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Volume X. No, 73.
Four O'Clock Edition
Scotland Neck, N. C, Tuesday, July 6th, 1920
Telegraph Service
Price Two Cents
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BURG
Mil
LEADS
ha
MOEY
HIDDEN
NER BY ODER 8000 VOTES
The Suffrage Question is Thought by Many
The Cause Of Gardners
Defeat
IN SHOES AND CLOTHES
EFFORTS TO RECOVER
LDTOBE MADE
SHIPS 60
Had Only Two Shillings
aitd Three Pence in
English Money
IS OPINION OF EX. GOV. KITCHIN
J
$1,110 IN U. S. GOLD
o-
Tliis morning s papers gave
! . t : i. . . 4-
k-.mil primary over uieuuuuuib
joor. Gardner as more than eight
thousand votes with returns more
itvS complete from 95 counties
l,nt enough to give him a good
majority however they may be.
This assures Mr. Morrison the
Governorship of the great state
f North Caoliua for with his
knowledge of politics ability to
meet the best the republicans can
send out as well as their plans and
OPIUM BEING DROWN
DESPITE STRINGENT
TIT
Lying in The Wreck Of
British Auxiliary
Cruiser
COX. OF
THE FORTY-
FOURTH BALLOT
WAS SUNK BY MINE
Nomination Was Made Unanimous
. Manager Of McAdoo
Forces
By
London, July 6. A Pole named
Pictr Talla, travelling from
America to Dantzig was taken ill 1 mer to recover the 4,000,000 ot
M.
recently in the Young Men's' gold still lying in the wreck of,
Christian Association hut, Water- the British auxiliary cruiser
loo Road, and removed to an in- Laurentic which was sunk by a
mine off the mouth of Lough
LAWS AGAINS
ifirmary. He had only two shil
lings and threepense in English j Swilly in January, 1917, while on
money but. hidden in his clothing her way to New York. The bul-
i- i J act a -in i n 4 1 -i ' t i i n
ue iiau ten aonar goi-a pieces non is m oars eacn 01 wnicn is
i and paper money to the value of worth 3.000.000 since has been
Over 100 Opium Shops are $990- His shoes were found to be recovered.
Iverv heavv and when thev were; TTn to now t.ha wpathpr has bppn i
j xr - v -f -
j photographed by the X-ray, unfavorable and, as the wreck
Itwelve large coins presumably lies an exposed position, the
1 $10 gold pieces were found hid-' salvage work can be done only m
jden between the leather and the the finest weather. It is expect -
Located in Shanghai
China
Londonderry, Eng., July 6 j A IOI IRNRH AT 1 Af TUIC A
Efforts will be resumed this sum- " x
O
. CI TT T
AIR PASSENGER RATES F'"
uummaiea ior president by the
Democratic National convention
on the 44th ballot at 1:40 o'clock
this morning. en it became
Evident that. ": ' would eret the
1 (require-1. ' - rfam D. Amidon, ot
Many are Wondering iflK anaer of the McAd0
r ? muveu iiiai me vox nomi-
ARE EXPECTED TO RE
REDUCED SHORTLY
The Day is Far
Distant
stock in argument it will be easy GOVT TO DESTROY IT
Governor W. W. Kit-
Shanghai,
July 6. Opium is
ailinir-
Fl.i'llHT
rhin is an easterner and ne adds being grown entensively in parts
Lis testimony to the plenary and of Fukien evince despite the
.
law against it, according to a
mission worker stationed at en
ping. He writes to the Anti
Opium Society :
'soles of each foot.
overwhelming evidence that wom
an suffrage was the undoing of
Oanhier. Mr. Kitchin is a ratifl
cationist. but not a suffragist. He
Sva originally opposed ta wom
;m suffrage," albeit he would not
have advertised it had he been
running on fh ticket. .Governor
Kikhin Ls-a Halifax nian-and Haft
fax v.as for Gardner overwhelm-
U. S. WILL RETURN
ALL ALIEN PROPERTY
ed that some blasting will be ne
cessary to get at the comparr-
, merits in which the gold was car
ried. -The work is being done by
the Racer, a salvage ship.
LONDON-PARIS LIVE
Washington,
July 6. The
At the city of Yungan, the amendment to the trading with
headquarters of the Southern ' the Enemy Act passed by the re- ,
forces, I found they were grow- j eent session of Congress author-j
ing opium extensively; even injjzes the return of $150,X)00,000 otj
the grounds of the yamen rts?lf enemy l)roteordlng to es-
tne ground was wmte witn poppy, timates of the Alien
REFUSE TO SDRRENDER
THEIR FIRE ARMS
Berlin, July 6. There ; is a re-
Paris, July the 6th, 1920.
Early announcement is expect-
jed of the reduction of passenger
j rates for air travel between Lon
don and Paris and many are won
dering if the day is far distant
when it may be cheaper to travel
by air than by land and sea. At
the beginning of the London
Paris air service last year price
for one way ticket on small fasi
machines was 20 guineas and 15
(guineas oh the larger passenger
Nation be made unanimous, tt
carried in a roar of ayes and a
crashing of brass bands. f After h
demonstration lasting four min
utes the convention adjourned
until noon today when the Vice
President will be nominated.
T
i I -Illlt-1 -I, V l j .i . n ,.,
1 was told there were over lOUirwnAW nffW Th fP win " --c snips, it is now reported mat
i c vfvtii" kj v , ln0ii t o Tm qt Trv oiiiTaii ri ai than a - . - A-
inirly in the first primary. It
1 i i ' it. :
mm ga .e uim a majuiiiy m a 0pium shops in the city licensed ' remain more than $350,000,000 in
vote heaver the second time tnan for one dollar per night marled ; seized rt in the 'hands ot
it TV'IW 1i flirt fll'wi 1 n .-m - - 1
.. . ...... places Ior tne breaking oi the that official.
nut iNortnampton did uamner 0plim Jjbit '
"The milittary are forcing the
people to plant the drug and no
matter what the value of the crop ;
may be, they are to be taxed a
definite amount."
the commonest trick of them all.
The labor union issue cut no
more issue there than the Five
Points of Calvin Northampton
was generated by Summer Bur
irwyu, a worse yield-tononer than
Under the amendment, the A.
P- C," as the office is generally
firearms, due to '"the legitimate 0 shillings
desire to protect their homes J. Iri one recent week's flying
against marauders", Minister of j more than 100 passengers were
Agriculture Braun said to a carried in the London-Paris an
Tageblatt representative- He ad- service and it is hoped that a r,-
known in government circles, wiillded, however that a number of duction in price will increase thtr
release property of several Amer- farmers have been storing arms mimDer of passengers- Therr
lican heiresses who married foreign j deliberatively for subversive pur- have been an ever-increasing num
j noblemen, property of the Ger-; poses," but he said these were ber-of inquiries for the service
man embassy, enemy diplomats, j not as numerous as generally be- Dnt the price has discourageo
many prospective passengers.
Representative Redwine of Union :
ver dared to be. Summer had the intellect of the easterner. The! all aliens who were interned,:
the courage of both his convic- further fact that Gardner did not! citizens of new nations and states!
tions and his emotions at the late confer suffrage on white or col-'created by the Treaty of Peact,,
Hemocratic stat convention. He ored women, and that Morrison land women of allied or neutral
went on the platform committee could restrict neither white nor j countries who married enemy sub- any organized outbreak in
and on the bema of the conven- black women cut absolutely np.Jects.
h'on. tearing both his hair and his ice. Those easterners were mad1 Americans who were held m
"liirt in an effort to best suffrage, and boiling over. They swore Qermany- during the war and
orrison was silent, not only to vote against suffrage J whose probertv here was taken
let Northampton where Burg- themselves, but against all
men
vyn is known and Lis suffrage who were in favor of it.
views are an open book, Gardner Of course no such campaign
who polled 1,023 June 5, against will ever be conducted again;
$9 for Page and 398 for Morrison meanwhile Morrison is nominated
satiu-(iay got 838 to 985 for Mor- and Gardner is beaten. To win
risou . Morrison gained nearly a nomination it has been ecessary
f)0 iifnv votes and Gardner lost to advise his hostility to the
H) of hi,s former supporters. President, "The Senator", the
The second primary was such state, the national platforms-
landslide in the act, -for Morri- But Morrison's majority is not
sy that the gains from Gardner altogether a stag party. Tot oi
111 the west cannot overcome the ly did petticoated politics parti
ad. The fight emphasis was eipate in the persons of Alf M.
I "aecMl n suffrage everywhere. Scales, Frank Hobgood, Charley
Tumult y discovering too late Hines, Will Everett and Josian
propaganda agaiust suffrage William Bailey, the unbifurcated
1,ntheivd by the department man 'skirt took part.
1,1 the ,.ast. could do nothing to' The best help that Morrison
stoP the anomlous activity. The has was Mrs. S. W- Summers
'ate hoard of elections was send-! She has more sense, political
out reading matter which was sense than a half dozen Morrison
Art
. Vlc' to all men who disbelieved managers. She pulled more of
ni snffVago to vote for Morrison. ' thp labor vote his way than
Tl '
formula was this: The Su-'others did. Her father was a
'au IJ- Anthony amendment coxi-l Southern engineer and the Wea-
i Mir ur r n r en r r pq etc n-rkrtvi ii t in dt,otaati inn ere in iti hh i i s i ti i I r?
c x I
lieved.
"If the people only will keep
their heads," Herr Braun said,
"I do not believe there will be
the
near future. The rural situation
at this time inspires confidence.1'
HARDING HAS SPEECH
ACCEPT. ABOUT READY
H'STo
If
omen as well as the white. ! was named for him- She brought ?a few days with Mr. and Mrs. H
you are for wnmnn anff rsiwp !tlif npn and the consecration ti s "Rnts '
for Gardner; Tf you are op- his cause. She radiated enthu- : ... . :
l',Sfl to it, vote for Morrison.'1 'siasm and inspired killing work. ; ny her the protection that the bal
'he fact the Anthong amende And Mrs. Summers is a suffra
"'nt confers suffrage on nobodv 'gist. who must make Heriot Clark
over, may now recover title, no
matter where they are resident.
The amendment also extends
the privilege of prosecuting claims
against enemy debtors to cred-1
tors in allied and neutral nation Marion, Ohio, July 6. Sen.
on condition that the sme pnvi- Hafding had no engagement "to
lege is extended to American credi dflv but planned to devote him.
tors by those nations holding self exclusiviv to clearing away
enemy property. mass Gf correspondence and
There is to be no "informal re- other work accumulated sinee he
turn" of property by the Alien left Washington Saturday- Dur
Property Custodian under the ing the next few daj s he plais
new legislation, it was announced to deVote much time to. the pn?
today. The precedure to be fol- paration of his speech of accep
lowed in securing possession of tance. Every since his noiina
seized property involves formal tion has been accumulating ma
application to the President, and terial for this purpose and now he
filing of a claim on the A. P. C. i,as jt in such shape it needs only
After the application has been ap- to put the ideas on paper.
proved and returned, the Attor- j .
ney General will issue an order! Marion, Ohio, July 6. Senatoi'
for the release of the property at Harding in a statement said thai
Cox deserved the nomination but
1
: j - he added that his selection would
Mr. Claude Parks of Richmond not change the Republican cam
Va. arrived yesterday to spend paign plans in Ohio in any way.
fif !.
issue
j
COTTIj MARKET
San Francisco, July 6. Gov
ernor Cox of Ohio was nominated
J early this morning. It took forty
four ballots to make the choice,
and not until, the thirty -eighth
when Palmer withdrew from th
race that the roll call showed any
definite trend to turn over the
Palmer delegates. Cox gained
advantage over McAdoo in bal
loting and that advantage never
was lost. With the choice made
the convention adjourned till
noon today to name a candidate
for the vice President. Should It
j be decided to give second place-
to the East Franklin D. Ronzvell
of New .York will be put up. The
asst. secretary of the navv seem
ed to be the favorite, but if the
nomination goes West there are
several possibilities talked about
by the leaders. Cox got majority
for the first time on forty thira
ballot and on the forty fourth
was plunged toward the required
two thirds when Colorado chang
ed its vote and made the nomina
tion obvious it was then made un
aifimoits in 'the motion for the
same by Amidon of Kansas, a Mc
Adoo leader-
Paris, July 6. Discovery of
large deposits of phosphate in the
Moroccan hinterland, may soon
make France the great phosphate
producing country of the world.
The Moroccan deposits are re
ported by Professor Louis Gen
til of the Sorbonne as being ar
most inexhaustible. One hund
red miles inland from Casablanc.i
there is a mountain plateau, 40
miles long and 25 miles wide
wnicn is a veruaoie storenouse oi newspaper office at Dayton $
phosphate. A railway is to be Newg surrounded by fellow news.
built to this mountain and o mono paper workers few relatives and
poly has been given to the Moroc- intimate friends when the Asso
can government for the sale ot ciafed PreSg wire flashed the nom
the phosphate. :ination. Th first act was to cross
France already has huge potasn the room and embraCe his wife.
deposits m Alsace. During the morninj? the Dayton
Chamber of Commerce decided on
a huge jollification meeting late
today or tonight.
PHOSPHATE DEPOSITS
F
UNO
MO 0 0
COX TO MAKE STATE
MENT AFTER NOTIFY
Dayton, Ohio, July 6 Gov.
Cox has declined to make any
statement until after he had re
ceived notification from the con
vention. The Governor received
th" news of his nomination in his
HARDING
COIIGRAT
'II
GOV. COX Oil VICTOR
COX TO DE URGED TO
HELP SUE. LECISLA.
Columbus. July 6. Sen. Hard
in has wired Gov Cox. "I recall
much talked of cartoon which Washington. July
portryaed' 'you and me as news-. will be asked to
for the White exert his influence
6. Gov. Cox
immediately
toward the
to
ut Inprely removes sex as a bar son and .Cam Morrison ashamed
Julv 39.75! boys contesting
lot afffrds. October 33.43 jilouse delivery. it seems t ratmcation oi nie sunragc dumm
Wake Gives Morrison 2,2131 December 32.13 have been prophetic as an Ohioan -ent by the Tennessee legislature
and Gardner 2,589, a majority ot January : 31 .45; and fellow publisher I congratu-" tli national womans party announ-
arffrage, never could pierce 'of themselves if they would de-'458. Greensboro Daily News.-. M:---:------.- J8ati you on your noble victory." iced today.