Fort Mill times. (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, March 25, 1920, Image 1
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Established 1891.
SHORT NEWS STORIES
FROM MANY SOURCES
British concerns hkre raised sunken
treasure worth $260,000,000 around the
British Isles since the World war began.
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The hearing, of three policemen,
charged with stealing pies from a
bakery at Reading, Pa., was held behind
closed doors by the mayor of the
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A fine of $25 for stealing flowers
from a grave and reselling them for a
bridal bouquet was imposed on a
florist's employe of Baker, Ore.
Ten years after a new $40 overcoat
had been stolen from him, C. A.
Votiller of New fork city recovered
the garment in a pawnshop It was in
good condition.
There are no landlords In New Hope,
five miles east of Richmond, Ind.,
across the Ohio line, a every one of the
42 homes being owned by the family
which occupies it.
Three girls, weighing * six pounds
each, were born to Mr. and Mrs. J.
Brown of Blue Rapids, Kan., recently,
two years after the birth of twin boys.
Mrs. Brown weighs 800 pounds.
The 1919 tobacco crop in Kentucky
was valued at $100,000,000.. As a result
of the increased cost of the
"weed," tobacco land in the State has
increased from $160 to $2,000 an acre.
Canned tomatoes and peas valued at
thousands of dollars, which were bought
from the army and offered for sale at
a profit, were confiscated in a raid on
grocery stores in New York.
sumcient oaca and barley to sow the
entire devastated region in France has
been delivered to that country by Germany,
in accordance with the reparation
clauses of the peace treaty.
Three men with a small automobile
truck made three tripe to the home gf
a Luke F. McGuire of Baltimore, Md.,
^ .while he was attending church, and
hauled away his Ave barrels of whiskey,
A green pea that had begun to sprout
*faa found by physicians in the nose of
Helen Harp, three years old, of Sunbury,
Pa., when they operated to save
her sight. The child shoved the pea up
her noee last autumn.
The entire oil production of the Osage
Indian nation, totaling 16,000,000 barrels
a year, probably will be taken
over by the United States to insure its
supply of fuel oil for the navy shipping
board and war department.
Black diphtheria caused the death of
the six children of Ross Beck, a farmer
of Gardner Hill, Pa., in as many days
and this is thought to have unbalanced
him mentally, with the result that he
tried to burn his own home.
Arriving in Union town, Pa., from
Greece 12 years ago, and engaging in
the shoe shining business, Gus and
George Gregory have acquired property
valued at about $100,000, their most
recent purchase being a hotel in Connellsville,
Pa.
The opinion that there will be an increase
in railroad freight rates of from
20 to 26 per cent. September 1, when
the financial provision of the new railroad
law becomes effective, is expressed
by railroad exocutives. following
a meeting with the interstate
commerce commission.
A sentence of 20 years in State's
p. 'son was imposed on Mrs. Stanley
Blomaki of Sugar Creek, Wis., when
she was found guilty of murder in the
second degree in connection with the
death of her six-year-old son, who was
beaten to death. The woman was held
to have beaten the child too severely.
Forty nails, the ring from the handle
of an alarm clock, a piece of fruit jar
wire, a button hook, a small monkey
wrench, two spoon handles, several
strings and a piece of cloth, all weighing
ten ounces, were found in the
stomach of Mrs. John Klauae of Saginaw,
Mich., when she underwent an
operation for stomach trouble.
RaAjnnlni, A n.i! 1 .Ifttma /a. inrlam.
WSniiii>.a a vmiMio *v? nitiouinity
il?d for the outright loss of
insured and c. o. d. packages, mailed
ho or before the above date, may inf
, elude the amount of postage on the
parcels. No fee or war tax stamps
are to be included in the claims. This
new ruling as to claims has just been
handed down by the postolfice department.
"If demanded under certain conditions,"
William Jennings Bryan
would "consider" the presidential
nomination, according to a public
statement made by bim at Lincoln,
Neb. He doss not desire the nomination,
but feels that he owes it to
progress va Democracy to go to the
party's national convention "to help in
opposing the reactionaries and friends
of the saloon."
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PROMISE OF CITIZENSHIP
FOR CATAWBA INDIANS
After occupying for the lust 79 years
the unenviable position of wards of the
State, there is now the prospect of citisenship
being granted the Catawba In
dians as the result of the passage at
the 1920 session of the General Assembly
of B joint resolution introduced in
the house by Mr. Bradford of York
county. The resolution provides for
the appointment by the governor of a
committee of three citizens to investigate
the claims of the Catawbas against
the State and to report their Andirigs
to the 1921 session of the General Assembly.
For many years the State has appropriated
annually $7,500 for the Catawbas,
$500 of which was to be used in
running a school for the Indian children
on the reservation, nine miles below
Fort Mill in Catawba township, leaving
the balance of the appropriation for
the maintenance of the Indians. In
recent years, since the cost of living
has advanced so appreciably, this sum
has proved inadequate to meet the actual
needs of the Indians and some of
the older members of the tribe, unable
to leave the reservation to supplement
their meagfer income, have been in want
of food, clothing and fuel. A considerable
number have moved away from
the reservation, some going to Rock
Hill, others to Columbia and a few to
farms in this section to become day
laborers.
The reservation consists of 662 acres
or land, most or which la denuded of
timber and ia so rough, rocky and nonproductive
that lesB than a three-horse
farm can now be cultivated by the Indiana.
about 75 of whom still live on the
reservation. In their present relation
to the State, the Catawbas cannot
acquire real property in their own name,
they cannot vote and are generally denied
the advantaee8 of dtiaeoship. The
amount of mouey provided for their
children ia unable to employ a good
teacher and the children of the families
which have moved to Rock Hill are being
denied an education, since the trustees
of the public schools of that city
have refused to admit them to the
school for white children, it is said,
and the Indians will not send their
children to the schools for negroes,
having consistently refused througnout
all the years to recognize the negroes
in any way as their equal socially.
Up to 20 years ago Catawba Indians
were frequently seen on the streets of
Port Mill, many-coming here prior to
that time to sell the pottery they were
adept at making and to trade with local
merchants. In mors recent years, however,
not so many Catawbas have visited
Fort Mill. Most of those still living
on the reservation now go to Rock
Hill to purchase their supplies and sell
the pottery which they still make in
limited quantities.
The Catawbas have always been
peacefully inclined toward the white
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Ui W1IS VOVVIUII. . All UIC IVOTU1U*
tionary war numbers of them bore arms
for the colonists. They were equally
patriotic in their devotion to the cause
of the South in the War Between the
Sections and in recognition of their service
as soldiers in the Confederate army
there was erected in Confederate park
in Fort Mill in 1900 a monument to the
memory of "some of the Ca*awbas who
served in the Confederate army." The
monument was erected by tho late J.
M. Spratt and the late Capt. S. E.
White and bears the names of the following
Indians, all of whom are now
dead, so far as is known: Jeff Ayers,
John Harris, Jim Harris. Peter Harris,
Peter Harris, Jr., John Scott, Wm.
Caaty, Robt. Marsh. John Brown; Alex
Timina, Billy George, Bob Crawford,
John Sanders, Bill Sanders, Gilbert
George, Epp Harris, Bob Head.
Wilton to Use Veto.
Washington, March 23.?President
Wilson will veto the Knox resolution
declaring a state of peace with CJerihany
or any other measure congress may pass
in an effort to bring about peace without
tlie ratification of the treaty of
Versailles, it was learned today.
The president, it is said, is standing
pat for the Versailles treaty or nothing.
His only concession will be, as previously
announced, the negotiation of n
modus Vivendi agreement with the allies
and Germany to preserve American
rights under the Versailles pact until
the voters express their wishes in regard
to the treaty in the presidential
election.
No move la expected to come from
the white house until congress has acted
upon the Knox resolution.
Captain Sondley Dead.
Columbia, March 24.?Capt. William
H. ..Sondley, for thirty-five years a
captain of the guard at the state pen
itenfiary, died in Columbia today, following
a severe attack of influensa.
' fie was well known all over South
Carolina.
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PRESIDENT MAY OFFER !
FOR ANOTHER TERM
President Wilson still is considered a
possibility as a candidate for th6 preei- c
dency on the Democratic ticket. The *
failure of the peace treaty in the sen- c
ate Has resulted in a good deal of pressure
being brought to bear on Mr. j
Wilson by advocates of the league of (
nations to lead the party, because in ]
their opinion np other candidate could t
hope to win on the issue of opposition
to reservations.
Friends of some of the present Demo- *
critic aspirants ore of the oDinion that (
Mr. Wilson would be seriously handicapped
by the third term tradition in
running even on an issue of his own
making. But the president is a tradition
smasher and always has held
the people should be at liberty to keep
a president in office as long as they
desire.
Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer
has opened headquarters in Washington
and is earnestly seeking delegates.
Mr. Palmar, it is stated, has no guarantee
that he will not be aoked to step
aside at the eleventh hour for the president.
William G. McAdoo, the president's
son-in-law, is urging that delegates
be sent to San Francisco uninstructed.
These two aspirants for the
Democratic nomination are Baid to be
playing the game safe to leave the way
open for the renomination of Mr, Wilson
if he again chooses to make the race
for the presidency.
MANUFACTURERS CLAIM THE
ATTENTION TAX COMMISSION
Columbia, March 23%?Manufacturers
in South Carolina are now receiving
attention from the South Carolina tax
commiHAion, with a view to getting the
property of all manufactories on the
state tax books. The commission is
this week beginning the work of equal- .
ising manufacturers!' property in the
state for taxation. *: <
Thin week blank forms are "being I
sent to all manufacturers of the state, 1
on which they are to furnish informs- t
tion as to the kind of business conducted,
the amount of assets, Including ^
real estate and buildings, value of ma^' ?
chinery, furniture, fixtures and delivery
equipment. Information is also to be < 1
given as to the value of materials '
which go into manufaceures and all (inished
product on hand. The tax '
commission is aUo after Information '
as to the liabilities of manufacturing ]
plants, including capital stock, surplus, '
undivided profits, notes and accounts. 1
the civil code of the state defines a
manufacturer as one who is "engaged in
making, fabricating or changing things '
into new form for use, or id refining, '
rectifying or combining different materials
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REAR ADMIRAL M'GOWAN
SPOKE AT COLUMBIA SHOW (
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Columbia, March 22.?Rear Admiral j
Samuel McGowan, the principal speak- (
er of American Legion Day at the automotive
show and trades union display j
this afternoon, stated hia opposition to
tho ltouus.
He appealed for "a citizenship that
stands for law and order and the sta- L<
I?i>ity of the republic, that counts ami ,
-area for what it can give rather than i
what it can get." " 1
"America's contribution to world
peace and world civilization manifeet- '
cd itself then in physical suffering and
death. The name Itaaic manliness needs
now to be applied towards establishing
throughout the land a better citizen- '
<hip, n citizenship that stands for law
and order and the stability of the republic,
that counts and cares for what
it. can give rather than what it can get.
In thia way alone throughout this trying
time of reconstruction and amid
the dull monotony of a daily drudgery,
in this way alone can we of the legion
show ourselves to lie worthy comrades
of those who sailed overseas never to
return, those brave souls whose stars
have turned to gold." the admiral said.
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Congressman Dies in Barter's Ckair.
Washington, March 24.?Reprefentutive
William J. Drowning,'] republican,'
of Camden, N. J., died today while
seated in a harbor's chair in the shaving
parlor of the eapitol buitding.
Mr. Drowning had just stepped into
the chair, when he fell tiack, expiring
instantly, heart trouble being the
cause. Hp wan 70 years of age and |
was not married.
Representative Browning was rank* |
ing republican on the house naval af- ,
fairs committee and had served in the |
house since the 02nd congress. F)rom j
IROfi to 1911 he was clerk of the house
nnd liefore that time was postmaster
of Camden. *
Income Tak in York.
York, March 94.?Income taxes paid
by individuals in York countv range
from $1 to nearly $50,000. There were
half a dozen or more taxpayer* who
puid from $2,000 to $10,000 each ,but
the majority of those who wore liable
at all paid amounts ranging from about
$100 down.
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STEVENSON CERTAIN
* DEMOCRATS WILL WIN
TRiihiagton, March 24.?The hope of
Letnecrats for success in the election?
frows brighter, according to member*
>f congress, who have a chance to observe
the trend of the political current.
Congressuuus W. P. Stevenson, in an
nterv^aw, expressed his belief that the
lemoei'ats would snow under the republicans
next fall and gave some rontons
for this belief. Mr. Stevenson
taldi
There hns been a pessimistic wave aa
x> democratic prospects throughout the
xjuntryJ for sometime past. During the
sreek.jikHt gone by, the skies have
Prigbteiaed greatly. The republican dr
fanizatlon in the bouso has been ao mdly
divided and demoralized that on
Friday, March 19th, the majority of
the rb)w .committee were overturned
ind the control of the parliamentary
dtuatkin'givAi to the democratic member*
on the matter of the bill to give
i bonus to the navy peraonneL This
is the Same thing that happened ten
peers Ago, on the same day of March
irhen Uncle Joe Cannon was overthrown)1
fend ft was the beginning of the
?nd of republican control of congress
ind foreshadowed a democratic victory
which was realized next fall, at the
Section. Furthermore, the republican
iiouso has act on foot 17 investigations
if the Conduct of the war, have spent
?2,000,000.00 investigating and have
Tound nothing sufficient on which even
to Introduce a vote censure of any ofScial,
much less to indict one, while on
the other hand Senator Newberry and
lixteen cola borers, one of them an offi
uai 01 me repuoitcan hmdquarter*, have
>een co?v it-ted of conspiring to bay a
>enatonthip and sentenced to the penitentiary.
The jnry that convicted, was
omposed of ten republicans and two
iemocrats. When yon see the achievements
of tho democratic paVty and
dace along side of it the. bareeonness of
l year's work of the republican party
ind its political attitudo towards the
treaty, made possible by the vote of this
onvict, you can see that the democratic
ikies' are brightening- And strange to
'ay,' this demoralisation of the republics
party 'in congress, has not even
)ecn hinted '.at, by the papers in the
-apitai.
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'IOHTWO.OK POLISH PROlfT
IS REPORTED PROM WARSAW
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Warsaw, March 23.?Extremely heavy
igliting is reported on the Polish front,
h communication announces that after
.he greatest artillery preparation yet
xpcricneed tl e Bolelievik infantry adranced
againstthe hridgeftcad at
&wiehel, anided by tanks and armored
notor cars. After a sharp engagement,
mjh . the oonayunication,^ the Polish
roups launched a counter-attack with
jayoncts and. hand grenadas, driving the
nciuv far from the Polish line."
- "The .Poles," the eommqpicetion continues,
"raptured ope tank and sbmc
machine guns and prisoner^. Simultaneously
the Poles attacked the Soviet
Bolshevik division which was on the
>(Tensive in the sector of Kmilozen and
ompelled the enemy to Vctreat caster
!y, abandoning his batteries,, horses.
Ammunition carta and machine guns,
itt other points attempts to cross the
River Hlucx were checked."
The communication adds that inten
?ive* artillery flre continues by both
Ides along this and otiier sectors, and
that the Bolshcviki are concentrating
as rapidly as posaiblo and reforming
ihoir shattered units for the purpose ot
Attacking.
nunrAKll5Afl LEAUUE
MEETS 111 MINNESOTA
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St. Paul, March 24.?"We will capture
Minnesota in 1920."
Thin prediction madrf'ovtr a year ago
jy A. p. Town ley, president of the
National Nonpartisan League, waa beng
weighed here today by a state
onvention of league members.
The teaguo convention waa called for
tha> purpose of putting a nonpartisan
league ticket into the field for the
itate, primary to be held June 30. The
eague will operate as a distinct political
arty in this state, it was indicated.
Since Townley made the prediction
:he league ha* spent thousand* of dollars
organizing farmers ' and laboring
men in' every pook and corner of the
itates A young army of organizers has
anva^sMi its length and breath.
A Nonpartisan Working Peoples Poiticul
League has been organized by
nbor leaders to work largely with the
Nonpartisan League?but not ae a part
>f it. The constitution of the National
Nonpartisan League allows only "bonaids"
farmers to become members.
'By tomorrow night the league will
tare announced its ticket for the
itale contest and one of the bitterest
^alitical fights in ths state's history will
tie on. e
Fire in Spartanburg.
Spartanburg, March 23.?Fire here
iwrly today, originating, it is believed.
From spontaneous combustion, did eon
liderabie damage to the plant of the
Spartan Grain and Mill company, jsitiiatfd
in the warehouse of the Piedmont
fc Northern railway, on Spring street,
tnd for a time threatened the extensive
itructnre. The principal loss was la water
damage to the stock of feed and
pain stored in ths building. t
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TWENTY-EIGHT CENTS
COST OF 1918 COTTON
Washington, D. C., March 24.?A preliminary
report on the co?t of cotton <
production for 1018, just issued by the i
United States Department of Agricul- <
ture, shows a "bulk line" cost of 28 !
cents per pound of lint. At a price iixed
.oil this basis, 85 per cent of the cotton I
production on the 842 farms from fhicb !
cost figures were obtained would have
been produced at a profit, and GO per
cent of. the farmers concerned would i
have made money.. At a price fixed on
the basis of average cost of production
?28 cents?only 351 of the 842 farmers,
or 41.7 per cent, would have made a
profit. i
The data from which these figures i
were gathered by the Oftice of Farm
Management during May and June,
1019, in parts of Alabama, Georgia,
South Carolina, and Texas. The records,
which are -for tho 1018 crop, show in
detail for each of the 842 farms the
expenditures that should be charged to
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me nnwu ini|) lur muur, i(*a fertilizer,
manure, baskets, sheets, and sack* used
in picking, ginning, bags, ties, use of
land, use of machinery, insurance, taxes
and overhead. These figures have just
been tabulated, and the results of the
survey will soon be published in full.
It was found that the net cost of production
ranged from 8 cents a pound to
$1.07. Three farms, totaling only 35
acres, produced, cotton at the minimum (
coat. Only 22 farms produced at a cost ,
of less than 14 cents, while over 50 show
costs ranging from GO cents to $1.07
per pound.
The average yield of lint cotton for
all districts was 227 pounds per acre.
There was a variation in yield from 78
pounds per acre for the lowest producing
ten farms to 481 for the high producing
ten farms.
Yield per acre, in general, shows a controlling
influence upon cost per pound.
Where yields were high the cost per
pound was uamlly found to be comparatively
low, and vice versa. For example,
the operator who is found to produce
300 pounds of cotton per acre at a
cost of $00 per acre, produces at the ,
rate of 20 cents per pound, while the t
operator whose yield la but 1G0 Dounds.
though he keeps his acre cost down to j
$45, produces at the rate of 30 cents
per pound.
It is pointed out that the Mbulk lino"
as determined for these 842 cotton ,
farms, almost coincides with the price i
actually received for the crop in ques- j
tton, namely, about 20 cents. The season
of 1D18 admittedly was an exceptionally
prosperous one for the cotton
growers, and only 12 per cent of the
farmers from whom cost figures were
obtained grow cotton at a cost in ex
cess of the price that prevailed for the
1018 crop.
SITUATION IN IRELAND IS
REGARDED AS SERIOUS
London, March 24.?The Dublin - correspondent
of tho London Times describes
the situation in Ireland in the
darkest colors. He says the outlook
is serious and that conditions in the
west and south are extremely grave.
The position, bad last week, is now
definitely worse- ami nutilie fwlinn i>
so fiercely inllamod as to become quite
irrational. The moat outrageous crimes
against the government are accepted
as gospel truth.
The correspondent says tho Sinn Fein
asks the country to accept the monstrous
theory that Lord Mayor Mac
i Curtain, of Cork, was killed by actual
agents of the government. He
describes the over-night riot in Dublin
as another danger signal, and says
it is impossible to get an impartiul
account of the incident, the popular
version being that the soldiers provoked
and assaulted civilians.
The correspondent learns that the
soldiers were stoned by a crowd liecause
they left the theater singing
the national ' anthem as a protest
against the failure of tha theater orchestra
to play it. He adds that public
opinion throughout the country is
exasperated by the wild charges against
th# police and aoldiers, who, he de
, Lull w, wouTu Denny n numin u 1
they did not resent the campaign of
.murder and calumny.
ONE MAR KltlLE&;* ANOTHER
FATALLY HURT IN ACCIDENT
Columbia, March 24. Sergeant John
McKinny was inetantly killed, and truck
drirtr Fox was terribly injured at 10
o'clock today when a big army truck
they were driving akidded on Gervaia
street and jammed into a concrete trol*
ley pole. Fox is not expected to live
uatil night. Two women were the
only eye witnesses of the tragcdv.
BotK men were members of the 44th I
| roast artillery, camp Jackson.
Te Ask for Bend Isaac.
York, March 84.?J. C. Wilborn and
oths* citisena of York township are
eh-cutatlng among free holders of the
township a petition asking for an election
on the question of issuing township
| road bonds in the sum of $100,000 for
road work. The petitions are being
freely signed and there is little
doubt but what the bond issue will
entry in the event that an election on
the question Is ordered.
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DEMOCRATS PREPARE
FOR STATE CAMPAIGN
Columbia, March 23.?One more month
? lapses before the election machinery
in South Carolina will begin to move,
iixl already the candidates are throwing
their hata in the ring.
The Democratic clubs will meet on
the fourth Saturday in April, which
is the 24th. The county conventions
will be held on the first Monday in
May, which is the 3rd, at the county
seats. The state democratic convention
will be held on May 111. The first primary
will be held the last Tuesday in
August. The democratic club rolls will
be opened on the last Tuesday in June,
according to the party rule* in South
Carolina, and will remain open till the
last Tuesday in July.
The ofliee for which there are as
yet the largest number of aspirants
announced is that of lieutenant governor.
The men announced for tho ollice
are Wilson G. Harvey, and Oetuvua
Cohen, both of Charleston; and W. L.
Mishoe, of Conway. Lieutenant Governor
Junius T. I.iles announces that
he will not oifer for re-election. Other
persons have been mentioned in connection
with the ofliee, but they have
not as yet made definite statements.
H. P. Fulmcr, of Norway, prominent
merchant and tmnker, has announced
for congress from the Seventh Congressional
district, and Solicitor Warren,
of Hampton, has announced fur the
senate. Otherwise political announcements
have been only local.
BLISS DENIES STATEMENT
.MADE BY ADMIRAL SIMS
Washington, March ..3.?The controversy
started by Rear Admirnl Situs'
criticism of the navy department's conduct
of its war activities was broadened
tonight by the entry of the war
department to deny some of tho admiral's
statements regarding the land
forces.
General Tasker H. Illiss, American
representative in the supremo war
council, not only denied categorically
that he had recommended the brigading
of United States troops with foreign
armies, an testified by Admiral Him*,
but declared "the truth is exactly the
reverse."
General Bliss made his denial in a
letter to Secretary Baker, who tract*mitted
it, together with a copy of the . ,
original order assigning General Pershing
to command the forces overseas, to
Secretary DanielR, and he in turn went
both on to Chairman llale, of the senate
naval sub-committee, at the aume
time making all the correspondence
public.
"Not only at no time did 1 make any
recommendution for the brigading of
American troops with the British
army," Generul Bliss said, "but tho
truth is exactly the reverse. The only
tiuirn i nny a n ur mum m niiimtt wivu
Admiral Sim* in Kurope were while 1
wa* in London with the American mission
(the no-culled House mission) between
the 8th and 22nd of November,
'017. Purine that entire time the idea
of brigading or amalgamating American
troops with foreign armies lind not,
as far as I know, entered the head of
any one, nor did I ever make auch a
suggestion, much leas a recommendation."
General lllisa Raid he told the supreme
war council that auch a thing
aa permanent amalgamation of Ameri*n
unita with the llritlsli or French
wonld be "intolerable to American sentiment"
which led the presiding officer,
M. Clemenceau, to declare that '.'thia
point wan nettled" and nothing wan
heard thereafter on the subjection.
In General Pershing's original orders
*.? commander in chief of the American
expeditionary forcen, it wan specifically
orovided that American troops were to
perate an individual unite.
Big Qnestioni Facing Colby.
Washington, March 23.?Four big international
problema today faced lluinbridcrn
folhv whimn nninlnatinn u/.a
confirmed by the senate yesterday, and
who today took the oath of ofllce.
One of these problems eoncerna the
Turkish situation. This government's
view of the settlement will be transmitted
to the allies within twenty-four
ours, it is believed. The United States
will urge that the Turks he permanently
ejected from Constantinople.
Then there is the Rusaiun situation.
Arrangements are being sought by the
lilies whereby unrestricted trade with
soviet Russia will be allowed, at the
. isk of the truders.
Another problem is that of the Adriatic.
A reply is due from the allies
in response to the last communication
on the subject from President Wilsin,
n which he answered their arguments
tnd reiterated his opposition to their
o'heme for a settlement. '
And probably the greatest is the ,
l>eaee* treaty. One of Secretary Colby's
first big tasks will he the negotiation
of mot*us vivendi agreements with the
allies and Germany, which will safeguard
America's rights uuder tho Vor- \
sailles treaty until the peace pact is ) i
finally ratified or rejected. ) J
Didn't Grow Much. A
Washington, March 24.?The census ^A
bureau today announced that the ^B
population of Clifton Forge, Va., waa ^H|
6,160, an increase of seven per cent. ^^B
during the past ten years.
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