North Carolina Newspapers

VOL. 24. No. 7 FIRST EDITION. KINSTON, N. C, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 13, 1921 SIX PAGES TODAY PRICE TWO CENTS ALL VOTERS SHOULD SEE THAT THEY ARE WILIIELM TAILS TO SET HOURi FOR HIS MRS. DIXON FAILS TO GET PLACE ON KINSTON WILL HAVE KNOX I A BIG CELEBRATION PEACE QUALIFIED TO VOTE EMPRESS FUNERAL EXECUTIVE COM'TEE ON 4TH OF JULY IN UPPER HOUSE 'ir Labor Calls General Miners Insist Upon Nationalization of 1 Pits and Force Railway and Transport Men to Action Lloyd George Faces De i feat-rSituation of Great Gravity i (By the United Press) London, Aiml 13. British miners, railwaymen and , trans port workers today called a strike effective at 10 p. m. Friday. The three groups constitute' the "Triple Alliance." The railwaymen and transport , workers, who opposed the strike called for last night, were driven v to action when the miners refus- ed to consider anything less than nationalization of the mining in ; dustry. Government Prepares. London, April 13. Facing indus trial death, Great Britain today is making herculean efforts to meet the general strike called for Friday f night by the Triple Alliance. Driven toy the implacable miners demanding nationalization, of indus try, the railway and transport work era prepared to aid them m stop ping all business and the circulation of the necessaries or lira. . s Premier Lloyd George,' for the. first time seriously threatened with defeat, renewed his efforts . to avert disaster and bring about a settle ment of the wage dispute. More sol idlers and sailors were ordered out Government officials declared belief that not more than 50 per cent, of the railway and transport workers 'will obey the strike orders. MEMBERS CAPE FEAU PILOTAGE BOARD. (By Max Aherncthy, Special Capital Correspondent) , . Raleigh, April 13. The appoint ment of James Sprunt, C. C. Chath- . am, T. F. Wood and H C. McQueen, of Wilmington, and J. Ruark of Southport,: as commissioners 'of ? the Board of Navigation and Pilotage of the Cape Fear River and Bar is au thorized by Governor Morrison. The 'appointments are under an act of the 1921 General Assembly .which pro vides that four of the five commis sicners must reside in the city of Wil mington. ' ' Judgi e Sees Hand of Cod in ConditfQRS That Are Prevailinir Judge. W. . M. Bond, of Edehton, who opened Superior Court in Kins ton Monrfayf delivered a characteris tic and able charge to the grand jury The duty of citizenship was eniphasiz - ed, and while the Judge referred to the importance of law enforcement, explaining, as is customary, to the grand jury the obligation that rested upon it, the address was: principally for the benefit of the citizens gcncral-y- (fudge Bond emphasized the need for good men to serve on the juries, deploring the fact that they often tried to escape jury service, and said that It was one of the obligations on good citizen. . He referred to the depressed busi ness conditions throughout the coun ty ana said the present condition;. wre an aftermath of the war. lie eulogized the young men who served ' the front and said that while they cre offering their lives, many busi ness men at home were getting rich. He saw the hand of God in the -prevailing-, conditions and said that he had faith that if man did his part, all Cases tried Monday included: Will iam ' G. . Williams,' fornication and Adultery, $25 and costs; Shafter Tyn oall, -driving auto while under the in fluence of liquor, prayer for judg ment suspended; Will Davis, plea of ffuilty to forcible trespass; Will Cun mngham, same; Felix Pittman, car rying and assault with a deadly weap on, not guilty. The grand jury re turned a number of true bills. Nu merous cases were continued. M. E. Gray was named foreman of the grand juiy. ILL NOT IE UNTIL PEACE (By the United Press) Washington, April, 13. Amnesty for political prisoners Will be held in abeyanqe, at least until a formal tate of pjeace is declared, according the impression members of the labor committee- on amnesty received from Harding 4 when it conferred With him. .,.., AMNESTY Strike for Friday- President's Military Aid 1 '--"', ..V: lervniGHT uvto mix K,W " Lieut.-Col. Clarence O. SherriU, who has been appointed personal military aid to President HarcUng. TOO FEW COLLEGE STUDENTS IN -STATE Carolina's Average of 23 Per 10,000 Lower Than Most States' District of Columbia Has Seven to One on Tarheelia Chapel Hill, April 13. College stu- enta are too many in North Caro- ina, college facilities considered. But college students are too few n North Carolina, college attendant) in other states considered. The United States over students in public and private; universities, col leges, and professional schools aver- igrd 36 per ten thousand of popula tion in 1917-18. But in North Carolina the average was only 23. and 32 states mudo a better showing. Four of these were southern ' states Virginia, Tennes see, South Carolina, and Texas. - College students in the District of Columbia are more than seven timet as numerous as in North Carolina which is not suvpriiing considering the stimulus and' the opportunities at hand. . , The next highest ratio is in Iowa tho best developed farm State in the Union. And the farmers believe in college education . in Iowa. College students in that state -are more than three times as many as in North'Car olina. They are nearly three times af many in Colorado. They are two and a half times 1 as wiany in Nebraska and Oregon; nearly two and a half times as many in Kansas, California, and Illinois; and, nearly twice as many in Minnesota, Ohio, Utah, New York, Maryland, and New Hampshire. Massachusetts doi not lead in col lege attendance, as is popularly sup posed. Both Iowa, and Colorado stand ahead of her. New York stood 20th in 1840, and only 13th in 1918. New Jersey stands at the foot of the col umn. BULLETINS WORSE THAN AVERAGE STATE'. LEGISLATURE. Washington, April 13 About 5,000 bills: will be introduced in Congress this session, it was es timated today. Already about 3,000 are in. ' Death of Well-Known Negro,' Lewis S. Smith, a well-known col ored resident, died the first of the week. Smith was generally known among his race and had many friends among the whites. He was a man pf good character -'and an industrious worker. He "was formerly the pro prietor of a successful mattret 3 busi ness. . 3 i New Registration in Prog ressRules Not Announc ed, But Last Month's "Enrollment". Not Legal for May Election Registration for the municipal elec tion May 3 is in" progress or supposed to bo at these places: iirst Ward, Browns Store, Second, Lenoir Drug Store. t Third, Grand Fountain. Fourth, Carmer "Sutton's store, Gordon and East streets. Fifth, Abbott's store .East Kins ton. This is not official, the election au thorities having made no announce ment as yet. Just who will have to register'!! not exactly clear. It is certain that all who "registered" for the recent Democratic primary and were not duly registered aside from that will have to reregister, however."- That was a mere unofficial enrollment. The safest way, according to Plato Collins, retiring chairman . of the Democratic Executive Committee, pending , a statement by the new of ficials, ia for one to see if he is on the books, and if not to have himself formally entered and take the oath Foch Must Wait ' Till He's Dead ' as Napoleon I. Paris, April 12.--On May 5, with France's celebration of the hundredth anniversary of the death of Napol oon, Marshal Foch will be given iitr tie foretaste of the nice things that France will do in his honor when he is safely dead at Napoleon. There is nothing that France to do better or that sshe does nicer than pulling off honors on behalf of her great military heroes. General ly sneaking, France would just as soon honor a live Tjuiitary chief as a deadly one, only experience has taught her that It is much safer to stick to the latter. Experience' has taught France that her celebrations in honor of live milii tary chiefs are so intoxicating that they are liable to go to the head of jaid military chiefand cause him to want to take over the whole show, j So Marshal Foch will participate in the big celebration of May 5 with the quiet and sure consciousness that as soon as he has Been dead as long as , Napoleon, France won't fail to overlook any little occasion like his birthday or the anniversary of his death. While the real celebration of Na poleon's death will take place on .May 4 and 5, preliminary recognition of the event is already under way. At Malmaison, Fohtainbleau, Severs and Campiegne, museums and exposition of relics of Napoleon have been open ed. In the ' meantime, excursions are being organized to the island of. Elba, to the Napoleonic battlefields of. France, to Waterloo and, if possible, also to those of the Rhine. Agrd Negro Cripple Fatally Injured by Acto; Driver Sought The police are seeking James Mill er, a negro chauffeur in the employ of Wl H. Murphy, colored, on a charge of running down and probably fatal ly injuring John Brown,' negro crip ple, Monday night. Miller is believ ed to have fled the city in the car he drove, the property of Murphy. John Brown, an aged cripple, ia ex pected to die from .injuries -suffered Monday night when an automobile struck him while he was crossing p street in the vicinity of Queen and Shine streets. Bystanders said the car was not speeding but that the driver failed to stop. A negro in the employ of a jitney .owner is suspected bv the police. ; Urown is believed to have suffered internal injuries. HARDING WAITS FOR REACTION ON HIS MESSAGE TO SOLONS. Washington, April 13. Harding is waiting today ' for reaction to the "feeler" put out in his message yesterday be fore deciding whether to seek ; ratification of the 5 Versailles Treaty minus the League of Nations covenant, Word came today . from a well-informed quarter that tthe reaction is . favorable. Harding has in mind sending the Versailles. Treaty back to the Senate to ask ratification with a reser vation which would eliminate the league covenant. I J Grief-Stricken Ilohenzollern Proceeds With Aurange ments Until Asked to Fix Time for Last Rites- May Be Thursday ' (By the United Preai) Doom, April 13. 'Former Kaiser Wilhelm.-grief-stricken at the death of the former mjress,: was unable to complete the funeral arrange ments today, Wilhelm insisted on arranging the services himself, but refused to set the hour. Clergymen and -others ' arriving here for the private funeral in Doom Chapel did' not know whether it would be heldThurslay as first planned or delayed, until Saturday. WILL INVESTIGATE HAZING AT STATE COLLEGE RECENTLY Judge Connor Orders Grand Jury , Probe Statutory Offence Witnesses. to Be Summoned and Indict ments Are Possible BV , MAX ABERXETHY (Special Capita! Correspondent) Italeigh, April 13. An investiga tion into a hazing episode at the North Carolina College of Agricul ture and Engineering at West Ral-ciffh-. which occurred two weeks ago was ordered by Judge George Con nor in Wake County Superior Court today. The jurist chargemihe grand jury summon ; witnesses r and go into the matter thoroughly. Several students' hair was Cut, shots 1: Were fired and a dormitory room door broken down by the haz- ers. Hazing is a statutory offense in North Carolina, the sentence be ing in the discretion of the courts. MONSTROUS BIG FISH CAUGHT IN NEUSE George O.' Brown, alderman in the Fifth Ward, would stand high in the estimation of the 'Moscow Soviet i:ould the latter know ; him. It isn't that Mr. Brown' holds any political views similar to the Reds'. It's what Mr. Brown : has at his King Street "butcher shop that would make any hungry Russian ; proclaim him great among 1 men. Brown owns 80-odd pounds of potential caviar. A single sturgeon roe in his possession tips the beam at four-fifths of a hundred weight. It is proof that not all the big fish are in the sea, for the mon ster that gave up the roe was caught at' a seine beach in the shallows 0 Ncubc River only two miles from here. The sturgeon was one of the largest ever seen hr this part of the coun try It was captured by Robert Ca sey and weighed 260 pounds. Brown paid a price the equivalent of that of i whole box of shad for tho roe. The roe is being retailed in portions,". ' Last cf 113th Back Home With a Bride; the Plow for Kim Veterans of the 113th Field Artil lery throughout the state will be in-, terested in s knowing that Charlie Woolard is back home at last. Wool ard was probably the last of the regi ment to return from France. At any rate he was the last member of Bat lery B. Woolard, a Beaufort Coun ty farm youth, arrived the other day, and Mrs. Woolard with him. When the armistice was signed Woolard had n't had enough of the army. He went on tp Coblenz with the occupar tion forces. While there he met find wooed Miss 'Anna Peters. Woolard could not speak a word of German, hut the fraulein did know a few words English, and between ' them they managed to: get to understand each other pretty well. The trip over to America was rongh and Mrs. Woolard had to keep to' her cabin most of the time. Woolard is glad to be back home and wants 'to feel the sod turn ing under a good old NorthCarolini plow. ' , ; 1 WOMAN MAGISTRATE '. FIRST IN SECTION. Washington, N. C, April 12. Mls Lillian J. Halle has been appointed a justice of the peace for this city. She is the first woman magistrate in Jus section.. She is a former secre-i i tary of the' chamber of commerce and 'an able young business, woman. Wootcns, LaRoque, Moore and S u 1 1 0 n Comprise the Democratic Steering Board Late Announce ment of Primary Results This is how Kinston Democrats vot ed on May 5 for executive committee' men: . Dal. F. Woolen, 811. Walter D. LaRoque, 470, Guy Moore, 470. L. K. Woolen, 470. Fred I. Sutton, 472. ' Mrs .Errol P. Dixon, 842. Ed. J. P.ecton, 341. Reynold T. Allen, 341. H. P. Fort, 341. The first five, comprising one tick et, were elected. Wooten was on both tlcH-ls, thereby getting a much larg er vote than the others. The results were announced Wed nesday afternoon after long delay, due to failuro to count one box following the primary". It was believed following the pri mary that Mrs. Dixon had been elect ed, and members of the old Executive Committee predicted that the final vote would show her to ave been chosen. The official count proved tneir prediction wrong. Laurene Impostor, Say Masons; Papers FrcrnS. A. No Good "Capt." Henri Laurene, who lectur ed here several weeks ago, is an 'im postor, according to Masonic leaders in the State. An official notice sent out Buys Laurene is a "fake." : Laurene claims to have been a cap tive in a Turkish 'prison cightecr years, to have been liberated during ths world war and to have come to America to seek his wife, who came U this country some years ago. His al leged seiu'h has not been successful. Laurene says he was commissioned to the French army from a well-known military school in that country. The Masonic officials, Who intimate that Laurene has not attempted tc gain admission to lodges on his papers, say he carries "credentials"" from Hiram Lodge, Capetown,' South Afri ca, and that such a lodge does not exist. Skeptical' persons here tried to "trip" Laurene on his recent visit but failed. His knowledge of French and Levantine politics for the last generation proved superior to that of his questioners.; He said he was taken prisoner when a detachment of engineers was cut off and annihilated by Bedouins, just beyond the French sphere of influence in Syria. Takes Laurels From Brow of Betsy Ross; Story Not Believed " (By the United Press) Philadelphia, April ' 12. Do you doubt the story in our school history books which taught us that Betsy Ross designed the American flag in IVVliT Louis Barecroft Kunk, attor ney and major of ordna',.-!e in the ar my reserve, ' declares that the story is a fake, Runk says Betsy Ross' story "rests solely on her own tes timony, which is absolutely uncor roborated, and the best historians of today consider it without' historical basis." . "It is earnestly claimed by the de scendants of Betsy 'toss that on or aibout June 1, 1770 she wrn waited upon at her home, y, ,,i Ltreet, Philadelphia, by : General Washington and an- alleged committee of the Continental Congress; that they ask ed her to make a flag and that she promised.' to try; that they showed her a drawing whose proportions she criticized and , that Washington himself altered the drawing accord ing to her suggestion, says Runk in a new book. "Betsy was a lady of lively imag ination and short memory as is shown by her ability to wed three times In ten years. "Her story rests solely on her , own testimony, which is entirely un-1 "' ;' : :" ' j i '' : , ,. ,. -' .r-.j! i I 1 IirniP I 1 niAPfl Tfl Ml Hi 1 1. A AMU II I llllLIlIUil ilUIlLlI 1 U JOIN ALLIED BODY (By the United Presal , Paris, April 13.-The United States has been formally ' invited to oin a conference of the Allies on settlement of the Austrian boundary lines, the French Foreign office an nounced iodav. The conference will the held April 80 at the port of Rosa, Italy. Automobile Races Postpon ed Until That Date Le gion to Boost Indepen dence Day Program-o Aid in May Day Exercises This town will spend all day cele brating Independence Day this year. Only once before since they stopped holding community picnics and hear ing the best bass voice in. town re at the Declaration has Kinston observed the anniversary. The American Le gion and other patriotic organizations have started out to promote a big program. ' Business will be suspend ed. Automobile races will occupy sev eral hours. Other events will be a baseball game- and miscellaneous ath letic events. A fireworks display on a big scale will be staged.'.. A spectac- lar parade will be held. ' The Fourth of July celebration will be the reeult . of a compromise rous'ht about by Chi el H. Van Hcrvis, secretary of the I'ha nber of Com merce, who ' Friday night told the tegionnaires that htey should seek to interject nothing in the way of sports into the May Day and Memorial Day program, the former belonging large ly -to the hcildren 'and the latter te the Daughters of the Confederacy, but chat the legion should lend active as sistance1 in the May Day exercises from the reason that on that d iy radi .alism gets in its hardest blow? at democracy, as evidenced by the riot ing and bomb outrages staged by red throughout the world on the holiday. The legionnaires will furnish a 20- odd piece brass band, marchers fot the psradc, and financial assistance for the May Day program, such ui" ;is they can in the Memorial Day ex- erviccs, and will promote a record '.-clebration on Independence Day. CELT EXCHANGE OF ILLINOIS WILL NO! OPERATE IN It Wade's Requirements Too Rigorous for Company. State Commissioner Is sues Warning to Policy holders in Carolina Hy MAX ABERNETHY Raleigh, April 13. Insurance Com missioner Stacey W. Wade's recent action in. requiring tho Belt Automo bile Indemnity Exchange of Illinois to pay two claims in North Carolina over which there arose some differ ence of opinion as to the rights, of the policyholders, gave rise to the with drawal of this exchange from the State. Commissioner Wade maintains that averything favors a company selling insurance, since it provides the com tract and imposes all of the condi tions, and" often provisions which might prejudice the rights of the pol icyholder are included .without his knowledge or assent, or without any explanation as to their full import. Consequently such .contracts should be so liberally interpreted as to strip them of mystery and technicalities, and to guarantee to the policyholder commonsense protection and lair treatment. " No objection is ; Interposed to the fullest investigation of each claim, and where the existence of fraud is established the company has ample protection, but no bona fide claim should be rejected until such fraud is proven. 1 The Belt Exchange is not now li censed in iiorth Carolina and the pol icyholders as well us the public, .gen erally, warns Commissioner Wade, shuld be governed accordingly.- Community Advisory Board of Salvation ; Army Elects Heads At an enthusiastic meeting of the Salvation Army Community Advisory I Board the following officers were Taylor, president and (treasurer; Geo. Ilardwicke. vice-pres ident and Fred I. Sutton secretary. There will be another meeting of the board Friday aflernoonV at 5 0 clock, at which the president wil ap point the various committees of the boards A, L.. Klein, field director from dU visional headquarters, Atlanta, has been In the city several days and has selected a hoard that will give Kins ton and the immediate community a valuable service in matters of weU fare work and in assisting the armji to function for the public to the best of its ability. " Pennsylvania Senator Paves Way for End of War With , Germany PHRASEOLOGY IS SIMPLE Panama's Reply to State Department's Last Note , Unsatisfactory , to Gov ernment Attack on Col- . pmbian Indemnity (By the United Press) "Washington, April 13,iSenator Knox of Pennsylvania today intro duced a resolution ending the state of war with Germany. Knox's resolution was referred to the Foreign Relations Committee. It was in the "simple declaratory form" which President Harding in his message yesterday said he would , approve. , Panama's Reply Unsatisfactory; - The reply of Panama to the last :: Hughes note on the boundary ques tion between that country' and Cos ta Rica was received by this govern ment as "most unsatisfactory," - it as learned today. Sas America Owes Colombian Government Nothing. ' , Senator Kullogg of Minnesota to dny opened a senat'orial attack on the Colopifuian Treaty with a speech in which he declared Colombia hae ' no proper claim to payment of $25,- 000,000 from the United States how and, never had. Quite a Job Take ' Mnie. Curie's Bit of Radium Overseas ( By the United Prs) Paris, April 12. Just how Madame Curie is going to bring back to France the gramme of radium that American women will present to her and to the French Faculty of Sci !nces presents a ticklish little prob lem. , If ' Madame Curie, for example, merely put the gramme of radium In , her 4ocket for the return trip,' sever- 1 things might nappen. first, she might lose it. Secondly, some inter- l.Ttiona! but unscientific pickpocket might be tempted by the fact that it a worth about two million francs. Thirdly and worVely, if Madame Curio were to bring the gramhie of radi um home in Tier pocket, the things . that would happen to her would mean a greater loss to the scientific world than as though - some clever thief pinched the gramme. While Madame Curie ' probably wouldn't die on the spot, nevertheless the radio-activity of radium is so groat and its effect upon the tissues so startling that were Madame Curie, to show her appreciation of Ameri ca's gift by never parting with the precious gramme certain death would ensue. The burning and destruction of the tissues that come from fexnosure '.o radium do not manifest themsel a at once. The action of the radium is not on the skin itself, but on the tissues underneath. The sources en- -gendered by exposure to, radium be gin to' Show themselves some two weeks afterwards. It has already been decided that .h3 mischievous little gramme, of radium will be split up into twelve or fifteen' smaller apd less mischievfous parts. Each one of these parts will be en closed in a glass bulb and each bulb enclosed in a nice little lead case pf about two inches In thickness lead and platinum being nonconductors of radio activity. The twelve or fifteen little lead cases will then be stowed away in the ship's safe. ' Cotton Futures quotations' .Wednesday Open. 2:20 12.00 12.01 12.60 12.56 13.14 13.12 13.4!) .. 13.48 13.65 13.63 were: January . May July .... October . December Local receipts to 3 o'clock were about 8 bales. , pricer. . from 11 l-2o downward. - CUBA WILL fLOAT A LOAN IN N. Y. (By the United Press) . Havana, April 13.hA huge loan- possibly as high as $20,000,000! to tide Cuba over the financial crisis, is expected to , be consummated . In New York tcday. The money will be devoted to marketing the sugar crop on mo laianu. k