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W 111 1 E. HUUdfc Uf f I-
cials deny RUPTURE
INQUIRY FBOM PARIS FOR SPEEDY SAILING OF TRANS
PORT, GEORGE WASHINGON, SETS TONGUES
WAGGING
IERELY A PRECAUTION SAY OPPICERS
O-
Associated Press r
W'jisllill!
:. April S-Aunoune
that the presidential i
n-;,M-)oi-t. George Washington,
, sail from New York for
;:tt on Friday next instead of
Monday, the date originally set,
A'sixtant Secretary Roosevelt dis
H,,u the fact that the change
v;; math' as the result of a cable
nr;:m received yesterday from
Afhiiiral l.enson at Paris inquiring
when the ship could, sail.
i'iii is. April S. The Council of
l-Var met this morning at the resi
dciirf of Premier Lloyd George,
I'n'sidem Wilson being unable to
.itieiid the forenoon session but it
is hoped he will attend the meeting
this afternoon at the Paris White
lh'!i0.
The overnight tension in Peace
t ' :ift renee circles had not been
. U -1 1 ti 1 when the Council met.
hi (oiiferenee circles, however, it
is felt that the sessions toklay
V! serve to clear the atmos-
'Washington, April 8. It has
-vi learned today that no infor
itiou has been received at the
ite House, or other- official
ii1 rs. about the situation that
-patches from France indicate
- arisen there.
'M't'ieials confidentially declare
belief that President Wilson
- m id fit of leaving Paris pre-un-Iv
mt the inquiry about
' ransport is merely a preeau-
to insure the president's ship
w
Mi
1 -! President Wilson is
'!'!nrn to America.
readv !
iLVED CO.
X CHAPTER
BE!
Associated Press)
Ali l!t(' l,eal Cross organ i-
i'i I lab fax. county, with the
i'tion f Aurelian Springs,
l"" present yesterday at the
; f the County Chapter
,; m Wcldou yesterday when
lf r'"'iuty diajter was dissolved
lh,- former local chapters giv-
right to apply for a char,
i
: ' menisci ves, thus reinstat
- -H'mselves as individual chap
N as formerly.
Payne, of Atlanta, represent
' tne Home Service t Depart-!-
n'as present and made a.
1 interest in; address on the
'": of tliis department.
! " public accountant, also
-lanta headquarters, was
( ' " Jro nv.-r the books of
; ' '"':.v Chapter, wliHl pas:
1 Satisfactory md i-on-vet.
COTTON MARKET
(Closing)
New
26.67
21.46
22.75
22.36
'unei
"r')l Market. NOMINAL
FOUR O'CLOCK EDITION
l, I I. K FAKtt.N
WRITES HOME
Clarence Parks wrote to Mr.
Joe Pittman under date of March
10. stating that he and other of
our boys who are in the ?0o En
gineers are well although pining
to get home.
Sergeant Parks states that he
has looked over the list of sailings
as far forward as July and does
not see where the 81st division
is slated to come back home-. This
is most disappointing as many of
us have been expecting them to re
turn to us pretty soon.
LARGEST WHEAT
CROPS EVER
(By Associated Press)
Washington, April 8. The larg
est crop of winter wheiat ever
grown is forecasted for this year
by the Department of Agricul
ture today, basing the estimate up
on conditions existing April first.
The enormous yield of 837,000,
000 bushels is announced.
U. S. PL
DISJDAMAG
(By Associated Press)
Boston, April 8. French rec
ords credited United States naval
planes with damaging and possi
bly destroying twelve German
submarines, according to Captain
Thomas Craven, commander of the
United States naval aviation for
ces in France, who arrived bere re
cently.
His department, he said, took
a more conservative view and eon
ceded to have sunk two and dam
aged eight enemy craft.
IEW HISTORIC
DINNER SET
"Washington, April 8. China us
ed on the White House table for
the dinner conference. February 26
at which President Wilson on his
return from France discussed the
- i
j League of Nations with members
of the foreign relations .commit
tees of Congress, - has, ; been con
signed to a cabinet aong with oth
cr sets used by Presidents on his
toric occasions.. It is a plain din-'
'ncr set, decorated, with a single
stripe of gold, and was used for
the 'first time at the League of
Nations dinner.
ANE
SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, TUESDAY APRIL 8 1919
FRANK
MED SUDDENLY TODAY
REMARKABLE CHARACTER IN AMERICAN. MERCHANTILE
HISTORY WAS MAN WHO BUILT FORTUNE OUT
OF FIVE CENT STORES
W00LW0RTH BUiLDINGj HIS MONUMENT
Aevr ork, April 8. Frank W.
Woolworth, who started the five :
and ten e&ut store in Utica, New' Tiv'nddituin. to establishing a bus
York forty years ago o,n a capital :-c-swith profits of nearly eight
of fifty dollars and eventually be- millions yearly Woolworth'biiirt a
came the millionaire proprietor of the colebratt d sixty story Wool
a great chain of these stores thru worth'; building in New York
out the United States, Canada and
England, died suddenly today at
PETLURA FORCES
ADVANCE ON K1RU
(By Associated Press)
Budapest h, April 8. The forces
commanded bf Petlura, the Uran
ian peasant leader, are said to be
menacing Kiru, according to re
ports received here which indicate
that they are within a few "miles
of that city.
AGUE-NATIONS
m COMPLETE!
.By Associated Press
Paris. April 8. The Drafting
Committee of the League of Na
tion has now completed its work
on the covenant as revised which?
now contains twenty seven
d:x.
i iiiil meeting ot ttie league ot
j.Nanoij:- (viiiimiftee will be held
tomorrovr to consider the redraft
.'-.d covenant.
FARM LABORERS
H
f!
UIBEI
April 4.
-The average
v. .ge of the ordinary farm laborer
in this countrv advanced during!
the war from 3.50' a week to a
bout 6.75 a week.
Evidence of file awakening of;sirable chemical industries, such
tehfa. rm laborer to his own"value;as the manufacture of dye stuffs
and his willingness to organize lias ! developed during the war was fav
been discovered bv the Board
of
Agriculture which has investigat
ed the pay of the farm workers.
Before the war the .men's wages
were too Ioav to enable them to pay
union fees, but since the war a rap
id development in trade unionism
has taken place. The investiga
tors found little evidence or un
friendly relations between employ
ers and agricultural workers. '
CANADIAN JOY
AT WITHDRAWAL
Vladivostok, April 8. (By Ca
nadian Press delayed in transit)
J bere is greaf rejoicing among,.
the Ciulian troops here over
the official announcement that the
Canadian troops will be with
drawn from here. '
It is reported thatembarkation
will commence about the middle
of April.
his h.6me at Glen Cone. I
Mng
Is-
land, j
which is said to be the tallest
the world.
m
I0VIET BEEN
PROCLAIMED
By Associated Press
Nuremburg, April 8. The pro
clamation of k Soviet Republic
at Munich was announced in spe
cial editions of. the newspapers.
The people received the news
' eallny 5t is said
!sp
TACUS
Hi
1
11
By Associated Press
Copenhagen, April 8. A politi
cal movement of great importan
ce, imminent in the Hamburg re
gion, is reported from Berlin.
jocrors iierz ana liaurtenbouro
Spartacan leaders, have almost sue
'ceeded i?i nuikiiu' tlipmol vp moc
ters of the situation and convert-
ling-Hamburg and the region be
tween Hamburg and, Bremen into
a Soviet republic.
ANT TARIFF
PROTECT DYES
By Associated Press
Buffalo, April 8, Enactment of
tariti and unfair competition
laws to protect essential and de-
ored by William S. Culbertson,
member of the United States'Tar
iff Commission in an address he de
ilivered here today before the A-
merican Chemical Society. Mr.
Culbertson said he 'regarded the
coal-tar producing industry as a
" clear case deserving of legisla-
ture help.':
The tariff commissioner said he
had not regarded with favor the
plan adoptedby Great Britain to
provide -state aid for the dye indus
try and an embargo on dyes ex
cept where importations were per
mitted under special licenses.
"The alternative," said Mr. Cul
bertson, " is a tariff which will
equalize with a. fair margin the
conditions of competition between
this country and abroad
rise of the dve industry has .given
a new significance to the 'infant
industry', argument for the tariff. !
In mans
phases
research audi
O!
emiim.-erincr this
intlustrv in the
United States is in the exporimeri-
TELEGRAPH SERVICE
BAVARIA' I
GRIP
WHOLESALE ARP" OF NATIONALISTS AND BOURSOISE
HAVE BANNED WITH LEADERS IN THE
TOILS
COUNTER DEMONSTRATION TAKEN PLACE
0
CAPITAL CITY
WROUGHT UP
(ly Maxwell Gorman)
Raleigh, April 8 Charges brou-j
ght against Otis Shell, engrossing io- the fourth army, and his staff
clerk of the House of. Representa- j have also been arrested,
fives, involving misappropriation: Former deputies have buen
of State funds, alleged embezzle-j banished and Filkel arrested O
ment ami forgery, have caused'a i ther arrest, of sot,ial demoftrats
mild sensation here diirino the!
c.
last few days. The sum involved
amounts to only one or two huii-
jdred dollars and Mr. Shells dis
claiming any intentional wrong,
has affired to make good the a
mount, The whole matter has. been re-
terred to the House tor action
.1, i. 1.1 --..-! -r-
ft -a -m w
uuix it reassemoies cpeaKer cram
mitt havemg been advised ol the
iiciiuic oi iik" evmenee against Liie
Dunn" man.
ges has been in progress a week j
or two, but only yesterday was it
disclosed that the evidence taken !
sustained some of them. One of j
the methods employed by Shell, it !
is charged, was to collect person
ally warrants for the pay of em
ployers i i i his office, including sev
era I girls, stenographers & clerks,
and then, not turn over to them
the full amounts called for in the
warrants in the treasury. An ax
ample is furnished in the illustra-
tration that in at least one instant j passable roads, according to phy
he collected 20 in 4 mileage' ' forjsiciaus here. Nearly a score of
a girl clerk who was not entitled lea dim; medical-men here endorse
to and did not claim mileage, and
did not, receive it, she testified.
Shell is reported to be out of
the'state and could not be reached
by those who would like a state
ment from him today. The legis
lature is expected to be convened
m extra session next summer.
3 I
D UP CITY
.a!
Berne, April 8. An inquiry con !
ducted bv Bremen has revealed!
the fact that the Spartaeus-Bolshe !
vik group in that city numbered I
j between 700 and 800 men, writes j
a Berlin correspondent. This com
j paratively insignificant number i
j 0f armed desperados were able to
dictate their will to a population J
of several hundred thousand and j
to maintain a reign of terror for j
several weeks before troops sent
from Berlin liberated the inhabit
i
tants from their tyranny.
1 !
tal stage. The selling of German
patents by the. alien property ens-j
Theitodian is of great assistance but;
i
we are not as yet m a position tojed. He directed the music which
compete on an equality with the j
old well established concerns a-
broad. Many important and much '
net ded dyes are not yet being ;
made
r.nited States.
i
PRICE TWO CENTS
T
(By Associated Press)
Copenluagen. April S. Hen
Landsburg, minister of justice on
the National German government
was arrasted yesterday at lagde
burg by troops stationed at Etlioi
according to Magdeburg dispatch
es. General Van Kleist; command-
i i
ttiitL uieiiioers i tne i(
uirgoise is
planned.
The majority of the Magdeburg
garrison are in sympathy with the
independent socialists, the mes
sage adds.
Copenhagen, April 8 Demon-
Orations have occurred in Munich
1
j agrfinst the new revolutionary ov
ernment of Bavaria, accordine-tr
1 jer
dispaiehes received today.
The demonstrators wcra disper-
KINSTON
DO
'0'
IADS
Kinston, April 8. Forty lives
were lost in Lenoir comity last fall
during the influenza epidemic be
cause doctors -ave re not .able to
reach patients on account of i ni
the proposed 2,000,000 bond issue
for ha I'd surfaced roads for the u
bove and other reasons. It is con
tended that bad roads caused at
least one out of four of the deaihs
occurring from influenza.
It is their candid belief, say the
doctors in an open letter to the
public, that 2,000,000 plus State
ami Fed,eral aid would be an in
vestment that would pay for it-
'self many times over in life and
health saved alone. At some sea
sons in years past conditions have
been terrible" for the physicians
t he- say.
GOOD MEETING
BAPTIST CHURCH
The two- services yesterday at
the Baptist Church were very well
attended, and is an omen for a
very successful revjval this year.
Rev. J. Clyde Turner made a
very favorable impression, in his
congregation, being a forceful and
j a pleasing speaker.
Mr. Jack Scholfield is known
to manv here and Avas well receiv-
was well rendered last nudit.
Services will continue every af-
ternoon at
3::10 and
at night at
8 o'clock through this and next
week.
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