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Chatham SCORD ESTABLISHED SEPT. 19, 1878. PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C. MAY 29, 1919 VOL. XL NO. 43. Ji JnLJbj IMPORTANT NEWS THE WORLD OVER IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIS AND OTHER NATIONS FOR SEVEN DAYS GIVEN THE NEWS JFTHE SOUTH What Is Taking Place In The 8outh land Will Be Found In Brief Paragraphs European It is officially reported in " London that the courtmartial which has .been trying Capt. Edmond G. Chamherlain of San Antonio, Texas, the aviator who claimed to have .performed' many thrilling exploits over the- German lines, has acquitted him.. vJjf 6ermany'.ficbnqjgie: ; stij .ndef the terms of the peace treaty, is the result of her behavior, the allied and associated council informed the Ger man peace delegation. Ex-Emperor Charles and ex-Empress Zita, accompanied by several Austrian archdukes have arrived at Chateau Pranzins, near Geneva, their future home. Great Britain wants Constantinople for the Turkish sultan, at the behest, it is stated, of the Indian delegation to the peace council. The United States is being urged to accept man datory for Constantinople. , A period of seven days of grace has "been extended to Germany by the rep resentatives of the allied and associat ed government in which the German peace plenipotentiaries may conclude their study of the peace treaty and formulate such replies to the various clauses as they desire. , A number of prominent business men in Tokio, Japan, have decided to form a Japan-American submarine cable company to lay another cable across the Pacific. President Ebert, in addressing a demonstration in Berlin, said that Ger many would "never sign the peace terms. The demonstration was held in the Lustgarten and was attended by a great crowd. The president de scribed the peace terms as "the prod uct of the enemy's revengeful hys teria. Foreign countries will not per mit the proscription of Germany. They will raise their voices with us that this peace of enslavement which we will never sign shall not come to pass." Describing recent demonstrations before the Adlon hotel in Berlin, a dispatch to the Paris Temps says that the crowd shouted "Down with France, England, America, Clemenceau, Foch and Wilson." Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau, head of the German peace commission, who left for Spa, returned to Versailles He was accompanied by Herr Lands berg and Herr Giesherts, two other members of the delegation, who had been to Berlin. A Constantinople dispatch says that in the fighting which took place af ter the landing of Greek troops at Smyrna, 300 Turks and 100 Greeks were killed. The fighting took place for the most part in the Turkish quar ter of the town where the Greeks were met by lively rifle fire. The Paris Journal says a political crisis has arisen in Constantinople since the debarkation of Greek and allied forces at Smyrna. It is stated that the grand vizier, or prime minis ter, has resigned. Washington Passage by the house of a deficien cy bill providing urgent appropria tions of $45,044,500 for war risk allow ances to soldiers' and sailors' fami lies and Civil war pensioners, made another speed record for the new house, which the day before had adopted the woman suffrage resolu tion, t The Ukrainian offensive against the Poles has been completely broken, a dispatch from Warsaw says. These are the mai nprovisions of President Wilson's message cabled from Paris: Repeal o famendment of the war time prohibition act; crea tion of a federal agency of advice and information as a clearing house for suggested improvement in industrial conditions; maintenance of the United States employment service; adoption of the land-for-soldiers bill; legisla tion to facilitate American enterprise in foreign trade; repeal of the so-call ed luxury tax; reconsideration of the federal taxes to relieve the burden, particularly on productive resources, making incomes, excess profits and estates the mainstay of steady taxa tion; against general revision of im port duties, but for protection of the American dye industry; adoption of the suffrage amendment; return of the telegraph and telephone lines to their owners under more co-ordinated system ; return of the railroads un der a more uniform system. The navy department has reached no conclusion as to types of capital ships to be recommended to congress, service opinion being still widely di vided on the question of compostie ships, which came up during the last session of congress. The proposed sale to a British syn dicate of the British owned ships and assets of the International Mercantile Marine company a transaction in volving five British companies and 750,000 tons of shipping, valued at approximately $135,000,000 has been approved by the board of directors and finance committee of the company. Ararngements are under way to be gin the transportation to England of the 339th American infantry within ten days' time. The battalion of the Thirteenth engineers on the Arch angel front, and the railway troops on the Murman front, will be the last American forces withdrawn from the north Russian sector, according to the present plans. Enough bills were introduced in the house the first day to keep the body continuously at work through the year. More than twelve hundred measures were placed in the house hopper. Hope for the safetr of Harrv O. Hawker and Commander Mackenzie Grieve, missing since thev set out eastward through the air in the Sop- with biplane for Ireland, has been vir tually abandoned. National suffrage for women has been endorsed for the second time. The house adopted the Susan B. An thony amendment resolution by a vote S04 to 89. An attempt was made to demolish. the American legation at San Jose, Costa Rica, by a bomb, according to advices received at the state depart ment A band of twenty Yatmi Indiana at tacked a train from the La Colorado mine, en route to HermosHlo, Sono ra, Mexico, from San Xavier, with ore, killing H. S. White, an American, and several Mexicans, according to word received in Nogales, says a dispatch from Douglas, Ariz. Construction of a fleet of dirieible or" lighter than- air type as an adjunct.- to. the American naval forces , jt expected" by well-informed nava cfwelrs.to' be :twdmmed.-.by tnVgenerar board" of the navy in Its report to be submitted within a few days to Secretary Daniels. Official advices from Of Mexico Which have bfien received in Washington daily for the past two weeks, indicate that the situation in the northern part of that country due to the operations of Francisco Villa, is more serious than hitherto report ed. It is learned from an authorita tive source that Vila and his organiz ed rorce of rebels is now threaten ing parts of Durango. as well as Chi huahua to the north. A new time record for airTrtanA flight was announced by the war de partment upon receipt of an official report that MaJ. Adlan Gilkeson of tne army air service had flown from New York City to Portland. Maine, a distance of 500 miles, in 250 minutes. The allied troops on the north Rus sian front have carried out a success ful turning movement against the main Bolshevik faction, forcing the enemy to retreat southward. Several towns were captured and many pris oners taken. Lieut. Gen. Hunter Liggett, com mander of the army of occupation, and Major General Hines, commander of the third corps, who were on their way to London, were sent back to Co blenz by orders from American gen eral headquarters. Nine hundred mo tor trucks began to move at midnight from west of the Rhine to the bridge head area. The trucks are being dis tributed to various points of advan tage among the troops holding the zone east of the Rhine should the occasion arise for the Americans to start an advance. At the present rate with which the navy is bringing the army home, all of the expeditionary forces will be back in the United States by the first of July, says Secretary Daniels. When the name of Victor Berger of Wisconsin was called in the house as new members were sworn in, Rep resentative Dallinger of Masachusetts, Republican, chairman of the elections committee, according to pre-arranged plan formally challenged his right to be seated. Domestic A score of persons were killed and hundreds injured in an explosion at the Douglas Starch Works at Cedar Rapids, Mich. Property damage of $750,000, de struction of nine and a half city blocks of stores and residences and rendering of approximately fifteen hundred people homeless, is the re sult of a disastrous fire that swept the old residential section of Mobile, Ala. For the first time in the history of flying in America, a vehicle of the air was brought to a convenient stop in the heart of Cleveland, Ohio, when a dirigible balloon landed on the top of a prominent hotel to permit two of its five passengers to alight. One of the three American sea planes that sped away from Newfound land in the attempt to fly across the Atlantic, rested safely in the harbor of Horta, Island of Fayal, ready to com plete the flight to the European con tinent. Attention of America and the world is turned upon the new Congress, the Sixty-sixth, in America, which con vened in extraordinary session called by President Wilson from Paris. The opening, as usual, was taken up with routine business, including organiza tion of senate and house by the Re publicans, who supplant the Demo crats in control for the first time in eight years. A dispatch from St. Johns, N. F., says Harry G. Hawker, Australian aviator, and Commander Mackenzie Grieve, his navigator, started on their way across the Atlantic on the most perilous airplane flight in history, May 18, at 5:55 p. m., Greenwich time, and expect to reach the Irish coast in 24 hours, unless some acci dent forces them to plunge into the sea. Julius H. Barnes, federal wheat di rector, has formally notified L. F. Gates, president of the Chicago board of trade, that the exchange should re instate the rule limiting the amount of open trades in corn for any one in terest or individual to two hundred thousand bushels. Rev. A. M. Frazer, D. D., of Staun ton, Va., was elected moderator at the session here of the fifty-ninth general assembly of the Presbyterian assem bly of the Presbyterian church in the United States, assembled in New Or leans, known as the Southeastern Presbyterian church. Francis Burton Harris, 45 years old governor general of the Philippine Islands, and Miss Elizabeth Wrent more, 18 years old, a student of the University of California at Berkeley, Cal., were married in Chicago at the Blackstone hotel. Marshal Foch laid before the coun cil of four his plan for military opera tions that are to be put into effect in case the German plenipotentiaries de cline to sign the peace treaty. It is stated that General Pershing's visit to London may be postponed in order to await developments. DEBATE ON LEAGUE BITTER 1H SENATE REED, OF MISSIOURI, DECLARES DEMOCRATIC SUPPORT TO BE LARGELY PARTISAN. REPEATED OBJECTIONS MAOI Senator Knox Naively Suggests That Senators First Read the Measure Before Discussing It. Washington. The league of nations was debated in the senate again with an increasing show of bitterness. ...Senator Reed, .Democrat, of Mis jBourv attacked the proposal in such vigorous terms that he aroused repeat ed objections from senators support ing it and developed a running debate colored by dramatic accusations and heated retorts. The Missouri senator declared the league would place the destinies of the white race in the hands of ignorant and superstitious nations of black and yellow popula tion, and charged that many Demo crats were supporting it for partisan reasons. In frequent interruptions of the Mis souri senator's speech, Senator Hitch cock, of Nebraska, ranking Democrat of the foreign relations committee, in sisted that the premises for these charges were false and that the infer ences drawn were unfair and danger ous. He drew in turn a reply from Senator Knox, Republican, of Penn sylvania, who suggested that support ers of the league covenant should read it before they discussed it. The measure which brought the league issue before the senate was the resolution of Senator Johnson, Repub lican, of California, requesting from the State Department the full text of the peace treaty. There was no at tempt to reach a vote on the resolu tion, and the measure went over again as unfinished business to come up when the senate reconvenes. Without speaking directly on the Johnson resolution. Senator Reed made a general attack upon the league covenant itself as a proposal to hand over control of the white race and the civilized world to an assembly of nations where a majority always could be brought together on any race ques tion in opposition to white supremacy. He declared support of the league plan never could be explained at home by senators from the south, with its negro problem, or from the west, with its Chinese and Japanese problems. COTTON IS PRACTICALLY RELIEVED FROM EMBARGO Washington. Recent increases in cotton prices were attributed to the raising of restrictions upon cotton ex ports to German-Austria, and Jugo slavia by Senator Smith, of Georgia, in a statement. "While cotton is still on the em bargo list," Senator Smith said, "the war trade board trader powers vested in it by the President, has practically relieved cotton from being on the embargo Hst. The principal cotton mills of Austria were in German-Austria and Jugo-Slavia and all of this territory is now open to cotton ship ments without restrictions. The quan tity restrictions of shipments to Swit zerland, Holland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden have also been removed. WITHDRAWING AMERICAN FORCES FROM ARCHANGEL Washington. Withdrawal of Amer ican forces from Archangel is actually under way, according to cable advices to the war department which stated that all members of the 339th infan try were awaiting evacuation. The withdrawal is in line with the policy of the American government announced by Secretary Baker before the house military affairs committee last February. At that time Mr. Baker said it had been decided to withdraw all American troops from the Archangel district as early in the spring as climatic conditions would permit. AUSTRIAN PEACE TERMS FOLLOW GERMAN CLOSELY Paris. The peace terms to be im posed upon Austria follow closely the lines of the German treaty, but such knotty problems as the appointment of what part of the Austrian war bur den is to be borne by various new states still is undecided. Little or no progress has been made with the Italo-Jugo-Slav controversy or with the proposal for readjustment between Belgium and Holland of the treaty of 1839. FREE RUNNING CRUDE OIL FOUND IN ENGLAND London. Free running crude oil has been found in England. The an nouncement of this important discov ery was cautiously made in a two column news article in the editorial page in the Times. The location is in the Midlands, Duke of Devonshire's property, and in the coal mining dis trict near Chesterfield. The discovery has opened up a wide field of speculation in all industrial circles in England. NO REDUCED RAILROAD FARES UNTIL JUNE 10 Washington. Reduced passenger fare tickets to conventions will not be sold for meetings earlier than June 10, the railroad administration an nounced. More stringent regulations than have been customary will sur round sale of such tickets after that date this year to make certain that only bona fide delegates receive the privilege of the lower rate of one and one-third fare for. round trips. LOST AIR MEN ARE ED OP AT SEA HAWKER AND GRIEVE RESCUED BY LITTLE DANISH STEAMER HAVING NO WIRELESS. 800 MIES OFF IRISH COAST Aviators Are Taken Off the Steame by Destroyer and Transferred to Flagship Revenge. London. Missing for six ' days and virtually given up for lost, Harry G. Hawker and his navigator. Lieutenant Commander Mackenzie Grieve, Brit ish airmen who essayed .a. flight across the Atlantic ocean," without protection against disaster save what their frail airplane afforded, are safe aboard a British warship off the Ork neys. They will reach the mainland and proceed to London, where they will be acclaimed as men returned to life. Some 1,100 miles out from New Foundland and 800 from the Irish coast, the aviators, making the best of an engine which was failing to function properly, were forced to alight on the water. The little Dan ish steamer Mary, bound from New Orleans and Norolk for Aarhuus, Denmark, picked the wayfarere up. Lacking a wireless outfit, the cap tain of the steamer was obliged to withhold the good tidings of the res cue until he was opposite Butt of Lewis, where the information was sig nalled by means of flags, that Haw ker and Grieve were aboard his ship. Immediately word was flashed to the British admiralty, which sent out destroyers to overtake the Danish vessel and obtain confirmation. This was done and one of the destroyers took the airmen off, and later trans ferred them to the flagship Revenge. HAD NO TROUBLE LANDING SAYS HAWKER IN MESSAGE London. Hawker has sent the fol lowing message from the Revenge to the Daily Mail: "My machine stopped owing to the water filter in the feed pipe from the radio to the water pump blocked with refuse, such as solder and the like shaking loose in the radiator. "It was no fault of the Rolls Boyce motor, which ran absolutely perfectly from start to finish, even when all the water had boiled away. .WITH ONE CONCESSION HUN PROPOSALS ARE REJECTED Paris. With the exception of one minor concession, all suggestions and counter proposals by Germany for the disposition of the Saare basin have been rejected by the reply of the al lied and associated powers. Count van Brockdorff-Rantzau's appeal for an oral disposition of the points at issue on this subject was ig nored. The concession agreed to is that Germany might create a prior charge upon her assets or revenues for the payment of the mines in the Saare region, if the plebiscite goes against France. MODEL TOWN OF TRUXTON BUILT FOR NEGROES ONLY Portsmouth, Va. A model town, constructed by the government, ex clusively for negroes, was formally opened with appropriate ceremonies, and Truxton, Va., as the new town is known, took its place on the map as a suburb of this city. Built primarily as a war measure to aid the great Hampton Roads naval base, the 224 buildings in the little town will not be sold immediately by the government but will be rented from $16 to $18 monthly. The town is one of the 24 housing projects t&e United States Housing Corporation is rapidly completing throughout the country for the gov ernment, representing a returnable value of more than $25,000,000 and consisting of 6,000 houses and 64 apartments. THREE AMERICANS SLIGHTLY WOUNDED IN TRAIN ATTACK Vladivostok. The first casualties in the American expedition force in Si beria were experienced May 21 when three Americans were slightly wound ed. They were pursuing through the hills bolsheviki who had attacked a running train guarded by Americans forty miles northeast of Vladivostok, near Shkotova, at the head of Ussuri bay in the Maritime province, which is seething with disorder and revolt. LODGE PACKS COMMITTEE AGAINST PEACE LEAGUE Washington. Senator Lodge has packed the foreign relations commit tee against the league of nations. If his program is put through, the Uni ted States will continue on a war basis with Germany after Great Britain France, Japan and Italy are at pea'-e. This will hurt business the country over. It is beheved, however, that it will not take the people long to tell Mr. Lodge and his associates where to put in. BROCKDORFF-RANTZAU'S ASSERTION IS DENIED Paris. Premier Clemenceau's reply to the two German notes on the pro nnsed western boundaries of Germany, which was made public denies Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau s assertion that German territories are the sub ject of shifting from one sovereign to another like pawns in a game. M. Clemenceau points out that the desire is that the inhabitants of the territories in quesion shall be taken into consideration. SENATE DISCUSSES TREATY AND LEAGUE RESOLUTION CALLS ON STATE DEPARTMENT TO FURNISH COMPLETE TEXT. ACRIMONIOUS DISCUSSION ON In Course of Debate a Bitter Attack Was Made by Sherman of Illinois on President Wilson's Course. ' Washington. The peace treaty with its league of nations covenant was debated; for three hours in the senate, and at adjournment the resolution which furnished the vehicle for the discussion. went over as unfinished business. The resolution merely calls on the state department to furnish the sen ate with the complete text of the treaty, but as the debate progressed discussion shifted to the merits of the league and treaty themselves. A doz en senators, including the leaders on both sides, were drawn into the dis cussion and sharp exchanges presaged the bitterness of the fight that is to come when the treaty actually comes up for ratification. Senator Johnson of California, au thor of the resolution, started the de bate with a short speech charging that the treaty supporters had "some thing to conceal." This assertion drew an indignant reply from Senator Hitchcock, of Ne braska, ranking Democrat of the for eign relations committee, who de clared the President was following well established precedent in keeping the treaty text in confidence, and that for the senate to request him to do otherwise would be "a gross breach of international proprieties." In the course of the debate a bitter attack on the league covenant and on President Wilson's course in the peace conference was made by Senator Sher man of Illinois, who earlier in the day had presented a resolution declaring it the sense of the senate that the treaty and the covenant should be con sidered separately. NO INTERRUPTION TO SALE AND MANUFACTURE OF BEER New York. Uninterrupted produc tion of "war beer" until the courts have passed upon the claim of the United States Brewers Association that the beverage, containing 2 3-4 per cent alcohol, is non-intoxicating, was assured when Federal Judge Mayer granted an injunction restrain ing government interference. The court declared that his decision had been influenced by President Wil son's message to Congress recom mending repeal of the war-time pro hibition act in so far as it relates to beer and wine, and by Federal Judge A. N. Hand's ruling last week, that the law placed a ban on the manufac ture only of liquors that were, in fact, intoxicating. Although United States District At torney Gaffey, representing the gov ernment, opposed granting an injunc tion, Judge Mayer said he believed such action would contribute to a fair settlement of the questions raised by the brewers under the emergency pro hibition act. The injunction, a tempo rary one, would be effective, the court said, pending review of his decision by the circuit court of appeals or, 11 the government should decide to let it stand, until the brewers' suit per manently to enjoin prosecutions for manufacture of the 2 3-4 per cent brew could be tried in the district court. NAVY BOARD TO DECIDE ON CAPITAL SHIP TYPE Washington. The navy (general board took up the task of formulating specific recommedations as to types of capital ships congress will be asked to authorize. Secretary Daniels and his three chief technical advisers, Reai Admirals Griffin. Taylor and Earle. were present at the board meeting to tell what they had learned while in Europe as to the direction naval de velopment was taking abroad. THREE INDICTMENTS LIE IN V. P. I. HAZING CASE Christiansburg. Va. Three mem bers of the sophomore class at the Vireinia Polytechnic Institute and one former student were indicted on charges of malicious assault by a errand iurv empaneled at a special ses sion of the Montgomery county circuit court. Judge W. W. Moffett presiding called for the purpose of investigat ine the facts in connection with the alleged hazing of John Fnx. of Roan oke, a freshman, on May 15 and 16. NORTHEHRN METHODISTS PASS $70,000,000 MARK Chattanooga, Tenn, The centenarj drive of the Northern branch of thf Methodist Episcopal Church has pass ed the $70,000,000 mark, according t information given out by the Southen campaign headquarters located here The total sought over the entir country is $105,000,000, which will b used for the extension of the denomi nation's home and foreign, missionarj work. REVOLUTIONISTS ARE REPORTED REINFORCEC San Juan Del Sur. The revolution ists have been operating on the Nica raguan Costa Rican frontier have beei reinforced and provisioned and an said to be preparing to attack Liberia Santa Rosa has been reoccupied b: the revolutionary forces.- Much dis content is reported among the Costs Rican government troops, caused b: the failure of the mn to recoive thet pay and Inadequate supplies of proV. dons. SOLDIER'S BILL IS PASSED BT BOUSE PARTISAN CLASHES BETWEEN MEMBERS BROUGHT OUT IN BRIEF DISCUSSION A SPEED RECORD IS Mil Measure as Reported by Appropria tions Committee Authorized Al lowance of $45,044,500. Washington. Passage by the house of a deficiency bill providing urgent appropriations of $45,044,000 for war risk allowances to soldiers' and sail ors families and civil war pensioners made another speed record for the new house, which adopted the woman suffrage resolution. The first sharp partisan clashes of the session between Republicans- and Democrats occurred during discussion of the deficiency bill. The measure, hastily reported by the appropriations committee, auth orizes appropriations of $9,615,000 for allowances due May 1 and June 1 to about 700,000 families of soldiers sailors and marines, $3,000,000 for de layed civil war pensions and $2,429, 500 for administration of the war risk insurance bureau. It was passed with out a dissenting vote after consider able partisan discussion, Republicans and Democrats making counter charges of responsibility for delay in payment of the family allowances. During the partisan skirmishing, Representative Mann charged that President Wilson was responsible en tirely for delay in the appropriations and the hardships of soldiers, fami lies due to failure to receive their May 1 checks. He added that the president had neglected or refused to oall congress sooner because of fear that the league of nations would be discussed. Democrats sharply retort ed that the senate Republicans' fili buster, which held up the war risk funds, and not the president, was re sponsible. The speakers were ap plauded according to their partisan affiliation as the political points were made. In explaining the object of the bill. Representative Good stated, in reply to questions, that so far as he knew the resignation of former Director Lindsley of the war risk insurance bureau was not responsible for the deficiency in the bureau's funds. EXPERTS APPEAR BEFORE INTERSTATE COMMISSION Raleigh. The hearing for special representatives of the interstate com merce coram f-sion in the suits of the North Carolina corporation commissi--; and 'the associated North Carolina shipping points, in which relief is sought from aflleged. discriminatory freight rates for these North Caro Ima points, in comparison with more favorable nates from Virginia cities began with indications that two or three days will be required to com plete the investigation here. MRS. HAWKER AND DAUGHTER RECEIVE DAILY MAIL'S $50,000 London. Lord Northcliffe authoriz ed the Daily Mail, to pay Mrs. Hawker $50,000 for the benefit of herself and her baby daughter, and to Commander Grieves next of kin, in the propor tion which the airman and his navi gator had agreed to share the prize money between them. The Daily Mail flight conditions and the old prize money are still open to world com petitors. KILLED TWENTY GERMANS AND TOOK 132 PRISONERS New York. Sergeant Alvin C. York, of the 38th infantry, who, at the head of a detachment of seven men, killed 20 Germans, took 132 prisoners, in cluding a major and three lieutenants, and put 36 machine guns out of opera tion, arrived here on the transport Ohioan wearing the congressional medal of honor and the French croix de guerre. Sergeant York's home is in Pall Mall, Tenn. GERMAN REPLY TO PEACE TERMS IN FIVE SECTIONS Berlin. The German reply to the allied peace terms will be in five sec tions dealing with political and terri torial issues, the league of nations, and financial and economic questions. The notes already transmitted to the allied and associated powers, the Ger mans believe, will afford a basis for negotiations on some of these ques tions and also may serve as suggest ing a way over obstacles in the way of negotiations cn the peace treaty. CITIZENS OF MANNHEIM BECOME PANIC STRICKEN Mannheim. Alarmed by the belief that Germany will not sign the peace treaty aad that-the allies will occupy Mannheim, citizens became panic itricken and stormed the Municipal Savings Bank. Many persons have fled from Mannheim. Large crowds later gathered. An official expression of regret has been issued in Berlin that the people of Mannheim "appear to have lost their heads." ' MOVEMENT TO REPEAL WAR TIME PROHIBITION GAINS Washington.. The movement to re peat the war-time prohibition act as to beer and wines, recommended by. President Wilson, is finding converts Four North Carolina members. Small, Krtchin, Godwin and Robinson, are for it. Webb, Weaver, Brinson and Stea- man are among those doubtful. Sena tors Simmons and Overman are non committal. At present the sentimenf seems to be against it MECKLENBURG "OVER TOP The Estimated Amount Subscribed by City of Charlotte and the County Is $321,850 Over Quota. Charlotte. Mecklenburg county' Victory loan subscriptions will exceed $3,043,350 or an over-subscription in excess of $321,850, according to a semi final estimate given out by H. M. Vie tor, county campaign chairman. All banks of this county except one have submitted their final reports, and the bank not reporting informed Mr. Vic tor its total of subscriptions would at least equal its quota. The county quota was $2,721,500, all but about $65,000 being assigned to Charlotte banks. The award by lot of the six German (helmets, trophies for service in the loan drive in this county, was held at a meeting of the team captains and members. Those successful in the drawing were Frank Boomershine, L. A. Dodsworth, G. T. Buxton, M. E. Boyer, L. W.Buck and Father .Je rome. Mr. Victor said the records of the teams were such that a fair plan of awarding the trophies, except by lot, could be devised. Wiseman Sentenced to Death. Sehlby. With no signs of flinching. Aaron Wiseman heard his death sen tenced pronounced by Judge B. F. Long. Haiing been convicted of murder in the first degree at the conclusion of his- trial here on charge of having killed Dr. E. A. Hennessee, of Burke county, at Glen Alpine, January 31, 1918, the Avery county mountaineer was sentenced by Judge Long to be flfictrocuted June 20. The defendant received the verdict of the jury with slight show of emo tion. The jury had been out an hour and 10 minutes following the charge of Judge Long. It is leported that on the first ballot the jury stood nnie for acquittal and three for conviction. Two friends of the late Dr. Hennessee v'cnt to the box and shook hands with jurors after the verdict was ren dered. Husband Takes Vengeance. Wadesboro. Claming that he had "been paying his wife undue attention, Sanders Lindsay, a colored carpenter, shot and probably fatally wounded a negro Baptist preacher named Hicks here. The shooting occurred at Lindsay's home in the negro section of the city. It is reported here that the negroes, John Liles and Paul Crawder, who were arrested on a charge of being implicated in the wrecking of a Sea board train near Lilesville, have con fessed to complicity in the crime and have named a negro named Eli Ben nett, as being the instigator. Increase in City Taxes. Wilmington. City council has ten tatively increased the tax levy from $2 to $2.10 on the $100 valuation and has also increased privilege taxes in several instances. During the past year demands on the treasury broke throueh the annual budget several times and other demands are expect ed this year, necessitating higher tax ation. Officer Gets the Drop. Asheville. When Will Harris and Jim Lankford, said to be the most no torious hootleecers of this district. refused to let a member of the local police force arrest them and drew tuns on the officer, Harris was shot, the bullet grazing the scalp and wounding him enough to send him to the hospital. The M. P. caught th men in the act of transporting 11 quarts of moonshine. Both of the men drew pistols but he iwas quicker than they and had the drop on them before they knew it. Summer Institute at Trinity. Trinity College. The second an nual session of the Trinity College summer school for preachers will be held this year from June 4 to 13. Tne first service will be held Wednesday evening. June 4. with an address by Dr. Charles L. Goodell of New York City. Dr. Goodell is now connected with the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. He is a Meth odist minister of far-reaching reputa tion and has held the leading pasto rates in New York City. Molasses Dealer Retires. ' Wilmington. C. Covington, ewn- er f C. C. Covington, Inc., one or tne lareest molasses importing firms In the country, has closed out his inter ests to the recently chartered branch of American Molasses Co., of New York, and will retire from active bus! ness for a year, in order to rest. The business was founded by Mr. Coring ton's father, the late Edwin P. Cov ington. The first order placed was fnr ftv- barrells of molasses. The riimr fr Covlnarton ordered "SO.OOO barrels. ODnoeed to Co-Education. Chapel Hill The Philanthropic So ciety of the State University has gone on record as being opposed to co-e du ration at this institution. Signal cance is the fact that this proposition wa the first to be brought up for dis cussion at the first meeting of the so ciety, in which the motion passed sev eral weeks ago, making provision for the organization of the society into a body modeled after the State Legisla ture, went into effect. Officers for the first term of next year were atoe- elected. Overseer Shot by Neore. Rplmont. A. L. Lawrence, an over- Beer of section .work on the Southern Railway, was shot and dangerously wounded with a 12-gauge shotgun by a negro. Arthur Steel. The shootin occurred near the Fkvuthern Railway depot here. The nc.trrn came ud the track, so it is al loarftd. and took a position, unobserved by the bystanders, behind a box-car, a short distance from Mr. Lawrence. It was from there that he fired the shet, sending almost the entire load of shot Into the overseer's body. THREE NEW DYES ABE DISGOVEBED OUR DYE PROBLEM 13 PARTLY OVERCOME BY EXPERIMENTS OF PROF. A. S. WHEELER. DISCOVERY TAXES HIGH RANK In Addition to the Dyes Already Dll covered, Others Are in 8ight of Determination. Chapel Hill. Dr. A. S. Wheeler, professor of organic chemistry at the University of North Carolina, has dis covered three important dyes, the first to be discovered at this institution and . probably the first in the South. Al though Dr. Wheeler has been conduct ing a series of experiments in his lab oratory for some time with a view to the perfection of his tests, it was not known until recently, except by a few close friends, that he had made such a valuable contribution to science. Government examiners have assured Dr. Wheeler that nothing stands in the way of patents being issued on the discovered dyes, pending which ad vice the learned scientists has kept the matter quiet He also thinks that his claims for patents are broad enough to cover certain fields in which there is a certainty of discov ering several other important dyes. His discovery takes ' rank with the most important of the recent discov eries of science. In addition to the three dyes already discovered. Dr. Wheeler is responsible for the statement that three more are already in sight of determination. Summer School Faculty. : Superintendent H. P. Harding, of the city schools, announced the composi tion of the faculty for the summer school, which will begin the first Mon day in June and continue for eight weeks. The school is operated annu ally for pupils failing to make their grade during the regular term. Prof. Wade H. Williams will be prin cipal of the sxmmer school and will also teach one of the grades. Teach- :ers for the high school grades will be Misses Fannie Moore, Bertha Donnelly and Jessie Henderson. The grammar grade teachers will be Miss Majorie Washburn, grade six; Miss Ellen Bryce, grade five; Professor Williams, grade seven. The classes will be held in the city ihigh school. The average annual en rollment at the summer schools here "has been about 300. A large majority 'of those entering the school are en abled to secure promotion at the be ginning of the next term. The school officials declare the summer school 'saves the city much money and saves the pupil much time. The difference in cost the child for the term Is far 'greater than the cost the child for the eight-week school. To Build Many Houses. ', Winston-Salem. The Huntley Fur niture Company has decided to aid in solving the housing problems in Winston-Salem. President Huntley an nounced that arrangements had been made for the erection of 40 six-room bungalows on Thirteenth and White streets. They will have all modern conveniences. A Bootlegging Preacher. Washington (Special). Rev. Hese klah W. Townsend, colored, a Metho dist preacher, whose home and charge is at Hamlet. N. C, was arrested at the union station by Central Office De tective Sergeant Strlngfellow en a charge of violating the bone-dry law. He carried, when arrested, IS quarts and one-halt pint of whiskey. i j . Hett! for Manslaughter. Gastonia. The grand jury returned a true bill of indictment for man slaughter against Chief of Police A. B. Hord, for the death of A. L. Rook, a young white man. Rook was fatally wounded west of Gastonia on April 30, while attempting to escape from Chief Hord and Policeman Carl Wright He was breught to the city hospital ihere and died five days later. Robeson's Soldier Records. Lumberton. G. H. Marsh, of Park ton, Robeson county. Is said to have heen the first American soldier kill ed in the world war. Marsh ran away from the United States army soon after the war started, and enlisted In the Canadian army. He soon reached the front and was killed before the United States entered the war. Robe son county also has the distinction of fcemg the home of . Private George Galloway, the first North Carolinian killed in the war after the United States entered it. Plaintiffs to Protect County. Kincton. An interesting develop ment In the case of the restraining order against the expenditure of $$, 000, 00 m Lenoir county for read tm Iprovements 4s a statement by John.O. Dawson, of counsel for the highway commission and county eommisstooers that should Judge Daniels continue the injunction until the final hearings the commissioners will ask a bond .from the plaintiffs "commensurate :wtth the probable loss" from advane ;tng prices until the time the supreme court would pass upon the matter. Baptists Claim B. B. Honors. Wake Forest. Wake Forest claims the State championship in college baseball fer the season of 1911. The following statement was given out: The State championship in baseball for the 1919 season clearly falls to Wake Forest College, when the uni versity defeated Trinity at Durham. Wake Forest lays claim to the honors on the ground that she has the best team in the State, as shown by the faot that out f nine games scheduled with the five leading colleges of tb State, only two have been lost
The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.)
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