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4 THE PEOPLE, BARNWELL, S. 0. IMPORTANT NEWS THE WORLD OVER IMPORTANT HARP^NmCS OF THII AND OTHER NATIONS FOR tCVEN DAYS GIVEN i " —' ' : • THE NEWS SOUTH What It Taking Place <n The South land Will Be Found In Brief Paragraph* Foreign- 1—Socialists of Chicago entering the Coliseum for their big May day meeting while police watched them. Mrs. Calvin Coolidge reviewing 21 troops of girl scouts in Potomac park, Washington. 3—Representative S. Winslow of Massachusetts, the largest member of congress. J „ _ E. Dispatches during the recent past re portAhat while order has been, restored in Kkuowitz and other towns, fight ing duntinues between Poles and Ger mans in various parts of the country, with alHed troops preventing the movement spreading. Germany must be compelled to dis arm *o France can take her eyes off the frontier. Premier Lloyd George re cently told the house of commons. The greatest signiilcance is atach- ed to the meeting of Eamonn de Valera, president of the Irish “republic,” and Income and excess profits taxes cp.K iPeted tTy the government during the month $f March fell off ,hf'more than $139,000,000, as compared with March of last year. It is announced by the internal revenue bureau. Prospects for an immediate settle ment of the shipping wage conttover- sy are said to be annyfhlng but bright. This announcement is made after a recent ^conference between Secretaries Davis and Hoover and representatives of the shiping board and steamship owners. Mr. Davis, however, has nor given up hope. Income and excess profits taxes col lected by the government during March fell off by more than $139,000,000 as compared to March of last year. A favorable, report has been made ' by the senate agricultural committee on the resolution providing for an in- j vestigation by the committee into the conditions of the rice growers in Ar kansas^ The senate recently passed the emergency Jdll fixing adpiission of j aliens to 3% of each nationality resi dent in the United States in 1910. The bill is effective for 14 months begin ning fifteen days after enactment. ' The bill ‘requiring federal Judges to devote their entire time to the du ties of their office has been reportd favorably to the senate. Doyouknow u con roll GENUINE BullDurham TOBACCO NEWS REVIEW OF GURRENTEVENTS Reparations . Ultimatum and Protocol Handed to Germany . by the Alfies. holding futile sessions trying to frame a new offer, and on Wednesday Chan cellor Fehrenbach, Foreign Minister Simons* and their colleagues gave up and resigned. At this writing it is understood Doctor Stresemann, leader of the people’s party, will be chancel lor, and Dr. Mayer-Kaufbeuren,^German ambassador to France., will be foreign minister. The collapse of the German cabinet had no effect on the-plans* of the .allies. The United States doubtless ^vlll take no part In the military occupation of the Ruhr district-,'Cut it may soon be a party to the enforcement of the reparations terms. The supreme coun cil has invited President Harding to name representatives in the council -Amertp-Be ietU Offei'— — 1,11 '' tli«■ n■ is reason fo beHeve tbe invita tion will be accepted. The administru- RUHR WILL BE OCCUPIED Fehrenbach Cabinet Resigns After vade UHMPvwNSRrWeBiscite .Zone—Panama Scorns the Warning of Secretary ' Hughes. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. Two things operated to prevent the sccupatlon of the Ruhr district by the allied forces Iqst week. Ope was the hesitation of Great Britain and Italy to exact the sanctions which France <lemanded and which everyone udmits are warranted. The other was the time required to mobilize the French troops and move them over into German ter ritory. The French minister of war, however, called to the colors about 140,000 men of the class of 1919 and started them toward the Ruhr, armed and equipped for real warfare. For several days the supreme coun cil, in session in London, argued over the reparations and sanctions, Lloyd George and Count ijio^za delaying final decision as long as they could, while Premier Briand Insisted on speedy action. Lord Curzon was sin gularly stubborn in contesting the French propositions and in tbe effort to delay matters he persuaded the council to summon to London the en tire reparations commission. Early in the week Secretary of State Hughes hud replied to the German note, saying that the offer of Berlin was not, in the opinion of the American government, worthy of transmission to the n’llies. and expressing the hope that. Germany would “at once make directly to the allied governments clear, definite and ad«*qunte proposals whhhwouTiTtn at! respects meet its just obligations.'' The wording of tills bote made It clear that America would not inter fere, but the British and Italian mem bers of the council still hoped Doctor Simons would come across with a new offer that would make the seizure of the Ruhr unnecessary. On . Wednes day, however, they gave in and a final agreement was reached regarding-the ultimatum and protocol to pennany. Next morning the documents were signed and the ultimatum, giving Ger many six days to accept, was handed to Doctor Stlmmer, Geripan umhassrf^ dor to Great Britain. The allied rep arations commission carried the pro tocol to Paris and handed It to the German representatives, there. The total sum demanded from Ger many was increased from 132,000.000,- 000 to 135.000,000,000 gold marks by ^the inclusion of the sum due Belgium for- her debts to the allied nations. Germany is to acknowledge the indebt edness by the issue of bonds in three sections, the first- immediately, the second in November and the third ac cording to her asceri^ined ability to pay. Germany ia ordered to pay 2.- 000,000,000 gold marks annually and, in addition, 20 per cent of the value of her exports. VlThen these payments exceed the interest on the bonds is sued the reparations commission is en titled to require the issue of further bonds to the amount of the annual in come. It was afso decided that the proceeds of certain German revenues, tion, it is said in Washington, desires to participate in the work of the com mission to promote American Interest in a permanent settlement. - Enraged by reports that the allies’ plebiscite commission had recommend ed that only the Rybnlk and 1’less re gions in Upper Silesia be awarded to Poland and that the rest of ihe terri tory lie given to Germany, some 20,000 Poles, well organized and armed, in vaded Upper Silesia, seized a number of important cities;'cut the communi cations with Germany and' at latest reports were advancing on Oppeln, north of the Oder river. The French, British and Italian control officers and their small bodies of troops were un able to cope with the situation and the whole region was overrun, the peasants there siding With the Polish invaders. At Gross Strehlitz Italian forces commanded by Colonel Bond, an Englishman, resisted the Poles who sought to occupy the city and an artil lery engagement ensued. Tlie German government, of course, formally protested’against this action of the Poles to the allied governments, and .the latter took immediate steps to legaiu control of the situation, declar ing martial law in the plebiscite zone and sending troops against the in vaders. U was admitted that it would he hard to oust the Poles, and the al leged fact that the’ir Course was tacitly approved by the French authorities there created considerable ill feeling between the British and the French., Premier Briaild, however, asked Prince Sapiehn, Polish foreign minister, now- in Paris, to transmit to the Polish gov ernment a request to end the disturb ances in Upper Silesia. When the al- hed supreme council adjourned its Uondon session It -was said it would soon meet again in Ostend to take tip .the Upper Silesia question. ’ 4 . “Panama feels sure that the Ameri can government will cease It's endeav ors in recommending acceptance of a decision upon which public opihion al ready has uttered its last Word and which has become an adjudged mut ter. Panama refused the Wlrtte deci sion with the same right and for al most the same,reasons that the United States government declinetMn 1831 to -accept tlie decision of the king of the Netherlands in a boundary litigation with Great Britain.” President Harding won tlie first part of his figlit for a big navy, the naval committee of tlie senate haying re ported the navy bill with provisions Conip'iefTug'TTie' liiiTidlng program hut also for a personnel 20,-000 in excess of tlie 100,- 000 proposed by -the house. Besides this. the. committee refused to Incor porate In the measure tlie proposal of Senator Borah authorizing and re questing the President to invite Great Britain and .Tapan to a disarmament conference in Washington, Borah will | make a tight for his amendment on the door of tlie senate and Senator Pom- erene also lias a similar amendment which he will introduce. * ’ The senate committee increased the house total of $3915,000,000 to $490,500,- 000, or the same figure in the bill as it failed in the senate last March. iste, which recently took place with least possible ostentation at Belfast. It is knowm that the general Irish situation, as affected by the new home rule bill now effective, was thorough ly discussed by the two men, and the respective view points jof the two sec tions of Ireland were, for the first time, exchanged by the real leaders of the warring groups, face to face. The allied ultimatum issued to Ger many recently summons her to rqply categorically by May 12 at the latest whether she will perform her unfill ed obligations under the treaty of Ver- sailes. primarily as to the payment of reparations to the allied powers. Uemi-offictal advices received i Thr^eMbTB^effect TFiat alLthe* large The department of labor says that employment in the automobile indus- Sir James Crang of the Ulster Union-*!try piclfed up nearly a thjrd in March as compared to February. The per centage increase in March as com pared to February was 32.2. The department of labor says that money paid to workers in March in creased 44.7 per cent 'in' automobile plants and 26.7 per cent In woolens, while this figure went down 10.3 in steel in coal mining. “This government believes that It would be inadmissable to interpret its obligations to the republic of Panama as embracing an obligation to support any claim for adjoining territory that might be advanced by the government of Panama no matter what the opin ion of this government might be as tn athMti at ttlfl jimUtn nf ttmirn 1 Acmta Make $3 an Hour Hellinc our BovHtleir Women everywhere v my on risht, Ka«y aeller; 100% profit; eatnple 25c; write toOay^ArKr^Jo^elty^Co^Jjlanerch^^L^ Insubordinate Fowl. Hiking through the small French town, an ignorant chicken, unversed In the appetites of American darkies, crossed the road in front of a colored detachment. With much zeal a sol dier broke forth from the ranks and — set out in pursuit. “Halt!” bellowed the officer in charge. Both fowl -and negro only accelerated their pTiees. “Halt! Halt!” repeated the officer. The dusky doughboy made one plunge, gras]s>d the chicken by- the neck and stuffed 4L still struggling, inside his shirt. > “Derc!” he panted. “Ah’H learn you, you disobedient bird.-’—Q. M. C. Recruiting Notes. Uv f ftnfl py* h ‘ urnfaef u i-The senate passed the Dillingham immigration bill, which limits Immi gration to 3 per cent annually of per sons of various nationalities in the United States in 1910. Only Reed of Missouri voted in the negative. The .-measure went to conference and it was expe’eted tlie house would accept the senate bill and that it would be slgne.d by the President. It becomes effective Aithin fifteen days after enactment and remains in force until June 30. 1922,' The measure would permit the landing id America of nbput 350,000 immigrants In the next twelve months. jority of Americans, nor to our associ- . otes In the war. Gefman officialdom was glad toTiearof the adoption of the Knox resolution, though there is no hope -there of an early resumption of diplomatic and commercial relations withNViuerica. J The little republic _ , going nrnuiitLAK4h-j>-C; suofras the cust.ot.ui5..iskimlO-J*©.-~ri*T~nnf! is tatmlflTa*' ' printed-to the service of the debt. ^4-To enforce ..compliance with the de mands of the allies France will occupy tbe Ruhr district on May 12, her troops being accompanied, by relatively small ^^■detachments of British and Belgian ■ soldiers, and it is prolmble the British and French navies will at least make a demonstration in the North sea and the Baltic, possibly establishing naval control of Bremen, Hamburg and Stet tin. ConcecnlBg -thin It was felt the advice of the Bplfgj} States should be obtained. Meanwhile the German cabinet was Now that the senate has adopted the Knox peace resolution, it la up to some one to devise our further Irocedure in the matter of restoring our relations with Germany. In the final jlebate oh the resolution Senator Lodge admitted the Versailles treaty could not be so amended as to meet the requirements of the United States, as President Harding hoped, and that a new treaty must be negotiated. Tills, of course, is pleasiifl! to the “irreconeilables,” who now* believe the Versailles pact never wilt lie resubmitted to the sen ate. And, as has been said before in this review, it is difficult to see how that treaty'can be separated from the League, of Nations covenant. The sit- uation te, not satlsfactory~to tfie imr In the Republican presidential pref erence primaries last year North Car olina went for Hiram Johnson. In the Republican natiqnai convention Dele gate David H. Rlair refused to abide by those instructions and voted for’ Warren G. Harding. A few days ago President Harding nominated Mr. Blair for the Important office of com missioner of internal revenue and the nomination came before the senate in executive session. There was a stormy debate, the opposition being led by Senator Johnson, who told of Blair’s action in the convention and asserted that “a man who will violate his own state’s laws Is unfit to administer the nation’s laws.” - A second objection made by Johnson was connected with tax returns. - He said: “Mr. Blair’s fa ther-in-law is one of the richest men in North Carolina nnd he sought, by forming a partnership with his family, to lessen the amount of his income tax.” The nomination was referred back to the senate finance committee, which, on Saturday, began a thorough Investigation of' Johnson's charges. towns in the industrial region of Up per Silesia are surounded by Polish insurgents, vlhile RltchtersdorL a sub urb of Gleiwitz, and KieferstadtJ have been occupied jw the rebels. Various places in the dretrict of Orsenherg are reported to have been similarly occu pied. THe - Polish flag is said to be flying fro mthe town hall .of^ybnik, bu k the Italians have expelled the in surgents from Pless and arrested some' of their leaders. The whole of the right bank of the Oder, in the Ratis- bor area, Is in the hands of the rebels. The authorities have regained posses- sio nof Mysolwitz. The Scandinavian - American line steamer United States, from Christi ana. April 30. due in New York May 11, has on board 70 sacks of gold bul lion, vali^ed at several million dollars, consigned from the Swedish mall serv ice as first class mail. Ninety Moros, followers of a relig ious fanatic, w*ere recently killed in the Philippine islands by a detachment pf constabulary. A vote was recently taken in the Ontario legislature that the Hearst publications should be barred from cir culation in Canada. The vote was unanimous. The British and French governments have reached jin agreement on how to deal with Germany to».compel pay ment of reparations and exact imme diate guarantees. In broad outline, it is agreed that the allies w;ill make a declaration, but not to Germany. aims.” This' is the substance of the recent ultimatum Secretary Hughes sent' to the government of Panama, anent the transferring of jurisdiction of Goto territory to Costa Rica. Senator Johnson and other leaders of the progressive Republican group In the senate believe that to- save the direct primary they will have to be gin the fight all over again, in view of the decision of the Supreme court | in the Newberry case. A bill will be Introduced giving congress control of primary expenses, and Senators Johnson, Borah and Kenyon will go be fore the people asking that they In struct senators and- congressmen to support the measure. ".X'rcport Issued by the forest prod ucts laboratory states that tf sound.> dead trees are sawn into lumber and the weathered or charred mtslde cut away, such lumber cannot be distin guished by any known test from that cut from live trees. Most of the wood in a live tree is actually dead, and the specification for lumber should therefore be framed to provide for a maximum amount of decay or Insect * infestation, and the provision of a clause specifying live timber Is unnec essary. r ' Domestic— a • ^ Reports of committees bearing on financial problems In relation to pub lic policy- were read-at the meeting of the executive council of the Amer- - (1 lean Rankers’ AnaneinMrtn In ana.inn c What the Band Meant to Marla. ' In a New York household Is a maid, newly arrived from Hungary, who has tragic memories of the war. She Is the sole survivor of her family. A few days ago there was a neighborhood celebra tion near here new home, one of the features being a small parade. When the band marched past and struck up a military air Marie sprang to tbe win dow. Like a Hash she was back, ex- ican Bankers’ Association in session at i one of ver y English Pinehurst, N. C. i ' vor 'd* she knows: That seized liquors have been stolen '*" ur * " ar! from prohibition offices in St Louis, . ^ Kansas City, New Orleans and practi- 14 Wa * A PP* r * nt - tally every 1 city where seizures have A chorus * irl ’ wiring very little been made, and that he had known ' —a - ve ver * v «'as standing in the Washington- Senator Truman H. Newberry of Michigan is set free from *al] charges of' violation of the federal corrupt practices act. Tlie United States Su preme court set aside tlie,conviction of Newberry and 16 other defendants, the majority opinion holding* lhal iliF of Panama Is yfrrheE-ahtaiL. ^CncieSium Secretary Hughes warned Panama that unless she acts voluntarily in a reasonable time the United States will take steps to compel her to transfer jurisdiction qf the disputed Coto terri tory to Costa Rica and to abide by,the White .award. President Pjqrras asserts that Mr. Hughes’ note has not changed the attitude of Panama and that she “feels backed in her right in refusing the White award,” her position being supported by the opinion of Doctor Bustamente of the University of Ha vana, an authority on International law. Potras concludes; law under which they were convicted is unconstitutional. All e tjhe justices agreed that the conviction should be re versed, hut three of them held that congress, under, the provisions of the original Constitution, has the power to regulate primaries. The board of directors of the,United nounced a cut in wages of day labor of about 20 per cent, effective on May 16, and an ‘equitable adjustment of eflU oth?r rates, including salaries:' Chair man Gary also announced that the board had been unable to find a prac ticable basis for the entire abandon ment ^o£-t.he d 2-hour day in the imme diate .future, The average wage will be Cut, by this order, about $1.40 per day, nnd the reduction in the corpora- -tlon’s pay roll will be not less than ’$150,000,0000 annually. Frank Mor rison, secretary of the American Fed eration of Labor, denounced the wage cut as unjustifiable. Representatives of the marine work ers failed to meet with Secretary Da vis to continue conferences looking to a settlement of the shipping wage con troversy which has resulted in crews of some American merchant craft walking out.' Mr. Davis said that the conference would not be held and that he did not know whether the meetings would be resumed., r~ ’ . The -budget bill Vas passed by the house but with some changes as adopt ed by the senate. - Fly swatters and screens would be relegated to the junk pile if the Unit ed States department of agriculture finds merit^in the fly killing prop erties claimed for a sappling grown from the seed of a Kentucky coffee tree1>y the late Prof. G. F. Holmes of the Uni versify of Virginia. It is hoped the seeds of the tree will exterminate the' pest. The portions of Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Arkansas within the national forest reservation would also heronin n liquor was missing from the local of fice for the past two or three months, were statements made by David H. Gates, prohibition supervisor of the ' Southwestern district, at New Orleans, recently. R: L. Harsell of Bedford, N. Y„ on a walking trip from his home'to Jasper, Ga., has disappeared and his family fears for his safety, according to a let ter received in Roanoke, Va. By order of the solicitor of the judi cial court at Anderson, S. C., the body of Mrs. Sula Mulikin, of the Brushy Creek community yill be disinterred and physicians will conduct a post mortem to ascertain if the woman died from a blow on the head. The right of the centenary commis sion to take the incxeases in incomes over those of 1918 of the several de partments of the Methodist church, south, and apply them to the centenary funds was questioned at the meeting of the board in Nashville. Property damage estimate^ at more than a million dollars was'eaused by the recent heavy rain and wind stprm which visited New York City. ... The United States SteeLCorporation announces a 20 per cent reduction in the salaries and wages of all its em ployee*. While the Louisville and Interurban railroad depot, in the heart of Lou- ■ risville, Ky.,was crowded with people, two bandits entered, bound and gagge# the station agent and escaped with ™ and bird sanctuary under a resolution presented by Senator Shields of Tern he^see.——:— 1 ■' ■ . : Sir Auckland Geddes, British am bassador to the state department, has delivered to the state department the formal invitation to the Unied States from the allied powers to be repre sented on the supreme council, the rBraratioi^ee*^ ^corpoTaBen—hn* xm- tTTT of ambassadors. The - invi wings at a Broadway theater the other night, ready to go on; when Ivan Bank- off came along. • “Do you girls get much money In this show?” he asked. “Huh!" replied the girl, “the sal aries paid us don’t keep us in clothes.’’ “So I’ve noticed,” said Mr. Bankoff, discreetly..moving away.—New York WorlA Time Clock for Hens. Tlie hen that did the cackling may not have laid the egg, governmen? farm experts assert. They advise farmers to urn 1 trap nests in order to pin the.cuckler down to facts in the why .of eggs. By holding a hen oti tlie nest until released, the announce ment said, it was possible to keep tab on the good layers, regardless of the fuss raised by some hens on false pre tenses. ~ Naming the Birds. Orville Wri'ght said at a Dayton banquet: “Flying becomes more popular every day among our wealthy young men. Certain newspaper humorists, in fact, are trying to invent a suitable name for the new fad. "I have seen It called ‘flypbold fever.’ Mnttewenza.’ nnd ‘aerosipelas,’ but my own suggestion would be ‘skyatica.’” Short Poem. whs cabled from London A lockout declared by the Chicago employing association in the bunding trades, summarily stopped work on approximately $35,000,000 worth of constructive work, in which more than 10,000 workers are affected. ..The lock out results from a demand of the em ployers for a reduction 26c an hour in the wages of the yorkers. The bouse committee is still busy investigating the escape of Grover Cleveland Bergdoll. millionaire draft evader of Philadelphia, and it is stated that interesting developments may be •vnected before tbe inaoiry is over. The express companies announce a revision xff. the hour# of work on all lines, effective June 1. The woman’s auxiliary of the Amer ican Legion in Virginia has been call ed to meet in annual convention May 13 .and 14 at Richmond. Three stowaways—four Chinamen and three Spaniards erifTs on the steamer Munisla while searching for whiskey in the Mo» bile.Ala., ..harbor. A request that the railroad labor board dismiss* the case of nearly one hundred railroads which are seeking wage reductions for their employees on the grounds that the_carriers have not presented evidence warranting: a lower rate of pay, was made recently by B. M. Jewell representidg tbe railway Itr bor unions, at Chicago, In concluding rebuttal testimony, “r—^ Jonas Kuppenbeimer, for many years president and one of tbe found- era of a Chicago* clothing firm bearing bis name, la dead. He was born la 1854 at Terra Haute» lad. Dot—“Isn’t poem?" Dlck- i should Clrtl if.’ Edith's new dress a “Hra! Yes—a quatrain. The roadstead- of Callao, the port of Lima. Peru. Is regarded as one of the safest in the world. Baboons sometimes throw stones at -r KILL RATS TODAY j? Is svsry bssr ‘ istiuatsgiaak