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1E1 TpdayVf fws Tcj VOL. XX. No. 315 SECOND EDITION KINSTON, N. C, MONDAY. EVENING, APRIL 11, 1919 FOUR PAGES TODAY PRICK TWO CENTS ' riVJj CJTS ON TKAEN tlE, DAILY PRESS The Home Paper LENOIR COUNTY VOTES ON TWO-MILLION-DOLLAR DGND ISSUE FOR BETTER ROADS TUESDAY; CAUSE "IS EXPECTED WIN OUT .Whole State Interested on Eve of Election Brick, As ' phalt or Other Hard Material to Replace Mud Streaks Over County if Friends of Progress Have Their Way. Big Undertaking Gamely Tackled Wins Admiration of Onlookers From a Distance Sundown Tuesday to See Biggest Question in County's History Answered, Ap parently With Loud "Yes" On the eve of the county election (for improved roads it looks as if ithe pros have a sure thing of it. Tuesday Lenoir County's voters will Fallot on a proposition to issue v?2,0OO,000 iin bonds to pave the main highways of the county and some of the lesser ones. Friends of the issue are confident every one of the 12 townehtps will :j?o over the top for roads. By sun down Tuesday evening Lenoir Coun ty will have taken the lead over the 09 other counties in the State or will have struck a self-inflicted blow suf ficient to cripple 'its progress for many years to come. Everywhere Chamber of Commerce workers and enthusiastic planters and others aTe putting in last-minute efforts to win over antis and doubt f uls. ' Everyone in the county is acquaint ed with the proportion which is to increase the total tax on the $100 of property a few cents and reap un told benefits in return. The eyes of North Carolina are turned toward Lenoir County. Good oads advocates in every section are Roping Lenoir Will break out of its mud prison and assume the leader ship oT the State. Its nerve in un dertaking such a big job has won statewide admiration. linos t From University. The Lenoir Club at the University of North Carolina sent the follow ing fine argument for road improve ments, received here late Saturday: We the Lenoir County Club of the (University of North Carolina, Waving a very deep interest in the success of the coming election, for determin ing whether Lenoir County shall is ,sue $2,000,000 in bonds for road im provements, wish to present to the (voters of Lenoir County the follow ing f acta concerning the coming is "pue: In undertaking the presentation of these facts we wish first to review (briefly the present system of build ing and upkeep of Toads in Lenoir County. According to statistics fur bished by the county treasurer, we have spent about $GO,000 a, year for the past five years for the construc tion 'of dirt roade which are now practically no better than they were five years ago. This fact is due to several causes, the chief of which iwere the contracting of the con struction and the lack of upkeep; jtwo things which will ultim&tely cause any roads we can build to be failures. These two defects in road .'maintenance will be eliminated in the proposed issue by the very na ture of the bill. The construction will be conducted by an especially 1 Appointed road commission in co operation with an expert road en gineer. The kind of road called for fs or a permanent type out tnere 13 ... ....... permanent type unless wy are made so by a continuous system ot . - repairs, .am mis item win, alter .,..',. son oe a.most eliminate, m our case. The Government estimate and allowance for road upkeep a $00 . .m, per year wn.cn wuuiu oe re- fluced almost to nothing in our coun- I fy both by the nature of the con- r t .. I . A u 1 1 1 ll. . "T , ana Dy lne cluun y OTne eunace: t; . there is a great and immediate need for road improvements ' in Lenoir County and having learned that it an be met by the proposed bond is sue, or the publicity committee has tshown you at great lengths, the next and most ' important question is whether you can afford. To answer . this will require the knowledge of , the value of Lenoir County property and the taxes paid at present. The North Carolina tax commie- ion reports for 1918 that the real and personal prJ"y of Lenoir jtives, the remains were taken County as listed foy tion was val- charge by the county undertaker. He ued at $7,433,935.)!u is a noted fact 'embalmed the body and the next day that twenty-niner other North Caro- ithe Jina counties reported higher valua- jion and several of those counties were mountain counties whose land is very inferior in value to our own. The total valuation of taxable prop- ,irty and corporations was $9,6fi0,0!)7. On this valuation taxes were paid to .the total amount of $140,383, -and -34 per cent, of the whole went to road construction and maintenance. Only eleven counties paid more taxes for road3 than Ienoir yet dozens have better roads. The next fact of importance is that the total tax rate of Lenoir IjCounty for state and county pur poses was $1.10 2-3. This rate was exceeded by twenty-five othur coun ties of North Carolina. Now the proposed bond issue will raise our tax rate to about $1.65 which is sur passed by many counties of the State. And after all it is really not a tax on the real valuation of our property. If every one in Lenoir County should list his property at the price for which he would sell, the ,total valuation would certainly ex ceed $35,000,000. Should this valua tion be made as it is to be made by Lthe State assessors the coming year the tax rate would be of necessity cut in half and, it would then un doubtedly be the lowest in the State I.So after all, Mr. Voter, it is only ,quest!on of funds sunieient to sup ,port county government and to pro vide the public service required the county. That and no more is de sired. So, finally, it is a matter true valuation of property and not higher tax rates which .will determine whether we can afford this bond is isue; In conclusion, gentlemen, "consid ering the cost of the present system the cost of the proposed system, the disadvantages of the present system ,and the evident benefits to be derived ',from the proposed system, you are merely votmg on whether you wish .to pay $1,500,000 in the next twenty. five years for roads no better than the present ones or whether you ,had rather spend $2,000,000 in the next twenty-five years for roads that you. can use the whole year round roads which will give you inestimable pride as well as pleasure, and savings jn time as well as money anJ trouble, Find? Missing Coins hi Mincher fas at Home of a Negress Sheriff A. W. Taylor Saturday flight found the missing coins in the iMincher ease. E. W. Mwicher, boss of convicts. sentenced to three years (Saturday ,for receiving stolen property from Will Gorham, colored trusty and con Ifessed burglar, when arrested gave the officers several gold coins and a list of coins which 'he said had been ,in his oossession. Shaving come from IUMIIIHII1. n I. IIIC W IW CMC duawivi. ft number of coins was by the prosecution, gheriff . Iearn5 from dev , m. u v a ham wnere the coins could be found, went Goldsboro and them from M Anther, ft developed t em M who . . . . . . .- majority of them were copper and of 'small 'Mlalue. Obrham tajased Min- Cher's arrest by declaring be had com 'tpelled him to commit the robberies. Afterward he retracted and said . . t i (inintner was innocent 01 ujr jran " them. CORPSE IS BASIS OF LEGAL FIGHT. Atlanta, Ga., April 12. A corpse formed the basis of a hotly contested legal battle fought out in the Fulton Superior Court before Judge George L. Bell. Amanda Truitt, a negress, was killed on Monday night and when ihe police were unable to locate rela- in relatives appeared to demand it, refusing to pay the undertakers fee Judge Bell ruled that if the relatives took the body, they must also pay the undertaker, which brought the settlement of the Jitiffatioa. PARLIAMENT WANTS W WHY GERMANY 1 PAY ALL lil Lloycj-Gcorge Goes to Lon don to Explain Repa rations WILSON WILL HEP OUT Expected to Make State ment German Delegates Probably Will Be Called to Versailles by April 25 Said (By thr United Press) Paris, Ap(ril H. President Wilson is expected to make a statement outlining the progress of the' peace conference and showing lhe work completed. The big four met unexpectedly from 6 to 8 o'clock last night for the-f-purpose of reaching an agreement on certain details to enable Lloyd-George to leave for London today. The premier re quested information regarding the definite date for inviting the German delegates to Versailles so that he might inform parlia ment. It is understood he was told April 25. Lloyd-George will be called upon to explain why the agreement re garding reparation does not include provision for Germany to pay the entire cost of the war when he faces parliament tomorrow. Mr, Wilson's statement is expected to assist Lloyd George in showing the futility of trying to revoke the agreement on reparations. Clemenceau regarding the suggest ed date of April 25 for calling in the Germans today said lit had not yet been definitely decided upon and that it might be earlier. CAN TAKE LIQUOR T DRY STATE (By the United Press) . Washington, April 14. The Reed bone-dry act does not prohibit trans portation of liqubr through a dry state, the Supreme Court decided to day. Homer '. Gudger, on his way from Baltimore to North Carolina when arrested at Lyndhburg, in the dry State of Virginia, bad liquor in his possession. The lower courts quashed the indictment on the ground that transportation through a dry state was not contrary to law. COTTON Futures quotations Monday Open. were: A. Close. 26,70 25.0F, 23.25 25 1-8 May ............. 26.40 July , S4.45 October Local prices ranged from downward. INTERESTING SERMON. One of the best sermons he has ,sver preached Ihere was delivered by Rev. Bernard P. Smith, Dhe pastor, at Gordon Street Christian Church Sunday. Bis subject was "The Call of the Hour." A large congregation heard him. At the same subject Mrs. Ted. Sbifey rendered a violin solo and Mrs. Frank Lewis sang a solo. BEDFORD B. LUNSFORD, Corporal, Company M, 117th Infantry. Corp. Lunsford (deceased) ,was decorated for extraordinary fcerolsm in action near, Bel licourt, France, October 7, 1918. When the line was held up by enemy machine gun fire Cor poral Lunsford stropped an au tomatic rifle to his shoulder and advance In the face of machine gun fire. Firing as he went for ward, he killed four of the en emy before he fell dead, rid dled with bullets. Thomas Luns ford, his father, lives In Jlount Vernon,- Tenn. DOESN 3 BULLETINS (By the United Press) RAINBOWS TQ PORT. Brest, Aprp 14. The entire Rainbow Division is expected to arrive at the American camp here from the front today. MARTIAL LAW IX SAXONY. Copenhagen, AprfJ 14. Mar iiiM r- rlainUd ling o tial law has been prod throughout Sasfony, accord a dispatch from Dresden. HANG TURK FOR CRIMES. London April 14. Miamit Mahignd Iasha. former governor of Diarbekr, has been publiclv hanged as instigator of the Armenian massacres at Lzghad. MANGIN REVIEWS 32ND. Coblenz, April 11. General Mangin and Major-Genoral Dick man today reviewed the 32nd Di vision, which served undir Man gin in the Soinsons offensive. DRY LAW UPHELD. Washington,' ! April 14. The Supreme Cour today affirmed the ' lower court's derision on Georgia's Jaw prohibiting pos session of over one gallon of li quor as being constittition.il. Andrew D. Barbour attacked the law on the ground that it could not be made to apply to liquor "n , his possession before the law was passed. WANTS GERMAN MONARCHY. R.isle, ApriJ 14. Count Reventlow, former military von ex- pert of the Berliner Tageblatt, in an interview telegraphed here today declared he favors res toration of a liberalized mon archy. ' The militarist spirit does not exist in Germany, he said. The spirit of defense is natural everywhere. If we had a nation al spirit as strong as the French we would have won the first bat tle of the Marne, he asserted. ' BILLIONS 51 LOAN (By the United Press) Washing-ton, April 14. Uncle Sam Wants less money for the Victory Loan than had been expected. All apparently needed will be $4,500, 000,000. He is ready to pay 4' 3-4 per cent, in partially exempt four- year treasury notes to get' it. This was revealed by Secretary of the Treasury Glass today in announcing the details of the Victory Loan. The popular subscription campaign will open a week from today. (All over subscriptions will be rejected. Pastor Craig Says Day of Good Roads at Hand in America Rev. W. Marshall Craig, pastor of the Fir.t Baptist Church, preached srood roads among other things in a irring sermon Sunday night. He ,ai'id: "I am a great believer in the good roads movement which is now on. I wish I could do something for that movement. Somehow I feel that my part is very little. I feel that any words I might say might not bear much weight. Somehow I think that it is a proposition for our business men, but it lis a proposition for all of us after ail. I want to add my tes timony right here that I am a great Lbeliever in the good roads movement, and I should like to see everv road in Lenoir County, every town in the Nation, paved with asphahtum some ,tfliing that will give to us ideal roads and will give to us one of the fin est road system in all the world. I see the day is coming when our reat' states of the Nation are de manding these things, and North Carolina will not be an the back ground; and Lenoir County will not be in the background, becauss she has always been in the forefront and twill continue to be 'in all these upward Lmovements that move on to progress and to greater achievement." VANDERBILT TO AID SALVATION ARMY DRIVE. Atlanta, April 12. As an example of the calibre of men behind the com ing Salvation (Army Home Service Fund drive those in charge of the national drive announce that Br'ig. Gen. Cornelius Vanderbilt will serve as cnairmnn oi tne ureater new York district in the campaign from May 19 to 2G. OURAiJI BERLIN THREATENS TO SEND TROOPS TO CAPITAL Situation at Munich Con fusing Not Known Whether Soviet Outfit is in Charge or Not Revolt at Brunswick? Berne, April 14. War Minister Noske has threatened to send a mili tary expedition against Munich, ac cording to advices received here. The situation at Munich is confusing. Re ports of the overthrow of the sovi et government bave not been con firmed, nor have later reports of a second coup restoring the Soviets power. A soviet republic is said to have been proclaimed in Brunswick. The change 'in government there was ac - complished without bloodshed. Confusion. Berlin, April 12 (Delayed). Kale idacopic events at Munich have ron dered the Situation unintelligible to anyone not actually within the city. It is doubtful even if the peoplo of Munich themselves understand what ie going on about them. A rapid suc cession ot reports recoiveu toaay said the soviet republic had been overthrown, that the soviet republic had been restored, that both the bol sheviki and socialists were conduct ing their respective governments side by side. Latest dispatches said street fighting was underway at Miurfich, without reference to who was fighting or who was winning Fighting at Dresden. Copenhagen, April 14. Bitter fighting has broken out at Dresden following the murder of the war min ister, according to dispatches receiv ed here. Government troops are be ing rushed from Berlin to repress the radicals, who are fighting under communist leadership.- - - , . , BOLlEVIKI It AT (By the United Press) Washington, April 14. Bolshevik propaganda is being spread broad cast in certain Italian cfities, creating a situation of grave possibilities, a message to the Ftate Department an nounces. Extra police are patrolling the streets of Turin, big induwtrial center. Five hundred cawilryi troops are reported to have been quartered there to suppress a possible uprising. The troubles are officially spoken of as an impending strike. The Italian authorities have the situation under control. ' LOCAL QUINT LOSES ' STATE CHAMPIONSHIP. Saturday afternoon at ' the ' New E'rick Warehouse the girls' basket- ball bam of the Grafinger High School ,nlayed the last game of the season, contesting the iStata championship with Wilson. " Wilson won by a nar row margin of 30 to 20, but the local team played a star 'game and pave Wilson the baftlest figiht they have had this season. It was decidedly the beet game played here yet and was marked by clean playing and tihe absence of fouls. Kinstan's team work was fine and they did the pret tiest pjece of passing seen on the ,-ourt this year. At the, end of the 5irst half the score was 20 to 10 in favor of Wilson. In the second half Kinston woke up and pot within two points of Wilson at one time. The .visiting team, which has not lost a game this season, was heavier than vthe locals, and had the advantage in .having had a team every year. Kins ton had no team last year on account of having no place to play and most of the team have never played be fore" this year. Alma Gray Deans, center, was Wilson's star player. Eleanor Hill, center, starred for Kinston, doing the best team work of all the players. Although Deans outmatched lier in weight she stuck ito her and put up a game fight. The lineup for Kinston was as follows: Eleanor Hill, center; Hilda Randolph and Gladys Mewborne, forwards; Lu cille Faulkner and Margaret Whit- (iker, guards. Miss Jesfiie Williams efereed the first half and Miss Ma- bel Cooper the .second. This was the last game of the season, as the .weather as getting too toot for such strenuous exercise. The High School is justly proud of the girls' team and they are to be congratulated on their (excellent showing tffi season. Next Attorney Says Preacher Attemped Jury Packing Quotes Reports in Court Colonel Shaw Creates Some thing of .Sensation Not Becoming to Use Rumors, Says Judge Lawyer an Elder, Says He Had Been Criticized f or Defending Case Mincher Gets Three Years, Appeals Woman Sentenced o 30 Pays JVIis trial in Case Againct Men Charged With Assaulting Young Cirls Woman Insists Upon Telling Everything The April criminal term rather remarkable week Saturday night, in which some of the ugliest cases heard in J'athetic, dramatic and ing scenes. The court was somewhat startled at the broadcast hurled at the moral element of the community for its manifest interest in securing convictions in vice Cases. Attorney Henry E. Shaw, Counsel for a woman of the segregated district who was grancy, and a former solicitor ot the district, charged that "A rumor had reached his ears that a certain min ister of Jesus Christ had used the 'phone to urge certain people to attend the sessions of court in order that they Alumni Local N$gro College in Exercises at St. John's Church The alumni association of Kinston College, a young but meritorious negro college of this city, entertain ed a large audience at St. Johns Free Will Baptist Church Sunday ight. The association rendered an laborate literary program, corre lated with many facts in reconstruc- ion. Starr Hicks of St. John's Church introduced Prof. L. E. Rasbury, pres ident of the association, who in I hort but pointed address outlined ,the object of the -meeting and intro duced the mistress of ceremonies. Mrs. J. W. Clark, an alumnus of Vir inia' Female Seminary, who pro- eeded with the program. There were graduates from all parts of the State present and each one that per formed proved himself a credit to the efficient linstitution. They point' back to their school days with pleasure and eloquently advised the people of Kinston to educate them selves. The principal address of the meeting' was made by. Prof. L. E, Rasbury, president of the association and also president of Kinston Col- ege. Professor Rasbury in his ad- ress pointed to the sucoess that the graduates and former 'students of the school were making iin more .than 0 vocations. THE WEATHER. For North Carolina: Cloudy to n'ight and Tuesday; probably local rains in central and west portions. Slightly warmer tonight in central portion. Moderate east and south east winds. CRAVEN TO WASHINGTON. Bruce Craven, at one time super' ntendent of schools here, of late years a lawyer practicing at Trin- ty, N. C, has been appointed for pecial work in the office of the judge-advocate-general at Washing ton with the rank of major. He left for the capital Sunday night. BACK FROM OVERSEAS. A meFsage from W. G. Wethering ton, 120th Infantry, to his mother, Mrs. Emma Price, 90!) Chestnut Street, announces ibis arrival at Charleston. MEETING FIRE COMPANY. There" '.vill be an important meet ing of the Caswell Fire Company at .he City Hall tonight at 8. Hero of Circumstances." Alsey Parker, ll)th Infantry, was woundod three times in one battle in Flanders. Stall he kept going. But (Parker was a hero through neces sity. It was safer to keep going I T 1 1 1 j a J 1 jnl'aa w,ln wounas'"e "nu one thigh than risK a heavy jerry barrage over the back areas and 'possibly have his head blown off. .year they are going an for the State 'championship again and they hope to twin. of Superior Court closed a sometime were disposed of. almost tragic were the clos convicted of statutory va It looked like an attempt at "jury ricking" to nim. cMr. .N. J. Rouse of counsel . for the prosecution, re sponded to the charge and said that he could not bring himself to believe that Mr. Shaw really meant to charge the good ministers of the city with jury packing. Judge Daniels at tempted to throw oil on the troubled waters and suggested that it was not exactly becoming for rumors to be quoted in the court ' ' room. Mr. Shaw got up the second time and re iterated his remarks, in the course of which he spoke of himself as an eld er in the Presbyterian ?hurch and that some criticism had been made of him because he had taken the case. He defended Ms course by sayfing that the woman had been unable to get other legal advice In the city and he felt it bis professional duty, etc. Saturday afternoon was,, largely taken up with the hearing of a case against John Gregg, mill worker, and. Becton Sparrow, taxi-driver, who faced the technical charge of acisault on a female. The evidence showed I'hat two young girls 15 or 16 years of age who were being annoyed at a circus ground by some of the show men, appealed to Oregg, a young married man to get a taxi for them; he offered to walk 'part of the way home but bailed Sparrow's car and he and the two girls got in on the ' back seat! they started in a direction tfhat caused the girls, according to their' statements, to think that there was some evil design and that they ;vere being carried to the woods, whereupon they endeavored to get out of tlhe car. One of the girle claimed that Gregg tried to embrace her and she .screamed, the car was stopped beyond tihe Atlantic Coast Line Bail road on the Grifton road and the girls got out. There was no evi dence that Sparrow tried to put his hands on either of the girls. Gregg explained that he was simply trying to prevent tihe girl from jumping" out of tihe car. Character Witnesses ex amined failed to establish the best oharactera for the men. The girls were shown to be well behaved. The mother of the glirls created consider- able merriment on the stand in her persistent effort to 'Tell all she knew and the truth about the matter." The court was convulsed on several occasions during her presence on the stand and attorneys found it diffi cult to interject a question while tihe old lady was talking. She testified hat Sparrow had endeavored to com promise the case, rue jury alter spending several hours on the case failed to agree and a mistrial was .ordered. E. W. Mincher, convicted road oss, was sentenced to three years in fhe penitentiary. His counsel ap- pealej and (he was admitted to bail in the sum of $1,050, which was ?iven by Dr. Ira M. Hardy. Flonnie Gulley, the woman from the. segregated district, was sen tenced to 30 days in jail after a vaun attempt to get ber to consent to go to the rescue home at Samarcand and turn over a new leaf. Judge Dan iels spoke very kindly to her and pleaded with her to save him tha disagreeable task of sending her to Ljail; her counsel Jiad endeavored to persuade her to go to the home and counsel for the prosecution urged her to take that course. She protested that she Jiad property interests '.Which 'would be jeopardized and. (Continued on page four)
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