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$ $ Dollar Day in Salisbury, January 29th. Watch For The Ads YAM VOL. 9, NO. 21. $1.50 A YEAR AND WORTH IT. SALISBURY. NORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY. JANUARY T. I'M!). $1.50 A YEAR AND WORTH IT. PRICE TWO CENTS. VA T7TT3 ii ii II ML w xi if i n ii-rr-r at Trn IHt UNIItUdlAltb VOTED ITSELF DRY Nebraska, the Home of William ': Innocent Appearing Motion Call J. Bryan, 36th State to Ratify j ing for a Representative Fails the Amendment. j to Get Through Convention. DISTILLERS TO FIGHT IT WITH $1,000,000 FUND Some Question Raised at Wash ington As to Date of Beginning of Operation of Measure. (By the Associated Press) Lincoln, Neb., Jan. 16. The Ne braska legislature at 10:32 this morn ing completed ratification of the Fed eral prohibition amendmetn when the senate voted to concur in the house amendment to a senate joint resolu tion providing ratification. Missouri Jumps in For Good Measure. Jefferson City, Mo., Jan. lo. The Missouri legislature today ratified the Federal prohibiton amendment when the house concurred in a senate reso lution, bv a vote of 154 to 36. Distillers to Fight the Matter. Chicago, Jan. 16 The United States today completed legislative process of voting itself dry. When word was flashed over the wires that the 36th state, Nebraska, had'"ratified the prohibition amend ment prohibition leaders declared the accomplishment was the greatest piece of moral legislation ir the his tory of the world. The amendment to the Federal con stitution prohibits the manufacture or sale of intoxicating oeverages and be comes effective one year after its final ratification.. Meanwhile the nation goes dry July 1st next by presiden tial proclamation as a war measure unless the President recinds it before that time. A distillers committee, through Levy Mayer, chief of their counsel, announces that in 22 states the con stitution requires a referendum vote of citizens in order for ratification of a constitutional amendment. In Call-1 fomia action has already been takii to restrain the governor from certify ing action of the legislature to Wash ington. Everv resource of the distillers with $1,000,000 available will be employed in a supreme effort to save their business, it is said. An important meeting of the distillers committee will be held in New York on January 28th when it is planned to adopt a de tailed program. Question as to Date of Operation. Washington, Jan. 16. National prohibition by constitutional amend ment has been accepted by the Unit ed States just 13 months lacking one day after the joint resolution by con gress was submitted to the States for ratification. A question as to the effective date of the amendment was raised today when news car- that Nebraska, the 36th atate, had voted ratification by a statement of Senator Sheppard of Texas that the country would go dry one year from today. Other stu dents of the question held that ratifi- cat..tv would not oc .j:r-until! tc vear from formal certif;c:ition by the. 36th state. Prohibition leaders regard the ef fective date as a matter of small mo ment inasmuch as countrywide prohi bition is ordered July 1st by a war measure passed by congress to con serve grain. The measure remains inAforce until after demobilization of tttr military forces is completed, which many think will not be before the constitutional amendment is oper ative. Some Distillers Prepare for Change. New York, Jan. L6. Distilling in terests of the country anticipating enforcement of nation-wide prohibi tion a year hence have completed plans for the conversion of their man ufacturing plants and toe export of whiskey and other spirits now in bond 'Robert Stern, president of the Oceanic Commercial Corporation, newly orga nized export subsidary of the distill ery securities corporation, declared here today. ' Enormous Revenue Be Cut Off. Washington, Jan. 16. The enor moua revenue derived by the Federal government from taxes oa the manu facture and Bale of alcoholic drinks will be cut off by prohibition. It is planned to raise $450,000,000 this year by beverage taxes. In peace times it is less bat still runs into hundreds of millions. , Secretary Daniels is getting praise now instead of demands for resigna tion. If there must be a cabinet sac rifice Postmaster , General - Burleson eeemi to have the popular reference. Philadelphia Press. , . MITED 0M ATTENDS SUPREME COUNCIL SESSIONS i n nTinxn it ti if WmU Iht PEACE CONFERENCE $1,000,000 SOUGHT FOR EDUCATION IN STATE One of the Most Important Mat ters to Come Up for Considera tion is That of Missions. (Special to the Post.) Greensboro, Jan. 16 After sleep- j ing over the matter and losing some of the enthusiasm of the service last night the Baptist State Convention receded this morning from their de termination to increase the goal set for the Educational Campaign. The convention adopted a resolution by Dr. Livingston Johnson to "go after a million dollars over and above the roots and runners" notwith standing some objections to the ac tion. The change of front was based upon the statement that only about six hundred thousand dollars ef the mil lion dollars is actually in hand, counting the funds in the office of the treasurer as well as all that is en- iflutp frnm nnnacjjJaMJjPaig,; - Greensboro, Jan. 16. It was an in nocent appearing motion, but it failed to get through and the resolution went to the table indefinitely. Rev. M. A. Adams proposed that a committee of five be appointed to consider the wis dom of sending a representative to the world's peace conference at Paris, this representative to represent the Baptist denomination. Dr. Livingston Johnson of Raleigh, offered a substitute to the effect that he matter be left to the home mis- sion board of the Southern Baptist on the battlefields of France, are to convention. F. B. Hobgood of Greens- De reorganized on a pre-war basis, ac l.oro, opposed the idea-and suggested j cording to an announcement by gov- that it was nob the business of the Baptist denomination to send such a representative and that the denomina tion should stand by and have abso lute confidence in the wisdom of Pres ident Wilson and the accredited repre sentatives of this country. Eh. John son aid that 'he personally opposed the proposition but was willing to leave it to the Home Mission board. K. Wayland Cooke of Greensboro, op posed the proposition as did Chambliss of Asheville. Mr. T. W. , Cham- i bliss moved to put the entire matter on the table indefinitely and the con vention voted by a large majority to do so. The reports from associational managers of. the million dollar edu cational -campaign reported that about $600,000 had been raised, in notes, bonds and cash. The campaign will continue for a month longer. The nfluenza epidemic has been largely the cause of delay in driving the proposition to success. The convention received a telegram of greying from 26 North Carolina men who are students at the Southern Baptist convention at Louisville. In obedience to instructions by the convention at its last session, the board of education promptly set about forming plans lor launching and con- never failed to account for a criminal fort county, since this commonwealth ducting a campaign to raise $1,000.- after once taking the trail. It has not alone of the 100 North Carolina coun 000 for our Baptist schools and col- always been possible to bring back , ties, has voted itself under the law le?es in North Carolina, to be divided i the man alive, however, and in each passed by the last legislature gov among our instuttionsjas follows: 0f these cases a formal notation isrn,ng bond issues and the formation m j- u conn nnA ' miie telling where the body is buried, of county highway commissions so Meredith, WOOOOO. j The records at headquarters which that the commissioners may be five Chowan, $150,000. teem with thrilling adventures, show in number and no limit to the amount invested ior me oenem. oi eur nign schools, $250,000. The most important matter that comes before the Baptists of North Carolint in the annual convention as sociation, is the consideration of the work of missions, hi this state, the State Board of Missions has over sight of the collection of funds for the' foreign mission board of the A southern convention; and the home mission board of the southern con vention, and the work within the bor ders of the state. In Baptistic lan- f uage, tSfe words "Home Missions' esignate missionary operations with in the United States and its posses sions outside of the local state. Its definition is not very well understood, ss many people consider home mis sions to mean evangelistic effort ia their own individual neighborhood. The boa id -of missions asks the convention to set thefollowing mark for the coming year: Foreign mis sions $90,00; home missions $65,000; state missions $65,000; total 1220,000, with the suggestion that, the effort be made to raise 1250,000 for missions this year, and the board ef missions suggested that the convention set them free in t matter ef expendi ture, and they would appropriate the money collected for state missions as FIGHTING OVER THE NORTHERN SNOW r.-;, .... r:sFKV.. -..v- .mi v.v.v vi The manner in which warfare is earned on in the north of Europe is here shown. Great sheepskin eoats, fur caps, and mittens luny liaper rapid movement of machine guns or artillery but they prevent death by freezing. F Royal Northwest Mounted Police Who Went to Battlefields to Be Recog nized on a Pre-War Basis. Regina Snsk, Jan. 16. Canada's Scarlet IRiders, the Royal Northwest ; Mounted Police, who left. the Domin- i inn tn flirt hpr HiatinonliRh thpmcplvae eminent officials Squadrons of the famous riders who for years have patrolled the prairies, mountains, forests and Arctic wastes of Canada, will be returned from I overseas and permitted to rejoin their ' old force, which will be recruited to a i strength of 1,200 men. RBo-ina will cnntini.o tc. Ho headquarters and the territory policed will ovf-AnH fiAm Pnrf Arthur in Rrif- ih Cnlnmhin and far tnta t.h vn.t Rt.rptrhpx nf No Man'. InH nf the North. District headquarters will be re-established at Winnipeg, Regina, Prince Albert, 'Lethbridge, Edmonton, Vancouver and 'Dawson. Outposts will be established at Macleod, Battleford, Ma Die Creek and Peace River. As the war progressed, members of the famous band who had faced death innumerable times by daring dashes into the wilderness after criminals, one by one, dropped out to join the overseas forces until the organiza tion had all but disbanded. Official re ports have shown that they continued their intrepdi exploits in the war zone. Government officials have said that the history of the Scarlet Riders is also the history of law and order in the Canadian northwest. The proud claim in made thAt. the hnrwmpn Iiavp that on more than one occasion a single officer rode into the northern i wilderness, used dog teams to pene- , trate still farther, and then "muBhed" j (walked) to his destination to arrest an Indian or Eskimo who had killed a white man or tribesman. Now and then a fugitive shot first and with true arm. But official records show that no criminal who murdered an officer ever , escaped vengeance comrades. of that officer's Favor $100,000,000 BilL (By the Associated Press) Washington, Jan. 16. With little opposition favorable report was or dered today by the senate appropria- tinn MmmiftA th Wnnmm Mil f. SCARLET RIDERS 0 AN RECOGNIZED appropriate $100,000,000 requested by owners with the exception of those ac-, rd ita $100,000 cargo of oil was de President Wilson for food relief in tiially engag m arm yservice, it was stroyed. The flames spread to the announced by the shipping board te- loaded tsnker Copenhagen and it also If you would believe in the honesty ' was badly damaged. . and integrity of your friends, don't! indorse their notes. follows: For work within, the association $30,000: $11500 for work in the state at large; $2,000 for ctjl portage; $10, 000 for church building; $3,000 for enlistment and mobile schools; $7,600 for administration. , , b-Sh ' sag ' a? 2s? TAXATION MEASURE IN LEGISLATURE Doughton of Alleghany Would Tax All Incomes of Whatever Source on North Carolina. SAUNDERS, TO ABOLISH CAPITAL PUNISHMENT Another Measure Would Li am- pensate Owners Cattle Killed Because of Tuberculosis. (By W. T. Bost.) Raleigh, Jan. 16. A meeting of ice sembly will soon be referring to its acts as epochal if the pace set today V. 1. . t . 1 : i a . i. I "l" UV ior "le rvmamuer 01 ine j 7? Saunders, the Elizabeth City edi - tor, in the House introduced a bill to abolish capital punishment in any and all cases, while conservative Rufe no,,rKtnn J Aiwhntf nfiLo,! a i measure to overhaul the constitution ,' so that all incomes from whatever source be subject to taxation in North Carolina. In' the Senate Joe Brown,' of Co lumbus, and Stevens, of Buncombe, showed progressive spirit, which so many of the present asserably are approaching, on the question of tax ation. Stevens declared that the problem must be undertaken at once and pushed through in definite per manent shape, providing funds for all worthy causes. Brown compared the present system to a "broken arm that had been set crooked." It must be broken and reset, he insisted. A bill amending the State road 1 nnw:ni.a nMni;nKlA naa of bonds, was Dassed bv the Senate. The Senate also passed a bill pro- viding for compensation to owners of horses and cows slaughtered to con- trol tuberculosis and glanders, the ' State to pay half up to $100 of the ' value of a horse affected with gland- ers and one-third the value of a cow up to $50, salvage to be subtracted in each case. The Federal government will provide funds, it is said, for this compensation also. American Ships Returned. (By the Associated Press) I New York, Jan 16. All American , shps which were requisitioned by the ; United States shipping board during , the war have been released to their : . T . '. 1 . . I No Action On Wireless ControL (By the Associated Press) Washington, Jan. 16. By unani mous vote the House commerce com mittee today decided to attempt no t action at this smession of congress on i the administration's proposal for gov- eminent acquisition of all wireless stations. , .- , VOTES RAILROAD WORKERS KILLED OR INJURED Humanitarian Value of Plan for "No Accident Week" Strikingly Shown Br Report on Number of Men Kill ed or Injured Each Month. Washington, Jan. 1. The human Parian value of the plun of Regional Director B. L. Winchell to institute a !"No Accident Week" among all rail road employees of the South com mencing Jan. 19 is strikingly shown by a report just compiled by the Reg ional Supervisor of Safety showing ( the extent to which railroad workers I are killed or injured each month in i the performance of their duties. j Curing the month of August, 1918, I when the Railroad Administration h.td just organized the Safety Section in the interest of making safe the lives 1 " lner!": m Fl'rTL"?!?: Pi'n-y .n,y-i.ve y, f.mPlovP.es WP.re .k,"d9 JLwtt thousand one hundred (2 100) were mjufpd on the railroads of the South- ber, the last month for which th fig ures are available, the fatalities had been reduced to approximately thirty, one (31) killed and one thousand two hundred 1 1,200) injured. These fig ures include only employees and do not take into consideration .the large number of trespassers killed and in jured. It is the purpose of the Safety Sec tion of the Railroad Administration to demonstrate by "No Accident Week" that this great economic loss of life and service of trained industrial workers can can be materially reduc ed and to do this two hundred and thirty thousand (230.000) railroad em ployees in the South have taken the pledge to do their best to world these seven days without getting hurt themselves or being the cause of an-1 other's iniury. This plan was tried out by the Cen- J tml of Georgia Railroad in Dcember with such signal sucess that Regional Director Winchell decided to extend "No Accident Week" to all railroads under Federal control in the South. The psychological effect of the rail- road workers it is believed will it is believed will gve ("real impetus to the movement ana thereby benefit the railroad service ana me puuiic. A MILLION DOLLAR FIRE. Explosion of Oil Aboard a Tanker at Philadelphia Causes Fire to Spread to Docks. (By the Associated Press) Philadelihia. Jan. 16. A million dollar fire at the docks of the Atlantic Refining Company today resulted from an explosion of oil aboard a tanker, th Ronald Amundsen. The interior of this ship was burned out One workman jumped in the Dele ware river to escape the burning oil ' and was drowned. Nine others were taken to hospitals seriously injured and one ox these may die. . ,. When man postpones the pleaa- of life indefinitely be is apt to find them missing by the time he is ready to enjoy them. U HAL I Government "Determined to Pre vent by Every Means at Its Disposal a Repetition." I GOVERNMENT PREPARES DRAFT A CONSTITUTION Efforts Being Made to Arrive at a Peace for Safeguarding Free dom of German Nation. (By Associated Press) 'London, Wed., Jan. 15. Order has been restored in Berlin, it Is an nounced by an official wireless ap peal to the German nation, sent out by the German government today and picked up here. The appeal which is signed by Pre mier Ebert and members of his cabi net says the government "is determ ined to prevent by every means at its disposal a repetition of similar abom inations." The appeal refers to the coming elections under the "freest suffrage in the world to determine the constitu tionality of the German States" and adds that the present government is preparing to draft a constitution which protects the free right of self determination of the nation" against all counter revolutionary efforts 'at terrorism."'. efforts are being made, it is said, "to arrive at a peace for the safe guarding of the freedom of the Ger man nation and render possible the foundation of a union of nations which will give protection against danger of a fresh war." I U. S. Army Officer Alleges. That Clarence W. Murphy Alleniated the i Aiiecuons of nn nue uamages in the Sam of $50,000 Sought. The following Washington special, sent by H. E. C. Bryant to the Char lotte Observor. will be read with in terest by Salisbury people: Uarence wainwright Murphy, com noser of music, beau brummel. and i TSE ORDER IS RESTORED I IN GERMAN CAP SALISBURY MAN DEFENDANT IN SUI all-round society man, of Salisbury, N. i the world, the settlement of which C.. is charged with stealing the love has been long awaited, was brought of an army officer's wife. to a focus today when, it was an- Captain Murphy, who is a veteran ! pounced an agreement had been of the Spanish-American war end a made to confine the information given , farmer member of the staff of at0 the publio to a daily official comV North Carolina governor, is named j munique and that a gentleman's W defendant in a suit for $50,000 dam-1 agreement prevailed among the dele age filed henr today bv Captain ffates not to discuss or in any way Osceola Walker Taylor, U. S. A., whol(rive information, of the meetings in alleges that Murphy alienated the af-:th fnriiMi nfflrn fections of his Wife, Mrs. Maybelle I Lee Taylor, against whom her hus - band filed suit fo absolute, divorce December 23, last, charging miscon- dUCt. f . ' rt 1 li . . - I. apiain lajior buckcs mat irom November 2fl, last, he has been wholly deprived .of the affections, society and assistance of his wife in that Murphy allured her away from his home and that as a result he has suffered great cental anguish and loss of social re utation. Captain Murphy has been served with a notice to answer the suit, tomeys Mason N. Richardson At- n i Charles S. ShreVe represent Captain Taylor. n . if i : ii-, imjiiu murpi.y wen niiuw.i m North Carolina. TAKES OVER LITHLN1A. Polish Government Takes Over Ad ministration to Protect Country From Bolshevism. (By Associated Press) London. Jan. 16. The Polish gov. 3nment has taken over provisionally the administration of Lithunia to protect the country from Bolshevism, according to a telegram from War saw today. This action was taken at the re quest of the president of the Lithunl an republic. Dr. Karl Leibknecht Aagain. By the Associated Press) Berlin. Wednesday, Jan. 16. Dr, Leibknecht, the Spartacus leader, is reported to have been taken by mounted rue guards who arrived in Berlin today. "victory liberty Lean. ' (By Associated Press) ' Washington. Jan. 16. The name of the next war loan will be the "Victory Liberty loan. beeretary oiass an nounced today. The exact date in the spring when it will be floated das not been fixed. . " DRY SUPREME COUNCIL RESUMES SESSIONS i President Wilson Arrived at the Meeting Place with Mrs. Wil son at 10:30 This Morning, GENERAL PROTEST OVER . THE NEW RESTRICTIONS Believed That Tonight's ConM munique Will Contain an Ex planation Showing Modification. (By the Associated Press) Paris. Jan. 16. The supreme coun cil of the five great powers resumed fegsion at 10:80 this morning. -- Presidmt Wilson arrived at the meeting place accompanied by Mrs. : Wilson and her secretary, Miss Ben ham. The Impression prevailed today that T following protests that have arisen -against the decision to the council re. v striding all of the news of its tea- , sions to formal communique an ex- '; ph.nation or statement on the subject . might aprar in tonight's communique - ? to the effect that the restrictions v - . would apply only to actual proceed A ings of the current day and not to any , comment by delegates on the general questions before the council. This. ' impression cannot be efficial'y con N firmed but finds place among reports '''' -circulated today. ' Criticised By Newspaper Paris, Jan. 16. The decision of tH ' -supreme council as regards both pub- 1 licity and representation, announced. Inst nigh:, is freely criticised by ' French newspapers. To Hear Members Press. Paris, Jan, 10. The supreme coun cil today after considering the mat- ter relating between the conference and the press decided to call a meeting a5t 5 p. m. to be attended by members of the press and representatives of the various nations in conference to interchange views on publicity raeth- - - ods. y Wilson to Krp in Touch. ' Paris, Jan. 16. President Wilson has indpf initnlv nnttwnH W.m visit to the Invaded regions of France in or- der to keen n touch w th the Deace conference activities in Paris. Gentleman's Agreement Reached, rms, Jan. 15. (By the Associat ed Press.) The question of whether i thm rwACA crvnfnrAnca fa Ia Imi ttCTvt n urhniiv nnm th -.. nt . Vn written nf Acini lnnnrniMmmt i0f this purpose was issued, but word iwaa passed out to this effect, and it ' was followed by an explosion of pro- tftt which niiit ilmwniwl nut th sin- ing of the peace commissioners. 1 ... .p The understanding is that the American and British delegates op- nosed this decision, but that the r French, Italians and Japanese, voting together, prevailed. The British newspaper correspond-' ent immediately joined in a memo rial nf nrnt.pfit.. which thv nut. f f' American nAwttnnr ran nnitdinti .-v ; united j what is virtually a round Irnhin tn PmiHont Wilann In which -. .-- ......... they protested In measured terms against the decision, and reminded the President that one of his 14 points whkh specifies "open covenants of peace openly arrived at." The memorial was before the Pres ident tonight, and there is every res son to believe that such a storm has , been raised as will force the question ' before the meeting again before the actual sessions of the peace confer ence begin Saturday. The question of whether the meet ings are to be open or closed- has ' been smouldering here for 'several days. ' It is associated with conditions which have surrounded the lack of method in making public what has 1 actually been going on in conference ' for the past month. The American newspaper correspondents, of whom there are about 100 here to report the peace proceedings, hare been received in daily audience by the American commissioners under the stipulated conditions that what was developed was solely for their guidance and not to be reported as bearing the stamp ef authority or coming from the mission. The President himself has rare'y seen anv of the Americas eorrr-'1" ents and the newspaper men who r iv expressed taemselves. at m"' Cc" i cn
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