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THE STUMBLING BLOCKS
But For These Two Hindrances Senate Leaders
Think They Would Be Able to Reach Quick
Settlement of All Differences - Not Yet Ready
to Throw up Sponge and Admit Defeat - Gap
Widens Between Democratic and Republican
Leaders.
(By The Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28 Before sen
:at leaders are ready to throw up the
sponge and admit' that further nego
tiations on the peace treaty in the bi
partisan conference are futile, they will
make another effort tomorrow to over--come
the stumbling blocks found in ar
ticle ten and the Monroe doctrine.
With the whole parley threatened with
collapse by the widened gap between the
democratic and republican conferees on
th two issued involved, they .pureed to
grant a breathing spell over today, so
'that they may take inventory of their
compromise stocks.
If the conferees fail to draft a com
promise the floor of the senate probably
will "be the scene of another fight on
treaty ratification . In answer to the
democrats' expressed intentions of car
rying the treaty back to the senate cham
ber in lieu of a compromise program,
the republicans declared that nothing
could come of such a move as the senate
would resume its old line-up and sit
tight.
But for article ten aud the Monroe
doctrine provisions, Senate leaders declar
ed they would be able to reach a quick
settlement of their differences as prac
tically all other points of contention have
been agreed upon tenatively. In reach
ing agreement on the other questions it
was pointed out that both sides gave
ground, the democrats accepting some of
tha republican reservations without
change, while the republicans'. agreed to
changes in others ns requested by the
democrats .
FLU ON INCREASE
AMONG AMEICAN TROOPS
(By The' Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28. An increase
in the number of cases of influenza a
. mong the American troops in Siberia was
-shown today in a statement issued by the
war department dealing with tho out
break of the disease in the army both at
home and abroad. For the weeks ending
-January 2 and 8, respectively, 24 and 41
asea were reported. The only disease
death reported, however, was one due to
tuberculosis.
The report showed the death rate a
. mong the troops in Germany continued
. high. For the week ending January Vie
it was 36.74 per thousand, which was
slightly higher than for the preceding
week. During the week ending January
16 there were reported 63 cases of in
Atienza and 30 cases of pneumonia with
12 deaths from the latter disease.
FLOCK TO SEE
GHOST UQF .VIRGIN
(By The Associated Press.)
METZ, Jan. 28. Although claims that
: an apparition of the 'Virgin had ' been
: seen at Noveant, a tillage near here, have
been proved without foundation, crowds
continue to flock to the place. So great
is the throng wishing to- see the phenom-
enon. which is caused by the shadows of
two trees, that special automobile service
baa been established between the city and
the village. Every house in Noveant aad
the adjacent country is 'filled with pil-
iffrims who believe there i something su
pernatural in the illusion.
. . MYSTERY STJM0UHD1KG
DEATH OF WITNESS.
(By"Tbe Associated Pnaa)
NASHVILLE, TENN Jan. 28. There
bad been no developments today at "Me
Ifinnville, where legal representatives of
the state and federal government are
looking into the death of Fred Murphy,
who was found hanging' in his cell in the
jail Saturday. Federal officials say Mur
phy was a material witness1 in a distilling
aae. in which Sheriff A. P. Warren, of
that county, is alleged to be" involved.
C D. Lamb, attorney general for the
9reo.it, on instructions from iWernor
Roberts, went to MeMinnville yesterday
.afternoon and was joined there by How
ard Ewing, assistant district attorney.- JL
coroner's jury fourid-that" Murphy com
'jutted suicide. ;
MONROE
PROVE TO BE
CONSIDER INCREASE PAY
FOR ARMY AND NAVY
(By The Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28. The son
ate today again had under consideration
the bill providing increased pay for of
ficers and enlisted men of the army, na
vy and marine corps, coast guard and
public health services. Discussion of
thelfiensure was interrupted yesterday
by the lack of a quorum, which five calls
failed to produce. ,
The bill carries Misappropriation of
$59,500,000 to cover the increases, which
would 'Ik granted at the rate of Ml per
cent of the pay of officers ari'd 20 per
ent of the pay of enlisted men except
privates in the army and apprentice sea
men in the navy.
Senator Wadsworth, of New York,
chairman of the military committee, an
nounced he would attempt to report to
the senate today the army reorganization
bill with its universal training provision.
SELECTING JURY IN
NEWBERRY TRIAL
(By The Associated Press)
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Jan. 28
The work of selecting a jury to sit in the
trial of Truman II. Newberry and 12;! of
his associates charged with violation of
the election laws, was begun today with
the arrival here of a score of defendants
and veniremen whose absence yesterday,
due to snow bound trains, had halted the
proceedings.
Examination of the prosjiective jurors
was generally exiected to occupy the
first week of the trial and there were
some who predicted that the taking of
testimony would be delayed at least teii
days . ,
To speed up the case which at best is
expected to continue for six weeks, th.
court day has been extended to five hours
from 9:30 a. m. until 4:30 p. in.,
with a two hour recess at noon.
U. S. MULTI-MILLIONAIRE
MAY BE KING
Guesses Range From Hapsburg
Princes to Scions of Euro
pean Royalty and American
.Millionaire.
(By The Associated Press.)
BUDAPEST, Jan. 27. It is estimat
ed the monarchist! vote cast in the elec
tions Sunday and yesterday approximated
95 per cent of the total number of bal
lots. Speculation is said to ba centered
on who .now will be king and guesses
range from Hapsburg princes to scions
of European ruling houses and Americas
multi-millionaires.
FIRST SHIPMENT OF
.POTASH FROM GERMANY
(By The Associated Press.)
'PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 28. The first
shipment of potash to reach this port di
rectly from Germany in three or four
years arrived here today on the Norwe
gian steamship Tungus, from Hamburg.
The cargo consists of 3,000 tons.
NEXT-WAR WILL
BE IN PACIFIC
(By To AsaoclaU. Press.)
LONDON, 'Jan. 28 W. A. Hughes
Australian premier, n peaking at Mel
bourne yesterday, asjid the Bekt war
would probably break out in the Pacific,
according to Central News agency des
patches from Sydney. ,
"We niust be readyv with a sufficiently
numerous array to say 'Thus far and no
further,'. " he is quoted as saying. " We
are- hedged about with nations which
tust after, this rconn try. " .
NATIONAL REALTY G0"PANY
TO MAKE ADDITIONS
Improvement on Property on
Main Avenue to Cost From
$50,000 to $75,000 Rear
of Property to Be Develop
ed Belk's to Be Refloored
and New Front Installed.
Plans have been drawn and the contract
awarded by the National Realty Compa
ny for the construction of an addition
to the rear of their property on Main av
enue, facing the railroad. It is estimat
ed that the cost of the proposed improve
ments will be between $50,000 and $75,
000. Work will legiit immediately, or
just as soon as weather conditions per
mit. Mryll. B. l'atillo has the contract,
ami the plans were drawn by Hugh E.
White. All material, including brick,
lumber anil lime have been( bought.
The plans of the National Realty Com
pany, as outlined by Messrs. J. Lee Rob
inson and 8. N. Boyce, of the First Na
tional Bank, contemplate a handsome
and imposing frontage on the railroad.
The addition will extend to the railroad
right of way, and will vary in depth
from about 25 feet at the rear of
Schneider's to 45 feet at the rear of the
Third National Bank.
The following stores will lie improved:
Schneiders, Morrow Drug Co., Belk's.
Van Sleen 's, Columbia Tailoring Co. and
the Third National Bank. The building
now occupied by Harry-Baber Co. and
owned by the National Realty Company
extends to the right of way.
The addition will be built of texture
brick, of a dnrk salmon color, with stone
oping. A i oncrete sidewalk will also
be built. The front of the building now
occupied by Belk's will be remodeled and
rebuilt, and the whole of Belk's interior
to be refurnislied with a new floor and
new fittings throughout.
The whole when completed will give a
very attractive frontage to this property
along the railroad.
TICK ERADICATION
IS VERY IMPORTANT
So Dr. R. A. Ramsey Tells
Southern Cattlemen's Asso
ciation Imminent Danger
in Becoming Careless.
(By The Associated Press.)
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Jan. 28 Oat
tie tick eradication in southern states is
now in a somewhat critical condition.
Dr. II. A. Ramsey, chief of tick eradi
cation of the department of agricultures
bureau of animal industry, told the
Southern Cattlcmens association today,
and an energetic drive he said, should be
made, especially in states where tick
eradication is nearly completed, to sieed
ly finish the job. The possibility of jk1
itics interfering with the work was point
ed out by Rr. Ramsey.
"There is imminent danger." he said,
"when any state -becomes careless about
discontinuing tick eradication when there
are still a few counties or localities or
small centers where tick infestation
exists. The infestation in these centers,
if not completely eradicated, is going'to
spread. Furthermore, these small centers
are liable to be lined by politicans for
purpose of barter. This has been dem
onstrated in Virginia where three tick in
fested counties still remain in quaran
tine because certain state officials and
livestock sanitary officials saw proper to
trade off ticy eradication for a few votes
on some other legislation. "
Dr. Ramsey said southern cattlemen
could relieve men directly engaged in the
actual work of eradication of the res
ponsibility of obtaining appropriation
and enlisting the moral support of state
legislators and executives. He suggest
ed two members of the association should
personally visit .each state legislature nod
discuss with the various committees and
the governor the needs of tick eradica
tion. The work of cattlcmens association, he
said, had been, of great assistance in the
past and the Ait tie tick haa been eradi
cated from 509,084 square miles, or 70
percent of the area infected. There still
remains jJ19,5Sl square miles under
quarantine.
ONLY TWO JURORS SE-'
LECTED IN I. IV. W. TRIAL
MONTESANO, Washn., Jan. 28 Only
two jurors had been accepted temporarily
to hear evidence ia the trial of eleven 'al
leged Industrial . Workers of the World,
charged with murder, when the third
day's session of court opened today. The
defendants are charged specifically with
shooting Warren O. Grimm, one of four
men killed during an armistice day par
ade at Centralia, Washh., last November
11, as the procession was passing head
quarters of the I. W. W.
Examination of the nearly 400 venire
men proceeded slowly and it wai pre
dicted a jury would not be selected in
less than a week.
WOMEN HOLD SECOND
. DAY'S SESSION
Address By Miss Shuler Re
ception - This Afternoon at
Home of Mrs. A. L. Brooks
' Election of Officers.
(By The Associated Press. j)
GREENSBORO, N. C, Jau. 28 The
second day's work of the fifjh annual
convention of the North Carolina 1 Suf
frage Association, which oened here yes
terday, liegan a business session this
morning. The session will be continued
until the, middle of the afternoon, clos
ing with the election of officers for the
next year. A reception to the members
of the association will be given this af
ternoon by Mrs. A. L. Brooks, of
Greensboro.
The closing meeting of the convention
will be a public meeting beginning at 8
p. in., featured by addresses by Miss
Marjorie Shuler, of New York, an or
ganizer of branches of the Women Vo
ters' League, and Mrs. Raymond Brown,
also of New York, one of the vice pres
idents of tin? National Equal Suffrage
Association .
ANOTHER VOLUME OF
EVIDENCE TODAY
(By The Associated Press.)
ALBANY, N. Y., Jan. 2.S. Counsel
for the assembly judiciary committee,
which is trying the five suspended social
ist assemblymen charged with disloyalty
hail another volume of evidence ready to
present today. The nature of this evi
dence, however, was not disclosed for the
prosecution is keeping its attack as
shrouded as it has been from the first,
John B. Stanehfleld, associate counsel,
has iudicated, however, that he intends
to read into the records some more
sMeches at another point iu the hearing.
In reply to a question from Seymour
Stedman, of Chicago, temporarily direct
ing the case for the defense, Mr. Staneh
field saiil yesterday these speeches in
cluded some by Assemblyman Louis
W'ahlmnn mid Charles Solomon, defend
ants. NO UNUSUAL WIRELESS
COMMUNICATION REPORTED
Dr. Anderson, of Radio Cor
poration of America, Scouts
the Idea That Signals Came
From Another Planet.
(By The Associated Press. 1
NEW YORK, Jan. 28-There has
Iteen no unusual interference with wire
less communication in America, asserted
Dr. E. F. W. Anderson, chief engineer
of the Radio Corporation of America, in
discussing today the mysterious wireless
signals described recently Jn London by
Signor Marconi.
He scouted the suggestion advanced by
some scientists abroad, that the signals
might have come from another planet.
If any disturbance existed, according
to Dr. Anderson, it was purely terrestial.
"The supposed signals which are con
sidered unusual probably are produced by
some spark station,' he sai, "and are
being heard at a greater distance than
ordinarily because of the clearness of the
atmosphere and the absence of the
static. The fact that the mysterious
signals are partly decipherable bears out
my contention.
HOBO KING HELPS
STAMP OUT FLU
(By The Associated Press.)
HOBO KING, Jan. 28-Jeff Davis,
NEW YORK. Jan. 28 Jeff Davis,
acknowledged "King of Hoboes," today
lent his services to Health Commissioner
Copeland in an effort to heir stamp out
the epidemic of influenza. Accompanied
by a health department inspector he made
a tour of the cheap lodging houses along
the Bowery and lower east side and ad
monished the "guests" to obey the or
dinances forbidding expectorating and
smoking.
"Use lots of soap and water and you
won't get the flu," the assembled lod
gers were told by the "King. "
GOES TO RESCUE
OF ICE-BOUND SHIP
CHICAGO, Jan. 28 The steel steam
ship Alabama left hee early today with
food and clothing for the crew of the
350 ton freighter Sidney O. Neff, which
is frozen in an ice floe and drifting in
Lake Michigan fourteen miles off the har
bor entrance.
Mystery surrounding the where abouts
of seven men who started over the ice to
the Neff probably could not be cleared
Up, it was said, until the vessel was re
leased" from the three square miles of
ice surrounding her.
V ' f
WILSON MAKES ANOTHER
APPEAL FOR FOOD RELIEF
FOR STRICKEN COUNTRIES
Asks Secretary of the Treasury Glass to Make
Another Appeal For 150 Millions For Poland,
Austria and Armenia - President Says It Is
Unthinkable That United States Should With
hold Assistance From So Great a Store.
COLUMBIA IN GRIP
OF STREET CAR STRIKE
Conductors tn d Motormen
Walk Out Controversy
Over Closed Shop Is Under
stood to Be the Cause of
Trouble 150 Men Affect
ed. (By The Associated Press.)
(X)LUMBIA, S. C, Jan. '28 Pros
pects of an indefinite tie up of street
railway transportation laced Columbians
today as the result of the walkout of con
ductors and lnotormen of the Columbia
railway, gas and electric, company at 2
o'clock this morning. The oiay action
of the company in answer to the strike
so far has been to order the cars to re
main in the bams indefinitely.
Controversy over the closed shop 1h
tween striking carmen and the company
is given as the chief cause of the strike.
The company oflicinls state they do not
proose to accede to the demands of tho
car men for a clause in their contract
requiring the company to employ only
men in good standing with the local
union. An offer of a wage increase, it
is stated, by officials, was made to the
men at a meeting held at 1 o'clock this
morning on condition that the "closed
shop" clause be striken out of the con
tract. The company's offer providing
for the wage increase to be retroactive to
January 1 .
ALABAMA REACHES
ICE-BOUND SHIP
(By The Associated Press)
CHICAGO, Jan. 2s The steel steam
ship Alabama early today reached the
freight steamer Kidney O. Neff, which
for more than a week had been frozen iu
a,n ice floe in Ijjke Michigan off the har
bor entrance.
A wireless message from the Alabama
said the Neff's crew was safe and that
transfer of food aud clothing to the
freighter began at once.
No mention was made of the seven
men missing since they attempted to
reach the Neff over the ice Sunday.
The Alabama experienced no difficulty
in driving through the ice packs to with
in hailing distance of the smaller boat.
A message said the Neff would be towed
to open water.
The Neff was caught hi an ice floe
and was without sufficient power or
weight to break away.
INVESTIGATING CAUSE
OF POWHATAN TROUBLE
Hy The Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Jan. 28. Investiga
tion of he cause of the disabling at sea
of the army transport Powhatan, which
reached Halifax last night, is being made
by an official board sitting at New York.
Ia announcing this today, the war de
partment said reports regarding bolshevik
activity by members of the transport's
crew or others on board had thus far
been proven to be without foundation.
From information available here, it
appears that in a heavy gale a portion of
the coal bunker bulkhead was carried a
way. allowing about 75 tons of coal to
shift. The fuel choked the pumps and
they eould not keep up with a leakage
through a clogged ashejeetor.
DROPPING IN STREETS
FROM INFLUENZA
(By The Associated Press)
BUDAPEST, Jan. 27. Influenza vic
tims are increasing in this city, many 1
dropping in the streets. The government
is requisitioning medicines because of
the present scarcity. Hungarian fron
tiers are tightly closed as a barrier a
gainst .disease, as well as to prevent the
export of food and valuables.
N. B. McCanless, one of Salisbury .'
most prominent citizens, died at his home
there yesterday. He was 68 years old, a
native of Rowan county ,iud had lived in
T-cI'sburv for abont 40 years.
(Bv The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. Jan. 28 President
Wilson today asked Secretary Glass to
make another appeal to congress for au
thority to loan $150,000,000 tu Poland,
Austria and Armenia to relieve their des
perate food situation.
The president wrote the secretary that
it was "unthinkable" to him that the
United States should withhold from the
stricken people of those countries the as
sistance which eouTd be rendered by
"making available on credit a small por
tion of our exportable surplus of food. "
The president's letter follows:
"With considerable regret I have no
ticed from the press that congress is de
laying the. granting of authority for the
extension of prompt and generous re
lief to the stricken tortion of Europe,
the urgency ami imiortance of which,
esecialy in resect to Poland, Austria
uml Armenia, you have fully explained t
the ways and means committee. It is
unthinkable to me that we should with
hold the assistance which ran be ren
dered by funking available on credit a
sum II proHrtion of our exportable sur
plus of food which would alleviate the
situation. While I am sure that yon
must have explained fully to the ways
ami means committee the appalling situa
tion in those parts of Europe where men,
women and children are now dying of
starvation and the urgent necessity for
prompt assistance, I beg of you that jrou
make another apieal to congress. I am
informed that through the published re
IMirts of hearings before the ways and
means committee, that congress has now
been furnished with incontrovertible facta
showing the necessity for immediate af
firmative action. This prosperous re
public ought not to bear any part of the
responsibility for the moral and material
chaos that must result from an unwilling
ness on our part to aid those less for
tunate than ourselves. We cannot, mere
ly to husband a small proiortion of our
surplus, permit the happening of this ca
tastrophe. ' '
Action by the house ways and means
committee on Mr. Glass' request for au
thority to make the loans is expected in
a few days. The secretary and other
treasury officials appeared yesterday be
fore the republican steering committee
to explain the necessity for the loan and
to discuss the American financial situa
tion generally.
Resolutions supporting a loan to the
European countries have been adopted by
the board of directors of the United
States chamber of commerce and it was
announced today that the member or
ganizations had been asked to adopt
similar resolutions and to communicate
their action to their seuators and representatives.
MADE REPAIRS ON
PLANE IN WATER
(By The Associated Press.)
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Jan. 28
Winter tourists in Florida who have
been enjoying the novelty of seaplane
traveling had fewer fears for their saf
ety today, as the result of the experiences
of Rodman Wanamaker, II, of Philadel
phia, and party, who reached land safely
late yesterday after having made repairs
to their plane on the surface of the sea
during a storm.
The Wanamaker machine, of the H.
S. navy type, waa piloted by Lieut.
David H. MeCulloch, and carried besides
Mr. Wanamaker, Jack Rutherford, Caleb
Bragg and PhiliD Rover, nt V- v l.
and Guraee Munn, of Philadelphia. They
left Grand Bahama island Monday af
ternoon, expecting to reach Paha Beach
in two hours. Engine trouble forced
them to descend and the party spent 24
hours drifting in the gulf stream with
a strong wind blowing, while repairs
were being made to the plane.
"The practicability of air navigation
tt sea was fully demonstrated by our ex
perience in bein able
on the water with a strong wind blow
in:," Commander MeCulloch declared
nere today.
PKIIfCE OTTO IS FAV0MD.
-BERNE. Jan. 27. PHnu rv .iVL,.
b - - - xsttv, u9t
r son of former Emperor Charles, of Ans-
.-aBg.7 tavore4 by leg5tiniisU
as the future king of Hungary, according
to Budapest advice, received here. Con
firmation has been given reports that Co
monarchists won a decisive vutorr ia tU
e.ethons held i Hungarjr on Sun'bv aud
Mondav.