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INSANE OF STATE AWAITING
SLOW BUILDING COMMISSION
TRANSFER OF STATE PRISON
BUILDING TO STATE HOSPI.
TAL IS DELAYED ANOTHER
YEAR LYNCHED NEGRO, OF
PERSON, WAS GUILTY.
(By Umu")
Raleigh, July 19. ft la a disap
pointment that will be shared by
many counties and numerous fami-
in North Carolina to learn that
another year will elapse before the
plana made by the legislature to in
crease the facilities for earing for
the insane an become effective. The
main reason is because of delay whbfc
will continue for several months yet,
in the beginning pf the work of con.
atructing the new state prison Wbe
located four miles west of Raleigh,
-which must be built before the pres
ent Stat prison can be turned over
to the stat hospital authorities- to
be partly reconstructed inside . and
made to conform to use as a home
for insane patients ao " many of
whom save for many years been un
able to secure admittance to the pres
ent hospital here because of Its in
adequate facilities and financial pro
vision. "$ J ' '
The contributing eauses of the de
lay include 'aufflclenf atoney not at
present available, andthe biUdjnf
commission has not ' completed the
preparation of plana for 'the boildwaa told nd greatly affected by the
ing that ar contemplated." . Y2M bia favorite soilf
It looks like somebody tea been
"laying down on the job,' if hastf
in a remarkable was. ever intended,
4 . , lie; -siipenneaaeiu w wr-
. ion, if a working partner f the swmv
TOotl;Jardj or whateTr it I. On
: fontrary, bls making brick with
i-. straw while the inn shines. Foro-
r'iay be sited"that''ne woWbeglB
the making of brick mate at the
prison to work this week so as to
have plenty of brick ready ' when
needed for these or any other state
: structures..
Pron Coast? Negro Ljracbed Was
Guilty. ::'"- , .
Of course lynching must be con
demned and denounced as unlawful,
but several of our state daily papers
the past week shed uselessly a lot of
printers-ink tears over , the lynching
of " an "innocent' negro in Person
county. Advices reaching here mul
tiply to remote all doubt that the
negro lynched was the guilty one
who assaulted ta young lady of that
county. The alleged "doubt," it was
apparent, was caused by a remark
made by another negro and waa "re
spected" by the white man concern,
ed without saying it was ajnegro em
ploye -that attempted to prove an
alibi. The white man knew nothing
and did not intend to say that he
personally knew the lynched negro
was somewhere else when the crime
was committed. The loose talk of
the white man was worse that the
statement by the negro fellow em
ploye. Well known, reputable men in
Person county have sent written
statements to Raleigh with their
names signed thereto, in which they
declare the negro lynched was the
negro who committed the crime.' All
this in the heels of the printing by
a negro paper here of a sensational
account of the lynching of "another
innoe'ent" negro. The white men' re
ferred to above live in Roxboro and
Person county, ask that the facts be
re-established and made clear and
this reference to the affair is made
in an effort to promote that import
ant and highly desirable end. Al
though we condemn the method, the
mob got their right brute in this
instance, whatever hia "color." .'.'.
EDWIN DUN'S BOYS ARE,
- NOW NATURALIZED JAPS
Toldo, July 19. Edwin and James,
the two sons of Edwin Dun, former
United 8tates Minister to Japan, have
taken out naturalization papers aa
Japanese subjects. Their father has
married a Japanese woman.
The two sons will go to Ohio, Ed
win Dun's native state, ti pursue edu
cation and later return to Japan for
their business career.
ALL THE LOCAL NEWS"
STORM DOGES
VJHITRKERS CROPS
Mr. Samuel W. Anderson, of the
Whitakers district, writes that the se
vere storm last week did considerable
damage to tae crops there. Quoting
from his letter, Mr. Anderson says:
"On one of my farms, near Whit
akers, the hail damaged my crops,
cotton and tobacco, 'considerably.
feel that my tobacco crop alone is
damaged at least a thousand dollars.
While I think the cotton will be all
right, it shows right much damage."
PRINCE JOACHIM
COMMITS SUICIDE
Berlin, July 19. Friends of Prince
Joachim, of Hohenzollern, ' deny the
stories, current in Berlin, of bis sui
eide yesterday, caused by scandal.
They admit, however, that he was
acutely embarrassed, financially.
Joachim is said to have been the
favorite son of the formed Empress.
Fears are expressed that the news
of the suicide may have a fatal ef
fect upon the express as she has re
cently suffered an acute recurrence
of heart trouble.
Doorn, July : 19. The announce
ment of Prince Joaehim's death came
to Doom Castle like a thunderbolt.
The former express, it is believed,
has not been informed of , the trag
edy,, the former emperor-Jiowevcr,
CORK TERRORIZED
f- BY STREET FIGHTS
ork, Jul 49. -The city Was ter
rorized last night as tb result of
street fighting which broke out after
a bayonetting incident; In which a
farmer soldier was killed.
V . AVut vten se'clMk.the Jndiwiroi-
nate firing started in virtually all
parts of the city.
The casualties reported today are
one dead and fourteen wounded. "
The motor trucks loaded with sol.
diers were attacked this morning by
civilians on the street and blown up
with bombs,
Between sixty and seventy 'sol
diers were injured. '
Twenty-nine bombs were thrown,
LABOR COUNCIL TO
PASS UPON AWARD
Chicago, July 19. The first grand
council in more than a year of the
executives, - general chairmen and
general committeemen of sixteen re
cognized railroad brotherhoods . Op
ened here today to pass upon the
wage award of the Railroad Labor
Board. . The award will be announced
tomorrow.
Hongkong, July 19. Hong Kong
has been stocked with rice bought for
export and held for a rise in prices
even during the rice shortage which
has become serious in some cities of
southern China and other parts of
the Orient, The manager of a big
commercial firm here estimated that
there was more than $10,000,000 of
Saigon "long" rice stored in Hong
Kong. ' v '-'
Recently the price fell rapidly and
dealers and exporters found them
selves loaded up with rice while the
banks were pressing for the payment
of bills. Japan was not able to buy
owing to the tightness of her money 4-'
market and it was stated that Amer
ica, ordinarily one of the largest buy
ers of rice in this market, has ceased
to purchase because she had obtained
a sufficient supply. The Daily Press
stated that about 75 per cent of the
rice exported from Hong Kong goes
to Cuba but that Cuba's supply had
been purchased direct from the pro
ducers instead of the Hong Kong
middle
A splendid effort is being made to
exterminate tuberculosis, but all you
can get 'em to do in some places is
to bury the people that die with it
MUST0RE0EH CHI
WOOER
MR
GIRL ASKS 50
00
Declares Wealthy Swain Had
Promised to Give Her
Vast Estate.
ALSO DISPLAYS FACTORY
New York, July 1& Her dream of
a big country estate and fat financial
returns from a factory in ruins, Miss
Frieda Weber, a young and beautiful
stenographer and typist, has brought
suit in the supreme court against
Generoso Pope, a wealthy manufac
turer, for $50,000 for breach of pro.
mise. The petition sets forth that
Pope is married, has one child and
lives in New Jersey. His factory is
located somewhere on Long Island.
Miss" Weber says in her petition
that she did not learn that her weal
thy suitor was married until shortly
before they were to be wedded. This
was some time last month.
When she made the discovery she
says that she had an engagement to
dine with Pope at a well-known
Broadway restaurant. Upon her
mother's advice she kept the engage
ment. The mother followed her to
the restaurant and, according to the
petition, took Pope to task in such a
vigorous fashion as to create quite a
scene.
The girLalleges that on motor trips
they took. Pope pointed out on one
occasion a fine country estate, whjch
he told her would be hers after their
wedding, and that on another occa
sion he pointed out a factory which
he said belonged to him. Disappoint
ment over the failure of her match
so unnerved the girl that she fell ill,
she says.
BEADS NECESSARY
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Constantinople, July 19, Beads
are mote necessary than bread to uhe
Levantine. Men, women and child
ren wear and carry beads to ward off
ill luck. Even the horses and donk
eys have strands of beads about their
hecks "to baffle the evil eye" and the
long horns of the work oxen are dec
orated with blue and white beads to
keep them from falling prey to dis
eases.
In Athens, Constantinople, Tiflis,
Smyrna and other cities of the Lev
ant men of all classes carry short
strands of fidget beads which they
play with while walking in the street,
riding in street cars and trains, just
as nervous men in the west finger
their watch chains. Beadshops every
where abound in the larger cities and
general stores and market stalls sell
them in the smaller places. Peddlers
hawk them in the streets. I
Light-colored amber beads of large
size are the latest thing in beads for
women. Meerschaum beads are also
popular and for the moment plain
treads of all sorts have displaced the
highly ornate carved beads of the
type which Syrians produce in great
quantities for exportation.
SHAMROCK SKIPPER
GIVEN NEW CHANCE
Sandy Hook, . July 19.--Captain
Burton will be given another chance
on th Shamrock IV.
Sir-Thomas Lipton would'not say
what further development might be
expected after tomorrow's race, nei
then would he deny that he had vir
tually decided to remove Burton
from command after Saturday's con
test, in which Burton's handling of
the Shamrock was severely criticised.
Handy Hook, July 19. Specula
tion today centered upon the1 succes
sor of Captain Burton, whom Sir
Thomas Lipton plans to remove as
skipper of the Shamrock IV.
Burton is still in command, but
the announcement that he has been
succeeded may be expected at any
time.
Captain Turner, sailing master of
the Shamrock IV, has been discussed
as tfc- new skipper, as well as sev.
ew.1 others..
The race tomorrow will be over a
triangular course.
EVANTINES
TARBORO, N. C, MONDAY, JULY
SPRUELL ATTACKED
ER
Jumped From Bushes Near
- Keechtown, With Gun
in Hand.
CRIED OUT "YOUR MONEY"
Mr. John D. Spruill, on Saturday
night about nine o'clock, near Keech
town, was going along with a -basket
of peanuts and a raincoat on his arm
when, from a pathway at the side of
Mr. Harrell's garden, half way from
one corner to another, a masked man
jumped but upon him, with a gun in
phis hand, which be poked into Spra
in's breast, crying "Your money
your money."
A struggle ensued and Spruill
managed to hit the miscreant, who
Spruill says was a white man, on the
head, who rair off in the direction
of Mr. George Howard's house and
was lost in the darkness.
The robber obtained no money.
In Dispute Over Colored Wo
man, Man Is Shot and Killed
by Fellow Worker.
ONLY ONE SHOT FJRED
Saturday night, between 12.30 and
1 o'clock, Richard Williams shot and
killed George Dickens, both colored,
over a colored woman.
It appears from the preliminary
trial, held in Judge Pender's court
this morning, that Richard Williams
and George Dickens were both at a
barbecue and ice cream supper on
Mr. w. i. Hrasweirs fann, near
Whitakers, and Williams came upon
Dickens talking to his woman friend.
Williams, who is jealous of Dickens,
became enraged and told the woman
to go home, She went, and Williams
followed on his bicycle.
James Pittman, the only eye-wit
ness to the tragedy, relates that Wil
liams returned a few minutes later
and asked: "Where is DipUGB,s?" Pitt
man answered him: "He is around
the house, but what i the matter;
any trouble?" Later Williams and
Dickens returned together and went
down the road, to the forks of the
road, where they parted, Williams
going one way and Dickens and Pitt-
man the other, but Williams returned
and accused Dickens of going with
his woman, and Dickens denied the
charge, saying: "If Mamie says that,
she is a lie." Williams said they
should go and prove it. Pittman fol
lowed with them. When they got .to
the house, Williams called out: "Here
is George, and we have come to prove
up these things." She replied: "If
that is all that you want, you had
better go away."
A few feet down the road, George
asked Richard : "I thought you were
going to prove this all up, Richard."
Richard returned and said: "You are
drawing a pistol, old sport." Dick
ens denied the charge. They return
ed to the house and Mamie, the wo
man, came out. She remarked to
Pittman : ' "You take Dickens away
and I'll take Williams in the house,"
and attempted to do so, taking him
as far as the door. Dickens turned
to go, but Williams wheeled at the
door and fired at Dickens, who was
about sixteen feet away, and killed
him instantly.
iSherift Hyatt arrested Williams
yesterday morning and today Judge
Pender refused bond for the defend
ant, who was bound over to supreme
court, September term.
MINE EXPLOSION
ENTOMBS 7 MINERS
. Pittsburgh, July 19. Seven min
ers are reported entombed in the
Union Collieries Company mine at
Renton, near here, following an ex
plosion today. .
RUSSIA AND POLAND
PREPARE FOR PEACE
London, July 19. The British
government today received a com
munication from the Russian Soviet
government' stating that Russia was
prepared to agree to an armistice and
make pa? with Poland.
BY MASKED
ROBB
RICHARD
WILLIAMS
MURDERS
DICES
19, 1920.
WET AS THE OGEAfJ.
IS STATE OF JERSEY
Charges Violation by Authori
ties and Liquor Interests
in That State.
FIFTY CENTS PER OUNCE
Newark; July 19 Samuel Wilson,
assistant superintendent of the anti-
saloon league of New Jersey, in
statement Which he has forwarded to
the attorney general and Justice
Swapze of the Supreme Court, coun
ty judges and county prosecutors,
charges a tacit agreement between
county authorities and saloon and
race track men to make New Jersey
as "wet it the Atlantic ocean."
Mr. Wilson says there is no con
scious effort being made to enforce
the Volstead act, and says this is due
to the desire of the politicians to ob
tain big campaign funds from liquor
and gambling interests. He says the
liquor interests owe a debt of gratt
tude to Governor Edwards for the
failure of enforcement, which makes
it possible for them to "sell whiskey
at 50 cents an ounce and avoid pay
ment of $500 license fees."
Mr. Wilson continued:
"There seems to be an open con
spiracy to make New Jersey unre
stricted in liquor trafficking. I never
complain unless I have the goods. I
have purchased whiskey without dif
ficulty and very reasonably qvep. the
bars in Jersey City and other points
in Hudson county, and I have turned
over to the federal enforcement offi
cers affidavits by me and by my
agents covering such purchases made
in this and other counties.
MEET IN ENGLAND
London, July 19. An attempt will
be made to form a Communist party
in England August 1, at a national
convention of "left wing" socialist
and industrial organizations. Social
ist bodltts of the extreme left have
been holding "unity conferences" in
termittently for several months with
that end in view.
Ihe invitations to the convention
point out that three points are con
sidered cardinal by the promoters,
the dictatorship of the proletariat.
the soviet system, and adhesion to
the Third Internationale.
The direct promoters of the con
vention are the British Socialist par
ty, the anti-war majority section of
which was once the Social Democrat
party; the Workers' Socialist Feder
ation, composed of Miss Sylvia Pank
hurst's followers; and the Communist
Unity group of the Socialist Labor
party. The Socialist Labor party has
not signified its intention to partici
pate in the convention.
A great deal of discussion has aris
en over the attitude the powerful
Labor party may take toward the
convention. The British Socialist
party is affiliated with the Labor
party, but the Workers Socialist Fed
eration and the Communist unity
group have refused to be connected
with it, and the Labor party itself so
far has made no official pronounce
ment concerning the proposed con
vention. There is a difference of opinion
among the political groups whether
the convention will succeed in form
ing a Communist party with a fol
lowing sufficiently large to give it
any considerable influence, but it is
considered virtually certain that as a
result of the convention there will be
a big readjustment and regrouping
of socialist bodies to correspond to
irreconciliable differences of policy.
PALESTINE LAND
OWNED BY STATE
London, July 19. The recommen
dation that all land and property in
Palestine be declared the property of
the Jewish people and that the con
trol be gradually assumed by the Pal
estine State was made in a majority
report of a commission appointed to
consider the question, which was sub
mitted at the Zionist CConf erence at
the resumption of its session today.
COMMUNIST PARTY
ASSOCIATED PRESS
TURKS URGE A
AGAINST
TO OPERATE STORE
New York, July 19. Definite steps
toward formation of a great alliance
of all the garment workers unions in
America have been taken by the In
ternational Ladies' Garment Workers
Union.
Benjamin Schlesinger, president of
the union, announced today that a
call had been aent out for a confer.
ence to be held the latter part of Oc
tober for the purpose of organizing
a federation of the 600,000 clothing
workers in the seven International
unions in the clothing and garment
industry.
"The logic of events and the legit
imate causes which have prompted
the formation of national depart
ments in the mining, building, print
ing and other Industries point with
directness to the identical necessity
of forming a similar federation in
our industry," said the call sent out
by Mr. Schlesinger.
The membership of the follSwi'ng
international unions would be repre
sented in such- aa alliance. : United
Garment Worker of America, Amal.
gamated Clothing Workers, Interna
tional Journeymen Tailors Union of
America, United Cloth Hat, -Cap Male
era and Millinery Workers Union, In
ternational Fur Workers Union, the
Neckwear Workers Union of New
York and the International Ladies
Carmen Workers. All are affiliated
with the American Federation of
Labor.
ANTI-SALOON CLAN
AT WASHINGTON
Columbus, Ohio, July 19. It has
been announced that the meeting of
the executive committ ei the-Anti-
Saloon League will meet in Washing
ton on Thursday instead of in Colum
bus, as first planned.
The purpose of the meeting is to
determine whether the league will
support Cox, or Harding, or either.
GOV. COX RETURNS
FROM WASHINGTON
Columbus, July 19. Governor Cox
who conferred with President Wilson
yesterday in Washington, arrived in
Columbus today prepared to work on
state business and meet with tho
democratic national committee to
morrow. MASS MEETING TONIGHT
IN COURT HOUSE AT 8.30
A mass meeting ia called for to
night at 8.80 ia the Court House, for
th purpose of discussing the ice sit
uation. Every citizen in Tarboro is
earnestly requested to be present.
Please attend.
Edgecombe Chamber Commerce.
Tarboro Merchants Association.
BLACK TROOPS TO
CIVILIZE TURKS
Constantinople, July 19. Black
troops, many of them Senegalese,
have been used by the French in
their joint occupation of this city.
The Senegalese wear bright green
uniforms and red feszes. Their faees
are decorated with scars across the
cheeks""and about the eyes. They
usually wear large rings in the ears
and many of them have straggly
beards cut to a point on the chin. AL
though the Senegalese are Moslems,
they get on badly with the Turks,
especially in the interior, where much
of the feeling against the French is
traceable to thv black troops.
A member of the Turkish foreign
office staff, who was educated at sev
eral Europeaa universities and has
lived all over the world, recently ap
proached a group of Senegalese sol
diers near the Sublime Porte and
engaged them in conversation, ad
dressing them in French.
"Just why did you come over
beret" be asked.
"We came to bring civilization to
the Turks," the leader of the group
retorted haughtily.
GARMENT ALLIANCE
SINGLE COPY:.5TENTS
BOYCOTT
ALLIED POWERS
CIRCULAR POSTED ON WALLS
OF STAM)iOUL EXHORT ALL
TO ARMS ARABS ALSO MAY
ATTACK THE FRENCH.
Constantinople, July 19! A cir-'
cular has been posted on the walls of
Stamboul urging a boycott of the
powers forcing the treaty upon Tur
key, exhorting all Mushiilmen to arm
themselves and drive out weak lead
ers who yield to the demands of the
foreigners.
Beirut, Syria, July 19. Bedouin
tribes of Northern Mesopotamia have
formed a coalition against French.
Clashes between the Arnbs and the
French are expected any day.
The situation is regarded aa very
tense.
iARGE TAX HITS
GERMAN THEATERS
Berlin, July 19. German theaters
have been so hard hit by the amuse
ment tax that attendance, according
to the managers, has fallen off from
60 to 70 per cent. Max Reinhnrdt,
Germany's foremost play producer,
announces that he will have to close
his three Berlin theaters unless the
tax is abolished.
MACHINE GUNNERS
SURROUND N. C. JAIL
Graham, July 19. State troops
maintained a machint Kun cordon
around the jail ihere where three ne
groes are held charged with attack
ing a white woman.'
The soldiers are under oniers from
Governor Bickett "tb shoot straight"
if an attempt is made on 'the prison-'
ers' lives.
USE TELEPHONES
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New York, July 19. "Loud speak
ing" telephones are soon to xivg New
York subway riders relief from the
inarticulate sounds emanating 'from
guards in announcing subway sta
tions. The telephone instrument, which is
to be installed on the Brooklyn lines,
will not only be employed to an
nounce stations, but will be used for
such warnings as "Watch your step."
"Step lively, please," etc..
The phone is operated by the con
ductor or guard at the center. of the
car, who speaks in an ordinary voice
through a transmitter, his words
coming forth in increased volume at
reach end. The phone is also audible
on the car platforms.
Lour speaking receivers are in
stalled in the ceilings of the cars near
the doors and are hardly visible. The
openings are about eight inches in
diameter, but screened and painted
the same color as the ceiling.
The phone operator is provided
with a high efficiency transmitter
which is small and can be carried
around in the pocket or held in the
hand. It has a Cord similar to that
of a regular telephone and connec
tion is made with the telephone sys
tem by. "plugging in."
CLUB GIRLS CAMP.
.Seventeen' Edgecombe Club girls
camped with Misses Lises and Young
at Nobles Mill Pond last week. The
girls all said they had an awfully
good time and should have liked to
stay longer. They found swimming
ia the rain quite pleasant, camp-life
restfuL
The girls on last week's encamp
ment were 'from Speed, 'Busy Work
ers and Dixie. Girls from Leggetts
and Conetoe leave today for camp.
J. M. Cox, democratic nominee for
president, bears the same Christian
name as five of the presidents. -
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