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KINGS MOUNTAIN IIE&ALD, KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. JAMES AUSTIN WILDERS PETER A. M0RTEHS0N I OVER THE LAND OF THE LONGLEAF PINE SHOriT MITES Of IXTICMSST TO CAHOI.I.NTANS. PEACE PREVE LANDING WAS A REMARKABLE SPECTACLE WITH NOTABLE NAVAL PAGEANT. RAILROAD REPRESENTATIVES OF (2 PER CENT OF MILEAGE OF THE COUNTRY PROTEST. LLOYD GEORGE SAYS THAT ACT CREATING CONSCRIPTION IS NOW OBSOLETE LAW. r:r,.,.,,wl,,,r.i - The cltv commission ' WAR SHIPS ROARED SALUTES DEMORALIZATION IS CERTAIN BENEFITS TO FUTURE AGES Sir ; : Mr, Wilton W.s Last to Come Ashore, Hit Face Wreathed in the Now World Famous Smile. Brest. I'n-Mdent Wtlson landed in Gran re amid u ileinoiist ration of popil lui enthiiHiUHin and nutlunal sympathy Huch an rarely, If ever, lm hern uc corded the head of a foreign wvern ment visiting, France. The phesident left Brest at 4 oVlork for Puris where the heart of Prance will acclaim him as the nation s intent. The guest landing of the president has not only a remarkable specta e, with 4 notable n.ival paxeant for Its background, but it also marked the first entry of an American president Into personal contact with Kurope and Its affairs. Vant crowdf watrhed the tilo ashore and l he fleets of warnhlps roared a alute as the last slae of the Journey waa accomplishe. On the harbor html going ashore the president was -ifpn standing on the upper derk with Jules J Jusser-' and. French ambassador to the I'nited .Slate. As the bout touched the pier the French and American guards of honor presented arms and the strains of the Star Spangled Manner mingled with the. cheers of the great multi-' tude. Mrs. Wilson came up the gang-1 llank with (ieneral Pershing. She car ried a large bouquet and. as she passed the American army nurses Ihey hand ed her an American Mag which she bore proudly. The president was (he last to come ashore, amid great applause. He held Ms silk hat in his hand; his face was wreathed with smiles and he bowed his acknowledgments to those about and to the masses of people on the ris ing walls and terraces of the city. Ste phen Plchon. the French foreign min ister and George Leygues, minister of marine. Joined the president as he ste fied ashore and conducted him to a beautifully decorated pavilion. Here the first formal welcome were given President Wilson as the guest of the French nation. RIXINQ OF COTTON PRICE BY CONGRESS NO LONGER FEARED Washington. All government regu lations affecting raw cotton ended with the dissolution of the cotton dis tribution committee of the war Indus tries board. While there was no announcement either by Chairman Charles J. Brand, of the committee, or by Chairman B;i ruch, of the war Industries board, as to the considerations which led to the decision to abolish the committee, It was understood that officials no longer regarded It as necessary to control distribution now that the world markets have been reopened INFLUENZA GERMS ARE EATEN AND BREATHED WITHOUT HARM Boston. Experiments undertaken I. by the navy department at the navy ! public health service hospital on Oal- ! hips island to ascertain the cause and spread of influenza have hail merely ! negative results, according to a re port given out. One hundred volun- teers who have been under obsorva-1 tlon for several weeks have had in- ! influenza germs placed in their nos- .1 trlls and throats and have eaten them 1 with their font and some have been Inoculated with serums, hut no eases of the disease have developed thus far. Increased appeite and more vigor ous health have been the only no ticeable results of the experiment, ac cording to the physicians. The tests will be continued. TWO ENLISTED MEN KILLED; TWO OTHERS ARE INJURED Norfolk. Two enlisted men were Instantly killed and two ensigns In jured when a big hydro-airplane, known as 1J-16, speeded head first Into the Willoughby club, near the Seventh street station on Willoughby spit, about 12 miles from the city. The machine was completely4 wrecked and the roof and veranda of the club house torn away .The escape of the other men in the machine is consid ered, little short of mircaulous. COUNT CZERNIN'S LETTER TO HIS EMPEROR MADE PUBLIC Vienna. Count Czernin, former Austro-Hungarian foreign minister, gave the correspondent an opportu nity to read a copy of the letter which he sent to Emperor Charles in 1917, In which the minister declared that the condition of Austria was growing desperate. Count Czrnin told the em peror that he did not think another winter campaign was possible and It was necessary that peace negotiations should be begun, Jsmes Austin Wllders, chief ses cout of the Boy Scouts of America. FOR PU8LIGQWNFD WATERWAYS MUST TAKE FULL ADVANTAGE OF AFTER-THE-WAR TRADE OPPORTUNITIES. Our Merchandise Export Trade In Lt Fiscal Year Was 5,928,285,641 ; Imports of $2,946,059,403. Washington. Expansion of the bu reau of foreign and domestic com merce to enable It to give effective aid to American manufacture and merchants' In taking full advantage of aftcr-the-war world trade opportu nities is the chief recommendation of Secretary Red field In his annual re port. The secretary also reiterates his ap proval of the proposed development of a government-owned lntracoastul wa terway to link up the lakes to the coast and down the Atlantic seaboard. Deuling with post-war trade and the part the bureau of foreign and domes tic commerce can play, the report em phasizes especially the need for ad ditional commercial attaches and trad commissioners. The balance of trade in favor of the United Suites for the fiscal year 1918 was t2.982.222.238; the total of the nierchand'se export trade was $5,923,285,641 and of the import trade $2,946,059,403. "Measured by the economic needs of the country and by the grave, re sponsibilities of post-war competi tion," the report says, "the bureau should be expanded substantially in every brunch of service." SURRENDERED SHIPS NEVER AGAIN TO FLY GERMAN FLAG London. Archibald S. Hurd, the na val writer. In The Daily Telegraph says with reference to the idea, said to be held by some Germans that the surrendered German warships would be returned to Germany after peace was signed, that It points, of course, to a complete misapprehension of the Intentions of the allies, "for It is cer tain that these ships will never again fly the German ensign." Mr. Hurd says that the only conrse to adopt Is to distribute the German warships among the allies In accord ance with the losses which they have Buffered. Mr. Hurd suggests that Ger man submarines be broken up and the parts used for other purposes. AMERICAN SHIPS CARRIED 46 PER CENT OF TROOPS ACROSS New York. With the navy depart ment's consent, the office of Admiral Cleaves, commander of the cruiser and transport force, made public figures showing exactly the proportionate share of troops conveeyd to France In American vessels. Of the entire army of 2.079.880 men taken over, the statistics show. 46'i per cent were carried in American ships. 48 V4 per cent In British, and the balance In French and Italian vessels. In actual numbers of men trans ported. 912,082 were carried in Amer can naval transports and 40,499 in ther American ships; 1,006,987 were carried in British bottoms and 68,246 In British leased Italian ships; and 52.000 by French and Italian ships. GERMAN OFFICIALS WANT TO PREPARE FOR NEXT WAR Washington. Deciuon of airplane manufacturers In Germany to turn their plants to making furniture has led to a protest from officilas of the German government according to ad vices reaching Washington through official channels. The point was said to have been made that, in order to be ready for the next war Germany must replace the airplanes which it is required to turn over to the associat ed nations under the armistice terms. GREAT FIRE DESTROYS BIG POWER PLANT AT NEWPORT Newport News, . Va. Fire which originated from an unknown cause destroyed the big power plant at the naval operating base on Hampton Roads, entailing a loss estimated at half million dolilars. . The' burning , plant Illuminated Hampton Roads, Chesapeake Bay and the surrounding territory for many miles around and there were wild re ports that the er'ire base had been Tims Given Under Present Act Con sidered Ample In Which to Work Out Plan Just to All. Philadelphia. Railroad executives representing 125 roads and 92 per cent of the mileage of the country gave out a formal statement In which they de clared that Director General McAdoo's suggestion that the government retain control of the railroads until January, 1924, "would simply lead to delay and confusion, demoralization of the or ganization of the roads both on their corporate and operating side, and de fer Indefinitely a satisfactory settle ment" of the railroad problem. The executives, the statement said, have reached the conclusion that "there is sufficient time Under the term of the present act to fully con sider the railroad situation in all its aspects and arrive at a plan that would be Just to the country." The statement was given out by Thomas DeWitt Cuyler, of the asso ciation of railway executives. The statement follows: "The standing committee of the as sociation of railway executives have considered the. letter of the director general to the chairman of the inter state commerce committees of the senate and house, and have reached the conclusion that there is sufficient time under the terms of the present act to fully consider the railroad situ ation in all its aspects and to arrive at a plan that would be just to the country as represented by its shippers and the public at large and on the other hand to the security holders and shareholders and employes of the rail roads. DETERMINATION TO MAKE OUR NAVY SECOND TO NO OTHER Washington. Xelther the end of hostilities nor proposals for a league of nations has altered the policy of the general board of the navy in re gard to making the American navy second to none In the world. Rear Admiral Charles J. Badger, chairman of the executive committee of the board, told the house naval affairs committee that the navy should be equal to that of any other nation by 1925 and urged that sufficient appro priations to make this possible be made by Congress. 'The general board believes that under the present world conditions and the conditions likely to obtain In the future." Admiral Badger said, "the United States navy should stead ily continue to increase. "Navies must be the principal sup port of a league of nations, and the United States, from its wealth, influ ence and power, will be called upon to contribute a large share of the in ternatlonal police force to render such a league effective." UNABLE TO FORMULATE PLAN FOR FIGHTING, INFLUENZA Chicago; Unable to formulate a definite plan for fighting tnftuensa be cause of divergent views, the Ameri can Public Health Association, before It adjourned, gave out copies of all the medical and scientific data pre sented during the four-day discussion with an explanation that different epi demics required separate treatments. "The various communities for which we are working will know that we have at hand the best available Information science has yet discover ed concerning the disease," said Dr. Charles J. Hastings, retiring presi dent. "We cannot expect to draw up a different program for combatting In fluenza epidemics when we see so wide a divergence of opinion among medical authorities ' as has been shown here." SWEAR ALLEGIANCE TO THE GERMAN REPUBLIC Stockholm. A Stockholm report says the presence of cavalry lifeguard regiments under General Lequlst 'sta tioned at Potsdam had caused anxiety in Berlin until these troops entered the city and took oath to support the present government until the national assembly convened, General Leouist also swearing allegiance to' the re- nnhlif The situation is thereby much improved, and apprehension allayed. BRITISH ARMY' HAS MANY j HORSES TO DISPOSE OF, London. The British arnly Is about to begin wtih the dispersal of three quarters of a million horses. The loss of horses in 1915 was 14 per cent; in 1916, 14 per cent; in 1918, 27 per cent, an Increase due to heavy fight ing and night bombing. As many horses as possible ara to be sold In England. The army has 10,000 mules In Eng land, which the people do not want, baring mules being unpopular. . Peter A. Mortenssn, the new ssrintendent of Chicago schools. SESSIONS WILL BE PUBLIC BELIEVED THAT CLEMENCEAU WILL BE MADE PRESIDENT OF THE CONFERENCE. Some Little Secrecy Must Be Main, tained As Is Always the Custom in ' Largs Deliberative Bodies. On Board U. 8. S. George Washing ton. President Wllsrn probsbly will not sit at the peace table but will be represented .here by delegates while remaining in close contact with the heads of the other nations and prepar ed to decide questions referred to him: Premier Clemence&u, it is believed, will be president of the peace confer ence. This Is considered fitting be cause the conference will be held in France. President Wilson's disposition is In favor of entirely public proceedings, such as are tarried on In the senate chamber at Wa.hlngton, with the press representatives given every fa cility to report certain business. Nat urally there will be need of secrecy, as there Is in the foreign relations committee, but the President's idea is that the procedure could be much the same as at Washington, a committee considering the confidential and deli cate features of various questions, and then reporting back to the peace con gress tor action. NORWEGIANS WANT PAY FOR USE OF THEIR 8HIP8. Ckrtstlanla. In shipping circles there Is growing uneasisess In regard to America's position on 'the part of Norwegian owners whose ships were raulsltfoned August 3 of last year, but who still are unable to obtain a set tlement. Their properties are with held and nsed by tlje Americans with out any remuneration to the owners. The question has been discussed, In a leader In The Sjoefartstldende, which stated the percentage of ton nage lost by Norway was greater than that of any other merchantlle leet In the world, while the total las of lives was about 6 per cent of all Norwegian seamen. - After the services of Nor wegian ships to the cause of the al lies, it Is not in order to boast The fact is put at its face value. Because American confiscation deprives Nor way of the restoration of ships lost in the service of the allies, the Journal reminds. Norwegian owners thereby are compelled to order new ships in England. "But our American friends, says this journal, have as yet refused to pay us the money we wanted in pay ment for these new ships. The Amer icans are straining the patience of their Norwegian friends seriously." BANK RESOURCES WERE OVER FORTY BILLIONS IN JUNE Washington. Aggregate resources of the 28,880 banks m the United States, state and national, last June 30 amounted to $40,210,000,000, of which $22,371,000,000 was credited to the 21,175 state, savings and private banks and trust companies, and $17, 839,000,000 to the .7,706 national banks. SITUATION IN VIENNA IS RAPIDLY GROWING WORSE. Vienna. The situation In Vienna Is growing rapidly graver. Ths cause Is, the coal famine. The last stores of coal for public use In this city are drawing to an end and if, owing to lack of coal, Vienna goes to darkness and by inability to keep up train ser vice. Is cut off from the rest of Eu rope, the maintenance of order be comes problematic. The authorities are vigilant, but strong apprehensions are felt. RUTHEMANS ARE REPULSED BY AID OF ARMORED TRAIN8. Vienna.--The Ruthernl'ans again have attacked Lemberg, after occupy ing Grodek between Lemberg and Prtemysl. Polish forces aided by armored trains, repulsed them, pur suing them back to Grodek. The Rutbenlans are firing villages and cominltlng other outrages. Ths Poles hare hoisted the French tri-colors. The 8ritish Union Jack and the Stars and Stripes fly beside the Polish flag on the town hall In Lemberg. Decision by Pending Peace Conference Will Leave Mark Upon World, Not to Be Erased. London. Premier Lloyd George, jpeaking at Bristol, said the English military service act was passed In order to meet a great emergency. When that emergency was passed the need was passed and the act would lapse, He added there was no inten tion to renew It. Whether Great Britain would require conscription In the future in any shape or form, Mr. Lloyd George said, depended not upon the opinion which he now expressed but upon the peace terms which were made, Continuing, the prime minis ter said: "What drove us to conscription was the existence of conscript urmies on the continent that inevitably rushed the world Into war. They could not have great military machines there without tempting the men at the head of them to try their luck with those machines. The Hermans always felt there was nothing to resist their per fect military machine. Mr.' Lloyd George declared that the decision which will he taken in tbo next few months in the peace confer ence was going to leave a mark upon the world. The ages to come, he said, would be able to reap the fruits of it. GOVERNMENT SHOULD CONTROL ROADS FIVE YEAR PERIOD. Washington. Continuance of gov ernment control of ruilroads for five years, or until January 1. 1924. was recommended by DirectorMcAdoo In a letter to the chairman of the senate and house Interstate commerce com mittees. This would permit a fair trial of government operation, said Mr. Mc Adoo, and eliminate the unsettled condition under which the railroads must be operated during the next year or two If their status Is not changed materially by legislation. This recommendation is not made in support of any theories concerning the best ultimate policy of running the railroads. Mr. McAdoo explained, GERMANY'S WEALTH IS NOT EQUAL TO COST OF WAR. Bristol. The war bill of the allies against Germany is 24,000,000.000 pounds, according to ths British prims minister, David Lloyd George, who presented this and other interesting facts before a large gathering hers The cost of the war to Great Britain was 8.000.000,000 pounds. Before the war the estimated wealth of Germany, said the premier, was between 16,000,000,000 and 20,- 000,000,000 pounds sterling; So, if the whole wealth of Germany were were taken, theri would not be enough to pay the account. Therefore he had used the words: "Germany should pay to the utmost limit of her capacity." , FRENCH OFFER US THEIR EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES. Washington. Andre Tardleu, high commission of France-American af fairs, has cabled Secretary Baker from Paris offering to place the edu cational resources and facilities of the French government at the dispos al of the American soldiers In the army of occupation and those who will be delayed In returning home through the natural difficulties of transporta tion. Special opportunities would be given American college students with the army, and opportunity to learn French would be afforded all Ameri can soldiers. Secretary Baker has no yet replied to the offer. INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC IS BY NO MEANS AT AN END Washington. Warning to the coun try that the Influenza epidemic Is by no means ended and that all possible precautions against the disease should be taken, was Issued by Surgeon Gen eral Blue, of the public health service. Reports received by the service show a recrudescence of the disease practically from one end of the coun try to another. Our main reliance must still be precautions by indivi duals.;: PRESIDENT MAY SPEAK TO SOLDIERS ON GERMAN SOIL Paris. The address which President Wilson will make to the American troops is expected to be one of the most important delivered during his stay i Europe, and is being looked forward to by Europeans. . The President, It Is announced, will visit devastated districts in France, and, although the present plans are tentative, all depending upon his per sonal wishes, the trip may take him Into former German territory. its have accepted the resignation of Dr. J. T. Kleves as city physician, a place which 111'. Kieves had held fur neurly two years. Ir. Itleves suys ; that his only reason for resigning is to return to his pruclce. Goldsboro-llls many young friends In this city, his home, and throughout the slate will be Interested to learn that Edward 11. Michaux, son of Golils boro's postmaster, L. M. Michaux, ha been promoted to the rank of captain McCullers Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Jones have received a card announcing the sufe arrival overseas of their son, Pri vate James It. Jones, who sailed No vember 9. Raleigh The 'flu" again cuts into North Carolina sales and reduces tls'in from 64.000,000 In round numbers to 27,000,000 for November 1918, as against the same period last year. Rocky Mount. Dr. II. Lee Large, the municipal health superintendent, has gone to Chicago where he will at tend the conventions of the American Public Health Association and the In ternational Dairy and Food Inspector's Association. Salisbury. The county board of health has canvassed the Influenza situation and found the disease on the Increase. They found that the rules as to quarantine and reporting of new cases were not being observed prop erly. Winston-Salem. W. H. Johnson, su perintendent of Winston-Salem South hound railway since 1910, has accept ed the office of superintendent of the Uoanoke terminal, under the unifica tion of Hie Norfolk & Western and irginin railways. Wilson The town of Fremont, in Wayne county, was the scene of a spectacular (ire. The lire originated in the Jamlgan hotel -and quickly spreiid to stables and outhouses in the vicinity resulting in a total de struilion of all of the buildings. Warsaw. A message was received by Mr D. L. Gavin, conveying the news that his son. Charlie Gavin, had been klt'ed in action two days before the signing of the armistice. . Statcsvllle. Elam Monroe Dlshman. young draftee, who was wit to Camp Hancock, by the local board on July 21, died In camp a few days ago from influenza. Charlotte. A negro was arrested by the police on suspicion that he was ' the driver of the automobile which ran down and badly Injured Secretary 3. W. Garth, of "Y" hut 105 at Camp Greene. Raleigh. Governor Blckett ' fixed December 20 as the date for the elec trocution of Napoleon Spencer, of Forsyth county, for the murder of Mrs. Alva Spencer. This action is taken In the certification of the case from the supreme court, where it has been on appeal. Charlotte. Laura Gaston, i negro woman, was badly Injured and Napo leon Davis, a negro man, was slightly hurt, the result of the two being struck by a Ford automobile, driven by J. M. Mradshaw. white. ; Chapel Hill. Demobilization of the S. A..T..C. students' at the state, uni versity, has been held lin nendlni? the receipt of discharge blanks. Physical examinations, which are required of the men before being discharged, have been completed. Greensboro. Robert H. Wharton, who has for six years been a deputy clerk of the superior court, was unani mously elected by the board of county commissioners to the office of regis ter of deeds. The vacancy occurred at the very beginning of the term by the death of Capt. W. H. Rankin, who died suddenly. Wadesboro. The quarantine was again put In force here, This applies to schools, churches, theaters and all Public gatherings. Every section of the county except the Morren section was included In the quarantine. Wilmington. Both state and fed eral officers are planning to put a sudden and violent end to the sale of migratory water fowl killed for the ; market. Under the recent treaty with wada it Is strictly against the fed eral law to make a commercial article out of ducks, geese and swan. Chapel Hill. Two former students of the University of North Carolina have recently been reported officially as killed In action in France. They are Capt. Horace Cowell, of Washing ton, and Lieut. Hubert M. Smith, of -, Hendersonville, , Winston-Salem. Colonel H. M. Mon tague received this cheering message from Adjutant General Harris; "Your son, First Lieut. Paul V Mnntarne reported released from German prison ana passed through Switzerland on November 29 for Frano
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