$$ DoDar Day in Salisbury, January 29th. Watch For The Ads " YAMM VALLEY MfflALD VOL. 9, NO. 27. $1.50 A YEAR AND WORTH IT. SALISBURY, NORTH CAROLINA. TUESDAY, JAN 28, 1919. $1.50 A YEAR AND WORTH IT. PRICE TWO CENTS. PEAC m oohskrs mm ma 4 J fflfflffi m President Wi TO BRING 300,000 CONSIDERS TERRITORY PLANS Every Prospect That Peace Con gress Will Make Rapid Strides From Now Until the End. TERMS TO BE SUBMITTED SOME TIME IN MARCH. French and English Are Agreed That German Colonies Shall Not Revert to that Country. (By Associated Press.) Paris, Jan. 27. The supreme coun cil of the peace conference met at 10:30 this morning. There was a full attendance of the members. A num ber of technical advisors on colonial matters, including three Americans, accompanied the various delegates as they entered the foreign office for the clay's session. ' The council of ten, as the French now call the ministers of the five great powers, has before it for considera tion today in executive session, among other things the question of territor inl adjustment, abolition of conscrip tion and economic reconstruction of Germany. These questions in accordance with the settled method of proceedure will be referred by the council to suitable commissions. There appears every prospect that the peace conference will make rapid progress from now on until the work cf fixing the peace terms for Ger many and the conference appears to have gotten into its stride. A high French diplomatic authority is quoted by the Paris edition of the London Daily Mail as estimating that the conference will have the peace terms ready for submission for rati fication by the various national gov ernments between the middle and end of March. If .this is as reported the Gernjan delegates will be summoned to Pari searly in April for conclusion of peace. One question which it was expected the council would take up today is the ultimate fate of the German colonies. France and Great Britain, it is de clared, are agreed upon at least one of the features of the solution of the problem, which is that under no con sideration shall the colonies revert to Germany. The reason advanced for such decision of the - prious but prom inent among the re-.iedies is that it will render it impossible for Germany to establish submarine bases in her colonial possessions. The American attitude is as yet unrevealed. t AMERICAN POLICE IN PA:.,o REORGANIZED. Thirty-Four Murders. 220 Night and Day Assaults and Many Serious Fights Occurred in Month of Dec ember. (By the Associated Press) 1 Paris. Jan. 27. Thirty-four mur ders, 220 day and night assaults and nearly 500 serious fights, due to American soldiers, occurred in the de partment of the Seine durinp- the month of December, says the Matin today in reverting to the subject of reoreanization of the American police in Paris. The reinforcement of the police con tingent had been demanded by Brir adier General William W. Harts, the newspaper asserts, and with the new organization effected police (opera tions have been tarried out on a wholeseale scale, especially in Mon Matre section, resultmg in the arrest of many American deserters. The American police in Paris had previously been chiefly recruited, the Matin points out, among Amer'can officers and soldiers who had ben wounded. Their main duty was to give information to American soHiers in the streets and regulate trifling offenses and carry out night patrols. ARGUING THE DEBS CASE. Oral Argument Begins Before U. S. Sunreme Court on Constitutionality of Espionage Act. (By the Associated Press) Washington, Jan. 27. Oral argu ments were begun in the Supreme court today on the constitutionality of the espionage act in the cases of Eu jren v. Debs, Socialist leader, convict ed of violating the law in a speech at Campton, Ohio, last June, and Jacob Frowerk, . of Kansas City, found guilty of writing alleged sediciou. ar ticle, for the Missouri Staats Zeitung. ! soi ALLIED FORCES QUIT TOWN SHENKURSK American and Russians Operating to the South of Archangle Withdraw j ll'nder Heavy Bolsheviki Pressure. i (By Associated Press.) London, Jan. 27. .Allied forces on 'the front south of Archangle, mainly ! American and Russian troops, have evacuated the town of Shenursk under Bolsheviki pressure and withdrawn to a shorter line north of the town, ac ; cording to a statement from the Brit i ish war office today on operations in ' Northern Russia. . WISEMAN IS HELD. i Man Given a Preliminary Hearing for ! the Killing of Dr. E. A. Hennesec at Glen Aplin Last January, in Jail Morganton. Aaron Wiseman is in jail charged , with the killing of Dr. E. A. Hen reeessee at Glen Alpine on January .'Ust of last year. Wiseman was given a hearing at Morganton Saturday be fore Judge Long and was committed to jail to await trial. Two witnesses were examined and gave strong evi- ; dence which could not be shaken and 1 the solicitor made out a very strong ; case against Wiseman. It will be remembered that Dr. Henneessee was shot at Glen Alpine, his home, just as he alighted from a I'rain in the late evening. Two of the Pitts of the town of Glen Alpine were tr;ed for the shooting and acqr'tted. There was an old feud between the doctor and the Pitts. Aaron Wiseman is from Elk Park and will be held in jail at Morganton pending his trial. ENGINEER'S QUICK STOP Engineer Mike O'Connor of Western No. 11. Asheville to Knoxville, Averts Disastrous Wreck. Asheville. Jan. 26. Only the steady nerve of Engineer Mike O'Connor saved passenger train 11 from a dis astrous wreck here this afternoon when a small avalanche of boulders, slid down on the track and knocked the locomotive from the rails and also derailed the express and mail cars. These cars and the tender of the en eine turned over, but nobody was in jured. The engineer made a wonder fully quick stop and held his train from going over a steen bank into the French Board river, The accident oc curred on the Knoxville division, about a mile and a half from the Ashevilh station. COUNTY MEETING TONIGHT. The county meeting of the P. O. S. of A. will be held in Salisbury, with Washington camp, tonight, and rep resentatives from every camp in the county are expected to be here. The local members are preparing to fit tin ply entertain their guests and there will be refreshment served after the business session. This fraternity is growing fast in this city and county and some fine re ports are expected to be handed in bv the various delegates from several camps throughout the county and by the Salisbury camp at tonight's meet ing. F William Hohetizollern Grown Surly and Rarely Speaks to Male Attend ants No Visitors and Little Corr pondence. (By the Associated Press) Tonaon, Jan. 27. William Hohen zollern, former German emperor, has grown very surly and rarely speaks a word to his men servants and guards, according to the Mail's correspondent at Amerongen. His last remarks was made a few .days ago when he said his "time at Amerongen was nearly up." it is saW. His wife on the other hand main tains a cheerful disposition and shows interest in the welfare of the people living, near the castle where she is living. The correspondent says: "The former emperor is being gradually deserted by every one. H.. receives pr Really no visitors and his formerly voluminous correspondence has become very smalL" on wll BEING DESERTED Visits MEN HOME EACH THREE IMPORTANT BILLS AT RALEIGH Although Both Houses of Legisla , ture Loafed Part of Day Busi ! ness Session Was Held Later. CHILD LABOR MEASURE FIRST TO COME UP Scales Automobile Road Tax Bill and the Shipman Machinery Act Measure on the Program. By W. T. Bost) Raleigh, Jan. 27. Both houses of the general assembly loafing delayed ; wounded early Saturday morning Wilson today made his first trip to the opening until 2:30 o'clock this af- ,near Kernersville, while with a raid- the battlefront and the devasted reig ternoon, but members announced their 1 ing party, composed of four Federal ons, visiting Chateau Theirry and purpose of presenting three import- officers and two deputy sheriffs, the , Rheims. 1 ant measures ,uair lilt UK piuie m uuni Mfc.r ; Fist is the introduction of a child 1 Kernersville After medical aid at , labor bill offered by Commissioner Kernersville and then treatment at 'Shipman of the department of labor hosp'Ul Winston-Salem Mr. and printing, who would administer Talbort was hurried in an automo i the act with a commission consisting ?lle hl.B home in, the c,t.v- "riving i of himself, Dr. W. S. Rankin, secre- here durm the afternoon. Sunday ,tary of the state board of health and frie.n,on1,lf Was renl?v'd to vthe ; State Superintendent of Education E. ' Whitehead-tStokes sanatorium where C Brooks tme Da" extracted from his ' The second i( the proposed measure I ndwhere he will receive treat of Senator Seals, of Guilford, to tax!ment- Whlle painful his injuries are 'for the purpose of getting North noLof a 8erJ?us nature. Carolina's share of the government's The attacking party of blockaders $22,000,000 for roads, automobiles at were k'd b-v ?rank Snipes, Sr., who a dollar per horse power. has Just completed a term in the At- The third measure proposed for the ,anta penitentiary for blockading. Af day is the repeal of the section of thb -r the attack and escape of the irmrhinprv rt rpniiirinff rnrnarntinna blockaders a POS.se set out in search to certify incomes of employes down to the State leaving all persons liable for such t tTS?l wares are not iaid bv corporations, Considerable lobby is here for that purpose. Govprnor Rirkprt's recommendation as to location of the new agricultural temple will not go to the joint body today but Tuesday. TWO AVIATORS ARE LOST. Flew From Marseilles to Algiers and irsailies TO Algiers ana Return But Have Not Started on Showed Up. (By the" Associated Press) Paris, Jan. 27. The French ad- miralty up to 10 o'clocK this morning had received no news from the avia- . . . , tors L.leUt. AtOget ana Uapt. lOie, who flew acrosAhe Medeterranean yesterday from Marsa.Ues to Algiers were expected back at Marseilles veen 6 and 7 o'clock Sunday night. between It is believed the aviators were com- penea to lanu on oaieaiiu isiuiiua in j the Medeterranean as they made the j trip to Algiers in five hours. A 300 horse power airplane was used. i 36 STATES CERTIFY. Sufficient Number Make Return to Washington of Ratification of the , Federal Prohibition Amendment (By the Associated Press) Washington, Jan 27. Thirty-six , States, vhe necessary three-fourths, certified to the State department their i ratification of the Federal prohibition amendment today and preparations , of a proclamation to make the amend ment effective was ordered. 1 Certifications were received early : today from Wisconsin, North Caro - j lina. Utah and Kansas, the Tatter be- ; ing the 86th State to report. Agreement on $100,000,000 Bill. j (By the Associated Press) 1 Washington. Jan. 27. An agee- mem on tne aaministrauon oui ap- ivie raiaers were disarmed, uui uie ipmoriatig $100,000 000 for European weapons wre later returned. ! relief was reached by Senate and It is stated that when the crowd at i House conferees today. The confer-! tacked the ollficers Mr. Tolbert de- i . . i , - , a , ! ence report was to be passed upon ifiist by the House, probably today, ; demand was greeted witn jeers and, was confiscated. According to government statistics j oaths a;nj they attacked Mr. Tolbert The raid planned for this morning about 1500 persons are struck by to disarm him, he being wounded at j was the result of information receiv lightning in the United States every : that time. The men then climbed in- 1 ed at internal revenue headquarters ear. of whom only about 500 are killed. '"i-aiM Vmlaa anA Hrwri and a rhair have been so combined that they fold together and form . trunk, An iron ship weigh 27 per cent , less than a wooden one of the same j dimensions and will carry 15 per ; cent more when loaded to the same depth. ' j English women are discussing the I most appropriate form of celebration j for the Queen Victoria centenary next May. - I Several Eiropeai Eattlefi REVENUE OFFICER F. C. TALBORT SHOT Federal Officers in Search if Blockadcrs Near Kernerssville Set Upon by Snipes' Gang. OFFICERS TAKEN UNAWARE IN BARN OF SNIPES Gang Was Led by Frank Snipes, Sr., Who Has Just Completed a Term in Federal Prison. ' Revenue officer F C Talhort, of this city, was shot and painfuly the men with the result that up to Sunday night the posse, headed by Avenue Agent Vanderford arrested one of the Snines men and a negro wh . a'a ai to have been impli- cated in the attack on the officers. The search for the others continues and every effort will be made to bring me entire gang to account The Winston-iSalem Sentinel of Saturday afternoon has the following account of the shooting of Mr. Tal bort: nocnuc uimn . j. xai- ort was shot and painfully wounded Internal iRevenue Officer F. C. Tal- nis morning about three o clock when a posse of revenue officers and deputy sheriffs were attacked by a party of men, numbering about tel., at the Frank Snipes farm, about two miles v : n r l, c. : o- himh iveinemviue. r laim ompes, 01., who was d-.rh.rged from the federal pr son at m.anta a lew weens ago """J. or.Mock I ng was recognized by the raiders as leading the party, it is al- icptu, : The posse of officers arrived at the Snipes farm about two o'clock this morning and lodged in a barn near the farm house, where they expected to' wait until daylight when the raid was heduled to take place. Just after ' the officers arrived there was consid- erable activity inside the barn house. While waiting inside the barn about fifty1 yards from tne house there was a sudden rush from the outside and the alleged blockaders appeared over the officers with flashlights and rifles leveled for action. Seeing that the others had the drop on the men, little resistance was onerea Dy tne raiaers. While others held their weapons on the officers two of the alleged block- ;aders attempted to wrest a rifle from the hands of Mr. Tolbert. During the tustle one of the gang fired at Mr. Tolbert, the ball glancing his hand, inflicting a flesh wound, and passing into the knee, ranging downward and lodging in the calf of the leg. m 1 i 1 a xl manded their surrender, stating that ithey were government officers. This to an automobile that was standing near the barn belonging to Frank Snines. Sr.. and drove away. ! f rnm fCprnprmrillp- and noon as ht could be moved Mr. Tolbert was brought to this city, and this morning he left for his home at Salisbury j where he will enter a hospital for the 1 nurpose of having the ball extracted ; from his leg. ' Local officers recently went to the I'Vome of Frank Snipes, on North i race street, ana cspturea tniny- three gallons of whiskey. Moody O'Neal wss found in possession of the whiskey and was arrested. When tried before Judge Vogler. he was fin- MONTH PRESIDENT WILSON TO BATTLEFIELDS! Makes a Tour of Chateau Thierry and Rheims Section and Views Devastation by Huns. MAKES BRIEF COMMENT ON ; IMPRESSION HE RECEIVED 1 Every Frenchman Has Been Hop ing the President Would Make This Visit Sooner. (By the Associated Press) Paris, Sunday, Jan. 26 President At the close of a tour that took him trough a dozen razed villages, ending in the ruins of the historic cathedral ut Rheims he made this comment: "No on? can put into words the im pression I have received among such acnes of dessolation and ruin " That was Mr. Wilson's only ex pression of his feeling after the trip every Frenchman has been hoping 4e would make before he takes part in, deciding what shall be exacted from Germany for devastation in Northern France. Accepts Invitation to Brussels. Brussels, Sunday, Jan. 20. (Havas Agency) President Wilson has ac cepted the invitation of King Albert to visit Brussels, it is said in we)l In formed circles, but has not fixed the J?m CVT i Uf nol,xea e ffSnessn Pari8P " uua,les" District Board Will Finish Duties Soon. Statescville, Jan. 25. Federal court will .be held in Statesville be ginning the first week in Aoril next, the first term of court to be held here since April, 1917. All terms since that time have been removed to Salisbury on account of the fact that the west- Ai.tr;nt mnHm hnarA ma. n. ern dlstr'ct exemption board was oc- cupying the court room, and Judge Boyd did not interfere with their op erations. The work of the district board is practically at an end, only a few more odds and ends to be finish u ed up and within a few weeks it will . thinir nf Vip nnnt A nnrt nf tho SfS'rd o'rds wSl iTltt the Jooa, scattered throujrhout district while the remainder will be forwarded to the war department flt Washington. E French Socialists Called Upon t- Make a Decision Socialist Sneaker Pays Tribute to President Wilson But Cannot Follow Hjm. (B ythe Associated Press) Pari: .Tan 97 TVio finoinliafa nt prance must maki a choice between following Wilson of the United States or Lenjne 0f Russia. This declara- tjon wag made at an excjted meeting 0f tne Socialists in Paris Sunday bv j Lorjet. After several Socialist leaders were shouted down when they trjed to gpeak. M. Loriet declared: "President Wilson is an able man " . but he must not be followed. The mo ment has come to choose between him and Lenine." -wwvwww I ed $250 and the costs. The whiskey at Greensboro, to the effect that whis key was being distributed in large quantities thru this section from the Snipes farm, near Kernerwille. Revenue Agent .T. H. Vanderford, :n charge of the operations of the revenue officers in this section, has determined to break up trafflcing hi whiskey in this section, and will take steps at once to bring the alleged of fenders to justice. In the posse of officers mobilised on the Snipes fsrm last night were P. C Tolbert, Moses Hstcher, S. P. Try, and W. A. Hsrtness, of the In terrt"! revenue department, end Deo uty Sheriffs S. M. Ellison end L. Newsora, of this city. BETWEEN WILSON L IE FROM OVERSEAS FARMERS TOLD TO REDUCE ACRFAGE ; Consumption of Cotton Will Be Sub - Manually Lew Tpa.j Pre-War Av - erages, Says Statement. Washington, Jan. 2(.. Farmers of !he 8uh were advised In a statement issued by the department of agricul ture today, that it would be wise to adjust cotton acreage this year so as to nave avauame sunicient iana to produce enough food snd feed for their families and live stock. "If industrial conditions in all the cotton consuming countries do not reach normal, and if the industry is not restored, the consumption of cot ton will be substantially less than pre war average requirements," the state- mm n il. vun prncucauy com- : Scn te milltary committee Stated fhat plete restoration, cotton consumption , K , , . , muv well be expected to equal the nor-' nipplng arangements had been made mal or pre-war times on account of by which 300,000 men may be trans the present shortage of cotton goods ported home each month and all in various countries. The economics Amcric(.n expedition forces can be which the peoples of Europe retnined home within six months, practice for some years to come must How many Amercans will be held be considered. abroad In the army of occupation Is to iTf6... determined by President Wilson,- United States were given as 18.01V General March stated. Then divisions ?S8 W fcili0"1 'TSSiSll.S1 iflS h ,ndlc,ted hBd bcn "-jested, but 600.000 bales. The American llmore Americans wera being deslgnat- After domestic consumption rtquhe- y propoM(j by Marshal Foch. ' ments are taken care of there wll I he vThe' Btfi, bout m m mn , an exportable surplus of 6.100,00 canip(J , the Unfted gu'teg nd bales. i ...ill kA AmKii;. m.fku MMMu FOR RETURN SOLDIERS. Bantist Church Welcomes the Mor Park Home and Pastor Preacher Helnful Sermon. BKh!llirflWSH!Stvinh,r ?L St. "( Vh. h Jf hfar the pastor talk to the return sol- diers. A special musical program and a special sermon were prepared for ;re,in,g!s0sfeSc0em WThree SSK Rev. C. A. Owens, nn i rn oat cordis 1 welcome to the soldiers and assured them of the kindly interest the com - munity feels in himNcnd for him. The which emphasized the fact that the service which we are due to the returning soldier is most a most prac- tical one. a service that will show him our appreciation, and at the same time lend him practical and material aid in petting established permanently In the community. Quite a number of men in ur)iform were present while a number of return soldiers were in the audience in civilian clothes. Jel Addison Hayes Dead. (By the Associated Press) Colorado Springs, Col., Jan. 27, Top) Addison Hayes, son-in-law of each family ore anv roomers that may Jefferson Davis, late president of the be at each house, also with this is be Confederate States of America, and ( serured the number and age of .11 or 25 vers president of the First wi,0 i,,ve had influenza, the numbe Bank of Colorado Springs, died ves- -i,0 hVe contracted the disease and rdav at Los Angeles after a long; this is being tabulated by meant of illness, according to advices received here. I L OF E . R. Bost. Salisbury Boy, Is Seeking to Get Some of the Fortune Left hv a Great Uncle Cabarrus Man lft More Than a Quarter nf a Million Dollar Among Many Relatives. 0 CONTEST WIL mm Mr. J. H. Bost. a young man who:,nnwir, - k , Imnrove- 'lives in this city, but who for ome'ment j jhe eituation in Salisborr. jtime has been work'ng in Raltimor. I , , through His attorney, Walter H. I wwdi. o tne local oar, seeKs to; break the will of the late Aaron Bost, i a Cabarrus county man who died a! few weeks ago and left an estate . estimated, at irom inree to iour . . . t m m hundred thousand dollars. Aaron Bost was never married, hud no immediate fam"v other than ths children and grand children of h's brothers snd sisters. To these he left the estate under will, J. B. Bost htnjf the on'v one left out by the will. Young Boat's father was John ?.. Bot, a nenhew of the deceased and John I- Bost ha. beed dead a number of "ears. ihe will was nrnhated some davs ago and Messrs J. W. Cannon and E. nm Bost are executors of th wi'l. The proper papers were . nerved throurh the clerk of the S'inerior -out on Saturdsv evn!nr and the ex- imoplv the pulT.it of ! First Pres-e-utors served with the oroper papers byterian church in Dr. Clark's ab to start the suit to break the wilL sence. . . ' . J els BRING 300.00 IN HOME EACH MONTH ! General March. Chief of Staff. ; Announces Plans for Brimrlnir the Overseas Army Back. -EN DIVISIONS MAT MAKE UP ARMY OF OCCUPATION I . . . . -" uau iu vaiupa iu vuucu States May be Sent Home With in Month Few Exceptions. (By the Associated Press) Washington, Jan. 27. General March, chief of staff, discussing army demobilization plan today with the , fllll ISC UUIUWU4HCV TT 1 VII 1(1 IllUllbll j -om todav, except those retained for l"oerhead" duty, General March ad- , jj t , t he M,d 104 000 me had iyed f I seas In' connection with demobilisation nlans retention of an American stand , f m,0Q0 men was propos- rf w; d ,t ; to reduce it below 600.M0 men "if w ean help , " he told, the committee. QUARANTINE OFFICERS ' taw rrvoira 1 IAKIi tlsnsl-H- of ,he Tm w-rdi Tour, ed and Data on Influensa Situation Be'ng Compiled. j The corps of quarantine officers, one for each of the four city wards, has been completed, and these men are now at work. Mr. Ed Bringle, who was selected of the West ward, did not serve and Mr. T. B. L'nk is on fn that ward, while the East Ward of ficer is Mr. Benjamin Cauble and Mr. P. L. Page is on duty in the North Ward and F. C. Cauble in the South ward. These men are making . house to hove canvass, taking the number in the card system. When this work is comnleted it will he noi'e to ascertain iust what per cent of the pooulat'on of the citv his hd th inf'uph and the nmber who . are vet suscentib'e to the diee. The cards w'll s'"o contain what intent be termed a complete census of Salis bu"v. "nth the health officer, and nolice ofWrs ek the heat'-v co-oorratlon of ; s'l th c''rens in this work. Give all 'nfonnaHon pourht and aid In the enforcement of the Quarantine ""egu'a tions in those Homes where the dis ease appears. It Can ne stated In th "nnreet'on that It sId there appears . - - - - - - - CUMMINGS WANTS ROADS KEPT ...' . nnMi..n Senator From Iowa Fa-: roprnrntit Retaining Road, Vw,tn v-nn,. A.r pMM. j - (Wv the Assnctated Tres1 TashinsTton, Jan. 27. Senator Cunmmgs of Iowa. Republican, nre nnred today a resotlon tohititn the rturn of the railroads to privat. on-ntors until the expiration of the u1' 21 m-nth. oeriod alter oesee is deeVred, allowed in the railroad eon tro law. ; R. P on Ork. D. D will leave tw.!rh: fc P'tfmo i whre he ex pects to submit to a surgical osera 'on for th removal of atracts on his eves. , He wW rrobabnr be absent revenu weeks. VJtn m'i'.ten will