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THE SILER CITY GRIT IMPORTANT NEWS THE WORLD OVER IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIS AND OTHER NATIONS FOR SEVEN DAYS GIVEN THE NEWS 0FTHE SOUTH What Is Taking Place In The South land Will Be Found In Brief Paragraphs Foreiern The maneuvers of the entire Jap anese navy, in which the emperor participated, were marred by an explo sion on the battleship Hyuga in To kio bay. Fourteen men were killed and thirty injured. Grave robbing in military cemeteries has become more or less frequent of late. The thefts of bodies are gener ally committeed by persons hired by families anxious to have their dead brought to a particular cemetery or in the burial grounds of their home cities. Requests refused by the au thorities and the results is that these persons take the law into their own hands, it is reported in Paris. Leon Trotzky, Soviet-Bolshevist min ister of war and marine, is reported to have arrived at Petrograd to ar range for the defense of the city. Ev ery available man, including veterans 70 years o!d, is said to have been mo bilized by the Bolshevist authorities. Germano-Russian forces in Lithua nia have been defeated by Lithuanian troops in two encounters, according to information issuing from Lithuanian sources. Belgian 'royalty left the United States for home on the last day of October, sailing from Old Point Com fort, Va. . Agents of the internal revenue have taken up the task of making absolute the ban on the manufacture and sale of liquor. The chief of police of St. Louis, try ing to arrest .two jewelry robbers, was shot, but not seriously injured. Dr. W. S. Rankin of Raleigh, N. C, secretary of the North Carolina board of health, was elected president of the American Public Health Association, which has just adjourned at New Or leans. Twenty men were entombed in Mine No. 2 of the Younghisheny and Ohio Coal company and a fire raged in the mine. The fire was caused when an electric fan caught fire in an entry. No explosion occurred and all efforts were made to rescue the imprisoned men. The strike of bituminous miners went into effect with the national headquarters at Indianapolis, Ind., of the United Mine Workers of America silenced by a restraining order issued by Judge A. H. Anderson of the fed eral district court. No "last word" or other message to the members of the union could be issued by the execu tive board or officers of the organiza tion and they only smiled grimly when this fact was brought to their attention. An invention has been proclaimed successful which will enable an air plane to stop withhin fifty feet on the ground, as well, as ascend to an alti tude of fifty thousand feet. The day of the "backyard airplane" has arrived. Domestic The date of taking the census of the farmers has been changed from April 1 to January 1. The change Is deemed advisable because the farmer is usually busy in the spring. Congress will be aske df or an ap propriation of ten millions of dollars for further extending the governmen tal forest reservations not alone for watershed protection, but to assure ample supplies of hardwoods and spruce. Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox, author and poetess, died at her home, The Bungalow, in Branford, Conn. She had been ill for many months as a result of overwro kduring the war. The agricultural department at Washington has issued an order per mitting the shooting of of fish-eating birds at government fish hatcher ies. The permission is now effective. Rationing of sugar to manufacturers of candy, soft drinks and the like is soon to be suggested by the sugar equalization board. This step re sults from the fact that raw sugar has risen beyond the point where it can be bought advantageously for the home. All . people who want to go to for eign nations, even to Cuba, must have passports, and must give a good rea son for the intended visit. This an nouncement is made by the secretary of state at Washington in answer to STILL DISCUSSING THE PEACE TREATY SENATE MAY REJECT ENTIRE DOCUMENT SHOULD PENDING RESERVATIONS WIN OUT. OBJECT TO LABOR AMENDMENT Late in the Day Senators Lodge and Hitchcock Held a Conference With the Vice-President on Subject-- many inquiries. General Pershing, who is now busy the reports reaching Washington ! retary Lansing says he doesn t t completing his final report on the work of the American expeditionary forces, will visit Atlanta, Ga., some time this fall in a general tour of army cantonments, supply depots and munition factories. Quintard hall, the main barracks of Sewanee military academy, Sewanee, Tenn., in which 120 acdets and thj faculty were quartered, was gutted by fire. There was no loss of life, but many of the students lost their cloth ing. With 15 known djsad and six or more missing, only time can bring an ac curate count of the toll of the great ;seas which bodily lifted the Crosby passenger steamer Muskon and smash ed her to pieces on the piers at the entrance of Muskegon harbor, Mich. Scores of persons were injured in a pitched battle between 2,000 striking longshoremen and several hundred men who were on their way to work at the Bush Terminal dock in Brook lyn. Between fifty and one hundred revolver shots were fired, and sticks, stones, bricks and clubs were used by the combatants. Police reserves were summoned and ten arrests were made. Holding that the war prohibition act of November 21, 1918, violates the fth amendment to the constitution, Judge Walter Evans, in federal dis trict court in Louisville, Ky., granted b. temporary injunction to the Ken tucky Distilleries and Warehouse com pany, restraining Elwood Hamilton, internal revenue collector for Ken tucky, from interfering with removal from bond of 70,000,000 gallons of whisky valued at approximately $75, 000,000 held by the company. A plea for application of the prin ciples of Christianity to the political and industrial problems now confront ing the nations was made by Secretary Daniels in an address to the western North Carolina Methodist conference General Pershing has prepared rec ommendations dealing with the reor ganization of the army and other phases of the military establishment, including the question of increased pay for all ranks, which he will pre sent to the congressional military com mittees. , Senator Miles Poindexter, of Wash ington, in a statement to the people of the United States, announced his candidacy for the republican nomina M 1 1 o tion ror presiaent, ana presented a platform of policies and principles which he will advocate in Ms cam paign. It has been practicaly decided to withdraw the American peace mission from Paris, and to conclude such nego tiations as have not been completed at Paris in Washington. The allied governments are under stood to be of the same mind as the American government in respect to the advisability of recalling the peace missions from Paris. The forty-six amendments attached to the peace treaty by the foreign re lations committee passed into history when the last survivor of the group, a proposal to revise the voting strength in the league of nations, wTas consigned to the discard in the senate by a vote of 47 to 36. . The effort to hasten final action on the league of nations has brought up an obstacle wiiich seems likely to prevent further progress for several days. A determined group of senators will launch a fight to eliminate the labor section of the treaty. The bat tie is exxpected to be a hot dne, and may run into weeks. Japan has ratified the treaty of peace of Versailles. Japan is the fourth great power to ratify the treaty. Before the peace treaty becomes ef fective, it is stated, the German rep resentatives will be requird to sign an additional protocol to carry out armistice classes which were not in corporated in the treaty of Versailles. Carranza soldiers were not only in strumental in the kidnaping of Con sular Agent William O. Jenkins, but participated in the private ransom of one hundred and fifty thousand dol lars paid for his release. These are Sec retary Lansing says he doesn't believe Jenkins lent himself to any such dis crediting scheme, but that the mattei will be sifted to the bottom. Dissenting in many important re spects from the program recommended by the war department and the gen eral staff, General Pershing told the military committees of congress that three hundred thousand men, raised entirely by voluntary enlistment, would be the outside figure consider ed for a standing army. The nrohibition enforcement bill was repassed by both the house and senate over President Wilson's veto. The section relating to war-time pro hibition became effective immediately The first of the international bod ies created by the treaty of Versailles to meet in America, the international labor conference, convened in Wash ington. Sessions of the conterence are ! expected to continue for practically a , month and to lay the foundation of a world-wide movement for . improve ment and standardization of all the workers. Before congress f inaly clinched en actment of the enforcement law, de spite presidential objection to linking the war time and constitutional prohi bition acts, there came from the white house the announcement that the war time law which was put into effect after the cessation of hostilities would be annulled, the moment the sen ate ratified the German peace treaty. Although senate leaders hope to ex pedite the German peace treaty this week by disposal of amendments and by beginning consideration of reserva tions, both houses convened with de creasing prospects of adjourning the special session by November 10, as leaders have hoped. In view of pros pective delay on the treaty, house leaders discussed plans for a seperate recess of the lower body without wait ing for the senate. President Wilson unexpectedly ve toed the prohibition enforcement bill, and within three hours the house had repassed it over his veto by a vote of 176 to 55, 22 votes more than the necessary two-third's. The total vote was barely more than a majority of the entire membership. Business interests of the Middle West, Gulf and South Atlantic States formed a three-cornered alliance here known as the Mid-West, Gulf and South Atlantic Foreign Trade and Transportation Committee for the de velopment of export and import trade and transportation and port facilities. Washington. Further indications that the peace treaty fight may lead to a continuing deadlock developed while the senate leaders were trying In vain to fix a definite date for a roll call on ratification. Administration senators suggesting that the final vote be taken indicated a purpose to defeat ratification by combining with the treaty's irrecon. ciliable opponents should the reserva tions adopted by the foreign relations committee, be written into the ratifi cation resolution. An hour of debate on the subject got nowhere, and the senate went back to its consideration of treaty amend ments. It may reach a vote on the amendment by Senator La-Follette, republican, Wisconsin, to strike out the labor provisions and then, unless some new plan is devised to hasten action, other amendments and a long list of proposed reservations will be taken up under the tedious rule of un limited debate. Senate parliamentarians said there was no precedent to throw light on the question of whether defeat of the committee resolution would be final rejection of the treaty, or would leave the way open for offering other ratifi cation proposals. Late in the day Senators Lodge and Hitchcock confer red with Vice President Marshall on the subject. If Yon Want .Res Advertise In The Siler City Grit TREATY WITH GREECE IS ' APPROVED BY COUNCIL. Paris. The supreme council, sitting under the chairmanship of M. Pichon, French minister of foreign affairs, ap proved the draft of a treaty to be con cluded between the allied and asso ciated powers , and Greece, concerning the protection of racial and other mi norities. The council decided to request the Polish government to open to traffic certain railroads crossing the German Polish frontier north of Warsaw. The council soon will examine the ques tion of the future of easttrn Galicia, formerly Austrian territory. POCAHONTAS FIELD OPERATING IS NORMALLY? Giaham, Va. One hundred and twenty tons or coai were mined in this portion of the Pocahontas field operators declared, and reports com ing here indicated that the entire Po cahontas field was operating normal ly. A report here late from the St Charles area of the pocket section of the Appalachian field was to the' ef feet that 900 miners had struck there. It was said by operators here that only 250 of these are members of the union. oo WAN E D o o o Every housekeeper in Randolph and Chatham counties to know the wonderful results to be obtained by using NRG ("Energy") LAUNDRY TABLETS. These Washing Tablets simply make the washing of clothes easy. Wash day is no longer a day of dread to those who use NRG. Ask your grocer for a package only 15c and use them according to directions and you will be delighted with results. For sale by Siler City'merchants. But you ask YOUR grocer for them and he will get them for you. Wi'l not injure the hands or most delicate fabrics. Don't Do Another Week's Washing Without NRG THREATEN TO IMPEACH THE JAPANESE MINISTRY. Honolulu. The Japanese privy coun cil is in favor of the impeach ment of the ministry of Premier Hara and the Versailles peace delegation for the unsatisfactory peace terms, ac cording to a cable received from Tokio by The Hawaii Sochi, a Japan ese daily newspaper here. i: &W& 0 IIS " SANE CO" Septic Tank Closets "The next thing toCity Plumbing" 1 T i MEXICAN STRIKERS CALL ON GOMPERS FOR FAVOR. Laredo, Tex. Striking Mexican workmen will ask "material aid" from Aguascalients, in the Mexican state of the same name, where decision to that effect was reached by the strik ers' control committee. THE RUSSIAN SOVIET FORCES REPORT. CAPTURE 1,500 MEN. London. The Russian soviet com tonTilque received by wireless from Moscow, claims the capture , of 1,500 prisoners m the taking of Petropav- lorsk, 16 miles west of Omsk, from the Kolchak forces The statement also reports fighting of the fiercest character in the Fin nish gulf region and a continued ad vance by the bolsheviki all along the line against the Russian northwestern army of General Yudenitch. GOVERNMENT MAY CONTINUE SUPERVISION OVER SUGAR Washington .The McNary bill pro- (posmg continuation of federal con troi over sugar during iyzo was re ported to. the senate and placed on the calendar with a view to early action In a majority report, ' Senator M- Nary, Republican, of Oregon, author of the bill and chairman of the sen ate agricultural sub-committee, declar ed "a serious situation will ensue" ii the sugar equalization board's control No Chemicals Used No Running Water or Sewer Required Wtkfry capacity tXgoi. Simply Add a few Buckets of Water Occasionally INEXPENSIVE PERMANENT SANITATION Outstanding Features SANECO Closets have extra large capacity they will not stop up. Made of Reinforced Concrete for Permanence. They are water-proofed and made water-tight. Meet all requirements of town, county, state and nation. They are low in price, high in efficiency, practically no cost for operation; They represent tne L. R. S. System in principle; design, the latest, , most practical. Irrmnrfanl-t I Some Big Users and Recent Contracts SANECO Closets meet in every way the legal re quirements, under tne new North Carolina Stat e Health Law which b e comes effective October 1, 1919. Marshall Field Co.. Spray, N. C, Cannon Mfjr. Co., Kannapolis, N. C, Wiacaasett Mill, Albemarle. N. C. P. H. Hanes Co., Winston-Sale ra, N. C., RECENT CONTRACTS. Marshall Field Co.. Draper, I. C, High Shoals Co.. Hifrh Sho s, N. C., L. Banks Holt Co., Graham N. C. Patterfon Mfj. Co., China Groye. N. C, Hadley-Peoples Utg. Co., Siler City, N. C, 950 outfits 1000 outfits 400 outfits 112 outfits SCO outfits 90 outfits 220 outfits 60 outfits 40 outfits NOTE: TO RESIDENTS OF SILER CITY AND COMMUNITY Our engineer is at present installing outfits for Hadley-Peoples Mfg. Co., Siler City, and wi?i be glad to give full information to anyone interested in sanitary sewage disposal (with or without running water.) Apply to W. L. FURR. Hotel Hadley. Siler City, N. C. . 'Prices and full information on request. SANITARY ENGINEERING COMPANY Charlotte, N. C. ovr sugar is not continued.
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