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THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, FEBRUARY 11, 1919. 13 COTTON KV YOHK COTTOX. York. Feb. 11. Opening: steady ir.ircd prices to an advance of ;: ; i:i response to steady cables, ' market today met consider-' 'v.Y ;'-jthorn selling and realizing. ;'- ,'-'r';-e.l reactions of several points -'o I'all with March selling at ;' -i Miv at 20.12 and July at 19.95 or : t,', "li" points net lower. Liverpool heavv buyer here, however, -hfre was a moderate demand :--:-de sources which soon absorb-.'-A r;rlv offerings and caused a ' 1 ;an c. March sold up to 22.05, v v : 1''"' and July to 20.58 or 42 to : ' , n;s net higher during the. early Z for May and 20.63 for July r.ii to o3 points above last a: - .-losing figures, the more ur .ia:nl from shorts seemed to or. supplied and fluctuations the morning were irregular a continuation of scattered, sou : r.inc". Much of the early buy V attributed to covering for . holidav tomorrow and busi-v--s i-ompartlvely quiet at midday : v ruling around 20.99. com- with -0.52 at the close of last a tivitv was shown in the af . i prices sagged in a mod A.iv. At 1 o'clock the trading wi re -o to 40 points over yes- close. ..ivk'n turned weaker during v afternoon under continued selling, realizing by early . i;l renewal of scattering pres M.iv soil off to 20.43 or back to tht e:irlv low noint. but the : then steadied again on renewed -i'. with active months ruling t." 15 points net higher around fw York Future. York. Feb. 11. Cotton closed High. Low. Close. 22.20 21.70 21.85 21.24 20.40 20.89 20.78 19.95 20.40 19.50 IS. 70 19.05 ,h - ; - 19.20 19.00 liSO ew York Spot Cotton, York. Feb. 11. Spot cotton r.rlddlir.g 25.33. M:W OUI.K.WS COTTOJf. - Orleans. Feb. 11. The widening :" ' scounts on the lower grades . .ot department was a stimulat ;i:ci: e on - values in the cotton : market today. On the opening w-re 10 to 2S points higher l-.v.Tirovement was met by heavy -.;.' apparently for short ac- 1 a drop to a level 10 to 17 :s trader yesterday's close re- buving met the soft spot and end of the first half hour of -ss prices were 43 to 58 points -.tsurday's finals. Older shoits i::ied to even up because of : ;dav tomorrow. :v large exports for the day .: 1 further buying and in the up to noon the net advance widened to 50 to 65 points. "New Orleans Futures, v.- Orleans. Feb. 11. Cotton closed HUh Low. Close v;PPP Of 30 to 48 points 22.65 21.57 20.82 19.20 . 18.75 21.90 20.48 19.88 18.50 1S.35 22.:o 21.05 20.35 18.80 18.50 New Orleans Spot Cotton. XrV. Orleans. Feb. 11. Spot cotton i v. quotations revised; middling hanged; sales on the spot 608; to :ve none. v,v middling 19.75; middling 25.50; 1 middling 26.50. e.-eipts 7,601; stock 440,499. IIVERPOOL COTTON. Liverpool. Feb. 11. Cotton .v.: icf. prices easy. t-.a 1 middling llt.'idling Low middling : i ordinary .. .. '. Spot 7.70 17.07 16.02 14.50 13.9 Siks 1.000 bales, including 900 Amer-i-ur.: eceipts ltV.OOO bales, including l.'.OO .American. u:ures closed steady. February . . . . . . . . . , . . Ma-c't . . . - - May 16.74 15.38 12.63 12.18 11.66 JUV .. .. .. .. . . Member LOCAL COTTON Receipts today 10 bales at ..... 25c CHICAGO LIVESTOCK. Chicaeo. Feb. 11. Hogs, receipts 49,'- 000; market strong with opening prac tiallv steadv with yesterday's aver ns. Bulk of sales 17.70al8.00; butch er? lT.x5alS.05; light 17.50al-7.90 ; throw outs 16.25al8.7o; pigs good 15.50al7.40. auie, receipts z,uuu; oen amm Vut her cattle opening slow, fully 25 errs lower; calves steady; feeders sio'Y. Beef cattle, good 16.25a20.0O; cmrr.on 10.50al6.25; butcher stock, v.-.s and tieifers 6.7oai4.o; stocKers . i ftp.rs. good 10.65al4.5Q; common ' '.".". :.5; veal calves, good 15.00a -h-ep, receipts 25,000; market open; rl venrllnurs about steady. Lambs, choice 17.25al7,50; me-(ii-rn 15.80al7.25; culls 18.00al4.50f er-es choice 11.25all,5U; medium a. to all. 25; culls 5.75a8.25. EV YORK PROVISIONS. :."ev York. Feb. 11. Butter firm; re ' '::-ts 9.71S; creamery higher than ex-t.---' 50 l-2a51. t.g?3 firm; receipts 11,860; fresh ga-th-rel extras 48 l-2a49. Cneese easier; receipts 2,202; aver- L;resstd poultry firm; fowls 24 l-2a i-v. otners unchangea. j-.ie puui 'ry nrm; chickens 27a29; fowls 35; tur-k-ys 30a35. CHICAGO PROVISIONS. Chicago, Feb. 11. Butter higher; camery CSa46 1-2. c Kg?s higher; receipts 13,330; cases; ""-t.s s;i. Hjtatfs lower; receipts 53 cars; l.;5al.75. , Poultry, alive higher; springs 27; ir-"l3 SO. MONEY. . -Ne- York, Feb. 11. Mercantile pa- oaTj 1-4 f-ieriiii o day bills 4.73 1-2; com :,r(ial day bills on banks 4.J2 3-4; :n"iercial 60 day bills 4.72 1-2; de : llA 4.75S0; tables 4.76 1-2. m, iie loans firmer; 60 days 5a5 1-4; 'ays 5a5 1-6; 6 months-5 l-4a 5 1-2. money firmer; ruling rate 5; -.m. a. . eptances 4 1-2, Y I.IUiaiTV BONOS. , -ew York, Feb. 11. Final prices on y'liy !.',:id today were: -3 l-2s 98.86; '.v ' "iiw-rtible 4s 92.88; second 4s lirst convertible 4 l-4s 94.80; "ill .nvfcrtible 4 l-4s 93.9.. third 'JiJi- fourth 4 l-4s 93.94. v, , . , SL'GAIt. .-. iork. Feb. 11. Raw sugar stea- fiit:!'trifusal 7'28; nne &ranulated 9 ' r , -J ' GLASS WANTS AUTHORITY. G1.Uarjln?tcti, Feb. 10. Secretary is.s to-lay asked congress to increase e amount of Uberty Bonds autbpr " tu- r J 1 1 1 unissued, to approximately ''..'O'VjOn.ooo and to give him broad :Jer. to determine the interest rate other terms of the Victory klber-ip1(jan- to be floated late in April. '- lo sought permission to issue "lore than $10,000,000,000 of treas-6;-v notes, maturing within five years aked that the war finance cor. r-tio:i he authorized for one year cnr declaration of peace to make "PUTwrciai loans on exports, to facili tate foreign trade v GOLF DATES FIXED. c--ew York, Feb. 11. Dates for the Xational Golf Championship j, ;e announced today when the exec Co'001111 ittee of the United States . -i Association named June 9, 10 and as the days for the event. The tour- CoumRt wiU be held at the Braeftum uutry Club, West Newton. Mass. WALL STREET wv Y.?rk- Feb. 1L Shippings, to. ?k-- f" .lIs and several of the specula te, equipments recently under pres- WC: 10 strong at the quiet ?.P, ? (. today's stock market, gain Ul? i1 to I Points. There was a bet ter aemand also for rails, nntahiv con tably gra gers and coalers. U. S Steel and the 2r.,proiill?,enl. coppers were barely firly and..BethIhem steel reacted a large fraction Snntnv m . , - . . VA 11UC1 ,oui3 was resumed, the fourth 4 l-4s e a new ,ow record of 93.82. fchort covering became more urgent at midday, especially in oils and equip ?.1ent?' Gains in Mexican Petroleum, Koyal Dutch and Texas Company were U8'i?ittbly.e.nhanced. American Can aniL .de n(i Leather preferred gained Lpw,nt.9 each nd u- s- ftel contineud to harden. Oils reacted 1 to 2 points in the last hour but Lnited Fruit and Canadian tacinc featured the stronger issues. Ihe cloning was Arm. NEW YORK STOCK 14 ST. . , (Last sale.) Aiiierican Meet sugar . . American Can American Car & Foundry . . American Locomotive American Linseed . . 68 .. 44 1-2 . . 87 .. b58 . .. 47 3-8 ng 63 3-4 ... 116 .. 101 1-8 . .. 57 1-3 . .. 90 1-4 ... 96 .. 68 1-2 .. 4G 1-4 . 59 3-4 ,. 159 . 5S 55 . . . 36 5-8 - 3? 3-4 - oiS .. 35 .. 48 .. 54 . . 21 7-8 . . 149 3-4 . . 130 1-8 .. 91 1-4. .. 37 1-2 . .. 97 5-S .. 4J 22 1-2 !! 96 1-4 . . 30 . .bll3 .. 30 3-4 .. 167 7-8 o.) '. ". 41 5-S .. 23 3-4 .. . 71 3-4 ..bl04 1-2 .. 90 1-4 . . 39 3-8 . . 44 1-2 . . 46 .. 20 77 7-S .. 72 1-4 . . 34 7- .. 9S 3-S . .b26 1-4 . . 51 . . bl2 1-4 . . 189 1-8 . . . 82 1-4 . . 126 5-S . . . 114 3-8 .. 103 1-8 75 . . S9 5-8 .. 67 1-8 . . 31 .: 41 1-4 . . . 24 5-S . . 199 . . . 96 1-4 .. 52 1-8 ... b7 3-8 .. 47 1-4 ... 164 , . . 51 .. 2S 5-8 American Smelting & Refining American fugar American Tel & Tel . . Anaconda Copper Atchison Atl.. Gulf & V. Indies . Baldwin Locomotive . . . Baltimore & Ohio .. .. Bethlehem Steel "B" .. Canadian Pacific CentralLeather Chesapeake & Ohio . . Chicago Mil and St. Paul Chicago R. I. & Pae .. .. Chino Copper . Colorado Fuel & Iron t orn products , Crucible . Steel Cuba Cane Sugar .... . Krie General Motors tlreat Northern pfd . . Great Northern Ore Ctfs . llliois Central Inspiration Copper .. Int. Merc. Marine Int. Merc. Marine pfd . . . International Copper ,. . Louisville & Nashville .. Maxwell Motors Mexican Petroleum .. . Miami Copper Midvale Steel .. .. .. . Missouri Pacific New York Central .. .. Norfolk & Western . . Northern Pacific .. .. Ohio Cities Gas Pennsylvania .... . . Pittsburg Coal Bay Consolidated Copper . Beading Bgp. Iron & Steel - Sinclair Oil & Refining . Southern Pacific Southern Railway . . . . Studeriaker Corporation .. Tennessee Copper Texas Co Tobacco Products Union Pacific . United Cigar Stores ... .. U. S. Ind. Alcohol .. .. . United States Rubber .. . United States Steel Utah Copper Wabash pfd "A" AVestinghouse Klectric . . . Willys-Overland American Tobacco Atlantic Coast Line .. .. Gulf States Steel Seaboard Air Line Sloss. Shef; Steel & Iron . United Fruit Virginia Caro. Chem . . New Haven CHICAGO GRAIN Chicago, Feb. Evening up of trades so as to be prepared for the holiday tomorrow gave an' upward swing to the corn market. Opening prices, which ranged from 5-8 to 1 1-4 cent higher with May 1.13 1-2 to 1.14 and July 1.10 1-4 to 1.10 3-4. were fol lowed by a materia further advance. Prices closed strong 1 1-8 cent to 3 cents net higher with May 1.15 1-4 to 1.15 3-8 and July 1.11 7-8 to 1.12. Oats ascended with corn. Provisions continued to show activ ity and strength, Chicago Cash Grain. Chicago, Feb. 11. Cash: Corn. No. 3 yellow 1.24al.26; No. 4 yellow 1.20a 1.22; No. 5 yellow 1.16al.l8. Oats, No. 3 white 56 l-2a57 1-2; stan dard 57 l-2a58 1-4. Rye, No. 2, 1.26al.2S; barley 81a94. Timothy 7.00al0.00. Clover and pork nominal. Lard 25.00; ribs 23.00a24.00. Chicago Grain and Produce. Open. High. Low. Close. CORN May .. 1.13 1.15 1.18 1.15i July 1.10 & 1.12 1.10 l.UTa May . July . PI ':iv--May . . -i .. . s May , . Julv . . , .. 56 57 56 57i ... 54 651 oi'2 55 . . 39.50 39.85 29.50z39.85 24.10 1.30 23.20, 23.32 24.10 24.30 23.20 23.32 R1J3S May . . 22.10 22.32 22.10 22.82 21.82 21.77 21.82 July 21.82 INSPECTION WORK WILL BE CONTINUED Restaurant, soda fountain, and other forms of inspection inaugurated in the city with the coming of Camp Greene will be continued on the same basis after the camp has been aban doned and the U. S, Public Health service has discontinued its work here. The Inspection work, it was said at health department headquarters to day, has been largely under city supervision all along and the with drawal of the Public Health service from Charlotte will therefore not in terrupt the inspection work locally. Dr. Hudson states that the marking of restaurants and cafes will be kept up as it has been done during the past year. A man will be named by the health office soon to have charge of this work throughout the city. 10,000 TROOPS ARE ON THEIR WAY HOME Washington, Feb. 11 Four trans ports and a cruiser, with more than 10,000 troops aboard, have sailed from France and will arrive at New York and Newport News between Feb ruary 16 and February 20. The transports are the Rotterdam, Canopiq and Northland for New York, and the President Grant for Newport News. The cruiser St. Louis goes to New York. The President Grant, due February hgO, carries troops of the 41st division (Northwestern States), about 4,uuu oi ficers and men. In addition a number of casual officers and more than 700 sick and wounded are abroad. Brig adier General Albert H. Blanding, commanding the 184th infantry brig, ade, also is aboard the ship. The Northland, due February 19, brings eastern and negro troops. The cruiser St. Louis, due February 20 carries troops of the 41st division and several casual companies. None ot the casual companies are from the The Canopic has troops of the 4Jst division and in addition about 175 casuals, mostly officers. The Rotterdam, due February 16, has on board troops of the 92nd (ne gro) 41st division; 290 casual officers and 172 wounded or sick officers, -Including Brigadier General James B. Erwin. commanding the 92nd division; COTTON STATUS TALKED Raleigh, N. C, Feb. 11. With Gov ernor Bickett and Lieutenant-Governor Gardner presiding jointly, cotton growers, merchants, bankers and others interested In maintaining high er prices for cotton met with the members of the State legislature this forenoon for two hours and discussed the situation, especially the necessity of holding the present crop for gradual marketing and effecting a cut in acre age of the next crop. The speakers outlined such a policy, including the need for the state support of a stor age warehouses. The committee named to prepare resolutions to be adopted at the late afternoon session consisted of Senator J. A. Brown, Clarence Poe, S. H. Hobbs, N. Newsome, L. S. Tomlin son and A. J. McKinnon. , " James H. Pou outlining the things the present legislature can do to help the situation included the establish ment of a modern cotton warehouse system supported by a tax of one dol lar per bale on the cotton crop. WANT SUNDAY TO VISIT CITY Proposal Informally Sug gested Today; Unanimous Verdict to Go After Him. Will Billy Sunday come to Char lotte? That depends on the city itself, pro vided the great evangelist and lectur er can .give Charlotte a date any. time in the near future. Since Billy Sunday visited Raleigh recently, and in view of his approach ing trip to the city' of Greonsbofo to lecture, many citizens have asked why the evangelist is not invited to spend a day in this city and deliver one of his famous lectures at the Auditorium Members of the Ministerial Associa tion who have been asked. about the proposal unanimously agree that they would like to hear Mr. Sunday and that the idea of inviting him here of fers many attractions. "I presume that the Ministerial As sociation would have to take the nrst step towards inviting Mr. Sunday to Charlotte," said Rev: Julian S. Sibley, this morning, "but I have heard no formal suggestion thus far along this line. I think, however, that it would ba a great thing for Charlotte to have Billy Sunday spend a day here and lecture." Dr. Sibley speaking for him self, thought that the Ministerial As sociation would be interested in the proposal, and suggested that a called meeting might be held to consider the proposal, if the pople want to hear the famous evangelist while he is in this pait of the country. Billy Sunday has visited hundreds of cities in the United States, but has never made a trip to Charlotte since he became a figure nationally known. He made a decided hit in the t?ity of Raleigh recently and he has another engagement at Greensboro soon, it is stated, so that those here who are in terested in any move to get him to come to Charlotte, say that? this is the proper time to take action. If the idea-is formally taken up there I? little doubt but that it will re ceive a general endorsement, and that many thousands will attend any lec-i ture or meeting where Billy Sunday is the orator and speaker. INSURANCE MEN ARE HERE TODAY President Voshell of Life Underwriters Assoc. Guest of N. C. Association. Some 60 delegates of the North Carolina Association of Life' Under writers gathered f,or a session and ban quet at 1 o'clock today in the private dining room of the Selwyn hotel, to meet and welcome the president of the National Life Underwriters As sociation, Jonathan K. Voshell, of Bal timore, who addressed the gathering at 3 o'clock this afternoon, following the luncheon and addresses of welcome by Mayor Frank R. McNinch and Cameron Morrison. T. S. Franklin, of Charlotte, presided at the luncheon and introduced the speakers, or called upon various mem bers of the association to perform this duty. Mr. Franklin is president of the North Carolina ' Underwriters Assocation. The gathering was one of the most representative as regards citizenship that has ever met in the city. Leaders all in teir communities, the delegates are men far above' the average in business acumen and information. Mr. Franklin himself introduced Mayor McNinch who spoke most elo quently of the life insurance agent. In speaking of Charlotte and extend ing a formal welcome to the city, Maypr McNinch stated that this city intends in the next two years to spend as much for street work and to build as many streets as has ever been built In any five years before in the history of the city. Milton Mcintosh was called upon by Mr. Franklin to introduve Mr. Mor rison as ''Mecklenburg's candidate for governor," and predicted that he would he the next governor. The remainder of the afternoon was taken up in hearing President Vosh ell's address and in discussing the bus ines of the asociation generally. The discussion tended towards the busi ness of insurance men in the recon struction period which is novt upon the country, Various local men and visi tors spoke interestingly. PUBLIC BUILDINGS WANTED FOR TOWNS (By W. C. LYON.) Washington, D. C, Feb. 11-Repre-sentative Godwin today introduced bills in the house to provide" public buildings at Lumberton, Dunn and Southport. Th8 buildings are to cost in excess of $100,000 each. ENFORCE HEALTH 0RD. IN COURTS Health Department Pre pares to Indict Many" Property Owners for Violation. A wholesale indictirfent of owners of property unconnected with the sewer system of the city is planned by offi cials of the city health department this month, for the purpose of com pelling compliance with the orders of the health department issued a year ago. "Already several indictments have been brought," said Dr. C, C. Hudson, "and there are on our list between 7b and 100 names of owners of property or agents of property, which has not been- connected with the sewer and water systems of the city, as was ordered a year ago. These names will all be presented in court and war rants Issued against those who have failed to comply with the health office orders, if. the water and sewer con nections are not made before the matter is taken to the courts,'' added Dr. Hudson. The city health officer declared that the requisite notices had long ago been served on the owners,' about 70 of them, "and added that the city has done its part fully in the matter of notice to owners to make connections, and that the only move now open to the health department is to proceed with the indictment of these seventy owneTs. The health department began ' the work of presenting to the court those who have not observed the orders of the department last week, when a de fendant was found guilty and lined fifty dollars, the fine to be remitted on condition that the water and sewer connection was installed during the next few weeks. Dr. Hudson intimated that the health department is fully determined to go ahead with- this work and that the seventy, or more connections to be made, will be enforced by court order, and by the indictment of the owners within the next few weeks, it these fail to fully meet the demands of the health department. The health department last spring and summer issued orders to 500 or more property owners to make water and sewer connections or to install the form of .sanitary closet adopted by the department as the standard, for the city, and about 80 per cent" of these have complied fully with the In structions of the health officials. It is now the purpose of the department of health' to carry the work to com pletion andto secure the co-operation of the remaining 75 to 100 property owners, resorting to courf proceedings where this course is made necessary. SCHOOL BOARD IS AROUSED Joyner 30-Cents Tax Bill Looms Up in Legislature; to Continue Fight Here. The Joyner bill, carrying witlr it a 30 cents additional tax on all taxable property in North Carolina, and crea ting a tax of $86,000 on the city of Charlotte and $56,000 on Mecklenburg county, is looming large in Raleigh this week, and local schoolmen said today that it looks as if the bill was about to get through at Raleigh. With this legislation confronting it, the Charlotte board has been called in session at 7:30 this evening' at the city hall, to take further measures in the fight on the proposed bill, and a great - deal of strong sentiment has manifested itself locally in opposition t6 the bill, so that the session tonight will be a heated one and radical steps, most probably, will he taken hy the board in their fight on the measure as it originally stands before the general assembly. After their first onslaught on the bill, and after the co-operation of schoolmen in the cities of the state had been invoked, the local board felt much at ease, and believed that the bill in its original draft, was in no danger of getting through, but advices from Raleigh the past few days show that the bill is still a live issue and that it may be passed by the present session of the state's law-making body. Mayor McNinch has been invited to confer -with the school board tonight as to the future of the campaign against the original Joyner bill, and the session will be an interesting and important one. The city commission ers have joined in the fight on the bill and two weeks ago adopted reso lutions calling on the Mecklenburg delegation in the general assembly to oppose the bill to the finish, so that the two boards are united on the issue and will continue the fight as long as a chance remains of defeating the pur poses of yie bill in its first formulated shape. The consideration of a bond issue for the' new high school will also be taken up tonight and a thorough dis cussion held on this question -which is one of the live issues before the school board. The board is also slated to discuss a proposal that the general assembly be memorialized to pass legislation empowering the city board to make attendance . compulsory for nine months of school in Charlotte. The city board at present does not possess the right to make a compulsory nine- months attendance in the city schools, but many of the board, favor the plan and the proposal will be debated at length at tonight's session of the schoolmen. . ANOTHER SALE OF HORSES AT CAMP On February 19 another big sale of army horses and mules will take place at the corral at Camp Greene and 1200 to 1500 head of stock will be dis posed of at auction on tnis aate. The sale will include horses for every kind pf service, and a large as sortment of mules. ThCbidaing at the first sale of stock, held at Camp Greene was spirited and the average price brought by the stock sold was placed at $170, whicn stock dealers declared was a most satisfactory figure. The first sale attracted a big crowd of buyers and the second sale scheduled for February 19 is expected to draw just as big a crowd of buyers, i U S. Department of Agrietilture. Weather Bureau I - " Chrlor Marvin. Chitf gg. es DAILY WEATHER MAP .n. ' Unsettled weather with " oLvtAT r I Cfe1 g probably rain tonight or .2jjuUidLaAi1CJJWnili9i9. , j Wednesday ; warmer. 0 ' BXPLiANATORY NOTES. Obwrrations taken t S a. to., 75th meridian time. Atr pressure reduced to sea' level. Isobars (continuous ii'aesl nass through mints' of ejuel air pressure. Isotherms (dotted lines) pass through points of eo.uai temperature; drawn only for aero, freezing. 90, &ndlXP O 9ltKi Q partly cloudy; cloudy rala; snow; report missing. Arrows fly with the wind. First f gures. lowest torapaiaturo past 12 hours; second, precipitation of .01 Inch or more for past Sf4 hours; third, maximum wind velocity. JAPAN HOLDING (Continued from page 1.) portant of the treaties as yet unratified by China is the agreement of Septem ber 24. ipi8,which grants Shantung to Japan and admits Japan as the suc cessor to Germany's rights, conces sions and properties in the Shantung district. This includes railways, -mines and other valuable property and the rights to them for a long term, of years. According to the Chinese claim Japan already has possession under treaties and "agreements of two fifths of the iron ore deposits of the entire Chinese republic and is seeking possession of the other three-fifths. Although they so far have been able co resist the Japanese demands, the Chinese officiate now say the pressure is beot ming unbearable. The Chinese president has approved by cable the action of the Chinese delegates in Paris in announcing their willingness to make public the treaties in spite of Japanese pressure. Ch'ina has asked, depending upon the impression made upon the ac credited delegates from other coun- tries that the Deaee conference see i tne twenty-one demands made upon China and Japan in 1915 be revoked and that the Chinese republic be re moved definitely from the influence of Japan. The complete independence of China is asked under the protection or the league of nations. The account of Minister Reinseh's visit to the Peking foreign office says he reaffirmed the friendship of the United States for China and desired to give active support in her desire for Independence. He learned, however,- that , the Japanese minister in Peking reached the foreign minister a few minutes before him and conveyed the intimations of what would happen if 'Japan's demands were not met. Dispatches received here describing the situation at Paris - declare the Japanese attitude is causing real alarm in official circles of European The thermometer registered a min powers and the United States. They imum of 22 degrees last night, ac speak of constant efforts of Japan to cording to announcement this morn acquire concessions in China and ing by O, O, Atto, who is giving out Siberia and of its demand for the . his final weather prognostications in Carolina and Marshall islands other islands in the Pacific. and As regards the Pacific islands claim of Japan, the American position at the peace conference has been un officially represented as one of oppo sition to annexations and of insist ence upon the internationalization of all the Pacific islands taken from Ger many. The' Marshall and Caroline groups lie directly east of the Phil ippines. The Chino-Japanese controversy centers upon the Japanese claims re garding Shantung province, where Ja pan has taken over the German hold ings based upon the old Tsing-Tao concession. Under the treaty of 1915 between Japan, and China, which the latter claims was signed under duress, Japan was to return to China after the war all the former German hold ings except that a Japanese settle ment was to be permitted at Tsing.Tao or that this port, which virtually gives command of the entire province of Shantung, should be international ized if the peace conference should so decide. Paris advices have indicated that Japan was pressing for continued pos session of Tsing-Tao, which the Chin ese delegates to the peace conference insist should be returned to China without restrictions. Dispatches from China have announced that Japan had demanded that China disavow the ac tivities of her "delegates in Paris and that she must work in harmony with Japan at the peace conference. Japan was bringing financial pressure to bear to secure such action, it was suggested that the Chinese ministry was represented as fearing it would have to comply, through necessity, with Japan's demands. - The agreement of September, last, mentioned in the dispatches, probably S5?t&.M Dan to loan China 20,000,000 yen on the account of Shantung, railway con struction. China, has never ratified that agreement, it appears, although funds were advanced by Japan under it. JESSE WILSON GETS EIGHT MOS. SENTENCE Eight months at hard labor was the sentence which awaited Jesse Wil son, colored, in Recorder Jones' court this morning, where Wilson stood in dicted for larceny and embezzlement. The first charge against Wilson in volved the theft of a bicycle of which he was found guilty and received six months from the court. On the em bezzlement charge two months was the ticket the defendant drew. It was alleged that Wilson took advantage of his priftPrvman to the extent of $3.50 Ikv which he got ahead of the game i . t i ; i x m J tit:i-- j Wtteu tu youco lutertei tsu- vv uaou fpd bv Detective Earl Brad- lev and turned over to headquarters i on Monday, FATHER OF MRS. H. K. BOYER DEAD Well Known Virginian Died at Ripe Old Age Passed Away in Indiana. News has been received here of the death of Judge G. W. Cornett of Gray son county, Virginia, father of Mrs. H. K. Boyer of this city, who died yesterday in Lafayette, Indiana. He was at the home of his son, M. O. Cornett, when he "passed away af ter a brief illness of pneumonia. He had passed hi3 S7th birthday. He was prominent in the political and social life of Virginia, as a lawyer, and judge, and served" several term3 in the state senate. Surviving him are three sons and five daughters: Jude T. H. Cornett of New Martinsville, W. Va.; M. O. j Cornett of Lafayette, Ind.; R. A. Cor-1 nett of Detroit. Mich Mrs. H. K. j Boyer of Charlotte: Mrs. P. L. Sanders t of Chilhcwie. Va.r Mrs. J. M. Cheek, Elk Creek, Va.: Mrs. E. H. Courtney. Richmond, Va., and Mrs. T. W. Thorn- as, Boise, Idaho. . The interment will be at the old home, Elk Creek, Va, Thursday. Mrs. Boyer will not be able to at tend. WARMER DAYS COMING SOON a J Thermometer Dropped to 22 Degrees Last Night Cold Snap, About Over. Charlotte this week "This was not as cold as Sunday night," said Mr. Atto, "though it made a greater impression. The reason for i this is that on Sunday night there was still much warmth in the ground, wile last night there was no warmth left in the earth and for this reason there was more ice formed than on Monday morning." Mr. Atto said that the indications are that within the next few days the weather would get much warmer and that the present cold snap had about done its duty, SGT. FRED KENDRICK BEEN SEEING ALPS Mrs. Z. V. Kendrick yesterday t& ceived a letter from her son, Sergeant Fred Kendrick, telling of a seyen-day furlough he had been spending in the Alps. It seems from 'the letter, that the government is giving the men these trips, paying their expenses and allowing them these outings to the place they may select. Sergeant Ken drick is in the intelligence department of the aviation service. NO ST ATP CONVICT SYSTEM, .Columbia, S. C, Feb. 11. The house of representatives last nigh killed a bill by Representative Mcares to place all male convicts in the state over 17 years of age under the control of the board of directors of tho state peniten tiary and to abolish the county, chain gang system. - The sentiment of the lower house seemed almost unanimously against this measure. Representative Metres made a brief speech in favor of the bill, and Representative i Miley, of Bamberg, and Gresham of Greenville; spoke against it. ' This bill has been urged by the state of charities aQd crrections- SPECIAL BARGAINS TOMORROW Used 1-ton Selden Truck. Used 1-ton Briscoe Truck. These cars are in excellent condition and are good for long service. See theift, to morrow. . Burwell-Walker Company Watch This Space. 'TfriTMH 111 a! !. to it t it W i'f ft v 3 WPATMER CONDITIONS. 4 8 ttettft& 4iks The area of high pressure which has produced the cold weather of the past two days, is central today over the South Atlantic coast. A large area of low pressure overlies the western states and is preceded1 by southerly winds, increasing cloudiness and ris ing temperatures over the interior of the country. Light rains are begin ning on the middle Gulf coast. Unsettled weather is indicated for this vicinity with probably rain tonight or Wednesday; warmer. O. O. ATTO, Meteorologist. s i n I -i iw u 34 40 32 00 18 24 18 00 26 38 22 00 50 , 58 40 40 32 44 . 32 00 32 34 30 00 28 36 . 26 00 58 58 58 00 30 50 30 00 36 40 34 00 18 32 16 00 5S) 74 50 00 36 42 34 00 46 58 46 3.18 42 46 40 .06 24 52 . 24 00 38 54 38 00 STATIONS Atlanta Buffalo Charlotte .. Denver .. . Des Moines Chicago Cincinnati Galveston Havre Kansas City . New York . . . Phoenix . . , . . St. Louis San Francisco. Seattle Sheridan . . Tampa . . . . , 2 BL0CKADERS UNI0NC0UNTY Tom Blackburn and Choatc Purser, Farmers, Arrest ed by Deputy Marshal Williams. United States Deputy Marshal E. S. Williams arrested and cited to Federal court two men of Union county who are charged with being blockaders. He made the arrests on Saturday and Sunday and the two defendants are Tom Blackburn and Choate Purser, two farmers of Union county. Both were given a hearing before United States Commissioner J. W. Flow at Monroe, who required $300 bond olk each of the men before, the next term of United States court here. Both men gave the required hond. One of the men came to Monroe on Sunday morning in a snow storm to surrender to the Mr. Williams, hav ing heard that the latter was search ing for him and had ridden over a large part of Union county on Satur day afternoon in the search. He. said he was not trying to dodge the marshal but was looking for a bonds man. Mr. Williams accepted his ex planation as a truthful one. Two blockade stills, supposed to have been operated by the two men, were taken some time ago. MODERN RESIDENCES ' OF CITY PRAISED R. H. Losey, southern president of the Nash automobile corporation, while in Charlotte Monday was given a trip over the city by members of the firm of the Dowling Motor Com pany. Mr. Losey expressed great admira tion for the modern residence suburbs and the up-to-date appearance of the homes of Charlotte. Being interested in the development of the south, he was forcibly struck with the progres sive appearance of this city, and espe cially with the modern spirit shown in the building and arrarigement of homes and the newer residence flec tions of Charlotte. ' " fell S j.. -i ;. : ! '- ' it" i ! ' : mm hi: v 3 1 i : 1: 'frl.'l--- Sir . k ' i t ; K hi ti ' J?! If- 1M;f it' 'j i I.' .- . i i. i i ';! 1 !
The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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