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VOL. CX. NO. 83.
FIFTY-TWO PAGES TODAY. RALEIGH, N. G, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 21, 1919. FIFTY-TWO PAGES TODAY.
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BIG MASS
MEETING
L
OF PEACE TREATY
Thousands Cheep President's
Declarations That Covenant
Is All Right
ROUSING WELCOME TO
WILSON IN CALIFORNIA
President Concludes Week of
Speech-Making With Ad-
dress in Los Angeles.; Al
ludes To Address Made By
. McKinley On Arbitration in
Flea For Ratification
he Angeles, Sept. 20. President Wil
oa completed Iiis week of speech-making
P the Pacific coast tonight with a
monster mass mcctiug hero, at which
VOICES
APPROVA
I'V thousands shrieked approval of his plea
. IJVttt.-itriiaa
I ""-Welcomed' to thas eitvbv- - crowd
sesuon, I rcsiaeni misos was cueuiou
tumultously everywhere ha appeared
during Uio day. Along the lino of a
ten-mile parade be rodo in a din of ap
pluus and later at a publie dinner
cheers greeted bia declarations that the
treaty should and would be accepted.
- When he entered the auditorium for
bia Bight speech he waa cheered for
wore than two minutes by a crowd es
timated by the police at 6,000. The hall
was jammed and "ouUida were thgu
aands who could not get in. Some had
been waiting aincs early morning for
. the doors to open.
' Letga la Bulwark.
; 'At the auditorium meeting Mr. Wil
son was introduced by Mrs. Josiah E.
Cowles, national president of the Gen
eral t'cderatiea of 'Women's Clubs, who
told the crowd that the league must and
' will become the bulwark of a war-weary
world for all time. The "political par
tisan, aha asserted, had no place in a
' discussion, of the peace treaty.
The meeting had been Jidvortised as
"--ne-f strictly non-partisan character
and many of tha State's prominent' Ue
publlcan aat on the platform. Among
tlem were Henry W., Wright, speaker
, of the California. Assembly. ".d Mar
ahall O, fetimaanT who waa campaign
in Southern California for
iBeoatof Hiram W. Johnson in 1010.
ThTresidcnTTIluaea to an T-drtre
mad by President McKinley the day
before hia aaaaesiuatioa and asserted
that the martyred President woros
about arbitratloa wemed t how b had
' prophetic vision oa the t i
; death. V ;:
, s la Llaa With Washington.
Referring ta objections that the
league would involve tha United States
in entangling alliances. Mr. Wilson
aaid tha league waa la fact a proposal
for disentanglement. , - '
. "What Washington had in mind waa
exretly what these gentlemen want to
lead ci back to," ha said. "Tha day of
alliance is behind ut."
When Mr. Wikon declated it was a
matter of amazement 'that aome men
were now opposing the league, some
one in the crowd shouted "Shame on
them," and many others took up the
erThere were mors cheers a moment
later when he declared the treaty was
founded on the rights of the weak
rather than the powers of the strong.
It was a people's treaty, he aaid, not
ft statesman's treaty. ,
: . Tired ef Autecr&ey.
The people of the v,i,.ll, saw me
President were tired of the old system
of autocratic" denomination and they
would overthrow "it one way or aa-
other. " -
. Under the league, he added, autocra
tic governments would be excluded
from decent society because only self
governing peoplea could hold member
ship. . .
Describing a friend who he said
never let the facts get him if ho saw
them coming rat," the Preaident as
serted thav some men eould not now
see the facta ia the treaty discussion
marching upon them.
"My prediction is that the facts are
going to see them," he added, while
the crowd cheered him, and make a
very comfortable meal of them. ,
KAISER'S FIELD KITCHEN
EN ROUTE TO WASHINGTON
Washington. Sept. 20. To the col
lection of war trophic! which tbe
Bmithsoninn Institution ia now gather
ing will 1 added shortly the field
kitchen at William. Hobcnxollern, late
: Kaiser of Germany.
Germau prisoners of war this-week
loaded th kitchen which is aaid tu be
a most elaborate affair of the kind
aboard a transport st 8t. Natnire,
Franeel and it is oa its way ta Wash
ington with a large collection, of war
material of different kinds. The kitchen
followed the Kaiser all over-Europe
while tha war waa on, to all of the
fighting fronts which he visited, but
shows no- signs of damage, which is
taken te indicate that it kept aa far
te the rear aa did its Imperial owner.
TEXTILE WORKERS VOTE ,
, NOT TO RETURN f O WOR
' IN' ALBEMARLE FACTORIES.
. AlbeauHi tVat, Jfc Has that
local textile. anllW which hare keen
Idle for "ia weeks wesiM reaaane
poratisa Monday morning waa dis
sipated by the annaascaaneat today
that the local textile anion had voted
waalnMmslr at a meetlnglate Fri
day night that aone of Ita two thoo
aand members ahoald retara to work
til the mill owners officially recog
nise the anion. . .
Identify Spanish ship
WHICH WAS SUNK IN GULF
Waters So Bough As To Make
Diving Impossible and No ,
Bodies Were Seen
Key West. Fla., Sept. 80. Bear Ad
miral Decker, eommaodant of the Sev
enth Naval district, and Domingo
Milord, the local Cuban conaul, after
returning tonight from aa inipeetioa
of the vessel which waa loot between
thia port and Havana 'in the recent
Hurricane, declared that they had no
doubt the abip waa the bpanish steamer
Valbaaera. Coasiil Milord carried a
picture, which he aaid, made the iden
tification complete.
The waters about the abip 'were, so
rough as to making diviqg impossible
today. No bodies were seen ou the
surface of the ses, but an odor arose
from .the water supposed to come from
the decomposed corpses inaida the ship.
The vessel carried a geaeral cargo in
cluding wines and liquors.
Cadiz, Sept. 20. The Spanish steamer
Valbaaera, wrecked off Key West, car
ried a crew of. 68 persona and four
hundred passengers.
I 1 1 I i III in I
'Ap
PALMER SUGGESTS
mm
Industrial Truce of Six Months
To Permit Solution of Eco
nomic Problems .
MORE PRODUCTION IS
AN IMPERATIVE NEED
Labor Is Asking Larger Share
in Joint Product of Money
and Labor, Says Attorney
General, and There Is Much
- Merit in Claim Bnt Refusal
To Produce Doesn't Oet.lt
Free port. .Pa., Sept. 20. Aa absolute
industrial armistice for six months waa
urged by Attorney General Palmer here
today to permit the solution of eco
nomic problems arising out- of. the
changes wrought hy war. '.'' '
- Sue!i a period of freedom from tin
rest, he declared, would result soon ia
Increased production which would bring
about aa era of "easier livinsr and bet
ter times" for all. Oa the other head,
the attorney general warned, seltsh d-
Imanda by npy one class eattnot stimu
late tbe national prosperity or perma
nently bcacfit ereu , those obtaining
such demands by force. Be strongly
discountenanced strikes. - ' ;
"Labor is asking a larger share of the
joint product of. money and labor ana
there ia much merit ia the claim," he
said, "but the chance of getting it is
not advanced nor the justice of it more
widely recognized by the refusal of la
bor to produce. '
The campaign to reduce the eost of
living, which he ia directing, evidently
waa foremost in the attorney general's
mind in hia speech delivered at a re
union- of tbe 78th Regiment of Penn
sylvania Volunteers, which also was
homecoming celebration for mea who
served ia the world war. He said tbat
although many problems beset 'men's
rminds in these dnyt of reconstruction.
there ia none which cannot be worked
out "in the general interest'' ia a gov
ernment where the people are the only
rulers.
"But, unless we shall be aatiafied with
that which is for the general interest,"
he continued, "and do not insist upon
thnt which is in our own particular in
terest. there will be trouble and delay
in the settlement, If men eould lenrn
to be patient under conditions whieli
have resulted from the world war, un
til a more accurate estimate of the pos
sibilities of the situation eaa be mndo.
all our problems will be sooner solved:
bnt if impatience and selfishness shall
rule and immediate forceful or direct
action be taken, it is perfectly obvlnns
that nothing bat disorder and delay
can result.
"The crying need of tbe world Just
sow is for peace, and not political
peace between governments alone, but
industrial peace amongst mea also. The
things for which mea light are' never
settled while the war is on. Aa armis
tice must come; heads must cool; and
anger must spend itself before men can
sit together and know what ia best for
themselves and give due consideration
to the rights of others.
HOLD-UP MEN OPERATE
IN GOTHAM IN DAYLIGHT
Plying Their ' Trade , On Toot,
" They Bob Two Messengers
of FayJtolls
New York, Sept. 20. Hold-up -men
who have been operating recently in
expensive touring cars plied .thoir
trade on foot in broad daylight today,
robbing two messengers -of' pay - rolls
aggregating t,t7S. '
Miss Gladya Cohea, while returning
from a bank in rower Manhattan with
a pay roll of S73, waa attacked by a
group of young mea who blinded her
by' throwing a powder into 'her ryes,
seized the package of money and es
caped. One arrestees made.
Less than a mile away, Michael Dob
bins, a clerk, was attacked by an armed
highwayman who seized a leather bag
ia 'which ha waa carrying the &500
pay roll of hia employer. Dobbins wna
accompanied by two guards but they
were unable- to prevent tha theft or
catch the robber. 5.
- . Waa Irish Benablic.
New Orleans, 6ept.. 20 Adoption of
resolutions requesting President Wilson
to use his influence for the "Irish Re
public and favoring the Plumb plan,
resulted at the closing meeting here for
the week of the International Brother
hood of E'.ectrkal Workers. - - ,
DEI
ENOUGH VOTES TO
I
Send Word To Vice-President
Marshall To Return To Cap
tal For Test Vote
REPUBLICANS EXPECT
TO SECURE ADOPTION
Senator Johnson's Proposal Is
To Equalize British and
American Voting Power In
League of Nations ; Hitch
cock Says Every Effort Being
Made To Hasten Action
Washington, Sept. 20. Democratic
leaders in the Senate challenged today
the claim of Republican opponents of
tbe League of NaUon covenant that
I enough pledges had been obtained to
amendment designed to equable Brit
league assembly. While they expressed
supreme eonnVenee and predicted at
east fifty votes against the amendment
enough to defeat it these Senators
finally got in touch with Vice-President
Marshall insisting- that he return in
time for the first real test vote on
the treaty, expected next week.
The message to the Vice-President
was sent -after - Senators - Hitchcock,
Swansea, of Virginia; Walsh, of Mon
tana, and other Democrats had discuss
ed .the situation at length. They agreed,
it" was said, that "While the" Vice-Presi
dent might not seed to exercise his
right of voting; to break a tie, it would
not hurt to have him in the chair.
The Senate waa aot in eession and
Chairman Lodge, of the Foreign Eola
tions Committee, waa not at hia office
during the day, and Republicans said
they were resting on tlicir oars, waiting
lor the contest to begin Monday.
Senator Hitchcock said today that
every effort would -be mado to hasten
consideration of the treaty because of
the "insistent demand" from business
people for final settlement, There wns
ho indication, however; at to how soon
a vote might be called for on the John
son amendment, which will be the first
test of strength. This may bo expected
Juaf as soon af Tina ildn or-the other
figures that the time is. ripe from ita
standpoint, v "'-'-' ; ''y-' ,yi ?; "
RATIFY TREATY WITHOUT
DELAY LANSING URGES
Secretary of State Advocates
Ratification of Document
Just As It Stands
Walertown, X. Y Sept.; 20. "The
treaty should be ratified without delay
and without change," declared Secretary
of Stato Bobort Lnusinft here today in
the first public utterance made by him
since the statement 01 Wm. u. nninu
before the Senate Foreign Belntiona
committee, in which it wss alleged that
the Secretary of State on May 19, in
Paris aaid that if the American people
kaew what was in the treaty they would
defeat it. ' "
In the treaty' of peace " Mr. Lea
ning further aaia, -mere is uoiuuik
which invades the sovereignty of this
republic or which limits in any way the
full exercise of such sovereignty.".,
Mr. Lansing made no direct refer
ence to the Bullitt testimony, content
ing himself with saying that the treaty
as it ia should be ratified.
"Ia the treaty of peace there la noth
ing which iavadea the sovereignty of
this reDublie or which limits in any
way the full exercise ef such sover
eignty," he aaid.
"There may be in the treaty features
which do not meet universal approval.
It would bo strange if it were other
wise- But the objections whieh- have
been made to certain provisions are
trivial compared with the imperative
need of peace.
' "We ought to have peace at once.
Tha trentv should be ratified without
any delay and without ehange. t
FAMOUS AVIATOR AT 1 '
30TH DIVISION REUNION
Bodman Law Famous For His
Hazardous Leaps To Pull Off
' Big Stunt
(Special to the News and Observer.)
Greenville. S. C, Sept. 20 Bodmaa
Law. brother of Ruth Law, the famous
nviatrix and himself t a spectacular
aviator who ia a patient at the ..Camp..
Sevier Publie Health Service ' Hospital,
proposes the death defying stnnt of
leaping ia a parachute from a mile high
airplane at tbe thirtieth division re
union here Sept. 29 and 30, it was aa
Bouaeed here today. ; ' ' 5
Law. who has -executed' such thrills
at thia before and once, allowed him
self to be shot out ef a gun, has made
arrangements for W, H." Westhall of
Asheville. to take him up ia tho latter't
aeroplaae for the parachute drop. .The
Charleston. Aero Uluh was originally
granted excluaive right for airplane
Sight at the reunion and it is being
communicated with in sn- effort to se
en re permission, for Law and Westhall
to make their flight. No response
haa been received tonight from General
John J. Pershing, who was telegraphed
an invitation yeaterday in a second
effort to bring him here to speak at the
reunion. Eight hundred tent and
equipment at Camp Sevier were made
available at Camp Sevier today for use
if necessary to house aa overflow crowd
of visitors. : - - j
BEAT Alii
ASHEVIlLE MINISTERS
TO PRAY FOR RAIN TODAY
T :- V--.. '
Acute Water Shortage Still
Threatens "Mountain City; All
Soft Drink Stands Closed
Ashevllle, Sept. 20. As. the extreme
drought shortens the water supply of
the city each hour the conditions here
are being realized by the people more
and' more and the possibility is, thst
sn aeute shortage ' will have the city
ia its grasp by Sundsy.
All soda fountains have stopped sell
ing drinks, the mixture of which calls
for water. AH Jaundjies were closed
today and all, bottling works have been
closed down for the time of drought.
Tonight the president of theiAshe
ville Ministerial Association issued an
appeal to all the ministers of the city
aakiiig them to pray at both services
tomorrow for a- relief from the "im
pending drought and ita direful result."
By tbe cloaing of the different insti
tutions today the demand did not ex
ceed the supply, but Monday the laun
dries will have to open, and utfleaa it
rsins in that time other industries will
have to" be closed the first of the week.
mum
ui
Sir Edward Carson Takes Po
sition American Citizens
Must Keep Hands Off
ISSUES STATEMENT IN
REPLYT0 PRESIDENT
As One Anxious To See League
of Nations Founded To Pro
tect World Against Horrors
of War, He Is Beluctant To
Criticize Wilson's Answer
To Questions, He Says
London, Sept. SO. (By The Asaocis-
tcd Press.) Preaident Wilson's ntti
tude regarding the aolf-determinatloa
of Ireland has attracted the attention
of Sir Edward Carson, tbe Ulster lead
er, who in a statement today, declared
"Aa one anxious to see the League ef
Nations founded, to protect th. world
against the borrora ef war, I do- not
desire to raise difficulties or anticipate
decisions on questions whieh must arise
in the gradual development of a sound
system ef jurisprudence- under, th
covenant. Therefore I an reluctant 4e
criticise th President' answer to qnes-
tiona put to him by the San Francisco
Labor Council with reference to Ire
land. ' ' -x, "'
"Indeed I find it difficult te under
stand from the answer given what state
of facts with relation to Ireland the
President contemplated, which entitle
any of the contracting parties to raise
this question under section eleven of
the covenant dealing fwith peace safe
guards. i Would Enter Protest. '
"I would like, however, in the inter
ests, of the success of the league, to
point out that nothing would mor
likely lead to its failure than interfer
ence by any of the great contracting
partie with the evolution of govern
ment in the realm of the others. The
United Kingdom, a a whole, is on of
the contracting parties, and ia respect
to constitutional right and government
til the unit of th United Kingdom
staud on an equal basis none being
subordinate to the other and it is dif
ficult' to foresee, therefore, what cir
cumstances can arise which would jus
tify interference by the league ia rela
tion to oJry particular unit.
"If President Wilsoa maans to sug
gest that, becausethere U a large pop
ulation of Irish descent or Irish Origin
In the United States, who sympathize
with the claim t the Irish secession
iitt, this fact threaten to disturb in
ternational peace or the good under
standing between the United State and"
th United Kingdom, and that there
fore the case arises under section 11
of the covenant, I must with great re
spect enter a protest.
No End to Interference.
"There would be ao end to inter
ferenee founded on such a pica which
really, mean that etuzen who have
adopted a new-country carry with them
the right to interfere in the affair of
the country of their origin. AH natur
alized eitixen of all countries eould
raise a similar plea and become formld
able more or less, in accordance to
their number and especially at election
times. '
"It is not necessary to point out how
disastronj th results would be. But
there are too many obvious criticisms
te be made by anyone who desires to
make the, Leagua of Nation a failure
from th start. I do not desire to
ransro myself with such critics. ' I be
lieve the league only possible if real
rood wil be shown by it In it infancy
sod it wise . men, saxioua f or . it 1U$
cess, are chosen- at th start to admia-
ister and evolve its constitution. . , ?
President Wilsoa 'a Pesltlea. '
In .reply to the question as to-hii
attitude toward self-determination for
Ireland. Preaident Wilsoa said that his
position was expressed ia article It of
the covenant, under wnicn it is oeemrra
that any member nation ysn call the
attention of the league yw any. circum
stance, whatever affecting international
relations. ' which threaten . to disturb
international peace or the good, under
standing between nations. , . .,
Jn his written answer the- President
said: - . - -
My position oa tha subject of self-
determination for Ireland 1 expressed
in article 11 of the covenant, ia which
I may say I waa particularly iatereated,
because it seemed to me necessary for
the peace and freedom of the world
that a forum should be created to which
all people could bring any master
whU h was likely to affect the peace and
freedom of tho world.
IRISHMAN THINKS
1 1 III nnl I
nnuuiiTtjnn
DEVELOP PLANS TO
E UOAL
United Mine Workers Propose
Purchase By Federal Gov
, emment of Mines
WILL START VIGOROUS
CAMPAIGN OF PUBLICITY
Miners Offer Bight of Way To
Nationalization of Railroads
"Provided Railroad Brother
hoods Will Continue Tight To
Include Mines; Want Equal
Bepresentation in Control
Cleveland, O., Sept. 20. The conven
tion of the United Mine Worker of
America today developed ita plat for
the nationalization of eoal mines,
whieh includes purchase by the Federal
Cpt bisk s jpia est fj u Jb va tau
tv!K6t TfQf-
tatlon upon the bodies adminurterin
the industry and fixing wage and con
ditions of employment.
Nationalisation of eoal mine ia 'Can
ada i also, proposed. The miner offer
right of way to national i cat ion ef rail
roads, provided the railroad brother
hoods pledge themselves to continue the
light with equal vigor for tho national
ization of mine. Action waa takea by
a unanlmoua rising vote.
Agalast General Strike.
The convention further adopted reso
lutions demanding legislation to take
from theUnited State Supreme Court
the power to declare unconstitutional
law panted by the eleetiva Congress;
calling upon President Wilton to re
move Postmaster General Burleson at
the ''uncharitable, harsh and malignant
opponent of labor, and seeking a new
trial or full pardoa for Tbomaa J.
Mooney and Warren K. Billings, th re
peal ef the espionage act aad amnesty
for political prisoners. It refuted, how
ever to tall at proposed, a general strike
and stoppage of all production until all
Solltical and industrial prisoner re re
taeed, aad ia it resolutioa on the es
pionage set declared that many offend
ers had been justly convicted for In
terfereneo with the prosecution of th
war and It had ao desire to condone
uch offenses. t
The retolutien ra regard t ostioa!
iaatiea ef miaes read ia.part, aa fol
lows:
"Coal "mining it a baaie industry, In
dispensable to the oeonomw lif ef th
nation and te tbe well-being of the
nation' eitiztnt.
Woald Conaerv Mlaea.
"The all important coal resouress of
our country are owned and controlled
by private interests. Under the pre
vailing system of private ownership
eosl is mined primarily for tha rjurpose
of creating proHts for the eoal owners.
The production of eoal under this ays
tern is characterised by aa appalling
economic waste. Th incomparable
natural retoureet of America, aad par
ticularly those of timber and eoal, aro
being despoiled under a system of pro
duction whieh waste from 33. to 60 per
eent of these resource In order that t
the maximum amount of dividend may
accrue to those capitalists who have
secoTsd ownership ef these indispen
sable commodities.
"We hold thst the coal supply uf
our nation should be owned by the
commonwealth and operated ia the in
terest of and for the use end comfort
of all tbe peopls of the comn-onweultu
Counties generationa of men and
women will undoubtedly follow ns, and
the American people of this genera
tioa owa a solemn duty 1o them in
protecting with jealous care and con
serving with wise administratis these
(Coatiaaed aa Page Eleven.)
FRANCE PROPOSES TO HAVE
PEACE ARMY OF 350,000
Would Beduce Term of Military
Service From Three Years
To One Tear
: 0 ... , , '
Paris, Sept. JO. (By the Associated
Press.) A peace time army of 330,000
mea and reduction of the term of mili
tary service from three year to on
are recommended to thehtilitary com
mittee of the Senate ia a report aub
mltted yesterday by Paul Donmer, it
president, former minister of slate. -
Under hi plan 200,000 man would
be called to the color aannally by
conscription and 130,000 others recruit
ed through voluntary enlistment. Asked
to preparo report with recommenda
tion, M. Doumer's -tejply .wai that after
ine raiincnuon oi m pesce ireaiy
will be safe for France to take two
year off the term of obligatory mill
tary service. Thi would reduce 'he
effective itrength of the army below
the point of prudence, he aaid, but th
difference eould be easily made up, ?a
hia opinion, by voluntary enlistments.
Thi system would mske the Freaeh
army ea a war footing total 4,000,000
men, divided into an actual army of
1 ..TOO ,000 men, 700,000 reservists and
2,000,000 territorials. i .
M. Doumer would maintain tbe pres
ent military divisions of Frai.ee, trans
ferring only th fist corps from Kpinal,
capital of to department of Vosgea,
to Strasbourg, Northera Africa would
have two corps Instead of one, the
second having headquarter at Rabat,
Morocco. Each eorpe would be reduced
to; one division Instead of two, except
ing three corps oa th frontier aad the
African corps, etch of .which would
detach a division for service oa the
Bhlne river. , . A
NATIuNALIZ
MINE OPERATIONS
BOTH SIDES PREPARE FOR
STRUGGLE IN NATION-WIDE
STRIKE IN STEEL MILLS
ALEXANDER SEES
But His Attitude On League
Does Not Gee With That of
Senior Senator
MARION BUTLER ALSO
SAID TO BE AT CAPITAL
Jtst How Much in Common
The Visit of These Two Tar
Heels Had Discussed If Not
Disclosed By Correspondent;
Sampson County Man and
The Farmers Organisation
Washington, Sept. 20. Dr. II? Q.
Alexander, who promiaed last yenr to
five up the presidency of the Farmers
nion if W. C. Crosby and others would
let him beat Dr. Clarence Poe, Is ia
Washington gunning for the Lesgua of
Nations. The" doctor haa called on
Senator Simmons, and tried to enlist
his opposition.
Aalto, ex-Senator Marion Butler is
said to be ia Washington. He has been
teas - hero- but not- by . the. newspaper?
men. And principally for that reason
Tar Heela on Capitol Hill were guess
ing today that the Doctor and th for
mer Washington lawyer have some
thing in common.
Simmons Grants Audience.
Senator Simmons granted the Meck
lenburg maa aa audience and heard
him some twenty minutes. When the
smoke from Alexander's Are had gone
tkyward, Senator Simmons announced
that he wat for the treaty without res.
ervatioa or amendment and would b
for some time to come.
Misled by Prooagaaa.
Doctor Alexander came here encour
aged somewhat by propaganda tbat ar
rayed Senator Simmons with tha league
opposition. . The Mecklenharger had
read the Washington Pott He had
also read the subsequent statement of
th Worth Carolina Senator, but thea
Alexander once said that ail the newt.
paper were subsidised, any haw.
h believed that tha . Post' political
prophet had sceatsd a mouse and -that
iir. Simmons was vulnerable.
With ei-8enator Butler htre, Dr.
Alexander went to the Senator's oflice
and at once began to unburden him
self. The teopie in North Carolina,
quoth he, are against the league and
all the home-coming demonstration!
have been misinterpreted. They are
ebaflng under industrial discord and
they ars crying oat against the re
valuation, the income tax and other
things.
In fact, th people of North Carolina,
if Dr. Alexander can speak for them,
have many painful grievances. In apite
or them, however, they are much agi
tated because Japan is going to take
Shantung under her enre for a couple
of years or mor aftor Germany Los had
it lor forty.- Again, and here the Doc
tor forgets that tbe Hindenburg line
was flrat broken by North Carolinians
and hns been assaulted by orators ever
since, tbe soldiers who went .rim Noith
Carolina don t want any more wars.
They don't want to go oa foreign soil
nsmln to fight for any nation o cause,
They are against the Versailles treaty
and have authorised the Doctor and
Senator Butler to apeak for them.
What Simmons Told Dr. Alexander.
Senator Simmons told Doctor Alexan
der he was for the treaty as written,
He has recognized all along that it may
be necessary to accept aome minor res
ervations, but he did not even give hope
'. . the aleeklenhurger on this reore,
Just what, the total tigniflrtnee of the
Alexander-Butler trip here Jit thia time
it no Tar Heel political observer will
say. There are a number of possible
missions they might have. They earn
too late for the freight rate agitation
this week and' neither attended '.he
Wade-Willia hearing yeaterday.- That
Senator Butler is interested in the eaa
of Willi I eonaidered entirely plana-
ible, but no one haa detected the fine
hand of the Sampson county cotton far,
mer in it ao for.
BntUr-Dancaa Cetnbla Mooted. '
It doe transfer to Washington from
tha State, where tbe tory ha been eur
rent for aome time, a suggestion that
Mr. Butler i going to fuse with E. C.
Duncan and then, with th jtepnblieana
re-organised, invite Alexai ter to eome
in. while the water look fine. Pol it 1
elan up her have been hearing that
Senator Butler aad Mr. Dun. ia were
approaching aa understanding which
look to the elimination of John Motley
Morehead and a union of th two wings
M...tfl. party,,: ,
Alexander for Coveroorf
"Alexander is understood to be in a
moat receptive frame of mind. He ahied
at a congressional eampaiga ia ' the
ninth district thit time, tay those who
know him, because ho- waa nursing a
hope, -that he eouloV.be nominated -ia
one primary or aaotheV for Governor.
He would have aa anti-letgue along
with multiple others nnti-p Is nks la his
platform, and would take hit ease to
the eighty-five per cent., which, be say,
1 eagaged in farming. t -
Senator Butler has become ''more or
less identified with th Alexander anion
of farmer by hi association a attor
ney for it. The union joined th State
warehouse commissioner ia the defense
of the constitutionality of the twenty
five per cent, tax oa cotton, a thing
rather strange for tho doctor to cham
pion, but regarded aa a godsend to the
farmers anyway. Thea Mr. But ley hat
beta attending all the cotton confer
ences, going to Raleigh, to Atlanta, to
New Orleans aad wherever ls the cot
ton folk were meeting to organize.
SENATOR
SIMMONS
Final Arrangements Rushed On
Eve of Walkout To Com
plete Preparations ,
no strikeTSIakers .
will be brought in
Approximately 200,000 Iron
and Steel Employes Affected "
In Outer Pittsburgh District
Aloo ; Municipal and Bor- '
oug-h Officials Take Precau.
tion To Maintain Order in
Their Communities; Mayor
of McKeesport Befuses To '
Allow Union Organizers To '
Hold Meetings in That City;
Three Thousand Citizens
Swom In As Deputies
prepares for the battles Final ar '
rangementt were rushed today, the cor '
porttiona paying much attention to
plant f" guarding their property and f
the union leader continuing their ex
tenilvs campaign to unionize nnor- -faulted
ien and urging other to stand . .
by tbt workers, - Tonight there seemed
to be nothing to do but wait for the
test of Mrenglh on Monday 'whea' the '
trike wU officially begin.
Expressing confidence that th anion
bave aot th power to compel a general
ahutdowa, officials of the United State
Std Corporation, th main object of
th attack of labor, and of other steel
eompsnioe said they will blow their
whistle a siual Monday morning aad
try to operate their plant. They
frankly admit they will do their beet, - , '
and if euflkient mea da not report, .
which they do aot concede, they will
hut down until tuch. time as they et
command enough men to make it worth .
walk) sttrt up again.
Ka Strikebreakers. V'
There ta aa talk ef bringing
breaker late this district in the oveit
the anions cripple or close down the
IlMttTClr1i gaid 16ir 1rgeTwrpon-;
tioas prefor to remain' closed than to
canst naeeetsary turmoil that some
timet follovi th bringiaf of atriko
breskero Hits community.
Th ttrikt order affects approximately
200,000 iron and tteel worker in th
inner and outer Pittsburgh diatrict be
tweea Johnstown, Pa., on the east tad
Toungstown, Ohio, oa th west. Union
leaders claim that a majority of these
met will follow the request of the steel
workers' national committee and refuse
to go to work Monday. 'They atttrt -tbat
aot only union men will be in the
walkout but that they will be joined by
thoutanda who are not affiliated with
any labor organization.
. Mayer Iseae Proclamation.
Hiinlfinal and borouuh official la
maav parti of the Pittsburg district
today lao prepared to meet tho situs- ,
tioa snd have takea precautions to .
maintain a sad order ia their corn
munitirs- Mayor lytic, ef McKeesport.
who union leader complain, baa refused
to permit labor organizett to hole;
publie meetings in that city, issued a
long proclamation calling upon eitixen
to support the constituted authorities
in their efforts to maintain peace.
The proclamation state that organis
ers having bo connection with the work '
era of McKeesport have- attempted to "
units mill worker In a strike 'using -for
that porpoe Inflammatory argu
ment, seditious language, threat! aad
niinlcuding statements."
"ThClf work,"- the proclamation far
ther ttato, "ha been directed mainly ,
anions: foroieners here, little if any.
support being granted them by Amer
ican! and by the better class of worker)
of foreign descent. In order .
that, the people and properties of thi
city iy b protected against violence
or, Uwlcsancii which may result from
tha formation of aa unruly and un
American mans of people, tare then .
and of the citizen of McKeesport have
voluntarily been , sworn lute office a
peeial police deputies."
Organlsera Ars Arretted.
A number of Organisers have been
arrested in McKeesport in recent week '
for holding meeting without permits.
Lfcbor leaders sty they tried to get per
mits but were refused. A mats meeting :
is scheduled for McKeesport tomorrow.
The mayor nid it cannot b held. W.
Z. Foster, secretary ef the Steel Work:
era Nitional committee, said it would
take placet as scheduled, proclamation
were issued by various barges tea but
were confined to the usual legal form
f-: calli upon ill citizen to keep '
tho poaco.. - ' . . .
LITTLE GIRL KILLED BY
AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT
Child Stepped Out of Her Path
er's Car ; As Approaching
Auto Whirled By .
tti:,.heth Oitv. Bent. 10. (Bv Th
Associated Press.) Th five year old -daughter
of Mr. Marvin Lister was
killed outright at, 7 o'clock thia eve- .
ninv when ibt was run over by a csr
drive by4 Mr. Georgt Winitow, ef thi
eouaty. - Mr. lister (topped hi car.
at the ansoU station oa th corner
of the road. A he did to tho child
ttepped out ef her father's car to the
street directly ia front of Wln-
tow't ear. Tho child wss
broken bor lower jaw fractured and
th bst of. the brain dislocated by th
blow.
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