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Ik. r . .1 ft THE DAILY TIMES, Iha Advertising Medium That GeU Direct Result For Its Users r 13 i 1 One O'clock Edition Times Price: Ifive Cents THE THREE EDITIONS I Of The Dail Timet I Cover Every Section of I Eastern North Carolina I X ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES WILSON, N. C, MONDAY, DEC. 9, 1918 VOL. 15 NO. 181 FRENCH MAKING PREPARATIONS FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT OF PRESIDENT WILSON. GERMAN NEWSPAPER IN VITES HIM TO VISIT GER MANY. GERMAN PEO PLE MORE FRIENDLY AS BRITISH ARMY AD VANCES. ANOTHER AR MY TRANSPORT JOYFUL LY RECEIVED FREGHTRATES AGAIN Maxwell Shows How Proposed Rate Making By Administra tion Will Place Us UNDER VIRGINIA CITIES Paris, Dec. 9. Elaborate plans are being made by the French for the entertainment of President Wil son. These plans include state din aers, luncheons, official calls and a gala night at the opera. The pro tram will be completed in the next few dayB. The proprietors of all the mer eantile establishments in Paris have notified their employees that .next Saturday will bo ,t general holiday. The celebrations in honor of the President are expected to be the greatest that have ever been held in Prance. (President Invited to VWt Germany Amsterdam, Dec. 9. President Wilson has been Ipvlted to visit Co logne by the Volkes Zeltung which linggets that the German represen tatives of the foreign ministry meet aim and escort him to the city. ftoldiera Returned Prom German Prison Camps to Have Christmas Boxes The friends and relatives of men who were known to be confined in erman prison camps daring the progress of hostilities with that country, had arranged to send them Christmas packages through Switz erland. These packages were ship ped in October to allow ample time for the difficult transfer and neces sary delays. It has been estimated that 108 cases containing 2413 Christmas parcels and fifteen cases of cigars, all designed for the American prisoners were sent on the transport Texan from New York via Marseilles and thence to Switzerland. Those cases have been located by the Red Cross and diverted to Paris in stead of to Switzerland, where the names of the men for whom they were intended will be carefully atudied and their whereaabouts de termined in order that the packages may not go astray but that each one will be delivered to the owner as was the hope of the friends at home. This will be a welcome piece of bad feeljng ,n Norlh CaPOlIna than Washington, Dec. 9. "Such an adjustment would leave us as com pletely under the, commercial domi nation of the Virginia cities as Ger many will be under the military domination of thj Allies when they compiete their occupation of the Rhine forts," is the ringing indict ment of A. J. Maxwell, of the North Carolina Corporation Commission, in describing the proposed uniform scale of freight rates. The views of the North Carolina Corporation Commission are contained in a let ter written by Mr. Maxwell to Ed ward Chambers, director of traffic, United States Ra'lroad Administra tion, Senator P. M. Simmons will this week break away from his engaging duties elating to the revenue bill to make a determined fight on the pro posed mileage class rate scale. He will confer with A. C. Prouty, of the Railroad Administration, and will spare no effort this side of the White House to halt the alleged discrimi natory rate basing undertaken by the Railroad Administration. Thu Senator will fight the proposition to the bitter end. The presentation of A. J. Maxwell follows: "In my letter of the 1st instant, to the Director General, considera tion was given particularly to the measure of the rates in the propos ed local scales. That letter was written soon after the receipt of the proposed scales, and in something of amazement that such high scales had been proposed, after Investiga- tion, by the Railroad Administra tion. I had not it that time analyz ed the matter i.i'fficiently to give consideration to the question of re lationship as affected by the propos ed adjustment, anil after considera tion of this feature of it I am much more alarmed for the interests of North Carolina than I was by the measure of the proposed rates. "It is hardly necessary that I should observe rn correspondense with you, that rate relationship is the life of commerce and industry of communities and states. It is not too extravagant to say that freight rate relationships have caused more AN URGENT APPEAL Volunteer Your Services to the Red Cross 100 men and women wanted to help can vass Wilson Township Sunday afternoon, Dec. 15th to secure members for the Red Cross Christmas Roll Call. Call H. E. Bar low, county chairman at 463 or 551L and offer your services. Think what the Red Cross has meant to our boys. Don't wait to be approached but volunteer NOW. hi 11KII m Helped to Carry American Troops. Diverted Ships From All news to many and the Southern Dl Tision of the Red Cross is pleased to make the authoritative announcement. Army Transports Arrive With Sol diers New York, Dec. 9. The United States Army transport the Sierra with 35 officers and 1,531 privates and non commissioned officers aboard arrived here today from aboard. The transport was greeted with screams from whisles from fire tugs and the craft in the harbor all the way up the river and whpn it landed at its dock at Hoboken. rman Population More Friedly London, Dec. 9. The German population west of the Rhine have Become more friendly to the British as it moves further east. The Red Cross Provides Relief for French Refugees The French refugees from the de vastated districts of the ,Oise are gradually returning to their homes, or what Is left of them, and are starting life anew. The American Red Cross has established clinics and relief stations to provide prompt med ical ald and relief for these nnfortu nate people. This was done at the Invitation of the French local au hnritio and the medical force em ployed includes dentists and eyeJ specialists in ddition to general p, racuuoBerB. any other economic question in the last twenty years. You can readily understand why this should be so. with no rate basing point in North Carolina, while just across the State line there are strung out a series of rate-basing points all along its northern border (like forts along a defended line Norfolk, Portsmouth Richmond, Petersburg, Lynchburg and Roanoke) and to which favored rates are made from every point of the compress, even when all-rail hauls clear across North Carolina are involved to reach them. "The rate-basing point system of constructing long distance rates in to the southeastern territory has been condemned by every unbiased text writer who has analyzed the subject. Before the roads were tak en over by the government, the In terstate Commerce Commission had shown a decided tendency to work out such unjusttlfiable favoriteism. Professor Ripley, in his work on transportation rates, says: " 'And then, finally, it is indubit able that commercial competition as a compelling factor has been some what over-emphasized by the rail roads. Too often conditions in part brought about by themselves, or in which at least they have acquiesced, have been set up as a defense for rates favoring certain points. This fs especially true of the southern basing point cases.' "So that It was In theVconfldent (Continued on last page) PARTS OF THE WORLD London, Dec. 9. Regarding Brit ish aid in the transport of American troops the Shipping Controller Sat urday made the following statement to The Associated Press: "The real effort to accelerate the movement of American troops be gan at the end of March, when we realized that it was necessary to do what we could with British bottoms to supplement the American effotr. Ve sent a mission to the Uniteo States with the object of seeing the fitting-out facilities there. So far as they were not required for Amer ican troopsrips they were utilized to the maximum in fitting out Brit ish troopships. "Ships weie gathered from every source, with the result that in the six months between April and Sep tember 850,000 American troops, or 60 per cent of the total number car ried within that reriod, were trans ported in Briti8hbottoms. In all, of the 2,000,000,000-odd American troops transported to France, well over a million were carried in Brit ish shiiV The wholo of this million were escorted to the United King doni danger 'one by ships of the Royal Navy. Britisfi shipping at that time was in .i. perilous situation, but in order to further the move ment of American troops we were prepared to make every sacrifice. "The following steps were taken: From South Africa we removed ev ery passenger steamer, and for the time being practically killed trade with that country. From India and Australia we removed all that the fast steamers plying to and between those two countries, and we made very dangerous sacrifices of meat supplies endangering even those of the British Army by transferring these ships to the North Atlantic, thus wasting refrigerator space, as meat was not available for export from North American ports. "Our loss of essential imports ow ing to the fitting out of ships for the carriage of American troops amount ed to well over 1,000,000,000 tons. That sacrifice of imports was made at a time when our total imports had been' reduced .to 32.000,000 tons a year, of which 14,000,000 were munitions and 13,000,000 es sential foods, as compared with the peace figure of 54,000,000 tons. "One hundred and seventy-five British Vessels of more than 1,500, 000 tons deadweight were put espe cially in the service of carrying Am erican troops, and we even fitted up ships for that purpose. "While the sacrifice to Great Brit ain was heavy, the practical isola tion for the time being of the over seas dominions involved very seri ous hardships which were borne without co plaint recognizing as the dominions did the vital necessity of the measures taken." RESTRICTIONS OH 1 THE PRESIDENT OF PORTUGAL ARMED SOLDIERS CONTROL BERUN And Also Muinch. Force Min ister of the Interior to Resign and Close Which Were Imposed by War Industries Board When Armistice Was Signed COTTON GINNED 9,563,124 New Yorkk, Dec. 9. The prohi bition of cotton selling on the New York and New Orleans exchanges which was imposed November thir teenth as an emergency measure to prevent the too rapid decline of cot ton on account of the signing of the armistice removed today by the cot ton distributing committee of the War Industries Board. Amount of Cotton Ginned Washington, Dec. 9. Cotton gin ned this season to date are 9,663,- 124 running bales, including 134, 150 rounded bales; 10,170 bales of American Egyptian, and 25,741 bales of Sea Island the census bu reau anonunces. Prior to December first lats year there were 9,713,529. The ginning by states follow: North Carolina 647,203; South Carolina 1,241,122 and Virginia 15 020. MARKETS COTTON THE WEATHER For North Carolina generally cloudy tonight and Tuesday, proba bly rain In central and western por tion with moderate winds, mostly southwest. Pay your bonuses and dividends In War Savings Stamps and buy the Stamps this month. New York, Dec. 9. The feature of the coton market today was the removal of the restrictions against short selling as a war measure by the War Industries Board. The market opened steady at a de cline of from 28 to 40 points on the continued realizing movement. The offerings were quickly absorbed how- evr and the active month sold from twelve to twenty points net higher after the call. New York, Dec, 9. Cotton fu tures opened steady with December 27.60 to 27.41, June 26.35 to 26.10, March 25.15 to 25.0S, May 24.30, January 23.50. At noon January was 26.10 and spots on the Wilson market are 24 cents. STOCKS New York, Wall Street, Dec. 9. Firmness, accompanied the eaify dealing on the tock exchange today, the events over the week-end were in evidence and served to produce a more hopeful feeling. The specula tive issues were the most conspicu ous, Beet Sugar and Industrial Al cohol adding from one to three points to their former figures. The Steels and the equipments were sus tained by the weight of United States Steel, Bethlehem Steel and the prominent Coppers as well as the rails also improved uider the lead of Southern Pacific. GREAT BRITAIX WILL FORTY BIIiLIOX OF DEMAND GERMANY London, Dec. V, Great Britain will demand of Germany 8,000,000, 000 pounds sterling for Great Brit ain and her dominions and 'repara tion for the war, according to the Daily Mail. The newspaper says it understands that David Lloyd Geo., the remier, will make this announce ment in a speech at Leeds today. This, the Daily Mail adds, is what the war cost Great Britain and her dominions and British tax payers will be relieved of 400,000,000 pounds per annum by the German payment. THE NEWSPAPER OFFICES Munich, Saturday, Dec. 7. A crowd of armed soldiers last night went to the residence of the Minis ters of Interior and after forcing an entrance demanded the minister's resignation, which he conceded. Revolutionists also stormed the newspaper offices except one. They withdrew several hours later at the earnest request of the Bavarian Pre mie, Kurt Eisner, who hurried to tho scene. Herr Auer, the minister whose resignation was demanded, was giv en two minutes to decide at the point of a revolver. He was then forced to put his resignation into writing. At first he wrote: "I have been overcome by about 300 armed men in my dwelling and forced to resign the office of Minis ter of Interior. I declare herewith that, surrendering to force, I lay down the office of minister of the Interior." This did not satisfy the revolu tionists, who demanded a statement that the resignation was voluntary. The crowd was led by Erich Mueh ien.. They proceeded from a com- munist meeting to the office of the Bavarian Courtier, and appointed a woman as editor of that newspaper. They remained in the Courier office until Premier Eisner went there with a guard. The Neueste Nachrichten, was the only Munich paper able to appear this morning. Berlin, Saturday, Dec. 7. The ri oting of Friday in Berlin, the mys terious raid on the executive com mittee of the Soldiers' and Work men's Council, and the demonstra tion by soldiers i.nd sailors on be half of Chancellor Ebert (when h. was acclaimed as President of the Republic, but set aside the honor have intensified the existing gap be tween the two wings of the social democracy, which seems now more than ever hopelessly divided. Political onlookers are wondering today whether tho Ebert and Haase factions have reached the. parting of the ways, and are asking what will be the attitude of the Berlin regi ments from the front when they ar rive home next week. The clash between government troops and followers of the Spurta cus, or Radical, group resulted in from twelve to sixteen persons be ing killed, according to various re ports. The number of wounded is not expected to exceed fifty. Sever al girls who were passengers on i street cur were among those killed. It appears that the audience from one of the three meetings of desert ers from the army was marching northward in Chaussee Strasse to Join the audience from a meeting held in a hall further north. The Fusiler guards were drawn up at the Intercoction of Invaliden Strasse and the commander warned the people to disperse. The marchers were cry- ng "forward! The soldiers won't shoot their comrades-!" The march ers tried to pierce the line where upon the order to fire was given. Besides the wounded, several wert badly hurt rushing through broken show windows seeking cover. A group of soldiers stormed the editorial rooms of Karl Liebnecht's newspaper and attempted to destroy the paper and plant. Frustrated in their rail In the newspaper office by the government orders, the soldiers then attempted to arrest the mem bers of the executive committee of the soldiers and workmen's council, the soldiers apparently laboring un der the misapprehension that their officer had been ordered by the gov ernment to make the arest. FIRED AT BY UNIDENTI FIED MAN. MISSED THE MARK HOWEVER AND WAS ARRESTED. FIVE ADDITIONAL DIVISIONS ADDED TO AMERICAN ARMY OF OCCUPATION. AMERICANS IN COB LENTZ GERMANY. TURKS MASSACREED 10,000 AR M NIANS WHEN THEY EVACUATED CITIES. Lisbon, Portugal, Dec. 7. An on identified man find at Dr. Sidondo Paes the President of Portugal in the streets here yesterday. The shot missed its mark, however, and the would-be assassin was arrested. Americans in Coblentz Amsterdam, Dec. 7. Five Amer ican officers arrived in Coblentz on Thursday and conferred with the Burgomaster and the local German commander and the railroad author ities, according to the Cologno Ga zette. The newspapers stated that the last German troops would leave Co blentz on Saturday. President Calls For Duvidbon Barurh aad Washington, Dec. 7. Bernard Baruch, Chairman of the War In dustries Board and Henry P. David son have been asked by President Wilson to attend the peace confer ence In Europe that he might have the beenefit of their knowledge and experience. ' f the clash betweea the government troops and the Spartacus insurgents. The executive committee was hold ing a meeting In the former Prus sian House of Deputies. The cham ber was invaded by the armed forces Ji'd a demand made for the surren der of the council of twenty-eight In the name of the Ebftrt-Hasse govern ment. People's Commissioner Barth who also is a member of the com mission, faced tho invaders with a challenge for their authority. 1. 1 ; .i I iiit'uiiwuuu, inquiry was maue ar. government headquarters and re sulted in the detention of the lead ers of the insurgent forces, who were armed with hand weapons and flame throwers, for the purpose of establishing responsibility for the attempted revolution. It developed thai. th men had been invited by unattached officers to meet at a giv en hour at the Brandenburg gate for tV purpose of raiding and over throwing the soldiers and work men's committee tn such action, they were told, wi.i demanded in the interes; of the Ebert-llnsse govern ment, and furthermore that it was cer'uii, to meet with Dublin approv al. Tin- raid proved a complete fiasco as did a similar attempt an hour Int er, whirh apparently was planned by Dr. Licbuerhi , followers, as it was announced at their meetings. v.Tierdav ovning Berlin l'oot piaid? and sailors inarched to the fc river ChaiKfilor's house and call ed out Premier Ebert, who made a spiwrh urping thr men to keep their military units i.uact for the purpose of responding !o hurry calls. Pre niirr Ebert was cheered as the com ing President of t'.e German Repub lic. He modestly declined to seri ously consider the proposition, urg ing that the cabinet for the present was concerned I.i problems of im mediate urgency, such as the food situation and demobilization. 1 The streets tonight are deserted, the university Is closed, as Its build ings on the Untcr den Linden have been requisitioned for the purpose of quartering troops here. 1 If you want to see the soldier boys coma back home, buy War Sat This occurred at the same hour ae lings Stamps.
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