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. i . ,3, 1 I .'5 1 it i ft r f fi H mmmmmmmmammmtmmmmammmmmmmmmmammmmmmmmmmmfmammti .... . . ,:. . ' . . . : ? , .mm. I A 4 fk f1 IMPORTANT NEWS THE WORLD OVER . .... IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIS AND OTHER NATIONS FOR SEVEN DAYS GIVEN T1IE NEWS JFTHE SOUTH What W Taking Place In The South land Will Be Found In Brief Paragraphs .Domestic The-department of agriculture em phasizes that "Save Food" signs must now be disregarded as to meat, espe cially beef, and wheat products. Faced by the largest wheat crop on" record and with many cattle raised in re sponse to the demand for meat pro duction for the army now maturing, the American people , must realize that no such necessity for conservation of such 'foods any longer exists. 1 Dr. Anna Shaw, honorary president nf the National American Woman's Suffrage Association, died at her home in , Moylan, Pa., near Philadel phia, at the age of 71 years. She was chairman of the woman's com mittee of the council of national de tense and recently was awarded the -distinguished service medal for her work, during the war. She was taken SX in Springfield, 111., , about a monU ago while on a lecture tour. Seated under a canopy of sun with the mercury in the thermometer flirt ing with 120 degrees, 40,000 fight fans ,saw Jack Dempsey defeat Jess Wil lard for the heavyweight title in the monster stadium built by Tex Rick ard in Toledo, Ohio. Orders have just been placed by the army quartermaster corps for "105,000 yards 60 miles of silk rib bon, out of which will be made the service stripes that men who served in the war against Germany are en - titled to wear. ' . - Col. James Simons, one of the best known men of South Carolina, died in Charleston at the age of eighty .ears. He was for many years vice president general of the Society of the Cincinnati, was president or tne News and Courier company, chairman of two local school boards and a law yer of wide reputation. N Plans for a systematic campaign in the cotton belt for organizing coun ties of the states for handling the an nual crop were launched at New Or leans at the second meeting, of the - conference ot. directors of the Ameri can Cotton Association. J. C. Wannamaker of Columbia, S. president of ,.the American Cot ton Association, says that four hun dred million dollars .will be needed for forming the planned corporation . to properly dispose of one-fourth of the crop. A survey of the meat price situa tion by the department of agriculture .reveals that the excessive retail prices now existing are not justified by the .-wholesale quotations.- Explosion of the big navy dirigible C-8, at Camp Halobird, near Balti more. Md., shook the countryside and eastern Baltimore like an earthquake and jeopardized the lives of two hun dred persons, who had gathered t see the monster flyer. r According to the commander, the explosion was due to Tapid expansion from heat. Several persons were blown twenty or thirty feet by the force of the explosion, anc houses a mile away were shaken and windows; broken. The air was tilled with gas fumes. Exports from the United States dur ing the month of May were valued at $606,379,599, the department of com merce announces, and on the basis of -estimates covering June exports, ex ports for the fiscal year ending June 30 have amounted to $6,'806,000,000, by far the largest total in the history of the American foreign trade. Engineer Clifford of the New York Central's Westerner Express, tried, ac cording to his dying statement, to .avert the rear-end collision with train Ho. 41, which caused the death , of twelve persons, the serious injury of nineteen others and slight cuts and bruises to as many more, at Dunkirk, N. Y. The airbrakes failed to work, the engineer declared. "Washington .. , . Urgent representations have been made to the Mexican government for . the punishment of those responsible Xor the murder of John W. Corrall, An American citizen, the maltreatment , of his wife and the attempted murder of . his-eon at their ranch near Colo nia, . 27 miles north of Tampico, the state department has announced. In structions have been sent to both the American embassy at Mexico City and . the American, consulate at Tampico to urge immediate capture and pun ishment of the perpetrators of the outrage and protection for other citi zens of the United States in the dis ' trict. . '. ' ' The' Russian Soviet government has been warned by the United' States in a message sent through the American . legation' at Stockholm that reprisals against American citizens in Russia . would arouse intense sentiment in the v. United States against Soviet heads. . American casult.es during the 47 day Meuse-Argonne offensive aggre gated 120,000 men, or 10 per cent of ..the total of 1,200,000 engaged, accord ing to a "statistical summary ' of the war with Germany," " prepared by CoL !Leonard P. Ayres, chief of the statisti cal branch of the general staff, and published by the war department. S Five judges will be chosen by the British, "American, French, Italian, and Japanese governments, and it is expected they will constitute the court that will try the former German em peror in London. It is expected that Edward Douglas White, chief justice of ; the Supreme courts will -represent the United States; - .-., While department of justice officials axe studying means cf stopping .the manufacture and sale of low alcoholic beer, dispatches reaching Washing ton through official channels tell of the new prohibition enforcement law in the Mexican state x' Sonora, under which any one dealinT in intoxicating liquor is to be j summarily executed. Francisca Villa ordered all Ameri cans hanged when captured, following the crossing of the American expedi tion, according to Donald B. Best, a British merchant of northern Mexico, who has reached the border. ; Villa either killed jor took prisoner the entire garris6n of 40 home' guards at the" town of San Andres, when he entered that town, according to ad vices sent out from El Paso, Texas. Among the killed was the mayor of the city. , J - Villa is. said to be so bitter against Americans that he has threatened to kill his brother, Hipolito yilla, be cause of his friendship for the Amer icans. . , Federal supervision of the packing, sale , and distribution of meat prod utcs was declared by the department of agriculture to be the only solution for the present situation in which meat prices . to the consumer are so high that he is , denying himself, and in which, prices for livestock, especial ly beef and lambs, are so low that the producer is losing money. A Lima, Peru, dispatch says that two regiments of the military and a force of police rushed the palace and took prisoner President Pardo. Thcr.e forces then proclaimed Augusto. B. Legula president of the republic. Only a few shots were exchanged and there were no casualties. European ' The Polish forces have started a counter offensive along the whole Ga lician-Volhynian front, according to ad- Vices from Warsaw. The Poles claim that they have everywhero broken the Ukrainian resistance that ' the Lem berg-Halicz-Stanislau railway line is again in Polish hands. A monument to the American sol diers who perished in France will be erected in May of next year near the tomb of Lafayette in the Pic-pus cem etery in Paris. The - American army of occupation technically ceaed .to exist when the moval of the units stilL in the, Rhine land began... It is expected that with in , a comparatively short time there will remain on the , Rhine only one regiment, with auxiliary troops, total approximately 5,000 men. . s The allies, it is reported, have re ceived assurances that- the Dutch government i- the last resort will not refuse to surrender the former Ger- man emperor for trial. The, surprise ui. w weea. cuuiu6 ouijf o was me news luai. vue lurmer uerman emperor AU.l Al M I would be tried in London. After a great meeting at Forii, It aly, in which a vast crowd protested against the high cost of living, , the people, excited by inflammatory speecnes, attached, sacked and de- stroyed many shops which refused to acu Lumuiuuuies at lower ppces. ooon i iim i nrv ill i no in nn im n n t nn r l orini. . " . """" tion and nad no limits. All the princi- pal shops were plundered, and the mobs controlled the entire city. The - mob took possession of lorries and transported all kinds, of goods and food supplies from the pillaged shops to the chamber of labor. On the wills of this chamber they wrote : "These goods are at the disposal of the people." Great state trials in England, of which therehave ben none for many I i , u T . " i. v es mmsier , ' , , u"eeQ nai honor ' . The former German crown prince, xreuencK wiiiiam, escaped irom tne "ou; u,r vviermgeu. mo liigut 01 can speakers imported. London corre the former German crown prince had Unnnrfpnta nrpinf thot t .lanw 'tK- been expected, as it was reported that wre er wBy lor uls treaty of peace Sevlral vessels were lying off Sesland lying on the island. The allied governments have repre- sented to the government of Holland the necessity of taking steps tp pre- w"ui ui ui A,ulluei W1" "TZL 'rom."ana. : j. wu . neuca civilians .were Kiiiea and five American soldiers' and sail ors were injured severely, and more" than one hundred wounded in riots in Brest, France. Two of the Ameri- can soldiers are expected to die. The casualties occurred as a result oi ex- change of shots between American military and naval. police and French sailors.? ( ' Peace with Germany became aa actuality at Versailles June, 28, 1919. As far as the ceremony itself was concerned it lacked impressiveness. Earthquake shocks in Tuscany, Italy, caused the deaths of 127 persons and lujunes 10 several tnousanas. rne center of the seismic movement ap parently , was Vicchio, a town of eleven thousand inhabitants, fifteen miles to the northeast of. Florence. , The; French-American converition was signed on behalf of the two gov ernments, according to tne newspa pers.. It is said that the covenant in cludes several articles, and specifies that violations of the peace treaty , by Germany .fill give France the right to request Amprican . and British assist ance. ;.. . ' . POLE COUNTY NEWS, TRYON.' NORTH CAROLINA . WBHI 8 11: : ; ,1 SHOW IH LIIU1 paw ; ; wJi r''r1 - ' His v-.V''"'!iw 1 Turkish delegates v to 1 the peace conference who have pbeen sent Dack . Bolin and Corporal Edward J. Gillespie with theirj wives : about to start f their journey from 'France to Frisco. France, awaiting ; transportation hon e. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS How the'United States Launched The Great Experiment of National Prohibition. EMERGENCY LAW 111 EFFECT President Returns Home to Take Up Fight for League of Nations Sena tor Borah Charges That Wall Street Is Financing League of Nations Propaganda British Dirigible R-34 Meets With Disaster When Near End of Voyage. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. The United States has launched the irreat exneriment. Just after the treaty .was signed that nominally brought the war to an end, our war time emergency prohibition act went Into effect and the entire country be came officially "bone dry." Presuma bly demobilization w4U be completed within two months or so, and there will be a "wet spell" at least In some states until the constitutional amend ment goes into effect on January 16. At present there is considerable con fusion concerning the scope and the enforcement of the emergency law. A federal court has ruled in favor of Deer and wine containing not to ex- IV. npr rpnt of alrohol and in mnnv in(.fliHn. tho dnlprs r tnklni? a chance and dispensing those drinks. In most states the old and new laws on prohibition prevent even this. In any case the manufacture and sale of all drinks with the greater alcoholic content are barred and Attornev Gen- eral Palmer has ordered rigid enforce- ment of the iaw relating to them. 1 ane . "wets nave oeen making a . n 1 1 1 rr iiiii i m 1 1 1: iik in. n mi a iirr . w n have refused to yield at any point. The, forces of the latter In congress are planning to pass measures to pre vent the country from going on a whisky-drinking basis between the time of demobilization and January lQf and to put a stop .to the sale of weak beer and. light wines at once, regard less of court rulings. Though the United States is now the onl ud C0UIitry, there may be an- other before very long, for the United Kingddto alliance, Encouraged by the success of the American prohibitionists, has opened a campaign to put ' Great Britain on the same basis. American methods will be followed and Ameri Britisher of his ale, porter and beer would al most precl pitate a revolution BritIsh Iabor is against; prohibition, but 80 is American labor; and it may b that John Buli will in thA nnt Uant future be reduced to drinking "lemon snuashps" nnd minpril Th world will watch the expri. ment, .one of the greatest ever made In economics, with Intense interest. His great task abroad completed so 'ar as 'might be, President Wilson has returned to his domestic duties On the homeward trip he signed bills and xcuu uucumems ana otnerwise pre- pared himself for the contest that con fronts him In, the United States." The goal' he has set for himself is the. rati fication by the senate of the peace treaty, Including -the covenant of the League of Nations. Victory will not come easily, though it probably will come, maybe after the covenant has been amended to meet the objections now made by a considerable number of senators. Those who are against the league "in any form are very few, DUt stubborn. If Mr. Wilson is equal ly stubborn, the whole matter is likelv to become a partisan issue despite the efforts of many party; leaders to pre vent Jhis. It is intimated that, if the senae makes evident Its Intention to refuse to ratify, . the president will withhold the treaty for the time belmr. and that would at once make it an out- and-out party question. Therje Is pre cedent for such a course. , ' If the issue Is put iip to the people AAmerican circus perf orma to decide, they have had plain ( warn ing that, . in case the United States becomes a member of. the League of Nations, it will be called on soon to begin assuming international vdutieS and responsibilities. Dispatches from Paris" sajr President Wilson will pro pose to congress the acceptance of a mandate for Constantinople and for Armenia. ' Senator Borah, rampant opponent of the league, broke out in a new place last week, with charges that the propa ganda of, the league to enforce peace, headed by ex-President Taf t, " is financed by Wall street, Mr. Taft's or ganization glories in th fact that most of its financial support comes from men of big business and broad vision. "It may be," said Senator Borah, that the occasion for the opposition upon the part of small . men is not a limitation of vision; it may possibly be that their investments are not the same and", their1 interests are not the same. , 1 "It may be that they are confining themselves to the interests of their own country and believe in the tradi tions and policies of their country, and It may possibly be that those who take a wider view of the matter are those who have large investments in other countries and who propose to have more Investments there, which in vestments will be worth very little un less they are underwritten by the Unit ed States government." It is not easy to see why .American business men should be criticized be cause they wish to see peace perma nently , established In . Europe so that they can resume trade, commerce and industry with the Europeans., -An in stance of what they are getting ready to do Is. supplied by the news that three great American construction con cerns have t been awarded a contract for the rebuilding of the Nancy district of France at an estimated figure of $250,000,000, which sum may be dou bled. ' ' . . ; . Dispatches from Weimar . declared that the national assembly would at once take up the peace treaty and that a majority for its ratification was as suredv The Germans had been noti fied that the blockade would be lifted as soon as the pact were ratified, 'and they expressed the hope that German prisoners of war would be released at the same time. 4 As an earnest of their good Intentions the Germans ceased all warfare on the Poles . simultaneously for some time and not without a pro sallles. t Released fiom danger In that direction, the Poles': turned all their attention to the Ganciah-Volhynian front, starting a. counter-offensive in which they claimed to have broken the Ukrainian resistance and regained control of important towns and rail ways. There Is no assurance, how ever, that Germany will not again break out on the east fron, for accord ing to correspondents she has, since the armistice, reorganized an army of about 1,000,000 men and gathered equipment for three times that num ber, including as many airplanes ,as she had ; when she surrendered. Of course all this Is contrary to the terms Germany accepted, and If the stories .are true, the allies will have to get busy again. The Germans can be trusted In .one resoect. and nnp only. They will evade the treaty if it is possible for them to do so. The French foreign office gave out the texts of the proposed agreements of France with the United States and ureai cntam designed to protect France against unprovoked aggression by Germany. The pacts differ in that Great Britain "consents to come" to the rescue Of France, while the Unfted States "wilL be bound to come imme diately." ' ; ' ; Various plans are being devised bv the Germans to save the former kaiser from trial and punishment, including the formation 5 of a national league tor tne protection of his freedom and life.' 7 Von Bethmann-Hollweg, for- mer imperial ( cnancellor, formally asked the 'allied and associated pow- . er& io piace nim on trial instead of the former emperor, assuming respon- siuimy i Tor ail - the acts for which vv Hnam is blamed. The German gen eral stair, wnieh resigned, agreed to witnaraw ; its resignations if the zov ernment' would promise not to srivp nn the ex-kaiser for arraignment before a. court., William is in no danger of .x. ... ll'Sir ,s...s(Js$m to Cpnstanttnople. 2 P from New Tork-on-the Private Fuul second 'leg nee ' for the Tanks at Bordeaux. his life from the allies, but that they still purpose to try him for his crimes Lis evidenced by their warnipg to Hol land not to permit him to escape from Dutch territoryand by Lloyd George's announcement In , the house of com mons that William will soon be placed on trial in London. " AH matters concerning the peace treaties are now In the hands of the new council of 'five, comprising Lan sing, Pichon, Balfour, Tittonl and Makino. Tittoni let It be known that Italy wished all territory taken from Austria to be definitely disposed of in the Austrian treaty,, which 'meant that that pact could.not be formulated for slme time and not without-a pro tracted debate over the Flume ques tion . especially. 4 The Chinese delegates said they ex pected to sign the treaty with Aus tria, in which they found - nothing ob jectionable, and thereby gain admis sion to the League of Nations despite the withholding of their signatures from the German treaty, China prob ably will make a separate peace with Germany. In refusing to sign the Gernian treaty the Chinese delegates disobeyed their Instructions from Peking, being Influenced by the sout China revolutionaries. . The Turkish delegation to Paris was sent back home "in a" "hurry be cause its ideas concerning the main tenance of the Ottoman empire were quite contrary to the plans of the air lies.' These plans, however, are still Inchoate. Greece, which N wanted pos session of Constantinople and realizes that she cannot have It, is urging that the United States accept the mandate for that city as well as for Armenia, but there Is more than a chance that the Americans would not agree to this. Meanwhile the Greek forces in Asia Minor are fighting three Turkish armies over which the government of Turkey says it has no control. It was predicted in Washington that with the return or President Wilson there -would be a radical change in the government's policy toward Mex ico. Senator King of Utah, Democrat, said the administration would prac tically issue' an ultimatum to Carran za, demanding guarantees for the pro tection of American lives and prop erty 1n Mexico and hinting at inter vention by the United States. The public has just learned the facts con cerning the brutal murder, of John W. Correll, an American citizen, near Tampico on June 16, and -the assault on his wife. There is every . reason to believe that Carranza soldiers Were the perpetrators of those shocking crimes. , - s Having lived to see the triumph ol the cause for which she labored for magy years, Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, honorary president of the National American, Woman's Suffrage associa- tion, passed away at her home -in Moylan, Pa., at the age of seventy-ope years. During the war Doctor Shaw did excellent work as chairman of the women's committee on the council of national defense, and for this she had just been awarded the , distinguished service medal. " - V- ' The first "balloon" to cross the At lantic, the British dirigible R-34, com manded by Major Scott, which was to have arrived at Roosevelt field, Min eola, - N. Y., late ? in the afternoon of July 5, came to grief in the Rav nf , o-" cue XJUJ Fundv. hptwpAn TSTnvo xt R,ir, 7 r, -, a auu 1,Cff Brunswick. -A United States destroy- er was dispatched to her aid from the Otter Cliff station at Bar Harbor Me; PidfentiyaStoWto the coast -line ma southwesterly direc- nnJrard Yrk- The diliible Started frnm Roei 4c . ... at 1 :48 -on the morniiig of Julvl 2 nnri despite ;the . accident, the achievement is consldere'd in aviation circles ' as" a success. The. new motor 'that was In stalled worked' splendidly until near. n)e ooDd f tne voyage. and - the crew of 23 men, Including one American, had nothing but praise for, the conduct of the big airship before that. : Scores of army and navy officers were at Miheola -to welcome : the Brit ish flyers, and general; sympathy was expressed During the voyage .the di- S?: ..'..WMI1, n , "-'-Lfl''''"1'"r'r" I 1: " ifi'S"1"""."'"'''"'"'' '''Imissssstsm ' 9 "aa een In almost -cohstant touch, by wireless with ships, and,, nearing the, end, with; shore, stations F0EHANDEDfL INTO EVAc,. 5? OF THE LAW. SEVEN MEN REAL fiO'n All So-Called War Legis!at;0n termlned Uonn ai. . s D- i- 1 r a Before War Was Decl , v a .cvii rn j "secret government n? fv :m States" which working "behind te4 ed doors," determined ail of thClos called, war legislation "weeks 6 " eVen months" before war Was d ed against Germany, "Chairman ham '.of the house committee . gating expenditure, chared reading into the record a the minutes of the council of nan, defense. This commission, he added, designed by law to act purely jn U advisory capacity to the council, J! posed of six cabinet ir abers the . president, he asserted, made then the real executives. After Mr. Graham had read to. the investigating committee a digest it. signed to show that the military dra food control and press censorship haj been discussed by the commission several weeks before the war was de clared, Representative Reavis, RecnK lican, Nebraska, interrupting, asked if "all this was prior to the president', ipeech on armed neutrality, in hich he said he was not contemplating 1 war. rne cnairman answered affirm- atively Later in the recital of the digest, Mr. Graham said that the censure ot the toucil and commission, uttered in senate and house, led Mr. Coffin to urge that "a definite channel of con tact" , be established between the council and congress. "In other word," commented the chairman, "Congress ought to be educated." RADIO STATIONS CONTRACTED FOR AERO MAIL PROTECTION. New York. The postoffice depart ment at Washington has contracted for the erection of three high-power radio stations, the first of a chain of Wireless communicating centers in Ta rious . cities to be used primarily for the' direction of mail carrying air planes handicapped by fog, it was an nounced here by Emil J. Simon, man ufacturer of radio apparatus for the war and navy departments. Stations,' will be established at Beile Fonte, Pa., with a third at 'some point on Long' Island or Newark, N. J. Ap propriations for them already are available. Others will be erected at Washington and Chicago as soon as Congress provides funds. Each station will be equipped with steel towers 200 feet high and 300 leet apart and will have a range of ap- proximately 400 mile-, to mail air- planes. MESS AGE, TO CONGRESS READY; 5,000 WOR0S LONG. On Board the U. S. S. George Wash lhgton The President's message, to be deliy.ered to Congress on Thursday, is completed. The message will take about 20 minutes to i read and con tains about 5,000 words, devoted to the peace treaty and protocols and the work of the peace conference. ... It is understood that the peace con ference' subjects are dealt with on broad, general lines without taking n the large , questions of the treaty n detail, , as" this probably will come later when W foreign relations committee, of Congress examines the details. T President also will have an opportunity- to go over these matters wj members of the committees. In examination of . the terms he will bav the! co-operation of a number of w cialists,; now returning with the pr ' dential party, who have dealt witn d -tailed branches such as those cerning reparations, teritoriai justment and economic questions. WANT' DIRIGIBLE AS oATTERn WORKING PATTED the rrf.' Ne,w York Purchase by Britisli ted States of the R-34, the big transAtlantic dirigible balloon, or Bister ship, the R-33, as a Ui I BIS LCI lli.y, i-" ...a ' . .' t . . . j- .innTnent dci model lor amgiDie ,mst, was ' urged by Henry oodL chairman of the dirigible cc 0f the Aero Club of America, enfissued here Mr. fadded that army and navy aer tical experts favored tr-e plan- . MINORITY COMMITTED vv C PROHIBITION ACT Bb Washington. Five ";pn;n a J house ujdiciary comm.tt - et. ronftrt on the Pr',J 3ur?i i : fnomfint bill, maae congress Should repeal prohibition act. was of w.i rck,i. cif v"- 3 diciary committee . had asked for a rule to ' eral enforcement bin mediate ; consideration. PRESIDENT'S DISTORTED V f