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III 1 TEs Home j?a?:f . H 1L II in -Tad' Nw Today." If VOL. Xf.-No. 204 SECOND EDITION KINSTON, N. C TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1919 SIX PAGES TODAY PKfCI o ctwn T8 OJf TBAUII yELY SERVICE AT iCK'S TENT; FULL HOUSE W MEETING TO -GET TOGETHER SAY NEW 1N.10NTY v a? At DAILY H CENTS .r..- : . --- ; NEGROES f';-1-' - , POINTS f ' , . ' ' ,:'::' letter Relations at Cor ence Requested by President Yiirlenitch's T; Forces . Com- p!etc Isolation of Rus-" siari Capital Jp GOOD OF COUNTRY BOlliflKl WELL ARMED Executive Gets the News Add. MuSkioned -Anti- K T?onnrfs hv Tii. Reds TaK Important mi.lty Receives Letter From : s Administration Leader in Senate Hill- Commander's Head quarters Within Short Distance' BesiegedSCity (By the United Press) '. London, Oct. 21. The siege Petrcgrad is progressing favorably for the anti-bolshevik forced accord ing to. .'official and semi-official dis- (By the United press) , Washington, Oct. 21. The Presi dent today drafted a letter to the in dustrial conference. . Secretary Lane, .-ha imari nt tiA onnfprpnrft.' aaid he .tM ta-wwAhi. letter, to the patches received here. j no. I A communique from ture of the letter was not stated in advance. It Is "expected to be an ad monition to the conference to get to gether 5n the faceof the country's serious industrial situation. Wilson Keeps' Posted. ' Washington, Oct. 21. The Presi dent has been informed on the treaty situation in the Senate througn a the British war office today said the capture of Gatch'na- and Krasnoseto, 4to the southwest, had been confirmed and that a cavalry detachment had com plete! the work of cutting off Petro grad from all commun'icafi'on with) the interior. " An official dispatch from Helsing fors reported that General Yuden- It. i t l -n. .m ri'ii letter from Senator Hitchcock, it l naa occupied mKovo nm witn was learned at the White House , to day. Mr. Wilson has been told of other matter, such as the threaten ed miners' strike and the deadlock in the -indawiri.il conferes.-, by means of reports laid before him by Secre tary Tumulty. . ; , The mformafion hhs been conyey- ' ed to ths President directly Jby Mrs. Wilson or lr. Grayson, who talk wjjth him and road to him. - , . . it important Oaservatanfc wnile a report from Copenhagen said Yuden itch had moved 'hi headquarters to Tsarkoe-Selo. ..The bolshevik! in addition to in- Teasing their stores of ammunition and ju lis moved gjreat quantities of footl into the .city before it was sur rounded, it is learned. '. ' V. FIRST PHOTO OF , . : SECRM BEGS'lll OWiN'RS COMPR sir TTiTs-j" i r . y r ' ! i : - i I VI fwW J , Planter, GERMANY'S JNEW AIR LINER, BOUENSEE LAUNCHED ' . KAN S. S. COJIPANY. 'yiew of the "H. A." S. S. romp-any' new air liner,-the Bodensee in her hungar the forward gondola of the passeugor airship. The Bodensee was 'mill made her maiden trip from Friedrichnhofen to Berliit. (Copyrights E WILSON FIFE CONCERNS -IM -'.mLl.'.ltBB"! MBURG AMER- 'riedrichsbofen show- paKNenger service and pViiacKS nncei- ieldSj, Irorainent and is Shot-- Killed, Number In- iri Fights . . Colored People Take Up En tire Space ' Allotted to Them inc nerirfs totrice Tuesday re port an . epidemic of affrays and assaults in which negroes, were the parti?ipantj at several points in Le nbir County. One negro is dead and several ethers injured. At Institute Daniel Whitley, Isaac Whitloy, Wyatt Yelverton and Rich ard Simpson assaulted and danger ously injured John Best, it h alleg ed. Bi.?i was struck on the head STRIKE EVEN Frbm Fair'Heayy; RAILROAD MEN WAGING DRIVE No!ii ME TRAVEL SAFER Fair rccipt for 1919 will about equal thpte of 1917, President P. Clyde Dunn of the itinston' Fair As jociatipa predicted Monday. It will .be two or three days, he said, before the official-figures are compiled. Gross leceipts . will not exceed $16, 000 c? ?1T,000 from all sources, Mr. Dunn thinks. The returns will covor the year's expenses and those of 1918, when no fair, was held -but con f idernV.e expense was Incurred 4y pre-f'u. preparations, and probably take care of painting, etc., during 1920. '4' '' ' : .' Campaign on. Throughout Countryi-Reports to Be Slow Working for Re duction of Preventable Acridfents i : ,t ; (By thn tlntted Press) EGGS AT $1.08! v , i New i York, Oct 21-Eg'gs to-' day hit the dollar-a-doien mark here for the first time thjs year an(f?.weni , right by, At noon they were quoted at $1.08 and goifig strong. ' Dealers admitted they would ; exceed $1.12 within f a few hours. 'Dealers blamed the; express strike here for the sud den rise from 98 cents yesterday.' .RESIDENT HAD BAD NIGHT. , . Washington, Oct. 21 Presi dent . Wilson did npt sleep well If st night, but his condition was ' ' improved this morning, accord-" ing to a bulletin Issued by his . physicians at ll.:30 a. m.- The , President' . prostatic "' condition ' remains' as before,-said the stater mertt. A 'chemical "examination . , of his blood showed the kidneys -to be' functioning normally. , TO ACT ON CUMMINS BILL. , Washington, ; Oct. 21 The Senate . Interstate .;Qmmeree Committee will meet Thursday to take final action on the Cum- , wins railroad bilL ; ' " ' Two million railroad employes throughout the United States enter ed Saturday midnight upon an in tensified, campaign against acci dents -the National . railroad acci lent prevention .drive. For two Weeks, ending at midnight , Friday, October ' H, caution , and care will fight for a record clear of injuries and fatalities which might have been avoided, - on "every, railroad ' under Government 'control. " .definite figures on results of the first 24 hours of the campaign prob ably will not be available for seve 3ays. ; Men and women, officers a employes, - on the road, in roundhouses, 'stations and along some ,231,000 miles of road in every part of the couny are involved, so time will be reqred to assenrble and compile the Jaily re parts; " , -.'."' :' Thir purpose of the"Ldive is. to eliminate so far as is hmanly pos- i ible ? the avoidalble acjjfdents which constantly take a'distssing toll of life and limb on the ailroads, 9' Strike Would Cripple Irf dustries of-Nation, De clares Labor Department Head to Conferees at Washington ' t YBy the United PTeR Washington, Oct, 21.-John Fiti- fp?tf16WStri1ns'4 teaderfwiving here this morning, asked for a con ference tonight with the heads of the four I'ig railroad brotherhoods. Washington, Oct, 21. Pie for omipromise to avelt the coal strik threatened. lor .November 1 w made by becTetary of LaiKr Vilbn to the operators and miners Jkho met hert today. d Mr "Wilson urged the ney 100 delegates who were presentifto hIiow a conciliatory spirit, declaring a coal trike would' badiy haiinx'r jndus tries. S Ml CIllTpiGIKFlTllER AWAY FROM OMISE CONSTRUCTION M SETTLEMENT, SEEMS While More ThanO, Want illy la n's Efforts Result in r Furnish Jaaterials Naught i Strikebreakers TmV;, Yorlfy Virginia, to Be UsedSoldiers Carolina, Keorgia and Ready to Coal Shipping TennessdfOutfits Board Vessels Five oWistruction s wncerns -want to buili25 miles o?hard-eurfaced ces COTTON Futures quotations Tuesday were: Open. . "CTose, October K . 3480 December 34.7S January 34.38 Mrch - 3451 y 33.85 35.18 34.92 V 5 TO 34.52 Willisk'Bick Dcnferyflddress to ; rared People Here Berring A , request from ."the fhou- olored residents- of ' Ifins- T.' W. Thurston aridRey, dtv well-known leaders of e nere, wiD go to Raleigh to rernor Bickett to deliver ai? i here the night of November was announced Tuesday. The can Methodist Episcopal Zion Church mil be celebrating its- 50th anniversary w?thN a. general jubilee' at tie timf. and hundreds of represen tative negroes from throughout - the State will be assembled here for the annual State conference of the de nomination. - The Govern- will There ware about ,10O bales on the I iocal,marketv prices from 34.07 1-2 eluding bishops and educators, if he downward. j;j. Narrow RbadOTs Are Not Satjaacfory, is OpMoii Expert White The cojntry is on fire with good roads feor," said Gilbert C. White, the'" CoAty Highway Cjamirtission's chief e igineffr, Tuesday morning. Mr. j hrte was here preparatory to peiiing of bide fcgr construction mam roads m tne county. ie njt determined upon the width the new highways," he'said, "but it would be, a mistake to build .nar row 'roadways. The people are dis satisfied wherever they have bee? been built. There will be a tromen dous amount of construction in this part"" of the South the '"next fuw years." " . . 4-' ill -A' wariK Pink Hill ' and GrTftbn, and (than half a hundred Oros and vduals want to furnish ihfflteri- , . . . . w s. iiiri.were opened Dy tne htj av Commission at 2 p. m. Tuesda It will be hours before the work of comparing the propioSdtions can be completed and contracts awarded Secretary Harvey C. Hines does ndt expert to be able to make an An nouncement before night. The following entered bids for the construction work: West Construc- ion Coi'tpany, Chattanooga; Lassi- terPcrter Company, Norfolk; T. H. Gill Company, Binghamton, N. Y.; W. Z., Willmms Com'pany, "Macon, Ga.; Tortei- & Boyd, Charlotte. businessmen (By United Press) New .York. Octl 21 Desirite ef- rbaa.v'lea'aintt -frtTmTi, city to-"rattsrra strike of longshoremen here yester day snd last night, the situation to day appeare'd even further from so lution thm when the parleying was first begun. Manwhi.e officials of the ihterna sjtttl Mercantile Marine made it cWfegthey intend to use strikebreak ers tdTfirad and unload their 40 ships here, v7yk the 500 soldiers landed.; yesWdny TO ready to coal ships of STATEWIDE PROHIBITION SPEAKING CAMPAIGN SOON. Many Becoming' . Charter Mcnibers of North Car lina BranchWall ' St. Sits . Up and Takes Not ice of Progress ' I rhe Unlto jtes Shipping Board. Dope About Yl Boy in World Waf Ranted- for Records k State (By the United Press) ; Raleigh. Oct. 21. The interest be- ' Raleigh, Oct. 21-Tbe- Anti-Sa- jng manifested in the organization of loon League ili i planning aspeakers' jne American Cotton Association by canwaign that will cover the .State, farmers, bankers, business iuid pro-r About 340 addresses'' will be' deliver- . feesional men who are respondirtg ed beginning November . 2 and end- ' the appeal for charter member- !ng December 21. The lecturers are ships at j,100 a member is one of the men of national repuialion. Col.Dah encouraging features 'of . the cam- Mbrgan Smith, commander of ihe -jm, Probably between 50 arid "Battr.lion-.of Death", at -St. Mihiel, will be among them. ": . ITY a '(By the United Press) Washrngton, Oct ' 2i.-4emocratic memibtrs" of the Senate Foreign Re lations Committee today went into conference to consider just how far th'ey will .yield on .pea'ee treaty reser vations. Even . quorum calls in the Senate failed to bwak up 'the gather, ing." It is believed the senators will pema'n in conference until a sub- tantial agreement is reached on the rt-servi-tions program. 100 members of tltis class haVe been secured. ', V ; ' ' The fiM has just been broken by the spwial solkitor, and it is ejopect-J ed the 'regular canvassers will also turn in a large ,. number of- these charter memberships. ' The1 efforts of the American Cot ton Association are being reflected n the increasing price offered for cotton. ., Financiers, bankers, law-f yers and Wall Street specuhators'of that wool'! . be of value- fBy the United Press) Raleigh, Oct. 21. The North CjS Una "Historical Commission " is cariSW vHssing the entire State for letters, Jiaries, pictures, newspaper clip pingsin fact, all materials of any nature tiiat throw Hglht' on North Carolina in the world war. R. B. IIous, collector of war records for the, commission, is condoicting this canvass by going to the sources of such official records as Red Cross chapter histories, local board ' re ports, etc., 1 by organizing volunteer commttfeus to assist .him in the va- WouS; counties, and by going himself from eupmunity to commirnity all I over the State. These" materials canvassed ' for, valuable as they are, will perish very rifpiiFy unless they are stored wheTe ire, rats, and other destroying agencies cannot get at thorn. Prac tically the only safe depository, for such thi.igs is the fireproof Hall of History in Raleigh, built to preserve Just sudh things as these. .'.'' Realizing the necessity of preserv ing those .valuable records, the laet Genera! .Assembly appropriated money- for the work, and directed the Historical Commission not only to collet ah data possible about North Carolina in the world war, but to prepare a complete history of the State's - life in that great event. North Carolina was one of the first States to inaugurate a-worfethat all the others are now taking up., Ahnot ' every person in the State has a letter,' a picture, of something Whatever with an automobije.punip. .Three pf the i'ssailants havp been arrested. " At Sandy Bottom Charles Barnes shot and fatally; wounded Josepl: Vhil,ft(.d. Guy Koonce, a friend of Whiificld, fired several rounds from a shotgun at negroes who were with Barnes, wounding Martha Lavvson and Guy iJawson. Shot struck the Lawsons in the afms and legs. The trouble arose over a girl. Barnes. according to the authoritied'was aim ing at another person vfheh he shot Whitfield.- - ,. , At Fields' Station Wheeler Fields, white armor and one of tho best knmvn ' men in the county, was at tackod by Bryant Simmons, a col tred ' ex-rerviceman , from Pamlico County. Shots fired at (the planter failed u strike him. Fields. sprayed bimmons' person with bird shot At a lumber camp 'in the southern oart of the county Ed. Williams at tacKra aucxner negro with gun. He failed to score a. hit. Williams ihen held up three other negroes robbing them of J40, PUBLIC I IS RELIEF vwc iUontns wasted, in Face of Howl for Some thing to Be Done About - '' ' . Railroads Long List of Failures " (By the United Press). Washiivc'ton, Oct. 21. The oars of Congress are now beginning to ring Mtith irisitent demands from all sec ttis of theVountry that something befor-e about the railroads, and be done Quickly. Five months have elapse(ryice President Wilson con vened Otyjgress in extra session to pass bc legislation , needed for America's nlAy reconstruction prob lems, and sol?ftns by the Republi canont.olled ocngress are lacking in almost every iv-tnce. As regards :he biggest of theo,blems the ma jority so far has wrVven "failure to enact" opposite each ittai on the long list. . ; ' Rai'way legislation tfpbout in this condition: The SenatotComnvit fee on Interstate CommerceA prac tically ready to report the Twised Cummins bill, but nothing winy Jte ione with it until the opponentXvf the reac treaty and League of Is J tions tireof obstruction and agree to vote en the question of ratification. The House committee on Interstate and Forpign . Commerce, is. still awaiting the report of r the subcom- mitte of five on the Each bill, so there is , a slim chance of the House passing the measure before the yearned-for adjournment on Novem ber w ?v. . : :-;r- . , the nrth are watdhmg the . efforts of tht- cotton planter with deep in terest. ' , -:. ', ' ' ' ; MANILA .WILL ERECT ( A NATIONAL THEATRE. Washington, Oct. 21 A plan is ander" way for the establishment of a national theatre in M:inilr.. The capita'! fur tho purpose wi:l Le he has, he, should communicate m format'en about it, or send it to R. B. Itcnse, colleotor of war records, North, Caroftna nistorler Commis sion Raltlch, N. C. 1 5'.il',-'t'r' ' i i a c . n rii":t-t ! th frrwi the public. v of "0.000 re"p!e, f !: .T -s. t':;t 5'.- i- 'jrc CONSERVATIVES ARE ELECTIONS Toronto, Oct. 21 The conserva tive government element in Ontario wffered an overwhelming defeat hi the general elections yesterday. As reruh. of the voting the hew gov ernment will consist of 43 United Farmers. 28 Liberals, 2S Conserva tives i'i , I-aborites and two Inde pendents. The liquor referendum re- , suited in a victory for the dry i.L. ENTHUSIASM MANIFESTED Evangelist Likes Way Con ! rreration Goes at the Thing Cyclone Preaches on Doubt and Dumbness ard Other Things (By D. T. 'EDWARDS) The colored folks, like some of their white neighbors, are beginning to find uut that the McLendon tent is Up. ,4 TJk attendance last night was tho largest yet, and practically all the seats .reserved for . them were taken.- The'white folks took the remaining eats in the tent; and this made up pretty neirly a "full , house." There was not a dull moment after Nelsiii began nfs song service. Old- ,ashioned tunes and some that wers not, so; old-f ashiohed .were sung; and i mle quartette 'Mack , says it Is the btst in the South really charm ed the audience both white and black with a ' few selections, 'while drums skillf ully handled helped the good time alongt ;;,:,; ;,.: ;-;' , ., 'f , The enthusiasm and evident earn estness seemed to please Mack; and vien his time Wm6 he tlTrew him self whole-heartedly into the mes sage that he. had brought to the tent. One. Thing Thou Lackest. ' It". 'Was a sermon that he had ' . ' reached in Kinston once before; but t loftiiona of, its paint, force and ' , effectiveness: on that nocount seom ed to '"grow in grace" rather. . . The subject was "one thing thou lackest." V And that; was the ' one ' thing that prevented the young rul er from being acceptable in the sight ' f Jesus Christ: the new birth, that ; ,ne t'-i-ig 'that would make him (de stroy his ideals and fnfuse him with confuming love for God and man. Doubt and Dumbness. Mack told his hearers that there 1 need he no uncertainty as to their spiritual condition, that if they were aved they would know it with the ' same assurance that the prodigal son , had when he got back to his father's ., Lhouse. No need for men and wom- pn to say "I hope I'm saved" or "I s think I'm saved," ' ;'..' If a man doesn't know that he'a saver.' he had better look out; lor his doubting is a pretty good , sign that , he is still in the wilderness. "Doubt and. dumbness are coex- ' istent," said MAk; and when you , find a dumb Christian you find one (hat in danger. He advised hie earers to carry their baskets of Christian nrtues with them baskets hat are filled with such things as joy, peace, long, suffering, - gentle- . ness, goodnese, faith, and the like. Stands By the Church. Siaklng to the negroes he ' said hat the only way for them ' to win out wa- .through the practice of Christian virtues. And this he de lareri to be an unfailing way. M&ck raid that he never had been . . "free lance" and that he 'never wouK be, that ' he always - worked for wA with the preachers, that his work was to build up the church in ts varicuc ; denominations as God's trthorized means of saving the d. And his' appeal was that his ers be "artesian well Christians'' biot of the "pitcher pump" type ilthat other type who, like his .T'andiV-her s well in Montgomery "ouny, 'Npuld "dry up in summer or reeze ova in winter. Tho nftelttoon meetings are to be resumed andwill continue through- ilt '.the Wll Tonight Mack will weach on "Traitors and Renegados.' Friday night rill be children' night again, withstand, drum corps nd a fine wholesome time general- MACHINERY FOR ICE, PLANT HERE SOON. Equipment, for the pew ice plant being erected for the Lenoir Oil & ce Company in Southeast Kinston houlJ.be here Bhortly. The manu facturers are holding the machinery ret'lintss for the completion of builJinj'. The company will be able to manufacture 60 to C5 tons 9 fc'V hi it i, : I': I V; 'Hi fi' ';4 I, ii m. I; i 1 4 1 ii 4 ikr n if !' I HSr It Hi hi 3? : tV! i 3; 1 T
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