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WEATHER REPORT : (ner9Uy fair tonight and Wednesday Gent.,. . rl r-7 r? ,1 . wmas, mostly south. u II II I I u --a -v "i V j- I I Ln 1 1 y ,x i L ,. 4 0 IF A IT Tim "X- a' ,v i . i t it i - 11 v II m II I ik ESTABLISHED SINCE 1882 AFTERNOON DAILY w u 1 l j v j i yi I I i I ALL THE NEWS IN A NUTSHELL. VOLUME Vll NUMBER 102 POUR O'CLOCK EDITION SCOTLA1TO NECK, M. C, TUESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1919. : 1 tm TELEGRAPH SERVICE LABOR ENANDS TRIPAETITE PRICE TWO cents 0. INSIST THAT RAILROADS BE TAKEN FROM THE HANDS OF PRIVATE OWNERS AND VESTED IN THE PUBLIC BONDS TOR EVERY DOLLAR INVESTED ARGENTINA A- ROUSESJNGLAND BUESNOS AIRES, August 5. Diplomatic relations between En gland and Argentina, as a result of Argentina purchase of the Ger man steamer Bahia Blanca, are delicate, according to Lanaeion- WASHINGTON, August 5. Organized labor demands that private capital be retired from railroad operations and that a tripartite control, represented by the public, the operating man agement and the employees, be substituted. This is recognized as the fartherest reaching propo sal before the nation in this re construction period. Officials refused a prediction of the outcome. W.'-::i:;GTO., August 5. Organized labor came out last ev ening with the unequivocal, for mal demaud that private capital be retired from the railroads- A tri-partite control,- composed H the public, the operating man agement and the employes, is de manded instead. Briefly, labor's plan demands: That private capital be elimi nated from the railroad.. That the private ..owners eeive for them government bonds ''with a fixed interest return for very honest doilar that they have invested." That the tri-partite control heretofore referred to be establish d in corporations which shaU lease the roads and in which the public, the operating manage ment and labor shall be represen ted equally. That the public, the operators and the wage earnerjs share equal ly a11 revenue in excess of the guarantee to private capital by granting t0 the operators and the employes one-half the savings, ieh are expected to be made by such a perfected organization, either by increasing service with out adding tosts or by reducing This role originates with labor, Kvs the statement, because la happens to have firm organ: tions through which it may be c'01 articulate. FOCH COMMANDS ALLIED TROOPS -PAKlb, August 5. Premier Clemenceau conferred with Mar shal Foch and the inter-allied council today. It was decided to give the French general the command of the allied troops of Occupation in the Rhineland. GREAT COTTON ING AUG 6TH MEET WOH, N. C, A 5. A organ i Brml ; c uaroiina the American Cotton in.0?!1011' an imPortant meet baenl famers? business men and the f the cotton counties of . 6 ate has been called to meet at on eigh Wedesd August 6 Gov t & 8 CaU Slgned Graham n Bkkett ajor W. A. issi0Der of Agri Ihe p ' U D- 0rrell, Chairman of Cotton AUtiVG Committ 'Of the ilCe n-Ciation' Dr- B' w- f Agricultoal ftp a mce and Treasurer Conneli tCiatin' and ' J' Mc" endun Warehouse Super state cL Scretary of the dr.edt Association, is ad- cotton " man mtereted in MEMORIAL BLDG AT G0LDS60R0 GO LD SB ORO, August 5. Goldsboro is to have a $200,000 community building. The board sion accepted the committee's re port to erect at the above cost The city will pay $2,500 annually and the County will pay a like sum. An architect "was present at the meeting this morning and pre sented the plans. The building, when completed, will be the most up-to-date community building in North Carolina. It will be e- quipped with every convenience, including a swimming pool, an au ditorium to accommodate many people, and a stage upon which any of the (shows touring the south may exhibit ? The building is to be called the County Memorial Community building, and will be erected in honor of the Wayne county sol diers and sailors who fought in the world war. 111 rJ '"ivichju. Ill Production in North Caro- MINERS FIGHT NEAR WHEELING WHEELING, W. Va-, August 5.-Twenty armed deputy sheriffs were rushed to the foothill coal mines following reports of a clash between striking miners and conservative workmen. A pitched battle is reported. ALLIED HEADS GO TO BERL1 PARIS, August 5. The Su preme Council has decided that the heads of the allied military mission in Germany attend the conference in Berlin between the German and Polish representativ es and consider the transfer of territory ceded to Poland. POTASH ARRIVES FROM ALSACE WILlVllNGTON, August 5. The Dutch steamer Veerhaven ar rived here with the first potash from Europe that has been brou ght in since the war stopped in 1915. She brought 4,800 tons front the Alsatian potash fields, now in control of the French af- te?, 40 year, jinder, .ferman direction. HUN SECRETARY 1 VERSAILLES BERLIN, : August 5. Under Secretary; of State Lewald is gd ing to Versailles to resume the discussion' relative to the estab lishment of a Rhine republic, ac cording to Cologne advices. ' (mmm busy , TTTTTnmtTTT TT AUSTRIA SUBMIT TO PROPOSALS PARIS, August 5. Karl Ren ner, Austria Chancellor and also head of the Austrian Peace Mis sion, states that the Austrian counter proposals fto the peace terms would be submitted tomr row. flVUG COSTS PRESIDENT WILSON WILL DEVO ;: ,LE time TO SOLVING THE HIGP . JVING PROBLEM, i-iS tfUMULTY TROOPS PATROL BLACK BELT LIGHT VOTE 1 VIRGINIA CHICAGO, 111., August 5. Six thousand troop,s, three thousand policemen and one thousand de puties are on guard in the "black belt" and are expected to be held there at least another week. The authorities believe that the desire for' retaliation by whites and negroes has been passed. ,u:It,iy. TaaaHifed that seventeen indictments against rioters will 'be returned today- RIHMOND, August 5. A light vote is being polled in the demo cratic primaries in Virginia to day nominating legislature candi dates. I he Anti-baloon League is back-, from yesterday's close ing temperance candidates. COTTON DECLINE $7 PER BALE NEW YORK, August 5. Con tinuance of excited selling in the cotton market caused a decline of nearly seven dollars per bale RESTORE WHEAT TO fl PREE MARKET -o SUSPECTS NEAR PREMIERS HOME PARIS, August 5. Two labor ers, one having two revolvers and the other a large knife, were ar rested near Premier Clemenceau residence this morning. ALLIES WANT COALCOMMISSION PARIS, Augut 5.-Shipping and fuel representatives of France, Belgium nd Italy conferred with Herbert Hoover. It was decided to, urge the ap pointment of an European Coal Commission in an effort to avert a threatened "disaster. Hoover said the problem was the greatest menace to the stab ility of life in Europe. R. R. CLERKS DEMAND RAISE WASHINGTON, August 5. The demands of 450,000 railway clerks, freight handlers, express and station employes for increas ed wages unless something mater ial is done to reduce Ihe cost of living were considered at the con ference between Director Gener al Hines and Grand President Torrester' of the Employees Bro therhood. 2ND DIVISION WILLPARADE WASHINGTON, August 5. The famous second division, that steemeel the drive or Paris at Bel eau Woods and Chateau Thierry, will parade Fifth Avenue, New York on Friday, upon their re turn from France. ! URGE MEXICO PUNISH BANDITS WASHINGTON, August 5. Secretary Lansing has instructed the embassy at Mexico City to urge Mexico to promptly . appre hend and punish the bandits who robbed George McDonald, an A merican, near Tampico on July twelfth. 30.000 TROOPS IN BUDAPESTH BUDAPESTH, August 5. Thir ty thousand Rumanian troops en tered the city yesterday. DENVER AFTER S. A. TRADE ROid) BONDS. -VOTED OVER TWO TO OM SCOTLAND NECK, WELDON, ROANOKE RAPIDS AND EN FIELD ALL SHOW LARGE MAJORITIES IN FAV OR OF GOOD ROADS. 556 TO 163 IS VOTE AT TWO THIRTY The returns up to 2 :30 today in the principal townships voting in the Good Road Bond Issue shw that Roanoke Rapids with 250 vo tes cast had 228 for and 22 a gainst. There are about 200 oth erg who will vote in about the same average, it is said. Weldon had 197 votes cast with 136 for the issue and 61 against.! road bond issue and 168 "against. Scotland Neck had 157 votes cast iril, HO tkA Ac AK against- Enfield, had 120 votes . cast with 80 for and 40 against the issue. The total at 2 :30 this afternoon therefore in these four pncipal. townships show that 724 Votes were cast with 556, fffr.jfre good DENVER, August 5 Denver exporters are rapidly pushing o pen the gates oi; commercial S. A. by giving greater attention to the needs of Latin American coun tries, by more sympathetic defer- A t ence xo ousmess customs preva lent below the,' equator, by more careful packing and by refrain ing from hurrying the South Am erican merchants to pay their bills. Extension of credit is being ar ranged through the assistance of certain New. York banks- Denver exporters find that it ijs best not to introduce in ova tions with painful suddeness. There is scarcely a South Am erican country with which some Denver manufacturer has not es- tabHshed commercial relations. ihe Andean mines, of the west! are reached by way of the west) ?oast of South America s "2 the ' best customers for the class of machinery which Denver has to offer. One local exporter of mining machinery reports that he has re fceived more inquiries from Latin America in the past pix months than ever before during a corres ponding period. v f . WASHINGTON, August 5 Efforts of the government to fo. ce down the cost of living oxeak shadowed all of, yesterday. Cabinet iembers and otBtec high officials conferred with At torney General Palmer, who will probably present a preliminary report to the president today on steps to be taken by the govern ment to reduce living cqsts. Julius Barnes, president of the Grain Corporation, was called to the White House this afternoon to discus a proposal to restow wheat to a free market, the gov ernment making up the differ ence between the market pritt and the price of $2.26, guarantee to the farmers. The conferences between Pres ident Wilson and Senators on the League of Nations has been drop ped indefinately until the cost of living problems have been solved' Secretary Tumulty announced that the president was going to give the whole of his fime to the question of living costs. Officials believe that one way to cut the cost of living is to in crease production. The president however is understood to feel that strikes and strike breaks is interfering with Ihe problem. RUMANIANS TAKE BUDAPESTH PARIS, August 5. -Telegrams from American officials at Buda pesth state that Rumanian troops entering Budapesth yesterdav started plundering in the suburbs Fifteen or twenty civilians were killed during the day. WIFE MURDER AND SUICIDE Greenville, August 4. W. B- Kettles, construction foreman of he West Construction Company. now in the country jai1 here char ged with the wiJffal murder of his wife on Sunday night, and him self lying at the point of death from self-inflicted bullet wounds over the heart, confessed to the awiui crime wnicn he had com mittee owing to the ill health o5 his wife and his own probable tu bercular eondition. The man is a native of Dalton,. Ga., his wife being a native of Kinston, N. C, a Miss Annes Leg- gett, whom he met three years ago while on some construction work in that city. Both are from well connected families. COTTON MARKET The season has loosed for the Cotton Marjcet reports $o they will not appear again until th next season-
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