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v. 17 NO. 41 KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. 0., THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1919 81 5" A YEAR IN ADVAKOJS
"LEAK PROBE" IS ON
IN PEACE TREATY
BILL TO END WIRE CONTROL BY
THE GOVERNMENT, CHIEF
MATTER OF INTEREST.
TO PARE DOWN ARMY BILL
Senate Wit. Decide Queitlon of Immu
nity of Senator Lodge and Borah
In Withholding Information.
Washington. Congress enters the
fourth week of the new session with
broadening activities and increased
apeed urged by leaders.
The so-called peace treaty "leak
Investigation and the bill to end gov
ernnient control of the wires const!
tutes the senate's work of principal
Interest, while the house plans to en
gage in a clean-up of appropriation
bills, starting with the paring down of
the $S00,000,000 army bill. Investiga
tions of army and shipping affairs and
also election of Victor Borger. social
ist, of Wisconsin, ulso will be started
by committees.
Leaders on both sides are anxious
for the investigation to start, however,
and before the end of the week it may
lie well under way.
One of the first difficulties to com
plicate the inquiry doubtless will be
the question of senatorial immunity
us It applies to Senators Lodge and
Borah In connection with their state
ments of the existence of treaty cop
ies In New York.
Senator Hitchcock, of Nebraska, and
other Democrats of the committee, will
oppose this view, holding that no such
immunity can be invoked to hold back
facta of material knDortance to the
inquiry'. They declare the charges
made by the two senators are too se
rious to be dropped now. The names
of many men prominent in national
politics and in financial circles have
been mentioned about the capitol.
DETROIT IS FACING COURT
ACTION IN ITS CAR STRIKE
Detroit, Mich. With the city com
pletely without traction Service and
no promise of a settlement of the
three cornered controversy between
the Detroit United Railway Company,
its striking carmen and the city coun
cil, Btate officials threaten court ac
tion to relieve the situation, fearing
Expansion of the tie-up to include a
large part of southern Michigan. The
strike became effective June 7.
Attorney General Groesbeck lntl
tnatwi that unless the three factions
reach an agreement he will ask a
court order compelling operation 01
the lines until an adjustment can be
Not a car wheel turned within the
city and there were no conferences of
those Interested.
CONFEDERATE GRAVES IN
, ARLINGTON DECORATED
Washington. "Southerners In the
nation's capital Including many gov
ernment officials paid tribute to the
memory of the Confederate soldier
and sailor dead buried In Arlington
National cemetery with commemora
tion services In the Confederate sec
tion of the cemetery. Representative
Clarence N. -Stedman, of Greensboro,
N. C , made the memorial address. The
tomb of the unknown dead, the, grave
of General Joe Wheeler and those of
Confederate soldiers and sailors which
occupy the Virginia hills overlooking
Washington were decorated with flow
ers in profusion and a floral southern
cross was unveiled.
FIRST CUBAN 13 GRADUATED
FROM U. S. NAVAL ACADEMY
Washington. Ensign Carlos Aurelio
Hevla, son of Colonel Aureno nevia,
, .erretnrv of the war and navy
rhan cabinet. Is the first
1U IWl v .."--
Cuban to graduate from U. S. Naval
Academy. He was nanueu ...
pldtna at the graduating exercises by
his father, who was accoroea u.. u..
usual privilege by Secretary Daniels
rsA no auniiLD. BE MADE
TO RETURN MONEY ADVANCED
nr..t.i..tni. PAllrnads under ted
i t,M hnnlrt ha required to re
turn to the government "as rapidly at
practicable, $775,000,000 aovanceu .u.
and equipment, Direc
tor General Hines told the house ap
propriations committee at his appear
ance, according to the printed record
These Improvements have been
made for the benefit or tne nunm
companies," the director general said
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MISS ALBERTA BICKNELL
Mies Alberta Blcknell, daughter of
Mr. and Mn. Ernest Blcknell, has been
awarded the Order of Elliabeth by
the queen of Belgium. She Is twenty
years old and has been working in
Belgium for two years.
MEASURE FIRST DRAFTED. 1875
Before Becoming Law Ratification by
the Legislatures of the Variout
States Is Necessary.
Washington. Action by Congress
on equal suffrage subject of a fight
of 44 years' duration has ended in
adoption by the senateby a vote of
66 to 25 of the historic Susan B. An
thony constitutional amendment reso
lution. The proposed amendment, adopted
by the house by a vote of 304 to 89.
May 21, as the first act of the new
Congress, now goes to the states, rati
fication by legislatures of three
fourths of which is required for its
Incorporation in the federal constitu
tion. The roll call showed two votes more
than the necessary two-thirds for the
resolution, which was drafted by Su
san B. Anthony in 1875 and introduced
by Senator Sargent, of California, in
1878. . ; '
Loud applause, unchecked by the
presiding officer, swept the senate
chamber when the final vote was an
nounced following two days" debate,
and many jubilation meetings were in
progress at headquarters of various
women's organizations which have
been active in support of the measure.
BOTH "GERMAN AND AUSTRIAN
TREATIES HANG IN BALANCt
Paris This has been an anxious day
throughout peace conference circles,
with both the German and Austrian
treaties in the balance, and every ef
fort is being made toward early and
united action.
The council of four considered the
Austrian treaty In the morning to
enmnletA the military and reparation
terms, which were omitted when the
document was delivered Monday. Lat
a thA emineil turned to the German
counter proposals and called In ex
perts. '
Vgnv nrlvftte conferences were also
going on, Including one between Colo
nel House, of the American delega
tion And A. j. Balfour. British foreign
aartnrv nil seeking to clarify the
situation and determine the course oi
action.
ThA nrnv&lllnt view of those taking
nnrt vm hnnpful of earlv and satis
factory results. They admitted that
the conditions were difficult and that
thA differences were rather sharply
drawn, but Insisted that there was
nothing like an impasse or anything
threatening an agreement.
FIVE THOU8AND LIVES LOST
THROUGH VOLCANIC ERUPTION
The Hague. The governor general
nt hA tfAfiiH district of Java reports
that 6,100 persons were killed in the
recent eruption oi tne volcano o.
Kalut
THE SENATE FIGHT OVER HUN
TREATY TAKES ON NEW ANGLE
-nraDMnvtnnJThn RnnatA fight OVer
the treaty with Germany branched out
Into new channels with the introauc
Hnn of resolution hv Senator Hitch
cock, ranking Democrat of the foreign
i-eintinna committee. nroDostng that
the committee InTestigate state
mATita hv Chairman Lodge and Sena
in rtn-ah RAnuhllcan members, that
copies of the unpublished treaty are
in the hands oi certain imeroan m
Nw York.- 1
EN AT E DIRECTS
AN INVESTIGATION
HOW DID PEACE TREATY COME
INTO HANDS OF OUTSIDERS
IN NEW YORK?
FULL TEXT 15 NOW DEMANDED
Resolutions Were Adopted Just After
Dramatic Clash Between Senators
Hitchcock and Lodge.
Washington. rtesolutions asking
the state department for the text of
the treaty with Germany and direct
ing the foreign relations committee to
Investigate how copies of the unpub
lished document have reached private
hands in New York were adopted by
the senate without a roll call.
Action on the two proposals came
unexpectedly during a lull In the
stormy debate they had aroused, and
scarcely a score of senators were in
the chamber, when in quick succes
sion, the resolutions were put to a
vote Their nassnee itself, however.
was no surprise, as It generally had
been eonreded that each would have
a majority.
J'nder the investigation resolution,
introduced at the reauest of the
White House by Senator Hitchcock of
Nebraska, senior Democrat of the for
piim relations committee. . It Is ex
pected that a far-reaching inquiry will
begin within a few days.
Adoption of the Hitchcock resolu
tion came first. Just after the debate
had reached a dramatic climax in a
clash between Mr. Hitchcock and
Chairman Lodge, of the foreign rela
tions committee. After this clash a
request by Mr. Lodge that the senate
substitute an investigation resolution
was withdrawn.
REDUCTION IS DEMANDED
IN ARMY AND NAVY BILL
Washington. Reduction of govern
ment expenses by a close scrutiny of
all appropriation requests was de
manded by Republican leaders in the
house. Republican members of the
military committee meeting with their
partv's legislative steering committee,
headed by Floor Leader Mondell. were
told to make all efforts to curtail army
expenses without robbing any activity
of necessary funds, and similar re
quest was made of other appropriat
ing committeemen at the Informal con
ferences. "
Chairman Knhn told the party
leaders that the army bill authoring
$1,100,000,000 when passed the house
in the last Congress would be reduced
by nearly $400,000,000 and later u
Jo. lam-neil that the naval committee
expected to cut the naval appropria
tion bill to about ititiu.unu.uuu, enec
lng a saving of more than $100,000,000
over the amount carried when the
measure was in the last Congress.
APRIL RAILROAD DEFICIT IS
APPROXIMATELY ss.uuu,uuu
Director General
r .imt.tAii that the railroad
n.HCB Dl..iii.- - , . . .
damlnlstration incurred a deficit or
approximately $58,000,000 in .Apr...
making a total aencu oi ,.a-,.--for
the first .four months of the year
The director general reiterated, how
ever, his previously expressed Judg-
1 ih.t nfnaent economic conditions
IIieUL IU .
were too much unsettled to afford i
sate basis for decision as to
cesslty for increased rates to offset
the difference between Income and
operating costs. For the present there
will be no raise, ne aoaea. i"
ttrtion confining itself to prai-uin
every possible economy.
BOLSHEVIK AGITATOR HAS u
, BEEN EXECUTED A i mur..-
a.Mrio T.evine Nissen,
municu, ua""1- .
the bolshevik agitator who was one of
., th Munich communist
soviet regime, wis executed at Stad-
elhelm, outside tne capua.- ;'"--
the Bavarian cabinet
refused to commute his sentence
maintaining that he was tne "'
the civil war in Bavaria and deserved
no mercy. ' ' '
CARLTON SAYS STRIKERS
WILL NOT BE is""
ai.i. fia Announcement ty
T.M.nt VAwcnmfo Carlton of the
Western Union Telegraph and Cahle
nmi.t that Morse and multiplex
operators In the southeast who went
on strike would not be reemployed
anda statement from S. J. KonenKa.. p.
president of the Commercial Tele
' i TTiwta rjt America, that he
grapuerv v u- " --- , ,
would issue a call for a nation-wide
trikt, were the latest deveiopmeuw.
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Doctor Cuno, privy councilor of the
German government, has succeeded Al
bert Ballln as director of the Ham-burg-Americsn
eteamahlo line.
FRENCH FIRM IN OPPOSITION
Hun Government Orders Arrest of Dr.
Dorten, President of the New
Rheinish Republic.
London. There Is a probability that
Germany may secure as a result of
her strong counter proposals some
lessening in the severity of the epace
terms of the allied and associated
powers. Germany's pleas that it will
be impossible to fulfill the financial
requirements of the allies apd her pro
tests against certain territorial' re
linquishments have been held and are
being discussed by the council of tour.
Paris reports have it' that in certain
quarters of the peace conference the
German viewpoint is receiving strong
support i
A full discussion ot the German
counter proposals especially concern
ing reparations and other economic
features of the peace treaty has been
held by President Wilson and the
staff of American experts of the Amer
ican peace delegation. Great Britain
is Kaid to favor a number of conces
sions to Germany but France contin
ues firm in her stand not to waver
from the original terms. On the other
hand, the Americans are declared to
be not averse to minor concessions
but are not in favor of going to the
extent that the British propose.
The German eovernment is in
censed over the formation of a Rhen
ish republic. It has ordered the ar
rest of Dr. Dorten, the president of
the republic, and also has protested
to the peace conference and the ar
mistice commission at Spa against the
behavior of the French authorities in
the occupied Rhineland.
ATTORNEY GENERAL PALMER
CALLS FOR INVESTIGATION
Wajihlnrton Charges of Senator
Frelinghuysen reflecting on Attorney
General Palmer's work as alien prop
erty custodian were met with a state
ment by Mr. Palmer asking for a pub
lic hearing on the charges and ex
pressing "great pride in the splendid
work" of the alien property custodian s
office. The charges were made by the
New Jnrsev senator during considera
tion by the senate Judiciary commit
tee of Mr. Palmer s nomination as at
torney general.
AVERAGE DAILY COST OF WAR
MADE VERY RAPID INCREASE
Washington. The average cost of
the war increased from $810,000 dally
for the first three months to $27,400.-
000 daily for the period of July 1, 1918,
to April ?0, 1919. according to ngures
prepared by the statistics branch, gen
eral ataff. war department, and made
public here by the army recruiting of
fice. The statement snowed tne ois-hiit-aon.pnta
for the neriod of the war.
minus the normal peace expenditures.
THE WITHHOLDING OF TREATY
CAUSES SHARP SENATE DEBATE
Washington Senator Lodge, chair
mnn nf the senate foreign relations
committee, told the senate he had
..n in the hands of business inter-
jests in New York a copy of the
Ureatv with Germany given out by
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an American retKwcuiau.c -
but withheld from tne eenate. '
The statement caused a sharp de
bate upon the course ot President
Wilson and the state department re
garding publication of the treaty text.
IE CONTROL IS
PARTLY RELEASED
POSTMASTER GENERAL STEALS
MARCH ON CONGRESS BY
ANT. CITING ACTION. -
BURLESON EXPLAINS REASONS
Duty Compelled Return of Operative
Control of the Variout Properties
to Their Several Owner.
Washington. Telegraph and tele
phone companies, whosp lines the gov
ernment has controlled since last Au
gust 1. were ordered to resume imme
diately operations for their own ac
count, by Postmaster General Burle
son; - The posloffice department, how
ever, under terms of Mr. Burleson's
order, retains a measure of control ot
the services, pending final legislative
action by Congress.
Regulations prohibiting discrimina
tion against wire employes because of
union affiliations. mainutiniiiK exist
ing rates and churpes and instnuTing
companies to keep special accounts
to facilitate cost settlement between
themselves and tiie government, are
retained in effect under the order is
sued by the postmaster general.
Mr. Burleson accompanied the or
der with a statement giving the rea
sons wliirh Impelled hiin to take the
at tion. He asserted that the Presi
dent having recommended the return
of the properties, the senate interstate
commerce committee having indicated
that immediate return was advisable
and the house committee having
through hearings manifested a desire
for action toward that end. he felt It
his duty to return operative control
to the various owners.
CLEMENCEAU SHAKES FIST IN
THE FACE OF LLOYD GEORGE
Paris. Acrimonious debates at se
cret meetings of the big four regard
ing proposed modifications of the
financial clauses of the German treaty
are threatening to disrupt the whole
fabric of the new world order erected
with so much care during the last
five months. As things stand now.
Premier Lloyd George is engaged in
the bitterest fight of the whole peace
conference, his principal antagonist
being M. Ciemenceau, who, responsive
to France's appeals from the whole
burgeols and propertied classes' of
France, maintained his firm stano
against the proposed alterations. It
is reported on excellent authority that
the Tiger went so far as to shake his
first in Lloyd George's face, declaring
that he would never consent to the
impoverishment of France for the ben
efit of the Boches.
SHORT-LINE RAILROAD MEN
APPLAUD SPEECH OF SMITH
Washington. Confidence that Con
gress wolud dispose expeditiously of
legislation needed to stabilise condi
tions and return the railroads to pri
vate ownership was expressed by Sen
ator Smith, of South Carolina, form,
chairman of the senate; commerce
committee, in an address before the
American short-line railroad conven
tion. Senator Smith said he believed the
settlement o fthe problem would fol
low the teachings of American democ
mm "irivine- each man a fair chance
in a free fight, rather than putting rt
all in one bag and pro-rating the
earnings."
His statement was applauded vig
orously. -
AWFUL CATASTROPHE OCCURS
IN WILKES BARRE TUNNEL
wiiiro. Ttarre. Pa. Eighty-three
men dead and 50 others burned and
maimed, many of whom will die, Is
the toll of a disaster in the Baltimore
t.innel of the Delaware & Hudson
Coal Co., in the East End section of
h. eitv Seven kegs of black powder
3.000 pounds In all, were detonated
and the dead and the maimed were
literally roasted by the shper-heated
gas flames following the explosion
AUTHORITIES OF EIGHT CITIES
INTERCHANGE BOMB PROBERS
Kew York! The eight cities in
which bomb outrages were perpetrat
ed havn arranged for an intercnange
of police officers to facilitate co-operation
of all the agencies at work run
inlr .innm the radicals responsible for
the explosion, it was announced at po
lice headquarters here. The state
ment came at the close ot a confer
federal agents and rep
resentatives of the municipal police
departments ot various cities....
OVER THE LAND OF
THE LONGLEAF PINE
SIIOHT NOTKS III INTI HIST 1 (I
CAROUMWS.
Charlotte. -Ed ward N I'.irns re
signed as secretary of the Charlotte
.-hainher of commerce at a meeting of
the board of directors after two years
and nine months of service.
Kliiahethtown.-nA grand home-roin-
i . ........ In l...ti.,r ,.f Itlmtun
j II. irinJittuwii in in...... .-.
I county's soldiers who have returned
I from the service will be held in Kliz.i
i beUitown July 9.
I Charlotte. William Jennings Bryan
' will speak here June 13 in the Interest
: of world-wide prohibition His snMcet
will be "Work Accomplished ami the
' Task Before Us."
Fayetteville The board of alder
men of this rlty made certain the re
tention of .Major 11. J. Lamb as . the
head of Payettevllle's police detain
ment when the board fixed the salary
of the post at $2,400 per annum.
j Charlotte Samuel (Jumpers, presl
i dent of the American Federation ot
! IiUbor. and John Golden, vice presi-
dent of the federation and president
'.of the textile workers' union, will visit
;'ln Charlotte on Labor lay. according
i to announcement by 'President Frank
! Price, of the newly organized Kast
Charlotte Textile I'nion
Winston Salem liev R. H. Deal,
one of the former pastor of the Sa
lem Methodist church, now pastor ot
St. John's M. K: church, at. Buens,
Vista. Ga., and Miss Adelaide Cornish,
a member of the 1919 graduating class
at Salem college, were married at the
home of the bride's parents.
Wilmington. John Bisset Warren,
of the local high school, vrbo. with hla
classmates has ut received his dl
pkma, has attended Wilmington city
schools for an even doien years and
has never been out a single day or
tardy during all this time.
R. 0. Glascock, elder brother of Dr.
Harold Glascock, of Raleigh wa
struck and instantly killed by light- .
ning at the Glascock home near Han
nibal, Miss.
Fayetteville. Preliminary organisa
tion of the Fayetteville Conservatory
of Music was effected at a meeting of
subscribers to the stock in the cham
ber of commerce rooms.
Klnston A real housing problem
here is vexing city officiate and cham
ber of commerce directors. Every sep
arate dwelling in the town is occupied.
it is said. Rents hae Increased com
paratively little, however.
Asheville. B. H. Allen, a time
keeper for the Andrews Manufactud-
lng Company, met his death Thursday
niaht when he fell under the wheels
of a train belonging to and operated
by said company, according to re
ports. Shelhv. Lieutenant Victor RudasilL
who did valiant fighting with the 30tK
division overseas, has been elected su
perintendent of the Shelby water and
electric plants.
Wont Raleleh. Prof. Thomas Nel
son's book, "Practical Loom Fixing"
is meeting a wide demand among tex
tile man throughout this country, and
its reputation has spread to foreign
lands. An order from Bombay, 'India,
is one of the most recent
Hirlcorr -Solicitor R. L. Huffman,
of Morganton, who waa here, said he
had written a letter to Governor Blck-
ett asking that in the event a peti
tion is signed urging clemency for
Aaron Wiseman, he be allowed to ap
pear before the chief executive an
give his reasons for oppoelng clem
ency. ".
Chanel Hill. The department of
English at the State University has
announced that a new annual prize to
be known as "The Burdick Prize in
Journalism" has been established by
Mrs. Julia W. Burdick, of Asheville, in
memory of her son, Edmund, of the
clase of 1920.
Davidson. Several of the school
commissioners and teachers in David
son graded school motored to Mat
thews to inspect the school building
there, with a view to plans for enlarge
ment and remodeling of the academy
building at Davidson.
Klnston. Negro patrons of rural
schools in Lenoir county are subscrib
ing liberally to funds to augment
county and Rosenwald fund appropria
tions for the erection of new build
ings. In the Grainger district three
schools are to consolidate.