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ESTABLISHED SEPT. 19, 1378.
PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C. NOVEMBER 27, 1919
VOL. XLII. NO. 17
Chatham
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Record
MPQRTANT NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
MpCflTANT HAPPENINGS OF THII
AND OTHER NATIONS FOR
SEVEN DAYS GIVEN
S NEWS OF THE SOUTH
What Is Taking Place In The South
land Will Be Found In
Brief Paragraphs
Foreign
Commenting on the reported inten
tion of the United States Asiatic
sruadron to visit Australia, the Syd
nev Da;ly Telegraph recently said edi
ur:aily: "The American fleet may be
jj-ured of an enthusiastic and unani
meu5 welcome. Our welcome will
show how eager we are to frustrate
the work cf those who would spread
suspicion and misunderstanding be
tween the peoples of the British em
pire and of the United States.
The supreme council has agreed
Uncn December 1 as the date when
the German peace treaty will be for
mally ratified. Further informal dis
cussions have been held with the Ger
man representatives.
Stephen Fiehon, French foreign
minister, and Sir Eyre Crose, assist
ant undersecretary for foreign af
fairs of Great Britain, exchanged rati
fication of the treaty guaranteeing
British aid to France if, without
provocation, she is attacked by Ger
manv. The announcement of the
ratification of the treaty caused con
siderable surprise.
Ten persons were killed and 120 in
jured. 00 of whom suffered gunshot
wounds, in a riotous demonstration
at Cairo. Egypt. Three police stations
were set on fire by mobs, which lib
erated prisoners and paraded through
tte streets, carrying wounded rioters.
Tte British restored order ultimately.
Six thousand persons participated
in the Coptic demonstration on the oc
casion of the funeral of a Copt killed.
In the afternoon ten thousand, most
ly Moslems, paraded through the prin
cipal streets of Alexandria, Egypt.
Tie demonstration was orderly.
Switzerland's adhesion to the league
of nations was voted by the Swiss na
tional council, 124 to 45. The vote
came after eight days of debate.
The revolutionary movement put on
against the Kolchak government at j
been put down, it is reported, by the
Kolchak government. General Galda,
who was wounded, was captured. The
government forces are in complete
control of Vladivostok.
Premier Lloyd-George, in the Eng
lish house of commons, during the
course of the debate of the Russian
problem, said: "In whichever direc
tion we go we are marching into a
fog. Xo country has ever intervened
in Russia without coming to grief."
Domestic
The body of little "Billy" Dansey,
for whom a nation-wide search had
been conducted since his disappear
ance from his home at Hammonton,
X. J., several weeks ago, was found
by a hunter in a swamp near that
place. After viewing the body, Cor
oner Cunningham expressed belief
that the boy was the victim of foul
P'ay. '.
Judge Wellborne Moore of Sparta,
Ga.. a member of the Georgia state
legislature and widely known in po
litical circles throughout the state and
the South, is dead. He was instantly
killed when his automobile turned
over one mile out of Haddock, Ga.
Westbound Union Pacific passen
ger train No. 19 was held up and pas
sengers robbed between Medicine Bow
and Rock River, Wyoming. The
train robber operated single-handed.
The government has stepped to the
front to force, miners and operators
to negotiate a new wage agreement
and resume work in the bituminous
fileds before the. country is in the
grip of a coal famine. Clothed with
all of his war-time powers as fuel
administrator, and acting by direct
authority cf the president's cabinet.
Dr. Harry A. Garfield called a point
meeting of scale committees, at which
he was expected to give formal notice
that the time had come to resume
mining operations on a normal scale.
Meanwhile word had been passed
that the strike situation had reached
that point where action was regarded
by federal authorities as - absolutely
imperative.
Public ownership of timber land,'
national or state is advocated by the
Paper and Pulp association's commit
tee on forest conservation in a report
submitted by the association confer
ence at New York.
The government ' by an opinion in
the Supreme court won its fight to
have cancelled patents for 6,000 acr .
of California oil land yuiued at ten
million dollars, alleged tc have been
obtained through fraud by the South
ern Pacific company.
The formal resignation of Carter
Class as secretary of the' treasury, to
gether with a letter from President
Wilson, urging him to accept the ap
pointment as United States senator
from Virginia, has beea made public
D' the state department at Washing
ton. . .
Seven Chicago robbers bound and
gged three men, blew open a large
in the offices of the Standard
e4 mpany of Indiana, partly wreck
a'oout Slnaller one aiJ" escaped with
tives !:8llt taousan(1 dollars. Detec
the "Worno.uncecl tne safe-blowing as
Th fcxpert cracksmen.
other Sw,"4lereaU 1Ve" aU"
CarpenVeTt ,When Judge George
th r amlfed down a decision .n
Chfiled Sutf;s distric. court at
prohibitior I " . .
act and the Volatead t--
forcement
act uiD nnotit-if inrnl
hashpemw'a Federation of Labor
flas endorsed t'io . .... t.-
natinn-ii , e aion oi the later
TJZ to Machinists in
i,, ff. e t0 authorize grand
lodge officers to n
. . , 10 co-operate w-.a other
la ,ar:a a strike on the
railroads of the United States at such
time as may prevent a condition that
will ws.abU-h .nv0iunt MrvituJ.,
Ernest Luncxoen, icrmer congress
man from the Fifth Minnesota district,
who was to speak at a local theater
against the league of nations, was
taken from the stage by members of
the American Legion escorted to tve
railroad tracks and locked in a refrig
erator car. Members of the train
crew heard his shouts -and released
him 20 m-les from Ortonville.
On the eve of a final vote on the
peace treaty President Wilson gave
the senate to understand that unless
It modified the reservations already
adopted lie would ukh the ..reaty I
to the white house and lock it in his
desk.
Washington
American exports in October, 1919,
were valued at $632,000,000, an in
crease of $35,000,000 over those in
September and of $130,000,000 over
those in October a year ago.
The secretary of war announces
that in view of the fact that the num
ber of men prescribed for the Amer
ican forces in France and Germany
for the infantry and engineer corps
have been obtained, enlistments for
those countries will be discontinued.
President Wilson placed the gov
ernment again in control of the na
tion's food supply by transferring the
authority of food administrator to At
torney General Palmer. Revival of
the war-time functions of Administra
tor Hobver resulted directly from
government efforts to avert a famine
in sugar, but the powers delegated
to the head of the department of jus
tice will be also to help put down the
ever-mounting cost of living. For the
present the attorney general will not
put into operation all of the machin
ery permitted under the executive or
der. Avenues of , speculation leading
many ways were opened up when of
ficials and diplomats turned over in
their" minds the possible results at
home, and abroad that are to follow
termination ' of the-special session of
congress without senate ratification
of the treaty.
President Wilson has considered the
possibility of negotiating a new peace
treaty in the event of the rejection
by the senate of the present treaty,
but it now develops that he vfStflally
has rejected that alternative asl im
practicable. It is stated by those in position to
know that the thoughts of the' peace
treaty's friends in the senate centered
on accomplishing some compromise
for a ratification in the session begin
ning December l.and to that end steps
are understood to have been taken by
them to ascertain from President Wil
son what reservations the other great
powers would' accept. r
The Mexican embassy has received
information that General Angeres, one
of Villa's right-hand lieutenants, has
been captured. Angeles had recently
prepared a plan of campaign for Villa,
the object of which was to cut off
Mexico City from the north and to
make it possible to formulate -a plan
of invading the City of Mexico jtself.
Another effort to bring industrial
peace to the United States is to be
made by a conference of former fed
eral and state officials, business men
and economists, the personnel of
which has already been announced by
President Wilson. -
Lack of adequate training of pilots
was responsible for some fatalities in
the recent trans-continental ' derby,
Lieut. Belvin W. Maynard, the win
ner, told a house sub-committee. Of
ficers of high rank whose experience
had ;been confined to desk work en
tered the race because 'tiiere Vwere
no superior officers to - pass ; on their
ability. Juniof officers 'were tested
to determine their fitness to com
pete. .
Whisky and. beer made their last
stand in , the Supreme court of the
United States. Despairing of any
hope that President Wilson would lift
the ban in time to . enable them to
dispose of. their stocks before consti
tutional prohibition settles down upon
the land, the liquor interests of the
country are concentrating all their
efforts, toward obtaining even a brief
hiatus.
Settlement of the controversy over
disposition of the German liner Im
perator was indicated by shipping
board oficials, who intimated the ship
would be tendered immediately to
Great Britain.
Denyiag persistent rumors to the
vflact that the federal reserve banks
hive contemplated the recall .of loans
made on cotton or the future issu
ance of loant, W. P. G. Harding, gov
ernor of the federal reserve board, in
i. letter to Senator Smith of South
Carolina, states the only change made
in the positio riof the bangs regard
ing cotton loans is a tendency -to strict
er examination into grade of cotton
shown by the receipts pledged as col
lateral. Ludwig C. A. K. M.-.rtens, self-styled
"ambassador of the Russian Soviet
government tc the United States gov
ernment," hue offered to provide trans
portation from the United States to
Russia for all Russian citizens who
desire to leave the United States, or
whose presence in the United States
is undesirable. This offer i made in
a letter written by Martens to Sec
retary ' of State Lansing.
Compliance by the i.eople with pro
visions of the prohibition . enforce
ment act during the first two weeks
of its life is reported by Commis
sioner Roper of the bureau of inttrnal
revenue.
Mexico has been warned by the
American government that . any fur
ther molestation of William O. Jen
kins, the American consular agent at
Puebla, who recently was kidnaped
by bandits, would seriously affect the
relations between the United States
and Mexico, for which the government
of Mexico must assume the full e
fcponsibility. While the Supreme court was hear
ing arguments on the validity of the
war-time prohibition act, word went
out from the white house that Presi
dent Wilson would not rescind the
"dry act" until peace formally had
been declared. This means a. dry
Christmas for the country.
Railroad workers scored p complete
victory in the house through incor
poration, of their plan for voluntary
conciliation of labor disputes in the
Esch railroad bill. The house reject
ed a plan of compulrory arbitration.
No direct vote on the anti-strike prop
oeirion w.a taken.
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LEAGUE FORMED
A CAMPAIGN FOR MEMBERS 18
LAUNCHED FOR PROTECTION
OF USERS OF WEED.
HEADQUARTERS ARE OPENED
Statement of Anti-Tobacconist Char
icterized as Cruel Libel on Courage
and Honor of American Soldier.
Washington. Tar Heel tobacco pro
ducers and crushers are interested in
a movement here, where the National
Tobacco League of America, a new
organization launched for the purpose
of "defending" the use of the weed,
has literally taken time by the fore,
lock and opened headquarters and a
campaign.
The league, it is asserted, was
brought into existence "by tobaccc
users to combat anti-tobacco legisla.
tion." It publishes an official organ
called The Defender. The purpose of
the movement is "to weld into a con
effete organization the tobacco con
sumers of this country, the league be.
iieving that is the only practical way
;o defeat anti-tobacco legislation.
In its first issue, The Defender chal
lenges Dr. Clarence True Wilson, sec
retary of the temperance hoard ol
the Methodist Episcopal church, a
leading prohibition worker of Wash
ington. Dr. Wilson is charged with
slandering American soldiers when he
charged that "young men trained at
great expense by the government had
to;be led out of the fighting ranks to
have cigarettes stuffed into their
mouths before they could stand up
and hold a gun.'
This Is - characterized by The De.
fender "as 'cruel a libel as ever tra
duced the honor and courage of an
American soldier."
100,000 JEWS MARCH
THROUGH N.Y. STREETS
New York. New York today wit
,nessed its greatest parade of any
one people more than 100,000 Jewish
men arid women marching to an age
old Hebrew dirge, in protest against
alleged massacres of their people in
the Ukraine. Winding for hours from
the lowest East Side to Carnegie,
hall in the heart of the metropolis,
the cortege continued uninterrupted
from 1 o'clock in the afternoon until
lone after dark.
Nearly 25,000 uniformed soldiers.
sailors and marine, veterans of tha
war, led the procession.
ATTEMPT BEING MADE TO
FORM ANOTHER NEW PARTY
Ch-'caeo. A new national political
hnitv to be known as the Labor Party
of the United States was created by
representatives of organized labor in
crvn vpntion here.
The object of the movement as set
forth in its constitution will be "to
organize all hand and brain workers
f rmrah to ButDort the princi
ples of a political, social and industrial
democracy."
AGREEMENT MADE BY HINES
WITH RAILWAY TRACK MEN
Washington. A new wage and
workine agreement was signed be
fwpen the railroad administration and
officials of the Brotherhood of Mainte
nance of Way Employees and Railway
Track laborers. WTiile demands of
not fullv met. the
LUv '
AiPht-hour basic day was established
fnr track laborers and others of that
classification, and time and a half pay
oftor that hour was provided.
Most of the other employes included
under the agreement will receive time
and a half overtime pay after 10
hrtiirn
Signing of the new contract by Di-
rptor General Hines enaea negoxm
tions which have been in progress
since February.
ITALY IS THREATENED WITH
REBELLION BY SOCIALISTS
Rome. Rumors of the wildest char
acter regarding the possibility of a
vptv serious crisis, involving not only
cabinet, but also the reigning house of
Italy, ar in circulation as opening
of narliament approaches.
The socialists, proud of their recent
victorv are eager to continue what
they call their "march forward." Th
older, more authoritative members ot
the party, however, are against any
excesses.
AMERICAN TROOPS ARE TO
REMAIN ABROAD LONGER,
Paris. The withdrawal of the
AmoriMIl trnoDS from Coblenz, In oc
rnnied Germany, is not considered In
American peace conference circles as
necessary in consequence or the iau-
iire of the United States senate to rai
ify the German ;?cace treaty. It Is
contended that the United States is
tni one of the allied and. associated
powers, and that the postponement ot
final action on the treaty does not
change its relation.
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PROMISCUOUS FIRING OCCURS
IN VIRGINIA MINE FIELDS
Richmond. Va. Reports from St
Charle3, Norton and Big Stone Gap,
are that there has been' some promis
cuous firing of mounted high-powered
cuns in the possession of radical
miners, but no fatalities have occurred
within the last 24 hour?. So far as
could be ascertained there has been
no bloodshed at the mines and now
that 500 militiamen have been sent tc
the flslda oo great 'rouble is expot,
UNA
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PEACE TREATY IS
PRACTICALLY DEAD
LODGE RESOLUTION TOGETHER
WITH RESERVATIONS- WAS
DECISIVELY REJECTED. V
LEFT TO ANOTHER SESSION
Failing After Three Attempts to Get
Together Senate Ends Special Ses
sion and Members Go Home..
Washington Failing after three at-
ceonipts to ratify the peace treaty, the
senate laid it. aside,! ended the special
Bession and went home.
All compromise efforts to bring rati
fication failed, the three resolutions of
ratification all going down by over
whelming majorities. The Republi
can leaders, apparently despairing of
bringing two-thirds of the senate to
gether for any sort of ratification, then,
put in a resolution to declare the war
at an end.
Two of the three ratification votes
were taken on the resolution drafted
by the Republican majority,, contain
ing reservations which President Wil
son had told Democratic senators in a
letter earlier in the day would mean
nullification of the treaty. On each of
the votes most of the Democratic
suporters of the treaty voted against
ratification.
Republican Leader Lodge declared
the voting constituted a final decision
on the peace treaty unless President
Wilson circumvented the senate rules
by withdrawing it and then submit
ting it again to the senate. In other
quarters -there was some difference of
opinion, but the general sentiment
seemed to be that there was only a
slender chance that the treaty would
come up at the beginning of the next
session of congress
One effect of the senates failure to
ratify the treaty will be the continua
tion of various wartime laws and reg
ulations at least until the new ses
sion opens. Among these is the war
ime prohibition act.
HOUSE ALSO ADJOURNS AND
MANY MEMBERS HAVE GONE
Washington'. Six months to the
day after congress convened in spe
cial session, the house formally ad
journed after receiving word from
President Wilson that he did not ob
ject to this action. The adjournment
resolution was adopted by a vote of
55 to 5.
NO TRUTH IN REPORT
SAYS GOVERNOR HARDING
Washington. Governor Harding of
the federal reserve board set at rest
rumors that federal reserve banks
were preparing to withdraw credit to
cotton planters. In a telegram to
the cotton committee of the National
Farmers' Union, at Memphis, he said
there had been no change in policy
as to loans by reserve or members
banks on cotton as security.
OPERATORS BLAMED FOR
LOSS IN COAL PRODUCTION
Washington. Refusal of the coal
operators to re-employ striking miners
unless they renounced their union
membership, as charged by the men, is
causing a loss In ooal production, the
house was told by Representative Den
ison, Republican, Illinois.
"I hope the department of Justice
will enforce the law against the opera
tors as it did against the miner," said
he.
ONE TON COAL IS ALLOWED
TO SOUTHERN HOUSEHOLDS
Atlanta, Ga. Domestic , consumers
of coal in the south were put on a
war-time basis by orders issued by
the coal committee of the southern re
gional committee of the railroad ad
ministration limiting purchases of
coal for home use to one ton to a
household.
STEPS TOWARDS ADJOURNMENT
ARE TAKEN BY THE HOUSE
Washington. The house took Anal
steps toward adjournment, six monthp
after it met in special session. A
committee composed of Republican
Leader Mondell, Minority Leader
Clark, and Representative Towner, re
publican, Iowa, were appointed to In
form the President that the house was
ready to adojurn.
Passage of a resolution permitting
the senate to adjourn was accom
plished. URUGUAYAN SECTION APPROVES
OF INTERNATIONAL GOLD FUND
Montevideo. Subject to ratification
by legislature, the Uruguayan section
o finternational high commission has
approved in general of the conven
tion proposed by central committee
at Washington for an international
gold fund to regulate exchange be
tween pan-American countries. Two
modifications are suggested, one re
lating to form of the agreement and
the other asks an understanding as
to kind of gold coin to be deposited.
MORE ARRESTS EXPECTED IN
THE $1,000,000 THEFT CASES.
New York. More arrests were ex
pected in the round-up in New York
Washington and other cities of per
sons suspected of being implicated In
the theft of $500,000 to $1,000,000
worth of securities in New York's
financial district withit the last six
months.
The police expressed " confidence
they had hit upon a trail wbich would
clear up robberlef which had myitt
fled Wall street.
WILSON
S
HOPES OF WETS
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WAR TIME PROHIBITION WILL
CONTINUE IN EFFECT TILL
PEACE IS DECLARED.
NOW SET AT REST
to Christmas Liquor Unless Supreme
Court Declares the "Dry" Law
is Unconstitutional.
Washington. While the supreme
sourt was hearing argument on the
validity of the war-time prohibition
act, word went out from the white
house that President Wilson would
lot rescind the "dry" act until peace
Tormally had been declared.
This was expected to set at rest
the ever recurring rumors that the
"dry" ban would be lifted by the
president irrespective of early ratifi
cation of the treaty of Versailles.
Failure of the senate to act on the
treaty at the extraordinary session
was regarded by many administra
tion officials as precluding the ending
f the technical state of war much
before the constitutional prohibition
amendment became effective next
January 16.
Should such prove the case, the
only possibility of a "wet" Christmas
would be for the supreme court to
declare the- war-time act unconstitu
tional.
The right of Congress to prohibit
the manufacture and sale of intoxi
eating liquors was sharply attacked
and vigorously defended during the
.'guments.
Solicitor General King and William
L. Frierson, assistant attorney gen
eral for the government, argued that
a state of war still existed and that
it was congress' interest to provide
war-time prohibition until the peace
treaty was ratified.
PALMER ON VERGE OF
A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
Washington (Attorney General Pal
mer was reported on the verge of a
nervous breakdown and under orders
from his physician to get away from
work and take all the rest he needs.
Mr. Palmer's physician has told
him, it was said at the department ol
justice, that "unless he qtit work for
more than a week he would not be re
sponsible for the consequence."
GUARDSMEN SURFEITED WITH
MILITARY ACTIVITIES
Washington. National guardsmen
recently discharged from federal ser
vices "are surfeited with military ac
tivities,' 'according to the annual re
port of Major General Jesse McT. Car
ter, chief of the militia bureau, issued
here and summarizing reports from
various departments. Those who serv
ed in France "not only decline tc
enter the national guard but by theii
talk disincline others to do so," re
ports from the southeastern depart
inent said.
WAR-TIME COAL RATIONING
EFFECTIVE IN NORTHWEST
Chicago. Chicago and the North
'western railroad region were placed
on a virtual wartime rationing of coal
Coal officials instructed retailers
refuse to make deliveries to persons
with at least one week's supply on
hand. Generally the coal situation
had not improved and the tension
some districts was tighter.
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INJUNCTION IS ISSUED
AGAINST COAL MINERS
Dtnver. A restraining order Dre
venting the strike of Colorado coal
miners was issued here by District
Judge Frank J. Morley.
George O. Johnson, district presi
dent, H. C. Stewart, secretary, and
other officials are restrained from
putting the strike into effect.
TWENTY PER CENT INCREASE
IS OFFERED COAL MINERS
Washington. An increase in wages
of 15 per cent per ton and 20 per cent
over existing day scale, to become
fectivo immediately the bituminous
coal miners return to work, was offer
ed by the operators at meeting of
wage scale committees in the central
competitive field.
Thomas T. Brewster, chairman
of
the operators' wago scale committee,
said the operators had proposed the
existing working conditions
ONLY ONE OF OUR PROMINENT
OFFICIALS TO STAY IN PARIS
Paris. Joseph C. Grew, secretary of
the American delegation, to the peace
conference, probably will be the only
prominent official of the delegation re
maining in Paris after Frank L. Polk,
Henry White and General Tasker H.
Bliss, the American delegates, sail for
the United States on board the trans
port America, December 5 or 6.
The Hotel de Crillon, official head
quarters, will be retained for only a
short time.
OUR AMERICAN SYSTEM
WAS JUSTIFIED BY WAB
Washington. The army system, ol
military training, adopted years age
and now used at West Point, was ful
ly Justified by experience in the world
war, Major General John L. Cham
berlain, inspector general, declared in
his annual report. He pointed out
that ultimately it was found necessary
in France to abandon the "defensivf
tactics" recommended by foreign ex
perts and revert to the aggressi
"American system,"
WHOLESALE
PRICE
SUGAR
BSD
THROUGH THIS INCREASE IT I
HOPED NEW SOURCES OF
SUPPLY WILL BE OPENED.
UEtisiMiNtinin
Arrangements Have Been Completed
by Which Refiners Will Enter Cu
ban Markets Immediately.
Washington. President Wilson
placed the government again in con
trol of the nation's food supply by
transferring the authority of food ad
ministrator to Attorney General Pal
mer. Revival of the wartime functions of
Administrator Hoover resulted direct
ly from government efforts to avert
a famine in sugar, but the powers del
egated to the head of the department
of justice will be used also to help
put down the ever mounting cost of
living.
Plans tentatively decided upon pro
vide for increasing the price of all
sugar, excepting the Louisiana crop
for which a price of 17 cents already
has been fixe 3, to 12 cents a pound,
wholesale.
Through this increase, new sources
of supply are expected to be opened.
.Arrangements have been completed,
subject to changing conditions of the
sugar situation, whereby beet and
cane sugar refiners will enter the Cu
ban markets immediately. The de
partment, however, will exact a signed
agreement with firms entering that
trade to consign all of their pur
chases to this country. This will
mean that American dealers will get
a large proportion of the 4,000,000 tons
of raw sugar yet available in Cuba,
officials said.
FEDERAL JUDGE HOLDS 2.75
PER CENT BEER IS LAWFUL.
St. Louis. On the ground that beer
of 2.75 per cent alcoholic content is
not intoxicating, Judge John C. Pol
lock, of the United States district
court, handed down a decision grant
ing a temporary injunction to restrain
the United States district attorney and
the collector of Internal revenue from
interfering with the manufacture and
sale of such beer by St Louis brew
ers.
Judge Pollock's decision, while con
fining itself on a ruling of .2.75 per
cent beer, calls attention to the fact
that war was being waged at the
time the constitutional prohibition
amendment was submitted by Con
gress to the state legislatures and
that Congress at that time did not at
tempt to arrogate to itself the pas
sage of a prohibition act as a war
measure. The state legislature voted
on ratification, the decision said, on
the promise of Congress that after the
necessary number of states had ratt
fied the amendment a year would be
permitted to lapse before it should be
enforced by the governmnt. Con
gress therein recognized the rights of
the states, even in war times, the de
cision said, and it had not now the
right to infringe on state powers with
reference to prohibition enforcement
TREATY LOOMS UP LARGELY
AS BIG POLITICAL ISSUE
Washington. Compromise efforts
to ratify the peace treaty were thrown
into the background by developments
strengthening' the possibility that the
Whole controversy might be transfer
red to the political arena for a deci
sion by the people in 1920 .
Senator Lodge, chairman of the
foreign relations committee and Re
publican leader of the senate, declared
in a statment there was "no room
ifor further compromise," and urged
that the reservations of the senate
maiority be carried into the campaign
There was no formal expression to
determine whether a like stand would
be taken ultimately ty President Wil
son and the administration senators
ARMY OF 450,000 REQUIRED
FOR MEXICAN INTERVENTION
' Washington State department of
ficials. in discussing the Mexican sit
iiation, disclosed that three years ago
the army general staff estimated that
an army of 450,000 men and three
years would be required for complete
intervention in Mexico by the United
States.
Officials did not say what the pres
ent estimate of the general staff was,
but it was understood to be less than
that prepared before the world war
THE CENTRALIA LEGION POST
WANTS ACTION ON RADICALS
lAtlanta. Ga. An appeal for mem
bers of the American Legion In Geor
gia to aid in a nation-wide movement
for Americanism and for congression
ai anHnn aerainst un-American organ!
zations and individuals is contained in
a telegram to Kirk Smith, of Atlanta,
secretary of the Georgia division of
the leeion from the Centralia (wasn
lngton) post, four of whoso members
were shot down by radicals during an
armistice day parade.
GREAT BRITAIN GUARANTEES
HER ASSISTANCE.TO FRANCE
. Parls Stephen Plchom, French for
eign minister, and Sir Eyre. Crowe,
assistant under-secretary for foreign
affairs of Great Britain, exchanged
ratification of the treaty guarantee
ing British aitf to France, if, without
provocation, she is attacked hy Ger
many. ,
Sir Eyre is the ' represents tive cf
Grea,t Britain in the supreme counci'
during the absence f JN'emM' Lloyd
0 sorts.
FEELING OF LEAGUE
TO ENFORCE PEACE
TREATY DEFEAT RECEIVED BY
COUNTRY WITH SURPRISE
AND INDIGNATION.
SENATE MOST GET TOGETHER
The Failure to. Ratify Treaty Has En-
couraged Social Unrest Both at
Home and Abroad.
New York.-Settlement of differ
ences over the peace treaty to per
mit its ratification as soon as possi
ble after the senate reconvenes is
urged in a statement issued by the
League to Enforce Peace, at the con
clusion of a special meeting of the
executive committee.
Former President William w Tft
president of the league, presided.
The league's statement follows:
The defeat of ratification bus hen
received by the country with sur
prise and indignation. The people
want peace. Whose name is bears,
which party brand it wears, they
care not at all. They loneed for and
expected ratification before adjourn
ment of the senate.
"The making of peace is no more
party question than was the mak-
ing of war. The American people,
without regard to party, stood behind
the war until the dawn of victory. With
like unanimity they now stand behind
the treaty.
"Shall the small minority who on-
pose a league of nations in any form
defeat ratification? Shall 15 senators
decide where America shall stand
in this world crisis? Einhty senators
have shown by their votes that they
favor the great principle of the lea
gue of nations. Tiie fate of the treaty
rests in their hands. They have the
votes. They have the power. Theirs
is the responsibility. They must get
together.
"The failure to ratify the peace
treaty has encouraged social unrest
both at home and abroad.
HIGH PRAISE IS GIVEN BY
DANIELS TO THE Y. M. C. A.
Detroit. Mich. The millions of
young Americans in uniform served
and influenced by the Young Men's
Christian Association during the war
will weld the future of the nation
and "the organization which affords
the best welcome and best aid to these
coming arbiters of national destiny in
peace - will not only be serving the
men but will be serving mankind,"
declared Josephus Daniels, secretary
of the navy, to the fortieth interna
tional convention of the association
here.
SLOW IMPROVEMENT SHOWN
IN HEALTH OF PRESIDENT
Washington.. President .Wilson has
materially improved," but is still
very weak, Dr. Francis X. Dercum,
the Philadelphia specialist, found
when he paid his regular weekly vis
its to the white house.
GENERAL VILLA'S CHIEF AIDE
IS TO BE COURT-MARTIALLED
El Paso, Texas. General Felipe An
geles, the Villa leader who was cap
tured recently by Mexican federal
foroa. reached Camargo, Chihuahua,
in the custody of a detachment of
government troops, who are taking
him to Chihuahua City for immediate
court-martial.
HOPES OF CLEARING COAL
ATMOSPHERE BY GARFIELD
Washington. The intervention of
Fuel Administrator Garneia in tne ia.g
TiocrntinHnsn of bituminous oper
6"6 "u- -
t.o nd miners of the central com-
aivi a
hutt. flaiii is exnected to bring to a
climax the long drawn out conflict
and clear the way for speedy sexue-
of the ntrike situation, which has
UiOUV V.
put the country on the verge of a
coal famine.
rue drinCE OF WALES WAVES
HIS FAREWELL TO AMERICA
New York. The Prince of Wales
said good-bye to America ana saueu
for his own land. The cheers of hun
j 3. ivxMiaand ran? in his ears as
Ul CUa UL LHVLA-J o
the great battle cruiser Renown, one
of the mightiest vessels in me Dr.uu
navy, weighed anchor, and steamed
majestically down tne worxn ii"
Edward Albert waved his farewell
from the fighting top to the great
crowd gathered on the banks of the
Hudson to bid mm uoa-sy-
ALMOST OPEN ATTEMPTS MADE
BY MEXICO TO PICK QUARREL.
El Paso.-The positive assertion
that information is in the hands of
the foreign relations committee of the
United States senate that the Car
ranza government is
seeking to affront the United States
in connection with the kidnapping
and arrest of William O Jenkins.
American consular agent at Puebla
Mexico, and the promulgation of the
oh properties, national decree was
made by member of subcommittee.
MOTOR TRANSPORTATION
TO REPLACE RAILWAYS.
Washington. England Is destined
within a few years to become a na
tion without railways, or with rail
ways supplementing a highly develop
ed system of motor transportation,"
according to a special report made
by Brigadier General Charles B.
Drake, chief of the army motor trans
port corps. The forecast can be made
"with reason" after a study of the re
cent railway tis-up in England, it
CONDENSED NEWS FROM
THE OLD NORTH STATE
SHOUT NOTES OF INTEREST TO
CAROLINIANS.
Wilmington. After a brief illness
H. E. Walton, a banker of the city,
died at his home. He was teller at
the Peoples bank.
Spencer. Following an illness ot
more than three years, Capt William
Columbus Jones, a well known con
ductor on the Southern railway, died
at his home in Spencer.
Winston-Salem. The junior order
councils here are arranging for . a
big memorial service in honor of
members killed in the European war
or who died the past year.
Fuquay Springs. Marcus M. SmlUi
has established a rural free library
at Fuquay Springs of 10,000 volumes
ot books which he owned in connec
tion with his Old Book Store in this
city.
Apex. The ladles of the Apex Red
Cross entertained the returned sol
diers of White Oak township at a de
lightful oyster supper, given at ths
Apex Hotel.
Durham. Gilbert Williams, sevea-
teen years old. of West Durham, was
so injured by a freight train, that ha
died at the Watts hospital.
Asheville. Charles Ewin Hall, tak
en suddenly ill while sitting H a chair
in his room at No. 21 Harklns build
ing, dropped to the floor and expired
a few moments later.
Raleigh The supreme court re
versed the decision of the lower court
in holding valid the increase of $600
annually the commissioners of Greens
boro voted themselves in August,
thereby strengthening the trend of
North Carolina law that an officer has
no right to raise his own salary.
Salisbury. First Methodist church.
Rev. J. E. Abernethy, pastor, has
elected a woman superintendent of
the Sunday school.
Greenville. The Greenville school
board took another forward looking
step when it purchased a three story
brick building to be used as a teach
ers' dormitory.
Fayettevllle. A committee of Fay-
etteville business men are securing
options on sites for the erection of
quarter of a million dollar hotel ia
this city.
Winston-Salem. The recent sale of
assets, franchise, privileges and ap
purtenance of the 'Elkin and Alle
ghany railroad by Receiver C. B.
Penny was ratified in the superior
court here.
Henderson. Business men of Hen
derson have pledged their support to
the effort to organize the new infan
try company of the North Carolina
National Guard which has been award
ed to this city.
Elkin. Hon. Will D. Upshaw, mem
ber of Congress from a Georgia dis
trict, spoke in the Methodist church
here under the auspices of the Amer
ican Anti-Saloon league. His subject
was "The Sunnyside of the War."
Rocky Mount. Mr. F. S. Wilkinson,
one of the most beloved landmarks
of the community and the foremost
pioneer in educational circles in
Edgecombe county, died at the horn
of his son, W. S. Wilkinson, of this
city, at the age of 87 years.
Klnston. The Caswell section, oa
the line between Lenoir and Jones
counties. Is entirely free from moon
shine stills for the first time in manr
years, federal officers said. The ter-
rltorr has been carefully gone over
by "moppers up" without finding a
vestige of a plant, though sites where
a number were located in past years
were discovered.
Wilmington The Norwegian steam
er Mowingckel, New York to Vera
Cruz and Tamplco, carrying a carga
.if eeneral merchandise put in at this
"port with a fire in her hold. Efforts
to control the fire have soiar Deea
unsuccessful.
Wilson. The first service In con
uection with the assembling of the
ei-hty-third session of the North Car
'olina conference was held In the Meth
odist church here when the North Car
olina Historical Society held its aa-
'nual meeting.
i
' Wilson. W. R. Skinner, a brake
man, was fatally injured when an At
lantic Coast Line freight was derailed
at Contentnea Junction. ,
Charlotte. One of the largest gath
erings of members of Oasis Temple,
Ancient Order Nobles of the Mystic
Shrine in its history is expected in
Charlotte;. December 3 and 4, when
the annual business meeting and elec
tion of officers is to occur, and whea
a great ceremonial for the receptioa
of at least 300 candidates is to be in
dulged In.
Winston-Salem. Two defendants in
a local magistrate's court here were
fined $5 and the costs each for per
mitting their children to be Irregular
in attendance at school.
Durham. Dr. George Carr, promi
nent and well known dentist of Dur
ham, has been named as defendant In
a suit started in Wake Superior Court
by Ernest Yates, an automobile me
chanic of this city. The Raleigh man
is suing for $25,000 damages for th
a'.leged alienation of his wife's affeo
ttons br the Durham dentist