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' ' . . : " ' r .,.-, ,7:,, J' - - . -r - COUNTY 'NEWS, TBYON, NORTH; OABOLINA pok v IMPORTANT NEWS THE WORLD OViER ' ' :- ' IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OP 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 Vashington Close co-operation between state au thorities, who possess detailed infor mation of food and price conditions, and the attorney general and his staff of assistants, empowered to enforce the food control law, is bejng estab lished as part of the government's fight to reduce the cost of living. .No answer to the reply of the Mex ican government to the state depart ment's warning that failure to protect Americans might result in a radical change of policy, will be made. Offi cials explain that the "United States will wait until President Carranza dis plays his unwillingness or inability to afford Americans protection they had a right to expect before taking fur ther action. Negotiations between Democratic and Republican senators looking to the ratification of the peace treaty with reservations have reached a more def inite stage. President Wilson and the foreign relations committee are get ting together on unprecedented meas ures to give to the public all the de tails of their discussion of the trea ty at the white house. Coupled with the charges which were placed before the house commit tee by the railway brotherhoods is a bill for the elimination of private rail road ownership. The brotherhood coun sel insists that the "American peo ple should know to what extent it is sought to subject them to exploitation" by private ownership of railways. Complete collapse of the Kolchak movement in Siberia is forecast in re ports reaching Washington. The Kol chak forces have fallen back almost two hundred miles from the former advanced lines, and Omsk is said to be threatened with evacuation. Final casualty reports from the cen tral records office of the A. E. F. in France gives the total battle deaths as 49,948, total wounded 205,690 and prisoners 4,480. Publication in Germany of the alien property custodian's report dealing with the seizure of enemy property in this country has evoked a storm of press criticism in Germany. Appeals for continued military and financial support have been sent to the United States and the allied gov ernments by the provisional govern ment of the northern region of Russia, at Archangel. Domestic Convicted of bigamy on his confes sion that he has seven living wives, one of whom he married twice, Charles Hugh Wilson, 48 years old, former Y. M. C. A. secretary, evangelist and traveling salesman, has been sentenc ed in New York to three years' and six m.onths in Sing Sing prison, where, he announces he will take up prison reform work. Following official announcement that suficient evidence has been col lected by government investigators to warrant action on the part of the fed eral authorities against alleged hoard ers of food in Atlanta, it is learned that seizures of large stocks of pro visions in the Georgia city are con templated by the government as soon as orders can be secured from a fed eral judge authorizing such action. The final day's sale of roosters at Demopolis, Ala., for the Tombigbee river bridge brought in over fifty thou sand dollars, which added to previous sales, makes a total well above one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Director of Railroads Hines says there is absolutely nothing to warrant the big advance in coal, and he fears that any shortage may be exagerated so much that the put lie will have to pay another big advance. The war having demonstrated that "physical fitness" is an essential qual ity of an efficient officer, hereafter this qualification will be rated on the records of the army commandesr as of equal important with "intelli gence" and "leadership," an order to the army bays. , The Chicago Builders and Traders' Exchange sent J. Ogden Armour a pair of shoes because he "recently said the high prices had led him to have his old ones repaired. Armor wrote a note of thanks, and stated that when he saw the bfds of . the builders and traders on building projects he mar veled that they stopped at a pair of shoes. He remarked that this was the year for him to buy a new overcoat and that a whole year's wardrobe would be very acceptable. The senate has eliminated several drastic features from the prohibition . bill as passed by the national house. - Andrew - Carnegie, ironmaster and philanthropist, died in his great man sion overlooking a lake in the beauti ful Berkshire hills of Massachusetts, where he sought seclusion when bod ily infirmity overtook him, and his mind was saddened by the entrance "rt this country into the world war. Al though he had been in feeble health for more than two years, his final ill ness was briefa matter of days. He died from a severe cold which had eloped into bronchial pneumonia. Senator Thomas of Colorado,, de ploring the "contagion of strike," sug gested that congress join in the con tagion, until conditions change or &t least until the present members have been assured of re-election. Samuel W. Chambliss of Chattanoo ga, Tenn., aged 50, brother of the mayor of 'that city, committed suicide by shooting himself in the head with a revolver. ',, ; - Insurgent Ilinois miners now on strike are fostering the "one big; un ion" movement, j The Cleveland Street railway com pany has taken. out an insurance pol icy in Chicago for $10,110,000, agaiijst riot and civil commotion. It is said to be the largest policy ever written. High cost of living is the result-of operations , of fundamental and immu table laws and lower living costs will come to a large'degree, only from the operation of these natural laws, Sen ator Reed, Democrat, of Missouri, de clared in an address in the United States senate, recently. Secretary of the Navy Josephus Dan is off on a cruise with the Pacific fleet, and, with Mrs. Daniels and his two sons, will call at Honolulu. Although grapplers failed to recov er from Cayuga Lake,,N. Y near Ith aca, the body of 18-year-old Hazel Crance, in connectiob with whose death Donald W. Fether of Los An geles, a Cornell student, is facing a charge of murder, they did pull to the surface part of Fether's clothing, which hte police say was twisted tight ly together and apparently tied in a knot. Fether besides being arraigned on the charge of murder, is stated to have illegally purchased whisky on the night of the tragedy. A jury awarded Henry Ford 6 cents damage against the Chicago Tribune for calling him an Anarchist. Two factions of Texas Democrats, dissatisfied with the present party or ganization, met and determined upon separate lines of attack to accom plish what they termed a return to the "principles of Jefferson and Jack son." The Chicago railway strikers have called off the strike and will return to work. Sale of unloaded hand grenades ; as souvenirs of the great war was declar ed dangerous and possibly a viola tion of the New York state penal law which prohibits "possessing of bombs of bomb shells." . Forty-nine defendants in the Bisbee deportation cases, whose preliminary hearings were completed after occu pying more than a month, were bound over to the superior court for trial on charges of kidnaping. Two United States aviators are re ported missing in Mexico, and request has been made of the Mexican author ities to permit an American searching party to enter Mexico in an effort to locate them. The Rock Island Butter company of Toledo, Ohio, has been indicted by the grand jury on the finding that the company with several others has con spired to fix the price of a butter substitute at thirty-two and a half cents a pound. Walter A. Davis, former cashier, and William W. Treble, asisstant cashier of the City Bank of South Lorani, Ohio, where a hundred thousand dol lar shortage wis discovered recently. have been indicted on charges of em bezzlement. J. A. Thomaston, 62-year-old opera tor of an Atlatna, Ga., soft drink es tablishment, has been indicted on the charge of murdering W. G. Cullam, an insurance man, who was shot in the store of Thomaston. Five persons were instantly killed near Lima, Ohio, when an automo bile in which they were riding was struck by a Western Ohio traction car. New York City faces the possibility of a .traction strike more far-reaching than the recent walk-out in Brooklyn. The men want an increase of 50 per cent. Foreign A woman's demonstration held in Berlin demanded the speedy return of German' prisoners of war. Some of the women demanded a crusade to cross the border and by force release the German prisoners. It has been learned that the Jap anese government after mature delib eration both by the cabinet and the diplomatic advisory council, has in formed the government of Admiral Kolchak in Kolchak that Japan is un able to aid him in his war against the Bolsheviki. American commercial activity in Europe, which began Immediately af ter the signing of the admistice, con tinues successfully to advance on s large scale. The secret of the success of the Americans is their delivery promptly of goods, ranging from loco motives to sewing machines and the long credits given. The American steamer Englewood struck a mine in the North sea off the Thames river, and sent out a wire less for help. There was no immediate danger, but the vessel will probably be beached. The steady expansion in Irish In dustry, and trade is being well main tained in the south ami, west of Ire land. Business generaly is growing in volume. Paris dispatches recite that the Ar menian "race faces total annihilation. The finding is the result of first hand information, advices state. Roumanian troops are to leave Bu dapest in consequence of the note snt to Roumania by the peace conference. It is stated that the Roumanian sol diery has stripped Hungary, and has seized all railways and transporta tion lines. , S3 Ivy 5x. :-v-:.:-:-y.--J Avyy.yy.-:- i-.v.'.:,! 1 0 mm mm v 1 U. S. S. Mississippi, one of the Pacific fleet, passing through the Gaillard cut of the Panama canal. 2 Actresses In' New York who took part In the strike of the Actors' Equity association. 3 Nelson Morris, one of the "big .five" packers whom the government charges with profiteering and violation of the food laws. HEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS I' :i- , All Government Forces Concen trating on Fight Against High Cost of Living. r'-.f FOODS IN STORAGE SEIZED Test Case Against Alleged Sugar Hoarders Labor Situation Is' Lit tle Improved Kolchak's Siberi an Armies In Flight Rou manians in Hungary Defy Allied Conv mission, i By EDWARD W. PICKARD. Spurred on by the welcome, If long delayed action of the chief executive, all available forces of the federal gov ernment are devoting themselves to the task 4 of reducing thf cost of liv ing, and they are receiving the en thusiastic co-operation H of state and municipal bodies and officials all over the country. Attorney General Palmer sent out Instructions and authority. to confiscate at once hoarded food stocks, and large quantities of foodstuffs Warehouses were seized In Chattanooga, Tampa, Jacksonville, Fla. ; Fort 'Sam Houston, Tex., and other places. J every case, according to Mr. Palmer' instructions, the names of the hoarders and the amounts of food seized were made pub lic, for it was thought the publicity would result In the Immediate release of excessive amounts foodstuffs that have been withheld from con sumption. The attorney general cen tered his attention especially on Chi cago, not only because It. is the great est food storage center of the world, but because he had learned the spec ulators there had been particularly and perniciously active. The Chicago packers, naturally, are the chief tar gets, because they are alleged to be in control of the cold-storage business, not only there but all oyer the coun try. This they deny. Senator McKel lar has Introduced a bill for federal regulation of cold-storage plants and in supporting it he toldj of the vast amounts of poultry, eggs and butter in storage and of the apparent exorbi tant profits made on those commodi ties by some middlemen. Xouls Swift says he has been and Is, in favor of regulation of storage methods; and President Horn of the American Re frigerating association asserts his or ganization would not object to reason able regulatory measures, but that most of the suggested plans are too drastic. J'lii - The government's fight against the sugar hoarders also centered in Chi cago, and the first test cse is that against the officials of the Central Su gar company who were' jarrested a week or more ago. HenryH. Rolapp, head of the sugar distribution com mittee pf fhe food administration, said the situation vas serious; "as canners and dealers were clamoring in vain for sugar. The, railway shopmen's strike entered Into this, a r 20,000,000 pounds of sugar was delayed in Cali fornia by lack of cars. Mr. Rolapp said that in a few days the arrival of cane sugar from New Orleans and beet sugar from the West would flood the market. 1 The entire food crusade had its ef fect on retail prices, In sopaV Instances only slight and In others, notably po tatoes, very marked. The federal agents intend to go after 'the retail grocers and butchers for profiteering, as well as after the bigger game, and before long the suffering consumer may get, relief that will actually affect his. bank roll. , i t; In Boston a grand jury investigation elicited the rather surprising Informa tion that the American people demand shoes of high grade and higli price and scorn the cheaper grades, of which the manufacturers say they have large stocks. In a way this is borne out by the statement of a Berlin j paper that American shoe dealers are making strenuous efforts to -find !a suitable market for their goods in Germany. The witnesses in Boston said their margin of profit was no larger than when shoes were selling at much lower prices, and that a decline might be expected, perhaps a year hence. The British, too, are attacking the cost of living problem with vigor. The house of commons had before it a bill to curb profiteering, and after a hard fight the measure was amended so as to empower the board of trade, after an investigation,, to fix wholesale and retail prices. Sir Auckland Geddes, minister of national service, said this would operate In cases where com munities were likely to be bled by any1 combination, national or international, for the purpose df raising prices; and Andrew Bonar Law made it clear that the government had no intention of es tablishing a general system of price fixing throughout the country. Belgium is suffering, like most of the rest of tine world, and the labor party there has suggested to the prime min ister a series of measures to arrest the Increasing prices of necessaries, to en courage the home growing of food and to Insure the equal distribution of im ports. The party wants the govern ment to fix the prices of foodstuffs and to control the prices of coal and cloth ing. ' Paris was the scene of some lively scrapping last week between the food vendors in the markets and the price vigilance committees and would-be purchasers. The committees endeav ored to prevent foodstuffs bought by the hotels and 'other large consumers from leaving the markets, asserting that the willingness of those buyers to pay any prices, however high, re sulted In the raising of all prices. Dur ing the fighting many stalls and shops were looted. The labor situation in the United States did not show marked Improve ment. In spite of all efforts to make them return to work, the striking rail way shopmen In many localities were obdurate, and the officers of their In ternational, union were compelled to threaten them with expulsion from the union If they did not resume their la bors. Then delegates representing 500,000 shopmen met In Chicago and voted to go back to work. Before August 25 a general strike of steel workers throughout, the coun try may be declared. The men have been taking a vote on the question In all the plants. They demand $1 an hour, a 44-houf week and better work ing conditions.' Such a strike w'ill af fect more than a million men. As congress has not yet acted "on the Plumb plan, the railway brother hoods ,are waiting. Meanwhile the Plumb plan is getting some very hard knocks from industrial and railway experts, some of whom assert it would Increase the cost of living. Charles Piez says the Plumb bill is about as bad as It could be made, adding: "As a shipper and citizen, I should like to be told what advantage or profit the public will get outside of the privilege of paying the yearly deficit." Mr. Plumb told the house committee on in terstate commerce that he either had or could procure evidence proving that a systematized plundering of all the railroads has been conducted under tjie direction of fche Morgan and Rock efeller banking Interests. More Interesting than important was the strike of the members of the Actors Equity association, which, starting In New York, spread to Chi cago. A number of theaters in both cities were forced to close their doors. The actors demanded recognition of their; association and various reforms in the conditions of working. The dis pute was carried into court by injunc tion proceedings. A situation arose at the Chicago stockyards which may teach uni6n la borers a lesson In the matter of ob serving their contracts. Federal Judge Alschuler, mediator, ruled that the employees who quit work during the recent race riots had violated their pledge not to strike for one year and thus had lost their seniority rights;' Union officials, objected violently to this but It seemed likely most of the packing house workers would abide by Judge Alschuler's rulings, for the present at least. - v - In New York 1,200 interior decorat ors Quit work; and representatives of 21 International building trades unions began planning for a national strike because of a dispute there between two unions of plasterers. Considerable uneasiness, not to say anxiety, was caused in the capitals of the allied nations by the news that the Kolchak government of western Siberia was "on -the run" if not quite collapsed. The bolshevik armies gained repeated victories over Kol chak's forces, and at last reports the latter were hastily moving eastward. The admiral's plight was laid to short age of guns and ammunition, and large supplies of both were dispatched to him from the United States by way of the Pacific ocean. Whether they would reach, hina In time to save his troops from disaster was uncertain. Better news came from both north and south Russia. On the Dvina a force of British and Russians de stroyed six battalions of bolsheviki, taking 1,000 prisoners and many guns and advancing Its front 12 miles. In Volhynla the Ukrainians have taken the railway center of Lutsk 'and the fortress of Dubno, and the bolsheviki also abandoned, the important city of Vinnitza in the Ukraine. General Den ikine's armies were making steady progress toward Odessa and at the northwest corner of the Black sea they were only 50 miles from a junc tion with the Roumanian forces. The Roumanians who occupied Budapest were a stubborn lot and flatly refused to take orders from the allied commission there and get out again, declaring they would remain Until a stable government was estab lished. The peace council at Paris was a bit flabbergasted and feared that if Roumania were permitted to defy -its orders, Germany and other enemy countries might be encouraged to .do likewise. The Roumanians threatened that if they were forced to withdraw they would strip Hungary of everything portable, and indeed they are said to be doing that now. Their representatives in Budapest said the only policy for Hungary was union with Roumania under a Roumanian king. Antonesco, the Roumanian min ister to Paris, says Roumania does not favor the Installation of Archduke Jo seph In power, considering him reac tionary. The situation was strained but the peace council .was hopeful of an amicable settlement. According to an edict of the peace conference, Austria Is to be known as the Republic of Austria, the word "German" being eliminated. There is a movement in Vienna to re-establish the monarchy, but the entire armed forces of the country, there and in other cities, are demanding that the republican form of government be re tained. After long delay, the British gov ernment has found a man to represent It in Washington, but only temporar ily. Viscount Grey has agreed to fill the post of ambassador until a perma nent appointment has been made, early next year. Great responsibility at taches to the position just now, for financial and treaty relations between the two "countries must be readjusted. The London press predicts that he wiir have some difficulties, and the Daily News says his path will not be smoothed by the British government's "sustained refusal to make any ap proach to a solution of the Irish prob lem." Presumably Viscount Grey will come over soon and will be in Washington when the prince of Wales visits our national capital. That young man landed In Newfoundland and" is now making a triumphal tour of Canada. The death of Andrew Carnegie re moved one of the few survivors of .an industrial age. that has passed when men of vision made incredibly large fortunes In ways that were not consid ered -reprehensible. His avowed de sire to die a poor man was not real Z"V fr though he gave away more than $350,000,000, It Is believed he left an estate worth nearly $500,000,000. Henry Ford's libel suit against the Chicago Tribune : resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff. Who was -" awarded nominal damages 6 cents. The trial of thV case had -lasted many weeks, af fording pecuniary profit to a few per sons and amusement to still fewer. - m ' - . , 4 . . - :-. -,'-, h,tchcoc ii DOCIlion Hi3H Cost of L. Connected With"! herltri lie rh'n,,u league tJz M the statPml1! ratiM said wnat ,lug thP ' chairrnnr. !'Se committee y the commit treatv Smnci T,.i J - - c .i i nr. in therefore, the treatykl -Hi "The senate w country is waiting.. increasing. Every, the enemies of tv,. nents of the league ot- tne committee. "Every one also -hJ do not control th, sentiment resents to. the opponents of a. J might keep it lockecjl tee, ana this greatly j tion. "Every one now reJ are still suffering from J the first step toward t the treaty. "The President's ad arouse the country toil of the treaty ratificatx steps necessary to ret: living. ARRANGEMENTS MA'f PAYMENT OF It El Paso, Tex.-Aiot was issued at military here signed -by Brig, Erwin, district comma: ing that Maj. L. A. Wt der of the aero unit at? received a message missing aviators, saying captured by Mexicans held for $15,000 ransom must be paid by August to the message. Arrangements wereW tr nhtin S1R.OO0 eoldKCl it to Marfa arly forp: ransom. This action visable to protect the COSTA RICA'S FLEEIfil PRESIDENT! Kingston, Jamaica.- co. who recently abaafcj ldency of Costa Rici C country, armed ne otpamer. Zacapa. en vfii He said several atteJ made to assassinate brother, Jose, minister shot in the backoff before the president- died. u im r.OLD STORASH TWENTY Detroit-Agents oft : . f the del" brancn neie -. j w in one tice sam T - w. plant visited a which they were told storage ior & j The . officials- decW they believed - l.U fnr tM' had been r'' it was through an intend to invest week. Seattle. Wasb-i tor, named by t , ping boarrf in c men and woiu- nd Canada, the prsence o A members of the nation fathered , sociations 19iyHardr. Mrs'. Guy V. n 4 Col., sponsored Washington- f era! Wickersh' sued through C i f Peace called up the peace tretfJ " tV f perf 6 0 L v5 through the " a the league g minted OUt, W fotP I bJ the state" t fa"-':