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VOL. XXII NO. 161.
PENSACOLA, FLORIDA, THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 12, 1919.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
-ess,
WL TREATY
LEAK TRACED
TO ITS SOURCE
Members of J P. Morgan
Banking House Got Cop
ies Through Red Cross
Heads in Paris.
SENATE COMMITTEE
MAY END PROBE NQW
Indications in House Are
That Standing Army Will
v Be Cut to Three Hundred
Thousand Men.
Washlngto i. June 11. How the
peace treaty reached private hands In
New York 'uras established today at
two hearings before the senate for
eign re?atlons committee. Senator
Lodge revealed that copy he saw was
shown him by Ellhu Root; Root tes
tified he got the copy from Henry P
Davidson, it ember of the Morgan
banking house and head of the Red
Cross. Davilaon testified it was giv
en him in Paris by Thomas W. La
mont, another Morgan partner attach
ed to the American peace mission.
Davidson taid he obtained- the copy
In connection with the status of the
Red Cross under the League of Na
tions and never used it in a financial
way.
J. F. Morgm and Frank A. Vander
llp also appeared before the commit
tee and said they never had seen the
copy of the treaty. The committee
adjourned without setting a date to
continue the hearing, with members
on both sides of the treaty controversy
saying privately that the Investigation
apparently was over.
Washington, June 11. Further re
duction in size of the army for the
next fiacal year was tentatively agreed
upon by the house today in deciding
to base appropriations for pay and
maintenance on an army of three hun
dred thousanl instead of fur hundred
thousand recommended by the house
military committee. The war depart
ment recommended five hundred and
nine thousand.
Washington, June 11. After a short
period of comparative quiet, the sen
ate fight over the League of Nations
appears certt-ln to be resumed tomor
row or Frids.y with a fury that may
eclipse all previous struggles in the
controversy. The fight will be around
Senator Knox's resolution proposing to
put the senate definitely -on record re
garding the revised league covenant,
supporters of. which hope to gather
enough strength to warn the Paris
conference that the treaty cannot be
ratified here in Its present form.
Paris, June 11. Distinct progress
was reported tonight on the reply of
the allied anl associated governments
to the German counter proposals and
indications are the reply wll be ready
for delivery I'riday. The Germans will
be given five days limit for ifnal ac
tion, which therefore would come on or
before June 18.
The main feature of progress in the
reply was the agreement regarding
reparation terms which has been a sub
ject of sharp controversy during the
pjgut. ten days. A settlement of the Si
leslan question was also reached but
the question of Germany's admission
to the League of Nations is still un
der discussion but it is reported with
a pendency ta accord.
Paris, June 11. President Wilson to
day told the representatives of the
Irish societies in America that he
would unofficially bring the Irish
question to t ie attention of the other
commissioners.
Announcement of the president's
promise was made by Frank Walsh
and Edward F. Dunne, representing
Irish Americans, after they had a 30
minute conference with Wilson. Dunne
and Walsh eaid they went over the
situation in Ireland generally with the
president.
REBELS CLASH
WITH FEDERALS
NEAR JUAREZ
Juarez. Mexico. June 11. The ad
vance forces of .General Felipe Ange
les are repcrted at San Augustin.,
Just half way between Juarez and
Guadalupe, cr sixteen miles east of
Juarez. Two detachments of federals,
consisting of a hundred men each,
-Vleft n the direction of that place on
)a reconnaizance. The entire Juarez
garrison was showing signs of actlvKy
late this afternoon. There were re
ports of a skirmish a few miles east
of Juarez.
Four hundred Mexican cavalry, well
armed, left Juarez at 8:30 tonight,
moving eastward. Reliable informa
tion is that unarmed Villa and An
geles men have been trickling into
Juarez durinj the evening.
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CATTS DENIES
HE IS AGREED
WITHFLOURNOY
State Executive Says He is
Too Busy to Think About
Politics But Gives Out
Statement.
Tallahassee, June 11. Announce
ment that he had entered into an
agreement with any candidate for his
support during next year's primaries
was positively denied today by Gov
ernor Sidney J Catts. Especially em
phatic was ,. the governor in denying
he had any previous knowledge ot ura
intention1 of W.. W. Flournoy, of De
Funlak Springs, to announce his can
didacy for the United States -Senate
in opposition to DUnaari U. Fletcher.
A Jacksonville paper announced
yesterday that Governor Catts would
support Mr. Flournoy in his race for
the senate and would do everything
to turn to Mr. Flournoy the vote that
would go to him in the even he were
to aspire to the office.
"I have been too busy to even think
of politics," said the governor tocray,
"and have no reason to change mv
answer to all inquiries as to my fu
ture political or business intentions.
"The demands upon me as chief ex
ecutive are such that I would feel
that I was truant to the trust of the
people to, at this time, give any of
my time to preparation for making
a contest for office. Some over-zealous
friends have taken the liberty of
stating positively that I will make tne
race for the senate. While I appre
ciate the spirit in which they make
such an assertion, . I must reiterate
that they' have no authority for such
a statement.
"At this time I believe the people
of Florida should be given a rest and
be allowed to readjust themselves to
after-war conditions as well as to
adapt themselves to such changed
conditions as may result from recent
legislative enaptments. We have had
enough of politics and other disturb
ing conditions, at least for at present,
we all have work to do and I for one
will devote myself to the tasks ir
hand."
BOAT ENGINEER
GETS DRUBBING
IN FIST FIGHT
Harry McClellan, engineer on the
launch Okaloosa, was found by Police
Officer Milford with his face badly
beaten up at the Palafox street wharf
shortly after midnight this morning.
He was brought into the station by
the officer and . Commissioner Hin
richs in the latter's car, and with him
a negro. Bill Bailey, for examination.
According to Bailey's story, which
was told in a straightforward manner,
and was the only intelligible account
of the affair that could be obtained,
considering McClellan's unsteady con
dition, the latter and a chief petty
officer in uniform had been at the
place of Mabel York, where Bailey is
employed, and becoming disposed to
fight, they were put out and went
across the street into a vacant lot
full of weeds, just north of Ray's
warehouse, where according to Bailey,
the officer proceeded to give McClel
lan a terrible drubbing. Bailey and
two other negroes interfered, separat
ed the two men and carried Mc
Clellan to his boat, and . notified
Watchman Axel, of the Aiken "Tow
boat company's plant, the latter
promptly notifying Officer Milford.
It was feared on preliminary ex
amination that McClellan's jaw was
broken.' his eyes were badly battel c
and his lips split, and his face other
wise mutilated. He was given first
aid at the station by Mr. HinricSs,
awaiting the arrival of City Physician
Nobles.
Law Maker by Day,
Revivalist at Night
There's a new thing under the sun
ire the house of representatives a con
gressman who spends his spare time
trying to convert people to Christi
anity a la Billy Sunday.
He Is Will D. Upshaw of Atlanta,
Ga., a cripple since boyhood. He is
now holding revival services in a
"Washington church.
BIG EVENT OF
SCOUT WEEK BE
STAGED TODAY
Prof, and Mrs. Charles But
ler Will Assist in Enter
tainment of Crowds At
5:30 At Postoffice.
This afternoon at 5:30 the big event
of Boy Scout Week will be staged in
front of the post office and it is an
ticipated that the biggest crowd of
boy friends the city has ever seen
will be there to see what the btays can
do. Practically all the Scouts in Pen
sacola have spent this week camped
In army tents on the lawn of the fed
eral " building, primarily " to stimulate
interest in the drive for associate
members, incidentally to afford the
boys a bunch of fun. Fun they have
had galore, cooking and sleeping out
in the open, fighting the mosquitoes
and , the heat, and enjoying life as
boys only can.
At 5:30 today, however, all foolish
ness will be ofT, for the boys are to
give an imposing demonstration of
scout work. Many of the best stunts
found in the manual and taught to all
the scouts by their scout masters,
will be shown before the admiring
public. A trained boy scout is a young
ster well trained in many Interesting
fetatures of handicraft, games, and na
ture lore, and those who- know the
local scouts confidently expect to see
them put on an exhibition well worth
while.
'Prof. Charles Butler, the singer and
entertainer . who has charge of the
music at the gospel meetings of the
First Baptist church, and his talented
wife,will add strong, features to the
entertainment.
The Boy Scout Week was recom
mended by proclamation of President
'Wilson, who is honorary president of
the order. Former President Taft is
a vice president. Former President
Roosevelt was a vice president of the
scouts and one of its most enthusias
tic boosters.
; The scout oath, talten by every mem
ber, is interesting. It reads: "On my
honor I will do my Best to do my duty
o God and my country, and to obey
the . Scout . Law; to help other peo-
ple at all timeS; to keep myself phy-
isically strong, mentally awake, and
morally straight." Their law is this:
i"A scout is trustworthy, loyal, friend -
ly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful.
thrifty, brave, clean reverent."
GOVERNOR CATTS
VETOES THE BOOK
COMMISSION BILL
.
Tallahassee. June 11. Governor S.
J. Catts today vetoed senate bill 243,
amending sections 9 and 10, acts of
1911, to create a state school book
commission, and to procure for use
in the public schools of the state a
uniform series of text books, and to
define the duties and powers of said
commission, and providing penalties
for violation of same.
Briefly stated, the governor's ob
jections are that the title of the bill
does not show its true purport: that
contracts now In force would have to
be nullified; it provides for the mak
ing of five year contracts which are
in force and will be until late in 1922;
it would render every book dealer
and Others handling school books lia
ble to prosecution under the uniform
text book law; it would work a hard
ship on parents of children of Taylor
and Marion counties. It would cost
the people of Florida not less than
$50,000 for this bill to become a law.
COMPLETE TIE
UP WIRE LINES
IS FORECASTED
Union Leaders Declare
First Day's Response In
dicates Crisis in Just Three
Days.
OFFICIALS CLAIM ,
STRIKE A FAILURE
Electrical Vorkers Will Go
Out 6 n Nation-Wide
Strike .Next Monday Say
Union Contenders.
Chicago, June .ll. Union
leaders declared tonight that the
first .day'sresponse to the call
fof a 'nation-wide strike of com
mercial telegraphers gave prom
ise that the tie up would be
complete in three days, despite
claims of the company officials
that the strike has failed.
Reports received by the Asso
ciated Press from many towns
in various sections of the coun
try indicate that the commer
cial telegraph business is, not
seriously interrupted in most
districts.
President Konenkamp of the
telegraphers' union tonight stat
ed that his' reports indicated a
ninety per cent response from
the Postal employes, and seventy
per cent fromthe Western Un
ion. A statement by President
Carlton of the Western Union
that only about one hundred and
sixty-six persons, a hundred
and twenty-one of them opera
tors answered the strike call,
brought from President Konen
kamp of the telegraphers' union
the remark that more than that
number of Western Union em
ployes in Chicago alone had
joined the strike by noon.
"The east has shown up sur
prisingly well and in the south
east alone the number of strik
ers now exceeds 3,000," said
KonenkamprThe telephone
workers have added to the
strikers' numbers in Philadel
phia, New Orleans, Columbia, S.
C, and Brunswick, Ga. When
electrical workers go on a nation-wide
strike Monday, addi
tional telephone workers also
will go out. Railroad telegraph
ers in all parts of the country are
refusing commercial business
and trouble anew is pending in
Canada because of the refusal
of Canadian telegraphers to
handle American business."
The companies against which the
strike today is called include the
Western Union Telegraph Company,
the Postal Telegraph Company, - the
American Telephone and Telegraph
Company and a number of smaller
telegraph companies in various parts
of the country.
Union officials estimated sixty thou
sand telegraphers would leave their
keys during the day and that on June
1C more than one hundred thousand
electrical workers would, join the
strike, while officials of the telegraph
companies asserted no such numbers
of employes were involved. "Western
Union officials said only a few of their
employes were members of the Com
mercial .Telegraphers Union of Ameri
ca and that business over their lines
would not be materially affected by
the strike.
LABOR FAVORS
HEAVIER BEER
. AT CONVENTION
Atlantic City, Juae 11. The Ameri
can Federation of Labor session to
day adopted a resolution opposing war
time prohibition and favoring the ex
emption of beer containing two and
three fourths per cent alcohol from
the federal prohibition amendment.
ADVOCATES OF
CITY AFFAIRS
CHANGE ACTIVE
Return to Aldermanic Form
Through Creation of
Charter Board is Contem
plated. LEGAL STATUS OF
, PLAN IS OUTLINED
It is Pointed Out That
Change Could Be Made in
240 Days From Time Pe
titions Presented.
That advocates of the return of
the city government to the aldermanic
form may launch the. movement with
in the next few jdays and that they
may endeavor to bring about the
change by procuring provision first
for a charter board with a view to
facilitating the change, which is now
allowed -under sections of the charter
that provide that commission govern
ment must be given a six years test,
has become known. The six years test
period ended during the early days
of the present month.
Those who have interested them
selves In the legal status of the mat
ter have found that it would be possi
ble to return to the old democratic
Instead of the existing so-called "au
tocratic" form of government within
a period of 140 days under act of
June 4, 1915. The plan is outlined sxa
follows: ,
A petition, or separate petitions,
asking that an election be called to
elect a charter board, should be ad
dressed to the city commissioners, ana
signed by 20 per cent of the qualiflel
voters of the city. One of the signers
of each separate paper must make
oath that each signature to the paper
is the genuine signature of the person
whose name it purports to be. 'x no
petitions are then presented to the
city commissioners, and the city clerk
compares the names on the petitions
with the registration books. This
comparison must be completed within
ten days.
If the number of names Is found not
sufficient, the petitions are retained
by the clerk and 30 days additional
time Js given in which to secure addi
tional names. If the additional names
raise the number to 20 per cent The
commissioners must forthwith call an
election to be held In not less than
40 days nor,more than 90 days to elect
a charter board, composed of fifteen
members, who shall, with 15 days
after -their election, meet and organize
and within 90 days after organizing
must complete their work and finally
adjourn.
This charter board has power to
"change the numbers, powers, duties,
compensation, terms of office, and the
time and manner of election or ap
pointment of any anj all officers and
boards, . . . . to abolish any and
all offices and boards, . . . and
to create such officers and boards as
may be deemed proper, ....
and to provide the manner of their
election or appointment
by amending Its charter or adopting
a new charter."
The new charter or amendments
proposed by the charter board shall
be Submitted to the voters at a time
to be designated by the board, which
shall be within 60 daytj after final ad
journment. The new charter or pro
posed amendments must be published
once each week for four consecutive
weeks before the election. If the
voters at the election ratify the new
charter or amendments, it or they
shall become effective at the time
designated therein, or, if no time is
designated, then at the end of 90 days
after the election.
If the members of the charter board
were elected on the definite under
standing that they would recommend
a return to the aldermanic form, and
would inject no other proposition In
the new charter, and would fix the
time to elect new officers within 40
days after the vote on the charter,
then it would be possible to again be
in operation under the aldermanic
plan within 140 days. If, however,
the city commissioners "lagged on the
Job" it might take 220 days.
If the petitioners proceed under
section 40 of the present city charter
and ask the city commissioners to call
an election to decide the question,
-Shall the city of Pensacola abandon
its organization under the provisions
of law providing a commission form
of government, and assume its former
aldermanic form of government?
then, if the election results in the af
firmative, the aldermanic form will
not become effective Until the gen
eral city election to be held on June
1. 1920.
One or more of the city commis
sioners could be recalled under section
17 of the city charter, but this would
merely have the effect of substitut
ing another commissioner for the one
recalled, and would leave the city still
operating under the commission form.
Umpire in Congress
Is Parliamentarian
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CLARTHCt:
CANNON
untmrrf
Cannon is a Mississippi democrat,
and the first democrat to be named
parliamentarian of congress by a re
publican congress. He succeeds Ben
net Clark, son of the former speak
er. HIGH SCHOOL
BUILDING TO
BE MODERN
Large and Commodious
Structure Will Occupy
Site Former High School
East Side Lee Square.
Pensacola will have an imposing ad
dition to Its landscape and a most
valuable enlargement of Its civic equip
ment, when the new high school build
ing to be constructed facing east front
of Lee monument, is finished, accord
ing to plans exhibited in the office
of the architect, Walker H. Willis.
The building will occupy the square
bounded by Guillemarde, Jackson and
Gadsden streets and Lee Square, and
will face the west.
It will be built of the unit type,
so additions can be made on Jackson
and Gadsden streets without interfer
ing with the unified appearance. When
the plans, based on the now avail
able funds are completed, the build
ing will have the effect of the letter
T with the base omitted. When the
first units are added, as greater funds
become available, affording an audi
torium and gymnasium, the building
will assume the shape of the letter K;
and when all units included in the ul
timate plan are added, the effect will
be that of the hollow square, af
fording light and ventilation to every
room. The ultimate plan provides for
from 35 to 40 class rooms which will
not now be constructed, besides the
auditorium and gymnasium, which are
not now possible.
The building will be fire proof
throughout. The exterior will be of
gray pressed brick twlth all cornices
and trimmings of green terra cotta.
It will consist of two stories and a so
called basement, although the latter
will be a full story above the ground
there being no excavation provided in
the plan.
Access to the main floor will he by
a broad flight of steps leading from
the side walk. At the entrance will
be the administrative offices, rooms
for the principal and the faculty. Ad
jacent to these will be a large li
brary and a librarian's work room.
The class rooms on this floor will be
four for the commercial department
and two for mathematics. The main
lockers and toilet rooms will be at
the rear on this floor.
The corridors will be very commodi
ous, with ample light and ventilation,
and throughout the building will be
furnished with sanitary drinking foun
tains! Two broad stairways will lead
from the main floor corridors to th
second floor and two to the basement.
On the second floor there will be
three history class rooms, one for
mathematics, three for English classes,
one for modern languages, and one
science lecture room. On this floor
also will be a physical laboratory with
a dark room and an apparatus and
supply room ; also a chemical labora
tory with aparatus and supply room.
The science department will be" mod
ern in all its equipment, furnished
with electricity, gas, water for dem
onstrations, etc.
One special feature of the second
floor will be the health clinic and ac
companying rest rooms. The clinic
will be for the exclusive use of the
health officers for purpose of exam
ining the pupils, and will be open
only when in such use by health offi
cers. The rest rooms on either side,
however, one set for girls and one for
boys, will be opn at all times for
emergency cases, and will be equipped
with hospital cots and first aid kits.
The basement' will have three dis
tinctive features, the lunch sectn,
the domestic science rooms anSO.he
manual training spaces. The large
lunch room will be provided with am
ple kitchen and store room for ma
terials. The domestic science depart-
(Continued on Page Three.)
TRADES COUNCIL
WILL AID DRY
DOCK PROJECT
Strong Resolutions of En
dorsement Were Adopted
At Enthusiastic Meeting
Last Night.
WHAT IT MEANS TO
PORT EMPHASIZED
Interest in Subscription
Campaign Increases As
Movement Progresses
Amount is Over Half Sub
scribed. At a very enthusiastic meeting of
the Central Trades and Labor Coun
cil held last night the project to pro
cure for Pensacola a 5,000-ton capacity
dry dock through the co-operation of
the government Emergency Fleet Cor
poration and the Bruce Dry Docks
Company of this city, was unanimous
ly approved by the delegates present
and the following resolutions adopted:
"Be it resolved: Whereas the Bruce
Dry Dock Company has secured the
contract for the construction of a 5,-000-ton
dry dock for the port of Pen
sacola to cost over $400,000, and
"Whereas the Dry Dock Company is
securing rubscriptlons for $118,000 of
8 per cnt stock, which we consider an
Al investment, therefore be it
"Resolved, that the Trades and La
bor Council hereby endorse this move
ment and urges its members to back
this project by subscribing for as much
of the stock as possible. Be it further
"Resolved that these resolutions be
given the public press."
(Signed) "II. S. Kieley, President.
"R. V. Lament, Secretary."
Members ot-the council atatsd to the
Journal after the meeting that the dry
dock project means too much for Pen
sacola and the working people of the
city to permit the subscription cam
paign to lag and that they stood ready
to take off their coast and get into the
campaign on call with a view to put
ting it over. In other words. It is made
plain that the local labor organizations
are fully aware of the importance of
the project and are willin gto give it
their full backing.
Big Sum Subscribed.
At the campaign headquarters last
night it was stated by Thos. M. John
son that workers yesterday, after hav
ing seen about 22 per cent of a list of
prospective stock takers, reporter a
little more than $25,000 of the stock
subscribed in addition to the $82,000
carried by the Bruce Co. lie also stat
ed that quite a number of men who
were not on the original list came In
voluntarily and after making inquiry
into the proposition subscribed for
Stock, which was gratifying. He atso
stated that as the campaign pro
gresses interest visibly increases Just
as was evidenced by the action taken
last night by the Trades and Labor
Council. Full assurance is felt that
the required amount will be raised, very
probably by the end of the week or
earlier. ,
Discussing what the project means
to Pensacola, members of the Labor
and Trades Council assert that in ad
'dition to what it will mean to the port
! In the way of attracting more ships
for the movement of freight cargo and
to the development of the port, it will
mean a pay roll of approximately 100
men, most of whom will be of the
higher class of skilled workmen.
Of course the attraction of more
ships for cargo means more work for
more longshoremen.
BANKHEAD WOULD
STOP SALE OF
MERCHANT SHIPS
Washington, June 11. A bill pro
hibiting the shipping board from sell
iny any vessel whlcn it purchased,
constructed or commandeered during
the war, was Introduced today by
Representative Bankhead, of Alabama,
and referred to the house merchant
marine committee.
BRITISH SUB
IS MISSING IN
THE BALTIC SEA
London, June 11. The admiralty an
nounced today that a British subma
rine operating in the Baltic had been
missing since June 4th and was to
have been lost with all hands.
TERPENTINE IS
STILL SOARING
IS NEAR RECORD
Savannah. June 11. Turpentine
quotations of the Savannah market
today were at hundred seven and three
quarters which is the highest prica
ver attained here.