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.- .' r - .r PAGES 1 TO 10 STATE NEWS AUTOMOBILES SECOND SECTION POUNDED jfctD. 1067 VOL. CVL No. 149. WILMINGTON, N. O, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 30, 1921. OLDEST DAILY IN THE STATE, Stab. . . . . . - SCENES WHEN RADIO ARE HELD nUi-ciiJins in European An rM.'0,v" ports tun uui me dis eased Aliens k EMKS. o-rmany, Jan. 10 (Corre- nf emigrants who came to Bre- Hamburg ana .uanzig to seeit new i"1' i ,nrSia are rejected before '.iif 'it for what to them ts can I land oi Pelliy ai,u Jc - arp numerous when the ships' " il.. It. - j.jans announce mo ot ui iuuoo hoVause of signs . of. disease or flrntv which would prevent their &n to the United States. am hundred homeseekers were re out of: 600 who attempted to nted Rrenien on one aLwiicr reuoniiy. unfortunates were not defec- jl these hp rejection of one member ft familv 1n many cases prevented l .rtiro croup from sailing- for jre but The most pitiffil of the tragedies oc fhp breaking up of family, group: gomp children old enough to wi alone are allowed to proceed to while others are detained. America irpn ne rauui' ijected the Otner uaj " iu him uib iinifc Of the pnysit ia.ua in a." cij-ui l iu . them to alter their diagnoses ' while Mtei groups of bundle-laden emi Snt stood by In terror" lest ' some Unicality might also keep them off Je steamer no in i."i uh-ioiho.iu. One Polish woman, liic wiuuw ui an innv surgeon ana ner .w-yenr-o.ia son art 'been rejected at Danzig when the earner had toucnea wcie-uanBo had conjunctivitis. ine woman with her son by tram to. Bremen m nlcaded for another examination lure, but tne pnysitiaus auucrcu m heir original diagnosis ana me wo- Mnwas compel" ........ . In several cases one cnua in a 'jm'ily of five or six showed traces of wphnrna or conjunctivitis. This was Sclent to halt the whole family or ireak up the family group, some of the members of which might go to Amer ica while others could not. Tvahiis trachoma and favus, an af fection of the scalp, are the three dis eases for which ships' physicians seek above all others in examining emi grants from Poland and otner . war ireas destined for the United States. The United States emigration officials ire slow to admit persons whose eyes ire not normal and force the steam- im line to carry them back to their jort of embarkation. Besides a fine if $200 mar be imposed upon the sttamship companies for carrying such ptrsons to American ports. Consequently, agents of the .steam ship lines take few chances these Jars when there are hundreds or eml-; wants clamoring for every ' steerage ! passage available from Danzig, Bre men and Hamburg to the Unltea itates. Czechoslovakia, Jugo-Slavia and "oland are pouring streams of pros pective emigrants into these three rot! and the, steamer lines are forced o-exert every effort to check them orgreRating; at Hamburg "and Bremen 'n larger numbers than can be accom- lodated. Model, sanitary quarters are available in these two ports for emi grants, but the conditions are far less 'itijfsctory in Danzig, where many mpla:r.ts are made concerning .the migrant quarters and charges are T'?de that they are not free from ver- m. The refugees who flock into Danzig w? generally in a wretched state 'lien they arrive from the devastate arts of Toland and the Baltic states. Vir accommodations there are old unsanitary. Political cross-cur- "its and divided authority keeping dipping in Danzit? In a constant state f uncertainty, with the result that 'm'srants can not get proper atten- Steorajge passage from German ports ' America this winter have been ex ; three times the rate charged be re the war. or the equivalent of $100, tM B second class passage has cost In spite of the increased expense of s-Mtiantic travel, every steamer lair.- . v "ll,n3rica nas every berth en and reservations nnA !21 SOUTH FRONT MIGRANTS Why W.ll.rTe' 18 expected here that thlR 8 tmtnn , if. H,;:bJ the gradually increasing Afof shi?s entering the Oerman American service and possibly, by im migration legislation now pending in the United stat , LOOPHOLE IN THE LAW IS LETTING IN MANY ALIENS GALVESTON, Tex.', Jan. 29. go many Europeans have taken advant age of an alleged loophole in the American seaman'B act, local steamship agents assert, that numbers of foreign steamship operators are adopting th precaution of bonding their sailors to complete round trip voyages to Amer ica. The local agents declare that de serters from vessels flying foreign flags beyond the reach of the United States immigration authorities. If the sailor, upon being taken into oustody by those authorities, states that he in tends to sail on the "first available ship" the immigration officers have no alternative, under the provisions of the seaman's act, but to free him Then, although an attempt is made to keep the sailor under surveillance,' the de serter frequently manages to make swu ni escape to some interior city. By taking advantage of this breach in the governmental wall designed -to keep, out undesirables, local steamship agents declare, "riffraff from Russia, Germany and many other countries of Europe in which economic ' pressure rests heavily upon the people's shoul ders, finds comparatively little" "diffi culty In getting into the United States. Several months ago, acting '"upon Moscow advices to the effect that the soviet government intended to send ."2.5.,0OO missionaries and agitators to the United States,", immigration au thorities here received strict orders to be on the lookout for any of these un desirables. BELGIANS "WONT PROSECUTE ' " TWO SUSPECTED COUNTRYMEN BRUSSELS, Jan. 29. A parliamen tary commission investigating the con nection of former Premier De Brou quevllle with the case of the Barons Evence Coppee, father and son, rich mine operators who were arrested for alleged assistance rendered the Ger mans during the war, has decided that there shall be no prosecution of the f ormer premier. - The Barons Coppee were recently re leased on bail, on the admission by De Broqueville that he had permitted them to operate their coal mines dur ing the German occupation in order to furnish coal to the Belgian civilians. De Broqueville's political opponents had clamored in the press for his pros ecution. ' MASONRY RAPIDLY SPREADING IN THE BRITISH DOMINIONS LONDON, Jan. .29.: Three times, as many ' Masonic lodges were instituted in 1920 in England and those parts of the dominions. where the united grand lodge of England has jurisdiction, as in any of the previous seven years, ac cording to report Just made public here. Similar incrgases were announc ed by Scottish and Irish grand lodges and chapters. Freemason's hall, the' craft's London headquarters, has become too small for the demands made upon It, and the return from India of the duke of Con naught, the grand master, is awaited for the completion of a big extension scheme, including a new Masonic tem ple and offices to be erected as a me morial to members who fell in the war. NEW JAPANESE WARSHIP HAS 33,80O DEADWEIGHT TONNAGE TOKIO. Jan. 25. Japan's latest bat tioViin Kicritn Vina a YlAnri wisrht ton- nage of &3.800 and can develop a speed j of 23 knots per hour. Her length Is 660 feet. The armament 01 tne new addition to the Japanese fleet includes eight 15-rnch guns and twenty 6-inch' guns. She is fitted with four turbine engines. The .Nagato takes a place among the largest .battleships afloat today, her 33,800 tons comparing, with the British "Hood," 41,000 tons and the American "Tennessee," 32,000 tons. Admiral Tochinal, the commander of the first squadron, Said that the Na gato is unique not only In size, but also as regards her equipment. Her main mast is built in the form of a tower and the range finder has been so de vised that it can Are at an enemy very far off. More STREET Pay The Houseboat Victoria on The houseboat Victoria, aboard which President-elect Harding Us making a two-week cruise down the Florida coast as the guest of Senator Preling huysen. The photograph wag made at St. Augustine, , Fla . after the President-elect and his party had boarded the boat. The insert shows Senator Frelinghuysen and President-elect Harding standing on the stern of the boat, waiting for 'her to start. YOUTHS SPREAD TERROR; WAVE SWEEPING FRANCE PARIS, Jan. 29. Far from subsiding, despite the energetic measures taken, the crime wave which has been sweep ing over France since the armistice is, if anything, spreading. But mere youths now hold up whole districts as was the case at Puteax, a thickly populated workingman's sub urb of Paris. A gang of ten criminals arrested were led by a boy of 11 years. There were two ruffians of 19 and 18 in the gang, but they, like their ac complices, implicitly obeyed their young chief. The gang made a spe cialty of grocer's shops in the town. The 11-year-old leader marked out the shops to be sacked and the gang car ried out his Instructions and brought him back the loot which hev,t.himself distributed. He usually sent warnings to shopholders and signed his letters "The Chief of the Mailed Fist Gang'." WOOD ALCOHOL IN "HOOCH" DISTILLED FROM RAISIN MASH ' 'MARTINS FERRY, O., Jan. 29. Something new to- worry about has been discovered for persons who make their own intoxicants. Two men are taking treatment for wood alcohol poisoning, due to the manufacture of raisin jack from rai sins which had not been stemmed. One of the men may die. Their malady baffled physicians for a time. Although the doctors aiagnos- j ed the cases of wood, alcohol poison- . ing, both men claimed they had tasted no wood alcohol. It was learned finally that the men had been drinking raisin jack, made from wash in which the raisin stems had remained. The presence of the raisin stems, it Is claimed, produced wood alcohol. An interesting 16th century tomb stone has been discovered at Worksop, Eng., which is being restored as a me morial to local men who fell in the war. The first public library was founded at Athens, Greece, 1 by Pisistratus, about 640 B. C. An obelisk of granite 70 feet high is to be erected in DenmarK as a memo rial to the allied soldiers who died in the World war. Than 10 mm iifil I - - ASjT'. , A''llllwJte ? i& Ik 1 Best and Largest Loaf Save the Wrappers and See the Shows, or Give the Kiddies a Toy! ASK YOUR GROCER FOR "HONEY" BREAD! ESTABLISHED 1897 Which President-Elect AMERICAN SEAMAN IS GOOD AS ANY SEAMAN Matches Well With Long Trained British, Dutch and Scandinavian Tars ROTTERDAM, Jan. 29. Whatever may be the ultimate fate of the Amer ican merchant marine, the American jack tar has come back to his own. This Is the verdipt of constant observ ers in the' shipping department of the United States "consulate geherar. at -Rotterdam, one of the biggest ports for American ships In Europe, to which come monthly thousands of American merchant seamen. These Yankee ships' officers and sail ors, for the post part products of only two or three years of training, have learned to handle their big freighters with all the skill of the windjammer crews of the old Yankee clipper days. They do hot, for the most part, know how to reef a topsail or do any of the hundreds of nautical things for which there were rich sounding terms in the days of the sailing ships. But when it comes to piloting a big steamer through a heavy gale, stoking the fires 01 the coal burners, or turning to witn a vim at any. of the emergency tasks that may develop at sea, the American born, American trained ship's officer or "A.B." (ablebodied seaman) In the lan guage of the seamen's resorts on the Schiedamasche dyke here, "won't take nuthin from nobody." The big books of the consulate gen eral, In which are recorded the his tories of the voyages of these Ameri can ships and the complaints of the crews, bear out Jack's contention that he is as able a seaman as any who sails the seven seas. "These records show," said one ' of the consular officials, "that American ships' officers are as efficient as British, Dutch or Scandinavians, trained long to the sea. They show that the young American sailor can learn his work quickly, that a boy whose nautical ex perience three years ago was confined to pumping water for the cows on the farm, or bathing in the old swimmln' Cents. -for a Loaf 9 W. Is Spending Vacation hole, can adapt himself to his ship as well as a Norwegian lad who has been trawling for fish sfnee he first wore trousers. "For a short time, because of lack of proper charts and much inexperience, accidents to American ships seemed much more frequent than to those of other nationalities. Now, this is changing. "American iborn, newly trained cap tains have no more trouble with their crews than the masters of ships flying other flags, or masters who have be come naturalized Americans in order to get an American ship. In fact, in many cases they have less. "Not long ago, an American captain who was only 27 years old brought his tramp freighter all around the world, making money on the voyage, and his crew had not. a single complaint to record against him." GIRLS BAR CIGARETTE SMOKING SWEETHEARTS And the Boys Gome Back With Several Hot Ones MATTOON, 111., Jan. 29. Dan Cupid is finding his bows and arrows are thus far quite useless against the hearts of the girls of the West Side Christian church of this city who have formed a club not to keep company j forced sales, and the government ex with boys who smoke cigarettes or use ! cess profits duty, which, instead of en tobacco in any form. I couraging industry, has had the effect The club is continuing to grow, ac - cording to Its sponsor, Edward McKee, superintendent of the Sunday school of that church, and though a marked decreased in the number of "matches" is noted, according to Mr. McKee, quite a few local boys have given up ' the bad habit. Dan Cupid's second and hardest blow the blow that sent him reeling diz-zily-a'me when a number of boy students at the Mattoon high school re taliated by forming an opposing or ganization, to try to make out of the girls of today "the kind of girls our mothers were." It was at a meeting of the Christian Endeavor society a week ago that Mr. McKee urged the girls to sign pledges not to keep company with boys who "used the weed." Twenty-five pledges were signed immediately and during the past week the club grew in leaps Is Only 10 Cents T. FARRIS, Proprietor and bounds. The Christian Endeavor Society girls now hope to induce every girl in town to Join their ranks. "Do you want .to stand around while some boy is smoking a cfgarette or walk up the street with htm as he dan- I gles the silly thing in his teeth or do i you want to smell the nasty smoke?" I SSifS"- a?de aa newwersighneyr t'thel pledge is obtained. It was then that the boys decided something must be done. They missed seeing their sweethearts and a num ber of the male students at the local high sohool formed a club, the mem bers signing pledges as follows: , "I do solemnly affirm that I will not court a girl who persists in: "Wearing knee-length skirts. "Wearing low cut waists below the point where mother wore them when she was a girL , "y earing silk stockings. "Using paint or rouge. "Attending dances minus her corset. "Pulling out her eyebrows or wear ing her hair in such a style so as to hide her ears." Mr. McKee looks upon the boys' or ganlzation as "merely a bluff club to.L" :VTAr?"a V . frighten the girls out of their stand1 ?fv" m.eJ!y ef?. e! '"J? ?wXwi bTa good thing, though." SI VnSSf Jffi: SSKI ourdn?oeihWrsX'eed lrta U In the meantime, both sides are holding firm, according to members, and "much good is being done," accord ing to Mr. McKee. "This is not a temporary movement on the part of the girls," said Mr. Mc Kee. "They are In earnest." "So are we," retaliated the boys. COTTON SITUATION HAS STIRRED GREAT BRITAIN Curtailment of Acreage Here Viewed With Alarm MANCHESTER, Eng., Jan. 11. Cor respondence of Associated Press). A 1 Afl.ril n or trftrtr orAwai hoa a cm o ta saee to slr charies Marcara urging that a world cotton, oonferenoe be called without delay, to deal with the situation arising from . the decline in the price of fibre and the threatened 50 per cent reduction in acreage under cotton, says the Manchester Guardian. In the course of an Interview, Sir Charles, who Is one of the largest cot ton manufacturers of Great Britain, said: "Cotton has fallen a long way below the cost of production, and the inevit able result will be that a great cur tailment in the acreage devoted to cotton will follow. I have contended for years that cotton is a commodity which, if properly packed and stored, can be kept for years without deterio ration. "A recommendation such as I made at the outbreak of war, that the sur- nlus cotton should be taken over by the governments interested, should be adopted now. This would save the situation. If action is not taken we shall have a repetition of what occurr ed in the early days of the war, when American cotton fell from 7.5 pence to 4 pence a pound, involving all concern ed In heavy losses, and subsequently rose to 45 pence, increasing the price of the world's cotton crop by 1,000, 000,000 pounds, and raising the price of clothing enormously. "We are undoubtedly suffering from the press campaign of 'slump,' the re striction of credit to bring about . of strangling it. "There are the factors mainly re sponsible for the present dearth of business, from which, however, there is bound to be a great reaction. Both boom' and 'slump' are equally perni cious. What is wanted is a readjust ment of values." PERISCOPE TO EXAMINE THIES A novel periscope has been invented which enables an automobile driver from his seat to examine all the tires On his car. CONTINUOUS SPRING LUBRICATION Continuous lubrication is afforded a new automobile spring by cup shaped oil reservoirs in the end of each leaf. During the year 1919 South Africa exported 1,124 pounds of diamonds, representing about 125 quarts. of Bread M. If EARTHQUAKE .EPIDEMIC NO CAUSE p ALARM Spite of Numerous Disasters, Mother Earth Still Sound At Heart CAMBRIDGE, Mass.. Jan. 29. The epidemic of earthquakes that shook the world in several widely separated sections In recent weeks contains no cause for general alarm; they are only the growing pains of the newer geo logic formations and old Mother Earth herself at heart is still sound and olid. This, in effect. Is the reassur ing statement of Prof; J. B. Wood worth, who is In charge of the Hari vard selsmographic station, as "pre pared for the Associated Press. Earthquakes have a way of oocur io JPAi 22! fac?tre a -trong enough to be felt oj every 24 hours, but only a small pro- portion of them are serious. , Some are- so small that they would not be realis ed but for the sensitiveness of -lnstru ments. To Indicate the fine perceptions of these instruments. Prof. Woodworth said that in times of severe storms at sea the crash of the surf on the rooky coast of Newfoundland is registered at . the selsmographic laboratory here. "The quakes that shook China and South America - last month were not the same, but separate shocks," said Professor Woodworth. "Geologists all know that earthquakes are likely thus" to ' come In groups. For example. In the year 1755 the city of Lisbon la Portugal was destroyed by an earth quake on November 1. while on the 18th of the same month Boston waa severely shaken. The difficulty is that there is no way of telling exaotly when or where they will occur. If one serious quake occurs, we may predlot that others are likely to follow it, but that Information Is of little praotloal value since we cannot tell how, long the epldemio will last, what the Inter val between the quakes will be, or in what part of the earth they will occur, "The eastern part of the United States is not often visited with sever earthquakes. The only severe ones felt hereabouts since New England was settled were In 1638, In 1727, and in 1765, with a much lesBer one In 1872. "The shock of 1727 was so vigorous that sermons' were preached on 'A Holy Fear of God" and His Judgments and a 'day of fasting and prayer was observed. The shock in 1755 brought down 1,500 chimneys ' and the gable ends of brick houses in Boston. But the really large earthquakes are in the portions 01 the earth sucn as jaaan the East Indies, Alaska, and the Pa cific ocean floor, where the mountains are new geologically, and where the rocks are moving. Volcanic regions are often Identical with earthquake re gions, but great earthquakes show no immediate connection with volcanoes. "About twenty earthquakes strong enough to be felt or registered occur every day in the year somewhere in the world; but only a very small pro portion of these are serious. The Har vard seismograph registers some 80 earthquakes a year, chiefly distant ones from 2,000 to 6.000 miles away." COLLEGE GRADUATES IN THE AFFAIRS OF THE COUNTRY Thirty-six per cent of the members of congress, 55 per cent of the presi dents of the United States and 54 per cent of the vice presidents have been college graduates, according to an an nouncement made by Dr. G. C. Borst, dean of education of the Valparaiso university. Dr. Borst also made the statement that there is only one per cent of col lege graduates In the male population of graduate age. "Nearly 56 per cent of all cabinet members, 69 per cent of the justices of the supreme court and 85 per cent of the chief Justices have also been fur nished from this one per cent," said Dr. Borst. " The republic of Mexico celebrates 1 legal holidays. When TELEPHONE No. 626 .:'. I MM ;'- i - if ' 1 il V f IM IK Mb ii .yv,.." :r'-
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