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Leon Trotzky, Soviet-Bolshevist min
ister of war and marine, is reported
to have arrived at Petrograd to ar
range for the defense of the city. Ev
ery available man, including veterans
70 vears old, is said to have been mo
bilized by the Bolshevist authorities.
Gerniano-Russian forces in Lithua
nia have been defeated by Lithuanian
troops in two encounters, according to
iii formation issuing from Lithuanian
sources.
The Bolshevik official report claims
that their troops have recaptured Pav
losk and Tsarkoe-Selo south of Petro
grad. Many prisoners are reported
to have been taken.
message by way of Honolulu says
that Nikolai Lenine, the Bolshevik pre
mier of Russia, has been captured by
anti Bolsheviki, the details of which
are said to be forthcoming.
Roumanian demands for artification
of the frontiers fixed in the deter-i-i-.atiin
of the western borders of
Kouinania have been refused by the
supreme council of the peace author
ities. In reply the supreme council
savs it canont consider the clauses
of the agreement which have been
communicated to the alied powers.
Former Emperor William has com
missioned Herr Siebert, an attorney,
of Berlin, to institute a suit against
the actor, Ferdinand Bonn, who pre
pared what are known as the "kaiser
films," which were barred in Berlin
but were permitted to be exhibited
elsewhere.
William C. Magnelsson, United
States "consul at Melbourne, died sud
denly October 17 on board the steamer
Sonoma, which arrived at Honolulu
from Autsralian ports. Mr. Magnels
son was formerly a resident of Rush
fnrd. Minnesota. " ' -
The returns from the Ontario prov
ince of Canada shows that the drys
won overwhelmingly and that the unit
ed farm and labor party had swept it
self into office.
King Albert of Belgium, who is in
the United States, says there is no
doubt about the United States having
won the world war.
The names of Prince Ruprecht of Ba
varia and others of the former Ger
man royalty and nobility of Germany
appear on the lists of German officers
whose surrender for trial by common
law crimes in France and Belgium will
be demanded in accordance with the
terms of the Versailles treaty.
Domestic
Active preparations are being made
bare in Washington, D. C, for the
forthcoming convention of the Atlan
ta Deeper Waterways Association,
which wil be held in Charleston, S.
C, November 10-13, 1919, inclusive.
The Chesapeake and Delaware canal
has been taken over by the govern
ment, which gives the government the
key to the entire Atlantic coastal sit
uation. The entire South is being scoured
in anieffort to M'Pft'hend three alleg
ed confidence- men,' charged with
swindling a prominent business man
of Chicago out of more than ten thou
sand 'dollars in Atlanta, Ga.
Adjourning to meet in Portland, Or
egon, in 1922, the triennial general
convention of the Protestant Episcopal
church in America ended at Detroit,
Michigan, in what Churchmen con
sider one of the most momentous and
history-making sessions of its history.
Maintenance of stable government
and suppression of enemies of social
order these Were the notes sounded
at Atlantic City, N. J., ; at the first
public session of the international
trade conference. Upon these factors
depend the ' prosperity of the world,
speakers told 2,500 delegates.
Three agents of the department of
justice were indicted by the federal
grand jury on charges of having en
gaged in a conspiracy to blackmail
liquor dealers in New York, and there
by frustrate the operation of the war
time prohibition law.
It is hard to buy a drink in New
York. Arrests of federal agents ac
cused of grafting and indications that
one of them would turn state's evi
dence, scared cafes, cabarets and mo
ttor inns where hitherto nothing but
the price has1 been" necessary to sat
isfy any alcoholic craving. "-.
Opera .in ..the German language in
New York at this time would tend' to
a breach of the peace and should be
prevented by the police. This is the
opinion of New York City's corpora
tion counsel.
An unusual rush of emigrants toward
America is in progress. Two thou
sand Italians applied for passports to
the United States at Naples recently.
The removal of restrictions as to the
vises; on American passports are given
as the cause for the emigratory move
ment. There is military efficiency about
the work of the German prisoners en
gaged, in clearing up the . battlefields
pattered over the low lying country
"etwoi.r V j r 1
ot
. i pres ana uumuue, owue
1 many a battle, and once more
"S it fit for hahitation.
mak-
Respite decision by Mayor Hylan
tQdc 0fciman opera should not be given
ln Xew York unti the 'peace "treaty
w?s Signedi .,Die Meistersinger wa8
SIX" in erman at the Lexington
sands SM-York City' WhUe thU:
riving 01(llers, sailors, marines and
Stem1?t,r?0Ugh' wita the police in an
the n reach th theater and stop
ldpst Several 8b0ta w.ere
and ai?ain -V mer Bece men time
2 S ?Kd thpKoHc Iinf8 or
snH Mirage of bricks, stones
fort, S!,PffilBSl, Wt tO
P their way tbroun,
1878.
Word is received that the bodie or
Lieutenants Frederick B. Waterttouse
and Cecil H. Connelly, American avi
ators, who" were buried at Bahia, Los
Angeles, Lower California, recently,
have been disinterred and placed
aboard thte United States destroyer
Aaron Ward.
The question of granting the Jack
sonville street car company the right
10 raise tne rare to 7 cents was de
feated by a vote of more than three
to one in special -city election.
Rioting which broke out in the Brad
dock, Pa., steel mill district, was re
newed when a crowd of about fifty
strikers &rt& their sympathizers claim
ed that he will release one-third of
left one of the plants. One man was
shot during the melee and many oth
ers were injured.
Washington
With a recommendation to Presi
dent Wilson that he create a com
mission to cary on the work which
the national industrial conference was
wholly -unable, to accomplish, the. pub
lic group, the last remaining element
of that body, quit and went home.
William C. Jenkins, American con
sular agent at Puebla, Meico, was kid
naped by three masked bandits and
held for $150,000 ransom, the state
department is advised. The American
embassy .on, inquiry has been informed
by the Mexican foreign office'that the
government would take all possible
steps to effect the liberation of Jen
kins. The American embassy has been
authorized to detail a member of its
staff to Puebla to assist in obtaining
the agents's release.
Meager details of the kidnaping of
William Oscar Jenkins are contained
in a telegram from his wife, Mary
Street Jenkins, to his father, John W.
Jenkins, at- Hanford, transmitted by
the latter to Governor Stephens, bf
California.
The action of President Wilson in
signing - the amendment of the food
control act, recently approved by con
gress, puts the department of justice
in possession of new and effective
power to conduct the government's
campaign on the high cost of living.
Although the amendments, which are
nothing more than additions to the
war-time Lever act, can be regarded
merely as temporary expedients for
dealing with the price situation, they
will afford definite penalities for prof
iteering and hoaders in food and
clothing.
Concurrence In a suggestion by At
torney. General Palmer that ten cents
a pound would bja a fair price for the
.new beet sugar crop has been re
ceived from producerss' representa
tives, ninety per cent of the output
in this country, it was announced at
tne department of justice. This is an
Increase of one cent a pound over th
old price.
Opposition to renewing the licensing
power of the present sugar equaliza
tion board led Chairman McNary, of
the state agriculture sub-committee in
vestigating the sugar situation, to an
nounce that he would introduce a new
bill authorizing the president to retain
the present board, or appoint a new
one, but containing no licensing pro
vision. At his request the board will
meet in New York to consider the sub
stitute measure.
The Mexican house of deputies has
voted general approval of a proposal
to withdraw extraordinary powers
granted to President Carranza two
years ago under which he decreed
many laws.
Joseph Caillaux, former premier of
France, on January 13 next, is to
face his accusers on a charge of in
triguing to bring about a dishonorable
peace with Germany.
Although Lieutenant B. W. Maynard
was the first to complete the trans
continental air race, Captain J. O.
Donaldson made the flight in about 10
hours less flying time.
Only three members of the house,
all Democrat's and from the South,
voted against the budget bill when
it came up for final passage in the
bouse Representative Moon of Ten
nessee, Bhickman and Steagall of Ala
bama. After a day of uncertainty during
which President Wilson sent to Sec
retary Lane, chairman, a message of
conciliation to be used as a last re
sort, the national industrial confer
ence cleaned its slate October 21 by
rejecting all collective bargaining res
olutions, as well as the labor proposal
for intervention in the steel strike.
Advised that the navy department
has in reserve nine-million pounds of
sugar. Secretary Danielk has intimat
e dthat he will release one-third of
the stock or three million pounds for
public use.
The republic of Panama will be rep
resented at the international labor
conference at Washington by Fred
erics Mojica, Jorge Luis Paredes, An
dres Mojica and J. A. Zubiesta.
The reconcentrado system, made
famous by General Weyler in Cuba,
and afterwards used by Caso Lopez
and the Huertistas against the Zapa
tistas in Morelos, have been inaugurat
ed by the Mexican government against
the Villistas of the state of Chihua
hua. Mexico.
Food prices are on the decline, the
department of labor's bureau of la
bor statistics announces in a state
ment asserting that the retail price of
22 staple foodstuffs show a decline of
2 per cent.
The long treaty fight in the senate is
about to enter its final nhase. Lead
ers hope during the coming week to
clear away all proposed progres in tne
framing of a ratification resolution.
Virtualy conceding that no amend
ments to the peace treaty will be
adopted, the opposition managers are
determined to qualify the ratifying res
olution with reservations.
Undesirable aliens are entering -the
TTnWail Ctitaa in 1ot-frk niimhpm t)V
way of the Mexican border since lack
- - . r , 1 3 .1
oi appropriations comyeiieu iae in
duction in size of the border patrol.
Anthony Caminetti, director general
of immigration, told the house immi
gration and naturalization committee.
That Camp Gordon, near Atlanta,
will be retaineo ty the government as
a permanent military training field,
but greatly enlarged, if 2,000 acres of
additional lands are found available
at the right prices, is practically as-sural
The ChaotM Record
PRESIDENT VETOES
PROHIBITION BILL
AGAIN PASSED IN HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES BY VOTE
OF 176 TO 55.
THE VETO WAS UNEXPECTED
When Senate Duplicates House Action
All Hope of "Wet" Season Running
Over Christmas Will Vanish.
Washington President Wilson un
expectedly vetoed the prohibition en
forcement bill and within three hours
the house had repassed it over his
veto by a vote of 176 to 55.
The total vote, was barely more than
a majority of the entire membership.
Dry leaders in the senate imme
diately began laying plans to repass
the bill there. They expect to ask
unanimous consent for its considera
tion, claiming enough votes to put it
through.
The President refused to sign the
bill because it included the enforce
ment of wartime prohibition.
The objects of wartime prohibition,
the President said in his veto, had
been satisfied, and "sound public pol
icy makes clear the reason and nec
essity for its repeal."
It would not be difficult, the Presi
dent held, for Congress to deal sepa
rately with the two issues.
The veto hit Congress unexpectedly.
The house, getting on its feet again,
deserted Its leaders, who wanted to
defer consideration so as to round up
all the dry members. But the drys
swept into the chamber and showed
there was an overwhelming sentiment
among them to give the government
ample weapons for dealing with the
liquor traffic.
Nobody had really professed to
know the President would veto the
bill-
Attorney General Palmer, it was
said, had declared it constitutional.
But the President, propped up in
bed, dictated and then signed a veto
message and sent it along to Con
gress, without worrying, apparently,
what Congress might do.
With repassage of the law by the
house and the prospect of the sam
thing happening in the senate, hop J
of the big "wet" spell that would ruxi
over the Christmas season vanished..
PUBLIC APPRECIATES DANGER
IN IMPENDING COAL STRIKE.
Washington. Many telegrams urg
ing Congress to support the President
on his attitude towards the coal
strikers are arriving here.
The coal mine leaders could be
prosecuted under the Lever food con
trol act if they carried out their plans
for a strike. It was pointed out that
they have already violated this law
by agreeing to a strike.
It is held by officials of the govern
ment that under this law the miners
who met at Cleveland some days ago
and "agreed" to the strike are al
ready guilty and can be dealt with.
Although the attorney general will
not divulge his plans, it is believed
that he is preparing to strike hard i'
the miners carry out their threat.
Congress is giving the President
Its loyal support in his efforts to prfv
tect the public against the strikers.
SENATE REJECTS JOHNSON
AMENDMENT TO THE TREATY
Washington. The Johnson amend
ment to the peace treaty designed to
equalize American and British voting
strength in the league of nations, was
rejected in the senate by a vote of 38
to 40.
On the roll call, which came unex
pectedy during a lull in the debate,
two Democrats joined the Republicans
supporting the amendment and nine
Republicans voted with the Demo
crats against it. Of 18 senators ab
sent, or paired, four Republicans and
two Democrats were recorded as fa
voring it and 12 Democrats as oppos
ing it.
MANUFACTURERS OF SPAIN
TAKE STRIKE INITIATIVE'
Madrid More than a million pet
sons throughout Spain will be thrown
out of employment Tuesday, Novem
ber 4, if the decision of the congres
of Spanish employers at Barcelona,
declaring for a lockout, is carried out.
In Barcelona alone, 200,000 men and
women will be affected.
Governmntal authorities are con
cerned over the situation and are ex
pected to exert every influence to in
duce the manufacturers to reconsider.
AIR SERVICE SUB-COMMITTEE
PROBE FOR IRREGULARITIES
New York. Further investigation
of irregularities in the army air ser
vice reported on at President Wilson's
request by Charles E. Hughes, was be
gun here by a special congressional
sub-committee. It is a division of the
committee on investigation of war de
partment expenditures.
Among the witnesses summoned are
John D. Ryan, former head of tb
aircraft board; Pliny Fiske, of Har
vey Fiskw & Sons.
NEARLY 400,000 TONS SUGAR
HELD IN CUBAN WAREHOUSES
Washington-Nearly 400,000 tons of
sugar, an amount sufficient to meet
American demands until the next crop
is produced, is being held in Cuban
warehouses, according to a cable re
ceived from President Alejo Carece
no, of the Cuban Sugar Manufacturers
and Planters Association, by Chair
man McNary, of the senate agricul
ture sub-committee, which is investi
gating the sugar situation ,and whose
report Is anxiously awaited.
PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C. OCTOBER 30, 1919
PRESIDENT WILSON
Oil THE RED GROSS
THIRD ROLL CALL OF THIS
BENEFICENT SOCIETY RUNS
FROM NOVEMBER 2 TO 11.
GENEROUS RESPONSE 0R6ED
Ventures the Hope That Its Member
ship During Times of Peace Will
Excell Its War Period Record.
Washington. President Wilson has
addressed a letter which is published
in part below, to the people of the
country appealing for support-of
third Red Cross roll call, which is to
be held from November 2 to 11:
"As President of the United States
and as president of the American Red
Cross, I recommend and urge a gen
erous response to the third Red
Cross roll call which opens on No
vember 2d, the first anniversary of
the signing of the armistice.
"Twenty million adults joined the
Red Cross during the war, prompted
by a patriotic desire to render serv
ice to their country and to the cause
for which the United States was en
gaged in war.
"Both the greater enduring domes
tic program and the lesser temporary
foreign program of the Red Cross de
serve enthusiastic support, and I ven
ture to hope that its peace time mem
bership will exceed rather than fall
below its impressive war member
ship. "Wood row Wilson."
STEADY IF SLOW IMPROVEMENT
IN PRESIDENT'S CONDITION.
K Washington. President Wilson ob
tained rest after several days during
which the difficulties of the national
industrial conference and the threat
ened coal strike had forced Rear Ad
miral Grayson, his physician, to res
cind in part the order against his ac
tive participation in governmental af
fairs. In his mid-day bulletin, Dr. Gray
son said:
"The President continues to im
prove slowly."
BELGIAN KING AND QUEEN
VISIT NEW YORK THEATER.
New York. The famous "diamond
horseshoe" of the Metropolitan opera
house glittered with jewels in honor
of the king and queen of the Belgians,
the wealth and fashion of New York
packed the great auditorium from pit
to dome to hear a special performance
for the benefit of Queen Elizabeth's
hospital fund, one of her majesty's
most cherished charities.
DENIKINE ARMY CONTINUES
ITS SUCCESSFUL ADVANCE.
London. Heavy fighting is going on
along General Denikine's entire front.
The fighting extends for 700 miles
from Tsaritzkyn to Kiev. The chief
of the British military mission with
General Denikine reports that the bat
tle so far is going successfully for the
anti-Bolshevik forces.
WILLIAM II CONSPICUOUS
ONLY AS AMATEUR RULER!
Berlin. William II was conspicuous
as an amateur, which is the real rea
son why Germany's -foreign policies
were never clearly defined. Conrad
Haussnvtn, vice president of the na
tional assembly informed the depu
ties in the coure of significant speech
in the debate on the foreign office
budget.
PRES8 CLUB MEMBERS AT
WASHINGTON FORM POST
Washington. Members of the Na
tional Press Club In Washington who
served in the army, navy or marine
corps during the world war are or
ganizing a post of the American Le
gion within the club, to be known as
National Press Club post.
THE ESTATE OF ROOSEVELT
IS VALUED AT $810,607
Mineola. N. Y. Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt left an estate valued at
$810,607, according to affidavits filed
with transfer tix arraiser Gehrig by
executors of the will.
After approximately $34,000 has
been deducted for funeral expenses,
counsel fees and debts the entire es
tate will iro to tbe widow of the
former president in trust to be dis
tributed the children in any propor
tion she may determine .
LEWIS IS STILL MAKING
PREPARATIONS FOR STRIKE
Washington. John L. Lewis, presi
dent of the United Mine Workers of
America, worn out by a week's ses
sion of scale committees, had left here
for Sprinfigeld, 111., ?o take personal
charge of the strige before the presi
dent's statement was issued.
"The situation so far as the miners
are concerned is unchanged," Lewis
said. "We are still ready arid will
ing to negotiate a new wage contract
before November 1.
PRELIMINARY STEPS TAKEN
FOR INTERNATIONAL UNION
Atlantic City. N. J. Work: of per-
fecting a plan for a permanent Inter
national organization of business men
in accordance with the unanimous
vote of the international trade con
ference at its closing session was be
gun by a special committee of 10
members, two each from Great Brit
ain. Fr. Italy, Belgium and the
United States.
This committee Is expected to com
plete the plan within t month.
AID IS URGED FOR
GROSS
ABROAD
President Wilson Prepared Mes
sage Before Illness.
WORK YET TO BE COMPLETED
To Finance Operations and to Carry
Out Constructive Plans in Eastern
Europe, Organization Requires
Increasing Membership.
Washington, D. C Before his pres
ent illness President Wilson prepared
the following message, in which he
urges the people of the United States
to generously respond to the third roll
call of the Red Cross :
As president of the United States
and as president of the American Red
Cross I recommend and urge a gen
erous response to the Third Red Cross
Roll Call, which opens on November
the second with the observance of Red
Cross Sunday and appropriately closes
on November the eleventh, the first
anniversary of the signing of the ar
mistice. Twenty million adults Joined the
Red Cross during the war, prompted
by a patriotic desire to render service
to their country and to the cause for
which the United States was engaged
in war. Our patriotism should stand
the test of peace as well as the test of
war, and it Is an intelligently patriotic
program which the Red Cross pro
poses, a continuance of service to our
soldiers and sailors, who look to it for
many things and a transference to the
problems of peace at home of the ex
perience and methods which it ac
quired during the war.
Stress on Membership.
It is on membership more than
money contributions that the stress of
the present campaign is laid, for the
Red Cross seeks to associate the
people in welfare work throughout the
land, especially in those communities
where neither official nor unofficial
provision has been made for adequate
public health and social service.
It Is In the spirit of democracy that
the people should undertake their own
welfare activities, and the National
Red Cross wisely intends to exert upon
community action a stimulating and
co-ordinating influence and to place
the energies of the organization be
hind all sound public health and wel
fare agencies.
The American Red Cross does not
purpose indefinite prolongation of its
relief work abroad, a policy which
would lay an unjust burden upon our
own people and tend to undermine the
self-reliance of the peoples relieved,
but there Is a necessary work of com
pletion to be performed before the
American Red Cross can honorably
withdraw from Europe. The congress
of the United States has Imposed upon
the Red Cross a continuing responsi
bility abroad by authorizing the secre
tary of war to transfer to the Ameri
can Red Cross such surplus army med
ical supplies and supplementary and
dietary foodstuffs now in Europe as
shall not be required by the army, to
be used by the Red Cross to relieve
the distress which continues in certain
countries flf Europe as a result of the
war.
Program Deserves Support.
To finance these operations, to con
clude work which was begun during
the war, and to carry out some com
paratively inexpensive constructive
plans for assisting peoples in eastern
Europe to develop their own welfare
organizations, the American Red Cross
requires, in addition to membership
fees, a sum of money small in compar
ison with the gifts poured into its
treasury by our generous people dur
ing the war.
Both the greater enduring domestic
program and the lesser temporary for
eign program of the Red Cross de
serve enthusiastic support, and I ven
ture to hope that its peace-time mem
bership will exceed rather than fall
below Its Impressive war membership.
WOODROW WILSON.
Two Mules.
A colored man driving a mule at
tached to a Junk wagon meandered
along the Mission road. Suddenly the
mule's feet took root. He "posolutely
and absotively" refused to budge. The
darky, with a sigh, dismounted and
tried all the arts of his race, from per
suasion with a shovel handle to down
right cruelty. For half an hour he
worked, but the mule only remained
glued fast to the road.
"Why don't you sell him and buy an
auto, uncle?" called a aop who had
been enjoying the fun.
"Huh !" growled the colored man.
"That mule'd take that as a pussonal
victory. He's been tryin' to shake me
for a week. No, sir. Ah reckon Ah'll
stick it out."
American Interests In China.
The Foochow branch of the Ameri
can Association of China was recently
formed. The ne organization will
largely care for American commercial
Interests, which are rapidly expand
ing in the Foochow consular district,
and will take the place of an Ameri
can chamber of commerce, the num
ber of local Americans being too few
to support a chamber of commerce.
Strict Business.
"Would you throw a tomato at that
speaker?" asked a rough auditor.
"No," replied the grocer; "not unless
he paid for It In advance."
Names of Countries Ending In "la."
These names are of Latin origin:
Britannia. Germanla. Helvetia. Espanla
are old Latin names for England. Ger
many, France and Spain. The names
of countries in Latin were of the fem
inine gender and the nouns ending ln
"a" are feminine.
Great Pilo of Sweetness.
The largest cake ever baked was
made for Frederick William I, of
Prussia. It was eighteen yards long,
eljrht yards wide and one and one-half
feet thick.
VASTLY EXTENDED
STRUGGLE IS Oil
8AMUEL GOMPERS HAS CALLED
MEETING OF HEADS OF 112
ALLIED ORGANIZATIONS.
AN ISSUE OF LIFE OR DEATH
Proposition Is Suggested to Assess
One-Fourth of the' Net Earnings
of Members to Finance Fight.
Washington. What may prove one
of the greatest industrial battles in
history was believed by some obser
vers here to be forecasted by the an
nouncement of Samuel Gompers,
president of the American Federation
of Labor, that a conference of the
heads of 112 international unions affil
iated with the American Federation
of Labor would be held in Washing
ton in the "near future" to discuss
present and impending disputes.
Mr. Gompers' announcement was
contained in a telegram to the Illinois
Federation of Labor in Peoria. His
message was in reply to one in which
the Illinois organization asked that a
special convention of the American
Federation of Labor be called to per
fect an alliance of the international
unions of the United States and Can-,
ada and the railroad brotherhoods
"more effectively to fight out the life
and death struggle of the workers
now in progress."
Federation officials also pointed out
that the Illinois branch proposed that
the aid of the farmers be enlisted and
that assessments aggregating one
fourth of the net earnings of organiz
ed workers be made "until the ob
jects of this drive be accomplished."
RESERVATIONS PROPOSED BY
LODGE BITTERLY OPPOSED.
Washington. The democrats will
not accept the treaty if .the Lodge
reservations are adopted. They pre
fer to defeat its ratification. Some
of the leaders are very bitter in their
denunciation of the Lodge reserva
tions. "We shall stand firm if we go down
in defeat " said Senator Underwood
"It would be better to defeat the
treaty than to ratify with the reserva
tions proposed. But, I do not believe
that Mr. Lodge can put through his
program. I can't believe that the sen
ate will go with him."
"I shall vote against the ratification
of the treaty if the reservations pro
posed by the foreign relations com
mittee are accepted," said Senator
Simmons. "The reservations offered
are an insult to the American peo
ple." STATE DEPARTMENT IS TO
PUT PRESSURE ON MEXICO.
Washington. Pressure of the most
urgent nature will be brought to bear
upon the Mexican government to use
all the forces at its command to ob
tain the release of William O. Jen
kins, American consular agent at
Puebla, who was robbed and kid
napped by bandits, and now is being
held for $150,000 ransom. The Amer
ican embassy at Mexico City, was in
structed by Assistant 'Secretary of
State Phillips to keep in close touch
with the Mexican foreign office and to
push unremittingly its request for all
possible action.
WITH THOUSAND WORD LETTER
GREAT CONFERENCE ADJOURNS.
Washington. With a recommenda
tion to President Wilson that the ap
point a commission to carry on the
work which the National Industrial
conference was unable to accomplish,
the public group, the last remaining
element of the body, finally adjourned.
The report of the public representa
tives, declining to assume the task for
which the original gathering was
called, was transmitted to the White
House through Chairman Bernard M.
Baruch in the form of a 1,000-word
yetter.
POLICE OF CHICAGO ARE
ARMED WITH TRENCH GUNS.
Chicago. Federal troops at Gary,
Ind., patrolled with "trench guns."
weapons of the sawed-off shotgun
type. They were thus enqulpped by
order of Col. W. S. Mapes, command
ing the strike area under military
control, after he had received re
ports that the infantrymen had been
stoned by strike sympathizers.
Elsewhere in the district the indus
trial situation was reported generally
unchanged.
LIVELY MOVEMENT OF ALLIED
WAR CRAFT IS IN PROGRESS.
Fiume. A lively movement of al
lied war craft stationed in Adriatic
ports is in progress. The United
States torpedo boat Foote, which has
been stationed here, has been ordered
to Spalato and left lot that Dalma
tian port.
The P.ress correspondent was in
formed by an American naval com
mander that the movement probably
was connected with the Fiume situa
tion. FRANCE ENDS STATE OF WAR
BY ISSUING OFFICIAL DECREE.
Paris Official publication of the
law declaring the state of war to be
at an end, fixes definitely the date
from which will run the time limit on
moratoriums.
This publicaton ends the state of
war only as far as concerns internal
affairs of France. The nation remains
In a state of war with Germany until
the treaty of Versailes becomes ef
fective through the deposit ef ratifica
tions at tbe foreign office.
CONDENSED NEWS FROM
THE OLD NORTH STATE
HOHT NOTES OF INTEREST TO
CAROLINIANS.
Wilmington E. S. Tucker, ento
mologist from the department of agri
culture, announced . that the cotton
boll weevil has reached New Hanover
county.
Asheville. Two schools in ' this
county at Arden and South Fork, have
been closed owing to the lack of
teachers, the county board of educa
tion announced.
Charlotte. Ten young men have en
listed for naval service at the local
navy recruiting station m the Mint
building during the past week, accord
ing to the report of Chief Quartermas
ter Wilson.
Wilmington. As a result, of the
continued high tide existing at pres
ent, some of the largest industrial
concerns of Wilmington have been
forced to shut down their plants.
High Point Junior Order, United
American Mechanics, announced here
that the Ostrlct convention would be
held in Ramseur October 31- Novem
ber 1. Prominent men in the order
from over the state will attend the
meeting.
Hickory. Ed Lippard, alleged Vir
ginia hotel man, but a former Alex
ander county blockader, according to
officers, was held up and his Reo
touring car seised in the South moun
tain section of Burke county, by Dep
uty Collectors Boger and Kirksey. -
Wilmington. Edward Hood, well
known and prominent merchant of
Southport, a fishing town located 25
miles from Wilmington killed himself
at his home, a pistol being the wea
pon used. The bullet penetrated the
brain.
Reidsvllle. The sugar supply is at
very low ebb and Reidsvilllians are)
threatened with absolute famine.
; Asheville. With 55 charter mem
beis present, the organization meet-
iing of the Asheville local of the Amer
ican Federation of Musicians, has just
.been perfected here and oif leers elect
ed This is the first musicians' un
ion in the state, it is believed.
Monroe. An accidental discharge
of a shotgun tore off the left hand of
Cecil Williams, who lives about two
miles east of the city.
Wilmington. Henry Bruns, white,
28, a carpenter employed at a ship
yard here, was shot and almost in
stantly killed, declaring as he died
that "Tom Mitchell," a negro, had fir
ed the shot. The negro has not been
captured.
Raleigh. There is a movement on
foot here to revive the establishment
of the meat packing plant that was
well advanced in preliminary organi
zation when America became invol
ved In the world war.
Chapel Hill Several hundred per
sons from Orange county united with
the people of Chapel Hill here in the
annual rally day celebration, under
the direction of Prof. M. C. S. Noble.
Memorial hall was filled with exhibits.
New Bern. The Col. J. E. Sawyer,
700 ton concrete passenger ship, took
to the waters of Neuse river here
witnessed by more than 1,000 people
and in the presence of several army
officers sent by the government
Salisbury. An early morning fire
destroyed an outhouse and garage at
the Salisbury Ice and Fuel company's
plant. Also an automobile truck. The
fire was started when an employe
tried to draw gasoline from a drum
using a lantern to enable him to see
how to do the Job.
' Winston-Salem. Announcement Is
made that less than $25,000 of the
$270,700 is needed to complete the
fund being raised for the erection of
a modern apartment house in this
city.
Monroe. The Parent-Teachers' as
sociation of Monroe met and voted
to federate with the other associations
of like nature throughout the state.
Newton. Arthur F. Bolick, who
lived about one and a half miles from
Conover, was horribly mangled by a
circus train on the local yards of the
Southern railway.
Bolick, it is said, was drinking, and,
after taking in the circus, had start
ed home, going up the railroad tracks,
when the train struck him killing him
Instantly.
Charlotte. Coming as a climax to
one of the most successful and largely
attended fairs in history a brief but
healthy thunderstorm swept over the
grounds and prevented the 1919 Fair
of the Carolinas from ending in the
customary "blaze of glory."
Wilmington. The first government
shipyard in the United States to close
following the conclusion of the war
will be the Liberty, located ln Wil
mington, according to an announce
ment made here by Lewis R. Fergu
eon, general manager.
Franklinton Frankllnton is to have
a new business enterprise, the Frank
linton Hosiery Mills. A number of the
business men of the place are inter
ested, and Its success is almost as
sured from the beginning.
Mount Airy Tobacco sales here
reached the unprecedented local vol
ume of 127,750 pounds sold at the
three warehouses In a single day's
-Ait.inaaa The average price for the
day was $43.28 and the highest price
paid wis 11 per pound, a new high
mere fer this tatrkst.
VOL.XLII. NO. 13
Tax Notice
To the tax payers of Chatham conn
ty: I will be at the following placet
on the dates mentioned below for tn
purpose of receiving the taxes for Mk.
year 1919 which' will be due cn Oc
tober. 1st. .i .
Carbon ton, Dismukes' Store, Friday
afternoon, October 31st
Hilliard's Store, Friday afternoon,
October 31st
Bear Creek. Coggins Fltts,' Store,
Saturday (all day). November 1st
Harpers Cross Roads, Wednesday
morning, November 5th.
Bennett, Bank, Wednesday after
noon, November 5th.
R. L. Welch's Store, Thursday
morning, November 6th,
J. M Jordan's Store, Thursday af
ternoon, November 6th.
Ore HilL post, office, Friday mot
Ing, November 7th.
, Brewer's Store, Friday afternoon,
November 7th.
Slier City, Hadley Hotel, Saturday
(all day), November 8th.
The law requires but one tax round
to be made and I am making the
above number of places for your con
venience Please come forward and
settle. Pay your dog tax and get the
tag number. It is a misdemeanor it
not paid before December the 1st.
The law provides that on all state
and county taxes paid in the month of
October and November that you are
entitled to a discount of one per cent
All taxes paid in the month of De
cember shall be paid at the net
amount charged and from and after
the first day of January a penalty of
cie per cent per month shall be charg
ed and collected: that is to say, that
on all taxes paid ln tbe month of Jan
uary after the first day of January,
a penalty of one per cent shall be
added on the taxes paid, and in the
month of February and after the first
day of February a penalty of two per
cent shall be added and an additional
penalty of one per cent for each addi
tional month of delay ln the settle
ment of same.
I (sincerely hope that all the tax
payers understand the law and will
come forward and settle in due time
without having to pay any penalty.
Yours very truly,
LEON T. LANE.
Sheriff Chatham County.
September 17, 1919,
Flowers Foretell Rain.
The ordinary clover and all Its vari
eties, including shamrock, are barom
eters. When rain Is coming the lea vet
shut together like the shells of an oy
ster. For a day or two before rata
comes their items swell te an appreci
able extent, and stiffen so that tbe
leaves are borne more uprightly that
nsuaL This atom swelling when ralsj
is expected Is a feature of many flow
ering grasses.
, ,
Only Real Riches.
There i no wealth but life ; life, l
eluding all its powers of love, joy . and
of edmlratlon. That - country Is the
richest which nourishes the greatest
number of noble end happy human be
ings; that' man Is richest who, having
perfected the functions of his own life
to the utmost has also the widest
helpful Influence, both personal and by
means of his - possessions, ever the
lives of others. Ruskln.
She Had a Different Ambition.
When William Wllberforce, the re
former, was a candidate for parlia
ment his sister, an amiable and witty
young lady, offered the compliment of
a new gown to each ef the wives of
those freemen who voted for her
brother, on which she was saluted with
a cry of "Miss Wllberforce forever r
when she pleasantly observed: "I
thank you, gentlemen, but I cannot
agree with you; for really I do not
wish to be Miss Wllberforce forever 1"
Boston Post.
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" The Flowing Tide.
No one, however great hie fenlflf
or high his position, is alMmportanl
to the world; its work will go on wttbj
out him. There may be ripples enl
disturbances ln the current for a time
where he sinks out of sight, but tb4
tide will eoon be flawing on as before.
This truth may be painful to persons,
vanity, but It is comforting to even
generous soul that cares mora foj
others than for self.
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High Prlee Paid for Beefsteak. '
The highest price ever paid fei
beefsteak was probably at Circle City
Alaska, a town that sprang up evel
night during the Klondike gold excite
merit. The first beefsteak to read
there sold for $48 a pound. Every on
wanted some of it sod so they rat
' fled It off for the benefit of a hospital
Tickets were sold from DO cents U
$2.50 for the privilege of drawing
slice.
It Ain't Mine.
Tourist "I've come 8.000 miles to
see your beautiful sunset V Alkali
Ike "Someone's been stringing ye
stranger. It ain't mine." Rockj
Mountain Scent.
Victory Belongs to the Able.
The winds and waves are alwaye
en the side of the ablest navigators.
Gibbon.
STEPS TAKEN TO PREVENT AN
ABNORMAL PRICE FOR SUGAR
Washington. Steps to prevent an
abnormal increase in the price of
sugar -because of shortage were taken
the department of justice.
Attorney General Palmer notified
1eet sugar renerlesr ' who have been
withholding their products . f rom the
marekt until the price situation be
came more stabilized, that the United
States sugar equalisation board had
determined that ten cents was a fait
fries to U oartd tbe wholesaler.