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vol*. IX
Aside from the importance of
the conclusions reached it was
especially rotable as being the
fiat time that the voice of the
United States had takes the
direction in the concert of Euro
pean powers on fee most serious
European question bow present
ed There was added signifi
cance iff the fact that an Ameri
can president in person bad
taken leadership in fte council
mafe up chiefly, of ?niopesn
statesmen and s had pointed $
way which they had unanimous
ly arfopfcd.*"
General John J. Pershing, the |
American commander4n chief,
has been called to Paris, and Tt
is expected that he will be the
etiitary member of the Ameri
can representative of the joint
Proposal of President Wilson
Meets Approval of Afiies
and Associated Powers
FACTIONS ASKED TO
BOLD PEACE CONGRESS
President Wilson Decides To
Resume. Sessions of War
Cabinet,' Purpose of Meeting
in Paris To Discuss Erooo
flric Problems Involved in
Aranvtia.
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Parisian. 22.? President Wil
son the supreme council of the
great powers today moved- to
unite the factions of distracted
Roe&a and bring them into the
peace congress.
They unanimously adopted a
proposition brought forward by
PraKdent^laB^ asking all the
Russian factions, including the
Bolshevists io meet the allied
and associated governments at
Prince's Islands ra the Sea of
Minora on Feb. 15* the .contend
ing factions meantime declaring
a truce and suspending all mili
tary operations.
The joint commission of the
associated governments will be
announced as-soon as the Rus
Twelve MiUjoo Dollar Organi
zation Being Formed j
To Mfafcet Staple
Atlanta, . Jan. 21.? A $12,000
cotton corporation is in process
of formation by farmers and
others interested in the cotton
industry according to a state
ment here tonight by J. J. Brown,
commissioner of agriculture of
Georgia. Mr. Brown's statement
followed a meetind here Mon
day between himself^ Daniel J.,
Stilly and farmers of Georgia
and South Carolina.
As described by Mr. Brown
the corporation will serve as a
marketing and financing agency
?a medium between thepro
ductr "and the spinner of cotton.
It will provide a cotton exchange
for the farmers of the southeast
em belt and will eventually stop
short speculative seHingr on the
cotton exchanges he said. The
directors will lease, buyor build
warehouses in which farmers
may store their coiton for a
small charge. If it is necessary
money will be advanced on the
cotton. The corporation will
emprace the entire cotton states
in it activity* but will be chart
ered in Georgia with headquart
eru probably in atfcmta.
Commissio n bads.
C8rt>r ?g preferred. V'
Riverside Refining Co.,
- Cleveland, Ohio.
rose m price
So Great That It Has Been
K posible So Far To Esti
mate It.
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Brussels, Jan.21.? Thus far it
has been impossible to estimate
the extent of damafre caused f~
Belgium by the Germans or
fix, even approximately /
amount of indemnity which E
gium will demand from Ger
Wmm
many.
| In the majority c
which the Belgians were allow
ed to operate during German oc
cupation, the plant remains, but
everywhere all stocks of raw
material have been entirely re
moved. ;
In the other factories which
the Belgians were not aliowedto
operate there was a systematic
removal of all the machinery
which was dismantled and sent
toGerinany. The names of the
German manufacturers to whom
the machinery was shipped have
been ascertained.
Belgian industrial circles seem
to be divided whether to attempt
to recover the stolen machinery
from Germany, ndw necessarily
worn, or to buy new machinery
abroad and to make the Ger*
mans pay for it.
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The
Ttlte Y. a * A. * TWf-HiK*
% ?, H?odillliH Pr*frtm
I tor the
and it U8
Jesus . as ii
ig series is
id wfljUhejtt
of work 1
clear dp tb?
if the slol
equivalent
impossible
before the
RKothing
establishnv
which atrai
200,000- toni
furnaces, 1
foqrpO-toi
sets of flatc
been desire
the Itfitna
Winery or its
tinea it will be
ne production
of .nest year.
? mains of the
Irale Chateau
rned out about
were blc
were d$
^e sup
damage
mts to several
Be- 1 Cr<:
to enumerate
bave left than
ibe the ruin
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Wires Slate Councib to Urge
Immediate Resumption of
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sSCVr
Immediate resumption of pub
Uc constraciion is urged on State,
county and municipal aiithori*
if in a telegram sent by Secre<
of War Baker, chairman of
? Council of National Defense,
and approved by Secretary of
tabor Wilson, to all State coun^
cils. The telegram follows:
J "Reemployment Of discharged
soldiers, sailors, and war work
ers released from war industries
is one of the most important
tasks before country. We strong
ly urge that in sections where
surplus of labor exists all public
improvements be advanced in
order to absorb labor. We astf
that you use all influence' with
State, county, and munidple
authorities to this end. Prelimi
mediately in order thai neces
sary authority may be secured
in time for operations upon
opening of construction season."
Hicks, the Hardware man, is
overstocked on Syracuse Plows
is going to cut them loose
in the next 60 dayfe
marriage to his first idle to bit
writhe fteridueof
hit estate to the executors of the wiff
in trust
The executors are directed to ap
ply the income of the estate to the
use of his widow, and authorizes Mrs.
Roosevelt to dispose of the principal
of the trust to his children in such
shares and portions,- *nd either abso
lutely or upon any trust limitation^
respectively as fcha fchall desire. In
the event that Mrs. EooseveHTfails to
make such disposition of the principal
it is bequeathed to his children.
Why has Hicks, the Hani- 1
vyare man, been so succe^sfjil i" 1
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the hardware business? It is
because he has been eternally
on the job and given the people
^rvice ?M quaKty' and saved
them money on their hardware
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Mrs. Lebaudy, Who RiUed The
"Emperor," Exhonorated by
N. Y, Grand Jury
Mineola, N. Y.,; Jan. 21.? Ex
honorated by the Nassau county
grand jury of a first degree mur
der charge, Madame Jacques
Lebaudy returned late today to
her home in Westbury, wfcere
on January 11 shesboj and kil
led her excentric husband, the
self-styled "Einperor of Sanarah".
She was accompanied by her
15-year-old daughter, Jacqueline,
for the preservation of whose
happiness, more than for her own
safety, she says, killed her hut
band.
My fondest wish is that I will
be permitted now to rest in se
clusion, was her only comment
6S she left the jail.
News of her exhonoration was
taken to Madame Lebaudy. by
Mrs. fhineas Seaman, matron of
the jail, at 3 o'clock, shortly
after the grand jury had reported
no indictment.77 Madame Le
baudy, who had paced her quart
ers in the jail nervously through
out the afternoon, fainted but
quickly recovered. She was
kneeling, With a crusifix pressed
to her breast, and offering a fer
vent prayer in French when her
attorney entered to confirm Mrt.
?to'v obtain^, at* written
order for bis client's release,
Jacqueline was summoned by
phone from the home ot Rev.
Willi# F. McGinnis, of Westbuiy,
her mother was imprisoned.
: Before she ieft the jail Madame
Lebaudy asked that her thanks
be conveyed to the membeters
of the grand jury which had
freed her, '
AU kinds of colors in patyfo
for automobiles at Hicks Hard
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Pfe;-:..
A sharper is a keen man witk a
dttH conscience '' ' ' '?
If you don't believe Hicks, the
Hardware man, will save you
money on hardware, try him.
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London Papers Comment On
Steps Under Way in
Tfaat Direction
London. Jan 21. -(British Wire
leg} Service.)? The Westminster
Gazette says the peace confer
ence itself has not readied the
point of discussing the bringing
to justice of the former German
Emperor but that a step in tha?
direction has been taken by the
presentation of the report of the
French jurists upon the persona!
responsibility of the former ruler.
A commission under the chair
man&ipof Sir John MacDon
nell is considering the same mat
ter, but has not yet delivered its
conclusions which will also be
placed before the peace confer
ence, it adds.
The Daily Mail says that the
ex-Emperor in his letter (in
which he says "Everything must
be put to fire and sword, men,
women and children, and the
aged must be slaughtered and
ho tree or house be left stand
ing") confesses his war crime.
It is perfectly within the com
pretence of the peace confer
ence to nominate an interna
tional court and require this tor
Tender of the ex-Kaiser by Hol
land, not on the (round be is a
German general or author oH|p.
war;' but because he
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the long run no nation stands
to gain more by the punishment
of the guilty than the Germans,
since it is in Germany that the
moral prestige of their methods
was jrnd is most deeply rooted."
ADVISES PROCEEDINGS
AGAINST EX-EMPEROR
London, Jani 13.? Proceeding? a*
gainst the former German emperor
are advised in a special report by a
?ub committee of the commission
charged with inquiring into violations
of the laws of war, appointed two
months ago. The patent body has
done a great deal of work through its
subcommittees each . of which was
assigned some particular phases of
violations charged against enemy
countries. j Plans ftr * trflmaml which
will try cases in which violation? of
the laws of war are alleged already
have been submitted.
One of the mart difficult phases of
the work has been the inqqjry into
f yi, f nr1** n V of prisoner#,' ilheir em
ployment behind the firing lines, ille
pral methods Of warfare, the misuse
of the Bad Cross Iflag. bombardments,
of hotptolils and the execution of Hiss
Edith Cavell and Captain Ftyatt*
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