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VOL. 40 NO. 154.'
THE REPUBLICANS ATTACK
THE ABSENT VOTERS' LAW
,,. APPLIED TO JUDGE KERR TO DE-
CLARE: 2 LAW UNCONSTITU
'V TIONAL; HEARING ON CASE
NEXT THURSDAY j APPEAL IS
'
"DECLARED POLITICAL TRICK.
i (By LLEWXAJL)
Raleigh, Sept. 9.- Although Judgo
. Kerr has issued an order directing
t ....... - "
the members of the board of election!
v and the state auditor and state trees.
. urer to appear before him at Raleigh
' next Thursday, 16th instant, and.
' show cause why the injunction sought
v by the republican "machine" in North
1 , Carolina' to stop' the distribution o
- ballots for use by absentee voters
' should not be granted, the whole pro
; ceeding is - regarded as a political
- stroke, pure and simple, on the part
of the state republican management
, ' to gain an advantage they are not
. . entitled to. ", ...
The application-as it came before
' Judge Kerr was made through legal
' representatives of J. J. Jenkins, re
, publican candidate for state treas
: urer, ostensibly. The claim is made
that the absentee vpters' law, passed
: by the legislature of 1917 is uncon
v etitutional. Judge Kerr declined to
crant the injunction asked for, but
' made the order referred to above.
V i.The move has failed to throw any
' scare into the Democrats and leading
lawyers here today stated that the
claim pf unconstitutionality could not
stand; that the. judiciary committee
of the legislature that perfected and
reported the bill was composed of a
. 'number of the best lawyers in the
state and that many other states now
Jiave the same law and no one has
attempted to attack its constitution,
ality there.
. IF is generally believed that Judge
; 'rKerr will dismiss the application on
inext Thursday, in which event It iB
4- probable the republican s.wj.11 .appeal
to the supreme court and it would be
possible to get a decision on the ap
peal before the November election.
In the meantime, Chairman War
ren of the democratic state commit
tee is advising all who are entitled to
the benefit of this law to go right
ahead as though Jenkins and his suit
did not exist. Mr. Warren calls espe
cial attention of citizens " (school
teachers particularly, male and fe
male) who do not expect to be at
.their homes during the - registration
period, Sept. 30 to Oct. 23, to the
fact that under the absentee voters'
.law they can register now, before
leaving home,, by applying to the
chairman of the board of elections of
-.their respective counties. Without
.this law all such voters would lose
'their vote at the election in Novem
ber. ' .
As a matter of fact, the absentee
voters' law operates to the advantage
of voters of both parties and there is
to good reason why its repeal should
be desired. Indeed the only people
who desire its repeal is the republican
-state management, and they are im
pelled by the hope that the demo
cratic party would have more mem
bers to 4ose their vote than would
th republican party,
- The suit brought by one of the re
. publican candidates now will not act
in the end to depriw any citizen of
' his or her vote. So, Chairman War
ren's advice is good. Go right ahead
And register under its provisions if
you do not expect to be at. home dur
ing the registration period, as indi
. cated above.
'"SING" TO BE HELD
ON THE COMMONS
, Sunday next at 4.30 in the aft
ernoon, the Rocky Mount Commu
nity Sing orchestra will stage an
other Community Sing and i, is
hoped the people will take a dis
tinct interest in the affair, to the
extent at least of bringing their
hymn books with them and joining
in the popular sacred melodies
that nearly all know by heart.
. Dr. L. G. Shaffer will conduct
the orchestra and he will be assist
ed by a song leader. The local la-
. dies also have been active in mak
ing preparations for this sing,
which ought to go with life and en
thusiasm. -
ALL THE LOCAL NEWS
L
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Paris, Sept. 9. Henri Landru
whom the police call the Garabais
Bluebeard and,hold responsible for
-the disappearance' of eleven women
to whom he had promised marriage
shows no sign of weakening under
the continual and gruelling eighteen
months' examination and preliminary
investigation which Judge Bonin has
conducted.
"You seem worn and tired today,"
he said to Judge Bonin, solicitously,
when be last appeared before the
judge. "Don't you think-you will
be able to take a vacation this sea
son?" '
It was fijiea bit of ironV as ever
delivered by Landru, as last summer
Judge Bonin after six- months' ex
amination of the alleged "bluebeard,
gave up in despair and went to the
country for four weeks. '.
In the lobbies of the courthouse
the other day, Landru, accompanied
by his lawyers, met Madame Bessa
rabo, who is being ' examined by
Judge BBonin, concerning the dis
appearance of her husband, and the
subsequent finding of his body in a
trunk, at the Nancy railroad station
The lawyers introduced them. Sa
luting with a flourish of his weather
beaten hat and bendtrig low, Landru
said simply r"My homages, madame."
PORTUGAL PEELS
E
Lisbon, iSept. 9. A coal shortage
is being keenly felt in Portugal ow
ing to the prohibition of coal exporta
tion from England and the absence
of any good coal producing district
in this country. .
'" All coal for industries was import
ed chiefly from Cardiff and Newcas
tle and since that has ceased and or
ders placed in the United Sfates have
been cancelled, the situation threat
ens to become serious and people are
looking forward -with alarm to the
coming winter. Abnormal conditions
exist as a result, all restaurants,
cafes and places of amusement must
close promptly at midnight and ex
ternal illuminations are prohibited.
OF 10D PER GENT
San Juan, P. R., Sept. 9. Divi
dends declared by the South Porto
F.ico -Sugar Company and the Fajar
do Sugar Company, which it was an
nounced recently in New York would f
reach 100 Oper cent, are not the only
largo sugar dividends that are being
declared this year.
The Santa Isabel Sugar Company
has declared a cash dividend of 100
per cent, which is probably the high
est dividend that will be paid by any
sugar company in Porto Rico this
year. Other sugar properties may
yield a return equal to or in excess
of the Santa Isabel dividend, but so
far they have not -been reported as
having been declared in the form of
dividends. :- '
The Santa Isabel dividend is all in
cash, while the dividend of South
Porto Rico Sugar Company has been
declared in" the form of a stock divi
dend, new common stock being issued
for each share of commonstock now
outstanding. The 100 per cent divi
dend of the Fajardo Sugar Company
amounts to 30 per cent in cash and
70 per cent in stock. ,
Most of the sugar companies in
the island, it is believed, will declare
dividends that will probably reach 60
Iper cent ' ' ' ,
AMERICAN SWIMS
ACROSS CHANNEL
Ramsgnte, England, Sept. 9 Hen
ry Sullivan, of Lowell, Massachusetts,
who started last night from Dover to
swim the English channel, was re
ported six miles from the French
coast this morning.
FRENCH B
UE6EARD
OES
WEAKEN
TAG
SUGAR
IDEi
DERTH LIST GROWS
E
Over 500 Already Accounted
For In Three .
Towns.; .
10,000 ARE HOMELESS
Florence, Sept. 9. The number of
dead from Tuesday's earthquake: is
steadily growing.
Four hundred and thirty-twoTiave
already been noted as killed at Fiviz-
zano, and one hundred and twenty-
four at Vignatta. One thousand in
jured in these two cities are being
cared for. , .
Serious damage has been done in
three score of Italian towns, and it is
estimated that more than ten thous
and people are homeless.
London, Sept. 9. Fifty dead were
taken from the ruins in the town of
Barga, in the Italian earthquake zone,
says an Exchange ; Telegraph news
dispatch, the message adding that
many more are buried in the debris.
Home, Sept, 9. A violent shock
in the Emila -district this morning
caused additional loss of life and im
nortant damage. The quake ws
more violent than that of Tuesday.
FARMERS PROTEST TO
CREDIT RESTRICTIONS
Washington, ',Sept. 9. Representa-
tives of farmers and livestock pro
ducers organizations are preparing
-to present protests to tke Federal
Reserve Board against the alleged
credit restrictions, according to a
statement issued by the Farmers Na
tional Council.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
Chicago, Sept. 9. The big issue in
the Socialist campaign this fall is as
usual private ownership of the means
of production, Otto Branstetter, na
tional secretary and campaign man
ager, of the Socialist party, said here
today, discussing the Socialist cam
paign. r'V '..;.;:' .-
The League of Nations issue was
viewed by the Socialists as "largely
camouflage," he said. The party felt
that the league question had been in
troduced by the old parties largely
to cloud the issues and keep the peo
ple's attention off domestic issues.
Eugene V, Debs, the Socialist pres
idential candidate, in prison at At
lanta, Ga., was not advising in the
conduct of the campaign to any ex
tent. Use was being made in party
literature of what he said to Social
ists visiting him. cV ,
The chief speaker in the campaign
is the vice-presidential candidate,
Seymour Stedman, of Chicago, rein
forced by 40 speakers or more under
the national organization.'
KING GEORGE QUARRELS
WITH QUEEN MOTHER
London, , Sept. 9. A dispute has
arisen between King George and
Queen Alexandra regarding lettings
which, have been made by Her Haj
esty on the royal estate .at Sandring
ham. ' ".
The Queen let a number of build
ing plots on ninety-nine year leases
at very low rents, but received fees
in cash in each case varying from
$2,500 to $10,000. The King claims
that as Queen Alexandra is only ten
ant for life on the royal property,
she cannot appropriate these sums
herself. ; ,
The matter iias been referred to
the Home Secretary, who" is supposed
to settle, any such dispute between
the sovereign and any member of the
royal family. This is the first occa
sion in seventy years that a dispute
between two members of the royal
family has been referred to the Home
Secretary.
RIFLE STRENGTH IS
. REDUCED ONE HALF
Washington, Sept. 9. The rifle
strength of the Bolshevik! on the
Polish-front has been reduced over
one-half as a result of the Polish
counter-offensive.
According to reports from official
circles here the unapprehended de
serters in Russia are estimated at one
million men.
FROM
ARTHOURKE
SOCIALISTS
HOOT AT
TARBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, SEPT. 9, 1920
TROTSKY'S SON IS
KILLED IN BATTLE
. London, SepU 9j The son of Leon
Trotsky, war minister of Soviet Rus
sia, was killed in the fighting on the
Polish front, according tp a Central
News dispatch from Cracow, Poland,
quoting the' information to the pa
per, the Cracow Kurjer. .
ORANGEMEN HANG
' MAYOR INEFFIGY
Belfast, Sept, 8. Fist fights and
brushes with stones occurred here,
when Orangemen- hanged Lord Mae-1
Swiney in effigy on the street lamp
posts. Most of the figures represent
ing him had breadcrusts stuffed in
the mouths. The authorities induced
the "hangmen" to take down their
handiwork. .
'RED ROSE Tl
IS TAKEN OY POLES
Has Face Of A Nun And The
Heart Of A TU
gress.
WAS SOVIET GENERAL
Paris, Sept. 9. After a des
perate hand-to-hand struggle
with four Polish soldiers, Soviet
Eussia's exquisite "Red Rose,"
youthful maiden with, faco of a
nun and heart of a tigress, has
been captured. u,:
And with her removal as "real
general of the Russian Legion,"
, according to news dispatches,
has gone the will to win of the
Soviet army. "
No figure in all the long turmoil of
Russia has beqn as picturesque as
that of the lovely eighteen-year-old
girl, aristocrat by birth, but now the
most proletarian of proletrians. Her
story, which sooner or later will find
its way into history, is one'of almost
incredible ferocity. She is said to
have been responsible for more than
four hundred deaths of anti-revolutionists,
her methods being those of
a female Judas. Nevertheless, so po
tent is her personality that her very
captors have fallen victims to her
charm, and the Russian women and
men captured with her treat her as a
kind of queen.
Her story goes' back to 1912 when
with her parents, the Count and
Countess Ivanovsky, she returned
from a long- exile in London to Mos
cow. However, Rasputin, then at the
height of hi3 power, became infatu
ated with the Countess and enticed
her to the house in Moscow where
his affairs were accustomed to com
mence. From that time she never
again was seen. And although the
Count carried appeal for help to the
very cteps of the throne itself, he
continually was put off till finally he
shot and killed himself upon the steps
of the Kremlin, while his little daugh
ter clung to his hand.
This is the tragedy which furnished
the motif of revenge which the "Red
Rose" determined to turn loose upon
the mass of insidious, immoral intri
gue which was the court of Russia.
The revolution gave her the chance.
According to Jean Reich, a French
man, recently returned as a refugee
from Soviet Russia,' she was the
Charlotte Corday of the Russian rev
olution, with the soul of a patriot
and the heart of a savage.
H. M. BLAIR ADMITS
Chicago, Sept 9.- After hearing
from William O. Farlow, of Augusta,
Illinois, farmer, St an alleged attempt
by Charles S. Boeschenstein, demo
cratic national committeeman from
Illinois, to solicit funds from post
masters, the senate campaign investi
gating committee recalled Harry H.
Blair, assistant to Republican Treas
urer Upham, for further questioning.
Governor Cox's charges that the
republicans fixed quotas and planned
intensive fund raising drives in at
least fifty-one cities and that the na
tional committee had a- part in the
assessing of the cities' quotas, was
admitted before the senate commit
tee today by Harry M. Blair, assist
ant to Republican Treasurer Upham.
G
COX S CHARGES
DISAPPOINTED; BUT
SALES
Opening Displayed . Weakness
And No Disposition
To Buy.'
PRICES WILL IMPROVE
The obacco market which opened
yesterday displayed a weakness, so
far as bidding was concerned, and
good grades were bid in at less than
the buyers themselves acknowledged
the worth, at the same time, it was
announced, the buyers for the manu
fncturers and exporters had no doft
nite instruction and they were but
feeling out the- market yesterday. It
will be several days, they say, before
the market will steady and orders
issued buyers of the needs of their
various clients.
In the three warehouses
175,000
pounds of tobacco were sold, and,
though the farmers wero naturally
disappointed at the low prices it was
an orderly crowd that attended the
selling and practically no ticket turn
ing was resorted to.
In discussing conditions and pros.
pects after the sales were over the
tobacco men and buyers felt that the
prices for the good lear would revive
and that the farmers would receive
higher prices as the season progress,
ed. So far as the poor tobacco was
concerned there were none who pro
phesied much improvement in price
as the market was already stocked on
low grades.
LONE STAR TRAIL
TO BE PERFECTED
Winnfield, La., Sept. 9. Organi
zation necessary to assure building
of Louisiana's share of the Lone jStar
Trail has been perfected and efforts
will be made to have similar action
taken by other states through wliich
it is proposed to route the roa-
The highway is to pass through
North Central Louisiana, the objec
tive points being St. Augustine, Fla.,
and Los Angeles, Calif. After Lou
isiana is completed the organization
of Texas will be taken up and pushed
a thousand miles or more across that
state and then the east end will be
taken up through the states of Miss
issippi, Alabama and Florida and fin
ally the great western division will
be completed through New MexicoJ
Arizona and California.
, Other east and west highways
through Louisiana are the Dixie Ov
erland along the line, of the Vicks
burg, Shrcvcport and Pacific railroad
and the Old Spanish Trail along the
Southern Pacific, both far removed
from the proposed Lone Star Trail.
MRS. THRASH SPEAKS AT
PETTIGREW UNVEILING
Friday next, twelve miles 'north of
Winchester, Virginia, the dedication
of the , Pettigrew Memorial takes
place at Boyd House, Bunker Hill, to
which place General James Johnson
Pettigrew was removed after receiv
ing his mortal wound in the vicinity,
he dying July 17, 1863;
Elaborate preparations have been
made for the event next Friday aft
ernoon, and a large number of Nortlf
Carolinians will attend. General Jas.
I. Metts, commander of the North
Carolina division, U. D. C, will pre
side. The address of welcome will
be made by Hon. Charles James Faul
kner, former United States senator
from West Virginia, and the- response
will be made by Mrs. Jacksie Daniel
Thrash, of, this city, chairman of the
tablet committee, U. D. C. .
Chief Justice Walter Clark will
speak on the life and character of
-General Pettigrew and General Louis
G. Young, captain on Gen. Petti
grew 's staff, will give his personal
recollection of Gen. Pettigrew.
GREEK TROOPS
LAND AT ISMID
Constantinople, Sept. 9. Five
transports of Greek troops have land
ed at Ism id, on the Gulf of Ismid, re
placing British forces.
Senators have asked the Grand Vi
sier to come to some agreement with
the nationalists before the Greeks
find some excuse to occupy Constan
tinople, i ,
0 0 1
ASSOCIATED PRESS-
iMACSWINEY
GOVERNMENT
PUBLIC FOR HELP
New York, Sept. 9. Cooperation
of the public is meeting the nation's
rail transportation requirements is
asked by the Association of Railway
Executives in announcing its program
to secure maximum service from ex
isting transportation facilities,
The association urges cooperation
of the public and shippers to attain
An average daily minimum move
ment of freight cars of hot less than
30 miles per day.
An-average loading of 30 tons per
car.
ueciucuon oi Dad-order cars to a
minimum of 4 per cent of the total
owned.
An early and substantial reduction
in the number of locomotives now
unfit for service.
More effective efforts to bring the
return of cars to owner roads.
NO INFLUENZA
RETURN THIS WINTER
Washington, Sept. 9. The Public
Health Service says there has been
no indications of the return of last
year's influenza epidemic this winter.
Although there are certain to be a
number of cases in each year between
November and May, they are not ex
pected to be as widespread or virulent
as last year.
T
BEEN NOMINATED
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 9. The Jour
nal figures on an unofficial and in
complete count from one hundred and
seventeen out of one hundred and
fifty-five counties gives Thomas E.
Watson one hundred and ninety-
seven unit votes, or more than enough
majority for the nomination for
United States senator.
Dorsey was given sixty-seven and
Hoke Smith forty unit votes.
The total county unit vote, instead
of the total popular vote, determines
the result in Georgia democratic pri
maries, which are considered equiva
lent to election. EacH' county has
twice as many unit votes as it has
representatives in the lower house of
the legislature.
To nominate, 195 unit votes are
required in the senatorial and guber
natorial races.
For the gubernatorial race the re
turns from same counties give Hard-
wick one hundred and seventy-two,
to Clifford Walker's one hundred and
thirty-eight.
Washington, Sept. 9.- More than
13,000 merchant marine officers have
been graduated from the Shipping
Board's training schools since their
establishment three years ago, and 72
per cent of the graduates have been
licensed for service at sea on records
of the board's recruiting service.
Officers for the government-owned
merchant marine are trained at Camp
Stuart, Va., San Francisco and Seat
tle. Four wooden ships operate on
the Atlantic coast as combination
training ships and cargo carriers.
Each has a capacity of 200 appren
tices and 1,200 tons of cargo.
On the Pacific coast one wooden
ship carrying 1,800 tons of cargo and
U3 apprentices and a new 1,800 ton
steel vessel with space for 148 ap
prentices operate on the triangular
run between Seattle, the Hawaiian
Islands and 'San Francisco.
Extension and development of its
system of training Americans to
command the craft of the merchant
marine is planned' by the Shipping
Board. It Is suggested that shore
station be maintained where men
from all sections of the country can
be assembled and given instruction
in steamship, boat drill and other
preliminary work.
RAILROADS
ASKING
ITSON
S N
BOARD
E1CTS
SO
PRICE: 5 CENTS
CASE CAUSES
DISRUPTURE
BRITISH CABINET MAY BE
FORCED TO RESIGN IF HEROIC
MAYOR DIES; PREMIER SHOW
SIGNS OF WEAKNESS.
London, Sept. 9. Tke tenacious
hold on life of Lord Mayor 'Terence
MacSwiney, of Cork, hunger-striking
in Brixton prison, has started to split
the British coalition government
asnnder. - -
How great the rift is no one knows.
Whether it will be healed before it
becomes a public matter cannot be
foretold, but there are unmistakable
signs that it is started.
The prisoner himself may wipe out
all possibilities at any moment by
dying. But the pressure of world
sentiment, generated by the hot cou
rage of the Mayor giving up his
life for the principle of self-determi
nation is making itself felt.
Last night he was in extreme pain.
He is physically weak beyond the
point at which his physicians thought
he could live, but he' is still clear
headed and he is still fully determin
ed to die rather than acknowledge
British sovereignty over Ireland.
There ia the rub for the British
government. It had decided to in
augurate an iron policy against Ire.
land. The arrest of MacSwiney and
his comrades was the first big stroke.
The, hunger strike was anticipated
and the decision to stand pat on the
death sentence was in.
But the government had reckoned
on the Lord Mayor being dead some
time ago. It felt that it could ride
ou the storm of disapproval that hit
death would bring.
But with the passing days the ee .'
jment from the dispatches recr' 1
here, is steadily rising agair 'io
"death sentence." .
Now some of the offi- v j of the
government are politic-.iy and per
haps "some personal! afrafd." '
The first crack in the solid front
of the cabinet came when Premier
Lloyd George, an absolute master of
political expediency, gave out that
the Lord Mayor and the other hunger
strikers could be released if guaran
tees were given that the murders of
the police in Ireland should cease.
COX SUPPORTING
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
Helena, Montana, Sept. 9. -Gov
ernor Cox argued in behalf of the,
League of Nation here today and
adapted his speech to the needs of
the west, declaring the cost of one
battleship would reclaim two million
acres of land.
$100,000,000 LOAN
, OVERSUBSCRIBED
New York, Sept, 9. -J. P. Morgan
& Company announced today that
the new hundred million Frenck
loan was oversubscribed in an hour
after the books were opened.
"THE LAST DAYS
OF POMPEII'
Sunday night the movie picture at
the Opera House, which Is now a reg.
ular event on each second Sunday
night, arranged by Rev. Bertram E.
Brown, will be "The Last Days of
Pompeii," which will be put on the
screen immediately following the re
ligious service, which also will be giv
en on the screen. The service will
start promptly at eight o'clock. There
will be a collection during the even
ing to cover the actual cost of the
picture. ."""v-
KIDNAPPED MAN '
MADE ESCAPE
Mexico City, Sept. 9. Bertie C.
Johnson, a British subject, kidnapped
by the bandit Zamora, together with
an American, who also escaped last
week, escaped from his captors and
is in the hands of government troops,
the War Office announced.
MAYOR REFUSES
ORDER TO EAT
London, Sept. 9. The Irish .Self
determination League quotes Mayor
MacSwiney's sister as saying that
MacSwiney will not obey the order
from the Irish republican authorities
to cease his hunger strike. . -