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INTERESTING TAIK W MADE JO
FARMERS GATHERED AT
UNION COURTHOUSE.
NEED OF 55,800,030 BALES
South Has * Monopoly That With
Propor Co-operation Can Make
Cotton Surplus Crop.
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Monroe. ? A packed courthouse
greeted President J. S. Wannamuker,
of the American Cotton association
here when be addressed the fanners
of Union county on the need of co
operation in marketing the - cotton
?wop of the south.
At the close of Mr. Wannamaker'a
speech, which aroused great enthus
iasm, about 65 or 70 more members
were enrolled in the Union county
branch of the American Cot ton asso
ciation.
Mr. Wannamaker declared that no
one could say what should be the
price of cotton. The world could use
55,0^0,000 bales, in his opinion, with
about 23,000,000 to be bad in good
years.
The south has a monopoly that is
hand produced, and with proper ??
operation it can be the ^orpins crop
that will make this part of the coun
try wealthy and able to develop the
minds and hearts of her people to
,>e highest ^plane.
1 ? Mount Airy. ? The sparger Orchard
Company have sold the last of their
..?hi i , . Superinten
dent A. C. Kelly for a year's salary
and occupancy of the superintendent's
residence.
Boone. ? A large number of the
members of the Methodist church met
si the call of the pastor and after the
pastor had explained that they were
met for the purpose of deciding about
Building a new church, they decided
to begin at once to arrange for the
building of a new 520,000 church.
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"JVinstcn-Salem. ? By felling 3,766,
247 .pounds of tobacco this week for
the tJam of 11,809,727.85 the Winston
Salem ciarket made a record that will
be hard beat The market has sold
to date th.1? season nearly fifteen mil
lion pounds. The sales this season
will probably* /each forty 'million
pounds. v
High Point.? Irvin bobbins, 17-yeaf
old white .youth, was fiSed in munici
pal court on a charge of the larceny
at a poeketbook containing $50 from
a Mrs. McLeod.
Kobbins boarded at the woman's
house and was accused of taking the
poeketbook and money. Mrs. McLeod
later found the mosey in her store.
Charlotte.? Sentiment was enthus
iastic and unanimous for the early
closing of stores in the city, on Sat
urday^ as well as on other day# In
the week at the mass meeting of
eaveral hundred merchants, sales
people amd citizens of Charlotte, when
talks were njade by a number of men
and women, followed by the unani
mous adoption of the resolution.
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REPRESENTATIVES OF PUBLIC
AND CAPITAL TO CONTINUE
TO MEET A8 USUAL.
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HUN APPEAL FOB MHMl
No Prediction* Are Made As to What ]
Action President Wilson Is Likely
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tp Take in The Pre mi mi.
Washington. ? Labor withdrew from]
the national industrial conference af
ter its final effort to obtain adoption'
a collective bargaining resolution
had been defeated by a vote of a ma
jority of -the capital group.
Although the representaties of both;
the public and capital announced'
thejr Intention of remaining in tbo
conference, the next r:oYe in the ef
fort to restore industrial peace to
the country evidently rests with
President Wilson.
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Mr. Lane will make a personal re
port of the situation to the President,
but neither leaders in the conference
not officials generally would venture
a - prediction as to what course Mr.
Wilson Would take.
Withdrawal of the labor group was j
announced by Samuel Oompers, pres
ident of the American Federation of
Labor, after a dramatic speech. It
came only a few hours after Secre
tary Lane, in an effort to prevent what
many from almost the first had .re
garded m the inevitable, had ?ead a
letter in which President Wilson, dic
tating from his sick bed, appealed for
harmony in the conference and for
the final working oat of a program of
industrial peace.
Detroit? Three radical departures
from the old church order were ac
complished by the general convention
o* the Protestant Episcopal church.
The house' of bishops concurred in
action of the house of deputies creat
ing an executive board to have gen
eral charge of the work of the churcgi,
virtual approval was given the plans
for greater unity between church
bodied, approached through the con
cordat being worked out with the Con
gregational church and greater pow
ers were granted the eight provincial
synods. 3"
RIOTERS USE MOTOR TRUCK
IN FIGHT WITH POLICEMEN.
New York. ? Rioting broke out again
around the Lexington theater when
.for the second- time this week the
Star Opera company produced Ger
man opera over the protest of veter
ans of the worid war.
The rioting, continued for several
hours. "7
Defeated, the ^ackin?* party de
parted to get reinforcements. A few
minutes later they reappeared, headed
by a motor track containing nearly
two score men. /' i ?
The track dashed through the po
lice lines and proceeded about a block
before it was met by a squad of
mounted police.
MEXICAN BANDITS HOLD FOR
RANSOM 0. 8. CONSULAR
Washington.? William O. Jenkins,
American consular agent at Puebla,
Mexico, was kidnapped by three
masked bandits at Poebla and is be
ing held- for 9160,000 ransom, the stats
department waradvlqed^
FEDERATION IS PLEDGED
TO BACK STEEL STRIKES.
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Washington, ? Samuel Goawers,
president of the American Federation
Lot Labor, in announcing to tke na
tional, industrial conference the with
drawal of the labor group, said that
the "financial and moral support" of
the federation had been pieced to
the striking steel workers.
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ARMY CANTONMENT IS LOOTEO ,
DIER8 DURING SUMMER.
aged- 27, of this city, discharged
rtt
through which $85,000 worth of ahoy!
~*af stolen from A Vii*toia
during the summer. 'Fed
mom
Lieut. B. W.
from Mineola to
Trixie, a captured
a
air race
mascot.
A MESSAGE OF
Letter From Prcsidentf^ Conf
-Will Only Be Used ^ Chairman
Lane As Last Resort j
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Washington.? After a1" day of uncer- ?
tiinty, during which President Wilson*
sent to Secretary Lane, chairman, 1
message of conciliation to be '
trial conference
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pUDUC gTOlip
tal on the vote against both the
nol collective bargaining and stee'?
strike resolutions, although the dec
laration on collective bargaining was
proposed by the public delegates. ^
f fihonld labor show a .disposition tu
holt the conforence, Chairman Lane
will undoubtedly1 use the President's
letter in an effort to avert the crisis.
The message, it was understood, re
stated the purpose for which the con
ference was convened, emphasised
the urgency of the need for allaying
Industrial unrert, and makes a plea
for further work on the part of the
conferences.
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WILSON'S LABOR LETTER IS \
NO 8fGN OF BETTER HEALTH.
Washington. ? While President Wil
son was1 able to formulate a message
to Secretary Lane for conference, n
effort was made either by Hear L i
mlral Grayson, his physician, or
White House officials to create 1
impression that the action was indi
tive of a decided Improvement
President's condition.
Wilting of the message, howev'
Wat* pointed to by members of t
White House staff as further refuting
reports that Mr. Wilson was unable
to transact any necessary* business]
that might require his attention as
chief executive.
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FORTY ARE KNOWN DEAD
IN GREAT MINE DISASTER
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Pentance, Eng.? Forty bodies have alf
ready been recovered from the Lavant
mine at St. Just, Cdrnwall, as the re
sult of ? disaster caused . by the col
lapse of the main winding engine
while 150 men were being lowered -in
to the mine},/Jl Is, probable that other
persons Were KlHed. " Dozens of the
miners were injured. It was the
greatest disaster in the history of
jnlnlng in Cornwall. Nearly all of.
the entire underground staff of the
mine were in the levator at the time
of the accident. *
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the Question,
Lng notice .of re
ted States might
provisions of the
Ajice of
cV'X^Ame^
fitccopt the invitation of the supreme
Fcouncil at Versailles to take a place
immediately on the international com
missions set up by the treaty, and at
(he war department it was made clear
that no American troops would be
used without senate ssmctiqn to po
lice districts where the treaty pro
vides for plebiscites under the mili-,
tary super?isien of the great powers.
The two announcements were made
simultaneously and generally were
accepted in the senate, where the
possibility of premature American
participation in the treaty has been
one of the storm centers of criticism,
as amounting to an administration
declaration of policy on the subject
'Senators' on both sides of the treaty
controversy expressed the opinion
privajely^ that the administration
stand would aid in hastening, the fi
nal roll call on ratification.
fRimp OELE&ATE6 TO THE
CONFERENCE DECLINE AID.
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^Atlantic City, N; J.? British finan
cial delegates to the International
?^rad^ conference, which opened here,
g}ld their American conferees that
they sought no special Credit arrange
ments," or government intervention,
but sittply asked that-huiihess trans
actions go on as before. This an
jpun&neat came as a surprise to
[ihe general body of delegates, espe
cially as sub-committees of jnany for
eign missions asked tor American fi
nancial assistance, and set forth' that
extension of credits is vitally necessa
rily in order that they might success
ively me#t the reconstruction prob
lems of /their respective countries.
FITZPATRICK 8 AYS HI8, ,
' ' MEN HAVE UPPErf HAND
. Pittsburgh.? The steel strike was
reviewed by . the national committee
for organizing. iron and steel work
ers at an extraordinary session.
Chairman John FltzpatrlCk,* of Chi
cago, declared that the beginning of
the fifth week of the struggle found
the strikers in better position than
e?er Wtore. r
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Church wHf serve
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a Turke
t??SDAY. N
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about it and arrange
Asked to Make a Report and Give Ao
vice and Suggestions for Future
' Industrial Policy of Country.
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Washington. ? Out of the national
industrial conference, which began its
sessions here withropreseotiitivea of
labor, employers and the pabllc In at
tendance, there remain only the dele
:gateb appointed by President Witeon
to act for the public.
i Meeting after the withdrawal late
if the labor delegates, the employer
ind public groups heard through Sec
retary Lane, the chairman, a mes
?age from President Wilsota request
ing the public delegates to cany on
the work for which the body was call
ed ? the establishment of a new relar
tionship between capital and labor.
Chairman Lane, after laying the
President's wishes' before th^ two
groups, declared the conference ad
journed.
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In declaring the conference ad
journed Chairman Lane said that the
going-out of the labor group had
changed the nature of the conference.
"Therefore," he added, "it is the
President's desire that the nature of
the conference itself shc/dld, because
Df the change of conditions be clmng
3d and that the work should be car
ried on by the public group inasmuch -
.is the burden of these quarrels that
|xist in industry 'falls ultimately upon
the public. And so, genth^en, the
ublic group will be dsked to make/
advice ????>?
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OF LABOf?
QUIT
HOME8.
ARTHUR BALFOUR RETIRES
FROM BR1TI8H CABINET.
; London. ? It is officially announced
that Earl Curzon has been appointed
(trelgn secretary in succession to
Arthur J. Balfour.
Mr. Balfour retires after almost
Uolf a century of public service; hav
ing first taken his seat in parliament
in 1874. His connection with the for
sign policy of the British empire was
established almost immediately, as
he was appointed private secretary to
the Marquis Of Salisbury, then sec* e
tary of state for foreigh affairs in
1878, and he was a member of the
British mission under Lords Salis
bury ^nd Beaconsfield at the Berlin
conference in 1878.
NO HUNNI8H OPE RATIOS
FOR FOLKS IN JER8EY.
Paterson, N. J.? German opera here
was forbidden by the chief of police
Oi complaint of the American legion.
A New York local of the White Rats,
an actors' union affiliated with the
American Federation of Labor, had
announced a performance of "Deer
Rastelbinder." When th3 local post
ot the league protested, Chief Tracey
informed the proprietor of the hall
that no German production would be
permitted until peace was proclaimed.
FRENCH PEOPLE TO 8ELgCT
A NEW DEPUTY CHAMBER
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; Paris.? The campaign for the elec
tion of a new chamber of deputies to
succeed the -lower house of the war
time parliament will be in full swing
after the opening speech by Premier
Clmenceau at Strasbourg. The tick
ets of' most of the parties are, how
ever, still r far from complete. The
socialists, who, as usual, are the first
to get into action;, had practfcally
completed their lists of candidates
when moderate representatives ot the
party, whose candidacies had been
(excluded, resisting political exile,
toot .top. to nominate
fts in the department of the Seine. '
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i. Y. SUPREME COURT HEARS
, ARGUMENT ON GERMAN OPtfa.
New York. Argument on tie legal
nerits of staging opera in German 1?
his city came up In the supreme
-ourt.
?ijj The Star Opera Company, fca.
irbkh succeeded h | presenting, two
Jerman masterpieces Losing*
-on theater under police protection,
v&B prepared to ask that a temporary
nJnhction restraining c|fjr;authortties
from interfering with Ch?n onerAi: be
ssaisaiiifisteii?'
8AMUEL GOMPERS HAS CALLED
MEETING OF HEADS OF 112
ALLIED ORGANIZATIONS. ?
AN ISSUE OF LIFE OR DEATH
Proposition Is Suggested to Assess
One-Fourth of the Net Earning*
of Members to Finance Right
Washington.? What may prove one
of the greatest industrial battles in
history was believed by some obser
vers here to be forecasted by the an
nouncement of' Samuel Gonjpers,
president of the American Federation
of Labor, that a conference of *he
heads of 112 international unions affil
iated with the American Federation
(of Labor would be held in Washing
ton in the "near future" to discuss
present and impendirg disputes.
Mr. Gompers' announcement was
contained in a telegram to the Illinois
Federation of Labor in Peoria. His
message was in reply to one in which
the Illinois organization asked that a
special convention of the American
Federation of Labor be called to per
fect ail alliance of the international
-qnions of the United States and Can*
ada and the railroad brotherhoods
"more effectively to fight out the life
and death struggle of the workers
now in progress."
Federation officials also pointed ont
that the Illinois branch proposed that
ihe aid of the farmecs be enlisted und
that assessments aggregating one
fourth of the net earnings of organ
ed workers be made "until the
jects of this drive be acconipliahe
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reaervatlona are adopted.- They pre
fer to defeat its ratification. Some
of the leaders are very bitter Hi their
denunciation of the Lodge reBMn
tions.
"We shall stand firm If we go down
in defeat" said Senator Underwood
""It would .be better to defeat the
treaty than to ratify with the reserva
tions proposed. But, I . do not belle-re
that JJr. Lodge Can put throT^h his
program. I can't believe that the sen
ate will go with him."
"it shall vote against the ratification
of the treaty if the reservation* pro
posed by the foreign relations' com
mittee are accepted," said 'Senator
Simmons. "The reservations offered
are an lnflult to the. American peo
ple." -
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STATE DEPARTMENT IS TO "
PUT FRE8SURE ON MEXICO.
Washington.? Pressure of the most
urgent nature will be brought to bear
upon the Mexican government to use
all the forces at Its command to ob
tain the release of William O. Jen
kins. American consular agent at
Puebla, who was robbed, and kid
napped by bandits, and now being
told for $150,000 ransom. The Amer- .
ican embassy at Mexico City was in
structed by Assistant Secretary of
State Phillips to keep in close touch
with the Mexican foreign office and to
push unremittingly its request for ajl
possible action,. * ,
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WITH TH0U8AN0 WORD LETTER
GREAT CONFERENCE ADJOURN*
Washington.? With a, recommenda
tion to President WfHion that the ap
point a commlsahjn to carry on the
work which the National Industrial
confe^ehee was unable to accomplish,
tho 'public group, the last remaining
dement of the body, finally adjourned.
The report of the public represents-- '
tives, declining to assume the task tor '
which the orjfinal gathering was
called, was transmitted to the White
House through Chairman Bernard M.
Baruch in the form of a 1, 000-word
yetter. ? . ' '
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POLICE OF CHfCAOO ARE
ARfttf D WITH TRENCH QUN*
CMcago.? Federal troops at Qnft
bid., patrolled with ."trench guns,"
weapons of the sawed-off shotgun
type. They, were thus equipped fey -
order of Cot W. S. Mapes, command,
tog the strike area under military
control, after he had received re
ports that the infantrymen had, teen
stoned by strike sympaihlxers.
' ?Jjtoewhcre la the district indns
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