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ISShSSSI A LIVE PAPER TFT ,N JL InlJ A LIVE TOWN ill iii 68TH YEAR. NO. 24. SEMI-WEEKLY PEACE CONFERENCE ^mci , A SECRET AFFAIR LAST The TroubU Agreement Has Been Made to i?jl * Confine Information to Daily Communique. NPWUU A I)UI> HIP XT A 1 Kansas, Cli on the leagi Mild Cyclone is Under Way contribution. and Possibility is That Matter citTstar ap Will Come Up Again Before pfir Monday. Saturday. tated Fr,d?y. retary exper copy to him Paris, Jan. 16.?The question of following Mo whether the peace conference is to notified earl; be secret or wholly open to the eyes death, and ears of the world, the settlement T,,e article of which has been long awaited was "It is a f brought to a focus yesterday when It our people a was announced an agreement had 'f'ea of wha been made to confine the information other Bide, given to the public to a daily official Point as to w communique and that a gentleman's league of nj agreement prevailed among the dele- earnestly des gates nof to (Useu88 or In any way we w'eh to b give information of the meetings In an(' n?t him the foreign office. neace and Ji No written official announcemen .voting man i of this purpose waH issued, but word fought, or ar was passed out to this effect, and it 'hose dear to was followed by an explosion of pro- wiBh to mini tests which quite drowned out the.turewardoings of the peace commissioners. ! sense who d The understanding is that th any such mr American and Hiit'sh delegates op- attempted th posed, this decision, hut that tho ure or worse French, Italian and Japanese, voting] "The trou together, prevailed. j utterances, a The Hritish newspaper corres ported and t pondents immediately Joined In a' ' memorial of protest, which they put | PADEREW before Premier Lloyd Oeorge. The American newspaper correspondents! united In what is virtually a round! robin to President Wilson, in which, Assassin Att they protested in measured term against the decision, and reminded I-eader's the President that one of his 1 points which specifies "open cove nants of poace openly arrived at." The memorial was before the London, President Inst night, and there Is ev- P?derewskl, ery reason to believe that such bpen 8,,Khtly storm has been raised as will force <,in *,U) ente ?ie question before the meeting iei ai vvursil again before the actual session ,f >1,m- aceordir the nor?ee eonferonce begins Sat\y | KraPh dlBpatc day. ' porting advi. The question of whether the meet- era' Bolshevi ings are to be open or closed has ^ot ^ been smouldering here for several, days. It is associated with condi- Pa(l?rc tlors which have surrounded the.8aw ^or aovei lack of method in making puhll Polish leader what has nctunlly been going on in a K?vernnieT1 conference for the past month. The P?rfles. \N h American newspaper correspondents. 7''K on vv of whom there are about 100 here mana attem to report the peace proceedings, have, om K?'nP ' been received in daily audience by at Pos< the American commissioners unde j aa'eeP in a the stipulated conditions that what manB fired ? was developed was, solely for their w were m guidance and not to be reported as Paderewski. bearing the stamp of authority o were killed ai coming from the mission.- window o The President himself has rarely Pa(leresk seen ai.y of the American correspondents and the newspaper me? MOVIE ST. who have expressed themselves, at PRl meetings of the organization they have formed, as considering them scives trustees onitgated to Inform Mary Plokfor public opinion at home of the moves ,, ... . . . . , _ . Chaplin which are being made here In Paris have been chafing at what they have recharacterized as being kept out of touch with the fountainheads of official Information, hnvlng been con- ''oa flfied to Information dianemlnated by Mapy 1 Ickfoi an official publicity agent. I w'",Rm S. H Meanwhile the French newspa- an<* po"* and the British newspapers *-r,,,hRr Rn<' having Paria editions have been ap- w"* hereaftei rearing each day with Inside Infor- P,rtures acco mat'on of the conferences and In nient ntade some cases have actually quoted banka. Thi American officials in a manner from w,,? ,s P^0,',, which the American correspondents ment* WRS nr were requested* to refrain. Wr- Fairbai soclates plant I'tf V> I IVI Va ? l nnii linn pi'ji -,:.inni i'kt). | own pinunn PT,F IN ATTACK IV PltKZFMVSlJ n'?o operate (leneva. Jan. 16.?Two thousand corporation h persona have been killed at Pre- their Inreptlo zemvsl. flalacla. by the Ukrainians, the exhlbltora rcpo?-dln6r to a despatch to the Neue The rtiotlor Frlele Urease of Vienna, a oopy of Fairbanks aa' which hps been received here. "with keen 1 The Ukrainians have been bom prehension" r bardlng Preremvsl for several day producers wh pa ^ hv land and bv a'r nnd condf-j press here fo tlone Irr the town are described as s*?ld certain terrible. ! ina and If the The gas and electric plants have they would he been destroyed and there Is no light tire future of In the town. Water and food also the exhibitors re lacking. ^ sufferers. E LANC LANCASTER, S. E ON LEAGUE WRITTEN BY COLONEL ROOSE ? With Mr. Wilson's Utterances, the Colonel V >y Are Still in the Stage of Rhetoric?Strong That the Monroe Doctrine Be Strictly Maintained by United States. ty, Jan. 16.?An article eacence in hiin by Europe; le of nations, the last men, Is that they are still ! that Colonel Theodore in the stage of rhetoric, epared for the Kansas like the 14 points. Some peared in that newspa- points will probably have t The editorial was die- strued as having a mlschic January 3 and his sec- tence, a smaller number ted to take the typed Construed as being harm for correction on the one or two even as bene nday. Instead she was nnhnHv un.. ...s . *?- ? n?JU?0 n 1IUL mi. 1 V that morning of his ally means hy them, and s of adopting them as hi i follows: j peace or league is nonsem lerious misfortune that the talk is intelligent, it is .re not getting a clear nonsense to hoot. Mr. W t is happening on the cent utterances give us For the moment the no clew as to whether he hich we are foggy is the tends that at this moment itions. We, all of us admit Russia. Clermany, w ire such a league, only incidentally, we are sti e sure that it will help war, Turkey, China and M ler the cause of world l the league on a fullequr istice. There is not a ourselves. Mr. Taft has re n this country who hasi fined the purposes of the 1< i old man who has seen the limitations under which iiiin iiKiu, wno noes not i act, in a way that enables t mize the chance of fu-|to say we very heartily ut there is not a man of i principle with his theory loes not know that ini without doubt, come to ivement if too much is| ment on specific details. ip result is either fail-1 "Would it not he well than failure. i with the league which w< ble with Mr. Wilson's have in existence? The io far as they are re he utterances of acqui- (Continued on Page E SKI SHOT THREE Y. M. C. A. MB f WARSAW HOTEL UNDER ARREST II empts to Take Polish Charged With Stealing # Life?Wound Only Association's Funds \ Slight. ? Working Oversea* Jan. 13.?Ipnace Jan Paris. Jan. 16.?It hai the Polish leader, has known that three Youi wounded by an assas- Christian Association we red the room of his ho- under arrest in Paris cha vv and fired one shot at defalcation of funds of ig to an Exchange Teie- elation. 'h from Copenhagen re- The men are George Scl les from t ienna. Sev- nier secretary of the cl ki impllcaated in the| commerce of Rochester, IS im have been arrested. , n,>v. R. Atkins, of Eagle I ' and Mansfield, said >wski has been in War- been a former secretary of *al days conferring with ors' union, of New York c s in an attempt to form Thp tQta, amounf it representative of all hpon ml8npproprlated ftp, en he arrived in Dan- t., 0 4nn . ? ... - or wmcn hat av to Warsaw the Ger . T , covered. In connection wl pted to prevent him , , . . , .. ? _ v * leged defalcation E. C. Ci o Posen. After he ar- . , .. . I rotary of the American t sn and while he was . , ? ary forces of the Y. M. C, hotel, a crowd of Ger- .. . ? the following statement: n a parade of children, arching in honor of "During the six month Two of the children 'he Y. M. C. / id several bullets struck bu8'ne88 approximated $1 ,f the room occupied by Tl,e American expedltlona j tance business aggregated 000 for the year 1918. T1 can Y. M. C. A. in France i ARS JOIN TO jn course of Its Invest!; DDUCE PICTURES to the present misapprop i the amount of $38,940. "Along with the excelle <1, Fairbanks, llart and . , .. . . Al * ' of 78 workers cited by tl in Company With I States and French military W Griffith ties. 30 workers have been died in the service. Out i staff of more than 6.000 w ?s. Cel.. Jan. 16 Miss date three have been chai rd, Douglas Fairbanks, defalcation. art, Charles S. Chaplin "Reported Irregularities . Ifflth have banded to- )?>d the legal department i le actress and actors M. C. A to make an inv< r produce their own with the regnlt that when rriing to an announce- was arrested he made a < here by Douglas Fair- n"d ndm'tted having In h ? part of Mr. Griffith, slon Y. M. C. A. money, i leer, in the new align-l which was in n trunk he h ?t definitely announced in Paris. Some of this m riks sa'd he and his as been Invested In French " b led to produce their some had been secreted pe and that they would "Another worker at Pr their .own releasing fessed taking small sums andllng the films from The third and most fine n until they reached was that of a worker aeons preprinting 87.000 francs, i picture actors. M> Is charred he secreted and !d. had been watching various packages. which Interest and some ap- posited with the American t meeting of picture company. itch has heen In pro- "Fortunately the greater r several days. Ho all the moT%ev stolen hes Interests were combln covered. The Y. M. C. A 1 y perfected their plans the armv to prosecute these able to dictate the en- the limit and to Impose the the film business and altv on anv workers proving would be the greatest to the truat of the Amerl pie." ASTER I C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1919. 'AS DRV'AMENDMENT ARMI VEiT IS ALL BUT CARRIED FUf ifrote, Is Flea Thirty-five Legislatures Have Drive Ratified and Others Are Pre Expected to Act Soon. an states 0NE MORE STATE NEEDED DISTR1 absolutely precisely Amendment Becomes Ef- AH C< of the 14 o be cor.- fective One Year From the trict ivous sen !"?.? ? ?c n- ei?i *>-*:? ? * -_ vi lis i' lllill XitlllKTilllOn, ill \ ."Tand Probably July 1. Quot; flclal. but Vilson re- WashlnRton, Jan. lf>.?Legisla The d o all talk tures 35 states, one less.than the and Syr isis for a ret|utrej<J three-Tourths have ratified' I-ancastt 0 an('- the prohibition constitutional amend-' good foi ' insinrere nient. Several state assemblies now lotted, 1 i^nn 'K **f? are in session and are expected to chairmai absolutely take action with a probable race be- tributior really in- tween Nebraska, Missouri and Mln- enough, we shall nesota as to which will be the .16th goal wil ith whicn n?? on the list. county \ 11 watting Ratification was completed yester- Indicn exico into (jay ]eK|sjaturpH Gf pVe states fi*th dis llit> With Iowa. Colorado Oregon Vow <entl> de Hampshire and Utah?making a to j of Kock \igue and (nj j 2 jn two days. Of the 3H gcnizatii i it would st;itoR that have taken action. 14 each cot nost of us have certified their action to the fed-lave do ngtee in oraj 8jate department. They, are county v and can Virginia. Kentucky. North Dakota. | day, hut an agiee pol,th Carolina, Maryland. Dakota i he postj Texas. Montana. Delaware. Massa fluenza to terin chusetts. Arizona. Georela, Louis'- tounties actually ana an(^ Michigan. satlsfact league of T}ip amendment, under its pmvis- The v ions, becomes effective one year from this dist ^ the date of its final ratification. Ad- Lanca dlttonal legislation by congress is'ter. W. IN necessary to make it operative and Merchan ^ PARIS Kroun<* work for this already has son: Ch< been laid. This legislation will ore- Kershaw scribe penalties for violation of the York. \\ 3H.040 o amendment and determine how and I York. D ..... bv whnt agencies the law shall be The r Anile enforced. cause?t ' If ratification is completed this put th( month, many officials here believe starving ' the country will become permanent- niust be ' beconii , jy ,.fjry.. neX( July 1, the date on If yo en<| which the special war time nrnhibi I >rKPrs at tjon recently enacted by congress^ the seen rged with poP8 [n(0 effect. This law preventsI the stret the asso manufacture and sale of Intox1-] want of cants for beverage purposes and *e- hies brei tofTel, for- mains In force until the demoblliza- about h tamber of f|on nf the nation's war armies isicold air I. Y.; th? completed. j to your 'ass. Tex., Court action to prevent the ynu star to have amendment becoming operative al-j Your the Sail- ready has been started in Callforn?a>t j ?dose to Ity. where an order temporary restrain-, it is to i d to have ing flovernor Stephens from signing j You giv iroximate ratification of the amendment has the ship! s been re- been obta'ned. It has been intlmat- succor d th the al- ed that similar action may be taken You I irter, sec in other states in which it is stated, you "di sxpedition state laws reouire that federal con- cry of , A. made stitutional amendments must he sub- starve mitted to a referendum. j |);,Vr nlc is ending The prohibition amendment reso ? itter u l. canteen l"tion passed by roneress provide | and you 6,000 000. that ratification by t>10 "legislatures bitter d< rv remit- the several states as provided by And y $14,900, the constitution." close to he Ameri- The resolution follows: the cabb vas found "Resolved by the senate and sens frei rations up house of representatives of th who pas riation to United States of America in congress ? assembled (two-thirds of each house i'omi nt record concurring therein), That the fol The ( he United lowing amendment to the constitu- South U r author!- tion. be, and hereby is. proposed to men's c killed or the states, to become valid as a parr tor ??? 1 of a total nf 'he constitution when ratified by; winter < rorkers to the legislatures of the several states Kllerbe. rged with as provided by tho constitution: Moss, of "Article. ' Sootti ol at Toul "Section 1. After one year from can, of of the Y ,ho ratification of this article the Cuthcart stigntion, Bnle. or transports- Drake c one man ,,on ?' intoxicating lhpiors within. ('. Featti -onfession the importation thereof, into or the Springs is posses- oxPor,?l'r'n thereof from the United comp'etp a part of nnd n" territory subject to the'tive boai ad stored | Jur'R(iiction thereof for beverage oney had j Purr?ORcR is hereby prohibited F a I MOnatl O mt. _ ^ TO VI . onns and o?tvih?h ?.. i n?? rnnRrass and tnel " " "" rsonallv wveral states shall have roncurranf ford enl est con P?wer to enforce this article by ap- noon He regularly Pr?Pri?to legislation. ,h'' <'!" > rant case "Section This article shall be *'"p 'n ed of ap- Inoperative unless it shall have been Son,h ( which I ratified as an amendment to the eon- Tnf>n K ( placftd In sfitution by the legislatures of the * Thp appfi were de- several states, as provided in the i Kxpres constitution, within seven years froni|'^f 11,1 the date of the submission hereof to * * < our Dirt of I thft efafes by congress." ,h'' pass . . cation b been re-1 The resolution was passed bv the las asked | senate 65 to 20. August 1. 1917. .I?tn t cases to I full pen- H'r nwrlm Wyndhnm I>? < <!. vice of : recreant Londpn, Jan. 16.?Sir Oharlea at the lean pen- Wyndharr, the actor, died in London ni>.'ht in Monday morning. Jan P.eMf NlEWSu SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 A ENIAN RELIEF THIRTIETH D ID IS GROWING LAND AT HOI Well Under Way and Charleston Has Ileei aspects Cood for Lan- as Port of caster County. C arolina Tr 1CT IS DOING WELL DATE IS NOT Y junties in Fifth Dis- Secretary linker T Organized and Hard Pollock Those T York in Raising TheL* This State Will as. j Camp Sevier. rive for funds for Armenian Washington, Jan. 1* ian relief is going well in ports recently sent ou r county, and prospects arel'ngton to papers in t overstepping the (|uotn al-'the men of the Thi Waddy It. Thomson, county'would not debark at n, tells The News. The con matter was definitely is are coming in slowly when Secretary Ha but indications are that the Senator Pollock that ( 1 be reached and Lancaster been designated for vlll go "over th> top." This puts all doubt as fions !ir?? In f > 0...1 _ vr.. i ? ...<<, <iiu< i in- umc H?is yei ue triot will raise Its quota, ar- return of tlie men, bu to advices from K. C. Hurts, he made known to Si Hill, district chairman. () - in a few days, uis have been perfected in The Tennessee tro< inty in the district and thev Fort Oglethorpe for i inir good work. Fairfield' those from South fan vent "over the top" the first ' and those from North in Cherokee the drive w-'l! ' likely to Camp Clrei toned on account of the jn- lotte. epidemic. In all the other': This information s! the work is going ahead \ news to those persons orlly. | linn who have relativ arions chairmen appointed ' I In the Thirtieth Divis riet are: will doubtless be mat ster, \V U. Thomson: Ches- tlves of the men in t C. Miller: Chesterfield. S. A the information giver t; Fairfield Or Oliver John- lock becomes known. ?rokee. Or. Lee Davis Lodge: It is understood hei \ T. J. Kirkland; Westei a soon as the sailing da T. T. Hcnmguard; {Eastern upon which the South r. F. W. Gregg. leave is learned, prepa teople must rally to thi made for their foi the committeemen canno home either in rhnrin e county "over"?and th^ bia, and that they wii people across the water some form of recoghit saved. reach firoenville. u, looking from your office Senator Pollock a were made aware that on he will address the send floor of the house across 1 present week repardlr t was a woman perishing for' nations and a little tp food and warmth, with ha- give his views on won ithing away their life live- Representative Ryr er. denied everything but' up with Secretary R , would you glue your eves I of immediately relea ledger and?forget? Could service farm laborers id ' '? I Mr. Rvrnes contend cherk for $100 or $5 is as are now making art the woman in Asia Minor as the tnnkivg of another the woman across the ^tr-e* unless laborers a*o ? e it and the telegraph and will be difficult for t * that plow the seas earrvinr employment after the o the rest. j made their arrangemr forget?and others forget g yourself in" against th COT,#. ROOSEYEI/I the starving and?they . ... .... = Yott, the people who vet nfv. voti who never felt the lain of the famishing, you Kstnte of About tS't alone can save them from! ... Family Plate. Is Il? ath! cm and all of us are just as For tl?e Wi them, with the banks and, ps onen and the lanes of the| p again, as was?the Revitej Cys'er Ray. Jan. 1 sen ny on the other side. ivuuseveii s win. wns reiul to members ncr to Federal ion Meeting. bagamore Hill and ollowing members of th """oRate of Nassau r arolina Federation of Wo- Although the value lubs Will arrive in Bancas- estate * iev Thursday for the mid. known il was l,n,,,,rs, ounoll meeting: Mrs. J. K j to not more ,h:in $50( of Marlon; Mrs. Adam ,nB t? Attorney Oeorg ' Orangeburg; Mrs. Winfred'NVw York' who n'ad r Florenee; Mrs B. O. Mor-'docun,ent P vldes th Greenville; Mrs. James A.j estate with ,he eXl . of Columbia; Mrs. John fam,,y 8i,ver and ,f Bennettsville. and Mrs C i in ,n,at for ,h" w,dr ,erstone. of Greenwood. Mr* ; ,,fe- and *Mv,'a hor P? and Miss Margaret Moore'of U by wil1 as sh'" s" the personnel of the exeeu- "v,>n, sho ,oavft8 no w r(j is to be divided in etjui the children. :nfer?:?in- Hook Club. The silver and fair ondo ?> T.? Cl ? PaKKa or. 1/1 " m/v * ~ * imiii.ii uni ,?u>. .111 [ 111 I r:iW-l ' "?iu, air: in lie (ertalncd the Friday After ' 'he f'h 1 <1 r*-n. as is a >ok club. At this mooting '""<1 l*ft to Colonel U< , which is one of the three father. ^ the eltv belonging to the The will named as 'arolina Federation of Wo ',fd Theodore Rooseve lube. heartily endorsed the '''??1 i* Roosevelt, a the federation for the year colonel. Rtary was Instructed to write tor and representatives fron School Meeting ity urging their supj?>rt in A meeting will 1 age of thr compulsory edu- Methodist church In t ill In the state legislature Sunday afternoon at 3 ! ? Interest of the adult t Service Sunday Night. Mrs. K. U. Riddle, cha will be a Joint or union ser- caster county, will he all the Lancaster churches the meeting and add Methodist church Sunday made hy Mrs. Leroy the interest of the Armen Riddle. Miss Culp. Mis f fund. Stewart and perhaps i i iN TODAY AT CENTS ^ YEAR 1V1SI0N DEPORT it Designated tation for oops. ET FIXED ells Senator roops From Sent to ? ?Despite ret from Washhe south that rtieth Division Charleston, the settled here ker informed 'harleston had this purpose, dde. en set for the t this will also enator Pollock >ps will ?o to demobilization, olina to Sevier Carol !na most one at Charlould he good in South ('aroes and friends ion and there ly happy relahe state when i Senator Polre that just as te of the ship Carolina men rations will be mal welcome (ton or Colutni also be given ion when they nnounced that 'ate during tho g a league of 'er on he will ian suffrage, lies has taken er the matter sing from the of the south, that farmers angements for crop and that >w released it hem to secure farmers have ' 'tS. "S WILL I S FAMILY >o,ooo, Kxcopt lil in Trust ll"W. '* ?rol Theomade in 1912, of the -family filed with the ounty. of the former as not made ood to amount ?.ooo. Aecorde O. Cobb<\ of the will, the lat the entire [ option of the , shall be held '\v during her wer to dispose es fit. In the ill, the estate Ft 1 parts among lily plate, Mr. divided among $60,000 trust oosevelt by his trustees Lieut, It. Jr.. and W. cousin of the Sunday. e held at tho h o mill t'il In or* ,,w ? ? o'clock in the night schools. Irman for Lan in charge of rasses will be Springs. Mrs. is Shell, Mayor ethers.