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.JflSl!! lluriPn : 1' - ifrn A TO 11 a pages today probably showers Sunday, ex- ' Ty Naln y YV ONE SECTION V0L. CIIL No. 72 WILMINGTON, N. C S ATURD AT MORNING, JUNE 7, 1919. WHOLE NUMBER 29,766. WILL CALL NATION-WIDE STRIKE OPENS NEW EPOCH IN PAN-AMERICAN BUSINESS AFFAIRS Changes Indicated Some STATE DEPARTMENT IS ASKED BY THE SENATE FOR TEXT. Resolution Also to Investigate Rumors That Copies of Peace Treaty Are Here QUIZ PEACE DELEGATES TOD A YIN SUPPORT OF SOUTHERN OPERA TORS, SA YS KONENKAMP . , .1 rnmniprcifll TVIp. jgsideni vuut."vlv. aphtrs Leaves wasning- ton for Chicago STRIKE A FAILURE SAY lT. President Declares of 40, 000 Employes Eligible Only 710 Members Union LES THAN 300 STRIKE Inion Claims, However, 000 Have Walked Out June 6. President S- Sonenk.urp. ot the commercial reie paphers I nion of America, announced jdju.-ht that lie would call a nation jig strike of members of the union jpon reaching: Chicago tomorrow. He uid that neither the date of the pro- walkout nor whether it would aSrtt both the Postal Telegraph-Cable company and the Western Union had ten decided. The strike. President Konenkamp would be called in support of titer, employes of the Western Union company in 10 southeastern states, who were requested by him to leave their work last niyht following return by order of Postmaster General Burleson ui the wire systems of the country to private operation. Postorfiee department officials, while irimaung that whereas the wire sys tems now are being operated by the companies the department was not di rectly concerned in the controversy, expressed the belief that the strike if ailed would not seriously affect-com-Etmication. Western Union officials here pointed to the statement in New Fork today of Mewcomb Carlton, presi Jent of the company, that out f 40,00 spto?es eligible to' join the Cominer riai Telegraphers' Union, only 710 were nembers. Mr. Konenkamp planned to leave Washington shortly after midnight for Chicago. Leaders in congress, despite the postmaster sreneral's order returning the wires to private operation, went forward with their plans for legislation for repeal of the wire control resolu tion. P.e-openrne the hearings on the bill by Senator Kellogg, republican, of Minr.csot for repeal of the wire reso lution, the senate interstate commerce committee questioned C. Kingsbury, rioe president of the American Tele phone i- Telegraph Co., as to legisla tion ne-e.ssary to protect the wire eorr.pani-s. During the hearing some r-mi-rs of the committee charged that the postmaster general'' con fronted by a strike, issued the return order for the purpose of "passing the tuck." Mr Burleson in a letter to Chairman Cummins, of the senate committee, de clared h order had been misinter preted and that actual control of the t -v systems had not passed f rom the kpartm'nt but only operation had n relinquished. The f-.r. rn ri j ue, at the close of its heanne .-it-reed to amend the Kellogg h;: to 3? m continue existing telephone to:; rat's m effect for 90 days after the :r s ?rf r-turned instead of 60 days i-5 .ii'y proposed. Shortly before th s- - ate adjourned late today until Ifonday ;n.. hill was called up and P'-a.H in rrition with privileged stat ntes fr..r , r,nsjreration Monday. Chairman Eseh. of the house inter-fat- -omm'Tfe committee, announced af'er a , ..... -ting. 0f tne committee to--5" at '.,h t.ie postmaster general's I'tior- not discussed, that-actual ''amiriEr " ietriclatmn fnr return of the 'l'";i'l be considered Monday. I". VS I, ESS THAN 360 OFT UrVION SATS 3,000 Tune 6. Announcement by r N" wcomb Carlton, of the r"rion Telegraph & Cable Co., r and multiplex operators in " ast who went on strike last ill today, would not be re 1 and a statement from S. J. ori. president of the Commer--raphers' Union of America, sorrow he would issue a call 'ion-wiilp strike, were the out "velopments in the telegraph ' uation today. At';.- Pr-V TV..,.. - tha- ;.! n i a- v: - plr.y. Ko':t nl ria' in- fc.'n' '""stom Union continued to fir-grams today and H. C. T-'m. trenr-ral manno-or nf tTie r division, asserted this was v or- on a normal, basis except d'lays on railroad wires. He i n rheck of offices in the south ,v. ,i iftSS than 300 Morse and operators went out and term : :.e u-f. a "complete failure." On hand, Charles F. Mann, third i.-nt of the union, gave out a ' saying approximately 3,000 T"nion emrvloves In the sonth- ?'-r so i'SC-- east . IT: : 1 , , . (1 , j . - 'iuii wutk. or would ao so. r Hi way telegraphers are not "ommercial business,' Mr. 'id- "and the Western Union 'solf crippled." ; -'insj this statement late today ' t a nation-wide strike in f the men in the southeast. ' for this had not been an- !'pre tonight, -a per reports during the day .t;. , ,. Th,: tlOlJt! 'hov, Tie of the smaller offices of of tr "?T'any dosed, but that in most Us. r , ,rc:er offices a majority of the 'e was on duty. 'rikers are demanding thftisht ICoatktnsd. jpivEaee To-i Still Many Loose Ends To Catch Up in Treaty Paris, June 6. There are still many loose ends to the determinations which must be made before the reply of the allies to the German counter-proposals can be submitted to Count von Brock-dorff-Rantzau, head of the German plenipotentiaries, and even the ques tion of principle regarding changes in the treaty has not been definitely settled. Nevertheless the members of the commissions of experts profess confi dence that they will be able to com-' plet their reports to th council of four by Monday or Tuesday and the members of the council themselves seem sure that they will be able to present the allied reply on Thursday or Friday. The reply will be submitted as an ultimatum with a short time limit, probably about four days, in which Germany will either have to take or leave the conditions as offered them. The most important modification un HINES DISCUSSES RAILROAD EXPENSE Government Lost 250 Millions of Dollars the First Four Months of Year HOLDING RATES DOWN Director General Say Otaer Industrial Concerns In Same Klx on Labor and Materials But Profits Are larger Washington, June 6. Director Gen eral Hines estimated today that the railroad administration incurred a de ficit of approximately ?58,0O0,OOO in April making a total deficit of $250, 000,000 for the first four months of the year. The director general reiterated, how ever, his previously expressed judg ment, that present economic conditions were too unsettled to afford a safe basis for decision as to the necessity for increased rates to offset the dif fernce between income and operating cost. For the present there will be no raise, he added, the administration con fining itself to practicing every pos sible economy. The net operating income for April was about $26,000,000 as compared with $71,000,000 for ApriL last year, and an average of $67,102,681 for April dur ing the three-year test period, on which the compensation'to the roads is based. "In April," Mr. Hines said, "as in January, February and .March, this un favorable showing was due in large part to the falling off of business. It was also due in part to the heavy incerases in wages and cost of ma terials. The railroad administration is not unlike other industrial undertak ings in the increase in wages and costs of materials, but is unlike these other enterprises in that the latter have made high responding increases in the prices of what they sell while the railroad administration has made an increase in transportation rates of only 25 per cent, which is a far less percentage than the increase in wages and cost of materials." REPORT BULGARIANS MARCHING OiN SERBS Another Report 'That Bulgrars Are Massing Aaralnst Serbia Several Reports. Copenhagen, June 6. A part of the Bulgarian army has been mobilized and is marching toward the Serbian fron tier, the Balkan News Agency reports. Reports that the Bulgarian army was secretly mobilizing on the Serbian frontier have been received in this city several times during the past three months. The purpose of the mobiliza tion was never explained nor brave re cent dispatches indicated any reason for strife between Bulgaria, and Serbia. The reported movement of the Bul garians may have' some connection with the peace terms as anticipated in Bulgaria. The Bulgarian treaty has not yet ,been completed by the peace conference. Bulgarian peace delegates were reportd to hav arrived in Switzer land several weeks ago. RAILROAD TO TAP 38,000 ACRES OF VIRGINIA HARDWOOD Knoxvil. Tenn., June 6, With the ition of a tap railroad now un der construction from Ela, N. C, to the new Fonna jap .01 me nwuntains, Sevier county, Tennessee, about 35 miles southeast of 'Knoxvtlle, the first step toward the marketing of 3g 000 acres of virgin hardwood tinjber land will have been taken by a fiber company, of Canton, N. C in what will be on of tne moi eiicum uoicir meats in the history of tne lumber ln- i me lumber iu- , dngtry ol- tne- pww. der consideration; namely, the question of reparations, probably will not in volve any material changes in the treaty as originally presented. The concessions will, instead, be presented in the form of a supplementary agree ment defining the proceedure for the reparations commission and prescrib ing certain instructions for that body which, according to the original draft of the treaty, was given. a most com prehensive power of. action, subject only to the instructions of the powers represented on the commission. This new solution which is expected to emerge from the deliberations of the experts will dodge fixation of a defi nite monetary total for reparations, to which the French object on the ground' that announcement of any sum which it is considered possible to exact in payment would so disappoint the ex pectations of the French public as to cause a political upheaveL The supplementary agreement, also would meet the objections of the Ger mans who declared they were to be (Continued on Jage Two). CONGRESS TO TRIM ALL EXPENDITURES Military Committee Advised to Cut Out Every Possible Item of Army Expense GIVE CLOSE SCRUTINY Other Committees Given Similar In tractions Strict Economy Is Now ' to Be Slegran of the Re publicans. Washington, June 6. Reduction of government expenses by a close scrut iny of' all appropriation requests was demanded today by republican leaders in the house. Republican members of the military committee meeting with their party's legislative steering committee, headed by Floor Leader Mondell, were told to make all efforts to curtail army ex penses without robbing any activity of necessary funds, and similar re quest was made of other appropriating committeemen at informal confer ences. Chairman Kahn told the party lead ers that the army bill authorizing $1, 100,000,000 when it passed the house in the last congress would be reduced by nearly $400,000,000 and later it was learned that the naval committee ex-i pected to cut the naval appropriation bill to about $600,000,000 effecting a saving of more than $100,000,090 over the amount carried when the measure was in the last congress. A cut in the $1,200,000,000 request of the railroad administration also was planned when the appropriations com mittee meets to consider its final ac tion on the estimate. Refusal to grant all of the money asked for working capital was contemplated by some committeemen. Work on the army appropriation bill Was completed by the military com mittee today and arrangements were made for reporting it out tomorrow. According to present plans the bill will be taken up for consideration by the house Tuesday and acted upon Thursday. Democratic committeemen joined with the republicans in de creasing the total amount carried to the lowest possible figure. The largest reductions in the meas ure were made possible by authoriza tions on a basis of an army of 400,000 men instead of 509,000, as recommended by the war department. This made possible decreases averaging from 20 (Continued on Page Two.) guard , jg r ' I i l. .ill I I ll lllll Direct john Barrett Declares r mercial Congress Has Been of Great Value BETTER SHIP SERVICE Parcel Post Extension to Latin America and Banking Con nections Fruits hi Week . Washington, 'June 6. The inaugura tion of a new epoch in Pan-American affairs has marked the sessions of the Pan-American commercial conference, declared Director John Barrett of the Pan-American Union, in summing up the achievements of the meeting at the concluding session today. "Its great outstanding characteris tic," said Mr. Barrett, "has beep the expression of the Pan-American or' All-American idea aad viewpoint, in which the interests of Latin-America, just as much as those of the United States, have - been frankly . considered and discussed by the most eminent and skilled authorities of both North and South' America." The applause which greeted the statement of Director General . Barrett was considered as reflecting the senti ment of the more than 750 representa tives of the United States and Latin America who have attended the five day meeting. "If, the work and results of the con-, ference were td be summarized in the form of. conclusions," said "Mr. Bar rett the following should oe included: "The immediate establishment of abundant freight, mail and" passenger steamship facilities between the prin cipal ports of the Atlantic, gulf and Pacific coasts of the .United States, on the one hand; -and, the corresponding ports of Latin-America, on' the other; "The making of every? effort- by- both governments and ndiytoualsvto ideyelop. thorough , reciprocity ;ana mutual- eo- operation m.vdin jrtethodsTesula treatment oi commercial reiauuunj- "The meeting of the unavoidable, and pressing .financial needs of the Latin-American governments and legit imate private understandings and also the protection and enlargement -of the United States-Latin American trade, through the financial and banking in terests of the United States providing the necessary money loans and credits; "A well-defined program for the pro tection of the patents, trade-marks,- and copy wrights of each country in all the other 20, through the new internation al bureau established , in Havana, and the opening of the South American. of fice in Rio de Janerio; . "The making of the parcel post bene ficial alike to the export business in terests of the United States and the rank and file of the " Latin-American peoples through the removal, of un. necessary restrictions and regulations; "The improvements in the adminis tration of consular offices, sinfilarity of consular invoioes and fees, the an nulling of petty laws annoying to trade and the revision and permanency of tariffs; - ' The undertaking without delay all over Latin-America, of extensive rail way and highway road construction, the renewing of railways already in existence but suffering from the lack of supplies during the war, and the establishment of fast aviation mail service; Better credit facilities for Latin American buyers, a closer study of .the Latin-American trade and social con ditions by the Interests of the United States and the extension of United States banking connections for the benefit alike of the United States and Latin America; "The improvement and extension of news service, cable service and em ployment of the best methods of ad vertising, publicity and other agencies of commercial intelligence; "The study of the Spanish and Portu guese languages, Latin-American in stitutions, history and geography by the people of the United States and a corresponding study of the United (Continued on Page Two.) 'THE WATCH ON THE RHINE' over the river-wax Remain. Germany. In Peace Terms Dealing With Amount of Damages Middle Course Relative to Reparation May be Taken Between the Fixing of a Definite Sum and the Provisions of the First DraftAAlIow Germans Some Capital and Tonnage- Reply Next Week (By the Associated Press) Germany will know the decision of the peace conference on her counter proposals to the treaty by Thursday or Friday of next week, according to the latest dispatches from Paris. It is understood the allied and as sociated governments have decided to adopt a middle course as between the fixing of a definite -sum to be exacted from Germany, a proceeding strenu ously objected to by the French as likely to lead to a political upheaval due to the disappointment of the French public, and the provisions of the draft of the treaty handed the Germans, which the latter, have de clared mean economic slavery. The reparations to be s demanded for cer tain forms of allied claims will be made known to the Germans, but not all of them, as the only sum for the total losses which the French have ERZBURGER FAVORS ACCEPTING TREATY Head of German Armistice Com mission Preparing a Memo randum to That Effect EXECUTE RED LEADER Bavarian Cabinet Refuses Mercy to Bolshevik Agitator Levlne Nls '' sen German Terrorism In Switzerland Copenhagen, June 6. Mathias Erz burger, head of the German armistice commission, according to the Deutsch es Tageszeitungi of Berlin, is prepar ing a memorandum which, after dis cussing the peace-terms in all their aspects, advocates signing the areaty. GPVERNMENT REFUSES TO SAVE RED LEADER'S LIFE Munich, Bavaria,. Thursday, June 5. Levine Nissen,' the bolshevik " agitator who was one of the leaders of the Munich communist soviet regime, was executed at noon today at Stadelheim. outside the capital. He was convicted yesterday and the Bavarian cabinet re fused' to commute his sentence, main taining that he was the cause of the civil war in Bavaria and deserved no mercy. It seems probable that Levine Nis sen, named above, is identical with the bolshevik leader Levien who has fig ured so prominently in the press dis patches in connection with the Munich soviet regime. The arrest of the com munist leader "Levine" who had pre viously been referred' to as editor of The Red Flag of Munich, was an nounced in a Munich message of May 15 and a dispatch earlier this week re ported his sentence to death after a two days' trial. EXECUTION IS STIRRING UP PEOPLE THROUGHOUT GERMANY London, June 6. The execution in Munich of Levine Nissen is resulting in unrest throughout Germany, an Exchange Telegraph dispatch - from Copenhagen says. The majority so cialists are joining a' strike movement begun by the soldiers and workers council and executive committees of the Greater Berlin factories which pro tested against the sentence of the Ba varian communist! Strikes have occurred in Nuremburg and Munich. A strike af Leipzog has fCoUtlnued On Page Two) a Underwood & Under, II?" ," ii T w w , " declared themselves willing to agree to, amounts to a figure the experts de clare Germany will be unable to pay. It is probable the Germans will be allowed some working capital and tonnage for overseas trade with which to earn the sums required of them. The clauses of the treaty concerning responsibilities, punishment of the former kaiser, and the disposition of Germany's overseas colonies likely will stand as set forth in the original draft of the treaty, while a plebiscite in Upper Silesia with regard to the fu ture sovereignty of the district is be lieved to hav been definitely decided upon. President Wilson, interviewed by a Paris newspaper Friday, declared his conviction that the peace treaty hand ed the Germans violates none of his principles and conforms in its entirety with his 14 points. The statement again is made, this time in Copenhagen dispatches, that part of the Bulgarian army has been mobilized and is advancing on the (Continued on Page Two.) WILD CATS' COMING HOME JUNE 14TH Transport Walter A. Luckenback Expected by War Depart ment on That Date 9,000 MEN YESTERDAY Middle West Troops Aboard Italian Steamer Reaching New Tork Fri day Will be Sent to Fort Cas well Arrivals, i , .. - 1 Washington, June 6. Expected ar rival of the transport Walter A Luck enback at Newport News, June 14, with units of the 81st or "Wild Cat" divi sion, composed of men from North Car olina, South Carolina and Florida, was announced today by the war depart ment The vessel is bringing head quarters, second and third battalions, sanitary and ordnance detachments, supply and headquarters company and Companies A to M, inclusive, of the 323rd infantry. NINE THOUSAND SOLDIERS AT NEW TCRK PORT YESTERDAY New York, June 6. Nine thousand returning troops arrived at this port today aboard the transports Santa Ana, Pannonia, Pretoria, Brittania and Von Steuben. The majority were composed of organizations from the 78th, 36th and 81st divisions. The Madawaska followed the Von Steuben, bringing .2,835 officers and men, including units of the 88th and 90th divisions. The troop ships Santa Cecelia, bring-, mg 2,064 soldiers, steamed into the harbor at noon. The majority of troops are of the 90th division. The Italian steamship Duca D'Acosta arrived a few minutes later with mid dle west soldiers aboard. A number of these will go to Fort Caswell, N. C. The 140th field artillery, commanded by Col. W. C. O'Ferrell, a Tennessee national guard unit, was aboard. CARLTCW SAYS STRIKERS NOT TO BE TAKEN BACK AGAIN New York, June 6. Employes of the Western Union Telegraph company who joined the telegraphers' union on th assurance of the postmaster general that there would be no discrimination in regard to employes joining unions, will not be taken back if they strike, Newcomb Carlton, president of the com pany, announced today. He pointed out that the postmaster general now had turned the Western Union over to the company "to operate, as we think best for the interests of the business." SAY ONLY 51 OPERATORS ARE OUT IN THE TWO CAROLINAS Charlotte, June 6. :The Western Union Telegraph company had suffered the loss of only 51 operators in North and South Carolina on account of the strike up to 9 o'clock tonight, accord ing to C. H. Carroll, commercial district superintendent for the two states. His statement was based on reports made to him late today by the managers in the cities and larger. towns throughout the Carolinas. BOTH SIDES CLAIMING THEY GET ALONG IN NEW ORLEANS .New Orleans, June 6. Western Union officials tonight said the strike total here had reached .58, including check boys as well as operators, and that business is normal now with a complete night and day force working. Union officials say 158. registered today as having walked out from the West ern Union office. PLAN MILLION-DOLLAR HIGH SCHOOL MEMORIAL TO "R. J. R." Winston-Salem, June 6. In connec tion with plans to build a million dollar high school plant here as a memorial to the late R. J. Reynolds, Mrs Reynolds today offered the city $50,4)00 to7 be used in purchasing a site -arid further offered to ibuild an auditorium as a personal memorial to her husband. , ' Senator Borah Declares He Will Publish First Copy That Falls Into His Hands Washington, June 6. Resolutions V asking the state department for thej 'h text of the treaty with Germany andVi V directing the foreign relations commit i tee to Investigate how copies of the unpublished document have reached . . ' private hands in New York, wero '- adopted by the senate today without' a roll can. , Action on the two proposals camon unexpectedly during a lull in thof stormy debate they had aroused and' ; scarcely a score of senators were In', 'r the chamber when, in quick succession. the resolutions were- put to a vote.-, Their passage, however, was no sur prise as it generally had been coni i ceded that each would have a majority. ! , The request for the treaty will bo referred by state department officials, ' U to President Wilson and Secretary1 -Lansing at Paris and pending a reply I no official opinion is available here as . to whether the text will be forthconv ing. ''';. Under the investigation resolution introduced at the request of the white" house by Senator Hitchcock, of Ne-i " braska, senior democrat of the forelgnl v. relations committee, it is expected that -! v a far-reaching inquiry will begin with-. I in a few days. The committee will meet' Monday to formulate plans which may include the summoning of members of '''V the American peace delegation. Adoption of the Hitchcock resolu tion came first, just after the debate '. J. had reached a dramatic climax in a clash between Mr. Hitchcock and Chairman Lodge of the foreign rela- ..V?c tions committee. After this clash a - i' request by Mr. Lodge that the senate " substitute an investigation resolution drawn by Senator Kellogg, republican, yUf - .... WVM. . T. . W -J . -f Mm HUM I 1 h question w"aspt on adoption. The resolution asking for the treaty text, introduced by Senator Johnson, republican, of California; then came up automatically under the senate rules and it was disposed of within less than a minute with only a few scattered "noes." It had been opposed stubbornly dur ing two weeks of debate by the presi dent's supporters, and the general ex pectation had been that the vote on it would be close. In suggesting the Kellorg substitute Senator Lodge said the Hitchcock reso-, lution apparently had been "hastily drawn and that his o4ect was to improve the language of the measure. With this Senator Hitchcock immedi ately took issue, saying the substitute was quite different In content because it did not name Senators Lodge and Borah, republican, of Idaho, as having"! made charges that the treaty Is la private hands In New York. i His own proposal, continued STp. Hitchcock, would show by naming the two senators where the rn formation aawa P wv w fla f e nayt Kni t m mm "I am amazed," contlnned the No-, braska senator, "at the position now taken by the senator from Massacha- setts. Yesterday he wanted tnrmedlate atcion. Yesterday and the day before he was for this resolution. And now the senator who was so anxious to mafte statements here about the treaty being" in New York wants some on e-etee litres tigated." . Referring to inferences that th treaty was in the hands of frnancialS Interests, Senator Hitchcock drew s- pointed reply from Senator, Lodge. "I did not say that," shouted the forele-n relations chairman. "Does fh senator question the truth of what ri say?" "No," retorted Senator Hitchcock, "but I think we ought to have another investigation to find out whafs hap pened during the last 24 hours and what new light the senators on the other side of the chamber have seen. "You can beat my resolution if yoa want to. You can put in that vague 1 substitute. But the Deoole of the coun- is ? try won't be satisfied with that kind! of an investigation." , Senator Lodge denied that he de-J sired to evade investigation and as-1 sured Senator Hitchcock that he would' "get all the investigation he desires. Senator Borah said he thought either resolution would be broad enough to give the - cdmmittee access to "the whole field" of Investigation. There was much speculation tonight as to the turn the Inquiry may take. Senator Lodge told the senate yester day that he,t"ould not reveal the source of his information about the treaty copies and Senator Borah, is under stood to take the same view. In some quarters it was suggested that subpoenas might be issued to representatives of any financial inter--ests suspected of having private chan nels for securing such information. An other opinion was . that the Inquiry would begin at the other end and wouM seek to located first any possible "leak," among government officials or' attaches. ' ' ( In this connection much comment was caused by an Associated Press i dispatch mentioned in the senate dur- l ing the day by Senator McCormlck, "republican, oi; Illinois, saying It wast understood in Paris that the Berlfni government was .sending copies of the), treaties to members of congress. . So far as could be learned, no such copies j have arrived .. ere. Senator Borah, hast announced his intention Of making- the treaty public: as soon as he receives. copv. but. he said tonfght he had been J unable so far to obtain one. 'v if -
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