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.