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DAILY- PR 0 Bone: R?:f Today's Nti Today OL- XXI.Nq.214 SECOND EDITION KINSTON N. C. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1919 SIX PAGES TODAY PKira tiro cstti ' tlYM CENTS OJV TBAIX3 COAL STRIKE 100; PER CENT. EFFECTIVE IF CLAIMS OF LEADERS ARE BORNE OUT; LESS THAN THREE DOLLARS YARD FOR STAGEDRIVE FOR FOND FOR Y. BOYS' WORK 5T1I AND GTH 7 CAR DROPS IN FEW ALL NON-UNION MEN SEEM BE 1RW ASPHALTING ROADS INCHES OF WATER nTT.TT 1 I CENTS VV".. v ft Government Watches Closely for Red Activities None I Vislhl 5?r FarLewis Refuses tA Talk About Rumor Th'bompers' Has Offered Services Toward Settle ment of Trouble Between- Operators and Bituminous .Workers Line Sharply S and .Unorganized Laborers-Fully 400,000 Men Out, it "'Appears Saturday Holiday and Many Men Return to Work After Observing It . "Union officials today generally claimed the coal strike to be 100 per cent. effective. 1 Reports from important districts, d niderresse from the number ofmen out Saturday, the first day of the strike. ' .--I':; I bera returning today, believing many who failed, to report on Saturday j were' observing a religious holiday 1 rather, than striking. The operators refused to make any estimate today oi tne numoer oi strikers jn urcn m respective districts. A. sharp align ment appeared to be drawn between the union and non-union miners. In dications were, despite union offic ials' claims, that practically all' non union men were at work. This was on the basis thai the number of strik ers Would Ibe close to 400,000. Government officials continue to watch sharply for any'tadkal ten dencies on the part of the strikers, but ho disorders have 'been reported. Strike Firmly Set. 1 Springfield,' Nov. 3. The coal strike, continues100 par cent,, effect ive among workers in this section, according to district leaders. Presi dent Farrington made life same an nouncement. for.;, the- State today, s Silent. . , ..... Is, acting president of the United Mine workers or 'America, u en route to Indianapolis after a brief , Stay here Sunday, m refused to discuss the strike or the tumor among mm- ers nere mat aamuei uompers nasf,: Mr. Parrott believes the Lenoir wixcicu m um vu.ct w, """ about a settlement. Negro, Slays Another k in Sundajr Afternoon KraWl ITI brfifinflf Iff.' Robert Sugg, colored, etabbed. and wwuy.iiuttreayye. . vfopin, co.- ored, in ; Ureehe uoufity fcmndar ai- teruoon,, xiie ijiw, o--urrea ' nfiori a.RiancB irom we uenuit iy une xne ..otiicers oi ootn coun tis nought; the alayen ( . The shoriff of ;. Greene, apprehended nim. 1 Sugg was committed here because of lack of jail room at' Snow Hill. - The- cut ting? followed a brief altercation. Sugg died quickly. ' . Pay Bfe Fines in U, ; , S. Court for Making. " "Contraband Jag-Stuff ! H. C. Hood, former Lenoir County man, was fined $700 and costs, in Federal Court at New Bern Satur day when convicted of illicit distill . ing. - Thomas Hood, yas fined $2,000 "nd costsr Phineae Tilghmftn $500 and costs and George Tilghman was assessed the costs for similar- 'of; fenses. AH -were "required . tq give heavy bond for, their appearance at ubsequent terms rd show good. be havior. EU E. Outlaw of , Lenoir County drew two years for moon shining. Alex. Spence was given 30 dayt r forremoving and -concealing whisky. ' - . FINAt ; VOTE PEACE TliEAH THIS WEEK r H . (By Dntted Press) i; ' . Washington, Nov. 3. The Ad- , 1 ministratioii Torees todaj1 decid 2 M to sk for a final vote on the w1 treaty Thursday, Novem- - Jer.. Voting will be continued ' nder . this jiroposal 'until the following Saturday at .3 p. -when if no resolution of ratifi- ration receives the - necessary two-thirds vote other business ill be taken ip. '. jdo Drawn Between Organized - according to the miners' leaders, show iTO MAKE ROOSEVELT , ril III) DDI liT " UTDT j f (JjJJ JI flLllb TUESDAY F Canvassers Asked Assem- ble to Begin CanvaSS at 10 :30 Eas to Raise Small Allotment Hands Get Busy if All The Roosevelt Memorial Fund ean- vassing committee jn tne city win meet at J. F. Taylor's office," Gordon Street near Queen,. Tuesday shortly before 10:30 a. m. to begin the drive for contributions promptly at that nour. i ; Bvery membpr of the eommiltee Is ; flsked by , chairman' James F. ! Par tt to yive a few ,oxin Tuesday. Sc0res of canvassers are at work. min 7 nnotsi. lpa han S7IHI. ran hp raised in an hour or two if all the solicitors' will get busy. :,. Thefollowing ire solicitors: Kin 3 ton: Tobacconists, Clarence A. Jeffress E. Y. Speed, Hunter Flem ing. AUpti .JCnott. W. m. Parrot- Cordon Street to Norfolk Southern, iiJavic: iixon, jueonara . uettinger, Hebsr H. McCoy, Charles A. Waters; Golyon Courthouse, C. Felix Har- jr., Hyman , Stadiem, " Paul 3tfoud amJ T, Brad. Brawn;-south f Courthduse, Horace I. Sutton and Albert BrOn .i 4. i. L A . it- J l LlfNCflED. BOIOB AT SCENE OF ATTEMPT V Sheriffs . Pleadings Avail Nothing Angry Georgi ans . Take : Man. From Posse and ' Wreak Sum mary V Vengeance Macon " Near . (By the United Press) Macon, Ga., ; Nov. 3. Paul . Jones, a negro accused of attacking a white woman near here late yesterday, was lynched fcy ,a mob near the scene of the crime .early today. A mob of approximately 1,000 persona com pelled Sheriff Hicks and rfeverat deputies to surrender th negro, Jones ' iwas taken before his tempted Victim and upon being idenU ifniiui ifiediy the woman was quickly putlrt,, artninmnnt i-will include ieiirht to death despite Sheriff Hick' plead-1 ings that th law be allowed to take its colirse. COTTON December . 37.08 . 37.26 January 369 36.72 March 36.15- 36.33 May '... .-...'.-. .'3ojG2 . 35.86 Local pwces ranged from 37 .1-2 wnward. Three balee of long Uple brought 46 1-2. Chattanooga Concern Gets om-dci xor important Highways CAUSEWAY BE IMPROVED Dam Road Will Have Wide Paved Surface, Curbing v ami Fences Shortening of Pink Hill jload Big V . gavjnjr to Goimty The County Higliway Commission Monday awarded the contract for the paving of the Grifton, Pink Hill and 'Dam", roads to the West Construe tion Company- of Chattanooga, Tenn The price for the Grifton road and the Dam causeway will be' $2.95 square" yard, for the Pink Hill road $3.05.. The causeway will be paved first, because of the heavy traffic to be diverted over it when the Pink Hill road is under construction. The ' total cost of the Grifton and Pink Hill. roads, it is estimated, will be $780,000. Bids were received as follow West Comnanv: Sheet asohalt., $2.95 bituminous concrete, $2.76. Lassiter- Porter Company:. Sheet asphalt, S3.10: no bid on Concrete. Porter & Boyd, Charlotte; Sheet asphalt, $3.75: bituminous concrete, $3.60. T, H. Gill Company, BGngbamtoni! N. Y.: Sheet, asphalt, $3.33; bituminous concrete, $2.98. W. Z. Williams & Co., Macon, Ga.MSheet asphalt, $3.12; bituminous concrete, $2.77. The work; ia to be completed in one year's time The roads will be top- surfaced with asphalt. Grcat Amount Equipment Mr. West, head of the Chatta nooga company, will move ms fam ily here jnd personally supervise construction of the road, it is under stood. The West Company is well- ii,f mA:, astern, in 1904 and paved Kinston's streets in 191C A big 'organization is to be brought here. Equipment worth at least $100,000, ' including a small railroad, will be assembled in Kinston. The commission understands Kinston may nnnn.nl Iwll.l.ll.optr.l-U f H T t H company. ince an immense amount 0f road work is to be done in this part of the country. Roadways .16 -Feet Wide. ..A 16-foot roadway with sandclay . .r. .... .. i tt:ii snouiuers wui , tje .aia io mm n) and to the Pitt County Una, . The thickness; will be eight inches, an inch more ttyin dh Kinston s streets and 1-2 ; inch thicker than Govern ment specifications. The price is in line with the price paid for the road past the Fair Grounds from the facts that these roads have an average con struction haul of three miles A no-ainst one mile on the road now under : construction and, the thick ness will fee eight inches against 7 1-2. The price of $2."95 is the low est that has been, paid in this section thig'year, the commission states. For the same class of work $3.65 was bid in Beaufort County, $3.42 at Greens boro, $3.29 for seven-inch pavement -i Raleigh two' weieks ago, $3.25 at fioldsboro with Jess' than "-a one-milo haul. The Pink Flill road will be shorten ed three miles. The saving will be big, Ten miles of this highway will be ritiw roadway. The Gill Company ! now at work clearing and grading Ihig route. The Binghamton com pany will draw $3,100 per mile for this work. , A 20-foot pavemerrj is to be lajti over tne iam causeway, wn crete curbing " and a ": wooden fence on- each-side. , . . . . '. "Insofar' a possible," ., said Mr. t-lWlgt 0f fte West, Company Monday, Lti.e ji by machinery, ; iles 0f industrial railroad, with gas r,,,,, aruj trains of cars; loco hmotive cranesK unloading elevators, I tractors, road machines, asphalt olants. steam rollers, etc It will e a bigiinachinery operation but reduce labor to a minimum. Railroad cars will house, the men. We will , feed them at the works. We will work Jin six-mile units.' After completing one six nile stretch the whole port- abie outfit will be moved to another station The contract is for a miles plus the less than one mile on the 'Dam" road." "'1 til.-: ::,. r '.-. . - ' 1 ' 'I 1527 m SUIT OF ARMOR; Dated id called the "finest acquired fcy the Metropolitan T IF TO FARMERS RESULT V Inspector - m - Charge Tells of sActivlties, of Small Force in&reene and Le noir Coiiities at -.Very Small Cost During the period between March 1 and October flf, this year, Federal veterinarians rJorating out of this ity vaccinnteir 8,314 hogs against cholera, protecting' $143,552 worth 'of iveetockactual'ly saving a part of it, since many ojfthe animalsNjrero ill ' wheni " vaccinated but recovered. Dr. J. G. Sallado, inspector-in-charge, Monday made public a report shoW' ing: ' . Interviews with farmers during the period March 1 October 31 totaled 582. Farms visited numbered 1,049, Seven hundred and seventeen sick hogs and 7,597 apparently well hogs were treatea. l'wo- hundred and foriy-six hogs died before being vac- inated. Inoculation was'done on 531 Jifferent farms in Lenoir and Greene counties, which is going some. These figures are interesting: Num ber of farms quarantined, 54; farms cleaned and disinfected, 35; postmort ems held, 47; miles traveled, by rail, ,091; by automobile, 10,672; special nveatrgations, 217; cost to Federal Government and State, $1,719.78; cost Lenoir County, $758.12; Cost to Greene County, $414.84;' total amount f serum used, 251,000 c. 'e.; amount f virus, 8,190 c. c. Of the hos vaccinated 3,423 were nNGreene County, 4,891 in Lenoir.' , STEEL STRIKE OVER AT CANTON, STATED (By the Ilnied Press) y . Canton, ()., Nov. 3. The steel strike ; here ended today. AW former employes of the Stark Rolling Mill returned in full force. The U. A. Steel Company, the largest steel plant in Can. ton. reported a Iage force at work with many more men "ap plying than could be taken care of. - , v-:'--." - SUGAR IN (By the nutted Press) . ' Richmond," Nov. 3.-Wholfesale and retail merthants are responsible for the sugar shortage here, it was re vealed today in startling disclosures from an investigation by the local po-, ice department at the request of Commonweahh's Attorney Wise. The authorities .-discovered five carloads f sugar consigned to the four larg- wholesale Concerns in this city. while several retair stores are known have jw high as'lltOCO pounds of ..... . ?ugar in tneir stores., , j itBuy .War-Savings SUsip) SAV1MG lluff QUANTITIES . : sfyJ---1". 1 , I. ' ' . .. ."T" FOR MAN AND HORSE. ' , in the world," which has just been Muueum of Art. CHRISTIAN CHURCH PREPARES TO OPEN Robersonvillii Churchpeopl? Hosts to State Gathering. C. W. B. M. and Bible School Sessions Be Held Tuesday : , The annual State convention of . the Disciples of Christ will be convened at .Roibersonville Monday evening at 7:30 With the following program r De votional service, led by J. R." Tingle;. welcome address, J. M. Perry; re sppnse, S.......Sunell,Jcpi)ye(iti9n sermon, John M. waters; announce ments; business period; benediction. ; It is expected that several hundred delegates will attend the various sessions through the next three days. Kinston, Greenville and Wilson, hav- in.tr large congregations 'will send strong delegations. Tuesday morning a BSble school session will be held. O. A. Smith will preside. , ( Sheriff in Overalls Mistaken for 'Shiner ' by Patrons of Still Arden W. Taylor, sheriff of Le noir County, received an order for a certain quantity of moonshine whis ky at a still in the Falling Creek sec- ion Saturday afternoon, but didn't fill it. Taylor had raided the plant, finding it cold and the .operators alb Bent. There was a well-beaten auto path leading to it. While he was about-the task of demolishing it he heard the honk of an auto horn. He blew his . own in response , Several such signals were exchanged. The approaching - car slowed ufc at the plant with two prominent young La Grangeites in it. They had a cou ple of glass jars in the car. Taylor was in overalls. "How much do you want?" he, asked. He was told-Tay- t i lis- - J . "Now, boys," said the Sheriff, think of the trouble you might have been in had you come here ahead of me. I would have found youhere, the gupposit:onj would have been you were running this mill, I would have seized your car and you would have cone un to Federal Court. You have had a narrow escape.'V " The youths nic aam t.u nave utmcu w itnm on the spot. A man originally a res ident' of an -upstate county is sus pected to have been the owner of the raided plant, a 60-gaJlon affair. Land owners and white and colored ten ants had .complained of the presence of the still. It is said to have sup plied considerable firewater ta negro farm workers. ' DRY VOLUNTARILY. Cairo, Egypt, '."Nov.'' 3 Saloon habitues here have agreed to "go dry", until the prices at the princi- pa Dars which have just been, raised considerably, re reduced. .- J ' BIBLE SPREADS. London, Nov. 3. In 1918 thirty- five' new languages were added to f.t ,! . e L TJ-U:. . J ine puuiirntiuns oi im uiuisn Foreipn Bible Society, makir.g 517 in vhkh the Bille is printe!. Ed. Murphy, Hugo Planter, .. Dies in Sunday Night Auto Accident POLICE ACCUSE DRIVER 4- Say John Taylor Was Un der Influence Liquor Tfwo PerionsN Injured- Car Struck , and Hurt Another Man Previously Ed. Murphy, a well-to-do farmer of the "Hugo section, was drowned in shallow water near the first slough bridge on the Dam road Sunday evening aWut 8:30 o'clock when a small automobile driven by John Taylor, a barber, went over the side of. the causeway into the lowgrounds, pinning Murphy tieneath it. Murphy, Taylor and Kit Richards werein the car. Taylor and Richards were liurt. neither of them seriously. The po- ice Monday charged Taylor with driving while1 under the Influence of iquor and investigated reports that the car Was without lights. The Sheriff's office quoted Richards as saying the light were on, but, that Taylor was driving on the wrong side of the road. The police found the ar on the left side of the road; it was bound cityward, they said. When Police Chief Hamilton and Patrolman George Rouse reached the place Murphy's body was submerg ed1 "-.except the heels. There were bruises on the body; but the coroner's jury is expected to find beyond a dontl that drowning caused' death.; Murphy, according to the police, wd apparently about 40 years of age; He was a man of family .:, and the owner of a valuable" farm"."7' He was "a good neighbor," according to persons nere, wno Knew mm. ' . Prior to the Dam road accident Taylor's car struck -Ralph Holland, a mechanic, at Caswell and Heritage streets, Holland , alleged Monday, painfully cutting him on one hip. APPEARS BE. CITY'S LAST CHANCE GET PROFESSIONAL BALL Three Associations in State. Other Live Towns After Berths in Eastern Outfit. Will Costs About $7,500, Estimated . (By E. B. LEWIS) , , The baseball proposition has been discussed and considered rather closely for the last day or so. It is the consensus of opinion by those who have had experience in league baseball that Kinston will support a league - team and that it can ' be financed. To do o, however,-. 'will require the subscription of about $7,500. That is, if 75 men will ad vance"" $100 each it can be j" done. Grounds must be secured to.' begin with. We will be left by the wayside next summer if we don't dq it. It seems now as though Goldsborq, WD son, Sew Bern and Greenville will put out a team in the league. There will be western league, a central league and an' eastern league, and Kinston the only. live town will - be about without it TO TRANSMIT IDEA OF RAILROAD UNION (By the United Press)" Washington, Nov. 3. Secretary of the Interior Lane today said that at the next meeting of the cabinet he will call attention to the proposal of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En gineers for apnointmert by the Gov ernment of commission to deal with the coal strike arni general in dustrial situation. Sii Thousand Dollars Asked .Maintain Secretary , : Here a Year ALBERT CHESLEY SPEAKS , Association Expert Outlines Methods of Trained Man Who Would Be Sent Here to Help Keep Kinston Kids Straight Albert Chesley, an associate editor . cf "Association Men," the Y. M. C. A. organ published at New York, de- iveTi'd an address at Gordon Street Christian Church Sunday; afternoon in, which he outlined briefly the plan for establishing a community - boys' work here. The sum of $6,000 will be nced- d, he said, and a drive will be stag- , ed Wednesday and Thursday to raise this sum. -Ten teams of six members ach will .canvass the city. . Each so licitor will be expected to secure at least $100. ' ' ; ; - " ; ' '.'" Mr. Cheslqy told of the inceptios of the "Y." by a Christian boy in Lon don.'. Seventy-five years , afterward ' the originator was knighted. 'The results of his idea were being mani fested throughout the civilized globe. 1 He described the community, bfys' work as it Ms generally conducted. A well-trained secretary, specializing in work ' with boys, "gets at them," ' through various means. He organiz- Va "Hi-Y" club of the best sipirits '.n the high chool, another sort of a' "lu'j of working hoys, etc. - He takes a great interest in the Sunday schools and hejps tha Boy Scouts along. He conducts scamping parties and . the ! ike, . He wor:ka.'conominaUy wdi in thusiastically. - ' . More than five-sixths of the sum will be epent among Kinston boys, j the- remaining few hundred dollars going to headquarters toward main-' tenance ;tof: the ' secretary-training-whools. -.':'.' kvvyS,,; , Mr: Chesley had a "fair'f audience for Kinston on ,. Sunday 'afternoon. ,' There were approximately 75 persons present, including a number of moth ?rs. V' v-;; ' -J ' ' Mr. 'Chester A. Walsh introduced Mr. Chesley, and called upon the fol lowing tot brief remarks . Messrs. J. ' Fred. Taylor, Kader R.' Curtis, J. W. Goodson, H. G. Braxton, G. V. Cowp- er and u. r elix Harvey.' . .nr. Har vey1 uttered an optimistic tiote when. ' he predicted that Kinston i, would . raise the money without . difficulty,' provided the public were ' satisfied . with ; the proposition. , ' " x "The success of th6 community ) boys' program depends upotj' a wise use of community resources- rather than upon a Y M. C. A., building," said Mr. Chesley. "The secretary ' who is to be secured must ,be your jommunity specialist n boy life. He Joes not usurp social" "functions that belong to existing institutions such s the home,' the echooL the church. The emphasis is iirppn social cd-rela- tion and cooperation. -For instance, everyone' knows that ..." the -prevailing evils vamong boys in nearly all, high schools are, cheating;'" profanity, vul garity, laziness, dirty athletics ami sex evils. Perfctly marvelous re sults have, -.. been accomplished in numbers of high .schools by the aid of what is known as .the Hi-Y club." Directors. : y. -. '' v : The following A comprise a tern-' . porary board of directors, to be re placed by & permanent board named, by the State committee later: Messrs. -J. F. Taylor, K. R. Curtis, T, V. Moseley, C , P. Harvey, Sr., G. V. Cowper, W, T. Hines, H. Gait Brax ton, D. FV Wo'oten, CA. Walsh, J. O. . Miller, W. 1). LaRoque, . Alfred Cheney' and Dr. W. T. Parrott. . ;y TALK EASY. Paris, Nov. 3. Two hundred and seventy-three telephone exchanges and 25,000; instruments have been fixed up ; in the devastated regions of France, out of equipnsnt pur chased from the A. E. F. ' HAL GOT BY. ; London, Nov. 3. Fined $3 for traveling without paying1 Jiis fare, Harold Fisher had no money, and the eor.rt mused to accept a pa;r of v's m payment. A police.-: ;n in ,rt saved him from jail t-y I . ir ; it, so Harold paU.
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