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The Chatham Record ESTABLISHED SEPT. 19, 1878. PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C. NOVEMBER 13, 1919 VOL. XLII. NO. 15 IMPORTANT NEWS THE WORLD OVER IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIS AND OTHER NATIONS FOR SEVEN DAYS GIVEN THE NEWS JSFJHE SOUTH What Is Taking Place In The 8outiV land Will Be Found In Brief Paragraphs Foreign The Japanese government, in its re ply just forwarded to Washington, to ihp American note of last September complaining of a lack of co-operation by Japanese troops in the operation of the trans-Siberian railroad, draws a sharp distinction between the mili tary protection of the railroad which i. is willing to undertake. Owing to the menacing advance of the Rnlshevist force. Admiral Kol- thak has ordered a preliminary evacu ation of Omsk by the American hos Dital and such government depart ments as are not directly necessary in Omsk. Colonel Emerson has rescinded the order to the American railway corps tr retire from Siberia and the men are remaining at their posts for duty. The French government, as a com niimpnt to-Hugh C. Wallace, United States ambassador, has presented to Tacoma. Wash., Mr. Wallace's home town, one of the largest, guns captur ed by the French from the Germans The German government, it is re ported, does not consider itself bound to surrender its authority over the ter ritorv of the free city of Danzig until the United States shall have ratified the treaty of peace. November 10 has been fixed by the supreme council as the date when the plebiscite commission created un der the German peace treaty shall meet in Paris to discuss the elections in the various areas the political af filiation of which is to be settled by noDular vote. The United States will not be represented even unofficialy at this meeting. France has taken the initiative in presenting to the Washington govern ment a new proposal for settlement of the Fiume question. The newspapers say the move has the support of Eng land. The French Acdaemy has fixed the conditions by which next year ninety endowments of five thousand dollars each will be made to French families with the largest number of children. The lockout which commenced in Barcelona was the starting of a fight tc the finish between the employers and employees of Spain. Each side is well organized, but it is freely pre dicted that the employees will win. Viscount Milner, British secretary for the colonies, has sent a telegram to the governor cf British Guiana, de nying that the British government has any intention of selling British Guiana or any British West Indian colony. Domestic Finding of a note in the Chicago fed eral building telling of a plot to blow up the structure resulted in the rush ing of several details of police to the building. Approximately fifty thousand bales of cotton have been forwarded to Ger many from Savannah and Galveston. Approval by the Toledo, Ohio, voters of an ordinance forcing the street car company to suspend business finds the city entirely unprepared to provide transportation. Toledo will have to walk unless there is some speedy so lution. Mayor-elect Hancock of Mobile, ac companied by ten city commissioners made formal demand of Mayor Phil lans and Commissioners George E. Crawford and Pat J. Lyons that they relinquish the city government into the hands of the new mayor and com missioners. The - demand was re fused. - . The nrice for this season's yellow clarified sugar was fixed in New Or leans at 17 cents a pound. The price is subject to the approval of Attor ney General Palmer Nothing but the official count, which probably will not be completed rnr n wppIt or ten days, will determine whether Ohio voters have approved or repudiated the action of the general assembly in ratifying the federal pro hibition amendment. The wets so far are leading. In Mississippi, the Democrats, fac ing a Sorfalist ticket, won a victory by a plurality of approximately fifty thousand. Tiinkns Perrv. a Chicago bantam weight boxer, who was injured in his bout with Sammy Marino of New York at Milwaukee, died at Emergency hos pital in Milwaukee, where he had hov ered between life and death for three days. Death was caused by a frac ture of the skull. The question of a. fortyight hour week was debated by the international labor conference at Washington. An international convention limiting the hours of work n industry to 48 a week in all countries ratifying the agreement by July 1, 1921, was pre pared on the basis of the organizing committee. In New Jersey, which was one of the five states holding gubernatorial elections, prohibition was an indirect issue. The result is still in doubt. The P,.epublican candidate said he would, if elected, make New Jersey aa et ac; the ocean. Ohio and Kentucky, the only two states holding elections in which pro hibition was a direct issue, both en r(JUel themselves in the army of vol untary abstinence, on the face of the Trial ot cases growing out of the intent race 'disturbances in Phillips county, Arkansas, which resulted in bringing o m(iictments against one hundred an(i twenty-two persons, pro ceeded rapidly in Phillips county cir cuit court at Helena, juries returning "Y . 1 Builty of fir3t degree mur at degree mur- M'.a6U' 81 x negroes, who wm ..... - . i antencea to death by electrocution. I A cents nt tho A tice, led. by William J. Flynn, arrest ed more than two hundred radicals as sembled in the headquarters in New York City of the Russian Soviet re public, and, after they had been taken to neaaquarters of the department of justice. and cross-examined ' fiftv were held for deportation as undesir- aDie aliens. .Eight women were taken in the raid, of whom two were held for deportation. Five are dead and several others are seriously injured as the result of a fire that burned out the Wilson ho tel in Atlanta, Ga. Property loss is Q m fill HOQlllaa V, tAnn -nm-WA !StoTse women! so ed by the stairway before the flames cut them off. Some jumped to neigh boring roofs and escanpd. Others were rescued by firemen. A number stayed in tneir rooms until the fire was over without any injury except sinoKe suiiocation, wnicn was sugnt. Washington Con cress .is. nrenarinc- .' to atoiirti wunout enacting any big reconstruct tion measures. It has been definitely decided bv senate leaders that no more domestic legislation of importance can be put through at this session. House leaders are still fighting for action on the railroad bills, but the decision of the senate interstate com merce committee to abandon the Cum mins bill until next sossion dashes that hope. Armv bills have been introduced in the house, hearings held, but no bill can be put through until after the Christmas holidays. Tarif legislation has struck a snag. The house has Dassed several bills to protect the dye industry and other industries likely to be hit by Euro pean competition. These have bump ed against the stone wall of the sen ate, and will go over till the next sees sion. Believing that Mr. Wilson intends to end war prohibition as soon as the peace treaty is ratified, the aggres sive dry element in the house, led by Representative Randall of Califor nia, have laid all their plans to cnec mate him. it is stated. It is their in tention to seek an extension of the war time prohibition for six months, which extension will be added to the fobd and fuel control act. The first affirmative step toward qualification of the peace treaty was taken by the senate alter aammistra tion leaders, with the backing of Pres irfent Wilson, had reaffirmed their .in tention of voting against ratification if the reservations drawn by tne sen a to mainritv are adopted. nv a voto of 48 to 40 the senate approved, after all efforts to amend it had failed, the committee preamuie to the reservation group, requiring that tn make the peace treaty bind ing at least three of the iour great powers must accept the senate quali fications Relief from threatened congestion of wheat shipments apiars certain, it is announced by the railroad aamims. tration. iTr.H. has hoen served on Germany the nllipd and associated powers in a note accompanying protocol for- arardPd. that the treaty of peace win not go into force until Germany exe cutes to the satisfaction or tne aiiieu or, aocrvintpd nowers. obligations as sumed under the armistice convention and additional agreements. vino President Marshall made a short address to and shook hands with tho Hoi orates to the international la bor conference in session in Washing ton. a nnTTmiiatinn iust completed from ffiiai snnrces of crimes during the months of July, August and feeptemDer of this year in the Tampico.oii neias Mexico) has been placed at me uia r,ooi rf the American government. UUU1 V Six employees of tne on companies ro mfnrrtorod and a total of more than $71,895 in American gold secured by Mexican bandits in tnree monius. nn Aiieust 11 two masked men, with rifles entered a camp near El Tigre, Mexico, and murdered the boss car nter in the very presence of his ifo hv pnttine his throat from ear to ear. The carpenter and his wife were the only persons in the camp at the time and the wire was pros trated. The specific charge is made that some of the robberies reported in Mexico were participated in by Car ranza soldiers. Discarded clothing at the scenes of some of the robberies bore the Mexican federal stamp that is placed upon soldiers', clothes . A dispatch from London, August 3, .nt tho National News as saying that a suggestion that the British West Indies be ceded to tne unnea oiai. in part payment of Great Britain's war debt, is bemg seriousiy uiu oH nn both sides of the Atlantic. Pleasant A. Stovall, former editor of the Savannah (Ga.) Press, has resigned as ambassador to Switzerland. He has held tne post ior six and a half years, and it is his in tention to retire permanently from the diplomatic service and ret rn to his Geqrgia home. Pi-n! for concentrating in tne same buildings the regional offices of the war risk insurance bureau, the rede- ral board for vocational education, pub lic health service and the Red Cross in all cities where separate offices al ready have been established are an nounced by the treasury aepartmeut. Annminr-iner results of the first an thoritative information concerning the Hvp meat consumption of the city and country population of this country, the bureau, 01 crop esumaiw Honartment of agriculture as- Ul v. X - sens that farmers are the chief pork and poultry consumers. in nnt accept the detach- nv npaflarabian territory by Roumania without her consent, and this consent cannot De reiiu j decision of any third party, even it .. ia u that of the peace eonfer- ence itself, according to a statement of the BessaraDian queeuim- p'" aiiiod and associated powers on , J l,U m in Paris by M. Maklaroff, Russian am bassador to France, the text of which has been obtained from official sourc- es in w u.ou"t - , It Is reported mai mtu otarvatlon in f "J ., tho last month. nia nnvH iiiqu retrograu WARNING 15 GIVEN TO LABOR LEADERS &IHIKE DESCRIBED AS PLAIN VIOLATION OF A FEDERAL STATUTE BY PALMER. FORMAL. FINAL DECLARATION Refusal of Officers of Miner? Union 10 Kescind Strike ' Order Means a Fight to, the Bitter End.' wasmngton.--Solemn "warnins: was given the United Mine Workers of America hy 'Attorney . General Jalmer I that resolutions of conventions and orders of officers of organizations are not above the law. Formal and final declaration nt tho government's policy of dealing with the coal strike was announced bv the attorney general while officers of the miners' organization at Indianapolis The note, made public, provides in New York considered particularly be0an quietly to spirit the cars out of treaty's labor provisions, and after it the raising of tobacco. A mass meet were struggling with the question of that the German government shall 1 active in creating unrest, and it was tho city until not a vehicle with aad been rejected 47 to 34, two new lng to create interest In the move- how to answer the court's blunt and peremptory command to rescind the strike order. Desorihimr tho strife. nc a Tiai lation of a federal statute Mr Paimor speaking with full authoritv nf tho. government, announced that all the power of the United States would be exerted to enforce the mandate of the court. Although no reference was made in the attorney generals statement to the pronouncement of organized la bor, supporting the miners' and de manding withdrawal of injunction pro ceedings, it was evident that Mr. Pal mer had that document in mind. DEPORTATION PROCEEDINGS TO BEGIN IMMEDIATELY. Washington. - Deportation proceed- ings have been instituted in a num- ber of cities to rid the country of the violent radicals caught In the nation wide raids, Attorney General Palmer announced. Instructions have gone to all depart ment of justice agents, the attorney- general said, to permit no delay in in stituting formal hearings, preliminary to the actual deportations. Assur ances have been received from other government departmnts having to do with deportations that action would be taken to expedite the cases. FIRST CONVENTION OF THE LEGION GETS SMOOTH START. Minneapolis, Minn. The first con vention of the American legion got underway smoothly here, although as Chairman Henry D. Lindsley, of Texas, expressed It, "the convention has no powers and I hope no legion conven tion ever will have a program." The Importance of decisions which would be expected of the various com mittees was emphasized, however, by Mr. Lindsley when he declared the legion "would affect the trend of thought of the American people as no other organization has ever done." TOLEDO TRACTION MEN WANT ANOTHER CHANCE Toledo, Ohio. With the city and traction company officials in a dead lock over, settlement of the street car question the operating concern, the Toledo Railways and Light Company, began the circulation of a petition seeking to have an ordinance, em bodying the granting of a cost-plus franchise submitted to the voters at another election. SPEEDY ADJOURNMENT OF CONGRESS IS EXPECTED Washington. The railroad bill will have the right of way in the house with final vote set under an agree- rnent reached by leaders. Action on the bill will be followed immediately by adjournment of the special session of Congress, the agreement provides, consideration of the measure by the senate going over until the regular session beginning in December. CANADA MUST ADOPT OUR RESTRICTIONS ON COAL Washington. In order to obtain more American coal than is needed emergencies. Canada must adopt ror enieigeui- , ,,, r(Ji i i 1 1 1. 1 1 j it n ijii oiit3 urv to those in effect in the United States. This statement was made by the railroad administration's central coal committee after members had read the complaint in the Canadian house of commons by J. D Reld. minister of railways, that citizens of Alberta were suffering from lack of fuel. SENATE NOW DISCUSSING ARTICLE TEN OF TREATY Washington With apparently little change in the program of procedure developed over the week-end despite Increasing pressure from memoers who desire final action so they might have a recess before the regular ses- ! n.r enn pto ss bee In s in tnree weeks, opposing iacuun trontv ratification relating to O.. ten of the league of nations covenant. which was recommended ny tne ior- eign relations committee. SPECIAL DEPUTIES ARE NOT NEEDED IN MIAMI MAI l en Miami, Fla. Pursuant to orders re calling the order for a general striko f n unions affiliated with the Amer ican Federation of Labor and includ- t,o- noarlv 4.000 mechanics, m Miami, all union men are at work and there Is no cessation of activities. Two hundred and fifty members ot the American Legion had been sworn in by Mayor W. P. Smith as special deputies but their services are not now 1ST FULFILL TERMS OF TREATY MO EFFECTIVE PEACE CAN BE ASSURED UNDER PRESENT APPARENT CONDITIONS. AGREEMENT NOT CARRIED CUT Sermany Will Be Required to Repine .7ns 1 Vessels Either Sunk or Destroyed. At Scapa Flow With Others. Washington. Notice., was served on Germany,, by the allied and associated powers in a note and accompanying 1 protocol, that the treaty of paaceT would not go into force .mtil Germany executed to the satisfaction of the al liea ana associated powers obliga- - i "ons assumed under ire armisuce ronvention. ana aaamouai agree- n:ents. s'nd representatives to Paris Novem- her 10 to make final arrangements for the putting into effect of the treaty. Cut the note specifies that before the treaty can be made effctive the Ger- n,an representatives shall obligate their nation to carry out the terms of the protocol. The protocol contains a number of obligations assumed by Germany in the armistice convention and comple mentary agreements which have not been carried out and which have been thfr subject of urgent representations. These include the withdrawal of Ger man troops from Russian territory. Most important, however, in the ob ligations Germany is asked to assume under the protocol is the replacing vessels destroyed at Scapa Flow with five light cruisers, and to make up tor the first-class battleship sunk at Scapa Flow by turning over floating docks and cranes, tugs and dredges equivalent to a total displacement of 400,000 tons. ADMINISTRATION STOPS THE COALING OF FOREIGN CRAFT. Washington. Still hopeful that court developments at Indianapolis might point the way to an early end ing of the coal strike, government agencies nevertheless put forth r.i lewed and more determined efforts to protect the public against distress al most certain to result from a pro tracted suspension of raining opera tions. Realizing that the country is burn ing three times as much coal as the mines are turning out, the railroad administration, the Ereat coal diSr tributing agency through its recently created central coal committee, took drastic action in ordering that the supplying of coal to foreign owned ships in American ports be stopped Immediately. LOUISIANA SUGAR MEN FIX PRICE AT 17 CENTS New Orleans. The price for th: season s yellow cianneu sugar waa fixed at 17 cents a pound at a meeting here of Louisiana planters, the price subject to the approval of Attorney General Palmer. An additional cent a pound for choice plantation granu lated was set and the scale of prices arranged. The sugar shortage which has been acute since ' the strike of the long shoremen here is beginning to break The release of 500 tons, or 1,000,000 pounds of the British royal commis- sion a nuge suppiy ueiu up m swiogo here because of the strike. PLAN AERIAL RACING AS MAJOR SPORT AT COLLEGE New York. Inter-collegiate aerial racing as a fixed sport policy Is con templated by at least three large uni vrctitips nolirmbia. Harvard and Yale ' it was revealed at a meeting of the v. Columbia Aero Club, when Major G. D. Larner, flight commander of the 103d aero squadrbn, A. E. F., was elected president. INSTRUCTIONS TO CLOSE EARLY ARE GIVEN CAFES Paris. In order to reduce the consumption of coal, the prefect of the Seine has ordered cafes at midnight instead of at 1 o'clock. i a A delegation from the general fed eration of labor, which called at the ministry of reconstruction to inquire what measures were being taken by the government to avoid closing fac tories because of lack of coal, was told the coal shortage in Paris district would be ameliorated after Nov. 15. MEXICO NOT TO BE ASKED TO REFUND RANSOM MONEY Washington. Mexico will not be asked by the American government to refund the $150,000 ransom money which counsel for William O. Jenkins, American consular agent at Pueblo paid bandits for release of Jenkins. Officials said they could not con ceive of the American government I in the event a citi I - - . . 14. U zen of a foreign country suoum m kidnapped in the United States and held for ransom. THREE PASSENGERS ESCAPE BOTH DEATH AND INJURY Geneva. Three Americans, Major William Hereford, H F.rank Persons of the international Red Cross, and Mrs. Helen Goetchell, a sister ot Mary Garden, the opera singer, are among the passengers who have at rived here after escaping from the railway wreclr. on the aPris, Lyons & Mediterranean road. These passen gers, who escaped the fate of the 18 dead and 60 injured, were thirty V. boun atttt rein awer. T IDE RAID WHOLESALE ARRESTS OF REDS MADE BY AGENTS OF THE DE PARTMENT OF JUSTICE. PLOT NIPPED IN THE BOD Plans for Raid Have Been in Course of Preparation at Departmental Headquarters Several Weeks. New Y6rk. Hundreds of radicals including many described as among the - most dangerous anarchist agita- tors in the country, were arrested by department of justice agents in simi- lar raids upon radical headquarters in many cities of the United States. It was learned mat 6b warrants nan Deen issued Dy commissioner uener- al of Immigration Caminetti for men reported that these men had been caught. A nation-wide plot to dery govern- ment authority openly is said to have been nipped in the bud upon the eve of the second anniversary of the es- tablishment of the Russian soviet gov- ernment. This plot, it is alleged, has been advocated for weeks by combin- ed radical elements throughout the United States, including the I. W. W., anarchists and Rusian agitators. Plans for the raids, which took place in New York. Philadelymia. Chi- cago, Detroit, St. Louis, Newark, N. cago, Detroit, St. Louis, JNewarK, . J.. Jackson. Mich., Waterbury and Ansonia, Conn., and other cities, have been in preparation for weeks William J. Flynn, head of the de partment of justice division of, invos tigation, had general supervision of the round-up of agitators. The more important prisoners, it was said. would be held for deportation. WILL WITHDRAW INJUNCTION ONLY WHEN STRIKE IS END2D Washington. Eleventh hour efforts to settle the coal strike1 were met by emphatic declaration from the gov ernment that injunction proceedings would be dismissed the instant the strike order was withdrawn and not before. Attorney General Palmer, to whom Mr. Gompers referred all requests for information, refused to see newspa per men. "Mr. Palmer wishes me to say that he will have no statement other than that he made as he left the cabinet meeting," his secretary announcea. OFFICIAL COUNT NECESSARY IN RECENT OHIO ELECTION Columbus, O. Whether Ohio voters approved the state legislature s ac- tion in ratifying the federal proniDi- tion amendment, or repudiating tne ratification will be determined only by the official count of the votes cast. Complete oniciai and unonicidi re- turns from 86 of the 88 counties, less seven precincts, complied oy uuc retarv of state show a wet majority of 2,163 against the proposal. News paper returns from the two missing counties give dry majorities in those counties of 1,959, which would reduce the wet majority to only 204. If the missing seven precincts give dry majorities equal to last year s statisticians figure that the apparent wet majority will be turned into a dry maJoHtyof 83 votes. inotuii i war NO POWER. AUTHORITY OR INFLUENCE Washington. Vice President Mar- shall visited the international labor conference, making a short address and shaking hands with the delegates. Announcing that he spoke for no Kt MTnaAif tho vif Trpsident I uuuj iui ai "" r- told the delegates that he "occupied I t.i rmaitirvn rf anv offi ciai on ine lace ui mc jiuuc . . it - u fha. UilTOt. 1' " reason that "I am without power, authority or influence." FIRST TEST OF STRENGTH IS WON BY THE OPPOSITION Washington. In the first test of strength on the reservations to the Tpiaions committee, the senate re fused by a vote of 48 to 40, to stride n,,t the Provision which would reauire acceptance of the reservations by the other powers. Three Democrats, Reed, Missouri; Walsh, Massachusetts, and Gore, Okla homa, voted with the Republican ma jority and Senator McCumber against CLEMENCEAU CHARGED WITH BEING TOO DICTATORIAL Paris The resignation of Albert Le- bnin as minister of blockade ad in vaded regions and the incidents con nected with it are published by the papers generally without comment Some papers of the opposition protest against the intervention of Prenier rMoTnP.nvp.aii. which they call dicta torial. The occurrence has caused a snsa tion in the department of Muerthe and Moselle. ARGUMENT BEING HEARD ON CLOSING UP OF NUISANCE New York. Arguments on injunc tion suits brought by the federal at torney to close permanently as "pub licnuisances" places owned by liquor dealers who have been arrested- for violating the Volstead act were heard before Judge Leonard Hand in the fed eral district court. Elihu Root, of counsel for Jacob Rup pert argued against the constitution ality of prohibition enforcement aot K attacked tho l&v M Ipeincsrt. bOIEBHIEl . M ID TROLLEY ARE on TOLEDO RAILWAY AND LIGHT COMPANY PLAY A TRICK ON THE MUNICIPALITY. PEOPLE NOW RIDE IN AUTOS Not a Wheel Is Turning in Toledo That Is Under Actual Control of the Municipal Authorities. Toledo, o. Car , riders who voted for an ouster, ordering the street cars from the streets because they were paying six and eight cents to travel . , to ana irom tneir wor. are now pay- ing from 10 to 15 cents in automo- biie buses of which there was an abundance. The Toledo Railways & Light Co. wheels under it was left within the jurisiction of the city officials, who were responsible for the ouster ordi nance passed last June being submit- ted to people. Mayor Cornell Schreiber himself in troduced the ordinance when the com- pany increased the fares from five cents to six cents, and two cents for a transfer to take care of an increase m carmen's wages The cars were removed without no tice to public and city officials alike All were taken into Michigan and st0red on sidetracks FORMER EMPEROR WILHELM IS NOT CONSIDERED A CRIMINAL. The Hague. Former Emperor Wil liam came to Holland a year ago. Since that time there has been no demand officially or unofficially, ior his extradition or delivery to tne ai- lies, nor has Holland at all changed Its viewpoint toward him. Holland's viewpoint as regards Wil- liam Hohenzollern may be stated frankly as follows The Netherlands, which for cen turies has accorded political refuge to all, considers the former emperor and crown prince not as royalty, but as persons entitled to their rights as any plain Johann Schmidt who fled to Hoi land during the war. Holland considers tne iormer em- peror-beyond extradition, as there is no possible way, legally to hold him is a criminal. PUBLIC OPINION BREAKS BACKBONE OF A STRIKE Miami, Fla. The pressure of an tagonistic public opinion is credited with putting an end to the proposed general strike, which 27 branches of organized labor affiliated with the Ampr!can Federation of labor had cane(j. The people openly declared themselves in the issue and many union men asserted it was unjust that tn DtlDnc should be made to suffer Decause one firm, Thorpe & Knight, Insisted in employing laborers on tne n sho,p Das;a or the erection of tneir Tam,ami hotel. SENATE REPORTS FAVORABLY DIAL ELECTROCUTION BILL Wshinirtnn. Senator Dial of South Carolina recently introduced a bill T,rovi(iinK that the electric chair be substituted for hanging as a death Denaity in the District of Columbia, A favorable report has just been made embodyimg the South Carolina statute of 1912 which allows ten days in ,t,5i, f moiro raaiv tho itoath Cham- w 0mmnn the witnesses and make other necessary preparations. GERMANY SUSPENDS TRAIN SERVICE FOR PASSENGERS - Berlin. Germany's suspension of a L.rt;iwo r.naQono-0r trflfir. for two lie ill uau - jv.fcji-o. weeks is proving to have been a step I . . i,o ln unut aa rlmihtlpsa t.hoUS . yjRvu 11A -u.uvuv, " i anas are uiscuvci m& , J : ! I. imahm to induce railroa dofflcials to permit them to travel even on freight trains, OHIO AGAINST REPEAL OF STATE-WIDE PROHIBITION Columbus, Ohio. Ohio voted to sus tain the action of its legislature In iMtion - ' ... . . ... amendment by a majority of 1,480, a . . cording to complete returns from all I vlui - the the 88 coun but two precincts In ties, received and tabulated at the office of the secretary of state. The vote stood : For ratification, 499,776; against, 498,296. INTERNATIONAL BANKING BILL PASSED BY HOUSE Ul " " . - r. t, virfinir for the creation oi mieiummu al banking corporations by national ,1 mstttutions to the extent of 10 per cent ot tneir total capital stock, and surplus. The bill which Is designated to en courage export financing now will to conference, litue opposiliwu u veioned during uiscusaiuii m ... ; tha measure. MARYLAND HAS ELECTED A DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR .Baltimore State Attorney General Albert C. Ritchie, Democrat, was elected governor of Maryland by a plurality of 165 over Harry W Nice, Republican, according to com plete official returns,, the canvass of which was finished. The official vote stands Ritchie 112,240. Nice 112,075. The Republican state central com mitt announced H It would test- tfet election; GARS MOVED FROM KAMENDMEtiTS TO PEACE TREATY SENATOR GORE WANTS A VOTE of pfopi tawcki nrirnnF war rM r ncn adch 80RAH PROPOSES EXEMPTIONS LaFollette Indulges in a Two Hour CritiH. f D.i..t uh Promi of m.p. t Follow. Washington Plana to wind ud the Nght over peace treaty amendments ;"rriea again, tne senate aojourn- P".1' "Ik 8,u' with three proposed amendments con- Wonting it, while there had been only two in the morning. The only vote taken was on the pro. posal of Senator LaFollette. republl- :an, Wisconsin, to strike out the imendments dealing with the league af nations covenant, were prepared by Senator Borah, republican, Idaho. On these and on the amendments of Senator Gore, democrat, Oklahoma, to prohibit war without an advisory vote of the people, the leaders hope to get final action. It had been the expectation of the leaders on both sides to wipe the slate clean of amendments by voting on the Gore proposal immediately af ter the defeat of the labor amend ment. Instead, Senator LaFollette got the floor and, to the surprise of both sides launched into an extended address criticising President Wilson for the method in which tne treaty was negotiated. When he had leen speaking tor two hours he let K De known that he was only about nan way through, and a recess was taken. Later, noticj was given for the two new Borah amendments which pro- DOS to exempt the United States from tije provisions of article 10 and 11( aim which are expected to develop considerable debate. LIFE INSURANCE MEN TO HOLD GREAT CONFERENCE. Vnrk The nresidents of 160 n incnro rnmnaniea throughout the United States will be mobllited the vicinity or tne depot nas Deen nn wo rwomhor 4 and 5 to start the ed with cotton and no cars are avall- Association of Life Insurance Presl- t hn hi eh cost of living The congress will consider h,in,r fnod production and allied problems, and the unprecedented de- mand this year for life insurance TWO MILLION BALES COTTON TO BE TAKEN OFF MARKET. rniiimhia. S. C Two mllion bales of good graae cotton from the pres- . ,.n he removed from the K tho American Cotton asso- iation say8 a statement issued by J. i iiiaiacb u t -- ' Skottowe Wannamaker, president or the aggociation. nan adopted by the associa- tirt t transfer to designated banks recipts for specified amounts oi gwu de cotton. This cotton is to be held in trust until sucn time it,.) nrlioa ilistifv essociation aecmes moi the cotton being placed upon tne mar- fcet I runnsnAY. NOVEMBER 27, IS NAMED AS TH ANK5GI VINU ut warhinE-ton. President Wilson has set aside Thursday, November 27, as Th,lrriviner dav" on a prociam- tion which said the country looked forward "with confidence to the dawn r an ora where the sacrifices ot m naHmi will find recompense in world at peace. Tuc PROPOSALS TO WITHDRAW INJUNCTION IS Kfcjcuitw. wacMnirtnn. Organized labor's nmrmsal for ending the coal buiko 1 m SIX tsttisn nfA through withdrawal of lnJuc"onTT1'.. I . i . JPt amm nf Tn A 1 I ii 1 - ooodinCS against Officers ui I v-v ,J . , cu , I A H,no WOrlterS OL Alliens " " bluntly rejected Dy me qujmuu.uv w justice. FIRST MEETING OF LEAGUE IS TO BE HELD A I rnu. Paris. The first meeting of the - . . , nat inw a will council oi tne leaguo w - be held In Paris, the supreme coudu. deciied. - fh lt - ni(lM. at this World body should consider at t It was agreed mat tue cuu" - - I WUI1U. fcvmj - . . - meeting only matters which must d paB8ed upon immediately after Iormal ratification of tne u. PearChe sCme council discussed its own uncompleted work. CAPTAIN OF LUS.TAN.A WAS s WARNED AGAINO i London.-Secret evidence ejn llry into the sinking of the LusiUn- nnMir. in a parimiiicU"j - Bl lua ..nlal. Turner paper, admiralty to had peen w-.--- anDroacnmg avoid w in the Jn- the coast coming - quiry taw A nt Kin. go within ten mu. - Lusitanfa wa8 - stt.. fl j poai. k- I .nAflrvn . Ii tion. LAST GROUP OF WAR BRIDES ARE ON THEIR WAY HOME Brest. The last of the war brides of American soldiers left here for the United States on the steamship North ern Pacific. There were nine of them. One hundred and seventy-three left on the President orant. Mrs Seymour, the Y. M. C. A. exec ntive secretary in charge of foreign work, said: "I am proud of out American boys. So far as known, only one war brtd h coming back c CONDENSED NEWS FROM THE OLD NORTH STATE 3HOnT NOTES OF INTEREST TO CAROLINIANS. Mount Airy. Through the persist ent efforts of the secretary of the Mount Airy Merchants' association to have the branch factory of the El Reso Cigar company located here lease was signed. Raleigh. Dr. A. R. Burton, a col ored physician working with the United States department of health, is in the state with the bureau of venereal diseases, and will do educa tional work among the negroes. Kinston. There have been only two typhoid deaths in Lenoir county this year. Dr. T. F. Wlckliffe, head of th health bureau, announced, against a yearly average of 13 1-4 for the tour years preceding. Salisbury. The chamber of com merce has taken up the matter of try lng to interest the Rowan farmers in ment will be held soon. Lexington. "The New Era What Shall the Harvest Be?" will be the theme of Ex-Governor Malcolm R. Patterson, of Tennessee, at the world prohibition rally conducted by the Anti-Saloon League of America an the Anti-Saloon League of North Car olina in the First Methodist church. Raleigh. At present, the boll weevil infestation of North Carolina is con fined to Columbus, Brunswick and New Hanover counties, states R. W. Leiby, assistant entomologist ot tho gtate department of agriculture, fol- iowmg tne completion of the survey of counties north of these three mado durlng tne past week. Winston-Salem. The trial of J. K. Henning in whose home and barn tho officers found a quantity of whiskey, was postponed. In addition to have to answer a charge before a magistrate he is to bo given a hearing before U. S. Commis sioner Beckerdite, papers having been served on him by a deputy marshal. Clinton. There is a cotton block- ade here. All the available space in able for Us removal. Lumberton. ine inira rrjTiioui platoon of the Fifth field artillery. Camp Bragg, reached Lumberton on its tour of North Carolina. The trip is being made In the interest of re cruits for the army. Richmond, Va. R. E. Crews, asslst- ant manager of the Hufflne hotel, Greensboro, N. C, identified Thurber a packer in police court, as the man fleeced him out of $100 with a worthless check. Salisbury. The Samuel C. Hart . f th Amrican legion passed ,.i,lt,ftna rin that November 11 be named a8 a Btate holiday. The post . considered appropriate means ot observing the day In Salisbury. Raleigh. Influences looking to lo cal "employe committees to De mu tually acceptable for dealing with th management in adjusting differences were working here for settlement ot the Pilot Cotton Mill strike that ha 200 employes idle. Durham. The Piedmont League of Organized Baseball Clubs, composed tf Raleigh, Durham, Greensboro, Dan ville, High Point and Winston-Salem, was formed in this city at a meetm of baseball promoters from many North Carolina and Virginia cities. Wilmington. Following a fight which took place at Seagate, near Wilmington, Sheriff George C. Jack son, of New Hanover county, has se- 1 OvU - - cured warrants for the arrest of I i . young men of Seagate and this city. all the defendants being cnargea wua gambling. Winston-Salem. Local officers made a whiskey raid five miles west of the city. They found 10 gallons in the home of J. K. Henning and about 60 gallons moK In his barn. Rocky Mont. After being terriblr burned when his clothing caugnt on fire as the result of playing witn a hoi of matches, Ralph Blackburn, the two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Blackburn, who recently moved to this city from Garland, died at the home of his parents after several hours of Intense suffering. Raleigh. Lieut. Belvin Maynard. North Carolina "flying parson." ana first to finish in the trans-continental air race, preached to the biggest con gregation that ever packed a Raleigh church when he occupied the pulpit of thj Baptist tabernacle. New Bern. A two day's campaign In New Bern to secure $5,000 with which to employ a full time "Y" sec retary and worker came to a close and reports given out are that the desired amount was secured and the secretary will begin work here soon. Asheville. John R. Rutherford, aged 80, a prominent planter and lum berman of this section, was instantly killed, when passenger train No. 17. en route to Murphy, from Asherille. truck him as he attempted to cross the tracks at Candler, near here. Monroe. The record price paid for cotton so far this season was 62 1-1 eents, brought by a bale of long sta jle cottotf sold here by E. SUrnes. of Lancaster county, South Carolina, This Is tht rscord for tb Monroe mar. Mt