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PENS ACOL A, FLORIDA. SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 18, 1919.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
fin- r
KEPUBLICANS
pill control
Iboth houses
to ' CONGRESS
plans Complete for Opening
ixtv-Sixth Session To
morrow on Receipt of
President's Call-
FLORIDA MEMBERS
ATTENDED CAUCUS
Champ Clark Elected Demo
cratic Floor XeaderrThe
House Will Investigate
War Activities.
Washington, May 17. Plans for con
vening the Sixty-sixth congress in ex
traordinary session Monday were com
pleted today with the receipt of the
president's formal call and holding by
the dominant political parties of their
final organization and reading of the
president's message. , .
The principal organization feature
of the new congress will be the elec
tion of republican officers by both
the senate and house, marking, the
passing of control from democrats to
republicans after being in the hands
bt the former for eight years. - -f
Republican members of the house
upon convening congress propose to
institute "such investigation of admin
istration activities and expenditures
since the beginning of the war as
will fully inform the people and serve
the public interest-" This item wa
added to tho party's legislative pro
gram by the house republicans . to
night at a conference apparently de
void of factional differences.
The republican conference also went
on record as favoring the early pass
age of legislation outlining a definite
coal land legislation and measures to
military policy of measures providing
for the early return of American sol
diers front overseas. Public oil and
promote waterpower development, the
revision of immigration laws and the
enactment of legislation providing for
the deportation of undesirable aliens,
was also added to the party's legisla
tive program. . .
The conference proposes that the re
publican members who will be in the
majority in the new house enact leg
islation for the extension of foreign
trade and the promotion of agriculture
and manufactures.
Establishment of community set
tlements for soldiers, with special at
tention given to such projects in the
southern states, is provided in . a bill
which will be introduced in the house
Monday by Republican Floor Leader
Kondell. The bill pvovides for a five
kindred million dollar appropriation..
Florida Members Attend Caucus.
-4!1 four Florida representatives,
Csrsressmen Smithwick, Frank Clark.
Stars and Drane, attended the caucus
of the house democrats today . and
re pledged to vote for the Former
Speaker Champ Clark for democratic
floor leader had the matter reached
a vote, but Clark was elected floor
leader by acclamation. James Clark,
brother of Congressman Frank Clark,
5o has been on the house employes
roll for several years, was a candidate
fof one of the seven minority patron
age places, but was defeated by two
V08.
ILC.T.'S PLAN TO.
AID SAL, V ATJLUIN
ARMY CAMPAIGN
"Pensacola Council, number " 332,
ratted Commercial Travelers of
fts?rica at a very enthusiastic meet
f1? test night pledged themselves as
kag solidly behind the drive being
fc4e hy the Salvation Army. May
I. for $33,000 required of the West
''orida zon ?. . :.
A committee was appointed to so
fil Ascriptions from the members.
W of whom are requested to give
ar subscriptions through this cotn
a'e who will call on each member
cwmj the week, as it is the desire
" he body to have the honor of giv
'6 a large contribution to the c.vuse
Salvation Army '
A'l good u. C. T.'s will give to this
or:by cause." ' ' j
"e foregoing announcement follow
the meeting was made by Gus A.
J Fr;;or counselor.
Iv-m meeting, among other mat
I - of business, Martin Menko was
1 'rueted to Pft na nfflial Aexe.mt
j the council Ao the meeting of the
I c"uncil to be held at Athens.
. May 2 .1 -" 4 ai v(irn iui
ay.
"DEAD" MEXICAN
HOLDS TTP TRATN
AND KILLS GUARD 1
"Washington, May 17. Rebels led by
General Gabay, the Felicista leader,
who was reported some time ago .to
have been killed, held up a train near
Vera Cruz recently and killed f orty
.one persons, includin several women
and children and the entire military
guard, according to advices reaching
Washington today through official
channels.;, ...
LIMIT
German Protests Not Spon
taneous Probers Find
Propaganda Was Printed
Before Treaty Delivered.
The peace conference, while wait
ing for Germany to decide her atti
tude toward the peace terms rapidly
is completing treaties for Germany's
former allies, and 'smoothing out the
differences between the allied and as
sociated powers. The Germans fif
teen days to make written appeals on ;
the conditions expire Thursday. The
terms for Austria are nearing comple
tion it is indicated, and the. Austrians
will present their credentials Monctay.
It is" understood the 'Austrians-will be
called-upon to pay five blllicX marks,
one twentieth of the amount demand
ed! from Germany. ,
Versailles, May 17. Count ..von
Brockdorff Rantzau, head of theyGer
man peace delegation, will leate - for
Berlin tonight' accbmpanled by sev
eral members of the delegation." The
decision to make the journey was
reached at a full meeting of the Ger
man delegation" this afternoon.,,
Further indications that the Ger
man j. people's y indignation over fcthe
peacfe -.terawJi JeeeeeQv tAtOlBmtfm
dispatches, is- not as spontaneous as
has been made to appear, axe found
by the "Temps" in circumstances con
nected with .dropping from airplanes
over Berlin May 9th of protests against
the requirements of the peace treaty.
These protests declared the object of
Germany's enemies was not destruc
tion of militarism but to impose upon
Germany a shameful peace of violence
and pillage. . The proclamation dis
tributed by the airplanes was printed
May 4, three days before the treaty
was, delivered to the Geramns it was
pointed out.
London, May 17. Sanguinary en
counters have occurred at Sofia . be
tween the garrison and revolutionaries
who demanded the resignation of the
government and the establishment of
a soviet, according to a dispatch from
Vienna. All Bulgaria is reported in
an uproar. . .
Plane Fell From Height of
About 200 Feet Yesterday
Morning Near Santa Rosa
Island.
Chief Quartermaster J. X. Dyer, of
Columbus, Ohio, and Ensign Francis
M. Fowler, of Salem, Mass., were in
stantly killed at 9:10 o'clock yester
day morning when . the . plane they
were flying suddenly crashed into the
bav near Santa Rosa Island, Their
bodies could not be recovered until
the collapsed plane was lifted from
the water, and were " en taken to the
undertaking parlors of Northup &
Wood, where their, bodies were pre
pared for shipment to th- respective
homes of the dead aviators.
, Quartermaster Dyer was piloting
the machine, and it was said to nave
been at an altitude of about 200 feet
when the fatal plunge occurred. Mr.
Dyer is understood to have enjoyed
an enviable record as a careful and
efficient aviator, and the cause or his
fall yesterday could not be explained
by the numerous witnesses from the
city and the flying field. The speed
boats made a good record in reach
ing the scene of the wreck, but their
efforts were of no avail in saving the
lives of the men.
WINNIPEG IS TIED
UP BY STRIKE OF
30,000 WORKERS
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Winnipeg, Man., May ir. Perfect
order and lack of demonstration have
so far marked the general Strike which
today involved nearly thirty thousand
workers in almost every branch of
the city's activity.
GERMANY'
S IS
DAYS
ENDS THURSDAY
TWO FLYERS
ARE KILLED
IN A CRASH
WILL THE
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AMBIA ZONE
WORKERS TOUR
LARGER M
Mrs. .Hoffman and Miss
Austin win iapena weeKi
in Neighboring Towns for j
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, Mrs.. Hoffman and. Miss Austin will
leave this morning for Milton, where
they Will work in the interest of the
Salvation Army drive which starts to
morrow moning. They will spend the
week in: the towns of the Pensacola
zon&i ' , .
' Tn every town that boasts a returned
KOllerarSi-'-IfofTma-n' and ;'rMiss Aus
tin will find a ' friend, because every
doughboy knows the work done 'over
there" by the Salvation Army lassies.
The itinerary for Mrs. Hoffman and
Miss Austin follows: , " '
Leave Pensacola, 6:15 a. m. Sunday,
arrive Milton, 7:00 a. m. Sunday:
leave Milton, 7:45 p. m. Sunday, ar
rive Crestview, 8:55 p. m. Sunday;
leave Crestview, '8:13 'a, m. Monday;
arrive DeFuniak Springs, 9:06 a. m.
Monday; leave DeFuniak Springs, 9:55
p. m. Monday, arrive Bonifay, 11:05
p. m. Monday; leave Bonifay. 10:03 a.
m. Tuesday, arrive Chlpley, 10:18 a. m.
Tuesday; leave Chipley, 11:20 p. m.
Tuesday, arrive Marianna, 12:15 a. m .'
Wednesday; leave Marianna, 11:30 a.
m. Thursday ; arrive Blountstown,
12:15 p. m. Thursday. Return to Ma
rianna Friday morning. '
DOZEN STEAMERS
FOR SOUTHERN
LUMBER TRADE
Washington, May 17. The shipping
board today assigned twelve large
Steamers in the lumber trade from
the south, six going to Wilmington,
Charleston. Savannah, Brunswick and
Jacksonville, four of which will be of
7,500 tons each or over for the Argen
tine trade, and the other' two smaller
for the Cuban sugar trade. . Others
will be allotted to southern ports as
rapidly as the export business justifies
it was stated.
The South Atlantic Maritime Cor
poration originally requested an as
signment of at least fourteen ships
to the five ports represented by it,
Wilmington, Charleston, Savannah,
Brunswick and Jacksonville. Matthew
Hale, director of the corporation, after-
a conference today with senators
from "North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia and Florida, said the corpora-
HE'S BIGGEST MAN i
IN RUSSIA TODAY
To the man who's stuck the longest
against the Bolsheviki seems likely to
come ' the leadership in Russia. Kol
chak. head of the Omsk government,
has been recognized by the Archangel
government s supreme and the allies,
it is believed, are about to give him
similar recognition.
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WHEEL -TURN AGAIN?
NC-FOUR HADE
i SEES HOUR
TO AZORES "ON
FLIGHT
NC-One Is Hauled in Late
Last Night; NC-Four Re
ported Lost in Fog- But
Crews Believed Safe. ;
Ilortla. Fayal, May 17.--"NC-4 aver
aged miles an hour toIIrta .'y,
and according to Commander Read;
made the flight in thirteen hours and
eighteen minutes. . ' .. ;V
Washington," May 17. Destroyers
searching for the last seaplane NC-1
have found the plane, and Lieutenant
Commander Bellinger and crew have
been taken aboard the steamship Iona.
This report was made to the navy de
partment late tonight in a cablegram
from Hortia, Azores. " . '
Washington, May 17. The destroyer
Harding at 4:27 p. m., reported she had
established . communication with- sea
plane NC-1 and was speeding to the
rescue. . Commander Read of the Four
was expected to ttake his plane to
Ponta Del Gada . tomorrow for the
dash to Lisbon where the overseas
flight will be completed. . "" ,
Washington May 17. The NC.3,
flagship of the transatlantic seaplane
squadron was still missing, late tonight.
The , NC-1 was riding on the ocean
surface 200 miles from Fay al after be
ing forced to descend when she" be
came lost in a fog, while the NC-4 was
safe at Horta, Island of Fayal, -having
landed at 9:20 this morning, .Wash
ington time, after making the flight
from Trepassey to the Azores in fif
teen hours and fourteen minutes. The
last report from the NC-3 came at 5:15
this morning, showing - her off - her
course in a fog 350 miles from Fayal.
Naval officials entertained no appre
hension fo rthe safety of Commanders
Towers and the crew of the NC-4,
however. '' .
Washington, May 17. Lieut.' Com
mander Albert C. Read, "commanding
the American naval seaplane NC-4,
which was ' the first to reacn the
Azores on the trans-Atlantic ; flight,
and Lieut. Commander Patrick N. L.
Bellinger, who was close behind him
in command of the , NC-1, received
their aviation training at the Pensa
cola station. Read is 32 years old,
and was born in New Hampshire, he
was assigned to the Pensacola station
where he won promotion to command
ot Hampton Roads naval station. Both
Read and Bellinger were on detached
navy department duty when assigned
to make the effort to bring to the
United States the honor of making the
first successful Atlantic flight It is
nmhohio that Commander John H.
Towers, commanding the NC-3, flag
ship of the airplane fleet, also re
ceived his training at Pensacola. '
ST. LUCIE OVER
IN SALVATION
ARMY CAMPAIGN
Atlanta, Ga, May 17. St. Lucie
county. Florida, has the distinction of
heing the first county to .be officially
reported over the top in the Salvation
Army Service Funddrive. In a, tele
gram to Kdw. Young Clark, director
of the southern division of the cam
paign, R. F. Kersey, zone manager for
the Orlando zone, announces the re
ceipt of a telegram from A. H". Stew
art of Ft. Pierce, county chairman for
St. Lucie county, telling of the fact
that his county is already over the
top of the full quota allotted and stat
ing that subscriptions are still being
LONG
ROTARY
CLUB
WORKING PLANS
ARE COMPLETE
City Chairman C. B. Hervey
Has Named Ten Teams
to Begin Activities for
Drive Tuesday.
Local Rotarians, who at their meet
ing last week werjt on record as en
dorsing the Salvation Army Home
Service Fund drive,. May 19-26. and re
would devote three hours work a day
, . - t i ' - ,
solved that each member; of the , olub
for ; thr.day a - to - the campaign dur
ing the week have "completed 'their
working plans to begin Tuesday.
The San Carlos Hotel will be head
quarters for the drive and CItyChar
man Chas, B. Hervey has announced
the following teams and captains: ,
Team No. 1 Captain I. H. Aiken,
Jno.' A. MerritC C. H. Turner, Dr.
John II. Tiller.
- Team No.; 2 Captain George Eman
uel, Ben Clutter W. C. Mackey, Hunt
er. Brown."'
Team No. 3 Captain J,. A. Jones,
Max L. Bear, C. S. Bonacker, B. S.
Hancock.- ' ' ,
Team No. 4 Capiain W. A." Kindell,
J. -H. Collins, :Sol'Cahn, W.; A. Ray.
. Team .No. 5 Captain C. F." J3eek.
Vincent Vidal, D. Oppenheimer, W. B.
Logan. "..-"-"'
Team No. 6 Captain H. . A,e Lurton,
H. D'Alemberte, Dr. J. L. Ingram, A.
L. Reinschmidt. - ' - -
Team No. 7 Captain W. H. Watson,
James - White, Morris 4 Levy, . Paul T.
.Stewart J , ...:. - ' - 1 -'
.- Team No. 8 Captain J. P. Moore,
W. C. Diffenderfer, Henry Jeudevine,
L. E. Thornton..
Team (No. 9 Rev. J. H. Brown, J.
T. Peele. John Massey, Frank Taylor.
Team No. 10 J.( D. Carroll, 'Lee Bell,
C. W. Parker, W. E. Willis."- , ,
Rotarians will meet in the lobby of
the San Carlos hotel at 9:45 Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday. " Reports
will be made by team captains at the
Rotary luncheon Tuesday, and at a
complimentary luncheon -Wednesday
and Thursday given by the manage
ment of the San Carlos hotel.
Brazil's President
Now that the peace congress has
nearly finished its work,; President
elect Pesroa of Brazil, is preparing to
return home and assume the reins of
office. Pessoa has been at the head
of the Brazilian delegation to tthe
peace congress. He is a booster for
ithe United States.
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COTTON EXPORTS
CORPORATION TO
SELECT OFFICERS
New Orleans, May 17. The execu
tive committee of the recently organ
ized cotton exports financing corpora
tion will meet within the next ten
days and select a staff of officers and
permanent headquarters it was an
nounced today. Opinion expressed by
the members indicated that New Or
leans would be chosen as headquar
ters.. ' v "-
OFFICIALS OF
SIflP YARD NOT
AT r,3ASSMEET
Differences Were Further
Aired and Committee
Named to Wait on Plant
Management.
A meeting of the shipyard workers
who walked out earlier in the week
together with others : was held last'
night at the city council chambers
for the announced purpose of under
taking to reach an adjustment of the
personal differences with the company.
The men had requested the company
to send a representative empowered to
deal with them, but as this was not
done by the company, little action was
possible. ' ,.
The following proposition to the
company was adopted by a unanimous
vote at the meeting, and a committee
authorized to carry it to the company
and report back next Wednesday.
That a committee select from any or
phan asylum in Pensacola sponsor for
the new ship; the men offering to give
their services free to the safe launch
ing of the ship. It was made plain
by the speakers that this proposition
would not Involve their reinstatement
as workers at the plant, their position
being that they would not accept em
ployment there under ' the present
management, their Intention being to
accomplish the removal of the present
management by means of an investi
gation by the,goyeninent induced by
the., committee .which the Carpenters
are sending to Washington, r ' : .
; Chairman Paulsen appointed as a
committee to take the proposition to
the company Monday, T. M. Shelby, J.
M. Shelby and G. L. Splitt, and' by ac
tion of the meeting Mr. Paulsen was
added to the committee. These men
are ' to report the ' company's action
to a mass meeting in the city hall
Wednesday night. V
Chairman Paulsen stated . to the
meeting that he had been in confer
ence with President Sweeney, of the
company, ' in . behalf of the men for
three earlier in the day, Tyjt that noth
hours earlier in the day, but that noth
ence. He said that President Sweeney
statd to him that the government had
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BOTH HOUSES
RECESS TILL
MONDAY 10:30
Caro's Commissioner Bill
Passes S e n a t e-Beard
Abandons Address for
Lack of Crowd
. Tallahassee, May 17 Both houses
adjourned at lunch time today till
Monday morning at 10: 30. The senate
put in the morning on local bills. In
the house today, Amos Lewis, bachelor
member irom jacKson, passea a uiii j
which he said was, intended to cure j
defects in the preesnt marriage law
and stop common law marriages in
Fldrida.
Representative Herbert P. Caro's
biU placing the Escambia county com
missioners on a salary, passed the sen
ate this morning and it has gone to
the governor for his signature. The
senate amended the house bill slight
ly and before adjournment was taken
the house concurred in the amend
ment. , The amendment bases the, pop
ulation, on the last state census in
stead of the federal census.
The bill is general in form, but local
in nature, applying only to counties
between forty and fifty thousand pop
ulation in the last state census. Es
cambia is the only such: county. The
amendment resulted from a fear ex
pressed by Senator Singletary, of
Jackson county, that the bill as origi
nally drawn would affect his county
In a few years.
Under - the measure as passed tho
commissioners of Escambia will re
ceive five dollars a day and ten cents
a mile proviedd the total Balary shall
not exceed nine hundred dollars a
year, and the total salary and mileage
shall not exceed ' twelve hundred dol
lars each annually.
- Mr. Caro is jubilant over the bill's
success.
BEARD ABANDONS ADDRESS.
In spite of a successful concurrent
resolution Inviting him to address th
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WALK-OUT IS
15 L Alii ED ON A
DISGRUNTLED
SHIP WORKER
Works Manager at Plant
Issues Statement Concern-1
ing Grievances Causing
Trouble.
UNIONS HELD IN NO
WISE RESPONSIBLE
Plans for Launching of Ship'
"Escambia Y It Is Not Be
leived Will Be Materially
Delayed.
The walk-out of a number of wood
workers at the plant of the Pensacola
Shipbuilding company during Thurs -day
and Friday, not as a concerted
action on part of any union, but a
the result of grievances concerning
the discharge of a superintendent of
wood workers, whose wife was said
to have been slated to sponsor the
launching of hull number 965, will not
interfere with the launching of the
ship, it is asserted, nor with progress
of work at the yards.
The hull, which was to have been
named the "Welka," until authority
was secured by Senator Duncan U
Fletcher, at the solicitation of the local
chamber of commerce, from the em
ergency fleet corporation for it to
bear the name "Escambia," will be
launched the latter, part of. next week,
as formerly planned, it is asserted and
a local girl, daughter of a. man who
is in na wise connected with the plant
but who was instrumental in bringing
it to Pensacola, wili sponsor , the
launching, it la expected.
Con tern In g the grievances, ral or
Imaginary, which resulted in. it' num
ber of the men . at the plant leaving
their jobs. Works Manager W. T. N'ev
lns, in an interview, says:
Statement of Works Manager.
"Not to lend dignity to a walk-out
which was unauthorized by the organi
zation. of Carpenters, but which in re
ality was engineered by a disgruntled
employe, who to bolster up & claim
entirely remote from the actual cause
of his dismissal, has misrepresented
and withheld facts, which were they
known, I feel confident would set mat
ters right in: the minds of misguided
employes. - "'
"To give the true facts, I make this
statement, and likewise ask you to
publish copies of letters which were
read to the committee who waited
Upon Messrs. Crenshaw and Amos,
but were withheld at the mass meet
ing of the wood workers, and from
press reports.
"In the first place, the question of
naming a sponsor for hull No. 965
had nothing whatever to do with the
dismissal of General Carpenter Fore
man H. DelCampO, who so appears on
the company's payroll and records, but
who poses as a departmental superin
tendent. "Mr. McRae, suDerintendent of bull
construction, requested DelCampo'a
resignation for the reason that he
failed in the main requirements of , h.
good leader; he was incompetent and
guilty of insubordination, and lack of
tact, but who out of , consideration for
the man's feelings, and So as to place
no obstacle in the way Of his obtain
ing other employment, Mr. McRae did
not specifically state in the letter to
Mr. DelCampo the above named rea
sons. ,
"When I was informed of Mr. Mc
Rae's action by the receipt of a copy
of this foreman's dismissal, I called
upon Mr. McRae to 'particularize,
which he did in the letter set forth,
and which bears out two of the
charges upon which te dismissal was
based. t
"The third charge (lack of tact) is
covered by a police court case of Del
Campo vs Lowry, in which in dismiss
ing a subordinate, t he conducted him
self -and used language towards this
subordinate which provoked a fight in
which he was worsted, and after being
so worsted, caused a warrant to be
issued for. the man's arrest. The trial
judge, however, stated that both men
were equally guilty, and the only rea
son why the jury did not find Del
Campo guilty was that the principal
witness had left the state.
"The charge of incompetency is
borne out by his not placing the crib
blocks as directed, and in this he
jeopardized the property of the com
pany, and the lives and limbs of his
fellow employes, as he had nothing bnt
a vertical shoring under the vessel's
bottom, where had any disturbance
taken place, the hull would have top
pled over like & house of cards.
"By his refusal to obey Mr. McRae'S
orders to move his office to a point
where he would be in constant touch
with the department head, and to cen
tralize the control, he proved thi
charge of insubordination.
"In mixing in a fist fight with a
subordinate, he sustains my chargs
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