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PORTANTMS
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIO
AND OTHER NATIONS FOR
8EVEN DAYS GIVEN
THE HEWS OF THE SOUTH
What It Taking Wace In The South
land Will Be Found In
Brief Paragraph
I Thanksgiving Day was obsenred
j generally In Washington -with govern
ment departments closed and many
officials absent.
Secretary . Lane, at a Thanksgiving
Day service here, spoke for a pledge
to Americanism and counseled taking
"the American way at each turn of
the road." '; ;
1 Five conventions brought before the
international labor conference by the
drafting committee have been adopted
and will be submitted to the various
governments represented.
Indications that large numbers of
Liberty bond-holders are trading their
government securities for stock in
fraudulent ventures prompted Secre
tary Glass to renew his recent warn
ing to bond-holders against being per
suaded into such exchanges.
Foreifirn
Representatives of France, Eng
land, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland, Hol
land, Sweden. Uorway, Portugal, Po
land, Greece, China and Japan will
meet in Brussels on December 1 to
i discuss the adoption of the measures
and suggestions for the establish
ment and functioning of the league
of nations.
Notwithstanding opposition by tli
members of the German National par
ty, the national assembly has passed
the property levy bill through its
third reading.
- French ' occupational troops have
entered Marash, Aintab and Curfa, the
principal centers of the Aleppo ' dis
trict, In Turkey.
Lady Aetor, American born wife
of Viscount As tor, was elected to par
liament from the Sutton division of
Plymouth, England, in the; balloting
of November 15.
' Gen; Felipe Angeles, Mexican revo
lutionary leader and famed throughout
the world as a military genius, was
executed by a Carranza firing squad
here, following his conviction with
two companions: on charges of rebel
lion against the Mexican government.
King Victor Emmanuel, of Italy, will
come to the United States next sum
mer, and also will visit South Amer
ica, especially the republics of Brazil,
Uruguay, Argentina, Chile and Peru,
unless the political situation prevents
him from carrying out his desire.
Teelgrams 'received my the Serbi
an bureau at Berne from Belgrade,
Zara and Spalato, convey the impres
sion that only prompt interference by
the allies can prevent war over the
Adriatic situation, as the Jugo-Slavs
are said to have lost patience and
to be ready to fight the Italians.
Dispatches confirming reports from
Geneva that the situation along the
eastern shore of the Adriatic is critl-
cal, are- issued by the Jugo-Slav bu
reau in Paris.
: A semi-of icial communication receiv
ed in Belgrade, says that a signifi-
cant movement has been noted among
the Italians in the northern occupied
sone. An Italian legion has been
formed at Sebenico. It is composed
of newly arived troops equipped with
ammunition and other supplies by the
Italian army.
The British government expects the
trial of former Emperor William of
Germany to begin in London early in
the new year, and is completing all
the necessary arrangements, says the
-London Daily Mail.
The withdrawal of the American
troops from Coblenx, Germany, is not
considered in American peace confer
ence circles as necessary. It is con
tended that the United States is still
one of the alied and associated pow
ers, and that the postponement of the
final action on the treaty does not
change its relation' to either the asso
ciated powers or to Germany.
4 The 65,000 American dead in France
must be left in the graves they now
occupy until the French are ready to
exhume their own dead, . which, it is
hoped, will be before January 1, 1922.
The foreign office had promised to
consider the last request of the Unit
ed States government for the return
of its fallen soldiers, but later decided
that, the alies who fell together for
the same cause should remain together
. ,ln death, until circumstances permit of
;tha returning ;f the bodies to the
1 families .for whom they sacrificed
. -Wpchfneton
rt by Commissioner Roper of the in
ternal revenue bureau that those who
have falsified or made incorrect re
turns may expect to "be called upon
any day for an accounting."
Another American murdered in Mex-
ico, i close , on the imprisonment of
Consular Agent Jenkins, coupled with
reports of, revolution in Mexico City,
with Carranza in flight to Queretaro,
though these reports were denied, are
Adding complexities that seem to force
the already tense Mexican situation
toward the long expected breaking
point
The State department has given out
this statemnet anent the murder of
James Wallace: "The department has
been informed as a result of an In
vestigation that a mule on which Wal
lace waa riding to the place of his
employment shied at a machine gun,
overturning the gun. The soldier im
mediately shot Wallace, the bullet
striking him in the neck and killing
him Instantly."
The international labor conference
provided for equal representation by
the Europear amintries and the new
countries on a commission to consider
regulations for workers migrating
from one state to another and the pro
tection of interests of wage-earners re
siding outside of their native state.
A wage increase of 14 per cent for
all mine workers, maintenance of gov
ernnient control over coal prices, and
co increase in prices at this time were
the conclusions of Fuel Administrator
uarfield, announced to, the operators
taa miners wage scale committees.
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Domestic ,
Persistent rumors of the hatching of
a plot by Villa elements in the State
of Chihuahua, following the execution
of Gen. Felipe Angeles,v noted rebel
leader at Chihuahua City, reached the
border.
Dr. Aaron E. Ballard,, president and
ne of the founders of the Ocean
Grove Camp Meeting association died
at Asbury Park, N. J., after a long ill
ness. He was 98 years old.
Thanksgiving in New Orleans, La.,
was decidedly "wet," with many of the
ormer -saloons selling the strong
drinks of anti-prohibition days, follow
ing the. granting of an injunction by
Rufus E. Foster, judge of the United
States district court, restraining fed
eral officials from preventing the sale
of liquors on the ground that the re
cent prohibition act of congress was
unconstitutional, because the war had
ended.
Revised estimates of the loss caused
by the fire which wrecked three of
the group of buildings in the center
of Baltimore formerly occupied by
Johns -Houkinc university and damag
ed about a score of residences and
stores in the vicinity placed the
amount at approximately seven hun
dred thousand dollars. The loss to the
university alone may reach five nun
dred thousand dollars.
The Charleston, S. C, city Demo
cratic ( executive committee declared
Hon. John P. Grace the party's nom
1 M ' . .
inee ior mavor or Charleston over
Tristram T. Hyde, incumbent, by a
partisan vote, the 12 Hyde supporters
on the committee not voting. In sub
stance the committee confirmed its
action in declaring that Grace was
me nominee when the results were
canvassed August 22.
Interest payments on American
loans to the allies may be deferred
until the war reaction passes," it is
said at the treasury. Negotiations to
this , end are now being conducted at
the request of the allies, but officials
explain that the latest advices from
the treasury's representatives at Paris
did not indicate an early conclusion.
Officials in Washington say that the
United States government is not seek
ing "the new arrangement
Enforcement of (Constitutional prohi
bition will be placed squarely up to
the state and municipal authorities
and the federal machinery wil not in
tervene unless obvious inefficiency on
the part of local officials makes such
action necessary.
Reports received at the Republican
South Dakota headquarters from the
county proposal convention held in
South Dakota, November 18, show that
Gen. Leonard Wood will receive the
endrosement of the state proposal con
vention at Pierre, December 2, for the
Republican nomination for president,
and that Gov. Frank O. Lowden of Il
linois will be given the dissenting or
minority endorsement
Soft coal mine owners made "shock
ing and indefensible" profits in 1917
and there is "grave doubt" that they
are entitled to increased prices be
cause of the proposed 31 per cent in
crease in miners' wages. William G,
McAdoo, former secretary of the treas
ury says that mine owners' profits, as
shown by their income tax returns ex
amined by him when he was secretary
of the treasury, warrant the increases
asked by the miners, and they "are
just and reasonable."
Chicago is infested with murderers.
robbers, safeblowers and automobile
thieves, and the police force is direct
ing its attention to their apprehension.
Medical reports indicate that the
zone where men are found most heal
thy runs through the center of the
country from north to south.
The unprecedented increase in the
number of major and minor crimes in
Chicago over the week-end was caus
ed by curtailment of street lighting
due to the efforts of the municipal
lighting plant to conserve on coal, ac
cording to the opinion of the Chicago
chief of police.
A new wage and working agreement
has been signed between the railroad
administration and officials of the Bn
therhood of Maintenance of Way Em
ployees and Railway Shop Laborers,
The demands of the union were not
fully met, but the eight-hour basic day
is established for track laborers and
others of that classification and time
and a half pay after that hour is pro
vided. Most of the other employees
will receive tim and a half overtime
pay after ten hours.
'Readjustment of expor freight
rates affecting the thousands of ship
pers, and said to be of prime import
ance : to Southern ports and the Mis
sissippi valley, has been announced at
the general offices the Southern rail
road at Louisville, Ky. The new tar
iffs, which, in r effect, will. grant the
same rates to Southern ports as thosa
enjoyed by New YOrk from territory
north of the Ohio river from the Ohio
Pennsylvania state line to the Missis
sippi river, go into effect to . south
Atlantic ports December 1 and to gui
ports December 31.
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sweeping fleet that has just come home after two and one-half years of duty, mostly in the North sea.
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Carranza Refuses to Release
Jenkins and Hostilities With
Mexico Impend.
ARMY MID NAVY ARE READY
Government's Efforts to End Coal
Strike by Negotiation Fail, Min
ers Rejecting Garfield's Offer
ef 14 Per Cent Wage In
, crease.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD.
It appears at this writing that the
breaking point with Mexico has been
reached at last or should one say
again? Carranza's government, defy
ing the United 'States, has flatly re
fused to release Consular Agent Jenk
ins in response to the demand made
by our state department Since that
demand was in the nature of an ulti
matum, threatening unpleasant con
sequences, it would seem either Wash
ington or Mexico must back water, or
hostilities will result '
The Mexican foreign office said the
demand of the United States was not
based on any legal foundation' or prin
ciple of international law; that the
executive department cannot under
Mexican law intervene now In an affair
that is strictly In the hands of state
courts ; that the imprisonment of Jenk
ins was neither arbitrary nor unjusti
fied, and that he is preventing his own
freedom by refusing to give ball. Mex
ico's assertion that Jenkins, as a con
sular agent, was not Immune from ar
rest is not contested in Washington,
but Secretary Lansing has stated that
his department has more Information
bearing on this case than has been
made public, and presumably it is this
information that led to the demand
for the release of Jenkins.
Reports from Mexico that have come
througti official channels show that the
Mexicans have done all possible to dis
credit Jenkins. The court at Puebla re
fused to hear witnesses who would re
fute the story that he was seen in
conference with members of the gang
that kidnaped him; and according to
the correspondent of a newspaper of
Mexico City, a number of peons de
clared the judge and police Inspector
had exercised pressure on them to tes
tify against Jenkins.
It was believed in Washington that
the administration would maintain its
firm stand in the crisis. Otherwise,
said the well-posted, congress would
take up the matter promptly after con
vening, call for all the facts in the
case and proceed to frame a'; definite
policy. In both house and senate, it
was asserted, the great majority was
in favor of a showdown with Carranza,
who for years has flouted the United
States and in innumerable ways dis
played his open hostility. There Is no
forgetting or forgiving his attitude and
actions during the war, which the gov
ernment knew all the time and with
which the public is becoming better ac
quainted every day.
Should armed intervention be nec
essary, we are in good condition for
quick action, for the army has had
this possibility in mind for some
months. Along the border these forces
are now available. Both wings of the
aviation service. Including 15 aero
squadrons, ten balloon companies, five
regiments of field artillery, ten of the
18 regiments of cavalry remaining In
the army organization, three regi
ments of engineers, one brigade of In
fantry, with four within calling dis
tance in the central department ' 19
motov transport companies, one field
battalion and two telegraph battalions
of the signal corps, 23 or more pack
trains and all the additional force of
supply to care for an army of that size.
The marine corps Is ready for the
emergency, and so Is the navv. With
a fleet In tb Pacific as , well as the
Atlantic forces could be landed on
both coasts. If.- the navy needs more
men the reserve torce can be called on,
and that includes a large part of the
extra personnel lo service during the
war.
Besides looking on the arrest of
Jenkins as deliberately designed to af
front the United States, the state de
partment officials say the execution last
week of Gen. Felipe Angeles also Indi
cates the hostile attitude of Carranza
toward this country. Angeles was the
foremost Mexican soldier of this day,
and was the outspoken admirer of the
United States. But he had been the
chief aid of Villa and was captured;
therefore he was condemned and shot
to death. While this may have been
technically just. It Is likely that the
life of so eminent a man would have
been spared if he had not so freely
given voice to his friendship for this
nation.
Les3 startling, perhaps, than the
Mexican crisis, but of no less moment,
is the collapse of the government's ef
forts to end the coal strike by negotia
tion. Its final offer to the miners was
a 14 per cent wage Increase. This the
operators voted to accept, and the min
ers, through Acting President Lewis,
rejected. Mr." Lewis declared that "re
sponsibility for the crisis now confront
ing the nation must be upon those
statesmen who are using the powers of
the government to oppress and deny
justice to the' great element of citizen
ship directly concerned In the mining
industry.
The operators and the miners then
adjourned sine die, and it seemed that
there was nothing left for the govern
ment except to take over and operate
the mines.
The government's compromise offer,
approved by the cabinet and made by
Fuel DirectprGarfield, provided there
should be no Increase in the price of
coal to the consumer and that a Joint
advisory board of operators and min
ers should be created, with Secretary
Lane as chairman, to work out the de
tails of wage adjustments and furnish
information and advice in future dis
putes. This offer must have been'
made without hope of its acceptance,
for Secretary of Labor Wilson previ
ously had declared the men were en
titled to an advance of 81.6 per cent,
and the operators had offered an ad
vance of 20 per cent.
The acceptance of Mr. Wilson's con
clusions may be affected by the fact
that he was a miner himself. Lewis
says the men consider his offer a
pledge which the government must re
deem. 5
Former ' Secretary of the Treasury
McAdoo projected himself into the con
troversy with a statement that the op
erators have, been making excessive
profits since the war began and can
well afford to pay much higher wages
without Increasing the price of coal.
He said the treasury's records of ex
cess profits taxes would prove this.
Of course the operators entered indig
nant denial, and Carter Glass, still sec
retary, came to their defense with a
modified refutation of McAdoo's asser
tion as to profits.
While the dispute goes on the coun
try's stock of fuel shrinks alarmingly.
In some regions, however, the mines
are being operated steadily. Out in
the Sheridan (Wyo.) field the United
States "officials, civil and1 military,
solved the trouble surprisingly and ef
fectively. They learned that the min
ers had voted to return to the pits but
were prevented from doing so by a
campaign of Intimidation by the radi
cals. The military, therefore, at the
request of the sheriff, rounded , tip
nearly three score alien agitators and
sent them to Fort MacKenzie. A
meeting of the miners union was then
called, and the entire strike situation
explained by Major Dean, whereupon
the men voted unanimously to end the
strike Friday. ; p
Governor. Allen of Kansas has called
for volunteers to work the mines and
protect the people of the state from
"unspeakable suffering,?, and hundreds
of men have responded. Union leaders
say tfeese volunteers will be regarded
as strike-breakers. s
D'Annunzio, the Italian firebrand,
seems to have as many schemes of an
nexation as the kaiser had. According
to various reports, he plans to return
with strong forces to Zara and proceed
thence to Sebenico; after seizing that
city, he will , attack Spalato, and there
he may run afoul of the American
navy, which Is guarding that ! part of
Dalmatla ; also he. is said to aim at
establishing a militarist government at.
Triest and now has emissaries in that
city. The allied officials in Paris, how
ever, now have renewed hope that a
compromise settlement of the Adriatic
question will be reached, satisfactory
to all parties, Including D'Annunzio.
This is the expected result of conver
sations there between British, French,
Italian and Jugo-Slav representatives.
The Jugo-Slavs are still' nervous and
claim to have information that Italy
plans to take all of Dalmatla and Montenegro.
Maxim Litvin6ff, representing the
soviet government of Russia, is in Co
penhagen conferring with British emis
saries. Primarily the matter in hand
is the exchange of prisoners, but Lit
vinoff admitted that if the British at
titude was favorable, peace negotia
tions would be taken up. He headed
the bolshevik delegation that met the
representatives of the Baltic states in
Dorpat, and the latter say his manner
was cold and threatening throughout,
and that unless he behaves otherwise
in Copenhagen it will be difficult to ne
gotiate with him. The Baltic states al
ready have lost faith In the bolshe
vlst's professed desire for peace with
them. The soviet government of Rus
sia has announced new victories over
Denikine's forces and further advances
in the Omsk region.
On Thursday Premier Stambullwsky
of Bulgaria signed the treaty of peace
between his country and the allies.
The pact was signed by all the allied
nations except Roumania and Jugo
slavia, which are awaiting the signing
of the treaty with Austria. Bulgaria
is to pay an Indemnity of $445,000,000 ;
to surrender all works of art and other
valuables taken from allied countries;
to abolish compulsory military service,
and to reduce its army to 20,000 men.
It is deprived of Thrace and of Strum
nltza, the latter going to Serbia.
Germany, fit last reports, was still
holding out on signing the protocol
which the allied nations drew up, and
the supreme council has expressed its
surprise and displeasure at this course.
The council told the Germans that if
the treaty of Versailles were not put
Into effect on December 1 the respon
sibility would rest entirely with their
government. In another note to tin
German delegation, at Versailles . Mi
Clemenceau, as president of 'the coun
cil, sternly refused to deviate from
the terms of the treaty In favor of
German prisoners employed In recon
struction work in the devastated part
of France, and he used some very plain
language concerning German brutality
and Insincerity.
Another Irish crisis is at hand, for
the British government according to
dispatches from Dublin, has issued a
proclamation prohibiting and suppress
ing the Sinn Fein and other like or
ganizations In all countries and bor
oughs in Ireland. It Is believed the
British how have 150,000 troops in Ire
land, and on the other hand the sup
porters of the Irish "republic claim
they have an army of at least 100,000,
ready to fight for the cause.
The .new Labor party held Its first
national convention In Chicago last
week,' and It was scarcely what could
be cfllled?a-success. The official list of
delegates showed that 728 presented
credentials, but a good many of them5
faded away before the convention
came to a close. Moreover, not one
of the 124 International labor unions
was represented, and of the 34,000 lo
cal unions in the American Federation
of Labor and 6,000 Independent unions
only 642 sent delegates. One delegate
from Boston said about 80 per jent of
those in attendance were Socialists
and ex-Socialists, Among those who
deserted the convention were the mem
bers of the Nonpartisan league, headed
by Governor Frailer of North Dakota.
The platform adopted Is almost iden
tical with those of other radio!
groups.
When the congressional committee
went tc Ellis island to Investigate the
cases of the radicals held hre for de
portation it ran Into a bunch of tar
tars. The reds refused to be ques
tioned, and moreover were on a hun
ger strike because they were separated
from callers by fears. Of course the
obvious course is to let them sta 'e,
and the applause would be genera
It was also disclosed that Frederic d
Howe, former commissioner of immi
gration at the island, .had maintained
a strangely sympathetic attitude of
mind toward the reds who had been
caught in the federal net There may
be more about him later oa.
JIAIY-5IXTM r.,-
. PROMPTLY ON THE M
FIRST Re,,. 0UIN I
PRESIDENT IS NOT) i
Probable That Peace Tr
Will be Carried ForJ.
u ,nW 1921
Washinsrtnr.
- me record v,
iollar congresses 0 0r(,:
times faded into th D?,t 1
retary Glass, presenting
estimates, proposed apnronH
practically five billion dolTr?
ducting the peace Jfl?.
the government durine h N
Campaign as
1931.
year
According to thes figures
cost more than five times a 3
conduct the peace-time affair,1? to
ernment as it did in the Vea
lately preceding the world
The greatest individual
for expenditures, of course K ! ?
army and the navy. Th m ,
terest on the war debt. howeZ
$1,017,500,000, which sum alon
greater than all the appr0priatio
all purposes whatsoever of anv J?
time congress. "
All in all, the estimates justi'y tt
predictions made on the floor of J
gress during consideration of the'nr
tax bill, that the. present generation
would not see the government
ducted at an expense of less than to
billion a year.
The estimated appropriations for fl
principal government department
were presented as follows:
Legislative (congress) Mimw).
executive (white house and goverv
ment departments) $149,111,465.71;
Judicial $1,634,190; army $989.578.6rJ
20; navy $542,031,804.80; pension
$215,030,000: public works t283.a.
810.17; miscellaneous $833,717,637.M;
foreign , intercourse $11,243,250.91.
' The total of all estimates is U
410.031.62. the greatest sum ever art
ed of any congress when the country
was not actually at war.
PALMER OPPOSES FURTHER
COAL STRIKE CONFERENCES.
Washington. Attorney General Pal
mer called upon the American people
to "refuse to be stampeded by threats
of lack of coal into concessions which
will insure unreasonably high prices
in all commodities for at least three
years to come."
A statement of the government's
attitude was made by the attorney
general In a telegram to the Chamber
of Commerce at Moberly, Mo.,
which had come a request that in
other conference of operators 4
miners be called.
vtmn tana OF BEET
SUGAR MOVING THIS WAY
New York Thirty thousand tons
of American beet sugar from the ee
. . J wwnHnr intO tM
irai gi&ies bow i t.0 - .
Atlantic coast states to relieve in W
the acute sugar famine m m
,. Tiia oi,Tnlv. the sugar eqw-
i or,T,nnrpr1. will sem
to mitigate the shortage
but adequate relief must MJ
Cuban sugar, the natural source
supply for the Atlantic seabJ
commences to move in volume. wu
may be expected in January.
American beet sugar crop a
marketed in the central west . b :
title, to Justify the -loan-.offl'
000 tons to the east, K was '
FORD-NEWBERRY CONTEST
UP SOON IN THE SEN
Washington.
the legal proceeding $ea.
Ids an effort win fee toJJww.
ateHo hasten action on the r
of. Senator Pomerene 'd A
for a senatorial
Ford-Newberry contest m -
QUICK END COMEt TO
OF KANSAS CITY SWH
Kansas CityAs !
unexpectedly as tt
of 1,500 railroad iw..-
cal
yards, was called" on.
. mm wil vv
action wa. " ,,-too '
Ion sponsored by
k.rc to end w ,
The
meeting
propositi'
serrative
out.
iU was put to a rote an
Dissatisfaction wltb fof
strike it is said
wage
NEW INDUSTRIAL w ESS,0
HOLDS ITS FIS1
in busine.s ana
Washington.-Sevente.n men.
ly known
representing
such,
whole,
the country
conference
was anno i
Noremfoer
plish
trial
ovtrular Sru r .
anting no t - ,c 8s
.t acting for er J
.billed here w fli
s indust"' f wan
7 rnointmen01 -
from tbe . 4- .cC0
conference W oa