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ESTABLISHED 1821. -w. GREENSBORO, N. C , THURSDAY, DECEMBER IS, 1919. VOL. 98. NO. 101 ' . ' : - s . - - ' - . FACTS BROUGHT OUT III SOFT COAL ItlVESTIGA&IOli TICK PUBLIC MAY PREPARE TO PAV MORE FOR THEIR COAL IN NEAR FUTURE. yfashington, Dec. 16. The senate -oaV investigating commltte, resum ing to-day its inquiry into the ad ministration strike settlemenSt agree ment, was told by Tracy W. Guth rie, president of the Hillman Coal and Coke Company, that one clause in the proposition advanced toy Pres ident Wilson and accented by the miners would "bring about an in crease in the miners "wages ajt least doubling the 14 (per cent which Dr. Harry A. Garfield, resigned fuel ad-minis-tor, thought justified." Wh o the senate committee was pursu ":ig its inquiry, the) railroad ad mirslruton withdrew tie last sem blances of the restrictions on fuel resulting from the strike and began delivering Coal to original consig nees instead of distributing it to points of greatest need. It rescind ed the embargo on the movement of fuel oil out of the -west, and the or ders reducing the amount of coal permitted to go to coking ovens. j Delay Naming Commission. At the White House to-day, it was said that President Wilson would not appoinfthe commission provided in the strike settlement proposal, un til Attorney General Palmer returns from the west late this week. j The senatorial inquiry was re opened with the calling of R. V. Nor ris, engineer for the fuel adminis tration, who was conauctea Dy .sen ator Frelinghuysen, Republican, of New Jersey, chairman of the com mittee, and Senator Townsend, Re publican, of Michigan, through a maze of statistics bearing on labor cost sand prices of necessities. "Secretary of Labor Wilson pro posed that the miners be given an increase of 31.67 per cent," ;Mr. Xorris "explained, "because he based his calculations on the pay given pick miners. In I s i 7, when the coal mine wages were readjusted the pick miners were getting the greatest amount, and the scales were balanced up by giving them a lesser increase than other classes of labor around the mines. This was neces sary in order to induce men to do the other work. j "Dr. Garfield decided that a par ticular wage group ought not j to serve now a-s a basis for calculation, and fook his average wage of all workers. After arriving at that, the found that an addition of 14 per cent to their earnings would com pensate them for the cost of living since the last adjustments were i d,, ..... i e. i . Chairman Frelinghuysen asked if the wtness. approved of the creation of a commission composed of one minor, one mine operator, and one representative of the public, with power to fix wages and prices. "Depend on Individuals. "That would depnd on the make up of the individual," Norris 1 re turned, but I .think at least a larger number ought to be named. It gives two nterests a chance to combine against the third." j "About 20 per cent of miners are idle all the time, according to jour experience with 23 mines," he told the committee. "That is, we have to have 120 names on the pay roll in order to get 100 men on the job as a constant factor. Miners like to celebrate all American holidays, . and a .lot of foreign ones. Then they have 'Mitchell day, on April lj in honor of the late John Mitchell. They have 'Rabbit day,' on Novem ber 10, when everybody adjourns to shoot a rabbit." I From mine accounts, he read the record of one miner who in 187 days the present year earned $3,070, r an average of $15.50 per day. He aid $72 rent for a "company house" during the period, and his fuel bill was $5. Other records fur nished showed earnings during the first nine months of 1919 ranging irom $1,400 to $2,100 for pick ana machine miners. " . Senator Walcott, Democrat, of Delaware, drew out Mr. Guthrie's view of the claim double increase in miners' wages involved in the set tlement by observing that Dr. Gar field's proposal was the same as that put fdrth by the President. I ""As I read the memorandum I given out by Attorney General Palmer," Mr. Guthrie replied, "it is proposed to set up a commission with power to fix wage scales and coal (prices. One of the things this commission is to do is to go back to it he mine dstricts and settle what are known as internal differences, and disputes over differentials. May Double 14 Per Cent. "All previous agreements between j the miners and operators have pro vided that these difficulties shall be compromised in a fashion that will not add to the cost of mining or low er the earnings of men. The govern ment's proposal, as I view it, may result in twice the 14 per cent in miners' wages and mining costs that Dr. Garfield was willing to allow." Sendtor Walcott Democrat, of Delaware, inquired" as to whether an actual settlement of the coal strike ( had yet been attainec. k "You, as an operator, don't think you are bound by an agreement made at Indianapolis?", the senator , asked. y' I "No, I don't," Guthrie replied, j "That's right," Senator Walcott ' said. "There has bene o acceptance of the agreement there. Nor is there any power in the government to set up a commission which will fix wages and prices of coal. It can be merely advisory." BAD FIRE SUNDAY AT BARIUM SPRINGS. Statesville, Dec. 16. About 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon, fire was discovered in the industrial building at Barium Springs orphanage. In some unknown way, ithe fire started m tne attic or the building while .i the orphanage congregation was at tending church and it made consid erable headway before the alarms could be given. The Statesville fire department responded promptly to the call and able assistance was ren dered by the peoplw of Troutman and surrounding .country. In spite of the heroic work of the firemen, the building was a complete loss from the top as far down as the sec ond floor. The printing office was on the second floor and was greatly damaged, the extent of which can not be accurately estimated at this time; The laundry, -.-rorkshop and pumping station on the first floor of the same building was saved with out loss. The estimate of the dam age to the building and equipment is placed at approximately $3,500, with $2,500 insurance. Lula is a Lula of a Cow. New' York, Dec. 15. All records for the 'production of butter are be , lieved to have been broken by the registered yearling Lulu Alphea of Ashburn, which produced 13,669 ' pounds of milk from which 1,000 pounds of 'butter was made in the year ending November 1, according to an announcement made yesterday by the American Jersey Cattle Club. The butter produced from the eo'w's milk is 100 pounds in excess of her weight and is said to be five times as much as the average pro duction from dairy cows. The milk tested 5.85 per cent butter fat, or more than 50 per cent above the amount required by' law. Lynch Two Negroes. Huntington, W. Va., Dec. 15. Two negroes, accused of murdering J. E. D. Meek, a' resident of Island Creek, Logan county,, were taken from a train at Chapman ville to-day and lynched, according to reports reaching here onight. The bodies were then thrown into Guandotte river, the reports say. r The river is in the Guyan coal field region, and Chapmanville is nearby. The negroes, E. D. Whit- field and Earl Whitney, were charg ed with killing Meek, a construction foreman for the Island Creek Col liery 'Company, during a quarrel at Monitor Logan county, Sunday night according to -reports. ' Kidnapped American Released. Washington, Dec. 15. The state department was notified officially late to-day .(that Frederick : Hugo, the American seized by 'bandits in the recent raid on Muzquiz, Mexico, has been released and had returned to Muzquiz. Conditions upon which the was set free were not stated in the message, (but the department's announcement said it was supposed no ransom had been paid. SWEEPS AWAY ALL HOPE OF A "WET" CHRISTMAS THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT HOLDS WAR TIME PRO HIBITION CONSTITUTIONAL,: Washington, Dec. 15. By unani mous decision, constitutionality of the war-time "prohibition act was sustained, to-day 'by the Supreme court. The opinion, given by" Asso ciate Justice Brandeis, held in ef fect, however, 'that the war-invoked i dry" period still may be. terminated by presidential proclamation of de mobilization. In rendering its opinion, the court, however, did not act on the validity virtually all factions of the divided of the Volstead prohibition enforce- senate membership, but they all ment act or on appeals involving the struck a note of conciliation. Dif alcoholic content of beer, leaving fering widely in their suggestions for those cases to future opinions which a solution, they stood together on mayoe handed down next Monday , the general proposition that politics before the court reces?es for the ought to be forgotten and that the Christmas holidays. ' j senate, acting independent of execu- To-day's decision practically swept tive opinion, ought to do something away all hopes of a "wet" Christmas promptly to end" suspense and estab as the possibilities of the war-time lish a state of peace, act being repealed before constitu- j The dicussion reflected the trend tional prohibition becomes effective of negotiations which have been in one month from tomorrow were con- progress privately among senators sidered remote. i for an agreement that would get the The cases decided were those of question finally out of the way. the Kentucky Distilleries and Ware- There was increased activity in that house Company, of Louisville, Ky., direction during the day and some and Dryfoos, Blum & Co., of New of the leaders predlctercr some formal York, instituted for the purpose of action early in the new year. compelling the government to rex ler.se whiskey trom bond. In both DEMOCRATS WIN OUT cas. the court denied contentions IN THE NINTH DISTRICT. of Rlihu Root and other attorneys ; for the distillers that the act, in vio- Charlotte, Dec. 16. Incomplete lation of the constitution, takes pri- returns recived' her? tonight indi vate property without just compeu- cate that Clyde R. Hoey, Of Shelby, sation, that the period of the war Democratic nominee for Congress in emergency for which the act was the ninth district, has been elected passed had terminated, that the law by a majority of at least 1,500. Over was an interference with the state long distance telephone tonight, Mr. police powers and an undue exercise Hoey expressed the belief that his of the war powers of Congress. (majority would, be at least 2,000, Congress did not intend for the probably reaching 2,500. . war-time ac to- terminate on the con-" elusion of the war but at the end of . Charlotte, Dec. 17. Revised re the period of demobilization in the ports received from several moun view of the court, which held that tain counties of the ninth "congres the "conclusion of the war clearly sional election tonight reduce to less did not mean cessation of hostili- than 1,500 the majority of Clyde R. ties." i.IIoey, elected yesterday over John "Congress, therefore, provided," M- Morehead' to succeed E. Yates the opinion added, "that the time Webb in Congress. Burke county, when the act ceased to. be operative which was reported last night as should be fixed by the President's having given Hoey a majority of 78 ascertaining and proclaiming the votes, gave Morehead a majority date when demobilization had termi- ranging from 100 ta 125, according nated." " to a long distance telephone message Had the President on October 28 tonight from Robert Clay well, chair last, w-hen he vetoed the Volstead man of the board of elections, who act,, believed -that demobilization said- however ,-thta complete rturns had terminated, the court said "he would not be received before tomor would doubtless have issued then a row- proclamation to that effect, for he On the face, of complete official re had manifested a strong conviction turns from a majority of the coun that restriction upon the sale of 15- ties and incomplete returns from the quor should end." f others, Hoey's majority ranged from The war-time act, the court also 1.071 to 1,477. x held, is not confiscatory, asserting that more than nine months " were' Good Chance For a Farmer, given distillers to dispose of their New York, Dec. 15. A thousand stocks, which time the court believ- cres of .the richest farming land in ed to be adequate. The act also wa? not repealed, the court hold, by ?he prohibition constituUomi 1 amendment, which, it asserted, is binding not only in peace but also in war times. Announcement was made tonight. Properties, it was. announced by the that the house agricultural commit- NPar East relief here tonight. Far fe will meet tomorrow to vote on raers in t&e valley have pooled par ihe motion to table the bill of Hep- cels of their land in ne biS tract, resenative Gallivan, Democrat, of which they have agreed to turn over Massachusetts, which would repeal to the new comer on the single pro the war-time act. ; vision that he instruct them by prac tical example, it was added. Whiskey Owners Jolted in Kentucky. Louisville, Ky., Dec. 15. iven- tucky distillers and more than 300 Louisville former saloon keepers damage was done at Tampicp by a were jolted by to-day's decision of hurricane Sunday morning, jiccord the Supreme court holdihgwar-time ns Q Excelsior, of Mexico City, prohibition constitutional. The d is- Some, parts of the town were practi tillers, it was estimated, had 39,- cally destroyed, it was said. 000,000 gallons of whfskey in Ken-j '. . tucky bonded warehouses, s 9,500,- Iateraarriage Forbidden. ' . 000 gallons of it in Louisville alone, - Mexico City, Dec. 17. Intermar ordinarily worth at wholesale M00,- rjagc -between Mexican women and 000,000. j j Chinese is forbidden in the state dT " - - Sonora in a recent decree f issued1 by Below Zero in Boston. : Governor Adorfo de la. Huerta who " , . wishes to discourage a -present prac Boslx)n, Dec. 17. The coldest . weather: of the winter was reported ' -, ' ' ' '' throughout New England ttonight. In Boston the mercury5 fell at midnight to two below zero and thermometers in the suburbs registered 10 below. A.t Augusta, Me., 18 below was re ported. Portland experienced, a tem- perature of six below and , Manches ter, N. H., 10N below. RE-OPEHIHG OF TREATY inDIGATED IN SENATE :: . - THE SUBJECT BOBS UP IN THE SENATE DURING DEBATE ON RAILROADS. Washington, Dec. .17. Expres sions that seemed to point toward a reopening of the peace treaty fight within a few weeks were voiced on the senate floor -today when the subject bobbed up in the mids of the consideration of the railroad bill. I The symposium of views that went into the record during the Trief debate included opinions from " " ' v-y-v-- ,ne historic Euphrates valley in Turkish Armenia has been offered to 'any American farmer Who will .cul- vate it by modem American meth ods, and teach his neighbors how to do likewise on their adjoining , Hurricane in Texas. Laredo, Texas Dec. 17. Tio per sons were killed and' great property 'Some Hog, This. Rutherfordton, Dec. 16. Leander Horrison, of near Bostic, sold a hog at the meat market in Forest Jtty, for $134. 62 It weighed 621 pounds and brought 21 cents per pound cleaned. DURHAM FARMERS WILL HANDLE OWN TOBACCO. Durham, Dec. 15. The Durham County Farmers' Union is preparing to launch out in the tobacco ware house business on the Durham mar ket. It is given out that they have purchased the large Banner ware house, on Watkins street, from the Durham Development' Company, and will operate the same the coming to bacco season. tl is stated that a corporation In side of the union will be formed, and capitalized at $80,000. Shares have been placed on the market at $50 per share, and . that already 600 shares have been taken, only mem bers of the union being allowed to hold shares. The board of directors, already selected to manage the affair, is com posed of A. M. Carpenter, W. H. Wil kins, J. V. Markham, L. H. Terry, V. L. Saunders and W. M. May. Durin gthe season of 1917-1918 the county union made $2,587.96 as their part of the profits derived from a local warehouse under con tract with ft. At the beginning of the present tobacco season the union l was unable to rent a suitable house on account of the increased, rates of fered them. They, however, did rent a small house and conduct the tmsiness, but the building was too small for their operations, thence r their negotiations and purchase of the Banner warehouse. .'Just what their profits for the present season will be is not yet determined. GOVERNMENT TO BRING BODIES FROM FRANCE. j Washington, Dec. j nouncing to-day that 16. In an the ' govern ment alone must handle the problem ! of bringing back the bodies of the Amercan soldier dead from France, the wrar department gives a general answer to i thousands of requests j that have come toi it i-and : members T'A Since the armisticewas signed. au members of the North Carolina dele gation, for instance, have received letters from the state asking first for information as to plans for bringing home the soldier dead and then reauesting that pressure be - , x- ; i t I Drougnt to ejtpeuive tue return, xvc- j " -v. n quests also have come from parents House statement is expected to ba in all sections to the country that j reopened tomorrow with fresh vigor, they be permitted to go to France, j The Democratic compromise cata- fhn inir nf o c-rstt nnA .-iflir ! DaigU alSO IS tO be TirPSSA? 1 it home at the expense of the fam- in to Senator Hitchcock, of Neftras ily involved. ka administration leader, but unless To-day the war department an- some . unexpected development this : nounced that "individual requests of ' week ensues, the leaders believe the this character will uniformly be re fused." The government alone, the . t-ofnnmTit onvc ic in nrai f inn tn bring the bodies home and no mat-"j ter how wealthy a grief-stricken pa- j .ment, declared, that the Democrats rent may be the war department will j would continue efforts for compro ! pay the expenses and the official rising the reservations, and that S urogram must work itself out. - ' 1 The department says the granting of individual permits for such re- moval would interfer with orderly arrangements and also with nego tiations under way with the French The consent of the government. French government is required be- fore there is a general removar of.'-- W8 ai anyura. American bodies from French soil. J and continue to seek a compro- Another reason given for govern ment control of the entire tragic undertaking is that -there should be no unfair discrimination against those relatives who are of limited financial means. Tluec Plantations Bring $1,650,000. New Orleans, Dec. 16. Planta tions in three states were sold here to-day to Earl Brewer, former gov- ernor of Mississippi and two others by the owners, Richardson and May- land Planting Company, this city, , for $1,650,000. The transaction in- eluded 15,000 acres of cotton grow ing land. Women to Fight H. C. L. wasnmgeon, vec. au aiuut i stanqstui proDahly until January jt. of 4,000,000 women, representing ; least.' -ten national organizations, has been Senator" Borah, of Idnhn nnift. organized by the saving division of i the treasury department to enter - w t, auiuug c ,the fight against ttte high cost of treaty's implacable foes, in a state living, ment tonight charged that lare-P f!-- J ancial Interests were engaged to. Columbus would have never dis- propaganda favoring a senate ccn covered America if the strikers promise and also propose to tee? aboard his ships had been better or-: the treaty and the league from pa ganized. The ' National Tribune, ing passed n by the people' during ganized t Washington, D. C. a 1 -----------------l-- FATE OF TREATY 110.17 DEPENDS Oil REPDBLICAI PRESIDENT DECLARES HE HAS "NO COMPROMISE OR CON CESSIONS IN MIND." ' Washington, Dec. 15.' President Wilson to-lday intervened in ctfco peace treaty dlreffixffa with an an nouncement that he had "no coxa- in mind," would make no move to wards the treaty's disposition and would continue to holdMhe Reptib lican members of the senate respon sible for results and conditions at tending delay. The President's position regarded as peculiarly significant in view "of the recent discussion in the senate of a compromise, was set forth in the following statement issued to day from the White House: "It was-learned from the highest authority at "the executive offices to day that the hope of the Republican leaders'of the senaie that the Presi dent would presently make some move which will relieve the situation with regard to the teaty is entirely without foundation; he has no com promise or concession of any kind in mind, but intends sn far aa ho le ' -- -W -Ml- &d U V M concerned ithat the Republican lead ers of the senate shall continue to bear the Undivided responsibility for the fate of the treaty and the present condition of the world in conse quence of that fate." The White Hou3 statement ap parently -had no fect in changing the treaty situation. Democratic leaders, endorsing the President's view, declared that it did not pre clude a senate compromise and that compromise efforts would proceed. Republican leaders reiterated that the President was ' responsible for ,tne Present status and must make- cne rst move toward a solution Senators - hoping to km the treaty wu OI p"""' omyt apparently - were all senate factions in harmony namely ithat decisive action on the treaty probably would be deferred until next month, after the proposed uviiua.? ilxbss oi congress, planned to end January 5. Senate debate. nrobalilv rAniArfl oVkrvn ffVm Tin iin final cannot be reached uhtil next monin. ! Senator Hitchcock, commenting tonight on the White House state- ie senate and not the President must act first. "The President & ays the whola matter is in the hands of the senate and I agree with him," said TJr Hitchcock. "The President says he ha? no compromise or concession to maice. This is for the senate. We 1 iwween ine loage reserva tions and those I offered last No- Vembcr," Senator Hitchcock declared posi tively that the Democrats never would consent to ratification with the league of nations and would not accept the plan offered yesterday fcy Senator Knox, Republican, of Penn sylvania, to ratify the peace tvrxzz and Jeave the league question for j decision by the voters, j Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts, J and other prominent Stepuhlicsns reserved public comment on tto 1 White House statement but the7 i;s yond doubt, was that the President must continue to be held responsi ble loirthe deadlock and until LS- acts the treaty must remain at r. ; can member of the foreign relations. i committer and J the ensuing. Presidential campaixr.
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