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PAY UP AND TRADE WEEK; BARGAINS EVERYWHERE IN KINSTOM. NOVEMBER 27 T5 DECEMSER 3. I DAILY JPR: THE HOME PAPER "Today's News Today." "Read It Fiist la" THE FREE PRESS No. 206 FIRST EDITION KINSTON, N. C WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1920 SIX PAGES TODAY PRICE. TWO CENTS Europe Has Turned to Wilson to Settle Eastern Question BICKETT WILL MAKE RESPONSE FOR THE INDEPEND'T BLACK AND TAN MENIATTEMPTS TO START VOTE IN STATE IS SEEN BY OBSERVERS TAKE TO LYNCHING AS REGULAR THING NEW UPRISING MADE ALONG THE BORDER GOVS. AT MEETING htm PRESS U l! 13 VOL 23.' President's Acceptance of Armenian Turkish Appointment Expected by As sembly at Geneva Hourly Not Con cerned Over America's. Probable Refus al to Furnish Soldiers and Money American Executive Draws Boundaries for New Republic Will See Dream for Armenian Independence Fully Realized, Appears (By the United Press) , Geneva, Dec, 1. President Wilson's personal offer of mediation between the Turks and Armenia is expected to reach the League of Nations Assembly today. Wilson's warning that American military aid could not be assured and that large expenditures would have to be approved by Congress caused no dismay. Wilson's TrueWorth Appreciated ' .Abroad. Washington, Dec. 1. The fato of Armenia is in the hands of President Wilson, who has not only offered to mediate between Armenia and the Turk Nationalists, but also has out lined the proposed boundaries for the new Armenian nation. The President's friends are grati fieil at the role he is playing, saying It shows the nations had to turn to him despite his illness And defeat in the elections. The future of long-suffering Ar menia since America's entry into the world war has ibeen of deep interest to tha American executive. He (s believed to desire the establishment of the republic on a firm foundation under the protection of tha 'Christian powers. He is familiar with the his tory and traditions of the struggling people and has looked with favor upon their efforts to Improve their condition. Europe, it is assumed; having de sired the mediation of Wilson, will accept his 'recoinmujjtla'llons without hesitation 'and proceed according to his suggestions in completely eman cipating the new nation from Turk ish administration mid influence. Christmas Trees Takes Million and Half of One Section. 'Em for (By the United Press) . Washington, Nov. 29. The UNit od States uses annually between four and five million Christi.ias trees, ac cording to the estimate of the Forest Service, United Stales Department of Agriculture. This' equals approxi mately the combined consumption, of England, Scotland, and Wales and is about 25 per cent, greater than that of Germany, . The fir is undoubtedly the Christmas tree par-excellence, 'es pecially in the Northeastern' and Luke States. On the Great Lakes "the Christ-mas-treo ship" bringing greenery from the upper peninsula of Michigan to Chicago or Detroit 13 usually one of the latest events in navigation each winters In the Northeastern and Lake States Balsam fir furnishes the bulk of the Christmas-tree trade. In the South the Frasre fir is the favorite. In Colorado and other Rocky Moun tain States, fir, though abundant, is difficult of access and the Lodge pole pine and occasionally the Douglas fir and Knglemann spruce are used. On the Pacific Coast the Christmas tree is often the white fir. Spruces vie wan lirs in popularity as Christmas trees, but as a rule in the South and "era incy oecur at high altitudes which make them difficult to tret New York and the New England States consume , 1,500,000 trees. Concrete Piping Success When Properly Constructed, State. Washington, D. C, Dec. 1. Poor construction has brought concrete P'l'ing into disfavor, but when prop erly made such piping is undoubtedly a success, say irrigation engineers of the Bureau of Public Roads, United states Department of Agriculture. It ws at first thought that concrete could be used for low head pressures only, but better methods of construc tion have convinced the engineers that 'ts use is not limited in this regard. n ttlls country, concrete piping . is now used to withstand 100-foot head Pressures, and in Europe, lines have neen built which endure pressure Mads of several hundred feet. Steel reinforcement is generally used when the heads exceed 15 or 20 feet. CONGRESSMAN UPSHAW TO EASTERN CAROLINA. n,,YSl!!!ltrton' Nov- 30. Congress- fniAlU Upshaw f Geoa int? e tomorrow night in the interest of prohibition. Eloquent Figures Claxton Points Out Carolina's Weakest t Point. . Ghancl Hill, Uec, 1. Ijast year North Carolina paid 1G2 millions of dollars in federal taxes. In ail the years of its history North Carolina has paid out 130 millions for cduca tional purposes. . Ifie ligurcs are taken from a recent report by P. P. Cl'axton, United States commissioner of education, who has made an inves tigation of the educational situation in the State. Mr. Claxton studied at the University of North Carolina, was school superintendent at Kinston, wil son, and Asheville, and taught at the North Carolina College for women in Greensboro, In his report he shows a number of unusual facts about odu cation in the" State. for instance, he shows that North Carolina has spent about 22 1-2 mill uaU4L-ufjdx)llurs...-on all State ' colleges in 50 years and last year spent ' 45 millions on tobacco and snuff alone The State university is 126 years old, but it has received in all its history only about 4 1-2 millions from the State. It did not receive any regu lar appropriation for. maintenance un til after 1875, although it was then 87 years old. The total value of all the college plants and equipment in the State is now valued atv $14,008,771- These figures are taken from statements of proper authorities in the 31 white colleges, j junior colleges, technical training schools, and the university, Compared, with all the North Carolina colleges stands the University of Cal ifornia with a plant and equipment valued at more than 16 millions, which is 2 million more than the value of all the institutions in the Old North State. - ' The total annual working income of the 81 North Carolina colleges is $2,- 4:14,046.. The people of the State spend 20 millions a year to keep their motor cars running. Take Mens Jobs Japanese Women Entering ment Departments. Govern- By HENRY W. KINNEY (United Press Staff Correspondent) Tokyo, Dec. 1. The inroads which Japanese' women are beginning to make into various fields of activities heretofore monopolized by men, are increasing day by day, and even in mvprnmi'tit' offices n rfinresenta- tives of the sterner sex being forced to yield to their weaker sisters. Although it is generally said that women have no head for figures, the statistical section of the Department of Agriculture was one of the first government branches to employ-women in clerical capieities. The experi ment has been declared such a success that hereafter the forestry offices will follow the example, and girls will , be allowed to enter the service as clerks or stenographers. Their pay as such r will run from 85 cents to 65 cents a day, which is not so bad for Japan. BULLETINS DAVIS SUICIDES. Raleigh, Dec. 1. Charles Da vis, wealthy Wake County planter charged with killing his wife Monday, committed suicide In jail here this morning. His body was found dangling from a rope made of clothing. Davis Is believed by many to have been demented. NEW CHAIRMAN. Washington, Dec. 1. Houst on Thompson of Colorado today, became chairman of the Feder al Trade Commission for a term of orte year. Under the rules of the commission the chairman ship rotates annually. BACK TO KHAKI FOR COUNTY DOCTIi WHO GETS FINE BILLETT Absher Offered Majority in Army With Big Remuner ation There Before Called to Report at Camp Bragg 14th Dr. Darius C. Absher, head of the Health Bureau here, has tentatively accepted the permanent appointment to the army .'medical service offered him by the Adjutant-General Wednes day and will probably leave here De cember ' 14 for temporary station at Camp Bragg. Dr. Absher will enter the military service .with an unusual rank for a reserve officer of compar atively limited experience. He will oe commissioned a major, a rank which before the war many medical officers spent lifetimes attaining. Dr. Absher is well-known in public hoalth work in North Carolina. . He has been located at a number of points in the State. He was the first medico in the State to join the reserve corps He saw service during the war at four posts in this country, at Vladivostok and at a remote post on Lake Baikal, in the interior of Siberia, where he was the ranking medical officer of a mixed expeditionary force embracing troops of many nations. He is a young man. ; Dr. Absher became familiar with typhus and several months a i'o '. called upon to diagnose several cas es of that disease which appeared at a -"Western Carolina point. He has re cently been offered two or more im portant positions In large cities. SAY MURDERERS OF SHEPARD LOOKED ON CALMLY AS HE DIED Plot Appears More Cold Blooded Than Ever Poison Given Wealthy Georgian in Evening Tod dy, State Alleges ;Macon, Ga., Dec. 1. Secrecy to day shrouded the State's investiga tion of the alleged murder cabal "which resulted in the death by poi soning early' in June of J red N. Shepard," the peach king. iSulieitor-General Garrett worked quietly. Authorities today believed that a veritable 'Borgia plot existed to poi son Shepard and seize his estate, The poison is believed to have been slipped- into whiskey he was accustomed to take evenings. Detectives will attempt to prove that the alleged conspirators crave the poison and then watched Shep ard sicken and die. Small Purses Of Former Days Looked Like Widow's Mite. By HENRY L. FARRELL (United Press Staff Correspondent) New York, NoV. 30. "Talk about being hit a wallop, I'm just about groggy from readin' a" paper. I see where Willie Jackson wants $50,000 for a chance to win the lightweight championship." " Jack McAulif fe, retired and unde feated lightweight champion, was un burdening himself on the difference between the old and the new fighters. "Jackson wants a young gold mine for a chance at a title that would bring him a rortune. He wants close to a $1,000 a minute for meeting Leonar din a 15-round bout. Back in November, 1887, I fought 74 rounds with Jim Carney in Kevere, Mass., and didn't get a red cent. Early in the same year I went 28 rounds with Harry Gilmore in Lawrence, Mass., and got $500. And we were fight ing with kid gloves. "Why, when we were roaming around the country, coin or wild over a $100 purse we used to agree ver- bally to a fight, weigh in and then! wait for the promoters to find a place ! for the bout. Sometimes it took 48 hours or longer and we never weighed in again." State Executives of Nation Guests of Sproul of Penn sylvania at Harrisburg Number of Big Problems "Up (By MAX ABEUNETHYV Raleigh, Dec. l.Governor Bickett will make the response to the address of welcome nt the 12th annual gov ernors' conference to be held in the Pennsylvania State capitol building at Harrisburg. Housing problems, the South Da kota rural credits act, the responsi bility of the state for industrial jus tice, national importance of , agricul ture, the work of the national com missioners on uniform state laws ih1 decentralization of governmental func tions will be some of the subjects un der consideration at the conference. Elaborate entertainment is being planned. Gov. and Mrs. Bickett left last night. The conference will be in session Wednseday, Thursday and Friday of this week. r Soldier Farmers (Jetting Help From the State of South Dakota. (By the United Press) Pierre, S. D., Dec. 1. Although a number of South Dakota ex-service men have "seen Puree" they are stay ing "down, on the farm" in opposition to the thought in the popular song. This result has been achieved partly by the successful workings of the South Dakota land settlement plan, which provides for the loan of anv sum between $500 and $10,000 to former service men for use in pacing 90 per cent, of the appraised value of land and 80 per cent, of the cost of ekuipping it with machinery and live stock, a system similar to that which the American Legion has embodied in its four-foln national compensa tion, law.' . Colonel Boyd Wales, who led' the 147th Field Artillery of the 32nd Di vision, and who is land settlement commissioner, is enthusiastic over the results in the short time the plan has been in operation. Up to October 1, 140 former soldiers had received loans and been located on lands. See With Skins Entirely Possible for Blind Have Vis ion, Says. By HENRY WOOD (United Press Staff Correspondent) Paris, Dec. 1. "And the blind shall see" not with their sightless eyes, but with their skin. This is the serious declaration of Professor Louis- Farigoule, noted as a scientist, and noted almost equally as well as o poet, under the name of Jules Romains. As the result of a long series of experiments made upon hypnotized subjects, Professor Farigoule is con vinced that the skin through certain nerve ends has the faculty of vision. He believes that this faculty of the skin to see existed in the human body before vision was developed by means of the eyes. Since then, naturally, the faculty of the skin to see has been all but los tthrough lack of use. Py a proper system of education, however, Professor Farigoulo is con vinced that these nerve centers and ends in the skin can be re-educated to exercise their original functions. What this would mean for the blind and especially for those who lost their vision by means of the eyes during the war, is the great underlying in spiration that is pushing Professor Farigoule on to further experiments. All ' that is necessary to see by means of the skin is that several square inches of it, on any part of the body, be exposed face to face' with the object to be perceived together with a minimum amount of light, he says Professor Farigoule in one of his experiments chose five subjects and all with the same results. By means of hteir skin, they were able to read newspapers, decipher numbers, and recoghize pieces of furniture and all equally as well with the skin on their backs as on their chests or faces. ' Steamer Afire 'Vessel Bound for Liverpool A bfnze in Gulf, f (By the United Press) New Orleans, Dec. 1. The steam er Calno, bound from Port Arthur, Tex., to Liverpool with a cargo of cotton, is afire in the Gulf of Mexico, a wireless dispatch to the naval sta tion here today said. Tugs are reported en route to the ship, which is headed at full speed for the mouth of the Mississippi River. More of the Folks Who Vote Straight Democratic Tick et Except for Presidential Electors, is Calculated (By MAX ABERNETHY) Raleigh, Dec. 1. Political observ ers see in the returns of the late elec tion an increase in the independent vote in North Carolina. " This is based on the difference in the majority given Gov. James M. Cox, Democrat, for president, and United States Senator Lee S. Overman, also Democratic. The official figures an nounced by the State Board of Can vassers give Senator Overman 81,161 and Governor Cox 73,600, a difference in Senator Overman's favor of 7,561. Just how it is figure dthat this more than 7,000 difference is taken to meon that there is an increase in the number of voters who ballot independ ently may or may not be easily seen, but keen observers think they can substantiate their contentions in time. There have always been a doaen or more 'Democrats in every town of size in the State who voted the State tick et straight but switched to the Re publican candidates nationally. This has long been done and known, but it is claimed now that there are more North Carolinians who vote for the man rather than for the party's nomi nees. Analyzing the vote in the counties on the constitutional amendments is interesting. Only four counties arc recorded as giving a majority against the income tax amendment, these be ing Gaston, Halifax, Pitt and Scot land, while nine counties gave majori ties against the poll tax change, as follow: Cabarrus, Durham, Gaston, Halifax, Warren, Stanly, Pitt and Or ange. Opposition in these counties ib be lieved by advocates of the amendments to have been duo to lack of informa tion of what the amendments were. ARE PERPLEXING TO MEMBERS CONGRESS Enough Cures Suggested for Bad Situation, But How to Apply Them and Do it Quickly the Puzzle Committees Meet 1 Washington, Dec. ,1. Members of the House and Senate who have been studying the agricultural situa tion are puzzled as to whether Con gress can do anything to relieve im mediately (present marketing and fi nancial conditions. Several remedies for he present low prices and stagnant market for agricultural products have been sug gested, but it will take time to work them out and the 'proponents are un certain if they will be successful. The House and Senate agricultur al committees meet Thursday. BIG ROADS CONFERENCE AT RALEIGH JANUARY 5. Chapel Hill, Dec. 1. The North Carolina Good Roads Association to day announced plans for holding a good roads conference in Raleigh Wed nesday, January 5, t ;2 nwnn.' day of the new legislatuiu. jlo con ference will be invited all members of the association, of which there are now over 5,000 representing every county in the State; members of the legislature; all county and road com missioners; representatives of boards of trade, chambers of commerce, Ro tary . and Kiwanls clubs, women's clubs, motor . clubs, the Automotive Trade Association, farmers' unions, etc. Indications re that this will be one of the greatest meetings ever staged in , North Carolina. Big Problems For Governors Meeting at Pennsyl vania Capital. Harrisburg, Pa., Dec. 1 Important problems confronting the states at the present time are scheduled to be taken up at the governors' conference here, December 1, 2, and 3. About 35 governors and from 10 to 15 governors-elect are .expected to be pre sent. Federal encroachment on state au thority and functions are to be dis cussed by Governors Robert A. Cooper of South Carolina arid Robert D. Carey of Wyoming in papers on "The De centralization of Governmental Func tions and Activities." Drag Men From Homes and Kiddle Bodies With Bul lets, Leave Them CONTINUED DISORDERS Reported From Cork and Ardee Fires as Usual Four Hundred Prisoners Range From Lowest to Highest Scale ... London, Dec. 1. London walk ed warily today. On ail sides .there were rumors of disaster. Convinced that the Sinn Feiiiers plots Ere about to burst into a Hcrles of massacres and fires, officials constructed barricades outrivalling those of war times. Heavy guards surrounded public building. Reports indicated that other cities were taking sli precautions. 1-V x -:'.'; Dublin, Dec. 1. Guerrilla warfare with the Sinn Fein continued in the South of Ireland today, with reports of conflicts at Cork and Ardee reach ing officials. Black and Tan police are reported to have raided several houses and killed two men. The victims are said to have been dragged from their homes in the darkness and their rid dled bodies left nearby. Cork had continued disturbance's last night, with fires breaking forth. Days of searching for Sinn Fein leaders have netted 400 prisoners, va rying from well-clad, men to uncouth youths. Travel Difficult Russians Find" it Imposs'ilile to Gel. ' :., Back Home. New. . York, pec. 1. A group of Russians, who recently left the Unit ed Stutes for Soviet Russia, describe their experiences as follows in, a U t ter to the "Russky Golos," a Russian American daily: "Dear comrades: We are alive, bul where we live, we do not, know. . Wi left Boston, and on the 14th day ar rived at Antvorpen, Belgium. We boarded the train at 6 p. m, and at midnight reached the German border. "When we 'bought tickets, they dn; not give us change. That happened at a station called Colony. We sent our baggage to Berlin, and then to the Polish border at Bengen, Before ar riving at Bengen, they looked over our passports, found them wrong, and sent us back to Berlin. The Polish consul there refused to vise the pass ports. We' then appealed to the Ukrainian, Latvian, and Lithuanian consules, but met refusal everywhere. We went to the 'American consul and asked him to send us back to America but c he refused. We did not know what to do. "It was impossible to live in Ger many. A loaf of bread, for which we paid in New York 10 cents, coats here 10 marks, and one gets only one loaf of bread a week. Meat" is- not obtainable. The main foods are ber ries and ber--lilack and bitter. Upon advice we went to the barracks of the war prisoners, and here we get beans and rotten potatoes. Comrades, don't refuse to send us steamship tickets. Tell the contents of this letter to all those who intend to return at once to Russia." v For Premiership Admitted on 46th Birthday Big Honor Due Churchill. London, Dec. 1.. Winston Sponcer Churchill, minister for war and air, celebrated his 40th , birthday yester day, lie was the son of the lute Lord Randolph Churchill and Jenne, daught er of Leonard Jerome of New York, and has all the vitality and energy of the Anglo-Saxon races. While, he apparently has more political foes than friends, no party daro ignore (him, and ha is slated for .the premier ship at some future date by ail the witicacres. Job for Kellum Wilmington Attorney Named 8th Dis trict Solicitor, i (By MAX ABERNETnY) Raleigh, Dec. 1. Woodus Kellum, Wilmington attorney, has been ap pointed by Governor Bickett to suc ceed Congressman-Elect Homer L. Ly on as solicitor in the Eight Judicial District. Mr. Kellum is prominently known in the district and has represented New Hauover County in the General Assembly several times. State Department Hears Blanco at Head of Re volutionary Movement MEXICANS FROM SPAIN Hope to Unseat Obregon as Hour for Inauguration Approaches Galveston Hotbed of Conspiracies, is Reported i f By the United Prees) Washington, Dec. 1. Coincident with the inauguration of President Obregon of Mexico, tha State- De partment today said rojijrts liad been received of a con (piracy : gainst the now government. The plotting is said ' to have had ts inception on the border. The re ports were incomplete. Therefore the department is withholding some of the details. General Lucio Blanco, ex-CaTran-.ista, is reported to be at the head af the new movement, ar to have recently distributed manifestoes all along the lUorder calling lor upris ings. JSoveral iproWLtnent Mexicans, in cluding Barragan and Pablo Gonza les, are reported?' t, h: Galveston from Spain, Galveston is said to be a hotibed jf anti-Ob regon plots. 1 Governors Meet Tarheel Executive Leaves Wilson Birds Jin Route. . (By the United Press) Harrisburg, Fa., Dec. 1. -Govern- t)',,.,efwjariuij38ftlect anJ a .-!( ntatives from 30 states mot here Lo.lay to discuss matters of common nlcrert. Bickett 6f North Carolina iVi'i; be a leading figuxQ on the pro irram. Bickett at White House With Gift. Washington, Dec. 1. Six part-.-idges, plump and neatly ' dressed, were left at the White House today by Governor Bickett of North Caro lina. The 'birds are said to be , the first of their kind received here this reason. They were killed by the Gov ernor's son. They will Ibe cooked in the White House kitchen and served the President. , 1 Continued Growth trFa In World Debt in Spite oir to Peace. (By the United Press) New York, Dec. 1. The growth in world debts and paper currency has not been checked by the return to peace. Tho additions to world na tional debts, which averaged $40,000,- 000,000 per , annum during the war, were $11,000,000,000 in the first year following the armistice and $42,000,- 000,000 in the year just ended the second peace year. The additions to world paper currency, "hich averaged $0,000,000,000 per -annum during the war, were $12,000,000,000 in the first peace year and $25,000,000,000 in the year just ended, says the Nat'onal City Bank of New York. Struggling to Feet Belgian Government Helping People Come Back Strong. By P. II. SHEFFIELD (Written for the United Press) , Brussels, Belgium, Nov. 30. In vir tue of number of decrees issued since the armistice, the- Belgian govern ment has steadily continued the un dertaking to make good war damage suffered by ita peoples. One of the most ' interesting categories in this connection are the ."little men," those whose loss is covered by a payment o some 10,000 francs (at par $2,000). Ten thousand of these have received , sums totalling 36,000,000 francs. The compensation is mainly used for re pairs to houses and contents. -,1'hroughout the country there are societies of war claimants for com pensation and . these, operating, in conjunction with the government del egates, carry out the formalities of filing claims. On satisfactory evi dence, the government makes an ad vance of 70 per cent, of the 1914 value of the destroyed property, plus a sum for reinvestment which is cal culated on a basis of 2 1-2 per cent, in the whole of the country except West Flanders (the most ' devastated, province), where the advance is 3 per cent. Advances under these heads total 81 million francs and 3,300 nous es are thus being either rebuilt or repaired. (Subscribe tp the Free Press) .