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PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. 0. APRIL 17, 1919
VOL. XL NO. 37.
ILMIE
IMPORTANT NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIS
AND OTHER NATIONS FOR
SEVEN DAYS GIVEN
THE NEWS OFTHE SOUTH
What Is Taking Place In The South,
land Will Be Found In
Brief Paragraph
European
The chief cause of anxiety in con
nection with the evacuation of Odessa
by the allies and its occupation by the
Anarchists lies in the fact that the
most fertile regions in southern Rus
sia have fallen into the hands of the
Anarchist forces, giving them im
mense resources of grain,- coal and
minerals.
The first transports bearing the Brit
ish relief force for the Archangel
front has sailed. The members of the
contingent embarked at Tilbury.
Violent fighting has taken place be
tween Hungarians and Czechs at Ung
var, near the Moravian-Hungarian bor
der, says a Central News dispatch
from Amsterdam. One hundred and
fifty Hungarians were killed. The
Czechs also had considerable losses.
Defending the military bill in the
house of lords, Earl Curzon, of Kedle
ston, president of the council and
government leader in the British house
of lords, declared that Vienna being
m a serious position and apprehen
sive lest it should share the fate of
Budapest had turned to Great Britain.
In a new Spartacan outbreak at
Dusseldorf twenty-five persons were
killed and twenty-five wounded when
government troops used machine guns
on Spartacan demonstrators, is the re
port sent out from Berlin.
Berlin newspapers report that the
strike in Brunswick is general and the
railway station there is closed. The
leaders of the Brunswick strike have
sent an ultimatum to the diet demand
ing that all powers be handed over to
the workers council.
Workmen in thirty-eight German
cities are on strike in faVor of intro
ducing the soviet system.
An Archangel dispatch says the
American cruisers, Galveston and
Chester, carrying American engineer
troops and Brig. Gen. W. P. Richard
son, the new commander of the Amer
ican forces in north Russia, are ex
pected to arrive very soon.
President Poicare of France has
commuted to ten years' imprisonment
the death sentence imposed upon
Emile Cottin, who, in an attempt to
assassinate Premier Clemenceau on
February 19, shot and severely wound
ed him.
Plundering and shooting attendant
upon the general strike proclaimed by
the independent and majority Social
ists among at the workmen at Madge-
burg, capital of Prussian Saxony, are
reported in dispatches from that city.
The warehouses confronting the food
reserves for the coming week were
stormed and partly destroyed and the
reserves looted, the damage exceeding
four hundrd thousand marks.
The police station also was stormed
with the intention of releasing the
prisoners in it, but the rioters were
repulsed after the building had been
considerably damaged at Madgeburg,
Saxony. Grenades and rifles were
employed in the attack.
Domestic
The committee appointed at a con
ference of producers, factors and
bankers to take up plans for organiza
tion of a cotton export corporation
decided on a capitalization of one
hundred million dollars instead ol
fifty million as originally suggested by
W. P. G. Harding, governor of the
federal reserve board, and selected a
sub-committee to develop the idea in
detail.
Edward E. Morgan, an American
citizen, was murdered at Chivela, 47
miles from Salina Cruz, Mexico, on
the night of April 8, according to ad
vices to the state department. Mor
gan, the dispatch received by the state
department stated, was accompanied
by Manuel Ruiz, a Spaniard, who was
also murdered. The two men were
.said by the dispatch to have been cap
tured, searched and robbed before be
ing shot to death. Both bodies were
said to have shown marks of other
violence.
In a lengthy telegram to M. "W. Mix,
president of the American Mill Sup
ply and Machinery Manufacturers As
sociation, read at a joint session of
the machinery manufacturers and
three other organizations of hardware
and machinery men at New Orleans,
Secretary Redfield of th edepartment
of commerce urged that all pull to
gether to hasten the restoration of
normal healthy business conditions.
That Europe lacks money and credit
with which to buy cotton and that if
the South plants a full cotton crop and
makes a normal crop, conditions in
this section will be worse than at the
beginning of the world war in 1914, is
is the opinion of former Governor Man
ning of South Carolina, now in Eu
rope. Conferring on themselves the "free
do mof the city," an unknown number
of yeggmen spent the week-end in
New York City, cracking seven safes,
obtaining nearly fifteen thousand dol
lars in loot and getting away with all
of it.
Government control of public utili
ties was condemned at the initial ex
ecutive session in New Orleans of the
Southern Sipply and Machinery Deal
ers Association, the results of which
have been made public.
Governor Davis of Virginia an
nounces the apointment of a board on
road construction to advise in the
adoption of a good roads program for
Virginia.
at $3.50 to $5.00 that are
one of the entries for the $50,000 race
across the Atlantic will start from Ire
land for Newfoundland April 16, the
weather rei-mUtin.
Introduction of antl-Jananese lerfs-
lation in the California legislature
would be "extremely unfortunate at.
this time," says Robert Lansing, secre
tary of state.
Eighty-two lives was the toll of the
storm which swept north Texas,
sotuhern Oklahoma and a section of
Arkansas. Many points . are isolated
and the number of fatalities may be
increased when full details are availa
ble, as the tornado swept through
thickly settled farming communities.
Of the eighty-two reported dead for
ty-three have been identified. The
storm came up from the Rio Grande
valley with a high wind and heavy
rainrain, gaining force until it tore
through the northern tier of the Texas
countie swith the destructiveness of a
tornado.
The Baden bank, of St. Louis, Mo.,
was held up by eight bandits and loot
ed of an amount estimated at one hun
dred thousand dollars. Two hundred
policemen armed with riot guns pur
sued the bandits in thirty police auto
mobiles.
Frank W. Woolworth, who started
five and ten cent store at Utica, N. Y.,
forty years ago on a capital of $50 and
eventually became the millionaire pro
prietor of a great chain of these stores
in the United, States, Canada (and
England, died suddenly at his home at
Glencove, Long Island.
The Michigan voters defeated a con
stitutional amendment modifying the
state prohibition laws in the election
by a considerably larger majority than
when they voted the state dry in. '1916.
Three thousand internal revenue
agents working in specially arranged
zones throughout the United States
will enforce prohibition after July 1.
Nearly 800 inspectors will be trained
for the work, to be added to the force
of 2,203 revenue agents already avail
able for police regulations.
Washington
The arrival of the American cruisers
Galveston and Chester at Murmansk,
Russia, is expected to relieve the sit
uation among American troops in the
Archangel region, a company of which
ten days ago refused to go to the
front until arguments were presented
by their officers.
No further information as to the mu
tiny in Archangel has been received
by the war department. It requires
some days for cable to reach Archan
gel and so far as has been learned
the department has no additional ad
vices. General Zapata, the rebel leader in
southern Mexico, has been killed by
government troops. A part of the
fifth Mexican regiment serving under
General Gonzales of the Carranza
army returned to Cuautla with the re
mains of the dead rebel chief.
Four hundred thousand railroad en
gineers, firemen, trainmen and con
ductors in both passenger and freight
service have been advanced in wages
aggregating $65,000,000.
Recommendation of executive clem
ency for fifty-two persons under the
espionage act have been sent to Pres
ident Wilson by Attorney General Pal
mer,, but the names and commutation
in each case will not be announced
until the president has acted.
The report of the committee on in
ternational labor legislation in Paris
which drafted a program to govern in
ternational regulation of employment
condition, has been adopted, but just
what it is has not been made public.
Advices to the state department
from Tampico, Mexico, said a. passen
ger train was derailed by bandits 140
kilometers from Tampico, and that
among the passengers injured was
one American, J. P. Mennet. The de
partment wired Tampico for further
particulars.
.Returns in the referendum tatken
in the province of Quebec, Canada,
to determine whether wine and beer
licenses shall be issued or . the prov
ince go dry, indicated a victory for the
"wet" forces by a great majority.
The war department has issued an
official statement congrming advices
from Archangel, Russia, that what
amounted to a mutiny occurred among
the American troops there on the 3d
of March.
Reports that the Blanquet-Felix Diaz
revolution in Mexico was substantial
ly financed were terminated as doubt
ful by the state department officials
in replying to direct questions regard
ing the situation and reports.
In answer to the suggestion that
American oil interests were behind the
new revolution in Mexico a high offi
cial of the state department declaied
this to be untrue and expressed the
opinion that the revolution would be
Complaint by the railroad adminis
tration to the department of justice
against the alleged improper methods
employed by federal officers in the
state of Virignia in enforcing the pro
hibition has been referred by Attor
ney General Palmer to Assistant At
torney General Frierson for investiga
tion. It is alleged that the officers
violated a coffin containing a dead
body in their search for contraband
shipments of liquor across the state
line.
Forecast by the department of agri
culture that the nation's winter wheat
crop would total eight hundred and
thirty-seven million bushels, the larg
est crop ever grown, aroused imme
diate speculation as to the cost to
the government of such an enormous
yield. Under the bill passed by con
gress in the closing days of the last
session the government is obligated
to pay the difference between the price
guaranteed, $2.20 a bushel, and the
world market price for every bushel
not only on winter, but of sprin wheat
produced.
The responsibility of the German
emperor for the war and the means
of bringing him to trial by one of the
allied governments, probably Belgium,
have been definitely determined upon
hv the council of four. .This follows
the definite decision on the terms of
reparations for war damages, thereby
$3,000,000,000 must be paid within the
next two years and an inter-allied
commission assess the remaining
damage for a period of 30 years, be
ginning May 1. 1921. Germany Is to
pay all the expenses of the commit
ion f.n.1 its sua during the 30 yean,
QUICK SETTLEMENT
IS NOW IN SIGHT
HUN PLENIPOTENTIARIES. ARE
INVITED TO VERSAILLES ON
24TH OF APRIL.
4
MANY MATTERS CLEARED IIP
The Adriatic Situation, Chiefly Af
fecting Italy, Has Present Prece
dence Over All Other Questions.
Paris. A statement by President
Wilson in behalf of the council of four
says that the questions of peace are so
near complete solution thst they will
be quickly and finally drafted.
The text of President's Wilson
statement follows:
"In view of the fact that the ques
tions which must be settled in tha
peace with Germany have been
brought so . near a complete solution
that they can now quickly be put
through the final process of drafting,
those who have' been most constantly
in conference about them have decided
to advis that the German plenipoten
tiaries be invited to meet the repre
sentatives of the associated belliger
ent nations at Versailles on the 25th
f April.
"This does not mean that the many
other questions connected with the
general peace settlement will be in
terrupted or that their consideration
which has long been under way -will be
retarded. On the contrary, it is ex
pected that rapid progress will now
be made with these questions so that
they may also presently be expected
to be ready for final settlement.
"It is hoped that the questions most
lireotly affecting Italy, especially the
Adriatic question, can now be Drougfit
to a speedy agreement. The Adriatic
question will be given for the time
precedence over other questions and
pressed for continual study.
DNE HUNDRED BILLION GOLD
MARKS ASSESSED AS DAMAGES
Paris. One hundred billion gold
marks is the amount Germany must
pay the allied and associated govern
ments for losses and damage caused
'n the war. plus other billions to be
determined by a special commission
n which Germany is to be repre
sented. This is the final and definite con
clusion which has been reduced to
writing after weeks iof negotiation
which took a wide range and involved
frequent changes and modifications.
The payment of the 100.000.000.000
gold marks is to be d'Med into three
distinct amounts as- follows:
First, twenty billions within two
years.
Second, forty billions during thirty
year3 beginning in 1921.
Third, forty billions when a com
mission shall determine how it shall
be done.
NO LEGAL AUTHORITY FOR
ENFORCEMENT OF DRY LAW
Washington. Legal advisers of gov
ernment agencies interested in liquoi
regulation examined statutes and
executive orders without finding spe
cific legal authority by which the
internal revenue bureau might en
force war-time prohibition after July
1st.
President Wilson, under the Over
man act, giving him power to transfer
functions from one department to an
other, might delegate -the authority to
the revenue bureau, some lawyers de
clared. However, this still would
leave the bureau 'without adequate
funds to pay the costs of maintaining
a large federal police force.
KAISER'S YOUNGEST SON
WOULD COME TO AMERICA
Geneva The former Prince Joachim
of the Hohenzollern family hopes tc
emigrate to America after peace is
signed, according to reports. Joachim,
who is the youngest son of the formei
German emperor, has arrived here
from Berlin and expresses his inten
tion of remaining in Switzerland un
til after the peace settlement.
HEAVY FIGHTING RAGES IN
THE STREETS OF MUNICH
Berlin, The latest news received
here is to the effect that the commun
ists in Munich have not yet been mas
tered and that heavy fighting is rag
ing in the streets of Munich between
red guards and troops loyal killed or
wounded.
The central railway station, the
postoff ice . and telegraph office and
several other public buildings again
are in the hands of the communists.
wh used heavy mine throwers.
CREDENTIALS OF MANY
ARE FOUND INADEQUATE
Paris. The credentials committee
of the peace conference held its first
meeting and elected Jules Cambon, ol
France, president. On examining the
credentials of the various delegates,
the committee found many to be inad
equate and incomplete. Henry White
of the American delegation, said this
apparently had resulted from a failure
to ' understand the requirements and
could be corrected and made to con
-!orm to the rules.
WASHINGTON TO CAROLINA
SAFE FOR BOOZE CARRIERS
Washington. The supreme court
decision in the Homer Gudger case
will stop some of the foolishness in
"i-ginia.. The habit of searching peo
pie's bags will have to stop, if the
tickets read from Washington to
North Carolina. Some most shameful
performances have taken place in the
Oltl Dominion recently among them
being several instances in which eof
ll Ins containing corpses have been
(4,500,000,000 IS
AMOUNT OF LOAN
THE SIZE OF THE LOAN MUCH
SMALLER THAN HAD BEEN
GENERALLY EXPECTED.
TAX EXEMPTIONS A FEATURE
Rates of Interest Vary According to
Option Taken., by Purchasers;
Bonds Mature in Four Years. , ,
Washington. Terms of the Victory
Liberty loan were announced by Sec
retary Glass, as follows: .
"The Victory Liberty loan, which
will be offered for popular subscrip
tion on April 21, will take the form of
4 per cent, three-four-year, convert
ible gold note of the United States,
exempt from State and local taxes, ex
cept estate and inheritance taxes, and
rrom normal federal income taxes.
The notes will be convertible, at the
option of the holder, throughout their
life into 3 per cent three-four-year
convertible gold notes of the United
States, exempt from all federal, State
and local taxes, except estate and in
heritance taxes. In -like manner the
3 Per cent notes will be convertible
into 4 per cent notes. . .
"The amount of the issue will be
$4,500,000,000, which with the de
ferred installments of income and
profits taxes payable, in respect to last
year's income and profits, during the
period covered by the maturity dates
of treasury certificates of indebted
ness now outstanding, will fully pro
vide for the retirement of such cer
tificates. The issue will be limited to
$4,500,000,000 except as it may be nec
essary to increase or decrease .the
amount to facilitate allotment. Over
subscriptions will be rejected and al
lotments made on a graduated scale
similar in its general plan to that
adopted in connection with the first
Liberty loan. 'Allotment will be made
in full on subscriptions up to and in
cluding $10,000. '
"The notes of both series will be
dated and bear interest from May 20,
1919, and will mature on May 20, 1923.
Interest will be payable on December
15, 1919, and thereafter semi-annually
on June 15 and December 15, and at
maturity. All or any of fthe notes
may be redeemed before maturity.
WAR MINISTER OF SAXONY IS
KILLED BY MOB OF SOLDIERS
Copenhagen. Herr Neuring, war
minister in the government of Saxony,
was killed at Dresden by disgruntled
soldiers to whom the minister had re
fused a hearing. The war ministry
was stormed by demonstrators whe
dragged out Herr Neuring and threw
him into the Elbe, where he was shot
and killed as he tried to swim to the
bank.
Wounded patients in the Dresden
hospitals, says the Dresden dispatch
detailing the occurrence, collected in
the morning in the theater square to
protest against an order issued by
Herr Neuring to the effect that the
wounded in future should receive only
peace-time pay. Five or six hundred
men formed a procession to the war
ministry and sent a deputation to see
the minister, who refused, however,
to receive them.
ONLY THREE OUT OF WILSON'S
14 POINTS ARE NOT INDORSED
Paris. If one would gain a real ap
preciation of what has been accom
plished, it is necessary merely to keep
roremost in mind the basis upon which
the .peace conference was called into
being. President Wilson's 14 points.
How far has the conference pro
gressed toward their realization? To
this extent, that with the exception
of s three questions Russia, the Ser
bian outlet to the sea and Italy's fron
tiers and these latter are independ
ent the American peace delegation
has succeeded in forcing through the
acceptance of the entire program.
It is understood that the question
of Russia was debated at a recent
session, but probably the ultimate de
cision will be to leave it for the
league of nations.
VESSELS OF SEVERAL TYPES
RECENTLY ADDED TO FLEET
Washington. America's battle fleet
was augmented last month by 10 de
stroyers and one submarine, besides
the superdreadnaught Idaho, which
will join Admiral Mayo's forces upon
their return from Guantanamo bay,
Cuba, within a few days. Five auxil
iary ships also were completed in
March and present expectations are
that more than 150 additional ships
will be delivered before the end of the
year.
EUGENE DEBS IS ON WAY
TO THE FEDERAL. PRISON
Cleveland, Ohio. Eugene V. Debs,
many times candidate for President
on the socialist ticket, gave himself
to the federal authorities here and
started for the federal prison at
Moundsvlle, Va., in charge of United
States Marshal Charles W. Lapp to
begin serving his 10-year sentence for
violation of the espionage act. The
party will reach Moundsville late
if the necessary transportation . con
nections can be made.
MOTHER OF W. R. HEARST
DIES IN CALIFORNIA
Pleasanton, Calif. Mrs. Phoebe Ap
nerson Hearst. wMotz o? the We Geo.
HeTst, of California, and mother of
William Randolph Heart, the pub
Iishr. died at her home here, after
an illness of several weeks.' She was
76 years old.
Mrs. Heart was known throughout
the country for her philanthropic
work. Mr. Heart was vith his mother-when
the end catie. He was her
only child. .
WILSON
CHAMPIONS
E
INTRODUCTION OF INSTRUMENT
IS OPPOSED BY FRENCH AND
CHINESE DELEGATES.
SPEECH CLOSED DISCUSSION
There Was No Vote Taken and Pall
ing Further Remarks President
Declared Amendment Adopted.
Paris. Discussion of the Monroe
doctrine amendment by the leageu of
nations commission is described by
those present as having been of a dra
matic character, concluding with a
speech by President Wilson deprecat
ing the opposition which had been
expressed.
He declared the Monroe doctrine
was enunciated to combat the holy
alliance and to hold back the threat
of absolutism and militarism. It was
a source of surprise and discourage
ment, the president said, to hear oppo
sition expressed to such a doctrine
and such a purpose.
The British attitude had been in
doubt until the last, but Lord Robert
Cecil turned the scales by announc
ing that he saw no objection to the
amendment in the form presented by
the president. M. Larnaude, of the
French delegation, followed Lord Rob
erts with objections to inserting the
Monroe doctrine.
The Chinese also offered objection
to the amendment on the ground that
its language was so extended that it
might validate certain principles and
claims affecting Chinese affairs.
The president's speech closfed the
discussion. There was no vote and
when there were no further remarks
the chairman said the amendment
would be considered adopted. The
commission then took up the next
article of the covenant.
HOW CAN ALLIES DEMAND
ON GERMANY BE ENFORCED
Paris. While the members of the
r.ritish and French parliaments are
mobilizing for a proposal to exact
nothing less than full indemnification
of the allies by Germany for all the
costs of the war and are insisting on
Germany's ability to pay the full bill,
the American representatives on the
reparations commission express con
siderable doubt whether even the ac
count to be presented to Germany un
der the plan adopted by the council
of four (estimated at about $45,000,
000,000, with the payment spread over
a period of 30 years) can or will be
collected in full.
They assert they can see the possi
bility that the ways and means of
holding Germany to payment will
grow 'weaker as the years pass and
that Germany may take opportunity
in later years to repudiate her obliga
tions to the present allied powers un
der the peace treaty. They recall the
action of Russia in remidiating the
restrictive Black sea clauses of the
treaty imposed at the conclusion of
the Crimean war at a moment when
a new political constellation in Europe
gave the emporor of Russia a fair
amount of certainty that Russia could
do this with impunity.
HIGH PRICE SAID TO HAVE
BEEN OFFERED AS BRIBE
Albany, N. Y. Emphatic denial was
the answer of Richard H. Burke, of
New York, to the charge of Senator
George F. Thompson that Burke had
offered him a bribe in the form of a
$500,000 campaign fund for the ' gov
ernorship as the price of the sena
tor's support of the Carson-Martin bill
to permit street railway companies to
increase fare rates.
Burke, who Is vice president of the
Special Service Flooring Corporation
and connected with the Federal Signal
Company, not only denied making the
$500,000 offer about which Senator
Thompson had testified earlier in the
day, but said he had never had any
conversation concerning the governor
ship with the senator.
GOMPERS PROTESTS SHIFT
IN LABOR LEGISLATION
New York. Samuel Gompers cabled
President Wilson, protesting against
reopening the report drafted by the
committee. Mr. Gompers' action was
based on the announcement that the
plenary adopted the report, with an
amendment offered by G. N. Barnes,
labor member of the British cabinet,
recognized that "conditions peculiar
to the orient make absolute uniformity
in labor legislation impossible."
ACKERSOM PLACED IN FULL
CHARGE OF SHIPBUILDING
Washington. Chairman Hurley
made the .first announcement of
changes in the shipping board's staff
in preparation fofr continuing success
fully the tremendous merchant ma
rine program started during the war.
Mr. Hurley appointed Naval Construc
tor J. L. Ackerson to succeed Director
General Charles iPez, of the emer
gency fleet corporation, in full charge
of ship construction.
WORLD WAR WON BY
MEN AND JUNIOR OFFICERS
Charleston, S. C North Carolina
was very prominently represented
among vthe soldiers when the trans
port Powhatan debarked 83 officers
and 2.337 men here. Col. Sidney C.
Minor, of Durham, was the ranking
officer and Col. Don. E. Scott, or Gra
ham , in immediate command of the
troops aboard. "This war was wor
hv the individual bravery and endur
ance of the American soldier and the
Junior officers." said Colonel Minor.
MONROE
DOCTRN
GERMAN INSOLENCE
CONTINUALLY GROW
OUR PRESENCE ON THE RHINE
NO SIGN OF DEFEAT BUT
MERELY AN AGRREEMENT.
HAVE NEVER BEEN DEFEATED
American Officers Rapidly ' Learning
Why Germans Were Detested
. Even Long Before the War.
Cpblenz. The increasing insolence
of the Germans in this area is a mat
ter of concern to those here who
hoped the Germans, defeated in the
war,, would mend their manners and
learn a lesson in dealing with foreign
nations, but it would appear from lo
cal indications that all such hopes
have been in vain."
The Germans insist our presence on
the Rhine is no sign of defeat; that
we are here as the result of agree
ment; and this line of argument leads
them to expound curious ideas as to
the rights of German civilians in the
occupied areas.
A few days ago a case came before
a military tribunal of Americans in
which a German was charged with
breaking one of the American regula
tions. The solicitor for the Germans
calmly arose and announced that the
Americans had no right to submit
German civilians to trial under mili
tary law.
"Why," exclaimed tie American,
'had not the Germans military tribu
nals in Belgium and France?"
"Yes," agreed the German, "that is
true, but then, we were dealing with
conquered countries and conquered
territories and you are here only as
an outcome of the armistice."
One can imagine the amazement of
the Americans.
Such instances of German insolence
are daily brought before the American
officers here who have to deal with
Germans and they are learning rapidly
why the Germans were detested by
the rest of Europe before the war.
NEAR MUTINY OF AMERICAN
TROOFS AT ARCHANGEL CAMP
Washington. The war department
issued an official statement confirm
ing advices from Archangel that what
amounted to a mutiny occurred among
the American troops there on March
30. A company of infantry, the mes
sage stated, refused to entrain for
the front until personally urged to do
so by Colonel George E. Stewart, com
manding the American contingent.
Open threats were made of general
mutiny unless a definite statement
from Washington insuring early
withdrawal was forthcoming.
The war department's paraphrase
of the message follows:
"March 30. a company of infantry,
having received orders to go to the
railroad front, was ordered out of bar
racks for the purpose of packing sleds
for the trip across the river to the
railroad station.
"The non-commissioned officer who
was in charge of the packing soon
reported to the officers that the men
refused to obey. At this some of
the officers took charge, and all ex
cept one man began reluctantly to
pack after a considerable delay. The
soldier who continued to refuse was
placed in confinement Colonel Stew
art, having been sent for, arrived, and
had the men assembled to talk with
them.
"Upon the condition that the pris
oner above mentioned was released,
the men agreed to go."
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS GIVING
PRESIDENT MUCH TROUBLE
Paris. While the sessions of the
council of four are occupying the chief
attention of President Wilson, yet
those close to the President who have
seen him in recent days say he is giv
ing serious consideration to the con
dition of public affairs in the. United
States, particularly the situation cre
ated by the failure of appropriation
bills and the necessity for calling an
early extra session of Congress.
MONROE DOCTRINE PROVIDED
FOR IN A SPECIAL SECTION
Paris. The league of nations com
mission adopted a new section to the
covenant specifically providing that
the Monroe doctrine is not to be af
fected by provisions of the covenant.
It was expected that the Japanese
amendment also would be brought up
again. The President's call on Baron
Makino, head of the Japanese delega
tion, had a bearing on tris amend
ment. ENGLISH LABOR PARTY HAS
CERTAIN DEMANDS TO MAKE
London. The national executive
committee of the labor party formu
lated a statement of policy, demand
ing that the Paris conference put ai
end to discussions and make peace in
accordance with President Wilson's
fourteen points. The labor party also
demands the withdrawal of the con
scription bill ,the cessation of mili
tary interference in Russia and the
speedy withdrawal from the country
of British troops.
BRITAIN MAY CURTAIL HER
IMPORTS OF COTTON GOODS
London. Suggestion was made in
thA house of commons that American
factured cotton goods were being
ff.red in Ensland at prices below
which they were sold in the United.
States. W. C. Brigeman, under secre
tary of the board of trade, said that
an anti-dumping bill was already in
nrntine and the board of trade would
like to have any information in the
possession cf the members regarding
the. suggestion.
ANNUAL MEETING OF RED MEN
Delegates, Representing More Than
1,000 Members Meet in Annual
Convention at Charlotte.
Charlotte. The eighth district
meeting of the Improved Order of Red
Men met in the wigwam of Catawba
tribe, No. 13, in Charlotte. The dele
gates present represented over a thou
sand members of the order in this
territory and the reports of the vari
dus tribes showed that the organiza
tion is in a very healthy condition,
both financially and numerically, sub
stantial increases in membership be
ing noted at. all the tribes, since the
last meeting. .
At a meeting of Catawba tribe Fri
day night, the fraternal order editor
of The Charlotte Observer was select
ed to deliver the address of welcome
on the occasion, and O. B. Carpenter,
of Gastonia, responded most heartily
on behalf of the delegates.
After reports of officers and com
mittees were disposed of, the visitors
were, treated to refreshments and an
informal smoker was indulged in.
There were a number of towns in
viting the next district meeting, but
after W. M. James, of Pineville, pre
sented his thriving little towno the
consideration of the delegates, it was
almost unanimously agreed to have
the next meeting in Pineville, on Au
gust 2.
A number of very interesting
speeches were made during the con
vention in the interest of the order
and the meeting was enthusiastic
from start to finish. After completing
the work of the session, by a rising
vote Catawba tribe, of Charlotte, was
thanked for the hospitality shown tht
visiting delegates.
Clinton's Cotton Warehouse.
Clinton. Over a thousand cotton
farmers met in tha court house here
to consider the cotton situation. Ad
dresses were made by C. D. Orrell,
chairman of tha North Carolina Cot
ton Association; S. H. Hobbs, of the
State Cotton Committee; L. A. Be
thune, president of the Bank of Clin
ton, and Hon. Marion Butler.
The meeting was enthusiastic for
holding and resolved to build a cotton
warehouse. Over three thousand dol
lars was subscribed and committees
were appointed to solicit stock for a
$25,000 warehouse and to report on
April 26th when the warehouse cor
poration is to be organized.
The township committees on the re
duction of cotton acreage made their
reports showing that a reduction of at
least 33 per cent has already been
made.
School Superintendent Out.
Washington. After smoldering
along for a period of several weeks,
the trouble and dissension among the
superintendent, principal and board
of education of the Belhaven schools
broke out into an active blaze Tues
day night at a special meeting which
was held and resulted in the immedi
ate resignation of Superintendent Hi
att, his wife, one of the teachers of
the school, and Miss Lance, the prin
cipal. The school was left absolutely
.without a head and the board of edu
cation was in a quandary until Mr.
Bynum, rector of the Episcopal church
at Belhaven, volunteered to fill the
racancy until new teachers could be
secured.
Indignant Wilmington Women.
Wilmington. City and county offi
cials were endeavoring to secure a
part or all of the 119 th infantry for
a parade here, following a mass meet
ing of the women of the city, who de
.manded reconsideration of the action
of the action of a number of promi
nent citizens in declining the offer of
the War Department to send the regi
ment here for a reception.
The declining of the offer of the
War Department was on the grounds
that the city could not take care of
3,000 soldiers over night on so short
a notice. The women, 300 strong, in-
dienantly repudiated that idea.
Col. John Van B. Metts, commander
of the regiment, whose home is in this
citv: telephoned from Camp Jackson
that the order of th,e War Department
to take the soldiers to Wilmington naa
been rescinded and that his unit was
in process of demobilization. How
ever, he thought it possible to bring
about 1,600 if prompt action was
taken.
New Trial in Rate Case.
. Charlotte. By a ffecTsion. . Judge
W. J. Adams, of Mecklenburg Superior
court, has directed that a referee de
termine whether a seven-cent street-
Mr fare is necessary to secure for the
Southern Public Utilities Company an
adequate return on his investment.
The judge recognized the validity of
the contract between the City or Char
lotte and the utilities company in
which it is stiDulated the fare shall be
five centsfc by -overruling the conten
tion of the company tnat tne city is
not a proper party to the action.
Masonic Orders to Meet.
Greensboro. Masonic bodies of
North Carolina will meet in Greens
boro May 13-15. Special efforts will
be put forth to entertain the visitors
in royal style. The meetings to be
held are the 71st annual convention of
the Grand Chapter, Royal Arch Ma
sons; the 43rd annual assembly of the
Grand Council Royal and Select Mas
ters; the 39th annual conclave of the
Knights Templar Grand Commandery,
and the annual meeting of the Grand
Convention Order of High Priests.
Housing Conditions Bad.
Raleigh. The serious shortage of
residences in Raleigh was sharply
brought to the attention of the Civic
department of the Chamber of Com
merce by Secretary M. R. Beaman. It
required but short discussion to start
action of relief. A committee was
appointed to take steps at once look
ing towards, improving housing condi
tions. That many families have been
forced to go elsewhere to live because
of their Inability to secure proper
houses, was the surprising announce
meat by Secretary Beaman.
GOLD
DISCOVERED
IN
NFLUENZA IN NEIGHBORHOOD
OF REIDSVILLE SUBSIDES;
GOL DFEVER RAGING.
ORE IS THOROUGHLY TESTED
Owners of Property Applying for In
corporation, and In Few Weeks
- Work Will Commence.
Reidsville. Gold is to be found
near Reidsville, according to reports.
Some time ago we told of gold and
platinum at Ruff in, and now corned
the story from Martinsville.
F. E. Johnson, an experienced miner
and assayer of Santa Barbara, Calif.,
has returned to Martinsville for the
purpose of working a certain gold
mine near Mayo church, In Henry
county, known as the Taylor property.
Mr. Johnson was here last fall for
a month or so for the purpose of pros
pecting for minerals and during the
time he made considerable investi
gation of the Taylor property, consist
ing of several tests of the ore, the re
sult of which, it is stated, was the
finding of gold in paying quantities
and traces of platinum.
The owners of this property are
making application, to have the com
pany incorporated and in a few weeks
the work at this mine will commence.
Airman's Body Found.
Fayetteville. The body of Lieuten
ant Harley H. Pope, aviation officer,
who lost his life in the Cape Fear
river here on the night of January 7
in an airplane accident, was found by
Orrie Johnson, river fisherman, who
three weeks ago discovered the body
of Sergeant W. W. Fleming, who was
drowned at the same time.
His diligence was at length reward
ed by the recovery of both the bodies.
Lieutenant Pope's body was found not
far from the spot where that of Ser
geant Fleming was recovered, between
the two bridges, which span the river,
a mile below the point where the
plane went into the stream. The
body was not in as good condition as
that of Sergeant Fleming. One hun
dred and six dollars in paper money
and a gold watch were on his person,
both of these being well preserved.
Mills Running Full Time.
Gastonia. Announcement was made
by the management of the Armstrong
chain of mills, whose Gastonia plants
are the Armstrong, Dunn, Clara, Sem
inole and Osceola, that these plants
would resume full time operation. For
some time past these mills, like near
ly all the mills in this part of tbj
country, have been running three
nights and four days a week, closing
every Thursday afternoon at 6 o'clock.
However, these mills will now run
full time. This news was Joyfully re
ceived by the operatives who have,
however, manifested a splendid spirit
of co-operation with the management
during trying times.
Mooresville Trouble Adjusted.
Washington (Special). The depart
ment of labor announced that Com
missioner F. Bendheim had reported
an adjustment of a dispute between
the Mooresville Cotton Mills Company
of Mooresville, N. C, and their em
ployes. The company employs 800
workers and had discharged 300 be
cause of their membership in a textile
union. Commissioner Bendheim spent
a few hours at the plant in conference
with employers and representatives of
the workers and obtained reinstate
ment of the discharged operatives.
Telephone Linemen Injured.
Winston-Salem. H. F. Hinson and
June McGalliard, linemen for South
ern Bell Telephone Company, sustain
ed serious injuries, the injuries to the
latter resulting in his death at the
hospital.
The men were on a telephone pole
when it broke. They fell a distance
of 30 feet to the bitulithic pavement.
Both men were unconscious when
taken to the hospital.
Robeson Right In Line.
Lumberton. A petition signed by
one-fifth of the registered voters to
Lumberton township asking for ait
election to vote on a $100,000 bond Is
sue to build roads in Lumberton town
ship under the new township road law
will be presented to the county com
missioners when they meet. It is
learned that a like petition will be
presented from St Pauls township.
The law passed by the recent leg
islature provides that any township
in the county may Issue bonds to build
roads upon proper petition.
Hotel for Wake Forest.
Wake Forest. An announcement
which is of vital interest to sll who
either live in, or visit Wake Forest,
is that Mr. R. W. Warren, an alumnus
of the college here, and one of the
most active insurance men in the
State, has now on foot a movement
to construct a modern hotel in Wake
Forest The building is expected to
be one of the most attractive, conve
nient and ip to date in the State. Al
though not definitely decided, the pro
moter expects the project to make
necessary an outlay of over $40,000.
Peach Crop Uninjured.
Hickory. Not only is the peach
crop safe in this section, but the pear,
plum, cherry, apple and all other crops
have escaped serious damage by the
recent freeze and frosts, according to
persons who have inspected the fruit.
The reason assigned for the escape
was the unusually strong winds and
the consequent dryness of the buds.
Farmers fear the usual Easter cold
snap, but thii will come so late that
estimates are being based on more
than an average yield of fruit
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