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FUNDS FOR
GOVERNOR HARDING SAYS THE
BANKS WILL RENDER REA-
SON ABLE SERVICE; HOWEVER
NO EXCESSIVE LINES OF CRE
DIT CAN BEgARRIED. i
' .Washington. Sept.- 13. From the
office of Governor Harding, of the
Federal Reserve Board, emanates a
; letter to Senator Overman, pointing
I to the money situation of the coun
try and its relations to the movement
- of crops in the south and elsewhere
' ' Repudiating the suggestion of de
. ' flation of credits or currency during
the past year he states there has been
a -steady and continuous expansion,
"The Board's policy is to promote
good business,, not to hamper it,"
Governor Harding says in answer to
critics of the system, "and its poli
cies are Bhaped with a view of mak
ing good business condition next
year, the next, and so on indefinite
. ly."
- The rediscount rates, about which
the big hqwl has been, -were advanc
ed not only to shut down speculation
in the country and thereby promote
good business but also' because of
the advance in international ex
change. Interest rates at the Bank
of England, the Bank of France and
all central banks of Europe are high
er than current market rates. .
The announcement from the Fed
eral Heserve Board, through Gover-
. nor Harding's statement, that the
Federal Reserve banks are now in
position to render" the banks' all rea
. son able assistance 'necessary to en.
able them to move, the crops is taken
to mean that member banks will be
. able to discount the paper of cotton
farmers and tobacco growers through
the. assistances afJ2ikJederer Re J
serve banks in other sections of the
country besides the south.
It , will, when the usual banking
processes have been gone through,
amount to relief in the same way as
when Secretary - McAdoo permitted
money to. float into the south two
years ago for the movement of cot
ton. Not only has the Federal Re
serve System fortified Itself against
any immediate storm, but it has pre
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that may break in the years to come.
"The Federal Reserve banks are
the guardians of the - banking re
sources of the country," statedHard
ing. "They" must be managed pru
dently if the. solvency of the banks
is to be maintained. The interests
of the depositor as well as those of
' the members of the" Federal Reserve
Board are intelligent and conscien
tious, they must keep in mind their
responsibilities to the country; they
must think of the future as well as of
the present." 7 ;
In making this statement, Gover
nor Harding did not intimate that the
"bars were to be let down by the banks
in farming sections and that loans
would be made to farmers who al
ready had exhausted their credit, and
to loan money to them for speculative
purposes such a strading in cotton or
any other product. He meant that
the thorough principles of banking
'.would have to be adhered to and that
loans could be obtained in moving
crops and for legitimate purposes.
INVESTIGATE DEATH ,
OF NEW YORK ARTIST
Chicago, Sept. 13. The Coast
Guard officers have asked for an in
vestigation into the reported death
of Mrs.- Anna .Mitchell Jones, a for
mer New York artist, whose husband,
-John Archibald Jones, was found
clinging to an overturned boat in
Lake Michigan.
The couple were said to have been
on their honeymoon and Jones stated
that his wife had been washed over
board by the waves.
YARDMEN STRIKE IS
- NOT CALLED OFF
Chicago, Sept. 13. John Grunau,
president of the Chicago Yardmen's
Association, denied widely the circu
lated reports that the switchmen's
strike had been called off.
ALL THE LOCAL NEWS
MOVING CROPS
CRIMINAL COURT
" Judge E.. H. Cranmer," of South-
port, who- arrived on his first circuit
today since his appointment to- fill
t3ve position made vacant by Judge
Stacy, opened the fall term-of crimi
nal court with a docket of forty-five
cases.' .
LI Only one capital case is on the
docket that of Richard Williams,
who is charged with the killing of
George Dickens in No. 6 Township
two months ago. It is not expected
the ,eourt will get to this case until
Wednesday. J " v
The grand jury are expected to be
in session both today and tomorrow,
on which latter day they will visit
and report on the county institutions
Elizabeth, N. J., Sept. 13. While
his six-months-old baby slept in its
crib, Private George Parry, twenty-
seven years old, soldier of the regu
lar army,- shot and killed its mother,
Mrs. Gertrude" Parry, twenty-four
years old, and then fired a bullet into
his brain.
The tragedy took place at the home
of Mrs.-Parry's father at Unionv'ille,
near here, Mrs. ' Parry's body was
found in the kitchen 'withi a bullet
through her heart. Parry was found
lifeless in an upstairs bedroom. A
revolver with two empty chambers
lay beside him. ,
: Parry was stationed at Lakeside,
Pa. It was his first visit home in
several month. "
The police have not determined the
motive for, the act Henry Schall,
the young woman's father, said that
Parry came in the house and asked
"for his wife. Schall called her from
upstairs and went out to the barn to
do some work. He heard two shots
fired some time later.
Mrs. Parry hdd been shot in the
breast and died instantly; Parry was
dead from a bullet through the brain
The couple were married two years
ago, when Parity returned from
France. ' ',. '
INDIA COLD TOWARD
E OF WALES
New York, Sept. 13. -India's atti
tude toward the Prince of Wales is
one of "cold indifference if not ac
tual hostility," according to. Dr. N. S.
Hardiker, directorof , the India In
formation Bureau, who made-public
here today certain phases of the Na
tionalist movement which, he said,
had caused King George to cancel by
royal decree on August 17 the pro.
posed visit of his heir apparent to
India next winter.
It has been announced that the
Prince would go to India for the pur
pose of inaugurating reform legisla
tion in" connection with elaborate
Dunbar ceremonies at Delhi. The
Duke, of Connaught, formerly Governor-General
of Canada, the, decree
stated, will perform the royal func
tions in the Prince's place.
"SCOTLAND DRY"
IS NOW DEMANDED
Edinburgh, Sept, 13. The cam
paign to make Scotland dry has been
started in earnest by the National
Citizens' CounciL Under the pro
visions of the Temperance (Scotland)
Act which enables the electors to de
cide by a vote whether the country
shall go dry, requisition forms de
manding a poll on the . no-license
question have been issued. In order
to secure a poll ten per cent of the
electors in each area must sign the
requisition form. Should this be
forthcoming the next stage will b
the taking of the vote which will de
cide whether the people shall have
no licenses, or fewer licenses in their
own areas, or there shall be no
change. "v-
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SESSION
DOUBLE TRAGEDY
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TARBORO,
primary vote
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Will Give An Indication Of The
Country' Politicals !
Sentiment.
REPUBLICAN COMMUNITY
Portland, Maine, Sept. 1Z. Men
and women with the clearing weather
are expected to cast a heavy vote in
today's election after being told the
eyes of the nation are upon them to
give an indication of the country's
political sentiment. . - , '
' Republicans claimed a thirty thou
sand majority, which would not be
very surprising, this being in the hot
bed of republicanism. The democrats
are" not profuse in the figures they
will polL
Portland, Maine, Sept. 13. Heavy
vote has-been cast to noon today and
the women are balloting freely.
Bangor is polling a record-breaking
vote.
The women are working hard to
get out a heavy feminine vote in
many places.
COMPTROLLER CALLS
FOR BANK STATEMENTS
Washington, Sept. 13. The comp
troller of the currency called for tfhe
condition of all national banks at the
close of business Wednesday, Sep
tember 8. y.
RAILROAD EMPLOYEES
HEAR SENATOR HARDING
Marion, . Sept. '13. A delegation
of railway employes living in Marion
and nearby cities visited Harding's
"front porch" today in demonstra
tion of their allegiance to his candi
dacy.
TRANSCONTINENTAL AIR
MAIL SERVICE STARTS
Chicago, Sept. 13. An extensive
coast to coast air mail service began
today, when planes left five cities for
points across the continent. '
Planes will hereafter leave daily
from New York, San Francisco, Che
yenne, Salt Lake City and Chicago.
HISTORIC TREE
FALLS AFTER 144 YEARS
London, Sept. 13. A famous old
mulberry tree in North London, un
der which 144 years ago it is said
the American Declaration of Inde
pendence was first read in this coun
try, has fallen under the weight of
its age. American boy scouts at
tending the international scout con
ference here visited the tree only a
few days before it crashed and its
history was told to 300 of them, who
had their photographs taken beneath
its branches.. , r .
KEPT IN CELLAR
SEVENTEEN YEARS
Joliet, Ills., Sept. 13. Health au
thorities today began efforts to re
store the stunted mind of Maria
Zunibaek, a girl of nineteen, who, it
is said, had been kept in a cellar for
seventeen years.
It is-reported that her mentality
is that of a two-year-old child.
FILES PROTEST
ON SPA DECISIONS
Paris, Sept. 13. The Temps says
editorially that the. United States am
bassador has lodged a protest with
France against decisions arrived at
the Spa conferences on the ground
that they violate the Treaty of Ver
sailles. One of the Spa. agreements
provided for the. delivery of coal to
France by Germany.
FRENCH CHAMPION .
ARRIVED IN U. S. TODAY
New York, Sept. 13. Georges Car
pentier, the French pugilistic cham
pion, arrived here today for a bout
with Battling Levinsky in Brooklyn
on October 12.
ARBUCKLE SETS NEW
LOW PRICE FOR SUGAR
New York, Septals. The Arbuc
kle Sugar Refiining Company has re
duced th list price of fine granulat
ed sugar from 17.1 cents to 15 cents
per pound.
NEW
GLAND
N. C, MONDAY, SEPT. 13,
WIFE VANISHES,
L
Canoe Overturned And Heiress
Was Swept Away,
He Says.
ON EVE DIVORCING HIM
Washington, Sept. 13. Mystery
surrounding the disappearance of
Mrs. Gertrude Viger Kuehling,. heir
ess to part of a million dollar estate,
whose husband, Roy Harper Kuehl
ing, alleges was drowned from a ca
noe in the Potomac, bids fair to make
it the most celebrated case the capi
tal has known in years.
Although various' parties directed
by Kuehling, ,in custody of the police,
searched the banks of the Potomac
for miles, no trace of the body could
be found. '
Kuehling was found standing in the
shallow water of the jive r shrieking
for help. He informed men who hur
ried to his aid that a canoe in which
he and his wife were paddling had
overturned and that Mrs. Kuehling
had been swept away.
A startling revelation came when
the police states that Mrs. Kuehling
had telephoned to her lawyer saying
she had been kept a virtual prisoner
by her husband in their room at
Woodside, Maryland,, for five days,
and that he had beaten and choked
her.
"I can stand this .no longer," she
is alleged to have said in requesting
the lawyer to instituteUmmediate ac
tion for divorce. f
NEWSPRINT ANSWER
FOUND IN ALASKA
Washington, Sept. 11. Alaskan
forests contain a complete answer to
the American newsprint shortage, in
the opinion of Chief Forrester Greely,
i-who has just returned rtfur a month's
inspection of timber and power re
sources of the Tongass national for
est. "Alaska, can produce a million
and a half tons of paper annually,"
he declared.
VAST SUPPLIES ARE
STOLEN IN TURKEY
Constantinople, Sept. 13. Sup
plies valued at hundreds of thousands
of dollars have been stolen from the
American Relief Organization, ac
cording to evidence placed before the
American consul here.
Dishonest employes in Asia Minor
are declared partly to blame, but the
goods were also subject to theft en
route from the United States.
MACSWINEY BEGAN
32ND DAY FASTING
London, Sept. 13. Lord Mayor
Terence MacSwiney,. of Cork, impris
oned in Brixton prison, began his
thirty-second day hunger strike this
morning.
He was reported to be in a state
of collapse after a restless night, ac
cording to a bulletin issued by the
Irish Self-determination League.
Mrs. MacSwiney addressed an ap
peal to the American ambassador and
the heads of the other embassies,
calling attention to the Lord Mayor
and other hunger strikers, and ex
pressed a hope that the United Coun
cil of Nations "will prevent the trag
edy and thereby claim the peoples of
the world."
? Cork, Sept. 13. Eleven hunger
strikers in Cork jail are still alive
today but are pronounced consider
ably weaker.
LABOR DEMANDS
INDUSTRIAL PLANTS
- Milan, S?pt. 13. An immediate
convocation of the Italian parlia
ment for the passage of laws under
which the workmen- may take over
Wit management of industrial plants
has been demanded by the Confedera
tion of Labor, in session here.
Turin, Sept. 13. The garrison
about the dynamite works at Avigli
ana was strengthened today for fear
the workmen engaged in -industrial
controversy might attempt to 4ake
possession. . " ,
CLAIMS
E
1920
IN OVERALL SUIT
Cut Off Her Hair And
carded Feminine
V Attire.
Dis
MAY HAVE ROWED TO SEA
Gloucester, Mass., Sept. 13. A
nation-wide police search was started
for Miss Laura S. Fletcher, a seven
teen-year-old Indianapolis girl, who
disappeared from her parents' sum
mer home here after clipping off her
hair and donning a suit of overalls.
Her parents are at a loss to explain
why slhe went away. The girl eluded
a maid and flet from Grapevine Cove
where her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S.
L. Fletcher, occupy a cottage.
Later a fisherman saw the missing
girl near a copper paint factory at
Rocky Neck road, more than a mile
from her home. Astounded, he watch
ed her put on a pair of overalls, after
discarding some feminine apparel and
cut off herhaid with a pair of scis
sors. Throwing the scissors away,
the fisherman states, she shouldered
a pair of oars and walked along Mon
son street in the direction of Rocky
Neck. She was later seen in Rocky
Neck, where all trace of her was lost.
The clothing, hair and scissors
were turned over to the missing girl's
parents.5 They identified all as belong
ing to their daughter.
Miss Fletcher, described as an out
door girl by her father, is thought to
have put out of this famous old fish
ing port in a rowboat.
While the police tentatively accept
the theory that she has been drowned
they are working on all other clues
having any element of possibility.
RADICAL ERADICATION
' ADVISED BY VETERANS
St. Louis, Sept. 13. The eradica
tion of radicalism was advocated at
the opening of the twenty-second an-
nualnjginnient pfUnit -Spanish
War Veterans here today.
JAPANESE BROUGHT
INTO MUTUAL SYMPATHY
Tokio, Sept 13.: A tendency of
the times in Japan is the effort made
toward bringing the imperial house
and the people. of the country closer
on a basis of greater mutual sympa
thy. Until some years ago, all public
traffic used to be suspended for about
an hour before the passage of a
member of the imperial family, but
now it is only for the moment that
any suspension of traffic is made.
A system has been introduced to
admit of an individual appeal direct
to the throne on social as well as
personal affairs.
WITH GOV. COX
Sakm, Oregon, Sept. 13. Gover
nor Cox arrived here accompanied
by a masseur who will treat his
throat. The Democratic nominee
plans to speak here and at Portland
today and is then booked to swing
eastward toward Salt Lake, after
which he will double back to Califor
nia before going east.
Although Governor Cox's throat
has been giving him trouble during
the past few days, he did not call in
a specialist until yesterday, when it
was found that his throat was in bad
condition and was advised to cancel
his western engagements. This he
refused to do but agreed to spare
himself as much as possible and have
continuous treatments by a masseur.
THREE GARAGES
TO ONE DWELLING
Pittsburgh, Sept. 13. Three gar
ages to one dwelling is the proportion
to which buildings are being erected
in Pittsburgh, according to figures
compil by the bureau of building
Inspection covering the three import
ant months of the building season
May, June and July.
High wages, permitting the pur
chase of automobiles by . workers is
given as the cause of the enormous
increase in garage construction while
the high cost of building is assigned
as the reason why more people are
not building their homes.
MASSEIIR TRAVELS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
TREASURY MAY RELIEVE
THE TOBACCO SITUATION
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TOR LABORING MEN
Washington, Sept. 13. Public
warning to labor not to enter Soviet
Russia under present conditions is
4
given in a statement issued by a
committee of Swedish metal workers
recently returned to Stockholm from
Soviet Russia, where they made fin
xhaustive study of conditions, ac
cording to advices to the State De
partment from Stockholm.
The warning was published in the
Social Demokraten at Stockholm. The
commission entered Russia last May,
having in view the emigration of 6000
skilled workmen from Sweden, if
conditions were satisfactory. It re
ported the Bransk district, where the
emigration was intended, was un
suitable for colonization, its sanitary
condition bad, a great scarcity of
food, with little pTospect of Improve
ment, and otherwise undesirable.
FREAKS RESCUED
Fl
New York, Sept. 13. A group of
circus "freaks" consisting of a so
called giant, a giantess, an armless
man who eats with his left foot, and
a human adding machine, who though
stone blind, can add up a column of
figures and make other mathematical
calculations with marvelous rapidity,
when the numerals are called out to
him, gained their freedom from Ellis
Island when the circus agents called
and filed bond that they would not
become public charges in the United
States.
The-giarit bowed wyunder-the
arched immigrant gate to enter the
country, and caused much amusement
on the ferryboat, appearing like a
veritable Goliath among the scores
of refugee Jewish children from
Poland and Szecho-Slovakia, who had
just arrived on the steamship Nieuw
Amsterdam and been released to rel
atives here, who took them as their
dependents.
The circus "freaks" had been de
tained at Ellis Island nearly a month
and were in danger of deportation,
awaiting the belated arrival of the
circus agents.
BE
Paris, Sept. 13. What are called
the world's two most perfect balloons
the Nordstern and the Bodensee
built by Germany since the armistice,
are to be turned over to England and
France, according to the latest de
cision. The two nations claim the ships in
lieu of the seven military Zeppelins
which were burned by the Germans
since the armistice instead of being
turned over to the Allied Reparations
Commission.
According to the last available in
formation the Nordstern and the Bo
densee embody all of the latest de
vices perfected by German scientists
during and since the war. Both ships
are of the rigid type and are said to
have tt greater, lifting capacity than
any others in the world.
GRACE SAID IN
LONDON RESTAURANT
London, Sept. 13. In a small res
taurant in Bird-in-Hand court, Cheap
sidu in the heart of the city, where
a "Fish Ordinary" served as it was
served in 1793 grace is always said
before the meal commences.
A courtly old man of 86 receives
the customer at the door and punctu
ally at one o'clock he "takes the
chair." When everyone is seated this
white-bearded old man, Mr. Henry
Shelton, rises from bis seat, raps on
the table and says quietly, "Ladies
and gentlemen, grace please." Then
there is silence, he bows his head rev
erently and adds; "For what we are
about to receive may the Lord make
us truly thankful'
1 01 S BUI
new
DIRIGIBLES
SURRENDERED
PRICE t 5 CENTS
MAIN REASON OF LOW PRICES
IS OVERPRODUCTION, AND
MANY REALIZE THIS; CHIEF
, JUSTICE CLARK MAY
FLING
BOOMERANG.
(By LLEWXAM.) ,
Raleigh, Sept. 13. The hope that
the appeal to ,Senators Simmons and
Overman to work on Secretary of
the Treasury to relieve the low-price
tobacco situation as did Secretary
McAdoo when he saved the cotton
crop two years ago by ordering mil
lions of money deposited in Southern
banks still abideth with those who
took hold of that proposition Satur
day, on the theory that the buyers
were telling the truth when they at
tributed the decline of tobacco on
the warehouse floors to tight money.
But there are others who are not
subscribing very strongly to the be
lief that the situation would be re
lieved very much by that process.
There are officials of the state ag
ricultural department who say the to
bacco growers of eastern North Car
olina were warned by the department
in ample time that they were headed
for a season of overproduction this
year, but that they had gone wild On
tobacco culture because of the big
profits made last year and nothing
could stop. them. That because of
this overproduction prices this sea
son will not reach last year's prices"
and the loading down of banks with
ready money can't change this con
dition. The fact that many growers accepted-
35 and at some places 25 ce ,
for much of their tobacco the 1..-'
two days of last week, after the
coil of the indignation over fi' . ty
prices is evidence that sdmc ' .. . .era
recognize,, the Joree of t1 s, - rpro-.
auction argument. j . vertneiess,
prices are expected lo improve, al
though they may r.ot reach last year's .
figures.
Then there is the other view that
the big business manufacturers are
behind the low price program, their
buyers having admitted that a limit
had been placed on their authority to
bid on the warehouse floors. And
today it is mooted that Chief Justice
Clark, who stands ever ready to make
a crack at a trust, has some facts and
figures about prices having been fixed
at a meeting at Petersburg recently
where the great factory owners met
and connived. It is added that ha
may present them to Attorney Gen
eral Manning and that 'a whopping
big and greasy action in the courts
may be brought against some trust
or other alleged to exist in Wins
ton, Durham and elsewhere in North
Carolina, with native born and bred
Tarheels in control of their opera
tions. But, personally, I don't know
a thing about that.
SUGAR PRODUCERS
WON'T JOIN CUBA
San Juan, Sept. 13. The Porto
Rican Sugar Producers' Association
has replied to a requst to join Cuban
sugar interests in an -effort to pre
vent refiners from forcing down the
price of raw sugar that, while the
local association could not join offi
cially with Cuba in such an effort
because of federal laws, Porto Rico
would not make shipmnts of sugar
except as sold.
FOREIGN WARS
VETERANS MEET
- Washington, Sept 13. The twen
ty-first annual encampment of Vet
erans of Foreign Wars began here
today. . . .
A parade will be held tomorrow.
DELAYED PASSENGERS
DESTROY R. R. CARS
Buenos Aires, Sept 13. A train
on the Southern Railway, which usu
ally makes the run from Talleres in
18 minutes but was delayed recently
for an hour and a half, finally arrived
at the Buenos Aires terminal with
two cars missing and the furnishings
of the others completely wrecked and
their windows broken. The damage
expressed the displeasure of the pas
sengers over the delay. The coaches
missing had been seat on fire.