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THE COMMONWEAL H VOL. XVI. NUMBER IP FOUR O'CLOCK EDITION SCOTLAND NECK, N. 0.. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1922. TELEGRAPHIC SERVICE rUNIFORM 5 CENTS PER COPY BEUfil On GOULD BE HUD San i rancisco Gets Next Legion Convention 1-2 MILES Y : (By Associated Press) Louis. Get. 17. A uniform M religion could be establish 'v ;;lf the denominational ,. bv returning the forms unl dogma, as m Apostouc i the opinion of members tlv Disciples ot Lhrist. it was essed at the symposium Here. I AN HOUR NEW FLYING RECORD - mm in RUSSIA F6EFT THREATENED WITH EXILE (By Associated Press) Mount Clemens, Mich., Oct. 17. Aeronautical engineers and army and navy experts came here a week ago prepared for sur prise, but none expected to see a human being plunge through space at the rate of nearly 400 feet a second. Lieutenant R. L Maughan traveled one kilometer at the rate of 24S.5 miles an hour, a new record. ' BELGIUM WILL NEVER FORGET WHAT AMERICA DID," SAID M. JEANNE. "NEITHER WILL SHE EVER FORGET WHAT GERMANY DID." TESTIMONY IS. HALL AND NTRODUCED AT BOO. BROUGHT TO COURT HEAR NO Al DIRIGIBLE AFIRE AT SAN (By Associated Press) Asheville, N. C, Oct. 17. Tho testimony relating to North Car olina and Virginia freight rates has continued to be introduced at' the Interstate Commerce Com mission's hearing on rate class-- 2fi COMMUNISTS OF ARRESTED TODAY (By Associated Press) Moscow. Oct. 17. The Soviet nuvi-rnmenfs recent action in "xilimr abroad or to Northern Ihisia many educators, publicists: snd professional men who were unable to reconcile themselves to tin1 soviet regime, came nive a t 1k.1t out of the blue and has left' thousands of others of the mte!. liirtntsia" wondering if their turn will come next. For many months, since the de velopment of free trade and the recreation of a class of rich spec ulators, it has been evident both to opponents of the government and to the communists themse! vt's. that thousands of Russians were beginning to forget they were in the hands of a proletarian dictatorship, and were beginning to become as "bourgeoisie'' as ever. Thinking that the new freedom of trade miirht mean freedom of politics also, scores of college. professors and some organiza tions of professional men began to talk, write ana think freely iigain. The more timid did this secretly, while some plucked up enough courage to lampoon the government's activities openly in pamphlets and in the class room. One group of colle even dared to strike and struts . mvst(11.ipS whieh 2 000 vpars (By Associated Press) New Orleans. Oct 17. San Francisco was awarded the 1923 Convention of the American Le gion by acclamation. "Belgium will never forget what America did." said M. Jeanne, President I fieations in the South of the Belgian Veterans. "Nei ther Avill she ever forget what the Germans did, and Germany must pay for the damages inflle ted during its occupation, not as a vengeance, but as simple justice." 17. ex- A UNBROKEN LINE MN WOMEN AND CHILDREN (By Associated Press) St. Joseph, Mich., Oct. 17. Twenty alleged communist', charged with plotting to over throw the United States Govern ment by force, were arraigned for the first test of the anti-syn- is an unbroken line of men, worn dicalisni law, a war time measure, ; en and children, oxcarts, camels and cattle. (By Associated Pres.0 Adrianople, Oct. 17. Thirty thousand Greeks and Armenians have passed from this city to the West since Saturday. The road between here and Maritza river CARTHAGE RUINS DIS CLOSE INFANT SACRIFICE OF ANCIENTS !OTTON MARKET (By Associated Press) London, Oct. 16. Scientists searching in the ruins of Car thage, in Northern Africa, hav2 nrntpssnrs i n i" Dw lurii iiit? veiis j-iuiii me iiit5u.iu.uit ago usually bring prompt punishing it in Russia. Premier Lenine openly an nounced, last spring, that the retreat toward capitalism had reached its limits, and both the Genoa and Hague conferences established that the Soviet Gov ernment was standinng pat on the main principles of the proletarian dictatorship, even if it was in clined to make individual conces sit ns tocapitalists or foreign i governments here and there. Within Russia, however, such leeway continued to be allowed to speculators. Gambling casi were opened, racing flour ished, and so many new commer cial undertakings were launched that very few Russians realized that the communist partv had; determined absolutely that the pendulum, having swung so far to the right, now had to be swung ; f . lu me ien until me ouieu . , , (lr.r.i- i i- xi.i a? -. i .Astarte -Lvv-A. jvepi proper .ooisiieviK. uiu. i TODAY'S MARKET October 22.72 December 23.03 January 22.89 March . 23.02 May 22.98 July 22.73 YESTERDAY'S MARKET October 22.20 December . . . 22.42 January 22.30 March 22.42 May 22.35 STING BALLOTS IN SPITE OF RAIN (Byi Associated Press) Atlanta,, Ga., Oct. 17. LTndcr cloudy slies and the rain falling in several sections, the Georgia voters are casting their ballots in the special Democratic Pri mary to nominate a successor to the late United States Senator Watson, f (By Associated Press) New Brunswick, N. J., Oct. Mrs. Frances Hall and her centric brother, "Willie Stevens. were brought into the court house by detectives for further exam ination by the authorities inves tigating the murder of Rev. Ed ward Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Mills. ANTONIO 1 iVE iDE (By Associated Press) San Antonio. Tex., Oct. 17. The army dirigible C-2, which re cently completed a transconti nental flight and had reached San Antonio on its way back to Washington, when it was com pletely destroyed by fire while preparing for a flight over the eit- veral members of thej a .e hurt, one seriouslv. N CLINESTODIS- GUSS REPORTS , LIEUT. BELL KILLED IN AIRPLANE FALL ERMl WOMAN VI NNER (By Associated Press) London, -Oct. 1. former re-i (By Associated Press) mier enizeios, or ureece, decim-j ban Antonio, Oct. 17. Lieut- 3 -i- j? t ii . , . ea iu uiseuss reiiorre lrom ALuens enant Walter Bell, twenty-seven mat a repuoncan movement was years old, was crushed to death on foot in Greece with the object , today, when his airplane fell five of making Tenizelos president, i hundred fppt nam. vo,.Q J- --.vlv.i. Me declared lie irrevocably de- i termined to retire to private life as soon as the Turkish Peace Treaty is signed. TELEGRAPHIC COMPETITION HDUDi FINDS DANGERS PSYCH G PHENOMENA attended the worship of the God dess Astarte. Astarte was asso ciated with Baal as the chief deitv of the ancient Phoenicians,1 of which race the Carthaginians were one of the most important; branches. - ! The scientists have discovered sacrificial vafrilts in the inner) sanctuary of the Temple of As-j (By Associated Press) tarte, each of which contains the! Boston. Oct 17. Morhidne ; charred bones of thousands of m- aTri mUnnh i-nA k,t f ants ranging from newborn terest in psychic phenomena babes to babes of one or two! threaten the health and sanity of years old. The piles of bones are' many persons in the opinion of fifteen feet deep. They believe j Harry Houdini, president of the they have found one of the tern- Society of American Magicians pies where the secret, rites of hu-1 expressed at the annual dinner of man sacrifice to Astarte were the society here. He spoke of practised from the seventh cen-;his 25 years' investigation of the tury before the Christian era un-, Sllhpt aTlfi -H W1 (By Associated Press) Berlin, I Oct. 16. Sending 2,888 wordjan hour on a Siemens print er,"ITrna Bansemer, of Bres lau, won the speed champion ship of an international tele graphic competition held here re cently. The second prize also went to a German woman. Of seventy-two prizes offered, German contestants captured EXCAPES EVANGELIST FROM JAIL (By Associated Press) Los Angeles, Cal., Oct. 17. Herbert Wilson, former evange- FEDERAL LAND BANKS EXTENDED TO PORTO RICO (By Associated Press) San Juan, P. R., Oct. 16. Ex, i tension to Porto Rico of the Fed eral Land Bank, authorized by, Congress almost two years ago, has been accomplished by the list, convicted -of .thje.iirderf -i?emF ?.?uanoi ajraneh Herbert Cox who attempted to ot lhe 'tnnore Land Bank, af- i t" -M -r -r . f A. I . ! A m ici seveivi mumns or preparation DreaR jail several montns ago, escaped from the county jail with two other prisoners. WEATHER REPORT For iNorth Carolina: Mostly cloudy and cooler tonight and , - t TIT 1 "I 1 "V 1 I 1 t more tnan a third. The chietj Wednesday. rrooaDiy snowers in awards fell to competitors of the! east and south portion. Moder- various nationalities as iollows : To Italians for the Morse apparat us; to Germans for the Hughes, the Siemens, and for radio ; to Spanish for the Baudot, and to Danish for the Wheatstone. Os-1 y kar Schindler, of Vienna, won, the master-telegraphist trophy j for being a prize-winner on three different tynQ of apparatus. The award consisted of a large silver urn offered by the president of Germany. ate to fresh northwest, shifting to north and northeast, wTinds cnunni UIIUUL CONDITIONS til the days when the Romans conquered and destroyed Car thage and forbade further sacri- 1S tall always represented stern-faced woman, seen anything to convince him that there had been a communication from the dead single "I have never seen any of tLe medium or spiritualists do any- n . - . , i as a .)iamumsts explain so long as , ng upright and clutching in . thing or produce a single effect ir rV T, i ' 1- I the left arm an infant child, in wnicn coma not, tnrougn thp nlrl rifp. Phoenicians ottered Knowledge ot magic, account lor Profitable to themselves, continue ! ue immediately or potential. J T, n n Astarte.'or duplicate." he asserted. t;I advantageous to the government! nd bones of oWer childreu have had nine pacts with the tn- scheme of reconstructing , scientisthave now ! dead, who while alive agreed uaMa, Tiifse m( ivinna s are to 1 , , , ,i . 4...!-.; l 1 1 1 1 1 ( i ii i iM uiuuauiy ov.uuui.v. w - - - for by the fact that families af with me from beyond, but each fTiftpH bv illness or misfortune ! has been fruitless." sought to appease her anger by sacrificing all their children. The contests were held under the auspices of the German postal administration. State Secretary Bredow. addressing the assem bly gathered to witness the award of prizes, eulogized Heinrich von Stephan, Germany's first posi-master-general, as founder of the world postal union. Doctor Bredow also declared it was Ger many who aroused worldwide in terest in wireless telegraphy by summoning the first international convention for radio in Berlin in 1903. RDSSIA SHOWS LITTLE MPR EMENT (By Associated Press) Moscow, Oct. 16. Russian chil dren have started a new school ! year with little prospect of bet ter conditions than they endured j during the revolution. In the Siberian district the in debtedness of the government to the teachers for salaries has; reached the sum of over 85,000, be V T Vi A 1111 V- iX L y U. i are to be cut short and i U'lven wirlpi rnrp in freedom " , x' - jroni interference. But when the work of the individual does nt fit into this general scheme, p when an individual woriw dgamst the government. activities the offender punished. The recent decrees of evile! av$ the newspaper Pravda. are! t ine nrst warnings to trie teh(ectiial4; iwho remain. The joviet government will, as in T past, value highly the support v inose representatives of the intelligentsia" who wUL with Ernest II. Thomas, of Rush- vine, lnd., in charge. Slight modifications in the law to make it applicable to Port Rico have been made, and already there are many indications that the small farmers of the island are preparing to avail themselves of the long-time loans offered by the bank. The maximum amount that may be borrowed here is $5,000 just half the maximum in the United States, but infuiries indicate that the average appli cation for loans will not exceed .$2,000. interest rate fixed for the island is six percent. At a recent meeting of farmers a speaker asked those who were paying two percent per month to hold up their hands, and the num ber of hands raised was larged. Representatives, authorized to accept applications for loans have been named in the seven towns ot the island where there ar3 registeries of property. COMMUNISTS FURTHER 000,000 rubles, old ally Work with the. crnverti- nt, as the better part of the lief, 'Pecialists do now, but it will, as ure, root out every attempt t lllc icgai jj'jssiumiir-a J.an open or. secret struggle ainst the government and for restoration of a "bourgeoisie to ahere is no noPe or a return the past," The Pravda warns COLONEL B. K. ASHFORD, GETS WAR MEDAL with He said he had worked Sir Oliver Lodge agd other scien tists engaged in the study of psychic phenomena and respect ed them. 4 'But," he added,- "when I demonstrate to them the secrets and reveal the methods used by mediums and they tell me that I rf am a tyi prliiim in ornA rf mv- (By Associated Press) j nTY1 fn tr fnlii(Tp th.t. San Juan, P. R., Oct. lb. VVitu th merely do not know the 65th Infantry ordered out tor . the occasion at the direction of "I have seen people who pre- President Harding, Col. Bailey K. vious to the war, never concerned Ipfiiinnrnnnnrnin buivircno GTLHIVG RECOGNIZE PRIVATE CAPITAL OF LEGIONS says a recent re port to the district Soviet. This is a mere fraction of the total amount due to instructors in sal aries. In some districts teachers I have not been paid for many months, and the officials have even ceased to keep account of (By Associated Press) the arrears. i Moscow, Oct. 17. Private in- The lot of Russian school teach-1 terests in Russia has received ers has been a hard one. Tn thu; further recognition bv the Coni- I villages they have been somewhat! munists. The government has j better cared for than in the cities granted permission to private ' because the peasants have taxed'persons to participate by their thej capital, in the organization of a themselves to contribute to .necessarv expenses: have them-j Trade and Industrial Bank. Ashford, medical corps, United States Army, was presented re themselvps with things psychic now delving into it to the point cently with the Distinguished ; of hysteria. It is conductive ot Service Medal for "exceptional-' morbidness, brooding and melan ly meritorious and distinguished cholia. It becomes an obsession service," in France. j very quickly and I would warn This is the first time that the against it. It is threatening the TMstiricmished Service Medal has health and sanitv of those who t i -i -r -r i i been presented in Porto Rico. indulge in it.5 (By Associated Press) New Orleans, Oct. 17. The American Legion in the National Convention heard Samuel Gom pers, President of the American Federation of Labor, tell of lafc oor's aims and aspirations and what it believes its rights and duties are. Mr. Gompers and Kenesaw Mountain Landis, Sup reme Commissioner of Baseball, received a noisy welcome from the "buddies" when they entered the Convention hall. j selves cut wood for the school r -l - "1 iuei, ana nave repairea many school houses. In the cities the schools have been left to govern mental care. As a result of these conditions many teachers are turning to other means of earn ing a living. lhe institution whicli is now being ' organized and will begin its operations in November will be a private limited company. Fifty one per cent of the shares are assigned to the founders, the Supreme Economic Council, while the remainder will be cov- The plan of the Communists; ered by public subscriptions by for a free and unified school svs tern is having hard sledding. De cree has been passed forbidding the collection of fees from par ents for their childrens' educa tion, but local school authorities from time to time make "assess ments" upon parents for the var ious expenses involved in maia taining the schools. the trusts and syndicates, and private persons. The new bank is going to fi nance industryljfilNtransport on a broad, commercial basis. Pri vate capital is not only allowed to participate, but guarantee is given to place its representa tives on the hoard of directors the bank.
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