12, 1919
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ATTITUDE TAKEN CONSIDERED
AS CONFIRMING REPORTED
v CHANGE IN SENTIMENT.
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RESIST Mm US
Supreme Council Has Addressed Note
ef Protest to Germany Against the t
Increaae of Hun Armament. v
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Paris,? Germany ias decided net to
dp psotocei presented to her by*
the allies as a condition of putting the
peace treaty to efect, the peace
. ference has been notMecL
It was learned that Baron Kurt rem
Lersner, head of the German dekc*
tkm here, called an Secretary Dutasto
of the conference and told him that
Germany had made such a decision.
This attltode is%then as confirming
reports of a sharp reaction in Ger
many within the last fortnight Train
ed observers of German developments
have expressed to members of the
peace conference the view that there
has been & complete transformation o t
the ?fltoatton in Germany and thai it
M Wf o the failure of the United
States senate Is ratify the peace trea
ty.
These observers declare that while
the vast majority of the Germans, be
fore the senate's adjournment, desired
the peace treaty ratified as soon as
possible, they jM Ltow supporting th*
government's attitude in resisting the
demands of the a&iet for indemnity for
"the sinking of the German flejit at
Bcapa Plow, recompense for which was
provided in the protocols
The si|raa? council has addrea mi
t
TRAINMEN WILL NOT HANDLE
COAL MINED BY VOLUNTEERS.
Pittsburg, Kas. ? Railroad trainmen
it Frontenae have refused to handle
:ars containing -coal mined by the
itate's volunteer miners.
WILSON MENDING FINELY,
SAYS ADMIRAL GRAYSON.
W&ahxpgtcn. ? President Wilson is
setting^ bette^lfcG ^e-~pcai388?''*-ft
musing satisfaction. Hear Admiral
Irayson, the President's physician
uid, adding that from his standpoint
?verything was going fine. f
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carraNza empowered to
SETTLE JENKINS AFFAIR.
Mexico City. ? The solution of diffi
unities arising out of international af- 1
lairs with the United States were eiv I
trusted to President Carranza without
legislative Intrusion* by the senate at
i secret session held. " *
VILLA CAPTURED BY H'S OWN
MEN tS CURRENTLY REPORTED J
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Jaurea, Mexico. ? Frahcisco Villa '.'las
Deen captured by a force of his own
men and ia-keing held for a reward
fro mthe Mexican government, accord
ing to advices received here by Su
perintendent CabeHero of the Chihua
dua division of the National railways
af Mexico.
Two Villa rebels* are reported to
aave presented themselves at the fed
eral headquarters at Parral and noti
fied the commander there that Villa
bad been captured and was being held
tor surrender to the Carransa forces.
The state of Chihuahua has already
offered. ?0.00 pesos as reward.
Mexftaa officials here expressed tb?
opinion tn?t uenerai aa&nxaio
commander of the Jaurex district; {
Tould proceed immediately fcfrCfc^baa
boa City for a conference with military
?lpd^ Cabaliero, vfao received the
news of the reported capture* is here
on an inspection tour-in compaay "?rith
Colonel: Paulino Fontes, director -gen
sral of the National railways of
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RESOit&l<>N INTRODUCED TO
MEXICAN RELATI?**
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NORMAN H. DAVIS
V&l" * ???)&?&? ? sejjS&Uv ^ - . -:V
Nsrman H. Davis of Tennessee, one
of the financial advisers of the Amer
ican peace delegates at Parisi, j|
been made assistant secretary
treasury to succeed L. S. Rowe.
PJESffiENt IS SOT I
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Probable That Peace Treaty Question j
Will be Carried Forward lnto'1920
Campaign as one Vital Issu*.
Washington. ? The record billion
ftollar congresses of ordinary peace
times faded into the past when Sec
retary Glass, presenting the annual [
estimates, proposed appropriations oij
practically five billloa dollars for con
ducting the peace time activities ol
the government daring the fiscal yeaj
1921.- .
?he
for expenditures, of "course, go to the
army and the navy. The yearly in
terest on the war debt, however, is
$1,017,500,000, which sum alone is
greater than all the appropriations foi
all purposes whatsoever of any peace
time congress. >. /. "V
All in all, the estimate' juslify the
predictions made on the floor of con
gress during consideration of the war
ta^ bill, that the present generation
wouf3"*iipt. _see the government con
ducted at an elpense of less than four
billion a year.
The estimated appropriations for the
principal government departments
were presented as follows:
Legislative (congress) $9,92S, 297.25;
executive (white house and govervf
men t departments) $149,111,463,771
judicial $1,634,19$; army $989,678,657/
20; navy $642,031,804.80; pensio*
$215,030,000; - public works $28 3,921
819.17; miscellaneous $833,717, 637".J?;
foreign intercourse $11,243,250.91. /
i The total of all estimates is $4,8f>,*
410,031.62, the greatest sum ever Sk
ed of any congress when the court ry
was not actually at war. s
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?PALMER OPPOSES FURTHER / -
COAL STRIKE CONFERENCES.
Waehington. ? Attorney Qenerv Pal
mer called upon the American people
to "refuse to be stampeded by threats
of lack of coal into concessions which
wijl insure unreasonably highf prices
in all commodity for at leJt three
years to come." I
A statement of the govirnment'a
attitude was made by the /attorney
generalin a telegram to thaf Chamber
| of Commerce at Moberly, Mo., from
[which had come a requ ed that an'
* ? ?? ?? "in foraneA of oitevtors i and
ir.vf,-.
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KORD-NEWBERRV ?*ff"EST
I .ft:'. : Uf> SOON IN yi E SENA?*
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: Washington. ? SimiftaneoM witi
the legal proceedings tk Grand Rap
Ids an effort. wlfiTke made ih the sen
ate tor Hasten action on the resolution
at Senator Pqfnerene democrat, Ohio,
for a senatorial investigation of th?
Ford-Newberry contest in Michigan
QUICK END COMES TO STRIKE
?c KANSAS CITY SWITCHMEN
!<Sty, As ? f
gtrlki
URGENT SUMMONS 14
FIELD MARSHAL Wl
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CONSULT WITH
Bomar Law
flcation of Vei
V& London.? -There ^
leM^ anL pMce terns ware
to,- allied troops would occupy
and Frankfurt Up. to th
market has not been afte&fed
report
Official announcement that
Marshal "Wilson has gone to P:
response to "an urgent summ
consult Marshal Foch in. com
jrith the peace treaty," is regar
some morning newspapers as <
siderable significance. It
alongside the address ma
goy by Andrew Bonar in
he said he believed the allies h
power, and if necessary, fmM
it, to insure ratiScatwHHl
Bailies treaty byqfifwpmy. It
gested that steps to exert presi
Germany may be iiaSlWent.
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~Ashington. ? The American em
sy.'ft Mexico City notified the state
dc*rtment that American Consolax
Ajfut William 0. Jenkins, at Puebla,
ico, had been released from cue
t4y
rt was announced at the state de?
rtment that the advices from the
-bassy said. Jenkins had been liber.
red from the penitentiary where he
ad been pending trial on charges of
iving false information regarding hie
bduction by Mexican bandits in ,0c*
ober.
The embassy's dispatch reacnea'ino
state department coincident with the
arrival at the white house of: Senators ? ?
Fall and Hitchcock, who- were instruct* i
ed by the senate foreign relation cotttv
mittee to discuss with the president
pending resolutions proposing that the
president be requested to sever diplo
matic relations with the Carranza gov
ernment. . -x \
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COUSIN OF R008EVELT MAKES
DEBUT ON STAGE AT PARIS
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Paris. ? Mfes Hilda Roosevelt,
cousing of the t&te Colonel Roosevelt,
made her first appearance at the
Opera Comique in "Manon." Newspa
per critics praise her operatic debnt
highly.
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PASSENGER TRAIN SERVICE ; '
TO BE CURTAILED IN SOUTH
?
Atlanta, Oa.? General curtailment oi
passenger train service throughout
the southern region of the United
railroad admits trition w af
announced at headquarters biire.
GOVERNMENT BEGtlg&.JT*
- PROBE AT jNfitfANAPOUS
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Indianapolis. ? Henry S.- Mitchell
special assistant to Attorney General
Palmef, arrived in Indianapolis to aid
ih the federal granfl jury , investiga
tfon of charges of alleged violation d
i ihe Lever act and anti-trugt laws.
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NOTHING FOR PUBLICATION
>|N CABINET PROCEEDINGS
Washington. ? The Mexican and cao! j
situations and ether matters were dte
cussed at n meetftfc of President Wil
son's cafcink which continued far twe
and a half hoare, but none of the
departmental heads would makes t
statement.
Secretary Ivans iil^Mybcallod the
session, said there was :Sothing to W
cabinet's attention part of the time
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In OM Market House Are
i Rapidly: Building Wilt
Credit on the City.
?- ?; ?? y. : "r - ? ;
i: located here as special
le Santh Atlantic Mari
tiqn, left for Savannah,
ill have charge of the
South JUlantic 'Forward-'
^Wyph ;w31 act as bro
hipping corporation. | .
is departure * Mr. Tillery
atement in which he said
>w under control of the
pill be plying between
aid Cuba .and South Am
writhin a few weeks,
rogrfessing rapidly on
^ew auditorium in the
kferise on South Front
& the necessary altera
market house have bees
?i&uditoriuai will seat
Special ).~The cas
id as killed in action
; Foster, Haw River,
lion for a memorial
proposed municipal
;orium, with tablets
e soldiers who gave
New Bern. ? The "Col. William H.
Baldwin," the third concrete passen
ger-carrying ship ever to be launch
ed, plunged from the launching pier
at the plant of the Newport Ship
building Corporation here, the event
being witnessed by hundreds.
Concord.~Tyrus Raymond Cobb,
the world's greatest ball player, is to
make a week's visit in Concord, and
Mt Pleasant. This announcement
was made on receipt of a letter from
Zeb Cox, of Augusta, Ga., who stated
that he and Mr. Cobb would arrive
here for a week's hunting and fiah>
ing.trip.
Charlotte. ? More than 400 cotton
mills in the South were advised by
telegraph by W. D. Adams, secretary
of . the American Cotton Manufactur
ers Association, that textile mills
and other industrial plants operated:
by electricity obtained only from wa
ter power may continue operating day
%n* night as heretofore.
Winston-Salem. ? The fuel situation
ii tiie live topic in this section. Ac
cording to information received hers
Winston-Salem is in Pocahontas re
gion and; is therefore not seriously
affected, that is the stores and other
places of business will not be re
quired to close at four unless another
order is issued.
Asheville.? - With his big brother,
Thomas . Burgess, killed in a fight with
Jim Waldrop in Cherokee county,
during a dispute the two had over
the settlement of the partnership of
? blockade business, William Burgess,
a 10-year-old boy, took up the fight
with a JJ2 . caliber rifle, and avenged
the murder of his big brother by
thooting Waldrop.
Henderson. ? Damage estimated by
company officials at $300,000 was
done to the. plant of the Union Seed
and Fertilizer Company bere. by fir#
Progression In Harnett i
LflHngrton.? The officials of Harnett
county put the cojihty on the map as
one Mi the most . progressive in the
fc&ta when the board of county com
missioners and county board of edu
cation voted tor a xul! county and
state public health program, and also
for an all-time county superintendent
of Public Welfare. The latter will
cost the county $2,500 annually and
the former $4,000 annually. The
boards went fifty-fifty on both propo
of both parties.
MS. AQNES
if ;;W ^
Mfs. Agnes Menefee, after four
/ear?' service in the woman's Bat
taff&l of Death," during which time
the was wounded twice and decorated
Dy the- czar with, the Cross of 8t
Beofge and anot'fl?r fttedal/1i?rrveiritv |
Unite
rican
ise her heme wiilt 'i
ton?Ky.
Fortune Was Uncountable
- the United States. At 10, a boy on
i fajrm In a family of only ordinary
toqp of Carnegie and Rockefeller,
is; largely a matter of guess work
eVeri to himself. It has .be?n^ai?Mfte
fast worth 'more' thfiil' v fft^WO.OOO,
perhaps as much as ?2O$#(|jp0.- ;'<;
Mr. Frick built up the greatest
coke business in the world; and' ac
quired such vast interests in steel that
he was also one of the priiicipal 'mag-;
natds In that ' Indus tfy.'and'itt^ round-'
Ing out his -career he became known
as one of the world's greatest collec
tors of master paintings, j ? >
Vatican at. rome anxious
ABOUT/ matters inmexico^
6a^jrelativer to" the sltaatloff^n
yq, .'especially regarding ecclesiastics
tja. [ that country. . Religious connec
fiqna have Recently;- Beamed Id 'ia^
returned to. a .satisfactory and nor
ma! condition in Mexico, but " tears
are expressed that a new apheaittl ln
, Mexico may l,ead tp. persecution of
the clergy.
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ARRESTS J^|^CONTEMP J &&
;>? COURT ARE SdON TO BEpIN
: Indianapol^^Jop^ceA^ijthat - ..^ek.
forts to bring about resumption of
operation of coal mines througfiudfc,
tllX
tf> miners flaw
junction
strike JitLB
Seated
Federal agents would make no
statements as to when court action
might be expected but ic is Known
that the eyidpnc^ has-been, collected
against alleged , yio>ibrs"y5QMtt
Junction.
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VI I LA TAKES REVENGE FOR
il l-HE EXECUTION OF ANQELE3.
?i f 3 ?
THE SHU BOH
I BE DISSOLVED
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GOVERNMENT WILL PR08ECUTB
OFFENDER8 UNDER TERMS
OF LIVER FOCO ACT.
KIDS CONGRESS JT FAItLl
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?^termination of D$p%rtfmnt to Abai*
v don Its Program Givea Leeway for
Furtbor Rite in Price of qugar.
in the
irovig
ict by
lea of
>nable
AGREEMENT MADE BV^
sat U
Wa*ffl?|?fc^&fittonmettiof go?*
arnmcntal attemptB to control !th, dis
trlbution and sale of sugar irai an
nounced by Attorney General Palmer.
"A conference lias been Held be
tween representatives ot the; sugar
equalization board and department of
justice officials in r which the) sugar
situation was reviewed," Mr. Palmer
said. "The -department has neither
the power nor the facilities .with
which to coairol the purchase or dis
tribution of sugar. The only govern*
mental body having this powyer, is the
sugar equalization board, and its con*
trol terminates December 31., <
^ "The mg? #W?PUgh ^Epguetfted
to do so, hasfailedto extendthe life
depflT
.. .. effO?sl
the enforcement ;c
tons of the Lever food cont
prosecuting all instances
sugar forTin uiijuat_and
orofi^ J ?
fretermination of the del
lustice ;to ^bandon?dfts pr
. Hl*?fo Triw f?U^w|ray foi
wai
e' proposa
stated, bu|*g^;jBJ6pald to
tramed with a view to sat
Italian
ANNUAL REPORT OF THE i
' POSTMASTER general
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_ Tyasblqgton.? -A, . surplus o? ^2,342/
-851' in postoffice operations for the
??^ y^,l^ft ^^announeed in th<
annual report of Postmaster General
Burleson. , .
v' An aggregate surplus of mc
to: 1
400 for- the preceding seven
.own in. an apr"? '
j
joint
Gemait#
??**r b* ?
tice Tinkfcam, Republican,
?fttta. - i&~fodicjfleri* he ha4
fe^OWT" R E Olf.
VILLA J&ECLARED *
jo flgsograH,
?y lSl ^jwbcCTSc^-^13"08 01
(ml ?e^eral here. for flexic
IWJE
?y VI Mywa*. -iOIi Of
train service one-third In
as jk. coal
rector B. V. Btufti.
LEADERS OF Mm E WOR
of $10,000
a (Wire.
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