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WEATHER REPORT For Nort'n Carolina Fair tonight : slightly u-armcr extreme west portion ; possibly light frost central and West portions; Wednesday fair; gentile shifting winds. . i V V ESTABLISHED SINCE 1882 AFTERNOON DAILY 'ALL THE NEWS IN A NUTSHELL." V Li ME IX. X UMBER 90. FOUR O'CLOCK EDITION SCOTLAND NECK. N, C. TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 1920. TELEGRAPH SERVICE PRICE TWO CENTS .rllrli i ?j i luft nun uiimii iy ni li y ir s 1 1 o iy u 1 1 1 1 .iiiiuniti nniry 181 WILL DOUBTLESS REACH 17B Hue nfliicT norv Wild IYIUUI UULI PEACE ' intni! 19,000 GUY , EMPLOYES STRIKE Impossible To Loss, Estimate Reported Millions The Property Fifteen If it is Violated French Will Take Neutral Zone Clerks, Bookkeepers and others go on Strike in Chicago GEORGIA OHIO ALA. MICH. ILL. HIT USE SMALL FORCE REJECT RAISE a I 2 SERBIA!) ORPHANS ADOPTED OY MISS. ' CARET WILSON : ;, March 30. Death toll u inlay's Tornado stood today f hundred and sixty one wvh fears expressed that the re jiurU of isolated regions and drains now from injuries might increase t tit total if reports that fifteen were killed at Stovall, Ga. ,!.. virifwl tlio tm'rtl will iiicivnc to one hundred and seventy six jThis Girl and Boys Father .f which sixty five are in Georgia i "tfdLS fCllIcd In anu AiatiHiiiu. t i i is impossiuie ; h estimate the property damage accurately but fifteen million dollars damage is reported from Alabama, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois ami (ieoygia. Paris, March 30. Assurance j chieago, March 30. Muniee is given by Germany that she pine eUrks stenographers and will not send into Ruhr valley bookWpers are ()n a strik(1 toJay more regular troops than is al- for higmn, s T1 threa; ,v , ened the disruption of the jrsemier Muierami announced it busmeis and tlH' j Germans violated treaty by send- strong force into district HAMBURG A GRAVEYARD PQBT DEAD GLDRIEA OF HUH MEH. MM1HE Tugs and Lighters tied up small Cruser Rest Deserted Unused Docks Elevators moored In Rows GRIM REMINDER OF LOST TRADE mg Battle ELDEST DAUGHTER eitv garbage han dlers went out shutting down the municipal jrarbacre reduction France would occupy part of Neu- plants , A concerled striko of tral zone whether Allies agreed eighteen thousand city employes ' Ilot" '.reducing the police force. Whole- Isale esignations of firemen be- came a possibility when the city jcouncil rejects Z a budget carry- MORGENTHAN TO :K).--lIain- FIND S70.000 WHISKEY CONCEALED IN CHEESE , iiig salary increases. . SOCIALISTS LOSE THEIR SEATS New York, March 30.- Margaret Wilson, eldest daughter j.of the President, has "adopted" (two Serbian war orphans, a boy and girl whose father was killed in battle in 1914, according to Buffalo, March 30. Seventy thousand dollars' worth of whis key concealed in country cheese was seized here by railroad de tectives, city police and prohibi tion enforcement agents in the sa loon of Joseph J. Mueller. The whiskey in ten-gallon con ATLANTIC FLEET IN h GOOD SHAPE IN 1317 RE REJECTED JY MEXICO Reconsideration Will Be Asked It Is Ex pected EX. MIN. TO TURKS Washington. March 30. The Atlantic fleet- was never better A." ' j prepared for war than in the spring of nineteen seventeen said I Mine. Slavko Grouitch, wif e ofl xr ,r , !tm' Jugo-Slav minister at Wash- tainprs waa ia,,P,i u iinft ftans Admiral Mayo Commander of the u im r v t ixren .-in 1 nir- . i ' - - ' " i mo- ton. and director ot the Ser- s'H-ialist party if Ameri- , . . T, , , . 11- "1 i ' 1 UIUl. J.11C til IUI.C11 Hill cunnjuue iionever, it vvcts saiu, 10 a I to an organization eomoosed , . i live exclusively ot perpetuate trait-1 ors". The assembly committee today recommends the expulsion of the five socialist members whose fitness has been under in vestigation. The minority re-; ports which was by two republi-1 eans and two democrats said the exclusion was a dangerous attack on representative government and 1he assembly had no right to de-i I'i'ive the socialists of their seats. ! of cheese. It is alleged the liquor : AJlantic fleet told the naval in was shipped in this maimer. ; , ligiin 22mmittee todav- with their mother at Nego'tin While the detectives "and en forcement agents were searching ; nrnnnn I 1 nrxn Serbia, which is near the Ruman-'the place three trucks loaded withHrnhUULL lit I h Grouitch is j 1 i m r iau border. Mine now seeking other and aid for. Serbian children in a tour of Texas and Oklahoma. godmothers cheese drove up and were deliver ed into the hands of the agents. 41 UNMASKED MEN HANG GRANT SMITH MOUNTAIN THAWS SWELL NEW E. RIVERS liar is Bay, body of Grant charged with girl two months March Smith a a was 30. The GERMAN ARMY ENTER NEUTRAL ZONE Paris, March 30. Absolute con firmation of the entrance of the FIVE YEARS New York, March 30. G rover Cleveland Bergdoll a wealthy Philadelphian courtmartialed for an alleged failure to report for negro ; regular German troops into Ruhr I attacking white district in the edge of the allied ago found zone occupation without permis- Boston. March 30. Swollen riv ers caused by mountain continue to menace, the river fi'tm'f and property damaged and many Xew England cities today mills at Lawrence closed by floods which highest many years. late yesternight hanging to a tele graph pole at Mays Lick, Ken tucky. He was taken from offi cers who arrested him earlier in thaws nP evenmg here by forty unmask ed men. 17 DEAD NEAR LIMA OHIO SY TORNADO DENMARK PEOPLE DE MAND A REPUBLIC sion of the allies was received by the French foreign office it was stated yesterday. The subject will probably come up before su preme council in London. CHICAGO STOCK Washington, March burg today may be doc.ribttl as an imposing monument t the dead glouiea of the Gorman mer chant arino, according to Consul Francis R. Stewart, who was d' tailed by the. American Commis sion in Berlin to investigate con ditions at the former premier Geivnan port for that body. A report from Mr. Stewart detail ing the results of his inquiry has just reached the Department of Commerce. ;iA short, trip through the har- , bor quickly discloses what a grave yard the port lias become," the Mexico City, March 30. Re- (;()llsl,l reported. "Tugs" and consideration of the appointment lighters al'e tile(l ul anil of Henry Morgenthau as Ameri-; thevo, apparently forgotten. On-? can Ambassador to Mexico will small cruiser rests, deserted, probably be asked by the Mexi- j alongside a pier; electric cranes can Government, it was aui'hor.ita- are motionless on unused docks; tively stated here. ; floating elevators and docks arc Mr. Morgi nthau's intimate mooted in rows, probably in raid friendship with several members iness for delivery to the Allies. i ot the Association tor the Protee j "The giant Bismark ,(rtfX)l)0 tion of American Rights in Mox-jton Hamburg-American liner) ico has caused the Mexican Gov-J floats at a fitting-out pier with erhment to regard with disfavor )0ut a sign of life on board and his appointment, and he is alrea- from a launch no new work dy persona non grata to the Mex-! could be seen in any of the big ican Foreign Office, it was said. shipyards. Tied up to another pier in tne outer narnor is me former Atlantic record-holder, the steamship Deutschland. reli.-? of the wav, painted a deep black over-all, with spots of white showinjr here and there where passing craft have scraped her sides, a irrim reminder of the glories once Tield by the German Washington ,March 27. Gov ernment officials declined to make any comment upon the re port emanating from Mexico City military service under the draft ithat Henry Morgenthau would b law was sentenced five years in 1 persona ' non grata as American prison. Ambassador to tht Mexican Gov ernment. At the same :was pointed out at House that before time MISSISSIPPI GIVES tne vvnite;merchant fleetKi" making an; Regular service is being main- MIAQIfrr PI flCCn ambas8adorial appointment it tained with Holland, England illnnilLI uLUdLU was a diplomatic custom to con-!aml Nnrth America and lines Stilt til 0 O O 11T11 Ollt to W ll idl ' ; were about to start service for ' Ambassador was to be accredited spahi and!" fouth America, 'but March 30. Cliicago as to his acceptability. ftuo "fre(p norf " is annarentlv jdead, Mr. Stewart reported. DALLOT Chicago, Live Stock market the largest in the world there' at a standstill and fifty thousand packing house employes face suspension of work las a result of the strike of nine hundred feeders at the stock yards. Conenhae-en. March 30. Kintr Christine refused todav to poinnlv ,date suffrage amendment today, rever tuui iuc ui i mid iitm u-l lire sucjai Jackson, Miss. March 30. The senate voted to ratify the FLOODS IN THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI SOCIALISTS -QUIT 1 .... to ... OROER TAKING PLACE RAILWAY SHOP Berlin, March 30. The news yesterday indicated thai order had been gradually restored democrats demanding the rein statement of the dismissed Zahlei I. una. Ohio, March 30. Seven- Cabinet and introductions of a leeu persons were killed hi small.' more constitutional government 'owns near here Sunday night by in Denmark. A general strike is ;i tornado. Immense sing a previous rejection. Detroit, March 30. United in Brotherhood maintenance of way 30. j tlie rebellious districts was declar- employes and sail way shop labor-- COTTON MARKET. i La Cross, WTs., March The flood conditions are assum- ed officially by Hagen dispatches , ers have been suspended by the iing a serious aspect on the upper say. Three socialist parties have American Federation of Labor Mississippi river. Rowboats aredecided to withdraw from Mul- the result of the unions refusal 'liAim flip pt of rebel control and to relinquish jurisdiction over ' 1 1 Cl Oil I J 1 1 1 I : I XJCL v y 1 lj i . - ' 1 ' v ' - March 3U8jmove houselndd effects. Thou-i if necessary would fight under certain members ot the Federa- property threatened bv crowds in the nnh- ilUW 3R Q.i ! rands n rP of facm lands are RepublUan leadership. A simi- tion they contended should be- (nnage and interurban traffic lie squares that through the night j July 36.07 j under water and a million and a ;lar decision it was stated was ex- long to the carpenters union, ise- suspended and wire, communica-; raised, cries for the establishment October 32 65 half dollars damage is already pected from Dortmund, Elber- gotiations began soon effort set- tiou paralyzed. of a republic. i December 31.86 done in the manistiaue vallev. . fold and Bremen m - - -.- tie Controversy. Men Iy Maxwell (jormau Raleigh, March 30. Raleigh s political precinct, meetings (De eratic) Saturday night carried a new sensation through the at '' iidance on several of them of a niiiber 0f women (God Bless em) d paid, however, some of the ;il political bosses and "ward defers" ..are just now changing !the form of the expression, it hav ing been moved and carried that the words "bless 'em" be strick en and another word substituted. jiii its place. As these highly mo ral Raleigh Letters carry nothing : that is not "fit to print" the sub stitute word is omitted. j "Yes,, sir, the wimmin (some of whom would look better in mas culine attire, anyway) were out in propria persona e at several of the precinct meetings political tog.s and all. Indeed, they had conspired to spring a "surprise" on Colonel Buck Jones and other masculine manipulators of parry machinery and meetings and con ventions and in some instance put it over. So there will be women (closely approaching the mascu lar gendar and not especially not ed for their beauty or attractive ness to the mere "man out gunntng for a 'wife) on the county execu tive committee. Some of them will even "sit" (if they keep still long enough) in the county con vention. As the nineteenth amenment has not yet been ratified (and never will be if it depends on Del aware and North Carolin) the other side claims the sisters, a re a littlepremature in their 'demands' But Doctor Delia Dixon Carroll and widow T. Palmer Jerman and .spinister Martha Haywood and j other like bright lights of "mili lant suffragists" argue to the con trary and demand recognition in advance of what the o4her five states yet to act next fall and winter may do. The county con vention will decide whether those chosen will be allowed to "sit". Mr. Hassell Bell lef this morn big for Enfield after spending he ni-hi with Mr. Walter Bell.
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