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-7 'ft Y-rf rAfiTU CLOUDY ':f. -'M; -'. -'"r;r r rmnoMAL at capital CEN. JUUAIC 8. CAR STARTS MOVEMENT! Of EN RECISTRA. TION FOR WOMEN TO VOTEj 'state council on setter (By. LWwvaw.) .. . . . - .: .. . Raleiii, Sept. l.f-Gen. Jalian S. ' Crr wai here last evening; in confer- etit-a with other Momotera of the. movement' under way for the erec tion of a monument or other memo rial of Sir Walter Raluigh, and atetea that plana are developing well and that next year the monument will be erected in Nash Square, which is the 1lock facing the union dtpot Pull particulars of the arrangements are withheld from the -public at present. Registration books are open today f orlfee registration of women for ttie first -election in ' North Carolina at which -rxMaen will be eligible to vote. The election will be for a school bond issue to raise $40,000 for bet ter pay of teachers in Wake county .schools. The election will be held October 2, under the terms of a spe cial act passed at the special session of the legislature just adjourned. There "were some two hundred present at the state meeting of coun- ty school superintendents last even- "ing, under aeall of the state super antendents. ' The school act was ex plained by State. Supt. Brooks and a general 'discussion, of the legislation t the recent session of the legisla ture was indulged fit. The lawmak ers granted practically every request off tine school authorities and the out Book fiw the ensuing scholastic is ' brighter. v v .; The state ceuneil had acted on the enabling act of . theT. recentj legislit - ture which authorised rthem to ar range for better -pay :'of clerks Valid. other help in the various departments of the state government." The sal aries of a number of stenographers were increased and the other clerks ;and janitors, and watchmen, messen gers, etc., were notified that the eases" kof any of them who .receive less than !$1800 will be considered at once, where application for increased pay is made. JAPAN PREMATURE in PEACE TREATY PLANS Washington, Sept. 1. Reports of ah agreement between , Japan andl .the United States on immigration is '.apparently prematuw,J the State De partment officials "stating that the discussions not having passed the in formal conversational stage. . ;A Tokio dispatch to a Honolulu ' newspaper, however, said that it had .been agreed that the Japanese here should be Jiaturalized and that fur ther augration to' the United States . wouUfie prevented.. SUFFRAGE OPPONENTS. ARE VERY QUIET TODAY Nashville, Sept 1. Etification opponents made no further move to day following their action yesterday of expunging the suffrage resolution from the house records, the leaders ipWely stating: "The whole thing will go to the courts for a settle. : ment." . ' SECOND PRIMARY FOR SOUTH CAROLINA V Columbia, S. C. Sept. 1. Senator .Smith is still leading for the senate, according to the Columbia State, but he lacks a majority and a second pri ;mary is predicted. - 'The Rocky Mount Telegram an nounces the arrival jn New York of Miss Mary Ann Battle from service if or the Red Cross in Poland, France and Italy for the past two years, during which time she had trying ex ' periences on the Kwso-PoKsh front. She was among a party t Red Cross workers who left Balyveetick just be fore the advancing Bolshevik! enter ed the town. Miss Battle brings writh ' her as guest an English friend, who ' alse has been engaged in Red Cross ' work behind the battte lines. r L-J Li""- "All TH LOCAL NEWS if. . SOVIETS FOnGE ML TO WORK FOn STATE Washington Sept. L Under . the. fixed principle that "human labor it the property of the state," eompul sory labor 'is being rigorously en forced throughput Soviet Russia, ac cording to a report by the Interna tional Labor offlce'of the League of Nations on " "Labor Conditlowi in Russia." A digest of the report just received says: - .. . "Workers, no matter what their specialty may be, are subject at all times to draft by the government for any kind of work-which the govern. ment may desire. t accomplish." The enormous decrease in produ tion-is given in the report as a . rea son for the institution of these stern measures. Authority for the com pulsory system is fourfd in an article of the Russian Constitution adopted July 19, 1918, by the Soviet govern ment, as follows: "The Russian Socialist Soviet Re public considers is the duty of every Citizen of the republic to work. He who does not work will not eat." Of this article, the report says: v "Here the state simply-refuses to feed those who will not work. Lately, however, the- government has pro claimed a., principle naefc more - fat- '.' .'.... ? , reaching, as follows: " 'Work is a social obligation. -The state has. the right to oblige the citi zen to work and even to assign Mm work lie must - do and to punish him if he does not obey; Human labor is the property of the state.' ! "During 1918 the whole question of compulsory labor was not raised, but in the latter part of 1918 it was again taken up and pushed to ex treme Jimits."- - s CONFERRING ON THE LOWPRICES OF COTTON Montgomery, Ala., Sept. 1. Com missioners of Agriculture from ten of the cotton growing states met here today to confer on the prevail ing low prices of cotton and peanuts. PLANE IN FLAMES KILLS TWO AVIATORS Morristown, New Jersey, Sept. 1. Two aviators carrying mail were burned to death when their airplane fell here today. The machine was in flames as it neared the ground and an explosion occurred when it landed, throwing the majl bags in all directions. ' The pilot, Max Milter, known as an expert, and his assistant were killed. . POLAND REPLIES TO THE ADMONITION Washington, Sept. 1. -Poland an swered the admonition of the United States "that the Polish armies halt at the Polish ethnographic frontier" with the statement that strategic con siderations must govern Poland's course. - COLVER REFUSES RE-TAKE - TRADE COMMISSION JOB Washington, Sept. 1. Federal Trade Commissioner W. B. Colver in formed the1 White House today that he would not seek reappointment as he wished to engage in private busi ness. . ' : . : h - INTERSTATE COMMERCE ' SUSPENDS COAL PRIORITY y aweaaesM . y Washington, Sept. 1. The Inter state Commerce Commission suspend ed for five days, 'beginning tomor row, its order giving coal priority to New England.. :- COTTON FORECAST -' GIVEN AT 19,Ta3,0 BALES Washington, Sept. I. The -cotton production for this year is forecasted at 12,783,000 bales by the Depart ment of Agriculture, which placed the crop, condition en August 25 at 67.6 per cent of nonnaL ; & ii . j v vi ii ii ii , j II i a - i i Premier's Secretary Siys Cab met WU1 Resign If "" Released. MAYOR HAD BAD NIGHT London. Sent. 1. Terrance . "Mc- Sweney, Lord Mayor of Cork, who is now in the twenty-first day of hun ger strike in a British prison, is re ported to be sinking rapidly by the London papers. He Buffered change for the worse during the night, they state. . .' . Premier Lloyd George's private secretary, replying to the clemency plea, said that if King George re leased the mayor, it would be against the cabinet's advice and 'with pre sumable results that the cabinet would resign in a body. London,; Sept. 1. It- was later learned that McSweney spent a rest ful night and was cheerful today, al though very weak. POLES HAVE RECOVERED PART EASTERN GALICIA Warsaw, Sept. 1. Part of Eastern Galicia hal been recovered by the Poles . and Ukrainians, according to reports from the northeastern front. OIllitBif hi Washington, Sept. 1 -In the world wide struggle for oil, discovery of a new field in eastern Wyoming, one hundred miles east of Salt Creek and four miles from the South Dakota line, is announced by the- United States Geographical Survey. It is known as the Mule Creek field. The Geographical Survey says: "The presence of petroleum in this region had long been suspected and considerable drilling had been done. Geologists have drilled a test well that proves to be the 'discovery well' of the field. "The production of this first well was small compared with wells in the nearby Lance Creek field, but its success stimulated extensive drill ing, and ten wells on the southeast ern anticline were soon each produc ing daily 12$ to 150 barrels of oil of. high grade." BANDIT ZAMORA HIDES ! HIS FOREIGN CAPTIVES Mexico City, Sept. 1. Lack of in formation as to the whereabouts of Sandy Gardiner, American, and W. B. Johnson, British, who were kid naped .by the : bandit Zamora, gives rise to fears that both have been executed. W. VA. MOUNTAINEERS WAGE COAL STRIKE Williamston, W. Va., Sept. 1 Fir ing from the mountains upon the vil lage of Chatteroy in the coal strike region - continued ell night with the results undetermined. - GERfilAfJ WIRELESS FOUi .UNDER SEA . Malta, -Sept. 1. A complete wire less apparatus which was anchored in 20 fathoms of water off Melleha bay, with the mart and working, parts be low the surface to a depth of about eight fathoms, has been discovered by a party of Maltese fishermen. The apparatus, which ws subse quently removed by the dockyard au thorities for an examination, is of German construction and is complete in every detail Undoubtedly signalling went on regularly .during the war with sub marines ryhig In wait for British vessels, it being quite possible to sink 4fee aeetfeefei the operations were netected. ! WYOMING XARBORQ, C,Vfr WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 1, 1920 EtKINSlEftUTI IS STRUCK BY Jilted King' Cousin And Be cme Quiet Mrs. riut. PLANE GAZING THE CAUSE Los Angeles, Sept. 1. Mrs. Kath erine Elkins Hltt, daughter of United States Senator Stephen B. Elkins, of West Virginia,' who refused the .- Dukn of d'Abruzzi and married Billy - .'' ',-" Hitt, an American, is a recent mem ber of the Montlcello colony. Mrs. Hitt made that fact known unwittingly in an entirely novel way. She was struck and knocked down by a motor car driven by Dr. Marian Williams on the boulevard in front Of the Ambassador'Hotel. Mrs. Hitt unconscious from, the blow was tak en by Dr. Williams a woman physi cian, into her eat and hurried to the Monticello residence in Channel Prive. ' ; , ' .. Dr. Williams, who was driving, was watching an aeroplane flight over the bay and trespassed onto the side of the boulevard where Mrs. Hitt wa3 walking. The injury, while severe, was not alarming. Mrs. Hitt is still confined to her 'bed and under the care of a physician. None of the injuries,' tj is reported, will impair the beauty which brought thev second cousin of the King of Italy across the. seas to woo her. ; . Mrs. Hittjv. since her marriage to Mr. Hiti, seven years ago, has chosen a quiet life, but for seven years prior to that time she was the most inter esting principal in one of the most famous romances adorning the his tory of -such- affairs on this side of j the water. ' - The ' Duke, a hardy mountain climber, who was used to staling such heights as the Himalayas, could not reach high enough to get Miss Elkins' heart, and their engagement which was a classic for the tongue of gossip in the countries of Europe as well as here, was ended a few months before' she married Mr. Hitt. STREETEfl FIGHT TO BE STAGEOjGnJN Chicago, Sept. 1. "Streeterville", in the "Deestrict .f Lake M:chigan,'' a part of Chicago's famous "Ga'd Coast," is about to be the scene of the thousand and first battle in its: history, according to notice servod on United States Marshal Bradley by Captain George Wellington Street!', 80-year-old claimant to a ?30,000, 000 portion of the exclusive Lake Shore Drive section. "Cap" Streeter and William Niles, (.ne-time "military governor" and commanding general of the army of the "deestrict," having notified the federal authorities that they are to again try to enforce their claim that Streeterville is not in any state in the union, have invited the American Legion to assist them and set the date for the opening of hostilities as September 6. A letter to the le gion posts, a c6py of which was also sent to Marshal Bradley, invites former- soldiers to "meet me at the foot of Superior street in uniform, armed and carrying a flag, and help to end by force of arm's the treasonable acts of judges or. stand up against a wall before a firing squad." A postscript invites the legionaires to bring their lunch. Captain Streeter has been fighting since 1886 to establish his 'claim to one of the most valuable sections 'of Chicago's lake front In that year his steamer, the Reutan, stranded on tht beach during a storm. Captain Streeter bui't a breakwater about the stranded boat, 450 fset off shore, and made it his home. The rapidly shifting sands filled in the space be tween boat and shore -and added 193 acres to the city's area. - To this land Captain Streeter laid claim, and in the next quarter of a century battles by the hundreds were fought in an effort to oust him. AUTO ITE TESTIFIES TODAY Denies Knowledge Of Repub lican Slush Fund. CONFIDENCE IN JAS. GOX Chicago, Sept. 1. Democratic Chairman White told the senate in vestigating committee today that he thought a two million dollar fund for the national campaign would provide adequate funds. He said that no democratic fund committee had yet been appointed and no budget estimated. Chairman White asserted the com mittee that he knew of no evidence showing, the republican attempt to "corrupt the electorate," and the only place 've know where such evi dence could be obtained was from Governor Cox, White said that he had talked with Governor Cox and that the governor had told him he was sure of .his ground in making the charges. Thereupon he had told Cox, "You are the boss and you run it." Wihite said he believed the charges because he had confidence in Cox. The witness stated he- . had dis charged Professor HULL who. had of- fered j,jg services to both the" repub- licans and democrats. BIG TRADE WITH ENEMY-COUNT Washington, Sept. 1. Although a technical state of war still exists be tween the United States and Ger many and Austria, trade with thtse I countries is rapidly increasing. Re-J ports of the Department' "of Com- i merce show that exports to Germany totalled $202,176,079 during the 12 1 months ended last June 30, as com- j pared with $8,818,882 during the cor j responding 12 months the year be-! fore. Imports from Germany jumped ! from $944,981 in 1919 to $45,085,-1 975 during the year ending July Exports to Austria as distinguish ed from Austria-Hungary were val- ued at $11,847,12, as com7pared tof nothing the year before. Imports from that country for the same pe riod were valued at $587,108. Trade with Russia in Europe- also showed a substantial increase in the' past year, exports being valuod at 34.6.19.901 'o cnmriara1 with tllil 000,000 the year' before. ' Imports from that country, however, were valued at only $2,443,288. THE SOUTHERNER LATE. The Southerner may be a little late in delivery today owing to a part of the linotype breaking. A new piece hag been loaned by the Green ville News, to wihom The Southerner are greatly indebted, and Mr. Aubrey Shackell mojored to Greenville thin morning and got back with the new part in two and a half hours. ZE T London, Sept. 1.- Working agree-' ment has been enteredinto between the Musical Conductors' Association and the National Orchestral .Union of Professional Musicians whereby members of both, bodies are pledged to oppose alien competition. Their purpose is declared to be to combat "the determined efforts of foreign conductors and instrumentalists to regain their pre-war footing in Lon don theaters," and to "recognize the need for a concerted defence." ; The organizations state that "at the outbreak of .war, only -one Eng lish conductor was employed in al the London theaters then producing light opera. The. remaining conduc torships were held by Germans and Austrians, nowadays reappearing in the roles of Swiss and Jugo-Slavs. GHA Hi OIE MOSICHO 6 K ASSOCIATED PRESS IRISH RESUME STRIFE IN RELIGIOUS CONFLICT PEANUT SIGNERS T Suffolk, Va., Sept. 1. More than 2,000 peanut growers have now sign ed the exchange contract. . Practic ally all these signers have come from only four counties, and they repre sent more than forty per cent -of the necessary number of signers to in sure the perfection of the growers' organization. It is confidently expected enough signers will be secured in jSJurry and Sussex counties to bring the total number of signers well above the half-way mark and to begin the home stretcih. It is also expected signers will be secured much more rapidly after the half-way mark is passed. LIKE GREEK GOD Chicago, Sept. 1. Christian D. Hemmick is free now to pursue his elboW-rubbing with the thespiais he loves so well. Judge Frank John- stone Jr- aa granted him a divorce from Mrs. Alice Barney Hemmick, wealthy society woman, Bahaist, painter, playwright, producer of pa geants and poet. In Washington in January it was freely predicted that the alliance be tween the 00-year-old patroness of the arts and the 30-year-old 'reincar nation of a Greek god" would not Hurviyfi. Jonsc, Mrs. Hemmick, who vaa the very wealthy widow cf the late Albert Clifford Barney, soon af terward dropped ihe": Hemmick from la-r engraved cards and issued this statement: . ; . ' "I have neve expected much at tention from Christian. But of late I have had none. But he is angry with me because I. would not sign any more large checks. He has taken up the society of actors." That Mr. Hemmick alleged in his bid for divorce, based on a charge of desertion, was the cause of the tiuuble his friendship, with, people- of .thesJiage., He testified: "We had a great many differences. She didn't -approve of my theatrical asHOftiates and without my knowledge ! nnd consent she packed up and went ; to Paris, where she has been since." i Paris -that was where the rom ance was born which resulted in 1911 in nie marriage wnicn Biartiec) Amer ican socioty. .Mrs. Hemmick was then fifty-seven and the bridegroom tweiity-six. Young Hemmick had no wealth, but as Mrs. Hemmick put it, he look ed like a young Greek god." The daughters of, the bride, both whom were older than their step-father, objected. But that did not concern Mrs. Hemmick, In her half century of social ac tivity in New York, BostonChicago, Washington and the European capi tals, Mr.-.. Hemmick has frequently attracted note by her bizarre ac tivities. INFANTILE, PARALYSIS CASES ALARM BOSTON Boston, Sept. 1 With twenty-five cases of infantile paralysis reported here In the past few days, Mayor Peters has asked the city council to transfer $10,000 from the reserve fend to fight the epidemic. So important a part-does the Tar boro office play in the" production of ne r business for the Jefferson Stand ard Life Insurance Company, its agency being one of tne largest in the state and its production exceed ing all Others, that it is news to state that the company has set $5,000,000 as the amount of new business for the month -of September. Of this amount the agency under Mr. J. W. Unutead, Jr., of Tarboro, is. required to produce nearly one-fifth of this big attainment. This is the reason "the boys are making an extr ef fort' in writing business these days. OVER PEBGEN 1 DIVORCED OLDEST AD BEST ADVERTISING MED. IVM IN EASTERN' WORTH JJAROLINA. V, i '' '' ' rin rflf . ' i. I PRICE t 5 CENTS BELFAST . SCENE OF GREATER OUTRAGE AND DEATH, SINN FEINERS DISLODGED BY ARM ORED CAR. Belfast, Sept. 1. Fighting was re sumed today between nationalists,, unionists, . shipyard workers and troops. Heavy firing continued for half an hour and it is feared that the casu alty list is heavy. The Sinn Feiners were dislodged from their positions by an armored car. Belfast, Sept. 1. It . is definitely known that one man was killed in the North street encounter and that an other bitter fight took place at the docks between union dock workers and tihipyard employes in which pis tols, sticks and stones were used. Troops ended the conflict with machine-guns. Two hundred and fourteen serious fires have occurred since last Wed nesday. . ..-. Dublin, Sept. 1. Religious clashes throughout Ireland are threatened aa" a result of the riots in Belfast. The situation there had been growing acute for nearly a month. A meet ing of Orangemen employed in the i hipyards had decided they would no ' longer work with Sinn Feiners. They had decided that only men loyal to the King and the Empire should be employed in the shipyards. As the ' Catholics in Belfast were practically all Sinn Feiners and the Prote ianl are practically all Orangemen ii'j . - pared a bitter feeling which was " ' waiting for an opportunity tj '. :ak loose. The opportunity can: with new regulators in the shi. ,.rds as a result of tW'Qrangeme i requiring .that all employes si.i the oath of allegiance to the crown. ' It is said that there were 4,000 who refused to r,ign,and who have since been with out employment. These men were all ripe for rioting when it began. BIG DANCE TOMORROW, i , - A big dance has been staged for tomorrow night at Ruffin's warehouse by the young dancing men of Tr boro, to which a large throng will gather from all surrounding towns. The music provided is the. Meyer Da vis orchestra and the hours for the '' dance are scheduled from nine .to four o'clock. . DR. HOWE HEADS AMERICAN UfJIOfJ Washington, Sept. 2. Dr. L. S. Rowe today assumed the director- - ship of the Pan-American Union, to succeed -John Barrett,! who retired after fifteen years service as direct ing head of tbe union. .. . The transfer of the directorship took place in the presence of mem bers of the Latin-American . diplo matic corps. Secretary of State Col by, and other high officials of the United States government.' The new director in formally ac cepting the office declared that hiS-J) policy would be to foster "a smooth ly operating international organize- tion that makes for - mutual confi. dence, good-will and above all, for the maintenance of peace,". Dr. Rowe enters upon the duties of director general of the union with an intimate knowledge of Latin-American affairs, having served as head of the State Department's division of Latin-American Affairs for sometime and previous to that having "Been a member of various commissions for the study of Latin-American subjects. During the world war, Dr. Rowe was an assistant secretary of the. Treas ury. He was secretary of tiie second Pan-American Financial Conference, which met in 1915. and of the Inter- ' . f national High Commission, an organ ization of. Latin-American republics. Dr. Rowe has received degrees from a number of South American univer-. sities. " 4
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