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OUfHERNER "THE THE WEATHER old: AJ7VE EST AND BEST ERTISING MED. iVM IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA. SHOWERS TONIGHT, fOL, 40 NO. 108. ASSOCIATED PRESS TARBORO, N. C, WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1920 "ALL THE LOCAL NEWS" PRICE: 5 CENTS DA LY n. AMERICA CUP WAS IN JEOPARDY UNTIL RESOLUTE CAGHT WIND SHAMROCK OFF FIRST, J&AINED ON FIRST LAP, BUT HEADED . BY. RESOLUTE' WHICH. HAS GOOD SHOW TO WIND DE. FENDER SWIFTEST "IN LIGHT '-BREEZE.' ; Sandy Hook,' July 21. Shamrock '' IV led across the line when the sig nal to, race was given this afternoon by the regatta committee, which had held up the start on. account of "no .j v breeze." At twenty seconds after 1 o'clock the Shamrock crossed the line, with the Resolute following nineteen sec- onds later. At 1.25 the Shamrock had one , eighth of a 'mile lead and gaining rapidly in a four-knot breeze. Five minutes later she was leading by a . three-eighths mile. The Resolute, however, at 2.20 had made up the loss and was leading by a quarter mile. The course for today, as annolinc. ed, was to beat to a point about 8 miles off Asbury Park, with a run back to the Ambrose Channel light ship, each leg 15 miles. Sandy Hook, July 21. A dead calm on the racing lanes prevailed this morning, when the crews of the - Shamrock and the Resolute prepared .to make sail for the day's contest. ' It looked, at this early hour, as if '.the contest might be postponed. When the Shamrock IV crossed the Jfinlshing liije in yesterday's race nine minutes and twenty-seven seconds ahead of the Resolute a victory of two minutes and twenty-six seconds after the handicap, imposed because of her greater sail area, had been deducted it gave the challenger the y firjit two out of five, thus, if the Shamrock should win today's race she will have taken the' America cup AteTfTwiir require 'tnfleTeWeV to ,jvin the next three straight races to maintain the cup in America. , It ie? asserted that neither boat has ihsd a fail, test of .their sailing capa ibilities as hf Jhis last race th& Sham. lock IV got the best of the" fitful breezes while the Resolute was drift, ing practically becahjied. The Sham. rock's great strength appears to be running before the mind and on the reaches. - At 11.30 thj's morning the regatta committee ordered a postponement of today's race at fifteen minute in tervals, there being' scarcely a breath of air stirring. Both crews are im patient, the Shamrock men being eag er to add the third victory" and take the cup, while the Resolute's crew i hoped to begin the task of winning three straights. ; . LIGHT TOBACCO fONLYITED Mr. L. L. Stancill returned from the" South Carolina market this morning and brought with him sev eral samples of tobacco sold at Lake City at the opening yesterday, i As . is the custom in South Caro lina, this tobacco is ungraded and 't of it of very indifferent grade. q sample which sold for $48 a hundrt some leaves in it that ehould ht.v.rHKnt ?90 and als0 would only bring $20, some that " tobacco at the price What sold thl "for. was. the bright ct that bright cig- Mr. Stancill state the buyers are aret tobacco is what seeking, and will bring prices. Green and dark colors are ' fc W8nt' ed and will not bring one-i'ird the price they did last year, tht all tobacco growers in this se. - Vk should take warning and not to p . a 'sgle green leaf but 'only cure ' ' those that will have light color, then they can get their own prices. CO. BERCDOLL CAUGHT. - New York, July 21. Edwin Berg dolL younger brother of Grover Cleveland BergdolL who disappeared two years ago and bras since been sdtight on the charges of draft eva sion, surrendered today at Governor's -Island. IEETINC ON TUESDAY NEXT Raleigh, N. C, July 19, 1920. To the People of Edgecombe: I shall be in Tarboro on Tuesday, July 27, and shall be very glad in deed to meet in the court house at 8 p.m. those who are interested, in the great, democratic movement for equal suffrage, whether, they be favorable, curious, desirous of informing them selves, or opposed to the movement. - Sincerely yours, MARY E. PIDGEON, Field Director National Suffrage As sociation of Virginia. Miss Pidgeon states that as the opinion has gone out that Eastern Carolina is bitterly opposed to the suffrage movement she feels it but just to the cause to reply that the people of the eastern part of the state are much more favorable to the cause than is generally believed. In sections where she has been, such as Kinston, Edenton, Plymouth and Snow Hill, interest in the suf frage cause is daily increasing, and m other sections,, she says, "the peo ple are far from being as anti-suffrage a has been painted, so that those who pin their faith to the hos tile sentiment may get a jolt or two before the special session" is over' : Five minute speeches will be made by Mrs. M, 0. Winstead of Rocky Mount, Mr.B. F, Shelton, Rey. Ber tram E Brown and Rev, D, E, Earn hardt, besides several others who have been invited. COMMUNISTS MEET ' WITH 51 COUNTRIES London, July 21 Fifty-one coun tries are represented at the second International Communist Conigress, which opened in Petrograd on July 19, says a Moscow wireless. . MOTHER SEEKS BOY F Atlantic City, N. J., July 21. "Everything I possess in the world, I stand ready to give freely in re. turn for the custody of my boy,' Mrs. Birdie Averett, of New York, declared after she had transmitted telephonic instructions to counsel in New York to start immediately pro ceedings for the recovery of her son, Julian, 11 years old. The boy was torn from her side in front of Grossman's hotel near the boardwalk as they were returning from one of the piers. . Two men seized the youngster and tossed him to a third man in a waiting motor car. Mrs. Averitt insists the third man was her husband, who lives at the Hotel Cecil in New York, Begging the men not to steal her boy, the mother leaped upon the running board -of the car, clinging tenaciously. When the machine slow ed down somewhat at Pacific avenue, she was roughly pushed off, falling heavily to the street. As she fell she heard the boy crying "Mother." My husband and I have been separated for three years because of his extreme cruelty, and he has made repeated efforts through the courts to obtain possession of the boy," Mrs. Everitt said: . "This is not the first attempt to be made to abduct him. Two weeks ago, as Julian was playing in front of our 'home in New York my hus band drove up in an automobile and called to him. When the boy started to run for the vestibule my husband trjd to seize him, but he managed to get Inside and lock j the door. This i&tttfd prove to any one, even the -trt, that the boy wants to be with 4 tot wjth his father." me a j a going to fight him. I will spend ist dollar, if necessary, to recover m bo- Life w.itnout him will be . lothing." Moleskin is nc kin '( "1 but a strong cot fabric with a smooth surface life mole-skin. TON ROM ARMS PETTIBOWE TIL AS WIFE SLAYER "Confessed" While. Tortured By the Police With . the "Third Degree." IS LINKED WITH A NURSE Manchester, Vt., July 2 1 . People for miles around drove into Man Chester for the trial in the superior court of Byron Madison Pettibone, 33, an undertaker's assistant, charg. ed with the murder of his wife, Eva, 16 years younger. Pettibone's fam ily is most highly respected in Ben. nington. The prisoner has confessed the crime, but now says he is innocent and the yictim of the "third degree." Miss "Helen Irene Guillow, a train ed nurse for love of whom Pettibone is said to have slain his wife, spends much time with Pettibone in his cell. Private detettives called into the case by state officials after the sud den death of Mrs. Pettibone, April 6, declared the husband confessed he gave his wife strychnine disguised in a dose of salts. Pettibone, they as sert, told them he kissed his wife good night and lay beside her wait ing for the deadly drug to take its effect. Repudiating his confession, Petti bone says he was ill from an opera tion for the removal of his tonsils and his power of resistance left Jiim. He declares he was kept; without food for hours and then given a dry sand., wich,, the eating of which caused a hemorrhage of the jihroat. Drugged cigars were use as part of the pro gram to rob him of his sense, he as serts. Y MESSAClFCHEER Nashville, Tenn., July 21. Dr. J. B. Gambrell, president of the South ern Baptist gonyention, and Dr. E. Y. Mulling, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, have started on a trip around the world to carry a message of cheer and good will' from the Baptists of the South to those in foreign lands. After attending a conference at London of leading Baptists on Euro pean' missions, they will tour France, Belgium, Holland, Sweden, Norway, Germany, Austria, Czecho-Sloyakia, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria and Greece. If condition? permit they wiH also visit Constantinople and the Near East and then go to Egypt and India on their way to the Far East, to visit China and Japan. ITALIANS BOMBARD ALBANIAN POSTS London, July 21. Fighting in Av lona is reported in a Milan dispatch. Italian warships have bombarded the Albanian positions which replied with rifle fire. IRISH STRIKE FOR LARKIN'S RELEASE Dublin, July 21. A general strike was called in Dublin today in pursu ance of a movement to secure the re lease of James Larkin, head of the Transport Workers ' Union, who is serving a sentence in New York on conviction for criminal anarchy. THURSDAY AT 8. 30 By order of the president of the Tarboro Baseball Club, meeting of the stockholders is called for Thurs day tomorrow) evening at 8.30 in the offices of the Chamber of Com. merce. There are several matters of im portance to be taken np, and it is ex. pected that a large number of the stockholders will be present. B. G. SHACKELL, Secretary. BAPTISTS GARR BASEBALL MEET NG DRY PARTY MEETS IN LINCOLN Two Days Jubilation Over the,. Death of Old John Barleycorn. WOULD NOMINATE BRYAN Lincoln, July 21. The Prohibition party opened ' its thirteenth annual convention today and prepared to devote much of the three days' ses sions to jubilation over the dawnfall of "John Barleycorn," The indica tions were that such matters as nom inees and platform plants would give way for at least two days for the jubilee. William Jennings Bryan is appar ently the favorite for the presiden tial nominee, but friends here, claim ing to speak for. Bryan, reiterate his previous statements that he would not accept the nomination, Lincoln, Neb., July 21. Calling the thirteenth quadriennlal conven tion of the Prohibition Party to or der here this morning, Virgil G. Hin. shaWj chairman of the Prohibitional national committee, told the delegates they bad come together to "select a burial lot for John Barleycorn." The other political parties, he said, "out of respect to John's relatives, have voted that he shall lie in state for another four years to be viewed by the. American people, - "The Democratic platform is silent, the Republican platform is silent," the Prohibition national chairman continued. "Harding owns brewery stock, he is not a prohibitionist at heart. Cox is wet. The future Is be fore us, the campaign is upon us. "We want to do the wisest thing, the best thing for the prohibition movement and for the country. It was our fervent WMh that eory po litical party would this ya.v fall in line with the Constitution of United States, with the Congres of United States, with the Supreme .'Court" of United States, and recognizes openly and avowedly the settlement of tin's question, The other parties have failed. What shall we do?" LOVESICK STUDENT LEAPS TO DEATH Farmingdale, L. I.; July 21. Un successful in love, L uis Scheiman, 27, New York city, committed sui cide by climbing to the top of a 70 foot high-water tower and jumping off. He was a student at the govern, ment agricultural school here and an ex-soldier. The body was found at the base of the tower, badly mangled. Rela tives were notified and claimed the body. It was said at the school that sev eral letters showed Scheiman had been the unsuccessful suitor of a wi. dow living in the Bronx. She is much older than he was. . Her name was not disclosed. Wilkes Barre, Pa., July 21 ..-De. claring that the strike of 7,000 coal miners of the Pennsylvania Coal Co. has resulted in a state of disorder "whereby peaceable and law-abiding citizens are intimidated and inter, fered with in following their employ ment, and since this condition arises from a misguided notion which some men have of their own rights," Sher. iff John MacLuskie has issued a proc lamation to the effect that all evil, inclined persons must obey the law and men who want to work must not be interfered with. Mr. MacLnskie said: - , - ... '"The law must prevail, even at the cost of human life, and I call upon every person who feels like vio lating it to count the cost and be prepared to take the consequences of such violation." The miners and operators refuse to yield and the case will likely be one for the conciliation board. SHERIFF WARNS STRIKING MINERS WHITE REPLACES S Former Ohio Congressman Is Chairman of National Committee. WILB. MARSH, TREASURER Columbus, Ohio, July 21. Chair man G. H. White, Treasurer Wilbur Marsh and other members of the Democratic" National Committee are remaining here today, after yester day's meeting, to meet with Gover nor Cox and map out further organi zation details, including a special campaign committee, location of sev eral major headquarters and the ar rangements for the notification cere monies and finances, George H. White, a former Ohio congressman, succeeds Homer Cum. mlngs as national chairman, OPENS IN S. CAR. (Special to The Southerner.) Lake City, S. C, July 21. The South Carolina tobacco market open ed today with prices very satisfac tory for the good color tobacco, which is in great demand. The mar ket averaged about 15 cents for 150, 000 pounds, prices ranging from 3c to 50c a pound. The opinion among thu tobacco companies is that bright tobaccos are going to sell high throughout th bright tobacco belt. The tobacco men of Tarboro all join in their appeal to thejr fanner friends in Edgecombe and adjoining counties to let their tobacco get ripe on the hill and get all the color pos- Jiiile KILL THE RAT, THE PLAGUE Calling attention to the discovery of bubonic plague in several Ameri can and Mexican gulf ports, and re newing his warning regarding the in troduction of plague from Mediter ranean ports which are known to be infected, Surgeon General Hugh S. Cumming today urged communities throughout the country, and espec ially along the coast, to inaugurate rat-extermination and rat-proofing campaigns. "Bubonic laigue is primarily a disease of rodents, especially raf," said General Cumming, "and the dis ease can be controlled effectively by measures directed against the rat. The extermination of rats is all the more desired because of the tremen dous economic damage they cause." According to conservative estimate made by the U. S. Public Health Ser vice on the basis of numerous sur veys, there is at least one rat for every person in the United States. This estimate coincides with that for Great Britain and Ireland, and with authoritative figures for Denmark, France and Germany. Th0 annual up-keep per rodent was computed by the same authorities as $1.80 in Great Britain, $1.20 in Denmark, and $1 in France. The depredations of -the rats In the United States will very probably exceed the estimate for Creat Britain. One-half a cent a day f is considered conservative, but 7 otoo irt ited States $180,000,000 a year to even Un support its rat population. This does not include mice. "The U. S. Public Health Service is prepared to detail trained experts to assist communities in organizing the fight against rats," said General Cumming. "Many of our officers have had extensive practical experience in this work, and know how to make it really effective. In the seaport cities the work of extermination should be supplemented by bacteriological lab. oratory examinations to determine if plague infection is present amongthe rodents. In the inland cities this is not necessary." HOMER Mi TOBACCO MARKET SPREADER HARDING'S SPEECH ATTACKS WILSON'S FOREIGN POLICY E E T Constantinople, July 21. Moslems have just been observing Ramadan, a month of trials to all classes, es pecially to laboring men, who are supposed to go without food, drink, an dtobacco from sunup to sundown. Turkish restaurants are watched very carefully by Mohammedan policemen who are instructed to arrest custom ers and owners alike if any of the followers of Allan violate the laws of the koran. Consequently Christian restaurants, and especially those that have private rooms, become very pop ular with Mohammedans during the 28 days which are supposed to be given over to fasting and prayer. Big guns ar0 fired in Constanti nople to indicate sundown and the rush of Turks to coffee houses and restaurants approaches a riot in Stam boul and other Turkish sections of Constantinople. Recently evening target practice of the British fleet has frequently been confused many times intentio nally with the food gun and Mos lems have broken their fast ahead of time. Hot weather has made Ramadan especially trying, as the followers of the great prophet are not even sup posed to drink water (luring dnylight hours. Fasting makes the Turks so irritable and impatient that it is ex tremely difficult to transact business with them. Ramadan is a less trying period to Turkish men and women who are unemployed, ns they merely sleep through the day and turn night into a time of feasting. Throughout Ramadan all the minarets of Con stantinople are ablaze with electric ity. The Turkiuh streets are crowd ed nt night, bands play everywhere and firecrackers are discharged wher ever the allied military officers do not prevent. SUICIDE FOR LOVE IS HYPOTHESIS Harrison, N. Y., July 21. Henry Humphrey Parsons, the young New York lawyer, probably committed suicide because of a love affair, was the decision today of Coroner John Stella. The coronervas unable to discover positive evidence of any .heart affair of Mr. Tarsons that might have in. dured the act, and admits that the conclusion is wholly hypothetical. He clashes Mr. Parsori'H death as "a mys tery." Mr. Parsons was found, dead from a gunshot wound, lying in the bath room at the summer resi('"nee of his aunt, Mrs. Jefferson Hogan, at Pur chase, N. Y. WIRES NOMINEES FOR DEBS' RELEASE Denver, Colo., July 21. Parley Christensen, farmer nnd labor candi date for president, today telegraphed Senator Harding and Governor Cox, suggesting that all nominees join in a demand upon President Wilson for the immediate release of Eugene Debs from prison. III " fllTT IITf" T) fillip ) M tN tN t rUlnftn . PLOTS WITH TURKS Constantinople, July 21. Whole sale arrests were made here today in connection with an alleged plot to promote a general uprising of Mos lems against foreign occupation of Turkey. The confession of one of the plot ters is reported to have implicated high officials of one of the entente powers in t'.ie alleged conspiracy, which is directed chiefly against Great Britain. , . MORI 0 MN H OF RAMADAN SPEECH WILL e. SCOURGE ADMINISTRATION'S POLICY FOR CAMPAIGN ISSUE AGAINST THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS. ' Columbus, July 21. Members of the executive committee of the Re-' publican National Committee arrived here today for a meeting to discuss campaign plans before going to Mar ion tomorrow for the Harding noti fication ceremonies. Marion, Ohio, July 21. Harding's speech of acceptance, to be deliver ed here tomorrow, is expected by as sociates to give prominence to the foreign policy of President Wilson and the League of Nations in such a way as to advance the campaign squarely toward this being the strong issue between the two political par ties. - MINISTER SPEAKS T Asheville, July 21. The making of international relations of the fu ture is largely in the hands of the newspapermen 0f America and the British Empire, Sir Auckland Geddes, British Ambassador to the United States, declared today in an address at the annual meeting of the South ern Newspaper Publishers Associa tion. The hope of mankind that the last great war lias been fought, Sir Auck land said, could be turned by the newspaper writers of the English speaking world either to cruel mock ery or advance toward realization. Mutual understanding betweeh the British commonwealth of nations and the United Stales matters more to the English-speaking people and to the world than anything else at the present time, Sir Auckland declared, because without understanding there can he no friendship and without friendship there can be no coopera. tion. "Would it be in your interest, or would it be less costly for you to ef fect the expansion of your foreign trnde, in the teeth of British oppo sition?" asked the Ambassador, "Would it pay you less if you ef fected it in reasonable cooperation with us? Would 'it cost you less to build a navy commensurate to your needs in opposition to us or more in agreement with us? Would it 'help you to find difficulties largely in your own creation or reactions, to your actions in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, in India and in every land in which the British flag (lies as well as in every land in which the British trader does busi ness and the British banks ihave a branch? Would It harm you to find friends therc and have to meet only the sort of competition that exists between rival concerns of the same nationality? On the lowest basis, would it pay you if Britain were to . develop cotton growing on a great scale in her African territories be cause of a sense of instability ere ated by a feeling of American lack of friendliness? Would it help you toward a solution of your "problems in the Pacific if Australia were to become hostile to your interests? "On the other side, would it help us to be unfriendly to you? Again, on the lowest basis, would it pay us? The answer in every case is no." MILITARY PARTY PLEADS FOR PEACE Pekrng, July 21. Peace terms, vir tually amounting to complete capi tulation of the military party, have been offered by the army commander it was declared here today. The terms are being communicated to the leaders of the Tuan ChiJui faction. Mrs. W. E. Leach, who underwent a very serious operation at the St. Vencent's hospital last Saturday, is reported to be doing as well as could be expected. ACCEPTANCE 0 NEWSPAPERMEN rs
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