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The Kins ton REE FRES , W i PUBUSHEP TWICE A WEEK WEDNESDA YS AND SATURDAYS VOL. 41. No. 85. ' KINSTON, N. WEDNESDAY MORNING; JANUARY 10, 1923 PRICE FIVE CENTS em am. Additional Forces Arrive at Dusseldorff and Demand Quarters Commandeer , Hundreds Automobiles Armored Cars arid Tanks Patrol Streets Much Ex citement Manufacturing City Where Germany's Big Guns Were Made Will Be Taken Over by. Invaders Occupation of Rhineland to Enforce Reparations Payments Being Systematically Prepar ed For by French Military Authorities Cohlenz. Jan, 8. the Rhine. .'-'.' .. Engineers and a detachment of railway workers have gone to Essen, first city to be seized as France takes steps to enforce the reparations payments. : . . ; ; . , , ! . Two regiments, one of artillery and one of infantry, have Veen ordered forward from Epinal. Troops are quietly concentrating at Dusseldorff in small detachments. Fast tanks and armored cars will form the ad vance guard, it is reported, when actual invasion of the Ruhr starts. Berlin, Jan. 8 Fifteen hundred fresh French troops arrived at . Dusseldorff Sunday and demanded accommodations. The mayor of the city notified the government that 300 automobiles were commandeer ed by the troops. Two schools and part of the bu reau of finance were 'commandeer ed au quarters for 300 officers. The mayor reported the town in a fctate of exictement. Tanka jind c&valry patrolled the streets. Knoxville, Jan. 8. 'If ever the 'American boys cross the seas again to fight for .Europe they'll have to dvaft every one of them." .- As Billy "Sunday shouted this statement tp 7,000 people of the Volunteer State Monday night the tabernacle rafters shook with applause. Anjei-ica May Speak Again. Washington, Jan. $. The United States may soon make its voice heard in European councils. i The Washington government is watching closely the events in France. It is believed Harding will make at least one further move if war looms larger on the Rhineland horizon. Despite the fact that this govern ment oelieves it did all possible tin der the circumstances recently in an nouncing its program to relieve the situation in Europe, the United States will state its opinion in some further way if matters become worse in Eu rope, it is believed. British Thwart French One Dace. Berlin, Jan. 8. The French corn wander at Mainz has asked the Brit. ish to transfer military control of -the ODienz 'bridgehead to the French, ac cording to Der Tag. , The British re fused pending communication with Xondon, it was said. The American yuups are expeciea 10 leave within a lew weeks as a result of the move ment for their recall started in the United States Senate. French troops With the American ,trnri-ian?ii ,ra w. ing kept in quarters, through fear of navies wiin uerman civilians. SHIP GOES ASHORE IN FLORIDA ALL SAFE Three Hundred and Twenty Passengers Removed by French Vessel Tugs Ex pcted Drag Holsatia Off Without Trouble . (By the United Press. ' Key West, Jan. 8. Three hundred nd twenty passengers on the Ger man trans-Atlantic liner "Holsatia, which stranded on it sand bar in the fflorida channel, have been taken off y the French steamer De La Salle, according to woTd received here. The transfer was effected without acci dent or fnjury to anyone. The Amer can steamer Esperanza also went o the rescue, H was stated. Tugs from here are standing by and will float tne - vessel, according to reports. five Firemen Hnrt by Falling Wall; 'Phone . Wires Save lives of 3 (By the United Press) .Chicago, Jan. 8. Five firemen were injured by a falling wall dur ing a hlase wheih destroyed the Yale Building with a toss of $250,000 here today. Three firemen were trapned o the fourth floor when the wall, eavedin. They were thrown out nd struck telephone wires, which check ed their fall and probably saved their J.ives; Two other firemen were in jured by lying debris from the wall. (Bv the United Press) French troops are on the march along BUS BRQBLEMS ARE BEING SOLVED BY TROLLEY COMPANIES Competition Less Disturbing NowEncouraging Year for Local Traction Lines. Prospects for 1923 Are Good ; 'Mew York, Jan. 8. (Electric rail way conditions throughout the United States improved during 1322, accord ing to the annual report of C. D. Em mons, president of the American Electric Railway Association, made public here today. "Net operating revenues increased 7.4 per cent, in spite of the fact, that the gross revenue was off 2 1-2 per cent., owing to general fare reduc tions per passenger from 7.49 to 7.33 cents. Rates of Fare. "The general tendency among regu latory bodies is to keep fares at a level proportionate to increased ma terial and labor costs. The average fare todav in, a group of 275 repre sentative-cities is approximately 43 per cent, higher than it was at the outbreak of the war, while tlie aver age wage increase is 91 per cent, ind the average material cost increase Is 102 per cent. The Bus Situation. "The bus situation is clarifying. Whereas a year ago bus competition had reached such a point that electric railways in several cities were com pelled to suspend operations tempor arily, todny managements, regulatory bodfes and the public gradually are cooperating more generally in an ef fort to find the proper place for the bus. At its last convention, the American Electric Railway Associa tion declared that it was the duty of each electric railway company to sup ply all local transportation in its com munity and it should install buses where necessary and be protected from destructive competition by other agencies. Indications point to wide spread recognition oi trie soundness of this.policy. "Summarized, tne outlooK is dis tinctly hopeful." Blind Man to Assembly Job. New Bern, Jan. 8.-Named assist ant doorkeeper for the House of Rep resentatives at Raleigh ,by Speaker Joim Dawson of Kinston, "Blind" Johnson,, famous local character, has gone to the capital to assume his duties. In spite of his stone blind ness, Johnson in a few days' time will know every member of the House. " Little Darky Playing With Lighted Straw is Cause Dwelling Blaze A pickaninny eeeking diversion, a knothole and an open stove door re sulted in a combination here early Saturday that caused the fire depart ment to te called nearly a mile from its stations. The black urchin sat on the floor at its parents' home in the edge of Lin coln City, colored suburb. A ftraw lay near. An end of the straw ignit ed readily in the stove. Then the lighted end was pushed through the knothole. On the other side of the knothole was a closet, filled with pap er, clothes and the like. Then the firemen were called. , "I've worked on that nijrger but he jes' wont stop ctin' up," the ebony mischief-maker's mother explained to the firemen. The cause of aH the ex citement sat like a stoic through it all. - . .. - ' Felix Harvey Names Kiwanis Committees for Service in 1923 C Felix Harvey, Jr., newly-elect- txi president of the .Kinston Kiwanis Club, announces the following com mittees for the new year's work. The spirit of Kiwanis is "service," and the poky of the organization is to aeveiop community spirit, a broader fellowship and a closer and more ma terial application of the idea of ser vice in the progress and advance ment of the community: ' Fto-gram committee: B. B. Jones, chairman; Francis J. H. Coffin, inomias Harvey, Jr. Reception committee: W. C. Fields, chairman; F. I. Sutton, R. T. Hood, Dr. A. D. Parrott, David L. Dixon, unanes ir. Liumsaen. Memberstiip committee: L. J. Mew borne, chairman: S. L. Stouirh. Jack Harriss, J. B. Leonard. House committee: W. M. Herbert, coairman; n. e. taiimgs, ur. U. Stanley Waldrop, W. W. Baker. 1 Attendance committee: Lee McB. White, chairman; George . L. Jordan, Ely J. Perry, Leo H. Harvey, Dr. Rob ert f . Sorter. Finance committee: H. H. Taylor, chairman; W. B. Harvey, J. A. Pow ers. Education committee: F. E. Wal lace, chairman; Cv M. Priokhouso, Wooten Moseley, J. flyman 'Mew borne, E. E. Sams. ' Public affairs committee: J. F. Taylor, chairman; S. R. MeGeachy, G. C. Taylor, C. F. Harvey, Sr. Publicity committee: Chester A. Walsh'; chairman; George Lay, H. Gait Braxton, Joel Stevenson. Business methods committee: Roger Sutton, chairman; H. H. Hodges, T. A. Mitchell. Inter-city relations committee: M. M. Happer, chairman; R. J. Dawson, Nat. Hill, Plato Collins. Classification and grievance com mittee: Tnrnnas V. Moseley, chairman; 1). R. Hinkle, Sam Sr.Cncc, George Suggs. ; . Today in Music; German Orchestra Not Allowed ' at Washington Festival New York, Jan. 8. The, Wagnerian opera festival with its entire company imported from Germany for the pur pose, met a serious, reversal when the musicians' union protested against the bringing to this country of the German orchestra. According, trie plans were changed, and Leo Blech, chief conductor, sent one of his assis tants to New York six weeks in ad vance of. the opening performance for the purpose of recruiting and train ing an American orchestra. Blech also sent over a number "of instru ments required' in the performance of some cf the Wagner scores and whico are not found in usual symphony or cresta. The musicians' union pointed out that there are hundreds of capable orchestra players out of work and it would be base discrimination against American musicians to bring over a complete German orchestra. The singers are not affected by this dic tum, however, Rossini's opera "William Tell" has been -"revived" at the Metropolitan after an absence of many years. A special set of scenery was painted by a prominent Italian artist, and re hearsels were long in progress to make -this presentation of Rossini's popular opera one of grandeur. The leading roles were sung by Guiseppe Danise, in the title role, and Messrs. Martinelli, Mardones and Didur. Rosa Ponselle and Marie Sundelius assum ed the chief feminine parts. Ernest Hutcheson, the pianist, is fast coming into his own as one of the really serious musicians. He is now giving New York a series of fortnight recitals, each one devoted to the works of some great master. Town Objects to Greek Church; Congregation Will Resort to Courts Morgantown, W. Va., Jan. 8. Citi zens of the town of Westover, near here, don't want the congregation of St. Michael's Russia Orthodox Greek Catholic Church to build a place of worship In their town. Rather than permit the denomination to erect a structure, citizens are taking steps to reimburse the congregation for the money spent in acquiring a site for the church building. .. . . At a town meeting a resolution that "it is the sense of this meeting that the Russian Orthodox Greek Catho lic Church should not be located, as planned in Westover," was adopted unanimously after arguments against issuance of a permit had been offer ed. Counsel for the church indicated they would immediately seek a writ fo mandamus to compel lstuanoe of the permit. ' McCormick Operated On. V Paris, Jan. 8. Harold McCormick, stricken suddenly, was operated on last night for appendicitis. Jis con dition was announced as satisfactory. Ganna Walska, his wife, ha- aban doned her opera tour and will nurse her - millionaire husband .back ; to health, - STAY OF EXECUTION FOR MRS. THOMPSON BUT MAN MUST HANG No Reprieve for Bywaters. Delicate Condition Believ ed to Have Influenced British Home Secretary to Interfere (By the-United Press) London, Jan. 8. A say of execu tion ..Was today granted Mrs. Percy Thompson on the eve of the date set for her hangiiW for the murder of her husband. Frederick Edward By waters, found jointly guilty with Mrs. Thompson, is to hang tomorrow. The sentence iot the couple follow ed one of the most dramatic, sordid murder trials Of mdern English his tory. It is believed Mrs. Thompson's del icate condition may have iad some thing to da with the home secretary agreeing to a considerable postpone ment of her execution. BULLETINS (By the United Press) DERT MEETINGS START. Washington, Jan. 8. America to day received official assurance of Great Britain's intention to pay her war loans from the I'nitcd Statea totalling approximately five bil lion dollars principal and interest. This assurance wan given by Stan ley Baldwin, British chancellor of the exchequer, at the first official meeting of the American and Brit ish war debt funding commissions held at the Treasury Department. LET WELL ENOUGH ALONE. SAYS VOLSTEAD. Washington, Jan. 8. Prohibition enforcement may be crippled by en actment of some drastic legislation recently proposed in Congress, rep resentative Volstead of Minnesota, father of the present enforcement act, today warned. .Volstead, though dry as ever, looks with dis tinct disfavor'-on efforts of othor prohibitioniHts to make the law bearing his name more drastic. He believes chnnges proposed by other drys would make bootlegging easi er. The prohibition leader announc ed opposition to the plan of Repre sentative I' pshaw of Georgia to make purchasers of illicit liquor equally guilty with bootleggers. BIG ROBBERY. Chicago, Jan. 8. Robbery . of $200,000 worth of negotiable bonds from the real estate office of George' F. Harding, city comptroll er, was revealed today by the po lice. The robbers blew Harding's safe last week, Jt was announced then that only a small amount was taken, authorities believing that by covering up the extent of the theft they would have a better chance to trace the robbers. Circulars giv ing the real facts of the theft and a description of the bonds were Bent to. police departments today throughout the country. Little Town's Bank is in Heavy in All This Dividend-Paying Furore The little bank at PinTc Hill, small town at the southern extremity of Lenoir County, has set a record for successful manipulation under a re ceivership. The bank at Pink Hill failed more than a year ago, going under vsimultawously with the Will-ard-Stnith Company, operators of a chain of stores in this section. The company had its headquarters at Pink Hill. R. Allen Whitaker, young law yer of Kinston, was named receiver for the institution. Whitaker's meth ods were unusually thorough. . He left no possible loophole for further embarrassment of tne bank company. About a year ago the Pink Hill Bank & Trust Co. was organized and took over the receivership of the sus pended institution. Prominent busi nessman and planters of the Pink Hill section and Kinston bankers back ed the new bank. It was stated here today that the institution has declare two per cent, uivinerais m iz months. State banking authorities were reported to have termed the re ceivership the most successful in North Carolina, Whita'ker and the new bank-had accomplished remark able results in putting the affairs of the old bank into shape, it was said. Pink Hill has a population of 350, but is a trading center for thousands of farmers. Wheat Championship. Chicago, Jan. 8. Canada regained the wheat championship of the con tinent at the? Grain and Hay Show held in conjunction with the Interna tional Livestock Show here. When R. O. Wyler of Luseland, Sask., won the coveted prize, ifmarked Canada's 11th win in 12 years of international competition against the best wheat growers of North America. State Will Con Klux Han TXT 1 . and CHRISTIANITY HAS A WIDER INFLUENCE THIS DAY AND TIME God Intended Its Useful ness to Increase, Says Pastor of First Baptist Church World is Field Master's Religion "Go preach my jfos-pel- to every sroature (Matt. 28:18, IS))." This U the great commission that Jesus gave the church. In it lies all the authority we need to carry on her work of what sovere kind, everywhere, said Rev. Lee White at. the First .Baptist Church Sunday: I "At first, the program was solely the appeal to the individual for soul salvation. For hundreds of year this was the only object of the church. It is still the greatest objective. - In dividual conversion, the soul's re sponse to the message of Christ, is still the basic work of Christianity. But even this can be experienced in different and varying ways. For example, Peter, John and Paul. All conversions are not alike. Too many people are waiting for a certain ex perience such. ' as Paul had1, because .Paul's' experience of conversion was rather spectacular and a great many people are waiting for a like thrill. "Now modern Christianity must also how to this Hne of personal con version, but we are learning in these days that this is not the limit of the work of Chrihtiamity. If Jesus is the Saviour of the individual, then He is also the Savior of society. Jesus never put the final word when Ho was here on earth, for did He not say to his disciples, in the 16th chapter of Jocin's gospvl, "There are many things .hat I wish to say to you, but ye can not bear them now.' He alio said in this same chapter "when the spirit of truth is done, Ho will guide you into all truth.' "Christianity is not static. You know what static electricity is? It s that electricity that causes all the Suss and jar when you wish to heai the radio work. It is harmless, be cause it is 'still' cloctriclity. A static Ohristiantiy leads to doing nothing. We must have progress in the realm of Christian work. We are saved for a purpose. What purpose, pray tell me? There are those who say it it impossible for Christianity to do any thing but tare: and there, save a soul. Moody's idea nf Christianity was that the world was shipwrecked and all that he or the church could do was to now out a plank here and there to a poor drowning soul. Is this not begging the question? What do we kind in Hebrews sixth chapter, first two verses: 'Let us ipass on then to what is mature, leaving elementary i repentance from dead works, with faith in God, with instruction about ablutions and the laying on of hands, about the resurrection of the dead and eternal punishment?" Now those who read the , Bible know that these things are neeesary. Iet us take off our swaddling clothes and begin to think with Christ of the work He would have us do in this present world! J "The growth of Christian missions 's evidence of how Christ expects us to work in this world. The great missionary program started out with e single purpose of converting souls one by one. Christianity was an in tensely personal experience. That was early Christianity. And this is true, because the only God you and I will know is the God we shall per- 'tially experience. All other facts ire twice or thrice removed from life. The first thing is to know God in Christ. Christianity is ife. Stag 'aton is the great enemy of Christan ity. But shall Christianity be con cerned only wth this great and most important work ? - The widening circle of Christianity which embraces first the individual soul is now also embracing all hat pertains to the soul. We therefore are corncerned these dwys with the bodies and the minds of mwn as well as with their souls. The church then is not the end to be sought; rather, the church is te force operating in the field, which, Jesus said, is the world." Memorial for Brinaon. Washington, Jan. 6. Sunday,. Feb nary 11, will be observed by the House of Representatives as a mem orial day for Oomm--man Samuel Brinson of the Third North Carolina District, who died last fpring. With (By the United Press) Court-House, Bastrop, La., Jan. 8. What are known to be activities of the Ku Klux Klan in Moorehouse Parish wholly apart from the savage murder of Watt Daniel and Thomas F, Richards, with whose slow torturing to death the invisible em pire has not yet been linked by evidence, will be brought to light before the open probe now in progress is concluded. This statement was made today by Attorney-General Coco in announcement of the lines to be followed in the present in quiry, in which it is hoped to show how the mangled bodies of the men came to be at the bottom of Lake La Fourchc. "Raids and nightriding activities in which it is known mem bers of the klan took part have been gone into fully," Coco said. , ' "The call for the open hearing was worded so it ziwe us the right to take up these matters." ' NATIONWIDE SEARCH FOR WEALTHY HUGO SCHLESINGER BEGUN Disappeared at Chicago. Police Believe Uncle of Rubber Millionaires . Be ing Held by Kidnappers for Ransom (By the United Press) . Chicago, Jan. nationwide search for Hugo Schlcsingcr, CU, wealthy Milwaukee business man whb mysteriously disappeared after check ing out of a hotel here Friday, was launched today. The police believed him kidnapped. Schlesihger was an uncle of Arman and Harry Schk'sing er, millionaire owners of the Good rich Tire and Rubber Company. The kidnapping theory was strengthened by a mysterious call to Milwaukee's police from someone in Chicago demanding the telephone number of Louis Schlcsinger, a broth er. The police believed this the first step toward demanding a ransom. Seek Escaped Convicts. ' Douglas, Ga., Jan. 8. A search for two convicts who late Saturday night overpowered a guard at a county con vict camp and escaped is being car ried on throughout Georgia. The two convicts, John Thease and Nina Brox ton, were serving sentences for mur der. The men are said to be desper ate characters. A fight is expected when officers close in on them. Special Committee. Raleigh, Jan. 6, Special commit tees will probably be named in the Legislature to investigate Governor Morrison's proposal for state-owned steamships, as a means to lower freight rates. Newspapermen here have found a considerable sentiment cor the Morrison plan. In some quar ;ers it is contended that a vote on the matter would divide the . assembly membership about equally. Charges Local Store Proprietors Used U. S. Mails to Defraud Magistrate Kenneth Foscue Mon day issued a warrant at the in stance of Jacob I'ropos, vice-president of Jacob Propos & Son, dry goods wholesalers of New York, charging Joseph Zaytoum, local merchant, with procuring goods un der a fraudulent name and using the mails for fraudulent purposes. Propos, the magistrate stated, held a claim for $541 against "M. Joseph," of Kinston. He came here in connection with the account and others said -to lie held by his con cern against Kinston merchants. Propos told Magistrate Foscue he was unable to locate "M. Joseph." The latter, he asserted, had develop ed to be Zaytoum, who conducts an establishment on a small scale here. The New York man indicated to Foscue that other persons of the. "Syrian colony" here would be charged with fraudulent practices. Name had not been given. The prospective defendants were under stood not to include proprietors of the larger Syrian establishment here. The indictment recalted to Cff'Hals wholesale prosecution of merchants of the race some months ago. There was no local defendant among the many indicted at that time. nect 1m aiding , Says W mr V POLICE PUT CLAMP OF SECRECY UPON DOINGS EISILE Frenchman Modest Over It. Authorities Fear He Will :.Be Mobbed Virtual Craze on Subject of Auto suggestion , (By the United Press) New York, Jan. 8. Censorship was clumped down today on tho proceed int u of Emilo Goue. The French master of auto-suggestion worked behind n screen of se crecy imposed by the New York po lk.'.. . - " .- 'Reports here indicated that a veri table Couc craze wnj awcepinjj this country. , Tho. smiling little druggist from Nancy who arrived to spread his method of self cure takes it as a matter of course that his fame spreiul so that the police- insist his move ments be kept secret Sor fear ki will be mobbed by those seeking health. Germans Study English. Berlin, Jan. 8. The German? havo practically quit studying French. English ia the popular luntuuge.. In ,h biggest private school uf liurlin, .vhere 1,."00 .students air enrolled in foreign language , classes, l,0lt( are studying English, .'!()() SpamA and Portuguese and 200 French, rnment. VILLA TELLS SECRET TO A GIRL; SHE WILL NOT TELL Former Bandit General Learned Eight Name Re cently Newspapers Have All Guessed Wrong Will Continue as Tancho"; By FERDERICK G. NEUMEIF.lt (United Press Staff Correspondent.) Mexico City, Jan. 8- General Francisco "Pancho" Villa, former famed Mexican' outlaw, has a ferret. He has told it to a young lady but she refuses to divulge it. It. is about his name. His real nnie is not Vil la." Miss Esperanza Volusqwes I5nn?-.i8, who recently visited at. Villa's Canu iiilo ranch, when she. went in con-, nc.'tion with work for tfie department af education, head' tho secret. Kh . ;elh the story as follows: " 'Do you know, he smd to me, 'I was already grown before 1 f mtid mt that my last name i.s nut Villa, nor Arango, the press insists. Arango was my grandfather's name. U was only a few years ago tht I knev who my father was. . If I imd not ai re ndy made a reputation for myself and settled the course of my lifo, I might have used my father's rams. But it is no time now to change.' "General Villa , then told tv the name of his pjiogenrtor, bjt n this was a confident Jul talk nd I htvi no authority to divulge it i must keep it a secret "No doubt General Villa will refer to this point l in his forthcominj; ' memoirs."
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