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ROANOKE RAPIDS HERALD, ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C. 5 U.1P0RTAI1T IIEVS THE WORLD OVER IMPORTANT MAPPSNINQ8 OF THIS AND OTHER NATIONS FOR SEVIN DAY GIVEN fHE NEWS JDFTHE SOUTH What It Taking Place In The South land Will B Found In Brief Paragraph Domestic The moat sensational robbery iu the history of Girard, Ala., opposite Co lumbus, Ga., was pulled otf iu true western style. Four masked and arm ed highwaymen entered the Phoenix Girard bank, held up the president, as sistant cashier and other otficiuls at the point ot pwtols and proceeded to loot the institution, making their get away with currency aggregating about thirty thousand dollars. miners ot Columbus, Ga.. Phoenix City and Gi rard are ou the lookout for the rub bers. Harry New was found guilty of nee ond define murder in Los Ann les for the murder of his fiancee, Kndt Les Her, In Topango canyon, near that place, on the night of last July 4. Enforcement of nationwide prohibi tion, which becomes the law of the land, begins at 12:01 a. m. on Jan uary 17, it was announced at New York City at the of lice of Col. Daniel U Porter, of the United States in ternal revenue service. A call for one of the greatest inter national conferences of commercial and financial figures ever assembled, iu an effort to tind a remedy for the financial and commercial chaos in which the world has been left by the war has been issued in New York following a meeting of a coterie of nation ily known financiers. Atlanta, Ga., stands twelfth in na tional bank clearings for the year 1919 with a total of $3,290,1n6,3T7. This is the announcement in the annual compilation of figures published in Bradstreet's Journal. Stories of terrible cruelty, unre dressed murders and devastation of properties were given the senate sub committee investigating the Mexican situation by men in close touch with conditions in Mexico. The subcom mittee is holding sessions in San An tonio, Texas. A six-year job faces the federal pro hibition agents in making the I'nited States dry. At the end of that pe riod the revenue bureau figures that the United States will be as dry as a desert. The senate subcommittee now in San Antonio, Texas has received a report that a large shipment of am munition for the Curranza government has been received at Munzanillo, Mex ico. It seems to have been shipped on a Japanese vessel. Leading members of the New York Bar association, the trustees of the New York City Club and the trustees of the Citizens' Union united in voic ing condemnation of the action of the state assembly in suspending its five Socialist members. Washington- The partial lifting of the blockade against Soviet Russia is described in a dispatch "as an exchange of goods on the basis of reciprocity between the Russian people and allied and neutral countries." The decision, it is stated, provides taht facilities will be afford ed the Russian co-operative organi zation to import clothing, medicines, agricultural machinery and other nec essaries, in exchange for grain, flax and other goods of which Russia has a surplus. Definite plans for furnishing Poland with war materials and food to aid In checking the westward spread of bol ehevism are being considered by the United States and by allied govern ments, Secretary Baker said before the house ways and means committee, supplementing the declaration of Gen. Tasker H Bliss that"PoIand was "the only bulwark against bolshevism." Establishment of a separate state, under the protectorate of the United States, for the segregation of the na tion's negro population, was advocated before the house judiciary committee by representatives of the negro race. Establishment by the United States Grain Corporation of $150,000,000 in credits would feed Europe until the next harvest without imposing any burden on taxpayers. That is what Herbert Hoover told the house -vays and means committee. Early payment ot the loans made could be counted Upon, Hoover said. Decision to withdraw the American troops from Siberia upon the comple tion ot the repatriation of the Czecho slovak forces next mouth has been reached by the American government. In one of the broadest constructions yet placed on provisions in the act for enforcement of constitutional prohibi tion, Prohibition Commissioner Kre mer has ruled that fruit juices and ciders come within the dry ban if they contain more than one-half ot one per cent alcohol. Private charities in the United States are sending five to six million dollars' worth of food abroad month ly, it has developed, and within a fortnight three million American fam ilies with relatives to central and east era Europe will be able to buy "food drafts" from American banks. Tbe American force In Siberia num ber? 4,0J)Q-taen, and, went there last Smmer. Its presence has been the subject ot numerous spirited debates An the senate. With the departure of the Ameri cans from Russia, Japan will be left atone to assist the loyal Russians In their efforts to stem the eastward March of the Bolsheviki. The rapid progress made by the Soviet forces has been a source of apprehension in Ja pan and the cabinet at Toklo has been put to considerable mfeans to combat what Japanese officials generally f - gard ae serious menace. , t A list of fifteen admiral', headed by Admiral William tv Sims, was sub mitted to Secretary Darnels by Sen utor Hale of Maine, chairman of the senate naval subcommittee on Inves tigation of navy decoration awards, with the request (hat the officers be summoned to appear before the com mittee. The coal strike settlement commis sion has begun actual work of consid ering and adjudicating claims of bitu minous miners for advanced wages and shorter working hours, the oper ators having agreed to abide by the decision of the commission whatever it may be. Foreign Premier Georges Clemenceau went down-to defeat at the hands of his countrymen in a caucus of the French , senate and chamber of deputies to choose a candidate for the presidency of the republic. Clemenceau then an I nounied his withdrawal and asked his j supporters to cast their votes for the ; re election of President Poincaire. In an official communication issued in Paris, the supreme council approv ed of recommeiiikitions to relieve the population iu the interior of Russia by giving them medicine, agricultural j machinery at.d other commodities, ot i which the people are in sore need, in exchange for grain and flax. The supreme council, at Paris, has drafted a note to the lunch govern ment asking fur the extradition of the loimer German emperor. The note refers to article 221 of the treaty of Versailles and invites Hol land to join the allied powers in the accomplishment of this act. It is rumored in London that be fore peace with Germany is a week old the liritish public has been brought up sharply against the pOS - sibility of another war. The estimates of the Berlin papers of the casualties in the rioting places the dead in excess of thirty and the taat ls regarded as leasime ny i.'.eu wounded at one hundred. Quiet has 1 tenant Fuchs. by attacking the'mos been restored ' qulto in his lair, draining the places The German Social Democratic par t has issued an appeal to its mem bers not to allow themselves to be pro- voked by Independent and t'ommun- ist "wire pullers" to play an unscrupu- lous game with human lives Many persons were killed or wound- ed in Berlin when the troops fired upon or buyonetted demonstrators who tried to rush the reichstag in Berlin in protest against the exploitation law. Crowds have paraded the streets of Berlin following an appeal from the radical Socialist organ for workmen to demonstrate in protest against the I , law. The demonstrators bore flags inscribed "We Demand an Unrestrict ed Workers' Council Bill." Tbe street : car service was partly suspended, the men being on strike. Ten dead were i taken into the court of the reichstag ( building, and order was finally restor ed by the police. The so-called German exploitation I law is an outgrowth of resolutions by I the Social Democrats endorsing a sys temt of workers' and economic coun I cils as the first step towards sociali zation. The Soviet system is strong ly condemned by the German Social Democrats. I The Russian Bolsheviks have cap tured seventeen columns of Polish le gionnaires, sixteen guns and 20,000 ri fles in the Krasnoyarsk region. The Bolsheviks have also occupied the Ba lai station, fifty miles east of Kras noyarsk. London newspapers state that the only two countries in the world now at peace are United States and Ger many. In the supreme council at Paris, the United States ambassador raised j the question whether the council in- tended to maintain the percentage pre- viously adopted for distribution among ' vice to former soldiers, sailors and the allied and associated powers ot , marines the Y. M. C. A. educatlonai the warship tonnage to be given up ! service launches Its largest entep ber German. Receiving an answer ! prise since the war. This plan prc i nthe affirmative, the United States j vides 60.000 free scholarships for ex ambassador stated that, in that case, I service men, and also provides recon the United States waived its claim I struction lecture courses and occupa to any part of this tonnage' tional guidance and employment sw- Immediately after the peace proto- ' vice. A fourth feature of the plan I col was signed the allied leaders hand- J 'he Americanization work, which wld ed a memorandum to the German dele- ! be conducted in Industrial communl gates, including the delivery of 5,000 i ties where the foreign population Is locomotives, 150,000 cars, Germany's centered. About 1.000 of these are failure to evacuate all parts of Russia, ! available tor North Carolina, Q. C. the sinking of certain submarines Huntington, state secretary, an' which were to have been turned over nounces. to the allies, failure to deliver stolen ' Not less than 40.000 scholarships works of art taken from Belgium and France, the delivery of agricultural ma chinery and exportation of certain aeronautical materials in contraven tion of the agreement with the aliles. A Korean national army has crossed the Siberian frontier into Korea and had captured En Chin from the Japan- ese provisional government forces, ac- j cording to a cablegram received in Honolulu from Shanghai to the Kor ean Hawaiian association. Germany is now at peace with the allies. The treaty of Versailles, com pleted after months of labor last June, has been declared formally in effect, operative January 10, 1920. Consideration is being given by tht supreme council to a plan for the ap pointment ot a committee of ambas sadors to complete the details for the presentation and signing of tbe Hun garian peace treaty and to carry on other unfinished business ot the peace conference. The decision will be left to the heads of the governments of the principal powers. Thirty-five members of the crew ot the British steamer Treveal were drowned when the big vessel was wrecked on Klmmer Edge Rock neat SL Albans Head, England, during a violent storm In the channel. Although he might have been pres ent as a witness to the exchange of ratification, between allies and Gep many, Hugh Wallace, the American ambassador, did not appear. Germans are urged to turn over former Emperor William for trial by tbe allies in resolutions passed at a public meeting of the new fatherland league in Berlin. Preparation for war ls urged as a measure of proudence by Marshal Foch. War is no longer an art, but a science and industry, and the world can learn much from a study of' the work of Germans, he says. ijj.MMMasawsi HERALD'S REVIEW of NORTH CAR01 A Record Of Important Events At The Capitol And Throughout The State, Reported For Herald Readers ISO SURVEYS HAVE BEEN BEGUN NUMBER OF COUNTIES SEEK RELIEF FROM INVASION OF THIS UBIQUITOUS INSE1CT. ATTACK Efflf IN IIS UUR In 191319 the Several Departments, with Local Appropriations. Spent $50,000 in City of Wilmington. Kaleigh. Malaria surveys have been begun In Goldslioro, T.trboro, Karmville and Greenville by the State Hoard of Health and the I". S. Public Health Service, the work being done under the supervision of Lieut. A. W. Kuchs, who directed the expenditure of some tiilnil i, Vju' Tl'tnuvor cnnnlv in !'" ,l v ' ......... ! ridding that '.immunity of malaria. The end of the survey is the erad ication of malaria, an achievement that are used by the Insect as a breed ing place, applying crude oil to such places and the preaching of mosquito sanitation tl, the inhabitants. I In 191S-19 the several departments. j ,.,, Iot.al appropriations, expended $50,000 in Wilmington in the work. i and the results there are regarded as eminently satisfactory. The mosqui to population has been materially re duced and in some places obliterated altogether, and the percentage of ma laria reduced to a minimum. To Show at Madison Square. Members of the North Carolina Poultry Clubs will have an exhibit at the International Poultry Show to be held at Madison Square Garden. New York City, January 19 to 24. The ex hibit will be in charge of Mr. Allen G. Oliver, state poultry club agent of the North Carolina Extension Ser vice, and will be financed by the De partment of Agriculture. Mr. Oliver states that no bird will be exhibited except those owned and raised by Bona-fide club members In 1919. Meeting, State Bar Association. Asheville was chosen as the next meeting place of the North Carolina Bar association at a meeting of the executive committee of the associa tion held here, and June 29 to July 1, named as the date of the next annual meeting. The mountain metropolis was chosen without contest, as the bid that Wrlghtsvllle Beach intendea to enter for the meeting could not be presented because of the lack of ho tel facilities there since the Seashore Hotel was burned last summer. To Educate Soldiers and Sailors. With the announcement of a $3,000,- COO appropriation for educational ser- will be offered In correspondence Radical Revision of Rules. A radical revision of the rules and regulations governing the certification of teachers in the state Is under con sideration by Dr. E. C. Brooks, state superintendent of education, and will be discussed at meeting of represen tatives of universities and colleges to be held here. Dr. Brooks has a letter to the heads of the leading education al institutions in the state outlinlnr the plan and asking them to send representatives to th meeting. Governor Issues a Pardon. Governor Bickett has granted a con ditional pardon to Bain Davenport, of Caldwell county, sentenced In August, 1911, to 20 years for criminal assault On May 13, 1918, the state board of parole asked him to parole the pris oner, the governor said, but at that tint he did not think Davenport's record justified the action. He is now of the opinion that the prison er's record Justifies pardoning him. The Rev. R. L. Isbell. of Caldwell county, was among those asking clemency. " Employment Service Rushed. Out of a total of 129 registrations for the week, the United States Em ployment Service In North Carolina reported an aggregate of 116 place ments. Twenty-four orders, compris ing calls for about 150 men were re ceived by the (lerylce. Asheville led the batch with 47 reg istrations, 43 placements. Raleigh came next with 31 registrations, 14 referred and 33 placements. Wilming ton had 24 registrations and 29 place ment. ' Cotto.i Tax of $51,"14.2? The state board of education met tt the office of Governor Bickett anc sold 8.070 acres of Mattamuskeet lakt land to the Washington and Beaufort I Land company for $59,820. The land consists of two tracts. The larger, containing 6.500 acres brought $5 an acre and the smaller, containing 1.770 acres, brought $16 an acre. The state tax commissicn has mail ed to the tax supervisors of North Carolina's 100 counties, 60.000 ques tinnnaircs, to be used in listing per sona! properity In the state. The to tal number to be mailed is a million. The sum of $51,714.27. realized from tax on ba es of cotton was turned in by G. Shumaker, acting head of the division of markets. Half of this money is to be invested In state bonds along with the rest that has been paid in. and the other half is available tc aid In the establishment of ware hoases. So far, however, although this fund has been available for some time there has been no money asked to fi nance the warehouses. Two ware houses have been licensed, one at New Bern and the other at Roland, but both were financed by private funds. Shaw Delegates have Returned The Shaw delegates from Shaw Uni versity to the Student Volunteer Con vention held at Des Moines, Iowa, have just returned. They report that the canvention was the greatest In the history of the movement. It gave to 8.000 students, representing 10000 col leges and 40 nations, a new vision ol the world and its needs. Field Director Education Work Announcement has just been made here of the appointment of Miss Mary G. Shot well of Oxford, N. C, to the po sition of field director of educational work in schools for the Fifth Federal Reserve District. Miss Shotwell will be under the direction of William R Tinimons, head of the Educational Division of the War Loan Organiza tlon of this district. Warren Declines Renomination State Basketball Games A partial schedule of games for the State College basketball ttam, an with six exhibitions of the popular In door sport staged on the Raleigh au dltorium court. An exchange of games with every college in the State Is s feature. Deplores Foolish Extravagance Calling upon the entire people of th State to unite in co-operation with th Y. M. C. A. In its National Thrift nounced by graduate manager T. H Stafford, cali for sixteen contests Week January 17-24. Governor T. W Bickett Issued a proc'imation ir which he deplores foolish extravag ance and declares that It behooves every right thinking man to take serf ous thought to lessen waste, to abate inflation of credit and through savin? provide capital for the financing ol production. Washington. (S. cial) Thomas D. Warren, of New Bern, has declined another nomination for district at torney, and E. F. Adylett, of Elizabeth City, has been agreed upon by Sen ators Simons and Overman for th place. Medical Examination June 14. A conference of the Board of Medl cal Examiners of the State of North Carolina was held here at the office ol the secretary. Dr. Hubert A. Royster. June 14, 1920. was selected as the date for the next regular examination to be held In Raleigh, as provided bj the law. Governor T. W. Blckfctt and Attorney General J. S. Manning, whe have been of material assistance t the board In their work for the past five years, were guests of the mem bers for luncheon at the Yarborough. Haw River Bridge Closed Tourists arriving in Raleigh reporl that the bridge over Haw river al Moncure Is closed following condera nation proceedings. Traffic, over the National Highway now ls by the waj of Apex. Holly Springs and Jonesborc where the road unites with the regu j lar highway. Tourists are warned tc turn off the National Highway at Apei and proceed through Holly Springs. Leaf Tobacco Sales. Leaf tobacco sales In 138 ware houses on 48 markets In 28 counties of North Carolina In December to talled 36.304 913 pounds, against 65. 373.678 in December, 1918. according to the monthly report of tbe Co-operative Crop Reporting - Service. The average price for the season's salM was $51.63 per hundred. "Tobacco hes been the primary crop to make North Carolina rank fourth In the value of all crops among the states of the nation." Stats Industrial Exposition A State Industrial exposition at R&l eigh In the near future was endorsed yesterday by the Industrial depart ment of the Raleigh Chamber of Com merce and the proposition will be sub mltted to the directors for their con sideration. The industrial exposition Idea wai Introduced by Secretary Beaman. II did not take much argument to con rlnce the departmental members thai the proposed event is not an lmpos fcllity, hut rather something that cat easily be staged in tils city. IS! TOBACCO TO CLOSE FARMERS BEING ADVISED TO BRING IN ALL REMAINING LEAF BEFORE FEB. 6. IBHT COiilG 10 STUDENTS Dr. Bernard Spilman, Noted Wit and Orator, Is Beginning a Tour of State College Institutions. Kinston. The local tobacco market will close for the 1919-11120 season Friday, February 6, after the must successful five mouths in its histury. Farmers are being advised by the Tobacco Board ot Trade to market leaf remaining on hand as rapidly as possible so that none will be out standing when the auctioneers and buyers lay off. Some thousands of North Carolina college students have a treat coming to them. Dr. Bernard W. Spilmau, educational field secretary of the Southern Baptist Sunday school board and president of the Baptist state con vention, is going on a tour of insti tutions in the state. He has spoken at scores of colleges and to hundreds of other audiences in every part of the country. He is the pulpit's champion wit. His eloquence and sense of hu mor combined have made him famous. Dr. Spilman's methods were charac terized as "unique" at the University of Chicago. New Bern Announcement ls made to the effect that the board of alder men will be asked to call an election at which time New Bern people will vote on a bond issue of $100,000 to be used In erecting three new school buildings here. Raleigh. Rev. Francis M. Osborne, for many years rector of two Episco pal churches and recently director of a $250,000 endowment campaign for St. Mary's school in RaWigh, has been appointed to tbe chair of theology at the University of the South, Sawanee, Tenn. Hickory Frederick Fisk of Oil City, Pa., has a clear title to the Wa tauga and Yadkjn River railroad ac cording to the United States circuit court of appeals, which handed down an opinion at Richmond confirming the sale of this property. Charlotte The Charlotte postofflce receipts for the year 1919 amounted to a total of $389,466.97, according to the figures compiled in the office of J. H. Weddington, postmaster, when the fourth quarterly report was completed the daily average receipts having been more than $1,000, counting Sundays and holidays. Winston-Salem. Basing Its appeal on the assertion that because of the Increased cost of doing business It ls losing money at the rate of $10,000 a year, the Winston-Salem Gas company has appealed to the North Carolina Corporation Commission for permis sion to increase its rates for gas from $1.50 net per 1,000 feet, to $1.80 net per 1,000. Charlotte. A Carolina Kiwanls dis trict, embracing North and South Car olina, was formed at a tri-state con ference of Kiwanls clubs held in Chat tanooga and Paul F. Haddock, presi dent of the Charlotte Klwanis club, was elected governor of the North and South Carolina district, which was separated from Tennessee at the meeting. Washington. (Special). Lieut. Col. E. C. Register, army medical corps, died at Tarnapel, Poland, Jan uary 3, according to advices to the war department. He went to Poland in 1919 with the American-Polish re lief commission to fight typhus fevet In that country.' Colonel Register was a native of Rose Hill, N. C. Preachers Against Dancing. Charlotte The Charlotte Ministe rial Association at a meeting endon ed the action of the committee of the association on public dance halls and continued the committee, adding tn It Rev. Z. E. Bernhardt, of Tryon Street Methodist church, and Rev. John F. Crlgler, of the Lutheran church. The association voted to have a un ion Bible convention hero February 16-22 under the leadership of Dr. Clarence Dixon, formerly of the Lon don Tabernacle, and one of the fore most pulpiteers In the world. Many Divorce Cases. Raleigh. January 31 bis been des ignated as "divorce day" In Wake Su perior Court. On thai day JS people, dissatisfied with their bMter halve will lay their suits for divorce before Juries. The thirty-three divarcei now on th calendar represent the Ingest num her of actions of this nature at a sK gle term of Wake Superior Court. II is also understood that it ls the lar gest number of dlyorce cases rer calendared at any one tenn of court tn North Carolina, MARKET PRESIDENT GREETS IU OF AMERICAS THE LEADING FINANCIERS OF 21 REPUBLICS GATHER FOR FINANCIAL CONFERENCE. BARRETT WELCOMES VISITORS Secretary Glass, President-General of the Conference Occupying the Chair at Opening Session. Washington. Marked by the pres ence of the leading financiers and bus ness men of the twenty-one republics of the western hemisphere, the second Pan-American Financial Conference opened here for the consideration of international problems arising from the return of peace. President Wilson sent a message of greeting, declcring that Pan-Amf.i-ra sought no selfish purpose in assist ing world reconstruction and would reganl It as a privilege to fulfill the obligations Imposed by the great ad vantages enjoyed by the people of these republics. Secretary Lansing brought out the snme idea In address ing the delegates, when he said the Americas accepted the burdens thrust upon tbe new world by the war. Welcoming the visitors to the build ing of the Pan-American I'nlon, John Barrett, director-general, spoke of the union's moral influence in preserving peace and building up commerce. . Secretary Glass, president-general of the conference, occupied the chair at the opening session. BRYAN ANTI-PROFITEERING AND PUBLIC OWNERSHIP IDEA. New York. Profiteering and public ownership were declared by William Jennings Bryan to be two of the great Issues on which the coming presiden tial campaign should be fought. THOUSAND CASES OF FLU j SAID TO BE IN HAVANA. 1 Havana. Many cases of Influenza have been reported in this city, but no authoritative statistics are avail able. A newspaper report states that 1.010 cases have been found here, but this has not been corroborated. PROHIBITION AMENDMENT IS TO BE GIVEN ANOTHER TEST - Washington. Validity of the federal prohibition constitutional amendment is to be determined by the supreme court, which granted tho state of Rhode Island permission to Institute original proceedings to test It and en Join the enforcement In that state. HOLLAND IS REMINDED OF HER INTERNATIONAL DUTY Paris Holland Is told In the allied note demanding the extradition of for mer Emperor William that she will fiot "f:f'fill her internional duty" if she refuses to associate herself with the entente powers In chastising crime committed by Germans during the war. AMSRICAN RED CROSS WILL LEAVE SIBERIA VERY SOON Washington. Orders providing for withdrawal of American Red Cross personnel from Siberia at the time American troops start homeward have been cabled it was announced to head quarters at Vladivostok of the com mission headed by Lieut. Col. Rudolph B. Teusler, of Virginia. 1 AUSTRIAN SCHOOL CHILDREN SUFFERING MUCH FOR FOOD Paris. Representatives of the American mission for the relief of children have Just finished an exami nation of school children in Vienna and found, according to a dispatch re ceived by the Austrian delegation hero that 97 per cent of them are suffering from lack of food. ARMY TRANSPORT POWHATAN IN NO IMMEDIATE DANGER New York. The army transport Powhatan, In distress about 700 miles east of New York, reported by wire less to the army transport offices here j tat, although she was lenl'lng and her boiler room flooded, she was In "no immediate danger." The BOO passen gers were "calm and comfortable,'; the message said. When the sea be comes smoother, the passengers will be transferred to the White Star Iner Cedric, which is standing by. VOLUNTEER NURSES FIGHTING TO CHECK SPRPD Of Ft U Chicago. Chicago's health depart ment was nwamped with appeals for nurses to combat the spread of In tiuenza and pneumonia, of which more than 2,000 cases have be?n reported In the last 48 hours with 50 deaths. Health department officials declared the city needed at least 10,000 nurses to handle the situation. 8Ix hundred nurses, operating from eight dispensaries, began a survey of the city to aid In relief measures. 1,000 AMERICAN DESERTERS SAID TO REMAIN IN FRANCE Paris. One thousand deserters from the American army stll remain In and around Paris, according to official an nouncement. Many of the deserters are without domiciles and are experi encing such embarrassment, that, ac cording to the French police, they have resorted to misdemeanors such as pet ty thieving and larcenies to procure the meins of subsistence. The situa tion ts such that the French authori ties are planning a general raid. DANIELS MUTE AS TO ADMIRAL IS MANY CRITICS ARE READY TO BELIEVE ANYTHING THEY HEAR ON THE CABINET. ! fOPERS HAVE NOT RECOVERED Senate Committee on Naval Affairs to Broaden Investigation to Sift to Bottom the Sims Charges. Washington. The Sims-Daniels out fireak has aroused Washington's offi cial and social circles. ! The first shot of Admiral Sims went through and hit the mark, but the second one seems to be flaring back on him. Secretary Daniels takes the posi tion that it is improper for him to say S anything before he goes before the senate committee. He will let. Ad j miral S!;ns finish and then he will I testify. A great many critics of the Wilson administration are ready to be- lieve anything about members ot his cabinet, and a southern member ts preferred for attack. The drinking public are Inclined to side with the secretary In the affair. It appeared that the senate com mittee on naval affairs will broaden ! its investigation of the navy depart ! ment in order to sift to the bottom the ! charge of Admiral Sims that he did not ' receive proper support from the de partment during the war. CLEMENCEAU'S TITl E MAY BE "SAVIOR OF HIS COUNTRY." Paris A number of the senators and deputies are circulating among the membeis of parliament a resolution to confer upon Premier Clemenreaui the title of "Savior of the Country." It ls proposed to pass an enabling act to rrake this title official. PAUL DESCHANEL IS ELECTED TO PRESIDENCY OF FRANCE. Versailles. Paul Deschanel was elected president of the French repub lic by 734 votes of the 889 members of the national assembly voting. His majority was the largest since the election of Louis Adolphe Thiers, the first president after the fall of the em pire, who was chosen unanimously. DATE FOR JEWISH PALESTINE WEEK SET FOR FEBRUARY 1-8 . New York. Over 6,000 Jewish or ganizations throughout the United States will observe "Palestine Week" February 1-8, the week of the coming of Spring in the Holy Land, when a drive will be held, whose purposes are neither to enroll members nor to raise funds, but merely to inform the pub lic of everything known regarding Pal estine. MANY FLUE AND PNEUMONIA DEATHS OCCUR IN CHICAGO. Chicago Twelve deaths were caus ed in Chicago by Influenza and 1,002 new cases were reported to the city I health commissioner. Pneumonia i numbered 152 with 34 deaths. : Comparison of the figures with those ! of the 1918 epidemic show that the diseaso is spreading more rapidly than it did a year ago. AFTER THIRTY-SIX HOURS IS BULLET REMOVED FROM HEART Omaha. A surReon at St. Joseph's hospital here took the heart out of Steve Vaklch, an Austrian who had shot himself, remevved the bullet from the heart, replaced the organ and sewed up the incision. Zaklch is now practically out of danger. The operation was performed when the bullet had been In Zakich's heart nearly thirty-six hours. GENERAL WOOD WRITES LETTER SETTING OUT HIS POSITION New York. A budget system fnr government finances "was advocated by MaJ. Gen. Leonard Wood, candidate for the Rpeublica'i nomination for president in a letter read at the an nual dinner of the Qupens chamber of commerce. He also urged "a square deal for labor and for capital; no autocracy for either," adding that they should "pull together." "The slogan of today la law and or der and no class legislation," he said PREMIER LLOYD GEORGE HAS PASSED HIS 57TH IIRTHDAY Ivndon. Premier-Lloyd George has Jnst celebrated his fifty-seventh birth day. In his stormy political career, tht 'Tittle Welsh Wizard" has experienced many ups and downs, being perhaps the most venomously it tacked politi cian of his time i few years agj, bu? today there is Ht'le venom among hit opponents and practically the whole British nation united in wishing blrU day compliments to the man. "STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL SELECTS HIS ASSISTANTS I New York. State Attorney Genera? Newton announced that he had select ed John Bi Stanchfleld and Martin W. Littleton to act as special counsel to the Judiciary committee at the trial of the five suspended Socialist assem blymen. The attorney general denlel a report that Ludwlg C. A- K. Martens, "So viet ambassador," would appear as a witness at Albany or before the legis lative Investigating committee.
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