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VOL. XU. NO. 99.
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UNITED STATES
THAT
OF VATCHFUL VAITING
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(By The Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, April 24 While
.American cruisers were sailing towards
- rebel-menaced porta in Mexico today
there was lacking any indication of an
raftered attitude of tbe United States gov
ernment. Officials of the state and war
"departments continue to watch develop
ments in the new Mexican situation with
apparent equanimity, and unofficially it
was declared any move by the United
States was improbable unless made nee --essary
by the menacing of American lives
or interests.
The dispatch of war craft to Mazatlaa,
Topolobampo and Frontera was taken to
mean nothing more than a guarantee so
far as possible of Americans safety. It
was not believed the commanders of
those vessels would be ordered to go fur
ther than to afford refuge to such Amer
icans as chose to go abroad. At Masta
tlan the number of Americans was re
, ported to be fewer than eighteen and a
. smaller number at Topolobampo.
The number of states the Sonora repre
" aentativea here claim have joined in tht
r movement is seven with a steadily grow
ing list of bands of federal troops seat
s' tered through the state yet controlled by
Oarranza. The most recent defection
claimed is that of the federal command
er at Linares, Nuevo Leon, on the rail
road line between Monterey and Tam-
: MAKING PREPARATIONS FOR
STAY OF, UNKNOWN LENGTH
1 Bv The mh into! p
SAN DIEGO, Calif., April 24 Of
eers and men of the scout cruiser Salem
and destroyer McCawley, ordered to rest
. osst Mexican ports to protect American
interests, were busy early today making
preparations for a stay of unknown
length away from this base. The Salem
will go to Mazatlan and the McCawley to
Topolobampo.
The hour of sailing had not been fixed
definitely this morning, but it was an
nounced that orders issued by Rear Ad
miral Hugh Rodman, commander of the
Pacific fleet, on instructions from the
xtajy department, colled for departure as
oon as the necessary preparations could
be made. Both ships took on quantities
f stores yesterday and last night .
Bo far as is known here -there has
been no anti-American feeling manifest
ed at either ort . Officers said the plans
of the Sonora state troops, which calls
for attacks on Mazatlan, and presumably
other Mexican ports, probably made it
advisable to have American naval ves
sels there:
)VALKER D. NINES RESIGNS
AS DIRECTOR - GENERAL
(By The Assoc Li ted Press)
WASHINGTON. April 24 Walker
D. Hines, director general of railroads,
has resigned and his resignation has
been accepted by President Wilson, ef
fective May 15.
Much work in liquidating the affairs of
the railroad administration will remain
after May 15 and a successor to Mr.
Hines will be named. Max Thelen, in
-charge of the claims department, prob
ably will be appointed. He is under
stood to le Mr. Hines choice and it was
eaid today at th ewhite house that the re
tiring director general would name his
-own successor.
Mr. Hines letter of resignation was
sot made public, but it was understood
that the director general had desired to
return to the practice of law in New
York when the roads were returned to
private control March 1, and that he had
consented to remain only until the tasks
of liquidation was well under way.
Because of his long application to the
business of his office, Mr. Hines is un
derstood to contemplate a vacation trip
immediately after May 15 which will take
him abroad.
In accepting Mr. Hines' resignation
the President wrote that he could not let
the director general retire without telling
him how he had "personally valued and
admired the quite unusual services you
have rendered the government and the
country. "
Mr. Hines has served with the railroad
administration since its creation in De
cember, 1917, when the railroads of the
country were taken over . -He was ap
pointed then as assistant director gen
eral and when Secretary McAdoo retired
to private life on January 11, 1919, Mr.
Hines was made director general.
"UNSETTLED WEATHER FIRST
HALF OF NEXT WEEK
(By The Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON,, April 24 Weather
predictions for the week beginning Mon-
1 -day are: v
Middle Atlantic 8tates: Unsettled
weather and showers first half of week;
latter half fair; eool. . . v
South Atlantic and eaqt gul lUter.
.Local showers, probable first half of
week; latter half" fair; moderate temper
ature. . ': .
POLICY IS
HIRAM JOHNSON IS
LEADING IN MONTANA
California Senator Has Wide
Margin Over Opponent
With 6,000 Votes Wood
JVext with 1,600.
'By The Associated Press. )
BUTTE, Mont., April 24 Senator
Hiram W. Johnson, of California, had a
wide margin over his opponents for the
republican presidential nomination in
Montana's primary, held yesterday, ac
cording to widely scattered unofficial re
turns available to newspapers tabulat
ing the vote early today.
. Nearly 200 precincts of the total of 1,
50 gave Johnson 6,238 votes; Major Gen
eral Leonard Wood 1,604 ; Herbert Hoov
er 1,259; Governor Frank O. Lowden, of
Illinois, 1,139; and Senator Warren G.
Harding, fewer than 500.
In the absence of a democratic eandi-
! date for president, votes were written in
j for William G. McAdoo, President Wil
l son, William J . Bryan, and others . Lit
tle attention was paid to the democratic
vote in the tabulations, however.
Returns for delegates to the national
conventions came in so slowly that polit
ical observers said it would " be a week ' '
before the outcome of those contests
would be known definitely. United
states Senator T. J. Walsh, however,
was leading in the race for delegate to
the democratic convention . Returns were
too few to show that either the "regu
lar" republican delegate candidates, or
the eight men put forward by O. H. P.
Shelley, of Henela, and repudiated by the
republican state convention, had a dis
tinct advantage.
SPENDS 14 HOURS AMONG
WIRES AT TOP OF POLE
(By The Associated Iresa)
MOBILE, Ala., April 24 After
spend.ng fourteen hours on top of a pole
and among wires at the intersection of
the two most prominent downtown
streets, Charles Sanders, a lineman whom
the police believed was crazed by drugs,
this morning at 6:40 left his high perch
and descended safely into the arms of
waiting policemen. Sanders at one time
stood on his head on a large electric sign
stretched across the street. Traffic of
ficers managed the crowd with difficulty,
more than a thousand having gathered
to watch the man as he threaded his way
among the wires.
Sanders was laboring under the de
lusion that the gathered crowd was wait
ing to lynch him, so he told the officers
and only came down after officers from
the tops of buildings had talked with
him and promised protection. The crowd
was driven buck as the man came down
the pole o the ground . He was taken to
the city prison .
Sanders is well known in the city.
During the time that the Mobile theatre
burned to the ground several years ago
and a falling wall buried several men,
he was lowered to the ruins on a rope and
rescued all of them. He was given a
purse and his bravery was publicly' recog
uized at the time.
D. A. Rs ADJOURN TODAY.
(By The Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, April 24. Installa
tion of the new officers elected Thursday
will bring the 29th annual continent
on gross of the Daughters of the Ameri
can Revolution to a close this afternoon
after being in session here six days. lie
ports pf the resolutions committee and
new business occupied th time of the
delegates at the morning session. A ma
jority of the delegates will start for their
homes tonight.
CAILLAUX IS FREED
PARIS, April 24 Joseph Caillaujx,
former premier who on Thursday was
convicted by the high court of commerce
and correspondence with the enemy, has
been set free. He arrived at his home
in Paris this afternoon..
He was accompanied by his wife and
several friends. He refused to make a
statement, saying only that he would not
be in Paris on May 1.
LLOYD GEORGE GIVES
DINNER AT SAN RE MO.
SAN KEMO, April 23. Premier Lloyd
George last evening gave a dinner In hon
or of Alexandre Millerand, the Frencii
premier, and General Berthelot, the
French chief of staff. Earl Curzon, the
British foreign secretary, Artnur J. Bal
four, British representative on the execu
tive council of the league of nations, and
some other of the French and British rep
resentatives here, were' present.
The dinner is described as having pas
ed off agreeably, while after it Premiers
Lloyd George and Millerand had oppor
tunity for a private conversation. The
tension between the British and French
delegates is said to have been considera
bly lessened ia -consequence.
LOSS OF LIFE FROM -
STORM TOTALS 231
Revised Estimate Place Itf
jured at 700 and Property
Loss at Several Million DoU
lars.
(By The Associated Pres.)
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.. April 24 Loss
of life from Tuesday 's tornadoes in Mis
sissippi, Alabama and Tennessee stood
today at 231 persons, with at least 700
injured and a property loss of several
millions of dollars.
While red cross workers were making
tabulated lists of the dead ami injured
and estimating property damage, plans
"for relief took definite shape with the
formal launching of a drive for the col
lection of $50,000.
Reports at the office of Governor Kilhy
pliu-e the dead in Alabama at 7.H and
the injured at 500.
Informal ion at the office of Governor
Russell, of Mississippi, shows 150 were
killed and 200 injured in that state.
The loss in live stock and property has
grown with the progress of the investi
gation and may exceed the $2,000,000
mark .
With the receipt of supplies from
Birmingham, New Orleans and other
cities, emergency relief work is well in
hand at Hamilton, Ala., and Meridian,
Miss., the central points of the storm
areas in the two states.
PRINT PAPER SHORTAGE.
Yorkville Enquirer.
Prom a representative of a large whole
sale paper house who visited Yorkville
one day last week, u reporter for the En
quirer gathered more or less interesting
information with reference to the print
paper shortage.
' ' No, we have nothing whatever to
offer in the way of print paper," ho
said, ' ' and although we are doing
everything in our power to take care of
our old customers, it is very little we are
able to do. "
"What is the real trouble about the
whole matter anyway f" the paper
salesman was asked.
"There are a number of troubles; but
the alleged exhaustion of the wood pulp
supply is now one of the most imminent.
"Por one thing the bulk of our print
paper supply comes from Canada and
the Canadian government is for various
reasons, rather difficult to explain, pro
hibiting exports to this country. They
are shipping paper to Prance and Spain
at prices lower than can lie obtained
in the I'nited States and also they are
sending it to South America on the same
basis. Just why this discrimination I
do not know; but of course there is some
deep reason at the bottom of it.
"Also there is some demoralization in j
Canada because of. the activities of the
trade industries board that is trying to
make eastern Canada manufacturers sell
paper to western Canada publishers at a
less price than the pajier can be sold else
where. The manufacturers are protest
ing most vigorously and refuse to sub
mit. They have great warehouses full of
paper, and they say they will let the
paper rot rather than sell it at the price
fixed by tjie trade industries Uuml.
"Where formerly the products of all
the paier mills were In-ing handled
through joblMrs, now many of the big
mills are selling direct to the publishers
and leaving the jobbers out.
"The shortage of raw material is not
as acute as the general impression seems
to have it; but labor and transportation
difficulties also enter into the situation.
We have information of mills that are
idle for lack of labor, and of mills that
have large stocks of paper on hand; but
these stocks cannot be moved becauee of
lack of transportation facilities "
"Have you any idea when there will
be a readjustment of the situation f ' ' the
paped dealer was asked.
"No there was a general belief that
things would begin to improve this
spring; but the transportation difficul
ties that have developed recently have
made things worse and so far there has
been no improvement. The people that
I consider best informed do not seem to
hope that there will be a return to
normal for at least a year yet.
Our house has been handling the
paper supply contracts for more than
sixty papers in North and South Caro
lina; but just at this time we are pretty
well out of it so far as new business is
concerned. All contracts are readjust
able quarterly and what tbe next price
is going to be or how much of the pres
ent supply can be kept np we cannot
promise . ' '
"In the case of a situation like this,"
the reporter asked, "don't you think
the outcome will be that many news
papers will have to suspend enough of
them to bring the demand in conformity
with the supply f"
"That looks reasonable," the paper
man replied: "but you know no news
paper has. ever suspended until it was ab
solutely compelled to suspend and all
of them that have anything to look for
ward to will hold on somehow as long as
there is any possibility of being able to
hold on at all.
A life saving buoy invented in Europe
is hammock shaped and large enough for
s man to lie in and . propel himself
through water with s paddle.
OVERALL GLOB PARADES
IN NEW YORK STREETS
Thousands of Citizens Dress In
Oreralls and Old Clothes
and Parade in Protest
Against High Cost Clothing.
(By Tie Associated Press.)
NEW YORK, April 24 Father
Knickerbocker girded up his lions in
denim and patches today to take his first
serious punch at the high cost of good
dressing .
The day of the big parade the Econ
omy Parade, launched half jestingly by
an organization of dramatic writers and
press agents known as the Cheese Club
found thousands of earnest citizens ready
to line up to trudge over miles of cobble
stones and asphalt in a warning protest
against profiteering in the necessities of
life.
Long before the hour set for the par
ade to move, steady streams of men, wo
men and children were moving toward
the starting point at Columbus Circle,
clad in any old thing and the older the
better and taking up their positions for
the march in columns of four.
Every class was represented . The well
-to-do business man marched shoulder to
shoulder with the "white collar boy" of
static salary envelope.
High school boys and girls, municipal
employes, humble citizens and the lower
east side and a Chinese delegate from
Mott street had places in the line, not
to mention scores of theatrical stars of
both sexes and all magnitudes, sundry
elephants, goats, and other livestock,
brass bands, and vaudeville comedians,
out to contribute a little "jazx " to the
occasion .
The power behind the overalls and
patches movement in New York was
strikingly emphasized along the line of
march by postersIn clothing store win
dows inviting the public to come in and
buy at prices from $5 to $20 lower than
those that prevailed last week; posters
that employed, among other phrases, the
line "Why wear overalls t "
More than a score of large stores have
advertised price reductions in the news
papers, and A. W. Riley, head of the de
partment of justice ' ' Flying Squadron, ' '
which has been doing missionary work
among dealers here, predicts that the
number will increuse rapidly.
The line of march took the paraders
down Eighth avenue from Columbus
Circle to West 2.'ird street, through West
2;frd to Broadway and back up Broad
way to Columbus Circle. Although Fifth
avenue was barred to the paraders by city
officials after a protect from merchants
who declared the parade would interfere
with business, the word was passed among
the marchers to wander down the avenue
singly or in small groups after t!)e par
ade, carrying the protest into the district
where high priced clothes arc made and
sold. A mass meeting also was to be
held after the parade at which the loun
dation for a permanent organization of
high prices opponents was to be laid.
Cards were passed out to the marchers
pledging them to inventory their sartor
ial possessions nnd plan their use so that
only a minimum of new garments would
have to be iniught in 1920.
UNDERWOOD MAY BE
SELECTED AS PARTY LEADER
(By Tbe Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, April 24. As a re
suit of the withdrawal of Senator Hitch
cock of Nebraska, from the contest for the
Democratic leadership in tho senate, it
was believed generally among party lead
ers Uday that the selection of Senator
Underwood, of Alabama, for the post
would be unopposed when the Democratic
conference is held Tuesday night. Sena
tors Hitchcock and Underwood were the
nly candidates and the race was so close
that a deadlock existed for several
nonths.
The Nebraska senator announced h's
decision to withdraw last night in a let
ter to the members of his party in the
senate.
MAY ARREST 1500 STRIKERS.
.By The Associated Press.;
CLEVELAND, O., April 24. Govern
ment officials here today faced the dilemma
of either backing down from the ultima
tum issued yesterday or arresting approx
imately 1500 strikers and thus continue
tiie strike in jail.
Threat of arrest made by John Sawken,
of the department of justice, If the men
did not return to work, was met with de
fiance at meetings yesterday and last
night. The men agreed unanimously to
go to jail rather than return to work be
fore their demands are met.
District Attorney Ed S. Wertz, who au
thorized the presentation of the ultima
tum, would not say early today what the
government's next move would be.
DAYLIGHT SAVING IN
NEW ENGLAND STATES
(By The Associated Press.)
BOSTON, April 24. Massachusetts and
numerous cities in other New England
States were preparing today to enter
upon a five months period of daylight sav
ing. Time pieces wil be moved ahead one
hour at 2 a. m. tomorrow.
The change in Massachusetts Is by
State law and a petition by farmers in
terest asking for an injunction against
enforcement of the law, was scheduled for
hearing today. ; - '
3AYS MEN ARE TIRED OF
LONG DELAYED PROMISES
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR TO
HAVE BIG DAY
Gtitonii Commandery,
Knights Templar, to D o
First Degree Work Unassist
ed Next Tuesday Visiting
Knights to Be Present Big
Banquet.
(iiistonia Commandery, Knights Temp
lar, is making preparations for an rlabor
ate affair next Tuesday, April 27th when
they will confer the Knights Templar de
gree upon a das of 16 candidates and
celebrate the event with a big banquet.
There will be visiting Knitrhts d resent
from Lincolnton, Charlotte and other near
by cities.
The first section of the degree work will
begin at 4:00 o'clock in the lodge room.
At 6:30 sharp the banquet will be served
in the armory. Following the banquet
the second section of the degrc work will
be taken up in the lodge room. Special
music by tho Knights Templar choir will
feature the exercises of the evening.
TELLS HOW GOVERNMENT
ROSE TO EMERGENCY OF WAR.
WASHINGTON, I). C, Aprjl 22-How
the government rose to the emergency or
war, overcame unprecedented difficulties
and put a winning army Into the
the field when there were gloomy predic
tions that the feat was impossible, was
told in the House of Representative by
Frank E, Doremus, of Michigan. Mr.
Doremus is a minority member of the
house select war investigating committee.
Representative Doremus said that de
spite the arduous labor necessary as a
member of an investigating committee, he
wus glad he had served because It gave
him an insight into America's remarkable
achievements.
"I do not regret the part I have taken
in this investigation," said Mr. Doremus.
'It has giveime it (dearer idea of trie
gigantic task that confronted tbe govern
ment when war suddenly threw its shadow
athwart the path of a peace-loving peo
ple. It has given me a keener apprecia
tion of the obstacles that were surmount
ed and of how a mighty nation arose to
its great responsibility when the supremo
test of its genius and patriotism came."
Referring to the report of the majority
f the s.'l) i .iniiiittee, which criticized va
. iou things in the conduct of the war but
brought no specific indictment against any
one, Rcptcsentntivc Doremus, with :i touch
of sarcastic emphasis, s:iid:
"This is a momentous occasion in the
life of our Republic. On this day om
re iiiistruction Congress pauses in its tor
tuous and questionable career to add an
other chapter to that celebrated histori
cal work entitled 'How America Lost the
War,' written by Honorable William J.
(iraham, of Illinois, and his nine un
prejudiced, disinterested, non-partisan Ke
puhlican collaborators. ' '
Representative Doremus added that he
had been assigned to the sub committee to
investigate construction of army camps
"anil this investigation has been
one of the most successful building pro
grams in the history of the world. "
"After nine mouths of Investigation,"
continued Mr. Doremus, "the majority ot
this committee is unwilling to majte a
specific recommendation to the Attorney
General or a particular allegation of fraim
against any person, firm or corporation.
During all that time they have had access
to thb records of the construction division
of the war Uepartment and the emergency
construction committee, with unlimited
authority from the House .to investigate
every phase of construction program.
"They have employed able investiga
tors and counsel, and no limitation has
been placed upon their, expenditures.
During these nine months they have lef:
no stone unturned in their effort to dis
cover evidence of fraud and graft, and
now they propose to pass the investigation
on to the Attorney General.
" They have brought in a report whlen
they would not dare to submit to a vote
of the House, because it contains finding
ami recommendations the House would
not approve. The resolution Is a confes
sion of failure, and the country will so
regard it."
Representative Doremus challenged the
Republican majority to present for i
straight out vote a report not dealing in
general charges of waste of money and
inefficiency, but specifying in particular
ly what matters should be investigated by
the Attorney General. After a fruitles
investigation of nine months, Mr. Port:
mus argued, the committee was merely
sidestepping in resolving that the Attor
ney General should now investigate war
contracts.
"Let the select committee bring m a
report specifying the persons, firms or
corporations which in the opinion of the
committee should be investigated by the
Attorney General in connection with con
struction of these camps," urged Repre
sentative Doremus. Why. do yon not re
quest the Attorney General to institute
investigations, either by" grand jury or
i (By The Associated Press.) -
WASHINGTON, AprU 24. Warning
against further delay in settling the wage
; demands of the 2,000,000 railroad worker
of the country, Timothy Shea, vice pros-,
ident oftho Brotherhood of Locomtrve
Firemen, told the railroad labor board to-.
day that the men "were fed np onprw
mises, and dead, dog-tired of delays."
Mr. Shea presented the demands of the
I firemen and hostlers for a basic living
wage of $0.50 a day, with differentials for
; skill, responsibility, experience and tas
j increase in the cost of living since the
i demands were presented last June.
lie old the board that the lessons to be
learned from the steel, coal and railroad
strikes was that "men will not work wheu
.tiey cannot live decently on the wage
hey are paid." When he had urged the
striking railroad men in the eastern ter- '
minals to return to work Shea said their
universal justifiaction for striking was
that they jtnd their families were starving
at work and they "might just as well
starve not working. "
Citing the conclusion of the recent In
dustrial conference that 1t was fonda- -mental
that "the basic wages of all em
ployes should be adequate to maintain
theemploye and his family tn reasonable
comfort and with adequate opoprtuntty
for the education of his children, Mr.
Hhca said the railroad workers had been
patient and they had been patriotie.
"We are patriotic,' he said, "while
the thousands and tens of thousands of
war millionaires were being created. We
have been patient while the profiteers have
paused in their orgy spending ill-gotten
gains only 1 ong enough to sky-rocket
prices still higher and make s mockery of
hi r government's promise that living
costs would be reduced.
"Gentlemen, the time has come when
people say they will no longer be patriotic
ly to be plundered, nor patient 'only to
be pauperized. They have learned by blt
tr experience that their landlords are
not ' patriotic ' and that their grocers are
not 'patient.' They are fed up on
.iroinises. and they are dead, dog-tired off
delays. ' '
EMBARGO LIFTED ON
t By The Associated Press.)
NKW YORK, April 21. The New
York Central Railroad today announced
that the embargo on west bound freight,
in effect since the unauthorized strike of
railroad workers began, had been raised,
releasing for westward movement large v
quantities of merchandise held here for
western purchasers.
NKW YORK, April 24. Hopes or
striking railroad workers in the New
York-Jersey City district to regain their
l--Us with the seniority ratings taken
i in them by the railroad malingers cen
tered today dn a conference at Atlantic
1 ity of strike loaders with mayors of sev
New Jersey cities who will be asked
to intercede for the men.
Railroad officials indicated today that
they would ignorce any overtures made
n behalf of the strikers by the Jereey
Mayors, asserting that the strikers could
return as new employes.
DEPORTED ALIENS ON BOARD
STEAMER ASHORE
i I'.r The Associated Press. i
TRIKST, April 23 Bolshevik agita
tors and other undesirables deported
from the I'nited States were on board
the American steamer Susquehanna,
which went ashore near Pola early this
week. They arrived here today with
other passengers of the ship, who were
transferred to the steamship Argentine
after the Susquehanna had stranded.
Most of the people on board the steamer
were Hungarians and Jugo Slavs re
turning to their former homes from
America.
The Susquehanna was not seriously
damaged by her mishap, and is expect
ed here tonight.
SCHOONER GOES AGROUND
OFF NORTH CAROLINA COAST
BEAUFORT, N. C, AprU 24 The
schooner vatch El fa v. owned bv Riuall
A. Alger, of New York, went aground
in a storm last night five miles south of
Ocrocoke inlet. Twenty men were taken
Ou In a bfehnnt f rnm lhA Minat vnaMt
station nearby, but the captain, engineer
and one seaman remained aboard.
Tk. J lr
wast guuru cuiier "'wiling WSS
sent today to the assistance of the yacht.
wnicn is not believed to be in anv im
mediate dancer.
NEW YORK SPOTS.
NEW YORK, AprU 24 Spot cotton
quiet; middling 41:43.
NEW ORLEANS, April 24 Spot cot
ton quiet, 25 points lower; sales on the
spot 605 bales; to arrive 709
Low middling 32:50; middling 41:00;
good middling 44:50. -
otherwise, for the purpose of beginning
criminal or civil ; prosecutions against
sues persons,' firms or corporation u
any' case where the farts warrant ?I 8uU
guvfly suport inch a resolution. " -