North Carolina Newspapers

olume 25; Number 113 THE SUN-JOURNAL, NEW BERN, N. CJ. TUESDAY, MAY 11, 1920. Single Copy: Five Cents "W7 EAYETTEVILLEJS "PUSSYFOOT" JOHNSON ON HIS RETURN TO OPPOSE REERjA NI WINK "MOVEMENT II i ? . I .11 run I ' f z"3 v n r FLAN CONSOLIDATE ' If I .1 I I IV 1 U U U i- PUBLIC SCHOOLS .1 ! ' ; - i :. n nnnncn Lib L' JLJ;LI ' , Lv Personal Instruc ts ihe Officers of The ; Fleet on August 11, J Them "Throw Tradi- 101 a The Wind," Strike The : Prudent From Their 'aries, "Do The Thing : i Audacious To The Ut Point of Risk and Dar- Spoke His Disapproval the Efforts Which Had Up V -t Time Been Made To c; the Submarine Peril. ; n; ; IfE IIS READY .0 MM 1XGTOX, D. CM May 11. t -Wilson's hitherto unpub wir instructions to the officers Atlantic Fleet given in per- n I he quarter deck of the Flag r - nsylvania on August Jl, ', . 1 bidding them "throw tra i ( the winds," strike the word t from their ' vocabularies the thing that '1s audacious v most.' point of. risk.' and w ere made public here; to- i-etary Daniels. . '! lent spoke as commander S the Navy at a ti. when :i submarine menace vs In t. ". i the text of his re the senate naval i,i cinnmittee Secretary Dan- ' ' ' olll(-r"l,Ugh v policy the president ; for the nhvy., 1 . f t . to think' what ia ( a moment" the Presi L "Vou will win by audi--t .-f method" when you cannot i .mimspection and pru- , k I hat there . are willing .'r tliis in the ; American t'.a American army because 3 kind of folks we are.", ' will have to come a new i :U the service wliich does w and audacious and sue- vs," iilent also expressed his ct ion with the progress thi n toward . crushing 1 ' campaign. , , , hunting 'hornets all' over j" he sa! 1. "I am willing ? t and I know you are will- I know the stuff you are ; willing to sacrifice i V 1 ave to crush that ' ..- if we crush it-the ! ."' ' .'-'; - '.. -h a l -.:.-alty had' met Ani e.HfioHs with what amount. i nts that "it never had " the 1 'resident said, add I ff It like saying 'well, no s ever done so systematically 5g is being done now." ! : : v i . . u r jt sc EtiE h1. lit In Business District- of City Does Considerable ' Damage (By A? iciated Press) " 1 ,CKY MOUNT' N. : C., May 11. out $15,000' damage was done to ? stock in the stores of G.. F: Har- 1 an 4 the United Woolen Mills, lo- Ja buildings in the business n of ' Rocky Mount by a fire early today. Damage to the was about $5000. The partly covered by insurance. : AL CENSUS ' f 'V CURES GIVEN OUT , on;, rjfpci Mayl;---a.nno'nncea "toaaV Jn- N. C,. 5,333, r cent.- " - ' ::. c, 2,691, per cent. increase Increase . LSON .SEND . AIISIIIP TO. DATUM sociated Press.) ON, D. C, May 11. President rruan war- k Sea to -i property 1 railroad .nously. i utions o y FIE r FOR THE DELAY III E Daniels Makes Another, '. Grave Charge "Against Rear Admiral' '" ffACIDC WAS AN AMERICAN PLAN - ,-.' . . . ' . (By Associated 'Press.) WASHINGTON, D. C, May 11. A counter-charge that establishment ' -:- '-, - - L. i -v- ' : '' t " ' ' of the Nortn hoa mine barrage was delayed six months because of the opposition of Admiral Sims and the British Admiralty was 'made before the senate naval investigating com mittee today by Secretary Daniels m presenting the second part of his re ply to the oiheers chafge that the Navy ' Department had unnecessarily prolonged the war through failure to co-operate fully at first With the al- lied naval forces. The barrage, Mp. Daniels added,: was the most effec tive measure that could .have been taken to check jthe submaJine and was wholly an American idea. The Secretary also charged that Sims had 'attempted in his testimony to roD the navy of credit for this pi -ject and give it to the British. LllTHERAN SYNOD IS TO BE OPENED TC TpV illlill .NA-GiWSMrr-e.r Aid -1 1 -A sermon by President J. L. Morg.ui. public confession ' and Holy . Com munion are features of the opening session here tonight of the 117th an nual convention of the, Evangelical Lutheran Synod and Ministerium of North Carolina.' The sessions of the convention nwIU continue through Sunday.. . SHIPS ARE PREY OF - WORLD VIDE GANG Thieves Steal Thousands of Dol- lars' Worth of Cargoes From ; U. S. and British' Ports LONDON, May 11. A despatch to the London Times from. Sydney, New South Wales, says, that recent experi ences have indicated that .a. gang of men with world-wide ramifications is engaged in stealing, from cargoes on their way to Australia from English and American ports. . The cost to shipping companies ' and merchants, it is said, has aggregated thousands of pounds sterling annually.'-The -pilfering has 'taken place prior ' to ship ment from the points of origin,-dTiring transmission and after their - arrival at destinations. At ; Sydney, S7&.000 worth of goods has been stolen ;since Christmas time, and other ports have suffered in a similar manner; . . ' jj-.-i. -i . . ah aii iBQicauan or, exieni, to which the thieves are 1 carrying out their work, it may be mentioned that a piano shipped from London was taken from the shipping case and tho case filled with bricks. ' Other cases, supposedly- containing costumes of silk goods, Arrived at their, destina tion stuffed ; with newspapers, .--while boxes of merchandise from New York, were found to be filled with shavings. - Owing to.the finesse of, the thieves in extracting '; cases . and repealing tnem, , says , me correspondent, n lai almost Impossible t odetect those thati have been tampered with. The corre spondent asserts that an American sea captain remarked when the situa tion wa brought to his attention that he ,-was. pleased to bring his vessel in to port with-hia funnels intact: v- . m J M BERN A VISIT Candidate For Governor Is To Make An Address Here Sat urday Night Hon. Cameron Morrison, candidate for Governor of North Carolina, is to make an address- at the court house in this city on next Saturday even ing at : 30, o'clock and his friends here are predicting that one of th ,Lkt nriifinn i .... ... . ipi."" yc.ui do on nana io near Mr, Morrison is, well and favorably - . bvdi SIS RESPONSIBLE LAYING OF BARRAG MnOTCCCCPTlC IIIUOI 1 Lb L MnDnrenNTnDAV muiimuuiiiu i ( PEPRESENTS REBEL SONORA ' GOVERNMENT WHICH REFITSF5? , COMPROMISE WITH CARRANZA 4j. i firiinmoiwiiiww.-. - General Salvador Alvarado. There will be no comproTnlse with the Carranza Government of Mexico by thetrebel government of the State of Sonora,-. except on the" basis of the resignation of President Carranza and his ' withdrawal from ' Mexican politics, according to General Salva dor" Alvarado, representing the Son ora government at- Washington,-' D. C. QOiJFEDERATES ARE Names of Lee and Jackson Be Included in Arlington . ' , Memorial (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, D. C., May 11. Lmes of some of the ; great Con erate generals including Lee and Jaokson would be included in the. in- srriptions on the Arlington Memorial Amphitheater within the ; discretion ot the commission under., the ; joint resol ution pending in congress." ' " The measure was introduced in the house by. Representative'Sherwood of Ohio, one of the few- veterans of the pivd war remaining in congress ani.1 offered in the senate by Senator Over man of North Carolina. ' : ; 0( 10 -SOVIET. RUSSIA Bclsheviki Recognizer Independ ence of Caucasus State, , ' Which Will Disarm LONDON, May 1L A peace treaty has been -concluded between Soviet Russia- and the Republic of Georgia, according to a wireless message from Moscow. The ; treaty provides that Russia shall recognize th e independ ence of Georgia and undertake not to inter fere in, Georgia's. Internal af fairs. .y'V-j-X-.;- .-,' '"- ' s- ; That republic shall .comprise. ' the following territory:, The Tiflis, Kutals and riatumv Government- the, Dis tricts of Zakataly and Sukhum and a Portion' of the ; Blacks: Sea-' Govern Georgia Jg to disarm ail its military forces, groups and persons hostile to the fcoviet -Government and Intern them in concentration pamDs; to . be handed over subsequently, to Soviet itUBsia' whoce Government under UtftsJto. spare th,ffi- lives-AtAH'ii their iitary supplies,' ;? -. valuable k: and f inds.i however,- r will be- confiscated "unout compensation. . . . R0CKY5 MOUNT SCHOOL v , WORKERHAS RESIGNED i . i i " - (By Associated Press) . ROCKY MOUNT, N. C., May 11.-T- H.. Battle, for thirty-five years member and chairman of the Rocky Mount Kchool board, has tendered his resignation effective June 15th. - AMBASSADOR MORRIS ..-.- i INTENDS TO RESIGN , - Bv Associated Press) . WONOI.ITT.TT Mnv 1 1 . According .!,, -( Adnrticjfir .it -wan rpnnrterl fjiit Ito-,vland S. Morris, United pistes Vnoassidor to Japan intends , to Teni it in the near future to par inthe Uited sktes. Mil - - ' I " - v " t "I I I -5 -"r-,tSiL" "a' 1 -RGIA SURREND ERS 'HAVING HARD HE fv mi-if ' Charles Rarin, Resigns After " TC " - i Serving Twenty-Four ' J;, , Jlours - f f -f. SAYSTHATALDERMEN DENYH!MPONSIB!UTY (By Associated Press) FAYETTEVl LITE. N." C. Mav 11 After serving the city for the brief term of - 24v.hours. ' Mayor Charles Rankin handed, in " his resignation this, morning, ' He gives as his rea son that the board of aldermen have denied him responsible and declined to allow, him to name the commit' tees; named as, as mayor pro tem chairman of' the. finance committee, city tax collector and city treasurer, employees of 'a; certain bank in this city which would make the financial part of the city, nothing but a part ner of that bank and refusing 'to-al low him to mae, his term of office of any service 16 the people. y ' '- Mr. Rankin was named aa the de mocratic candidate at a monster mass meeting held on Friday, April 30th, and elected mayor on Monday, May 3rd, : succeeding former Mayor John Underwood who resigned' following a report of a special auditor into the financial condition of theOnayor'a court. Rankin took the oath ,of of fice yesterday morning. FRENCH LABOR BODV : ' ! , MAV BE DISSOLVED PARIS, May4 ll.-The French cabinet at a meeting today instructed the Ministry of 'Justice to open-pro.- ceedlngs against the general federa tion of labor with a view to the disso- ution of, the organization which has been supporting the--'1 work, of the rencn railway. men m oainng otner strikes.";., . V?;ev. ' t CALL WILMiGTON RECTOR TO LYNCHBURG CHURCH WILMINGTON. May 11. Rev. R. 2, Gribbin, rector of St. John's Epis copal church, has been elected rector of Grace Monumental church, Lynch burg, Va. ,Mr. Gribbin has informed the vestry of the call to the Virginia city, but has not yet reached a de cision concerning it. Mr. Gribbin has been in charge of. St, John's' Bince December, 1916, coming here from St. Luke's, Atlanta, Ga. Prior to that time he was assistant rector at Grace chureh; Charleston, S. C. During' the war he served overseas as chaplain of an infantry regiments E Securing Funds With Which To Carry' On Its . - - Work f ATLANTA, ' GA., May 11. ThroughouV the United States the work qf raising 510,000,000, 'needed by the Salvation Army to carry out its plans next year for aiding the poor and , unfortunate, was 'started Monday. v ..-; - . r ; The organization has laid its bud get before the, people, who are asked to provide the: required funds with in the next ten days. ; Franklin K. Lane,' former" ! secretary of the inr terior in President Wilson's Cabinet, is national chairman of the second home: service fund appeal i of the SalvatioQ 'Army and the -, volunteer workers jand Salvationists ;? tnrougn b ut the country have gone out to carry the appeal of the great organi zation they serve to the hearts and homes of the American people. ' Salvation Army officials hope not only to 1 continue all their present humanitarian-activities, but to wid en the scope of many of them. If the answer falls short the plans for expansion and extension must be abandoned' and the present work per haps curtailed. ? Only a small portion of the work is self-supporting. The rescue homes for unfortunate women; the hospitals, including the maternity hospitals which care for thousands of mothers of the poorer classes; 'the slum settlement demand. . constant financial aid. The fresh air camps, the prison work and the foundling homes are siipported . wholly .from the home service -fund. The evan gelican work, the bureaus, which yearly give away great quantities of food, clothing and other supplies to those in dire need as well as many other activities and institutions, de rive their support from the same source.:, ,-- ' The amount sought was not de termined arbitrarily, but by compil- j Ing the estimated financial needs of the various districts, ana corps, i nese individual amounts are required to carry on the work i the different localities. .The 'effort of each com munity, therefore, will be to raise the sum named in its own budget, and practically all the money raised in a given sect Jon will be spent there. IS AGIIDRIV William K. (Pussyfoot) Johnson : England will be dry in 'ten years. said William E. k (Pussyfoot) John son, leader of the American Anti-Saloon League's campaign - in -Britain when he returned to this country re cently. to help offset the -move . to nnng back beer and light winng. lie expressed himself as highly satisfied with the progress of the. prohibition movement in the British Isles and said that the loss of one of his 'eyes as the result of being struck by k missile thrown by a London hoodlum had resulted in public sentiment that could not be otherwise than helpful to the cause he advocates. This pho tograph was taken just before , he stepped ashore at New York; ,. Mr. Edgar S. Weaver, a prominent business man of Arapahoe, is in the t ity for the day. . - w IN SENATE'S FACE Senator Lodge Declares He In - tens to Keep Resolution Active 1 By Associated Press. ) WASHINGTON, D. C, May 11. The republican resolution to declare the war .with Germany and Austria at an end;was called up in the senate today by Senator Lodge of Massa chusetts, the republican leader who announced that he would keep the measure continuously before the sen ate uatil a . vote. . . ; s Opening the ' debate against the resolution Senator JtfcCumber"' of North Dakota, .-a republican, membeh of the, senate- foreign relations com mittee, declared . in the senate, today that sucba step "would bring .dishon or upon the nation as it "would in volve desertion jot the American js sues in the war. , KNIGHTS OF KHORASSON TO HOLD CEREMONIAL (By Associated Press) ; . ROCKY MOUNT, N.. C, The spring ceremonial Suez Temple of the order Knights : of Khorassan will be held here tonight. A large number i of candidates from this ' and 'nearby cities will be initiated. A parade and banquet late today 'will precede the ceremonial. . . - ' PRESIDENT TAKES TIME TO SEE CIRCUS PARADE WASHINGTON. D. C. Mav 1 11. President Wilson, always a devotee of the circus, reviewed the ; season's opening circus parade today from the east portico of the White-' House. Seated in a chair with Mrs. Wilson standing beside him," he laughed at the antics of the clowns and several times removed his cap in acknowl edgment of greetings, waved to hinf by the circus folks. ; ' JOHN, JIM, JOE AND ALL OF "EM THERE Smith Familv Made Up Fifteeh ' Regiments in American War Army (Hy Associated Press) WASHINGTON. D. C, May 11. Smiths made up fifteen regiments in the American war war army. John sons eleven more. Browns eight and Williams, Jones and Millers made up more than, seven each. Records at Jhe Bureau of War Risk Insurance where the names o! 4,622,4 22 former service men "are in dexed also show Anderson and Davis families were represented in suffi cient numbers' to compose mor s than live regiments each and the Wilsons, Moores and Taylors lour each,. k TO KEEP MEASURE IN 9T WHIP County .Superintendent of Pub- lie Instruction Has .This -' Plan in View , , STATE EDUCATIONAL DEPT. IS TO GIVE AID IN WORK On Thursday, Friday and Satur day of this week Mr. L. C. Brogden of the State Department of Educa- tion will be in Craven county to &s-A sist buptv Proctor in a school con solldation project in No. 9 townsb.ip-,N Mr. Brogden was m New Bern several aays ago ana went ovet. the pro position with Supt. Proctor? v He says that No. 9 has one of the finest opportunities for a bi consolidated school that he has seetfin any coun ty in the state. 1 ' . . At a meeting of the County Board of Education yesterday the schema for a big consolidated school in No. 9 township was heartily endorsed. The County Board of Education is: anxious for this project- to go: through, and it desires to see erected somewhere in the township a mo dern brick building' that will 'cor respond in beauty add utility withH a city school building. Craven; coun ty's Board of 'Education is dfonthe consolidation of - schools' whereve practicable. It realizes ; that the times is at hand when.-lareer-school advantages must be gfven the4rural children. ' The action of f Craven's Board is in line;withifthat of all De gressive boards of education in. the State. . The idea of consolidation's of state land nation-wide in scope, 4 The , meetings planned " for Mr, Brogden's visit are as follows: ' .Tuscarora, Thursday night, May 13 Spring Garden, Friday night, May 14. , Ashbury school, Saturday s night, May 15. --" .' ' . iA All -people frm the Jaspen-' neigh borhood are asked to" attend the meetmgrrtSpHng' Gafaen."aTxdalI people in the Wadswortb. or Perfec tion neighborhood 'are asked ' to at tend the meeting at Asbury school. At the : meeting of the Board of Education yesterday the new. salary schedule arranged by the State De partment of Education was approved. The teachers next year will receive material increases in salary. The sal ary schedule is based, on the kind of certificate the teachers holds and the number of years of experience he or she has had in school work. Supt. Proctor states that-he is busy now securing teachers for next term. -The indications! are now that there will be few new teachers in the county. A large percent of last year's teach ers will return. It. is believed that practically every teacher . in tha county . will attend a summer school, A large number will , attend ' State summer schools .where they will raise their certificates from the ele mentary grade to Grammar and pri mary grades. These grades carry ia increase of salary from twenty - to forty dollars' per month. JUST OFF SAN. JUAN "Aground Yesterday, Hard and Fast (By 'Associated Press.) v SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, May 11. The United States Transport North ern Pacific which went aground-yesterday afternoon at the mouth of the harbor- here still was hard and fast in the mud at 10:30 o'clock this morning1. The sea was- calm and all the passengers still were on board. The freight steamer' Cornelia was standing hy. - ';--. On board the Northern ; Pacific is a full list of cabin passengers includ ing General Pershing and his person al staff. ,; . v..".-.., .....''.. Taken Care of in The Treaty Today Handed Turk Envoy (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON. D. C, May 11. Permanent occupation of Constanti - nople which is left under the sover ignty of the Sultan by a small inter national force of allied troops is TRANSPORT AGROUND PROVIDE TO OCCUPY TnU provided lor in the treaty which wasLtermination of this government to handed today to the Turkish repre sentatives at Paris. And official summary of the. treaty has been . ro ceived in Washington. A similar international guard! ,13 provided . for ..the , garrison , of '' thfe straits as a? guarantee of free passage through the Dardanelles and Sea Marmora to? snips ot all nations. Dispatches jTrom Vera Cruz Say He;Had Broken Through Rev- J oltiUonary Lines ReyolufS J C tionists Declare He Has'.-::' 'i ' Qeiejn Captured .Whde thedvicea coming tbrougfa tronf! wviexieo on , the ', revolutionary situation are fragmentary and con-', flicting, th'ey cause considerabla doubt of the reports that President' Carranza Kas' been made a prisoner t. A Vera'Crux dispatch from tha newspaper -. El . Ditcamen, a member -of the Associated Press, bearing Mon- ' day's date declared the fugitive prea :deat of the republic who was making- .an effort to reach. Vera Cruz had broken through the revolutionary ; ; Une3 ;; and. was standing at: bay- with . 4,O00tcK n at San Marcos, ' twentyr ' seven nu north' of Puebla. . ; i. 'Oa ll other and'the revolution- ary lead i s along the horder are still i clalmini that Carranza v has A been made a captive ; ; :. .;-';, ,'; '" These reports, however, give few details of the capture except to da- ' ; clare that the convoy had been taken' with the President, that three . gen erals who were with him hadt been executed and ' another' general Woiui , ded. ? "f ', i "-t ;.:- ., v .J .-.; : It was dded that General Carranza had been ordered returned to Mexico , City will . jau consideration and that none "' of his party was to be killed or mistreated. " :. ; i; 1 It, wbuld ' appear, ' however," .tr bra advices pre-supposing the accuracy of the reports, that Carranza' la still at " ' liberty. that,the', situation he finds himself 4nj according to the- Vera Cruz advices is -precarious, the ) an- nouncement .that-"ithe- roverament troops In -Vera' Jru have -deserted . their commander '.and gone,, over to ' the- revolutionists, making that state , .' apparently; no longer a oaf A' refuge tor the President. ; , -'"''.'."""."''".. Meiico City dispatches report iho . situation there as quiet with the troops of General Obregon In full poa sessionAll Mexico, in fact, with the exception of a few. localities is declared to be. in" the hands of. the revolutionists. . " ; - , ' j- ;; . The overthrow has been effected with little blood-shed all advices in- , dicated.- - . ,- .. -:. i - , -. .r i.,,. SEEK COGNITION. ; ? WASHINGTON. D. C. May 11.--The revolutionary government in Mexico will ask for Immediate, recog nition by . the American 'government. : A- movement to this end already, J. has been inaugurated by the revolu-V '-, tionary regime which has its iead- v quarters in the state of Sonora where the revolution was first launched. " ' . QUIET' AT TAJiriL. i 1 I WASHINGTON, D. C., May 11.- Captain Long, commanding the de stroyer division in i Mexican watery reported from the Destroyer Putnam at Tampico today that all was quiet, there. He said no Americans or for- -eigners were threatened or in '.daif ' ger and the immediate. prospects iig the Tampico area were peaceful. J. 'Communication Restored' 'i5" -WASHINGTON, D, C, May 11f-; , Communicatioftsbetween Mexico Cliy and Vera Cruz by land telegraph was restored yesterday. A privateTmes sage received here today trom Mexf-:" . co City via . this line and ' cable, saii.-' all was quiet in the Mexican capitol r and that perfect order was beinj? . maintained by the revolutionists. " ,v ' : Cause Concern EL PASO, Texas, May ll.- J :-.-S- -Activ ities of Carranza forces in the region" about Tampico which Is itself In ret bel hands are causing the United , States government considerable con cern according to a dispatch: from agents of the Mexican revolutionists to agents of the movement here re ceived today. No details were con- ';' tained in the message. : ' . ' ? : : - - :'-'; - v: Interest Shifts -,i..;- - ''''. With practically all orMexico dom inated by the revolutionists aad Car ranza reported a prisoner, official in- 1 terest shifted today from the toll itary phase pfthe situation to the ex pected . Political,., " developments. Agents of j th de )f actp- government , . professedto,helive that steps would be taken immediately toward the es tablishment of a provisional govern ment to be succeeded as soon as pos sible by constitutional regime. Re--: ports received through official chan nels as well as those Bent to the re- . : volutionary agents continued q in-.i : dicate the absence of serious., dis orders although the dispatch of a bat- tie ship, and additional destroyers to. southern, waters suggested the de- afi'ord foreigners protection in "the ' event o fserious trouble at any of the port' towns. : " vri'-'V';.--.-' ' : '-., While officials here considered th-i Vevolutionary movement as- too, un'-' (ried for judgment, the impression' was manifest that for a time at least ofyt I would nothaye to; face the usual;"' counter revolution. , v. '',' 1 '