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DAILY FREE PI rnEIIpME PAVER "Bm It First 1" . THE FREE TRESS VOL. 25. No, 239. FIRST EDITION KINSTON, N, C, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 10, 1923 SIX PAC5S TODAY PRICE TWO CENTS o ft. (Gi Harding, and Hughes Confer, After Which j Orders Are Despatched for Relinquish ment of; Ccblenz Bridgeheadr-Veiled f Protest Against Action Paris Govern ment Senate Wishes jCarried Out "San Mihiel" Expected Sail From New York Few Hours to Take Forces Aboard Colonel House Declares France Alone ft in Attitude She Takes Toward Conquer ' ed Country Recall of Troops of United States Proper, Thinks (By the United Press) . Washington, Jan. 10. American troops were today order ed withdrawn from Germany. , ,; Secretary of State Hughes after a lengthy conference with President Harding issued orders for prompt return to this country of the American Army of Occupation on the Rhine. This force, whieh has been patrol ling tiTet C'oblenz bridgehead since ithe armistice, wow numbers about one thousand officers and men. The action of the President and Hug'hes follows passage by Uie Sen ate of Seriator Reed s resolution ex pressing the view of the upper house Shat the Rhine forces should be with drawn. , ' '- , The troops are under command of Mai-Gen. Henry T. Allen. The army transport San Mihiel, now at New York in sailing condition, probably will' leave this afternoon to transport the troops back to this country, Secretary of War Weeks tfa-id as he left the ' White House. Weeks said the troops would be back in this country , within -two or three weeks. ! A small force, probaMy of 50 of ficers and men, will be Jefit at Co Wenz to dispose of property wJiah belongs to the American forces of oc cupation. ' Community Sing at First Baptist Church Friday Afternoon 3:30 tUnler the auspices of the Music Department of the Community Club, Dr. Paul Weaver of Cihapel- Hill, di rector of music at the University of North Carolina and a member of the etaff of the University Music Exten sion Service, will conduct a commun ity sing on -Friday afternoon at 3:30 at the First Baptist Church. The bringing of Dr. Weaver here is in line with the general iplan of the' Community Clu'b to create renewed in terest in music in Kinston and to en courage the development of home tal , ent. A musical treat is promise! those who attend and there will be no admission charge. :'-... SERIES OF SUNDAY LECTURES Dr. B. W. Spiman Addresses Large Gatherings of Workers on Wesson Meth odsThird Lesson at Gor don Street Church To night Dr. B. W. Spilman's leture!s to Sunday school teachers and workers at the Gordon Street Christian Church, given under the auspices of ihe County Baraca-Philathea Union, are proving wonderfully instructive and interesting. The - attendance Tuesday evening waa even better than that of the preceding night. More than 95 persons from seven churches have registered for the les sons. The lecture Tuesday evening was given with emphasis on four special phases of preparing ' and,, perfecting the Sunday school lessons. In open ing, Dr. Spilman outlined' the general getting of the lesson, emphasisizing the keen interest and lasting results to be obtained toy careful study and preparation. He then gave some strikingly important points on how to find the lesson .where to look about in the Bible "for the subject. Follow ing th Dr. Spi'jman touched on the importance of Biblical geography and its application to a thorough study of the lesson. In closing he graphic ally stressed the good results to be cibtained by the teachers in properly connecting and .presenting the his torical settings oif the Bible stories taught. The two lectures given have been splendidly successful, and those who have attended are unanimous in their praise of the possible effective ness of the methods advocated and taught by Dr. Spilman, who is an eminent leader in the Sunday school wJTk of the Southern Baptists. - ' There are five of these lectures in the series, and the next will be given Wednesday evening at 7:30 in the basement of the Christian church, fcunday schodl workers of nil denonu pations are invited to attend. DRAWSGOODCROWBS HOT CITY ELECTION IS BEING HELD AT GEORGIA PORT CITY Adherents of Only Author ized Candidate Remain Away From Polls, Pro testing; Participation of Strong Independent Savannah, Ga., Jan. 9. With extra police at the voting iboxes feavannah went to the polls today to register its choice of candidates for mayor after one of the most hectic mayoralty-campaigns in the history of the city. With only one name, that of Murray M. Stewart, on the ticket, supporters of Paul E. Seabrook, independent candi date planned to write his name on enough ballots to carry him into .of fice. Early voting showed suporters of Seabrook out in Force. Murray Stew art supporters remained away from ths polls for the most part, on the contention that Steward was the only authorized candidate on the ticket and that Seabrook's election would be il legal. - . ' Negro churches were guarded throughout the night following post ing warnings on them that "This is a white man's fight, keep away from th'e polls." Some Improvement in Influenza Situation, Says Health Officer . Dr. R. S. McGcachy, county health of fiec r and manager of the Health Clinic, stated Wednesday to a Tcpre sentaAive of .'.Tiie Free Press that there whs a slight decrease in the nilnlbfr of new influenza cases report ed. "The tendency of the' situation, he said, "is toward improvement, but necessary precautions should lw tak en." One new case of scarlet fever has been reported, the first in a num ber cf weeto.. The, spread of this df.riigerous disease can best be con trcMed by strict compliance with the quarantine laws published in The Free Press Tuesday. 'There is still a lot of sickness in the community, but it is generally of a .'mild form, and with clear weather physicians look for a steady improvement, 'in health conditions., State Journal May Be Adopted by Assembly; New Rule as to Bills' (Special Capital Correspondence.) Raleigh, Jan. 10. Effective today in the .General Assembly the Rules Committee provides that all public bills of interest must be printed in full imimediately after presentation, and that in order to' insure speed these measures imust be offered in duplicate. This plan follows that of progres sive states and is sort of forerun ner of the diaaly journal which shortly may be offered the State, it is said. And when that is done it is believed that much of the 'grind will be tak en from journalistic hands. SHgit. Improvement in Condition Claude Kitchin, Says Doctor Scotland Neck, N. Jan; 10 Representative Claude Kitchin, Democratic minority leader of the ' lower House, who is seriously ill at his home here with pneumonia, was reported, somewhat better by phy sicians this morning. . The disease has slightly affected Kitchin m lungs. Dr. O. H. Smith, attending physician, announced, i FOURMINERS KNOWNIGIRL DEPORTED Biiir- .- vorTT KILLED BY BLAST ALABAMA COAL White Foreman and Three Negroes Victims Explos ion in Dolomite No. 1. Fifth Body May Lay in Depths of Mine, Said (Bv the United Press.i Birmingham, Jan. 10. Four miners are known to be dead and a fifth is believed to have been killed by an explosion in the Dolomite Mine Jio. 1 of the Woodward Coal & Iron Co., near here. The bodies of Frank Lewis, white foreman, and (three negroes have been recovered. The body of a fourth neg ro is believed to be in the entry where the explosion occurred. The explosion is thought ' to have been due to accumulated gas or dust. It occurred in an entry of the mine shortly after 1 o'clock this morning while some racks were being removed. The .mine is close to No. 3, in which 90 miners perished an in explosion November 22. fBv the United Press.) SCHLESINGER FOUND. Chicago, Jan. 9. Huro Schlesin ger, Milwaukee millionaire missing since he strode out of the LaSalle Hotel here Friday, wes today found in outlying districts of the city, suf fering from amnesia. COMMITTEE EXONERATES ATTORNEY-GENERAL. Washington. Jan. 9. The House Judiciary Committee today adopted a report exonerating Attorney-(ien-era! Daughterly from the impeach ment charges filed by Representa tive Keller of Minnesota. At the same time the committee decided to leave on the floor of the House the question of whether Keller shall be punished for his refusal to appear before the committee to give tes timony. BLACK HOOD K LAN'S OWN. Court-house, Bastrop, La., Jan. 9. The heavy guns of the State of Louisiana were turned today direct on the Ku Klux K Ian in the open hearing on the murder of Watt Dan iels and Thomas F- Richards, vic tims of hooded terrorists. A black mask worn by one of the hooded men who kidnapped and tortured Daniel and Richard was idetnified on the witness stand as a "terror mask of the klan, worn when they went on the war path," by James T. Norworlhy, former efficial of the klan. Norworlhy declared the black hood a part of the regalia of the Han and that the white hood is us ed in meetings and ceremonials. "But when on the war path they wear the black hood." The reign of terror here has resulted from the operations of the klan, Nor worthy declared, answering ques tions of Attorney General Coco. WALTON'S FRIENDS CELEBRATE. Oklahoma City,-Jan. 9. The big gest barbecue of all time is on in Oklahoma City. Beds of hot coals glowed in rows of trenches through out last night, preparing the savory meats for thousands from every sec tion of the country here to attend the mammoth inauguration barbe cue of Governor Jack Walton. Be fore sunup hundreds were jammed into Oklahoma City and these trek ked toward the fair grounds, where the celebration was staged. The celebration got under way when an early rising cowboy with a foghorn voice broke loose with a wild hur ray for Walton and his gun barked an echo. Dressed in boots, spurs, chaps and 10-gallon hats, the "boys" poured into the streets. Bedlam prevailed. Hundreds of street lights were shot out by rois terers. Impromptu processions eathered and held the streets dur ing the day. The affair will be wound up by a mammoth square dance tonight. MORRISON'S MESSAGE. Raleigh, Jan. 9. Two miliums for his steamship line; $6,700,009 for duplicating institutional expen- ,. ditures of two years ago; 15 mill ions for state hiehway comple t ons, and $500,000 for restoring and extending the fish, shellfish and other seafoods industry, made up the major portion of Governor Morrison's address to the Legisla ture this afternoon. His excellency championed passionately sinking funds to take care of these new indebtedneses, and he advocated three-cent gasoline tax for the road bonds. He asked for establishment of three new departments, com merce and industry, banking, ana water transportation. Te last he asked to be named "te North Car olina Shi and Port Commission." The last-named brought from him the most passionate appeal. He told how Virginia had come to think of North Carolina in business as "our territory." He begged for economic freedom. 11 Hi-Y Meetin This Evening. The Kinston Hi-Y Club will meet this evening at . 6:30 m the Ear!e Warehouse. These meetings are rt.Jd wvek-ly, when basketbali and other forms of thletici are indulged in. masked gang names Tfencn. .piair, iDvasaoe pit two hob's members of KotiF V alley as Day Declares" She Recognized McKoin Andrews Des cribes Meeting of Secret Society Boy Witness at Bastrop Hearing Court-House, Bastrop, "La-, Jan. 10. AVhen -Miss lAxldie May Hamilton and Mrs. Thelma Richards failed to answer when their naimes were called today in the masked murder hearing, Gaorge Echols, 15, of Mer Rouge, was put on the witness 6tand in the open hearing into mob terrorism in More house Parish. - The boy told fcb version of the kid napping of Daniels and Richards, which corresponded . with others. Shortly afterward Alias Hamilton ap peared, took the stand nd told haw? the klan took her from her home here and deponted her to little Rock, be cause they claimed she had been lead ing an immoral life. The girl de clared she recognized Dr. McKoin and "Pink" Kirkpatrick as members of the klan whidn called at her house and took her away. She said her mother begged them to leave her, but they threatened to tar and' feaaher them both if she didn't leave. W. C. Andrews, one of the party of five who were kidrtapped with Dan iels and (Richards, ifollowed her on the stand and told of following the klan one night, watching their proceed ings. He named Mayor Robert Dade of Mer Rouge as a member of the klan mob. Tim Murphy Goes Out to Leavenworth Begin Sentence Four Years - (By nie United Press. Chicago, Jan. 10. "Tim" Murphy. Chicago labor loadur convicted or complicity in the $130,000 (Dearborn Street mail robbery hew, is to leave for .the federal penitentiary at Leav enworth today to serve a four years' term. By good conduct Murphy can be free in two and a half years. He can also enter a plea of pauperism and liquidate the $.'50,000 fine hang ing over his head by serving 30 days in jail. . FORTY MILLIONS OF MILL IMPROVEMENTS Great Sum to Be Extended in Carolinas This Year. v North State Will Have Six Million Spindles Before End 1923 Charlotte, Jan. 1(1. Mure than $40. 000 will be invested in new textile mill construction during 1S23 in North and South Carolina, according to n concise and authorized tabulation of n:w mill enterprises and mill addi tions just completed 'by the South ern Textile Bulletin of this city. A total of 575,000 new spindles and approximately 12,000 new looms will be included in mills or mill addi tions which have been started or an nounced. These figures do not in clude, however, projects, which are contemplated' but have not been anT nounced. The total of new equipment for the year will, therefore,, very like Iv be in excess of , these' figures; NortT Carolina has today approxi mately 5,500,C0O spindles and David Oiark. editor of the Southern Textile Bulletin, believes it will pas .the 6,- 000. 000 mark during the present year. Says Britain Will Not Meddle With Message of Peace Cargo Case Again (Special Capital Correspondence.) Raleigh, Jan. 10. District Attorney 1. B. Tucker, who is making his first visit to Raleigh since he participated in destroying the liquor of the Mes sage of Peace in .December, said to day that the British government will make no effort to collect for the cargo dastKoyed, the ..British consul at Savanah to the contrary notwith standing. Mr. Tucker says the cafiain-awn-er, Arthur J. Cohnan, isn't going to temper with anything that has given him the trouble that the Message of Peace did. The district-' attorney hap pens to know that 'Mr. Cohnan has done same talking. But the govern ment is ready to take up the cases again if anybody is dissatisfied. As for the baste of destruction, Mr. Tucker says the whole thing was bas ed on the effort to get the Stuff of the hands of each resopnsilxle agent. Breaks Thursday, KINSTON IT ONLY TOWN EO ENGAGE IN A Large Sums to Be Exjend ed in Eastern Carolina This year Much Work to Be Done Here Before 1923 Fall Term Opens Pasage of the $300,000 bond issue for the school extensions at the spec ial election here Tuesday will mean tho provision of adequate facilities for Kanston's school chldren before next iiXJ., authorities predidtod today. The issiie will provide for emergency needs of the educational system. No pretense was made that it would care for future expansion. The three schools here have been crowdtd sev eral years. The Bmgla-shiEt was dis pensed wtyh years ago. Two classeis are occupying each room daily. The plans for enlargement of tine three buildings now in use arfd erec tion cf one or two new houses. De tails were purposely left open by the school authorities until after the elec tion. A part of the money will go into nt vv healing equipment. , There will be no loss of time in floating the bond's, planning the pro gram and awarding contracts, to that the work may be completed in time fcr the opening of next fall's 'term, it was undtontood today. The trustees are determined that there shall be no sh. rldv construction, i More than $1,000,000 is already available or in sight for school con struction in Eastern Canilina this spring, according to local reports. Kinston and Washington will each expend $300,000. A nmuuber of small er townu are preparing to expend sims ranging from $20,000 upward. Connolidation plans in a number of localities will compel erection of new buildings for merged ru'i'K'l schools. Hundreds cf thousands ' of dollars were expended on school improve ments in half a dozen counties around this city last year. The "building movement" has only started, con struation men believe. . STATE NEWS Wilmington, Jan. 10. The Coast Guard cutter Modoc, one of the larg est lin the service, will remain at the station hore permanently, according to officials. Meeting Postal Employes. : Winston-Sa'cm, Jan. 10. The conference-convention of the .postal em ployf3 in 'North Carolina will le held here instead of Raleigh, as originally planned. January 10 is the date. It is expected 1ba 1,500 will attend. W. Irving Glover, third assistant post-m&.ster-!general, will be present. Mysterious Shooting. Hamlet. Jan. 10. Boyd Smith, for. tixt assistant cashier of a bank, was killed and his mother, Mrs. Virginia ?irvith, 57, seriously wounded at Gib son yesterday. The affair is a mys tery, Mrs. Smith, conscious last night, could throw rto light upon.it. Two bullets 'struck her. One .passed through her son'is heart. It was be lieved at f irst that Smith had shot his mother and then suicided. This belief was not so strong today.- Nine and Half Million Bales Cotton Ginned Up to First of January Washington, Jan. 9. Cotton gin jied up to January 1 from the crop of 1922 totalled 9.598,967 bales, counting round as half bales, the Census Bureau today announced. This compares with 7,882,356 bales for the preceding year. Governor Porto Rico Injured in Accident Wifl Be Out End Week (By the United Press.) ' Kansas City, Jan. 9. E. Mont Reilly, 'governor of Porto Rico, was today believed to be out of danger folkrwing serious injuries sustained in an auto crash here Saturday night. Barring complications, Reilly will be able to leave for Washington the lat ter part of the week, in preparatio'n for his retarn to Porto Rico in Feb ruary, He utained two broken ribs and severe lruies in. the accident. (By the United Press) Esen, Germany, Jan. 10. Hemmed in on the west by French cavalry, infantry, artillery, tanks and airplanes, all. ready to move at a command from Paris, Essen, first objective of France's punitive occupation strained nerves. The population was tense te when the French troops will worry. GEN. JULIAN CARR FAVORS SHIPS AND FIGHT GETS HOTTER Dawson Slow About Naming House HNaval Affairs Committee" -State Game Commission Bill of Doubt ful MeritMore Money (Special Capital Correspondence.) Raleigh, Jan. 9. Against the de cline of the stock in the boat line as pirations of Governor Morrison to day, friends of the executive quoted Goneral Julian S. Carr of Durham as favorable to his excellency's effort to fight unjust railroad rates, and the war is on. Speaker Dawson named many of his important committees last night, none of which had any powers which seem to correspond with the Watei Commerce Committee of tha Senate, which Senator Harris of Wake heads. Mr. Dawson has wot made up lir mind whether he will ask the Rules Committee to create any such organi- . t rro. .fu.,i.., ...-i-iof vantage to be gained hy such action . ..." . t wouJd be a lavorawo report taKing the fight to the f fcoor of the two houses. A committee created trt puss favorably upon a proposal would hardly fail to do so. Governor .Morrison's appearance ber fore the joint session of the houses today naturally has started specula tion anew. When it .became kno, wn early this morning that the message would not be personal and . that it would be, diplomatic toward those who have disagreed with, him, the public mind was set for fair reception of the argument and tiie impression is universal that the advocate helped hiB cause. House leaders are uncon vinced' still, and they say party sen timent will dominate. ' (But the pov ernor does not look upon the meas ure as being any sort of a subsidy ind he seks to deliver the boats from he thralldom of names. The lloupc received this niornin'g a statewide game commission bill, which i designed to create a new depart ment which is responsible for a game warden and his subordinates. How well the, new Legislature is going to feol toward new offices nofbody knows, but the 'assembly seems to be against sxperimentation. The legislature is willing to invest in roads and schools but it appears to be trying out many new money carrying measures. The gtime bill may be victimized by that spirit. But the bill was presented and -.its sponsors regard it a capitally im portant measure. Senator Harris today introduced In to the Senate a bill providing that the juries in capital cases shall mere ly find the verdict, the judges pass sentence of death and the governor name the date, thus portioning the responsibility for capital punishment. Senator Harris would not follow the example of Gaston and Ervin in the House. They Introduced last riight a bill to allow juries to bring in special verdicts in the four capital felonies whereby a recommendation of oiercy to the trial magistrate would reduce the penalty, to lifetime service in the state's prison. It is wKanimously agreed that no bill abolishing capital punishment will stand any show at this time. Harding Says His New Interior Secretary Will Be a Westerner (By the United Press) . Washington, Jan. 8. President Harding has assured leading mem bers of Congress that the new secre tary of the interior to succeed Albert B. Fall, who Tetires .March 4, will be a man from territory west of the Mis souri River. This narrows the race down to Senator Poindexter and Rep resentative Mondell, toth of whom were defeated in the last election, and Joseph Dixon, former Bull Moose leader in Montana. aDSilj plans, was today a city of but reserved. Uncertainty as enter the city was causing much J'oilus are at Kettwig, a low miles from here. Troop trains are con stantly arriving. Ut is reported ttiat au are wnua troops with the exception of a tew Annamites. Many are quartered on the ivJhabitaiUs. ' Knowing the French are abou- to come in and start their custom bar riers between the .Ruhr Valley and Germanv Droner. the coal syndicate here, semi-governmenital coal diairio- uting agency, irocay uissoiwa, us headquarters and took its papers and files to Hamburg. It i claimed the French will have great difficulty in operating the mines without the syn dicate's apparatus. . Seizure on Thursday. 'Paris, Jan, 10. Dawn will see tlho French troops advance on Lsen in an eniircling movement from the north . and fioutih, according to plans of tho French high command,, it was today learned. About 35,000 troops, i no kid-, ingr infantry; cavalry, tanks, aifrilaiives and armored cars, will tala part in ths peaceful "capture" of itho wealthy Rhur city. - ; " , French Communists ' Arrested. ' ; Paris, Jan. 10. Communist IcaJen, , inteludin'g Nonmousoeau, secreiiary of the Communist section of the gener al confederwtiion of labor, were air rested today charged with phiWing against the security of the state by trying to arouse trouble in I'he llnhr. Police searched ths offices of the Humani'te, Communist ttaWy, and homes of leaders'. Strike at Essen. Berlin, Jan. 10. -A one-day sLriko has been iproclaimed in Kswen, accord ing to reporta, and there is possibility a eeneral strike t'hrouuhoirt the Riih in ,vri n crii in-.r hi. ! rpn:' h occupation. rarmers JjisS tadjng Out Tlieir Poor Lives at , Rate on One Pet. a Moih "Ardent Anton" Taylor, sheriff of Lenoir County, has 'been, to Raleigh lobbying for the "poor farmer." This" nranly two years before tho next election.' Today Taylor called' upon the "high sheriffs of the common wealth" to write their legiaaltars and urge them to repeal that "one a ;- cent, tax business." He said that at Raleigh he "looked in on a number olf the boys'Vho were, hi duel arc d, inrprossed by his prop-:. it ion. "If a farmer, or anybodv elsa for that matter, is delinquent in the pay ment of his taxi, he is assessed one per cent, additional for eas-h month of his delinquency. Dad-lim it, Some of 'em can't hurdly pay the taxes, n;uch less this 'a-coruid hitrwst,' and by the time the poor beggari' fiLYfi are levied on and their holding s;ld " there's another i!U per cent, added. If it keeps on this per cent, bunineja will 'eat 'em up.'" Politicians could not exactly see ,a political move in the sheriff's inter est in the welfare of the agricultural community, though every month in any old year is an "open season" for him in a political way. Taxes during hM tenure of office, some nine or tea years, have caused the Lcnsir sheriff more gray htuirs than any otner one thing. "He "just hates to , tack on the extra3." He stated that several cf the legislators hud haiied him as a 20th century Solomon and that thev brobaWy had his suggestion under consideration at the very mom- . er.t. He said he earnestly solicited tho ccpoeraWon of the other J9 sher iffs in the State. "I'm chicken-hearted and I can't help it." That, the sheriff of. Le noir said, explained his interest. Be cause of that failing, or virtue, of his, cowiicte have been known to en ter the penientiary at Raleigh with ail their pockets full of tobsn-oo and thuir "inards" filled with "the last u-icken the boys would taste for somo tine" and soda water. France Stands Alone, Declares House. Galveston Jan. 10. French occu- . pation of the Ruhr Valley will further complicate the problems of Centm!., Europe, Col. E. M. House, former, President Wilson's confidential a4-1 viser, today declared. "France ii' afraed of Germany, has -' been for years," House explained. r "The German, invasion in 1914 has made her doubly cautious. Now that she has the upper hand she is relrc. bant to irelinquiis'h her advantage. ." . "x'ranee does not -want Germany to become powerful again, but when the assumes that attitude sho ' stands alone." 'House declared for removal of tho American troops from the Rhine.
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