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VOL. 17. NO. 45
KINGS MOUNTAIN, N. 0., THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1919
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RATIFICATION OF
LEAGUEEXPEGTED
OPPOSITION TO TREATY WITH
PEACE LEAGUE CLAUSE IS
RAPIDLY CRUMBLING.
DEBATE MAY CONSUME WEEKS
Two Great Elements, Business Men
and Moral Forces Are Supporting
Program of Administration.
Washington As the President ap
proaches the White House, the oppo
sition to the league ot nations crum
bles. It has been apparent here for
days, ever alnce Ellhu Root fired into
the Knox resolution, that the republi
cans as a party would never oppose
the league of nations.
A few personally nmbltlous senators
of the Boraa and Hiram Johnson
' type, are out for applause from the
gallory, but plain, lrartiral states
men of th Penrose and Will H. Hays
type, are, like "br'cr fox," saying noth
' lng.
Secretary Daniels has Just returned
from a speaking trip in Ohio, Illinois
and other stntos of the middle west.
He Is convinced that the President
Is very strong there.
It Is believed here that after a spir
ited debate of days, or perhaps weeks,
the war will be closed by the ratifica
tion of the troaty, Including the league
of nations.
Two groat elements, the business
men and the moral forces, are sup
porting the program of the adminis
tratis. Senators Knox, Lodge and
others ot the anti-Wilson group are
looking for a soft landing place, and
they can't prove that the plan of the
? President will not work.
SUPER-DIRIGIBLE R-S4 NOW
RESTS ON ROOSEVELT FIELD.
Mtneola, N. Y. Great Britain's su
' per-dlrlglble R-34, ths first lighter-than-lr
machine to cross the Atlantic
ocean, anchored here at Roosevelt fly
ing field, after an aerial voyage of log
Tiours and 12 minutes which covered
8,180 knots or approximately S.600 land
miles.
Passing through dense banks of
cloud, with the sun and sea visible
only at rare Intervals, the R-S4 was
forced to cruise. 2,050 knots to reach
Trinity Bay, N. F.. from East Fortune.
Scotland, and 1.0110 knots from there
to Mlneola.
THE PRESIDENT IS INVITED
TO SPEAK AT ASHEVILLE.
. Ashevllle. N. C President Wilson
has been Invited to attend the sessions
of the Southern Labor congress, which
meets here August 20. Is the announce
ment of Secretary W. C. Puckett, of
Atlanta,. He was also asked to de
liver an address during one of the
MM'oni of the congress.
The letter sent to the President In
forms him that the congress proposes
to deal with legislative, social and
economic questions thst are actively
hefona the people at this time and the
labor eongress feels the need of his
presence and advice.
EARTHQUAKE OF MODERATE
INTENSITY IS RECORDED.
' Washington. An earthquake of
moderate intensity, believed to have
had tta center In Central or South
America, was recorded early by the
seismograph at Georgetown unlversl
ty. The earth tremors first were re
corded at o'clock and continued
until 4 o'clock. The distance of the
disturbance was estimated at 2,300
tnllM from Washington.
ALABAMA CONGRESSMAN
SUES BIRMINGHAM PAPER.
' Birmingham. Ala. - Congressman
George Huddleeston of the ninth Ala
bama district, has (lied damage
nits against the Age-Herald Publish
to, Company" aggregating $1,300,000,
based on cartoons and articles pub
llshed daring the congressional cam
: palm last year. ' .
nniHNT OF PERU HAS
" BEEN THROWN IN PRION
Lima. Pru Auarasto B. Lequ'a has
assumed office as provisional presi
dent of Peru and took up bis resi
dence In the 'government palace as s
result of the siMoeseful overthrow
President Pardo. .
' Bener Pardo, all hU ministers and
amber of Ms offloers of the arm,
imimii pMti being
ana navy are
s. .itmUarr here. Virtually
mo fighting and no oaauaKles marked
the overthrow of e torernment
SENATOR N. B. DIAL '
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N. B. Dial of Laurens, S. C, Is the
senator-elect to serve the long term
succeeding the late 8enator Tillman.
He Is, of course, a Democrat, and Is
a lawyer, banker and manufacturer. .
FIVE BILLION IS APPROPRIATED
Congreaa Also Repealed Bills Footing
Up More Than $15,000,000 Paased
BY the Last Congress.
Washington. Congress adjourned
at midnight until July 8, after enact
ing all appropriation bills needed by
government agencies for the new fis
cal year. .
Success crowned the efforts ot re
publican leaders to complete the nec
essary appropriation measures, bat
only after, hours of delay which at
times almost threatened to block their
plana. ' ,
The final bill, the army measure,
carrying $776,000,000; the sundry
civil bill, carrying $(06,000,000; the
District ot Columbia's annual budget
of $16,000,000 and a deficiency meas
ure of $26,000,000, all were completed
and sent to the white house.
With enactment of toe final bills
including measures passed at the
last session of Congress, more than
$6,000,000,000 has been appropriated
for federal needs during the new year.
Congress also has cancelled more than
$16,000,000 of war appropriations pre
viously authorised.
COTTON CROP ESTIMATE
UNDER 11,000,000 BALES.
Washington. A cotton crop ot
about 1,000,000 bales smaller than last
year's was forecast by the department
of agriculture In estimating prospec
tlce production at 10,986,000 bales.
Acreage this year shows a cut of
I.T per cent from last year's, the de
crease being 3,247,000 acres, the total
being 33,960,000. The agitation for a
reduction in acreage which the depart
ment of agriculture says occurred in
every cotton-growing state, the scar
city and high price of labor and un
favorable planting weather caused the
heavy decrease.
AFGHAN PEACE DELEGATES
ARE BACK FROM FRANCE.
Simla, India. Afghan peace dele
gates have arrived at Jalalabad. Re
ports Indicate that all Is quiet on the
frontier and the belief is growing In
India that peace will be arranged.
The general official and non-official
opinion appears to be reflected by the
Pioneer's comment that Emir Amanul
la'a overtures are obviously those of a
weak, repentant ruler and that the
spirit of contrition renders magnani
mity possible. The heat on the fron
tier oontlnuee abnormal, inflicting
hardships on the troops. V
TERRIFIC TRAIN WRECK
CAUSES TWELVE DEATHS.
Dunkirk, N. Y. Engineer Clifford,
of the New York Central's Westerner
express, tried, according to his dying
statement, to avert the rear end col
lision with train No. 41, which caused
the death of 11 persons.
Witnesses said the siren was still
soreechlng for the hand brakes when
the Westerner, going 50 mllei an hour,
plowed Into the rear coaeh of No. 41.
Clifford's almost dying wordt were,
"Ohf I tried to slop." : '
QUIT
AT
IN THE EVENT OF A REQUEST
OR DEMAND FOR SURRENDER
HE MIGHT BE DETAINED.
RED TAPE IS GUIDING POWER
Tribunal Under Whose Jurisdiction
Party Resides Must Finally Paas
On Matters In Question.
Amsterdam There Is nothing to
prevent the former German emperor
or the former crown prince from
leaving Holland at their pleasure, ac
cording to a high government author
ity at The Hague quoted by the Am
sterdam Telegraaf correspondent. If
either of them should leave, however,
the official quoted said, the surprise
of their departure would be "unpleas
ant both for the Dutch government
and the Dutch people."
"Should there come, however, a de
mand for the former kaiser's extra
dition," Uie official said in an inter
view, "and should he then want to
depart suddenly. It Is possible, he
would be prevented. He can, accord
ing to the law of extradition, be 'ar
rested,' at the reqties of a foreign
government, but a demand for his
extradition must be made within a
certain period.
"When the demand for extraditon
comes It will be, examined In the
light of laws and treaties first. The
law to be considered is the extradi
tion law, Article II whereof specifies
offenses for which foreigners will not
be 'extradited. Extradition lsj also
subject of a number of other reetrlc
otlns, formalities and guarantees.
Should there come a demand which
is technically correct and In order,
the government must first obtain the
advice of the tribunal under whose le
gal Jurisdiction the person wanted is
residing. Amerogen. being In the de
partment of Utrecht, the tribunal of
that department would have to decide.
GLORIOUS FOURTH FITTINGLY
OBSERVED IN CAPITAL CITY
Washington Return of world peace
wa sthe dominating spirit of Wash
ington's celebration of Independence
day. Pageantry In which the call of
Industry and other civilian occupa
tions to returning soldiers and sailors
were displayed, and a parade in which
all of the nations arrayed against Ger
many and Austria were represented
were, the features of he observance.
Bern pageants showing the call of
art, of the land, of commerce, busl
nsss and professions, of the children,
ot labor, of liberty, and to the world
service, were given late In the day
on the lawns ot department and oth
er public buildings. These panto
mimes wer emerked into a great
pageant entitled the "Offering of
Peace," which showed the peoples of
the world, having passed through the
horrors of war, returning with cour
age and anticipation to teh pursuits
of peace.
REAL WILD WEST PARADE
PASSES THROUGH PARIS.
Paris. A gala performance of
"Faust" at the opera, with Marshal
Foch and General Pershing as the spe
cially honored guests, concluded the
notable Joint French and American
celebration of the Fourth of July. The
day opened with an early morning re
view commemorating France's partici
pation In the American Revolution and
the celebration afforded varied enter
tainment foe the thousands of Ameri
can soldiers marking time in Paris
while awaiting transportation home
waid. ..
There was even a real wild west
parade down the Champs elysees and
through the Place de La Concorde,
given by an American army circus
showing In Paris. . The cowboys, cow
girls and Indians, riding gaily through
the Place de La Concorde to the mu
sic ot a wild west band, proved a far
greater attraction to the French than
the brilliant military spectacle.
H0HENZ0LLERN8 ARE NOT
CONSIDERED PRISONERS.
Amsterdam. The Telegraf under
stands that the attitude of the Dutch
government regarding the ex-kalser
may be sumariied as follows:
First of all, it should be made clear
that a recent message about the al
leged flight of the crown prince was
based upon the misconception that the
Hohenzollerns are prisoners.- On the
oontrary, they have v full liberty to
leave and their departure would even
be welcomed r the fOTenunent.
GEN. FELIPE ANGELES
Gen. Felipe Angeles, who has been
proclaimed provisional president of
Mexico by General Villa and his fol
lowers. NO LONGER ANY SOCIAL LIFE
Recent Executions No Longer Consist
of Ones and Twos But of Whole
Groups By Machine Guns.
Helsingfors. It Is hardly possible
to recognize Petrograd owing to the
terrible change within a month. Ter
ror has so Increased that nobody
speaks in the street, trains or public
places. People only regard one anoth
er suspiciously, fearing Informers. Sol
diers especially avoid prevalence of
provocatdrs of the red army.
Social life to all Intents has ceased.
In every house there Is only one en
try, either the front or back door be
ing silently shut or at whichever is
open a communist sentry is posted.
He demands of all Incomers first-place
identity papers; also their right to
walk In the street, and then questions
as to whom they are going to see, who
lives in the family, what they do, what
la the business ot the visitors. It
the answer Is satisfactory, they pass
In; it unsatisfactory, they are arrest
ed, taken to the commissariat and
thence to the fortress ot Peter and
Paul where they generally are shot
without question.
The recent executions carried out
at Peter and Paul are no longer in
one's and two's but in whole groups
by a special machine gun detachment
The bodies are mostly thrown in the
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BEER QUESTION NOT NOW ONE
OF LAW BUT MATTER OF FACT.
Washington. Contending that nos
court may say, as a matter of law,
what percentage of alcohol in liquor
makes it intoxicating, the Judiciary
committee. In a report to the house on
prohibition enforcement legislation de
clared this was a question ot fact and
not law, and as such was clearly with
in the province of Congress.
The committee held that the right of
Congress to define "intoxicating li
quor" as a beverage containing more
than one-half ot one percent alcohol
was In full accord with Its constitu
tional powers, and. that every state,
in dealing with alcoholic liquors, bad
named products of that percentage as
intoxicating and had either prohibited
use of such liquors or subjected them
to heavy tax.
"To define what is Intoxicating does
not trespass on the province of the
court," said the majority report pre
pared by Chairman Volstead.
HOLLAND WARNED NOT TO
LET KAISER GET AWAY.
t .mi A nn The allied Eovernments
have represented to the government
of Holland the necessity til taxing
steps to prevent the departure of the
fm-mar narman emneror from Holland,
C B. Harmsworth, under-secretary of
state for foreign affairs, announced
in the house ot commons.
BOMBARD IRI8H TOWNS,
CHARGE AGAINST BRITISH
Paris. Irish American delegates
here in the interest of the Irish inde
pendence movement, sent a new note
to Premier Clemenceau in whloh they
charged the British with bombarding
Irish towns irom airplanes, waniuu
, mAripir women and children.'1
They eald also the British are Issu
ing frequent orders or oanisnment.
They asked the appointment ox a
special investigation commission.
plan mm-
$400,000,000 NEEDED FOR HAND
LING BUT ONE-FOURTH OF
GROWING CROP.
PLEASANT WIRES APPROVAL
New Corporation Will Not Conflict
With $100,000,000 Cotton Export
Financing Concern.
New Orleans. Plans for a syste
matic campaign In the cotton belt for
organising counties ot the states for
handling the annual crop were launch
ed here at the second meeting at the
present conference of directors of the
American Cotton association. 1 J. S.
Wannamaker, of Columbia, S. C, pres
ident, said that $400,000,000 would be
needed for forming the planned cor
poration to properly dispose of one
fourth of the crop.
This corporation, according to
President Wannamaker, will not con
flict with the proposed $100,000,000
cotton export financing corporation,
as the former will limit its work to
cotton for domestic use.
Governor Ruffin Pleasant, Louis
lana, chairman of the executive com
mittee of the export organisation, tel
egraphed his approval of the domestlo
organization, and W. B. Thompson,
of New Orleans, a dlrecter of the ex
port corporation, explained to the
American Cotton association the plans
of the former.
The plans for organising, adopted
Include the forming of county and
parish organizations In every cotton
growing state and a resolution was
adopted requesting commissioners of
agriculture and presidents of farmers'
unions to issue Joint calls for the first
meetings. :.'
Telegrams are belLg sent to gover
nors of cotton growing states and
presidents ot organisations Interested
requesting that state meetings be call
ed In July.
KONENKAMP HAS CALLED OFF
GREAT TELEGRAPHERS STRIKE
Chicago. The strike of telegraphers
was called off by S. J. Konenkamp,
president of the Commercial Telegra
phers' Union of America,
i President Konenkamp called off the
strike after he had conferred with
other officials ot the anion.
A statement addressed to the mem
bers ot the organization by President
Konenkamp read in part:
"When the present strike was de
clared against the telegraph companies
under control of the wire administra
tion, it was understood it would not
be made an endurance contest The
strike was to be the final protest
against the unfair and unjust treat
ment we have received since August,
191$, at the hands of the wire admin
istration. "We realized that In order to make
this protest effective It would be nec
essary to make the strike sufficiently
acute to compel action. This does not
seem possible now, either through our
efforts or the efforts of others we re
lied upon to help us. Acting upon
this conclusion and with a view to
s rvlng your best Interests, I hereby
declare the strike at an end, and you
are instructed to work without fur
ther delay. You have made a gallant
struggle for your rights as American
worklngmen and women.
WANTS NO MORE TROOPS
SENT OVER INTO MEXICO.
Mexico City. Ygnaclo Bontllas,
Mexican ambassador to the United
States, on his return to Washington,
will ask for an agreement from the
White House that no American troops
be sent across the border and also
that the United States Institute meas
ures that will absolutely prevent the
smuggling of arms and ammunition to
rebels in northern Mexico, it was
learned officially.
HIGH COST OF LIVING
. CAUSES RIOT IN ITALY
Fori!, Italy. After a great meettntt
here In which a vast crowd protested
against the high cost ot living, the
people, excited by inflammatory
speeches, attacked, sacked and de
stroyed many shops which refused to
sell commodities at lower prices.
Boon the fury of the mob made no
distinction and had no limits. lAfl
the principal shops were plundered,
and the mobs controlled the entire
alts'.
OVER THE LAND OF
THE LONG LEAF PINE
sTIOriT NOTES OF 1YTKRKST TO
CAROLINIANS. .
Hickory. Homer Rowman, city mall
currier, is In Raleigh taking the Pas
teur treatment as the result of being
bitten by a small dog last week while
he was making, his rounds witb the
mail.
New Bern. Mr. Osslan Lang. War
Camp Community Service organiser,
was In the city looking after a local
Community Service club in New Bern.
He has been conferring with the local
committee appointed by the commis
sion. Richmond, Va A. M. Mills, well-t
do citizen of Tabor, Columbus coun
ty, N. ('.. has been missing from West
brook Sanitarium and it is feared that
be has committed suicide
Raleigh. Mrs. J. Craxfcrd Bigirs
has been appointed hy the Woman's
Club as Child Welfare Adrisor for
Wake County to act with two men. who
will be appointed to similar positions.
Hickory. A head of cabbage that
weighed 17 1-2 pounds with all the
leaves on It and tipped the scales at
14 pounds, when thoroughly pruned,
was exhibited here by Julius Whis
nant, of Longvlew. The big head was
raised In Mr. Whisnant's garden.
Washington. It was announced by
the department ot agriculture that fall
fer'lllzera would be cheaper in the
Southern states. The average price
would be about 30 per cent lower than
spring. .....
Raleigh. Dr. George J. Ramsey,
federal director of the United States
employment service In North Carolina,
has accepted the position of director
of the rural church survey, to be con
ducted under the auspices of the inter
church world movement.
Greensboro. Col. A. V. P. Ander
son, who has seen several months' ser
vice in France with artillery, has ar
rived In Greensboro to assume com
mand ot army recruiting m North Car
olina..' Monroe has purchased a new fire
siren of the latest type. It has been
located on a 16-foot tower on the fire
station roof and tested. The siren is
guaranteed to wake all sleeping peo
ple, except deaf mutes, within a radius
of three miles.
Wadesboro. An airplane landing
field will doubtless be established
here at an early date. The one at
Redfern's field has proved to be very
acceptable to the airplanes which
have visited Wadesboro up to this
time.
Elon College. It is leaned here
through official channels that the work
of grading, fencing and building new
grandstands for the athletic park ot
Elon College is to begin soon.
Ashevllle. J-The 45th annual con
vention of the North Carolina Dental
society adjourned after electing offi
cers and selecting the place for hold
ing the 1920 meeting. Dr. i T. Mar
tin, of Benson, was elected president
Wilmington. Before the ruins ot
the Seashore hotel had ceased smold
ering Capt Edgar L. Hlnton, chief
owner and manager, had declared that
when the 1920 season opens a new
fireproof structure will be ready for
guests on the site of the destroyed
building.
Washington. A civil service exami
nation will be held here September 21
tor presidential postmaster at An
drews. Fourth class postmasters have been
commissioned as follows:
Acton, Maude G. Rogers; Terr, W!I-
Ham T. Reynolds.
Roy L. Oudger has been designated,
presidential postmaster at Marshall.
Charlotte. The body of Dr. Edward
W. Currle, who (lied of pneumonia at
Tranquil Park sanitarium, here, was
taken to Davidson for funeral cere
mony and Interment. Dr. Currle was
a prominent physician, ot Salisbury.
Qastonla. Another building is to be
built In Qastonla. It is not to be a
cotton mill but a, $160,00 hospital.
Dr L. N. Glenn and S. M. Sloan, lo
cal physicians, are the promoters.
Plans and specifications have been ob
tained and the work to be com
menced at once.
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