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OPPOSING FACTIONS LINE
UP FOR LAST FIGHT WITH
Fill VOTE IMMINENT
Esch-Cummins Compromise Measure to Be Set
tled One Way or Another Before Adjourn
ment Supporters of the Bill Confident of Its
Approval.
(Bt The Associated Press)
- WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 Represen
Satives of the railroad brotherhoods who
inferred with President Wilson recent
ly on wage demands called at the white
Jmus today to present a memorial to the
president protesting against the pas
aage of the railroad bil land stating that
the labor provisions are wholly unaccept
able to the railroad workers .
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21. Opposing
tactions of the railroad re-organization
kill lined up for a last stand in the house
today with a final vote on the Esch--Cuinmins
compromise measure, scheduled
to be cast before adjournment. Indica
tions, however, were that the. vote would
-ot be reached before early evening.
To assure disposition of the bill today,
the house met -an hour earlier man cus
tomary. Five hours having been alloted
to debate, and with a series of roll calls
in sight, the possibility of an early de
cision was blocked, but Representative
JJeeh, republican, Wisconsin, in charge
ef the measure, announced he would
press the final vote so that the report, if
approved, might go to the senate Mon
day for consideration Tuesday".
In addition to a majority of the demo
cratic members lined up against the bill
largely of the financial provisions, there
were members (m both sides ready ' to
attack the bill because of the objections
ef organized labor. Several members
were desirous of sending the bill back, to
conference under instruction to eliminate
objectionable provisions, but the par
liamentary situation was to be a deciding
factor in the opposition's line-up.
Supporters of the bill were confident
ef its approval by a substantial majority,
but its opponents were willing "only to
ob code a closo vote.
DAILY CONFSSES TO
MURDER SHERIFF ZAGHARY
WINSTON SALEM, Feb. 21.
Bobah Baity, arrested recently with two
companions and charged with the murder
Of Sheriff J. E. Zachery, of Yadkinville,
confessed today, according to the police,
that the sheriff was killed in the aeel
cental discharge of Baty's pistol during
scuffle. Baity exonerated his com
panions, the authorities said.
- Sheriff Zachary was killed after a raid
ca a moonshine still near Yadinville on
February 13.
rwirr's son-in-law
. SATS NOTHING
CHICAGO, Feb. tl Jamee Minotto,
cost-in-law of Louis F. Swift, today de
oUaed to discuss statements of ex -Prettier
Joseph Oaillaux, on trial in Paris,
that Minotto was a German spy who
4uped him when Caillaux visited South
America in 191415.
That is an' old etory. There is
o thing to it," Minotto said. "I am
tate rested in it as yon would be in
terested in the picture of your grand
Mother but it is all dead to me," he
Added. '
Einee bis release from Fort Ogle
tkrope, where he was interned as an
enemy alien during the war, after depor
tation proceedings had failed, Minotto
has dropped his title of Count. He is
mow employed in the office of a Chicago
exporting firm.
COLLEGE WILL BE
CONVERTED INTO HOSPITAL.
JACKSONVILLE, FLA., Feb. 21.
Colombia College at Lake City, Fla., un
til ' recently operated as a Baptist de
aominational school, has been purchased
by the United States public health ser
vice and will be converted into an army
hospital at an early date, it was an
Bounced today.
NEW YORK, Feb. 21. Increasing
epposition by labor to the railroad . bill
and another re-action in foreign exchange
from yesterday high point Vere re
sponsible for the irregular tone" of stocks
at the opening of today's market. Bails
held better than any other division. A
few note worthy additions to recent gains
were registered. Oils, leathers and tex
tiles rose from fractions to one and 1 1-2
points, but this advantage was forfeited
when several of the motor , and equip
- neat issues fell back. The market Thj
"cante listless within the first half hour,
trading dwindling to slender proportions.
NEW ANGLE TO SHIP
CONTROVERSY QUESTION
(by The Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 President
Wilson 's statement to ' the senate disclos
ing that he had entered-into a tentative
agreement at Paris whereby the United
States would pay to the reparation com
mission the difference between the na
tion's merchant tpnnage loss during the
war and the appraised value of seized
German ships gave a new angle today to
the informal discussion in congress of the
ship controversy, precipitated by the re
cent efforts of the shipping board to dis
pose of tte fleet of former German pas
senger liners.
Existence of the agreement, not hither
to made public, was disclosed by the
president in a communication flatly de
nying that he had entered into any
agreement or understanding with Brit
ish officials concerning the disposition of
the seized ships, The statement was
sent to the senate in reply to a resolu
tion by Senator Brandegee, republican,
of Connecticut, asking if it were true
that such an understanding existed.
In explaining the agreement, the pres
ident stated that it was conditioned up
on the approval of congress and that in
no case would the title of tho slrps held
by this country pass from the United
States. It simply provided, he explain
ed, that all nations who came into pos
session of ships through capture or
seizure should, after indemnnfying them
selves against merchant tonnage losses
during the war, put into the common
pool the difference between their losses
and the value of the ships, provided, of
course, the ships so held exceeded the
Ioesos. This pool was to be applied to
the German reparation fund by the com
mission created by the peace treaty.
TOURISTS ARE BEING
WATCHED IN BERMUDA.
HAMILTON, Bermuda, Feb. 3 Post
ed conspicuously in- the lobby of a big
local hotel is a placard which reads:
"Buermuda still has license. We ex
pect our patrons to exercise common
sense. We do not care how little they
drink; excess will not be tolerated."
Borne islanders affect to see a promise
of a great future founded on the dol
lars of American tourists who.they be
lieve, will flock hither as to an. oasis.
Others look with appreheision on the
prospect. Meantime the coiduct of the
tourists is being watched with an unusual
degree of interest. Some among the new
arrivals do not hesitate to say that they
made the trip largely in expectation of
throwing off the restraint of their home
land. ' We come here to seek freedom, 'de
elared a new arrival as he planted his
feet against the brass rail of a local bar.
We have to seek liberty under the folds
of the British flag; wherever the Union
Jack waves one can take a drink un
molested. "
GOMPERS IN JACKSONVILLE.
JACKSONVILLE, FLA., Feb. 21.
Samuel Gompers, president of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor, is expected to
arrive here tomorrow to prepare for the
meeting of the executive council of the
federation, which will convene here Tues
day. The convening of the council here will
mark a radical departure from precedent,
in that this will be the first time t
body has met ofBeally outside of Wash
ington or New York. The decision to
meet here was prompted by a desire of
the couneil to get away from the pos
sibility of, unnecessary interruption" dur
ing its deliberation.
REPATRIATION AUTHORIZED.
PARIS, Feb, 21. -r- The repatriation
of the German war prisoners now In
Siberia was authorized by the council of
ambassadors at its session today. The
action of the council provided that the
repatriation be by way of the Far East.
The question of the disposal of various
enemy warships was taken up and their
allocation decided upon.
British inventors have brought out a
screen that reproduces motion pictures in
daylight or a brightly lighted room as
clearly as in a darkened theater.
MRS. PANKHURST IS HEARD
UY LARGE AUDIENCE
Del'vrs Interesting Lecture on
Bolshevism days Woman
Voter Can Destroy Bolshe
vism More Effectually Than
Now Plea For Closer Re
lations Between U. S. and
England.
Mrs. Emmaline Pankhurst, noted Eng
lish suffragist, addressed a representative
Gastoh county audience Friday night at
the Central graded school auditorium on
the subject "The Woman Voter vs. Bo!
siievism. ' '
The lecture was an educational and in
formational discourse on the rise and his
tory of the Bolshevistic movement in
Russia as witnessed first -hand by Mrs.
Pankhurst who spent five or six months
in Russia in 1917.
While the address was of a sort that,
in a less capable speaker's hands, was
calculated to prove boring, Mrs. Pank
hurst handled her subject in very fine
style. For more than an hour and a half
she talked.
In the beginning of her speech Mrs.
Pankhurst cited the war work of the
women of England,' of how they guarded
the home front and upheld the morale
of the fighting forces. She said that
at the close of the war the women of
England were manufacturing nine-tenths
of the munitions that went from Eng
land to the Allied armies. She asserted
that the women did everything in muni
tion factories except stoke the engines.
' ' Woman is the greatest weapon a
gainst Bolshevism," said Mrs. Pank
hurst, "for Bolshevism strikes at the
home, and the home is the center of
woman's life and influence. Man is not
so interested in home-making as is wom
an, and for that reason Bolshevism does
not appear so great a menace to the man.
Women love children and the home more
than do the men."
"The woman voter," said the speaker
"will be one of the greatest agencies a
gainst the curse of Bolshevism which
seeks to destroy the home."
At the close of her talk Mrs. Pank
hurst made a strong anpeal for a better
and closer understanding between the
people of England and America.
DEATH CLAIMS "LOVE
O'MIKE" AT LAST
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Feb. 21 Denih 1ms
rung down the curtain in the drama of
"Love O'Mike, " a babe whose mother
abandoned him and then fought fsuccess
fully in the courts for his return after
another woman had claimed him as her
kidnapped son.
Last Decemler, when a tiny mite of
humanity was left in the Grand Central
terminal with a note pinned to his cloth
ing saying: -"For the love of Mike take
this kid . " The note also set forth that
the mother was too poor to buy milk for
the child. The babe was taken to a hos
pital and christened "Love OTJike. "
A few days later a distracted woman,
Mrs. August Wents, whose seven weeks
old baby had been kidnapped, claimed
the child 'as ber own. Her husband al
so identified him. Meanwhile, mother
love asserted itself and the boby's moth
er, Mrs. Lena Lisa, reclaimed the
child.
The Wen tze were loath to return the
baby, court action followed and a eol-omn-like
justiee awarded, the laughing,
red-haired youngster to Mrs. Lisa. Yes
terday "Love O'Mike" succumbed to
pneumonia.
TANK LIFE MADE
- MORE COMFORTABLE
(By The Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21. Life for
those in the "treat 'em rough" corps
of the army has been made a little more
comfortable, the war department an
nounced today, through the devising of
means to take some of the engine-generated
heat from the inside of the tank.
The interior of tanks used in the world
war often became a veritable inferno
through heat and gases from the engine
and guns combined with the heat of the
sun shining on the steel walls asd sides.
In the new tanks, just tested out at
Camp Meade, Maryland, the gasoline en
gine is placed in the rear of the tank
and separated from the fighting com
partment by an air tight steel bulk
head. A fan attached to the engine forces
fresh air into the fighting compartment.
INTERESTING SIDELIGHT
ON TURKISH SITUATION
LONDON, Thnrsday, Feb. 19 An in
teresting sidelight on the Turkish situa
tion appeared this afternoon when it was
announced arrangements had been made
to publish officially throughout India
the allied decision that the Saltan is to
remain in Constantinople. Opposition
among Indian Moslems to the removal of
the head of the church from the spiritual
capital has given eanse for considerable
anxiety.
r . 1 r
SIMS SPEAKS AT
PEKN. UNIVERSITY
(By The Associated Press)
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 21 Admiral
William 8. Sims, orator at the Universi
ty Day exercises of the University of
Pennsylvania today to celebrate the
birthday of George Washington, drew
lessons from the career of the first pres-4
ident and criticised the tendency of
Americans to resent adverse comment up
on military unpreparedness of the United
States.
"The missing element in American
ism," said the admiral, "is that it does
not include adequate solicitude for our
safety. The government, and to a cer
tain extent, our people, resent criticism
of anything American. This a dangerous
attitude that has cost us many thous
ands of lives and many millions in treas
ure. "
Admiral ftims, who Was given the
honorary degree of doctor of laws, made
a personal reference to himself.
After saying his father was a native
of Pennsylvania, that his ruofher was a
Canadian and happened to be in Canada
when he was born, he added :
"Perhaps you may be kind enough to
consider me also an American, notwith
standing the title that has been given
uie by certain unfriendly critics, of the
'Leading British Admiral in the Ameri
can Navy. ' "
In European counties, Admiral Sims
said, the national defense is a live issue.
The actual conditions of their armed
forces is so vitally important," lie
said, "that any one who can point out
a defense or suggest an improvement, will
earn the gratitude of his government.
Criticism is recognized as bo vital to
efficiency that it is not only welcome, but
is invited and is rewarded when it proves
beneficial . In the United States we not
only neglect to provide for public crit
icisms of our officers, but actually for
bid it. "
DO NOT REGARD ADRIATIC
SITUATION ACUTE
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21. With
President Wilson's reply to the note of
the allied premiers on the Adriatic ques
tion almost ready for dispatch, officials
here have declared they do not regard
the situation as acute, nor do they expect
that the negotiations will take such a
turn that the United States would be
forced to consider whether it could be
come a party to the treaty of Versailles.
The reply may go forward today. Act
ing Secretary I'olk will send it to tlie
white house for final approval, after
which it will he coded for transmission.
Publication will depend ou the wishes of
the European governments to which the
United States has expressed its desire for
tho frankest publicity in order that
garbled versions of the exchanges, sucn
as have appeared in the foreign press,
may be stopped.
60IN6 AHEAD WITH
TRIAL OF GERMANS
BERLIN, Feb. 21. Preliminary
proceedings in a number of eases of
Germans accused of violations of the
laws of war have already begun and
progress is being made in the collection
of documentary material. Dr. Schiffer,
minister of justice, told the representa
tive of the Zvoelf Uhr Blatt yesterday.
The minister said that accused persons
would be tried at Leipiig by a court con
sisting of the customary seven judge.
German witnesses will be heard in ac
cordance with the prescriptions of crimi
nal trial regulations and witnesses will
be examined abroad if they do not eare
to come to Germany. It was indicated
a German examining magistrate would
go to other countries to be present at
the taking of evidence.
Accused persons who do not respond to
the summons to appear before the im
perial court will have to be arrested and
German authorities will in any case do
everything to expedite proceedings as
far as possible. On the principle that
each accused would necessarily have to
be tried individually. Dr. Schiffer energe
tically emphasized the fct the govern
ment regarded it an "affair of honor
to punish those really guilty." The
government, however, was not obeying the
entente's will in carrying out this trial,
be asserted, but was fulfilling the re
quirements of any "ordered state and
its own feeling of what was just."
WILL ESTABLISH HOUSES TO
MAKE GOAT SKIN CLOTHING
NEW YORK, Feb. 20 Branch houses
of 8panish manufacturers of goat skin
clothing will be established in this" coun
try, it was announced today by Jose
Bernites de Usacle, and-Joaquin Hernan
dez, representatives of the firm, who ar
rived yesterday. Exhibitions will be giv
en in several American cities and Span
ish girl models will display the apparel.
Many of the skins bear fine fur, Mr.
Hernandes said, and certain grades are
turned into men's clothing and women's
dresses. - 1
JOHN W. DAVIS
CERTAIN INSTRUCTIONS" HE
RECEIVED FROM WILSON
Although President's Note to Supreme Allied
Council Has Not Yet Arrived Davis Speaks
of Communication From President.
FRENCH MEMORIALS TO
BE PRESENTED TOMORROW
(By The Associated Press)
INDIANAPOLIS, IND., Feb. 21. A
total of 118,409 French certificates will
be bestowed tomorrow upon the next ot
kin of the Americans who died in the
world war, it was announced today at
announced today at the national head
quarters of the American Legion, which
will have supervision of the ceremonies
to !e held in all parts of thecnuntry.
Tlie nation 's honor roll is comprised of
107.U.12 soldiers, (i,800 sailors and tif7
mariuee.
Iu the bestowal of these French
memorial certificate of honor ami es
teem, France pays homage to America's
dead in the war on the birthday of
George Washington, which also will he
observed in many churches of the coun
try as "American Legion Sunday,"
when the work of the American Legion
will -be explained from the pulpits.
The certificates contain a beautifully
engraved group figure placed on a ceno
taph, on which is the signature of Ray
mond Poincare, as president of France,
and "To the memory of of
the United States of America who died
for liberty during the great war, the
homage of France." Above the group
figure is a quotation from Victor Hugo,
"The people should come to pray at the
graves of those who died for their coun
try." PROGRESS MADE
IN TREATY FIGHT.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 Many days
of partisan wrnngling over the t peace
treaty promised to give wayto actual1 " ' J"" coherence to post
progress disposal of the pact'' just cue . p0,,e d"'? the Turkish treaty until
year since debate started on the league of ! 8pri"K- Ue h0Ved if the conference
n tion8 agreed to his demands to be able to join .
A vote on the first proposed modi-
fication of the reservations adopted at
the last session of congress, was expected
to be reached during the day. While
the contest will not find the lines drawn
as tightly as in some of the votes to
come, notably that on the much discussed
article ten, the outcome will be watched
with concern by both sides as indica
tive of the strength either cau pell.
FIXES HEARST'S BOND
AT 110,000
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 Associate
Justice Bailey of the District supreme
court, today fixed at $10,000 the bond to
be given by William Randolph Hearst in
his injunction proceedings against the
j shipping board to prevent the sale of the
30 former German liners.
Counsel for the board said the govern
ment 's only expense in connection with
the sale was $30.28 for circulars sent to
shipping interests. N
At the request of counsel Justie Bailey
deferred signing the original injunction
until Tuesday, so counsel might confer
over the terms. The justiee also reserv
ed decision on a request of the board that
the steamer Suwanee, whieh has been sold
for $2,000,000, be excluded from the order
of injunction.
FIFTH REGIMENT OF MARINES
TO BE RE-ORGANIZED.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21. The
Fifth Regiment of Marines, of Belleau
Wood fame, which was demobilized last
August, is to be immediately re-organised,
according to advices from Marine Corps
Headquarters.
Only men who have served in the Ma
rine Corps or the army will be accepted
for duty with Fifth Marines, and Ma
rine recruiting officers will be notified to
make a specvial effort to get into touch
with former Fifth Regiment men.
The Fifth saw service in all the big
American offensive in France, and in ad
dition, the French offensive in the Cham
pagne. The regiment was cited three
times by the French army, and Is one of
the few American organizations whose
men have the privilege of wearing the
French "fourragere" or citation cord
on the left shoulders of their uniforms.
HONOLULU, Feb. 21. Influenza is
taking a heavy toll in Japan, according
to a Tokio despatch to the Hawaii Shinpo
a Japanese language newspaper here. -
Several prominent persons have died
from the disease. Among them were
Count A. Yoshikawa, former vice-president
of the imperial privy eounciL and
Mrs. Shinko Saionji, daughter of Mar
quis K. Baionji, former premier -and
Japan's ranking representative at the
Peaee Conference. , ;
REPORTS
(By The Associated Press.)
PARIS, Feb. 21 John W. Davisv
American ambassador to Great Britaia
spoke last night in London of "eertaia
instructions" he had received from Pres
ident Wilson, although the president's
note to the supreme allied council has mat
as yet arrived at the British capital, says
"Pertinax," political editor of the Echo
de Paris.
"In order to properly follow the
course of events," he writes, "it should
be said that the note received by the
council from President Wilson on Febru
ary 12 was in answer to a statement sent
to the state department in Washington
on January 24 by Earl Curion, British
secretary of state for foreign affairs,
Hugh (J. Wallace, American ambassador
to France, attended the meetings of the
supreme council in this city last months
and in the name of his government ex
pressed formal reservations in regard le
the demand sent to Belgrade on Jaaa
ary 20. On that occasion, speaking as
much in regard to Turkey as to the
Adriatic, he said:
" 'You are going mnsh too far and
much too fast. President Wilson' can
not follow you. '
"Earl Curzon then drafted his note,'
whieh was intended to calm Mr. Wilson 's
anxiety, assure him that greatest defer
ence would be shown his views and that
Ambassador Wallace would be kept fnUy
informed. Apparently after three week
of patient waiting" President Wilson felt
these soft words would not be enough.
It can thus be seen that note of Feb
ruary 13 was not a 'bolt from the blue.
"Knowledge of certain facts may
also throw light on Mr. Wilson's prob
able policy relative to Turkish affairs. .
In October the American president form
ally asked the peace conference to post-
r la- .""'" "eiopment in tne
lumciu Bimuuon, nowever, prevent
ed compliance with his wishes. It by ne
moans follows, therefore, that Mr. Wil
son will ratify all that has been elaborat
ed without him. In one of the last
meetings of the supreme council it was
decided that before the treaty was com
municated to the Turks it would be sub
mitted for approval to our great as
sociate. '
"What will he dot In whatever way
one looks at it the work done in Dowsing
street seems more or less threatened, tm
a word from across the Atlantic may re
duce to nothing the important utm.
sations that have been going on. The
arrival of Premier Millerand in London
Sunday night will huirk a decisive see-
ment."
NEWBERRY TRIAL
DRAGS ALONG SLOWLY.
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., Feb. 30. ,
Cross-examinations of yesterday's wit
nesses were the order of the day- la the
Newberry elections conspiracy trial te
day. Claire Higbee, clerk of the fxaa
jury, who yesterday read his notes on tea
uerenaant's stories before that body,
faced George E. Nichols, of amtml '
counsel
He was asked at the outset if hto
recollections of the statements were in
dependent of his notes. Higbee said ae
was Largely dependent upon his meat
randa in most of the instances in qaes- '
tion. The attorney learned on whieh ef
the ten men both Higbee and H. Dale
Souter, of government counsel, took notes
and finally Higbee said he took notes
on "substantially all ;
nesses.'
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MUST FACE WOMAN ON STUMP.
Mr. L. L. Jenkins Is Challenged to De-""
bace By Asheville Woman Who Takes '
Issue With Him.
The following AshevilJa dinoti, '
be of interest in Gaston county:
L. L. Jenkins, republican congres
sional standard bearer for this district,
an ardent supporter of woman's suf
frage, will have to face a woman speak
er on the stump, in the district this falL
if he aceepta the challenge to be made te
him by Mrs. Lulu Roberts Piatt, presi
dent of - the Asheville Woman'. Club
and one of the prime 5 "
told friends here that she planned to take "
the stump throughout the Tenth eonrres
sional district, at her own expenea, f.
Congressman Weaver, who standshigh
in the good graces of the women of Ashe
wile, for his enthusiastie support of all
equal suffrage measures which have Li!
P before the houee during bis two tTrT,