North Carolina Newspapers

i C ft : i ft-. i i RAIN 'A HltlH POINT, N: CMlTUESDAY-AFTEJirJOON, FEBRUARY 1 1 , 1919. VOL. 26, No. 64. FIVE CENTS. 7' ! ) AY". .41 j .vTl H, 11101 I -'.IV ( i , ! I WANT ADS. Page Seven It T-A I'D' A M is REDUCED ACREAGE ii nil Soch Appears to Be Conceniui of - Opinion of Those in Attend . nee Upon Cotton Conyen- ':, tion at Raleigh Today The Attendance Good. HOLD PRESENT CROP AND REDUCETHE ACREAGE Dr, Bradford Knapp, of. Federal Department of Agriculture, Preaches Usual Sermon' on Bostesque Text Ed " ucation BOIs Are Up. (By W. T. BOST.) Raleigh, Feb. ll.-f-Cotton and-its - aljments displaced og law, road Ux and sixmonths' schools at the state eapltol today, the general as r" t Bembly suspending operations in or ' i der to permit its members to take part is planning -he cotton farmers' salvation. , " len the eta(e cotton convention adjourned at 1 o'clock cotton was still unsaved ; but a resolutions com mittee headed by Joe Brown, of 7 Ghadboarn, state senator and not ' Hdacquainted with the south '-s bin money crop, had been named to prepare ringing resolVes vin .favor of ' holding W present crop and the re daction ot acreage'. There was al-so-eoms reason to believe the com . mitlee would declare in favor -of s stats, wareb-ottse 'system. ' ' . On this warehouses system views varied, some holding that the state abonld-flnahce the :prtJcr n4 oth ers thAt, cotton should by a tax of $ 1 a ' bale pay its own way,' This , view, was advocated by ; James. H, I Pot, at Raleigh, and George Tlold- era North Carolina farmer afid -chairman of the senate 'appropria tionos committee,! favored 'It over , the other plan. 7 x ' At appear agreed that the reduc tion of acreage was the sole means wor settling the present crop at a ' fair price ' " Dr. Bradford knapp,' ot the fed- eral department of 'agriculture, v preached the : sermon customary to - such meetings from tie text: "Feed yourself and your, stock and the - other fellow can .do the , , worrying x abdiit what , cotton, will sell tor." , The convention was to meet again ' " at 3 o'clock thfs afternoon, the gen eral assembly holding a. brief sea-' ' sion beginning at I o'clock, at which , , time it was expected the legislature members 'to resume talking cotton, would again adjourn to permit the But the education committee really ; hss something up.' At this session State Superintendent E. C. Brooks 'will, champion , the departmental . . measure over George Butler for the Republican ' school , bill and the .-Charles L Coon bill offered in the name of the ' city superintendents, Superintendent; Brooks, many years - ' opposed to the, Joyner plan, is a complete converC and' witK say so." J-''-':' ' - ... ' V , '' ' ' j' --- " - ' ' . 'I'1'' Reform Mexican Army. . Mexico City,: Feb. H .--Since the first of the' year, the army " has ben , T ; reformecT Into SO battalions of ini tntry and 100 'regiments of. cav alry, artillery and other armS,,Gen : : eral Maximilian Kloss, an,, Austrian who recently took vout Mexican cltl ' senship papers, will direct the com mission of englnners charged with -the stuy of the valley of Mexico for . ' .- - military operations.'; Meat BUI Passed. , . Wellington, Now Zealand,- Feb 11- The house of representatives has - adopted a bill to , protect New Zealand meat products from explol , ,: tation by ,any beef packing inter - ests. The bill provides that exports ot beef from Now Zealand can only "be tnade under ax license from the . minister of agriculture. ' . ' ' "v Irish to Ballot. rfelfast, Ireland, .Feb. 11, (By AHsociated Pre88j.-The strikers ot : Belfast have agreed to take "a ballot ' -oil theQuestlon of settling- the strike. ""Pending the balloting the city -resumed ttrnormaractmtics today. - The street car service was resumed and electric power current started cain. Young, - Alone, takes Outlaws . Wanted For Murder ; .I Ashevlllo, Feb. H.(By ,As eociated ; IreES). Alone and unaided, (S. Glenn Xoung, spe clal agent ot the deparliuent of Justice,' late yesterday after - noon in the Big Iall mountain . section'of the Tennessee moun 4 tains between Murphy, , N. C, and Knoxville, Tenn., captur ed George and Decatur Craw-, ley and Blaine Stewart, want ed - in Georgia tor, answer charges ot murder and for de sertion from the army. OF Outlines Some Legislation Need- ed in England at Opening Session of the New Brit ish Parliament. i . London, Feb. ll.-By Asstjciat ed Press). King George "in his speech from, the throne to the Bouses of parliament today urged jthat, the ag slative bodies act resolutely f In tamptlng. out poverty,' diminishing r.'dn-p'.oyment and protect ng the :i'th of the nation. Kirg Oecrge in opening the new . ' o 'y fter alluding m s'nee the dissolu tion of the last parliament just aff ' k the. armistice urged quick 'and lecisive cctioa on reconstruction "leastrres' and abKed-Trarliameato pore no effort in healing the causes -t the, existing unreSC r V , Thev. king stated that ar govern ment bill would be presented slm vkying procedure In the house of commona so the lower body might ixpedifc when the government con siders Imperative measures.Among the measures, hb laid, were better housing, the formation of a depart ment of health, the fulfillment of pledges, to labor that unfair com petition would be prevented and the betterment of the agricultural sit uation through Improved trauspor tation. ' . , BvlVARIAN SOLDIERS STICK ' TO THEIR ARMY SUPPLIES Munich, Feb. ll.-?-So many Ba varian soldiers have failed to return their rifles and munitions that , the central German government has Issued an order demanding the Re turn of this property to the author ities within a specified time under penalty of heavy; fine or imprison ment. 'The same order applies to thosepossessing any army-property. such' as wagons, automobiles or horses. " ' IXFLUEXZA DEATH RATM ' JX MEXICO VERY HIGH Mexico City, Feb.-,ll.rFour huni dred and thirty-six thousand, :xtwd hundred deahs were caused in Mex- ico aitring is is Dy tne tnnuenza according to data published by El Universal. This figure is believed to be conservative, as several states were: unable ? to ; furnish: figures " on the mortaity.' , , - ' . Battleship Porto Rfco. 1 San Juan, eb. 11- United States Senator Miles Polndexter, member of the senate naval affairs commit-. tee, has written a letter to the Porto Rican department ' - of education promising' to endeavor to name - battleship after the sland ot Porto Rico. This 'would be. in compliance wfth. a. petition '; recently signed by. thousan4s of. Porto Rlcaa school children and forwarded to Wash ington. - , j More Coming, Home. Washington, Feb. 11. (By Asso c'ated Press) Four transports an4 a erulBer with more than 10,000 troops aboard have 'sailed . from France and will arrive at New York or Newport News between Febru ary 16 and February 20, tho war department announced today. ; , Dr. and Mrs. Charles Long re turned missionary fronT" BTastlrnre visiting Mr. and Mrs. 3- VA. Hayes toir a, few days; before they leave KING OREE TELLS wmm I for their home in -Oklahoma. RADICALS SAY TO HATIOII Fifty-Four Portions of Scura" Bev tion at Hoboken. CHEER' RED FLAG; ALSO; . THE RUSSIAN BOLSHEVIK a i.m ii. - j" Fifty-Three Men and One Wo man.' Names Not Given Com- pose Crowd BrougKt From ;' vWest to Be Sent Back to ' Russian Provinces. New York,- Feb.. 11. (By Asso ciated Press) .Fifty-four . radiea.ls alien born anarchists, I. W. W.'s and others arrived tX Hoboken to day , on a traii from, the west, en route to the Ellis island tmmigra tion station, where tiiey aie. to be detained until urrangements can. be completed for, their eportatlon. As a group of the men' were led from the trafn to the hoaton which' the transfer was made to Ellis j island three "cheers for , the Bolshevik! were' given and three morei for the Industrial Workers of the World. The first group : which ,' stepped from' the. cars moved quietly and oiz-nrliH hv tho ciinritft from tho train. "20 railroad policemen -and six immigration inspectors., ..When 411 ot:the 5Vmen aad one' woman had reached the decks' of the immi- gratioa bat the police ordered. the industrial Workers of the . World members, to separate themselves frctteoThers"ntf'move'to,,6ne' end of the vessel. As the boat left the pier the rad icals . became holsy. "Let's give three cheers for ? the JJolshoviki," one shouted. This was done and the red flag and the I. W. W. also were cheered and alter this- demonstra tion the prisoners chanted,in unison "to holl with America." United States Mint at PhUadel phia Manufactures Every Med al That is Awarded to the ' American Troops Philadelphia, Feb. 11. Every medal that the United States gov ernment Confers is made "in the Philadelphia mint. For the war department alone, the big federal money factory is at present' turning out 22- types of medals. The badges of honor awarded tq Marshals Foch, Halg and offre, and other distin guished aied commanders, were the prouct of the mint, , ' Marshal Foch is reported to havef remarked that the American distin guished service medal la the hand 89roest military decoration awarded. About two hundred of " these med als -of . bronseand( brllllan blue en amel are made every .week In this city and" turned over to the war de partment for shipment to the camps and army headquarters at home and abroad. ' ' .Many more of the military -cross es, awarded, tor valor, are being made. More ' thin 5,000 of these have abroad boon ashipped tr'om the mint. In ; manufacturing these medals teif impressions are - made by aVfcydraulic press on a ..small square of bronse, boginning " with Ohe hundred tons pressure and in creasing to 250-tons. After the die has been stamped In this fashion, the cross is cutout by ; machine. The medal is then passed to work men who fashion the little cross bars from which it is suspended, ribbons are attache and the deco ration is placed in a box ready for delivery The United States navy medals honor is aso made at the . mint. ins Deported Shew J Kind of ; United States Followiae Com Foreign Ref use Permitted to 1 pletion of Society of Nations " Land and 'Remain in Na A V to ign Measures During . ISiiii HereawTnBnufactnvc'-the-vartouslaaoptednc"T kinds of medals awarded forpBharp shooting, marksmanship and ' other honors of the Service. , ' - WIlllIEll PEACE CflliFKEllGE it President Waton to Return to the . Last Hours of Congress. ' "V - -j-'i mmmm- mum I ...... .'. M, TO HELPWORK SUPREME COUNCIL PF CONFERENCE .,, President to Give Time and At tention to Work of Conference ( Which is Most Important Next . ot the Formation of Socie ty on His' Return There. Park, Ftb'. 11 (By AsstK:LUl Prett.) Evidence of President Wil son's intentntoa not to abandon the peace conference' upon the rutillca tion of the ftocluty of nntjoan plan is found in tye disclosure- today that he plans to return from WasliinKton to Paris by 'March to.' . Tlds in volves so brief :mr may at "Washing, ton ai , to pormii c:ily. the algning of hills during the, closing hours 'of Congress. '.It Is understood tlwt Mr. Wilson intends to give ier sonal attention itt Paris to-the work t ih supreme eecuclv council which pronilyCs to be the' most im portant feature of the peace confer ence aftr the dltosltiou of the so- cU'ty of aatlon"- Interesting developments' in the work of( the supreme council of the peace conference , are expected to day.- The draft of - a plan f Or the society Of nations will be before the commission for second reading and e4sfrlrt!'ti tft bimred forfera action by a x plenary session, of the conference late in the week. Unan imity continues to prevail that the commission's report will be adopted. The supreme war council, . al though hearing the claims of - the Belgian delegates in eupport of the French view , that their country should bo protected until on . the Hajne footing as Germany is expected to refer this matter to an economic committee. , It is now evident that the supreme war council will be re- Jievea entirely or tins question which. Is regarded as econewic rath er than a military Question. S. O. S. CALLS SENT OUT FROM UNRECORDED SHIP A AVin'less MessnRe Intercepfe! ut Halifax From Ship, Named 'Cus soy Calling for HeJ. Halifax, N. S.. Feb! 11 (By the Associated Press ).-A wireless call saying that hte American oil tank er J. M; Gussey was taking water in the" forehole and) was sending out 3. O. S. calls was intercepted here today. The vessel's position was Riven as off Cape Race. Owned by the Gulf Refilling COmpUdy the tanker sailed from Inverness, Scot - land, on January Roads, Va. 24 for Hampton The First Report. Halifax., N. S., Feb. 11. (By the Associated, Press ).-vA wireless mes - sage intercepted here today says the United. States naval vessel giv en as the.. i'Gussey. In the radio gram picked P here, was taklmj water In Tier forehold and sending out O. & calls. The. vessel'! po- fition Svas kiven as latitude ! and longitude 48.15 which is ih the vicinity of Cape Race, " United" States naval records con tain no vessel of the name of "Gussey." It is assumed that an error was made io the reading of the wireloss message intercepted at Halifax. " ' Clydo Htriffe is Off. , London, Feb. ll-"--(By Associated Press.) All the .-Btrlkers In tho Clyde district ' liavo been instructed by leaders to return to work tomor- 'row. , These Instructions , were is sued today by the Joint commlttete of the strikers. ' I'Jert PrMiit Todsy. ' Weimar, Germany, Monday, Feb. of ,10- (By Associated .Press ).- The has German national ' assembly tion , with little amcndivent. ,. 'The ' national president , will be elected 'Tuesday. " A They, Speak, Right - "' ' V ;X. -0 . X''";4 , i , y.'V ' f..Mr i J i ) i ,XVW ' ' ! WA-1fir 'V aris, Febsll. - (By Associiitea" leptv-oeutatnes has been made pub PresJs.) Japan has reiterated her ; lie here. , tntentipn to hold the Marshall and! It is uot considered that the Caroline inlands in the Paciiic which i Chino-Japanose controversy or Ja he took from Germany during bo ! pan's claims regarding the Pacific I war, as well as to insist upoa jhe txecutloit or lier agreement reaqnea JB September ;IaBt; with China r re- ment to this effect , by . the Japanese ; IF SECRET TREATIES ARE GIVEN OUT, JAPS WILL START TROUBLE Do Not Want China to Make Known Contents of Secret Treaties at Conference Diplomatic Circles Alarmed Over trie Possibilities 3V(ASHINGTON-, FEB., -II. (By the Associated Press. )-Japan's at titude toward China in the peace conference is causing grave appre hension among the representatives of . the other associated .powers. Ac cording to oiticial diplomatic information reaching here Japan virtually bas'tbieatened war it China makes the two countries and fails to carry out an ugreeinent tt, make Japan the - , v successor ot Germany, in rights, property and concessions, held by Oei- many at the outbreak of the B:uropoun war. China is relying on the peace conference, where her delegates are said to have made an excellent impression, and is seeking support from t. i. j c. , , , , n ,., ' the United States and'Great Britain. - v , - , , Advices from flie Orient through diplomatic channels say that Ainer - ican Ambassador Reinsert, at Peking ' " mnnnit'r wuu siuichicii gi nic hicuusuiii ui muci nun bw,v.,.. - 1 ment, was told frankly that the foreign minister, did not see. how at this 1 -i t... nr ,1... time the United States or Great Britain could divert their attention to the I - Orient when the European situation demanded so much attention. When the Chinese "peace delegutes arrived in Paris the information now available discloses they reported j were stolen from their baggage while ly they were unable to carry out at the conference. Officials of the state department declined to make any formal cora raent today on the situatiou. The itnprossion was given that the whole matter was being handled lit Paris. According to reports received here the threats anainst China were made to the Chinese foreign minister by the Japanese minister in Peking in thinly 'veiled terms. The. 'Japanese minister was said to have pointed out that Japan had an army of more than, a million men idle at home fully equipped and with arms and munitions enough to conduct a long war and to also have pointed out that Japan had more than a 'ialf mil lion tons of shipping with the intimation .that this would b ready on short notice for active work. r ' (SPECULATE OX COMPARATIVE COSTS OF CJOVLKNMEXf Munich," Feb. 11 Much spocu lition has been caused by the ques tion of what the "revolutionary min istry" is' costing tho state of Ba varia, especially In compariuun with tho former minlstrs','- TTier; are eight ministers in tho cabinet to day, and each draws $4, 50 if, making a total Jot $36,000. To this must ministers who were removed ;' nlP3 $4,600 each making graud total of $62,500. 1 '' ' "''''' QvX fcr h'r - " . - CHJMXu' Mslande are likely to delay the so- ciety or. nations project, it seems probable, however, " that these mat' -beconaWei'tfc? ;1ster "-Hbry that organization. 1 t public the secret treaties between j seeking to reassure the Chinese tor- ft.N.4..V.I.. nf .twti-is.'i .i frimtn that their copies of the secret treaty passing through Jufian, consequent - their purpose of making them pdblic SAVE NAVAL BILL House Naval CommitUte Arranges to , Red Tnie Measure. A, , -' . Washihgton, Feb. 11. (By As sociatedyPressJ Te save-the new three-year naval .building program from defeat through a 'parliament ary coupe, the house rules commit-1 tpe .today ordered the report of a rule making jrhc legislation author' llzng the construction of 10 battle sliTlSsTiiidl 0lic'ouTc v u7seiTu"'"'of -der for the house consideration as ajart of the $720,000,000 naval op propriations bill. SLEEPING CAB KICK " Division Passenger Agent of the Southern Railroad, in Inter -view, Goes : Over , Pullman Space Shortage- What Ser .r vice is the Quickest SAVE HOUR IN GOING TO NEW YORK CITY ON NO. 32 By Changing in Washington 1 and Boarding a Fast Pennsylvania ' TrainTells How Time Sav- ' ing is Possible More Cars Expected Soon. r That sleeping car accommodations sold from High Point to, New Yortc . and other eastern points and which V require a "change at Washington af- ford the traveling and business man the 'very quickesttrip to all eastern points was the statement made today by S. B. Burgess, dlyiH- v ion -passenger agent of the Sooth-1.' ern with headquarters- at Char- otto. . The railroad official is' pay-' ing a business trip to ' High Point ' and, during his stay, -took timo oT to go over transportation' contli-;" tions rather thoroughly, 'partlcula r- ly as referring tO Pullman! accom-"'. njodations availably to that portion of tho public traveling out of Hg'i' Point. J '.'' s ' v To begin -wHh, there are at prw eut but nine sleeping cars' operated' " through High Point . to New York ' ' and other points as against. 18 prior to the entry ot.the United States ' hito the war snd the consequent " reduction in -the j use' of i rollicg stock to the ' minimum. J - Thlrty-tjix'-carries two' cars, 32 'carries InfecT1', 88 three and US onea total of r' nine. High' Point' has two sectloim. or four 'berths! asjRigned on No'3S .'which arrives at Washlngt'ou ' .-stt ' 7.35 a. m. The train rehiains fliere . an,- hour and ' 30 minutes, br until ftjOS " beforeHresumlng' its' trip ' to , New York, or at least before' that portion of it routed' through to New,' York is taken ,up by the Pennsylvs- . nia and started toward its final des tination. V " ' .' "The business man who wishes to get to New 'York, I Baltimore, .Philadelphia- in fact any' other eastern point, in the quickest possibe time is favored by having ' to change oars in Washington," states Mr, Burgessl its saves an hour and ve " hf fCa te . ; one or the Pennsylvania's fastest ana I trains Washington at' j g o'clock, arriving in New' York ut j i p. tn. Now if he remained ou a ' ; sleeper attached to. No. 32 ,,and (routed through to New York he ! B t ; would nto get out of Washington "j , untJ g M m on the pennsyIva. ' tl.n maJ UD to take care of , all cuiiumuoua, ii iuc iiaius uu ) any of the lines ruuning into Wash- I ..II .....I...... f ...!.. ' ,nIon al ,au" lmB ennsjivar.w, . I accommodation is held, hence fur- . , j ,rajIU not to be confused with the ' one leaving Washington at 8 o'clock. j arrives' in New York at 2 p. m. ifou time." ! Nnmhpr 32. rarrvine two sections . . reserved for-High Point-to- Wash---" iugton, connects with .the Colonial . express for ..Boston at Washlngfor while another fast . Pennsylvania train leaves ' Washington at i o'clock. making f three separate i trains, according to the railroad offl- " clal, which' leave Washington prjor' to the departure, of the through cars attached to Southern trains ar riving in Washington early In the morning. - : , : - "No spue on No. 88 Is held 1 north of Atlanta.', stated Mr. Bur- ; gass when a recent complaint i filed here was . mentioned. Charlptto. Concord, Gastonin ami other cltiw along the main line were wetU'ouMl' as being without reservations. or this train, - Even if space were avail able clour through to New York 'on Noa. 33, 33 and 138, to take a borth or section would mean that lli'v traveler from High Point or of other city en the Southern . ! lose an hour because of ..(In.- fni the chango in Washington I hi ( . alant-to saving -CO iiitnut, ( Ing time. vMr. BurK"- ' " ' s