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v'OL. XXII NO. 128.
'MS FOR AUSTRIA
IRE BEING FORMULATED 1
Fre-War Debt of Hungary
Will Be Divided Among
the Newly Formed States
or Territory.
WASHINGTON MAKES
STUDY OF LONG TEXT
F.epublicans and Democrats
Give General Approval of
Military and Naval Terms
of Pact.
While the German peace plen
ipotentiaries are digesting the
text of the lengthy peace treaty
banded them Wednesday and
communicating with the Wei
mar government, the council of
f )ur is engaged with the formu
lation of terms for Austria and
Hungary. The German Aus
trian delegation is reported en
nute to France. Estimates have
been made in Paris that five bil
lion crowns will be demanded as
indemnity from Austria-Hungary
in addition to the delimi
tation of frontiers.
The prewar debt of Austria-
Hungary, its is said, will be di
vided among the newly formed
slates to arise in the former
Austro-Hungarian territory. . It
is reported that when terms of
poace with the Turkish empire
are concluded the United States
will be requested to become man
datory of Armenia and that
President Wilson will place the
matter before congress. ;.
Washington May 8. Sharp oppoVl
ion to the proposal that the United
.-'tires in consort with Great Britain
-hould commit itself to aid France
n the event that country were at-
a -ked was voiced by Senators Borah
nd Curtis today. V
Senators Sherman and Moses criti
cised the league of nations covenant
in treaty, Senator Hitchcock approved
hi treaty as a whole. General ap
proval of the military and naval terms
vis given by both republicans and
ifmoctats and officials and diplomats
f ncrally.
They concurred with the view of
A my and Navy officers that with the
trrying out of the terms Germany
.vmld be stripped of every vestige of
lower necessary for it to disturb
fain the peace of the world. Sena
tor Sherman said the manner in which
hi treaty had been presented "Is a
esort to gag rule."
Extended study today of the mili
ary terms of the peace treaty con
iices Army officials here that the
int at which it is proposed to start
r. limitation of armaments is the
if solute extirpation of militarism m
rmany. Not a vestige of the vast
litary frame work built up in forty
nrs of preparation for world con
gest by Germany is to be left.
Measures have been formulated even
- stamp out the military spirit bred
c carefully in the people. Under the
-'fcty any enterprise aiming at a mili
37 propaganda is forbidden, and
" iitary education cannot be carried
' except in the ranks of the army
; 100.000. Such an Army cannot
rpetuate itself In any way or ex
nd through turning trained men back
civil life as an organized reserve.
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Se'lin, May 8. Germany will refuse
s-grt any point of the peace treaty
oviding for the "oppression of Ger-
says the National Zeltung to
y. Claiming that it represents the
toal attitude of the government, for
ance, the entente's standpoint re
ading Danzig and the Saar valley
-1 not be accepted.
'tie scene at today's session of the
9 conference was an impressive
e and the function was not with
1 its tense moments. Indeed, the
'-re half hour which it took Count
1 Brockdorff-Kantzau to deliver his
to Premier Clemenceau. was a
nod of tenseness for President Wtl
Premier Clemenceau and Premier
f'yd George, and in fact for virtually
-j one present.
speech was translated, sentence
ntence. by the German Interore-
H- who did not fail to bring out full
lasn every sharp phrase In It, and
three allied utttmnn uf
. a together in evident an Mr r
V thar one of the German spojc-
cutting utterance, as if they
7 'b'ratinff upon the advisability
inimedi4te answer. r
. ana when the German plentlpo-
- n4 finuhed, Premier Clem
aFOs and mil the ev.otnmnrv
K' ''h&J ny one further oburvi-
CofUlnued on pftff9 Three.)
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GERMANS ARE DIGESMG TREAS
a. ,t
TWO SEarLiHES
ARRIVE SAFELY
AT HALIFAX J. S.
NC-4 Developed E ngi n e
Trouble and Has Not Been
Located Flying Time
Was Ten Hours.
Halifax. N. S.. May 8. Two of the
American navy seaplanes, NC-1 and
NC-3, arrived here at eight o'clock to
night, seven, New York time, thus fin
ishing the first leg of their trans-Atlantic
flight. No reports have been
received here regarding the NC-4
which developed engine trouble short
ly after, leaving Rockaway Point at
ten this morning.
Washington, May 8. The destroyers
McDermut and Kimberly,' stationed 60
miles north of Cape Cod, where the
last word was received from seaplane
NC-4 today, tonight are making a de
termined search for the missing trans
Atlantic flier. .
New York, May 8. The first leg
of the trans-Atlantic flight began to
day when the three NC seaplanes left
Rockaway Beach at 10 o'clock for Hal
ifax. NC-3 with Commander John H.
Towers was the first to take the air.
The NC-3 cruised for a minute in
Jamaica Bay, moving at half speed
through the water and then turned
west for the open sea. The throttles
were thrown wide open and, with a
roar of te 1,600 h. p. motors the plane
took to the air.
One minute later the .NC-1 lifted
herself from the water, followed with
in fifty second by the NC-4.
After rounding Rockaway Point, the
squadron turned east, heading for
Montauk Point,', which is the tip -ot
"Long"" Island.":1' -r-1 .r-"-r:'Tc ;-;'' " -
About 1,200 persons including the
1,000 officers and men of the navy air
Etation watched the three great planes
start. The only ceremony was the pre
sentation of a four-leaf clover to each
member of the crews by Captain M.
A. Irwin, of the aviation section of
the naval bureau of operations. As
the men took their places they were
obviously under the influence of a
rigidly restrained spirit of excitement,
earger for the adventure and confident
of the outcome. Commander Towers
expressed the confidence of all that
the flight would be successful. As he
donned his sheepskin lined uniform
and helmet he exclaimed delightedly
to his brother officers, "boys we're go
ing to beat it." As Commander Tow
ers took his seat he waved his hand
to the spectators and called out,
"good-bye boys. There is nothing we
can see now that will prevent us f rfm
hoinir in Halifax by 6 o'clock. The
men are fine set. - We could not have
better. We are confident the American
navy will be the first to fly across the
Atlantic ocean."
Lieutent Commander Read, the third j
skipper, said, "nothing has been over- i
looked in the construction of these J
planes. They'll do the trick."
The first reports from the fliers.
came at 11 o'clock, when they were
nn.i.4 Ta iilnir between Fisher's Is- I
land and Long Island, off New Lonaon. j
Conn. They passed Block Island at
11:35 o'clock with the NC-3 consider
ably in the lead.
By 12:50 p. m. the planes had closed
up in formation and were passing over
Naushon Island, off the Massachusetts
coast. Twenty minutes later they
passed Bishop and Clerk's light, about
15 miles from Chatham, and at 1:28
they took departure from Chatham
light and headed northeastward on the
Cape Sable course.
NC-4 Has Engine Trouble.
Washington, May 8. Commander
A. C. Read, of the NC-4, reported to
the riavy department by radio at two
o'clock through the Chatham station,
that is plane was experiencing engine
trouble and might be forced to land.
The message read:-"We are running
on three motors, oil trouble on one,
and may have to land.?
Trepassy, N. F.V May 8. The . last
units of the American destroyer flo
tilla, which is to be scattered between
Newfoundland and the Azores in'con
nection with the navy department's
trans-Atlantic , flight, arrived here, to
day The first weather reports from
the battleships stationed In mid-ocean
were received here today.- -- i. .
CONFEDERATE
REUNION TO BE
HELD IN FALL
Fortworth, Texas, May 8. General
K. M. Van Zandt, commander in chief
of the confederate veterans, announced
today that the annual reunion prob
ably -would not b . held until next
October and. that the convention city
not been deeided upon, although Sa
vannah had made a stron bid for It.
In the pagt veterans have met usually
in May or June.
PENSACOLA, FLORIDA. FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 9, 1919.
I :
He Might as Well Put It in His Pipe and Smoke It
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WAR LEGION
DfUlTHI1
ST. LOUIS
Alabama Delegation Seeks
to Have Negroes Exclud
ed from Membership of
Main Body.
St. Louis, May 8. The American le
gion composed of men in the military
or naval service of the government
during the war, opened a three day
session here today with more than a
thousand delegates representing prac
tically every state in the country.
present. Lieutenant Colonel Theo
dore Roosevelt, of New York, presided
Though little was accomplished at to
day's session save the formal opening
of the convention and examination of
credentials.' Of delegates, there were
indications the caucus would not be an
entirely peaceful one.
The sessions of the various tempor
ary committees during the past two
days have brought to light many 'dlf
ferences of opinion. ; An effort is be
euardsmen to exclude, reeular arm v
men from the Legion, although the
temporary executive committee has
voted to open the membership to all
men and women who saw service in
the war. ?
In addition to the; regular armyTna-
tional guard affair, many delegates to
day reiterated previous complaints
that the legion would be an officer's
club, and that politics was being play
ed in its organization.
Another question that .was brought
up today was that of admitting
negroes to membership. A group of
southern delegates, headed by Ala
bamians, is lobbying against the ad
mission of negroes, proposing they
should be allowed to form an auxiliary
organization.
Tho report of the committee on creed
which has been adopted by the temp
orary executive committee and placed
before the convention, states that tho
American legion has the following def
inite purposes:
t 1. To inculcate the duty and obli
gation to citizenship.
2. To preserve the history and in
cidents of our participation In this
war.
I. To cement the ties of comrade
ship formed In service.
4. To protect, assist and promot
the general welfare of all soldiers,
sailors and marines.
5. -To encourage the maintenance of
Individual and national efficiency to
the end that the American people shall
never fall ' In their obligation to hu
manity. . 6. To maintain the sacred doctrine
of undivided and uneompo-mlsing loy
alty. "V. : v -
The caucus will appoint an exeeutiv
committee to frovern the organization
until a convention can to held some
time In November when permanent or-,
Conization will be effected
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New Tork, May 8. Julius Barnes, U.
S. wheat director announced tonight
on " his return from Chicago that he
had . completed negotiations to bring
four million bushels of Canadian wheat
into the United States for distribu
tion to the mills. -
New York, May 8. Walker I). Hines,
director general of railways, announced
here tonight that the railroad ad--ministration
will ask immediately for
competitive bids for two hundred thou
sand tons of steel rails.
Phalidelphia May S.: The destroyer
Herbert was launched today at the
New York shipbuilding corporation
yard in Camden, N. J.
The boat is named for the late Hil
ary A. Herbert, a . former secretary
of navy, of Alabama.
. Washington, May 8. As President
Wilson will not be ' present at the
opening of the special session, of con
gress on May ,19. he will cable his
message from Paris and it will be rca-i
immediately after congress convenes
This was announced today at, the
White House.
Atlanta, Ga., May- 8. Aerial mail
service between Macon and " Atlanta
was inaugurated today when an air
plane, carrying mail and one pssen
ger landed at Candler field Just one
hour after leaving Macon, a distance
of 80 miles. A return trip was" to be
made this afternoon. ,.:Vi i :
Atlanta, May 8. The Sixth federal
reserve, district is faced .with the task
of raising more than fiftyrfour million
dollars in two" days if it's share of the
Victory loan is subscribed, accord
ing to figures made public tonight
Showing eight-nine and half million of
the' hundred . and .forty-four million
quota have been subscribed.
Toledo, Ohio, May 8. The '. Willis
Overland company's plant was closed
this afternoon by Vice-President Earl's
after a clash between, the strikers and
Toliee in. which bricks, stones and clubs
were used as- weapons, u. ne . trouDie
resulted when several hundred strik
ers attempted to talk with non-union
employes. ' '
New Orleans, May 8. Announcement
. 1 A. At C At
was made toaay mat me. owuui
Wholesale Grocers' Association . in an
nual convention here unanimously
adopted resolutions endorsing tne
league of nations, praising tresiaent
Wilson for his "activities in the in
terest of humanity," and approving bU
trips to France.
Washington. May 8. Official advices
TAr.aived today by tho Mexican Em
bassy denied that federal troops jolrod
the VilHsta forces wnen tney capiurca
Parml, and also declared untrue re
ports that Villa had occupied Jlmlnes
and that the mining companion w
Chihuahua state had suspended opera
tions, :.
MUMCIPALITY
RY
BASINS URGED
Suggestion .is .Offered .as
Remedy for Friction Like
That in Texas Oil Com
pany Case.
Two municipally owned and con
trolled basins and wharves to be main
tained permanently for the use of local
independent fishermen, one located on
the eastern shores of the city and one
on the western beach, is the solution
suggested as a remedy, for condition
that brought about the controversy be
tween the city ?.nd the management of
the Texas Oil : company, by County
Commissioner Gus f?oder!ind. who was
formerly fame and fish commissioner
for Escambia county . '
Mr. Soderllnd suggests that two bas
ins for the boats of the fishermen,
bnlkheaded in ots either s.'de, and con
structed by thfr city so as to accom-.
j modate the fishermen living along tho
upper as well as the !ower beach and
provided with a number cf uniformly
constructed bungalows to be built by
ttm fiih.rmen thtmsoivpq ronld he
made a source of revenue to the city
as well as to eliminate friction with
enterprises like that with the Texas
Oil company on the waterfront. His
idea would be to charge the fishermen
a nominal sum for the privilege of
maintaining their bungalow fishery
houses and to this, he. says, that prac
tically every local fisherman would as
sent and would be greatly pleased by
such interest of the city in their in
dustry, especially in view of the fact
that they have been compelled to shift
from place to place since the city has,
for the past few years, been making
numerous land grants to waterfront
property. -
Mr. Soderlind . asserts that the loca
Independent fishermen collectively
have an Investment In equipment and
boats of approximately $400,000 and
that their annual business amounts
to . about $400,0000 to half a million.
Most of the fish and oysters brought
in by these fishermen are marketed
locally, which means that this is an
important local food supply source to
Pensacola, ,
Mr. Soderlind thinks that the logical
sites for these accommodations for the
local fishermen, would be . DeVillier
street, on the west side, and Florida
Blanca street on the east side. He
urges that it is very important that
these small industries be conserved
and encouraged and at the same time
that by all means every possible in
ducement should be held out to such
enterprises as the Bruce Dry Dock
company and the Texas Oil company
for their proposed marine terminal?,
and in fact every Industry and en
terprise that might possibly be Induced
to come to Pensacola which will add
to the advantages of the port and the
progress and development of the city
nd territory.
OWNED FISHE
miMm rrnrc
DEPLETION OF
STA1 FIANCES
I
Legislature Gets Another
Special Message From
State Executive Concern
ing Appropriations. ,
HOUSE AMENDS THE
PROHIBITION ACT
Bill to Create Glade County
With Moore Haven Coun
ty Seat Passes House 36 to
27.
Governor Catts today sent a special
message to the legislature calling at
tention to the depleted condition of
the state treasury while bills carry
ing large appropriations are being
passed without the legislature enacting
any laws to provide funds to meet
same without increasing taxation on
visible property. He again recom
mends legislation taxing franchise, in
heritances and if need be, incomes and
serves notice that he feels it his duty
under the laws and in Justice to the
people to say he must. exercise his ex
ecutive authority under the constitu
tion to withhold his approval from
bills carrying appropriations unless a
provision is made to meet them in
part at least from some other source
than direct taxation upon lands or
other visible property. -
A bill . to create Glades county with
Moore Haven as county seat passed
the house this afternoon-by a vote of
27 to 36 in favor of the new county
which will -be created. , If the bill
passes the senate it will be carved out
of Lee, DeSoto and Palm Beach coun
ties and contains a population of about
3,000, and embraces the richest land in
Florida within its bounds. The great
er part of its territory is taken from
Lee county.
The passage of a bill amending the
act of the special session putting into
effect the prohibition amendment was
a feature of this morning's session in
the house. Its companion bill had been
been defeated In the senate Tuesday j
and was resurrected by reconsideration
esterday.; . .
Immediately after passing the pro-
. . . .... . . . .
hibition bill the house struck the en
acting clause out of a bill offered by
the same committee to authorize coun
ty solicitors to employ detectives to
assisting in ferreting out crimes which
was primarily Intended to apply to
violators of the prohibition laws.
As passed in the house today the
prohibition . bill takes away the right
of druggists to sell whiskey or brandy
on physicians' prescriptions, . permits
the sale of alcohol for medlccinal or
mechanical purposes and wine for sac
remental use and allows the possession
of four quarts of . liquor, if purchased
prior to January 1, this year,
During the absence of five South
'Florida senators from the chamber to-
day the senate reduced the citrus
canker eradication appropriation from
$130,000 to $50,000.
CHARGES MADE
G OULD EXECUTOR
HAS DEFRAUDED
New York, May 8. Heirs of Jay
J Gould, the railroad financier who ac
j cumulated one of America's greatest
: private fortunes, are quarreling over
! the administration of the eighty-thre
million dollar estate left them. His
son George, chief executor, charged by
the brothers and sisters of fraud, has
been ordered by the state supreme
court to show cause why he should
not be removed.
George Gould is charged with frauds
"perpetrated by him even on his own
brothers and sisters" which resulted
in an aggregate loss to the estate of
twenty-five million dollars, in affidavits
filed in the supreme court by his broth
er Frank J. Gould, his sister the
Duchess de Talleyrand, formerly Anna
Gould, and the guardians of number
of the Gould children of third genera
tion. George Gould denies the charges
and is supported in a deposition by
his sister, Mrs. Helen Gould Shepard,
formerly Miss Helen Miller Gould.
VICTORY LOAN IS
ENCOURAGING THE
TREASURY SAYS
Washington, May 8. Victory loan
subscriptions tonight totaled two bil
lion eight hundred eighteen million
dollars, an increase of .three hundred
sixty million in the last twenty four
hours the treasury announces.
Today's results went far toward re
moving the anxiety felt heretofore by
treasury officials over the progress of
the loan totals toward3 the amount
sought. With the speed shown by sub
scriptions in the last two days con
tinued tomorrow and Saturday, rec
orded subscriptions by Saturday night
should be between three and quarter
and three and a half billions officials
believe. That will leave a billion or
more to come from the final count of
last minute sales, and In previous
loans the amount of these has run
vsualy much higher than a billion.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
DETERMINED IS
ATTITUDE I
VICTORYDRIVE
Bank Official Wires" District
Chairman Escambia Will
Not Fail on Eleventh
Hour.
HARD WORK PLANNED
FOR TWO LAST DAYS
Work of Naval Air Station'
Theatrical Detail is Pro
ductive of Fine Results
Over Zone.
The following telegrams received and
sent in Pensacola yesterday, speak f r
themselves, and need no continent:
Atlanta, Ga.
"Florida six million short of q jotr.
Victory loan. If you can't get your
people to subscribe your county quo'?.,,
the responsibility for taking sam? in
on the banks. We. are counting on
you to do your part. If your cj v
fails it may mean failure for '..
state. May we rely on you. Ani
JFADDEN I
. . "" Chair? ftt.
f
het, "
Haynes McFadden,
Chairman Liberty Loan,
Atlanta, Ga.
-
udge.
Referring to your telegram tc
Remember eleventh commandm
Fret not thy gizzard. We, us j of th
company in Pensacola and Escai
will not fail.
Atlanta, . Ga.,
J. S. Reese,
Pensacola, Fla.
We know Escambia is all right.
But it takes the eleventh command
ment, plus faith lik a grain of mus
tard seed, to stand the gaff of soma
of these other places .
McFADDEN.
Loan headquarters yesterday pre
sented a busy scene, with a committee
meeting in the morning, at which
time chairmen of the various commit
tees, and team captains were in con
ference At this meeting it was de
cided that, while an active campaign
would be continued, and the loan swept
over top on Saturday, there would
f Vw rn horo- no- hv solicitors, in order to
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persuade citizens to take subscrip
tions. Navy Theatrical Detail.
No work has been productive of
better results than that of the naval
air station theatrical detail, which has
raised in subscription to the Victory
loan a total of $374,550.00, to date. Tha
subscriptions, by towns, are as fol
lows: April 22, Pensacola, $6,000.00; April
23, Milton, $2,000.00; April 24. DeFun
iak Springs, $22,000.00; April 25, Boni
fay, $18,300.00; April 26, Chipley, $60.
000.00; April 28, Panama City. $71,
000.00; April 29, Marianna, $45,000.00;
April 30, Quincy, $65,250.00; May 1, Tal
lahassee, $15,000.00; May 2, Monticello.
(Over top, did not solicit): May 3,
Madison, $70,400.00. Total for West
Florida zone, $374,550.00.
The trope played In St. Augustine
on Wednesday and, in Tampa last
night. Throughout the state the men
have received the most enthusiastio
welcome, and their work is acknowl
edged to have accomplished, much in
putting the loan across in many of
the counties.
Reports from the naval air station
last night placed the. subscriptions at
$126,000.00, $66,000 of which was sub
scribed by the civilian employes, seventy-nine
per cent, of the members sub
scribing. The following wire was received
last night from Quincy: '
Thursday was Victory Day in Quincy.
All of the places of business closed.
The school grades enjoyed picnics and
black and white turned out enmasse
for a day of relaxation. The chief
attraction was the visit of a big air
plane from Americus, Georgia. The
machine vas to land at 10 o'clock on
the Bruce farm, about 1 mile from
town, after a ' big parade, including
school children. Boy Scouts, returned
soldiers in uniform. Red Cross offi
cers, prominent citizens, and cars dec
orated in patriotic colors.
The crowds lined up by the hundreds
at the Bruce . farm and waited while
the band played patriotic airs until
noon a runner announced that the air
plane had landed in the big grain
field for lack of gasoline on the farm
of H. F. Bostick. Nothing daunted
the crowd which moved on two miles
further, where there was an opportun
ity of viewing the big bird on the
ground. In th eafternoon the machine
did stunts over the town and sailed
away about 5 o'clock for Tallahassee.
FORTY THOUSAND
EX-SERVICEMEN
WAT HOMESTEADS
Washington. May x.with applica
tions already received from more than
forty thousand soldiers and sailors who
aesire to take up homesteads when
discharged. Secretary Lane is revising
ine program originally presented to
congress to take care of the increased
demands. The first estimate of a
hundred million dollars for this purpose
win prooaDiy be increased to four
hundred millions.
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