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: a ; ! : ; Weather Forecast : . . Vf : North t- tarolpa:' .Showers' to night and Friday. ' Gente to mod erate shifting winds. - - CONVENTION !D01NGS ! Readers of The SUN JOURNAL nre given , complete and accurate reports of the democratic national convention by the Associated Press daily. ..."' Volume 26; Number 2. EIGHT PAGES TODAY NEW BERN, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1920. ONE SECTION TODAY Single Copy: Five Cents WOO FORCES A STILL IN CONTROL:. Wnting' Tp Preven NomuMtidA . ' " ' f ?'' - " ''-. " McJ. RE JoiTtbmidwn F Mis OtlBINATION TO DEFEAT McADOO . LEAVES ADMINISTRATION SCOURING WOODS FOR A JiiillE IBS :::;:s FARiitY of ,;.n,;; ejevspapers Fourth in String of Afternoon Dailies Acquired by Raleigh . Publisher Raleigh, ""juiy'i. Through transaction made several days ago, John A: Park, of the Raleigh Times, adds to Jbe chain of Park publications the, Greenville Daily News, at Greehr villa, N. C, having acquired the pa per from J. L: Mayo, publisher of the Washington (N. C") Daily News. The paper 'was taken over by Mr. Park and his associates today.-' - This is the fourth' pf the afternoon dailies In the state now 'tinder the taauagement of Mr. Park, the others "being the Raleigh Times, Raleigh; The Observer, Fayetteville and the SUN-JOURNAL, NEW BERN AH of the Park publications are served by the Associated Press and while un der the eame management are separ ate and distinct corporations and or ganizations. 1 ' Arrangements are beinp made by the new owners . of the Greenville News ,to improve the mechanical and news departmental the papers.: Nu r .s features will -be added. In cluding.' a. wire and letter news ser viesj from Raleigh and the . national r sr tal,' according to Mr., Park's an , cement today,. Additions are alaa to be made to the editorial staff an j the business department.- M. L. Fir.ch, who for the past ' several m--tns has been with the Fayette vi.. ? Observer and who was for sev eral years with the Raleigh Times, wi;l be business manager- of the News, J. A. Arthus will continne as editor of the paper. , , - Application has been made for a charter for the Greenville News Com pany, Inc., under which name the pa per will be operated. The News was established by Mr. Mayor in 1917. . Banquet for Mr Finch ' FAYETTEVILLE, July 1- Mel vin" L. Finch, business manager of the Fayetteville Observer since shortly after its purchase by John A. Park,, was the' guest of honor at a supoer given by the members of the "staff and force of the Observer on the eve of his departure, for Greenville, N C, to assume the management of the Greenville 'News. The . supper was given in the banquet room of the hotel LaFayette. It was attend ed by a dozen guests in addition to Mr. Finch. - G. G. Myrover, editor of the Observer, was the toastmaster, and following, the repast, called on each of the guests, all, of whom ex pressed in short talks their sincere regret at the departure of Mr. Finch and their, confidence that he will make good in his new field as he has in -TPavAttAville. Mr. Finch made a o-ruoc.it neirno'wledgement of the good wishes bestowed upon him and : the sentiment voiced by his co-work- Those : present were Mr. Finch, Pari t tTfldrick. who succeeds Mr. " irinh : ii hiiBiness manager: J.' D. Myrover, Costin Garrason and J. B. Fisher of the .business department; G. G.. Myrover, C. B. Taylor and A. M.' Myrover, of the editorial .depart r... Atkinson, T. C. Hil- Kerwin, Latner Snipe3 and .Tfnv Snines. of the mechanical department,-- , -. RIONEYPLENTIFUL; JAMAICA PLANTERS DECOME WEALTHY Sugar Has Advanced From Thirty to Els Hundred Dollars fer ion m ' "'-'Last Few Years (By AMW4 Pre"TB, ifiwRwnw Jamaica, July 1. There has never been so much money L iom.tn. n a now. The sugar and banana planters are fast -Decoming QOuK,r anA if. the present wave, of ntfnues for a few more years the island will have at leasht, a dozen millionaires? , . . . ,v Before the war sugar fetched only tnAav it is bringing ?600 per ton in the English market. The Island's inhabitants are experiencing great difficulty in getting adequate t.lr.uZ. ,a nnlv through the ac tion oFtfood controller that eight mitDUt is kept , for t' ri.. nrn.niritT of sugar planters has led to large sums being invest . t. th.n..rfhae of the most up toniate machinery for the manufac Another central fac XL" "L?,u i koo.000 will shortly be erected in the eastern portion ol "DARK HORSE" TO MAKE PRESIDENTIAL RACE Cummings is Beginning to Show Some Strength as ., Result of His Keynote Address, and Bainbridge . . Colby is Also OccxipyirigThe Limelight. BRYAN A GREAT FACTOR IN SITUATION To Have The Commoner Place in ; Nomination .' Former Speaker Champ Clark Was One of The Ideas Favored During Preliminary Conferences. MAY SELECT MARSHALL .AS LEXDER ifPlatform Comitiittee .Has Labors No Prospect 1 hat balloting btage Will Be Reached Before Some Time Friday. , v (By Associated Press) " " - 1 SAN FRANCISCO, July 1. Overnight conferences cf the forces seelung, to effect a combination to defeat the nomination of Wil liam; G. McAdoo failed to reach any agreement oh a candidate and their only accomplishment seemed to be: a stiff ening of the deter mination to hold solid ii possible a veto block of votes. As a counter move to meet the combination against McAdoo, administration forces were scouring for a dark horse of their own who could break the combination if it proved effective. : Vice-President Marshall ,had been talked of to head the ; fight against the combination but Thomas Taggard, head of the Indiana delegation, did not join the conference . . Mention Homer Cummings There was mention of Cummings, who'has always been a factor since his keynote speech as temporary chairman, , and a new name heard was that of Bainbridge Colby, secretary of state, "But there Will be no trend toward either of these or any new names intro duced. Until the Palmer and Cox forces are both downed by. the combination' which has for its purpose the defeat of McAdoo. No progress was made in the movement to bring Mr, Bryan in the combination and have him place in nomination former Speaker Champ Clark, which was one of the ideas favored during the pre liminary conference. ' " t 4 "i'r'-, - . A factor in the situation was the: absence of 'agreement' otf the prohibition plank of the platform. The opposition of Mr. Bryan is tightly bound up in that issue; There are some who say that if Mr. Bryan should b6 successful in obtaining the plank, he is the only man who could run on it and the same old-line leaders charged that the creation of that, situation was a part of the Bryan pro gram. . Balloting Late Today. ( SAN FRANCISCO, July 1. Pros pects for balloting late today for a presidential candidate' went glimmer ing as the delegates to the democrat ic national convention assembled fot the fourth day's session. A long and bitter fight over the league of nations declarations in which the supporters of President Wilson were forced to accept amendments to the adminis tration plank before it could be adopted, so delayed the work of the I platform committee that there is lit tle likelihood the delegates will get down to balloting before tomorrow. The platform committee worked until nearly, daylight this 1 morning over . the league - plank and this brought only a few hours rest before resuming deliberations at 10 o'clock. - Report Late Today Members of the 1 committee ex pressed hope than it will be able to make a report to the convention late today, but as ' a fight Is in prospect in the committee on the prohibition and Irish -questions, with another battle on the floor of the convention oyer these planks and the league of tfations, leaders in control of the con vention have stopped figuring as to when the first ballot will be taken. Voting for the presidential nomina tion will not begin until after the platform has been adopted. Spirited clashes marked the debate in the platform committees, in which Senator Carter Glass, the chairman; William " J. Bryan, Senators Walsh, of Massachusetts,; and Walsh,- of -Montana; Pomerene, of Ohio, and Vice-President Marshall took part. The action of the committee was not officially announced, but, accord ing to authoritative sources the plank adopted recommends ratisfi- cation of the treaty and the league covenant without reservations which would impair its essential integrity. To this was added an amendment by Senator Walsh, of Massachusetts, tnat tne democrats do. not oppose reservations which make more clear or specific, the obligations of the United States to the associated na tions in the world. Amendment to Treaty The democratic platform as draft ed by the sub-committee of nine and submitted to the full committee de clares for ratification of the peace treaty as a requisite to preserve the honor and integrity of the nation; suggests that the Irish question can be brought legitimately before the league for settlement, and is silent1 on the subject of prohibition. It pdvocates collective bargaining for farmers; 'opposes compulsory ar- bitration of labor disputes; declares of the treasury there would be dis for recognition of the new Mexican covered another coalition which government when it has established would produce a Wilson-backed dark order and calls on the legislatures horse, who could make enough cou of Tennessee, . Florida and Nort h cession to win. The name of Homer Carolina to ratify the suffrage S. Cummings, chairman of the nat amendment. ional committee, cropped out when- In many "respects the platform fol- over the administration dark horses lows - that adopted by the Virginia ! were being discussed. .. democrats and publicly approved by Tfle name of Vice-President Mar President Wilson.- The leagttg ofr (Conntinued on page four Not Yet Finished Its - . - .? nations plank in particular was tak en virtually as a whole from the .Vir ginia platform, though in other re spects there have been modifications, and many new suggestions have been added. In the treaty battle the adminis tration failed to secure adoption of its plank without amendment. The committee, by a vote of 32 to 18, adopted an addition by Senator Walsh, of Massachusetts, among those opposing the administration forces, providing for ratification of the treaty of Versailles with reser vations consistent with American obligations'. . The , sub . planks of William J. Bryan and Senator Pomerene, of Ohio, and Walsh, of Montana, were thrown out. t . v Minor Planks Adopted : - Discussion of the treaty took up most 0f the session, which began at 8 o'clock last night and ended with the recess at 3:30 this morning, when committeemen were so fatigued they ceased w,ork without taking up the liquor, Irish or other questions. - The : committee adopted a labor and several other minor planks, how ever. The contention proceedings today called for final nominating speeches. Ten candidates were placed before the delegates yesterday an in eight- hour session that was full of. oratory and stirring demonstrations. The one set speech on the program was that of Governor Cornwell, of West Virginia, placing in nomination . John W. Davis, ambassador to Great Britain. Whether the name of any other candidates would be placed before the delegates was not known as they assembled, but there were reports that one or two names might be presented. McAdoo Has Inside Track Frankly admitting that McAdoo seemed to have the inside track on the rest for the nomination, the in ner circle of the old-lineMemocratic leaders worked through the night to devise means to stop his nomination and find a candidate who could com mand the necessary two-thirds votes. Champ Clark, former speaker of the house of representatives, who was denied the nomination at the Baltimore convention after repeated ly having received a majority- something unprecedented in demo cratic party ' history was being dis cussed by tne oia-iine leaaers as a possibility about whom they might rally. The answer of the McAdoo people to that move was that it an inner circle combination forestalled the nomination of the former secretary NOMINATION Commoner Taking Ah Active Part . In Democratic Doings At 'Frisco ;i! r ?' "H" -n I r iffet 1 1 "x J S ' !5 I' I i ?' it : 1 'ft ' II Ii i . . ll f - " 1 1 I ' tTT ZXXZis I I 1- WILLI A tA - J I m HCi &RV AN : (By AKHuoiafrd' Press) SAN FRANCISCO, July 1. Wil liam J. Bryan's prohibition, plank, upon which today's fight in the plat form ommittee is "centering, is as follows: " "We heartily congratulate the democratic party on its splendid leadership in "submission and ratifi- .. . ' - - - - . Boys Begm To Dig Up Kodaks And FishingEackle For Big Days In TfWarolina Alps Five Lucky Boys From EacK&f Park Publications Will : Win Wonderful Vacation at Black Mountain, W ith All' The' Joys And Recreations of the'Moiuv tains in Summertime Thrown In. Have patience boys! Just - four more days before the Park publication special car, which will carry the carrier boys of the Times, the NEW BERN SUN- JOURNAL and the Fayetteville Observer, to . the mountains and leaves two more days in which to pile up enough credits to be. .among the lucky five from each paper; four J more days to get the mountain, tog-s ready. - -'v. '.;,- When the Norfolk-Southern train pulls out of NEW BERN .next. Tues day morning at 12:55 it Will carry five NEW BERN SUN-JOURNAL carriers and several of their friends, too excited to sleep and loo happy to sit still and listen to the wheels of the train turning off the '. miles Just a few hours later the Fayette ville Observer party, little better off than the NEW BERN party so far as sleep goes and brimming over witn high spirits, will board the Atlantic Coast Line train, changing at Selma for the Southern. Aboard for Hlue. Ridge . In Raleigh the Fayetteville party will be met by the Raleigh Times 1 boys, who, with little time to spare j for breakfast, are waiting at the sta- j tion with fishing tackle, kodaks and ! tramping togs, and by the NEW BERN party, which arrives at 7:10. Ut's all aboard for Black Moun- tai and Blue Ridge! hree whole days of mountain cation of the prohibition amendment to the federal constitution, and we pledge the party to the effective en forcement of the Volstead law honest ly, with good faith and without any increase in the alcoholic contents of fermented beverages and without any weakening of any other of its provi pleasure, bf. tramping, fishing, swim ming'f'of recreation under the direc tion 1 Y. M. C. A. recreational ex perts at Blue Ridge; of automobile drtvesv. of everything' that goes to make' up a good time out doors in theNarth Carolina, mountains. ,A pipe dream? . No, the real thin,'and if you don't believe" it just lebk'OufPof the car rier boys' car on riext,Taesday morn ing. Its passing -vJslfliely to be marked all along the route. Not only is the. Park publication furnishing a five daysj trip with every expense paid for fiWhoys from each of the three papers represented who make the highest number of credits in the circulation campaign and for one boy from outside.' who makes the highest record in handling all three papers, but the "boy scoring 'the high est in each town will be allowed to take either his father or his mother or anotherV-elative or friend as the guest of 'the Ltark publications. The lioy making the highest, record on the three napers will ,be allowed to take both his father and mother or two other friends, with all expenses paid. In (liaise of Goodrich The party will be in charge of C. R. Goodrich, circulation manager of the Times and director of circula tion of the Park publications. He will be assisted by E. T. Hedtick, assistant manager of the Fayetteville Observer, and by R. J. Mitchell, of the SUN-JOURNAL." The mothers pnd fathers and other guests of the boys will also assist in gifing the boys a good time. Arriving in Black Mountain about ; n'c-l'ov.k Tuesday night the party .'iil bp taken- in automobile to Lee I Hall, the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A Hummer assamimy nail at mue iciage - . . , and then will follow , three days of Mi' h fun as few of the boys "have rvr (Treamed of in this center of r,Pt reole of the country eather I each pummer. BERLIN, July l. liermany s loiai j tia John Davis, ambassador to Great The return trip will be made on 1 debt is 265,000, OOOjOOO marks the Britain, "Were 'all formerly 'presented Saturday, leaving Black Mountain minister of finance announced betore'to the -democratic national" conven--station early in the' morning. the reichstag today. tion today as presidential candidates IIn assailant FLEES TO SWAMPS Posses with Bloodhounds Have Been Searching All Night for Negro Criminal , ' . REPORTED CAPTURl BY SALISBURY POLICE Said to Have Confessed Assault And Also To Murder To 1 (llT Axnorlated PreaaY SALISBURY, . July 1. A negro giving his name as McDonald was ar rested near here ' early today, and confessed, according to officers, that he attacked the wife of a farmer near Linwood, in. Davidson county, late yesterday. Posses had searched for the' negro virtually 'all night. The police say McDonald also admitted he had killed a man in Winston-Salem several days ago. - Sheriff Kir- den, of Rowan County, with other officers,-left with McDonald for an unannounced destination shortly aft er the negro was brough here. . ' ' ' Officers Searching . LEXINGTON,, July " 1.- Officers nnd several large possesses of citi zens tearched virtually all night for an unidentified negro, who is ; al leged to have attacked the wife of a farmer near Linwood, seven miles from here, and ihe chase was re sumed this morning. ' One negro was captured twice during the night, but proved to be the wrong man. It is believed probably that the negro has gained the swamp fastnesses along the Yadkin river. Bridges across the 1 river.m being guarded and outgoing train searched. Bloodhounds have been ued without result. FINNISH STEAMER ENTERS BRAZILIAN PORT ny Associated Press) s " RIO DE JANEIRO, July 1. What is said to be the first Finnish steamer to enter this port has arrived here, the .Garryvale, of the Finland Trans oceanic company. Of more interest to newspaper owners, however, was the cargo 1,000 tons of print paper from Scandinavia for local delivery. The shortage and consequent high price of print paper is the most im portant question -confronting - Bra zilian newspapers. 4 : URGE THAT CHINESE . ' WILL BURY THEIR DEAD J By Associated Press) i SHANGHAI, July 1. Foreign residents of the Jessfield. and Kiao chow Roads districts have asked the municipal council pf the Internation al settlement of Shanghai . to urge upon the Chinese authorities to bury a large number of, coffins containing the remains of Chinese that had been left scattered about fields and Va cant tracts of the two districts. The complaint grows out of the Chinese custom frequently of leaving their dead unburfed for long periods. POTASH INDUSTRY IS "FLOURISHING IN GERMANY (Br Associated Press) BERLIN, July 1. -One of the very few German industries that may be said to be flourishing is the potash industry. The. production of this raw material and its derivatives is entirely in German hands and the de mand for it both at home and abrOad is constant . and eager. ' One com pany has made during the last fiscal year a record net profit of 43,000, 000 marks, while another has made nearly 18.000,000 marks. BRYAN ADDS STRING TO BOW AS DARLING OF THE FEMINISTS Beauty of the San Francisco Women Is Distracting the Attention of The Married Delegates SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., July 1 William Jennings Bryan is the dar ling of the women at this convention. He didn't do it with flowers, tailor bills, or visits to the barber. He not only advocates no liquor (several husbands staggered home last night) but a friend told on him. Accord ing to this friends he has a plank pro viding for a single standard for men and women. r Before he presents it to public YADKIN RIVER view he has arranged for a bodyideafh. ----v.,-. -. ..:--:'-.. -1 .'!.;.: ; ; guard to keep thewomeu from over-1 ' - whelming him with thanks. SIMMONS AND GLASS ARE Some of the wife politicians are having difficulty finding their hus-, band politicians, who declare: No 1 city in the world has more beautiful I women than San Francisco. Total Debt of Germany MIGHTY PORPOISE APPEARS AT DANCE ' AT TEXAS RESORT Whacks Off Door With Tail-U, ; Did It Come For Food or to BEFORE TINNY MONSTER There Will Be NoMore Dancing -At That Resort This ' . Summer, . ;', GALVESTON, Tex., July 1 They ' were having a gay . old ime that half hundred members off the elite ; social setdown the Island at a fee lect sea-food and - dance resort one night this week, until a 4,200-poand-porpoise rapped, on the door of the place and. demanded something to eat. Then-fair women whose fin gers had' never done Harder ; work , ' than , caress piano keys, ., scrambled, clutched their escorts, tumbled over ' tables, fainted or got tangled up in the barb wire far.in the rear of the resort in their mad flight for safely. ' ' -Trim youths of the sterner sex, ao customed to their-morning "and eve- v ning baths,, shaves, ' shampoos .and manicures, boys whose work 'consist ed of fussing at their valets while getting ready for breakfast, lunch, dinner and a party, forgot all their chivalry "and daring.- They scrambled madly. for the rear door of the establishment as the. first swish of the porpoise's tail smashed ' h r -the door into smithereens. They split their, trousers in the race and tore their? coats on the thorns of the salt cedars, and the . barbed -wire as they fled from the place, leaving their ! 4 fair companions v to battle it out "with the devil of the sea."They forgot thh;taxi3 and limousines, and ' " hoofed It into the-city more than seven miles; only, to arrivo after the ' gtfls had been ' brought la by their fathers, and the "sea monster" slain - , . by the proprietors f the resort. ... -It Was the First Time. "-. . ' It was the first time any person; -could remember seeing, or ven hear- f v ing, of a gigantic porpoise. deli beratfr ly quitting the sport in the water' and - , walking out on the sandy, beaeh .to y an eating-house, . knocking ,Voh the ,' ', f. door " ftnd demanding something '' to ' , v s eat.. But that is. just what this oldV .V porpoise did.?. . She made, but" one S with a long andshrdluastehrdlUtAoJa ; , r '"knock" on the door. ,;.,That, .wrfs " : with a long and mighty tMl-bich" ' -' sent the door crashing across 1 the i?' roam. She wa$ found -on the. front . " porch of the place whacking 4h ' floor with her fine and tail; .which w ; y, left the proprietors nt room to, doubt that she 'came for a good'.flflruare ',4,r 'meal" "of the smaller. 'fish they hadV.; - -I been catching 'from the jsnlf.-' ' 1 '"':-.''' . juii uuw sue guv lUBre ,.wiu proo- ably never be known. The resort , " , was 'some fifty f eet . f rom th water '''".';V edge and certainly the'tide. hadr."t,Vf. , "I -.; been high enough to leave. the?bij .tv'. fish high and dry on, thev f loor,' of the porch even ; If the merry-makers"".-;'." , had been there for hours. -. ' ' According to members of the jjaT'j'.';'. - ". ty, lunch had just been concluded rJ'V and it was about 11 o'clock! when V' - ' . they fell in to pursue the phantom- ; strains of the jazz for an hour or bo. im probably one or two dances had -been.' - $zr ------ W , f concluded. --.- - Bee Great Sea Mounter. Another dance was in ' its height when the door crashed in and ,'9 gl-:.;,, ? gantie. body of a black sea monsters -'r was exposed to the glaring flights). ' Tp make' matters worse, the huge tail f-'ji. of the big fish continued .whaching- the floor while tbe' fins scraped on the boards ta if in an effort to get on the inside of the building. ' It was then the panic broke. 'The girls went faint and the boys' wild." ' ,, After the young men had deserted the ladieB and beat it for taller timber, ;? . a the proprietor -of - the place, Henry ' Morgentbals, with, some assistants,'-, clubbed the big fish to death with' -axes. ' ,,. .' - - 1 -7' . ' But the business of the resort is ruined. No more will they; go down , the island, the girls declare- no mat-' ..' : ter with .whom, and certainly ., not wHth the young; men who desert.ed them In time of trouble. ' The young men , and women de clare the fish crawled out in the sand for something to eat. ' ' 1, . ,-.v: But the negro musicians those of, ;.' them who have been located have -:. . -.: a view of their own. They swear by ..." the great horn spoon and the . whis-" : ' kers of their African ancestral ;ch!e. that the big fish was lured out of the water by the strains of the: -"Ocean Blues," a ragtime air of OalvestonV ;.; own composition and ' use. . They swear by all that is holy, even ;by 'i their razors, that the fish came to the ". resort to dance, and met bis or her .- s PLACED IN NOMINATION ' : ':" (By Associate Press) AUDITORIUM SAN FRANCISCO! July lt. "-Senator Simmons, ,, North Carolina;' Senator" Glass, .'Virginia,