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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-10-10

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ance l, 2, 3, 4 years.
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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-10-10


80 acres in cultivation,
four room tenant house,
90, Termsb cash, bal
acres in cultivation, bal
running water and barn.
cultivation, no improve
90 cash, balance $1,000
The sun., 1919-07-11

ing that both he and David Lloyd
George, the British Premier, had been
anxious to arrange for hearing.
The decision not to bind Germany
10 definite indemnity, the President
said, was reached over his protest.
Neither In the Senate nor in the
Foreign Relations Committee will the
peace pact be taken up for considera-
ton until Monday. Neither body will
meet until that time. This was quite
contrary to general expectation,
which had been that series OF spe-
clal sessions of the Foreign Relations
Committee would begin at once. ...
The Foreign Relations Committee,
furthermore, will not accept the
Presidents offer to 10 before 1t and
reply to interrogatories regarding the
pact, the league covenant or the
Franco-American alliance. The COM
mittee, however, will avail itself of
the proffered services of Secretary
Of State Lansing, who will arrive In
the United States almost Immediately.
The sun., 1919-07-11
AIR FIGHTERS TURN
TO PEACE PROJECTS
Returned Canadians to Help
Fix Air and Mail Routes.
Special DespatcA 70 TIE Sun.

MONTREAL, July 1o.-A thousand men
from the Royal Canadian Air Force now
in Montreal, back home from overseas
service are mildly critical Of the action
of tile Government in permitting the
r. CA. f. to- 20 out Of existence. The
permanent military forco was reased
from 5000 to 10000 at an increased cost
to the country OF $4,000. 900. Recruiting
for the permanent force is slow. and
chiefly from raw recruits under 20. the
returned veterans not caring for home
service.
The returned airmen will turn their
accomplishments to the development OF
commercial aircraft projects, mail routes
and the aid they will be permitted to
render the Canadian Air Service. the
Government aided body. which will do
preliminary work IN organization OF air
routes, fixing rules and cooperation with
International effort
After six weeks strike the 1000
Viokers shipyard employees are voting
to accept the company's terms.
The Ottawa street oars have baen
running two days. operated by non-
union men. Negotiations have been dis
continued.
The sun., 1919-07-11
RUSSIA HAS TURKISH CLAIM.
SvoH Seeks DardaneIIes Mandate
I'm Note To CIemenceau.

PARIS, July 10.--Prnce Lvon, rep
resentative here Of the All-Russian Gov
eminent OF Admiral Kolchak, has writ
ten TO Premier Clemenceau as Presi-
dent of the Peace Conference calling
attention to the Russian interests in the
Turkish Empire and asking that a man
date for the Dardanelles be given 10
Russia.
Prince Lvoff, in his communication.
proposes an international mandate for
Cohstantinople, with-Itussia represented
He admits that II would be impossible
ior Russia 10 take mandate for
Armenia.
The sun., 1919-07-11
To Present French Treaty.

II shall presently have vcca s'on to
lay before you a special treaty with
France. whose object is the temporary
protection OF France from unprovoked
aggression by the Power with whom this
treaty OF peace has been negotiated.
It's terms link It with this treaty. /
take the liberty. however, Of reseryinR
The sun., 1919-07-11

IL they did not provide a means OF com
mon counsel which all were Obliged 70
accept a common authority whose de-
cisions would be recognized as decisions
which all must respect
And SO the most practical, the most
sceptical among them turned more and
more to the league as the authority
through which international action was
to be secured, the authority without which
as they had come to see 1t, II would
be difficult to give assured effect either
to this treaty or to any other interna-
tional understanding upon which they
were to depend for the maintenance OF
peace. The fact that the covenant oil
the league was the first substantive part
of the treaty to be worked out and
agreed upon while all else was in solu-
ton helped to make the formulation OF
the rest easier.
Conference Not Ephemeral.
"The conference was, after all, not to
be ephemeral. The concert of nations
was to continue under a definite cove
nant which had been agreed upon and
which all were convinced was workable
They could 90 forward with confidence
to make arrangements intended to be
permanent. The most practical of the
conferees were at last the most ready
to refer to the League Of Nations the
superintendence Of all interests which did
not admit OF immediate determination, OF
all administrative problems which were
to require a continuing oversight. What
had seemed a counsel of perfection had
come to seem a plain counsel OF neces-
sity. The League OF Nations was the
practical statesman's hope of success In
many of the most difficult things he was
attempting.
And II had validated itself In the
thought of every member of the con-
ference as something much bigger, much
greater every way, than mere instru-
ment for carrying out the provisions of a
particular treaty. 1t was universally
recognized that all the peoples of the
world demanded of the conference that
1t should create such continuing con-
cert of free nations as would make
wars of aggression and spoliation, such
as this that has just ended, forever I'M
possible A cry had gone out from every
home in every stricken land from which
sons and brothers and fathers had gone
forth to the great sacrifice that such a
sacrifice should never again be exacted.
"It was manifest why 1t had been ex-
acted 1t had been eXacted be-
ecause one nation desired donin'
ion and other nations had known no
means of defence except ornaments and
alliances. War had lain at the heart OF
every arrangement OF the Europe-of
every arrangement OF the world-that
preceded the war. Restive peoples had
been told that fleets and armies which
they toiled to sustain meant peace; and
they now knew that they had been lied
to ; that fleets and armies had been
maintained to promote national amoi-
tons and meant war. They knew that
no old policy meant anything else bur
force. force-always force. And they
knew that it was intolerable. Every
true heart in the world and every en-
lightened Judgment demanded that, at
whatever cost of independent action
every Government that took thought for
It's people or for justice or for ordered
freedom should lend itself to new
purpose and utterly destroy the old order
Of International politics.
The sun., 1919-07-11
Atmosphere OF Conference.

The atmosphere In which the confer
ence worked seemed created not by the
ambitions OF strong Governments but by
the hopes and aspirations OF small ma
tons and of peoples hitherto under
bondage to the Power that victory had
shattered and destroyed. Two great
empires had been forced into political
bankruptcy, and We were the receivers.
Our task was not only to make peace
with the Central Empires and remedy
the wrongs their armies had done. The
Central Empires had lived in open vio-
lation Of many of the very rights for
which the war had been fought. domi-
mating allen peoples over whom they had.
no natural right to rule, enforcing not
obedience but veritable bondage, eX-
plotting those who were weak for the
benefit of those who were masters and
ovcrIords only by force Of arms, There
could be no peace until the whole order
of central Europe was set right.
That meant that new nations were to.
be created - Poland, Czecho- Slovakia,
Hungary itself. No part OF ancient Po-,
land had ever in any true sense become
part OF Germany or of Austria or or
Russia Bohemia was alien in every
thought and hope TO the monarchy of
which she had so long been an artificial
part and the uneasy partnership be-
tween Austria and Hungary had been
one rather OF interest than of linship
or sympathy, The Slavs whom Austria
had chosen to force into her empire on
the south were kept to their obedience
The sun., 1919-07-11
One Republican visit. Wilson.

"~N"| "Asbphs
Those who met the President In his
anteroom were Senator's Beckham
Dial, Fletcher, Gay, Gerry, Harris,
Harrison, Henderson. Jones IN. NJ,
King, Kirby, Mcclellan, NuVeut, Over
man, Phelan, Pittman, Pomerene
Ransdell, Robinson, Smith (Aris. },
Smith Is. CO. Stanley, Swanson
Thomas, Walsh Mass }. Walsh
(Mont.).
Senator Kenyon Qowa) was the
only Republican to pay visit to the
Presidents room. At 40 the Presi
dent withdrew from the gathering and
motored back to the White House.
At the reception in the anteroom
the, President discussed at length the
Shantung and Irish questions. He Il
reported TO have said he was moi
satisfied with the provision In the
treaty giving Shaptmg to Japan, hui
Is said to have asserted that there
was an Informal understanding among
the peace delegates that eventually
Japan must make an acceptable agree,
ment with China on this problem
President Wilson is represented AZ
being, absolutely confident that Japan
will deal squarely with China in the
nnal settlement.
Discussing the failure of the Peac,
Conference to receive the representa-
tlyes of Irish American organizations
on behalf OF Irish freedom, Mr.. VII
son told Senators that the represen
tatives had so identified themselves
with the revolutionary element in
Ireland that 1t became impossible to
receive them, he was quoted as say
The sun., 1919-07-11
League Practical Necessity.

"a league OF free nations had become
practical necessity. Examine tho
treaty of peace and you will fiud that
everywhere throughout it's manifold pro-
visions it's trainers have felt obliged 20
turn to the League OF Nations as nm
indispensable inStrumentality for the
maintenance OF the new order II has
been their purpose TO set up in the
world-the world OF civilized men.
That there should be league OF
nations TO steady the counsels and
maintain the peaceful understandings OF
the world. to make, not treaties alone,
but the accepted principles OF interna-
tional law as we'll, the actual rule OF
conduct among the Governments Of the
world, had been one of the agreements
accepted from the FIRST as the basis OF
peace with the Central Powers. The
statesmen OF all the belligerent coun-
tries were agreed that such a league
must be created TO sustain the settle.
ments that were TO he effected.
But at first I think there was a feel
ing among some of them that while II
must be attempted the formation OF such
league was perhaps a counsel of per-
lection which practical men long expert
Anced In the world OF affairs must agree
TO very cautiously and with many misgiv-
ings. 1t was only as the difficult work
OF arranging an all but universal ad-
justment of the worlds AFFAIRS advanced
from day to day, from one stage of con-
ference TO another, that II became evil
dent TO them that what they were seek
ing would be little more than something
written upon paper, to be interpreted
and applied by such methods as the
chances Of politics might make available
The sun., 1919-07-11
War Monster Must he Chained.


statesmen might see difficulties, but
the people could see none ana couid
brook no denial. war In which they
had been bled white to beat the terror
that lay concealed in every balance OF
power must not end In mere victory
OF arms and a new balance. The mon
ster that had reSorted to arms must be
put in chains that could not be broken
The united power of free nations must
put a stop to aggression and the worId
must be given peace ~ there was not
the will or the intelligence to accom-
plish that now there must be another
and n final war and the world must
DO swept clean of every power that
could renew the terror.
The League of Nations was not
merely an instrument to adjust ana
remedy old wrongs under new treaty
Of peace II was the only hope for man
kind Again and again had the demon
OF war been cast out OF the house OF
the peoples and the house swept clean
by treaty of peace only to prepare
time when he would enter in again
with spirits worse than himself. The
house must now be given tenant who
could hold II against all such.
Convenient. indeed Indispensable, as
statesmen found the newly planned
Les que of Nations to be for the eXecu-
ton OF present plans of peace and
reparation. they saw II in a new aspect
before their work was finished. They
saw II as the main object of the peace.
az the only thing that could complete
it or make 1t worth while. They saw
II as the hope OF the world, and that
hope they did not dare to d!sappo!nt.
Shall we or any other free people hest
tate to accept this great duty? Dare
we reject II and break the heart OF
the world?
And SO the result of the conference
of peace. so far as Germany IL con
cerned. stands complete, The difficulties
encountered were very many. Some
times they seemed insuperable. II was
impossible to accommodate the Interests
Of so great a body OF natons-lnterests
which directly or indirectly affected al
most every nation in the world-with-
out many minor compromises The
treaty as a result In not exactly what
we would have written. It Is probably
not what any one OF the national dele
cations would have written. But re-
suits were worked out which on the
whole bear test.
II think II will be found that the
compromises which were accepted as
inevitable nowhere cut to the heart of
any principle. The work OF the con-
ference squares. as a whole. with the
principles agreed upon as the basis of
the peace as we'll as with the practical
possibilities OF the international situa-
lions which had 10 be faced and dealt
with as facts.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-01-27
WILL RETURN.
100000 MEN
I D ST A 7 ES
MONTH.
General March Informs the,
Congressional Committee
Shipping Arrangements
Are Completed.
(By Associated Press)

Washington, Jan. 27.-General
March informed the military commit
tee that shipping arrangements had
been made to transport home 100000
men monthly and that the War De-
partment could return all of the
expeditionary force and demobilize
them within six months.
President Wilson will determine the
strength of the American army of oc-
cupation.
General March said that more
Americans had been returned than
General Foch prepared for original
ly. He indicated that ten divisions
had been suggested as the American
contribution to the army of occupa-
ton.
General March said the War De-
partment could demobilize the $4,000
men remaining in home camps with
in month and that 100000 had
returned from overseas up to Satur-
day. SO -
General March said an American
standing army of half million had
been proposed. eit.
AID WILL RETURN :. :. ......
General March said: "We do not
expect to reduce the American army
below 100000 if we can" He said
about 100000 men were still over.
seas. agsz-A
Imperial Valley press., 1919-01-27
sHEREE APP!ES!!!L on cQAS! UnC!!ERS
SENSATIONAL DETAILS ABOUT AWFUL CRIME
ARREST OF OLIVER ELLIS, ALIAS ROBERTS, EXPECTED HOURLY As OFFICERS
GATHER TANGLED THREADS Of CAES70RY ONE OF ILLICIT LOVE AFFAIR
(By Exclusive Dispatch to The Press)


With the positive identification of the supposed to be
Mrs Oliver Roberts Harry Watkins of 299 West Tenth
street Angeles the city today furnished series OF
sensational developments the horrible Lyons Crossing murder
mystery.
The Identification by the and twin
sister at the Los Angeles police station
through the medium of articles clothing taken to the coast by
Sheriff Appes who is confident that the murderer
will be in the tolls before many hours have passed
The days development also brought change in the name of
the alleged He is declared to be Harry Ellis former
ooan the Los Angeles street car company VINO aoopeo
the name of Roberts alias.
With the Identification the pair complete the pecng
together Of the tangled threads OF their immediate past es
which explan the motive and the tragedy illicit love
affair.
Relatives the declare that she ran away with Eis
about six months ago. abandoning of her children by her
husband soldier with the American army IN rance Inc
forsaken child Clarence aged five while the child accompany
ING the mother Viola, aged three
The latter is the child by the alleged murderer
at all of lost since the moment the oer
life was taken the startling that the child is not ms
own the police that Ellis Roberts may have murdered
and TO have DISPOSED body by burial cremation the same
means attempting to destroy the body OF the woman
Ellis wife and children whom he deserted for the petite
little Mrs Watkins Los Angeles subject of public charity
of the alleged escapade which deprived them sup
port
From Angeles also comes the news that MIS- watkins
rohe law here Ell Centre about Christmas time
She informed him that would home on the following
Saturday of her failure to do so her family became
nervous when the story of the murder reached then
And today mother Mrs D. r. Watkins and her sister,
Mrs Burgess home she said to have met Ellis
dentfed articles from pu little wardrobe thus clearing
nm another dark chapters in what promised to be one
the greatest mysteries in the counrys CRIMINAL history
Imperial Valley press., 1919-01-27
NAVY TO 0PEN|SSUE CALL
.RECRU|T|N G.F Or AID \
OFFICE | n GETT|NGW0Rk
This CIT yFOR SOLDIERS
Replacement Committee of
imperial County Asks for
Pu bic Cooperation in
This Important Matter.

Clifford Coggins, local member of
the Replacement Committee of the
County Cohncil of Defense, today is
sued an appeal to the general public
to aid in the important work of Sc
curing positions for returned soldiers
and sailors who left their employ
ment at the country's call. His ap-
peal follows:
'To the Public: The citizens of Ell
Centre and vicinity are earnestly re-
quested to cooperate in the matter
of finding employment for the re-
turning soldier boys, to the end that
all soldiers shall be provided with en-
ployment either in the places va
Gated when they left for the war or
other employment"
In this connection he also request
ed publication of the following cor
respondence, showing that the get
ting back into civil life and immedi-
ate jobs is the desire of the disabnd
ed soldiers:
Gel Centre, Calf, Jan. %, 1919
Messrs. Ed Dool, Chairman, Calexico;
Clifford Coggins, Ell Centre; w. t.
Dunn, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. As
members of the replacement commit
tee of the Council of Defense, Chair
man Simon has asked me to refer
to you the matter of rounding up
jobs for the members of Battery ID,
143rd F. A., who enlisted from I'M
perial Valley, and who, according to
the messages shohwn herein, are at
once likely to return to the Valley
from France. Following are copies
of three kilograms that have been
exchanged on the subject between
Lieutenant T. j. Worthington of ri
Centre. commanding the battery, and
Purl Willis, chairman of the military
committee, and myself as secretary;
Sacramento, Calf. Jan. l6 19l9.
-Purl Willis, Ell Centre. Calf
Greetings from bows of d battery
to residents of Ell Centre and lmpe
rial Valley Will be in Preside to-
morrow. Fine trip. All well. No
! flu. See you soon.
"'WORTHINGTON ct. J)
"'F'irst Lieutenant, COMMANDING.
Gel Centro, Calf, Jan. IL, 1919
Lieutenant T. J. Worthington, y Bat
tery, 143 F. A., Preside. Sar Fran
cisco, Calf: Imperial Valley folks
welcome YOU home to California.
Your TELEGRAM to Willis referred to
Council of Defense. Please advise as
soon as practicable definite plans OF
demobilization and the number OF
Valley bows in your command. Also
whether they are likelv to return 70
Valley in bunch. The Council o.
Defense desires to celebrate their
Homecoming properly. II available,
: mail Immediately the names OF Val
ley boys. p. G. BlTLEk,
Imperial Valley press., 1919-01-27
HOPE FOR EARLY
ARREST ROBERTS
MURDER CASE

Unusual activity marked today's
work of the sheriff's office on the
Roberts murder case and it is hoped
that not many hours will elapse be-
fore Oliver Roberts, the husband, will
be under arrest on warrant issued
charging him with uXorcide.
While the officers were Silent con-
cerning the developments, it was un-
derstood that the trail OF the !ugl-
tive has been struck, thus promising
definite progress within short time.
Sheriff Applestill is personally dl-
recting the hunt for Roberts, while
several deputies are engaged IN
cleaning up the Valley end OF the
case. -,- e. I'll - ~
Imperial Valley press., 1919-01-27
Burglar Who
Initiates Cat

A burglar who walks like cat and
with ready presence of mind is the
object of search by the city police
force following the robbery of the
home Of Ray Edgar on Brighton
street last night. While the intruder
pretty we'll covered the whole house,
it is not believed that he made away
with any articles of value.
During the night Mr.. Edgar was
awakened by a slight noise. 1t was
repeated, but sounded like the fam
lily cat walking about the house. 1t
was found that the burglar had en-
tered by prying the front door, but
his fear of capture was so great that
he had propped open the screen of
the rear door so that he could es-
cape easily and readily.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-01-27
MURDER MYSTERY CLEARING
Busy Day In
Clerks Office

. Comprising one of the busiest days
for the department in the past few
months, eleven new Superior court
cases were filed with the county clerk
Saturday. These included eight civil
actions and three appeals from the
verdicts obtained in justice courts.
Among these was one instituted by
Attorneys Conkling and Brown for
E. E. Becker against R. Castle and
others for the alleged unlawful pos
session of three bales of lint cotton.
The plaintiff asks for return of the
property and judgment in the sum of
$457.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-01-27
Station Will Be Opened
About February 1st in
Charge of Chief Steward
p. T. Lighter.

On or about February / the Navy
Department will open recruiting Of
flee in the Ell Centre National Bank
building, Room 6. The officer in
charge will be P. T. Lighter, chief
commissary steward.
Men between the ages of17 and 35,
who have good habits and who have
the physical requirements demanded
by the medical authorities of the U.
S. navy, are eligible for enlistment.
While the draft was in effect, vol
uctary enlistments were discontinued
in the navy and many men and boys
missed a chance to fight the Hun
on the sea, but now that it is all
over, voluntary enlistments are again
open. Young men will now have the
opportunity of joining the navy at
time when men are in great need
by the government to replace men
whose contracts have expired or
whose contracts are to expire at the
signing of the peace articles, which
will also release all the naval reserve
force, except those who elect to re-
enlist in the regular navy. There are
large numbers of the naval reserve
force who are availing themselves
Of the opportunity, now that it is
offered them.
All applicants must be United
States citizens of good character. All
applicants under Is will be required
% procure the consent of either par
,nts or guardian, and will be required
% serve until 21 years of age. Men
,nla,. will ha ,an,,i,.aI 10
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