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New-York tribune., 1919-11-26
International Mercantile
Marine Report Is Denied
False, Says Franklin, of Story
That Control Has Passed Into
the Hands of Englishmen

P. A. S. Franklin, president of the
International Mercantile Marine Com
pany, denied yesterday the report that
the corporation had been placed in
the hands Of England and Englishmen.
Mr.. Franklin said:
"The international Mercantile Ma
rine Company is purely an American
corporation; its shareholders are prac-
tically entirely Americans. and its di-
rectors are elected by the shareholders
without any restrictions whatever. The
company is absolutely controlled in
this country, and is entirely free from
any British control
The International Mercantile Ma
rine Company is the owner of shares
of British shipping companies. the di-
rectors of wi,cn have always been
British subjects, and the agreement re-
ferred to by The Liverpool Post was
made for the purpose of bringing it's
subsidiary British companies into line
with certain British laws and regula-
tions with the view of securing treat
ment for them on a footing of equality
with other British steamship COM
panies which are free from foreign
ownership of stock.
There is nothing in that agreement,
or any other agreement. which r. fers
to or has anything to do with the di-
rectors or control of the International
Mercantile Marine Company"
New-York tribune., 1919-11-26
TIFFANY &C.,
FIFTH AVENUE & 37m STREET
DIAMOND BRACELETS AND
DIAMOND WATCH BRACELETS
Solution of Lemke
Mystery Is Expected
District Attorney Hopeful Over
Clews Said to Indicate Sui.
eide of the Youth

District Attorney OLeary of Queens
County announced yesterday that
clues were being followed which prom
lsed to clear up the mystery surround
ing the death of John w. Lemke. the
Flushing youth who was found clad in
women's clothes strangled to death on
his motorboat off College Point.
While he declined to say what the
clues were, it was stated that they
tended to show that Lemke committed
suicide.
The witnesses examined by the Dis
trict Attorney yesterday included Mr..
and Mrs. William j. Lemke, father and
mother of the youth; his sister, Mil
dred, and Robert Bowman, a private
detective employed by the Lemkes
Bowman, supporting the theory of the
family that the boy was murdered
testified that he had established the
fact that an unidentified woman was
seen walking Historically up and down
the landing where Lemke's boat was
moored on the afternoon of the fatal
day. On the day Of the boys funeral,
he said, she appeared again in the
vicinity of the Lemke home, but was
ordered away by the police.
William j. Lemke declared that Mrs
A. Manley, a friend of the boy for
whom the police have been looking, said
that the boy carried revolver because
he told her, he was afraid some body
was going to try to kill him.
Mildred Lemke produced the letter
she had written to her brother on
June 10, 1918, and which was found
on the boat Immediately after his death
The letter, it was understood, chided
her brother for carrying about with
him a purple veil and warned him
against associating with strange
women
New-York tribune., 1919-11-26
TOothaches After 6P. M.
Will Be Out of Order

Apparently inspired by the strike
threat Of the makers Of false teeth,
dentists who are qualified to use for
ceps announced yesterday that they
would no longer pull teeth after 6
o'clock at night, except in cases of
emergency.
The announcement was made by Dr.
A. NJ. Rand, chairman Of the Bronx
division Of the League for the Pro
motion Of Better Dentistry. which says
it has 1900 members. Dentists, espe-
cially in the congested districts, are
working eighty-five and ninety hours a
week, he said, and are determined to
do so no more
"A patient can't expect good work
from man who pulls teeth and fills
cavities from in the morning until
10 or II at night" said DR.. Rand
$50 we are going to send polite notes
to our patients, saying that if they
want work done they have got to come
around in the daytime"
New-York tribune., 1919-11-26
International Body Takes
Initial Steps Toward Max.
ing Effective Provisions
of the Peace Treaty
Place for U. S. Left Open
Germany To Be Given Rep
resentation; Latin.Ameri-
can Delegates Protest

WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.-The inter
national labor conference took steps
toward perfecting permanent organiza-
ton, as contemplated in the treaty of
Versailles, to-day with announcement
Of the creation Of the governing body,
composed of twelve government repre-
sentatives, six labor representatives
and six representing capital Through
this body will be established the in
ternational labor Office provided for in
the treaty and which forms the
agency through which all labor clause s
are to be worked out
The government representatives on
the board of governors will be named
according to the plan approved by the
conference, by Belgium, France, Great
Britain, Italy, Japan, Germany, Swift
erland, Spain, Argentina, Canada, Po-
land. and, pending ratification of the
treaty by the United States and its
formal participation, Denmark.
eUnited States Not Represented
Employers representatives nominated
by the conference were Sir, Allan Smith
Great Britain; NJ. Guierin, France; NJ
Pirell jr., Italy; Jules Carrier, Bel
GUM; Mr.. Kodacz, Czecho -Slovakia
and pending American participation
Mr.. Schindler, Switzerland.
The workers. representatives. nomi-
mated were Leon Jouhaux, France; Jan
Oudegeest, the Netherlands; Stuart
Bunning, Great Britain; Mr. Lindquist
Sweden, and, pending American partici-
patton, Mr.. Draper, Canada.
The announcement or this program
brought an immediate protest from the
Latin American delegates against the
fact that only one member of the
board, government representative
from Argentina, would come from those
countries. Submitting a formal OBJ
lection to this phase of the plan. in
which all Latn-Am delegates
joined, Francisco Carrera Justiz, o.
Cuba, declared that mo matter wha-
motive or procedure brought about the
distribution, it evidently is against the
spirit of equity which always has pre-.
vailed where international interests
are concerned"
Control To Be World Wide
The governing body is described as
the controlling organization of labor
in the league of nations, directing the
affairs of the international labor office
through which all questions growing
New-York tribune., 1919-11-26

orators, each referring the entire mat.
ter to arbitration, and they were ali
voted down by the miners.
On November 10, in Wash;nc+or
Federal Fuel Administrator Garfeld
oased upon the statistics collected hv
MIS- officials, stated that the average
:, realization upon 579,SS5.820 tons of
oituminous coal mined in 1918 was S2.61
ton: that the average cost of produc
tion during the same period was $2.15
ton, leaving an average margin of 46
oents ton to the operators. Mr.. Gar
MSio ne was then careful to state that
profit, but does not represent nrofit
only, inasmuch as interest charges.
seiiing expense, Federal taxes, both
normal and excess profit, as we'll as
certain other items not allowed in COM
putting costs of production, were paid
out of it, The average income and ex-
cess profits taxes were upward of 40
cents ton in r91s.' From the re-
manning 16 cents a ton, after deducting
interest charges, selling expense, as
well as certain other items not allowed
the net profits to the operator which
are so shocking and indefensible to
you.
III this message had not come from
former prominent official, supposedly
accurately informed, it would not de-
serve the notice of a reply, but its
misleading statements and insinuations
are the kind of stuff which Bolsheyism
breeds upon. Whatever your purpose,
it is in exceedingly bad taste for YOU,
former member of the Cabinet of the
present Administration, to inject your
self into the present tense situation in
a manner which can only embarrass
and handicap these officers of the gov
ernment who are now bending every
effort to work out solution of the
mine wage controversy in manner
which will do justice to all parties con-
New-York tribune., 1919-11-26
German Workers Strike
When Holiday Is Ordered

BERLIN, Nov. 25 (By The Associ-
ated ress).-Poss the strangest
development yet found in the German
industrial situation has appeared at
the aniline dye works located at VOL
fen, near Holle. Workers there de-
manded the privilege of remaining at
their posts on German Memorial Day,
and when the firm refused to permit
this the workmen to the number Of
400 forced their way into the Office of
the director and compelled him to keep
the plant open.
Gustav Noske, Minister of Defense,
fearing trouble, sent a brigade of
troops to Wolfen, whereupon the
workers struck because martial law
was imposed by the presence of the
troops. Employees Of the electric
plant at Pitterfeld, which supplies Ber-
lin with current, struck in sympathy,
so that Berlin is threatened with loss
of her electric supply.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-26
Strike Conditions
Rapidly Banished
In Printing Trade
Compositors Back at Work;
Pressmen Return; Even
Militant Feeders Union
Votes to Abandon Fight

With the return to work of the 5000
"vacatlonast" printers, members of
Typographical Union No. 6--"Big g.
the process of settling the controversy
in the printing trades proceeded rap
idly yesterday. According to William
Green chairman of the labor commit
tee of the Printers League, not only
have the compositors returned but hun
dreds Of pressmen also have gone back,
and most of the $50 shops affected by
the combination strike and lockout
have resumed operations.
$50 far as the employers are con-
cerned," said Mr.. Green, "the strike is
over. l have learned from my fellow
employers that business will become
normal again in remarkably short
period. Of course, it is true that some
of che employers are having trouble
adjusting the situation to provide work
for al 1.-The men who have come back.
but the situation is shaping itself so
fast that in the course of a few days
the strike will be only a memory"
Differences To Be Arbitrated
Mr.. Green added the Printers
League already is making prepara-
tions to arbitrate all grievances of the
respective crafts. The employers have
been willing all along to arbitrate ali
dicerences ut the u Mons refused to
submit the demand for the forty-four-
hour week to arbitration. 1t is prob
able, according to persons in close
touch with the situation, that "Bg s.
will suggest Frank Morrison, secretary
of the American Federation of Labor
as arbitrator. 1t is understood Mr..
Morrison would be acceptable to the
employers
At the headquarters of the Inter
national Printing Pressmen's and
Assistants Union, $50 Nassau Street,
it was declared yesterday the seces-
turning to their shops after reaffilat-
ing with the International in ever
increasing numbers.
Pressmen Vote to Reaffiliate
Pressmen's Union No. 81, the seces
sionist pressmen's union, meet at
Beethoven Hall, 210 East Fifth Street
yesterday, when the members ballotted
on whether or not to reaffiliate with
the international. While no announce
ment of the vote will be made until
to-day, it is understood large ma
jority has been cast in favor of aban-
doning the struggle, reaffiliating with
the international and returning to
work
Franklin Union No. %, the seces-
sionist feeders local. decided last night
its members should return as individ-
uals to the International to-day. About
200 of them, according to James Bag
ley, president of the union, have been
blacklisted by the International and
will not be received back
New-York tribune., 1919-11-26

SPRINGFIELD. Mass, NOV. 25.-
Chief of Police Guilty to-day received
a letter purporting to be from the es-
capped Wyoming penitentiary convict,
"Bill' Carlisle. The letter read: Dear
Chief: Just line to let you know I've
arrived. How's the hunt? Cant stop
for answer. With much luck to my
self. Bill Carlisle, former convict
28S3."
The letter was mailed in this city
last night. The police believe that the
letter was written by the same person
who is sending other similar letters to
the authorities.
SAN ANroN1o, Tex, Nov 25.-A
letter purporting to be from BILL"
Carlisle, Wyoming train bandit, written
aboard southbound train which
passed through here Sunday, was re-
ceived by local paper to-day. The
writer said he was bound for Mexico
City, and said: "When you receive
this will be just across the silvery
Rio Grande, or at least hope So" 1t
was written on a train auditors re-
port blank and mailed aboard the train.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-26

out of international labor problems
will be considered. The function Of
the Office will be to keep in constant
communication with governments and
labor or employers organizations
throughout the world, to collect in
formation, give advice and if needed,
to pass disputed matters on to the
council Of the league of nations.
In addition to reservations made for
United States representatives on each
OF three groups in the governing body
places also were held for Germany IN
the government workers group. The
Following radio message was sent to
the German government:
German government as represent
ing one of eight states of chief indus
trial Importance, is entitled to nomi-
nate members of government bodies
to international labor Office under
article 393 Of treaty. Should be glad
to be informed Of name of nominee
at earliest convenience. Workers dele
gate also allotted a place on govern
ing body to representative of German
workers. Kindly communicate your
decision to general commission and
forward name Of their nominee"
- Labor Threatens to Withdraw
Labor delegates to the conference
threatened to withdraw to-day "if their
proposals continued to be met by 6
hostile attitude" ~The threat was ut
tered by Conrad Ilg, of the Swiss dele,
cation, during discussion of the pro-
posed eight-hour day convention wher
Chairman Jules Cartier, of the Belgian
delegation, ruled out conside ration OF
wage guarantee proposed by Cine
Baldesi, Italian labor delegate.
"If by a hostile attitude" Ilg de
clared, discussion of proposals o,
workmen is to be made impossible. the
workmen will leave the conference"
An immediate rupture was prevented
when a compromise plan offered BY
New-York tribune., 1919-11-26
The toy rescue

Even in Wonder
land, w h ere you
may expect any,
thing to happen,
the w 0 n d erfolk
were much startled
to hear a very wet
splash in the Won
derpool. One of /
the baby Kewpies
had fallen into the
pool, and as her s
wings were wet and }
her arm S jointed ,
she could not swim. !
The rest of the fam +
ily-you know what ]
a large one it is !
ran to the pool. The
Kewpie brides. the
dancing girls, the
summer girls and
the Turkish Kewps
trdoped in a panic,
hoping to save the
unfortunate one.
Sared by a duck |
One of the celluloid
ducks and a fish !
went to the rescue
and to we'd the Kew !
pie in. Her dimples /
were wet, but other /
wise she had the !
same love me ex-
preston. The frogs {
and the turtles .
spla S h e d around F.
joyfully. The tin /
pals and even the !
shovels had come,
thinking that they !
might if necessary e
bail the pond dry to (
save Kewpie. Ar (
irving a little late. B
because she could 4
get nobody to wind s
her, came a diving
su m arine. She B
we'd to dive
through the water S
and then come up I
to the top and send S
little ripples that !
rocked the celluloid /
cruisers that hoated /
on top. Santa Claus
announced
a race
At the same time
every one heard a
funn y w hirrin G |
sound and the cell
ing seemed to be
full of black specks.
Most of the Won
der people were
dreadfully fri & hit
ened and scampered
away. Till
But read Saturday
what it was. In the
meantime there are
all these things:
Kewpies, Sligo to
1896.
Celll!oid Toys. Sc
to $l.74, which in
clude ducks, frogs,
turtles, cruisers and
fishes.
Diving submarines,
$i.7o.
NOgya-Fffsh Floor.
81 h Street.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-26
Leon Jouh.u1. French labor delegate,

Leon Jouhaux, French labor delegate,
was accepted.
Baldesi sough. to have the interna-
eight-hour day 30 framed as to guar
antee that wages would not be reduced
because of q decrease in hours. He
anticipated trouble in this regard, he
said, in countries where labor was not
strongly organized. The proposal un-
der the compromise plan adopted will
be taken up by the conference for
separate discussion.
The eight-hour day proposal was ap-
proved and sent to the drafting COM
mittee. An effort by Mr.. Ilg to pro-
vide that workers should be paid for
holidays was defeated.
New-York tribune., 1919-11-26
Wyoming Bandit Travels
Fast, According to Notes
Syracuse and Springfield, Mass,
Police and San Antonio Paper
Get Letters Signed Carlisle
Snecial Correanonde.

Special Correspondence
SYRACUSE, Nov. 25.-William Car
isle, Wyoming train robber was in
Syracuse to-day, according to a letter
received by Chief Of Police Martin
Cadin this afternoon. The letter, post
marked Syracuse, read:
Hello. Chief. You have a clean
town here, old top. Goodby. I'm
broke. Your old friend,
"WILLIAM CARLISLE"
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-05-01
Higher Telephone Rate.

Effective in the phone bills
sent out today, the rate for the
Southern Bell subscribers is in
creased Is cents on the residence
phone, and the discount hereto
fore allowed the business phone
is removed, really making an in
crease of so cents on this class
of phones.
The Sou. Bell makes this in
crease by authorization of the
Postmaster General Government
controD. However, the authority
for increasing this rate will be
argued before the Supreme court
May 5th, and if the Court holds
that this intrastate increase is
illegal, then the phone company
will promptly refund the increase
collected back to the patrons
without it being necessary for
the patrons to make application
for the same.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-05-01
Examination For Clerk.

Miss Elma Mcintosh will relin-
quish her duties as clerk in the
Rockingham postoffice June lst;
her marriage to Arthur L. Hum
phrey, of Wilmington, to take
place June 18th, was announced
last Friday. Her duties as clerk
have thrown her "face to face"
with the public for many months,
and she has discharged these
duties with unfailing courtesy
and good nature.
IA civil service examination
was held last Saturday to fill the
vacancy caused by her resigna-
ton. The following stood the
examination: Jerome Pence,
Alexine Pence, Clyde Black, L.
A. Kelly,
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-05-01
Caught With the Goods.

Deputy Collectors Morrison
and Shores late last Friday after
noon arrested Will Whitley and
George Maness, two white men,
in Steele's township, as they
were walking along a blind road
with each carrying a fve-gallon
keg of blockade whiskey on their
shoulders. The officers brought
them to Rockingham where they
were given a hearing before Com
Guthrie, who bound
them over to the September term
of Federal court under 5000 bond
each; this they gave. They are
charged with removal and con-
cealing whiskey on which fed
eral taxes had not been paid.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-05-01
Drug Store Changes Hands.

DR.. w. M. Fowlkes Monday
bought the interest of the late
E. G. Scott in Scott's Pharmacy,
and is now conducting the bust
ness under the name of "Fowlkes'
Pharmacy" The business ability
and energy of DR.. Fowlkes will
insure a successful business. He
was manager of the Stowe &
Co., branch drug store in Char
lotte for quite a while, until he
entered the Naval service last
summer. He was for seven
months connected with the Naval
Dispensary at Norfolk. His
father, DR.. w. M. Fowlkes, who
died in 1900, for many years
operated a drug store at the
same stand, and now after a
lapse of a score of years the son,
and namesake, has begun the
same business.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-05-01
Town Election.

The biennial town election
will be held here next Tuesday,
May 9th. The pollholders are
A. G. Corpening, registrar; w.
w. Baldwin and ]. E. Haywood,
judges.
At the same time that the town
officers are being voted on, the
question as to the support of a
Carnegie library will be voted
upon.' The idea is to levy ten
cents on the $l00 and 30-cents on
the poll, for the establishment of
a free public library. If fthe town
votes to maintain the library, and
a lot is furnished, the Carnegie
Foundation will build and give a
library for the city.
The present town officers are:
w. E. McNair, Mayor. The Com
missioners are: DR.. L. D. Nc
Phail, John L. Everett, W. M.
Hale, Geo. P. Entwistle and E. B.
Lilies.
Little interest is apparently be-
ing manifested IN this approach.
ing election. No issues are in.
volved, and the public apathy is
general. However, there is an
old saying that "a calm precedes
a Storm" and it is possible this
may prove true as regards this
election. A mass meeting of the
Democratic voters will be held
in the courthouse Friday night
to nominate a ticket; every
Democrat is urged to be present
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-05-01
Vote for the Library.
improvements at Star.

The Star theatre has the past week
added greatly to the pleasure of its
patrons by installing new Seeburg
piano-orchestra. This instrument has a
score of attachments including the piano,
mandolin, violin, flute, base drum, kettle
drum, triangle. cymbals, tambourine,
church and door bells, and 22.piece
xylophone. The music comirg from this
marvel of mechanical genius is splendid,
and the management is to be congratu-
lated in making such marked improve
ment.
The Star will shortly put on vaudeville
several times a month. A stage 12x1e
has just been finished, and carpenters are
preparing the wings and scenery"
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-05-01
Sunday Afternoon Poker.

Seven white boys and men
were bound over to court under
$50 bond each, Monday night,
by Squire Guthrie, on the charge
of gambling. They were charg-
ed with playing stud poker, 5 and
1Oc. on Sunday afternoon, April
goth, in the woods near EntNistle
mill. Their game was rudely
interrupted by Sheriff Mcdonald
and officers Sam Covington and
Josh Bean. The seven are: Lacy
Lonnie and Kirk Barber, Tom
Robertson, Eli Brown, Alex
Broadwell and Floyd Bryant.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-05-01
Pee Dee School Closes.

The Pee Dee school will close
with an entertainment tomorrow
friday night beginning at $50.
The exercises will consist of reci-
tations, songs, a play and a min
streP show. The pupils and
teachers cordially invite the pub
lie to these closing exercises.
The enrolment of this thrifty
school the past year was 200.
The faculty consisted of Miss
Juanita Williams, principal; with
Misses Mary Entwistle, Elma
Warburton, Emma Grey Ledbet-
ter and Lula Wicker, assistants.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-05-01
Marriage Licenses.

Aptil 24..,Price Little and Lizzie Le-
Grand, colored.
April 25-.-Chas. Godfrey Hancock and
Anna B. Weamer, white.
April 25---Talmadge Morrison and
Mamie Floyd, white,
April 25th--- Ralph T. Brigham and
Mamie McFayden, white.
April &c. Edwin Mcleod and Elizabeth
Brown, colored.
April 26.--Cornelius Ingram and Hattie
M. Ingram, colored.
April CSC. B. Honeycutt and Mrs.
Minnie Windham, white.
April Dudley Blue and Rosanna Evans,
colored.
April 28---Mack Dewey Smith and Lula
May Johnson, white.