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11. S. FIRMLY CALLS
GREAT BRITAIN
BRITONS INFORMED U. S. WILL
NOT BE EXCLUDED FROM
ANY TERRITORY
ISSUE TAKEN WITH BRITAIN
*
'l. S Doesn't Propose To Waive Any
Privileges, Even If Not A
Member Or League
Warhlngton.— The United States
government has informed Great Brit
ain politely, hut firmely, that It does
net propose to he excluded from par
ticipation in the rights and privileges
secured under mandates provided In
the treaties of peace.
Th- position of the United States is
s it forth in a note hy Secretary Col
by to Karl Curzon, the British secre
tary of state for foreign affairs, and
the specific question discussed is that
of the Mesopotamian petroleum fields.
Mr. Colby's note is dated November
20, and was made public following its
delivery to the British foreign office
early In the past week.
The note is in reply to a British
note of last August 9, which has never
been made public and which deals
with the application of the principles
of equality of treatment to the ter
ritories of the near east to be placed
under British mandate.
The American note takes issue with
what is described as the British po
sition that mandate agreements and
threats are to he considered only hy
states that are members of the league
of nations.
It states that the United States, as
a participant in the world war, "and
u contributor to its successful issue,
cannot consider any of ihe associated
powers, ihe smallest not less than it
self, debarred from discussion of any
of its consequences, or from partici
pation In the rights and privileges se
cured under the mandates provided
In the treaties of peace.”
Mr. Colby says, In his note, that the
American government accepts the
statement of Ihe British government
that it has refrained from exploiting
the petroleum properties of the man
dated territories in question, and "wel
coming your pledges” that It Is far
from the intention of Great Britain "to
establish any kind of monopoly or
preferred position in its own inter
est.”
"1 need hardly refer again,” Mr. Col
by continues, “to the fact that the
government of the United States has
consistently urged that i| is of the
, utmost importance to the future peace
of the world that alien territory trans
ferred us a result of the war with the
central powers should he held uml
administered In such away as to us
suro equal treatment to the commerce
uipl to the citizens of all nations.
. "Indeed it was in reliance upon an
understanding to (his effect and ex
pressed in contemplation thereof that
the United States was persuaded that
the acquisition under mandate of cer
tain enemy territory by the victorious
powers would he consistent with the
last interests of the world.
■'lt is assumed, accordingly, that
your statement, with reference to
Mandate A (not described) together
with the statement that the draft
mandate for Mesopotamia and Pales
tine have been prepared with u view to
secure equality of treatment for the
commerce and citizens of all states
which are members of the league of
nations, do not indicate a supposi
tion on your part that the United
States can ho excluded from the ben
efits of the principle of equality of
treatment."
33 "Conscience Objectors” Released
- Washington. Conscientious objec
tors who refused to take part in the
world war received their greatest pos
sible - Thanksgiving Day gift in the
fofiu of an order from Secretary of
War Baker releasing the thirty-three
still held in prison.
Edward Rhodes Stitt Surgeon General
.Washington. Hear Admiral Edward
Rhodes Stitt, head of the naval med
ical .school, becomes surgeon general
of the navy, succeeding Hear Admiral
W. C. Braisted. who goes oil the re
tired-' list Admiral Stitt was called I
Into 'consultation during President
Wilson’s prolonged illness.
Reds Destroy Gen. Petlura's Army
Warsaw. —Armed conflict between
Polish forces and Bolshevik troops
which have reached the Polish fron
tier the Zbruc river was nar-
averted when the Bolshevik!
began bombarding the town of Pod
woloczyska, al>out twenty-five miles
cast*of Tarnopol. Polish military' au
thorities protested against the bont
bardipent, which caused the deaths of
five persons and serious Injury of
16 otlierfc.
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Germans Don't Like French Negroes
Berlin. —Bitterness marked a debate
in the reichstag relating to the voting
of appropriations to carry out provi
sions of the Versailles treaty. Mem
bers of the chamber denounced the ac
tion of the allies in keeping such a
. large force of men along the Rhine
and, in particular, assailed France for
sending negro troops into Germany.
Doctor Zaps. a member of the Ger
man People's party, said Germany's
financial situation seemed hopeless
MRS. LLOYD GEORGE
M 4 wlik
a>. Z'&jjtHfs''* fVEE
Mrs. David Lloyd George, wife of
the prime minister, has been made a
dame of the empire, highest degree of
the Order of the British Empire.
U S. AGENTS AFTER FARMERS
Charles S. Barrett Says Word Has
Been Passed Around Farmers Are
To Be Taught A Lesson
Washington.—-Declaring he under
stood "that federal agents are already
going over Kansas, lowa and other
states trying to get evidence neces
sary to the indictment of men who
are asking farmers to hold their crop.
Charles S. Barrett, president of the
National Farmers' Union, through a
statement issued recently, appealed to
members of his organization to stand
together and not sell their products at
present "ruinously low prices.”
“Show that you have the moral cour
age to go to jail if necessary,” Mr.
Barrett advised members of the farm
ers' union. "The word seems to have
been passed around that farmers were
to he taught a lesson—they were get
ting troublesome.”
The farmers’ answer to claims of
over-production, Mr. Barrett suid,
should be: “We simply will lessen
production.” This was “no idle
threat," he said, adding: “From ev
ery part of the country comes the
promise that this policy should be ad
hered to until the country wakes up
to the fact that it must either go on
short rations or pay you wages high
enough to live on.”
Efforts of the farmers toward co
operation, Mr. Barrett said, have met
with strong opposition from the first.
He charged that "deliberate efforts"
have been made to prevent them from
buying collectively.
“For seven long, weary years," the
farmers’ union president added, "the
farmers of this country hud placed
over them a secretary of agriculture
not in real sympathy with, and with
little understanding of the needs of
agriculture, and who now as secre
tary of another department, is lieitig
used apparently ns a willing and eager
tool to .enforce deflation of farm prod
ucts.”
Mr. Barrett’s appeal further stated
that the only course left to the farm
ers was to help one another and by
raising sufficient money to finance
more adequately "our business under
takings so that we can hold and mar
ket farm products ourselves in a busi
nesslike. orderly fashion.”
Illegal To Stuff Turkey With Liquor
Montgomery, Ala.—A bottle of corn
liquor is not legitimate stuffing for a
Thanksgiving turkey, according to a
ruling of the Montgomery police de
partment. Mose Jackson, colored, was
sighted hy a policeman with a dress
ed turkey in his possession, in the
cavity of which was found concealed
a bottle of contraband beverage.
Army Man Fylies 3 Miles A Minute
Mineola. N. Y. Flying at a speed of
virtually three miles a minute, Lieut.
C. C. Mosley, piloting an American
made Verille-Packard army plane, won
the first Pulitzer trophy in the aero
nautical ruee here against a field of
thirty-four starters.
Fortune In Securities Found In Woods
Fredericksburg, Va —Liberty bonds
and other securities valued at approx
imately $76,000, taken from the Bank
of Mineral. Va., hy robbers the night
of November 6. were found in the
woods near Aquia creek, in Stafford
county, by a party touring in an auto
mobile. The tourists hud stopped by
the roud for lunch, and upon arriving
I here reported to the authorities that
j they had seen some papers which
j might he of value.
! Some Janitors Get $5,000 A Year
Chicago.—With unother janitors’
i strike looming after the Chicago real
1 estate board's refusal of new wage
I demands, officials of the Chicago ten-
I ants' assocation declared they would
shovel their own coal "rather than
j submit to extortion." The association
| has about twenty thousand members.
Some Chicago janitors are making $5,-
1 000 a year, according to James J. Car
| roll, of the real estate board. When
l officials of the janitors' union met
j with a committee from the board, they
| asked for a 50 per cent increase.
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR VT, VERNON. GEORGIA.
FRANCE MAY LIFT
SOVIET BLOCKADE
REQUEST RECEIVED BY RUSSIA
FROM FOREIGN CAPITALISTS
AFFORDING SUCH RIGHTS
DECREE ISSUED BY RUSSIA
French Trades To Be Encouraged To
Get All The Russian Business
Possible
Paris. —Suppression of the blockade
of Kusßia is favored, by Premier Ley
gues, he told the committee on for
eign relations of the chamber of dep
uties recently.
Inasmuch as the Soviet government
is actually in operation, he declared,
It has been decided to permit French
traders and manufacturers to do all
the business they can with Russia.
In addition, says Marcel. Cachian,
who is a member of the committee,
and who has written an account of
the premier’s statement for the news
paper Humanite, M. Leygues said he
was arranging to encourage trade with
Russia.
Discussing General Baron Wrangel
and the recent defeat of that anti-Bol
shevik leader, the premier asserted he
considered the rout of General Wran
gel’s troops represented nothing, and
that France was released of all en
gagements toward hint.
France Is now feeding General
Wrangel’s army out of humanity, but
would continue this work no longer
than necessary. The premier said he
was not thinking of using that army
in any way, and incidentally announc
ed that half of General Wrangel’s
troops were now in Serbia, where they
are being reorganized.
London. —The supreme economic So
viet of Russia, says a Moscow wireless
message, has issued a decree pointing
out the general principles on which
foreign capitalists will be permitted
to exploit the natural riches of Rus
sia.
The Soviet government has received
requests from foreign capitalists to
afford such rights, the message states,
and Soviet Russia requires offers of
experienced forced and large mate
rial means in order to create within
the boundaries of Russia an inexhaust
ible source of raw materials for manu
facture on the spot and abroad.
A new law permits foreign capital
ists to work the natural riches of
Russia, the message declares, receiv
ing in return the right to export
abroad a portion of their production.
The Soviet government promises
foreign capitalists (hat nothing they
invest in undertakings in Russia shall
be nationalized, confiscated or requi
sitioned. The capitalists shall have
the right to engage workers and oth
er employees in accordance with the
existing law on labor in Russia.
NEW YORK CROWD
RIOTED AT SIGHT
OF BRITISH FLAG
New York. The usual Thanksgiv
ing Day here was violently interrupt
ed shortly afternoon when crowds who
had attended a high requiem mass in
memory of Terrence MacSwiney, for
mer lord mayor of Cork, rioted at the
sight of a British flag decorating the
facade of the Union Club across Fifth
avenue, from St. Patrick's cathedral.
After a fight participated in bjr hun
dreds of Irish sympathizers, in the
course of which plate glass windows
of the club were shattered by missiles
hurled by member of the mob, order
was restored when a cordon of 200
police established itself around the
the building. The union jack, which
was the cause of the assault, though
taken down at the first demand of
the crowd and subsequently replaced,
still was draped on the sidewalk with
the emblems of France and the Unit
ed States when the fracas ended.
Special Sales In Paris To Aid Loan
Paris. —France doesn't know how
about America's Thanksgiving Day,
but this republic had a celebration of
its own, which probably caused a lot
of shoppers as well as the finance
ministers of the country, to give
thanks. All the stores of Paris staged
special sales, with the announcement
that the proceeds of all sales would
go to the national loan. There was an
unprecedented rush of shoppers.
Conference For Hebrew Education
Pittsburg.—A national conference to
organize a national association for He
brew education will be held in the near
future, Sol Rosenbloom. temporary
chairman of a preliminary committee
on organization, announced here. The
project has for its purpose the perpet
uation of Jewish culture and litera
ture in this country. Mr. Rosenbloom
said. He added that the national con
ference probably would be held in New
York City.
Member Os Posse Led To Own Home
Meridian. Miss. —Roy Miner, twenty
■ two-vear-old son of a wealthy manufac-
I *
turer of this city, and living on a farm
eight miles southeast, was a member
of the posse that followed bloodhounds
| that trailed the alleged slayer of Mrs.
I Lewis. 56. to his own home. Miner
I was immediately placed under arrest
| by Sheriff Martin and with his father-
I in-law-, J. E. Johnson, who is fifty-
I five years old. are in jail pending fur
ther investigation.
EDWARD HUBBARD
Edward Hubbard, pilot of an air
alane company, has signed a contract
:o establish an international air mail
service between Seattle and Victoria,
8. C.
manTuTsTklo™
Englishman Sa ysU. S. Has Money,
Men And Spirit To Handle The
Armenians And Turks
Geneva. —The assembly of the
league of nations decided, without
i dissenting vote, to appeal to the
powers in the hope of finding a gov
srnment willing to undertake media
tion between the Turkish National
ists and Mustapha Kemal Pasha and
the Armenians.
An earnest debate preceded the
vote on the resolution, which was pre
sented by M. Viviani, former premier
as France, inviting the council of the
league to take the action indicated,
it threatened at times, however, to
justify the predictions of the league’s
apponents, that the work of the as
sembly would founder on the rule re
quiring a unanimous vote.
Lord Robert Cecil, A. J. Balfour,
Rene Viviani, Hjalmar Branting, Dr.
Fridtjjof Nansen, C. J. Dougherty
(Canada) and M. Stalaiovch (Jugo
slavia) participated, but the real con
test was between M. Viviani and Mr.
Balfour.
Mr. Balfour explained the failure of
.he league council to find a manda
tory for Armenia. He referred to the
refusal of the United States to ac
cept such a mandate, and hoped that
the committee of the assembly might
3o better.
The former French premier pleaded
warmly for prompt action, provoking
the first enthusiastic demonstration
as the assembly. He declared that if
the assembly was unable to do bet
ter than name another committee, it
would proclaim its own impotence.
It was remarked that Lord Robert
Cecil applauded vigorously from the
South African bench, while the Eng
lish delegates, Mr. Balfour and H. A.
L. Fisher, remained stolidly indiffer
ent.
It was evident that Mr. Balfour was
fighting against an eventual military
expedition more than against medi
ation, as proposed by M. Viviani. Al
though Doctor Nansen was the only
one to speak boldly in favor of an
expeditionary force to deal with the
Turkish Nationalist leader, Mustapha
Kemal Pasha, all the others, with the
exception of Mr. Balfour, approached
as closely as they could to this even
tuality without actually saying so.
The general impression after the
debate was that the assembly favor
ed fighting Kemal Pasfro if no other
way was found to end the conflict
in Armenia.
Moonshiner Freed By President Wilson
Washington.—President Wilson has
granted a pardon to John F. Schwein
berg, who pleaded guilty several weeks
ago in Cincinnati to a charge of oper
ating a liquor still. Schwelnberg was
sentenced to. serve six months in jail.
The court and prosecuting attorney
recommended Schweinberg be pardon
ed on the ground that he had not been
making liquor only for his own use
and was ignorant of the law.
Missing S. C. Man Found In Florida
Columbia. S. C. —Marion Hagood, a
Elythewood farmer, whose blood-stain
ed automobile was found near here and
for whose body searching parties have
hunted without success for forty-eight
hours, wired his father at Blythewood
from Jacksonville, Fla., that he was
all right and was returning to Co
lumbia according to advices received
here by telephone from Blythewood.
Hagood's telegram stated that he had
"just got loose from burglars.” ac
cording to further advices received
by the sheriff's office.
Shoe Prices Reduced By Wholesalers
St. Louis. —Further reductions in
the wholesale prices of certain styles
of shoes were announced by two shoe
manufacturers here. A general re
duction of 10 per cent was made by
the McElroy-Sloan Shoe company of
ficials of that firm. The Brown
Shoe company announced that men's
calfskins were reduced from $7.50 to
$6.50, enabling a retail reduction from
sll to SS. Women's calfskins, the
announcement added, were cut from
$6 to $4. enabling the retail price tr
decline from $S to 6, or $6.50
DOORS TO LEAGUE
ARE OPEN TO U. S.
WORKS TO LEAVE THE WAY
OPEN FOR UNITED STATES
TO HAVE HER SAY
AMERICAN ARMY AT GENEVA
Visit Os Major Churchill Has No Sig
nificance, But Puts Delegates
To Talking
Geneva, Switzerland. —The arrival
here of Maj. Marlborough Churchill,
assistant chief of the military intel
ligence division of the general staff
of the United States army, which so
far as appears now has no real sig
nificance except to himself and his
department, has created a mild sensa
tion in league of nations circles.
The "United States” has been on
the lips of almost every spokesman
in the assembly of the league and
probably in the minds of every dele
gate.
The hope that the United States will
some day join the league is unmistaka
ble. The entire work of the assembly
has visibly been directed so as not
to prejudice the most important ques
tions at issue regarding the league
covenant, and so as to leave the way
open for the United States to have
her say in its eventual revision.
The appearance during this assem
bly of any official or unofficial repre
sentative of the American government
was the last thing hoped for. Major
Churchill, consequently, was all the
more an object of attention when his
presence here became known.
Major Churchill conferred with the
United States members of the league’s
secretariat and also with Colonel Re
quin of the French military delegation
in attendance here.
Major Churchill explained that he
was on a tour of inspection of all the
United States military attaches in Eu
rope and came to Geneva to find out
the manner in which the military com
mission was organized and become ac
quainted with the activities of the as
sembly regarding intelligence work
and other military questions.
The United States, Major Church
ill said, is interested from the stand
point of the future and naturally is
anxious to know what has been done
or may be accomplished in a military
way by the league.
TO LAUNCH LARGEST
VESSEL IN UNITED STATES
NAVY AFTER NEW YEAR’S
Quincy, Mass. —It is authoritatively
announced here the keels of the su
perdreadnaught Massachusetts will be
laid soon after New Year’s Day.
The Massachusetts will be larger
than any vessel in the United States
navy. With a length of 660 feet over
all and 106 feet beam, her displace
ment will be 43,200 tons. She will
have electric drive and engines of
60,000 horsepower, and her speed is to
be twenty-three knots. The armament
will comprise twelve 16-inch guns and
a secondary battery of sixteen 6-inch
guns.
The keel of the Lexington, a battle
cruiser, will be laid soon after that
of the Massachusetts. She will have
almost exactly the same beam as the
Massachusetts, but her length over all
is to be SBO feet and her displace
ment 43,500 tons. Her engines of 180,-
000 horsepower will yield a speed of
thirty-five knots under electric drive.
She will mount eight 16-inch guns and
sixteen 6-inch guns and also will have
eight torpedo tubes.
These two huge warships embody
the latest developments in naval con
struCtion and incidentaly show how
rapidly types have changed in recent
years. The locks of the Panama ca
nal, which are 110 feet wide, will allow
only two feet margin on each side for
the passage of a vessel of the Massa
chusetts’ beam.
Kitchen Stricken By Acute Indigestion
Washington.—Representative Kitch
en, minority leader of the house, was
stricken with an attack of acute indi
gestion as he entered the postoffice
department for a conference with the
postmaster general. His attack was
of short duration, however, and after
receiving treatment he was taken to
his home. His physician, Dr. Louis
Battle, says Mr. Kitchin's condition
is not in "any way alarming.”
Price-Cutting Wave Rolls On Asheville
Asheville, N. C.—Men’s wear, beef,
pork and bacon will be cheaper in
Asheville as the result of a wave of
price - cutting which struck the city.
Clothing houses advertised reductions
of 33 1/3 per cent in men’s suits and
several firms included in their lists
other wearing apparel, silk shirts in
some instances being cut 50%. The
butcher shops announced reductions
of between 20% and 25% on all grades
of beef, pork and bacon.
Marine Is Accussed Os Killing Haitien
Port-au-Prince. Haiti. —Dorcas Wil
liams. a marine sergeant, formerly of
Birmingham. Ala., accused of killing
a native of Haiti, arrived here in the
custody of officers aboard the destroy
er McCormick. The court of inquiry,
which is investigating the activities
of the American marines in Haiti, de
ferred hearing Williams to enable him
to confer with witnesses for the de
fense. The Haitien Courier has been
printing a series of extremely sensa
tional charges against the marines
based on hearsay reports.
TENSE PRESSURE
ON HER HEAD
“My Sides, Back and Head
Pained Me Just All the Time,”
Says Alabama Lady, Who
Took Cardui and Got Well.
Uniontown, Ala. —“After the birth of
my baby, I came near dying,” writes
Mrs. Maude Felts, of Uniontown. “I
was in an awful condition. ... It
Just looked like I would die.
“I couldn’t bear anyone to even
touch me, I was so sore, not even to
turn me in bed. My sides, back and
head all pained me, just all the time.
“We had the doctor every day and
he did everything he knew how, it
looked like. Yet I lay there suffering
such intense pains as seems I can’t
describe.
“Finally, I said to my husband, ‘let
us try Cardui’ ... He went for it at
once, and before I had taken the first
bottle the . . . came back, the soreness
began to go awrny, and I began to
mend. The intense pressure seemed
all at once to leave my head, and be
fore long I was up.
“I took three bottles and was well
and strong and able to do my work.
I believed Cardui saved my life. . . .
I cannot praise it enough for what
it did for me.”
If you are a woman, and need
a tonic —
Take Cardui, the Woman’s Tonic.
—Adv.
His Chief End in Life.
There lived in an English town a
wealthy but exceedingly "tight” old
lady, who kept very few servants and
paid them as little as possible.
Among these was an underfed, mis
erable-looking lad of fourteen, who an
swered the door, did the dishwashing,
waited at table, weeded the garden,
washed the dog and a few other things.
One day a visitor asked this lad:
“Well, my boy, and what do you do
around here?”
“I do a butler, a kitchen maid and
a gardener out of a job.” replied the
boy gravely.
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she can to make herself attractive.
Many of our southern women have
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clearing up blotches, itchy patches,
etc., and making the skin soft and
velvety. The worst cases of eczema
and other torturing skin diseases yield
to Tetterine. Sold by druggists or sent
by mail for 60c. by Shuptrine Co.,
Savannah, Ga. —Adv.
Some men are too stubborn to ac
knowledge the corn until you step on
their toes.
Going without breakfast may benefit
the health, though it may spoil the
temper.
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