STILL DISCUSSING
THE PEACE TREAT!
SENATE MAY REJECT ENTIRE
DOCUMENT SHOULD PENDING
RESERVATIONS WIN OUT.
OBJECT TO LABOR AMENDMENT
Late in the Day Senators Lodge and
Hitchcock Held a Conference With
the Vice-President on Subject.
Washington. Further indications
that the peace treaty fight may lead
to a continuing deadlock developed
while the senate leaders were trying
in vain to fi;x a definite date for a roll
call on ratification.
Administration senators suggesting
that the final vote be taken indicated
a purpose to defeat ratification by
combining with the treaty's irrecon.
clliable opponents should the reserve
tlons adopted by the foreign relations
committee, be written into the ratifi
cation resolution.
An hour of debate on the subject got
nowhere, and the senate went back
to its consideration of treaty amend
ments. It may reach a vote on the
amendment by Senator La-Follette.
republican, Wisconsin, to strike out
the labor provisions and then, unless
some new plan is devised to hasten
action, other amendments and a long
list of proposed reservations will be
taken up under the tedious rule of un
limited debate.
Senate parliamentarians said there
was no precedent to throw light on
the question of whether defeat of the
committee resolution would be final
rejection of the treaty, or would leave
the way open for offering other ratifi
cation proposals. Late in the day
Senators Lodge and Hitchcock confer*
red with Vice President Marshall on
the subject.
TREATY WITH GREECE IS
APPROVED BY COUNCIL.
Paris. —The supreme council, sitting
under the chairmanship of M. Pichon,
French minister of foreign affairs, ap
proved the draft of a treaty to be con
cluded between the allied and asso
ciated powers and Greece, concerning
the protection of racial and other mi
norities.
The council decided to request the
Polish government to open to traffic
certain railroads crossing the German-
Polish frontier north of Warsaw. The
council soon will examine the ques
tion of the future of eastern Galicia,
formerly Austrian territory.
POCAHONTAS FIELD IS
OPERATING NORMALLY?
Giaham, Va. —One hundred and
twenty tons of coal were mined in
this portion of the Pocahontas field
operators declared, and reports com
ing here Indicated that the entire Po
cahontas field was operating normal
ly.
A report here late from the St.
Charles area of the pocket section of
the Appalachian field was to the ef
fect that 900 miners had struck there.
It was said by operators here that
only 2f>o of these are members of the
anion.
THREATEN JO IMPEACH
THE JAPANESE MINISTRY.
Honolulu. —The Japanese privy coun
cil is in favor of the impeach
ment of the ministry of Premier Hara
and the Versailles peace delegation
for the unsatisfactory peace terms, ac
cording to a cable received from
Tokio by The Hawaii Sochi, a Japan
ese daily newspaper here.
MEXICAN STRIKERS CALL
ON GOMPERS FOR FAVOR
Laredo, Tex.—Striking Mexican
■workmen will ask "material aid" from
Agnascalients, in the Mexican state
ol the same name, where decision to
tliat effect was reached by the strik
etw' control committee.
THE RU6BIAN SOVIET FORCEB
REPORT CAPTURE 1,500 MEN.
London.—The Russian soviet com
"nmnique received by wireless from
Moscow, claims the capture of 1,500
prisoners in the taking of P.etropav
lovsk. 16 miles west of Omsk, from
the Kolchak forces
The statement also reports fighting
of the fiercest character in the Fin
nish gulf region and a continued ad
vance by the bolshevlkl all along the
line against the Russian northwestern
army of General Yudenitch.
GOVERNMENT MAY CONTINUE
SUPERVISION OVER SUGAR
Washington—.The McNary bill pro
posing continuation of federal con
trol over sugar during 1920 was re
ported to the senate and placed on the
calendar with a view to early action.
In a majority report, Senator Mc-
Nary, Republican, of Oregon, author
cf the bill and chairman of the sen
ate agricultural sub-committee, declar
ed "a serious situation will ensue" if
tlie sugar equalization board's control
orar sugar is not continued.
ELEERT H. GARY
Elbert H. Gary, chairman of the
board of directors of the United States
Steel corporation, whose refusal to
have any dealings with the represent
atives of the union steel workers pre
cipated the strike.
QUEEN FELT MUCH AT HOME
President Was Greatly Cheered by
the Visit of Royalty and Says He
is Feeling Much Better.
Washington. King Albert and
President Wilson clasped hands, the
meeting at president's bedside, brief
as it was, proved the climax of the
American visit of the Belgian mon
arch, and he left Washingtn a happy
man, to sail for home from Newport
News on the transport George Wash
ington which brought him to this
country. From the day he landed the
pleasure of his tour has been marred
by anxiety over the president's con
dition, and he had abandoned hope
ef being able to see him.
As his majesty was leaving, he
leaned over the bed to shake Mr.
Wilson's hand again an'd said:
"I hope your ideas and ideals will
be carried out and I believe they will
be."
After the departure of the king, the
president expressed a desire to see
Queen Elizabeth, who was having tea
with Mrs. Wilson. Dr- Grayson con
sented and her majesty eagerly went
to the executive's bedside, where she
remained five minutes. She told Mr.
Wilson, with one of her charming
smiles that she felt much at home with
persons who were ill.
Dr. Grayson said his patient had
been greatly cheered by his talk with
the Belgian monarchs and that their
NEW "PET NAME" FOR WILSON
GIVEN BY LABOR LEADERS.
Indianapolis, Ind. —After dispatch
ing to Washington a telegram to Sec
retary of Labor Wilson in which the
President's proposition on the coal
strike was characterized as that of an
usurper, the executive board of the
United Mine Workers of America
turned to routine business.
GOVERNMENT PUTS ON ITS
FIGHTING CLOTHES AGAIN
Washington.—The government put
on its fighting clothes to meet the
coal strike.
Most drastic of all moves during
the day was the order of railroad ad
ministration for seizure of coal in
transit for roads requiring it, with
rationing of stocks on hand to essen
tial industries.
CONFERENCE SEATS GERMAN
AND AUSTRIAN DELEGATES
Washington.—With only one dele
gate dissenting, .the international la
bor conferencve voted to admit the
representatives of Germany and Aus
tria to the conference sessions.
Protesting against international
"politics" in the international labor
conference, Baron des Planches, Ital
ian government delegate, told dele
gates from more than 30 nations that
"we must look to the future rather
thau to the past" and admit Germany
and Austria to the conference.
WOMAN RED CROSS WORKER
TELLS STORY OF ATROCITY.
Warsaw. —The Polish government
is compiling the story of the atroci
ties committed under the bolshevik
reign in the city of Minsk, now oc
cupied by the Poles. The latest,
brought by an American Red Cross
worker who returned from a relief as
signment in the newly occupied city,
concerns the murder of a woman hos
pital assistant who was rash enough
to express the hope that conditions
would improve when the town fell.
FEAR OF EXPLOSION CAUSES
STOPPAGE OF RESCUE WORK.
Steubenville, O. —After battling
their way to within 150 feet of where
20 miners have been imprisoned, res
c le workers were ordered out of the
Y and O mine No. 2 at Amsterdam, 0.,
by mine officials and state mine in
spectors, who feared an explosion
might occur, according to word re
ceived here. Hope has been aban
doned that the miners are alive.
Rescue parties worked all night lons
to the a:as-fill«d mine.
THE COURIER, FOREST CITY, N. C
NOTHING CAN STOP
IMPETUS OF STRIKE
THE TEMPORARY RESTRAINING
ORDER CAME TOO LATE TO
HAVE DESIRED EFFECT.
COAL IN TRANSIT IS SEIZED
The Operators, So Far, as Available
Reports Show Have Not Made
Any Plans to Combat Strike
Chicago—lnformation obtained from
the bituminous coal fields cf the Uni
ted States, in which more than 400,-
000 members of the United Mine
Workers of America have been order-
Ed out on strike, indicated that there
would be nothing which could check
the momentum of the walkout, de
spite the temporary restraining order
which was issued in the United
States district court at Indianapolis.
Deprived of the directing hands cf
its leaders, as a result of the injunc
tion, the memberbershtp of the union
was prepared to enter the first full
working day since the strike order
became effective in an effort to dem-
onstrate its ability to halt the pro
duction of soft coal throughout the
nation.
The operators, so far as available
reports show, have not yet madrt
plans to combat the strike.
Reports from various railroad cen
ters showed that seizure of coal in
transit as ordered by ttic federal gov
ernment, had begun. Hundreds of coal
laden cars in transit were taken over
by regional directors of the fuel ad
ministrator! and were sidetracked to
await possible distribution under the
administration priority schedule.
Much interest was expressed by
operators' representatives as to the
exact manner in which the restrain
ng order would be considred by
union leaders and their followers.
Some union district chairmen have
publicly stated that the strike move
ment has gone too far to be influenc
ed by any writs or injunctions.
PERSHING IS FOR REDUCTION
IN PROJECTED SIZE OF ARMY.
Washingtn. Dissenting in many
respects from the program recom
mended by the war department and
the general staff, General Pershing
told the military committees of Con
gress that 300,000 men, raised entire
ly by vountary enlistment, should be
the outside figure considered for a
standing army.
NO BREAD IN PETROGRAD
FOR THE PAST TWO WEEKS.
Helsingfors, Finland —Petrograd has
been without bread for the last two
weeks, thousands of persons dying
daily, according to information
brought to Helsingfors by a Finn, who
escaped from a prison camp at Mos
cow.
SIXTY-EIGHT WEST POINT
APPOINTMENTS IN SOUTH
Washington.—Southern states have
68 of the more than 300 vacancies that
rmain in the list of candidates for ad
mission to West Point for the term
beginning June, 1920, the war depart
ment announced. Members of con
gress who have unused designations
at their disposal have been requested
to act at once, in order that the list
may be completed in time to make
preparations for the entrance exami
nations to be held February 17, 1920.
BIG GALE IN NEW YORK
CAUSES LOSS OF $60,000
New York. —A fierce northwest gal-?
tore 20 lighters and scows from their
docks in Brooklyn and blew them
down the harbor. Before they had
been picked up by tugs several hours
later, merchandise valued at $60,000
had been blown their decks, including
coffee, sugar and telegraph wireless
equipment intended for American
forces in Siberia.
MEXICAN REBEL SOLDIERS
OCCUPY REYNOSA GARRISON
Brownsville, Tex. —General Andrew
Almazan, Mexican rebel commanded,
with about 70 of his men, occupied
the town of Reynosa, Mexico, oppo
site Hidalgo, Tex., according to re
ports here.
The railroad between Matamoros
and Reynosa fs inundated by flood
waters from the Rio Grande, no trains
are being operated and It Is believed
Matamoros is safe from attack. R.ey
nosa is 60 miles west of Matamoros.
DESPITE INDUSTRIES UNREST
COUNTRY SEEMS PROSPEROUS
Washington. Despite disturbed
industrial conditions, great prosperity
obtains generally over the country.
according to reports for October re
ceived by the federal reserves board
from its agents in the several' dis
tricts .A strong demand for com
modities, verging at times upon reck
essness in buying was noted in prac
tically all sections.
The strike has not seriously hamp
ered productioa
DR. ANNA MOUTET
» »■ " " ' Jl ■ »
Dr. Anna Moutet of France is one/
of the noted woman surgeons here for
the convention of women physicians
called by the social morality commit
tee of the Y. M. C. A. She has re
ceived many decorations for heroic
and skillful work on the battlefield.
GOVERNMENT IS DETERMINED
Attorney General Palmer Resolved to
Exhaust Every Resource to Prevent
National Disaster Impending.
Washington. The government
moved swiftly to meet the nation
wide coal strike.
Refusal of the miners' organization
at Indianapolis to withdraw the order
calling out half million men brought
instant announcement that drastic
action would be taken to keep the
mines in operation.
As to those miners who go on strike
and thereby curtail production the
food and fuel control law with its
added criminal penalties of fine and
imprisonment will be enforced with
out regard to persons. The attitude
of the government, Attorney General
Palmer made clear, does not affect
the right of workers to strike for re
dress of grievances in other cases
where no violation of the law is in
volved.
Every resource of the government,
in the words of Attorney General
Palmer, will be used to prevent the
"national disaster" certain to follow
the stoppage of work.
Adequate police protection, with
troops as a last resort if necessary,
will be given those men desiring to
remain at work. Reports from gov
ernment agents show that a big part
of the miners ordered to quit work
want to stay on the job.
ALL AMENDMENTS TO PEACE
TREATY GO BY THE BOARD
Washington.—The 46 amendments
attached to the peace treaty by the
foreign relations committee passed
into history when the last survivor of
the group, a proposal by Senator
Moses, republican, New Hampshire,
to revise voting strength in the
league of nations, was consigned to
the discard in the senate by a vote
of 47 to 36.
As if gaining impetus by this ac
complishment, the senate then upset
two more proposed textual changes in
the treaty brought in by individual
senators. One of them, presented by
Senator Sherman, republican, Illinois,
and proposing to write into the treaty
preamble a reference to the Deity,
was laid on the table by a vote of 57
to 27. The other, sponsored by Sen
ator Johnson, republican, California,
as a new solution for voting inequal
ity in the league, was killed outright
by a court of 43 to 35.
MILLION VETERANS WILL
ATTEND LEGION MEETING
New York. —Approximately 1,000,-
000 American veterans of the world
war will be represented at the first
national convention of the American
legion to be held in Minneapolis No
vember 10, 11 and 12, it was announc
ed at legion headquarters here.
SEVEN RADICALS ARRESTED
BY CLEVELAND DETECTIVES
Cleveland, Ohio—Seven persons, six
men and one woman, charged by
the police with being identified with
radicals In another plot to terrorize
the nation by a series of Domb explo
sions next spring, were held by
police and were being sought in what
is expected to be a national cleaning
of revolutionists .
Police in several Eastern clt es have
been asked to arrest a man said to be
the leader of the plot.
BRITISH GOVERNMENT FACES
MANY CRITICAL McMBERS
London. —National finance was the
topic up for debate in the hi use of
commons with the governmen' facing
probably as critical a bo' ; y of mem
bers as ever in the history of parlia
ment. More than 100 members had
given notice of a desire rr> speak and
all were understood to be prepared to
belabor the government f or its al
lpged waste and extravagance. Some
of government's keenest critics are
among supporters of coalition
INJUNCTION STOPS
MIEJFFIffILS
RAILROAD UNION MEN DO NOT
PROTEST BUT OFFER THEIR
SERVICES IF NEEDED.
PROTECTION m PARALYSIS
Samuel Gcmpers Says Injunction Will
Only Bring in New and Disturbing
Issues to Complicate Situation.
Washington.—Railroad union offi
cials conferring with Attorney General
Palmer, entered no protest against the
injunction issued in Indianapolis
against calling of the coal strike, and
tenderod the good offices of their or
ganizations in attempting to arrange a
settlement of the strike.
Mr. Palmer said he told the union
men that they were at liberty to say
to either side in the strike that the
President was ready to act immediate
ly to have the controversy settled
amicably whenever the strike was
called off.
President Gompers and other offi
cials of the Ameiican Federation of
Labor were said, however, to have
urged their views on the matter of the
injunction in their conference with the
attorney general.
"I explained the necessity for the
action," Mr. Palmer said.
"This is the government itself, us
ing its own courts to protect itself
from paralysis. It is not an injunction
obtained by employers, not for the ben
efit of employers, not to settle the con
troversy, but to savo the people of the
entire country from disaster. It doesn't
affect the right of a man to work when
he pleases."
Samuel Gompers, speaking for or
ganized labbr, declared the injunction
in the coal strike case "can only result
in creating new and more disturbing
issues which may not be confined
solely to the miners."
FORMAL NEGOTIATIONS FOR
EARLY FINAL VOTE BEGUN.
Washington.— Formal negotiations
for an early final vote on ratification
of the German peace treaty was
launched in the senate.
Proposal that a final roll call be
taken Wednesday, November 12, was
made by Chairman Lodge, of the for
eign relations committee, while Sena
tor Hitchcock, of Nebraska, the ad
ministration leader, presented a coun
ter proposal to limit to fifteen min
utes each senator's debate on all ques
tions, but without proposing a defi
nite date for the ratification vote.
Both proposals, submitted formally
in writing, went over.
SHORT HOURS AND INCREASING
WAGES ALLIES OF PROFITEER.
Hagerstown, Md. —The short work
day and the "ever increasing wages
demanded by industrial labor," were
declared to be "allies of the profiteer
in keeping up the high cost of living"
in a resolution adopted by the Far
mers' National Congress at its con
cluding session. The congress also
went on record as opposed to "all
strikes."
BELGIAN KING AND FAMILY
ARE NOW HOMEWARD BOUND
Portsmouth, Va. —Albert, king of tho
Belgians, Elizabeth, his royal consort,
and their son. Leopold, Duke of Bra
bant, accompanied by Ambassador
Bi;and Whitlock, bade adieu to Amer
ica, sailing on the presidential steam
ship George Washington, which
weighed anchor from Hampton Roads
bound for Belgium.
FUEL ADMINISTRATOR ISSUES
ORDERS AFFECTING COAL.
Washington. Fuel Administrator
Garfield signed an order reviving the
distribution and diversion orders of
the fuel administration under which
the old list of priorities immediately
becomes effective.
TROOPS RUSHED TO WEST
VIRGINIA MINING FIELDS
Louisville, Ky—Under instructions
from the central department of the
army, 900 troops of the famous First
division composing a provisional bat
talion, were on four trains early en
route to coal fields of West Virginia
where they will patrol disturbed min
ing districts.
Colonel W. S. Harrell, commander of
the Sixteenth infantry, is commanding
the battalion, which, it is said, will de
train at Huntington, W. Va.
$256,000,000 IS SAID TO
HAVE BEEN SAVED ON SUGAR
New York—Governmental control
of sugar has saved the American peo-
ple a possible in the year
ended July 15, 1919, the sugar equali
zation board announced. In addition
the board will turn over to the treas
ury $30,000,000 made from its margin
of 38% cents per hundred pounds on
Cuban sugars, which sum would have
gone to refiners or Cuban producers,
or would have been lost between pro
ducer and retailer
"BUND TIGER" IS
BEARDED IK LAIR
SELLERS OF BLOCKADE LIQUOR
ARE BEING ROUNDED UP BY
DETECTIVE AT DURHAM.
NO COLOR LIKE BEIMIN
Sex, Color, or Previous Condition Is
Discounted by Detective Brown in
Nosing Out Offenders.
Durham. —The 'blind tiger" has
again been bearded in his lair, in this
city, where for some time there have
been evidences that the "tiger" was
busy getting a good amount of work,
in distributing quantities of mean li
quor. R. C. Brown threw a spasm
into the "tiger" ranks by rounding up
a pretty good bunch, on the charge of
making, but most of them in selling,
the stuff that has been outlawed.
Fourteen cases were docketed in the
recorder's court, and the deefndants
were numbered among white men and
white women, and negro men and wo
men. Several of the local bar are
counsel for the defendants, and are
making a vigorous fight for their
clients. Th y are putting the plain
clothes detective, R. C. Brown,
through a severe gruelling, on exami
nation. .
Kinston. —Kinston's gift to Uev.
Baxter F. McLendon when he left the
city after an evangelistic campaign
lasting five weeks was $4560, exclu
sive of several thousand dollars rais
ed for "incidentals."
High Point. —Taking cognizance of
the fact that High Point is infested
with thousands of rats, the chamber
of commerce declared war on the ro
dent pests. "Make it a ratless city,"
is the slogan the chamber asks the
citizens to adopt.
Burlington.—Following the refusal
of the Southern Railway company to
remove the old buildings in the cen
ter of town, formerly used as the
company shoes a gang of street work
men, acting under the direction of the
city authorities, destroyed them by
dynamite.
Dunn. —In an effort to relieve the
bousing situation here a company
headed by Granville M. Tilghman has
been chartered to build, sell and lease
houses, which is to be known as the
Dunn Development Company. They
have subscribed and paid for stock
amounting to $25,000.
Winston-Salem. —The Gilmer Broth
ers company which owns a chain of
stores in North Carolina and Virginia
hss been advised that it will secure
morr, than one million pounds of white
sugar, purchased through an agency
In Cuba.
Lexington.—Sheriff J. A Tussey
and Deputies Greer and Randall cap
tured a 300-gallon still, 600 gallons of
beer, and a colony of seven ferment
ers, a mile and a half west of Denton
on Lick creek. These officers have
captured many outfits recently, but
this is the largest of them all.
Morganton.—The Southern Power
company's big storage reservoirs at
Bridgewater seem likely to be a great
detriment to the health of this sec
tion.
As the water recedes during
droughts great areas of land become
quagmires and have become the
breeding place of untold millions of
mosquitoes.
Charlotte —The Charlotte Chamber
of Commerce has made an investiga
tion and found that in North and
South Carolina there are at present
a total of 159 cotton oil mills in the
two states.
Of this number, 92 are in South
Carolina and 67 are in North Caro
lina.
High School Debate.
Chapel Hill. —More than 300 high
schools are expected to take part this
year in the high school debating union
of North Carolina, conducted by the
University of North Carolina.
The query will be, "Resolved, that
the United States should adopt a pol
icy of further material restriction of
immigration," and the final contest to
decide the state championship and the
winner of the Aycock memorial cup
will be held in Chapel Hill early in
April. 1920.
Sales Increase, Prices Advance.
Rocky Mount. —According to the
regular weekly report of the Rocky
Mount Tobacco Board of Trade sales
of leaf tobacco in the local market
were somewhat heavier during the
past week. Sales for the week
amounted about 1,600,000 pounds for
an average of $62.50, making the to
tal sales to date approximately 11,-
700,000 pounds, which have averaged
about $46.
Prices have advanced steadily
throughout the week as reflected in
the increased average.