian government
would be ridiculous if it were not so
nearly tragic. Except for the Social
ists, the people certainly are in sym
pathy with D'Annunzio's assertion
that Fiume must belong to Italy, and
the demand is general that the su
preme council of the allies ignore Pres
ident Wilson and carry out that clause
of the treaty of London. France and
Great Britain have been only luke
warm in their support of Mr. Wilson,
and probably would comply with the
demand of the Italians If they could
do so gracefully. However, the su
preme council holds the position that,
all else aside, it cannot afford to have
its authority flouted by Italy, as that
would open the way for Greece, Rou
mania, and even Germany and Bul
garia to take similar action in regions
tc which they lay claim.
It was stated unofficially in Wash
ington that unless the Adriatic ques
tion was settled very soon the United
States government might consider the
advisability of withdrawing for the
present any further material assist
ance to the other powers. Presum
ably this hint was designed to keep
them in line with the president's pol
icy.
The landing of Americans at Trail
end the expulsion of the Italians from
that town was seized upon by the op
ponents of the administration with
avidity. After a heated debate the sen
ate adopted a resolution calling upon
the president for an explanation. It ap
pears the action was taken by Admir
al Andrews at the request of an Ital
ian admiral, and Admiral Knapp, com
manding our naval forces in European
waters, has reported that this inter
vention prevented bloodshed "which
perhaps would have resulted in a state
of actual war between Italy and Jugo
slavia." That part of the Dalmatian
coast was intrusted to the care of the
Americans by the supreme council.
General von der Goltz still refuses
to withdraw the German army from
the Baltic region, and the government
at Berlin, persisting in its contention
that those troops are not under its con
trol, has shut off their supplies—so it
says. The supreme council's patience
was exhausted and it authorized Mar
shal Foch to send an ultima um to
Berlin with the threat of a renewal of
the blockade. Near the close of the
week it was reported in Paris that the
blockade had been put into effect. Von
der Goltz has been grossly insulting
to General Burt, representative of the
allies in Riga, and has announced he
would allow no Englishmen to remain
in the Baltic territory occupied by Ger
man troops.
A Riga correspondent cables that
the Letvian government has called to
the colors all men between the ages
of nineteen and twenty-seven. The in
tention presumably is to move against
the' Germans, and possibly an advance
against Petrograd is contemplated, in
conjunction with the Esthonian army.
Omaha is hanging its head in shame
because of the wild outbreak in which
a negro prisoner was lynched. Mayor
Ed Smith nearly murdered by the mob,
and the handsome new county build
ing set on fire. The local authorities
being helpless, federal troops were hur
ried to the scene and quickly restored
order. Smith is in a way a "reform"
mayor, and decent Omaha people lay
the blame for the rioting to a bitter
newspaper campaign that has been
carried on against him and his police
force.
Still another race war broke out in
Elaine, Ark., in which five whites and
eleven negroes were killed. Troops
were sent there, too. In Helena, near
by, the situation was tense.
Because of Mr. Wilson's illness the
plans for the tour of the king and
queen of the Belgians was changed.
They landed at New York Thursday,
were officially received Friday, went
sightseeing that day and Saturday,
r.nd then were to start on their trip
through the country, stopping at Wash
ington on the return to the East. For
reasons not stated but not difficult to
surmise, Chicago and Milwaukee were
left out of the list of places whore
Albert and Elizabeth are to stop. Mil
waukee's mayor says "to hell with all
kings." Chicago's city council sent a
rather belated invitation. Its mayor
needs no comment.
The president was comforted by the
assurance of his supporters in the sen
ate that that body would not accept
i;ny amendments or reservations to
thp peace treaty and covenant. Also
he must have smiled when he heard
of the doings at Ardmore. Okla.. though
of course he could not approve of them.
The people of that untamed town
warned Senator Reed to cancel his en
gagement to speak there against the
treaty. He ignored the warning and
•when he appeared on the platform the
lights were put out and he was show
ered with eggs and hissed and hoofed
into silence.
The Fall amendments to the treaty,
designed to eliminate the United
States from participation in all the
various international commissions cre
ated by it except that on reparations,
came to a vote in the senate Friday
and were beaten, as was expected. The
opposition refused to regard the vote
as an accurate test of the strength of
the opposing factions, as a number of
mild reservationists voted against the
amendments. The senate is now to
take up in order the Moses amendment
providing that whenever questions in
volving any part of the British empire
come before the league, none of the
British dominions or colonies shall
vote; the Shantung amendment, and
last the Johnson amendment. It is
hoped a final vote on the treaty may
be reached about November 1. How
ever, there is danger of a long dead
lock, as some administration senators
have threatened that if the Lodge res
ervations are adopted 40 Democrats
will stand together to defeat the rat
i'vipg resolution. The Democrats
\ juld then try to get a vote on the
question of unreserved ratification, and
it is claimed that from 38 to 40 Repub
licans can be counted on to vote
ngainst ratification without reserva
tions.
EAST CHICAGO NOW
HAS MARTIAL LAW
GENERAL LEONARD WOOD WITH
I,COO REGULAR TROOPS GO
TO GARY, NEAR3Y.
URGE PARADE OF STRIKERS
Federal Troops Were Sent to Gary in
Motor Trucks Immediately Upon
Request of Governor Goodrich.
Chicago.—Martial law was declared
within a radius of five miles from
East Chicago, Ind., by Adjutant Gen
eral Smith, acting under authority of
Governor James Goodrich and Maj.
Gen. Leonard Wood, commander of
the central division of the United
States army, arrived at Gary, nearby,
with I,QOO overseas regulars of the
Fourth division to prevent trouble as
a result of a tense situation in the
Steel mill strike region.
No violence occurred, the only out
bieak taking place before state troops
were sent into the field; but a largo
parade of strikers, including 200 for
mer soldiers in uniform in spite of an
order against parades and meetings,
was held, preliminary to a meeting cf
strikers in a park at Gary.
The federal troops sent to
were dispatched in motor trucks by
General Wood immediately after he
had received a request for aid from
Governor Goodrich. General Wood
announced that he would assume per
sonal command of the troops.
On arrival of the federal troops, the
state units were withdrawn from
Gary and concentrated in Indiana
Harbor and East Chicago.
QUEEN ELIZABETH CHARMED
WITH THE FALLS OF NIAGRA
Buffalo. —The queen of the Bel
gians was enthralled by the mighty
jataract of Niagara. The cordial
semi-military greeting given the Bel
gian rulers by Buffalo was delight
ful to them but it was the memory
Df the great falls her majesty will
:arry with her longe3t. and of which
sh exclaimed most often to those in
her entourage.
NORTHERN LITERATURE GIVEN
AS CAUSE OF NEGRO RIOTS.
Washington. Southern congress
men have reported to the department
of justice that I. W. W. money and
representatives are behind the move
ment to incite negroes to riot and
massacre.
The attorney general and the post
master general have been asked to
apply the espionage act to certain
New York and Chicago publications
that started race hatred by cartoons
and editorial attacks on whites.
There is apprehension in Washing
ton that bloody race wars will break
out In some of the states largely pop
ulated by negroes, if the papers that
print inflammatory stories are not
suppressed or barred from the mails.
TURKISH SITUATION IS
CAUSING APPREHENSIONS.
Paris. —The new situation ia Tur
key which has arisen through -Jie
resignation of the cabinet is regarded
in French circles as confronting the
peace conference with another grave
and urgent problem. The downfall of
the government is attributed to the
occupation of Konich by nationalist
forces under Mus tapa Kemai, who,
according to some estimates, has
300,000 men.
FIVE WOUNDED IN RIOTS
AT OAKLAND TERMINAL.
Oakland, Cal. —Five men, including
Police Captain W. F. Woods, were
slightly wounded in rioting conse
quent upon the attempt of the San
Francisco-Oakland terminal railways
to resume street car traffic at the be
ginning of the sixth day of the strike.
SENATOR M'COMBER CHARGES
DECEPTION BY OPPOSITION.
Washington.—Denying that Great
Britain and her colonies would have
■ix votes in the league of nations tc
one for the United States, Senator
McCumber, republican, of North Da
kota. charged in the senate that sen
ators advocating the amendment b>
Senator Johnson, republican, of Cali
fornia, proposing to limit the voting
power of the British colonies were
fanning popular prejudices with an un
founded appeal.
PADEREWSKI HAS FORGOTTEN
HOW TO PLAY THE PIANO
Paris. —Interviewed after the signa
ture of the Austrian treaty, Ignace
Jan Paderewski volunteered the in
formation that he had quite forgotten
how to,play the piano. The journal
Ist, after asking the Polish premie-
Tumerous questions relating to T.IH
political situation -in Poland, finally
queried: "And your art, Mr. Presi
dent, have you given it up?"
"Yes," replied the former artist. "1
bare forgotten it"