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"VOI XXI.-No.17'J SECOND EDITION KINSTON, N. C MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 22, 1919 SJX PAGES TODAY PRICE TWO CEtTS CKNT8 OJf TBAXXI ' NATJOiWIDE STRIKE OF STEEL WORKERS RESOLTS IN SUSPENSION SM PLANTS , .... PRESIDENT ON WAY TO RENO AFTER HIS TOUR OF THE COAST RELIGIOUS pyCLONE BREAKS LOOSE TO RAGE WEEKS AND SWEEP KINSTON DEVIL i LOSS THOUSANDS MEN AT OTHERS OFF HIS FEET; ROABII MACK TIES )P 1. AND v,f. '- - , , , p ; Slight Response in Pittsburgh District Indicated by Po lice Reportsr-Gary Crippled Other Middle West ern Works Shut DownTor Barely Running Nearly 20,000 Out at Cleveland Ninety Per Cent. Out Bir mingham Wire Works Tp Orders at Atlanta 15, 000 Idle at Wheeling Yountown Plants Running But 5,000 Men Out Supreme Contest Between Great Steel Corporation and Labor isOo (By the United Ptm) Pittsburgh, Ecpt. 22. The supreme test between organized labor and ihe United States Steel Corporation, most powerful unorganized indus try remaining in the country, is on today. Early reports, based entirely on statements of the police at various centers in the Pittsburgh district, indicated but slight response to the strike call. Up to 8 o'clock this morning no disorders had occurred at, McKees portV Clairton, Homestead, Braddock, Ditsqiiesne, nor other nearby points State policy arjB stationed at the mill gates. ''I-1 Few Work at Juliets Joliet, Ills., Sept. 22. A small percentage of the 7,000 employes 6f the United States Steel Corporation plant herj appeared at the works t'arly today. 90 Per Cent. Out Here. ' Chicago, Sept. 22. Only old em ployes of the convpany reported for work at the Illinois Steel plant heire today, according to union loaders, who said 90 per cent, of the work ers are out. There was no disturbance wfhen ' the' big .graveyard shift left the plant and was, replaced by a small band of old men who relieved it. Six of the 11 furnaces are reported eold. Gary a Dead Town. Gary, Ind., Sept. 22. The indus- frial heart of the Magic City is now .practically at a standstill. ActivSty . ait th great Gary works, which ,' within le-a-than 15 years has trans . fownaiL.-adbarren pand waste .into,. center ,'rf - industry," checked zero at the hour of ,6 a. m., when thou sands of workers failed to report. Men are out at other plants, but .it is evident that a greater percenltaige of men failed to report at the . 111? "ois fcteel Comfny's plant and the Gary works that any other mills. Cleveland Plants. Idle. Cleveland, Sept, 22. Operations at two bit steel plants here ceased at midnight. '' '':''T'' Neither union nor steel officials are able to estimate the number of workars already out in conformity with the order for a national steel strike effective today. 90 Per Cent. Quit. . Birmingham, Sept. , 22. Ninety per cent, of the steel workers of the American Steel : Wire Company walk"! out this mtorning, resulting! in the practical closing down of the jilant. - 1 '!' l"!: Only the rod mill is in operation, the night shift having been held ov er to run It. HANDICAP WAS NO BAR TO MAN'S PIACEHENT Pleasant Sunday Spent in California Mountains 1 ' Receives Telegrams and Keeps in Touch With La-1 bor Situation (By the United Press) A'ward the ' President's Special, Sept. 22. President Wilson is now leavirg the Pacific Coast headed east- on his campaign for ratifica tion of the peace treaty. He will ue&k at Reno tonight. Meantime a stop is scheduled for Eb'jcrnir.entio. "Jhere is a possibility that he will address a crowd there from the rear platform. The President is much pleased with his .trip on the coast. Most of yesterday was spent in the mount ains of California. The presidential party enjoyed the ride. Telegrams were delivered. It is understood Mr. Wilson kept in close touch with the labcr situation. Intensive Course Opens Door to Good Job for Disabled Private Had .Become Discouraged Govern ment Knew How. 3,000 Walk Out. , -Youngst&wn, JSeipt. 22. The na tional steel strike took 6,000 men out of the Youngstown mills Sunday but failed to suspend operations in ny of the plants. Everything Shut Down in This Sec , ; tion. .Monessen, Sept. 22. All steel mills in the Donora-Monessen dis trict are closed. No Orders to Atlanta Heads. r Atlanta. Seipft. 22. Twelve bun. dred employes of the Ailantic Steel Company reported for work as us- nal this interning. President R. G. Allen of the local steel workers' un ion stated tht he had received no instructions from union headquar ters .c take part in the treneral net tionwide strike, but added that ;" he .iglK get strike orders at K any time. W.OCO Lay Down Tools. . ' Cleveland, Sept. 22 "Nineteen thousand men are already out. Be J PI'?hi we will have between 25, W nnd. 28.000 men striking here," 'd II. W.( Raisse,, union organizer . " charge of the steel strike in the '-"eveiand district, early today. Reeling Hard Hit. ' ; Wheelincr. 13,000 mill men in Wheeling a"d Vr.-mity are idle. No a olant is operating. . r Fa' to qUit . " y (Special to The Free Press) Washington, Sept. 22. In one of the Western offices of the Federal Board for Vocational Education, they tell tre story of the transition of a Gloorr.y6us into a Sunny Jim. He onme hobbling in one day on crutches, with one foot gone, and a look 'n his eyes that was despond ency itself. "Yep," he said in an swer to a . question if they could do nything for him, "Get me a job that requires an easy chair and a foot- stool. I'm crippled for good, and sick ci trying to get work." . , .Jlh ;jeyes, didn'4- iook. lazy or -like jtincse cf a man who wanted an easj Job. The vocational officer sat down by him, and they turned the lights together on his past. It developed among other things that he had somo experience in acetylene torch work. A certain glitter in his eye, when '5ms came out, made the adviser think that there was a keen interest there This talk was the beginning of an intensive course of five weeks in oxy-acctylene welding. After it was over he was placed in railway shops as a (killed workman. He came in again last week. He rad an artificial foot, and no crutch es, and held his head b'igih as a man does who is making good. Marines May Enlist C for Snorters Terms; Wiil Boost Service (By, the United Press) Washington:, Sept. 22. Officers of the Marine Corps are looking for. wterd to a marke4 ' increase in the number of enlistments due to the fact that the President has directed that enlistments in the eorps until next June may be for terms of two, three or four years. W'iile enlistments in the Marine Corps have shown a steady increase in recent mionths recruiting officers say that many men who desired to serve with the miarines have declin ed to eniift for four years and( have g6ne"n"to"so,me ' other service Vh'ertJ the enliabment period was shorter, 1 1 , I LAST PHOTO. OF 'GERMAN PHESIDENT EI1ERT AND HIS WIFE This i1 the ' first, exclusive phofogranh of the chief executive of,' Germany and ' Frajk -Ebcrt, the first lady of the land now that th' ex kui'Hcrn counts for nought. It was made in the Ebert home ajfr-'fichw-artsburg two week ;ago. Ebert was a saddler under the old tegime. SERIES m START AT CINCINNATI iST $ A- Mining Engineers at Chicago for a Fs?e- Day National Meeting Cost of Living is a Problem Reaching Far -4' Sack to the Land Says 4t (By the United Press) Washington, Sept. 20.0-That the high 'cost of living cannot be dealt with permanently unjess the problem of unemployment, is' solved at the game time, and tbat the increased production necessary to solve both problems cannot be obtained with out waking . dle lands and natural resouicee more accessible to labor, is the conclusion reached by 'a report issued today by the Department of Labor n "Employment and Natur al Reoarces" written by Benton MacKtye n orpert in the office of thf Secretary of Labor, liNo armreciable decrease in the cost of living can be expected so Jong as superficial factors only are dealt with. Higih prices of manufac tured products generally reflect ei ther high prices for raw materials or lack cf orgwniaaition in tr&nspor tation and distribution. An effective ipolicy jnust start with the land from which the "extractive" indus tries draw raw materials and must follow the subsequent industrial pro cesses clear through far' the consum er. CoupJed with this must be chan. ges in the "distributive" industries so that products will flow smoothly from "land to men," according to the report.' i . '. ;'v (By the United Press), Cbicngo, Sept. S2.--.Many subjects of imiporUnce td the American Min ing world are "rtp be discussed at the 1201th meeting.'of the American In stitute of,. fining and Metallurgical Engireeiis.' which convenes here,, for a fiviiy session today. Mine taxation, conservation of csal and'-.new developments in the mea surement of high temperatures are subjects to be. thoroughly 1 discussed. It in exipected Charles M. Schwab will address the banquet on the 24th. COTTON DAY COilW MONTH First Two Games at. Red land, Next Tlirce'at Chi, Next Two at Cincinnati and Last r at Home Grounds pi Sox (Tf. "The United Pre-is) ,t Cinciftnrttfi ,-SopV2. ; The first two j'amtfg of thu wVrld series will PREPARE PAVE MAIN HIGHWAY IN COUNTY WITH STATE AIDING Lencir Officials and Cam eron Go to Halctgh to Ar rarjre Details With State Commission Cost Tip If Million ; Back From the Thorny Byway of Gair's Career Comes the Billy Sunday of the SoiTeast to JRedeem TobaccoboxoVThousands Heflrr ilim Makes "His Congregation Laugh and Vts Tender Sensibilities With Scrabbinff Brush ;Jr SalvatiortPersonal Ex periences Make Intcrtinff Pulpit Stuff Anybody Who Says He isreachinp; Profiteer is a White Livered Liar The lonlong trail from the red riot of a professional, profiteering sinner's .Jife to Kingdom Come brought Baxter F. McLendon, South Car olina jftiral evangelist, to McLewean and Gordon streets Sunday after nootf. lie had covered a Jong lap of his journey. His feet ' were not , mtt-, on the contrary, he professed happiness and said he was sleek from - p.:.. a t gooa uvi.ag. , ' - ,?'!;,..,. With ail of the frills that could be put upon an up-to-the-minute evanrrefistic campaign, McLendon, with nearly all the preachers in King ton in support, opened the ma or offensive that is destined to pull this little old burg out of the gutter and send hundreds of the population shimmying with happiness across the plenHant meadows of right Uving to the sylvan, woods, of saving grace beyond which lit the golden portaU . to eternal bliss. f1- ' , ' . . . Oh, boy! Black eyes, black hair, tremendous enthusiasm, more an- tic tlmn Rillv SunHnv. "Cvrlnnn Mark" la an ovnmrolIctSo ia :ff ;; poundeTThis way into 3,500 hearers' souk Sunday night Some times they laughed outright. It was his own little idea. None of this little sob stuff on the part of Mack's auditors: he reserves thai for himself. And when' McLendon tells a human interest utoiy the human . Interest; oozes out from every crack and crevice like the elixir of life from pipe joints when a plumber has taken up the black cause of the Water and Light Deoartment. ')e played. 'at Cp.rihrtjri,- , v t... ljwmir? and John E. Cameron, ; 1tidf'wnr &e't5ibT'r,la JtTlitte1 IfflgTOafmliflsBlb'n'- ftttn All the members of the County ! Highway -; Commission, Chairman - R, F. Chu'.'chill of the County Commis- Sunday night McLendon said - he would probably sutyme things to make individual auditors sore, , in which sase they should go straight down to the rostrum and apoliogie to him. Ho declared the same pray er-1eiariiig God of ages untelLalblc is till on 'the job, but He won hear a prayer when ein blockks , the road. He himsolf had ihad a prayer answered.- He mngod. from ridiculous to isulblure in telling how the "hatchet-faced" little joy of , his life, a wee .Tjn both ends of wHom couldnt b? The next three will bo ait Chica-i -.vent" to Raleigh Monday to arrange Lne ur;it ? miiuwrwiona ro. the next two nt. ninrinnM'ti nTid.wiHi nffWaU at Rim. nnmmU. "Itsr 11,1 JJllB the e;ghlh at Chicago, the National a'on the details preparatory to lot- BatiebaU comM'.ission decided here ting lle contract for the paving of today "' t ' trio Contral Highway through Le- If a ninth game is necessary the no ir County. city in -.vh.ich it will be flayed will 1 Tho work will 'cost half a million be di'N'iTOine.l ly th& toss of a coin dollars, it is estimated. The State i prevei's to the eiu'Jji'i ?"arn. No expected 'to furnish approximately a off liiys fre provided JKt in thj half of the money. schedule. ' i llhe .party went to the capital in auboa. . .. WAS YOUNG MAN'S AND lExpcc .ver:i;.re Age of Sammies Who Died 23 North Carolina Families Draw ing Immense Sum to Pay War Risk Claims. v ton, Ai.i., Sept. 22No steel are vnaffected by V crs "-' plant of the Ann is- steel ; strike. : ton Steel Company responded to the call of the strike committee at na tional headquarters today. Unaffected. Sheffield, Sept. 22. The tn-cities the nationwide Futures quotations Mfondiay vere: Open. Close. October 30.00. . .31.10 December 30.25 . . . 31.39 January 3055...3H.40 March 31.31... 31.60 May 30.37. , .31.50 Local receipts, one bale, price 29. 15. . ' , . "'' , PASTOR CRAIG SPEAKS TO COLORED Y. M. C. A. The Colored Y. M. C. A. at its sec ond anniversary meeting, held at the Colored First Baptist Church Sun day afternoon, heard a sermon by Rev. W, Marshall Craig, pastor of the First Baptist Church, white. His vext was taken from Luke 23:4, "I 'ind no fault in this man." A cou- lection taken netted 310 for the reasury, . (By the T.nited Press) Wat-hingiton, Sept. 22, North Car olina fimilieis ore being paid $24,- 332,160 in war risk insurance claims by Uncle Sam. He is making resti tution to those whose sons and hus- Balloon Records in Next Monlb's Race (By the United Press) St. LoUljj, . Sept. 22. New national and international long distance flight records art 'fcyiected to be made in the national balloon race to start from here Ortobe 1. , The record now'-tis, held by Allan Hawley of New York, He traveled 1,350 miles in 100!). He started from bands died in the service of their, st- I joins, landing in Northern Oan- counitrv during the greatest war of ,da, nil t.iniea. " Thur? are 2,764 insurance claims being: paid in North Carolina -through the Bureau of War Risk Insurance NOTED PRODUCER BRINGS "COME ALONG" TO CITY. One of the hardest tasksi that con At. .1 . to beneficiaries of sokliers, sailors ,ITOn" . manager -mese oays is w and marines now dead.' The average 7 m . 8 con,i,(lcnl Per wnen pre- nolicv carried bv these men n. i ccm!r a or musical snow o 18,740. ; Disabled soldiers, as well as wid mil I n il u I the public. They're as scarce as Germans were in Paris the day the armistice was declared. That's why Manager Clemaon of the "Come Along" comipany , is'" con gratulating himself that he saw J. residents of i rr-" jrom ovenreas after tnree years' ser- STOCKS UP. New York, Sept. 22-Leading issies, including steel shares, were slightly higher at the op ening of the stock market to-, day. . ; STRIKE SPREADS IN OHIO. Cleveland, Sept. 22. Between 40,000 and 50,000 steel workers are on strike iii Ohio, it was es timated at noon, according to report received here from steel mill officials by the police. ows and children and dependent pa rents of those who have died, are be ing made comfonbable by the Gov ernment, which is paying 1,157 com pensation claims to ort h ( urn inn.. . . i In addition to the insurance and,vice wlth the Canadian forces he was complication claim now being paid "validI home land made known the in North Carolina there are 1,064 of ct 'hui he was aain reaJy to tak.9 both these classes of claims under his s,ae work at a time when toverfiflation. Theo cases, howcv-'tho ran1 !Cramble for producers er, are rapidly being adjusted fol- wa" ' on; , ' - - ;v lowing an investigation by bureau) Mr. ChUan has a long and notable representatives. ist of 3UCCe58es his credit ver- thia has been a young man's (war andiS 1 Pnce. He managed a mother's war. More than 47 per,Jlv" "mr'"B '"" . , ir VCIlb. UJ. bite mvii tv iwu vnuiu vju ! a i , emment insurance made mothers L Co AIm? play the man was made. the basia fop a strong -plea for the extension of the help r ;ng hand and a severe imilmnent , '' of the cold, Indifferent, careless, selfish church members in their at titudo toward the sinful World about them. ' ' The Sunday " night " aervice was " heard by a .still large and an equal ly appreciative crowd. lit was a dip (.ussot( ofjust why meri'e arms are shortened and their prayers are not neaiw. - - , ,t -r Sfn SpoilH.4t All, ,. Grand their beneficiaries. Thj average age of th? men killed In France was 23 years. WEEKLY WEATHER FORECAST. Issued by the Weather Bureau, Friday, September 26. TOBACCO IV-es'&s were sabisfacitorilyi largo Washington, for the period Septem- Monday. Quality ranged from fair ber 22 to September 27: For South j to very gowi. Prices maintained the Atlantic and East Gulf States: Oc- laveraj:' of 45 cents or better. ' As casional shcwer, mot-ily in dny time, usual, there wefe some few piles, of with nearly lurma' ninenilurc, scujar qfjuaKty. I'-'Sin;..lii.satdi'4n''sSe iip ez jnora L of - it? manifold forms erectw a wall hebweeiifnifln ami ClnA vtyA i-Mtt nnstr. sr can't get through to the "grand . central station of the skies." . . Although just ethakeri by a severe chill and still under the influence of a hot fever, the .evangelist, at the evening service, was alert and vig orous and showed every indication of Is One of the People. ' . After Mack once gets into action - ;t doesn't take him long to reveal to the crowd that he doesn't belong trt thr Rn-villrfl hitrhhi-rtwiB. TT rrtiaa . up from the ranks and he loves the -common people, and reverences them as God's handiwork: and is very , much inclined to .take issue with Sa tan when he attempts to despoil what God has made. Matlc ia not a. stickler for the so- oallod . pure English nor highaound ing rhetcric. He.knowe what . he wlanta and he takes short cuts, some " times, to get there. And the folks -invariably know what he's hitting at. Intense Earnestness Abounds. ' Neither ia he very careful about wlier? he sits or : stands or walks. ; And sometimes he'll be away down l.hl p!m!p immrnrciqincr a nnrnf - Kfc : he hos in mind.' The next moment he will be partly on top of his pul pit or in hie chair or on the piano. But he impresses folks that not for dramatic effect does ihe do these thing though he is truly dnamat ic but that his earnestness and his . zeal m the cause carries him, along-. , Prayer Services and Bible Studies. 'The meetings are now under -way. . And Mrs. Steidley of 'tne evangelis ; :ic party has announced a well-or-., aranized sories of home prayer meet ngq to be held every morning and a " iiible study coui-se to begin Tuesday n?ght. There's no doubt about it, these ' folks are in earnest, and God is go- , ing to reward earnest, honest effort 5e always has. . - v - - t - - r i CLUB MEETING AT ARMORY . THIS EVENING AT 8:? ' fter five quite clever Palmetto State M. D.'s had fallen down in- flonJously on the ' ame undertaking. "I knew the very minute when GotI answered my prayer!" cried Rev. Mr. ..McLendon.'- He told how for days aid nights he had pleaded for the divine relief. McLendon's ac count of this crisis defies descrip tion, unless one should want to take a chapter in a book to relate it. The ptii-pit cyclone spoke of "put ting heil in mourning," told of small Johnny's sympathetic assertion to hi mother that he was sorry "we" inar'ed "pa," the last-mentioned bavimr; been a worthless sort of a gink, and declared any person who said he was in the evangelistic bue- mess to corner his hearers cash was t. multiple-adjective liar. He drank water-from a piitcher, told how be had drawn leas than $1 from hist first pulpit effort and less than $2 for hi second, and told of how his first charities had blessed him. Now to Knock Out Lucifer! ' (BY D. T. EDWARDS.) And Mack is with us! He held his first service In Kinston Sunday af ternoon and followed it with a big servics in the tent Sunday night. There 6cem to have been some misunderstanding on the part of the p'wSltc es to tihe time for the bj- giniiin-' of the afternoon service, a ood fmany thinking it to bo 3.30 Instead '' of 3, as announced. Conse quently th3 crowd was a bit slow in flpftherinp.;' Blot when it did get there it showed up to be qne of con siderable prctp'oiifcions, filling , most of the scats in the big tent. :.. Soon Gets Down to Work. , Afte a song service' conducted by Professor Carroll, a .prayer by Rev. George B. Hanrahan, and . introduc tory remarks by Mr. Y; T. Ormond, chairr.ian of the executive commit tee, Kpv. W. M. Craig came forward and -in-a-very pleasing and effect ive manner introduced a fellow South Carclinian and a fellow work er in the Lord's vineyard, Rev. B. F. McLendon. the evangelist. ( It didnU take Mack long to got 1 Prospective members of the pro- .-icqusinted with the crowd nor the posed new social and commercial crowd king to get acquainted with Muck. His subject for the afternoon was the , incident recorded in Acts of Peter and John going up together into tho temple to pray. And bis dis cussion wae a very forceful one. . He Hews to the Line. He laid on the scourge and spared not. Peter treatment of the lame club who have "qqualified" are asked to attend a meeting at the Armory this evening at 8:30 at which tho lease of quarters, articles of Incor ration and name will be discussed. It is rtated for the benefit of unso- licited men who would jjoin that tha "wmir.ittoe in charge will have nd time for a Canvaes and that they will be invated to apply for meiiwer ship. ' ' .
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