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TO ASK CONGRESS
FOR FARM RELIEF
HOUSE AND SENATE COMMIT
TEE BEGIN JOINT
HEARING
HOW LOANS WOULD BE MADE
Senator Hitchcock Want* To U»e
$60,000,000 Profits Os Reserve Sys
tem For Farm Relief
Washington.- The plight of farmers
due io lulling prices was taken to
congress.
Agi (cultural committees of the sen
ate and house In joint, a hhloii began
hearing!) on condition!) brought about
b> lull mg prices preliminary to de
vising relief measures. They decld
ed to ;».-k Secretary Houston and Gov
ernor Harding of the federal reserve
boa id to come before them after Eu
gene Meyer, Jr., former head of the
wai finance corporation had declared
that rehabilitation of that body would
go a long step towards furnishing the
d r slred relief by financing exports of
surplus crops.
Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska told
the conference he planned to Intro
duce measures making available the
profits of the federal reserve hanks,
amounting to about sixty million dol
lars lor loans to agricultural inter
ests.
The money which Senator Hitch
cock would have advanced to the
farmers Is the governments' share in
profits of the federal reserve banks
payable next month and which, under
lie- law, would he used to Increase
gold reserves or amortize liberty
bonds.
I.nans would he made through the
federal land hunks or chattel mort
gages or warehouse receipts with ag
ricultural products or live stock as
security. Loans on grain would be
limited to six months and those on
live stock to one -year.
••This would he only a drop In the
bucket toward meeting the enormous
needs of agriculturists," said Sena
tor Hitchcock, but it would have a
good effect beyond the actual amount
of money made available."
Governor Harding with whom the
Nebraska senator conferred issued u
statement saying that neither he nor
the board had taken any stand on the
proposlt lon. H<* declared he had crit
icised Senator Hitchcock's plan, hut
that the matter was one not within
the province of the board as It con
cerns the use of funds which the law
rcquln d should be paid into the treas
ury.
Legislation extending a billion dot
lar credit to Germany was advocated
before the Joint committee by J. J.
Hunter of New York, who cluhued to
ri present tin* German government,
while Sentaor Smoot of Utah an
nounced In- would propose an embar
go on imports of wool for relief of
American wool growers in a bill he
will offer.
Representative Campbell of Kansas
suggested that profits of tin* grain
corporation, about one hundred mil
lion dollars, In- made uvulluhle for
loans to farmers.
TURKS DRIVING
ARMENIA'S ARMY
TO THE EASTWARD
Tiflts. \nnenlnn forees have been
driven eastward by the Turkish Na
tional lbis until the region they hold
is entirely outside the traditional
boundaries of Armenia. As a result,
Armenia is reduced to a little Cau
casus republic, such was created by
tin- Germans and Turks during tin
war. It comprises the districts of
Krivan, Novobayncet, thirty miles to
the northeast of that city, and Kelt
miadsen, tin* ecclesiastical capital of
undent Armenia, located about 25
miles north of Mount Ararat.
Turkish nationalists have occupied
districts just to the west of this re
gion, holding Kars, Alexandropol and
Hurmalou.
Hostilities between the Armenians
ami Turks nationalists have been sus
pended through Intervention by the
Bolshevik! government at Moscow,
and hopes are Intertained that fur
ther bloodshed may be averted. Con
ditions. however, are frightful In the
districts held by the Armenian forces.
Troops are Ordered to Mines.
Huleyville. Ala. State troops have
t-ecu ordered to the mines of the Glen
Mary Coal company at Glen Mary,
five miles south of Huleyville, follow
ing the blowing up of the hoisting tna
chinery at the mines this morning and
destruction of a dwelling house by
ftre. C. Shafer was arresttni shortly
after destruction of machinery on a
charge of arson. The mines have
, bet n closed for a week on account of
a strike which has been In force for
that lenght of time.
15 Cases of Liguor Suspended in Air.
Mobile, Ala One of the most spec
tacular liquor raids yet recorded In
the state of Alabama was staged when
Sheriff W H Holcombe. Jr., assisted
by a force of deputies, boarded a
steamship and confiscated fifteen cas
t?s of bonded whisky . Sheriff Hol
combe and his men by the aid of
St*rchlights detected a straw sticking
out near the top of the must. Depu
ties climbed io the top aud discover
ed the cases suspended by ropes.
H. M. HYNDMAN
H. M. Hyndman, leader of the
Trade Union of Great Britain and
chairman of the British Socialist
party.
ITALY RECEIVES ULTIMATUM
General Caviglia Calls Upon Regency
At Fiume Not To Prevent Free
Departure Os Italian Ships
Trlcst. — D'Annunzio has sent an ul
timatum to Italy from Fiume, declar
ing a state of war, froYn December 3.
London. Gabriele d'Annunzio, in
command of the Insurgents at Fiume,
lias declared war on Italy, according
to a Milan dispatch to the Loudon
Times. The state of war will begin
December 3.
Home. —General Caviglia, command
er of the Ituliun regulars investing FI
ume in a proclamation to be convey
ed to d'Annunzio, by airplane, says
It is the intention of (he Italian gov
ernment to enforce the conditions of
the Kapallo treaty without delay. This
announcement is made in a newspa
per dispatch from Triest. The procla
mation invites the poet's legionnaires
to withdraw behind the frontiers of
the free state of Flume and refrain
from useless resistance to (he ener
getic measures the Italian government
is prepared to take.
Home. — It Is semi-officially announc
ed that, as the government's order
calling upon the regency of Fiume to
withdraw behind iho frontiers had not
been obeyed, General Caviglia has
summoned the regency not to prevent
the free departure of Italian warships
from the port of Fiume. He has also
proclaimed a blockade of the coast
of tlx- state of Flume, the islands of
Geglla and Aroe and the neighboring
waters.
London.— The Milan correspondent
of the London Times discussing the
senii-otlfcial anouncenient of the proc
lamation of tin- blockade of Fiume,
says that the communique explains
tliut (lie blockade is only Intended to
prevent any eventual hostile move
ment and not to hinder commerce.
The correspondent adds: "D'Annunzio
has replied that In* will instruct the
regency's representative at Home to
ask for his passports and will consider
the regency ut Guarteno at war with
Italy. In a private letter to the na
tional society at Triest. d'Annunzio,
after inviting the Nationalists to erect
barricades, calls Caviglia a traitor
and Galltti u madman.”
Changes Version of Murder of Pierce.
Philadelphia. Another version of
the killing of Henry T. Pierce here
November 20 was given by Peter I>.
Treadway, according to the police.
This time Treadway in an alleged
written confession, claims he was
only an eye witness to the killing and
that "Al" Smith, now missing and said
by the police to be Marion A. Elliott,
did the actual slaying. The police
announced that after he was confront
ed by J. A. Moss and Marie “Boots"
Phillips, also held in connection with
the case. Treadway dramatically ex
claimed. "1 killed Pierce. Let these
others go. 1 did it."
Well Wishers Se* Obregon Installed.
El Paso, Texas.—Well wishers of Mex
ico, who came on a special train from
Arizona, New Mexico and Callforina
to see General Obregon inaugurated
us president, were among pet sous
closest to the front of the scenes of
activities in the capital afe midnight
when the general was declared pres
i idem, according to telegrams received
■ along the border by chambers of com
’ nierce andd friends of the men on
• the specials who could not make the
trip.
Milk Prices Are Cut in Chicago.
Chicago.—A cut in milk prices for
December of forty-five cents a hun
-1 dred pounds at country points was an
i nouncod by the milk Producers' As-
I sociation. The new price of $2 60 will
also result in a drop of one cent per
' quart In the price of milk to Chicago
fourteen cents a quart. Unsettled
• consumers according to one large dis
[ trlbuting firm. The new price will be
E conditions, lower price of feeedstuffs.
the recent drop in wheat and the gen
- situations were given as reasons for
the drop
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR, MT. VERNON, GEORGIA.
AMENDMENTS TO
COVENANT BARRED
ARGENTINE DELEGATE CAST A
DISSENTING VOTE, BUT UNA
NIMITY NOT REQUIRED
MAY BE FUTURE CHANGES
Balfour Opined That It Would Be Bet
ter To Postpone Matter Till
Next Meeting
Geneva.—Amendments for revision
held the floor of the assembly of the
league of nations, the debate bringing
out dearly that amendment of the cov
enant was in the minds of nearly all
the delegates, some of whom were
more pressing in their desire for a
perfect instrument than others, but
all thinking of a revision that would
remove obstacles to the entry of the
United States.
Article X was not mentioned in the
debate, but has been frequently dis
cussed In small circles, and N. W.
Rowell of CYanada, when he insisted
that adoption of a resolution by a
committee should not be misunder
stood as closing to the door the pre
sentation before this assembly of
other amendments than those propos
ed by the Scandinavians, is said tc
have had in mind the article that has
been subjected to so much conten
lion.
The delegations of the British do
minions have been studying how to
approach the assembly on this ques
tion. The eventual proposal to elim
inate Article X is somewhat compro
mised liy the general understanding
that consideration of all proposed
changes should be postponed until
studied by a special committee. This
understanding, however, came large
ly from the anxiety of the delegates
not to precipitate revision until the
attitude of the United States under
the new government is known.
Leon Bourgeois of the French dele
gation is perturbed lest the investiga
lions of the committee should lead
It to consider alterations involving a
revision of the treaty of Versailles,
and he demanded that it be understood
that the committee should declare it
self incompetent to consider any
amendment to the covenant that in
volved modification of the treaty.
The close of the debate brought a
moment of great suspense, when Se
nor Pueyrredon of Argetina, who
failed to take part in the debate, vot
ed alone against the resolution re
jecting consideration of amendments
to the covenant at this session. The
presiding officer, M. Hymanse hesitat
ed as if unable to believe that a sin
gle delegate would prevent unanimity
AIRPLANES OF ARMY
BECOMING UNSAFE.
Washington.—Every army airplane
purchased during the war will he
rated unsafe for flying by July 1, next,
according to the annual report of Ma
jor General Menoher, chief of the air
service. Urgent recommend it ions are
a continuing building program for air
craft to stimulate the industry and en
able the service” not only to meet the
opperating needs as a combatant
branch, but also in its present respon
sibility as the prime government
agency to cooperate with other bur
eaus or departments of the govern
ment in the use of aircraft for their
purposes."
Unless the government aids the air
plane industry, General Menoher said,
"it cannot hope to depent upon the
availability of suitable commercial
aircraft and facilities for their employ
ment. nor upon the existence of man
ufacturing plants and supplies of ma
terials neccessary for the rapid pro
duction of aircraft” in time of war.
Protest Filed on Rate Action
Knoxville, Tenn. The Knoxvillo
traffic bureau has filed a protest with
the southern freight rate commission
of Atlanta against the proposal to can
cel all less than carload commodity
rates on naval stores on the ground
that it would mean an advance of 150
to 200 per cent.
Penrose and Watson to Talk on Tariff
Washington.—Senator Watson. of
Indiana, will confer at Philadelphia
this week with Senator Pentose,
chairman of the senate finance com
mittee. concerning the revenue and
tariff legislation.
Used Cancelled Bonds to Get Loan.
Chattanooga, Tenn. —S. S. T. Kim
ball, of Deer Lodge, Tenn., charged
with obtaining $6,000 from the Hamib
ton National Bank, of this city, under
false pretenses, demanded immediate
trial when his case was called in crim
inal court here, but the state secured
a conviction plea of absence of wit
nesses. Kimball lust year presented
twenty bonds, each for a face value of
SI,OOO. issued by a bankrupt Chicago.
Rock Island and Pacific railroad.
Carriers Con»ider Action To Collect
Washington. —Court action to com
pel the treasury department to make
payments to the railroads under the
guaranty provision of the transporta
tion act is under consideration by the
carriers.
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Whisky Bottles for Alabama Archives.
Montgomery, Ala. Several hun
dred labels of whisky and other al
i coho lie bottles have been presented
• to the Alabama archives by the state
pure food and drug department
FAVORS GREATEST
MARINE AND NAVY
HARDING RETURNS FROM PAN
AMA BELT BENT ON MAKING
U. S. LEAD THE WORLD
MUST BURYJiECTIONALISM
World Peace Understanding Favored,
With United States Neutral
ity Preserved
Norfolk.—An America pre-eminent
in maritime commerce, cultivating
friendly relations but jealously deter
mined to defend its rights, was pic
tured to the world by President-elect
Harding as he ended his vacation and
turned soberly to the task of formu
lating the policies of his administra
tion.
In a half dozen short public speeches
incident to a welcome home in the
shipping centers of Hampton Roads,
he asked for a government-aided mer
chant marine that would make the
United States "the greatest maritime
nation on the face of the earth,” and
for a navy fit to be the first line of
defense for a people “everlastingly de
termined to defend its commerce and
its rights.”
He also spoke a word for an inter
national peace understanding that
should not sacrifice American nation
ality, and took note of his presence
in the South by forecasting a national
unity that would “have the people of
the old Confederacy understand that
that’s only a memory."
The presidential yacht Mayflower,
which brought Secretary Colby to the
roads on the first leg of his journey
to South America, dipped her flag
as the Pastores passed, and the bat
tleship Florida, waiting nearby to take
the secretary aboard, manned her sail
to honor the president-elect. Big and
little harbor craft joined in a thun
dering chorus of sirens and fog
horns.
NO HOPE OF EARLY RELIEF
FROM BUSINESS DEPRESSION
SAYS THE RESERVE BOARD
Manufacturing Activities Continued
To Fall Off During Month
Os November
Washington.—No hope of early re
lief from business depression is held
out in the monthly statement of the
federal reserve board, just made pub
lic.
Depression exists in most communi
ties, the statement says, and one of
the basic causes, so far as the board
can determine, is a “consumers’
strike”—an evident public determina
tion “to wait for prices to come
down.”
Manufacturing activities continued
to fall off during November, the board
says. A wave of “reduction sales”
by retailers has not, it adds, resulted
in increased buying which would
cause a resumption of production in
many linese.
A “corresponding" decline in the
“buying power" is reflected in the
decreased volume of all kinds, says
the board.
Red Russians Take Armenian Capital
London. —Russian Soviet troops
have captured Erivan, the Armenian
capital, and Armenia has declared it
self a Soviet republic, it is asserted
in a wireless dispatch received from
Moscow recently. The troops of the
old Armenian government have placed
themselves at the disposal of the So
viet administration, the dispatch de
clares. "Azaerbaijan,” the message
adds, “has voluntarily renounced the
disputed provisions of Zangemar, Nak
hiZohevan, Anne-Nagomy t?) and
Karabagh, which have been handed
over to Soviet Armenia."
Mother Is Shot And Sons Burned
Youngstown, Ohio—Mystery sur
rounds the shooting of Mrs. Thomas
Koehler and the burning to death of
her two sons, William, 6, and Warren.
S. at her home near Hubbard, when
an unidentified man entered the house,
shot Mrs. Koehler three times and
then set fire to the dwelling. The
anthorities are unable to assign a mo
tive lor the tragedy. Two suspects
are being detained in Warren.
Disintegration Os League Is Forecast
Washington. —“The inevitable disin
tegration of the league of nations has
begun." Senator Knox of Pennsylva
nia made this observation, commenting
on the dispatches from Geneva telling
of the withdrawal of Argentina.
Eldorado, Ark„ Oil Worker Killed
Eldorado. Ark.—O. A. Herbert, of
: Abbeville. La., an oil derrick worker,
was instantly killed when a well be
i ing drilled for oil two miles from here
unexpectedly blew in a gasser.
Accused Os Murdering His Family
j Muskegon, Mich. —Dr. Otts W. Sedg
wick. prominent physician of White
hall. near here, arrested last Septem
ber on a charge of murdering his wife
and daughter, was declared insane
tv a jury in the circuit court at Mus
kegon. He was ordered committed
. to the lonia state hospital for the
criminal insane. Mrs. Sedgwick and
her 3-year-old daughter were found
l dead on the lawn in front of their
' home September 16. Death was due
to strangulation.
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Miss May Taylor, daughter of Rea:
Admiral and Mrs. David W. Taylor. j
Her father is a naval instructer and
a member of the naval advisory board.
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Tells League He Will Have To De
pend Upon Moral And Diplo
matic Methods
Washington.—President Wilson has
proffered his “personal mediation
through a representative” to end hos
tilities in Armenia.
The offer is in reply to an invita
tion from Paul Hymans, president oi
the council of the league of nations
transmitting a resolution adopted in
behalf of Armenia by the assembly
of the league at Geneva November 22.
It requested that the “horrors of the
Armenian tragedy” be brought to the
attention of the powers with a view
of entrusting some power with the
task of taking the necessary meas
ures to stop the hostilities in Ar
menia.
The United States, although not a
member of the league, is included
among the nations of the world to
whom the broadcast invitation has
been issued.
Adoption of the resolution has been
preceded by some discussion of the
feasibility of organizing an interna
tional force to intervene in Armenia,
assailed alternately by Turkish Na
tionalists, the Bolsheviki and other
trans-Caucasian elements.
In his reply, however, Mr. Wilspn
says he is without authorization to
offer or employ the military forces
of the United States in any project
for the relief of Armenia, or any ma
terial contributions requiring the con
sent of congress “which is not now in
session, and whose action I could not
forecast.”
The president declares, however,
that he is willing, upon assurances of
the moral and diplomatic support of
the principal powers to endeavor to
bring about peace between the con
tending parties in Armenia through
arbitration.
OBREGON PLANS PERMANENT
RECONSTRUCTION WAR-RIDDEN
DISASTER - RIVEN MEXICO
Mexico City.—“ Mexico will not ask
admission to the league of nations,
but should an invitation to member
ship be extended by the league, it
would be given consideration.”
This declaration was made by Gen.
Alvaro Obregon, president-elect of the
republic, in an interview with the As
sociated Press, during which he dis
cussed various problems that will de
mand his attention when he assumes
the presidency.
General Obregon says he is certain
that the provisional government un
der President de la Huerta has not re
quested such membership, and it is
his intention of his government to con
tinue this policy of aloofness, his at
titude being that Mexico in making
overtures for membership in the
league would engage in a humiliating
act entirely inconsistent with its tra
ditional national pride.
Big Loan for Farmers to be Asked.
Washington.—lmmediate loans o1
$60,000,000 from government funds to
aid farmers in the face of failing
prices of their products is proposed
by Senator Hitchcock, Democrat, Ne
braska,
Alleged lowa Robber Bound Over
Council Bluffs, lowa.—Keith Collins
—arrested in Oklahoma for complicity
in the recent robbery of a Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy mail car in
which the robbers got more than
three million dollars in currency and
securities, was arraigned before Unit
ed States Commissioner W. A. Byers,
has waived examination and has been
bound over, his bond being fixed at
; fifty thousand dollars. Collins, still
i under heavy guard, was taken back
' i and incarcerated in the Council
Bluffs jail.
Ex-German Empress Reported Sinking
Doom, Holland.—Reports from the
bedside of Augusta Victoria of Ger
many, who has been reported critical
ly ill as a result of an attack upon
tier heart, is reported to be in a sink
' i n g condition. She is reported by phy
sicians in attendance to be in a state
1 of coma the most of the time. She
was greatly beloved by the German
1 people, and if she dies, she will be
1 sincerely mourned by all Germans
Members of her family have been
“ summoned. The ex-kaiser is taking
the blow very much to heart.
COAL MINERS AND
OPERATORS CLASH
TO PUSH STRIKES IN ALABAMA
AND WEST VIRGINIA, SAY
MINE LEADERS
PERSECUTION IS CHARGED
Condition In Alabama Mine Region
Reported To Rival Those Existing
In Armenia
Indianapolis.—The United Mine
Workers of America pian to carry on
a struggle with the coal operators of
Alabama and Mingo county, West Vir
ginia “to a finish,” says astatement
issued by the union officials.
According to the statement the un
ion’s international board has unani
mously adopted a declaration, promis
ing the Alabama and West Virginia
: “miners the full moral and financial
assistance of the international un
j ion.”
The text of the declaration as adopt
sion of the last several days, but it
ed by the board also is made public.
It criticises the West Virginia gov
ernor for calling federal troops and
asserts if he were true to his oath
of office he would disarm private de
tectives who, it is said, are employed
by the operators.
Regarding the Alabama situation,
the declaration says: "It is question
able whether the people of Armenia,
the sufferings of whom have shocked
the world, are in any worse circum
stances than the oppressed mine
workers of Alabama.”
Numerous business matters have
been before the board during its ses
sion of the last several days, but it
is said by the union officials that
consideration of Alabama and West
Virginia conditions was first given
December 4. Announcement of the ac
tion is made in the statement.
The text of the declaration as an*
nounced by the board follows:
“The international executive board
is impressed with the spirit of self
sacrifice displayed by the mine work
ers of Alabama in their wonderful
fight for the right to establish the
principle of collective bargaining and
compel recognition by tbe coal op
erators of the award of the United
States bituminous coal commission.
“The forty-two thousand men, wom
en and children who are engaged in
the struggle are suffering from the
most intense persecution heaped upon
them by the coal operators of that
state.
“Every conceivable method has been
used against them —eviction from their
homes, foreclosure upon their house
hold and personal effects, false arrest
and imprisonment, prohibition of the
right of assemblage, denial of their
statutory and constitutional rights,
unwarranted use of state troops in
the coal fields, denunciation by an
unfavorable press and a most mali
cious public campaign of misrepresen
tation have all failed to break their
dauntless spirit.
“It is indeed questionable whether
the people of Armenia, whose suffer
ings have shocked the world, are in
any worse circumstances than the op
pressed mine workers of Alabama.
“In Mingo county, West Virginia,
a struggle of equal importance is be
ing waged. The miners of that terri
tory were locked out by their employ
ers because of their desire to organ
ize and their request for the recogni
tion of the principle of collective bar
gaining.”
"BRIDE’S STRIKE” IS
URGED BY WOMAN
i TO PREVENT WAR
Also If Married Women Would Refuse
To Give Birth To Children, War
Would Cease, She Opines
Milwaukee. —Advocating a “bride's
strike” and the refusal of married
women to give birth to children until
future wars are made impossible,
through disarmament of nations, Mrs.
Jesse H. Mackay, president of the Mil
waukee Peace society, and chairman
of a mass meeting held here recent
i ly, declaring that in this way press
ure could be brought which would pro
duce immediate results. The Milwau
kee society is affiliated with the Na
tional Peace society.
Probe Proposed Os Southern Voting
New York. —Investigation of alleged
violent, illegal and unconstitutional
| disfranchisement of colored people in
! Southern states” looking toward re-
I duction of congressional representa
. tion in such states as provided in the
fourteenth amendment to the Con
i ; stitution, was urged upon the house
! committee on the census by the na-
I tional association for the advancement
; ; of colored people in a letter to Rep-
I : resentative Siegal, chairman of the
committee, just made public.
I Widow MacSwiney Comes To Testify
New York. —Mrs. Muriel MacSwiney,
I widow of the late lord mayor of Cork,
i j who died on a hunger strike in Lon
. don's Brixton prison, stepped quietly
' down the gangplank from the big gray
• liner Celtic landing here on her long
' journey to testify before the commit-
I I *ee of one hundred investigating con
; ditions in Ireland. The little woman,
clad in mourning, was accompanied
i by Miss Mary MacSwiney, sister ,o£
; the late lord mayor, who made the
Journey with her.
