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I t M." ''i ' .4 f f ft-" A t IM X Fair tonight and WcdaeWUri gentle wind, mottly QMth. WANT '-ADS. '; Page Six v PII rWTYWw"ir a (iir LLJ I ! II 1 1 ' I i - II II II 111' II II II 1111" II II II ' II II z-ii" AAJ O U VOL. 26. NO. 250. ntlflTirAr Wivm ' la 1 1 , - . . i , . t - MAM UtAIH I IRISH BEAUTY'S coming home. NtW KA t U IMKAW HAI ll-M CUT BY SIDRM -g-, RUlNBUlESS IN . Oil GOLF COAST IfilH lllI Estimate of Number Who Lc.t Tbeir Live Runt Into the Hundreds. MANY BODIES ARE FOUND Few Expreued for Lannch That Left Corpus Chruti Late Saturday. N MownUJng i-H.ldl m rrportj trim iMiliited hocIIobh Loxhii trtrkUns; in, I lie dentil lit iin the wmiH of the tropical limi-i-rne which Sunday ttept the Tttn gnlt const, Munytiiriuul) placed at from 70 to 150 to(Uj. COKPU8 ( HIUSTI, Kept. 10. Ttan death toll of SiiikIh.vN storm will reach 'between 73 and 100 here and nut-rounding town, nerording to Hn estlniate today by Dr. W. E. WIIIm, city health officer. A launch lu charge of (liarlex McManus, of the local United Htate employment MTvlce, left here today for Rock pert In an effort to leant the fate of dial town. The launoli will also stop at Port AranHaM. Three women whw ouKht refuse from the Htonu In tlie Federal bnlldi-iK Kundny xia'it beeame mother?) while the hur rkaae wax at Ita heiglit. IteportA txlay were that nil were doing nicely in local hospi tals BINTON. Texas. Sept. 16 Sin too I acting as the relief center for tbe ntlre surrounding territory. : Bint "JlTols :ba' aea . foud vtttims of Sunday's storm. Forty bodies were found at West Port. 28 at White Point, four or live below Odem, and several ut Port land. No one waHkllled ut Sinton but property damage wns' high. Battles are being held for identifi cation. MANY KILLKI). CORPUS CHR18TI, Tex., fiept. 16. With troops patrolling the mali street and relief trains headed this ay. the city today took count of the wreckage caused by the gulf hur ricane whlc hstruck this city Sun day, bringing death to an unknown number ot persons. It was Impossible to get anything like a correct estimate of the number of deaths. In the city proper the estimate was placed by officials at between 13 and 25. but that was re warded hy many as far too conferva tive. In some quarters It was naid the number of injured was 200. One report circulated today, bu: as yet unconfirmed, was that 100 bodies, most of them recognized as resident, had been taken from a reef near Portland. More than 300 persons were made homeless by the storm. Considerable anxeity wus exress ed regarding the fate ot the launch Waldo, with 1.'. persona on board which left here Saturday. Fear are entertained that a heavy casualty list will be reported from surrounding towns, several of which were In the storm's path. This torm struck with a tidal ware 10 feet high over the business district early. Sunday. f ,' OREEIJYILLE, Sept. 16. General o)ia';J.; Penning ha declined the Invitation to apeak at the . 80th dlvtr Ion renfbn Majoir-Oeneral George W. Reed ha accepted and the gov ernors of Tennessee, North and South Carolina wilt epeak, . rrevlou engagements prevent General Pershing from' attending the reunion September 29 and 30. Infant Pies. The three-months old daughter of .Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Newby died lntd night at 11 o'clock. Funeral serv ices will bo hold this afternoon at G o'clock at rif;:!; nt l!iovi church, vert of tlm city. ,T! '! f rvlce will be :!'.!' I 1 PERSHIHG DEGUNES ... ' . . .J. - . , ( ' i ll T It I 4 ! 'P?" K"1 Layt Their Brief I ' ili'? i BcloT9 Interstate Commerce x A i , v Vv 'WvS. ! CommUwoh. If THE RATES PREJUDICIAL I . ) ;hT I LONDON. Sept. 18. Lady iirzon. formerly Mrs. Alfred Durgun. con sidered one of the mo:,t beautiful uomcn lu Ireland or London social circles Is about to visit lin old homo in America. F, L All Industrial Plants in City Will Resume Operation in Full Force Tomorrow. , Tomorrow,' for the. firs! tune in seveu weeks, the citizens of High rolnt will be awakened by the blast., of every factory whistle In-tho city. Many who have not (urii"d their hand since the labor trouble rirsi developed will take their lunch pails In hand and proceed to the scene of their former vocation ut this wel come sound. For more than seven weeks -IT fac tories have been practically idle. All these resume operation In full force tomorrow morning. During the trouble but a small quota of the factories have been working, and the sound of their whistles could scarcely be heard, so feeble were they operating singly. Tomorrow morning, however, all whistles In the city will break forth in a vociferous chorus calculated to bring Joy to many citizens of High Point. It is thought that the workmen will merely assume their former po sitions with the factories from which they were discharged for Joining a labor union. BOSTON, Sept. 16-OfIicers or the Are department will not. Join in a sympathetic utrike to aid police. This was announced today after a meeting of directors of the officers' club of the Are fighting force of the city. Commissioner Murphy announced that "ho had reason to believe the firemen would remain loyal to the city. 1 AXCE8TRAL HOMK OF GKOItGK WASHINGTON TO GET GIFTS LONDON. Sept. l-Alton D. Tar- ker'' Is going to Sulgrave manor, the, Ancestral home of the family of George' Washington, to present on behalf ot the Colonial, ; Dames of Xmorica a portrait of George Wash ington, JudgQ Parker also carries a check for f2,000 contributed by for the restoration ot the homo. flO.OOO.OOO VIRK Ii()8S. ' SHEFFIELD, Sept." H.FIre last destroyed warehouse No. 4 of the J. P. White Engineering corporation at Mussels Shoals, the Iohs being esti mated at $20,000,000, A niaj;r por (lon of tin lost was electrical ecjulp- A T WHISTLE WILL PLAY A IIP CBTOilOW BOSTON UN W LL NOT STRIKE HIGH POINT, N. C, TUESDAY, AFTjEflNOON. warn. S EXONERATED IN T Driver of Automobile Causing the Death of Grant Johnson De clared Free From Blame. uscar Mitchell . 'w,A exonerate j iium mi oiaine in ine killing or tJrant Johnson in an automobile ac cident which occurred several weeks ago, at the hearing in municipal court yesterday. Mitchell was charged, with pan slaughter, it being alleged thaft he had been guilty of negligence in operating his automobile at the time of the fatal accident. A multiplicity of testimony was 1111 offered by both the defense and the! The authorities have been advised state, much of which was of a very and a search is being made, conflicting nature. It was brought I This in the second time he has es out in the trial that the dead man leaped. A few days ago a court ordei was scarcely able to take care of him self at the time of the accident. It was also proved that Mitchell wai not operating his automobile at an excessive rate of speed. Judge Klrkman, in announcing his verdict, isated that it was a very J hard case for him to decide, but from the bottom of his heart and from the ovidence offered during the case he was of the opinion that the fatal oc currence was nothing more than an accident and could by no means have teen avoided. IE MACON, Sept. 16. Both the po- II r,o and city firemen held out today to their refusul to bow to the de mands ot the civil service and dis band their union, declaring that In stead they will accept discharge in a body If the council which meets to right upholds the commission and will refuse to accept discharge of only a portion of the men. An official order was issued by the ' commission in compliance, with demand made by citizens yesterday In which the civil service commission was given', the alterhatve of Imme diate resignation. ' '', ; , , More than 200 discharged soldiers hate offered to erve it the police quit.;' . - ' . ::k v J :', . .Tlio patrolmen .were on duty as usual today and stated they would nolo resign, would not strike and dll cot intend to give up their union card.','" 'V' V ' '."V,' . ' V : 'U I Wilson in ' California. On Board President Wilson' train, SepU 16. Hoadlng southward Pres ident WllHOn-beglns a six day tour of California, in the Interest of the peace- treaty. His train hud no stopr :!;' lulerl for today. ICON POLICE AND FIREMEN ID ON Contended Rate Should Be Rais ed on Railroads Now Sho in g a Deficit. WASHINGTON'. Sept Hi U.ih i lie evidence of Hie railroad adminis tration completed at 'it he opeuitu: mksIoii of the rate hiariiiR opt-red wtprday the souther shippers to day pointed out the specific cases m lnrh they contend thf proponed in (tease of ruteti would' te prejudU That the additional revenue med ed should bo derive from th northern lines now shiviiiR a delicit was ((intended by Cl K Cotieiill. general couuscU for Ibe N'-n ln-rn i Traffic league, in a atttemenl open I ing the case for the shippers today i "We admit the raoroads should i have additional revehiue." lie said, i but let them get it troin the north wheie tlio lines are! behind ex I penses." Shippers throughout Nortli and I South Carolina declarsj the prip:AI j of the railroad administration io in M lease rates in this tection. which i would not apply to northern centers. I would put many businesses out of i running. 1 It is declared the proposed rates j would prevent the' future develop- ' mont of the south, by '"disrriininatinr i ingainrtt mnnufacturers and Jobbers ' using southern lines, COLUMBIA. Sept. K..--Thurston 1'. Vaughn, the former superinten dent of the South Carolina Odd Fel lows' orphanage, who was sentenced to die in the electric chair for at tacking girl inmates or the b;me in 111, made his escape from the stale hospitr.l for the insane here today. issued in Greenville, authorized his removal to Greenville for a series of sanity tests. If found to be Ram- lie vould be ordered resentenced to the electric chair. WOMKV TO KM BOIjSHEYLSM ASSKItT MRS. PAXKHIUST NEW YORK. Sept. 16 A predic tion that the downfall of bolshevism would be brought about by women was made by Mrs. Emmellne Pank hurst, noted British suffragist, who srrived here from England on the steamship Adriatic. She is to make a lecture tour through the United States and Canada. (INK IvILI.KII, TWO WOl'MHM), IS KKXTl'CKY TISTOL FIGHT LOUISVILLE, Sept. 16. William Collins was shot and killed, Hiram Hall probably fatally wounded and an unidentified man slightly wound ed In a pistol fight at Dry Creek, near Whitesburg, Ky. An old feud Is be lieved to have caused the shooting. Quake in Italy Ioes Damage. ROME, Sept. 16. Several villages In the province of Sierra were se verely shaken by an earthquake. Houses collapsed, or were badly damaged at Hagni, Asdana, Monto rlo, Radlcofanl, Piancastrnaln, Ba dia, Sato Salvadore and) Celle.v. One portion is dead and several are re ported injured ' at Plancastragnajo, Ten were injured at Celle, Assist ance has , been 'sent to the province. Romanian ' Tfcke , 142,850 - Shoes V:. 'From Orphan hjiteport.' ' v;!' ; PARIS, Sept, 'Mf.-j Ad vices "of fur ther requisitioning in Hungary , by the Rumanian troops of occupation were receive by the supremo coun cil o fthe peace conference ' Dunfels Html Home. TACOMa! Sept. 1. Secretary ot the Navy Daniels, for several weeks with tho Puclflc fleet, plannud to Htart on his return to Waidilngton louny. - . or n i niii i u r? V I il 1 1- AYI IIIVI i ut umiL nUILUMI SEPTEMBER 16, 1919. LEADS 10 FIH 0NEJS KILLED Blacks and White Clash in Heart ! of New York, Three Are Shot Down. POLICEMAN WOUNDED! Trouble Started When Man Had His After Season Headgear Smashed by a Negro. NKW VOKK. Sept If, o,. lh. pro a. killed. tii in i ii i eti and patrolman wounded in a liiii In twecn neRiai-s and while- at I'!.". I a si reel aim i.einiux aiiiue ' lH'a" "f ""' t odn v 1 olice reset ves filmi four station t lll balice. wm e sn in lljOI'.e 1 In quel the ills I tie t rou hie u a la have a si lavs siiniiuei sta rted whei, a ina u a vm iat af'ei- il,.- season I'm lead(;ear had it loin Ciom li s head This led In Miui'e of other straw hals and what Ik (;,iii as a jeM turned into a fiKht. One while man was ai rested. A negro was shot and killed by a 1 dress by S"!iato' c' rr.a sharply policeinan in plain clo'lies who said crit i( isiiiR l'icsid"ii Mils. m and tin after be had protested the seizure of league of nali-i . , was planned Io his hat a crowd of negroes had siir- pnveed with tu, i ;ly and ainend roiinded Ii m and rai.-ed a cry of inents. but to pi.x: puiu- at lion on t'.i 1 'Ivnch bim II HONOLULU, Sept. 16. The. i United States has asked the Ja panes j : government to fix a date tor the re turn of Klao-Chnn to China, accord ing to cable advices received here' hy a Japanese daily newspaper. I nn rabu added thi-i I':,- government hud not answered it. i Washington Is Silent. WASHINGTON. Sept. 16. -Offl'i Hals here in the absence of President Wilson will not comment upon the report that the United States has i , t . t . IV.. the :,Bv u..pn ,u ' I return of Kiao Chau to China. The ; general impression is that the report ; is well founded. i Japan's answer to a request would have important bearing on the sen ate's considemtion of the peace j treaty as one oi wic iiujcv-mum " on which objection is centered the Mian. mis I""""""1- Officials feel that a definite date j set by Japan for the return of the p.ovlnce would go far toward remnv-i ing objections to the treaty. SHIK BKKAKS DOWN AT SKA: PASSKXGKItS NOT IX I'KIUL ; J'be NKW YORK Sept. 1G I steamer Alliance, witu izs passeu , ters on board, on her way to Colon. broke down yesterday when 185 I miles southwest of Cape Henry and - is proceeding under her own steam j to Old Point Comfort, according to a wireless message received. Themes j sage said that there was no danger. - i LIGHT FROM RIO JAXKIItO TO Ul'KXOS A IRKS HALTKI) BUENOS AIRES. Sept. 16. Lieut. Locatelll of the Italian aviation mis- sion to Argentina, who reached Porto Alegro o nTliursday. was prevented 1 by bad weather from leaving that j place for Rio Janeiro on his flight from Buenos Aires to the Brazilian capital. DURHAM MERCHANTS HEM) OX WHISKY HAXDId.XOf CHARGE DURHAM, Sept. 16. Allen Slater, well known clothing merchant of this city, was placed under arrest last night charged with illegal pos session of whiskey. He was released under $200 bond.' Police found the whisky in the Slater tore, it U al leged, when they went there to stop a flstlc encounter said to have uen in progress for more than at hour. TOO KILVER FOX BKIX8 BRIXG $175,000 AT ST. LOCK ST. LOUIS, Sept. 16. -A collection of 700 silver fox skin brought $176,000 at the morning sale at the International Fur exchange here to day. Experts claimed this was an odvanco of 75 per cent. RETURN DATE FOR i A E Albemarle Quiet; No Further Trouble Is Looked For There PEACE TREATY WAS UNDER DEBATE IN SENATE ALL TODAY Senato. Sherman Sharply Criti-, cises President Wilson in rrepared Speech. IS NOW IN OPEN SESSION After Today Will Rerumc Con- sideraticn of Treaty Again Friday Morning. W ASIllNC TON, Sept Mi. - Con filiation ut' tli-- peace ireity in open exeru'.M ses ioli was li-slliuol by the senate i-idir, alter disposal of hi let routiii); attaii - KoIIowmik a li:.;.ll,y prepared ad first amendment until next Monday. The treaty will he li ken up agai'i Friday. I lemon at ic na-.eis ( (inferred in lormally on amendments and reser vations today EW YORK. Sept. 1 6.-Proposals :,h.,, nlf. pPiHpn r ti,u r i s,tPK i, n.uri -., i,...- f n, j erioan Federation of Labor and that all strikes be immediately cancelled j in order to meet the present sltua tiou by which the "foundations of our government are threatened." are contained in a conimunieat ion sent to President Gompers bv -the league of lhc A , Federation of Labor for I)ai.tnerflhip an(J ,n,,U9trll . mocracv." TOW.M.KV AM) (.ILHKItl GIVKN JAIL SENTKNt I'.S JACKSON. M.nn . Sept. 1. AC Town ev. Ili.-sii enl of the National N-:,n,,.t"r is,n u h . I omanialion inanar i ,,.,,,, , ln,lf. ,, , ! j I lie Jackson county lad here In .'mine Iv (' Dean, without alterna !Hve of line. Townley and Gilberi were convicieii nere ,i ul 1 on cllfi l;e of conspiracy I i i- i Ii di lo a II v. ludu Dean mauled a stay of lence of (Hi days al the i - or ' o attorney for ihe defense, on their nriginnl bail In passing sentence., Judge Dean assailed Townley and lh- Nen-Paiiisan league, and de hired -'aii organization buill on. laiseiiood win not long endure. i . j K.w'm'ORT STOWAWAY ON UKTI'RN TRIP TO HLLtillM NEW YORK. Sept. lfi - M ke Gil- hooley, 14 years old. is on his way buck to Belgium on the transport llenderson. Thus ends the fourth attempt of the war's champion stow away to be an American. Mike has numerous friends among the dough - boys of the A. E. V.. but bis infill- ence does not extend to the immigra tion authorities. Mike s father died I r . 1- - . 1 I. 1 .. rt T .' .. a. ue.,e ...e , ..u .... n.K.u mother, he says, was killed by a Ger - man shell, which also destroyed his , home. German Monoment Rased. SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA, Sept. 16. -A monument which had been erect ed ; to the memory;, ot German in ternes, who died at Trial Bay near here, has been blown up by persona WANT Wll HM iniN mini hiuuuii juni Auno ctntDAT n LttUUlVlLUllttUUU unknown. The monument had been! , J. Gurney Drifts leaves tomorrow the cause of frequent protest by lo- for Newbern to ssum ht duM- i cal organizations including ono com- (director of Jhn EIU.i'n Mi City ! ' : t posed of returned soldiers, and some threats had been made that It would bo destroyed.' It was 20 feet high and composed of solid granite- and was erected at tho expense, of Ger man Internet. . . . FIVE CENTS. THREE COMPANIES OF STATE TROOPS PATROL TIE CITY Mayor Groves Say Repetition of Yesterday's CUh is Not Expected. SEVERAL STRIKERS JAILED More Arrests Are Scheduled to Be Made Today; Four or Five in Jail. . t$ ILVLKKiH, Sept. 10. Got. ci nor llickett hud not left for AIlxiiiHile at 1 o'clock this afternoon when Santford Mar. tin. private (tecretary, talked with him over the telephone at h pel Hill. Mr. Martin said the governor told him he would not go at tlds time. ALBEMARLE. Sept. 16. With tliree companies of Htate', troops guarding the city, last night passed without disorder following the trou ble yesterday at the gates of the Wisconsin mills, where a clash oc curred between county and city au thorities and striking textile: work ers when the police are said to-naife attempted to disarm strikers. The troops airlvcd here yesterday afternoon and assumed control of the situation. They wer received quietly and no one seeemea to resent their presence - Thv-fl--beUel here today that there wllf be no "further trouble. more trouble la expected at A 1 bemarle. although three Companies ot state troops are being hhi there as a precaution against another possible dash. Mayor Groves, t of that city, 'stated over the telephone to The: En terprise this afternoon.. ' . .' . j The city is quiet today. Only a few people are on the streets and these .are kept moving hy the troops, who are doing patrol duty. Last night passed without any disorder what- ' e.ver. ! Only four or five are being held In : ja.il, the mayor stated, refuting pubr 'lished reports that the Jail had been ! filled. Sheriff Blaldck. shot in the leg yes terday, is rapidly recovering. A strik er, named Samuel Porter, who Is al leged to have shot the sheriff and was in turn shot by a member of the party, is not seriously injured, the hullei having lodged In the fleshy part of his leg. H is not anticipated that the sit uation will call for the dispatch of other troops to Albemarle. The trouble started early yester day morning, following a night of' wild rumors. One rumor was to the dec; that a body of union men from a ne.irby town, armed to (he teeth, were marching on Albemarle to aid union strikers. All the reports were groundless. ' ff Hp - But they did serve to collect a big crowd at the gates of the Wlscassett .mills yesterday morning. Sheriff jBlalock and a force of deputies went. to the mil Ito prevent possible trou ble. I In the melee that follOWrd Sa'iittfl ! Porter is alleged to have drawr. hi Inistol nnd flreri at th ahoriff The j . ' .VtKttrt: . . led to shoot again, it I said, a mcni- ibvr of the crowd that' bad ur;d about the fallen sheriff, shot Porter, effort was made today to. pro i I . , ' -,.lI J X V V U k IIU.I UUIUII ISSVftl tl VU VI S)IUt ' ' of the Y. M. C .A. Mr. RrlsCH Imx I. experience In Y. "! It In rTan I n i to I,' i r 1 ' 1:k' 1 i nrao DIRECT T OS jSv'"';T-' ' ' '?' v "'I.".'V ' ? : .. ')&. i. iv, 'sit::, i -';f x . r 'Si..: S''' ' , 'S
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