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Chatham ECOED ESTABLISHED SEPT. 19, 3878. PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C. JUNE 12, 1919 VOL. XL NO. 45 DEMOCRATS OPEN 1920 CAMPAIGN Aggressive Fight for Presidency Promised by Leaders of the Party. SHOW SPIRIT OF CONFIDENCE Representative Women From All Sec tions of the Country Present at Meeting of the National Com mittees at Chicago. The formal opening guns for the presidential campaign of 1920 were fired at Chicago on May 28 and 29 at a gaihering of the Democratic Na tional committee, the Associate Wom en's National committee and many chairmen and secretaries of state com mittees. Members of President Wil son's cabinet and other notable party leaders were present, and while sounding keynotes took occasion to vigorously denounce the Republican leaders for the character of their at tacks, as well as to call attention to Democratic achievements during the last eight years. The participation of the women, for the first time, in the national councils of the party brought representatives from all sections of the country, and on the occasion of the banquet they divided the oratorical honors with men of political note for many years. There was no lack of confidence on the part of men or women. The lat ter, while hoping for universal suf frage in the election of 1920, pledged the Democrats those western suffrage states that played such an Important part in 1916. The general effect of the meeting was to sound the tocsin for an aggressive war from now on, in which a tour to every debatable state west of the Mississippi river, by Homer S. Cummings, national chair man, will form an important part. There was not a Democratic leader present who did not leave Chicago convinced that a vigorous counter attack would be made on the Repub licans. Republicans Reactionary. Terming the Republican party "one that complains and moves back ward," and the peace treaty and the League of Nations covenant as the "greatest document of human liberty ever prepared," " Chairman Cum mings on his arrival in Chicago start ed things moving briskly. Striking smartly at the Republican "Old Guard," he said: "It is manifest that the Republican party has again fallen under reactionary leadership. The choice of the committee heads in the recently organized house of represent atives is very discouraging to every progressive American, while the elec tion of Senator Penrose to head the finance committee of that body indi cates the type of leadership to which the Republican party is committed." The banquet held on the evening of May 29 was the occasion of addresses by Mr. Cummings, Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, assistant secretary of the navy. In speaking of Republican "slander" Mr. Cummings was loudly applauded when he said that "As I read the re ports of these speeches of strict and unrelenting partisanship X; wonder what phrases of abuse, what language of vituperation, what invective, what recital of blunders and crimes would have agitated the political atmosphere if the president of the United States had led the country to a disastrous conclusion of an unsuccessful war! Every epithet of reproach already has been exhausted In an attempt to dis credit the leadership of America's president at a time when America's prestige was never greater, America's power never so vast, and America's success never so transcendent. The campaign of slander, which Is the very spume of politics, has been reserved for America's greatest leader in the hour of America's greatest triumph. To listen to the. spokesmen of the Re publican organization Is to gather the impression that America lost the war and has been forced into a discredit able peace, humiliating to all lovers of constitutional government and free dom." Democratic Party's Record. In refuting oldtime Republican claims that the Democratic party was sectional, lacked experience in leader ship, was committed to free trade, in capable of providing revenue, insin cere In professions of friendship for labor, inimical to the farmer, an en emy to legitimate business and in capable of carrying on a war. Attor ney General Palmer paid tribute to President Wilson by saying: "They said the Democratic party lacked the experience In training in statesmanship which made for con structive leadership in solving the complicated problems on the far-flung line of your governmental activities. NOV KEEP DEMOCRACY SAFE All Classes Must Join in Fight to Re tain the Fruits of Recent Victorious War. There will be skeptics of course ; but let them ask themselves whether the times are not .out of joint and grave problems pressing; and whether, there fore, community service may not help to set the times right and aid in solv ing these problems by bringing all classes together in common sympathy PROUD OF PARTY'S RECORD Democrats Have Reason for Confidence in Their Appeal to the Coun try Next Year. The Democrats, in making their preparations for the election next year, justly feel that, so far as "the party's record is concerned, they arte-on strong cround. The achievements in the ad ministration in peace and war outstrip 'n many respects anything that was ver accomplished In this country by We produced the acknowledged leariei of the liberal thought of the world, under whose standard gather the tried statesmen of every civilized nation , holding up his hands, as with cleai vision and superb courage he lead the peoples of the world in their vic torious charge against the arch-enemy of civilization." Assistant Secretary Roosevelt, In discussing the victories of the Penrose and Mann groups in the senate and house, said that "the new Republican congress has only commenced its work, but it is already clear that on matters of internal policy it has reverted to type." and he vigorously assailed the Republicans for having in mind the accession to the presidency only, when he said: "This, too, is the obvious ob jective in the foreign policy of the Re publican party. . I asked a prominent member of that party, who happens to be an intimate personal friend of mine, what is the purpose or the pol icy of Senator Lodge as chairman of the committee on foreign relations. He said, 'That changes from day to day. When Mr. Lodge reads his morn ing paper at the breakfast table and sees what the president has said or done, his policy of the next twenty four hours becomes the diametrical op posite.' You could not get two Repub lican senators to agree on a definite foreign policy along constructive lines, but you can get a majority to oppose anything put forward by the president of the United States. Aims Well Defined. "So we are approaching the cam paign of 1920 approaching it with the broad principles settled in advance: conservatism, special privilege, parti sanship, destruction on the one hand ; liberalism, common sense idealism, constructiveness and progress on the other," said Mr. Roosevelt. Maintaining that the League of Na tions will not be made a partisan af fair unless the Republicans so elect, the Democratic National "committee recorded Itself in favor of the cove nant in brief terms, as follows: "We, the Democratic National com mittee, recognizing the, splendid serv ices being rendered by President Wil son In behalf of a just and enduring peace, extend to him our heartfelt good wishes and congratulations, and be it "Resolved, that we do hereby record ourselves in favor of the prompt rati fication by the senate of the treaty ot peace, including the covenant of the League of Nations." One address, made by a woman, that attracted much attention from the newspapers was that Mrs. William R. Pattangall of Maine in predicting that the women could control the Pine Tree state and that victory lay within Dem ocratic grasp if the proper appeal was made to the women. Tribute to President Wilson. "But the woman vote cannot be bought, it cannot be handled by ward heelers, nor can it be carried off its feet by brass bands or spread-eagle oratory," said she. "If we cannot vote for Woodrow Wilson in 1920 we want to vote for someone as nearly like him as possible." At the request of the women the committee adopted this resolution: "Whereas, the' Democratic party stands committed to the just cause of woman suffrage, and "Whereas, it now seems certain that the federal amendment granting suf frage to women will within a few days pass the United States senate, and "Whereas, the Democratic party earnestly desires that women of all states may vote In the election of 1920 ; therefore be it "Resolved, by the Democratic Na tional committee, that It urges the call ing of special session's of state legis latures wherever necessary, to ratify said amendment." Both W. W. Durbin, chairman of the Ohio Democratic State Executive com mittee, and Frederick Van Nuys, chair man of the Indiana State committee, denounced some of the methods used by Will II. Hayes, chairman of the Re publican National committee, as out classing Col. W. W. Dudley of Indiana, who won fame in the presidential cam paign of 1888 by writing a letter in structing workers to "arrange" for votes in "blocks of five." Both Messrs. Durbin and Van Nuys praised perma nent organization methods, and de scribed those in their states. The Democratic National committee called the attention of the nation to the achievements of Woodrow Wilson and the Democratic party in lengthy resolutions that reoited the legislative attainments, the world war, women's suffrage, etc. ' Not to Be Had. A colored bakery company, while en route to the other side, was being inspected to see that each man had a life belt. Company Commander Now, if any man is without a life preserver, I want to know it. Private Johnson Wheah am dat life rejervah, ah had It heah right on ma bunk. . Private Jackson Listen heah, bud dy, you all betta fin' dat life reservah, 'cause when the time comes to use 'em da ain't nobody a-lendin 'em at all. Camp Merrltt Dispatch. and sense of responsibility. The American people, native and foreign born, have fought together In the war to save democracy. They must fight side by side to keep the stronghold of democracy against enemies from without and within, and to vanquish those enemies and prevail and be se cure they must be truly democratic, In thought and deed and service, mem bers of one great family of freemen, which cannot be until they understand one another and keep step in the march of progress. any administration. The successes have been so monumental and the mis takes so inconsiderable in comparison that the past will take care of itself. But this past, which stands the party in such good stead, has been such as to give America a new vision of the fu ture. The Democratic party cannot take Mark Hanna's advice and stand pat. The president has seen this change coming and voiced its meaning In his message when he spoke of the demo cratization of Industry. IMPORTANT NEWS THE WORLD OVER IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIS AND OTHER NATIONS FOR SEVEN DAYS GIVEN THE NEWS JF THE SOUTH What Is Taking Place In The South, land Will Be Found In Brief Paragraphs Domestic An aviation field will be establish ed at Rome, Ga., to be known as the Towers field in honor of the intrepid naval aviator, Lieutenant Commander Towers, who was the ranking officer In the recent trans-Atlantic flight and who is a native of the north Georgia city. Seventy-eight men lost their lives in the Baltimore number two tunnel of the Delaware and Hudson Coal com pany explosion and fire and thirty qne were injured, according to a list given out by the company. A car of black powder attached to a trip of cars on which the men were riding to their chambers in the mine, ex ploded. An electric motor drew the cars. An offer of $50,000 as prize money for aviators who will attempt a flight from California to Australia, was made by Thomas H. Ince. The first man to land on Australian soil, $35,000 will be paid, the announcement said. Seafaring of the sort that flourish ed in the early eighteenth century when a foremost hanc was virtually a slave and his brawny skipper, armed with a belaying pin, his undisputed master, was described in federal court in New York City by John W. Camp bell, a 22-year-old high school boy of Maquoketa, Iowa, who answered the call of the seas and ran away from home with Skipper Adolph C. Peder son as cabin boy on the antiquated barkentine Puako. Campbell was the first witness for the government, which has charged Pedersen and his son, Adolph, rate of the Puako, in an old-fashioned indictment, with the murder on the high seas of Axel Han sen, a seaman. They are alleged to have driven Hansen overboard by cru elty and to have left hiiu to perish in the sea. Two men were shot t3 death and two others were dangerously wounded in a riot growing out of the labor disturb ances involving 13,000 employees of the Willys-Overlani Automobile com pany at Toledo, Ohio. The victims, presumably idle employees of the com pany, were killed by discharged sol diers who are guardir-g the plant. The killing was the culmination of three riots, which resulted in injury to thir teen persons. A Washington dispatch says that fa vorable report on the bill of Senator Kellogg, Republican, of Minnesota, for the immediate return of the telephone and telegraph wires to private owner ship was ordered by tue senate inter state commerce committee after the measure had been amended so as to continue existing telephone rates for sixty days after final action by con gress. A New Orleans dispatch says that shortly before the Interstate Bank and Trust company branch bank in Algiers opened for saving daposits an elderly man held up the teller, ob taining $15,000, locked the teller in the vauii and escaped by taking the ferry boat to New Orleans. Twenty minutes after the robbery a runner from the main ban! in New Orleano arrived and heard the teller beating on the vault doors and gave the alarm. Washington Returns frcjm the elections just held In the Philippines indicate a sweeping victory for the Nationalist party, which supported the sending of the recent "independent mission" to Amer ica. American marines have been landed at Punta Arenas and Port Limas, Cos ta Rica, because of the revolution against the government, headed by General Tinoco, according to dispatch es from San Salvador. In conection with the discussion of the contents of the peace treaty with Germany as the text of that treaty is known to the New York in terests possessing copies of it the statement was made that the labor "addenda" to the main treaty will cre ate something of a sensation when marte public. The senate7 with one dissenting vote, adopted a resolution requesting the United States delegation at the pese conference, to use its good of fices to give the Sinn Feiners a hearing- The resolution even went so far sis to express sympathy with the aspirations of the Irish people for an independent government. Buenos Aires, Argentina, remarka hle as it may seem, though a city of a million and a half population, is without a single newspaper, the pro prietors having locked out the prin ters because they refused to com pose advertisements for a boycotted iepaj'tment store. Tim country is faced by a wire tie up. tt is stated that a general wire strike will be called very shortly. Postmaster General Burleson says that the government has not relinquished control, but has simply permitted the companies to resume operation under eoyjp'nmpnt supervision Daintiness. ' Whatever rumors may be afloat from time to time about the complete dis appearance of separate white neck wear, there is no necessity for being alarmed about them. For separate neckwear of the daintiest kind will endure so long as woman's love for the dainty endures. To be sure, there are many frocks now made that have no place for the bits of dainty chif fon and georgette and organdie that go by the name of neckwear. But even mora sure in the fuct that most. A Paris dispatch says that the members of the American peace dele gation disturbed by the report that copies of the German peace terms have reached New York, -are under taking to check up all the copies is sued in order to ascertaiin if any are missing. Mexico will protect all foreign in vestments in that country and if other countries only are patient Mexico will pay all of her debts, Dr. John B. Rojo, counselor and charge d'affaires ad in terim of the Mexican embassy, told the pan-American commercial congress. His words, "I assure you all foreign investments in Mexico are safe and will be protected," brought a storm of applause from the large gathering of representatives of the Latin-American countries and the United States. It. is stated that the railroads will be returned to the owners at an early date. The government will keep con trol of the rates. Commander John H. Towers flight commander of the navy trans-Atlantic seaplane squadron, was relieved of all d.ity with that squadron and assigned to service with the commission for air terms now sitting at Paiis. The closing of the war does not mean that the United States navy can I "rest on its oars," Secretary Daniels told the graduating class at Aannap olis: Great clashes will be made by the 'Republican majority in the govern jroent expenses, especially relative to the army and navy. The Republicans (are giving rigid scrutiny to all bills carrying approriations. Director General Hiles erports that there was a loss of fifty-eight million dollars by the railroad administration during the month of April. Action by congress on equal suf fragesubject of a fight of forty for ty Years' riliratinn an A a A j - - w.. nmvu in auupuuu jby the senate by a vote of 56 to 25 ,of the historic Susan B. Anthony cou , stitutional amendment resolution I The proposed amendment, adopted . Dy tne bouse by a vote of 304 to 89, j May 21, as the first act of the new con gress, now goes to the states, ratifica tion ay legislatures or three-fourths of which is required for' its incorporation in the federal constitution. Favorable report on the -bill to re peal the daylight saving law on the last Sunday in October was voted by the house interstate commerce committee. The vote of the commit tee was ten to eight. European Hugo Haase, leader of the Inde pendent Socialists, declared in an in terview that Germany should sign the peace treaty regardless of whether she can obtain any modifiications. A Copenhagen dispatch says that a part of the Bulgarian armv ha a been mobilized and is marching to- Jward the Serbian frontier. j The Paris Matin says President Wil son is firmly convinced that the trea ty project submitted to Germany rio lates none of the 14 points. j Under pressure of the British forces the Bolsheviki have evacuated Alex- 'androvsk in the trans-Caspian territo ry of the eastern shore of the Cas- ipian sea. German forces on the Esthonian front are reported to be giving aid to the Bolshevists. The Hungarian Bolshevist army is reported to be achieving signal suc cess at some points. A contingent of American infantry, which has been serving in northern Russia, have boarded a transport for he journey to the United States. These are first American troops detailed to sail for home. The detachment will go to Brest. Six companies of the 339th infantry, aggregating 1,600 men or approximately one-third of the American force on the Archangel front, comprise the first detachment to leave. They embraked at Economia, the winter port of Archangel. Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau, the head of the German peace delegation, has sent a formal letter of protest to the peace conference, complaining that the army of occupation ' in Ger many are arbitrarily protecting and favoring the individuals, who are at tempting to establish a Rhenish re public. The German government is circulat ing the full text of the peace terms throughout the adjoining neutral coun tries. The volumes, carrying the text in German, English and French, are prominently displayed- in Scandinavi an book stores. They were issued by the German admiralty printing estab lishment. Fire broke out during the perform ance in a moving picture house at Va-lence-Sur-Rhone, France, and a large number of persons were ki.led or in jured. The list of dead had reached 84, the bodies of 53 children and 21 women having been found. One man succumbed to asphyxiation. The in juries of most of those taken from the building by firemen were slight. There were some one hundred of these. Four thousand spectators were in the thea ter when the fire broke out. Admiral Canto Castro, president ot the Republic of Portugal, will reniain in power as a res alt of the recent legislative elections in which the Democrats were victorious. "Farewell, dear comrades. Here, under the clear skies, on the green hillside and aimed the flowing field of France, in the quiet rush of peace, we leave you forever in God s keep ing." With these words. General Per shing, commander of the American ex peditionary forces, closed his Memo rial Day address at Romagnft in the Argonne cemetery. women look better when some bit of white or light colored fabric breaks the severity of a dark gown at fhe neck. Which means that lovely neck wear will persist. That Old Waist. If an old white silk blouse has be; come floppy and Is easily soiled, you can give It a fresh appearance by first washing It and then dipping It In very thin, warm starch. It should then be wrung out, dried, sprinkled with water to render lufficlently damp, and Ironed SENATE OBTAINS COPT OF TREATY AFTER BITTER FIGHT ORDERS ARE GIVEN TO PRINT AND INSERT IN RECORD. WILSON CABLES HIS REFUSAL Investigation Is Started With Unex pected Vigor by the Committee on Foreign Relations. Washington. Out of a whirlwind of developments the senate got a copy of the peace treaty and, after a five-hour fight, ordered it printed in the public record. At the same time it got under way the investigation of how copies have reached private hands in New York by summoning to testify a half dozen of the country's leading financiers. The xopy which went into the rec ord was brought to this country by a newspaper man and was presented bY Senator Borah, Republican, of Idaho, just after the reading of a cablegram from President Wilson saying he could not without breaking faith send the senate the text of the treaty. The effect of the day's history-making developments was to clear the air on the much debated subject of pub licity for the treaty, to widen the breach between the President and the senate majority, and to forecast a sen sational turn for the inquiry into the manner by which copies of the docu ment have become available to un authorized persons. Starting its investigation with an unexpected vigor, the foreign rela tions committee, within a half hour after it convened, voted to call before it J. P. Morgan, H. P. Davison and Thomas F. Lament, all of the Morgan banking house, Jacob Schiff, of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., and Pul Warburg, for merly connected with the same con cern, and Frank A. Vanderlip, former president of the National City bank. It then examined Frank L. Polk, act ing secretary rf state, about the offi cial copies in the state department vaults. EMBARGO LIFTED BY WILSON ON EXPORTATION OF GOLD Washington. To hasten return to normal economic conditions and re store the American dollars to a parity in several foreign countries, the con trol exercised by the government over transactions in foreign exchange and the exportation of gold coin, bul lion and currency, was terminated by President Wilson, acting on recom mendations of the federal reserve board. Exceptions made by the President included importation or exportation of ruble notes or exchange operations with that part of Russia now under the control of the bolsheviki govern ment and exchange transactions with territories in respect of which such transactions are at present admitted only through American relief ad ministration. PERMISSION MAY BE GIVEN GERMANY TO ENTER LEAGUE Paris. Germany, if she signs the peace treaty and gives satisfactory guarantees that she will establish a stable government and morally carry out the provisions of the treaty, doubt less will be permitted to become a member of the league of nations. The council of four at present has this momentous- subject under consid eration and from unofficial reports thus far received there seemingly is no strong objection to Germany be coming associated with the other na tions in the league, if by contriteness she proves her worthiness to member ship. ,By permitting membership to Ger many; the feeling prevails in peace conference circles that there will be no likelihood of a coalition between the country and Russia, which in the future might be a source of trouble, and that with Germany inside the league could be kept more tractable than outside it. UNITS OF WILDCAT DIVISION ARRIVE AT NEWPORT NEWS Newport News, Va. Veteran "Wild cats" of the Eighty-first division. Caro lina and Tennessee men of the first drafts, have arrived here. They are members of the 316th field artillery, in command of Col. Russell P. Reed er, a regular army man, of Marbury, Ala. Their ranks were practically in tact, since they did not reach the front in France. The 316th was inset b,ere by the 317th field artillery. TO AVOID POSSIBILITY OF RIVAL COMBINATION Paris. The movement to admit Germany to the league of nations is due mainlv to the desire to avoM the Twssibile formation of another group composed of rival powers, which would embrace Germany, Russia and the old Teutonic group. Evidences have reached the coc ference leaders of influences at work in Germany and Russia to establish relations as a basis for a combination of powers not in the league CONTRIBUTIONS ARE NOT DEDUCTIBLE FROM INCOME Statesville. N. C. Collector Walts has received the following telegram from Commissioner Roper: "Contributions made by corpora tions are not deductible from gross in come. Regulations to this effect sus tained by opinion of att ;rnev general dated May 19." According'y this item not subject to bona fide claim for abatement. Such claims wjll be auto matically rejected and penalty of five oer cent f the deficiency imposed, "LEAK PROBE" IS ON IN PEACE TREATY BILL TO END WIRE CONTROL BY THE GOVERNMENT, CHIEF MATTER OF INTEREST. TO PARE DOWN ARMY BILL Senate Will Decide Question of Immu nity of Senators Lodge and Borah in Withholding Information. Washington. Congress enters the fourth week of the new session with broadening activities and increased speed urged by leaders. The so-called peace treaty "leak" Investigation and the bill to end gov ernment control of the wires consti tutes the senate's work of principal interest, while the house plans to en gage in a clean-up of appropriation bills, starting with the paring down of the $800,000,000 army bilL Investiga tions of army and shipping affairs and also election of Victor Berger, social ist, of Wisconsin, also will be started by committees. Leaders on both sides are anxious for the investigation to start, however, and before the end of the week it may be well under way. One of the first difficulties to com plicate the inquiry doubtless will be the question of senatorial immunity as it applies to Senators Lodge and Borah in connection with their state ments of the existence of treaty cop ies in New York. Senator Hitchcock, of Nebraska, and other Democrats of the committee, will oppose this view, holding that no such immunity can be invoked to hold back facts of material importance to the inquiry. They declare the charges made by the two senators are too se rious to be dropped now. The names of many men prominent in national politics and in financial circles have been mentioned about the capitol. DETROIT IS FACING COURT ACTION IN ITS CAR STRIKE i Detroit, Mich. With the city com pletely without traction service and no promise of a settlement of the three cornered controversy between the Detroit United Railway Company, its striking carmen and the city coun cil, state officials threaten court ac tion to relieve the situation, fearing expansion of the tie-up to include a large part of southern Michigan. The strike became effective June 7. Attorney General Groesbeck inti mated that unless the three factions reach an agreement he will ask a court order compelling operation of the lines until an adjustment can be effected. Not a car wheel turned within the city and there were no conferences of those interested. CONFEDERATE GRAVES; IN ARLINGTON DECORATED Washington. Southerners in the nation's capital including many gov ernment officials paid tribute to the memory of the Confederate soldier and sailor dead buried in Arlington National cemetery with commemora tion services in the Confederate sec tion of the cemetery. Representative Clarence N. Stedman, of Greensboro, N. C, made the memorial address. The tomb of the unknown dead, the grave of General Joe Wheeler and those of Confederate soldiers and sailors which occupy the Virginia hills overlooking Washington were decorated with flow ers in profusion and a floral southern cross was unveiled. FIRST CUBAN IS GRADUATED FROM U. S. NAVAL ACADEMY Washington. Ensign Carlos Aurelio Hevia, son ot Colonel Aurelio Hevia, former secretary of the war and navy in the Cuban cabinet, is the first Cuban to graduate from U. S. Naval Academy.' He was handed his di ploma at the graduating exercises by his father, who wa accorded this un usual privilege by Secretary Daniels. RAILROADS SHOULD BE MADE TO RETURN MONEY ADVANCED Washington. Railroads under fed eral control should be required to re turn to the government "as rapidly as practicable, $775,000,000 advanced for improvements and equipment, Direc tor General Hines told the house ap propriations committee at his appear ance, according to the printed record of the hearings. "These improvements have been made for the benefit of the railroad companies," the director general said. INCREASE IN NATIONAL BANKS SHOWN IN REPORT Washington. The office of the comptroller of the currency Issued a statement today showing a great in crease.,in new national bank organiza tions since January and marked im provement in general business. Since January 1 there has been re ceived 312 "requests for new charters and applications approved for permis sion to increase the capital of existing national banks. Ten of Ihese come from North Carolina." SENATOR HOKE SMITH'5 WE DIES AT HER GEORGIA HOME Atlanta, Ga. Mrs. Hoke &&Uh, wife of United States Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia, died at her home here after a long illness. Mrs. Smith was born at Athens, Ga. She was the daughter of General R. R. Cobb, a noted Confed erate officer. She is survived by her husband, a son, Marion Smith of At lanta, and three daughters. Mrs. Ron ald Ransom, Atlanta, Mrs. Alston Simpson and Mrs. Lymart Pratt, Wash .'nfton. LIS PARTLTJELEASED POSTMASTER GENERAL STEALS MARCH ON CONGRESS BY ANTICIPATING ACTION. BURLESON EXPLAINS REASONS Duty Compelled Return of Operative Control of the Various Properties to Their Several 'Owners. Washington. Telegraph and tele phone companies, whose lines the gov ernment has controlled since last Au gust 1, were ordered to resume imme diately operations for their own ac count, by Postmaster General Burle son. The postofTice deoartment how- ever, under terms of Mr. Burleson's order, retains a measure of control of the services, pending final legislative action by Congress. Regulations prohibiting discrimina tion against wire emnloves because of union affiliations, maintaining exist ing rates ana charges and instructing companies to keep special accounts to facilitate cost settlement between themselves and the government, are reiaanea in effect under the order Is sued by the postmaster general. Mr. Burleson accompanied the, or der with a statement giving the rea sons which impelled him to take the action. He asserted that the Presi dent having recommended the return of the properties, the senate interstate commerce committee having indicated that immediate return was advisable and the house committee having through hearings manifested a desire for action toward that end, he felt It his duty to return operative control to the various owners. CLEMENCEAU SHAKES FIST IN THE FACE OF LLOYD GEORGE Paris. Acrimonious debates at se cret meetings' of the big four regard ing proposed modifications of the financial clauses of the German treaty are threatening to disrupt the whole fabric of the new wo.-ld order erected with so much care during the last five months. As things stand now, Premier Lloyd George is engaged in the bitterest fight of the whole peace conference, his principal antagonist being M. Clemenceau, who, responsive to France's appeals from the whole burgeois and propertied classes of France, maintained his firm stana against the proposed alterations. It is reported on excellent authority that the Tiger went so far as to shake his first in Lloyd George's face, declaring that he would never consent to the impoverishment of Fi ance for the ben efit of the Boches. SHORT-LINE RAILROAD MEN APPLAUD SPEECH OF SMITH Washington. Confidence that Con gress wolud dispose expeditiously of legislation needed to stabilize condi tions and return the railroads to pri vate ownership was expressed by Sen ator Smith, of South Carolina, forme, chairman of the senate commerce committee, in an address before the American short-line railroad conven tion. Senator Smith said he believed the settlement o fthe problem would fol low the teachings of American democ racy "giving each man a fair chance in a free fight, rather than putting it all in one bag and pro-rating the earnings." His statement wan applauded vig orously. AWFUL CATASTROPHE OCCURS IN WILKES BARRE TUNNEL Wilkes Barre, Pa. Eighty-three men dead and 50 others burned and maimed, many of wSom will die, is the toll of a disaster in the Baltimore tunnel of the Delaware & Hudson Coal Co., in the- East End section of the city. Seven kegs of black powder. 3,000 pounds in all, were detonated and the dead and the maimed were literally roasted by l,he super-heated gas 'flames following the explosion. AUTHORITIES OF EIGHT CITIES INTERCHANGE BOMB PROBERS. New York. The eight cities in which bomb outrages were perpetrat ed have arranged for an interchange of police officers to facilitate co-operation of all the agencies at work run ning down the radicals responsible for the explosion, it was innounced at po lice headquarters lere. The state ment came at the close of a confer ence between federal agents and rep resentatives of the municipal police departments of various cities. VON BROCKDORFF-RANTZAU MAKES FORMAL PROTEST Paris. Count von Brockdorff-Rantzau, head of the German peace ' dele gation, has sent a formal letter of pro test to the peace conference com plaining that the armies of -occupation in Germany are arbitrarily protecting and favoring the individuals who are attempting to establish a Rheinish re public. The protest adds that the armies also are preventing loyal Ger mans from manifesting counter feel ing. ALABAMA LEGISLATORS ARE AGAINST THE AMENDMENT Birmingham, Ala. Results of a poll of Alabama legislature senators and representatives taken by The Bir mingham News on the probable vote on the federal woamn suffrage amend ment show more than 40 who declare they will vote against the amendment, seven In favor of the amendment and four who were undecided. There are 35 senators and 115 represen tatives In the legislature which meet! In Jul?. WIRE SENATE DIRECTS T HOW DID PEACE TREATY COME INTO HANDS OF OUTSIDERS IN NEW YORK? FOLL TEXT IS NOW DEMANDED Resolutions Were Adopted Just After Dramatic Clash Between Senators Hitchcock and Lodge. Washington. Resolutions asking the state department for the text ot the treaty with Germany and direct ing the foreign relations committee to investigate how copies of the unpub lished document have reached private hands in New York were adopted by the senate without a roll call. Action on the two proposals came unexpectedly during a lull In the stormy debate they had aroused, and scarcely a score of senators were in the chamber, when in quick succes sion, the resolutions were put to a vote. Their passage itself, however, was no surprise, as it generally had been conceded that each would have a majority. Under the investigation resolution, introduced at the request of the White House by Senator Hitchcock ot Nebraska, senior Democrat of the for eign relations committee, it is ex- pected that a far-reaching inquiry will begin within a few days. Adoption of the Hitchcock resolu tion came first, just after the debate had reached a dramatic climax In a clash between Mr. Hitchcock and Chairman Lodge, of the foreign rela tions committee. After this clash a request by Mr. Lodge that the senate substitute an investigation resolution was withdrawn. REDUCTION IS DEMANDED IN ARMY AND NAVY BILL Washington. Reduction of govern ment expenses by a close scrutiny of all appropriation requests was de manded by Republican leaders In the house. Republican members of the military committee meeting with their party's legislative steering committee, headed by Floor Leader "Mondell, were told to make all efforts to curtail army expensed without robbing any activity of necessary funds, and similar re quest was made of other appropriat ing committeemen at the Informal con ferences. Chaiirman Kahn told the party leaders that the army bill authorizing $1,100,000,000 when passed the house In the last Congress would be reduced by nearly $400,000,000 and later It was learned that the naval committee expected to cut the naval appropria tion bill to about $600,000,000, effect ing a saving of more than $100,000,000 over the amount carried when the measure was in the last Congress. APRIL RAILROAD DEFICIT IS APPROXIMATELY $58,00O,00d Washington. Dirttctor General Hines estimated that the railroad daministration incurred a deficit cf approximately $58,000,000 In April, making a total deficit of $250,000,000 for the first four months of the year. The director general reiterated, how ever, his previously expressed Judg ment that present economic conditions were too much unsettled to afford a safe basis for decision as to the ne cessity for increased rates to offset the difference between income and operating costs. For the present there will be no raise, he added, the admin istration confining .Itself to practicing every possible economy. BOLSHEVIK AGITATOR HAS BEEN EXECUTED AT MUNICH Munich, Bavaria. Levine NIssen, the bolshevik agitator who was one of the leaders of the Munich communist soviet regime, was executed at Stad elhelm, outside the capital. He was convicted and the Bavarian cabinot refused to commute his sentence, maintaining that he was the cause of the civil war in Bavaria and deserved no mercy. CARLTON SAY3 STRIKERS WILL NOT BE TAKEN BACK Atlanta, Ga. Announcement toy President Newcomb Carlton of the Western Union Telegraph and Cable Company, that Morse and multiplex operators in the southeast who went on strike would not be reemployed anda statement from 8. J. Konenkamp, president of the Commercial Tele graphers' Union of America, that he would Issue a call for a nation-wide strike, were the lateU developments. DANIELS MAY BE OFFERED UNIVERSITY PRESIDENCY Washington North Carolinians here "hink there is a Serinus movement on In North Carolina to make Secretary Daniels president V the state uni versity. The name ot Mr. Danieli was not suggested until within the last few days, after he made a short visit to his old home at Goldsboro, upon his return from abroad. It is believed here that Mr. Danieli would accept the portion If It is ot fered by the board cf trustees CONTROVERSY AMONG BIG FOUR AT ACUTEST POINT Paris. The controversy aroused In the big four by the British, proposals to effect a revision of the financial terms of the treaty handed the Ger mans . at Versailles hat reached its acutest point. President Wilson ab solutely is opposed to any change In the principle of the obligation on the part of the Germans to make the tall est reparation and In this he li M one with Premier Owwuu. HIVES GIN
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