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a, . ' ... . . , ,, E3 . m2 M ' For Florida: Local thundar 33' 53 storm Sunday; Monday, prob- 33 K, ably fair, with gontlo to mod. M 55- erate shifting winds. 3S : . - -a I! TODAYB hi " ' 8 OlTxXII NO. 136. 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 i - - 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 ( ' 'ms a yj ,) i(Hiia ( I If AMBIA ZONE WORKERS TOUR LARGER M Mrs. .Hoffman and Miss Austin win iapena weeKi in Neighboring Towns for j ' , ;- - , 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. ESC IS r - a M 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. ; v. r , . H i f. ' j f ' " I T j 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 (Continued on Page Ten.) 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 (Continued on Page Ten.) 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 (Continued on Page Tea.)