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WEATHER REPORT: Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday. . Probacy local showers Moderate shifting winds. ' TStir rr p ESTABLISHED SINCE'l882 AFTERNOON DAILY "ALL THE NEWS IN A NUTSHELL." A MJ1S 1L JnL VOLUME Vil-NUMBES 35 FOUR O'CLOCK EDITION SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, FRIDAY MAY 16, 1919. mmm treaty PyoOr tijmbi ake READY TO PRESENT NOW I Oil' EYES TELEGRAPH SERVICE PRICE TWO CENTO COUNCIL OF FOUR COMPLETED MILITARY, NAVAL AND ASRIAL SECTIONS AT YESTERDAY'S MEETING OCEAN FLIGHT MAY COMMENCE TODAY flUME DISPUTE BE AMICABLY SETTLED Br Associated Press PARIS. May 16. It is indica ted that the peace terms will be ready for indentation to the Austrian delegate.- by the middle nf next week. The Council of Four yester day discussed the military, nav al and aerial terms of the treaty. Premier Lloyd George is ab seut t'nm Paris today and the Council of Four will not meet a srain until Saturday. President Wilson will take this opportuni ty of meeting a number of per mits with whom he has appointments. O- SAYS GERMAN SECRETARY IN SAVING THAT ENEMY DELEGATES WILL SIGN T3SE PEACE TREATY i e ' ' ' ' ' STRONG ANSWER TO HUN OBJECTIONS. PARIS, May 16. Negocia tions are pending for the adjust ment of the Adriatic controver sy. It is contemplated that a di rect settlement be made between Italy and -Jugo-Slavonia, which may be brought about by Amer ican mediation. By this plan the Austrian treaty would not spec ify the disposition to be made of O.ilmatia or Fiume beyond de taching them from Austria. SERBS-CROATS AGAIN FIGHT By Associated Press LONDON, May 16. Serious fighting has taken place between the Serbians and Croatians at A gram, the Croatian capital, as re ported in a Vienna dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Com pany. Many are reported killed but no further details have been given. VERSAILLES, May 16. A ritorialj affairs, it. is reported this distinct impression among some morning1. of the subordinate members of j PARIS, May 16. The German the German peace mission that peace treaty ,it developed today, the Germans will sign the treaty j contain; a clause, not yet made is reflected in the remark of one. public, providing for the ratifi- of the secretaries who is quoted , cation by Germany and three of TWO N AVAL SEAPLANES READY AND THIRD BEING RE PAIRED P' ORY TO POSSIBLE FLIGHT fW- DIRIGIBLE C-5 MAY ALSO START -O MEN HANGS CROSS UPON PICTURE (By Associated Press) l'AKIN, May 15. President l'omcare in opening an exhibi of paintings by Pierre Gonu llt, read the citation which f,e artit had won at the front and briefly recounted how he ,la,i died in action, then suspen (1,'d the cross of the Legion of 1IonrI n the portrait of the Painter, painted by Gourdault li"Hf, which was among the vork-s ex hi bit fid. The agists "e. nerselt a talented a was present. BERLIN GROANS UNDER ROBBERY By Associated Press BERLIN, May 15. The gener al insecurity prevailing in Ber lin finds one illustration in the scores of advertisements of re wards for the return of stolen property. A traveler and explor er, recently published an appeal to the thieves who sole his valua ble surveying instruments and other articles of his traveling e quipment, and offered to buy the articles back at their full value. as saying: "What else can we do but sign. W are on the ground at your knees, on our stomachs, and with your thumbs in our eyes. 7 7 OoO PARIS, May 16. A peremp tory answer to the German note, the principal associate powers will bring the treaty into force between, the ratifying parties, enabling the immediate resump tion of Jtrade. As av result of conferences a mong he representatives of the powers' the text of the German treaty -will probably be FIVE N. C. AMONG LOSSES registering objections to the j public $y instalments. treaty arrangements for the It is! reported that the finan letft bank of the Rhine and the cial and boundaries sections of Sarre valley, has been defined j the document will be released to by the special vommission on teri night. CEASE CALLING PLANES 'NANCIES' COLLECTS $20 FOR TWELFTH TOE By Associated Press SYRACUSE, May 1. Beeau se he crushed a sixth toe and the law provides compensation for only five, Peter Dipetro, of No. 204 Sunset avenue, almost miss ed out on hip claim for compen sation for the injury he received while in the employ of John Young of this city. The case was a poser for De puty Industrial Commissioner "W C. Richards. In the end, he rul ed that the sixth digit was to be regarded as a fjifth toe and gave OTHER TREATIES SIGNED IN EAST (By Associated Press) PARIS," May 16. Quite proba bly Turkey's and Bulgarian pea ce treaties will be negociated and signed in Constantinople, Salon iki or some other convenient city in the near east, according to Reuters Paris office. CHINESE CABINET HAS RESIGNED WASHINGTON, May 16. A casualty list with 284 names lias just been issued by the War De partment, of; which five, were Nbrth Carolinians, as follows: Private Grady L. Bailey, of Chimney Rock was wounded se verely. Private James 0. Jackson, of made; Dunn was wounded to m deerree i undetermined. ' Lieutenant Marvin V. Horton, of Farmville was wounded slight Private Samuel A. Newton, of Fayetteville was wounded sli ghtly. Private Owen Williams Mid dleton, of Kenansville died of disease. By Associated Prea TREPASSEY BA Mav 16. With weather conditions alom? thei route to the Azt-ps the b'?s yet it is reported that seaplanes N. C.-l and N. C.-3 will attempt start at about I :-0 eastern title this afternoon. Commander Towers announc ed that in the; meantime repairs are being rushed on the N. C.-4 which arrived last night from Halifax and, if completed in time she will start also, if not she will follow as soon as possible. GREEKS LAND AT SMYRNA ATHENS, May 16. Greek for ces landed at Smyrna, the news being received here with great enthuiasm. (By Associated Press) PARIS, May 16. The Chinese! cabinet has resigned but the President has refused to accept the resignation, according to a Pekin telegram to the Peace Con ference. TROOPS QUELL HUN EGG-RIOT MO RE TROOPS COMING HOME By Associated Press 'f UK PASS FY, N. F., May 16. i Dipetro $20. ",)!' t call the American sea- Dipetro has five perfectly for l'i;'!i-s "Xancy Mu want to keep in the good "'"lees of navy aviators. Everybody in the service, es l1(i,'ial!v the fwfV r,P Alv. ' - v ' i inn jrv i. 1X 1 1 PARIS, May 16. An lexten sive allied naval concentration has begun at" Smyrna in connec tion with the mandate to Greece to administer the city. (By Associated Press) AMSTERDAM, May . 16. bgg riots are the latest m Germany. Advices from Ileils- berg said that forty-two women had been arrested and martial law declared after a mob of fe males had attacked food shops, shouting "We want eggs." (By Associated Press) The streets were cleared by BREST, May 16. Troops of troops after many of the women the eightieth division, which in- had been wounded. eludes the Virginia and West Virginia National army began to Russia has issued an ultimatum embark for home today. j against Rouniania, and it will per The 313th, 314th and 315th ar- haps be effective. We have oe tillery and division headquarters casionally known Ma to issue an ST. JOHNS, N. P. May 16 Local conditions are favorably today for a start on the project ed trans-Atlantic flight of the British airmen, but pending wea ther reports from the mid -Atlantic Hawker and Raynham have withhheld a definate decis ion to take the air. ST. JOHNS, N. P., May 16. The United States naval dirigi ble, C-5, is said to have been on ly slightly damaged when she broke from her moorings and drifted to sea yesterday. It is reported that she is in tow of the destroyer Edwards on her way back here today. TREPASSEY BAY, N. P, May 166. Seaplanes N C.-l and 1C.-3, and probably N. C.4, will make another attempt thjis af ternoon to take the air on the second leg of the trans-Atlantic flight via the Azores. Mechanics overhauled N. C. 4, which arrived last night from Halifax and hoped she would be ready to join the other planes when the start is made today. sail tomorrow on the transport "Suphilin" for Newport News, jhas nearly always j point. ultimatum against Pa, and she gained her GENERAL EDWARD B. WINANS OF THE 32ND. DIVISION WITH HIS STAFF boats any more med fingers and a thumb on each hand as well as six toes on each foot. The extra fingers and toes are so perfect that when he was examined for the ljycrs, objects emphatically klraft in Rochester and on his; ' such effeminate nomenclature 1 entrance into the One hundred ner' is not! h har machines ,and the popu-J;n'titb- i iIlo,,,,!, r. l .i Camp Dix, jdiysicians overlook-1 ed the odditv. J,)Rier t ii these big he-man plan j The compensation law provid- Th ,es for injuries to toes as well to official desifiiMtioTi IV f !otlAT. nartc thf hodv. but it - v--j-'--'-v,j- J ' - O J '"ii ved trom the full name takes into consideration only five t(aVr rurt',ss saplanek, but if toes on each foot. It was the j,,. S to 'ar f mouthful you sixth, or small toe, that was them "Ency" planes, ' crushed while Dipetro was em s the pilots do, and n() service ; ployed by the local contractor. viii obj ect, but you mis-Id "s 'M call a doughboy a "Sam- ls to call one of the tram lllV LADY PAGET TRAINS CZECHS PARIS, FRANCE, May 16. A woman has been entrusted with the big task of organizing and administering relief work in one of Europe's new states, Czecho slovakia. . Lady Muriel Paget, an English woman whose devotion to the i Czecho-Slovak cause is well known, arrived here from Pra gue after a month's tour of the new republic, and outlined to The Associated Press correspon dent her scheme for the relief of that country. Her plan, which lhas the approval of the Czecho slovak authorities, is to enlist a body of able and willing social , workers to train the women at ; Czechoslovakia in social war fare work. Her ambition is to in 'i'K a "Nancy." , ,.,!. -r T..it. xr,.,-. v.nTifiTiff IndorA tprpt rfltriotie Czech women in Manv a 10c motto has helped Photo shows ins inner, rau eruia uPpc x ' . t T'n . o, i : i i u ivrko inr- Amprma in rn.e we i rare 01 uiir anil tlm tmolr nf a slriddino- mill i hisdi up on the Kliine mils at &aynecK, smu tu uC txx ti-mill)ion.aireL 1 nrioiis building of its kind in that part of Germany. 'native land. WAR INSURANCE SHOWS PROFIT By Associated Press LONDON, May 16. War insur ance, as carried on by the British government, dropped some $85, 000,000 net profit into the na tion's coffers, $80,000,000 on the hulls of British steamships which survived German submarine war fare. The greatest loss was $55. 000,000 on British cargoes which the U-boats sunk. The sum of $7,500,000 was paid as insurance, on the lives of officers and men in the merchant marine, and $1, 750,000 a year is being paid as pensions and allowances to dependents. COTTON MARKET Open Close January 25.25 25.56 December 25.60 25.80 October 25.90 26 27 July 27.52 27.82 May 29.00 29.30 Local Market NOMINAL
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