f
1
T A THER FORECAST
T T
orth Carolina Fair, not quite so
j t;mght; snow In west portion;
o y.-czdi-y snow or rain.
; :.:;h Carolina Probably snow or
iite tonight and Wednesday;
v riUite so cold.
v ilm:
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XXIII, NO. 336.
WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY AFTER NOONrDEGEJVIBER 1 1 i 191 7
PRICE FIVE CENTS
t C v. t " ?
FULL LEASED WtRE;'SERVICE V N ' ' : ; . s . TT
Evict: -iiv Preparing to "Strike a
Blow Against
Allied Positions i
Heavy
FREEZE HAMPERS
I
i
I
THlR
TEEN NEGRO
SOLDIERS WERE
All j--.if Vi . '
Rib
Were Convicted of Complicity
in Houston Riot and
Mutiny
LIFE SENTENCE FOR
FORTY-ONfi OTHERb
-
Execution Carried Out This
Morning by Soldiers and Was
Kept Secret Until it Was
All Over
iiiFl Tiiiilil liiLi isrj; Mpmmm
DEFENSE IMWFJini J
a- -vi i r i inrnnnr . niiniiiiini
bUIHKL JUOHUU'
El TODAY FOR THE.
!
Mrs. Julia P. ; Means principal ; Encircled by Teutons, They
Witness in- Cpneorjdffrial,. -t Charged Until None Was
Todayv? y -- ; r Left to Charge
CORROBORATE HER HEROIC SACRIFICES
HUS1M0? STORY- BY THE ITALIANS
. (By Associated j-ress.)
San Antonio, J'exas, Dec. 11.
-1 nir- i
that Put Up in Defense of
Italy
(l!.v Associated Press.)
Italian Headquarters1 in Northern
GANTRY FIGHTING
HALTS IN ITALY
IRK OF Gl FARING
Aus;: ; German Attempts to
hi . .k Through Again Fails
Bolsheyiki Having Trou
b!: Coping With the Revolution
UP HALIFAX tiUIH
Mrs. Means a Gooi Witness No Braver Resistance Chroni
Other Witriesaes Tpday Were cjed in World's History than
Chier ot roiice'Kobinson
and Means -Clerk,
d.y AssocIatedAPresH.) '
Concord, N. C, Decll. Mrs. Julio
teen of the negroes of the 21th infan- R Meais took the ;tatid todiy. in de-, Italy, -Monday, Dec. 10. A visit today
jitv in the riot and mutiny at H.ra.-.. on lense of her husband, Gaston 8- Means', "to the headquarters of a Major Gen
r ity in the riot and futiny at Houston 011 trial here for the' imrder ot Mrs. eral commanding a division of heroic
on August 23 were hanged on the mili- !aucle A- KinS- She "said that' since Alini and Bersaglieri disclosed the
fl j tary reservation at Fort Sam Houston. sbe was a liule child, "some 'five years story of tho manner in "which this di-
L j at 7:17 o'clock this morning. An-'old- she had known Mrs. King, and vision held the heights back the i
y i nouncement o.f the carrying out of the; durinS the last several .years had been Asia go plateau until it was cut- to
isentnece was made at headquarters' in contact with her almost constantly. p;eces' "and tne remnant was compelt
nf ort.u . ... ! sh. trust f vi-A . ed to fsl1 back to its present, new line.
,w ,uC uuuyaiuuuui aisa. m ?uw a I Tho General is now ehiraired' in re-
Only army officers and Sheriff John, Jointly with her husband for a loan forming his' shattered forces whieb
GIVES RUSSIANS J
F'EI PLAIN FACTS
Unusually Active ArtillerahSte ;
serial operations, re v;.
Reported
BOTH SIDES SEEM H
TO BE PREPARING
British Ambassador at Fetro
grad Tells Slavs Beware ot
Kaiser
ALLIES ALSO WANT
DEMOCRATIC PEACE
nnan reinforcements have
France, it is believed in
but where the expected;
; ;'!! s yet to "ce diseased. I
:i: a? the infantry is .r ,
Western front, but tliu
n i e- socially that of the
; verv active In various
-i isli front the Germans are
heavily the positions,
of Cambrai and east ana :
v, Ypres, the two sectors
?f n virtually all the heavy
However, All Activities Are
njyy uiiuucicu Kjn x Kjyoiciu" i iuum, 01 oaxier county, were present
atic Basis ! wnen the sentence was executed by
! soldiers from the post. No newspaper
LAST NIGHT WAS men or civilian spectators were al-
SPENT PEACEFULLY i lowed- the time and Place of execution
' having been kept a secret.
Fears of Another Possible Ex- f the 63 meu trietl b' the same
i
plosion Allayed by the Sink
ing of the Only Other
Ammunition Ship
of $25,000 made the defendant by Mrs. jwero seen in long lines along the
King. Her husband desired her to TC&s preparing to go back into the
sign the note so that inMhe event of-!fit-
his incompetency, Mrs. King could cot 4 Major of the General's staff, who
toward the close or the tight coilectftd
the remainder of the men of the di-
Germans Massing Troops; ahH t
British Are ; Getting! ReadyJ j
for Another RushImpitt';
ant Developments Awaielt4 S f
- (By Assviated Press) i.-t:'-:l- -
London, Dec. 11. Unusually activecC;
artillery fighting and aerial operations T1
on the Western front yesterday are;V (
reported in today's official cpmmunlli
; cation. This activity was .'particular I ;
j ly noteworthy on the Ynres aTid A 3i ik!
A., warning Against German ras front.
i Imperialism England is
Russia's Friend, He Says,
Should be so Treated
Operations of the nature" and ex-'
! tent indicated bv the nffiini nritU "S-i:'-v
: court martial, 41 were sentenced to
; life imprisonment. One man was sen
j tenced to dishonorable discharge from
I the army, forfeiture of all rtav and
j allowances, and to be confined at hard i was shown by the defendant while he
(By Associated Press).
Halifax, N. S., Dec. 11. The snow i were sentenced
storm which hampered the relief discharged from the army, forfeit all
rh" past few months From WU1M1S yesieiuay was 01 snon aura-, pay ana allowances and oe connned at
u 10 t'io Svi33 border, Paris tion and last nisbt was clear and cold.' hard labor for two years, rive were
as me buuw wmcn ieu was neai acquittea. ,
enough to rain to be well saturated, a The negro soldiers who paid the
- (;u enemy artillery activity
i th Oise and the Aisne, in
.cno northeast of Verdun ana
; A".sace. The British and
; .union are replying in kind
the German positions.
r.vy German artillery fire may
'. .r t! " r!:'fflans are attempt-
dence of seriousness,, such as never
labor foV two and a. half vps Thrpp was on tne stana.- mow and then
to be dishonorably wnen sne causn- in eye or na- nus-
uana, a sugnt smiie;,niueQ across ner
countenance. She -vvdre , a blue skirt,
white shirt waist aft! street hat.
;.s. Means testify that she never
lect the money. , :
Mrs. Means, during the direct ex
amination, appeared remarkably calnvF11.011 ftnd-led them. in. the final aargjs
and nerfer-tiv nt ras.' Hoi-'flflcwBrs until the order for retirement ramie,
to questions were clear cut And
straight forward. Her '.face bore evi-
observed any evidence that her hus
hard crust had formed today, further; aeath penaltv were: (band, sought to restfatn Airs. King's
interfering with traffic, promems and Sergeant William C. Nesbitt, Cor- liberty or dominate ;Ci?r. ."; " .
with the work of clearing away the porals Larnon J .Brown, James Wheat- She corroborated defendants tes
ruins of wrecked buildings. j ley, Jesse Moore and Charles W, Bal-Uimony at various points, including Ws
All activities, however, are now on timore, Privates William Bracken-I explanation of the Jpnysterious" ref
a systematic basis and Halifax men ' ridge, Thomas C. Hawkins, Carlos 1 erence in letters tomei;; bother, hus-
JOined todav With 'men from Other Rnndrans Ira R Dav- .Tame Tlav. Ihinrl while Mho at 'A fthovlUo nrftli
, .7-1 v. i '.- nnint and it. niav he i j 11 z n t-i ti. ' n t i . 1 ; ; ' -. lV .
j :kui i v -- put La ui (jaud.ua tinu iiuui cities iu me ins, rranK juuiisun, xvisiey vv. loungi-
;or the purpose or drawing Ai- United States in seeking to restore and Pat MacWhorter. -N
Ji i attention to one spoc while tne more normal conditions. The refusal Following the1 hafeeing of the 13
iroor from tb. -Russian front are to admit curiosity seekers already t chief -atf tf th.dutherirBepM-tT
msi'-A 10, a strong eaort on a aiui- has resulted in a noticeable lessening ment gave out a written statement, at
erh nuiet sector. Strong local of the congestion whlcn was threaten-! the same time refusine: to answer anv
GIli
ounglMrs. King andhaNewora KiSSlSI
, the; .toiroduction MMjfMB
gave a first-hand description of tho
struggle. , ' : '
He said- there . were three Bersagi
lieri regiments, some Alpini battalions
and ne infantry regiment in the . dM
vision, m addition to the usual quota
of batteres pf field and middle calibre
guns. These were, ranged back of
Asiago when the enemy's 'drive reach
ed its maximum intensity last WedV
nesday. For 24liours,one Bersaglieri
regiment had held ' Monte Tondarecar
until its platans- had been redu'eed
frocf 30 men to 6. it was hed that
the battalions of Alpini were set. ftf
thejr relief , i'j - :, '. "v. . '.
The Alpin'fougbi4heir way un th
hill, gaining .'ihe summit"" a gainst lieavy.
odds; only td finCtKMc- comrades cut
communication almost invariably .' pre-'" )
(By Associated p i auacK. The preliminaries;
London, Dec Tl. Further" details of bombardment, designed to break don
the statement made to Russian jour-1 the PPsinS defenses and c!6arr thel
nalists by Sir George Buchanan, Erit-! Fay for the iuf antiT : advance, may V ;' :
ish ambassador at Petrograd, as for-1 cotinue for week or more wWle efwf j
warded in-la Reuter dispatch, show? i fort1s are mad to clear the airbf 0pli
at Amar- vitrei the ; "21
Kussian commissaries were mistaken 1 tions for- the attach. Yesterday's j;J
inhinking that a dnrahift French and British stnt
be obtained by asking the Germans spoke of heavy artillery fighting, .af';
for an armistice to be. followed by ah" many points. Recent reports "tbat ,thervil;
agreement. The Allies, he said, wish-1 Germans, reinforced by jtroops Withrvi;
ed first to arrive at a general agree. drawn from the Russian frontwere "l a ment
in harmony with their ceclared aDout to undertake in the West ; the V;?"?
war aims and then to arrange an great -offensive "campaign of "the war : 0
armistice. .,; k derived added significance fromiSecMi J,
Hitherto not one word has been said ' f8t5y' Bar's references yesterday-: '- '
by any German SS stowi SJ1
that the.ideals.of theRussian democ- TSJirnf iTSls "
racy were -shared by Emperor Wil-: 1 ?e ected attempt pf the
11am aM;his: govmnlLnl-i eneml t0 brek th6 Allied line, - : -sador;ad-,
Jt was with the German! m JTTZTZTZ " :- -
antoc, ot with the German peo-j MAY TAKE OVER AND '
Ptwatythpamisti0e; negotiations; Jr R ATI T?nAn! ' i
eheingebnductea, : i,e asked I nuuf KA1LKUAU t ,;
hiiwW;. i.-'w.;. I - (By Associated Press). Jr.
STS Dec .ll.-At the onen.
lm-- !f a ofl!a hearing tbdaKby thb-Joint VHv
tingiq.objr:isfeo miftioS:? 'r.
arack.- fin the right bank of the Meuse, jng serious impediment.
of Verdun, have been re
questions.
nearing its end today, although i tne .joncentratlon W
defense remained silent as to how c. ' lu"a . ,eia"ua"i.
many more witnesses it would offer
before restine: its case. The State al-
LiU t'
so was expected to offer several wit
nesses in rebuttal.
Means' story of his financial trans-!
ir-:
T:.-
v":ii
A-la:
Tii
An l-I-
I;
Au-':
Hundreds of men were busy today The statement merely give the find-
u French wno took pris-1 about the less badly damaged build- ings of the court, the names of the
I ings. The chief task was to replace men sentenced and stated that the
,,itin has stopped mo- j broken windows and doors and to re-! men sentenced to death had been
v. wst, on the Italian . paii roofs. The supplies of window ; executed. . actions for Mrs. Maude A. King, fori
Asiago to the Piave river, j glass sent from other cities proved i "Good bye, boys of Company C", whose alleged murder he is on trial,!
i GMinan effort to break parucuianj useLui anu a. pany ui ; were tne last woros uiiereo Dy ine was nnisneo yesieruay alter no nan
v. cen the Piave and me skilled glaziers from Boston assisted j condemned men of the 24th United reiterated his story of her death near
.! with losses. The enemy ' in re-placing the thousands of shat-, states infantry, as the traps were here last August, which he attributed
:i- .-h ;;ttered forces and at-: tered panes. sprung and they dropped to theii -to accidental discharge of a pistol in
iin..ik- Thinneh between iusi ingui wa.- me inusi i e&uui : deatn on tne scanoia. -ner nanus, ne nau Deen o:i tne
p;.,,... i: f .ii.Vi ..p-i'-i since the explosion. The sinking ol
i . 1 J u. . r
f-rinaiis
lie fciilt! ' aga:-'. since the explosion, l ne sinning o. Men of Company C, 19th infantry, stand the better part of tour days.
CaptUI JU SOnK? uiumuuii l t. ni-. . . , -yt utren uaiuuig tiic uc&iu ijitwii- i im; ucr-uc LliSTll 1JUL Ull 1 L Li 1 11 U J 1 Ml
itlK.ut nnp.oving their; day with the subsequent official as- ers since they were brought to San witnesses to testify to minor points in
..mi ot -i hi-iw onciT suiance lurtt uieie weic nu caiusivo Antonio to stand inai Deiore a court 113 case. Among men! were .ueans
jfn. il af'empt to cross
laden vessels in the harbor, drove , martial for complicity in the riot at two sisters, who declared that on the
. . . . 4' 4.i..4-Vn i,n."lhlft (1 1 C 1 r . i. C- 1 4- 1 1- 4. f At . T r . . 1 . . 1, 4.1. . A ... - .
i s of the Piave has i avvit" iuai iuihiui puiuic Mouston on August, -o, iasi. uigiii ui .wrs. mub ueatu ine iuuiiu
,. A... t..i:! ...L , i ter and permitted residents and relief The execution took place about two him with his head bowed in his hands
",:,. t...k.. 'workers to sleep in peace,
miles east of Camp Travis on a great and tears streaming down his lace.
I
One American Killed. : scaffold which had been erected dur- The defense recalled Chiel' if Pa
P.everlv. Mass.. Dec. 11. One Am- ?no- tho nifrht 'lice Hnhinsnn us the first witnp'; of
in o Jerusalem, the erican a resident of this city, lost his A columh of 125 cavalrymen and 100 the day.' He told of a statement made
( ai isiians is planned j Ijfe in lne Halifax disaster. Word infantry soldiers assembled at the cav- to him on the night of the death -01
'. i v(;ps entered tii 'ju.as 1PCeived here today that the body airv srnard house where the neeroes Mrs. Kins- bv Afton Means, brother of
of John w. Morasn, an employe ut uie were connned, at 5:30 o clock this the detendant. Alton Means tola him,
ine :it'tcr it was su'
u: ! f le lorcea 'j peveriy piant of the Unitedj bhoe mroning. Trucks conveyed the pris- he said, that the defendant said imme-
of th.: city was : Machinery Company, has been found. j.ners to the scene of tne execution, diately after the shooting: "'Mrs. King
c tear that figlumg: Morash went to Halifax two weeks Tne guard assembled in hollow square shot herself with that little pistol."
esidt ill the (lani.U'- QO-r tn viit his father, who was Criti- fnrm,tmn omnnrl tho ecafforrl anrl the Henrv Deitr-li nf NTew Vnrk :i clev-
i cally ill. He had written to friends nrieoners were given the order io ioal employe of the defendant the last
hands or i,prp that he Dlanned to return hornf m,rh tn ovenitinn two vears. was next introduced.
- -JiitJ.VJ,l,VJVWW--.-. - -
Without a tremor, they stepped out; Deitch described, the system use.?
with soldierly tread and singing a by Means in keeping the accounts be-
iiMCOfiD FOR
i: :ine. The eViive.
' : i i'roui tlu
; :i s not only th suc-jast Wednesday, but delayed his de
I .Menby's drive into parture and was caught in the explo
iv ornbiy ends all l urco- gion.
' cutting the Suo:j
;i i' -patch says that ;.ac
' . ordered troops from
o put down Generars
):r,i!off and Dutoff while
; rt jiorted large forces
ro-vi the Baltic-Biack
li- Uliraine and tie
iiK'f-s. Whether clashes
I "Vweeiriho Bolsheviki
: -(evolutionists is not
iki government controls!
direct means of com-t
tif interior of Russia.
M PRODUCTS
UnoflFicially Placed at
$21,000,000,000
hymn, walked to their places. Prayers tween himself and Mrs. King. Monthly
were said by a negro minister and itemized 'statements accounting for all
by two army chaplains and then the transactions were submitted to Mrs.
i men were ordered to stand on the King, he said, approved by her and
traps. Resuming their song, they then filed away. Complete files of the
i. n A JionlotTDil (YvrtitnHo ri rnrnn tc iroo li-ort hir Ioano in hi
! while the straps were adjusted. I New York apartment and taken there-1 iew lb mdue
i
them.; Some of the battalions man
euvered and were carried back and
forth in the fury of the fighting along
the scopes. Others remained on the
summit with the enemy surrounding
them.
At 9 o'clock on Wednesday morning,
the Colonel of these battalions sent his
last report to the General.
It said laconically: "The eneny is
on all sides and I am about to charge."
This was the last which was ever
heard of him or of any of his men.
The enveloping masses grew dens
er and the gallant Alpini band which
had gone to rescue the Bersaglieri was
wiped out.
Fighting continued along ether
points of the line until the forces were
decimated and it became clear that ths
enemy greatly outnumbered the Ital
ians. The General himself, who was
directing operations from a point just
back of the line, narrowly escaped a
shrapnel shell which burst near his
automobile. It was then that the Ma
jor who recounted these events gath
ered the remnant of the division and
fought the remainder of the day until
the new Italian lines of defense were
formed across the Franzella and Ga
dena passes leading to the Brenta val
ley and the plain. It is here the lines
are now resting, with good prospects
of holding.
The correspondent visited a number
of points on the present . line and talk
ed with officers and men. All were
confident of being able to hold when
the new attack, which they expect in
mi
; !
A COAL SHORTAGE
:.-f
m is
IL! IIFTED
:0
At 7:17 a mapor gave the order to from by John T. Dooling in September
spring the traps. The triggers ' had for the New York District Attorney's
been arranged, one tor each drop, and office. He said Dooling spent the night
six men were assigned to each. At there examining the papers" before tak-
. ithe word of command they pulled on ing them.
i C Mahnn'c Trons the triggers and the 13 dropped to On cross examination, the witness
Value ot the Nations rops " gaid he wag employed by the Burns
Only Routine Affair. ; detective agency at and prior to the
I Washington, Dec. 11. The hanging time he joined Means, doing investi
o 13 negro troopers for complicity in gation work to ascertain if the neutral-
,t i.Mf.tA PrPR,n the Houston not was unimown tu.uy laws weie ueiug viumLeu.
(By Associated Press.) ffin;oi0 f tho Wrir ne- ,
Waxhineton Dec. 11. iuany crops pracucsu
n it wac antinniiffirl ;i t CTDC CT nrUTIWn
nrnrlnptinn nf ntil- PauuiBui u""' " " ... JlJTVtt.l MUU1U1U
linis yea! , Fnrt Sam Houston. Doubtless uic rnmc im nmenAw President, and Mrs. Wilson have an-
UVUIW iil , , n-A
I I UUUUVUU LLICV 111 C l LuliU
McCORMACK tlVES
$100,000 TO RED CROSS
(By Associated Press.)
Washington Dec. 11. A gift of
$100 -000 to the Red Cross from John
McCormack, the tenor, was announced
today. Paying his own expenses Mr.
McCormack will make a patriotic con
cert tour from the Atlantic to the
Pacific, opening in Washington, De
cember 18, with a conqert which the
' Wilson nrohahlv -w-milf h
Although the Allies could not send; over the railroads during the war and' Vi
representatives to take part in the; hold them after the war until r. :
armistice negotiations, they were I gress can provide some plan for prop- ' .
ready, said Sir George, as soon as a : er management and efficient operation ' '
stable government, recognized by the : in peace and war. ,
Russian people had been constituted, j ' " ; "V-C-
to examine with that government the! WCATUCD AMn :,.-''1Vi
aims nf the war and nf the nnaaihloi " J-niUUlX
conditions of a just and durable peace.
Tr tho m 0D n 1 1 m a ho All.an nraro h-itt !
ing Russia the most effective assis-' (By Associated Press.)
tance by holding the bulk of the Ger-' Columbus, O., Dec. 11. With below
man armies on their respective fronts, i zero weather prevailing the coal sjaort-
I age was so acute in Ohio today that
PONVFNTfON FIflHT .Governor Cox telegraphed Fuel Ad-.-
CTII AT-mo riM : mitrator Garfield that unless Ohio.
ailJLL. LxUirMLi UJN ; people get immediately relief they1
: i "will loose confidence in the govern-
(By Associated Press.) 1 ment."
Columbus, Ga., Dec. 11 The Fourth i
District Democratic convention as 'ncriCTrD hc"im a o
Ml
THEY BECOME OF AGE
' re
sembled here today in another effort
to nominate a successor to Represen
tative W. C. Adamson, who was re
cently appointed to the board of ap-j (By Associated Press).
praisers of the port of New Tork by Washington, Dec. 11. Registration
President Wilson. ! for army of duty of all young men as
Although upwards of 200 ballots they become of age is proposed in a
were taken at former sessions with- bill introduced today by Senator'
out a nomination, it was believed in j Wadsworth. Those who became of
convention circles that Representa
tive Adamson's successor would be
named within a few days.
age since the draft law was passed ' 1
would register at once and the others
would come in at six months inter-
! vals.
Rlli REDUCTION IN
COTTON ESTIMJTE
er years, while the value of the cou:-- deatn sentence of the courr martial
try's farm products, with a total esti- and the preparations for the execu-i
St
i 1 1 i w i.
ion
aie
in
Orders
mated unofficially at $21,000,000,000 far tions were known to a few high offi-, ifftrfighUag has
' I'l I S 1 1 1 1 I . fill LCLL CLO WIU UVJ Juuilivui i n ir ji a i. rt ji i
oTA00fiR nnv o-"iGr vear in uislu . , . , occurrea m Moscow ana me &weaisn
es received in Haparanda and for-
Healtll I y tho Iepartaient of Agriculture
Honnrt mental commander earned out , ., , .
j Final estimates of production of ih, ; -T executions as a routine affair as he ; IZtJ3
i n,.in5i rrnns were announced today warranted to do in time of war and: . . '' , .
r r . , i .
oniy maae me usuai luiumi icyun.
A Shortage Inauiry.
(By Associated Press.)
Washington. Dec. 11. Inquiry by a
Senate committee into the cause of
the shortage of coal and sugar with a
Final Estimate Gives 1 0,949,
000 iBales for This Year's
Crop
(By Associated jrresssj , j
Washington, Dec. 11. Reduction of
more than a million bales in the cotton ,
crop from the last estimate made of j
he country, was shown in the final.
estimate of production issued today by
the Department o" Agriculture-
Cotton production this year is esti
mated 10.949,000 equivalent 500 pound
bales. The average weight per run
ning bales is estimated at 501.5 pounds j
.gross.
Production by States follow:
Virginia. 16.000: North Carolina
Artillery Activity Reported.
(By Associated Press). , Vv
Berlin, Dec. 11. (via London). On !
the Flanders front in France there
was a lively artillery duel, the Ger
man official statement issued today V)
says. On the Italian front there was i;
active gunfire on bcth sides of they v
'. Brenta river and along the lower .
Piave.
. i
IPlHIfilTIIN TO 1
miwmm
.... .X
" -it'- -':''
""
,''
k House Agrees to Begin Con-
sidering Amendment Next';
Monday v ' t'A
Camp
The production estimates are:
r'r.r-n a iR9.494.000 bushels: winter. v,i nf the President. In time o
wheat 418 070 000; spring wh?at 232,-, wa:-. however, all such authority is
S oOO- all wheat 650,828 000:' oars i dec. ntralized and placed with respon
,o,ouu, an wl- " ' nnn siblc commanders.
1587.286.000; Barley 208.975.000; rye
-tTT 11 o ooro tho otp. "a u u J L kjwvi.iiu.uj vwivsi)yuu i nmnvnvo tho mtiintinn wac nrriorort nvi ' . .
vvexe uic uvjluili j - , . f Th lUnrnine Post Tt i? arl- "f1" -" ' "- "
c-tions would have required the ap-! XZZ tl Zel Senate toda on motion, of Sen-
--'i;it.ii Press.)
( ' . Dec. 11. An abso
piaced on Camp Jack-
Innnrui rniintv Rnnni i Flaxseed. 8,473,000 bushels; rice
. - . . r n n rn. t
. , . , . i:ir7SO00- Dotatoes 42 Do.uuu, sweei
at noon because of , ' Jnma tqc-v i
,, , .; potatoes 87,141,000; hay. tame, i 9,5-n,-,
01 BPial menm".000; hav. vild. 15,402.000: tobacco
Jf' :i minutes later by : -joe 'r.i onn nntinds. sugar beets 6 237,- j
-1 of Health. In a.ver- .ooo'tens. ' , quiry into the operations of the War
-len d todav the Assis-I Bans 15.701,000 bushels; kaffirs 75,- Department in arming and equipping
otrK nun - rTi ifTl S I .i..)'ll.i"i i uuonria . a.v- cue xiaici o.ix iui v-
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60.;45,0:0; buckwheat 17,460000 iWA- DFFARTMENT
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INQUIRY OKUtKtU
(By Associated Press.)
Washington, Dec. 11. A general in-
en Moscow. Most of the Swedes there
are said to have taken the consul's
advice.
General of the SJtate
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State board had
(ne local board it : apple
of tlm State board a!Of56,OCO
bage 502,700 tons;
hops 27.778.OOU on today in ie Senate Miliary ai-
ad the ndg. cranberries 245,000 barrels; , fairs comr!, T -rotary Baker and
if apples 58.203.000 barrels; peachesi 45 other department heads will be called
bushels- pears 13,281,000 to ex plain various ieaiures ul wu
ator Lodge.
' Austro-Germans Repulsed.
(By Associates Press.)
- Rome, Dec. 11. Powerful attempts
made by the Austro-Germans to re
take the Agenzia and Zuliani oositions
in the Capo Sila region of the lower
(Ey Associated . Press)
Washington, Dec. 11. By unanimous 'k
consent toda- ythe House agreed' to '
consent today the House agreed
amendment for nation-wide nrohibi-. .
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gia, 1,820.000; Florida, 40,000; Ala-
lyhciT.fi r,fti: nnn- Mijsiclrmi 0(1(1
Louisiana 615,000; Texas, 3,115,000; !""" """" r
Arkansas, 895.000; Tennessee, 206,000; tne,benf te: . .lt t, ':T'r''
Missouri. 51000: Oklahoma. 890,000; Th Jiciary Committee today -.fa;
voraDiy reporieu me amenaraenu ;r-.-y.-
I As passed by the enate, the resolvi-St-;
Ition provides that the necessary threejijv' :'
A Bridaehead Caotured fourths of the States must act on the "
(By Associated Press.) " amendment within six years from jtheUV;
Vienna, Dec. 11. (via London). time or its passage in congress. :inoj;
exiena ea me, .: s
.California, 67,000.
All other States 29,000.
fiave river, were saiisuuiaiiijf ,icyum-
ed yesterday oy tne nauant, " was etnrmin!r hvo wrot. Judiciary Committee
announced today oy tne war omce. , . , ..n 1tn,;nne, naoonwtit, time tn Reveiv vears and would make it i-t
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.hw.HnAhrtnH m r mm.ntn.nAi.a m tilt: .iiii.-.ii.iiir-ii. rurLLiic uuo - I rui ' . i.
A Bolsheviki Defeat. -t u fmm thP timo !
.lunar iiie nave iiyci, auiiiuiug lu cms ;
rteyresentaiive ivamiaii. ui .aixiw -.
(By Associated Press.)
a mfficial statement, issued todav bv the
rcLl Uti I cLU. (juiiua r avjj- 1 i . .... . , a . .i
a..... c r, rh.h io Qft-ofFJlAiistro-Hiinffarian war office. Twoinia, prohibiti6mst member of . the
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ka is reported to have defeated the hundred knd thirty-four Italians were House, predicted today the resolution
BoWeviki troops near the town , of taken prisoner and 10 machine guns, would pass -the House with 40.cr 50 s-.
6:
Bolsheviki troops
jwere captured.
votes to spare.
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not justifiable.
bushels;
oranges 2832.0,) boxes. . (activities.
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