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. 3 1 ,. V l WEEKLY EDITION OLD SERIES VOL. LXXXIIINO. 4,641. FAYETTEVILLE, N. Q WEDNESDAY, .AUGUST 20. 1919. NEW SERIES-VOL. XXXVI-NO. 2,465, LEAGUE OFNATIONS IN IRELAND r- &- 111 III ' ' l I mm President Wilson in Confer ence With Senate Foreign Relations Committee. s (By The Associated Press) Washington, trAug. I9.r-Presldent Wilson told the Foreign Relations Committee at the outset of his con ferenca today that he could see no "reasonable objection" to Interprets tlons of how the United States accept the League of Nations Covenant, pro Tided such Interpretations do not form a part of the formal ratification It self. If Interpretations were part of the formal ratification, the President contended, long delays would fellow, as other governments would have to "accept in effect the language of the' Senate as the language of the treaty before ratification would be com plete." - Most of the Interpretations, the President said, seemed to hin to sug gest' the "plain meaning; of the in strument Itself." The much discussed Article 10. ihe President told the Senators, was not of doubtful Interpretation when read in connection.,, with the whole cove nant. The council, he said, could onlv "advise" and as this action must be unanimous the affirmative vote of the United States would be necessary to any question affecting It. Article 16. the President said, pro vides that where there is a dispute found to be solely within the Juris diction of one of the parties under International law the League Council shall so report and make no recom tnendatlon for Its settlement. Immi gration and the like, the President ad, clearly came under that section. , Every member- of the1 committee wad motinnt 'i f .', ' A "'. ' ..;'?.-'. :: 'Because of a misunderstanding re garding the stenographic transcript, two terms of stenographers, one pro vided by the White House and one by the Committee were present to report the conference. The Committee had brought with It some of the men who have for years reported the House and' Senate proceedings, .tut the ar rangement by which newspapers would have to pay for the Committee transcript caused the White House officials to provide for a transclpt of their own, which was given to the press without charge. The President told the Committee that the League would have 'nothing whatever" to flo with deciding whether the United States had fulfilled its obligations in case of withdrawal from the League. Washington, Aug. 19. The Presi dent intimated that the League of Na tions would prevent Japan from as suming any complete sovereignty ov er Shantung. Washington, Aug. 19. In the con ference at the White Huse, unprece dented In American history, President Wilson discussed the peace treaty with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, answered questions put by the Senators and gave out a steno graphic transcript of the proceedings to the public. Some of the inside details of the Peace Conference how the league of nations covenant was drawn, and. oth er historic happenings were handed out, verbatim, for the world to read, in contrast to the time-honored pro ceedure of secrecy, Presidential and Senatorial confidence. Nothing ap ' proachlng the conference in that re spect is recalled since George Wash ington went to the Senate to discuss troubles with the Indians. Making a plea for ratification of the treaty that the world may be turn ed wholly back to a peace .basis, the President said he saw. no reasonable objection to the Senate expressing Its interpretation : of the League 'of Na tions Covenant so long as those Inter pretations were not actually made a part of the act of ratification. ' 1 1 Replying to Senator Fall who sug. gested that as Germany was not a member of the League of Nations, amendments to the league covenant wauld not be submitted to her,, and she would not have to give her con sent, the President said: . "I will admit that point had not occurred to me. No, she would not." For the moral asset he thought It would give the United States not to partlcIpaleln"lhei3'ermanIn(IemnltyT the President said he had suggested ; that not be done, but he 'added in PARCEL POST TRADE i : ,' ' ' ' '' From Today Consumers Can Buy from Uncle Sam, Get ting the Same by the Mail. (By The Associated Press) Washington, Aug. 18. Parcel post sales of the surplus supply of food stuffs which the War Department Is putting on the "market was inaugurat ed today with every . postmaster in the country furnished with a price list from which the customer may order. Individuals will buy directly . from their postmaster, who in turn will base his requisition on the War De partment, upon the value of foodstuffs ordered. For each of the seventy articles of food offered the .price list shows price per can or Individual unit, as well as per case or larger contain ed. The gross weight of each package also Is shown In order that the pur chaser may compute the price he will have to pay by adding the parcel post rate from the nearest distributing point. MEDICAL DETACHMENT MOVING INTO BASE HOSPITAL. The Medical detachment of Camp Bragg, composed of around fifteen men, Is moving into the Base hos pital today, It was reported to this office. The big hospital is now con sidered under operation, with the moving In of the Medical detachment. reply to questioning that his Idea did not refer to pre-war claims, such as the sinking of the Lusltanla. -.i Senator Borah, questioned the Pres ident at some length about the .right of -withdrawal from the League: The President said his interpretation was that the Council haft no power to pass on withdrawal of a nation or de cide whether it had fulfilled its obli gations. 'The only restraining Influence would be the public opinion of the world," said the President That, the President said, was the view of the commission which drafted the League. Senator Harding wantel to know why, if that was the view, the lan guage making provision for the fulfill ment of covenants was put Into the article. "Merely as an argument to the conscience of the nations," re sponded the President, adding that it merely served notice that fulfillment of obligations was expected prior to withdrawal. If that were true, Sena tor Harding said, he though the lan guage "rather a far-fetched provis ion." The President said in ' answer to questions that he had no way of know ing whether Germany placed the same construction of the articles as did the Allies. Senator McCumber asked whether other governments could not accept interpretations "by acquiescence." The President thought there would have, to be "explicit acquiescence" or a stipulated time in which the United States could know whether acquies cence was being given. Any change in the treaty, would have to be resubmitted to Germany, the President said, In reply to Sena tor Plttman. ' The plan for the league finally sub mitted in Paris, the President said, had been built up first from a plan drawn by a British committee head ed by a Mr. Phillyraore, and later in cluding Ideas from a plan drawn by General Smuts. From this and other discussions, coupled with the Presi dent's own ideas, the league plan was made. "That is the full story of how the, plan I sent to the! committee was drawn up," the President said. His own private redraft of the Phlllymore plan, the President said, was not sub mitted to the American Peace Mis sion. He had seen Secretary Lan sing's proposals only informally. The President said the 'United States would' have "freedom of choice as to the application of force" in car-, rylng put Article 10 of the League Covenant, i . ' In discussing Article 2, under which the league could take ' any action "deemed proper" In case war occurred oTwas'lIireaTeMdTenPresIdenrsaTd the action contemplated also' would rest entirely on a moral obligation. Rioting between Nationalists and Unionists -Looting in Londonderry. (By The Associated Press) Londonderry. The soldiers used in suppressing the riots between Nation alists and Unionists in Londenderry last night and early today were with drawn from the scenes of the disorder at 4 o'clock this morning. A num ber of rioters were' injured during charges by the police and soldiers. A police inspector was knocked down and kicked severely during a baton charge. Belfast, Aug. 16. Ten Nationalist excuslonlsts were injured during a fight Friday with Orangemen at LfS' burn, County Down. Serious rioting also occurred at Coal Island, County Tyrene. Londonderry, Aug. 16 Rioting and looting occurred in this city during the past night and early this morn ing. Troops charged on the mobs, but did not fire any shots. ' The sol diers, however, were met with a vol ley of stones when they attempted to break up the Nationalist demonstra tion. The monetary loss from loot ing and from damage to property is estimated at thousands of pounds by the police authorities. The trouble started when the Na tionalists set fire to a large number of tar barrels which had been collected beneath an arch over which was dis played a picture of Edward De Val era, president of the Irish Republic and sane the "Soldiers Song." Un ionists retaliated by singing the Na tional Anthem. The force of troops ,kept arowds.apart while other de tachments attempted to clear the street, charging upon the. throngs re peatediy. BricKs ana stones were hurled at the charging troops, one soldier being seriously hurt. The Na tionalists were finally driven back to their own quarters. Windows were smashed and shops were looted by the crowds, and the city was in darkness the entire night. More rioting is fear ed tonight. s TRIES TO FLOOD CITY JAIL. Attempts at Revenge Costs $25 Extra After having been arrested for be ing drunk and down and then placed in the city guard house, Payne Mc Goughan sought revenge and found more trouble, which cost him $25 ex tra. By cutting loose the water pipes he found that the water ran freely, and decided that he would flood the whole police' headquarters. He wasn't far from wrong, for his mischief caused right much invoncenlence around at headquarters' and a late hour was kept getting the water out of the buil ding. But Mayor Underwood charg ed Payne McGoughan $25 for the trouble. And now police headquar ters is perfectly dry. GERMAN FOOD COMMITTEES DIS BANDED. (Correspondence Associated Press.) Berlin Five of the twenty-seven so cieties formed to control Germany's food supply have already, been "dis banded, and it is announced that oth ers will . follow in the near future. The central purchasing company which superintended the buying of all Germany's war food Is now being used as an employment bureau. MAJOR LAMB IN GOLDSBORO. The Goldsboro correspondent of the Raleigh News and Observer of today says: Major Robert J. Lamb, dubbed by his friends as ''Fighting Bob Lamb." of Fayetteville, who is the guest in Goldsboro at the home of Mayor and Mrs. E. H. Bain, was the honor guest hlast Friday at an old-fashioned , bar becue dinner given at the home of Mr. Ezekiel Carr, at his country home near this city, v ; Miss Viola Spell and two brothers, Owen and Clifford, arrived today from ClIylorir'Nr'J., to speniTTT lew" week S with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. W F. Herring, on Chance street. ' -IN MEXICO Serious Happening Across Border-Brjtish Charge i Affairs Doissed. Xi- tin (By The Associated Press.) Washington, Aug. 16 William Cufc mins, British charge d'affaires in Mexico City, has been ordered to '. leave the country by Presi dent Carranza. Washington, Aag. 16. While not specifically stated In the dispatches from the Mexican capital which have reached Washington, it was under- stood that Carraaza's action resulted from the statement recently made In the House of Cominons by the British under secretary and would not do so until there was eOme guaranty that the Mexican Government was able and willing to protect' the lives and prop erty of British subjects in Mexico. Charge Lindsay, of the British Em bassy, brought the matter to the at tention of Secretary Lansing today. It Is understood that there Is noth ing to be done except acquiesce in the decree of expulsion, as Mr. Cum mins has no official status in the diplomatic sense,- and consequently cannot claim exemption. KILLED WHILE AT WORK. Former Parkton'- Man Unable to Es cape From 6ave-ln of Ditch. While at work on the laying of a sewer at the lumber plant of Jackson Bros, Co., whicb'iS jin construction Just oft Russell jgaseet-James. W Par ker, formerly of Parkton, was killed late Thursday afternoon, when ihe sides of the ditch caved in on him. He cried for help and tried to save himself, but the cave-in made too Mr- Doten Bn "Kent of the company, much headway for him, and when his ' 'a, here lasl week- They came fellow workers arrived to his aid his h t0 ,ook over the situation and life was practically xtinct. After consider the prospects of transporta being taken out of the ditch Parker business over Cape Fear River was able to draw only two breaths between this point and Wilmington. before he died. In the past few weeks the ditches have shown signs of caving in se.eral jness, which was interrupted dur.ng times, and 'one lime before a work-, tne war- man barely saved his life. It seems j Mr. Williams and Mr. Doten were that the sand, though not known for 1 taken by Mr. King, secretary of the sure to.be qu'eksand, has the same; Chamber of Commerce, to the pros effect. It is to be regretted that J Pective wharves on the river and then these are the conditions. ! carried t0 CamP BraEK where Mr- Wil" Mr. Parker was well known in town, I ams interviewed the commandant of having come here from his home in j the camP in re8ard to the shipment Parkton tw- years ago. He has made 1 of government freight, many friends, and all were saddened i Abollt 1 oVlock that aftenn Mr. by the tragedv Thursday afternoon, i Williams had a conference with the He was exceedingly popular wherever j Board of Aldermen about the dock Juiown. Mr. Parker leaves a wife and three children, who have the deepest sympathy of the entire community. TO LAUNCH CRANFORD MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 1. Wilmlneton. Auk. 15. Labor Day, Monday, September 1, will see the launching of Wilmington's and North Carolina's first steel ship, when the Carolina yard here will send over board the Cranford, a O.COO-ton freight-! er, to be named after Cranford. N. j., home town of Loreuo C. Di.lks, presi-, dent of the Carolina Shipbuilding Corporation. Mrs. Dilks will he -spon sor ror the vessel, ana win Lrt&K a i jtg bottle of real champa;;no upon bows as It slips down the ways. There are three other steel ships building, all ,C0n ton affairs. One of them has been named Pembroke, after the late Pembroke Jones of this city and New York. He was vice-president and director of the corporation and helped to get the yards to come here. Some effort has been nvde to got this name changed to City of Joliet, but warm protests have been found filed and It Is not thought the change will be made. ' Thousands cured of Bowel Com- plaints every year by Dr. SETH ARN OLD'S BALSAM. Buy it. Warrart td by Perry's Drug Store. Advt. EYES. EXAMINED X GLASSES GROUND. DRJUIJUS-SHAFFER. 216 HAY STREET ""..' fayetteville, N. C FROMKOREA Homer Hulburt Makes Start ling Disclosures on Matters in That Country. (By The Associated Press.) Washington, Aug. 16. Prof. Homer B. Hulburt, who went to Korea for the State Department in 1882, and who later acted as envoy for the Ko rean Government for a number of years, filed the. Senate Foreign Re lations Committee today an extensive recital charging Japan's brutalities in Korea as bearing on the treaty pro vising giving German rights in Shan tung to Japan. He declared the Jap anese rule In K.orea had become un- bearable, and that unless Koreans jere made free "the world must look on and see rapid extermination of a nation of eighteen t million people." Prof. Hulbert said that in 1905 he delivered to the State Department, af ter several attempts to get a bear ing he presented a letter from the Em peror of Korea bitterly, protesting against a Japanese protectorate In Korea and that Elihu Root, then Sec retary of State, later said that the I letter was laid before President j Roosevelt. Although he was the ac credited representative of the Em per nor hp wnq rofllcorl nn nunnWnni f r i n ' " - - " " " vvi iu"".J l" see the President. RIVER TRAFFIC OFFICIALS OF BALTIMORE AND CAROLINA S. S. CO. PROSPECT ING AS TO PLACING A LINE OF BOATS TO RUN BETWEEN FAY ETTtVILLE , AND. .WILMINGTON, Mr. Mason L. Weems Williams, president of the Baltimore Carolina Steamship Company, accompanied by The Halt'more & Carolina S. S. Com pany is resuming its coastwise bus!- ; proposition. WHY CAN'T FAYETTEVILLE DO I LIKEWISE? The following telegram is going me rounds of the btate press: "Wilmington, Aug. 14. Wilmington "as oraereu its ursi car ui cm.ueu ! meats and vegetables from the Atlanta depot of the War Department, and j expects the shipment to come through ln a lew - luuu distributed through the nrenouses or the city at actual cost plus freight and handling and will be sold by the i case only." I We have been requested to copy the above paragraph and ask why Fayetteville cannot have a chance at some of the cheap goods which Uncle Sam is selling. Fayetteville folk aro not so rich that they can afford to let this opportunity go by. A BIRTHDAY PARTY. (Special to The Observer) a Stedman, Aug. 14. On Tuesday aft ernoon, August 12, little Miss Alice Charlotte Avoritt entertained a num ber of her little friends, it being her twelfth birthday. At 6 o'clock the little ladies gathered under the large oak trees of the grove and played games and sang songs until they were at their wit's end to know what to do next, but Just then a welcome sound to their ears was the call to go to the dining room to be served cake and ice cream. The frankness of the chil- second saucer was 'proof of the pudding." AFTER M BANDITS U. S. Troops Crossed Mexican Border Today in Pursuit of Aviators' Captors. (By The Associated Press.) Washington, Aug. 19. Secretary Baker, on seadlng the Associated Press dispatches from Marfa, an nounced that the American troops ! tlcipate to a great extent in the ben went over on specifls instructions from j eflts to be derived from purchasing the War Department, but withheld i of the government some of the food- further official announcement until he has received official woid from the border. The American punitive ex pedition into Mexico after the bandits who hold the two American aviators is being conducted with full knowl edge of the authorities In Washington, who have been withholding announce ment of the Government's purpose un til the two Americans were safe. It is the second expedition of its kind since the Pershing expedition in pursuit of Villa. The other was the expedition into Juarez at the time of the recent fighting. In its diplomatic aspect it is an expedition on "a hot trail." It does not take the charac ter of an act of war, as its sole pur pose, under international law, Is not to Invade the sovereignty of Mexico or attack Its Government, but to pun ish or exterminate the bandits who held the two American army officers for ransom. A Austin, Tex., Aug. 19. Gov. W. P. Hobby today instructed the Adjutant General's Department to have the Texas National Guard ready to re spond to an emergency call for ser vice on the border. Ramsaur-Newly. 1 The marriage of Mr. Herbert Ranv isaur and Miss Delia Newby, daughter of Mrs. W. R. Newby of Sanford, was celebrated at the Newby home Thurs day morning at 7:30 o'clock, Rev. L. A. McLaurln, officiating. The bride is a young woman of rare personality and very popular. She is a graduate nurse, and onrf of the recent purchasers of the Central Caro lina Hospital there. Mr. Ramsaur is in the automobile business, successful, and very popu lar, of genial nature, conflled with fine qualities of head and heart. Im mediately after the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Ramseur left on a nauto trip, which will include Virginia summer resorts. Mr. Ramsaur, who was at one time prominent in business in Fayetteville and the progressive and energetic secretary-manager of the Fayetteville Chamber of Commerce, has many friends here, who wish for him and his young wife much joy and useful ness in life. The bride, who is a niece of Mrs. Oliver Evans, is well known and be loved here by a largo circle of friends. NEW CAMP COMMANDER. Major General William Lass ter Plac ed in Command of Fayetteville's Great Artillery Post and Firing Center. Major General William Lassiter was appointed last week by the War De partment to take command of Camp Bragg. Major General Lassiter was com manding officer of the 32nd Division, He took command of the 32nd dur ing their march to the Rhine in No vember, 1918. Prior to being placed in command of this division General Lassiter was chief of artillery of the 1st Army with the rank of Major General. And just prior to this he was a brigadier com-' mander. After the outbreak of the war in Eu rope andcbefore America entered the war General Lassiter was a military attache at the American Embassy in London. He was sent there from the Philippines where he was with the 2nd Field Artillery. He left the 32nd Di vision just before they were ordered home on April 16th last. Lieut. Col. S. Roland Hopkins, a field officer at Camp Bragg, was a member of the 32nd Division under General Lassiter, and was also a fellow-officer of the General f several years ago in the Philippine Islands. The insignia of the 32nd Division is arrarrowrigiveff-theiTr bscatismf thff f fact that they shot through every Ger man front they necountered., i WHAT SHALL WE DO? Unless Fayetteville Orders a Carload of Stuff It Cannot ' Buy at Low Prices. An Interview with Postmaster Roy all D. Jones discloses the . fact that, unless some co-operation Is taken by the citizens, Fayetteville will not par- ; 8tuffs being sold by the War Depart ment. Atlanta, pa., 500 miles re- moved from Fayetteville, is the near est distributing point, .and the parcel post rates from that city are so high that in the majority of instances the carrying charges equal or exceed tho value of the groceries, and while a saving can be effected despite the high parcel post rates, It is so small that very few people will be likely to embrace the opportunity. Quite' a few cities in North Carolina have already taken action by ordering a carload of these supplies, thereby ef fecting a saving of the large differ ence between the freight rates and parcel post rates, and making tho net saving an item to be considered by almost everyone. Unless Fayetteville follows the example of the other cit ies and orders a carload under the provisions made by the War Depart ment, and acts promptly, f;he will lose this excellent opportunity of se curing first class groceries at approx imately 50 per cent of the local re tail price. There has been an article or two in the newspapers regarding possible reduction of the1 parcel post rate, but it is highly probable that by the time tlie necessary miles of red tape to effect tbi reduction haveeen- un wound 'tfys ''entire stock wifl1 have win we nil liiiv ur or Will WH IR action? ' t ' , HOUSE PASSES DAYLlGHTN SAVINGS LAW. v. (My The Associated Press) Washington, Aug. 19. Repeal of the daylight saving law was passed today over President Wil- son's veto by the House on a vote of 223 to 101. The repeal now goes to the Senate, where its sup- porters claim victory. m ' THE DOCKS FAYETTEVILLE'S OPPORTUNI TY FOR ADVANCEMENT RECOG NIZED AND COMMENTED ON ABROAD. The proposed building of tiocks on the river front here is attracting at tention throughout the State, for the simple reason that it is recognized that a great opportunity for the ad vancement of Fayetteville and all the upper Cape Fear section has ar rived. In this connection, the Raleigh News and Observer says: 'It looks as though Fayetteville is in earnest about taking advantage of the river now that the river has been made navigable from the sea to the" Fayetteville bridge. Contracts for docks have been accepted. Some plaoe to dock the boats and ship and tranship freight has been one of the lacks of the river at Fayettcvijle, but that will evidently be overcome now as soon as the work of construc tion can be undertaken and finished. "Wlith the steamer lines to tho world from Wilmington, with Skates finally made by the government to per mit shipping, from the interior of the country by Wilmington and with the river as a feeder for the new Ship ping lines, Fayetteville Is justified in. feeling encouraged over the prospects. A lot of freight should originate at Fayetteville and in the territory im mediately tributary to keep the river doing a comfortable business, and if the people of the region that can be served will look Into the possibili ties of the river traffic in connection . with the outlet and inlet at the port, ,' the Cape Fear stands a chance of bBceratnrfsticirrelatlve - lmpmt' ance as it was in the earlier days be fore the railroads ' came." in
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