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TP TUT " .1 ini. E COlM(0iMWPi;i5TP VOLUME XIL NUMBER 78. MEXICO REFUSES TO TREATYJflTH U.S. (By Associated Press) Mexico, May 13. "Mexico cannot ami will not sign a formal protocol as a condition of recognition by the United States," President Obrfcgon stated today. WIFE OF NAVAL OFFICER HELD IN CONNECTION WITHJMURDEK Honolulu, May 13 Mrs. Paul Yin vent Southard, age thirty, wife of a navy petty officer, is held in connec tion with the death of her fourth hus band, Edward Meyer, who died at I'oeatello, Idaho, last August. The autopsy revealed traces of poison, ac cording to official repwTt forwarded' here. Mrs. Southard announced that she is willing to return and face the i 'Larges. Husband declares that his v.ife denies all charges. Pershing Chief Staff of Afmy (By Associated Press) Washington, May 13. Secretary cf War Weeki. has announc d the o:oi-tion of General John J. Pershing as Chief of Staff of Army, effective July first His assistant will be joi General Harbord WEATHER REPORT For Xorth Carolina: Local thunder tcjms this afternoon and tonight, Saturday partly cloudy no change in .J. :jraturiy: aiodeiate. aria-lc'vitfiisw Ulster Unionists to Vote May 24th SELECTION OF CANDIDATES PRACTICALLY COMPLETED (By Associated Press) Belfast, May 13. Selection of Ul v Unionist candidates for the elec tion May 24, has been practically com peted, and party leaders are center ing attention on the campaign. The nominees represent practically ill classes of the community-labor, professional, manufacturing and farm ing elements. The labor men, how ever, are drawn from the Unionist r"iks and do not include socialists and members of the. Independent La Party, who are accused of being 'Hied wit It Bolshevism and the Sinn Tin. Two women have been designated make the race for the Unionist forces. They are Mrs. R. P. S. Chic hester of Moyola Park, who will con-tf-st for the County and City of Irry, and Mrs. R. J. M'Mordie for iMfnst. -Many names prominent in the civic '""I political life of Belfast and Uls-r'':- do not appear in the list of candi- SIGN '"'rtes as announced, but there is yet;ative need for protecting "i'l'ort unity for their selection to the ''uate when the members of this !j'y are named later by the lower Ustor is entitled to 47 members in I'm-er house divided as follows: l!"ifast city, 16 members; County D'avii, eight members; County Antrim v -u members; County Armagh, four '"'"'i-s; County and City Berry, five '"'Hiuers: Cnnntioo T,..,n r.mnnti I1(e members; Quenn's University, ft. u" members. (f the 19 Sinn Fein candidates for , nine are at present in jail and 'lll5,t Of the remainder are "on I b e i ' .1 ' bst includes Arthur Griffiths, l'mlr of tlie Sinn Fein now in pris- of Irish Republi - vv w U1V.1U J. i VOIUVU FOUR O-CLOCEDrriON H ft measures Before oenate ana Mouse ; (By U. S. Press) Washington, May 13. Tariff and revenue legislation are on the Senate schedule this week. Thej emergency tariff bill, designed at first merely to aid the farmers, but amended by the Senate Finance Committee so as to prevent the dumping of cheap foreign manufactured goods into this country, will be passed bef&e this item reaca- Q , , es the Dublie. but. nwi n a: s ug.cv-- ment with the House the" bill will have to o-n tn. . . to go to conference following passage y c?nate. when the police aided by unsoliciteed The finance committee has eommenAelp o radicals, charged a large w-ip ced hearings on the proposed sales tax, of catholics, who were much incensed a bill for which has been introduced by Sunday when the radicals entered Senator Smoot of Utah a member of several churches, broke images, and the committee. Wh en thia fiaiJ- iWi cvexiiuaiiy raised the red flag on the . raising revenue has been given a thor- cathedral. The demonstration of pro-j BF Associated Press) ough hearing, the committee will pro-, test which followed yesterday wat ' t ''a ivr -ceed with other phases of revenue broken up by the polfce a ded by r legislation. I f. IT 7 GeorSe dramatic speech in the - The Senate interoceanic canals com- mittee, wh,eh Senator Bo.aU of Idaho, is chairman, tackled t.n .a- Uon of free PaSsage of the Pan inefi a volhTIs fired Tt! canal by American vessels. Three the crowd. Intense bitterness is - be- bills are before the committee for ing manifest against the police chief. zzv, 7 for free passage of American ships or L a C k of C T O" d i t coastwise vessels, nnrl nth tors Jones and Poindexter of Wash ington providing free passage for for eign-going as well as coastwise Amer- j icau vessels. ipint hearings on the. K Ma-Nl' f. K1. . 7 UilK the estAblishmjr of a depart- Iment of publie welfare are being held, j President Harding as strongly urged ! New York, May 13. The American qquqick action on legislation of this Manufacturers Export Association re character. ports a new and striking illustration The pa -er bill, regulating the of the loss of business which American meat-packing industry, has "been or- manufacturers are continually suffer- JJLviCztly-iyLrtd - ta'-the- Sen - ate by the committee on agriculture, This measure passed the Senate at the last session, but failed of action in the House. ' The naval appropriation bill is scheduled tobe taken up for action (following the disposal of the emer- geney tariff bill. Advocates of a re- duction in naval armament, provided other naval powers can be brought to agree to similar reductions in thei naval programs, will make a strenuous fight to amend the naval bill so as to request the President to call a con ference between the United States, Great Britain, and Japan looking to a reduction of armaments in their naval programs. A bill from the committee on agri culture limiting to a certain extent dealings in futures" on the grain mar ket is due to appear before the House. The most imp6rtant event during the past week was the passage of the federal budget legislation by a vote of 344 to 9. This plaees the budget bureau directly under the President instead of the Treasury De partment, as provided in the bill as it passed the Senate. The bill is now due for conference between the two houses. Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Com merce, has told the House Ways and Means Committee that there is imper- American industries against the inroads of re vived German industrial and commer cial activities. Representatives of the telephone companies before the Interstate Com merce Committee urged enactment of the Willis bill to give the Interstate Commerce Commissien authority over transfers and mergers of telephone companies doing an interestate busi nesJ, From the agriculture committee Senator Norris favoraWv rerorted the bill to prente a "Federal live stneV commission. A movement tn nbnlia.li the T?,nilrnnd .Wage Board as now constituted and to substitute a board composed of "men selected bv the Pref?!ent without re- rd to their business affiliations is assuming form in connection with the SCOTLAND KECK. W. P.. Mexican R a d i cal s on Rampage ENTERED CHURCHES AND RAIS ED RED FLAG. DEMONSTRA TIONS BROKEN UP BY POLICE (By Associated Press) Mexico Citv. Mpv "Mow 1Q .T?fxr . --1J-Lv . persons were lulled and a o.nra wn,,n. ded last ni2ht in Morela wi f ' wPll.0i OI Michoacan, according to The Excelsior j- cuciui auiuiers. tt however, it was renewed durin the evening wIirti thft crowd refused to disperse. The police fl .. ...... I II I 111 min illinium i i n Exports CORPORATION NOW BEING FORM- 1 UWtt TO mnx- -kt-ct-cc, ing tlirough th inability of foreign buyers to negotiate purchases on a credit basis. Secretary A. W. Will- niann of the association is in receipt of a letter from the 'export manager f a large company in the Great Lakes region, deploring the fact that there is at present no adequate financial machinery to facilitate sales of Amer- ican goods in foreign markets. i The letter refers to numerous ex amples of l?ss of business to Amer ican firms because of lack of credit .facilities such as the Foreign Trade Financing Corporation will supply them under the Edge Act. The letter of the manufacturing company to the American Manufac turers Export Association states: "We have many examples of this unfortunate circumstance before us at present in connection with out Euro pean customers. They wish to buy; we are extremely anxious to sell, but the machinery of credit which should connect us has failed. "Leaving out many half -formed prospects which cannot mature on ac- count of the financial situation, I will mention two definite cases where w-3 , . , . , . uovoo c uuuu . ., , . , finance the credit our customers de sire. 1. An old Italian customerValue of goods involved, $200,0000.00. 2. Eoumanian customer Value of goods involved approximately $100, 000.00." CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVED TO CHINESE RELIEF FUND Formerly contributed and sent in from other sources $335.80 TO COMMONWEALTH , 1ash : $3.00 Cash '$3.00 Dr. O. F. Smith $5.00 Cash . . $1.80 Mrs. W. R. Bond $2.00 Cash $100.nt done anything like 5,000 miles Mrs. E. L Hardv $2.UD Rebecca and Ann Dupree Bryant $2.00 j Total, . $19 89'tu nt in a commercial or practical . . . . investigation of railroad conditions by the Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce FRIDAY. Mv !3, 1921 CALLED OPON TO PAY THE RAILROAD DEFICIT (By Associated-Press) Washington May 13. Unless some jway is feund to increase revenues and .reduce expenses the railroad deficit i 'Wl 1 1 Tl Q Trifc 4- r V , 4- J! T H "XT i ' - i l" "c m" Ar"m me lxationai j Treasury Chairman Cummings, of the o x- i- , oeuaie interstate i Commerce Commit- .1 0n the general railroad situation. L1JES P0LS DEFY TREATY . house of Commons coneerninff UDner ZJITJ T aCtln the Pohsh agents aS a ' COMMUNISTS PERMITTED 1 ' Tfl DPfAPU IIWUINnrOril PEOPLE OUTRAGED AND MEET INGC FREQUENTLY BROKEN UP : (By Associated Press) London, May 13. The temper of ! the people. toward the Communists who are permitted to preach their doctrines here unhindered, was shown by an in- a.ga. 4udiC me m J ' '. After the strains of the "Red -ai vummuu- 'paimit empl oyed-onrr -H ,000 clerks ists' meetinor, a former officer, woun- w..u n., . ded so badly he could scarcely stand, 9,wuu U 111 IUUI or Tll"e erowa num - bering several thousand, and called for cheers for the King. The response to his appeal" was ear splitting. This so enraged one of the women members of the Communist crowd that she rushed upon the offi- u. ,v. upon he called for three cheers for the Queen, the Prince of "Wales and finally for law and order. This broke up the meeting. MARCONI PINS FAITH ON WIRELESS TRANSATLANTIC TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION BY WIRELESS PREDICTED AS ONLY SATIS FACTORY METHOD I Londn, May 13. Signor Marconi, inventor of wireless, pins his faith to i ii t : w roToco cko ,Wp ' I J ' aesmte tne recent successful expen- I ments in America connecting Cuba . . with the mainland in a telephone cir- & ' "I still think," he said, "that the . ' -.only satsifactory method of telephon- I J J mg across xne Atlantic is Dy wireiess. At present we can only do a short dis tance by cable telephone-from Lon don to Paris is as far as we can do now. In attempts to communicate with Spain we have failed. Up to 100 or 200 miles of cable it works. With. 1,000 miles or more of cable it won't work. "Wireless telephony, of course, has r.ot yez been developed to the same 'extent as tfie wire telephone, but it is t?ing rapidly improved. We have thus far. We have spoken success- 1 iuiiy irom jjonclon to rtome, ana we have got words through to America, way. At present there are certain disturbances of the waves in spaee, jthe cause of which has not yet been discovered." T"RT.P.n.T? A "DXTTf! evnmrm liHANIiLLLOK WIK I H DECLARES GERMANY IS IN EARNEST j (By Associated Press) Berlin, May 13.-Chancellor Wirth. j speaking before the Imperial Council, declared that Germany sincerely desir- -, ed to carry out her promises: "We want to fulfil the conditions of the .ultimatum with all our strenoh ' a ' i We exPect the the Me, however, J after fiPPl M Or till nnVlonta n & v. J- UUl gUUU. will, to recognize our attitude. HARDING AND OBREGON ET (By Associated k I -"-'"j i. 1CS1UCUIS 'nhrPn Wo;. xucAitu v-liy jiiaj 7 .have been invited to visit the Texas According to local newspapers President Obregon, who was cordially sr ! " ::.r r,;,: lre the President Hardng has evc- ; , .... same time. REDUCTION IN ENT EMPLOYES Washington, D. . C, May 9. ClOn- gressman Fordney. quoted Secretary jWeeks as saying that the War je. uciuia.-iuc. iviiij mat mere are now, 28,000 and that this number should I jbe cut to 12,000 or 13,000. When !asked if he kflw nf nnv i - " AA47 viuvi guv viu ment departments which expected to reduce forces, Fordney said: "I ex pect that all departments will make reductionsT I do not see why they should not. I do not know why they .need 50j000 clerks more than they did before the war Jt .g pure wMte l ."J- "it; peopie -s money to keep so many unnecessary employes. There tare so many and they have so little jto do that they spend their time read ing and crocheting." An "Adamless Eden" to Be Opened London, May 13. What is describ ed as an "Adamless Eden" is about small park where London working ' . , . , - ' girls may rest and meditate undisturb- , , ed bv vounc men. 9 o i , . . , , ... ,, , I Tlie plan originated with the Met- ropolitan Publie Gardens Association .. , . . . Which is seekmo1 tn nhta.in fnr thn ! - , , , purpose four acres of waste land near i n, . COTTON AREA OF MEXICO IN FINANCIAL STRAITS (By Associated Press) Mexico City, May 13. Less than , one-third of the acreage of the Laguna j district in the state of Coahuila, most of Mexico's cotton cro where croT is A. grown, has been planted and the en- tire region is in dire straits finaneial- 1 ! uy, according to statements printed "here quoting travelers. Cotton prices were so low i . . ..... during 'the past year that the growers have sold their product at a loss and are MAY ME GM not inclined to risk a poor J a gain. harvest BATTLE RAGING IN WEST COAL GOVERNOR OF WEST VIRGINIA CALLS UPON GOVERNMENT FOR FEDERAL TROOPS (By JLsociatca Press) ' Williamson, W. V., May 13. War fare -in West Virginia-Kentucky coal strike was resumed with" vigor today. An unknown man was killed at Mc Carr this morning, bringing the total to three dead. People in the upper Tug River Val ley, where a battle raged all yeatet day.iveen forces of the State Po- U- .,1 I-! flon.n., 'l,!J a 1 ' . - nitiucii iu me moun- 5is, anxiously awaited today sonio news in answer to the request of Gov enor Morgan for Federal troops. Fir ing was resumed at daylight, early reports said, but there are no details available. Charleston, W. Va., May 13. Gover nor Morgan, early today, had received no reply to his request for Federal troops foV Mingo County. Attack Infancy Aid Bill (By U. S. Press) Washington, May 12. The Shep-pard-Towner maternity bill came un der the fire of physicians yesterday before a Senate committee. The op position declared the Federal matern ity and infancy aid bill proposed was superflous and demanded by no ono ?S2Z Jew , women .w.hpw:Jia,FO .money to burn and time to waste," Th 6 bU1 WaS described as "a huge fabrication of inflated socialistirt ideals" and as "the entering wedge to State or Federal control of the practice of medicine." The opposi tion also contended that the bill is a contravention of the general welfare clause of the Constitution and -an ad ditional burden to taxpayers. ' SOLITARY WOMAN LIFE M LEPERS London, May T2. A story of heroic self-sacrifice and devotion has reach ed England from the leper village of Chandag, India, where Mary Reed, a solitary white woman missionary, is giving her life to ministry to the suf ferings of her fellow lepers. News of her isolated life was brought back by Mr. Oldrive, organiz ing secretary of the Mission to Lepers, who ha3 just returned from a 70,000 mile journey visiting all the leper col onies in India. Thirty years ago Miss Reed went into this desolate spot in the Hima layas, 6,000 feet above the sea level, offering herself to the leper cause. Although a victim of the malady, she is still able to carry on her spiritual work among these afflicted like her self. Miss Reed seldom sees white people for her station is 80 miles from the nearest railway line. Therq are 46 women lepers in the community and 19 men in the men's refuge a short distance away. According to Mr. Oldrieve, there are 200,000 lepers in India. "At present," he declared, "it is not right to say that any cure for leprocy has been found.' ' -i COTTOK MAEKET May . 12.40 July . 12.80 October , , . 13.34 December '. 13.63 VIRGINIA FIELDS MISSIONARY GIVING 'January . 13.73 'V.-wv'
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