Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-02-07
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However tAe tobacco men should take
warning that many millions on people
have warmly resented the forcing or
cigarettes on those Of our boys who
were not previously accustomed to
them, and they have resented with in
dignation the placarding OF the coun-
try with giant signs saying that Gig
arettes won the war; and similar ad-
vertising methods"
At the mass meeting Of doctors In
Wigmore Hall in London last Sunday.
a proposal to form trades union ana
use the strike as a weapon was mar
rowly defeated. Speeches We're MADE
in denunciation Of the British Medi-
cal association, and a resolution TO
form q new body to safeguard the In
terests of the medical profession was
carried by a vote of 1872 to SO. Dr..
Angus proposed an amendment to the
effect that no body not registered as
trades union could adequately safe
guard the interests Of the profession.
You must line up with the other great
industries of the country and form a
trades union Of your own," he said.
The amendment was declared to have
been lost by q vote of 73 to II. Cries
of recount" followed The chairman
appealed for order, but the cries con-
tinued and the meeting broke up. Ask
&c after the meeting whether he real
ly advocated a strike Of the doctors,
DR.. Angus replied: Certainly. II we
can get representation in no other
way, what alternative Is there?"
-At,er months Of deliberation, house
and senate conferees have reached a
final agreement on the oil leasing bill
under which more than 5O,0OO,0OO
acres Of government owned oil, was,
coal, phosphate and sodium lands In
western states and Alaska would De
opened for development under a leas-
ing system, subject to q royalty which
in the case of Oil and gas will be not
less than one eighth of the gross value
of production. This legislation-gen-
orally regarded as the most import
ant affecting the west that has been
before congress within a decade-has
been pending for four years. Leaders
in the senate and house hope to COM
plete its enactment before the end OF
this session. After the conferees had
settled all differences, Senator Pitt
man Of Nevada and Representative
Ferris Of Oklahoma, chairman or the
senate and house managers, issued
statements urging support Of the Dill
and declaring that in its present form
il was the best compromise that could
be hoped for. The conferees adopted
the senate coal provision, which per-
mits either the leasing or purchase OF
government owned coal lands for de-
velopment purposes. 1t was at the re-
commendation Of the secretary OF the
interior that Alaskan coal lands were
brought within the provisions or the
measure. Persons leasing any coal
lands would pay royalty or not less
than two cents a ton. Sale OF coal
lands would be on the basis Of compe-
titive bids with a minimum Of $40 an
acre for certain lands and $40 an acre
for certain others.
The most sweeping removal of re-
strictions upon the expectation or food
stuffs made since the signing OF the
armistice was announced by the war
trade board last Saturday. Commo-
dities removed from the export con-
servation list were barley, corn and
rye. including -four and meal made
from these grains, oats and oat pro-
ducts, brewers grains, bran and mid
dlings, beans, dried and split peas su-
gar and hydrogenated cottonseed Oil.
/, These articles constituted majority
of the food items on the restricted
list and their removal Is effective i'm
mediately. Licenses to export them
will be granted freely to all desttna-
tions, including Great Britain, France,
Italy and Belgium. Heretofore such
exports to these Allied countries were
made exclusively by the food admin
istration's grain corporation and the
Wheat Export company. Attention
was called to the fact that wheat and
wheat -four remain on the restricted
list. There was no indication when IT
would be removed, but it was said that
probably 1t would remain In force until
- nrin O
per cent on the 1919 wheat crop ex-
pired. Removal of the embargo on the
other grains was expected by some
officials to stabilize prices and re-
lieve what was described as con-
gested market. An advance in the
price Of corn was looked for by rea-
son of the fact that prices fell sharp
ly several weeks ago when removal OF
the embargo against the importation
of Argentine corn was announced. 1t
was said that there was heavy de-
mand in foreign countries for some
of the grains now placed on the free
list, and particularly for rye.
AN eyewitness's sensational story
Of the murder of DR.. Karl Liebnecht
and. Rosa Luxembourg is told by the
London Daily News in Berlin. This
eyewitness was staying at the Eden
hotel where the arrest of the Radi-
Gals took place and he returned there
on the night Of the tragedy at 1880
o'clock to find an armed sentry guard
ing the door. This sentry told him
that DR.. Liebknecht had been arrest
ed and that it was intended to beat
him to death. In the immediate neigh
borhood Of the hotel nobody was to be
seen. When he entered the hotel he
found a group of eight military off,
GERS and half dozen civilians. There
was an air of expectancy about them
and in about fifteen minutes Rosa
Luxembourg appeared accompanied by
the chief of the criminal police. A few
minutes later Liebkn echt came down
the stairs, after having been question
ed by the military. He was guarded
by armed soldiers. Just when Lieb-
knecht was passing the narrator OF
this affair, an officer Of the guard
sprang toward him shouting: rs that
fellow still alive?" The officer then
Joined the military escort which left
the hotel with both prisoners. In
about fifteen minutes he returned and
said Liebknecht had been beaten to
death with the butts OF rifles. The
blows were struck from behind. TINS
narrator states. and at the second blow
Liebknecht collapsed. According to
the statement made by one of the SEN
murdered by the soldiers, who were
encouraged to this deed by their off,
GERS. The next step taken was to COM
pei all civilians to leave the hall OF
the hotel in which the military and
hotel employees were assembled alone.
These employees afterward declared
quite independently Of each other
that Rosa Luxembers had also been
beaten down at the entrance to the
hotel by soldiers and officers. There
was no sign of any enraged crowd.
While the second and probably the
last annual report on the selective SER
vice system prepared by Major Cen
eral Enoch H. Crowder, provost mar
shall general, and made public We'd
nesday, contained only one spccihc
recommendation, that the draft ma
chinery be used to take the decennial
census, the 1.600-page document gave
the first inkling Of drastic extensions
of the work or fight regulations which
had been planned just before hostili-
ties ended. The report showed that
specific plans were before Secretary
Baker last November under which a