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Colonel Emerson has rescinded the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
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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
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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
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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
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amendment by a majority of 1,480, a
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cording to complete returns from all
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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
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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-
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cured warrants for the arrest of
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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.
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