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1 THE HOME PAPER Today's News Today." Bead tf First In . THE FREE PRESS I yOL. 23. No. 126. SECOND EDITION KINSTON, N. C, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 30. 1920 FOUR PAGES TODAY PRICE TWO CENTS ALL FACTIONS ARE BEHIND COX, SAYS STRIKE ON SURFACE LINES M BROOKLYN CAUSES CONGESTION SINN FEINERS KILL INVESTIGATION OF CARL DUNCAN, WELL RECENT SESSION OF M'SWEENEY IS TOO NEAR GONE BENEFIT ; FROM FOOD, STATED ; COX CHARGES GET KNOWN REPUBLICAN GENERAL ASSEMBLY 4ih EN ROUTE TO WEST WE DAILY FREE PRESS IN EIGHT MONTHS Branded as Murderers bv UNDER WAY CHICAGO LEADER, IS DEAD AND THE CAMPAIGN finvernor Gratified With A v Progress of Campaign; to Answer Harding SENATOR KEEPS QUIET On Chicago Probe Will Leave it to Upham and Hays to Put Committee Straight -Preparing for His Drive (By the United Press) Altoona, Penn. (En Route With Cox), Aug. 30. Cox is confident the conferences at New York combined dl the Democratic factions into a sin gle fighting machine. Cox is en route : tq Columbus to prepare for his western swing. The governor today said he was assured of the unqualified support of the Wil wn, Tammany " and other factions. ( JJcAdoo promised Cox that he ould be one of his most active cam paigners. t Cox is watching the Senate expend itures probe closely and today sent the committee a copy of his Pittsburgh jpeech. It is unlikely that the candi ite will appear as a witness. He. ex acts to answer the Harding league jtand speech at the State Fair tomor w. arding Silent. ' Marion, Aug. 30. Despite question ing by newspapermen Harding is si lent on the expenditures investiga tion, intending to let Hays and Upham answer for the party. He is prepar ing lor the fall drive to come in Oc tober and is considering a catechism ef hU speeches. He is undecided Whether he will go to the coast. SUCCESS OF IRISH LOAN : VICTORY OVER "MILITARISM. London, Aug. 30. Oversubscription by 50.000 pounds of the Irish repub lican loan which Eamontr de Valera promoted in the United States has been hailed by Sinn Fein as a victory of "the popular-will over intense mili tary aggression." It was planned to raise 250,000 pounds by the loan. A campaign was started in Ireland a year ago, and subscriptions there as well as in the United States were heavy. The cam paign was continued until a few weeks ago, when it was announced that the loan had been largely oversubscribed despite what Sinn Feiners claimed were superhuman efforts of the Brit ish government in Ireland to suppress it. LEGION BURIES HERO FROM WHOM POST TOOK NAME. Scottsbluff , Neb., Aug. 30. Wright-Irion post . of the American Legion so far as known is the only one of the 9,500 units of the legion to bury with full military honors the body of the war hero from which the post took its name. The remains -of Sergt. Charles R. Wright who died in France October 11, 1918 now lie in the cemetery of the town from which he went to make the supreme aacri- nce. Members Ot the locaUegion post and many former service men march' ed in uniform in the funeral proces aion. .. They Know Now That Westerner Who " Fought ' With Kins ton Boys -Died Hero. Relatives 1,500 to 2,000 miles away have learned by this time how cue . unsung hero pf the 30th Division died at Bellicourt 23 months ago. He was a young Dakotan, among strangers, fighting with Carolinians, Tennessee ans, New Yorkers and Britishers on the northern front. He gave the best that was in ;him and never flinched. He faced the fatal machine gun bar rage at Bellicourt. Experts have said they wondered how any soldier es caped alive from that pitiless rain of steel. The Dakotan, sent to the division with replacements, was officially re ported killed in action. The War De partment's report was scant informa tion for the family of the western lad who died among strangers. They knew no one who could, tell them how he died. They sought the details through the American Legion Week ly, which prints requests of relatives oi dead soldiers for information con cerning them. Former members of Company B, 119th .Infantry, in which he served, and the military police re called the soldier. A letter went to the family several days ago giving the -details of the western , boy's sacrifice. He suffered no pain because death in his case was instantaneous. One veteran here was by his side and saw him fall, and es caped the same fate by lying prone hen the bullets starting flying fast. Others there wer who knew he died wfraid. : ( Receiver Declares He Can't Grant Increases Without Court Consent Crowds Storm Subways and In- tururbans (By the United Press) New York, Aug. 30. Brooklyn surface lines are tied up by a strike forcing thousands to walk to work or ride in improvised jitneys. interurban and subway lines are unaffected and their stations are be ing stormed by riders. I he company plans to run cars manned by strike-breakers and vio lence is feared. The strike was called alter a mass meeting Sunday on demands for in creases in wages or from i to 4d per cent. Receiver Lindoy Garrison says he cannot grant the increases without court consent WEEKLY WEATHER FORECAST. Issued by the Weather Bureau Washington, for the period August 30 to September 4: For South At lantic and East Gulf States: Gener ally fair, but with local thundershow ers; normal temperature. No nidi cations at this time of a disturbance in the West Indies. BATTLE AREA MAP TO AMERICAN LEGION POSTS Washington, Aug. 30. To facilitate distribution of victory medals, in which the War Department has en listed the cooperation of the Ameri can Legion, Adjutant-General P. C Harris has announced that a copy of the War Department's official battle area map will be forwarded to each of the 9,600 local posts of he legion which are situated in every commun itv in the United States and in 19 insular possessions and foreign coun tries. The map will be of great value as an aid' to determining eligibility for battle awards in the issue of the medal. NO NICKNAME YET for g. 6. p. Candidate Marion, O., Aug. 30. Despite the opportunity afforded by his middle name, Warren Gamaliel Harding nas entirely escaped having a nickname, so far as anyone in Marion can dis cover. Many years ago a few boy play mates ealled him "Doc." because his fatner was a doctor, but the nickname never stuck. Harding's secretary, George B. Christian, Jr., calls the candidate "Gov." Harding was lieutenant-governor of Ohio once. Harding refers to himself impersonally as "the can didate." Mrs. Harding calls him "Warren," reporters address him as "Senator," and all visitors trying to be original greet him as "the next President." TEMPORARY DORMITORY FOR METHODIST. COLLEGE. Washington, N. C Aug. 30. The Northern Methodists have acquired the "Morton home," a large residence in Washington Park, to care for the overflow of students from Washing ton Collegiate Institute this fall. The institute is the only college or the Northern Methodist in this part of the country. They have several con areeations on the North Carolina coast. The sum of $150,000 will go in to early construction of an additional huildinir. while it is understood the institute is to have a foundation of several hundred thousand dollars from the church in the north in a short time. Capt. George Studdart made himself eligible for a hero medal when, having rented the Morton house until next spring, he learned ot tne college's inability to house all the students and summarily made prepa rations to move into town a town without a vacant house in it. Unique Market Is That at Georgetown, a New Tobac co Town. Georgetown, S. C, is unique among the new tobacco markets along the coast. Georgetown had its opening as a sales center this summer and has sold a million or more pounds, accord ing to local tobacconists returning from the Palmetto belt. The season there- was regarded as highly suc cessful. The two Warehouses are lo cated in close proximity to the bay, and the tide was unde.r one of them while sales were in progress on a re cent day. The town is on deep" wat er, which fact may help to make it an important center. At least two mar kets in the tidewater section of North Carolina have become important mar kets in recent years. Conway, S. C, near the coast, is, another growing market in the coast country. Suc cessful culture of the weed has been carried on almost in sight of the surf, and the soil and climate are now re garded as ideal throughout the coast country. ' Cardinal Orangemen and Catholics Continue to Fight Ship Workers Involved (By the United Press) Belfast, Aug. 30. Fighting be tween Orangemen and Catholics con tinues. The riot involves handreds of shipyard workers. Record of Slaughter. Dublin, Aug. 30.-Sinn Fein sym pathizers killed 78 policemen, 11 sol diers and 18 civilians between Janu ary 1 and August 21, according to an official announcement. In a pastoral letter today Cardinal Logue denounced the killings as mur ders and acts of war. MOST MEN IN MARINES ARE AMERICAN BORN Washington, Aug. 30. The yearly figures on recruiting just issued by the Marine Corps contain some inter esting data on nationality. Of the 10,307 men accepted by the sea sol diers in the last 12 months the American-born totalled. 94 per cent. Six foreign nationalities are represented by a lone marine, namely Armenia, Australia, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico and Venezuela. Each of these, as with all the foreign-born in this branch of the service, has either become natur alized or has taken out his first pa pers. It cost the Marine Corps $61.16 for each man who joined the colors, and the total percentage of desertions was but 1.86. Forty per cent, of the men accepted reenliBted from the army, navy and marines, the sea soldiers leading with 20 per cent. - REPUBLICAN PAPER COMES OUT FOR COX. Norristown, Pa., Aug. 30. Declar ing that Republican leadership in the country has broken faith with the rank and file of the party, with the American people as a whole, and with humanity everywhere, and that the Democratic platform offers "peace, lasting peace, bunded on the justice of the Golden Rule which humanity is praying for," the Norristown Times, a Republican newspaper since its founding in 1881, announces that, in accordance with the dictates of con science and in the belief that it is doing a patriotic and humanitarian duty, it cannot do other than sup port Cox and Roosevelt for presi dent and vice-president. The Times' denunciation of the Re publican platform and tactics has caused a sensation in this Republi can stronghold. BULLETINS (By the United Press) BIG LEAD FOR NEFF. Dallas, Tex., Aug. 30. Pat Neff is leading former Senator Bailey by 72,762 votes in the gu bernatorial primary. GENERAL STRIKE. Nashville, Aug. 30.-Executives representing 40 unions today de cided to call a strike in sympathy with the union street car men and formed a committee of 40 to wait on Governor Roberts. The street car managers refused the strikers' demands because their jobs are filled now by non-union men. ITALY REPLYING. Washington, Aug. 30. Italy is replying to the American note setting forth the United States' position toward Poland and Rus sia, It was announced here to da). ' 2.000,000 CLAIM ANGLO-SAXONS ARE THE "LOST TRIBES. Washington, Aug. 30. The glori ous future promised to Israel by the Hebrew prophets was not meant for the modern Jews, the descendants of Judah, who are to remain a "by-word among the nations," but for the An glo-Saxons who are thought to be the descendants of the Lost Tribes of Is rael. In these prophecies t,he United States is seen in the guise of the tribe of Manasseh and in Ezekiel XVII, 3, even found a reference to the American eagle. So says the "North em British-Israel Review," which has recently been added to the curious col lection of Anglo-Israelite books, now numbering over 100 volumes, which are to be found in the New York Pub is to be found in the New York Pub- Population Figures Statistics for Several outh Carolina Towns. (By the United Press) Washington, Aug. 30. The census of Abbeville, S. C, shows 4,570, an increase of 111 or 2.5 per cent; of Westminster, S. C, 1,847, an increase of 271 or 17.2 per cent.; Walhalla, S. C., 2,068, an increase of .473 or 29.7 per cent. Hays Endeavors Prove That Republicans Are Asking for Only Little Over 3 Million Dollars- Early Witness (By the United Press) Chicago, Aug. 30. The charges by Cox are false and libellous. Chairman Will Hays told the expenditures com mittee today. He said the National Committee ibudget provided for little over $3,200,000 and denied cat egorically Cox's charges. He said the Republicans had heard of misuse of government instruments by the Dem ocrats. Chicago, Aug. 30.- Senatorial in- veatigation of the Cox slush fund charges was begun today. Republican leaders are aggressive Will Hays declaring 'We will nail Cox's charges with his own ham mer." Hays today had statements show ing that instead of $15,000,000 the Republican national budget called for about one-third that sum. Hays and Upham are scheduled to be the first witnesses. INCREASE 17 PER CENT. IS GRANTED HARD COAL MINERS Should Mean Lower Coal for Public Instead of Price Advances Minority of Commission for 27 Cent. Per (By the United Press) Washington, Aug. 30. Wilson to day made public the report of the An thracite Coal Commission granting the miners a 17 per cent, wage increase He made no reference to the threat of the miners to strike if he signed the report. The report says the advance in wa ges is no reason for price advances but on the contrary should pave the wav for declines. A minority report, parts of which Wilson refused to make public, rec ommended a 27 per cent, increase for the miners. Could Happen School Bond Issue May Be Submitted to Women Voters Soon. A thousand or two Kinston women may get the opportunity to vote be fore the general elections in Novem ber. It is possible that the School Board may , call the election for a $900,000 bond issue before the date for balloting on Cox, Harding and the lesser political lights. The officials course has hot been determined uponf but if action is taken toward calling the bond .election .before November it will be at a'n .early date. The possi bility, regarded by many as remote, that the Supreme Court .will kill the 19th amendment does nof deter wom en from voting until the probably dis tant date when a decision is announc ed, local- authorities say. , With wom en voters taking advantage , of their new prerogative an overwhelming ma jority can be had for the issue, in the opinion pf some officials. ; 180 SPEAKERS AT THE SAFETY CONGRESS (By the United Press) , Milwaukee, Aug. 28. Methods of preventing industrial ' accidents, . con serving labor and increasing produc tion will be discussed at the Ninth Annual Safety Congress, which (s to be held here next month. Four . thousand men and women. comprising safety engineers, industri al relations managers, educators and factory executives, will gather in the Municipal Auditorium to exchange in formation they .have gathered in the last year on accident prevention, There will be 180 speakers.' " GERMANS RENEW SCIENCE , , RELATIONS WITH WORLD. Berlin, Aug. 28. Germany will re new scientific relations with the out side world this fall. The government has just accepted an invitation to send delegates to the World Congress on Foot and .Mouth Diseases at Buenos Aires. In government quarters it was stat ed that it was the belief that Germany at this time could not contribute much information to the congress, but hail ed the opportunity "to have a delega tion present at such scientific gather ings. . . Succumbs to Chronic Mal ady at Seacoast Town. Case Hopeless Some Time Former National Committeeman The death of Edward Carlton Dun can, former Republican national com mitteeman from North Carolina, oc curred at Beaufort Sunday night. He was a former resident of that town and one of its most prominent citi zens. He was ill of cancer of the stomach some months. The funeral will be held Monday af ternoon. Mr. Duncan was a native of Beau fort, a former member of the State Legislature, and served in various capacities under the Federal Govern ment. For three years he was one of the receivers of the Seaboard Air Line Railway. He was later president of a bank at Raleigh. His life was an active one until his last illness. Mr. Duncan attended the recent convention of the Republicans at Chi cago. He received a message from Senator Harding, the presidential candidate, expressing sympathy ahd hope for his early recovery, some days ago. Among the many who knew him in this city was Mr. Demp- sey Wood. Mr. Wood was at Mr. Duncan's bedside recently. His case was then regarded as hopeless. Duncan was familiarly known as "Carl" Duncan. Many added the title Colonel" to his name. He was a little past middle age. Going to Riga Poles and Russians Transfer Scene of Armistice Negotiations. (By the United Press) Warsaw, Aug. 30. Prepara tions for the transfer of the arm istice negotiations of the Russ ians and Pales from Minsk to Ri ga are being made following an agreement between .the two gov ernments. . General Roseadnmskl, chief of staff, today said the Bolshevik! were planning a counter offens ive in the Lemberg sector and that it will be on a major scale. According to authoritative in formation the Bolsheviki are or ganizing a grand offensive in the eastern part of Galicia. IMPROVEMENT AT N. C. STATE COLLEGE SOON West Raleigh, Aug. 30. The second floor of Holladay Hall at State Col lege has been remodeled and fitted out to provide urgently needed class room space. In the past this part of the main administration building has been used as quarters for students, but with the completion of two ad ditional dormitories early in the win ter, it is hoped by the authorities that the housing problem will be somewhat simplified although not fully solved. MARINE RECRUITING ? EXCEEDS THE BEST PEACE-TIME FIGURES Washington, Aug. 28. Recruiting for the Marine Corps is rapidly . in creasing and is expected to reach the highest peace-time point for midsum mer . recruiting this month. Before the war 500 men a month was con sidered a fair average for the small est of the three branches of the ser vice, and the present indications are that -the August figures will easily double that number. The Marine Corps is now recruited to about 60 per cent, of its authorized strength of Zl.wu. BUSY DAYS FOR NUTMEG SLEUTHS. New Haven, Conn.j Aug. 28. Pro hibition may or may not be a success in Connecticut. It all depends upon what standpoint is taken. In mater ial, the enforcement authorities have much to show for their work. But as far as getting something to drink is concerned well, that ia another story. A day when a truck load of booze is not intercepted is almost an ex ception to the rule. Confiscated whis key now in the hands of the authori ties is valued at more than half a million dollars. The value at prevail ing prices is much higher. Alcohol worth ?750,000, according to enforce ment agents' valuation, has also been seized. The motor trucks and pleas ure vehicles used in liquor running and confiscated with the contraband, number nearly a hundred and are worth more than $200,000. The old Boston Post Road is daily the scene of as, thrilling hold-ups as were ever enacted in the days of the stage coach. Many arrests are made by the government men in tense situ ations and frequently at the point of revolvers. Many of the arrests are made at Greenwich, a short distance over the New York State line and on the Boston Post Road. Nearly -800 men are scheduled to face Judge Edwin S. Thomas In Fed eral Court her September 28.. Democrats Well Fortified- Women Will Support Morrison "Because He Opposed Suffrage," Say Party Leaders (By MAX ABERNETHY) Raleigh, Aug. 30. Democratic lead ers visiting the capital and those heard from by letter in commenting upon the State campaign declare that the work of the special session of the General Assembly has furnished an abundance of campaign thunder that will put to route any attack the Re publicans may launch during the next 60 days. The happy solution of revaluation, which for a time threatened to give some trouble, enables the Democratic guardians, to send their champions to the voters of the State with an issue. There is no pessimism at State head quarters here, declares Chairman Tom Warren, and without putting forth any abundance of efforts he predicts that the "usual" majority will be maintained -when the ballots are counted in November. Because the Republican candidate for governor, Jbhn J. Parker, openly championed woman suffrage while Cameron Morrison, Democracy s stan dard bearer, did not, 1s not reason enough to cause any breaks in the Democratic ranks, the majority party s leaders say, "since it is evi dent enough to anyone interested in learning the true situation that '80 per cent, of the women of North Car oline themselves were in' the same boat that Candidate Morrison was rid ing." They were not clamoring for the ballot. Now that it has been thrust into their hands, word has reached Raleigh, the women are go ing to vote for the candidate who more nearly interpreted their thought. There is another reason the women of the State will vote for Mr. Morrison, declare the political prophets, and that is because the Democratic candi date was consistent in his opposition to woman suffrage while his oppon ent apparently mounted the band -wagon after 35 states had ratified the federal amendment. Defeat a Calamity. Senator Dolman Thompson pf Statesville,' one of the best-balanced members of the General Assembly, views the election in November as fol lows: "Defeat of the Democratic party, this year because of the revis ion of the taxation would make it well nigh impossible to secure the enactment of any progressive legisla tion during the next 15 years." Which is to say that succeeding legislatures, when the opportunity presented to stride forward, would be prevented from doing so because there would always loom before mem bers the fate of the 1919-1920 ses sions. "It should be done," he quotes the Bolons of the future as saying, "but it will mean our defeat, so we'll pass up the chance." The Iredel! senator, who is not a candi date for reelection, thinks that "po litical expediency" will play its part later on as it did in the present year. Campaign On. . With the campaign just beginning in the State and election day two months pf f , 'divers candidates for State and congressional offices as sisted by national ; leaders whose names will be announced later, -will furnish plenty of ' Speech-making. Governor Bickett expects to throw his weight into the fight, laying particu lar emphasis on revaluation, which he hps fostered for four years. Wheth er there is to be a joint debate be tween , the gubernatorial candidates depends very largely upon the Re publican candidate. Democracy dis likes such a thing and the executive committee will do its best to per suade Mr. Morrison not to accept should the challenge be made. Mr. Morrison, somewhat of a Scotchman, enjoys such things and may or may not be hold back. Nobody knows. The second annual convention of the North Carolina department of the American Legion will be held at Wil mington September 3 and 4. The program has just been completed and calls for an address by S. G. Chol meley Jones, director of war risk in surance, Washington, D.C Among the important things to be? considered by the former service men will be the Fordney additional com pensation bill which will likely be given attention, by the next session of Congress. Universal military training is another question that the legion men are expected to discuss. COTTON Futures quotations Monday were: . r Open. Close. January ......... 26.45 26.15 March ........... 25.90 24.00 May 25.75 24.60 October .......... 29.20 27.70 December . .... ... 27.40 " . 26.80 .." (Subscribe to. the Free Press) Kinsman on Verge Break dbwn Lord Mayor May Succumb Any Hour Cabinet Decides Against His Liberation (By the United Press) London, Aug. 30. Muriel Mac Sweeney today wired the wifa .of hunger-striking Lord Mayor Mae Sweeney that he is on the verge of jl breakdown as the result of long vig ils at her husband's bedside. , He it pale and weak after a long stay at the prison. Physicians say MacSweeney u too ill to benefit by food and that - a change for the worse is expected in 24 hours. It is semi officially reported thajt the cabinet has decided against the release of MacSweeney. SITUATION SIMILAR , TO THAT IN KINSTON. Washington, N. C, Aug. 30. The housing shortage here is acute. With 16 non-resident school teachers and may tobacconists seeking quarters for the fall and winter, there ia not a va cant house in the town. Between 100 and 200 dwellings have been erected outside the corporate limits, but ev ery one of these is occupied. -Thi school authorities are worried over the lack of room for teachers. The school board is considering the pur chase of a building to be converted in to a teachers' dormitory. . . 4 WANT KINSTON, NEW - BERN AND GOLDSBORO IN INCORPORATED LEAGUE Washington, N. C Aug. 30. With the incorporation of the Eastern Carolina Baseball League by . Pet Fowden, of Williamaton, there are three vacant berths in the association. Wllliamston, Tarboro and Washing ton hold places now. Kinston, Ggldi- boro and New Bern are being consid ered as possible franchise takers. A league committee will get to work hi a few days to fill the list so .that the individual clubs may have the en tire winter to prepare for tha 1921 season, which is expected to be much longer than the 1920 season. LEGION DOWN BEHIND NEW CLASS OF SWINDLERS. Indianapolis, Aug. 30. Mobiliza tion has begun of the American Le gion in a nationwide driv? to bring to book swfndlers' who are making a practice of defrauding the next-of-kin of men who died in the , war through offering to provide them with information concerning their deaths and the location of their graves at a price. Posts have been warned to keep an eye open for swindlers with a view to their arrest and prosecu tion and a personal warning to rela tives of men who died in service ia planned for every community where there is a post of the legion. On of the most glaring cases uncovered is that of the swindler who wrote m grieving mother that her missing son, was in Cleveland and would return if money for his railroad fare were provided. This hoax was exposed and later the writer was arrested in Iowa after he had sent the mother a tale- gram signed with her son's name ask ing for $35. .. ..-;: , ! CANAL TO BRING MONTREAL CLOSER. Montreal, Que., Aug; 30. Montreal wants to be nearer New York., And while the city will never change its situation, it may yet become 88 miles closer the American metropolis, at least so far as freight shipments and costs, are concerned. ; Canadian shipping interests propose to effect the change by means of ' barge canal from Montreal to St Johns, Quebec". The proposition will be put before the international joint commission, which is to meet here ia October to consider St Lawrence, River development. : At present Montreal is 458 miles, -from New York by canal and river. Clubbed by Cop Auto Mechanic Arrested for Cursing' Officers Unprovoked, , Frank Hay, an automobile mechan ic, was locked up by Patrolmen Thorn as Stroud and Lemuel Aldridge Sun day night on charges of resisting an officer and being drunk and disorder Iy. The policemen went to the hom of Anna Belle Clark seeking a persoitf they supposed to be in hiding there Hay, according to Stroud, curse ( them. Arrested, he resisted. A blow: on the head from Stroud's black-jack; was ineffectual. He was gotten lrtt a car with the aid of a third man an i taken to the station. Hay was club! ' by another officer some months a . Stroud said Hay's abuse of hli:v and his companion was without pro s cation. ' " , il Jill' i X - MM. t m :3 ! I'M 1 15.1 1 il I! ;.H 41 11 ! t . i
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