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GREENVILLE, N. C. FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JULY . 9, 1920.
Price: Five Centa
OTTO SECiD TROOPS
Uffflf HE THINKS IT
Pitt Coiintys Next State Senator
V BANK AT
SECOND SERIES
SUFFS VILL m
IMS TO HELP
ABSOLUTE : NECESSITY
IS NOW OPEN
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START MOIkjX
STATE IS SEVENTH v
IN PAYMENT TAXES
TO GOVERNMENT
Suffragettes Expect North Car
olina Solons to Fly To Their
Aid Next Month. Refuse To
Abandon the Fight.
(By Max Abernethy)
R AJjEIGH. North Carolina now
-ranks seventh in the United, States in
tlie payment of Federal taxes, the
Sta'e having paid $162,127,284.55 into
the treasury during the fiscal year end
ing June 30, 1919, representing $15,
507.691.08 more than was collected in
the entire country in 1897, according
to the yearly receipts given out by
Revenue Collector J. W. Bailey.
The report shows' that collections
during the past year exceeded " the
combined receipts of Virginia, South
Carolina. Georgia, Florida, Alabama,
Mississippi and Louisana, while the
total in North Carolina was greater
than in any other State7 with the ex
ception of Illinois, Kentucky, Massa
chusetts, New York, Ohio ana Penn-
sylvania.
Collections show increase of $60,
849.131.57 over the fiscal year 1919,
aurt an increase of $148,475,347.17 in
the past fire years. The-receipts in
the 5-year period were for 1919, $101,
278.152 -OS; 1918, $69,672,667.06; 1917,
$30.S9S,OS2.01; 1916, $19,543,586.25.
Tobacco yielded the most taxes in
1920 with a total of $108,518,866.15.
Taxes on incomes and excess profits
in the State amounted to '$44,956,292.
33. For the privilege of using the
railroads for freight ' and . passenger
traffic, North Carolina paid $2,612,267.
38. Other forms of taxation were-estate
tax, $3474,019.28 ; capital stock,
$o29,389.r2; documentary and proprie
tary stamps", $224,763.45; miscella
neous, $2,042,486.44.
Commenting on the increase in re
ceipts Collector Bailey stated that his
office has collected over four hundred
million dollars in Federal taxes-since
he has been in charge anj that now
all books balance to the penny.
The Landis Situation
Oovernor Bickett has decided that
he will not accede to the request of
Mayor Beale of the town of Landis,
who lias asked that, troops be sent
there to prevent anticipated disorder
between striking and non-striking cot
ton mill employees until he himself
had jrone to Landis and was assured
of the urgent need of them.
Adjutant General Metis returned to
Raleigh yesterday from Landis where
ho went under instructions from the
governor to investigate theX Reported
differences, and reported thftu iult of
liis finrlincrs. nis report wa aa.de
public. Gov. Bickett's de .. Wes
not mean that he will an
investigation, for he wilVCira.1 is
'bsirous of being satisf; jphe
trouble cannot be amicir' in
a'iy other way before for
troops s issued.
o serious disorders hs i
place between the workers -a,. n
striko and who are picketing ti t. !ils
against their former fellow-workers,
who have stayed on the job. T h e
s'fi'ike has been on for about 5 weeks
although it does nbtin.Tolve any great
nnmhvr of the employees. " It is Kild
t have been due to -the r discharge of
tn' employees and to have nothing to
with wages, working conditions or
r,fo-nition of the union. H-;
Suffrage Outlook Not Bright ,
Suffrage workers' here who are liOjP
that the Susan B. Anthony, Fedr?
aI Suffrage amendment will be ratified
by 011(1 more state in lime for them
f' Participate in the November: elea
f'ons were not any' too welt; pleased
with the action of the Louisaha legui-'
lature yesterday which refused to susJ
ptnd the rules to allow-introduction
" ' a resolution providing for' ratifica-
,,,n Louisana had previously blast
' '1 the hopes of the suffragists by de-
ating ratification by an overwhelm,
iM- majority.
p-"t the tight the suffragists intend
Iililke in North fumMnir hm noriip '
,
'Mimarea to tne outside- worm.
nie;r
"orsers say, and they refuse rio
up
They confidently hope rath-
r ATE & FEDERAL. TAXES
IMRe jonr will and create a -nrefer-""sallies,
r"' lebt which musti be paid before
- -iaie can be settled. '. Consult construction for war damages auaiw
s with regard N to 8pecLtic-insiraicO:peusios
cover such taxes. 71st year. :-l
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MOSELEX BR05L f.iMl lr.i;ft1
COX INTKI4TES
HEtE SP TOE
PRESIDENT SOON
First Important Conference To
A - -
Arrange for Democratic Cam
paign Will Be Held July 20
Says Chairman Cummings
DAYTON, O. The first "important
conference to be arranged for the Dem
ocratic campaign-will be held July 20 j
according to a telegram today from
Chairman Cummings to Gov. Cox.
The, telegram stated that Cummings
had called a meeting of the entire
national committee to confer with the
nominee.
Dayton, O. Plans for the Demo
cratic national campaign is held in
abeyance hy Governor Cox pending
the arrival of his running mate, Frank
lin D. Roosevelt, from San Francisco,
and the members- of the national
committee for the first conference with!
the nominee. This conference, may
not be Tield before Monday.
Cox has given no intimation as toJ
buuui uc niuiis iui uis vamyaigu man
ager but his many friends are urging
E. H. ijdoore, of Youngstown, Ohio, the
governor's pre-corrvention campaign
manager. .
Since Ohio is to be the battle-ground
both" candidates being from this state,
Cox's friends believe he is the logi
cal man for the job although it is ad
mitted that Chairman Cummings
would e a good man.
Gov. Cox intimated today that : he
may go to 'Washington, soon for "the
purpose of conferring with President
Wilson. - "' r"-"
er than expect that the North Caroli
na solons will fly to their aid. On the
other hand the little .army of rejec
tionists who have busied themselves
about' the State capital for the past
thirty days or so insist that urgent
appeals from President Wilson, nom
inee Cox and any one else, will not
reach the hearts of the lawmakers.
They predict that the amendment will
be defeated easily in the house and
that the chances of the measure pass
ing the senate is none too bright.
Recent popular votes in two coun
ties Mecklenburg and Union on
ratification, 'has almost persuaded po
litical prophets to believe that the
antis are about right in theif pre.
sumption that North Carolina will not
be the thirty-sixth state to place the
stamp of approval on the measure.
Tampa. Speaker Wilder of the
Florida house of representatives, ex
pressed the opinion today that a spec
on the federal suffrage amendment
was not likely.
The governor, it is reported, told
the suffragettes that he would not
call a special sessnon unless a. major
ity of the General Assembly signify
that they are in favor of ratification.
Speaker Wilder said that this was
ial session of the legislature to pass
not probable. i
BALANCE SHEET
AT AG LANCE
sr.
FrenchMinlster of Finance Has
X :fc Be-
tween CJermany and His Gov-
' erximent. r ; "
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PARIS (By Mail) A reparations
balance. sheet has "been-drawn up by
the French; Fnance .Minister. J Is in
j. .'jji" li...- .t :. .l.nmi rn n'nv
IU 5UVW ' ttl v a iiouv.'' j "
j date, the "condition of . the account be-
tween 'France and: Germany.
On the
debit se will appear -all the expend!
iniua TmaA xr tTili ": UVOTlflh j. ifOVern.
ment which, underlie treaty of Ver:
are chargeable to Germany-
These will include' sums, paid-for re- J
he ' billions 'already paid out for
-'many is still blanks
GIVES
ACCOUNT
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NEEDHAM W. OUTLAW.
At the second primary held in Pitt county Saturday last, N. W. Outlaw,
a 'member of the Greenville bar, was chosen as Senator to represent the coun
ty in the upper house of the next General Assembly, air. Outlaw is 35 years
of age and has been practicing his profession, (law), in Greenville for thel
past eleven years. He says that he still stands for the betterment of Pitt
county. Mr. Outlaw will take his seat in January, 1921.
GOVT. TO OPERATE CARRIER BOYS
AN AIR SERVICE HAVING GREAT
VIA N. C. CAPITAL
Be Established Between New
York and Atlanta November
15. Starting and Arriving
Time Announced.
V (By Associated Press )
Washington. Bids 'for the opera
tion ofa, new jnir mail sedyice be
tween v New York and Atlanta via"
Raleigh and Columbia was requested
by the PosU Office Department tday. ;
The service is to begin November 15. i
The airplane will leave New York at
seven o'clock in the morning and is '
expected to arrive in Atlanta by sev-.
en o'clock in the evening. It will leave'
Atlanta at
five-thirtv in the morning
' i
and arrive in New York at five
ty in the evening.
j
Many Deeds of Transfer ;
j
Are Filed for Recording
The following deeds of transfer
have been filed in the Register of
Deeds office for registration since the
last report:
W. A. Darden to B. B. Sug, et al.
Consideration $335.
G. H. Summerell and wife to E. E.
Swindell and wife. Consideration,
$5,000.
J. T. Jones and wife to Lydia A.
Fountain. Consideration, $1,435.
Pinetops Development Co., to R. A.
Fountain. Consideration, $1,000.
J. L. Fountain and wife to R. A.
Fountain. Consideration, $2,S0O. ,
J. L. Fountain and wife to Lydia A.
Fountain. Consideration, $100.
CAPITAL STOCK
OF LOCAL FIRM
B E INCREASE!
Willard & Smith Company Will
Have Preferred Stock Of Half
Million Dollars, It is Official
ly Announced.
- The Willard & Smith Co.; of this
city, which has branch-stores at Wil-
son and; Pink Hill, is going forward)
rstnifiiv that. 1 n order to devefon it'
it has been found necessary to in-
crease the capital stock.
: The common stock of the company !
is'$50,000 and .to this has been added
recently ' preferred , stock to the ex
tent of a half million.,
.1 The company is constructing three
warehouses in Wilson in- order .to
take care - of their Immense business.
They are being erected by the Hackney
Bros., opp)site' the. Hackney vBros,
wagon- factory o the Atlantic.. Coast
Line-railway. - -
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9
TIME 0 N IIP
Are Guests of Park Publications
And Are Now At Black Moun
tain. Say Trip is Most En:
joyable One.
The Park publications carrier boys
j -now 'at "Black Mountain on a camping
f trip as the guests , of the Raleigh
Times, Fayetteville Observer and New
Bern Sun-Journal must be having the
time-of their lives, judging by. what
one of the carriers has to say. Writ
ing of their outinar he says:
(By One of the Carriers)
Black Mountain, July 9.-We had
oni one a snort way m our special
j. . .i
an(i" we were served with sandwiches,
I fruits, cold drinks and other good
things to eat.
"Tne news-butcher came in with a
happy smile, for well he knew the boys
would surely buy, and they did.
"At Kernersville, while the train
changed crews, the boys, for amuse
ment, took snapshots of a mountaineer
and her cow, which she was tying out
to graze, by the mountain side.
"At Barber's Junction we were serv
ed with three-story cocoanut pie, the
first story consisting of pastry, the
second story of yolk and cocoanut fill
ing and the third arid last with me
rangue, which left a longing for wa
ter The tank being empty,w'e were
not relieved until we reached States
ville. Just as we were pulling in the
station the Garber-Davis Orchestra,
of Greensboro, met us and gave us a
grand serenade, which was thorough
ly enjoyed by all.
"Just before reaching Conover we
glimpsed our first real mountain. One
would .have thought the Park publica
tions had out an extra, from the way
the boys yelled.
"Then came the shock the x train
stopped suddenly all were up in no
time to find out the cause. After
several inquiries we foun one of our
engines had been disabled. They came
through and told us 'we won't be
here long.' For amusement, the boys
sang songs, still no going ahead. Then
the boys suggested we climb one of
the lovely mountains and sing 'Per
fect Day.' ' !!miQ20
"After an hour or more of patient
waiting the train pulled out, reaching
Black Mountain at 11:30. We were
carried to R. B. Lee Hall in Special
motor cars. Afer the- 'baths' we bade
Circulation Director Goodrich good
night, thanking and commending him
for the courtesies shown us during the
day.
"The Park party, was met at Black
Mountain station by J. J. King, busi-
ness manager of the Blue Ridge asso
ciation. Mr. King arranged for a
mountain hike Wednesday" morning
at 1ft o'clock in " which all "the carriers
"
(Continued on page 6)
ISTOTICE,TO SUBSCRIBERS
: The new management of the
NEWS requests that all subscribers
who are now in arrears please make
immediate settlement to ' the : Sub
wripHon Department.
i- r.
Shows Deposits of $125,000 For
First Day's Business With In-
-A'
crease By End of Week.'
NEW INSTITUTION 5 AS A
CAPITAL STOCK OF $25,000
Over One Hundred Farmers and
Business Men of That Section
Are Stockholders.
Grimesland's new bank took over the
branch of the Greenville Banking &
Trust company yesterday, the latter
institution, wrhich has been doing bus
iness in that town for the past sev
eral years withdrawing from the ter
ritory.
This financial institution, Bank of
Grimesland, with a -capital stock of
$25,006, showed deposits the very first
day of $125,000 and the officials state
confidently that this amount will eas
ily be increased to $175,000 before the
close of the present week.
The Bank of Grimeslapd will occu
py the same building that the branch
of the Trust Company did. '
The officers of the new bank . are :
President, J. C. Galloway; vice-
president, -W. E. Proctor; cashier, JA
H. Brooks; "attorney, J. B. James.
The following well-known citizens
compose the: .board of directors:
J. C. Galloway, W. E. Proctor, J. B.
James, R. L. Little, A. O. Clark, W. S.
Galloway, J. H. Edwards, F. A. Elks,
J. J. Elks, C. M. Jones, and W. C.
Faucette.
-Over one hundred t farmers and bus
iness men in and around Grimesland
are stockholders.
The Bank of Grimesland is located
in one of the finest sections of Pitt
county and JsJmx
IhTp unsurpassed.
John D. Celebrates bay.
Tarry town,. N. Y. John D. Rocke
feller celebrated his eighty-first birth
day here today at his Tocantico jes-tate.
METHOD OF DESTROYING RATS
GIVEN BY PUB. HEALTH SERVICE
Can be Accomplished by Indi Effort to a Limited
Degree Says Surgeon General Cumming
Urges a Vigorous Campaign Against Pests.
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON. Methods of ' de- quickly attract rats than will food
stroying and proofing against rats without odor ; but the idea-that a rat
are outlined in literature prepared by ( can be enticed into a trap by the em.
the United States Public Health Ser-l ployment of bait more appetizing to
vice for use by State and Municipal i him than the surrounding food supply
Health Officers over the country in
the campaign which they have been
asked by Surgeon General Cummings
to inaugurate in order to protect the
nation against" bubonic , plague. The
activity of the health service results
from . the appearance of the plague in
Mexican and American gulf ports and
at points in the Mediterranean.
"Rat destruction," says the Health
Service Bulletin, "can be accomplish
ed by individual effprt to a limited
degree, but to be successful in large
cities there must. Be rat-proofing of
buildings. No spasmodic or indi
vidual efforts will result iu the desir
ed end.
"Rats can be destroyed by trapping,
by poisoning, and by using natural
enemies, such as certain breeds of
cats and dogs. To insure the success
ofTn"ese measures it is necessary to
curtail -the rat food supply by prop
erly disposing Of garbage 'and table
refuse, and by preventing rats, from
gaining access to such foods as is con
tained iu pantries, groceries, markets
and stables and the like. x
"Success in trapping is proportional
to the-attention and industry - the
trapper devotes to his traps and pro-
tectio" oi ocner zoou suppiies.
Kinas oi xraps are generally '"sea't
the wire cage trap and the simp trap:
wt uu ... portanee in raf-proQjing because-they
ed . wherever rats have been aecu-;t botb 8nstCnance and shelter
tomed to come for feeding purposes, oj. y. this class of' buildings
and should be more or less conc3aled, flre stabIeg) meat marketsretail jind
the snap trap by scattering dust, wnolesaie; groceries, ' bakeries ware-corn-meal
or flour on or about them honse&f docg and . wharv, jhese
and the cage by pieces of sacking, straw :places are be8t rat-proofed as' tothe
or rubbish, leaving only the opening groUnd areas by the. . construction of
f ree. nanndtn fft-a nfkd f AiinQfiAti; n.ll
Highly savpred articles, such' as
' cheesa, an : tested -6acbn,r . will ? more,
Board of Directors of League
Held Meeting Here Last Even
ing in Chamber Rooms.
NEW SET RESOLUTIONS
WERE ADOPTED BY VOTE
Playing of Professionals Not To
Be Tolerated. Sentiment Ex
pressed Against Betting.
i . -I -r.
The board of directors of the East
ern Carolina Baseball League held
their regular meeting last night in the
Greenville . Chamber, of - Commerce
rooms. The meeting began a little af- 1
ter . eight o'clock and continued until
-eleven before ajl the. business" had
been completed. -
It wag decided that the second half
of the Eastern Carolina, series should
open Monday, July 12 as was set
some time ago instead of its being post
poned until Thursday as wag desired
by quite a number of the representa
tiveg. - - -
The decision relative to the Tarboro
Williamston game of seyeral weeks
ago, and which was, at that time, de
cided as illegal by the board of di
rectors, was reaffirmed last night' and
the game will be replayed Saturday,
July 10, at Tarboro. inasmuch as
Tarboro and Williamston are sched
uled to play on that date, , it will be
no inconvenience to stage a double
header. ' '
As was, decided at the meeting of
the Greenville fans night before last
a resolution was introduced to amend
the by-laws of the league, which pro
vides for a penalty being placed on
any club using prof essional "players.
This resolution provides that for the
ers the said club will be. fined $100,
for the second and third offenses, $200
each and for the third offense the
loss of the club's franchise. This
rule will-be enforced regardless of
whether theifeff erent teams hire the
(Continued on Page 3)
is fallacious. To the rat, food sup
ply is a question of availability and
preference is a secondary considera
tion. "The destruction of rats" by. poison
has always beerr-more or less in favor.
A preparation of arsenious acid or
phosphorous, ten per cent and suit-,
able base, as cheese, meat or glucose,
are the most popular poisons. Poisons
undoubtedly, have a . certain efficiency
in ridding a place of ratsr but - wheth
er by causing their migration or their
actual destruction is somewhat; diffi
cult of determination. - ' ':-."
In rat-proofing any buUding, thetchh) sinks and the like should be
following parts have to be considered :
ground ' area, walls', ceiling, garret,
roof, bed spaces hx. general,-, ventila
tors, abandoned sewers, doors, f-wni-dows,
outside pjping,. water, and sew-
erage pipes down spouts', wiring and
air or lights shafts. By the omission
of some small detail or otherwise rat,
prdof structures may become vbadly
rat-infested. - . ' " '
"The rat-proofing of floors of
buildings is secured, either by elevation
of if he structure with the "mder-pin.-ninsroiwninff
free or hv maririnel walls
f .. concrete stone , or r in
f ccment ,mortaV nk two feet -in "the
g Q nd fitti flush with . the floor
above. The wall must fitrtightlyito
the flooring'
. . depots re: the greaer'inu
j concrete iioors ana iounaarion- wans.
, Untenanted as they are at night time
tats might "Veil enter doorways or
IK
TTJ ." TTA TTia Tmf1iienA
ith Members of The Legis-
lature. . ' v
WOMEN WILL ENDEAVOR
TO DISABUSE HIS MIND
Representatives Wp Go To The
Queen City and Statesville To
Confer., . -
(By Parker R. Anderson)
WASHINGTON, T. C. Following
the program of administrative cura
tives by first finding the root of the
disease national suffragists are dealing
with CoL A. ; D. Watts of Statesville
with the view of 'getting him lined up
on heir;, side before North Carolina's
legislature meets in . special session
August 10. i-jrX '
J As. aVresult of negotiations carried
on through correspondence the suff
rage organization .;l's going to send an
intermanary to Statesville or Charlotte
to "urge" the Colonel to. use his in
fluence with members of the legis
lature. They will endeavor '; to dis
abuse his mind of the( thought that
the Democrats have no chance In the
fall election and that his future poli
tical status may be either bolstered
up or completely broken by. his re
sponse or refusal to respond to their
appeal. '.;.i.'..'; 'i- ' ?-v ;-"v ' --;'K-;
Both the White House and the wo
man - suffrage organization "question
ed" Senator Simmons' sincerity in ;hia
April 6th statement In which he ex
pressed the conviction that it would
be "politically expediate" for - North
Carolina' to ratify . the Susan' B. An
thony amendment. ' j - -
Watts has been bitterly opposed to
women - voting and Senator Simmons,
when he referred to the question a
few dayg before leaving for North Car
olina, said that he i still thought it
would be "bad for the women" to have
the ballot but it was now simply a
question of whether women would he
allowed to vote this year or next.
Now that Cam Morrison has been
nominated, both the White House and
the woman suffrage organizations, are
hopeful that the senator will 'not only
use hig influence for. the cause but '
that he will have the" great politician
In his organization to reverse himself.
CIGAR . MANUFACTURERS
ANNOUNCE "OPEN SHOP"
Tampa, Fla. Nearly one : hundred
dors of their factories this morning
large cigar? manufacturers opened the
to .any 'cigar workers who wished to
work under the open shop - plan. . A
strike and lockout has been in progress
in tis businesh since April 17 last. ,
windows carelessly left open or be in
troduced concealed in he merchandise ;
and gnawing through ; plank-flooring
obtain well protected hiding and breed
ing places, y f: . :y: ,i- vy ;
"Double" walls withi dead space be
tween should be avoided, or if used
should be jat-proofed at top and bot
tom with heavy" wooden - timbers,; four
by fourj joists o by a concrete fill.
Attics should be well opened arid kept
free of ? dunnage or "other refuse for
ratS.i yI.? r ; : : '-'y. y -J - v " y
5- "Double ceiling ; should; beV avoided 1
especially go m basements. Boxed in
structures, y such asuprights and .the
roughly -finished dwellings,- plumbing,
removed. -; Miscellaneous . openings .. as
light shafts, , ventilators and windows ,
should be screened. preferably by 12-1
guage wire screen, with mesh, ntft ex
ceeding v:one-half inch. " The grounds
about the buildings are to be devoid of
rat harborage ' and premises are to
be kept clean and free of rubbish."
In seaport jcitiesT" where the - rare
species , of the brown-' rat and "Alex-.
andrlan rat prevail, health officials
are" asked : to make ""surveys to deter
mined the presence or absence of .rod.,
ent plague. ' - . - ''
HHow. to eliminate the more common
species; including the "Norway" rat,
barn : rat, sewer'' rat, gray- r wharf
ratt4s described as follows : " .
. ' By starving him, v through the use
of ratroof receptacles for food, and
covered metal' garbage cans. .
By depriving. him of breeding places,
through the abolition of planked yard 3
and -passageways.
By. refusing, him admission : to the
comfort of your buildings,' throuih
rat-proof construction, and screened
basement openings. -
By killing him at every orportiivfr.
By. demanding city a fi-' t -
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