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Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1919-04-17
POLAND WANTS COAL FIELDS.
Premier Leaves for Paris to lnfIusnee
Peace Conferences.

Peaee Conferences.
Warsaw. April 4.-Ignace Jan Pad.
erewsh. the Polish premier. LETT for
Paris. where he will appear before tho
Peace conference for the purpose of
urging greater speed In tie settlement
Of Poland's troubles. Paderewski was
accompanied By his wife and several
friends. s.
It Is understood that Paderewskt
will tell the conference that Poland
must have the rich coal fsids n the
Eschen district, and also will lay
down concrete plan for Anancials q.
sistance for Poland. y n
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1919-04-17
ASSISTS DIAz REVOLUTION

0U oa"QuoS akcu FSTS III New
Uprising In Mexico.
Washington, April 5.-Notice of the
safe arrival in Mexico Of General Blan.
quet. war minister under the Huerta
regime and new avowedly second In
command In the Felix Dias revolution.
ary movement. was received at the
State department. Oficials said NO
attention would be given the matter,
since It was one to be dealt with by
the government Of Mexico, recognized
BY the United States.
Emmons County record. [volume] (Williamsport, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-current, 1919-04-17
SENDS MESSAGE TO LANSING
California Senate Does Not Wish 70
Embarrass Envoys.

emoarrass ENJOYS.
Sacramento, Calf, April s. - The
senate approved cablegram to be
sent to Robert Lansing. Secretary of
State, at Paris. asking II discussion of
proposed anti-Japanese legislation by
the California legislature at this time
would embarrass the President and
other representatives Of the United
States at the Peace conference.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-09-05
Millions of Miles of Desert.

The great Sahara desert covers the
major part of northern Africa, con-
sisting of 100000 square miles-an
arid region as large as the whole of
Europe. From 100 feet below sea level
1t rises in one instance to 5000 feet
above. and some of its elevations are
covered with snow for three months
of the year. Most of it, however. is a
dry. sandy waste, dotted here and
there with an oasis where drink may
be secured. The winds are all very
hot and dry, while rain is almost I'M
known.
The ostrich. camel. jackal, horned
viper and numerous lizards are the
principal animals of the region. Sew
eral varieties of hardy birds are also
found. Arabs, MoorS, Jews and
negroes jostle each other on the cara
van routes and the fierce-loOking
Arabs who bring their produce 10 the
Egyptian markets are probably rob-
bers and cutthroats in their desert
home
1t is impossible for travellers to get
off the road. as the caravan routes are
bordered with the bones of countless
camels which have fallen by the way
side during the thousands of years
these trails have been travelled.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-09-05
.S0LD|ERSLANDB BILL
GETS ENDORSEMENT
MEETING HELD IN MEMPHIS
GIVES STRONG SUPPORT TO
THE MoNcELL BILL.
WOULD PROVIDE CHEAP LAND
Cows Roberts and 6rough. With Rep
resentatises of Other States. In
do-se Resolutions Favor
ing Passage.

Memphis. Enthusiastic and hearty
support of the Monden soldier land
settlement bill, House bill So. was
voiced. and its immediate passage
urged at a meeting Of governors OF
Tennessee and Arkansas and repre-
sentatives of the governors of Louis
lana and Georgia and about twenty
five agricultural experts and secre-
taries OF several southern states set
Element committees. which was held
at the Memphis Chamber of Com
merce.
Resolutions favoring the Mondeu
bill. in comparison with the infIltra-
ton and other methods projected in
congress in competition and carrying
seven major reasons for lis superior
ity, were drawn up and Endorsed. after,
series of stirring addresses by Cows.
A. H. Roberts and C. H. Brough and
F. Fl. ABBOTT. representing Gov. Dor
sey OF Georgia, and Herbert Bayliss.
representing Gov. Pleasant OF Louisi-
ana.
IA bhCSG duNA0SSSS the kURGEnOAS
called the splendid features contained
in the MondeH bill and the deplorable
fact that a few southern congress
men, despite the fact that the vast
majority of their constituents have in
dorsed the bill, are either indifferent
or opposed.
The meeting was called last week
by Gov. Roberts who invited govern
ors of ten states. representing an ag-
gregate OF 100000 acres available
for soldier settlement. to arouse con
certed action, with the time for the
debating OF the bill almost at hand
Gov. Charles Brough. one of the
first speakers. delivered an enthusi-
astic address in support OF the Mon
dell bill, which he declared was en-
tirely satisfactory to constituents in
his state. He told that the bill pro
vided $500 900. 600 for buying the land
and partially equipping the soldiers.
of whom 500 600 it had been estimated
would seize upon the chance to go 10
farming. He stated that the bill pro
vided for an initial payment by the
soldiers Of only five per cent of the
purchase price of his land. with 40
years time to complete the entire
payment.
He declared the bill provided no
maximum for the number of acres per
soldier, as did the homestead law. He
also declared that Arkansas owners
of land available for soldier settle
ment were in no wise profiteering in
the options to the government He
said Arkansas had 5000. 600 acres OF
this land at rock bottom prices BY
way of illustration he told of a tract
of $4,000 acres quoted to the gvern-
ment at So per acre, which has since
been sold for So
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-09-05
STRIKERS ORDERED BACK
Railroad Men Who Walked Out Under
Error Resume Their Old
Positions.

Washington. - Trainmen. engine
men and yardmen on government con
trolled railroads at Los Angeles. who
recently went on strike in sympathy
with the striking employees OF the Pa
cific Electric, which is not under gov
ernment control, have been ordered to
return to work, according 10 a state
nient by the railroad administration
Union Officers advised Director
General Hines that the strike was
due to a misunderstanding and that
positive instructions have been given
that the men comply with their agree
ments with the railroads
1T is therefore expected" Mr. Hines
said. that the men Will return TO
work as soon az these instructions
can be placed before them BY their
LEGAL representatiyo s
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-09-05
BIG PACKERS
RESENT REPORT
representative OF SWIFT & co.
SAYS UNJUSTIFIED ASSAULT
COMMITTED.
CHALLENGES STATEMENTS
Government Monopoly Of Meat Cars Is
Urged in Report Submitted by
Federal Trade Com
mission.

Washington Reports of the fed
.raI trade commission on the five large
packers and their alleged control of
the industry are absolutely useless
as basis for passing legislation" l..
d. H Weld, representative of Swift &
Co., assured the senate agriculture
committee. Summing up his two day
argument against federal regulation of
the industry, proposed in the Kenyon
and Kendrick bills, he challenged the
truth of the commissions findings in
half dozen particulars and ended by
assailing the commission itself.
Don't you resent having this sort
of evidence put before you?" he asked
the commission members. DO you
think you ought to allow a govern
ment bureau to make this unjustified
assault on a useful and necessary in
dustry?"
Mr. Weld said he had demonstrated
before the committee that the five
packers, far from controlling 20 per
cent of the wholesale grocery Dusf-
ness, did less than 3 per cent of it;
for live stock or meats; that their
profits were as moderate if not lower
than the profits of any other industry.
and that in numberless details. as to
capital investment, operations In
England live stock pools" the
and especially Commits
sioner w B. Colver, who opened the
hearings, aid dealt in misstatement,
Misrepresentation, insinuation and in
aocuracies."
What possible motive can a pub
lie body have for doing the sort OF
thing you say the commission has
done?" Senator Harrison, democrat,
asked.
81 prefer not to go into PERSONAL
ties" Mr.. Weld replied, but theories
of members of the commission on eco
nomic subjects are not what l call
sound. There isn't business man on
the commission. Principally they are
men"
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-09-05
NEGROES SHOULD
REMAIN IN SOUTH.
CHICAGO INVESTIGATORS SAY
THAT ATTACKS ON SOUTH
ARE UNJUSTIFIABLE.
ARE ENTIRELY CONVERTED
Chicago Negroes, Who Spent Ten Daya
in Mississippi, Are Convinced
Reports of Conditions Were
UnWarranted.

Memphis, Tenn-The widespread
| northern propaganda against the south
relative to false negro labor condi
lions is repudiated and denounced in
the face of existing conditions by
three efficient investigators from Chi
cago, who nave just completed an ex
tensive ten-day survey of the state of
Mississippi, termed by insidious prop
uganda the blacklist state in the
union"
These investigators, two of them
negroes of high citizenship in the
north, brought down by the Missis-
sippi Welfare League for the express
purpose of bringing them personally
in touch with the conditions as they
actually exist, declare themselves en-
tirely converted from their previous
stand and believe the south offers a
fitting place Of residence for negroes.
Accompanied by Jack c. Wilson of
Jackson, Miss, executive secretary of
the Mississippi Welfare League, the
Investigators. whose names are omit
ted by request in order that outside
pressure cannot be brought to en-
barrass them in the compiling Of their
report, passed through Memphis after
completing their survey, en- route to
Chicago.
They declare they can now recon-
mend that negroes come south to find
work; they assert they found no basis
for the northern allegations that Mis-
sissippi would bear such a libelous
epithet; they investigated farm labor
conditions near a dozen cities and at
the archman convict farms; they dis
covered that negroes could walk on
the sidewalks of Mississippi cities
without being lynched, and they made
many other discoveries revealing false
statements about this section which
they themselves, never having been in
the south before, had been almost
compelled to believe in the face of no
contradictory evidence.
Arriving in Memphis they were
taken by Bolton Smith. who helped
found the Mississippi Welfare League,
to Woodstock. where they viewed the
negro school there. Their report was
similar to that of their Mississippi
findings, that thew believed it to be
one Vi the pest iHSliluliOHs tHey nave
ever seen.
When invited to deliver short ad-
dresses before the meeting of the
Chamber OF Commerce bureau of farm
development, they openly stated their
converted views of the south declar-
ing they were astonished at discover
ing the conditions were so reversed
to those which they had expected to
find.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-09-05
DEAL WITH FRANCE
FOR WAR MATERIAL
WILL PAY $4oo.ooo.coo FOR SUR
PLUS PROPERTY AMER
ICAN FORCES.
CONTRACT is NOW CLOSED
Payment VIII Be Made in Ter-Year
Gold Bonds-Accepted Price
Less Than Appraised
Valuation

Washington.-Sale to France for
$500. 100000 OF all American expedi-
tionary force property in that country,
except that withheld for return to the
United States and for the use of troops
remaining. Is provided for in a contract
signed with the French government,
the War Department was advised by
Its special liquidation commission. Pay
ment will be made in ten-year gold
bonds. bearing interest at the rate of
five per cent from Aug. 1. 1920.
The bonds are to be redeemed in
gold at Washington on a dollar basis,
OF, at the election of the United States,
In francs. The contract covers all
fixed installations" such as docks,
wharves, railroads. storage warehouses
and barracks and refrigeration plants,
as well as surplus clothing, subsistence
stores. motor equipment and munitions.
Although the price accepted repre-
scented a 80 per cent reduction from
the value set by the commission, War
Department officials expressed them
selves as satisfied with the contract.
The mate~ia was all imported TO
France free of duty. If arrangements
were made to sell IL to any purchaser
other than the French government
payment Of all duties legitimately
could have been demanded. and these
would have amounted TO s150,000.00O
On a conservative basis.
The cost Of storing and guarding the
materials during the six months which
would have been required to salvage"
officials said. would have easily been
s25,C0O, 900. and with depreciation the
total loss from all factors probably
would have reached 5000. 100000.
An official inventory of the expedi-
tionary forces material and fixed in
staliations sives the total cost to the
United States as $7.70O,000,000 and the
present estimated value as $969.000,-
o0O.of which s749.000,O0O was reported
ss available for sale to the French"
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-09-05
PROBE OF OIL STOCK GAME
Law To Prohibit "Wiid Cat Stocks
Proposed BY American Petro-
leum Institute.

Colorado Springs. Col-The appoint
ment OF committee of three mem
bers of the American Petroleum Insti
tute to investigate and draft a law
prohibiting the sale or advertising
of wild cat" oil stocks was made at
the closing session or the institute.
The committee is composed of r. L.
WEIGH, general secretary of the Insti-
tute; Judge c. d. Chamberlain, general
counsel of the General Petroleum AS
sociation, Cleveland, and r. w. Stew
art, chairman of the board of directors
of the Standard Oil Company of In
diana.
The institute also Endorsed the plan
for the foundation of a s1,OO0,O0O re-
search bureau. The institute ac
journed to meet in New York three
months hence
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-09-05
New Hest-Resistino Stone

The heat-resisting building stone Of
Charles Ingvaldsen. Norwegian, is
made by mixing ground mica with just
enough clay or like binder 10 form o
coherent mass. The mixture may be
shaped into blocks, plates or other
forms of any size. and is fired at a
temperature Just high enough TO fuse
the mica The stone has essentially
the same properties rs natural mica.
For withstanding very high tempera-
lures. equal parts of mica and quartz
are used with the binder, and this
mixture is fired ut beat sufficient to
fuse the quartz. This stone is claimed
to be not only Il very refractory and
durable material but TO offer other de-
sirable qualities, such as effective cleo
trio insulation.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-09-05
SALARY RAISES ARE FAVORED
House Postoffice Committee Favors
Increase of $50, But Depart
ment Opposes.

Washington,-A flat increase in sal
airy of $3.50 for each postoffice employee
for this fiscal year is proposed in a
resolution favorably reported by the
House postoffice committee. Minimum
wages of SO cents an hour are pro-
posed for substitute employees.
The proposed increases have been
opposed by the Postoffice Department,
Assistant Postmaster General Rooms
having written the committee that a
deficit of $4,000, 900 would result,
placing an unjust burden" on the
public.
Representatives of postal employees
called at the White House to lay be-
fore the president problems the en-
ployes are encountering in meeting
the high cost of living on their pres
ent salaries.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-09-05
FROM DAVY JONES
Inventor Is Confident He Can
Wrest Riches.
Simon Lake Is Man Who Claims He
Has Devised Perfect Saivaging
Submarine-WilI Seek Gold
Long Under Water

With the waters Of the Atlantic
ocean smashing over his head. Simon
Lake, submarine inventor. expects to
| excavate the bottom of Long Island
| sound, off Port Morris. y. Y, and try
to salvage S5.0oo.Oo0 gold bullion from
the treasure chests of the Ii. NJ S.
Huzzar. The treasure has nestled on
the bottom for 119 years.
If Lake desires he says, he will be
able TO smoke Il cigar. sing a song and
twang ukulele on the bottom of the
ocean While the treasure is being re-
covered with a new salvaging subma
rine machine which he has just per
fected
The story of the Huzzar and its
buried gold is as romantic as any sea
yarn ever spun by Jules Verne or Rob
ert Louis Stevenson. 1t begins at
date when pirates roved the Atlantic,
and promises to end with a submarine
climax
Chapter l shows the British war
ship HuZzar, launched about the year
116O, to the pop of a wine bottle. FROM
this point the story carries the wind
TANNER through the adventurous
times when Captain Kidd might be
found at any time hiding behind the
next wave. and narrates her exploits
as utility vessel in the British navy.
The last trip of the proud HuZzar
was when she started 70 the American
colonies in 1880, carrying a cargo of
golden wealth in her hold. In making
the waters of the harbor. at Il time
u-ha oil SnIy
charted, she struck rock and stove a
hole in her bottom. She tried to make
shore, but didn't, and sank off Port
Morris. The treasure, which was TO
nave paid off the soldiers of the crown.
sank with her.
Thirty years ago a company was or
the salvage of the HuZZar gold. The
most accomplished diver of the day
spent much time in the water. He sue
ceeded in bringing up a hard oak rib
of the ship and few coins of little
value. and then was forced TO give up
his efforts. The experiment cost the
salvage company $4,000.
The oaken rib of the good ship HUI
Ear was worm eaten, but it was sawed
diagonally, and just enough good wood
was recovered to make two canes. One
of these canes is now in the possession
of G. f. Lester of Brooklyn.
Just when Simon Lake will begin
operations to salvage the HuZzar gold
has not been made public.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-09-05
Centuries-OId images Found.

Investigations by the Mexican gov
eminent to find out who built the
great pyramids at San Juan Teoti-
huacan, ~ miles from Mexico City,
have brought TO light two great gran
tie heads of the ancient Mexican GOO
IF the air. QuetZalcoatl.
These heads are almost perfect
specimens, bearing all the symbolic
markings.
The long-disputed point as TO who
erected the pyramids is, as yet. un-
solved. These huge mounds. one 70
he sun and the other to the moon.
he former being 761 by 721 feet al
he base and ZIG feet high, are gen
rally attributed TO a tribe that pre-
.eded the Toltecs, probably dating
rom about the sixth century
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-09-05
BANDITS HOLD UP BANK
Secure Only $500 - Escape in Auto
mobile-Posses Are in Hot
Pursuit.

Oklahoma City, Okla.-Three un-
masked bandits held up and robbed
the First National Bank of Lindsey,
Okla. forty-five miles south and es-
capped with $500.
That the bandits did not secure
more money in their raid was due to
E. NJ. Bell, cashier, who upon noticing
their approach from the rear quietly
notified Miss Winifred Gardenhire, his
assistant, who slipped out the front
door and spread the alarm.
Armed posses are securing the coun-
try in search of the bandits, who made
their escape in an automobile
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-09-05
ENTER SUIT SEIZE MEATS
Prosecuting Attorney at Cleveland
Follows Up Ruling Made BY
the Supreme Court.

Cleveland.-Suit to seize and sell all
meats alleged to have been held in
Sheriff street storage and market
house longer than the legal period
was filed in common pleas court by
County Prosecutor Samuel Doerfler.
The petition asks that an injunc
ton be granted to prevent the Sheriff
Street market from disposing of the
meats and that receiver be appointed
to take charge of the meats and fix
prices.
Doerfler's action is the result of the
state supreme courts ruling holding
a similar seizure of meat in Columbus
legal
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-09-05
Famous American Educator.

1t was Elias Loomis. born In Connec-
icut In 1911. educated at Yale. pio-
,eer teacher. who introduced astron-
,my to Western Reserve college In
$50, and remained on the faculty for
light years. teaching mathematics and
physics and adding largely to the sum
II human knowledge. 1t has been said
hat he made the name of that little
own in the western wilderness famil-
ar to TIE advanced scientists of that
,eriod throughout the world For
nany years Professor Loomis occupied
he chair Of natural philosophy al
yale. and died In 1889.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-09-05
TO AUCTION NAVAL CRAFT
Hundred Vessels, Including Yachts,
Gunboats, Etc, Will Go To
the Highest Bidders.

Washsngton.-More man 100 naval
vessels OF widely diversified types, in
Guiding seven old type gunboats, sew
eral converted yachts, one monitor, a
tug and about 80 standardized subma-
rine chasers of the 110-foot type. will
be offered for sale to the highest bid
ders in the near future, the Navy De-
partment announced. Among the YES
sells to be sold are several historic
ships of the old navy.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-09-05
WOULD BUY GERMAN DYES
Alien Property Custodian Requests
Permission to Purchase Six Months
Supply in Paris.

alien property custodian, asked Pres
ident Wilson to issue an executive or
der permitting him to send an agent
to Paris to purchase from the repara-
tions commission a six months sup
ply of German vat dyes to tide over
American manufacturers until German
secret formulas for dyestuffs now
owned by the alien property custodian
can be utilized for commercial pur-
pOSes.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-09-05
LIVING COST MUST DROP
Executive Heads of Unions Seek To
Avoid Strikes With This
Understanding.

hington.-Industrial peace in the
United States depends on the results
the government can show in the next
80 days in its campaign to reduce the
cost of living.
That time limit was tacitly set to-
day by the executive council of the
railroad shop crafts in suggesting to
union locals throughout the country
that President Wilson's compromise
offer in response to their demand for
higher wages should be accepted pend
a normal price level
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-09-05
Red Cross in Russia

Omsk.-AIl the American women
Red Cross workers at Omsk. approx
mating sixty, were recently requested
sent to Irkutsk by Roland S Morris,
American ambassador 10 Japan. who
came to Omsk on orders from Wash
ington to make an investigation OF the
KoIchak government.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-09-05
Burn Negro Churches.

Eastman, Ca-The charred body of
Eli Cooper. an aged Laurens county
negro, who resided two miles from
Caldwell, was found in the ashes at
Petway's Gift Church, which was
burned by Incendiaries. Three other
negro churches and a negro lodge near
Caldwell ware burned
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-09-05
Criminal Action Nav Result

Seattle, Wash.-Criminal proceed
ings are contemplated by the Depart
ment of Justice in a case growing out
of government shipbuilding in Wash
ington. according 10 testimony given
by Howard G.. Cosgrove, Seattle attor-
ney for the emergency fleet corpora
ton.
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-09-05
Chance for Ex-soldiers.

Observation-Disclosures OF about
$500 partially disabled soldiers is
available in the quartermaster corps
of the army, Maj.-Gen. H. L. Rogers,
director of purchase and storage, an
nounced
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-09-05
Two Regiments to Europe.

Washington. The Fifth infantry
regiment at Camp Taylor, KY. and
the 18th at Camp Dix, N. j.. with two
regular field hospitals and one regu-
lar ambulance company are to be sent
TO Europe in the near future to replace
similar organizations of the First di-
vision, (which could not b ewithdrawn
from Europe were they not replaced"
The Aberdeen weekly. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1878-1933, 1919-09-05
Ole Hanson RESIGNS.

Seattle. Wash.-Ole Hanson. Seattle's
mayor, who gained nationwide fame
as a result OF his stand during the
general strike here last February. pre-
scented his resignation to the city coun-
ell II was accepted Immediately.