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ESTABLISHED SEPT. 19, 1878.
PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C. JULY 24, 1919
VOL. XL NO. 51.
EECOEB
MAM
IMPORTANT NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIS
AND OTHER NATIONS FOR
SEVEN DAYS GIVEN
THE HEWSJFTHE SOUTH
What Is Taking Place In The South,
land Will Be Found In
Brief Paragraphs
Domestic
Brutal treatment of American mili
tary pris-aers in Paris was brought
up with sudden check when Mrs.
Woodrow Wilson first heard of it, says
John W. Kehoe, a hospital superinten
dent of the Knights of Columbus, who
has just returned from France, and
Is in New York.
First Lieutenant Dayton B. Martin,
United States army reserve corps, who
was found mortally wounded in his
Led at 247 South Pryor street,' Atlanta,
Ga., was killed on the day he had
planned to wed pretty black-eyed Mil
dred, Peacock of 52 East Cain street,
according to the story told between
sobs by the grief-stricken girL This
statement, which is borne out by a
note written by Martin to the girl just
before he retired on the night of July
17, coupled with the added discoveries
that the fatal shot was probably fired
through a slipper to muffle the sound
of the explosion and the disappearance
of $310 which Martin , is supposed to
have had on his person, have added
mysteries to the case which have led
the police largely to abandon their
first theory of sicide and to search
tor a possible slayer.
A will of six words, scribbled hastily
on the margin of a daily market re
port four minutes before the testator
died, was. filed in New York in the sur
rogate's court. The writer was Alex
ander William Waters, general agent
of the American Fruit Exchange. With
the words, "All I have belongs to Zul?
ma," he left his $200,000 estate to Zul
ma Powell, his housekeeper.
Racing over mountain ridges of west
ern Montana and northern Idaho, for
est fires which have been burning for
more than a week, continue to spread
destruction- and threaten to several
small towns which have been severed
by the flames from communication
with the United States forest service
headquarters at Missoula, Mont.
Demanding an increase in pay sev
eral hundred umbrella makers em
ployed by the Frankford Manufactur
ing company of Philadelphia are out
on strike. A 45 hour week is demand
ed and a wage increase.
In a 'pistol duel in Augusta, Ga.,
resulting from an alleged quarrel over
an illicit distillery, Charles Cheeks
ghot and instantly killed George Tay
lor, a bystander, and was himself shot
dead by William Peeler. The pistol
duel was between Cheeks and Peeler,
both white, and about 35 year3 of age.
Peeler is in jail.
'Missoula, Mont. St. Regis, MonL.
which was partially destroyed in the
forest fires of 1910, has been surround
.ed by the Nigger hitl fire, which has
leaped the divide. The town is com
pletely cut; off from help and is de
clared to be in danger of destruction.
Forest fires, fanned by heavy winds,
are threatening timber and live stock
in western' Montana and northern Ida
ho, according to reports received by
federal forces officials here. Several
small towns are also reported In dang
er of destruction. The flames have
caused the fifefightlng crews to re
treat. In a report issued, officials of the Il
linois department of agriculture de
clare that enormous quantities of
meats, butter and eggs are now in
storage in Chicago warehouses chiefly
under control of the five big packers.
The report states that since the last
regular compilation of figures June 1,
the stocks of these commodities have
grown in abnormal proportions and
that their release would go far to
ward relieving the present shortage
and tend to reduce prices.
Washington
Amended to provide $14,000,000 in
stead of $6,000,000 for the rehabilita
tion of wounded soldiers, sailors and
marines, the sundry civil appropria
tion bill, which was vetoed by the
president, was passed by the house
and sent to -the senate,
calling for the session of welcome.
Shantung and the league of nations
were debated in the senate while
President Wilson was beginning his
conferences with Republican senators.
Senator Colt, Republican, of Rhode
Island, one of those who were to see
the president, announced to the sen
ate his conviction that the United
States must enter the league to ful
fill Its present obligations to the world,
and Senator Sherman, Republican, Il
linois, made an attack on the league
and the Shantung provision. m
A button adopted by the national
executive committee of the American
Legion as to official emblem of the
national organization of four pillion
American veterans of the great war
will be distributed to members of the
local posts throughout the country.
An enlarged design of the button, un
less changed by the national conven
tion at Minneapolis, in November, will
also be used as the basis for the of
ficial seal of the Legion.
An amendment to the sundry civil
appropriation bill designed to end en
forcement of the trading with the en
emy act was rejected by the senate.
Origin of Blackguards.
The original "blackguard," or more
properly "black guard," consisted of
the whole body of the camp followers
of an army in the field during the wars
of the middle ages. Many of them
J1 ad to do with food and cooking, and
o i hey traveled with their pots, pans
and other kitchen utensils, and as,
moreover, to wash while on the march
was a difficult matter, it Is easy to see
how applicable the term became to
fhfe. They were a dirty lot and most
"f thRm thorough ruffians.
Here is the invitation whioh ia sum.
moning Republican senators to th
white bouse to discuss the treaty of
peace and the league of nations' "Mir
Dear Senator: "Matters of so great
a consequence are now under con
sideration that I would very much ap
preciate an opportunity to have a talk
wun you aoout the treaty and all that
it involves. Sincerely yours, Wood
row Wilson.
The new Pacific fleet has left Old
Point Comfort, and is on its way to
Pacific waters, under the command
of Admiral Rodman.
-A dispatch from Coblenz says that
two attempts were made ncently to
assassinate Major Georee Cockriel.
provost marshal general of the Amer
ican lorces in Germany. Two shots
were fired from the rear at the pro
vost marshal. The Germans nrovad
better runners than marksmen, as they
made good their escape.
The murder by Mexican bandits of
Peter Catr an American citizen,
July 7, near te town of Vales, in the
Mexican state of San Luis Potosi, haa
been reported to the state department.
The infantry divisions will be num
bered 51 to 66, inclusive, instead of
26 to 42 as during the war. The num
bers up to and including 50 are re
served for regular army divisions most
or wnicn would be ereated only in the
event of war. Plans for the reeular
organization call for a cavalry division
recruited from the entire country, but
also stationed in Texas.
The national guard reorganization
plans as announced make no immedi
at3 provision for the special arms and
auxiliary services, such as tank corps
and air service, these having been laid
aside temporarily.
Organization of the extra cavalry di
vision provided for in the war deDart-
ment plans for the national guard will
be pushed vigorously, it was stated.
There is no anticipation that the six
teen divisions of infantry, corres
ponding to the war organization of the
state forces, will be completed this
year, but efforts will be made to get
the cavalry unit, six regiments of
which will be raised in Texas, in con
dition to be mobilized against any
emergency.
A farm colony, in which to care for
1,200 Russian children left to run wild
and starve during the disorder In their
country, has been established by the
Red Cross at Lake Torogyak, in wes
tern Siberia. Houses whose owners
have died or fled have been taken ov
er by the Red Cross workers, and the
children, gathered up through the Ural
mountains, are being fed and clothed.
The lake mentioned is near Ufa. Rus
sian authorities are co-operating in
the work.
General Pershing will return to the
United States in August and appropri
ate exercises in welcome to the Ameri
can commander at a joint congression
al session is being planned. This was
made known when Representative
Caldwell, of New York, appeared be
fore the house rules committee and
urged early action on his resolution
Foreign
In a vote in the chamber of deputies
in. Paris, following interpellations on
the high cost of living, the government
was in the minority by fourteen votes.
The issue arose over the order of th,j
day. The order of the day adopted by
the chamber was on the high cost of
living. It blamed the economic policy
of the government for the situation.
The Ger lan assembly at a closed
meeting refused to split the church
and state, which the Socialist party
demanded.
Count Hohenzollern, former emper
or, is said to rarely leave his apart
ments and seldom sees his closest, and
most intimate friends. He is reported
to be spending most . of his time in
prayer. He talks only on religious
subjects.
The inter-allied oouncil has decided
that Gen. E. H. H. Allenby of the Brit
ish army should take entire charge of
the occupation of Asia Minor, with
supervision' over British, French, Ital
ian and Greek troops.
New snowfall on both sides of the
Andes mountains have Tesulted in
further landslides of large proportions,
adding to the difficulties of repairing
communication over the landslides.
The blizzard in the mountains is con
tinuing, forcing repair gangs to aban
don their efforts.
James B. McCrary, an American
Young Men's Christian association sec
retary, 25 years old, has been killed
at Prague under unusual circum
stances. McCrary, according to ad
vices received here, was standing in
a boat on the river Moldau (Vitava) at
Prague, when he was struck by a
swerving Italian hydro-airplane which
had just passed under a bridge over
the river.
Bela Kun, head of the Hungarian
communist government, has been oust
ed, according to dispatches from reli
able sources in Vienna received by the
peace conference. Troops returning
from the Czech front are reported en
tering Budapest in large numbers.
Budapest was in disorder. Herr Boehm
and Merr Lander have taken over
control of the communist government.
The German government is believed
to be trying to establish trade rela
tions with' soviet Russia and a Ger
man mission has visited Russia, or Is
about to do so, Cecil B. Harnsworth,
under secretary of state for foreign
affairs, told the house of commons.
All Pomerania is aroused over the
ploclamation of martial law there and
the order prohibiting workmen from
striking. The workmen insist that mar
tial law be abolished, that prisoners
arrested during the present strike be
released and that recognition be ex
tended to workmen's councils.
Wisdom In Quotation.
Bartlett, in his "Familiar Quota
tions," gives the following: "We read
of a certain Roman emperor who built
a magnificent palace. In digging th
foundation, the workmen discovered
a golden sarcophagus ornamented
with three circlets, on which were in
scribed, 'I have expended; I have
given; I have kept; I have possessed;
I do possess; I have lost; I am pun
ished. What I formerly expended, 1
have; what I gave away, I have.'
Oesta Romanomm. Tale XVL"
IS
FOB FIGHTING MEN
ALL OFFENSES COMMITTED BV
SOLDIERS EXCEPT FELONY
MAY BE CONDONED.
Y OUTRAGES ARE CHARGED
"Spanish Inquisition Not a Mark to
Some of the Cruelties Practiced
Against Our Men in France."
Washington. Complete amnesty for
all soldiers, sailors and marines con
victed by court martial except those
whose offenses would be a felony un
der federal statutes, was proposed in
a bill introduced by Senator Chamber
lain, Oregon, and referred to the mili
tary committee.
' "The stories coming to me," said
Senator Chamberlain in a statement
to the senate, "many of them being
verified, of the outrages being commit
ted against young men through the
instrumentality of the courts martial
are so horrible that some legislation
ought to be acted upon to obtain re
lief. "I want the people to understand
the terror inflicted upon our young
men by these sentences and also the
cruelties practiced against them.
"The Spanish inquisition was not a
mark to sr : of the cruelties prac
ticed against these soldiers in
France1."
TENSION SOMEWHAT RELIEVED
OVER SITUATION IN MEXICO.
Washington. The Mexican situation
occupied the attention of both the leg
islative and executive branches of the
government.
Tension which was evident at the
state department when first reports
were received of the robbing of sail
ors manning a small boat from the
American monitor Cheyenne on the
Tamesi river July 6, was relieved
somewhat by a more detailed ac
count of the incident received from
Commander Finney, of the cruiser To
peka, flagship of the American naval
forces at Tampico.
The report said the sailors, who
were on official duty, were held up by
three men in civilian clothes, two of
whom carried rifles, and that when
informed of the incident, the Mexican
government authorities at' Tampico
had expressed deep regret.
CONGRESS UPHOLDS RIGHT OF
HOME STORAGE OF LIQUORS.
Washington. The prohibition en
forcement bill, drastic provisions and
all, was adopted section by section by
the house, but a man's right to store
liquor in his home stood up against
all attacks. On the final count, only
three votes were recorded in favor of
an amendment to make home posses
sion of intoxicants unlawful.
After all perfecting amendments
had been adopted and others designed
to make the bill less severe were
bowled over in a chorus of "Noes," an
attempt was made to adjourn over
night. This prevailed.
GOVERNMENT PREPARING
TO TAKE VIGOROUS ACTION
Galveston) Tex The Carranza gov
ernment -is preparing to assert full
control in the oil regions and reduce
the power of unattached bandit
groups by sending 5,000 infantry, one
or more battalions of machine guns,
12 to 15 airplanes, and five batteries
of field artillery into ' the Tampico
field according to announcement here
by Meade Fierro, the Mexican consul.
8HORTAGE OF $900,000
. ADMITTED BY CASHIER
Hafrisburg, Pa. Commissioner of
Banking John S. Fisher,- announced
that Ralph T. Moyer, cashier of the
North Pennsylvania bank of Phila
delphia, had admitted to James W.
McBurney, receiver, in charge of the
bank, that there was a shortage of
$000,000..
GREAT DIRIGIBLE EXPLODES;
CAUSES DEATH OF TEN PEOPLE
Chicago. After crusilng back and
forth across Chicago's loop district
for hours, a dirigible balloon bearing
five persons exploded, the blazing
wreckage crashing through the sky
light of the Illinois Trust & Savings
Bank in the financial district. The
police fixed the list of dead as the
result of the accident at 10.
Three of the dead were passengers
on board the dirigible. The others
were eiapleyees of the bank.
AMNESTY WANTED FOR
CHARLES A. Mc AN ALLY
Washington. Representative Wood
introduced a resolution to grant am
nesty to Charles A. McAnally, a pri
vate in the army, who. recently was
sentenced to six months' imprison
ment after being, found guilty of
"painting the German colors on the
statue erected by the Daughters of
the Confederacy at Andersonville, Ga.,
to Henry Wirz, commander of the
prison located there in the civil war.'
PRESIDENT WILSON'S ATTACK
OF ILLNESS IS NOT SEVERE
Washington. President Wilson was
In a weakened but no wise serious
condition after having spent the day
in bed with acute dysentery. Rear
Admiral Cary T. Grayson, his person
al physician, said the president had
been in considerable pain during the
day and had . been very "uncomfort
able." Admiral Grayson , said he
would insist that Mr. Wilson remain
in - bed until &e completely re
AMNESTY
PEAGE CONDITIONS
HANDED AUSTRIA
REPARATION SECTION ', IS NOT
DISSIMLIAR TO THAT IN
TREATY WITH GERMANY.
ARMY IS REDUCED TO 30,000
Financial Terms Provide For Appor
tionment of Pre-War Debt Among
the Several New States. ,
Paris. The full peace cenditions cf
the allied and associated powers are
now in the hands of the Austrians.
The first sections of the terms were
presented to the Austrian delegates
at St. Germain on June 2; the final
sections were delivered to them lX
the same place without ceremony by
M. Dusatta, secretary-general of the
peace conference. The terms com
piise the whole treaty which Austria
is asked to sign, Including the repara
tion, financial, military and certain
minor clauses, which were not ready
for presentation when the official cer
emony took place.
In addition to the published sum
mary of the terms of June 2 the new
clauses provide for reparation ar
rangements very similar to those in
the treaty with Germany, including the
establishment of an Austrian sub-section
of the reparations commission,
the payment of a reasonable sum in
cash, the issuing of bondj and the de
livery of livestock and certain histor
ical and art documents.
The financial terms provide that the
Austrian pre-war debt shall be appor
tioned among the various former
parts of Austria and that the "Austrian
coinage and war bonds circulating in
the separated territory shall be taken
up by the new government and re
deemed as thy see fit
Under the military terms the Aus
trian army is henceforth reduced to
30,000 men on a purely voluntary
basis.
ANOTHER SERIOUS BRANCH OF
NEUTRALITY IS PERPETRATED
Washington. The most serious ef
the recently growing list of attacks
on Americans in Mexico came to light
A boat load of American sailors
from the U. S. S. Cheyenne were held
up in the Temesi river, on July 6, nine
miles east of the city of Tampico, and
the sailors were robbed. The Ameri
can flag was flying from the boat at
the time.
Although the sailors were fishing,
they were on official duty bringing in
food for their ship, and the American
flag flying from the boat denoted that
it was official business.
UPPER SILESIA TO BE
FREE, GERMANY DECIDES.
Breslau. The Silesian Economic
News reports that the German govern
ment has finally agreed that Upper
Silesia shall become a free state.
Gustav Noske, minister of defense, is
said to be thi choice of the govern
ment to act as ftrt representative
before the entente commission for
Upper Silesia.
BELA KUN'S LAST SHIP
SURRENDERS TO SERBIAN8
Berlin. Advices from Budapest say
that during the launching of the new
Hungarian monitor Marx on Friday
the monitor Szamos, the last unit of
the Danube flotilla which had remain
ed loyal to Bela Kun, fled down the
Danube and surrendered to the Ser
bians. .
FIGHT FOR SHIPS IN SOUTH
MADE BY MARINE ASSOCIATION
Washington. The National Mer
chants Marine Association Is making
a fight for more ships for the South.
"The full force of the association
is back of the movement for a fair
Sistribution of the Vessels of the
emergency fleet corporation to the
various ports of the United States."
INTEREST KEEN ON DISPOSAL
OF GERMAN' PROPERTY HERE
Washington. Crerman people are
Interested in about $600,000,000 in
the hands of the alien enemy property
custodian of the United States. Amer
ican citizens are interested In about
$100,000,000 held "in like manner in
Germany. The peace treaty .provides
that Germany shall return the Ameri
can property and that the German
property in America be liquidated so
it can be used to pay claims against
Germany.
KONENKAMP RESIGNS AS
PRESIDENT OF C. T. U.
Chicago. S. J. Konenkamp resign
ed as president of the Commercial
Telegraphers' Union of America. In
his letter to the executive board, ten
dering his resignation, Mr. Konen
kamp said his reasons for this action
are purely personal.
Mr. Konenkamp stated the -next
convention" of the telegraphers is
scheduled for October, but might be
advanced to (August. His resignation
may not be acted on until that time.
CHANGE IN FRENCH MINISTRY
IS CAUSED BY CRITICISMS
Paris It was annpunced in the
lobby of the chamber of deputies that
not only will Victor Boret be succeed
ed by Joseph J. B. E. Noulens as food
minister, but that Albert E. Lebrun,
minister of the liberated regions, will
be succeeded by Senator Charles Jou
nart, now governor of Algeria.
This change Is supposed to be due
to criticisms of the government' i
SENATE TO HANDLE
THE DAYLIGHT LAW
THE AGRICULTURAL BILL HAS
BEEN PASSED BY HOUSE BY
UNANIMOUS VOTE.
THE LAW CARRIES $33,900,000
Several Sharp Clashes Marked Debate
on Elimination of Rider That Drew
the President's Veto.
Washington. Renewed attempts of
house Republican leaders to repeal
daylight saving through a rider to the
920 agricultural appropriation bill,
were defeated in the house when Re
publican opponents of repeal joined
with the Democrats in voting to elim
inate the repeal provision. Immediate
ly ajfterward, without a dissenting
vote, the agricultural bill, carrying
$33,900,000 was passed and sent to the
senate.
Final action on the daylight saving
repeal came after a day marked by
sharp political clashes in both houses
and committees. Democrats, includ
ing those favoring repeal, refused to
Join in making the repeal rider In or
der, and In speeches on the floor at
tacked the Republicans as "playing
politics." Republican leaders, how
ever, insisted that the rider alone
would assure early passage of the ag
ricultural bill which Democrats said
was certain to be vetoed again by
President Wilson, if it included the
repeal provision.
The senate, regarded as heavily in
favor of repeal now has before it a
house bill to repeal the. daylight sav
ing law. The senate, it was said by
congressional leaders, may pass and
send to the president the separate
repeal measure.
WITNESSES TESTIFY TO THE
STATUS OF TRACTION LINES
Washington. Witnesses testifying
from their experience in operating
traction lines since the beginning of
the present era of high . prices told
the federal electric railways commis
sion again the story of failure to make
ends meet in the industry, and, renew
ed the warning of an approaching cri
sis unless public sentiment permits
the general collection of greater reve
nues for their services.
By securing testimony bearing upon
results in Scranton and Altoona, Pa.,
Portland, Me., and Wilmington, Del.,
the railways laid before the commis
sion evidence designed to show that
higher fares had solved the problem
in localities where tried.
Francis H. Sisson, vice president of
the Guaranty Trust Company, of New
York, ascribed most of the difficulties
of the street railways to a decline of
50 per cent since 1914 in the purchas
ing power of the dollar.
Street railroad companies, he said,
were about the only utility which the
government had not assisted during
the war.
FREIGHT EMBARGO PLACED
ON COASTWISE TRAFFIC.
New York. A freight embargo on
coastwise traffic, was announced by
the coastwise steamship companies,
operating under federal control, as a
result of the strike of seamen and en
gineers along the Atlantic and Gulf
coasts. The order for the embargo
was forwarded to shipping points by
the United States railroad adminis
tration. The embargo has been foreshadow
ed for several days as a consequence
of the rapid piling up of great quanti
ties of freight, much of it perishable,
at Atlantic and Gulf ports through the
tying up of ships by the strikers. G.
H. Brown, secretary of the seamen's
union, claimed that the entire ship
ping of the country would be virtually
tied up within two weeks if the strug
gle continued.
AUSTRIANS MAY GET THE
COMPLETE TREATY SOON.
Paris. The missing clauses of the
Austrian peace treaty will almost cer
trinly be handed to the Austrian del
egation in a day or so.
Ten days will be allowed the Aus
trians for consideration of the terms
f.nd for any representations they may
desire to make. The council will
probably require 10 days more in
which to reply.
Consequently, the treaty can scarce
ly be signed before August 10. ,
FOREST FIRES CONTINUE
TO RAGE IN NORTHWEST.
Spokane. Racing over mountain
ridges of western Montana and north
ern Idaho, forest fires continue to
spread destruction and threaten sever
al small towns which have been sev
ered by the flames from communica
tion with the United States forest ser
vice headquarters at Missoula, Mont.,
The fire has jumped the mountains
into the Mullan gulch country where,
it is said, there is practically no way
of stopping it.
TURKISH COMMANDER IS
OUTLAWED BY GOVERNMENT.
Constantinople. Mustafa Kemal
Pasha, commanding a group of armies
in Asia Minor, having refused to obey
orders recalling him to Constantino
ple and having resigned his commis
sion and betaken himself to Erzerum,
has been outlawed by the government.
It remains to be seen whether he will
now oppose the surrender of arms
and munitions by the Kurdistan garri
son in acccrdAnei with th tms
HOUSE III SNARL
Oil PROHIBITION
ALL ATTEMPT8 TO ELIMINATE
CERTAIN DRASTIC SECTIONS
IN LAW VOTED DOWN.
IflOOROUS PROTESTS ENTERED
In Proposed Bill, Trial By Jury of Per.
ons Charged With Violating the
Law Is Denied.
Washington. Prohibition forces
fojted down in the house every at
tempt to eliminate drastic provisions
of the general enforcement bill, and
while in full and absolute control
cut off debate at the word of their
leader despite the violent protest of
the minority.
When they had raced through the
war-time enforcement portion of the
three-part bill and got . into the con
stitional prohibition measure proper,
there were only 68 members on the
floor and so much confusion that a
speaker' could not make himself
heard. It was 7 o'clock when the long
roll call to obtain a quorum was start
ed, and members, had then gone home,
after declaring there was no good
reason for trying to force through a
bill to take care of a situation that
would not arise until January.
Before the house got into a snarl,
however, the prohibition faction had
fought off every attack on their bill.
For a brief moment late in the day
the minority described by the pro
hibitionists as the "wets" swung into
power, only to be thrown out by a de
mand for tellers, which meant an ac
curate count on vote to amend the
bill so that a person charged with vio
lating a liquor-selling injunction
might obtain and demand a jury trial.
ENORMOUS QUANTITIES
OF FOOD IN STORAGE.
Chicago. In a report issued offi
cials of the Illinois department of ag
riculture declare that enormous quan
tities of meats, butter and eggs are
now in storage In Chicago warehouses
chiefly under control of the five big
packers. The report states that since
the last regular compilation of figures
June 1, the stocks of these commodi
ties have grown in abnormal propor
tions and that their release would go
far toward relieving the present short
age and tend to reduce prices.
SENATOR BORAH ADVOCATES
REFERENDUM ON LEAGUE.
Woshington. Proposing that the
league of nations be left to popular
decision, Senator Borah, Idaho,, speak
ing in the senate, called upon the
league supporters to join him in se
curing a referendum.
"The President," said Mr. Borah,
"has been sending for senators and
will, I understood, continue to do bo
until the quota is filled. It is a pol
icy I endorse, I only regret that he
began it so late in his administration.
But it is not in accord with the tenets
of republican government to settle bo
great a question behind closed doors
either at the White House or any
where else.
"What I would do is to send for
the people, and the way to do that Is
to have a popular vote."
NO AMERICAN CONSULS
IN GERMAN PORTS YET.
Paris. There are no American con
suls in German ports as yet British,
French and other European consuls
are already clearing ships. The Amer
ican relief administration has cleared
in German ports two food supply
shiM and one with cotton, but Di
rector General Hoover refuses to is
sue to additional ships without legal
authority.
The cotton cargo was for Czecho
slovakia: the food ships carried car
goes privately owned for German
sale.
LIGGETT AND DICKMAN
ARE RETURNING HOME
Washington. Lieutenant Genera1
Hunter Liggett, former commander ol
the American army of occupation In
Germany: Major General Joseph T.
Dickman and nine other general off!
cers are abroad the transport Ac-
quitana, due at New York July 20, the
war department announced. Assistant
Secretary of War Crowell and other
members of the American aviation
mission also are on board.
25 8HIPLOADS OF COAL
FROM U. 3. AT ROTERDAM
London. American coal is invad
ing Europe. Twenty-five shiploads,
about 150,000 tons, have been dis
charged this month at Rotterdam
alone, being carried along the Rhine
in barges. Seventeen American vee
eels have arrived at Danzig with not
only coal but cotton and foodstuffs.
It was stated in parliament thai
American coal was being sold at Eu
ropean points at $30 to $33 a ton.
NINE TAR HEEL HEROES
GIVEN MILITARY HONORS
Washington. Distinguished service
medals haVe been awarded to the fol
lowing North- Carolina boys: Corpor
al Emory L. Butler, Landis; Private
Edgar Blanhacrd, Fayettevile; Sen
geant Paul C. Hawkins, Kinston; Ser
geant Thomas W. Carlisle, Tarboro;
Sergeant John . Wells, Wtha; Pri
vate Buck A. Carter, Ingol4; Private
Heary H. Hall. Hope MilW; Private
Thomas iA. Moreland, Ccficerd, and
DAYLIGHT
SAVING
LAW NOT SETTLED
kTTEMPT AT RE-PASSAGE OF
AGRICULTURAL BILL OVER
VETO WILL BE MADE.
THE ACT MAY BE RE-MODELED
Threats Freely Made to Hold Up the
Bill Indefinitely Unless Daylight
Saving Clause Is Retained.
Washington. Republican leaders of
the house, supported by party lead
ers in the senate, agreed to attempt
repassage of the agriculture appro
priation bill with its daylight saving
rider despite the President's veto.
Provisions of the daylight saving law
authorizing the interstate commerce
commission to fix standard time zones,
however, would not be discarded.
In line with this decision, made by
the republican legislative steering
comittee, and after assurances had
been obtained that the rules commit
tee would authorize the daylight sav
ing repeal being incorporated in the
appropriation bill, Chairman Haugen,
of the house agriculture committee,
reintroduced the agriculture bill.
House republican leaders, although
doubting that the remodeled measure,
with the repeal provision, would meet
objections of President Wilson, said
that many democratic members would
join with a majority of the republicans
in passing the new measure. Chair
man Gronna and other members of
the senate agricultural committee,
they said, had insisted on incorpora
tion of the repeal provision, threaten
ing to hold up early passage of the
bill without the repeal section. For
thi3 reason, they asserted, no other
course of action was open.
PROPOSED RADICAL ACTION
ENDANGERING PROHIBITION.
Washington. Conservative mem
bers of the prohibition faction in the
house set out to curb what they de
scribed as radical attempts to make
the pending enforcement bill so dras
tic that it might create a revulsion
of feeling throughout the country on
the whole question of liquor drinking.
Warning was given by the conserva
tives that if the radical element went
too far and added other severe re
strictions they would be certain to in
vite defeat in the senate and possibly
find all of their work thrown out by
a presidential veto. The need of wise
counsel was pointed out by the con
servative prohibitionists In view of
the published announcement that Rep
oresentative Morgan. Republican!, o?
Oklahoma, and a member of the Judi
ciary committee, had given notice
that he would endeavor to make it a
violation of law for a man to keep a
jug of liquor in his own home for his
own use.
Word was spread during the day
that other prohibitionists were pre
paring to write into the i bill a pro
vision, stricken out by the committee.
which would prohibit a man's "using
any little liquor he might happen to
have around the house.
GENERAL DENIAL IS MADE BY
WILLIAMS BEFORE COMMITTEE
Washington. John Sharp Williams,
comptroller of the currency, was be
fore the senate banking committee the
entire day and made a general denial
of the charges made by Wade Cooper,
a Washington banker, which he brand
ed as "wantonly false and malicious.'
He submitted to the committee a
letter from Director Generol of Rail
roads Hines absolving him from any
connection with the making of a com
pensation contract with the Georgia
and Florida railroad. Previous wit
nesses haad charged that the comp
troller had by his silence as director
of finance of the railroad administra
tion approved a contract greatly to the
advantage of the Georgia and Florida
road with which he was formerly con
nected.
GUARANTEED WHEAT PRICE
RAISED TO $2.30 BUSHEL
Washington. President Wilson
signed an executive order Increasing
the guaranteed priec of the 1919 wheat
crop to $2.30 per bushel at Galveston
and New Orleans.
It is expected chat the high price
established for wheat at Galveston
and New Orleans will divert a part
of the crop's flow to export from At
lantic terminals, and thus relieve the
strain on common carriers and termi
nal facilities.
PROHIBITION BEING
ENFORCED EFFECTIVELY
Washington. Prohibition is being
,enforced effectively throughout th
United States, Attorney General Pal
mer said. Sale of "hard" liquor, such
as whiskey, gin and brandy, virtually
has ceased, he asserted, except for
scattering violations of the law as are
inevitable with any new restrictive
statute.
Mr. Palmer said he expressed no
opinion on enforcement legislation
pending In Congress.
THE HENRY FORD LIBEL SllT
IS BEING LONG DRAWN OUT
Mount Clemons, Mich. Henry Ford
underwen a severe grilling at the!
hands of Attorney Elliott G. Steven
son in his $1,000,000 libel suit against
The Chicago Tribune, and on one oc
casion offered to concede points,
which he subsequently denied, in order
to close certain phases of the exami
nation. . Most of today's testimony
centered about the writings of Theo
dore Detovlgnei Mn Ford's publicity
OVER THE LAND OF
THE LONG LEAF PINE
SHOUT NOTES OF INTEREST TO
CAROLINIANS.
Dobson. A normal school for the
eachers of Surry county opened in
me courthouse here and will be in ses
lion for four weeks, closing August 8.
Vas3. The first summer school ses-
lion in Moore county, held this year
it the Farm Life school has closed.
Forty-two teachers attended the ses-
jion.
Wilmington. A copy of the citation
of Lieutenant Henry Solomon has
been received here by his father, S.
Soloman, of the old firm of S. & B.
Solomon, Jewish merchants and pa
triotic Americans.
Lumberton. About a quarter mil
lion pounds of leaf tobacco was sold
on the Lumberton market at the open
ing sale. Prices ranged as high as 43
cents the pound for second curings
and bright tobacco sold as high or
higher than it did at the opening of
last season.
Raleigh. At the 68th North Caro
lina state fair, to be held in Raleigh,
October 20 to 25, the fair association
is planning to give away over $1,500
In prizes to farmers making the best
display of field and garden crops.
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Goldsboro. Hyman Ward, a former
policeman here and now employed by
W. H. Rose, contractor , was blown
off a scaffold during a wind storm
and suffered a broken arm, three frac
tured ribs and a deep cut over his left
eye.
Charlotte. The local recruiting de
pot has received authorization from
district recruiting headquarters to en
list applicants for two three and four
year periods, the length of the enlist
ment being optional with the man.
Raleigh. A telegram from Deputy
Insurance Commissioner F. M. Jordan
at Waynesvllle to the state insurance
department is to the effect that Deputy
Jordan has just secured the convic
tion of Elbert Jones in Haywood
county on the charge of getting fires.
Oistonia. August 19 is the date
set by the Gaston county commission
ers when a vote will be taken on the
proposition of issuing bonds in the
sum of $500,000 for the purpose , of
building permanent roads in the coun
ty. Sentiment is strongly in favor of
the issue and it is expected that It
wjll carry by a large majority.
New Bern. Five hundred dollars
per acre on a ten-acre tract was the
record made last year by G. N. Ives,
a prominent planter of New Bern, and
is one of the reasons why Eastern
Carolina is growrng as a tobacco sec
tion and why the farmers there are
devoting less . attention to truck and
fruit crops.
Henderson. Robert Ruark, Esq., of
Wilmington, attorney for the Fidelity
Casualty company of New York, was
here looking into the alleged short
age of the accounts of former sheriff
BelL Mr. Ruark's company bonded
Bell in the sum of $35,000. This was
the county bond.
Raleigh. In the city court, Joe and
Sylvia Whitney, negro man and wife
have been sent to the county jail for
six months for extreme cruelty to an
adopted child, seven years old. They
tied the child out by the corner of
ther house for a day and night with
out food and whipped him terribly.
They charged that the boy attempted
to run away.
Washington. Representative Weav
er has introduced a bill to establish a
fish hatchery in western North Caro
lina. The bill provides $50,000 for
the project The hatchery is to be es
tablished at a suitable point to be se
lected at the discretion of the secre
tary of commerce.
Asheville. News has been received
here that Karl Illava, a well-known
artist, has completed "the figures for
the monument to be erected at Spar
tanburg, S. C, commemorating the
heroes of the Thirtieth and Twenty
seventh divisions, which broke the
Hindenburg line.,
Raleigh. A charter is isued for the
Barnes Manufacturing Company, of
High Point, capital $125,000 authoriz
ed and $25,000 subscribed for manu
facture of chairs and other household
furniture.
Rutherfordton. The town of Bos
tlc voted $6,000 worth of bonds to
build a new brick school building.
The vote was 31 to 4 in favor of the
bonds. The bonds will be issued im
mediately by the county commis
sioners. Durham. Fifteen thousand people
attended a mammoth home-coming cel
ebration held in Hillsboro for the boys
of Orange county who served during
the war. Governor Thomas Vf. Blck
ett delivered the principal address of
the day.
Gastonla. To buy a calf for a cer
tain amount and to sell the calf's hide
for 50 cents more than the amount
paid for said calf is an admitted good
business deal. And that is just what
t butcher residing near Gastonla did.
Spencer.- Spencer sent a large del
egation to China Grove to attend the
district meeting of the Sons, and
Daughters of Liberty, the trip being
made by motor. Rowan count is a
stronghold for this order ana the
meeting at China Grove was one ot
the best held for a long tiro.