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r r SOUTHERNER 7 TH E : DAI L Y THE WEATHER! THE. BEST AOVEftTiS ING MEDIUHJff iEA&T. FAIR TOMORROW ERN NORT UNA C0 '.V ;.. iii II , vVOL. 40 NO. 162 SEA FIGHTING IT. Prove Ships Can Be Manoeuv ered By Radio From Land. TESTS WITH BATTLESHIP , . Washington, Sept. 20.- Experi ments just compled by theUnite4 States navy prove that twelve and - thirteen thousand-ton battleships can , ' be- successfully manoeuvered by ra ' dio from land stations operating di rectly upon the steering gear, at a distance of from four to five miles. Reports of-these tests, which were , condUjCtedoflf the Virginia capes with the battleships Ohio and Iowa, have Ibeen received by Rear Admiral Grif- 'fin, chief of the bureau of stBBm en gineering They will, it is stated, re volutionize -tl future sea fighting,'' as they prove that unmanned ships load ed with high explosives and fire ships can be directed with unerring accu racy against an enemy fleet. The most successful previous ex periment was conducted by the Ger man navy, which successfully steered ; a 300-ton ship loaded with dynamite against a British squadron off Zee- brugge. The radio energy developed , in the American experiment is fifty . times as great. FRENCHMAN'S FORM CHANGING PHYSICALLY Paris, Sept. 20. Due to 'environ- MM CREWS "M;';r.'. This fact was embodied in a re tort made to a full meetine of the Academy of Sciences by Professor Edmund i errier, supported by state- W8. ments made by Professors Marie and wM'Mi The. limbs of the Parisians," says the report, "are becoming , shorter. ?ffe'tv The torso-"tends toward lenc-theniuf. jff The; head is tending to increase m volume, the hair is losing color and j? is tending to a complete 'digappear ti ance.' Thus the Parisians; are tend- to become a cerebral type, which 0& 's frequently' subject to disease and degeneracy." : : , .. . : . , LIQUOR CONSUMPTION SMALLEST SINCE 1870 Washington. Sept. 20. The con-1 4 sumption of wines and liquors in the "fkM United States last year was the fm smallest since 1870,.. being 9.17 gal lons per capita as against 22.79 in '1911, the Department of Commerce f announced today. Wf MORRIS FOX, DETAINED, ' ! WAS NOT EUGENE LEROY " f Montevideo, Sept. 20. Morris ;M Fox, detained here, suspected of be f ing Eugene Leroy, charged with the f murder of his wife, the Detroit trunk ! victim, has proved not to be Leroy f and will be released, it is announced. I BOLSHEVIKI DRIVEN - FROM EAST GALICIA The -Bolsheviki has been driven f from Eastern Galicia by a general f Polish advance along the southern i front. SUSPEND FIGHTING PENDING AN INQUIRY Paris, Sept. 20. Poland and Lith uania have agreed to suspend hostil- fities pending an inquiry and decision J of the issues at stake bv the Council of the League of Nations, it was an- r nounced today. . -The decision was cheered by both $ spectators and delegates as making 'the first instance in which the. Lea. gue's mediation had been accepted by countries virtually in a state of jwar. . . A . : MAYOR'S COURT. yk 3 George Williams, nuisance, fined F Tom Pratt, riding bicycle without r lights, $1. : r Recorder's Court. State -vs. Nathan. Andrews, violat- 4 . ing auto Ia-vs, S10 and 'costs. with deadly weapon, $20 and costs, State vs. Joe Taylor, violating quarantine law, f 10 and costs. ALL THE LOCAL NEWS NEGROES IN THIS SLUSH FUND APPARENT BY THE NUMEROUS POLITICAL ORGANS APPEARING; WOMEN MUST REGISTER AND VOTE TO KEEP EQUILIBRIUM. (By LLEWXAM.) Raleigrh, Sept. 20. EMdence of the purpose to figure th'e negro vote in the .election in' North Carolina this year is multiplying. Ever since the republican candidate for president received the large delegation of ne groes, led by. the negro republican national committeeman from Georgia af ihis home in Ohio a short time ago when he was. promised a large negro woman vote in the south, as well as of negro men, there has been activity in many eastern counties of negro campaigners for both Harding and the republican state ticket. One only has to. revert to Butler's performances of 1894-96 to see how all this gts in with his purpose to come to the (legislature again from the republican county of "Sampson Another proof of the use of much of the big campaign slush fund by the national republican managers in North Carolina is being furnished by the numerous little campaign news papers (so-called) that are starting up. They run no advertising, and their columns are filled with reprint republican propaganda, almost ex clusively. The bills are taken care of by the finance committee of the republican national committee. After election day these campaign sheets will yield up the ghost and disappear, But the point is this: Democrats should at once come to an apprecia tion of the fact that the enemy is more active in North Carolina this year' than i any election in many years, and take steps accordingly. ; North Carolina is normally a dem ocratic state, and never more so than t-thepresent time. But in ordefto perpetuate, our political ascendency general activity must keep a sharp eye on his enemy general apathy, and muster the democratic forces to their full strength. Women Muit RegUter. Women with a distaste for partic ipating, in elections so strong that they refuse to consent only after urg- ent appeals from others, when an election is at hand that affects the education of their children, need to be looked after more particularly than was supposed would be the case if they are to figure to any consid erable extent in the general election in November. It is up to the demo. cratic men to urge and bring their moral and family influence to bear on the female members of their fam ilies, by impressing upon them their duty to get their names on the regis tration books when they are opened the last day of September. The rul ing of the attorney general that wo men must register in person should not deter them for a moment, and the men of. the family should be prompt to offer to accompany them to the registration place. Most of them perhaps will go alone or with some other women, "once their minds are made up, and the other kind should not be allowed to be left be hind because of timidity. Go to it, gentlemen. Some of them apparent ly are going to need a lot of eloquent persuasion of one sort an' another. CHICAGO TRIBUNE IS . SUED FOR 20 MILLION Chicago, Sept. 20. The city of f Chicago has begun suits against the Chicago Tribune Company and Chi cago Daily News Company and Vic tor F. Lawson, as editor and pub lisher of the News, to recover twenty millions of dollars ten millions from each company as damages. These suits were filed by Corporation Coun sel Ettleson, who said: "The actions are brought to re cover damages the city has sustained through the false statements publish ed in the two papers to the effect that the city is bankrupt and credit exhausted." ". The Macclesfield school opened this morning .with Mr.'Curtis Criss man as principal and corps of 'six teachers, who all expect to do good work this year. TARBORO, N. C, POLITICS YEAR IN N. C. MILLERAND WILL I . ACCEPT PRESIDENCY Parii, Sept. 20. Premier Millerand agreed today to be come a candidate for the pres idency of France, which elec tion will take place on Thurs day next. RADICAL ROUND-UP IS New York, Sept. 20. The Septem ber grand jury convened today ta in vestigate the Wall street explosion. Edwin Fr Fischer, who is said to have sent warnings of disaster on the date . of the explosion, arrived from Canada for examination. Attorney General Palmer is ex pected to return to New York today to resume personal charge of the in vestigation. The body of the last victim of the explosion was identified as Elmer W. Rehrer, a young chauffeur, upsetting the theory that he might be an an archist. Fischer, upon examination today, reiterated the statement previously made by him that a premonition warned him of the explosion and that unseen powers were communicating with him. The police authorities released Al exander Brailovsky, a Russian, jour nalist, who was detained. New York, Sept. 20. An excellent description of the driver of She one horse truck in which the explosive responsible for the disaster was tak en to the scene and given to Detec tive Sergeants Brown and Mayer, of the bomb squad, by Miss Rebecca Ep stein, a stenographer employed in the stock brokerage office of Newburger, Henderson & Loeb. Miss Epstein was walking along Wall street, near William, on her way back from luncheon, when the explosion occurred. She said that she noticed a ."reddish sort of wagon with a red flag on the back of it," turn the corner of Nassau into Wall street and stop in front of the U. S. "Assay office. The vehicle was drawn by a medium brown horse and the truck had racks on either side. Bar rels or boxes with "some plaster or a white powder substance" on -top were in the wagon. There was a rope across the back to keep the contents in place, she said. San Francisco, Sept. 20. Duncan Mathieson, captain of detectives, an nounced that he had the name of a man declared to have predicted "the big explosion in Wall street on the fifteenth," - He said that his informant was a disabled soldier anu that the man named had been a Y. M, C. A. worker in Russia. REGISTER TO VOTE . iBy LLEWXAM.) Raleigh, Sept. 20. The women of Raleigh, largely mothers and others directly interested in the education of the children of the public schools, turned out in large numbers. Satur day afternoon and registered for the special school tax election to be held October 2 between 750 and 800 wo men being on the poll books. This is 'satisfying from two view points. It is highly essential to the schools of this city, now suffering for a lack of both funds and teachers, that this election phall be carried af firmatively, and it is also important to democratic success at the general election In November that the white women of the state shall vote in large numbers. While registration for . this special election does not qualify a woman to vote in the gen eral electionit serves .to break the ice of hesitation among women which has been conspicuous here, and will stimulate the hope that they will reg ister again for the state and national election. NOW NDIGATED RALE GH WOMEN MONDAY, SEPT. 20, 1920 " 1 ; T y Lady Essex, Former Grant, I Men tioned. Adele CONNAUGHT, KING UNCLE New York, Sept. 20. According to. a cable dispatch, the engagement of the former Adele Grant, now the widow of Lord Essex, and the Duke of Connaught i about to be publicly announced. The Duke is the uncle of King George V. The dispatch reported that there was excellent authority for the as surance that the engagement would soon be acknowledged. Lady Essex is remembered here as the beautiful Adele Grant daughter of Beach Grant, of New York, and at the time of .her marriage to the Earl, which took place in St. Mar garet's church, Westminster, on Dec. 14, 1898, one' of the most charming debutantes. Arthur Wm. Patrick Albert, Duke of Connaught, third son of Queen Victoria, was born at Buckingham Palace in 1850. He married at Wind sor Castle the late Princess Louise Marguerite of Prussia in 1879 and took no great part in official life un til 19p3, when he represented King Edward, his brother, at the corona tion durbar, at Delhi. In October, 1911, he arrived in Quebec as gover- non-general of Canada, which office he held until 1914. Two of the Duke's children are well known in America the charming Princess Pa tricia and Prince Arthur. He is no stranger is New York. During his tenure of office in Canada he paid an unofficial friendly visit to this city and his genial democratic figure was often to be seen strolling along Fifth avenue, E (By LLEWXAM.) Raleigh, Sept. 20. The greatest crowd that ever assembled on a base ball ground to witness a professional game in North Carolina is gathering this afternoon to witness the final game here between Raleigh and. Greensboro clubs of the Piedmont League. Something like 6,000 or more paid admissions is the calcula tion today. Saturday there were C,2fi0 people present to see the game between the same two clubs, the fight this after noon being for the fourth game of the series of seven for the state championship of the Piedmont Lea gue the score standing 3 to 3 games each when time was called at 4 this' afternoon. No better baseball was ever played in North Carolina than has been turned out tlfis season by the six clubs comprising the Piedmont League, representing' Raleigh, Dur ham, Greensboro, Winston-Salem, High Point and Danville, Va. After Wildcats. The State Corporation Commission has sent out letters, which the state banks will get today, requesting all state banks that 'have loaned money to the numerous so-called "wildcat" and "bue aw" stock expoiters, of questionable or worthless stock spec ulators, to call in such loans prompt ly at maturity. The letter will be effective because the State Corpora tion Commission directs the state banks, over 500 of them being under its controL j It is- astonishing that such agents and questionable companies should have been able to get banks to carry their paper to the extent of millions of .dollars. The commission secured its evidence of this fact through its bank examiners, and it is not a bare report but an actual fact. The large number of fanners and others who bit and gave mortgages or liefns on their farms and other property under the get-rich-quick promises of agents is astonishing. Many of them have not yet been heard from, the howls coming from those who have already learned of the falsity of 'the prom ises made them and one comment is their stock is practically worthless. DUKE MARRY AMERICAN PIN Mi ATTENDING GAM COTTON GROWERS FIRM ON COTTON WAREHOUSE TOBACCO TAKEN BACK TO BARNS Danville, Va., Sept. 20. Scores of tobacco growers to bacco growers took their to bacco back -to their barns at the opening of the market in this city when bids were half 'of last year's prices. Kl FOUND IN WEEDS North Bergan, N. J., Sept. 20, Clara Cirelli, the 20 months old baby daughter of Emil Cirelli, believed to have been kidnapped at about 7.30 o'clock Tuesday evening, has been found alive. The child was found in the weeds back of the North Bergen Crematory by Robert Potts, the engi neer at the crematory. Potts said he heard a baby crying and looking found the Cirelli child, badly bitten by mosquitoes and very weak. It was said that it probably would not have lived through the day if it had not been found. Potts said that he heard the child cry once before but there were so many children in the neighborhood that he paid no attention. The sec ond time, however, he investigated. "I was going, down, back of the crematory to measure oil when I heard the crying, and looking about I saw a baby on its feet," he said. "It was walking, and was alone. It was a little girl, and was terribly bit ten by mosquitoes. It had a little red sweater on, and was dressed like the LCirelli baby. I took it home, and my wife washed it and cleaned it up." The child, was in-a bad condition from its long exposure. It was dress ed just as when it was kidnapped, with a red sweater, white silk coat with lace trimming, black shoes, brown stockings, white bonnet and a plain gold bracelet on its left arm. New Principal For Speeds. The Speeds school opened this morning with two teachers present the grammar grade and primary. - A telegram was received by Supt. .entelle from Mr. George L. Reisner, of McConnellsburg, Pa., accepting the principalship of the Speeds school and he is expected here one day this week to take charge of the work. E KILLS WIFE, BABE Whitehall, Mich., Sept. 20 Re fusing to speak a word, Dr. Otis W. Sedgwick, physician and surgeon, is in jail here facing a warrant charg ing him with murder in the first de gree of his wife Mrs. Lawrence fljdg wick, and his little 3 year old daugh ter, Ruby. Coroner James F. Balbirnie say.i the prisoner was subject to insane fits, during which time he wou' l sulk for days, refusing to see patient), and that he was in one of these insane fits when he choked to death his wife and little daughter, threw them out into his front yard and calmly went to bed. The coroner discovered in the bottom of an old trunk in the home of the Sedgwick a letter writ ten by his brother to Mrs. Sedgwick's father, Dr. George Kilbourn, stating that Otis had always been subnormal. POSTCARD WARNS ANOTHER OUTRAGE New York, Sept. 20.A postcard warning that an at- tempt' would be made tomor row to blow up the Castoms Hons was received In the mail today by Collector of Internal! Revenue Edwards. The Department of Justice official regard the note as the work of a crank. DAIAPPED BABY N T ASSOCIATED PRESS COURT HOUSE FILLED WITH EARNEST FARMERS READY TO TAKE ACTION TO RELIEVE SITUATION; MAY BUILD STOR AGE FOR 15,000 BALES. t So vital is the cotton condition as affecting the farmers of Edgecombe county, that the meeting held at noon today was so largely attended, and snowing a deep interest in the pro ceedings, ready, from the moment that Capt. Paul Jones outlined the plan to protect the farmer on prices, to pass the following resolutions, and an apparent resolve to abide by the decisions enacted. A. cotton warehouse be built in Tarboro for the purpose of storing fifteen thousand bales of cotton, half the. total output of Edgecombe coun ty, and that Messrs. C. W. Jeffries, John R. Pender, J. E. Warren, B. F. Shelton, Theo Fountain and William Killibrew, be a committee to consider said warehouse and to report to the executive committee, who are here under named: Capt. PAUL JONES, Chairman. S. R. JENKINS. J. D. LANCASTER. D. II. ANDREWS. J. B. WARREN. T. A. WIGGINS. G. R. GAMMONS. WALTER TAYLOR. G. T. DeBERRY. W. J. EASON. W. W. BULLOCK. C. F. EAGLES. II. L. PIPPEN. From noon to two o'clock the most intense feeling was exhibited by the speakers and farmers who filled the courthouse in discussing the cotton problem that affects every person in the county. , Mr. E. W. GaitJvgr of Goldsboro read an exhaustive treatise on the past, present and future conditions of the farmers of the south, muoh of which was most interesting, but what the people attending wanted most to know was how they were to get from under the present shadow that seems to hang as a pall upon the portals of every home. Mr. M. G. Mann, cashier of First National Bank, in a few words slat ed the position of the financiers in relation to the crop situation. "My earnest opinion is that the farmers- start plans for building a warehouse in Tarboro to accommo date fifteen thousand bales of cot ton, half the present crop, and if ne cessity requires, by those who must have money, to sell a bale or two as necessity presses. "Also, I believe that the tobacco crop should be marketed in small lots now, not waiting until the end of the season, for the buyers are due in Kentucky the beginning of the year for a two- years' crop. "I attended the meeting in Raleigh which was most enthusiastic and dras tic action was there taken by repre sentatives of thirty counties of the state. "It was also shown that the banks had stretched credit to the limit, so that it is useless for the farmers to expect to put a further burden on the banks. Mr. Gaithcr made a special point in showing the value of a large cot. ton warehouse, established under fed eral and state supervision, by stating the protection the cotton grower gets in the authorized grades for which he gets a receipt and can draw mon- 'ey thereon. , "My experience has been," said Mr. Gaither, "that the cotton buyer on the street does not like the offi cial grader and will . of ten question his grading, denying that a good mid dling is anything more than low mid dling and buying upon his own grade. With the warehouse this cannot be done, for a receipt is given in ac cordance with the grading of the offi cial grader and, upon which money will be advanced by the Federal Re serve Bank." ' -'Col. John L. Bridgers pressed home the necessity for immediate action and for the farmers to practice self- denial and self-reliance, emphasizing the fact that the farmers are now I driven down to their own resources, Ei 5 CENTS 1 PICKFORD IS SOED FOR- WIFE'S GOWNS French Modestes Claim $30,- 000 Due For GarA ments. BOUGHT BEFORE DEATH Paris, Sept. 20. Jack PIckford is being sued for 30,000 by five dress making houses which allege that the money is due them from gowns and other garments ordered by his wife, Olive Thomas, whose death from mer curial poisoning was a sensation to the entire world. The gowns, it is alleged, were or- dereJ by the late Miss Thomr'j in the week preceding the poisqning. Olive spent much of her time in the most sumptuous of the dressmaking estab lishments. She had ordered fifty dresses and two fur coats, one of ermine and seal, and one of mink. She had but two fittings and none of the garments had been delivered. The claimants however, argue that the orders were definitely given and threatened to seize Pickford's trunks for surety less he made payment before leaving Paris. It was stated here that the $300,- 000 insurance carried on the late star was held by the motion picture pro ducer to whom she was under con tract. It was jointly written by sev eral large New York underwriters. MILLIONAIRE A. S. COCHRAN WEDS RUSSIAN ACTRESS Paris, Sept. 20. Alex Smith Coch ran, a millionaire manufacturer of New York and prominent here, was secretly married to Ganna Walska, a Russian vaudeville actress. The pair are now at the Crillon hotel. The bride was formerly a Petro grad favorite. Last season she vas known in both New York and Chi cago where attempts were r V to start her on. an Americas uatrical career. ANNOUNCED SPEAKERS FOR DEMOCRATIC PARTY New York, Sept. 20. Vice Pres ident Marshall, Secretary of State Colby and Senators Underwood and Robinson have been added to the list of campaign speakers for the demo cratic party, it is announced today. MAYOR ARRAIGNS ENGLAND OF MURDER London, Sept. 20. Mayor Mac. Swiney wrote a message to the press throughout the world, saying; "If this cold blooded murder is pushed through it will leave a stain on the name of England which nothing will ever efface." ' ARMED GUARD PROTECTS ROCKEFELLER ESTATE Tarrytown, N. Y., Sept. 20. welvc extra guards, armed w'.'h ri fles, are patrolling the roads adjoin ing the estate here of John D. Rocke feller. No statement is available regard ing the village gossip that a threat ening letter had been received by the oil magnate. Two bbys reported that a strange man was inquiring about Rockefel ler's home. so that it becomes essential that the creditor must help the debtor. "I want to put some determination in you. There are tens of thousands of dollars owing jn Edgecombe coun ty, much of which comes from out side sources, but your banks and merchants have had to assume heavy burden. If therefore the creditors and debtors will stand together, each doing their legitimate part, we can overcome the crisis, but every man must take a hand in this affair to do his level best by paying a little on the debt he owes." Other speakers were Messrs. W. L. Barlow, M. C. Braswell and Mr. Jesse Brake. Beton. the adjournment, Captain Jones asked for hands on th.ose who would join the American Cotton As sociation and the majority of the two or three hundred present signed cards of membership. Capt Jones agreed that there would be a county canvass and upon this question also there was enthusiasm shown. ' '
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