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V WEATHER: Unsettled tomt and Saturday, showers and thunderstorms in west portion, gentle to moderate variable winds rai i3 ESTABLISHED SINCE 1882 AFTERNOON DAILY (I ALL THE NEWS IN A NUTSHELL.' VOLUME VIII NO. 19. FOUR O'CLOCK EDITION SCOTLAND NJ3CK, N. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1919. TELEGRAPH SERVICE PRICE TWO CENTO " ? Wl Wi f m IMj A u TUT n AV2iiLVii iij yy ILiirAlUj WESTERN RAILROAD STRIKE FALLS BEFORE HINES IRliG Director General Advises That Unless the Men Return to Work Saturday Government Will Operate Roads ML 5 SPEEGHMAKIN G TOUR BEGINS WEDNESDAY Speaks on Peace Treaty In 30 Cities in Swing Around Country WILL DISCUSS COST STARVING FOR WATER AND FOOD , o - ttSjZt GOVERNORS IN CAPITAL though the companies onereu to give" the railroad workers their johs back and union officials re newed their efforts to break the strike. San Francisco, Aug. 29. The strike of the railroad men is crumblign today following the warning of Director General Ilines that if they did not return to work by 7 o'clock Saturday in nrn ill o the Eailroad Adminis- c tration would operate the trains Desert towns who are depend ent upon rail transportation for water and food, are reported to be hard hit by the strike and sueffring is acute. Mails are also delayed aid the postal authorities have been forced to use motor truck transportation. CONFER WITH PALMER REGARDING PROFITEERS To Devise Some Means of Hunting Down Food Hoarders Washington, Aug. 29. Presi COMPLIMENTARY DINNER TO THE SOLDIER BOYS Tuesday Night in Dining Room of the Hotel D IK S. BANKERS ENGINEER THE SETTLEMENT? This is 'h estion That is Asked in Italy As a 'HOME-COMING' PLAN ' C TUt O.rolJ At Paris Cards, with replies attached, dent Wilson will visit thirty been sent out by the Ladies' cities in a speech-making tour to start next Wednesday and will be absent from the capital until September 30th. The itinerary given out at the White House today shows that the first speech is to be made at Columbus, 0. The other cities to be visited include St. Louis Kansas City Denver, Salt Lake City, Port land and San Francisco, where CONSULT PRESIDENT Washington, Aug. 29. Gover nors of seven states have arrived for a conference with the attor ney general to devise means of hunting down profiteers and food hoarders. Arrangements have been made to consult with President Wil son in a campaign to reduce the cost of living. Committee to the isoldier . boys asking each one to be present on Tuesday night, September 2nd at a dinner to bje given in their honor by the town of Scotland Neck, and it anticipated that a very . large gathering will be present and the nicest affair ever given publicly will be had. The secretary has been careful to obtain all the names of the boys who went into camp; those QUESTIONS SINCERITY 14 POINTS LOUISIANA INVITES -NEGROES TO RETURN TO PLANTATION WORK the president plans to review the that went overseas and those who Washington, Aug. 29. Direc tor General Hines is preparing plans to operate the railroads in the event the union men refuse to return to work. If the government takes over the operation of the roads any one interfering with transporta tion will be prosecuted on charg es of committing: an offense against the United States. Pacific fleet. ' The chief object of the trip is to present to the people of the country the true purpose of the peace treaty but the president also announced that he will dis cuss the high cost of, living and other domestic problems. HEAVY BOMBARDMENT OF KRONSTAOT FORT Washington, Aug. 29. Pres ident Wilson will leave Wash ington next Wednesday On a speech-making tour in the inter est of the Peace Treaty, deliver ing hrs first address next Thurs day at Columbus, O. He will be accompanied by Mrs. Wilson, Admiral Grayson, he JThite. House physician, Sec retary Tumulty and a corps of secretaries and stenographers. Los Angeles, Aug. 29. Action hearing on the future of the great railway strike that grips California, Nevada and Arizona resulted from a mass meeting in Los Angeles and other railway centres when the railroad en road engineers decided to report back for. work. Railroad officials of the South ern Pacific, Santa Fe and Salt Lake appears confident fthat if the brotherhood leaders could obtain control of' the situation trains would be running again within twenty-four hours. London, Aug. 29. A heavy bombardment, lasting twoN hours, was heard in Vibonsg Finland, in desecration of Kronstadt fort, . 1 "T V "1 - 1 1 the .rJolsheviki naval base near Petrograd, according to a Hel sine-fors message todav which said it was supposed the British naval forces were engaged. B HE 1 CLAIMS CAPTURE OF 2TDWNS WILSON MAY TAKE HAN IN STEEL CONTROVERSY went into the training colleges. It is assumed that every one has been thought of and personal invitations sent, but should there be any who have ntit received an invitation the ladies want it spe cially understood that every , one is included whether they get any invitation or not, and that every white boy who joined the army, or went into camp preparatory to joining the American army, is part of the honor dinner and is. requested to be .present. . No marching, no decorated town, no great to-do but hearty welcome and a home din ner will be the event ofi the oc casion in which we want to show our heartfelt thanks for the ser vice these boys rendered their home town and their country. We feel this is really the right way to show our appreciation and we are going to do it. Will Furnish Transporta tion To All Southern Negroes DESIRE THOSE LEFT a Chicago, 111. Aug. 29. Harry Wilson, the Louisiana commis sioner of agriculture, with committee of southern planters and business men is providing transportation for all negroes who want to return south. He states that the south wants all plantation hands, who left during the war, to come back Washington, Aug. 29. Presi dent Wilson is to be asked by steel workers to take a hand in the controversy between em ployes and the United States Steel Corporation following a refusal of the company to deal with the heads of their union. I London, Aug. 29. The towns of Kupiansk and Pavlovsk, on the Don river, have been cap tured by the Bolsheviki accord ing to a statement by the Soviet government today. The state ment also claimed an advance of ten mles after the capture of the towns. TRIBUTE TO "DEAN OF BRITISH INVENTORS" KNQ X FLAYS TREATY . REFDRE U. S. SENATE Washington, Aug. 29. Sena tor Knox, in a plea for the rejec tion of the peace treaty by the United States, denounced the Versailles document as unjust .unfair and impossible of fulfill ment by Germany. FEEDING OF THE EYES ADDS TO LIVING COST Chicago, Aug. 29, To a con siderable extent, feeding the eyes instead of the stomach is responsible for the high cost of living, according to authori- ties here in the milling and graii trade. They cite the fact that rye flour i $2.55 a barrel cheaper than white flour although, ex cept for looks, the rye flour is equally good or better as food. Unusual cheapness of rye flour at this time is ascribed to two causes the stoppage of whiskey distilling and the substitution of white bread for rye bread by thousands of workingmen, who, until the era of high wages, used rve bread as a rule. It is said also by the milling Rome, Aug. 29. "Did cow- tracts between New York bank- erg, and the government of Czecho-Slovakia, together with plans for the economical devel opment of Jugo-Slavia influence President Wilson more than did his fourteen points in the settle ment of the Adriatic quqestion?" This question is now being asked today in Italy, as a result of facts just revealed at Paris. It was revealed, among other thingjs, that the Czecho-Slovak government has granted a rail road concession of great impor tance to the Commercial Corpo ration of America, now being formed at Prague with a capital or 10,000,000 crowns divided into 500-crown shares which four Prague banks have fully sub scribed at 550 crowns each. This Prague company is to be a branch of the Commercial Cor poration of America, with head quarters at New York and a cap ital of $5,000,000. " ' American railroad engineers appointed by the Serbia ngov- ernment already are on the ground tracing the new road. A group of American bankers is financing the enterprise while another group has obtained con trol of the shipping interests on the Danube formerly belonging to Serbia and Croatia. This lat ter transaction is taken in Italy to foreshadow the economic de velopment of Jugo-Slavia by American capitalists, while the contracts with Czecho-Slovakia are cited as showing America's direct interest in the finances of that new Republic. IS PLUESKDW KILLING ! A VENGEANCE TRAGEDY Berlin, Aug. 29. "Cherchez la Femme" is the watchword 'of the Berlin police in their inves tigation of the mysterious mur der of Lieutenant von Plueskow, lio was found hanging in his SOCIALISTS LOSE HOLD ON THE LABOR ONIONS He declared that America should make a separate peace experts that so far as known I with Germany and not undertake here the United States govern- Birmmgham, Eng., Aug. 29.-! to enforce the terms of a treaty ment is purchasing only white Tribute to the genius of James mwhich she had no national .in-our, for shipment to Europe Watt, 4 'dean of British inven- j terest. net aiso ouiecieu iu uie icuic- lUi oCl VltCiJ 111 lill1. u " sentation of the United States on commissions of; reconstruction in Europe and flayed "Manda" agreements, which he said would result in the oppression of small nations bythe great powers. - tors, in a- the modern steam engine, will' be paid at Birmingham when, on September 16, 17, and 18, the centenary of his death will be commemorated. Paris Auer. 29. The recent collapse of the movement for a general strike is explained in some quart era. Jby the saying that, AUSTRIANPEACETREATY 'FRENCH CONSIDER THE while the extremists were get- rooms at Potsdam his feet, hands Itino- control of the ocialist party, and elbows strapped. The lieu-; vlic-v were losing their hold on tenant wore a woman's corset Hie labor unions, which, 300,000 and long white gloves. On the j strong, before the war, now have table was thp picture, of a' beau-In memhershiD of morp than 1.- t if ul French woman. Frieids of the victim who had visited him 500,000. The 300,000 were well in hand it is said,' but the 1,200,- ui his room shortly before his , 000 have brought with them a death say the picture had not certain independence of" thought been there before. Detectives are j and action. The consequence is forking on a " vengeance the- that the vast majority of union ry.' It is believed several mur- men are not ready to accept such derers had a hand in the trag- radical measures as a general ' . political strike. Paris, Aug. 29. Parliament began its final consideration of the peace treaty. Premier Clemeneeau present ence treaty for ratification in the Chamber of Deputies this afternoon. not withstanding that the bulk of the population across the Atlan tic is far more accustomed to rye bread than white. PITTSBURG STRIKERS RESUME WORK TODAY EL EVEN DOSTON POLICE AGAIN PLACED ON TRIAL Boston, Aug. 29. Eleven AGITATE MARRYING OF Pittsburg, Aug. 29. The trol ley service was resumed after two weeks' strike. Three thousand men returned to work accepting five cents an hour wage increase granted by the War Labor Board. MEXICAN SENATE WILL CHINESE AND MEXCAN S El Paso, Tex., Aug. 29. Agi tation against the marrying of Chinese men anu Mexican worn- mi !U I REDUCE NUMBERS Mexico City, Aug. 29. The Mexican Senate has rejected an initiative submitted by. President Carranza making a sharp reduc tion in the number of members of the national congress as well en is spreading in Sonora, Chi huahua and other west coast jas in the various state legisla tures. Paris, Aug. 29. At Premier Clemeneeau 's request members of his cabinet were present when the Chamber of Deputies met to consider the Austrian peace treaty. COTTON MARKET i t atfltpc nf Mexico. This has loner more policemen nave ueen piaocu. - on trial for violating department been a source of much ill-feeling rules bv joining unions. against the Chinese as many Eiodit have already been tried have married Mexican wgmen m flVi the north. Villa gave this as his It is announced that the city reason for killing many Chinese j October 31.5b , i i j.z nf thf timp of his eamrjaisrn in .December dl.oo iacea a complete ue-up ij- - licemen strike to enforce their 1917 and was credited with say- thp Chinese were trying- to claims oi rigm, iu uigame - " . Q9 ftK l it . nnr - ' hi. non vmv ' OUt maiie . vcnuw iatc ui Jj-ms j -j January : 31.82 March '-- 32.0 other unions offered, to go in 'sympathy. pie. Local Market NOMINAL
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