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FOUNDED 1876 . ,.- ' , ', : : . . ' . .' ; Good' Business In ,1922 Predicted By Many Bankers GOOD BUSINESS Tfe Burglary Sltaatien M LMHIifi y V, BRITISH SCHOONER-:; : Ill 1.1 I I I I I I I I 1 1 I I II I - ., . I.-" . . .. II ' I I I U I I l!l I -:HI HI II I m I - ' M R H " I 1 ' M ft - IR a M m H II M m n I M '-I'l t B II - I . r ir i r ; n i i r m i - - u i mKf'n LL frh ;''.'! year dy :..insf u. s. ,: .-Fi 1; i -"v 4r-;. . "" -Z -iTo:. Prominent Bank Officials Say That Year Will See A !: . Business Revival v TIME FOR ANXIETY 1 WILL SOON PASS BY By Middle of the Year, Re covery Will Be Establish- ' 7- ' ' ed, It Is Said '. (By Associated Prpss) 7 V - NEW .IORK, Deo. Sl.--BusinesS prospects for 1922 are in general hopeful, according . to state-ments ty, prominent bankers made public to- r day' by the American Bankers Asso- , elation- . w J . VThe future of business and finance in' the United States is encouraging",; said Thomas B. McAdams, ,preside;rt of the association, v . : ' - v He emphasized the - importance , of th',-3 .country interesting itself ' in the problems of Europe in wrder that Aroric;) n prosperity, piay". be main-tained.V-IlJ. naid v-that," although' some lop.din politicians and - newspapers r : o; ed extending aid to Europe at this time, "future prosperity depend ed on' the way financial America, an swers the call." -. . '. - ,, .-- . ; "The time for anxiety seems to be entirely passed and the . middle ' cf 1922 should see -recovery well estab lished," ' declared John C. Lonsdale, president of the National Bank of Cbnimerce of St.. Louis. "All of the things necessary to commercial bet terment seem to have been set , in motion so thai 1922 should see . the beginning of the area of our greatest and most golden prosperity." v ClilEITO BE TT OF Large . .Number of - Tickets (Have' Been Sold Thus Far r b By 'Committee . Judgig from the number of tickets that"have been sold' thus far, the Chamber . of . .Commerce annual ban "quet next 'Monday night Is going to be Avey attended by local . businessi .and professional men. : Over 75 tickets have ; been sold by the committee engaged in that work. Others have be,en purchased from the Chamber of Commerce office -and from the New Bern Shoe Stoi, where theyhave been placed on sale. ' ; The banquet will, start promptly at .6; 15'' Monday evening. An excellent supper will ' be , served,'; during the course. of whichj an entertaining1 program also will be carried out. The speech- by Dr. Daniel, jot Clem son College, will be something which no-' one acn afford to miss. TWO SPANS OF BRIDGE ; PALM BEACH COLLAPSES WEST "PALM . BEACH,- Fla., Decv 31. Two Wpana of the huge-new Roy ' al Palm Beach bridge, : connecting West Palm Beach with Palm Beach, sa nk below , the surface -of ' La kc Worth -yesterday, afteijlnoon.- The loss jjs estimated;' at il00,000;: - - Anen draw saved., seven- men " who were waiting1 for a boaVto pass. The bridge Was to be opened formally, Sunday, : having just beeo finished by i warning in the Gulf of Finland by . a Russian soviet ice cieyeiand (Ohio) .contractors. . breaker, sysn Exchange' Telegraph dispatch from Stock PROPERTY BE SEIZED' 'holm. Twentv-three. persons are reported ' to have been TO PAY $10,000 FINE . CHICAGO, Dec. 31. Property cf William D. (Big Bill) "Haywood, fugi- : tive I. W. W. leader, will be-seized to' obtain payment of his fine of $10,000 fto which he was sentenced with twen ty years' Imprisonment for violation . of the espionage act, United ' States District Attorney Charles F.- Cline an nounced this afternoon. The property is located near- Salt Lake City, and was left, to Haywood -'by his wife, who died .last 'trammer. NearJy everybody ia laying for the farmer j except Jhia. hens.' '." , ....,-... -- . L.4..-r'. . 1 The time' has come to with reference to the burglar situation It is time that the sider the question seriously ahd tndeavor. to take steps to check the epidemic foKlburglaries, - - 1 lie peupiearc m7itig. (iiwiw.i - - , nightly maurauders: and they:are,.-ypicing. their .de-, r . mands irt no gentle terms. v'Jia.Vi : , f ; ' Offering rewards wpn't- stop fher crime wave. The citizens of New Bern are paying taxes to main- . tain a police force and it should, not be necessary to give "rewards in order to put an end' to the burg . laries. . ' ' ' N -v The police have shown themselves frankly in- ; capable of ; handling j the situation... . -' This is due largely to the fact that there - are vnot a sufficient number cf men to properly patrol the town. The officers can't be, averywhere at the ' same time, and' they should be given assistance! ' .1 It i: up to the mayor and the board of alder men to increase the number of men pn night duty and to employ plainclothes men to patrol every section of the city. If this is done, , it will, by only 7 a short: tim before the burglars are ; either caught or leave -lor other parts. , -. - v- lThiB "people are demanding action in the matter; they are growing weary of the situation as it exists at present.. v - - Further Improvements To Be Made In The Boat Line Additional improvements : to. the waterway transportation servico " be - ' - T , . . .-' tween.New Ben and n.ullu-ru roini.s is to be made lmmed.i'cly,, accord-, ing" to notice re eiV2d 'by 'the Chain-, ber of Commerce today. A letter was received lu re , today . - from .G.: B: Vols'oai (not tho "l'roJii- bit ion" 'Volstead") whioh read-? a&JOl-; lows: ", - - 1 v .': ' creased to a three-times-a-week sail-: On January 1st we' cvlll discontinue ing. .. y f . '"X . -our towing barge service between . - We trust tha tyou will co-operate Philadelphia and Baltimore ' and with us, and would appreciate an ex points south until about April, 1st. We . pression from-you regarding the mat will use all of our . steamers 1 after ter at the earliest possible date. . BULLETINS , ' COAL OPERATORS REFUSE ATTEND , MEETING (By Associated Press) . CLEVELAND, O., Dec. .31. Representatives of the Pittsburgh Vein Coal Operators Association of Ohio, meet ing here today, adopted a resolution declining to attend a meeting of Voal miners in Pittsburgh January 6 in ' response to an invitation, from the president of the United.Mine Work ers Association of America. " v , SHIP SINKS; 23 BELIEVED DROWNED r , (By Associated Press) LONDON, Dec. 31. The Esthonian ship, Sarema, car rying a cargo' from a Stockholm firm, was sunk without drowned. LENINE AGAIN HEADS SOVIET t ' (By Associated Press) RIGAj Dec. 31. Nickolai Lenine retains his position as executive head of tKe Russian soviet government as a result of the unanimous vote of the gress just before its sessions closed late -Wednesday night, ac cording, to a- radio 'dispatch received here ; today from Moscow., - '' l - - . ' NEW BERN, NOJEITH- CAROLINA, SATURDAY, state ; a few plain facts city' officials begin to a January 1st for shipments of package frelhV - and Relieve by do doing we can absolutely-maintain our regular of twice.a.week from PniIa. jeiphia te Baltimore, leaving Phila- delphia on Tuesdays and Fridays, and waiumore von weanesaays ana ai- Mrdays -V ; If we receive - the patronage ..hat we ' hope for this service -will be ln- , , ninth All-Russian soviet con-1 Report Mrfe Public, Today- ; 31 , ' 11 fl f lAlTAFft A Fh iO As n- v ' lour In North Carolina li'mV - . E P K I a ' JA' T U ' During -1921 ffi-ftfr . M ' IJ&U VU " iiV ' v -(By-Associated Pr3) . :NI33V YORK, Dec. 1 SixtA'-thre 1 persons were lynched in- the- United States this year, as compared rwith .55 in 1920, said a statemenf issued to day by tlie--Association for "the Ad vancement of Colored People: " j . j Four were publicly burned alive; five- were .burned after 1 death; two lyiching victims were women, one , in. Georgia and the other in :ilisi;- i ' sippi -and 'six victims of the niobs were- white men,' the - statement said ! . I1S attributed - IS Jynchings each to Georgia "and - Mississippi; , 6 each 'to Texas-and Arkansas; 5 4each to -Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina: 4 to North Carolina; 2 to Alabama and 1 each to Slissouri, Kentucky.i .Ten nessee and ..-Virginia. ' ( 1 ..'. Murder was . assigned as the caus for, 18, of the trepOrted Iynchings and 19 were1 attributed to alleged assaults on women. . . I FREIGHT: FOR HOLIDAYS No Freight To . Travel Be " tween New Bern and Wil mington Mon. &? Tue3. y . According to announcement made this morning, all freight trains cn the. Atlantic. Coast Line between Wil- Imington and New Bern will be ari nulled Monday and Tuesday. The first freight to leave Wilming ton will be on -Wednesday mornini;, while the first to leave New Bern will b.e on Thursday morning. Local ship pers are asked ta take notice ofVthis change.. , " . ; .. - BARBER TALKS T0R0TARI1S Northern Visitor Describes Business Conditions In New England . An interesting , talk on business conditions in the New England states was i delivered at the regular "meeting o. f the Rotary 'Club last night by W. J.i Barber of Connecticut, who is in the city , on a visit to C. L. Ives. Mr., Barber stadted that the tex tile mills were operating their full force of employes and that many of them' were running nights. Other in dustries are showing marked signs o fimprovement according to the speaker, and it is generally believed that the coming months will see stilll greater improvement. ' The meeting last night was a most enjoyable one. The first meeting in January will be devoted to a dis cussion of boys' work, while a mock Ural of Rotary , will be held at the second meeting. Another thing that will never be invented is asafety pen. WILSON CONFIDENT OF PARTY POWER (By Associated Press) XEW YORK, Dec. '31. Pretlic tion that the year, 1922, would show that the democratic party 'lias entirely regained the confi dence of the nation," was made by Woodrow Wilson in a New Yea r's letter to the Women's Democratic League, made public here today. Replying to a birthday letter scrtt on behalf of the league by its president, the former President wrote: "The message from the Women's Democratic Political League gave me very great pleasure and I wish to express to you and through yon to y.onr associates of the league my heartfelt thanks for the cheer it lias given me, together with, my best wishes for the New Year, which is certain to show' that the democratic- party vitas entirely re-', gained- the confidence of the na tion." ' DECEMBER 31, 1921 9?t - Gertrude Arbeit. - beautiful 20 (rear old swimming marvel,1-who 1 to compete ,in aisenes of - swim mii;g -events at - Miami, Fla. '"'.-Mlss Artelt has been winning - national swimming ' championships ' ever iine'e 1917 when she nvide.a start by copying the crQwn of the coun-. try n the .water -Pentathon and the 100 yards free style. ",'cU&U Head of Moslem League Ad vocates Guerilla Warfare k To Attain. Ends ..- ."- , (By Associated Press) ARMEDAD, British India,' Dec. 31. A plea for an Indian republic, . to be called "The United States of In dia," to be declared' on January 1 and to be attained .by guerilla war fare, if necessary, was the, principal feature of the address of Preside?it Hazarat Mohani, of the . All-India Moslem, League, in opening the an nual sessioo of the league here to day. - ; .- " . .- YAP CABLE RIGHTS BEEN DISCUSSED .flSy Associated Press). WTASHINGTON, Dee.-,' 31.-An arrangement, whereby -the Nether lands, as well as the . United States and Japan are to be; given cable rights on the island iiof' Tap, was agreed to today by the heads " of dele gations of the five, major powers ference and of the Netherlands. Great Britain and Italy accepted the arrangement with reservations, the former indicating that British interests might also desire in 'the fu true to have certain rights on the is land and Italy claiming an interest URGES INDIA TO UPRISING in one o fthe three exisiting cables fn fp oPiViirp nf linnnr hat tmir th slH Tho mn..,lU Ult; BlUre. OI llQUOr. went, as tentatively agreed to, -provides for allotment of the Yap-Guam cable to the United States; the Yap--Shanghai cable 'to Japan, and the Tap-Mancdo cable to Holland. Farmers say the cider crop is short. The cider crop is laways short just after Christmas. limpkins Denies Story of Robbers At K. W. Simpkins, who resides 011 Queen street, was greatly puz zled this morning over the or igin of reports stating that his home had been entered by burg lars last night. "I can't imagine how suck a story was started," said Mr. Simpkins, when interviewed; by a, -representative of tlte Snn-Journal-this afternoon.. The reports circulated in con nection wit lithe "robbery" stat ed thiit a thief, had entered the home and. had found several children tliere alone. The raider, it was claimed, wou the confidence Ship Went Aground on Shoal Yesterdayy Was Floated And Taken Into Custody By Coast Guatd Officials VESSEL HAD GROUNDED THERE BEFORE! Was, Famous "Mystery Ship" Which Went "Ashore Off the Island Last August And :. Was Floated With Difficulty ; ' - (By Associated Press) . ' , ! , WASHINGTON; Dec.; 31.-Seizure 'of ."'the schooner, Messenger of Peace, with ' a cargo of , liquor . off the North i Carolina coast, as reported to the Assistant Sec retary - of the "Treasury Clifford tooay- by the coast guard station at Elizabeth City," N. C. '"iVi;ir;vf-1"- ' he ship, the report said was stranded on Ocracoke bar; off the coast of. North Carolina, but was floated yester- ; day. Immediately the " vessel and its -crew were taken into fustody by a coast guard cutter under command of Boatswain - - .' - ' ' , , ' ' 3i H, Garrisru of the Ocr'acoke station. ', w,. . v ' - :':" The prohibition director at Salisbury, ' N. C, and the collector of v customs at Wilmington have Jbeen, notifiedof ' the seizur2. ; - ' t, - ' ' '(By "Associated Press). ' , . - , ' OCRACOKE, .N. C., Dec. 31. The Messenger of . Peace, three-masted British schooner, ; which ' was seized - off the North Carolina coast by. a coast guard cutter, is the vessel which was known as the "mystery ship" which camointa" Ocracoke fnlet last August and ' went j aground'vOn Has shbal just inside the inlet. The ship - was then' , in.' command of. Captain A.' Coleman, of Jacksonville, Fla., who had a crew of nine West Indian negroes, A search i of;, the vessel i.was made at that time but no. liquor, was f ound. Captain)" Cole- man explained he came into the inlet to make" a' landing, at Ocracoke to replenish his: supply of' drinking water. - 7 ' The Messenger of Peace is a very old vessel . and coast 1 guar(jsmen. said she was barely Over long distance telephone this afternoon, the Sun Journal communicated with the coast guard , station at Ocracoke in the effort to get further information relative ', It was stated ,over the phone that; the , Messenger of , Peace had 1036 cases of high-grade liquor aboard. The vessel is now afloat and the officers and crew are being held, awaiting the arrival of instructions, from the state revenue office. ' . ' ; " ". j t His Home of the children,' got them playing in the sitting room, locked the door, and while they were en joying themselves, made a thor ough search of the house. Having completed his work the burglar unlocked the children and went on his way. "I got home early in the eve ning," said Mr. Simpkins, "and I never left the house after sup per. My two boys .went ont for a little while but they returned early and Went to bed. As far as I know there was no disturbance of any kind in our neighborhood and I haven't - heard of anyone being robbed on our block." PRICE: FIVE CENTS British seaworthy. BIDDLE UNIVERSITY, IS THE SCENE OF FIRE By Associated .Press) '.' CHARLOTTE, N. C, Dec. 31.-A," loss of $100,000 was entailed In, the destruction by - fire today of the in- dustrial building of Biddle University maintained by the Northern, Presby terian Church. ri , " ' In the building were valuable rec ords, loss of which' were counted Ir reparable. - , v BIG MAIL THEFT HAS, JUST BEEN FOUND OUT. (By Associated Press) . NEW YORK, Dec. . 31. A mail theft of $1,500,000 in bonds on Juk: 18, 1921, became known today with tne arrest of Mrs. Abe Attell, divorc ed wife, of the former pugilist, Sam ' Gold and Harry t. Cohe'ft by ? postoffice ' inspectors and members of the police bpmb squad.- ! - - . ,
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