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SECOND EDITION A KENSTON K 0: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1919
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BALTIMORE SUFFERS MILLION - DOLLAR
FIRE, BLAZE STARTS IN UNIVERSITY
RilliniN'fi AND SPREADS THRO' BLOCK
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Damage Departmen
Threatened in Early
Johns Hopkins Sustains Heavy
Stores and Lexington Market
Momin Fire Worst Since Conflagration of 1904
Incipient Blazes From Sparksr-High Wind Insurance
Covers Medical College Buildings No Loss of Life
But Nine Firemen Seriously Hurt Explosion An:
nounces Presence of Flames to Passerby Good Start
Before the Alarm
i fte tha Pntted Press)
Baltimore, Nov. 28. Themost disastrous fire that has
befallen Baltimore sines the fire of 1904broke out a few
minutes before last midnight in McCoy Hall, one of the
Johns Hopkins University buildings here, and spread so
ouickly that at an early hour this morning every building
m the square rjounaea uy nwwi'u, xwoo, muUinti.u
Eutaw streets had eitner Deen wrrcneu ur utnfecu..
NEGRa HAS MADE GOOD,
UNDER ALL CONDITIONS
Declares Brooklyn Colored Minister
in Fine , Address to Zion Confer
ence Here No Black Assassin's
Hand Stains Flag,
The second day's sitting of the A.
M. E. Zion .Conference opened at 10
o'clock Thursday morning. At 11
o'clock a large congregation gather
ed for the Thanksgiving service. The
preacher was Dr. P. A. Wallace, pas
injured seriously but Tio loss of life
hae been reported. (;
Shopping Tours That
Last a Week Vogue
in Southern Russia
' High winds swpt the sparks a
dozen blocks. Roofs and awnings in
Lexington' Market were afire at a
number of places. On the roofs of
department stores forces of em
ployees watched to stamp out ajiy
Incipient blaze. ....
A rough estimate put the damage
at probably $1,000,000.
An explosion first attracted the at
tention of a passerby. - Flames were
soon leaping from every window in
McCoy Hall. .
All the Hopkins buildings were in
sured. Ameng the buildings burned
was the old Hopkins gymnasium, re
cently purchased by b. ineaoerg 01 f F t street church in Brook.
Norfolk, - representing an invest- , vs. Y- who is a candidate for
ment of $200,000. Nin firemen were . vj.-ntiric. and whose election at
the general , conference at Louisville,
certain. yr. Wallace, a man 01
large bodily,, mental and spiritual
proportions, wae introduced by an
other eminent visitor. Dr. J. W.
Woock of Indianapolis, Ind., connec
tional missionary secretary, also an
Episcopal candidate of undoubtedly
certain election at the approaching
conference. The preacher based his
discourse on Psalm 103, 2nd verse.
A master of oratory with a "voice
like thunder," he handled his subject
with rare "ease and effectiveness, car
rying the overflowing congregation
through a beautiful channel of i
thought and reason from" the boun
tifulness of the Creator to the thank
fulness of the Creator. He charged
thanklessness to "thinklessnessV
(pointing out the intimate relation
between thinking and thanking as
the old Anglo-Saxon so beautifully
exemplified: 'Those who think, can
not but thank.' He' totfk his audience
back to the old pages of history, then
fetched' up the new in .comparison;
he brought the " days and 'conditions
that are passed and placed them
alongside of the days and conditional
that are. and with a well-sustained
and continuous panorama of com.
parative views, he kept his audience
in a strain of religious and demon
strative emotion seldom witnessed or
experienced by any that heard him
With regard to interacial onditions,
he counselled moderating the vision
of the evils with a reflection 6n those
that are good, and so '"forget not
all His benefits." -, The negro had
mad good t under all-conditions of
peace and war, h said. The- Star-
Spangled Banner had never been
stained by the hand of .a black as
sassin, kaiserism. and Bolshevism can
never enter his ear or reach nis
heart. The nation's war drum is
(Special to The Free Press)
Novorissisk, South .Russia, Nov,
28. When a housewife in South
Russia leaves on a shopping trip she
takes a travelling bag ' along. Be
cause to make an economical success
of it she may- have to be gone a week
and cover -a hundred' miles of terri
tory. ' ' :
Conditions in a few of the larger
cities which Denikene has wrested
from the bolshevisis are becoming
fairly stabilized but in-hundreds of
the smaller villages the utmost econ
omic chaos prevails. . iPrices vary
widely in different towns and the
rouble never has the same Value in
two adjoining villages. : So the
thrifty housekeeper,- buying a
Vweek'g supply 1 of potatoes er fire-
i wood, or seeking cloth for the chil
dren's clothes, journeys from town
to town seeking the best bargains.
The high cost of living is just .as
much a turning question as it is in
America, hut reliable informs
v VA wuiiuijuuiiies 19 not nearly
bo definite. ,
RADICALS ALLOWED
AS IT PLEASES Bi
Lax Methods Come to Light
in Hearing at Ellis
Island
DEPARTMENT IS BLAMED
Safe an3-4nsane Be Safe
Ordered Dcportatioi; War
-
rants Ji eld, Says Con
gressman Baker Heds
Roam Through' North
west Unhindered by Gov
ernment.
(By the United Press)
Vfew York, Nov. 28. Twelve radi
cals arrested at Seattle last winter
for an alleged attempt to overthrow
the municipal government there are
at-liberty despite the fact that war
rants for their deportation were is
sued March 17, it developed aj the
hearing of the Congressional Com
mittee on ' Naturalization and Immi
gration at Ellis Island today.
Twelve men were paroled upon
agreement to appear when wanted,
was -disclosed They never have
appeared. '
When the deportation ' Warrants
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GOVERNMENT ACTION TO KEEP
FROM FREEZING IS EXPECTED
.(By the UnltejLPraaa)
Washington, Nov.' 28. Drastic Government' action to
get the coal mines running is expected before the end of
the week. With the west in the grip of a blizzard which
sems about to sweep eastward the coal operators and rep
resentatives of the r ' iking miners broke up their joint
conference late yeste Jay. Unable to agree on a wage in
crease the conference adjourned sine die. , .
4MERP ASKS KNOW
WHAT! EVIDENCE IS
IN HANDS MEXICANS
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were received, U)ngressm"' Baker L,i .'rtifv-"i w .
of California said, immigr'.ve brvf. finai CJSUiar Agent Jen-
ficials at Ellis Island asked . V-
partment of Labor what action"lTirfjti
hould take to apprehend the men.
The department ordered the Elli
Island officials to hold the warrants
until January 1, Baker said.
PLENTY
OF MUSIC IN
"MISS BLUE EYES."
(Raleigh Times) .
A crowded theatre greeted the mu
sical comedy "Miss Bfue Eyee" at the
Academy of (Music Friday night. The
play lost nothing in interest on its
second presentation here, having
Played in Raleigh the pastl season.
Both the .leading members "of the
cast and the chores appeared to have
never beaten" nor its War bugle blown,
. , ... . " "" jnui me negro j reauy ivi me uraruji.
Plenty of life and put the play across The"se and mich rtore, he said, must
ultimately bring the negro into "his
m pleasing manner,
Ml" ayes-v has plenty of
careny music, interspersed with1 spec
ialty dance numbers by. Lam and
Goodrich, . . .- : ,
. "Miss Blue Eyes" will be at
Grand here Monday. ' -
the
ENEMY WARSHIPS BE
BV ALLIES
WRECKED
(By United Press)
Paris, XZv. 28r-ITh supreme
wnncil today decided that a!K
nr warships shall be destroy-
except those to be turned or-
France and Italy,, com
Pat.on for their war louse,
ihe council will order delay in
,r -ction of m nnmber
;u,r nipa boini
of
nt ed temporari-
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Judge Oliver Allen and Rev. L. M.
Hall, pastor of Caswell Street Meth
odist Church, were' present and ad
dressed "the congregation, stating
that the sermon was one of the best
they had ever heard.' . -
The afternoon business session
was brisk with- transaction. At night
Rev W. H. Witherspoon of New
Bern preached the educational ser
mon, which was one of such stirring
force that" for several minutes after
he concluded, the congregation con
tinued in a demonstration of emotion
al lervor. i
- Dr.- D. Cv Suggs, president of Liv
ingstone College at Salisbury, N. C
then made a Spirited address in which
he gave some very interesting and
remarkable facts about it, the lead
ing connectional school, among which
one that ita student enrollment had
nearly doubled within the last three
years.
A collection of fl00.05 wa taken.
nliYfl Inslriipferl In
Arrest Knee-Pants Gnn
Toters Regardless Agi
Young Kinston is protesting
asrainst the latest outbreak of alleg-
autocracy. They say the police
are depriving them of their constitu.
tional right. The police say they
are endeavoring to break up the
most widespread nuisance this town
a known in years. Many young-
ters are carrying firearms, they
ay, in. the shape of toy pistols
which can be loaded with bullets as
easily as with blank cartridges. The
police have . been instructed to seize
every such pietol. and to arrest the
youthful owner regardless of age or
condition.
Baptists Not Ready to
Locate Hospitals Yet;
- Will Give Dae Notice
Raleigh, Nov. 28. The publication
of news etories in several state news
papers in reference to the possibility
of the location of the proposed Bap
tist hospitals hat been called to the
attention of the campaign officials
here and requests have been received
for details of the plan for the loca
tion of toe hospitals.
.The recent session of the Baptist
State Convention' did not consider
the location' problem, for the reason
that the proposed hospital fund would
not likely be available until the end
of the five year period. In the Bap-i
tist 75 millionj campaign there is a
provision for the estaDashmeat of
Baptist hospitals and $2,125,000 of
the fund is eet apart for this pur
pose. . -. ., .-
AMERICAN LEGION MEMBERS
PREVENT GERMAN OPERETTA
New York, Nov. 28. Presentation
of a German operetta fcy the North
German Society of Queens was pre
vented here iby 1 members of the
American Legion, after attempts to
obtain an injunction had failed.
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BULLETINS
(By United Press)
KNEW SHE'D WIN.
Warren. Va Nov. 28 W. H.
, Langhorne, brother of Nancy
Astor, elected to the House of
Commons according-' to official
' announcement, hen informed of
the news by the United Press to
day stated: "I have nothing to
nay fnifier thaa that I am de
lighted. The victory was not a
surprise I thought she would
win."
kins -Violated Laws of
That lntry State De
partment jjYcts in Hurry
to i-Pnftect Official
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Washington, Nov. 28. A new note
demanding the details of the charges
against William O. Jenkins, Ameri
can consular agent held in prison
at Fuebla, will be sent the Mexican
government today, it is announced at
the State Department. .
The department Will demand the
evidence on which the Mexican gov
ernment bases its charg that
Jenkins falsified in (judicial state
ments as alleged in the reply to the
first American note, which demand
ed his immediate release
According to the Mexican reply
the charge of falsifying in state
ments and not charsres of connivanrp
with tVlA hfinWn wHn .UTifilrjiH tan1
held him for ransom was the. main
ground for Jenkins' imprisonment.
SOCIALISTS TO SIT
IN AT CONVENING
CHAMBER DEPUTIES
Will Break Time-Honored
Custom Probably to Em
barrass King the More
- When He Reads Address
to Parliament Monday
iA.t J By thAJnttedPrati
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nome, wo v. zo. xne socialist ex
ecutive committee has ordered social
ist members of the Chamber of Dep
uties to -participate in the opening of
parliament, according to the news
paper Avanti.
King Victor Emanuel is expected
to convene the Chamber of Deputies
Monday. The socialists have threat
ened to start disturbances .to pre
vent the king from reading his address.
It has been a time-honored custom
for the socialists to absent them-left there for
selves from the chamber when the 'grabbed up
king appeared as a silent protest
against the monarchy, ,
THIEF GETS SMALL
FORTUNE SIMPLY BY
THROWING A BRICK
Schaut, Jeweler, Loses $1,
500 Worth of His Stock
and Points Out Moral to
Buying Public Police
HaveHist!
W. J. Sehaut, Queen Street -jewel
er, Friday turned a $1,500 robbery to
advertising account, facetiously mak
ing the best of his loss while the po
lice struggled with a single meager
fue. "Do your Christmas shopping
early; the person who threw this
brick did," read a sign in a mmhod
window at Schaut'a, a whek' pavin;;
brick exhibited with it.
It wasn't Will Carlisle, the western
"Robin Hood," who threw, the brick.
"Shucks, , no,? say
ROAD WORKER MEETS
DEATH IN ACCIDENT
THANKSGIVING DAY.
Pennsylvanian Employed by
Contractors for Highway
Commission Badly Man
gled When Stump Puller
Tongue Breaks
Jcmmaader otFamous
Battalion of Death
. of A E. F. is Coming
Col. Dan Morgan Smith, late com
mander of a battalion of the 358th
Infantry, Chicago attorney and plat
form man of note, will make a num
ber , of addresses in North Carolina
under joint direction of the Anti-Saloon
, League of America and the
State League. '
Colonel Smith is scheduled to
speak twite in Kinston on Sunday,
December 7. The morning address,
at 11 o'clock, will be jn Queen Street
Methodist Church. Rev. C. L.
Read, the pastor, and J. W, Goodson
are in charge.'
The night meeting will he at 7:30
l the First Baptist Church, with
Rev. W. Marshall Craig in charge.
Colonnl Smith will tell of the war
MESSAGE WILL GO
TO CONGRESS 2ND
the police, al
though there have been rumors of
Carlisle,; the Wyoming celebrity,
rambling up and down the Atlantic
Coast Line Railroad. .'It mm a less
discriminating? and :riervyt: thief who
,MtirHiwthtf-d0flLf "A policeman
passed the place at 2 a. m. Every
thing was all right, tile passed again
at 2:50 and everything was all
wrong in he window.
Most of the big glass pane in the
front- was' out ami the brick was re
posing in a bed of gold and plush.
The cop 'phoned the proprietor, who
hurried to the store to find many ar
ticles- of nominal value gone. There
had been no ultra-expensive piece in
the window. All save $300 or $500
worth of the $2,000 worth of goods
the night had been
A number of watches,
card cases, pins arid other articles
were missing. Two er three diamond
pins, several watches of good makes
and other small jewelry were includ
ed in the loot, while some of the
most valuable pieces were left behind.
The thief apparently made no cf- j
fort to enter. tne store, in whicn a
heavy stock is kept.
The body of Isaac D. venport, vic
tim of a Thanksgiving day accident
on a new road being cut from tr's
city in the direction of Pink Hill, ar
rived at Monroeton,' Pa., Friday for
burial. ( ,
Daveriprt was killed Vhen th
lever of a stump pullor, broke um!"
a high strain, tVo horses were t- ,
ging at the lever vhen it huckleJ v '
broke, a piece flyr.ig back and strik
ingi Davenport, v,o was an employe
of T. H. Gill & o., contractors for
the Lenoir Coupty Highway Commis
sion..'. Both legs and the right arm were
broken and Davenport was ,hurt in
ternallv. He died en route to tha
1hwpitakOiTCTpon;,ta',!about .4 "
years of age.".'..1 ':-, :
(By. the United Press)
Washington, Nov. 8. The White
House announces . that President
Wilson's message will go to Congress
December 2, the second day of the
new session. The President is still
BOX PARTIES NETTING f
HOLDERS BIG SUMS NOV
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Rountree Lodge Masons Raise More
Than $400 at Rose of Sharon
Give More Per Capita Thar ny
Other Lodge to Orphans.
FIVE BOYS HELD ON
CHARGES OF TRAIN).
" WRECKING AT ITAL.
(Raleigh News and OhRerrer)
One white, iboy and four iwcrroes,
all under 12 yeans of age, end none
working on1 it and is expected to com- of them attending school, are'in the
piece ii 10 De roaciy Tor tne printer pity jail charged with wrecking Sea-
by the last of this week.
Mfflf ASTOR -GETS
NOTICE OFFICIALLY
(By the United ress)
Plymouth. Nov. 28.- Lady Nancy
Astor was elected to the House of
Commons, it is announced officially.
experiences cf himseir and nis com-The official announcement : today
mand. The battalion became known shewed Ladv Astor's vote to be 14.-
as the "Battalion of Death" because
of the execution it was able to work
on the yemy. However, it's name
might otherwise have been appropri
ately given because of the great fa
tality among its members. It went
into the St. Mihie! drive 1,160 strong
and emerged with 827.
Colondl Smith has been heard in.
every state in tne union. Announc
ed promises are for a fine and
graphic description of war events.
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4,139. .
T. Gay's 9,232, Isaac Foot's
COTTON
Futures quotations ' Friday
December '
January ,
March
May ..; '.. 32.37
July ............ S0r5
wera:
I37j55
35.83
33.80
31.82
30-60
South Dakota Farmers
en Wisconsin Tour; a
Double Trainload 'Em
board Train No. 2 early yesterday
morning when only a miracle saved
a smash-up and considerable ios. of
life. .The hoys, according to stories
told the police, have been operating
J as a band with the white boy as "lieu
tenant, and the police are not only
charging them with the train wreck
ing offense, but some of the lot with
breaking into the Market House and
with 'setting fire to a haystack and
some woods near Raleigh.
The boys are James Foy, white, 11
years old, son of J. H. Foy, 7707
South Wilmington Street, the oldest
of five children, and with a police
record, according to' his own admis
sion of tep offenses. .
Ed Perry, 12-year-bld son of John
Perry, 301 W; Lenoir Street, oldest
of six children.
LeRoy Curlee, ten-year-old son of
Louis Curlee, Fowle's Vineyard, one
of eght children. -
Genee Jonesi 12-year-old , son Kf
Will Jones, .near Garner.
Leslie Joyner 11 years old, father
dead, S; Haywood Street.
Local receipts
abcut 40 bales,
downward.
to 3 o'clock
prices -from
- (By the United Press) .
Sclhy, S. D., Nov. 28. Two special
trains of South Dakota farmers,, left
today for Wisconsin.
One train, over the Northwestern
from" Huron, was in charge of C. A.
Thornton, traveling passenger agent
of the road, and the-othtr, over the
St Paul line, in charge of M J.
Flanagan, president of ' the South
Dakota Shorthorn Breeders' Associ
ation. ' -. " i
. One delegation is to Visit the ex
periment station of the University of
were Wisconsin and the other is to go to
S5.90 . Waukesha, Wis., td attend a sale of .were Indicted for criminal anarchy by
Wisconsin shorthorn cai'la. the extraordinary grand jury.
WIFE OF ANGELES DOES NOT
KNOW OF HIS EXECUTION.
New York, Nov.' 28. iMrs, Felipe
Angeles, wife of the Mexican revo
intionary leader, is still in ignorance
of his execution. She is very ill.
LARKIN AND GITLOW UNDER
CRIMINAL ANARCH T CHARGE.
New York, -Jiov. 23. James Lar-
kin, Irish labor leader, and Benjamin
Gitlow, former Bronx assemblymen,
It is the season of "box parties" iu
this part of the State.' Records for
attendance and receipts are being
smashed on every hand.. iThe past
week's schedule was for scores of such
events at country school houses and
churches. .'F'ach little party so far
has . netted o ?a(;kful of coin and
greenback for sv kV or church bet- .
trrment or-. charity. Bountiful har- .
vests and the "spirit of the season"
have mrifa'i.lw farmers extraordinar
ily generous, 'and their parse strings
ore as' loose now. as their latchstrings ;
ever are.
The box or basket party in this
section -. corresponds to similar' enter- -tainments
under various names in
rural communities everywhere, but :
here the dancer pays for more than
the fiddling. It is estimated that in
Lenoir County alone the rural dwell
ers will contribute $10,000 to $20,
000 to the various causes during the
present brief holiday period.
At Sharon School Thanksigiving
night John Cameron, State highway
commissioner and some other things,
and his fellow (Masons of Rountree
Lodge No. 243, raised $414.10 for the
Oxford . orphanage. ' , There, are only
33 members of Rountree lodge, but
they give more per capita than any
lodge in the State for charity pur
poses.' They invited all the neigh
borhood. There - were the usual
amusements and throngs of youths
and rosy-cheeked girls. Boxes filled,
with Thanksgiving delicacies such
thing some cheap it '' "Rose o'Sha
ron" were auctioned eft at prices
ranging as high as $2 J;'- The rival- :
ry between youthful bidders was In
tense. It wasnt all that Rountree
lodge will raise before it comes tima
to send in its contribution to Oxford,
but it was a fair start. : The ' teach
ers of Sharon School. Mise Salh'2
Ketclrf. principal; ,.Peal Bowde?.
Retha Flowers and Elsie now.r:,
helped the Masons put the afair
across. - - ;
In nearly erery rural school a pi
ano, new curtains, a phonograph or
something of the sort Will be install
ed next week or as eoon as the men
of the neighborhood have finished!
painting the place, or building tha
new room.
Chicago, Nuv. 28 Juc?ge Joseph
Sabath today refueed to release lead
ers or the Chicago "murder clique
on writs of habeas corpus. '
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