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FOLK COUNTY NEWS, TBYON, NOBTH CAROLINA IMPORTAfff HEIVS THE WORLD OVER IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIO AND OTH ER NATIONS FO R SEVEN DAYS GIVEN THE NEWS j)F THE SOUTH What Is Taking Place In Th South land Will Be Found In Brief Paragraphs Foreign M. Jaspar, minister of economics for Belgium, announces that exportations of coal from Belgium 'have been .pro hibited. Cholera and dysentery are reported to have broken out in Petrograd. Se crecy is maintained regarding the number of cases, but public meetings have been held for the teaching of nfuiiminarv nrpcmitions. There is a jjicuiuiuuij r- lack of medicines and famine threat ens. The supreme peace council has de- ultimatum to the Roumanian government regarding her course in Hungary. The ultimatum will be sent by a special envoy. Tokio hears that efforts have been made to assassinate the governor gen eral of Korea. No details have been given out. It is announced in Brussels that the king and queen of Belgium will sail for the United States on September 22. They will sail on the American presidential ship, George Washington. The German territory to be con trolled by United States troops com prises an area of twenty-four hundred kilometers. Georges Gaston Quien, charged with having betrayed Edith Cavell, an Eng lish nurse, has been condemned to death by thj French courts. The supreme council of the peace conference decided to send a note in forceful terms to the German govern ment pointing out the contradiction with the Versailles treaty of the pro vision in the new German constitution providing for the representation of . Austria in the German reichstag. The British destroyer Victoria was torpedoed and sunk in the Baltic, with the loss of eight of her complement. Roumania wi1 not sign the peace treaty with Austria, according to In transigeant, because of a clause of the American delegates concerning ethnical minorities. Washington Preparation of class and commod ity rates upon export traffic from the middle west to South Atlantic , and Gulf ports has been ordered by Di- restor General Hines. The Southern gateways will now compete on equal terms with the East in shipments to nnd from South and Central Amer ica. The conference called by Presi dent Wilson to discuss relations be tween ; labor and industry will meet in Washington October 6, and will be composed of five persons selected by the chamber of commerce of the Unit ed States, five by the national indus trial board, fifteen by the American Federation of Labor, three by farm-! ing organizations and three by In-1 vestment bankers and fifteen repre sentatives of the public. That the distribution of trucks and road-building equipment to the sever al states through their highway de partments will not be discontinued, is the belief of the military affairs committee , of the house. "General Pershing's Own" the famous picked regiment which repre sented' the American army in the vic tory parades in Paris and London will serve as guard of honor for the commander of the American expedi tionary force when he leads the pa rade in New York. Secretary of Commerce Redfield has resigned, resignation to take ef fect the latter part of October. He will enter business, but has not yet determined just what kind. He de nies that he is "peeved" because his "pet plans" have not been adopted. Reports reaching Washington say that in Mexico City, eight thousand children die yearly for want of prop er food and clothing and shelter. Chemical gases are banned by the Bernard M. Baruch, chairman of the war industries board, is mention ed as a possible successor to Red f ied, although it is said he has re fused other offers of official posi tion. "' The prohibition enforcement b 11 has been, passed by the senate with out a record vote virtually in the form reported from committee. The meas use has been sent to conference for discussion of amendments inserted in the house bill by the senate. Warning that intervention by the United States Is imminent, Gen. Sal vador Alvarado, one of the leaders in the Caranza movement throughout its course, has addressed an open let ter to'Carranza himself and Generals O bregon and Gonzales, in -which he arraigns conditions, in Mexico in most scathing fashion. General March says tank warfare will be improved that it has come to stay, and will in some . measure re place cavalry and supplement the ar tillery. The treaty of peace with Germa ny, ordered reported out by the for eign relations committee, includes four reservations and about forty amendments. President Wilson is off on his nation-wide speaking trip to tell the people first hand of his part in the peace negotiations and to make a per sonal appeal that the peace treaty be ratified without amendment. He is accompanied by Mrs.' Wilson, Joseph P. Tumulty, his secretary, and Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, his physi cian. k Nearly thirty newspaper corre spondents, in addition to the force of official stenographers and secret service men, are aboard the train, on which the president and his party will practically live for twenty-five or more days. In his trip around the states Pres ident Wilson will speak in every state west of the Mississipi except four, but will, make up for this omission by speeches in Ohio, Indiana, Ken tucky and Tennessee. No announce ment is made of the president speak ing anywhere in the Southeast. The American army airplane fired on by Mexicans on the border was at no time over Mexican territory, an official report forwarded to the war department fro mLaredo, Texas, says. Regret over the firing at an Amer ican army airplane on the border, has been expressed by the Mexican gov ernment. Assurances have been giv en, the state department 'says, that an immediate investigation will be made by the Mexican government and every effort made to reach a satis factory adjustment. President Wilson's first speech, in bus wmri arouna tne states, was made at Columbus, Ohio, and he was frequently interrupted by applause. He was introduced as the "first citi zen of the world." The senate foreign relations com mittee has finished its work on the peace treaty with Germany and after adopting four reservation to the league of nations covenant, ordered the treaty reported to , the senate. Amid aplause from senators and spectators, the senate in open execu tive session, unanimously confirmed the nomination of John J. Pershing to the permanent rank of general of the regular army, as a reward for services as commander of the Ameri can army in Europe. As a special trib ute, a rising vote was taken. Per shing is the first American general since Sheridan. 4 wmm re ST,,... ' V. ""i"r,jV'f"T 1 ft m i1 if vt 0 ,,,,, .j-r-n.f lBolshevists burning" British warehouses full of supplies at Kern, North Russia. 2 Advance party of the First division of the American aray arriving at Hoboken on the Pastores. 3 Maj. Orde Lees in the water near the Statue of Liberty after demonstrating the practicality of his new parachute by leaping from a seaplane only 250 feet above the surface. ! , - , NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS ; .... u - President Wilson on His Tour to Argue Peace Treaty Case Before the People. J HE ACCEPTS HO COMPROMISE Domestic Mrs. Oscar Bray, living at Walden Bridge, Fla., near Red Bay, has given birth to five babies. Secretary Lansing, speaking before the American Bar Association in Bos ton, said he was opposed to interna tionalism, but favored nationalism, and expressed his conviction that "democratic nationalism" as sanction ed by the peace conference would sur vive as the basis of society. The surplus property division of the war department is offering for sale under sealed proposals a quantity of sawmill machinery and parts for same. Bids will be opened in Washington on the morning of September 24. Delegates attending the Presbyte rian New Era conference at Lake Ge neva, Wis., went on record as favor ing the immediate ratification of the peace treaty. ' " War on patent pirates has been de clared by the American Chemical So- city, in convention in Philadelphia. league of nations covenant. General l A system was -discussed which would March, chief of staff, told the house throw German patents now lying idle military affairs committee. He said poisoning of the air is as much to be abhorred as poisoning the water. Of the fifty million dollar war fund ' granted to President Wilson last year by congress for his discretionary use, $2,899,429.29 remained on last August 5 the house appropriations commit tee is informed in a report from the president. Practically r,ll the restrictions now existing aga'nst trade with- Hungary have been lifted by the war trade board. License will be issued freely on export of goods to that country except those of a strictly military nature. According to the federal reserve board's review foodstuff and clothing prices are dropping. Business is good, the report says. Although its origin was an almost insignificant corps, the United States naval aviation service was expanded so rapidly during the war that when the Germans quit it was. the second largest naval flying force in the world, The president aas issued invitations .to labor leaders, financiers and farm ers to attend a conference early, in October for the consideration of the problems of labor and capital and of those who direct both interests. in the patent office open to Ameri can manufacturers. ' '' Tents will be furnished for the Con federate Veterans' reunion in Atlanta' from. October 7 to 10 by the quarter master general of the army without special legislation in congress. The army will furnish fifteen hundred tents for the event Information has been received in Brunswick, Ga., that three of Uncle Sam's new submarines,- the K-l, K-2 and K-3, will arrive in Brunswick on October 7 and will remain there for four days, and while in port all four of the subs will be open to the in spection of the public. Abbott Maginnis of Salt. Lake City, Utah, has . been nominated by Presi dent Wilson to be minister to Bo livia.; ; : ' ' ' . The king and queen of the Bel gians, Albert and Elizabeth, may visit Atlanta in their tour of the country in October, it is announced at the At lanta chamber of commerce, A world's record of 66 consecutive hits, on a 16-inch bull's eye, at 500 yards, was made by Lieut R. E. Smith of the American expeditionary forces in the "Swiss miss and out match" at the annual tournament at Seagirt, N. J. , Senate Committee Votes to Report Pact With Reservations Supreme Council Sends Ultimatum to ; Roumania and Warning to Germany Indus . ; trial Conference Planned. ' By EDWARD W. PICKARD. President Wilson is on his way, tell ing the people of the United States face to face how excellent a document is the peace treaty with the incorpor ated League of Nations covenant, and how necessary to the welfare of the world; It is that it should be ratifledby the senate speedily. Beginning his ad dresses at Columbus, O., he continued them at Indianapolis, St Louis, Kan sas City and Des Moines, and ' he is now proceeding on westward by the northern route. Before leaving Wash ington Mr. Wilson had a final confer ence with Senator Hitchcock and J is sued instructions to his supporters to make a fight to a finish for ratification of the treaty just las it stands. Senator Hitchcock on the same day addressed the senate on the question, hotly denouncing the opponents of the treaty veven those who favor only mild reservations. He declared the real purpose of the majority on the foreign relations committee was to kill i the pact entirely, and indeed there seems to be justification for that assertion. Senator Knot's proposal that the trea ty be rejected and a separate peace made with Germany, he said was an in sane mixture of poltroonery and folly. Mr. Hitchcock took direct issue with those who complain thaf .. the United States will derive no advantages and benefits from the treaty as it is. They evidently have no conception, he said. of the enormous - benefits America will get from it and intimated these would come through the operations of the reparations commission, though how, and what they would be,' he neglected to explain. The senate committee on foreign' re lations voted to recommend the ratifi cation of the treaty by the senate !with four i important modifications. , These reservations provide for unconditional right to withdraw from the League of Nations ; assumption of no obligation to guarantee territorial integrity; of nations or to employ troops fori co ercive purposes or" to accept mandates except under the direction of congress ; full freedom to determine what ques tions are domestic and therefore "not subject to consideration by the league ; exemption of the Monroe doctrine from consideration by the league and dec laration that the United States Is sole interpreter of that doctrine. Senator Shields of Tennessee, Dem ocrat, Joined the majority In voting for ail the reservations except that ; re lating to article X. Senator McGum- ber of North Dakota voted against the free and in the way of being freer very soon. As for the Chinese, If Tosuke Mat- sucka, a member of the Japanese peace delegation, is to, be believed, the wind will soon be taken out of the sails of those who are shouting against the Shantung settlement He thinks Japan will open negotiations In a very few, weeks for the settling of the Shantung question in a way that will satisfy ev eryone. Tokyo will offer to restore the territory to China, withdrawing all Japanese troops, stipulating that the peninsula snail be open to Internation al trade and that there shall be an in ternational settlement at Tslng-Tao, and that the Shantung railway shall be operated by a Chlno-Japanese Joint corporation. There are reasons to be lieve the Chinese government Is not nearly so angry over the Shantung ar ticle as the American opponents of the treaty pretend to be. Hungary continues to present the most annoying problems now before the peace conference. The Roumanian occupants of the country so far have been absolutely defiant of the orders of the supreme council and are said to be plundering it in a most shame ful way. Finally the exasperated council last week dispatched to the Roumanians an ultimatum couched in drastic terms, demanding that they evacuate Hungary and hand over to the allies for proper distribution all the goods they have requisitioned. The Roumanian diplomatic representatives in the allied capitals also were sum moned by the foreign ministers who impressed on them the seriousness of the situation that would arise if their government should refuse to comply. The position of the Roumanians is that what they, call the war between them and the Hungarians is a new affair and that the allied conference has nothing to do with It. f ! In Budapest they were trying hard ta establish a government that the al lies would recognize. Friedrich offer ed to resign In favor of a coalition cab inet formed by Heinrich, a wholesale hardware merchant, on certain condi tions. All Jews are barred from the Heinrich ministry, but all other classes and parties are represented. Serbia officially denied the report of a general revolt of the , Montene grins, but neutral observers who have arrived in Paris from the Black Moun tain country declare the Serbs are fast wiping out the loyal people of Monte? negro and that they can.be saved only by military Intervention by America and Great Britain. These observers assert that much of the food Hoover sent into 'that country fell Into the hands of the Serbs and that no Monte negrin can obtain supplies unless he denounces his own country and swears allegiance to -King Peter of Serbia. Late reports from the Ukraine said Petlura and Denikine were closing In on Kleff and apparently were about to take that Important city from the bol sheviki. The Reds claim the capture of Dubovka, on the lower Volga, and also announced that Admiral Kolchak had evacuated Omsk and - established his government at Irkutsk, 1,950 miles further east Kolchak has issued a stirring appeal to" all ioyal Russians to rejoin the ranks, and his- representa tives have been granted the privilege of recruiting in Japan. The Esthoni ans had the bolshevik armies In so tight a hole that the Lenin e govern ment offered to make peace with them. Trotsky, addressing the Petrograd sov iet, said the bolshevik! must stand im 0 uo8: O.t.e.asttwo Wt c,t, o-xic mat vjreuerai vougn, me The committee resolution stipulates that the treaty ratification by the Unit ed States shall not take effect until the American reservations have been accepted by three of the four other great powers: Great Britain, France, Italy j and Japan. The hearings granted the representa- British commander, was about -to at tack Petrograd appear to have been untrue. The Poles also, using - tanks for the first time, whipped the bolshev ik!, capturing the fortified town of Bob ruisk and 500 . prisoners. . . The supreme council handed to Aus tria the final peace terms and a long tivesjf small and dissatisfied pedples reply to the protests of the Austrian delegates. The note Impressed on the Austrians the fact that they were nrl- marily responsible for the outbreak of the great war and cannot escape ret ribution by claiming they have thrown off the yoke of the Hapsburgs. . The people of Austria-Hungary, it said, had given full support to the ultimatum to Serbia and to the prosecution of the by the foreign - relations committee must be regarded as largely political bunk. The spokesmen for the -Irish of course made the loudest noise, de manding that the senate reject the treaty entire, .but the Republican - sen ators know, as do most Americans. that the Irish question is none of our business; moreover, many of us be- K i .... ' v I v t'. vsvvuuvu v. U1Q Ueve the Irish already are tolerably war, and for years had supported the militarist plot of Germany for the dom ination of Europe. .As it is left by the treaty, Austria 'will.be an unimportant "republic" of some 6,000,000. The decision whether it shall be permitted to join Germany is left to the League of Nations. When the supreme coun cil read the new German constitution the other day it found in It provision for the representation of Austria in the German reichsrath; This being con trary to the Versailles treaty, the Ger man government was told that the ar ticle must be changed within a fort night or the allies would undertake a further occupation of the left bank of the Rhine. The Berlin press there upon warned the allies 6f the danger ; of precipitating a new revolt of the German people. The Pan-Germans, by no means suppressed, held a union conference recently in Berlin which was participated In by Austrians, and laid plans for the restoration of the Imperial government union with Aus tria and the recovery of the lands ced ed by the peace treaty. Marsha Foch has determined the territory which the American troops will occupy permanently In the Rhine land. It will be about twice as great in extent as that occupied by them re cently. Just before starting out on his speak ing tour President Wilson announced that a general conference on indus trial and economic questions wpirid be held in Washington early in October. Already a number of leaders of finance, manufacturing, labor and agriculture have been invited and the list will be enlarged from time to time. The pres ident and members of his cabinet will take part in the discussions, and it is the hope and belief of Mr. Wilson and Indeed of everyone that the sessions of this round table will have decisive ben eficial results in the way of stabilizing industrial conditions. Certainly much good should come of the frank Inter; change ,of opinions and suggestions that is planned. In general the labor situation is un changed, pending the president's tour, the war on high prices and the above mentioned conference. At the same time' fhe radical elements are keeping busy, and it may be the threatened strike of steel workers will come any day. Quick to resent attacks on the pack ing industry, several big clubs and as sociations of Chicago have gone on rec ord against the proposed restrictive legislation by congress. The secretary of the Chicago board of trade said its members were united In opposition to the licensing features of the pending bills, believing the whole licensing sys tem was wrong, or. If right, should be applied to all business. All of these organizations seem to assume that the reports of the federal trade commis sion and the allegations on which legal action against the packers is based are full of falsehood. The senate has passed the highly im portant billN providing for the lease of public, lands with deposits of oil, coal, gas. phosphate and sodium, and the measure has gone to the house. Sen ator Lenrpot of Wisconsin says the bill goes further in the protection of the public interest than any other bill ever proposed in the senate or house. Other senators charged that it was framed In the interest of the Standard Oil com pany, It places the leasing of all lands in the hands of the secretary of the interior and fixes the minimum and maximum royalties. One amendment adopted compels constituent compan ies of the Standard Oil company to sell their prbducf at the same price in all parts of the country, and another is designed to force those companies to become independent in fact as well as in name. Mexican soldiers In the Carranza uniform provided the latest complica tion In the Mexican situation by -shooting at an American army airplane that was patrolling the border near Laredo, Tex. One of the aviators, Capt Davis -W. McNabb, was wounded. The Mex ican authorities said the machine was over Mexican territory at the time; the American officials on the ground denied this, and the administration at Washington patiently awaited further Information. . The . American army is growing restive under the evident con tempt in which It is held by Mexico. II SENATOR 8IMMoNs MUTUAL CONcESJ'N 'NEVITABL.Y U SECURE Ullt 8ub.tltute R.eluti0.B'.. at um uom Conferencu ' "ftr i wasnmgton.-Marked i: compromise in versy over reservation indicate se&ate ft tn 11 rvf " vu we1 uauuus covenant came 1 democratic and repute ter Republican Leader tN nounced that the peace f be reported to the senate an Probably the most " YY1 - . ! "v ii invt.., i velopment of the day ment to the senate by SpJ mons, of North Carolina' m administration leaders'hi ing "some concessions in the T reservations will have to h. . !! c7c us ""ncation." Altw terly opposing some of the u icoci ttuuu&, senator Si uc WAa ausgesimg a comnru. conservative reservations of b icj yi eiauve cnaracter. n 11' xveyuuiican senators cmr forts to compromise differences j a icsei vttuun 10 Article 10 league covenant. Senators M ber, North Dakota, Kellog, Mima and Lenroot, of Wisconsin en to have drafted substitute tions which were discussed praj in lenginy cioaKroom conference! PRO-GERMANISM IS AGAIN RAISING ITS HEAD I Sioux Falls, S. D. Declared proGermamsm again had lifted 3 head in this country, Presidents son declared in an address herea every element of chaos" was Sq there would be "no steadying W placed on the world's effairs. "I want to tell ou," said the h dent, "that within the last two is the pro-German element -in the e States' again has lifted its head." Declaring the peace treaty p ion for an international labored ence would give labor a new M rights, the President declared treaty was sl "laboring man's taj in the sense that it was a trs drawn up for the benefit of ties mon people. The political settlements tte selves, said the President, were a for the peoples concerned. He ass ed that the document laid don! ever the principle that no terns ever should be governed excel1 the people who lived there wains governed. STRIKE OF 600,000 RAIL MEN AGAIN THREATENS Detroit, Mich.-Definite acttfl the end of this week on the thre strike is expected of the con of the United Brotherhood of fi nance of Railway Employes arP way Shop Laborers, which ope session here with more than" egates from the United State da and Panama canal zone prj The membership has already j power to the executive coaj call a contingent strike of unless wage demands and agreements asked of the n 1 ministration of the United b the Canadian government are W. VIRGINIA PLANS TO , END ARMED MOB" Charleston, W. V..- tn hp taken by luc . West Virginia to prevent a . of the events of the part . when armed men marcne country threatening to vade k neighboring couiW SMALL PACKERS SAY VJ THEY ARt Washington.-lndepen of the country can pro w f from the "big five" v -e without the am - ; witnout iue t jgni v...iv Mil, the senate pT committee was told D. dnt1 representing the indepe . hip to tase j. -we aie . aT 4 Reives" said teun. 1 ;n f j Wv had our troubles We've nau uux two ears with the o nn't want any mor PROSPECTIVE IN SPRING W I . . . . a furu-- , washings- refi the spring wheal v J prospective bushels during Aug f"J a good month and 9 lTe output than indicated t j to the foi There were reo tv casts of oat8, eJsein and hay, but an -and sTizar beets.