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in. 'II- m a. II m.. PUBLISHED TWJ9B A .WE K W EDNE S D A X St -A N D Q AT U B P A Y VOL. XXXXI. No. 35 KINSTON, N. C, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 26. 1920 PRICE FIVE CENTS N The '" ' . , : I'' - ' -,-- n in. ' HITCHCOCK IS NOT Largest Expenditure in New ' Jersey, Tells Senate Investigators NOTHING IN SOME STATES m 1 1 . . v "V . Twelve Thousand Spent" in Maryland Local Contri butions Paid for Can! paign in Many Common ' wealths, Says Manager FRIENDS OF CHAMP CLARK PLAN MAKE IIIM 1 DARK HORSE If Deadlock Comes at San Francisco Will Bring in His Name No Man Has Democratic Nomination Sewed Up ii (By the United Press) Washington, May 24. Frank Hitchcock, .campaign .manager for Central Wood, waft first to' finish his testimony before the Senate subcom -ittce investigating campaign expeo (fitures today. Hitchcock said he knew nothing ubout contributions to Gener al Wood's campaign fund and coul only testify about the expenditures in a general way. The sum of $15,000 was sent New Jersey from national headquar ters he said. That was the largest sum spent from that fund in any of the- states. Jn Maryland $12,000 was. Kwnt. but most .states allotments were less than $10,000. Hitchcock said some of the states got nothing. In New York local con tributions financed the campaign. The limit contributed in any state in New England was $5,000. The Mich igan, Wisconsin, Rhode Island, Con necticut and Delaware campaigns were financed locally, he said. Developments Big Breaks in the Southern Industri al Field. (By the United Press) Baltimore, May 24.-rActivity in the mining districts of West Virginia, in eluding the sale of important coal properties, is a feature of the .indus trial news in the Manufacturers' Re' cord of the current week. A million dollar mining company has been formed at Cedar Grove, and two com panics with $350,000. capital each have been organized at Firecp and -at Beckley, W. Va. Improvements and new developments are announced from a number of other towns in the same state, 3,000 acres of coal lands hav ing been purchased for' development at Moundsville. Pennsylvania inter ests have purchased 2,000 acres of coal lands at Vindex. Md.. and con template additional acreage; present? uauy capacity ouu to 600 tons, with t contemplated capacity' of 1,000 to 1,500 tons; electric plant for mine anA Ia... l , i ii i i i i w mil, wm De insiailea, cnurcn, j town hall and other-structures erect ( , A 17-story industrial building cost ing $2,000,004 wU be' erected in Bal timore. Atlanta,. Ga., has under con sideration 1.000-room hotel to mat $2,000,000, and an office building cost- "S a ute amount will be erected in Houston, Tex.. A $450,000 office N Wding is planned by a corporation gently organized At Savannah, Ga ew chuah buildings,-, clubhouses, oormitoucs and theatres are announc- w from a number of different South "ties, the cost ranging from --UW to $700,000 each. - me miles of levee, with drainage "u roadway structures will h rnn. structed by the city of Dallas, Tex., " uai.as County. The project in volves 8,1,00,000 yards of earthwork "d will cost $5)00,000. ' ,' A numlwr of cotton mills are in creasing their caoitalizatinn A N Wills have been fnrmul KT.. V. - V AICHWII) C., with $500,000 capital. A mill manufacturing tire abrks at McCall, tinnn. nCTeaSes .'" $l,500,0(Xf.'t w.000.000, and a cotton mill atfireen- .-O0.ooo to $5,000,000. 'Another 7 1 ,eiIKont doubles its capital. These 1 simply typical of vhat ms been going on in the textile, tent rs for manv nrti,. ..j r.:. . '"..no nim oci W t CO ft Mtivity prevailing-" ip, the MIUMOU. ELISH OBSERVE WHltfsH wauat ENTHUSIASTICALLY onett? May 2 Monday, of the most popular national holi- ilanvf ?re"WM enth5m. today. any hundreds of thousands of work- iTS ,Kht f tury morning un luesday morning, v. v - -. (By the United Press) Washington, May 24. It was learn ed today in Democratic circles t.hi Champ Clark will be the dark horse of the San Francisco convention plans of close friends and backers are successful. .'.'' Believing that no one' has the Dem ocratic nomination cinched, 'Clark's friends plan to' present his name at the first indication, of a deadlock in the convention.' ' ' Prussianism Still Monster That Menaces the New Ger man Republic. By CARL D. GROAT (United Press Staff Correspondent) Berlin, May 24,--Germany ia pass ing through the throes of a belated housecleaning ' as regards Prussian militarism. That is to nay, she is trying to rid herself of this Bcourge but ia find ing, for one reason and another, that the old-style, juen-faced, ' insolent, monocled Prussian militarist is hard to down. -' He has done much to damn Ger many before the world. At present he is doing much to damn Germany further, and, if he succeeds, to dis rupt her business and her future, The people as a whole don't want him back. They proved that when they rose up as one man during the Kapp coup and said, "Out with the reactionaries and the militarist." The principal thing with Jhe aver age Trussrm''-6ifieier-again witirthe exception of some who are republi can-minded is to hold 'his job,' and if possible, re-establish the -"good old days" when everybody kow-towed, clicked their heels, and made way for the almighty militarist. ' . AAd, in all corners of the country, the Luettwitzs, the Bischoffs, the Bauers, the Ehrhardts are nursing their hatred against the new Bcheme of things ' in Germany, They are yearning for the "old days" when it was "Gott mit uns f uer Koenil: und Reich." The new defense minister, Gessler, has found he is dealing with a lot of very incorrigible people. He has is sued orders for dismissal of certain officers only to find a week or two later , that the orders were merely dumped into the waste basket. Dissolution of the Ehrhardt brigade was pledged. But how to do it. Somebody taunted Gessler in the national assembly one day about this dissolution question. - 4 "I invite you to undertake the mat ter," retorted the minister, causing a laugh but thereby showing,, that he is in reality powerless or afraid of the proposition. So it goes everywhere. South Ger many, always a hater of Prussia, has been talking accession, especially 1 if the Einwohnerwehrv be dissolved as demanded by, the entente. And, the hard-boiled, plotting officer sees a chance to lay this as another trump gainst the government , - - Moreover, the left side of the po litical show is sore. And the Prus sian officer has shown signa of even trade with bolshevlsm to further his ends.: r' Retains Lead Joh llhOll Ahead of Wood by Votes in Oregon. ". 10,000 (By the United Press)' Portland, May 24. Ckxmplete re- turns from 13 counties and incoin plete returns from Oregon's other 23 counties show Johnson to be retaining his lead over Wood for the Republi- san presidential nomination. Johnson has 40,644, Wood .10,709 votes. - ' Wool Sales Cooperative Auctions at Three Points in State. (Special to The Free Press) Raleigh, May 24. For the purpose of assisting North Carolina sheep glowers to secure the highest,, pos sible price for their 1920 wool clip, lefinite plans are now under way far holding three cooperative wool auc tion sales in the State this summer, one at Asheville, another, at Greens boro, and a third one at Washington The exact date of theBCsales will be announced luter. While these sides will be held un- :ler the auspices of the North Caro lina Sheep Breeders and Wool Grow ers' Association all sheep growers in the State, are invited and urged to market their wool through these sales. Briefly the proposed plan for .con tacting these sales is for the wool to be assembled , at whichever of i tho above points is most convenient, eith er by shipping it or by hauling across the country, as conditions warrant. Upon arrival at destination, the wool will be received by a committee hav ing the matter in charge'. Soon after arrival it will be graded, by a regular commercial wool grader, according to quality and standard grades, and later offered for sale at auction, the right reserved to reject any and all bids if not satisfactory. -, . Careful and complete records will be kept of the grade, weight of each grade, and price received for each lot of wool consigned to the sale. After the wool is sold, each 'consigner will be given a statement showing ' the foregoing, and a check issued hint for amount due. after actual expenses of selling the wool have been detiuct ed. - .. BODY QF CARRANZA ARRIVES AT MEXICO CITY Off SPECIAL Said He Would Return Dead or as President of the Country; DAUGHTERS CONSULTED is to Funeral Would Have Him Laid Away in Do; lores Cemetery, Quiet Burial Place of; Capital or Rural Birthplace ' ! (By the United Prws) Mexico City. iMay 24. The hadv 0 Oarranza arrived in the sapital on ,a special train from Pue-blw today. When asked where thv wanted their father tuned his daughters Julia and Virginia,. said that before leaving Mexico City their father said he would return to "the-capital dead or as president of Mexico and that in the event ho was killed he wished ito "be iburied at his birthplace or in Do- lores Cemetery, this city. ' The arrival of the body wrote the confirmation and final chapter of the tragedy of the mountains in which the deosod ruler, betrayed by his former friends, was slain together with several of his adhererfts. There was a note of sidness pre yailing over all activities hi the capi tal, v The fate of Carransa was that of, ninny a predecessor itf his coun try's bloody history. It is not known yet if the remains will be sent to his birthplace or laid to rest in the bqaut tiful cemetery of his"choice here. Deschanel Hurt French President Sustains . Injuries in Fall. Minor (By the United Press) Paris, May 24. Paul Deschanel, president of France, fell from' a rail road train at Montarges this morning while en route from this city to Mont Briscot. His injuries are reported to be not serious. . .. BULLETINS DID HAVE PLANS. Washington May 24.Sece tary .Daniels ordered the draft ing of plans for war with Ger many in 1915, he told the Senate Naval Affairs' Committee today navy had no pjans. uaooraie plans for protecting New York were included, he said. ASHEVIJ.LE FALLS DOWN ON ITS Y. M. C. A. DRIVE. Asheville, May 24. AH indication point to a fall down on the drive the L local Y. 31. C A. has been conducting ft a new building. So f ar'less than $100,000 has ibcen secured and the campaign has been in -progress for a week. It is to close tomorrow, s and desperate efforts are being made to round" rp enough subscribers to put the minimum,' $160,000, across,- . INFANT CAN BRING ' SUIT FOR PRE-NATAL HAPPENING, New" York, May 24. Supreme Court Justice John Ford holds that an infant can sue for injury met be fore its birth. This decision is one of the first in the history of American courts alffirming the right of a child to .recover damages for pre-natal happening's. . Justice Ford returned his -decision in -passing on a demurrer filed by attorneys for a householder through whose coal chute Mrs. Sarah Drob nor is alleged to have fallen seven days. before her child's birth, . The court held that the, common law was elastic enough to permit the infant to bring suit through its mother and that the spirit of the law demanded recognition of the defendants re sponsibility to the child. DECLARES WASHINGTON A GREAT MISSION FIELD. Charlotte, iMay 24. iRev. Dr. An drew J. Bird, of .Richmond, address ing the Southern Presbyterian Gen eral Asseinftly yesterday; h?clared Washington City is one of the most strategic home mission fields in the United States. J There are people thera who-know less "about Jesus Christ than the Chinamen . 111 the heart of China," he said. Dr. Bird said two things are needed to remedy the situation "earnest workers there and earnest backers at home. A Southern Presbyterian church is need- BELIEVED THERE'LL BE NO EFF0RT1M NEGRO FROM PRISpPj Troopers Removed From Guard at Alexandria jail. Prisoner . Confesses to Shooting and Attempted Criminal Assault (By the United Press) Alexandria, Va., May 24. Danger of William H. Turner, negro murder. er, being lynched is considered past today. A guard of 15 soldiers from Fort Myer, the cavalry post close to this city,, which had been maintained at Arlington jail during the night .was withdrawn today. -. There continued to be many base less reports of mobs en' route here to kill the negro, who confessed to "the shooting of T. Morgan Moore and an attempted assault upon a youngs .worn an, Miss Pearl Clark. "V ,1 , Society Cordjiar Chicago to Fall Over Itself Greeting G. Q. P. Women. in Teply to the criticism that the ed in Washington, he urged, because so many of the people there are from the south COTTON Futures quotations Monday were: 32.98 . 32.38 32.48 ' 32.00 38.00. 35.00 33.87 Local prices ranged from 401-4 downward, receipts about 15 to 20 bales. . January March ... July -... October . December Chicago, May 24. Social lines will disappear during the G. O. P. nation al convention here June 8 a,s far as women delegates to the convention are concerned, according to plans of local Republican hostesses who com pleted their program of entertainment for the feminine delegates today. V ; Chicago's smai-test women today prepared to work alongside their sis ters of the factories and -department stores in aiding theirfsex representa tives at the .convention in having a good time. v .. Homes on the Itke Shore Drive and the South Shore Country Club will be thrown open to women dele gates. There is to be no room short age for the visiting feminine branch of the Republican Party. Snobism is to go by the boirds as long as the convention lasts. : One hundred women are expected to participate in the convention, accord ing to Mrs. Mabel Reinecke, executive secretary of the Woman's Division of the Republican National Committee. Automobiles, afternoon teas, yscnt- 37J0ing on Lake Michigan, theatre box 34.15 parties, cabaret expeditions, excur- 3.12lsions into the country or across the lake to Michigan summer resorts, and aeroplane rideS will bo on the pro gram of entertainment. "-' Completely Lost No Clue to Bergdoll, Escaped Military . v Prisoner." , .;?. . (By the United Pr") Washington, May 24. Despite the 2,500 reward offered by attorney! for the capture of Grover Clsveland Bergdoll no word has been received t'tat would constitute even the slight est clue, E. F. Bailey of the law firm of Ansell & Bailey, today said. Tjme in Talking G. O. P. Congress Couldn't Find Time for Business. (By the United Press) Washington, May 24. More than one year after the Republicans came into control of Congress and within a few days of the proposed June re cess, the House. Ways and Means Committee entered upon consideration of amendments to the revenue cts. The amendments which it is , now roposed the committee will drop in to the basket and endeavor to get through thtf House before the recess are rather minor in character. They are, for the most part, in line with Treasury Department recommenda tions, being intended to simplify the regulations and to impose a tax on personal service corporations. When the committee met, absolute ly no consideration was given to the recommendations of -the President and the treasury for simplification or re peal of the excess profits tax and for lessening thei burdens under the income tax. These recommendations were brushed aside with the statement that there was not sufficient time at this session of Congress to consid er them. No explanation was given, and it is understood none will be giv en as to why they have not been con sidered in the last 13 months.-. Democratic leaders insist now there is no intention to even pass the min or amendments proposed by the com mittee. TEN' CANDIDATES ON SIDE OF DfMOCRATS FOR CiMISpERS v Five New Aspirants and All Incumbents in Race Incumbent ' Treasurer, Coroner, Sheriff and Oth- ers Unopposed RAILROADS WANT TO BE PERMITTED PUT OVER A BIG RAISE Ask for Right to Increase In comes by Over a Billion ' Dollars a Year With, the lists closed to candidates the only strictly local fight for Dem ocratic nominations will be for the ommissionerships. Late Saturday the following five qualified as candi dates for the Board of Commission ers: H. E. Moseley of Kinston, John H. Barwick of Grifton, Ed. R. West of Sand Hill, J. E. May of LaGrange and Henry W. Brothers of Institute. Bar wick is a former register of deeds, Brothers a former member of the General Assembly. f The incumbent board, headed by Richard : F. Churchill as chairman qualified as' candidates for reelection Comprising the present board are Chairman Churchill, of Kinston; Park er Howard Of Pink Hill, A. T. Daw son of Sand Hill, D. W. Wood of La- Grftnge and T, J. Sutton of Instjtute. All incumbent county officers quau fied as candidates for reelection, and will enter the primaries unopposed, These are Eugene Wood, coroner; Arden W. Taylor Bheriff; Pridgen, register; John G!. representative; John H- treasurer. ; . b'- ;.' - The Republicans put out a ticket Saturday afternoon, as a mere for nuility and with apparently the usual Carl W Dawson, Dawson, Librarians To Be Exchanged by British and U. ' S. Institutions. (By the UnhH Press) New York, May 24. An exchange of . library assistants between Amerl can and British libraries soon may be arranged, according to plans now un der way. Recent communications be tween a representatrve of'the Ameri can Library Association and L. Stan ley Jast, Chief Deputy -Librarian of the Manchester, England,, Public Li braries ,have revived a plan first pro posed years ago. Other prominent British public libraries considering' the project are those of Glasgow, Bir mingham, Liverpool, Leeds and Croy- den, and cooperation of American li braries is declared to be assured. The plan probably will have the backing of the Library Association of Great Britain and of the American Library Association's Committee on Interna tional Relations. . - The exchange of lbrarians, compar able to the system of exchange pro fessors, would promote a mutual un derstanding of methods of encourag ing adult self-education in the two countries. The revival at this time of project first proposed in'1903 is de clared by the American Library As sociation to be an indication of the growing realization throughout the world of the importance of public li brary service as a guide for the citi zenship of a nation. Growing interest in public library service has been ob served in Fiance, occasioned to some extent by the library service of the American Library Association for the American Expeditionary Forces in the war. Poland and Czechoslovakia have established public library sys tems, having sought the expert guid ance of the American Library Associ ation through its European headquart ers in Paris. " ' ' - To promote library extension in America, the American Library As; sociation is raising a "Books for Ev erybody" fund of $2,000,000. In 17 states, lses than one-fifth of popula tion has access to free public libraries, the Bureau of Education declares, and the average for the nation is less than 50 per cent.. Retirement Bill For Government Employes Signed by President. ' (By the United Press) - Washington, May 24. President Wilson today signed the Civil Service retirement bill providing for retire ment and pensioning of government employes. ' , - . Mrs. Thomas Lindscy of Southport is the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs, Joseph Ttlghmaju' .' Outdoor Program Planned by Boy Scouts for Week ot May 30 to June 6. , , (By the United Press) New ,Yorla, May, 24Throughout the United Stales, the week of May 30 to June 6 will be observed as Boy Scout Week, with 'a prograni of out door activities participated by the half a million Scouts and Scout of ficials who compose the 17,000 looal troops of the Boy Scouts of Amenica. The program of the week will be opened Sunday, May 30, in the church es of the country, talks being made in churches of all denominations on the merits of scouting in helping the boy hood of the pommimity. In many in stances Boy Scouts will ' make -f our minute addresses and will otherwise participate in the program. Scouts to Promote ' Overnight Hikes. . Friday, June 4, will be known as Overnight Hike Day, and it is expected at least two hundred thousand Boy Scouts will spend the night in the woods, and in many communities plans have been made to invite fathers of Scouts on, the overnight hikes - ' ; National Scout Field Day is plan ned for, Saturday, June 5, with com petition in tent pitching, fire build ing, wall scaling, signalling, trek-cart demonstrations, tower and bridge building and first aid and life saving work, Scout games, etc. Camp cook-' ery with free, samples of -miniature flap-jacks will be a feature of the Field Day program. Keep 'Em in School Government Strives Steadily to Pre vent Child Labor. (By the United Press) Washington, May 24. To abolish child labor not merely by prohibiting employment, but by providing suit able education is the aim of the Stay-in-School campaigns now being carried on or just completed in 20 states' in fcrx)peiati6h wttS tne Children's Bu reau of the Department of Labor. The campaign is to be followed in the fall by a Back-to-School drive in ord er to round up the children who fail to report at the opening of school, since the influence of vacation work in lead ing to permanent withdrawal from school has been strikingly shown. An encouraging feature of the campaign is that six of the states tak ing part in it are among the 10 in which more than 20 per cent, of all the children between 10 and 15 years of age are regularly engaged in agri cultural work. , - : . - EARNED ONE PER -CENT. Last Year Not a Very Suc cessful One, Elliott De clares in Statement - Executives and Shippers Crowd Hearing Rooms (By the. United Press) Washington, May 24. According to a statement by Howard Elliott, chart limn of the rate coriunittee of the Association, of Railway Execu tives, to the Interstate Commerce. Commission, the nation's railroads earned only one per cent, on their property investmont last year. The statement opened with an ar-' gumcnt on behalf of the roady for a general freight increase totaling $1,- . 017,000,000 annually. Railroad executives and shippers from all parts of the country crowd ed the I. C. C, rooms for the hearing. The sessions wilj probably continue several days. Norfolk Big. Town Population Now is More Than 115,000 , . . '. " Souls, i . - . (By tho United Press) Washington, May 24. The C -nus Bureau today announced the popula- tion of Norfolk, Va., to be 115,777, and tHat of District, Va., to be 1,- 16S. Norfolk's increase was 48.325, District -decreased 188 Since 1910r PREPARING PROGRAM FOR - WOMEN'S CONVENTION. Raleigh, May 24.-1-The prograni for the .Farm Women's Convention to be held at Raleigh August 24, 25, and 26 is now being prepared by Mrs. Cornelia C. Morris, secretary, who an nounces that one of the first speakers to accept is Miss Catharine Mulligan, an authority on the family budget. Mts Mullif.in, wlio for av number of years was professor of home econ omics and dean of women at the Uni-. versity of Tennessee and one of the national leaders in home economics, will come to Raleigh 4'or the Farm Women's Convention from Converse College Spartanburg, Sy' C. . WEEKLY WEATHER FORECAST. Issued by the Weather Bureau, Washington, for the period May 24 to May 29: For South Atlantic and East Gulf States: Occasional show ers 'although mostly fair middle of -week ; nearly" normal temperatures. Failed to Report One Fatal Case of Whoopingcough Caused 20 Others. (Special to The Free Press) i Raleigh, May 24. Failure to com-; ply with the State laws for the re porting of contagious, diseases and vital statistics caused several prosecu tions by the State Board of Health during the week, with convictions in local courts. Rastuc Butler j a white citizen of Sampsort- County, failed to report a asc of whoopingcough in his family. He had no physician. The child suf fering with whoopingcough was tak en to a public funeral and later tho disease developed among the children of four other families who were pre sent. Twenty cases are charged to contact with. this child. Butler was fined $5 and costs. T. M. Ferrelj, Jr., local undertaker in Sampson County, was fined $5 and costs for having buried a body with out obtaining death certificate. An ' additional inspector for the State Health Department will be plac ed in the field the first of June and the effort to strictly enforce the laws with regard to promptly reporting contagious diseases, and proper com pliance with the vita! statistics law will be intensified. ' : ; ..' Many Injured Blackhand Bomb Wrecks Three Hous es at Pittsburgh. ' (By the United Press) ' Pittsburgh, 3Sa.y 24. A score of people were injured and one mission and two bouses destroyed today la a bomb explosion. The houses Were occupied by foreigners. The explos ion is believed to have been the work of blackhanders. '- ' '". ' KM 1 I ft'll 5 i i n KM 1 u Li W (1 r 'Hi v !
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