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Vlll COWIPLETES CESS! Is Expected , to .Define Clearly Political Issue Growing Out of Treaty Proposal - PRESENTED TO SENATE LATE THIS AFTERNOON No Information Given in Ad vance As to Contents of Lonjj Awaited Document (By the Associated Press;) ." WASHINGTON, May 27 - .President AVilson's message ve toing the Republican peace reso lution will bo sent today to Con-.' gross. White House officials would not say whether the presi dent would return the treaty of Versailles with - his veto mes sage. , , ' v::. (By the Associated' PreBs.) " WASHINGTON, May 27. Presi dent Wilson virtually has completed his message vetoing the Republican peace resolution, but it was intimated at the' White House today that before Bcnilns the message to Congress the i-Tef ent migm iaiK 11 over at I with Secretary Colby. lie contents were not forecast, but it generally is expected the message will define clearly the political issue which has grown out of. the presi dent's disagreement with Congress on the treaty of Versailles and the ef fort to establish peace by resolution. '."'fain American Honor , WASHINGTON, Jday 27. The Re publican peace ' resolution- was ve toed today by President Wilson. . . Such a method of making peace with Germany,, the, president: said, "would place an ineffaceable stain upon the integrity and honor of the United States." -, " . rc,7 rding the treaty of Versailles, the 'president declared that t,the treaty embo "3 the important things omit ted by tve resolution and said that by rejeeu;g- the treaty the United Sjtates had c'eclared 1.4 effect that it f' he.l "to draw apart and pursue ob ject3 arl ir.terr-'s of r owW V, The i - ' . : t vKii v.nat the peace resolali :m omitted r.tntion of many i..-. porta nt objects fr the. vindication of. which the Ur. iced States entered the war. ' ' . . . "Such a peace with Germany," the message continued, "a peace In which the need3 of the essential interests which we had at heart when we en lered the war, is safeguarded is or ought to be invincible,' is consistent with the dignity of the United States, with the rights and liberties of her citizens and with the very funda mental conditions of civilization. DEMOCRATS OF, TEXAS ENDORSE MR. WILSON (By the Associated Press.) 5 , DALLAS, Texas, May 27. The Democratic political ' situation in Texas, hich for months has been agitated over the question of endorse inent or repudiation of the adminis tration of President Wilson, reverted to state questions with the closing of the Democratic convention, which adjourned yesterday V -after - unani mously approving the action of. the present national administration ana declaring for an "unimpaired- league or nations." , . ? - Increase Teachers Salaries. ' ;- (By Associated Press.) GREENVILLE. S. C, May 27. In addition to a cash bonus' of twenty per cent on salaries for the session just closed, that the teachers in the Greenville city schools have received, all teachers will be' given increases in salaries next year of twenty per cent, it was announced today. Cold Weather Has Materially 4n jurti Growing Things , (By the Associated Press.) v WARiriMflTnM M r - Md 27. Farm crops In Beaufort county win average, only about 70 per cent nor ' mal'this year,-according to the best estimates available. It has been many years since there has been such an unpromising outlook for the farmers as a whole as there seems to be this year.' - $ v'-.-v: ' 'a.'-- K The cold weather, which has heen prevalent during almost the entire spring, still continues and is increas ing daily the amount of damage that ,,. is being done to the crops. Stands of cotton, corn, and other crops are of a .sickly nature. The tobacco crop has also been affected materially- 4 some of .the tobacco : men estimate that this year's cron win not he mpre than 60 per cent of what it was last year.. They do not believe that the . quality will be as good, either. ; 1 It may be that immediate warm weather will help the situation -some, l ut as matters now stand, the farm- . ' ers will lose many thousands' of doj lars on account of damage which a ready has, been done. . . ' ? "iU 1GE VETOING PEACE RESQLU IN . Friday fair, warmer. "UNCLE BOB" KNOX MARRIED 8 TIMES DIES IN GEORGIA Aged Veteran Was Seeking to "Put Away" His Last Wife When 5 . Death Overtook Him. . DALTON," Ga., May ; 27. "Uncle Bob" Knox,, veteran of the Mexican war, went to his last reward here re cently at the age of 96 years. At the time of his death his attor ney Was seeking to annul his eighth marriage. v Three of "Uncle Bob's" previous wives were divorced from him, while four preceded him to the grave. . The veteran was a prosperous far mer a:W land owner of Murray county and was known for his genial dis- Dosition. He was among the first volunteers who offered their services in- this ', state when the Mexican trouble broke out. . PRESENTS JUDGE CONNOR WITH A SAILING VESSEL WILMINGTON, May 27. What is probably the smallest craft ever of ficially registered with tne depart ment of commerce has been entered with customs officials here. The boat is a full rigged- sailing, vessel, six feet lone with a beam of 12 inches and a depth of six inches. It is named the Judge Henry G.. Connor, ana as presented to Judge Connor, of the United States Court, by C. D. MafBt, local shipping agent. It will be used, as a model in the- trial of admiralty cases. . .. - " TO PROTEST CLOSE VOTE ON CHURCH MOVEMENT (By the Associated Press.) CHARLOTTE, i May 27. Doctor George Summey, commissioner to tne Presbyterian General Assembly rrom New Orleans, and recognized leader in the faction of the assembly opt posed ,to the Interchnrch World Move ment, gave notice at the opening or. today's V session that ; the minority would protest the close vote of last night by which the, assembly com mitted Itself to the , tntercnurcn World Movement. I LAUNCH : AGIST SUFFRAGE Great Meeting, . With ; Prominent , Speaker Scheduled This After- -, ; , ' noon in Raleigh . (By 'Associated Press,) ',- . RALEIGH,. May 27. The North Carolina branch of -the Southern Women's Rejection" ; League ' will launch its campaign against the rati catioh of the Susan B. : Anthony suf-r f rage amendment at a meeting in' the senate chamber late today.. Speakers will include Mrs. W, UP, K Wyse, of Pikeville, Md., sister of United . States Senator, Beckham, of TContnplrv- Mra. 'TlTifus M - flihhR. rf Baltimore, Md., who look part in the campaign against the amendment in Maryland; Mrs. Walter Lamar, t ot Macon,-Georgia j'Miss Caroline Davis, of Charlottesville, and others. . , , ' Former corporation . commissioner E. C, Beddingneld, now state senatoi-, will preside. v-. -.. ' ; ? ; Permission to use the senate cham ber was given by Governor Bickett. Early Decision Expected. , BATON ROUGE, La., May- 27. The general impression in legislative circles is that the suffrage issue is scheduled for early decision, as a re sult of the action of the house com mittee which ordered a favorable re port on the bill giving state suffrage to women. Those following federal ratification are opposing the state suffrage meas ure. -' Federal ratification advocates wi have their hearing next Wednesday night, June 2, and action on the federal amendment by the commit tee is expected at that time. GERMANS MARVEL r AT OUR AMERICAN MONEY DISREGARD ..'.. -. i Show Arrangement At Lavish Dis. !-play of Advertising to Sell a Ham BERLIN, May 27. Germans mar vel at American magazines, especially the advertisements. A writer in Berlin paper tells of feasting his eyes on the -pictures of food in a popular American weekly, ."Who has to advertise ham in or der to get rid of it in Germany?" he facetiously asks.. "But the unfor tunate American who has a ham to sell must first buy, for a dreadful Jot of money, a whole page in a maga zine and, at another terrible price, hire an artist to paint a picture of his ham." . . : ::;'; The writer rhapsodizes over that picture, however. He tells his read ers what the 'ham looked like. "A crosd section." White layers of fat Salmon pink flesh, with streaks u mm. use me rays 01 iue uu . i ... . m il If - . H amazed him to find that in Tad- dition to the picture, the Owner of the ham , 'finally has to sing its praises m sweec words, r v , How we nitv." he exclaims, Am erican who possesses 3 ham J? SOU HERN WOMEN . THE SUN-JOURNAL, ATTORNEY GENERAL' SUBMITS REPLY TO FARMER'S INQUIRY Endorses Federal Control Of Manufacture and Distribution 1 Of Commodities OPPOSES GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP OF RAILROADS Advocates Right of Free Speech When Such Right is Carefully Guarded and Preserved (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, May 27. Flat op position to government Ownership of railroads, endorsement of federal control of manufacture and distribu tion of "necessary commodities and elimination of excess profit taxes in favor of higher taxes on incomes from investments, .characterized the reply of Attorney General Palmer, made public today, to the recent ques tionaire submitted to presidential candidates and others by the national board of farm organizations. Dealing specifically with the ques tion of the five great meat packers, Mr. Palmer said . the recent federal court decree entered after long nego tiations between the packers and the government was thq longest step yet taken- toward their control. The right of free speech, Mr, Pal mer said,i must be "carefully guard ed and preserved." . "I would have men preach as radi cal doctrines as they will," he con tinued, "so long v as they strive to make that doctrine effective by peace ful methods. But the right of. freu speech is not the right of unbridled speech without responsibility. There must be a line over which men can not go vwithout being held responsi ble for injury to their , fellows, and that line must be. drawn at the point where there is a promise, threat or implication':' of -the ' use of force or physical violence to accomplish the reform which is advocated in public peech. - . ALLEGED MURDERER ' ' NOW SAFE IN Negro Sent Word to Officers to Come And Get Him at Snow Hill Church, Near Fayetteville (By -Associated Press.) . FAYETTE VILLE, May, 27.. George Hobbs, alleged, to have mur dered Deputies Butler and Moore when resisting arrest Friday night at Victor Mills, surrendered last night at 8 o'clock to Sheriff Mcueacny, at Snow - Hill negro church, four miles from Fayetteville. Hobbs sent, word oy unanie Young, a friend, that he was willing to surrender to McGeachy or Deputy Pate, but feared others.; A few min utes after Sheriff Mcueacny ana rate rached the church Young brought Hobbs up. Hobbs was holding up his hand and was unarmed. He said he had never slept in tne swamp, but on tne sana nuis, wueie he would not be caught. He inquired about his family. ? Hobbs was taken at once by auto tu Raleigh and lodged in the- peniten tiary. J ' Liodgetl in Peniteiitiary. RALEIGH, May. ' 27 George Hobbs, alleged i leader of several negroes who snoi auu - nmcu wu Cumberland officers at Fayetteville, was lodged in tne siaie pemieimai 3 here last night for safe keeping. RUSSIAN TOWN CAPTURED BY BOLSHEVIKI FORCES fRv the Associated Press.) LONDON. May 27. The town of Bnrisov. on the Beresina river, at its junction, with: the Minsk-Smolensk Railway line, has been captured Dy the' Bolsheviki in their campaign against the Poles, according to a soviet official statement ior w eu TiPsdAv received by wireless from Moscow today. t ADVERTiSERSHERE Gettincr in Readiness For An Extensive Campaign During Summer Months .. A crp.w of advertising men from the Raleieh Times and the Fayette ville Observer are today calling upon local advertisers for the purpose o signing 1 them up on contracts for space in THE SUN-JOURNAL ana during the day they have met witn a gratifying response local business men. on tne part or It will be impossible for these gen- 1 . . 4., ii oil rf tVio of Tne daV nrnhahlv continue their cam n tomJorrow. . Tt0 vmnunt of advertising appear- ing in THE SDN-JOURNAL is rapid- iiv innrfHiTur and more sDace is beins iuBBS SURRENDERS AIL SIGNING CONTRACTS !weused by local business men at the present time than ever hefore. NEW BERN, N. C, THURSDAY, FIRE DESTROYS MUCH, PROPERTY AT ROCKY MOUNT Number of Business Houses Burned, With a Loss Estimated at ' One Hundred Thousand Dollars (By Associated Press.) ROCKY MOUNT, May 27. Fire of undetermined - origin did between seventy five "and one hundred thou sand dollars damage at Spring Hope, Ashe county, last night, ; destroying the market of Edward Griffith, two stores, a ' garage building and nine automobiles that were stored there, the post officer jewelry store of Geo. W. - Wheelas, the mayor's office, Up church's shoe store, ' the milliner store of Mrs.-Albert Bunn. The fire was discovered about 1:30 o'clock and raged until 3:30, , TO DEFINE MEANING ; OF MONROE DOCTRINE Fan-American Congress To Bo Con voked in JJuenos Aires With . ' " This End In View ' (By Associated Press.) VALPARAISO, May 47. A Pan American congress' of 'international ists,' convoked by leading journal ists of North, South arid Central America, whose" duty Jt would be to define the meaningvand scope of the Monroe Doctrine, is . proposed by Juan Ignacio Gahres, a Chilean pub licist, writing In El Mercurio. . ,' The members f of the congress would be chosen according to hif? plan, by the-newspaper publisher of each country, including Canada,, five from each, and would meet this yar, preferably in ' Buenos Aires, i The definition arrived at would be' pre sented for official adoption -by the next Pan-American Congress, which will meet in Chile. . baracas and philatheas in annual' convention ' r '- 'i" .: -'--V: ' '"'-j '' " ' : ' '.- -(By the "Associated Press.) -w ' ; WILSON, May. 27,. With three hundred or more delegates in attend ance, the Baraca and Philahea An nual State Convention will convene here tonight. ' The) meeting will open with a social session in the audito rium' of Atlantic Christian College. The sessions will continue for several days. , WANTS UNIONS TO ABIDE BY NATIONAL AGREEMENT ' ( By fUielbavoeiatefl r Press; Hixt vice-president of ' the Virginia Railway, today sent a telegram to P. D. Laudman, president of district No, 30, International Association of Machinists, insisting that the unions abide by the national agreement, which he says was carried out by the Railroads in the controversy that led up; to the strike of shopmen now in progress. - . - ' - REBEL FORCES COMBINE WITH CARRANZA MEN (By the Associated Press.) 'v VERA CRUZ, May 27. Rebel forces, commanded . by Felix Diaz, and operating along the coast of the state of Vera Cruz; near Mantla, are combining with other rebels and the troops still remaining loyal to the Carranza government, according to advices received here. There is no confirmation of this report. X . i "- Teacher's Training ,. Claws To Serve , Refreshments. ;, i . The teachers training class of the Methodist Episcopal church will serve ice cream - and home-made cake on the lawn in front of the church Fri day evening May 28. LOWLY DANDELION BECOMES POPULAR WITH PROHIBITION Virginia People Are Guarding The Yellow Blossoms This Spring With Tender Solicitude - WINCHESTER, Va., May 2 7. Prohibition and the high cost of liv ing hfes elevated the lowly dandelion to lordly estate in this section of the country. Residents this spring are seeking the little yellow blossoms everywhere, securing lawns where the dandelions have Jieen considered a pest, country lanes and pasture fields, filling baskets with , the blooms and the green leaves. The little blossoms go into old-time dandelion wine. The leaves, young and tender, have long been eaten as greens similar to spin ach. :," HOWARD, CRIMSON EDITOR, HANDCUFFED TO FENCE CAMBRIDGE, Mass.. May 27. Being handcuffed to an iron fence is no joke, declared Harrison Brown, of San Francisco, editor of the Harvard Crimson, who was thus hitched up for an Hour betore another mgenius edi tor, David Bailey, of Woolaston, broke the padlock and in a Houdini act, assisted by Fifield Workurn, re tired president of the Crimson, set Brown free. The act of handcuffing was done by the Lampoon editors, who kid napped Brown as the initiation cere monies were being carried on in the Crimson buildingv The Crimson had previously desecrated the Lampoon building and carried off one of their pet editors and locked him up for r several hours. MAY 27, 1920. JOHNSON AGREES WITH PRESIDENT ON ONE QUESTION Are in Accord On Matter of Sub mitting League Question to The People CANIFORNIA SENATOR SPEAKS AT SALISBURY Tells Salaried Men He Would J Make Effort to Get At Profiteers (By Associated Press.) ; SALISBURY, May 27. Senator Hiram Johnson, of California, aspi rant for the republican nomination for president, in speaking to a crowd, in the Rowan county court house here this afternoon 'touched very briefly on domestic problems con fronting the county, recommending the repeal of the war time laws as the first thing he would do had he the power. - , '. .. ,The senator said he had no remedy by which the salaried man could re spond to the mounting cost of living, but that he would institute a "com plete investigation' and throw the "spot light bf publicity upon the il legal profiteer." If publicity would not stop the "nefarious practice," Senator Johnson said he would apply drastic laws, . u The senator said he had no apolo gies to offer for his stand on thu league of nations, but trusted thv. will of the people, in whom he said he had confidence. V ' . ' Mr. 'Johnson said he was seldom in accord with President Wilson, but "fori once I do agree with him that this league or nations should be sub mitted to the American people and decided by them." -, Johnson W ill - Not Bolt' CONCORD, May 27: Senator Hi ram W. Johnson will not bolt the party at Chicago if he is not chosen the Republican presidential nominee, he told an audience of several thou sand persons here this morning in the first of eight political speeches he wijl make in JSorth Carolina today and tomorrow. Wi':y":' v.; : . "I am now engaged . in a,- family quarrel, wholly family truarrel;" he fa d , -and wienv'thei election is made in Chicago 'in twd.VeeTts the quarrel will he ended, 'vij , Mr. Johnson devoted the remainder of his speech to remedies for the high cost of living and in denouncing the league of nations. . ; -; IS Specially Made Chair Has Awaitetl Canadian Minister For Ten. .Years PHILADELPHIA, May 27. A musty American , diplomatic secret has been disclosed here through an nouncement that Canada soon will send its own minister to Washington. It is that for the last ten years a spe cially made chair, carved with the Canadian coat of arms, has been waiting in Washington for use of this envoy. : ': Elihu Root, then secretary of state, ordered the chair, one of many spe cially designed for the pan-American union building at the capitol, Andrew Carnegie's memorial to cement more firmly the relations of the Americas. The story is told by Albert Kelsey, of this city, one of the architects of the pan-American building, who said: ' -' ' - "Once a: month the ambassadors and ministers of all the American re publics meet and are presided over by our secretary of state in the pan American building, and each repre sentative has a chair of his own, with the arms of his country carved on the back. "Now when these chairs were de cided on. Secretary Root asked me to have an additional one made witn the Canadian arms on it, which was done, and which has been hidden for the past ten years, for Secretary Root cautioned me to use his exact words to be a 'little reticent about the matter.' " PLAN DEFEATED IN SENATE COMMITTEE Resolution is Reported Kespeci fully I)e,lininK to Accord Executive The Necessary Power WASHINGTON, May 27. Presi dent Wilson's proposal for an Amer ican mandate over Armenia was dis approved today by the Senate foreign relations committee. Only four Demo - crats ocnosed adverse action on the resident's request By a vote of 11 to 4, the commit tee reported a resolution declaring the Congress respectfully declined to accord to the executive the power to accept a mandate over Armenia, MUSTY AMERICAN DIPLOMATIC SECRET NOW DISCLOSED AMERICAN MANDATE SIX PAGES TODAY HANNA AGREED TO RAISE $500,000 FOR GEN. WOOD Was To Get Out and Gather In The Shekels for Eighteen Months for Campaign Purposes (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, May 27. Dan Hanna, of Cleveland, agreed to raise $500, 000 to finance the campaign of Major General Leonard Wood, the senate investigating committee was told today by John T. King, of Con neticut, who first was managing Gen eral Wood'B national organization. Mr. King said this agreement was made at a meeting at New York be tween himself, Mr. Hanna and Wil '"am Loeb, former private secretary1 . . ' . i-,.t . ,. . A Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. (Contests Filed Will Embrace - The witness said Mr. Hanna was Vw.'get out and gather 1t in for eigh y months." He added that it was tii&cussed with General Wood. : lTE CONFEREES REACH MY BILL AGREEMENT A E!,( By Associated Press.) i V-HINGTON, D. C, May 27. Com , te agreement on the army re orga, t-vtion bill was reached today by hc and senate conferees. Unden, tnis agreement tne senate amend ment providing for voluntary military training for boys between eighteen and twenty one years of age was eli minated, as were ? senate proposals providing for the regular army, na tional guard and reserves to be placed under on control under the army clause of the constitution. CUMBERLAND CHURCHMEN HOLD NOTABLE SESSION (By Associated Press.) ' McKENZIE, Tenn, May 27. The new session of the Cumberland Pres byterian General Assembly, just clos ed here, has been notable, according to the views of the commissioners at tending.. For the coming year one of the most aggressive campaigns in the history of the church has been out lined.. It is planned to complete the endowment of the young - ministers' school by raising $250,000, and to raise $190,000 for, church benevo lences. ";:' -i- ', V' ' -":!;: ":.-' -i-.':'' BRETHREN CHURCH DECLARES: AGAINST '' TALKING MACHINES - i ' (By the 'Associated Press.), ': LOGANSPORT, Ind.'i May 27. De claring against the use or presence In homes 0 thejr . members' "of all talk ing -; machines, phonographs ' and 1'graphaphones, the annual conference of the Old Order Branch of the Brethren Church came to a close after a five-day session on a farm twelve miles east of here. ; : L Object of The Institution Is To Help Young Couples To Save Money ' ( MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 27. Ten nessee's woman banker, the only wo- man bank president in the country. ,1, State Bankers' convention, declared she would lend to men in preference! tn nmA wnmfin hnt flrHt-Alam ec.nri-, 4... n AnnMn4n1 IV WrlH tel. 1 1 KaaCULld.1.. ' 1 TENNESSEE CLAIMS COUNTRY She is Mrs. F. J. Runyon, wife ofi"00 a pnystcian, wnose financial- insmu - tion is located at Clarksville, in north central Tennessee. She and the cash ier, the wife of the ' state's attorney for the county, are the only officiers. All the directors are women. 1 "Men come to me, tell me their business and borrow money," she said. "Our bank is only seven months old. Its purpose is to aid young peo ple who want to save, and that was the prime motive for its foundation. The idea was carried out solely by women; but a, man suggested it." The bank has a capital of $15,000 and its first six months' deposits ag gregated $53,000. '. When called upon to address the convention, Mrs. Runyon declined with thanks, saying she never had talked to so many mert. . ; ; ' Left a .Large Estate f (By the Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, May 27. An es tate estimated at $10,000,000 is dis posed of in the will of Levi P. Mor ton, former vice-president of the United States, which was filed in fed eral court here today for probate. Send Delegates to Moscow (By the Associated Press.) PARIS, May 27. The Armenians have accepted an invitation from the Russian Bolsheviki to send delegates to Moscow, according to information received by tbe French foreign office. WIFE OF GERMAN SPY CLINGS TO THE ENGLISH LONDON, May 27. Mrs. Lincoln, wife of Ignatius Tribitsch Lincoln, the former German spy deported from England, and press censor dur ing tne recent ..rvapp revou, is now employed in domestic service in a 1 quiet hotel not far from London, say3 I the Daily Sketch. She once had a big establishment of her own. Lincoln, the paper says, has written to his wife asking her to go to Germany, but she adheres to her decision to re main in this country and bring up her children as British subjects. Single Copy? Five Cents CANDIDATES OPEN DRIVE TO CAPTURE REPUBUCAN VOTES Last of Delegates To Sit in The Convention Have Betn v, : .' Chosen DIVISION OF STRENGTH, -AMONG "FAVORITE SONS" One-Seventh of All Delegates ' Accredited . (By Associated Press.) t,: ' CHICAGO, May ? 27. Candidates for the republican nomination 'for the presidency today opened vjtheir final drive to capture the 493" votes that spell victory in the convention which opens here one week fronj next Tuesday The last of the 984 delegates who will sit in the convention were elect ed yesterday,-when Vermonfl -republicans made a choice of eight unin, structed delegates. . 1 v ,si Wood in the Jjead. v - Major General Leonard Wood will enter the convention with, more in structed votes than any other candi date, but his total of 153 is less than . one third of the number necessary to win the nomination. ' . ' 1 t ltiedi vision of strength -among the large field of "favorite sons"' practi cally precludes any possibility of a nomination on" the first ballot. Even the most optimistic campaign mana gers here are not claiming a victory before the third ballot, and the mors conservative- party leaders predict the break will not h come before fifth or ' sixth at the earliest. :.. One big factor which may. upset campaign managers': predictions is yet to be dealt 'with:., One-hundred and forty five contests have been or will be filed, more than one seventh' -of all the seats in the convention, and ' the national committee, which meets here Monday 1 to .decide these -contests ' and prepare a temporary ' rdll. may materially alter the prospects of several candidates., ,1 The principal Contests are between supporters of AMajor General -Woo ! and Governor Frank-O; LowdenV i Figures compiled here show tha following divisions of ,tke ypte; . : Major General Wood, 163; Senator Hiram Jdhnson, 1()9; Governor Low. den, 74; favorite, sons- and unia structed, 648.." -' ,-, " .- ' ' :, In . the favorite Bon list Judge Pritchard, of North Carolina, is ex- , pected to get seventeen of his state's twenty-two votes. ; . 5 ; w , , , 1 Report Not Confirmed (By the Associated Press. , WASHINGTON, . May 27. To state department corrected today Jts announcement of yesterday that two Americans, .Parker : MacDonald -and Homer Carr.-had been Belted at Jimi-nez,- Mexico. ; The . report , was , trans- mittprl hv tha Amrimn rhnnnl At Chi-. huahua on information obtained from the American Smelting and Refining Company, which -later proved to be incorrect, today's announcement said. TO CONSOLIDATE DEBTS ' (By Associated Press. ' BUENOS AIRES, May 27. Ar gentine government having failed to obtain either In Europe or the Unit- d .statca a. . ?r?PedJoa to ,ehe. to,c2f "teA "9 foatIn deb f about $265,000,000, it now plans t it is reported. ; , . I PREACHER SAYS PORT SAID IS WICKEDEST PLACE ON EARTH CARDIFF, May ,27. -"Port Said still is the wickedest place on earth' said Brigadier-General J. H. Bateson, in an address to soldiers. I know Cal cutta, Bombay and Madras better than I know London," he continued. "I have had to live in the East for a quarter of a century, and ' I know what Cairo and Ismalia are; but. I have seen more sin .and appearances -of sin in one hour in Port Said than in all the rest of my experiences." - Vfill Speak at Greensboro And Winston-Salem and Several ; Other Places V (Bv the Associated Press.) LEXINGTON, May 27. General Leonard Wood will make three ad dresses and several short talks in North Carolina tomorrow night and Saturday, according to a tentative schedule announced by J. V. Walter state manager of his campaign com mittee, tilts morning. ... c . , General Wood will speak in Greensboro .Friday night and at Winston-Salem - Saturday morning." . He will return to High Point by auto mobile and make a short talk there, and at Lexington and Salisbury, going to Barber Junction to take the train ' for Asheville, where he , WiU speak Saturday. 1 GENERAL WOOD TO MAKE 3 ADDRESSES IN NORTH CAROLINA - I
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