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Miiihii I m m. 1 I - 111 ' . ; VOL. 17. NO. 19. KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1919 $1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE s !' .VI . "PEACE CONFERENCE VlN FULL COHESION :' PLANS FORMULATED BY GREAT ' .POWERS AGREED TO BV THE rfcv-, ... . SMALLER NATIONS. ' : PROGRESS ON MAIN SUBJECT CaTibon Patt Little r fellows on thr Back and Soon Brings Order Out of Threatened Chaos. The peace conference made a dis tinct (rmn when the 19 sn.all powers ' gave full Rdhesion to the organiza tion formulated by the five great pow ers at the outset of the work of the 1 majn subjects before the members of the commission. This was largely due to the skillful direction of Jules Cambon, French delegate, who was designated by the council of th? great powers to preside over the m:eeting of the small pow ers. M. Camoon, in opening the meeting took occasion to allude to the part Belgium had taken in the war. He then paid a tribute to the Dart played by Serbia, Rumania, Greece and the others. This dissipated any lingering shadows of disagreement and the meeting proceeded with entire har- ' mohy to' designate the membership of the small powers on the commission. " In the meantime the council of the great powers held two sessions dur ing the day, resulting in the forma tion of two new commissions to deal with financial subjects and the ques tion of private and maritime laws. ' Henry White, the American dele gate on the waterways commission, also established relations with his colleagues of that body. Thus, real progress on all the main subjects is becoming apparent as the commissions are beginning to formu- . Jate detailed projects for presentation to the conference. );...; ' - - DEMOBILIZATION WITHIN SIX MONTHS OF TROOPS POS8IBLE - Wnntilnirl-nn Patiifn tinmtt an A A a. mobilization within six months of all the remaining 1,800,000 troops over seas is possible under plans worked out by the war department and laid before the senate military affairs committee by General March, chief of . staff. Should the President decide , upon a force of approximately 10 di visions as an army of occupation, ! General March said the task could be . completed in less time. 1 , At the same time General March announced that plans of the war de partment contemplate the demobiliza tion within' 30. days of every one of : the 785,000 men in the home in ' ing camps except a small number re tained for "overhead duty." . General March indicated that the return of a number of the veteran . divisions mutti not be expected 'soon. SPRING OFFENSIVE PLANNED BV 2,000,000 BOL8HEVISTS Christiania. According to The Bergen Tidendez,1 an entente officer just returned from Archangel de- clares the bolshevists are preparing for an offensive in the spring. They . will try to. collect an army of 2,000, ii 'iOOO men,1 starting the Offensive in ', ', south Russia. ' ' - ' ' ' " - ".' .tsQUTH HAS BEEN ROBBED OF !' 'J, ' MANY MILLIONS OF DOLLARS , Washington. Representative Hef-. un, oi AiaDama, announced in tne house, that he had asked the depart- ' inent'of justice to investigate the i . Worn Vnrlr enHnn iwtiiinm. urhld k charged ' had violated the cotton fu- , ':,-, tares act "in driving down" the price : ?'V'. of cotton from 27 to 24 cents a . - pound. " " 1 '- me soum nas Deen roDDea or mil- i . - 'lions of dollars by this unjust specu j '?. J jaQB," Mr. Beflin declared. "At a t. , time wnen.uie worm aemana ior coi- i "Ai iton Is greater than ever before the; Mif ' price nas Deen iorcea aown ana ? fioYm.Ki 'JV-.' ; ' .MASSACHUSETTS MILL PEOPLE ."Vv' DEMAND AN EIGHT-HOUR DAY Boston. . The movement among '. , - textile if'orlters for 'the Inauguration : . of nnlversal eigllt-hour day In the ; , , i Industry was extended to comprise . . approximately one-half the mill lndu .." try in New. England. . ' ;1 ' ' . In aftdlton, announcement was ? , Cmadet that 'other; centers of the m'll : , lnduatry would be; asked to' Join jUn't ' . ' movement at meetings to be held LIEUT. J. CLARK EDGERTON Lieut J. Clark Edgerton, one of th original flyers for the air mall service, has been appointed chief of flying op erations for the post office department He will be responsible for the opera, tlon of the government's planes In th air mall service. BOLSHEVIST DEFEAT A ROUT Esthonlan Advance Guards Will Not Attack Petrograd Until Outside Help Can Reach Them. Helsingfors. Under title of "The Devil," a new paper is being pub lished in Petrograd by the Soviets for the sole purpose of attacking church es and religion in general. The fust number contains an article by Lunt charsky, commissioner of education, announcing a plan to close 50 church es in Petrograd, Other articles show the authorities intend to impose a special tax on churchgoers. Religious teaching in schools is forbidden. Recent speeches by Ifnine and Trotzky to the central Moscow so viet are regarded as preliminary to a complete surrender by the bolshevists. Both leaders confessed the economic system of bolshevist communism was was bankrupt, especially in relation to industrial production, finance and the food question. They said the time has come to in vite exports of the middle class to co operate with the Soviets on an accept able basis. ..A similar invitation was addressed to the intelluctuals, who declare" they stood outside the civil war. On the question of foreign pol icy, Trotzky declared the soviet gov ernment would, under certain condi tions, give tip its internationalist aims for the time being and raise the ban ner "Russia for Russians." The bolshevist defeat at Narva has become a rout. The Esthonian -advance guards are only 70 miles from Petrograd. " They intend to push on to Luga and Plussa rivers, thus en circling Pskoff, but have not intended to attack Petrograd without outside help. MANY DIVISIONS AMERICAN TROOPS CHANGE LOCATIONS. WashlngtonLocatlons of the di visions of the American expeditionary forces on January ,1 with the names of the present division commanders, was made public by the war depart ment. The new list shows that Major Generals Charles B. Rhodes, Petor E. Traud, Leroy S. Lyon and Charles E. Martin have been relieved of their commands. ' The 87th Is now under Brigadier General William E. Martin, the 90th1 under Brigadier General John 'P. I O'Neill and the 92d under Brigadier General James' B. Erwln. The 34th and 8th are temporarily without reg ularly detailed general officers.' No changes are Indicated in the composition of the army of occupa tion, which still numbers tentatively 13 divisions, the 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, 6th, 7th, 28th, S2d, 42d, 79th, 89th and 90th. HUN TROOPS FROM RUSSIA . DENOUNCE BOL8HEVI8M. Warsaw, The majority of the Ger man soldiers returning front' Russia, although they quarrel among them selves, .denounce Bolshevism. Many of them declare that as soon as they spend' a tew weeks at home, they will be willing to return and fight the bol shevik! on the eastern frontier of Ger many; i They, declare.? however.' that they are not willing to .fight the In vaders for the benefit of the Poles. v .-J"""7"? J DELEGATIONS FROM GREATER NATIONS TO PEACE CONFER. ENCE APPOINTED. SIGNS OF DIVISION APPEAR Clemenceau Fully Satisfied That The Larger the Committee It the Less Work It Accomplishes. Paris. The peace conference unanimously adopted the league of nations program. President Wilson and Colonel House are the American members of the commission thereon. The delegates of the great powers of the league of nations will be: For the United States, President Wilsdn and Colonel House; for Great Brit ain, Lord Robert Cecil and Gen. Jan Christian Smuts; for France, Leon Bourgeoise and Ferdinand Larnaude, dean of the faculty of the law of the University of Paris; for Italy, Pre mier Orlando and Viterio Scialoia; for Japan, Viscount Chinda and K. Ochiai. The delegates of the small nations will be announced later. The first signs of a division in the conference was when it proceeded to consider the four resolutions framed by the council of the great powers, providing for committees on labor, re sponsibility for the war, reparation for damages and ports, railways and waterways. Camilla Huysmans, in behalf of Belgium, asked for two members on the committees of labor, reparation and the league of nations, and one each on the other. Siberia made similar request i Brazil was more emphatic, declar ing against "a cut and dried pro gram." - M. Venizelos said that Greece was entitled to membership on the com mittees of reparation and ports. M. Bratiano, for Rumania, and Dr. Benes, for Czecho-Slovakia, as well as the delegations representing Portu gal, China, Siam and Poland, also asked for places on the committees. M. Clemenceau finally, in a good temnered speech, said that the coun cil had not imposed its decisions, but had simply convoked the conference to consider the plan. "After 48 years of public life," he said, "I am satisfied that the larger the committee is, the leas it accom plishes. BRITI8H TITLE WISHED ON GENERAL JOHN J. PERSHING New York. "The British Who's Who," a copy of the 1919 issue of which has just been received here, lists the commander m chief of the American expeditionary forces in -France as "General Sir John Joseph Pershing, G. C. B. On July 17,- 1918, King George awarded the grand cross of the Order of the Bath to General Pershing and in August King George during a visit to France personally gave the decora tion to him. The award of the grand cross of the Order of the Bath to a British subject automatically makes a knight of the recipient and gives him the right to prefix "Sir" to his name. The decoration given General Per shing, however, was an honorary one and it was said at the time that the American commander would not re ceive the title of "Sir" as he was not a British Subject GREAT NUMBER OF AMERICANS . YET IN FOREIGN HOSPITALS Washington. An official report from General Pershing, made public by the war department, shows that on January 9 there were 105,753 men of the Amwipnn army in hospitals in Franc end-Enelnnd of whom 72.642 were suffering from disease and 33, 111 from wounds or otlier injuries. The r-nort snid that the number of hospital cases Is steadily decrea sing, there hnvln bn t reduction of more than 15,000 since the previous week, ' MO IS EXPECTED TO Be GIVEN BY GERMAN 8HIPS VnrV. flarmnn skins allotted to the United Stits for the transnor-. tnMn of troom gtot a ti'al of 50 oco fnns. I"c'"('lng4 the elnnt Ham-bnrT-Amcr'can l'ner. Imperator. It was art'iorltnt've'" l"nrned. s ., j (treat Britain lo wlll' vceive 640,-' 00(1 ton, fie trfp ronreseitlng vlr tin'ty a't thfi tv'-'"ira heir in Airman Wft v.durirt 'fyi'-'Vv i!' The . Urlted SVtiW, it Is irhitooa': hoirever will Vpreive tjie larp.r vm1 - 1 LADY FRANCIS BALFOUR I iwrhi uiltt&w Lady Francis Balfour, president of the London society, N. U. W. 8. and Travelers' Aid society, Is the widow of the late Col. Eustace Ballour, and fifth daughter of the eight duke of Argyll. 6he la actively engaged in re lief work. PERSHING MILITARY MEMBER First Time United States Has Taken Direction In Concert of Powers on This Most 8erious Question. Paris. Led by President Wilson, the supreme council of the great pow ers moved to unite the factions of dis tracted Russia and bring them into the peace congress. They unanimously adopted a prop osition brought, forward by President Wilson asking all the Russian fae tions, including the bolshevists, to meet the allied and associated gov- ernments at Prince's islands in the sea of Marmora on February 15, the contending factions meantime declare a truce and suspending all military operations. 'General John J. Pershing, the Am erican commander in chief, has been called to Paris, and it is expected that he Will be the military member of the American representatives of the joint commission. Aside from the importance of the conclusions reached, it was especially notble as being the first time that the voice of the United States had taken the direction in the concert of. Euro pean powers on the most serious Eu ropean question now presented. OUTBREAKS AND OUTRAGES INCREASING IN IRELAND. Dublin. The Sinn Fein parliament nrovided nnlv a nne-dav anRnf.inn. Its members held a brief meeting at tne mansion house, but behind closed told reporters a statement of the busi ness transacted would be furnished A ernun of a hlinrlrMf vmincr mm gathered outside during the secret session, Dut uiere was no excitement. The nuhlin was far frnm InfAi-Htjwl In the murder of two policemen in Tip perary at the time the parliament was meeting. This is taken to signify the beeinninr of jt new nrwi r,t tmw. Ism, which veteran, Irish politics ex pect win include other assassinations and attempt to destroy e-overnment property. AN AUSTRIAN ORDER FOUND COMMANDS BOSNIAN MURDERS. Serajeyo, Bosnia. When the Aus-tro-Hungarian general Btaff was about to withdraw from Serajevo all im-j portant papers were put on a railway j car and the remainder burned. The I Bosnian national committee succeed- ' ed, in the general confusion, in seiz ing the documents that had been re moved, among which was found a sec ret dispatch from Vienna ordering the massacre of the population, regard less of age or sex. should the Austro- Hungarian army be obliged to avacu- atp the country. DEPENDING ON SPECIALISTS FOR PREPARATION OF VIEWS. Paris. The 1 American peace com mission is depending upon tir special ists In international law for the prep arattqn of the American view of im portant qnestolns raised in the agenda adopted by the peace conference. These are, nrst, responsibility for the war, and, second, the framing oi a policy, for internatoiaal cooperation ir. legislation, directed toward the In trreajts of labor. Wide" dlfferac exist at present, v. THE SENATE PASSES FOOD RELIEF BILL STARVING MILLIONS WILL be FED THROUGH BOUNTY OF THE UNITED STATES. ALL -ttHEKCraS R7JZCTCD The Creation of This Fund is Portly Deng- ed as One Means to Check the Spread of Bolshevism. Washington. After a week of spirited debate, the senate by a rote of 53 to 18, passed the administra-' tion bill appropriating $100,000,000 for food relief in Europe and the near-east. The fund was requested by President Wilson as a means of checking the westward spread of bol shevism. The measure now goes to confer ence for adjustment of minor senate amendment, but leaders believe final enactment will be accomplished next week. Senator Martin, of iVrginia, the Democratic leader, and Overman, of North Carolina, and Warren, of Wyoming were appointed senate con ferees.. NO REPUBLIC IS WANTED BY GERMANS OF THE RHINELANO Coblenz.- The results of the elec tions in the Rhincland ran be' sum med up in a few words. More wom en voted than men, and the triumr.li of the centrist party is complete. Tlie monarchists voted with the clericals against liberal tendencies. The so cial democrats were badly beaten and the extreme radicals received little or no support. Reports of results in Oermarv proper Germany beyond the Rhine tell a different story. It is said at Leipsic the social democrats met with success, but as far as territory occu- I pied by the American, French and British is concerned there canbe no doubt of the sentiment of the people. They want no political upheaval They want no republic. MONARCHIST CAUSE GAINING MANY ADHERENTS AT LISBOft London. According to dispatches from Lisbon the situation is develop ing adversely for the government. The monarchist cause is gwning many adherents in Lisbon and is rap idly extending the field of operations to the north. The monarchy having been proclaimed at Louza, Sao Thia go, Villa Poconde and Barcellos, it is feared that nothing can now avert, civil war. -: . ." OTHER 8TEAMERS ARRIVING WITH RETURNING SOLDIERC New York. The French steamer Rochambeau from Bordeaux, arrived here with more than eight hundred American officers and men, bringing the total number of arrivals during the day to more than 6,000 and the number of arriving troop ships to eight. The other ships were the bat tleiiiiips New Hampshire and Louisi ana, the transports Calamares and Goenoer, the American steamer Ac- eomac and General Goethals, and the French steamer Chicago.. The 883 soldiers aboard included seven officers and 803 men of the 337th field artillery, 19 officers and 533 men of the 339th field artillery, 20 casual officers and one casual enlist ed man. ." ' EjX-CROWN PRINCESS A VOTER IN RECENT GERMAN ELECTIONS Berlin. Ex-Crown Princess Cecills appeared at a Potsdam polling booth Sunday with a gentleman companion who asked if she might give her vols without waiting. No one obectjed and she entered the votnig compart inent anad afterwards banded her vot ing paper to the presiding offcler say ing aloud, "Crown Princess Cecilia, Neugarten," OMSK GOVERNMENT RAPIDLY INCREASING ITS AUTHORITY Omsk, Sbeiria. The Omsk govern ment. beaded by Admiral Kolchak, it rapidly increasing its authortiy both past and west of Omsk. During the last wek the Omsk government was adTisel of the adherence to the an thority of General WDenlkine, the leader of the Omsk forces west of the Urals, of General Krasnoff, the het man ot the Don Cossack and Cen tral Fflmlonoff, betmaa of the Rubaa Kosaaokc. , v American Expeditionary Kor-os, ! France, Dec. Kth. : To Mrs. Mary S. Ware. : My Dear Folks: I did'n I .get U write you .last Sunday as I hae hivo doing' every wk. but I think yoo 1 will excuse me when you know tin reason. Have hein on the rniid un iliiy just -staying -over night at one plan 1 and moving out soon the aexi mum ing. Have slopped for a day vna today, so am writing this. We passed through Belgium and I.vixi mbnrc imd reiu-iii tl the OenntiD froniier yestenhty hH.r.i.iiH. The French. Belgian and the penplM : of Luxemburg greeted ux evirywlier as liberators. 0( course liih lh Germans that enthusiasm is lack ng hm none the less they are V.ird and friendly and have opened tiieir linniei to the soldiers. Have plenty of apples in sell at this place, hut ii seeniB to 'ho .about all ill the way of cats, A 1 s;i nl, have h-en on the road ten days and wo have about ten-.or more yet. I Miink we are going up lo.lhe llhino ity of CoblMitZ; so you needn't look, fortius homo for a month or so, of probably several months yet. Meanwhile I haven't heard from you yet. hut 1 trust thai all is well with all of you. Went to ihurrh today for the first time since I've been in the army. 1 mean a regular i huri h servic e in s church, and although it was in Ger many it was good to he hack in a church. .' .With my best wishes and may God keep yon every one, Your son and brother. JOHN. Private John 11 Ware. Pupplv Co.. M2 Field Artillery. . A. K. F. Dec. 10th. I didn't get to mail tins the other day. so am t'.'.;.:v out this space. Marched all day yesterday and have slopped for a few days again. Had nipper 'in real dishes lust night for the first time since I left home, and am writing this in a nice cozy little roo'ii h.'-u good warm, stove. ; We came In tired, cold and wet last ' night and ft sure 'felt good to sit down at the table art In. Again sincerely wisiiit)g yoii all well. Mv love to vou .IOHN. Oxford Rev. Mr. ( raven, pastor of the ",f'il'0'l' cl oivh '-ere. went to New York, when he will return ac companied bv his bride, after a few davs' absence. ! Wilmington. Acting Coroner Ken neth Burgwvn will continue hiR in vestigation intd the circumstances of the death of Walter P. GafTord, well known Wilmington lawyer, whoBe dead and charred body was found in an office on Princess street, in prox imity to a l:ghted gas heater. Cherryville. The annual meeting of the stockholders of the First Na tional bank was held here today. The report of the cashier showed the past year to be the most prosperous and successful in the history of the bank, the- net earnings being over 30 per cent. ' Tarbbro. The tobacco market closed here until next August. On the 22nd of August, 1918, the market here was formally opened with an initial sale of 194,000 pounds. ' Asheville. Mrs. George T. Win ston, wife of the former president of the University of North Carolina, died at the Mission hospital here, from Influenza followed l)y pneumo nia... - - . , Kinston. Trustees of the Free Will Baptist Seminary, at Ayden, met here to plan a campaign for $50,000 to improve the equipment of the in stitution. Prominent church people in the eastern half of the state will support the cause. Chapel Hill W. M. Lourcey, Jr., ; who will coach the State University base ball team, has just re caned Chapel Hill and will immediately take inventory of prospects for the spring. Fayetteville. W. B. Downs, of Charlotte, employed In the roofing de. partment of the construction force at Camp Bragg, had his foot partly am. putated by the wheels of the shuttle train from the camp, when he stepped from the moving train. ' Henrietta. The men of Henrietta met at the auditorium to organize a "Booster Club." Quite a crowd gath-; ered and much enthusiasm was mani fested in the possibilities of the club. The organization was perfected. Wilmington. The plight of ' one sick woman has caused complete hospital equipment for the treatment of contagious diseases, to be placed in a ward in the marine hospital here ! under the direction of Dr. C- W. Stiles, of the United States public, health W vice, the local Red Cross financing the whole thing. ... . ' -