THE BAILY FREE-PRESS TIIE HOME PAPEB mUf News Teaajr" ' THETKEETKEgdl VOL! 25-No. 265 SECOND EDITION KINSTON, N. C, FRIDAY EVENING. FEBRUARY 9, 19231 EIGHT-PAGES TODAY PRICE TWO CENTS ADIBed Warships 'Ottomans' U 13:1 rriaftum Situation Critical Commander They War at Overt Act lies Cannot - Remove Craft , in Safety Without Turkish niartdant Demand That He Remove ' Mines Ignored French Drawing Steel Line Through Ruhr Chase Out Ger man Rail Workers Wevcand Carries "Stronger Measures" (By the United Press) . 5. . Constantinople, Feb. 9. The Smvrna situation is critical. The Allied squadron is remaining in the harbor despite the Turkish order to depart at once. Notice ha been Served on the Turkish commander that the British warships are ready to commence firing if attacked. The Turks admittedly have mined the harbor, so that it would be exceedingly dangerous for vessels to attempt to move without knowing the location of the mines, When a demand was made on the Smyrna commander that he sweep up these mines he flatly refused, adding that the Al lied naval officers would have to hire Turkish pilots to guide them out of the harbor. London, Feb. 9. Turkey has in formed the Allies that it is im possible to 'revoke the ultimatum ordering all Allied warships of more than 1,000 tons to leave Smyrna harbor, an Exchange Telegraph dis patch from Constantinople today said. iBerlin, FtC. 9. Extensive French troops maneuvers are in full swing in the Ruhr Valley, according: to dis patches from Essen and other cent ers. ' The French, having encircled the Ruhr, evidently are now engaged in dividing the district into two parts by a line running north and south, which would isolate Essen from its food supply. In every case, as the French advanc ed, they drove tierman railroad em ployes from stations and switch hous es. Ttese were believed to foe the new "stronger measures" which Gen eral Weygand had threatened to in flict. War Dogs Bristle at Smyrna. London, Feb. lJ. The Allied forces at Smyrna are believed to be able to care for themselves in the event the Turks start to carry out their threat to eject them from lie harbor. In ' Smyrna harbor or the adjacent wat ers of the Aegean and Mediterranean seas are a number of French and British craft of heavy tonnage, in cudirog British battleships believed to be able to pound the Turkish batteries , to pieces. Smyrna is a part of Asia Minor assigned to Greece following the World War. Greece lost her man date wer the area when Constantjne declare d war on the Ottoman govern ment and his armes were routed by the Turks, who sacked and burned Smyrna and took complete control of the mandate territory last year. The territory was under British rule before the great war. Smyrna is a seaport city of nominal size and important as a gateway to the coun try between the Mediterranean and Black seas. The region is one of the most historic in the world. The town has one of the most mixed popula tions to be found anywhere. It is about 225 or 250 miles in aniairline from Constantinople and farther by sea. The British forces in the Near East number less than 40,000 exclu sive of the conmplements of her naval ships, while Ketoinl' Pasha has a sea soned rmy of J50.0OO or more ready to assault the British in the Mosul region and elsewhere. , PAINTED JEWELRY IN NEW YORK WINDOWS. New York', Feb. 9. Painted jewelry-is all that the envious shopper can gaze at in the shop windows of the prudent New York jewelers these days. So numerous have robberies been that the merchants have grown cautious. The painted exhibit for the street window is one result of that caution. On small pieces of transparent-cloth such as architects .and engineers use for master drawings to be blue printed, are skillfully paint ed faithful likenesses of handsome bits of jewelry. Platinum rings, set with gorgeous diamonds, brooches itvd pendants, and all replicasof arti cle! in the stock within they are all painted. The prospective purchaser can examine them at his leisure and then aik for the reality to match. LEAGUE HEADS MEET TALK DISARMAMENT (By the United Press.) Geneva, Feb. 9. The League of Nations', disarmament comnr.iission, under the presidency of former French Premier ' Viviani, convened today to definitely draw up the League of Na tions' final ; project for reduction of armaments. The project will be per fected in detail at subsequent meet ings of the commission during the summer,i and then submitted to the general assembly o . the .league in September for adoption, " i British Tell Turkish Are Ready to Begin Harbor Mined, AI Pilots, Boast of Com- as They Advance Out Threats of BUSINESS LEADERS OF SECTION GATHER TO DISCUSS WEEVIL Fifty Attend Chamber of ' Commerce Session Golds boro Farmers Warned That Diversification Imperative Now is That the boIl-wp(jvil is here was generally admitted by bankers, farm ers and businessmen of Eastern North Carolina at a meeting in (inlds-Uiro Friday at noon, when the East Caro lina Chamber of Commerce was call ed together in special session to give consideration to the matter and dis cuss the best methods of procedure in eliminating the pest that has been destroying the cotton crop and the basis of credit in th,3 Soutb. Mare than 50 men were present when the meeting was called to order. No sin gle phase of cotton growing as left untouched in the serious and timely discussion which resulted. A strik ingly salient feature of the meeting was the serious advice given by those familiar with conditions in weevil infested territory that no matter what method of poisoning or eradi eating- the cotton boll-weevil may be used, the farmer in the South who fails to reasonably diversify, breed livestock, especially hogs, raise poul try and other food crops, and at the same time provide tor filling the corn cribs with feed for livestock, will be waging a losing fight for existence This -was the keynote of tho gather inggrow foodstufs for man and beast. Secretary N. G. Bartlett told of his trip into Georgia for the purpose of investigating conditions, as a re sult of an article in the Manufactur ers' Record, saying that "A boll-wecv. a method that permits ot the remun erative production of cotton under or dinary conditions has unquestionably been found." - , "There is no money in the world," Mr. Bartlett declared, "that could buy the space occupied by this article in the reading columns of the Manufac turers' Record, and this led me to be lieve that it was my duty to the East Carolina Chamber of Commerce to investigate the matter and make re port. While in Georgia I made it a point to avoid representatives of the manufacturers of the 'Hill method,' and the infonmation obta'iitMl was gathered from bankers, planters and farmers." , Secretary Bartlett Stated that re ports he secured endorsed the Hill mixture as effective and profitable. Franklin Sherman, entomologist from .the Department of Agriculture, stat ed that he new nothing oi tne new mixture, but felt that all commercial products should be condemned until approved by the department. Two planters of more than a thousand acres each from Georgia present de clared that with the Hill mixture they had gotten specific results at a minimum cost, and expected in 1923 to bring back the cotton pro duction on their farms io normal. HUMANS INCREASE FASTER THAN ANIMALS. Washington, Feb. 9. 'A study of the figures from 1850 to 102-J, says the Department of Agriculture, shews that human population has increased at a greater rate than livestock. The number of hogs in this country varies more from year to year than the mJ.nber of other domestic animals. Sheep have declined the most, Tb?re is increasing difficulty in supplying our population with sufficient meat for its needs, , till Sn MAKE BUYER OF PISTOL SECURE PERMIT THIS STATE Warren (Jets Bill Through House Federal Coopera tion Asked Hundreds Purchase Through Mails Postmasters Know 'Em (Special Capital Correspondence) Raleigh, Feb. 9. Universiity of North Carolina. trustees receiving bids for the proposed state- medical col lege so depleted the Legislature today that only local bills were considered on -roll call. The Senate debated the Giles farm loan bill of $2,500,000, Moss of Nash unmercifully twitting Giles on the firoposal to put the government into ami-loaning and developing schemes the while Giles opposed going into the state shipping business. In the House Warren of Beaufort led through a statute forbidding sale of weapons without permits, and made it apply to postmasters, who will re quire permits of mail purchasers of pistols." He said he had consulted a member of the Supreme Court and Attorney-General. He thought the bill met constitutional objections. The postmaster, he declared, knows pis tol packages, and the Washington, N. C, postmaster says that from UOO to 400 pistols are sold every year to negroes, ' there, through mail order houses. The House also passed a joint resolution asking Congress io exempt from interstate commerce the transportation of mstols, so as to make state and federal statutes con form. BULLETINS - -' (JW th linttort Pross.) BLAST ON MOUNTAIN. Tulsa, Feb. 9. A terrific explos ion, believed to have occurred at Jenks, 12 miles distant, broke win down in residences and office build ings here shortly before noon. All telephone lines in the vicinity of Jenks were put out of commission by the blast. A nitroglvcerine slor-. age magazine is located on Turkey Mountain,, near Jenks. Thm is be lieved to have exploded. HOWAT FREED AGAIN. Topeka, Kas., Feb. 9. Alexander Howat, former' head of the Kansas Coal Miners' Union, was freed from juil again today. Governor Jona than M. Davis issued a commuta tion of sentence that releases How at immediately from jail at Co lumbus, Kansas. After being pa roled at Pittsburg, Kansas, by the District Court judge, Howat was re arrested to serve an unexpired term at Columbus for violation of the industrial court law. Officer Says Phillips Woman Being Held at 'Prison in Chihuahua Illy the United Press.l Houston, Feb. 9. Clara Phillips, asraped "hammer murderess," is in the State Penitentiary at Chi huahua, Mexico, according to Lee' Manning, federal immigration of ficer who returned Phil Alquin, Pa cific Coast criminal, to America from Mexico. "As soon as the Al quin case is off my hands I'll return to Chihuahua and arrange he de portation tas well," Manning de clared. Would Make Insanity Ground for Divorce in North Carolina (.Special Capital Correspondent) Feb. iK Representative Raleigh, Nimocks of Cumberland County has introduced a bill in the .assembly which" would make incurable insanity a ground for divorce, provided that no child has been born and that the op posite party to the petitioneer has been actually confined in an asylum. Only alienists named by the court would be allowed to testify. ' Debt legislation is Aground in Finance Committee of Senate (By the -Unit! Tress.) 3f" Washington, Feb. 9. The debt funding legislation which would en able this government to consum mate the agreement with England has "struck a snag in the Senate Finance Committee. Plans of ad ministration leaders to report the measure were, upset today when Senators LaFollelte of Wisconsin and Walsh of Massachusetts de manded full hearings on the bill. SAYS SOLDIERS HAY BE USED TO PUT A STOP RUM RUNNING federal Prohibition Agent in Georgia Declares Sit uation Out of Control. Trains of Booze Autos Pass Through ' '(By the United Press.) 'Aitlanta, Feb. 9. Federal troops mav soon patrol the highways of thi?J section ot ueorgia to netp curb exten sive operations of liquor runners, ac cording to a statement by Fred B. Mismuke, federal prohtouion director for Georgia. Admitting that the situation had passed beyond control of his depart ment, Dismuke declared that a re quest for intervention by federal troops was not altogether unlikely, . "Prohibition forces in Georgia are entirely inadequate," he said, "and I must admit we are no longer able to control tne situation. ' Where liquor runners "used to come through in individual cars, we were able to handle them," he said. "Now they come through in convoys of eight or 10 cars in a train, heavily armed and desperate. My forces are helpless before them. unless we can get more men and better forces work ing at once,-we may find it necessary to call federal troops to act in the State. Something must be done at once. - , LEGION MEN HERE FAVOR OCCUPATION The American Legion post here went on record Thursday night as favoring French occupation of the Ruhr It was staled that this sen timent was general among legion naires in the -country. Figures were presented indicating legion belief that Germany "had not paid" to a reasonable extent of her abili ty. -The action" of the post was unanimous. Or. Vance 1 'eery initi ated the debate, it was said, with Hobert II. Rouse and other ex-officer members joining in. It was said that the pont would give the local public' its reason in detail One former officer declared he Ntood ready to back the French with his own services were there any possibility that they would be need ed, it was said. " STATE NEWS New Bern, Feb.'' 9. Fire yesterday damaged the machine shop at tfie Rowland lumber plant here. The damage to the building and machinery wa sestimnted at $0,000 or more. The company suffered a $250,000 fire in Deceliiiber. .. Sell School Bonds. Washington, N. C, Feb. 9. The local school .luthorities have sold a $300,000 bond isstie to a Toledo brok erage . concern. The bonds will bear five per cent. The Issue brought a premium of $3,180. High School Boy Goes Into Banditry to Make Living For Family; Dead (By the United Presa.) Kansas City, Feb. 9. Kay C. Bishop, a high school football star, turned bandit to get funds to sup port his parents and keep himself in school. After holding up two gasoline stations and securing $22 last night, Bishop was shot and killed in his first night of crime. "We'll either have to get more money or I'll quit school," Bishop confided a few days ago to his in valid father. - v CHINESE GET BAPTIST LESSONS IN OWN TONGUE. Nashville, Feb. 9. iSouthern Bap tists are the first denomination to issue a complete line of Sunday school literature for all grades in the Chinese language, according to Dr. W. II. Tip ton, secretary of the departlment of Sunday school literature of the China Baptist Publication Society at Canton. The plan of the Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, located in Nashville, is followed in the treatment of the lessons. ; : EIGHT HEROES DIE AFTER GAS BLAST (By th United Press.) Toronto, Feb. 9. A dramatic chapter in the history of heroism was written today when eight men plunged into the lower valve house of the Consumers' Gas Company here to rescue two companions fol lowing an explosion. The eight perished, suffocated by carbon monoxide. . The other two workmen died. Immediately following the ex plosion in the works workmen in other parts of the building rushed to the aid of the workers. About 40 were overcome and were rescued ; by firemen with gas masks. r V f - A i yf - V . ' 11 SENATOR FURNIFpLD M. SIMMONS. Senior senator from North Carolina who;bus quit the fight' for Democratic leadership in the upper house of Conprrsa and left the field to Robinson of Arkansas. The New Bern statesman's health is not goo4 liow. ' Simmons Steps Down as Would Be Leader of Senate Minority and Leaves FiBId to Robinson . (By the United Press.). Washington, Feb. 9. Senator Simmons has abandoned the fight for Democratic leadership in the Senate. The announcement was made late yesterday by Sepal op Overman, Simmons' colleague. lhe state of the Tarheel's health 'and the good of the party were given as the reasons for Simmons' with drawal. Senator Robinson will succeed to the minority leadership in the next Senate, Underwood of Alabama re tiring. ..; Senator Overman made the follow ing statement: ' "My colleague, Senator Simimonv from his sick bed in New Bern, has 1 asked me to make public the re quest that his name shall no longer be considered for the post of Demo cratic leader in the Senate. Notwith standing the fact that more than half the members of the present Sen ate are supporting him, and he has other assurances that justify him in feeling most hopeful of success, Sen ator Simmons feels he must tnk$ this action in part upon- consideration "of his health and m part for reasons of party harmony. My colleague's physicians have advised him that he must take tfie best : care of himself for sevejal months to come, and they strongly warn him against undertak ing any new burdens until he shall have fully recovered his strength.' "It is well known here tnat Sena tor Simmons in the beginning con NEGRO KILLED FIVE PERSONS, HE TELLSmRVED ON GIRL BY SHERIFF AT WACO Police Guard About Jail Where Roy Mitchell is Confined May Have J Slain Three Others Mo tive is Not Revealed (By the United Press.) Waco, Feb. 9. dtoy Mitchell, a mu- UlllO, "US vumcast'U au me iuuiuvi u'j five persons in a reign of terror dur-C ing tne lasi. iwo years, auinorrwen 111 day announced. , .(Sheriff. Lee iStegall in announcing the alleged confession said he expect ed in grilling Mitchell later to clean up three other brutal murders.' Stegall refused to reveal Mitch ell's, motive for his murder campaign. A cordon of police was -thrown about the county jail following the an nouncement. Mob violence was feared. j .. Prevented Epidemic. Washington, Feb. 9,-r-A communi ty dipping vat built in Jeruuld Coun ty, S. Iak., through the efforts of agricultural extension workers in the county, successfully checked in its be ginning what promised to tie a sen-1 ous out'break of scabies, according to CAPITOL STORIES EMPLOYE KNOWS (By the United Press.) Washington, Feb. 9. The record for usefulness is claimed by Senator McKinley, Illinois, for a negro who has been for years in the senator's employ. This man is McKinley's chauf feur. When he isn't chaiyfering, he is McKinley's golf caddy, and when he isn't doing eitheY. he operates an elevator in the senate office building. Speaking of elevator operators, one of those on duty at the Capitol wears the leather metal those days, for what ne na to henator louge, KepuDiican leader. Lodge got aboard this man's elevator the other day. At the next floor, a number of other senator got in. '' ' - '';',;.. '. ' "Subway," they said, desiring to go to the nndarground corridor connect ing the Capitol with the senate of fice building. It k t rule that when senators and Common J 'mortals are aboard, the elevator shall first, take the senators to their floor, '. sented td the use of hia name, tof tjie Democratic . leadership only upon what seemed to. be satisfactory as surances that there would bo no. con siderable opposition. He stated then that he would not under any circum stances enter into a scramble for the Lplace. Since Senator Robinson, for Wflom senator summons leeis nign esteem and friendship, was offered as a candidate, Senator Simmons has re frained from withdrawing his own Vame only because he has felt : that loyalty to his own friends and . sup porters would not permit it ; ; Would Have Been Close. "'My colleague now feels, however, in view of the condition of his health and of the fact that the contest be tween his friends and those of Sena tor Robinson has grown, so closa. and promises to be so long drawn: out, with the consequent neglect of 'that necessary concentration by demo cratic senators of mind and effort on party and national affairs all through this year, that the highest national and party, considerations demand that the" contest shall proceed no further. Senator Simmons, therefore. ) has asked and obtained the consent of hi friends to leave the field clear to Senator ; Robinson, whose leadership, my colleague believes, will be in every respect able nd satisfactory. - "Senator Simmons wishes me to ex press for him his deep anl grateful apprecation of the loyal support given him and of the splendid zeal and generalship that his friends have exercised in hia behalf." TEN CROSSES ARE GANG MASKED MEN Miss ric Deserted Her Church, Assumed Motive. Takefi, to Country and Mutilated by Band, De clares (o Police ' , !.. -';.'',": (By .hf United Press.) ' Chicago, Keb. D.-Ten crosses were carVed on U?e body of Miss Mildred Eric by a band of masked men who kidnapped tier and left her uncon scious on a', lonely country road, Ac cording to statehwnt to the police made today, by the gir.l Miss Eric de clared thamen seized her n she wss Heaving home and rushed her to the country, whete she wa mutilated. Two crosses, were carved on her breast, two on her back and- the oth ers on her legs and arms, Miss Eric declared. &he was recently threaten ed in 4 letter. The note aafd, "We're goinrf to get you for leaving yout church, she saiu. reports to the Department of Agri culture. Over 1,200 cattle were dip ped during the two months following the completion of the community dip ping vat. NOT EVERY SENATOR LODGE f "Street floor," said Lodge. The operator took the car straight down to the subway. "I said fifst floor," sair Lodge, as they shot by. "Can't stop, said the operator. "I've got some .enators aboard." , iOno of tke chief duties of secre taries to senators and House mem bers is to keep out callers who would waste the time of the distinguished lefrislotors. It has- therefore become second nature to say that the sena tor or representative is not In, whan such a Caller shows up. It Is one of those diplomatic evasions well known and generally accepted In Washing ton. But the other day a secretary who retains some vestige of; the New Eng land conscience which she brought to Washington, mused quizzically: "I .Wonder, now, if when some of ut apply at the pearly gates, we will be told tbdt St. Peter U not in." MORETIIAN HUNDRED MEN MAY BE FOUtt DEAD BOltOMillNE 1 vi jjj&'i-. Four Bodies Removeiri Phelps-Dodge Pit in New Mexico 122 ENTOMBED BY BLAST 'Lt- -r! Many Killed by Explosion in British Columbia Mine. Twenty-Eight Bodies' Re covered Theft Brace of Catastrophes . . ' , g ; (By the United Press.) ' Dawson, N.. M. t Feb. . The bodies of the 122 miners entombed in the Phelps-Dodge Coal Mine No. 1 by .ait explosion wr WafcedfaT back in the shaft by resffework ers today. -Two additional bodies have been brought to the- sirface making a total recovered of six. The reacue squad said large num ber of dead had been loc Me. - Vancouver, K. - G, -'Feb 9. Twenty-eight bodies were today re ported removed from the 'Cumber land Mine n Vancouver Island at 2 a. m., following an explosion last night. Seventeen other me, were' believed entombed, and there waa little hope that they woald be res cued alive. v .' The explosion occurred in No. 4 mine of the Canadian Cilleries at Cumberland, B. C Just after the night shift ' had come -on. Fir damp caused the r explosion," : mine officials believed. ","V . ; Dawsoni'N. MFfebi !'9,V$ut bod ies; bad been: recovered at a a. m. from the Phelps-Dodge Dawsom Min No. t, where 122 men tfer entomb ed by an explosion yesterday. Mine officials feared all bad per ished. ' ' " j-'- ' . j One hundred and fifty rescue' work ers who toiled throughout the night at tnat time, were still a mile from the spot where the other 118 miner were working when the Wast wreck id the workings. " Tho resfiUe work ers hoped to be 1 able to reach the , spot today. ' ' One hope of .tadhnf llMTmeVi allvo lay in the DossiWlltytWat they were, able to wail up the room and protect themselves against deadly ass which accumulated following the blast. ; ' Physicians and nurses were , rush ed from surrounding i towns Wives and children of workers . hong about the barricaded shaft throughout the night, eagerly awaiting a word of hope from their trapped loved ones. No explanation f the disaster would be given by.company officers.: - Forty Dead Vancouver. : ' Vancouver, Feb. 9. Forty -ar known to have lost their lives in an explosion at the Cumberland coal mine on Vancouver Island, according to e- umwees reacmng Vancouver. Kescue workers estimated that the death list probably would no$ exceed 40. Big Addition Cotton Mill at Gastonia is Announced fa North' (By the United Press) 1 Pawtucket, R. I., Feb. One hun dred thousand feet of floor a mica will be added to the Jenckes Srrining Company's plant at Gastonia, N. C. :. , i m, ' .fc w an auiiuuiiceu iasi eTwung. iiie plant will be one- of the largest in the South with this addition. Lincoln Votes Half a $ Million Dollars for ' Better Public Roads (By the-United Press) Lincolnton, Feb. 9. The county ' commissioners of Lincoln County, in, session here, voted' for an Issue of $500,000 of bonds for road' iniprove ments in the county. LAYMAN LEADS 24 MEN v TO DECIDE FOR CHRIST. " Nashvill, Feb. &.-Rusa jfall ' Ban tist layman of Middlesboro, Ty., 27 years old, manager of a "wholesale produce house and teacher of a Urge . men's Bible class at the First Baptist Church, induced 24 men t Join, the church in an evangelistic appeal tor his class of Sll men. -.', MAIN STREETS ARE GAY PLACES, SAYS (Bv the United Press.) Harvard, 111., Feb. 9. Moral condi tions of "'Main Streets"' are far worse than those of boulevards and drives, Vinvet Rumley, state's attorney for McHenry County, declared today fol lowing a cleanup investigation, Sev en youths were arrested, and warrants issued for eight others.:.: The probe,' Rumley declared, disclosed ' the. most tig witnesses were four girls, daughW. prs of Harvard a poorer families Nightly revels at distant roadliouseg, flowing .bootleg liquor, and riotoua oy riding in ths early morning hours, were described in, tha girU' stories. - ... . ....

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