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Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-01-10
ONTFRFY HIGH AND COUNTY VA FRIDAY JANUARY TO- 1919

The department of justice begaI
preparations for nation wide drive Il
round up all persons who evaded the
draft.
Demands were made in Congress for
the early return of American troops
abroad Investigation of conditions
at Brest with regard to delay in pay
ing soldiers was also demanded.
Gold production in the united
States for 1918 fell to 3,313,OOO fine
ounces, valued at 6S,493,OOO. Silver
production for 1918 fell to 3,3l3,ooo,
valued at $67, $4,000.
: Arrangements were completed by
the General Electric Company for the
formation of an export corporation.
All of the stock will be owned by the
General Electric Company.
. Secretary Glass of the treasury is7
sued orders withdrawing insurance by
the marine anG seamen's division OF
the War Risk Insurance Bureau.
Secretary Daniels announced plan TO
divide the navy between the Paclnc
and Atlantic oceans. he fleet Will
have a mimic warfare three times
year
; According to a report at the food adI
ministration from Herbert Hoover, Eu;
rope needs every pound of pork that[
can be shipped up to next July.
Henry Bruere resigned as director OF
the United States employment service;
Thaddeus c. Sweet was CHOSEN
speaker of the New York assembly foI
the sixth time.
A strike of $4,000 tugboat COOKS,
deckhands and firemen tied up snip
ping in New York harbor.
Philadelphia police authorities are
still in the dark concerning the Domn
outrages committed in that city.
Secretary Daniels asked permission
of the House Naval Affairs Committee
to increase the personnel of the navy
to 250,000 men.
A $3,000,000 freight barge line is be;
ing incorporated at st. Paul. The line
will operate on the Mississippi
Shipping Board orders immediate re-
lease of all vessels up to and of 4,OOG
tons from government requisition.
Robert S. Lovett declares against
government ownership of railroads.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-01-10
Cash LENT TO ALLIES
One-Third of United States War
Bill So Advanced.
Of S22, ,58e, 1885, 900 Disbursed by Treas.
ury, $7,es5, 100000 Was For
Other Nations.

Neutrality-suspicious. than one-third OF
the cost of the war to date to the peo-
Pile of the United States in actual
treasury disbursements up to Decem-
ber 81, 1918, is represented by cash
advanced to the allies.
The disbursements by the treasury
from April l, 1917, to December 81,
1918, amounted to $24, 4,5S9, 9,9SG,OOO. II
the nation had been at peace during
this 81 months the normal expendi'
lures would have been about $1,000
100000 which means that the cost of
the war to the United States so far is
500, ,5S9, 9,9S6,O00. Of this sum $685.
100000 represents cash advances to
various foreign governments. Thus
from April /, 1917, to December 81,
1918, the United States has spent on
its own account in the war about $14,-
9O4,9S6,000 ~
Under these authorizations credits
were established up to November 15 in
favor of Belgium, Cuba, France, Great
Britain, Greece, Italy, Liberia, Rou-
mania, Russia and Serbia amounting
to $S,171,976,666. Up to that date there
had been advances made to the extent
Of $7,09S,714,750. Since November 10
the credit established in favor Of Bel
gium has been increased from $192,-
$4,000 to $252, ,S95,000. The Czecho.
Slovaks have received a credit Of ST.,
100000. There has been a slight re-
duction in the credit granted to France,
probably on account Of cancellations
growing out of the armistice. The
credit to Great Britain, which stood at
$3,945,000,000 on November Is, now
amounts to S4,1759S1, 900. A credit of
Sl00,000,000 has been granted to Italy
in the last few weeks raising Italy's
credit to $1,310,000000. The other
credits remain today as they were on
November 15.
The credits on December 81, 1918,
were as follows:
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-01-10
S15O,OOO,O0O R. R.LOSs
This Is the Estimate of United
= States Officials.
and Net Income to the
Government.

Washington.-Theg governments loss
in operating the railroads In 1913 is
calculated by railroad administration
officials at less than $150000,000.
This represents the difference be-
tween the aggregate amount the gov
ernment will be compelled t. pay rail-
road companies as rental for the use
of their properties-the so called
guaranteed return-and the net iE-
come which the government will re-
ceive from the railroads.
It will take six months more Of re-
ceipts from the increased freight rates
to permit the government to rccoup
gress does not approve the proposed
five-year extension of federal control,
and, as q consequence, President Will
son carries out his announced inten-
ton Of returning the roads to private
management at an early date, the gov
ernment's loss will not be made up.
This deficit does not include the big
sums-between $150,000,000 and $780,
OOOO00-which have been loaned to
railroads to help them pay for the eX-
tensive program Of Improvements and
purchase of new cars and locomotives.
These loans will be repaid eventually.
The governments loss cannot be
stated exactly until the compensation
of each road is finally determined, and
until the Interstate Commerce Com
mission complies figures on earnings
and expenses for November and De
cember. Officials believe, however,
that the aggregate government conf
pensatiOn for all roads will be about
S95O,000,000, and that the net income
from railroad operations credited TO
the government will be little more
than SS00000,000.
For ten months up to November l
the governments net income from the
railroads, as reported by the Interstate
Commerce Commission, was S60o,0oO,-
600.
Operating revenues for the entire
year. officials calculate, probably
amounted to S4,S00,000,000, more than
ever before in railroad history, and
operating expenses probably ran up to
S3,S 100000. This left a billion dol
lars of net revenue, which was cut
down more than $20O,000,000 by deduc-
tions for ordinary taxes, rentals for
equipment not owned by railroad COM
panies and other incidental losses.
War taxes and expenses Of MAIN
tanning financial and other corporate
offices, including salaries of officers
not actually employed in physically
operating the railways, must be PAID
by the railroad companies out OF inc
$950OOO,0OO which the government
| guarantees them.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-01-10
REVIEWS RAIL ADVERTISING.

Contracts for 1919 Authorized by
McAdoo.
Observation-Disclosures General Me-
Adoo has issued an order authorizing
the renewal for this year of contracts
between railroads and newspapers Tor
the. exchange of intrastate rallro"a
Transportation for advertising. Under
the form of contract newspapers can
not charge for the railroad advertising
mors than their usual commercial RATES
and the railroads must charge the nor.
NAL tariff.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-01-10

Miss Margaret Carnegie, only daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs Andrew Carne-
gle, who has become engaged to marry
Ensign Roswell Miller, the son of the
late Roswell Miller, former president
of the Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
railroad.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-01-10
PRINCE ATTEMPTS TO ESCAPE

Friedrich Wilhelm Tired of Exile in
Holland.
Wieringen, Holland.-It was report
ed here that the former German
Crown Prince made an unsuccessful
attempt to escape.
Baron IN Zu BeltitZ, a friend, is
reported to have gone to Germany to
ask the German authorities to assign
the former Grown Prince to resi-
dence where he can live with his wife
and children-under guard, If neces-
sary,
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-01-10
$1,6o0,oou, 900 IN A. E. F. RISKS.
Insurance Documents Weighing &c
Tons Arrive From France.

observation-disclosures representing
$1,600,000, 1000 Of government insurance
written on American soldiers abroad
and weighing 26 tons reached Wash.
ington from France
The War Risk Insurance Bureau
here now has papers covering $3S,OOO,.
100000 of insurance and 100000 al
lotment and allowance applications. Il
takes 100000 cards to keep track OF
the business.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-01-10

On November 15 credits of $S,171 ,968
had been established, leaving $685.,
O23,334 Of the $10,000,OO0,00O still
available. The balance now is $1,414,.
476,29S. 49,.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-01-10
MORE GOLD TO BE MINED.
Treasury Committee Considers NO
Stimulation Necessary.

Misunderstanding to views OF
members of the Treasury Committee
appointed to suggest remedy for the
falling gold production of last year,
return of normal conditions and fall
ing of prices are expected to stimu-
late production this year. Consequent
" it appears unlikely that the commit
tee will recommend any unusual meas
ures TO stimulate production when lr
makes its report in week or two.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1919-01-10
KEEP INFORMED

Your county paper will
do 1t If you join the DE-
CORDER family. 1.5O yr.
The Cordele dispatch., 1919-09-04
UNDERWOOD DECLARES CON-
GRESS HAS POWER
MEN WILL NOT STRIKE
Against Just Decisions Of
Government After Fair
Settlement BY Tribunal.

Washington, Sept. 4--The estab-
hshment of a governmental commits
sion or board with powers to fix both
railroad wage scales and transporta-
tion rates was advocatd in a Senate
address today by Senator Underwood
of Alabama.
Senator Underwood did not disclose
whether he favored the Interstate
Commission as the proposed tribunal.
but declared it is clearly within the
rights of Congress to create an agen.
cy to determine wages as we'll as
rates.
Men will not strike against the
just decisions of government" he de,
clared, "after a fair determination Of
the controversy by an impartial tri-
bunal. Public sentiment will force
the contending parties oaccept the
verdict rendered as final"
The Cordele dispatch., 1919-09-04
NEW RUSSIA IS
COMMUNIST PLAN
FO R REPUBLIC
NO ONE RECEIVING RENTS OR
PROFITS ADMITTED
COMING REVOLUTION UP
Rose Pastor Stokes Protests
to No Avail in Chicago
Meeting.
COMING REVOLUTION UP

Chicago, Sept. 4.-Despite the plea
of Rose Pastor Stokes, the communist
party has put into its platform the
provision that no one receiving mon
ey from rent, interest or profit" can
belong to the party. 1t also has de-
cided that doctors, lawyers and edi-
tors can have no part in the coming
revolution" of the, communist.
The labor party, also an off shoot
Of the national socialist convention,
also adopted the program.
Plans were propated for "a new re-
public" based on that of Russia, with
the shop and factory as the all imr
portant unit
Each of the conventions is being
watched by agents of the department
of justice.
The Cordele dispatch., 1919-09-04
FAMILY COURTS TO
MEET DIVORCE END
RECOMMENDED BY SPEAKER BE-
FORE AMERICAN INSTITUTE.

Boston, Sept. 4.-The establish
ment of family courts" to meet the
menace to the marriage relation pre-
sented by the divorce evil was recon-
mended by Chief Justice Hoffman of
the court of domestic relations of Gin
cinnat, in an address last night be-
fore the American Institute of crimi-
nal law and criminology in session
here in connection wit hthe Aemrican
Bar Association.
The speaker said there would be
more than four hundred thousand
divorce cases filed this year and that
something must done to save the fami
ly life, the greatest civiliZing force
we have.
The Cordele dispatch., 1919-09-04
NO GENERAL INCREASE OF
WAGES AT PRESENT
REFERENDUM FOR STRIKE
Detroit Reports Over 300,-
600 Favoring Walkout on
Vote Taken.

Washington, Sept. 4.-Representa-
tiveS of six hundred thousand mem
bers of the United Brotherhood OF
Maintenance Of Way and Railroad
shop Labcrers asked the railroad
wage board today to adjust their
wages in accordance with the prin-
ciple laid down by President Wilson,
approving the adjustments of last
week for the railroad shopmen.
There will be no general increase of
wages while the government agencies
are actively seking to return economic
conditions to normal, but they felt
that existing inequalities in pay
should be corrected.
The Cordele dispatch., 1919-09-04
ARAB METHODIST
REVIVAL GROWING
SPLENDID SERVICES AND GOOD
PREACHING BRING RESULTS

ArabL Sept 4.-Much interest is
being manifested in the revival
meeting at the Arab Methodist
Chuch. Rev o. L. Evans of Columbus
Ga, is assisting the pastor Rev. G. L.
Wall.
The congregations are growing with
each service.
Rev. Evans preached Tuesday
morning on Anxiety for Soul" and
earnest work brings souls to Christ
The sermon Tuesday night on
1.-The Judgement Day" was a very
impressive message and brought
forth the most earnest attention
from the large congregation. Servises
will continue several days. with ser
vices at 11:O0 A. NJ. and 500 P NJ.
each day. Some of them to be discuss
ed are as follows. Wednesday P. NJ
Hell" Thursday A. NJ. Heaven"
Thursday P NJ. "The Comuflage
of the Devil"
The public is cordially invited nc
attend these services.
The Cordele dispatch., 1919-09-04
BOND HOLDERS WILL
Get MORE INTEREST
GOVERNMENT OFFERS OPPOR.
TUNITY ON SEPT is

The one million persons and cor
porations in the Sixth Federal Re.
serve District who bought Third
Liberty Loan Bonds Will have an
opportunity of turning interest into
more interest, on September 49,,
A. L. Macarthur Postermaster in this
city said today.
"On that date the Government will
make a semi-annual payment on the
Third Liberty Loan Bonds, amount
ing TO the sum of $SS.75O,9Sl,S The
Treasury Department is urging that
bond holders reinyest their interest
in Thrift and War Savings Stamps
and thus keep their dollars working
Making wealth heap has two
processes addition and multiplica-
ton.
Saving is adding dollar and a
dollar and a dollar 1t comes easier
as one goes along but the increase is
no faster next year than now.
When you set the dollar to work
that is multiplication. Your pile
grows slowly this year, little faster.
still little faster, then faster and
faster, till interest outruns saving.
War Saving Stamps do more than
add dollar to dollar They begin to
multiply No better investment could
Remember this on Sept 18th"
The Cordele dispatch., 1919-09-04
TERRIBLE MURDERS
BY BOLSHEVlKI
OVER THOUSAND PERSONS Exc
CuTED IN ONE TOWN.

Constantinople, Sept. 4.-More than
a thousand persons were executed by
the Bolsheviki before they evacuated
Yekaterinoslav in southern Russia, ac-
cording to.a dispatch from that city
giving an account of the massacre
by physician who was principal med
ical expert present at the opening Of
the pits into which the bodies of the
victims had been thrown.
Most of the bodies were crushed ana
mutilated by blows from sledge ham
mers after they had faced the firing
squads.
The Cordele dispatch., 1919-09-04
GRAVE DANGER OF
BIG STEEL STRIKE
STEEL WORKERS UNION TRY FOR
OFFICIAL CONFERENCE.

Washington, Sept. "A special
committee of the steel workers union
met here today with view of renew
ing their effort to obtain a conference
with officials of the corporation for a
dicussion OF wages and other ques-
tions.
The spokesmen for the committee
said there was grave danger of d
strike if the corporations officials con
tinue to refuse to meet the committee
The Cordele dispatch., 1919-09-04
DRAWS WORLDS NOBLER I'M
PULSES TOGETHER
ADDRESSES NECESSARY
President Declares Speech
es He Has Read on Treaty
Fail to Tell Of it.

Columbus, Sept. 4.-President Will
son in opening his country wide speak
ing tour for the peace treaty declared
in an address here today that his
purpose was "tO go out and report
to mys fellow countrymen. The
only people to whom ! owe
other citizens of the United States"
He also said it seemed increasingly
necessary" that he make such report
because he had read many speeches
about the treaty and was unable to
gather from them much of what the
treaty contained.
In the first place, the President
Wilson said, the treaty undertook to
punish Germany but there was no
thought to overwhelmingly crush any
great people.
Restraint had been exercised" he
said, "and there was no provision for
making the reparation no greater
than Germany could pay"
He declared the League of Nations
formed the fullfilment of the prom
Use of the United States in fighting
this war to lend business of that
The Cordele dispatch., 1919-09-04
Columbus Gaily Bedecked

Columns, Ohio, Sept 4.-The city is
garbed in the showiest fashion to
greet President Wilson who opens his
countrywide speaking tour in. behalf
of the peace treaty and League of
Nations at noon.
The Presidents special is sche-
duled to arrive at eleven o'clock, an
hour will be given his address at the
Memorial Hall at eleven thirty and at
one o'clock he leaves for Indianapolis
where he speaks tonight.
The Cordele dispatch., 1919-09-04
Shopmen Vote Strike

Detroit, Sept. 4.-The strike refer
endum of the United Brotherhood Of
Maintenance of Way Employees and
Shop Laborers was completed Wed.
nesday. 1t shows that three hundred
and twenty-five thousand members ia
vor the walkout unless the demand
for wage increase of approximately
dollar per day per- man is granted.
Officials announced today that five
thousand members voted against the
strike. Union officials express the
confidence, however, that an agree
ment will be reached with the Rail
road administration without a strike.
The Cordele dispatch., 1919-09-04
LODGES GROUP CONSIDERS
LOST AMENDMENT
EXECUTIVE SESSION HELD
Reservations Also Being
Considered Today. Labor
Provisions May Go Out.

Washington, Sept. 4.-The Senate
Foreign Relations Committee today
approached final action on the Ger
man peace treaty and planned to
meet in executive session late today
to consider the last amendment by
the committee, proposing the elimi-
nation of the international labor pro-
visions.
Reservations also may be taken up
at that time.
The Cordele dispatch., 1919-09-04
STRIKING ACTORS GIVE
BENEFIT FOR CHILDREN

Chicago, Sept 4-Striking actors
engaged in a benefit performance At
the auditorium this week, announced
that next Sunday afternoons proceeds
should be donated to three orphaned
Tanner children whose parents were
killed by a train at Hubbard Woods
Monday evening.
Mrs Tanners foot was caught while
she was crossing the tracks and her
husband, unable to save her. died with
her clasped in his arms.
The Cordele dispatch., 1919-09-04
AMERICANS HOLD
MORE RHINE LAND
MARSHAL FOCH DECIDES ON
AREA TO BE HELD.

Coblenz, Sept 4. (Asscoiated
Press.) Marshal Foch has decided
upon the extent of the territory in
Rhineland to be held permanently by
te American forces, 1t is an area
which will be twice as large as that
under American jurisdiction since the
last combat division left for home.
The Cordele dispatch., 1919-09-04
BUSINESS SCHOOL
WILL NOT OPEN ON IS

Mis- Mary Rowden, president of the
business school is very i'll with influ-
enza at her home at Ellenwood, Ga,
and all plans for the opening of the
school September 18th must be sus-
pended indefinitely
Miss Rowden is very seriously i'll
but hopes to be able to look after
the interest of the school in a few
weeks and all letters of application
or inquiry concerning the school will
be promptly answered.
The Cordele dispatch., 1919-09-04
AUSTRIANS ASK
MORE Time TO SIGN
CONFERENCE WILL PROBABLY
EXTEND TWO DAYS.

Paris, Wednesday)-The Austrian
delegation has asked the peace con-
ference to extend the time allowed
for an answer to the terms of peace
by two days. 1t is probable that the
Conference will grant the request.
The Cordele dispatch., 1919-09-04
Plane Not Over Border

Washington, Sept. 4.-The Ameri-
can army airplane fired upon by the
Mexicans Tuesday was "at no time
over Mexican territory" the War De-
partment was informed today by Maj.
Gem Dfekmany commander of thel
southern department. ~
Mexican officials claimed the ma
chine had crossed the boundary.
The Cordele dispatch., 1919-09-04
BOMB THROWN AT
PASHA OF EGYPT
THEOLOGICAL STUDENT FAILED
TO lNJuRE OFFICIAL.

London, Sept. "A bomb was
thrown at Hussein Rushdi. Pasha of
Egypt, at Alexandria on Tuesday, ac-
cording to dispatch received here.
The bomb did not injure the premier.
His assailant was a theological
student.
The Cordele dispatch., 1919-09-04
MEXICO REGRETS
FIRING ON PLANE
PLANE WAS NEVER OVER MExl-
CAN TERRITORY.

Washington, Sept. 4.-Regret over
the firing at an American army air.
plane on the border Tuesday HAS
been expressed by the Mexican gov
ernment, the State Department an
nOunced.
The Cordele dispatch., 1919-09-04
WILSON GIVES PEOPLE ACCOUNT OF TREATY ACTIVITIES;
LODGE FINISHES SURGICAL OPERATION on DOCUMENT
ALABAMA SENATOR WOULD NAME
WAGES AND FIX FREIGHT RATES
HERBERT HOOVER is COMING
HOME SEPTEMBER SIXTH

Paris, Sept. 4.-IHerbert Hoover, Di-
rector General of the International
Relief Organization, left here today
for London He sails for the United
States on September sixth.
The Cordele dispatch., 1919-09-04

sort" forever Not to establish the
league, he said, would be "unfaithful"
ko those who died.
The treaty also contains, he con-
tinued, the Magma Charte of labor
which sets up an International labor
organization. This organization will
hold its first meeting in Washington
in October
He said the treaty draws the noble
impulses of the world together and
makes a team of them
The Cordele dispatch., 1919-09-04
Interest At Columbus

Washington, Sept. 4.-1Chief inter-
est in the peace treaty controversy
today was shifted to Columbus where
the President is to open his campaign
of speech making in behalf of i'm
ratification. .e
In the Senate prohibition enforce
ment and the nomination of Gen.
Pershing to be a general for life, is
expected to consume all today's ses-
sions.
The Cordele dispatch., 1919-09-04
100000 SHOPMEN ADOPT
PRESIDENTS WAGE IDEA.
PERSHING is MADE
PERMANENT GENERAL.

Washington, Sept, 4,-'Am.d
applause of senators and spec
tators, the Senate in open exc
cutive session confirmed the
nomination to the permanent
rank of general
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-12-08
Deny Tiger" Is
Coming to y. 5.
to Aid Treaty

BALTIMORE, Dec. S.-Emphatic
denial Of reports from Paris that Pre-
mier Clemenceau is expected to visit
the United States shortly has been
made by the French embassy, The
embassy issued this statement;
"Mr. Clemenceau denies in the most
positive manner that there is any par
ticle of truth in the statement ac-
cording to which he is about to come
to the United States and to do so
purposely at the moment when the
treaty Of peace is being discussed by
the senate.
at in the last thing he would or
could do; il is just now impossible for
him to leave Paris for few days,
much more for few weeks"
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-12-08
South Affected
by Curtailrnent
Passenger Trains

ATLANTA, Dec. S.-Gencral cur.
tailment of passenger train SERVED
throughout the southern region of the
United States railroad administra-
ton, affective at 1901 .. m. Tues
day, was announced last night at
headquarters here. No specific re-
duction was announced, it being left
to each federal manager to take off
smany trains as may be spared
without serious inconvenience to the
public.
In addition to taking off passenger
trains it was announced that federal
managers will discontinue many par
Tor, club and sleeping cars which add
to the weight of trains and increase
consumption of coal. No special
trains of any kind will be operated in
the southern region during the coal
crisis.
No reduction in freight service is
contemplated in the southern region,
it was said, because paucity of coal
cargoes and a constant shutting down
of many industries already has great
" reduced freight haulage. Regard
ing the order to reduce passenger
train service, the annou cement from
the regional directors office said that
"there has been no attempt to arbi-
trarily reduce service on a percent
age basis in the region because con-
ditions vary on different roads and
in different sections to such an ex7
tent that an order Of this kind would
result in an unnecessary inconveni-
ence to the public in some places and
at the same time fail to bring about
the greatest practicable curtailment
in others"