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VOL. 24. No. ?8
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KINSTON, N. C, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 28, 1921
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ILLINOIS GOVERNOR
STARTS HOME BUT
HOOVER GETS REPLY
FROM REQUEST FOR
TO DECIDE WHETHER
STATE SHALL HAVE
PART IN DRAINING
MoiiDtiffirtf- GSedl
sets rogetTOtr
FAILS GET THERE
RELEASE AMERICANS
SI tervene
,V (By the United Press)
U London, July 28. The British
and French cabinets held special
sessions today to discuss the di-
vergent views on Upper Silesia.
Premier Lloyd George discussed
with his ministers the French in
sistence on the immediate dis
patch of troops to Silesia.
The foreign office was reported to
be adamant in its belief that the Al
lied Supreme Council should meet be
fore troops are sent.
In Paris Briand laid the British po
sition before his advisers.
Wants American Intervention.
Paris, July g8. America must in
tervene in the Upper Silesian contrb
versy to prevent a Polish and Ger
man war which could easily ignite an
.1 L'..p,,nitun war" Ad:illert Korf-
Olllfl i'U'"t"M"
anty, leader of the Polish insurgents,
declared in an exclusive interview
with the United Press here today.
There is real danger of such a
war unless the Silesian issue is set
tled promptly and definitely," liorf
anty said.
Iff DEBT WITH ONE
ON AT A TIME
Great Britain First, France
Next, a n d Others a s
Reached Would Put Off
Collection of Interest for
tVhile
(By the United Press)
Washington, , July 28. The
Senate Finance Committee today
voted a favorable report on the
bill giving Secretary of the
Treasury Mellon unlimited pow
er to arrange for the collection
of foreign loans.
Washington, July 28. Secretary of
the Treasury Melton today gave the
Senate Finance Committee ithe first
outline of his 'plan for collecting the
eleven billion dollars Europe owes
the United States in principal and
interest.
Mellon said he would start with
Great Britain, then France, and fol
low with the other countries.
Be will ask each debtor to submit
statement telling how it can pay.
He would defer interest collection for
some time to come.
KIWANIANS TO GET
CHARTER AT DINNER
Members From Other Cities to Be
Guests at Elaborate Affair at
HillcreBt-Uve Organization Head
ed by Dr. Parrot t.
More than 100 visiting Kiwanians
"ill attend, the presentation of the
charter to the local club at Hillcrest
tonight. Greenville, Wilson and
Goklsboro will send large.dolegatiwtis,
while other towns will be represent-'
& .The program is elaborate, and
number nf speeches will 'be heard.
The Kinston dull has a present and
prospective membership of approxi
mately 80. A number of local guests
ifl swell the attendance at the cere
mony to more than 200. Dr. James
M. Pairott is president of tha club,
which embraces many prominent busi
ness and professional men and has
own functioning "noisily" foil sever
al months. The dinner served in con
rt'n with the ceremony will be an
"Pensive spread in several courses.
Summer School Closes.
' " Raleigh, July 28.State College
summer, school students are today
av,ng Ralegh for thtir homes
wter completing a six weeks' course.
last examinations were held
Wednesday. The attendance this
vcar reached 900.
TO Ml STFR OUT HOME s , .
GUARD; ARMS WANTED.
waTh?ml11 homs guard 'company, a
ered "" ""ation, will be must
othor Arm8' un'forms nd all
m be returned to J. I. Eiown th
5' fncer.rediatcfc
thu transfer of vlw property.
Separate Meetings on Upper Silesia at
London and Paris Britain Wants to
Let Supreme Council Discuss Situation,
France to Send Troops 'Into 'District Im
mediately Korfanty Wants U. S. to In
WILL BE DECREASE
IN PELLAGRA NORTH
CAROLINA IN 1921
Far From Epidemic in This
State General Warning
From Washington Not
Applicable Varied Diet
Prevents Disease
(Special to the Free Press)
Raleigh, N. C, July 28. The
general warning of a wide spread
epidemic of pellagra in the South
ern States, and- especially in the
cotton belt, issued by the U. S. Fub
lic Health. Service, is not applicable
to North Carolina, according to
statistics on file with the State Board
of Health.
Pellagra is not a reportable disease
in North Carolina and there is, there
fore, no way of checking the number
of cases except through the number
of deaths reported. For the first
six months of 1021 there was a de
crease of 13 in the number of deaths
from this cause in North Carolina.
A decrease is shown for each month
up to June, which latter showed an
increase of four. The total number
of deaths reported for 1920 as hav
ing geen caused by pellagra was 297.
The total number reported for the
first six months of 1921 was 116.
If the same average is maintained
for the remaining six months of the
year, 1921 will show a net decrease
of 65 deaths from this cause.
Pellagra is a nutritional disease
and the U. S. Public Health Service
has attributed the increase in its in
cidence in the Southern States to the
poverty of diet that has followed the
tremendous depression in the prices
of farm products. While North Caro
lina has been affected from this
cause just as "have the other South
ern States, yet reports to the State
Board of Health would indicate that
there has not been the resulting pov
erty of diet that might have been ex
pected. ruits, fresh vegetables and
milk, when forming a large percent
age of the diet, prevent pellagra or
will cure it when it has been caused
by a deficient diet.
Italian on Trial
for Murder Native
Man Beaufort County
James Torsigno, Italian slayer of
Wiley Radcliffe in Beaufort County,
will learn -his faite shortly. Tarsigno,
who was taken, to the -penitentiary at
Raleigh after "killing Radcliffe, . was
taken to Washington several days ago
for trial. An interpreter has arrived.
More than 100 witnesses have teen
summoned, these including about 70
for the defendant.
' Torsigno. a laborer, killed Rad
cliffe .last' Peeember in a dispute. He
escaped and was at 'large two days.
He was apprehended when he called
at a lkouse for food.
The Italian was one of a number
working in the Belhavon section. Rad
cliffe was prominently connected in
the lower part of the county. Many
persons are here from Belhaven ami
Pantego to attend the trial. tTwo at
torneys will represent the prosecu
tion, while four of tha best-known
lawyers in the region have been re
tained for the defendant.
BULLETINS
(By the United Press)
FIRE AT WILLOUGHRY BEACH.
Norfolk, July 28. Fire origi
nating in Shamrock Cottage at
Willoughby Beach early today
swept the beach and destroyed a
number of cottages. The total
losa is estimated at more than
$100,000.
SMALL ARMY IN GERMANY.
Washington, July 28. Then
are 13,793 American soldiers on
German soil, according to a
statement by Secretary of War
Weeks sent to the Senate today
in" response to a resolution by
. Senator Borah.
Small Drops Out of Sight
After Conference With
Friends and Lawyers at
Chicago Not Seen at
Kankakee
(By the United Press)
TChicago, July 28. Where is Len
Small, the indicted Illinois governor,
who stands charged with embezzling
huge sums of State money?
Small had dropped from sight to
day. After spending Wednesday in Chi
cago in consultation with, political
friends and legal advisers, the Gov
ernor was supposed to have left for
his home at Kankakee last night. He
did not arrive on the train he was
supposed to have taken.
IN SAME PLACE MORE
THAN HALF A CKMIKY.
Now York, July 28. In 'this rapid.
ly changing place, there is something
appealing in anyone who has re
mained in, the same place, in the
same buildftig, in the same business
for more than 10 to 20 years. And
when a man manages like B. Lach
mann, the hatter, to make the per
manence a matter of 53 years, he be
comes almost fit for an epic here.
In the same shop on Hudson Street
he has remained and carried on his
craft for that more than a century,
the only person in the whole district
who would have been found there
half that time ago. Some one sug
gested once that the little man re
tire. It has never been suggested
again.
OCTOBER 20 SET FOR
EXECUTION OF HARRIS.
Asheville, July 28. J. T. Harris,
Ridgccrest merchant, under sentence
of death for the murder of F. W.
Monnish, Alabama churchman, will go
to the electric chair October 20, un
less executive clemency int-ii'Vlenes,
this date having been set for his ex
ecution by Governor Morrison yesterday.
(Game Wool For
Ms
Bunch of Hitting
Agony Nearly ErrorlessEvans and
Johnson Allow Only 11 Hits Sensa
tional Fielding by White and Johnson
Greenville Takes Another
Eleven innings, (Eleven hits. One
error. Two runs.
That is the story of another
beautiful game in the (East Carolina
League. Kinston scored two runs
at New Bern Wednesday afternoon,
taking its second game out of three
with the Bears. .'
Evans, best pitcher in the league,
and Stanley Johnson were the op
posing twirlers. Johnson allowed one
hit less than his opponent, but Evans'
control was excellent and he made
one of the scores.
The game went two hours. One
frame after another passed with
nothing doing except hangup base
ball with a .number of spectacular
plays. Fans recalled the match a
few weeks ago when the Beats and
Robins went 18 innings without er
ror pr score.
New Bern got more men on bases
than Kinston, but they failed to get
across. Twc were thrown out at
home, the Bruins were that anxious
to score.' The, Birds fielded sensa
tionally.
In the ninth Jim White saved the
game by fielding what looked like a
sure hit. The pill was welt into
right when the second baseman pick
ed it up and threw to first in the
same second. White shared honors
with Red Johnson, who landed on a
hit in right and threw Kotch out at
the plate. In the 11th F. Morris
tried to score on a passed ball.
Catcher Kuyk retrieved the ball,
Evans covered' the plate and Morris
was tagged out. .
Umpire Chadwick did not please
the crowd. The Bears appeared to
get the bad end of the decisions.
Tho scoring was not directly affect
ed, however. Neither decision at
the plate was close, while the Robins
scored cleanly. In the 11th the agony
was ended when Evans reached first
on a bunt, the Bear infield being
busy putting Goodwin Kuyk out at
second; Evans went to third on a
passed ball, Settle landed for two
basses and Evans scored; Turnbull
hit to short and was out at first,
Settle going to third, and Johnson
hit a single through second, Settle
scoring. ' ,
Eagles Win Again.
Greenville made it three straight
Gorky Cables That Moscow
Relief President Will
Communicate
TWENTY -SIX PRISONERS
Twenty Men and Six Wom
en Captives Can Be No
Aid for Stricken Nation
From United States Long
as They're Held
(By the United Press)
Washington, July 2S. The first i-e-ply
to the American representations
for release of American prisoners in
Soviet Russia was received at the
office of Secretary of Commerce
Hoover today.
The message was from Maxim
Gorky, who was told by Hoover that
America could not help to relieve the
Russian famine conditions as long as
the Americans are in prison.
Gorky's message said a more de
tailed reply will be sent from Mos
cow by the president of the Central
Kussia Famine ReiieJ' Committee.
There are 2(5 Americans prisoners in
Soviet Russia, Hoover stated, 20 men
and six women.
BUREAUS OK MARKETS AND
CROP ESTIMATES COMBINED
Washington, Jury 28. Aa provid
ed for by an act of Congress, the Bu
reau of Markets and the Bureau of
Crop Estimates of the United States
Department of ' Agriculture were
combined and ibecnmejpne organiza
tion recently. The new bureau is
now known as the Bureau of Markets
and Crop Estimates.
Preparations- for the merging of
these two important branches of the
department have been g'oing forward
for several months past, anil the
change was efil'ected without any
perceptible interruption in the busi
ness of either organization.
.In 11th
at New Bern Ends
from Washington, Mi-Bride and Baird
being matched. The Eagles scored
three, the Tars one, while , hits were
eight to five in the Eagles' favor.
The game was errorless.
The rejuvenated Eagles are close
behind Kinston for first place, while
Washington appears badly crippled.
Box Score.
Following is the box score of the
Kinston-New Bern game:
Standing of the Clubs.
, ; 1 Won. Lost. Pet.
Kinston 7 3 .700
Greenville 7 4 .CM
Washington 3 : .5 375
New Bern 2 7 -2'-2
Kinston: ; AB R II E
Settle, cf 5 1 1 0
Turnbull, If i.u. 6 0 0 0
Johnson, rf . . . ...5 (I 2 0
J. White, 2b .. 5 0,1 0
Brigga, lb 4 0 0 0
D. Kuyk, 3b . . . . 2 0 0 0
C. White, ss 4 0 0 0
G. Kuyke, c .'..4 0 1 0
Kvans, p . , . 4 I 0 0
Totals ..38 2 5 0
New Bern: , ,'AB R H E
Duncan, If 3 0 0 0
Huffstetter, ss . 3 0 0' 1
Neal, 3b 4 0 0 0
Shirley, lb ... 4 0 2 0
Kotch, rf ........ 10 0 0
McLean, 2b 3 0 1 0
Mi-Gee, c 4 0 1 0
Semler, cf , ...3 0 1 0
Johnson, p .... 3 0 0 0
F. Morris 10 1 0
"Lindburg ............. 1 0 0 0
Totals ,.30 0 6 1
Batted for Huffstetter in 11th.
Batted for Neal in 11th.
'Score by innings: RIIE
Kinston ..... 000 000 000 022 5 0
New Bern , . 000 000 000 000 6 1
Summary:
'Earned runs, Kinston 2. , Bases on
balls, off Johnson 1, off Evans L
Left on bases, Kinston 5, New Bern
6. Struck out, toy Johnson 5, by
Evans 1. Passed balls, Mo-Gee, Kuyk.
Stolen bases, Johnson, D. Kuyk,
Kotch. Umpires, Stewart and Chad
wick. Time, 2:00. Attendance, 750.
.
Raleigh Mayor Says Com
monwealth Has Regular
Habit of I'assinjr the liuck
to Capital Municipality.
Eldridge is Sore
By MAX ABERNETHY
( Special Capital Correspondent.)
Raleigh, July 28. With delegations
of citizens begging Solicitor II. E.
Norris to go the limit With his in
vestigation and Mayor T. B. Eldridgo
firing a broadside at the State for
its failure to bear the expense of
draining the old rock quarry in East
Raleigh, interest today centers in the
meeting of the State Buildings and
Grounds Committee called by Gov
ernor Morrison to consider the much
mooted question, to drain or riot to
drain.
Mayor Eldridge fires point blank
at "the State" without calling any
officials' names. The mayor says
imposition after imposition has been
heaped on Raleigh by the State and
the city has been forced to bear them
until the rock quarry controversy
arose. "The city of Raleigh has buck
ed in the matter of draining the
quarry and intends to stay bucked,"
the mayor declares with heat. The
quarry is supposed to contain sever
al "lost" autos on which insurance
has been collected. Two or three
have been located.
The State claims the service of the
various departments of the city gov
ernment just the same as any tax
paying citizen without contributing
anything to the revenue, Mayor El
dridge says in discussing what be
terms "the habit of the State in
passing the buck to the city when
ever possible." It is the mayor's be
lief that the State now would force
the city of Raleigh to undertake the
work of draining the seven-million
gallon pond if there were any way
to do so. He then gives in detail
to the local papers claims held by
the city on the State for paving in
front of State-owned property
amounting to If :i,24!).04, which have
been standing since 1914.
In asking that be further his ef
forts to have the quarry dVained
25 or mora citizens calling upon
Solicitor Norris stated that public
interest demanded the drainage and
subsequent investigation of any dis
closure that might result from the
work.
The meeting of the Public Buildings
itiid Grounds Committee which Gov
ernor Morrison instructed J. Bryan
Grimes to call is expected to reach a
decision this afternoon. The commit
tee is composed of the Governor,
Secretary of State, Attorney-General
and Auditor. Governor Morrison
will not attend the meeting.
LIVE MODELS DOOMED:
WOODEN LADIES NOW.
New York, July 28. It the "per
fect .'!(!" doomed to innocuous desue
tude? Is she to be pushed into tin
dark, dull background by a mere piece
of wood and paint V It almost seems
so. It looks as though she were go
ing the way of the cocktails, the gold
bricker and the other perils of the
great city. New" York wholesale
houses are displaying for the benefit
of the out-of-town customers, cos
tumes set carefully upon wooden la
dies on wheels instead of real ones
with pantber-like, gliding steps. It's
a blow to romance, but thvy insist it's
a boost to 'efficiency. No tempera
ment; no jealousies no mussing of the
dresses putting tlieni on and off; m
hysteria; no fainting while display
ing a sable coat on a pretty July day.
Oh! It's -much better all around ex
cept that the out-of-town .customers
don't look its cli' V a'bout it. X" '
120,00(1 Mo...r Licenses.
.Raleigh, July 28. One hundred
and twenty thousand licenses have
been issued by the State to automo
biles and motor trucks, it is announced
today. The automobiles licensed
total' 102,000.
ODDS AND ENDS'
. OF THE SPORT
There has been many a sensational
game in this company this year.
Kotch was much touted, but Kins
ton's pitchers are stronger than he
has been used to, apparently.
. Rube Benton is said to have been
released by the Giants. Wonder if
Rube will windup somewhere here
abouts? ' '
Washington at Greenville, New
Bern hero.
Ollinger and Wilson should furnish
another pitchers' battle. That's about
all they get when these teams get to
gether. Evans is a handy pitcher with the
stick. . Ollinger is another.
The Birds aro too best ; fielders
am! have the best pitchers in the
league. They hit only in bunches,
however. The team ' has won first
olace only by its work in the field,
and the efforts of its twirlers.
Starving Russian Hordes Press on to Cap
ital to Beg for Bread, Stripping Country
as They Go Hundred Killed and Hun
dreds Wounded in Rioting at Petrograd.
Cities Looted and Animals Seized for
Food
HARDING FAILED III
LEARN WHAT HE WAS
OUT, SAID
Raleitfh Sees Politics in Pel
lagra Scare Snickers
Over Reported Epidemic
When Epidemic Doesn't
Occur
By MAX ABEUNETHY
(Special Capital Correspondent.)
Raleigh, July 28. -The United
States Public Health Service's report
of a semi-famine and pellagra epi
demic in the cotton belt is viewed
in official circles here as an effort
on the part of the Harding adminis
tration to injure the southern states.
The idea is suggested as having
been well-planned by officials at
Washington. The Public Health Ser
vice turned the statement that there
is widespread famine and disease in
he South over to President Harding,
and he gave publicity to the report
!i calling upon the Red Cross for
help even before the news agencies
had been given an opportunity to
make an investigation as to the
truthfulness of the statement.
Because of the method used in
turning) the story loose tho charge
is heard here that the Harding state
ment and the report of the Pub'ic
Health Service were intended to de
ceive. Politics is easily aeon in the
whole scheme. A Republican ad
ministration with its hand well filled
with lalmr difficulties throughout the
North and East seeks to prevent
further dissension by calling attent
ion to what they arc pleased to term
a "semi-famine and pellagra epidem
ic" in the southern states.
Laliorers , in the North and East
who might have considered coming
to the South at this time would, of
course, have been scared off by
President Harding's alarm, which
pictured a terrible condition through
out the cotton belt with people dy
ing of starvation and disease.
State health officials point out
that pellagra, North or South, is not
an "epidemic disease." It is not con
tagious and is not considered as
coming under the class of diseases
from which epidemics occur.
Queen St. Sunday
School Picnics at
Hillcrest Wednesday
On Wednesday the Queen Street
Methodist Sunday school enjoyed a
delightful outing at Hillcrest. The
outing took the form of "a basket pic
nic. But the picnic dinner and re
freshments, enjoyable as they were,
was but a small part of the day's
festivities. In tho first place the day
was a fine one, the weather was aus-:pi-inus
and the . right spot hail been
found for the ouling.
Hillcrest is a beautiful example oi
what can bs accomplished by the ad
dition of the ingenuity arid industry
of man to the generous accomplish
ments of nature. A dam thrown
across a valley through which wound
a .stream fed by several springs made
a lake covering some 15 acres, eet
tike a jewel holwcon the slopes of
grass-covered hills. To the rear of
the lake covering another beautiful
slope, lies -the park with unexcelled
shade, in the midst of which the ta
bles are placed. -Here are the swings,
the seats, etc., that entice the passer
by to a rest hut cannot butbe en
joyed. Over the hills stretch the golf
links; and to the south lie vast
stretches of well-tilled acres througb
which the Norfolk Southern trains
wend their -way from the capital of
Wayne to the capital -of Lenoir.
The setting was an ideal one for a
Successful outing. The generosity
and hospitality of R. Frank Hill, the
proprietor, maide it loubly certain
and tho eagerness of tho ip'icnickers
in cpteft of recreation made the oc
casion a-complete success. Practi
cally the entire group "took to the
water;" and from the little tots with
in the roiied area to bold and ven
turesome swimmers in water 15 feet
deep the lake was vocal with ex
pressions of joy and delight.
(By the United Press)
London, July 28.- Demonstra
tions beyond the control of the
military and civil authorities are
raging in Russia as a result of
famine, according to Russian
newspapers received here today.
Starving refugees, sweeping across
the country by thousands toward Mos
cow, are stripping the land like lo
custs. Cities have been looted and all an
imals seized and killed for food.j
Soldiers have joined in the demon
strations, the reports said. Petro
grad was the scene of extensive riots
on July 19 and 20, in which a hun
dred unarmed participants were re
ported killed and 1,500 wounded.
Editors of State
Open Convention
at Morehead City
The StatePress Association met at
Morehead City Wednesday night. J.
E. Hurley, cf Salisbury, the presi
dent, held down the chair. Tsura
day morning tho editors voyaged to
Cape Lookout on a Coast Guard ship.
Mayor T. C. Wade welcomed the
scribes at thu opening, while Archi
bald Johnson of Charity and Child
ren responded. Committees were
named and other details of business
transacted. The attendance m good.
Many new faces are seen at the
convention.
COMMUNITY CLUB IS
MAKING 'EM HAPPY
Helps CHy'a Kiddies Be Merry.
New Playgrounds - Recreation
Places in Various Parts of Com
munity. Last year the Community Club
spent sweral hundred dollars for
playground apparatus. This year the
club is going one better and is plan
ning to run a number of playgrounds
during the summer months.
Recognizing that "the play instinct"
is the most stimulative force of
childhood and youth, and that in play
the child "lives, moves and has hia
beings" that through ilay ho .de
velops physically, mentally, morally
and socially, the club plans to give
the "kiddies" a taste of organized
playground work.
Following are the committees in
charge: ,
West Kinston, lawn of Caswell
Mills, Miss Anne Mehegan chairman,
Mrs. Jack Temple, Mrs. L. N. Will
iams. Knott lot, East Washington Ave
nue, Mrs. Iris LaRoque chairman,
Mrs. Geo. Hardwickc, Mrs. Robert
Rouse.
Primary School, Mrs. H. II. Graing
er chairman, Mrs. John Herndon. ,
Lot next to Christian Church, Mrs.
J. A. Powers chairman, Miss Afary
Warren, Miss Natalie Nunn, . Mrs.
Chal'les Cuiiimings. j
East Kinston, Nachamson's . lot,
Mrs. Jack Saunders chairman, Mrs.
J. A. Barr, Mrs. Keneth -Fescue, Mrs.
Eli NachamSon.
East Kinston, McDaniel Stroet,
Miss Ida Oettinger chairman, Missj
Etta Mae Newton, Miss Hilda Haskitt,
Miss Nannie Stanley.
ARTIFICIAL EYE I.AS1IJRS
HELP STAGE BEAUTIES,
CRY WITHOUT DISASTER.
(By the United Press)
New York, July 27. Margaret
Campbell, acting in "Lightnin'.'V de
clares that she is really enjoying'her
stage weeps nowadays for the first
time in her life. She used to have to
sob with one thought for her tears
and another for the eye make-up,
she explains. - "No one who sheds;
her tears in private can appreciate
the strain of doing it out on tho
stage, where the lighting has com
pelled you to put black stuff on your
lashes and blue stuff on their lids,"
he says. "Now I've adopted artifi
cial ones. No painting and pencilling;
any more. I can cry or rub my eyes
-rdo whatever I please and . no
grimy streaks threaten my cheeks
and my eyes don't get full of make
up. If the men of tho stage have
sense, they'll take to them, too." r So
along with Edison and whoever-, in
vented cold cream, Miss Campbell
would put the rescuing Mr. Nestle,
eye-lash inventor, as a chief bene
factor of the human race.'