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Record
ESTABLISHED SEPT. 19, 1878.
PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C. MARCH 20, 1919.
VOL, XL NO. 33.
IMPORTANT NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIS
AND OTHER NATIONS FOR
SEVEN DAYS GIVEN
THE NEWS JJFjrHE SOUTH
What Is Taking Place In The 8011th.
land Will Be Found In
Brief Paragraphs
Domestic
William H. Albright, the 24-year-old
slayer of Carlisle H. Chrsty, at Atlan
ta. Ga., on the night of January 2, this
year, is now a free man.
An emergency committee on em
ployment for soldiers and sailors has
been organized by the council of na
tional defense with the approval of the
war and labor departments.
Gen. N. D. Forrest of the United
Confederate Veterans announces that
Savannah has been selected for the
1919 reunion of the veterans.
For the first time since the signing
of the armistice unemployment over
the country shows a decrease, accord
ing to department of labor reports.
George B. Williams, president of the
Cosmopolitan bank, reported recently
to the police that $36,432 had been stol
en from the vault during the night. The
robbers had discovered the combina
tion. Returns from eleven towns which
voted on the question of issuing
liquor licenses show that eight changed
from dry to wet. Liquor advocates con
tend that the result was a protest
against the national prohibition amend
in ent.
William Jennings Bryan has issued
a statement endorsing the league of
nations, but suggests amendments to
the proposed constitution which, to
gether with other things, would pre
serve specifically the Monroe doctrine,
enlarge the proportionate voting pow
er of the United States and make it
clear that each member nation might
decide for itself whether it would sup
port decrees of the league's general
council.
European
The number of victims of the latest
Spartacan disturbance in Berlin is so
great that it hs difficult to find accom
modations for the bodies in the Ber
lin morgues.
Recommendation that the naviga
tion of the Rhine be opened to all na
tions without discrimination is made
in a -report to the peace conference
by the commission on the international
regime of waterways, railways and
ports. It is suggested that the Rhine
be controlled by a commission similar
to the Danube commission.
The status of the Kiel canal has been
settled by the peace commission on
the basis of the freedom of use for all
natious for merchant vessels or war
ships in time of peace. The canal
would continue under German owner
ship and operation.
A vigorous protest is mad4 in Alba
nian circles against the designation
of Turlihan Pasha, Albanian premier,
and M "timed Bey, representative of
the Albanian federation in Europe, to
submit the claims of Albania to the
peace conference.
Reports from Paris to the ejffect
that the peace treaty will provide that
that Poland shall have Danzig and
that a buffer state shall be formed
plong the Rhine, have stirred up the
German press, both conservative and
radical.
The German delegates to the peace
conference will be Court von Brock-dorff-RantZiiu,
the foreign minister;
Dr. Eduard David, majority socialist,
and first piesident of the national, as
sembly; Max Warburg; Dr. Adolph
Muller, minister to Switzerland; Prof.
Walter M. A. Schuecking, of Harburg
university, and Her Geisberg, minister
of posts and telegraphs in the Prus
sian ministry.
Lieuienant Lemaitre, a leading avia
tor during the war, has completed a
flight from Toulouse to Casablanca on
ihe western coast of Morocco, a dis
tance of 1,900 kilometres, approximate
ly 1,180 miles, in eleven hours actual
flying time.
Louis Klotz, French minister of fin
ance, began his e.igerly awaited speech
in the chamber of deputies on the fin
uncial situation by denying that he
had made the statement that France
had become richer since the war.
During the war 8,000 enemy air
planes were shot down by the British
air forces, while 2,800 British ma
t hines were missing, Brigadier Gen
rral .1. E. B. Seeley announced in the
house of commons in introducing the
army's air estimate of $332,500,000.
When the armistic was signed Eng
land was turning out 4,000 airplanes
a month and had 200 squadrons in
commission, compared to six at the
beginning of the war.
A London dispatch says fighting Is
going on in Berlin with great fury. The
dispatch says that witnesses of the
fighting in the last few days say both
the Spartacans and the government
soldiers acted like wild beasts. Hos
tilities in the northern and northeast
ern sections of Eerlin are bitter, and
it is stated that the government troops
and the Spartacan soldiers are show
ing no quarter.
Reports say that the celebratjon of
mass has stopped in many cities In
Russia.
Typhoid and smallpox are reported
to be raging in Petrograd.
('haotic conditions in Russia, partic
ularly in Petrograd and Moscow are
described in reports which contain,
among things, the statement that hu
man flesh has been sold by Chinese
soldiers. Both Moscow and Petrograd
are reported to be without any kind of
fuel.
Sugar is selling for ten dollars a
pound in Moscow,
German troops sent to Ltchtenborg
0 protect the poBtofflce and police uta
'on reported In a dipteh from
Hslin to have been totally annihilate
d, but h report 4o net state the
'Jit ' W B54
Emile Cottin, the anarchist wh 1 rm.
cently nvde an attemDt UliOTI the Hfe
of Premier Georges Clemenceau, was
sentenced to death by the court-taar-tial
which tHed him. The verdict was
unanimous.
Presidet Wilson, returning to Ue
peace conference after his trio to the
United States, has arrived in Paris
without any mishap. Although the time
of the president's arrival had not been
made public a grea crowd gathered
at the station.
Washington
Official advices received by the state
department from the Orient describe
the independence movement, in Korea
as a spontaneous one which had as
sumed large proportions. No effort at
o rganized resistance to Japanese au
thority has been undertaken, but dem
onstrations and meetings have been
held throughout the country.
President Wilson's determination to
reorganize the civil service commis
sion, together with the fact that he
has asked the resignation of two mem
bers. Hermon W. Craven and Charles
M. Galloway, became known with the
announcement at the white house of
the appointment of two new commis
sioners, Mai tin A. Wales, of Vermont.
Mr. Morris was a Democratic member
of the house of representatives from
1909 to 1917. His home is in Frank
fort. Mr. Wales is a Republican (and
has been connected with the civil ser
vice commission since 1891.
Decision of the war department to
maintain sixteen flying fields and three
balloon fields as a part of the perma
nent military establishment has been
announced.
It is announced that there is strong
probability that the president will be
home by the latter part of May.
American workers must Je given a
share in the industries they help cre
ate and maintain a share not measur
ed in wages, Senator Borah, next chair
man of the senate labor committee, de
clared. sailor's will, closely written on an
envelope and covered by two postage
stamps, was declared valid by the
Nova Scotia supreme court. Colin
Wentzell, of Mahone Bay, left $2,500
in cash and his shares in a schooner to
his fiancee, Miss Gladys Keddy, in
the will which was written during his
last voyage to the Barbadoes. Went
zell drowned on his return trip and the
letter bearing his will was received
in December.
The British government announced
in the house of commons that the total
strength of effective and non-effective
British troops in the armies of occupa
tion in all war theaters amounts to
902,000 men Including officers.
Plans of the shipping board for the
establishment in the near future of
"regular passenger and freight steam
ship service between the United States
and South and Central American coun
tries through the use of twenty-two
12,000-ton vessels now under construc
tion were disclosed by Chairman Hur
ley in an address at a meeting at the
pan-American union of government of
ficials interested in Latin-American
trade.
Possibility that the whole battle
cruiser program of the United States
navy, involving an expenditure of
nearly half a billion dollars, will be
abandoned in favor of a new type of
cruiser battlehip, is indicated by an
announcement that Secretary Daniels
has ordered suspension of work on the
six 35-knot cruisers already authorized
until a decision as to the future type
of capital ship can be reached.
There is a wide difference of opinion
among United States naval officers as
to whether the slow battleship and the
fast cruiser should not give way in
the future to a ship combining the
power of the one and nearly the speed
of the other.
Italy has been warned by the Ameri
can government that unless she puts
an end to delays in movements of
relief supplies to the newly-established
Jugo-Slovac and Czecho-Siovac
states, steps will be taken to cut oft
the flow of American foodstuffs to
Italy.' Italy has been depending, in
large measure, on the United States
for foodstuffs. The disintegration of
Russia and the depredations of the
central powers in Rumania cut eff
European sources of wheat, so in 191S
this country shipped Italy 18,000,000
bushels and 3,000,000 barrels of flour.
This cereal ration was supplemented
by 2,000,000 bushels of corn.
Failure of congress before final ad
journment to take any action on pend
ing bills providing for repeal of the
daylight saving act made certain that
the nation's clocks again would be ad
vanced an hour during the period be
tween the last Sunday in March and
the last Sunday in October.
The cotton futures rider to the guar
antee wheat price bill, which was sign
ed by President Wilson, becomes ef
fective at once. Under it only thirteen
grades of cotton from low to mid
dling can be delivered on future con
tracts, and all cotton so delivered
must be classified by government grad
ers. Gtufcral Pershing has .cabled the
war department that he has issued
orders for the 42d (Rainbow) division
to prepare for embarkation. This prob
ably means that the Rainbow boys will
be home in April.
A dispatch from London recites that
Premier Lloyd-George, addressing the
first meeting of the joint committee of
employers and employees constituted
by the industrial parliament, said J
"Civilization, unless we try to save it,
may be precipitated and shattered to
atoms. It can be saved by the tri
umph of justice and fair play to all
classes alike."
Convictions under the espionage act
of ' EugeneCrV- Debs and Jacob Froh
waerk were sustained by the Supreme
court in. a unanimous opinion.
CongresB adjourned March 4 in the
r-idst of a Republican filibuster in tha
t-nate that killed a long list of im
portant measures. Among the bills
that failed was one appropriating
seven hundred and fifty million dol
lars for the railroad Rdministratioi:
without which some administration
lender iy the railroads must be r
tymed to thir
elf el AprU '
FURTHER RESULTS
LATE FILIBUSTER
ACTIVITIES OF WAR . BUREAU
ARE GREATLY CRIPPLED BY
LACK OF FUNDS.
PPESIOENT IS ASKED 10 K
Early Convening of Congress Is Not
, Exactly Recommended But Certain '
Facts Have Been Presented.
Washington. Secretary Glass has
asked President Wilson to set aside
more than $3,000,000 from the presi
dential war emergency fund tos cover
the cost of continued operation of the
war risk insurance bureau for the
next few months until Congress can
remedy its recent failure to appropri
ate funds for the bureau. The Pres;
dent has not yet given an answer, and
if he does not make the money avail
able, the activities of the war risk bu
reau may be greatly, curtailed.
It was officially stated that the bu
reau has funds to cover allotment and
allowance checks to be sent out dur
ing the remainder of March and dur
ing April. This really means March
allowances, since the checks are dis
tributed one month late. Unless some
available funds are found ;y early in
May, allotment and allowance checks
may be greatly delayed.
The funds asked of the President
would be spent only for administra
tive expenses of. physical operations of
the bureau and not for actual cover
ing of allotment and allowance checks.
Secretary Glass explained that, al
though he has not specifically recom
mended early convening of Congress
to deal with this situation, he has pre
sented "certain facts" in regard to the
government's financial situation, from
which the President may make his
own deductions. In this connection it
was learned that other cabinet mem
bers have cabled the President reports
of serious cond'tions in their respec
tive departments caused by failure of
Congress to appropriate funds.
RAT IS RARE DELICACY AT
FORTY DOLLARS A POUND
Helsingfor5. According to informa
tion from Petrograd. the Moscow cen
tral executive at Trotzky's proposal,
has ordered the bolshevist general
staff to hasten plT for the formai'on
of an army of 150.000 to invade Ger
manv about the e"d of Aoril or Mav
tbrtith Pol'Tid. Past Prussia pud
fourland. The chief task of this
rmv would be to help thousands of
Russian prisoners of war. who are not
allowed to leave Germany.
The authorsb'n of the nlqn at
tributed to a German. Major Busch.
fTmerlv a rr'"-nr of wr who now
clays a leading role in Moscow as a
communist.
In the Petrograd markets dos fl
: sold openlv at SO ru'Mes ormallv
t25 a pound, anrf rpt's flesh at ?0
rubles fnommslly $40). The fh of
rsti. formrlv a great nest in Petro
rrad. ha become, as a eon sequence of
the famine, a rare luxurv.
GLASS SENDS TART RSPLY TO
MENDACIOUS COMMUNICATION
Washington. Secretary Glass re
turned to Representative MrFdden.
of Pennsvlvania. a letter sent him bv
Mr MFden. asv5"5r bv what author
ity Joh" fVelton WMlinms wag retain
ed as comntroller of the currenov af
ter the senate, faHM to aft on h's re
nomination. Mr. Class wrote that he
'd not care to keep the letter for his
ml added:
"Furthermore. T take leave to nut
vou on notice that if you in
formation concern"" a"" official act-on
of the secrefrv of the troasur
while I am the incumbent of te of
fice vou "lav eet it nromnlT sM frank
lv bv addressing to me a half-way de
cent innuirv. but vu are given d's
tinctlv to understand that I recorrnize
no obligation to resoond to an offen
sive, impertinent and deliberately
mendacious communication, such as I
am now sending back to you."
WILSON CHAPRPO WITH BElNrt
CHIEF OBSTACLE TO PEACE
Washington. Referring to dts
patches saying President Wilson de
sires an early peace. Poindexter. o'
Washington charged that "the presi
dent has been the chief cause of thf
long delay in making peace."
"The greatest nroeress t"wrfi
peace." he continued, "was made dur
ing the president's brief visit to Amer
ica. If he had stayed away a wee
longer peace would have been con
summated."
30TH DIVISION UNITS TO
LAND AT CHARLESTON, S. C
Charleston. Southeastern depart
vent headuarters was officially noti
fied by the war department that thf
transport, announced as bound foi
Newport News from France with t
number of 30th division units aboard
among them being the 105th ammuni
tion train, made up of South Carolint
troops, had been diverted to Charles
ton. The vessel is due here on Sun
day. March 23. The troops will bi
sent to Camp Jackson.
COLORADO HOUSE VOTES
FOR IRELAND'S CAUSE
Denver. The senate resolution ask
ing the peace conference to grant Ire
land the right of self-determinatior
was adopted by the house of represen
tatives of the Colorado legislature bj
a viva voce trots, with an amendmen
requesting President Wilson to "exer
cia his extraordinary and unlimited
power" ai authority that the sent!
mente herein w?ree4 may be inewr
Berated in t eon-.titution ef 0a pri
p4 league f
T ON GLARK
GROWING GITTER
CONGRESSMAN LEVER CLEARLY
INDICATES HIS POSITION TO
WARDS MISSOURIAN.
SOLD ERS ALL' FAVOR LEAGUE
Will Support No Man Who Will Say
That a Conscript is Synonymous
With a Convict.
Washington. The fight on r Champ
Clark for Democratic leader 50? the
house is becoming bitter. He fias .de
nounced some of his opponents as
liars. ' '
Three North Carolinians, Mess.
Godwin, Doughton .and Robinson, all
of whom are away from here, now, are
said to oppose Mr. Clark.
Representative Lever of South Caro
lina, announced that he would not sup
port him. Hs said:
"It is my firm belief that the over
whelming majority of the people of
the country are in line with the presi
dent in his wonderful fight to mini
mize to the very limit the possibility
of wars in the future.
"Tbe million, three hundred thou
sand soldiers who have gone through
the brutal murder of this war, return
ing to this country, are as certain to
give their support to the idea of a
league of nations as it is certain that
the sun will rise tomorrow morning.
"Democrats cannot allow . persona
relationships or sympathy to stand in
the way of party success and they are
not going to do it. Personally I will
support no man who will say that a
conscript is synonymous with a con
vict." 270,000 TONS OF FOOD
IS PAID FOR BY GERMANY
Copenhagen. Germany in conidera
tion of a deposit of 11,000,000 in gold
at Brussels, will receive an immediate
delivery of 270,000 tons of foodstuffs,
according to Berlin version of the
agreement entered into between the
German delegates and representatives
of the allied powers at Brussels.
Germany will further be entitled to
purchase monthly 370,00 tons of food
in enemy and neutral countries, be
sides fish from European waters and
vegetables. The restrictions on fishing
in the Baltitc will be removed, the dis
patch adds.
AMERICAN ACE KILLED BY
FALL FROM HIS AIRPLANE
Seabreeze, Fla. Maojr David McK.
Petersen, one of America's officially
recognized "aces" was killed in a fall
of his airplane at Daytona Beach.
Maojr. Petersen's address is Hones
dale, Pa.
The Tair plane piloted by Major Pet
ersen, and in which Lieutenant F. X.
Paversick was a passenger, dropped
nose forward after reaching a height
of about 75 feet while ascending from
the beach. Major Petersen was killed
instantly and Lieut. Paversick was in
jured seriously.
THOUSANDS DEAD AND DYING
OF STARVATION IN CAUCASUS
New York. Thousands of men, wo
men and children are starving to death
in the Caucasus, according to the first
report from Dr. James L. Barton chair
man of the committee recently sent to
that region by the American commit
tee for relief in the Near East, re
cevied at the headquarters of the com
mittee here.
"There is no bread anywhere," said
the report. "The government has not
pound. There are 45,000 people in
Erivan wholly without bread and the
orphanages and troops all through Eri
ran are in terrible condition.
"There is not a dog, cat, horse,
camel or any living thing in all the Ig
dir region. We saw refugee women
stripping the flesh from a dead horse
with their bare hands today.
"Thirty deaths a day are reported
from Ashtag; 25 from Etchmiadzin,
Izeir and Sadabad -certainly more.
Another week will score 10,000 lives
lost.
LETTISH TROOPS CAPTURE
THE CITY OF FRAUENBURG
Stockholm. Lettish troops capturr
d Frauenberg, northeast of Libau,
rom the bolsheviki several days ago
and took a geat quantity of war ma
terial, a large number of machine guns
and many prisoners, a dispatch from
Libau said. The bolsheviki retired
in the direction of Mitau. The Letts
also advanced west of Frauenburg and
drove the boliheviki from the region
of the Baltic port of Windau.
GERMAN U-BOAT ATTEMPTS
TO ESCAPE AND IS SUNK
Paris. The German submarine
U-48, while attempting to escape from
Ferrol, Spain, was chased by a de
stroyer and sunk, according to a Ha
vas dispatch from Madrid.
The U-48 took refuge at Ferrol .'in
March. 1918, and was interned. The
attempted flight of the U-boat was ob
served and the torpedo boat destroy
er Antola- pursued her. The German
boat was sunk outside the Ferrol
roads. The crew was saved.
AMERICAN SAILORS ON
WAY TO MAN VESSELS
. New York. Several hundred Amer
ican officers and seamen attached to
the cruiser and transport forces al
ready have been sent to French ports
to take over the German ships as they
are delivered, it was learned here.
They are to be supplemented with
mfin tiom naral forcei stationed
abroad. The first of the German ip-ipa
la expected 19 arrivf here eaertly l
tar A;"'JJ i
FIGH
H READY TO
SURRENDER FLEET
AMPLE FOSD SUPPLIES WILL
PROBABLY BE FURNISHED TO
RELIEVE HUN SITUATION.
DEFINITE AGREEMENT WANTED
Decision of Associated Powers Will
Be Announced by Admiral Weym3s
. at Conference at Brussclls.
Berlin. Under Secretary of Statt
,Von Braun, before leaving to par-
"tiSipate in the conference at Brus
sels regarding the turning over by
Germany of her mercantile fleet and
securities in exchange for food.- re
ceived the correspondent and inform
ed him that Germany was prepared to
begin immediately the surrender of
her entire fleet and conclude an
agreement covering the other condi
tions in return for a definite agree
ment specifying the amount of food
deliverable until the next harvest.
Paris Admiral Weymss at Brussells
will inform the Germans of the asso
ciated powers' decision in regard to
the supply of foodstuffs to Germany.
Your correspondent understands that
the associated powers, on the grounds
of humanit- will again express their
intention to supply food and that the
quantities they propose furnishing are
300.000 tons of breadstuff's and 70.000
tons of fats a month until September
1. Payment tor these supplies will te
made by variousmethods. by freight
by credits to neutral countries, the
sale of foreign securities and proper
ties abroad, by advances against the
issue of foreign securities and collat
eral and to a limited extent by gold.
WEBB, KITCHEN AND OTHERS
TO VISIT PORTO RICO SOON
Washington. Twenty members of
the house of representatives will vis't
Porto Rico in April to study political
and economic conditions with a v;ew
to obtaining information for solving
legislative prob'ems affecting the isl
and which are to come before the next
congress. The party will leave New
York April 12, but the length of the
stay in Porto Rico has not been de
termined. Delegate Davila. Porto Riro's rep
resentative in Congress, who extenled
the invitation at the request of the
legislative assembly of Porto R:o. an
nounced he would introdu-e a bill to
lx definitely the future policy of the
United States toward the island.
THE SPIRIT OF LIBERTY
IS SEETHING IN KOREA
Washington. Official advires re
ceived by the state department from
the Orient described the independence
movement in Korea as a spontaneous
one which had assumed large p-opor-tions.
No effort at organized resist
ance .o Japanese authority has been
undertaken, but demonstrations and
meetings have been held throughout
the country.
Many of the demonstrations were
reported by the Japanese authorities,
but it was said the Japanese latr
adopted a more conciliatorv attitude
and that thev might treat the aspira
tions of the Koreans with more sympa
thy. Immediate -demands of tha Ko
reans included freedom of ships rieht
of petition and the teaching of the
Korean language in the schools, with
ultimate independence for the eouutr-'.
The demonstrations at Seoul and
other points were planned to take
place on thevday of the former era
neror's funeral, but after learning the
Japanese had ordered gendarmes in
from the outlying districts the lead
ers launched the movement two days
earlier.
CLEMENCEAU'S ASSAILANT
IS CONDEMNED TO DEATH
Paris. Emile Cottin, the anarchist
who recently made an attempt upon
the life of Premier Georges Clemen
ceau, was sentenced to death by the
court-martial which was trying him.
The verdict of the court-martial was
unanimous.
RACE PREJUDICE FRUITFUL
SOURCE OF DISCONTENT
New York. Action hyx the peace
conference to eliminate race prejudice
which he ternied "a fruitful source of
discontent andt uneasiness among na
tions in the past,": was urged by Vis
count Ishii. Japanese ambassador to
the United States, speaking before the
Japan Society. Nothing . would con
tribute more effectively to the founda
tion of permanent peace, he de
clared, than application cf a proper
remedy.
FRENCH PRESS COMMENTS
ON PRESIDENT'S RETURN
Paris. In commenting on the return
of -President. Wilson to Paris, The
Matin says:
"The alliance with the United States
is necessary to the peace of the world
and to the existence of France. It
seems forever a precious help against
possible aggressions. France looks
upon Mr. Wilson as fae powerful
friend who helped her to win and will
now stand by her when she is to make
her legitimate demands heard."
POLICE INTERFERE WITH
SALE OF IRON CROSSES
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Treves. The police authorities here
took a hand today in the business of
selling iron' crosses and confiscated
more than 2,000 crosses which had
been brought to Treves by Germans
despite a municipal order against the
sale of the crosses. The shops 1
Treves have been doins a good busi
ness in the sale of iron crosset for
many weeks, ai Treves is the lira
stepping plaee for Americas enter
lI t6 arc e?uiaii!Mu
GERI
WOMEN RESENT A
RANK
INJUSTICE
NATIONAL WAR LABOR BOARD
HEAR ARGUMENT OF WOMEN
.AGAINST DISCHARGE.
DOCTOR ANNA SHAW PLEADS
During the War Women Responded
Nobly to Eevery Call of Duty
While Many Men Shirked.
Washington. Arguments in the ap
peal from the recommendation of the
national war labor board that women
conductors at Cleveland, Ohio, be dis
charged to satisfy demands of strik
ing male employes "we're heard Tfy the
board. The case was taken under ad
visement and a decision is expected
within two weeks.
Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, honorary
president of the National American
Woman Suffrage Association; Frank
P. Walsh, former joint chairman of
the board, and Miss Mary Van
Kleeck, director of the women-in-industry
service of the labor depar
ment, were among those appearing in
behalf of the discharged women
workers.
Dr. Shaw declared that during the
war women in all parts of the coun-
try had responded nobly to the na
tion's call for workers, but that now
the acute need for workers had pass
ed. . there was a tendency to "get rid
of" the women.
"Men employes demand it," said
Dr. Shaw, "and because they are or
ganized, they have power to enforce
their demands. The worst of it is
that many of the men so employed
were never in the 'military service,
but had left to enter 'safe employ
men t."
ONE MALIGN RESULT OF LATE
CONGRESSIONAL FILIBUSTER
Washington.-! Ueduction by 80 per
ct-nt in the force of the United States
employment service, effective March
22. was announced by Director Gen
eral Densmore. This was made neces
sary, it was explained, by-the . failure
of Congress to -provide funds to con
tinue the work
Mr. Densmoic said the number of
employment offices wonld be reduced
from 750 to 56, but that none of the
work in direct connection with thft
return of soldiers and sailors to civil
ian employment would be discontin
ued. - After the urgency deficiency bill
was killed in the filibuster in the clos
ing hours of the last session of the
senate, Secretary Wilson appealed to
the President. He received this re
ply by radio from . the presidential
shin George Washington at sea:
"Regret nothing so much as the
discontinuance of the work of the
employment service bureau, but the
fact is that including pledges made,
my fund is practically exhausted.
What remains would not suffice to
maintain the bureau, and to my great
grief I see no escape from disband
ment. I hope it will be possible to
keep a skeleton organization."
HUN FLEET IN GERMAN
HARBORS TWO MILLION TONS
Berlin, The mercantile fleet in
German harbors, disposition of which
will be decided at an early date at
he food and shipping conference at
Brussels, consists, according to Ger
man figures, of 723 steamers, of 1,986,
700 gross tons, and 136 sailing vessels
of 52,600 tons. The saving craft and
some of the smaller steamers will,
however, be left by the entente to
Germany for coastal traffic.
The steamer figures include steam
ers finished during the war . but not
the unfinished steamers.
The fate of the German steamers in
neutral ports is not absolutely known
although many of them probably
have been seized. The German in
formation regarding the action of the
neutral governments is incomplete.
The total tonnage that may be sur
rendered to the entente is approxi
mately 2.250,000 gross.
BRITISH NAVY TRANSPORTED
ABOVE 26,500,000 SOLDIERS
London The British navy .from
August, 1914, to March 2., 1919, trans
ported more than 26.500,000 soldiers
and other personnel connected with
the conduct of the war, Walter Hume
Long, first lord of the admiralty, de
clared in the house of commons in
moving the naval estimates for 1919.
Tn addition nearly 200,000 prisoners.
2.250,000 animals, more than 500,000
vehicles. 48,000,000 tons of military
stores had been transported.
RAILWAY CLERK8 REFUSE
TO SUBMIT GRIEVANCES
Washington." Director General
Hines called on members of the
Brotherhood of Railway Clerks em
ployed by the Nashville, Chattanooga
& St. Louis Railroad, who went on
strike demanding the discharge of the
federal auditor, to submit their griev
ances to the railroad administration's
board of adjustment No. 3. Mr. Hines
said the striking clerks had refused
to take advantage of the machinery
established for such controversies.
ALL RELATIVES OF
. OFFICERS ARE EXECUTED
Stockholm. All the relatives of of
ficers of the 86th Russian White
Guards as against the Soviet govern
ment, have been executed. Accord
ing to a dispatch from Petrograd, the
executions were ordered by the mili
tary revolution committee of Petro
grad. A number &f well known
Russian officers, it is added, also
hare been exeeutad after being eon
vteted. havinf 9P
merit
NO CHANGES IN HOLIDAYS
Proposition to Abolish Certain Holi
days in State Is Tabled in Sen
ate by a Decisive Vote.
Raleigh. Inspired to eloquence by
the State flag that hangs behind the
presiding officer's chair in the senate
chamber, Senator D. Z. Newton, of the
county of Cleveland, and the town of
Shelby, moved the senate to table the
house bill to abolish April 12th, the
anniversary of the signing of the con
stitution of 1776, as a legal holiday in
North Carolina. Senator Gray had
moved that January 19th and May
20th also be abolished as legal holi
days in this State, arguing that they
are not generally observed and that it
proved a great inconvenience to banks
on account of this fact.
"The only two dates ' on that flag
are April 12th and May 20th," said
Senator Newton with great earnest
ness as he marched to the front of
the chamber. "I do not think we want
to abolish those two red letter days
in cur State's history as holidays lh"
North Carolina. Gentlemen, we have
appropriated $2,000 to aid in. restor
ing the house at Halifax in which our
first constitution was signed."
In New Church Building.
Salisbury. The congregation of the
First Methodist church deserted the
tabernacle where they have been wor
shipping for the past three years and
went into their handsome new church
building. This structure has been
built and furnished at a cost of about
100,000. In equipment it is modern,
and in beauty is hardly excelled by
anything in the South. There is a
seating capacity of 1.000 and the first
service was atnded by a congrega
tion that was limited only by the size
of the building.
Planning. Automobile Show.
Greensboro. Gf'eensboro will have
an automobile show this spring.' It
will be held March 25 to 29. inclusive.
Last year's event was quite a success,
and it is hoped that this year's affair
will far surpass it. John Kellcy. of
Philadelphia, who managed the Gate
City's first show, will be in charge
again for the occasion, and he is ex
ceedingly enthusiastic over the out
look. The big brick warehouse on
Greene street has been rented for the
show, and Mr. Kelley is already en
gaged on plans.
Arrest of Blind Tiger.
Statesville. Will Bell, a well-to-do
farmer residing about 3 2 miles east of
Statesville on the Winston-Salem post
road, was arrested by Sheriff M. P.
Alexander and Deputy Sheriff O. L.
Woodsides while in 'he act of operat
ing an illicit distillery near his home".
The officers came un him while he
was at the plant rnd watched him
from their hiding i.lf.ce for some time
before closing in. '.I the hopes that
they might apprehend others v who
were supposed to be connected with
the plant.
North Carolinian in Trouble.
Washington. North Carolinians are
constantly getting in trouble. Here is
an illustration: Henry Monroe Holt,
railroad brakeman, from Fayetteville.
who was arrested as he was boarding
a train with 14 quarts of liquor in his
possession, found himself in a ' dilem
ma following his release. Officials
reached the concision that Holt had
violated no law by bringing the liquor
here, his intention being to leave on
the first connecting train, and the
liquor was ordered returned to him.
If Holt remained in this city, it was
pointed out, he would become amen
able to prosecution under the bone
dry law, and if he boarded a train and
crossed the river- into Virginia he
would be liable to arrest. He said he
knew he would be" liable to arrest if
caught in North Carolina, with it.
Three Debates on Program.
Wake Forest. Following the ar
rangement of a third inter-collegiate
debate with Emory and Henry Col
lege, of Emory, Va., the Wake Forest
College debate council announces the
following men have teen selected to
speak on this third debate, which will
be held at Meredith College, Raleigh,
on April 26. The debaters will be O.
T. Glenn. Rougemont; and R. R. Mal
lard, of Allendale. S. C. with Mr. W.
E. Honeycntt, of Yancey county, as
alternate. -
Charged With Immoral Conduct.
Greensboro. Rev. A. R. Woodson,
who has been superintendent of the
Glade Valley high school for some
time, was dismissed from his position
and from all connection with this
school, on his confession of immoral
conduct, by the hoard of trustees. E.
B. Eldridge. assistant sunerintendent,
was placed in charge of the institu
tion until permsirent arrangements
could be made. This institution Is
under tbe "'re of Orange olfesbvtery.
and S. M. Rahk'n is chairman of the
board of trustees.
Missino Girl Is Located.
Salisbury- Edna Edwards, 16-year-old
Hickory girl, who has been hunted
for five weeks and for whom the coun
ty of Catawba had offered $50 reward
and, the town cf Hickory $100, was
found here by Salisbury police. Lo
cal officers last night received a pho
tograph of the girl and they located
her at LaFayette Almons'. on North
Lee street, where she was living as
one of the family. She offered no ob
jections to returning home with an
officer, who came here for her.
Building More Warehouses.
Lumberton. The Lumberton tobac
co market will be better prepared this
year than ever to handle a tobacco
crop. One of the three large ware
houses, the farmers, will be doubled
in size, and two large prize houses
will be built in connection with this
warehouse.-
Present Indications arc that the
tobacco acreage in this section will
be almost doubled over what it was
tut ttttMrerta tst new hares are
sow going un throufbswt ftobssos and
STEADY CLIMB III
T00ACC0 SALES
INCREASE IN SALES OF LEAF
tOBACCO DURING YEAR IS
$7,000,000 POUNDS. :
WINSTON-SALEM THE LEADED
Rocky Mount and Wilson Are Close
Seconds, and Oxford RnJ Over
the Million Mark.'
Raleigh. Increase in sale of leaf
tobacco in North Carolina in Febru
ary, 1919, over February,. 1918.. was
apout 7,000,000 pounds, according to
the t reports filed with Maior W. A.
Graham, commissioner of agriculture.
Tfcwew.ere27J?S6. potiiiil sold . In
7! 1 - - - . "
reoruary, iis, ana 16,637.886 in 1319.
The sales by market') follow:
Burlington, 335.218: Durham SiS.-
638; Enfleld, 142.727; Elkin. 2iU55:
armvine, 242,273; Creensooro, M.
269:
Greenville, 81.269; Henderson,
821.280; Kinston. 330,718: Louisbur:
97,367; Leaksville. 51.37S: Mebane.
314.767; ML Airy. S59.927; Madison,
23,7; Oxford, 1,226,231; Iteidvi!le.
460,120; Robersonville. 120.542: ltox-
boro, 473.856; Rocky Mount. 2,561 (J-13;
Htonevme, 57,605; Smithfield, 49 268;
warrenton, 437,716: Winsr.m-Saleri:.
2949,594; Williamston, 149.659; Wil
son. 2.440,199: Wendell iGS.iS.1:
Washington. 39.993; Younssvillo. 311,-
sda; zejulon, 44,469.-
Taking Time by Forelock.- .
Charlotte. With the Jv.uwry exhi-
Dition of the Mecklenburg Poultry
Club declared the most successful in
every respect in the history of tfio
county, plans for development of this
annual exhibition into an event of in
terest to the Southeastern States wer
launched at a meetfng of the officials
and directors. President R. L. Sim
mons announced that January 6, 7. Jt
and ,9 were selected- as the dates for.
the 1920 exhibitions.
Encouraged by the success of the
recent exhibition, when it was deltr
ed that the best , quality and the
greatest quantity of birds were shown,
as compared with previous shows,
plans for enlarging the membership
of the club, and increasing its prestige
and the importance of the shows were
decided upon. The premiums will not
be determined until summer, the an
nouncement of the lists coming prob
ably in July. Mr. Simmons said the
members of the club had agreed upon
plans, the carrying out of which
should have the result of making the
club's 1920 exhibitions tbe most im
portant event of its nature in the
state and equal to any In the South-.
east. 1
Physician's Certificate Necessary.
Raleigh In consequence of a meas
ure passed by the general assembly
uring the closing days of the session
providing eugenic marriages, register
of deeds offices expect a physician's
certificate as to the physical fitness
of every man applying for a license to
narry. ,
The new law makes It practically
impossible for those affected with so
called social disease to secure mar
riage licenses in North Carolina. Ev
ery marriage bureau In the State will
be expected to demand that a physi
cian's certificate as to the physical fit
ness of the man accompany every ap
plication for a license.
As the law is understood, before a
man may obtain a license he must un
dergo a physical examination by a
reputable physician. The measure
makes it a violation for the register
of deeds to grant a license to a man
who does not present the physician's
certificate.
Not Formally Transferred.
Camn Greene. Camp Greene will
not be formally turned over to the
owners of the camp site, who recently
purchased all equipment there, by
March 15. as was previously intimat
ed, it was stated. C. B. Bryant, one
of the landowners, said the property
Mkely would be released by the gov-
ernment in "peace-meajl" and that It
would be several days before all the
troops have left.
Purchase Lot for New Church.
Lincolnton. At 8 business meeting
of the First Baptist church of this N
city, the congregation passed a reso- -lution
directing the trustees of the
church to purchase the Lipsey lot on
East Main street to be used for the
proposed new church building. At
this meeting the congregation raised
more than half of the money for the.
purchase of the lot and a committer
was appointed to canvass the rem-'in-der
of the amount, which is 'consider
ed an easy task.
Dam Breaks in Burke.
Morganton. The Southern Power
Company's great dam at Linville river
has burst and a gaping hole 200 feet'
long and 40 feet deep washed out. The
new power house, below the dam was .-.
inundated and It is thought the -ma-minery
on the first floor will be great
ly damaged. The loss to the company
is immense. Great excitement pre
vailed along the river as the
great mass of water rushed down
but the water was largely confined
to the banks and little damage wai
done.
Whiskey Poison Causes Death.
Fayetteville. P. H. Gant and S. B. .
Thomas, held for the investigation
into the death of E. H. Lemaster who
was found dead in a Hay street room
ing house. ' were released by a coro
ner's Jury. The action of the jury
was based on testmony of Roy Lillard
and W. C. Britton, of Spartanburg, 8.
C, who are workers at Camp Bragg,
at were the other threi men. They
were in tha room occupied by
maiter, Gant and Thomaa and taiti
fled ,tht tViev hliered th wai due
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