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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-23
ECONOMIC SUBJECTS DECIDED
 0~ Aesoelntad pyasx

Paris, March 22-The economic sub iects to be introduced into the prelimi- nary peace treaty were definitely de- termined at meeting of the economic commission today. These take wide range, the important subjects includ- ing the disposition of German patents. trade marks and copyrights and alien nroperty. such as that held by the custodian of such property in the United States
 The main subjects which will appear in the treaty are:
 First-The future status of German commercial treaties with the allied countries, all of which have been abro- gated.
 Second-A tariff arrangement under which trade may be resumed, and pro- viding against discrimination between the allied countries.
 Third-a provision regulating pre- war contracts between German busi- ness interests and allied business inter ests which were suspended by the war
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-23
FIRST INSTALLMENT
 . .OF TAXES AMOUNTS |. ID OVER BILLION TREASURY s sS;S 5
Amount of Victory Loan Not Yet Determined, But Indi- cations Are Minimum Total Will Be Six Bill
 lion Dollars
Bv Associated Press

Washington, March v.
 With the announcement today that the collections from the first 25 per cent installment
 payment of income and profits
 taxes last Saturday amounted
 to $1,OO1 100000, and might go
 higher with later reports, the last financial milestone preced- ing the Victory Libetry Loan
 had been passed and it seems probable the loan will be for approximately $6,000, 1000, ,0O0. Governors of federal reserve banks attending a conference closing tonight were told that although official state
 ments of the amount of the loan here tofore have referred to s5,oo0,0o0,0oo or l $6, ,000, 100000.
 Tax collections of a little more than $1, 900, 100000 indicated the total tax yield and might reach the $4.7o0.0o0,ooo estimate of Congress at the time of en- acting the revenue bill. The aggregate of first installment payments will bring into the treasury only about $2oe.0oo,0o0 net at this time, however. since $s0o,- 100000 is required to pay certificates of in debtedness maturing coincidentaily with the tax payments.
 In support of the belief the treasury
 would make $s.ooo. 100000 the goal of the Victory Loan campaign, officials
 pointed out that $4,s55, ,0oo,0o0 certifi- cates of indebtedness were outstanding to be redeemed out of proceeds from
 the loan, and they said probably anoth-
 CT s1,O00, ,Oo0,000 must be issued be-
 fore loan receipts begin to pour in.
 Proceeds from the certificates will be required to pay ordinary government expenses for two months now running at the rate of s1.20o,00o.000 a month, and to redeem little more than seoo,- 100000 of certificates falling due be- fore May 6.
 The treasury has available to meet current cash requirements about s1. 700.00o,00o, rather high net balance, not including all the tax receipts from last weeks collections.
 Officials, however, do not desire to let the cash working balance get be- low $1,000,000,000, for this is less than a months expenses.
 Indications now are unless the Vic- tory Loan is largely oversubscribed. the treasury will have to begin within a few months after the campaign to
 market new securities, selling them mainly to banks, as means of meet ing future government expenses. These would be in addition to possible issues of tax certificates in anticipation of the last two installments of tax payments September 15 and December IS. In tpreparation for the second installment June 15 approximately $6S5,000,000 of [ certificates already are outstanding, and the treasury has announced it does not expect to increase the amount of these certificates.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-23
OFFICIAL STATEMENT
By Assoeia,,s Press


 Paris, March 22.-lhe official state- ment on the meeting of the committee on the league of nations says:
 The commission on the league of nations met this afternoon under the chairmanship of President Wilson. This was the first meeting of the com mission since the draft of the covenant was presented to the plenary session of the conference on February IA.
 "A discussion took place on a num- Der of amendments suggested by the members of the commission as re- suit either of the recent exchange of views with the representatives of neu- tral states or of the constructive crit icism to which the covenant has been generally submitted.
 "The commission will resume its ex- animation of the covenant on Monday evening at 8:30 o'clock.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-23
ALL AUTHORITY REVOKED

Grand President Forester, in his let ter to Jackson, notified him that 'ef- fectiye this date your appointment to the position of regional deputy is
 withdrawn and any and all authority given to you to in any way represent
 the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks is hereby revoked" and added:
 Tt is unnecessary for me to tell you my reason for this step. Your assump- ton of authority that you have not got, the total ignoring of the laws of the brotherhood and it's authorized repre- sentatives in the calling of an abso- Flutely unauthorized and illegal strike will suffice for the present"
 For several days last week nearly every railway clerk, ,baggageman and ticket seller in Atlanta was out in supp port of the Nashville. Chattanooga and
 St. Louis men, but the sympathetic
 Walkout came to an end through the grand presidents efforts before it spread to other cities.
 Director Wincheil announced today that if the sclerks returned to work they would be taken back 'as far as possible" but no estimate was given as to how many. If any, of the vacancies had been filled.
 The regional director had announced soon after the strike began that efforts would be made to fill the places of the strikers.
 Grand President Forester announced tonight that before the charges against
 Auditor Ottarson, which involve al- legged attempt to keep back overtime pay, disrupt the union and show fa-
 voritism, are taken up by the media
 tion board. which in this case is rail- road board No. 3 of the labor division of the railroad administration. the charges must be passed upon by him. self and the grand lodge of the broth erhood.
 He said the charges had never reached him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-23
Big Sullivan Bank
 Has Changed Hands
av A,.oeI..es p,.s,

Montgomery, March 22.-The Sullivan Bank and Trust company. capitalized at $100,o00. with surplus of $2O,o0o and deposits over sS45.O00, today changed hands, when B. l.. Gaddis, former vice president of the Fourth National bank; B Frank Noble, former assistant cash fer of the same institution. and asso- ciates. purchased controlling interests therein
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-23
Cabinet Changes Announced VIZ. Ds Asnoalnfni araaa

La Paz, Friday. March 21.-Several changes in the Bolivian cabinet, as a result of the resignation of Alberto Gutierrez, as minister of foreign af- fairs. were announced today. Dario Erterez, minister of finance. becomes Tejada is minister of finance, and luiz Zalles minister of public instructton. Alberto Gutierrez has been offered the pest of minister to Argentina
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-23
TO MAKE STATEMENT

Baltimore. March 22.--Clarence II. Macl6ay, president of the Postal Tele- graph-Cable company, was in Balti- more today, having come on from New York to see his daughter, who is at school here. He said tonight:
 Until I shall have had the oppor- tunity of reading andstudying the full text of the order dismissing me from the service of the company I prefer to make no comment about it. A state ment will likely be issued by the com pany in New York tonight. I will wal; until I get back to New York to read the order and will probably make a statement then.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-23
O'Neal to Be Speaker

Tuskeyee March 22.--President K. R. Moton of Tuskegee institute announced today that Emmet ONeal, former gov ernor of Alabama. would deliver the Founders Day address at the school Aprii 6. This marks the anniversary of the birth of Dr. Booker T. Washing ton, founder of the institute, and tac former governor will speak on his life
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-23
SLEEPING SICKNESS
 |NVADES ALABAMA;
 CASE AT ANN|STON
By Associated Press

Anniston, March 22.-What is be- lied to be the first case of "slecp- ing sickness" in Alabama is report cd from Jacksonville. Ben Castle. . we'll known farmer, living north of Anniston, has been moved there that he might have care and atten- tion. He has been sleeping almost without Interruption for three
 weeks.
 Within the past few days physicians have been able to relieve him to the extent that he now sleeps every other day, having one day of wakefulness in three.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-23
FINAL PLAN SOON

Paris. March 22.-There is no hint yet as to the character of the plan under consideration by Colonel House for settlement of the Fiune prob lem, but itsis expected it will be ready in a day or two. The Italian delegation has answered all advances made aiming at the establishment of the eastern frontier without assigning Plume to Italy by declaring that any such solu- tion even if accepted by the delegates here, would be useless, as neither the Italian Parliament nor people would ratify such an agreement for the aban- donment of what they consider 'the indispensable completion of the mother country"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-23
KANSAS FOR LEAGUE DECLARES CAPE E R
sy Associated Press

Topeka, kan., March 22.-"I be- licve kanxns fs overwhelmingly for league of nations am emphnt- ically for it. because I believe 1t to be n great step toward an ep- during peace which Is the hope of the world and which the world must and will have."
 This declaration k mndc by Sena- tor Arthur Capper in . signed state ment, which will appear in the Sum- day morning issue of his paper, the Daily Capital.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-23
bUR[ESON RELIEVES POSTAL PRESIDENT
 AND DIRECTORS OF
 ALL THEIR DUTIES
A. F. Adams Named to Take Over Management in Place of Mackay-To Keep Up Fight, Says Secretary
 of Company
By Associated Press

Washington, March ?. Differences between the man. agement of the Postal Tele- graph and Cable company and Postmaster General Burleson, which have been acute ever since the government assumed control of the telegraph and telephone systems, eliminated today in an order by the Post master General .summarily re- \ lieving the chief officers, direc- Ftors and owners O. the Postal company from all duties in con nection with government oper- ation of their system.
 In the place of Clarence H. Mackay. president of the company, the order ap- pointed A. F. Adams, president of the Kansas City Home Telephone company, and member of the governments general telephone and telegraph operating board, to take over management of the entire Postal system. In announcing the action. postoffice department officials said MT. Adams presented the order at the com pany's headquarters in New York today and took over control.
 ". w. Cook, general counsel and Will liam J. Deegan, secretary, were named specifically with MT. Mackay in the re- moval order.
 The departments announcement said the action was made necessary by fail ure or refusal of the Postal officials to follow instructions, efforts to embarrass and discredit government control and failure promptly to put new wage schedule and the eight-hour day into op- eration.
 Officials said informally they assumed the Postal company would seek to in terfere with execution of the order by some court action, though they did not know whx. form it might take. The of fr1rs relieved of their duties under the government retain their connection with the company itself, the Postmaster Gen. erals authority extending only to the ac- kIal control and operation of the com pany's properties.
 Last January MT. Burleson removed Edward Reynolds. vice president and general manager of the Postal, on the ground he was obstructiAs operation un- der the government
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-23
HUNGARY. OCCUPIED BY ALLIED TROOPS
 TO RESTORE ORDER
py AssoeIa.sc Prs..

London, March 22.-AlIfed troops In the past few days have occupied part of Hungary. with the excep- ttcn of Budapest and the surrOund- ing districts by way of suppress- ing pIundering by bOlshevfk GansN and restoring order. according to n dispatch from vienna to the Ex- change telegraph company by way of Copenhagen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-23
Bolsheyik Ambassador Here Communicates With Capital
ev A,,ecl.ted Prsss

Washington. March 22.-The state department today received commit mica tion from Ludwig Alexander ka- lovich Martens at New York, who an nounced there Thursday that ne hs1 credentials from the Russian bol- shevik government as ambassador to the United States No indication was given, even informally, of what action, if any. the state department might take.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-23
FIFTH CASE REPORTED
By Associated Press

Columbia. S. C., March 22.--The fifth case of sleeping sickness in South Caro- lima was reported by the state board of health today. The case announced today was that of a 7-year- old boy, who is convalescing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-23
eREAsONs" GIVEN
Rv A.socIaiaa Pres,

By ASsoetafed Prees
 New York, March 22.-Refusal by the Postal Telegraph company to sanction an increase of telegraph rates it deemed unjust and award of a 10 per cent wage increase to employees instead of the per cent advance ordered by Postmaster Gen eral Burleson, were said tonight by Will liam $. Deegan, secretary of the com pany. to be the reasons for the re- moval today by MT. Burleson of Clarence IT. Mackay, president, and other off, cials of the company.
 MT. Deegan declared in a statement that i've shall not surrender or abandon our fight against Burleson's usurpation. '
 The order removing the officials was served at noon today without previous notice said the statement, which con- tnled:
 "Burleson gives as a reason for the order that we have failed to carry out his orders and instructions We do not know what Burleson refers to in the way of orders and instructions.
 ''The statement by Bureson that we failed promply to put into effect the wage schedule is a distortion. We announced an increase in wages of all our employees on March 5, effective from January I, (which was more generous than that orr dered by Bureson The Burleson schedule was based entirely on the Western Union plan of organization, which is different from ours. and it was impossible to apply it to our organization. Burleson's oper- ating board admitted this and told us to do the best We could. Burleson' s statement on the wage schedule is de- liberate attempt to distort facts.
 We did refuse to assent to a proposi- tion made by Burlesons operating board of Bell telephone and Western Union officials to increase telegraph rates, but this never reached the form of an order. Burleson carefully refarins from men tioning this, and this may be why he has removed our officials"
 The statement which declares the ac- tion of the Postmaster General to be ''one of the most despotic acts in the history of the government and that his purpose ''evidently is to destroy the Postal Tele- graph system,' says the men who were appointed to take over the property know nothing of the telegraph business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-23
THIRD VICTIM DIES
ey AssocIared rrsss

Richmond, Va, March 2a-Horace Fourquerean. years old. died tonight. the third victim of sleeping sickness. The child had been in state of coma since March 6, being aroused only at intervals for .nourishment. The boy suffered from influenza last october.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-23
JACKSON CALLS MEETING

Nashville. Mach 22.-C. F. Jackson, in spite of his dismissal, has called meet
 tContinued On Page Two)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-23
STRIKING CLERKS
 ARE ORDERED ID
 RETURN ID WORK
President of Brotherhood Removes Regional Deputy
 From Office for Over stepping Authority
By Associated Pres.

Atlanta, Ga, March 22.--Rnilway
 clerks on the Nashville. Chnttn-
 nooga and st. Louis railroad and
 two smaller lines under the same
 federal management have been orr
 dered to return to work Monday
 morning. As n result of this the
 labor division of the United States
 railroad administration in Wash
 ington is expected to take up the
 clerks charges of discrimination
 against X. F. OttarsOn, federal audi
 tor of the road. About 1000 men
 are involved here and in Nashville,
 Chattanooga and other southern
 cities.
 Announcement that the clerks whe walked out March II demanding remoy- al of the auditor would return to work pending disposition of their charge. was made tonight simultaneously witt the giving out of letter by J. J Forester. grand president of the rail way clerks brotherhood, in which ht notified c. F. Jackson. regional deputy and director in charge of the Nashville Shattanooga and St. Louis clerks, tina he had been removed from his office.
 Forester, in lengthy conference with members of the brotherhood ant railroad administration officials, cam out earlier today with a public state ment that Jackson had called the strik' illegally. The men already were out however, and up until tonight their To cal leaders insisted they would no return until Ottarson was removed. Di rector General Hines and Regional Di rector Winchell asserted this could no be done pending an investigation b. the mediation board and that the late would not take up the case while thu men were on strike. They should hav' submitted their charges to the boart before going on strike, the administra 4ie. inio 1.. d
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-23
OUT OF POWER

IT am of the opinion It was not with in the province of the public service commission of Alabama under the pro- vtso in s.s joint resolution of Congress or otherwis~ .c fix rates, inter or intrA- state. for ut A-s under government
 tCoatipuea sn Pase Twe)
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-17
GERMAN ENJOYS
SPEED TO WETMAR
WITH THE REPLY
Teuton Foreign Minister and
Delegates Bear Final Answer
to the National Assembly

Versailles, June 1.-THE reply of
the Allied and associated govern
ments to Germany's counter-pro-
posals of the Peace Treaty and a
revised copy of the Peace Treaty
to-day are in the hands of Count
Won Brockdorff- Rantzau, on his way
20 Weimar, to present to the Ger
man National Assembly the final
word of the victors in the war.
Few changes have been made in
the revised Peace Treaty. Five days
was the allotted period fixed for the
Germans to answer yea or nay to
the demands of the Allies, but two
days additional have been granted
on insistent pleas. This will extend
the time limitation to Monday,
June 23.
With the revised Treaty, contain
ing interlineations in red ink, where
changes had been made in it. was a
covering note written by Premier
Clemenceau, president of the Peace
Conference.
Without ostentation, Paul Dutasta,
general secretary of the Peace Con-
ference, at 6.4s o'clock last even
ing, placed the revised draft of the
Treaty and the note in the hands
OF German Legation Secretary ST.
mon and Baron Won Loersner, with
whom Nj. Dutasta held a conversa-
uon lasting for several minutes, ex-
planning the nature of the instru-
ment and the length of time allotted
for the Germans to reply. Herr
Simon protested against the short
time allotted Germany to make
known her intentions.
NJ. Dutasta arrived in Versailles
by automobile from Paris at $40
o'clock. carrying the momentus
document in two parcels wrapped in
prosaic brown paper. He was re-
ceived by Colonel Henry. master of
ceremonies at Versailles, and off,
GERS of the Allied missions and con-
Quoted to the reading room of the
Hotel Reservoirs.
Here the party was grouped along
one side of the room. In front of NJ.
Dutasta was a large handicapped
table. upon which the documents
were placed in two piles. There
was a considerable wait before Le-
cation Secretary Simon and Baron
Won Loersner arrived. escorted by
took their place at the other side
of the table.
At $40 o'clock Herr Simon in
formally reached across the table
and took the documents and hand
ed them to Baron Won Loersner. this
actually constituting the formal re-
ceipt of the Treaty and the ulti-
matum. A receipt from the Ger
mans for the documenet was re-
quired by NJ. Dutasta.
After the brief conversation be-
tween M. Dutasta and Herr Simon,
the Germans returned to their
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-17
Mammoth of Lena Delta
Dug Their Own Graves

In the region of the Lena delta, in
far northern Siberia, according to an
old tradition. there is a gigantic spe-
cies of mole which, burrowing under
ground. dies if by chance exposed to
light. 1t has enormous tusks, and the
half-savage nomads' of the country
sometimes use strips of it's thick hide
for reindeer harness. Truth to tell
the mole" is the long extinct man
moth, and the last surviving specimen
perished long before the earliest dawn
of human history. Indeed. it may very
we'll be that 100, 900 years have passed
since the youngest mammoth walked
the earth. In their day these huge
mammals roamed in herds all over
northern Siberia, where the climate
was mild and salubrious. But there
came a sudden change and Jack Frost
established a permanent reign in that
part of the world.
The mammoths, huddled in the val
leys. were overwhelmed by snow
drifts which hardened to solid ice,
preserved their bodies intact even
to the present time. Now and then
the hot sun of the short Arctic sum-
mer melts out and reveals to view
one of the great carcasses-the meat
still fresh enough to be fed to the
dogs. The eyeballs of one specimen
found on the Tas river. between the
Obi and the Yenessei. were as per-
feet as If the animal had been killed
only a day or two earlier. To the
northeast of the mouth of the Lena,
which is one of the great rivers of
the world, rising in eastern Siberia
and flowing northward to the Arctic
ocean. IS group of islands which
must formerly have been connected
with the mainland.
There an American naval expedi-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-17

tion. when sought survivors of the
ill-fated Jeanette, found deposits of
mammoth tusks that were literal
ivory mines. The frozen soil of the
islands was so crowded with man.
moth skeletons asNto suggest that the
mighty pachyderms must have had
there a dying place." to which
through thousands of years they re-
sorted when death approached. Lieu
tenant Scheutze. who was a member
of the expedition, told the writer that
there was a big fortune to be gained
by few adventurous men who should
take a stanch vessel through Behring
straight at the opening of the Arctic
summer dig for ivory and return in
half a dozen weeks. They would en-
counter perils, however, for the coast
is most inhospitab1e and almost unin-
habited. Mammoth ivory is more
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-17
Schuylkill Veterans to Have
Outing at Washington

The annual meeting of the Vet
eran Employees of the Schuyikill Di-
vision of the Pennsylvania Railroad
was held at Norristown Saturday.
These officers were elected: Presi-
dent, c. B. Hughes. of Pottsville;
vice-president. John J. Brown; sec
retary. Frank Lutz; treasurer. ]. H.
Faith; trustees. W. c. Garrett. W.
]. Shick and L. A. Neiman.
The anual outing was discussed.
This year the Vets and their fami-
lies will visit Washington on Mon
day. June %. the company provid-
ing a special train. which will leave
Reading at a. m. They will take
dinner at the Metropolitan Hotel al
Washington and be served with a
box luncheon on the train returning
Special entertainment will be pro-
vided.