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VOL. 7. ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES.
The Huns Wont Sign Peace Treaty
Say It Spells Economic Destruction,
Political Dishonor and Moral Degra
dation of The Entire Nation. Not
Only For The Present But The Un
born Generations=on To Berlin.
Berlin, Tuesday.— “Germany de
clines to sign the peace terms laid be
foi-e it, because they spell economic
destruction, political dishonor and
moral degradation of the entire Ger
man nation, not only for the present,
but for still unborn generations,” was
the statement authorized by the Ger
man cabinent this morning, through
Thi Associated Press.
“That these consequences must log
ically follow the acceptance of the
peace conditions the American press
itself has ecognized without ques
tion,” the . tement continues. To
ward the peace treaty Germany took
the standpoint that acceptance of such
conditions could not be demanded, and
that the Entente was unjustified in
proposing such a demand.
Hope For Hawker is Abanded; But
The British Flyers Will Follow Him
St. Johns, N. F., May 21.—Hope for
the safety of Aviator Hawker and
Grieve, who have been missing since
they started in their Sopwdth airplane
COUNCIL MECLAST NIGHT
- The city (Ojm .t'fc-.ct. lasi night in
regular session./' Routine work ab
sorbed the major part of the time.
Committee reports, auditing of bills,
etc. No new business of importance
came before the meeting. Council re
jected the offer of a manufacturing
plant to sell new fire apparatus be
cause of price. Miss Meyer, assistant
clerk, was refused a raise of salary.
Mr. Lord, of Dunedin, appeared before
the council asking that the plumbing
ordinances be either enforced or re
pealed, stating that no responsible
clumber could be induced to locate
here and open a shop under present
conditions. Nothing touching on the
bonding question was brought up.
ARRANGING FOR BIG
BALL GAME THURSDAY
Next Thursday there is likely to be
big doings in baseball at Clearwater s
new ball park. Prof. Williamson has
promised to have enough of the grand
stand completed to seat five hundred
people. Clearwater will soon have
the most comfortable and best arrang
ed grandstand in’the state. Professor
Williamson and Mr. Thompson de
serve much credit for their work.
Cleai*water expected to arrange a
game with Tarpon Springs, Ft. Dade,
Southern college or St. Petersburg
for Thursday, but Taipon Springs was
making an effort to bring the strong
est team Tampa could put up to their
grounds. Clearwater has made them
a proposition that if they will play
the game here on Thursday they
would call off their own game and
give them the use of the grounds. The
fans here, as well as those from the
adjoining towns, are anxious for a
game of that kind.
Definite word will be received soon
as to what the program will be.—
Clearwater Sun.
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES
OFFICIALS MEET AGAIN
Washington, May 21.—Weights and
measures officials of the United States
met here today in annual conference
for the first time since 1916. Much
important business has accumulated
during the war period, new conditions
have arisen as a result of the war and
the four days’ session probably will
be one of the most important gather
ings of its kind ever held.
William Famum tonight in “Fight
ing Blood” takes the part of a preach
er who also knows how to fight with
Hs fists. Royal theatre.
SPRINGS-FLORIDA
THE EVENING LEADER
Huns Ask Time Extension
Paris, May 21.—Von Brockdorff-
Rantzau, head of the German peace
delegation, has asked an extension of
time for Germany to present her reply
regarding the peace terms. He stated
that, further notes are Being prepared,
and that it will be impossible to com
plete them by 1 p. m. Thursday, when
the time limit expires. The Havas
agency says it is believed that the ex
tension of time will be granted.
The note says the Germans desire
more time to study a number of ques
tions in the treaty which they have
not yet had an opportunity to exam
ine. No intimation has been made re
garding the decision of the .allied and
associated powers on the request.
, Sunday for Ireland, was virtually
| abandoned today by the British flyers
| here, who are preparing to follow in
| the wake of the ill-fated airmen.
League of Nations
Will Be Attacted
SENATOR SHERMAN WILL IN
TRODUCE RESOLUTION
FRIDAY
Washington, May 21—Senator Sher
man announced today that he would
introduce a resolution Friday in the
senate, proposing the separation of
the league of nations covenant from
the peace treaty. He plans to speak
on his resolution.
/
Poles Capture
Big City
ENEMY FLEE, LEAVING GREAT
QUANTITIES OF WAR
MATERIAL
Warsaw, May 21.—(8y The Associ
ated Press.) — Drohobyoz, Boryslaw
and Mikolajow have been captured by
the poles in their Galician campaign,
according to an official statement,
which adds that the Poles have cross
ed the Dneister river near Rozwadow.
The statement says that vast quanti
ties of war materials and many prison
ers were captured and that the enemy
is flying in a panic.
Vienna, May 21.—(8y The Associ
ated Press.) —Fighting of the most
severe character is in progress be
tween the poles and Ukrainians in
eastern Galicia, according to reports
received here.
American Army
Officers Will
Stay Overseas
Paris, May 21.—1 n addition to the
abandonment of the projected trip of
General Pershing to England, certain
of the higher American officers and
certain members of the American
peace mission, according to reports,
have given up the idea of returning
to America in the near future.
William Farnum is not afraid to use
his fists in defense of a woman’s hon
or. See him at the Royal ton : ght
TARPON SPRINGS, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1919.
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Woman Suffer
agd Resolution
Before Congress
Washington, May 21.—The woman
suffrage resolution, which in one form
or another has been before congress
lor more than forcy years, was taken
up in the house again today as the
first real work of the extra session.
Debate was limited to four hours, and
the adoption of the resolution before
adjournment is planned. A vote is ex
pected to be taken about 6 o’clock, and
favorable action is regarded as as
sured.
The suffrage resolution under con
sideration is the Anthony amendment.
Consideration of the suffrage amend
ment resolution began in the house
shortly after noon, under an agree
ment to close the general debate in
two hours, and with the leaders ex
pecting to take a vote immediately
afterward.
Sultan May Remain
in Constantinople
Head of Church
BRITAIN THINKS THIS PLAN
MAY AVOID RELIGIOUS
COMPLICATIONS
Paris, May 21.—Great Britain’s de
sire that a semblance of the Turkish
empire be preserved, in order to
religious complications, might be
brought about through the Mussul
j man dissatisfaction which is causing
! continued discussion in the peace con
! ference. It is understood that the
present plans provide for the sultan’s
remaining in Constantinople as head
of the Moslem faith, but with only
nominal temporal authority.
NC-4 Still Held
at Ponto Delgada
Washington, May 21.—Resumtion of
the transatlantic flight by the NC-4
again has been delayed, according to
a message to the navy department
early today from Ponto Delgada. The
message said one of the plane’s mo
tors had developed trouble and the
start for Lisbon would not be made
today. No mention was made of
jveather conditions.
Not Likely to Repeal
War Time Prohib
ition Bill
Washington, May 21.—Notwith
standing President Wilson’s recom
mendation for the repeal of the war
time prohibition act, so far as it re
lates to wines and beer, the opinion
seemed to gain ground at the capitol
today that all repeal measures would
be kept in committee until after July
first.
METEOROLOGICAL
Sun
Rises, 6:37; sets, 8:16.
Moon
Rises, 12:46 a.m.; sets, 12:12 p.m.
Tides
High, 6:44 a.m.; 5:42 p.m.
Low, 12:15 a.m.; 11:48 a.m.
Forecast
Showers tonight and tomorrow.
If you have developing, printing, en
larging or tinting to be done for your
kodak pictures be sure and leave your
order at the Old Reliable drug store,
agents for the Tampa Photo and Art
Supply Co., one of the leading con
cerns of this kind in the country.
Cigar Industry to Tarpon Springs
Old Company Absorbed By New
Practical Men at Head of Move
Messis Suarez and Fuchs of Tampa are Here to
Consumate Plans and Start Wheels Going.
Means Much to This City.
A move that promises to be one of ,
the greatest innovations for Tarpon j
Springs in the way of new business is |
at present assuming form. For years
we have waited and planned for some
thing that would bring into active
working line the latent advantages and
influences which this city has within !
her bounds. Many matters have been
up for discussion and some of them
have been tried out. Tn most instances
there has been lacking some essential
element necessary to achieve success, j
It seems now that the proper chord ;
has been found and sounded and that!
this city will soon begin to realize new j
life.
For some time negotiations have j
been on foot with a view to interesting i
men and money in the cigar industry j
here. Now we fee! safe in announcing |
to the readers of The Evening Leader j
that this is an accomplished fact. !
Last night two gentlemen, Messrs.
Jose Saurez and Wm. Fuchs of Tam- j
pa, met with the business men of the j
city to discuss the plans for opening j
up a cigar manufacturing business in j
this city that will undoubtedly do more i
for the general business welfare of !
the community than any other thing |
that has been done for years. These *
gentlemen have come here prepared to
take over the Spong Exchange Cigar
Co.’s* faetofy building,’ to install n<*ir
orornment and plar the business on a
"—ywai’*. paving b: s : s. As has been
r>'t->d in The Leader for the past two '
days, Mr .A. M. Lowe, president of
the Sponge Exchange bank, has pub
lished a call for a meeting of the bus
iness people and especially of those
who had agreed to guarantee the pay
ment for the cigar factory building, 1
At 8:30 last night the meeting was j
called to order by Mr. Lowe, with
about 25 business men present, and
including Messrs. Saurez and Fuchs
Mr. Lowe stated the object of the
meeting as being to reorganize the
cigar business here. He stated that
the gentlemen from Tampa had made
a proposition to take over the business
already here by absorbing it into the
Saurez Capitano Cigar Co., an insti
tution already incorporated and doing
business in Tampa, but which whs
looking for a place to build up a busi
ness where they could find advantages
not obtainable in Tampa. The cor
poration named would compare favor
ably with the best cigar manufactur
ing plants of the country. The mem
bers of the company realized that
they must seek fields where competi
tion was not so keen and labor trouble
not so as in Tampa. Their inves
tigations in different sections of the
state had been made with this in view,
and thev had decided that this city
afforded the best opportunity.
Mr. Fuchs stated to the meeting
that he had been engaged in the cigar 1
manufacturing business for a number
of years and thought that he was
qualified to handle one end of the bus
iness. He had started in the buckeye
trade and succeeded. He*had enlarged
his scope and gone into the business of
manufacturing cigars on a larger
scale, together with Mr. Saurez, and
together they had seen the necessity
of conditions which were found in this
city. He spoke conservatively and im
pressed his hearers with the thought
that he knew what he was talking
about. Mr. Saurez was called on and,
as ; de from bearing out the statements
of Mr. Fuch, gave the meeting a clear,
concise account of his experience in
the cigar manufacturing business. En
tering the field of work when he was
11 years old, he had been coached by
his father through every branch, line
and detail of the business. He was,
as he said, practically raised in the
business. He understood the work
from the planting of the seed to the
selling of the finished product.
He has been through every depart
ment of the largest and most success
ful factories of Tampa and was at
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES. No. 106
I present in demand there as foreman
jof one of the most reputable concerns
!of his line. He left a good position,
paying him a lucrative salary because
he was ambitious and wished to build
for himself a name and a business.
His father was Jose Saurez, sr., man-
I ager of the big Cuesta-Rey factory at
Tampa. He was well known to the
writer and had the reputation of be
ing one of the most successful man
agers ever known in the business. His
I death about a year ago removed from
the cigar manufacturing business one
:of the most potent figures known to
, the trade, and his demise was univer
j sally 7 mourned as a distinct loss to the
business. All that the father had j
learned during his life time of experi
ence in the business he had labored to :
impart to his son.
This Saurez family has always been
a tobacco-producing, cigar-manufac
turing family. One of the family with
whom the writer was acquainted in
Havana, Cuba, was preeminently suc
cessful as a producer and shipper of
| the raw material. From the evening
j dress of the dinner room he went to
, the laborer’s attire and away to the
; fields. He built up an imprense birsi
i ness and his judgment was relied upon
; by the big buyers of the States.
| Jose Saurez, jr„ the gentleman who
! has- become interested ifc-the local sit*
1 uation, comes from the same stock.
l ln Tampa he has a family and a
: home. He wishes to increase his fi
' nances in order that his family may
have the advantages of our free insti
tutions. He is sacrificing his interests
there in order that he may indulge his
plans for the future of his family.
, The new concern is prepared to move
|to this city, absorb the local concern
' and put on a force of workmen at
once. In bringing people here they
will bring married men who will buy
and establish homes; men who do not
sympathize with the unsettled condi
tions in the labor world there and are
anxious to get away from it. It will
in this way bring a permanent, desira
ble contingent to our citizenship. In
addition there is bound to be a weekly
nayroll of no small consideration.
More circulation of money is what
the town needs and here is the way to
bwng it about.
At the meeting last night most of
those present who had agreed to as
sist in the payment for the present
building doubled their subscriptions.
They will receive in return stock at a
par value of SIOO per share. There
's at present about $4,000 in such sub
criptions that is available. A com.mit
tee is today calling on the people of
th° town wi + h a view to selling more
.stock. It is intended to start off with
a capitalization of $25,000 with a
■working capital sufficient to guarantee
j success.
It rests with the poop'e of this city
now to start a forward movement that
; will bring about results of inestimable
1 financial value to the city. The new*
; company is not coining here with a
I request for a bonus. On the contrary
I they arc stalling their own resources,
; knowing that if they fail they will
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' CLEARWATER PATH IANS
WILL GIVE BENEFIT DANCE
The Pyth’an ifertd of Clearwater will
{give a benefit dance at Clearwater to
morrow' night, for the band. This or
ganization. consisting of 20 pieces,
will furnish the music, and this of it
self is assurance of the best. It is ex
pected that a large contingent of danc
ers will attend from this city, as the
dance will be open to all respectable
I people.
Notice the card of Frank Nelson,
1427 Franklin stret, Tampa. He is
the safe and lock expert that every
j one goes to when they have trouble in
;that line. He is'also one of the best
' gunsmiths in the country.
FIRST IN THE LOCAL FIELD
All the local, county, and state
news—that is news—while it is
news. Boosting Tarjion Springs.
Wide-awake, Truthful, Unafraid
GREEK ACTIVITY
IN NEW YORK
(Special to The Leader from Dr. T. J.
Lacy, N. Y. Correspondent.)
The past fortnight has witnessed
great activity among Greeks and Am
ericans in New York, and many dem
onstrations have been held in the in
terest of the claims of Greece at the
fence conference. The unbounded en
thusiasm of the American people
strengthens the good feeling between
the United States and Greece.
On Sunday 7 , May 12, a mass meeting
at Amsterdam opera house in N6w
York brought together 2,000 people in
support of the Greek claims in the Do
decanese. This was followed by a
monster meeting on Friday, May 16,
in Brooklyn, of which the Press has
the following account:
“A mass meeting in favor of Greece
was held last night at the Church of
the Redeemer wi J h Rev. Dr. T. J.
Lacey as chairman. The church was
elaborately decorated with Greek flags
and a large portrait of Premier Veni
! zelos hung in the center of the
sanctuary. Borough President Riegel
mann made an address on behalf of
the claims of Greece. He was fol
! lowed by Rev. W. M. Nichol, pastor of
i the United Presbyterian church, who
I made an .eloquent plea and paid
1 tribute to Venizetos. The chairman
. road a letter from the Rev. Dr. Newell ■■
j Dwight Hill is advocating 1 ” i-
I tion of Greek lands. Resolutions were •
! cabled to President Wilson.”
j , The Dodecanesian situation was |&*r
theme of every speaker. These twelve
islands off the coast of Asia Minor fell
Go the Turks in 1522. In 1911 Italy :
j occupied them as a guarantee of the •
] fulfillment of the Turkish pledges re
jgarding Tripoli. They are Greek
'through and through. Their kings and ,
princes fought in the Trojan war..
Homer gives a list of their vessels.
Rhodes is familiar to us all. Cos was
I the home of early medical science *
(where Hippocrates, lived. Patmos was
the scene of the apostle John’s exile,
j Italy has sought to suppress the
Hellenic aspirations of these people,
i but the New York press has come out’
clearly on the s ; de of the Greek claims.
An editorial in the New York Times
! declares:
“Italy has no national claim on the
islands; there are r.o Italians there.
Nor are they at. ail necessary for the
.safety of Italy; they lie far from her
coast; such strategic value as they
have is purely offensive, in case of a
; campaign in Asia Minor. It is hard
! to see why Itaiy wants to keep them
; when her authority hr>s to be sup
ported by measures such as the Aus
trians used in Lombardy a century
ago.”
' While the mass meeting ir. the Re
deemer church was in progress the
message came from Paris that Italy
had given up her claim to the Dodeca
nese, and ihe great assembly, as one
man, began to sing the Greek national
I anthem. *
j The American press is coming to
appreiate at its true worth the great
| ness of Venizelos. An editorial in the
Brooklyn Eagle of May 17 says:
“To much credit cannot be given to
I Premier Venizelos, one of the fore--
i most statesmen of Ms time, for his
j’ .den in bringing about this better*
; ment of his race and country. Venize
los foresaw events and so shaped his
! policy as to insurfe the position of
, Greece. Frustrated* for a time by the
i machinations of the pro-German Cc>-
! str.ntinc, Venizelos held true to his
| course and has brought Greece out of
j the war with all the i Greeks ever
i hoped to secure and a great deal more,
j There is joy in Athens over the turn
j of events, and the enthusiasm is for
! Venizelos, who is bound to go down in
history as the father of a greater
modem Greece.”
The Greeks of Tarpon Springs,
many of whom hove relatives in these
islands, have been very active for
months in bringing the facts of the:
| situation before the peace conference,
well as before the American public.
[They ore. naturally, much pleased
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