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rri Tfe's Hone Paper Today News TodayV kcc. v VOt- XXL-Noi SG viiv'j : SECOND EDITION - KINSTON, N. (MVEDNESIMY, JtfNE 4, 1919 FOUR PAGES TODAY PEJCK TWO CETTS riva CENTS QS tz ALLIED A1MIE AMERICAN FLAG IN SAY NO MORE U. S. ANSELL WILL CI SOUTHERN SEAS; IS AID IN LOCATING JULY 4 SPEECH If ' lEAEf -f IE A : FAMILIAR SIGHT JOBS FOR SOLDIERS POSSIBLE TO Wj TTTfTS TT TT fi3 S OM EHIME Forces of Britain, America and France Take Up Po sitions Preparatory (o Advance Moment Germany Kicks Out of Traces Neutrals Making Known Atti tudes . Toward - Iockade Norway and Switzerland Won't Have Anything to Do With It Austrian Press Bitter Against Treaty "Tears Living Flesh From Stupefied Nation" China Gets Permission Make Re- , servation as to Shantung PRESIDENT IT TO GERMANY PROTESTS (By the United Press) " ' t rans, June 4. The neutrals as wen as Allies are making preparations to meet the situation that would be treated by refusal of the Germans to sign the peace treaty,. ;.: , 9II1 Norway and Switzerland have made known their in tention to refuse to enter a blockade against Germany in the event the armistice is ended. The decisions of Hol land, Sweden and Denmark are expected shortly. Everything along theKhine is reported to. be in hair trigger readiness. ' The Allied armies are understood to have taken up sfrategic positions ready for a quick advance into Ger many. Interest is centered in the degree to which the peace terms will be modified, since there is unanimity of opinion that they will be modified- Concession to uuna. Paris, Juno 4. An unconfirmed report being circulated here says the bis four have agreed to China making reservation regarding the Shantung settlement when she signs the German peace treaty. Austrian Dissatisfaction. Vienna, June 4. Austrian news. naoers are bitter in their comment regarding the peace terms. The Neue Freie Press says the treaty is "worie than our worst expectations It will lead to complete ruin." The Arbeiter Zeitung says: J'They have torn the living flesh from stupefied Austrio." The Neue Weiner Journal declares it unacceptable. Many Winners Stars -. and Monograms Among High School Athletes The folowing are members of the Grainger High : School Athletic As sociation who won stars and mono grams the ' past v scholastic year: Basketball: Hanson Rochelle, star, and monogram; Ernest Mangum, Bennie Stanley, Edwin Turnley, Gussie Leggett, Leslie Lee, Herbert Spear and Eugene Sumrell, mono grams. Baseball Eugene Sumrell, Ernest Mangum, Roland Blow, Ray IMcNairy and Herbert Spear, stars and monograms; Ellis Simon, Geo. Denmark, Harold Stanley, Randolph Spear, Charlie Ellington, " Bennie Stanley and Emmett Wooten, mon ogtrams. (Football: Ray McNairy, Hanson Rochelle, Roy McNairy (2), Eugene Sumrell (2) and Charlie B. McNairy, stars and monograms; Herbert Speat, Clarence Clark and Ellis Simon, monograms. Commencement at High School; Walker Will Make Address Friday Commencement exercises ; at Grainger High School will start Thursday evening, when the Class Day program will be given by the Iseniors. ; Friday "morning a decla mation contest for -the Dr. Thomas Faulkner medal will be held, certi ficates wW be presented and records read. Friday evening the com mencement address will be delivered by Dr. N. ,W. Walker of the Uni versity of 'North Carolina and di plomais will be awarded. The class is comprised by , 21 girls and five boys. , , COME BEFORE 30TII ,(By the United Press) Washington, June 4. According to private information President Wilson has little hope of leaving for home before June 13. He plans to visit Brussels before his return. It appears likely he will , not ' reach Washington before the end of the month at best. BULLETINS ; (By the United Press) AFTER TERRORIST. Pittsburgh, June 4. The ar rest of a man who made bombs which wrecked six residences j here Monday night is expected' within the next 24 hours, accord- ing to the police. They say they know the identity of the bomb maker. His arrest has been ' ordered by the Department of J Justice. The alleged terrorist is j said to be hiding in Chicago. AGRICULTURAL ! BILL PASSED. Washington;- June 4. The House today passed the agricul tural appropriation bill, carrv. ' ing $31,600,000. ' , TO ALLIES AGAINST For Many Years Seldom Annrnnrmlinns Chnirmpn I Seen-r-Supremacy of U. S. Shipping in South American Ports May Return Led Many Years Ago Bent on Abolishing Ser vice July 1 Woods Pro testsMany Men in Need Assistance Former Acting Judge-Ad vocate-General Real Celebrity Schcidemann Starts Pro- , ceedings Bring Presi dent New Rhenish Repub lic to Trial New Gov ernment 'Active (By the United Press) Basle, , Juno ; 4. Chancellor aeneidomann in response to Doctor Dorten'a telegram asking for per mission to elect an assembly for the new Rhenish republic and eend rep resentatives toj the peace conferenoe By LAWRENCE HAAS (United Press Staff Correspondent) Rio De Janeiro (By Mail). Americans here and in other Bra tllian ports are awaiting the return or tne "good old days' or the su premacy of the American merchant marine with a feeling of confidence in tne restoration of their commer cial standing, mixed with a spirit of patriotism. They are hoping to see in the near future the Stars and Stripus Ibat ing from at least 40 or 50 per cent, of the chips in the harbors of Rio, Santos and Pernambuco, a condition (By the United Press) Washington, June 4. Col. Arthur Woods favors Secretary Wilson's re quest for $4,000,000 to maintain the Employment Service during the next year. Letters from Chairmen Warren and Good, Senate and House ap propriations committees Irrespective ly, to Woods declare the Ebployment Service must go out of business tho first of July. The interests of re turning soldiers and Bailors in need of assistance in trying to reestab lish themselves in civil life will suf fer to ah extent which it is difficult to over estimate, flays Woods. TO HAVE MILITARY BAND Aeroplane Also Kinston'a Independence Day Cele bration the Real Thing. Committee Meets Thurs day Night r DEATH OF CHILD. Bertha Taylor Jones, daughter of Mr. Carl Jones, died here Wednes day forenoon. The little girl under went an operation recently, hr con dition being serious at the time. The body will be taken to Ayden for burial Thursday. Rev. Bernard P. Smith of Gordon Street Christian Church will officiate.' The child was about six years of age. Governor Boosts the Palestine Campaign; Kinston Drive Opens The Palestine Restoration Fund drive here was launched Wednes day forenoon following a meeting of the central and soliciting committees with Chairman E. B. Lewis at the Chamber of Commerce. Miss Ethel Greenburg, Zionist leader for the State,1 was present. Miss Green burg brought with her the following letter written by Governor Bickett to her May 30: "I am in keen sympathy with the movement for the registration of Palestine tothe Jewish nation. I think your efforts in this direction are to be commended, and I hope that our people will give sympa thetic consideration to requests made in furtherance of this movement" The folowing were added to the canvassers . Wednesday: Samuel Guyes, E.G.Barrett, Mrs." C. A. Jeffress, Mrs. S. C. Sitterson and Mrs. H. H. Grainger. Corn Market At Chicago Tuesday July closed t 1.71, September at 1.61 3-4. BASEBALL Tuesday's games: National. . At New York. 4; Philadelphia, 7. At Boston, 2-3; Brooklyn, 1-tt. At Chicago, 1; Pittsburgh, 0. American. At Cleveland, 6-8; St. Louis, 14-5. At Washington, 3; Boston, 4. At Detroit, 7; Chicago, 3. At Philadelphia, 9; New York, 10. MORE FOR REST HOUSE. The Chamber of Commerce Wed nesday guaranteed one-third of the pense of the Health Bureau's new f est bouse. Cleaning Up Business District; Must Stay Clean, Say Officials . The Street Departm1eh1J Tuesday started in to clean up private prem ises In the business district, just by way of "demonstration." It will give much time,! to the work during the next two or three days, and it is possible that some back lots and al leys will be really clean for the first time in years. Supt. Ralph West hopes $o make the downtown district ns clean as the North Kinston resi dential sections. He" has done ex cellent work on a number of the dirt streets, and is inclined to make sani tation a hobby. Police Chief Hamilton Tuesday accompanied the superintendent on a round of a part of the business district, to hint to merchants and of fice occupants and others that they will be expected to keep their prem ises clean once they are gotten so. No Taore paper must be thrown on the streets, Chief Hamilton declared. GRANNIS I. SYVERSON, ' Private, Company C, Sixth Ma f ' cnine uun (satiation, g U. 8. M. C. Private Syverson was award ed the Distinguished Service Cross for" extraordinary heroism in action near St. Etienne, France, October 3, 1918. When our advance infantry was forced to withdraw, Private Syver son's machine gun crew refused to withdraw, but calmly set up their machine gun. The gun was upset by a bursting hand gre nade, which also injured two members of the squad. Despite these Injuries they Immediately reset the gun and opened fire when twenty feet distant, caus- ? I n r ,tn - , 1, 1 r lug uic uciiuuua Lt uirutL (iii.t retreat In disorder. Private Sv- v verson's home address is 1203 Sullivan street, Seattle, Wash. ; has begun proceedings against Dor-1 that has not existed for mojee than I wil Cflllc Af ten for high treason, a Berlin dis- half century, since the decline of I ncgTO oCilS Dull 01 ?!00 Value for $30; Was Another's Property patch reports, Dorten is president of the Rhenish republic. ' The German government has -made a formal protest to Paris against the attitude of the Allied armies of occupation toward the new republic. To Help Save Grain Crop is Government's Aim: Clean Straw Ricks pariSW with 287 8hips of Amorican ; . , ... i I registry which entered Rio in .18!8 America's merchant fleet Good Old Days. The Brazilians and other South Americans were closer to the Unit ed States tlfhn to any other country in the middle and fore part of the last eentury, through contact with Yankee skippers of Yankee trading ships. Away Off in 1911. In 1911 only three American ves sels touched t this port in com- (Special to The Free Press) 'Washington, : June 4. The De partnent of Agriculture has started a campaign ajrainst the careless thresherman. It wants only "clean straw ricks 16ft of the' greatest grain crop the -Nation ever has known, "according to a statement mado public today. So the thresher men will ba aided by the Govern ment to develop efficiency and avoid loss in separating the wheat . from the chaff. Records of the department reveal startling losses-of grain 'through avoidable waste of the threshermen." Tests made in "just ordinary" crop years show that an average of 25, 000.OOU to 27,000,000 bushels is thu3 thrown away. : . Since 1911, however," there has been a slight though steady increase, al though during the two-year period of 1912-1913 only 1G American sels entered Rio harbor. , In 1913 the first vessel of the United States and Brazil Steamship Line'entered Rio. Irt 1914, 296 American vessels enter ed the port,' but during 1915 the American ship began to come into its own again, when 103 American vessels made Rio. The number of American vessels to make Rio in 1916 . rose to 130. America's entry in the war natural ly took most of the vessels out of the South American trade, and in I 1917, 117 American vessels made entry, this declining to seventy-one ships in 1918. : NEW BUSINESSES. These enterprises have been chartered at Raleigh: Wyatt-Smith Fuel Company, RalehJ, $50,000; $4,000 subscribed. Arra!n-on-Black River Literary Society, Wilming ton; no stock. ' COMING CHAUTAUQUA WILL DEAL WITH FUTURE; FREDERICK WILE IS FEATURE iam Wile the leading speaker of our 1913 Chautauqua. . Mr. Wile will speak on "John Bull and Uncle bam. He is a newspaper man and in the capacity of news paper TeprcfenMtive spent several years in Germany immediately prior to the war. Here he learned some " things a good many things that made him particularly obnoxious to the men who then .ruled Germany. 1 J On this account he fell into the hands of the German police and was (By D. T. EDWARDS) The approaching chautauqua will be unique for the simple reason that these are unique times and Chau tauqua will undertake to interpret the times in relation to the future. The world has never before found itself in a situation at all compar able to the one 5t is now entering upon. Chautauqua takes its cue from this fact and its program has been framed in the Ugh- of this truth. 1 I L-u - T k. 1 i j . v i Tfae Cno.L.. : .. I ueiu us u spy. it wouiu no uuuui Of the messages that chautauqua "ave one "Bra "lm na,11 no,1 ,.,)ll . i. Dt- I "een lor ine im.ervein.ion 01 Amen- , oi4. I can Ambassador Jamea W. Gerard Earth" by Dr. Thomas E. Green. vt"?..of German Hatred The director of the sneakers' buJ In .is book; -y four years in reau of the war loan organization, I Germany, -Mr. Gerard thus tel.. of jvntmg to Dr. Pearson, said: ; T . ' , ' "I thougfit you would be inter- "In the eveninT tgmt 5 I td .n Ini -rtt W,hin elt th foreign office to get has at last discovered that Dr.lWile'. passport; and while one of dreen is the best speaker in the city. thA- department chiefs was signing fit came suddenly.. A big set up?'' PsPrt he stoPPeLd ,n fe m'd pftin, w .nTOfJ in ; K"Pith'. ! signature, threw down his Theatre fof the District1 workers, and I Pn on the e and 8aid he hBvin xa- .t ,. .rK.flk-r.lut'5ly, refused to sign a passport for they desjred at the last minute they Serst. John Taylor at the police station Wednesday morning said something to other members of the force' about a darky coming into town lending a bull, and suspicion that the bull had been stolen.' An hour or two later Chief Ham ilton, looking out of a drug store window, saw a etrange negro pass. Ordinarily a trifle of the sort would not have disturbed his reverie, ' but somehow, "Bull!' Washed across his thought, which at the moment were of the rambling kind. . 'Hamilton cultivated the strang er acquaintance. There was : hair on hi arm! Hamilton didn't need a microscope to know that it was bull's' hair. "I deduct," said the of ficer, "that you have been in a pas ture," , etc. He picked the colored person's pockets and found a check for $30 from a butcher. . It was made out to Frank Suggs, but the negro was identified as James Reeves. The bull was stolen from Frank Davis. The animal's value was $100. James - Reeves, alias Frank Suggs, went to jail.- A full meeting of the Soldiers', Entertainment Committee will , be held at Gordon Street Chrjstian Church Thursday evening at ' 8:30 O'clock. Chairman (Ernest V. Webo is sending ' letters to all members requesting them to attend without fail. "." , Colonel Ansell, former ' actinir Judtee-ndvocate-general, has r Pro mised to come here if possible for the July 4 soldiers' homeeominflr celebration. He has an interna- tionr.l reputation. Ansell, a North Carolina officer, has been campaign ing for reform in courtmartial pro cedure and against excessive - nun- shments. Colonel Ansell will de liver the address. The government will send a mili tary band here for the parade, if possible. ' If no army bandXjs avail able the naval post band fronf-fdr- folk will come. There are few bands in. the land forces the equal of this) organization. , , An aeroplane will fly over the city during the ' day. Kinston'a Fourth of July eelfibration -will b the biggest thing of the sort ever pulled off In the southeastern part )f the State. TO SUPPLY RURAL- CARRIER. An examination to fill a position - of rural carrier , In Craven county will be held ly Civil Service 'repre sentatives there" and at New ' Bern July 12. Detailed information may be had from Harry Pittman. local secretary, at the postoff ics. - it ii mm kinimirnn oivo run L,. rr- .r iv n HHiirnMiiMfS I ipp nAPTiinn nrnnvhrr im mmi nrrmim TREATY TEXT BOUND Ai AILANIA ollllllt; Tfl RE PIIRIISIIFnrZSFEW LEFT AT KEYS SI mv aui m v v Ma w B4a s - a 1 i Breaking Throngs. Will Get Copy From New York Unless State De- (By the United Press) London, June 4. Grand the historic Derby, asked Dr. Green and he agreed. He swept them off their feet. One man jumped up and shouted, 'That s the best war speech that has been made in Washington since the war began.' Many public officials were present and calls for his speaking have been coming jn faster than ne can taite care of 'them." ' ' Arreslei" in Berlin as Spy. i JK Wilo. because he hated him so and because he believed him largely in strumental in bringing about the war. "Of course this latter statement was quite ridiculous; but it took me some time before 1 could persuade this German official to calm his hate and complete his signature." Mr. Wile, an American by birth and a" European through experi ence, will make an ideal interpreter f4he old world to the new. J Parade English nnrfmnnl fixmna A nwnaa I turf classic." today. . Buchan ran ae- I 1 't-l. f . I . I ctinu. - inirien nurcn niaricu. I nnioe 51 1 i T T A a i Two Hundred'' and Sixtjr Men Out- Only Two Washington (By the United Press) Washington, June 4. The Repub lican Senate fight on publication of the full text of the peace treaty w;th Germany today brought out new in teresting developments. State De partment officials declared only two copies of the full treaty text wore sent officially to Washington, one to the State Department and the oth er to the Japanese embassy here. The department added that New York interests were in possession of a copy probably procured by private courier from Paria. Senator E'orah announced that he expected to obtain a copy of the treaty text today from New York and embody it in the Congressional Record in the event the State De partment refused to yield its copy to the Senate. i COTTON quotations Wednesday , Open. Close. ....... C0.50 30.43 29.00 29.50 219.40 29.11 3 o'clock were F'utures were: juiy October December . , Local receipts to about 15 bales, prices ranging from 30 downward. Buy War-Savings Stamps. four years of war-abstinence and unsatisfying substitutes, the historic Derby, "blue ribbon" of the English turf, was run for today and sport ing Britain turned out in record- breakire crowds -to participate in what is rjiore of a national institu tion than a mere horse race meeting. The pre-war carnival reasserted itself, and from an early hour this morning all roads led to Epsom, the little Surrey town about 14 miles out of London. Every thoroughfare and byway leading from London, Bright on and nearby centers bore the old time 'Derby Day" aspect. -King George arrived just before the first race and the royal standard was' hoisted on a racetrack for the first time in four years, amid tre mendous enthusiasm, -v .' , Popular choices were W. K. Van- derbilt's French-bred colt McKinley, f whom the American trjainej:, W. Duks, thought a lot; Major Waldorf Astors Buchan; Lionel Robison's trrev ttetan tne oreat ison oi me spotted wonder," the Tetrarch); Sir Alec Black's The Panther; the French Due Deeazes Rapidan, and Sir William Nelson's Tangier. Big Money. The race was for three-year-olds, colts carrying 126 pounds and fillies 123 pounds, and was run over the famous mile and a half course, which until the war had been the scene of over 120 Derbys without a' break. Vast sums of money changed hands today in the numerous sweep stakes, organised by practically ev-: and Women Walk -Grievances of Own and Sympathy for Strik ing llello Girls , i (By the United Press) ; Atlanta, June 4. Promptly at 11 o'clock telegraph operators her left their keys at the Western Union of fices and struck. The walkttufc was for the double purpose of securing adjustment of their own grievances snd supporting the move of the strik ing telephone operators here. ' S. J.-Koenkamp, president of tha Commercial , Telegraphers' union of America, sanctioned the action.! " Postal telegrafher were not call ed out. ' A whistle blown in the. main operating room by George H. Ma son set the strike m motion. Ths strike leaders assert that . .within "10 minutes only fodr operators remain ed on duty on the .trunk" wire divis ion of the Morse department, Whits not over a dozen girl automatic printers remained at work. J Approximately" 260 men and wom- n left 'the building. The Western Union normally works a fores of about 350. Operators From Rjchmond. tuenmono, June 4. dtuormauon here states that 10 operators left last night for Atlanta, presumably in anticipation of the strike; there. ' ' ' i ery club in the British Empire, a "Derby sweep" being a tremendous attraction to people who ordinarily would not dream of risking a cent on a horse racer" " " "- BUY THRIFT STAMPS. Many will consider Frederick Will-' - - v.
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