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PWCEiFivEcnrr:,
DIRIGIBLE IS EXPECTED
TO LAND FRIDAY EVEHING
Everything in 1 Readiness at
- Roosevelt Field, For Proper '
Reception of Big Craft
LIGHTERTHAN-AIR PLANE
EXPERTS TO HANDLE SHIP
Special Havy Wirelest On field
at Mineola Will . Keep . in
Touch At The "K 34" Neart
The American Coast; Obser-
. vation Balloon Sent Up As a
'Marker;' Progress of Big
Airship's night As Noted By
Wireless
SEAPLANES WILL MEET
AND ESCORT THE BLIMP
"htekaway Beach, N. Y, J sly
The BrlUat) dirigible kt-M will ba
WM off the American caaat by wel
coming United SUtM naval aircraft,
lacladlng the dirigible C-4 aai atr
eral Mt,UiM, which will escort the
bags blimp U ita archaraga at
Mlacola.
(By the Associated Press.)
r!.ul. T..1. 9 T .L Cnl Vrm,A-
crirt w. voam, in enarge 01 ine uriusa
admiralty nrraagemeata for tba recep
tioa of tba dirigible k-S after ita flight
aeroaa tba Atlantic, announced tonight
i that aaleaa anally heavy winds- or
atom vara encountered, the dirigible
. would arrive over Roosevelt Field early
. Friday afternoon.
, No attempt would be made to land,
ka laid, until about 0 o clock in the
: . availing, because too much hydrogen
tf would be waited in making a land
ing during the hot hour, of the day.
- There ir a bare possibility, however,
that with favorable winds the giant
craft will arrive Friday morning and
aad immediately.
Maa Wka Know Are Baady. .
Everything was in' readiness tonight
l .. foe the' dirigible' reception. Two
. . kindred mechanica, trained in the hand
. liag at Ughter-thaa-eir eraft, aad seven
. provisional army balloon companies of
1 pfneera and 100 enlisted mca each,
Late been brought hew and placed at
the disposal of the British officers, who
will direct th landing aad mooring at
tht S-H, Hotioa picture showing the
dirigible riaing and alighting from her
m heme laid have bean ahowa to these
men xor ineirnciioa purposes.
Lane-tk of Stay.
Ths length of the dirigible's' stay In
fbla country will be determined at a
aonfereaea between Major G. H. Scott,
her commander, aad American naval
officials. The airship will be able to
replenish her fuel and atart oa her re
turn trip within six or eight hours after
her arrival. The navy department has
requested that the dirigible fly over
i Philadelphia, Baltimore and Wsshingtan
before starting over seas on her home-
'J '' ward Journey and this request will be
iraasminea io Major dcoii, commaaaer
Of 1-3 oa hia arrival.
Big Sapalr Hydrogen Caa.
More than 8,000 containers, holding
nearly 1,500,000 cubic feet of hydrogen
gas hare been placed on the Held. The
J craft has a capacity of .2,000,000 cubic
' feet, but it ia expected that ess than
ana-third of this (.mount will be '. ken
an bar to take her back to Scotland.
? Sevan thousand gallons of gascline and
800 gallona of oil have also been brought
s to the field.
" " Mora than a score of searchlights will
, illuminate tba field at night. Lvery pre.
! caution Ann been taken to guard againat
accidents to tha dirigible while iho la
here. No amoking will bo allowed on
' tha field and all men engaged In hand
ling tba craft will be searched aad da
v. prived of matches to prevent aeeideats
by fire.. No airplanes will be allowed
to fly ever Roosevelt field while tha din
. gibla h there and at all nearby fields
aoaa but nights of absolute necessity
will be permitted.
Field Wlroleaa to Keen In Teach.
. v Tha officers in charge of the special
navy wlroloao aet erected .n Boose velt
field to keep Jn touch witk tha dirigible
as aha aeara the coast and ta make ar
" rangementa for her landing, axpeet to
. get iato direct wireleaa communication
with tha craft tomorrow night. If at
mospheric conditioa are favorable. Ce
I dirigible'i' wireless should be heard
when aha la 600 miles from tha coast
A wireleaa telephone aet also has been
installed and it ia crfpeetCw that mes
" sage will bo exchanged over the ia
atraaeat when tba craft ia 100 miles
... away. . .
To aid tha craw of the B-34 in ease
they are forced to laad at night or ia a
, fog, an observation balloon will bo aent
' an over the field to serve as a marker.
Tha pilot will be supplied with rockets
vaad red flarea.
. KXQULAB TBIPS ACB0SS :
PB0BABTJB IN 3 TBAB8,
S1YS COMMANDEB BEAD
New ' Tork. ' July tVBegular trana
Atlaatia aerial travel would become a
reality within, three years, if interest
ia aviation evident la time of war were
' continued' in time at peace declared
lieutenant Conmaader Albert C Bead,
skipper" of tha NC-4 lit a diaaer iv-
' on here tonight by the American Fly
lag Club ia honor of tba airmen who
won for thts Amerieaa navy tba honor
, of beiag first to fly aeroaa tba Atlantic
Aoyoao who aaya that wo will nev
f atuin an altitude af MftOO feet, that
we will never bo able to rosa to Eu
ropa iiL.tba iorenoon aad rtra 4a
tha afteraooa, that wa will never be
able to accomplish the things that ap
pear Impossible now, la a moat courage
us person, with a courage similar to
: (Cv'i '.'aaed on Paga Five) ;
FLYING MH FEET ABOVE
' THE SEA, BEYOND TBI CLOUDS
" Undo, Jaly 1 (By Tao Aatf
elated Proaa.) Tba air mtalotry has
received a 'report from Commander
Scott that at Mil! Greenwich aaean
time ill p. m. New York time)
the dirigible, B-M, waa lying woat
warat at II knots, f,M foot above
the
' At thia height the X-S4 waa above
the deeds aad eajOylag hrilUaat
eaaablne. Commander Scott expects
to arrive Frlasjr morning.
Delegates To Peace Confer
ence To Sign Treaty
With Austria
Pari,- July 2.-(By tha A. P.)-The
Chinese delegates to the peace confer
ence expect to sign the treaty with Aus
tria, C. T. Wang, a member of the dele
gation told The Associated Proaa Cor.
respondent today. - He said the Aus
trian treaty contains nothing objec
tionable to hia government and as it
includes the League of Nations cove
nant, the Chinese would gain member
ship in the League in, that manner.
The Chinese also will sign the Hun
garian Treaty, he said, as China de
clared war against Austria-Hungary but
they probably would not sign either the
Turkish or Bulgarian treaties aa war
was not declared against those countries
by China.
Messages received from Peking by
the delegation, according to Mr. Wang
show the government and tha people
are heartily supporting the delegation's
refusal to siga the German peace treaty
without being able to make reservations
oa the Bhantung question, ' Hi said na
tional feeling ia China had been great
ly strengthened- by the duration's ac
tion. Tha delegation's advices aaid no
new cabinet bad been named in China
to succeed that which recently resigned
but that Kung Hsing baa been acting
aa premier.
EX-GOVERNOR OF TEXAS
IS COLLECTING THE COIN
One of Ferguson's Many Libel
Suits Yields Him Sam
of 110,000
Bclton, Tex., July S. Former Gov
ernor James . Ferguson was awarded
a verdict for $10,000 damages against
the Houston Post by a jury in the dis
trict court here today ss a rosnlt of
alleged libelous matter printed by that
paper during the last gubernatorial
rare. The former governor prayed for
100,000.
The article printed by the Houston
Post on which the auit was baaed was
In the form of resolutions adopted by
a political club at Columbus, Texas,
Juno 30, 1918, during the gubernatorial
campaign in which Governor Ferguson
was defcatet for re-election by W. P.
Hobby. These resolutions attacked" the
loyalty of Uoveraor Ferguson.
The defense of the Houitoa Post was
that the actioa of the elub in adopting
tha resolutions was "hews" regardless
whether the allegations made were true.
Five suits of a similar nature in
which Mr. Ferguson asks damage ag
gregating half a million dollar are
pending against the Houston Chronicle,
and still another for 1100,000 ia pend
ing against the Houston Post.
lH,eo YABDS OF BIBBON OUT
OF WHICH TO MAKE 8EBIVCE
STBIPES FOB U. S. fiOLDIEBS.
Washington, July S. Orders have
just bean placed by the army quarter
master, eorpi for , 10$000 yards SO
Kllee-of ailk ribbon, oat of which will
Is made the service stripes that men
who served in tha war against Germany
are entitled to wear. Though the author
isation for the "Victory Badges." aa
they will be called, waa issued by the
War Department on April 9, it was
found impossible nntll today to., start
the manufacturing process.
The difficulty lay ia matching the
coloring and shading of the service in
signia decided on In France, . but
American mills finally got oat a prod
net exactly similar to the imported
samples. The badge carries all the ec4-l
on of the allied conatriea on ft one
Inch atrip aad they blend from a deeo
purple through shades af blue aad yel
lor and then back again. They will be
available for delivery to those ; la
titled to wear them in about three
weeks, the quartermaster corpe esti
mates. The quantity ordered will make
iJXflOO Individual bare. -
BOMB FIENDS PLANNED TO-
BLOW BBEAD OUT OF MOUTHS
OF THE WOMEN AND CHILDEEN.
Berlin. July L-Bt eh AauwUfeJ
PrCSS.1 A' Clot to blow alavatAM
containing .American food shipments
has been uncovered at Hambarg, accord
ing io tno iakoi Anaeiger, Those in
volved. it Waa iri- ra u'ni n tk
convicts released from the Hamburg
jou py mo do aunng. the recent riots
there. The authorities gaiaed knowl
edge of the plot through members of
the seamen's anion whrna awl mum
ought by tha conspirators. "
CHINESE PLAN TO
GET INTO LEAGUE
PLAf iS TO HA7IDLE
1919 MICRO?
Launched.-, By Oirecton
' American Cotton
Association - ,
of
CAMPAIGN TO ORGANIZE
..COUNTIES OF STATES
$400,000,000 WiU Be Needed
To Finance, Corporation,
Which WiU Hot Interfere
With Big Cotton Export Cor
poration, President Wanna
' maker States
- (By The Associated Press.)
New Orleans, La., July 2. Plau for
a systematic campaign ia the eotton
belt for organizing eountiea of the
states for handling the annual crop
were launched here today at the second
meeting at the present conference of
directors of the Amerieaa Cotton As
sociation. J. 8. Wannamaker, of
Columbia, B. C, president, said that
1400,000,000 would be aeeded for form
ing the planned corporation to properly
dispose of one-fourth of the crop.
Thia corporation, according to Preii
dent Wannamaker, will not conflict
with the proposed $100,000,000 cotton
export financing corporation, aa the
former will limit ita work to cottoa
foraiomestie use.
Governor Buffin Pleaaaat, Louisiaaa,
chairman of the executive committee of
the export organization telegraphed his
approval of the domestic organixatioa
and W. B. Thompsoa of New Orleans,
a director of the export organixatioa
today explained to the Amerieaa Cotton
Association the plans of the former.
The plana for organising, ndopted at
today's session, include the forming of
county and parish organizations ia
every cotton-growing state and a reso
lution waa adopted requesting commis
sioners of agriculture aad presidents of
farmers' naiona to issue joint calla for
the first meetings.
Telegrams to Gevemora.
Telegrams are being seat to governors
of eotton growing States and presidents
of organizations interested, requesting
that 8tate meetings be called ia July.
Most of the details of the proposed
corporation aro yet to be completed, a
committee, headed by B, G. Bhett, of
Charleston, B. u., betng tnitrueted to
report tha plana at meeting to be act
later.
President Wannamaker announced
that a bureau of statistlea was under
organization so that complete aad ac
curate figures could be aurplied. He
took exception to the United States de
partment of agriculture report of yes
terday, which, he said, showed eight per
cent, eotton reduction when the esti
mate should have been twenty-five per
cent.
Labor Problem at Next Meeting.
Before adjournment' today it waa an
nouaced that at the next meeting, to
be held at the president's call, the as
sciation will take up the labor, prob
lem IDd Itiftnef reduction 01. acreage
and the question of holding eotton. J.
A? Thompson, of Corsieana, Texas, was
elected first vice-president to succeed
A Scott, of Houston, Texal, resigned,
brt who will remaia a member of the
board of directors.
War Measures Continue To Op
erate Till Exchange of Rati
fication Treaty
(By The Associated Press.)
Washington, July 2. In ths absence
of other statutory limitations, war
measures cffectivl until the end of the
war will continue in operation until
the exchange of ratifications of the
treaty of peace betweea -this country
aad ita enemies. Thia interpretation of
several much disputed phrases wss
given by Attorney General Palmer to
day aa the accepted meaning of the
termination of hostilities aad the one
oa which administration officials would
croceed.
The trading with the- enemy act,
however, ia to continue in force until
tha date of the proclamation of ex
change of the ratifieatioa of peace
treaties, but the president may declare
a prior date if he sees fit In the
opinion of the department of Justice
tha earlier date may aot be aet before
the end of the war, that is, the ex
ehaage of ratifieatioa ef treaties, the
qualifying clause beiag. interpreted to
riran only that tha president need aot
wait for the issuance of the peace
f tAJamatlAB
"Qaastloa ef Emergency" net Defined.'
. "Duration of the emergency, one Of
he phrases used in war eommiasloas
ia tha army- and navy, has not been in
terpreted by. Department of Justice
offleiala and' Mr. Palmer, declined to
hazard ia 'off-hand opinion. '
' Demobilization, tba attorney general
said, would be completed when the
army waa reduced to a peace basis. Net
necessarily the basis exietag before the
war, bat authorized by Congress for
the future. The wartime prohibition
la is effective until President Wilsoa
roemima demobilization completed,
provided the war ia over.
7' ' Judge E. K. Meotegae Deee.'
Ilehmoad, Va., July K. . Mon
tague, Judge of the circuit court ef
Elizabeth City, former eommoawealtb's.
attorney, aad formerly a member of
the Virginia Legislature, died "at his
home in Hampton, Vs., today. Judge
Montague waa counsel to tha State tax
board.
INTERPRETATION OF
THEENDOFTHEWAR
OFFICERS OF MIGHTY DIRIGIBLE NOW EN ROUTE
IN FLIGHT OF MACHINE ACROSS THE ATLANTIC
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The R-34 crew now on Atlantic flight. The crew of the
Maj. Pritchard, Maj. Cook (navigator); Maj. Scott (captain),
shows Lieut, Commander Landadowne, U. S. N., the American
WILSON TO FACE
Will Be Among First Business
To Claim President's
Attention
INCREASED FREIGHT
RATES TO BETAKEN UP
Operating Expenses Have In
creased Much Faster Than
Operating Income and Qrad
naOj Increasing Business;
Much Concern ia Matter of
Proposed Bate Increase
Washington, July 8. Problome faciei
the railroad administration will be
among the first business laid before
President Wilsoa on his return to Wash
ington. Director General plans to con
fer with the President next week, bat
declined today to indicate what matters
would be discussed other than to aay
he had no specific recommendations to
make.
It ia believed, however, that increased
freight rates will be perhaps the most
Important tuple. Operating eipeusvi
expenses have increased at a .much
faster ratio than operating income and
gradually increasing buaineaa, which aa
yet has not attained its full voluaie,
has not beea sufficient to make np the
deficit. With crop movements starting
it is expected that the next few weeks
will determine whether an increase ia
to be made, administration officials be
lieving that a decision will be possible
by September 1, perhaps earlier. Traffic
experts are inclined to think that an
advance in rates will reduce busipesa,
a factor to which close attention ia beiag
given.
No Betara to Corporate Control at Oace.
riaas for retura of the roads to cor
porate control constitute another sub
ject lihely to be taken up at the eoa
ference betweea Mr. Hinea aad the
President.
Suggestions for the return of the
roada to the directioa of the owaing
eompaniea have beea made by railroad
officials, who argue that time should be
given to re-organize their staffs before
Dee. SI, the date set by President Wil
son when Federal control ia to be re
linquished. Mr. Hinea stated positively
today that Bo plaaa were being made
for a return of -the roada to corporate
control in the immediate future, bat
Centlneed on Page Tern.)
WILLARD-DEMP5EY .
FIGHT BY WIRE IN
FRONT OF NEWS AND
OBSERVER BUILDING
The News and Observer,
through The Associated
Press service; will furnish de
tails of the Willard-pemp-sey
fight tomorrow ' after
noon in front of ita office on
West Martin street Every
movement of the two pugi
lists will be megaphoned as
received direct from the ring
at Toledo.
The details will be free to
all who are able to get within
hearing distance of the News
and Observer building.
The fight is scheduled to
begin at 3 o'clock Toledo
timet and 4 o'clock Raleigh
time. - . t - '
L . The. news will cover all
important, elements of "the
fight prior to the, entry of
each boxer into the ring and
will be up-to-the-minute in
service. , . V-.:. .
RAILWAY PROBLEM
Noted Woman Suffrage Leader
Died Last Evening at Home
in Moylan, Pa.
a. ii. in m .
CALLED HENCE ON THE EVE
OF NATIONAL VICTORY
Sketch of Her Life and Career
As Preacher, . Temperance
Advocate and Woman Suf
frage Worker and Leader;
Instances of Her Oourageeus
Oharaoter and Determination
(By the Associated Press.)
Philadelphia, July 2. Dr. Aana How
ard Shaw, honorary president of the
National Amerieaa Womaa'e Suffrage
Association, died at her home ia Moy
lan, Pa., near here at 7 o'clock thia
evening. She was 71 years old.
Dr. Shaw also waa chairman of the
Woman's Committee of the Council of
National Defense and recently was
awarded the distinguished service medal
for her work during the wsr.
She was taken ill in Springfield, 111.,
abuut a uuulli Bgu while oa a lecture:
tour' with former President Taft and
President Lowell of Harvard University,
in the interest of the league of nations.
Pneumonia developed and for two weeks
she was confined to her room in a
Springfield hospital. She returned to
her home about the middle of Jane
aad apparently had entirely recovered.
Last Saturday she drove to Philadelphia
in her automobile and upori her return
said she was feeling "fine." She was
taken suddenly lit again yesterday with,
a recurrence of tho disease and grew
rapidly worse until the end.
Her secretary, Miss Lucy E. Anthony,
a niece of Susan B. Anthony, who has
been with Dr. Shaw for thirty years aad
two aieccs, the Misaee Lulu and Grace
Oreeae, were at her bedside whea sho
died.
Faaeral Not Tet Anneaaced.
No arrangements for the funeral have
yet beea made. . They probably wilt be
announced tomorrow.
Dr. Shaw long had been prominently
identified with the woman suffrage
movement and was president ' of the
LNattonal Amerieaa Woman Suffrage As
sociation consecutively for eleven years.
In 1915 she declined a renomlnstlon
and was then elected honorary presi
dent. She had spoken in every State in
the Union before many State legislat
ure and committees of both Houses of
Congress in the Interest of suffrage She
waa a member of the International
Woman Suffrage Alliance, International
Council of Women, League to Enforce
Peace and National Society for Broader
Education. .
Dr. Shew was bora ia New Caatfe on
Tyne, England, and waa brought to
America by ber parents when four years
of age.
SKETCH OF NOTED WOMAN'S
. . LIFE AND CARESS
(By The Associated Press.)
' Fhiladslphia, July & Dr. Anna How
ard Shaw, honorary president of the
Natioaal American Woman's Suffrage
Association,' who died at her home in
Moylaa, Pa., at 7 o'clock thia evening,
waa 71 yeara old.
She came from England, to this coun
try, an anknown pioneer girl of four
years, aad through her own efforts
eventually beeamvMtaiprealdent of the
National Women's sfQtfrage Association,
In her girlhood aha lived with her pa
rents' immigrant family in a Michigaa
wilderness forty miles from a poet
office aad a hundred miles from a rail
road, starting ber' career as a school
teacher who walked eight' miles a day
and received four dollars a week. ier
home waa a poverty-stricken log cabin,
built by her father, who waa compelled
tleove hti wife and ebilrtmr at the
merry of Indiana and, wild animals
while he earaed living 'for tbem. '
First Women M F. Preacher.-
From her Michigan, home, Dr. Shaw
(Centlnaed on PaaV Two.) .
ANNA HO
0
SHAW PASSES AWAY
TJaderwood k Uaderwood.
dirigible from left to right are
and Capt. McDonald. Insert
who is one of the crew.
IN THE VAKE OF THE
City of Borgo, Italy, Resembles
DauacteitaI nietrirt
in France jtfk
HUNDREDS OF HOMES
AND SHOPS WRECKED
American T. M. O. A. Supply
Truck First To Bender Aid
to Sufferers ; Mobbed By
Hungry People, Foroe Had
To Mount a Wall and Throw
Borgo, Baa Lpreaao, Italy, July 2,
(By The Associated Press.) This city,
wrecked by earthquake Sunday, resem
bles a town in devastated districts of
France after an arttyhjry bombardment.
The Cathedral is ia tulns. Hundreds of
homes aad shops have ' been shaken
down. Some of these, still habitable
attor the major shocks, fell down dur
ing, later earth tremors. Many people
are living in tents. Military nitliori
tles have been unable to induce the
bakori and the shop-keepers to return
to thelf places of business because of
the unsafe condition of the buildings.
I tho bake shops many of the ovens
were cracked by the earthquake. Hardly
a home was undamaged. There appears
to be little acute suffering, but there
is a great demand for clothing and food
which are in charge of tha military
authorities.
The local administration aad business
are disorganized and the inhabitants
are giving free rein to the military
authorities, who ore distributing re
lief. Pint Aid By American Y. M. C. A.
The first supply truck reached here
Monday in charge. Of an American f.
M. C. A. staff under Harry lirbert, of
Tucson, Arizona. He told the Associated
Press correspondent that whea he ar
rived he was literally mobbed by the
hungry people. He said the ecrsmblr
for food was such that members of the
Y. M. ('. A force mounted a wall and
tossed the feed to the people because
they rould not hold them back on the
ground.
fcWe offered onr help to. the Italian
command at' Florence,' said Hobert,
who accepted it. We then loaded our
trucks with all tho gporis in our Flor
ence canteen and started out behind a
truckload of doctors. Although aot the
first truck to arrive, ours was the first
with supplies. We have maintained a
regulnr service from Florence aince
Monday morning.''
PRESIDENT WORKS ON
MESSAGE TO CONGRESS
On Doard tho U. S. 3-George Wash
ington, July 2. (Bjr Wireless to The
Associated Press.) President - Wilson
spent considerable time on the deck
of the George Washington today and
thea resumed Work on . hia message to
Congress. He probably will address tho
soldiers on board the Washington on
the Fourth of July.
The president today received a wire
less message from President Castro,
of Portugal, congratulating him per
sonally .and the .American people, on
the' powerful . part taken by both in
conrludiag the war by victory and in
leading the way to peace, now achieved
by tha signing of the peace treaty.
President Wilson, in reply, esprenaetl
the hope that "the days of pence whirh
happily lie ahead of ua may la every
wty yield the best fruits of friendship
k&d. cooperation between the peoples
of our two countries?.
' The weather continues-ideal, wlfhtW
sea smooth, the sky dear and a gentle
southerly breeae, '
"With Treaka Filled With Beada.
BlchmndrVa.; July fcfTreasurer W.
8, Johnson and .Auditor W. 8. Darst,
ef the Bute ef West Virginia, arrived
here 1odsy" from-Near York. with five
trunks filled with bonds, and settled
the lndebtedaese existing between West
Virginia aad Virginia. , : ' L
EARTHQUAKE
ANIMATED DEBATE
AT BASEBALL GATuE
Washington Newspaporiv-Gct -
. alt tv 'a "
up new Tara un congress
man Claude .Kitchin- , -
LIKES NATIONAL SPORT '
AND LIKEWISE ARGUMENT '
Winston-Salem Will Be Per
- mitted To Furniih Census
Supervisor If People Can Dev
cide On Man; Admiral Victor
' Blue Still Uli Secretary Dan
lels Leaves On Trip " '
- The Newt aad Observer Bowh,-- -603
District Natioaal Bank Bldg.
By 8. R. WINTERS. 1 . .
(By Special Leased Wire.) t
Washington, D. C. July 2. The teal
of Representative Claude Kitchin for
a spirited debate ia proverbial amoag .
hia colleagues in Congress. Hia recent
onslaught in. tearing the veil from tho
so-termed Republican economy aad tho
party's boasted facility for rnanlng the
machinery of government has revived '
a story about the North Carolina Coa
grtssmaa wherein he becomes ad aa.
veloped in a debate at a ball game in '
Washington that he lost sight of the
contest and when the game waa fisiahed
he had to inquire t a cigar atore to r
ascertain the score of the game which
he bad just witnessed. Here la the
story as related la Washington and :
given credence in newspaper circles:
"One of the most rabid baseball fans .
ia Waahington ia Claude Kitchia,
former Democratic leader ef the House. '
As a high private in the rear ranks.
Champ Clark having succeeded him,
Kitchin now has more time than form
erly also to enjoy the nat'onal past
time. Hence, whenever the Washing
ton team is home and Kitchin has
pressing duties on band he goes to the
ball came.
Debate Became Aalmated.
"Intensely ai ha ia interested ia the
game, however, even ita attractioaa are
not sufflcieqt to keep him out of
political 'arguments, even when ha ia
aeated in the grandstand. "
"This was proved reecatly whet
Kitchin, in. the fifth inning of a warm
game with Walter Johnson and au
other far-famed pitcher opposing each
other, became eagaged la a heated eoa.
troveray as to whether the Democrats
had placed too low a rate on canary
bird aeed, or something like that It
got to be such an arm swinging debate-'
that KitchiA aad hia friends lost all
track of the game cad, when the argu
ment ended, both meea looked np to
find the players gone, the graadstaad
deserted and the park janitor busily
engaged in herding up the peanat
shells. Kitchin and hia friend there
upon went out to n cigar atore aad
asked the score of the game they bad
paid to soe."
Winston-Salem to Get Job. ' '
The writer learned today from
trustworthy source that Winston-Salem
would be permitted to clinch the Job of
census supervisor of the fifth coagres
sional distrk-t for one of ita citlxeat'
provided the Twin City caa coaceatrate
its efforts on a single candidate. Coa
Beqoently, the aame bf J. E. Tucker, '
representative in the North Carolina
Oencral Assembly from Caswell county,
would be withdrawn and the recommen
dation of Representative Chas. M. Bted
man not pressed for favorable action.
Samuel L. Sogers, the Tar Heel cen
sus director, who haa final authority
in namins? tha r.nan. nn.,tMM k-
! various congressional districts, ia kaowa
I to have beea approached on tha ink.'
ject. He is inclined to favor a caadi
date from the Twin City. Winston
Salem ia the biggest towa ia the Teath'
congressional district and its citiaeaa '
think that their candidate is entitled "
to recognition. The Job pays 11,800 aad
lasts fur only a year, yet counting tho '
noses of folks aad ear marks of tho
property is considered important in
populated centers. '
Admiral Bine To Rest. -Admiral
Victor blue is still eoafiasd
to tho Naval Hospital ia Washington.
It is understood that Admiral Bine will
take a prolonged rest after tearing the '
hospital. He will not return to office : -work
ss chief of the Bureau of Nafiga ,
tion but will go on an assignment to
sua. His health is such as to make it : '
inadvisablo for him to remaia aa chief
of the Bureau of Navigatioa aad ita .
effect of close eoafincuteut. He ia a '
brother of Surgeon General Bapert Bine
of the L'n.ted States Public Health V;
Service.
Secretary Daalela Leavea. , .
Secretary of tho Xavy Daniels will j
leave Washington tomorrow afternoon i
at o'clock for Fort Wayne, Indiana,.
where he will deliver the principal ad f"
dross before tho Association of Indiaaa
Editors July 4. From rt Wayne tha '
secretary will go to Columbus, Ohia, '
where on July 8 he will apeak befoie the '
Methodist Ccnteaaary gathering. , He -will
retura to hia office Monday, '
U. S. ARMY OF OCCUPATION
HAS CEASED TO EXIST
Paris, July r.-(By the. A, P.)-Th '
Amerieaa army of oceupatioa techai- '
eally ceased to exist today whea the re
movai of the uulta atill ia the Shin
knd began. It ia expected that with
in a comparatively short time there will '
remain on the Rhine only oat regiment,
with certain auxiliary troops, totaling .
approximately 5,000 1 men.
The fourth and fifth divisioaa, en- -training
for Brest today wUl 'be 'foU .
lowed by the second, third aad first
divisions, in the order named," "
The exact time of departure of these
latter divisions depends en the man
aer In which Germany carries oat the '
military termi of the treaty. .
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