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PAID UP C3ECUIjmqNj2:i 1 - si ilil ' -. .aijLi klj V. NUMBER AUTHORmis GfiavavA lip bells kinii m it FiFTiinFA rfii uwm REP0RTf0Fffi7YA GOTHAM C i. (By Associated Press) Chicago. The authorities through out the country gravely await pie re lorts of the New Year revelsfor a .liifirmation or refutation of their predictions that the wave of deaths from Wood Alcohol which took one hundred and twenty five Olives during the Christmas hoidays Would be re peated. -. . New York. New Yearns celebration along the great white- way continued until dawn, the reverllera taking ad- vantake of what they considered their last opportunity to cebrate new years in the traditional hilarious man- DPT. . ' New Haven. Thirty five men are uiuler arrest in Connecticut today as as the result ofthe investigations in to the wave of fatalities caused by poison whiskey. PAVILIfllOU (By,Xsi;?cint:1 I ress) in Peking early in 1912 after Yuan Shib-kai had assumed the presidency. J tiie ''ommanders of the foreign lega- j i nn that truards in the capital decided , as a military measure, the pav- ili"n should he occupied by foreig t 1-nation guard in the capital decide 1 that, as a military asure, the pav ilion shoud be oc-u "'l ti.v - foreign tr.Mips. The Araeric-in '.egftiou Guard has occupied it ever since. HEAR E. S. SHE COURT v r-re treat is in store for thectti- -ns f (ireenville and Pitt county to nitrht at the Court House. At 7 :30 Hr-n E. S. Shemaker an orator of iTilliance and power from Indiana will deliver an address on Law enforce ment and World Prohibition. This old sui.jert will be dressed in. its newest garments. This movement is covering the wor Id. Did you know thta foreign 'onntries are calling on U. S. to help them win prohibition, .in their land. In June, 1919, at the Anti-Saloon League Convention -in Wasblington, there ;,me together delegates from many nation. At least fifty of . these addressed the convention ,some -however in nronon English, and aftex several joint sessions these delegates formulated the "'World League Against AIMiolism" comiosed of twelve na tions. The world is looking t): the Anti-Saoon League to lead in solving th world problem. Since las' ."nine, the '-alls have been many and p-tnt and the fields are white unto the lira vest. "This "Macedonian Call" is a command from the Master to go. ; The purpose of the present cam paign is to raise funds that literature witn statistics and information .may to printed in the various language of these countries and others, - that the people may read the facts in their Mother Tongue. Money is nedd in or- : ler that witnesses may be sent over t" tell the story of the marvelous -re-5"'-ts of prohibition here and refute falsehoods that the liquor advo !tes are sure to carry. Money is ne-ded to give assistance to temperr anr-e organizations in these lands. Mnee the recent war, the American flat floats above all otlieri. Tho eves of the world are turned to America; COTTON REPORT . cents. j TARTU GATE 1 z : sate, ha been returm .to. Chiiiese' mejiilters, an increase' if 700,000 Mn C rk-Matnmonial agenciea . inenTei of trrespendnce ubs rustody. In the mutiny of the troops-March, according to the business re- atInS In Chicatgo. Denver, Kansas one"in OafcunoCaL, iSa'eotherui HOUSE, 1 ELEBRATED Till DAll DR. HOOKS AND SON INJURED WHEN TRAIN HIT AUTOMOBILE . . (By Associated Press) Wilson.VYesterday about noon a Southern passenger train struck an automobile at Selma in wliich Dr. Thel Hooks, of Smithfield and his 15- year-old son were attempting to cross . k t, nones broken and it is thought he is c "WHS UHH IIULJl C'1 Ifl r internally iiii.-al Tj' . . . mjureu. He was brought to Wilson for treatment His son w hHlv k,4, - - u neaa ana neck, necessitating 20 stitches. He will recover. tr n whi , . c , W. H. Whismant of Wmston-Salem u amvt-u in me city to assume me creditable and the services much en management of the Postal Telegraph Jrtl. office. This paper in the bame of the pity extends to him a cordial welcome. SOCIALIST SHOW Biff INCREASE W IN BERLIN port submitted by Chairman Dittman. The party has available a fund of 1 - OXJ,C00 marks and controls 55 news piper organs. The convention of the Independents at Leipzig recently discussed, the quest ion of union with the Majority Social ists. Numerous delegates favored the , . , , t. ,. . .iK i amalgamation but it was t sibbornly opposed by the leaders and i oals. ra radi- TOifW YOU ARE llITE! the ears of the world are' open to re- ceive herad -r.-I ck! is preparing the way for America u lead the world to a high r ... j bet ,- ;1- civilization. Along -wi.'.i t is responsibility, Goa has iv:n to America the ability to meet it. No other nation is so wealthy, j The asserts of America .ajre three ! times .those of England today.; in fact,! she coud buy England, FranceItaly,! Spain--.-! nd Oo would ' h . ve it any, too, Twenty-five if she millions for woi . 1 pr k: 'bitidn from this na tion; s;'v;i hundred thousand of tJiis ! from ?s rth '( ,i; Iina ! How smail it seems when- we consider that tbi- ' state lecently received more than , six : hundred thousand dollars inheritance tax fro mthe estate of.- one citizen, that the tate recently HOidne f P for nearlv this mlteh m onW, tnd thit . v u : i'lll I 111 -lilt? DMllC AC - three or . . .... i r. fOHr times tms amount, r-uie- e ,y uian aflU wum" " "7 f ! the cause of righteousness and wants . t - ' . j -v-w-. s V v Ini'OO to help carry the bessings of prohi . i bition to the ends ofvthe artn will be delighted to do his part to make up lUi - fuinl. - " x . Will o udo-your part?" No' collection. Everybody welcome. ; ' ' NEARLY HACF DfiJrCTIVE AT -4 r. surplus labor. According to ms iiguree, m Associated Pre f.,. aid the American Chamber-there WlonThe chief l&dica: qflicg already over 300,000 . more men h. rto nt;,;on . reD.;; emptbyed, or looking for that of 533,400 children utside Mtlbymeht in ' the ' indiistrial. world ,. , ."fn i!H8 v- th a war. Th i demobilize- ..-,w. u(;' .innnd to f .... w:v vlw v.i; 1 e defective. ' " - - ; - . -J :". -' ' 1 tin uDDf''rn t YiRiWKRS 119 MARRIAGE LICENSE i n. Register of Deeds ainceri this morning that qunnfeue nounced this morning that quriug." month of December he had issued one marry to Pitt . county, -r-( OLDAliM ilf Venn iirnr if i em nrnr Mighty fe of the citizens, if they - ensconced in the arEw of Mor eus last niht, failed to" b - wer sconced in the arxwr pf Mo Paeus last nht, failed to be Te- minded that the old year dying' i and a new vear" hpinr k t -. ( ew year beine horn lr, w - vrnMLTfeAJT i i- oeioct last night bells of afi decriitions and tone rane onf MCI liLl fire alarms were turned in. Those' for-i vears hsxs '&me to light here. Liea-sretting-that another year had arrived tsnant Verniers, of artillery, is the must have thouerht that a ki. man. When the tickets man brigade was entering the ty' - h rr a -;... 4-1. : ... lumgs ere iive! and merry-ma kinir J-ii ""J r n-t sttaH . 5a uu uaax, persons tUminS. In faflMS-flpft Ann. I. . - XT M auu jecc zo a nne of 50 and cost or thirty days imprisonment.. Watch night srv ces were held in the Episeopal, Meth an(T Presberii churches. The altc.dance at all of those .ervics was v-'-- ; ie aj sJitenced to two years nn Mr. J. C. Gaskins and tamilyjire;--c piisoianand has resigned from the day moving to the residence g.TojearOt Charaier f Deputies, after having Street formerly occupied by Mr15. be a member of that body for 48 L. Allen and family. V" hours. i -I fflATRfflf mm. mmm are D. mm - ilS - - City and San Francisco are finding many clients at present in the East, 1 according to detectives who recently j saved h young white woman, 20 years old, from North Caroina who hame j to New York expecting to meet "a Cuban gentleman of moderate means." The advertised said he was "edu-! cated and liome-lOA-iiiir." He proved to . be the negro janitor of a Bronx apart- ment house. The girl, with a letter from him in her handbag, arrived at the Pennslvania station from her small home town. She had never been in New' York before and a railroad porter turned her over to a Travel er's Aid Society worker who agreed to accompany her to the home of the man she called her "cousin." Dis illusioned, the young woman was giv- j x. ui i . ;i en sneiter ror me nigirt ucr iamuj telegraphed and funds received whtih permitted her to return home, the r townfolk being none the wiser. in th police investigation of the ianitor which followed the man dis- j played letters from women who were GREAT INCREASE IN LONDON t (By Associated Press) ! London. The great increase .j! , a-mninvaA in British women employed nu-noer oi wwiucm f-j an important nstries nas lh-vouic - . . . factor, ana oniy an eiyouoivu ... dustry can take care of all the labor dustry can u ,nlnw flVftilable. vri i a h nil i ciuu iv - . according to a statement ny the Ame- ( ii . . 1 1 . Chamber of Commerie in Lon- rican aon- . , MO,M.r,f of Sir Attckiana .wuue, v - . . nfiv rfeofl red , I fc . '.-..-5 1 LADY EMPLOYES the Board or itbuc, , that the country's poduction would The Padishah, or '"Father of All the hare to be inceased, not only for th; ' soverigns of the Earth," is short, grey sake of export markets, but to absorb .httij.ed rather stoop-shouldered, dark- nmniri necessitate t-'ie fT.nr.ns would necessiHiw , y b rptto ndf almost another. l,0()0,06a.- absorp - . . i j J f npmhv. who is connecwu w.tu Capt. Hemby, retnrned to tne ulrm.!nl after spending Z Us ski Mrs. W. S. Mayo th his sisiex . N xmas 'jii 10th; .street. , - ..is - i jmA VI IB . . I1UUI UI1UIII1 III WIIM HI ll V IHUIIUiBr mmrm lftiw ' - ' - Tfu oni mm ft iMJtOIEt IS1ITERESTING ( By f Associated PreHS) Paris.--Aiif extraordinary story of n. . ... ; ticvifwitpi a reacu soiuier ro uu : - f . 7 v .uamer oi3 deputies and his aubse- ,Ua conndtion by courtmartial and t sentence tof imprisonment for two Pnred r tie election, a soldier can- 3 l j uesirea in me ueparxment of the Nord ana V'' w. . r.. k ti kj -.v" nauum reyuwitun sen- atnr TtrVlr siliit "hf Varniui, EM w wtmnds and had received 11 citations f0r bravery) Verniers has then in a hosDital but he was lejted wi fore his Institu, thout appearing be7 ltuents. Later it was learned that he was charged with stealing. 20j)00 francs from the funds 1 of-"Msjogijrient. He was courtmartial- r . San Francisco. Lists found in his apartment de- pcribed women varying in age from eighteen to sixty-seven, as follows : "Beautiful California maiden, 24, sixty seven inches, 133 pounds, brown hair, blue eyes, Protestant, college education, musician with $50,000 ; wishes to marry a refined business gentleman. "Pretty American maiden, 18. re sides in Indiana, sixty-three inches, 129 pounds, dark brown hair, blue eyes, wel educated, musician ; mem ber of a wealthy family. She has no use for society and wishes to marry a home-loving companion." "Widow, 67. sixty-two inches, 130 pounas, , uars grey uair, uiue Rant-lot fnmfnrfnhlp TnPfVmfi. ran Tjlav . y the piano some, with between $25,000 and $36,000 Very lonely ; resides in Illinois." The letters were confiscated but the janitor was not arrested although his -ease is still under investigation WILL OPEN TOMORROW The store of the Willard & Smith Co. incorporated, which is closed today on aoount of taking inventory wilt re open tomorrow. CDCn B -1 1 MY fl VNfS HID VI NICE OLD MA SAYS PEOPLE OF (By The Associated Press) Constantinople. People of Constan tinople call the Sultan, Mehmed VI, "a nice, harmless old man." Mehmed VI is the last enemy left, the man whose temporal possessions are at stake in : , the making of peaee. witn short wnite musiacne set uu . aer. ithe characteristic beaked nose of e Turk. Bereft of good counsellors, worTied.by the actions of Moustapha Kemal Pasha, leader of the Nation- alists. Mehmed is m a quandary as W viw cave his OeoOle and his throne, howfosavenispeopieanuuisiurui.tr. At ttWa ae doeetft worry too much thanks to the pervading oriental spir- ..... it of fatalism. Every jy, the Turkish Sunday, Q prnwd of Mussulman pilgrims and rs gathers -ito see him go to ; . ... .. . rt:t prayer. The-ceremony xases piace oui- .MxlwwUn.tea.nt Yildiz ttiV hiipu nioTimnm mm 11101 lifiPLU OVER I Register of Deeds J. C. Gaskins was much disconcerted this morning when a Dailv Xpws rennrtor rai,1 w isters office his usual morning call Generally the register is all smiles, bat this morning his countenance be spoke worry. Knowing that this was new year's day and being of an inquis- itive mind the reporter asked what; was the trouble, as no death or seri ous illness had been renorted in hia family r ' . . .. m le&iuuse 10 tne inquiry ine reg- . . . . M J " ister said: "man, I just don't know , i . . . '. . - . - wnac to cmnK axut niJ mend Har rington (the elerk of the superior Court) all the morning he has been acting eo strange. You can hear him now on the Dortico. Ha has bif off and devoured a whole plug of tobacco and burned up at least a half dozen cigars aready this morning. I can't account for his strange action unless it be that he realizes thta Monday next is "honey day". To back up the Register's statement, the reporter heard Cerk Harrington come to the Register's office door and say, "Gas kins come out here I want to show you something." Friend Gaskins read ily complied. When they reached the corridor Clerk Harrington walked the register to the side door and wnisp ered, MI just wanted to show you the way out." Yes, Register Gaskins is much disturbed- and;too .or January t.. -' irr t-.iL.i ariit ' uutiei-&, iiarri9f Hps ihhub miss aiAUTiiA -itumsattJJ ooWk and TiAbLY Injured Lurubirton. Miss Martna Flax An- drews, county demonstration agent in Robeson, was seriously hurt yesterday afternoon when she was run down on Elm street by an automobile driven by Callie Hunt, an Indian. Recorder E. M. Britt ordered the Indian woman held and she was placed in jail. Miss Andrews is from Mount Gilea 1. ARREST THOSE ALLIED WITH COMMUNIST (Bty Associated Press.) Bnudapest. Arrests of men active in the Communist reign continue as search of the archives reeval their participation in the Beta Run admin istration. Among those recently taken into custody is Dr. Alexander Var jas, a professor in the citjp. high schools, who is alleged to "have received and expended about 2.500,000 crowns in propaganda work. - CONSTANTINOPLE There are the Sultan's official office, . - and also his harem in a flower ar- den part of an immense park. The Sultan wearing a fex comes into view riding slowly in an open phaeton, preceded by a single horse man and followed on foot by a dozen or more of his red-f.ttzzed suite dressed -in black ..'rock coats and trousers' in the European style. i The Sultan bews right nad left, in respon&e ta the. acclamations, looks towards the terrace where' are ranged the foreigner ami. boWs pleasantly to. them,.. The distance to; the mosqde 1S passed, then at the door Of the mosone be stens- out: from the mosque ne steps -out; rrom m- terior is heard a.chnnt of male us. and lie dis tir.? i. .".- chor- the . , . . ii. general .Mussulman puoiic is peruu ted to enter at another d r of th, mosaue to take place in the prayers which continue f or a half hour; Mean- . . . wuiie tne xoreign .Yisiorupi.c, - 'rheir euriositv in' the Successbr of tho Mt CLOSE SAYS THE BRITISH UflEK: J1RST OF CUBAN SUGAR WELL -BRING 20 CENTS (By Associated Press) New York. The public probably will have to 29 cents a pdjEor the advancgf 9,000,000 pounds of Cuban sufe being delivered and distributed iJV V. .. cording to a stated! ment by Food lj f iraior rvuiiama :v?t that dealera "This is due here are required'rf a bigber. price to the Cuban pt" . '. for tn'e crop which is in advancevfe regulsx output," said Mr. Williams. "We caj not control the prices charged by Gtr bans." After one other shipment next month it is expected that the regular 1920 ot 8 mU cam- nence coming into me cnixea scales, and with the delivery of the regular crop,- Mr. Williams said, he and his aides would try to keep the price down to 14 or 15 cents a pound. Messrs. Fountain Fletcher and Tom McLawhorn of Wtoterfrtlle, were here last evening ' DISABLED SOLDIERS REQUEST CAP ON - .'' ' . 4. , - flCvr:' tXQT "Afocfcciea fe;- : Nw; 'Yprsr-Msledvrft in Boston, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Bal-1 timore. Milwaukee. Detroit, Columbus, S San Francisco, Denver. New Or- leans and Minneapolis, handicapped for life and unable to more than barely ive o nthe government allowance of; so a month during their vocations ! training, have written to the head quarters of the Carry On Clubs in the! cities named According to the projectors of the association which provides the wound ed soldier with a good' home, nourish ing food, laundry, dental and medical care, transportation nad an allowance for. clothes, all for $10 a week, de pendent ex-fighter is thus left with money enough to keep up his war risk insurance and have some amusement beside. Since last April, when the first experimental club was opened in New Terk at 38-th street and Madison avenue, accommodating forty men and ten extra for meas, its work is said to have shown great possibilities. The v vaniztaion opened another New York club on Christmas Day and the week previously one with a capacity for 150 men was opened in Washing ton. The enterprise is said to hare the approval of the American Legion which is reported raising- We&- m-J , . i . mi r nhiK1' ew Orleans for a Carry On Uiuu there. Denr, with' 3,000 arrested ' . . . ; . tubercular cases, is also reported to be preparing for a club drive. Altogether were uu. , ' ooa disabled ex-service men in the uniteu otaies.. fcftTe too crowded-to radertake The "boys" in the Carry On Club the work -; -. housese do much of the housework and , Tq prevent f ecom enforce their own regulations. A M'!the dumpillg ; for discharged sunny living room filled with ex-sold- Amrican says the. Bulletin, . VhT .ZnCnt a singing to the accompaniment of a ponograph or piano is the chief feat- ot th& institution. One young ex- fighter said he gained 31 pounds in " ' . OPPOSITE EHRMS I'JORLP ATTRACTING COMflEf (By Associated Press.) Cardiff, Wales. Two divergent creeds from the opposite extremes of the mining world, which have just been published are attracting consider- uhla vmmonf Vanw Wf1flF : rtna nt T . r?4 . - the CaxdmmmimKr k "Agatostua creed of LBadcliyea I "God has ph,mis1sjaT.d puiwee4of,;einers which Is for out ane out - ivT v"'"' " price for an article, even -jf :i is 5 TO Li ( By Associated Press) : London. Germany's armed for: are estimated by ne British war cl to total dose to onex; million men. These are dividfllrato" the" rest:! army of four hundred thousand,: Lv. forces of 'Hiure thousaj..aiTOd34?abnIa 1 . regulax - aitoy 'reserves -"two;"httndr: rd5taree2iunax: thousand.' London.-:The captufTTof Xekateri- noslav on the Southern Knsian frori and Novomosovik fifteen smiles "north east of Yekaterinosav is anilotmced;t 7 the Bolsheviki. S-Ji - London. Train service- . between Basra and Bagdad;- 'JSdaticlturjkey, will be established just-As soon astl 2 construction on tner railroad Is com pleted which is proceeding at'tharats of miles daily. - C. L. Parker of Mount Olive is ia the city. ' .""' r. CLUBS 1- 3 C 80 day s a result of the good food he . receer ciud was iwrmeu, it was saia,-pecaus8 it was shown by carefully compiled statistics thta while an invalid yotr? man might be able, to live on a month in many parts of the country it wag impossible to dot i2: in -.&,Iaxss dont isaKSite Mexico Cftyr Carlos Zethja ftmem- ber pf the senate who some. -time t3 wJk proclaimed by-' his friends aV a prudential candidate, has j "written, to the capital esrl -4hat he is not -a candidate.' - . ; (By, Associated Press) j-. " Honolulu.-r-Hl and - destitute AmeH can sailors in Manila aref being sent back to the 42g!g&. States. bySthe . v. ..i,. I iitau ""lira , . . - . - ' - . - ffJ mpelied to tranjt a 'limited number of these sefmenfsrs . Heretofore such.-needy sailors had en returned to America aboard army i been returned to.jnerica aboard army , ; transports, but lately, the transports reneSts Pf made the consul- ate at Homiong, Shanghai, Singapore aml ather far eastern ports that the r send their destitute sailors-home !i- rect. ". ' v : This viewpoint has beeq. Istrocsl challenged 'by- the --mineraVj leaders, Vernon Hartshorn, . JbbrT: member c Parliament counters . with the. f oUott- inirr i- f, ;: 7 :- - and we are -t t, - ILL SOLDIERS IN MANILA ARE
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