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The Weather waiit Wednesday, somewhat colder west portion; Thursday colder and probably fair. VOL. CIIL No. 239. 1TTF1 -hhb Stat?. 12 -- - 1 z -- - PAGES TODAY ONE SECTION "WILMINGTON , N. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 26, 1919. WHOLE NUMBER 30,007. ULSON'S CABINET IS DEADLOCKED ON WAGES OF MINERS of Calculating Advance and Increase Cost Production Points of Difference L MEET TODAY WITH I J -.--.-mi - a mAn FUEL ADMIIN lSiKA xjsx Official Statement After Ses- But Member Sees Ray sion: of Hope .f-.hin-t.on. Nov was uji" ilson s cabinet 25. Like the rators, whose trouble adjust, Fresmeni tonight seemed Lpelessly deadlocked on the question wage increase in the bituminous M industry. . . . After a six-hour session, the cab M . n thft wasre scale Jreement where operators and dntrs left off last week, adjourned miners -,-v,- ,lttomnt -Ul tomorrow wueu IUth the aid 01 iuei vw. Lfield will be made to agree upon I, pay scale tnai wm n..-j, T 7 rorkers and owners and the people in . -,tinns of the country who are clamoring for normal production of The proper basts 01 calculating .- proposed wage advance, and the ratio tf dividing the consequent increase In cost of production of coal between the operators and the public, are un derstood to have been the points of difference among: the cabinet mem bers. Dr. Garfield, who took a leading part in the discussions, took issue irith Secretary of Labor Wilson as to the method of applying the figures iccepted by both. Case Not Hopeless. No statement was fbrthcoming aft tr the meeting, except an announce ment by Dr. Garfield that the cabinet irould meet again tomorrow and that He would not see eitner me miners or operators meanwhile. He declined to say whether progress had been ride, but one member of the cab inet declared prospect, of an agree ment were "not hopeless." Secretary Wilson's estimate that the cost of living had increased 79 percent over 1914, was accepted, It ras understood, but a difference of tpini n arose as to the application of 6is and other figures in computing ji increase in wages. Secretary Glass said tonight that be might have "some very Interest ing figures" tomorrow emphasizing that they had been compiled for the Thanksgiving Messages For Baptist Church (Special To The Star.) Raleigh, Nov. 25. Recognizing that Thanksgiving day comes in the midst of the last few days before the state wide canvass for pledges and cash for tne .Baptist 75 million campaign fun ana mat there is need of state wis thanksgiving, Dr. W. R. Cullom, caj pa ign-organizer in char, nf th 4r- ces m every churoh of the state out this message to the Bapti Prom Dr. Cullom. "Thanksgiving is a with yoli. It should alwaVs emnha GENERAL RAILWAY STRIKE DENIED BY NATIONAL LEADERS w or if w Not Accede to the De- lands Made by Various Locals the J ,te Jf st: . ."a natiol day Chicago, Nov. 25. Reports that na tional leaders of the four railway brotherhoods in session at Cleveland were- holding secret discussions as to size great things. How pre-eminently whether a strike of railway workers true tms is for the present year. in the United States should be called invery institution in the whole earth is by December 1, and which gained wide IrfeTreTi'loa inThkTuTerTw0' considerable credence mighty sets of forces are at work ln Chicag railway union circles, were among us in the moral sphere. One of denied tonight by G. Lee, preal- them is negative, corrective, remedial, dent of the Brotherhood of Railway the other is positive, aggressive, con- ITraimnen, and by Timothy Shea, act- structive. One looks toward prevent- ing president of the Brotherhood of ing and correcting wrong, the other Firemen and Enginemen. President looks toward stimulating and estab- Lee, however, admitted having received lishlng righteousness. One is a fight a telegram from the Kansas City local with death in all of its malignant and saying that the trainmen and yardmen hideous forms, the other is an effort there had decided to strike tomorrow, to initiate and stimulate life in aji of and that he had warned them that if its strength and glory. One is law or they thought they were "bigger than an effort to find and follow the essen- the United States government" he had tial principles of the world about us; no advice to give them, the other is the gospel, or the an- Knowledge of the Kansas City sit- nouncement and assurance that an all nation and of similar pressure from wise omnipotent and ever merciful other locals is what gave impetus to .God is working in us and about us for I the rePrts which spread so rapidly our eternal -rood nnrl for hi nwn tonignt. eternal glory. The one side thinks REQUEST IS MADE OF INDUSTRIES TO CLOSE FOUR DAYS Regional Coal . Committee Asks Stores and Offices Stop Business at 4 P. M HOUSEHOLDERS REDUCE TO MINIMUM USE FUEL y ST,. more or less in abstract terms; the other thinks in terms of the incarnate DE-VIAL BY SHEA Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. 25. Timothy Declares Situation Is Far More Critical Than General Pub lic Realizes ' i Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 95, Request that all industries that cawi'do so without heavy loss close d&wa from tomorrow evening until Monday morning, that all stores, business houses and offices close daily at 4 p. m. and that house holders reduce to a minimum the use of fuel and lights in homes was made tonight by the regional coal commit tee- Such additional steps- to curtail coal consumption are imperative, the com mittee stated, and it added that. unr der Instruction from B. L. Winchell, regional director of the railroad ad ministration, federal managers of rail roads in the south are listing passen- Tobacco Brings $121.59 Per Hundred Pounds In New Bern Market (Special to The Star) Newbern, Nov; 26. All records for tobacco sales were smashed here Mon day when Sam Moore, a prominent Port Barnwell farmer, marketed a lot of 390 pounds for the sum of 1474.20; or a clean average of $121.59 per hun dred pounds. Included in Moore's lot was a pile of only four pounds of very fine and highly graded wrappers which brought him .the unexpected price of $6 per pound, or $24 for the pile. A few of the buyers have de parted for the Kentucky markets to be in readiness for the opening there next month, but there are many here who are "after the weed" at good prices. ANGELES RECEIVES DEATH SENTENCE Counsel for Condemned Villa Lieutenant -Appeal to Mex ican Supreme Court Jaurez Mexico, Nov." 25. General Felipe Angeles and his two compan ions, Major Nester Encisco de Arce and Soldier Antonia Trillo, captured near Parral, Chihuahua, Nov. 15, by Major Gabino Sandoval were found guilty by a courtmartlal at Chihuahua City this APPEALS FOR COAL BECOME INSISTENT WITH WINTER NEAR Reports Show Less Than 40 Per Cent of Normal Output Since Strike CRIES OF HOUSEHOLDS FOR FUEL ARE LOUDER Railroad Administration Issues Statement on Condition In Various Sections ,. 'without serious inconvenience to the Hf anH rwv n. -, w,- t., Shea, acting president of the Brother Christ. The thoueht of .tsiib -man j -ood of Firemen and Enginemen, com- public" Should the cosfcl shortage con and is to reconstruct n(.itv th menting tonight on reports of a threat- tinue and it be necessary to curtail morniner a rui cpntcnpurl tn a t i ger trains wnicn coma aiconnueu noon today, according to information basis of God's fatherhood, and of man's brotherhood. Was there ever a time ened railroad strike, declared that it is "neither the purpose nor the spirit of when the world needed to have the strike " '""T" spirit and principles of Jesus injected Att we consider here," asserted into its life and institutions more than Mr. Shea, l8 Mr. nines' time and a right now. hajf proposal for overtime. I know For Constructive Task. that discussion or action on a general It is not necessary to insist that our strike to force general wage increases campaign looks, toward bringing to is not on the program hfre. I believe pass all that is involved in the DOSi- T can sav saffilv that it will not h tive constructive, gospel side of the possible if indeed it is attempted for i operations of manufacture which can- i. - i i rm - i - ju. I - . . , . - . . I . - n.j ,kvti ti.ainr lnas ' ' suuvc propwiiious. xnere may De an- i any iaction or group to stampeae tnis ;uui wmiv v.-. train service, this could be done on telegraphic Instructions, the commit tee added. Where Does Not Apply The closing down of Industrie? and as far as practicable, of "all mercan tile establishments, office buildings and other such concerns" over Thanksgiv ing does not apply, the announcement said, to "those performing continuous ferences as to the method of doing J conference into a vote on a general some of the things contemplated; but, I strike." surely there can be no difference of opinion as to the need of doing the things herein suggested. Let us be as thankful on this oc casion, as we have been highly favor ed; and let us show our gratitude to God by giving ourselves without re serve to the beneftcient task of estab lishing his reign in the hearts of men MALONE IS LINKED IN RADICAL WORK Dr. Walter N. Johnson, campaign di- Martens. Self-Stvled Soviet Am- recior, tins aiso a message hi mis ume. He says: From Dr. Johnson. "Thanksgiving this year calls for unusual gratitude from Baptists. A spirit of militant oo-operation is bassador, Relates Ex-Port Collector's Actions among them. A larger vision has fill- public and not for the cabinet. He ed their eyes. Thousands of independ declined to say whether they were ! ent local churches are swinging to me income tax returns received by I .L . - - . . . me treasury aepartment on excess profits from the coal industry. Disputed Points".' Significance was attached to this innouncement in view of the fact that the amount of profit made by the coal companies during the last two years, and the percentage of increase in any possible wage advance which the operators might be asked to bear, have been the most bitterly disputed points in the controversy. ine statements of former Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo charging " Mome coal concerns made enor mous profits during his incumbency came in for discussion at the cabinet meeting, it was learned, r.ut no one would say what form the discussion I10OK. The Lever food control act was not mentioned at the meeting, it was said, "wing to the time consumed on oth er matters, it was not believed that me caoinet discussed methods of en forcing its decision in case the ver ct should not be acceptable to workers or min. owners.. director General rrtr,m a-a he session, but declined to say what took plat . Operators Statement. Before the -rnnAtino- tv.i. --.--.i-. Attorne- General Palmer said that If ngures as to opera to ' profits IC l'RTl T . A - 1 - . ;.Bur .. - .vt-MPrnay ny Mr. McfMo were l""iecr., r woo r. iii-.i--.7m-. --. ineiq would r0,n. -. , - - ywiuu an uiurewnH) price r roai. In a statement ha.rln- n tMa la Zl the. Perators said: "That con "ns in mi? were abnormal," but kou" Mn JIcAqoo was "Ignorant" of ..".ui.jiis in arA 101tt hi. tmm. JL tS J. ' , aiio uicg- Inn Carr,PS no weight and requires I"0 answer." The operatorn sat - ,- --'- inn. C ,wtIon of current tax re KZV lhat ad been urning x in titration or a-trfhttnal of 'f hut that the) re Tsed to affree t0 lt . Th M4Aoo Answered. Berf Uh"scale committee held a ninctory meeting today, at which wa. 'a,rflpM's statement of principles th x-enaing wora irom until . ' aojournment was taken un'l tomorrow. hoeff!lert Perators nor miners were for. ton'ght of a settlement be commu?1 week' Whil the sub-scale u2 ' plana t0 remain in session, operator,, CI.. l" uy """-"f Thnr,i , "ave arrangea to spena Misgiving day at their homes. Mr , LnaL iormer secreoary ions " r v " oiuuiuuoiy ncxiiu New York, Nov. 2S. Ludwig C. A K. Martens, who calls himself ambas- all other names and lay our hands to the task of the times." After statins: that "we are faced with a situation far more critical than the general public has yet realised, and that since the soft coal miners went on strike November 1 the country's coal production has been below one third of normal," the committee adds. Anneal to Patriotism "This is an appeal to the patriotism of every citiBen," co-operation of may ors, city eommiajottrttlis ana received by Judge Gonzalea Medina of of the Mexican federal court here this afternoon. The sentence was not carried out. it was said, because the attorneys for Angeles appealed to the fedtral court at Juares and the supreme court of Mexico City for a stay of execution by applying a writ of habeas corpus. The Juarez court denied the appeal, Judge Medina" holding his court had no jurisdiction and the supreme court was the only tribunal which could act. Besides the supreme court. President Carranza also could save the condemn ed man with a pardon. It was said by court officials that if the supreme court grants the appli cation it simply' means that court will only review the proceedings of the courtmartial and that if no errors are found it will mean carrying out of the sentence unless Carranza intervenes. Carranza already has many petitions I seeking clemency for Gen. Angeles. Gen. Angeles, intellectual leader of other muntaipal- - . - - -i. e gether throughout the south in the sador of tne soviet government oi 7K mininn xnmnftitrn Thousand of Pussia, admitted today that he paid men and women are dedicating their Dudley Field Malone. former Collect-j I f , i t jl. jC XT , v ilr 9 1 flnir lives to special religious work. The or oi tne rori oi now financial resources are coming to hand on September 12, "for help in a. com to train them for their work and sup- mercial transaction.' He told the port them in their work. Baptists are 3-int executive committee investi- the apostles of spiritual democracy gating rauiuai uiuw and the world headed towards democ- 'r advice in trying to arrange a 9,- racy calls now deeply for a spiritual &ow.u snipment ox uouu, interpretation of it. Baptists today chemicals to be paid for on delivery thank God for their opportunities of In Petrograd. the ages, we greet the Christians of martens aemeu ..e .ew lUn a 1 1 U 1UI lllOU VI WOO LKJL VL corporation to do business with so viet Russia and declared that his "embassy" was not specifically inter ested ln such an organization. He did not know that Malone had "been speaking in behalf of the soviet gov ernment of Russia, "either before or after he paid him $1,000, he said, and denied that he and Malone had spoken from the same platform in Madison Square Garden here last June. Malone Special Agent. Malone was not regular counsel for the soviet bureau. Martens said, but was employed solely as special agent in plans to buy and ship to Russia $5,000,000 worth of boots and $4,500, 000 worth of other supplies. xri- xt-t oKa lara-e auan- -Martens a--erieu in repiy to ques- tity of chemicals which ould easily tions asked him by Attorney Guneral be converted into explosives were Newton that 25 percent of his activl- ?ound ?n a secret room in the head- ties here are devoted to propaganda miarfers of the United Russian Work- for recognition of the Rus3lan soviet e in East 1Mb street, raided late to- government by the United States, "or dav bv detectives attached to the publicity work to impress upon the Jib iauT o" bottle which was American people that the Russian Sd wm labeled TNT. The detec- soviet form of government is desir- S arwranVfo'r ZnTen Inquiries based on the committee's with f?r.artrn organizations but announced efforts to find out if Mar connected with the org tens ls Qr ls nQt n.T. ll Tade WhS sounding the the communist radicals trying to .11 Z the ?oom in the rear of the spread revolution throughout the W V tectiJe found a door lead- United States, brought no definite af- f'1? 'tJ til secVet room in which the firmative results today. Martens ad- llS r i wrconcealed. On a table mittejd havin. a branch office In De- chemlcals were conceaiea in charge of a Dr. Rovln, which there were 50 or 60 smau feeen e8tabllshed fQr pagt fQur talning the chemicals. . . -tnn or flVe months, with a small Mm tv., vnrann of mine, m tioii.b'-'" v ,Ti L d to send a representative workers. !a.aJfdtv.t chemicals The de- Wanted Ford Track. ; ., . d three large books con- Tne reason tor this sub-bureau, 1 V" 'f ioneht to be thp mem- Martens said, , was because of plans taming ''," " DETECTIYE8 RAID QUARTERS OF REDS Find Large Quantity of Chemi cals Hidden In Secret Room of House ItAAi'iVA TV a . Idirpotn " nsning, managing RRfif lit!- i . ... . nte-ht in a statement to- 1r nt .1- - . . . On.i . 1 1,16 American Wholesale plained that the 2,000 per- Plained ; ' l-"er, ecrei.ar7 "ao 1 1 I liriirpn r, n aim. Pr .... oek t , business or capital ade in ,1 percentage, he skid, was orkrH case of abandoned mines, ., R '1 On a CO-nner-tlv- v.. I- --U inp capital :.ir""' euPpi!.s vwuoioiea or toois ana In connection with Dr. (Jarfleld's Continued on page two) . through the southern Region which embraces practically all the territory east of the Mississippi and south of the Ohio rivers is asked. Refusal of coal to all except the first five classes on the fuel priority list has not enabled the situation be met, the statement says as there la not enough coal being mined to supply these con sumers which, include public utilities and other actually essential enter prises. GRACE IS AGAIN NAMED NOMINEE Charleston City Com mittee Acts fharlestoiv S. C. NOV. 25. At a meetintr of the city democratic exe cutive committee tonight, John P. Grace was declared the party's nomi nee for mayor of Charleston over Tris tram T. Hyde, incumbent by a strict ly partisan vote, the twelve Hyde sup porters on the committee not voting. It was again declared that Grace's ma jority In the primary election of au gust 19 was fourteen votes. In substance this committee by its partisan vote confirmed Its action in declaring Grace the nominee when the results were canvassed August 22. Ma jor Hyde then appealed to the state supreme court, which declared that Grace was not legally found to be t'j nominee, and instructed the committee to go about the nomination according to law. Hyde supporters assert that the supreme court's ruling was not fully complied with by the committee tonight. Before challenged votes were con sidered on the night of August 22 Ma jor Hyde had an apparent majority, on the face of the returns of one. The committee by a vote of 12 to 12, the chairman breaking the tie, declared Grace the nominee with a majority of fourteen It is very probable that the case will be carried to the state su preme court again. .ftgUsflfcUhe Villlstamovement and famoua T - - - a JL -L ' 1 J a. a- T throughout the world as an artillery expert, went to trial yesterday morn ing. For three hours Gen Angeles faced the military court of fur CarranKa generals and defended the actions of himself and his companions. Two of the four men captured with him al ready have been executed by Carranza soldiers. The soldier Trillo on trial with Angeles, is but 17 years old. Couriers brought the story of the trial to the border tonight. Attempts to obtain telegraohic Information fail ed. During his address to the cnurt, Gvji. Angeles praised America and Amerl cans. In this connection he was ported to have said: "The Mexican people alwa viewed with dislika and a the great American nat'ou; ing brought up to believe erful neighbors are har of our conquest. Nothin roneous. Praises Wll "Our great neigh headed by its great son, has only- the ki us and our here that the Am entity. Though army was o present arm in existence flower and nation." Angeles , before the 1916. In re the trial hi "A most the Unite attack longing was at dren rage selv the an a' McADOO'S STATEMENT SHOWS UP OPERATORS New York, Nov. 25. A showdown on profits made by bituminous operators Is needed for the Ameri can people to form a just opinion on the coal situation, William O. McAdoo, former secretary of the treasury, declared late today. Mr. McAdoo' statement was made after he had been read an Asso ciated Press dispatch from Wash ington giving the substance of the open telegram addressed to him by the operators criticising him for "Injecting himself into the wage controversy," Mr. McAdoo had not received the telegram itself. . "The question is whether or not the eoal operators are making ex cessive profits," said his statement. Their Income tax returns filed under oath will give an understanding, truth and the facts.. If they are making excessive profits, as they were clearly making in 117 then any Increase of wages that may be made to the miners should not he passed on to the public in the form of Increasiug prices for Wtnmlnons coal. A showdown will enable the American people to form a Just opinion. CABINET MEMBERS DISPLAY FEELING IN JENKINS CASE Situation Serious and Relations With Mexico Are Now Be coming Strained CONSULAR AGENT STILL CONFINED IN PRISON Washington, Nov. 25. With less than forty percent of the normal output of bituminous coal being pro duced, the nation Is facing Its mos serious period since the strike of sof eoal operators, was or to reports received today ministration." In pitips. the number of w operation is rapidly fal nation's coal bin ish Officials h hope for In last week' crease o indicati about offi su Nothing So Far Heard From Carranza Jenkins Given High-Class Rating Washington, Nov. 26. The new flaro up over the Mexican problem growing out of the Jenkins' case was given se rious consideration today at a meet ing of the president's cabinet. There was no intimation as to what this government might do in event President Carranza (refused to answer the note from the! state department demanding immediate release of Wil liam O. Jenkins, consular agent at Puebla, held on a charge of conniving with pandits who kidnaped and held him for a $150,000 ransom. No attempt was made to conceal the feeling that the situation was serious and that relations between the United States and Mexico were strained. Offi cials said the departments, state, war and navy, were ready to meet any eventuality and deal with any situa tion arising out of a more defiant at titude by the Carranza administration toward the United States. - Advices Are Lacking In the absence of advices from the embassy at Mexico City, officials were not inclined to put much faith in re ports coming by way of Laredo,' Tex., that the release of Jenkins "was mo mentarily expected." There was no word to the department from the Mex ican embassy here and while nobody seemed to know what the' next day might bring forth officials said they would not be surprised to hear that Jenkins actually had been released. Meanwhile the government has checked up on the official and private record of Jenkins and has given him a high class rating. Officials declared there was no foundation, for the charge that he had conspired asBBBBBjnarui its t informatis BANDIT IS KILLED OVER DIVISION RANSOM MON lames vb" as looking toward the purchasA nf mn. bership roll or Brgad an tor cars and tractors for the soviet. e" TRussian newspaper. He had negotiated with the Ford Mo Freedom, a Russian ne. tQr Cq but ha(J nQt actua-ly DOU&ht . AWTTG anything of them, he said. 3 He ad- MARSHALL DECIAKI!' & mitted he knew all the time that he rxn T7 A TTIJ TIM Sill I H l tint aViln o,.tv,i f Aiii x wm-" ..-v "...fr, niiug in large' . amounts to Russia. Ti.irh N C, Nov. 25.-arVice Presl- Martens said since April he had re- 1 rtt Thomas R. Marshall, , in an ad- ceived about $90,000 for his use here, delivered here tonignt unue. all rrom tne soviet government. No th ausDlces of the Loyal Order of contributions had been solicited or lton declared that his faith In the reCeived from any other source, he ft j. based upon the south, free said. Couriers brought as much as from th" problems that face the peo- $20,000,000 at a time In secret and nle of the north. carried back correspondence in the p ; ... same way. He flatly refused to tell WILLIAM ELLISON DEAD. how they came and went, who they Richmond, Va., Nov. 25. William were or where they could be found. FNlison 7. president of the foreign , mission board of the Southern Bap- OX DRIVERS STRIKE Sit conference and secretary of the Louisville, Miss., Nov. 25. Drivers Virginia state mission board, died of teams employed to haul logs by a KftP! toniaht. He was a brother of lumber company operating here struck former Lieut, -Gov. J. Taylor Ellison today for higher wages. This is he- and the third member of this family lleved to be the first strike of ox drfv- to die within the past year. 1 ers In the country. f Presidio, Tex., Nov. 25. Jesus R tera, the bandit who obtained $lJ 000 for the return of the U. S. ai aviators, Lieuts. Davis and Pete was killed by another bandit at rizos Springs, Mexico, In a fight division of the ransom money. cording to apparently reliable rei from Mexican sources received today. NOTICE TO PATRONS AND SUBSCRIBJ Commencing today (Wedi November 28), The Morning S?1 turnef to its former policy of ing Want Ads. until 10:80 p. r except aft Saturdays, when cb be received until 8 p. m. Cas accompany the order. If your paper is not deliy! promptly and regularly, or you any complaint to make of yourJ ner service, the managemeqj appreciate tne favor if you CALL 51 wll fcnt informatioi dered-JH 1E11 f IT H - Bsfl mm -sal ssfl mm mW PPJM SSUBl rsanssj bO-fsH m mm Mmmm bbbb-Sbbbi pxm welfarH Am . . ISIIIIIHillHHHHIMlii m mm mm dm Mm mmm mm
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