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"T! J" "v : h8 SECOND EDITION KINSTON1 N. C. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8," 1919 VOL XXL No. 219 FOUR PAGES TODAY psrca two crni NT! OKNTS Otf TBACTl BIT FROM ? ALL WILL COTTON GINNED TO MORE THAN THOUSAND RED AGITATORS REPORTED ARRESTED THROUGHOUT THE PUT THE RED CROSS OVER TOP IN CITY NOVEMBER I SIX MILLION BALES UNITED STATES ON EVE W 1). LLr'tW c-5 k . . . iJllQi rote M.ci 8 fBv tha United Press) ' Indianapolis, Nov. 8. Officials of the United Mine Workers of America were today ordered by Federal Judge A. B. Anderson to withdraw their order calling 4Q0.00O members to strike. The judge also made a reservation nrAn nvonfinv thpm frnm furtherine the strike. The union leaders will be allowed until 6 o'clock November 11 to withdraw the strike order. Indianapolis, Nov. 8. A request by Henry Warrum, chief counsel for tha . United Mine Workers, to postpone (hp hoarinir on the coal strike in junction proceedings for one week was made when the hearing opened in Federal Court hero today. Judge C. B. Ames, representing the Gov ernment, refused to assent. Thei, hearing proceeded. :' Warrum stated that if the hearing was continued for one week he had information to show that the mat- m SAMMY HOME BV CHRISTMAS DAY tor could be settled out of court. "The questions involved in the case arc so important that the Govern ment cannot consent to delay," eaid Judge Ames. , No Compromise. Washington, Nov. 8, "The injunc tion proceedings will go on as sche duled," Attorney-General Palmer in formed the White House today short- ly before the hearing on maKing permanent the order restraining the miners' leaders was to begin at In dianapolis. Judge Ames, . assistant-Attorney general, is in Indianapolis in charge of the Government's side of the case. Palmer's decision came, it is learn ed, in the face of willingness of of my the United Press) Paris. Nov. 8. The last ' American doughboy in France I will be home for Christmas,, Gen- ' era! Conner announces. ;-, He said ' today that all activities of the j American army in France will cease December 1. The Ameri can base at Brest will be. con tinued until December 15, when (he last . American soldier is Kcheduled to be homeward bound. , LENOIR MEN AT U. OF v y U. C. ORGANIZE CLUB Leo Harvey of Kins ton is President. More Than Scpre pf ' Members .To Compile Statistics Concerning County. ::" r v v MINES NOT WISE AS TO WHEN SUGAR'!! Five Thousand Members Pis- Anxiously Awaiting Word From Government That Sweetening is on Way to Kinston Hopes to Get at Least Carload ficials of. the United Mine Workers ' Chaf el mil, , Nov. 8. The ;men of to reopen negotiation with the oper- Lenoin County now attending the rTh -minerals however, still StMn Willi bmmatJkmmmU.jUy- held to their determination not to ago and organized "The Lenoir Coun eall off their strike prior to open- ty Club,", electing the following of ing such negotiations. jficers: Leo H. Harvey of Kinston, ' " ' . j president; Leonard Fields of Kins- LIBR ASIAN'S '' REPORT ... : rjton, vice-president and M, D., Harp- FOR) MONTH OCTOBER, er of LaGrange, secretary and treas Following is the report of the li- urer. The work of the club, Which brarian of the Kinston Public Library has a. membership of 23 men, has for Octobers Receipts: a. Appropria. progressed rapidly and plans are be- tion, ?25; fines, 60 cents rent for books, 60 cents; total, $26.10. Paid out: Deficit brought ; forward, $28. 34; rent, $I2.50 librarian's salary, $15; cleaning, $1.25; total, $57.09. Deficit, $30.99. from 2 to 5 p Harvey C. Hines, who the past few days has been striving strenjously to get sugar into this city to relieve what" he declares to be a "roally sc nous situation," Saturday was still awaiting word from the Federal board in charge of distribution. "I expect to hear something any minute," said "the community's new panta Claus when interviewed by The Free Press Saturday. "You will ibe notified the moment I hear that the sugar has been or is about to be shipped," Mr. Hines stated. Mr. Hines supposes "they will let us nave , a carload. That would be about "60,000 pounds ordinarily. It wouldn't give everybody in the city and surrounding district all they want, of course, but properly distrib. uted most everybody would get a little." WANTS MORE THAN HALF HUNDREDlIIENJIO enlis Adjutant of First Infantry, Nation al Guard, Endeavoring Raise Headquarters Company Here Many Noncoms. Needed. ing made for the best year of its ex istence. .. ' ! Arrangements have already been I made whereby the University Maga zine is to be sent to the high schools Library hours are of Kinston, LaGrange, and Pink m. ; All subscribers Hill for; this year, thus giving the are asked to meet at the library high school students of the county rooms at 3 p. m. next Tuesday to some idea as to what 3s going on at elect officers for the coming year. It the University. In addition to this a is important that a quorum be had. plan is on foot to work up certain '......:.-' - ' I social and economic statistics' of the ' . . , , county which will be published . in Changes in Sunday School Officers. , , . , ,. . ., . , Theo. E Stainback has been elect-; entire M ed superintendent of the First Bap-1 , A . ... ; oj . .a . J. It is the desire and purpose of this tist Sunday school for the next year , , . t . . , , t ...j n t r t- it club not only to form closer rela to succeed Dr. J. W. Powell, Jesee , - it county now at the University and A. Jones assistant superintendent to succeed W. Birch Douglass. ' x ' (By the United Press) LAWYERS WRANGLE. Charlotte," Nov. ,8. Testimony in . the. preliminary hearing of the 31 policemen charged with murder was resumed this morn ing but got only a 20 minutes' slart before the attorneys began to wrangle over the direct exami nation i procedure. The issue raised ' involved the 'part the ( strikebreakers played in the xhooling and whether they were legally armed. Col. Don E. Scott, commanding of ficer of the new First Infantry, North Carolina National Guard, will come here soon. More than 500 men, the majority of them overseas vet- erans,- are . aireaay enronea in ine regiment. Kinston is expected to furnish the enlisted personnel of the headquart ers commny.-. Capt. Charles W. Per ry, adjutant, Saturday announced that the following men will be need ed : One regimental sergeant-miajor, 3 battalion sergeants-major, 1 first sergeant, 2 color-sergeants. 1 mess sergeant, 1 supply sergeant, 1 sta ble sergeant, 1 sergeant, 1 horse- shoer, 2 cooks, 4 privates first-class, . 12 privates, 1 band leader, 1 assistant band leader, 1 sergeant bugler, 2 band sergeants, 4 band corporals, 2 milaSnin-nii -P ina4Alaaj . A muouiinna work out problems which will be of . , , , . . .. . , 'i. x i ., ' , e . i condlass and 13 musicians third- ounei n m ine men memseives, qui . class. I The band of the went from this city. RAZE MANY HOUSES ITALY also to bring the people of the coun ty to a fuller realization of the ex istence of these problems and to pre- sent to them some practical solution." t , - , The members of the club are: L. E. .MOYieS UP III Alt Oil Harry Bizzell, L. H. Harvey, F. P. Brooks, , Barnett Naimah, E. J.. Per ry, R. A. Tilghman, A.' M. Scarboro, A. Y. Osborn, E. B. Mewbom, J. M. Parrott, O. L. Wilson, J. W. Graing er and Ray Davie of Kinston; W. A Hadley, G. T. Creech, Noah Rouse, J. D. Hodges and M. D. t Harper of LaGrange; C. W. Howard and T. S. Mewborn of Pink Hill. 119th Infantry Asked for Kinston trict .TVo Worthier Cause Thant spond his Many Re enerously (By D. T. EDWARDS) The Third RW Cross Roll Call be gan rriday morning. af Solicitors met with a ready re sppnse, in som ing indifferenj Down With I Just as well are: If our mcnt is to jurisdiction of ence must be tl some earnest, effort must be get anywhere concerted one. The solicitaE -JK. j quarters, but. a jphill f in others. difference! lace the facts as they uota of 5,000 enroll- i sedured withinithe his chapter indiffer- rown to the winds and conscientious, honest put forth. And if we this effort must be a ship cannot ai everybody; bu to push and I victory deinai would win mJ until the job on of 1920 member ait the convenience of whefl th& time comes A -Bit" From And there i thing a hard: deed it Vvfbul assign the tas group of pei triotic citizen tliB fnalr will " V time is here now- that' those who f '"hit the line hawft s -finished. ir-ia iNecessary. no need to make this ip to anybody. In- be unreasonable ' to toy any .one or small a., But if each pa- loes hia or her "bit" ,jbe , accomplished with a minimum of Jacrif ice, if any at all, Chairman, Rl P," Hill has always been conapicijiols in" his devotion to the ideals of the Hed Cross--the "gos pel i '! Doots' ,as t Vice-jPtesiden't Marshall alli .'He Vhas answe,rod loyally to evef call. ;And now since he Iias'TespondBd. to the call ,of th chapter . to. Spafjacross'! this 3rd roll e should have fiie"Toyalahd ac- tive cooperation not only of every Red Cross worker, "but of every pa triotic citizen within the county. Humanitarianism, Patriotism, Practical Christianity. The present and contemplated work of the Rod Cross is not only an ex emplification of the highest ideals humanitarianism and Christian service but it is of an intensely pa triotic nature. While the glamour of war has ceased the necessities of the soldiers and sailors have not. And the Red Cross must stand by them. . The Red Cross has not yet been "honorably scharged. Volunteers, and Plenty of Them, Wanted! So every dictate of humanity and patriotism calls for loyalty to the Red Cross at this time. People are eady to join; but the workers are few. The time is now ripe and volun teers are asked to report immedi tely to Chairman Hill for at least a few hours service in (the cause of a better and more prosperous Lenoir County, a greater America and a nobler humanity. But Decrease of More Than Million .from Last Year's Report Covering: 10 Months Government Announces Figures i By the United Press) wasnington, Nov. . uotton gin ned to November 1 totaled 6,273,866 bales, counting round bales as half bales, the Census Bureau announces Total ginnings for the same period last y?ar were 7,777,159 bales. Round bales ginned to November r,,; 1919, totalled 70,694; American Egyptian 14,081 bales, and Sea Island ,996 bales. X Dedicate Memorial to Fathers Sidney Girls Among Heroes Sidney, Nov. 8. A memorial devi ated to the . merchant marine men of Australia killed, in the war, to be nown as the "Jellicoe Hlbstel for thjaDaughiters of the Mercantile Ma ne," in horfor of Lord and Lady Jellicoe, will be located in this city, has just been announced. , There are r nearly 1,000 daughters of Australians killed while engaged in manning merchantmen. iMany of them have to live in apartHWpta and boarding houses at a qpst beyond their means. ROCKY MT. HIGHS WALK OVER KINSTON ELEVEN Bolsheviki Had Prepared to Observe Anniversary of Founding of Soviet Republic in Russia With Uprising in America Department of Justice Agents Swoop Down Upon Rats' Nests at New York" and Cities Throughout North, Middle West and South Radicals at Jackson, Miss., Stirred Up in Wholesale Offensive Washington Says Others Are to Be Taken Some Will Have to Be Released ,;: i (By the United Press) Washington, Novy8 More arrests are expected to be made within a few hours f Department of Justice agents in their campaign to purge tha country 'it bolshevik agitators. A number known to be anarchista hava iOt b. en taken but their nests have been cleaned out, According to report re ceived here. The men are fugitives in the open. ' - Many persona seized in last night's raids will ba released, there not be- ' ing evidence against them. The raids were conducted from New York. Detailed official repojfi had not reached here early today. . MORE MEMBERS FOR JOE ROUNTREE POST OF AMERICAN LEG'N Score .S3 Points in First Half ef Game Second Half Scoreless 'al-of iSeaaon iop lraiaa er School Outfit. Subject of Aviation; Promoters Boost Flying .(By the United Press) Los Angeles, Nov. 8.- The movies are seeking a higher plane an air plane, as it were. For 'Some subtle reason, thus far unexplained, airplaning has strongly , . .appealed to the movie folk. FIND STOLEN CLUTHlws; As a resuh Southern California ARREST TWO NEGROES. now has three completely , equipped "' ' " - ' . V;' eonimmiai flying .'fields . all ' oper- Chief Hamilton and Patrolmen ated by motion picture magnates as George Rouse, Frank Bursell and 4 a sideline and as a means of amuse- Norman E. Crane recovered five suits of clothes and two pairs of pants Utolen ' fronr a Dover pressing club at a pressing club in South Kinston and house on Tower Hill Road 'Fri day afternoon. Henderson Williams alias Ten-Year Shine and Harry Douglaes were arrestea. uoth are ment, and all doing a thriving com mercial business. J- Cecil DeMille, rioted director, was the first to go up in the air over avi ation. He established DeMille Field and later became the leading- spirit in the founding of the Mercury .Avi ation Company, which operates a (By the. United Press) ; . Rome, Nov. 8.- Two severe earth quake shocks rocked the upper (Tiber J nlinn 1 A. 1 . . mgnz. accoraing to dis-lnegroes. Williams was, 'pardoned half dozen aerial taxis and will ac patches from Areizo. The towns San4several years ago while serving a lO- 'cept any job from bringing a prize epolero and San Bartolomeo are re- 'year sentence for robbery on the Le- 'pig to market or taking home a late ported to have been partly wrecked, 'noir . County, roads. He is said to 'celebrant, to rushing a busy busi er ,150 buildings crumbled from'have served time at Goldaboro ana 'ness man to Kankekee to "attend his e quakes, disdptches today said, i Greenville " since. Harry Douglass 'grandmother's funeral, -ether there was loss of life has' had "had a $75 urt sawed off to fit I Next came Thomas Ince. Ho HOI Deen lpnrrn , T J I ' . .. a. m-M n r r.Mi j j i 7" " " nany. himself," according 10 niei uamu- tiot!. f ere m3ured- The PPuIa- ton. "The original owner was a tall, ons of San Sepolero and San Barto- f striking looking man, I deduct. Doug- re reported to be camping in , lass is a short, sawed-off ' mzzer. offering, however, $50,000 for -recU, , . You ought to see those clothes now.first man to fly to Australia. Ince Field down at Venice. Ince isn't in" the game commercially as extensively as the others. Ha's tho BAPTISTS HOLD ROUSING FELLOWSHIP GATHERING Supper Served to Between' 200 and 300 Friday Evening First " Bap tist Church to Raise Indebtedness v. Sunday. Between 200 and 300 members of the First Baptist Church and friends attended a fellowship supper at that edifice Friday evening at 8 o'clock. A sumptuous meal with big helpings of l turkey was served by women of the 'congregation. Prof. Kader R. Curtis, superntendent of, the , City Schools, officiated as toast master. Messrs.. W. M,. Herbert, J. A. Pow. ers, E. O. -Moore, Theodore Stain back, j. W. Powell, J. A. Janes and Dr. B. W. Spilman made addresses. Mrs. J. - B. Leonard rendered sev eral violin selections, accompanied hy Mrs. Joe F. Ballard. Pastor W. Marshall Craig char acterized . iioneK of; the happiest meetings of the congregation during his pastorate. The church will make dcterm5ne3 effort to lift' its in debtedness Sunday. and the - supper was something in the nature of a preliminary to this. Dr. J. M. Parrott was elected to preside over the "ceremony" of rais- j ng the $ 17,000 indebtedness day. . ...... The local High School football eleven met disaster at Rocky Mount Friday afternoon. The Socky Mount highs overwhelmed the Kinston team by the core of 33-0. The visitors ghtened up in the second half and ocky Mount was held scoreless dur- g the last two quarters. It was the first defeat of tho sea son for the Kinston highs. It was the first time this season Kinston had even been scored on. Eupene Sumrell, Kinston'a cap tain, was the star of the game. The plucky Kinston youngster was taken out during the last minute or two of play by the referee for some al leged violation of rules after his op ponents, admiring his work, had urg ed that he be permitted to remain in the game. The Rocky Mount team will come here shortly. The local highs will remember that they have a reputa tion to retrieve. The Rocky Mount fans applauded Sumrell in Friday's game.it :Hs Came within two inches of making a touchdown by carrying the ball from the center of the field on line plung es. Drive Will Be Started Shortly to Enroll All Eligibles in County About 60 Ex-Serviceinen Charter Members 15!untree Post "of the American D, teT gion totalled 60 Friday night, when the second meeting of the new pnet was held, according to Ben. Fox- man, the secretary. The session was cn enthusiastic one. It was decided to hold a drive in the near future to nroll every ex-soldier and ex-sailor in Lenoir County who ia eligible to membership. special meeting will be hd-I Monday night to receive the last charter members. Armistice Day, Tuesday, will find the books closed to charter memberships. The per manent organization will be perfect ed soon and the post will cast about for quarters and equipment. Democrats Want U. S. Build Embassies But Larger Posts first Sir Ernest Cooper Installed as Lord " "Mayor London City (By tw Uulted Presi London, Nov.' 8. Sir Edward Er nest Cooper today was 'installed Lord Mayor of London with the civic pomp and ceremony which has been handed down from the middle age. Once more the hoary anachronism, the "Lord Mayor's Show," dislocated normally badly congested traffic of the city for "some four hours, but as usual Londoners turned out in huge crowds for ; the.! annual pageant. The Saturday half-holiday increas ed the normal , crowds if anything, and there was extra jollification ov er its being the first "show" since the armistice, . H The "show" contained few new features, being comprised , largely or the usual detachments of London volunteer regiments. . V . Sir Edward Cooper is a well- known, musician, being chairman of the committee of the Royal Academy of Music. . . , , , , t . r.. 4 DESTROY SOVIET DIVISION. London, Nov. 8. General Deni- kine reports that the Cossacks have Sun-j destroyed a soviet division to ;the east of Khopra, capturing 3,300 mwj. (By the United Press) '.Washington, Nov. .8. 'Democratic opposition has caused the Republican majority of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs to kill the bill to appropriate tiw.uuu for the pur chase of a United States embassy building at Santiago, Chile, suffic ient number of the G. O. P. members have joined in the protest against what was termed "a foolish expendi ture of money." The Democratic attitude Waa not that of opposing the purchase of per manent American embassies, but in sistence that any such expenditures should be based upon common sense, Henry D. Flood of Virginia, rank ing Democrat on the". Foreign Af fairs Committee, voiced the senti ment of his party colleagues in pro testing,' against the proposed San tiago expenditure. It was pointed out that embassy - buildings were much more needed in the capitals of Europe than in South America, ev en in such a large country as Chile. New York, Nov. 8.- Forty-aighfc men and two women ere under arrest here as a result of a nationwide roundup of alien - radicals starting last night. They are charged in war rants issued by Immigration Com missioner Caminetti with being alien criminal anarchists. The raids are aaid to have been aimed at averting a possible red re volt which Was to have started with a great demonstration today, the se cond anniversary of the establish-' ment of the Russian soviet republic. -: Department of Justice agento are reported to have acted simultaneous ly at Chicago, Detroit, St. ! Louis, Philadelphia, Newark, New Jersey; J:ickson, Miss.; New Haven, HaU fordWaterbUty, New- Britain Rod Ansonia, Conn. v ,.' Over .1,000 persons are reported to Order Road Materials Early and Deficiency in Cars Can Be Overcome Washington, Nov. 8. While tha expenditures during 1919 for hard- surfaced highways, according to ea- ' timatee of the Bureau of PubKe Roads of the United States Depart ment of Agriculture, will set a new record with a total of $ If - this figure is small in c with the computed aveilabb If 20 of J833.00fl.00. tha Li-i.. r . ' ' a" -WAWJi 1.1- . : . . , a - ... . wnicn premises to oe aepenaemt - chiefly on the quantity of materia la the present limited railway facilities can transport. ; , J It has been customary to wait until contractors' organisations were ready to begin work before starting the shipment 'of material. Under these conditions many thousands of open-top cars lie idle during the laU ter part of February, all of March j and the earlier part of Ajpril. Dur ing me past spring uie n wooer or open-top cars that were idle tofeal"" more than 260,000. This, was partly unavoidable owii late date at ..which, work gd way, following th signing i"the armistice. By awarding contracts as early as possible, contractors Will be able to ascertain their material requirements at different points, and ' so will be in position to place orders , dependent , on rail transportation . a considerable time In advance. . HOW IS THIS FOR A - COUNTRY SCHOOL RECORD? AMERICAN WOMEN OFF FOR ORIENT TO STUDY MISSIONS. . (By the United Press) San Francisco, Calif., Nov. 8. The stew.d deputation of 30 prominent American women, including two col lege presidents, sailed from here to day on the Tenyo Maru for Yoko hama, where if will join the delega tion that sailed from Vancuver Oc tober 30. The women will divide themselves into several commissions at Yokohama to go to various sec tions of the Orient to make an ex haustive study of every problem in the mission field. Friday Rev. George B, Hanrahan, county superintendent of public we.--"sre, made a visit to four schools in iontentrrea .Township. The Barwkk School, taught by Misses Athleen Ed wards and Mattie McArthur. Teport- cd that it enrolled on the first day f every child in the district within the compulsory . school low age and that everyone had been present every day ... since the school opened. ' . .7- BUT WAR-SAVINGS STAMPS. Futures quotations Saturday were: December ...... 27.73 88.00 January ...,.,.., , 37.00 ? 37.15 March ...... ; 353 -i 88.21 May S5.43I 33.63 Local receipts Saturday were about 100 bales, " prices from 39 1-3 down ward. .