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Press STON a- "I PUBLISHED TWICE A WEEK WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAY 1 1 VOLXXXXI. No. 8 KINSTON, N. G, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1919 PRICE FIVE CENTS PRESIDENT TO TELL GLASS IS NAMED TO BOLSHEVISTS HATE CHURCH AS WELL AS WEST FACES SEVERE COAL CRISIS; MANY V HITCHCOCK TREATYSNATE TO SUCCEED fiKW i n nrir 111 DTIIT MEASURE MUST DIE SEN. MARTIN APPEALS FOR AID i it., Km HE f;y''rr"'i', ' j --' " " ' ""' " "' u '""WWiili.Wil limn mmmmmmmmmt IjV S f,K . ' T - - : i .J..-, r '-r'v SU rS-iJ UtAU Reservation' on Article Can't Be Tolerated, Attitude 10 NOT BACK TO COMMITTEE Republicans Dare Not Let Treaty' Go There Again Declares Underwood Assert They'll Not Take Responsibility Killing It (By the United Press) Washington. Nov. 17. Senator Hitchcock went to the White House this morning to confer with Mr. WiP son over what shall Ibe the action of the treaty supporters toward the re solution of ' ratification now being drafted. '" Before (Hitchcock entered the room where he" was to confer with Mr. Wil son it was Generally believed the President .would recommend that the ratification resolution containing the Lnde reservation on Article 10 should lbs defeated. Senator Underwood also called at the White House and conferred with Secretary Tumulty." Underwood de clared the Republicans would not dare to send the peace treaty back to the 'Foreign (Relations Committee, This was in answer to a suggestion new 'resolution of ratification from being introduced after' the first one was defeated, thus sending the treaty back to the Foreign Relations Committee where it would die. The Republicans, are understood to have asserted they "will not take the responsibility! JyUing J;be treaty "4 NEW MAGAZINE ' INTENDED TIGHTEN BONDS FRIENDSHIP New York, Nov.,' 17. -Diplomatic representatives of all the Latin American countries have endorsed the new SpanishHAmerican monthly mag azine, SLa' Nueva Democracia (The New democracy), "published in' New York by the Interehurch World Movement of North America,. The magazine, the announced policy of which Is "to promote the solidarity of the American continent,", is edited by Dr. Juan Orts Gonzales, well-known as, a Spanish author. . "The object of ihe new magazine," 'declared Mr. Gonzales, "is to help ' weld together the bonds of sympathy between Latin-American countries and the United ; States. Latin-American countries have precisely the same, po litical and social ideals as the Unit ed States." MACHINE IS IMPORTANT IN BOLL WEEVIL POISONING. 1 Washington, Nov. 17-jControl of the cotton boll weevil (by poisoning ha? been received so1 enthusiastically oy farmers that, with present facili ties tfor idustinjg-machinary plroduc tion, the demand cannot be met. ac cording to specialists of the Depart ment of Agriculture, under whose di . rection the poisoning system ha been developed. Every effort should be wade, they say, toward having as . satisfactory as possible all machines .' that are put out. Many concerns that are considering manufacturing . dusting machinery are not informed . as to the requirements, and farmers .c iw q wen miormed as they should be on what constitutes a good , dusting machine. To meet theiie two needs Farmers' Bclletin No. 1098, is enortiy to be published. Place as Secretary of Treas ury May Be Offered to Haruch President May Hope to Overcome Lat ter's Antipathy to Post (By the Untted Vess) Washington, Nov. v17. Carter Glass will (be sworn in as a member of the United States Senate today or tomorrow. . He was appointed by Governor Davis of Virginia to the seat left vacant by the death of Senator Martin, Democratic leader President Wilson has not taken up the problem of appointing a success or to Glass. It is believed the port folio will be offered first to Bernard M. Baruch, whose objection to ac cepting a cabinet post may be over come. Glass Will Accept. Washington, Nov. 17. Carter Glass will" resign the poet of secre tary of the treasury and accept the senatorship from ' Virginia offered him by Governor Davis, it was stated authoritatively at the White House today. ' ' SPEAKS ON "SOUL OF THE NATION" BAPTIST CHURCH. Mr. Edward Tomlinspn, a lyeeum lecturer, spoke " to a large congre gation at the First Baptist Church Sunday night on 'The Soul of the tion. Hw 'd'scmirse w of the most cptijwstic terror, tie apuna c; the labor, 'political and educational topics of the day. His address was analytical and meaty with thought Overseas after the signing of the armistSce young Mr. Tomlinson he GOVERNMENT, SAYS Hallett Ward Tells Local Episcopalians Radicals " Know They Must De- stroy Altars of America to Wreck" Political Struc ture Administration at Chicago Considers Suspension of Factories THE ENTIRE ROYAL FAMILY OF SPAIN. new and interesting group photo of the royal family of Spain and their guests at the Miraniar Palace at San Sebastian. . King Alfonso is whown on , the top wtep ith his arm, folded. Queen VMori is seated in the next row center. the Prince of Asturias, heir to tie throne is Heated in front of his mother with his younger brother Jaime to his left. Princess Christian and Princess Beatrice are-shown in front row. Prince Gonzalo and Prime Juan are shown seated with their mother, the Queen. Others in the group are Queen Maria Christine, Prince Carlos and Princess do I.uisa, Prince Fernando. Prince Gabriele, Duch ess de San Carlos, Marquess de Moctezuma, Marquis dc iana and Prince Pio de Saboya. BOLSHEVISM GETS A KETTLES GETS AWAY SET BACK IN FRANCEIROM PITT COUNTY JAIL; L achieved international - fame before J reaching his 31st birthday address- r j ip n: II II. 0 J 'thl English-speaking nations. iHe had served during the hostilities as a member .of the 82nd Division. He created a sensation in England, and was recognized by literary person ages throughout Britain. (By ths Baited Prestl Paris, Nov. 17 France re plied to the bolshevik challenge with a sweeping defeat of radi cal candidates. Returns up to "2jV(l .o'clock thi.T--uf&fno5ni?ofiT 'yesterday's elections for the chamber :, of deputies, covering about one-third of the total vote cast, showed the radicals had lost ground throughout , the republic. TILL SOME HOPE HALF HUNDRED DENTISTS WANTED" BY GOVERNMENT. Washington, Nov. 17. Fifty den tisu are wanted "at once by the Unit ed States Public Health Service to fill existing vacancies.'. The service and information branch of the office of the assistant to the Secretary of "War has Just been advised of these opportunities, Jhich, if possible, are to be filled iiionorably discharged soldiers ano sailors. The successful applicants for the positions will be commissionej a first lieutenants "a captains in the United Public Health Service. . States Co Party. A box party will be held at Pincv Jbchool, near A! r-'Cht at S oVU-k. -'l-ittons, Frii; . (ly e TJnitsd Prsss) DEMAND UPON MEXICO. Washington, Nov. J 7 The Government has . made urgent representations to Mexico for the. immediate release of William 0. Jenkins,' American consul at Puebla arrested by Mexican authorities, the State Depart ment announces. CARS CRASH; 13 HURT. Richmond, Nov. 17 Thirteen persons were injured, three se riously, when cars of a suburban line from thi city crashed in a fog this morning. They, were laden with school children, all of whom were shaken up and a few injured. The cause of the acci dent was not given. POLICE TRIAL REOPENED. Charlotte, Nov. 17. Following ' two interruptions, the last of 'which was, for nine days, the . 'preliminary . hearing of the 31 policemen for murder was today , reconvened. One hour was lost while , lawyers on . both , sides . ' scoured the town for a stenog rapher. - The - first witness : was on the stand but two minutes when legal wrangling -broke fai . to - the proceedings for another half hour. The defense- contin ued offering witnesses. Testi- : mony '. introduced showed ' that rrates pf empty bottles were pushed through the crowd of . ' rioters to be hurled into the wing of : the powerhouse where the strikebreakers were supposed .to s COTTON Plans Give Small a Real Fight for Qitce Increased interest Ihere in the First District's semi-aquatTc con gressional campaign, was aroused by the weekend visit of "Hot Stuff" (Hallett S.) Ward, Washing ton, N. C, attorney,: who is aftor the seat jn the House held for half a lifetime by John H. Small, member of the same bar association and resi dent of the -same .town as Ward. Mr. Ward declared be was making no idle boasts. .' However, he said, "Small is a general who has won his every campaign without a battle. Ha is, going to have a battle this time." Ward i going to "cross the pounds" determined bo give the champion of waterways everything that a candi date should give his opponent. Small's friends eay he is , strongest in Bfeaufort four .own county" and Pitt, Ward remarked, adding that be- had been making 'some friends on his own account m Pitt and Beaai fort. In the counties beyond the sounds and divided by them Ward expects to clean up. - ' Mvsterv Surrountls Escanc oi vvne Mayer-j-iieneved He Will Try to Get Out of CountryUnder Long Sentence HOW TO BEAT THE BOLL WEEVIL IN EAST CAROLINA. -.West Raleigh, Nov. i7.The hog will follow the. boll weevil in its ad vance acro4s Eastern North Carolina, says W. W, Shay, swine extension specialist of the Agricultural Exten sion Service. Those men in' each neighborhood who. are the first to adapt themselves to new conditions and take up livestock farming will escape 4he great hardships that will be forced on the people, of this sec tion through the failure of their main crop dependence, cotton,' because of the inroads of, this destructive insect. In fact, Says Mr. Shay, the time now The Free Press Monday after noon was informed from Greenville that William KV tiei ha not bttn iVe'apprehpnded. Not clue has been 1'ad. This information said Kettles ;s thought; to have , escaped shortly after midnight Saturday n'g'H;. His bod was made up and a chair was lying in it when the janitor discover vd his absence early Sunday. The chair gr.vo th? appearance of a men lying in t Vi bed with his knees prop ped up, A reward has been'oifered by the local authorities. The Gov ernor is expected . to issue another r-ward. There are no holos in the Walls of the cell trom which Kettles e"seaped. The bars are intact and have, not been cut in the least, All doors through which Kettles had to pass were securely locked. , ' The following description is given of Kettles: . Six feet one inch tall, 34, years of age? weight about 150; knife .wound' scars under left ear and on chin, bullet wound scars fnw inches " below left ' nipple, ' going through,: and on another part of breast, and another knife wound on back where bullet was extracted. William B. Hp tilm, sentenced to 30 years in "State's i-ir-sir for the murd er last August of his wife, Mrs. Agnejl . Leggett Kettles, formerly of Kinston, ese-.petl from Pitt County juil at Greenvil!" early Sunday, ac cording to reports to the police here. No clue as to how be managed to (By ths United Press) Washington, Nov. 17. It is be ginning to look as if there will be a wet Christmas. The peace , I , r'-teiJ a iUI- f'hj cations, will be settled before the end of November. That is, by that time the treaty will either have been adopted or will have been killed and Congress will pass a resolution declaring the war over. l;?c!ge Sefs Aside et away has been found, it is. under stood." When the jaii.T went" to Kettlos' cell; Sunday morning he found the door locked but kettles gone. The supposition arose that someone with a. skeleton key aided the prisoner to escape. Hlooihounds were summon ed, it is Slid. . v r Ketti 'S shM; an l killed his wife at Fa.rmvill. The man was employed with a' navins concern, lie- was in Yer diet for City in McDaniel Case The verdict for the defendant in Frank iMcDaniel vs. City of Kinston, involving alleged damage to' farm land by the .overflowing of "the Ad kin," a creek at the eastern edge of the city, has been set. aside by Judge Frank Daniels. The verdict was returned late in last week. Judge Daniels' grounds have not been an nounced. McDaniel claimed that the flow of water in the creek was in creased agd accelerated by municipal improvements at a point above his farm. The jury found against him. Other landowners.. watched the with interest," it is said. x - ; trial Government Wins Suit for Oil Lands Held by Railroad Company Washington, Nov. 17. The Gov ernment in. the Supreme Court today won its fight to take from the South- rn Pacific Railroad valuable oil lands in tho Elk Hilla. Stock Drops. New York, Nov. 17. The an nouncement that the Supreme Court had reversed the decision ofthe low er fourt dismissing proceedings in stituted by the Government to can :el patents for 6,000 acres of Cali fornia oil lands alleged to have been obtained . by the Southern Pacific Railroad resulted in a sharp break by Southern iPlacific stock, which sold below 102, a decline, of seven points from today's high. Futures quotations. Monday Open. December . .. T. January March May 1 ; July Local receipts t 34.75 . 32.90 ,"' 32.03 . C3.30 were light. were: Close. 36.88 35.49 33.91 32.69 31.77 prices '3Pv'.r? from 3S.10 downward. spent in studying the proper care and the profitable growing of hogs will whfn j.e mct af! n;africd Miss Leg- be-the difference ;; between success gcU-;1I(? ma(it! (w0 attempts to tui- and failure on many North Caro-. rfde-following' the crime; : Una farms r during, the next few In ' Superior Court at Greenville years. ; .-.t .,... . ,layt wcvk Kettles en'ered a' plea of - " " " : r1 ' ,' ' guilty in i the second degree. . This SCHOOL ENTERTAINMENT. : W!s 'ac-opt.-d and he was sentenced A box party for school and church O'30 y?nrs. benefit win be held at Grainger. An. official theory jis understood School Wednesday night. Miss June t0 ,e tvaf - car Was waiting for I5ISHOP ADDRESSES EPISCOPALIANS HERE. I Governor Bickett wiil' have a full day mapped out for him when he comes to Kinston Novem-beT 25, pri marily to address a gathering of col ored churchmen from throughout North Carolina. He will make two and possibly three speeches. It was announced Monday that the execut ive will deliver an address to. white L'UY -WAR-SAVINGS STA'irs. ' Johnson and Mrs. Eugene Hamilton Kettles and that he will endeavor to'Episcopalians at St. Mary s church are the teachers. , i get out of the United States. -late in the afternoon. His' subject ; j Kettles, has well-to-do relations in 'will fee the nationwide campaign of The parson who tied the knot re- . p South, it is' understood. , . ",the chnrch. Bishop Thomas C. Darst, turned the license to Register C W.1 . ' :of Wilmington, discussed . that sub Pridgen. "They were pretty nice THEWEATnERl 'ject in -an able sermon at Su Mary's about it," he said; "have it put in the ' . For North Carolina: Fair tonightl Sunday night. "A congregation that paper. The 'free i'ress gladly in-; armor. :n extreme west p-jr.ien. iniea me eamce nearu me uisnop. forms the public that Stacy A. Deb-! Tue-,',iv i.i'.r vl wartuer. in c?ntral Many of his hearers considered his . . ....... . 1 r j ... - at V 1 . .! son and Arcs Williams, Cu!i.re,l, cavo . f: !'' :i. t. rv- if i11 .:-,iai i.."-in- c.scourse tne esi oe lias ever ue- inked hearts and kan.1. t... u?.l a '.n.k. .iiv-itj here. ' . Bnlshevim in the United States strikes at the church aa Well as the Nation's political institutions, de clared Hallett S. Ward, Washington, N. C, lawyer, in an address at St Mary's Episcopal Church here Sun day. "The forces of evil are or ganized. Their propaganda is be ing disseminated by a powerful Se cret mobilization, But the forces of righteousness are mobilizing to fore talL them, JWs . la no pessimistic address; I am supremely confident that Christianity and patriotism will prevaiL' Many of his hearers characterized Mr. Ward's speech one of the finest ever delivered in Kinaton. He 'known throughout the tidewater sec tion and elsewhere as a profound thinker and an orator. An anarchist is a God-hater, he said. "They," re ferring to the radical elements at work in America, "cannot raze that courthouse yonder except they de- stroy this altar," he declared, assert mg that American government based upon Christianity and its pre cepts. He told how he had received an Upton Sinclair book and startcu him to forsake his church and its teachings. He had thought f the "generosity" of the person who sent him the book, from a distance of several thousand miles and at con siderable expense. "It was the red propaganda at work," Re said. "Sin clair, I imagine, wu not able to write and publish this" book in large numbers and broadcast it at his own expense." . , s He Tematke1 upon the methods of the anarchists who aVe directing their redhanded efforts toward the de struction of the Government, and re- ferred to the Armistice Day murder of ex-servicemen . in Washington State. There is something doing in the (church," asserted the layman, who is a member of St. Peter's, Washing- ton. "It is mobilizing for a great fi'xht. Not only this church, but other. The church calls upon every member to do his fullest duty." There is a great power behind the church, Le', said, a power which impelled him though ho brusquely admitted he had preferred to remain at home for' the Sunday, to travel , to Kinston to de liver his address. He told of the shortcomings of the church, of the Episcopal Church in ': particular. Struggling clergymen trying to bring the world to galvation""are get ting a poor deal, he said. He declared the happiness and prosperity in this section are blinding the people to the danger that besets the Nation. "The church," he said, "has reach ed out to 'grab' the world1 and save it," and local Episcopalians and oth er churchpeople must do their bit. "There is no such thing as standing still in God s universe." t-ither we go forward or wo retrogress, he as serted. ,"" - ; , While here Mr. Ward was the truest of State ; Senator and Mrs. George V. Cowper. LETTER FROMAIXIAi Anneal Meeting Red Cross Wednesday P. M. at Fire O'clock The annual meeting of the local chapter of the Red Cross will be held Wednesday afternoon at 6 o' clock, in the directors' room at the First National Bank. A full attend ance is desired. ; GET GAMBLERS. Patrolman Thomas - Stroud and Sanitary': Policeman Wright Sanders arrested nine alleged gamblers on the Dam Road Sunday. There were two parties of the men, one. white and one colored. . WEEKLY WEATHER FORECAST. Issued by the U. S. Weather Bu reau, Washington, ior tne pnoo; November 17 to November 22: For South Atlantic and East dulf States: Generally fair weather will prevail .vith an early return to nomial tem perature. TRAINS ARE CANCELLED Northwest, in Midst Its. Winter, Suffers Strike Enters Third Week and Finds Portions Country in Bad Way ' ' ; (By ths United Prtss) Chicago, Nov. 17w A fuel famins faced the Middle West today," With the itrtke'of the coal minert enter-' ing its third week the reserve sup ply of coal is growing small. Tb pinch is being felt in many cities., Appeals for coal from Dakota, Mon tana and the Northwest generally , flooded the offices of the regional fuel administration today.'. - Suspension in general of minor in- ' dustries is expected today at a meet ing of the fuel committee with rep-. - resentative manufacturers. ' '' One railroad announced cancella tion of four trains leaving Chicago. . Several other trams, leaving-Mil- waukee and other points along tha route were also cancelled. ,-' Vice-President Says It's Not Pos sible in Word, to Express Apprec iation of Great Sacrifice Made by Voting Naval Officer. - . Miss Julia Bizzell Parrott, the sponsor, Monday afternoon sn-' .. nounced that the U S. 8. Parrott . :v will be launched a Cramps', Philadelphia, November 25 . ai ' -3:30 p. m. AU persons . hers j who ' expect to be present are IjA asked by Miss Parrott to tele- . phone her immediately, in order : . that she may notify the yard :' what -preparations to make for her party. . y ..., ... ;. , r f . When Vice-.President Marshall met ex-State Senator George Par- . rott at the fair here a few weeks ago he "did not express his real pp. . preciation of the sacrifice" of ,the latter's son, Lieut-Cont. Fountain Parrott, who Jost his life in the col lision between the 'U i,S. destroyar Shaw, of which he would have aasum- , ed command in a few hours, and tha British merchantman Aquitania, the Vice-President now fears. The . de stroyer Parrott, -to be launched W . Philadelphia in a few days, will bear the name of the young officer. Mr. Parrott is in receipt of a let- ter from Mr. Marshall in which he states: " ( "Indeed, it is not possible to do so . language. The loftiest senti ments of the human soul ere those which find their output in a. quicken- , ed heart, a glistening' eye and a tend er handiclasn. vl- . -' " ' ; - ' " "What I doi want you to know is that there are many of us who do not think that the glory of America rests upon its material ' pdfcessions but that, as the blood of the martyrs . was the' eeed Of the church, so the acrificial patriotism "f your ,. son will render 'holy the altars of Ameri can liberty and will keetp undimmei nd unsullied our flag. It is a great thing o be a good American but it . is gfaVer to bare been -either the father or the moth-' er of a son; who had the sacrificial spirit of George Fountain Parrott." FUNERAL OF MR. WETHEBLNGTOJT SUNDAY The funeral of O. H. TCethering- ton was held here Sunday forenoon. Mr. Wetherington was a Tuscarora businessman and farmer. lie died in hospital, at New Bern. Saturday. 11a was wellxKnown . m Uraven County and elsewhere. He had keen un !?r- ?oing treatment a been a merchant mo He is survived by 1 following dauht-. :'5 ichardson, Ek-V Wetherinyten, C lulia Te;:ay:r.-! , bc-Jy v, s t : -? t' 111 'A is -IP V. i I Mi. 1 ( i V 1 r ". 1 l.f Yi w1. I lb3 Si S1-' i
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