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1 VOL. 17. NO. 26.
KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. 0., THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1919.
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FIGHT ON CLARK
-GROWING BITTER
CONGRESSMAN LEVER CLEARLY
INDICATES HIS POSITION TO-
WA1DS MI8SOURIAN.
SOLD ERS ALL FAVOR LEAGUE
WJII 8upport No Man Who Will Say
That Conscript la 8ynonymous
With a Convict
Washington. The fight oa Champ
Clark for Democratic leader of the
house la becouiiug bitter. He haS de
nounced some oi his opponents an
liars. .'
Three North Carolinians, Messrs.
.Godwin. Dougbum and Kolmisou. all
of whom are away from here now, are
said to oppose Mr,. Clark.
Representative Lever of South Caro
lina, announced that he would not sup
port hi in. lie said:
' It la my firm belief that the over
whelming majority of the people1 of
the country are in line with the pi-eoi-dent
in hla wonderful fight to mini
mise to llie very limit the possibility
of wars In the future.
' The million, three hundred thou-
sand soldiers who have gone through
the brutal murder of this war, return
ing to tills country, are as certain to
give their support to the idea of a
league of nations as it ia certain that
the inn will rise tomorrow morning.
1 ' flemocrats cannot allow personal
relationships or sympathy to stand In
the. way of party success and they are
not going to do At,. Personally I will
support no nan who will say .that a
con.icript is synonymous with a con
vict." . v. " ;:':.
270,000 TONS OF FOOD
A l8 PAID FOR BY GERMANY
; Copenhagen. Germany In conidera
tion of a deposit of 11,000,060 In gold
at Brussels, will receive an immediate
delivery of 270.000 tons of foodstuffs.
according to . Berlin version .of tha
agreement entered into between the
German delegates and representatives
of the allied powers at Brussels.
Germany will further be entitled to
purchase monthly 370,00 tons ef food
in enemy and neutral countries, , be
sides fish from European waters and
vegetables. The restrictions on fishing
in the Baltitc will be removed, the dis
patch adds.
AMERICAN ACE KILLED BY
FALL FROM HIS AIRPLANE
- Seabreeze. Fla Maojr David McK.
Petersen, one of America's officially
recognised "aces" was killed In a fall
of hia airplane at Oaytona Beach.
Ifaojr. Petersen's address la Hones-
dale, Pa. - - - . -
The TaJr plane piloted by Major Pet
ersen, and in which Lieutenant F. X.
, Paversick waa a passenger, dropped
nose forward after reaching a height
of about 75 feet while ascending from
- the beach. Major Petersen waa killed
.instantly and Lieut. Paversick was in
jured seriously. - , ,
THOU8ANDS DEAD AND DYING
' OP" STARVATION IN CAUCASUS
--Maw York. Thousands of men, wo-
-. men and children are starving to death
In the Caucasus, according to the tint
: report from Or. James L. Barton chair
:'. nan of the committee recently sent to
tnat Tegion by the American commit
...fee for relief In the Near Bast, re
cevied at the headquarters of the com
mittee here; "'.vA'V ". - -;. .-.
"Thera is no bread anywhere!" ulit
the report. "The government has sot
pound. There are 45,000 people In
, Ertvau wholly without .bread and the
orphanages and troops all through Erl
.ran are In terrible condition.
"There is. not a dog. cat,- horse,
camel or any lirlnk thing in all the lg-41r-region.
We saw refugee women
tripping the flesh from a dead horse
with their bare hands' today.
'"Thirty deaths a day are reported
from Ash tag; 15 from Etchmtadiln,
Iielr and Sad a bad ' certainly more.
Another week will score 10,000 lives
lost V V . -
L'ETTISH TROOPS CAPTURE
. THE CITY OF FRAUENBURG
Stockholm. Lettish troops captur
ed Frauenberg, northeast of Llbau.
' froth .the bolsheviki several days ago
. and. took .a ;reat.-quantlty of "war ma
terial, a large number of machine guns
and. many prisoners, a dispatch from
Libau said. The bolsheviki ' retired
.fn 'the-direction of Mltau. The Letts
- also advanced west of Prauenburg and
drove the bolsheviki 'from the region
of the Baltic port of Wlndau,
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GEORGE H. PEET
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George H. Peat, who has for aevaral
months boen "covarlng" dlplomatle
news In Washington for the Aa
eoelated Press, has been given a
unique assignment by the French gov
ernment He has been appointed liai
son officer In Paris, and hia duties will
be to give to the American correspond
ents whatever news is released by the
French Government.
EXAMINATION MUST BE MADE
300,000 Tons of German Trans-Atlan
tic Shipping Now in German Ports
1 Are Also Assigned to U. S. ,
Washington. The American - gov
ernment may not accept the 100.000
or more tons of German shipping In
Chilean waters allocated to it by the
allied shipping commission. Chair
man Hurley, of the shipping board
said Anal action jrould depend upon
the condition of the eraut and the
ships. - . '
Mr. Hurley explauled that the orig
inal proposal, made when he was in
Europe, was for the United Statea to
take over the shipa and use them un
til the peace treaty was signed when
title to them would be determined.
This offer was refused by Mr. Hur
ley, who believed their use for so
short a period would not Justify the
board in standing the expense of the
repairs. .. .-'. .
Mr, Hurley immediately ordered an
examination of the vessels to deter
mine the extent of repairs that would
have to be made. Since the vessels
have been tied up for more than four
years, most officials believe their en
giaes are In very bad shape and their
bulla also have been more or less
damaged. .r.- ;
Three hundred thousand tons of
German trans-Atlantic shipping now
in German ports has bden allocated
to the United States. Most of the
shipa are in good shape and they will
be gotten out as soon as the Ameri
can crews can be aasembled and sent
to Germany. '-
GERMANS NOT TO ENTER
PARIS TO SIGN TREATY
Paris. When the time for the sign
ing of the peace treaty arrives. It Is
understood, Germany's representa
tives will be housed In one of the pal
aces at Versailles and will not be per
mitted to enter Paris, and the French
government does not care to under
take to afford protection to Germans
In Paris.
While the German signatories will
not actually, be prisoners and must
not be treated as such, public senti
ment against Germany Is so high in
Paris that the French government Is
unwilling to risk unpleasant incidents
which might occur were the official
German representatives to appear
publicly, v - .
WILSON WILL BE MET BY
GUARD OF HONOR AND BAND
Parls.-President- Wilson . will be
met at Brest by.the French minister
of marine, George"' Leygues; -Captain
Andre Tardleu, - Colonel House and
his son-in-law, Gordon Auchlnelosn.
President Poincare with a guard of
honor and band, .will meet President
Wilson at the Parle station.' The re
ception will be unofficial and. will tack
the ceremony which attended ' the
frit arrival of . President and Mrs
WHion in Paris, k .
SURRENDER FLEET
AMPLE FOOD SUPPLIES WILL
PROBABLY BE FURNISHED TO
RELIEVE HUN SITUATION.
DEFINITE AGREEMENT WANTED
Deciaion of Associated Powers Will
Bs Announced by Admiral Weymaa
at Conference at Bruasells.
Berlin. Under Secretary of State
Von Braun. before leaving to par
ticlpate in the conference at Brus
sels regarding the turning over by
Germany of her mercantile fleet and
securities in exchange for food, re
ceived the correspondent and inform
ed him that Germany was prepared to
begin immediately the surrender of
her entire fleet and conclude an
agreement covering the other condi
tions in return for a definite agree
ment specifying the amount of food
deliverable until the next harvest,
Paris Admiral Weymss at Brussell
will Inform the Germans of the asso
ciated powers' decision In regard to
the supply of foodstuffs to Germany.
Your correspondent -understands that
the associated powers, on the grounds
of humanity, will again express their
Intention to supply food and that the
quantities they propose furnishing are
300.000 tons of breadstuff and 70.000.
tons of fata a month until September
1. Payment for these supplies will be
made by varibus methods, by freight
by credits to neutral countries, the
sale of foreign securities and proper
ties abroad, by advances against the
issue of foreign securities and collat
eral and to a limited extent by gold.
WEBB, KITCHEN AND OTHERS
TO VISIT PORTO RICO SOON
Washington. Twenty members of
the house of representatives will visit
Porto Rico In April to study political
and economic conditions with a view
to obtaining Information for solving
legislative problems affecting the isl
and which are to come before the next
congress. The party will leave New
York April 12. hut the length of the
stay in Porto Rico has not been de
termined. Delegate Davlla, Porto Rico's rep
resentative In Congress, who extended
the invitation at the request of the
legislative assembly of Porto Rico, an
nounced he would Introduce a bill to
Ix definitely the future policy of the
United States toward the Island.
THE 8PIRIT OF LIBERTY
IS SEETHING IN KOREA
Washington. Official advices re
ceived by the state department from
the Orient described the independence
movement In Korea as .a spontaneous
one which had assumed large propor
tions. No effort at organised resist
ance to Japanese authority has teen
undertaken, but demonstrations end
meetings have been held throughout
the country. .
. Many of the demonstrations were
reported by the Japanese authorities,
but It was seld the Japanese later
adopted a more conciliatory attitude
and that they might treat the aspira
tions of the Koreans with more sympa
thy. Immediate demands of the Ko
reans Included freedom, of ships, right
of petition and the teaching of the
Korean language In the schools, with
ultimate independence for the country.
The demonstrations at Seoul and
other . points were planned to take
place, on the day1 of the former em
peror's funeral, but. after learning the
Japanese had ordered gendarmes In
from the outlying districts the lead
ers launched the movement two days
earlier, .. -
CLEMENCEAU'S ASSAILANT
IS CONDEMNED TO DEATH
Parte. Em lie Cottfn. the
who recently made an attemnt nnnn
the life of Premier Georges Clemen
ceau. waa sentenced to death by the
court-martial which was trying him.
ine verdict of the court-martial was
unanimous.
RACE PREJUDICE FRUITFUL
, SOURCE OF DISCONTENT
New York. Action hv th
conference to. eliminate race prejudice
which he termed "a fruitful source of
discontent and uneasiness among na
tions in the DasL" waa nrr1 hv v.
count Ishii, Japanese Ambassador, to
the United Statea. speaking before the
Japan Society.- Nothing would con.
tribute more effectively to the founda
tion of permanent peace, he de
clared, than application of a proper
remedy. , 4
COL OSCAR J. CHARLES
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tri"fct-ii 1 1 II ill Mllr isl
Col. Oscar J. Charles, one of the
east known young officers In the army,
was wounded September 29 by a shell
fragment which drove hla water can
teen Into hla leg below the knee. He
waa at one time adjutant at West
Point, served through the Spanish war
with distinction, was In the More
campaign, and waa one of the first
officers to ask transfer to line service
In the recent conflict. He commanded
tha Three Hundred and Sixteenth In
fantry In the Seventy-ninth division.
STATEMENT FROM SICK BED
Saya Idea of League Waa Taken From
30 Treaties Enacted While He
Waa Secretary of State.
Washington. William Jennings
Bryan Issued a statement here en
dorsing the league of nations, but sug
gesting amendments to the proposed
constitution which among other things
would preserve specifically the Mon
roe doctrine, enlarge the proportion
ate voting power of the United States
and make it clear that each member
nation might decide fof itself whether
It would support decrees of . the
league's general council.'
While pointing to imperfections,
Mr. Bryan urged they should not be
allowed to lead to rejection of the
plan, declaring risks to be run in ac
cepting the league were less than
those involved In rejection and re
turning "to the old ways of blood and
slaughter."
Mr. Bryan dictated the statement
from his sick bed at the home of
friends, where he has been confined
tor nearly three weeks. He said the
league of nations Idea, "the greatest
step toward peace in a thousand
years," was taken from the 30 arbi
tration .treaties negotiated by the
Unite, oiates while he was secretary
of state. It waa not to be expected!
he said, that ao great an idea would
be made perfect In so short a time
and. while President Wilson "had
done the best he could." he would be
helped by intelligent and friendly
criticism from the American people.
DRAFT OF TREATY COMPLETED
AND READY FOR SIGNATURES
London. Premier Lloyd George and
Foreign Secretary Balfour hare sent
word to their colleagues here that the
peace conference has nearly complet
ed its work. The Evening News aays
it understands. The draft of the peace
treaty already has been finished and
will be signed, before the end of
March. "
When the Germans are summoned
to Paris, The Newa adds, the treaty
will be read to them and they will be
invited to sign it. There will be no
discussion with a view to alterations
of the principal article of the treaty.
It It Is thought necessary, questions
Involving the adjustment of details
will be referred to a special commis
sion. GERMAN NAVY PERSONNEL
TO BE LIMITED TO 15,000.
London., The personnel of the Ger
man fleet is to be restricted to 15,000,
the supreme council has deckled, ac
cording to press, dispatches from Par
Is. The military conditions to be Im
pose! on Germany Include guarantees
that no tanks will be built and no
more poison gas manufactured and
that all German war material must, be ,
handed over and destroyed. It is add-1
ed.that allied commissions will super-j
Vise carrymg out conditions. I
EN RESENT A
:e
NATIONAL WAR LAbOR BOARD
HEAR ARGUMENT OF WOMEN
AGAINST DISCHARGE.
DOCTOR ANNA SHAW PLEADS
During the War Women Responded
Nobly to Eevery Call of Duty
While Many Men Shirked.
Washington. Arguments in the ap
peal from the recommendation of the
national war labor board that women
conductors at Cleveland, Ohio, be dis
charged to satisfy demands of strik
Ing male employes were heard by the
board. The case was taken under ad
visement and a decision Is expected
within two weeks.
Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, honorary
president of the National American
Woman Suffrage Association; Frank
P. Walsh, former Joint chairman of
the board, and Miss Mary Van
Kleeck. director of the women-ln-
Industry service of the labor depar-
ment, were among those appearing in
behalf of the discharged women
workers, - ,.
Dr. Shaw declared that during the
war women in all parte of the coun
try had responded nobly to the na
tlon's call for workers, but that now
the acute need for workers had pass
ed. there was a tendency to "get rid
of" the women.
Men employes demand It," said
Dr. Shaw, "and because they are or
ganized, tbey have power to enforce
their demands. The worst of it is
that many of the men so employed
were never In the military service,
but had left to enter 'safe' employ
ment." ." :'
ONE MALIGN RESULT OF LATE
CONGRESSIONAL FILIBUSTER
Washington. Reduction by 80 per
cent In the force of the United States
employment service, effective March
22, was announced by Director Gen
eral Densmore. This was made neces
sary. It was explained, by the failure
of Congress to provide funds to con
tinue I be work. .
Mr. Densmore said the number of
employment offices would be reduced
from 750 to 50, but that none of the
work in direct connection with the
return of soldiers and sailors to civil
ian employment would be discontin
ued. '
After the urgency deficiency bill
was killed In the filibuster in the clos
ing hours of the last session of the
senate, Secretary Wilson appealed to
the President. He received this re
ply by radio from the presidential
ship George Washington at sea:
'Regret nothing so much as the
discontinuance of the work of the
employment service . bureau, but the
fact Is that Including pledges made,
my fund is practically exhausted.
What remains would not suffice to
maintain the bureau, and to my great
grief I see no escape from dlsband
ment. I hope It will be possible to
keep a skeleton organization."
HUN FLEET IN GERMAN
HARBORS TWO MILLION TONS
Berlin. The mercantile fleet in
German harbors, disposition of which
will be decided at an early date at
the food and ahlpping conference at
Brussels, consists, according to Ger
man figures, of 72S steamers, of 1,186.
700 gross tons, and 136 sailing vessels
of 52,600 ton. The sailing craft and
some of the smaller steamers will,
however, be left by the entente to
Germany for coastal traffic. '
The steamer figures include steam
ers finished during the war but not
the nnflniehed steamera.
The fate of the German steamers in
neutral ports is not absolutely known
although many of them probably
have been seized. The German In
formation regarding. the action of the
neutral governments is Incomplete.
The total tonnage that may be sur
rendered to the entente la approxi
mately 2.250,000 gross.
BRITISH NAVY TRANSPORTED
ABOVE 2S.5O0.0O0 SOLDIERS
London. The British navy , from
August, 1914. to March 2, 1911. trans
ported more than 2(400.000 soldiers
and other personnel connected with
the condlict of the war, Walter Hume
Long, first lord of the admiralty, de
clared in the house of commons In
moving the naval estimates for 1919.
In addition nearly 200,000 prisoners.
2.250,000 animals, mora than 600.000
vehicles, 48,M,000 ton of military
stores had been transported. ,
OVER THE LAND OF
THELONGLEAF PINE
5H03T NOTKS OF INTEREST TO
CAROLINIANS.
Fayettevllle. Major General Snow,
chief of artillery of the United State
army, and Governor Bickett will at
tend Fayotteville's "welcome home'
pageant May 1.
Trinity College. First Lieut Earl
M. Thompson of Henderson, N. C, has
returned from France and has re-en
tered Trinity college as a member of
the senior class. He entered the rimt
training ramp at Fort Oglethorpe,
where he received bis commission
Charlotte. Carl Bush, lata of 'he
United States army, srnved in Char
lotte . to assume charge of the local
United States weather bureau station,
succeeding E. L. Fellon. whi name
here about three weeks ago follow
ing the resignation of Mpterolngist O
O. Atto.
Ralelgh.-Levi Harris, negro cbauf
feur, who drove a track over and kill
ed little Vennard Glenn last fall, inu.it
serve a sentence of four months on
the roads and his employers. Sorrell
4 Smith, are to pay I5DD damages to
H. E. Glenn, father of the child killed
Washington. Senator Overtime's
office was notified that the 115th ma
chine gun battalion, a Wilmington or
ganization, would arrive at Newport
News March 22.
Raleigh. Governor Bickett granted
a pardon for Howard Shelton. sen
tenced in the Forsyth recorder's court
to 12 months on the roads for larceny.
The theft waa from a hardware store
There is evidence now that the boy
may not have been ia WUMton-Saleos
when the theft was committed
Salisbury Former Chief of Porloe
J Frank Miller, who has been with the
Southern aa special officer stationed
at Alexandria. Va.. has beea traaater
red to this place an daa assessed
eharge of the work here.
Washington. James H. Sandera kaa
beea appointed postmaster at Immer,
Bennett L. Wall at Knlghtdala; ITo
shie Morgan. Palmerdale; Joseph G.
Mast, Sugar Orove.
Wilmington. The American steam
er Elizabeth, sugar laden, from West
Indies to New Tork, was driven high
er on the beach at Thimble Shoals,
N. C, where she went aground.
Wadeaboro. Lieut. Hoyt P. Taylor,
who kaa Juat returned from Kraaee.
where he rendered heroic service, wM
be the next mayor of this oity.
.Beaufort The tag PaUadelpnia,
bound from Jacksonville to New York,
ia ashore in tha sound near here aa
the result of the loss of her propeller.
The veasel will be Uken to New Bern
for repairs when it Is floated.
Plneharst. Pinehurst's second an
nual dog show, to be held on April M
nnder A. K. C. rules and the auspice -of
the Pinehurst Kennels Club, Is al
ready assured of being the largest aad
moat Important event of the kind ,
ever held in the South.
Wake Forest. With the copy for
the new catalog now complete the
extraordinary features of the present
session are clearly evident The tact
that dir' -gulshes the present session
from all preceding ia the number of
freshmen enrolled which haa Juat
passed the 240 mark.
Kinston. A "victory ' oak" and '
chapter oak" have been planted at
Vernon Hall, In the northern outskirts
of kinston, by Alfred M. Waddetl
Chapter. United Daughters of -the Con
federacy. Many members participat
ed In the eexreiaes.
Charlotte. J. T. Montgomery, su
pervisor of the traffic department of
the Western Union Telegraph Co. in
the city, died at St. Peter's hospital.
He had undergone an operation and
complications developed and his heart
failed to bear up under Jhe strain.
Lumberton. Martin P. Hodges, a
well known and highly esteemed Con
federate veteran, died at his home at
Lowe, six miles west of Lumberton,
following an extended period of de
clining health.
: Spencer. The Spencer high school
will graduate . IS boys and girls this
year, there being an equal number nf
the two sexes In the class. The mem
bers of the senior class are already
making preparations for the enm
mencement .to take place tha last of
April.