FTTTT TT OA PRESS THE HOME PAPER Todny'f'ewi Today.". TUrf If First In" THE FREE PRESS VOL." 23. -No. 153 FIRST EDITION KINSTON, N. C, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 30, 1920 SIX PAGES TODAY PRICE TWO CENTS Blaze Guwestori: Damage of Millions 5i p .. - v ' r 1 1"' i i iiw m,iwi ...I One Block, Two Piers Smouldering Ruins, : Seven Other Blocks and Three Ships Are Afire Wind Fans Flames and Tex as Port Fears Conflagration Chemi cals Handicap Firemen Sparks Falling Over Wide Area Blaze Starts at Sul ; phur Company's Pier Community Vic tim of Tidal Wave Not Many Years Ago Faces Second Disaster From Another ; Element (By the United Press) Galveston, Sept. 30. The fire damage i now estimated at $2,000,000. Galveston, Sept. 30. A fire swept the Galveston water front today causing millions of dollars' damage. Two piers and a block of buildings have been destroyed and seven other blocks and three steamers are afire. A shed of a cotton concentrating company covering nearly a block and loaded to capacity has been destroyed. Eight Blocks Afire. Houston, Sept. 30. Eight water front blocks, four piers and three ships are afire, at Galveston, accord ing to telephone messages received here. The fire started on the Freeport Sulphur Company's pier. ' Chemicals are interfering with the efforts of the firemen to fight the blaze. Wind-swept flames and sparks are flying over a wide area, causing he roic precautions to prevent a great conflagration. Exchange Profs. America and Czechoslovakia In Edu cational Trade. Washington, Sept. 30. The Insti tute for International Education in its endeavor f"to develop international good-will by hieing of educational agencies" is arranging in cooperation with the Society for teh Advance ment of Slavonic Study and the Min istry of Education of Czechoslovakia, for an exchange of professors be tween Czechoslovak and American m iversities. ' ' The Institute's Committee on Grants to Professors on Leave of Ah sence, awards grants only to Ameri can professors who have agreed to teach for at least one semester in a foreign university, and who have sub mitted official evidence that they per B';nally, as well as their proposed lee ture9 are acceptable to the author! ties of the foreign institutions' which they purpose to visit. One of the first American profes sors awarded a grant by the Institute is Prof. I. Andrews of Tufts College who will spend most of the coming year in the Czechoslovak Capital lec turing on American History and In stitutions at the University of Prague, Cox President Artillery Colonel Heads 30th Division Veterans.' (By the United Press) Asheville, Sept. 30. The Old Hick ory veterans left for their homes last night nd today after concluding their second annual reunion yester day afternoon. Nashville, Tenn., was chosen for the 1921 convention place. Col. Al bert Cox of Raleigh was elected to the presidency and Capt. Frank Bowen of Knoxville was reelected secretary and treasurer. Sergt.-Maj. Guy May, Knoxville, 'was elected first vice-president; Private Harold Turner, Spartanburg, second vice president, and Sergt. Harry Baum Kardner, Asheville, third vice-president. 1 :'', Colonel Cox comanded the 113th Field Artillery during the war. Legion Adjourns. 'Cleveland, Sept. 30. The Ameri can Legion convention here closed with the election of F. W. Galbraith of Cincinnati as commander. Building in Mexico Boom Strikes Republic AH Towns Sharing in Activity. - i i (By tie United Prese) San Antonio. Tex.. Sept. 30 A building boom has struck Mexico ' with the advent of the first real peace the inhabitants have experienced in many years, judging by reports reach ing building contractors here. Practically every city of more than ten thousand, people has reported much building activity. Contractors have been asked for bids on paving, drainage systems, fac tories and railroad reconstruction they report. Cities in both North and South Mexico are building as they have never built before, the Mexican Trade Bureau of the local Chamber of Commerce reports. - ' Siveebs ''ih'ytkrkoM at EPISCOPALIANS OF EASTERN CAROLINA MEET HERE FRIDAY All-Day Conference In spirational Service in Evening Bishop and New Fork Nationwide Drive Leader Expected The clergy and other church work ers of the Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina will meet here Friday to take up the continuation of, . the Nation wiilp Cnmniffn hptnin last vear. Many prominent ministers and laymen will attend the sessions. Most of the del egates will arrive Thursday after noon and night. The sessions of the conference will begin at 9:30 a. m. The delegates will sit almost continuously . until i-.Zti. n short intermission to be taken at the lunch hour. The conference will he somewhat in the nature of i training school. Rev. Louis G. Wood nf KW Ynrk. will lead the discussions An inspirational service will be held at 7:30 in the evening. The conference will be opened with a celebration of the Holy Commun ion. The daytime sessions will prob ahlv not be of e-eneral public inter est, though anyone desiring to attend nrill he coriliallv welcomed and the rector of St. Mary's Church, in which the .gathering will meet, is anxious that all members of the parish be nresent. Mr. Wood and Bishoo Darst may speak at the evening inspiration al meeting, and special music is oeing prepared. .- Seeks Bar Geisha Japanese W. C. T. U. Down on Time' ' Honored Institution. (By the United Press) Tokvo. Sent. 30. Janan is soon to he the scene of a battle of women. The W C. T. U., assembled in con vention at Karuizawa,' the popular summer resort where each year fore gather millionaires and missionaries to e.Knsne the heat of the dog days. have thrown down a challenge to the geisha, and have decided to do their hpt to eliminate this famous feature of life in the Land of the Chrysan themum. To make a start, the convention de nied that it would hereafter officially frown on allowing geisha to be pre, sent at any entertainment given lor- eigners, declaring that while the guileless stranger sees in these social butterflies only attractive girls de corously entertaining guests, he is hlissfullv ienorant of "the evil influ ence on the homes in Japan which this system involves." It js without doubt true that many rood wife weens bitter tears be- cBiise her lord and master finds the attractions of the teahouse greater than those of his family circle, and while many geisha are, as a matter of fact, entirely virtuous, it is true that many others are by no means austere. It is estimated that there are some fin.non veisha in Janan. an estimate which is probably quite low, and they form such an indispensable feature ot all Japanese parties of a social na ture that it is certain that no matter how strenuous the opposition to them be, they will not have to worry seriously, about it lor many a year. MUST DO TO EOR ELECTION IN NOV'R Rules for Registration and Voting How the; Ballots Will Be Deposited Ev erything Made Easy for Novices ' ; ;' Raleigh, Sept. 30. The following information relative to registering and voting, given out by Legislative Ref erence Librarian H. M. London, will be of especial interest to prospective women voters throughout ,the Mate: "All persons not previously regis tered and who expect to vote at the election on November 2 a?e required to present themselves in person be fore the registrar of the precinct for registration between September 30 and October 23 inclusive. Voters cannot be registered in any other way or manner. They cannot be register ed by mail or over the telephone. The registrar of the precinct .Will be at the polling place on each of the four Saturdays during the registration pe riod with his books for the purpose of registering voters. At other times, he may be found at his residence. "The woman voter is subject to the same conditions and qualifications as apply to the male voter, except that she is not required to pay o poll tax or exhibit a poll tax receipt in order to register and vote in the earning election. Before registering each woman voter must take the following oath: "That she will support the Consti tution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of North Carolina, not - consistent', therewith; that she" has been "a 'resident of the State of North Carolina for two years of the county for six months and of the precinct in which she proposes to vote four months; that she is 21 years of uge and has not registered for this election in any other precinct. "The Attorney-General, has i ruled that the woman voter need not give her exact age, but she must state that she is 21 years of age or over. An' act of the extra session of the Gen eral Assembly of 1920 defines the residence of a married woman living with her husband to be where her hus band resides, and that of a woman living, separate and apart from her husband to be where she actually re sides. . "Where a person has moved from one precinct to another precinct in the same county within four months from the election, such person should register and vote at the old precinct. "At the coming election six boxes will be provided in which the follow ing ballots will be deposited: (1) State officers, including United States senator; (2) member,. of Congress; (3) presidential electors; (4) members of the General Assembly and county officers; (5) township constable and justices of the peace, and (6) consti tutional amendments. """ "Under the absentee voters law, any person duly registered who may be absent from the county or physical ly unable to go to the polls for the purpose of voting in person, which fact shall be made to appear by the certificate of a physician or by affi davit, shall be allowed to register and vote upon application to the chair man of the county board of elections, who will furnish the voter ballots and blank certificate necessary for voting." Discharges in Order. Chicago, Sept. 29. The following are the eight players indicted for par ticipation in the alleged baseball scan- dal. Eddie Cicotte, star pitcher who waived immunity and confessed, ac cording to court attaches, that he took a 810,000 bribe. Arnold Gandill, former first base man. "Shoeless Joe" Jackson, heavy hit ting leftrfielder. Oscar "Hap" Felsch, center-fielder. Charles "Swede" Risberg, short stop. Claude Williams, pitcher. George "Buck" Weaver, third base man. 1 . Fred McMuIlin, utility player. , With his team, the White Sox, only one game behind the Cleveland In dians in the pennant race, the veter an Owner Comiskey served notice on the accused men that if found guilty he would have them blacklisted for ever. The New York Yankees' personnel has been offered intact to Comiskey to finish the season. The world's series will open October 5, the national commission has decid ed. The first three games will be at Brooklyn. ' SUBSCRIBE TO THIS PAPER, WHAT ! QUALIFY REPRISALS AGAINST POLICE THREATENED IN COUNTY GALWAY Forays Must? Cease, Warn ed While MacSwiney Improves Temporarily English Officials Puzzle Over His Case (By the United Press) Dublin, Sept. 30.' Counter repris als against the Black and Tan Police are threatened in County Calway. Wording reaching here says the police have been told that their wrecking forays must cease or they will be attacked. Mac Better. London, Sept. 30. MacSwiney slept three hours last night and was much refreshed today. While the mayor's life was slowly drifting out the British cabinet was puzzling over his case. . - HOW LENOIR LEAF GROWERS WILL MAKE SURE OF REDUCTION Will Be No Chance for Backsliders to Violate Pledge Without Being Taken to ? Task Moral Obligation Enough Leaders of the Lenoir County farmers organiation to get better prices for their principal poducts, to bacco and cotton, are pledged m ad vance to abide by , any regulations the State association may adopt at its forthcoming meeting. Officers of the local body declare there will be "fullest cooperation" in this coun ty next spring and that a 50 per cent. urtailment of th the tobacco acre age is not improbable. Each of the dozen townships in the county is to have its vigilance com mittee', it is intimated. These will be comprised by men chosen by the neighborhood farmers themselves. The committeemen will watch to see that there is no violation of curtail ment pledges. "Moral pressure" will be all needed to bring violators back into line ,it is believed. Leader of the organization movement point out that cooperation has become almost second nature with .the planters and tenants in- this section. .. There would be no other means for handling backsliders without violat ing the Sherman law, it is said. If 50 per cent, reduction is requr-i ed of Lenoir County next year the re duction will ibe 50 per cent., promi nent farmers confidently assert. . At any rate, the biggest corn, sweet po tato, irish potato and wheat crops in many years will be produced in Le noir in 1921. :.. -i BULLETINS (By the United Press) I KARMERS MEET IN PROTEST. Atlanta, Sept. 30. Georgia farmers are to meet at the State Capitol here today in mass sess ion to protest against the credit restriction policy. . The farmers are refusing to sell cotton on a low market and reports that night riders are active are again fre quent. PEACE IN A MONTH. Rome, Sept. 30. Italy is to de clare the war ended October 31, the cabinet today decided. Aviation Program Calls for Congressional Appropria tion $5,000,000 Annually. (By the United Press) Washington, Sept. 30. Measures to make America the leader of the na tions in aviation will be laid before Congress at the next session, Chair man Kahn of the House Military Af fairs Committee today said. The plans include an annual appropriation of five millions to aid experiments, new inventions and designs developed by Americans, - STATE COUNSEL AT CHICAGO BELIEVES ICTMENTS N. G. Hoyne Requests Holding Up of Probe Until Return From N. Y. GRAND JURY PROCEEDS Apparently Determined Make Most Out of Base . ball Scandal Only Min or Charges Can Be Brought, Says Att'y (By the United Press) Chicago, Sept. 30. The investiga tion of the alleged baseball crooked ness will be continued despite the re quest of State's Attorney Hoyne for a delay until his return from New York, Foreman Brigham of the grand jury today announced. Hoyne's Stand. Chicago, Sept. 30. The eight base ball indictments voted by the grand jury here are now held doubtful and have been ordered held up by State's Attorney McClay Hoyne, who is re ported to have told the secretary they were based on a misinterpreta tion of the law. Players can be prosecuted for gam bling or conspiracy to gamble, but Hoyne is doubtful if indictments on these grounds would hold. Diocesan Meeting In Interest Episcopal Campaign to Be Held Here Friday. Delegates from throughout East em Carolina will attend an Episcopal conference at St. Mary's Church here Friday to discuss the carrying on of the Nationwide Campaign which was started last year. ' The delegations from the various parishes will include both men and women. About 125 are expected. The principal speaker will be Rev, Louis G, Wood, of the central offices of the campaign. He is reputed to be a forceful orator. The Nation wide Campaign of the Episcopal Church began last fall with a gen eral survey of the condition of the church and the needs and future pos sibilities of the work. The first year's work in the campaign was marked by a drive for workers and for funds to extend the church's ac tivities. The Diocese of East Caro lina, of which Bishop Thomas Darst is head and Wilmington headquarters, stands highest in the United States the results achieved during the first year of the campaign. One hun dred and twenty-six per cent, of its apportionment was raised. St. Mary's church h we increased its pledged in come over 350 per cent, and exceed ed its quota 15 per cent, during the drive. - - ...' " ' During the remaining two years of the campaign this diocese will not have to expend any more effort on the financial side, but will be able to de vote its whole attention to a drive for more . workers and for the , "general deepening of the spiritual life of its members." . The conferences here will open at 10 a. m. and will probably close in time for delegates who are in a hur ry to catch a late afternoon train. It probable that many will remain over, and a service will be beld at St. Mary's at 7:30 p. m., with a sermon of general interest. The preacher for this service has not been announced. All the sessions will be open to the public and a special invitation to the evening service is extended. COLORED CLERGYMEN TO PARTICIPATE IN SERVICE. All the colored Episcopal clergymen who will bH here Friday to attend a special diocesan conference at St. Mary's Church will be at St. Augus tine's Mission at night, and take part in a service of public worship there. Rev, J. W. Herritage of Fayetteville, a former pastor of St. Augustine's, will preach. The public is cordially in vited. On Sunday the minister, Rev. J. E, Holder, will preach at the morn ing service and deliver an illustrated sermon at night. Another Drop Troy, N. Y., Sept. 30. Reduc tion of wholesale prices of shirts was announced today by Edgar H. Betts, head of the Earl & Wil son Co. The cuts range from $1. 50 to $24 a dozen. Betts predict ed similar action by other man ufacturers. COTTON Futures quotations Thursday were: Open. Close January ......... March ........... May October ......... 23.30 22.00 21.65 .24.75 23.00 21.20 21.40 21.05 23.80 22.20 December N.g local market. BIG CROWDS GREET COX IN KANSAS IN SPITE OF OUTLOOK State Supposed to Be Head' ed Toward Republican ism; League Issue TROUBLE FOR HARDING Is to Get Double Quizzing on League Question Will Be Pried Away From the Porch Again 6th of October (By the United Press) En Route With Cox to Hutchison, Kas., Sept. 30. Governor Cox today carried the campaign into the wheat belt, declaring the league the only definite war prevention plan yet sug gested. , He speaks at Hutchison and New ton before touring Oklahoma. Despite reports of a strong Repub lican trend Cox is being greeted by large crowds everywhere. He is em phasizing the league argument in every part of Kansas, apparently be lieving it the best vote getter he can offer. League Overshadows All. Washington, Sept. 30. The League of Nations is standing out as the most important issue of the cam paign, with Harding facing a double quizzing on his position on the ques tion. , An attack is coming from, the Re publican irreconciliables and from the Democrats based on Elihu Root's world court plan. The Democrats say the plan is a part of the League of Nations. . .The irreconciliables agree and de clare they want rejection of all parts of the league. Harding "Rests." Marion, O., Sept. 30. Harding is back on the front porch for a breath ing spell, before his second campaign trip into the Southwest beginning October 6, . , , . ihe candidate is somewhat worse from his 'open air speaking, but oth erwise unexhausted. During the trip Harding made over 20 speeches in three states and replied directly to the criticisms of Cox and Roosevelt for the first time. WILSON MAY NAME ANOTHER WOMAN TO HIGH U. S. OFFICE Urged to Appoint One ,to Federal Trade Commis sionSex Deserves Rep resentation on Body, De clared ' (By the United Press) Washington, Sept. 30. President Wilson may appoint a woman to an other high federal post, having been urged to name one to the federal trade commissionership vacated by W, B. Colver. It has been pointed out to him that the commission deals with problems touching the home and, therefore, is important to women. Mr, Wilson has already appointed women to four other responsible fed eral jobs. Wide Observance Of Fire Prevention Day and Up Week in State. Clean Raleigh, Sept. 30. The signs are propitious for a fine observance of Fire Prevention Day, October 9, as fixed by law, and the follow-up clean-up week, October 9-16, fixed by Commissioner Young. "This awakened popular interest in the necessity for conserving the iives, limbs and property of the peo ple of North Carolina, and ihe rec ognition of the value of a spacial day and week of observance, as set forth by President Wilson, Govern or Bickett and Commissioner Young, is acting as a spur to all connected with department fire and accident prevention work, and will result in an unprecedentedly successful or ganization for observance of Octob er 9 And the week following as a dedication of all the people to aid in the prevention of fire, accidents and death therefrom," is the con clusion of Deputy Commissioner S. W. Wade. , , TO LENOIR COUNTY FOR ONE Will Be Heard at Deep Run During Latter Part of October TO BE NO JOINT DEBATE With the Republican From Present Indications Candidate From Char lotte tia Wind Up Tour November 1 (By MAX ABERNETnY) Raleigh, Sept. 30. Joint debate be tween the. Democratic and Republican gubernatorial candidates, Cameron Morrison and John J. Parker, from all indications will not become a real ity in the present campaign in North ; Carolina. This statement is given weight in ferentially by State Chairman Thom as D. Warren today with the an nouncement of speaking dates for the Democratic nominee up to and in cluding November 1. It is under stood that Mr. Morrison's intinerary has been held up at the candidate's request in anticipation of a challenge from Mr. Parker. Since the challenge has not been made nor is there any indication that it will be forthcoming the State chairman, who is known to have consistency frowned upon joint discussions between Democrats and Republicans In North Carolina, com pletes the schedule of appointments for the party's major candidate and notifies his county chairmen of the dates. ; .. ., . That there will be no debates be tween the two candidates is both a source of joy and sorrow over the State. Democrats generally, that is, the members of the organisation who are taxed with the responsibility Of carrying on the campaign, are oppos ed to such things; so are the Repub lican leaders. But there is a class of voters, Democrats and Republicans, who long for the battle-royal. This class is , composed in the man of youngsters who know little of the po litical warfare of Tar Heclia, past or present, and they are at all times anxious for a fight. Morrison and Gardner. When Morrison and Gardner had mallenged each other back and forth, Mr. Gardner in the mountains and Mr. Morrison in the sandhills, during the last half of the Democratic primary, uid the stage was being set in Ral aigh for the big event, within 48 hours State managers of both candi dates were being flooded with tele- grams from all sections of the State asking that seats be reserved for big delegations from 15 or 20 counties. Telegrams were also received of course, advising against holding the discussion on the ground that it would hurt Democracy's chances in Novem ber. But there was manifestly enough interest on the part . of those who wanted to witness the scrap to fill every seat in the capital city's big 5,000 auditorium. Democrats, including Mr. Morrison, remember that Candidate Parker, dur-' ing the first primary, said he would .hallenge the Democratic winner to a joint discussion. Mr. Parker thinks that Candidate Morrison made a sim ilar statement somewhere. Mr. Mor rison disagreed witki the Democratic executive committee as to meeting Parker but is said to have declared at the time that nothing less than a judicial decree would stop him if the Republican candidate asked for a de bate. ' He consented, however, to let Mr. Parker do the challenging. Itinerary.'-; ::.: The itinerary as arranged by Chair man Warren calls for addresses from the nominee in the 10th District,' the last one being scheduled at Brevard October 11, after which time he will invade the Ninth, then the Seventh, . and carry his campaign further east. Mr. Morrison will conclude his speech making with an address at Shelby, the home of O. Max Gardner, the nominee's opponent in both primaries. Chairman Warren made the Shelby appointment at the instance of the, county chairman of Cleveland. The ; list of appointments for Mr. Morrison, beginning October 11, are: October 11, Brevard; October 12, Hickory; October 13, Lincolnton; Oc tober 14, Gastonia; October 15, Lex ington; October 16, Asheboro; Oc tober 18, Elizabethtown; October 19, Robeson County; October 20, Wilming ton; October 21, Goldsboro; October 22, Bethel; October 23, Deep Run; October 25, Plymouth; October 26, Gatesville; October 27, Wilson; Oc tober 28, Sanford; October 29, Pitts- boro; October 30, Troy; November 1, Shelby. Since the inauguration of the clinic plan of treatment by the State Board of Health in July, 1918, dental dis pensaries have been held in 39 coun ties and a total of 33,003 school chil dren have been given treatment with out cost. ' if j i (4 II ii 11 'V li it; i i i' i ! 1 - f i 1