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Established in 1891. FORT MILL, S. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1919 $1 25 Per Yeai
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BUILD MANY MILES :
, PUBLIC HIGHWAYS i
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30 MILES ARE EXPECTED TO 1
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BE COMPLETED BY FIRST
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DAY OF DECEMBER.
\| HIGH HOPE FOR COMING YEAR:
Department Is Notified of Shipment (
of 27 Three-Ton Trucks for Dis- i
tribution Among Counties.
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Columbia.
The state highway department plans . t
to construct 400 miles of roadway ' j
during 1920.
During 1919 contracts for 181 mile* jt
have been awarded, the cost approx- | i
imatlng $1,750,000. In addition to j?
this amount of roadway, nine bridges >
of an average length of 135 feet are ; t
under process of construction. ; <
Surveys for approximately 590 miles j
of roadway have been completed dur- I .
ing the present month and by Decent- ,
ber 1 the surveys will be about G30 ,
miles. Plans for 350 miles of roadway
will have been completed by Jan- |,
nary 1, 1920. (
During 1919. f>3 grade crossings have |
been eliminated and four other roads
have been so changed as to render (
them safer for travel. Crossings were
eliminated in verious parts of the
state, several of them being between
Greenwood and Hodges.
The department anticipates that
1920 will be a good year for road
building. The present outlook is that I
nothing will hinder construction and
the department hopes to Increase the <
amount of work done every year un- '
til the state highway system is a |
reality. <
The department lias been notified 1
that 27 three ton Packard trucks have I
been shipped to the state by the war i
ucpsnmeni in wasningion | :
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Interest In Red Cross 9enl Sale.
"The strongest force of the Red
Cross Christmas seal is felt in the 1
communities in which It is sold." said
Hr. Charles J. llatfleld, managing di- I!
rector of the National Tuberculosis |
association, recently in discussing the j '
j| 1919 Red Cross seal sale which will j
he held from December 1 to Decern- j<
ber 10, "because it develops the local ' I
fight against the disease by educating | I
the people."
Through a budget system adopted <
by tho National Tuberculosis associa- i
tion and tho 1.000 state and local or
ganizationH affiliated with it. about
92 per rent of tho funds raised by any i
state are spent there to tight tin- '
great whits plague at homo.
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Estimate of Cotton Crop.
The American cotton crop this venr.
exclusive of lifters, will ha 10.1:10.000
bales, according to the annual forecast
of Cooper & Griffith, well known
cotton Arm of Greenville The estimate
Is made up from reports from
the correspondents of this Arm i
throughout the cotton belt.
The crop for South Carolina is forecasted
as 1.288.000 hales. This forecast
has been made annually by Cooper
& Griffith since 1010.
^ New Legion Posts.
The Allendale post is the latest post
of tho American Legion of South Car
olina. Application for this post was
received at sfnte headquarters.
Springfield and Saluda are tho latest
towns in which organizers have been
appointed. Towns without a post can
communicate with stato headquarters t
't in Columbia where information about
I the organization of a post, and author- ,
n ity to organize same, can be obtained, j
Assistant Adjutant General.
Capt. P. G. Marshall of Columbia
who saw service overseas with the I
S Thirtieth division and who was mustered
out of the service with the rank
of captain, has been made temporary J
assistant adjutant, general by Brig.
Oen. W. W. Moore, and ('apt Marshall
immediately began work. lie
fills the place made vacant by the re- i
eent resignation of MaJ. John D.
Frost.
Bad Woek for Enlistments.
Out of a total of 71 applicants for '
the United States navy at the central
recruiting office here during the
week only nine were accepted. This
was a big drop from previous enlist
ments, but is accounted for by the
more rigid examinations.
Of the nine accepted seven were
first enlistments, one was a previous
service enlistment and ono w is a
fa ransfer to the fleet* naval reserve.
? Columbia furnished Jbree of tho men.
' Charleston one. Am&rson one. SparI
$ tanburg three and Rflck Hill ono.
Wan* Cnk. ZX"
ailroad com- j
peal to B. L.
:cr of the railtlanta,
asking
ted on cotton
only fumigation
and the
must be sent
alnst the boll
nder the em- J
11 not accept
I eachers' Meeting Closes.
With the election of officers for
1020. the hearing of reportB of rari- j
>U3 committees, the adoption of resoutions
having to do with the status
if the teaching profession, the awardng
of the attendance cup permanenty
to Dillon county, and the announcenvnt
that 1,078 teachers had been en ollod,
the annual meeting of the
south Carolina Teachers' association
ame to a elose.
The meeting was characterized
hroughout by a spirit of earnestness
ind zeal that augurs well for the atainment
of some of the ideals outined
in resolutions dealing with the j
status of the profession. With or- '
tanizations of teachers vere mention- ]
(1 in resolutions adopted, the intenion
to strike to attain objectives was '
Unclaimed specifically
3uyers Take Notice.
The director of sales announces
hat the quartermaster general of the
irmy has issued instructions to the (
superintendents of the 25 army quarermaster
retail stores now operating (
tnder his direction to decline to ac opt
after December 10 any order for (
;oods carried by the army quartermas- (
er retail stores which calls for deliv- j
?ry of goods by parcel post.
The quartermaster general of the (
irmy has taken this action to relieve
lie mails, usually congested during (
he Christmas season, of the addition- | j
it nurtfcn entailed hv tronsnnrtatinn j
if the stocks sold by the army stores
"?n mail order.
t
The army quartermaster stores will
ontinue to accept hulk orders placed ,
iv municipalities. municipal selling
igeneies, and community buying associations
for commodities offered for
sale through the retail stores. Such
>rders are delivered bv freight
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3ubtic to Pay Portion. I
The supreme court handed down an
opinion relieving the Columbia Rail- <
way. Gas and Klectric company of |
payment c?f a large proportion of the
rxpenses Incurred by the public service
commission of South Carolina in
the recent investigation of pas rates
in Columbia. Kxpenses approximated
STOno. Of this umount. 5834 07 was
paid by the company as per diem and
personal expenses of the commission,
but. protested about 52.300 in the bill
rendered for the audit of the company's
books by expert accountants,
stenographic work. etc.
Will Sell Cheap Reef. ,
The war department surplus prnpertv
division is new offering for sale
fresh frozen beef at Chicago quotalions
for medium steer, lowest range,
less one-fifth or 20 per cent of the Chicago
market prire on the day car l?
delivered.
This is the best bargain the govern
ment has to offer and sales will made
to butchers, jobbers, municipalities,
institutions, hotels and restaurants
without limit.
Pershlnp on Inspection Tour.
Washington. -(Special) ? General |
Pershing's threo month inspection of (
the military facilities of the nation
will tnkt< him first to Camp Lee. Virginia.
on December 4. the itinerary issued
shows. Ho will visit Camp
Itrncg. N. on the fifth. Camp .lackson.
S C . December fith. and Charleston.
S. C., December 7th.
Active in Road Building.
Nine counties in South Carolina
have already applied for their full allotment
of federal aid funds for highway
construction and now are building
roads out of countv funds independently
of the state highway commission.
it was announced by the J
highway commission.
Tlmse counties are Greenville.
Cherokee. Spartanburg. Greenwood. :
Laurens. Pickens. Chester. Union and
McCormick.
Baptist Drive a Success.
Scattering reports from all sections
of the state up until a late hour indl !
rate a sweeping victory for South
Carolina Ha of lets in Iheir $7.' 000.0(10
campaign. From every association
and every church so far heard from
the allotment has been oversubscribed
with the exception of possibly two
churches. Mary of the associations
renorted oversubscriptions with from
12 to 21 churches yet to hand in their
figures.
n.eeDing Fit Cemnaign.
The state hoard of health exhibit
to young men and hoys, known as the
keep fit exhibit, is being parried to
many of the hitrh schools and Y M. C.
A.'s of the state. James H. Grauel,
field director of the campaign for the
state board, reports that up to the
present time over 1.100 men and hoys
have viewed the exhibit and read the
literature.
The presentation of this effort for
physical fitness nmong the boys and i
young men of South Carolina is in the
care of Dr. C. V. Akin.
Census Enumerator* Want?H
Julian S. Wolfe. supervisor of ren
us of the seventh congressional distr'ct,
with offices at Orangeburg has
just received word from the department
of census that the pay for enumerators
in the census work which
will start January ^2. l!>?ft. has been
rroatlv Increased, ftnd will he nearly
double what the pay was in 1310.
Mr Wolfe is very nr.xious to secure
apollcants to the rural sections of
Richland. Sumter and Lee counties,
?ersons interested should write Mr.
Wolfe at once
ANNUAL BUDGET
OF $5,000,008,009'
SIXTY-SIXTH CONGRESS MEETS
PROMPTLY ON THE HOUR IN I
FIRST REGULAR SESSION ^
PRESIDENT IS NOT NOTIFIED I
3robable That Peace Treaty Question {?
Will be Carried Forward into 1920
Campaign as one Vital Issue.
Washington. ? The record billion P
lollar congresses of ordinary peace g
:imes faded into the past when Sec- g
etary Glass, presenting the annual ! C
estimates, proposed appropriations of r
practically live billion dollars for con- I g
lucting the peace time activities of ?
he government during the fiscal year 0
L 931. i 1
According to these figures, it will
ost more tlian five times as much to
onduct tlie peace-time affairs of gov- |
?rnment as it did in the year immed- /e
aieiy preceding me world war. ;a
The greatest individual estimates
'or expenditures. of course. go to tlie
irmy and the navy. The yearlj in- J<
lerest on the war debt, however, is
51.017..">00.000. which sum alone is
greater than all the appropriations for 11
ill purposes whatsoever of any peace- "?
:iine congress.
All in all, the estimates justify the I
predictions made on the floor of con- LI
?ress during consideration of the war
tax bill, that the present generation
would not see the government con- jf
lueted at an expense of less than four
billion a year.
The estimated appropriations for the
principal government departments
were presented us follows:
Legislative (congressI $9,025,297.26; ?
executive (white house and govern- *'1
meat departments) $149,111,463.77; 11
judicial $1,634,190; army $9S9.578,657.80;
navy $642,031,804.80; pensions T!
R215.1)30.000; public works $283,921.- ;><]
R10.17; miscellaneous $833,717,6.37 96; pi
foreign intercourse $11,243,250.91. -n
The total of all estimates is $4,865.- T!
410,031.62, the greatest sum ever ask- >t
i>d of any congress when the country m
was not actually at war. n
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PALMER OPPOSES FURTHER
COAL STRIKE CONFERENCES, '.h
;?
WashinRton.-? Attorney Cone ml Pal- VVI
mcr railed upon the American people ''
to "refuse to be stampeded by threats
of lack of coal into concessions which th
will insure unreasonably high prices >a
In all commodities for at least three iv!
years to come." t>l
A statement of the Rovernment's he
attltuda was made by the attorney fo
general in a telcRram to the Chamber sc
t)f Commerce at Moberly, Mo., front cr
which had come a request that an \Y
other conference of operators and w
miners be called.
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30.000 TONS OF BEET
SUGAR MOVING THIS WAY w
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New York.?Thirty thousand tons
of American beet supar front the central
states now is moving into the
Atlantic coast states to relieve in part
the acute sugar famine In the eastern
zone. This supply, the sugar equalization
board announced, will serve
to mitigate the shortage this month.
but adequate relief must wait until '
Cuban sugar, the natural sources of
supply for the Atlantic seaboard, ^
commences to move in volume, which
may be expected in January. The '*
American beet sugar crop is being '
marketed in the central west in quantities
to Justify the "loan" of the 30.- '*
000 tons to the east. It was said. "l
FORD-NEWBERRY CONTEST
UP SOON IN THE SENATE
Washington. ? Simultaneous with
the legal proceedings at Grand Rap m
ids an effort will be made in the sen "
t J]
ate to hasten action on the resolution
of Senator Pomerene democrat, Ohio
for a senatorial investigation of the
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Ford-Xewberrv contest in Michigan
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QUICK END COMES TO STRIKE D
OF KANSAS CITY SWITCHMEN
Kansas City. Mo.?As suddenly and
unexpectedly as it began. the stnkf ^
of 1.500 railroad switchmen in the lo ^
cal yards, was called off.
The action was taken at a secret ^
meeting when it was understood a
proposition sponsored by more conservative
members to end the walk
out. was put to a vote and rn-ried.
Dissatisfaction with the present ^
wage scale was responsible for thi ,
strike It is said.
NEW INDUSTRIAL CONFERENCE D
HOLDS ITS FIRST SESSION
Washington.?Seventeen men. widely
known in business and public life It
representing no particular group as l>1
such, but acting for the people as a l'r
whole, assembled here to confer on '
the country's industrial situation. The
conference, the appointment of which
was announced from the white house ^
November 20. was designed to accom |V
plish^w^it the recent national Indus ,(
MRS. AGNES MENEFEE
Mrs. Agnes Menefee, after four
ars' service in the woman's Batlion
of Death," during which time
e was wounded twice and decorated
the czar w.th the Cross of St.
:orge and another medal, arrived in
e United States as the wife of an
nerican artillery officer and will
ike her home with him at Covingn,
Ky.
"WIS RRdRFS RdVFRNMFNT
jerators Intimate Governmental Refusal
to Allow Increase in Price
Would Bear Reconsideration.
Washington. An abrupt end came
all attempts to settle the nationide
coal strike by peaceful agree
ent.
Miners and operators spent a blenk
hunksgiving afternoon in embitter
1 debate over the government pro>sal
for a 14 per cent wage increase,
ade by Fuel Administrator Garfield
lie miners rejected it nnad every
her proposal that was forthcoming,
id the conference dissolved, sine die.
no proposal was definitely accepted
' the operators.
Participants went home and where
e break left coal str'ke conditions,
) one of them, miners or operators,
nuld say. Likewise, in official quar
rs. there was sienee.
Acting President John L. Lewis, ol
o mine workers though refusing tc
y one word as to the strike itself
liich theoretically was called off in
icdience to federal court injunction
tiding It a violation of the Lover act
r war time food and fuel control
ored the government roundly at tin
inclusion of the conference. Sj did
illiani Green, secretary of the mini
orkers.
Operators, though accepting the
ivrrnment proposal definitely. In J
tter of explanation to Dr. Garfield
hlch they made public, Intimated
at the governmental refusal to al
w price increases would bear re
msiderat ion.
"ALY WILL ARIDE BY
DALMATIAN DECISION
Basle. ?A dispatch from Belgrade
is been received by the I*aibacl:
Vust riant correspondence bureau
ating that the Italian government
?s informed the government of J ug ?
lavla that Italy would observe thf
clsion reached by the I'aris peacf
inference with regard to the Dalma
an question and would itsef prevent
lv attempt in the direction of Bap
to by Gabriele d'Annunzio.
EOPLE MUST NOT MAKE
PRESENTS TO PRESIDENT
Washington. Republican congress
en plan to revive the resolution sub
ifting an amendment to the const!
itinn niinkll.lt: ? t- ?? - -
. .... i-.iM.ii'ii iiik in.- i-ri'.*'<iom irnin
meptlng gifts from foreign ruler*
hoy believe all that i* nrcssarj' t'
ako the proposition effective is
tion of enough states to ratify It.
ROFITEERS BEING SEVERELY
PUNISHED IN GREAT BRITAIN
London ? Groat Britain's stupendous
Tort to grapple with profiteering l?
ist disclosed by the work of 1 .fiOf
ibunals which have prosecuted 7 n."'
Tenders and secured 1 ?.20 con vie
ons. with fines aggregating
Resides setting up these local trib
inls have been established in speci
>d areas of England, Scotland anil
"ales In addition central commit
es also have been formed to inves
gate supposed trusts or monopolies
ENVER JURY DECIDES THAT
ANYBODY MAY STEAL LIGUOR
Denver. Col.?Declining to accept
le Judge's ruling that whiskey ha.?
roperty rights and can be stolen, i
iry in the West Side criminal courl
eed two prisoners charged witt
eallng a quantity of booze.
The attorney for the defendants de
ared that, with prohibition effective
iroughout the nation, whiskey had nt
roperty rights In the statutes of th?
>untry and, therefore, could not b<
itolen."
DRASTIC CUT III
| THE USE Cf COHL
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COAL COM T" ITT EE AT ATLANTA
TAKES DESPERATE STEPS
TO AVERT DISASTER. ^
WAR TIME RESTRICTIONS ON1,
if
Manufacturing Plants and Factories
Put on a Forty-eight Hour Basis
By Order of the Committee.
Atlanta. Ga.?Orders drastically re-!
strieting the use of coal by the south
were issued by the regional coal committee
to take effect at once. Wat E
time restrictions were virtually reiu- t
nugurnted by the new order. |
The order was necessary, the committee
pointed out. to conserve the
I now rapidly diminishing fuel supply
Stores, manufacturing nlant? una ?
warehouses are restricted in the use "
of heat and light to hours between '?
a. in. and 4 p. m.
Manufacturing plants and factories
are put on a 4S-hour a week h.isis i?v I
the coniniittee's orders. I
The committee allowed sevral exceptions.
Drug stores, for the sale of
drugs only, and restaurants are allow- I
ed to maintain their present schedule.
hut must curtail their lights r?t
per cent.
Itarher shops are allowed to remain
open between the hours of S a. m. and
t> p. m. *
General office lights may remain on 1
after 4 p. m where the operation of 1
vital industries is involved.
Railroad stations, telephone, and tel- ^
egraph and newspaper offices are ex |
? empted from the light restrictions.
On Saturday the time of closing is
extended to !? p. m. for stores selling '
food and wearing apparel.
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SESSION MAY LAST FOR
NEARLY ALL NEXT YEAR.
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Washington. ? Congress returns to
r work with the prospect of being kept ^
on the job until the presidential campaign
next fall. .
I i No formal working program had J
been mapped out by members of the |
t house and senate, returning here after ^
i lit day recess, but the general view
was inai the railroad hill and tho resolution
declaring tho war at an ond
would comn hoforo tho senate for iinmodiato
consideration. Tho hotiso
will pot tho usual assortmont of sip- 5
' propriation hills, and ;i flood of pon1
oral hills and resolutions. The Mex |
' loan situation is oxpootod to oonio to
1 tho front at tho opening. I
; LODGE PROFESSES HOPE x
| FOR EARLY SETTLEMENT :
Washingotn.- Senator Ixvlgo. Ro- ]
! pnhlionn loador of tho sonato, deelar(
od in a statomont ho hoped to sou |
I prompt notion t ikon on tho iroatv, (
hut that if President Wilson still rofusod
to aooept rosorvations those do- ^
torminod to "Amoric un'ze" it stood
roady to moot him on that issue hoforo
tho people.
"If tho president desires to have
I prompt ratification of tho treaty with
Germany ho has only to accept the
reservations as thov stand Wo desire
final action, as 1 have said, hut
action must ho based on the accept- "
t ance of tho reservations as they are." 1
, AUTHORITY TO CALL OUT
TROOPS PROMPTLY GRANTED
, Ch'capo Authority to mil out state 1
troops whenever necessary in connee*ion
with the strike of trainmen '
n"d yardmen in Knn?as f'ltv was conferred
upon Adintant O'oeral ("lark
of Mlssour* hv Governor Frederick It.
Gardner. of that staff.
THE PRFS|n^e*T IS MAKINC,
SAT ISP Ar.TORY PROGRESS
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Wo ?h i"c'.on <i<?if W'ts-on :s '
, nroer^ss'nt; snfl?fnofor;)v, it was ao.
pounced at the wh'fo house following
the wooklv v's't nf n- i' v tt?r?"iru 1
MIMF"A cyn-rrrr, TO r> f TI I o m
TO WORK UNOr R PROTECTION
i Wasinhp'on. Developments in the
i provrnnu-nt's efforts to insure an
? adenu>te fuel snnnlv for the country
t awaited the outcome of affemn's of
soft coal operators to induce miners
> r f '' ***1 ( > "'or'' f >r '? *? . 1 *< <"?
- of 14 per coot and assurances <>f fedcral
protection. Not'eos of tills wnjfn
I advance sueRested by Fuci Administrator
Garfield were posted at tb"
mines immediately following the
Thanksglv'ne holiday
LABOR CONFERENCE HAS COME
TO AN END AT WASHINGTON
' Washington?The first international
labor conference held under the
t
t provisions of the treatv of Versailles,
i was concluded here and adjourned
subject tolhe call of the governing
body.
i i It Is understood generally that the
> next meeting would he late In 1920 at
i the seat of tho league of nations.
i . Delegates fron 41 countries have atiteuded
the concfrence sessions.
NORMAN H. DAVIS
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Norman H. Davis of Tennessee, one ti
f the financial advisers of the Amer- Ii
can peace delegates at Paris. has
teen made assistant secretary of the ?
reasury to succeed L. S. Rovve.
unni n war ir riii pn si pun
iuiilu linn iu iiullu ni i_t*u
il
ti
^bove Enthusiasm of Liquor Dealers
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Looms the Solemn Warning of
Future Punishment.
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Now Orleans.. Whiskey, four per J
rent beer, wines, cordials, in short, ''
n
omplete barroom assortments of li- 1
jnor were purchased freely in New a
>rleans following the granting of an
njunction by Federal Judge Foster v
vhicli in effect held the war-time pro- c
libition act unconstitutional. ^
Less than an hour after Judge Fos- '
er had enjoined federal authorities a
!rom interfering with the sale of bond- "
h1 whiskies ih compliance with the '
letition of the Herman Leiser Liquor a
Company barrooms were serving li- ''
liior in steadily varied assortments. ''
Judge Foster, in his decision to ^
;rant the Injunction, ruled that the 1
.vorld war came to an end when Hon-'
;ress adjourned recently without re- ''
lectlng the peace treaty with tier- ''
uany. He maintained that when
President Wilson vetoed the Volstead c
ivar-time prohibition enforcement bill
Dctober 2S, 1IU9, the president de lared
the army and navy forces do
mobilized.
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5AYS AMERICA MUST STOP <
BEING SEWER FOR EUROPE
v
Richmond, Va. "America must stop 1
being a sewer into which Kurope is v
lropping all its undesirables; this v
H
j nn.'M mil <n'vi'iii|) mil) an autre
hi st cafe for Die homh throwers of '
lie other worhl." This was the dee.
.nation of Vice President Thomas It. 1
Marshall here when he appeared at a "
meeting arranged hy a fraternal
trder. L
MEXICO REFUSES TO RELEASE
CONSULAR AGENT JENKINS
$
Mexico city Declaring there is v
'no legal foundation nor principle of ?
international law" upon which the
I'nlted Strifes bases its demand for t
the immediate release of William () /
Jenkins, United States consular agent .
at Pnehla. the Mexican government 1
through llilario Medina, under-score- ,
tary of foreign relations, stated it
was impossible to acc? de to the re- ?
rpiest of the American state depart .
merit.
NO ACTION TAKEN LOOKING
TOWARDS RAILWAY STRIKE C
Cleveland, Ohio- N'o action looking
toward a railroad strike hy the
f ur railroad brotherhoods was taken r
bv the 51)0 general chairmen meeting '
here to act on Director General of ^
Railroad Hines' off r of time and em- <
half for slow freight service, and no
vote was taken on the proposition, li
fp'hough n motion to vote on it was
adopted. t
AMERICAN PEACE DE ' FATION I
ARRANCING TO LFAVE PARIS
Par's Any delay which may event
ually he found necessary in Die n\
liT't-o of ratifications romi'rei! t > mo
h<> Gorman peace tr? tty into nfect p
w !1 not chang" the plans of the Atner- <
!<-an peace ?!ol' eation. It w is learned. t
I'nder Secret irv of St \to I' tile and r
the other delegates will If ivo Paris (
in tlif evening of Itecomber I
Only a couple of experts w 11 he left p
hfro for tho purposf of compl ting the r
work in hard. (
EXTREME PFNALTY IS PAID "|
BY MEXICAN REVOLUTIONIST
HI Paso, Texas General Pfllpe Anrele*.
Mexican revolutionary loader \
and fanifd throughout the world as a
military genius, was executed by a f
Carranza fiang squad at Chihauhua t
City early, following his ennvietion p.
with two companions on charges of *
rebellion against the Mexican gov v
eminent, according to a telegraphic t
report from Chihuahua City.
General Angeles wax sentenced to t
death by four Carranza generals. ,
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.MOTHER AMERICAN
KILLED IN MEXICO
LOSE ON HEELS OF JENKIN8
AFFAIR COMES REPORT OF
MURDER OF OIL EMPLOYE.
0 OFFICIAL FR3N0UKCEMEM
imes Wallace. Riding a Mule Which
Shied at Machine Gun. is Shot and
Killed by Mexican Soldier.
Washington. . Another American
limit red m Mix f t. close on the
nprisonnient of Consular Agent Jenins.
coupled with reports of revolunn
in Mexico City, w.th farrunzu in
ittl't to IJneretaro. add< d complextes
wli i'ii seemed to force the already
I'll so M.x can sitnat on toward the
nig expectcil breaking point.
There were no otTlcial pronounceicnts
for the guidance of public opln?n
as to what act.on T any the Amor an
governtnent might be eontemplat'g.
but adtninl -tr.it ion officials, by
liiication. wi re willing to show that
lie government is taking a tirni posiion.
considering the eventualities, and
1 prepared to ill il with them, once
course is rh< sen
Anothet nf "the l.i t straws." as
ne officer put it. was laid on with
lie official report (>f the murder of
aines Wallace, an Xnierican oil man,
v a Carran/.a soldier n? ar Tampico.
'he state department summarized its
d vices In this formal statement:
"According to the department's ad
ices, the officer in charge of troops
amped in the vie tnty claimed that
Vallace had provoked the murder,
'he d? partnient has been informed as
result of an investigalion. that a
litle on which Wallace was riding to
lie pltiee of his employment shied
t a maehine gnu which it was passtig.
overturning the gnn The sol
lier immediate! v shot Wallace, the
nllet striking him in the neck and
illing him instanJlv "
The Wallace r< furred to is believed
icre to l?e W. M Wallace, an ctnloye
of the tin!;' Ketininr. Company
IOVEHNMENT WILL PROTECT
MINERS WILLING TO WORK
Washington The governtnenf servd
blunt notice on soft coal miners
tul operators th it interference with
oal production would not lie t derated.
Warning that legal pro cent ion
rould he employed to thwart consplaeies
hv either side and troops sent
."herever necessary to protect miners
billing lo work, came from 'lie departlent
of jn tire after members of the
ilit 11 At i.-.a . ... I.... i
>f t ho fuel siti- ' > !. : i' I t i) 11? 111 v oriti
ill, in view of i'ii* abrupt breaking
ff of IlOgOt i.-lliofl-:
.ADY ASTOR WINS SEAT
IN BRITISH PARLIAMENT
Plymouth, Pnglun I l.ndv Astor,
Unorican horn wife of Viscount Astor,
vas elected t i |>.i ? ! i.-iin -rit from thn
Sutton division of Plymouth.
Th?* campaign attracted wide utter.ion,
duo in largo inoasuro to Padv
kstor's nat innality. hut unron vent ion1
- do t io,rn it' noih.nls and her
rirled and w ttv replies to rpiostionrs.
1/,-idv \-tor who was formorl.v Minn
s'annio Panghorne of Virginia. Is thn
nothor i't ' x > h Idn n, a fact which
ho boasted ol on ono occasion durng
hor canvass
IRRFf.ON AMI PARRANZA EEUD
BREAKS OUT IN MEXICO CITY
San \?itop o T< x i ; Reports worn
ret v- I !io*-o from tho loodor to thn
ffoi ? 'hat f'r ' or had broken out In
i -x no (' 'v h'fw? ..n thn Obregon and
'arrin/a factions
Pre id? nt P ! ran/a is reported to
iavn fl <1 to < Ml' P' r .i' o
(Jfw r ' (' !>' ' <! */i1os is roportrrt
o b li ;i'l :v-r !?< (' irranza troops .
nrnTITV O^ l""rMTOR WHO
COKT.rIVrr> TH1 DEPTH BOMB.
\V i b >n T>.f? navv d^n-irtmnnt
ftor m ' 1'nior tbo soorof all dnr?
i" th? w >r r?> ntlv IP""inc"(l tho
i'?r-f tnvontT who
onrf>,v' i! '''f 'it'i ho*nh w^'rh was
ho most of.wt v" \vin">o :-K"lnst tho
tirnvin suhmav'nos T'?p man is
'hostnr T V "!:l'-r of Vc\v^rt. R. I
fn is o-'v t'.'rf "'x now It" aK-O is
osn-'ns '-'o f " th" tvpo of m'no plantd
In th" North S.vi to hcm in tho
forninn flrrt
l"H FPp WILL NO LENGTHY
NEGOTIATIONS WITH MEXICO.
Washington Although furthor in'rstipatlon
of farts w'11 he madr, thr
tmerlmn frovrrnmrnt has no intenion
of rrccdinR from its position in
hr Jrnk;ns caso. admin'strat'on offi
'sis declared. Thr povemmrnt, thev
aid. is prepared for "thr next stop"
t-hich may tike thr form of an ultima*
urn to thr Mrxican povernment.
Administration officials Ind'eated
hat the negotiations with Mexico
rould not be prolonged.
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