kJOtanJkiXmnmtr Jpr All gig Jamtln 'A A "1 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 1 S 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. nnpTAR rutin i imr Z !W VSL All I V . ..all 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 . .... ...... I .... n Taila 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.

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