Cheraw chronicle. (Cheraw, S.C.) 1896-2005, July 10, 1919, Image 3

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THE CHERAW CHRONICLE VOL. 22. ^ *V**U^V -\v: OHEEAW, & On THU^&IXAY, JULY 10, 1919 NO. 36 ? _ ii ' if ft ' " " " ' * - - " LABOR EMPLOYMENT BUREAU CONTINUED i i k . M >1 CHANGE COMES OVER 8PIRIT 1 OF OREAM8 OF OFFICIALS J AT WASHINGTON. 1 WORK DELAYED BUT ONE OXH ? 1 Appropriation of $400,000 Will Enable J Bureaus to Continue Operations t Fending Passage Permanent Bill Columbia. Offices of the United States Employment service throughout the country, -which were abolished by the director -general, Joh,n B. Densmore, because Congress had failed to appropriate necessary' funds for the continuance of the work, were reqpened by an order from Mr. Dehsmore revoking htis previous order. This action was taken after Congress had passed the sundry civil bill carrying $400,000 for the employment service. The appropriation* "of'-$400,000 will ?nable the service , to continue for two months and by this time it Is- believed the permanent employment serrloe bill now pending in both "i "houses will be passed. In the meantime the offices will continue their j work as before, except they will be ( supported entirely by federal aid and t will not rely upon outside help which j lias enabled the .work to go forward t since the latter part of March. c "Work -Ahead R. R. Commission. 1 The South Carolina railroad com- ' mission has some busy weeks ahead. Hie commission will hold a hearing In Walteifeprpk Colleton county; July 10, rslatlTe to the stopping of through J trains at Green ' Pond, where connection is made t# J?alterboro. The same dajr'Hhe commission will t VV mo to Bhrhardt to consider the urgency of additional train service between WiKiAi) end- Bhrhardt ore* the 1 branch of the Atlantic w vwuaiuoivu uro aauiv uajFl While in Walterboro and Ehrhardt 0 tha commission will make an Inspec- 8 lion of the physical condition of tho 8 roadbed and equipment of the Walter- 8 "boro branch of the Atlantic Coast 1 Line and the Bamberg, Walterboro ! and Ehrhardt Railroad. July 17 the commission will hare a. * liearing in the Columbia office rela- a tire to the necessity of addltioaal. * train service between Boston and An- 1 <Jrewg in Georgetown county: * On this same date a hearing will be Kiven relative to the plea for add!- tlonal service over the Seaboard Alt 8 "Line between Savannah, Charleston s and Georgetown, and also additional aervlce between Georgetown and Andrews. 1 Car Pare Reasonable. t Holding that the plaintiffs in the case against the Columbia Railway, <3as tc Electric Company, who sought to have an injunction issued against the company restraining it from collecting seven cent street- car fares in Columbia, do not appear to have suffered any injury other than'that common to all other citizens who may wish to use the lines of the street car company, Judge W. H. Townsend re Tuaed the application Jor a temporary I Injunction. The effect of the refusal of the court to grant the Injunction i la that the afreet car company will < continue to collect caven cent car fares aa It haa been doing aince July < 1. " < i Schools Making Progress. t One hundred and seventy-nine dla- i trlcta In 22 'counties participated in ( the disbursement of state aid under i the terms of the 'equalisation law for needy schools. The amount" paid out > totals |68,120. leaving in the atate treasury an unexpended balance of i $66,880. J R. C. Wright, publisher of the Col- i nimbi & Record states that he will ap- t peal from the Bethea libel verdict, to i the supreme court. s Edwin Robertson Commended. ( Edwin W. Robertson,- Who gave his services unreservedly to the country ; during the war period by acting aa t state chairman of ?he first four Liber- j ty loan campaigns and district chair- t man of the Fifth Federal Reserve Dis- c trict organization in the Victory Loan drive, has received a very compli- ( mentary letter from Carter Glass, sec- ? retary of the treasury. y "You have served loyally at the sacrifice; of your personal Interests, and (] Vlll ^ OOOruo fVtA flrnotUit<lA ? / jm *?vnu. ?o mu h> "VHUUO Ul /UUI 3 country*' the letter concludes. < -:?* t V ' V ' Board Exports and Marketing. fl The board of exports and marketing, -which has recently been appointed by ^ Governor Cooper, has charge and reg- " ulations pf the corporations that may t be organised for the purpose of en- t gaging in the business of exporting \ commodities from the United States i to foreign countries or to the insular e possessions of the United States. c When a concern organises to engage c in the export business. It shall enter ;T Into artloles of association which shall'- F stale the object for srfcleb the assocW c ion le formed. r |f faUi B?the'a Win* Libel bulk . + ] fie Jury* In the case of Andr*# Betbea against the Columbia Dai Record brought in a verdict. for $1 )00 for Itlie plaintiff after deliberate ibout six hours. The* 12 men retire it 12:50 p. pt. and the verdict was a louncecf" shdrtly before 7 o'clock. Attorneys for the defendant gai lotice that a motion for a new trii will be lnade.- Judge Townsend wl lear arguments during the comlr week. The plaintiff sued for 2100,000 on a :ount of several articles which a Seared in the: Columbia Record cor nenting on- his connection with tt irmy and his- right to wear the nn 'orm of * major. The defense endea >red to show that the stories printe n the newspaper were privileged cor nunications. I J Society Is . OOlng Well. * * 4 . Recently Secretary Williams of tfa itate board <of charitlei and corre :ions, made an inspect'.on of th South Caroline Children's Home S :iety, and finds the society doin nuch good work. He says there Is a. general .nioVi nent in. the country toward, the r >laclng of orphanages by a system < >lacing the children in homes at a ?arly age. so that they may bscocn tsed to home life and* get In Close ouch with the real world. The-e >hanagee are becoming agents fc >lacing the children in the best home. Tar Heel Women Invited*. . Mrs. Pant In.conference with Mil toberts, director of woman's dlrisio >f war loan organisation of . the tre* try department, and with Presldet Tohnson of Winthrop College, Vaa-ai horized to invite the North Carolln dub women to Winthrop College Jc he club women's course on the sain erms as those offered South Carolln lllh wnmnn J.J *v.i nvitatlon In person at Hen(|ersonvlll< Mrs. Alice P. Norton, pgitdy of tlj rournal of Rome Economic*, end ft nany years associate professor ( tome economics.at the University < Jhicago, will be sent by tae tre%sur lepartment aa our Instructor for tb hrlft course. ?v'-r . .. ^ : ered at the Lutb?rait._suminer schot >pening at New berry-0?^ege.July ! ind continuing through July .18:- Th easions are usually largely attende md prospects now are bright for arge body of Christian workers to b ;lven to prayer which will be followe >y a meeting of leaders at 8 6'clocl bourses will be given in -Sunda ichool work, mission study, music, o janization, principles of young pe< >le's society, woman's home and fo )ign and children's ihislonary soci< iOs, literature and: many others. . The faculty is ope of the best thi mthorities of the school have bee ible to secure in the eight years < he school. Vant to Annex Greer. Governor Cocrper hae received a p ition signed by 650 people -of Greet rille for the anneainsr of a nortlon < 3partanburg county, including the cit )f Greer, to Greenville, and asking tb cdvernor to appoint the commlslon 1 irrange the election on the question The petition asks (or the annex; :lon of 32 square miles of territory, i Spartanburg county, which holds 4 100 people and has taxable properl vorth nearly a million dollars. Matters Military. According to Information given oi it the office of the adjutant genera 3reenville had 69 men ready for li ipection when the official arrived. N company has yet been lormed * i Greenwood. General Moore, who wi n Barnwell, plans to go to Charle on, where two companies, the Waal ngton Light Infantry and the 8umt4 Guards will be formed. One compan ias been organized at Pelser. \ppolnted 8upercargo. Washington.?(Special) ? Senate "Mai haa secured a position for Boyc r. Whitehead of Union as supercarg with the United States shippln >oard. Mr. Whitehead has been I Washington (or some time with th ihipping board. Commissions and Amendment. In the office of tho secretary < itate an application for an ameni nent to the charter of the Bank ( Norway was filed. The bank wishe o increase its capital stock from $2E 100 to $50,000. A commission was issued to th Guaranty Loan A Trust Company < It. Matthews, the capital stock' < vhich is to be $50,000. A commission was issued to the Ai trews Country Club. The capiti tock is to he $6,000 and the organisi ion Bocial in its nature. Vouth Carolina Day. A fnet not connected with the worl rar in that Jane M is known e South Carolina Day," so named (c he victory which was achieved ovi he British by the Americans at th >attle ot Fort Moultrie on June 2: 776, In the War of Revolution, an ilso because 100 years later at th :elebratIon of the centennial anntve ary of that battle 4n Charleston. t^ novement was set on foot, which r lulted in the "Btralghtout" Democrat! lampaign that redeemed the sta( roc carpetbag mlsgorernment. <. .WILUAM D. UPSHAVV . | t> Representative William D. Upshaw da 8 of Atlanta, Q?., went to the national th, yongress from the pulpit, being by ca B. profession an avangjtJist. He has been ^ ^ conducting a revival In on* of the yf Washington churches. ? / ^ i PLEASANT WIRES APPROVAL 2 s . " _ _ v " i ty] g New Corporation Will Not Conflict <D| With $100,000,000 Cotton Export fn . ..Financing Concern. an ? ? .';. ' H< n -New * Orleans.?Plans tor a syste- Is B_. msMc campaign. In ^the cotton belt for rt orgftnIaib#!^1*i?*Je? of tfleatates for it ^ handling the annual crop were launch4 ed bete at thesecond meeting at the tic ,r present conference of directors of the of p A merican Cotton AMOOiaUbn. J. S. a Wannamaker, of Columbia, S. C.. pres- m( ta ldeut, eatd that, f400,006,600 would be pa b. needed for formityg Jthe planned cor- tn e poration to properly dispose of one nt ,r fourth of the - r lo< yf. This corporation, according to. th ,# Prqetdent Waniigtnaker, will not con- P* y fllct with the /prbposedf |ifcM00,000 e export financing corporation, 8. aa the former will liialt iU work to cotton for domea^^kae. '^'^' O., r-' . Governor Ruffian. Pleaa??L timis > lana, chairman fit the eXMftttV? come mittee of the export erg^^tatfcjdhgjel- ^ i- o^anliatlrm?wBP9^P^KyVfe*We5h; fa, >1 t>f New Orl eane,- adirec t6r at. Ujl% g* jfc 3 port corporation, Oxpta^MtL \ to JtW. | i e American Cotton association the plans m< d of the former. a The plana for . Organising,-'adopted c|( ?e include the forming of county dnd on d pariah, organizations in every -cotton fQ] I. growing state and a resolution was Tr ,y adopted requesting commissioners of gc r- agriculture and presidents of farmers' to Or unionB to issue joint calls, for the llrst r- meetings. ' '' j| s- 'Telegrams are beir.g, sent to governors of cotton growing, states .and v.. it presidents oL organizations interested n requesting that state meetings be call- ^a )f ed in July. * " ' ot i ... ?I? ?T~ ? * ...,m< KONENKAMP. HAS CALLED OFf ! m< GREAT TELEGRAPHERS STRIKE At ^ . ll-v a. Chicago.?-The strike of telegraphers 8? 5f was called . off by S. .J. Konenkamp, y president of the Commercial Telegra- to\ 19 phers* Union of America. 'to 0 President Konenkamp called off the ?c strike after' he "hrid conferred with be other .officials of the% union. lal ln A statement addressed to the mem- P*" I. bers of the organizatjon .by President y Konenkamp read "itiv part: "When the present strike was de . clared against the telegraph companies under control of the wire administrajt tion, It was understood it would not m< j be made an endurance contest. The ha Q' strike was to be the final protest At C0 against the unfair and unjust treat- Be ment we have received since August, ty. lB 1918, at the hands of the wire admin- co istration. % un h "We realized that in order to make dii )r this protest effective it would be nec- ml [y essary to make the strike sufficiently acute to compel action. This does-not AI seem possible now, either through our efforts or the efforts of others we is)r lied upon to help us. Acting upon >e this conclusion and with a view to Gc ' s rvlng your best interests, I hereby ba declare the strike at an end, and you nu n are Instructed to work without fur- ini ther delay. You have made a gallant ba struggle for your rights as American lis % workingmen and women. pa f HIGH COST OF LIVING Pf CAUSES RIOT IN ITALY f Porll, Italy.?After a great meeting here In which A vast crowd protested as against the high cost of living, the j do people, excited by Inflammatory de speeches, attacked, saclced and de-1 re stroyed many shops which refused to Pr sell commodities at lower prices. Soon the fury of the mob made no a distinction and bad no limits. <A11 an " the principal Shop* were plundered, in l' and the moke controlled the entire no city. . 'l' * th 60 MILES 31LK RIBBON I. ? "FOit VICTORY BADGES'* ' '* 1 11 Washington?Orders bare Just beep >r placed by the army quartermaster du corps for 165,00(1 yards?60 milea?of be silk ribbon, but of which will be made off d the service stripes that men who serv- no ? ed In the war are entitled to wear, it r* Though the authorization for the "Vic- of it- tory badges,* as they will be called, * was Issued by the War department on ce >e April 6, U was found impossible soon- cs * er to start the manufacturing pro- ttl caps. su ~ * * - - - As*"' UNIFICATION OF LEAGUE EXPECTED 9 POSITION TO TREATY WITH PEACE LEAGliS CLAUSE 18 RAPIDLY CRUMBLING. EBATE MAY CONSUME WEEKS vo Great Elements, Business Men od .Moral Forcea Are Supporting Program of Administration. Washington.?As the President apoaches the White House, the oppo- A ion to tho league ot nations crum- JS as. It has been apparent here for ? yc, ever since Ellhiu Root fired into e "Knox resolution, that the republi- fM ns as a party would never oppose M, e league of nations. y A A few personally ambitious senators F the Borah and Hiram Johnson J po, are out for applause from the A llory, but plain, practical states- fA ?n of the Penrose and Will H. Hays pe, are, like "br'or fox," saying noth- q, 6- i Mas Secretary Daniels has Just returned mar 3m a speaking trip in Ohio, Illinois g|an d other states of ihe middle west, perf 3 is convinced that the President half very strong there. ' poui It Is believed here that after a splr- ill < id debate of days, or perhaps wee'.ts, heal B war will be closed by the ratiflca- won in of the treaty, including the league and nations. ?*d. Two great elements, the business ?n and the moral . forces, are sup- ply rting the prograhft'. of the adminis- 1 iticn. Senators Khox, Lodge and hers of the anti-Wilson group are sking for a -soft Ijpdlng place, and Con< py can't prove that the plan of the U| ?Silent will notmork. . , JPER-D1RIGIBLE R-34 NOW W RESTS ON BgptEVELT FIELD, at r Mineola, V. T.?great Britain's su- govt ftt1rre,r* "a rHeld, after anuria! voyage of 108* esss ittrs'-and 12 minutes which covered onlj .30. knots or approximately 3,600 land tim< lies. plat Poaolnff thrnnrh rinnsn hanks of T jud, with the sun and sea visible can ly at rare Intervals, the R-34 was civi reed to cruis? 2,050 knots to reach Dist inity Bay, N. F., from East Fortune, pf ) :ot!and, and 1,080 knots from there ure Mineola. and , W HE PRE8IDENT IS INVITED incl TO SPEAK AT ASHEVILLE. last $5.0 Asheville, N. C.?President Wilson for .s been invited to attend the sessions Con the Southern Labor congress, which $15, sets here August 20. is the announce- viot ant of Secretary W. C. Puckett, of lanta. He was also asked to de- COI er an address during one of the ss'ons of the congress. The letter sent to the President in- w rms him that the congress proposes aboi deal with legislative, social and yeai onomlc questions that are actively 0f , fore the people at this time and the tice bor congress feels the need of his a esence and advice. g.7 cres kRTHQUAKE OF MODERATE heir INTEN8ITY 18 RECORDED, redi raer Washington.?An earthquake of evei aderate intensity, believed to have city d its center in Central or South fav< nerlca, was recorded early by the hea' (sinograph at Georgetown unjversiThe earth tremors first were re- AFC rded at 8:11 o'clock and continued itll 4 o'clock. The distance of the Uurhance was estimated at 2,300 SI lies from Washington. gate noH -ABAMA CONGRESSMAN fror 8UES BIRMINGHAM PAPER. Indl . T Birmingham. Ala. ? Congressman oplr ?orge Huddleeston of the ninth Ala- Pioi ma district. has filed damage la's Its against the Age-Herald Publish- wea e Company aggregating $1,300,000. spir sed on cartoons and articles pub- mit: hed during the congressional cam- tier ign last year. har< RESIDENT OF PERU HAS TEF BEEN THROWN IN PRISON Lima, Pru.?Augusto B. Hequta has p sumed office as provisional prosl- of t nt of Peru and took up his resl- expi nee in the government palace as a stat Bult of the successful overthrow of lisle esident Pardo. the Senor Pardo. all his ministers and \\ number of high officers of the army I sere d navy are In prison, Pardo being j the the penitentiary here. Virtually j plo\ .fighting and no casualties marked C 6 overthrow of the government. "Oh W. W. AGITATION IN COf MtAlOU 13 HtNLWED. Washington.?Agitation bv the In- ^ atrial Workers of the World haa of t en renewed In Mexico, according to that 'icial reports received here. While npp< i actual violence has been reported iate waa said there had been threats tors serious trouble. ahol With the forcible deportation re- ural ntly of a number of leaders who acie used the strikes. Mexican author- up i as believed they had completely scle ppressed the I. W. W. agitation. pro! GEORGE A. SAXTON^ ||| w.' "Sh< eorge A. Saxton of Dorchester, mand Is West Point's perfect young dltlon, i. He Is a physical and mental lew, it, and Is rated at 100 per cent "depar ect. Saxton Is six feet one and a "would Inches tall and weighs 210 to rids. Up to five years ago he was rested constantly; now he Is in perfect goren th, cured by open-air life. He has extrac] high scholastic honors at Yale certaii Harvard. He Is eighteen years ^1 comes E BILLION 15 APPROPRIATED tlon 1 ofTens be e: gresa Also Repealed Bills Footing SU5je( p More Than $15,000,000 Passed otlns, BY the Last Congress. Shouli Is tec 'ashington.?Congress adjourned t'*ie nidnight until July 8. after enact- advlc? ail appropriation Dins neeaea Dy Jv jrnment agencies for the new fls- resldl year. partm jccess crowned the efforts of re- that ^ ' after hours of delay which at i is almost threatened to block their is. Wa he final bill, the army measure, wa si ylng $775,000,000; the sundry ingtoi I bill, carrying $605,000,000; the day. :rict of Columbia's annual budget Indus (15,000,000 and a deficiency meas- tions of $25,000,000, all were completed were sent to the white house. all of rith enactment of tne final bills many uding measures passed at the were session of Congress, more than gev 00,000.000 has been appropriated ar(t c federal needs during the new year. ness i Kress also has cancelled more than Qf iaj 000.000 of war appropriations pre- servlc isly authorized. on th er pi ("TON CROP E8TIMATE mime UNDER 11,000,000 BALES, pagea Peace Washington.?A cotton crop of the w at 1.000,000 bales smaller than last horro r's was forecast by the department age a agriculture in estimating prospec- of pe production at 10.986,000 bales, creage this year shows a cut of per cent from last year's, the deise being 3,247.000 acres, the total ig 33,960,000. Tho agitation for a action in acreage which the depart- Par it of agriculture jays occurred in ry cotton-growing state, the scar- Foch and high price of labor and unirthlA nlantinr weather caused the notab vy decrease. celebi day o 1HAN PEACE DELEGATES T,GW ARE BACK FROM FRANCE. Pat'or the c< Imla. India.?Afghan peace dele- *alnm ?s have arrived at Jalalabad. Re- can 8 :s indicate that all is quiet on the while itier and the belief is growing in waid. a that peace will be arranged. The he general official and non-official parad lion appears to be reflected by the throui leer's comment that Emir Amanul- given overtures are obviously those of a showl k, repentant ruler and that the girls ; it of contrition renders magnani- the P ir possible. The heat on the fron- sic of continues abnormal, inflicting great! jshlps on the troops. the b IRIFIC TRAIN WRECK HOHI CAUSES TWELVE DEATHS. unklrk. N. Y.?Fnginper Clifford, Am he New York Central's Westerner I stand ress, tried, according to his dying ' gavcr ement, to avert the rear end col- may 1 >n with train No. 41, which caused Firs death of 12 persons. that , Mtnesses said the siren was still leged eching for the hand brakes when based Westerner, going 50 miles an hour, Hohei ved into the rear coach of No. 41. contn lifford's almost dying words were leave ! I tried to stop." be wi 48C1ENCE OF FIGHTER TRIA \/Q TU AT AC rto IC(<TAB w ui nr\ wr wtitiKW I vn* ' Washington.?Tn refusing a request Lor he amnesty committee of Chicago Lord he make an "open," unequivocal five j eal to President Wilson for immed- state: release of all conscientious objec- and J , Secretary Baker declared the Qerm lition of future wars "was Immeas- sir t?ly more advanced by the con- eral nee which led young men to give the ] their lives for it than by the con* )ern, nee which found Itself limited to Qerm ?t." la wye .HELM MAY QUIT S 1ANDJT WILL S HE EVENT OF A REQUEST P< DEMAND FOR SURRENDER E MIGHT BE DETAINED. TAPE IS GUIDING POWER S tal Under Whose Jurisdiction A y Resides Must Finally Pass On Matters in Question. terdam..?There Is nothing to it the former German emperor" "i ? former crown prince from/ SI 5 Holland at their pleasure, ac-' ec g to a high government author- cs The Hague quoted by the Am- ei m Telegraaf correspondent. If e< or them should leave, however, hi ricial quoted said, the surprise gi lr departure would be "unpleas- re Dth for the Dutch government th tie Dutch people." d? mid there come, however, a defor the former kaiser's extra- d< " the official said In an Inters a( "and should he then want to J* t suddenly, it Is possible he tfc be prevented. He can, accord- tl i the law of extradition, be *ar,' at the request of a foreign in riment, but a demand for his si lltlon must be made within a tc ti period. b len the demand for extraditon 8< i it will be examined in the c' of laws and treaties first. The " o be considered is the extradi- " aw. Article II whereof specifies 8' 68 for which foreigners will not itradlted. Extradition hr also w :t of a number of other restric- a* formalities and guarantees, d there come a demand which ^ thnically correct and in order, ** overnment must first obtain the 81 j of the tribunal under whose le- u irlsdiction the person wanted is ^ ng. Amerogen, being in the de- ? ent of Utrecht, the tribunal of 8 lepartment would have to decide. shington?Return of world peace the dominating spirit of Wash- n i's celebration of Independence f, Pageantry in which the call of ri try and other civilian occupa- ? to returning soldiers and sailors r displayed, and a parade in which ^ the nations arrayed against Ger- p and Austria were represented n the features of he observance. u n pageants showing the call of w >f the land, of commerce, busi and professions, of the children, p )or, of liberty, and to the world Q e, were given late in the day p e lawns of department and oth- a iblic buildings. These panto- ^ s wer emerked into a great q nt entitled the "Offering of which showed the peoples of #1 rorld. having passed through the a rs of war, returning with cour- p ind anticipation to teh pursuits p ace. h . WILD WEST PARADE PASSE8 THROUGH PARIS. is.?A gala performance of ii t" at the opera, with Marshal b and General Pershing as the spe- ii honored guests, concluded the a le Joint French and American ti ation of the Fourth of July. The t] pened with an early morning re- tl commemorating France's particli in the American Revolution and f, elebration afforded varied enterent for the thousands of Amerl- tl loldiers marking time in Paris d awaiting transportation home- a o >re was even a real wild west F e down the Champs elysees and ;ti gh the Place de La Concorde, n by an American army circus e ng In Paris, The eoVboys, cow- t and Indians, riding gaily through c lace de La Concorde to the mu- rt a wild west hand, proved a far d jr attraction to the French than c rilliant military spectacle. ji ENZOLLERN3 ARE NOT V CONSIDERED PRISONERS. sterdnm.?The Telegraf unders that the attitude of the Dutch f nment regarding the ex-kaiser 'le stimnrlzed as follows: <t of all. it should he made clear 8 a recent message about the al- <n flight of tho crown prince was "? upon the misconception that the c nzollorns are prisoners. On the c jry, they have full liberty to b and their denartnre would even a elcomed by the government. t L BOARD TO BE PRESIDED f OVER BY JOHN A. HAMILTON. idon.?John Andrew Hamilton, Sumner, will preside over the I edges representing the United r s. Great Ilritain, Franco, Italy, t lapan at the trial of the former c an emperor. I Gordon Hpwart. solicitor genof Great Britain, will lead for t prosecution. William Hohencol- <3 it Is said, wift be' defended by t an counsel, assisted by British e rs. If he wishes thexnT " ilEBODY SEEKING IH8WIKJJMEUGHT RESIDENTS FORE HANDEDNESS DISTORTED INTO EVASION OF THE LAW. EVEN MEN REAL GOVERNMENT II So-Called War Legislation Was De- ' termined Upon Weeks and Months Before War Was Declared. Washington.?Seven men formed a jecret government of the United tates" which working "behind closi doors," determined all of the soilled war legislation "weeks and ren months" before war was declar1 against Germany. Chairman Grar lm of the house committee investiiting expenditure, charged after >ading into the record a digest of le minutes of the council of national jfense. This commission, he added, waa ^signed by law to act purely In an Ivisory capacity to the council, comased of six cabinet n -lbers, but le president, he asserted, made them le real executives. After Mr. Graham had read to the ivestigating committee a digest degned to show that the military draft, tod control and press censorship had een discussed by the commission iveral weeks before the war was deared. Representative Reavls, Repubcan, Nebraska, interrupting, asked "all this was prior to the president's >eech on armed neutrality, in which e said he was not contemplating ar." The chairman answered affirmtlvely . Later in the recital of the digest, [r. Graham said that the censure of le council and commission, uttered In enate and house, led Mr. Coffin to rge that "a definite channel of conict" be established between ths Duncil and congress. "In other vordff," commented the chairman, ^ Congress ought to be educated." -"-T, FOR AERO MAHrPROTe^S3ffPi?,V*! 1^^^ New York.?The poatoffice departlent at Washington has contracted ar the erection of three high-power adio stations, the first of a chain of rireless communicating centers in vaious cities to be used primarily for he direction of mail carrying airlanes handicapped by fog, it was enounced here by Emil J. Simon, manfacturer of radio apparatus for the .. rar and navy departments. Stations will be established at Beile 'onte; Pa., with a third at some point n Long Island or Newark, N. J. Apropriatlons for them already are reliable. Others will be erected at Washington and Chicago as aoon as ongress provides funds. Each station will be equipped with teel towers 200 feet high and 200 feet part and will hare a range of apruximately 400 mllei to mail airlanes. 1ESSAGE TO CONGRE8S READY; (UXX) WORDS LONG. On Board the U. S. S. George Washlgton.?The President's message, to e delivered to Congress on Thursday, i completed. The message will take bout 20 minutes to read and conalna ak/v..* C AAA ? -S _ J A _ J mug n UU li I U.UVU WUIUi, UBTUIHU lO be peace treaty and protocol* and be work of the peace conference. It is understood that the peace consrence subjects are dealt with on road general lines without taking up be large questions of the treaty in etail, as this probably will come later rhen the foreign relations committee f Congress examines the details. The 'resident also will have an opporunity to go over these matters with lembers of the committees. In this xamlnatlon of the terms he will have he co-operation of a number of speialists, now returning with the presiential party, who have dealt with the , -tailed branches such as those conerning reparations, terlborial readustment and economic questions. VANT DIRIGIBLE AS WORKING PATTERN Von- V,-.-V V.. TT_ I -itn i ui n. a uiviiaac l// uir (Jilt* ed States of the R-34, the big British ransfAtlantlc dirigible balloon, or its ister ship, the R-33, as a working iodel for dirigible development here, ras urged by Henry Woodhouse, halrman of the dirigible committee if the Aero Club of America, in a tatement issued here. Mr. Woodhouse dded that army and navy aeronauical experts favored the plan. MINORITY COMMITTEE WANT8 PROHIBITION ACT REPEALED Washington.?Five members of the louse ujdlclary committee. In a mitority report on the prohibition enorcement bill, made public declared ongress should repeal the war-time irohihition act. While this report was being pre tared. Chairman' Volstead; of the Ju llciary committee, announced that h? tad askod for a rule to mafce the genral enforcement bill in order for lm? lediate consideration.