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r?r 4 l- WATCH LABEL ON YOUR PAPER AND DON'T LET SUB SCRIPTION EXPIRE THE DATE ON THE LABEL IS THE DATE YOUR PAPER WILL BE STOPPED. ESTABLISHED 1870. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. COUNTRY, GOD AND TRUTH 12.00 A YEAR. DUE IN ADVANCB VOL.L LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1919: NUMBER 48 ROBESONIAN lil 111 BIGGEST SALE TODAY More Than 300,000 Pounds To bacco Sold on Lumberton Market Today. PRICES ON ALL GRADES HAVE ADVANCED. All Warehouses Filled to Overflow ing and Loaded Wagons Lined Up on Streets at Noon Prices Go As High as 58 Cents. More than 300,000 pounds of to bacco were sold on the Lumberton market today, the heaviest sale of the sea.on. All the warehouses were filled to overflowing and downs of loaded wagons were ined on the streets about the warehoise at noon. While the rains kept many away from the market Mbndsy, Tuesday and yesterday, more tlian 100,000 pounds were sold yesterday and the prices of good tobacco xre higher than heretofore. Tobacco sold as high as 58 cents the pound yesterday and the prices today were about the same as yesterday. According to the tobacco men, the prices on all grades have advanced during-lhe-ihe last f ew-davi,- iheUid vnnce on the best grades beiitf aoout $10 the hundred. WOUNDS PROVED FATAL. Hub Hammond Died at Hospital Last Night as Result of Wounds Re ceived When Shot by J. V. Oxen dine Sunday. Hub Hammond. Indian, who was shot bv J. V. Oxenline, also In dian. Smdiv evening d'ad last ni'jht stt ire Thompson r.osjvtil. wiure ie was taken soon after tha shjv.-tnii?. As was stated in Monday'3 Robe sonian, Hammond was shot with a shotgun at the home of Oxcndme, six miles north of town after he had fird two shots at Oxendir-c with a pistol. The load, struck Hammond's left arm and penetrated his left side. The left arm was amputated soon af ter Hammond reached the hospital and it was first thought that he would recover. Oxendine came to Lumberton im mediately after the shooting and gave himself up to Sheriff R. E. Lewis and Monday was released un der a $200 bond. It is said both In dians were drunk when the shooting took place. . t- THE RECORD OF DEATHS Mr. H. H. Pittman of Fairmont Pased Away Last Night Funeril This Afternoon. Mr. H.' H. Pittman, a well-known citizen of Fairmont, died last flight at 9:15 at the Charlotte sanatorium, Tftllvunricr an operation for stomach trouble. Deceased vyas around -0J years old and is survived cy nis we and two children. The remains were brought to Lumberton over the Sea board today and were taken to Fair mont by Messrs. Stephens & Barnes, local undertakers. The funeral will be conducted from u rtaniat. rbnrph at aFirmont at 5 o'clock this afternoon by Rev. J. R. Miller, pastor of the cnurch, oi wnicn deceased was a member. Mr. Pittman had been engaged in the drug business at aFirmont for several years, being manager of the Pittman drug stir 3, and was one of Fairmont's leading citizens. Don't Neglect Anti-Typhoid Vac cination. Only thirteen cases of typhoid lever have been reported in the coun ty this year and there are now only three known cases in the county. However, Dr. W. A. McPhaul, county health officer, fears that the wet weather may cause an increase in the number of cases of fever and that is a good reason for taking the anti typhoid vaccination. TAR HEEL TOPICS. Crops Good Curing Tobacco Per Anal Montinn lUorresponaence oi xe ftuuwui.u Tar Heel, July 23 Mr. John El more of Wilmington is' spending some time here on business. Messrs. L H. Brisson and son, Josh, visited relatives at Dublin last Saturday and Sunday. Messrs. E. D. Melvin and J. F. Lockey were in Lumberton Thurs day on business. Miss Lula Moore of Wilmington visited relatives here recently. Mr. David Jones" o White Oak at hnriorJ rhurch here last 2nd Sunday. Mr. W. D. Melvin spent a short : -while in St. Pauls last rnaay. Curing tobacco seems to 'ba the tredr in this section. - Mrs. Braxton Martin went to St Paula last Tuesday. , -.,Min Mary Bedsole, who t lives near . Elease, v is visiting' relatives , r .Cropa in thia section are real good. CHOPS NOT MUCH DAMAGED. Local Rainfall Has Not Been as Heavy as Previous Records Lum ber River Has Not Near Reached Flood Stage County Demonstator Dukes Thinks Crop Damage Slight So Far. Rain has fallen here every day for the last eight days, the total jainfall during the eight days being 5.70 inches. The heaviest fall was record ed yesterday, according to the report of Mr. B. M. Davis, local government weather man, the rainfall for the day being 1.42 inches. The rainfall for the other seven days ranged from .34 to .83 of an inch. The rains seem to have been gen eral from Florida to Washington and in many sections much damage has been dene by swollen streams. Lum ber river has not yet reached any thing like flood stage and unless the rains continue for some time, it is no- thought the lowland crops about th river will be damaged except by tha c:(tsive rains. The rainfall nere for aty one day has not been near so heavy as at a number of ether times in the past. Mr. Davis recalls that a number of years ago the rain fall for one day was more thjjn 4, incnes, It-is "feared rhatr ttre eonniHuTT . h.mTU rains have damaged crops to some ex tent, but Mr. O. O. Dukes, county farm demonstrator, thinks the dam- or.ii en titr Iiqc Kaon altarVil: a f fpt in fhp rn Voar '. river, according to a dispatch of last! night from fayetteville. . ihe river last night was 48 feet, a stage it has reached only 3 times betore m us history, and was rising 5 inches an hour. PROHIBITION ENFORCEMENT Some of the Stringent Penalties of Measure Passed By House of Congress. I The prohibition enforcement which passed final reading in the House of Congress Tuesday contains the fol lowing stringent provisions: Use of liquor as a beverage on any public conveyance, train, boat or Jitney bus is prohibited. Broad powers are given under the search and seizure section of officers charged with enforcement of the law. They may enter a dwelling house in which liquor is sold and seize it, to gether with implements of manufac ture. Seizure of all craft or vehicles used in the transportation of liquor is authorized. Enforcement of the wartime act and the constitutional amendment is provided for in the measure and in practically the same manner. T For first offense violators the; max imum fine is $1,000 V six months imprisonment, and for subsequent Offenses fines ranges from $200 to $2,000 or one month to f ive years, in prison. Enforcement of both the wartime act and the amendment is reposed in the Internal Revenue Bureau and the Department of Justice. Representative Pou, Democrat, of North Carolina, an ardent prohibi tionist, voted against the bill after having pointed out that a law so se vere as not to permit a farmer's wife to make a bottle of blackberry wine for her own use never could be en forced. OUT BARKERS WAY. Rain Hinders Handling Tobacco Pic nic at Ten Mile July 26 Per sonal Mention. Correspondence of The Robes on ian. Lumberton, R. 1, July 21. It's rain and more tain in this section. Farm ers are having a time getting their tobacco in on account of rain. T rnes it's not rieht for the farm er to raise the weed, like sunt Sophia said. Some of the farmers in this section are disgusted with tobacco, they say they will never set out any more. . Mrs. Mclntyre of Gulf spent part of last week with friends in this sec tion.. Mr. and Mrs. Mode Meares spent last week-end with relatives at Bar kers. Mr. W. M. Powers is spending a while with his grand mother, Mrs. D. M. Wishart, on R. 5 from Lum- Mm' T. J. Flowers and son, Lin- wood, and little daughter, Erma, spent the week-end with Mrs. Flow- erg' .sister, Mrs. ffiarx rowers, Mr. J. M. Kinlaw returned home Hast week from Wilksboro, . wiixes rnnntv. where he scent 1U QSys Rev. J. L. Powers spenn Monday and Tuesday with home folks. . Mr. Bunyan MWhite is driving a new car. Messrs. J. L. Britt and John Pow ers were Lumberton visitors Friday. Little Dorothy Powen of Durham is soendintr some time with her grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. Neal Graham. Tobacco ban parties are all the RACE RIOTING SUBSIDES. Disturbances in Washington Have Resulted in 5 or More Deaths and Wounding of Hundreds. Streets of the national capital A eie patrolled again last night by a force of cavalry, infantry and .ma rines numbering more than 2,000 men, and officers were hopeful that there would be no further serious disorder. Revised figures given out yester day for the period of disorders since Monday, showed 5 dead and at least 10 fatally wounded. Hcndrdds were less sciiously hurt and jails and hos pitals literally were ovrflowing. Regarding the race riots in Wash ington, Mr. J. P. Humphrey, who formerly lived near Orrum and is now a street car conductor in Wash ington and who sent The Robesonlan a wire which was published Monday, writes under date of July 21: "I was in charge of the car when the soldier came and took the negro off. He knocked the negra 10 feet after he got him on the ground. I saw about 30 men . after one negro on the avenue last night from car window. He tried to escape on pass ing car but could not. They had caught him before I was out of sight. 7 -s -s""131 " 's uere now is very siruiig ana it is rumored that there will be a riot again tonight, but the militia claim to have the thing well under control. Congressmen clai im they will do f "f hil1 P.vent ther out breaks oi hostilities. Jiut no mis-! ake, they gave a few negroes a good tiir.- hist night. "The general public is now arous-l ed. There have been C white women attacked in less than a month. The negroes here have been practically running the town, but a few nights like last night and Saturday night will put the fear of God in their hearts." Monday night Mr. Humphrey wrote: "The city is in turmoil to night. It is rumored that several have been killed and scores wounded. I saw several shots fired at negroes from my car. They chased negroes all over the city tonight, in fact they had a hell of a time here tonight no joke." HOME FROM THE WAR. Mr. Durham Stone of the Mt. Elim section arrived home yesterday from Hampton Roads, Va., having been given a discharge from the U. S. navy.- Capt. F. Eli Wishart arrived home Tuesday, having been given an hon orable discharge from military ser vice. Capt. Wishart had been sta tioned at Camp Jackson for several months prior to his discharge Mon day, July 14. He spent a few days in Florida after he was discharged. Mr. E. L. Whaley arrived home this morning from France, having been given an honorable discharge from the army. Mr. Wlia'.ev was at tached to the aviation department cf the army and spent 11 months over seas. WAR ORPHANS OF FRANCE DYING FROM MAL NUTRITION AND SHOCK The children of France have not yet emerged from the shadow of the war. With peace assured, and a hap pier future opening before them, it (becomes increasingly evident that the child life of France has suffered a shock from which it is difficult to rally; while the birth rate has drop ped to 8 to each 1,000 population. The Fatherless Children of France, an American organization co-operating with a similar bne in Paris of which Marshal Jocree is the head, re ports that of the children receiving American aid to the extent of 10 cents a day under its plan of securing American god-mothers for the little French war waifs,, its records show an average of 700 children's deaths per month since the armistice. The help of the American goodmotners came too late to save these under nourished nerve-shocked little ones. Mrs. Walter S. Brewster of Chica go, vice-cnairman oi tne atneness Children of France, has been appoint ed chairman of a campaign to secure American aid for the 60,000 little war orphans whose names were on the lists of the organization as "un adopted" before the signing of the armistice. Ten cents will care for a child for an entire day; $3.00 for a month: while for 36.50 a year the donor may select a child from the lists at the organization's headquar ters andbe placed in correspondence with it. To adopt a child or make a donation write for information to Mrs. Walter S. Brewster, Room' 634, 410 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago. trn in thia ection . r Don't forget the picnic at Ten Mile next Saturday, July 26th. With best wishes to The Robeson lan.- - '. . . Mr. William Fuchs of Wilminjiton arrived this morning and will spend tome time here .visiting friends. I AMERICA'S AIR SERVICE IS GOING TO PIECES Plans for Defense of United Slates and Its Possessions By Air Are Be-, ing Abandoned for Lack of Pilots and Experienced Flyers. j The following is taken from a copy-: right article from Washington by Da-j rton uy Da-' via Lawrence in the Greensooro' Daily News: America's air service is lutrally! . .. . ,. , t going to pieces. Plans for the defense of the United States and its posses sions by air are being abandoned be cause there are not enough pilots and experienced flyers to handle service squadrons. Defense of the Mexican border which has been in progress for the last fortnight and is half complete, connot go forward. Air plane companies are going out of business and Japan is asking the United States to sell her large quan tities of Liberty motors manufacturer for use in France but not used. These facts may startle the aver age reader such things, he, will say, cannot be going on in Washington af ter all the hulabaloo raised about air craft during the war. Yet these state ments can be verified at the air ser vice of the United States army to--daryr- They probably-wilh-coTne - jut some day in the course of congress ional inquiries after the damage is done but as usual when one branch of 'the government is Democratic and another is Republican the interest of tUa rni.li,- rrpta a severe iolt. Con- gress, dominated by the Republicans, l"a' " v. ";:r.7; r,v najtuuwN vniinhle for its use. The nt managed cv the np.niorrat.-. is ciu.etlv tonowin oui " ! - - , t the prosfram set by congressiona ap-; WUson-mr Star? Bake W a voice in protest. Neither side is accepting responsibility for what is happening but the big fact is that the air service on wnicn ine Aineni.a people have been relying for coast defense and border patrol is shortly to be brought almost to the same sta tus which it had before the European war began in 1914. Congress started the ball rolling by cutting down appropriations for the army. The War Department find ing itsel without funds to keep com missioned officers has now ordered that before September 30 next, all of ficers holding temporary commissions be discharged and that the peace-time army be commanded only by officers in the regular army. Unfortunately the air service was one of the small est branches of the army before the war and the order hits the aerial es tablishment harder than any other. Under the new requirements only 250 officers are allotted to the air service. These must be regular army men. It so happens that out of that 250, only about xne-fourth actually have had flying experience. The great bulk of America's great flying( corps of thousands of pilots came from civil life receiving temporary commissions. . The permanent officers however will be responsible for the aerial defense of the United States and outlying possessions.' It is estimated that there would be officers enough only for three squadrons if the whole num ber could be assigned to this duty. So the air service must practically abandon its defenses in Hawaii and the Phillipptnes and must forego its plans for the defense of the Mexican border. It had been planned after the recent hearings before Congress that seven service squadrons bo mob ilized for duty on the Mexican bor Rff .fit-n William E. Mitchell who commanded the American air forces on the western front made a hurried trip through Texas and map ped out a system of defensive opera tions. Seven squadrons were to be equipped and nine airdromes built at convenient stations between Yuma and Brownsville stretching across the entire length of the international line. Four of these airdromes were to be used for patrol work and three for bombardment purposes. About 170 airplanes were to be used, includ ing about 100 bombing machines. Not Even One Squadron. This wort had been half completed when the war department's order was ;0qiioH Kmir it i doubtful whether there are enough officers available to man a single squadron. Originally, it will be remembered, the war de partment informed Congress ttiat a frttnl of 56 aonadrons or 2.500 officers and 22,000 men were needed for the protection of the United States in tne ir. Onlv one half of that number of pn listed men are now available but thev are useless without officers experienced pilots. What is the solution? Some mem bers of Congress like Senator Harry New, of Indiana, Republican, thmK it must lie in an independent air service. Otherwise. if'keDt together with the army and navy, aeronautics will suf fer the usual neglect wnicn peiaiis auxiliary branches of the ermyand navy.. It is urged also that separate in the senate and house of represen tatives. .: committee on aeronautics be created Not onlv are there militarr necessi- H involved fn oniv Antra tin o all the aircraft under a tingle department of the rovemment bat the-whole eraes- tioa of safeguarding the Uvea of rr: NEWS ITEMS FROM ORRUM t k r. i Tobacco Personal Fine Prices for and Other Items BY W. JEROME STEPHENS Orrum, July 21. Farmers are . , .... . , . in V.roun cur,n bacco and pull fodder, which will soon, Dy tne iooks oi me prospects, l... .U. 1 .L. J.. be the eenera) order of the dav Mr. H. Warwick, brother of Mr. I. H. Warwick of our town and a well known merchant of Robeson county, has opened a cash store in the old E. C. Nye stand on First and Main streets. Sorry to report Mr. Tom Nye on the sick list. Rev. I. P. Hedgpeth filled his reg ular appointment here Sunday eve ning, and preached a fine sermon. There will be a party at the home of Mr. I. H. Warwick Wednesday night. Mr. Titman Britt and mother, Mrs. Nathand Britt, of oar town wer Chadbourn visitors Sunday. t Lots of the farmers of our section have sold their first curing of tobac- casQinj J Lumberton, fliers. fc ruinnuni, uuu au icyuii mie yiH-to. Can't say which is the best market. Proud to report the condition of little Master Raymond, son of Prof. R. L. Pitman Cho has been sick for some time, is improving. Mr. J. R. Lawson, our road over seer for thi. townsniPv is aomK onrntthinr H ia int. the man we need, sav all the old prosperous farm-: f nr cpnriftri wnom we are uruuui , R . - on the sick Us, MUwjon has been m a hospital at Charlotte but w,U return .nome soon. Our town was made glad the other day when Mr. Bud Foyd, son of one of our most progressive farmers, Mr. Andrew Floyd, returned home. Lots of our soldier boys are returning home. RIGHT TO STORE LIQUOR IN ONE'S HOME STANDS. The prohibition enforcemtent bill, drastic provisions and all, was adopt ed Monday section by section by the House," but a man's right to store liquor in his home stood up against all attacks. On the final count, only three votes were recorded in favor an amendment to make home pos session of intoxicants unlawful. "Two German prisoners of war consigned to the director of military intelligence, Washington," landed in New York Monday. The mysterious prisoners, who, landed under heavy guard, formerly were German officers of high rank whom the American military intelligence corps prevailed upon, before the inauguration of the American offensive in 1918, to deliv er plans of the German general taa covering the proposed movements on the western front, and other detail ed information of inestimable value. It is believed that these plans enabled Gen. Pershing to cut the cost of the American advance practically in half. It is believed that German officers have organized a vendetta aimed at the lives of these traitors. civilians from the flights of inexpe rienced pilots is involved. Similarly the United States must co-operate with foreign governments in setting up landing fields for international flights. Again, a separate air service wouia tat rhanre of aerial development overseas. England is today planning a mail service nortn ana sown through the continent of Africa from Cairo to Capetown. Dirigible al ready have crossed the Atlantic. Ar my aviators tell me it is feasible to establish mail communication by air between North and South America and across the Pacific to Hawaii, Guam, the Philippines, Japan and China. Ambitious Projects Killed. Many projects for transcontinent al flying are before the air service. Mail service between New York and San Francisco by air is predicted within a short time. Civilian and military phases of aeronautics were just beginning to become a11 absorb ing study for the daring aviators re turned from overseas. By a single war department order and by a single it in annroDriations by Congress, all these ambitious projects are suaaen- ly dashed to pieces and tne air ser vice itself, reduced to a mere frag- morit. More than 9.000 planes. 27,000 motor and 1,008 balloon of all type must.be cared for. The worK has hitherto been done by tempo rary officers. Some , of the 250 per manent officers must now be assigned to that duty. The experienced xiyers go bck to civil life they will soon lose the knack of flying. Funds are not available to recruit and train new pilots. Thus does the contro versy between the executive and leg islative branches of the government each with opposite political desires to satisfy involve in, moat: serious fashion the public interest t and de fense of the United State. WATCH THE LABEL. Watch the date opposite the nam . , ..., nn.. ... : subscription expire your paper will be stopped. This apolies to all sub i scribe rs. BRIEF ITEMS LOCAL NEWS Children's story hour will b held Friday afternoon at 6 o'clock at the home of Mrs. Alf. McLeod. Mr. Lacy T. Edens of Rowland is doing some special work in connec tion with compiling the tax records for the year 1919 in the office of Mr. J. M. McCallum, county auditor. Register of Deeds M. W. Floyd has issued license for the marriage of A. C. Edwards and Cora M. William son; J. Henry Johnson and Doeia Odum. Mr. Oliver A. Meares and small son, Braxton, of R. 5, Lumberton, spent Tuesday in Fayetteville. They were accompanied home by Mrs. Meares, who had been a patient in a Fayetteville hospital for some time. Mr. M. J. McFadyen of Cameron has accepted a position as cashier at the local Seaboard freight depot. 'JJr,. AlcFadyen rec entry- rrtuf-ned - home from overseas and was em ployed by the Seaboard here before entering the army. Calvin F. Lowrey, a well-known Indian of the Buie section, presented the editor yesterday : with one of the finest watermelons he has ever seen, and it was as delicious to the taste i as it was pleasing to the eye in its - nntmJa rif fafnaaa anil tmifri-miftr Af n u . of shape. ---Mr. L. S. Currie, whose home address is Lumberton, R. 7, has ac cepted a position in the time depart ment of the Tallassee Power Co. at Badin, beginning work ,;Monday of his week. Mr. Currie held a posi tion with this company before going into military service. The Robesonian is informed that President Hobgood of Oxford college, whose ad. appears in another column, took on his recent visit applications for rooms for the next session of this old and famous school from eight Robeson county girls. This speak wel for the college and the county. Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Stubbs have leased the building and fixtures of Thompson hotel from Miss Anna Thompson and will conduct a hotel at the same place on the second floor of the old Columbia hotel build ing. They will keep regular board ers and also take care of transient business. Mr. Thos. S. Golden, formerly in the insurance business in. Lum berton, now located in Fayetteville, was a Lumberton visitor the first of the week. Mr. Golden was transfer red from Lumberton to Pulaski, Va., ifrom which place he entered military service, and was discharged .about a year ago. Miss Kathryn Beaman returned Tuesday from New Bern, where she spent some time at the home of her brother-in-law and ' sister, Mr. and. Mrs. John Suter, Jr. She was accom panied home by her small niece Dud ley Suter. Mrs. Suter, who intended to come also, with another daughter, to visit her father, Rev. Dr. R. C. Beaman, was detained at home but may come later. In mentioning in Monday' paper the superlatively delicious cantaloupe raised by Mr. W. H. M. Brown of Buie, mention was inadvertently Emitted of a coupla watermelons of the finest! rare meat and of a flavor to make a-body oblivious even to tne incessant rain for a spell a cheer ing but. not inebriating portion which Mr. Brown presented to the editor out of the kindness of his heart. . On the tax books of Lumberton township appear the name of one man, Mr. Zach Clewis, and his seven sons, all of whom live within a ra dius of two miles and get their mail at the same postoffice. Mr. Clewis is 78 years old and the ages of his sons range from 28 to 50 years. There is nothing at all unusual tbout a man having seven sons, but ft is not often a family so large allllive so near together' Wanted a Receipt to Show That He Was Married. Emma Jennings and Adolphos Brown, colored, were married in the office of Register of Deeds M. W. Floyd about 5 of the clock yesterday afternoon. Justice F. Grover Britt officiated and at his request the groom saluted the bride after the ceremony. After the words had been spoicen Adolphus kept waiting around the of fice and after a spell he informed Register of. Deeds Floyd that he wanted, a receipt to snow that ne was married. When questioned as to why he wanted the receipt, he intimated that' he was afraid some other man might claim his elect.' Mr. J. R. Herring of BarneavOle. is a Lumberton visitor today. . Mrs. Mac Gray and son, Eugene, have returned from Blowing Bock, where they spent m week. ' Y
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