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IBBS SUMTES ykAXGHMAS, SM - '-4 Consolidated Aug. 2,1 HISSWILSON CHEER AMERICA 'Excited Italians Give Premier Orlando a Great Ovation on y His Return to Rome POOR WAY TO WIN FRIENDS IN AMERICA Unpatriotic Policy of Lodge and His Partisan Faction Reflect ' ed by Mob in Italian Cities Rome, April 26.?Premier Orlando in addressing- the crowd which greet ed him here said: "It is no time lor fine language. In v the face of the world, which is judging us, we must have firmness and a calm serene conscience. "liiere are two questions. The first is whether the government and the Italian delegates have faithfully inter preted the thoughts and will of the Italian people." The response was thunderous - shouts of "Yes." "I never doubted it" continued the premier, "for i know the soul of my people, but confirmation was requir ed. The first question is answered, Rome is consecrating to our work. "The second question is to estimate the gravity of the situation. But I do not ask you for an immediate re ' ply. Lot us not now consider what is best or most desirable can happen to our Italy, whose just and praise worthy attitude has provoked the ad miration of two worlds. (Cheers and cries "Long live America!" "Down with Wilson!") . "We must show that we have taken the worst into consideration. After four years of unspeakable privations - and sacrifices we find ourselves fac ed with fresh sacrifice and privations. At this moment Italy is ready, and v greater tjian ever-?greater than in Hay, 1915. ' ' "The decision must be a well con sidered one. Food supplies are fail ing, ns, but Italy, which has known hunger, has never known.dishonor. I do not conceal from you the danger ? of this "very critical hour. (Cries of "We will'face anything.") "I am with you** continued the premier, "a broth er among brothers, and also a ohief who asks to obey and' follow the will of the people. It may be that we ' shall find ourselves alone, but Italy must be united and have a single will. Italy Trill not perish!" ? , At the close of his address the pre mier "vas given an ovation. General Diaz and Signor Barzilai of the peace delegates then spoke and were cheer " ed by the soldiers and sailors. Prince Colonna, mayor of Rome, asserted there was complete solidarity of the people of Rome and of Italy with :he government. Premier Orlando, General Diaz, Princt Colonna and Signor Barzilai entered motor cars and a procession was formed which proceeded to the royar>al?.ce in Quirinal Square. The passage through the streets was extremely slow, owing to the density of the crowds, which insisted on drawing the car occupied by Sig nor priando. Som; idea of the numbers gathered can b? gleaned by the f<*ct that it took" tie premier's car two hours to cover Ihe short distance between the station and Quirinal Square. At tie palace the pajrty joined the king, cueen and crowh prince on the balconr and the entire group was ac claime- with enthusiasm by the as semble below. Thirteen Sailors Drowned Navy Launch Sinks in Hudson liver This Morning New cork, April 28.?Thirteen sail ors retiming in a navy launch to the battleslip Nevada are reported by the police t> have been drowned when the lauich sank in the Hudson river this mcrning. The police said in the absence of an official statement by naval authorities they based jtheir report w information of persons who said the: witnessed the sinking. These witnesset declared the launch appar ently cdhded with something jus; before caching the Nevada. Memorial Day Exercises In Sobm Southern Towns Vic tory Isan Drives Were Held Atlanta {April 26;?Confederate Memorial Day is being generally ob served tolay throughout the South, with patrStic exercises, parades and decoration of the graves of soldiers. Many comhunities held Liberty Loan drives. Those Funny Italians i _______ Take Qufck Revenge on Wilson By Changing Name of Street Rome, jpril 26.?The demonstra tion7 in jotest against President WiisQifs^zi itude on the Fiunie- ams r^zi.czl:z?itz?,?z:^hizglr.% a stritt .m Tafti ai-g rte3Stev^&.&? Ofted April, 18*0. 881. FIGHT TO BE MADE ON PHONE RAISE State Railroad Commission Will Not Stand for Higher Rates Proposed COURTS WILL BE ASKED FOR INJUNCTION ! Chairman Shealy Does Not Belive Increased Rates Are Justified by Conditions Columbia, April 28.?The South i Carolina railroad commission will not j permit an increase in the rates on lo ? cal telephones by the Southern Bell i Telephone & Telegraph Company i without a contest, stated Frank W. ] Shealy, chairman, yesterday. A press dispatch printed yesterday morning announced that the Southern I Bell Telephone & Telegraph Company j had filed with the Georgia railroad commission a revised schedule of rates, giving the company about a 13 per cent increase in telephone rates on business and residence telephones. Although the dispatch, said that the schedule had been filed in eight oth er Southern States and in Indiana and Illinois, the South Carolina commis sion up to this afternoon had not re ceived its cop.. , The telephone company announced that it was filing its new schedules on orders from Postmaster General Bur leson, director of the United States telegraph and telephone administra tion. However, it was stated that if orders had not been received from the government for an increased rate, there would have been revised sched ule filed, it being held by the com pany that an increase in rates is nec essary. The Southern ? Bell's associa ate line, the Cumberland Telephone & Telegraph Company, . likewise an nounced the. filing of a new schedule for increased rates. In January Postmaster General Burleson filed' a schedule of increased long distance telephone toll rates which averaged about a 20 per cent, increase. This rate, ?s far as it af fects intrastate business, will be test ed in the United. States supreme Court by the National Association of Rail-, way and Utilities Commissioners. The case will be heard -on Monday, May I 5, according to announcement re j ceived by" the South Carolina com | mission a few days ago. Although what procedure will be undertaken 'by the South Carolina j commission was not divulged yester day, it is probable that as soon as the revised schedule of rates is filed with the commission, possibly tomorrow, a reemptory 4>rder prohibiting the in crease will be issued on the Southern I Bell Telephone & Telegraph Com | pany. Should the corporation disre j gard this order, then the matter will J be handed to Attorney General Wolfe i for relief in the courts. It is prob ! ably that the first legal gun fired will ? be in the shape of injunction proceed i ings. ''The commission has no knowledge of why rates should be increased at ! this time," said Chairman Shealy. "If j reasons of this kind exist, not only ; the commission but the patrons of j the Southern Bell Telephone & Tel I egraph Company, should know what ! they are. If an increase is absolutely ? necessary the people of South Caro I lina as well as the commission should j be fully apprised of why such con ' ditions exist, and to this end the com I mission proposes to use every effort I available: to sec that the patrons ot ! telephone lines in South Carolina have j a right to protest in the usual way. jpreemptory method of the Southern ! Bell people in attempting to increase j its rates without first notifying the j commission, which is necessary under ! the laws of the State of South Caro ! lina and the rules of the commission. I "The commission and the people of ; South Carolina have been extrcmelv ; lenient with all public utilities, iu ! eluding the Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Company, during the war i period, but we can see no reason why I this State of affairs should continue j to exist. The Southern Bell officials I themselves can but agree to this i statement. The service rendered by ?all public utilities in South Carolina j has not been up to the usual stand lard, but the people as well as the com mission have been willing to concede ? many of their rights to aid in the win i niflg of the war, but, at this period of I tranisition from war to peace condi I tions, the public utilities must bear i their part of the burden as well as I the people have borne and are bear 1 ing their part of the burden. The I commission realizes that the people 'and the utilities are copartners in the ; present readjustment and one should ; not profit at the expense of the oth er. This is the reason that the com mission contends that in all instances of this kind hearings at which each party concerned has the opportunity to protect his or their interests." Approximately 50 cities and towns in South Carolina will be affected by the revised schedule of increases in telephone rates. Washington. April 26.?The Italian situation in the peace negotiations is "clearing rapidly." acording to Paris advices received at the White House. They .stated that the action of Presi deirt" "WiL?-m <was en^.rsed <?---:^~ ad Fear sot?Let an the endi Thon AI UMTER, S. 0., WEDNE TRADE PENALTY ! FOR GEMANY 'Allies Must Receive Most Fav ored Nations Treatment Without Reciprocity GERMANY DID SAME THING TO FRANCE i ! - j Treaty Will Protect Allies i Against German Trade War After Peace. Paris, April 28.?The-.report of the economic commission of the peace conference, The Echo de Paris says, contains clauses for the insertion in the peace treaty that Germany shall give to the allied and associtaed na tions treatment of most favored na tions without any reciprocity. Higher Phone Rates Revised Schedule Advancing Rates Filed in Atlanta Atlanta, April 26?Revised scixed | ules for local telephone. rates were I filed ? here late today, with the State railroad commission, which it was said, if put into effect, would give the telephone companies about a 13 per cent increase from telephone rates. Schedules for new rates were filed today, it was announced, in eight other Southern States, and in Indiana i and Illinois. The schedule for the new- rates were filed by the Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Company and b. its as sociated line, the Cumberland Tele phone & Telegraph Company, acting, it was announced, on orders of Post master General Burleson. New schedules, company officials said, were filed today with State rail road commissions or similar bodies in North Carolina. South Carolina. Flor ida and Alabama on behalf of the Southern Bell and in Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Indiana and jlllinios on behalf, of the Cumberland Company. The new schedules are to be= filed next week in Kentucky,*i? was said. Only parts of Indiana and Illi nois will be affected. The new rates affecting solely local ? telephone service will work out to give a slight deer- ase in rate for many residence telephones and an increase for rates of business telphones. Both unlimited service and limited service lines will be affected. ? -It was said at headquarters here of the Southern Bell that the petition for new rates would have been filed, whether or not the government had ! taken over operation of the telephone lines, it being held that increased ? income, is necessary. ! The rates were filed with the rail , road commissions, it was said, more j as information than anything else, the I whole matter of the authority of the j postmaster general to order increased rates being expected to be threshed I out in court at a later date. Revised schedules, which would j give the 13 per cent in total operat ing income in Georgia, it was said, were practically the same as those filed ;.i the other states, although the percentage of increase might be slightly different. The new rates arc to be In effect May 1. J. P. Darby, secretary of the South Carolina railroad commission, said late last night that no such action as announced in Atlana had bee taken so far as the South Carolina . .tilroac! commission was advised. No request of the telephone company for an in crease in rates was filed here during the day, said Mr. Darby. ! Baker On Way Home ii i - j Secretary of War Sails From j France on George Washington ! Brest, April 27.?Newton D. Baker, ! American secretary of war, sailed to I day for the United States aboard j the transport George Washington. I Denver, April 28.?Director Gener ial Hiites, in a statement here today. J announced his willingness to accept I the offer made by the industrial I board of the department of commerce i to bring together the representatives ! of the railroad administration and j steel producers to settle the contro versy over the government price sia ibii'zation program. Young Boys in Jail jLads Accused of Unlawfully En j * tering Greer Postoffice j ? _ j Greer. April 2.".?Two boj\s. Henry j Tessaner and Cecil Wright, were lock : ed up in the Greenville County jail monday night on the charge of en | tering the Greer post office some time Sunday and attempting to take la sum of money. Postmaster James I has on several occasons missed small! j sums of money and mail packages I from the office. The boys arc only j ten and twelve years of age. They khave . been given a preliminary hear and will be tried at the.; ii-d^ral nuft at be thy Country's. Jhj tiod'i a SPAY, APRIL 30, 1919. jPLAN TO PUNISH i HUN CRIMINALS Treaty Provides for High Court To Try Wilhelm and Other Brutes 'CHARGED WITH SUPREME ! I CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY I Germany Required to Surren i der All Persons Accused, for Violation of Laws of War. - ' , ? ?! Washington. April 28.?The new ar ticles proposed for insertion in the l peace treaty to fee considered at the j plenary session of the peace confer ence today, the State department an nounced one declaring that the allied and associated powers shall publicly arraign William Hohenzollern, "not for an offense against criminal law, but for the supreme offense against international morality and sanctity of treaties." It is proposed that a spe I cial tribunal shall be constituted to j try the accused, consisting of five judges, one each to be appointed by the United States, Great Britain. France, Italy and Japan. The allied and- associated powers will request that Holland surender the former em peror for trial. Persons accused of violations of the law and customs war, according to the second proposed article, shall be brought before a military tribunal : and, if found guilty, shall be sen*''ne ed to punishments laid down bj mil itary laws." All persons accused of having com mitted an act in violation of the laws and customs of war who are specified "either by name or by rank, office or, employmen t which they had unde? the German authorities" will be de manded of the German government ! for trial by a military tribunal of the power against whose nationals the criminal acts weer perpetuated. Article four declares that the Ger man government, undertakes to fur nish all documents and information of every kind, the production of which may be considered necessary to in sure a full' knowledge of any crimi | nal acts to produce. offenders and to j assume an appreciation and' responsi f bility. , . - Germans Concealing Secret Documents Under Secretary of Foreign I Minister After Investigation Says They Will Not Be Published -_ J London, April 2f>.?Karl Kautzky, J an under secretary in the German foreign ministry, who has finished an J examination of the secret documents j of the German foreign office, a task i assigned to him by the government j last winter, is quoted in an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Berlin to day as declaring the government had decided not to publish the-document unless the allies agreed to a similar publication of secret documents from j their achies. Herr Kautzky added that certain documents ."which might have been peculiarly com promsing" were destroyed before the German revolu j tion. j Mathias Erzberger, head of the Ger- j i man armistice commission, was rc- j j sponsible for the order that the doc- j j umentS not be made public. Kautzky j is reported as saying. He declared, ; that he was greatly surprsed at this i and pointed out that the refusal to I make the documents public would j have a very bad effect in allied coun- j tries and would perpetuate suspicion j of the good faith of Germany by re ! vcaling that the revolutionary gov ernment was prepared to-shield the j rulers of Germany. j Storm Ravages England; ?.?? j Spring Weather Followed Byj Severe Snow Storm and Gale j London, April 28.?Following a pc-j j riod of perfect spring weather one of; i the worst storms in sometime raged j j over the British Isles last night, cov- j j ering the country with four to six inches of snow. Telegr: nh and tele phone lines suffered severely, causing I complications in many directions, j Communication with the continent j ' was interrupted. Marine reports! show a few small ships wrecked. i Finns Defeat Bolsheviks j Reds Driven Out of Olonetz and j i National Assembly Formed ! i Hclsingfors, April 28.?A national ! assembly has been formed at Olenetz j one hundred and ten miles northeast of Petrograd, where the Finns have j driven out the Bolsheviki. The town j is captured, according to reports by! volunteer troop*. New-Orleans, April ?8.?BcpreSimta five-Estopiaa!, of Lov?sIst^. filed it Iiis ? homo - hefc' uOiiay,. ? _ ^ _ THE TRUE ONLY ONE BILLION IN BONDS TAKEN Victory Loan Drive Has Up to This Time Made a Poor Beginning OFFICIAL TABULATION LESS THAN BILLION Unofficial Reports Indicate That Billion Mark Has Been Reach ed, However Washington, April 2S.?One billion dollars had been subscribed today to the Victory Loan, according to unof ficial reports. It is considered doubt ful, however, that ? official figures which the treasury recognizes would reach the billion dollar mark by to night. Seed For Bonds - Market Opened for Farmers Who Want to Buy Victory Bonds. Columbia, April 28.?Farmers of South have been making a spirited fight to hold their cotton and cotton seed until the price advanced to a. point where they felt that they could sell at a profit. It is of considerable interest that some of the farmers have been able to get a good price for their cotton seed, provided they would invest the money in Liberty Bonds. The following statement is -from Mr. J. E. WTannamaker, of St. Matthews, chairman for Calhoun county, writing to Mr. Charles H. Barron, the State chairman: "Mr. C. FitzSimmons voluntarily told me to tell my people to buy Vic tory Liberty Bonds and he would buy their seed in carlots up to the 15th of #Iay at $71 per ton f. o. b. at shipping point. They promptly sold I him about 800tons at this place and he has had to call a halt until the seed, could be. handled. I think you might ' get Mr. Elliott to join you and induce Swift & Co. and the Union Fertilizer Company ? to crush .some seed. I can sell the bonds if I can get seed to move." I believe Mr. FitzSim mons is doing all he can. Union seed still active in market. j Gompers Badly Injured Was Victim of Taxicab Accident On Broadway New York, April 27.?Samuel Gom pers, president of the American- Fed eration " of Labor, was seriously in jured here this afternoon when a tax icab in which he was riding was struck by a Broadway surface car and hurled 20 feet to the curb. Surgeons who were summoned re ported after an examination that .two of Mr. Gompers' ribs had been frac tured, his right hip sprained and that he had suffered severe body contu sions. Despite the advanced age of' the labor leader, who is 69 years old, j the surgeons declared there was no j i liklihood of the injuries proving fatal, j j Mr. Gompers has been busy virtual- j I ly every minute since his return from I the peace conference, where he served ? as chairman of the commission on in Iternational labor legislation. He had j an hour's-relaxation when the acci I dent occurred. j As the taxicab crossed the Broad j way car track at Thirty-first street it j was struck by a northbound car. j Pedestrians who witnessed the crash I rushed to the wrecked machine and I extricated Mr. Gompers, who was i found to be unconscious. One side of 1 the cab was completely crushed in and the wreckage h>id ? med him against the other side of the machine. Mr. C ompers was carried back to his hotel. After an examination sur-! geons decided it would be unwise to | remove him to a hospital. Although it was insisted that Mr. Gompers' condition was not critical, officials of the American Federation i of Labor said bulletins would be is sued from time to time reporting his condition. Hugh Frayne, general organizer of the American Federation of Labor, who was with Mr. Gompers a short time after the accident, stated to night that Mr. Gompers was in no danger. "Dr. Charles R. Hancock, who is! in attendance," said Mr. Frayne, ;'re- j ported at S..10 o'clock that Mr. j Gompers' temperature s virtually! normal, but was lluctuai ightly as J a result of the shock he suftored." i "Dr. Hancock was of the opinion j that after a few days' rest and quiet he would be able to get around again." - I Samuel Gompers injured| -? Hurt in Collision Between Auto-j mobile and Street Car ?j Now York, April 28.?Samuel Gom- \ pers who was injured in a collision between his automobile and a street j car here yesterday was reported to be resting comfortably tills morning. It -*ras .said hia condition showed con- < jstderaSfc ia^rove^n.;* , > 80CTHE0N, EnabBahe* insu, MOS VoLXLVIII. Ho: SS. BURLESON READY FOR A FIGHT Effort of Magazine Trust-To Discredit Him in The. Eyes of Public Arouses his Anger PUBLISHERS ARE FAT~:. TENING ON THE PUBLIC 1 . *>'' ? ? /?- grig Says That Big Newspapers/and Magazines Have Prated' by. i Unfair Postal Rates. ^ ? ..y ' ? * Washington, April 2 5.?Pestmaster General Burleson "tonight continue,-! his attacks against what he recently termed an organized effort to destrey g him by issuing a statement reiterate v| ing charges that criticism^ of his ad ministration were not designed - to r work improvements in the postal, and wire service but to obtain..the'repeal of the zone system of rates. ,oh second ^' class mail matter. The postrnaster; < general said the issue arising from the criticicisms presented a test .which he welcomed. . v % ?} ?> "The news reaches the postmaster general this morning,", said Mr. Burleson in his statement, "that 'Mr. Burleson's methods* as applied to the postal and wire service wiH'- be the subject matter of discussion today by the American Newspaper Publishers ?. Association. ; ^v; "While this association is. putting jn the entire day talking about Burleson and his methods, the thoughts of certain selfish members thereof during that time will not be on Mr. Burleson's methods or' on de sired improvements in the postal and wire service but on their, share, of "the 1 $72,000,000 they have been' enjoying as an annual postal subsidy for . many. I years, and as to how- they.- qnay re I cover the part of which' tfcj&y; were I deprived by congressional r action, and how to remove the danger of losing more of it. There may. be" little said ! by them about his * legalized - grift, I but it will be uppermost in ?; thejr -. 1 minds just the same. . -? . ? "It is now insisted that.. thfe/jssj?..:,. be not obscured to deceive th?;Amer ?can people. The real iss?Vis whether certain newspapers, and tY'.magazin.es < shall continue to, filch from the po?tai revenue $72,000,^0 each year jihd impose that burden upon other users of the mails. This presents a ' test.- I welcome it. . -i "It is noted that C. J? Post has promptly identified himself as the chief lobbyist of this coterie of selfish publishers to whom I referred in a recent statement. The others .to whom I referred in that statement will be at this meeting. They are invited to dis I close their identity and to repeat what I they said to me. 5" "Mr. Post actually developed hys teria about 'Prussianism and vicious one man censorship established in the posloffi.ee.' The basis for this panic is as infamous a falsehood as was ever published, to wit, the alleged re fusal of the postmaster general to have transmitted over the telegraph wires certain matter criticising the postmaster general. The New York World knew that this was a base lie [When it published it. Mr. Post knew | this was a base lie when he repeated I it. As they well knew,;. the. postnias l.ter general never at any time directed | the exclusion of any.matter offered for : transmission on the wires, but on the ; contrary, has ordered that even libel ous matter against him shall not be refused, though the sending of such matter is prohibited by rules of the companies enforced for many years. "Mr. Post fails to disclose the amount of money raised by him to re peal this legislation, or in what man ner it was spent. I am sure this would be very illuminating to the public. He indulges in much jug gling of figures relating to postal sub sidies and deficits. This shall avail nothing hy way of confsing- the pub licif the postmaster general can pre vent it. The issue is shall certain newspapers and magazines enjoy a postage rate on' their commodity, a large part of which is not purely com mercial, but highly profitable adver tising, which entails on the postal es tablishment for its transmission an annual loss of $72,000,000 to be borne by other users of the mails in ah un just tax upon them. The postmaster general believes that this is outrag eous and indefensible, and has said so. The congress has partly corrected the wrong. The postmaster general has refused to acquiesce or aid in re versing this action." Huns Rejoice Over Break News of Italy's Withdrawal From Conference Causes Elation in Austria Vienna, April 26.?The withdrawal of the Italian delegation from the peace conference was received here fe? with elation, the people generally be ing glad that the allies are in con flict with each other. Paris, April 26.?Foreign Minister y Ronnino and Former Premier Salan dra of the Italian delegation left at 2 P. M. today for Rome. A large :rowd.of sinnpa^hizers g^re thsrn an gryat&n at^tfe^st^oat.^ 1 _ ? -