7EATHHE : Raintonisht and Wednesday, except fair in extreme w,t portion. Slightly Wn
a SXtreme st portion- Nora -i fc::Ktfcff light on the coast.
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SCOTLAND NECK, N. G., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER
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UI LN'irtiN iinilli BIB nSl 11 11 si
ex, The Favorites, But Experts Say The
nr r-r-t x-i
two I earns Are iiqual in Playin"
Strength.
EADING ATTORNEYS 'SMfS CUMMINS Ril l
SCRAP II Ml, IS OIOSSTiTOTIOiL
T!fvy'Yl';''' ' m.-m.m Lj,.l)ii)a,na,
PRICE TWO CENTS
J AMES START AT 2 O'CLOCK WEI
anati. Sept. 80 i lie eitv
!cil with baseball ent
t a lay lor tlie opening
of lit:1 world series to-
SEE. CM'
If
f, nm
3 i I I I,
eets lodav seem to indi-
10 l ) H- 1 1 i 11 li ,
m ULUD
fsnnnn
T
inn
ilutt Moran will pindi eit
I;-,ii.i r tr .Sallee in ill
v.-j.iu' it almost certain Cieotte ;
will ? . : -i : for Cmeairo.
i,i-,wr-. Srpt- 00 The club
iivivt'tl h r, this moriuno' and
vwill n.kt' a Vndit workout this
:. It fl-!:: "II. ;
Th, llU are also practicing j SERIOUS SITU
!: a; ;aJoie
DEMANDS
FROM RUSSIA
SEN. R0ZS1QFF
merlcan Soldiers Flog
ged By The
Cossacks
Pay For "Little Diversion" ! Former Justice Hughes
Court
Attacks Excess
CHARGED AFFRAY
rrovisicn
EXCESS EARNINGS
TTasii)!irton. Sept- 80. Hold
ng inieonstitntional the provi.s-
By Maxwell Gorman
' Kaleigli, Sept. 80. Wh.en doc
tors ( lSfH'TPp If 1 v ;M t,. 1. Im,., 1,.. i'-i i -n ,.
o -v- -t. i-i- iu J iiiv;i c . yw. ,i iue V UiiillllilS Dili TO'" l'illl-
or less unhealthy for the patient J road ivomizatien whidi wo'li
et cetera, but he'e in Kaleiirh J take i'o the government ex-
1 , T . I
1 ineis nave a misunder- j cess earnings of the roads over
tandinjv their clients are not thvja "fair return,'' an opinion bv j
sufferer so much as is the case Charles E. Iliiuhes. ivmlon-wi tr- i
flproippj qisqnproe oqiioio- "
nsuiiUnr JfljiUliLiJu ui U Id
TIT! r Til urn fill! urn rn
3
1
SE i
ME
iicrvyind. New Barnnns Vnn
crclilincan, SeIs To American To
OKLY WAY Ti HER PROPERTY
of those dejiendent
medical fraternitv.
upon the the Avsoeiati(;ii of Railwav
ecutives, has been tiled with the
Xow times do change the men; House Interstate Commerce Com
lawyers: I'll bet you have al-jnuttee considering the bill-
ready said it-
Ohi
o.
Sept. 80.-
riaarr
I i . ' V ;
n August Herrmann, of
tional raseball Commis
'icd a statement in which
Vladivostok, Sept. 80 ajor
Ci neral Craves, commander of
the American forces in Siberia,
has demanded an apology from
the
the
world series games, jx
General liozanoff, commanding
ir-i- i-. 15..:
Lhieago A lute Sox
, - x , i j ' j- w j 1 1 vj v, , xul uie arresi or ai)-
.'M' 1 mcimiati Nationals I . T 0 T , , 1
v v. ,ri1lll ! , i'inn L" p- -Tones, of, the lth m-
v, would beopin m eaci; v , , r,
-n.ptlv at 2 o'clock Ud CorPoral Benjamin
! operling. and ior floo-o-110. the
; iatter by Cossacks,
j An investigation of the con
junct of the Japanese officer were
j arrests took place was also be-
NYw Vt-rk. Sept- 80. Very fev
'"i''- favor the Kcds to win the
wi.rh! i,ries.
Th- Whit," Sox seem to br the
vt'iierai favorites everywhere,
-..r i!i Cincinnati, and even
--I",, th-1 fans who desire to spee-'b:t-
ii'V demanding odds. Tins,
It hasn't been so long aii'o
'inee onc '"prominent" lawyer
tackled a big brother, even more
prominent, right in the midst of
the court, and got awav with it.
As the court practitioners would
sav
Former Justice Hughes eon
tends in brief, that if rates which
produce so-called excess earning.-:
i;re just and reasonable rates, a
they are presumed to be when
fixed and regulated by the Inter
state Commerce Commission.
i 'Mis it'-
i - S : , ' C ' i I i C
Ta roness
Ci i'it-i
r n
;nlin. Sept- 80
lo;'cl:lin von IJoechlinsau, for
meily (ieririale Herwind. ui
Phihulelpliia, is rejiort to be
the first Amern-an girl wh0 has
decide. 1 to give up her German
husband for her American for
tune seized during the war by
the Cnited Stales Custodian of
... T.
' V i I i I t I H 1 I .
Acaor.nug to rt dispatch from
Sv.il .erlaml, the baroness is re
ported to be about to sail for. the
Cnited States with her son. She
WIVES I is sai,i toJlave applied for a ass-
!)ort tor the purposo of securing
ia dworce, and her assport was
promptly granted, it is said.
haron Rraec'din von liechin
sau, her husband, is an intimale
friend of Prince Max vin Ihulen.
He was a captain in the Prussian
guard and was severely wounded
jin the Battle of the Marne- Later
-i. i f.J i w-
from those
V ide Mui-i'ay Allen versus I then the earnings
'JUM'111 M!iiam uaney, p. p. ; rates are the property of th
newspaper files. Verdict: Both ! railroad companies, which mav
game a plentv
TluU it was a bad precedent is
proved by the fact that yester
day about tl biggest lawyer in
North Carolina and another of
no mean proportions, if slightly liniCOMflD POIlim
stature UUHLIIHUII yUllFLn
ut- laxeo, our cannot be taken
away as that, he argues, would be
confiscation.
smaller in avoidupois and
as the statutes say, in such j
cases made and provided Were 1
defendants in the police court
charged with an "affray." And
TRIPLE
a
b
' , .tn.V' ap?"esc c.oramandor-i,t W!,s so,!u .T le it !ast-TI,e jroven.or tl.is mrm- call-
III 111.1 nili 1,. .A,.,,l,,l .1 I f,
in.-iut.iH xs cunsiuereu one i eti- 1,1 1 s
v. 1 iii viin icii v;vjiin.-j fnce 10 cLeier-
is bt natural if the sen-
in favor of the White Sox
a:n
'ml v
,1
1 1. 1 ( 1 . s
inf.-!
of the most serious since the al
lies landed in Siberia.
Washington. Sept- 30. Gen
eral "Graves, it is understood,
i'-m to thus influence the!ac'ctt llp0il tile om?ial mstruc
s it really ajpears to be I tlolls l'om Tlle War Department
I ;n demanding an apology and
investigation of Japanese inter
ference between American and
Jo-sack forces.
1 Graves has reported the inci
jdent and an army official said
f today the situation was the most
j serious since the American force?
I went into Siberia-
' is a disposition to belit
;ibility of Pat Mora;-i"-
ulii me sciioe got on the S. mine what action should be
O- D. Colonel Jim Pou was work-jtaken regarding the lvnchin--ing
like a football artist, with a near heiv vesterdav of two no-
vaulting ambition to make goal
somewhere 'round the north
pole, while Brown- Shepherd
worked like a machine gun bent
on saving Cope Cod and vet,
' iiui. vt-n hy American I
eauue
groes and again of the lvnehine'
in the negro hospital shortlv af
ter midnight of a third negro.
The negroes lynched yesteraay
"" cjiai-e v, itii airacKiiio- wiiire
Riciiniond, Ve,-, Sept. 30,
"Some woman up north is cons
ing all the trouble, " was the re
mark of i'laiiK il. Gibson, a man i
f)f -)-X sjvaking tiirough the bars j
of ids cell, i
.re is
from
tnte
he is
;eing held
Plains,
f,..-. v.
!lt"
According
N- Y
igamv.
to Cant- Thamas
Anderson, a Salvation Army
prison reform worker, who trail
ed him here and caused his ar
rest. Gipson was referring
Mrs. resst? (.Jibson, wi!V No-
who helped located h',m in Pich
moiid wh"!i she learned he had
married Miss Ida Isted, of Os
niing, ' V.. i wo months airo,
not long ai'ter lie !:ad finished a
as a fugitive
WjH'I'C I
to
'ie was attache to the Kaiser's
headquarters, but l;is blind loy
alty was more or less superseded
by ins liberal political tendencies
and the fact that he has an Irish
mother and an American wife
ar tern, in Eastern peni
, to whl-di he was sen-
f'- 1, - 1. .. .1 : . 1
nan i!in rieu
, many of whom have
it lieds n n. -,- -.- n.
';('' VIN,- the American League
somewhat better balanc
ing prove tlm "Reds are
h!' team to the White
1 a :
I li'.INC
-at hold the Reds too
niy possibly regret it.
:o have mad a studv of
7!U i!:1';'1s are inclined to think
;".v are about evenly matched
;;i P'ii- strength that it would
V"ho
to slur the Cincinnati
may surprise the world'
WIS WILL BLOCKADE
1 ILSHEIIffl RUSSIA
t-
Washington, Sept- 30. Secre
tary Baker said today that Ma-
j jor-General Grrves, in command
of the American troops in Sibe
ria, had informed the War De
partment that an officer and en
liste man, held by 'the Cossacks,
had been released upon his e
mand and the matter had been
referred to the State Department
for subsequent action.
The Department, Baker said,
had not heard of the reported in
terference by a Japanese officer
with the American troops sent
lo effect the release of the men-
both survived and yesterday paid! women, while the negro shot to
for the little "diversion." i death in the hospital" killed a
j policeman just before midnight-
i y
tertiary
j 1
'in-tai ait-r hr
W e s t ( d 1 e s t ? v count y
a fourth wife-
iiiif-;
y (a'
iLDGKADE OF GERMANY
MADE EFFECTIVE TODAY
Paris, Sept. 30 The blockade
Sept. 80 C o n s i d e r a -given
by the Supreme
yesterday to the neces
'.ot only maintaining, but
''' --tiiening, the blockade of
Russia. ' ttie cord in" to
,1i Journal-
'f J said the council is nm-icirl.
'he difficulty wldeh militl"1 Uei'man threatened by the
lhy arise if Germanv should iaIllfM in case Gorman trooPs arc
'"v relations wjt1 Russia!"!'1 remove( fom the Baltic re
1Iie treatv of nonr. lr.vo I AviU hh today, according
mi miRi ttlptt ICI1CS-
It is further announced that
no food ships will be permitted
to start for Germany until fur
ther orders.
lEfiT WILSON
APPEARS MUCH SETTER
Washington; Sept. 30. Presi
dent Wilson arose early this
morning and appeared refreshed
by the night's rest, Seeretarv
Tumulty announced-
iiesrr starts off
U1ER FIE AUSPICES
Chapel Hill, Sept- 80. The
12.')tli session of the University
of North Carolina will open Oc-
1 liis ! toCet 2. Sf'dents are registering
j today and tomorrow and the for-
: jmal exercises, with a welcoming
re rnd Successful Contestants uu,rrss l).v President Chase, and
will be on
ill
C"7
j 1
HEEL STRIKE SHOWS
APPARENTLY MO CHANGE
IBITI! UNTIL
PEACE IS RATIFIED
Washington, Sept. 30. Al
though the War Department de
clared in a statement todav that
j accidents of war and the process
1 ..-1? i ,i.n-.j..- j
wi ufuit.'ujuza i ion are ar an ei
war time prohibition cannot
liften until after ratification
the Peace Treaty, in the opinion
of Attorney General Palmer-
International Trsr;
heotirg Tcrrnomcnt at Pine
il
30-
-The steel
apparently
Pittsburg, Sept
strike situation is
litle changed today.
Employers claim more men re
turned to work this morning
while the strike leaders make
counter claims that the number
of striker has swllen-
:nv!
ive
MSB 1ITL0CK IS
HAD
E
AMBASSADOR
Si
Whitlock, minister to Belgium,
was nominated todav to Tp
;1Iton, Sept. 30 Brand bassador to that country-
Ml MAUi LOA
AGAIN II ERUPTION
BRITISH R. R. STRIKE
OFFERS LITTLE TROUBLE
London, Septn 30. Congestion
in railroad traffic, caused by the
stride, is expected to be relieved
today by running an increased
number of trains.
Volunteer workmen are re-
.- j j . !
j C' ggf ;i !
ji. .
j alass room work
i'l'liursday-
j tiiVai'v indication points .to a
: total registration of twelve hun
idred students and to meet the
j .
ji."rease in numbers the author
i ,
j it ies- nav(. increase the number
I of. .-fijdent s to a room,
j Nine new profes.-ors have been
; added to the faiultv- Dr. George
;iiowe, head of the latin epart
jment, is announced as the new
!dan of the college of liberal
;arts, and Frank P. (iraliam, as
: dean of students
I A s'-h.o(d of commerce has been
Udded with Dr. D- I), Carroll,
'professor of economics, as acting
clean- A four year course, leading
to a degree of Bachelor of
Science in Commerce, is offered.
For the first time a course in
music will he offered under Paul
John Weaver, lately supervisor
of music in the public school o
St- Luis, and a well known or
ganist in that city.
The session will l)e divided
j t his year into three terms instead
right:: of two- The first term ending be-
o-;fore the Christmas holidays and
7)1, , j. ,.1, , 1 - Si- j.
, . , . , , .11010 shows jeii . u
1 nni'T to ip r-mrunrr r-pxTnTfi Tn run
L, , . , xl , Jliss Helen Gooderiiam, or
i i v. u i i n i ill v ; j il i l v ill; . ,
' ihas invited citizens to act as spe- rtIlu ".lu" riie second at faster, with com-
Sept. 30.,Mount j eial constables in emergencv- -- v, I:ul-, toe IiKliana Cham-1 mencement coming after the
An attempt to derail trains 10U- mdde of Jll"-
Honolulu,
Mauna Loa burst into new erup
tions last night and a wide occurred vesterdav for the first
- .1
stream of lava began pouring thiie since the strike began
down the sides of the mountain
destroying jmiany homes-
Residents are reported to be
The army wants recruits, and ! COTTON MARKET,
wants them badly- But, somehow, Octol.pr qi on
' " ' v - OI.-Ol
London, Sept. 30 It is antiei- the recruits do not seem to want December 32-21
mated in government circles: that the arm v. There's a difference be Uannarv ?9 9Q
fleeing to the sea, which is 30 1 the service of street cars and tween ''over there'" and "over I March 3245
omnibusses will cease today- here- 'IVIajf m , 32.52
miles distant.