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VOLUME Vll NUMBER 55
FOUR O'CLOCK EDITION
SCOTLAND NECK, N. C. TUESDAY, JUNE101919
SUFFRAGISTS A
TO
STATES
PPEAL
TO. 'RATIFY
HOLTZENDORFFS
I
TELEGRAPH SERVICE
PRICE TWO CENTS
NATIONAL WOMAN'S PARTY CALLED ON GOVERNOR'S
OF TWENTY EIGHT STATES, WHERE SUFFRAGE
EXISTS, TO TAKE ACTION
COLD STAR TOR fIRST STATE RATIFYING
COUNCIL-FOUR
FACE PROBLEMS
(By Tlie Associated Press) j
SPRING FIELD, Ills., June 10
The Illinois; legislature today
ratified the Federal Woman Suf
frage Amendment, the senate im
aiiimously and the house with
but three dissenting votes.
SPRINGFIELD. Ills, June 10.
The Illinois house today unani
mously passed a resolution rati
fying the Federal Woman Suf
frage Amendment.
WASHINGTON June 10.
The! National Woman's Party
called on the governors of twenty-eight
States where women
now have full or partial suffrage
to summon special session of the
legislature to take action to
ward ratification of the Consti
tutional amendment permitting
nation wide suffrage. The plea
to the governors is as follows :
'"With the passage by Con
fess of the Constitutional a
mendment granting suffrage to
women, the struggle for women
WiWanchisenient is tranfefromed
to the States.
''This struggle has already
taken forty-one year of sacri
fice on the part of the nation.
Believing that you earnestly de
""e its speedy termination, and
inasmuch as the legislatures of
thirty-seven States will not meet
m regular session before 1921,
appeal to you to call a spe
flI session of the Legislature '
earliest possible date for the
purple 0f ratification.
ask this on behalf 0f our
ambers in yr.nv States and in
"r,1 that there may be conser
W to the nation the outpouring
Ul strength, effort, time, and mnn
V which j:; tlu. daily toll of the
1'ioioiijretl; effort for - woman's
'"fraiiehisement.
-Will von lot iv. i- ip
c iuj- iviiuvv ir we
DEATH KNOWN
(By Associated Tress)
BERLIN1, June 10. The death
of Admiral . Von Holtzendorf f ,
head of the German general na
val staff during the greater part
of -the war, was announced to
day. Admiral Holtzendorff retired
last August.
COMMITTEE ON
NEWTARIFFS
(By Associated Pressl ss
PARIS, June 10. The Council WASHINGTON June 10 The
of Four met today amid an at
mosphere -of considerable pessi
mism over the large question of
peace making with Germany still
unsolved. It is understood that
Premier Clemenceau has not mov
ed from his position against any
modification of the peace terms.
No settlement of the Silician
question ,that concerning the Po
lish western frontier, has been
reached. The state of Silisia
problem is tied up with the dif
ficulty of holding a plebiscite
without alUed 'occupation, no
soldiers being available for the
purpose.
first hearing on the proposed
protective tariff legislation was
held today by the House Ways
and Means Committee with rep
resentatives from several indus
tries that sprang up during the
war seeking to present their arguments.
AUSTRIANS
PREPARE REPLY
(By Associated Press)
VIENNA, June 10. The Aus
trian government is preparing
an answer peaeei terms present
ed them by the allies and it is
understood their reply will pro
bably be an evasion.
BIG DIRIGIBLE
OCEAN
TO FLY
LABOR PARTY
WON'T CONFER
CHRISTINIA, June 10. The
Norwegian labor party, controll
ed by Bolshevik faction, has re
fused to participate in the social
ist conference at Amsterdam!
The Norwegian Central Labor
Committee refuse to participate
in the reconstruction of the In
ternational as . planned at the
Berne conference, but has decid
ed to cooperate with the left
wing of the Swiss Socialists with
trerman Spartacists, with Rus
sian Bolsheviki and the Hun
gatrian Communists. The com
mittee thereby refuses to con
nect with labor in western En
rope and openly sides with Bol
shevism and revolutionarv meth-
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, June 10. The
mammoth British dirigible R-34,
assigned to begin a flight from
England to the United v States,
twentieth, probabiy will attempt
a return cruise if the westward
voyage is successful, British avia
tion otiicials connected with
the venture decided on arrival
here today.
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GERMAN EDITOR, REALIZES THAT THE TREATY MUST
BE SIGNED, INSISTS THAT HIS PEOPLE SHALL
STOP DEBATING PSOPAGANDA
MAY REPLACE EBERT GOVERNMENT
-O
MEN
THREE N. C.
AMONG LOSSES
HA
E RAISED
106 MILLIONS
By Associated Press
CHICAGO, UL, June, 10. The
Methodist joint centenary cam
paign for one hundred and five
million dollars passed the goal
today.
Officials announced the total
today-'--Wife-more--than -one hun
dred and six millions with six
large sub-divisions still to report
their latest contributions.
,au nt on your active sutj-'0 with terroristic action
port ?
communication is signed
-'laud Vonnoa-p
tJe lo!-V committee of the par-
ft'POl-ts to llPflllfm0ct
tll x --t, irtuxicaiion oi
f"-u,m Dy tlle legislatur
:Ji I1,,nois Michigan, Ohio
. lir,sylvania which art now
Co? T:r despite tiie
ot suffrage amendment
1 a recent, nlont;.,,
-nuu, 1S aiSft nnnn-
011 t0 ratif.v the amendment.
ainst the bourgeoisie,
ag-
For a study of the depths of
pessimism observe the child who
comes down with measles the
first week of vacation.
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MEXICAN LAND
GRANTS REVOKED
BORDEN'S YACHT
TO RETURN HOME
(By The Associated Press)
BREST, France June 10 The
United States warship Piqua,
one of the largest converted
yachts sent to France in June,
1917, for convoy duty is expect
ed to return to her home port;
New York, sometime in June.
The Piqua was formerly the
Kanawha 11 owned by the late
H. H. Rogers. She was purch
ased from Mr. Rogers by Lieu
tenate Commander John Borden
and presented by him to the gov
ernment." Lieutcinant -Command
er Borden served aboard in for
eign waters or over eio-htfeTi
months. . . , , .
By Associated Press
The Piqua was one 0f the fas- EL PASO. J,ip inF.0
test yatchts in the famous -Brit- thing is quiet this morning at
tany Patrol" and conveyed Juarez, across the border, lltno
many thousands of troops into some of the Angeles forces are
French ports during those, early (reported only ten miles south
days of 1917, before the destrov- east of Juarez
ers had arrived for duty on the There was a heavy exodus of
Coast of France. She is credit- Mtexiean residents from Juarez
ed with one submarine. She is to El Paso last nightfearino- the
m command of Lieutenant Grant town would be captured by Vil
T. Stephenson. a foreos
MEXICANS FEAR
VI! LA ASSAULT
WASHINGTON, June 10. -i-r0
names in the latest
casualty list North Carolina has
only three men mentioned which
is less than helf the average.
These names are as follows:
Private Willie D. Raules, of
Mackeys was wounded slightly.
Private Christopher C. Ketch
urn, of Winston Salem was woun
ded slightly.
Private David Midgett, of Hy.
de County died of disease.
V
TRIAL OF EMILE COTTIN
MEXICO CITY. Jiitia 10
Oil U , . . 7 .
ifie, fU rST 8tate rat" ln response t0 an unofficial in
(ill ' nioni i 1
".nil a goia star
As v,
u-iK
i
i n i . i - v . . i
st - in .the whHe
tirmai t baUner 0f tne Na"
-mans party. The next
ter th PUrple' aiKl ereaf
, e r'o eolors Arill oi
entire f(
ope
-MA orates tippps.
, ratication and for the
Hiel, ; .gQt tttates should
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fil - - lfle suttra gists be ful
M.
ti r r v
Nation nation-wide rat
ini is concerned.
es' brothe
The
Prie
bin
every kick is a
more we howl at
quiry by the British charge to
Mexico, H. A. C Cummins, the
department of Agriculture an
nounced that great land eoncere
ons held by English companies
in the state of Chiapas had been
abrogated by the government in
accord with the present laws.
The concessions were granted
by previous governments, and
according to the department,
can be renewed only under the
provisions of the present law
which, or the present, only auth
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RED X. WORK
IN BELGIUM
(By Associated Press)
BRUSSELS, June 10. Since
the armistice, the American Red
Cross distributed some 8,000,000
francs for the benefit of var
ious Belgian charitable works:
1,300,000 francs to help Belgian
refugees returning home: 1,000,-
000 francs for the mutilated sol
diers and sivilians; 1,250,000
francs for destitute children; 1-
200,000 francs for organizations
diers and civilian; 1,250,000
francs for military hospitals;
250,000 francs for civilian hos
pitals and 50,000 francs for build
ing wooden houses for Tenmon-
de which was burned by the Ger
mans in 1914 and where nearly
7,000 people are now livino-. in
the ruins of their devastated
homes.
By Associated Press
BERNE, June 10. "The Ger
man people should stop believing
that by declaring the govern
ment will not sign the peace
treaty that Germany is likely to
obtain better terms," George
Bernhard declared in the Berlin
Vossosche Zeitung.
m
PARIS, June 10. The signing
of the Peace Treaty by Germany
before July first ayd its ratifica
tion by the various parliaments
before August first was predict
ed today by the Echo de Paris.
It expects the answer to the Ger
man counter proposals will pro
bably be delivered on Friday.
The course of the Germans, it
thinks, will be to replace the E-
oert fccheidemann government
by another in , case the present
government determines not to
sign the terms as the allies Anal
ly present them. ' ,
The principal amusement in
Europe at present is waiting to
see which way the. cat will jump
PLANES RAKE
BOLSKEVIK SHIPS
By Associated Press
KEM, North Russia, J line' 10
Allied seaplanes attacked four
Bolshevik craft on Lake Onega
yesterday.
The bombs dropped from the
airplanes didn't, hit the boats
but machine guns carried by the
plans raked the decks of tne
craft.
The enemy boats fled in dis
order.
BUSINESS MEN SENATE OPPOSE
VISIT BELGIUM PEACE TREATY
(By The Associated Press)
BRUSSELS, June 10. Ameri
can visitors are arriving almost
every day to examine commer
cial and financial opportunities
here. American bankers are
taking an interest in the worfe
of reconstruction. One big New
York trust company already has
opened an office here.
Photo just released shows man who attempted the assination
p t i ri ., ,
rices the ho " temporary lease, s-UDjeci oj rremier uiemeueeau, receiving tne sentence of JJeath, pro-
ng ier they are to revision of the existing arran- nounced by the Court-Martial in Pari?, the sentence was later
li . e t ri
SWEDISH LOST
27000 FROM FLU
(By The Associated Press)
STOCKHOLM, June 10. Dea
ths from influenza in Sweden to
talled 27,000 during 1918 accord
ing to official figures just pub
lished. Sweden's population on Janu
ary 1, totalled 5,813,850 an in
crease of only 13,000 or 2.25 per
thousand, the lowest recorded
since 1892.
WASHINGTON, June 10. A
resolution to have the senate de
legare it could not concur in the
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O i'uuuu.', piUVIMOII.S Or
peace treaty, as now drawn, was
introduced today by Senator
Knox, republican, 0f the foreign
relations committee.
The resolution was referred to
the foreign relations committee
and there is evidence that it will
. have the backing of most of
those who conducted the fight a
gainst the League.
It is understood to be design
ed as official notice to the Peace
Conference that ratification 'of
the treaty in its present form is
opposed.
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