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DAILY FR Today V Kewf Tcdjjr jtl UL M t -VOL. XX, No. 314 SECOND EDITION PRICK TWO CfcNTS flVM CENTS ON TEAIXS KINSTON, N. Cn SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1919 FOUR PAGES TODAY Tfie Home Paper f L -" ' ; I - PEACE BY FIRST OF MAY LIKELY; HOPE FOR EASTER GONE Biff Four Has Agreed Upon All Important Points, It's Said KAISER TO BE HANGED? United States! and! Japan Oppose Personal" Punish mentOther Three First- Class Powers Want Him to Suffer TO INSPECT GRAINjUNIVERSITY ALUMNI MARKETS OF NATION (By the United Press) Paris. April 12. Talk of an East er peace has given way to a promise of a May peace. While the most chronic optimists today admitted that the last hope of peace by April apparently had vanished, there wa3 a general feel ing that the treaty would be ready for presentation to the Germans by May 1. At least, persons close to the big four intimated that agremment had been virtually reached on all the important questions, including rep aration, responsibility for the war, the disposition .of Fiume ind Danzig and the German boundaries, military, naval and aerial terms, etc. The re vised league of nations covenant will be ready for submission at the plen ary session. W hat is to Be Done With Wilhelm? Paris, April 12. A roll call of the entire peace conference may be nec essary to determine whether the former kaiser is to be hanged ot otherwise corporally punished for hia crimes. The committee on response ibility for the war is divided on the question of personal punishment for Wilhelm. Great Britain, France and Italy fa vor it. The United States and Ja pan are opposed to it. The ultimate decision, it is said, may- have to be Tendered when the plenary session discusses the committee report. A point at issue ia a paragraph in the committee's report providing for trial before an international court of national courts all persons deemed puilty of military crimes regardless of rank. The Japanese and Ameri can members have made reservation on this provision. . NORTH CAROLINIANS LECTURE AT EMORY. Atlanta, Ga., April 12. Two well known North Carolina educators "were announced today as lecturers (in the Emory University Summer school which opens June 25, E. C. . Brooks, Superintendent of public in struction for the State, and Dr. Har ry Woodburn Chase,x acting president ot the University of North Carolina. (By the United Press) Washington, April 12 Creator uniformity in grain inspection and grading systems between various markets Is the object or a conference to be held at Chicago April 14. Rep resentatives of most of the import' ant grain trade and milling organic tions, the national council of the Farmers' Cooperative Associations, Bureau of Markets and the Railroad Administration will be present. The ilarger jnarkets east of the Rockies will then be inspected. LONDON TO NEW YORK BY RAIL BE NEXT. London, Mar., 28 (By Mail). Af ter consistently opposing the scheme for many years on the ground that it cut into her "splendid isolation," all England is now mad over the proposed Channel tunnel, and the work of construction cannot be un dertaken fast enough for its former opponents. It will be, roughly, eight years be fore the under-channel servico ia run ning regularly. The tunnel will be from 30 to 35 miles in length, and an hourly electric service of trains to Paris is predicted. If a tunnel were con structed from the Asiatic side of the Behring Strait, where there is al ready a railway, to Cape Prince of Wales, neaT Dawson City, Alaska, it would be possible to travel by train from London to Canada and the United States. COTTON Futures quotations Saturday were: Open. 11:40. May 26.25 26.34 July 24.40! 24.38 October ......... " 22.20 22.59 Local receipts to 3 o'clock were about 35 bales, prices ranging from 25.f0 downward. New York, April 12. first call cotton prices were up 10 to 13 points, with traders celling on reports of clearer weather in the belt with pre dictions of warmer weather to come. There was scattered buying by Wall Street and scattered selling also came from the same source. GIVE LIBERALLY TO THE GRAHAM FUND Secretary Coates Addresses Sons of "The Hill" at Banquet Here Memorial Building: to House Col lege Activities Mr. Albert Coates, secretary of the Graham Memorial Fund, ad dressed a score of alumni of the Uni versity of North Carolina at a ban- liiet at the Caswell grill room Fri day night. Contributions ranging from $100 to $1,000 were made. Mr. Coates told of the proposed Graham memorial building at" the university, of which Edward Kidde Graham was president when he died last year. He described the uses to which the building, for the erection of which alumni and other are con tributing liberally, will be put. It will house a fine club room and the homes of all the various college ac- ivitics." . Others, than alumni here are un derstood to be desirous of donating, Mr. C. Felix tlarvey of the local as sociation invites these persona to telephone him. CAMPAIGN FOR GOOD ROADS BE KEPT UP UNTIL LAST MINUTE Optimism in Camp of Ad herents of Bond Issue Farmers Will Support Proposition Enthusiastic ally at Polls, Appears WILL SEEK TO CARRY ON THE WORK OF THE G. A. R lierlin, 'Vvfis., April 11. uast no spersions on this town for jjs Teu tonic cognomen, for it was 'here that one of the most notable movements, following in the wake of the world war, was born the organization of the Liberty War Veterans of the World. 1914-18. Official recognition of the birth of the organization here has been given by the Wisconsin legislature. This veteran body!, (whose mem bership is limited to soldiers, sai ors and marines who participated in the recent war, plans to "carry on when taps for the last member of the G. A. R. has been sounded. HAMILTON-SCARBOROUGH. Miss Nannie iScarborough and Mr. Euerene F. Hamilton were married Friday night at 9 o'clock at the res idence of the bride's mother, Mrs Hattie Scarborough, in, the county, The ceremony was performed by Rev. C. W. Howard and was wit nessed by a number of persons. The bride is a well-known your,r worn an. She has been teaching in the county schools for some time. Mr, Hamilton has numerous acquaint ances here. SOLDIERS BACK. Mr. S. F. Linton, an Old Hickory veteran, has returned here. 'Mr. Snow Nunn has been discharg ed from the army and returned to Jiis home here. LITTLE STORIES OF THE FIGHTING IN FLANDERS TOLD BY VETERANS OF I I 9TH The British troops are all right, through a window, taking the sash say homecoming members of the with him, by a 30th Division man 119th Infantry. The, Australians can- whose ire he had aroused by his snob- mot be excelled; the Scotch are elev- ifcishness. r, not forgetting that they are dar- j Barrus "saw one" up in Belgium fing, and the tnglish artillery is the ,'Ihe Tommy non-com. interfered when "best in the world," in the joint opin- 'Barrus, a top sergeant and a runner Son of Lusy Hollingsworth and Ros- i were about to bathe in a pond back woe Barrus, band and line sergeants of the British lines. "I e'y, you (respectively of the 119th. E'ut the cawn't do that," said the English' English infantry was "simply on'ihe irnan. "But I say we can," said Far- bum' when the (Americans reached irus. "I dont know how you feel Haig' front. about washing, but just hang around . Barrus and Hollingsworth tell of jhere and watch lie clean up." The the English sergeant-major. "He is ("beefeater," rotund and red, puffed the ranking person of the whole and sputtered. His dignity was British establishment. He draws 'shocked. The Americans condescend about as much as an American pri- ingly informed him where he might vate, wears a Sarm Brown belt and find their commanding officer to 'has a profound contempt for every-prefer charges against them, Ap thing below him. Ha is, decidedly, Iparently the charges were preferred, 'if." " jbut when "Sir" Tom came back he Sergt. Hollingsworth visited an was in a better humor and tried to English carnival in France. He was j explain away the thing, "going around" without chevrons. He) George Bursell, 'teen-age veteran, "went mto a tent where "things ap-Went over the top so many times he peared to be pretv lively" and join--lost count. He with three others ?d in. A sergeaf aiajor entered be- helped take Harry Davis, wounded, Jiind him and I, formed him that back to the rear. Davis and Bursell "Sammy couldn't stay there, you were Kinston ' boys serving in the (know; it was for sergeants." Hoi- Selma unit. They discussed the ef Imgsworth proceed to "get him told" .fair Saturday morning. Davis told in good old American language. On how he was dumped into a shellhole another occasion Hollinvsworth saw when it got so hot the stretchermen sergeant-major who claimed to be 'decided it was better to save "four the "middleweizht chamm'on wrestl-i whole men" than "one fcalf-dead cf the British army thrown lone." BIOLOGISTS WILL RUN NEXT WAR, HE SAYS. Philadelphia, April 12. Instead of dynamite, poison gas and liquid fire, destruction will be wrought on armiefi and cities by pouring of deadly di sease germs from the sky. This prediction was made for the (next war by Dr. Isaac Sharpless, president emeritus of Haverford College, in speaking against compul sory military training in public .schools. "The next conflict," Dr. Sharpless declared, "will be a war of biologists. While this may be too horrible even to contemplate now, nevertheless it is a probability to be reckoned with." IT HAS A HISTORY. The bass drum of the 119th Infan try is here. It has the war and border service record of the regi ment painted on it in big letters and gaudy colors. Earl Brewer was the drummer. ' For the benefit of bag gage men on the trains a note was attached to the drumi It conveyed the information that the old drum was dear to its "playmate," that it had been beaten in the Southwestern States, in England, France, Belgium and elsewhere, and that it was prac tically priceless. It is understood that , the drum is stilj Government property. The Government wants to understand, according to certain res idents, that Kinston wont part with it, Government or no Government. TROOPS SCARED OF 4 (By the United Press) New York, April 12. No present danger threatens the American troops- along the Archangel front while they continue fighting on the defensive. The bolsheviki army con fronting the (Americans is far from ts base and is showing no eagerness to develop a persistent offensive. It is engaged in nothing more serious than harrassing tactics not far re moved from guerilla warfare. The bolsheviki are more intent upon de stroying the morale of their enemies, by political propaganda than by mili tary strategy. If the bolsheviki had skillful military leadership at their disposal and they were seriously in- ent upon a rigorous campaign the become alarming. Everywhere in Lenoir County the good roads spirit is paramount. An overwhelming majority may be cast for the cause at the polls Tuesday, when the $2,000,000 bond issue au thorized by the last legislature will e voted on. Saturday Chamber of Commerce workers and their co-la borers in every rural district "drove nails" for better highways. . Uptimiem reigns supreme among the friends of the Issue. Monday,, eve of election day, will be a day of final rallies in some townships. The Chamber of Com mcrce, pledged "not to let up" until the polls close Tuesday evening, will put m its best ofiorts then. BULLETINS j (By the United Press) 'TO ALL MANKIND." Copenhagen, April 12. A dis patch from Weimar reports that the national assembly has adopt ed a resolution warning that if a violent peace ij dictated Ger many will address an 11th hour appeal to all mankind. HALF THE ARMY DEMOBILIZED. Washington, April 12. Nearly half the American army lias been demobilized to date. The total of discharge's of officers and men announced by General March numbers 1,701,469.. Forty six per cent. ofc the men and ov er half of the officers demobi lized, j MEN WHO MUTINIED WERE FROAM DETROIT. Washington, April 12. Bol sheviki propaganda is officially held responsible for the mutiny of an American infantry com pany in Northern Russia, Chief of Staff March says, announcing that Company I, 239th Infantry, comprised the offending troops. He read a message from the com- . mnnding officer at Archangel which stated questions put by the men to their officers were the same as the bolsheviki in propaganda leaflets advised them to ask. Company I consists al most entirely of Detroit men. SCHOOL MEN MEE HERE TO DISCUSS IMPORTANT TOPICS Retardation and the 6 Months Law Subjects Considered by Stateand Local Educators Friday Night and Saturday School men to the nurier of more than a dozpn discussed the new State law for a six-months term and "retardation" at a conference opened at Gordon Street Christian Church Friday Slight and resumed at the Grainger High School Saturday morning. v They represented the State Department of Education, city schools and other institutions. Friday night, following a suppe served the educators by women of Gordon Streot church, Dr. E. C, Brooks, State superintendent, de scribed in detail the new State law. He was followed by President Robert Wright of the Ijjast Carolina Teach ers' Training School, Greenville, who spoke on the law and paid a hand some compliment to former State Superintendent J. Y. Joyner. Saturday forenoon "retardation' was taken up. It was shown at i round table discussion, led by Dr. I Williams of the University of North Carolina, that retardation in the nation averages 33 per cent. Su perintendents at the conference cited figures both below and above this average. ssupt. Jv. it. uurtis gave Kinston's percentage as 34. NO KID CAN GO HOMELESS IN CAROLINA. A woman in a certain upstate town has asked Mrs. Thomas Conway to lot her have a foundling girl whose care .Mrs. Conway assumed a few days ago. The woman wanted her identity concealed even from her husband. She wanted to rear the nfant as her own, and to have the mprcssion that it was her child pre vail even in the immediate neigh borhood of her home. The baby was iken by Mr. and Mrs. Ralph West, this city, shortly after being desert ed in North Kinston anil being taken to Mrs. Conway's home, however. GOVERNOR TO HEAD A DRIVE IN SOUTHWEST, Atlanta, April 12. Governor R. A. Cooper of South Carolina today ac eepted the chairmanship for the Southeastern department for the coming drive for the Salvation Army Home Service Fund. Governor Cooper assumes the leadr crsh'p in North and South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. Crucifixion of Childhood Huns' Curse on World Absence of Happy Youngsters and Lack of Merriment Among Na turally Vivacious People Marks Tragic Passing of the German From France. (By W. W. Pinson) Our Toad lay through scenes that were constant and ghastly remind ers of war, more numerous and more marked than we had seen before. There were vast networks of trench es and dug-outs and bomb-proofs and barbed-wire entanglements. That which brought the war and its cruel ty home to us with greatest emphasis was the rows of new-made graves with their crude crosses standing as solemn sentinels above the soldier boys who had so recently paid the great price, tic horror of this martial madness The absence of children is op pressive. Men and women now and then, grave and sad amid their ruins, but rarely children. I remember two during that afternoon with a scared, lazed look on their innocent faces, I spent n large part of the day in Rheims without seeing the face of a child. . War aims its cruelest blow at the heart of childhood, Herod was a true type of militarist. He was the 'original Hun. It was a comforting thought amid all this that we were there as fore runners of the Methodist Centenary Movement, which sets for itself the expending of thirty-five million dol lars in the reconstructing and heal ing ministries of the Prince of Once, just as the west was fading : Peace. nto the dull tints of twilignt, we be-I It was a welcome change when we held a row of those black crosses ail- (passed from these scenes of desola- ihoueUed against the horizon, accen- Ltion into the streets of Chalons, tuating the loneliness with their mute ablaze with light and thronged with but eloquent protest against the monstrous anachronism of war. Scarcely- less solemn and im pressive were the ruined and desert ed .villages through which -we passed. Stark and motionless as a corpse they gave us no welcome nor fare- welL ... It was easy to picture these streets full of happy children and these ruin ed homes resonant with the irre pressible merriment of this vivacious people. Where is all this life end color and happiness? It is dead smitten by the ehells, quenched by harsh thunder and frozen in the arc-' busy life. It was like coming into a new world. The Germans occupied this city early in the war, but for some unaccountable reason left it about as they found it. Later the battle lines swung round it We had passed that day through the scenes of the most historic bat tles of the world. We started in the morning from Chateau Thierry, wTiere our brave boya helped stay the rush of the in vading Huns, and slept at night wher Christian civilization was saved from the Hun invasion 1,500 years before. INCREASE IN RATES MINCIIER IS FOUND GUILTY RECEll (By the United Pratt) Washington, April 12.The recent 20 per cent, increase in telegraph rates was neeessitatod by trio same reason that forced other industries io increase prices of products and iservice as much as 100 per cent, to obviate financial collapse, Postmaster-General Burleson claims in a lengthy statement setting forth his reasons that forced other industries He declares that the time has now ,eonie when it is no longer passible to render telegraph service to the in-. duslncs of the -country at pre-war prices. LOOT OF BURGLAR Convict Boss Remanded to Jail to Await Court's Sentence WOMAN GUILTY VAGRANCY THIS JOB WANTS A SOLDIER; KNOW ONE? R'.ileigh, April 12. Sometime ago ithe Agricultural Extension Service published the names of several dis charged soldiers who desried places on farms in North Carolina. Then letters began to come in from farmers all over the State saying they could usti the services of any discharged soldier who might want to come to the farm. The State College claims first hon or in this, however, as it is looking for a working foreman to handle the horticultural gardens and ortfiards, which are under the direction of Professor J. P. Pillsbury. Mr. Pills- bury needs a man who has had ex perience in fruit ami truck growing. -He would prefer to have a discharg- soldier. The salary is above the average. Afnyone desiring to take the matter up with Mr. iPillwbury can reach him at West Haleigh, N. C. Flonnie Gulley's Case At tracts Interest James Underhill to Roads Im portant Cases Last Day of Court n i Judge Frank Daniels made a most forceful talk to , those assembled at Superior Court Saturday morning on the evil tendencies and influences of the times. He rapped current literature, vice and sin conditions depicted in the moving pictures, lack of parental discipline and other conditions ex isting now which he said did not tend to elevate the minds of the boys and girls. Ho placed the responsibility of loose conditions upon like public con sciences and comment upon the observation that many good men who were upright and moral in their private lives, felt' little or no respon- Jsibility to safeguard the public wel- LAND SALES. The Walter & Gurlcy Auction Co. fare. Where public sentiment was not wholesome and vigorously op posed to evil, it generally resulted, ihe declared, in the election of loose conducted three successful realty lnffrerx And t.h law was not imheld. sales Friday. The E. M. Hodges He urged that the crusade now jn property on North Queen Street Was .progress against vice in Kinston be mircnased by. Mews. i. v. Moseiey, mRie a continuous performance as Eugene Wood and J. C. Rasberry. temporary spurts failed to pro The considerations totallod more duca anv laBting results. than $50,000. More than $7,000 was paid by Messrs. John WhitfieW, ,MIncher Guilty on Two Counts. Thomas Wilson and H. iB. Hill for W. Mincher, convict boss, Ms owned by Mr. John G. Cox: in whose eaue went to the jury Friday North Kinston. iMr. W. A. Moore afternoon, was found guilty on the purchaffd a house and lot in North- counts in the bill of indictment, west Kinston owned by Mr. Thomas .charging larceny and receiving tol- Sullivan. The contidorati-on was not ,'en property. The jury returned its disclosed.' NOTABLE FACULTY AT STATE COLLEGE SUMMER SCHOOL. West Raleigh, April 12. Dr. W. A. Withers, director of the State iverdict about 7 o'clock Friday night. Mincher was placed in jail to await sentence of the court Saturday, Gulley Woman Guilty. Flonnie Gulley, a woman of the segregated district who resisted the recent order of the city authorities College Summer School, to be held , to vacate the section or turn to some from June 10 through July 23, is en- .lesral Pursuit, was found guilty of husiastic over the faculty which has vagrancy as charged. The jury was been selected. Many of the teachers out about an hour and a half Satur- re well-known throughout the State, 'day morning. nd several have attained distinction! The case attracted considerable in- n a wider field. Miss (Maud Barnard terest and was watched by the moral will have charge of story-telling. ', element which had engaged Messrs. iMiss Annie Workman, a member of jN. J. Rouse and G. V. Cowper to as- thc faculty of Peabody, will have 'sist Solicitor Powers in the nrosecu. charge of the primary work ot theltion. The evidence showed that the summer school. I (Continued on page fouT PRIZES AND CERTIFICATES AWARDED TO SCHOOLS AND PUPILS COUNTY SYSTEM Oakdale and Sharon schools tied , Contentnea, Leola White and Willie for the Schaut cup Saturday. It will 'Taylor. go to one of the two later. Pupils Reading circle certificates, various who were prize winners were Percy years: E'ethel, Daisy Belle Braxton, Bryan, $5 for highest average in eventh grade exams.; Crystal Davis, 5 for best "essay on agricultural sub ject; Etta Mae Howard, $5 for best health essay, and four others for health papers. Seventh grade certificated, read- Vorna Smith, Mary Etta Rouse, Doris Johnson and Sudie Mae Sum merell; 0;f;d ale, Earl Whitley, Alice (Whitley, Jesse Worthington, Ruby Worthington, Hazel Hazard, Harvey 'Turnage, Isaac Worthington, Pearl Elmore, Julia Whitley, Lillian Whit- ng circle certificates, perfect attend- iey, Claire Worthington and Gladys e certificates and the W. J. (Schaut loving cup were awarded in brief exercises at the Grainger High Worthington; White's, Lillian John son, Edward Johnson, Hubert John son, Ruby Taylor and A. Z. Edwards, School Saturday which took the place Jr.; Sharon, Nannie Fields, Eunice of a more formal county commence ment. The whole affair was busi nesslike and devoid of frills. Indi- idual schools are holding separate ommencements this year. Miss Mary G. Shotwell, assistant Mercer, Herman White, Rubell Ab bott, Floronce Mercer, Mary Hill, Guy Skinner, Estelle Mercer, Jessie JLangston, Jrma Abbotty Walter Rhue, Alice Cameron, Dolly Mae Jones, Elton Wiggins, Lena Fields, uperintendent of schools, Saturday Ma Cameron, Louise Wiggins, Ruby morning announced the following Wiggins, Cameron Langeton, Percy winners of perfect attendance cer- iRhue, Ray Skinner, Lillie Langs ton. ficates: I 'Martha Cameron, Dannie Wiggins, Deep Run School, Eunice Cun- Robert Cameron and Rabie Wiggins; ' ingham, Azella Lambert and Eric Contentnea, New it Smith, Bettie Sparrow; Sharon, Dannie Mercer (Smith, Mary' McCoy, Doris Taylor, Wiggins and S. Elton Wiggins; Oak- I.ee Thomas, John David . Taylor, dale, Hannah Turnage, Harvey Tur- nage, Claire Worthington, Ruby Worthington, Jesse Worthington, Er- eell Turnage; Grainger, Thehna Moore and Ruth Webber; Mill Branch, Joyce Gertrude Tilghman and Leo Boyd Tilghman; Farm Valley, Persia Hodges; Sand Hill, William Harman Sutton, Caroline Sutton, (Larry Benjamin Pate end Gladys Odell Pate; Bethel, Verna ( Smith; Lannie Murphey, Corinne Thomas and Leola White. The program follows: Awarding of .seventh grade certificates; awarding of reading circle certificates; award ing of perfect attendance certifi cate; awarding of prices by Mr. E. iB. Lewis and Dr. T. F. Wickliffe and statement by Mrs. Jack Parrott for the Daughters of the Confederacy; presentation of Schaut cup.
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