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?S?&rat Who Opposed the War Now Continues Fight On 1 Wilson by Opposing Peace ' M$? ATTACK ON LEAGUE OF NATIONS Ca? See Nothing Good in Any v thing that is Done or Advo cated by President MEM Washington, May 26.?The league - of nations was debated in the senate ' again today with an increasing show X"of\*hitterness. W Senator Reed, Democrat, Missouri, - attacked the proposal in such vigor ous terms that he aroused repeated t objections from senators supporting it and developed a running debate of dramatic accusations and heated re toctsl. The Missouri senator declared the league would place the destinies of- the white race in the hands of ig , norant and superstitious nations of * > black and yellow people and charged that many [Democrats support it for I partisan reason. , In frequent interruptions of the .- Missouri senator's speech Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, ranking Dem ... '. ocrat on the foreign relations commit Kfe- tee Insisted that the premises for SS>*hese charges were false and that the inferences drawn were unfair and dangerous. He drew in turn a reply from.Senator Knox, Republican. Penn HS^syl'vanis. who suggested that sup porters of the league covenant should read it before they discussed it. -i .. So heated did the exchanges be come at one point that the chair rap ,ped.-for order and Senator Reed de clared that Senator Hitchcock had ^^flost his temper." The measure which brought the league issue before the senate was the; resolution of Staator Johnson, -Republican, of California, requesting from the State department the full text of the peace treaty. There was no-attempt to reach a vote on the res olution on which debate began last Friday and the measure went over -again as unfinished business to come up-when the senate reconvenes Wed nesday. . . ^"^g'itjiout speaking directly on the Johnson', resolution Senator Reed nia.de - a general attack upon the league;covenant itself as a- proposal to?vhand: over control of the white race-aiid the civilized world to an as sembly of nations where a majority cpuJk}' be brought together on any :r:. questions1 in 'opposition to white su premacy. He declared support of the league plan never jould be explained at- home by.senators from the s South, JWith its negro" population or from the jj West from its Chinese and Japanese problems. Turning dramatically to his Democratic colleague, he con tinued: "If. a Republican president had hrought it here?if Roosevelt had brought it here?there is not a Dem - ocrat that would not have been stand ?* ing' by my side fighting to the last {Steh to rescue the , country from so monstrous and so cruel a thing." uthern Democrats particularly chided for refusing to recognize the" negro as an eo.ua! at the ballot box, but at the same time accepting south Af r?can and other nations where ?? the black race predominates as mem '-. hers of the league asembly on an equality with the United States. "Yott1 think you can control the vote , of -the: black race," he asserted, hut ohany question of race equality you never will be able to do it." \- To support his prediction that the biack; yellow, red and brown races would-combine to embarrass the white race, Senator Reed cited the amend ment offered by Japanese delegates at Paris to the league covenant guaran teeing race equalit3". Although the amendment failed, he said, the Japa nese; delegates reserved the right to ' bring it later before the league for determination. Senator Reed also quoted from a periodical published by negroes in this- country a passage declarng a I league of nations or some other "in ternational power" to be "absolutely necessary for the salvation of the negro race" in view of treatment of the negroes in the United States and South. Africa. In his speech of nearly three- hours, > Senator Reed presented a mass of statistics and other information re gaarcShg' the smaller members of the reague. The member nations in which the white race was predominant, he safd. totaled in population only*? 289. 488,800, while those^of other races are in the majority has $51.424.060 He said white nations would have 15 votea in the league and othef nations j ? *?? : ! As . the nations where whtte..blood j does not predominate the senator named: Laberia, Haiti, Hejast Panama. ? Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala. ?iEeuador. Cuba, Bolivia, Peru,. Brazil. South Africa, Siam, India, Chjina and Japan. In these countries, j he as serted, the average of il:.teracyc.is 85 per cent and he quoted extensively front reference from works to show that many of them are overrun with superstitution. While the Missouri senator was as-1 sailing the league in the senate/.Rep resentative Madden, of Illinois, made a speech criticising it in the house and -declaring the American people never could mingle on equal terms with the peoples of Europe. No gen eral debate developed, however, at that- end of the capitol. When the Johnson resolution com es, up in the senate Wednesday Senator Robinson, Democrat of Arkansas; ex pects to open debate with a speech supportingr the league. He had given notie^that he would speak today, hut adjoaKphment was taken -before ht;.h?-dj fh^> ?^portunity. When He Saw That His Plane Was Failing He Hunted For Ship and Landed in Track GOOD JUDGMENT AND GOOD LUCK ! His Experience Will Encourage Rather Than Deter Others From Making Trans-Atlantic Attempt. London, May 26.?The Daily Mail today prints a dispatch from Thurso, Scotland, giving" the simple narrative of Harry G. Hawker, the British aviator, regarding the unsuccessful attempt to fly across the Atlantic made by himself and Lieut. Comndr. Mac kenzie Grieve: t "We had' very difficult ground to rise from the other side," said Hawk er. To rise at all we had to run diagonally across the course. "Once we got away we climbed well but about 10 minutes up we {passed from a firm clear weather into Newfoundland fog banks. We got 'well over these, however, and of course lost sight of the sea. "The sky was quite clear for the first few hours, when visibility be came very bad. Heavy cloud banks j were encountered and eventually we I flew into a heavy storm with rain squalls. "At this time we were flying well above the clouds at a height of about 15,000 feet. ? "About five and one half hours but. owing to the choking of the filter, the temperature of the water cooling our engine started to rise but after com ing down several thousand feet we overcame this difficulty. Everything went well for another few hours when once again the circulation system be came choked and the temperature of the water rose to the boiling point. "We of course realized that until ! the pipe was cleared we could not i rise much higher without using a lot j of motor power. When we were about ! 32 1-2 hours on our way the circula | tion system was still giving us trouble and we realized that we could not gc on using up our motor power. "Then it was that we reached the first fateful decision to play for safe ty. We changed our course and be gan flying diagonally across the main shipping lane for about two and one half hours when to our great relief we sighted a Danish steamer which j proved to be the tramp Mary. { "We sent up our light distress sig nals. These were answered promptl> and then we flew on about two miles and landed in the water ahead o? the steamer." Woman Will Make Attempt Ruth Law Says She Will Try Trans-Atlantic Flight Soon Chicago, May 28.?Ruth Law, the aviatrix, announced today that she plans to attempt the* trans-Atlantic flight within the next six weeks. She will use a new land biplane now be ing built for her and will be accom panied by a mechanician. Italians Block Progress Fine Italian Hand in Evidence in Delay of Negotiations With Austrians By The Associated Press. Paris, ?* May ;28.?Although ar rangements have beejfi made to pre sent the peace treaty t? the Austrian delegation Friday at noon, efforts by the peace conference to reach a de cision relative to the Southern boun dariesr of Austria have been delayed on account of the position of the Ital ian delegates. The Italians are linking the questions regarding the Austrian boundaries and the Dalmatian coast together, but the council of four hopes to have the Dalmatian problem post poned for later settlement. War in Galicia Condemned American and British Ministers Protest Against Polish Of fensive London, May 28.?The American and British ministers at Warsaw hive protested against the Polish offensi in East Galicia, according to an Ex change Telegraph dispatch from Vien na: Americans Decorated Crew of NC-4 Given Grand I Cross by Portugese Gov [ ernment London, May 28.?The crew of the American seaplane NC-4 has been decorated with the grand cross of the order of the lower and sword, says a message to the Wifeless Press from Lisbon. The decoration was pre sented by the Portuguese foreign min ister. Versailles, May 2S.?The German peace delegation here, it was learned today, will preset a counter claim of twelve billion, .-eggbt hundred and fifty million marks* for damages /rpm the allied blockade as an offset to the. reparation demands of the allied powers. '?*%?-?'? vl& READ CROSSES ATLANTIC OCEAN Landed at Lisbon Tuesday Af ternoon After Successful Flight From Azores NAVAL SEAPLANE ES : ... TABLISHES NEW RECORD Flight Was Made in Less Than Ten Hourr and Was Without Mishap on Incident Washington, May 27. -Blazing the way of the first air trial from the western to the exstern hemisphere, the United States navy seaplane NC 4, under Lieut. Comndr. Albert Cush i'ng Read,v swept into the harbor at Lisbor, Portugal today, the" first air ship of any kind to have crossed the Atlamic ocean under its own power and through its natural element. Taking the? air at Ponta Del Gada, Azores at 0.18 a. m. Washington time, on the last leg of the trans-oceank portion of the voyage from Rockaway Beach, L. I., to Plymouth, Eng., the NC-4 covered the 900 miles in nine hours and 43 minutes, maintaining an average speed of better than 80 knots an hour. The total elapsed flying time from Newfoundland to Lisbon was 2fi hours and 41 minutes. At the first opportunity the bis plane will continue to Plymouth, 775 nautical miles to the north. Possibly Commander Read can star: tomorrow. To the navy department however it "makes little difference when he completes the journey. The great ob ject of. all the effort lavished on the undertaking, navigation of a seaplane across the Atlantic through the air has been accomplished. Twentieth century transportation has reached a new pinnacle and the United States navy has led the way. Navy officials emphasized that thi long delay at the Azores was due to the weather and to no weakness of the machine or its daring crew, nor to any failure of the carefully latd plans of the department to guide the flyers to their destination. The 14 de stroyers strung from Ponta Del Gada to Lisbon reported with machinevlike precision today ?s the flight progress ed: The plane was never off its course, and there was no moment when offi cials in Washington did not know within a few mHes where it was in the air. To riiaintain adequate communica tion for this stage of the journey the destroyers st?ck to their posts after the flying boat had passed, relaying back to Ponta Del Gada reports from ships farther . eastward. The chain was not broken until the plane was safely moored for the night near the cruiser Rochester at Lisbon. For the next few hundred miles of his epoch making journey Command er Read and his crew will he within sight of the Portuguese or Spanish coast in the sweep northward. Skirt ng the coast of Cape Finisterre they will head out across the bay of Biscay to sight Brest, the most westerly point of France. Thence direct to Plymouth. The destroyers that will guide them across the Bay wen1 al ready fn position tonight provided with the flares and bombs that have made the trip safe thus far except for fhe fog that forced the other two ma chines of the seaplane division, the NC-1 and NC-3 out of the flight after they had safely negotiated virtually the entire distance from Newfound land to the Azores. Commander Read had with him on the flight to Lisbon the same crew as 'hat which left Newfoundland on the NC-4 on May 10. Lieuts. E. F. Stone of the coast guard and W. K. Hinton vere the pilots with Ensign R. C. Rodd as radio operator and Chief Ma chinist Mate E. S. Rhodes as reserve pilot engineer. The crew was met at Lisbon by most members of the crews >f the XC-1 and NC-3 who had pre ceded them on a destroyer. The chart of the flight, as shown by the reports of the station ship de stroyers on the NC-4*s progress to day showed how the winds helped her J along. At times Commander Read's ship apparently was whirling through the air at a f*0 knot clip: again her I speed fell off to less than tU>. only to pick up again with other breezes, probably the machine overtook and parsed winds that had stirred the wa ters about Ponta del Gada, the dayj before, preventing an earlier start. Official word of the arrival of the plane at Lisbon reached the navy de partment first though a dispatch from Br^st. France sent by Rear Ad miral Halstead. commander of the American navy forces in French wa ters. The message was received at the Otter Cliffs, Me., station and re layed to Washington. ' Immediately Secretary Daniel-, ena bled congratulations of the depart ment to Commander Read. The secre tary also vent a cable 1o President Wilson at Paris telling him thai American naval aviators had been first to cross the Atlantic. Secretary Daniels said today no definite plans for further transoceanic flight nad been made. He explained that the first trip was the beginning of a se-j ries of experiments in long distance! flying arid thai very probably after j defects In naval aircraft, brought to { light during this flight had bee:: cor rected, another squadron of seaplanes would he In-aded across tin- Atlantic. Mr. Daniels said he had not decided! whether the NC-4 should attempt to fly back to the United States or be j shipped back. i Plymouth. Ens-.. May 27 (By the] Associated Press).?The news of the! flight of the American navy seaplane, j NC-4 from Ponta Del Gada to Lisbon was received with the greatest inter-! est in Plymouth, which is to be the final destination of the big aircraft, in its trip from Newfoundland t<? Eng NO BIG FLEETS 1 SAYS DANIELS Recommends Three-Year Build ing Program be Abandoned . ?s League Will Keep Peace UNCLE SAM WILL LEAD THE WAY Secretary Na^y Says if Amer iea Reduces .Armament Eng land, France and Italy Will Do'the Same Washington, May 27/?The policy of . the navy department for a fleet "sec . ond to none in the world" has been ? temporarily abandoned. Secretary Daniels, apearing before j the house naval affairs committee tb ? day, outlining the needs of his depart ment for the next fiscal,year recom mended that the entire 1919 three year building prograin of ten battle . ships and ten battle cruisers be aban - dcned, saying that the trend of the , world towards universal peace and i the operation of the proposed league i of nations made competition for su ; premacy of the seas no longer a n^; .] cessity. , The naval secretary asserted that as the United States had taken a fore - most part in promoting the league of nations, it would be this nation's duty ? to show faith in the covenant by ic fusing to authorize further large ad ditions to the sea forces. Work on ? the 1916 program, he said, should he . completed as soon as possible, but the 1919 program, which, it is estimated. , wouldlinvolve an exenditure of more . than a billion dollars, should he j "wiped off the slate." "There can be no halfway ground," ; he told the committee, which will ini tiate all naval legislation. "Either we i must have the league to safeguard the , interests o fevery nation or the big ? gest navy in the world." Explaining the reasons for the navy department's change of policy, Secre , tary Daniels said that when he ap peared before the committe last De cember and urged additional shfp con struction, .the associated governments had not begun consideration of a league of nations, and conditions made it ?necessary that the United States should not be caught again as unpre pared as it was at the outbreak of the war. "But since then," he said, "the cove nant has been drafted and a new era for the world has begun. Peac? will take the place of bloodshed. It will 'be far best for the interests of all na I tions that the United States should j set a precedent by stopping where it is." ? j Mr. Daniels said that if the United 'States did net launch new building (programs other notions would fo'low j the example and change their naval j plans accordingly. Great Britain I France and Italy, he asserted, are i waiting on the United States. Head Of Furman Dr. W. J. McGothlin of Nash ville Made President Greenville, May 27.?Dr. W. J. Mc Glothlin who holds the chair of j church history at the Southern Bap tist Theological Seminary, Nashv;ll3. j Tenn.. today was elected president of - Furman University by the hoard of trustees. Dr. MoGothlih announced! at a luncheon of the Rotary Club, given today in his honor that he would accct the presidency and will enter upon his duties at the beginning of the next session. X movement was started to provide Furman with a gymnasium to cost $50.000, and J. W. Norwood announced that he would give $50,000 provided 350,000 addi tional were raised. This additional amount- would be raised, it was as sured tonight. Dr. McGlothlin has been associat-1 od with the Southern Baptist Theo logical Seminary for a number of years and is one of the most promi nent Baptists in the South. He was recently offered the secretaryship of the Southern Baptist convention He will succeed Dr. E. M. Potent, who resigned about a year ago to go on the lecture platform for the Bap tist church wit fi headquarters inj New York. Dr. S. E. Bradshaw has j been acting president. - Speed Up Navy Building j Secretary Daniels Urges That! Nineteen Sixteen Program \ i > he. Completed , S?? i V\'asbinston, ^jay ?rpilfw r;1r,j,ij completion of the navy's 1.916 "build ing program was urged by the gener-y al board today; in ;i comnmmcationj (presented to the house naval com mittee by ^Secretary Daniels The j board ?roeommended that only slight j; changes ho made in the plans of .the capital ships^as originally drawn. Not Made Public j ?> - _ Paris. May 2^.?The German coun-Jl ter proposals Lo the allied pe.-:re terms will not be made public until the al liod answer is synt to the Germans, says the Petit Parision. land. Wireless;/"reports of today's] flight, .given out. by the admiralty, Jt evoke considerable enthusiasm.''' All J the.pSins for patrolling the course of j the Mntended;.- ^0xt from Lisbon to J Plyi^d^t;have;^n arranged. , . ' c MATERIAL pj US Bui row Prbdnet?j5n depends an Construction U. S. Dept. of Labor W. B. Wilson Secretary Rough, and dressed lumber, brick, lime, cement, plaster shingles; in fact everything for the builder. BOOTH & McLEOD, fi$C HARDING FOR COTTON BANKER Head of Federal Reserve Sys tem Choice of Promoters of Cotton- Corporation WOULD ADD GREAT STRENGTH TO SYSTEM Builders of Great Organization to Handle Cotton Crop for Benefit of South Plan Wisely. New Orleans. May 27.?At a meet ing of the executive eomrnittee of the proposed $100,000,000 cotton export corporation held here today, it be came known that Go v. W. P. G. Hard ing of the federal reserve board, Washington and formerly of Birming ham, was favored'' by many as first president upon organization. No defi nite action was taken t?day. The committee will meet again tomorrow afternoon. The committee was in executive ses sion. It is known several cities made bids for a convention to further plans. Two sul>eommittoes were announc ed. They are: Committee on legal and charter work, Gov. Buffi in Pleas ant of Louisiana, chairman; Senator Leroy Percy, Mississippi and L. D. Jennings, South Carolina; committee on organization. R. Brinkley Snow den, Tennessee. B. F. Willinghanl, i Georgia and W. B. Thompson. Loa- j isiana. The question of tax is being con-J sidered by the committee and mem-d hers openly favor incorporation in a | State in which exemption is possible, j The committe< members in session j here are: Governor. Pleaant. presid ing: W. B. Thompson. New" Orleans; B. F. Willingham. Macon. Ga.; J. A. Brown, Chadbourne. N. C; R. Brinkley; Snowden, Memphis; Leroy Percy, j Greenville, Miss.; Ilinton E. Carr, Birmingham: and L. D. Jennings,; Sumtcr, S. C. i Railroading in Siberia American Engineers Help Ope rate Disorganized System Titsikar, Manchuria, April 5 Right at the edge of the great Mon- j golian desert, Major George H. Tower j of Eauclaire., Wis., and eleven other | American engineers, have labored I throughout a rigorous winter, helping] the Russians run their great Trans Siberian railroad. now disorganized and sorely in need of American as sistance. These sturdy men form "a i section of the corpc of workers or- \ ganized by John F. Stevens, tfie j American engineer, in an attempt to j reorganize the railroad. "We've had 'It 55 below zero here," j said Major Tower to the correspond- j ent of the Associated Press, '"but j we've got used to it. Still, it is cold, j You can't deny that and the nights'! are pretty long." The major said he and his associ ates had charge of-the railroad section between Titsikar and Hailar, and that 147 locomotives were assigned to their section. They were always waiting for the time when they would be giv en a bigger opportunity to help in re organizing the railroad. Both Titsikar and Hailar are great| centers fp rthe soya bean industry forj which Manchuria is famed. Also, the district abounds in cattle. Welcome for NC-4 British Air Ministry Plan Great j Reception at Plymouth Plymouth, May 21?.?It is announc- j r-d here that the British air ministry j is planning to give Seaplane XC-4 andjj her crew a great reception. Three ! - flying boats in addition to airplanes h will go out to escort the Americans, I to the mooring station. The crew j will be guests of honor at the Royal s Air Force Station, probably on the !* lav following their arrival. Women in Politics Democratic Committee Consult j< With Women on Plans for L 1920 t Chicago, May 29.?The members of jo he Hemccratic national committee ih teld . conference today with women jv issocfate members at which plans Y or the 1920 campaign were discuss- a d. ? h Counter Proposals Assert That They Have Ki^ht to Terms I Based on Wilson's Plan I ALLIED TERMS IGNORE THIS PRINCIPLE V i Also Take No Acount of Fact j That Germany Is Now Strict J ly Democratic I Berlin. May 28.?The German cobti ? ter proposal as to the terms of the j treaty will, in the opening section ; argue for the existence of Germany's I contractual right to a treaty of peace I based on President Wilson'4 fourteen j points. ? ; ' The second section will deal with j the contradiction between the draft ? of the treaty and the previous assur : a nee from entente states and the gen ? eral ideals of international right. The 'counter proposals will declare that J the peace terms competely ignore the j fact that Germany has replaced an ! "imperialistic and irresponsible" gov ! ernment by strictly democratic o?e j and that Germany .in her proposals j for a league of nations has adhered ! to the principle of limitation of arma i ments. . ' ? ! White Man Lynched Jay Lynch Taken From Court Room by Angry Mob I ?. Lamar. Mo., May 28.?Shortly after ! Jay Lynch had pleaded guilty to the murder of Sheriff John Harlow and his son and had been sentenced to life imprisonment here late today, 24 mon entered the court room, took Lynch from the hands of officers and hanged him in the yard before a crowd of 300 persons. When Lynch's body wua, swung into the air, the spectators, in cluding many women and children, cheered. Lynch is one of few white men to be lynched in Missouri. Immediately after Judge B. G. Thurman passed sentence, he'ordered Lynch taken to his office under guard of seven deputies. Here he was al lowed to greet his wife, baby, mother and sister. His handcuffs had been removed that he might hold his baby and he had just given the child back to its mother when the men entered and seized him. Lynch was brought from Hutf.er, Mo., today, where he had been held in jail since his arrest in Colorado several weeks ago. There were no threats or show of violence befov*? hand^ and, according to witnesses,"the mob gathered quietly in the-'corridors of the court house and in the yard. Capital punishment is not possible under a law enacted by the legisla ture in 1917. An attempt was made to repeal the present law shortly after the Lynch shooting and the chief sup porter of the repeal of the law was Representative Henry Chancellor of Barton county, where Lynch was hanged. Lynch was a rested at Lamar, on the request of St. Louis authorities, where he was charged with box car robbery. On March ? Sheriff Harlow, in response to a request of Lynch to use the long distance telephone, open ed his cell. Lynch drew a revolver and shot the sheriff, killing him in- ; stantly. The son of the sheriff came to his father's rescue and was also shot by Lynch and died two days later. A posse with bloodhounds attempt ed to trail Lynch but failed. Leaving Lamar, Lynch, according :o his confession, went to Kansas City md front the^e .o St. Louis, where he obtained funds from friends. Going io Jacksonville. 111., he purchased a motor car and started West. He was ?efused permission to cross the Hex can border and continued on to Los Angeles, looming hack East, he was ?eeognized at La Junta. Col., by a ?esident o/ Lamar, and arrested <m Vlay 14. He was brought back to Mis souri and cd&tined at Butler, the au horities at. that time believing that le would Jiot be safe at Lamar be cause of the intense feeling. After tis return Butler, Lynch confessed hat he had tramped through the ountry surrounding Lamar after his ?scape andfo'nee while being trailed iy the po^se- with bloodhounds had tood on or^ej5f"the street corners of he town aijd watched the posse work. Vhile Lynch made no confession as - o where he had. obtained the we&p n which he. usea1 to kill Sheriff Har jw and his son. his mother and aril * ;ere supposext to have smuggled it to tim. They*?were held immediately fter his escap^ on the charge of be tig accessories 4o the crime.