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4 ) ( : Weather Forecast - - -- vy r-- v-c- z,?--. - : -.. - . " ' r"vy. "S WATCH XOUB LAEZL Fair in east, vprobably local thun dershowers in .west portion., tonight and Sunday. Gentle coast winds, " Do not force us to dlscoBtinue your subscription because , of overdue ac counts. V tMiZZCi - V- Volume 4; Number 28. GREENVILLE, N. a , SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JULY 17, 1920. . Price: Five .Cents V KING CLOTHIER WILL ADD A NEW ' ... . ; "... - v. , . AYDEN VISITED ; BY A DIG BLAZE J. S. VILLAI1D IS POSSESSOR OF, SECOND RACFOItAMRICA'S CUP REVALUATION ACT, SAYS MAXWELL S -vvu w ouuung Line ime seconds Ahead And At 2:30 P. Member of State Tax Commission Intimates Nothing Will Be DEPT. TO STORE! iu. was a quarter of a Mile To The Good. Yachts Found Only Cupful Of Wind And , Smooth Sea For Their r Second Encounter DURING NlliHT optciai session uenerai AssemDiy i ex t Months Fifty -Six Boys To Attend the Summer School At J Hampton Roads, Virginia SWISS RESOLUTE LEADING CHALLENGER NO CHANCE FOR AN AMENDMENT TO mm Frank Wilson Making Prepar ations to Open an Exclusive Boys' Department to be Lo cated on Second Floor. Frank Wilson, "The King Clothier," j to add an exclusive boys', depart IS ment to his gents furnishings store at the corner of Evans ahd Fourth streets- This department will be lo cated on the second floor of his store building and access will be by an elec tric elevator. This second floor has! been occupied for sometime by E. A. Parker, photographer, who this week moved to the second floor of 'the Far. iters' Bank building on Dickinson avenue. A NEWS man in talking to Mr. Wilson this morning learned that it was his intention to devote the entire' upper floor of his building to this boys' department. "I shall carry! everything essential for the boy, said Mr. Wilson. "I believe fully that GKhtA iLiJurLi nas long neeaea an - X XT T T7T 1 1 enterprise of this character and I shall make the attempt to furnish it." "You know," said Mr. Wilson, "we are sadly neglecting our boys and we don't pay to them the consideration which is their due. I am going to I keep in this boys' department every thing he needs from knee pants up." Mr. Wilson expects to leave for the northern markets soon to purchase his fixtures, which will be of mahog any .and he hopes to be ready by' the time the fall season opens. This new venture of the King Clothier will be in charge of either a lady or gentle man. Efforts To Restore Beaver in Meadow White Mountains (By Associated Press) COXCORD, N. H. An Effort to re establish the beaver on the streams' and meadows of the White Moun tains country, from which it long since disaDDeared. is beine made hv the society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests. The Lost River Reservation is again the haunt of the dam-building - ani mals, four beavers have been liberat es there asthe first step in an effort to return the amphibian architect to its former usefulness. Within the steep walls of the Kinsman Notch, through which tumbles Beaver Brook, a mis nomer in recent . years, the beaver will have its favorite topcaphy in which to propogate and work under the foothills of Moosilauke Mountain. The animals set free were the gift of the State Forester of Minnesota, who selected them from a breeding colony at a state park, situated on the headwaters of the Mississippi. The heaver are descendants of a fam ily introduced to Minnesota from Canada, which hare multiplied and prospered there, and are now con tributing to re-establishment of the species in another state. Argentine People Refuse to Wear the Coarser Clothing CBy Associated Press) BCEXOS AIRES. The cessation of the demand for coarse grades of wool for army uniforms and the re- lusai of average people, in spite of tb'' hih cost of living,- to buy cloth. in- m'tfle of the. coarse grades, has feft Argentina 'with more than 200, ,,n0,ooo pounds of aimost unsaleable wool on its hands, according to a lo ad manufacturer of woolen cloth, in terviewed by La Nacion. This huge quantity will be increased a.nring the shearing season in. July and Au-ust. As the production of jv"I m this country is growing year ,y -Vf,ar, the problem of selling the Parser grades is considered very spnou?. one reason for the situation ls that formerly Argentine sheep hrlers had thought more of the Nun the wool, with the result t their sor-k became mixed and the y sequent wool coarse and not uni- lorrn. Annuities for Mothers, Wives 0r 'laughters. An annuity giving a tertain income for life means finan- lal inPendence. Consigns. , V Xational Life Insurance Co!, of Vt, , (Mutual) - . ' tfOSELEY BROS., "General Agents, Greenville, N. C- (By Associated Press.) ' SANDY HOOK (3 PM.) -The Resolute crossed the starting line ahead of the Shamrock today in the second race for the America's cup,-the first race of which was run Thursday. The starting signal was sounded at 1:45 and the American yacht crossed the line nine seconds ahead of the challenger. At 2:30 this afternoon the Resolute was leading the Shamrock by a quartet of a mile and had the race well in hand. SANDY HOOK. Sir Thomas Lip- ton's challenger, Shamrock IV, and the Resolute, the American defender, today found nothing more than a cup ful of wind and a flat sea in which to engage in the. second race for the America's cup when Ihey were towed to the starting point just before the hour of noon. -c Both yachts wallowed in the ground swell and their sails flapped list lessly in the dead air. The regatta' committee signalled a postponement of the race until later in the day at fifteenminute intervals No signs of wind were observed, and if the sloops started the experts de clared no finish could be made with in the six-hour time limit. SANDY HOOK. A light breeze was blowing as the challenger, Sham rock IV, and the American defender. Resolute, left their moorings for the starting line in the second .America's cup race, which is a triangular race of thirty miles. A huge fleet of craft followed the racers, as they did on the first meet of the yachts, in which the Resolute was disabled and had to retire from the contest. The Shamrock finished alone and was declared the winner. NOT AS BAD AS H I S ASSASSIN THOUGHT HE WAS This is Opinion Expressed By Newspapermen As To Late Essad Pasha, Murdered Re cently in Paris. (By Associated Press.) PARIS. Many newspaper corre spondents in Paris who have had oc casion to meet the late Essad Pasha, formerly provisional president of Al bania, who was murdered here ,re- cently, are inclined Xo hink that he was not such a bad sort as Rustem Aveni, his youthful assassin, seems to think. A French newspaper co-re spondent who knew him in Saloniki says8 that he .was a wonderful poker player. On one occasion the Albanian dic- taor had lost all the available casn he happened to have with him, but continued playing "on honor," and won quite a nice pot, but he refused to rake in the money, saying: "Keep your money, old man; whei. I play on paper, I simply play for the sport of it, and it does not count. We are suits." - , NORTH CAROLINA WOMAN IS STABBED TO DEATH HIGH POINT, N. C Mrs.. Martha Lathan was stabbed to death in the iiome of her father, Walter Hagley, And Frank Peter, an Italian, who had een a guest in the Hagley home fo About a week, kas arrested three hour: later at Jamestown, near here, b: Deputy Sheriff ' Wagner. According t the sheriff, Peter, who speaks littli English, confessed to the crime. The police believe jealousy vas the cause oj. iuc ivauxi. x The woman, who was 20 years old vas married and had one child, bu' Ibad been separated from her husband INDIANS REPLACE MEX- v ICAN -TROOPS 'WASHINGTON. ' Yaqui Indian troops are being rushed to the north ern bordey near Piedras Niegras on or'dersjfr'om Mexico City to replace the 4;rbs now stationed to who for merly. ?were, under" the Carranza ..re .girne, ! according to advices received byvhfeslate department today from fJf,Merican consul ; at Piedras Nie- gra's from other Mexican sources. , - VWTLL RENEW, ALLIANCE Honolulu, Hawaii. Japan 'and Eng land .have decided to renew their aL liance, -according to a Tokio foreign office -announcement, says a' dispatch to . thenewspaper Nippu ' Jiji here. SAYS EX-EMPRESS WAS BURNED ALIVE PARIS. The Russian empress and her children were burned - alive after the executipn of Emperor Nicholas at Ekaterinburg, it is alleged in state ments attributed to Alexis Doolrovitz. formerly courier to the empress, pub lished here today. Dolrovitz said be made vain attempts to save his mis tress and her children. The empress and the children. Dol i-ovitz declared, were taken to a wood near Ekaterinburg. Brush wood was gathered and a huge fire made, intuo which the royal victims were forced. Every time they sought to get out of the flames, Dolrovitz said, they were forced back at the point of the by 'onet. Tatiana, the empress' second daugh eventually fell, pierced through by a "bayonet. The empress and Alexis, heir to the throne, clasped in close em brace, walked almost automatically into othe flames and disappeared in a whirl of smoke, according to Dolro vitz. CENSUS FIGURES Council Bluffs, la., 36,162, increase 6,870, or 23.5 per cent. VIEW MOVEMENT ' WITH SYMPATHY Does Not Escape Notice of Ar gentine Says Dr. Jose Luis Cantelo of City of Buenos Aires. (By Associated Press.) BUENOS AIRES. "The new and firm current established between the United States and Argentina does not escape the notice of Argentines, who i are fully aware of it," said Dr. "Jose Luis Cantilo, mayor of this city, in addressing the members lof the local American Club at luncheon recently. "We view tbis movement with pro found sympathy," he continued. "We. are just at the commencement of the commercial and industrial activity of the Argentine Republic. We have much to expect from American collab oration. Our lands might still be said to be deserts; our mines unexploited: our industry in the embryonie state ; our commerce but recently awakened, quickened by that activity and intel ligence which characterize the Ammer ican. It indicates that the time has arrived for us to join this movement, and our efforts should be directed so J that all business men of thegreat re public of the north who arrive at our shores should find the adhesion and the warmth necessary to the develop ment of activity and progress." CREW, CRIES UNHEEDED.. BATTLES SEA FOR 2 LONG HOURS WHEN TUG SINKS 16 Men Rescued Off Cape Henry Af ter Many Ships Fail to Sight Them. Two Members of Crew Drown As Winthrop Sinks. NOROLF Clinging desperately to bits of wreckage and life preserv ers, swimming, floating, shouting for assistance, and Struggling against time and the Atlantic tide, while many vessels sailed the sea close fo them was the bitter experience of the crew' of he tug Winthrop which went down off Cape Henry yesterday after noon with the loss of two lives. So suddenly did the vessel plunge below -the surface of the ocean, that not. a ship in the vicinity noted her disappearance. It wig all over and her crew members were fighting for their lives in the water in the space of a few moments. The two men lost- were a Danish mess boy and the Greek cook, whose names were unobtainable. -. F R CURRENT Two-Story 'Brick Building Own- ed by J. R. Smith & Brother Entirely-Consumed Early To- day. . LOSS ESTIMATED $125,000 WITH SOME i INSURANCE Burned Building Occupied By P. R. Taylor & Co., and A. L. Jackson. . Other Business Houses Damaged: A $125,000 fire visited the town of Ayden between two and three o'clock this morning, destroying a two-story brick r building, 54 x 90 feet belonging to J. R. Smith & Brother. The two stores .were occupied by A. L. Jackson, general mer chandise, and P. R. Taylor & Co., ttry goods, notions, etc. Both the building and stocks were entire ly consumed. The building cost approximately $25,000, with in surance of $12,000. A. L. Jade son's stock is estimated, to in ventory $50,000 with $25,000 in surance. P. R. Taylor's stock is estimated to . have been worth $50,000 with insurance of $35, 000. The blaze was first discovered by nightwatchman W. L. House, and was seen near the electric light switch at the front door. Be fore the fire department could reach the scene the fire had made such headway it was beyond con trol Due to the hard and heroic work on the part of the fire de partment and the citizens,' the fire .vag confined . to the building. The building next to the burned structure, owned by Zeno Lyons, and occupied by J.I McLawhorn, was damaged. The"'r66T" of hirt building was knocked in by one of the walls of the Smith build ing falling. Mr. MeLawhom's stock , suffered on account of wa ter. The Ayden Bakery sustain ed loss due to moving stock. The plate glass windows of the J. B. Pierce & Co:, store and the Pitt Hardware Co., across the street, were melted by the intense heat. 'fl While the origin of the blaze is not known the surmise is that it was caused by a defective electric wire. This entire block was wip ed out by fire in 1906. The burned building will be rebuilt at once. FINISHES ACCEPTANCE SPEECH Marion, O. Senator Harding today put the final touches on his speech of acceptance after weeks of continuous work. TO JOIN COMRADES Scranton, Pa. Capt. Street, army aviator, enroute from Mineola to Alaska, left for Erie, this morning to join the three other army aviators. WHAT GOOD IS A DOLLAR? It's largely up to you. It de pends on how you spend it Oh the value to you of what you get for it on your ability to find where that value is to be had. Of course, it's all right to shop around a bit if you like, but why not let the other fellow make it easier for you by doing a little shopping after your dollar by showing you what you want and where you can get most of it for your money? It's a great idea, once you get the hang of it, and; here's how! ; Right in this paper you'll find dozens of advertisements offering you merchandise. Some things you'll need today; some tomorrow; some next week or next year but the point is that these merchants are coming to you, looking for your dollar and offering the best they have to get it. You'll find that bys reading the advertisements consistently today and every day; you can increase the- value to yourself of every dollar you have to spend. The things you see advertised are al most invariably as represented. The advertisers' statements are usually safer to trust than your own judgment Advertised misrep resentation is business suicide. .ADVERTISING IN THE NEWS SELLS THErGOODS (By Max Abernethy.) RALEIGH. There is no chance of an amendment to the revaluation act being forced through the special ses sion of the general assembly which would permit the raising of the tax rate as already scheduled as a means of providing additional revenue for towns and cities, in the opinion of A. J. Maxwell of the state tax commis sion. Recently there has been some ag itation in the state for such an amend- j ment so that the municipalities could replenish their treasuries, which have been too insignificant to meet the heavy drains made upon them because f the increase in salaries, mainte nance of water, electric and sewer systems and current expenses, this condition having arisen along with the upward trend in cost of other things. The municipal leagu.e or mayors and commissioners of public safety, con sidered the advisability of asking that an amendment to the revaluation act be enacted at the special session, the city fathers generally having consid ered it not only dvisable but abso lutely necessary in order to keep the city governments off of the financial rocks. Members of the tax commission re alize the problem that is confronting the city government, but point out that virtually every municipality in North Carolina hasor-he past twenty years been, unable to show anything but a deficit at the end of each twelve month period. They, of iourse, dislike such a condition to exist, but think that after having become accustomed to it, one more year will make very little if any difference. That this position is taken by the tax commission is due to the fact that the revenue act specifically provides that the tax rate shall not be in ex cess of ten per cent over the rate prevailing last year. It is apparent that this increase will not be suffic ient 'to finance the cities properly, 'but he members of the general assem bly are going to stand ! by the people Hn seeing that the original program is INCREASE 11 .HUNDRED FEET IN AIR OARAGE Navy Department Orders 200 More Feet To Length of the Mammoth Hangar for Diri- gible Balloons. (By Associated Press.) LAKEHURST, N. J. The navy department has ordered an increase of 200 feet in the length of the mam moth "air garage" for dirigible bal loons which is being built here, it was announced today. This hangar will be- the largest in the world, big enough to hold two trans-Atlantic liners the size of the Leviathan: Plans for it originally were drafted when the navy depart ment contracted for the R-3, a dirigi ble one-third larger ' than the R-34, Vwhieh flew to the United States from England last year. According to reyised specifications, the hangar will be l.COO feet long, 318 feet wide and 200 feet high. When completed, which probably will be next spring, the .big "air garage" and its auxiliary power house, machine shops and officers' suarters will cost about $3,577,0000, it was stated. The hangar will have electrically operated double doors, 177 by 136 feet each, which, when opened wide, will, with the wideh of the structure, con stitute a wind-break of nearly 600 feet. Satisfactory progress has been re alized to 'date in the hangar's con struction, it was stated. The site has been cleared of pine and scrub oak stumps by two marine corps tractors, designed for hauling 7-inch guns through .Flanders mud, but now oper ated as stump pullers. The founda tion and bases for the steel arches of the roof have been laid and several "arches mounted. About 400 enlisted men and ciYihans are employed n the work, which is being performed under the civil engi neers corps of the navy. t CENSUS FIGURES Marietta. Ohio, revised figures 15,-, -140. previously announwu i wiw. ... - - , jt 4 Kitt carried out ; the proposed amendment will, in the event it is introduced, be defeated. Col. Aus Watts. twhile political prognosticator, horse in the North Carolina, : years a war party In llgh this week in connect iOj '' is income tax business, of whi r- he head The colonel is interest & ;e pro- posea move of the nt gists, who have shouldet, v. nffra' 'ask or converting him to tlu There is, of course, no chari :M"thc colonel "flopping" on the Suffrage question; he doesn't and he won't. Asked today as to his position on ratification he stated that everybody who knew him knew tha he 'was not only opposed to ratification of the Susan B. Anthony federal suffrage amendment but that he, was opposed to woman "suffrage in any way. The suf frage plenipotentiary who is supposed to confer with him with the view of making a convert to the cause has as yet not had the conference. Three hundred men will go to Camp Glenn on September 7 for the fifteen day encampment of the North Caro lina National Guard, which includes the Hickory and Lincolnton troops of cavalry,- the Durham machine gun company and infantry companies -from Winston-Salem and Burlington; Pj-epa rations for the j encampment have been in progress for the past sev eral weeks and everything is now in readiness. Adjutant General J. Var B. Motts, -Major Gorodon Smith, prop erty and disbursing officer and Colonel T. B. Eames, who is instructor-inspector of the guard, will accompany the men. The commanding officer has not 1 been assigned. The enrollment of fifty-six boys from North Carolina, for the summer school naval training station at Hamp ton Roads, Virginia, is announced. The capital city send eleven boys of the first to recruit, the others coming from virtually all sections of the state. Enrollment forthe school will be alltfwed until" July 28 It-: is 'an nounced from the naval recruiting of fice here. TO MAKE SURVEY OF PENINSULA OF KAlilCHAltlA Expedition Fitted Out By The Swedish Society of Stockholm The Work Will Last For At Least Two Years. (By Associated Press) YOKOHAMA. An expedition fitted out by the Swedish Society of Anthro pology and Gegotaphy of Stockholm has left Yokohama to make a scien tific survey of the peninsula of Kam-j chatka. The work will last for at least two years. The members of the expedition are scientists from the University of Stockholm and are under the direc tion of Even Bergman. They are pre pared for a zoological, botanical, eth nographical, geological and geograph ical survey of the whole peninsula. The collections will be donated to the Swedish Geographical Society and to the University of Stockholm. t i Kamchatka is known to have a rlchj and varied flora and fauna, but it is comparatively unknown to scientists. The plant life is particularly inter esting, as it Is unusually extensive for the high latitude and many of the forms belong 'to regions much farther south. Birds and "animals are nu merous, and as far as known are similar to those of Alaska y , . . Allies Threaten To v Drive Ttirks From Eur o p e Forever LONDON. A threat to drive the Turk from Europe "once and for all" is ' contained in the Allied reply to fthe Turkish obiectiona to. the neace treaty .. - " - .v. L-- - . . . A Such action might .follow Turkey's I refusal to &igb the' treaty or" their failure to give it effect, the reply states.."-. ' ' ' ;; '--K V The time limit for Turkey- to make known - her decision expires at mid- ; rKf - Tniir yr ' - - - . , - . ..-..Nl - , 'V Won For Excellent 'Work "Last Year in Insurance Business. Two, Local ' Young - Ladles Get Trip Niagara Fans. : J. S. Willard is the prou possessor of a handsome Swiss gold watch - aa a f reward for his excellent WrV in the insurance business tb past- y J ax. Last year McAllister, Vaugh4rt,fihl ' Scales, of Greensboro, N C, offered free trips and prizes to Niagara ' Falls " and Canada to those employed ' in In- 1 surance offices that' brought In th most business. The winning; of two . '1 memberships not only entitled the win, " ners to take the trip, but in addition a gold watch as offered.' . 1 1 Two of Greenville's young ' ladies, employed In the H. A. White insurance office, Misses Olivera'Cox and. Eliza- beta Quinerly, won. the memberships trip while Mr. WiHard,u k the L - keeper in the same office, won the watch. ' The Misses Cox and Quinerly bar v - just returned from their- trip to Nia- gara Falls and Canada and also - at tended the fire Insurance 'convention " to which 125 winners of the trips at tended as the guests of Messrs. Me-"' Allister, Vaughan and Scales. They report a great trip. .'..' . Mr. Willard's watch Is Indeed a most handsome one. It is beautifully eh- graved with the monogram, "J. S. W,"- If you want to Jake a peep ' at the . watch all you have to do is to ask ; . Mr. Willard what time It is, and hell do the rest. - ' v 1 . " . AlUes WiU Help the W Germans in Floating ' : Her Intended Ioanf SPA, Belgium. The. Allies .will :take ! . appropriate 'measures ; to j assist ; 0r many .Inf loatlng her lpansvihtended v " 4 to meet her flnternal 'iqiiirehients'-and S ' ? to assist. her, toake. a prpmpt . dis charge or her debt to ; the; AUiesr vc-y , cording to an agreement signed today by the principal?Allied w countries.' '' . -'v.- - ;". .?' " The distribution of indemnities was : , also agreed upon. ' , - ' Fighting Between the ; . Rival Factions Told Of In New Dispatches , PEKING. Fighting between the troops of the rival factions occurred -Friday at Kwanhun, thirty miles, ; to the south of . Peking. ' Many, of ;.the7 wounded have already arrived here. Peking' ls quiet but . the wire and . rail communications with Tientsin la Interrupted. Mediators ' , have been sent In an endeavor to reconcile v the j contending factions. ". ; They; have.r re- turned to this city, having failed in their mission. , , r 'it' Start a Campaign To Eradicate The Cockney Dia (By Associated Press.) LONDON, London school .teacher ik have begun a campaign to eradicate i the C5ockney dialect'which they char acterlze as a-"disease of , language,! caused by incorrect breathing and; by'., improper voice ; instruction. 4 A nnnKi T ber of teachers in secondary schools-V declarelementary teachers theuretelves . often' employ : the .Cockney, , prouourici' ) lng- such words as ''paid'' as if1 both4 the vowels were and explaining' ; the difference by saying the .'"I should have a dot. ' ' V The teachers, made no plans to .cat- ry the reform to the CJockney - aulfs outside the schools. . t ; ' DRUNKEN COWS LEAD TO CAPTURE OF LARGE STILL IN COUNT? OF : DUUXIA5I Durham. Two drunken T cows that rompedv about; their pasture until ex- " hausted "and then fell to the' ground ' In a etupor led .to the discovery of a. ' large" still on the farm of,Jqhji;Klng;, about 15 miles northeast of the, city. during the early hotrrp" of lat night. , DrPettya local veterinarian," who was called to treat the animafavfound fw.uu i i ther- were intoxicated - and alter a long search the still was located-, )ry the farmer. EARTHQUAKE'S RESULT Los'Angeles.' The four earth quake shock of varying Intensity yes terday left, relatively slight darna?, Scores of people suffered slight hurt, XL ? - if