North Carolina Newspapers

' A POLK COUNTY NEWS. TEYON,-N. C. r hi i: I1 s ill 1 m IMPORTANT MS TiVJORLIJ'dVER IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIS AND OTHER NATIONS FOR SEVEN DAYS GIVEN THE NEWS OF THE SOUTH What Is Taking Place In The South land Will Be Found In Brief Paragraphs . ..:'..-' ... V Domestic Washington, D. C, police are engag ed tar an attempt to solve the mystery - of the. killing of Dr., T. T. Wong, chief of the Chinese educational mission to the United States, and C. H. Hsie and ; Ben Sen Wu, students at George Wash ington University, whose bodies were found inHheir home in the fashionable Mount Pleasant section. During explosions and; fire which wrecked the Nyack plant of the Ameri can Aniline "Products company, at Ny ack, N. Y., one . man was killed and thirteen other employees were injured. v Several other persons have, not. been accounted for. The property loss is estimated .at about one million " dol lars. Heavy damage was caused over the city of Nyack by the -heavy deto- nations. The entire Atlantic fleet Is expect ed to sail from Hampton Roads short ly for Guantanamo, Cuba, where the mid-winter maneuvers and target prac tice will be held. ' Alfredo Gonzales, formerly president of Costa Rica, has been named defend- : ant - in a suit f or $25,000 damages brouhgt iri New York by Lincoln G Valentine, an American capital Inter ested in oil lands and railroads in Central' America. , The twelve federal reserve banks broke records in 1918 by piling up an aggregate of $55,436,000 net earnings largely rediscount operations, as com pared wjth $11,202,000 the-year before. Gross earnings, the federal reserve , board reported, were $67,584,000. There haye'been many petitions to the present congress to pass a univer- Ki P,VM.U,r dav. nnd thprohv spttle by law this question which has been years, and before the public for forty Which, it isi realized, must COme 800n or become be biggest political tissue In all history. - Mary 'Powers, the pretty, Atlanta, Ga.; blond affinity of the j dead 11 John Ahbtt,' of the Atlanta4 fire department, ' Is ' being held as an accessory to his murder. Face to face with the widow who killed her husband, she took the verdict without a sign of emotion. Mrs. Stella Abbott took the stand and ac cused her plain husband's soul-mate. She stated that if it had not been, for Marv Powers effort to eet her husband over the telephone, the tragedfy prob- " abaly would never have occurred. ' Additional impetus was given the better highways movement in Geor- "gia In Atlanta recently when, at a .meeting, the Retail Merchants'. As- . sociation adopted resolutiolns request- ing Governor Dorsey to call a special session of the legislature to establish a .well-defined and connected system of improved highways in (Georgia. - Child labor in the United States, if Amerongen castle in honor of William are to Judge by the sentiment -in Hohenzollern, which was attended by the' present congress, will soon be a about twenty persons, including mem thing of the past in the United States, bers of the family of Count Bentinck, Prohibitive! taxation on articles pro- the former emperor's host. -duced by ctild labor will prevent pur- According to estjmates made by in chase or s4e telligence officers of the American The textile- workers of the United third army, based upon reports from '" States are out after an eight-hour day, all parts of Germany, the " organized and have notified the public that re- German army now-located in various gardless of what the employers think depots numbers from jthree hundred about " the ; matter, Monday, February thousand to five hundred thousand 3, will see the movement inaugurated by a 'gigan ic strike If a strike is nec- essary. European f There is;-sun no prospect oi any betterment :in the labor situation In the ,TJnitedvKingdom. If anything the sit uation, j both Jn Glasgow and Belfast, .. m f- ' 1 . m UAUUU) ; wM urcofej n xuiii xicuaoi, has become more serious, particularly in Belfast, The strike movement is very similar to those which are tak ing place, ih Germany, and j the govern mental authorities are calling on or ganized .labor to, help adjust the mat ter, as it is Irealized that a strike of the disorganized very largely I borders on anarchism, and-the only hope for a quick solution is by organized labor -helping citizens and the government to pacify the malcontents. The American steamer Piave, which 1 went ashore near Deal, England; part d amidship during a fierce storm ac- rtminanied br a blindine snow and is a-total loss. It is feared that several " lives were lost. . : i ; .- L. trine. : ;.. .. ' The Northern Russian government,!: Montreal, Canada, newspapers an In a' proclamation to the! population, ' warns the people against any unneces Bary alarm over the recent events Which resulted in the evacuation of Shenkurek; by- American forces.;';' : I--' . and allied - Germany's colonies occupied the en tire attention of two extended execu- - ' tire session of the supreme council of the great powers, and the disposition of this small empire scattered over the African mainland, in Asia, and all over, the Pacific, is presenting a territorial quesUon of the first magnitude. . Aiuea .. neaaquanere at Arcnaijigei vorably on January 16 ana tnat un ' , announce that the evacuation of Shen- der the terms of .the amendment itself . karsk was to avoid the possibility of prohibition Decomes effective one year a long siege, ana iuixner : reveal tnai It cw as only by a ruse that an Ameri-; can tattalion and other allied forces tucceeaea m escarmg irom being sur- rcu: - . The supreme council j It Is announc ed, in Paris, has reached satisfactory provisional arrangements aeanng wuu the German colonies and the occupied erritories of Turkey in Asia. As ; a ; result of the protests of the allied powers against the spoliation of Greeks and Armenians, the Turkish cabinet has quit. ' . " " v .'' v f ; The announcement; is made in au thoritative xjuarters that tho great colonial powersMnotabl Great Britain and France, nave acceptea ; in princi ple the Amermlcan proposal put for ward, by President Wilson for the league of nations exercising supervi sion over the German colonies. Washington J A $50 bonus has beep voted by con gress to enlisted men; !$200 for the of ficers. The figures haVe beenv agreed upon. ' , , ' - , Secretary Baker has issued Instruc limited extent tions. modifying to a (he blanket prohibition1 against, promo-, tion of - officers promulgated by the. war department Immediately after the armistice was signed land which has; been sharply criticised, in congress. , It has been shown conclusively that Apaches of all nationalities, in Paris, dressed in American uniforms, were mainly responsible for the acts of vio lence which have caused broadcast publicity to be given to an alleged American crime wave in Paris. It is further shown that assaults and hold- ups are infinitesimal compared with the pub the crime wave. in number as ished figures ots A dispatch from Lima, Peru, says several persons have been killed in a battle between government troops and strikers at Laredo in j northern Peru. General strikes also have been declar ed at Trujillo and Salaverry oH the coast, and the inhabitants are said to be greatly alarmed. j Administration policy of vast naval expansion unless world disarmament becomes a , certainty through interna tional agreement at Paris, has been approved by the housej naval commit tee in unanimously recommending a new three-year building program of ten great battleships and ten scout cruis ers. ; . I ! An army of five hundred thousand men was unanmously jdecided on by the house military committee as the Dasls lur uetwimiiius tion for army pay for the year begin ninS next July. Committee members saytthat the number is Expected to be c ia.b """"b -" J decision marks the beginning of the committee's work of framing the an- nual military appropriation bill. Mem- bers say, however, that ing on permanent mil it has no bear- tary -policy in the future. . Field Marshal von Hindenburg, ao- ' cording to reports sent put from Paris, is endeavoring to bring about the re tur nof the former Emperor William after the meeting of the national as sembly. Leading German manufac turers in Westphalia are said to be interested in the plan, Drastic import regulations covering a ,'rIde range of commodities, and ef- fective March 1, have been promulgate ed by the British government for tne protection of its industries during the period of reconstruction.. Commodities not on the list may be Imported with- out -special British import licenses un- I til July 1. I A birthday dinner was given ia jmen. The reports indicate that these soldiers are of such morale that they hardly will be available for operations of any extent. Cotton seed Interests have been no-nistration- that tified by the food adm the price-stabilization plan for cotton sed and Its products put into effect in September will continue through the I 7 . . , T ,f J present season, if all elements of the industry continue to co-operate. At least two hundred thousand Amer icans now in the army will remaia. in France.. The majority will remain be cause they wish to marry French wom en and1 the rest because they are charmed with French lif e and see great opportunities for American energy. The report of the house immigration committee says that legislation of the United States congress should not only protect American workingmen , from - J unfair competition during the period of industrial readjustment, , but also should nrevent the Bolsheviki from J coining to America to (spread its doc- I nounce that $300,000 was lost there by - 1 several local men who gambled on the American race tracks through a fraud ulent scheme concocted in Montreal. I Prominent men are m xed up in the scandal. ; Ratification, of the prohibition amend ment to the federal constitution was proclaimed formally hy jFrank L. Polk, I acting secretary ! of state. The proc- lamation was dated January 29, 1919, but legal authorities of the department say ratification wa .saccomplished i when the thirty-six states acted fa- i from that date. . , I Thirty-tour murders; 1 220 day vind night assaults and nearly 500 serious fights due to American soldiers, says a . alio .Ai0'h'bvu ' 1 and 3 Examples of the way in which the Retiring Germans wilfully - destroyed the coal mine workings 1 In northern France. 2 Battery F, Seventh field artillery, of the American army of occupation having a boat ride en the Rhine. 4 The Mansion house, HEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Captured German Colonies Are to Be Placed Under Interna- tional Control. WILSON'S PLAN IS ADOPTED British Dominions Protest in Vain Mandatories of League of Na tions Will Rule the (Territories' Little Progress With Russian Problem. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. Germany's lost colonies occupied much of the time and attention of the peace delegates last week, and the result of their deliberations apparently J wtia iuui uiusc tuiuuica, uuu yivuuuij i some of the territories that are to be lopped off the Turkish empire, are to be internationalized by being intrusted to governments designated as "manda tories" by the league, of nations. These f mandatories presumably will have a certain liberty of action in executing their control of the colonies, and the league. It Is supposed, will enforce, by safeguards, a system very similar In effect to the British colonial adminis tration. This disposition of the former Ger man possessions, if it is finally ac cepted by the peace conference, will prove another triumph for President Wilson, for while he has yielded some what in compromise, it is mainly his Idea. The British Imperial cabinet ac cepted his theory despite the strenu ous objections of the representatives , of the British dominions, and the ad- I hesion of France also was announced. ! Japan was not very well pleased, and neither was Italy. In another way this decision, If made, vindicates Mr. Wilson's ideas, for-it is admitted that the creation and maintenance of the league of nations is necessary to carry put the colonial plan, and the president asserts that, nasmuch as the league was unani mously agreed , to, it is necessary to turn the colonies over to the 'league un der the protectorate of the nations best fitted to hold them. The question of the German colonies developed the most serious diplomatic contest the conference has engaged in, and at the time of writing jthe end of the fight was not In sight. Those colo nies r were ' Germany's greatest asset, and some of the allied nations had counted on them to make up In part their immense financial expenditures in the war. Secret agreements had been entered into giving Australia and New Zealand the German possessions south of the equator and giving Japan the Caroline and Marshall islands. De spite the action of the British imperial war cabinet in London, the British del egates to the conference were dis posed to stand by these agreements. The representatives of Australia and New Zealand were especially insistent on their Claims, and were supported by the Japanese, who expected in return the support of Great Britain for posi tions in the Shantung peninsula and Manchuria. The South African repre- sentatives, also, were displeased, be lieving the plan would encourage the rebellious elements there "that are still agitating for an independent South Af- nca. Assuming that the internatlonaliza tion plan is adopted, It is likely the control of the lands In question would be about as follows : German West Af- nca 10 jj ranee; 'tne ivamerun to French -Congo; German Southwest Af-. rlca,; to the South African Union; German East Africa, mainly to Great Britain, a small part going to Belgian Congo ; the Carolines and Marshall island to Japan ; New Guinea to Aus tralia; Samoa to New Zealand. Japan! expresses willingness to . give Kiao-' Chatt back to China, under conditions! that have not yet; developed. These are Jn the main the claims that were made by the allied nations ; but Presi dent Wilson and ' his American , col leagues made It clear they would not agree , to the . plan by which absolute possession, of the German colonies Dublin, where the Sinn Fein "Irish would, be granted as a means of re couping war losses. The dividing up of the spoils of victory, they held, would be in i absolute violation of the promises that the rights of communi ties and small nations shall be protect ed. It was understood that if Italy agreed to the internationalization plan she would surrender her claim ?to Fl ume and the. Dalmatian coast as abso lute possessions, perhaps being given control of the latter until the territory is ready to assert the principle of se determination. The supreme war council tentatively decided that;the spread of lawlessness in Turkey made It necessary that allied troops should be sent there, and the military representatives were directed to prepare af report on the most equit able distribution of this military bur den among the allies. The occupation of Turkey will continue until the peace conference jhas determined on the fu ture government of the Turkish; terri tories. It I& understood that Palestine, Armenia, Syfia and Mesopotamia will come within the scope of the plan of ucanug v JUi CUlUIUeS Vy Uie IJJitllUU- tory system.: The laboci question bulks big In the doings of the peacemakers at Paris, and their International commission on labor regulation is now considering an elaborate scheme for the international regulation ' of conditions of employ ment drafted by Mr. Barnes, British minister without portfolio, in confer ence with British trade unionists and representatives of India and the do minions. i : . The Polish commission of the su preme council, made up of representa tives of ; i America, Great Britain, France and ltaly, prepared to depart for Warsaw! It would seem that this commission has a big job before it, for while the Poles themselves are work ing fairly ; harmoniously - under tbe leadership o Paderewski, they are be set by enemies on three sides and are engaged in j continual warfare. The Russian bolsheviki -and the Ukrainians are unremitting In their attacks, and now the Czechs are assailing the Poles along their 'southern border. The for mer have captured a number of towns which they claim are properly within the boundaries of Czecho-Slovakla, and they also have seized the mining re gions of Karvin, upon which the Polish state relies largely for Its mineral sup plies. . Wr - - ' " : This fighting, of course. Is in' direct disobedience of the recent order of the great powers that all hostilities must cease everywhere,' but the Polish rep resentatives in Paris say their country cannot stop fighting when It is under , constant miuiary auacK. Diplomatically, Russian matters were at a! standstill, awaiting replies to' the Invitation to a conference of all factions oi the Princes' Islands in the ,Sea of M4rmora The bolsheviki or gans rather resented that plan, for xney assrtea tne Doishevikl were gaining viforles In. the field that en titled thento more recognition. The representajttves in Paris of the other factions continued In their attitude of passive opposition to the conference, ana uenemi Aimer, neaa oi tne norm Russia government In the absence of. More: reasonable persons recognize President Tachaikovsky, stated that It that the embargo is an emergency Is not only; inadvisable to hold any par- - measure to help England In the re ley with t4e bolsheviki, but it would be habituation of her Industries' and that physically linpossIble for the represen- tauves m north Kussia to reach : the Princes inlands by February 15 with- out passifig through bolshevik terri- tory, whii he consiaered Impossible. xne umsg. government insisted that the campaign against the bolsheviki must be pushed vigorously. The claims of the bolsheviki to vic tory in ! te ; field were not without foundation In the Archangel region they have forced the American and al lied troops" to withdraw quite a dls- . tance from their advanced positions. and they have driven General Dntoff out of the Important city of Orenburg on the Ural river. On the other hand. ihey 4 IostiSaranpol, provincexot To- doisk, to the Siberians and are report ed to hav been overthrown In Tash kent, capital Of Russian Turkestan." In the Ukraine tbe soviet forces inflicted a severe defeat " on. the army, of Gen.- erai retiura and occupied Ekaterino- slav. Thete is little to choose between the .contp nders there. Jnst why the allied , forces are in 7TTVAw.:AW.v.w.v.;.)fv. I parliament" meets.. v horth Russia and what they are ex pected to do there is still much ! of a mystery and it engaged the attention of the. American senate last week when Senator J ohnson of California vigor ously attacked the policy, or lack of policy, of the administration in I this matter. 'The course, that is being pur-j sued is equally displeasing to many Britishers, and the French never did approve of it. ? une important point concerning pay ment by Germany Is reported to have been settled by the peace conference. It was decided that while Germany must make full reparation for unjusti fiable damage done, she and her asso ciates will not be called on to pay heavy indemnities to reimburse the! vic torious nations for their war expenses. Nor will Germany be compelled to re linquish the indemnity she took from France In 1871. Belgium's reparation claims will have first considerati and perhaps those of Serbia will come next. On the eve of the assembling of jthe German national convention in Wei- mar, the Ebert government - seemed firmly seated In the place of power, though there was a possibility of com binations that would dominate it. The Sparta cans were In a hopeless-minor-It.v, however, and there was every tea-- son to believe the "revolution" would run the course laid out for it by the old-time leaders, who never have relin quished control actually. That the change of form of government has not wrought a ' miraculous change of the German lieart or the German intention j to rule Is the opinion of General Gou- raud, the French commander, as It is of many less well Informed persons. This view is borne out by the Increas ingly insolent attitude of the con-, quered Huns, and by their naive sur prise and Indignation, when they rea lized that they might not be admitted to membership in the league of nations Immediately and on an equality with the nations that saved civilization from their criminal assault. i A French expert has summarized the policies of the present German govern ment as follows: Interior 1. Complete unity. 2. Redl- vision of the nation for administrative purposes into a number of departments approximately of equals size without taking account of the present divi sions. ;- ' Exterior 1. The annexation of Ger man Austria. 2. Opposition to the for- mation of a strong Poland. : The annexation of German Austria may be balked by the formation of the proposed Danube confederation of all the states along the Danube, including German Austria ; and Bulgaria, ; for it Is figured that if Germany is permitted to annex the part of Austria she covets she would be stronger than ever in ter ritory and population. ' " A good deal of excitement and some resentment were stirred tip in Amer lea by the announcement of a British embargo on many imports, effective March 1. Among the commodities named are numerous ' American prod ucts, and those who seek to arouse antagonism "between the United States and Great Britain were quick to accuse uie unusn oi startmz a trade war. it Is undoubtedly only temporary. At Ihe same time. American business men were aroused by it to the necessity of looking after our own place in world L trade. Great Britain is having a serious time with the labor problem.,;; Several thousand workers in England; Wales and Ireland have quit, either for. more pay or for shorter hours without re duction of wages. Belfast seems to be In the worst predicament, for business and transportation are , virtually ' sus? pended, riots are frequent, shops are being looted every night and the city is in darkness. ' ;'' v. In the United States unpreparednesa for, peace is at the bottom of a great deal of unrest concerning the unem ployment of returning, soldiers States and communities ; ar getting usy, however, and It is hoped that soon there will be positions for all, at least as good as those they left to ; serv their country. ; 0 10,000 TROOP GREAT BODY OF MISSING MEN WHOLLY UNACCOUNTED FOR AFTER THREE MONTHS. TOTAL DEATH ROLL, Late - Statement Shows Only Twenty. Nine American Prisoners in German 'Hands Remain Washington. Official tab es of te major battle casualties of the Amer can forces in France; made public by General March, chieil? of staff, show that approximately 10,000 men remain iwholly unaccounted for nearly three months after the ending of hostilities. The deaths, missing and known pris oners arevtabulated up to January 10 for each of the 30 combatant divisions of General Pershing's! armyj. The to talis 56,592 of iwhom 17,434 are classi fiedd as missing or captured. An ap pended statement shojws that only 29 American military prsoners were be lieved to be still in GerVnany on Janu ary 8 and that 4.80Q prisoners had teen checked up as returned and 118 died in captivity. Some portion of the great body of iwiissing men may be located as th jeturn of - the army, thins out the American -forces in . prance. Indica tions are, however, that the majority of the 10,000 finally will be added to file roll of ( honor shown in the tables of those killed or died of wounds, now recdrded as 39,15 8men. j To that figure also must' be added 1,551 men ;of the Marine Brigade, fig ures for which, not j carriedijin the tables, were obtained from official sources. This . brings the grand ag gregate of deaths from battle up to 40,709 on returns estimated to be 95 per cent complete. officially WAS PENCHANT FOR TALKING THE CAUSE FOR TREATMENT? Washington. Reiterating j in the nouse charges that National Guard of ficers were removed from their com mands after practically continuous fighting service to make room for regulars, Representative G alii van of" Massachusetts, .Democrat, - read' a" let ter signed by 40 wounded officers say ing that investigation! would prove that medical officers hauT been order- ed to report as unfit officers who might replace the regulars first as- igned for duty. Referring to( Major Wood, the letter read Gen. Leonard by the Massa- chusetts representative said: "When General Wood visited the front he was treated more like a Ger man spy than an officer of the United States. We have th word of several colonels' that knew; hint well for this. He was ordered back ! from his visit here without being allowed to visit the Italian front or returning tnrougn England, as he was injvited to do by Lloyd George. 1 ; 'General .Wood was tl he idol of the alike, and was army, officers and men one of the most efficient officers, yet- he was kept In a cornef all the time. Who did it r ' SOUTHERN CONGRESSMEN TO , DISuUoo COTTON ACRcAub Washington. The plan of waging a campaign in the South to urge re duction of the cotton acreage, and re tention by growers of all their cotton until a price of 35 cents a pound is reached will be discussed at a meet ing of the members of the senate and house from the cotton states. The meeting, was decided upon at ft joint session of the senate and houses agriculture ' committees, called by Senators Smith of South Carolinay Sheppard of Texas,, Smith of Georgia and Representatives Heflin of Ala bama, Lee of Georgia, Jacoway of" Arkansas, Candlerof Mississippi and Young, of Texas. ? ! Mr. Heflin said the demand for American cotton - is 6,000,000 bales greater than the supply and that just as j soon as v peace , terms are signed prices will 'be advanced to 40 cents. EACH COMPLETE AGREEMENT ON WAR TAX REVENUE BILL Wahsington. The war revenue bill, revised to raise about $6,000,000,000 by- taxation thi syear and $4,000,000,000 annually thereafter, -assumed final form when senate and house conferees reached a complete agreement on the .measure. ..v t ' . The conferees already had announc ed agreements on all tax rate adjust ments. Absence of President Wilson made doubtful the exact date the new law would become effective. MILLION MARK PASSED IN DEMOBILIZATION OF ARMY Washington. Demobilization of the army passed the million mark during the past week, General March an nounced, with 6,1237 ; ' officers and 752,411 ;men actually discharged. Of the officers mustered out ,2,444 were on duty in Washington. iThe demobilization has proceeded to; ! snch. ai point t that general officers ire being discharged from the war or ganization. ; General March announced honorable discharge of 23 generals.