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ALLIES TURN ATTENTION TO INTERNAL ?yi re"3 to 1 4 COUNTER REVOLT AT WOULD HAVE EXPERT TO CARE FOR YOUNG FELLOWS OF CITY AFFAIRS OF COUNTRY FACES BUDAPEST ENDS AND .... BELIEVED REDS PATROL CITY WO : f . f I t ,. . Communist IJprjrnng and Cause Speculation at Paris German Delegates Will Reach Versailles Saturday ade May Be Lifted Without Waiting for Ratification of Treaty Agreement o Url President Wilson a -. Mueller and Bell Cerman (By the United Press) The Hague, June 27 Dutch government official ly announces that the former German crown prince is still on the Island of Wieringen. Paris, Juiie -27. Everv preparation completed for the signing of the peace treaty at Versailles at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon,' AUjed delegates today turned trfcr attention to the internal situation in Germany. The con-munist uprising together with the reported escape of the former crown prince from Holland into Germany s regarded as possibly significant in view of the last ditch fight made by the German government against un conditional acceptance of the terms. Germany is be lieved in some quarters to be ion the verge of a counter revolution, possibly two. Germans on Way. Versailles, June 27. The German delegation which' will sign the peace treaty left Berlin at midnight and will arrive at Paris at 7 o'clock to morrow morning, it is officially an nounced. The party is scheduled to reach Dusseldorf at 3 o'clock this afternoon. Foreign Minister , Muel ler and Colonial Minister BeBr the German signatories,' are accompan ied bv three high, officials, including Herr Schmidt, intimate counseler and expert on international law, - Herr Krause, economic expert,'; There are fUrat, Inrraftrtn lUK'Wt.BrifiS ' ill the party. .Mierr iiesoeus ana nerr T.innrt. nnoi-nted to. Sign With Murilftr. withdrew at ' the last mo ment. '' ' " ','v-V. To Lift. Blockade.' V - iPnria .limn v 27. The Allies are nlanning to lift the economic block ade of Germany as soon as possible after seace is signed instead of wait- ing for ratification of the treaty. By (the present agreement a slight de lay will be caused owing to the nee essity for formal cancellation of the blookaJe against the agreement hy the five' neutrals invoIved-s-Switzer- land, Holland, Denmark, Sweden and Norway. Arrangements have been made With these countries whereby Germany has - received only actual necessities from them. '"' President First to Sign. Paris, June 27.-President Wilson will be the first to sign; the peace treaty at Versailles tomorrow, it is learned from an official source, LOCAL MEN SENTENCED AT SMITH FIELD FRIDAY ' A Smithfield dispatch' in morning papers Friday said W. A. BradJ' and ' Ernest Cooper,, alias Coppery of Kin- stoh had been sentenced to one year each in Johnson ' County Superior Court for-alleged' importation of 80 quartts of whisky into the State They were arrested at Selma some days ago. The police here ' believe they were en route to Kinston. Ida E'aone, alias Mrrs. P. "M. McKeel, another member of the party drew a fine of ?500. 'The defendants ap pealed and $1,000 bonds were exact d. W. A. Harrington, a fourth member of th party, failed to ap pear and his bond of $300 was for feited. - A capias- was issued for him. Harrington and Brady are alleged' to have brought the whisky from ' Richmond. Oooper and the woman are alleged to have met them Selrna.'AH are white save Coop er. . . :: " . SHIPS COLLIDE IN FOG; SAILOR LOST New York, June 27-0 ne seaman was lost and the schooner Friendship, hound to Buenos Aires with a cargo of linseed, was badly damaged in a collision with the Japanese steamer Tsuruga Mam off Sclupin Light to day. After the collision the Tsur B8 Mara was unabl to find the Friendship in the fog and wirelessed fte Navy Department for tugs. The hips met head on. One seaman of " schooner, a Finn, was carried, vrboarL , - - , Escape of Frederick Wilhelm Morning Economic Block With Small Neutrals an Ob- 'First to Sien for Victors ,. Signatories HAYS HAS PRETTY BIG JOB, APPEARS (By the United Press) Washington, June 27. While Will M. Hays, Republican national chairman, continued his . efforts here to bring unity and ; peace into the ranks of Senate League of Nations opponents, indications today develop ' . .J' . m It (11 1 ''I i- - ?1 completely successrui. BULLETINS PROHIBITION ENFORCEMENT. Washington June 27-En-f or cement . legislation for both ; Var-time . and; - constitutional i- prohibition was formally report ed to the House today in a bill in two sections by the Judiciary, Committee. LIKE LAST WINTER. Berlin, June 27. A brief macHinegun battle took place in AlexanderplataT early Wednes day. The casualties have not been ascertained. Marines'! Associate With Anybody; Cha-Cha Peoplr More Partpar Washington, June -6.-t. S. ma rines who have hobnobbjsi with Fili pino , headhunters, ajsa have , long been'friehdly with" Vjg Chamorros' of Guam met their Waterloo when they tried -to establislfthe entente cor- diale with the Cha-Chas of theVir- gin Islands. '- According to the marines the Cha- Chas are !'poor mixers." They live on the west side ; of the harbor of CharlotterAmalie, decline to mingle or intenriarry with the negroes, and resent any outside Interference with their affairs. They are the hardest drinkers and best workers on the island, their industry bringing them a good1 living as fishermen and weav ers of straw hats. The tribe is said to have come originally from the Dutch and French Leeward Islands. So far the marines have , taken only, long distance observations of the Cha-Chas. For while the tribe not hostile, its members plainly indicate that they want to be left alone. : Seasbcre Hotel, 250- Rcom Resort House, is , Consumed by Flames I Wilmington, June 27. Seashore HoteL a - 250-oom building at Wrightsville Beach, was burned last night. All of the more than 300 guests escaped unhurt. The blase starte-1 on the third floor at 10 o- ock. Firemen were sent from the ty. The damage was $150,000, with partial insurance. & uuii-iuuy creuiicu wuu m wieiny trrt t 11.. l :i . J .!iL nn .. Samuel Kaye, Jr., ColunVis, Tenn., and Capt, NO INTEREST SLAVS L (By the United Press) Washington, June E7-No inter est has been paid since November, 1917r on loans made by the United States Government to the former Russian imperial government, Under Secretary of State Polk today told the House Committee on State De partment Expenditures. Polk . testi fied that interest payments had been defaulted on a S.OOO.OOO loan to the ; late Czar's government by pri vate banking interests ' in the Unit ed States. CO TON Futures quotations Friday Open. July !33.80 October 33.90 December ...... .i. Local receipts to 3 o'eji I about 20 bales, prices 133.45 downward. - New York Report. New York, June With a bad weather outlook JSf the belt, espec ially in Texas, me cotton market to day opened f M. Buying was gen- feral, spot Jsmes being ;noticeabJy I active. Wail Street seemed "willing to sell. Efverpool made only a fair response to advances on yesterday's markftC NEW BUSINESSES Concerns chartered by thg Swr- ta'ry of State at Raleigh Thursday included a loan company at Raleigh, with authorized capital of $50,000; realty company at Salisbury, $100 000; grocery company at Asheville, $75,000;" warehouse company at Lil lington, $25,000; commercial and . so cial club at Badin, no- stock-; ginning and trading company at . Wkxhaw, $25,000. The Burlington ""fsxtHa Company's capital stock was in creased from $100,000 to $200,000. CORN MARKET.":; I ;. Aft Chicago Thursday September closed at 1.75 5-8, December at 1.53 1-2. FREDERICK O. GASKINS, Corporal, Company I, 118th ; Infantry.. . The Distinguished Service Cross was awarded to Corp. Gasklns In recognition of dis tinguished gallantry resulting In his" death In action near La Hale Meneresfle'France, Octo ber 18, 1918. When the ad vance of his company was held op by two machine gun nests, Corp. Gasklns leo his squad, en tirely on his own Initiative, In the face of Intense machine gun fire, against an enemy post on the right flank. Followed by i his men, be rushed the position, taking It and killing two of the gun crew. He then rushed a second post alone, with his rifle, killing one of the crew. ,He was himself killed before he could reach the post Corp. Gasklns' homo was in' Chesterfield, S. C trbirtrtrbirhi! t ftiri irWiifi A itttcCrCriii. 5& iT" -H life ' AI.-i.-'. -1.7 1 r W. M. I'imer, 01 T HEDQ racing from " ' -v.. V TV- I . .... . THE AOL'R ACES OF THE FAMOUS ,'VR AMERICAN PURSUIT SQUADRON. i it . ji. ...... Ohio; l.irut. I II. Dawson, Denver: liennt'ttsville, Copyrighted). LALOCK CASE WILL END INTO Argument Proferes-Fri- . day Aftei fense 0, NUMBER., U ijeani'jiJurinj? n RAAives of .Er'att Joutz Witnesses ' Defense Called by the The Blalock case will probably go to the jury Saturday morning. Indi cations Friday afternoon were Jhat argument by counsel would consume the afternoon. The defense - will have the concluding speech. The de fense opened. The " testimony of the defense in the Robert Blalock murder case, in which he is charged with the killing of Elliott Jones on a prominent corn er some 'months ago, was practically completed Thursday afternoon. The defense reserved privilege of offer ing some additional witnesses if found advisable. The prosocution witnesses were examined Friday morning, v The testimony taken--after - press time Thursday and to press time Friday follows; ' On cross-examiniation Policeman Frank Bursell said Blalock was the taller but that Jones was heavier. Bennie Stanley was called. He was on the Caswell corner and talked to Jones. lie saw Ulalock come up. Jones called up Blalock's -home about 15 minutes before Blalock came up. Blalock was hot at home." Prosecu tion objected. Overruled. ; On cross-examination Stanley said he had told Jones he thought he would find Blalock on Sugar Hill. May Winfrey was put on the stand. She had known Jones 1G months, and Blalock 10. months. E'oth were at her house between 7 and , 8 o clock the night of the tragedy. ' Blalock came first and Jones came looking for Blalock. He called him out and cursed him. He wouldn't ! fight ; because he didn't want his, .Jones', wife to know about his being Jin the red light district. Her testi 'mony wss corroborative of "'Blalock's j statements. Jones was mad and drinking, she said. . "Oni cross-examination Attorney Moore asked if she or Robert got mad because Jones cursed Ulalocki She said no. Dlalock came- to her house sometimes, He had been there before. Mary Fuquay was called. She said she had lived in the red light district for , three years. J She knew- both Jones and Blalock. She saw Jones the night of the tragedy, looking for Blalock. j : . : - On ; cross-examination she said Jones had told Blalock he would get' him when he came up town, but did n't want to fight in the district. Kmrai'ti Pate was called. He was on the Hotel Tull corner when the j fatal si.ct was fired. He heard Jones ' pianes ana unomciaiiy w,ua. so aauiuonai a. jney re leu to r DAM rfv 1 -.- wrnpsES Forehooi- rapt Mat. Reid M. Chamben. nphis BOIrtXT FRIDAY (By the United Press) . Toledo, June 27.-OH ie Pecord was today named referee for the Willard Dompsey fight, Maj., A. J. JJrexell Biddle of Philadelphia and Tex Rick erd judges,' Jack S. Kelly of Yonk ers, N. Y., alternate referee and' W. Warren Barbour of New York time keeper. ,; . ; ... . - call out that he 'was shot. ' - Harold Stanley was-next introduc ed, Ho was 'on the corner when the shooting took place. He heard Jones call Bialock when the latter .came un. Ho saw t.hn fio-ht. H MiMtmit. il U .. &. 1. i. . .7. . PVT.. Y V-"1-i- ,-.- f-ii' .t -. ! now. xmuiock leu on ma nanus ana vones gee. on. nts nacK and V ... . .1 nit vun op the oack of the head. Joneswold Robert. "G d vdu. I can beJou to death if I want to." Blalock t out from Under Jones, wheeled ai fired quickly. Jones walked bacKlteftW being shot and asked to be flAen to the hospital. ' . The witness ld assisted the en gineer in locatingwints on map. He said Jones was maft.at the time of the occurence. On crossexaminatiohf tanley said a younger brother of MJock asked Jones to get up. " Jones giykup after Ed. asked him to anil stepWVtd back. George MeDaniel was ca saw both Jones and Blalock night of the fight and at the of the fight. , Jones appeared mad. Jones walked toward the ba' of the Caswell Pharmacy on Caswe Street. Bialock came up and he heard some one in the direotion , Jones had gone call Blalock. When " the fight started Blalock stumbled and fell on his hands and knees. Jones got on his back. Ed Blalock, younger brother of the defendant, asked Jones to get off. Jones released his hold. Blalock ran out from under him and went from six to 10 feet, he was not certain 'turned " quickly andl ' shot. Jones was one or two feet from the place where they, were down when he was shot. The witness illustrat ed Blalock's fall. It was very skill fully done. Sharp tilt between coun sel. On cross-iexamination ' v Alttorney Coupe r had the witness repeat Ed's request to let Robert up. McDaniel said he saw Jones release Blalock Then Blalock got np. Jones stepped back and Blalock went forward eight to 10 feet i The witness . impressed his hearers ; with his apparent sin. cerity. He asked . Attorney Cowper if he hadn't told 'him "about Ed's re quest i three or four 7 times. Mr. Cowper wanted to .know if he had any feeling. - He replied none" at all. "Just trying to get you all straight," the witness said as he waved at the counsel array ,.toi both sides. ' 1 At this point the defense announc ed that its direct examination was probably complete but asked for per mission, to Introduce some character witnesses later. , Attorney Moore for the prosecu tion asked that iMay Winfrey be re called. He isked her if she had been to Richmond. 'She replied yes. "Did you write a letter to Helen?" The witness inquired, "Helen who?" (Counsel Moore retorted, "Helen anyr body?" "Yes," said the witness. Then Mr. Moors produced' a letter and asked her to say if she had writ ten it. She couldn't say if she had (Continued on page 4.) ,. . . . Monitors Shelled Soviet Headquarters and Crowd Cheered, But Bolsheviki Captured 'Leaders "and Stopped War ' (By-, the United Press) Copenhagen. Jfhe 27. The count er revolutibnanr nmvumnnt ao-ointit the r Hurigaifan soviet republic at Bu(JnnesChas been sunoressed. ac Icord nn to distmtchp nirivvt h' I S Ij.additiont to street fighting, ri- pi monitors bombarded, soviet head- luarters Tuesday night. Crowds of I cheering spectators swarmed on the banks of the t Danube during . the bombardment, cheering and waiving flags and handkerchiefs. The revolt was . put down when the counter' re- volutionary leaders Were captured. Latest advices say order has been restored ' arid 1 ' that soviet -armed kuardd -are patrolling the streets. coioRETcaliiNG HEARS GOOD TALKS Yale. School of Religion Dean Makes Add less on , Lincoln-Other Edu- . caiors oi rvoie on rrogram- Dr. .Charles R.BroWn, white, dean of, the Yale, School of Religion; Dir. E. Albert Cook, whte, of Howard Urfiversity, Wasffington, D. C.j Dr. Sterling N. Brown, colored, of How ard University, and 'Mrs Helen Bj Irvin, special' Government agent in hpme .economics; addressed; large gatherings of colored people at Kin ston College, Lincoln City, Thurs day., Thursday iiight" " ifiill house I II heani -the same four. ,fc the First I Baptist Church, colored, aT East Vn2 E'riirht Streets Drs.i Brown, Cook and Brown and Mrs. Irvin have been instructing at the Howard Uni versity Seminary Extension Depart ment's school here the -past several days. ' The department "-Is conduct ing an, institute at KinstoB ,College in the "interest of a better-trained colored ministry. ; . : Thursday night Dr. Charles : H. Brown delivered ah able address on "The Greatest Man of the Nineteenth Century," naming Abraham Lincoln. For nearly an hour he held the com plete ottention of his audience with a welll-prepared discourse on the subject." 1 The institute will close Friday night with a public meeting at St. James' A.- M. E.-- Church. Shine Street. tvs and Ends in i vNsws From Europe; . tomeay in me iope (BXhe United Press) Paris, JfAe : 27. -Four . hundred taxi-sidecars TVUl ply for hire on Paris streets ,-wninimum fare 10 cents, or six cAts a kilometer by distance. Limerick, June 27krV"The workers of Limerick promise figpay the bear er 10 shillings,11 ir thengraving on "treasury notes" isuedy the local strike committee. London, June 27. -A lO.ouO word novel by a girl of nine is being pub-' lished by Chatto & Windu The authoress, Daisy Ashfprd, " isthe daughterof a war official," and 'khe was "discovered" by Sir J. 'M. 'Bat' rie. - , ... i' London, ,f June . 27--Shavihg his moustache, darkening his , hair, reej when' taken, moving his spectacles, and cultivat ing 'a limp, a "Shefffeld man so alter ed his appearance that ha was able to visit "frionds of his wife's," and "marry"'- one of the girls. . , If AND GRENADES TO BE USED AS PENNY BANKS. Richmond, Va., June 27.Hand grenades that were to have ; been used. Against -the Hun, with percus sion cap and explosive removed, are now doing service against the -enemy, improvidence, as penny banks 4for savings, irjvery school child under the ag'l of 17 years may, by apply ing at the banks,1 receive one of Ihese hartd grenades for the vacation; pe - riod, " Gathering at JFirst, Baptist Church Dorides to Rrwisf J Y. MovementT-State "Sec retary Speaks to Kins tonians . Rev. G. C. Huntington of Chaf- lotte, State secretary .of the Young' Men's Christian Association, r ad-' dressed a small party of interested persons at the First Baptist Church I Thursday iiight on the Y,s, aims for work 1n North Carolina and locally. Via wfamjul Kfio-fl. A UA i jtion's work' overseas and '""declared iL . .. uie noiuiers apparently. lum over i i i l - - . . .. - -a .vw..Lv, iiiuvii suuu uuuc iiirro. TO . ther the war work of the Y,' was success or a failure, however, a great' .1 i-t ..!... i.. , ... - .j -.-: and it will strive hard to reach ft , aims, he declared. .,,' , ed ,Mr. Huntington. Mrt Dal P. Wooten presided. Young . worasn ' of ? liici . ciiuriTri iKrvmi an - atib anr ctTO bujjicx, uvvwevii twO'Vvurs-. . es ! of which j Mr, - Huntington ' tpokeJ, The visitor told of reat work bain? done by trained boys' secretaries at ?, iiDuii, tt lulling wuu jikj uuiur plac es. , lie ' suggested the employment : of such a worker here whos duHes ' would, be manifold. .: He Would At tend to the physical as weU as the mora welfare of juveniles, dig down uciun kiiv ouumo, pv u(. BeuK(i anil set uncertain or out-of -plumb yotrng - aiers on we rignt road. 1 f - A committee ' of fiver. W." T. P. SmUh,' and; representatives of the two. newspapers was named to te- port v. to the Chamber ' of - Commerce the interest of the gathering in 'the for Wiiich ther Chamber of Commerce stopd ., sponsor, end the decision reached to confer further with Mr. Huntington not later than August 'i. A- joint eommlttet "from -those' at tending the meeting and the Cham ber of Commerce will proceed, with the .matter from .this point. . . 7" Dr. James M. Parrott, Rev. Mr. Smith, Rev. George B. Hanrehan and others were " speakers. : When committee-appointing time came Dr. Parrott, usually an optimist, broke in with an opinion that the thing was doomed unless ' certain : obliga tions were "imposed upon the com mittee' then and thefe. He had had ample "experience with committee. he1 said, and knew the nature of "the varmint. , His recommendations were adopted. - - - . , Mob of Both Races . - r t ''.., v " ' '' '' ... Lynches Negro and Rewards His Yictia (Special to The Free Press) Jackson, Mis., 'June 27. After trailing him 10 days a mob. yester day captured. John Hartsfield, -col-' ored,. charged with criminal assault upon . a : South Mississippi " white woman, and lynched him, afterward burning the body, to ashes..' Hun dreds of negroes were in a great mob which followed (Hartsfield through three counties. These rendered as sistance at the lynching. The gov ernor, "appealed to to send troopf to prevent the lynching, said none were available. Besides, he said, to send a force into the section would mean a clash which'-would undoubtedly re sult in the Joss, of .hundreds of lives. The' victim of the negro,-who was kept by him under, a tree all night. looked on eshe, was lynched. The mob . subscribed $1,000 forTner. Harts- field confessed.-He was badly wound- ;.The Clynchera' were residents of Ellisville. . . .'. -"i COPY PEACE TREiTY i IvBy "thrUhitedt Press) j ' , Paris, 'June 261CDeJayed) A lit tle Paris frint ehop has the task of printing end -JMndmg, the! original copy of the'Treaty of yersailles. The Work is being completed. The docu ment embodies the results of seven months' labor by statesmen of a '.icoj - e. of Ma tiohs.' Experts say it ia the longest of the kind ever priuiid.
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