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UP FIIESEriTATION TREATX SHORT TIME ATLANTA UNLIKELY
Three ArrestaSuccessful Oper
PRESENCE PUPILS
ations Against Jraffic in "South
Kioaton. . 4 . ' '
?jpIcc!c(p'nt;:of i ? Treaty, .With Nothing About Armed
! Forces iBoundaries or Reparations, Things to Be
VI : Thrcsk Out Later Ceremony BeeOT'"12J:and.'l P.
; ii;-IlIohay-yashirttori Expects Germans! to Sign
;VUh Ko Intention of Complying With TerniSBrock-
S " dorf f -iiatzau's Attitude; In Keeping With' Ante-Bel-iuia
Policy of Regarding Treaties' as Scrips of Paper
.. ""; : ' (By tha
. Cf nPYinir " .TunA '.
; v-""-r --"-r- ".K, r.i ,
the Austrian delegates att?:29 p. m. President Wilspn.s
late arrival prevented tne meeting irum convening um.u
ito wa was. t.hft-last- deWate to reach the chateau, en-
terln'ff the hall at 12:14 The
lwu o. . 1 i j. " ;
ri. i
AS a S.eieLyii wet. .
. Financial; economic, reparations,, mmiary anu pouau- ta tr may prelude a bigger
nrv clauses. Jare either wholly or partially lacldngir'..-.JJ(st?&-i. - pending.. The date of
A Shad of the Former . '
Glory of 'Hapsbnrg.
St. Germain, June 2. The condi--tioBS
of peace of the'AIWecl and as?
'socioted powers with the exception
cf military, reparations financial
: and certain ; boundary -clauses ' wer
handed ' tha . Austrian! "plenipoten
- tiariea at St Germaiflts today. The
Clauses not ready fot presentatfoij
trill be delivered as ioon as, possihle
- Tha Austrians wiU. be . given op
portunity to befeia work oa the great-'
; er part of the treaty in att effort to
facilitate their final decision. Th
Austrian treaty provides exactly the
same outlinff a the German 'and ii
many placfts 'iB. adantlcal with it ex
cept for3 tha. change, oj name,. It rer
quires, the enemy to accept the'eove
" nant-of the League of Nations .'.and
the labor charter," recognize the .in
dependence" '"of , Czechoslovakia -vat
. Juffoslavia - ' a-nd ' recognize-, an inde-tj.'Pej.-JMopwWnj"in'4lienaiiTO
'of- the
Sepublic of Austria, -
Both new Slav nations ' and Rou
mania must be assured . freedom of
transit and equitable treatment in
foreign commerce. 'Austria- must
recognize - the full independence of
territories formerly parts of Russia.
- Tho Brest-Litovsk treaty is an
nulled. The treaties concluded with
Russian elements since the revolu-
v tion are annulled. The-Allies re
serve the (right of Restitution for
Russia from Austria and consent of
abrogation of the treaty of 1839, es
tablishing Belgian neutrality.
The Austrians must agree to the
new Belgian, boundaries, fixed by the
Allies,,; acjep 'Alljed; disposition of
Austrian rights in. Turkey and Bul:
garia; ; accept arrangements witl
Gepruajiy regarding . ScMeswjg-Hol.
- stein. . Austrian ' nationals' ' of all
traces and languages and religions
must ; be equal before the law. - The
ntire Austro-Hungarian navy must
be surrendered to the Allies, Twenty
one specif ied, auxiliary. rujera-inust
be n disarmed and.; treated asj. mer-
chantnien.. Warships, including eub-
mannes, under construction "must be
broken, up. and - used for industrial
purposes; only-, All-ayararnis aitd
materials rouat be- surrendered Eu-
turej use of Submarines grpljibited.
raiupry. ciatuaa ata-reserved
Germany Will . Sign, But. 1
WwAinglion," Jiine 'iL-z-Tiat , Qer-
many will sign the Allied peace
treaty but feels it cannot and will
not fulfill the provisions, is the in
terpretation officials place on Count
Brockdorff-Rantzau's final answer to
the Allied terms.
i THE CASUALTIES
Killed, 6; died of wounda, 6; of ac
cident and other causes, 12; of di
sease, 22; wounded severely, 36; to
degree undetermined 25; slightly,
104; miss'mg, 18; total, 228.
Ambulance Outfit
at Camp fa Jersey
A telegram received by Dr. Ira M.
Hardy Monday from R. E. Todd,
Ambulance Company 317, tells of his
arrival and presumabty the unit's
at Camp Dix, N. J., The company
comprised in large part of Kinston
men, was with the 80th Division ov
erseas. The company is a regular
frmy outfit, but served with & divis
ion made up of selective service men
&om PennsjVania, Virginia and
West Virginia.
United Press)
Trip neaee treatK was handed
document is regarded Here pntt.tt'caii out an
'"-iwlour wire (WDrkers in that city if tho
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WHY NORTH CAROLINA
SHOULD .KEEP FORESTS
This and Neighboring States Rich in
- Woodlands But Timber Supplies
' Rapidly Being Exhausted,' Say U.
S. Experts. ; ''
- (By the-United Press) , " t
. TWloa1incrf An JlfflA Tha DSWld.
men are pearing the end of the trail.
Th f areata ot North Carolina. Ten
nessee, and Kentucky, along with-the
forests of all other BUtes in . the
East'are rapidly being exhausted.'
"tf thn cuttln-out. of -the forests
goes on as it lias, gone on, and with
out any provision for preservation
of part "of them or for the growing
of new-forests, in a urprisingly few
years therlfwill hi. nomber-pro-ducing
forest left in the East. This
i.fba kjrtats'meitt- t liauJs - f.ihe
Forest Service.
These' three are regarded by For
est Service officials as among the
mosti important forested 'jrtates of
the East. "'
North - Carolina, Tennessee, and
Kentucky stilKhave great areas of
forest lands. Kentucky has 9,500,
000, North Carolina 18,000,000 and
Tennessee 12,00arf00( acres' in for
eets. :-';-.-W!t:
North Carolina ranks high in
wood-working ' industries. It has
many furniture factories and exten
Isive vehicle and implemtent plants
that depend upon the native forests
for thes. raw- material,. .
Other . reasons why the, foTests
must be preserved are that many of
the streams traversing the states
have their, origin in the woodlands
and. depend upon them, for, their, reg
ular flow. '
The forest of , North. C
Tennesseej and Kentucky hold
uW futare happiness
Dentvtor the oeowe of oi
most, beautiful sections
ed states. i ne eviae:
. mi ,
are heing exhautei
(niakj. The : A,s&y31q; conference
June 4 is. designed- to. bring ederal
and. state officials and others, to
gether to decide what should be done
about it. . -, f ,-
Trade Report Slows,
Conditions Fair to
Good This District
s By the United Press) -Richmond,
May 30. Bradstreet's
said for Richmond and vicinity:
"Generally speaking business has
ben good'durring the month, though
continued high prices have contin
ued ; to retard sales, particularly for
future deliveries. Retailers continue
to buy principally for immediate
wants ' in most lines. Wholesale
trade in shoes has been fairly active.
Cotton goods are quiet. Paints and
oils are in better demand. Provis
ions are fairly active though fruits
and produce are quiet except in ship
ments of early vegetables to north
ern markets. Manufacturing is not
'generally as active as in recent
months. ... Tobacco and cigar manu
factures are quiet. Building per
mits show an increase and supply
dealers are having an active demand.
Labor is plentiful but as yet there ia
little over-supply ...except in clerical
workers. Collections are irregular,
but generally satisfactory. Few
failures have occurred during the
montlu Crops are in good condition.
Winter wheat prespects are excel
lent." -
Purely a Local Affair,
v Says President of Tele
graphersWalkout Will
Be Staged Unless Girls
Reinstated V ?
(Special 'to The Free Press)
Washington, June 2.-r-An?iving at
Washington tfom Mjontroal, Presi
dent S. J. Konenkahip of the Com
mercial J Telegraphers'; "Union tof
Aijkcj-iea jfTeneed talk ' of a nation
iwiua wfukfrat-or wire workers as the
-discharge . of, 100 At
tilSi wlk(rat,of wire workers as the
nanta telephone workers.
. .The Attftita Situation is f local
fsirla arr'not' reinstated today. The
I that
that
big r. strike has not yet been
i
set.'
South Over Tc? in
: S. A; Drive; iv;ice
: a Quota in Soieast
'V' tha'Onltea Pressl
Atlp.i.ia;' Way 31 Late . Saturday
J night 4:dwa,rd Younk Clarke,vdirect
I or ; or tae Southern Ulvision, an-
hounce thatUne South was "ovei
thtopH.ii: tne Salvation Army cam
paigne . .ald: c;fLast minute, re
I turna rqmv all -parts of the South
make it sure that the quota has been
ralsed." v- ' The" Department of the
Southeast ha: more than doubled, its
pffkial quota.- i. w TV
, . . ... ' C i.
" Useful Work for a
' Quarter Million KkIs
(By the United Presjf
i Washinirton. Mav 31. Tlie South
eastern States division ojflhe United
Status School Garden JR-my, includ
ing Virginia, West Jnrginia, North
Carolina, South Cpolina, Georgia,
Florida, Alabamaf and Mississippi.
reports an eafbllment of nearly
250,000 childrjff . This huge army of
children is JBoing directed by over
2,000 teachfrs.
. VirginM and. West Virginia alone
reportjtn enrollment . of 95,000 ohil
dreryworklng under the. direction of
teachers.
conference on Social
Work Opens Atlantic
City; Big Attendance
Atlantic City, lune 2. Men and
women prominent in educational and
sociological work in all parts of the
world gathered here today for the
4fith annual convention of the Na
tional. Conference on Social Work,
whicli opened today for a 10-day ses
sion. - : , ? ;- .;
Reconstruction through social work
and child wtalfare were 'announced
as the chief topics of the convention.
Henry W. Thurston, New York
School of Philanthropy, will lead the
child welfare discussions.
Unrest in Shop Cured
by Training This Case
(By the United Press)
Washington, June 2. When a . rest
less condition akin to bolshevism re
cently began to develop among work
ers in a rather small shop in a lead
ing Ohio city the management re
sorted to industrial training and
found it an excellent corrective of
the incipfant discontent Soon after
the, disturbance became apparent in
the plant an investigation revealed
that it centered in one of the common
laborers who seemed determined to
".start something." Much of his
spare time was spent in magnifying
defects in the present social system
and In preaching doctrines of unrest.
According to the U. S. Training
Service, which has a report on the
case, the superintendent of the shop
recognized that .this disturber had
considerable native ability and it was j
Police. Chief Hamilton and Pa
trolman George K.; Rouse at 10 p,
m.. Saturday: selzeilf a Ford automo
bile and between o)ie and two gal
lons of. whisky anq arrested Hosea
Wilkina, colored, at a point in South
Kinston. 'Another; negro named
Rich and sn unidentified man es
caped. The car wets without lkhts,
When it wa atoppei at a corner tho
officers, investigated and found the
rear sat bulging. ( When they lifted
it to see what wai beneath it the
negroes ran. ihe car, the police un
derstand, belongs ii ,. Mallie Spence,
s -. '
unlay found ov
whisky secreted
The police" late Sa
er two gallons ' of
in a closet at the home of James II.
Guy,' .103 '-.East Bright . Street, and
arrested Guy. " He.is a well-known
colored man, ' i., '
Louise , Dakar, colored, throw a
handbag containing pearly two gal
lons of whisky out of a window at
her home in Lowry V Alley when of
ficers entered the house late Satur
day. She was arrested.
(By the United Press)
BURLESON .WITH?STRIKStS.
it aHiungion, junt- 4.11 w
chHjred employeesof tfie South
ern Ite Tekphone: Company at
Atlanta ai$ remoypo because of
union affHttibnA INwtmoater
Gennral Buries yiU announce
nn order for jherjWimediate re-
II' -t X ' T o -T JS-
instatemen
0TT0N-
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Futures quotations
Monday were:
Open. Close
July , d
ai.sxy 31.55
M.9 . 30.53
.3ffJ0 03j27
3 o'clock were
October
December
Local receipts to
about 20 bales, prices ranging from
31.62 1-2 downward,
Condition of Crop.
. Washington, June 2.--The condi
tion of the cotton crop May 20 was
75.6 per cent, normal -compared with
82.3 May ?5, 1918, 69.5 per cent. May
29, 1917, the Department of Com
merce announces.
Well-Known Minister
Accepts Charge East
Carolina; Was Y Worker
Mr. Richard1 iBagby, formerly pas
tor of the Christian Church at Wil
son, has accepted the call to the pas
torate at Washington. N. C.
Mr. Bagby has been doing Y, M
C. A. var work for tVc past year or
two, having resigned his Wilson
charge to enter that splendid service
when volunteers were sought in the
State. He is one of the most prom
inent of the ministers of his church
in the State and is well-known by a
large number of local people who will
welcome his return to the work in
North Carolina.
Ho will move to ..Washington in
the next few weeks, it is understood.
(Buy War-Savings Stamps)
decided to give him the chance he
had so many times said was denied
him. Accordingly, Frank was asked
to lay aside his broom and to oper
ate s machine. With the aid of a
competent instructor representing
the f irm's training department he
soon learned to run a simple ma
chine. After operating it for
time be was promoted to a more dif
ficult machine where he was given
further instruction. According to
the shop management the change in
attitude which came over this em
ployee was really remarkable. Each
pay-day he drew approximately three
times as much money as he had
while wielding a broom, and soon be
gain payments on a home. His an
archist discourses gave place to a
spirited condemnation, of bolshevism.
JF
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Helen Savage, 15f'-Dies Un
der Tragic Circumstanc
esDrinks Poison From
Ink Bottle on Grounds
Grainger School
Helen Savage, 15, residimr at
West , Blount Street, took carfcSlic
acia on tne grounds 01 lirjfltiger
School, Lenoir Avenue andF East
Street, about 8:30 a. m. andftlied at
the offices of Dr. JamVs 0. Parrott
at 10:50. The cause htfl not been
assigned Monday forenoon. There
was talk of a girlif love affair.
Supt. K. R. Curtis ofthe schools said
he did not know jff she was worry
ing over her staping in her studies.
This probablyjfas not the case, how
ever, since was to be promoted.
She was tfaurpil m the fifth grade,
The girLras pretty.
Ther.rwere a handful of children
on grounds of the school when
Miajr Savage took the poison. She
j$8 about midway between the side
Walk ; and the building when she
drank it from an ink bottle. Super
intendent Curtis was in the building
and was notified by pupils. Mr. and
Mrs. A. J. Ohesson drove up as sho
fell. Mr. Curtis and teachers phced
the girl in Mr. Chesson's car and she
was hurried downtown in qui'st rf a
physician. Dr. Parrott was the first
located " Miss' iSavage lingered hope
lessly more than two hours. s
The little victim was the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. C. T, Savage. The
father, a farmer working in Wayne
County, was away from home at the
time. Mrs. Savage became hysteric
al from grief.
Mis Savage was born in ' Pitt
County. ; She came here with the fam-
ly about a year and ajnalf fl"o. She
s survived by her parents " ami fiie
followingibrothers and sisters: Mrs.
Ethel MaeUldree, Miss Olive Sav
age;' Charlie JiOIyman and Herbert
Savage, Mrs. BeWe Fannie.
The funeral x '" "-.sld at 6 p. m.
Monday.,,'
Coroner -Eugene Woo? will In
vestigate the matter, probabfe Tues
day. V
Doctor Goes to Trial .-
for Murder of Wife;
Innocent, Declares
New York, June 2. The Wilkins
trial was today postponed. "
Mincola, N. Y., June 2. Dr. Walt
er Keen Wilkins, 67, ia scheduled to
face tnal in Nassau ' County court
today, for the murder of bis wife,
Julia, at their Long Beach home on
FeUruary 27 Sa. (Justice Seeger
will preside. "
Many peculiar circumstances sur
round Mrs. Wilkins' murder. Dr
Wilkms' story was that they return
ed to their summer home at Long
Beach from New York City. Open
ing tho door, the doctor said, he was
struck on the head with a blunt in
strument. Three men then grabbed
Mrs. Wilkins and struck hr several
times on the head. ' She died within
an hour. ' ; .
"My wife and I lived in -complete
harmony," he declared. "We were
always very happy; it's an outrage
that such a charge should be brought
against me."
Government Prepares
Valuable Books on
Various Industries
(By the United Press)
Waahington, June 2, The Govern
ment- is about to make a contribution
to the literature on various import
ant trades which, it is said, will be
of inestimable value in helping cer
tain industries adjust themselves to
afflBr-waV economic conditions. The
contribution consists of a series of
pamphlets, prepared for the benefit
of employer and employee, setting
forth the proper methods of teach
ing certain trades and operations to
workmen. These booklets are being
prepared by the Training Service of
the Department of Labor.
The subjects being covered by this
series are textile making, garment
making, shoe manufacture, paper
box making, lithography, piano man-
facture, foundry work, rubber man
ufacture, and general foremanship.
iferences
During
-First in This
Others North,
,ast and West Ameri
canization Also
(By tho United Press)
Atlanta, June 2f-"The productive
capacity of the world would be at
least doubled if the health of the
non-Christian races could be brought
up even with the level of the health
of tha Christian nations."
Ihis deduction,' based on sta
tistics of progress everywhere, is the
underlying idea in a program for the
study of life-conservation to be'pre-
sertefl m a series of summer confer-
es just announced by the Inter-
church World Movement of North
America. ; ' I ',
Americanization of our foreign-
bom citizens is the second great
plank in the platform for the meet
ings. 5 ,
Practically every organization of
any magnitude ; connected with the
missionary and welfare work of 76
Protestant denominations . will be
represented at the conferences, which
are to be primarily training schools
for leaders of the great interchurch
campaign,
The scries begins with a meeting
at Blue Ridge, iN. C, June 24 to July
i followed by Silver Bay, N. Y., July
to 13; Kstes Pafk, Colo.,' July 11
to 20; Asuomar. Calif., July 15 to
24; Ocean Park, Me, July 18 to 27;
Lake Geneva, Wis July 25 to Au
gust 3 and Seabeck,' Wash, July 30
to August 8. .r 1 -
Small Registration
t r ' n" it ?
City School District
Five hundred and eighty-six elect
ors qualified to vqte in the special
school tax election to be held in the
Kinston district - June 14. It will
take a majority of these to carry the
(proposition. The i registration was
not large in either precinct, but it
was especially smajl in the First. In
e Second 406 registered, Jn the
Ffftt 181. ' j
.X
ndianolis Man is
Sweepstakes Winner
Indianapolis, Juh4 2. The motor
sweepstakes hero Saturday after
noon ended in a-victorft for Howard
Wilcox of this city.j He won the first
prize of $20,000, making, the . 500
miles in 5:44 21-75, Two drivers and
one mechanician were killed arn two
other persons injured during he
race. .' V.
Working Women in All
Lines to Organize
Philadelphia, June 2. Organiza
tion of all working-women into trade
unions will be the aim of the Na
tional Women's Trades Union League,
which opens here today. This is the
sixth biennial convention of the
league. i
BlILD PAVED UNK
OF CENTRAL, niGHWAY
IN LENOIR AT ONCE.
The County Commissioners Mon
day agreed to borrow money for the
county's part of the expense of pav
ing two miles of the Central High
way west of the city. The Federal
Government is aiding. The project
was authorized years ago and held
up by the war. Sfate Commissioner
Page, here Saturday, urged immedi
ate construction. The County High
way Commission Monday asked the
sommissioners to negotiate the loan,
to be reimbursed by the commission
later. ' . .
TWO GIFTS TO TRINITY
COLLEGE ANNOUNCED.
Durham, June 2. Members of his
family at Kernersville have estab
lished an endowed scholarship at
Trinity College in honor of John
Thomas Ring of the class of 16, who
was killed in France. Dr. J. W.
Neal of Monroe has established a
loan fund in memory of his son, John
William Neal, Jr., who died a few
weeks ago, . .
Biff
Suhtper
Strfe
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Tchitcherin Gives First
Wireless Interview,
to U. P. ' ;
MISLEADING PRESIDENT
Says Red Official at Mos
cow Kolchak Badly
Whipped, Asserts -Petro-grad
Not Deserted, But"
Armed Camp ' '
Budapest June 1. -(Delayed)."
Through the first wireless interview
the United Press ; today obtained "
from Foreign Minister TchibcherhV
of the Bolshevik government hia
views concerning the situation ia
Russia. . ' . '.'.
With permission of the Hungarian
.soviet government the correspond-.
ent wirelessed a series of questions
to Tchitcherin. ;
The following was wirelessed from
Moscow: 'i,:-: . ' :--
"I am informed the Allied: govern
ments have decided to give recogni
tion to Admiral Kolchak. In, view
of this fact I wish to give the
American public the truth about Kol
chak 's alleged offensive. Paris cir
cles hinder President Wilson from
receiving the truth. False press re
ports follow the same object.
"Kolchak's troops are not ad
vancing. On the conrtrary, they are
retreating in' disorder. Kolchak's
position gets worse every day.. Re
garding the situation' at PetxogTad,
nress dispatches reporting fires and
sxplosions of ammunition stores at
well as tha evncnnHo-n nt the (''
untrue. ""' , '
'Potrograd resembles an armed .'
military camp."
WARRANTS ISSUED FOU
COUPLE NEW HUSBADS
Silas Wilson Charged With Over-
stating Bride's Age, Herman
Wetherington, With Abductiosi of
14-Year-Old Miss.
Sils Wilson, a cotton mill em- 1
oloye in West Kinston, was arrested
Monday morning charged with per-'-jury
in procuring license to wed Mils
Amanda Emory, daughter of W. A,
Emory. W. A. Gurganus was ar
rested on a similar charge ' for as
sisting Wilson. ' ' . ? v
At the same; time officers were
seeking Herman Wetherington, ; 36, '
charged with abduction. The war-
rant was sworn out by J. N. Baker, :
residing two miles from ' the city,
who alleged that Wetherington stole
his 14-year-old daughter Sunday v
nigh.
t Wilson and Miss Emory- and
Wetlionngton and Miss Baker were
married by the Rev. Abner H. Out
lnw ak'the Free Will Baptist Church,
East Kinston, Sunday night.- Mag
istrate K. F. Foscue was called from
his bed twice during the night to is
sue warrants against the . bride- -grooms
and against Gurganus. Bak
er told the magistrate his daughter
was a mere child. Wilson and Gur-
ganus said they were told that Misa
Emory was 18 years of age and acted ,
in good faith in applying for the li
cense. Katie Baker's age was given -as
19 years. ' ' r '''-'
Magistrate Foscue jrequired only 1
$5 each bail from Wilson and Gur-,
ganus. The charge against Wether
ington looked more serious, he said.
GIVEN KEYS FAYETTEVILLE.
Senator G. V. Cowper,- Sheriff A.;
W. Taylor, Register of Deeds Carl)
W. Pridgen and Thomas W. Heath,,,
cashier of the Caswell Banking &
Trust Co, in attendance upon Cum
berland Oounity Superior tVurt at'
Fayetteville recently, were given th
"keys to, Fayetteville," according t
the Observer of that town. The..
sheriff of Cumberland and others
were hosts to the party, and the Ob
server called tho Kinston men "dis
tinguished." The writeup" that.
newspaper bestowed upon them. was.
thrillingly. entertaining. Sheriff.
Taylor is said to' have become. so.
conspicuous during the lionizing that
the presiding judge, his jealousy
arousod, threatened to put him. In
jail. The party went to Fayettevill.
as counsel and witnesses in a case .
. ... ... ,