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The Chatham Record ESTABLISHED SEPT. 19, 1878. PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C. AUGUST 28, 1919 VOL. XLII. NO. 4 IMPORTANT NEWS THE WORLD OVER IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THI3 AND OTHER NATIONS FOR SEVEN DAYS GIVEN THE NEWS OF THE SOUTH What Is Taking Place In The 8outh land Will Be Found In Brief Paragraphs Foreign General Pershing, who was the guest of King Victor Emmanuel left here for venice, on his way to Treviso, where he will start on a visit to the Kalian batlefields. A decree declaring Admiral Kolchak and the all-Russian cabinet at Omsk tj be outlaws has been issued by the soviet government, according to a wireless message from Moscow to Lon don. The Eolsheviki have been driven from Oiessa by the populace of the city, according to reports received by the British war office. It is reported also that the soviet forces are evacuating Kiev and the entire Ukraine. It is reported that the non-Bolshevik Ukrainians have invited the Poles to help iheni capture Kiev, promising to pay them with crops which the Bol shevik would get otherwise. Herbert Hoover has left Warshaw for Lemberg, Pinsk and the eastern districts to take stock of the harvest prospects there. The outlook for the food supply of Poland is, indeed black. Week after week rainy weather has rained crops and the estimated harvest will be 20 to 30 per cents below nor mal. To recover more than $3,000,000 in gold, part of the fortune of the late Ooci Paul Kruger, once president of the Transvaal, which is believed to be cemented in the hold of the bark Dorothea, sunk on Tenedos roof, off the coast of Zululand, is one of the projects which may be recived as a result of improvement in science of salvaging sunken ships. Washington The American passenger liners Fin land, Kroonland and Louisville, form erly the St. Louis, will be released from government service as soon as surveys for repairs have been made, the shipping board announced-. All have been used as army transports. They are owned by the International Mercantile Marine. President declared he could not and would not declare peace before treaty ratification. One of the two American soldiers sentenced to death for sleeping on outpost duty in France and subse quently pardoned by President Wil son was killed in the great Aisne of fensive in July, 1918, and the other was twice wounded and finally hon orably discharged. The department of agriculture esti mates that the depredations of rice birds, also known as red birds or bobolinks, cost the rice growers of North Carolina, South Carolina, Geor gia and Florida approximately $150, 000 last fall. Investigations conducted by the biological survey revealed this loss and the department anounces it has taken steps to protect the rice crops. The secretary of agriculture under authority of the migratory bird treaty act, has authorized the shoot ing of bobolinks, under restrictions. A bill to stop all immigration for two years and to deport all aliens who withdrew their first papers in order to escape military service during the war, was introduced by Chairman Johnson, of the house immigration committee. It Is regarded as the most drastic measure of the kind ever pre sented to congress. Repeal of the daylight saving act was accomplished the senate voting to sustain the house in passing th- measure over the president's veto. The vote -as 57 to 19. The repeal of the law, which now takes its place among the very few which have been passed over a presidential veto, be comes effective after the clocks are turned back to normal in October. After a lengthy conference with the representatives of the six shop crafts Director General Hines went to the white house to discuss with President Wilson the problems fac ing the railroad administration. While no announcement was made, it was understood that the entire ques tion was reviewed, including the obvi ous necessity for an increase in rates or another congressional appropria tion to provide funda for any wage in crease advances that may be made, since the administration has been in curring a deficit every month this year due to the falling off in business and the higher cost of labor and ma terials. it is the belief of General John J. Pershing that the bodies of American soldiers that died overseas should be left interred in foreign soil and that the American government should take immediate steps to permanently im prove and beautify American ceme tenfes in France and England. President Wilson, Interpreting the league of nations covenant for the sen ate foreign relations committee, de clared it imposed no leeal obligation fcr the use of American military force ( " protecting the territory or independ ence of any other nation. With adoption of the Igoe resolu- 10n .Acting the federal trade com mission to investigate increased shoe Prices, the house took first legislative action toward reduction of the high cost of hving. Before adoption of the resolution, wbich was without a dis senting vote, the houge yoted down an amendment which would have ex tended the inquiry l0 other articles of clothing and food. Southern states east of the Miss issippi are utilizing at wr tn a greater extent than the country as ! a whole, in the production of electric ' power in public utility power plants. Without amendment, and with prac tically no opposition, the house voted to amend the Lever food control act to extend its provisions to include clothing, containers of food, feed or fertilizers, fuel oil and implements used in production of necessities, and to penalize profiteering by a $5,000 fine or two years' imprisonment. Five hours of general debate pre ceded passage of the food measure the first legislative step in carrying out the recommendations of President Wilson in his recent address to con gress on the high cost of living. Cotton growing is destined to be come an important industry in China in the opinion of the British consul at Nanking who, in a government re port, says cotton cultivation is being extended in northern Kiangpei, and experiments are being made in Hai chow, partly with American seeds. Investments are being made in cotton in . cotton spinning factories. One establishment at Pootung represents an investment of $1,000,000, and anoth er at Changchow $5,000,000. American forces which will re main in Germany after Septem ber 30 are the Eighth infan try, Seventh machine gun battalion, Second battalion of the Sixth field artillery, Thirty-fifth signal battalion, First supply train. First mobile ordan ance repair shop, Field Hospital No. 13, and Ambulance Company No. 26. The aggregate of these units will be nearly 7,000 officers and men. The infantry regiment comprises 3,000, the machine gun battalion 775, the artil lery 750 and the engineers 250. With the approval of President Wil son, Acting Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt sent to Secretary Glass for transmission to congress estimates for additional naval appropriations total ing $18,600,000 to "permit of experi tiously placing and maintaining in a proper state of repair all of the fight ing ships of the fleet." Meeting the committee in a round table discussion in the rest room of the white house, in contradiction to the precedents of more than a century and with the whole nation listening through the medium of a relay of pub lic stenographers, the president went into many of the details of the peace negotiations and touched on all the hotly debated questions which have divided the senate in its consideration of the peace treaty. The president revealed that Japan's promise to return Shantung province to China was reduced to written form in the minutes of the peace confer ences. He asserted he had every con fidence that the promise would be car ried out and told the senators it was "the best. that could be got" out of the negotiations, Japan having given notice she would withdraw from the conference if her demands were refused. Domestic In Newark, N. J., an airplane landed on the roof of a building then made a flight from the roof. Edwin E. Bal lough, formerly of the Canadian avia tion service and now in the employ oi a local dry goods firm as an aviator carrying one passenger, circled the army quartermaster stores building from a height of 700 feet and landed on the roof, which is 987 feet long and 80 feet vride. The machine then was wheeled to one end of the root taxied a short distance and took the air. At Caldwell, N. J., Lieutenant L S. Spooner, of Portland, Ore., a mem ber of the American expeditionary force rifle team, won the individual pistol match on the navy range there Although Andrew Carnegie, steel magnate and philanthropist, declared during his life-time that he expected to give away his huge fortune and "die a pauper," his estate to be dis posed of in a will which will be filed for probate, was several times $5, 000,000. The first bale of 1919 cotton grown in Pike county, Ala., was sold to the local board of commerce in Troy, foi $3.50 a pound, the bale bringing $1, 750. The cotton was grown by James Powell. Claim is made by the board of commerce that the price sets a world's record. Four Mexican bandits were killed by American troops in Mexica, Cap tain Leonard Matlack, who arrived bj airplane, reported. They were sur rounded in an adobe blockhouse thai the Mexicans had constructed in 8 mountain pass. Thirteen passengers were injured in the derailment of Norfolk and Wes tern passenger train No. 2 near Boyce; Va., according to an official report received here.' Five cars left the rtack, including two Pullmans eE route from southern points to New York. Demonstration of the progress made in the cattle industries of the southern states and the opportunities afforded them in that section will be made at the National Dairy show in Chicago, October 6-12, according ' to plans now being worked out co-operatively by the National Dairy association and the Southern Settlement and Develop ment Organization and its affiliated organization. An American airplane returned from a scouting trip into Mexico with two bullet holes through a wing of the machine. The aviator observer said he was fired on by three Mexicans. He returned the fire with a machine gun and believed he killed one. The cavalry is pursuing the bandits, he said. Spread out fan-shaped over a vide stretch of Mexican country south of the Rio Grande, United States cavalry t,o oiHed hv airmen as scouts, are combing the mountains for the bandits who held the two American army avia tors for $15,000 ransom. Membership in the American Legion has now passed the 350,000 mark, it was announced. 1,833 local posts and applications for charter have been re ceived from 1.108 posts in process of organization. Letters purporting to be from Lieu tenants Paul H. Davis and Harold G. Peterson, American army aviators missing about a week, were received at military headquarters at Marfa, Texas The letters stated the aviators were being held by bandits for $15,000 ransom somewhere in Mexico and were threatened with death unless the ransom was paid. QUESTION OF WAGE DEM PRESIDENT WILSON ANNOUNCES POLICY OF ADMINISTRATION ON RAILROAD MATTER. AN APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE Duty of Every Citizen Is to Insist Upon a Truce Until an Intelligent Settlement Can be Made. Washington. Postponement of the settlement of wage demands until nor mal economic conditions are restored was announced hy. President Wilson as the policy which the administration will pursue in dealing with such ques tions, particular those affecting rail road workers. The President announced also that it was neither wise nor feasible at this time, when the most important question before the country is a re turn to a normal price level, to at tempt to increase freight rates to pro vide funds for higher wages. "We ought to postpone questions of this sort until we have the opportuni ty for certain calculations as to the relations between wages and the cost of living," the President declared in a statement to the public explaining his decision as to wages. "It is the duty of every citizen to insist upon a truce in such protests until intelligent settlements can be made by peace and effective common counsel. I appeal to my fellow citizens of every em ployment to co-operate in insisting upon and maintaining such a truce." Mr. Hines' recommendation to the President as to the amount of in crease to be given went exhaustively into the reasons advanced by the shopmen as to the necessity for more pay. He showed that the average increase in shopmen's earnings was in excess of the total Increase in the cost of living from July 1, 1915, and August 1, 1919, due to the fact that standardization adopted at the request of the employes had given thousands a higher classification and higher pay than they previously enjoyed. SERIOUS EFFECTS ARE SEEN OF BICKERING IN COUNCIL. Paris. The endless bickerings in the supreme council is having a se rious effect. The revival of many questions in which the United States is not directly interested is making the American delegation extremely impatient. The Americans are con stantly called upon to act as arbiters in Balkan and other questions with the result that sections of the Euro pean press, especially the French press are assailing the American po sition on questions in which the Amer icans acted wholly without self con sideration. Herbert Hoover's denunciation of the council's hesitancy in straighen ing out the Hungarian tangle and pro tecting the rights of all the entente nations in the matter of Hungarian re parations is reflected in the attitude of the entire American delegation. SERIOUS STRIKE SITUATION IN THE CITY OF CHARLOTTE. Charlotte, N. C Troops are on their way to Charlotte to take charge of the situation until the strike troubles are over; Mayor Frank R. McNinch is summoning citizens for police duty until the troops arrive; three men are dead and 14 wounded as the result of a battle between members of a crowd on one sde and a squad of policemen and a large num ber of guards at the car barns of the Southern Public Utilities company, on South Boulevard, -on the other. STEAMER STRIKES ROCK; GOES ASHORE AT BERMUDA. Halifax, N. S. The Royal Mail Packet company's steamer Chaudiere has gone ashore at Bermuda, accord ing to messages received here. The steamer struck a rock. She sailed from here with nearly 1,300 passen gers for Barbadoes and Dememera. TEN TRUNKS OF ARMS SHIPPED TO MEXICO New York. Ten trunks contain ing arms and ammunition were ship ped from this city to Mexico on the steamship Morro Castle which sailed for Havana, Progresso and Vera Cruz The trunks were shipped from a Broadway hotel. The department ol justice and navy department have been notified and it is expected gun boats will be sent out to intercept the steamship. DEPARTMENTS DISAGREE AS TO MOTOR SURPLUS Washington. Senator Simmon has been trying to secure the Ana! transfer to the North Carolina road authorities of its share of the surpluf motor equipment which congress di rected should be distributed to the states. Tie war department take! the position that the authority to dis tribute these parts was rescinded even If inadvertently, by section 5 o1 the sundry civil bill passed in July. TWO AVIATORS FROM ROCKWELL STILL MISSING San Diego. An airplane believed t( be the machine manned by Lieuten ants Frederick B. Waterhouse and Cecil H. Connelly, the Rockwell flelc aviators lost since August 20, was sighted the same day manueverins above the Seita Viellas. The report was submitted to th commanding officer at Rockwell field by Major R. Ferer, who obtained ta information from E. A. Sawday. merchant of Ensenada. AND POSTPONED NINES DISCUSSES RAILWAY PROBLEM EARLY ACTION IS FORECAST TO SETTLE UNREST IN RANKS OF RAILROAD EMPLOYES. ENTIRE QOESTION IS REVIEWED Shopmen Leaders Are Promised That All Facts Relating to the Situation ' Will Be Carefully Considered. Washington. Early action to settle unrest in the ranks of railroad em ployees who have been demanding new wage increases was forecast. 1 After a lengthy conference with .the representatives of the six shop crafts. Director General Hines went to the White House to discuss with Presi dent Wilson the problems facing the railroad administration. While no an nouncement was- made, it was under stood that the entire question- was reviewed, including the obvious neces sity for an increase in rates or an other congressional appropriation to provide funds for any wage advance that may be made, since the adminis tration has been Incuring a deficit every month this year due to the fall ing off in business and the higher cost of labor and materials. Mr. Hines promised the shopmen's leaders that he would give careful consideration to all the facts presented and would endeavor to reach a final decision in the near future, indicating that he will order into affect any changes in the wage scale without re ferring the demands to a board for investigation. LOCAL SELF GOVERNMENT IS GRANTED TO KOREAN PEOPLE. Washington. Local self government for Korea and reforms looking toward home rule, are announced in an im perial rescript issued in Tokio and re ceived here at the Japanese embassy. The military government has been displaced and succeeded by a civil one. Possibly most important of all, from the Korean point of view, the rescript by the emperor of Japan provides that Koreans shall have the same privileges and legal rights as Japa nese. Heretofore, Japanese have been a privileged class. NASHVILLE IS WITHOUT STREET RAILWAY SERVICE. Nashville, Tenn. A strike of motor men and conductors of the Nashville Railway and Light company, caused a eomplete cessation of street car ser vice on all lines in the city. The company endeavored to oper ate some cars with non-union substi tutes after the hour appointed for the strike, but the cars were attacked by union sympathizers and the attempt was quickly abandoned. CARRANZA CAVALRY IN SEARCH FOR BANDITS Marfa, Tex. The Mexican consul al Presidio .Texas, reported that Genera! Purneda with a column of Carranza cavalry had gone to Cuchillo Parado 40 miles' up the Concnos river from Ojinaga, in search for bandits in the Ojinaga district where the American troops are operating. PALMER'S NOMINATION CONFIRMED BY SENATE Washington. The nomination of A Mitchell Palmer to be attorney general was confirmed by the senate without opposition. BILL INTRODUCED TO STOP IMMIGRATION FOR TWO YEARS Washington. A bill to stop all im migration for two years and to deport all aliens who withdrew their flrsl papers in order to escape military ser vice during the war was introduced by Chairman Johnson, of the house im migration committee. MEXICAN TROOPS JOIN IN PURSUIT OF BANDITS Washington. Mexican Consul Seng oechea at Presidio, Texas, in a tele gram to Ambassador Bonillas, report ed that General Pruneda, commandei of the federal troops across the bor der from Candelaria, Texas, had gone in pursuit of the bandits. The con sul said he had notified Colonel Lang home that General Pruena was mak ing pursuit so that the American com mander might "order the return of his forces." DEMOCRATS WOULD NOT STAND FOR DAYLIGHT LAW Washington. The president could not hold the Democrats in line for the daylight saving law. The pressure oi the farmer was so great that congress took fright. The south never did take much to the daylight saving law. People there considered it a dream. The vote on this proposition shows one thing plainly that is, the farmei is stronger than the labor union when the final show-down comes. JOSEPHUS DANIELS, JR. TO RETURN TO RALEIGH Washington. Capt. Josephus 1 Dan lels, Jr., United States marine corps, son of the secretary of the navy, has resigned and wil return to Raleigh, N. C, to resume his duties with the business management of his father's hewsaper. Captain Daniels began service with the marine corps as s. private In April, 1917. He rp'-ched '.be rank of captain In 1919, returning to This country with brigade headauarter WILSON POWERLESS TO DECLARE PEACE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELA TIONS IN ARGUMENT DECIDE TO CONTINUE HEARINGS. NO EVADING RESPONSIBILITY Pittman Compromise Proposal is Not Sponsored by the President, But Follows up His General Ideas. Washington. A white house an nouncement and an executive session of the foreign relations committee brought to the surface again two other issues of the treaty fight. President Wilson, replying to a sug gestion that he might put the coun try on a peace basis by declaring the war at an end, announced that he not only considered himself powerless to take such a step but considered a peace declaration either by himself or congress prior to ratification of the treaty would "put a stain upon our national honor" by evading,, responsi bility in the world peace settlement. The foreign relations commitee got into another argument over prompt committee action on the treaty which ended by a decision, without a record vote.to continue its hearings to re ceive the cases of the Irish, Greek, Egyptian, Ukranian, Esthonian and Lettish races. In every democratic quarter, includ ing the white house, it was indicated that the compromise proposal "as pre sented In a resolution by Senator Pitt man of Nevada, Democrat, was not specifically sponsored by the presi dent, though it followed generally the lines of his sugestion to the com mittee Tuesday regarding reserva tions. ELEVEN CENTS CONSIDERED A FAIR PRICE FOR SUGAR Washington. Active control of sugar prices was resumed by the gov ernment, through an agreement reach ed between the department of Justice and the food administration that li censes will be revoked by the latter when it is shown dealers have been profiteering. Sugar should reach the consumer at approximately 11 cents a pound. It was announced, based on the owner- snip of the entire domestic and Cuban crop by the United States sugar equal ization board, which is selling to re finers at 7.28 cents a pound. PROPOSAL FOR EMPLOYES TO WAIVE RIGHT TO STRIKE Washington. The railroad reorgan ization program should include legisla tion to assure the public sufficient facilities and service for its needs, and also to protect it from strikes the house interstate commerce com mittee was told by witnesses at it3 hearing. A. P. Thorn, counsel for the Asso ciation of Railway Executives, de clared the fundamental need of pro posed legislation for return of the roads to private operation was crea tion of a federal transportation board, charged with general oversight from the viewpoint of public interests of the country's transportation needs, and Charles Piez, Chicago, represent Ing the Illinois Manufacturers' Asso ciation, urged that rail employes be compelled to waive the right of a strike when accepting employment. U. S. TROOPS CONTINUE SEARCHING FOR BANDITS Marfa, Texas. The American pnni tive expedition continued combing mountain passes and canyons in search of the Mexican bandits who held two American army aviators for ransom, but only meager reports as to progress had been received here. The forward dash was not slack ened by protests against the presence of American troops on Mexican soil. CARTER GLASS SPEAKS TO THE BANKERS CONVENTION, Winston-Salem. Carter Glass, sec retary of the treasury, and Brigadier Samson D. Faison, U. S. A., who com manded the Sixtieth brigade of the Thirtieth division when the brigade broke the Hindenburg line and won the victory that sent Germany military prowess to a fall, were speakers at the night session of the North Caro lina Bankers association, in annual convention here before an audience of about 2,000. GREAT PACKERS DEFENDED AND ARE ALSO DENOUNCED. Washington. Denunciation and de fense of the "big five" packers, their methods and alleged control of the preparation and supply of foodstuffs, were mingled in approximately equal proportions before the senate agricul ture committee as witnesses discuss ed the Kenyon bill which proposes to license the concerns and to deprive them of refrigerator car and stock yard facilities. SEVERAL MEXICAN BANDITS ARE KILLED BY AMERICANS. Marfa, Texas. Four Mexican ban dits were killed by American troops in Mexico, Captain Leonard Matlack, who arrived here by airplane, reported. They were surrounded in an adobe block house. The bandits fought -iesperately when they found they were trapped and two escaped. When the American troops approached the blockhouse the Mexi can! opened fire fron .vort holes. COMMITTEE DECIDE TO REPORT TREATY LAST HEARING OF WITNESSES APPEARS TO BE IN SIGHT IS PRESENT INDICATION. SHANTUNG IS CHIEF MATTER Criticism is Indulged in of Clause in Peace Treaty Providing for Inter national Labor Organization. Washington. In a determined effort to report the peak's treaty before Sep tember 1, the senate foreign relations committee suddenly interrupted its public hearings and arranged to go to work on proposed amendments and reservations. Although one more witness may be heard members think that will be the last hearing before the teraty was reported. It was indicated that the list of others who are to appear later would not be permitted to stand in the way of an early report. Chairman Lodge declined to say when he thought the committee would act. It is likely that among the first amendments voted on will be one pro posing to strike out or modify the ar ticles giving Japan control in Shan tung province, China. The story of the negotiations result ing in the Shantung provision was told to the committee by Prof. E. T. Williams, who was technical adviser to the American peace delegation. He said he had "strongly objected" to the settlement reached, and thought the American delegates should not have assented to it. During the day there was more de bate eon the treaty in the senate, Sen ator Thomas, Democrat, Colorado, crit icising the provisions for an interna tional labor organiaztion. HEREBRT HOOVER REPORTS , DANGER OF COAL FAMINE Paris. Herbert Hoover, who has Just returned to Paris after a busy visit to central Europe and Silesia, has laid before the supreme council the impression made upon him by the Journey. His conclusion after a close study of the problems is that unless the very widest, almost autocratic pow ers be given in dealing with the coal situation in Silesia, nothing can saveJ XUUI Upu LI Ulll O, I IOIO TV llivn w 111 oiiu rw itself both economically and political ly. oBlshevism feeds upon hunger. In Budapest there is a tremendous scarcity of food. Hospitals which contain over 20,000 patients have no antiseptic or dressings. There is no milk for children. AMENDMENTS TO LEVER ACT. VOTED WITHOUT OPPOSITION Washington. Without amendment and with practically no opposition, the house voted to amend the Lever food control act to extend its provi sions to include clothing, containers of food, feed or fertilizers, fuel oil and implements used in production of necessities, and to penalize profiteers by a ,$5,000 fine or two years impris onment . Proposals to make the act apply to profiteers in house and room rents, adopted by the house in committee of the whole .were stricken out in the final vote. PRIVATE OPERATION DEPENDS LARGELY ON RAILROAD CREDIT Washington. Private operation of railroads can not be restored at exist ing rates, Robert S. Lovett, president of the Union Pcific Railroad, told the house interstate commerce commiti tee during a discussion in which he contended the railroad problem "is solely a question of railroad credit." Howard Elliott, president of the Northern Pacifis, another witness, urg sd early adoption of a national trans portation policy, declaring delay only tended to make "all classses uncer tain and unsettled.' NO TRACE OF MISSING ARMY AVIATORS FOUND. San Diego, Calif. American avia tors and troopers aided by Mexican troops, searched in vain for Lieuten ants F. B. Waterhouse and C. H. Con nelly, army aviators. The search is being made over a strip of land extending southward from the Mexican border, reaching ap proximately 130 miles across from the Pacific ocean to the gulf of Cali fornia. A high mountain range bisects it north aad south. FORTY GREEK BOY SCOUTS ARE MASSACRED BY TURKS. Athens.Tmkish irregulars recently occupied Aiding for two days and has tened to arrest about 40 native Boy Scouts, being determined to wreak vengeance for the services the boys had rendered the Greek troop3. They marched them out and asked to de nounce their country, but the boys af ter a brief and tragic silence replied by singing the Greek national anthem and wero promptly massacred. FORCED MARCH TO NEW BASE FACED BY PUNITIVE EXPEDITION Marfa, Tex. American punitive ex pedition faced the probability of a forced march to reach a new base from which troops will scout for the bandits who held two American army aviators for ransom. Reports from the Mexican consul at Presidio, Tex., stated that co-operation between Mexcan troops and the Americans was continuing satisfac torily and that there was no anxiety over possible friction. WILSON'S E IS INTERESTING HOW FAT MAY THE PRESIDENT GO IN BACKING DEMAND FOR TREATY ACCEPTANCE. THERE ARE SEVERAL OPTIONS Laughi-jg Suggestion Made that Lodge and Knox be Appointed to Assist in Negotiating New Treaty. Washington. How far President Wilion may go in his fight for un qualified senate acceptance of the peace treaty is a subject of increas ing speculation in official and diplo matic circles. Summed up, these discussions con template that he might take up the question of changes in the treaty by diplomatic correspondence; return to Paris and ask that the peace confer ence be reassembled for negotiation of a new treaty; send a new delega tion to reopen negotiations; or pocket the treaty and refuse to proceed fur ther unless the senate recede from its position. The possibility of Mr. Wilson's re turn to Paris to straighten out the points raised by any senate qualifi cations is one which some senators say would be entirely in line with his course thus far in the peace settle ment. To send an entirely new set of peace delegates also would be admittedly within the President's power, and in that connection republican senators frequently have mentioned Senator Hitchcock's statement that the Presi dent laughingly suggested Senators Lodge and Knox as possible selections to negotiate a new treaty should the present one be amended. That the President might permit the negotiations to stand in a dead lock by declining to take up with other governments any changes sug gested by the senate involves perhaps the most interesting possibilities of all. OBREGON CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT OF MEXICO. Mexico City. General Alvaro Obre gon, who is a candidate for the pres idency sent the following telegram to President Carranza: "Although I have plenty of confi dence that the government of which you are in charge will find most ade quate means of surmounting the dif ficult international s'tuation through which we are now passing, I am proud to tell you that in the very remote contingency under which this situa tion might not reach a satisfactory conclusion, I would be happy to give my modest forces in helping our government in any place that I might be used." PROFITEERS IN BRITAIN ARE FACING ROCKY ROAD. London. The British campaign to defeat profiteers received new impe tus when hundreds of people from the surrounding districts poured into Oxford to purchase from the street market organized by the trade and la bor councils. The stalls were be sieged for hiurs, and every class of purchaser was there. Prices were neaiiy 50 per cent below those in tne Rhnns. All over Great Britain street markets ore being opened to fight profiteers PREMIER NITTI URGES GREATER PRODUCTION Rome Premier Nitti Issued a proclamation addressed to all the pre fnfta nreine them to cary on a cam paign for greater production In the country, most frugal economy and the prevention of strikes "A maiority of the public continues to live as heretofore," said the pre mier. "Besides there is a large part nf the neoDle who instead of work ing more intensely insist on working less and demanding greater compen sation." BYRNES THINKS RADICALS ARE TRYING TO STIR UP TROUBLE Washington. Representative James F. Byrnes, of South Carolina, will ask for an investigation of what he thinks ia movement to excite the negroes to revolution. He is sure that the I. W. V. and ether radical organizations are trying to stir up trouble in this country. He will ask the house to take action to bar from the mails a number of negro newspapers that carry matter to incite riot or revo lution. "YOUNGEST FLIER" IN AMERICA IS KILLED Tampa, Fla. Sergeant-Pilot Chas. Copp, 17 years old' said t0 be the youngest flier in th. United States army aerial service, died at Carlstrom field, Arcadia, as the result of inju ries received when n's machine fell. He regained consciousness for only a few mirutes following the accident Copp's home was in Tampa and he was known as one of the best fliers at Carlstrom. U S. S. RICHMOND IS SOLD BY GOVERNMENT Washington.-The U. S. S. Rich mond built at Norfolk in 1860, named for Richmond, Va.. and which won distinction as being the first warsh p to utilize camouflage, has been sold Tv the government, mi will be scrap py for metal. At a unit of Farragufi fleet during the wai between the states the Richmond was smeared with mud as a camoutge at Southwest pass In 1862 In the ipedition to oper bp the Mississippi. n OVER THE LAND OF THE LONG LEAF PINE 5HOHT NOTES OF INTEREST TO CAROLINIANS. Lexington. The Davdson county summer school for teachers is now in session and will remain in session for four weeks. Washington. Hugh L. Struthers has been appointed postmaster, at GrlsU, Robert C. Weaver, at Peden, and John Z. Wright at Wesser. Gastonia. The $500,000 road bond election held in Gaston county was successful by an overwhelming ma jority. Durham. Tentative plans for the erection of a five-story Masonic homo in this city were announced by a spe cial committee from Durham lodge, 352, A. F. & A. M. Charlotte. Officers of automotive trade associations in North and South Carolina cities and representatives from places where no such organiza tions have been formed will be in vited to a conference in Charlotte September S. Wilmington. C. P. Morall, special deputy collector of customs at (his port, died from the effects of a self in flicted pistol wound made some three hours earlier in the customs house, presumably in a fit of despondency. Raleigh. Mr. Charles L. Steven, field examiner, bureau of war ri3k In surance, U. S. treasury department, will change hlB headquarters from Raleigh to Wilmington. Hs has been working out from Raleigh for some thing over a year. ! Swan Quarter. The Swan Quarter Belhaven Transportation company, of "Swan Quarter, is incorporated with $100,000 capital authorized and $5,300 subscribed by J. F. Bishop. T. M. Creech and others, for operating boat lines for freight and passengers. 1 New Berne. 'Much interest is bring manifested in the proposed knitting mill for this city. The machinery has been prepared for shipment, and as soon as the necessary labor has been arranged for, same will be shipped and Installed immediately. : Winston-Salem. President W. N. iKeynoias, 01 we w.. j. ntjnoiua ihaeeo comnanv. confirmed a rumor to 'the effect that this company had fir- chased a large cigarette plant (build ing and equipment) located at Jersey '.City,. N. J. The purchase price was ; about $1,000,000. I Lumberton. Indications are that the Lumberton tobacco market, as well as all the other tobacco markets in the South Carolina belt, which have been closed since last week on account of the strike of railroad employees, will reopen soon. Tarboro. One who has recently trav eled through Northampton, Bertie, Halifax, Edgecombe, Pitt, Martin, Wayne and Lenoir counties has esti mated the damage done to cotton by the heavy rains to at least sixty per cent The tobacco crop, he stated, would be only about half of the yield and quality of last year. Lexington. Boots Miller and Edgar Williams are dodging officers as a re sult of the discovery that these two colored tigers had in their possession about Ave gallons of "sugar-head. Washington. As forecasted some days ago, M. L. Shipman, commis sioner of labor and printing of Norta Carolina, was appointed federal di rector of labor for the Tar Heel state. Gastonia. J. H. Separk was host to about 30 of the alumni, old students and friends of Trinity college at a banquet at the Armington hotel. The principal speaker of the evening was Rer. J. M. Daniel of Dunn, who made a most eloquent appeal In behalf of his alma mater. Wilmington. Thirty days in Jail for contempt of court for refusing to aar where he bought the whiskey that made him drunk was the sentence passed on Gus Brlndle, a white man, by Recorder George Harrits. Winston-Salem. Charged with the larceny of cattle and hogs from a large ranch in South Dakota to the value of from $5,000 to $8,000. George Howard, a young white man, about 28 years old is in Forsyth Jail, awaiting the arrival of Sheriff Z. V. Trebble, of Madison, North Dakota. Williamston. Something unusual was seen in moonshine stills here, when Deputy Jenkins and Sheriff Page brought in a double-header. Wadesboro. Constable W. C. S tea gall, of Morven, was killed while at tempting to arrest a negro, Lee Tyson, who also was killed in the struggle with Steagall and Police Officer Tyler Watson, who was assisting the " con stable. The officers wanted Tyson on charge of carrying a concealed wea pon. Policeman Watson was slightly wounded. Apex. A new tobacco warehouse is under construction U Apex. It will be completed in a couple of weeks, when It is proposed to permit the people to assemble and give it an "old time house warming celebration. Winston-Salem. During an electric storm at Walnut Cove, a white man. name not learned, was killed by light Bins;. A Talnable mule belonging to Mr. Alex Boles, a farmer residing twa miles from Oermantown, was also killed. Four men In a tobacco barn were severely shocked.