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TARBORO, N. C, FRIDAY, JULY 16, 1920.
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OFFICIAL PRIMARY VOTE AS
'VIEWED IN THE CAPITAL CITY
E
GERMANY DELAYS
ULTIMATUM REPLY
Expect She Will Ask Allies For
MRS. DE CORDOVA ATTACKED, I
THEN KILLED BY CHAUFFEUR
POUSH ARWIISTIGE
Are Still Driving the Enemy
Over the Northern"
Sector.
Al
USED
LABOR VOTE HELD OFF, HOP.
'1 ING GARDNER'S NOMINATION
WOULD ENABLE PARKER TO
'WIN'i MORRISON'S i MAJORITY
OF 9,000.
FINGER PRINTS FOUND ON THE
THROAT OF RICH WIFE OF
WALL STREET OPERATOR
GEISSLER ALSO KILLS HIM
SELF. Mr. Rosenbaum, Just Return
ed, Says Germans Have
No Grudge.
Modification of Coal
Delivery Terms.
RUSSIANS
GERIfil SUREL!
WILL
COME
BACK
AVIATOR AIRSICK .
FLYING OVER KOREA
RPLANES
BY BUS N
ESS MEN
. J (By "Uewxm.") .
' . Raleigh, July 16. The announce
ment of the official vote in the second
- primary for the- gubernatorial nomi
' nation brings. some significant devel-
opments. "Three of the more striking
of these are that Morrison gained a
!; ' thousand votes in Raleigh and Wake
r county, where the organised labor
' '.' newspaper, The Union Herald, gave
i him enthusiastic support in both. pri.
: maries; and lost some 400 votes in
' Buncombe, where the Asheville Ad-j
' vocate, labor paper, says union men
were persuaded at the last primary
' not to vote- for Morrison, while oth
ers openly voted for Gardner. The
V president of the local carpenters' un
, ion in Asheville is depicted as being
" related by marriage to Gardner.
. i Waiilcd Pu:kr to Boat Gardner.
But fiom uno,, ! ouri " it is now
learned that many lab'-n 'iien who
voted for rage or Moi i . ion in tho
western republican counties were in
duced to hold off in the hope that
Gardner would be nominated and that
therefore the republicans would stand
a better 'chance to elect a republican
governor.
p "There is more to that statement
r than appears on the surface," said a
V western man who was present today
' when the subject was under discus
S sion in the lobby of a Raleigh hotel.
f Ninth Congressional District. -
Another more op less queer show
i 4ng is made by the figures in the case
of the Ninth Congrcssionaldistrict,
which 'Mr. Morrison carried by , a
comfortable majority in the first pri
f irtary, but which he lost by a small
Fyote in the -second primary . Messrs.
T Gardner 'and Morrison both -reside in
. ,. t " , ." . ". . 'tnckeryT of German commercial con-
thia ditricf.;Tbe big interest Jft the -.1 t , r . -.
..- r, . .(-;ixlCLi J cernswhot failure to deliver to tl?
wotton mill 'world e-hat i3biw,f: ..y- -v ; - TV
L,thi
f-eotton
fcthe state which employs only non-
f Union jiperatives are largely located
- i. -
in thatsdistrict,
The 'big juicy 200-per cent cotton
mill managements (now largely con-
'" .
trolled hy the big-monied 'interests of
the north which have lately secured
1 big stock holdings because of the big
dividends paid) are said to have re
'. Rented the attacks made by some of
the newspapers on their refusal to
allow their employes to organize (as
is done at the majority of the mills
in the state and the country over)
and to have taken "means" to ex
press themselves on the subject. The
means employed were all against Mr1.
Morrinon.
So that, although Morrison carried
eight of the ten congressional dis
tricts in the second primary, one of
the twd he did not carry was his own
(and also Gardner's) district. Crit
ics say today that there are other
purposes concealed behind the result
in the ninth.
; But with 9,000 and more majority
and eight 'out of ten congressional
districts it is plain that the Morrison
"men have much to be proud of in the
results of the second primary.
Thought Parker Could Beat Gardner.
There are still many ' republican
and pro-republican voters in western
counties who schemed to bring about
the nomination of Gardner in the sec-
;, ond primary, because they believed
that in the election in November the
. republican candidate for governor,
Mr. Parker, would be able to poll the
labor vote largely as against Gardner
and thereby secure the' electiapof a
republican governor. Some of the
excuses offered for the loss of Mor
. rison votes in Buncombe and contig.
nous territory smack strongly to con.
firm these statements.
GASOLINE LAST YEAR -
COST FRANCE $300,000,000
Paris, July 16. France's expendi
ture abroad of 1,500,000,000 francs
last year for gasoline has aroused
Parliament and the newspapers to a
point where the government has re
newed efforts to bring about indus
trial use of alcohol.
Experiments here have proved to
the satisfaction of investigators that
. automobiles and other internal com
bustion engines may be operated sat
isfactorily open varyjng mixtures of
alcohol and petroleanTproducts.
. Tokio, July 16. Lieutenant Fer
rarin, one of the two famous Italian
airmen who flew from Rome to To
kio, encountered such rough air con
ditions while crossing the length of
Korea that they made him seasick.
The tempest met in the Hakone hills
was unparalleled.
"In my entire flying experience,"
he said, "I had never before met with
suchconditions. The air was so dis
turbed over Korea that the machine
pitched like a small boat in a heavy
swell, and for the first time in my
life I knew- what it was to be sea
sick. As soon as I reached the straits
where an escort of Japanese destroy
ers was waiting for me, the air con
ditions improved and the rest of my
flight to Tokio, except for the storm
in the Hakone, . was made in ideal
weather."
100,000 CHILDREN ARE
GIVEN NICE VACATION
-Berne, S . zerland, July 1C. One
hundred thousand of the poor and
underfed children of Europe have So
far been given vacations of four to
six weelvs in Swiss homes. Most of
the children came from Austria and
Germany.. ;
MORWAY PROTESTS
AT
Qnjistiania, July 16. Norwegian
business men have protested to the
Berlin" -government against alleged
Norwegians goods bought and paid
for started official, and unofficial in
quiries which led the Norwegians to
believe the delinquencies were delib
erate.
Commercial intercourse between
Norway and Germany had been stea
dily increasing, due to the low ex
change rate on German money, until
recently, when a number of Norwe
gian concerns were notified by. the
Germans with whom'they had placed
large orders that the merchandise
could not be delivered because "the
government, had placed special ' ex
port taxes which prohibited exporta
tion at the.prices at which the goods
had been sold."
The Germans are said to have de
manded additional sums ranging 50
to 100 per cent of the prices they
had quoted before they would fulfill
their contracts.
RESOLUTE READY
FOR SECOND RACE
Sandy Hook, July 16. Repairs to
the Resolute are proceeding rapidly,
with every prospect of the defender
being ready for, another race for the
America Cup tomorrow.
New York, July 16. Shamrock
TV wins the first race of the 1920
regatta when the defender, the Reso
lute, was forced out of the running
when a sudden gust snapped her
throat halyard and the jaws c. her
gaff were shattered beyond repair.
When the accident accurrpd it was
the first thought of Sir Thomas Lip
ton to order the Shamrock IV not to
eross the finishing line, thus making
it no race, but his companions pur
suaded him to permit the Shamrock
to finish as it was felt the construe,
tion and sturdiness of the contender
should be taken into account in deter
mining the issue as welf as compara
tive skill of the rival crews.
HEATH IS WANTED
ON MURDER CHARGE
Columbus, Ga July 16. Search
was continued today for John Heath
a cotton mill worker, charged with
murder of Mrs, Mattie Weis, a palm
Robbery is declared to have been
the motive as the woman's stockings,
where she was known to have kept a
large sum of . money, were drawn
down when the body was found. .
GERMAN TRICK
AN AMERICAN IS KILLED
Spa, July 16. British officials de
clare that no' reply has been received
from the Russian soviet government
relative to the proposed armistice be
tween Russia and Poland.
Berne, July 16. The Russian of
fensive in the Uki'aine has come to a
standstill, according to a Bucharest
advice.
.. The counter-offensive of the Uk
rainans is making progress.
Warsaw, July 1C. Alexander Uc
ziwek, a Chicag6, Y. M. M. C. work
er, with the Polish army, was killed
in battle between the Poles and the
Bclsheviki, while Captain Merion
Cooper, of Jacksonville, Fla., has
Lsen missing for four days.
Londdn," July 16. The continued
success of the Bolsheviki,against the
Poles along the northern sector was
announced today from Moscow.
RESIGM FROM JO
Peking, July 16. A striking ex
ample of the office seeking the man,
or rather pursuing him, is afforded by
the present cabinet situation. Pre
mier Chin Yun-peng, who becarfte the
leader of the "Chihii" political fac
tion after the death of former pres
ident FengKuo-chang, w-ants to re
sign'his post but the president won't
let him.
The ostensible reason of is desire
to quit is the difficulty the govern
ment finds in financing itself. The
real reason is said to be found in a
contest which is in progress between,
the "Chihii!'. and "Anfu" factions,
the latter being the military group.
For the third time thegiremier has
tendered his resignation and three
times the president has refused to
accept it, offering in lieu a leave of
absence, each resignation bringing a
new extension of the leave.
" In the meantime Admiral Sab
Cheng-peng, minister of the navy, is
reluctantly filling the post of pre
mier. Much political manoeuvring is go
ing on under he surface and at the
moment it is regarded as probable
that Chin Yun-peng will eventually
resume his post possibly .with some
changes in the ministries upon which
he is said to be insisting.
NGRAI
Shanghai, July 15. The Shanghai
post of American Legion has been
given its official name by the national
organization in America and is to be
called the General Frederick Ward
Post after the noted American sol-
Idjer who organized in China the
"Ever Y'ctor'ous Army" in the Taip
ing Rebellion, afterward turning the
command over to the British general,
"Chinese" Gordon. The Shanghai
post has 160 members and has been
authorized to form other posts in
China.
JOHNSON WINS THE
AMERICAN DAVIS CUP
Wimbledon, England, July 16.
William Johnston, of California, won
the first match for the American Da
vis Cup in a contest with a British
team for the right to challenge Aus
tralia for the trophy.
RUSSIAN EMPRESS
WAS BURNED ALIVE
Paris, July 16. The Russian em
pres and her children were burned a
live after the execution of the em
peror Nicholas, at Ekaterinburg, it
is alleged in statements attributed to
the former empress' former curier,
which were published today.
WONT LET PREMIER
SUA
POST OF
AMERICAN LEGION
CROPS THERE ARE FINE
" Mr. Julius Ebsenbaum, who re
turned yesterday from Germany,
where he and his daughter, Miss Lil-
la Rosenbaum, had spent the past
two months visiting relatives, stated
that he had a wonderful trip, and
that, except in the cities, where there
was some apparent unrest, owing to"
the high cost of everything, the coun
try looked good, the crops being in
excellent condition and every spot of
ground, even gardens, were being
cultivated to the limit.
The most important thing he found
on his trip . was' his .United States
passports, These were more valua
ble than money. The times they
were required to bo shown were too
numerous to remember. One poor
fellow over there had somo trouble
about his passports and has boon held
in Germany since last January.
For the American visiting Ger
many the exchange value of money
is so much In favor of the dollar that
even tho high prices for everything
in Germany was of little moment
when purchased with American mon
ey. For instance, Mr. Rosenbaum
bought the German mark (usually
worth twenty-five cents) at seventy
marks to the dollar. At this time
thirty-five marks can be obtained for
a dollar, so that whatever the price
of anything in Germ.'my it is che,ip
in American money.
But the mark is of the mark value
to Germans and in consequence the
people jn the cities are poor and suf
fering. Likewise this, and the many
political parties! with the monarchists
endeavoring to regain power, which
Mr. Rosenbaum thinks they. will nmi
er do, causes no little unrest nnd may
ultimate in another revolution before
Germany becomes settled and nor-j
mal. But the people are thrifty and
will work out their own salvation. I
Mr. and Miss Rosenbaum visited
the principal cities of Germany, Bel
gium and Holland and found every
where good feeling toward America.
It is true that the general opinion was
that had thel)nited States not joined
in the war Germany would have won,
but now they are content to have dis
pensed with the military, autocratic,
militaristic government, which they
will never again accept.
TURNER FACES JURY
FOR MOORE MURDER
Richmond, July lG.--William Tur
ner, negro, was placed in trial for
the murder of Morgnn Moore, of Al
exandria, an for attempted robbery..
The accused nlro attacked Miss
Pearl Clark, secretary to Congress
man Britten, of Illinois.
Tho killing occurred on the night
of May 2.1 at the Virginia end of the
highway bridge between Washington
and Alexandria.
RAILWAY CLERKS MAY
GO ON STRIKE MONDAY
Chicago, July 10. President Fitzi
gcrald, of the Brotherhood of Rail
way Clerks, arived here to confer
with the executives of sixteen recog
nized railroad organization.
He will confer Monday with two
hundred general chairmen of the
clerk's brotherhood, after which will
attend a mass meeting at which plans
wil be perfected for the imediate call
ing of a strike if the awards of the
labor board are unsatisfactory.
SENATOR HARDING
IS WORKING HARD
Marion, July 16. Scnator Hard.
ing is kept hard at work on his ac
ceptance speech. . . t -
The speech, when finished, will be
the real key-note of the republican
campaign.
Parish July 16. The health of
President Dexchaniel Is reported as
greatly improved.
The president will probably resume
his presidential functions in Septem
ber. ; .
READY AT FOUR O'CLOCK
Spa, July 1G. The German con
ferees sent word to the Supreme
council that Germany's reply to the
coal deliveries ultimatum would not
be ready until 4 o'clock this after.
noon.
It is expected that the Germans
will ask for a modification of terms
of the protocol.
Spa, July 16. The German dele
gates in conference have agreed in
principle with the terms - submitted
by the allies for coal deliveries but
will ask for explanation of certain ar
tides in the note.
SPECIAL APPEAL
Mr. J. B. Wood, of the Tarboro Ice
Company, called at The Southerner
office this morning and asked that an
appeal be made to the citizens to use
less ice until he had been able to
catch up.
He insists that the people must
stop using ice for making jee cream.
He says the people are getting pre
scriptions for ice and that they are
then using the ice to make cream.
This, he says, is contrary to the pur
poses for which prescriptions were
ordered,
Mr. Wood further says that a less
ening' of the use of ice must lake
place until he can catch up, or else
he will have to close down the ice
plant.
...-.JIa.. has tried .ucry pl?s' ir-Vkt
ejnia and North Carolina to buy ice,
regardless of cost, but every ice plant
is working at over-pressure and no
further orders can be accepted.
WOMAN SUSPECTED
OF LATEST MURDER
New York, July 16. An unidenti
fied well dressed man, found with
gunshot wounds, died en route to a
hospital here today.
Miss I.oretta I.eroy, who took the
man to the hospital in her limousine,
told the police that she found hi 11
in a dying condition. Afterward! a
revolver was found in the limousine.
The woman and two companions wore
held for examination.
s
5.505 TO NURSE
Atlanta, July 15. Five thousand,
five hundred and live people in the
southeast, most of them women and
girlSj have been taught in the past
year how to care for the sick in their
own homes.
The instruction was given by the
American Red Cros thru classc? in
home hygienfc nnd enre of the sick
instituted in its various chnptors. The
report for the year ending June 30
shows that 3,232 more people were
given this instruction in that year
than received it in the 12 months
from June, 1018, to June, 1919.
GONZALES IS GIVEN
IMMEDIATE TRIAL
Mexico City, July 16. General
Pablo Gonzales, former candidate for
president and alleged leader of the
Nuevo Leon revolution, was captured
yesterday and immediately, placed on
trial.
Every day five quotations announc
ing the cotton situation are cabled
from New York to India. The na
tives of India looked upon this as a
difect invitation to them to establish
a simple but none the less absorbing
form of gambling.' The gambling
consists simply in quessing what the
five figures will amount to and the
man getting nearest to the right fig
ares takes the stakes.
100
MAKES
G
S TAUGHT
New York, July 16. About 100
business men scattered thruout the
United States more or less regularly
fly in airplanes between their homes
in the country, at the mountains or
the shore to their city offices, accord
ing to an estimate of the Manufac
turers Aircraft Association.
The number of itinerant aerial
"taxi-drivers" who carry passengers
on short but remunerative flights is
placed at some 300.
"There is a steadily increasing de
mand for aircraft of the commercial
type," says a report made to the as
sociation, "but, contrary to some
published reports, the demand does
not equal the supply. Factories now
111 operation in the United States
could conntruct ten times the num
ber of aircraft which optimists esti
mate would be required this year."
L
AT STATE COLLEGE
The social anil at the samu time a
most instructive side of life at the
summer school at the State College
of Agriculture and Engineering, at
Raleigh, is full of real pleasure and
wide in its variety Take the past
week, for example: On Monday, the
National holiday was effectively and
fittingly observed. In the morning
there were sports and games on the
spncioUs campus; in the evening a
pagannt with Uncle Snm and Miss
Columbia reviewing a purado of the
various cUnti, and with Mother
tloose and her fnvorite taking part,
several thousand -people witnessing
this attractive and novel feature.
Tuesday, the summer school-led in
a community sing in the capjtol
square under the auspices of ' the
Woman's Club of flaleigh.
Wednesday, the Iviwanis Club of
Kaleijrh was the supper guest of the
school and later gave a program of
songs and stunts which was most
pleasant.
Thursday, t!ie governor and Mrs.
Bickett gave at the executive man
sion n reception in special honor of
the school, ami it was the most bril
liant affair of summer. The excel
lent orchestra of the school played,
there was chorus singing, and' dances,
new and Old, the latter led by Gov.
and Mrs. Bickett, proving delightful'
to all and novel to the younger xet.
Friday evening, the dramatic club
of the high school at Seaboard, in
Northampton county, presented on
the campus, bufore an" audience of
2000, '.Shakespeare's lively comedy,
"The Taming of the Shrew," in a
particularly clever and pleasing man
ner, the acting and the costumes be
ing alike worthy. The appreciation
shown the young players was gener
ous. Saturday is always "tourist day"
at this summer school, so favorably
situated at the state capital, the cen
ter of North Carolina life. Under
the direction of Col. Fred A. Olds,
nine points were visited Saturday,
the Soldiers Home, the Commercial
National bank, where a wonderfully
wide and fine view was had Jrom its
lofty roof; the city auditorium, where
there was a greeting by Mayor Eld
ridge; the Yarborough house, a well
known political center- big depart
ment store; the halls -of iho State
Senate and House; the Church of the
Good Shepherd; and the Woman's
Club. Wherever the jolly "tourists
wenl they sang.
IRISH l-ROPEFTY CLAIMS
13 MILLION DOLLARS
London, July 16 The total sum
of claims for compensation for ma
licious destruction of property in
Ireland, lodged in the period from r
January 1 to May 31, 1920, was 2,
718.661.
In some of the villages of Serbia
very few of the inhabitants can read
or write. . "'
SUMMER
GROO
New London, Conn., July 16 Mrs.
Florence M. De Cordova, wife of Ar
thur Do Cordova, the well known
Wall Street operator, whose body was
found in a lonely spot near her dying
chauffeur, was criminally attacked
either before or after she was mur
dered by the chauffeur, Bernard
Gcissler.
Black and blue finger prints were
found on her throat by Dr. F. 1.
Payne, of Westerly, who had been
summoned by ProsecuFing Attorney
Benjamin S. Hewitt to take charge
of the then dying Geissler.
Mr. Hewitt said an examination of
tho bodies of Mrs. De Cordova and
Geissler left no doubt in his mind
that the sociuty woman had been at
tacked by the chauffeur.
Mrs. Geissler, who arrived here
yesterday afternoon and departed
with the body of her chauffeur hus
band, admitted frankly that she had
several disputes with her husband
ovyr Mrs. De Cordova.
Last October, Mrs. Geissler told
the reporters, ghe found two photo
graphs of the Mrs. De Cordova in
her husband's pocket, together with
an envelope containing a lock of
chestnut brown hair. Her own hair
is nearly black.
"I have been !h the hairdressing
business," said Mrs. Geissler, "and
quickly recognized the shade of the
lock found in my husband's pockat
an very distinct from my own. I took
him to task and we had a quarrel
which finally resulted in separation.
We had been separated a short time
when I called Mrs. De Cordova on
the telephone and asked her if she
would not try to brini about a recon
ciliation. I thought shu would' have
great influence with him."
Mr. Geissler was asked what reply
Mrs. De Cordova made to her plea.
"She as much as told me to do
whntever I thought best, was the re
ply. But let me quote you some
proverbs:
"'A guilty conscience needs no
accuser.' 'Still water rans deep and
again, 'Silence gives consent.'."
THE ROAD TO HELL"
Mexico City, July 16. Conditioni
in the northern border states of Mex'
ico were characterized as immeral
and disorderly by Roberto V, Pes.
queira, financial agent for the Mex
ican government in the United States r
in a statement he has just issued to
the Mexican newspapers. Senor Pes
(lUeira said the inscription which ap-
pears on signposts along the roads
leading to Tijuana, Lower California,
"To Mexico the road to hell," was
accurate.
For a few years no oneJiad been
able to work with security in Chihua
hua, and, he added, that, "in Juarez,
as in Lower California, formerly
there was enthroned rapine in all its
forms. One siagle example would
suffice to show the immortality that
exists there. The gambling conces
sion produced f 11,500 monthly to
the government, and the same con
cessionaries today are offering to pay
$50,000 monthly for the tame priv
ilege." . y":
Senor Pesqueira charged that the
Mexican laborers who crossed the
line were being "villanously exploit
ed" by albor agents; with the aid of
the Mexican authorities. He likewise
attacked the alleged practice of some
American merchants wht furnish of-V
fice supplies to Mexican officials, of '
making out invoices for double the
right amount. -
"This fact shows the robbtyy that
is being systematically committed
against the national treasury and U
lustrates to what-point official cor. ,
ruption has reached," Senor Pesque
ira commented. ' . N
Fine lace and strong ropes can be
made from some species of nattles.
T MEXICO