Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-09-05
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success, according TO an announce
ment made by the military mission or
the Lithuanian delegation to the
peace conference. Enough demobii-
lied American officers to form the
staff have applied for commissions and
many discharged enlisted men have
entered the ranks, it Is said. The
Lithuanian government is said TO De
planning to protect the enlisted men
and is reported to be negotiating with
a prominent American insurance COM
pany to insure the men along the
lines followed by the American armys
war insurance bureau. The cornpany's
Paris Office had cabled headquarters
for, authority to issue such policies.
The American Red Cross has also
cabled officials in America for permtS-
sion TO form a medical and welfare
unit to serve with the brigade.
The army -airplane carrying CAPT.
McNabb and Lieut.. Johnson, OF the
United States aero forces. was one
kilorneter on the Mexican side of the
border when Mexican soldiers Aired the
yolley of over 100 shots at 1t early
Tuesday morning, wounding McNahD'
declared General Caraza, commander
of the, Carranza garrison at Nuevo
Laredo. Caraza said that a Mexican
lieutenant was in charge of the SOL
diers who fired on the Americans. lie
declared that numerous protests had
been filed by the Mexicans against
American planes crossing the border
In violation Of international law. These
protests were ignored. said Caraza. !in
declared that American airmen cross
the border at will. flying low, soaring
horses and cattle and photographing
Mexican territory. No effort is being
made to conceal the fact that 1t was
Mexican Carranza soldiers who hred
ION the American plane.
Condemned to twelve years soli-
ltary confinement as an alleged spy In
Germany Mrs. Katherine Peterson
arrived in New York this week on the
transport Sierra as the bride of Capt.
iEdwin>W. Peterson, Of Boston. Mrs.
Peterson served nineteen months OF
her sentence and escaped when the
revolution threw open the jails OF
!; Germany. She, said her cell was over
run by rats and that she was almost
insane when the flight Of the kaiser
> brought her freedom. After her es-
cape Mrs. Peterson reached Paris,
. where she met Capt Peterson. to
whom she had previously been en-
/, gagged. She first met him at Tufts
College, where she studied dentistry
+; under him., Mrs. Peterson refused to
give her maiden name, but it was said
f, that she was born in Berlin, and came
to this country several years ago and
became an American citizen. On the
outbreak of the war she returned to
Germany, where her arrest and con-
viction followed in April, 1917.
!. Without a record vote. the senate
ton Wednesday after a 12-hour session
passed the bill to make possible the
leasing Of public lands having deposits
of-ail.s coal gas, phosphate. and sodi-
S!tsrit au "a ssing the measure. the senate
= approved amendments offered by Sen
eator Harris, Democrat, Georgia,
which would provide that under Clay
ton antitrust act oil companies may
not charge different prices in various
parts of the country. Another amend
Lnent, which its author, Senator Harris,
said would cause the constituent COM
opanies Of the Standard Oil companI'
soon to become independents in owner
ship in fact as well as in name, WIS
adopted. This amendment would pro-
Shibit\ stockholders of corporations pro-
ducing petroleum and its by products
from acquiring stock in another cor
poration similarly engaged If both COR
porations have been created in conior-
nance with a court dissolution decree
or for the purpose of avoiding prose-
cution under antitrust acts. With the
exception OF the Harris amendments.
the fate of which is uncertain in thc
i'VtoS, ShS iOe'-oAio hiSic"C s'o " iih-
portant features was passed as report
ed by the public lands committee.
= Resolutions declaring emphatic op-
position to people Of the north who
do, not understand conditions in the
south interfering with our relation
chip" adopted by the executive board
of the st. Johns Missionary's Negro
Baptist Association. were made public
at a meeting at Austin, Texas this
week of two thousand negroes and
more than one hundred white persons,
called to discuss the race question.
"If we are. left to ourselves" the re-
solution declared, I'VE will, in time, ad-
tlst all our differences. for the good
OF all concerned The Negro Baptist
Association which called the meeting
has a membership of 10000 negroes in
eleven counties in the, vicinity of Aus
tin. a portion Of the preamble to the
resolution declares: "Those magazines,
newspapers and periodicals, published
by negroes, that magnify the wrongs
and minimize the good, that publishes
and brandishes before the eye incen-
diary articles, at this time is an enemy
rather than a friend Of the race"