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WANT ADS.i 7- I s HOME EDITION A. A ;Y age oeven AX- VOL.26.- No. 203. HIGH POINT, N. C.; WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON; JULY 23 1919. FIVE CENTS. Ta 77 I:'' I: M. I I I 1 I 1 , - .- ' : r. . . , ... ' . : : i - : t !-,,, i i. n' ii. ii ii ri ii v Richd Croker Is '.Coming Home . .. i v I . i.V 1 ';.v''i:y::;,:.v:. -.fy ' -'1 ' I ' - v ' 4 i Iff k nT' nimi.iw .ini Q.tnirhttni 'rmtw. Tnrai T.n.IUn i tuning1 to America. But he will leave a string of.lwiws on this side o( the water to enter In the big nice. . This pUtare of Crvker and; his whose clalmhat Iie is an Indian princess is doubtet) by her stcpcliildrcn. r was snapped at-the races here.' Page:RapTreay In i hat -With Priahident vsWASHINUTON,-Juiy.23-Senator Page (republican) or Vermont frankly-outlined' hla objections, to the peace treatyyto President Wilson at the White House today, and told the President be could nobappro?Q it. Beyond this statement, he would not discuss the conference. Senator ' Sterltne; of Soutb'Dakota,' another White House caller, said neither he nor the President could get together. TheyVliHcussed Article 10 of the league of nations covenant referring' to protection of nations against external ' aggression and .causes relative to Ui6 withdrawal of nations" from the league. "WASHINGTPN, July 23. Conftr-' tnces - with republican senators , on the peace trealy and the league of nations covenant were eohtlnued" to :tv) by,vP'rBldent Wilson.; ,; Senators on the visiting list ln ,; eluded jSterllngr'South Dakota; :Mc-' Lean', s' qonnedticut, and Newberry, ' Michigan, - ' x , ' Mr. .Wilson's condition' continues to im prove" today and it was expected lhat urchin ; i : few 'days he would ' have entirely recovered from ther et . fects of an attack, of Intestinal, trou nrnnnnmrTniiii Funeral Services ' for Prominent . Resident to Be Held at Groome town at 5 VClock Today." ' John Pinto Freeman, a well known a and highly respected resident of the " Groometown community, died at his w home In that section, Tuesday evenr . ingrhortly 'after 7 . o'clock after, an v' lllnest- bf two weks. bitd been In J failing "Wlt'h fo ,'som'e; litUe time ' but it-i was only' during 'the past few and nad sptent practically his entire life in , this' county.-- Surviving are his- mother. Mrs. Lizzie s Freeman, ; and oneslster; Mrs.; Bodle, of the Freeman's mlir. community, - "hnd - children; Jobn Freeman and Wallace Freeman,' of Guilford county; Miss Lavlna .Freeman, Paul Freeman and . ' William Freeman. of the horae'place; .David Freeman and Mark Freeman, . of the United States navy, and Miss Georgia Freeman, of High Toint, the iBUperlntenrlont of the Sanitorium 4 who aa t.. .1 to the tvdaide of In a fal.Vrr a f - ' ys n. .' . pr . r r r ' HA IIL l I'UMIIiUIL. I lll'ITsI ur unuuiiiLiuim, ' DIED LAST I1ISHT reBirds a a se)rIourf. J j J , J ; i iTlle feecensedjwaejl year oi age! ble.-.: ' . ' , The president, however,' is still weak and, for that reason held the conferences today in his study In the white' house instead of in the execu tive offices. t . ' 4 Inquiry t the white,, house con cerning published reports' that' the Shantung provision of the peace treaty, was "President Wilson's per ecnal solution of 7 the problem, brought neither conflrmatibn or de nial and only the statement . that no comment would be made. 1 ;i' "V "'v!''''':i '"s''','i' "' - Missouri Senator to Deliver Op ' positon Address at Greens- -i boro This Evening." Senator James Reed, , Missouri, democrat, speaks tonight at 8 'o'clock at Greensboro in opposition to the adoption by the United States of the treaty of peace with, Germany con talning the covenant' of 'the league i of nations. The aenator; classed cue of the "wllfull few' opposes the adoption of the league covenant' with . out marked revision' and ,1s touring the country to air his vIqws The senator win -epeak at the Municipal theater and is sure' to be heard by a- large, audience,' Through this section sentiment seems to be unreserved! for adoption of the cov enant but despite this, many persons wlBh to hear the other side of the argument and can do this by listen rng to tbe Missouri ' senator this evening. . " - Senator Reed is one of the most l.riiliant'ejxiakers in'Congress.V ver war in horse, Years of exper- )fa and wiih t! f aulty 10 OPPOSE LEAGUE OF H I North CWpto RUSSIAN TIIUEB RIVERS Of? T Feaf Cxoni b Seme Part of Uie r State Will Be Entirely De- ' . ,itrc'ed If It Rains On. LET UP IS NOW FORECAST v;-?"v-r..? Weather Bureau Sees No Danger of Severe Flood inthe " ' Southern State. RALEIGH, July 23. Report trom cattem norm Carolina ere that the, tain which , have pre vailed for more than a week have caused more or lets serious dam- age to drops. : ' A number'otj rivers are reported out . of heir banks, damaging crops la the lowlands.,-. Western North Carolina IS also suffering.' but Indi - cations ara that the damage to crops is not' so great. 1 " " " " From Fayetteville it 1b reported that the Cape Fear as flooded the lowland at a' number of places in that ' vicinity, crops being damaged by the. water. . -"Other streams, ' including the Neusa and Tar rixers, are out of their banks at several points'. .' A" rivers are - said' to be rising rapidly today, following hard rains last night and this morning, and it is feared that unless there is a let up in the " downpour' crops in . some sections will be completely, de stroyed. Cotton, tobacco and corn seem to be suffering most from the water. From Rocky Maunt it was report ed that Tar River was threo Inchea ovet the' flood mark today and t was continuing to rise following a 3 1 inch rainfall last.night... , . This is said to be the highest stage reached in years. A number of fam ilies who, lived near' the stream have been forced to abandon their homes. Several bridges are under water. but so far as Is recorded, none has been washed away.; Avnumber of wood bridges" over smaller, streams in yarious sections re' reported to have,' been washed away. y WASHINGTON, uly 23. As result -of the .rains which' began, In the mountain' regions of southwest Virginia, the CarOlinas and Georgia last week, moderate to heavy floods nm now- nasslne down stream, in these sections. ; " - In' the' last M Tiours rains have practically ceased In the mountains and it is believed that the danger of severe and continued floods ; : has passed. WASHINGTON,!'" July 23;. WU- liam B.Mltcall, former mafiager of, the Bank of London in MexicoXllty told the house rules committee to: day that the sending of two Amert cah ' military expeditions into Mex ico their subsequent "withdrawal was largely responsible ' for ; tho anti American feeling in the. southern republic. . ,' Z?A! ',i-"''; ;-, 1 '-'Ay . Mining Flourishing Here. MEXICO CITvTjuiy 24.-PeopIe ofthe slate of MoreloB' relleved"by the death of Zapata and Of the hor. ror of seven years ot war, are giv-j- - f ,.::inlvcs over almn'it, exclu iron r 1 1 ore if IMll MESUIFOR DM TROUBLE . , .-v , .-, & -i. A, r: ,C.--, ,r.., "iliiii Blades on Feder aUobs Cause of : :RaccKi6ls? Ail ' CREEXSBCJRO, Jly!!2. . .Rncr" fVjj(it's;.,ln v ; Wiisbitaion w WcU VveV already taken a ' , ( score or mor jof (Ivcis, wound. 2d more thin ,too, some srti- ' 4 ously,, are if tribuUd solely to one Cau bv f North eroIin ; lan who; hn spent, sevcrtil year Irt-' WarJtfnKtoa , and, ii fp miliar with conditions exist. ins; in ' th national ' rapitnl. : That , ls wholesale 'appoint. . tnents . of , nogroe in govei-a. . nicnr poitloB.4 and an evident effort to lift them to the nxle. stai of social equality with the' whites. 't ' .1.1 la MibKtantlation of hlw bo., .. lief, ;lie, pointed out the ,Ict lliat t leant 4wA membtYs of OmgreMS hjive.' negro serii". ' tnries jPongwNmair , Rodrn bnrg, of. Illinois, and Senator , ;.lKnroot -Mldfe white t4men J h utr breu dlncliarged, right and left during tlVa lant few montht pnd negro appointees placeil in , the positions they formerly oc- : cuplcd, Concord,'; Fayetteville, Landis, Wathaand Tarbcro Fighters Named in Today's Awards. WASHINGTON, July-'23. Nine North Carolina heroes., of the' great war were awarded distinguished ser vice crosses today, according to an announcement made- by the war de partment, ') In addition other' medals were awarded fighters from other states. North-Carolinians winning the de coration Include: 1 . , ' '' Rergeants. HAWKINS, Paul Clinton, N. C. j CARLISLE,1 f homas W., Tarboro, WELLS, John T., Watha, N. C. .. Coi-porals. 'BUTLER, Emery L., Landis, N. C. ' vV Privates. . ' w MORELAND, Thomas E., Concord. n. a.'- ' ; , :--' , . " BLANCHARD, Edward, Fayetto vllle, N. C - ; ' .-"QRIFFITHS,' Luther C., Reids' fine, n. c. i-r , CARTER, Buck, A (deceased) Ingold, N: .C ' " 'HALL, Henry, Hope- Mills. N. C. ' WASHINGTON. July '- 23,-r-HOuse republicans were notified today, that the conference tonight would eon felder- any question submitted, al though ' discussion i was r expected- to center about , proposed , enlargement of the legislative steering committee WAflTlNGTON, July 23. Tb ii ' will f' 'i t1 1 trp;itij I i- v v. 1 1 111 HS FOB, .GALIAI1TRY IN WAR REff UK TO iioioraiu mini n OOICJIIIITREATV Hard by Recent Raiii MAKE IE wmm. ItiiliT :'.( --X i :jfj -,;;) ".7, Lenine Envoys Offer I i It t Rumania1 Bessarabia If Kolchak and Ukrainians Are Banned. AN ARMISTICE IS SIGNED Ruuian Peace Party Off for Ru : manian Headquarters to - Press Lenine's Plea. LONDON. Julv 23.A hd. I ROSS ADER , m - to the commander of the Ruma nian Dniester troops on behalf of Nikolai Lenine, the bolshevik premier. ' Lenine offers to cede Bessarabia to Rumania on condition that Ru mania shall prohibit Ukrainian clti- sens and bands ot Admiral Kolchak troops of the -All-Russian govera- taentat Omsk fr'oia rostdDlhVii4 manian frontier. , , , " An armistice to last eight days has been concluded on .the Bessarabian front and the delegation has gone to Rumanian headquarters. BULLETINS - WILSON, July 2. The dam at Wiggins Mill near here gave way before high water pressure. HICKORY, July 2.1Crop damage in the Catawba section promisee to bo heavy as t rr snlt of the recent heavy, rains. The streams in tlds and nearby counties no sooner recede than ' they are way up above' their banks again. GREENSBORO, July 23. lice Chief Islcy was presented with a gold, watch and chain on the occasion of his fortieth birthday. The gift came front members of the police force. NEWTON, July 23 The Lutli eran convention In session here is rapidly nearing its close. An automobile ride around the town proved one of the features of the meeting. ' ASHEVILLE, July 23. Ei-mond Phelps, of New Orleans, won over J. D. Hunt, Jr., of At lanta on the tennis tourney at the AslievlUe country club, v GREENSBORO, July 2.1. United States Senator Reed ex v pected to flay the league of no tions here tonight, is spending the afternoon resting at his hotel. On his anival, the, sen ator was met by a mayor's coin- AjiiAr ',;'iivv,' l KkxinoKtii Jab 23U-At- . iaaiites nuiitrv , iu irinuvt a ss v fell of the death of Clifton Jen lins, former, Spencer man, who was killed when caught between two cars. Both legs were crush ed. '.'(, , i it i ,i i j .WINSTON-SALEM, July 23. -The " proposition' (o annex Southslde and Centerville,, thriv ' Ing suburbs, to Winston-Salem,, was.defeated by two' votes. The count, was 210 to 208. LEXINGTON, July 23. Tlie : feature "casein "court tbli'weesr- was that charging James Massey with securing marriage: license under false 1 pretense. Massey and a trl-l repreitnr shevik delegation has arrived at Hungarian armies, is now declared Although there was scattered fir Kuhuieff with an offer of peace tin control of the communist govern-'ing of firearms in torn nf hi PEACE OVERTURE ..r,,..-..T,-.."l( , v.;;- On Top in Hungary IIL'UAI'EHT." Jul 3 rtrwhn. wn, . - - - " - 1 1,11V I imyit, along witlUler. They have ; accomplished the removal "of Hela Kun from power. But a short time ago Boehm was reported In prison. HI i National Transportation Confer encW Would Put All Roads Under Supervision of U. S. i WASHINGTON, July 23. Private ownership and operation of railroads merged into 20 of 30 grent coir. pal ing systems under the supervision of a federal transportation board with a L statutory rule of rate making asur Ing to the roads a net income of six per cent was offered to the house commerce commission as the desire of the national transportation confer ence here. Harry A. Wheelen of Chicago, for mer president of tha Chamber of Commerce ;of the United States, who assembled the conferees,' explained j that hearing had been held for six months at which different railroad men, labor union officials and , bank ers had been head. The plan evolved was said to be u combination of the best features of plans already submitted with soma new elements assembled into what the conference regarded as a har monious whole. TEN SLAIN III RIOT T BERLIN, July 23.- Ten persons were shot during disorders which attended the breaking up of a ma jority socialist meeting by commu nists and spartacans here yesterday. 'Those attending the meeting which was held in the trades union building attempted to kill the man who fired the shots, but he was saved by hospital helpers In. the building. JAPS DID HOT GET f E PARIS, July 23. The Japanese delegatlon"towthe peace '-conference today issued, a denial of the assed- tion that the Shantung settlement in thV peace treaty vat in rx' Var-m f (he withdraw al -f - I VK -AAAAAV; 11 II 1 iOFffiEO HOUSE COMMITTEE AT SOCIALIST It MHIITRAD K'LNllAI Mil r bt bt -m .. .v . Nerro Prowler - Slays One, Mori v tally Wounds Another Mem KNIVES ARE FREELY USED1 Scores Are More or Lew Serious ly- Injured by Stones, Clubs ' ' and Other Weapons. WASHINGTON, July:23 negro dutiic until early this morning, the( major casualties in last night's f clashes btw-n whites and negroes consisted of only one White man killed and another fatally wounded J V ?eores j-Vere Injured In . varying : degrees as a result : of bloS from fists, stones, clubs and the wielding. of knives, but in none of these cases were the wounds' expected to be fatal. The man killed last ' night , was'. Isaac D. Hslblnger and the seriously wounded man was Benjamin Bel mont,' both members'1 of the home defense guards, who were sW down on jthe streets by a- negro. , Despite the fact that the capital, was an armed camp the fourth night' of the race warfare was less violent than on Monday, when four persons were killed . outright . and, nearly a doen were seriously hurt. ; - ' The closing of pool rooms, motion 4 picture houses and v other places where crowds of negroes might be i expected to gather, and the policy of the police and military to keep every body 1 moving enabled the author!- ties to keop the situation well under 1 rontrol."' ' : ,;? - Following conferences , . between L Secretary Baker and.,Presl(ent( WU- ; son a force of about 2,0 olitrooH under the command of Mjrfn. - eral Haan, recently returned frona ' overseas service, was ordered to ,. Washington from nearby, csmpsj ', "J' This force Is expected 4o remain!; on duty until the wave of lawless ness Is burned out and normal con :' ditions are restored. , '" As on Monday bight, the'most of Hia u frortsoufnn Inar rtle-Kf o nnoavod trif come from the blacks, who had k armed themselves for retaliation wit the whites after the - beating by whites of negroes. - :"''.; Sale of firearms and ammunition. in the city has been stopped and with the military practically in con , trol the authorities believe further ,' serious trouble is not to be expectedj J ;r?. nnninnn nnrm re ItULVUIL OF TIGER SMS PARIS, July 23-Premier Clem-; enceau, who won for hH cabinet, at vote of confidence lato Tuesday in the chamber of depatlei, emerg 1 from the conflict strouger than tl. test vote indicated. The final vote of confidence on (' ; resolution by Deputy r mylan, I -eluding the government's ' tlon of policy, showet cor;' the government by 219 11". majority cf 115. ! V uutnuLi r
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