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VOLUME 38. SMITHFIELD. N. C. FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1919 Number 61. CUMMINGS SAYS PEOPLE STRONG FOR LEAGUE Chairman Dem. National Committee Has Spent Two Months in Trip Through 14 Western States—In Not a Single State He Visited Was a Majority of the People Opposed to League of NatioAs, Cummings De clared. and If Given the Opportu nity the People Would Ratify it “By a Vote of Ten to One, Without Change or Reservation”—Califor nia 4 to 1 for the League. Washington, July 30.—Homer S. Cummings, chairman of the Demo cratic National Committee, discussed with President Wilson today the polit ical outlook for 1920 and the attitude of the country toward the peace treaty and the League of Nations, de scribing his observations during his recent two-months trip through four teen western States. The conference, which lasted more than an hour was the first the na tional chairman had had with the President since last December. Mr. Cummings refused to discuss the pos sibility of Mr. Wilson again leading his party in the 1920 election and would not affirm or deny that this sub ject was broached during the confer ences. - Chairman Cummings said he told the President the country was over whelmingly in favor of immediate ratification cf the treaty and its League of Nations covenant without change or reservation. As to the po litical situation Mr. Cummings was understood to have been emphatically confident. Many matters of party interest were understood to have been taken up, and policies and legislation considered from every conceivable angle. The President was said to have out lined to Mr. Cummings the tentative itinerary of the trip he will take through the country to g:ve the peo ple an account of his stewardship at Paris. The proposed trip was under stood to have received the chairman’s approbation. In no State he visited, Mr. Cum mings said, did he find a majority of the people opposed to the League of Nations. On the contrary, he said, if the people had an opportunity to vote on the question today a ten to one majority wou’d be given in favor of immediate ratification of the league covenant without change or reserva tion. California, the home of Senator Johnson, one of the leading opponents of the league, Mr. Cummings said, he found the sentiment four to one in favor of the league. KATE WAR IN CHICAGO IN SCATTERED SECTIONS The race war which has been raging in Chicago since Sunday, spread Tuesday night to widely scattered sec tions of the city. The police reported trouble at several points on the north side. Hundreds of policemen were rushed to halt a reported conflict be tween several thousands of whites an I blacks on the southwest side. Crowds of whites penetrated the downtown district on avowed hunts for negroes Four regiments of State troops have been in barracks ready for duty as a resu't of the race riots which since Sunday have kept the city in a turmoil. The soldiers, plentifully supplied with 'riot ammunition, were distributed about the south ^ide negro district as a support line to powerful police forces concentrated within the trouble zone. k In addition to the four regiments on the ground, the ninth and tenth regiments of the guard and three oth er reserve units were mobilized at va rious towns throughout the State awaiting word to entrain for Chicago. This gave a potential military force of approximately 6,500 as a back ground for the city police force. SHIPPING STRIKE SETTLED AT LAST. New York, July 28.—The strike which for about three weeks has tied up shipping along the Atlantic and gulf seaboard, was finally settled to eight when an agreement on wages was reached with the marine engi neerr. William S. Brown, national president of the Engineers union im mediately sent out orders to move ships without delay. THE NEWS FROM CLAYTON. Clayton, N. C., July 30.—Miss Thel ma Barbour spent the past week-end at Mount Mor:ah. Mrs. M. M. Gulley and daughter, Rochelle, will leave today for their home at Nashville, :ffter visiting rel atives hei-e fo a couple of weeks. Mrs. Halford, of Lillington, visited Mrs. G. T. Smith Tuesday. Mr. E. R. Gulley spent the past week-end at Ridgecrest, returning Monday night, accompanied by Mrs. Gulley, who has been there for the past two weeks. Miss Catherine Jones, of Oxford and Miss lone Hooker, of Greenville, are the guests, of Miss Sulou McCul lers this week. Mrs. J. B. Turley, who underwent an operation at Rex Hospital last week, is getting along nicely. Mrs. C. B. Turley, who has been very ill at her home here for a couple of weeks, is improving. We regret very much to lose Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Edgertoa from our town. They will make their home in Princeton after September 1, at which place Mr. Edgcrton will go in the general merchandise business. Mrs. C. M. Austin and children are spending this week with friends in ’he Baptist Center section. Wilbur Barnes is another of our home boys who has speiy; considerable time in France. He came last Satur day. We welcome him home again. The lawn party given on Mrs. A. J. Barbour’s 'lawn Tuesday afternoon was quite a success. The lawn was full and every one enjoyed the even ing immensely until the cloud came up and people had to scatter. The friends of Mr. and Mrs. Mille>’ White are glad to know they are com ing back to live among us again. Rev. A. O. Moore is assisting in the revival at Bethesda church this week. Services at 12 a. m. and 9:15 p. m. All day services Thursday Everybody invited. Miss Alma Hall is spending this week at Norfolk, Va. Mrs. L. F. Austin returned today from a visit to Durham. Messrs. Aubrey and Ekie Gattis came up from Four Oaks and spent the day Sunday. A Report of High Water. Mr. W. T. Cockrell, of Beulah town ship, was here this week and told us of some places he has visited since the high water last week. He went in a boat to the home of Calvin Wood ard, who lives on the Charley Lane place between old Beulah town and Micro, passing over places where the water was six to seven feet deep. Mr. Woodard works a three-horse crop and had only about three acres not cov • cred by water. The water was one foot deep over the floor of the dwell ing and a lot of hogs taker, to a barn had to be carried later to the loft of the barn. He knows one man who had twelve acres cut of his fifteen acre crop of tobacco under water. Mr. J. W. Darden told Mr. Cockrell that he < lost several hundred dollars worth of , wheat and corn. He says that tobac co on light, sandy land is yellow and ( burnt and ruined by the rains. i JAPAN TO RESTORE SHANTUNG, SAYS ENVOY Washington, July 28.—Mr. Debuchi counselor of the Japanese Embassy charge in the absence of Viscount Ishii, conferred at the State Depart ment today with Secretary Lansing. So far as is known, no formal re quest has been made upon the Japan ese Embassy by the Administration to issue any statement regarding the Japanese purposes as to Shantung, but Mr. Debuchi was willing to dis cuss the subject with the Associate t Press with the distinct understand ing. however, that he was expressing his own personal views. In i-rswer to a question as to whit was to be the final disposition of th ; Japanese troops in Shantung, Mr. De buchi answered: “Japan is not only prepared to re store to China her sovereignty over the leased territory of Kiao Chow, which sovereignty was conferred upon Germany in accordance with the stip ulations of the treaty between Chiaa and Japan in 1908. “Japan is not only prepared to re store that property to China, but is a’so ready to open negotiations t t that end with China as soon as possi ble.” ! ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM BOON HILL Little River Highest Seen in Years. Neuse Devastates Districts and Renders Many Families tjomeless. Many Camping on Hills—D. L. Worley’s Barn Laid in Ashes. Princeton, July 30.—Miss Zettio Vaughan was married Saturday to Mr. Robert Oliver and they left Sun day for Richmond, Va., their future home. Robert has been in the Vir ginia city a year or two; Las a good business up there and he is a mighty clever young man. We wish them much success. Mr. P. H. Joyner has resigned as agent of the Southern Railway at this place, after serving faithful'y as agent and operator for more than thirty years. Mr. L. W. Miller comes as the new agent to fill Mr. Joyner’s place. Miss Ethel Faulkner, a mighty pretty young girl from upper John ston, was a visitor in town Saturday. Little River was two feet higher than ever seen before by tby oldest residents in this section. The high water came up to the flooring in the Baker’s mill house below the dam, which was about a 20-foot straight rise in the river. The steel bridge at the mill was wrecked, the concrete pillar in the center of the river was undermined by the flood, and the log road trestle came down the river and struck the steel bridge and pushed it down the river a few feet, but not entirely off the foundations. Howell’s County bridge five miles up the river, was completely washed away. Mrs. Eva Roberts, of Rome, Ga . a young bride of only 19, is visiting Miss Rochelle Hinton. Miss Mary Kornegay, of Pine Level is visiting Miss Bessie Mason. Mrs. Edy Woodard died her£ Mon day morning, and was buried in the family grave yard at her old home, three miles from town on Tuesday. She had been afflicted for many months and her death was not unex pected. Mr. D. L. Worley, living three miles from town, had his barn burned Sun day morning about two o’clock, a large barn with driveway through the center, corn and feed rooms on one iside and mule stalls on the other, and shelters built around the barn where cultivators and farm tools were kept. There were fourteen bales of cotton, ten or twelve barrels of corn, several hundred pounds of tobacco, all farm machines, and two good mules all a total loss except the mule, although badly burned, they may live. There had not beer, any fire around th * barn and no one smoking kid bee i at the barn. It is supposed chat the lire was started by some unk .ovn party A tenant house, unocci j ed, was bumgd the night before on 1 . 0. Smith’s place, just a short disfa.ee from Mr. Worley’s. A good boat saved the lives of Mr. Ike Martin and his wife and nine chil dren in Neuse islands when the flooa descended upon their house so fast they barely had time to get the chil dren together. He paddled the boat three miles to a hill, the flooded sec tion being more than six miles wide. Miss Margaret LeMay, of Smith field, is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Ed Holt. Last Saturday the flooded section known as Neuse river islands, where the water was six miles wide and eight miles long in the immediate ter ritory, about 50 farm houses are en tirely surrounded and most of them are in water up to ten feet deep. Fri day and Saturday, when the water was rising so fast, the farmers did not have time to catch the chickens and get the hogs and pigs. All were car ried away by the terrible flood of mad rushing water. Sunday evening there were about fifty families camped on the hills and many were j at the homes of neighbors. All school houses and churches in the hill section had half a do?en families with thirty ; to forty children, and the mules and horses tied to the trees, a few scat tering pieces of furniture which they < had saved were around the school i yard. Mr. Will Thompson with two . mules and wagon \Yent to the pas- | ture to try to save some of his hogs 1 He caught 31 and had them in the ; wagon, started out and got stuck in ( the mud. Water was rising so fast > it was then getting dangerous. To save his mules he had to abandon his ] wagon, get mules loose and get out i WILSON SUBMITS FRENCH TREATY Convention to Protect Sister Republic Sent to Senate With Special Mes sage—Asks Early Ratification. Washington. July 2r. —President Wilson today laid before the Senate the text of the special treaty between the United States and France, sighed at Versailles on June 28, under which the United States pledges itself to go to the aid of France in the event of any unprovoked movement of aggres sion against France being made by Germany. The President did not present the treaty in person. He sent a personal written message to the Senate, accom panied by the treaty, in which he de clared that America was bound by its debt of gratitude to France to ratify promptly the treaty submitted under wh'ch the pledge of military aid to Franee is given. By unanimous consent the French treaty was laid before the Senate in open session at the request of Senator Ixidge, Chairman of the Foreign Re lations Committee, and was made public in the various allied countries and in the United States. SECRETARY OF NAVY SPEAKS TO EDITORS Editorial Party Witnesses Launching of First Concrete Ship From Gov ernment Ovned Shipyard. Wilmington, July 31.—The first day’s session cf the annual convention of the North Carolina Press Associa tion for 1919 was made memorable by reason of the fact that in honor of the annual assembling of the editors the first concrete ship from a government owned shipyard was launched here. Another event which made the day one of exceptional interest was the presence of the Secretary of the Navy Hon. Josephus Daniels, who paid his respects to his fellow brethren of the press in an address at the Victoria Theatre, witnessed with them the 'launching of the ship Cape Fear, spoke to the two thousand operatives of the Carolina Shipbuilding Corpora tion, which is building 21 steel ships of large tonnage here, lunched with the editors and their wives at th > mess hall of the Carolina Shipbuilding Corporation, and left tonight at seven o’clock, returning to Washington, with one of the busiest days of recent months behind him. LIGHTNING STRIKES ROOF O. HENRY HOTEL. During the intense electrical storm which struck Greensboro and other vicinities Tuesday evening a bolt of lightning struck the northwest corner of the O. Henry Hotel, knocking loose about five feet of the roof cor nice and puncturing the roof of the hotel. DR. PESSOA INAUGURATED PRESIDENT OF BRAZII Rio de Janeiro, July 29.—Dr. Epita cio Pessoa was 'inaugurated 10th president of Brazil in the Senate chamber at one o’clock this afternoon The ceremony was simple but im pressive. He turned the hogs all out into the swift rising water waist deep, and lost them all. While Neuse river was on the rise last Friday one farmer caught two very large carp, each weighing about 35 pounds. There were fifteen of these carp in the drove. They were feeding in his con. field where the water was little over knee deep and rising very fast. He used a pitch fork to get them and had a very hard fight to save them. Woodpecker’s Grove is the appro priate name given to a new home ia the residential section, and young Elijah Lynch is the manager. Information received from flooded sections of Neuse this morning are that the high water is falling very sfiow, only e'ghteon inches fall re ported, today being the sixth day of the flooded section. Thousands of acres of corn, cotton and tobacco un der water are beyond all hope of any saving features. Princeton and community will soon have another practicing physician and one is badly needed. KENLY NEWS. I Kenfy, N. C., July JO.—Miss Faye Barnes is spending her vacation at home with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. ti. F. Barnes. Mrs. R. Q. Martin and children, of Inmesville, are spending some time v jt-h Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Grady. Mr. and Mrs. J. 11. Barnes, of Dunn, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Kirby and Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Barnes. Rev. ('. E. Clarke is off helping Mr. (>• F. K'vkpatriok in a series of meet • r.g.-', bit will be here Sundry to fill r is regu. tr appointment at the Pres byterian chuich. Miss Grace Jerome is here for a few days from Jackson. She has a posi tion with the health officer there. Mrs. B. ('. Crawford, of Pikeville, is visiting hei daughter. Mrs. P. H. Etheridge, this week. Mrs. R. A. Turlington entertained I uesday afternoon in honor of her sister, Mrs. Durby, of Burlington. Mr. W. J. Hooks made a business trip to Wilson Tuesday afternoon. The Epworth League gave a socia' Monday afternoon on the lawn of Mrs. C. F. Darden. Practically all the members and young people in town were present. Refreshments were served i.nd games were played, mak ing it an enjoyable occasion. M Claud Edgerton and a crowd of our I oys went over to Enfield Tuesday afternoon for a game of ball. Mr. Willie Moore, who has been in the u my service at Camp Jackson for the last seventeen months, received his discharge and returned home last Wednesday with a happy bride. The vaccination campaign against typhoid has started off nicely and promises to be a great success. Tues day Kenly greeted the physician in charge with throngs of people to re ceive the vaccination. We are glad to see the people taking hold of this matter so vigorously. Mr. H. F. Edgerton has gone down to his big farm in Northampton county to see what the high water of Roanoke river has left him as a recent result of the heavy rains. We understand that Kenly is soon to have an oil mill and fertilizer fac tory to be located on the Dennis Sim mons mill site recently purchased by Drs. Grady and Coleman. The Narron Central Railroad is in operation aga;n after being water bound for a few days. Last Friday night some unknown party entered the store of W. H. Howell and carried away shout $20 in money, nothing else being missed. En t.ranee was made by breaking through the window. Last Wednesday night at a gather ing of colored people just outside of town, two negroes had sonic dispute over a jug of cider and one of them was cut several times with a knife They were given a hearing Saturday morning befere Justice of the Peace A. J. Hooks and bound over to court. The recent heavy rains have done considerable damage to the crops in Beulah township. The rivers went six or seven feet above the high water mark. Most i f the bridges were car ried away by tl e high wa-er. Home From Florida. Miss Loula Snead, who graduated from Marianna High School this sum mer, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Snead, of Four Oaks. Miss Snead was accompanied by her un cle, Dr. Snead, to Atlanta, Ga., where she spent several days with friends. HOUSE REPEALS THE TAX ON SODA WATER. Washington, July 28.—After nearly two hours’ debate, and while the tem perature of the chamber was hover ing around the 100 mark, the House today voted to repeal the 10 per cent tax on soda water and ice cream. Villa’s Eyes Opened. Official deta'led reports on the re cent punitive expedition into Juarez to drive out Villa troops, when the battle there threatened lives of Amer icans in El Paso, give especial praise to the work of both the artillery and the cavalry. The wofk of the artil lery was executed with such speed and accuracy that every point of vantage around the Mexican positions was found riddled with steel bullets. The cavalry did valliant work in its attempt to cut the rebel body off from rheir po i’iens. FEDERAL CONTROL OF WIRES AT END Ceased Last Night at Midnight. Phone Rates Remain hour Months l nless Changed—Present Intra State Phone Rates Remain in Ef fect l nless Changed By State Cor poration Commissions. Government control of telegraph and telephone properties ended at midnight last night. Orders for their return to private ownership were is sued Wednesday by Postmaster Gen eral Burleson as required under a res o ut.on adopted by Congress and signed by President Wilson ten days ago. Mr. Buiteson in a statement accom panying his order, said sound public opinion ultimately would determine "how this trust has been met” and that he was content to abide by the result. Besides this reply ,o criticisms of his management of the wire com panies the postmaster General also took a parting shot at the Postal Tele graph Company, most of the officers of which were removed so ne time ago because of what he termed interfer ence with government management. The postmaster general did not mention the company by name, but said that, “with notable exception, the reason for which U thoroughly un derstood by those who have kept in formed,” every wire company had giv en him loyal co-operation. Under the resolution of Congress instructing the return of the compa nies, government fixed intrr-state tele phone rates are t • remain :n force for a period of four months unless sooner changed by State commissions, but no provision was made as to telegraph rates. Clarence H. Mackey, president of the Postal Company, in urging Con gi ess to provide for speedy return of the properties, said his company could reduce rates 20 per cent and still earn a profit. This statement was recalled in con nection with 'he return of the prop erties and a rate war between the telegraph companies was viewed iit some quarters as a possibility. Tele graph rates were increased approxi mately 20 per cent last March to meet increased salaries of operators and other employes and rising costs of materials. Referring to the advance in tele graph and telephone charges, Mr. Bur leson in his statement said the per centage of these increases "was mark odly loss than the average of increases of rates made during the same period for other public utility service,” and added that ‘‘but for court injunctions in eighteen States, instigated by State utility commissions the wire systems would have been returned to their owners without any obligation on the Federal treasury because of compen sation contracts.” The amount cf this obligation can not be determined until accounts for the present month are adjusted and an agreement has been reached as to compensation for compani>s which so far have not been willing to accept the government figures. Control of the wire companies was taken over by Postmaster General as a ware measure July .2, 1918, under a resolution of Congress and a proc lamation by the President. A wire control board and an operating board were established and various consoli dations were made with a view to ef fecting economy in operations. COLUMBIAN TREATY' FAVORABLY REPORTED. Washington, July 29.—A favorable report was made today by the State Foreign Relations Committee on the Columbian treaty whereby that coun try is to receive $25,000,000 as dam ages for allowing the Panama Cana! to be built through that country. A motion to reduce the amount from $25,000,000 to $18,000,000 was lost. The treaty which has prevailed with Columbia since 1914 will be taken up by the Senate and will probably be considered in open session. This will be considered in a few days. The Falcon Camp Meeting. We have just received an announce ment of the twentieth annual session of the Falcon Camp Meeting, which will be held August 7 to 17, 1919, at Falcon, N. C. Adequate preparations are being made for the session this year and large numbers are expected *o attend.
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