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The Chatham . . , , , 1 jo : ECORD ESTABLISHED SEPT. 19, . 1878. PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C. JUNE 5, 1919 VOL. XL NO. 44 IMPORTANT NEWS THE WORLD OVER IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THI AND OTHER NATIONS FOR SEVEN DAYS GIVEN THE NEWS 0FTHE SOUTH What la Taking Plaoa In Th Bovth land Will Be Found IN Brief Paragraph Domestic Additional returns from the election In Texas increased the majority kgsinst the woman suffrage consti tutional amendment. Prohibition seems to bare carried In Texas, though the rote is close, and tn&y yet shift either way. The suffragettes In Texas are fig uring on contesting the election la which It appears woman suffrage fail ed to pass. Col. Robert Bacon, former ambassa dor to France, died At. the Eye and Ear hospital, in New York, where be sad undergone an operation. Members of the Democratic nation al committee closed a two-day session In Chicago by adopting a declaration offered by P. H. Qulnn, national com mitteeman from Rhode Island, review ing the achievements of President Wilson and the Democratic congress, and urging the support of all independ ent and progressive voters in the 1920 campaign to perpetuate those poli cies. Villa forces have proclaimed Gen eral Felipe Angeles provisional pres ident of Mexico himself and Villa hlnv elf secretary of war. It Is report ed that the Carranza government will ask the United States for permission to transport troops through Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, in order to put down the rebels in northern Mex Ico. This is regarded as reflecting situation more serious in Mexico than any since the triumph of the Car ranza forces over Villa three years Sereeant Alvln C. York, pronounced by General Pershing as the greatest hero of the world war, has arnvea at his home in Pall Mall, Tenn., and real ized what he has declared since he returned from France was the great est desire of his heart, the desire of icraln seeing his aged mother. As a fitting celebration of Memorial Day. Hog Island at Philadelphia, es :abllshed a world's record for ship launchings at one yard by sending overboard five 7,800-ton cargo carriers In eighty minutes. The members of the national execu tive committee of the Socialist party are in session in Chicago, and it Is an oounced that 25.000 of the "extremist wing" of the party have been expelled ' by vote of the committee. Sneakinz in support of the league of nations and discussing party issues before a public meeting in St. Louis attended by Democratic leaders of Missouri, Homer S. Cummings, chair man of the Democratic national com mittee, arraigned Republican leaders for attempting: to make the ratmca tion of the league a partisan ques tion. Wachintrtnn American army authorities are keep ing open the question of permanent Interment of bodies of American sol diera who fell fighting in France. A noticeable upward trend in busi ness during May. especially in those lines related to the leading retail trades which have felt the release of buvine power held back by the war. is reported by the federal reserve board. Thp federal reserve board has is Bued a warning against accepting the present prosperous wave at Its lull face value until conditions become more clarified. TTrnrianrt'a hill for transporting a mill inn American soldiers across the Atlantic in British ships is approxi mately $82,000,000. Do-irviiiHnnarv outbreaks bulk very large in advices received from Mexico City. Gen. Ernesto Damy, a major. fr.nr nthpr officers and forty men com posing a train guard of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec railroad, were aiueu re cently in an attack by rebels under Felix Diaz' command. General Dam by's body was taken to Mexico City fnr a nubile, funeral and is report ed to have been attended by thou sand s. Althoiieh the navy department has placed itself on record as being op Dosed to launching new building pro- grams which wouia give me umieu States a navy "second to none in the world," it is in favor of rushing to completion all capital ships already authorized, and of maintaining tem porarily at least a force 01 men capa ble of handling "any emergency that might arise." Blazing the way of the first air trail from the western to the eastern hemi sphere, the United States navy sea plane NC-4, under Lieutenant Com mander Albert Cushing Read, swept into the harbor of Lisbon. Portugal, the first airship of any kind to have crossed the Atlantic ocean under its own power and through its natural element. A Tokio, Japan, dispatch says that sixteen thousand persons were killed or injured in a volcanic eruption in central Java, on May 20. This infor mation is contained in official advices from Batavia. - The Spring Outfit The average woman will find her solf fairly well outfitted for spring by purchasing a smart tailored suit and supplying it with a number of distinc tive vests; a light-colored serge or wool jersey frock for street wear, and fn afternoon dress of figured silk voile nr headed georgette. Blouses and ac cessories and the evening dress prob l'in can easily be adjusted once the foundation of the wardrobe is well Placed, and the three first named gar ment really constitute that. . With depened solemnity Che ftfsl Memorial day after the close of the great world conflit was observed In the national capital, the nation's he roes of earlier wars sharing its trib- Hte with those who fell in the strug gle to maintain the liberties and idealf for which their forefather fought. Motor trouble which caused the NC-4 to be regarded as the "lame duck" of the American trans-Atlantic flight squadron sntil she left Trepas sey bay, Newfoundland, prevented the completion of her voyage from Lisbon to Plymouth. After covering 100 miles of the laet leg of the history making flight, the big seaplane was forced to descend at the Monde go river. President Wilson has informed of ficial Washington that the council o' four at Pari has reached a full node standing by which the United State will retain the 700,000 tons of German shipping seized in American ports when this country entered the war. The continued unsettled state of in ternational affairs has led the war de partment to decide definitely to re submit the army bill which failed to Pass In the last congress. This meas ure provides for a temporary fore of about five hundred and thirty thou sands officers and men. Total subscriptions to the fifth Vic tory loan bare been announced by the treasury department as $5,249,808,300, an oversubscription of nearly seven hundred and fifty millions. It is es timated officially that there were in the neighborhood of twelve million subscribers to the loan. Withdrawal of the American forces from Archangel is actually under way. according to cable advices to the war department, which stated that all the members of the 339th infantry were awaiting evacuation. The volcano Kalut (Keloet) is one of the fourteen active volcanoes on the island of Java. Kalut is in east ern Java south of Surabaya. For its size Java has more volcanoes han any other country in the world. Kalut's laet eruption was on the 22d of May, 1901, when one hundred and eighty-one persons were killed Much of the island of Java was laid waste in August, 1883, when the loss of life was estimated at thirty-five The policy of the navy department for a fleet "second to none in the world," has been temporarily aban doned. Secretary Daniels believes in showing confidence in the proposed league of nations. By unanimous vote the house ways and means committee has ordered a favorable report on a resolution re pealing the so-called semi-luxury tax in the war revenue bill. European A sensation has been caused by a statement published by the Berlin in- rlononrlont nowsnnnnr Ifrftihpit that Lieutenant Vogel, who was convicted of the murder of Rosa Luxemburg, the radical Socialist leader, and who re cently mysteriously escaped from pris on, had been released under a false order. A summary of the skeleton of the Austrian treaty submitted -to the smaller nations for examination is re markable chiefly for its omissions and reservations. Subject heading after subject heading is followed either by a non-committal display of blank paper, resembling a censored French news Daner "discussion" of the controversial part of the day's diplomatic develop ments, or by the statement: "This clause reserved." "The Americans misunderstood my point. I was not criticising their at tempt. It is impossible to compare the two flights. We did not wish to have battleships supplied by the government along the route. My re marks were intended for those who were criticising the government for not supplying them." This is the substance of what Harry F. Hawker told the London Evening Globe, re garding American press comment on the speech he made at a luncheon in London to newspaper men. The crew of the American seaplane NC-4 which made the first trans-At lantic aerial passage and landed at Lisbon from the Azores, has been dec nratPd with the erand cross of the Order of the Tower and Sword. The decoration was presented by the Por tuguese foreign minister. Tho efforts of ex-Governor Dunne of Illinois, Frank P. Walsh and Michael Ryan, representing various Irish so Pintles in the United States to secure safe conducts for Edward De Valera. Arthur Griffith and Count Plunkett to go .to the peace conference to pre the Irish case ended with a written communication from United States Secretary of State Lansing to Mr. Walsh. Thousands of discharged British aniriinm and sailors out of employ ment, armed with stones and other TninRtlen. marched toward the house of commons. The demonstration fol lowed a big meeting held during the afternoon in Hyde park, where the discharged soldiers and sailors ne- manded work and a minimum wags scale. Similar demonstrations were held throughout England during the 26th of May. Since the former German em pen has been acquainted with the peace terms he has become even mora In. visible to the outer world, says a rate sage from Amerongen. The supreme economic council to the peace council will submit tc the mmrnmenta composing it a plan loi combatting the plague of trphn la AAstern and southeaster Europe, which will include the placles st ths disposal of the league of Rc. Cross societies the surplus naedtesl d he pital supplies of the Arcare ai British armies. Light Brown, Modish Color. AH the light brown tones are In general use. and beige, biscuit, putty, etc.. are no longer a mode but an ob session. One sees good-looking one piece frocks of serge, gabardine, hop sacking, etc., by the hundreds, and two out of every three suits seem to be In these same colorings. Green is also very much worn and Is fre quently introduced to give a re lieving note in touches of embroidery or in trimming arrangements of frocks or hot NARROW ESCAPE OF ATTORNEY GENERAL ANOTHER ATTEMPT AT MURDER AT WHOLESALE IS MADE IN A NUMBER OF CITIES. INSTIGATORS CHIEF VICTIMS Death Toll of Two or Three Appears to Have Been Confined to Ranks of Bomb-Planters Themselves. Washington. Another attempted reign of terror, directed chiefly against public officials who have been active in their prosecution, was launched by American radicals shortly before mid night. A bomb explosion which damaged the residence of Attorney General A Mitchell Palmer in the fashionable northwest section of Washington, but which apparently resulted only in the death of the bomb planter ,was follow ed at intervals by similar explosions in seven other cities in a belt extend ing from Cleveland to Boston. Besides Washington, Cleveland and Boston, cities in which bomb outrages occurred, were Pittsburgh, Paterson, N. J.. West , Philadelphia, New York and Newtonville, Mass. West Phila delphia and Pittsburgh were subjected to two sparate explosions. Bombs intended by anarchists for men who had directed the force of law against them, pronounced sen tence against radicals or introduced legislation intended to check their machinations, failed in every case to claim their victims. In several cases, however, families of public officials and the public officials themselves ex perienced narrow escapes. The death toll of two taken in the Washington and the New York explosions recoiled upon instigators of the reign of terror ism, according to first conclusions reached by the police. In some in stances innocent pedestrians were injured more or less seriously. NO ARROGANCE IS SHOWN BY AUSTRIAN DELEGATION St. Germain. The representatives of the vanquished Austrian nation met the victors at today's ceremony in the fifteenth century castle of St. Germain' to appeal for grace and just and kindly treatment. No trace of the arrogant spirit with which Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau. head of the German peace delegation, attempted at ersailles to arraign the allied pow ers as jointly responsible for the war and demanded participation .in the negotiations on equal terms, marked the speech of Dr. Karl Renner, the Austrian chancellor, who replied to Georges Clemenceau, the president of the conference. Th Austrian plenipotentiary did not seek to extenuate the guilt of the former Austro-Hungarian government for "the horrible crime of 1914." He asked only that the full weight of the punishment should not tall solely on the little mountain republic which was all that was left of the once mighty Austria, but that it be regarded as only one of eight new re publics into which the old monarchy has been divided and that it be ap portioned no more of the penalty than it could bear. SEAPLANE NC-4 WILL NOT ATTEMPT A RETURN FLIGHT Washington. The American naval seaplane NC-4 which arrived at Ply mouth, England, thereby completing the first trans-Atlantic flight, will not attempt a non-stop or any other kind of a flight back to the United States, will be dissembled and shipped to this country. The secretary said the navy con templated no attempt at a non-stop trans-ocean flight in the near future, as the navy did not desire to make a spectacular showing, was not in any competition for trans-Atlantic flight honors and did not favor "stunt" flying. WILSON IS APPEALED TO BY IRISH-AMERICAN DELEGATES Paris. In view of the failure of all efforts to have the Sinn Fein delegates appear before the peace conferenc, Walsh, Ryan and Dunn have address ed a note to President Wilson beg ging permission for themselves to pre sent the resolutions adopted by the Philadelphia convention. It is a fore gone conclusion that after an ex change of letters with Wilson that the Brtiish American delegation's latest request will meet the same fate. RATE INCREASES ARE UPHELD BY THE U. S. SUPREME COURT Washington. Increased railroad. telephone and telegraph rates ordered by the railroad administration and by the postmaster general, respectively, were sustained by the supreme court which held that the war power con ferred by congress upon the president included sweeping control over the railroad and wire systems with "su preme and conclusive" authority to fix intrastate rates. TWENTY-ONE REPUBLICS ARE REPRESENTED IN CONFERENCE Washington. With 21 American republics officially represented and with nearly 500 delegates present, the second pan-American commercial con ference was opened at the pan-Amer- iran union. The president of the TTnHerf states, the presidents of Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala, Bolivia and Uru guay, the provisional president o! Venezuela and the secretary o tor elrn affairs of Salvador sent cable grams of fretting, PEOPLE SEEMINGLY ARE CAMOUFLAGED HUN NEWSBOYS VENDING FULL TEXT OF THE TREATY ON STREETS. BIG THREE MADE RIDICULOUS The Cry of "Beware, This Translation Is German Made," Does Not Les son Humor of "the Situation. London. While President Wilson and Premiers Lloyd George and Cle-. menceau imagined that they were keeping from the world the exact text of the peace treaty, Germany" stole" a march, for they haye put it out in a pamphlet form, selling it upon the streets oftheir cities. Those who have seen parts of the original peace treaty in Paris say that the official press summary was riggea with special sharp teeth for political effect in France and England. The clauses upon reparations are as one instance, the clauses being less severe in The Times forecast published the day before the Germans got the treaty than in the official digest arranged for the press at Paris. The pity is that the Big Three let the Germans come along first with the full text of the treaty. They are now crying "beware, this translation is German made." It does not les sen the rather ridiculous plight the Big Three may now find themselves in, in consequence of trying to make the people at home think that the terms are more severe than they really were. Nor does the attempt to cover the hiatus between the press summary and the first draft with the explanation that constant changes are necessary before the final draft will be reached smother the humor of the situation that the Germans have apparently created. IN FIFTY MINUTE FIGHT THE ANARCHIST FLEET IS ROUTED Helsingfors. A fifty-minute fight occurred between a bolshevik fleet comprising the battleship Petropav kk (23,703 tons) and battleships which had been bombarding the coast west of Krasnaia Gorka (15 miles west of Kronstadt) and seven British warships. The Russians eventually fled to Kronstadt. - The encounter, which took place in the gulf of Finland, was the second the British have hsd recently with bolshevik naval forces which are try ing to harry the Dsthonian army ap proaching Petrograd from the west. On May 18 a thirty-five minute naval fight occurred not far from the local ity of the one now reported. It had a similar result, the bolshevik fleet re tiring to Kronstadt. LONDON POLICE STRIKE IS POSTPONED OR ABANDONED London. London's- threatened po lice strike, for which the members of the force voted by a big majority, has been called off for the present. At the demonstration in Hyde park which had been arranged by the police it was announced that the executive committee o ftheir organization had decided to postpone the strike until after peace was signed. The announcement also was made at the Hyde park meeting that the official ballot of the policemen on the question ' of a strike was 44.549 in favor of and 4,324 against a walkout. Secretary Hays, of the police union, in giving out the figures, explained that the strike committee was not anxious to call a walkout if it could have the men's grievances redressed in any other way. ANGELES "WISES" WASHINGTON AS TO MEXICAN REVOLUTION Washington. General Felipe An geles, recently proclaimed by Villa's forces as provisional president oi Mexico, has sent a communication to Washington for presentation to the state department, setting forth his ob jects in leading the revolution now in progress in northern Mexico. GEN. FAISON TO ADDRESS STATE BANKERS' MEETING Winston-Salem. President Jas. A. Gray, of the North Carolina Bankers' Association, announces that the an nual meeting of financiers will be held in Winston-Salem, August 20-22. The meeting is expected to be most in teresting and valuable. Announce ment Is made of the coming of several speakers of national reputation. These include fieneral S. L. Faison. com mander of the famous Thirtieth ii vision. WANT "PEOPLES BANK" ORGANIZED IN ALL STATES New York. A campaign to bring about organization in every state of "peoples banks," designed to meet the needs of laborers, salaried men, small business men and farmers, was plan ned at a meeting of representative business men. . A committee was ap pointed to work for adoption by Con eress of a federal law authorizing the banks. Members include Governor T. W. Bickett, of North Carolina. MARRIED 2,000 FEET UP IN AIR IN AN AIRPLANE Houston. Texas. With the deafen- ine exhaust from two 2-cylinder Lib erty motors beating the wedding march, Lieut. R. W. Meade, of Cincint nati, O., and Miss Marjorie Dumont, of Yorkville. Ind., were pronounced man and wife more than 2,000 feet above the heads of 10,000 spectators at Ellington field. After the ceremony was completed the pilot drove the Shi for a 20-minute cruise through the he clouds. LAST THROES OF E SAY THEIR PLANS OF LEAGUE OF NATIONS ARE SUPERIOR TO THOSE OF WILSON. STILL PLEADING INABILITY Clemenceau, Speaking of " Germans In Speech Said, "You . Mwst ; Sign t Either at Versailles 4r Berlin. ' Berlin. Germany is willing to agree to the proposed stipulations regard ing her military, aerial; and naval H forces contained in the draft of the peace treaty, provided that she is per mitted to enter the league of nations on an equal footing immediately upon the signing of peace and particularly that she be permitted to share in the complete equality and reciprocity of all nations in the economic domain. This declaration is contained in the second section of the German memorandum embodying the counter proposals to the peace terms. At the same time, it is declared, the German delegation holds to its idea of the su periority of its own draft of proposals for a league of nations. "The covering note," presented to the peace conference by the German delegation says: . "We came to Versailles expecting to receive a peace proposal framed according to the agreed basis. We had a firm resolve to do everything in our power to fulfill the heavy obli gations assumed by us. We were shocked when we read in that docu ment the demands which the victo rious might of our opponents had set forth. The more we studied the spirit of the treaty, the more we were convinced of the impossibility of carrying it out. The demands of this treaty go beyond the strength of the German people." London. Premier Lloyd George, IB his speech to the Welsh division at Amiens, declared, according to The South Wales Daily News: "We say to the Germans: 'Gentle men, you must sign. If you don't do so at Versailles, you shall do so in Berlin. We are not going to give way,"' FIFTEEN STEAMERS TO TAKE FOOD TO HUNGRY SIBERIANS London. Jonas Lied, whose name has long been associated with the de velopment of the Kara sea route, has just returned from Omsk and has been authorized by the Kolchak ad ministration to make arrangements .for the dispatch without delay of 15 steamers of 3.500 tons each with cargo for the Siberian population to be de livered by way of the Kara sea. It is proposed that 10 of these steamers shall start from England and five from New York. Appropriate British and American cargoes are asked for. In exchange for a wide selection of manufactured goods, the Kolchak administration has authoriz ed the exports of homp, flax, hides, furs, wool and other products. SENATOR OVERMAN REGRETS MAKING LEAGUE AN ISSUE Washington. Washington and New York newspapers made a feature of a statement of Senator Overman to the effect that the Democratic national committee made a mistake to declare that it will accept the league of na tions as a party issue. Mr. Overman is quoted as follows: "In my opinion the league of na tions should not be made a party is sue, it should be entirely nonpartisan; those of every political party should join in and support it from purely pa triotic motives. "It is a mistake to try and limit its support to those of one political faith. "I am somewhat surprised at the action of the democratic national com mittee. In any event it can have no influence or control over the senate." APART FROM GERMANY "AUSTRIA IS DOOMED." Vienna. "Austria i3 doomed to economic death if she does not join Germany," said Herr Setz, president of the Austrian republic. "Overloaded as Austria is with this Vienna of 2, 000,000 inhabitants wp have not much industry. "The proposed Danube economic confederation is in my opinoin impos sible because neither the Czechs nor Slavs are willing for such a union." SINN FEIN MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT ARRESTED. Dublin. Lawrence Ginnell, Sinn Fein member of parliament for West Meath, was arrested on charges made in connection with a speech delivered at Athlone. British troops broke up a forbidden meeting at Athlone on May 5. Law rence Ginnell was attempting to ad dress the meeting when the troops ap peared. Several persons were wound ed. COMMITTEE HEARS POSTAL AND WESTERN UNION MEN. Washington. Charges by Newcomb Carlton, president of the Western Union Telegraph company, that Ed ward Reynolds, formerly general man ager of the Postal Telegraph-Cable company, had attempted to make the government operation of the telegraph system a failure, and an alternate de fense of and attack upon Postmaster Burleson were featuren of hearings before the senate conmerc commit- tM. UN C MEXICAN MATTERS GROWING SERIOUS VILLA FORCES HAVE ELECTED GENERAL FELIPE ANGELES PROVISIONAL PRESIDENT. VILLA IS SECRETARY OF WAR Carranza Government Asks Permis sion to Move Troops Through Texas New Mexico and Arizona. Washington Villa" forces have pro claimed . General Felipe Angeles pro visional president of Mexico and Villa himself, secretary of war. r- The move, coming at the-climax of military operations considered by the Carranza government so serious that it has asked the United States for permission to move troops through Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, is regarded here as reflecting a situa tion more serious in Mexico than any since the triumph of Carranza forces over Villa three years ago. Viewed in connection with activities of the Felicista forces in southern Mexico the situation is regarded as full of possibilities. Angeles' reported first proclamation announcing that Americans in Mexico would be protected is pai-t.'cularly in teresting to officials here, com'ng as it does on the heels of the refusal of the state department to grant Car ranza's request that he be allowed to move troops through American terri tory for the purpose of protecting Americans in Chihuahua. Acting Secretary Polk announced that he had notified the Mexican government he could not grant the re quest made unless assurances could be given that Americans would be af forded protection while the troops were in transit. That this could not be done had been admitted previous ly by the Mexican authorities. Gov ernor Hobby, of Texas, declined to aufjhorize the passage of Mexican troops through Texas without guar antees of protection to Americans and so notified the state department SERGEANT YORK, OF ARGONNE, RECEIVES HIS DISCHARGE Chattanooga, Tenn. Sergeant Alvin C. York, Tennessee mountaineer and hero of the battle of the Argonne, who arrived here en route to Fort Ogle thorpe, ; received his discharge from the army and will leave for his home at Pall Mall, Fentress county. Sergeant York arrived at the fort and 30 minutes later had received his physical examination and dis charge from the service, all the pa pers having been prepared in advance. Sergeant York wired Senator Kenneth D. McKellar asking him to introduce the necessary legislation allowing the return of the revolver number 24,048 with which he killed the Germans at the time of his Argonne exploit. The revolver was turned over to the army quartermaster at Retz, France. York was made an honorary mem ber of the Chattanooga Rotary Club and elected a delegate to the Salt Lake convention by the Rotarians. REVISED LEAGUE COVENANT ENDORSED BY CLUB WOMEN Asheville. N. C. By unanimous vote, at a public meeting at the City Auditorium, the mid-biennial council of the General Federation of Women's Clubs of America decided to adopt the revised covenant of the league of na tions. President Wilson was cabled of this act and the foreign relations committee will be wired. Each woman present, over 500, pledged herself to write to her state senator telling him of the stand taken by the council and asking his support in the matter. Unanimously adopting the 10 plans presented by Mrs. J. D. Sherman, of Chicago, for the Americanization which is planned by the General Fed eration of Women's Clubs, took the first definite step toward that end. SALVATION ARMY DRIVE BELIEVED BEYOND GOAL New York. While complete figures are lacking, there is every indication that the Salvation army passed the $13,600,000, goal in its home service campaign by approximately $3,000,000. Thanking the publoc for its support, Mr. Whitman asserted that "the record made by the army in France and in earlier years at home guaran tees that its work of the future will be well done." SEES LITTLE PROSPECT OF REDUCTION IN PRICES Washington. Belief that the coun try's street railway systems will have to seek relief in directions other than a reduction in cost of labor and ma terials was expressed by T. S. Holden, of the department of labor. Mr. Holden declared that building materials were the cheapest com modities on the market by rea son of a less advance in prices of building materials than the prices of other goods. THE "WILD CAT" DIVISION IS NOW HOMEWARD BOUND Washington. The first units of the 81st (Wild Cat) divsion to . return home from France are due at New port News June 7 on the battleship Missouri, which brings companies E, F and G of the 306th ammunition train. The vessel also has aboard the third corps artillery , park and three casual companies. The 817th field artfUary of the "Wild Cat" division la 4 alto at Newport Nsws t SECRETARY DANIELS WANTS READY THINKS 10 BATTLESHIPS AND SIX CRUISERS SHOULD BE COMPLETED AT ONCE. fEMPORARY NAVY OF 250,000 Between Now and End of War Depart ment Will Have Time to Care fully Consider Situation. Washington. -Although the aavy department has placed itself on rec ord as being, opposed to launch ag new builing programs which-: would give the United States a navy "second to none in the world," it is in favor of rushing to completion all capital ships already authorized and of main taining temporarily at least, a force of men capable ofhandling "any emer gency which might arise." Secretary Daniels, continuing his testimony before the house naval af fairs committee, read a communica tion fromthe general board which ren ommended that the 10 battleships and six battle cruisers authorized in ths 1916 program should be completed as soon as possible. Recommendation was made by the secretary that provision be made in the 1920 appropriation bill for a navy of 250,000 men, only 23,000 less than are now in the service. He asserted that unless this number was author ized, the navy would be unable to aid materially in bringing American troops home from Europe and in addi tion would be "dangerously weak ened." Mr. Daniels emphasized that the navy department, did not intend to ask Congress at this time for a permanent navy of 250,000 men but only .for a temporary force large enough to take care of the work arising in the tran sition period between war and peac. Between now and the end of the war, the secretary said, the department wolud have time to study carefully the situation and arrive at a definite conclusion as to the country's needs. EDMONDS CHAMPIONS CAUSE OF SOUTHERN COTTON MEN Atlantic City, N. J. There can be no universal prosperity in America until the cotton growers of the South get a square deal," declared Richard H. Edmonds, editor of the Manufac turers' Record, in" addressing the opening session of the 23rd annual convention of the American Cotton Growers' Association. "We are not asking for government paternalism. The South is not seek ing any favors. What it does ask is that the cotton crop shall be regard ed not as a sectional product but as a great national asset," he continued. "Never since 1865 have the cotton producers attained a fair measure of prosperity. Every effort to better prices for them have been vigorously assailed in manufacturing and finan cial circles in the East and in Eng land. ' "If the South had never produced a bale of cotton it would have been infinitely better off today. Without cotton the South would be the center of the food producing power of Amer ica." LYNCH IS LYNCHED BY AN ANGRY MOB AT LAMA, MO. Springfield, Mo. Jay Lynch, slayer of Sheriff John Harlow and Harlow's son March 3, was hanged by a mob at Lama, Mo.. Lynch, who was captured in Colo rado a few weeks ago, was being ar raigned in the Barton county court house. A mob quickly assembled and, taking the prisoner from the officers, hanged him in the courthouse yard. Lynch was mobbed while seated in the courtroom. Men held the officers and seizing the prisoner, dragged him down the steps of the courthouse to an elm tree about 25 feet from the entrance. Lynch had entered a plea of "guilty" to the charge of murder ing Sheriff Harlow and his son and had been given a life sentence. GERMAN PRESS COMMENTS ON COUNTER-PROPOSALS Berlin. The newspapers comment at great length on the German count er proposals. Theodor Wolff in The Tageblatt says that the whole count er draft corresponds to the Demo cratic ideals of right, and in no way to military nationalist conceptions. The demand "that the occupation troops shall return home in six months at the latest might also be reckoned as meanjt to effect the pres ervation of German sovereignty. BOLSHEVIK'S INTERNAL TROUBLES INCREASING London. The bolsheviki are faced by further internal troubles and ths official statement received here by wireless from Moscow refers to the "internal front" where "an advance against Vinnista has been stopped." According to a t el gram received here from Kem, the bolshevik com missioners in the Shunga district werw killed and the red guards dispersed. Confirmation of this report Is contain ed in the Russian wireless statement. BARRIER MUST BE RAISED TO KEEP OUT CHEAP GOODS Atlantic City, N. J. Arthur J. 'Dra per, of Charlotte. N. C. president of the American Cotton Manufacturers Association, declared . in an address before the annual convention of that organization here that if the cotton men were to continue their present big wage scale there would have t be a barrier to keep out the influx of cotton goods made by cheap labor. "This applied equaU; to our export trsds," be said. OVER THE LAND OF THE L0NGLEAF PINE SHOUT NOTES OF INTEREST TO CAROLINIANS. Asheville. Horace Sentelle, busi ness manager of the Asheville Times, and several associates will soon open a print shop in the city. Mr. Sentelle, it is understood,. will continue to hold his position with the Times. Charlotte. Charlotte people will be interested to know that Phillip Kline, a Charlotte boy, was rescued from the steamer Virginian, which was de stroyed a few days ago between Balti more and Norfalk. Chapel Hill. Twenty students will be selected from the State University to attend a small arms school at Paris Island, S. C, this summer. Asheville. The grand council of the United Commercial Travelers of the two Carolinas will meet in Asheville with headquarters at the Langren June 13-14, guests of local Council No. 285. Washington. It was announced by the war department that Lieutenant Seazer and Sergeant First Class A. R, Reith arrived at Tarboro, N. C, from Langley field in Curtis JU-6 in 90 min utes, distance 125 miles. Raleigh. A statement issued by the trustees of the State College of Agri culture and Engineering completely exonerated President W. C. Riddick from the charges against him made by the students in their recent round robin, demanding his resignation. Trustees declare the college manage ment deserving utmost confidence. Asheville. The two United States senators from North Carolina will be urged to vote for woman suffrage by the central labor union of Asheville. Hickory. Hickory officers were searching for two white boys who in broad daylight entered the home of Charlie Watson at Connelly Springs and made off with $250 is money. Salisbury. Salisbury's annual Chau tauqua opened with a record attend ance. The guarantors went over the top nicely with the guarantee, and the seven-day program starts oft welL Winston-Salem. Jesse N. Burke was killed, and a man named Kelly, perhaps fatally injured at Burk's mill, six miles west of town, when one ot the combers burst, one piece of atone striking Burke on the head, death re sulting in a few minutes. Another piece hit Kelly on the leg, breaking it Asheville. At the meeting of the North Carolina Grand Lodge I. O. O. F., it was decided to hold the next meeting of the Grand Lodge, May II of next year at Gastonia. Wilmington. Chairman Frank Page of the State Highway Commission hat announced that State and Federal aid will be available for the building of some 1,500 feet of causeway within the city limits across the marches of Brunswick county. The improve ment to this road will cost 9150,000. Asheville. During the last 10 days. 10 stills have been destroyed in this immediate section. Kings Mountain. The Victory OIn Company, recently organized here by about 100 of the leading farmers and citizens of Kings Mountain have placed an order for the big gin outfit Concord. A Campaign is to be wag d in Concord and Cabarrus county foi subscriptions for an endowment fund for the Laura Sundarland Memorial school, the school conducted here by the Northern Presbyterian church. The sum desired to be. raised here is $10,000. Salisbury. Ellis Troutman, son of James E. Troutman, of Rockwell, this county, is in a local hospital suffering from what is feared will prove a fatal injury. While hunting squirrels he ac cidentally shot himself in the abdc men with a 22 rifle, the bullet making two dozen perforations. Loulsburg. Sheriff H. A. Kearney captured an 80-gallon still on the R. P. Taylor farm, five miles from Louis burg. He got the still completed. Raleigh. A conference of District Agents, Extension Workers and mem bers of the office of Extension Work at Washington will be held at Raleigh, June 17 and 18, for the purpose of dis cussing all plan,) of agricultural exten sion activity In this State during the coming fiscal year. Both men and women workers will take part in this conference. Winston-Salem. Salem College baa closed its 118th annual session, pre senting diplomas to 40 young ladles, representing North and South Ca.t Una, Virginia and Tennessee. Newton. Tom Gwynn, negro, who was placed on trial at a special term of Catawba county superior court tn a charge of attacking a 16-year-o'd high school girl near Hickory on April 29, was found guilty by a jury and sentenced to die In the electric cha'r at the state penitentiary at Raleigh, on June 27. Durham. More than 500 gallons of beer was destroyed by county officers when they raided a Patterson town ship still. Two negroes were working at the still and apparently were in the act of starting a run when the of ficers arrived on the scone. Reidsvllle. Ad enthusiastic meeting of the joint committees from the town of Reidsvllle, C. & A. association and Red Cross chapter, was held for tha purpose of perfecting plans for the entertainment of the returned soldiers of Rockingham county here on Juhr 4.