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. - ; " .V ccitEcio.i v-- --- -1 - V ' - - t '.- - - ' . -V ' : t - -' 11. is rv v 7, It' r- J? V. T a- it ' V..i" fcrr 1.- A m i ' ft ' VQU& KO. 90. f COMMETTEE TO M i v. iiiiionii nrnnmno ntmirnir niiirnfti rm null mnnno I M Gratified: That , Congress Has liecided 'to Speed rWp Action on the Treaty and the League: - OJNT TOUR WHEN TRETT IS REPORTED Hopes to G&t 'to the 'Pacific Coast in Tiitte" to Review the Pacific Fleet' ai Sari Francisco. --'' 'K ( By i Associated Press.). ' Washinsrton. Auer. hile grat ified that the Senate foreign relations committee had decided to speed up consideration of the peace" treaty President Wilson, it was said today, has not receeded, from his, position against reservations. . . It was intimated at the White tastes and habit of the man m life. , : House that theattitude of "Senator Fully one-half of the sixty persons Hitchcock, Democrat, of Nebraska, present were, members of the house who told the foreign relations com- hold. The others were intimates of mittee yesterday that unless the com- the family. The rial of the Pres mittee reported out in the near future byterian church was used by the off i an attempt would "be made to have ciatingr clergyman, f Dr. William M. (the measure called up in the Senate .Pirson, of Fjick ; "Presbyterian reflected the view rof ' President Wil church, 5th avenue, New York, inhere son. - , ' ' Carnegie attended . worship and - of Secretary Tumulty said there was , which Mrs. Carnegie and daughter, "a strong possibility" that the Pres-.Mrs. Roswell Miller, are members, ident might start on his speaking " At the conclusion" of the service . tour when the treaty is reported by . whch occupied barely twenty minutes .the committee.. ' i the body, accompanied by most of the i 11 M -was incimatea tnat vwoue - sne President saw no need of turther cdn league1 covenant he still holds himself " at the disposal of the committee. '! Mr,' Wilson hopes to get to the Pacific coast m time to review, the . . Pacific fleet early in September and expects that before leaving Washing ton congress will get well under way in the campaign to reduce . the hign cost of. living. Committee to Call on Wilson Washington, Aug. 14. After a few hours discussion the senate foreign relations committee decided to notify President Wilson that it would call on him at the White House at hi3 1 convenience to discuss the peace treaty.) In deciding to request the President for a conference on which there was ano committee vote it was agreed that all information secured from the President would be made public. iA motion to call also Col. House, Cen. Bliss und Henry White, Ameri can delegates to the peace conference, was voted down to 8 to 9. There was no indication at the White House when the rresider.'; would receive the committee. To n quirists Secretary Tumulty said: "Wt have no comment to make." ABOLISH MONOPOLIES, LOUIS F. POST URGES. Assistant Secretary of Labor Would Permit Legitimate Trade to "Right Itself." Washington, Aug. 13.-Louis F-5 Post, assistant secretary ' of labor, speaking last night in the civic forum of Trinity Church crt the. high cost of living, declared that when monopo lies are abolished legitimate trade will right itself, One of the 'most -fundamental of natural laws in this," Mr. Post de.wnicn is to T)e preseniea ioaay py oi; ,io,t ,, wonfa nor, nnin hcers of the Chicaero district djunci be satisfied by human effort. Labor therefore, is the basic principle of life, A not her Fundamental Law Cited, "Anntkar fnnHamcnHl inw ia thn everv one tries to satiety his w with- th lpnat lflW nf hia own. This is the basic law of the cost of livme. It is' a law of human nature which t0 comply will be compelled to! ad gives us specialization and trade, a 7" Hmes and Wilson, if necessary that you do hot belong to. the oreani- cialization saves labor, so bv tradine their.-products fairly , among them- the strikers will be deprived df bene selvefe each worker is better off than htSi j V if hedid not specialize. But labor I -Stn"8 Meeting m Chicago depends upon .natural resources;' Chicago, Aug. 14. 'Several thou therefore no one in fairness can be sand railway shopmen from all parts allowed to profiteer in natural re-' of the country met here today to con sources." j sider the question of returning to Says Monopolies Want "Rake-Off" work in accordance wlih" President "Monopoly," continued the speaker Wilson's demand, "disturbs fairness by exacting rake- 11 is expected that e definite -policy Offs from the public. It exacts these regarding the strike wnieh was called rake-offs principally through combi-; August 1 in defiance- of the orders of nations like the ' steel trust- or the international officers of the union will packing trust, through private be adopted before the meeting , ad- roads, or through the holding out of use of valuable lands." 'But," concluded the assistant sec- fetary, "revolution is not the method of changing anything in our govern - ment. uurs is tne government law. The people Can alter their laws peaceably by the ballot fn any way they wish and whenever they -wish. Minorities cannot do this, but majori ties can." Peat, is largely used in stoking the railway engines of Sweden. A YEAR Atl WORfH IT. Held at Shadowbrooie! in ?p(ieBe1ire Hills - of Massachusetts Where the Millionaire Died. ONLY ABOUT SIXTY PERSONS ATTENDED No Eulogy and No Pall Bearers Taken to Sleepy Hollow Cemetery at Hills dale, N. Y. ' ' (By, the Associated Press) Lenox,34as8, jAug 14. The funer- aI Qf Aiidriwarnegie was eld at , , v-iiTT J .Shadowbrook-hM jammer home m - .tfte - '1 Berkshire hills today. There , was no aulogy" and no pall bearers, The service was simple as'-were the parxy, was removea m s moiar c.w l Hillside. N. s. Y where funeral to oe taKen to aieepy nauow tor m' erment in a lot chosen by Mr Carnegie some years ago. EXPULSION : IS B. E. Jewell, President of the Organization, Sends Strongly Worded Tele gram to Chicago. WILL NOTIFY HINES AND PRES. WILSON 9 Unless All Strikers Return to Their Jobs They May Be Deprived of Member ship in Union. (By Associated Press.) Chicago, ' -?Aug 14-Epuision' of. an siriKing raiiwav. snopmen irom tne international organization is threatened in a telegram from B. E Jewell, president of the" organization ata meeting of the striking shopmen called to vote on the question of re- .turning to work. 1 he telegram reads ' ."Make orders positive to all points Wow is the time to act. We canno much longer delay and if you refuse zation. If negotiations are resumed Local leaders . urge the strikers to stand firm and refuse to return to work while international officers ad vise the men to call off the strike and 1 defer until later a settlement of their oi aermanas lor nigner wages. While the meeting was In session 28 000 striking car workers in the Chi cago district began taking a refe rendum vote to decide whether , to re turn to work. Railroad officials . report little change m the traffic situation due to the strike. ' r"'v era d or SUING n Bolshevik Forces Drive the Kolchak Troops Back Six- " ty Miles Endeavoring to Make a Split. A SERIOUS BLOW TO POUCY OF INTENTE Ammunition -Being Rushed Fi:oni : America and May Arrive in Time to Help Save the Day. (By Associated Press.) London, Aug. 14. The retreat in the Ural mountains of Admiral Kol chak's troops continues. The Bolshe viks have driven the Kolchak forces back about 60 miles endeavoring to separate them frbm the main body of forcesr The Associated Press is informed that the general position of "Admiral Kolchak is not believed to have made materially worse by the Bolshevik advance and-harring the unexpected collapse of the- Kolchak army the mu- j nitions America is sending should ar rive m biberiav m time to aid his re covery. r N evertheles it is admitted here that the reverses suffered by Admiral KoichaK are a serious blow to the policy of the entente in Russia. DR. ATKINS AT -BAPTIST' CCHURCH SUNDAY pit at tne baptist church Sunday m the place of Dr. Owens who was ex pected to return but will not on ac count of the urgent demand that he continue his revival services at Mays- viiie, oa. It has been customary for Dr. Ow ens to hold revivals during his vaca tion, and after holding several in eGorgia there was a great demand for him at Maysyille and after wiring the officials -of his. church in order to see if the pulpit could be filled, and since it is taken care of he will remain in Maysville where he will conduct services Sunday. PERMITS TO DISTILLERS FOR RECTIFYING LIQUOR. Chicago, Aug. 13. Acting on in- S' ructions received from Washing n, Julius F. S. Mietanka, collector of internal revenue for the Chicago district, which now includes Peoria, has issued orders permitting the rec tifying of whiskey. As a result of this order it is said that thousands of barrels of liquor are being botled by dealers preparatory to sale when the war-time prohibition ban is lifted. ROSE MURDER TRIAT, DRAGES SLOWLY ON. Murphy. Aug. 13. The Rose murder trial is dragging slowly, the jrhoje of today being,takeij up in the fjmnunaiiun 01 witnesses wain no, nw developments. BoWi the .state and defepd'nAFe' desperate fight and at this ntage it im:ossibIe:.tOr predict anything. It will take untit noon fnlorrow to ih the examination of witnesses and the case will probably go to the jury by Friday noon. KING HONORS LLOYD GEORGE Invests Premier With Order of Merit. Grants Several Titles . '. London, Ausr. 12.--JCing George to night invested Dav'd Xlloyd 'George, the premier, with the Order of Merit, at Buckingham Palace. The award of the honor was . announced on .August 6. , : 5!tr Edward Cecil 'Guinness, first Viscount Iveagh, chancellor of Dub lin university, and head bf the most important Pvr'tish brewing;:nrm, was created an earl. iSir Edward R. iRussell, editor of the Livmool Daily Post since 1869, was mpde a baron. Joseph iDuveen. senior member of the art' fro of D'-iveen P-rothers of Ionon. New York and Paris, and Alfred Waldron Smithers. chairman of the Grand Trunk railway of Can-po"-. wer annong those granted J knighthood. SECRERATY BAKER ON TRIP New York. Aug. 13,--Secretary Pker has gone to Muscle Shoals, ,;Algr., to inspect the government-ni trate riant at that pomt pnd also the construction worV on the big Tennes see n'ver. dim yhiAh is Wng built to provide water for the plant. Th sec ftjjrv is sMohroanifid bv 01. Harrv Taylor, engineers several . officers of the ordnance department, a,nd Repre sentative Almon of 'Alabama. SALISBJJRY, NORTH CXR0LINA A FRIIAf AUGUST 15, 1919. ?M ill Million M iDol la-MhhSuitme A HOT WEATHER CARTOON Moral-v-Be CASUAL STATISTICS AMERICAN FORCES Battle Deaths Among Enlisted Men Were Eight Per Thousand Of Ev- j ery 1,000 Officers Landed in France 330 Were Either Killed or Wounded. ! (By Associated Press) ! iiaaiiiuum, uvu. 1. aubijbib ui the revised casualty reports received from the central office in France shows that the European war was the most sanguinary in history. Battle deaths among enlisted Amer- j " L j. : A.1 1. icans averagea eigni, per wuaunu, , among, emergency officers 11 per thousand and alnong regular army onicers i4 perousanqr .... ji every l.V-r officer ianaed m France 330 were either were either killed or wounded. Battle deaths were 37 per thou sand for graduates of West Point, against 18 for non-graduates. So the Food Administration States and District Attorneys Are Being Notified for Their Information. (By Associated Press.) Washington, Aug. 14 Hearings on proposed legislation for cold storage concerns continued today by the House agricultural committee with the editor of the "Products Review of New York opposing any further re-i straint. He-said the legislation under consideration would tend to reduce the efficiency of the cold storage sys tem. Tomorrow the commission will be gin hearings on the proposed amend ment to the food control act suggest ed by President Wilson. Recent opinion by the Federal food administration that eleven cents was a fair price for sugar is. being trans mitted by the department of justice to district attorneys for their infor mation in the. program against profi teering. Attorney General Palmer was to appear later today before the Senate agricultural committee to explain the amendment to the food control act extending the, profit, section to cloth ing and other necessities' and provid ing penalties for violation of the law. Cotton Consumed in July. . (By Associated Press ) Washington, Aug. 14. Cotton con sumed durink July was 509,793 bales of Jint and 21,177 bales' of iinters, tne census bureau' announced today. yr5tDceft en j ) -Lhoterneu- J . rr,vootp &ttzg. order 1 u-l.t.' VC ELEVEN CENTS FAIR mom Careful what you talk about during 'HEARINGS ON THE PERMANENT AMI Proposals for a Permanent Pace Time Army of Over Half Million Training for Youths to Be Discus-' sed. (By the Associated Press) Washington. Aug. 14. Hearines in i the war department's proposal for a permanent military policy and provid. ; ing for universal military training! for youths of 19 years of are and a ' strong standing peace time army armv with a strenjrth of 576.000 were i to regumed today by the senate miliUry subomniittee appointed by Chairn4n Wadworth. Lieut. Gen. R. L. Bullard and Mai. T, tltao urVi nraiA rYi OQ ! - 4.,flP fKa tm.nn vifinnJ J VI OCLIL Vi VII W IV.Mil AUlVIWb arv farces in France were to be heard Secretary of - War Baker who was to have testified - today- postponed his appearance until Monday. ' MINISTER FROM MEXICO TO JAPAN TO RETURN HOME Mexico City, July 28. (Corre spondence of Associated Pressl Mmuel Perez Romem, for some time Mexican minister to Japan., has noti fied this government that he will re turn home soon leaving affairs in chrpe of a sut-secretarv. El Demo crata says it is rumored Senor Rom ero will not return to his post. 90 INTFRIOR POPTT,LATTON OF ARMENIA EXTERMINATED WashinPton.VAug. 13. --The survey by Mmi. Wan. S. Dodd of the Ameri can 'Rted Cross commission to Pales tine shows that approximately 90 per cent of the population of interior Ar menia has ben exterminated by the privations, exile and maftacres inci dent to the domination by the Turks. Mai. Podd has just reached Paris where he reports the bitter need of the Armenians. BRITAIN AIMS AT ECONOMY. Churchill in Commons Answers Criticism of Extravagance. London, Aug. 13. In the house of commons tonight the ministers had to listen to stronr criticism of the extravagance ol the government in the matter of armaments, but Win ston Spencer Churchill, secretary of war; in a general defence of the gov ernment, said he was able! to promise con'derah1e retrenchment' in this di rection. His speech betrayed that the government was trying as fsr as pos sible to met the popular demands for greater economy. Ciears are regularly exported from the Philippines to forty countries. t50 A TEAR AND WORTH mm. rv a By MORRIS GO FHE-E .V00M6 MAN, - f l - is -i" the hot spell ' KILLED BY ASSASSIN Brother of CosU Rican President Was Legal Successor to That Position. Had Asked to B Relieved. Washington, Aug. 12. Joaquin Ti- noco, orother oi the President or v-osta 1 Rico, was assassinated August 10. ac- WoO IF VOU HAD -'y . . V, T KM 9 1 i 1 I OAQUIN TINOCO IS cording to reports today to the state I TV , aea down here yesterday in department. No details were given. o .co,jrt whcn. Jud Charles P. Whether President Tinoco still is in U,V Pn'd motion of government CosU tRica is not known at the rtiu'f"?! diamuaing a suit in equity department. Joaquin Tinoco was his j "i0;" -y i5. Ho Add- v-"1""1" 1po-1 surreor. I ? Am'"cin D,rth. ,n Mch the Ut- Removal of Joaquin Tinoco was ac- r ,"r n voms, wnere cepted by the sUte department as TJ1", . , andl.eh,'d- Circumven futher indication of the early break- L-vp I.. ,'"-!,0n r UV W.?,d mz up of the present government, 1 'w.Ti?' w "J.1? ?h. V' which President Wilson has refused,"" " .cx m dis is to recognize oecause u was creaiea by the forcible overthrow of the con stituted authorities Joaquin Tinoco . was nremier oesisrnaao. a title cor- i . . . .... I f w if va-T,T.iAo-nt vi- I tion. At that time Mariano B. gun rot ' was proposed as the -president's , i ' v. 7C . ; .C . ' . J " aepanure oi rresiaein. unocu, me American government would recog nize Quiroz's government. It was believed however, that the passing of the Tinoco brothers mijrht sooh result in the establishment of a government that would receive rec ognition. TO BRING PRISONERS HOME. Secretary Baker's Order Relating toienteen whites. Among those indicted A. E. F. Men in Arrest. was George Stauber, a white youth, Washington, Aug, 13. Orders have J alleged to have started the I toning sf been issued by the Secretary of Warja negro boy who fell "from a raft and for the return of all general prisoners was. drowned July 27, tbs incident in the American expeditionary forces , causing the outbreaks. The-charge is to the United States as soon as possi ble. A clemency memorandum n each of these cases will be consider ed by the judge advocate general of the Army with the least possible de lay, with a view to the prisoner's re lease from a confinement wherever found justifiable. $1,500,000 TO UNIVERSITY California Institution Objects of Ed ward Searies' Generosity San Francisco, Aug. 13. A gift of 25,000 shares of stock in the Pacific Improvement company, valued at $1, 500.000, has been .made to the Uni versity of California -by Edward Sear-, les, a Massachusetts capitalist, it wss announced here today. Searies, who married the widow of Mark Hopkins, one of the builders of the Central Pacific railway, has made many substantial gifts to western ed ucational institutions. PRICE TWO ft.; T Twelve Men to Consider "Whether Henry ' Ford is Entitled to Damages from Chicago Paper. ' f JUDGE SAYS FORD IS PUBLIC CHARACTER Criticism" is Expected J$uC NeB-spaperJHaa i No Great er PrivUege-Than a Priv ate Individual. v DOLLAR LIBEL SU1 (By Asoeiate4 Preta.) Mt. Clemens, Mick, Aug. ll) The ' ury which.fbr three month has been . rearing testimony and argument la Henry Ford'a one million dollar libel ' suit against the" Chicago -Daily .Trib une retired today to consider its rer-' diet. . ', ' Judge James C Tucker instructed the jury that Tthe right-of fair comi . pient" is expected -in tb cam, o Mr. -Ford becAuse ef his position'- as a employer of labor and his -entry as a propagandist tnto the diseusakms of the preparedness question, which r ' made him a public cha.racter 'The judge held that a newspaper had no greater privilege in making comaent, however, than an individual. -The court room was crowded dar- mg the judge s charge, to -the jury. Thejury was locked np;at 0:t5 this morning.. Th "iudgt rastrocted th j Jury. that xhV charge of bro -German. . . . . - .. -"1""1' mtaret:ln. sjvoatinr- usUined and the jury could not con sider it. The judgs gave definitions of the words "anarchist and an archy, but instructed the jury that it was the duty of the jury itself to de termine in what sense the newspaper used the words and what it would mean to its readers. There were two defenses, he continued. ,If the jury finds that the changes in ths sditorial were true thst Mr. Ford was in fact an anarchist and sn ingnorant ideal ist it was s complete defense. The right of "fair comment" was a sec ond defense to be considered. CHINESE, AMERICAN BORN, IS REFUSED A PASSPORT. PitUburgh, Ps., Aug. 13. An Im- Prtnt opinion of the United States The case has hung in the balance for many years. Soo Hoo Add eon- .V.O IIC W HK pnMT M IA nnrl n . u . t . . - . . . . - nfcive-oom Amen- nA rh-,'A kvT bl .V" riRht of the BepsrtmeTt of Com- i" and Labor and the Stale De- panment to refuse him s passport. INDICT 13 MORE A9 RIOTERS. Fifty Colored and 17 Whftes Nw Face Charge in Chicsgo. Chicago, Aug. 13. Thirteen white men, alleged to have participated- in the recent race riots have been indict ed. Indictments now have fceen re turned against fifty necroea and bv- manslaughter. Don't Call Me Robber Stamp. (By the Associated Press) Washingtno, Aug. 14. Members of the house intervened today to pre vent a personal encounter between Representatives Blanton.Blanton and Hardy o fTexas, both Democrats. Re senting the charges by B lan ton that he wa a "mere rubber stamp" in the sense that he always defended the adr ministration Hardy rushed st his colleague but wss restrained. South America Gets U. S. Gold. ' New York, Aug. 13. Withdrawal of 1150,000 in rold from the subtress ury yesterday for shipment to South America brought the total of gold shipments from this country shtce tbs lifting of the embargo to $123,472, 000. Nearly half of this sura or $57, 150,000, wss for South American.... L-l V 4 r si J 4 t i ' '-'1' - v, W.-t K t
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