V,V'rto 9V Number 19V """ tlayi wecir.r V ( l,.n8 XJ, luintv-r . partly cloudy THE SUN-JOURNAL, NEW BERN, N. C.; TUESDAY, MAY 25, 1920. EIGHT PAGES TODAY Single Copy: Five Cents WOMEN KILLED THIS MODERN BLUEBEARJ) E ER HAD TWENTY-SIX WIVES AT '4 HEAVY FIGHTING CONTINUES ALONG BERESINA RIVER DANIELS FISK MANDATE OV IN AUTO ACCIDENT OLD CONTROVERSY Mill URGED II MIMPTflM BEING UPON AMERICA niLminuiun of to i t! irrcro's Claim That "First CI i ur" . Committed Suicide Net S ".stainedBody of Slain Pre IJcnt Taken to Mexico City For Burial. :XICO CITY, May 25. In ac- nre with hi3 oft-repeated re ., rresident Carranza, slain last s.'lay morning, was buried late i 'ay afternoon in the Dolores y, where the poorest of Mexi ire for many years found their vr-Ur. j places.-- 3 body of the slain president ar i i r;erjco City at 5: 30 o'clock r ' ay morning, and was taken to I .-.rally home, being escorted by is and a delegation from the .atic corps. , ' ', -nel Rudolf o Merrero, leader of evolutionary forces on whom has 1 ' 1 the responsibility tor the i' cf Carranza, had telegraphed -r :y authorities here that the -it committed suicide rather ; urrervder. ' " -- vv: ,r -nel llerrero has ' offered to to Mexico City to prove his as :,n that Carranza killed, himself. 1 r v:;::a i i Was Assassinated CRUZ, May 25. Reports ; ;, performed on the body I resident Carranza failed ,-lih the claim of Rudolfo :. :t the president commit- o t. i .1 2 rather than be taken cap is ; r t c 1 in official quarters - ii who conducted ' the aur t ii "declared, found Carranza n i-truck by two rifle bullets, v : '.eh penetrated his breast " ' -r his abdomen. The bul ! from in front, and it was :i c f those who. witnessed t' t the president had it .is, said. . An Outlaw '' ' .-,,-May 25 Gen- bidding defiance ... an government, ,i outlaw among . 3 ...idit, with a small . v. . , reported today be 1 and Jimenez, Chihua tcd quarry of de facto a price of 100,000 pesos ll'C : NAMED TO GEORGIA STRIKE sociated Press.) . . I ON, D. C, May 25. ell has been appointed the strike of. Central of ,ro3d clerks, it was an '.e Department of Labor. raid, President of the iks, has advised the de at there was . danger of J. i (. r reading "all over the i we. r a:;d rowdies in CL SII IN ROME; 5 KILLED ' ociated Press.) , ::.y 25. Four policemen 5 ( ' . ::ian were killed in a clash i. i .vdies and nolice during a r .Ion celebratine the fifth, r ry cf Italy's ejitry into the world v. :-.r cere toaay. .- c::ai;ges made in f nr. IDZNCES OF BISHOPS (By the Associated Press.) DES MOINES. Iowa. May 25.- Few chansea were made in the resi dences among bishops of the Meth odist Lpiaeopal church in the appoint ments of those officially read today at the- r aeral conference. ' Among the cha: s were F. D. Leete from Atlar.ti to Indiananolis. and W. F. Thii build f rom New Orleans to' Mex ieo City, r,lexico. . - v:4 5 I- Reducinc H. C. L. . ' WASHINGTON, May . 25.-rMeans of reducing excessive living costs by honet , wc:shts and measures was one of the topics before the confer ence of weights and measures offi cials of the United States, opening here today. : i THIS LITTLE PIGGIE ,' HAS TWO SQUEALS AND SEES ;WITH THREE EYES BAT AVI A, N. Y., May. 25. A farmer living near here has discon tinued using his dinner bell. He has a substitute that beats a dinner bell ' all hollow. , f , Said substitute is none other than a . young pig, but it is an extraor dinary pig. - It was born with two snouts, three eyes, two mouths and two tongues, and it can squel out of both mouths at the same time and see with all three eyes. " Three times dailv this youn ' porker grows hungry and he doesn't hesitate to raise two loud, .shrill squeals when , the time arrives, for putting on the feed bag. So the din v . bell isn't neerlPii fnf this pii " waa born on . a small'i'farm "and squeal can be heard from'any cproer cf iz4 v BECOMES PRESIDENT ' .; OP GUATEMALA 4 'I Following the enforced resignation of Estrada Cabrera, .after a presiden cy lasting twenty-two years,; Carlos Herrera has been . made provisional president of Guatemala. Herrera owns the biggest sugar -' plantation in the country, and, is one of that republic's wealthiest' men. iHis children hava been educated in schools in the Uni ted States. . ' . .. WILLIAM BSSffi TAKES FLAT ISSUE nil ,;riso!i Declares His Opposition to Pro- posed American : Mandate . Over Armenia . (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, D. C, May 25. William Jennings Bryan took flat issue today with President Wilson on the . question of an American man date ' over Armenia, declaring in a statement that "any mandate is im possible." . - The United States, Mr. Bryan said, could do more ' toward making the world safe for democracy,' "even for democracy in Armenia, Dy recog nizing the Armenian rRepublic and entering the league . of " nations "as the friend of all little countries.''; WOMAN SUFFRAGE E! Well Known Woman Delivers An y ' Interesting Address ? . There Pamlico county evidenced ' its ' In-M terest in the woman suffrage issue by crowding! the Bayboto court-house to the doors Monday night to hear Miss Lola C. Trax, field counselor of the National American Woman Suffrage Association speak upon the ratiflca tion of the federal amendment. Mr. Allen Babbitt presided, and after a well-chosen introductory speech, presented Miss Trax as southerner, a resident of Maryland one versed in the problems of the south. She said: "That North Caro Una will ratify the federal woman suffrage amendment is conceded. want to plead that you make the vote unanimous so that your women may feel that you whole-heartedly .want their ; cooperation : and so that they may enter upon their new political duties, with' a spontanetyi which will militate to the advantage , of your state.; I am told that the men of North Carolina stay somewhat closely by the -party lines. I ask that .you stand by your parties now in the sup port of our federal amendment : ; The meeting unanimously passed a resolution, calling upon the ;General Assembly to ratify the amendment. A Pamlico county v ratification commit tee was fqrmed, with Miss vEmma Bobbitt as chairman. ', SERVED DIVORCE NOTICE, THREW INFANT TO FLOOR nAMVITin 111 TITo OS It moln urXr-A'Zt Z?m:Z wT:; STSPAIICO vu, -""-"'"r "r"away... vyas servea wiin n' uuuw uuouauu uau meu sun iui uituh.. iubi she hurled her lureB-wraw-wu. iu- fant to the floor The child 1b at tna point of death In a hospital. - Mrs. wilbur(. was immediately - arrested. . Tzken to jail she continued to . rave for three hours ..when 'police,, were J able to quiet her. Bolsheviki Troops Thrown Back By Poles With Heavy - Losses 5 .',' (By Associated Press.) , WARSAW, 'May " 25'. Bolsheviki troop s which succeeded . in crossing the upper Beresina in several places have been driven back across the river with , heavy losses, including more wthan four hundred prisoners, according' to an official statement is sued' here today. ' The enemy ia at tacking 1 along the entire northern Polish front, but have been checked everywhere It is declared. .. Fighting continues . along the whole front and the Bolsheviki have brought - up1 the largest number or troops ever faced by the Poles. Six teen divisions " have thus far ' been dentified"; as ' taking ' part in the struggle. Soviet cavalry is being used in the swampy country, and it is known that at least one mountain di vision is in action. Both sides are using airplanes', armored automobiles and armored trains wherever possi ble. . ' - GOVERNOR HARDING WILL NOT DEFINE ESSENTIALS (By the Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, May, 25. Econ omy in individual expenditures, re duction of non-essential ; loans j by. banks, increased production and im proved transportation are needed to reduce the cost of living and deflate credits, Governor Harding, of the Federal Reserve Board, declared to day in responding to a Senate resolu tion of inquiry. The board is not prepared to de fine what are - essentianl and non essential loans, Governor Harding stated. This, he said, is a problem for local bankers familiar with local needs. BOSTON WOMEN'S CLUB OFFERS SET OF RULES TO REDUCE COST OF LIVING BOSTON, May 25. Here are some rules for reducing the cost of living, issued by the clothing information bureau of the Boston Women's City Club: . '' 1 Women Don't wear silk' gloves, stockings or underwear. ' - Don't wear shoes for style. . Wear clothes longer. Don't be your dressmaker's slave. ; v Y ' .Men 'A; ;r.:''?-;;v.-k';' Don't wear stiff collars, cuffs and shirts. . . : Select "sensible" shoes. Keep your coat on a hanger and press your own clothes. ' Wear mended Bocks and polish your own shoes. ' Even the kids can help by going barefooted in the summer, so the in formation bureau says. PRESBYTERIANS ARE ON SPEAKING TERMS AGAIN (By Associated Press.) CKENZIE, Tenn., May 25. For the first time since the division arose in .' the Cumberland; ..Presbyterian Church South with the Presbyterian Church U. S. A., the assembly of the latter church in session at Philadel phia and the Cumberland Presbyter ian General ' Assembly, which con cluded its session here today, have exchanged greetings. BOLD THIEF IBS F 'LASSES "Lifts" This From in Front Of - Store on Pollock Street Monday Night NEW BERN, once referred' to as the city . of mysteries, has another deep, dark but bloodless enigma in its midst, this time a barrel of the finest " sort of molasses being the Centre of attraction, said molasses costing the owner, Mr. A. P. Fulcher just seventy-five dollars. - It happened thusly,- or" thisly, whichever way one cares to put it: Mr. Fulcher, who conducts a grocery store at No. 224 Pollock street, had purchased the barrel of molasses for some of his select trade and, it being rather heft and heavy, he had placed it out on a small platform in front of his store. All went well and serene until about 11 o'clock Monday night and at this point and that hour, the plot, if not the molasses, thickens. Chugging up the street came an automobile. Two v men aiignted, re qonnoitered "around and seeing no one nearby, laid hold of the barrel, roll ed it from its perch and managed to get it in the car, then drove swiftly . .. . r . .... - set u m,ne car' lnen arove sw,,tlj ' Fortunately for Mr. Fulcher . and iinr(,rri! lare v lor ine owner OI ine automotive, tne molasses tnievear weie seen and recoenized. Mr. Fulch - t er refrained today from having a' j warrant- sworn' out for the guilty j parties, stating that he wanted to give them an opportunity to return the stolen goods. .1.: BARREL 0 Sad News Reaches Fayetteville ' Man at Convention of, ' '.Elks (By the Associated Press.) SALISBUKV May 25. Ar thur C. : Coilocott, of Fayette . villo, attending the grand lodge ' meeting of Elks here, received a telegram shortly before noon to day stating that . his wife and daughter had been killed in an automobile accident at Wilming ton, N. C.-No details were given. The daughter ; was attending school in Wilmington. ' , OPPOSITION TO CATTLE t DIPPING VERY GENERAL ;.( By Associated Press.) "OKLAHOMA CITY Okla., May 25. John A. Whitehurst, president of the state board of agriculture, today asked Governor Robinson to declare si district of Sequoyah County under martial law as a result of the destruc tion of cattle dipping vats v: in that county. Mr. Whitehur&t declared that the farmers in three townships of the county "were in open defiance of the law , relative to the dipping of cattle. " mam file EXPENSE AGCOUnTS : II! seiiate probe Edwards,'. Hoover and Owen Sh'ow How Money is Being1: . Spent . .. . (By Associated Press.)f tv WASHINGTON, May 5 .--Walter W. Vick, manager of th presidential campaign of Governor Edwards, dem ocrat! ot New Jersey' denied before the serfate : investigating committee today that any liquor interests were "underwriting" the governor's cam paign. Mr. Vick was replying to questions by Senator Reed, democrat, of Mis souri. He naa testinea tnat tne. total fund raised for his candidate was 512,900. i ! Expenditures of $66,332 exclusive of the California -primary expense have beeni made in the campaign of Herbert Hoover for the republican presidential . nomination, John F. Lucey, manager for Mr. Hoover, tes tified today. Total receipts were placed at $62,185. .:...: J. W. Beller, of Washington, ap pearing for Senator Owen, democrat, of Oklahoma, was the first witness todayk Oklahoma's supporters for the senator, he testified, raised $7,810 for the campaign and $2,600 was given through the Washington head quarters. Samuel Untermeyer, of New York, who gave $1,000, he said. was the only - large contributor, though a cousin of the candidate gave $500 at the start.. ; . REDUCE PERSONNEL OF ( Insurance bureau WASHINGTON, May 25. An nouncement is made by Director R. G Cholmelev-Jones tha. through the adoption of improved methods . and equipment, a plan to achieve an an nual saving of approximately $8,500, 000 in the administration of the bu reau of war risk insurance has been inaugurated and, by" June 30 of the present year will have become an established regime. The bureau not only has now reached a current basis in its work, but the improved meth ods which have been installed have made possible at the same time'a re duction of the personnel from 15,000 as of last July, to approximately 9, 000 as. of date, with a schedule of further reduction ahead which, car ried into effect, will reduce the per sonnel to approximately 7,500 by June . 30, ' thus virtually cutting in half the bureau's basic payroll in the course of the fiscal year. ONE-PIECE SUITS TO BE PERMITTED Washington Officials Will Allow Girls To Go As Far As They Like (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, D. C.. May 25. Bare legs and scanty one-piece bath- " " ycimilieu luio Bum at Che8peake Beach, the capi- tal's seashore resort ' v Officials today agreed to disregard simh nroncrloTita ao iho n,ii;h;nri orders issued at Conev Island and 1 Atlantir- ntv np-aint oritur hnthit, costumes It is silly to put the ban on bare legs," they said, "a'nd if any of the girls want to . cut the high cost - of dressing.the police won't say a word. BARE LEGS AND '4' . '' . '--.i ISl p " - ii It ' 11 i( ' It- . L Charles Newton Harvey, also known as Richard Huirt, is accredit ed (by-police officials with having .mar ried twenty-six wives. Harvey, or Huirt, was recently -arrested in Loi Angeles on suspicion of having acted as a fence for bond and jewel thieves. After hi3 arrest he made two at tempts to kill himself. - SENATOR SHERMAN AMERICAN LEGION Says Attempt ! to Loot Federal ' Treasury is Disgrace to ' Soldiers ; (By the Associated - Press. ) , ' WASHINGTON,"- May V 25. Sena tor- Sherman, Republican, ot Illinois, speaking today in the . Senate da tfounced the proposed "Soldier' r relief bill as a "disgraceful deterioration of the patriotism . of a great ' country." If the. impelling aim of the American Legion is to "loot the federal trtas- ury, he said, it a disgraceful or ganization.". . . ..- ' ; ' Senator Sherman declared that for 20 years he had never allowed the American Federation of Labor to dic tate to . him and that he did not in tend, to permit the American Legion to do so. . - , . The- atick was precipitated by a telegram received by ' the : senator from an American Legion post inquir ing as to his attitude toward the bill. BUILDING HOUSES FOR UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS CHAPEL HILL, May 25 Work has been- started on the construction of the group of ten houses which the University of North Carolina is build ing for members of the faculty on the edge of Battle Park at an approxi mate cost of $ 5 0,000 and business manager C.' T. Woollen said today that the whole ten would, be ready for occupancy by next September. Their erection will be a welcome re lief from crowded housing conditions which University professors have had to live under for the past two years. "There is not in the town to day so much as a comfortable room to say nothing of a house in which any new member of the faculty could be installed, said President Chase in his last annual report. "Further- more, six faculty families are living I in houses which they must vacate at the end of the yar,; and no one of them has been able to make any ar rangements." INDICTMENTS AGAINST CHAS. MORSE DISMISSED NEW .YORK, May 25. Indict ments against Charles W. Morse and other defendants charged with ille gal sale of the steamship John J. Mc Cullough were dismissed today r by Federal Judge Hand by order of At torney General Palmer. FIRE EXTINGUISHERS NOW1 MAKE FIREWATER GLOBE. Ariz. The Arizona East ern Railroad is obliged to keep a strict watch on the fire extinguishers in its offices since amateur, moon shiners have discovered that they make the finest kind of stills. Recently several of the extinguish ers were stolen and the officials were at a loss to account for their disap pearance until the federal officers gathered in a bunch of "white mule" manufacturers at Miami and found .u .t.t.i,. Anin:Ant 1.1 B Lie CA...,fcU.ouv.. the underground caverns wnicn the ni!i!t limmr makers had constructed beneath a house. More than 200 cases of moonshin ivsK are to be heard at the next term of the Federal court here. This sec tion of Arizona is, becoming as cele brated for illegal' distilling jas : the mountain regions of Kentucky, : URLS GAUNTLET AT Daniels Charges ' Officer With ' Wanting to PrussU" ?e American Navy , (By the Associated Pres, & ... WASHINGTON, May 25.-1 old controversy between Secretary Dan iels and Rear Admiral BradlA. Fiske was revived today before . we-i Senate committee inyestigating navy's conduct of the war. Chairman Hale gave . natice tlference here..- v i " Admiral FLke would be called to rw- .Doctor Wilbur strongly urged 'an ply to charges' made by Mr. Daniels under cross-examination by the chair man that the admiral had sought to 'Prussianize' the navy; Secretary Daniels said summoning Admiral Fiske would be satisfactory to him, but that he would insist, upon r l7ta " "' rr'rr.i had testified. Replying to the chairman, Mr. Dan iels said he had, never paid much at tention to Admiral Fiske's plan to re organize the navy department. : . Boreil to Extinction v ; V- v "He bored me to extinction," de clared Mr. Daniels. "He was a monu mental egotist. He thought the Ger man general staff was the best in the world and wrote about one letter a day urging me to approve, its adop tion for our navy. ' ':. '. .- "His favorite illustration of tha, way the system worked in Germany was a story that when the Franco Prussian war broke out Molke was asleep. ; When told that war was de clared Molke merely rolled over and told hi? advisors to look in the top 2 drawer of his desk and get t.he plan the war, and then went back to sleep." ' -f - : !-. r r i .' " ': '.-Vs ' , "I do not want a chief of naval operations who would go to sleep after war was declared." r WHEAT AND FLOUR EXPORTS FOR IiAST TWELVE MONTHS '' WASHINGTON,', May s 2 5. Exports of wheat and flour, July; 1,- 1919, to May 14, 1920, amount to 99,683000 bushels of wheat and,1832M00 bar rels of flour,- making a total equal to 182,123000 ,bushels t wheat, com plied' with 154,717,000. bushels of wheat and 24,010,000 barrels of flour last year to May 14,. which makes a total of - 262,762,000 'bushels, of wheat, last year's total flour exports including" American Relief Adminis tration and American Expeditionary Force shipments. The first fourteen days of May last year are prorated from the monthly report. ; AMERICAN LIFE Attitude of Capital Might Bring Curse of Russia to Free America (By the Associated Press.) BOSTON, May 25. William Shaw, general secretary of the United So ciety of Christian Endeavor, and pub lisher of the v Christian Endeavor World, said in an address to the Pil grim Publicity Association today that the greatest menace to the industrial life of America "is the director who enriches himself and his fellow stock holders by voting stock dividends based on exhorbitant prices for their Droducts." ' .- - - v. vv Mr. Shaw asserted that the recent cash and stock dividends in many in stances, represented . exhorbitant profits extorted from the people while they were under the stress and storm of war. "r .;; -?-v- ' "Such manifestations of selffish ness and greed," he said, "such utter disregard of the principles of justice and equity as the representatives of capital are giving us today, will ao more to bring on the curse of Russia than all the ravings of the 'reds' of which so many stand in fear. REALTY MEN SAY Assert That The Value of Farm - Lands Has Not Reached Zenith With the price of real estate in this section greater than has ever before been the case, local realty dealers are voicing the opinion that the value or some varieties of land, particularly farm land, will go even higher. back to the farm" movement now than ever be PR NG S GREAT MENACE TO PRICES GO HIGHER fnrp. thAstA realtv men sav. and thial Already, however, a few Xnsh po . . - J. means mai ilbio ui6 ueuiauu iui Not only aoes mis conuuion pre vail In' this locality, they assert, but information they have received from other sections ' of this and nearny state is to-the effect that the same status of affairs is ' prevalent there also.'-' - , Dr, Wilbur Declares No Other . "Nation Could Successfully ',' 1 Administer It. (By Associated Press.) GREENSBORO, May 25. An ad dress by the Reverend C E. Wilbur, of Pittsburg, on the "Challenge of the. Near East," held,.' chief Interest at the - morning's sessir i ,of the Methodist ' Protestant general c con- American mandate over Armenia, de claring , that no nation except the United States could successfully, ad minister a mandate over, Armenia. ' . Doctor Wilbur, who had hia -impressions 'first, hand in Armenia, as serted that the cost of the mamlato would be comparatively small . arid that only a small force of American troops - would be necessary to carry it out. . . ATLANTA'S RICH CHILDREN : ARE NOT HEALTHIEST KIDS -ATLANTA; Ga., May 25. Atlan ta's children of, the rich, are not as healthy as Atlanta's poor children, f one judges the entire city by the pupils of a publicschool patronized almost exclusively by the well-to-do, as compared to the Inmates of an or phan asylum, where children are car- ed for at less than 30 cents --a'day apiece. . " .' . . - Six- groups of Atlanta hildrpn were examined by the American IU Cross ia the course of a diatetics i - stitute conducted, by Dr. W Ii. r. Emerson, noted child welfare spe cialist, of Boston. The highest per centage of malnutrition was 1 in a high school attended by girls front fourteen to eighteen : years of a ga. Among younger children from 6 to 12, the highest percentage was in th fore-mentioned "rich man's school." The lowest percentage of all - was in the Home for the Friendless, v. hero hundred orphan children are shel tered. (The Home, According to Dr. u.merson has the healthiest children he has found anywhere in the Uci!a States. . .Dr:, Emerson says that'malnu:. i- tion among children is caused chl: ly by physical defects such-as bad teeth, lack of home control, overfa tigue, improper food habits like "bolt ing breakfast," and improper nealth habits, such as sitting up late. INTER-I WORE DMOVEBIT Great Debate Scheduled by Pres byterians for Late This v':1 Afternoon , CHARLOTTE, May 25. Interest at the sessions of the general assem bly of the Southern . Presbyterian , Church today are converging toward the three o'clock afternoon meeting- when the Question of the denomina tlon'8 relation ' toward the " Inter- church World . Movement will reach the floor of the body and there, pro, duce -what; is admitted generally the greatest controversy and division of sentiment to be developed. ' - It is evident the debate over what the Southern Presbyterian, Church will do with the Inter-church World Movement will be somewhat impas- ftiOTiPd The linen hate been" rnther sharply drawn. . " . '.: Opposed to World Movement " PHILADELPHIA, May 25. Rec ommendations were, submitted today to the Presbyterian general assembly, in session here, that it withdraw from the Interchnrph World Movement, A report embodying this suggestion was made by the executive commission of which the Reverend John Willis, Bae ris. chairman., . -. . EXPECT NO RUSH . Tniini piiinnnrMTP IKUUlYontmO Railway Men Do Not Think Farm Products Will Go; V f North Rapidly Local railwaymen are not; antici pating any extensive shipments of truck from this section' this season, having the opinion that the farmers are to disnose of a goodly portion of their crops locally instead of rush- - hng all these to the northern markets ,0 hpPil. Hfi tatoes have beeu sept north and as soon as the season opens tne Bnip ments will doubtless grow in size, but it is not believed that they 'will be ;i5 large as has been the Case in ome j year im- -!', r- The demand .tot t&tm produce .in the city and, small towns is at the 'present time very heavy, .. Mill CAUSES RICH! v ' v -i ,