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Foreicrn
The maneuvers of the entire Jap
anese navy, in which the emperor
participated, were marred by an explo
sion on the battleship Hyuga in To
kio bay. Fourteen men were killed
and thirty injured.
Grave robbing in military cemeteries
has become more or less frequent of
late. The thefts of bodies are gener
ally committeed by persons hired by
families anxious to have their dead
brcmgbt to a particular cemetery or
in the burial grounds of their home
cities. Requests refused by the au
thorities and the results is that these
persons take the law into their own
hands, it is reported in. Paris.
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 years old, is said to have been mo
bilized by the Bolshevist authorities.
Germano-Russian forces in Lithua
nia have been defeated by Lithuanian
troops in two encounters, according to
information issuing from Lithuanian
sources.
Domestic
The date of taking the census of
the farmers has been changed from
April 1 to January 1. The change Is
deemed advisable because the fanner
is usually busy in the spring.
Congress will be aske dfor an ap
propriation of ten millions of dollars
for further extending the governmen
tal forest reservations not alone for
watershed protection, but to assure
ample., supplies of hardwoods and
spruce. v :
Mrs. Ella Wheeler "Wilcox, .author
and poetess,- died at her home, The
Bungalow, in Branford, Conn. She had
been ill for many months as a result
of overwro kduring the war.
The agricultural department at
Washington "has issued -an order per
mitting the shooting of of fish-eating
birds at government fish hatcher
ies. The permission is now effective.
Rationing of sugar to manufacturers
of candy, soft drinks and the like is
soon to be suggested by the sugar
equalization board. This step re-'
suits from the fact that raw sugar
ha3 risen beyond the point where it
can be bought advantageously for the
home.
All people who want to go to for
eign nations, even to Cuba, must have
passports, and must give a good rea
son for the intended visit. This an
nouncement is made by the secretary
of state at Washington in answer to
many inquiries.
General Pershing, who is now busy
completing his final report on the
work of the American expeditionary
forces, will visit Atlanta, Ga., some
time this fall in a general tour of
army cantonments, supply depots and
munition factories.
Quintard hall, the main barracks of
Sewanee military academy, Sewanee,
Tenn., in which 120 acdets and thj
faculty were quartered, was gutted
by fiii. There was no loss of life, but
many of the students lost their cloth
ing. ..
With 15 known dead and six or more
missing, only time can bring an ac
curate count of the toll of the great
seas which bodily lifted the Crosby
tassecger steamer Muskon and smash
ed her to pieces on the piers at the
entrance of Muskegon harbor, Mich.
Scores of persons were injured in a
pitched battle between 2,000 striking
longshoremen and several hundred
men who were on their way to work
at the Bush Terminal dock in Brook
lyn. Between fifty and one hundred
revolver shots were fired, and sticks,
stones, bricks and clubs were used by
the combatants. Police reserves were
summoned and ten arrests were made.
Holding that the war prohibition act
of November 21, 1918, violates the
fifth amendment to the constitution.
Judge W'alter Evans, in federal dis
trict court in Louisville, Ky., granted
a temporary injunction to the Ken
tucky Distilleries and Warehouse com
pany, restraining Elwood Hamilton,
internal revenue collector for Ken
tucky, from interfering with removal
from bond of 70,000,000 gallons of
whisky valued at approximately $75,
000,000 held by the company. -
A plea for application of the prin
ciples of Christianity to the political
and'jindustrial problems now confront
ing the nations was made by Secretary
Daniels in an' address to the western
North Carolina Methodist conference.
General Pershing has prepared rec
ommendations dealing with the reor
ganization, of the army and other
phases of ' the military establishment,
incJiiding. "the question of increased
payfir all. ranks, which he will pre
sent to the congressional military com
mittees. Senator Miles Poindexter, of Wash
ington, in a statement to the people
of the United States, announced his
candidacy for the republican nomina
tion for president, and presented a
atfonn of policies and principles
hich he will advocate in his cam
paign. th Bolskevik official report claims
l v tteir troops have recaptured Pav-
grad Tsarkoe-Sel sutn of Petr
tn Many Prisoners are reported
berv ayle0 a ?178,000 bond rob-
meLenger I6" f tte brtk''
narertlf , 0 had them was ap
E2 v? 0lved in New York. The
tton with the mi,, i . ,
Binkowitz, the Ben3amI,
Aueust 2 A v, enger' vanished on
t twLr n dy found a week later
at Milford, Conn., was identified as his.
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19, 1878.
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Belgian royalty left tho TTnUa
States for home on the last day cf
October, sailing from Old Point Com
fort, Va.
Agents of the internal revenue have
taken up the task of making absolute
the ban on the manufacture and sale
of liquor.
The chief of police of St. Louis, try
ing to arrest two jewelry robbers, was
shot, but not seriously injured.
Dr. W. S. Rankin of Raleigh, N. C,
secretary of the North Carolina board
of health, was elected president of the
American Public Health Association,
which has just adjourned at New Or
leans. Twenty men were entombed in Mine
No. 2 of the Younghisheny and Ohio
Coal company and a fire raged in the
mine. The fire was caused when an
electric fan caught fire in an entry.
No explosion occurred and all efforts
were made to rescue the imprisoned
men.
The strike of bituminous miners
went Into effect with the national
headquarters at Indianapolis, Ind., of
the United Mine Workers of America
silenced by a restraining order issneA
by Judge A. H. Anderson of the fed
eral district court. No "last word" or
other message to the members of the
union could be issued by the execu
tive board or officers of the organiza
tion and they only smiled erimlv
when this fact was brought to their
attention.
An invention has been proclaimed
successful which will enable an air
plane to stop withhin. fifty feet on the
ground, as well as ascend to an alti
tude of fifty thousand feet. The day
of the "backyard airplane" has ar
rived. Washington
It has been practicaly decided to
withdraw the American peace mission
from Paris, and to conclude such nego
tiations as have not been completed
at Paris in Washington.
The allied governments are under
stood to be of the same mind as the
American government in respect to
the advisability of recalling the peace
missions from Paris.
The forty-six amendments attached
to the peace treaty by the foreign re
lations committee passed into history
when the last survivor of the group,
a proposal to revise the voting
strength in the league of nations, was
consigned to the discard in the senate
by a vote of 47 to 36.
The effort to hasten final action on
the league of nations has brought up
an obstacle which seems likely to
prevent further progress for several
days. A determined group of senators
will launch a .fight to eliminate the
labor section of the treaty. The bat
tle is exxpected to be a hot one, and
may run into weeks.
Japan has ratified the treaty of
peace of Versailles. Japan is the
fourth great power to ratify the
treaty.
Before the peace treaty becomes ef
fective, it is stated, the German rep
resentatives will be requird to sign
an additional protocol to carry out
armistice classes which were not in
corporated in the treaty of Versailles.
Carranza soldiers were not only in
strumental in the kidnaping of Con
sular Agent William O. Jenkins, but
participated in the private ransom of
one hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars paid for his release. These are
the reports reaching Washington. Sec
retary Lansing says he doesn't believe
Jenkins lent himself to any such dis
crediting scheme, but that the matter
will be sifted to the bottom.
Dissenting in many important re
spects from the program recommended
by the war department and the gen
eral staff, General Pershing told the
military committees of congress that
three hundred thousand men, raised
entirely by voluntary enlistment,
would be the outside figure consider
ed for a standing army.
The prohibition enforcement bill
was repassed by both the house and
senate over President Wilson's veto.
The section relating to war-time pro
hibition became effective immediately.
The first of the international bod
ies created by the treaty of Versailles
to meet in America, the international
labor conference, convened in Wash
ington. Sessions of the conference are
expected to continue for practically a
month and to lay the foundation of a
world-wide movement for improve
ment and standardization of all the
workers.
Before congress finaly clinched en
actment of the enforcement law, de
spite presidential objection to linking
the war time and constitutional prohi
bition acts, there came from the white
house the announcement that the war
time law which was put into effect
after the cessation of hostilities
would be annulled the moment the sen
ate ratified the German peace treaty.
Although senate leaders hope to ex
pedite the German peace treaty this
week by disposal of amendments and
by beginning consideration of reserva
tions, both houses convened with de
creasing prospects of adjourning the
special session by November 10, as
leaders have hoped. In view of pros
pective delay on the treaty, house
leaders discussed plans for a seperate
recess of the lower body without wait
ing for the senate.
President Wilson unexpectedly ve
toed the prohibition enforcement bill,
and within three hours the house had
repassed it over his veto by a vote of
176 to 55, 22 votes more than the
necessary two-thirds. The total vote
was barely more than a majority of
the entire membership.
Business interests of the Middle
West, Gulf and South Atlantic States
formed a three-cornered alliance nere
known as the Mid-West, Gulf and
South Atlantic Foreign Trade and
Transportation Committee for the de
velopment of export ana impon. iraae
and transportation and port facilities.
Papers have been prepared for sub
mission to the state department de
manding of the Mexican government
indemnity for the death of Edward
Freeman Welles. Welles was killed
by Mexicans on August 13, 1915.
The treaty fight in the senate still
hinges on the Johnson-Moses amend
ments to equalize voting power in the
league of nations. Debate on the
ionta will be resumed with a
vote expected in a few days. The re
mainder of the weeK, u is eipeu.
-ri , rlvfcn over to disposition ot
many individual amendments.
STILL DISCUSSING
THE PEACE TREATY
SENATE MAY REJECT ENTIRE
DOCUMENT SHOULD PENDING
RESERVATIONS WIN OUT.
Q3JEGT TO LABOR AMENDMENT
Late In the Day Senators Lodge and
Hitchcock Held a Conference With
the Vice-President on Subject.
Washington. Further indications
that the peace treaty fight may lead
to a continuing deadlock developed
while- the-senate-Jaaders were .trying
in vain to fix a definite date for a roll
call on ratification.
Administration senators suggesting
that the final vote be taken indicated
a purpose to defeat ratification by
combining with the treaty's irrecon
cilable opponents should the reserva
tions adopted by the foreign relations
committee, be written Into the ratifi
cation resolution.
An hour of debate on the subject got
nowhere, and the senate went back
to its consideration of treaty amend
ments. It may reach a vote on the
amendment by Senator La-Follette,
republican, Wisconsin, to strike out
the labor provisions and then, unless
some new plan is devised to hasten
action, other amendments and a long
list of proposed reservations will be
taken up under the tedious rule of un
limited debate.
Senate parliamentarians said there
was no precedent to throw light on
the question of whether defeat of the
committee resolution would be final
rejection of the treaty, or would leave
the way open for offering other ratifi
cation proposals. Late in the day
Senators Lodge and Hitchcock confer
red with Vice President Marshall on
the subject.
TREATY WITH GREECE IS
APPROVED BY COUNCIL.
Paris. The supreme council, sitting
under the chairmanship of M. Pichon,
French minister of foreign affairs, ap
proved the draft of a treaty to be con
cluded between the allied and asso
ciated powers and Greece, concerning
the protection of racial and other mi
norities. The council decided to request the
Polish government to open to traffic
certain railroads crossing the German
Polish frontier north of Warsaw. The
eouncH soon will examine the ques
tion of the future of eastern Galicia,
formerly Austrian territory.
POCAHONTAS FIELD IS
OPERATING NORMALLY?
Giaham, Va. One hundred and
twenty tons of coal were mined in
this portion of the Pocahontas field
operators declared, and reports com
ing here Indicated that the entire Po
cahontas field was operating normal
ly. A report here late from the St.
Charles area of the pocket section of
the Appalachian field was to the ef
fect that 900 miners had struck there.
It was said by operators here that
only 250 of these are members of the
union.
THREATEN TO IMPEACH
THE JAPANESE MINISTRY.
Honolulu. The Japanese privy coun
cil is in favor of the impeach
ment of the ministry of Premier Hara
and the Versailles peace delegation
for the unsatisfactory peace terms, ac
cording to a cable received from
Tokio by The Hawaii Sochi, a Japan
ese daily newspaper here.
MEXICAN STRIKERS CALL
ON GOMPERS FOR FAVOR.
Laredo, Tex. Striking Mexican
workmen will ask "material aid" from
Aguascalients, in the Mexican state
of the same name, where decision to
that effect was reached by the strik
ers' control committee.
THE RUSSIAN SOVIET FORCES
REPORT CAPTURE 1,500 MEN.
London. The Russian soviet com
munique received by wireless from
Moscow, claims the capture of 1,500
prisoners in the taking of Petropav
lovsk, 16 miles west of Omsk, from
the Kolchak forces
The statement also reports fighting
of the fiercest character in the Fin
nish gulf region and a continued ad
vance by the bolsheviki all along the
line against the Russian northwestern
army of General Yudenitch.
GOVERNMENT MAY CONTINUE
SUPERVISION OVER SUGAR
Washington .The McNary bill pro.
posing continuation of federal con
trol over sugar during 1920 was re
ported to the senate and placed on the
calendar with a view to early action.
In a majority report, Senator Mc
Nary, Republican, of Oregon, author
of the bill and chairman of the sen
ate agricultural sub-committee, declar
ed "a serious situation will ensue" if
the sugar equalization board's control
over sugar is not continued.
LONGSHOREMEN STRIKE IS
BELIEVED TO BE BROKEN
New York. The backbone of the
longshoremen's strike was believed
to have been broken when the full
force of men employed on the Chel
sea piers, between West Fourteenth
and West Twenty-third streets, re
turned to work. The Cholsea district
has , been . regarded by shipping me
s the strategic center, of the strike
ind the majority of the radical ele
meat among the strikers has b3en em
ployed there.
PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUlffTY, N- C. NOVEMBER 6, 1919
IIOTHIIIG CAN STOP
IMPETUS OF STRIKE
THE TEMPORARY RESTRAINING
ORDER CAME TOO LATE TO'
HAVE DESIRED EFFECT. t
GOAL IN TRANSIT IS SEIZED
The Operators, So Far, as Available
Reports Show Have Not Made
Any Plans' to Combat Strike
Chicago Information obtained from
the bituminous coal fields of the Uni
ted States, in which more than 40$,
000 members of the United i Mie
Workers of America have been 'drd'ert
ed out on strike, indicated that there
would be nothing which could check
the momentum of the walkout, de
spite the temporary restraining order
which' was issued in the United
States district court at Indianapolis.
Deprived of the directing hands of
its leaders, as a result of the injunc
tion, the memberbershJp of the union
was prepared to enter the first full
working day since the strike order
became effective In an effort to dem
onstrate Its ability to halt the pro
duction of soft coal throughout the
nation.
The operators, so far as available
reports show, have not yet imadd.
plans to combat the strike.
Reports from various railroad cen
ters showed that seizure of coal in
transit as ordered by the federal gov
ernment, had begun. Hundreds of coal
laden cars in transit were taken over
by regional directors of the fuel ad
ministraton and were sidetracked to
await possible distribution under the
administration priority schedule.
Much interest was expressed by
operators representatives as to the
exact manner in which the restrain
ng order would be considred by
union leaders and their followers.
Some union district chairmen have
publicly stated that the strike move
ment has gone too far to be influenc
ed by any writs or injunctions.
PERSHING IS FOR REDUCTION
IN PROJECTED SIZE OF ARMY.
Washingtn. Dissenting in many
respects from the program recom
mended by the war department and
the general staff. General Pershing
told the military committees of Con
gress that 300,000 men, raised entire
ly by vountary enlistment, should be
the outside figure considered for a
standing army.
NO BREAD IN PETROGRAD
FOR THE PAST TWO WEEKS.
Helsingfors, Finland Petrograd has
been without bread for the last two
weeks, thousands of persons dying
daily, according to information
brought to Helsingfors by a Finn, who
escaped from a prison camp at Mos
cow. SIXTY-EIGHT WEST POINT
APPOINTMENTS IN SOUTH
Washington. Southern states have
68 of the more than 300 vacancies that
rmain in the list of candidates for ad
mission to West Point for the term
oeginning June, 1920, the war depart
ment announced. Members of con
gress who have unused designations
at their disposal have been requested
to act at once, in order that the list
may be completed in time to make
preparations for the entrance exami
nations to be held February 17, 1920.
BIG GALE IN NEW YORK
CAUSES LOSS OF $60,000
New York. A fierce northwest gale
tore 20 lighters and scows from their
docks in Brooklyn and blew them
down the harbor. Before they had
been picked up by tugs several hours
later, merchandise valued at $60,000
had been blown their decks, including
coffee, sugar and telegraph wireless
equipment intended for American
forces in Siberia.
MEXICAN REBEL SOLDIERS
OCCUPY REYNOSA GARRISON
Brownsville, Tex. General Andrew
Almazan, Mexican rebel commanded,
with about 70 of his men, occupied
the town of Reynosa, Mexico, oppo
site Hidalgo, Tex., according to re
ports here.
The railroad 'between Matamoros
and Reynosa is inundated by flood
waters from the Rio Grande, no trains
are being operated and It is believed
Matamoros is safe from attack. R.ey
nosa is 60 miles west of Matamoros.
DESPITE INDUSTRIES UNREST
COUNTRY SEEMS PROSPEROUS
Washington. Despite disturbed
industrial conditions, great prosperity
obtains generally over the country,
according to reports for October re
ceived by the federal reserves board
from its agents in the several dis
tricts .A strong demand for com
modities, verging at times upon reck
lessness in buying was noted in prac
tically all sections.
The strike has not seriously hamp
ered production.
PRESIDENT IS MAINTAINING
IMPROVEMENT IN CONDITION
Washington. President Wilson's
condition maintains steady improve
ment according to a ' bulletin issued
by Rear Admiral Grayson, the presi
dent's -personal physician, after the
weekly visit of Dr. F. X. Dercum, of
Philadelphia.
. The .bulletin follows:
"The " president's improvement, as
noted previously, har ,been well main
tained. His general condition con
tiues to be entirely satisfactory.''
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CONTINUE AT WORK
DRASTIC PUNISHMENT AWAITS
THOSE ENGAGED IN PLANS
TO VIOLATE THE LAW.
GOVERNMENT IS DETERMINED
Attorney General Palmer Resolved to
Exhaust Every Resource to Prevent
National Disaster Impending.
Washington. The government
moved swiftly to- meet the nation
wide coal strike.
Refusal of the miners' organization
at Indianapolis to withdraw the order
sailing out half million men brought
Instant announcement that drastic
action would be taken to keep the
mines in operation.
As to those miners who go on strike
and thereby curtail production the
Tood and fuel control law with its
added criminal penalties of fine and
Imprisonment will be enforced with
jut regard to persons. The attitude
of the government. Attorney General
Palmer made clear, does not affect
the right of workers to strike, for re
dress of grievances in other cases
where no violation of the law is in
volved. Every resource of the government,
In the words of Attorney General
Palmer, will be used to prevent the
'national disaster" certain to follow
the stoppage of work.
Adequate police protection, with
troops as a last resort if necessary,
will be given those men desiring to
remain at work. Reports from gov
ernment, agents show that a big part
of the miners ordered to quit work
want to stay on the job.
"The proposed strike," the an
nouncement declared, "would be a
more deadly attack on the life of the
nation than an invading army. The
facts present a situation which chal
lenges the supremacy cf the law."
ALL AMENDMENTS TO PEACE
TREATY GO BY THE BOARD.
Washington. The 46 amendments
attached to the peace treaty by the
foreign relations committee passed
into history when the last survivor of
the group, a proposal by Senator
Moses, republican, New Hampshire,
to revise voting strength in the
league of nations, was consigned to
the discard in the senate by a vote
of 47 to 36.
As if gaining Impetus by this ac
complishment, the senate then upset
two more proposed textual changes in
the treaty brought in by individual
senators. One of them, presented by
Senator Sherman, republican, Illinois,
and proposing to write into the treaty
preamble a reference to the Deity,
was laid on the table by a vote of 57
to 27. The other, sponsored by Sen
ator Johnson, republican, California,
as a new solution for voting inequal
ity in the league, was killed outright
by a court of 43 to 35.
VIRTUAL PARTICIPATION OF
UNITED STATES IS DES.IRED.
Washington. The first move of the
International Labor conference, which
formally opened here, was to take
steps to obtain the virtual participa
tion of the United States in the con
ference, although Congress has de
c'ded against the appointment of del
egates prior to ratification of the
peace treaty.
On motion of Baron Mayor des
Planches, Italion government dele
gate, United States employers' and
workers' organizations were invited
unanimously to send representatives.
MILLION VETERANS WILL
ATTEND LEGION MEETING.
New York. Approximately 1,000,
000 American veterans of the world
war will be represented at the first
national convention of the American
legion to be held in Minneapolis No
vember 10, 11 and 12, it was announc
ed at legion headquarters here.
SEVEN RADICALS ARRESTED
BY CLEVELAND DETECTIVES
Cleveland, Ohio Seven persons, six
men and one woman, charged by
the police with being Identified with
radicals in another ' plot to terrorize
the nation by a series of Domb explo
sions next spring, were bing held by
police and were being sought m what
is expected to be a national cleaning
of revolutionists .
Police in several Eastern cit es have
been ask'ed to arrest a man said to be
the leader of the plot.
BRITISH GOVERNMENT FACES
MANY CRITICAL MEMBERS
London. National finance was the
topic up for debate in -the hi use of
commons with the governmen facing
probably as critical a bo'-y of mem
bers as ever in the history of parlia
ment. More than 100 n-embers had
given notice of a desire rr speak and
all were understood to be prepared to
belabor the government for its al
leged waste and extravagance. Some
of government's keenest critics are
among supporters of coalition.
COAL STRIKE IN OHIO WILL
, CLOSE DOWN 1,200 MINES
Columbus, O. If the strike of soft
coal miners becomes effective. It will
affect more than 40.000 miners in
Ohio, will close down more than 1,200
mines in 31 Ohio counties, and will
stop an average daily production of
nearly 250,000 tons of coal, accord
ing to officials of the United Mine
Workers of Ohio-
A strike of any fluratron miners'
officials declared, will w?rk hardships
on the homes and factories
BELGIAN'S RULERS
VISIT PRESIDENT
i
THE KING, QUEEN AND PRINCE
ADMITTED SEPARATELY TO
WILSON'S SICK ROOM.
QUEEN FELT MUCH AT HOME
President Was Greatly Cheered by
the Visit of Royalty and Says He
is Feeling .Much Better.
Washington. King Albert and
President Wilson clasped hands, the
meeting at president's bedside, brief
as it was, proved the clipaax of the
American visit of the Belgian mon
arch, and he left Washingtn a happy
man, to sail for home from Newport
News on the transport George Wash
ington which brought him to this
country. From the day he landed the
pleasure of his tour has been marred
by anxiety over the president's con
dition, and he had abandoned hope
of being able to see him.
As his majesty was leaving, he
leaned over the bed to shake Mr.
Wilson's hand again and said:
"I hope your ideas and ideals will
be carried out and I believe they will
be."
After the departure of the king, the1
president expressed a desire to see
Queen Elizabeth, who was having tea
with Mrs. Wilson. Dr. Grayson con
sented and her majesty eagerly went
to the executive's bdside, where she
remained five minutes. She told Mr.
Wilson, with one of her charming
smiles that she felt much at home with
persons who were ill.
Dr. Grayson said N his patient had
been greatly cheered by his talk with
the Belgian monarchs and that their
visit seemed to have done him good.
"My doctor tells me I'm getting
better," the president said to both his
callers, "I hope he's telling the truth
and I do feel much better."
CONFERENCE SEATS GERMAN
AND AUSTRIAN DELEGATES
Washington. With only one dele
gate dissenting, the international la
bor conferencve voted to admit the
representatives of Germany and Aus
tria to the conference sessions.
Protesting against international
"politics" in the international labor
conference, Baron des Planches, Ital
ian government delegate, told dele
gates from more than 30 nations that
"we must look to the future rather
than to the past" and admit Germany
and Austria to the conference.
GOVERNMENT PUTS ON ITS
FIGHTING CLOTHES AGAIN
Washington. The government put
on its fighting clothes to meet the
coal strike.
Most drastic of all moves during
the day was the order of railroad ad
ministration for seizure of coal in
transit for roads requiring it, with
rationing of stocks on hand to essen
tial industries.
COTTON IS HEAVILY DAMAGED
BY RAIN THROUGHOUT BELT.
New York. The heavy and contin
ued rains in nearly all the cotton belt
states, except the Carollnas and
Georgia, has worked the heaviest dam
age on cotton for many years at this
stage of the growing , crop. Nearly
1,600 replies of special correspondents
of The Journal of Commerce, bearing
an average date of October 22, show
a deterioration of 8.7 points.
NEW "PET NAME" FOR WILSON
GIVEN BY LABOR LEADERS.
Indianapolis, Ind. After dispatch
ing to Washington a telegram to Sec
retary of Labor Wilson in which the
President's proposition on the coal
strike was characterized as that of an
usurper, the executive board of the
United Mine Workers of America
turned to routine business.
WOMAN RED CROSS WORKER
TELLS STORY OF ATROCITY.
Warsaw. The Polish government
is compiling the story of the atroci
ties committed under the bolshevik
reign in the city of Minsk, now oc
cupied by the Poles. The latest,
brought by an American Red Cross
wwker who returned from a relief as
signment in the newly occupied city,
concerns the murder of a woman hos
pital assistant who was rash enough
to express the, hope that conditions
would improve when the town fell.
FEAR OF EXPLOSION CAUSES
STOPPAGE OF RESCUE WORK.
- Steubenville, O. After battling
their way to within 150 feet of where
20 miners have been imprisoned, res
c le workers were ordered -out of the
Y and O mine No. 2 at Amsterdam, O.,
by mine officials and state mine in
spectors, who feared an explosion
might occur, according to word re
ceived here. Hope has been aban
doned that the minors are alive.
Rescue parties worked all night long
in the gas-filled mine.
UNITED STATES WILL NOT
ACCEPT FIUME PROPOSAL.
Paris. Notification has been given
the peace conference by a represen
tative of Italy that the proposal made
by Foreign Minister Tittoni for set
tlement of the Fiume problem had not
been accepted by the United States.
It is declared by authoritative Ital
ian quarters, however, that although
the reply of Secretary Lansing was
unfavorable, a considerable portion of
the Tittoni proposal was accepted and
exchanges will be cwtinued."
UIKIH STOPS
E
RAILROAD UNION MEN DO NOT
PROTEST BUT OFFER THEIR
SERVICES IF NEEDED.
PROTECTION FROM PARALYSIS
Jamuel Gompers Says Injunction Will
Only Bring In New and Disturbing
Issues to Complicate Situation.
Washington. Railroad union off!
sials conferring with Attorney General
Palmer, entered no protest against the
injunction issued in Indianapolis
against calling of the coal strike, and
'.enderod the good offices of their or
janizations in attempting to arrange a
lettlement of the strike.
Mr. Palmer said he told the union
lien that they were at liberty to say
x either side in the strike that the
President was ready to act immediate
y to have the controversy settled
imicably whenever the strike was
jailed off.
President Gompers and other offl
:ials of the Ameiican Federation of
Labor were said, however, to have
lrged their views on the matter' of ttie
injunction in their conference with the
Utorney general.
"I explained the necessity for the
iction," Mr. Palmer said.
"This is the government itself, Ha
ng its own courts to protect itself
!rom paralysis. It is not an injunction
jbtained by employers, not for the ben
efit of employers, not to settle the con
troversy, but to save the people of the
?ntire country from disaster. It doesn't
iffect the right of a man to work when
le pleases."
Samuel Gompers, speaking for or
ganized labor, declared the injunction
in the coal strike case "can only result
in creating new and more disturbing
issues which may not be confined
jolely to the miners."
FORMAL NEGOTIATIONS FOR
EARLY FINAL VOTE BEGUN.
Washington. Formal negotiations
for an early final vote on ratification
Df the German peace treaty was
launched in the senate.
Proposal that a final roll call be
taken Wednesday, November 12, was
made by Chairman Lodge, of the for
eign relations committee, while Sena
tor Hitchcock, of Nebraska, the ad
ministration leader, presented a coun
ter proposal to limit to fifteen min
utes each senator's debate on all ques
tions, but without proposing a defi
nite date for the ratification vote.
Both proposals, submitted formally
in writing, went over.
SHORT HOURS AND INCREASING
WAGES ALLIES OF PROFITEER.
Hagerstown, Md. The short work
day and the "ever increasing wages
demanded by industrial labor," were
declared to be "allies of the profiteer
in keeping up the high cost of living"
in a resolution adopted by the Far
mers' National Congress at its con
cluding session. The congress also
went on record as opposed to "all
strikes."
BELGIAN KING AND FAMILY
ARE NOW HOMEWARD BOUND
Portsmouth. Va. Albert, king of the
Belgians, Elizabeth, his royal consort,
and their son, Leopold, Duke of Bra
bant, accompanied by Ambassador
Brand Whitlock, bade adieu to Amer
ica, sailing on the presidential steam
ship George Washington, which
weighed anchor from Hampton Roads
bound for Belgium.
FUEL ADMINISTRATOR ISSUES
ORDERS AFFECTING COAL.
Washington. Fuel Administrator
narrfiairf siened an order reviving the
distribution and diversion orders of
the fuel administration under wnicn
the old list of priorities immediately
becomes effective.
TPrtOPS RUSHED TO WEST
' VIRGINIA MINING FIELDS
Louisville,. Ky Under instructions
from the central department oi me
army, 900 troops of the famous First
division composing a provisional bat
talion, were on four trains early en
route to coal fields of West Virginia
where they will patrol disturbed min
ing districts.
Colonel W. S. Harrell, commander oi
the Sixteenth infantry, is commanding
the battalion, which, It is said, will de
train at Huntington, W. Va.
$256,000,000 IS SAID TO
HAVE BEEN SAVED ON SUGAR
New York Governmental control
of sugar has saved the American pec
pie a possible $256,00r.000 In the yeat
ended July 15. 1919. the sugar equali
zation beard announced. In addition
the board will turn over to the treas
ury $30,000,000 made from its margin
of 38 cents per hundred pounds oi
Cuban sugars, which sum would hav
gone to refiners or Cuban producers,
or would have been lost between pro
ducer and retailer.
PEACE TREATY IS RATIFIED
BY THE JAPANESE EMPEROR
Tokio. The emperor has ratified
the Versailles peace treaty.
Tokio advices received earlier an
hounced the ratification of the Ger
man peace treaty by Japan.- Jt if
clear from the foregoing that the rati
flcation was by virtue of Imperial ac
tion. It was not preceded by any ao
tion by the parliament, the constitu
tion of Japan not requiring the assent
of the legislative brty.
Mill
VOL. XLII. NO. H
CONDENSED NEWS FROM
THE OLD NORTH STATE
SHOUT NOTES OF INTEREST TO
CAROLINIANS. .
Lexington. J. Adam Hedrlck. of
Thomasville township, was thrown
from his bu err and his n-k hrrvn;
Greenville. The progressive -citl-.
sens of the Grifton school, .district
took another forward step when they
raised $1,000 for the purchase of nla
ground equipment for their school. ;.
. Gastonia. Despite the unfavorable
season, and the gloomy predictions of
a month ago as a -consequence there
of. thnsA vhn lron in tnnch with .h
cotton situation express the opinion:
that Gaston's crop this year will be.
well up with the average for the past
five years.
High Point W. P. Pickett. 72, pic
neer High Pointer, former, mayor and
director in a number ot local banks,,
died in a Baltimore hospital. Death'
resulted from apoplexy of the heart -
Chapel Hill. The. immediate erec
tion of two new dormitories at the
University of North Carolina' ' to re
lieve the crowded bousing condition
among the students was decided upon
here at a joint meeting of the state
building commission and the trustees
committee on the development of
university property.
Kenly. An automobile, . driven by
Claude Burruss ran over and killed1
the seven-year-old child of C. R. Spi1
vey. near Spivey's store, four miles
from this place. The child was cross?
rag the road in front of the car when
the unfortunate accident occurred.'
. Elon College. The college has in
corporated into its regular system of
dormitories the West End Hall. This
building was erected as a home tot
Prof. P. T. Kernodle, and acquired by
the college two years ago. It has. been
fitted up with steam heat,' electric
lights, running water- and baths,- and
permanently added to the dormitory
system of the college. It will accom
modate 30 young ladles.
Salisbury. The two-day drive for
$8,000 for the local Y. M. C. A. result
ed in a victorious going over the top,
the exact figures of the total amount
pledged being $6,078. The ; directors
will at once set about to get a compe
tent secretary for this city and he is
J A aKa,. ' . 1. L
VAyCUiVU CLP UCfilU TV Ui EL MLTUU fcU
first of the year. . , . ; , .
Laurinburg. Mrs. L. N. Lucas died'
at her residence here aged 95 years. '
Monroe. Jacob Culpepper pressley,
whose home is about 10 miles north
of here, died suddenly In the English
drug store,' where he' had gone for re
lief from pain which struck him in
the chest, not long after he reached
town.
...
Goldsboro. Governor Bickett . and
Senator H. F, Ashurst, of f , Arizona,
were the chief speakers at a meeting
here at which a memorial fund ot
$226,000 for the Wayne county men
slain in the world war was launched.
High Point. There is nothing in
the reply of Senator Overman to the
chamber of commerce's request for
Id in securing sugar for High Point
to indicate that the elty will shortly
secure a shipment of the sweetening
product. . , . ',v
Klnston, The town of Washington,
In Beaufort county. Is expected Vo
spend several hundred thousand dol
lars paving its streets. Residents on
many blocks are petitioning for im
provements. Mount Airy. The continuous strain
of the overtaxed tobacco buyers Is be
ginning to tell. One" buyer fainted
from exertion and there Is much talk
of curtailing the long hours of '.the
daily auction. .
Statesvllle. The' Thomas Hardware
company's store on East Broad: street
was broken into and about $160 worth
of revolvers taken. . . . '
Suffolk, Va. Thursday, November
6, will be a big day for the peanut
growers of Virgitfia and North Caro
lina. Governor Bickett, of, North
Carolina, has accepted an invitation
to speak on this .occasion. ' '
Klnston.- The present scarcity, pf
alcoholic beverages is so "acute", here
that were a mad to own 25 gallon's of
rye whiskey he would have the equiv
alent to the price of a house and lot.
This outlawed commodity, regardless
of quality or adulteration, . is worta
$25 a quart. . . . ' -
Raleigh. Rev. Robert Seplngton,
for sixteen years superintendent . of
the Raleigh Associated .Charities, and
widely known in the city and state,
passed away at his home: " ' '
High Point. Robbers swooped down
on High Point; visited four business
houses and carted away upwards of a
thousand dollars worth of good's.
Over $200 worth of watches and
Jewelry was taken from the Loflin
store; numerous suits of clothes .are
missing from the High Point steam
laundry.
Winston-Salem. Capt. Burdette S.
Wright, of the department- of aero
nautics has returned to.. Washington
to report on the site selected on the
Wlnston-Salm-Greensbbro local -avia.
tion field to be "known as the May
nard field:
.Captain Wright stated te the' local
committee .that Jt- would Tfceive fa
vorable recommendations.
! ? . ' . '
Washi>on.-Newlon . Q. Plttman
has been named, postmaster at Pen
land and Miss Ferol Munn at Pin
nacla-