North Carolina Newspapers

The Trading Public TThF-JT Liberally Patronize Merchant Wn Bid For The Trad. I j a i H.i! II. 1. Watch For The 'Bidden- NASHVILLE, North Carolina, January 30th,: 1919. NO. 5. . i. f I : v a 1.' i hurt and . .; -a h k llio paft of , i i I Director 3 will- i ai l imil advise with Its .im, uUo . the necessary ; of SAFETY in each ; , -tiiin. r If without R banking , l...ni", we'll wejeome t y jr account " ' i : First National BanK Rocky Mount, N. C -Safest For Saving- TilE NATIONAL BANK OP T.OCKY MOUNT ; ROCKY AlOUNTY N. C. Capital and Surplus -; 5 200,000.00. .'; Compounded Quarterly On - Savings. . ' Your Business Solicited. Tboa. II. Battle, President. ' f R II tticka,-1' .' . Vice-Presidrtit. A. P. Thorpe. , . I e Tr. tident. J, L. Sailer, ,: . J Cashier. W. G. Bobbins, Asst. Ca-.l.ier . S. De;met, ; - '.Asst. O.shVr Vi.:::rj Frcni Nashville When in Rocky Mount ' Stop at the . . j;.::::.3o;i hotel a CAFE For L-d;c3 and. Gentlemen, , : European l?Ian. : . JIv-S cookjn-g.:;"'; ", COOD SEUViCB. . ' 213 S. Main St. Central Location. - Steam Heat and . IMnninsr Water in Every Room..; : 23 GEORGE : AND . L ;ok Better! South Nashville's O. II. DuCOCS, Prop'r.., ;"'. : 3 experience in "best j i.i 1 irrcst cities 'oti,' f.:-1 orrd. : v ' t"mptc RQ" (JLu.ilL li.iiiiLUi rCuil RELIEF CiLLOilji.EOEIlS TAFtVINQ MILLIONS WILL BK FED THROUGH BOUNTY OF THE UNITE J) STATES. fii cedents rejected The Creation of Thlt Fund la Partly . Designed as One Means to Cheok ', the Spread of Bolshevism. ; ' . I Washing-ton. After a week of rpirited debate, the senate by a rote of 53 to 18, pa1 d' the administra tion bill appropriating (100,000,000 for food relipf in Europe and the near-east. The fund was requested by President Wilson aa a meant of checking the westward spread of bel shevlsm. y ....... . ; .- ,., The measure now goes to confer ence for adjustment of minor senate amendment, but leaders believe final enactment will be accomplished next week.,.;. .' . ..- ! Senator Martin, of iVrginia, the Democratic leader, and Overman, of North ; Carolina, and Warren, of Wyoming were appointed senate con ferees. - . '. ' . NO REPUBLIC 18 WANTED BY GERMANS OF .THE RHINELAN0 . . Coblens, The results of. the elee tions in the Rhineland can be sunv pied up in a few words. Mora worn en voted than men, and the triumph of the centrist party it complete. The monarchists voted with the clericals against .liberal . tendencies. , The so cial democrats were badly beaten and the extreme radicals received little or no support.' ; ';''.",.., : .- . Reports of results in Germany proper1 Germany beyond the Rhine tell a different story. . It is said at Leipsic the social democrats met with success, but as far as territory occu pied by the American, French and British is concerned there can be no doubt of the sentiment' of the people. They want no political : upheaval. Tttey wanf no republic. . . . . : MONARCHIST CAUSE SAININ9 MANY ADHERENTS AT LISBON . London. According to dispatches from Lisbon the situation is develop ing adversely for the government The monarchist cause is gaining many adherents in Lisbon and is rap idly extending the field of operations to the north. .The monarchy -having been proclaimed at Louza, Sao Thia go, Vflla Doconde and Barcellos, it is feared that nothing can ndw avert elvfl war, OTHER STEAMERS ARRIVING, - WITH RETURNING SOLDIER! New York. The French steamer Rochambeau from Bordeaux, arrived here with more than eight hundred American officers and men, bringing the total number of arrivals during the day to more than 6,000 and the number of -'arrjving troop ships . to eight. " The other ships were the bat tleships New Hampshire and Louisi ana, the transports .Calamares - and Goenoer, , the American steamer Ac comac and General Goethals, and the French steamer Chicago. ; - V The 883 soldiers aboard included seven officers and 303 men of the 337th field artillery, 19 officers and 633 men of the 339th field artillery,. 20 xasu&l officers and one casual enlist ed man. , '- ' ' r Cr.OWN PRINCESS A VOTER IM PECENT GERMAN ELECTIONS r --Fx-Crown Princess Cecilia r r at a Potsdam polling booth , : v v !i a r sn companion who a, .... d if v t f 've hor vot, without w.. i.o ( and she enter! :-J tho v. ment anad afierwar.v i 1 Ing paper to the pro-.m ! t aloud, "Crown I . a ! rten." (!. ijed ( n.cfp '"il 1'tlUQF ulLuJ.i i ...LI liUUuL -.n NATIONS TO PEACE CONFER- ' . ENCE APPOINTED, ; n:;s of c;nsn:) ran Clemeneeau Fully Satisfied That The Larger the Committee la th Lees Work hY Accomplishes. Paris. The peace conference unanimously adopted the league of nations program. President Wilson various state officers and the results and Colonel House are the American embodied In one bill Is contemplated members of the commission thereon, in a resolution introduced in the Ben- The delegates of the great powers ate by Senator Brock. ot the league of nations will be: For ' The senate adopted the resolution the United States, President Wilson authorising the appointment of a and Colonel House; for Great Brit- ,tte memorial commission and pass- aln, Lord Robert Cecil and Gen. Jan ed several local bills. ' Christian Smuts; for France, Leon A numfier ot bills were received Bourgeoise and Ferdinand Larnaude, from the House and went to commit- dean of the faculty of the law of the tee. The Joint - resolution Inviting University of Paris; for Italy, Pre- President Wilson to visit North Caro- mier Orlando and Viterio Scialoia; Una went through formally with the for Japan, Viscount Chinda and K. approval of the committee on appro- OchiaL The delegates of the small priatlons. . nations will be announced Inter. ', , The House. The first signs of a division to the ' Tn HouM met at ten o'clock and conference was when It proceeded to wmained in session. less than thirty consider the four resolutions framed minutes. Barely a quorum of mem by. the council of the great powers,. WM Present and several others providing for committees on labor, re- obtained leave of absence until Tues- sponsibility for the war .reparatioB da' orning. for damages and ports, raflways and RepresenUUve Pharr's bill to enable waterways. - : , counties and cities to establish homes . Camilla Hoysmans, in benali Ot Belgium, asked for two members on the committees' of labor, reparation and the league of nations, and one each on the other. Siberia made a similar request. --' Braxil was more emphatic, declar ing, against "a cut and dried pro gram." - - : ' '. . M. Veniielos said that. Greece was entitled to membership on the com mittees of reparation and ports. M. Bratiano, for . Rumania, and Dr. Benes, for Czecho-Slovakia, as well as the delegations- representing Portu gal, China, Sim and Poland also asked for places on the committees. M. Clemeneeau finally, in a good tempered speech, said that the coun-j ell had not imposed its aecisions, out had simply convoked the conference to consider the plan. ; , : c V 1 "After 48 years of public life," he said, "I am satisfied that the larger the committee is, the leesit accom plishes. : . - ''"&Xi:'J'l BRITISH TITLE WI8HED ON " GENERAL JOHN J. PERSHIN0 -New York. "The ; British . Who's Who," a copy of the 1919 issue of which has just been received here, Jists the commander in chief of the American5 expeditionary forcea in France as "General Sir John Joseph Pershing, G. C. B." , ' On July 17, 1918, King George awarded the grand cross of the Order of the Bath to General Pershing and in August King George during a visit to France personally gave the decora tion to him. . The award of the grand cross of; the Order of the Batn to a T,itici, '.nMwt entomatieallv.' makes a knkht of the recipient and gives ; him the right fc' prefix, f Sir", to htaj name ; " v - ' . - ".-'LJVlim Wvi Gmeral " " . hlnir. however, was an honorary 'one m A. m. rt.t the American commander would not re ceive the title of "Sir" as he was not a British Subject GREAT NUMBER OF AMERICANS YET IN FOREIGN HOSPITALS '" " report Washinsrton. An official from General Pershing, made public bv the war department, shows that en January 9 there were 105,763 men lef 0, bUU were lntroduced including ef the American armyjn hospitals In Senator Cooper'B measure providing France and England of whom 7Z,6 fof a taU system of cotton ware yere suffering from disease and ?3,- nougeg ana Senator Stevenaons' dog 111 irom wounaa or uumr mjuiia. ; The report said that the.numbef tf hospital cases is steadily decrea t, there having been a reduction of . 'r than 15,000 since the previous : - to ivj t J XOi. PnGGEEDiriGS OF, : k THE LEGISLATURE HAPPENING OF -INTEREST IN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF ' NORTH CAROLINA. 'I rdjourxeo in lees honor Resolution Introduced for Appoint ment of Suffrage Committee to bo '',: Made to Speaker. The Senate, Raleigh, Jan. 18. Careful study of ' the needs for Increases In salary for .... ., . . was printed, a typographical error re duced the amount of appropriation by counties and cities to $1,600, when the bill Intended to provide for a $16,000 appropriation by each. . ; ' ; The 8enate. : Jan. 20. The senate convened at .1:30 o'clock with President Gardner in the chair. - A Joint resolution that came from the house was passed providing that when the general assembly adjourned for, the day it be. In honor of Gen. Robert E. Lee and also providing that the Daughters of the Confederacy shall have the use of Representatives' ball forta Lee's birthday celebration. The senate received the report -of the special tax commission provided for by the last general assembly and appointed by Governor BIckett to ; suggest' changes In the taxing system of the state. .. '"-. , ,; p New hills introduced in the' senate: -Humphrey Provide for the state board of revaluation to discover and revalue all. personal' property in the state, and put such property on the tax books. . .. Scales Resolution for the senate to appoint a committee of five to con sider all suffrage bills. . The senate adjourned to noon Tues day. ( ' - - The House. ' The house was convened at 2:80 o'clock. .; Representative : Doughton 'presiding.".'.'. . r. A joint resolution to adjourn in honor of Lee's birthday was passed aqd sont at once to the senate. - New bills were Introduced as fol-loWs:;'-1 '''"-. ''J' :'vi' '..v.V: ', Par den ot Halifax Fix the compen- ation of members of the board of srlcuitnre. ' Da wBon Amend the law as to trials '..Ray, "ot Macon Authorise govern-i , . . lnB DOQies.oi towns 10 oewme mem bers of memorial associations. The house adjourned to 11 o'clock Tuesday. , Both houses adjourned in honor of Lee's birthday . and the lawmakers joined In a Daughters of the Confed eracy celebration of .. the . day with Lieutenant Governor Gardner as the gpecial speaker. - Jan. 12. The Senate was in ses- , 0,.i tw hnnr nnH n tinm. statute. ' . Senator1 Davenport Introduced In the Senate the same bill that came up in the House several days ago provid ing for the erection of a new building ioHcco and market same as early- cil . uzvq told you time and again, do not let your J Get y u . :t load ready and drive direct to" ' , for the State Department of Agricul ture not to cost more than a quarter of a million dollars. - . When RepresenUUve Wilson's bill providing drastic penalties tor the vio lation of the prohibition law In Burke county came up for its second reading. Senator Haymore asked for an expla nation of Its purpose, declaring that "it Is so drastic that it should be In some foreign country under a mo Barchlal form of government" Senator Wakefield, who had object ed to Immediate passage,, explained that after talking with Representative Wilson, who had assured him that It was desired by a majority ot the best people of that eounty, he would with draw his objection. The difficulty ot enforcing the prohibition law In the vicinity of South Mountain was point ed out by the Senator and he asked that the bill be passed. The House. Twenty-three representatives and four Senators, constituting a joint committee on Propositions and Griev ances, decided to report unfavorably the Maguire bill Introduced to reduce the commissions of tobacco ware housemen. . The morning session of the House was short ' and exceedingly orderly. Speaker Brummitt went to Chapel Hill to attend the funeral of Dean Marvin H. Stacy and Representative Grier wielded the gavel and wield It he did. Petty measures that didn't ap pear to htm worthy of out-of-order procedure were sont back to mem bers and they were requested to bring them forward again In due course. Representative Everett introduced a resolution asking for a suffrage com mittee to be appointed by the speaker. The body he wants created Would pass upon the suffrage legislation, taking it out of the hands of the Constitu tional Amendments or Judielary com mittees. Representative Cameron Introduced a bill In the House to validate the Clark road act passed at the 1917 ses sion and eliminate the objectionable features. This law, if the Cameron bill passes, can be used by the coun ties to raise their proportion ot funds for road building and maintenance , under a bill that will likely be intro duced soon and will permit the coun ties the use of the state's credit. A bill passed allowing jurors in capital eases $1.50 per day without mileage where not accepted for ser vice and $2 - per day and mileage when they serve. The Senate. Jan. 23i President Gardner con vened the senate at 11 o'clock. The prayer" was by Rev. Mr. Barber, rector ot Christ church. The Connor bill passed, providing changes in service of summons amend ing section 439 of the revisal. A fea ture is that officers be required to leave copies ot the summons instead of merely reading the summons and that the complaint be filed before the j summons Is issued. - Included among bills ratified were: Invite President Wilson to visit the state; appoint North Carolina memo rial building commission for erection ot memorial building to those who' sacrificed their lives In the world war; : Burke county bone-dry law. Bills passed as follows: Allow county commissioners $S a day. " ,. - Increase the pay of the assistant attorney general. " - j Amend the prohibition law so that first offenses of distilling be a mis-, demeanor and the second a felony. " The Saunders bill for substituting life imprisonment for the death sen tence In capital punishment, came up as a special order and after lengthy discussion, passed With amendment, by Bryant, of Durham, that death sen tence does not apply to cases of ar son or burglary, this leaving the death sentence tor first degree murder and criminal assault' Opponent sot cap ital punishment characterized it as a relic of barbarism and patterned after the Mosaic law which, they Insisted, had been superseded by the Christian principle of forgiveness. , Representative Ray, . of Macon, raised notable objection to the bill, as being calculated to greatly Increase lynchings. He believed that it would become impossible - (or sheriffs and others to dissuade, in. any way, mobs from efforts to lynch with all proba bility of the death sentence being exe cuted removed by such a bill. He warned the lawmakers that the re sponsibility for such results through the state would rest with them. Pub lie sentiment he considered to be in no mood to undertake a reform such as contemplated in the bill. " ody Going F BY SOVIET PAPER i Y THE DEVU." IS TITLE OF NEW PUBLICATION BEGUN BY PETROGRAO 80VIET8. ES 0 BOLSHEVIST LEFEUT 1 ROOlr proclaim as never before the gla i tidings Esthonlan Advance Guards Will Net Attack Petrograd Until Outside Help Can Reach Them. Heisingfors. Under title of "Th Devil," a new paper is being; pub lished in Petrograd by the Soviets ft'r the sole purpose of attacking church es and religion in general. The first number contains an article by Lunt charsky, commissioner of education, announcing a plan to close 60 church es in Petrograd. Other articles show the authorities intend to impose a special tax on churchgoers. Religious teaching in schools is forbidden. Recent speeches by Lenine and Trotzky to the central Moscow so viet are regarded as preliminary to a complete surrender by the bolshevists. Both leaders confessed the economic system of Bolshevist communism was was bankrupt, especially in relation to industrial production, finance and the food question. They said the time has come to in vite exports of the middle class to co operate with the Soviets on an accept able basis. A similar invitation was addressed to the intelluctuais, who declared they stood outside the civil war. On the question of foreign pol icy, Trotzky declared the soviet gov ernment would, under certain condi tions, give up its internationalist aims for the time being and raise the ban ner "Russia for Russians." The bolshevist defeat at Narva has become a rout. The Esthonian ad vance guards are only 70 miles from Petrograd. - They intend to push on to Luga and Plussa rivers, thus en circling Pskoff, but have not intended to attack Petrograd without outside help. HAMBURG AND BREMEN PEOPLE ARE ANXIOUS AND INDIGNANT. Amsterdam. The acceptance by the German armistice commission of the demand by the allies for the de livery of the German- merchant fleet is causing both indignation and anxi ety in Hamburg and 3remen. A meet' ing of protest was held at Hamburg, according to The Berlin Vossiche Zeitung. All the trade interests and representatives of the sailors took part in the meeting, which was very largely attended. ' The meeting adopted a resolution against the action which has been taken. The resolution declared the interests represented expected that the government would not ratify th agreement and that it would make preparation for the reopening of tht discussion of the question by the joint commission of German experts and representatives of the entente. MANY DIVI9I0N8 AMERICAN TROOPS CHANGE LOCATIONS. Washington Locations of the dl visions of the American expeditionary forces on January ,2 with the names of the present division commanders, was made public by the war depart ment. The new list shows that Majoi Generals Charles B. Rhodes, Peter B, Traud, Leroy S. Lyon and Charles E. Martin have been relieved of theii commands. The 87th is now under Brlgadiei General William E. Martin, the 90th under Brigadier General John P. O'Neill and the 92d under Brigadiei General James B. Erwin. The 34th and 8th are temporarily without reg ularly detailed general officers. No changes are indicated in ths composition of the army of occupa tion, which still numbers tentatively 13 divisions, the 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, 6th, Tth, 28th, 32d, 42d. 79th, 89th and 90th. Home Satisfied! as possible, as I Just and Righteous Peace. "A peace with a soul." as Milton -pres. A it, is the kind of peace h . s uli'td men of all aires have proh.. si (i. It is what is now demanded in "a peace which shall be permanent." Representatives of the allied nation, uiispoilt by victory, yet faithful t. tin'ir trust, must unite in their stand 'or a just and righterus peace. "Peace on Earth, Good-Will tojien." Planters Nation'! Bank Rocky Mount, N. C. OEFICERS: J. C. BKASWELL, - Preside, I. M. KHEKIMI). . Vice-l'r- M. C. UK A WELL. - Vloe-fr. . M'LLAUU F. JONES, Uahi. r Statement of Condition of Farmers & Merchants Bank. Rocky Mount. At Ck se of Business, Aug. 30, 1918. resources: I,'n and Discounts, $187,327 8." Overdrafts, 189 4 Banking House, Fixture?, 28 88 H r ds and War Stamps, 18.225 F, , Cash and due from banks, 49 91H 9: $284,662: LIABILITIES: Capital, $ 60.000 0i Undivided Profits. 1.9n 7 1 (("discounts, 19 5 0 Hiils Payable, 45.1X0" Deposits, 158,003 ' ' $24 552 i Deposits Comparid as of Sip 6b. S.-pr. 6, 1917. $ 84 .7:!8 64 Sept . 6, 1918, $200,689 74 Pr ider V'o- Pr. Vic r ' HSllit T. T. Thorne, M. O I'LOUNT, T A. AVF.RA. W. W. A VERA, Let Me Write Your FIRE INSURANCE! Contracts cover all kinds of risks. Best Companies Represented APPLY TO X. IN. ROSS. NASHVILLE, N. C. 1 Begin The New Yea. RIGHT! Look Dressed Up At All Times Have Your Clothes Clear.f and Pressed by the 20th Century Pressing Club J. J. STATON, Prop'r. Nashville, - - N. C. The Graphic Should be in every home ir, Nash County. ' The Graphic. $1.50 a Year. N". :G: I mount r XI, f