North Carolina Newspapers

v-.' :'. 1 SGORD I! VOL. XL NO. 35 PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C. APRIL 3, 1919 ESTABLISHED SEPT. 19, 1878. c El ATHAM IMPORTANT NEWS THE WORLD OVER IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIS AND OTHER NATIONS FOR' SEVEN DAYS GIVEN THE NEWS CFTKE SOUTH Vfhat Is Taking Place In The South land Will Be Found In Brief Paragraph European General Mangin, one of the leading officers of the French army, -will be recalled from his command at May ence to undertake a mission the char acter and scope of which "is Indicat. ed plainly by the events in Hungary." Italian troops have occupied the town of Pressburg, thirty-five miles southeast of Vienna, on the Hungarian side of the border. The delivery of German merchant ships to the allies continues. Various vessels cf the Hansa line have sailed from Bremen and several of the North German-Lloyd steamers had already gotten under way. All the members of the allied mili tary missions except one American of ficer have left Budapest. Martial law has been declared all over Czecho-Slovakia as a resutl of events in Hungary. It is announced that allied troops occupying Arad and Szegedin on the Maros and Theiss rivers have been withdrawn. Officials reports of the riots in Egypt show that two thousand houses have been sacked. Many British soldiers were murder ed and a mob sacked and burned the stations of El Rekkah and El Wasta, in Egypt. An express train from Cairo, Egypt, was pillaged and several trains were sacked. An employee of the state railway was murdered. Brig. Gen. W. P. Richardson, U. S. A., has been given command of the Unit ed States mission into northern Rus sia, which will leave London in a few days with a fair-sized detachment of United States engineers Increased precautions have been . taken to safeguard President Wilson and the premiers with whom he is in daily conference in Paris Defending the military service bill in the house of commons, Winston Spen cer Churchill, secretary of war declar ed that the whole of Egypt was in a virtual state of insurrection. The pc siitno is so dangerous, he says, that the government had to appeal to men on the point of demobilization to re turn and save their, comrades from be ins murdered. The Spanish government has agreed to withdraw its resignation owing to the eeneral strike in Barcelona, and has proclaimed martial law throughout Snain. Troops are now occupying the chief streets of Barcelona in order to insure the carrying out of the public Kprvices. An American amendment to protect nations against the influx of foreign labor was adopted by the league of na tions commission. It affirms the right of anv country in the league to con 'trol matters solely within domestic jurisdiction. The urgency for concluding peace may be read in the decision of the great powers to make a big effort to have the peace treaty ready by the first week in April. Some think it has Frisco train No. SOI, en route from St. Louis to Memphis, wa held up be tween Marian, Ark., and Bridge Junc tion at night by three masked men, jwho escaped with about six thousand dollars in cash. Herding fourteen persons, including several woman patrons, into the lava tory and the vault of the West Side branch of the Commonwealth State bank at Detroit, Mich.', six unmasked bandits robbed the institution of $10,- 000 in cash and unregistered Liberty Bonds which, officials say, may ex ceed sixty-five thousand dollars in value. A dispatch sent out from New York says that thousands of Jews were slaughtered in Buenos Aires on Jan uary 9. The massacre followed a ru mor that the Jews were inciting a Bol shevik movement in Argentina. Announcement is made that April Id has been fixed as the" date for a con ference in Memphis, Tenn., of cotton planters, bankers and representatives HOT 10 LEASE TO H JAPS AT PRESENT OiOE HE AND REPARATIONS OWNERS OF CALIFORNIA LAND COMPANY WILL NOT LEASE TO JAPS AT PRESENT. PERSISTENT EFFORTS, ' MOSTLY BY AMERICAN DELEGATION . SPEED UP THE WORK. ADHERE TO FORMER PROMISE EFFECT IMPORTANT RESULTS Arrngaments of Character Proposed Will Not Be Made Unless Sanc tioned by U. S. Government. Certain Amendments Have Been Agreed Upon That Are Designed to Meet Criticism at Home. of . Southern . business interests with state and federal officials to consider the formation of a., cotton exporting corporation. " Two aviators Lieutenants Burns of Indianapolis and Mathews of Ithaca, N. Y. were killed near Arcadia, Fla., in a fall estimated at fifteen hundred feet. The body of Abraham Lincoln Ram sey, three-year-old boy who attempted to follow his sisters to a country store in Newport, Tenn., and being turned back took the wrong fork of the road and disappeared, has been found in a hollow log about three miles from his home. Sixty-nine officers and three thou sand and forty-two men belonging to units of the thirtieth division, which broke through the supposedly impreg nable line of Hindenburg. have de barked in Charleston, S. C. An immediate call for 50,000 volun- teersf or service in Europe has been prepared by the war department. As an incentive to enlistment the men will be offered early duty in France as a relief for men in the expeditionary forces who wish to return home. En listment in this special force will be for three years. The men will be con centrated at Camp Meade. Washington The steamer Cleveland, the first of the twelve German ships allotted to the United States for bringing troops home, has been placed in commission, the navy department has been advised. A cablegram from Portugal says an American fleet of thirty-nine warships from Brest anchored at Lisbon. An increase of 50 per cent in the exports of breadsutffs in the first eight months of the fiscal year is shown in figures made public by the bureau of foreign and domestic com merce. Meat and dairy exports increased from $274,851,044 the last fiscal year to $629,195,589 in : the first eight months of this fiscal year. General Pershing reports to the war department that there are still 5,500 officers and men of the expeditionary forces listed as missing. This total compares with the British official fig- Los Angeles, Cal. The owners of the California-Mexico Land and Cattle Company's property in Lower Califor nia still adhere to a, declaration made to the state department in 1917, that they will not "under the circum stances make any lease of any kind to Japanese, where colonization is probable, until we are first authorita tively informed that such an arrange ment will be entirely agreeable to the government of our own country." This was announced here by Harry Chandler, president of the company. Mr. Chandler, who is also principal owner of The Los Angeles Times, is sued a statement as follows: Following is an extract from a letter written by me ,as president of the stockholders of that company, dated February 23. 1917, to the department of state at Washington: . '"While my company is anxious to secure these reliable tenants, amply financed, to help develop our property in Mexico, we are first of all Amer ican citizens and do not wish to make any move which could in any way prejudice a quastion which always ap pears to be d subject for agitation between the two countries. We will not. under the circumstances, consid er making any lease of this kind to Japanese, whtre colonization is prob able, until we are first authoritatively informed that such arrangement will be agreeable to the government of our own country." CONFERENCE DELAY HAS BAD RESULTS MARKED CHANGE IN" ATTITUDE OF GERMAN POPULATION IN OCCUPIED TERRITORY. STUBBORNLY UNREPEMT Movement for the Establishment of a RJhineland Republic Has Lost All ' .Force; Trouble is Brewing. METHODISTS LOOK FORWARD WITH CONFIDENCE TO DRIVE Nashville. Tenn. The sum of S35. 000,000 will be raised by the Meth odist EpiscoDal Church. South, during the week of May 18 to 25. This money will he spent to promulgate Chris tianity in the war-ridden countries of Europe to 'arry . on- missiona;ry work in the darkest corners of Africa. Asia and South America, and a con siderable sum will be spent in the Southern States for the education of both the whites and negroes. While statesmen will rebuild shat tered governments, educational inter ests will erect colleges, business men Paris. Persistent efforts, principal ly by the American, delegates, , but see- onded for the most part y the BritisH and . Italians, 4 to speed up the worl of the various1 councils and '"commis sions preparing the details of the peacq treaty, resulted in better progress dur ing the closing days of the past week. That most important results will ba attained during the present week i'i predicted by those who are in a posi tion to speak, including the dispos tion of the Monroe doctrine and repa rations, the two subjects which have been the main obstacles to the com pletion of the treaty. The most stubbornly contested sub ject was that of reparations, and it is suggested that the delay in this case cannot be charged up to the Americans, but rather to the pre-eiec tion promises of Premier Lloyd George and Premier Clemenceau to make thi- Germans pay the whole cost of th6 war, which have led to some embar rassment, because of the patent ina bility of the enemy to pay more than a fraction of the enormous indemnity that will be required for that purpose. However, real progress has been made in bringing about an agreement on the total amount of indemnity and the terms of payment, on a basis of painstaking studies of the exact state of German industries and resources at the present time and prospects for the future made by the financial com missions of the conference. Although President Wilson has stat ed that the league of nations cove nant did not delar the progress of the treaty, because the work of the other commissions was equally essential to its completion, the subject has been the subject of much anxiety and close study during the past week. The desire of the American delegates to safeguard the Monroe doctrine and to insert other amendments to meet home criticism has temporarily pre vented the report of the revised cove nant from being submitted to a plen ary meeting of the conference. LEAGUE DISCUSSION CAUSED NO DELAY DELIBERATIONS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HELD AT NIGHT OR DURING ODD HOURS. PRESIDENT IS WELL SATISFIED, The Revised Covenant is Practically Finished and is in Hands of Com mittee for Final Drafting. APPORTIONMENT COMPLETED Superintendent of Education Brings All Rural Schools Up to State wide Uniformity. .. Coblenz The slowness of the peace conference" in Paris in reaching a de cision on the terms of peace with,..Ger- Tnany is having a marked effect-on the f ortitude of the population n the occu pied area. Whereas, late as last Jan uary, when the elections for the as sembly were held, the people of Cab lenz and throughout the American sec tor were almost reconciled to the for mation of a buffer state on the west bank of Rhine and willing to accept any terms indicated by the allies, so long as they could get peace and food. yet the situation now is entirely differ ent. The stubborn unrepentance of the social rulers is reflected both in the German press in Coblenz and in the attitude of the population. Interpreting the delay in Paris as a sign of weakness and indecision, the Germans have added an almost boast ful tone here and lose no occasion of asserting their determination to re main German and hold the entente strictly to a German interpretation o President Wilson's 14 points. The movement for establishment of Rhineland republic has lost all force and the leaders here are onenly work ing to prepare the population for pos sible consequences of a refusal of the German government to sign the peace "treaty. POLISH TROOPS REFUSE A LANDING AT PORT OF DANZIG Amsterdam The allied note to Ger many demanding that Pol:sh troepi be allowed to land at Danzig declared refusal by Germany would be regard ed as a breach of the armistice, a Ber lin dispatch said. The German gov ernment replied it could not take tha responsibility for permitting the Poles to land at Danzig, but was. pre pared to facilitate a landing at Stettin Koenigsberg, Memel or Libau. President Wilson, who has virtually been silent since his return to Paris, believes the time is opportune for a statement which will allay apprehen sion over the delay and show the re vision of the covenant of the league of nations had proceeded at night ses sions, without any interruption to the other main questions. President Wilson issued the follow ing statement: 'In view of the very surprising im pression which seems to exist in some quarters that it is the discussions of the committee on the league of na tion that are delaying the final formu lation of peace, I am very glad to take the opportunity of reporting that the conclusion of this commission were the first to be laid before the plenary conference. "During the last few days the com mission has been engaged in an effort to take advantage of the criticisms which the publication of the covenant has fortunately drawn out. A com mittee of the commission has also had the advantage of a -conference with representatives of the neutral states who are evidencing a very deep inter est and a practically unanimous desire to align themselves with the league. "The revised covenant is now prac tically finished. It is in the hands of a committee for the final process of drafting and will almost immediate ly be presented a second time to the public. "The confeience of the commission have invariably been held at times when they could not interfere with the consultation of those who have undertaken to formulate the general conclusions of the conference with re gard to the many other complicated prob'ems of peace. So that the mem bers of the commission congratulate themselves on the fact no part of the:r conferences have ever interposed any form of delay." JUDSON JONES IS SEVERELY INJURED $5,256; $2,537; $6,709;. $2,427; Raleigh. The state superintendent of public instruction has Just complet ed the apportionment of the $500,000 equalization fund to bring the scljol terms up to a Statewide uniformity, 95 days, being the Statewide adjust ment for rural schools throughout the State under the final apportionment. Wake county gets $10,569; Ashe, $10. 848; Guilford, $13,128; Mecklenburg, $11,526; and Wilkes, $11,231. The ap portionment is per capita among all the counties according to school popu lation. Other counties and their apportion ments follow: Alamance, $5,232; Alexander, $9, 063; -Alleghany, $3,859; Ashe. $10,- 846; Avery, $7,387; Beaufort, $6,242; Bertie, $6,996; Bladen, $8,944; Bruns wick, $2,757; Buncombe, $9,115; Burke, $3,149; Cabarrus, Caldwell, $7,549; Camden, Carteret, $4,657; Caswell, Chatham, $4,405; Cherokee, Chowan. $1,928; Clay, $632; Cleveland, $6,656; Columbus, $6,679; Craven, $3, 986; Cumberland, $5,512; Currituck, $5,299; Dare, $4,580; Davidson, $5,815; Davie, $2,234; Duplin, $5,763; Durham. $7,005; Edgecombe, $4,533; Forsyth, $9,204; Franklin, $4,041; Gaston, $8,- 066; Gates, $2,068; Graham, $797; Granvill. $4,422; Greene, $2,489; Guil ford, $13,028; Halifax, $5,837; Har nett, $5,120; (Haywood, $3,129; Hen derson, $2,897; Hertford, $2,823; Hoke, $1,889; Hyde, $6261; Iredell, $6,537; Jackson, $2,578; Johnston, $7,068; Jones, $3,038; Lee. $2,591; Lenoir, $4.- 803; Lincoln, $3,564; Macon, SZ.1Z9; Madison, $3,062; Martin. $3,372; Mc Dowell. $8,276; Mecklenburg, $11,526; Mitchell, $5,672; Montgomery. $2,704; Moore. $4,159; Nash, $5,549; New Hanover, $4,560; Northampton. $4, 303; Onslow, $6,433; Orange, $3,490; Pamlico, $7,550; Pasquotank, $2,790; Pender, $4,450; Perquimans. $2,360; Person, $3,105; Pitt, $7,750; Polk, $2. 942; Randolph, $4,792; Richmond, $3, 947: Robeson. $8,806; Rockingham, $7,803: Rowan, $7,779; Rutherford, $5, 476; Sampson. $6142; Scotland. $2, 489; Stanly. $4,433; Stokes, $3,892; Surry. $5,637; Swain, $2,281: Transyl vania, $1,805; Tyrefel. $1,372; Union. $6,828; Vance. $3,323: Warren, $3,500; Washington. $1,966; Watauga, $4,323; Wayne. $6,422; Yancey. $7,080; Wilkes, $12,231. AUTO RUNS OFF TWENTY FOOT EMBANKMENT WITH FATAL RESULT TO CHAUFFEUR. DNGETI5 SERUM WANTED Another White Nurse Added to Those Now In Service of Chariotte Health Department. A PROSPECT THAT POTASH MAY BE PROCURED FROM GERMANY THE NEW ROCKET SAID TO BE TERRIBLE ENGINE OF WAR will devote their energies to recon- ures of 161,800 missing and the French struct shattered communities and in- of 290,000. dustnes. the church wll devote its c, ' fn Governments of money and eoffrts toward the sniritual nrfr4 iinnn dollars' welfare of the war-ridden people. 1UU1C liluil I. w it v" worth of surplus war supplies are an nounced by the war department. President Wilson has issued the fol lowing statement:. "In view of the very surprising impression which seems to exist in some quarters tha tit is the INCREASE OF 20 PER CENT ON IN TELEGRAPH CHARGES Washington. Increase of 20 per cent in domestic telegraph rates, ef- discussions of the commission on the fective April 1. were announced by league of nations that are delaying the r ostmaster uenerai cunes. final formulation of peace, I am very The increase was agreed upon at a become a race between uae glad to taxe me opportunity ui mccnus archy I ing that the conclusions of this com- and was made necessary to meet "the Former Emperor Charles oi Ausina- missi0n were the first to De iaiu ue- mtreascu w "iou, a--'"- fore the plenary conference." ' ea Dy wage increases now i euei-i., rnntitutionalitv of the Arizona act mane during tne past year. mr. of 1913 limiting employment of women Burleson added that the advance to eight hours a day has been upheld would be "barely sufficient" for this by the United States Supreme court purpose. rHnnslni? of aDDeals in wmcn uie , attacked on the ground of dis- THREAT IS MADE BY DEBS TO :Ir . TIE UP COUNTRY IN STRIKE tt.j oiitnmtir control an airplane v,oQvV lnad and , Akron. Ohio. Eugene V. Dens capauic fUl lj""- wnntmrv and his family have left fck- artsau castle on a special train for Switzerland. Domestic Attorney General Palmer announces that four thousand enemy aliens were interned during the war. He said pa roles would be granted to some 600 of the harmless class, others would be repatriated and 900 dangerous persons would be turned over to the depart ment of labor with the recommenda tion that they be deported. Five German surrendered subma rines will shortly leave England for .he United StateB. They will be con oyed by the submarine tender Bush- nell. m Victorious veterans, heroies of Flan ders fields, on which Prussian pride was broken. 26.000 men of the twenty seventh division, came back to Fifth avenue, New York, for their triumphal rfiVlPW The government's billion dollar fund for financing foreign trade soon will be ODened to American importers through loans- from the war finance corpora tion - -- The naw department at Washing- r.r-oa that nrenarations for OUUUl"Vvu . K the attempted flight' of a navy sea ,.i - we t Atlantic ocean are yictiitr ati w.-o steadilv forward. Joseph E. Rutherford, president of the Intel-national Bible Students' As sociation, which was found.ed by the l:ite '"Pastor" Russell, and seven otn- er members of the asosciation who were convicted recently in the federal -r,nrt in Brooklyn, on a charge or vio lating- the espionage" act. have been ordered released by the United States circuit ccurt of appeals in ten thou sand dollars bail each. t A rate and K. J. Hammond, stu dent aviators of thV naval station at Pensacola, Fla., treTe killed when one rt hvi-n-airrianfla fell into the Under the stimnlar of wartime de mands meat production reached the pnnranns total of twenty-three bn-on three hundred and sixty-six million pound? last year, and the department of agriculture announces uu" dmihtediv never before had been at tained in this country, and certainly Tint In anv other COUntnf by OUg odds." John Thcmae O'Brien has been tea tenced to the Ohio penitentliry tor eeven ycare for having passed a worth itt-a check for $100 bearing the ! so- without any human being aboard to cialist leader, threatened to call a iruide it has made a trip of more than general strike of his party through a hundred miles and landed within out the country unless he is granted a Mctanra of the OOlnt 11 Wai renoarms very sum v.j..- Worcester, Mass.. Dr. Robert F. Goddard, professor of physics at Clark College, acting under the patronage of the United States war department. the Smithsonian Institution, Clark Uni versity and Worcester Polytechnic In stitute, has invented a naw rocket that is reported to be a terrible engine of war, with an altitude range of 70 miles straight up into the air and a distance range of at least 200 milee. The Goddard rocket is propelled by a perfected gas engine installed in the lower part of the shell, the ex plosions that generate the PQwer com ing from cartridges that are fed into the chamber by a clock-like time de vice. The rocket does not require a cannon to start it on its flight, the journey beginning from any point where a man can get. The weapon feature of the rocket is in the head, Washington. Importation of potash from Germany may be resumed at an early date. . Senator Hitchcock was ad vised bv Bernard M. Raruch, now in Paris, that Germany will exchange potash for foodstuffs. The message came through the state department. No details were given concerning the basis on which the exchange will be made or the quantities of potash- that will be supplied. Neither was it indi cated whether shipments may be made prior to the complete establishment of peace and during the armistice now in effect. Some doubt is expressed here as to whether or not commercial rela tions may be resumed with' Germany until the treaty of peace has been per fected. It is said that this is the first announcement of arrangements under which any article of merchandise from Germany may be sent to the United States. Charlotte. Judson J. Jones, a well known traveling salesman, was brought to his home here suffefag from severe injuries sustained niear Cliffslde when his automobile, drla by a negro chauffeur, went off, a'?0 foot embankment. The negro wa killed in the accident. Mr. Jones sus- tained two broken ribs and was badly bruised, but his injuries are not con-, sidered serious. Discovered by a passing motorist, Mr. Jones was taken to Cliffsida, where he received medical attention. Information was received at the of fice of the Charlotte health depart ment to the effect that four cases of spinal meningitis have been diag nosed at Forest City. Dr. A. M. Crouch, State epidemiologist, has gone there from Raleigh to assist local physicians, and serum, "used for injec tion, has been furnished Forest City health officials by Dr. C. C. Hudson, local health officer. Dr. H. P. Barrett, bacteriologist of the city health de partment, tested fluid sent from For est City yesterday and found positive cases of spinal meningitis. Miss Edna Hill, late of the Brenlzer hospital, has been added to the staff of nurses of the city health depart ment, making six white nurses now assigned to the department Dr. C. C. Hudson, health officer, said that plans are practically complete for the employment of two negro nurses. With one more nurse for assignment to work with Miss Mary Corbin, school nurse, the staff of the health depart ment will be complete. Dr. Hudson said. Dr. H. L. McCrorey, president of the negro chamber of commerce, inform ed the health officer that the organiza-, tion intends to pay part of the salary of the two negro nurses, and a white organization some time ago ,agreed to pay the other part. 'The need for two neero nurses ia . urgent. Dr. Hudson SPIRIT OF OLD GERMANY SHOWN IN MARKED MANNER Berlin. General Hoffman, real vic tor at Tannenberg. and General von Lettow-Verbeck are forming a new volunteer corps as a division of guards to preserve order at home, and pro tect the frontiers of the empire. . Before the Bismarck statue in Keon igplatz, the national union of German with the imperial colors at Explains Zionist Movement. Charlotte. Miss Ethel Greenburg, of Durham, representative of the Zionist organization of America, ex- gaid u ig noped that they can be en plamea tne Zionist movement g?Lg Dy April 1 meeting oi neurewa ui i,uauui . the Hebrew temple. Will Weill pre sided. In addition to the speech by Miss Greenburg, Mayor McNinch made a few remarks. No effort was made to organize adistrict of Charlotte Jews, but Miss Greenburg explained in detail all angles of the movement for the establishment of a Jewisn homeland at Palestine. She pointed out how the movement Is being carried forward by Jews throughout the world and how it nas Sixty-Gallon Still Seized. Lumberton. One of the largest raids yet made in Robeson county was that when Sheriff R. E. Lewis, accom panied by his deputies. Arch Privette and Frank Wishart, captured a sixty gallon capacity still, including a cop per worm and cap. They destroyed about seven hundred gallons of beer which was located on the Big Swamp, near Lennons Cross Roads, this makes the third illicit distillery captured by the sheriff and his depu- officers the head of which was a band'of offi cers nlaving the kaiser hymn, formal- et witn the indorsement of nations. iv made an oath of allegiance in the Tn Jewish nation would be protected form of a resolution regarding the Dy Great Britain and the league of ties within less than a week- frontiers of the empire rounaea Dy nations. The establishment oi a jew the "Iron Chancellor." jsh homeland at Palestine has been Just as the procession was passing made possible by the capture of that the British embassv. General L-uden- country from tne lurns oy me onwou during the war. TIME AND PLACE OF MEETINGS OF CONFERENCE KEPT SECRET GERMAN OBJECTIONS MAY BE DISREGARDED BY THE ALLIES nent to reach. A San Francisco dispatcn says mat confirmation of the execution of th former emperor of Russia and hia wifo and daughters under particularly re volting conditions by Anarchist trooops has been given here by Gen. KODen Paris, one of the first Frencn orncers to be assigned to the Czecho slovak army in Russia. General Paris is on his way home to make an official re port of the occurrence to tne urencn gvoernment. He arrived at San Fran cisco from Vladivostok. He says: "Early one morning the czar was taken from an upstairs room ana sioou un against the wall in the basement of the house. There he was snoi, which the czarina was shot and then her daughters and other members of the household." Casualties among the American medical officers of the American ex peditionary force, in France from the time of the arrival of the first units to March 13 number 422. Maval seaolanes that are to attempt a flight across the Atlantic ocean in May will start from Kocnaway ueacu. in the courts on charges upon which he was convicted under the espionage act. Debs was confined to bed with a bad attack of lumbago at the home of Mrs. Margaret Prevey here, when notified the United States had refused him a rehearing. Paris. The Temps says that the allied and associated governments seem to have decided to disregard tlta German objections concerning Danzig and to land, by force if nec essary, Polish trops at this Baltic sea.nort. The newspaper adds that con cerning the question of the Polish frontier the allied governments seem inclined to create about Danzig a neutral state in order to avoid attach ing this part of the coast either to Germany or to Poland. Paris. increased precautions have been taken to safeguard President Wilson and the premiers with whom he is in daily conference. So care fully have the plans been made that even the chief cf the American secret service squad is uninformed as to when the meetings will take place. Up to the present some of the news papers have carried in their morning editions a schedule of the movements of President Wilson, with the result that crowds Invariably gathered to witness the arrival of President Wil son and his conferees. There has been no special incident to bring aboupt this extraordinary care. dorff turned the corner from Vaterden Linden. Some one recognized him and in an instant he was surrounded and there were wild cheers. Ludendorff was obviously perturbed by the dem onstration, which in the present mood of sus-pician against him entertained by many can dd him no good service. NAMES OF 5,500 SOLDIERS SO FAR LISTED AS MISSING North Carolina Honored. Winston-Salem. Col. J. C. Bessent, who recently returned after 40 years' service as a member of the North Car olina national guard, has received Better Outlook for Seed. Washington (Special). "The cofc ton seed situation is serious," said E. C. Faires, cf Aberdeen, secretary of the North Carolina Farmers' Union, who is in Washington for a conference with the Food Administration. "The tanks were full of crude oil and we could not crush any more seed, but we find that the Food Administration has received orders for manufactured nuui me oiovo o ... . I ice badge as a token of reward for products of oil from abroad, and It hi. ionr and faithful service. Colonel seems that the trouble wm soon P Bessent is the only man in North Car olina that ever received, one of these badges. He was for many years the war captain of the Forsyth Riflemen, directinc them during the Spanish The stocks on pure lards are greatly reduced. Food supplies are moving. Washington. General Pershing re ported to the war department there are still 5.500 officers and men of the exneditionary forces listed as missing. This total compares with the British official figures of 161.008 missing, .and the French of 290.000. All of the 5.500 names have been reported as "missing" In casualty lists already published, the report saia. u a interments of bodies from isolated trraves in the central isolated ceme teries is furnishing additional ldentl- generais office giving Cotton Tax Ruled Illegal. Raleigh. Attorney General Man- American war. and for several years ning rules that section six. of the cot- afterward. After America declared ton storage wareaouae v.. war on Germany Colonel Bessent or- cent legislature, is unconstitutional ganized and was elected captain of in that the tax of 25 cents a hale on the home guards. all cotton ginned is in violation of the When he reached his 64th birthday, constitution, but that the State board a few weeks ago. he sent in his reslg- of agriculture murt proceed with ad nation. Accompanying his badge was ministering the other provisions or a general order from the adjutant the act, lnciuamg eieiun -general's office giving Colonel Bes- warehouse superintendent, who is to INVESTIGATING CHARGES AGAINST WM. J. OLIVER BUILDING ACTIVITIES IN SOUTH SHOW IMPROVEMENT. SIX UNMASKED BANDITS ROB DETROIT BANK AND ESCAPE fication in a number of caaes. BERLIN GOVERNMENT PROTEST ANENT LUDENDORFF INCIDENT sent's splendid military record. give $100,000 bond. Knoxville. Tenn. Investigation of fraud. sabotage and conspiracy charges against William J. Oliver and 10 other defendants, officers and em ployees of the Oliver Manufacturing Company, will be completed by the federal grand jury and a report is ex pected before the adjournment of the United States district court. The grand jury remained in session until late and many witnesses were examined. Washington. The reports to the department of labor from its field agents this week show a decided im provement in building and construc tion activities. "A decided optimistic tone is found in reports during the last 10 days.1 The southeastern states show great er improvement than any other group. New York city leads with the south next. It will be some days before the south is back to normal. Detroit, Mich. Herding, fourteen persons, including several women pa trons into lavatory and vault of the westside branch of ths Commonwealth State Bank here, six unmasked ban dits robbed the institution of $10,000 in cash and unregistered Liberty bonds, which officials say may exceed $65,000 in value. Fifty thousand dol lars in currency had been removed from the branch to the main office only a few hours before the hold-up. Pageant Plans Completed. Chapel, Hill. Following a confer ence here between Professors N. W. Walker and-F. H. Koch, of the Uni versity faculty, and A. Vermont, of Converse College. South Carolina, defi nite plans for the annual Fourth of Berlin. The government has pro tested to army officers against the demonstration they gave for General r.udondorff on the ground that it has 2-iven onnonents an opportunity to jniv nareant have been announced. assert that everything is the same in Thig summer's spectacle will be p,orinv as under the former emperor. fenow n ag the "Victory Pageant ana If Ludendorff asked for a tribunal to wm p0rtray the great events in hu- hear his case, the government. It is' manity's struggle for liberty, ine announced, would grant his request Tari0us college groups represented at and wou'd ?ee that it was composed the SUmmer school will handle the of impartial persons. different scenes. ARRANGEMENTS ARE MADE FOR RETURN OF CANADIANS HOME "GRAVE SITUATION" EXISTS IN FOREIGN RELATIONS. Ottawa. Arrangements have been made for the return of the Canadian expeditionary forces in Siberia, it was announced in the house of commons L. I., but vne aci.ua. Minister of Militia Newbern, in re- will be much.rartner up ----- : to a auestion. The date is being possibly at some point in New Found- laThe Idaho, the superdreadnaught. the largest fighting fishing ship that is a float, went into commission as part of theUn'ited States at Camden, N. J. It is announced by people who know of Mexican affairs that Mexico is in favor of the League of Nations. Advices to the state department from three widelv separated European sources tend to increase the anxiety of officials over the situation m Eerlin. The allied note regarding the landing of General Haller's troops at Darzie has created a grave situa tion in foreign relations, the ultimate effects of which cannot yet be esti mated, says a dispatch to The vos sische Zeitung from Weimar. Before dispatching its reply, the adds, the government con- nlv to a question kept secret by the request of the British government. The dominion . j - !oi fMif thmi. message COnirilui.eu , loader and thev ita share of tne uii.cu an i"- -j SPOKESMEN FOR IRISH RACE CONVENTION GOING TO PARIS AUSTRALIA r"Y OPPOSED TO JAPANESE AMENDMENT sand men as internaUonal force sent to the Siberia front. TERRIBLE ACCIDENT OCCURS AT LAUNCHING OF STEAMER are said to have pen the German answer their unqualified approval. RFTURNED SOLDIERS ARE DAILY RE-ENLISTING. New York. American veterans are daily re-enlisting here and in increas- Bristol. Pa. From 10 to 40 persons were Kiiiea or uruwucu .ci. - - fh rrnited states re- ofMinfr Aitendine around ing numbers, at the United states re- ui wiiiv". . .. x i i nt'i ai y ovuv 0 ... , a.-ppaab ir wan nn. i iTiiiiPQT nn as lu liic i - i i murine srv tea ' eary. LlTr . . i tne stern oi a uwai v extent of the control ui Merchant shipyard, at narnman, beyond the capital and in the absence her collap9Sd while nearly 150 of this and other details officials are were standing on It to view ....... n discuss the situation at , i-t tha fruiffhter Wau- lcngth. The safety of tordwn. M At a lftt9 hour only three bodies however, is a , "t" "7 had been recovered t' "TTVfc Mitu tha H!" of ld b. -T TMnimitted t rtot is cheerio w w - iurtd 19 aow 4 twwf m mmt. was an nounced. Men re-enlisting have been sked why. and 40 per cent answered that they desired to return to France. 32 per cent wanted vocational train ing, 16 per ceat replied that "the army nakes a man ot you- ana me Washington. Passports were grant ed by the state department to Frank P. Walsh, former joint chairman of the war labor board; Edward F. Dunn, former governor of Illinois, and Mi chael K. Ryan, former Pennsylvania, public service commissioner, who are going to Paris to present Ireland's claims at the peace conference as spokesmen of the Irish race conven tion held at Philadelphia. Paris William M. Hughes, the ore- ... ... J- T MnA mier 01 Australia, maue iae ruw . 1 , T", At,.. liA to Trie lAssociaLea 1 reus iui 11c 1 a was unalterably in opposition to the who is the president of the recently proiwse.d Japanese Street Railway Assured. Fayetteville. That Fayetteville will have a street railway system in- oper ation in the near future seems assur ed. Mr. Herbert L. Jones, to whom franchise was recently granted, ana racial equality amendment to the covenant or tne league of rations or to any form of it. however mild. Australia." Mr. Hughes said, "can- nf arpnt'thta nronosal which strikes nv " 1 - ' I - , , , I at the very roots of the policy that street railway in operation wimm ia organized Cumberland Railway and Power Company, a domestic corpora tion with a paid in capital stock ol 9inn ono. closed the transaction wiOi th citv bv filing a $5,000 justiflel Gastonla to Vote. Gastonia. Gastonia will vote soon on the question as to whether the vot ers desire to adopt the city manager form of government On a petition of the requisite number of voters, the county board of elections has cal:d an election on the question. A mass meeting was held which was largely attended and at which the subject was given careful consideration from all angles. There has been a growing sentiment In Gastonia for the past several years in favor of a business form of government of some kind. Waging War on Vice. Kinston. Added encouragement has been given the municipal author ities here in their movement to eradi cate commercialized vice by a resolu tion adopted by a big mass meeting of men. Yancey T. Ormond.- a former State senator, introduced the resolu tion. Meantime residents of the seg regated area are making their ar rangements to leave the district, when ho mavor's ultimatum to them ex- bond with the city to have the electric pires. A report says a number of them FIFTEEN MEN INJURED AT EXPLOSIVES PROVING GROUND we have maintained so long" TO TRANSPORT FOOD IN GERMAN BOMBING PLANES months. Washington. Fifteen men, includ ing a number of enlisted men of the army, were injured by an explosion at the ordnante proving grounds at Ab erdeen. Maryland. Renorts to the war department said the original explosion was started by a fire of undetsrmined origin In a shed In which 240 mllinieter bombs wm total: Iftidnd and the cattCUSv Paris. German bombing airplanes of the Friedrichshafen type, which were surrendered under a clause of the armistice, will be used by the de partment of civilian aviation In trans porting foodstuffs between Paris and Bordeaux. The airplanes will be aqulp- Ruvina Fertilizer Plants. Greenville The report is current here and is verified b responsibly parties that the F. S. Royster Guanc Co. Is negotiating for the Purchase ol he stock of the Greenville on anq Fertilizer Co. and the plant at Farm ville. It is stated that one party sld tivV worth 12.500 par value for $25.- f00, and that several smaller sales at the same ratio had Been maae. wu- of the local company were reu- are planning to organize a "stock com pany" for a theatrical tour. Seml-Centennlal Celebration. Durham. Chairman T. A. Winder, of the decoration committee of Dur ham's big welcome to her returning soldiers and semi-centennial celebra tion of thi city, which Is to take plac some time In April, upon return Company M, gives It out that It w be the most elaborate decorations the city has ever witnessed. The plans which art now Demg pimcwa w hurt ta carry three tons. J tfc. ta A jt Vt mJI. Alt. partment plan, to have Mfiep.tlM it W trtJeet F. J-TA ML&T JPl. fSJSVl an aerial post Between rarts "niano co. nai p?"" -. vi -i Vle?i5afii vf way ' I 3S3i?Tee 01 tf 1 i I (.11 11 , 1 Ml tU? of VVocdrew WUroS! fteiale